Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1880, Page 10

10 VEMBER 4, Les: WHLVES PAGK WESTERN FARM-LIFE, . ‘Refutation of an Erroneous State- ~ ment in the ‘Atlantic ~ Monthly.” How Farmers’? Families Do Live in Indiana, Hitnols, and F a Michigau. Their Prevailing Condition That of Easy and Generous Comfort. ” ‘How Mrs, Seabright, the Represente- tive of n Class, Passcs Her Days. J Ta the Editor of ‘The Chieaga THbune, Kexpanuvinin. Ind, Nove Le-le who rouds noueh aud thoughtfully ust often be rentinded of a eertaly fing chapter of Fielding’s, to which he elves: the quaint tite of An oxsay to prove that an author will wilte the better for havhut some knowledge of the subject anon which he writes.” + Jn the idlentle Monthiy tor August, 1880, Titnd an article entitled “An Enatishwoosan in the New England Hill-Coantry.” Itatives © stransce focal pleture, the graphie truthtul- nesg of whieh Ede not presume to questions but, when the writer proceeds to compare the narrow locality which: bas had the honor of her nersonal observation with other pirts of ourcountry concerning which she Is less aceurately well-informed, s Xto THE Enno upon which the great novelist saw fit to nse jnentioned, "The picture this 2 presents Is nota Jovely one, On the contrary, It shows up contition of life whieh, for stolid anprogres- slvenoss, profanity, poverty, and rigorous Nmitation of every kind, £ have never seen equaled, exeept nan Isolited settionent of homesteaders on the plng-barrens of North Michigan, We nre told of 1 people who have ‘nelthor wealth nor enterprise; where there “ts “no love of Mfe In itself, amt very Ittle enjoyment but what ean be snatehed between two wheels of work, slowly grinding the Inborer.” ; Afterwards comes this. remarkable state- ment: “ By comparison with the average South and West, the most primitive New- England tfe is one of tuxury and retine- ment’? ‘The South may muke Its own tlefense. Touching the West, I desire to of- fer'n brief ‘stutement of facts, ‘The average West may, L think, be fairly represented by the States of ‘ INDIANA, ILLINOIS, AND MICITOAN, Over these States L have traveled, and from one of them I write. : ‘They are nmong the newer States, Within the memory of many now Iving, they de- serfbed the Far, West of the Union, — Each has a history dating back to the old days of the French missionary and trader; but they have been developed from Nature's wild- hess Into one,of tho grandest farminy region’ - of the world, Inside of fifty years, The early settler in Indiana buaght his Jand at Government gale, paylag for a quarter-sec- .tlon about $200, "This usunily left him with little else In the world but his ax. With this he made war upon the mighty forest; and the dauntless determination with which he exposed nere atter avre of the strong black , Foil to tho sun, mid plucked his brend from between the thiek stubble of stumps, de- serves the name of herolsm. ‘The Ullnois settler ninst needs ben ittie more fore: “handed, He ninst have cnough left atter paying for his land to bay that hereulean th picment, a prairie sud-plow, and the elght or tem to move it. L fancy he hardly , ay he turned those billowy fur- what a uiine of weallh Nhe uneoy: Yhis prairic soll fs. something marve When dry, tt Isa dork powder of atinost In- palpable tneness; when wet, lois a tarry wastes ANH Hs strength bs practleally Inex- miustibie, ‘Chere are fields ia Tinoeis upon wiileh corn has been relsed, season after sere 60n, for thirty-five years, without having had a pounlorany khid of fertilizer used upon them; and the Inst crop was as goud as the rst. Tn Tudiana and Southern Michigan the Jand Is divided up INTO SMALL FATMS,— Jots of 160 ant 80 nereg being the m now ‘There are 9 creat many 40-nere faring, less number of 200 0 wille in avery tow r threes Wealthy men owt- ing SO), 100, or i 600 acres, “The soil Is > ich, though not heavy, and produces the finest wheat on the Continent. ‘The standurd ot Minnesota ant Michigan wheat is known the world over; but it may not be so general- » dy known that meh of the wheat raised in Northern Indiann is sold abroad under the gmne: brands, In addition to wheat, corn and other grains, with cattle, fruit, poultry, butter, and ezezs, are shipped from this region { to New Y In great quantittes. We sutfer the uswal exigencies at ellmate common to our latitudes but people who have ved here since the first settlement of the country as surt that there has never been a general fail- ure of craps, from any cnuse, slnee crops Were first raised here, f course, such a thing as poverty, strictly speaking, * CANNOT NE FOUND, -‘Thero are farmers who call themselves poor; but they are only so by comparison, hey ean fry their bacon fin butter, and drink green tea three tines a diy, it they Want to dose, ‘There are the usial number Who would like to spend more money thin they can make, and who are consequently offen i atltteatttys tut ready to bewall as poverty a condition which the hil-eountry: people, about whom we have heen reading : ko dntieh, would doubtless affluence, Ready, money Is abundant throughant this vart of the West, and women haye it as well austen, “The latter set) the grain, hay, wid live-stock, and pocket the prio; iin the furnier’s Wife has all she ean mike out of fruit, poultry, butter, eges, and tard. One: won of ny aequalntanee hitely purehased andl pall fora handsome [tue pliaeton for der own driving, out of her savings from te pence fits hiya “The forms in UW inols are usnatly targer— those of WO inl g00 aeres being mi Tinea * gon. AS fh cousequence there are moro Jarnlahorers there who have no tenureupan the hand they work; and, while the ageres | gate wealth of a county may be as great as “7 re creator than one of the aie slze in Tadd ane can boast, the number of its poor peaple tof is ulsa Wkely to be greater. ‘The tnprovi dent and the yielous ay bo found every. where, They ntialy became — pnblle rees, nud-are eared for elther aa pane pers or. erhutils, | But | the. prevalling condition of the farming population of the West, at this: present wilting, is: that of EASY AND GENEROUS COMFOIT, ‘They do thelr hard work in its season, with romptness ind dispatch, and: ars able and Willa to take aoecadional loliday ‘anit enjoy tt. ‘Lhe patronage witich the Conten- wal Exposition received frou tho country Jolk of the West would: Hself dispose of the . dation that, as oA people, they are olther patning farmer's women of poor, stony Sngland! Lhave one su my infial’s eye MRS, SEAMIIGHT,— and she represents a class, Let us look at one of her days, Jn summer sho Is usually the first one in the house turise Hugh Seabright always SAYS? 2 ‘ “What's the hurry this morutng, Hannah? Then rolls over on his face, with lls strong arm thrown abroud, and ivsuriating, in the Increase of room, delberately falls asteep neain, Passing through the stiting-room, she stops ut the door of the stairs and calls: Ati) waken David, and get up quick, both of you." “Yes, mother,” is the prompt response, “we're upy be down ha minute. And presently down they come, and out to tha barn ta feed and do the chores. fH is really quite early, and Mrs, Seabright likes to din tittle thing or two, ke stiffening up the bread-sponge. which has been set over whcht, before anyone else ts around. A Vigorous ratty of the stove-Its brings Se manth Diss, the hired girl, vpon the scene, She makes the kitehen fire, then “voliars”” two bright thy pails, ant oes out todo the tillkings Andrew somethines helps her Mrs, Seabright gets the breakfast. ‘The hor elithdren--Harrlet, aged 12, and three yaller ones—ot - nnd, {1 response to mother’s bris ys around, diihter ew | wiht find their way tute rind homes tn abundance. Unt what hope ts there for the esthetle future of thls veglon so lon as the cheap musie-teasher, the enlarger of photos rphs, and the chromo-pedidler are alidwed io ravage the tnd unmolested? Never, by ony chance, will you tind {1 these elenn, cuzy farm-horses n good stect engraviny, ar even n cheerful wood-eut, framed and hung up to rest the eye upon sy Unt enlarged photos graphs,—hidcoits distortions of the Intnan face,—ond chromos which are an outtage upon every tnw of form: and colon wytare upon you form the spotless walls, ‘Then there fx the pnrlor-organ, and the daughter of the house must play for you; nnd yor ster with nm fixed and stony siulle, praving for dellyeranee or deafness, till ‘allenee, like @ poultice, comes to hel the Dlows of sound.) We are told that in Ger- many nobody “plays a little” L could wish that the doctritie mlght bo inenulented here that little innsic isn dangerous thing. The thie has already arrived when our State begins to feel the want of ° THE PROPERTY OF EXPANSION to necommodate the Increase of population, ‘The young man inst not he blamed for leay- ing the farm when the far is not large enough te aford constant and profitsble ene ployment to himself aud his brothers. With Us. many young men are turnlng Uelr atten- P tion to duerehandising and the professions, Harrlet helps dhe iittle ones wits thelr wash- | Some try their luck in Chicaza, Same ga te rg ant dressing, and sets the breakt Ravan ns, Where find ean still be table, Last of all, Seabsight makes his ap- at Goverment rates, The express poarnnce, unl, while he finishes bis toilet at | business and the railroad frelzht and tele the Kitchen sink, nis wite gives hina hurry graph offices utferd, employment to some, ing and scotding, whieh, from Jong acqsiaint- | One by ane the old) farmers: bay themselves: au vith its tones aud accents, and a& sure | homes fe the nerrest town or village, and knowledae of the soft, warm heart: that | leave the farm to the management of one or prompts it, iy tore Of the children, ‘They employ their MUSIC TO HIS VERY BOUT. thie and surplns means ty varios: y After breakfast the children must be got | G2e starts a briek-yard or atile-factor: rendy for sehool, and the, dlaner-basket. other buys an fnterest’ ina steam-nlll of ed, "Why don't you have them come nome somes sort; and stil another takes wp tho business of buying eattle and sheep, und ship- for thelr dinner?” you ask; “tha sehoul- house ts so neat,” ping thent East. Thy wheel of change turns round, and, Oh? they late so to spare the tine from thelr noon-pluy; and then Udo fust as soon Whuitever its revolutions bring, our peaple will never he Sound tacking in fertility Of ree srlyye Seelork, | sairee and adaptability to. elremmstanees, wut dave ie bother ge ron ae 13% Blanks Muy the stn of prosperity, whieh now shines luncheon, L know Pre. si for us with noonday splendor, never go down butter enough, if it wag all i “ich from bere ta ‘Texas,’ upon our beloved West! to re ANGELING TEAL ‘The forenvon fall of work ‘ Scabright, She $e CENSUS RETURNS. Wealth, Debt, and xatlon of the State of Winconsin—The Citlos of New York and Brooklyn, Wasninotox, Oct, 29.—Tho statistles of wealth, debt, and taxation of the State of Wisconsin, the first Stute tuple of this kin completed at the Census Bureau, was to-day made publle by Mr. W. R. P. Porter, the spe- elul agent in charge of that branch of the census work, ‘The report shows that the ns- sessed valuation In the State of Wisconsin is a3 follows: ” . Veal estate, Personat property for Mrs, Kins a lot of initk, ant ehurns vlght or ten pounds of butter. and puts it In the cooler to harden. She attends to baking that bread, nnd stirs up a ginger- eake for supper, and makes wn linge apple- cobbler with witeht crust, tobe eatin with cream for dinner's dessert, Semantiin iy not Idle meanwhile, tor there ore the dishes and ollisslinies, and finally the churn, to wash and seald; vegetables to prepure for dinne and chamberswork to do. Dinner is over by hulf-past 2. ‘The boys and hired men lounge aivhile on the grass wider the tress, Set bright goes Into the dusky sittIng-room for a nop on the lounge, Mrs. sits down by her favorit: kitehen-window,—-the one with the morning-glories over It—and procecds to work the buttun-loles ina pair of new over- ols tor David. An hour passes: the hoys have gone to thelr work, and Seabright comes, out and looks at the clock, ILfs wife glances Up with the reunrkt “How terribly lazy you're getting, Hugh, and what an exiumple you're settles the boys!’ ‘fo which hes Z ty exampio isn’t for them to follow now, RUT WHEN THEYRE 50 YEARS OLD, if they can afford it then as well ag Lean.’ Hels standing near hls wife, watching her needle fy Inand out around that Ditton hole. Au car of-com Hes on the whnlow- sill; she picks it up and hands It to hia, say- nr » “Take that and cateh Bet for me, While you are about it, you may harness her to the re ‘ HAIL, and fetch therig up hereto the tte, Ife takes the corn obediently, and starts; at the duor, he stops and asks: © Where in the world ean you be racing off to this afternoon?" ‘Chis berating sort, of Way has become a hablt with them; but there is a ring of playfulness and affection through it ath “don’t Intend to race much: but Fanny Burbeck told me last Sunday at ehured that she'd have a big pleking of raspberries ripe by to-day, and if 1'd come over 1 night bring wpaliful home? eb and the rockaway are at tha door, SUA TRS 781 DAE IAL Totnl assessed vulnation...... f The estimated true value of the real estate nevording to the calenlations anade in the Census OMlee is 350: 3. Novsthnate lias Yet been made on the true value of personal property, nor will this be done until the farming, Industrial, and trade statisties are completed and on file in the Census Ullice, PURLIC DENT, Under the head of “ Public Debt” tho re- Staty for which bunds have been el Aegregates $2,080,160; tluating debt, $212,035, the total Indebtedness, bonded and floating, of the elties of a population of 7,400 and up- ward, ainonnts. to $3,010186—the flouting $1935. ‘The following Is_a table of the Whe consin citles of over 7,500 and thelr total ludebtedness: 2 rH Ret Www ttaeine 185,00] June: SShhWu) Sheboygan Watertown, eh 135,00] Appleton La Urusse,, TOR. cecssecseereeresceseee vere: ‘The bounded debt of eities, town AUIS TS villages Mrs. Seabright slips out of her dark print | &e., of less Ua 7,590 population mmounts ti Into her ght glagham, and drives off for an ithe Hoating debt to Ssus80,- "The district debt of the Sixty aindunts to S2iG,506, making a total of all Indebtedness of $0,609,007, atternoow’s chit and berry-pleking with her favorit neighbor, She gets hone In tine to jouk over a Jarge dish of berries for the stp per-lable, whiel Swamanthn law neatly Iles and, while dot it, she nds out by rapld Inquirles If the batter has. been worked over and pa 3 the spotted calf took Its intl wh rhelity if the exes live been gathered fn, and the bhie-toppy penned up fnthe set Png hens! coop. At the supper-table Sea iene Ba , “If you wasn't ail tired out with gadding, Hannah, Pd hiteh up the blacks, and weld G0 AND NAA THE SPEECH TO-NIGHT, Buttey's bowihl to zo to Congress this: fall, aud is making some strong speeches,” “Tred? sald Hannaly ? Lm not thred at all,—but 1 expect tho blacks are.” “No, we've been hand-enttiIng the wet strip down fn the hollow, and the teatn’s hud arrest, Tues wo'll gu.’? Tilve in the suburbs of the town where Thlfey speaks, andl saw them drive in’ half an hour ngo—Andrew and Samantha on the back seat. Not tho Seabrights only, but fiultes ; el anele nelatbors’ fotntten, nll OF POPULATION. eughing and talkiicg, bn high govd-humor, In the proseention of the investigation b; over the prospect of hearing tha speech and | witeh Mr, Parter urrived nt tie trite calne the band, and seeing the crowd, of the real estate In Wisconsin he shows that This has been an average day with Mrs. | clustering uronnd the shores of Lake Mich!- Seabright. Some days are caster, when she | gan, within'the borders of sevantyen out of gets an hour at her sewing before dinner, | ue ‘sixty-two counties of the Sta le, is over and inltates her tisband about napping In | half the population of. the entire State, Lo- the afternoon, Then, too, she bas harder | eated.dn Mila eae of the country are the days, whet she Is on the go from daw | thriving Industrial contres of tho Stute-- disks when she sits dawn and declares, 08 | Milwatkee, with its 160,000 fntahitantss she puts her feet inte a warn bath, that they | danesville, with the fine water-power of Ue are Dlistered to the bone, and that the life of | Rovk Iver to make a good manutaeturin aA furmer's wife is the hardest Ife on earth, | puluty Fond ai Lae, with its 16,000 filinbl- But she doesn’t half meu it, and would | tants; Ushkosh, with Hs vast Itnber fnters not allow any one else to say It She | ests; Uaelne, wlth ity 18,000 Inhabltants and knows her tot’ isn favored one, with hus | its unequated agricultural hnploment manus band and children who love her, and are not | fretortes, and. the thriving citles of Water- ushiamed to tet her know ity with a nice, | town, mn Hay, and Sheboyzan, all located coufortidls house, warn fy Winter and cool | wins thls aren, Besides being "the. main Iv sumer; with screens In every Window | faeturlng portion of the State the fertile fields anc outside door, so that nota fly need trouble | of these” counties: pid Wn abundanes of kRehen or pratry, nor a masqiito murder | those products which have dong so muel rest at ig ith her wood spilt fine, and ren : 4 meta piled dry au Vithin ten steps of the cooking-stove; with well and elstern under roof; and, most wonderfal of all, with that prime luxury Jn hot weather, pure ive in abundance, * 7 The furmers of the West are THE FRIENDS OF POPULAI EDUCATION, The common schools are geod, and good schools are commen Every large village bas Its graded sehuol with a high-school depict ment, while tenehord’ Insiltites and nore mals”? are springing up everywhere, Thi ty-lya yenrs ago log school-houses w seattercd here and there over this then wild count ‘Sweaty years ago they had all dts: appeared, and square frame buildings, 21 tering In white paint, stood nt all the sectlon- corners. ‘To-day the fring structures ave nupidly being removed, and more commodo hool-houses of brick are taking thelr nee But Is there a law of nilnd therent the tiller of the soll whieh forbids hls. al- TAXATION, 3 Under tho generie heat of taxntion not Na- tonal fhe consis reports show tho total Siate taxation for the lust flaanehil year was S745, The total vounty taxation was $1,022,003; the city taxation of over 7,500 te habitants was $773,006; the taxation af cities, towns, ete, of Jess than 7,500 popu Indion, $37 pomtinline ah total tuxation of the State for general purposes, 8% ‘fhe taxation for consin ls as fullow State tax... County tux Chy Hix... oe Citles, towns, villi 70 popuintion Schoul district ux. oul purpuses in Wis- zrand total of all ts HY, ™ the development of the West, ANNUAL GRAIN chor, Tt has been shown by oflelal reports that the average annual wheat product of Wis- cousty for the Inst five years lias been In round Hyutes 21,000,000 bushels, ‘The nver- nee piel of corn for the same period of tine his been $10,000,000 bushels, Or this It Is safe gt Say that the seventeen counties of the State water discussion produced nearly thirteen nition bushels of corn, and of wheat nearly ton million bushels, beng nearly half of the total product of the State, ‘The total assessed valuy of real estate aud personal property in these countles is S5h« {atch the total assessed valug of property iu tha Statu of Wiscoustn fs 3435,071,751, leavs fog a balance for the remalning forty-iive counties of this State of SIsi00 410, thus xiving the seventeen counties 47 per vent, of ull the taxable property In the State. ‘To this particular seetion of the State, then, speclal eHorts haya been mady to tid out the real lawing the schvol-house the juxury f Bi value of property, and in collathys shade-tree, know | where i how | the returns care Was taken ta prevent brick sehool-howse has begn built, tn tho | the suarsely populated regions fv the corner of tunbrageats wodt lot, When it] western and northern porttons of — the was finished, the bewntfil els iaimd nimples were carefilly chopped away to the exact dlstunce that Would leave the bulldhige ese to thy rays of the sun from morning AN bested pets aro searce In the furmer's home; NEWSEAPERS ARK PLENTY, Wiileh Ivan advantage, ‘The writer from the Ail-eonntry has bean singularly autor Staite, where sates of property: ara cou paratlyel y oritre and valitation dient, fram determining the valny of property dn the more highly. elvilized portion of the State, Within the seventeen counties the report shows that one-hallot the sales of farming Iunds for Ista wore transacted. and. the az: gregate selling price of all these bieees of properly wits $0,200,309, the assessed value of this property boling 34,500,831 Dy far the: sear ar heey nh certaln districts, the eae farmers who dhl not visit the Esposition ‘ Were the exeeptions, the athers the rules and . know severa) who iad the second tip to Pilladelphia, toking part ot tho family cach fine, Hilal tad seen the grent si ‘rhere is, perlite, ho traer exponent of tie sebtrespect aiid financial ease of a edie mitunity, tan the extent ta whieh | patron: Ven the dentist.“ ‘Teoth will wear out and decays and, where the ravages of tlie and tare Wt to Bo wnyemired, the resule pubsive deformity, We are not axpliclt- informed, but D have grave doubts, ats 0 Whether those New Enghind hill-country beopie paver heard of artifich jnelsors and Kot fille. Mere, the person who can: (ronts you with empty! gains, or discolored aul broken weth, ds gazed at asa sort of inonstrestiy, ‘The fet ty Saniiennt, Other Uhings bestiles the nge of w fierse can be ase certahied by eximbilng the ‘igyuth, Nowhere are tarmers niore tn ter prising tin the matter of bringing tito use rt} sorts of good, practleal, lmproved macuinery, ‘There ds scarcely a iain who owns and works a 40> aere fart Lut what has his reaper, whent- drill, cultivator, ete, And in the dalry-house and Kitchen a hundred Witte hanly eons trivances are criployed to Habtert the houses wite's tuevitably hard and thesome toll, But eWhata contest ie these eau hatsewives to the bent, worn, allcoduring, uever-coiue larger portion Of the sale of sity and town tots took place within this ares, whieh may be explatied from ‘the fact heretotore mets toned that nino out of the eleven cities of over 7,40 inhabitants are located In this see tlon of the State, SALES OF CITY AND VILLAGE Lora, ‘The total salesot city and village tots in Wisconsin for 1978 amounted te 94,100,337, sesscl wile of this property 7% OF this amount no. less. ne the acsataney ¥ ¢ puter stunp Weat, land 8 {biti Ube Tniguity (political) of & certaln Chleaga daily, asserted) that the road, for nthe wiles Wits side of Tophet was Mned with coples which bad bh ned anid thrown away by through passenger, Uae paper having a tnonepoly of tie. route, Joubtless Mere are papers published In ue United States: whose badness might justly ii SLFON pices of condannatory hypers bale as thats bt Dhuve never seen thetic the farmers of tho West do iat see or read thet The weekly tases. of one of New nat Chicaze’s feuding papers, Aurel papers, published seve st f ure wil ex. at ‘orth exchanged hands tn the seventeen counties mentioned, the s- pessedt value of this property bel 93,800,707, The peréentice of tho assessed value of Une conshleration recelved, or ag the consid res rie with two a erally fn le mm snsively ¢ turns pits it, © the trie value for the sgles of teasively clrey H Hay this a Fe Hitt fant lands of Wisconsin,” 13 71 por cent ustly Apply Une sy ehareo of “triviality, vulgurity, ant ie | Jer the State at large und 73 per cent for tie Hhouititsma??s aa why one UE they will eos gventven counties most lensely populatai. pare favorably with’ the one Kuglish country ha percents of the wed yulug to Bol the consideration received ar true valuw paper which Csometines see,—a large, ea sprinted, slicer, avith ‘threesfourths of | 10h FE eat far hie birt fit y peeupled crime | Pe * en inal trlats nid horsreraeee cy Feports of crim: | fen counties most densely populated pre- nie, Kiseh ¢ elsely the aunty dn this report ts workeil E separately, tram tho fuforma- Hon obtained trom the Mtegister of the county aid trom the schedules returned to the Census Office by the Assessors, bankers, and reul-ustaly dealers of the respective cuunties, and, ws 1 have shown hetore by this mothad, the assessed value of real property In thd Concerning the higher enlture of the lm. agination and taste among the country y-peaple of the West, but. Mths can be sald, ‘The study of titerature m the high sehouls, which so Many of our rural youth now attend, WHA. IN TIME WORK A CHAD BR $n the matter of reading, and standard books port shows that the total eounty-debt ot the’ report siya th careful examination of att the schedules that arecent deelsion of the Supreme Court hat hata little ta do with Increasing the assess. ment-rolls of the State, ‘The Court deetded that unless the basis of assessinent was the true value af ‘property the tax levied on the assessment could not be collected. In some cotintics (his decision had tho tinmediate ef feet of ralsing the assessment, and, asa yr sult, the real property of the State of Wis: consi fa, porhavs, assessed ns falrby and honestly as that of nny State of the Union, Certainly the methods ‘of collecting the sta. listles of wenlthy, of debt, of taxatton, aud of registering the sales of real estate In Wiseon- siti nre comprehensive and thorough, aud It would be well for any of hor sister States to ndopt tho snime form. . NEW YORK city, The returns from the City and County ef New York show that during tite fisea! year ending Dee, 3, 1870, the valuation of prop: % 166 81,004,008, ‘The revenne ts as follows? From taxation z Water rent Lent of wh Ldantor Her Venlele it Other Hecnses. From tne: Genent fund. seoesee Assousments on tenl-astito’ Tor VEIN, seeee 43.00 BY, 0T3.00 2,082,151.00 Reventie bonds, . 2 Stoktugefuud for redemption of elty debt... Sinkettiye-fund fe terest on debt 5, ‘ Rate per $100 for taxation, $2.58, a total tax 1 28,220), OSES, ; The bonded Inidebterdsiess is aiven nt $15 HOG, fonting tidebtedness, $0,000,08 siniing-funl nnd cash, $33,021,085. Assets ace elven nt 3290,000,000, ‘The report of the finuneial condition of the City of Brooklyn for the fiseal year ending Dees tl, 187, shdws the following: OLB ee eeeeeee soe soe sensoe sooo S OL O2 070 | ale of real property assossed, 80 fumtted tend valu ‘The re! $13,$31,0593 expend ilnres, SUSE Se2, xation wuHONNtS to § Si7s bonded indebtedness, SH 717,00, st 3 sluking fund, 36,152,130; net debt, $37,605,369, PARIS GOSSIP. In the Rola do Moulogne—A Cocotte— Tho President's Daughter—Croizette “Ba Belle Bunse.?? Paris Letter to Cinelnnalt Enquirer, It is in golng down the avenue of the Bols de Boulogue that one sees Paris on wheels, for the column of the Champs Elysées has been swelled from a hundred ather avenues, nnd becomes an arny—an army made up of {ho rie, the bad, the beautiful of Paris... The equlpages of fashionable women—women who pride themselves on their coronets and thelr virtue-~crash against those of women who can boast of neither the one nor the other, but who exhibit the Jnsolent opulence of thelr beauty, thelr jewels, and thelr sean- dals (6 the passers-by with delight. « Take, for Instanee, the covotte before us. She is beautiful, with the black eyes, tho dark hair, the piquant features of a French wom- an. Her complextun ts the perfectlon of art, A falut, soft, erenm-tint, with a passing tinge of reso She affects to be mi line yerlallst, awl flaunts her fancy by wearing a robo of violet-colored velvet, cut, though the day is coul, very square In the neck, tho exquisit whiteness of which, ig shaded by nothing more than a diamond lucket; her hat of the same color ns her alress, and trimmed according to the prevall- Ing mode, with two long ostrich plumes fust- ened tn front with a buckle, and sweeping the sloping shoulders ‘ofthe wearer. Dla+ mmonds sparkled {1 her dirs and ort her arms, She lay back in the cursinge with an alr of Jangulshing indifference, and resting her feet Upon the oppusit sent without disguise, If tho umnaner of doing it had been excusable, she might have been fprdoned for showing them, so Tntinidly snail and well-shaped wore they, und covered with ‘silk stockings. that showed the skin through, ‘The exquisit the tle polnied slipper, with Its high heel and brilhant buekles, harely covering more than the sole, Inher tiny hands she carried a huge bined of violets, the tlower the Napo- leons always foved, and from the to thie she would detuel two or three. and twirl then: between her red dips.9 ta Carmen, Her turnout was showy, but really cheap. The horses, half covered with gatdy trap« pings, sull U}-conceated’ thelr bones; und, apropos of this, itimust be remarked that in proportlon to the beauty and richness of uverything else here the horses are out of all harmony, With faw exceptions, the handsome ones belonwing to the Russhuis, the English, and resident Anierieans. ‘They are il-shaped, bony aifairs, and it does not require a stretety of the iung}uation to betleve they ave fed half the inf on bran and-sawdust. Sul, the vaulpages gre fine, amt the horses we so chaborntely tleked out thut, unless one 1s fomlot oF inkes an futerest In auinals, they would not be so likely to notice it, The fale lperlittst had hardly passed when the clatter of a pony’s hoofs was heard, and there few by a lady tan Hitle dog-en with a mininture grovm behind’ her. She was Mone and driving ‘herself, sitting very stralght, and with =a sort of marti onl Every one turned to look at her, “Who ds. shoo asked your correspondent, “Oh, thatls Mile, Gr the d of tho President. She af Ame ys nltogethar, and will wath ridu alone, nel to the boerror of the tu erats, and even our Republican ers here attack ber for intringlas on long-established customs? ‘They tell some Ory stares nbout the: young Jady and tho lit cultles she encounters in earrylig ont her Americanisms, For tuistance, ay the renders of the Bagtirer doubtless Know, no respect- able French won goes on the street alone, either a gentleman (relative, of course) ar servant must reeompany her, A forelgner ean dery this rude with safety, and every day you meet Moaglilsh and American girls by thempelves, but thelr nationallty fs so evident Unt it protects them Where a native would be insulted rightand left. It su oe a. number of occasions that Mile. Grévy,, when watking alone, his been nevosted, by her too gallant corns trymens but Instead of: toflug hey temper or being frlchtened she bands them a visitlige enn to enforces, her stutement as to her personality, and) then bering to harances hen on tie beauty and propriety of women walking nesearted, and on the folly of 4 wun presuming for that reason ee ae Is a : a notall she should be, proceeding bs rendered morestrikhug b unparalled In the annals of French, history, A few minutes later we pass the house of Cralzette, the celebrated actress of th die Brangals, and haying ital) hero sluce the departure of Bernhardt, has a sulurys from the Government. of 25,000 franes pera, lt keeps her in gloves, botthnes, and bonbons, Sho lias Uivee vory: beautiful elildren, and, though shols Madenis olsutle, they accompany her averywhere, and are well eared for by thelr Welt va, fathers, One of them, a boy, ts the acknowl. edged chi otthe Duke @aimule, son of Louis Phillipe, and ta the oxnet Image of his grandfather, ‘fhe house, or hotel as tt is called here, 6.0 vary handsome structure of white. stone, In the whidews of whieh are (nce vases, Chinese and minrble, filed with Howers, and cages: be which pereh solely tilkatlye coekatoos and parrots, ‘Che elegant jaee eurtains drawn partially aside allow a kuinpse of costly furniture, dhe paintings, and beautiful statuary, Ta ane wiidow ta the marble tigtre, life size, of a Venus, over which the erlingon hangings east the glow of life, Speaking of this siatne rembiiaks ine that in Croizette’s nare beautiful days. she sabasamoedetafor the fire ot "rath, how on exhibidien fi the Luxembourg, and Which represents portectly nude woman with alampin her hand Tt ds sald that when this pletire was completed the actiess, Wweatto see It with a number of friends, Moog them ariel but vi stuphl young Mary who, utter oxalning the pafnth Taq © Mademio t TY ala ‘To whieh Croietty nalvely, and fo the horroy of the artlyt, responded: * Mon Dien, monsieur, Je chureha mes habits.” (1 am looking for uy clothes.) .* 3 Crofzelte is ho longer beautiful. She has Free vry stout, and: has the alr of u vo. pte: She looks ike an exceedingly fat Modjesta, iC one can hnagine such an anon aly, and seareely opens her large dark y in talking, Eyes, She is very popular and gives elegant receptions weekly at hor restdence, Atthesy recvptions she ‘has always presuat her enlldren. nnd tubes plensure bn eating ate fention to dieir beatity and thelr tesemblines ¥ tespective and titled fathers. pstiumnes that are worn on the Bols de Rouwlogne are something shuply gorgeous, Red velvet dresses, fonineed white Ince, and hats of velvet, with doating plumes, are not Aneomtuon, Line, green, pink, and old gold hold hich earnival,” Yet) among these the ost startin Tosaw was a toilet of pire While, ‘The wearer was an artificial blonde, Heaven ant her imiid only know what her natural bale and complexion ares but ontuls ovenston Tt was noining ing of gleaming yel- low tresses, srtowy skin, coral ips, and: sont bre dark | eyes, “set off by on towing robo of heavy white velvet, — almost covered with white Ineo and swansdown, peart Jewelry. © hat that consisted ot hothing butt long white feather that hardly shaded the Instre of her hoirs be ‘were covered with long white glo her fect In snowy td, reste white bearskin, ‘The open earrlage ty whieh Jollet was bine, and draw by two tine white horses, ‘This vison in ae and gold Is one of the Corn Penrls of farks, What queer things one sees on the Rols de Boulogne, An Atrlean came wong dressed dike a Prince, and with diamonds on fils shirt front aud tingers Uiat would buy a kingdom, Tle refined up te the sidewalk to throw a gold piece togne of those poor deformities who haunt the streets of Parl, « ‘Then cane a flashy baroucht. 1theld two men aint two womens. they liad evidently dined and drank much wine ‘They were laughing loudly and betting, One of them, a showy brunet, Jost. ler companion, a man about town, demanded: she should pays aud, shocking to rehite, without hesitation she catzht up her dr and whipped of a J il garter, midst exe chunations and Jeers, and threw it to him, Tle elusped the aitaly of gilt and brilllaney round Bis neck ike a dug-collar, a si :itong tna hired I vig proelalned his rau Suddenly a cocatte teaned from voitire and threw a rosu fn his faee with a menningsinit.. He drew bhaself ap with the insulted Usntty of at Esuperor, and Taina sure he would buve had the woman's head eutolf (E he could, Some one erled “ La Belle Russe,” and tn a monient every head was turned; even the eoxchinen forzot th voker-like dignity. uted had eyes, the consequence of whlely was that the carriages kot up fina tangle that brought abnost toa stand te veticle contahiine the objeet of the sensation, Like everybody else, Leraned ny neek and sawn handsome ear rhage, the body ot which was the color of and shone Ike fet. Tt was Mned. with black satin and sparingly (rimuied with gotd. The footiman and coxchinan wore black livertes, with yellow vests, cloves, and pompons. ‘The horses were noble animals of unsvotted ack; fullof dre and spirit, they clamped nud fretted at the delay, and the “elanking of the shigular harness seemed to exelte. them: thoimore. ‘The pole of the carriage, instead ing between Chen as [3 common, was cat on fevel with thelr backs, and:nt- Eby inetith arms to thelr collars, so duit they really pitted from the neck. This pole, like nll the harness, was of gold, and the nitnerous trappings, curlously cut, matched, Any elfeetive or showy could hard; vised, and the incessant clanking and tink hing ean be imagined. Jnshle, haltreeiiing’ on the lxurlous Jeopurd-skins. piled up benehth her, sata woman, who bore with cal disdain the gaze of the multitude, She louked about 2, aud she Inoked as lf she had never been a ert but always a mature, © superbly beautiful Wonmn, (She wos tall and of a figure formed of lives of beauty hardly voluptuous, yet not. Inthe denst spirit fer Taee—ftultless in the large eyes, dark mud sombre as death, Inthe bhtek fashes that swept her colorless cheek, in the smooth, low forehead, the stright nosi,. the curved, red Nps, the rounded eli vas meant for it poet to, write of or a painter ta. perpetunte. Nelther happiness nor anhnation shone In her countennnec, whieh was as lntellectnal as benuttful; pride, though, was stumped upon every feature, “ Sutticlent unto af? ust be her invisible matte, Ter’ dress showed she knew and understood her bean tnt was not Inditferent to itor its effect, very detail spoke of wealth, of care, of per- fect taste, trom the satin bottines of her stuull fect to the handkerchief, decked with royal lee, by her Hite hand, fer tailet was ag if the stin and black night had met to beautify her. ‘The sweepmy rabo of cold satin that enveloped her from’ head to toot ninde her louk as though wrapt Ina eloud of sunset, that Jealnusty trled to hide, while tt exposed her perfect fiure. Tt was not spolled with furbelows or paltry trin aiing, but flowed away in rleh shiminering waves ad folds, and’ was eluspud nt the warin white throat by a singular ornament, atiger ent ont of topaz and with dimnond eyes. In her eurs she wore serpents of topaz coiled as it nbout to springs and round her neek the form of one undulating and writh- Ing in tho ilxht, It seemed, of the two preclous stones, Over the dusky fair was sttuply a tuvbiutof golden tissue with long dlonting enils that gave her an Oriental loots, The carr were dlyentangted, She rolled on, Who—who,” exclaimed your correspondent with enthus st, “Es” that. wonderful woman?” 1 faneled there was 1 slixht touch of unlice In the volee of my in Jormant ns she sales “The Russian *Carntile,? and once upon a Hime nothing but a peasant girl who pleked up furots In the woods near Viatka, “1 dare suy she bag noble blood in her yung, for those fans are very shocking, you know! Dut one day the fagot business Was put to an end by ber balng pleked up herself by a young noblennin, who took her to St, Peters burs. Itseoms she has naturally. a high riler of mind, and set about eduenting her sel€ with great suecess, She was brought. dere afterward by 1 eh Duke, whe now supports her. establishments but she looks 0 uuhappy. inspity of her dlamonds and luxuries, that f believe she feels she was horn for somethlag better, and Eb wouldn't surprise mo atany day If she elther ran a Kulfe Into-herselfor went Into a couvent,” What a story! : PESSIMISM A LA MODE, Schopenhauer, tha Wasplsh Apostle of Misery, tho Coming Vashion ia Pas rislan Roudotrs, Corveepondtence New York Warld, _ Pas, Oct, 20,—The Parisienne fs frlvalle, She is witling enough to adit that, but she has her serfous side, She thiuks and rends, and unfortunately nowy sho his taking to readlug Sehopentiauer. ‘This, of course, came pels everybody to read Schopenhauer, Most people on the first mention of his name think hols some new thing Inmusic, ‘hey may be soon undecelved by an obliging French tin who, seeing society's crying want, has supplied it tva small handy volume of ox- tracts, now hy great demand, ‘This Is a sort of toilet essence of ‘Sechopenhauer,—a few drops to bo sprinkled on the memory before rolng down fo dinner, ‘Cho Varistenne cares nothing for Schopen- haner's aystem—how should sho? sho does not understand it—but she kes fils orlginal- ity. There certaluly was something ont of the common way In the life gf this well-to-do manhater, Ho had enough money for luxury, and tho lusury he chose was ens contempt of mankind—more espectally of its better hnlf, A clean Diogenes with a cout. fortable hotel at Frankfort for his tub, ha chatted the rave lebsurely ‘tll It was time for hin todie, Ils koy-note was striking, We sald that wulscry and not happiness was the essential condition-of our being, Ie looked over the world and saw nothing but inlsery, with Just oceasionnl interludes of happiness to give the misery a fresh start. He liked to quote that best ofall kiniown rules for con fentivent—to rellect that there we thousands wore olf than yourself, What does that prove, hy would say, not the universality: of wretchedivss? But some people are never sSuVT NCL Sry! well, Do you Wish at a ghinee to entlahten yourselves on this polut, and to Kiow {ff pleasure fs renter than palit, or the reverse? Well, elmply vont pave the pressions of tha mnlaal who de Vvours another with the iupresstons of the one devoured? "This does seem pretty des cbsive, Beyond all question the eaten has a good den] more annoyances In this’ process: than the enter has fun,—whiat with the bones. und things, Ills views on toye are tural coraliary of his ylews of life, Ho ty (he nonsense anil « it out ofthe passion which pleases the Frenehwomen, pecuuse they like tomaney that with ther it stl has some nonsense tert, Jove, hy tells us, by nothing but nw politie il Jusion of Mather Nature for the perpetuation of tha rage, Shu fools us with o purposeand whon tho purpose ts aecampilalied she ltts the Muslon from our eyes. ib isof nese Aeuubling or saylng nu; whenever ft sulta her intereste—and sho fy exactly ke Groat Britain dn having a potley of intercsts alone ste will fool us again, . From love to wou, ls but astep, and here the Castionable philasopher is truly awfal, but the Parisien does uot wlad, ‘Phese are 8 of green brocule a few of the new tests ete made whl are expected to know by hearts “The mere agpeet of workin prove; that she fs destined neither forthe great Intors of lutelligence, nor for great materlal unders takings. Sho pays herdebls to life nat by: netlon, but by sufering; sho owzht, therefore, to obey imnn, antl to be his. patient compan fon, restoring serenily to his mind.” “Phat which makes wamen finstlentarts, apt to care for and rear us Hrour first infaney fs, that they always reali. thesngelyes ehili th, futile, and of narrow mind. ‘They are only big babies all thelr lives,—n sort of ble {ntermediary between tho child and man, Jools ab a young gitl dancing anl singing to an lifant and playing with it all day longs nnd try to fiiagine whether a man with the best will in the world could do the same,’ “Tn the young alr] Nature seems to have Intended w sort of coup de theatre, “She ornaments her for a few yeurs with ane traordinary beauty, grace, and perfection the expense of all tharest of her life. ‘The phjuet dy that durlag these few years she may take xtrang [akecaton OF nian and make hha undertake the heavy eharge of lookiig after her forever. ‘Thus’ Nature hog armed woman, ike every other erntare, with weap- ons aiid: instruments necessary ta assure her existence; and, acting with her habitual frugally, his piven these merely for tse during the requisit thie, Ttst ns the female ant Toses hor wings when they are no longer useful to her, so wonutt loses her beauty snon after her conquest is meude, For this Tengo, too, yours firls wre generally very contemptiiots of household dutles, footing that thelr true vocation at that tine of Hife ts to make themselves Hed? “Tn thelr heart of hearts women tinngins that men are only made to earn noeney, and women to spend it. Uf dhoy are prevented from dolig this daring the dfetiow of 1 hus: band. they mate up for it after his death.” “The ion has his teeth and tis claws; tho elephant and the bea have their defenses; the bull has his horns; the euttle-fish ft ink. Nature has given wotnan for her de- fense amd protection dissinulation, as she has given man reason mid the strength of his Hinds, Hence the falsity, the treason, the ingzvatitude of women, who perjure them. sulves #0 readily In’ couris of jietleg that it hag often been a question whether they ought to be allowed te tike an oath, From dime to thie women who want for nothing are caught piifering in the shops.” © Men ave only Endiferent one ta another; women are by nature enemies, — The reason ix, that the rivalry, which among tren ts liu Ited to the members of each profession, ainong: Wwolnen cmibraces the whole species, a8 they hove but one single business in life,” “Women have nelther tho sentinent nor the Intellizence of music, any more than of poetry or the plasile arta, ALL their taste in this direction is mere xpetshiess—i puye pre- text a aitectation, stlnulated by thelr de> sire to plense.? “Woren ‘ave and will remain in thelr en- semble the most avcomplished mud the inmost incurable Philistines, thanks to our social organization, whieh ls absurd (oan extreme dezree, amt whieh makes hare the title nnd situation of nian, nomatter how elevated. he any be. ‘Thus they exelte und stimulate the fess honorable part of his ambition, and, as & natural e and the tone the ely, ft pauence, thelr domination ve corrupt inodern 8 he mnelents took this vi and the = Eastern it to our day, Both better understaod the part sultable to womnn an her proper place. Our gallantry of the old-fashioned French style, and ovr atupld veneration, have only ser to inske her. as Impertinent ay’ the sae! apes of Benares, who may take any liberty with Tn puntty by virtue of the falsa: posltion thoy hold. What may be ealled the European woman is a sorlof being that ought not to asist. ‘Those who ltelp in the hoase and look after the house ought to be tha only women in the world? 2 1 was golng to point ont thatthe Parisienne had given this Insolent the best auswer fn telllig us to read him, a3 It spenks volumes. for the Indifference of her eonsglous strength, 1 was also golme to sny—but, no; please do not expect ne to do my duty by overwhel tng hin with the withering scorn ie deserve 1 really feel so uneasy about the whole thing that I begin to be sorry Linve written a word gbout i—only [thought you would dike to know the coniing winter fashions in Mind. WORTH. . A Vinit to the Sanetum of tho igh Priest of Vomtning Fashions, Paris Correapondence New York World, There Is a sacred shrine in Paris to whieh all ladles endowed with taste and money {and one Is no use without the other) desire fomaker pilgrimage. It stands in the Rue deo In Pals, nnd five tetters only are Inseribed over the door, Those five letters comprise te magle name of “ Worth.” It ty perhaps Impossible for ono of the Inferlor sex to en- ter Into the emotlons whieh thrill through the. female mind on first approaching this Mecea of their sex. Tho great high priest within 1s visible only to a few favored worshipers, but, provided the pilgrim ar- rives with duo tribute and offerings In her hands, she need not fear to cross the sacred threshold, Attendant nymphs will re- eelve her hand and conduct ner to the inner chambers where the great goddess Dress revelves daily her. throngs of. worshipers. Hf the neophyte comes Jan humble frame of anlnd, confessing her ignormnce and seeking for enlizhtenment, sho will at once be pit npon ths right hy ff, on the other hud, her head is full or her own deslres and cone celts, no word of counsel will be altered to her. ‘Iho presiding gening disdalus to offer suggestions when they ara not sought for, ‘Yo get the fall bencsit of his knowledge and experlenee you must show that you have coum to be tight, not ta teach, "This dress shonld be taken in here and let out there?” sald a vash Amerlean Jady once to Mr. Worth, who was gracluus! to superiitend the niomentous operation of try Ingon. “Madame,” salt he, “aim obliged to you for your adviee, and your ideas shnil bo earrled out.” And so they were, but she saw Mr. Worth agala, dletate to the Dictator, 3 It was, [ trust, with a becoming sentiment of awe that T fascended: the stulrense of this renowned abode of the graces, In company with two good frenitts of ne who are among the Initiated, and who are even ene rolled-on the preefous Ist entitled to be tsh- ered Into the presence of Mr, Worth hinagelf, Ethink It must have been tho Marquise de Carrabbas who recelved: ts; atany rate she: was a splendid creature, with a diamond locket round hor neek and beautifying on her fingers, and So pails, What a dress! do not ask me to describe tt, for Lean not any more than Dean describe the starry heavens ut uldaight; but this £ know, that {bas the most beautiint da dine and shane, and thatthe train thereof was as the (allot the comet whieh, Jong years nzo, Lreme ber svelng stretehed all acrass the sky—oven Vs comet. ‘The wearer of this dress racerub and goal ST Maia erin any Judge of such matters, she tind a charm ing “figure, When one has gone much ta and fro hy the world, the trath comes honte to thonthnid that, afterall, ithas nothing better to show than a perfect temnule feure, Making good use of my eyes, therefore (ns It would become every min to do placed in sinilar circumstances), I followed the chlet priestess (for such she was) through several rooms, where Indies sat tn solemn silence, iy caren attentlyely the endless variety o! silks aud sating spread before them, Senree- ty a ward could: be ha if anybody spoke ib was in a whisper.» Pr ae we roneheal Mother room where we were [oft alone foray few ininutes, and then thers entered tho great Mogul hinself, the maker of fushions for Wilf the women In Europe. Searcel, pushy you soo fy like what, you tnagined him to be,—how people used te pe disap: polnted, for Instance, with the appearance of Sharles Dickens, How astonished, even dls- miyed, (ho adnilvers of ‘Temmyson are when they first xet eyes upon bin, Abr Worth was not all that finey Hid painted hms in fuer, One must not ho was nothing more than a shrewd, actlye, bushiesslike-looking min, with a hentl so Nko_ the portraits of Oliver Goldsmith that doubtless tho resemblance has often bean commented npot. Hy sheak hands with wy frlends, and, when asked how he wi dleeluved that | he was “as. Ba y the hat weather, and almost Whehned with work. Ho Haddon an alpaca cont with ping stuck tn ad near the colli, for use in the exercise of tis craft, and a red neektly whteh hore marks of the “aasasinatlng” weather Every dnstunt one or other of the attendants came tu to ask blova question or revelye an order, Lam run down on every side,” ad hey at this moment four hutles wre walting far mu to sea thelr dresses thd on. But de net goa away: eon with mee? ‘Thus saylng, he ed the, why town apartment whiel seemed te be the Inver squetuary, tor an aglehe warned off all intruders. A portiors was pulled aside and there was srddenly revealed whit lnoked like a “day dicure,? stanling upon a pedestal dn themiddle of the room, with several fe- hue attendants bustling aetvely round aboutit, ‘Towards this object Mr, Worth advanced with quick cs and the figure jwoved, and cven tured is heads and then T saw that It was areal tye wom: fhe ladies of the establishing Traving adress tried on by way of ¢ before it was shown ta the customer, sh too, had w bewltehing ture, but of cours ct fixed my attention upon the dress nau garited not the wearer, es ‘The allendants fell back when Mr, Wo, approached and stood fh. respecttat neve the young woman on the pe master hiingetf cast a rapld tane work of art whieh had been produc his dtreetion, and then he begun st! pins ninost as rapidly asthe eve ow tineand tearing out others whitey skillful hands had already placed In thedras Presently he called for the “pattern hough and turned overs many: samples” before Ih fonnil the exact trimming whieh he wanted Tle tried theetfect of this by placing At an the dress, and then resumed bly work at pinging or waplontiug,—tlke on. Seulptor wh was engaged fh putting the Snlshing touele to lis statue, “Nhe dress Itself! was a bewuthy ful object, but not foo beantiful sop the charining young Indy who bs destitied to Went Miss Vanderbilf, Le was drawn and de. slened by Mr. Worth, and 8s progress was ovidenthy watelied with tho utmost faterest by the whole stuf, ‘The attendants flocked in. to look at it, and the young taly upon Whom At was being fitted: seemed as prout ag a Duchess. it was wonderful What changes thy hand of tho taster ufide [it few minutes— here a plece was tipped ut dn order thata more graceful outing infeht he seetreds there a new trimuiugor decoration was fn! troduced, and evry et LAW touehy offeeted an obvious inprovement, it . bajl dress, sel as youns ladles dream of ui inSplred visions, If pla i a room py ilvelf ip would attract wntversil pemiration, What, thon, will be tha efecl when the falt owner adds her own benty to It? Newly alt the fabyles used in tho dresses aide by Mr. Worth are manufactured froin designs of his own, for ho isa great inventor, and even at his dliner table a sheet of per isatten by hig side, and on It draws designs for some new costinne destined to enptivate the ale sex and fill the othe HN, One of th Who way berhineng | rth iT with envy, Dress with Mr. Worth Ian fet art. worthy of enlling into exercise he highest human freultles, ft was he wie invented those wonderful chamots under xarnienta which | are stipposed to add so much to the already trresistible attractions of the nobler part of eres thon, He knows everybody and seens to by an ncnty judge of character. Of one lady he sitlds “She looks as lt she wished to bia ways sloping poison, and to administer lari doses to her friends.” When sone one was mentioned, he remarked, **s nneh done up in her own eurrant, Je y ibigquite hopeless to approach her’ that that ts sayines were always In this eae veinhe fas his favorits, are the Ameriean Indies, maty of whom are jis best customers. They possess the requ. sit figures to enable him to do justlee to his art. For then he exerts all his talents, He has made Iiimself aequatnted with the his tory and belongings of most af the best known New York famtlies—perhaps a5 1 nintter of cnution, far Mr. Worth, Ike on old frlend Dughei uA has doubtless: had “ly i ” He ean tell you who Mrs, So-andsy. was before her marrlage, and whether her father teft her-any money and how much her Tusband has got. AM this sort of informa tion is doubtless useful to aman of business whose bills cannot but ben trifle long for excelleneg inany field of tHfe lias to be paid for, The great Enelish clothes-maker for nen Is not cheap, and yet ina niue’s attire there is no rom whatever for the play of faney unl the exereise of ingenuity, "The great and critfeal polnt of * trimming” never has to be dectded. And it Is upon that polnt, that Mr. Worth 1s so great nn authority, One of the friends whom T accompanied hada magniticent Enis shawl whieh she wished to have converted Into a mantle. Tt wag a Denutiful shawl the finest Fever sow, and it cost orjuinally abaut $1,500 (4% The shape of the mantle having been deelled, there came ta the front the momen tlon of trimmilng,—in this ease mer ting for the edze, One or two estions were made, bub after a few moments’ retlee- tion the celebrated artist came out with an which was at once ndiitted to be the that could possibly be presenter oven If all tho dressmakers In the wald were assembled In solemn conference on the fuestions ne point only astonished me in the learned dlsquisition pronounced by Prof. Worth, ‘There were fn this Indiuh shawl some very tine touches of ereen of that par tletlawshade willet cannot be produced out of the Vale of Castineres Tian Ladin house whieh Tonee visited the duor of every reou Was composed solely of a grand: shawl pre sented by the Muhutajah of Cashmere, ant euch stiw! waa selected as the finest example of the workmen's skill, ‘The green in, thess shawls wits of a tovely shade, beautifully blended with other colors, and in’ the shawl pinced before Mr, Worth there was the same Heh tint here and there. ‘The remark which he nade and whieh took me so completely uback was sluply this: Madame, we must suppress the teen.” Suppress the green! Ob, My, Worth? Surely that was a concep tlon which owed Its ortgin to the assasintt- lng weathor and which thy excellent Judg: ment would repudiate in cooler moments. The French are, supposed to be the great ers of dress and ornament inthe world, but Mr. Worth ling gone inte thelr own stronghold and beaten them, Jte 45,33 rybody knows, an Englishman, and long hela position In thg house of Swann & Edgar in London, wifére hls peentlar ubill- ties soon marked hhn out for promotion Jie is now a French eltizen, and hus two sons who look more Freneh t i and who have served or aro se serived term in the aris. inodistes no longer contest Mr, Worth verlority. “They adopt the siinpler aid cost of fellowing meekly fn his footstens. At the berluning of ench season they buy a dress at Mr, Worth’s and use it “as .n model, tracing Inet by inelt its eut and fashion. ‘This an Englishman [sat the top of the tree in Paris, and It would be hard it Wo had elimbed all the way. there without getting sume fruit. Ina word, Ae Worth fs rieh, intiuentini, and respected —a “velebrity tn his way, fn any respeets charaeteristic of the thies In whieh he Itis a pity that le canine Hf the adornment of both Jind to choose one there ty t nyt inde his selection wisely. 1 adie yout skiitso much,” sald f° that Cs sorry eannot ask you to make sometinng for me, My way of preserving a inemorial of Mt. i only wish,” replied Me, Worth, “that Leonld nue aven a pair of trousers for iyselly and he looked ruefully down at his nether carients, Whieh, ta suy the truth, swould lave sent a thrill of horror through, Poole's estubistinent, LJ. and among then lives. 13. 10 $a » Corruption tn Russia New York Tones ‘The arrest of Warschutaky, tho noted Tussiag millionaire and army purveyor, on 0 ehurze ot having defrauded the Government of nearly 818,000,000 during the late war, enn hardly bave surpriged his countrymen unless from the at pendous mount stolen, This ts not beentise tit reputation bis heen bid, bat becuse it ly, ruse for granted that ull public funetlonarics tn thy Caur's downs rob thie tation Prensury tant Torwnly aid with exeeption. The hiet hres Bugh is tho gengeal Bellet und: understnnins untorally dixcoarages honesty bn oiticlls. it they should happen to have had orginally Any’ tendency thereto, Ln Mussa 08 i a8 overywhere “else, men) who hay . Titine want the yuine alsin, nnd they are very nt toget {. For gonerations the qrosecst corr ig Hon Lay existed tn every department; the we thorit from the Empuror dawn to the a Diest innyistrate, are perfectly couseloits of ra universal peoutition, and tio attempt is made 1 check It When Alexander U1. enme 19 , Uirone, he revolvod,: tt Jy watd, to uso all We power and Iathicnce agelist the pernicions pr tee, but, tar ong consultation witt his a net and enter advisers, he waa Induced (0 ubal don bls jutrpose, Ih would be, he wat ie ie ac tended with the gravest danger to the Bute ee i impracticable, Now at ns goes tA Ne na palla feours of in oxtrauridl wurvunt, ho siyas Hot suppose it ta be go large easn iv probably analogous to wW titlat Steve! While ba wavered “this ells. | The ety public, white wholly permuudad that he te stealing, did hat suspedt the enormous sexta tH his stealing. ‘Tho coustant and wholesale Cha fn the Biupiyo ory a very bad signs but a mut Worse plete thut its ablest ettexmen 8° uy way. and really hive no hope, af ¢ Ee reform. Rasa fa nebrally Beamied: with cory euptinn both ite high peices anit lov place ied with men wha habitually plunder Me oe ernment, und Justify the Indic of ba long Heer Unuanee and iniversality. Not a single hah In its vist nriny, te fa sult ves or prevents live on his pas. Paose wha buye 1iat a eas Yer sven 40 or 500 rubles, with 1 lke Phy portion tn the upper rinks. ‘The pay wei probably have deen tnerenred but feriue nuwhedge of thy general custom of pilfe und ita ueeeptanue by tue authorities. a A Routtulxcertce of tho Great Bites At tho residences of Mr. Jolin 0 Donnell No, 100 Slued street, Chicaga, our ly found Mrs, O'Donnell, who gabl that yeurs ayo, Justvafter, the fire, she co) eae rheumatism ja dio feet, and that, ne ae Ing all ktnuts of remedles, some of wh K i re AS mitch as twe dollars n bottle, she i iad cently heard of the St, Jacabs GIL, mee elven ita trial, the result being Hine tide npulteations etianged her frow a bed My cripple ton stron woman, able to Cory » about Hig Here fu her youthful days— . cuge Pribane Wat AMdasu SI!