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Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-08
WORSE THAN CHOLERA.

Awful Ravages of Yellow Fever at San
tos, Brazil.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 7.-Reports from
Santos, Brazil, says the yellow fever has
been raging there for month, and the
dead are piled in trenches. 1t is claimed
more victims have been swept away in
and around Santos than died in central
Europe from cholera. Three hundred
and forty-seven vessels are awaiting
their turn to discharge valuable cargoes
shipped from all parts of the world, and
they will, it is claimed, be there year
hence.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-08
THREE SKELETONS IN A BOX.

A Startling Discovery at Jack tho Rip
per's Old Haunts.
LONDON, Oct. IA startling discovery
wss made today in Whitechapel, near
the scene of the numerous Jack the
Ripper murders. Workmen tearing
down an old building discovered box
containing the skeletons of three adults
and everything points to crime oi
some remote period. The discovery
created much excitement.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-08
RENAN LAID TO REST.

The Distinguished Frenc Gilman Given a
Public Funeral.
PARIS, Oct. 1.-THE funeral OF Ernest
Renan was held this morning in the
College OF France. Many eminent men
attended. OF course there were no re-
ligious services. The funeral Grafton
was delivered by M. Bourgeois, minis
ter OF public instruction. He expressed
the hope that the remains would be
finally buried in the Pantheon. The
body was inferred for the time in the
cemetery of Montmartre.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-08
Waaxar andLease.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 7.--General
Weaver and Mrs. Lease spoke to large
crowd at barbecue given at Goodletts-
vile, today. The party will leave for
Pulaski, Tenn, in the morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-08

Your fall suit should be made by Getz.
Fine tailoring. best filter, large stock.
112 West Third street.
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A GAME TWO CAN PLAY.
The Germans Trying to Discount the
French Exhibition of 1900,

The Trying to Discount the
French Exhibition of 1900.
According to the latest information, the
Germans have practically made up their
minds to let the French hold an interna-
tional exhibition in 1900, If they wish to do
SO. aud do their best to insure its COMPARE
tive failure by opening their own in 1893,
says the New York Evening Post. The
mixed commission appointed to decide the
matter has already adopted a resolution
asking the Berlin municipality to vote TO-
600, 600 marks rs a guarantee fund, and the
imperial chancellor. the German chamber
of and the Berlin mercantile as
ISOLATION have all been informed officially
Of this action. A meeting of representa-
tives of the commercial world has boon held
also ut Munich, and there also = resolution
was carried that an exhibition should be
held in 1888, without any reference to the
intentions OF France! This. however, ia a
game that two can play at, n it il Just on
the catds that France may cheokmate this
scheme by selecting n still earlier date. 1897.
for instance, although that would bs peril
ously close after tho Columbian fair. She
would incur risk gladly for the sake of the
pleasure of aiscouraging German a
ments. 1t is very difficult, if not impossible,
now to decide which nation hrst thought of
1900 as an exhibition year., but The Paris
correspondents of the ST. James Gazette
says: This much ia certain, whatever in
tentions they may have had back in their
heads, the French did not begin 10 talk
seriously of the exhibition of 1900 until they
heard that tho idea of holding one in Berlin
in that year had taken root"
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DECEIVED BY A BURGLAR.
A Queer Experience During the Minneap.
oils Convention.

A Queer Experience During the Minneap-
oils Convention.
II had a queer experience with q burglar
in q Minneapolis hotel during the republi-
can convention" said Fred Z. Wadell at
the Southern to a st. Louis Globe. Demo-
orat reporter. when I retired I turned
the key, but without having the door quite
closed. and a. 4 result the bolt did not
enter the look. About two o'clock l was
awakened by \ slight noise. A street light
shous into the room and I could plainly
see . man riflinR my pockets. I had
both watch and purse under my
pillow, but was unarmsd. ! at first
thought would not take chances on get
ting hurt BY molesting the fellow. but when
saw him coolly appropriate a scarfpin
that my wife had given me, l changed my
mind and said to him very quietly, 4 guess
you don't need that He started toward
tho door, but 4 spirit of iecklessness had
seized me, and I ordered him to stop. Evi-
IDENTITY thinking me armed he did SO. He
stood near an open window and held y
him to throw it into the street. and
he did so. l then made him turn on the
light, n he looked surprised and relieved
to md that l was not pointing r pistol at
him. He was a rather good looking young
fellow, n did not at all resemble a Grim
inal. He admitted that this was not his
first ~ofense, however. He was a clerk in a
dry goods house, and had got into a way of
living which his salary would not support.
He sat down at the foot of the bed and
talked it all over with me. He was very
pale and his chin quivered a little, hut he
did not do the baby act. He said he supposed
he would get a couple of years at Saltwater
and that he deserved il. I sat up in bed
and read him u lecture, then told him to 90
and ain no more. NV words Rpnenred to
touch him. He shook my hand, thanked me
for my forbsaranoe and left me. l slept
with a clear conscience until eight o'clock.
then l nwoke to find that watch, purse and
diamond scarf pin were all gone. He
touched me deeper than l did him. l was
30 mortified that I did not report my loss;
but il ever l meet that smooth faced. peni-
tential young hypocrite there will be a sud-
den funeral and either he or I will ride in
the heArse.o
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VENUS DE- Milo
The Bruiser Not in the Comparison
Of Figure for Artistic
Points.
Several Artists Discuss the Rela-
tive Points In Male and Fee
male Forms.


Written for THE HELENA INDEPENDENTS.
|9OEs WOMAN DESERVE THE
credit she has had for sueh q long
49, time Of monopolizinR the greater
part of the beauty in the world? Does the
masculine or the feminine figure spproach
nearer The ideal type Of beauty2 And
among msn and women as they are to-day,
in which sex IL the finer type Of beauty
more frequently found? In short, which
deserves to be called the beautiful sex2
These questions were laid before the
leading figure artists of New York-artists
who have spent years in the study and por-
trsyal of the human ~fiQure-and these are
The answers which they made:
II am inclined to Think said Mr.. Will
lam M. Chase, that the woman's figure,
in its best development, IL rather the more
beautiful. But the question is . very diff
cult one to answer, for how san anything
be more beautiful than the form of q we'll
developed msn Of fine proportions? After
all. it must be answered differently for
different spoons Of the race.
If We consider the Greek ideals of besuty
as they found expression in Greek soulp-
ture, undoubtedly the female form il the
most beautiful of all things. The Venus of
Milo is certainly the finest and noblest en-
bodiment Of beauty of which We have any
knowledge. ....f,
but among the modsrns tho people of
the present time ii must be conceded that
the masculine figure has kept nearer to the
ideal typo Of beauty. Probably tho res-
son ID partly because men live q more
healthful and more athletic life than
women. but mainly because they have
dressed more beautifully. The influence
OF the corset upon feminine beauty has
been ruinous. 1t is almost impossible to
find q female figure that is not distorted.
Even when women themselves have not
laced. their fgulss show the hereditary
distortion that comes to them from the
generations OF women who did lace.
y do not want to be eaptious about the
modern style Of dressing. l do nos think
women have dressed az picturesquely and
As artistically in a long time as they do
now. But notwithstanding that fact this
other fact still remains. that the corset has
80 distorted the fine proportions of the
feminine form that one il seldom seen
nowadays that approaches Responsibilities
OF feminine beauty. When you do find a
beautiful woman. one whose figure does
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not show the interference of clothing with
her artistic proportions, her figure is more
beautiful than the best man'a figure. But
it is far more difficult to find."
II have often said to my classes" Mr.. J.
Carroll Beckwith replied. that the proper
tions of mans figure approach the ideal
type of beauty more nearly than do those Of
woman. II We carry the question back to
the Greek sculptures We find that the
strongly masculine types, such as tho "a
ness Hercules, are not pleasing. The Ok
oessive muscular development interferes
thing 10 true of the feminine ty pes. Those
that are markedly feminine are not entirely
pleasing. The Venus de Medici. for in
stance. 10 not as pleasing as the Venus de
Milo. The former accents too much the
peculiar feminine Characterization.
'lhe most beautiful feminine types are
those that approach the masculine in their
proportions, such a. Che figures of the
fates. And in the masculine types those
that possess somewhat OF feminine charao-
teristios. like the Hermes, approach the
nearest to ideal beauty. In suoh types the
and loneliness Of the feminine figure.
while it loses none of its y strength and
masculine dignity, while the feminine
clothes its own peculiar soft grace with
masculine nobility and impressivsness.
among moderns this ideal type Of beauty
ID pIVOaDly hoic Atolucutly hppTOHCueQ
among women than among men. During
recent years women have been paying more
attention to physical development than
men have. When men 60 in for athletics
at all they are very apt to overdo the mat
ter, and the excessive muscular develop.
ment which il the result lessons the beauty
of their figures. Very often, too, they take
up only one form of exercise and develop
one set of muscles at the expense of the
others. And the majority of mon take al
most no exercise at all. Women. on the
other hand, have been paying so much at
tention 10 physical developments recently
that the type Of beauty among them has de-
veloped and improved very rapidly.
"Iho most beautiful male fgurcs that I
have ever seen have been circus performets
on the trapeze. They are not over dsvel-
opcd musculsrly. while tho muscular de-
%vslopment has been harmonious all over the
body. Their peculiar exercise has given
them exceeding grace and agility. They
approach the nearest to those Greek ideals
OF beauty of which l spoke just now.o of all
the modsrns that ! have seen. but the f.
male trapeze performers do mot share that
beauty 10 the same extent. They are apt 10
become too muscular.
ION the whole l would say tina IL you
take the best types of the male figures and
among the moderns you will find the finest,
most artistic proportions in the former.
But you will find the tsminins Appr0sahes
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m0lS 0Rufo more pleasing 10 tDe eye than
are the proportions Of the best female
that something is. It is too subtle to be
caught and Analysed"
'"TskinQ the men and the women of to-
day and making for each sex q rough gen.
eral average, which one approaches nearer
to the Greek ideals of beauty for that Bel? ?"
since 1t 10 not possible to compare draped
figures fairly with u%ndrapsd. But II seems
to me probable that the masculine figure ia
rather nearer the Greek proportions than
the feminine. And then, too. it must be
remembered that the Greeks had such va
ried types Of beauty. The Venus Of Milo,
far instance. 10 very different from the We
nus dc Medici, and yet both . D lovely.
The Venus of Milo, / think, il the most
beautiful Of all the Greek creations. No,
its superior beauty is not because it ap-
proaches the masculine type. Il does not,
it is thoroughly feminine. It charms BY
its beauty and impresses by its nobility.
There are many women in New York to-
day that are near akin in beauty to this
Venus and to the Greek figures Of Victory.
One can scarcely 90 up Broadway without
seeing some woman OF girl SO perfect in
pro ortions and so glowing in health and
beauty that she would not suffer BY com
arison even with the finest Greek Victory"
Said Mrs. Rosina Emmett Sherwood:
II think there must be two ideas
of beauty-one for the masculine
figure, and another. and very DIFF
~.ferent, for the feminine. In the former
we look for strength and agility, in the lat
ter we exrect grace and s%oftness. But sop
! rating the idea of beauty of form from the
idea of sex there would be a higher ideal,
n type more beautiful than either of these,
that would unite the characteristics of
both. 1t would soften the strength OF the
man with the grace of the woman and sls-
vate her softness with nobleness. -
"At the present time I should say that
The 9 is more beauty to be found in tho
feminine than in the masculine sex. Not
only is beauty more prevalent among
women, but it more frequently approaches
tho ideal type. Possibly hat is because
they have taken better care of themselves,
but mainly, l should think. because they
care so much more to be beautiful and to
please that they have cultivated beauty
more than men have.
Il do not think women were ever more
beautiful, at least during the later ages of
this wo Id, than they are now, and the most
beautiful women of the present time, il
You consider form merely without express
sion are to be ound in England. The out
door life that the women of the upper
classes lead, the climate of their country
and the exceedingly good care they take of
themselves are the principal causes of their
atatuesque figures and fine compilations.
some one. and, as a whole the English
woman ia much less pleasing than the
American. 49,
"The type of figure among American
women has boon changing very much, even
in our own times. The feminine form ia
growing larger and taller-very much
tailor. Twenty years ago the woman who
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to the Hampstead set and the Hampstead
dogs. l found a prizs winner in almost
ever cottage. Miss Birds bulldog, with the
handsome name-she calls him Mortimer
and the uRliest of faces, blinked at me from
a rustic portico. Then I dropped by the
pretty homo of Sidney Dillon Ripley, and
has fine a collie az ever Qraced a kennel show
eyed me furtively. Up at Cauley Hayemey-
er's l found a magnificent st. Bernard, a
better guard than the man on hoseback who
is now rushing about the Vanderbilt home
at Newport, fearful of another robbery.
prize winner, though a mix. and the La
denburgs. the Hoyts and the Winthrops ali
have a number of interesting and valuable
CANNES, who follow masters and mis-
tresses wherever they 90. In fact, at
Hampstead it is An unwritten law that no
equipsge is ~ it should bs without a dog of
some kind either inside or outside the
vehicle.
was talking with jenkins Van Sohs1k
about New York's "fashionable' dogs the
other day. and he aired the grievances Of
the owners in Il very Practical argument:
they have the greatest admiration for fine
dogs. find it simply impossible TO keep them
in the close citI. Ex-Prssidsnt Cleveland
in his recent letter declining the
offer of = magnificent mastiff expressed a
sentiment which Ok claims the situation sx-
RCtIy. "A real loVeE OF me logs can enjoy
the company Of An animal only during the
summer months when at his country home.
For the reminder of ths year tho dog must
be placed in the care Of keepers, and SO be-
comes e%stranged. OF course. when tho man
of fashion lives ut his country home the
greater part of the year there is no obstacle
to the keeping Of a fine kennel. John D..
Rockefeller's mastiff follows him the
greater part of the time. Gould has a nun
Der of cooker spaniels, largely for the
amusement of his grandchildren. AT Tux
edo the Lorillards have two splendid st.
Bernards."
John +. Thayer, of Massachusetts,, who
10 reported to have the finest kennel Of deer
honnds in tho world, was amazed when in
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THE HABIT OF SNORING.
A Few Lessons Might BE Learned From
. the Indians With Profit. .-.

A Few Lessons Might Tse Learned From
the Indians With Profit. f4-.
The press 10 making merry over Mrs.
Barbara Turner, of Columbus. Ohio, who
refuses to live with her husband because he
snores, says Kate Fields Washington.
In his turn, Mr.. Turner sues for . divorce.
What q spectacle is this. my oountrymen!
Who blames Mrs. Turner for objecting to
snoring? Noone; but where is Mrs. Turner's
wit that she can find no way out of her
misery but absolute separation and conse-
quent scandal and ridioule? Evidently she
knows nothing of the philosophy of snoring,
or she might have reduced her husband to
silence long ago.
1t is a pity We don't learn a few lessons
from the original inhabitants of this con-
tinent and profit by them. Who ever heard
an Indian snore? If Indians never snore,
why should the pale-face2 I'll tell you
why. Indians have. from the beginning,
lived and slept in the open air. Snoring
simply means sleeping with the mouth
open-a most unhealthy a. we'll as hideons
custom. the proper sieve for air being the
nose. For Indians to breathe through the
mouth would DO to offer a receptacle for
many an unwelcomed guest as we'll as to
warn the enemy of their presence. To guard
against such evils Indians are taught to
Accp IAolE HOutuS 6uuC from GhEll0Sk IN
fancy. Many a time I've watched Indian
mothers close their babies' mouth after
putting them to sleep. Habit finally be-
comes second nature; hence the Indian 10
the most silent of animals.
How many white mothers know whether
their children breathe we'll or ill2 How
many take the pains to teach their offspring
the Office of the nose as compared with that
of the mouth? How many are intelligent
enough to realize that the difference be-
tween letting a child sleep open mouthed
and close mouthed ia the difference between
a nuisance and decent peace? If Mr.. Tur-
ner's mother had been a squaw; his wife
would have had no ground OF complaint
against him, and there would have been
one divorce less to record.
Is it too late to offer q suggestion to this
unhappy pair? 1t is difficult to teach old
dogs new tricks though it is easv to muzzle
any kind of Il dog. old or young. Why
can't Mr.. Turner be muzzled when he re-
tires at night? The apparatus could b.
readily devised, and in all probability
might DO dispensed with IN time. BY ali
means let Mr.. Turner be muzzled.
Now that Pm in a suggestive frame of
mind, l appeal to George M. Pullman to
invoke the genius who will invent such a
gag as will silence. forevermore. not only
Turner, but the maddeninR chorus which
murders sleep on board the Pullman oars,
Then, when this blessed invention is per-
feoted, let every aection have its muzzle, az
every berth on steamers has its life pre-.
server, and whenever q passenger becomes
q nuisance by defying the laws of nature,
let the porter gentlv but firmly apply the
peace. preserver.
This suggestion carries in its wake the
peace of millions, to say nothing of the
Turner's of Columbus, Ohio. Where ID the
inventor of the great American peace pre-
server?
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Where Daniel Webster Was "Of."

In his day Mr.. Webster had q very vague
idea of the great west, says Ben Perley
Poor's "reminiscences. On one occasion
when he ho was in the senate a proposition
was before it to establish a mail route from
Independence, No., to the mouth Of the
Columbia river, some 5000 miles across
plains and mountains, about the extent of
which the public then knew no more than
they did the interior of Thibet. Mr.. Web
ster. after denounoing the measure gen
erally. closed with u few remarks concern
ing the country at large. "What do We
want" he exclaimed. with this vust,
worthless area? This region of savagss
and wild beasts. of deserts of shifting sands
and wi irl winds Of dust. Of cactus and
prairie dogsp 20 what use could We ever
hope to put these great deserts, or these
endless rnnGes. imn enetrable
n covered to their very base with eternal
snow? What can We ever hope to do with
the western coast, a coast Of 5000 miles.
rock bound, ohserless. uninviting and not
q harbor on itp What use have We for this
country"
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best type NOR. frequently than shs

~ beat type more frequently than ths
~ can answsr that question very quick
~" said Mr.. Frederick s. Church. IN
my opinion woman 10 the most beautiful
creature that svsr lived. Man DOES not be-
gin to compare with her in beauty, and no
woman Vas evsr entirely ugly. she cannot
20 wholly dsstitute Of beauty. Given the
woman'e figure, there, 10 sure 10 be about
" Something to delight the eye.
"bus then, II 10 possible that I Am some
What prejudioed on this question, because /
draw only. the female figure. Al lam .
member Of several athletic clubs, however.
! am familiar with the male figure in what
= probably the best developments IL reaches
to-day. 1t would be difficult to find better
masculine figures than some of the men in
those clubs posssss-dovelopsd by variety
OF exercise in evsry part. with no dispro-
p.ortionate muscular development marring
sns general harmony. their figures are
nearly perfect"
Considering the question, MI. Church,
simply az . matter Of proportions, are
those OF the female figure more pleasing to
the taste than those of tho masculine ig-
IRE?
Looking at IL solely in that light" Mr..
Church replied slowly and very thought-
FULLY. II must say that there il some
thing about the proportions Of the best
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was amazed whom II heard some years ago
tnas sne lsse .. X. Emnet had given 5000
ior bis p!inlimmon, now dead. bat ! doubt
II M. Sears would sake 5000 for his
rough,ooated st. Bernard Sir Bsdivers. In
brooklyn j. keevan often has his famous
Patrol accompanying him through Prospect
park: don't think hs would sell the ami
mai Tor 5000. Nor would half that sum
6uy d.. !. q. Dixon's Lao b.. as fine a Cor
don setter ~ ever donned . blue ribbon At
refused $1,000 for his Plinlimmon. Jr.. re-
Gently. And his Monarch could not be had
Talking of the money invested In fine
CANNES by Now York fanciers, l was told
recently that the sum easily rea chsd half a
million dollars. This would. Of course, in
olude al the 1ne breeding Kennels and tho
magnificent kennels Of such we'll known
d0g fsnoiers a. Col. Jacob Rupert, Jr..
william G. Reick, CITY editor Of the New
YOrk Herald, and one OF the finest judges
OF dogs in the country, the owners Of tho
New York st. Bernard kennels, Henry
sonierloh; ). !. Winehell, James H.. Bios
But these and the Thousand other indi.
viduals whose pleasure lies in the posses
sion OF Z fine kennel differ to q marvellous
degree IN their likings. Col. Rupert's fancy
leads him TO the purchase Of 1T. Bernards.
L.. d. Ellis prefers . good bulldog and
b.NuO uAHabuil pAEsAcHlAEly Oh tn0 uRIlnehh
Of his Pathfnder. and George Jarvis. George
". Lowell, Charles Heath and man. of the
Hampstead set take to pointers. Harry
Astor Cary, who has just introduced a pub
lilo coach into Newport life, prides himself
on his Judgment Of q good English setter.
Arthur W. Pembsok has the finest lot of
areyhounds in the United States. and cares
little for any other breed. His Gem of the
Season, Ornatus, Pious Pembroke. Best
wood, Daisy and Lily of Gainsboro are said
to DO thu finest Animals of their kind ever
seen in a kennel show.
There 10 something, interesting too, in
the d liking Of great men for fine big
dogs. Bismarck inc his great brutes are
Known to everybody who has ever made .
pilgrimage to the home of the iron chan
cellor. Ex-Secretary Bayard is often ac-
c%ompanied by q fine St. Bernard. Secre-
tary Blaine has a mastif at his Augusta
home. and President Harrison owns a mum.
Dor Of magnificent pointers. which are kept
by = friend in Maryland, with whom the
nations executive often goes hunting.
ALBERT EDWARD TYRRELL.