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PART TWO.
PAGES 9 TO 12.
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l'MCE FIVE CENTS.
INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1889--TWELVE PAGES.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
S U N DAY
f ASHIOX'SAIRS ASD GRACES
Bliirley Dare Discusses Midsummer
Fashions from a Boston Stand-1'oint.
Delights of New England Country Life Poems
in New Midsummer Bonnets Dainty
Blouses Yalualle Cosmetic Hint3.
t!vral to t!i IcjnnaiKtfl Journal;
Nnw Youk, J uly 20. It is gratefnl to bo
once more in the reach of the cool airs of
the New England coast, away from depress
ing city smells and heat, its ceaseless roar
and sleeplessness. Instead, to breathe the
bayberry spice and dew of the sea, to feel
the sunahlne without infection; after
months of weary wakefulness to feel sleep
descend on one's eyelids with the wings of
dusk, and to open them at daybreak with a
6mile at the pleasure of the air, is the be
'ginning of new life, is the only thing
worth calling life. Before vacation of
travel and 6ight-seeiug it is well to take
such rest, congenial and entire, though it
might not be to everyone's taste to take it
in an empty house and, tangled garden, all
6ole alone, &s I am doing. It is a sort of
retreat." as the Catholics take, for the
good of body and spirit, in solitude, silence
and rest. The long, country-house parlor,
with the colonial desk and cabinet and old
tables, from the heavy walnut-wood with
twisted supports, dating from the days of
Queen Bess, full as it can hold with homo
and foreign journals; the quaint card-table,
with, four large drawers, which servo
bo well for stowing away notes
of daily reading and old manuscript;
the largo round table, second iu
size to but one diuing-table in New York,
that of Mrs. Bertha Duncan, famous for its
good cheer. This one is now spread with
newspapers and magazines from London
and Paris to St. Louis and San Francisco.
For if one's coffee be solitary, nothing for
bids having a review to breakfast, a gos
sipy society magazine or a scientific month
ly, as one's taste happens to run. The
truth is, in people's writings you get the
best of them, without the dregs. The days
pass quick-footed in the busy rest of a
writer, like the da3s spent by Baudot in
Lis house of the windmill, in the thyme
ncented Provencal wilderness. My wild
nook, however, is not so far but 1 could
spend yesterday among the shops
and fasuious of Boston. Perhaps you
don't know that Boston prides itself a
trillo on its taste in uress; that it imports
styles dirdct from line makers abroad; and
New York importers have told mo that
their choicest things are seized directly bj'
Bosicn buyers without a chanco to open
them in the big city. It always used to bo
a treat to run up from New York and see
the tine taste of things in Boston shops, and
1 know you can buy tho best millinery for
dollars less than any other city. They do
tell me kid gloves are cheaper in Chicago
than anywhereelse, butouttits in the better
class of goods are lower prices in Boston, if
you know where to go for them. A stylish
Lat, such as will cost $10 on Tweutv-third
street, and a private modiste would feel
disgraced to ask less thau 17 for in
New York, was ottered for $7.07
by one of the best milliners on
Washington street, and neither material
nor work could bo criticised. Shoes and
tine gloves are cheaper ami better in Bos
ton, and 1 notice Western ladies tind satis
faction in buying unset gems here, and
having them mounted in artistic devices.
They say you get very good taste without
having to pay Union Square prices for it.
Get taste! Of course you do. Isu't it in
the air, under the very nose of Park-street
6teeple, bronght out in a dozen conservato
ries and anxious colleges, preached in
nulpits and dci-fied at Harvard, that is
LL. D.'ified. The midsummer bonnets,
by the way. aro mostly hats, sailor
hats, in white straw and white felt
for girls, and the new spoonbills
or poke hats for women who know wtiat is
becoming. The French pokes are very low
and small in the crown, with a broad, flat
brim shading the face perfectly, but cut
close to the sides, which takes away the
cumbrous look of a wide round hat, and U
more dressy for the watering-place pier or
the casino. Fine manilla pokes, white,
ecru or black, are $3 untrimmed. The brim
is faced in crape, net or tish net over the
thin silk, the material coining beyond the
edge, or a narrow lace edging sewvd under
the brim as finish. The trimming is usu
ally a scarf of bordered crape, black,
azure or poppy red, or the new brill
iant azalia red, or black net
with narrow lace edge, or white washing
net, of a clear coarse rush, not fish net,
which last is much used on commoner hats.
The scarf or ribbon is tied in two large but
terfly bows in front, that is, bows stand
ings out a little, not like the meek Alsatian
or Black Forest peasant bow seen on some
small bonnets, and copied from one of the
photographer" last spring's Vienna tragedy,
where the jealous court beauty figures m
fancy dress with this great velvet bow
on her head. It is stylish for small heads
with straight features, which re
quire a closo bonnet, still the butter
tly or winged bows are becoming in most
cases and most worn. The double standing
bow of gauze in frontwith one long end of
scarf brought round and pinned carelessly
on the left shoulder, gives a pleasing, sum
mery effect, after the tall crumpled hats
piled with tlowers, worn over bare throats,
with nursery frills by wav of collars. It is
an ugly sight, these naked necks, rising
from ungraceful frills copied from a most
dowdy period of English fashions. A fair
throat rising from the guard of an
Elizabethan standing run" of laco
is artistic and beautiful, bnt a
frock cut lower in the back of tho
neck than in front almost shows the ug
liest line in a woman's neck, and tho ugli
est women are possessed to wear it. Tho
high military collar will always be favored
by women who understand how to dress.
It protects a good throat and keeps it fair
and fresh late in life, to be shown occasion
ally in evening dress. Tho finest modistes
assert their claim to be known as artists by
announcing that they will copy hats from
old portraits, in any style, and "picture
hats," as they are called, add greatly to tho
variety of fashions abroad. Uuo may see
the very felt and plumes of a Sir
josuua Jieynoius portrait on tho head of
its own great-granddaughter, or the simper
ing shepherdess in the yellow leghorn, and
pale pink satin ribbons with streamers a
yard and a half long, at a garden party on
tho 1 names. By tho way, bonnets are seen
at the high-priced shop, and ladies who
have one of these tine old straws way test
their reputation for doing over endlessly.
They come in very quaint styles, with
crape and pongee kerchiefs twisted up for
crowns, and a huge red rose with very
green leaves over tho face, copying
old fashion plates to the life. It
is quite certain that we shall
soon see as much trimming and as many
flowers inside the bonnet as outside, which
will be very trying to complexions.
Vienna now sends some of the most ar
tistic fashions, competing in general styles
against Paris, as London does in tailor
suits and cloaks. A pretty German blouse
of fine white silk flannel, with tucked
standing collar, full sleeves gathered into
a small wristband, tucked down the fronts
and belted, is sold in Boston for $5. The
fabric is washable, and the pattern so sim
ple as to be easily adjusted and ironed.
The best blouses, in silk, limine! or lawns,
are not shaped to the waist or gathered in a
belt, but made, straight as a shirt, with
half-inch tucks down the frout, and a belt
of the material fastened to the middle of
tho back, to hook in front. Hooks and eyes
are on everything instead of bnttous. only
sewed alternately, a hook and au eye on tho
same side, which prevents coming un
hooked at wrong times. The silk
blouses are worn instead of wraps by
young women. The black ones are best,
with the finest baud-run tucks from the
neck outlining adeenyoke. aud the fullness
belted in by a loose belt. The French surah
Is the proper material for these blouses, as
it is the best of all soft silks for wearing,
and are yards is the quantity required.
J he sleeve should bo gathered at the
ihoulder. and high enough to form a slight
puff, while it may be gauged or smocked at
the wrist, formiug a frill around the hand.
The putt on the shoulder is becoming to
tuoat lifiuiw ami chould.be insisted on for
BtyllsVdress. In London, women of fashion
wear epaulettes of diamonds, and passe
menterie, sparkling with jewels, or of flow
ers. For casino dresses, a moire ribbon bow
on tho shoulder, heading a puff of gauze,
replaces the sleeve. Tho chamber gown is
a luxurious moditication of the tea gown
which grows too splendid or rathersplendid
enough foranything. Thechambergown for
elegant intimate wear is comfort incarnate.
The model shown in Nile green surah had
insertions of Cheny lace, outlining a yoke,
down the fronts and sleeves with a rulf of
lace and silk, and ribbon girdle.
Tho most artistic standard lamps are of
wrought iron, in renaissauce patterns, with
stem rising from a largo Chinese vase, in
yellow, blood-red or pale blue, clasped by
scrolls of iron-work, suggesting the way in
which roots stray over a bowlder. The fine
iron-work, contrasted with the china, is far
more pleasing thau the glitter of brass,
nickle and bronze, of which there is a sur
feit. TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Harriet wishes to keep her hair tho beau
tiful golden color it was when young with
out bleaching it with soda or materials
which might injure quality. She can pour
boiling water on chloride of lime, a gallon
of water to live tablespoonfuls of lime, and
hold her hair over the fumes, taking' care
not to iuhalo them. This is best done by
an open widow, with face toward it. and
the vessel of vapor behind one. Hold the
hair parting and ehaking it with the lingers
over the fumes for live minutes. Then sit
in the sun. wearing a crownless straw hat.
through whose opening the locks aro spread
over the brim, to expose them fully. Awct
cloth on the top of tho head will prevent
discomfort while bleaching the hair for an
hour or two. Tho bleaching can bo done at
a window through which the sun falls.
Use lemons and fruit freely as diet to aid in
preventing deposits of dark pigment on tho
hair.
"Enon" writes a very sensible letter, as
follows:
Well, I am twenty-five years old, have pretty
good health, having been brought up to the ace
of twelve in sensible manner, (air and sunshlue
and that), but at twelve was put into a school
whero all my ambition was aroused, and I
studied night and day, and until I was gradu
ated, at the age of tlltccu, with highest honor,
in class where average was eighteen, then kept
lmoks for five years in tho darkest rooms of a
who'esalo house. I tell you all this as a proba
ble cause for u;y yellow skin, which is smooth
and lino excepting my face. Have few pimples;
never had any until I stopped using powder, a
year asro. I thought I'd take a Turkish bath onco
a month for a few months, as you suggested,
and have taken one, last week; but the
attendant could not make my face perspire,
there w as an ugly grease came out all over it,
ami that was all; now I had used vaseline on my
face for about six months, every night, so I
have stopped that until I near from you. bhall
I go one taking bath! ffurkish, of course.)
Shall I une vaaeline I My face has not a greasy
appearance at all Is rather inclined to le dry.
Suall I take charcoal every morning, and for
how long tdiall I tuke it and the taraxacum!
What shall I give my little daughter and sister
(aged four and sixteen) for pure, good blood!
Our physician says they are bloodless, and
recommended Wet and iron wine, but I am
afraid of injuring their teeth with the iron, and
thought there may be something else.
Perspiring all over will improve the face,
although it may not become moist. Tho
"ugfy grease" which came out showed
healihy action excited in the dull skin.
Steam tho face daily over hot water for
ten minutes to stimulate the glands. I do
not advise vaseline in such a case. Take
charcoal whenever there is a bad taste in
tho mouth, but take some alterative with
it, and uso coarse food. Take taraxacum
till the faco bleaches, omitting it every
fourth week. Give j-our girls good beet
steak, clam broth, broiled fresh fish, plenty
of berries and fruits, and unferniented
grape-juice, instead of medicine. This
grape-juice is tho greatest blood-maker
known for weak women and children. As
said before, it is 50 cents a quart, aud sold
at many places in New York and Boston. I
wish Ehon had sent her address.
"Magnolia" Beef gall is used in old cos
metic recipes. The only way to safely uso
it is by testing it. diluting a tcaspoouful in
half a pint of warm water, and trying it on
the arm or hand. It is said to whiten tho
skin and remove freckles.
'Mrs. A. L. B." asks how to preserve her
skin from fading, as much exercise is out
of tho question from lack of strength.
Being out of doors in tho sun when it is
mild enough to be borne is tho great pre
servative of color and freshness, and ono
may sit or drive as well as exercise, gaining
strength and beauty together. As energy
returns, exercise gently. Also sleep earlv,
which adds greatly to the brilliance of the
skin. Broiled beefsteak and brown bread,
with grape-juice, will give 3011 a color. I
am sorry that jy own failure of strength
forbids answering cosmetic inquiries per
sonally for some time to come. It is more
than I can do, often, to read tho number of
letters as they come.
"Silence" "What is tho best treatment for
a person whoso digestion is imperfect and
who is continually losing flesh!" Eat only
what digests easily. Here is a choice: Soft
boiled eggs with a dash of Worcester sauce;
beefsteak chopped raw and browned quick
ly; the gravy of meat baked in a close stono
jar; the juice of fruits with toasted crack
ers; calves' feet jelly; Iceland moss farina;
parched wheat and corn; the soft part of
fresh clams, scalded 111 their broth; fresh
apples or peaches with cream. Eat only
what satisfies hunger, and eat very slowly,
but eat four, five or six times a da', regu
larly, if you seem to crave food. Drink
orange or lemon phosphate frequently,
which is capital for getting up an appetite,
or for taking tho place of food when deli
cate. Next week, if able to hold my head up, I
propose to do nothing but answer corre
spondents' inquiries till the round table is
cleared of them. Shirley Dare.
KOSSUTH'S OLD EYES JIEDISI.trED.
A Letter from tlie Magyar Patriot Mourning
Over Hungary's l'olitical Inertness.
New York Herald.
Louis Kossuth, tho Hungarian patriot,
has written a noteworthy letter in the Mag
yar language to his friend. Ignaz Hatfy.
In it lie reviews the events of Lis past life,
and writes feelingly of tho attitude of
Hungary toward her Austrian rulers. To
his now home in Itab", he sa3s, there con
stantly come to him tokens of sympathy
aud love from his many friends in his na
tive land. His inference is that, in spite of
all appearances to tho contrary, Hungary's
love of independence and freedom is not
dead, and will surely become manifest
again at some later day. Still, ho lays
stress on Austria's attitude toward Huu
gary in 1SGI aud li07, and complains that
the events of those and following years
have made him, "in tho strictest sense of
the words, no ono and nothing," and have
rendered him utterly powerless to inllueuce
hrxountry for good.
In conclusion, ho says that tho many to
kens of sympathy ami love which are sent
to him are a proof iu his eyes that his coun
trymen havo not forgotten the ever memor
able days of li4S-4J, and that a similar pop
ular wave is again stirring the hearts of the
people. These friendly tokens, lie adds,
lengthen for him the days of his old age,
though he knows well that not only in hon
or of him. a gray beard, are they sent, but
also in honor of the many heroes who did
great deeds in the famous revolution
ary days. Then he says finally that iu
one sense he does not caro a jot whether his
name is remembered or sinks into oblivion;
but that, as a patriot, it gives him infinite
joy to think, even after he is dead, his
name will be remembered as that of one
who did good service for his country when
she most needed it.
"This is not death," are his last words.
"It is only sleep, and. though tho sleep has
lasted a good while, the awaking will como
soon. God grant that sleep come not again.
Sursum corda lit t up your hearts!"
Varieties of Snobbery.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Both the Democratic newspapers who re
fer to Mr. Kussell Harrison as "Prince Rus
sell'' and the Republican correspondents
who are proudly stating that he is received
in England as "au heir apparent" Afford
equally radical illustrations of the differ
ent varieties of snobbery of which Ameri
can party journalism is capable.
A Tiiurljr Ouery. . .
The Occident.
A bright little lad. sitting by his father's
side in a pew, was given a coin to put on a
collection plate. No sooner had he depos
ited the coin than, in a loud whisper and
an excited manner, he asked: "Papa, have
you saved auy circus money!" A smile
broad enough to go over a large section of
jnowa TYau compelled by tho cucumatancest
BILL KYE'S PAMSLLN NOTES
He Meanders Gaylj Along tho Chong
Eliza Among Squirting Fountains.
Prominent Feoplc Who Are Stopping" at His
nonse Our Minister's Elegant Bald Head
and Expensive Habits The Local Tapers.
Copyright, 1S&, by Edgar W. Nye.
Paris, July 5, 1889. I date this the 5th of
July because yesterday was tho 4th. I
celebrated it in a quiet way. Fire-crackers
are hard to get here, especially if one does
not readily speak the language. I tried to
get a package, but after great trouble and
a general upheaval of shoulders I only suc
ceeded in getting seventy-five centimes
worth of soda crackers.
The great tower handsomely illuminated
in honor of the day in tho colored fire,
Xye Enjoying Himself.
rockets, etc., at a height of nearly a
thousand feet, was oue of tho grandest
sights I have ever witnessed.
ihe reception at the resideuco of tho
American minister was about tho tallest
thing I havo been at for some time. The
home of Mr. Keid is just off tho ChongEliza
and is a palace in every sense. The White
House actually becomes a wigwam in com
parison. It comes high, but Whitelaw is
bound to have it. He pays, as every one
knows. 2,500 per year more rent than his
salary amounts to, and that shows his de
sire to do the thing right. The entrauce is
very magnificent indeed, and tho residence
itself is not onl3 very grand, but rich by
furnished. Whitelaw is a great social suc
cess, and for that we should honor him at
the start. I have had nodiplomatic relations
with him, but sociallv we understand each
other first rate. He likes society and so do
I. Frequently I put on my other clothes
and go into society, speak of the average
rain-fall, the mean temperature and the
open winter, thus endearing myself to one
and all. 1 then go away.
1 saw Senator Sherman and wife; also
Buffalo Bill: also many other Americans.
Miss Eames was on tho programme and
sung charmingly. Mr. and Mrs. Hill and
daughters were here. Mr. H. Hill is the
president of tho St. Paul. Minneapolis
Manitoba railway. Tho two Misses Hill
are noted for their agreeable mauners and
exceedingly graceful manner of conversing
on all subjects. I might also addthat by
way of relief, the3T are something interest
ing to meet. One never hears either of the
Misses Hill refer to the cost of their dresses,
nor tell how much money pa has spent 011
cabs and tips since the3 came abroad.
Among others were Mrs. Helen Dauvray
Ward and Mr. Charles Bheinhart, Mr. John
Hay and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Heur3 E.
Abbey and Theodore Tilton. The baud,
after three weeks' rehearsal, plaj'ed Yankee
Doodle and Hail Columbia. Tho fountains
squirted and tho pink spinal columns of the
American contingent gleamed iu the soft
voluptuous light, along with the bald heads
of eminent men.
By tho wa3', the American minister can
not poko fun at mo much longer ou the
dome business, for he has a good-sized
skating-rink on the back of his head which
the cartoonists ought to utilize. We com
pared think tanks last evening, and al
though I do not claim anything special in
that line, he is getting as I say, quite arid
on top. However, Mr. and Mrs. Keid are
ably and luxuriously representing the
United States, aud hold up the national
fabric in goodshnpe, a thing which inform
er 3ears we have not had too much of in
our foreign minister. Our ministers havo
beeu, in many instances, a disgraco to the
pulpit.
Frenchmen, old ones, I mean, have a way
of brushing their hair forward when They
get bald, which I am going to adopt. They
part their hair in the neighborhood of tho
shoulder-blades, and work it all forward.
It looks real cute.
The contempt of tho Freuch peoplo for
Xye Surveying Iieid'g Baldness.
the small American copper is noticeable.
Their own 83'stem involves a cascade of
coppers every time 3'ou do anything, and
tho pour boire you havo to start out with
in tho morning weigh about eighteen
pounds (not in English money), but though
they do not like our little cent they like the
American frankness. 1 get all the Ameri
can papers I can hero, whether local or im
ported. The local papers representing
America are quite largely persoual in their
news, that is, itisa necessity largely per
sonal. The New York Herald, as published
in Paris, is just the size of thc-Daiby Boom
erang, which I used to publish as often as
possible at Laramie City. The t3'pe is a
good deal tho same, aud tho general ap-
1earanco the same, but when it comes to
rain waves and grey matter, burning
thoughts and caustic, .fearless blows for tho
right, the Herald, of course, has the ad
vantage. The Paris edition is doing a great
work in elevating the tone of tho European
press. Wherever you go in Europe, em
pires, kingdoms and principalities refuse to
take auy important step in the morning
until they know what the Paris edition of
tho Herald says. Yesterday there was a
new subscriber. His letter was printed edi
torially, together with a fac simile of
check. The letter read: "Editor Herald,
Paris, I incloso twenty centimes for which
please send your valuable paper to Heligo
land and oblige Yours truly
I have heard frequently about the power
of the press, but it is only now that I can
fully say I understand it. Here is an
Americau enterprise in the heart of Europe,
a paper which states under the very nose of
the old despotic power of the North and
the hot andrevolutiouar' iconoclasts and
such things of the South, that "the Her
ald's thermometer registered 3esterda3'
fifty-eight degrees Fahr."
Here, near the place where the barbarian
Goth' stabled his horse in the Palace of tho
Carsars, and forgot to settle his bill, this
brave journal, price twenty centimes, goes
on to state editorally, speaking of the war
cloud, as follows; "Clouds over tho
European horizon clouds and thunder
clouds." Further it goes on again
to say in another place in well-chosen
words: "If in the meantime we look well
into these cloud phenomena there are curi
ous revelations." Then it speaks up after
ward and says with a hot. scathing breath
and dilated nostrils: "So when we look at
these clouds aud thunderclouds aud really
lift?
study their phenomena, the question arises:
Is the peace of man to be disturbed?"
Ah, what a thought- Can one read such
never-dying truths and not become a better
man or woman, according to circumstances!
I have taken considerable space here in
which to speak of this matter, but when a
truth comes home to me with such crush
ing force 1 must refer to it or I am not do
ing my duty.
I dined ititho tall tower the other day,
and while the green grass lav far below in
little squares and the plan of Paris was laid
out beneath my eye, 1 ato the loftiest din
ner I have ever become the proprietor of. I
would not live always if I had to board in
the titlel Tower. You see the restaurants
have to pa3" 25 per cent, of their receipts for
the privilege of being there, and then they
have to haul the provender up so far and
there is no competition, that altogether, I
am glad I do not havo to take my meals
there. But the sight as ono sits at table,
peering down over the parapet or up toward
the top of the bill, aud eats his choice.
juicy garcon or tells the peconto bring in 1
iuumer piemen oeie noir. is one never to
he forgotten. Below you the Seine winds
itself in and out among little farms and
rich vineyards, and far awa3" vou 6ee tho
ocean, oukuow the mighty hippodrome
looks like a Pigs in Clover. Think of get
ting up over a show one thousand feet and
thus8aving your admission fee. Already
the tower is one big autograph album, it
you want a chance to write your name ou
the towerryou will have to be hero inside
of two weeks. There will be no room left
after that, unless you telegraph. Such
great names as those of Peleg Hitchcock, of
Lower Sanduskj-, and Lulu Merkins, of
Dead Horse, aro here; also, Miss Vivian
Bull, of Shake Rag, 111.
Christine Nilssou, the sweet singer, now
the Countess Meranda, lives at our house.
She has just purchased a small homeonthe
Champs Elysee for 400,000 francs, or say
p0,000. She is haughty and weighs about
40 pounds. In the language of an eminent
journalist, she is a good woman weiirhiug
iMO pounds. I hear her warble once in a
while as 1 wake in the morning, but I do
not have to pay i per orchestra chair. She
sings cjuite well. With proper cultivation
her voice has a future for it, I think. B3'
the way, there is another Christine Nilsson
who sings like a lark and is pretty beside.
She is from America and is now in Europe
to improve her voice. She is very liable to
3HtDBvri
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He dines in the Eiffel Tower.
be extensively heard from. She came across
on tho same steamer that I partially occu
pied, and on which 1 did somo literary
work in the wav of contributions to tho
Atlantic, as Dr. Holmes has so delicately
put it.
Ono reason I did not speak of the United
States exhibit before was that 1 did not
iind it till to-day. ' 1 happened to see it to
day because it was a very clear day aud I
had a powerful glass with me. The truth
is sometimes disagreeable, but what I like
about it is, that when mashed to earth, it
will invariably rear up a train upon its hind
feet and assert itself. The United States
are poorl cheaply, meanly and meagerlv
.represented, with a few exceptions. Twill
refer to the exceptions in another letter.
Wo know how to treatthe foreigner when
ho comes to America, but wo do not this
trip, at least, impress him when we go upon
his shore with our exhibits and our goods.
Africa is here with her wonderful exhibit
of diamonds and diamond-cutting. Lots of
the couutries to which we are sending mis
sionaries bring the delicate liush of shame
to the cheek of the American, with their
wonderful fabrics and their diversified in
dustries. I know where the blame lies, but
I will not say at this time, because I have
alread3' criticised Congress till mj' head
aches. Tho Jim Crow economy ami jerk
water enterprise of this great bod3 are only
equaled by those of tho h rench Legislature.
All countries suffer from this calamity, and
there is no use to wail. Every wail thus
thrown awa3r would help to cool our con
somme, and thus prolong our lives.
Dr. Loriug, the Portugese minister, aud
family, have just gone to Lisbon. They
won many friends, both en route and in
Paris.
There aro a great man3 people in Paris,
and the number is constantly increasing,
as one cannot help noticing, for. whether
you go to the exposition, or the theater, or
the hippodrome, or riding on the Champs
Elysees, or in the Boise, or boating 011 tho
Seine, or even to the morgue, you see the
strangest congregation of natives of all
climes sprinkled through the French
crowds, both provincial and metropolitan.
It is the greatest show on earth, and, best
of all, tho stud3' of humanity of ever3' kind,
and color, and race, and shape, is the most
interesting, for everybody seems to bo hero
with his wife, possibly, or with that ap-
Ecarance, at least, trying to see how much
o can see for the moue3 Bill Nye.
1
A DROPPED LETTER.
It Knahlcs a Detective to Capture a Heavy
Defaulter.
San Fraaelsco Chronicle.
One morning in May, 18S4, John O. Ed
wards kissed his wife good-b3'e at his homo
in Milton, Wis., and started ostensibly for
hisoflice. Ho was financial secretary of
the Monomish Mill ami Copper-mining
Company. Nothing was heard of him again
until to-day. Tho town was wild with ex
citement over tho ni3sterious disappear
ance. Mrs. Edwards, who was left with
threo children, the eldest a daughter eleven
years old, was prostrated with grief. Ed
wards was a wealthy church member, a
Sunday-school and temperance worker, aud
was supposed to have been murdered.
Investigation, however, disclosed tho
fact that he had beeu living a double life,
having a mistress, on whom ho lavished
considerable money, and had stolen $40,000,
which was in his possession for the purpose
of paying off miners.
In November. A. F. Gnnnell, a Buf
falo detectivo, chanced to bo in Milton on
business. One evening ho noticed a young
girl across the street drop a letter from her
pocket. He picked it up, and read the
sentence: "Remember what I toll you, and
don't tell mamma," He investigated, and
found that tho girl was Edwards's daugh
ter.andhadthe letter identified as in the ab
sconder's handwriting. He found the girl,
and asked her if she had lost a letter from
her father. She said "Yes." He managed
to get a view of the envelope in which the
letter had come, and saw that it was post
marked National City, Col.
He went there at once, and there found
that Edwards was in Los Angeles. On
reaching that cit3' he found that Edwards
had gone to Enseuada, in Lower California.
He was found there, and the detective says
he came willingly over the line into Cali
fornia, though it is supposed that he was
kidnaped.
. In an interview Edwards said he had
written to his little daughter and takeu the
chances of detection because he found it
was impossible to live without hearing
from her. He is a portly man, and pleas
ant mannered. He is interested in lands in
Lower California, and has property in this
city and Salt Lake. He asserted that he
was now more than able to repay his theft,
as ho has carefull3' invested the money.
Detective Orinnell.aud his prisoner left
this evening for the East.
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llreaking OH Gradually.
The Fpoch.
Father Eleanor, now that j'ou have
given up young Hopkins, 1 wish he would
6top coming to the bouse.
Daughter He's been herepnly seven
times this week, pa.
Father Only seven times! How many do
you want him to come?
Daughter Don't be harsh, father. George
is Xijhxg to break oft -radualb
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LSKSjffl 1
THE TRAINING OF SULLIVAN
Interesting and Authentic Account by
A. T, Lumley, a Sullivan Backer.
How the Quietness of the Country Affected
Sullivan Transforminir a PhysicalWreck
Into a Marvel of Animal Strength.
leclal to Hi ImUanaiolis Journal.
New York, July 20. Althongh during
tho past few weeks there has been a great
deal written about the way John L. Sulli
van was trained by Muldoon, very few of
the statements in regard to the matter have
approached the truth.- This was not from
any fault of tho newspaper writers, but
rather from the want of opportunity to get
at the full and correct facts of the case.
It may bo said, at the outset, that the
most remarkable thing in connection with
the latest and greatest fight in tho annals
of the, prize-ring, was not the fact that
Sullivan won (for that was expected), but
that, thanks to William Muldoon, his
trainer, he had been put in such a physical
condition that he was able to win.
Muldoon had never before trained a man
for a prize-fight; ho made no professions
that he was gifted in that direction, but ho
was a great believer in and a great admirer
of John Ij. Sullivan. He considered him,
naturally, the grandest piece of humanity
living. He wanted to Bee him win the bat
tle, and the thought occurred to him that if
Sullivan could be put absolutely in his
hands he could put him in proper condition.
Muldoon, the general reader may not re
member, was formerly, about 1876, on tho
police force of New York. Soon after join
ing tho force he became noted for his ath
letic performances at the police gymnasium.
There, in a wrestling match, he threw Gati
ne3 who was, at that time, tho champion
wrestler of tho department. Walliug'was
superintendent pf police during this period,
and refused, as often as he could, to accom
modate Muldoon with nights off when he
could engage in matches. As a coose
quence, Muldoon resigned from the force in
lb2. In the meantime his reputation as a
wrestler had become established: ho had
thrown all the leading wrestlers, including
Bibb3, Cristol and Bauer. This, as I say,
was not only tho first timo that Muldoon
had ever trained a man for a fight, but tho
first time he had ever gone into the ring,
and he says it will be the last time. He has
proved himself a wonderfully cool-headed
man, with great force of character, as shown
in his inlluence over the champion, and a
great deal of judgment in regard to the
condition of his man during the progress of
tho light. It was bj Muldoon's advice that
Sullivan adopted entirely different tactics
from those ho had usuall3T adopted, and
fought slow instead of doing what would
have pleased him better rushed in and
knocked his man out in oue of two rounds.
Muldoon held him back.
Iu the early part of the evening when
John L. Sullivan left for his training quar
ters I met Charley Johnson and told him
that it had become absolutely necessary
for Sullivan to be sent away to the country,
away from the crowd of peoplo who wero
continually hovering around him, and who,
of course, were not doing him any good.
Johnson went at onco to tho Vanderbilt
Hotel, where Sullivan wa&stopping, found
him drinking at the bar, and asked him to
come up stairs to his bedroom at once.
When Johnson had locked tho door he said
to the champion: 'Aro you really a man
in this matter, and do 3011 intend to fight
Kilrainf" Sullivan replied: "Yes: I'll lick
him, too." Johnson responded: "You are
going to work in a hue way to do it." Sulli
van was silent for a moment. Of course
his conscience reproached him. ,iVelll,,
he said though tfulh, "what do you
want mo to do!" Johnson answered:
T want 3ou to go into train
ing: I want 3-ou to leave hero
to-night." "That's rather a sudden no
tice," said Sullivan, "postpone it until to
morrow." "No, I Won't, was Johnson's
answer, "whether you are in condition or
not you've got to go in the ring, and I sa3
3ron've got to go ott to-night." Sullivan
saw that his backers meant business aud
sullenly acquiesced.
At this time Sullivan was a physical
wreck. Ho weiehed 240 pounds, his" flesh
was soft and tlabby, his nerves were all un
strung, he suffered from isomuia, and a
ver3T little exertion tired him out. He had
but a short time beforo recovered from a
lit of gastric fever, and had constantly
painted the town red in a truly Brobdiug
nagian manner. Ho ate very largely of
very rich food and drank wine, beer,
whisky, gin. ale, indiscriminately during
tho day and night: ho would not retiro
until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning,
and rise at about noon. Such a style of
living would soon break up the constitu
tion of the great Samson himself.
Be-fast, in Alleghen3r county. Now York,
is a small hamlet where Muldoon was born
and brought up, and where, after he left
the police force, he camo to live on the old
homestead which had been bequeathed to
him. A little settlement up among the
hills, it is an exceedingly quiet place. I
can truly aflirm, from personal experience,
that when a New Yorker arrives there ho
is almost startled at the sound of his own
voice, while au animated conversation ou
some ordinary topic will at first sound to
his ears like a breach of the peace.
It in a j' well be imagined that a place like
this furnished a striking contrast to tho
gajr and livel3' scenes with which the
champion had for a long time been
familiar. I believe that physicians aflirm
that tho state of feeling called hypochon
dria and melancholia only comes to peoplo
who are ph3'sicall3 weak. Sullivan was, of
course, comparative' speaking, a very
strong man, but the first two or threo days
ho was there I don't believe there ever was a
man who suffered as much from lonesome-
'ness, and the melancholy spirit that is bom
of that feeling, as the great John L. If
men sufler in this wa3' in proportion to
their size and strength, we can well under
stand how the champion felt. He confessed
to mo that there wero moments during
thoso first few da3rs when ho thought,
owing to tho absence of congenial compan
ionship, he would go craz3. Muldoon, for
tho first two or three days, let him "moon
around" tho place and get used to it, that
was all, for not even his sanguinary trainer
could have supposed ho would learn to lovo
Belfast, and ultimately settle down there
as a tiller of the soil.
The first thing Sullivan did in the way of
Training was to take ten grains of blue
mass; he took this dose on his journey to
Belfast, Muldoon stepping off at one of tho
wa3 stations to get it for him. A few days
after he had been at tho farm he took an
other ten grains of blue mass; this is the
onlv medicine ho used during his training.
Althongh Muldoon let him roam about
alone during these first da3s of lonesome
ness, he kept watch of him. Muldoon
would walk with him, talk with him, try
and cheer him up. and when the3 got homo
ho would occasionally give him a drink of
ale, and sometimes, if he thought it was
necessary, a glass of spirits.
On the third day Muldoon said to Sulli
vae: "How would you like to try a little
wrestling!" The champion replied tha,t he
would like nothing better. The fact is that
Sullivan always thought he was quite a fair
wrestler, an opinion which he was not jus
tified in holding. Muldoon took him to his
wrestling-room, an apartment fitted up iu
the barn, with a big padded square in the
center of the floor. Muldoon did not, on
this occasion, wrestle "for fun;" he went at
Sullivan pretty roughly, and threw him
violently ou the floor three times inside of
five minutes. After the third fall they
stopped. It was a somewhat comical sight
to see John L. walk slowly and very
thoughtfully down the narrow stair
way to the main floor; he had nothing
to say; in. fact, there was nothing to bo
said. That afternoon Miko Cleary arrived
to help Muldoon in the trainiug. When
the three were sitting out on the lawn that
evening Sullivan, who up to this time had
not said a word about the wrestling, was
asked by Cleary, who was t unconscious
of wha't had occurred, if he had
taken an3' lessons in wrestling.
"Yes." said tho champion, "I never
knew what it was to feel like a baby
until this morning; Billy threw me down
three times, as if I was a child." Muldoon
I said: 4 V oiui, 1 did that 011 purpose; Iwauttd
to show vou what little strength you have. .
how flabby yourllesh is, and iu what a bad
condition j-ou are generally'
This incident, without doubt, made a
great impression on Sullivan, and led bin,
to see the neccssitv of going to work with a
will if he expected to win. But there was
still another fact which served to enforce
this idea. For tho first two weeks Mul
deon would not allow him to eat any meatj
his dietjeonsisted simply of cracked wheat,
oat meal and mush, with milk. Muldoon
saw that the champion's stomach was very
much out of order and he sought to build it
up on truty hygienic principles.
This was indeed a sad gustatory contrast
between the rich, dainty dishes and am
brosial fluids of tho town to the Spartan
like fare of infants. Sullivan bore the or
deal pretty well for a few days, when he
6aid, "Billy, can?t I have a chicken or a
chop!" Muldoon replied, "this is all for
your own good. After a while you will bo
all right and then 3-ou shall eat your fill."
On the fifth day after his arrival active
training began. Sullivan put on sweaters
made out of wool; they were made 03- au
old lady who lives in New Jersej who
raises her own sheep and who spins and
cards the wool on an old-fashioned spin
ning wheeL She is a friend of Muldoon's,
aud makes these sweaters to order for him
and his friends. Sullivan wore other sweat
ers, altogether weighing sixteen pounds.
He began by walking five miles, then in
creased to ten, and so on until he could walk
twent3-five miles a day without being ex
hausted. Muldoon would lead the big pu
gilist and Cleary into tho woods where there
were winding paths in all directions, in
fact, a sort of maze; Sullivan aud Cleary
would havo to stick to Muldoon or the
would certainly get lost, so the conse
qnence was that Muldoon could make tho
tramp as long as he thought proper.
These walks occupied from half-past 0
a. m. until 12 or 1. Sullivan was rubbed
with rough towels and hand rubbed: when
ho cooled off a salt-water shower bath was
given. Then he was laid on a wide board
supported at either end by a chair, and
Muldoon, Cleary and Barnit would rub
him all over with liniment: that was for
tho purpose of limbering up his joints and
hardening his flesh. His greatest weak
ness at this time was in his lens; they
would bo quite stiff at times. Ho had quite
a paunch, this was causedvpriucipallv. as
it very often is, from his attack of t3pnoid
fever.
When ho began to eat meat ho had the
most ravenous appetite. When visitors
were there he would sometimes preside at
the table aud carva himself. He'apparent
I3' measured the a jpeiite of his guests 03
his own, and 1 do not think that 1 exagger
ate when I say he would carve .off about
three pounds of meat for each plate. As for
himself, it was quite usual for him to eat
four pounds of roast beef or mutton, and
one or two whole chickens. B3' Muldoon's
advice he ate freeh of green vegetables:
this was for the purpose of preventing
thirst and inciting tho proper amount of
moisture in the nostrils and mouth. Pota
toes ho ate baked. He ato tomatoes, stale
bread, sometimes fruit, neveronypuddings,
and was allowed two glasses of Bass ale at
his dinner. After dinner he would play ball
in a bo3rish, careless sort of a way on the
lawn. An hour after ho and one of his train
ers would throw tho heavy shot iKome
thing like a cannon ball, weighinc fifteen
ounds) over the grave-3'ard fence opposite,
fthe weather was bad he and his threo
rainers would toss a big ball, weighing
wenty pounds, backwards and forwards.
'. ceeping up the work until Sullivan was ex
hausted. If tho weather was good ho
would walh, or sometimes punch the big
bag, a ball as large as a football encased iu
tough leather. He usualty ate a very light
supper, consisting of cold meat, fruit and
stale bread. After supper he would take a
short walk with one of his trainers. Before
going to bed. about 9 o'clock, he would b
rubbed down, and beforo he rose in tho
morning he would undergo the same pro
cess. Muldoon, at first, would watch him
while he slept, and if he found him restless
lve would make his work lighter and direct
him to eat lettuce, which has the effect of
inducing sleep.
It has been said that Muldoon broko Sul
livan's spirit. This is a pretty strong ex
pression, implying a wrong state of affairs.
Soon after he arrived Muldoon gave Sulli
van to understand that he would have to
do exactly as he said, and, if he did not
obey orders, ho would telegraph to Sulli
van's backers and they could take him
awa3 The stern stand that Muldoon took
in this matter was a surprise to the great
fighter, who, even in his days of training,
had been in the habit of having his own
way; he saw at once, however, that he must
give in, or probably lose the benefit of any
training. But it is fair to say that later on
he saw tho wisdom of Muldoon's course.
Muldoon is simpl3 a man of great
force of character, a man with a strong will
and sound judgment as to what is needed
for the development of the physical sys
tem. He used that will and that judgment
in tho training of Sullivan; he brought him
under his will and compelled him to recog
nize the superiority of his judgment. When
Sullivan first came to Belfast to train Mul
doon was a little doubtful as to the out
come of the undertaking, but when be saw
him gradually Improving he was satistied
he could put him in the ring with six or
eight pounds surplus flesh on him, willing
that he should loose that amount of flesh in
the fight; ho actually lost onty five and a
half pounds. AutiiuuT. Lumlev.
GI-ADSTONE'S ENEMIES.
Lie Is Reviled by Some Who Wish to Gain So
clal Standing with the Opposition.
London Letter.
That Darwin never used London society
as an illustration of tho struggle for exist
ence is a curious omission. The tierce com
petition which goes on in it gives the party
which gets the smart people on its side an
immeuse advantage. It is told of Lady
Palmerston, who used to be one of the
leaders of society here, and took great pains
to keep it very select by throwing her doors
open to rank, character and intellect only,
that, after the extension of tho franchise in
18(37, she was compelled to let down the
bars. Tho new men who then came to tho
House of Commons wanted invita
tions for themselves and their wives, and
the whips reportedthat unless they pot
them tho Ministry could not have their
votes. This sort of connection between so
ciety and politics is now stronger than ever.
Opinious, especially on the Irish question,
are just as much subject to fashion as
clothes or furniture. Ever3'body who want
to be considered smart or to be on good
footing with smart people has to oppose
Gladstone's plan for "breaking up the em
pire," and to denounce the "old man" him
self with more or less bitterness. The frank
ness with which this bitterness is expressed
is often very amusing. 1 met with a coun
try 'squire recently who declared it would
give him pleasure to "hang the old fellow
with his own hands," and a lady told a
friend of mine of the eagerness
with which bhe looked in tho
paper every morning for news of hi
death. Talking to a man of high standing
in tho intellectual world the 01 her day, I
spoke of Mr. Gladstone's flexibility of mind
as something marvelous at his 3 ears, not
snpposing that he cared much about Glad
stone's mind, when, to m3atonishment, ho
burst forth with. Ybs. and the old villain's
conscience is just as flexible." It must bi
said that the Gladstonians as a rule receive
these ebullitions with mild amusement,
which nobody can help sharing who knows
the object of them. His gentleness and in
difference to attacks on him, and apparent
ignorence of them, give them a slight air of
bouffe to the casual observer. He may
have points of provocation about hint
which are felt bv thoso engaged in daily
encounters with him, but to the mere passer-by
it seems as if tho furious hostility to
him must be feigned.
Important Invention by Colored Men.
Boston JonmaL
Two colored men of South Carolina, ono
the pastor of a colored church at Columbia,
havo invented a cotton chopper which
proves to be such a valuable invention that
they havo sold a share in it to two whit
men for $J0,000. Ono of the inventors i
said to have demised a self-pumping ma
chine which is almost a perpetual motion
machine. The contrivance is put in a well
and pumps water from tho time itisstaned
until it is stopped.
Cheap and Dear.
New York Vrr .
The cost of tho royal family is iut now
the subject of conversation and debate in
England. By aud by the English peoplo
will re-echo the remark of a famous lad3
who lived long ago. "There never was a
fainil" she 6aid. "that was to cheap to
ceo and 60 dear to kecj."