Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 December 1902 — Page 9

LAST DELIVERY MADE

SANTA CLAUS HAS ALL OF THE TRIBUNE LETTERS.

WILL ARRIVE IN GOOD TIME

Sends Word Ahead That His Arrangements Are Complte and He Will 'v Start With-Terre Haute.

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The Tribune today delivered to Santa Claus the last batch of letters which had, been, sent to this oflice by the little people of this city. Santa Claus sends ij'ord that lie will arrive on due time tonight and will begin with Terre Iiautc. Hp also advises that the toy trust has not interfered with his plans in the least and this will be a very bountiful Christmis. r'Ihe letters forwarded by The Tribune today were as follows:

Clinton, Ind., Dec. 22.

Iear Santa Claus :.i thought I would write to night to tell

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what I want if it aint to late I want a.doll,a doll buggie a set dishes a story book and some oanges nuts anrl candy all jrbu can spare and please dont forget my Kt$le. Brother and Couson jrroni a little girl that loves you Santa cilaus

NELLIE KEVINS.

1" Perth, Ind. Dear, Santa Clans .There is so many little girls and boys •writing to you from the city and I thought I would write to you from the country brother John wants a drum and a muice box and a little chaire sister Maar jjv'ants -a doll and a baby bugle and a n«at of dishes and want a bige baby doll and speach book and coffee mill and $ iron and I want a set of dishes and brother Tommy want a game box and a rlffel and a good speach book with dear wishes hoj»ping there will be snow

Deer Santa Claus My dear little Meful he wants a drum and a little muice box and a little wagon and loat of candy and nuts and oranges for huso all.

With diear wishes there will be snow Christmas eve. Dear Santa Claus

MISS MAT ANN HILL

Dec. 22, 1902.

Terre Haute, Ind Dec. 21, 1902.

Dear Santa Claus. I ajn a little girl seven years old and live with my grandma at 929 North fiM: st and I would like for Christmas a nice doll dressed in long clothes and a little bed for my dol' and a men dren and please Tont forget my little brother willie he would like a new over coat and a Try Cycle and .some new show and lots of nuts and candy. I guess that is all so good bySanta Claus and please dont for get my number.

HELEN McKENZIE

'J. Terre Haute, Tnd. Dec. 24. 1902. Dear Santa Claus. Bring me a doll and

Komeiclothes and a girl baby and candy lo Son't forget my grandma and grandpa to bring them something to don't forget papa grandmas No is 1504 15th and 3 ave. bring us nuts and oranges to good by Beilafa to santa. ..

No 1700 liberty ave. 15. don't forget my aunt Hde and fincle John Moyer they live in the country,' .?

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,, Terre Haute, Tnd. Dec. 24. 1902.

Dear Santa-Claus. I am a good boy and ij'py.'no I love you very well please bring me a, drum a band) and a gun a boy baby to. here is a song santa claus, is a jolly fellow. ifAnd a foot ball we don't to ask to mi^ch for this time santa claus nocked chits.down last Xmas that will-be all

Cpr this time. PAUL FERRET. TO SANTA 1700' liberty ave.

Terre Haute, Dec. 22, 1902.

Dear Santa Claus. want to tell you what I want for cliMstmas I want a hobby horse and a bt&cic board. and a sled and a coat and a box of tools and some candy and nuts I live at 800 North six st

CART. HILLIS.

Dear Santa Claus Please bring me a two wheel. would also,like a cap candy and nuts a pair of mitts if it isent asking two much I would alia like you to bring me an umbrella

Tour little boy

JOSEPH CARL, LAUER

Dear'. Santa Claus Will you bring me a hobby horse and a box of blocks and a box of tools and a plcc^'find a big box of sholk for the black l^O^rii and a express wagon and a lire wagon and noah ark and a air gun

EUGENE ELAM 815 N 6 street.

Terre Haute.

D.ear Santa Claus. v: I bave been a good girl and I want you to bring me a necklace, a table, a set of dislies, a new doll, a red pair of golf gloves, a telephone,' some paper dolls, a "pun bonnet babies" book and be sure and "bring me some candy and oranges.

Tour little girl ERMA GORDON, 1726 Chestnut st.

Battle Near Tangiers.-

TANGIERS, Dec. 23—Word arrivedi here this afternoon of a sanguinary battle between the Imperial troops and revolutionists, In which the Imperials were rauted.

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TEARFUL ©R CHEERFUL?

Whether a woman is tearful or cheierful depends not on what she has materially, but what she is physically. Many an indulgent husband is driven almost to despair by the tearful outburst of a if has "everyin wants." He a to

what matter. But if can't tell. S knows that she is depressed and despondent.

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condition is usually rea to some form of womanly disease. The mental depression has its corresponding womanly weakness.

Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription changes tearful women to cheerful women by curing the diseases which cause physical weakness and depression of spirits. It establishes regularity, dries unhealthy drains, heals inflammation and ulcera« tion, and cures female weakness.

Mrs. Alice Adains, of Laboratory, Washington Co., Pa., says "With many thanks I write to let you know how I am. I can say by God's help and your help I am well. I have taken six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and two of his Golden Medical Discovery,' and I can do all my work. I can't praise your medicine too highly. I wilt recommend your medicines as long as I live. If any one doubts this give them my address.''

Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well. Accept no substitute for the medicine which works wonders for weak women.

Keep the bowels healthy by the timely use of Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.

Y. M.I. HOLDS ELECTION

PETER FAGAN CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF ORGANIZATION.

OPEN HOUSE NEW YEARS DAY

Institute Will Receive Its Friends at the Rooms Over Mc'Keen's Bank During the Afternoon.

The annual meeting of the Young Men's Institute held last night in the hall over McKecirs bank, was attended by 150 members Mho were present to vote for oilieers to'serve during the ensuing year. Before the election Thomas Galalghcr was initiated. Officers elected follow:

Chaplain—Rev. Edmond Kaiser. President—Peter M. Fagan. First Vice President—John Massclink.

Second Vice President—Albert Dicks. Recording Secretary—Leander F. Jackson. 'i

Financial Secretary—Win. Fehrenbaeh. Corresponding Secretary—Ernest Langen.

Treasurer—Joseph P. Frisz. ]Marshal—(loorgc King. Inside Sentinel—John B. Bennett. Outside Sentinel—Lon Felix. Executive Committe—John Johnson, Daniel O'Mara, Frank Gonralh, John W. Gerdink and Jlorton O'Connell.

The installation is to take place on the second Tuesday in January, but it was decided not to have an open meeting that night.

New Yestr's afternoon will be observed with an open house, the arrangements being under the direction of John Masselink.'K. J. Schaff, Morton O'Connell, Samuel Hill, Frank Grace, Corndlius Brophy and William Fehrenbaeh. Dancing and music will be a part of the afternoon program.

Another dance will be given members of the Manhattan club, which is an organization formed among members of the Y. M. I., Thursday night, January 2!), at the Xavlor-Cox hall. Music will be furnished bv the Pickwick orchestra.

Don't be imposed upon by taking substitutes offered for Foley's Honey and Tar. For sale by all druggists.

A Griswold Calendar.

Miss Minerva Jcssup of The Tribune business oliice has received from Mr. and Mrs. Bert J. Griswold of Fort Wayne an artistic calendar, the details of which are in India ink and water colors, symbolical especially of the Christmas holidays and showing scenes of tue four seasons, wherein the artist and his helpmate figure humorously. Mr. Griswold has done particularly fine work in these sketches. In the first, "Winter," Mr. and Mrs. Griswold are represented standing warming their mittened fingers before a tiny twig fire in an open snowclad field—and they are bareheaded:. In the second, "Spring," Mr. Griswold, with a lordly air, is directing his spouse in the planting of garden "truck." The third "Summer," shows the twain boatriding. Mrs. Griswold is holding a lily to her liege's nose while he pulls the oars of a dainty oauoe. In the fourth scene. "Autumn," Mr. Griswold picks up the Apples, while her husband knocks them from the laden trees with a long pole.

REAL SANTA CLAUS

SEVERAL PARTIES RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCCESSFUL CHRISTMAS.

MAIL CARRIERS NOT LAST

Messenger Boys Too, Are Kept Bu6y These Days Along With the Express Men.

The real American Santa Claus of today is quite a different fellow from the little gentleman of our childhood. For one thing he hasn't a "round little belly" that shakes when he laughs "like a bowlful of jelly." As a type he is as straight as an arrow, flat as a board, muscular and lithe. His features are as clear as a cameo, his eyes snap with energy.

This twentieth century St. Nichols is found in many places, and he wears many costumes. Sometimes he sits in the locomotive cab and his hands and face, peaked cap and jumper suit are grimy withi the contents of his oil can and coal dust.

Sometimes he rides back of the locomotive in the first cars, and, as the train plunges through the country white with snow or leaden under dour skies, he works miracles with bag after bag of Christmas messages and packages. He is the nimble-handed railway mail clerk and his twin is the express messenger, whio, in a neighboring ear, sometimes handles as many as 5,000 parcels at this time of the year in a single run.

Again he is that picturesque relic of tne great West's most picturesque days —the stagecoach driver. Still again he is the man who goes to sea with the flet liners. And, yet again he is the gray-garbed letter carrier, the express wagon man, the department store delivery man, the man who makes out and clears the'foreign money orders sent to fathers and mothers and sweethearts in Europe by Anton Szacz, miner's helper in the anthracite .coal region Pietro Bobet.ti, resident of a little Italy Birdget O'Brien, charwoman in a skyscraper, and John-Dobbins, carpet weaver, transplanted from the "right little, tight litue island."

Last, but not least, he is the blue-clad messenger boy, although, strictly speaking, the messenger boy is not a representative type of the real American Kris Kringle.

It is at this season of the year that the mesenger boy's troubles are thickest, for now his work is hardest. For a week before the holiday, and from dawn until far-into the night, he is loaded down with packages which hide all his body except hands and legs from view.

It is not an uncommon thing for one boy to deliver 300 to 400 packages a day at half as many houses. And to do it ne nas to work all the way from ten to twenty hours a day.

But" they all work hard, do the real American Santa Clauses. During the two wekes preceding Christmas the railway mail clerks scarcely have time to eat* and snatch a little sleep. Every one of the 10,000 in the United States works feverishly at ever increasing mountains of mail.

Not one gets his usual lay-oft' between runs, for .when the amount of business increases over 5 per cent, almost in the twinkling of an eye no time can be wasted if the great American public is to receive its gifts on Christmas morn.

As the mail clerk's task is phenomenally multiplied, so is the work of th& letter carrier.

In the residential districts he appears not only with two bulging bags suspended from each shoulder and one in his hands, as in the skyscraper in addition, he is accompanied by two or three assistants—often messenger boys—pushing hand carts loaded heaping full with holiday remembrances.

Closely akin in their line of work to the mail clerk and the letter carrier, the express messenger and the expressman can boast of no time for salad. The number of packages handled increases all the way front 100 to 2o0 and 400 per cent.

This means putting scores more of express cars into service, using all sorts of wagons obtainable for delivering, and employing hundreds of extra men. But let regulars and extras work as hard as they can, Christmas Day will find them still handing packages in through front doors, and still strangers to rest and sleep that they have not indulged in for forty-eight hours.

Similar conditions prevail among the delivery men of the department stores. Generally distributing a few hundred packages a day, thev now are compelled to scatter a thousand and more.

Moonshiners Caught.

GKAYSON, Ky., Dec. 23—About 1 o'clock this morning Deputy Collector H. C. Herndon and Deputy Vl S. Marshall G. W. Castle made a raid in the Southern part of this county and captured four moonshiners and .destroyed two large stills and a large quantity of beer and high wines.

Challenge to a Duel.

ROME. Dec. 23—Signor Dinobli. under secretary of the treasury, has challenged Baron Sonnino to fight a duel. The challenge is the result of a speech which the latter made in th echamber calling for the acceleration of public work.

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THE DAILY TRIBUNE: TERRE HAUTE, IND., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1902

WE CLOSE-,.

ALL DAY—

TOMORROW

Merry

To Every Body

Foster's

CARPET AND FURNITURE HOUSE.

SPORTI/NG GOODS-*-

OF EVERY KIND AND THE BEST KIND.

FOOT BALLS, BASKET BALLS, GOLF BALLS, HARD AND SOFT RUBBER BALLS FOR CHILDREN, STRIKING. BAGS, DUMB BELLS, BOXING GLOVES, AND EXERCISERS.

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Subscriptions taken for all the Magazines. Order now in time for the

Christmas trade.

L. D. SMITH

Rubber,

A full supply and all sijes of Rubber and Leather Half and Whole Soles. Hand Leathers, "BOSS" Repairing Outfit 85c. Malleable Iron Soles and Heels. Soles for Men, Women and Children's Shoes at 10c per pair and up.

Dressings and Paste Polish for the Boot Black Trade. Everything in the Shoe Supply line. Out of town orders' filled promptly.

We can tcach you to save money.

Duenweg's SE.B

527 Ohio St., Near Sixth.

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What PEFFER'S NERVIGOR Did!

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b» carried In 91 per box,

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lokljr. Cores wben all •in leet manhood old fir." Absolutely 6«»r* an«M, Lait vitality,

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beoaos« it yields a grwa^er profit.

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or send for It Can "iln wrapper, Ittra Guar"•ampbletrree

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505 Main

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For Sale by Perkins and Randel.

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TERRE HAUTE RR-

Winter Tourists' Rates to the South, Southeast and Southwest. Tickets on sale October 15. 1902, to April 30, 1903. Final return limit May 31, 1903.

$38 to Jacksonville, Fla., and return. $30 to New Orleans, La., and return. $35 to Charleston, ®. C., and return. $28 to Mobile, Alabama, and return.

Special Homeseeker's Excursion on first and third Tuesdays of each month to the south, southeast and southwest. Good to return twenty-one days from date of sale. Special one-way colonist rates on sale first and third Tuesdays of each month to the south.

Special rates for Christmas and New Years Holidays to any point in Central Passenger association territory at rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale December 24, 25 and 31, 1902, and January 1, 1903. Special limit on tickets for teachers and students returning home for the holidays.

For further information apply to

W. E. M'KEEVER,

Ticket Agent, Union Depot

J. R. CONNELLY,

Gen'ral

Tenth and Wabash Avenu*.

I A N S

I have experienced a wonderful result in using Ripens Tabules. I was seriously affected with Indigestion and heartburn. A friend suggested trying Ripans, and I was surprised at the improvement. On making application a few years ago for policy of insurance I was refused on account of a weak heart but the same company passed me recently. and I give Ripans Tabules credit for the health I am enjoying. I can certainly recommend them to any one suffering with palpitation of the heart or indigestion.

At druggists.

The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 00 cents, cqntains a supply for a year.

MEN AND WOMEN. Uae Big O for on natural discbarges,inflammations, irritations or nlcerations of mucous membranes.

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Quar&nt«ed •trlotore. Prwmt* CaaU|lei the EvansCkemioalGo

RHEUMATISM

is not an idle disease. It maims and kills. There is no sense in suffering with this dangerous disease when you can get rid of it entirely by taking Abbott Bros. Rheumatic Cure, Price $1.00. Sent by Abbott Bros. Co., 407-429 Bearborn street, Chicago, 111., if your dealer bas'nt it.

FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS

(Better Qiao flour)

WE WISH YOU ONE AND ALL"

A MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND...

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Store Open Christmas

9 O'clock Till 12 O'clock

HORNUNG'S: 1

Why Not Buy Useful Things for Christmas Gifts?

They are always the most acceptable.

Cloaks, Furs, Skirts, Waists, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Underwear, Mittens and Towels

Are always nice as Xmas presents.

Another Deep Cut on Millinery

Prices Cut One-half and More.

If you are needing anything in Millinery, now is the time to buy it.

Store Open of Evenings Until Christinas.

THE LEADER,

6IO Main St. F. C. TULLER.

Property Owners, Builders and Contractors

Attention!

Have your Roofing done by the

Key City Roofing Co.

Estimates given on ...

ASPHALT, COMPOSITION AND GRAVEL ROOFING,

ROOF PAINTING, ETC.

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in

TAR PRODUCTS AND PREPARED R00FING AND ROOF PAINTS. 1001-1005 WABASH AVE.

Terre Haute, Ind.

Both Phones, 404.

Painless, and not astringent or poiconous. Sold by DrlnmtUta, or sent in plain wrapper, by express, prepaid, for tt.00. or 3 bottles $2.75. Circular lent on request

GO TO

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VICKROY'S

911 Main Street.

YOU WILL BE SATISFIED BOTH IN STYLE AND PRICE WITH YOUR PICTURE FRAMES. GALL AND GET OUR PRICES.

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505 Main

ON SOUTH SIXTH STREET—*

choice lot, central location.

ON WABASH AVENUE-0*"'"1

business property, 19, 22, 37*

50, 57 and 75 foot front. ,,

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I Ray's Subdivisions.

FARMS 4 MILES WEST-^

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FARM 5 MILES EAST—188

street railroad.

MODERN RESIDENCE-0*"*™1

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Marshall G. Lee,

225 Rose Dispensary

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