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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13
A Serious Err.r.

So many people rush unthinkingly into
matrimony! Marriage is so often the result
of circumstances which throw two people to-
gether-of a consideration of the fitness of
things-of monlentary impulses, or of COO;
deliberation-that which should be the hap
piest state of things is often the unhappiest.
Andpeople speak of wedding as they would
lottery, where there are more blanks than
prizes. The only true matches are made by
love, and when two people have really loved
really loved from the depths of their very
hearts-nothing can ever quite part them
again. We do not say this of those who have
only been called, or called themselves, lovers.
A couple may be engaged, or, it may be,
even married, and yet that wonderful tie of
great love may never have existed between
them. When it does exist, all the waters can
not quench it, nor the seas cover it. Forever
and forever-at least, in the forever of life
those two are more than any two who have
not loved can be. Sometimes happy fate
actually unites two who love thus, and they
live a long, happy life together.
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Women's Growing Independence of Mem
Boston Transcript


Perhaps it is because of the growing
scarcity of available men, perhaps it is be-
cause of the increasing independence of the
fair sex-whatever the reason, it is a fact
patent to all who frequent places of amuse-
ment in the evening without male escorts far
more frequently than they did 10 years ago,
and it is greatly to the credit of our city that
they can do so with impunity. A lady would
hardly go out alone of an evening, but if ac-
compainied by another of her sex, especially
if one of the pair be tolerablv along in years
it is not necessaryto give exact ages-both
feel comparatively safe. The result is that
young men are not quite so much of a ne
cessity as they once were, and are made to
feel that they are 20 longer indispensable.
Time was when a young man, simply because
he was man, was permitted to feel that he
was very important creature, but now that
a male escort can with propriety be dispensed
with, he has been made to descend from his
high horse. He was wont to impose his cheap
'horse talk and slang on his lady friends,
and was permitted to parade his conceit and
ignorance simply because he was necessary
evil; but times have changed all that, and he
now often finds that unless he can command
respect by his knowledge, his character or his
gentlemanly department, his room is consid-
cred more desirable than his company All
of which is having an excellent effect upon
the average young man of the period.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13
So Sad

The last act of an old but too constantly
repeated drama has been seen this week at
one of our New York hotels, the curtain has
been rung down and the earthly record fin
shed in misery and shame of a once happy
and beautiful girl. Only two or three weeks
ago seemingly deeply attached pairarrived
here from England. There We're 10 or u
days Of apparent accord and content in each
others society and the then supposed hus-
banda man of fashionable exterior and
polished manners-went away. His story
was that he was going to Philadelphia and
that he would soon return. He failed, how
ever, to return, and in a day or two his COM
panion became pale and bowed like blight
ed lily. A week passed and the unfortunate
woman saw and felt that she was abandoned
So she laid down and never lifted up her
head again. The wretched truth came out
at last. She had fled from her husband in
England at the solicitation of the scoundrel
who had now abandoned her. Captain Con-
yers, as he called himself it turned out had
actually sailed for England again, leaving
his victim, who had sacrificed all for him, i'll
and penniless in strange land. 1t was to
be expected of course, but equally, of course,
this poor creature did not expect it; and so
she died in bitter grief and remorse. 1t is
said that she prayed when dying that her
husband might fall in with her betrayer in
England Strange but pitiful hands smooth
ed her wretched pillow and supplied her
needs till the last, and yesterday she was laid
to rest in Greenwood. 1t may be wrong to
echo poor Mary Hartley's alleged dying
prayer, but it is hard to repress in reading of
her wretched fate hope that punishment in
some just form should fall upon the villain
who destroyed her. lalsia-
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would be called astuaning proposition. Still
the count considered and to consider an evil
Is to adopt it. Divorces were easily obtained
in Poland, then. The count was in debt, the
countess was willing. Why not? The bar
gain was, without any unseemly delay, con-
cluded, and the Countess de Witt became the
Countess Potocky. She made him a good
wife, the narrators tell, and for Is years
the happy couple managed together his i'm
mense estates. They journeyed yearly to
Berlin, to Vienna and other German cities,
where the wealth of one and the extreme
beauty of the other, made them welcome
visitors at court. 1t was during these happy
years that the count struck upon the novel
and charming idea of honoring his wife, by
dedicating to her the fairy gardens and castle
of Fultchin. For 10 years the most cele-
brated architects, sculptors, gardeners and
painters were busy, under the counts instruc-
ton, at this beautiful design. There were
waterfalls and lakes and babbling brooks,
fairy grottoes and tropical plants. 1t was
the most enchanting retreatin Poland. When
all was done he named it after his wife
Sophioka. He died iii 1905, and left his i'm
mense fortune and estates to his widow, who
controlled them with consumate skill fol
Is years. She died just before the
breaking out of the Polish revolution of 1880
Her heirs nearly all Joined in the revolution
against the czar, and, as consequence, the
enormous estates, including the wonderful
gardens, were confscated by the crown, and
the name of Sophioka was changed to that
of ''the gardens of the empress
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A Strangers Nose.
Ipstroit Free presa.l

Some OF those chaps who wear their elbows
down thin leaning on saloon counters, have
an artificial fly with fine thread attached to
the back, and sometimes these toys can be
handled to the amusement of small crowd.
When an unknown man yesterday fell
asleep in a saloon on Michigan avenue the
young man with an artificial fly was there.
He took position behind his victim, who
was lying back on his chair, and presently
the av lighted on the strangers nose, walked
up the bridge and down, and settled for a
moment on the tip end. The sleeper never
moved finger The fly went over the old
route, down into the corner of the left eye
galloped over to the right, and came down
to the grand stand on a dead run, but the
sleeper slept on. 1t began to appear that he
was used to flies, and SO the game was
changed. By sticking pin through one of
these toys you can make quite bee of it, the
pm being the singer.
When the "bee' decended on the strang-
ers nose every body expected to see sudden
start, but it did not come. After jab at the
tip end the "bee' crawIed along up, waiting
for developments and getting in an OCCASION
al sting, but not even a sigh escaped the
sleeper. The young man with the insect
was getting tired, when the stranger lazily
opened his eyes, slowly rose up from his
chair, and coolly remarked:
'Now, then, if you have got done fooling
with my nose, I'll fool with yours for
awhilel''
1t isn't likely that particular young man
will ever dangle artificial flies any more.
He was doubled up, Strengthened out, choked
mopped, and slammed SO thoroughly that
his appetite will run to chicken broth and
arnica for some days to come. When the
cyclone had passed the stranger called for
l.. - AZ
crowd on the bench.
Gentlemen, if any more of you see any
thing particular about my nose please call
around at let me know"
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The Queen Of All.

Honor the dear old mother. Time has
scattered the snowy flakes on her brow,
plowed deep burrows on her cheeks, but is
she not sweet and beautiful now? The lips
are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips
which have kissed many hot tear from the
childish cheeks, and they are the sweetest
lips in all the world. The eye is dim, yet it
giows with the soft radiance of holy love
which can never fade. All, yes, she is u
dear old mother The sands of life are nearly
run out, but feeble as she is, she will go
further and reach down lower for you than
any other upon earth. You can not walk
into midnight where she can not see you;
you can not enter prison whose bars will
keep her out; you can never mount scaffold
too high for her to reach that she may kiss
and bless you in evidence of her deathless
love. When the world shall despise and
forsake you, when it leaves you by the way
side to die unnoticed, the dear old mother
will gather you in her feeble arms, and car
ry you home and tell you of all your virtues
until you almost forget that your soul Is dis
figured by vices. Love her tenderly and
cheer her declining years with holy devo-
ton. tis5ss.sgs I..i5. s s4.s
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Temple Bar.l

James Boswell possessed in perfection the
minute observation of persons, places, dress,
and character which most clever women
possess. 1t is, thanks to his exercise of this
faculty, that johnson is now known to us as
no other man who has ever lived is known
Johnson's coat, wig, shoe-buckles his man.
ner of speaking and of entertaining his guests
in Gough-square or Bolt-court; his whims,
his tempers, his weaknesses, are all word
photographed by Boswell for u.s. There was,
too, rare diplomatic talent in Boswell-for
the possession of which he has hitherto, so
far as we have been able to perceive, obtain
ed but small credit at the hands either of his
critics or of the public. Moreover, to repre-
sent Boswell as is so frequently done, as
being blindly idolatrous of johnson, is to go
ludicrously wide of the mark. So far from
Boswell having believed johnson to be
almost infallible, he was particularly well
acquainted with the weak points in Johnson
character and intellect. We venture to as
sert, indeed, that in many and various ways
Boswell was vastly Johnson's superior; and
in this connection it is certainly noteworthy
that whenever johnson and Boswell differed
in opinion, time has shown that Boswell was
nearly always right and johnson wrong
Boswelrs feeling toward johnson was very
like that which many a clever woman enter
tains toward her husband, i. e., she is by nc
means blind to his faults or unaware of his
weak points; when she differs from him in
opinion, her Judgment is often sounder than
his; she is intensely proud of any distinction
which in the eye of the world he enjoys, and
she delights to be associated with him in it.
finally, she-to an extent to which he j.
himself often quite unconscious-flatters him
and "manages" him while, all the while, she
loves him from the bottom of her heart.
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commanding influence in compelling aid
from reluctant sources; and complete success,
wrung from universal and bitter opposition,
without compromising principle, or stopping
to accept dishonorable aid-if all this be any
evidence of greatness, then surely Mr.. Gar
rison was one of our greatest men, HE will
ever be recognized says one we'll versed in
our times, las the central and supreme figure
in that group of giants which the civil war
produced" Of course he had faults. But 1
was honored to stand so near him for 40 years
that some l could not see, and others have
forgotten. As Bolingbroke said of one of
Marlborough's defects, "He was SO great a
man that 1 forgot he had that weakness
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13
A Portrait of Marie Antoinette.
lMemoira of Nina. YiraA La Brun


1t was in the year of 1879, my dear
friend, that took the queens portrait for
the first time. She was then in all the bril-
liancy of her youth and beauty. Marie An
toinette was tall and admirably proportional
her arms were lovely, her hands small and
beautifully formed, and her feet charming.
She walked better than any woman in
France; carrying her head with majesty
which denoted the sovereign in the midst of
her court without detracting in the least
from the sweetness and grace of her whole
aspect. In short, it is very difficult to give
an idea to those who have not seen the queen,
of SO much grace and dignity combined.
Her features were not regular; she inherited
from her family the long oval-shaped face
peculiar to the Austrian nation; her eyes,
which were nearly blue, were not large, but
their expression was at once lively and soft;
her nose was small and well formed, and her
mouth was not large although her lips were
rather thick. But the most remarkable
thing about her was the brilliancy of her
complexion. / never saw anything like it,
and brilliant is the only word to express what
1t was; her skin was so transparent that it
allowed of no shadow 1 never could obtain
the effect 1 desired; paint could not repre-
sent the freshness, the delicate tints of that
charming face, which / never beheld in any
other woman. AT the first sitting the queen
imposing air began by intimidating me ex-
tremely, but her majesty spoke to me with
so much goodness that her kind manner
soon dissipated this impression. Itwas then
that made the portrait which represents her
with large hoop, dressed in white satin and
holding rose in her hand. This picture
was destined for her brother, the emperor
Joseph Land the queen ordered two copies
of it-one for the empress of Russia, and the
other for her apartments at Versailles or at
Fontainebleau.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13
Learning to Sew.

I shall never forget my own childish tears.
and sulks over my sewing. Ny mother was.
a perfect fairy at her needle, and her rule
was relentless, every long stitch was picked
out and done over again, and neither tears
nor entrcaties awaited to rid me of my task
till it was properly done; every corner of q
hem turned by thread; stitching measured
by two threads to "a stitch; telling Of absolute
bly,; while fine darnfng was sort of en-
broidery. I hated it then, but have lived
to bless that mothers patient persistence;
and / am prouder to-day of the six patches
in my small girls school-dress which cannot
be seen without searching than of any other
handiwork-except perhaps my breadl
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your coffin this morning. and playing the
Dead March in Saul at your funeral at sun
down this evening. Good dayi- you'll be at
your duty soon" And he was. But having
told the story, and raised the laugh against
the P. M. O., principal medical officer
that administrator sent him to vegetate ut
one of the most remote and out-of-the way
STATIONS in the command, where even vrdi-
nary beef and yams were scanty and ducks
and green peas impossible of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13
ON rIELD-DAIsY.


Three summer-noons shall soon make old
Yon daisy with the heart of gold,
And pluck the petals, silver-white,
That frame it with their holy light.
And then its furnished heart alone
Mid the tall weeds that fiaunt, wind-sown,
On sunny beach or upland plain,
Shall withered and unmarked remain. ~
Is 1t not thus where sordld souls
Circled with youthful graces shine?
Time strips their charms, and, as 1t rolls.
MINIS the dulled dross with its own sign.
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An excellent remedy. Dr.. Bulls Balti-
more Pills ere superior - . cstnartic to any
other in all cases In which purgatlve is
employed. Proc Is cent1
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The Drink Difficulty.
[sir wilfrid Lawson in the Nineteenth C,

lSir wifrid Lawson in the Nineteenth Century.
Drink has always been difficulty. In
all ages individuals have made great mis-
takes as to the quantity of Intoxicating liquor
which it was beneficial for them to consume.
Intoxication is species of poisoning, in as
much as alcohol is a brain poison; and at
first sight it seems strang that any one should
wish, even temporarily, to damage that
thinking power which is the sole distinction
between the human animal and the beasts
which perish. But there are some obvious
explanations of this apparent anomaly.
First of all, alcoholic drinks are to many
very delicious beverages. A Quaker was
once sitting in public-house, when a man
cames;n, blowing his fingers, and said, .sGive
me aglass of brandy-I am so cold;', one
speedily followed who had been running
hard, and he called out bring me lass
of brandy-I am so hotl" Then said the
Quaker quietly from his corner "Bring me
a glass of brandy because / like it, He
spoke the truth. Would not the great bulk
of those who talk about health, fashion, etc.,
say the same thing if they spoke from their
hearts? Then there is so much misery in
the world that it is easy enough to under
stand Byron's lines:
s'Man is a reasonable being,
Therefore he gets drunk"
But the poets have much of responsibility in
this matter. Bowl rhymes with sssoul."
Many of our most beautiful songs are drink
ing songs, and somehow or other it has come
to pass that although drunkenness is now
pretty generally condemned "from the teeth
outward" as Carlyle has it, yet drinking is
still looked upon as delightful and honora-
BILE exercise for rational beings. But 'no
excess" O no. No one favors excess, but
though no one favors excess. it is
admitted on all hands that rs n nation we
do exceed, and that f140,O00,O00 per
annum is far too much to be spent on brain
poison by the people of the United Kingdom.
If drink were merely harmless luxury, the
above would be startling National expendi-
ture; but when we reflect that the consump-
ton of this drink is, by the almost unani-
nous testimony of our judges, police, prison,
and poor-law authorities, and ali those in a
position to know the habits CT the people,
pronounced to be the main cause of crime
and pauperism, it becomes truly alarming.
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San Francisco Markets.

Corrected every Wednesday af-
lernoon for IT,. 9 HERALD by Spear,
Meade & Co., Commission Mer-
chants, 316 and 31S Washington
street, San Francisco.
The quotations given below rep
resent prices obtainable for strictly
"merchantabIe" produce. Con-
signments which contain foul seed,
straw, or other foreign matter, or
from the size, color and condition
Of the article do not come up to the
standard, sell below the prices
named. Wheat when shipped in
small quantities cannot be sold for
full market rates.
There is a much better tone pre-
vailing in all branches of industry,
and everything denotes a speedy
return of prosperity. In the pro-
due market there has been gen.
eral "stlflenIng upn of prices and
all lines are steady. It looks as
though "bed-rock had been struck
and q reaction set in which causes
everything to BOOM" The present
outlook 10 hopeful.
Barley-Coast feed, 70@sOc. per
GENITAL.
Beans-Lima, $51 a G; butter,
$1.75; small white, $l.75@1.S0; pea,
$1.75@2; pink, S1.10@1.15; bayo,
$1.40@1.50; red, S1.25 per Genital.
Corn-Large yellow, S2ac. c.@s5c.; !;
small yellow, 95(9S1; large white,
S0@S23c.; small white, 90@923c.
Rye-$I@I.10.
Wheat-Shipping. $500 @ 2.1O;
clean coast, $l.75@LS5.
Potatoes-Chol cest, so "a 75c. per
100 lbs.
Eggs 334@35c. per dozen.
Poultry-Hens, $506 per dozen;
brolers, So 0O@$4 so per dozen;
young, well grown roosters, S3@4!
per dozen; ducks, $4@4.50 per
dozen.
Honeymoon first hands-Clear
extracted sos; cAndied, 6@7; comb,
10@l2}.
Beeswax-20@25c. per pound.
Butter-Cboice Point Reyes, $500
374; outside brands, 1S@25c. per
pound.
Hogs-On foot, medium sized,
grain-fed, So. 12I@8.25 per cwt.
Hog Products-Hams, 6@7c.; ba-
con, Sc; lard, Sc. er ID.
Sacks-New stau lard, 22xS6, lie;
second hand, 9@S3.
Wool-HeaAy bury, 9@llc. per
pound; light free, 49,.