Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1886 — Page 4

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A obowino principle ol taxation ia to make corporations par for their privilege*. An appraisement baaed upon real values, and not office-holders’ demand*, ia the only rignt oue. __________ Taken by and large, there i( no better (tale than Indiana, and no better people than those who live in it. IT teems that the county treasurer can make a monthly statement if he choose* to, though it was claimed that his bookkeeping would not permit it. The politicians of both parties are trying to draw comfort from the township elections of last Monday. The result is not a sale precedent to argue from, since the Pollard frauds exposed tnisrnanaeement in that office. We had a case of genuine hanging according to law In Indianapolis yesterday.—[uicuinond

Independent.

Yes, and it will do good, too. Since the execution of Guetig, Merrick and Achcy, there has been a remarkable reduction of outrageous enme here, especially of mirfder, THB Philadelphia iuqu.rer celebrated its fitty-seveuth birthday by moving into a new building on the corner of Tenth and Che-1-nut. The Inquirer has shared the prevailing Improvement in Philadelphia journalism, and never was more satisfactory to its rwdera. WE concur with Mr. Powderly in urgency of a congressional committee to investigate the railroad troubles in the southwest. Let such a committee be made up and at once proceed to St. Louis. The act would have a good effect, and the conclusion ought, as Mr. Powderly says, find who is to blame in this

mat er.

While every oue is saving and working to make boui ends meet, public oitio al* are spending money with lavish minds.—(do-dieii Times. That is true. There is no sense of economy am <ng office-holders. Exorbitant pay is secured, and grabbing for extra allowances and feet is the rule. Public business must be put on n better basis if tux-payers are

•Ter to be relieved.

THE prosecution of New York aldermen for bribery seems to be getting in its perfect work, and it will soon be a poor Canadian town that can not boast of the accession of an American alderman to its colony of American bank cashiers. This event recalls the

The Chinese and the Treaty. The legislation of congress in regard to the right* ot the Chinese, who nre entitled under our treaty with their government, to free entry, travel and egress, is shsmefulJy partial and defective. That this condition is the effect of influence exerted by the representatives of the Pscific slope, who do not pretend to speak other sentiments than tbore of the unreasoning anti-Chinese element, is so obvious that it needs no affirmation or discussion. This element has been pandered to by both parties with about equal meanne«s and mischief, and the evils of a cheap Chinese competitor with the labor of citizens who mean to live, and raise families, accumulate property, make substantial citizens, and leave their graves here, have been unju«tly and maliciously extended to a class of Cniqese who are in no way concerned in the injury the treaty intended to repress. The president, in bis message of Tuesday, shows np these defects in our legislation in a way that docs equal credit to his sense of justice and his acuteness. He, of course, does not suppose the unjust operation of the acts of coneress to be an intentional or at best an indifferent disregard of the rights of Chinamen whom the treaty would protect; but the country knows it, and the president clearly points out the disgraceful eflect. We are not sanguine enough, cor so po-sessed bj a confidence in congressional justice, where votes are to be kept or lost, as to hope for any improvement; but the president, whatever else be may have done or (ailed to do, has shown himself fair and square in his Ireutmeut of the ‘Chinese question. A congressman has no need to champion “Chinese cheap labor’’ of any kind from Si Wong's laundry to Ah Sin’s euchre, to make a creditable place for his action in maintaining our treaty with China. He may fairly, as we do, object to the ex elusion of citizens from remunerative employment by men who live on little, to carry away all they make to tbeir native land and enrich it to the same extent that they impoverish ours and our people. But that antagonism does no£ imply or require any action that will iufringe a single provision of our treaty, or give a moment’s just offense to China. To fail ot remedying the defects indicated by the president’s message, will he tantamount to a formal avowal of a purpose to evade a tair execution of the treaty, and of entire indifference as to what the Chinese think about it. And that is where the case

will land, we suspect. Virginia'* l>ebt.

The “mother of states and statesmen” has fallen upon evil days. She can’t get rid ot her debt and she can’t keep up the interest on it and have revenue enough left to.live on. The supreme court ot the United States has decided that her interest coupons are good for taxes or any other slate dues, and as the state has no money to redeem them with, their payment on taxes leaves the treasury full of eivar-lighters and shaving papers. So the governor has issued an appeal to the people not to pay taxds with coupons, “If all pay with coupons,” says he, “it is certain that lor several yearj to come coupons will absorb thi^entire revenue of the state. The treasury will be bankrupt, the courts closed, the public schools and charitable institutions suspended and the operation of the government cease for the lack of subsistence.” He is right, of course, and the citizen who takes advantage of the depreciation of coupons to “scale” his taxes,* will in the end damage himself as much as the state and other people, unless the great majority are more h morabie and prudent than he is. We refer to this anomalous state ot things in Virginia to contrast it with one not wholly unlike it in this state, in the interval between our failure to pay interest on our lands of ’3d and the completion of the Butler compromise that enabled us to get upon our feet again. Simultaneously, or nearly, with the failures ot our interest payment the legislature determined to issue “scrip,” as it was called, to provide a currency in place of that which ha 1 gradually disappeared with the advance of “hard times.’” It was much

, such an affair of state faith and “promises

fait that there were once charge* of bribery , to as the virginia couponSj except made agaiuat Indianapolis city legislators, I ^ {he b . 1]s hod qo ia , rcfl , renee to tbe

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state debt. Tney were largely discounted everywhere abroad, and could not buy as much at home for the same nominal amount as state bank Alls, though the hank had suspended specie payments. But they were receivable lor taxes. They made that statement explicitly on their face, and that kept them up pretty well, in which wholesolne elevation the G per cent, interest they bore helped them. So, by the time the compromise of ’43 was made they were at par, mostly gone, and rising to a premium, and even tiie later issues of a very light interest—14 to 2 per cent.—were getting on a creditable level.

and also against a government officer who •till holds and “works for the party” elec-

lions. __________

“Jo” Chamberlain relieved himself of • good deal of bile in the British parliament yesterday, and it is to be hoped be feels better. He was handicapped as Trevelyan was the day betore by tbe fact the land measure has not yet been proposed, and the opponents of home rule are thus pinned to a discussion of that measure itself without aid from anything else. It is shrewd parliamentary tactics on Mr. Gladstone’s part to thus put forward

this proposition in a way that calls for its I There may be nothing in this fact of forty decieion on its own merits. Here, tactics j years ago to help \ irgiuia. but it is worth

and justice unite in securing right. If home rule is right, let it be enacted; because it may involve other things in the future is no cause for doing it wrong now. Confusion to.

its enemies!

thinking about, all tbe same.

The East St. Louis Murder. The bloodshed at East St. Louis is di-

rectly chargeable to the railroad companies. The scheme of armiug employes originated, it seems, with the Louisville & Nashville

Thackeray once challenged Macaulay

to find a word or phrase in “Henry Esmond” i road, and the fruition comes at the hands of that was not the pure gold of the language , this »ame road, by which six persons are in Queen Anne’s time—tbe time when the ; killed, one a woman, and none of them story of “Esmond” passes. Macaulay at ; “strikers.” Employes so armed were sworn once responded, much to Thackeray’s chn- j in as deputy Aner.fL, but that is a thin cloak grin, “different to.” Even that Jove had which does not cover moral responaisodded, and had allowed to creep into his bility. A deputy sheriff is primarpertect pages s spurious currency of modern i Hy an officer of the law with perpetration. Tbe American press is already i no irterest in either side of a qnarrel

beginning to take and use this same counterfeit. As tbe newspaper ia perhaps tbe greatest educator in American life, it ought to have as much respect as may be for cor-

concerned only in preserving the peaceful course of the law unbroken. Railroad employes are concerned primarily, and of necessity, in one side of the quarrel, the side

gect usage and hence give “different to” the which, as employes, they espouse. To arm 'go by.” It is not slang; it is simply cor- such men at all is to open an easy temptaruption. Slang is generally picturesque and tion to murder, to swear them m as deputy •1 ways forcible; it is racy ot tue soil as idiom sheriffs ia to give them an invitation to just is and isby no means to be despised; but such 1 what came to pass: a reckless use of weap- • phrase as “different to,” is simply a cor- ons in retort to opprobious epithets, ruption of primary meaning into an artificial | Employes so armed and authorized become ■nd unjustifiable one. Things may be like at once a party to the cause and the judge

Illinois, has proven himself to be. It was his business to assert the authority of the state, no less for the protection of the strikers against the possibility of just such a thing as has occurred than to protect the railroads in the peaceful pursuit of their business. Had there been energetic and proper action on his part the crowds which were collected yesterday in place* where they had no business, would not have been allowed to collect, or at the utmost had they swarmed unexpectedly, would have been protected against the panicstricken action of railroad employes which yesterday slaughtered the innocent. It is this sort of people, and the sort like Dwyer, the gambler, who afterward tried to incite a riot in St. Louis, that the strikers deserve protection against, that the people deserve protection against, that the railroads daserve protection against. And the failure to provide this protection lies at the door of the gov- ! ernor ot Illinois, and upon him rest* moral i responsibility for this murder committed by j men in the pay of tbe railroad*. Instant i action is now to be demanded. If GAvernor J Oglesby will not act, tbe people of Illinois ought to. Every man subject to militia duty iu the state should be called upon, if need be, to preserve the people against such murderous outrages as that of yesterday, and to preserve all men from intimidation or interference in the lawful disposal of their actions. Why alias Married. i Boston lieraM.) Silas is a country* characier, who means well. Ho tries to earn a living, and “tinkers around’’ at odd job* and chores and whatever he can get to do; but tie works a good deal as he talks, with a puimul drawl that is very suggestive of that siale of natural re«tt’uluess which his ilk call “horn tired.” Silas came to mend fence the oilier day for one of his patrons in the suburban village where he belongs, with a peculiar air of festivity about him. He had on a bright new necktie ot blue Japanese silk, and bis honest face was covered by an expansive erin all the lime that he was receiving hi*

orders.

“ i ou seem happy, Silas,” said Mr. Blank, j with some curiosity, when he had tiuislied

about tbe fence.

“Ya as,” drawled Silas. “Yu-as, I’ve been

a gittm’ married this niornin’.”

“Married? You? Why, Silas, man alive, what on earth have you gone and done that lor? You can't support yourself as it is.”

Silas, “I ken pooty near

Every Day Work. Great deeds are trumpeted: load bells are mug, And men turn round to sec The high peaks echo to the paeans song O e some great victory. And yet great deeds are few. The mightiest men Find opportunities hut now and then. Shall one sit idle thronjh long days of peace, 2 Waiting for walls to seal*-'.’ Or lie In port until some “Golden Fleece” Lures him to face the gale? There's work enough: why idly. then, delay* His wort counts most who labors every day. A torrent sweeps sdown the mountain's brow With foam and flash and roar. Anon its strength Is spent, where is it now? Its one short day is o'er. But the clear stream that through the meadow

flows

All the long summer on its mission goes. Ec-tter the steady flow: the torrent’s dash

fkJOl

The hg

:ne steady now: t

>n leaves it- rent track dry.

light we lore :s not a lightning flash

unfailing ray,

lue, ligma every day.

The sweetest lives are those to duty wed. Whose deeds, both great and '•mall. Are close-knit strands of one unbrv

Where love ennobles ad.

i world i

unbroken thread.

les ..

The world may >ouud no trumpets, ring no bells: The Loek of l/.fe tbe shining record tells.

“SCRAPS-'*

“Wull,” aaid Silas,

support myseii, ’n’ I thiuk it’s a Uurn pity

if sue can’t help some!'’ Victims ot Cocaine.

1 Del roil special. I

The use of cocaine in Detroit is becoming alarmingly prevalent. A bank cashier named MacDonald, and J. A. Fisk, proprietor of the city laundries, are the two latest victims. Fisk began using cocaine last summer for catarrh by painting his nostrils with it. and later took it internally. To-day he was removed to Harper hospital for treatment. He is full ot vagaries, alternately imagining that he is the Almighty and tbe immaculate Conception and again asserting that he has been raised from the dead. MacDonald wandered to Toronto while suffering from mental aberration caused by the drug. Several other more or less prominent Detroiters are known to be in a bad way from using

the drug.

High License Must Come. ILapurte Argus.] The current of events is toward a high license for the sale of liquors in Indiana. The party that opposes a reasonable position on this question is likely to get run over and hurt in uic campaign next tall. Tin re may he good grounds for disagreement as to what sum a high or a low license may be, but, it is very likely to be fixed at a considerably higher rate than now prevails. Extremes should be avoided both ways, but in some way the people arc likely to be called ou to meet this issue. Not Frequent Enough.

[Life.]

Countryman (in book-store)—My wife wanted me to get her some good magazine to

read.

Proprietor—Yes, sir. How would the Century Magazine do? Countryman—Gosh, no! She wants a monthly magazine. Couldn’t Find the Malaria. An Italian professor wishing to find out whether tiie miasm of malaria existed in the dew and soil, experimented on bimseit by having infusions of dew and soil collected from unhealthful places injected under his skin. He experienced no evil results. He and his friends made fifty-two similar experiments without harm. A Future Cuttle Country. Mr. G. A. Farini, who has recently traveled extensively in the Kalahari desert, north of Cape Colony, in South Africa, now reports that he found millions of acres of nutritious grasses, and he believed this so-called desert will in time become one of the greatest cattle-producing countries in the world. Sugar Out of Box-Etder. Nebraska farmers are experimenting with box-elder as a sugar-producing tree. Samples of molasses and sugar made of the sap have the appearance and taste of the Vermont article. Gambling in Staid Massachusetts. Gambling has grown to he so common a cause of ruin in respectable towns of Berkshire, Mass.—Pittsfield, Lee, Lenox, North Adams, etc.—that a powerful movement has been begun against the practice. There AVU1 Be a Sad Settling Day. The extent of the loan business in Dakota is indicated by the statement that in one county during the last few years 3,000 mortgages have been recorded, representing over $300,000. Early Vegetable Supply Short. The supply of early vegetables from Savannah and Florida ia noticeably short this year, owing to the January freeze. Broom Corn and Cotton. A large number of Georgia planters will plant largely to broom corn, there being more money in it than in cotton. A Small Margin for Profit. In New Hampshire last year 80 per cent, of the receipts of tire insurance companies were absorbed by the losses. Vetoing an Eight-Hour Ordinance. Mayor O’Brien of Boston has vetoed the city ordinauce making eight hours a legal day for city employes. A Great Fact. A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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to or like unto one another but they can’t be “different to” without dislocating the whole relation of meaning that attaches to phrase* of comparison and contrast. It is a corruption that has grown op in the English language at ite home since the days of Ite greater purity when our ancestors spoke It, and thus oat repeats the testimony of history that in the colonies the mother tongue is always preserved in the greatest parity. The iota Richard Grant Whitegreat aaglo-maaiae that he was, but great aathorily on the English language that he ia—protested against this senseless phrase, analysing ite absurdity and condemning it. For us to ose it is worse than for tbe English to do that same. With them it is a eorraptioa simply; with as it would be aa affectation as well. There are a few things more despicable or more indicative ef weakness of character

thaa am imitation of yjoa^

thereof. They are not independent officers of the law deciding how far they may justly go in protection ot another party interfered with or assaulted by still another. They themselves are this party and tbe judge, and in this case they decided that an idle crowd that jeered and cursed them had committed an offense which warranted shooting it. Those men should be tried for murder and the railroad companies which armed and paid them should be prosecuted as accessory before the fact. This conclusion points to s fundamental neglect on the part of the proper authorities of tbe law which,if not punishable by law, and probably it isn’t, should be punished by popular opinion and by the expression of the ballotbox. The workingmen and alt others should be warned into a refusal to cast their votes, under whatever political persuasion, for such demagogues and cowards as Governor Oglesby, of

EuglauU's Antipodal Colonies. The population of the province of New South Wales is 1,000,000, and that of Aus-

tralia 4,000,000. ^ Europe’s Armies.

At the drum tap 0,000,000 drilled soldiers would take arms in Europe. A Disgusting Fashion. Long, pointed finger-nails are coming into fashion among the women of New York. Pasteur's Hospital a Go. The Pasteur fund in Paris now amounts to over $100,000 and the hospital is assured.

Without a Wrinkle.

Ribbed underwear, that fits without a

wrinkle, is the latest kiuk. The Modern I'se of Buttons.

Buttons are used now to trim a dress, not

to fasten it.

Lace Not for Cotton. Lace is not to he put on cotton di

summer.

i this

No one should delay when they have a cough or cold, when i fifty-cent bottle of Bigelow’s Positive Cure will promptly and safely cure them. Dollar six* cheapest for family use or chronic cases.

Lisle-thread stockings, of china-blue color,

are fresh.

A Reading lad clipped off his front hair “to make a paint brush.” The Mau-Who-Falls-Flat is in prison for murder on Bad river, Dak. In Berlin a siatue of Lessing is to be put up at a cost of some $80,000. Au Illinois groom paid a charivari party $0 each to let him have peace. A “Poverty club” at Milford, 111., gave a “hard times” party the other eYeuiug. Ex-Governor Newell, of New Jersey, is practicing medicine at C'entraliu, W. T. The Maryland legislature pa-sed a law prohibiting the employment of women in concert tuloons. A real Indian birch-bark canoe is to be sent to the queen of Italy by the Dalian minister at Washington. It Lakes nine tailors to make a man, but one tailor can make a dude. He can’t always make him pay, though. Pirds mil one tedder shneak dhemselves off alene togedder in gombauy nut nobody, too.—[National Weekly. Colonel P. P. G. Hull, paymaster U. 8. A., is said to be the only living descendant of William Penn in this country. Rev. Joseph Cook seems to have let go of the tail ot the universe lor a lew moments. So there is lots of trouble.—[Puck. Young Housewife—What miserable little eggs, again. You really must tell them, June, to let the hens sit on them a little longer.—[Troy Times. “Through die Year with the Poets” is the title ot a serial publication. The every-day editor’s motto is, through the door with ’em. —[Burlington Free Press. “I dropped $48,000 at poker last night,” remarked Hon. Thomas Ochiltree the other dav, “and the worst of it was that of the amount was in cash.”—[Washington Hatchet. A farmer of Ithaca, N. Y., had tp defer the completion of some important legal papers the other day, because, after trying for twenty minutes in his lawyer’s office to recollect the full name of Wis wife, he failed

to do so.

A Dakota candidate for the magistracy, whose chances looked blue, conceived the happy idea of announcing that if elected he would charge only $1 for marrying any couple, and would wait until there was a christening for his pay. The other man

didn’t get a vote.

Minneapolis is to have a new twelve-story hotel. The main dining room will be in tbe tenth story; theeleveuth floor will bedevoted entirely to the kitchen, and the twelfth story to the laundry and servants’ quarters, it will have accommodations for five hundred

guests, and will cost $750,OOt).

There are in Canton eight hundred temples dedicated to gods and goddesses, all of them richly adorned with shrines and images. In the “Temple of Heaven,” at Pekin, the emperor officiates as high priest. It is rich in silk hangings, gold embroidery, huge paper lanterns of quaint loruis, covered with all sorts of Chinese sharacters and grotesque

idols.

An unknown man stopped up to Rev. Mr. Taimnge once and said: “Well, sir, I am au evolutionist, and 1 want to discuss the question with you. I am also au annilulatiouist. I believe that when I die that will be the end of me.” “Thank God for that!” devoutly ejaculated Mr. Talmage, as he walked oil and left the man perfectly dazed.—[Philadelphia Iieui. An idea of the extensiveness of Oregon’s salmon ti»heries can be had from these statistics, which the Salem (Ore.) Astorian puts forth: Over 60,000 boxes of tin have been or are being worked up into cans for the coming salmon season’s pack. Nearly $g50,iXH) worth of twine has been sold to Columbia river canners for nets for the season. In the next three weeks boats to the value of $.'00,000 will be put in trim for the fishing season of 13ku. * The Hartford Times suggests that the women of America should erect a statue of General Spinner. He first, against great opposition and prejudice, opened the way of government employment to women, by giving them places in the United States treasury and now 4,000 women are employed iu the government service. A statue represeutieg General Spinner’s autograph would be a unique thing but might be mistaken for a Chinese imperial dragon ou skates.— [Springfield Union. A colored gentleman, formerly in the employ of a leading firm of book publishers in Boston, but who is now in the employ ot the Unitarian association, received as a Christmas present from his former employers “Abbott on Scientific Theism.” A short time afterward his former employers asked him how he enjoyed the book. “Well,” he said, “I haven’t got far in it, but I showed it to Rev. Mr. the other day ; and he said he could easier believe in God than read that book.”—[Boston Traveller. Mrs. Conkling is represented as a mild and excellent woman, and her daughter an almost perfect reproduction of Roscoe himself. There is a story in Washington, probably not true, hut which always excites a laugh from its accuracy in the’discrimination of character, to the effect that Mr. Conkling said to his daughter when she was resolved to marry: “I am your father, and I ought to be consulted.” “I was not consulted,” replied the young woman, “when you became my father, and probably if I had been I would have chosen some other father.”—

[Gath.

“What i* Denis Keafney doing now?” was recently asked of a Californian. “Talking on the sand-lots every Sunday,” he said. “But what does he do during the week?” “Oh, he keeps an intelligence office for persons seeking servants and servants seeking places.” “Does he have any dealings with the Chinese?” “Oh, no. He sticks to his old text. The legend over his office is, ‘No Chinese need apply.’ There are over one hundred ‘intelligence offices’ in San Francisco,” he continued, “and all of them, except half-a-dozen, deal with the Chinese; but Kearney’s is one of the half-dozen. He is a natural bigot, but he is smart enough in this thing, as in politics, to make his bigotry pay. He make kis animosity to the Chinese very

prominent in his advertisements.”

"Bishop” Oberiy says that not many years ago, when a young man, he was elected ns assemblyman in Illinois. He was frightened when the time came for hint to go to the capitol at Springfield; he feared that he would by paled by the flushing of bright intellect all around him. He took his seat the first day in fear and trembling, but iu five minutes he was perfectly at ease, and made to thiuk that perhaps he might be one of those who would shine. This was what wrought the change in his mind: “Mr. Speaker,” said one assemblyman, “there are no ink in the inkstands.” Young Oberiy was amazed. “By gracious!” he thought, “is this the kind of timber they send here?” Up rose another assemblyman, since famous as “Long Jones:” “Mr. Speaker,” said he, “there are ink, but it are froze in the bottles.” That was all young Oberiy needed to

pat him at ease in the legislature.

My wife’s case was. undoubtedly, the worst case of inflammatory rheumatism on record, and I am thankful that there is such a medicine as Athlophoros. I ehecnolly recommend it to the afflicted. Thomas MoCos, Bush’s block Du-

biMne. la.

BUILDING A GREAT TELESCOPE.

Clark’s Crowning Work-Bringing Use Moon Within a Hundred Miles.

{Boston special.!

The largest refracting telescope in the world is now in process of construction in the modest workshop of tbe venerable A Ivan Clark, the eminent telescope maker, in Henry street, Cambridgeport. The two disks of glass go to form the lens of the great Lick telescope, which will be placed in the observatory on the peak of Mount Hamilton, a bequest of the California millionaire, James Lick. These two circular glasses are valued at $25,000 each, and, it destroyed, they could not be duplicated within the next six uionUis for millions of dollars. The disks were cast in Paris, the order being given five years ago, but the failures were so numerous that they were not received by Messrs. Clark until last September. When finished the lens will be thirty-six inches in diameter, six inches wider than the one which they recently completed for the Russian government. Since recefving the blocks last September Mr. Clark and his sons have been constantlyat work upon them, but they do not expect to have them completed much before next fall. When completed the two lenses will weigh about seven hundred pounds. The worn ot polishing the disks has now reached that stage w here the removal of a few grains more or less from the wrong place would ruin them. The only instrument used is the hand smeared with rouge, a polishing substance finer than the

| finest emery.

Some iiiea of the power of the instrument

i may be gained from the statement recently | made by an astronomer, that gazing at the | moon, 240,00U miles away, that orb by this i telescope will be brought to within less | than 100 miles from tbe eye of the beholder, i Mr. Clark on Monday last was eigttty-two. ! He and bis wife will on March 25 celebrate ; tiie sixtieth anniversary ot their marriage, j He was born in Asitfield, Mass., and brought 1 up a tanner’s boy, but bis sell-taught skill | gained hint a situation us an engineer, at the age ot twenty-two, iu a Lowell calteo mill. Ten years later he had become a miniature painter in Boston, with a studio in Court street. All j the time he was painting these portraits he ! was grinding away at lenses lor a pastime, ami when tne daguerrotype threatened the extinction of ihe portrait-painting profession I

i he stepped into telescope-making.

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PETTIS, BASSETT & CO.

* GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Again to-night. Feueflt of the INDIANAPOLIS LETTER CAItRI KR9. ! ZOZO, THE MAGIC QUEEN. j The greatest spectacular drama ever written. 3—CAES OF SPECIAL SCENERY—3

First part of next week, SOL SMITH RUSS I LL..... In his great comedy success, FELIX McKUSICK

[ENGLISH’S OPERA HOUSE, F I'I’Ut- largest, best an l moat popular Thenar In *-*Indiana. Wlix KE.VOLMH.Frop. and Aau’gst

TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT, 10c, 25c, COc, 75c,. Last appearance of the

JUVENILE MIKADO,

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With the famous HOLLYWOOD CHILDREN.

April 15. three nlchts—Murray and Murphy iu “OUR It.ISH VISITORS.”

V

LRGINLA AVENUE RINK.

..three Mile speed race

Between Harry L. CtuirteM, if Xenia. O.. and Jno.

Ale\ander.

SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL la Admission, Ite. .-Icutes 10-.

There Is Nothing Surprising

In the fact that Benson'a Cspclne Plasters are w idely Imitated: that cheap and worthless plasters, w ith names of simitar sound, and similar appear ance In type, are freely offered for sals Articles o-

great and original merit always have to compete with trashy imitations. But as they become known they die out tbrouyh deserved neglect. Meanwhile we warn the public again*; the so-called “Caps!

cum,’’ "Cupalcln." “Capucln” and ”Capslc:ue” plasri*rM whether “B?!! 1 nn,,i U “RnrSrtn** •*/»*■ rt»Kz*^«..4

ive no mtUI

ters. wh They ha

enlon’s.” •’Burton’s," or otheru ltUleinai or curative virtues what-

! ever, end are made to sell on he reputation of ; Benson’s When pnrehasing ash for Benson's, d> al ; with respectable dntzgtoL* only, and von can not be | de -eived. Tue genuine haa the “Three seals” trade- : mark os thectolh and the word "Capcrne” cut In

i the center.

TAKAKNESS. It* CAUSES and CURE, by one .Lz w ho was deaf is years. Treated hy most of tue notea tpeetallstgot the dav whh no benefit. Curnl /•iiat'if In three months, and since then hundreds ol oihers by -aine proct-sa A plain, s uipie and successiul home treatment. Address '1. b. PAGE, US Last hith St.. New York City.

A. DICKSON & CO.

SPECIAL OPENING —OF— LADIES’ COLLARS AND CUFFS, JERSEY WAISTS, CORSETS, SPRING GLOVES AND SPRING HOSIERY. Latest styles. Good values.

A. DICKSON & CO. TK.hXI>IG FA.T.ACHL

^ ^ wf EW LYMAN, j’ Single generator^GasoUns Stove. As easy to light as a gas burner; drum oran J ■ “ALASKA" Refrigerators and Ice Chests. “CHARTER OAK" Ranges, with wire gauze oven door. Mantels, Grates and Tile Hearths. Laundry stoves. JOHNSTON Ac BKNNKTT, «7-We are prepared to do galvanized iron and tin work.to* 68 East Washington St.

SPRING, GENTLE SPRING Has come at last, and now tbe question of new Spring Garments presents itself to all. Since we first opened here our business has steadily increased year after year, until we now employ three cutters, our latest acquisition being Mr. H. H. Mather, whose ability as a cutter far excels that of any other in this city or state. lie is a thorough and practical tailor, who can design or cut any style of garment. Together with this, we have secured the services of an additional number of experienced tailors, to whom we pay the highest prices for firstclass work, and while we make garments that can not be excelled here or elsewhere, yet our prices are from 20 to 30 per cent, less than those of our wouldbe competitors. We buy and sell for cash, at lowest cash prices, which is the secret of our great

success.

CO.

THE GLOBE TAILORING

22 West Washington Street T. M. STUART.

FOR PUMPS, PUMP REPAIRING AND DRIATElNr WELLS, GO TO J. D. CAMERON, 64 VIRGINIA AVENUE.

IMMENSE STOCK BABY CARRIAGES At Bottom Pricea WrSee the hew Sleeping Co*o1l>

CHARLES MAYER & CO. 29 and 31 West Washington St.

WA.SHINGTON MARKET =ZTRY C. & S. BRAND COFFEE.— TELEPHONE 515. 78 and 80 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET.

PORTIERES. We have just received an elegant line of these goods in ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN Makes, which we offer at reasonable prices, ,, SCUILICIB I LEE, XIXLC STKW CzXRPKT HOUSE. 5 East Washington Street

{PURE SPICES. CHAMOIS SKINS. SPONGES. FRzVNK II. CA.RXKR, X)HUC=K3-ISX, \^300 MASSACHCSJETTS AVENUE, 3. W. CORNER ST. CLAIR STREET.

Centenial Refrigerators. JEWEL RANGES.

SE1HIGH1G GAME SIDE

(No matches required)

Galvanized Iron Cornices, Slate and Ha

Roofing. Double deodorized Gasoline tor sale and delivered.

P. M. PURSELL & SON, 84 East Washington St

KREGELO. Telephon® 50-4..

FILNERAJj DIRECTOR. 77 North Delaware Street. OPE^ HAY ANT) NIO-HT.

BRYCE’S BREAD Cheaper than flour. 1 h pounds for 5 cents. Aak jour grocer for ttk

NTEW LINE HAT RACKS, CYLINDER BOOK-CASES, ETC., ETO., AT MESSENGER’S, 101 East Washington St>