Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 September 1888 — Page 2

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The National Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT,

BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Indiana. VICB PRESIDENT, LEVI P. MORTON, of New York.

KLKCT0R9-AT-LAKGE,

JAMES M. SHACKELFORD, of Vanderberg, THOMAS H. NELSON, of Vigo. EIGHTH DISTRICT ELECTORS.

JOHN C. CHANEY, of Sullivan. The State Ticket. GOVERNOR

ALVIN P. HOVEY, of Posey. I,IEOT.-OOVERNOR IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks.

JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT

1st District—SILAS D. COKKEY, of Clay.

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District—JOHN i. BERKSHIRE, of Jennings. 4th District—WALTER OLDS, of Whitley. BECRETART OF STATE

CHABLES F. GRIFFIN, of Lake. AUDITOR OF STATE BRUCE CARR. of Orange.

TREASURER OF STAT*

JULIUS A. LEMCKE, of Vanderburg. ATTORNET-OENKKAL, LEWIS T. MICHENER, of Shelby. 8UPPERINTKNDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

HARVEY M. LA FOLLETTE, of Boone. REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, of Marlon.

CONGRESSMAN,

JAMES T. JOHNSTON, of Parke. JOINT REPRESENTATIVE, WILLIAM F. WELLS, of Vermillion.

County Ticket. 8TATK SENATOR,

FRANCIS V. BICHOWSKY. REPRESENT ATI VE9.

WILLIAM H. BERRY. MARION McQUILKIN. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,

JAMES E. PIETY. TREASURER,

FRANKLIN C. FISBECK. SHERIFF, BENONI T. DEBAUN.1

COMMISSIONERS.

1st District—LEVI DICKERSON. 2d District—LOUIS FINKBINER. Bd District—S. S. HENDERSON.

SURVEYOR,

FRANK TUTTLE. CORONER. DR. JOHN HYDE.

The Republican party holds that a protective tariff is constitutional, wholesome and necessary —[General Harrison's Letter.

We believe It to be one of the worthy objects of tariff legislation to preserve the American markets for American producers, and to maintain the American scale of wages by adequate discriminating duties upon foreign competing products.— I General Harrison's Letter.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation Is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. The right of every qualified elector to cast one free ballot and have It counted must not be questioned. Every constitutional power should be used to make this right secure and punish frauds uponthe ballot.—[General Harrison's Letter.

Mr. Mills is fishing for gudgeons. There are none here.

Fred Douglass, the former slave, and Roger Mills, the former slave owner, delivered speeches in Terre Haute last night.

It was a big jamboree, not an intelligent consideration of the issue as raised by the president's message or the Mills' tariff bill.

The Mills of Texas grinds very slowly and, in the profanity of our esteemed but cranky contemporary, the Gazette, dod gasted small.

Postmaster Judd at Chicago has, at last, been removed. There has been no more glaring instance of Democratic inefficiency than in his administration of that office. Mr. Cleveland retained him until the popular clamor was too serious to be ignored.

We haven't the first sense of alarm that yellow fever may reach Terre Haute, but all the same let the board of health see to it that we are clean, and prepared for the insidious visitor. It is a good thing on general principles, too, to clean house at this time of year.

Senator Voorhees says that he is very much gratified with the prospect in Indiana. It may be remembered that he said in '80: "The prospect was never better for success than now." In 188G he also said that anything less than forty majorty on joint ballot would be a personal disgrace to himself.

It is reported from New York that all the Democeatic orators in that state are men from the south. It is the old story. The south feels that it is called on to furnish all the statesmanship the country may need. That section of the country is of the opinion that we do not raise statesmen north of Mason and Dixon's line.

Wbeu Surgeon General Hamilton, of the marine hospital service, was issuing orders for strict quarantine regulations a few days ago the Florida and Georgia people were much enraged at the encroachment" of federal authority. Now the southern cities are calling on the general government for protection, saying the local regulations are not effective.

On the whole we are glad Mills came. We are much more glad that Jarrett had been here. The latter left the tariff issue in such clear impression that the remarkable confusion of the excitable gentleman from Texas merely furnished the emphasis of contrast in favor of the 4irst speaker. On the whole the Mills

meeting was a good thing for the Republicans.

A dispatch from New York has this information about the sugar trust whose emissaries held a secret conference with the majority of the Mills committee, and secured a change in the tariff bi for their benefit:

A combined movement was begun yesterday by the sugar trust and representatives of the whole sale grocers to Increase the price of sugar. If the purpose be carried out, thoe who buy sugar of the retail grocers will before long have to pay an Increased price for it.

Since the Chinese restriction measure was sent to Mr. Cleveland it is learned that the Chinese government has refused to ratify the Chinese treaty. Mr. Cleveland had his man Scott put the bill through the house when the rumor that such action had been taken by the Chinese government. Then it was learned that the rumor was not well founded and Mr. Cleveland was in a predicament but his "luck" was with him. He can now

Bign

the measure that

was hastily put through as a campaign measure.

We call attention to the communication from the Hon. Charles Knight, published this morning. Mr. Knight is a Democrat who cannot endorse the president's message and the Mills bill. He lives at Brazil, the center of the Indiana coal region, and knows the good there is in a protective tariff. We are willing to put this Democrat against Mr. Mills of Texas. Mr. Knight's name is not so well known to the country as that of the excitable gentleman from Texas but that is simply owing to locality. If Mr. Mills lived in Brazil, or Terrs Haute or anywhere in Indiana, he would not be rated as a statesman of national renown. He has the prestige of seniority in the house of representatives, a prestige that he could not possibly have secured if he bad gone to congress from Indiana. Mr. Knight is his equal in ability and in every other respect.

MR. MILLS ON FREE WHISKY.

In his speech last night Mr. Mills said that the Democratic party would retain the tax on whisky and tobacco. Mr. Mills therein was lacking in frankness. The measure which bears his name contains this section:

Section 40. That all" clauses of section 3,244 of the Revised Statutes, and all laws amendatory thereof, and all other laws which Impose any special taxes upon manufacturers of stills, retail dealers In malt liquors are hereby repealed.

This is intended to relieve the distillers and the saloonkeepers from the special tax. Section 36 provides:

The secretary of the treasury may exempt all distilleries which mash less than twenty-live bushels of grain per day, from the operation of the provisions of this title relating to the manufacture of spirits, except as to the payment of tax, which said tax shall then be levied and collected on the capacities of the said dlstilerles and said distilleries may, at the discretion of the secretary, then be run and operated without storekeepers and gaugers.

These sections are plainly for "free whisky," especially for the benefit of the Southern moonshiners. Yet Mr. Mills devoted considerable time to the denunciation of the Chicago platform.

PROTECTION IS MUTUAL.

Mr. Nichols in his capacity as a grocer is not protected and can not be. His customers couldn't go to England or the tariff ridden countries of Europe every time they wanted to buy a box of matches or a bar of soap or a can ef oil.— IGazette.

It seems to us that this is a good argument in favor of protection. The very fact that England can't compete with Mr. Nichols shows that he is protected better than any one engaged in a directly protected industry. Why would not as sufficient protection for one engaged in business with which England can compete be as beneficial? Our free trade friends often cite the carpenter, the bricklayer, the printer on the daily newspaper and others in like pursuits as workingmen who are not protected yet receive good wages. Suppose England could supply us with houses and with type ready for the daily newspaper, work performed at admittedly lees wages than paid in this country, wouldn't it follow that the workingman here would need protection? But the men employed in industries here which are protected, earning better wages, can better support those in what are called non-pro-tected industries by purchasing more groceries from Mr. Nichols, building homes and subscribing for newspapers and purchasing merchandise from the advertisers in the newspapers.

C. 0.1).

"Another lie nailed," said the clerk as he tacked up a "selling out at cost" sign.

Go to New York young man, you can soon reach an elevated station—for 5 cents. ••Wonder if Tantalus ever had a good cigar, no matches In the hous», and an Incandescent light In easy reach?

Mrs. Rachael Stlllwaggon, of Vermont, aged 103, Is chipper and lively, and expects to be still waggln' around this globe for several years to come.

An American base ball game is a perfect love feast compared to the English foot ball game. They always have something to kick about.

The locomotive "General," which was stolen during the war. was on exhibition at the late Co" lumbus reunion. Mr. Gould didn't have any railroads on exhibition, however.

A dancing masters' trust has betn ganlzed in New York for the purpose of raising prices of In. 8truction In the terpslchorean art. The people have to stand though It makes them hopping mad.

Bobby—"I wish I was you, Mr. Perkins." Young Perkins—"Why. Bobby?" "Cause mamma makes me come In as soon as It gets dark, and papa said this morning that you had your kite out all last night."

Cains—"Gracchus, what are you doing nowadays?" Gracchus (who has been boarding his wife's brother gratis all summer)—"I have been keeping a feed stower for the last three months."

Mr. Jason—"What have you got for dessert to-day, dear?" Mrs. J.—"Pudding, with apprehension sauce?" "What In the world Is apprehension sauce?" "Don't you remember writing to me that you were full of apprehension all the time I was away? I heard about you while I was down town this morning."

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THE INVENTORS ROMANCE.

My father WBB the master machinist in the railroad shop at Summerville. Our home was unpretentious, though comfortable. My brothers and I were impressed with the idea that the height of man's ambition was attained when he became master mechanic.

Having been graduated from school at 14,1 was ambitious to enter the Sum merville academy, where the higher branches were taught and young men were prepared for college. I was quitea favorite with the principal of the village school, and he recommended me to Mi. Kimball, who was principal of the academy, and who wanted a boy around the place to make himself generally useful, for which the lad would get tuition free. I was soon installed as general utility at the academy. Charley RawBon and I formed the primary Latin class, and we quickly became fast friends.

While at the academy I had been a welcome guest at Charley Rawson's. HiB uncle and aunt, with whom he lived, were indulgent, and Jennie and he and I might turn the house upside down for all they cared.

Constantly thrown in Jennie's company, the result was that I fell head over heels in love, and after I had gone to work I hung around the place evenings like a spectre, in the hope of encountering her. We were good friends and with my first week's wages I bought her a box of perfumery—three little bottles of different flavors nestling in the blue silk lining.

Some months after I had left school Charley informed me that his uncle had decided to 6end him to Princeton, from which institution, by the way, he was graduated in time. He then entered the law office of Pearson & Co., in Philadelphia, became a successful lawyer, got married, and was recently elected county judge at Summerville.

The week following Charley's departure Jennie was bundled off to a young ladies' seminary near the Quaker city, to get polished in French, music and painting. Before her departure we had a long interview on the river bank, where we had so often romped and played. Jennie promised that she would write me a long letter every fortnight. For a whole year she wrote regularly, and as the time rolled by letters seemed to grow in affectionate assurances. At the end of that time Jennie came home to spend vacation. I called on her, and was received with the same artless, unaffected greeting of a year ago.

The aunt became alarmed and concluded it was about time to step in and prevent a mesalliance. Instead of Jennie, the aristocratic old dame received me in the parlor one evening, and in a mild but firm tone intimated that my absence from the Rawson mansion in the future would be highly appreciated. I took the hint, but I met Jennie before she returned to school. Between her sobs she told me that both her uncle and aunt had reminded her that she was a young lady now that she should look among her own circle for young gentlemen acquaintances, and, further, that unless she cut all communication with me they would cut her off without a dollar. As a dutiful ward she had promised to obey. We exchanged little mementoes at parting and I returned to the lathe. My promotion was rapid and I soon perfected a locomotive invention that brought me large financial returns.

Having made a profitable investment of my suddenly acquired fortune, I determined to visit Summerville. I put up at the best hostelry, which was not a very pretentious establishment. I called upon my old friends at the machine shop, and one of them, who always knew about the movements of everybody in the village, I invited to come to my hotel as I wanted to see him particularly. After hearing all the gossip about the folks we knew, I ventured the query whether he ever saw Miss Rawson.

I was delighted to hear that she was still unmarried not surprised that she was the belle of the town not very sorry to hear that her uncle and aunt were dead. He assured me also that Jennie lived in the old mansion accompanied only by a couple of servants, and that she devoted much of her time to caring for the half dozen poor families of the place. Of course, all the beaus had consigned her to the shelf among the old maids.

I had detemvipd to see her, and now I should discover whether memory of me had aught to do with her celibacy. I would not buy her love by telling her of my good fortune, and if she accepted me it must be as Tom Harrington, the poor mechanic. The next evening found me on the familiar door step. A strange servant ushered me into the parlor and took my card to Miss Rawson. I had not long to wait when there swept into the parlor my little Jennie, who, had indeed, developed into a peerless woman. 1 was embarrassed only for a second, for with both hands held out she greeted me in her old, simple style: "Why, Mr. Harrington, I am delighted to see you."

I could only seize her plump little hands in mine and kiss them. After some commonplace chat Jennie demurely remarked that she hardly expected the honor of a visit from me.

I could only stammer out in an incoherent sort of way: "Miss Rawson, since the day we parted you have never been absent from my thoughts. But I realizee the gulf that separated us, and tried hard to forget. It was no use, the passion grew with years, and the longing to 86e you so possessed me of late that I could not resist the impulse to come to Summerville. Only upon my arrival here did I learn that you were your own mistress that you were still unwedded, and I hoped to learn also that your heart was still your own." "It is not my own, Mr. Harrington. I lost it years ago, and so have refused many tempting offers of marriage. It is locked up In a little box and I have lost tiho kfty," "Perhaps," I hesitatingly suggested, "I might be able to open this mysterious box." "We shall see," replied Jennie and leaving the room for a moment she quickly returned with a package, which she carefully unfolded, and presently revealed the silk lined perfumery box that I had 60 proudly presented to her on the strength of my first week's earnings. '•Jennie, are you willing to risk the criticism of village gossips, and accept your old lover of the machine shop?" "I am. Tom, and will gladly share my wealth with you," "I have tested you, Jennie, and your heart has the true ring. You have accepted me without a dollar. But I have not been idle all these years. I have a comfortable fortune equal to your own to share with you."

An Excellent Reason.

Mother—"Why don't you take Miss DePink to the opera, my son?" Son—"She said the other night she could only be a sister to me. No fellow ever takes his sister to an expensive entertainment like that."—[Philadelphia Record.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23,1888.

BRIGHT FOR DAURI'ON-

His ChaMH in N®w York Good—Will Carry the State by 20,000. Special to the Chicago Dally News.

NEW YORK, September 21.—If the election depends upon New ork—and people generally concede that it does— Benjamin Harrison will be our next preeident. There seems scarcely room for a doubt that he will carry this state, and Democrats who have been about much concede it. I met W. D. Kerfoot, or Chicago, on the streets yesterday, aud, as everybody knows, he is a Democrat and a man not given to wild words or hasty conclusions. I asked him what he knew about politics. "It's all one-sided here," he said, "and Harrison will carry this state by 20,000 majority. I never saw such a change. It seems as if the bottom had dropped out of the Democratic party in New York." "How do you explain it?" "Well, a good many Democrats are going to vote against Cleveland on account of the tariff othertJ are dissatisfied with the way he has distributed the offices. Everybody wanted an office, of course, and there weren't enough to go around. Then, again, some of the appointments were bad and disgusted people who expected better things. The men who have always been the most active in the Democratic party, at least a good many of them, are lying back this year and doing nothing. Even if they vote for Cleveland, when the time comes, most of the Mugwumps will vote for Harrison, and the Republicans are more united and enthusiastic than they have been for years."

Mr. Keerfoot's opinion is shared by almost every unprejudiced man I meet, and the effect is felt at the Democratic headquarters, although the managers there still talk loudly and scoff at doubters.

The Mugwumps have received a severe blow between the eyes in the removal of Superintendent Jackson and Chief Clerk Champlin of the railway mail service. Mr. Jackson has been twentj -four years in the postoffice department, has risen from an ordinary clerkship to the position from which he has been removed, and Postmaster Pearson says that so far as he had known there was never any complaint or dissatisfaction with the way in which his duties were performed. "In fact," said Pearson, "he was considered a superior man in the service." Mr. Champlin has been in the service more than forty years and there was never any complaint about him. The only explanation these officials can obtain is that their removal "was considered necessary to the good of the service."

The fact is that the men who subscribed most liberally to the Cleveland committee four years ago are indifferent this yer.r or are working on the other side. Mr. H. K. Thurber, for example, the head of the largest grocery house in the world, was enthusiastic for Cleveland in 1884, and gave $25,000 to the Democratic national committee. I met him yesterday at the Chase national bank and he told me he was putting in about half his time electioneering for Harrison that he had spoken at a Republican meeting every night this week and expected to speak almost every night from now until November 7. "I thougt you were a great Cleveland man." I said. "So I was," he replied "but I have quit. I like Cleveland, but he has repudiated his first letter of acceptance, has violated his pledges to the civil service reformers, has sold himself to the south, and I can't stand his free trade policy. Harrison will carry this state by 25,000 majority and will be elected. There will be a tidal wave in November like that of 1884.

I was surprised to hear of the change of feeling on the stock exchange. Mr. Whitehouse, one of the oldest brokers in New York, brother of the late Bishop Whitehouse, of Chicago, a Democrat who will vote for Cleveland, tells me that a canvass of the members of the stock exchange has been made and that only 162 announced their intention to vote the Democratic ticket this year against over five hundred four years ago. Yesterday one of Mr. Brice's business partners in my presence made an even bet 81,000 that Harrison would be elected. I am informed that Col. Oliver Payne of the Standard oil company, whose father is a Democratic senator from Ohio and whose sister is the wife of the secretary of the navy, has refused to contribute to the Democratic campaign fund, although he has been frequently solicited to do so, and gave liberally last year. I could not ascertain the cause of his indifference further than the fact that he is a high tariff man. These are straws that

Bhow

which way the wind is blowing in his latitude. WILLIAM E. CURTIS.

NO SHENA.NEGAN-.

The New York Sun's Comment on Mr. Mill's Speech.

We observe with surprise that that most unadulterated, avowed and aggressive of free traders, the Hon. Roger Q. Mills, still includes in his list of appeals for ratification the argument that the Mills bill is not a free trade measure, because it reduces the average of duties by about 5 per cent. only.

In a certain sense this regularly reiterated argument is true. The bill which leaves an average of 40 per cent, duties is no more a free-trade measure than reading of a death warrant is the hanging, which is to come later,

This Mills bill was got through the house of representatives by means of arguments for free trade and unwilling compromises with protectionist Democrats. The policy of Mr. Mills, applied to the peculiar financial situation in which this country stands, will not bring free trade to-day, but it will bring it substantially within twenty years.

Brother Mills has won the repute of a spotless knight. When he faces his friends now

hp Bhould

do so with his

visor up. As we have unfortunately been called upon to say before, let the freetraders carry the county, but not cheat it.

Song of Calvin 8. Brloe.

How dear to my heart is the vote of old Texas, old Texas that nothing can swerve from our side, old Texas that's solid and sure for the party Though the enemy come like a fast-flowing tide Old Te$ae where shotgijns discuss public questions, And where the six-shooter speaks up sharp and quick, Where they monuments raise tq the late Colonel Bowie, And voting is apt to make niggers quite sick! That old solid Texas, that certain old Texas, that moss-covered Texas where Bourbons are thick!

New York and New Jersey, they're gone from us surely. And has Connecticut faded away Indiana, for us, is snare and delusion. And the rest of the North, it was always astray. But there's Texas, old Texas, down there in the corner. And with heart overflowing to thee will I sing, As I ponder ana fancy with fond recollection. And think

in November what comfort you'll bring That solid old Texas, that moss-grown old Texas, that dead-sure old Texas, Democracy's king!—[New York Tribune.

(tESEKAL POLITICAL NOTES.

The United Labor party of New York yesterday indorsed Warner Miller for governor, and nominated a state ticket of their own.

The Chicago News, which has for years been a worshiper at the shrine of Grover Cleveland, complains of the "verbosity of his letter of acceptance.

R. J. Gatling, the big Connecticut gunmaker and a long time Democrat, has fired a shot for Harrison. He has come out in favor of protection to American industries.

The state central committee of the Massachusetts Labor party have voted to call a state convention to nominate state ticket. The convention will held in Boston, September 23 next.

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Senator Voorhees walked into Democratic headquarters at Indianapolis, the other day, and not a man in the room recognized him. Whereat the Tall Sycamore waved all his limbs in indignation, bowed himself out, and took his leave.

The Democratic Providence Journal describes Governor Hill, of New York, as "the most thoroughly disreputable office holder in the whole country," and declares that "he stands for almost everything which is disreputable in political methods."

Of newspapers that supported Mr. Cleveland in 1884 and do not support him now may be named, in Msssachusetts the Boston Transcript, Advertiser, and Record, and in New York the Buffalo News, they Syracuse Herald, the Syracuse Volksblatt, the Utica Press, the Albany Times, and the New York Democrat.

Eight hundred workingmen of Bay View, Wis., have issued an address condeming the Mills bill and urging their fellow workingmen to vote for the party of protection, and saying that "in the adjustment of wages between us and our employers we have always used the tariff as a factor that should insure to us better wages than are paid abroad."

William H. Robinson, of Fairfield, Wayne county, who was one of the two candidates for'elector-at-large for Illlinois on the Republican ticket, died suddenly Monday. The deceased was long prominently connected with public affairs in Illinois, and always bore an honorable part wherever and whenever called to discharge any trust. His death leaves an important vacancy. The other elector-at-large is James M. Truitt, of Hillsboro. The duty of filling the vacancy caused by the death of Elector Robinson will naturally devolve upon the R«publican state central committee. It is a task that calls for the exercise of the best judgment and patriotic intelligence.

THE CHURCHES.

FIRTB BAPTIST—Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching by the pastor both morning and evening.

UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH.—Fourth quarterly meeting. Preaching morning and evening by the pastor, the Rev. J. G. Shuey.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.—The Rev. M. Angelo Dougherty, pastor, will preach at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Young people's prayer meeting at 6:30 p. m.

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching by the pastor, the Rev. G. R. Pierce at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Young people's meeting at 6:30 p. m.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.—There will be special services at the Christian Church this morning for the members of the congregation. Regular services by the pastor, B. L. Smith, in the evening.

ASBURY CHURCH.—Preaching by the Rev. J. E. Brant, of Parsons, Kansas, at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Class meeting at 9 a.m. Sunday school at 2:30. Seats free. All are cordially invited.

ST. STEPHEN'S.—Holy communion, 8 a. m. Morning service and

Bermon,

10:45 a. m, Evening service and sermon, 7:30 p. m.: Sunday school 9:15 a. m. Sunday scnool at St. Luke's 3 p. m.

UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.—Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30. Evening theme, "The Church of the Divine Fragments." All cordially invited. Sunday school at 11:45 a. m„ immediately following the morning service.

THE COMMITTEE \TAS IN SESSION.

A Washington Correspondent Is Confl. dently Admitted Into a State Secret.

"I would like to see Representative ," said a newspaper correspondent to a committee clerk at the Capitol a few dayB ago. "He went into the house about an hour ago," said the clerk. "Not there now," laconically suggested the reporter. "Want to see him very particularly?" queried the attaohe. "Yes." "Well, you go up to the room of the committee on and give seven deliberate raps at the door then pause for a few seconds, and give three more thumps that'll bring him."

The instructions were followed out to the letter, and the door was opened, showing the missing congressman in company with three others, all hard at work endeavoring to add to the pile of chips which stood each man's right hand, The scribe waited until the game was ooncluded, and then interviewed the statesman, while the three other members shuffled the cards and adjusted their acoounts.

Not for Publication.

Rev. Charles Poundtext (who has been writing his sermon, looking up suddenly)—Maria, will you take the children out of the room for a few minutes? 14™. Poundtext (in surprise)—Certainly, my dear, gut—are they annoyingyou?

Rev. Poundtext—Not at all but I have just dipped the mucilage brush in the ink well, and I would like to be at at liberty to make a few remarks.—Life,

Some Orthography.

Americans generally, including journalists, write the plural of "potato" with an e, while without it, as the word is largely written in England, it looks scanty, notwithstanding we can accept t'toqaatoe" without difficulty. It in only a matter of time, dqubtleee, before all such words will be spelled without the in the plural.—[The American Queen,

Wo Particular* Keeded,

First Philadelphian—"I don't see Blinks around," Second Philadelphian—1"No, coming up from the shore yesterday he started through the train to take a straw vote, and "I see. At what hour is the funeral?" —[Philadelphia Reoord.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

Jj. W1DDKH GRKEH LAST WOR11S, "I'm goln' to die." says the Wldder Greene, "I'm goto' to Quit this alrthly scene Ji It ain't no place for me to star In such a world as 'tis to-day. Such works and ways is too much for me Nobody can't let nobody be. The girls flouncing from top to toe, ... And that's the hull o' what thej know The men Is mad on bonds an' stocks, Swi»rln' an' shouUn' and pickln' locks. rm real arra I'll be banged myself Ef I ain't laid on my final shelf. There ain't a cretur but knows U£day I never was lunatic any way But since crazy folks all go free I'm dreadful afraid they'll hang up me! There's another thins that's pesky hard— I can't go Into a neighbor's yard To say "How be yoo?' nor borry a pin But what the paper'11 have it in

We're pleased to say the Wldder Greene Took dinner on Tuesday with Mrs. Keene,' Or, 'Our worthy friend Mrs. Greeue's gone Down to Barkamstead to see her son. Is It come to this, and can't I stir Without a-ralsln some feller's fur? There ain't no privacy, so to say. No more than If this was Judgment Day. And as for meetln'—I nearly swear Every time I put my head in there Why. even 'Ole Hundred''» spiled and done. Like everything else under the sun It Is used to be so solemn and slow. •Praise to the Lord from men below Now it goes like a gallopln's steer, High diddle diddle! there and here. No respect to the Lord above No more'n ef he was hand and glove With all the creturs he ever made And all the Jigs that ever was played, Preachln' too—but here I'm dumt— But, I tell you what, I'd like It some If good old Parson Nathan Strong Out 0' his grave would come along. An' give us a stirrln' taste of Ore— Jud^nent and Justice Is my desire. 'Tain't all love an' slcklsh sweet That makes this world or t'other complete. But law, I'm old! I'd better be dead When the world's turning over my head, Sperlts talkin' like tarnal fools, Bibles kicked out o' deestrict schools, Crazy creturs a murderin' roundHonest folks better be under the ground. So, fare ye well UThls alrthly scene No more'11 be pestered by Wldder Greene."

Jennie June says this is to be a velvet season. It cost man of Pottstown, Pa, $8 to evade atoll of one cent.

Connecticut is perhaps the osly state in the Union which has educational qualifications for voters.

In New York quantities of fish are being frozen and piled away like cordwood in the big cold-storage housed for use next winter.

A carrier pigean loft has been eetablished at the United States training station, Newport. The birds are to be used in the naval service. GThe largest theater is the new Opera house in Paris. It covers nearly three acres of ground its cubic mass, 4,287,000 feet. It cost 63,000,000 francs.

In France there are 22,313 National schools for girls and 37,024 for boys. The first named are conducted by female teachers and the last by males.

Dr. D. J. Quirk, of New York, suggests that death by electric shook be known as "electrothanatos." That's a slow word to describe a quick death.

The champion rattlesnake of ten years has just been killed near Everetts, N. C. It weighed twenty-seven pounds and measured seventeen inches about the body.

The aim of London's latest fashionble subscription is to raise a fund to build an addition to Westminster Abbeyy, so that future great men shall not be overcrowded when they die.

One of the oddest bits of bric-a-brac is a "dog-piheher," an instrument once in use in WaleB to enable the beadle to seize and eject unruly or badly behaved dogs from church during services.

One hundred years ago the Presbyterian church consisted of 178 miiiisters and 18,090 communicants. The last minutes show that there are now 5,634 ministers, 6,436 churches, and 696,757 communicants.

The Astor library contains among its historic relics a copy of a letter of Columbus, of which only six are known to be in existence. One of these copies sold for $700 at an auction sale in London in 1872.

The movement for a monument to General Pickett, of the rebel army, over his grave, at Richmond, Va., is enlisting widespread interest, and many veterans of the Union army have expressed a desire to aid it.

A Pittsburg gentleman, seeing a little tot wandering along the street, and knowing her family, asked her where she was going. "I'm going to hell," she said. She was toddling after a man whom she had heard another tell to hunt up the hot place.

A quarrel with a funny cause took place recently in water-submerged Augusta, Ga. A gentleman paid a negro $1 to carry him on his shoulders to the hotel, and a serious misunderstanding arose about the position the gentleman should occupy on his porter's shoulders.

The widow of President Polk is in her 87th year. She is feeble and rather forgetful, but she maintains her cheerfulness and her interest in the world about her. Of late

Bhe

has been taking her

meals in her own room, and leaves it once a day to take an airing on the porch.

Mr. Charles Wyndham, the favorite English comedian, has finally made up his mind to visit this country, professionally, next season. Arrangements for his tour are now in progress. He will probably arrive in New York in the early days of the new year, He will act first in "David Garrick."

Two notable things are reported from Saratoga. The first is that the ladies have discarded gloves, whether walking, dancing or driving. The next is that wine has almost disappeared from the dinner tables of the great hotels. Although 800 persons may be at the tables, it often happens that not a bottle of wine is in sight,

A fakir in the West is advertising a recipe which will tell you how to make your horse an artist. When you forward him 11, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence or good faith you receive by return mail a neatly printed card bearing the words: "Give your horse drawing exercises and he will get there. Ta ta."

Dr. Johnson convinced his sweetheart of his appreciation of her by taking her finger to poke the tobacco into the bowl of his pipe. Daniel Webster proposed to Miss Fletcher while aiding her to unravel a skein of thread. "Grace," he said, "we have been untying knots let us see if we can not tie one whioh will not untie in a lifetime."

A liking for candy, when it is satified by an unlimited supply, is found to last just one week. A new girl at a candy store, who has received permission to eat as much as she likes, does not eat half so much the second day as she does the first on the third she devours even less, and at the end of a week her appetite for candy is exhausted,

The brothers Jacob and William Grimm, authors of the wonderful fairy stories, concluded that on or the other should marry.

Officious

friends found a

suitable lady for Jacob, but he deolined to do the courting, so William aoted as his proxy. In doing so he fell in love with the lady himself, which troubled him greatly, as he did not want to betray Jacob. The latter solved the dilemma by telling William he could have

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