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SULTAN Of JQHAEE.
- Something Abont His Kingdom .and
a Visit to His Palace.
HOW A RAJAH LIVES AKD GOVERNS
Singapore Women and Their TVonderM
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IKIIKG TO KEEP COOL IK CHUECH
fCOEKiSFOXDEKCE OF THE DISPATCn.1
SINGAPORE,
March 12. Singa
pore is just 80 miles
north of the equator.
Its climate isN the
same'the yearround.
Its sun rises and sets
at tie same hours
each day the year
throusrb, and its flow
ers ever bloom and
its trees are always
green. Now, at the
last of February, I
am surrounded by ihe
verdure of the tropics
Birds by the thou
sands sing in the trees
and the air is that of a hot, moist July. The
natives in many cases wear nothing but
waist cloths, and all Europeans are dressed
in white duck coats and white pantaloons.
They wear hats of pith or cort, the rims of
which are as big around as a dish pan and
which rise in two stories to protect the head
from the snn.
I attended church at the English Cathe
dral last night and listened to a service
under 40 great punkahs or fans, which were
pulled to and fro by men stationed on the
outside of the church. This cathedral had
an audience room about 120 feet long and it
was, I judge, 75 feet from the floor to the
rooC Below the ceiling there was a net
work of iron rods and to these, by ropes,
were fastened these huge fans, each of which
was about 4 feet wide and 18 feet long.
They consisted of strips of wide cotton
cloth, weightedand hung from black walnut
poles, and it was by ropes attached to these
poles and stretched over pulleys in the
windows of the church, that tbc natives
outside kept them going and cooled those
engaged in devotion. The dining tables in
the hotels have these punkah fans over
them and upon the steamers there are
punkahs in the cabins which are pulled
during the meals.
Some of the wealthier European residents
have servants, who do nothing bnt pull
punkahs, and not a few have ians over their
beds which are kept going all night by
manual labor. Just in front of the hotel,
and along the shore of the sea, there is a
tennis and cricket ground comprising sev
eral acres of lawn. Every afternoon these
European nabobs of the East may be seen
here by 'the scores. Each player has his
servant with him, who rnns after the balls
and hands tbem to him. No one does any
more than he can help, and the business
hours, are from 10 to 5.
BalfWny Around the World.
Singapore is an island 14 miles wide and
27 miles long. It lies just half way around
the world from 2s ew York, and it is the half
way station between the Pacific and the
Indian Ocean. If you will take your map
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The Sultan of Johore.
of Asia and look up the straits of Melacca
you will find this little island. Lying at
their entrance just north of Sumatra and
' south of Indo-China, a little over to the left
you will see Ceylon, and further still the
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unit ot Aden ana the ilea Sea. To the
right and north are China and Japan.
Singapore is the center of the trade routes
j going via Ceylon and the Bed Sea to
Europe, and all of the great ships trading
' with China and Japan stop here. More
than 6,000 ships visit this port every year
t and all of the great islands of this vicinity
send their freight here for trans-shipment.
It is four days and 800 miles from here to
Bangkok, the capital of Siam. There are
weekly steamers to Batavia, the capital of
t Java. 600 miles to the south and vou can in
r two days reach this great coffee island,
i which comprises a territory about 80 miles
, wide and longer than the distance between
New Yoik City and Cleveland.
Borneo is another great island at the east
'' ward and it is 13 days from here to Calcutta
fby way of Burmah. The result is that the
population of Singapore is made up of the
natives of all these countries and you find
here & mixture of veilows and blacks, of
Hindoo turbans and Chinese pigtails; of
coffee-colored Malavs and of pale, white
ft- Caucassians from Europe. The costumes
jL are as strange as the skins, and all the queer
' m 0Qfits " southern Asia jostle each other
upon the streets and tramp upon one an
other's heels upon the highways.
Jj Sincnpore Bcantlca.
"rb -The women of Singapore are of a dozen
; fdifferent types, ranging from the rosy-
"7cheeked English girl, in a suit made by
r WpSfern or "Worth, to the half-naked
5 flbeanty from Borneo, whose sole costume is
a strip of cloth about the waist, which
Reaches to her knees and which is fastened
hv a knot at the pit of her stomach. I saw
a black woman to-day who had holes in the
lobes ot each of her ears as big around as
my thnmb, and I noted that another woman
nd her ear holes as bouquet holders. Both
of these women were EUings, and they came
from Southern India. They were straight,
graceful and by no means bad looking, bnt
their chief dress consisted of jewelry. They
had great bracelets of gold on their wrists
and their ankles. Their ears were riveted
with gold, and above these great ring-like
lobes, little gold nuts and bolts were put
through the ears so that they were bound
with pins of gold from lobe to tip.
One of the maidens had each of her nos-'
trils riveted with these screw rings and a
great ring of gold hanging down lrom the
. center of the nose. The gold shone out all
the brighter against the blackness of thb
skin and the jewelry was the more promi
H,?04, rom the scantiness of their costumes
""e "ere merely a single jkirt fasteneq
feSis-"- ""ujiu me liips ana ine tnigns ana
SCOttlne.tO the knew nnd sort of a scarf of
cotton" ,which was stretched -around the
shoulder and under n irm ) tin? !n
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have made the whole suit and they wore
neither, hats nor bonnets. I noticed an
other of these women who had a large, pear
shaped pearl fastened to a riyet and hang
ing down from one nostril almost to her
upper lip.
Chinese Aicendency. t
The Malay women, so far as I have seen,
are not as good looking as the Indians,
though this country was originally popu
lated by them and there are now more
Malays than any other Asiatics except the
Chinese. The Malays live, as a rule, in the
poorest of one-story thatched huts, and there
is a Malay village within three miles of this
city which is passed on the way to the
steamers. It is the picture of poverty and
desolation. The Malays will not wort and
they live like savages. Slowly but surely
the Chinese are crowding them out of their
own country, and there are now 86,000
Chinamen here in Singapore. The popula
tion of the city is 139,000 and the Chinese,
the Indians and the Europeans do the busi
ness. Everywhere I go I find that John China
man is pushing his way to the front. "With
in the past fewyears the Chinese have begun
to emigrate, and the horde that came to
America had its counterparts in those who
went to Australia and who are now pushing
themselves into the various countries and
islands of the Pacific They gain a foot
hold wherever they go, and they make
monev where others starve. One of the
worst elements ol their emigration the
United States nas not yet felt, and that is
their inter-marriage with the women of the
countries to which they go. Siam is already
half Chinese and the Chinese are slowly
A Sling Beauty.
swallowing up the Siamese. It is the "same
here and it is the same everywhere. There
have already been inter-marriages of Chi
nese and Americans, and with the ability of
the Chinamen to make money there,I have no
doubt that in case they are freely admitted
to the United States we would in time have
a class of squint-eyed Americans. Tne Chi
nese here are rich. They have large estates
on the island, and one of the finest car
riages I have seen in Singapore was that of
a Chinaman.
An Independent Sovereignty.
England has already a strong "hold upon
the Malay peninsula, but among the tribes
of Malacca, which are not subject to her, is
that of Johore. Johore is bisrger than Mass
achusetts, and it is governed by a Sultan,
who has absolute power and who is one of
the few independent Malay rajahs still
living. I made an excursion to Johore last
week; visited the capital, and there met
this most noted Malay ruler. Leaving
Singapore at sunrise, our carriage was
driven-bv a Malay coachman, and- we"had a
gray-whiskered, bare-footed East Indian in
a red gown and turban as a guide.
"We drove for miles on a road as level as
the floor and as well kept as a race track,
through plantations of cocoannts and coffee.
"We first passed sreat estates with beautiful
grounds and wide drives, and then on out
into the jungle. The green cocoanuts hung
by the bushels in great bunches from the
top of tall palm trees, each of which was
from 50 to 100 feet high and with a trunk of
from 6 to 12 inches in diameter. The bark
was grayish-white and there were no leaves
to the very top, upon which the cocoanuts
grew, borne ol these groves had thousands
of trees and they all looked as though they
were drunken on their own milk. They
leaned in every direction, and the tops of
some seemed -to embrace those of others in
maudlin jollity. The coffee estates con
sisted of green bnshes about eight feet high
with many branches, and the coffe grows
close to the branch and the yellow fruit is
the size of small damson plums; each plum
contains two seeds, surrounded by pulp, and
these seeds are the coffee grains. They are
cultivated, and the estates showed that they
had been but lately plowed.
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"'Half way across the island our driver
stopped and changed the horses of our car
riage for a relay which had been sent on
ahead. Then the Malay Jehu whipped np
and we rode on through more villiages and
more jungle until we came to the straits of
Singapore, on the opposite side of whicn
was the main land and Johore. A Chinese
boat carried us across these and we were
landed at the wharf of the Saltan's palace.
A beautiful lawn of many acres slopes by
half a dozen terraces to the water's edge.
Above this lies the palace, which is reached
by winding drives, and awav to the right
shine the blue and yellow buildings of the
Malay TFbmen.
city of Johore, .which the Sultan has built
within the last few years for his capital, and
which he laid out in the original jungle.
The palace is a large, gray and white.two
story building with wide porticos and many
large windows looking out upon the water.
It is, perhaps, 200 feet long and at least half
that depth. Soldiers, in a costume half
European, keep guard in front of it, and
others in turbans march up and down
through its various corridors. Some of these
soldiers are olivcbrown Malays, others are
as black as ebony, and the officer who re
ceived my letters and took them in to the
Saltan was dressed in European clothes
with a Malay surong or skirt shining out
under his coat.
The Saltan of Johore.
After waiting a moment the Sultan him
self appeared, A tall, fine-looking, broad
shouldered, light-yellow man with gray hair,
black eyes and gray mustache. He wore a
suit of white duck with a lavender skirt
reaching to his knees, and with bracelets of
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solid gold rope as thick as your finger
aronndeach of his wrists. "There were dia
mond ringsotfjlis fingers, and he had a seal
brown plush turban cap on his head. He
spoke English perfectly, shook hands with
me cordially, and gave me a seat in an
American rocking chair in his audience
chamber while he took another one for him
selfat my side. He talked of the decadence
of the Malay people and said that the
Chinese made much better workers. He
needed them for the development
of his kingdom, and he was
glad to have their immigration.
He talked of his travels and .told me he
needed only to visit America to complete
his tour of the world. He had visited in
England and had been so well entertained
that he was always glad to give Europeans
a welcome when they came to his kingdom.
He had visited China and Japan, and while
in England he had gone one day to Liver
pool to see a lady friend off for America.
"I went down to the ship," said he, "and I
put my friend on board. It was only seven
days to New York, and had I remained I
might have visited your countrv. I am
very sorry I did not do so, for I think
America is great and your people are a
great and kind people. They give ns the
telegraph, the electric light, and they are
nt the front ininvention. I like them and
I have many friends in America."
A Wise Knler.
The conversation here turned to Johore
and His Majesty told me it was he who had
introduced coffee into Singapore, and that
hs was anxious to see his own kingdom be
come one vast' plantation. ""We have a'
coffee," said he, ''that will grow here, and
many foreigners are buying estates. I be
lieve in getting all you can off the top of the
ground, rather than digging up the mineral
wealth that lies under it. The whole Malay
peninsula has mines of tin and Great
Britain took from this region nearly ?8,000,
000 worth of tin ore last year. "We raise
pepper here, cocoanuts and gambier, a kind
ot a leal wmen is made into a tanning mix
ture, and which we ship to. all parts ol the
world. I have much fine timber in my
kingdom and I send ship loads of it to Cal
cutta, Australia and Europe."
The Sultan then asked me a question or
two about General Harrison, and then
showed us his palace. It contains many
large rooms all furnished in European style,
and hung with paintings in oilof the royal
family of .England. At -the "head of the
stairs leading to theball room there is a
fine full-length portrait of Gladstone, and
the drawing room contains some fine pieces
of statuary. After an hour's chat His
Majesty told me that he had an engagement
to go in his yacht about 40 miles up one of
his rivers to show some foreigners a coffee
plantation, and he gave me a cordial invita
tion to go with'him. Upon my asking to be
excused he said he was sorry he could not
postpone the appointment, but asked me to
take tiffin with him at the palace, and to ac
cept the use of his carriage in driving about
the capital.
A Ride With the Dnto.
He then, called a servant and spo'ke to
him in Malay. A few moments later a
fine-looking English gentleman of 50 ap
peared and I was introduced to Sato .Tamps
Meldrum, who is one of His Majesty's En
glish advisors and overseers. Dato is a
title and it means a little more than Sir
does in England, and I found the Dato a
very pleasant companion. With liveried
coachman and footman, we were driven,
with a spanking team, through the roads in
and about this little tropical city of Johore,
and I had a chance to learn considerable
about the kingdom. "We visited a sawmill
which would do credit to the pine regions
of Michigan, and which was steaming
away cutting great logs into boards on short
notice.
- "The Sultan,! said Jhe dato, -3s" the most
advanced man of his race. He is adminis
tering his Government on European princi
ples. He has a Council of State, a Depart
ment of Public Works, of the Treasury, of
Trisons, of Medicine and of Immigration,
under him. He has a Postmaster General,
a system of schools, of police, and a Gov
ernment printing office. He believes in the
development of his country, and his exten
sive travels and education, together with
his natural ability, make him a verv good
ruler. In religion he is a liberal Moham
medan, but in everything else 1 e is a
Enropean. He has a residence at Singa
pore as well as here, and he is always trav-
After a long drive and a visit at the
date's, after tiffin we were taken to His
Majesty's steam launch, and thus rode in
state across the straits, and thence in our
carriage back through the jungle to Singa
pore. Ekank G. Cabpeitxeb.
A SENATOfi' AND NOT HAPPT.
A Colorado Statesman Tell Bow His Life
Is Slado miserable.
Chicago News.
The Hon. Edward O. Wolcott, United
States Senator from Colorado, is very much
disgusted with the life which Senators are
expected to lead at Washington. The qual
ifications demanded in a United States Sen
ator are ostensibly of a high order.yet when
he reaches Washington, after years of hon
orable toil and earnest study, the Senator
finds that he is expected to devote a very
large share of his time to the performance
of menial and humiliating service. To the
neglect of matters of national importance,
he must dance perennial attendance upon
the departments and must constantly curry
favor with the Executive in behalf of the
few greedy office-seekers who claim the con
stituents' right to his time, to his labors.and
to his very thoughts. Forced by time
honored usages to become a mere machine
for the solicitation of patronage, the natural
and inevitable results area debasement of
dignity, a loss of sell-respect, an abandon
ment of all nobler ambitions, a neglect of
more important affairs, and an altogether
humiliating feeling of irresponsibility and
of shiftlessness.
"It is against these usages that Mr. Wol
cott protests, and against them he will rebel.
too, if he be the man that we believe him to
be. It is time that an end were made to the
practice of prostituting congressional talent
to the mean, sordid ends of common beggary.
Edward O. Wolcott is a brainy man, an
earnest man, a brave man, and a tenacious
man; he combines the elements of a suc
cessful reformer. We hope that he will
strike at this abominable heresy strike
hard, strike olten, and keep on striking un
til the evil is wholly and forever abated.
ALL OP ILLUSTKI0UB LINEAGE.
Each of D Can Claim Tlilrtj-Flro million
Noble Ancestors.
Baltimore Snn.1
Every man has 2 parents, 4 grandparents,
8 great-grandparents, 16 great-gieat-grand-parents,
32 great-great-gieat-grandparents;
etc " Sow, if we reckon 25 years to a gen
eration, and carry on the above calculation
to the time of William the Conqueror of
England, it will be found that each living
person must have bad at that time even the
enormons number of 35,000,000 ancestors.
Now, supposing we make the usual allow
ance for the crossing or inter-marrying
of lamilies in a genealogi
cal line, and for the same persons being in
many of the intersections of the family
tree, still there will remain a number at
that period even to cover the "whole Norman
and Anglo-Saxon races.
What, therefore, might have been pious,
princely, kingly or aristoratic stands side
bv side in line with the most ignoble, ple
beian or democratic. Each man for the
present day may be certain of having had
not only narons ana squires, but even
crowned heads, dnkes, princes or bishops, o
renowned generals, barristers,, physician!.
ELCf aiuuag ui3.aacesurs.
PITTSBURG-, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1889.
BEATJTY.AND HEALTH.
How to Keep the Complexion Soft
During the Spring Wind Season.
PACE AHD HAND BEADTIFIEES.
Some
Studies From Life That Women
Should Ponder Over.
LATESI NOTIONS ABOUT THE HALE
rwBrrrxjr tob ins mspj.Tcn.1 ,
A dozen correspondents wish to know how
to keep their complexions from growing
harsh anddry in spring winds, which are
very unkind in this climate. A dozen more
or less ask for the best all-around spring
medicine, and these may be answered to
gether, for, a purified skin will stand the
wind betteKthan one which is irritated into
Toughness and cracks from inward disorder.
Take taraxacum extract with mandrake
added (the druggist knows how to prepare
it), for the most thorough and gentle anti
bilious medicine, and treat yourself "after
this fashion: Brush your teeth and mouth
well on going to bed and getting up to keep
the acrid impurities from adding to the dis
turbance of the stomach, then take a char
coal tablet, a teaspoonful of powdered char
coal in water before dressing to give it time
to purify within. Take the taraxacum in
teaspoonful doses after each meal, and charcoal-magnesia
water or dissolved soda when
ever an acid taste forms in the mouth. This
acidity
BITINS TJIE COMPLEXION
and raises wrinkles and fine pimples. Wash
the face with hot water and tar soap, rins
ing well, and when-dry rub in a very little
vaseline, cold cream or fine oil before going
out of doors. Wipe gently to have a mere
film on the skin, not to be seen. Last of
all, before leaving the room, if the face
looks" at all shiny, rub it lightly with a
piece of dry flannel, which finishes the face
as sculptors finish their marble of statues to
take off the polish. The face will look soft
as if powdered after this treatment. The
hot water and vaseline will keep the skin
soft, spite of drying winds, and the taraxa
cum and charcoal bleach it, if one goes out
in the snnshine two hours a day beside.
Then veils must be worn windy days, not
dotted net which hurts the eyes, but clear
tissue of the thinnest kind. A" mask would
be better still if it were the fashion to wear
it. .
"Charlotte, "Wyoming," asks for a toilet
mask to wear at night to improve her face,
and wants to know if kid masks are advis
able? Kid softens the face, but is oppress
ive. A light mask is lately devised ot elas
tic tissue, no thicker than the skin, which
protects the faoe perfectly and bleaches it
quickly. It costs 1. For whitening the
hands there is really nothing like a long
wristed pair of gloves, loose enough to be
easily worn at night. Bub the hands with
cold cream, button the gloves snugly and
wear another pair with finger tips cut off,
by day as much as possible "till the skin
softens and refines.
Pray write again about anything, every
thing of the feminine toilet and don't make
excuses. I am writing now to answer ques
tions and tell people just what they want to
know. That's what I am here for. .
XO DEESS AHD KOI TO ,DEES3.
Watch the throngs of women passing on
any uptown thoroughfare and count the
numbijrjsrho are itherwell dressed-of haye
interesting faces. The rarity of such a pre
sentment gives one a fit of sympathy tor the
human race. Arejmen doomed to pass their
lives wi(h these dowdy, ungracious looking
women, and are children to reflect such faces
from their mothers? The well dressed women
look harassed, their daughters hard, self
satisfied and critical. As you study their
faces you cannot help the conviction that
the average person is a hopelessly ordinary
sort of being after all, and the quality of her
mind spread out for sale. Shopworn, rusty,
frayed, slea2y and faded to begin would,
hardly attract custom on a 3-cent counter.'
Try these women with the question of the
week, 'What do you think of the diamonds
at Tiffany's?" and see how many answer,
"Well, 1 don't know," to begin, and finish
their views by telling you which piece she
wonld prefer for a present Puerilities and
personalities are the fund of such women's
talk. Add to this the fatality into which
the average woman chooses the wrong thing
-to spoil the effect by some inharmonious de
tail, and you cease to wonder why men
speak ligbtiy of the intellect of women. If
she succeeds no better in her toilet, the one
specially feminine interest on- which her
luture and present depend, how is she to
cope With anything les3 familiar.
STRIKING SAMPLES.
( Take as a sample these observations,
actually made on Fourteenth street, New
York, within a week. No.,1, short, insig.
nificant woman, ereen "skirt and sealskin
sacque nearly to her knees, too long and too
big tor her; common black velvet bonnet,
red flowers, not good enough to wear with
such a cloak.
No. 2. Three stout women "weighing
at least 180 each, in tight slate blue dresses,
no cloaks. A stout woman makes a mistake
in crowding herself into her clothes and ex
posingiier embonpoint in full outlines. She
should wear as long a cloak as possible'ou
tbe street, of supple smooth cloth, with bor
dered fronts to 'give long lines to the figure,
but no.trimming on the lower edge to take
awav from the "height, and the bonnet
should be rather compact in shape, ot the
same color as the costume. Women do not
know what a harsh trying effect is given to
the toilet by a hat of different color, or what
a completeness it has when the hat corre
sponds. Above all, it increases the ap
parent heicht when costume and hat are
one color, and stout figures should take ad
vantage of this.
3. Stoutish young woman, looks as if she
held views on reforms, not a bad figure, but
rendered chunky by a light chestnut direc
tory coat, with lapping capes, and sharp
lapels, a distressfng ugly style, nnd spoil
ing to moSt figures. The olnmcinpca nf a
-costume ot good material was completed by
a stiff round hat, too young for the 30 years
of the wearer, the brim too narrow ior her
round face.
4. Young woman, tall and slim, jacket
too short, skirt in straight pleats, so that
she looked as if mounted on stilts. To accent
the steeple effect, her tourist hat with taper
crown had stiff bows several' inches higher.
Such a figure needs drapery, wide sashes, a
"well proportioned coat, giving due length
of waist, and a low, broad-crowned hat.
FACTS TO EEMEMBKK.
B. Stout young woman in fur cape, look
ing as if shoulders were a yard across.
6. Expensively dressed woman, em
broidered green cloth dress, black armure
cloak, showy passementerie, tan cloves,
rather soiled, jet bonnet with red roses.
Costume made no good impression because it
lacked unity, looked as if she went to her
wardrobe and pulled out what came first to
wear, no fitness, things not designed for
each other; a darK green plush mantle and
darker bonnet, or a black lace and velvet
one, with roses and rich foliage, gloves of
some dark shade would have made the toilet
remarked for its elegance.
7. Big young woman, clumsy in seal
.cloak, and large hat with five plumes, yel
low tan cloves. It shonlil h iin,lnriAl
among well-bred women that'large plumed
niws arc uever uj no seeu outside a carriage
city limits. They are solelv for driving
and out of town. In it they are conspicu
ous, demi-mondane.
I say nothing of the shoals of women,
young and not so young, wearing cheap
muslin violets in their dress, or the plumb
big girls who look a sight with a huge
jacqueminot rose and bud prominent on a
corsage already pronounced in its contours.
The homelier a woman was the more certain
to wear the poor little violets, which made
her look blner and skinnier than ever. But
one must wonder at the carelessness of
women about their gowns. One bright day
Twenty-third street seemed full of shabby
well-dressed women, wearing good clothes,
all in need of refreshing. Tbe fur cloaks
Bhowed rusty and worn on the edge, the
wool dresses and mantles looked as if they
were out in the last rain and needed brush
ins and nressinsr to make them trim atrain.
Very few women pay attention to this pro-'
cess as they ought, or hang their gowns in
roomy closets, but crowd them together
dusty or damp, as the case may be. I was
near a woman in silk dress and cashmere
shawl, in a shop this -week whose clothes
smetas if they were kept in a cheese press,
from hanging in a crowded closet with
soiled linen and ucaired nightgowns. Not
all the spices of Arabia could have sweet
ened herpreaence.
AIT ELEGANT COIITtJBE.
A welcome' variation of wearing the hair
is the Greek "fillet, confining the short'front
curls or the ""bandeau of tortoise shell or
silver. A more elegant coiffure can hardly
be devised, or a more convenient one. The
short recamier curls, too, will perhaps be
found so becoming to laces in general that
we may be spared the parody of bangs worn
by gray-haired women in every stage of
wrinkles and haggardness. What fiend of
the unbecoming ever possessed the feminine
mind to adopt this most trying and grace
less style for all ranks and ages, must re
main unknown, but the effect shakes one's
respect for feminine intellects in general.
Bangs are only tolerable on the freshest
rounded faces; on any others, they are a
caricature. The elderly woman, or one
leaving youth, should show the attention to
her toilet of parting her hair in front, show
ing the dignity of her brow, and softly curl
ing the hair in those short, feathery rings
winch indescribably -soften the features.
The rigid puffs which ladies of a certain age
used to wear gave a hard threatening efiect,
as if they had been rolled np on the ten
commandments for curl papers. It is the
hardest thing in the world to persuade a
woman to dress her hair becomingly. The
more unsuitable a fashion, in general, the
more wedded she is to it a fact of which
anyone may convince , himself by taking
note of the women of his acquaintance.
Several divorce cases I am persuaded might
be happily settled if the woman would only
take care of her teeth, and learn some art in
hair dressing and dressins herself.
Shibley Daee.
Note Shirley Dare will answer each week a
limited nnmber ot questions relating to the
cultivation and preservation of health and
beauty. Queries should be sent to the office of
this paper.
A MEEUI CENTNAKIAN.
At the Age of 115 He Teaches tbe Boys a
Tory Clever Trick.
Savannah NewsJ
There was a very old man from Meri
wether county in attendance at Pike Su
perior Court last week. He was feeble in
appearance, and, indeed, some of his old
acquaintances asked him his age.
"Well," he said, "if I live to see Febrn-'
ary31Iwill be 115 years old. Another
remarkable fact connected with mr con
struction is that I haven't a tooth in my
head," opening his mouth and pointing to
his smooth, toothless gums. He continued:
"I was born that way. Wonderful as it
may appear, my youngest son and eldest
daughter were born that way also."
The same old fellow, looking as if he was
standing at the other end of the corridor of
life, with till the gravity of over a century
hanging over him. derionslvsavsla.an.ac-
hjuaiBtanee, "YduThark u dollar and'give
it to me. and X will -put it with ohetf mine.
and you can't tell for the lite of you which.
one yon marked."
"You are mistaken," says the acquaint
ance, and the silver dollar is forthcoming,
marked and handed over. Then the grave
old man rattles it with one of his own and
pockets both.
"Give my dollar back," says the acquaint
ance. "No," interrupts the old man. "I said
that if you would mark a dollar and give it
to me you could not tell it from one of my
own that is, because I am not going to give
you a chance. Bemember, I did not ask
you to loan me a dollar, but give it to me;
you did so, and now I don't care to have
any joking."
The fellow grunts, and goes away with a
blank expression of countenance.
HARD TO D1SQDISB.
A Rustle Conple's Unsophisticated State
Apparent to Everybody.
Brooklyn Citizen.!
There sat opposite me in an elevated rail
road car, on Wednesday, a country clergy
man and his wife, accompanied by a lady,
living in Pranklin avenue, as I learned
by their conversation. IThe atmosphere of
rural roads and broad pastures enveloped
the couple, and filled the whole car in
which they were sitting. The picture of
the minister hanging over a barnyard gate
talking about the crops to a parishioner
among his cattle, involuntarily presented
itself to my mind. He knew" that he did
not have the bearing of a town-bred man,
but he did not care tor that. The sights of
the city were new to him, and he was going
to enjoy them. As the train left the De
Ealb avenue station and sped on to Greene,
he began talking 'about the car in which
he was riding, and his remarks attracted
the guard's attention. When the next
station was reached the guard put his head
inside of the door,and' looking directly at
the couple, called out, with significant em
phaois: "Greenel"
With a smile as calm as if he had been
asking after the health of -some "sister's"
children7the minister ceased speaking of
the car long enough to remark:
"Even that man knows we are green."
The three left the train at the next sta
tion. A WONDERFUL T0ILTLE.
ItBitnn IneliFlnnk in Two Alter Its Head
Wan Cut Off.
Henry County (Ga.) Times.
A turtle weighing 88 pounds was caught
in Walnut creek Monday by a party of
fishermen. Its head was as large as a dog's,
And when cut off snapped in two an inch
plank, which Air. HcKibben placed in its'
mouth. Its shell measured 28x18 inches,
and will bold nearly a bushel. There will
be a turtle soup supper given at this office
on next Saturday night. Admission 25
cents. Proceeds to go toward purchasing
"snake bite" for the PiscatOrfal.Club.
"We hope everybody will come out and
make the occasion a pleasant and profitable
one. Jlit Turnipseed is putting rockers on
the shell and it will be raffled off at 10 cents
a chance. Those with little ones should not
fail to attend and get a novel and lasting
crib.
AMERICANS AS SM.0EERS.
Oar
People Conmmo Nearly Twice as
lUacli Tobacco n Europeans,
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
According to population, Americans con
sume nearly twice the amount of tobacco
that is consumed by Europeans. This
comes of the.great smoking of tobacco in the
form of cigars. In cigar smoking there is
only a partial combustion of the tobacco.
The tobacco in a cigar would load an ordinary
pipe four or five times. There is another
thing to consider. Cigar-smoking is very
expensive compared with indulgence in the
pipe. The habitual smoker .who 'buys the
cheapest cigars could, for the same money
provide himself with the best and costliest
pipe-smoking tobacco.
HE; THE HISTORIM.
He Describes the Bise and Fall of the
Great Mormon Empire.
THE BAKlNe POWDER DESERT.
A Bright, Early, hut Erratic Light of Mor
mon Journalism.
BIOGBAFfll OF BIG-NOSED GEOEGE
rwsrm&t fob thb dispItch.1
IN the spring
of 1847 Presi
dent Brigham
Young started
from Omaha by
full team from
Utah. He had
113 picked men
of marriageable
age and great
versatility, also
8 of the 12 jjpos
tles. These apos
tle were plain
men with thick
set whiskers and
a great yearning to resemble some of the
tough element described in the Bible. They
wanted to inaugurate somewhere a church
which should be self-supporting and en
courage the social instinct to a remarkable
degree. Their chief ambition was to organ
ize a paying church, wherein the elders
would not have to rely upon donations, and.
wherein also the Old Testament idea of
home might be carried out So they hitched
up their cattle and steered their caravan
toward the West, over "sage and salaratus,
across unbridged rjvers and 'through
mountain defiles" which became still more
so as the troupe approached them.
Discovering the Great Salt Lake Basin,
they returned across the baking powder
desert, and on the 23d of December, at
Council Bluffs, issued their epistle recount--ing
the disagreeable repulsion from Nau
voo, the fortunate discovery of the "Valley
of the Jordan of the Great Salt Lake, and
recommendinir a reorpanfz.Tt!nn nf the
-drarch- byr selecting a president, vice presi
dent, umpire ana corresponding secretary:
Mr. Brigham young, a rising young red
whiskered man, who combined the philan
thropical instincts of Jay Gould with the
keen social instincts of the Duke of Marl
borough, was chosen president.
IN" -WESTEE QUABTEKS.
The gang then went into winter quarters
on the hanks of the soiled Missouri.
The winter quarters were situated upon
the lands belonging to the Omaha Indians,
who felt sorry for the Mormons. Some of
the holes in the ground where the saints
lived are still visible, although they were
dug 43-years ago. A newspaper called the
Frontier Guardian was then published by
Elder O. Hyde. Prom it I make a few
excerpts:.
The Apostles will hold a meeting next week,
Friday, at the Backet or Blood Saloon for
a general conference and interchange of
thought.
Elder Kimball will add another story to his
residence next week by digging It seven feet
deeper.
President Yonng was feeling quite rocky all
last week and thinks he Is about to have an
other revelation. Should such be the case, our
readers may rely upon the Guardian to atnnm
correct the spelling and print it at an early
date.
Brother Blakcslee, who was unfortunately
and fatally wounded in a watermelon patch be
fore leaving Nauvoo, died yesterday In his dug
out, which be had facetiously named Fernl-hurst-on-the-Missouri.
Funeral services on
Saturday at his former residence, after which
his furniture will be removed, also everythin"
but Brother Blakes'ee and Fernlhnrst will be
filled up.
Of course the above meagerlv showthe
character of the paper, but it was said to be
newsy, bright, spicy, and at times, comic.
In the early history of Omaha, the first
successful club organized for mutual benefit
was called the Claim Club.. The object of
this club was, according to its preamble, to
better protect those who had good and prior
claims to lots and lands.
The Claim Club met upon call of the
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president, and was addressed at times by
men who were selected by the club as thor
oughly worthy. These, after-dinner orators
stood on a barrel, while addressing the club
and at tbe close of the speech the barrel was
generally kicked out lrom under them,
leaving them supporting their weight en
tirely by means of their neck. But all law
less acts of claim clubs were afterward at
tributed to special clubs who ran an im
promptu bnsiness, something as the White
Caps do now when they want to whip a
woman and are afraid to do so single
handed.
EAELY JOURNALISM.
The Arrow was the first Omaha newspaper.
It started out July 28, 18M. It was devoted
to the arts, sciences, letters, climate, re
sources, agriculture, mean temperature and
politics. Mr. J. E. Johnson was the busi
ness manager, and had four -wives beside.
It is needless'to say that he was a mad of
great ability. All day he wonld manage
the paper and thep, weary and exhanste'd,
take up the taskof successfully managing
his four soul's idols. He,, also practiced
law. Incidentally he ran a blacksmith
shop and preached. He was an insurance
agent, and kept a general store. On s
cold day he would frequently, while
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.'drawing-ji gallon of molasses, shoe a
bronco mule, write a sermon'' on humility
and whip a wife. He would then put up
the .molasses, wipe his fingers on his
whiskers, and write an editorial entitled,
"We Have Come to Star." He temained in
Omaha and Council Bluffs until one day he
saw a man enter the store wearing a new
silk hit. The next morning Mr. Johnson
sold put his varied interests and went to
Salt lake City, where he became the head
of several more families.
His wonderful versatility in matters of
business was obtained by driving a bobtail
car on .Forty-second street. New York.while
quite young, during which time he had to
drive a skittish horse.make change with his
teeth, whipjthe newsboys off the rear plat
form and shove snow off the track at the
same time. Mr. Byron Beed has the
Arrow complete with the exception ot No. 6.
Mr. Pattison was the editor. He was also
a successful obstetrician and undertaker,
which frequently gave him a scoop over his
rivals fn Chicago. His "Salutatery," as
Mr. N. C. Barrow, the able associate editor
of tb,e Boomerang, used to say, starts out as
follows:
"Well, strangers, friends, patrons and
the good people generally, wherever in the
wide world your lot may be cast, and in
whatever clime this Arrow may reach you;
here we are upon Nebraska soil, seated upon
the stump nf an ancient oak, which serves
for an editorial ehair, and the top of our
badly abused Jjeaver lor a table, we purpose
editing the .4rrotc." He then took another
drink.
Pattison was of a romantic mold and was
married under a large tree dnriug a heavy
thunderstorm. I do not know why he did
this. .
A. SOUMTTIi -WTtlTES.
He wrote some real touchful things, one
of which was called "A Night in Our Sanc
tum." It. went on to state that there was
more joy in one moment of the glad, lree,
unlettered life in the prairie than a thou
sand years in the bosom of civilization,
weaving suspenders and putting dinner off
till alter dark. He laved to commune with
nature and chew maroon plug tobacco. He
scorned therToar and bustle of the crowded
cities like Dubuque, and yearned to nes
tle in the wild wood and listen to the chip
munk's honest bark. He turned up his
nose at New York and the other settlements.
and ,wanted to just lie back in tbe lap of
nature ana live on ner relatives.
Btrhow changed! Where once the loud
cry bf the, contending warriors, the ever
warring clans of the Sioux and the Omaha,
clove the air, well dressed men, between tbe
nets, come in and clove the air. Where
once there were no luxuries whatever, now
we rode on an electric train which does the
rapid transit from one extreme of Council
Bluffs.tb the further extremity of Omaha.
Where once was heard -the hiss of the
arrow as it sped on its way to the middle
of a white man who" was looking
the other way, now all is changed.
"Where there- were once no resi
dences, to say nothing of hotels, I
visited a town in interior Nebraska last
week where they had a good hotel with
matches in the office. "What do jou want
it for?" asked the landlord when I said I
wanted a match. I said I had just chopped
some wood and wanted to start a fire
in my room if he wonld let me have a match
that he was not using. Then he took a key
out of his pocket, blew a grain of wheat out
of it, and, looking at me with a keen, search
ing glance, opened a drawer in his desk and
got me'a blue-headed match.
Omaha has some good hotels, but good
cooking it the last thing to penetrate into a
new country; and especially at hotels.
The first theatrical entertainment ever
Nye Earnestly Pleads Jot a Match,
given in Omaha was in 1860, at tbe old
Herndon House, now tbe Union Pacific
headquarters. The company had no scenery,
becanse it was not on a regular professional
tour, so the manager borrowed a bolt of
muslin from Tootle & Jackson's store and
made a curtain, allowincr the same back
ground to figure in all the scenes.
Later on an "Uncle Tom's Cabin com
pany, provided with a blind bloodhound
and a deathbed, plaved there to good busi
ness. Omaha has always been 'gentle and
kind toward rocky shows. I have been
there twice myself.
A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
My attention has only recently been called
to tbe discovery madu by a Dr. Motschul
kowsky, etc., of Odessa, in the State of Eu
rope, 'o"t a new method for treating spinal
troubles by means of suspension. Dr. Lewis
A. Sayre has also been accredited with the
inventiou of the apparatus by which the pa
tient is so suspended as to straighten and
eloncnte the spine.
I hope it may prove successful, and in the
future be so perfected as to afford great re
lief to those who suffer in this way, but it
did not work with us years ago, when we
tried it on a patient known as Big Nosed
George.
B.N.George was a somnambulist, and
had been for years. A somnambulist, and
troubled with color blindness, so that time
and again he would be found somewhere
wandering around in the night, also en dis
habille, riding a pirato horse, when his was
a black. Color blindness and somnambu
lism got Big Nosed George into several of
"'these scrapes, till at last it occasioned talk,
and some people came to speak to him about
it. It was then that he got his.back up, and
in order to reduce this spinal curvature,
some acquaintances tried this suspension
method.
Possibly it was carried to excess, or then
.again, bis overshoes might have been too
heavy. Anyhow, when a man went back
there a day or two -afterward to ask George
if the draught was too strong for him, or if
his head seemed to be high enough, he was
shocked to find that B. N. George was no
more.
People who make scientific experiments
that wav cannot be too carefnl. Big Nosed
George left a wife and four small children.
Also a wife and two smaller children. He
left tbem about two years before his death.
A Western paper at the time of the acci
dent said: "We were in error about the
brilliant meteor seen night before last at
about 11 o'clock. It now proves to have
been the bugle of Big Nosed'George, who
at that time ascended a telegraph pole by
means bf his neck." Bill Ny e.
Listen co tbe Mocking Bird.'
Leary, Ga., Courier. 1
When a mocking bird perches upon the
topmost twig of a tree, on a sunny day,
winds up his music box and turns himself
loose, it is mighty fine music that he makes.
The man who would kill a mocking bird is
a savage. The world needs all of its mock
ing birds, its sunshine aud flowers. The
way Is lonely enough even with them. It
is proper io remark, however, that this sug
gestion may be the resqlt of disordered edi
torial Hver.
Bkecham'3 Pills cure sick headache.
Peaks' Soap, the purest and best ever i
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WASHINGTON RELIGH
Artistically Arranged at the Ceitei-l
nial Loan Exhibition.
6AUDI APPAREL OP PATE10TS.N
flow a XeirTorlr. Gentleman SanagwU'
Make Fairs Fay WelL
FOMTEESTOB EXHIBITION PB03C0TIM
icossxsroirpxxcs or THZcisrATca.v
New York, April 27.. The city- is feaee
in along itsmain streets with stands for the
centennial, and we are only anxious that
there may be hooks enough to hang up all
thefe strangers who come or the great oeca-1
siob The sense of thronging humanity,
the hum, the pressure for a week past haa
been almost intolerable to sensitive people,
and" when it is over ordinary city life by
contrast will seem the quiet of a village.
Bnt first, there will be four days of en
thusiasm, enough to try the endurance of a
strong man. Pour miles of pageant, the
flower of our armies East and West, the
lads from West Point and Annapolis, a
show of politicians, which counts with
some people for a good deal, the mile of
troops marching buoyant to martial music,
and a stir of patriotic memories and intense
national and family pride, which will lift
those lour days far above common life. The
grand feature of the time next to the
sight of soldiery, which is for many the
one grand and moving spectacle in the
world, will be the great chorus of German
musical societies one evening in Union
square, singing in the open air. For once
music takes its place in a patriotic festival,
and it will be something to dream of and re
member. Much if not most of the best ef
fects of the centennial will be due our Ger
man artists and musicians. For two months
over a dozen or the best German artists,
sculptors and decorators have been working
together on the designs for the parade which
will bring in review a succession of histori
cal scenes in all the spirited grouping in
which modern German art excels.
THE CENTENNIAL LOAN EXHIBITION,
now open, is curious in old papers and
medals, the various paintings of "Washing
ton and Revolutionary leaders and a large
collection of beautiiulold family silver.
If not the famous Fairfax candlesticks,
tall, fluted and wreathed,.their duplicates
are here in company with broad. low bed
room candle holders with long porringer
handles which kept the melted wax from
dropping on silk stockings and nankin
breeches, or satin gown, as my master and
mistress sailed off to thir chambers.
Handsome dessert stands of pierced silver
and some old saltcellars in silver and rock
crystal are fit for my lady's toilet in grace
and design. In those days housekeeping
was not so ambitious of artistio effects or
extravagance as it is now, but everything
was becoming and in a certain intimate
keeping not always apparent to-day, when
it seems as if the best of ns were living in
other people's houses in a masquerade.
Lady Washington's favorite snuff-colored
satin in perfect preservation has tbe square
neck and directory cut of to-day, the bodice
'crossed by plain satin straps, and tbe sleeves
of the plainest coat shape, suiting a well
rounded arm. The suit Washington wore
at his inauzural is rich snuff-colored groa
grain, severely plain, which must have
looked very handsome with yellow lace ruf
fles. The sword he wore at the same time
was pointed out to me by one of the descend
ants of Washington, a gentleman whose
family likeness was unmistakable. It was
a nice point of feeling that Washington,
chose on tbe proudest dar of his life to wear
the sword given him by his tried friend and
comrade, Governor William Darr, who wa
with him at Braddock's defeat.
GAUDT COUET SUITS.
But John Adams, that sturdy patriot and
polished gentleman, who was always writing
his wife abont bringing np the children to
austere economies, must have indulged his
warm fine natural tastes in his court suit,
which remains in rich brown plush with
waistcoat and lapels of cream satin with
borders in marvelous flowered embroidery
hardly known at the present day. Honest
John must have been every inch a minister
in that suit, "to the Queen's taste" then and
now. John Jay's white satin vest and coat
of chintz velvet is more the fancy of a man
who had many suits and could indulge bU
taste. I don't know much of human nature
if these elegant suits do not awaken in soma
bl the dashing men of to-day a desire to see
now they can carry off such bravery, and it
is very certain that they can do it with a
grace. The portrait of handsome Alexander
Hamilton, wbom artists seem never tired of
painting, only needed court dress to look:
the very peer of his great kinsman, the
Dnke of Hamilton, who, you will remem
ber, like his Atlantic namesake, falls in a
duel with my Lord Mohun, it you Jiava
read your Henry Esmond as yon should.
THE CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL FAIE, -
in aid of the Homeopathic Hospital, is the
lasnionaoie success oi tne time, which is
due to the intelligent management. The idea
came to a clearheaded man of easy fortune
to devote his taste and talent to getting np
fairs much as an opera manager organizes
his season, with the exception that this cul
tivated, polished gentleman gives his time
without a dime in exchange, save the ar
tistic pleasure of designing pretty scenes for '
fashionable dames to figure in and coax the
shekels out of society's pocketbooks. In
the last six years this gentleman has man
aged 42 different fairs, notably, the German
Hospital fair last winter, which brought
5112,000, the Montefiore Fair in 1886,
which made (158,000, the fair at
the Hotel Brunswick, which made
52,000 "for the Training School
for Nurses in two days. What impressario
can make such a showing as this? When
Mr. A. B. de Frece opens a fair, it is sure
to be so pretty and so taking that one can't
avoid wanting to spend money on.it, it
seems like a favor to be allowed to do so,
and if I give time to the details of this Cen
tennial fair it is with an eye to the shrewd
women elsewhere, who will be too glad to
know how such things are done in society.
Names are not wanting with Mrs. Chauncey
Depew as President of the fair. Hon. Levi
P. Morton as Vice President, Colonel
Crugar and Mr. Coudert, who is quoted as
the finest authority on etiquette in New
York, Mayor Grant aud Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, and CO more companionable to
these.
ATTBACTITE FEATURES.
Four floors of the Pot tier and Stymus
building are taken for the fair. There is a "
cafe on the street floor where gentlemen
make a point of taking dinner. Next floor
are the stands of fancy articles, where Mr.
De Frece's fancy asserts itself by giving
each booth the name of a flower and decorat
ing to suit. The confectionery is sold at the
violet stand, with canopy of violet bunting,
supports trimmed with violets, and all the
paie purple boxes of candy tied with ribbons
to match and a knot of violets on the top.
The buttercup booth and the water lily
booth are as pretty in their way. and when
the room is lighted, full of ladies in even
ing dress, Lord Fauntleroy, in velvet and
long curls, selling flowers, and half the good
company in New York there, it is a prettier
scene than any of the theaters can show.
The children have a floor to themselves,
where toboggans slide down loads of candy
and toys, and some entertainment is give
each alternoon. Pretty little denude Puri
tans in blue-gray gowns, with clear muslin
coifs, pinners and aprons and buckled shoes,
viry the s(?ene with boys in blue and bufT
Continentals, or picturesque fair frls in
gray velvet frocks who sohelkcontrinutions
mutely in alms baskets. It is- charming
and takingaad money making to the last
degree.
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