Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 2 November 1889 — Page 7

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Where would thw danger come from? From fireor water or iron? From bird or beast or flower At j*u»t they decided to wait on Baldur'a mother, old Frigga, and grt her to beg of all things not to harm her beloved son. "The mother was glad to be sent' on touch a mission, though to com {&>*» it hIks mu#t go all around the world. "So «hestarted on her journey, and the first »hfi came to wjw Fire.

Fjro, Fire.' *aid »he, I am Frigga, ths* mother of Baldur the Good. fie dreams dream* and sees vihiona, and they portend him danger and me sorrow. Wilt thou take an oath, oh, Fire, not to harm lialdur the Good?1

Fire I intoned and answered: I can Ik- fierce and cruel but will not harm lialdur the Good/ "Then Frigga t|iaiiked him, and went to 8t»el.

Oh! .Steel.' nhe said, *1 am F'rigga, and I eome to bt?g thw to take an oath thut thou wilt not liarm lialdur the Good, who

Oh. Water,' ahesa'd, wilt thou take an oath to mo to H|*are lialdur the Good? 1, hia mother, Frigga. implore you.' "And Water replied:

I can Ik told and I can destroy, but 1 will »part? Haldol- the Good,' "Aiul »m old Krigga went to all the metalM, to all the tree*, to all thf flowers, to poisonw, to HJiakcH, to. wild Ijcuxta of the foreat, to volcanoes, to thunder and lightning, to the earthquake#, until whe had seen them all and they all twk the oath*. and Frigga returned to hersoU and told the Awar that he was safe, for everything that could do harm had promised to Mpare lialdur.

All were convinced and happy but Haldur, who ntill dreamt drauim of illomen. "So, to convince him that nothing could harm him, the Annr led Baldur the (Jood to a great hall, and thero tested all the

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Not they,*»aid Frigga. 'Oh, I did my work well! All things have ttworn. even birds and bejVHtu, and the snakes and hugw. I l»eggwl an oath of everything but a little green withe of mistletoe that grown elost* down here an innocent young thing, not worth offering an oath to- not old enough or big enough.' "The wicked old Asar wanted to hear no more, but went her way, looked for the withe of miatleloe. found it,ami went to where the Asar were collected, am us-

ing themsel.ve# with proofs of the safety of IkUdor the Good. She dared not enter, but she saw at the door a young brother of Haldur'a who was blind. "•Why are they all throwing things at lialdur? Why do they fire at hint?'.she asked.

Do tlvey wish to kill him?' No.' wvid the youth. 'They rejoice that all things have taken an oath not to harm my brother, Baldur the Good. They are testing the oath*. AH keep them."

Why do you not join them?" asked tlw» old womant I am blind/ Ktld the Wy.

Mr. lo*ier. of St. lUnd*. the Iwker, ha» be«tt idling th l*Yi»nch lm»ad a sweet morsel under his tongue fver wnce he nrriveil in Pari*, and womieriug how in thunder they make »o crisp ami put that gla» on it." "I wrut Into the bakery Uwl*r aud fiauni wit all about it," now declare*. hb face Iteaming with happimw. "and ITl nmke bread just like it *u America. bsimply a matuir of allowing a st|m,y t» fall upon the dough It into tin? oven,"

A thug nome tlm* mad® hfe» fe«ni«m to an KuRlhdt oftit'er. He had committed TOO murders, bttl plaintively f*ki: All* «ir, If I had not, been a |rit* iwer txrelvr years the number would have reached thousand,w

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Denmark." said the old D&ni.*h liousewife, "the jieople believed in »trangi*godjsses, who were called the Amr. Many «torie* were told alxnit them and their doing*, but tht best of ail is that of Ba.1dur the Good.

He had been very happy until he began to dream thai he wan about to be killed, and lie told his fears to the Asar, who held a congress to d«**ide what to do, and how to ward off the danger that threaten**! him.

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dreamed woeful dream*.' "•1 tuke the oath,' wild steel. I can lie sharp and dangerous, but will spare Baldur the Oood.' "Then Frigga went to Water.

that had vowed to *pare him.

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at him. They ra*t him into flam?#^ Nothing touched him. So all wen: laughing and merry, while Frigga wit at her door renting. Ami up the road came an old woman, very feebkj and poor, as it seemed who staid to Frigga:

Welcome, after thy journey.* And Frigga did not know iter for a wicked and cruel Asar, who lusted lialdur the Good. **•1 am returned, good gossip,' Frigga wild, 'and I have done my work well. Nothing harms my lialdur. They have Umted the faith of all things and I am happy, I re*t, an you «ee, after going around the world.' "Cannot nteel or Ihviuo hurt him?' asked the old woman,

Il«»w Banwr Kbaved Himself. S?* "M r*. Bowser, do you know how much linn- the average man consumes per week tu getting shaved queried Mr. Bowser, ax he enteied the house the other evening with a parcel under his arm.

I do not.w Well, I figure at an hour and a half, to say nothing of the expense. One also runs many rusks by ttliaving iu a public place," -Yes." "And 1 shall hereafter shave myself. I can do it in seven or eight minutes, at a cost of less than two cent*, and I run no rink of having my throat cut by so me lunatic. "Well, I hope you'll make a successot It, but—r "There you go! Did I ever attempt anything you didn't tliscourage?*' "But you know you tried it twice and gave it up, and threw your outfits away in disguht" "And why? Because some one used my razors to cut kindling wood!" "Mr. Bowser!" "At leaat it appeared that way to me. and I got a larne arm and we went off on a visit, and there were several other reasons, From this time forward I sliall tdiave myself, and I shall begin after supper."

After supper he prepared himself with three towels and a quart of hot water, and went up stairs to begin operations. I crept wjftly up and took a seat on the landing just an Mr. Bowser had removed coat arid vent and collar, and wa-. mixing the lather. While he was soaping his face. I heard him growl several times, and afterwards ascertained that it was caused by his jabbing the brush into his mouth and eye« by mistake. Alout one-half of the lather was deposited on his shirt front Ix'fore he got through. He wafc just Hcventeen minutes getting ready for the razor, and when he took it up I heard him multer: "This thing handles mighty awkward: if that fellow haa gone and

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hit Home one el,«fv or bo hit myself.' "•I'oor child!' said the cruel old A*a* But take part im the sjxirt, llen» I have a little inniK»nt greet* withe, a pretty bit of niistletoe, Thn»w it over the lu'ads of the others at Baldur tl»e Good, so that you may say you also rejoiced and trnttnl the (.kaths df all things not to harm him/ "The boy laughed and held oat life hand. "The wicked Asar laid the mistletoe in it. €&*% it/ she said. '•Tlie U»y hurltnl it merrily thi-ough the air. It struck lialdur the gv^nl juMabove the heait and pictie^l it. Yen. the Httle withe paj«*ed straight through him, and his life bkmd l^gau to How, "'It in st«* I drvanved/ Ivtl crirnl, and Baldiir the tbxHl was d«ul.

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left'handed razor I'll prosecute him to the last ditch?" He held it in various positions to get "the hang,"*' and when he finally got it he made a careful motion along his right cheek. To his great delight he didn't cut his head off. On the contrary he shaved off a whole spoonful of lather, and I heard him chuckling: "Kgad! But I'm getting therewith both feet! No barber could beat that!"

Air. Bowser wears a mustache, and is proud of it. At the third or fourth scrape along his cheek one end of the mustache got in the way of the razor, and a share of it was carried overboard, so to speak.

By tlumder. gasped Mr. Bowser, as he regarded the damage, and he carefully washed all tho lather off that side to closer inspect the calamity, investigation proved that the damage was not beyond rejMUr, and ho renewed the lather and went ahead.

In the course of the next fifteen minutes Mr. Bowser must have removed as many as two hairs from his face, and he uttered fully 100 sighs and grunts. Ho tried the razor in his right ha'Jid and in his left, and in every conceivable position, and he brushed on the lather \mtil a hoe would scarcely have scraped it off. "You

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self, "a fellow has to fool around awhile to get confidence in himself. I expected it would take about half an hour this time, but inside of a week I'll make a clean shave inside of five minutes. There —that's a good job." lie wet a towel and wiped the lather off his face and took a look in the glass. The result astonished him. .So far as he could see he had not removed a single beard. He had scraped off the lather, but the beard was sti I there, lie growled away for a while, and then mixed afresh lot of lather and brushed it on. and. after satisfying himself that the razor's edge was all right bv cutting a hair he pulled from bis head, he laid it against hinehin. He gradually turned it up and began to scrape, and heard him softly saying "Now, then, I've got the real hang of it. I w«ii carrying it too fiat There's a triek—"

Two things suddenly happened. He cut the left corner of bis moustache off and gashed his chin at the same stroke, and the next instant he bounded into the hall ami shouted for me, "Well, what is it?" 1 asked, us I rose up.

I^ook here! I'm fatally wounded?" ho cried, as he danced around the hall. "U»t me see. Why, it's nothing but a slight cut. l*et me wash the lather off."

Ft was a livelv cut. and it bled freelv for a ouarter of an hour, during which time Mr. Bowser did a great deal of sigh lug and groaning and forgot about his mustache. When I had plastered up the cut he returned to the glass, and discovered that his moustache was lopsided and wheeled on me to exclaim: "l4xk at it! Look at that, Mrs. Bowser!

Yes, vou haggled your mustache. I'll get the shears and trim it off," "Never! Keep right away from me! Mrs. Bov***r \otir plot has IK en discovered "iVm't be «o foolish, Mr. Bowser. I told you v. couldn't shave yourself, it is all as plain as day now!" he continued. as he Ujfwet the lather cup and walked through its coutents: "you probably figured that I'd cut tny throat You were setting at the head of the stairs to catch my death rattle!w

Did I tell vou to bring home that raasvr* Didn't 1 try to discourage you tsto«n sJiaving?"

I fe turned from me without a reply, and I went down staim. He came down after about half an hour, lie had been obliged to sacrifice a third of his mustache to get it in proper slwpe again aod Uw lather which had gotten into his eyes gave him the appearance of having wept For a week.

It's too had," I said* btxak ng a long and embarrasing -Oh, it is. Is it?" he sneered in reoly. "Too bad that I'm not lying Iwedless c*rpe»e up stairs and you figuring on my IMe insurance!"

Well its no use to talk to you, Sir. Bowser.* "Not a hit Mrs. How**c. Yon had plan I checkmated iL You slwtd in your inte light a wocm-w Borgia, or wtm This is the last straw, Mr*. Bowter—th* very last. la tl»« moming we will talk taurines*.

But when morning came he didn't Itave a wont to say. I found his shaving outfit in the sale yard, wkre he had thrown it from tJ** witi-iow. tnd the girt using

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INTERESTINGCSCIENTIFIC POINTS,

Zoologists, whose 'study it is to compare the structure of different animals, tell us that the butterfly and lobster are so nearly alike that the former might be called the lobster of the air and the latter the butterfly of the sea.

Human life is increasing in length all over the world as sari itaryjeond it ions are better understood. In England 200 years ago the mortality was one in thirty-three each year now it is only one in sixty.

There are stars in the sky that are rushing directly towards each other at the rate of fifty miles a second, but seem no nearer each other than (they did 300 years ago. This shows bow enormously distant they are.

In Zambesi, in Central Africa, mosquitoes are so large that the inhabitants tame them and yoke them to a plough and compel them to perform manual labor. They sing cheerfully at their toil and are fed on cheap captives. (N. B.—This item is intended to be read ocdy by Jersey men.)

Snow is not white. This Jmay'seem a strange assertion, but it is true. In a room entirely dark snow is perfectly black.1 It is composed of crystals which seem white by the manner in which they reflect light.

The celebrated cliff builders whose ruined homes are still found- in caves along the sides of the Colorado canyon, built syme stately mansions. One, now in ruins in Chico canyon, was four stories high and 600 feet long, and must have been as imposing as any building in this country except the capitol at "Washington.

Brehtn asserts th&t wild baboons were caught in Africa by being madedrunk on rum exposed in pans in the woods. "On the following morning they were very cross and dismal they held their heads with both hands and wore a most pitiable expression. A man ape in the London zoological garden has learned to smoke.

Edison's tasimeter is so sensitive that it will measure the heat of a star more than a thousand million miles away. It will detect the heat of the hand 748 feet distant, /'.v

The mound builders, the ^predecessors of the American Indians, were a civilized and commercial race. They dressed in woven cloth, and had a wide trade. Copper from the Superior mines was exchanged for staples from the Atlantic and Gulf States. There is a mound at Cahokea, III., 600 feet square and 100 feet high.

The long clam has noT.head. That curious flexible muscle which he sticks up through the sand is not a head, but merely a pump with which he feeds himself. It possesses two canals orjtubes, through one of which the clam draws in water, which, after depositing whatever nutriment it contains, is expelled through the other.

Geologically Americans the oldest continent, older than Europe, Asia, or Africa. The first earth that appeared above the surface of the molten globe is tho Caurentian ridge of granite stretching from .Newfoundland to Lake Superior.

A. patient German professor reports that he has numbered the hairs of the head, with the following average: Blonde head, 140,000 hairs brown, 109,440 black, 102,962 red, 88,750 A woman's hair weighs fourteen ounces.

CONCERNING WOMEN.

Miss Otilie Thomas, stenographer and typewriter, is said to be the only American girl who had charge of an exhibitat the Paris exposition.

There are 815 women who have obtained the LL. D. degree of St. Andrew's university since 1887, and there are more candidates this year than ever before.

There are many more applicants for admissson to Smith College for Women at Northampton, Mass., than can be accommodated. It is a melancholy fact that nearly all the professors of the gentle sex at this college are unmarried.

Most of the "station masters" on the Rothbury Loop line of the North British railway, Northumberland, are women. They are called "collectors" and are not compelled to wear any uniforms. It is said that they do their work well and are quite reliable.

The number of female students atVaasar college is larger than usual, and every room is occupied. The gymnasium is a favorite resort for the students. The professors of both sexes are as busy as bees in all departments.'

In order to eucourage the study of literature in Newhatn college Mrs. Frank Darwin has offered two prir.es, one for essays on the history of English poetry from Dryden to Shelley, and the other on the rise and development of the English novel from 1746 to 1859.

Tennyson is famous not alone for his poetry on the Isle of Wight the excellence of his dairy produce also distinguishes him. This part of his establishment is under the management ot his daughter-in-iaw, Mrs. Hal lam Tennyson, and is considered one of the finest dairies on the island, being celebrated for the superior quality of the milk, cream, and butter it sends to market \f

A woman feeding her hens witli patient care is said to have made the beginnings of the great menhaden industry in Maine, Mrs. Bartleit, about half a century ago. down in Blue Hill bay, was oit4 day boiling aome menhaden for ber hens, when ehe found a quantity of oil rising to the top of the water in the pot. She skimmed it off, boiled it up, and. with unusual enterprise, ga& aboard the old sloop ttfat plied between .Boston and th*» east coast, and took the strange oil among the dealers of the *^Hub." A man named E. P. Phillips examined it and offered to buy all she-could bring him. Sbs went home happy and all summer the old gentlemen Bartlett fished aod the old lady Bartkttairied out the oil. In ths fall they had enough'ofl to bring them ^ereral tbousaodt dollars. This wa* the l»egincung of an aodustry that yields ««om years Sd.tOO lavebof oil* and fiakerr.

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TKRRE HAUTE DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 18S9.-SUPPLEMENT.

A Toss-Up for a Nomination.

Judge Elijah Robinson, of Louisiana, Mo., is at the Midland, savs the Kansas Citv Times. Judge Robinson is one of the best-known politicians in Central Missouri He has twice made the race for the Democratic nomination for congress in the seventh congressional district, and each time missed it by but a scratch. Two Years ago the fight for the nomination was a red hot though a friendly one. Judge Robinson, of Pike, and Richard Norton, of Lincoln, were the foremost candidates, and before the day of the convention rolled around these two liad distanced the rest of the crowd, and it was evident that one or the other would win. It is the unexpected that always occurs in tliat district, and this fact kept every man in the race, and when the nominating convention met in the little town of Warrenton, August 26, every candidate was in the field and the fun began. Buttons were pulled off and button holes pulled oitt until the delegates were a careworn anjJ^unhappylooking crowd,

The balloting was begun... ^Ballots to the number of 200 were taken." A deadlock was on, and for two dajs the opposing forces battled. After the first day it nanowed down to Robinson and Norton. There were sixty-six votes in the convention. Thirty-four would nominate. Each could get thirty-three votes, but the thirty-fourth persisted vacillating.

The second day of the convention, so the story goes, Norton and Robinson met by appointment in the parlor of one of the hotels. Mutual friends were present, the doors were locked, and it,.yas proposed to settle the matter. "How shall it be done?" asked Robinson. "Flip a dollar," replied Norton.

"Agreed, was the answer. "Heads or tails*" asked Norton. "Tails," shouted Robin on, as the coin went spinning toward the ceiling. Tails it was and Robinson took the coin. "I'll take heads," said Norton. The coin came down with the goddess uppermost. It was horse and horse and the excitement was intense. A seat in congress was pending on the next throw. Not a man spoke as Norton picked up the coin for the final throw. "Tails again," said Robinson, as Norton nervously flipped the dollar.

The calm face of the goddess again came down last and Norton had won. The two shook hands, went back to the hall, where the weary delegates were voting on about the six hundredth ballot. The tip was given on the next ballot the deadlock was broken and Norton nominated. He was elected by about 2,500 majority. Judge Robinson, who lost a seat in congress by the chance flip of a dollar, is prominently mentioned as a candidate again two years hence.

A rarlRiRii JoRe.

The many acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, prominent members of the First Baptist church of this city, says the Minneapolis Journal, are telling an amusing story in which the two were the chief characters. The scene is laid in gay Paris. Mr, and Mrs. Reynolds recently made a lengthy European trip. While in Paris, they were patrons of a fashionable hotel. Several months before leaving for the tour abroad Mrs. Reynolds assiduously applied all

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ergies to studying the French language. She was tin unusually apt scholar. When the time for leaving home came Mrs. Reynold's teacher congratulated her upon the rapid manner in which she ad mastered Uie language, and Mrs. Reynolds personally believed si was proficient enough to cope with the Parisians in their own tongue when the great metropolis should be reached.

Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds spent many a pleasant day in Paris, and only have in remembrance one brief half day of agonizing misery. It happened this way: In Parisian hotels the attaches are suave and obliging. One afteWioon Mr. Reynolds journeyed down town alone. When Mrs. Reynolds found herself ready to leave her apartments, she turned to the bright-eyed waiting maid, and with the lest French at her com maud, told the girl to tell her husbamt. when he returned to the room, that she had gone down into the public parlor, ,y\ here she would wait for him. I1 "Oui, madame, repliei the girl with a knowing smile and a low courtesy. It was evident the girl had had such commands given her before.

Mrs. Reynolds passed down to the public parlor. She waited a full hour for her husband, and by this time liecame verv nervous over his non-apj»ear-ance. She weed up stairs and went out upon the veramlalu hen nearly opposite her apartments she beard strange sounds from within. Passing quickly to the window, she was thunderstruck to see her husband jwcing the floor at a lively gait, gesticulating wildly with his hands, and muttering savagely. Ever and anon he would try the door, it would not open. Mrs. Reynolds ran to his assistance opened the door: the girl was found and then followed general explauations. Mrs. Key..olds trench had tripped lie tip. so to speak. The girl understood her to say she should lock her husband fn when he returned, and she obeved orders. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds afterward enjoyed the joke hngely.

Thereafter, however, Mrs. Reynolds insisted that the language of her forefathers was good enough for her. flfi $av*d a Uf*.

Solomon Isackson—Haf you heard the "news, Shaboc, dot I haf saved dose bfes of Rheuben Col»en dhis morning airotty? "Nein. mein frendu how vas dot "He fell off de dock end onaldn't schwim." *"Und you schuraped in iind hclluped Him oud "Ach. du lieber! I schreaim: *Of»me loud und I pay jou dot ten dollar I owe you,* und he climbs dot water out like a doock."—(Time.

He find Dfcni«nt«4.

My dear sister, you ttltould make a peint'of blushing when tl*e duke speaks to you." "But I can iwt" "Tlien the duke is no* the man be used be. *—[Pick-Me-Up,

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MJB JFOVOUT AT W1 SCHIST EH.

An Old Rel«I Soldier Found Warm Friends When Arraigned a Pri«onex. In the case of the State vs. John Stuart, indictment for larceny, the prisouer appeared in tlie court-room, scuffling along, scarcely able to walk. He wore a solid check shirt, a very-much-worn suit, and a battered hat.

Appearing as State witnesses were two well-dressed sleek-looking men, who were determined to send the old man to the penitentiary. "Has tlie prisoner any counsel?" asked Judge Phillips. "I have none," answered Stuart.

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am a poor man and unable to pay an attorney. The Judge saw by the man's looks that his was an unusual case, and said: "Well, go on and tell your story. "Well, sir, I was in the'confederate" army, and at the battle of Winchester I was shot through both hips. Since then it has been exceedingly hard for me to support myself. I went to work for this man last year upon his word to board and clothe me, and to pay me what my services were worth. During that time he paid me 10 cents with which 1 bought bacco. At the end of eight montlis he refused to pay me any money and refused to give me any clothes, saying my services were worthless. Then I went into his wardrobe, took a suit of clothes to hide my nakedness and left. He had me indicted for larceny, and I have been in jail ever since."

As the old man finished a murmur of indignation was heard tlirougout the court-room.

YTou say you were shot at Winchester?" asked Judge Phillips, who was himself ac officer in the splendid and memorable charge. "Y'es, sir." "Were you in the second charge to the left on the other side of the town?"

The prisoner's face brightened. Ye.-.," he said. "I was there—Rhodes' division and was shot while crossing the ravine just below the hill.

The judge was satisfied then that the old veteran was telling the truth, but to be certain he called the State's witness.

While the witness was giving in his testimony, which was to the effect that the old man's story was about right, but that iie refused to pay him anything liecause his services were worthless, Stuart leaned over to Solicitor Settle. "Mr. Settle," he said, "vour father and I were friends. I lived iu Rockingham county, and your father persuaded me to enlist in his company. I received my wounds while following him. Since then it lias been hard for me to keep out of the poorhouse.

By this time Judge Phillips, and Solicitor Settle, and everybody else in the court-room, were satisfied that the old soldier had been pitilessly persecuted, and the faces of the onlookers showed the deepest pity and sympathy for the unfortunate man and the blackest indignation for his employer. "Mr. Solicitor," said the judge," change your bill of indictment from larceny to trespass." *, ',•

This was willingly done by Mr. Settle. "Now," he continued," judgment is suspended and the prisoner discharged.

Scarcely had the last word been spoken before every man in the room applauded, and great tears were rolling down tlie checks of strong men. As the old man who, half an hour before had been lriendless, hobbled out of the courtroom, hundreds of men drew around him to skake his hand. (3ur townsman, W. B. Glen, olunteered to secure him a pensicn. Mr. Holly field, offered him a position as miller and in less than "Ave minutes a purse was made up to buy the old soldier a suit of clothes.—[Leesburgh Mirror.

muffed on a Sure Thing.

There were two of the men in our gang of Pennsylvania oil-well diggers and blasters who were constantly fooling with the nitro-glycerine, says a writer in the New York Sun. They would take chances to make your hair stand on end, and the trouble was they imperiled the safety of many others. One of their favorite pastimes was to get out after noon-day lunch and toss a two-pound can of the stuff as far as they could heave it I more than once saw them stand fifty feet apart, and on tlir^ or faur occasions saw the can miss their clutch and fall to the earth. Our foreman and all the other men did a great deal of swearing over this foolishness, and once the men were discharged for it, but they were taken back after a time, and as we grew more used to tlie stuff we took more chances.

One day the men got out with their can. and as the fun was about to begin our foreman said "Boys that nonsense will be the death of you yet" "Bet you ten to five It won't!" replied one of them. j-,

Y'es, and 111 bet you ten to drift it won't!" bluffed the other as he shook his wallet at the foreman.

Tlie latter failed to cover, and as he sauntered off down the hill I followed him. We had walked about 200 feet when we were suddenly lifted up and thrown flat to the earth, and then followed a crash which seemed to have rocked the continent Aa soon as we could get up we ran back to the derrick, or where the derrick was. It had disappeared, as well as our shanty, and on the site was a bote into which you could have dumped a cottage. Not the slightest scrap of tlie two can tossem could be found, and t!»e foreman and I Mood for several minute# staring into the cavity.

Then he suddenly slapped his leg, waved his hand in di*gu»t, and growled: "What a two-story fool I wa# not to take those betsJ*

A Fine rteld.

Mr*. Brown—I don't see what fun you can find in watching a hit of girls play such a stupid game as croquet

Brown—No, nor anybody else. The fun is in watching the quarreL—{Epoch.

*1 can't laugh at Wltticus any more. •Well, lie does his level best every time" "I know but bis best to really very tordL "—{Harper's Bazar.

TIME TABLE.

AILROAD TIME TABLE.

Standard tlrae 10 inimites slower Uisn city time, I VANDALIA LINK.

LKAVE FOR THS WKST—1:4*2 a 10:18 aM 2:15

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LKAVK FOR THK EAST—1:30 a 1:51 a 7:15 ra l-2:42 2:00 m. ARRIVE FROM THK KAST-~1:30 a M: 10:12a 2:00 m: &45 in: %00 m.

ARRIVS FRO* THK WEST—1:20 a M: 1MJ a 12:37 1:40 m. T. H. & L. DIVISION

I.KAVX FOR THK NORTH -FI:00 a 4:00 M.. AARTVK FROM THK NORTH—12:00

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Big Fonr I.) Trains leave for the east at 1:20 a.

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fcOS! a. i».. 12:4^ p. iu., tNew

York Vestibule) ami ::47 p. in. For tlie west at 1:20 a. in., 10:09 a. iu., 1:00 p. in. ami fi::S2 p. m. K. AT. H.

Trains leave for the south at 6:10 a in ifc 40 m, and %{0 in. Trains arrive from the south at r:10 am: 12, noon, aiul 11:10 m.

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law in. Trains arrive from northwc*t at 11:25 a m» .utl ins.

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Trains leave for the ,«onth. mail and oxi»ress, S:20 am Washington acHMinuimlation.p iu. Arrive from the south. Washington accommodation. «J:55 a mail and oxpross. 4:10 in.

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Trains leave for the north at 5:1 a 10:4.r» a 2:17 and 11:30 m. Trains arrivo from the north at :00 lifcCfi am 3:30 and 9:45 w.

OCULIST \X1) OPTICI AN.

NOTICE TO T1IE CITIZENS OK TEKRE llAl'TE AND VICINITY.

Dr. St. John Rose,

Formerly of Now York Citv, Oculist, Optician,

who comes to us highly rccommcmled l\v many

of the most eminent Oculists and Physician* of

our country, whose references may seen nt

the ofllee. is now located at »VI2"i Main street.

The Doctor treats all forms ol detective vlson,

makeseareful

examinations of each e\o sepa

rately in all the varied forms of Presbyopia,

Mayopia, llyperiuetropia, simple Astigmatism,

Compound and mixed AstiKUiatism, The

doctor carries no glasses, but h:is them ground

tofiteachindividulea.se. (ilasses are manu

factured from the best Caisiau SparCrybtal and lirazilian Pebble. The Doctor's glasses can be

worn for any length of time by day lljfht or

artificial light giving the patient perfect vision

without paining the eye or giving any incon

venience wnatever. All examination frcit,

Ofllee hours from S a. m. to ,r j. m.

1.1VKUY STA HliK.

UVKUY STABLE.

Large and Commodious Quarters,

if*-

-AT-

3358 Main Street.

sis Vr

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Hor&os \frlll be boarded for $10 per month ., 4t And will be delivered to any pari of (lie city promptly when minted.

WAT( 1IKS AMI .IKWKMtV.

New Silverware

Just received, elegant line of Jewelry, necou.1 to none in the city. All goods were bought lor

caah and aro being sold at remarkably low prices.

FIRST-CLASS WATCIIES.

Some of the finest timepieces In the city.

DIAMONDS

At price* that will nurprlse you. An Inspection invited.

DA LE& STRANG,

674 Main Street

Oium MY1UTI'.

EXTRAORDINARY

Can trnlybewiid of Dr. Cafto'# new Vegetable rough Syrup a* to the quickness with which It relieves all lortna of coughs, colds and lung complications.

EXTHAOKUINAWY that bv diluting with water und using as a wash it will quickly cure the worst form or catarrh.

EXTRAOKUI N AKY that ever)' bottle is positively guaranteed. EXTHAOWDINAKY as sold only through the retail grocer.

Ttial size. iSUe: regular size, MV: sample free. At all dealer*. Manufactured only by

DR. J. O. CASTO,

210 Main Htrect. Terrc Haute, fnd..

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W. M. SLAUGHTER, Insurance S Real Estate Agent,

FIRE, LIFE and A' lDENT ISKI'UANCK. Representing some of the ties coin panic* in tbe

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OHIO

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AWIIITBCT.

W. R. WILSON,

ARCHITECT, WITH CffTftM. MwiufacTomwo

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