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The C0lonGl'S Cards.
STORY AMERICAN WRITTEN
DISPATCH" FRANKLIN FILE
Copyright, 1889, by Franklin Fils.]

exposing flaw in her youthful genuineness.
Her hair was the brighter brown for ii, her
eyes the clearer gray, and her skin the
purer pink and white. The searching rays
could find no flaw in the honesty of her ap-
pearance. She was so real and true that
the throng of spectators discovered her in
stantly. Their scrutiny was the more open
because, with her delicate proportions garbed
in a modest kind of bathing dress, she
looked more like the child that she had
lately been than the woman that she had
hardly become. Mrs. Dallas slid an arm
gently around the girl, and lowered the sun
shade protectingly, as she went with her
toward the water. They met Victor Le-
royd and Pootle coming out. The dripping
Pootle was worse off in looks than before,
but Victor was better, with his glow of ex-
ercise and its arousal of spirit. He was in
troduced to the ladies, whom he had not
met before.
''Shall take you into the water?" he
asked, seeing the timidity Of May, to whom
this was new experience.
"If you please" she replied, with sud-
den confidence inspired as much by look
straight into his face as by an oblique glance
at his stalwart form.
They waded until May, immersed to the
waist, gave small scream OF alarm at bill
low that threatened to cover her. She put
out her hands to Victor, who took them
firmly in his own. In an instant she felt
herself lifted by her companion, so that her
face was no more than fecked by the foam
of the big waves that swept under her.
"Are you frightened?" he asked, as he
felt the clutch of both her hands in one Of
his own.
"Not in the least, she replied; "you seem
so strong"
"Can you swim?"
"Not the first stroke"
"Well, can easily swim for two. Shall
we go out little way? There is no danger,
YOU know"
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RAZ0RS NEED REST.
A Barber Tells Some Curious Facts About
Shaving Instruments.

"Razors sometime, need rest" remarked
a Pittsburg barber. "They get out of order
with constant use, but if laid away for few
weeks are often restored to their former con-
dition."
How do you account for such singular
fact?"
"Well, am not scientist and hardly
competent to answer SO difficult question,
But 1 have heard this explanation, which
to me appears to be reasonable one. The
grain Of the finest razor is so sensitive that
its general direction is changed by constant
service and frequent stropping. When the
blade is new the grain runs from the upper
end of the outer point in diagonal oirec-
tion toward the handle. The steel, with use,
undergoes change until the grain appears
to run straight up and down, and at last the
direction of the fiber becomes completely
reversed. The temper is affected at the
same time and the razor becomes unfit for
use. Put it away and give it rest for
month or six weeks and it becomes as good
as new.
Whether this be the true explanation or
not, it is certainly fact that the finest
razors appear at times to get tired, and can
not be kept in good condition until tley
have had a rest"
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then, with the retreat, the sun would re-
claim the sand so rapidly that dry ness
chased the water visibly down the slope to
where the waves still held unstable posses
sion. The warfare of the elements was not
violent. Children played in it, advancing
and retiring with its fluctuations. Men
and women sat or sauntered along the shift
ing line of hostility, keeping on Soils side
if they cared to remain dry, but crossing
over the Neptune if they were bathers.
Itwas an hour, and particularly hot one,
for diversion in the surf. The almost verti-
cal sunlight of noon heated the sand, and,
refracting from the water, dazzled all eyes
that were not shaded by hatbrims or um-
brellas.
1t was into this torrid brilliance that
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are alive, all are busy, and, with tireless
hand and rambling brain, they are getting
together the great paper which is soon to
meet the eye of the eager reader.
DISTINGUISHED MECHANICS.
At the desk Mr.. Cox is measuring the
string for an employe, while at a case near
by Senator Hoar is looking over q galley of
his forthcoming speech and sprinkling it
with applause. The grateful perfume of
honest PRESENTATION and hot roller compost
ton greets the senses, such as they are.
Anon there is timid knock at the door,
and Tom Reid, of Maine comes in with a
little poem which he would like to see in
type If 1t be worthy. He says he will sur
round it by speech if necessary, in order
to get it printed. Then a member from
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in no other city has a parallel for filthy
squalor, brutal viciousness, depraved Grim
inality and moral degradation. In no other
city would such foul precinct be tolerated.
In none other could it have sprung into ex-
istence at all, for nowhere else is there such
heterogeneous mass OF ignorant, unkempt,
human beings, crowded together in such
abodes of dirt and corruption as here; in
the wretched shambles which, under the
name common lodging houses, 60 to form
the dwelling places of the inhabitants of
Whitechapel.
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IT'S DAY HAS GONE BY.
A Once Popular Preparation Almost Entirely

Once Popular Preparation Almost Entirely
Out of Use Now.
"Hair oil? Yes, sir. Here is some of
the finest. Will you have q 25 or 30 cent
bottle?"
After the sale had been made and the
customer had departed, the druggists clerk
turned to DISPATCH reporter who had
dropped in for chat and cigar and vol
unteered the information that he hadn't sold
bottle of hair oil before for three weeks.
"a few years ago" +" he said, "the trade in
this kind Of goods was brisk. Now it is
next to nothing. The trouble is that hair
oils have gone out of use almost entirely
not one man in q hundred puts it on his
hair regularly. Some allow the barber to
oil their hair occasionally, but great
many object even tie that. Hair oils are
not in favor in these days.
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Il didn't know'd her to talk to- said
Iooy aiiudlng no doubt to the victim, ''but
l know'd she'd git done some time. She
wussent pertikler enutf, and l wussent a bit
s.,prised when'd L heerd as ow it wus 'er.
And i'm that done 'er, 1 kin tell yer this
bout i'm, e wussent none O. the kind thet
puts hup at sixpenny class; note. Thet
chap that done 'er, tibet chap, 'ez got a room
to wash hisself hin and ez got time to do hit
Another character worthy of Dickens
WIN which came in contact and one ne
m would nave unquestionably made famous,
was that OF woman known among
her associates as Gone Armed Liz 3
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just a Fit.
Harper's Bazar. ]

Miss Spinster Ito shoe dealer)-I see
that you have marked down some of your
shoes.
Shoe Dealer-Yes; that line of ladies'
shoes is marked down. We have marked
'em all down two sizes. Now, there's a
tidy little gaiter, ~, think will just fit
you.
Miss Spinster smiles and buys the shoes.
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Liz was also supposed to be in possession
of evidence in the case Toby was at work
upon; and the police were pleased to regard
her testimony as important, which circum-
stance brought her into great prominence
in the eyes of her fellow-followers. She
was willing for the price of bed to tell all
she knew, and manufactured all she didn't.
She occupied bare room in a barrack-like
lodging house. She was not very beauti-
ful to look at, nor agreeable to converse
with, but the "heroine" of the hour, for all
that. The ceiling of the apartment in
which she held her court was so low that
an ordinary-sized man could not have stood
erect under il. The walls were as black as
the CRIME of many years could make them.
The rough, unsteady planks of the floor
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CHAPTER Y.
GUILE AND SAND.
THE sun and the sea

The sun and the sea
were battling lazily
over the boundary be-
tween the sand and
the water, on the Long
Branch beach. The
sea would send its
surf, in a series of on
slaughts, a little fur
ther, and yet a little
further still, over
whelming the dry
sand, and with each
incursion leaving a
new and extended area
OF saturation; but a
few of these overlap
ping raids would ex-
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AS SHINGT0N,
D. c., possesses
nothing more in
tereSting to one
of a literary ma
t re perhaps
thanits extensive
offices of its Con-
greSSional Rec
ord. This paper
never opened the
year with bright
er prospects than
it does now. Its
age now begins
to give it a solid
ity, which, as a
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New York SUM-
Miss Gossip-Do you think would make
good business woman?
Miss Snyder-I most assuredIy do, my
dear. When ever you get hold of anything
you make more out Of it than anybody /
ever heard of.
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THE ABODE.OF CRIME.
Lillian Spencer Visits the Scene Of
the Whitechapel Murders.
ONE-ARMED LIZ TELLS HER STORY.
A Phase of Human Life Worthy of the Pen
of Dickens.
INEFFICIENT LONDON DETECTIVES.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH

ONDON, January 8.
If Charles Dickens
were living to-day he
would write a great
novel on that part of
East London known as
Whitechapel, a n d
thereby give to the
world a pen-picture of
q Dhase of life which
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New York SUM-
Bessie-You are always making mistakes,
dear.
George-Yes. I thought all along that
you loved me.
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CLUBS FOR WOMEN.
The Imitation of Men a Harsh Note of
Modern Civilization.
SOME RESORTS FOR BOTH SEXES.
Geaseless Change as the Popular Recipe for
Enjoyment.
OUIDA ON THE EFFECTS OF CLUB LIFE
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. ]

HE enorm Gus in
crease in mems clubs
is a singular feature
of modern S society.
Their name is legion;
their uses manifold
and their influences
complicated. Th cir
latest effect is likely
IN he the most i'm
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PURELY INDEPENDENT.

The Record will continue, however, in the
future as it has been in the past, strictly in
dependent in politics, believing that sue
cessiul paper cannot afford to pander to the
coarse demands of either party, and so the
Record will do no pondering whatever this
year, but try to build up the paper, and let
other industries look out for themselves.
Ex-Congressmen who may be in town, are
cordially invited to visit the Office during
their stay. and sleep In the pressroom when
driven out by thankless hotels.
No manuscript will be paid for by the
Record unless an arrangement to that effect
has been previously made. Births and
deaths made in good faith, will be accepted
at 81 if set in nonpareil type.
The Record will next year establish in
Europe branch to be called The Reich
stag Woopenblatter. Both papers will be
furnished to one address at the regular
price to subscribers in good iaith, who will
also have @ chance to guess at the beans.
To those who are contemplating a visit to
Washington, let me say that the latch
string of the Record Office is always hang
ing out and friends from all over the land
are cordially invited to drop in any day and
bring their dinners or feed their teams in
front of the Office.
Visiting cards with infammatory floral
designs on them, struck off at a moments
notice. Also equestrian printing of every
description, address the Congressional Rec
ord, Washington, d. c. BILL NYR.
Copyright, 1885, by Edgar W. Nye.
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There is saying to the effect that one
hall the world does not know how the other
half lives This saying certainly ought to
have originated in London, for nowhere
else are people so singularly incurious re-
gardlng the very monuments in their midst.
OF course Whitechapel is known to
Londoners, but Londoners (or rather in
habitants of the fashionable parts of Lon
DOM are not known to Whitechapel. If
the sordld characters of its murky confines
were familiar to their eyes, the horror and
frequency Of its crimes would be less ap-
palling to their ears.
Charles Dickens would have reveled in
the Whitechapel of to-day. He would
have found in it a great field for his creative
genius.
TALKING WITH TOBY.
One cannot wander through the dingy
streets and mix with the jostling throng
without vividly recalling to mind the
works of the distinguished writer. Keenly
alive to the impressions conveyed BY the
living, breathing mass of humanity sweep
ing by, one fancies him on the spot stop
ping for a moment to look into the painted
face OF the woman in draggle-tail, gaudy
skirts and huge feathered hat, pushing her
way along, and thereby creating another
Nancy Sykes; of standing within the
shadows of Christ Church and finding
another "Poor Joe" in the pale, hollow
eyed, ragged urchin, whom gruff police
man is by no means gently urging to 'Moye
on" An entirely original character would
have sprung from his facile pen, could he
have come in contact with big-hearted,
frank-spoken, generous, half-starved Toby,
tattered, tramp-like parsonage, who, with
several other correspondingly tramp-like
companions is out hunting a clew to a
famous murder recently committed, which
offered liberal reward.
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were encrusted with dirt, and the small
round windows were SO thick with like
accumulation that to have seen three feet
beyond them would have been an utter i'm
possibility.
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to the spell-bound, spple-eating audience in
the halls of debate, or go without it." In
the future the Congressional Record will
have the manuscript two days before hand,
with instructions to hold it for future addi-
tions, erasuresor interlineations, and thus,
whether the speech be delivered or not, the
public will not be deprived of it.
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Good at Her Trade,

Copyright, 1889, by Edgar W. Nye.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-27
Father,s Fiendish Act.

DICKINSON, d. T., Feb. 26.-One of the most
sensational tragedies ever known in North
Dakota occurred to-day, two miles from here.
John HOller, German, lived with his wife and
five children a claim two miles from town.
He and his wife qusrreled, and he threatened
to take the lives of the whole family.
This morning his wife left him, going to
neighbours for safety. Her husband followed a
short time after. carrying rife By threats OF
general murder he drove the others from the
house and then deliberately murdered his wife,
firing two shots into her. He then placed the
muzzle of the gun against his left temple and
blew the top Of his head off,
Before following his wife when she went to
the neighbours, he locked his five children in
the house and deliberately set fire to il as we'll
as TO his grain stacks, hay and barn, in which
considerable farm machinery was stored. Alter
his departure the children managed to escape,
and are now cared for by friends
Some years ago Holler killed a farmers wife
in the Fast and three years ago was accused of
burning his house TO obtain the insurance.
The tragedy of to-day created the most in-
tense excitement, but the county was saved the
disgrace Of . lynching.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-27

who were left behind waved Pare ye well,
President Harrison-ahl but wen see you soon
again-ahp
The presidential party had left indianapolis,
and the excitement OF months was over.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-The special train
with Gen. Harrison and party on board drew
up on the track along side the freight house at
at Ninth-st and Maryland-ave. at ESQ o'clock
this afternoon. At this point the executive
committee of the inaugural committee was
waiting with carriages for the travellers.
The train was run to this point in order to
escape the crowd that had gathered at the
Sixth-st. station, and the ruse was successful,
albeit several hundred shrewd curiosity-hunters
were drawn to this spot by the appearance of
the carriages
With as little delay as might be, Gen. Har-
rison and party seated in the carriages
and then driven rapidly to the Arlington hotel,
where they at once sought the private
Of their apartments. The others on
destinations In the city after good-byes had
been said, and the trip of President-elect Har-
rison to the capital was at end. 1t had
been accomplished in twenty-three hours and
eighteen minutes without single mishap and
with great comfort
ing TO the Harrison party, did not arrive at the
Arlington hotel sooner than the first visitors to
see Gen. Harrison. Private Secy. Halford re-
ceived all callers and, except in few instances
no one was permitted TO see the president-elect
1t was announced that Gen. Harrison would
see no persons except few intimate personal
friends until 1880 p. m, at which time he
would give reception OF an hour and half
to callers.
Sergt Dinsmore who was for a long time
doOrkeeper at the white house, guards the
street entrance to the johnson annex, in which
the party are quartered, and sends cards to
Scey. Halford.
About half past o'clock, Maj. Pruden came
over from the white house with note from
President Cleveland to President-elect Harri-
son. At both the white house and the Airing
ton it was said that there was
no objection to stating the contents of the
letter, but both Col. Lamont and Mr.. HaifOrd
referred all who inquired in regard to it to the
other. IL is probable that il was simply a let
ter of courtesy from President Cleveland offer
ing 10 render any assistance in his power that
would contribute 10 the comfort OF the lnc0m-
ing president. Gen. Harrison and Mrs. Harri-
son will call by appointment at the white
house tomorrow.
The senate inaugural committee consisting
of Senators HOar, CullOm and Cockerell, called
on the presdent-elect soon after his arrival
and talked over matters connected with the III
auguration ceremonies.
About O'clock Mr.. J. G. Blaine paid his
spects and spent a short time with the general.
After dinner Gen. Harrison and his sOn-in-
law, Mr. Mckee, went out for walk through
the northwestern portion of the city.
In the evening Gen. Harrison and ladies OF
his family received a number of callers in the
parlors of the Johnson annex. Among them
were Senators Evarts, DOlph and SpooneE:
Representatives Steele lind and Grout w.t.,
ex-Postmaster General Tyner, Maj. Gen. Scho-
field and DIR. Baxter OF the army.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-27
A FREAK OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Raising Babies of Premature Birth By the
Aid of Mechanical Incubator.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 22.-Raising babies Of
premature birth by the aid of mechanical in
cubator is the latest freak of medical science at
the woman's hospital, n. College-aye. and
Twenty second-st For the first time in this
city this process was put to practical test ten
days ago when Florence Ryal, an eight months
child, was wrapped in swaddling clothes and
placed in the incubator. The baby is thriving
under the process and apparently enjoying
the best of health. She weighed at the time of
her birth about three pounds. or one-half the
weight of an average newborn child. The in
cubator has raised the baby's weight up to five
pounds within ten days. She rests in the incu-
bator constantly, except when taken out to re-
ceive nourisbment or is given sponge bath.
The former operation occurs three times q day
and the latter twice.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-27
DUDLEY BADLY SCARED.
His Friend, Kitchener, Warns Him of an In
tended Arrest.

His Friend, Kitchener, Warns Him of an In
tended Arrest.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 22.-[Special.l-
is matter of quiet talk here that w. w. Dud-
ley, of the famous Observation-Disclosures, is in i'm
mediate danger of arrest. 1t is remarkable that
he knew about il sooner than anyone else, and
as soon as he received the information he took
one or two friends into his confidence. Atty.
Gen. Kitchener gave him very prompt infor-
nation almost forty-eIght hours ago. Dudley
had been known al through the campaign,
among the faithful few. as "No. s." When
Kitchener telegraphed him from indianapolis
the warning dispatch as late as last Wednes-
day, he told him that warrant had been is
sued for the arrest of No. by Commissioner
Van Buren,, and that he must either furnish
bail in Washington or return TO Indiana and
Do
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-27
THE CALIFORNIA TRAIN ROBBERY.
Stories of Two Tramps Who Were Eye.
Witnesses of the AnaIr.


Witnesses of the AFFAIR.
TULARE, Cal, Feb. 24.-On the receipt of in
telligence last night Of a train robbery at Pix.
ley, special ear was at once ordered TO carry
officers to the scene of the robbery and in a
short time ten officers were on the ground
where the tragedy had taken place. A pool of
fresh blood was found several yards from the
track where one of the unfortunate passengers
had been shot down. There were indications
that horses had recently been hitched TO one of
the telegraph poles near by. Two tramps were
found who told the following story:
I'VE were waiting for the train to ride to Pix
ley and saw two men who seemed to be waiting
for train. We went up and talked to them.
They acted in a peculiar manner. 1t was so
dark that we could not tell how they looked,
but think both were gOod-sized men. Both
wore overcoats and wore white shirts. One
had clothes strongly perfumed; both had shot
guns or what appeared to us to be shot-guns.
They asked US where was a good place to get
on the train. We told them and asked them
where there were going They said TO DelanO
was the matter with shooting jack-rabbits at
Pixley- One of them said he had q ranch at
Delano. Just then the train came along and
the men jumped on the front part of the en-
CINE"
One Of the tramps continued: Something
seemed to warn me that all was not all right.
AS the train passed a third man jumped out
from somewhere and boarded one of the passen-
ger cars / felt uneasy and walked over TO the
depot and told some one what had happened.
| was only laughed at but it was not long till
we heard what had happened"
The tramp who was riding on the baggage
car said: "The train commenced to slow up
when we got short distance beyond Pixley.
When il had nearly stopped l discovered there
was trouble OF some kind and jumped OIL.
When they commenced shooting | ran and
jumped fence and laid down in the field near
by. | heard some one say: My God ] am
killed. when the shooting occurred, and then ]
heard another explosion of some kind. When
the robbers had gone l slipped out and got
among the passengers.
zone of the men shot had his side torn all to
pieces with buckshot. When the train backed
up TO Pixley one OF the passengers claimed he
saw a man fall some distance back on the track.
The train went back and we searched for the
man. We soon found him. He had evidently
been instantly killed. The shot entered near
the temple. He had ticket for POso"
From the people of Pixley and other sources
it Was learned that soon as the express mes
senger found out what was the trouble he
barred the doors of the car but the robbers
threw q bomb under ii and gave him such a
shaking up that he was glad 10 open the door.
The amount taken is variously estimated,
some placing it at from $4,000 to S60,O00.
The men are searching the country, though
there is no clew as to the direction taken by
the robbers.