Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 August 1897 — Page 3

WEARING-JEWELRY.

RULES TO GOVERN WOMEN WHO WOULD STUDY GOOD FORM. S

Plain Ornament# For the Street' and Unceremonious Affairs—The Abase of Coronets by American Women Who Have

Wo Right to Wear Them.

Mrae. de Maintenon declared that good |.laste simply indicates good sense, but "many women who boast of good sense teem not to have the slightest idea of the times iind pla^^fo^^wearing precious ttones. $[*

It is conceded by all authorities that articles of adornment consisting of or containing jewels or precious stones should never be worn in the street. Exception is made in favor of rings, which may be worn &t all t-iines, because of the sentiment supposed to be inseparable from them, for according to the old rhyme: iV- Without a sentiment a ring

S iK'ls but a sair and senseless thing. A "watch of course is also excepted but, ^properly speaking, a watch is not carried *os an adornment or for mere decoration.

The woman who wishes to adopt correct 'form in dress will never wear any but the .•simplest little pin to fasten her gown at -'the throat during the morning hours and ••on the street. If possible, particularly if

Bhe wears a tailor made costume, she will choose a small silver pin rather than a gold one.

For oeremonious visits a visiting costume is of course de rigueur, and with this •a silver pin would be inappropriate. A pretty and ornamental one of gold is propBr or of gold and enamel, but even then it should have a useful purpose it should fasten some part of the toilet. The enameled and gold wreaths of myrtle or of forgetmenots are extremely pretty for these simple pins. So are the true love knots or a flower of enamel upon gold, but without the all prevailing diamond dewdrop or center.

For dinner a woman may wear the richest gems, it being understood that the function is a ceremonious one, and that she shall wear a low gown. Should she dine in a more demooratio way and the men of the family do not wear evening dress, she naturally will wear a high gown or one possibly open a little at the throat. She may wear a pin with a single gem under these circumstances, but it is much better form not to make any display of jewols exoept the occasion be one of ceremony.

For balls, operas or entertainments of corresponding splendor a woman, when she is not herself the hostess, may wear any number of well chosen jewols. It ie quite correct to be sumptuous in this particular, but well to remember that jewels, like flowers, harmonize or do not harmonize, and that emeralds and turquoises, for example, may not be worn in conjunction, because, as the French say, "they swear at each other."

It would seem almost unnecessary to say that only women with titles should wear coronets, and then the coronet which their rank accords them the right to wear, but some American women have made themselves ridiculous all over the world by calmly ignoring this fact. It is estimated that there are 50 freeborn American women, all of them married to American men, who are decorated upon gala occasions with the insignia of a rank to which they have not the shadow of a claim.

Of course American girls who marry foreign noblemen havethe right to wear coronets galore.

The sacred emblem of our Saviour's agony should also be forever tabooed as an ornament. The cross of Bethlehem, made up of diamonds and fastened on a woman's breast at feast or ball, shows a most pitiable ignorance of the eternal fitness of things. Yet we have all seen the cross, that most sacred of all outward forms, made a sacrilege of in this way.

It is also not gbod form to wear ornaments made in the focm of beasts or reptiles. A woman was seen at a leading summer resort with a toad made of enamel, with ruby eyes, at her throat, a diamond lizard across her brfcast and a fearful little pig of emeralds and diamonds dangling at her ohatolaine. Why should a sweet woman seleot pigs and lteards ant? toads when there are stars and hearts and true love knots and flowers, all so beautifully made, with or without jewels, and bo fitting for her adornment?

There are few women who do not honestly love gems, and a clever man.will not forget that the girl who was so proud and happy in the possession of her diamond engagement ring remains the same true woman always and will experience a thrill of joy in a gift of like nature, which nothing more useful or substantial can duplicate.

A ring is an emblem of fidelity and has always been symbolical—indeed, the word Bymbolum, for a long time, meant ring. The circle signifies eternity, and the goldan band has for ages beon the outward sign of an endless bond of love or power. The marriage ring may be traced back to Tortullian, and probably came into the Christian religion from Roman usage. The Virgin Mary is represented in Raphael's beautiful picture "Lo Sposalizio" (literally "The Espousal") with Joseph placing "the ring on the third of the right hand. The confusion ss to the hand Is explained by the statement that the espousal ring was placed daring the ceremony on each finger of the right hand and finally upon the third finger of the left.

Well bred young girls are limited as to jewels—a string of pearls for the slender neck, a ring with the natal stone or an armament of turquoises and pearls, a little gold love manacle about the wrist, that i6 alls'tthdquiteenough until after marriage. A'bride may wear for the marriage ceremony either diamonds or pearls—never goldoruamonts.—New York World. bntt

Glove*.

Nothing is more indicative of tbe want of breeding or style in dress than the' Brushing of the hand In a glove two or three sizes too small—a fallacy of our grandmothers. The glove today Is fitted comfortably to the bund. All the best' makers of gloves make a variety of widths as well as a variety of sizes—a long fingered asVell as a short fingered glove—so that it is an easy matter to fit the hand, eveu though ono does not keep a model in Varis.—Philadelphia Lodger.

Hobble*.

Kvery woman should have a hobby if she has not a hubby. A woman with an idea develops most wonderfully. It rejuvenates and beautifies her in many ways. It deepens her interest as well as her intellectuality, and, even if she has to fall in love now and then, it tends to bring out many (strong points in her character that otherwise might lie dormant and unno ticed. The refining iufluenoe of affectokra adds greatly to her charms.—New Orteanr Times-Democrat.

Natural Kxclusivenesft of Women. Women ure generally considered more aristocratic and exclusive by nature than men—that is, they arc supposed to be slower to fr&wuire with people of a lower social order and more sensitive in matters of taste and breeding. The partial truth of this is probably due to the fact of their smaller contact with the world and less experience of life in its broader phases. For instance, it would have-been easier for Ihe judge to affiliate with Maud Muller's husband than for the judge's wife to hobnob with the rustic beauty herself, especially if the first meeting had taken place later on in life, when their entirely opposite .modes of living had fixed, their a»tajr&lly and tha

man, "unlearned and poor," might have #met for a brief space on the common ground of elections or real estate values. But the two women would in ail probabil: ity have met simply with mutual discomfiture. Yet it is women even moru than men who are attracted by 6trong qualities of personal character, which must forever be the antidote to aristocracy. This impulse seems to be the natural offset to tbe aristocratic tendencies of the sex and tho force which keeps them pretty well balanced and prevents undue devotion to culture and refinement at the expense of genuine native force.—Philadelphia Press.

Do Not Take tbe Baby's Hand.

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How many mothers realize the injury they are doing their children by holding their hand as they walk? You see a little tot of 18 months or 2 years with its little hand and arm lifted high above its head to hold the hand of some grown person, sometimes one at either hand, and the poor little creature in this unnatural position with a strain on the heart muscles, to say nothing of the arms, is dragged along the street and as if that were not enough the child is obliged with its tiny feet and legs to keep up with the pace of the parent or nurse, who never realizes how many steps the little feet have to take to their one. Let any grown person see how long he could walk with his arms raised higher than his head, without hurrying. and then let him try being dragged along at full 6peed by some giant, four times his own size. I am afraid few could endure the strain for more than a few minutes. And yet I daily 6ee mothers scolding their little children for crying at being dragged long distances in this barbarous manner. Children who can walk at all should be allowed to walk alone or holding the hand of some other child near their own size. It is better for them in every way and will save many a crying fit caused by overstrain of the nerves and muscles.—Exchange, I

The Typical New England Woman. The typical New England woman is the most devoted of mothers, but in that, as in Everything else, she is a Martha. Anything will serve a really good, pious, upright, self sacrificing New England woman to borrow trouble on, especially if she is well to do in the world. If she has a carriage, she can contrive to get more trouble out of that carriage than any other woman could get out of a fire, an epidemio and an execution in the heuse all at tbe same time. What with the physioal condition of the horses and the spiritual condition ef the coachman and the awful d#oubt whether she has taken her poor relatives driving as often as she ought, she can have a regular orgy of doubts and reproaches and questionings over what never was meant to be a trouble at all. Her failings lean to virtue's side, but she will certainly inherit some of tho judgments foretold by Dante in regard to those who "willfully dwell in sadness." If a whole generation of New England women could be born without consciences, it would be a blessing, and it would certainly improve their looks immensely.—Boston Transcript.

What Keeps Women Toang. A woman is happy just in proportion as she is content. The sun has a way of changing the spots upon which it shines Especially is this true of our land, where one is up today and down tomorrow and vice versa. The wisest woman is she who trusts in a tomorrow, but never looks for it. To sit down and wish that this might be, that that would be different, does a woman no goodw It does her harm in that it makes her dissatisfied with herself, un pleasant to her friends and makes her old before her time. Happiness is not always increased in proportion to large success. This may sound like an old saw, and I think it is, but there is a world of wisdom in many an old proverb just the same. Contentment is a wonderful thing to cultivate. There would be fe'#ur prematurely old women in the world if it were given more of a trial and it became a more universal quality in womanhood.—Exchange.

Serving Sandwiches.

One of the nicest-ways of serving a sandwich is to roll it. When made up in this way, less of the surface of the bread is exposed, and there is less danger of the sandwich drying on tho outside. Spread the slices of meat paste or^fbrce meat on a slice of buttered Jbread. Only tender, homemade bread, lully 91 hours old, will roll properly. Begin very carefully and turn the bread gently then roll rather firmly. Pin them up one by one in a piece of napkin and set them aside for several hours under a slight weight that they may retain their shape. All sandwiches should be carefully covered up in napkins as soon as they are made and should be served as soon as possible to prevent their becoming dry on the outride. But if carefully piled and covered up they will keep moist for several hours.

^Ministers' Wives.

We seldom attend a meeting at which ministers' wives are largely represented without observing that they belong, as a rule, to an exceedingly high type of womanhood. Perhaps the Lord knows what the trials of his servants will be, and makes it up to them it\ the kind of women ho gives them for wives. Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudpnt wife is from the Lord. "—Watchjnan.1l

A Handkerchief Drier.

The careful woman who prefers to wash and dry $er own flnolace and embroidered handkerchiefs has a "handkerchiet'drier." This useful article consists of four pieces of wood made to fit into each other at any size by means of a series of pegs on two of the pieces with as many boles on tbe others. White felt is tacked on the sides, to which the handkerchief can be pinned, thus sfcretchipg it like a lace curtain.

Colors.

Here are some Interesting things that have been said about color: "Yellow is the color of experience. Worth said that a blond in yellow looked as if she were illumined with sunlight. White is tbe color of inexperience and aspiration. Of blue, Gottschalk said it was one of the few things worth living for. Pink is the color of self sacrifice and generosity."

Barbaric Dancing.

The queerest foe the women missionaries have ever encountered is the dancing habit in the Gilbert islands. The climate is salubrious, but warm, so that the natives dance by night and sleep during the day. The exercise provokes great hunger and thirst, so that gorging and excessive drinking are the result. The adults neglect and desert their work, the children their schools and everybody the churches. A dancing spell often lasts sevocal months at a time. Both missionaries and merchants try to stop the practice, but this far with but little success. It seems to be a reiic of some forgotten heathen faith or fotichism.—New York Mail and Express.

Tbe Blossoms Covered Them. Among the mHinieceraees of the Giand Army ef the Republic was recalled a singular incident at Sfeitah, where the dead were laid in a peaofe orchard, and the detonations of the aHUlery, having shaken off the blossoms, veiled their bodies with the delioate petals. A theme for a poet.— Boston Transcript.

Cunning leads to kaavery. It is but a step from one to the otber, and that very slippery. Lying «nJy makes the difference. Add that to eunni and ft is knavery.— Brupere. -nm,-

A man may be fool with wit, but nev-

A BATTLE FOE WATER

FIERCE STRUGGLE BETWEEN AN ELE-T PHANJ AND TWO TIGERS.

The •"Rogue* Took Possession of the Pool, and His Claim Was Not Disputed Until the Thirsty Tigers Came on the Scene

An Excited Guide Spoiled the Fun. v-

The tiger hunter does not hunt at random for his game. He knows that in the, heat of the day the great cat sleeps tbe hours away in the deepest solitude he can find. His bed may be in the dense jungle, where he must worm his way in and out like a serpent, or in some dark ravine splitting the hills and offering him a hundred spots which have never been lighted up by the rays of the .sun since tho hills were created. When the sun goes down and darkness follows its setting, then the royal beast opens his eyes, yawns and stretches, and after a few snarls and growls lazily leaves his lair in search of supper. He may cross a dozen streams, but ho will not lap at the water. It is only after he has eaten his fill and is ready to retire and sleep again that a great thirst seizes him,, and he seeks the nearest creek or pool and plunges his head in until .he must shut his eyes as he laps enough water to satisfy the thirst of an oi.

And the men who hunt the elephant as well as the tiger know that the largest animal on earth is as crafty and cunning and far more timid than the fox. If there is danger in tho air, he may thirst until his mouth grows hot, but ho will not leave the shelter of tbe forest to drink until after midnight. Then he makes his way through thicket and over fallen trees and up hill and down more quietly than the hyena who follows after. When they are in twos and threes and more, the tiger who has comedown to the pool will skulk about, spitting and snarling, and wait for them to depart, but when there is only ono the royal beast will assort his right to drink where he pleases and as long as he will.

After riding for two hours our native guide led us to a water hole on the edge of a great forest. During the rainy season it was a lake covering 20 acres of ground. In the dry season it was little better than a mud hole, but furnished the only water for miles around. We saw the track of tho elephant, buffalo, deer and wild hog and doubted not that the tiger, panther, hyena and jackal came to the 6ame pool to slake their thirst.

Ere the sun went down we had built our platform among the trees, eaten our supper and prepared to pass the night as comfortably as possible. We cared nothing for elephant, buffalo or deer. It was a tiger we had como to kill, and knowing that he would not appear until long after midnight the twro of us slept and left it to the guide to watch and wake us at the proper hour. Soon after 12 o'clock he whispered to us that a "rogue" elephant—an outlaw from the herd and more to be feared than the tiger—had come down from the forest and taken possession of the pool. Standing in the center of it, he was trying to frighten all other comers away. We watched him for a few minutes and then slept again, and an hour later the native whispered in our ears: "Sahib, it is time. The rogue is still here, but the forest has suddenly grown quiet. That means that a tiger is coming to drink. I think he will come by the path over the hill.."

It was two hours yet to daybreak, but we had the light of moon and stars and could see everything almost as well as by daylight. It is never quiet in an Indian forest by night except when the tiger moves about. Then the very tree toads and insects seem to be warned of his presence and hush their notes for a time. The elephant was standing like a block of stone, his eyes fastened on the crest of the hill spoken of by the native, and for three or four minutes the silence was so profound that we could hear our watches ticking. Then the head of the tiger appeared above the hill, and half a minute later the beast came slowly walking down. He was a full grown male, and he was followed by his mate. There were defiance and contempt in their very gait as they slouched along, and before reaching the pool each gave utterance to a vicious growl to warn the elephant that they were not to be trifled with. He stood so quietly that you would have thought him asleep, and for a moment the tigers sat down on the edge of the pool and glared at him and struck out with a fore paw, as you have seen an angry cat. As he did not move, they lowered their heads to lap at the water, but at the first sound the rogue uttered a shrill scream and dashed at them.

We had looked to see the tigers stand, but his terriflo rush frightened them for the moment, and they ran away, closely pursued to the top of the hill by the trumpeting elephant. After five minutes he slowly returned to take his place in the pool, but he had not yet reached the waters when the tigers, perhaps ashamed of their fight, came bounding down and upon him. As he wheeled to meet them and* sweep the earth with his trunk one sprang? upon his forehead and bit and dug and raked him, and the other alighted on his left hip and pursued the same tactics. The elephant made a rush into a grove of young trees, and the tigers were swept to the .ground. Then he oam'd crashing back in search of thom. Huge as he was in bulk, his movements wefe wonderfully quick.

With a sweep of his trunk he rolled one tiger over and over and into the water, and to rid himself of the other, which had mounted his back, he dropped down arid rolled over and was up again before we bad realized the trick. The boast knocked into the water swam out and together tho pair again attacked. Thoy fastened to his hiod legs, they bounded upon his back, they were under and over him as cats play with a ball. We heard their teeth and claws tearing at his tough hide, and we heard them yelp with pain as ho brushed them off or dealt blows with hia trunk. Of a sudden, when the battle was fiercest, the excited native accidentally discharged bis gun. There was a growl from the tigers and a blast from the elephant, and when the smoke bad cleared away there was nothing in sight. Tigers and elephant had fled in terror from the presence of man.—St. Louis Republic.

INTEGRITY NOT FOR SALE.

How a Farmer Played Kuchre With a Lobbyist to Frore It. A few years ago, when a United Statag senatorial election was impending in Ohio, one ef the leading candidates needed another vote to make bis election sure, and his oaanpaign manager, after oanvassing the situatioa, began w»zk upon a bucolicrepresentative from one of tbe western reserve oo tin ties.

The old man grew very indignant at the first bint of money ia connection with his vote. He fumed a great deal,"swore a little and very melodramatically asserted that "bis manhood was not for sale at any prioe." Gradually the fact was impressed upon bin that the one necessary vote oould be secured in another quarter, and that bis obstinacy would bav&jpo effect upon the senatorial result an^ay, while it might materially affect "his pooketbook.

Thereupon the oM'felfcw made an eloquent plea in btB nra behalf. He strengly asserted that be was an honest wan whose reputation wat as dear to him as his life and whose character always bad been uospotttd by contact with tbe world. "Yen will readily understand, sir," he added, "that having so much at stake as I do it would be. impossible for me to entertain for one moment any proposition you might make te try to influence my rmts in this matter. My veto is not for sale, but I have ne ill feeling, tswsrd you for what i»u hav fried toTi% andaaprooi of that

fact I'll go right over to your room now and join you in a social ga^pe of euchre |ust between ourselveB." "All fight," assented tbe lobbyist. "I'm pretty busy, but I guess I can find time enough for a single rubber with you. How &bout tbe stakes?" "Twenty-five hundred a corner." "No two thousand."

They played. Tbe lobbyist lost. The man froia the Western Beserve voted for tbe candidate who was elected senator.— Chicago Times-Herald.

TOLD THE LORD. ABOUT HIM.

Cowboy's Prayer at the Grave of a Dead Comrade. -v In the far west, on the lone prairie, a number of cowboys were called to perform the last rites for a oomrade who bad accidentally met sudden death. Tbe dead comrade had been a great favorite with the gang, 6o their grief at parting with him and their anxiety for his future welfare induced a strong desire on the part of each remaining one of bis associates to hold religious services. Not one of them oould sing or remember a sacred song that he had ever beard. Not one of them could think of a prayer, and the Inconsistency of the prayer offered as a last resort can at least be given tbe credit of sincerity. So we are willing to think that it would reach the throne and meet with more mercy and consideration than some flowery petition offered in insincerity. Each one of them wore a nickname. Briggs was the one ap plied to the dead man, and Arkansas Bob was the one who offered the following prayer: "O Lord, I guess in your opinion 3 am pretty tough, but I ain't saying any thing for myself it's for Briggs. He's dead now. But, O Lord, he's as white a man as ever lived. He's got something away down in him as pure as steel, and, O Lord, he's got a heart in him at big as a mule. I'll tell you what he done the other day. He gave a sick Mexioan $4.40, turned round and nursed him through a fever, and the darned fellow hadn't been well more than two days till he stole Briggs' saddle pookets. O Lord, you must not go back on such a man as that, because tbey are scarce in these parts. O Lord, I never pestered any with the Bible and just now can't rem em bet a hymn song, but if Briggs gets a half chance he'll make as good a record in heaven as any man that ever got there."

And, firing a salute to the memory of the dead, they left him alone in his glory. —Field and Farm.

How to Be Ready.

To know how to be ready—a great thing, 8 precious gift and one that implies calculation, grasp and decision. To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. He must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is inwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered. In a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. To know how to be ready is to know how to start.

It is astonishing hrfar all of us are generally oumbered np with the thousand and one hindrances and duties which are not such, but which nevertheless wind us about with their spider threads and fetter the movement of our wings. It is the lack of order which makes us slaves. The oonfusion of today discounts the freedom of tomorrow.

Confusion is the enemy of all oomfort, and confusion is born of procrastination. To know how to be ready we must be able to finish. Nothing is done but what is finished. The things which we leave drauging behind us will start up again later ui before ua and harass our path. Let each day take thought for what' concerns it, liquidate its own affairs and respect the day whioh is to follow, and then We shall be always ready. To know how to be ready is at the bottom to know how to die.— Amipl.

Fined Because They Kept Robins. The possession of fjur pet robins, to which they were greatly attached, caused the arrest the other day of Mattie Parden and Franoesca Oclepoof Highland avenue, Passaio, N. J., and what was particularly hard for the girls was that they were fined $20 each and costs, amounting in all to $87.26.

Though they gave the birds tbe best of care, with plenty of food and- the luxury of frequent baths, the little owners of the robinB were charged with cruelty. In some way Vice President Vanderhaven of the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, beard that the birds were being kept in oaptivity. H* swore out a warrant against the girls, and Policeman Flynn was sent to make the arrests.

The birds and cages were seized, and the frightened girls were taken before Justice White. There they admitted that therobins were theirs, but tearfully declared that tbey bad never been unkind to them. The birds, as tbey sat on their perobes in the courtroom, seemed as sad as their owners, and did not volunteer to sing a note to soften the heart of the stern justice. After hearing the testimony Justice White looked wise and inflicted the full penalty of the law.—New York Herald.

Her Bicycle Made Him Take Poison. Because his wife persisted in riding a bicyole in spite of his objections, Dr. J. D. Porter, a prominent physloian of Kansas City, head of the Physicians' Supply company, committed suioide in his office recently by taking morphine, strychnine and hydrate of chloral and inhaling illuminating gas. Dr. Porter was apparently as happy and contented as any man in Kansas City until Mrs. Porter bought a bicycle not long ago. Tbe doctor was not in sympathy with her riding it because he did not think it womanly, but she was delighted and would not give up the wheel.

Soon the doctor showed signs of despondency and went direct to the store and began taking poison. He was found dying when they opened the store. Mrs. Porter is a daughter of a Mr. Blandy of Zanesville. O., proprietor of large maohine shops there.—New York Sun.

Five Generations Celebrate. Mrs. William Smith, who lives on Amboy avehue, Tottenville, N. Y., has just celebrated her ninetieth birthday with a family reunion.- Her family represents five generations. All of her children and grandchildren are noted for their robust constitutions. Mrs. Smith lost her husband, William Smith, six years ago, this being the first death in tbe family in G5 yean. She was married to Mr. Smith 73 years. She is very strong and able to read, and converses on all the topics of tbe day. There are 7 children living, 26 grandohildren, 27 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild.

Mermaids.'

All tfie world over there 'are legends about mermaids. The Chinese tell stories net unlike others about the sea woman of their southern seas. Mankind is taught on the most excellent evidence that a mer-1 maid was captured at Bangor, on the! shens ef the Belfast Lough,' in the 6ixth century, while another caught at Edam, in 1408, was carried to Haarlem and kept there for many years. .,

.f- Gay Jackets of ZlshskiA. "the Eskimos of Alaska make jackets of the skins of the red spotted trout of that region, known as tbe 1

Jelly Tarden, which

they tan for this purpose. The Dolly Varden is a handsome fish of a pale purplish gray color it attains a length of 2M feet and a weight of 10 to J2 pounds. The sfcin is waterproof, and with its bright red spots It makes sherv —New York gun.

SWIFT RETRIBUTION.

HUGO'S ACCOUNT OF AN INCIDENT OF THE RIOTS OF 1830.

How a Cowardly and Unprovoked Harder by a Disguised Polloe Agent Was Summarily Avenged by Eqjolm, a Young

Stpdent, Ieader of the Mob.

In that wonderful book, "Les Miserables," Victor Hugo devotes considerable space to descriptions of the riots of 1830, which were of such importance that they are often termed a revolution. He was an eyewitness of tbe events and says of them:

The facts we are going to record belong to that dramatic and living reality which the historian sometimes neglects through want of time and space, but they contaiu, we insist upon it, life palpitation and human quivering. Small details apparently unimportant are, so to speak, the foliage of great events and are lost in the distance of history.

Bands of rioters, it is well known, resemble a snow ball, and as they roll along agglomerate many tumultuous men who do not ask each other whence they came. Among the passersby who joino the band led by Enjolras, Combeferr# and Conrfeyrao there was a man wearing a painter's jacket, much worn at the shoulders, who gesticulated and had vociferated and had the appearance of a drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Carbuc and entirely unknown to those who pretended to know him, was seated in a state of real or feigned intoxication with four others round a table which they had dragged out of the wineshop. This Carbuc, while making the others drunk, seemed to be gazing thoughtfully at the large house behind the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole street and faced tho Rue St. Denis. All at once he exclaimed: "Do you know what, comrades, we must flre from that hbuse. When we are at the windows, hang me if any one can come up tho 6treot." "Yes, but the house is closed,'' said one of tho drinkers. "We'll knock." "They won't open." "Then we'll break in th&door.^'

Le Carbuc ran up to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and rapped. As the door was not opened he rapped again, and no one answering he gave a third rap, but the silence continued. "Is there any one in hereP" Lo Carbuc shouted. But nothing stirred, and so he seized a musket and began hammering the door with the butt end. It was an old, low, narrow, solid door made of oak, lined with sheet iron inside and a heavy bar, and a thorough postern gate. The blows made the whole house tremble, but did not shake the door. The inhabitants, however, were probably alarmed, for a little square trap window was at length lit up and opened on the third story, and a candle and the gray haired head of a terrified old man who was the porter appeared In the oriflce. Tho man who was knocking left off. "What do you want, gentlemen?'\^he porter asked. -fv s? "Open the door," said Le Carbuc. "I cannot, gentlemen." "Open, I tell you." "/r "It is impossible, gentlemen."

Le Carbuc raised his musket agd took aim at the porter, but as he was below aud it was very dark the porter did not notioe the fact. "Will you open—yes or no?" "No, gentlemen." "You really mean itP" -f "I say no, my kind"—

The porter did not finish tnd Sentence, for tfce musket was fired. The bullet entered under his chin and came out of his neok after passing through the jugular vein. The old man fell in a heap without heaving a sigh the candle went out, and nothing was visible save a motionless hend lying on the sill of the window and a small wreath of smoke ascending to the roof. "There," said Carbuc as he let the butt end of the musket fall on the pavement*

He had scarce uttered the word ere he felt a hand laid on his shoulder with the tenacity of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice saying to him: "On your knees."

The murderer- turned and saw beforo him Enjolras' white, cold face. Enjolras held a pistol in his hand and had hurried up on hearing the shot fired and clutched with his left hand Le Carbuc's blouse, shirt and suspenders. "On your knees," he repeated.

And with a sovereign movement tho frail young man of 20 bent like a reed the muscular aad robust porter and forced him to kneel in the mud. Le Carbuc tried to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a superhuman hand. Enjolras, pale, bare neoked, with his disheveled hair and feminine face, had at this moment I know not what of the ancient Themis. His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek profile that expression of wrath and that expression of chastity which, in the opinion of the old world, are becoming to justice. All the insurgents had hurried up and then ranged themselves in a circle at a distance, feeling that it was impossible for them to utter a word in the presence of what they were going to see. Le Carbuc, conquered, no longer attempted to struggle and trembled all over. Enjolras loosed his grasp and took oqt his watch. "Pray or think," he said. "You havs one minute to do so." "Mercy!" the murderer stammered then hung his head and muttered a few inarticulate execrations.

Enjolras did not take his eyes off the watch. He let the minute pass.and then put the watch again in his fob. This done, he seized Le Carbuc by the hair, who clung to his knees, with a yell, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those intrepid men who had so tranquilly entered upon the most frightful of adventures turned away their heads. The explosion was heard the assassin fell on his head on the pavement, and Enjolras drew himself up and look around him with a j3tern air of conviction. Then he kickod the corpse and said: "Throw this outside."

Enjolras, silent and collected, his virgin lips closed, stood for some time at the spot where he had shed blood iu the motionlcssness of a marble statue. His fixed eyes caused people to talk in whispers around him. Jean Prouvaire and Comboferre shook their heads silently, and leaning against each other in an angle of tbe barricade gazed with admiration, in which there was compassion, at this grave yourig man, who was an executioner and priest and had at tho same time the light and hardness of crystal. Let us say at once that after the action, when tho corpses were conveyed to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le Carbuc. The writer had in his hands in 1848 the special report ou this subject mado to the prefect of police in 1880

JUSTlUt TO THE PUPPY.

It Is Time That His Name Should Be Cleared of Contumely. It is high time that a word should be •poken in apology to the much abused puppy, who has for years been made to stand as an emblem of the most degpiuable member of the human family.

When a man discovers traits of meanness, when he betrays a meddlesome, prying, caddish disposition, we are too prone to characterize him as a "puppy" without stopping to think of the contumely thereby heaped upon the canine animal of immature yaars.

Instead of being a term of reproach, "puppy," properly considered, is a high $nd undeserved oompiimeat Jbp4S9SSI_5B*

on the object of our contempt, but while we thus unintentionally honor the cad, we do a distinct and unwarranted injustice to the puppy, for it is a sort of insinuation that he is no better than the man to whom he is likened, inasmuch as by calling a cad a puppy we as much as say that the puppy is a mean, sneaking upstart oi a creature, which ho i9 not.

The puppy is frank, free and frolic some, always in the best of humor, with nothing underhand or mean about him. He never sulks in his kennel nor complains because things do not go just as hi wants them to go. He makes friends witl) everybody, the rich and the poor, the higfc and the low, tho good looking and thr ugly, ond he is no respecter of silk, satii and broadcloth above cotton or fustian o( rags.

He is not squeamish as to his diet, an takes what is given to him gladly, and much more as he can get hold oL

He may and does rend yottr doormat an(^| demolish stray rubbers and nzfetai ings of your raiment, but he does all thi(i|fe jocosely and without malice. It is hiisi?|i safety valve, the instinct given him wherwi by he may blow off some part of his e* ubernnt liveliness.

The puppy is tho very quintessence d-nsis animated good nature. His is the genial: temperament, his the merry making disposition that would have all nature, animal and vegetable, share in his joys. sy.

Therefore, to call a mean spirited fel« low a puppy is a gratuitous and unwarranted liliel upon the four footed ingenu, and it is time that justice was done to the puppy by no longer making him the emblem and the analogue of the man we call by his namo.

A puppy does not put on airs, nor turn up his nose at people whom he fancies are below him—if, indeed, lie ever considers anybody below him—neither does he in-^ dulge in liquids more potont than milk,£ nor mako himself odorous with cigaretM smoke.

The puppy is mischievous, but never mniicious. He tries to bo everybody's friend and was never known to speak ill of any ono.

Then why has he been maligned all these years? Come, let us no longer degrade a good fellow, and a merry, by employing him os a simile of all that is mean and despicable in human nature.—Boston Transcript.

Prieos Two Centuries Ago.

The question of prices in the first quarter of the seventeenth century Is full of Interest to every one, and it is satisfactory to find that food was not as fabulously cheap in the days of our forofathers as we ar« often led to believe. Mary Verney writes to Ralph at Blols complaining bitterly ot the dearness of provisions in London. Beef is fourpence, veal and mutton# eightpence, while Pen Verney reckons 8 shillings a week too much for her diet, which is afterward fixed at £6 a year. Twelve pounds a year seems as great deal for willful little Betty, aged 13, to spend on her dress, but country bred as she was she declines, Mary writes, to wear anything but silk. The sum of £50 claim-,-ed by Nancy Denton, who was a spoiled child and rich man's daughter, is far more appropriate to her position. In fact, the fees earned by physiciuns in those days were far in excess of what we should give now, in spite of the exceeding simplicity. —not to say remarkable unpleasantness— of their pharmacopoeia and treatment.

Dr. Theodore Mayeuce, the fashionable doctor, left £140,000 (equivalent to over $500,000) behind him, and Sir Ralph is miserablo because he cannot afford to pay Dr. Denton the £60 which is the ordinary. fee for a confinement. A Venetian mirror costs £40, a portrait by Vandyke £50. A ji maid's wages come to £3, but the pair of "trimcd gloves," with which it is the,i? fashion to reward any extra services on her part, comes to £1 5s.-"-an absurdly disproportionate payment. The prico of Sir Edmund's Covent Garden house is £100, and many horses fetch as much, whilo £200 a year is tho usual price for a boy's beard and teaching in a good French family.— Longman's Magazine.

He Took the Case.

Somebody—perhaps it was Postmaster Willett—-told a good story about Campbell Carrington the other day. Carrington, it seems, had a client who was almost absolutely sure of going to the penitentiary. The facts wero dead against him. But the lawyer talked with him awhile, impressed» upon him the narrowness of his chauces for acquittal and finally asked him thisquestion:

Would you rather plead guilty and takeu the sentence which tho court will impose, or would you prefer to go upon the stand, and give your own version to the jury?" "Nyther," said the man coolly.

Carrington looked at the accused with astonishment. "My friend," said he, "any man who can stand here and say 'nyther* when tho shadow of the penitentiary is upon him gets my services for nothing. You will be acquitted yet."

The result proved tho prediction. Carrington went in, foxight tho case, and the man was acquitted.—Washington Post.

There Conld Be No Mistake. Some time ago an amorous young man sent a letter to a German lady, and this postcript was added: "That my darling may make no mistake, remember that I will wear a light pair of trousers and a dark cutaway coat. In my right hand I will carry a small cane and in my left a cigar. Yours ever, Adolphe."

Tho father replied courteously, stating that his datightor had given him authority to represent, her at the appointed place al the time agreed on. His postscript was ai follows: "Dot mine son may make nomishdakes, I vill be drpshed in mine shirt sleeves.

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Carbolic Acid.

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By the rules of chivalry all persons, mali and female, old and youn^. in a town takby as a re a to deatb, and the men and boys seldom caped the brutality of the victors.

The mother of the famous Constable Bourbon learned to fence in order to assist in the military training of her son.

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