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WABASH RIVER REPORT.

While the chief points of the govaraent engineers' report on the Wash rtver improvement have been own for some time, the complete rert received yesterday furnishes amreason why the enterprise will not undertaken. In a few words, the 'ernment engineers report adversely the plan for the reason that the cost clearly out of proportion to the bene.s which would accrue^ to the people the Wabash valley. The army en^ineers estimate that the canalization of the channel would cost over ?8,000,000. The report says that to operate the locks and dams which would bo «fc:~ required would cost 205,000 each year.

I Is the conclusion of the engineers |r 4 iat the cost of construction and mainnance of the improvement are out of A ,©portion to the amount of traffic lich would originate along "the im-

Bved section of the rifver, and for this iron It Is recommended -that any ion be deferred. The report of the ftaeers Is made only after extensive ~veys and investigations of condU ns of every pertinent sort In the ibash valley. It had been the hope this community that the Wabash *uld be Improved. Howetver, In light I the mass of expert testimony that |i.been marshaled by the government, ^rould seem the logical thing to do is forget about it and apply the same lergy some place else. The engineers tcommend that the Wabash improvemt be not attempted now, and this ltlon of the matter probably ns that the project has died- with the report issued yesterday.

NEWS AND NEW8.

Some'of the newspapers have charged the_dsarth of war news to Kaiser Wil- •, and infer that such a course will •Jiim the sympathy of the Amerijeople. Such statements lack auty. It has not been established c\it the German cables. It may been an enemy of Germany in ch case the kaiser certainly could be blamed. The facts are that all jropean governments are trying to ttle up the news. The jneager news rtvice through London is at present ar- only service connecting the oniking world with, events within the rmanj empire, Russia and Austriamgary. The British censorship of 3 telegrams which filter to, and rough London, robsv them of half of eir value. Governmental supervision jts much of the news from French and :elgian sources of supply.

This is, beyond a dispute, a war in vhich every obstacle is thrown in the vay of the press. The truth will "out." \fche events of the war will reach print. In the meantime efven the news that is now procurable gives -the readers of the .press more to read, and topondey than is often offered by newspapers during conflicts. The magnitude of the war and public interest in the issues is such that a crippled news service fills the .columns of the press with matter which nobody can afford to miss reading, and which: few Intelligent persons Will omit to read. There has been no period of history so Interesting to the entire world as that through which we are now passing, and any news is of Interest and importance.

THE COMMERCIAL AGE.

Terre Haute tourists who have done the Tyrolese Alps will be interested in knowing that the famous point, the Matterhorn, has been sold for $14,000. An' inn is to be built some distance up th4 horn and a lift installed to make exploration easy. ^his leads us to expect that the new owners will put up signs that read like

this: "Take notice! This is a private mountain and trespassers who ascend It will do so at their own peril. Climbers who slip into crevasses, or are buried in landslides will be prosecuted to \he full extent of the law! Get your "icftets at the gate where you can seu^e cool beer and alpenstocks. Special

ratfcs to families of reasonable proportions. American spoken at all hours. Check your cameras at the curio shop. No' photographs can be made inside. •See Schnickelfritz, the oflcial photographer. Groups and bj parties a

How I Earned My First Dollar

Most everyone who drops into the Terre Haute house meets Charles Filbeck at the cigar stand, that is, when Charlie is there. He is one of the live wires at the stand and the rrequenters of the hostelry knew thi» about -AVe minutes after Mr. Filbeck took charge several weeks ago. At one time Mr. Filbeck was an office boy in a law office and in this capacity he earned his first dollar. He tells the story .as follows: "When I was about ten years old, I worked after school hours in trie law office of Abe Felsenthal, who, at that time, had offices on Ohio street between Third and Fourth streets. For the office work I received a dollar a week and I certainly was proud of that money. I even had visions of becoming a banker one day. For ten years I was in the postal service as postmaster of Porto Rico at Aquabillo. Later I entered the New York postoffice and was clerk at the foreign exchange department. For about a year I was clerk in the Terre Haute postofflce and then went in the hotel business with my father. I remained in the hotel business until I bought the cigar stand at the hotel."

Mr. Filbeck is the manager of the Terre Haute House cigar stand and soon will take charge of the stand at the new Deming hotel when it ia opened. With several other associates,

specialty. Try our rare, old, genuine dachshund sausage. Private dining rooms for limburger lunchers. Everybody welcome. Come and bring the children. One price to all. Positively no extras."

No peak Is too remote for the com mercial climbers.

THE PUBLIC MIND.

In an Indiana political letter on the first page of the Tribune today the writer says that the state of public mind throughout the state indicate that the people will support President Wilson even more staunchly than they did twenty-one months ago. Too, it is said that if the farmers of this part of the country find that the tarig has not injured them, they will go to the polls along with the great mass of the people in the cities a.nd register their approval of the administration which has carried out their will.

There are indications that the president is just as strong as ever he was with the great mass of the people. Indeed, it may well be assumed that he is stronger now than he has ever been. The tariff law has not injured the farmer. On the other hand, wool., the one product which high tariff men said would suffer, Is more profitable than ever, and the sheep industry never looked so encouraging.

The currency law has the approval of the bankers, on the whole, where there was nothing but opposition and hard words when it was proposed. There has been much attempt to bring on a panic, but that has failed and every indication points to the continued revfival of business.

The Mexican situation looks more favorable than it has at any time since the present administration came into power. It looks now, in spite of some difficulties, that there would be an early settlement and that will be a distinct gain to the American people.

On every hand there is an expression of confidence in the president. It is hard to find a man who voted for Mr. Wilson two years ago who do:% not say that he approves of his conduct of the affairs of .the nation.

That Fort Wayne burglar who stopped to-press his trousers and got caught proves that it doesn't pay to follow the styles too closely.

Owing to more important doings over the water, the gun fighters of New York are not attracting the usual attention.

Civilization hasn't advanced so very much after all. There seems to be just as many poor watermelons as ever.

War is everything that Sherman said .it was, but wait until Hugh Th. Miller and Mr. Beveridge. get Into action.

Somehow it is difficult to get very excited over bumper turnip crop. There is always a bumper turnip crop.

American commerce is badly in need of boats. What has become of the Janie Rea and the Ida Lee?

Will England and America be able to celebrate that 100-Years-of-Peace anniversary next January

The Federal ball league begins to resemble somewhat the federals of Mexico.

If the powers did capture Switzerland, they probably would give it back.

HOTEL MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.

The basement with them is p'led high. When we would seek our bunks There is no way of getting by

We must climb over trunks.

The corridor* is filled with gloom, You bump yourself and fall. Each girl has one trunk in her room

And seven in the hall.

Some prate of Alpine peaks sublime, And tear off praise in chunks, But what can beat the daily climb

We have in scaling trunks? —Louisvilel Courier-Journal. —S

Deceptive Appearance*.

Ted (at summer hotel)—Those pretty waitresses look. awfully fetching. Ned—After you've boen here a while you'll fnd they fetch nothing.—Judge.

CHARX.ES FILBECK.

he thas formed the Terre Haute Cigar Sales company, and the concern intends to buy cigar stores in leading hotels throughout the country.

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

He's One and Proves It.

Editor Tribune:—I have been reading with much interest the articles you have been publishing on the "End Seat Hog society."

As I may be classed as a member of this society, I would like to express my views if you will permit the space In your valuable paper

I will state first my reason for becoming a member of this society. It happens that I live only a short distance out, and usually board the cars at Seventh and Wabash avenue and reach my destination before anyone else thinks of getting Off. Now then, I am ready to ask a question. Isn't it just as easy for them to crawl over me getting in the car as it is for me to crawl over them getting out? If you will have someone explain this to the society in a convincing way, it no doubt will influence some of them to drop out. "END SEAT HOG."

Street Car Etiquette. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 14.

Editor Tribune: It was with a great deal of pleasure I read the article about the "end seat hog." I am glad the Tribune has the courage to tell these parasites what a nuisance they are.

I am employed in an uptown store and must use the cars every day and not infrequently I have to squeeze past fat men and fat women- or a non-descriptive being wkh a red ribbon around his hat to get a seat.

I may become a porch climber arid get sentenced to the penitentiary I may beat up my husband, if I ever have one, and get fined in police court I may kill somebody and get sent to the asylum for life I may steal a million dollars and get sentenced to the United States senate but, I hope, that if I am ever afflicted with the "end seat hog bug" that some one will knock me in the head before it gets fully developed.

I congratulate: you on your position and thanking you, I am Yours truly, A READER.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY From (he Tribune File*.

August 16, 1904.

Mr. and Mrs. James E. &omes have returned from.a.trip to St. Louis. A survey was made to establish the bounderies of Taylorville, with the idea of incorporating the hamlet.

Dr. William Fleming Willien has opened an office in Denver, Colo., and will practice medicine jn that 'city.

Harry Hudson, 15 years old, "son of Charles L. Hudson, 2022 North Tenth street, was drowned while swimming in the river.

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Sunday School Lesson for Aug. 16

UEV. H. FAKR WAGGENER, PASTOR POPLAR CHURCH.

"The Wicked Husbandmen." Matt. 21-33-46.

A long list of Herculean endeavors to save the Jewish nation begin with this lesson. The leaders were determined to pursue a course which led to certain ruin. Jesus strove to stem the tide all dg.y long, with every possible argument. In the temple courts, "the simple Gallilean" met the Jewish authorities, arrayed in all pomp of official costume. He exposed their hypocritical practices in sentences that fell like strokes of lightning and made them a scorn and laughing stock, not only to the hearers then, but to ail the world since.

There has never been, and is not now, a more difficult barrier to destroy than that which is erected by prejudice. The Sadducees and Pharisees were saturated with prejudice, the bitterness of which is everywhere apparent.

Modern prejudice is of the same sort, and it is not difficult to find evidences of the same prejudicial thinking in the attitude of many who are how opposed to the teachings of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

A singular characteristic of prejudice is its inability to recognize its own presence. It is always the other man who is prejudiced. In tracing the course of the activities of the scribes and Pharisees as revealed in this parable, shall we endeavor to make such application as shall lift us out of whatever prejudicial environment in which we may find ourselves?

With the description of the preparation of a piece of ground for a vineyard as it is shown in the first few verses of the lesson, there should be compared another description of the same process found in Isa. 5:1,2. The winepress of that passage was hewn out of the rock, but the one of this was digged out of the earth, and then lined, with masonry and carefully cemented. In both kinds of press a pipe conducted the Juice of the grapes into the lower vat, where it was. left for a few days to pass through the first stage of fermentation.

The tower was for the threefold purpose of storage, of protection against wild beasts and robbers, and of habitation during the period of vintage. It

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 15.— There was a ring'at the telephone. "This is the white house,' broken, voice over the wires. reach Senator Kern at once."

came .a "I must

as to the

There was little doubt meaning. I hurried to the senate and notified the senator,' who hastened to the phone in the office of the sergeant-at-arms. Meanwhile during his absence there was a manifest nervousness and suppressed excitement on the floor. The reading clerk was droning through the bill providing for the registry of vessels under, the American flag. The moment Senator Kern returned to the chamber it was. evident ,from his ex^ pression that the much dreaded efvent had transpired. He went to the desk of Senator O'Gorman, who had charge of the registry bill, and whispered to' him. The New Yorker's face flushed. At that Senator Ballenger, the .venerable republican leaderSenator'-Smoot, Senator Lewis of Illinois, and "Senator Smith of Georgia gathered about the leader of the senate who' stood at'his place, a little pale, waiting for the clerk to conclude. There was, no longer.any doubt as to the meaning of it all. At length—it seemed ages—the clerk finished, and Senator Kern i» low tones announced the .deatfy of Mrs. Wilson and asked for a adjournment.

The motion was never put. Not another word was spoken. Silent each member of the senate, democrats, republicans, progressives, rose and filed slowly, noiselessly out of the chamber. Going down the steps of the senate wing. I found myself in the midst of several senators, and the impressive feature of it all to me was the fact that not a word was being spoken. The infinite pathos of it all had fallen like a pall. In the presence of the tragedy all politics was forgotten. Nor was politics heard of again until after the funeral epcrept from Bristow, of Kansas, who, on the day following Mrs. Wilson's death, made a bitter attack on one of the president's appointees for the federal reserve board on the ground that the president had. appointed an unworthy man.

Mrs. Wilson's Interests.

During the day before her death word reached congress from the white house that Mrs. Wilson had ^xi ressed the hope thai her bill fov th? iiadioation of the Washington s'ruris could be passed. This bill striken hard at some very powerful, pitiless real estate men in Washington and there had been Indications of a hard fight. But when the word reached the capitol the district committees of both senate and house were hastily called, and the bill was reported out with a favorable -and unanimous recommendation without a word of discussion and the word was hurried to the white house. Thus Mrs. Wilson was able to accomplish,something that will make her memory live in Washington for generations. Through her the shame of the capital will be wiped out.- From the moment she reached this city this noble woman devoted herself assiduously to the serious work of her position. The women of the white house in recent years have been zealously devoted to sniaiv social functions as in Roosevelt's tiv.e and to formal -social affairs in raft a regime, but no women in the white house before had set to work to do something for the people here until Mrs. Wilson came. For weeks ^-he made the rounds of these localities where vice breeds, where young girlhood gets' its schooling in infamy, and she turned the searchlight of white house publicity upon the plaguo. This was one of the many things she di-1 while here. It -was in the doing of such things that she broke down. She migh have made her sojourn in thewhite house infinitely pleasant, but it was not her way. She wanted tg^wood that the situation made work along one line of public amelior ration while the president worked along another line. She did her work

STREET METHODIST

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REV. H. FAttll WAGGENER.

was built so as to command a full view of the vineyard. Jesus describes the situation leading up to the judgment. The reckoning time will come at which time the Lord in the vineyard shall appear, as shown in the parable.

The stone referred to is Christ. One who rejects Christ, and walks not in the path of his leading, falls on him. Look out Into the world at the people whose lives are wrecked and broken be--cause of this rejection. The Jewish nation went to pieces because it fell on the stone, and the stone, falling on the nation, crushed it and In truth it was scattered as dust.

'GTON •fry C/auc/e G. Bowers.

as wonderfully as he did his. She had but little" time nor inclination for mere pink teas. .,

Hor Public Appearanecs, The last time I saw her was at a white house reception in the winter when she stood beside the president to receive her guests with that sweet and unaffected jamile that seemed to indicate a genuine affection for the world. At that time the fatal disease was-at work but she'looked well. It was almost impossible to believe that she could be ill. When she came to Washington year ago last March siie had the appearance of a remarkably robust woman. Plump, with rounded face, rosy cheeks and sparkling eye, she seemed the embodiment of health. The one picture .of Mrs. Wilson which will always remain with me was that which phe presented on the day or the inauguration. We had seats within twenty feet of the presidential stand, in, front, and on a direct line with it. The inaugural stand was a trifle higher than that abbut it and shut off from .the rest by a, railing. Seats had been provided for Mrs. Wilson and'daughters in the section we were in. on the front row immediately beside* the

Inaugural stand. But when the piesident, appeared on the ,st?i.ndf wife and daughters left their seats and stood by the railing. Mrs.- Wilson was not tpill 'and she resembled a little girl trying hard to peep over something that was too high. Occasionally she turned around with an apologetic 3mile as though in fear that she might be shutting off some one's view. That was our first view of Mrs. Wilson. She was a decidedly attractive woman, with wonderfully expressive eyes and fine coloring, but the one wor tnat describes her better than any other is the word "sweet."

She was probably the first lady of the white house to ever give a moment's thought to the clerks in the departments. One day she appeared at the government printing office and was shown through. She found In some rooms miserable ventilation, in others poor sanitation, and she noticed that the towels In the wash rooms, were rather filthy. She instantly made a protest and the promise was given her that all would be remedied. In three weeks she returned and when a young guide learned her identity and proposed taking her to the public printer she forbade him and asked to be shown through as though She were a private person. She found that conditions had been, ibetijered. However, the news soon spread that she had been through the printing office and the young guide was sent for and discharged. He was a Hoosier and he hurried to Senator Kern's office with tears in his eyes. He had a mother to support. Besides he had only followed instructions from Mrs. Wilson. The pathos of it all was that the night before he had been in the seventh heaven because he had had the privilege of escorting the first lady of the land. Senator Kern notified Secretary Tumulty of the circumstances. He notified Mrs. Wilson. Within an hour the public printer was given an intimation that the boy from Indiana would be restored to his position or the public printer would look for another job. Sueh was the Mrs. Wilson type.

The Wear on Wilson.

Naturally there is some concern regarding the effect on the president's health. Politics aside, every one here knows that he has worked more strenuously at greater stress than any presi dent probably since Lincoln. The work he has accomplished has been marvelous. It lias jno parallel in history. He has had less vacation than any president in the life time of this generation. And the terrible strain of the criminal European War is upon him. However, he is in good hands with Dr. Grayson on one side and Tumulty on the other. One characteristic act: When he learned that congress might adjourn until after the funeral lie notified. Senator Kern and Mr. Unrleraily legislative action imperative and he would -prefer for congress to work on. The day following Mrs. Wilson's death he went to his office long enough to sign a number of ominibus pension bills because he felt that the old soldiers, hundreds of them, needed the extra money as soon as possible.

The average American who visits •"fV-ashington has no idea of the existence' of an alley or slum life here. There is an infinite amount of fake and hypocracy here. To the casual observer everything here Is wnlte marble, mansions, beautiful homes, wide spaces, happiness and pleasantry. The alleys, the breeding place of vice and crime,

fare

concealed. I had been

here a year before I knew of such places. One day a city detective told me of them and volunteered to take me through some night if I cared to collect a little party. I shall never fonget that night. The detective had his hand on his gun most of the time. We had to walk side ways to squeeze ourselves In between buildings opening Into a blind alley lined on either side by shacks from the windows of which protruded the heads and faces of derelicts. In such places as these children were being born and reared. These are the places that will go with Mrs. Wilson. If the labor unions of the country will now follow enthusiastically in the lead of the Virginia federation and pledge their honest support to the elimination of such places all over the country Mrs. Wilson will have accomplished more f6r the well being of America than any woman ever has—aye or any man.

Direct Effect of War.

Meanwhile the European crime, is keeping public men with their noses to the grindstone and heaven only kn.»ws when congress will be able to adjourn. It now appears inevitable, of course it is absolutely certain, that the whol« world must suffer great inconven:enc» and great loss as a result of the greatest breaking down of civilisation since the fall of the Roman empire. The war is costing: Europe over {50,000,000 a

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HOROSCOPE FOB A DAT.

Monday, August 17, 1914*

Saturn rules with malefic power today, according to astrology, and Jupiter is averse.

It is a time for exceedingly cautious conduct, especially where women ar§ concerned. Both business and social relations are subject to unfortunate influences.

In all love affairs judgment Is supposed to be impaired under this figure. Summer romances should be avoided while this rule continues.

There is a prediction that the number of marriages before the first of the year will be smalL

Trade and commerce are under good omens- Great activity in certain lines of manufacturers is foreshadowed.

A sign read to indicate an effort to obtain domination over the dramatic news of many newspapers, or at least the right to color the news, Is predicted. Widespread changes In the management of theaters is prophesied by the seers.

The plantets are held to be Inimical to the large ambitions of men who have been long in public life.

Dancing is subject to planetary sway, which will diminish the general interest of the public which patronizes places of amusement.

It is said by the seens that a reaction toward wholesome standards of

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A campaign of vigoftraa contest is"' foreshadowed. Political parties be affected with startling revelations? In the' eastern states surprises will be^ numerous, if the astrologers are cor-^ rect in their prognostication®.

Persons whose birth date it is have an" omen that is not altogether lucky. There is danger of loss through fire* or thieves. The health should, bo safeguarded.

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