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smoker. II Is, in fact. just such an orchestra as
should have played at the mRsqued ball where
danced all that carnival procession at the right,
HArlequinE, COlumbines. and PierrOts rollicking
along hand In hand. Or, for that matter. for
the ballet on the left. such a ballet! Only a
roSe-colOred dream OF one, with OthSr fantastic
figures approaching or Teceding as they would
in . dream. All the figures are so delicately
drawn and colOred that while the colOrs are
brilliant they have the iridescent transparency
OF the opal. Yet they are - gay, 50 infectiously
R~oOd-humOred. that they seem to dance ike the
hrplight, as Enthusiastically and as silently.
These designs are to extend around the room,
occupying the space from the top OF an ordinary
WainscOtinH to within . yard OF the ceiling,
which will be high. Below them runA a bread
band Of dull gold, with masks appearing at in
terVals below tho painting. IL IL safe 10 say that
when IL Is finished there will not be another
drawing room like IL In Europe. or In any other
country. for that matter. But that Will probA-
bly, not he for long. Cheret rooms Will perhaps
become a great a lad As the Cheret GBNhe. He
Is already al work on the designs for q room 10
the Hotel de Vile at Paris and the prospects
for future collectors OF Cheret posters are NOT
bright He himself Is immensely Interested In
his new venture.
Think that viii be something entirely new"
he said tie other day, thruStinR his hands into
his pockets, their usual resting place, and Look
ing critically at the diaphAnous ballet. The
old artists. ~ vel as the mOderns. have Always
used a good many browns and dead colons for
the Backgrounds 81 their wall decoratiOas. In
fact. their wall decorations are simply pictures
such a. they would nut In a frame Cohss-
prFrtly tlrir ronrs have M effect ~ space or
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put down on a stray sheet OF paper, with here
and there four spots which pass for nose, eyes,
and mouth. Cheret makes his design as It Is to
remain. He does . heap Of thinking, and con-
sumes numerous cigarettes in advance, but he
natures his idea in his mind, not on paper.
Then he makes his design in pastel or guaehe'
carefully. because these original drawings be-
long 10 him. and are in great demand at prices
which are pleasant 10 contemplate.
Fortunately Ch6ret Is a practical lithogra-
pher, 90 that he prepares the stones for his own
designs. A poster Is sometimes printed In nve
eOlOrs. bat most OF them have only four colors
and many only three. These colors cannot be
mingled except by being superimpOsed one upon
another with sufficient transparency "a produce
= mixtuHs OF tintS. Thus limited, It is astonish-
ing how any one can produce such = variety OF
Effects. Given rcd, yellow, blue, and green, and
Chsret will produce a picture full of light and
shadow. Sometimes black Is substituted for the
blue or for the green. but there his available re-
sources stop. On account OF the expense of
printing from many stones he is generally re-
stricted 90 three or four cOlors.
The designs are made at his studio in the Rue
LangisF, while the stones are prepared at 4
second atelier al 20 Hue BerEere. Hers Cheret
has two r'ans, which arc half 9elicr. half
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indebted to q certain wealthy Partisan for the
inspiration. This man conceived the brilliant
idea-how literally brilliant :" any one who has
not seen the Cheret drfches cannot conceive-of
decorating his ballroom, with the famous post
ers, He simply papered the walls with them.
and then he gave n ball. The effect was electro
cal. The lame, the halt, everybody, in fact, OK
cept the blind. were moved to dance by these
unique decorations. 1t in even reported that
several blase young Englishmen, and even some
New Workers, who had not danced for 30 long
that they had been suspected Of rheumatic ten
denotes, were drawn into the mad whirl OF gay
ETY. and were actually seen with wilted collars.
The ChSrct ballroom was an immense success,
Initiated quickly by Others, among them the
late King OF Holland. and the artist himself,
meditating upon IL, resolved TO attempt a SINH
lar decoration at first hand. as IL were. The re-
suit Is n series OF charming pastel designs at
present. reposing in great white frames In his
studio. hut to be reproduced by him as the deco
rations OF the drawing room In q palace TO DO
built by Baron Vita on the shores OF the Lake
OF Geneva.
The designs are of the same character as many
OF .Chcrets posters, but are executed with in
finitely more delicacy and grace. They are opa-
lescent In their coloring, red, green, blue, and
yellow being the only col0rs used. but these are
employed with so much skill that they are per-
fectly harmonized. Over the arch OF the fire
place there Is q band of musicians. but
OF a variety that have never played in
an earthly or Neutrality-suspicious.. 1t
isn't the realistic, orchestra. It Is perhaps
the orchestra which bcguiles the opium
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ONCE. In the outer one Il = high table, on which
the nthoRrsphio stones are placed. Cherst al
ways works standing. He places his pastel
design with the back against the front Of his
table and facing a large mirror, in which he gets
the reversed picture which he IL to produce on
the stone. Copies Of his most famous designs
are on the walls; sections Of casts made Of . bal
let dancer in different positions hang from
shelves which. support other casts more fan
tastic still. The inner room Is his once. with
desk, books, aud 40 ON,
The real Workshop OF the artist. however. IL
his other studio. From y TO IL o'clock in the
morning Cheret works here a. hard a. IN he were
even yet the struggling young typeaetter or n.
illustrator OF sheet music. Tall, handsome. and
looking. q decade younger than the nifty years
TO which lie own, Cheret Is not out OF place
among the CAV figures. on his canvases. He ia
simple, courteous, and has a certain degree OF
naive pride IN the success he has won for him
self and by himself for he never had a teacher
orany instruction whatever in art.
He has many imltstors, but he does not mind
that. In. FRENCH he says, I'VE have n
proverb which says, One borrows only from tho
rich' II people copy me, II looks as " they find
something worth copying, and naturally that
pleaseJ me-"
Now, however, Ch6ret lie going to initiate him.
self. That Is, he Is going TO employ his own pc
cullar talents and ideas In another way. He Is
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prosperous contractor In stamford, and had a
contract with t rather eccentric woman there
To build a house which Was to cost S4O,OOO
For fear Of being cheated, she ordered the
materials herself, ON kRbbitIs recommendation.
and when she came to pay her bills she found
one order Tor S4OO, Which she declared was n
forgery. She accused Rabbit OF having forged
the order. lie had neither lawyer nor witnesses.
and was convicted anu Sentenced 10 Wethers-
field for three years. This was in 1882. Re-
Gently the Board OF pardOns took CUgniEanCe Of
lis case. aud pArdOned him an account OF the
doubtful character Of the evidence against him.
lie Has freed ON Dec. ., and now las good EN-
plOyment in Hartford, which Warden Wood
bridge secured fur him lie Is now ~ years old.
The Warden first discovered the mans talent
when he was having snlnc work done by the Goa
yicts on plans drawn by an architect, Rabbit
Was one OF the WOTknen and saw the plans.
can draw up better plans than those he
said 10 Warden NOldbrldgr,
VERY well; go ahead and try it, replied the
Warden.
Rabbits plans were used and the others
TARA. with all the modern conEenienCes a green
house and a piggery, which j. o mOdeI az its
kind, and designed many ingenious little things
on suRgesuOns by the Warden. who ia Of au in
Ventiye turn u mind. but lacks the mechanical
skin necessary 60 CARR out his inventions. lie
and Rabbit, working In partnership. have
turned out some tine work, Rabbit working
from the b9Fest outlines suggested by Col Wood
bridge, When the question Of constructing a
model for tbs new galloHs zane up tho Warden
naturally lgFnsd 10 Rabbit a once. And that
Rabbit did bic WQrk sel sill b. shOWA a The
execution on MOnd@
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TTO RIVAL BIC MEN.
An Ante-PraHdiRi Event That Resulted In
the Demise OF Oae or Them.
From N, courier Journal

From The CouriSr-JourRdL
TIE man who told the story between the pufs
OF his cigar was from Texas:
THE tale Of Clay Alllson's life il one OF the
most sOmbre romances one hears of about West
ern camp fires. Clay Allison was a desperate.
He lived in the Red River country, on the west
ern marches OF the Llano Esiacado. His trig-
ger finger was busiest in the latter seventies.
He had a record OF twenty-one -twenty-one
dead men. whose graves were scattered from
dodge city TO Santa F6,
"One Of his most artistic murders was the
killing OF Fill Chunk, a long-haircd. smashing,
hectorlng bravo and a professional bad man,
cowaSdiy deeds and OF blood. lie and Allison
had no cause OF quarrel. They were rival killers
that was all-and which one Was quicker on
wager on the part OF their friends. So. II came
about very naturally that the twp men swore to
night in a little settlement IN northern
New Mexico. They sat down At the
sSsk other, and drew Their six-sSooiers and laid
them across their knees, CHUNG ordered raw
oysters. When the PREACHER had, been set be-
fore him he dropped his hand 20 his lap as II TO
get a napkin, and fired at Allison under the ia
Bile. The bullet failed ~ It's marx. Quick as
spoI just bstWssn ckapk's eyes told whore he
bullet entered; and the dead man, swaytng from
down upon the table aud was still, with his face
buried in that dish.
ALLISON went 70 Kansas City once on a cattle
- eAAA "AAAA NAN~A ~ - Na@ A1NhA +. =
ful, but fallen woman. lie married her and
took her 10 his Texas ranch TO live. She made
him a true and loyal wife. A child was horn to
thsm-A child whose face was as beautiful as its
mothers, but whose poor little body was hOT-
ribly detoTmed. Allison loved the babe with
the love Of his passionate nature. but to his
superstitious mind, the misbegotten Infant was
q curse from God visited upon him for the wan
ton crimes OF his dark career. Aud from the
hour OF that unhappy birth Allison became a
No more men fell before his unerring pistols.
He fOreswOre liquor aud all the riot and llcen-
tiOusnsss Ia which lie had formerly tEdulged.
He turned his great nervous energies 10 bust
ness. In a few years he was rich. Tens OF thou
sands OF cattle on the Western. ranges bore his
ago. he left his ranch in a road wagon and
started for town. As he drove briskly along,
suddenness that threw Allison from his seat
headlOng 20 the ground. His neck was broken
By the fall The horses jagged on into the dis
tGneo uhmiRdful of the dead man lying there
alone upon the prairie, unmlndful Of tbs psriOd
which fEts bad pat At the cad Of thai silA and
stormy ltn."
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collection without a Cheret Is like rapid transit
in Paris; 1t simply does not exist. There are a
number Of Cherot d1iches, as they arc called
here, In the hands of American collectors, and
It behooves those fortunate individuals to keep
. tight grip on their possessions for they are
destined to become rarities.
Tho artist-for he Ia q recognised artist and
wears the red ribbon OF the Legion of Honor-has
entered q new field in which he thinks he is as
great Q pioneer as he was twenty years Agoin the
production OF artistic posters. Previous TO that
time he made designs for the covers of sheet
music. He was working In London and, of ne
cessity. his designs were adapted for the con-
temptation OF the then unrovoltod English
daughter who always learned Tho Maiden's
Prayer and an equally inofensive ballad with
which to entertain pious young Wears.
Since that time the English daughter has
taken q different gait, and 30 has Ch6ret It Is
To be feared that pious young Wears would stand
aghast before o group OF his posters. Ethereal
ballots dance across them. Fantastic carnival
figures follow each other in mad pursuit They
seem to show the incarnation OF revelry.
It is easy to believe that they are done with
out . model. There is not even a preliminary
sketch except . wild conglomeration Of. curves
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CHERETS NEW VENTURE.
FANTASTIC REVELs or COLOR TO
DECORATE 4 DRAWING ROOM.

The Deaigas as uuique Ne Hts Farous mn
Posters -E.tirsiy New Effects Sought-A
RsIi Roo, Decsrntea with Posters.
PARIS. Dec. a.-There is a man here in Paris
who has made = thousand pictures in less than
twenty years. lie exhibits" every year and
all the year round. lie is equally we'll known,
through his work, TO the Eamins and 10 the
critics. More copies are made Of his pictures
than Of all the Louvre pictures put together,
and his name, to be brief, lie Cheret.
Jules Cheret's salon Is the streets Of Paris and
his pictures are among the posters with which
the dead walls Of the city are emblazoned. These
posters are what You might call highly seasoned.
The Paris amusement seekers need to have their
sppetites whetted a trihe. Their power Of en-
joyment Is inclined to totter some times. ut
hath adying fall" Ch6ret's posters are r~evivify-
ing. They strike the eye first and hold II longest.
There are many collectors OF posters. but the
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TO HANG HIMSELF DEC. IS.
TINE AUTOMlTIC CONNECTICUT
8ALLO VS. Amour TO NE USED.


Aruraerer Crouin VIII STEP Upou It s.a
Hana Himself Wtthout RsosyIuu what
Hs u notae-The Machine in Perfect
worhins Order Nsw-Its Mechssis-.
Hanging by a rope In the death chamber Of
the Connecticut State prison al wethersneld Is
a figure that looks like a huge rag doll without
legs or arms. II Is a long bag stuffed with sand
and 30 arranged that Il has a neck and head.
The rope by which IL Is suspended encirrles the
figures neck, the knot coming Just under the
left ear. which is drawn on the head In pencil.
That doll represents, for experimental purposes,
Murderer CrOnln. on whose model u IL con-
~structed Ms regards size OF neck and weight, the
two important details In the particular kind Of
experiment for which II was designed. Many
times In the last few months the doll las under
gone an operation which Gronin will undergo
once on Dec. lS. II has been hanged $50 times.
All these trials have been for the purpose Of
testing the efficacy Of n new hanging machine
designed on the line NJ q Colorado gallows by
Warden Woodbridge NJ wethersncld and James
Rabbit, until recently q convict In the prison.
Much time aud trouble have been taken in per
fectlng the continuance, ard now WarlenW Wood
bridge believes that he las In his prison the
best and most complete hanging apparatus ever
devised. The peculiar point In the machine Ia
that the condemned man himself In stepping on
the platform under the rope sets In motion the
power which kills him. The machinery Is quick,
1t is nolseless, It ID easily governed, II Is not
visible from the place OF execution. and so far as
experiment can show II Ia absolutely sure.
For n great many years Warden Woodbridge
has been studying the subject Of executions.
lie has seen eleven men executed. most OF them
by the old method OF II fall through a trap. and
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slide flying wide open, the shot drops out. and
the weight falls Instantly. To the top Of tho
cylinder II attached n fine wire connected with
the hand on the death dial. As the cylinder
sinks the hand moves around until at the END Of
forty seconds the shot has all flowed out. The
to an hour. The box into which the shot falls Is
felt lined and the entire working of the mn
chinery is noiselcss up to the fall OF the weight.
All EXPERIMENTING Is now over. because Cronin
~ in the death cell, which adjoins the execution
chamber, aud the Warden is unwilling to excite
or disturb him He does not know in what way
he Is to he executed. beyond the fact that il win
he by hanging; nor VIII he ever know. Even
the dial he will not see. since his back will be
toward IL. lie has only twenty feet to walk
from tho death cell to tho platform. Unless he
struggles. Or faints. the time To elnpse between
his entrance into the death chamber and the fall
OF the weight that will break his neck should he
pounds, Rnd the dummy which has represented
him in the experiments Is exactly that weight.
Twenty persons will witness the execution.
The Connecticut law provides for twenty
three, three OF whom may 10 invited Gy
the condemned. Cronln, however, refuses
nesses Is something Of All embarrassment TO Col.
WOODBRIDGE. Some time ago q Colorado Sheriff
extended TO him many cOuTtesics when lie went
to Colorado to witness an execution there by
the automatic gallOws. Now the sheriff writes
that he has heard OF Col. Woodbridge's gallOws,
and asks II he may attend the execution. As the
law. orders that certain specified persons shall
be invited a. witnesses, land no Others" Col.
Woodbridge has been compelled regretfully 10
return n negative reply Ia his Colorado friend.
Tho mar who made tie model OF the hanging
apparatus and To whom Warden Woodbridge
gives most of the credit for its perfection. James
Rabbit, has had n peculiar history. lie was a
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True II is that there was a falling on Of quite
fifty per cent, Of the Republican vote In the No
Yember election. Every body votes pretty freely
in Texas. ! have ascertained that the f~sctional
row has led many black Republicans TO support
the Democratic candidates. The black and coll
ored vote is i0l ,832; Mr.. MacGregor told mo
the white Republican vote should be about TO-
600, making a normal Republican vote % III
lican candidate received no more than 10000
votes. Where did the other votes go tof The
Dallas Morning Nslrs takes Harrison county,
where the blacks outnumber the whites two TO
one, and shows that most Of the black vote went
sion. from ali that ican learn. Thai portion o.
the vote which gocs neither tnthe Republican
SAVE wool and says nothing" Somehow the
Texas black maj does not take kindly TO the
The leaders OF the Lily White movement in
sist that il has not only come ~ stay, but that
IL viii take root in all the southern states
pete with black men In the primaries, and hat
n these cannot be held separately aud upon
terms dictated by them, then two Republican
parties in each Southern state are inevitable.
On their part the black men are equally pro-
n0unced that n the white Republicans refuse TO
60 into the primaries On equal terms with them,
and nght II out they may hang around on tho
outside OF the bresstworks and whistle To keep
their courage up. Tie next National Republic
can Convention will Doubtless he called upon
10 decide the question Of regularity. IL Will bs
Tile contention Of the Lily Whites that no con-
siderable number Of white men can DO got 70
JON kho HtpuplfAn party WINE ll - fhhlFnlltu
by a colored man. Is about the strongest aTgu-
msnt they have advanced: but DO National
Republican ConErEtoR could consistently PAY
any attention to Il. The whites will have t0gek
control Of the regular machine IL they expect
recognition, and IN Texas ~ least, they cannot
do that. They have no man smart enough 10
cope with CIncy In the manHgemsEt n the
" Black Flagger>-"
Ia ihr mean time. willie the Democrats and
Republicans are warning among themselves. The
populists. who Hre not only q menace 70 toth,
but 4 menace " the nation. arr consolidating
their forces under competent leadership and
making ready for the next trial Of strength.
Z. THOMAs FORrUKE
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-01-12
The Home Market.

During the past 10 years the home
market for the products Of agriculture
has increased 80 per cent from advance
of population alone. In three or four
decades the wants of 65, 900, 900 more
will double the present demand upon
our agriculture and make a mar
ket for products ample for subsistence
of more than 100, 600, 900 of European
people. Great Britain, in her little
garden patch = largely occupied by
houses and pleasure grounds, produces
half supply; the sea sands of the Meth
erlands partially feed dense popula-
ton; eastern Europe is an enlarging
granary, and the western nations usu.
ally supply their food requirements.
therefore there is little prospect in ilis
immediate or distant future that OUT
foreign market will be worthy of con.
eideratiop in comparison with the pres
ent overwhelming and constantly aug
menting Importance of the domestic
market, which is the hope of the farm.
er of the future. Professor j. r.
Dodge.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-01-12
MAY MOVE TO DETROIT.
The State Agricultural Society Indebted
About $4,000.

The State Agricultural Society Indebted
About S24, 900.
LANSING, Jan. 9.--Lansing people are
somewhat excited because of the prob
ability that the state fair will be moved
to Detroit this year.
The executive committee of tho State
Agricultural society is in session here
and will transact business the remainder
of the week.
One of the chief questions which con-
fronts the committee is an Indebtedness
of about S24, 900, part of which is for
unpaid premiums. and there is no
cheering prospect that the Indebtedness
will be wiped out, in view of the hard
shedding which agricultural societies
have been having the past few years
Consequently the committee is in
clined to listen to a proposition which
it 10 understood will be made by the
Detroit Expo sition company sometime
this week. The proposition, it is said,
of the exposition company is to give the
State Fair society one-half the net re-
ceipts of this cear's show if it is held on
the expositic grounds in Detroit.
The executive committee is inclined
to accept the offer II the Central .Michi-
gan Agricultural society, of whose
grounds the State Fair society has
conditional lease. will let them do it,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-01-12
Probate Order.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, 1,
COUNTY OF SHIAWASSEE.

At session OF the Probate ICourt for the
County OF Shiawassee, holden at the Probate
ONCE In the City OF Corunna, on Tuesday, the
18th day of December In the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety three.
Present, Matthew Bush judge OF Probate.
IN the matter or the estate OF Charles p
Parkill, deceased On reading and fling the
petition, duly verified OF Stanley t. Parlxill
praying, amongst other things, for the probate
Of an instrument now fled in this Court, pur
porting to be the last will and testament of said
deceased. eH~ cd
Thereupon II els ordered, that Monday: the
18th day OF January next, at ten o'clock In the
forenoon be assigned for the hearing of said
petition, and that the heirs at law OF said de
ceased. and all other persons interested In said
estate, are required to appear at n session of
said Court. then TO be holden In the probate
ONCE In the City OF Corunna, and show cause
IL any there be, why the prayer OF the petitioner
should not be granted
And IL is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice TO the persons interested In said
estate. OF the tendency Of said petition, and the
hearing thereof, by causing copy OF this order
TO be published In THE TIMES. newspaper
printed and circulated In said county Of Shia
wassee, Tor three successive weeks previous 10
said day OF hearing. MATTHEW BUSH
Judge OF Probate
by KATHERINE e. KELSEY,
Probate Register.