Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 February 1889 — Page 2

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Is Phil Gapen in Indianapolis this morning:

The London Times will not thunder again. It isn't even chirping now.

The more we think about it the meaner appears the Gazette attack on Bert Kelley when he is down.

The cowboys are driving out the settlers in No Man's Land, the place where the Gazette tried to make Bert Kelley take up his abode.

Thank goodness the legislature is compelled to adjourn in a few days and Governor Hovey says nothing would compel him to call it together in special

The earthquake in the Datural gas region in this state suggests that perhaps the bottom is dropping out of the thing. In this connection permit us to say that coal mining does not cause earthquakes.

Isn't it about time for the Indianapolis Sentinel to set up the plea that if Phil Gapen's true character had been known to the party he would not have been put in charge of the finances of the insane hospital?

The Indianapolis News has done two capital things in the line of legitimate newspaper sensationalism in the Connecticut Mutual life insurance matter and the Gapen exposure. The News is a newspaper, indeed.

THK EXPRKSS does not know what has been the general policy of the street commissioner as to the use of the means for street cleaning purposes but it does know that the crossings of Main street could be kept in better condition by the use of comparatively little money. rmoL.VI'RilHy yesterday TOWrtrg was a notable issue in two respects. It contained more news that came by telegrah than ever before handled in one day by a newspaper in this city. It also gave more space to advertisements for a week day issue than at any time excepting the Christmas holiday demand on its space.

THE EXPRESS begs leave to suggest that while our contemporary is to bo commended for its groat devotion of space to the home charity of the Kirmesp, it might make a little room for some comment on the abuse of the state charity of the insane hospital by the treasurer of the board of trustees.

The street commissioner had more than twelve thousand dollars in the six months up to February 1st, but look at the condition of Main street. THK EXI'KESS do6s not mean to be understood as approving of Main street even at its best, but it does mean to say that it should not be permitted to go without cleaning for months at the time. A man may not be alogether satisfied with his old clothing, but if he has no money with which to buy a new outfit, he keeps the old ones in as good repair as possible.

Sirs. Cleveland goes out of the White house to come Into a fortnne. Sli« will kave $120,000 from lie sale ot her real estate In Omaha, property which she Inherited, and which a few yeais ieo could not have heen sold for $10,000.— ["Exehauzo.

The information gives us pleasure We are glad, always, to learn of anything that is of benefit or pleasure to Mrp. Cleveland. She has been the saving grace of the White house in the past three years. She has done nothing that provoked criticism iu any quarter, and by her uniformly discreet conduct has done much to remove the apprehension as to her good sense caused by the White house marriage, a blunder, for which, it is now pretty well understood, the husband was to blame. Mrs. Cleveland has never talked for or to the public, has, in fact done no one thing that a good woman should not have done.

C. O. 1).

A I.ost Opportunity.

Jiggers--Darn an ignoramus anyhow. Wljgers What's the matter now? Jiggers— I was calling on little Miss Pertly last night and she asked what the phrase •'Indulging in osculalory exercises" meant. Said she found It In a novel.

Wlggers—Wetl, did you tell her? Jiggers—I didn't know what It meant until I looked through the dictionary this morning.

Is llarriHRc

Me l.ord Bareacres— What would you be, I'd like tu know, if I had not married you? His American Wlfe-About $160,000 better off.

Three of a Kind.

Miss Rosa Kldnocker, of Muncle, Is credited In the dispatches with indulging In a fifty-seven hours' nap. She ought to be a schoolma'am If there Is anything In a nanta.

Just how much the London Times' bar'l was topped by Its Piggott will probably never be disclosed.

George Shanks of Sullivan was severely hurt In a game of "slilnnj" last week. Shinny always was a dangerous game for shanks.

STRAY INFORMATION.

The supreme- court, Elliott, C. J., recently rendered a decision concerning the jurisdiction of county boards of equalization that affects every taxpayer. The case was Kuntz vs. Sumption, appealed from the Randolph circuit court. The decision hinged on the following sentence, which was an entry by the board of equalization of Randolph county: "On motion the board increased the assessment of Peter Kuntz en personal property 620,000." Prior to the meeting of the board, Kuntz had listed his property for taxation. He was subpoenaed before the board and testified as a witness, but did so under protest. He protested because he believed that the

board

had not the right to require him. to testify. Kuntz protested against increasing his taxable property beyond what he bad listed it,

and

constitutional.

9sute

the case was

decided against him in the Randolph circuit court. The supreme court reversed the decision on the ground that the law authorizing the board to raise the assessment of an individual taxpayer was un-

They held that the law

was unconstitutional because the statutes did not provide for a notice to be issued by the board to compel a taxpayer to appear before them and testify. The supreme court held that the rights of private individuals were involved because the board of equalization was, to a certain extent, a judicial tribunal, that to raise an individual's assessment took away from such citizen a part of his property in the form of money as taxes and that it would be illegal to interfere with a citizen's affairs without allowing him ample opportunity to appear before said board and present his side of the case. But since there was no law legalizing the issuing of a notice for an individual to appear before said board he could not be legally requested to appear. Then, since he could not by law be required to appear the board had no right to raise his assessment because, without such law, they must proceed upon the assumption that they have not the right. Then, since the law to issue notice does not exist, the law authorizing the board to raise an individual's assessment is unconstitutional. The decision affirmed that the board had the right to raise the assessment of a community, because that did not impair the rights of a single individual but a community of persons was not a private but a public matter. The difference betweea the two cases, as set forth in the decision, was that there was a law authorizing the issuing of a general notice that the board will meet at a certain time whereas there is no law for notifying an individual that his case will be considered. The public can be legally notified, therefore their assessment can be raised. The individual cannot be legally notified and this assessment cannot be raised. The decision immediately attracted the attention of several attornies at this bar and the point was recognized as sound.

Mr. Edwin Ellis, secretary of the electric light and power company, has returned from Chicago where he attended the electrical exposition. Mr. Ellis' primary object in attending the convention was to investigate anew system of incandescent lighting, which is said to be much cheaper than that now in use here and especially adapted for residence purpose. It has long boon the intention

lis' expression 'twould coat a fortune to wire the town." The new system, which is not yet wholly developed, is said to possess many anvantagee, especially in the cost of equipment for it« use. In this unsettled condition of affaire, the company does not wish to push this proposed addition, and residence lighting will consequently be somewhat delayed. There were many very interesting features to the large exhibit, the display of dynamos and motors being unusually fine. There were one hundred or more electrical motors, among them the Kester motor, of this city. Mr. Ellis said he had heard a good many compli-

ents on the working of the Terre machine from men of recognized authority on the subject. Another highly interesting attraction was an electric railway in full operation. Thie extended the entire length of the exposition building, and not only were the cars propelled but lighted by electricity. In the middle of the car were two brilliant incandescent lights, and at each end were also lights.

A member of the bar here tells of an amusing incident illustrating the method in which legal causes are conducted in Sullivan county, and also showing how eager some communities are for revenue. Recently he had occasion to defend a client in Sullivan county for an indictment for violating the liquor law. The case was tried before a justice of the peace. It is a legal provision that trials shall be public, and any one shall be permitted to enter the court-room to witness the trial. In this case the justice of the peace rented a hall, and charged an admission fee for all desiring to hear the trial. If the defendant had lost the case, the proceedings would have been declared illegal, and anew trial granted the defendant on that ground. The business enterprise and ignorance of the law on the part of the justice of the peace who charged admission fees, and the submissiveness of the people who paid the fee were remarkable, to say the least. Tbere was no provision or agreement as to who should receive the gate receipts.

Building and loan association No. 2, of the Rose series, began its second year with a payment, on Friday. This association is one of the most prosperous the city has ever known, the first year record being unusually gratifying. The rate of interest averages 1113 per cent., and at this pace the association will pay out in one year lees time than usual. At a meeting of stockholders, on Friday evenj ing, the usual $1,000 to loan brought $35 premium. "What is the usual premium on a share?" was asked Mr. Slaughter, president of the association. ''Twentylive dollars is about the average. As compared with other associations, this is doing very well for its age. As the association grows older the interest constantly increases, and the best year is always about the last." A new association in this series is now forming and about seventy-five shares hare been taken. The first payment will be made in April.

Work on the city directory is now approaching a very satisfactory stage, and the proprietors expect to have the volume before the public by the 1st of April. The canTass of the city has been made, and the finishing touches are now being put on the business portion by way of revision.

No Salvation for These Salvationists.

John Schurke, a member of the Salvation army, at Decorah, la., has been

liviDg with hia cousin, Lucy Schaub, for some time, claiming that they were married by God, with angels aa witnesses. His case has gone to the grand jury.

CHICAGO CONTENTION HISTORY.

Mr. Murat Halstead Reviews the Fight For Sherman. Mr.

Richard Smith, of Cincinnati, in his newspaper at Toledo, the Commercial, has charged Governor Foraker with betraying Sherman at Chicago. Mr. Halstead thereupon prints a long editorial over his initials from which we take the following:

I had a conversation with Governor Foraker during the hours when he thought the chances of Sherman were all goae, and I agreed with him at the time that there was "not a button left on Sherman's coat," but I did not think with him that the conditions were such that the nomination of Blaine was possible. There were too many of Blaine's friends who held that his letters could not be disregarded, in the face of the circumstances at Chicago, to permit his nomination.

There" were those, however, who felt, until the telegrams from Scotland were made public, that there could be but one outcome to the convention, and that the nomination of Blaine and it was true, that the Ohio delegation could not have been made solid for Sherman as against Blaine. I knew, too, than Sherman had sent word before the Florence letter that he would not contest the nomination with Blaine—for I was the bearer of a message from him to that effect.

But I agreed with the governor that Sherman's chances were gone, and I thought so upon information given me by Sherman's friends In the Pennsylvania delegation, that his strength there was broken, and likely on the demand of Don Cameron to go to Allison.

Therefore, when Governor Foraker told me he had "looked over Sherman's coat and found no bottons on it," I did not regard him as a traitor, but I thought he was in such a position that he ought to be the last man to recognize the impossibility of the nomination of Sherman, and that he was drifting too fast.

I felt free to speak of what I believed to be the state of facts without reserve, and telegraphed Sherman the matter as I saw it. I thought it due him to do so and I made no secret of my opinion.

The governor and I were quite wrong, for Sherman's strong chance for success came after this. He had friends in New York. Pennsylvania remained steady. The Allison forces had a tendency to go to Sherman, and Judge Gresham wrote a letter peremptorily withdrawing hiB name, when there was a development of Sherman strength in Illinois that scared those who made a specialty of fighting him and after a conference the Gresham men determined to disregard his wishes and go on voting for him— going down with the flag flying!

What I telegraphed Sherman that leaked to some extent, was that I thought the question likely to come whether McKinley or Blaine should be the nominee. I had been told of one hundred and forty-three votes ready to go to McKinley, in case of an effort to throw the first five states on the list for Blaine. Sherman's reply did not indicate that he desiredi to direct 1 he votes of his friends after his own chances were gone.

The discussion of these matters seems to me unprofitable. I prefer to ciwall 4.1. «wntito thv oouroa* tion and the' campaign. I would not be drawn into this debate at all, if I did not feel it due the truth and justice to Governor Foraker to say that when he prematurely thought the defeat of Sherman accomplished, I thought so too, and in my judgment then and now, there was no treason in it. A multitude of mistakes were made, and I scored my share of them, and the governor his and I do not know the man who did not.

In the celebrated Blaine conference of twenty-two states there were many propositions. McKinley and Foraker were considered—the former as the representative of the protection issue, and the latter as the most aggressive in assaults upon the Cleveland fraud and the nullitiers of the solid South and the resolution reached was that there should be no dark horses. This came from New YorH aud closed that chapter.

AN ANECDOTE OF BLAINE.

Illustrating: the Weil-Known Knergy of tlie Coming Secretary of State.

A special from Atlanta says: James G. Blaine figures In an interest ing story, which developed here today. Mr. Zion Bridwell is a printer not less than 75 years old. About fifteen years ago he married Miss Mary Alford. and soon hud the care of his mother-in-law, who is as old as himself, thrown upon his hands. Mr. Bridwell's sight failed, and he found the struggle for existence a hard one. His mother-in-law was the widow of a veteran of the Indian war of 1836. Mr. Bridwell set to work to get a pension from congress for the old lady. He has had the case before congress for eleven years, but could never get the local congress to push the matter energetically.

Four weeks ago Mr. Bridwell read a newspaper story concerning the pension which was rushed through for the daughter of Zachariah Taylor. Mr. Blaine was speaker of the house at the time, and casually met the old lady, and was made acquainted -with her story as he passed through one of the committee rooms. He told the lady to wait- until his return. He went into the house, called another member to the chair, asked for a suspension of the rules, and had the pension passed at once. Taking it across he had it rushed through the senate then he had it signed, and inside of an hour returned to the ladyand told her of his success.

As soon as Mr. Bridwell read this story he went into ecstacies, and said, "there is my man." He wrote at once to Mr. Blaine, telling him the full story of his poverty, and the delay in getting the pension through, and begging him to do for a poor friendless Southern Democrat, what he had done for the daughter of an ex-president. The day after that letter reached Mr. Blaine, Mrs. Alford's pension for $15 a month was favorably reported to the house, passed promptly, and it is now in the hands ef President Cleveland for signature.

We Pay Enough for Weather Predictions

The United States pays $900,000 a year for its weather service. Great Britain $80,000, Germany $56,000. Russia $65,000, Austria $10,000. Switzerland $6,000, France $60,000. And, though no European nation attempts to do as much as we do, or takes general observations more than once a day, the percentage of verification of predictions is rising there, which is hardly the case in this country. Our weather service, with ita great cost and thorough organization, ought to be the best in the world.— [Boston Transcript.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1889.

THE S&OOL BOOK BILL. -v.

Provisions of the Measure as It Was Sent to The Governor.

As the bill stands it provides that the state board of education shall coastitute aboard of commissioners for selecting or procuring the compilation of a series of text-books, none of wlych shall contain anything of a partisan or sectarian character, and all of them shall be at least equal in Bize and quality as to matter, material, style of binding and mechanical execution to the books now in general use. The commissioners shall advertise for sealed proposals from publishers of text-books to furnish them for a term of five years, stating specifically the price at which each book will be furnished. Proposals shall also be received from authors who have manuscripts of books and from persons who are willing to undertake the compilation of books. All bids by publishers must be accompanied by a bond for $50,000, acceptable to the governor, and it provided that no bill shall be considered unless accompanied by an affidavit that the bidder is in nowise, directly or indirectly, connected with any other bidding firm, and that he is not a party to any compact, syndicate or scheme whereby the benefits of competition are denied to the people of the state. If any competent author offers to give the state the use of his books, the commissioners are required to accept fit. The board shall not contract for books which wRi Wat school patrons more than the following prices: Spelling book, 10 cents first reader, 10 second reader, 15 third reader, 25 fourth reader, 30 fifth reader, 40 intermediate arithmetic, 35 complete arithmetic, 45 elementary geography, 30 coAplete geography, 75 elementary English grammar, 25 complete English grammar, 40 physiology, 35 history of the United States, 50, and copy books, 5. It is required that it shall be made apart of the terms and conditions of every contract that the state shall not be liable to any contractor for any sum, but tbe contractors shall receive their pay solely and exclusively from the sale of the books. After the contracts have been made the governor shall issue a proclamation announcing the fact to the people, and within thirty days after its publication the trustees of every school corporation in the state shall certify to the superintendent of their respective counties the number of text-books that will be iequired in their schools. The county superintendent shall forthwith transmit the requisitions to the state superintendent, who in turn will make a requisition upon the contractor for the books, which must be shipped directly to the county superintendents. The books can be sold for cash only, and the trustees are held liable on their official bondi for the money. The trustees shall make settlement every three months. Special bonds for carrying out the provisions of the act are required from county superintendents. The only appropriation provided for in the act is $1,000, to be used in paying the advertising expenses. It is estimated that the cost of new books complete for the whole state, under the fixed soale of prices, will not exceed $300,000, but if new books are not adopted it will be proportionately less.

SENATOR EVARl'S' COLORED EMPLOYE.

He Got Full Filling the Office of Presi dent.

Tn t.ViA omployr|£_}ajaator Evarto i» a colored citizen Tby {tyf n-ome of Ephrim, and his business is to do "chores" around the house, tend the fires, sweep off tbe sidewalk, and make himself generally useful, says a Washington special. Until the other night Ephrim has not wandered an inch from the path of rectitude, but has been a shining light in the street Baptist Church. It was the night when a dinner was given to Mr. Blaine, and the senator from New York was late returning home. As he was taking off his overcoat he heard a tremendous racket in the basement, and ran downstairs to see what Bort of an insurrection had broken out. In the fur-nace-room he found Ephrim engaged in a terrible hand-to-hand encounter with a step-ladder and the latter appeared to have tbd beet of it, for in the struggle Ephrim had been thrown, and the ladder lay on top of him. In his capacity as peacemaker Mr. Evarts soon raised his servant from the grasp of his assailant and asked an explanation. Ephrim told along and somewhat incoherent story about attending a meeting of the Sons and Daughters of the Galileean Fisherman, the point of which was that the president had resigned and he had been called upon to fill the vacancy. "Well, I see that yotf have filled it pretty full," replied the senator, "and I advise you to get off to bed as soon as possible, while I take care of the fire."

ALL FOR LOVE.

A Rejected Suitor Kills His Sweetheart itud Then Commits Suicide. AURORA,

111., February 27.—Edward

Artise shot Kittie Palmer on the public streets and within a few rods of her home, yesterday afternoon, inflicting a fatal wound. Artise was a rejected lover, and had been repeatedly requested to refrain from paying attention to Miss Palmer, but he persisted in his addresses, and the matter culminated in the shooting. Artise fled immediately after firing the shot, pursued by officers. After a three-mile chase tt^e murderer was sighted, but he continued running, and when his pursuers ware but ten rods behind him, shot himself through the heart, dropping dead in his tracks. Miss Palmer is a graduate of the High school, and occupied a prominent social position. The murderer was about 20 years of age. The mother of the murderer and suicide has become temporary insane over the affair.

Desolate Indianapolis.

The city of Indianapolis has had the eyes of the nation upon it steadily since the last days of June. It has acquitted itself very well. Whether stormed by delegations of shouting Republicans during the campaign, or delirious with joy over the result of the voting, or silently observant while earwigging Republican statesmen glided about its streets as mysterious and awful as sheeted ghosts, it has played its part acceptably in the national drama. But now the curtain has been rung down, the lights are out, and the star has gone to fill a long engagement at Washington. Consequently Indianapolis feels a trifle dreary.

The Hoosier capital has had its fling. It has been great among cities. Honors have been heaped upon it. But now it must take a back Beat. There is nothing to direct attention to it, save the acrobatic feats of the Indiana legislature and the delphic utterances of the Hon. John C. New.—[Chicago NewB.

A Peculiar Affliction.

CHEYBOGAN,

Mich., February 27.—

The victims in the cholera epidemic last fall in Presque Isle countv are said to hare lost complete con^rpl of their legs

and the lower portion of their bodies, and but few can hobble around on crutches. In some oases one leg is shorter than the other, and they are crippled in other wayB for life. The cause of the epidemic is now known to have been

Sammond's

iison from decaying fish offal near bay, deposited there by the fishermen in that vicinty. An- investigation will be made in the spring.

RUSSELL HARRISON'8 HAT.

A Werk of Art Presented to Him By the Publisher of Judge. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.

WASHINGTON, February 2G.—Mr. Arkell, of Judge, in a moment of depression last fall, bet Mr. Russell Harrison a new hat that his father wouldn't carry Indiana. Young Mr. Harrison recently reminded Mr. Arkell of the wager. "What size do you wear?" Mr. Arkell asked. "No. 7V8." "I guess I had better make it a size larger." "Why?" "Oh, you'll hate a swelled head by the 4th of March."

Mr. Arkell paid his bet to-night, when Mr. Russell Harrison received the most gorgeous and expensive opera hat ever made in America. Mr. Arkell says that he is pleased to remark that the hat is a perfect fit, although it is only 718'. The hat was constructed under the supervision of Mr. Knox. The silk is ajproduct of John D. Cutter's mill at Matterson. Hitherto opera hats have been made of imported stuff. The man who put this American tile together is Captain Jack Zimmerman, a veteran of the war, who fought four years with the Twelfth New York. Miss McFarlan, whose father was killed in the war, trimmed the hat. Artists Hamilton, Flohri, Gillam and Smith, of the Judge, decorated the satin-lined interior. In the center of the top is a picture in oil of the Judge framed in a sunburst, with a goblet of peach brandy poised in his right hand, about to drink the health of Harrison and Morton, whose pictures in little painted frames are enwreathed in flowers and leaves at his feet. The side of the lining is filled with buds done in water colors. The hat cost $100. Mr. Harrison will wear it on inauguration day and then use it for decorative purposes.

NO DETECTIVES ON HAND.

General Harrison, Unlike Cleveland, Doesn't Want Them Near Him.

It is claimed that there were no detectives on the Harrison train and that he will not have any around him at the hotel, says Wm. E. Curtis in hiH Washington special. He has no fear of cranks or assassins, but, on the other hand, has a dread of detectives, which Mrs. Harrison shares with him. President Cleveland has lived four years with a detective at his elbow. There were three or four on the train when he came to Washington in the first place, aid he has never left the city without at least one or two to guard him. He has always had a morbid fear of assassination, which is said to have been inspired by Inspector Byrnes, of New York.

Other presidents have walked freely upon the Btreets of Washington—as freely as ordinary citizens. President Grant used to go out for a stroll every afternoon when the weather was agreeable and Pennsylvania avenuo was his favorite promenftde. He liked to see the people and lobk into the shop windows, and almost every day he met some friend whom he invited to stroll with him. I recollect meeting General Grant one day on the avenue when :I was coming from the capitol. He stopped me and asked what was going on "at the other end of the avenue," as he usually termed the halls of C9ngress. It was during the Belknap impeachment trial, and I happened to have something interesting to relate. President Arthur, although he was really more in danger of assassination than any president we have ever had, used to walk sometimes, but usually preferred horseback riding and took his exercise that way, with Clayton McMichael or Senators Cameron or Plumb or Hampton and sometimes others as his companions.

Emma Altliouse Dying.

ATTICA,

N. Y., February 27.—Mrs.

Emma Althouse, the famous sleeper, has been in a condition bordering on death to-day. She awoke yesterday afternoon after sleeping eleven and one-half days. Since then her pulse has been very quick, but feeble, her temperature unnatural and her muscles motionless. Attempts to nourish her failed. Her condition is so precarious that it seems impossible that her vitality will last beyond a few hours. During the last year and a half she has slept 470 days and nights, and in all that time has not taken enough nourishment to last a well person more than a few days. Lately, when awake, she has been able only to move her eyes.

Lige Himself Has Settled it.

The Kansas City Journal implores the preBS of the country to spell the nickname of Colonel Elijah Halford correctly, and insists that "Lige" is not, and that "Lije" is tbe proper caper. Not in a thousand years! A newly discovered piano virtuose named Njwjinskj is using all the lower case j's in this country, while collaring the florins of the musical jays of Vienna.

A Crazy Timepiece.

"I've been working on this watch all morning, sir, and can't make it run right yet," said a watchmaker to his employes. "Whose watch is it?" "Mr. Moon's." "Then I think you had better let up on it. The watch, you see, is a luna tick.—[Pittsburg Chronicle.

Only Half of the Job Done.

Hobbs—I understand that Dobson's wife is a German, and that he mastered the German language to win her.

Jones—Well, he must have expended all his energies on the language, then. He has never mastered her.—[Burlington Free Press.

Satisfaction on the Slope.

Probably the weather is arranged better than this in paradise, but nowhere on earth that we know of.—[Tacoma Ledger.

Their Strong Point.

The latest "put-a-nickel-in-the-slot" machine takes your picture. They all take your nickel.—[Omaha World

Our Retreating Frontier.

"Back in the states" will soon be an obsolete term now.—[St. Paul News.

There is comfort for the man with a prematurely gray beard in Buckingham's Dye, because it never fails to color an even brown or black as desired.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

THE BILLS.

[Without die slightest apology to Edgar Allan Poe.] See the tradesmen with Their bills. "Little Mils!" tills!*0 wretchedness their very look dls-

They are ringing, ringing, ringing. As long as there is light. And the servant enters bringing Me the last one. always grinning

With a horrible delight. Crying "Tin, tin, tin." With a loud, triumphant din.

To the awful tribolaUon that my mind so often fills. At the bills, blUs, bills, bills, bills.

At the number and Increasing of the bills. (The remainder to the trlbulated reader's special experience and taste.) —ITo-Day.

"Held by the Enemy"—Messrs. Ives & Stayner. The slippery pavement downs some people quicker than an argument.

Boston spent something like $42,000 for the ventilation of Bchool houses last year.

Some men are very hard on clothes. They wear them out the very day they get them.

Lewis Morris' remarkable poem, "An Epic of Hades," has reached a twentysixth edition.

The grandmother of the queen of Madagascar is dead. She was nearly a hundred years old.

A curious lawsuit is that of a Ramsey (N. J.) man, who is accused of putting a chew of tobacco in a kettle of molasses.

A man who has been dipping into some current erotic poetry translates the old Latin aphorism "Poeta nascitur, non fit." into the following English: "This poetry is nasty and not fit to read."

In Stockholm they have not yet finished honoriug Jenny Lind. A new street has just been called after her, and a sculptor has recently finished a statue representing her in the costume of Norma.

The empress of Brazil has just finished a splendidly embroidered national flag which is to be sent to London in grateful recognition of the miraculous recovery of the emperor during his sojourn in Europe.

The largest fish story lately conceived is that of a London establishment where a whale is kept in a mammoth tank, an expert milker being employed to milk the whale and deal the "whaloid" out to customers HB a cure for consumption.

Geronimo, the renegade Apache who has been a prisoner of the government for some years, has become a very clever gardener since he was taken to Florida. He is almost as skillful in raising cabbages as he used to be in raising scalps.

An idea of the cost of fighting tbe teredo on the Pacific coast can be gained from a statement in a California journal that "248,000 gallons of creosote will be required to coat tbe piles for anew wharf at San Perdo. The creosote was imported from Germany."

A very peculiar epidemic is playing sad havoc among the Indians of Cold Lake, Manitoba. The muscles of the throat and neck swell until they are unable to swallow, and many, of them are dying. As many as six have died in one day. The disease is very painful. "Bill" Mathers, the hunter of Wirt county, W. Va., caught a coon in a box and took it to the county seat. Calling all the dogs in town, many of which had never seen a coon before, he turned the coon loose on Court square, where it whipped all the dogs and then climbed a tree. «*.-

A Scotchman in the picturesque and airy costume of the Highlands boarded a train at Lyons the other day bound for Nice. Two French ladies were in the carriage, and the moment the Highland laddie made his appearance they were terrified, and rushed on the platform yelling for help.

A law has been passed in South Australia compelling all local authorities to assess all the local rates upon unimproved land values only, and not upon the value of houses, buildings, or other improvements. The unearned increment which will thus be laid under contribution for local purposes is very large in amount.

Catharine I. of Russia had a musical watch. In the interior was the holy sepulcher and the Roman guard. By touching a spring the stones moved away from the sepulcher, the guard kneeled down, angels appeared, and the holy woman stepped into the tomb and sang the Easter song of the Russian Churches.

The phrase "What Mrs. Grundy says," is from Tom Morton's play, "Speed the Plow." In the first scene Mrs. Ashfield, one of the characters of the play, is jealouB of her neighbor, Mrs. Grundy, for which she is rebuked by Farmer Ashfield, who accuses her of always dinging about Mrs. Grundy: "What Mrs. Grundy says!"

A Paris correspondent says that compressed air is now being extensively employed as a motive power in Paris instead of Bteam. The central station comprises twelve boilers and six compound engines, and the air, which is compressed to six atmospheres, is stored in vast receivers and distributed as required to various industrial establishments. The compressed air also serves as a refrigerating medium, which can be utilized for sanitary and other purposes. It is intended to erect covered markets, which will be provided with cooling chambers, supplied with compressed air from the central station.

Clinching Claims on Sullivan.

Captain Many this morning in Judge Walker's court took a decree for 86,100 to foreclose a chattel mortgage given by John E. Sullivan. This takes in the property at the Sullivan poultry house and on tbe farm. Mrs. Sullivan also secured a decree of foreclosure for $6,700 on the residence and the Terre Haute property.—[Indianapolis News.

Two Cities in the Soup.

Chicago can now sympathize with Indianapolis. The former has lost her dry goods trade, and tbe latter will experience an abrupt surcease of her hotel trade. In St. Louia the dry goods trade and the hotel trade are both booming.— [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Miseries of Trade.

Druggist (awakened at 2 a. m.)—Wh at do you wish? (Voice at the door)—If you'll let me look in your directory to see how to address this letter. IU buy the postage stamp of you.—[New York Weekly.

Not as Cold as His Name Implies.

J. H. Winters, of Dayton, O, has presented his son with tbe sum of $50,000 as a wedding present.

Found Ont.

An 8 year-old boy at Grand Rapids, Mich., in trying to see how long he could hold his breath, burst A blood vessel.

The avenues leading to an early grave have often been stopped by Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. 25 cents.

Ask For Ayer's

Sarsaparilla, anil be sure you get it, when you want the best blood-purifier. With its forty years °-KN^ fflT

of

QnexamPled

sue-

|Q|f cess in the cure of .v Blood Diseases, you can make no mistake iu preferring

Ayer's

Sarsaparilla

to any other. The fore-runner of modem blood medicines, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is still the most pop- §Q ular, being in greater demand than all others combined.

"Ayer's Sarsaparilla is selling faster than ever before. I never hesitate to recommend it." George W. Whitman, Druggist, Albany, Ind.

I am safe in saying that my sales of Ayer's Sarsaparilla far excel*those of any other, and it gives thorough satisfaction."— L. II. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa. "Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Ayer's Pills are the best selling medicines in my j. store. I can recommend them conscientiously.''— C. Bickhaus, Pharmacist, Roseland, 111. "We have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla here for over thirty years and always recommend it when asked fo name the best blood-purifier."—W. T. McLean, Druggist, Augusta, Ohio. "I have sold your medicines for tlio last seventeen years, and always keep them in stock, as they are staples.

There is nothing so good forthe youthful blood' as Ayer's Sarsaparilla."— R. L. Parker, Fox Lake, Wis. "Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives the best satisfaction of any medicine I have in stock. I recommend it, or, as the Doctors say, I prescribe it over tho counter.' "it hever fails to meet the cases for which I recommend it, even where the doctors' prescriptions have been of no avail." C. F. Calhoun. Monmouth, Kansas.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla,

FREFARKD BY

Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price $1 six bottles, $5. Worth $6 a bottle.

TIME TABLE.

Train* marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bnffet Caw attached. Trains marked thui run dally. All other trains run dally 8undays exeented.

VAHPALIA LINE.

T. H. 4 DIVISION. LHAVB VOH THK WHI.

No. 9Western Kxpress (84V) 1.42 a. m. No. SMall Train* 10.18 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) a.lS p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.04 p. m.

IJUTS YOB TUB MAST,

No. Cincinnati Express *(8) 1.80 a. No. 6 New York Express (8AV) 1.61 a. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a. No. 20 Atlantic Express »(P4V) 12.42 p. No. 8 Fast Line* 2.U0 p. 1BBITIFB0M THB BAST. No. 9 Western Express (S4Y) 1.30 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train*. 10.12 a.m. No-1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.00 p. m. No. SMall and Accommodation 6.46 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. m. immnoiTnvn. No. 12Cincinnati Express*(S). 1.20a. m. No. 6 New York Expres«*(S4V) 1.42 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Expres8*(PAV) 12.87 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line* 1.40 p. m.

T.H.4L. DIVISION.

LHATO IOB Tffli BOOTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.00 a.m. No. South Bend Express 4.(10 p. m. ABBIVK FROM HORTB. No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.1)0 noon No. IWSonth Rerni Mail. .. sn r. m.

NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE

ONE NIGHT ONLY

Thursday March 7th,

NEW YORK'S GREATEST SUCCESS

SAME CAST.

SAME SCENERY.

SAME EFFECTS.

SAME APPOINTMENTS —BT—

IM. GILLETTE]

AUTHOR OF

HELD BT THE ENKMY. THK PROFESSOR, ESMERALDA,

—AND—

ADAPTOR OF "SHE."

WHAT THE

"HEEIETTA"

JS TO THK BRORKH

A

LEGALWRECK

IS TO THE LAWIEK.

A MADISON SQCABE SUCCESS WHERE THK TRIAI. LASTED 100 NIGHTS.

TRANSFERRI-I) ENTIRE TO TERRE HAITK.

Sale Opens Monday, March 4th, at Button's.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

W. R. MAIL. L. H. BARTHOLOMEW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

Der|tists,

(Successors to Bartholomew A Hall.

529% Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

I. H. C. I^OYSB,

NO. 517 OHIO STREET.

WARREN-SC HARF

Asphalt Paving Co,,

CONTRACTORS FOR

GENUINE TRINIDAD ASPHALT SHEET PAVEMENT

As laid In over Thirty American Cities, ranging In climate and other conditions trom New Orleans and Savannah to St Paul and

Montreal, to the extent of

Over 4,ooo,ooo Square Yards,

OR 225 MILES OF STREET.

Ten miles of stone block pavement have been torn up and replaced with Trinidad Asphalt In Buffalo alone. om™ 114 John Street. New York, ben 1 umoes-j 23 Blymyer Building, Cincinnati.

WELCH BROS.

Henderson House

ARK RUNNIHO THK

Now. Welch Bres. have bought the Henderson House on South Fourth street and will ran It as a first-class house, Best stable In town and best ran Fanners' Hotel.