Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 September 1888 — Page 4

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We want more of the Jarrett kind of Bpoeohes here in Terre Haute.

"Hill" Soott, of the anthracite coal pool and member of Cleveland's kitchen cabinet, has positively refused to make the race for congress after being nominated. lie knows enough to go in when it rains.

In spite of storm, mud and orders from headquarters the Republicans turned out last night to parade and parade they did to the number of G50 men. Some of the clubs after arriving at headquarters thinking there would be no parade dispersed yet the procession was a big thing. There could be no more striking evidence of the zeal of the members of these clubs than was furnished by last evening's event.

The Chicago Tribune thus summarizes the result of the state elections this year:

Placing the result of Maine ami Arkansas side liy side what does that September crop ot voters portend as to the result ot the November crop? in Arkansas Cleveland had "22.121 plurality In 1881. In lMWi Hustles (.Dem had 86,585. In September. 1888. Eiiglt' (Deni.) lwn 14.8111. and tills after the larceny of ballot-boxes from seven precincts in Pulaski county, the capital seat containing Republican majorities sullldent to have reduced the Democratic plurality to be about 12.000. In two years' time the Republicans of Maine have raised their plurality from 12.(100 to 18.500. In the same period the Democrats of Arkansas have had their plurality reduced from over 35,0W to 12.000 by an honest count and 14,0(Xt by thievery. What does this mean'.' What else can It portend, especially when the large Increase In Oregon and Vermont Is considered, than a corresponding gain all over?

But the truth is that Arkansas was lost to the Democaats and we are glad to see that Norwood has decided to contest elect ion. He claims that he is elected the by 7iX) majority with three counties to hoar from. The fraud upon the ballot box was so palpable that the Democratic governor has been forced to olTer rewards for the arrest and conviction of those engaged in the most flagrant acts.

THE DEMOCRATS AND THE SOLDIER. C. C. Matson who has played the part of the soldier Democrat has been as mercilessly exposed as John C. Black, the man who, while continuing to draw £100 a month pension as a "physical wreck',' the largest pensiou paid to any soldier of the war for the union, yet is able to draw 6T,000 a year salary as pension commissioner. Black's farce, to call it by no harsher name, was made apparent a year ago when his deputy, our own McLean, showed that he did not perform half the service required of him because he was traveling about the country trying to secure the nomination for vice president—drawing the salary and the pension in the meantime.

We do not call into question the valor or the service of either Matson or Black in behalf of their country, but we most pointedly call into question their

party valor. Black played

the part of the "physical wreck" Democrat to perfection, and in excessive sympathy was granted the largest rate of pension given to any soldier of the war. It was granted him on the belief that he could not leave his bed, could not earn a living for himself and family —but he is able to draw $5,000 a year salary in addition and to travel about the country in such continuous rounds that our own Col. McLean, who recently, after a few weeks at a summer resort, was compelled to write a long letter here to the reunion of his regiment deploring the fact that official duties as acting commissioner in the absence of his chief prevented his joyful participation in that event.

Matson,—we do not know what his services were, but granted that they were of extraordinary valor and merit— has been like unto the others. With such men there seems to be no tie of patriotism that will break the bonds of party feeling except the dread reality of war. War once over they desert the ranks and join, not the armed enemy, but the bourbon leaders who again are at the front in the national government. Matson did this in a most humiliating way. To-day he is trying to be elected governor by soldier votes. He was not nominated as a peculiarly fit man to be the chief executive of the state but as one whose position as chairman of the house committee on pensions might be of party advantage to him. The story of his abasement, of his subserviency to the Southern rule, is beet told in the report from the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic this past week. The Grand Army has been trying to have a dependent pension bill passed by congress. The Republican senate passed it, and when it reached the houBe it went to the committee on pensions, of which Mr. Matson is chairman. The chairman reported back the "mongrel, picayunish affair," which was put on the calendar. Congressman Johnston introduced a resolution asking the committee on rules to fix a day when the pension bill could be taken up to the end that it miget be amended to agree with the wishes of the soldiers and the people of the North, but from that time Speaken Carlisle never called a meeting of the committee, because he knew that the resolution would be acted upon favorably. The report of the G. A. R. committee on pensions to the encampment at Columbus tells the remainder of the story, and a most disgraceful one it is, too:

In May your committee prepared a petition to the committee on rules asking that three or four days be set apart for the consideration of general pension legislation. This petition received the signatures of over one hundred members of the house. The name of the chairman of the committee on Invalid pensions was not in the list of those In favor of such action. It lias been clearly within his own power to secure the assignment of one or more days for this purpose. He made no such eftort, nor by act nor word Indicated that he favored It. The responsibility for the failure of your bill, the responsibility for the failure of the general pension legislation of any kind or degree, the responsibility for the failure to secure for the veterans of the land even a hearing before the national house of Representatives for the present session rests upon thecharlrmanof the house committee of Invalid pensions. Regretting that Its efforts In following out your Instructions have been thus hindered and thwarted, your committee recommends that the suggestions ot last year be reaffirmed and another vigorous campaign be begun In behalf of our needy and deserving comrades.

In this meeting of the representatives of the soldiers of the Union no one arose to defend Matson and the report was adopted by an almost unanimous vote. We submit that there can be desertion from the ranks after the war is over and the armies are disbanded that is more deserving of the scorn of all men than that of the deserter who runs away when physical danger alone confronts him.

C. O. D.

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"Pen" pictures—the rogues' gallery. A sample case the one" sent by the green goods man.

In the human race the butcher holds the steaks. Washington Critic. Nay, nay. Pauline. The steaks are not in the race while the butcher holds them. 'Tis said that Satan keeps two busy ranges.

To roast the soul of the lout Who conies in and grabs our latest exchanges, And leaves them all Inside out. "Mamie, if you intend to marry Mr. Surplice, you had better do so before Christmas." ••Why. mumuia'.'" "Young ministers are apt to be very slippery at that time, my child." "I'ncle Rastus. do you suppose there Is any dam ger from Yellow Jack In tills Northern latitude?" "I dunno about no Yellow Jack, but Mlsto' Brown, down heah he do have a yeller mule dats chuck full of dangah, sah!" "A Smith county. Kansas, child was found playing With an old coffee pot containing a rattlesnake." Anywhere else than a Prohlb tlon smte, that snake would have boldly declared himself and have been found In a Jug.

There are 1.200 prisoners at the Illinois penitentiary at Jollet, a smaller number than have leen confined there at any time In the. last fifteen years.—[ Kx.

Is this the reason "Col." Brlce claims an increased Democratic vote In that state? "Well, you see. It was this way. He said that Cleveland was glttin' *50,000 a year from England, an' then 1 says that Harrison was goln' to till the postoMces with Chinamen IT he got elected, an' he said I was a liar, ami then I smashed him—that's all."

Marble Cutter—"How will this do for an epitaph. Mrs. Jenkynse, 'After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well

Mrs. Jenkynse—"! am at raid the first part Is inappropriate. You see poor John is a Phlladelphlan."

At a summer resort "And now that you have promised me, darling, when will be the happy day?"

She—"When our club wins the pennant." He—"By the way, that reminds me, where are you from. Miss Smythe?"

She—"Washington

"Well. Bagley. did you attend the lecture last night?" "No. not exactly, that Is. my wife gave a lecture at home." "What was the subjaet?" "Myself." "Was It a success?" ••Well, she exhausted the subject."

COLONEL 'L'lGY GATSE.

Durin' war times the gorillas hed cut up most uv the cypress ties and used 'em for kindlin' an' stove wood, an' the result wuz that when the war wuz over there wuzn't anythink left uv the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo but the rollin' stock 'nd the two streaks uv rails from one end uv the road to the other. In the spring uv '67 I hed to go out into Kansas, an' takin' the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo at Paimyry Junction I wuzn't long in findin' out that the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo railroad wuz just about the wust cast of rollin' prairer I ever struck.

There was one bunk left when I boarded the sleepin' car and hed presence uv mind 'nuff to ketch on to it. It wuz then just about dusk an' the nigger that sort uv run things in the car sez to me: "Boss," sez he, "I'll have to get you not to snore to-night, but to be uncommon quiet." "What for?" sez I. "Hain't I paid my $2 an' hain't I entitled to all the luxuries uv the outfit?"

Then the nigger leant over an' told me that Colonel Elijah Gates, one uv the directors uv the road an' the richest man in Marion county, wuz aboard, an' it wuz one uv the rules uv the company not to do anything to bother him or get him to sell his stock.

The nigger pointed out Colonel Gates 'nd I took a look at him as he sot readin' the Paimyry Speculator. He wuz one of our kind uv people—long, raw-boned, 'nd husky. He looked to be about GO— may be not quite on to 60. He wuzn't bothered with much hair onto his head, 'nd his beard was shaved, all except two rims or fringes uv it that ran down the side uv his face 'nd met underneath his chin. This fringe filled up his neck so thet he didn't hev to wear no collar, 'nd he hadn't no jewelry about him excep' a big carnelian bosom pin that hed the picture uv a woman's head on it in white. His specs sot well down on his nose, 'nd I could see his blue eyes over 'em, small eyes, but kind ur good-natured. Between his readin' uv his paper 'nd his eatin' plug terbacker he kep' toler'ble busy till come bedtime. The rest on us kep' as quiet as we could, for we knew it wuz an honor to ride in the same sleepin' car with the richest man in Marion county 'nd a director uv the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo, to boot.

Along 'bout 8 o'clock the colonel reckoned he'd tumble into bed when he'd drawed his boots 'nd hung up his coat 'nd laid in a fresh hunk uv nat'ral leaf, he crawled into the best bunk, 'nd presently we heerd him sleepin'. There was nuthin' else for the rest uv us to do but to foller suit, 'nd we did.

It must have been about an hour later —say along about Prairer City—that a woman came aboard with a baby. There warn't no bunk for her, but the nigger allowed that she might setback near the stove, for the baby 'peared to be kind ov sick like 'nd the woman looked like she had been cryin'. Whether it wuz the jouncin' uv the car or whether the young one wuz hungry or had a colic into it I didn't know, but anyhow the train hadn't pulled out ov Prairer City afore the baby began to take on. The nigger run back as fast as he could 'nd told the young woman that she'd have to keep that baby quiet because Colonel 'Lijy Gates, one uv the directors uv the road, wuz in the car'nd wunt be disturbed. The young woman caught up the baby scart-like 'nd talked soothin' to it 'nd covered its little face with her shawl 'nd done all them things thet women do to make babies go to sleep.

But the baby would cry, and, in spite of all the young woman 'nd the nigger could do, Col. Elijah Gates heard the baby cryin', 'nd so he waked up. First his two blue yarn socks come through the curtains 'nd then his long legs 'nd long body 'nd long face hove into sight. He come down the car to the young woman 'nd looked at her over his specs. Didn't seem to be the least bit mad jest Eolemn 'nd bizness like. "My dear madam," sez he to the young woman, "You must do sumpin' to keep that child quiet. These people have all paid for their bunks 'nd they are entitled to a good night's sleep. Of course I know how 'tis with young children— will cry sometimes—have raised 'leven uv 'em myself, 'nd know all about 'em. But as a director uv the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo I've got to pertect the rights of these other folks. So jist keep the baby quiet as you kin."

Now, there warn't nothin' cross in the colonel's tone the colonel wus as kind an' consid'rat as could be expected uv a man who hed so much responsibility arestin' onto him. But the young woman was kind uv nervous 'an after the colonel went back 'nd got into his bunk the young woman sniffed and worited and seemed like she had lost her wits, 'nd the baby kep' cryin' jist as hard as ever. Waal, there wuzn't much sleepin' to be done in that car, for what with the baby cryin' 'nd the young woman a-sayin' "Oh, dear," 'nd "Oh, my," and the nigger a-prancin' round like the widder bewitched—with all this goin' on, sleep wuz out uv the question. Folks began to wake up 'nd put their heads outern their bunks to see what wuz the doggone matter. This made things pleasanter for the young woman. The colonel stood it as long as he could and then he got up a second time 'nd come down the car 'nd looked at the young woman over his specs. "Now, as I wuz tellin' you afore," sez he, "I hain't makin' no complaint uf myself, for I've raised a family of 'leven children 'nd I know all about 'em. But these other folks here in the car have paid for a good night's sleep 'nd it's my duty as a director uv the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo to see that they get it. Seems to me like you ought to be able to keep that child quiet—you can't make me believe that there's any use for a child to be carryin' on so. Sumpin's hurtin' it—I know sumpin's hurtin it by the way it cries. Now you look 'nd see if there ain't a pin stickin' into it somewhere I've raised 'leven children 'nd that's jist the way they used to cry when there wuz a pin stickin' 'em."

He reckoned he'd find things all right this time 'nd he went back to his bunk feelin' toler'ble satisfied with himself. But the young woman couldn't find no pin stickin' the baby, 'nd, no matter how much she stewed and worrited, the baby kep' right on cryin', jest the same. Holy smoke! but how that baby did cry.

Now, I reckoned that the colonel woulfi be gettin' almighty mad if this thing kep' up much longer. A man may raise 'leven children as easy as rollin' off'n a log, an' yet the twelfth one, that isn't his at all, may break him. There is ginerally a last 6traw, even when it comes to the matter uv children.

So when the colonel riz feet foremost

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for the third time outern hie bunk that night—or, I should say, mornin', for it wuz mighty near mornin' now—we looked for hail Columby. "Look a-here, my good woman," sez he to the young woman with the baby, "as I wuz tellin' you afore, you must do somepin to keep that child quiet. It'll never do to keep all these folks awake like this. They've paid for a good night's sleep 'nd it's my duty as a director uv the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo to perteet agin this disturbance. I've raised a family uv 'leven children 'nd I know, as well as I know anythink, that that child is hungry. No child ever cries like that when it isn't hungry, so I insist on your nursin' it 'nd givin' us peace 'nd quiet."

Then the young woman begun to sniffle. "Law me, sir," sez the young woman, '•I ain't the baby's mother—I'm only just tendin' it."

The colonel got pretty mad then his face got red 'nd his voice kind of trembled—he wuz so mad. "Where is its mother?" sez the colonel.

Why isn't she here takin' care uv this hungry 'nd cryin' child like she ought to be?" "She's in the front car, sir," sez the young woman, chokin' up. "She's in the front car—in a bcx, dead we're takin' the body 'nd the baby back home."

Now what you or me have done—what would any man have done then 'nd there? Jest what the colonel done.

The colonel didn't wait for no second thought he jest reached out his big bony hands 'nd he sez, "Young woman, gi' me that baby"—sez it EO quiet'nd so gentle like that seemed like it wuz the baby's mother that wuz a-speakin'.

The colonel took the baby and—now, may be you won't believe me—the colonel held that baby 'nd rocked it in his arms 'nd talked to it like it had been his own child. And the baby seemed to know that it lay agin a lovin' heart, for, when it heerd the ol' man's kind voice 'nd saw his smilin' face 'nd felt the soothin' roclcin' uv his arms, the baby stopped its grievin' 'nd cryin' 'nd cuddled up close to the colonel's breast 'nd begun to coo 'nd laff.

The colonel called the nigger. "Jim," sez he, "you go ahead 'nd tell the conductor to stop the train at the first farm house. We've got to have some milk for this child—some warm milk with sugar into it I hain't raised a family uv 'leven children for nothin'."

The baby didn't^cry no more that night leastwise we didn't hear it if it did cry. And what if we had heard it? Blessed if I don't think every last one of us would have got up to help tend that lonesome little thing.

That was more'n twenty years ago, but I kin remember the last words I heerd the-colonel say: "No matter if it does cry," sez he. "It don't make no more noise than a cricket, nohow, 'nd I reckon that being a director uv the road I kin stop the train 'nd let off anybody that don't like the way the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo does business."

Twenty years ago! Colonel Elijah Gates is sleepin' in the Paimyry buryin' ground likely as not the baby has growed up—leastwise the Han'bul & St. Joe has everythink is different now— everythink has changed—everythink except human natur, 'nd that is the same it alius has been, 'nd it alius will be, I rec^pn.—[Eugene Field in the Chicago News.

A CONGRESSMAN'S PAY.

Some Few Save a Little Money, while Most of Them Spend More than Their Salary* Although three-fourths of the members of congress find it impossible to live on the salaries they receive, there are some members of the house who actually manage to save as much as §3,000 out of the §5,000 which they are paid for law making. These lucky ones come from the South, where election expenses are a mere bagatelle compared with the drain that is put upon the Western and Northern members who live in districts having plenty of towns. Congressional salaries are so small that many of the ablest men in the present house are declining re-elections. Their business interests are suffering and $5,000 a year is not enough inducement to remain in public life.

A congressman's expenses are all the time increasing. This has been a year of unusual demands upon both sides. The sending out of campaign material has cost some of them thousands of dollars. The average member, no matter how poor in purse, has sent out hundreds of dollars' worth of tariff speeches. The people have an idea that these speeches do not cost the congressman anything. It is a mistake. Every speech ordered costs something. The printing and binding is expensive, to say nothing of the clerk hire to direct the envelopes. A congressman has no time" to do this work. He is compelled to employ a clerk. He is not allowed a clerk by law, as is the case with the senators.

The representatives ought to have clerks, but a majority of the house do not have nerve enough to pass a law that may possibly be regarded as a piece of extravagance by the taxpayers. Either this ought to be done, or else the pay of a member of congress should be increased. If the present state of affairs continues the day will come when either men of small calibre will constitute the majority of the house, or else most of the members of that body will be moneyed men who can afford" to pay these bills. The new congressmen who are known to be extremely close and who save money are odd specimens. They live in the cheapest way imaginable. They are never seen at a place of amusement, seldom ride in the street cars, and they would drop dead if they were to be called upon to occasionly pay carriage hire.

One of these miserly statesmen recently felt under great obligation to a well known New Yorker, and so he got up courage enough to ask the New Yorker to take lunch with him at the House restaurant. The New orker is a man of means and is in the habit of spending money freely. At lunch the host said: "Mr. what will you take to drink?" "Champagne," said the New Yorker. The entertainer came near fainting when he glanced at the wine card and saw that the brand of champagne called for was worth $4 per bottle. This thrifty M. C. as a rule eats apiece of pie and drinks a glass of milk for lunch, but it was observed that he didn't even indulge in pie and milk for nearly a month He had to even up.

Business in the Supreme Court. The Supreme court of Indiana will meet next week. Since the adjournment iu June, ninety-six cases have been filed with the clerk of court. When the court adjourned for the summer vacation there were on the docket 1,063 cases. This gives a present total of undecided cases of 1,159. The court in one year decides on an average about oOO cases. It is seen, therefore, that it is now, as it has long been, at least two yeare behind in its work. The necessity for an Appelate court that will relieve the Supreme court of many cases, and enable it to dispose of its business promptly, has long been urged by members of the

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court and by the press. The attention of the legislature will again be called to the situation this winter.—[Indianapolis News.

How the Mills Bill Has DeinoralUed the Trade Here. Everyone is inclined to credit remarks, facts or figures presented by business men of his own community than the same from those whom he must know from report. Mr. Albert Bogard hurriedly copied some figures from his Jxoks yesterday morning that shows conclusively a decline in the selling price of ar tides he handles. He buys and ships rags and iron and assorts his articles before shipping. He thus has figures at his command to compare both purchasing and selling prices for any date since the beginning of his business to the present. In 1883, March 25th, he bold rags at the following prices: Cotton rags, properly assorted, average price, $2.08 per hundred soft woolen rags, 9 cents per pound hard woolen rags, 2,1-£o per pound common woolens, lc per pound: wool carpets, 6c per pound. March loth, 1885, the following prices held: Cotton rags assorted, sold for l"ac per pound soft woolens, 534c per pound wool carpets, 5)4c per pound common woolens, ?4C per pound. March 25 th, 1888: Assorted cotton rags, $160 per hundred soft woolens, at 7c per pound hard woolens, l®gc per pound soft woolen carpets, 4c per pound common woolen, 80c per hundred. August 25th, 1888: Assorted cottons, $1.55 soft woolens, G^'c per pound hard woolens, ls-8'c per pound soft assorted woolen carpets, 3c per bund common woolens,60c per hundred. These are figures taken from Mr. Bogard's books. They are the data kept by a business man as a matter of busines. From these figures he studied his business of yesterday and regulates his plan for to-moorow. The figures taken from March of this year compared with those of August show the bulk of the decline within that period. He says that all men in his business attribute this decline directly to the consideration of the Mills bill in congress and that there is not a doubting Thomas among them on this fact except he be one whose parti zan zeal is uppermost. He says that every reduction of the tariff or proposal to reduce it shakes his business as the present bill has done. In the midst of this reduction in the selling price of his wares he has had to pay the same wages for assorting his good as he did in '83 when they were higher. The following is a copy of a circular being sent out to the trade. Every name signed to it is that of a Democrat:

DF.AK SIR: YOU are doubtless aware of the fact, that the Mills tariff bill, which has been passed by the Democratic majority of the house of representatives, places on the free list wool, woolen rags of every description and all grades of shoddy. It also abolishes the weight duty on woolen goods. This bill, therefore, as far as it affects the industry in which we are engaged, is a

FREE TRADE MEASURE,

and, as such, we are decidedly opposed to it. It would injure our business in two ways: (1.) The abolition of the weight duty on woolen goods would severely affect the woolen manufacturers, and would in a great measure transfer the manufacture of woolen goods from this country to Europe, and especially to England. (2.) The abolition of the duty on rags alone would be a great injury to our business, but the free importation of shoddy would ruin the same entirely.

Shoddy is not a raw material. It is a manufactured article into which the cost of labor enters to a very great per centage of its value. The diffierence in wages paid here and those paid in Europe is too well known to need comment, and no manufacturer of shoddy in this country could, under these circumstances. compete with the English or German manufacturers, and therefore their business would be entirely ruined and all the shoddy used in this country would be imported from Europe. Our customers thus ruined, what would become of our business? It also would be ruined, and we and those dependent upon us would suffer.

There is only one way to avoid this loss to ourselves, and that is by the defeat of the candidate of the free trade party—Grover Cleveland. We say advisedly, free trade party, because we do not believe that President Cleveland is to-day the candidate of the entire Democratic party. He has been forced upon it by the Southern free trade branch of the party. The Democratic party as a whole is not, and never has been in favor of free trade. Most of us have always been, and in fact, still are, Democrats, but we have determined in the coming election to support the candidates of the protection party—Harrison and Morton.

Their election we consider to be indispensable to the maintenance of our business, and we furthermore think that the defeat of Cleveland and Ihurman by an immense majority, will forever kill the free trade branch of the Democratic party, and will enable us in future elections to support, if we so feel inclined, its candidates for president without feeling that by so doing we are imperiling the means of making a living for ourselves and for our families.

We trust that you will not consider us to be taking a liberty if, in view of the foregoing facts, we ask you to assist us by every means in your power to assure the election of Harrison and Morton. We ask you to do this, not because they are Republicans, but because they are protectionists and, as we firmly believe their election.to be the only means of sustaining our business iuterests. Yours respectfully,

S. Rawltzer & Bro 138 Duane street. New York. William Souls. 392 Hudson street. New York. Charles Harley, 365 east Third street. New York. James H. Lyon it Co.. 10 and 12 Reade street, New York.

George Schofleld 448 Pearl street, Vew York. Bausch & Greenfield, 137 Duane street. New York.

William Sachs. 390 Pearl street. New York. Berg & Meyers, 7 Elm street, New York. James Hennessey 4 Co.. 62 Duane street, New York.

M. Sominer, 118 and 120 Broadway. New York. M. J. Foss. 440 Pearl street. New York. Isaac Frank, 129 west Broadway, New York: Jacob Koss, agent. 65 Bayard street. New York.

H. Stewart. 65 Bayard street. New York. •Patrick Hardman. 1416 Second avenue. New York.

SC. M. Koss. 577 Atlantic avenue. Boston. William K. Allen A Co.. Philadelphia, Pa,

Very Poctical.

First Dude—"That's a splendidlymade coat. Who is your tailor?" Second Dude—"He is dead. This coat is the last thing he made. It is the song of the dying swan." "Dying goose, you mean!"—[Texas Sittings,

But He Understands How to Vote. Indignant engineer (to Italian, who has refued to get off the track)—What do you mean by stopping the whole train?

His Trampship—Notts understand ze whistle what speaks English.—JTime.

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OPPOSITE VIKWS.

They looked at each other across the street. The flats they occupied being just Of a height to let their glances meet-

Through rain and sunshine and llylng dust. He was a tall young man, and dark She was a slim young maid, and fair. His eyes flashed many a killing spark,

While hers sent, gently, a steady stare. He thought: "She Isn't my style but then. FU flirt a little. Just lor a whim' While she said: "Well, the conceit of men!

Does he ever suppose I'd think of him?" Madeline S. Bridges, In Puck. Edison has invented a meter whereby the flow of electricity can be measured.

Judge Thurman says that there Bhould be a law against interviewing. Perhaps some one has been reporting him literally.

General Fisk, the Prohibition candidate for president, is sick at his home in Seabright, N. J. He was overcome by the recent stress of weather in Maine.

Somebody has discovered that the names of the three judges in the Parnell commission—Hannen, Day and Smith— make the anagram: "In thy hands— amen!"

John Lucas, the head waiter at a Saratoga hotel, who died the other day, left a fortune of only $60,000. And now the heirs are wondering what became of his money.

The second Mrs. Lawrence Oliphant, while still Miss Rosamond Dale Owen, often lectured to the socialist societies in London on her grandfather's colony at New Harmony.

Judge Davenport, of Kansas City, has decided that women can wear trousers whenever and wherever they please in Missouri. This will be pleasant news for Dr. Mary Walker.

At Burlington, N. J., September 7, Florence Ethel, youngest daughter of William G. Binney, was married to Prince Pietro Paola Becadilli Bolognade Camporeala, of Palermo, Italy.

The prince of Wales owes at present over $500,000, and is thinking seriously of applying to Parliament for an allowance for Prince Albert Victor, who now keeps up a household of his own.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland is collecting money to finish the American church in Berlin. One man in Kansas City, S. M. Simpson, one of the original John Brown men, has given $2,000 for the purpose.

Mrs. Clara S. Foltz, the San Diego editor and lawyer, is aiding the Democrats on the stump in California—not indirectly, by supporting the Prohibition candidate, but by open advocacy of the Democratic cause.

Senator Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, really has no family life except on Sunday. This day he devotes almost entirely to his family, and won't talk about politics at all. He lives in a comfortable, but very plain, house at Laurel, Md.

The Mikado of Japan is a fine subject for the labors of the professional prohibitionist. His Japanese majesty gets publicly and uproariously drunk in broad daylight and swaggers around his palace just like a common everyday drunkard.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward, writer of "Robert Elsmere," is a niece of the late Matthew Arnold. She lives with her husband in London, and their home is the model of a literary household. Mr. Ward is an editorial writer for the London Times.

Levi P. Morton, Republican candidate for vice president, won eight prizes at the Buffalo International fair, for his eight exhibitions of improved stock. There is reason to believe that he will be equally successful in his efforts to improve the stock of vice presidents.

The pleasing information comes from Nebraska that Miss Artie Cody, the daughter of Buffalo Bill, eets the styles at North Platte since her return from Europe, but that all the honors that she received in England could not turn her head, which is chock full of hard Nebraska sense.

If Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe should die the veteran abolitionist writer of the country will be Hilton Helper, author of "The Impending Crisis." He is still hale at a green old age. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Helper's great book did more to break down the slavery lines than any publications before the war.

Sarah Althea Hill (Sharon) Terry, it has just been discovered in San Francisco, has an additional claim to fame. A few days before she was locked up for the recent escapade in Judge Fields' court she encountered upon a railroad train Judge Lorenzo Sawyer of the United States District court, and attacked him viciously, giving his hair and whiskers and unmerciful pulling.

Washington Post: A negro who speaks English with a genuine Irish brogue is rather a novelty. Yet William B. O'Dell, a full-blooded African, astonished a Brooklyn police justice the other day by testifying in a rich Irish brogue. O'Dell says he was born of negro parents at Ballyslo, Wexford county, Ireland, and, not having been imtOralized since his arrival in America, was still an Irishman.

The Russian Czarina, though nearly 40 years of age, has still a girlish appearance her sparkling eyes and her joyful smile, her elastic figure, her graceful and yet natural movements as she shows them when dancing, all combine to impress her with that stamp of youthfulness rare at her time of life. And how she laughs—so heartily, so loud, so naturally, that she herself seems now and then to think it almost frivolous, when a bashful red at once covers her face, and makes her look still more like a big girl or an overgrown child.

Alexander Campbell, founder of the religious sect known as Christians or Deciples of Cforist, was born in county Antrim, Ireland, September 12, 1788. Next Sunday many of his followers in the United States will hold memorial services. The Desciples to-day stand fifth in numerical strength among the religious bodies in the United States. They have about 0,500 churches and not less than 700,000 members. Their^ annual increase is about 50,000. They have five universaties and nineteen colleges, besides other schools and seminaries.

Elder Joseph Harvey, of Pittsfield, N. H, who recently preached a sermon on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination as a preacher, has been longer in the pulpit than any clergyman in New England. He has averaged four sermons a week during these fifty years, and the total is 10,400 discourses. He has conducted 2,000 funerals and so many weddings that he has lost track of the number and he has preached in every town in the state, in nineteen states and territories, and in three of the British territories.

A License to 1'edal.

"Have you a license to play?" asked the young man as the fair girl was seated at the organ."

License to play the organ," replied she I never heard of such a thing." "O, yes, you must have a license to pedal."—[Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.

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TIME TABLE

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked ttius (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached daily. Trains marked thus (B) de note Bnflet Cars attached. Trains marked thus ran dally. All other trains run dally Sunday* excepted

VANDALIA LINE.

T. H. I. DIVISION. IJTAVK FOR TH* W*ST.

No. BWestern Kxpress (3) 1.4!i a.

111.

No. 6 Mall Train1 IIUHH. in. No. 1 Fast L'ne* (P&V) 2.23 p. iu. No. 7 Vast Mall Kl.lH p. ui.

I.KAVK FOR TUB VAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express *(Si 1..HI) h. m. No. 6 New York Express (S) 1.51 a. in. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.1fi a. 111. No. 20 AtlanticExptess*(l'AV) 12.62 p.

111.

No. 8 Fast Line* 2.t« p. in. ARRIVK FKOll TUK KAST. No. 9 Western Express (S) l.XU a.

111.

No. 6 Mall Train* 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Llne*(PAV) p. 111. No. 8 Mall and Accommodation p. m. NO. 1 Fast Mall HUH) p. w.

ARRIVK FROM THK WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Expresses) 1.211 a. m. No. 6 New York Express*(9) 1.42 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express*(P4V) 12.Hi p. in. No. Fast Line* 1.48 p. m.

T. H. & L. DIVISION. LBAVI FOR THK NORTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mall 1.IW a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express

4.1m

p. 111.

ARRIVK FROM NORTH.

No. fil Terre Haute Kxpress 12.t» noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.AN P. m.

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