Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1897 — Page 6

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OUTSiDJU GAEIUJMNTS.

THE BLOUSE WAIST IS AT THE TOP OF POPULARITY.

Use of Braid Trimming-—Handsome Garments Called Mantle Coat*—Some of the .New Dress Goods—A Variety of Colors.

Olive Harper's Gossip.

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—While the much hefrilled, beplaited and trimmed blouse is still at the top of popularity I think I see signs that almost if not en tirely plain waists will soon be as good style. These waists just now are called into being by the need of something fitting the body closely and smoothly so

STYLISH JACKETS, FRONT AND BACK VIEWS. as to allow for the military and other braiding now so much liked. The form of these plain waists is a simple close basque pointed in back and front. The side seams in the back go to the top of the shoulder in most instances. This gives long lines which add length and apparent skndorness and also affords a line for the braiding to follow. The braid, when any is used, is put on smooth at the bottom and folds under the basque. Then it follows the side seam line to the shoulder blade, where it ends in a trefoil loop. The braiding in front is disposed according to taste. If a wide effect is desired, it is put on in straight cross lines with loops and other similar devices in vogue for the purpose. If a slender effect is preferred, the braiding is applied in perpendicular lines, sometimes converging to a point at the bottom. But however used braid is always handsome.

Silk waists, velvet ones and others of the newest woolen stuffs all look bettor when made plain and close fitting, and there aro many slight but significant signs to show that by spring we shall see nearly all the bodices snugly holding the pretty waists beneath them.

Braids for using on these waists and on tho coats and tailor made skirts ate very handsome. Some of them aro undulated, others straight, some woven in fanciful designs with picot edges and 8omo nro prepared in sets all ready to bo sewed to a costume in any desired pattern. These pattern designs are sowed to cards, and that way tho buyer can see how they should be applied to tho goods. Where one wants to add a little freshness to a gown these sets are very handy. So they are for new costumes, for it is not so easy as it may appear to mako these elaborato things and have every loop and turn exactly as it should be. Braids will have a great vogue all this winter. Some short jackets, long capes and mantles are fairly covered with it. There is a very smart look always a,bout braid, particularly when it is put on waists in doublo lines, ending in loops or under metal buttons.

For very heavy weather there are some liaudsomo garments called mantle coats. They aro made with straight, double breasted fronts and princess shaped backs. Some of tho backs are laid in deep folds from the waist, while others are shaped without folds. All reach tho bottom of the dress. A few are simply priucess shaped, while others have straps across the liaelc at tho waist lino. All have tho high storm collar in one form or anot her, and each has some different way of fastening in front from its neighbor. Some are strapped, but tho favorite is a double breasted effect, with six very large buttons. Some have short enpes and hoods detachable. Others have capes slashed in the center of the back and folded under. Still others have long eoat sleeves with full mautle sleeves above, and these headetl by caps. All of them have sleeves to tho wrist whether there is a cape or not, and these sleeves aro wide at the wrist. Altogether these long mantle coats aro hand some, and they an* very warm, being lined and interlined. One was simply lined, but

MAXTLK* roit NKAVR vrRATHER. how! With a flewy blanket shawl in rich plaid colors. It was a shame to cut so fine a shawl! These blanket shawls arc to be very fashionable among the smart set. it is said, partly because tfcsy •re too expensive for onlinary purses and partly because none but a very stylish wemw can wear oae to best advantage.

Among ths handsomest of the new dress materials owe may simple out the following are excellent value for all the qualities that go to aiake a dress worth

the buyveg and making: The rayeurs frisees, drap tailleur, camel's hair, ondes, reps faoonee, English cheviot in black and all colors, soleil effects of mohair on gillr warp wools, serge imperiale epinglines, whipcord, the new covert suiting, which is reversible and shows elegant plaids underneath eudora cloth for handsome black, and broadcloth- Cravanette is also handsome and sheds water. All these, except those especially mentioned as black, are shown in castor, napoleon and military blue, beige, dahlia, golden and seal brown, myrtle, olive and apple green, geranium red, cardinal, bordeaux, petunia, plum, light and dark shades of gray.

The American company takes advantage of this condition of affairs and employ Mexican drivers, paying them on the other side of the river and in their own debased coin, at the rate of $25 a month.

This is the explanation of one of the "strange customs" at which tourists marvel so much.

The tourist buys a Mexican dollar at 45 cents and on the Mexican side gets 20 drinks of mescal, which is a great saving, us the Mexicans base their charges on American money to Americans, but of course must receive their national currency, no matter by whom tendered.

Mexicans are not so stupid as most people believe them to be. One of the most interesting features of the city of Juarez is the street gambler. His "table" is similar to a camp stool, which he "spreads" or extends on some shady corner, and he always has a crowd. The game is called chusa, is played witli dice, some of them supposed to be loaded, and is similar to the American "chufck-a-luck," a misnomer, by the way. The game is open to all— women and children, as well as the men. The stakes are from 1 cent to 5 or 10 cents. Any one betting 10 cents at one stake is considered to be a "high roller," and the crowd generally stops betting to watch the "great event." Mothers sit round on their blankets, smoking cigarettes,'betting a cent or two on a throw of the dice, their little children looking on with eagerness. To them the game is explained by the mothers, who are either jubilant or bewail their luck, according to the throw of the dice.

This "national habit" is governed, or rather not governed, by town ordinance. The owners of the games pay a municipal tax, regulated according to tho game.

On fiesta days these games are very prosperous. The city is crowded with visitors, and on nearly every corner and in the pulquerias (saloons) are to be seen all kinds of games known to Mexican gamblers. Cocking mains are also a favorite amusement.

Tho feast of Guadaloupe, which is hold in December, is the most prosperous time Tho city of Juarez is then in its glory and shame. Gambling is almost continuous. The native tries his luck on returning from mass and halts on his way to vespers to tempt the goddess of fortune. In the evening he continues the play and then adjourns to the fandango and dances and drinks pulque until morning, when the old cracked cathedral bell reminds him that it is the hour for early morning mass.

These feasts, of which there are Aany, last from two or three days to two weeks, according to the importance of the saint J. M. SCANLAND.

Division of Sentiment.

A disordered indicator in the boiler room of one of the public schools the other day induced the engineer to turn in afire alarm for the purpose of clearing the building. A Piety Hill youth came home to dinner full of the excitement of the occasion and described the scene which followed the sounding of the alarm as follows: "We hadn't had fire drill yet this term, 'cause school just begun the day before, an so lots of the scholars started to run, but the teachers stopped 'em an made 'em walk down. Then we stood around in the yard waitin to see something happen, an half the boys was wish'it the old school would burn tip, an"— "And the other hall?" suggested his mother, "Oh. they was wishin it 'nd burn down. "—Detroit News.

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OLIVE HARPER.

A PICTURESQUE TOWN.

Manners and Customs of Centuries Ago. The Street Railway—Gambling. [Special Correspondence.]

JUAREZ, Mexico, Sept 24.—The city of Juarez, formerly the ancient Paso del Norte (pass of the north), is perhaps the most picturesque town in Mexico. Here is seen the old and the new in striking contrast—a people with the manners and customs of centuries ago, living their sleepy life on the borders of the most advanced civilization on earth.

Travelers to the east and to the west usually stop off a day or two and cross the border to get a glimpse of "old Mexico" and the cathedral, which all kodakers take a shot at. A one mule street car line connects El Paso, Tex., with El Ciudad Juarez, the raging Rio Bravo intervening. The distance is about one mile fare, 10 cents. The tourists pay American money in going over and Mexican money in returning. As Mexican silver is worth about 45 cents in American money, this "queer custom" at once puzzles the traveler, especially as the distance each way is the same, of course. But it is very simple. The tramway, as it is called, is owned by two companies—one on each side of the boundary line. The charter of each city limits the fare to 10 cents, and as Mexican silver has depreciated to less than 50 per cent by our standard that is the reason why a passenger can cross over into Mexico for 10 cents, buy a Mexican dime for a nickel and pay his return fare with it. The Mexican conductor looks rather cross at the Americans who hand to him a Mexican dime which he has purchased at reduced rates, and it does almost seem like "beating a conductor" out of a fare.

Then there are the bear&—black, cinnamon and grizzly—sufficient, as some one has said, to furnish every man on the Pacific slope with a fur cap and overcoat and leave breeding stock enough for next year's supply. The brown, or cinnamon, bear roams the coast and haunts the rivers when they are open, and it is the sight of a lifetime to see one of them "swipe" a salmon out of a river with one stroke of Ins paw. He is huge, fierce and shaggy, and his roads, or trails, lead from the coast far into the interior. In fact they may be found in the wildest regions, these trails, and sometimes afford the only paths the explorer can follow through the almost impenetrable underbrush and soggy mosses. These bears are sometimes found in herds of 20 or 80, and they leave the salmon rivers after the annual runs and retire to the interior, where the gold is found. It will be strange indeed if many of the miners don't run up against any oi them, either accidentally or on purpose.

The black bear is smaller than his brown brother, but has a handsomer coat, which makes him an object of pursuit to the Indians, so he is harder tc find and not so often seen as the other. There is yet another, an immense grizzly, or silver tip, fierce and dangerous, which is found in the high mountains, at St Elias, and is sure to put up a good fight wherever found.

Some of the bears den up in winter, the l-eavers an likely to be deep down beac&Vh the locked waters, and the days, coo, will be rather dark for hunting, but there is always something to be found. Until the rivers are frozen over it is an easy task to draw from them the finest trout grayling and salmon iu the world. I have read somewhere that the salmon of the Sacra men to average about

TERBE TTAUTE SATURDAY EVJKNTSG MAIL,, OCTOBER 2, 1897.

FOOD AT ITS DOORS.

THERE MAY BE A FAMINE IN THE KLONDIKE.

Will the Miners Starve When Fish, Flesh and Fowl Galore Can Be Found In Season In Alaska?—Beaver, Bear, Cariboo, Salmon and Codfish.

[Special Correspondence.]

ST. MT.THAKT/S, Alaska, Sept 1.— There has been a great deal of speculation lately, both here and up the Yukon, as to a prospective famine in the Klondike We are jammed full of supplies of all sorts here and could probably feed all hands in the gold region, going or returning. But then, this isn't the Klondike. It is three weeks' sailing up the river to Dawson City, and the indications are now that somebody is going to get pinched.,

Each and every miner should have carried in at least a ton of provisions. They knew that as well as we did, but they cast sense and reason to the winds and pressed forward, most of them, with merely what they could take in their packs.

Famine, starvation? Of course there will be a scarcity and a few will pass in their checks for a grub stake up aloft and lie down and die right in sight of the promised golden land. But to us here, with an unlimited natural supply that would suffice for 1,000,000 people —I mean the seal, otter and sea fish— the question of imminent starvation seems nothing short of ridiculous.

Let us see, now, what Alaska has produced besides whalebone, ivory, whale oil, gold and silver since it became an American possession. Over $50,000,000 worth of furs (and these came off of animals that could be eaten, at a pinch), more than $10,000,000 worth of canned salmon, $1,000,000 in salted salmon and $1,800,000 in codfish. With the other articles of commerce mentioned, the aggregate is over $85,000,000. Nearly all from the sea and seacoast, to be sure, but still, all from Alaska!

Well, while there are gold ledges and mines all along the coast and on the islands, the richest finds are far in the interior. And while there is game galore in the coast region, there is also game enough in the interior. Game and gold rarely go together, but in Alaska they more nearly approximate than perhaps anywhere else. First, there are the valuable fur bearing animals. Leaving out the seal, of course, and the sea otter, walrus and polar bear, we have, first, the land otter, which is found all along the Yukon and as far north as the Arctio ocean. A companion fur yielder,

A KLONDIKE STORE.

the beaver, is, or was once, abundant north of Cook's inlet and the Yukon, and throughout the vast uplands north of the great river roam the red, blue, black and silver foxea These last are among the most valuable of fur bearing animals, and the skin of a silver fox is a prized possession. Then there are minks, muskrats, lynxes, gray and white wolves, arctic foxes and wolverenes. All these, of course, are more valued for their skins than their meat, but the flesh of some—as, for instance, the beaver—is considered by the Indians and Eskimos a great delicacy. Besides, we are mentioning available food for a starving mnn, and when he is reduced to tho facing of famine he will eat skunk or wolf even rather than "kick the bucket. we opine.

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those of the Columbia 20 or 25, while those of the Yukon will go 40 pounds' each and some have been caught weighing 120 pounds. Still the fish cannot be counted on after the ice has formed, while certain of the animals roam all winter over the vast uplands known as the "tundra." Here are found droves of deer, which in larger numbers in the south are annually slaughtered by the Indians merely for their hides. More particularly is the tundra the resort of moose, reindeer and caribou. The caribou are migratory and vast numbers are slaughtered by the natives during their midsummer and midwinter migrations, some of their meat being sold at good prices to the miners.

This indiscriminate hunting of the moose, deer and caribou by the Indians is having its effect in a constantly diminishing supply, for they slaughter' without regard to the time of breeding and waste annually great quantities of meat In time, we hope, congress will enact and cause to be enforced just and stringent laws for their preservation, but soon, or it will be too lata I predict that it will not be long before the Alaskan mountain region will be resorted to by the professional hunter in search of those wild and gamy animals, the mountain goat and bighorn sheep. Both goats and sheep are found here, high up the mountain sides, and sometimes fall to the hunters' guns. The goats have fine pelts, are wild and wary and attain to a weight of 150 pounds. Their wool is used by the natives in the manufacture of blankets and their horns in the making of utensils and ornaments.

Numerous bands of the goats have been seen in the high ranges up among the lichen covered cliffs, above the summer snow line, but the bighorns are not so plenty. Their pelts are likewise valuable, tueir immense horns prized by the natives, and their flesh is delicious, while the largest of them will weigh over 200 pounds. Other inhabitants of the higher regions are the blue and spruce grouse of the forests and the ptarmigan, which are very abundant, but difficult to get, owing to the density of the woods and height of the snow. The ptarmigan, like the rabbits (which are abundant), turn white in winter and are often killed by the natives.

After the long winter is over and at the breaking up of ice swarms and flocks of wild duck, geese, swan and hosts of waterfowl appear and lay their eggs and rear their young in the grass and moss of the tundra. Another occasional inhabitant of the tundra, but now nearly exterminated, is the wild reindeer. This vast upland, with its moss and bunch grass, is the natural home of the reindeer, and it is now proposed to bring some of those which our government brought over from Iceland and turn them loose. We have a herd of perhaps 1,500 at the government reservation north of St. Michael's, and this winter will see several hundred of them doing duty between this point and the Klondike. In extremity, it will be saen, we can use them to cany supplies to that district, as we shall probably do. And so if the miner gets starved out this coming v. inter it will be mainly his own fault, for it is simply a case of "Johnny get your gun" and use it.

Just as I am about closing some one tells me that a band of some 600 mountain sheep has been seen north of Cook's inlet and south of the Tananah, a tributary of tho Yukon, and it was not long ago that a hunter from Kodiak brought in a bear which weighed 1,700 pounds and shed a skin 12 feet long.

I am out of the "thick of it" just at present, and it may seem easier to go gunning at this distance than it actually will be up in the Klondike, but if I couldn't make my grub at hunting, with big game in plenty on the tundra, black fox skins worth $200 apiece running about loose and caribou wandering in bands of hundreds, why, it seems to me I'd deserve to starve, that's all.

JAMES KIRKSON.

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It Shortened the Patient's Leg Two Inches, and so Affected the Nervous System that He Continually Shook as with the Palsy.

After Six Years of Torment He Succeeds in Finding a Remedy for the Horrible Disease.

From the Egyptian Press, Marion, Illinois.

There is no name in this section of the country, connected with the medical world, that is better known to the public than that of Mr. Monroe Peterson. He is situated in a nice, comfortable home, with a good farm, about four miles west of Johnson City, 111., He is now fifty-eight years old, in a healthy condition, and weighs one hundred and ninety pounds. Not a more upright and honorable citizen does our nation afford, and he is looked upon with wonder, because of his healthy condition after so long a period of misery and suffering.

The cause of Mr. Peterson's long suffering was a hurt which he received in a fall, while running a drill in 1861, being a soldier at the time. He has been crippled in his right leg ever since that date. Sciatic rheumatism then set in, and his leg began to slowly wither away and draw Up in the joint, and now it is about two inches shorter than the other. It began to grow worse and, finally, his whole body began to shake like a person with the St. Vitus' dance. His first severe attack was about six years ago.

There is no disease in the power of human endurance more awful in its pains and afflictions than sciatic rheumatism. Sometimes its pain may be a slow, steady one, while, at other times, it comes with jerks and wrenches that seem to twist the body out of all shape of recognition. It seems to contract the muscles, drawing the body almost in a knot. While this is probably tho worst stage of sciatic rheumatism, it is sometimes found in milder forms. So it was •with Mr. Peterson, but with it was associated a feeling and condition almost as uncomfortable and unbearable. The body was in a continual shake, rendering it impossible for him to do anything. He had lost all control of his muscles. On application to a physician for relief, he was told that the affliction might last him all his life, or, on the other hand, it might leave him entirely at an unexpected moment.

For over three years ho"""was not able to write a word, so severe was his shaking. He could not even sign his vouchers, thereby having to make his mark and witness it. At this time he could not walk a step without aid, nor even sit down in a chair without assistance. So severe was the shaking of his head that it almost caused him to go blind. He could not distinguish a person a rod's distance in front of him. He came very nearly losing his mind, and his friends thought, as a last resort, that he would have to be taken to a hospital. When he was taken to town for examination by a physician, he had to be examined in the buggy, so difficult was it for him to get out. Oftentimes it would seem that life was nearly extinct, and his feet and hands would have to be bathed in warm water and rubbed in order to restore the circulation. For two years he was not able to feed himself yet the table. His ever faithful and dutiful wife put the food to his mouth. At night he would take smothering spells and would have to be lifted up in bed that he might regain his breath and strength. At this critical period he was not able to put on his clothes, not able to do anything but sit and suffer his miserable life away.

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artial relief for a while. He was treated nearly every physician in the county, caicincs All kinds of medicines were tried without avail. Much money had been spent in vain. Still was this disease like a vampire sucking away at his miserable life. The doctors finally gave 5 hi

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him as his miserable condition ould allow. He was placed before a State Board of pension examiners and was told that it would be useless to spend any more money in this direction or to try to improve his health, for. it was an impossibility. As he now thought ination had Be the culmination seen reached, but, not to be baffled by despair, he still sought means by which his miserable life could lc made more happy. As long as there is life there is hone." He saw an article in tho paper whicli stated that a distinguished lumberman in Michigan had been cured of a case resembling his own by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, lie then renewed courage to try again. He ordered one-half dozen boxes, and by taking pills one day rested tho following night better than ho had rested for years, bo severe was his case that he took them nearly six months. He began to gradually mend and is now a hale and hearty man. He now goes anywhere on the farm that lie desires, and is now able to write a good, plain hand and sign his name to his vouchers, and is able to do his chores about the house. While he is too old to labor hard, he is in such a condition that he can spend his last days here on earth in peace and comfort.

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