Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 June 1884 — Page 2

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WE ARE

Dally receiving and selling pianos and organs, and

THE ONXjTT

Reasons are that we carry such a superior line of goods and offer such excel45 lent bargains that no

Can afford to be without one of our fine instruments, and the people

IN THIS CITY

Fully appreciate this fact as they have shown by their patronage. All

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From us are assured of getting a first-claw instrument for as little money as any legitimate dealer can sell. We buy all our goods

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.And of course can undersell dealers who have their instruments consigned

FROM THE

"Wholesale houses and who pay three profits before the customer gets the Instrument. We shall continue to sell at

Facto 1*37"

Prices and save our customers from 20 to 30per cent, on their purchases.

THEO. PFAFFLlff fi CO.

644 MAIN STREET, TERRE HAUTE.

82 & 84 N.

Pennsylvania

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The Indiana Delegates to Chicago. DELEGATES AT I.ARGE. Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Vigo. Hon. Benjamin Harrison, of Marion. Hon. John H. Baker, of Elkhart. Hon. Morris McDonald, of Floyd.

Alternates.

Edwin F. Horn, of Marion. John H. Roelker, of Vanderburg. Moses Fowler, of Tippecanoe. U. B.Ward, of White.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

W. C. Smith, of Warren. W. R. McKeen, of Vigo. Alternates. M. h. Hall, of Vermillion. E. A. Rosser, of Clay.

DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTIONS.

STATE

FIRST WARI).

N. Fllbeck, Dr. M. H. Waters, H. L. Miller. SECOND WARD.

Hon. R. W.Thompson, Prof. J. Carhart. THIRD WARD. George Gordon, W. W. Parsous, f- FOURTH WARD.

Joseph H. Brlggs, Richard Walker. FIFTH WARD. James Landrum and Howard Sandlson.

SIXTH WARD.

Jesse Robertson and Henry Schroder. The Townships. HARRISON. Harvey Huston.

FAYETTE.

George W. Lambert. SUGAR CREEK. W. W. Casto.

OTTER CREEK.

Arthur Deeter. Alternate—F. F. Markle. FRAIRIETON. B. F. Flesher. Alternate—J. Trlcbard.

LOST CHEEK.

W. H. Burgan. Alternate—Samuel Cheek. PRAIRIE CREEK.

Clem Harper. Alternate—W. R. Morgan. HONEY OREEK. S. T. Jones.

RII.EY.

W. A. Sandford. Alternate—F. Y. Brill. PIERSON. Dave Stark.

NEVINS.

Samuel Adams.

TERBE HAUTE

Ofieis Unexcelled Advantages as a Site for MANUFACTURES and COMMERCE.

it is ihe Center of a Rich Agricultural aud Timber Region.

Nine Railroads Center Here.

on the Great BLOCK COAL FIELDS. steam Coal delivered to Jiiaetoriea at FIFTY CENTS PER TON.

The Express received many oompl roents on its Chicago report yestunhiv It was more complete than any report published outside of the large cities

The Express is old, but it's lively.

The present council has paid the last dollar of the Evansville, Terre Haute & Chicago railway bonds, twenty thousand dollars of the floating debt, and twelve thousand dollars have been sent to New York to pay that amount

of consolidated bonds. Such prompt action as this is what makes the credit of Terre Haute good. Let our sister citieB take a lesson from us.

Nothing has as yet been done at the convention. From the latest advices no chairman has been elected, and according to all appearances it is more than probable that a considerable amount of valuable time will be expended in the preliminary proceedings. This of course, under the circumstances, was to be ex!-feted and the appearance of Mr. Harrison upon the field will no doubt complicate matters. Peraaps there are some other "dark horses" in the background.

The great question of to-day, and one Which is agitating all classes of the immunity is the result of the Chicago convention. It is to be hoped that ithe nominee, whoever he may b«, 'mil be one who can suggest some

rem®®Jr

for the present business troubles. The

business outlook is now favorable, and if legislation renders reckless speculalion on imaginary funds impossible, it may be that commercial men can look rward to a time of cloudless pios. rily. The Commercial-(iazettt in speaking of the situation .ys:

There ar«i some features that are decideily encouraging In the commercial situttiuii the failures «f the past week were much below the average of the seaso. when, underexistloginfluences, wemight reasonably have expected tliem to be above the average domestic trade is reported to be good in the south and in the fur west, and it is not very bad anywhere. This view is supported by the increa edearnings of some of Ihe railroads wbich have made wetkly reports during the first three weeks in May, as compared with the corresponding weeks last year. The revenue of the government is keeping up well, which it would not do If there was a large falling off In the volume of general business. There are no further shipments of gold to Europe, and the rates of foreign exchange, which are below par, show that there is no probability of further outgo in the early future. Our foreign commerce Is much reduced in volume, but the imports of commodities, taking the reports from New York as a basis of calculating the total for the whole country, are comparatively light, while the exports are fair for this season of the year.

These facts are cheering and with a president who can legislate so as to prevent the recurrence of these periodical "Black Fridays," there will be no reason to fear for the future.

A Trifle the Beit of It.

New Orleans Picayune. When it comes to Decoration day the man who fought in the hospital has the best of the man who braved bullets and dltd on the field.

Qualifications for an Independent. Detroit Evening Journal. A Troy, N. Y., boy has three legs, and the doctors want to cut one of them off. Let him alone: he will make a good political kicker when he grows up.

Beoent Estimates.

New York Sun. Fewer Arabic numerals and more generous generalizations are observable in the recent est] mates of theactual strength of the several leading candidates on the first ballot.

Call a Halt.

Chicago Inter Ocean. The cartoon of "Phryne Before the Chicago Tribunal" in the last number of Puck shows to what extremes the mud' sllngers will go in attacking a man like Mr. Blaine. The whole thing Is diKgrace' ful and inexcusably offensive, not only to Mr. Blaine's friends in this canvass, but to all Republicans and all decent Democrats. It Is time to call a halt in this business of slander through pictures.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

The Rose Orphan Homo.

To t.lie Editor of the Express. Sir: Henry, Wlchern, who established the celebrated home for destitute chtl dren, In Hamburgh, about 1825, was not a "farmer," If I remember correctly, but a clergyman. He commenced bis operations in an old red farm house, with about twelve children. From time to time, as his wants Increased, through the benevolence of others be was enabled to erect other small cottages accommodating about the same number of children. Each family lived separately, and all the domestic work, including that of the kitchen aud laundry, was done in the cottages. Mr. Wlchern did not. inaugurate the plan of gathering des tllute children into institutions. August Herman Francke, in Halle, as early as 1095, John Falk in Germany, and Robert Raikes in England a century later had already preceded him. He was, however, the father of the "family" or "cottage" system as contrasted with the "congregate." The Ohio state reform school for boys at Lancaster was the first institution this country to adopt the same system, and quite a number of American institutions have since copied the Lancaster system, which is like the parent institution at Hamburgh, except that instead of twelve or fourteen children each family In the American institutions Is composed of from twenty-flve to fifty. The system of the Rose orphan home, it is thought, oomblnsH all tb« axcalleiidM of the congregate and family, leaving out xixobbthings In either that are objectionable. The children will live in cottages under the care of matrons or "cottage managers," as they have been called, where they will receive the same personal care tuat a mother bestows on her own children. On the congregate plan this can not be given so well and little less of tbe home feeling prevails. But the laundry work, cooking and making of the clothing, Is all done outside the cottages, allowing the "cottage manager" more lime to look after Hie order of her cottago, and the physical, mental and moral condition of her children. The nuisance of having a kitchen, pantry and laundry, with all their attendant odors and waste, in each cottage. Is also dispensed with. 1'he original cost of the plant, as well as that, of running the Institution is lessened and better results, In my estimation, are secured. The children will sleep In associated dormitories, eat in a common dining room, each family havlug 11s own table under the charge of the "manager." and will attend school together. The Coldwater school had the same system, but did not "inaugurate" it as was stated. The Soldiers' ana Sailors' orphan home at Xcula. Ohio, had, previous to the establishment of tbe State public school at Coldwater, adopted the same system. Quite a number of institutions are now using the same system. The distinctive feature of the Coldwater school, and which gave it an almont world-wide celebrity, was tbis: It was the first attempt of any government to care for its dependent wards who are sound in body and mind,- over three and under fourteen years of age, not criminal, whether the parents are living or dead, by placing them in a state institution where they can have the best of care and Instruction until homes can be found for them in families. Under the laws of Michigan no such child can be kept in the poor houses where they are liable to become confirmed paupers or develop Into criminals. (Other governments have provided for the feeble minded, for the orphans of soldiers and sailors, and for criminal boys and girls, but Michigan has said that every neglected boy and girl Is entitled to care and an education, even though not an idiot or criminal. The Coldwater school Is the first effort of a government to cleanse the ilver at the fountain head, to save little boys and girls heading towards criminal before they have become actual paths criminals. Respectfully,

Lyman P. Aldkn.

THE A. O. U. W.

for the

Report of the Orand Recorder Month of May.

The following is the report of Grand Recorder A. B. Salsicli, of the A. 0. U. \V for the month of May:

Cash received on beneficiary fundAssessment No. 24, 25. S 8 00 Assessment No. 1,2 and 8 80 00 Assessment. No. 4,5 81 Co Assessment No. 6 6!! 00 Assessment No. 7 $1,805 00 Assessment No. 8 1,996 00 Assessment No. 9 280 00 Assessment No. 10 70 00

Total W.350 00 Relief call No. 4 29 20 Supplies SI 00

There weie forty-two applications for membership average age, .'24 years.

Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 81 was the banner lodge for May, having sent in the greatest number of applications.

PAYMENTS OF INSURANCE.

The following are self-explanatory and indicate the prompt manner in which the business of the order is conducted

TerreHaute, June 2,1884,

W. W. Seymour, Recorder Fountain Lodge No. 98: Sir and Brother—I hand you order No. 168, for (2,000, made payable to Casta Felton, wife of our late brother Felton, of your lodge.

Yours in C. H. and P., A. B. Salsicp, G. R. Turk Haute,June 2, 1884.

Jacob Harter, Recorder Morning Star Lodge No. 7, New Albany: Sir and Brother—I hand you order No. 167, for 82,000 payable to Sophia Wagner, wife of the late brother Henry E. Wagner, of your lodge.

Yours In C. H. and P. A. B. Salsich.

The order is constantly increasing in membership and influence, owing to good management.

THEY CAN SEUJ.

The Present Market Ordinance Will Not

Enforced, and Gardener* Can Sell.

The market ordinance that has been in the ordinance book for several years, and recently put in force, has been declared a nuisance by the public. The ordinance prevented gardeners from selling to grocers, and farmers from bringing butter, eggs and vegetables to brief."

the city and selling to piivate families. Tlie gardeners and other* have raised atich a howl that a halt has been called on the enforcement of the ordinance by the market committee, and the gardeners have been told to go ahead and sell. An ordinance will be presented at the next meeting regulating the sale by gardeners within season and repealing the present ordinance.

WISE AND OTHERWISE

In the days of Noah the wicked had a damp bad time of it. When the Binner takes an inch the devil gives him an hell

Fish did business on a large Bcale, but the find is very unsatisfactory. The enthusiastic snuff-taker is of opinion that snuffs as good as a feast.

Tbe arc light was first thought of when Noah put a window in his boat.

Fish stories are becoming very in teresting, especially those of James

Aren't you sorry you took down your stove? "You bed lab! Gib be by heaby fladdela!"

Fruit canning is supposed to be a modern invention, but they had preserved pairs in the ark. "One Ward seems to have gone for Grant pretty unanimously," observes the Chicago News.

It does not follow that a man is honest because he is poor. Some very big rascals have hard luck.

Want of finish—"I shall really hare to part with you, Susan. You are so sketchy in your dusting!"

When you learn that a lady name is Helen French, don't you feel like in quiring what it is in English?"

A now geyser basin has been discovered in the Yellowstone valley, ten miles south of tbe petrified forest.

Nicolini smokes dollar cigars. He knows how to dispose of Patti's high notes as well as the diva does herself.

Dr. Dio Lewis says the coming man and woman will not be smaller at the waist than at other parts of the body.

A western theater manger, who lost his house in a cyclone, said what broke him up was too great a puff for the place.

When an Indian doctor loses a patient he runs for his life. When a civilized doctor loses a patient he sends in bis bill. "What are pauses?" asked the teacher of the primary class. "Things that grow on cats," piped the small boy at the foot.

Minnesota is the greatest cold water state in the Union. It has within its borders 7,000 lakes, covering an area of 2,700,000 acres.

The closer a man sticks to his business, the closer his business will stick to him. This is particularly true of glue manufacturers.

A proper sign to hang up outside the closed bank door: "Gone to Canada and Mexico for our health. Be back when they bring us."

A young mau writes to consult us about the best pattern of health lift. We would suggest helping his mother a little with the coal hod.

This is among the principal questions put by the applicant for summer board: "Is there a cornet or trombone player in the house

An exchange heads an item: "A schooner's cargo ruined by water." Anybody ought to know that beer is not improved by dilution.

Carpet beaters, according to the London Lancet, are infection spreaders, and ought to be doomed to the isolation of smallpox hospitals.

A New York alderman, being told that he was ambiguous, declared that the charge was false, as he had not drunk anything for a year.

The "picnic pie" is the latest. Its dissimilarity from the ordinary common run of pien permits it to be raoed as a cushion until dinner time.

This is the Beason when a man, sitting between a couple of 200-p®unders in a crowded street car wishes he had joined the Greely relief expedition.

A Chicago drummer has been bitten by a Michigan, mad dog— "The man recovered from the bite

The dog It was that died."

Ex-Secretary Elihu B. Washburne expects this summor to carry out along cherished purpose of making a carriagetour through old Oxford county, Maine.

President Fish, of the Marine bank, was arrested at. the Mystic Fists. There are several mystic flats who are interested in the apprehension of Mr. Fish.

In honor of Mr. Childers, M. P., who is striving for a law to authorize their coinage, the Londoners call the pro posed ten-shilling pieces "illegitimate Childers."

Salmon are unusually heavy in English streams this year. Several weighing from forty to fifty pounds each were taken from the Severn in the early days of May.

An intoxicated man passing the door over which was the sign, "Cast iron sinks," looking up and, after reading the sign several times, said: "Well, who the—hie—hie—said it did not?"

What the reporter asked:

What the bank director answered: J" What the public learned: "—0—0 0—0."

Xtovid Davis has lost nearly a hundred pounds of flesh since his retirement from the senate. He wears a full white beard and a black slouch hat, and looks more like a well-to-do farmer than a retired statesman.

The old guard that attended Napoleon on St. Helena is dying off at a terrible rate at present. There are only about five hundred of him now to be heard from. Battle Creek, Mich., claims the last one to dropout of the ranks.

Lovers of so-called "blood oranges" will be interested to liear that tbe supply of their favorite fruit having fallen short certain dealers now prick the skins of ordinary oranges and then subject the latter tio a bath of colored liquid.

Mr. Herbert Sptjncer's work on education has lately "been translated into Chinese, having: already been translated into all the living languages of Europe, as well *8 into Japanese and Chinese and several of the vernacular languages of India. "I want a sign," said a young man, stepping into a painter's shop." "What sort of sign asked the artist of the brush. "A sign of raan." "All right," replied the painter, as he dashed a pail of cold water over the would-be jokist. —[Jersey City Herald.

No one can beat a professional deadbeat. A Colorado legislator forgot his railroad pass. The conductor asked him to pay. The legislator was so surprised that he fell dead. He beat the conductor, and went through deadhead, but the effort cost him his life.

An editor thus explained to a young lady the difference between printing a book and publishing oi.e for her: "If I should print a kiss on a beautiful young lady's cheek it v/ould be printing, but if I were to tell the whole world about it that would be publishing."

Mrs. Hamereley, the defendant in the great will case ia New York, is described as "an extrenr.eily pretty woman, lees than twenty-six* years of age, and the possessor of fortune of $5,000,000. She was a ML is Price, of Troy, and her married lift was very

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THE COUNCIL

Allows Bills and Adjourns to Hext Tuesday Night.

Mr. L. 8. Briggs Presides in Absence of Mayor Armstrong.

The council met in regular session last evening with ihe following councilmen present: Messrs. Arnold, Biel, L. S. Briggs, Fitzpatrick, Kolsem, McKeen, Pothfl, Sacbs, Wimer, Wildy.

On motion of Mr. Kolsem, Mr. L. S. Briggs was called to the chair, as the Mayor was absent.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read a?jl approved. ____. BILLS.

Bills were allowed as follows: Fire department— T. H. lodge No. 51.1.0. O. P. Miller J, Rnpp W. botze E. D. Harvey J. Thomas E. Kelman Bauermelster & Buscb R. A. Taylor L. Mallory John Osterloo.... C. C. Fisbeck J. Rupp D. P. Cox H. Hulman Buntln & Armstrong.... Adamson & Kreitenstein Ed. Lappin Ed. Lappin Ed. Lappin Joe Sbumaker. M. Harr Sebastian Kramer W. K. Burnett R. A. Taylor W. K. Burnett W. W. Oliver Farley & Roach L. Mallory Indiana Stock Food Co Pay roll, half month W62 50 Indiana Stock Food company

H. P. Hoctor..: J. T. McCoy

4 35 500 2 50 1 10

12 00 2 00 11 85 1 35 6 25 2 20 2 25 1 35 1 75 2 t0 1 SO 8 45 8 50 13 73 12 71 14 05 12 HI 13 90 3 50 9 75 3 00 47 50 1 50 8 35 15 15 8 00

2 00 3 25 1 25

Total *707 93 Committee on elections— G. II. Hebb 12 00 T. E. Lawes 5 00 Hasselman Journal company 6 00 Lawes & Lee 5 00

Total

Police departmentRobert Lidster C. A. Robinson J. F. Roedel J. Rupp Samuel Jones C. C. Fisbeck B. Mayer fay Roll...

Committee on markets— C. Eberle B. W. Morgan H. Shuster John Trogden H. Tate J. H. O"Sullivan G. S. Zimmerman

Committee on taxesIndianapolis Sentinel..

11. Apman..

Committee on supplies—

J. Q,. Button SCo J. R. Duncan & Co Moore & Langen.

Total

...« 28 00

2 25 5 00

14 50 5 00 8 76 85 45 00

1,114 00

Total $1,195 76 Committee oh printingCourier 76 £0 O.'H. Hebb 60 P. Gfroerer 142 75 C. W. Brown 4 50 Geo. M. Allen 23 0

Total 9 251 30 Committee on gas— Magrew & Yeakle .8 2 80 Finkblner&Duenweg 12 75 W. A. Peker 390 00 W. a. Peker 6 20 Terre Haute Gaslight Co 1,249 02

660 77

.8 40 2 70 2 SO 22 00 7 00 3 05 8 35 46 90

.X 95 100 00 80 00 180 95

14 CO 3 75 8 05 25 00 51 40

Committee on streets and bridges— Wm. Fubr S John Armstrong John Thomas Flnkblner & Duenweg George Palmeter City engineer employes

4 95 75 1 30 9 58 8 00 85 50

Total S 119 08 Miscellaneous— T. H. Water Works Co., two months J2,260 00 C. W. Brown 3 7a Cemetery labor 66 65 N. & G. Obmer 15 00 J. A. Kester 21 00 Vigo Abstract Co 1# 00

Total .82,385 40 Summary— Fire department 8 707 93 elections ^8 Ou Police department 1,195 76 Committee on printing 251 30 Committee on gas 1,160 77 Committee on markets 46 90 Committee on taxes 180 95 Committee on supplies 51 40 Committee on street and bildges... 119 08 Miscellaneous ,.... 2,385 40

Total .86,627 29

Mr. McKeen moved that the council adjourn until Tuesday evening of next week.

Mr. Wildy said he had a petition Irom gardeners and others regarding the present ordinance that prevents peddling ou the streets. The ordinance as it now read was complained of by gardeners and others as burdensome.

The chair stated that an ordinance was being prepared and it would be presented at the next meeting that it would allow gardeners to peddle.

Mr. McKeen's motion to adjourn having received a second, the council adjourned to meet next Tuesday evening.

City Treasnrer's Report. The following is City Treasurer Robinson's report for May: To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council:

Gentlemen: I have tbe honor to report receipts and disbursements for the month of May, 1884, as follows:

General Fund. RECEIPTS.

Balance on hand 8 42,233 63 License account Miscellaneous collections Rent Markets Auction sales Loans Taxes collected

171 00 35 00 15 00 46 80 7 61

2,000 00 61,708 60

Total .8106,217 64 DISBURSEMENTS. By amounts to special fund 8 19,jgj 28 By warrants redeemed 12,683 46 By loans refunded 20,400 00 By collector's fees reported erroneously By balance

53,645 45

Total .8106,217 64 Cemetery Fund. RECEIPTS. Balance on hand Receipts for May 1°

Total. .88,997 53 DISBURSEMENTS. By warrants redeemed 8 343 60 By balance on hand 8,654 53

Total 53

Respectfully submitted, C. A. Robinson, Citv Treasurer.

Poor Expenses.

The following is Trustee Reichert's report for May: Number of grocery orders, 71- -..8147 55 Number of coal orders, 1_........ 2 10 Number of railroad passes, 34 S3 no Burial expenses, buried 4 persons 25 75 Conveying to Poor Asylum 5 50

Total.....— -8213 90 No. of applicants for help 74 No. of families helped 85

Delinquent Tax.

Tfie following is the delinquent tax now on the city treasurer's books:

1888 81M12 22 1883 and previous years 13,180 13 Penalty and interest 5,175

Total ...I. 836,668 20

S Election of Officers. Darnes lodge No. 4, F. A. M. elected the following officers.

have

Master—James H. Thorpe. Senior Warden—James Finley. Junior Warden-John Fauver. Treasurer—Mark Barnes. Secretary—C. B. Butler, sTyler—Riley Walden. 14,5Trustees—J. H. Walker, Simon Daniels, Wm. Clark.

The grand installation takes place next Wednesday evening, at the hall on south First street. A strawberry festival will be given. Admission, ten cents.

a A Round Sum. Cromwell W. Barbour, executor of the estate of Cory Barbour, deceased, has obtained judgment in the superior court against Henry T. Ketchem, on account, to the amount of $904.30.

Srs--,

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. -WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 4.1884

REDEEMING THE "DESERT.

Irrigation is doing for Western Kansas precisely what it has done for every other region of the globe where it has been intelligently practiced. The world is too old, and the people know history too well, for an argument to be granted on the subject of its benefits. Ancient and modern nations—S^ypt, Babylon, Assyria, Persia, China, India, Italy, Spain, and a ecore more which you may read about in the encyclopaedia—have alike recognized them. In the valleys of Mexico and along the Rio Grande the plan of irrigating crops was in vogue long before the Spanish occupancy, and is still the only reliance for a yield of grain, fruit and vegetables. The fame of the ditches in California, Utah, and Colorado, is known round the world. The Mormons have done valuable service for the country in this one industry at least, the results accomplished in Salt Lake Valley having certainly been of signal importance to the western half of the continent.

In Kansas the work is ot later date, but it has passed beyond the stage of an experiment—for all efforts of this kind must be more or less experimental at first, under differing conditions of soil and climate. For years the far western counties of the state were turned over to the ranchmen to have and hold forever. Occasionally there were men who thought. Horace Greeley w&s one of these, and prophesied, now long ago, that the time would come when the rich valley&^nd broad uplands of the Upper Arkansas would be turned into fields ot Bplendid promise by the spade of the irrigator. Already it is difficult to write dispassionately of what has been achieved. Here is a spot which until lately was looked upon as an impracticable waste, remote from any hope of agricultural or communal development, beyond the possibility of usefulness save as a grazing ground for cattle, a spot apparently slighted by nature and forgotten of man. Look! how the unforeseen comes to pass. See, now, this same tract transformed into a garden spot, yielding crops remarkable even in a state the value of whose farm products in a single year touches $150,000,000. The western half of Kansas is a beautiful upland plateau, 200 miles long, and along the Arkansas Valley perhaps fifty more in width, averaging 2,500 feet in altitude, latitude corresponding to that of Virginia. In point of healthfnlness of climate there is no region in the West to compare with it, and in fertility of soil none to excel it. The soil is a thoroughly decomposed rich clay loam, resting on a magnesian limestone formation, and containing in abundance the choicest elements of plant food, as witness the rich dark green of foliage of growing crops, and the hard white kernel of the grain harvested. This iB the tract pierced by the irrigating ditches, of which there are five now built, extending many miles and watering many thousand acres. The idle Arkansas is a peculiar stream. Its source is near.the continental divide in Colorado, where snow lies the whole year, and as it starts from this birthplace and hastens southward, it leaves behind the primitive formation, and enters regions of more recent geological date, encountering a far more easily decomposed rock, and a t'enser vegetation of forests and grasses, and consequently reaches the plains thoroughly charged with fertilizing materials, mainly inorganic in origin. Its water shed and tributaries can only be estimated by tens of thousands of square miles. The fall of the river in Kansas averages six and one-half feet to the mile,

that the

work of taking water from it by ditches, and extending the ditches inland, is comparatively easy. The face of the country leing smooth, and the slope toward the east continuous, the cost is not large. Owing to thtf heavy fall, the water of the river is easily carried on to the uplands, thus bringing an immense area under moisture.

Garden City and Lakin, in Finney county, are the chief towfis in the irrigable district. There aie probably 50,000 acres of land in the vicinity of these two places which can be bought for from $6 to $20 per acre. In along and singularly able letter on the success of irrigation at Garden City, Mr. 0. Ellison has the following to say to intending home seekers: "Irrigation colonies afford many advantages over an ordinary farming community. Throughout Colorado and California it will be found that they have invariably attracted a highly intelligent class of settlers. As these communities grow older they assume the aspect of a suburban town of a larger city. Schools and churches are more easily maintained, become of a superior class, because this system of farmiug does away with large, half-tilled farms. Every acre is made to yield its best hence closer neighborhoods, increased social privileges, town liberaries, etc. It is the only farming community in which the vexing problem of keeping the young men and women from a wholesale emigration to the cities is satisfactorily Bolved. Those who contemplate a move to the Ultima Thnle of the extreme northwest, I respectfully invite to a careful consideration of the claims of the southwest before starting, whatever a skillfully manipulated advertising bureau may Bay to the contiary. The northwest is, and always will remain, the Russia and the Finland of this continent. It is swayed by an autocrat as despotic as any that ever ruled a farmer's home. Spring wheat is the beginn ng, and also the end of that country. Not a single resource besides this fleeting, isolated one. The southwest is the Germany and France of our land. In its very heart tower the Rockies, affording us not only scenery equal to the Alps, but the raw material for an industrial empire such as the world never saw. The southwest will compare with Great Britain in its coal and iron resources it will outdo Australia aud California in its production of precious metals it will rival France in fruits and vineyards, and mulberry plantations it will challenge the rich southeastern plains of Germany in its harvest of cereals and vegetables. While through its entire length penetrates a railway system— the A., T. & S. F. R. R—already one of the world's great highways, under a management so enlightened and liberal as to have carved out a front rank for itself among the greatest corporate oiganizations of the age, in the short period of ten years.''

Because They Deserve It.

"My patrons speak of Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters in the highest terms."—N. W. Atwood, New York.

AMUSEMENTS.

Under the Auspices of the

Altar Society of St. Stephen's Church,

At the Rose Residence, Corner Seventh and Chestnut Streets. it Beginning Wednesday, May 28, and Continuing Ten Days, Afternoon and

Evening.

THE MOST UNIQUE, iSSTHE MOS1' ELABORATE, THE MOST MAGNIFICENT of any home entertainment ever undertaken.

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS EVERY NI6HT. PRICES. Single admission —.—25je Season ticket. W-00 Children ISc suffer The first four nights of the exhibition. I

tores, Humiliating Eruptions, such as

SALTandHead,

RHEUM or Eczema, Psoriasis, Scald Infantile or Birth Humors, every form of Itching, Scaly, Pimply and Scrofulous, Inherited, Contagions, and Copper-Colored Diseases of the Blood, Skin, and Scalp, with Loss of Hair, are positively cured by the Cutlcura Remedies.

Cutlcura Resolvent, the new blood purifier, cleanses the blood and perspiration of Impurities and poisonous ele« ments, and thus removes the cause.

Cntlcnra, the great Skin Cnre, Instantly [lays Itchini the Skin am

allays Itching and Inflammation, clears Scalp, heals Ulcers and Sores, and restores thi lie Hair.

Cutlcura Soap, an exquisite Skin Beautifler and Toilet Kequlslte, prepared from Cntlcnra, is indispensable in treating Skin Diseases, Baby Humors, Skin Blemishes, Bough, Chapped or Oily Skin.

Cntlcnra Kennedies are absolutely pure, and the only real Blood Purifiers and Skin Beautiflers, free from mercury, aisenlc, lead, zinc, or any other mineral or vegetable poison whatsoever.

It would require this entire paper to do justice to a description of the enres performed by the Cntlcnra Resolvent internally, and Cutlcura and Cutlcura Soap externally.

Keicms of the palms of the hands and of the ends of the fingers, very difficult to treat and usually considered Incurable small patches of tetter and salt rheum on the ears, nose, and sides of the face.

Scalled Heads with loss of hair without number, heads covered with dandruff and scaly eruptions, especially of children and Infants, many of which since birth had been amass of scabs.

Itching, burning, and scaly tortures that, baffled even relief from ordinary remedies, soot hod wd healed as by magic.

Psoiia'*". 1 y, and other frightful forms of sk.i. ureases, scrofulous ulcers, old sores, and discharging wounds, each and all of which have been speedily, permanently, and economically enred by tbe Cutlcura Remedies.

Sold everywhere. Price: Cutlcura, 50 cents Resolvent, 1.00 Soap, 25 cents. Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases."

CATARRH

COMPLETE TREATMENT $1.

A single dose of Sanford's Radical Cure instantly relieves the most vlolentSneezIng or Head Colds, clears the head as by magic, stops watery discharges from the Nose and Eyes, prevents Ringing Noises In the Head, cures Nervous Headache, and subdues Chills and Fever. In Chronic Catarrh it cleanses the nasal passages of foul mucus, restores the senses of smell, taste, and hearing when affected, frees the head, throat, and bronchial tubes of offensive matter, sweetens and purifies tbe breath, stops the congh and arrests the progress of Catarrh towards Consumption.

One bottle Radical Cure, one box Catarrhal Solvent and Sanford's Inhaler, all In one package, of all druggists for 91. Ask for Sanford's Radical Cure. Potter Drug and Chem. po., Boston.

and Worn Out Parts, strengthens Tired Muscles, prevents Disease, and does more in one half the time than any other plaster In the world. Sold everywhere.

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*om Nervoas,Chronic and Klcort Diseases, and Heart Affections,Weak lonfi, D«uiitr. Bvaban Down conciliations ami Weakness of the Kidneys,Blad. der A Urinary Orvana.uk your Druggist for Dr.<p></p>COCOEEFIIKON

OBAB. W. SCOTT'S WORLD RENOWNED SPEOIFIO NO. 13,

(Witb i»llo«plioru«,l

A BLOOD, BRAIN & NERYE TONIC.

If your Druggist does not keep it nek htm to order i. for you. $1. per bottle. Coca,Beef and Iron is the Greatest Medical Discovery of modern times. For pamphlet, with fall particular®, address CHA8. W. 8COTT M.D., Kansas City,

firmtv'*,-:

FRANK

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Collins* Voltaic Electric Plaster instantly affects the Nervous System and banishes Pain. A perfect Klectrlo Battery combined with a Porous Plaster for 25 cents. It annihilates Pain, vitalizes Weak

IS THE CBI OVA SUFfERIM IEHH

HAY-

50 cents at

-OF THE-

PADDOCK STOCK

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Must be sold in the next thirty days. Goods now offered at forty cents on the dollar. Now is your time for Big Bargains! Don't miss this opportunity.

40^Maiit Steet,

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PADDOCK'S OLD STAND!

PR0X,1TU

STEAM FITTER,

Coppersmith, Plumber,

AndiWholesale.Dealer la

BRASS AND RUBBER GOODS,

STEAM FITTINGS, PUMPS, ETC,

Having made some extensive Improvements in my shops I am now prepared to attend to all orders entrusted to my care.

A full line of pumps of all discretions always in stock also, rubber goods, bath tnbs and wash stands. Call and see me at

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17 and 19 N. Ninth St.,

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TERRE HAUTE, IND.

FRANK PROX.

BITTERS

Liver and Kidney Bemedy, I Compounded from the well known Curatives Hops, Malt, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion, Sarsapariila. Cascara Saerada, etc., combined with an agreeable Aromatic Elixir.

THEY CUBE HYSPEPSIA & HDIGESTION,

Act upon the Liter and Kidneys, —asp I REGULATE THE BOWELS, I They core Rheumatism, and all Urinary troubles. They Invigorate, nourish, strengthen and quiet the Nervous System.

As a Tonlo they have no Equal. Take none bat Hops and Halt Bitters.

FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS.

I Hops and Malt Bitters Co. DETROIT, MICH.

HAYFEVER

Treatment will

Cure. Not a Liq

[nid or Snuff. Ap

ply with Finger.

__6ive it a Trial.

Druggists. 60 cents by mall reg'

Istered. Send tor clrfmlar. Bt,Y BKOTHEKS. Druggists, Oswego, N.Y<p></p>Mills

Holly Tree

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WM Dp SC—« LITEB PHX*

SHIRTING, CAMBRIC, PERCALE, LONG CLOTH.

FINEST COTTONS MANUPACTD RED 4 BLEACHED EQUAL TO FRENCH. FOR SALE BY

HAVENS, GEDDES & CO.

THE REMAINDER

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Gives Relief at

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THE LADIES.

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A concert will be given the ladi& by the When Clothing Store Military Band, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.,

^Thursday, June 5th.

»«.

This band is composed of clerks ftoltti Owen, Pixley & Co.'s store at Indinnapolis, and is one of the best bands in Ihe State, and is (he most gorgeously uniformed of any foam! in the country.

A BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIR

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Will be presented to each lady in attendance. At 5:30 the store will be closed until 7 p. m^at which time it will be thrown open to the general public who are cordially invited to call and inspect the mammoth stock of clothing while listening to delightful music.

A GRAND OPEN AIR CONCERT

-BY THE-

When Military Band,

Will be given at the Kinggold grand stand, Corner Seventh and Main, commencing at 8:15 p. m.

OWEN PiXLEY & CO.

ELEGANT!

Phaetons and Side-bar Buggies also, some first-class secondhand Phaetons, at R0BT. M. HARRISON'S Carriage Factory, No. 319 and 321 Cherry St., Torre Haute, Ind.

AtalogSJ

Lace Trimmed Parasols, Lace Covered Parasols, Embroidered Parasols,

15 CENTS TO lO.OO.

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In* ta iumi Mfkr Uuu .fcsmld piereetiwr. wli»l»|w«it.will »r4en «rmtU. Mj wlh. Ml rf Belli, of the mintn-

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MIm, 1 twrtta tfc« fall-Mirf nMh. I" oA u4m tkr imtTlknttt. ylaat bit vrtnbTtba** WT y»Tart,,,i.,t.

H^REMRY^jM^SroMfJIarMtfcMdJua.

PARASOLS!

Satin Sun Umbrellas, Silk Sun Umbrellas,

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7 ^11 fjf -4*."

Silk Falls, Satin Fans," Feather Tipped Fans, White Fans, Painted Fans, Black Fans, Palm Fans,

Big Fans and Little Fans.

BUCKEYE CASH STORE,.

Sixth and Main, Terre Haute, Ind.

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