Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 March 1889 — Page 4

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Piggott shows the Times the way.

Perhaps Mr. Phil (Japen isn't in Indianapolis this morning.

There are strong grounds for suspicion ''hat the funds of the strte insane hospital were used in the campaign last fall. Perhaps a thorough investigation might account for the fact that Marion county voted for Democratic members of the legislature and for Cleveland.

During the week Terre Haute furnished thousands of attendants at the Kirmoss, Belva Lockwood's lecture, the literary society, six or seven hall dances, on at least four nights in the week, not to speak of the Dowling hall entertainment. The city is big and muuh diversilied in its tastes.

Mr. Cleveland pleads with a guilty conscience when he puts so much stress on the "sectional" phase of the direct tax bill. The tax was levied on all states in the I'nion to sustain the Union. The people in the loyal states paid it. Hither (ho money should be refunded to those states or the delinquent states be made to pay up.

Mr. Cleveland vetoed the direct tax bill, and true to his style, hung on the veto a characteristic lecture to congress and the people. The house passed the bill originally by a vote less than ten short of a two-thirds. The senate last night passed the bill over the veto, only nine of thirty-seven Democratic senators voting to Biistain the veto. If a test of the sense of the senate in sustaining Mr. Cleveland after Monday could be obtained we have no doubt the nine votes would bemissing.

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A Modern Mrs. .lol).

Wife—1 notice there's coffin trust formed lately. Consumptive Husband—So?

Wire- Yes, and they're going to double the price alter the llrst of next month. That's about four weeks olf. though, ami we may beat them yet.

Ami now they say that the recent "meet" In Chicago was not properly costumed. .And tills In the great American dressed meat center, too!

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called a perfect brick—until he goes to the wall. The unsuccessful miner keeps getting down In the world.

The Mall says that one of the little girls In the Juvenile dances of the Klrmess Informed her mother that tliey (the juveniles) "danced so well that they didn't have to go out and dance It over again like the others." That child must have read the papers a few months ago.

Fraternal AlVection.

Wlnks-What Is your Idea for putting so many outlandish and unknown adjectives Into your newnovel, Jinks? .links -My brother Is a dictionary publisher.

EXCHANGE ECHOES

Norrlstown Herald: A London society paper says that Ilftv Tears igo no gentleman could have smoked In the presence of ladies. The same rui» applies to tills country to-day. When a gentleman smokes in the presence of ladles be Is not a gentleman.

Chicago I iter-i cean: In looking over the entire four years of tirover Cleveland's administration there can be no hesitancy In saying that his wisest and best act was in getting married to a charming woman, who has at all times, and under all circumstances. honored ami graced her position. The whole land, regardless or politics, will strew roses in the path of the retiring mistress .of the White house.

Boston Transcript: The "walking delegate" has outdone himself. In Brooklyn, the other day. he stopped a funeral because one of the coach drivers was not a member of the delegate's union so to do. This Is pretty tough, but show that the world Is not revengeful, it Is to be hoped that when the walking delegate shuttles off his mortal coll, nobody will be so vindictive as to stop his tuneral.

The Highest Type of Courage. The one tirst, best, highest quality that we recognize in man is moral courage. Physical courage may be a matter of physical condition, and is common to animals. The bravest animal only tights when it 13 hungry, or called upon to protect its young, or to defend itself, or in the mating season. There never was a man born of woman brave enough to tight a black cat in a dark room voluntarily, with no one to have knowledge of the encounter or to look on and applaud. Moral courage is the growth of principle physical courage is the resnlt of pride.—[Argonaut.

IT WAS A BOGUS CHECK.

One for $5,900 Cancelled as if By The Bank Was Not in the Bank.

THIS IS UNE OF THE FEATURES IN THE GAPEN CASE.

Tile Discovery Leads to a Reporf That He Will be Arrested.

The insane hospital investigating committee this forenoon met with far the most sensational results yet obtained, says the Indianapolis News of last evening. Cashier Kopp of the Meridian national bank, was in the witness stand and explained at length the dealings of that institution with Treasurer Gapen. After considerable technical explanation had been made, eo that all could clearly understand the manner in which the business was carried on, three checks were laid before the witness for identification. All were numbered 129 and all were dated March 8, 1888, all indorsed by Gapen, and all were made out on the Meridian national.

One read: "Pay to the order of W. G. Wasson 82,500." Another read: "Pay to the order of W. G. Wasson S3,400." The third read: "Pay to the order of W. G. Wasson, So,900."

Mr. Kopp examined them carefully, turning them over and over. The two checks for the smaller sums he pronounced all right. They aggregated $5,900, and that was the amount that the bank had paid out to Mr. ^asson on those identical checks, he said. They bore the bank's concellation and the clearing house stamp. "But what of the third check, the one for §5,900?" asked the examiner. "I never saw it before. Our bank never paid it and I do not think it has ever passed through a bank. It bears no stamp to show that it has, except being cut through in a rude imitation of our stamp, and has not passed through the clearing house."

Tflis created a decided sensation in the committee. Mr. Conn walked up end down the room, repeating over and over, "I can't understand this it is certainly very strange."

The inference to be drawn, if Mr. Kopp's evidence was well grounded, was that Mr. Gapen had filled out the check in Mr. Wasson's name, had then cashed it himself from funds never deposited in the bank, and then canceled it himself with a knife in imitation of the Meridian bank's stamp. The members of the committee consulted in whispers a few moments and the examination proceeded.

It wos shown by the accounts that on October 1, 1.887, Gapen drew of the state's money 8-10,000. Witness was asked how much of this money was deposited in the bank. It will be remembered that that was the month that Gapen entered Sullivan's employ. Mr. Kopp consulted his accounts and stated that in that month Mr. Gapen deposited with the bank $19,592.25 on the 20th, 88,842.14 on the 29th and 82,000 on the 31st total, 830,434.39. The next following month the deposits were but 83,500, though the usual draw on the treasury had been made. Witness did not know that Gapen was lending money to Sullivan.

The next witness was Mr. H. S. Fox, who is in the employ of Milton Pouder, meat dealer. He wrote the committee last night that he wished to give some evidence which he possessed. He said he saw that Mr. Gapen had said in his sworn testimony that no accounts against the hospital are outstanding, that have been allowed. He simply desired to testify to the contrary. He knew several instances of claims being allowed and checks made out, and remaining unpaid, because the bank held no funds. Mr. Pouder held a check in this way a month last summer and went for the money three times before getting it. The bill amounted to over two thousand dollars. Bills allowed and unpaid for January and February are yet outstanding also, witness is informed that C. J. Gardner is awaiting payment for meat furnished in December. The check is made out but the book-keeper of the hospital will not give it up. He says he will hold it till the investigation is closed, but witness does not know why. The East St. Louis dressed beef company also has allowed claims that are unpaid. Witness said beef has been cheaper during the past two years than ever before .since he can remember. This does not accord well with Dr. Harrison's testimony that an increase of 81,000 per month in cost of maintenance, of late, is mainly because of increased cost of beef.

A sub-committee, consisting of Senator Howard and Representatives Brown, Fields and Cone, has been visiting the hospital during the forenoons, for the purpose of learning how things are carried on out there. Its inquiries have been fruitful. There are four kitchens in the institution, one for officers in each department and a general one in both the male and female departments. One of the kitchens, under control of Mrs. Galbraith, wife of the superintendent, cooks for fourteen persons. IN ever more and sometimes less than that number. The store keeper's accounts show that there have been issued to Mrs. Galbraith's kitchen ten pounds of coffee for every day since the 1st of last June. The committee did not follow the matter back farther than that. On nearly every day also nine pounds of tea were also issued, (according to the books) to the same kitchen. Such installments of food as "eighteen dozen cans of tomatoes," are common and from sighteen to twenty pounds of sugar are issued every day to sweeten the ten pounds of coffee. To the entire male department, consisting of about seven hundred persons, forty-five pounds of coffee are issued daily, only four and one-half times what the fourteen persons fed from Mrs. Galbraith's kitchen are supposed to consume daily. It remains to be seen whether the store keeper has made false entries or the superintendent's family are gluttons.

There are several different directions in which the insane hospital investigating committee is prosecuting its inquiries at present. Among other things it desires to learn why the amounts of produce bought in last October, November. December and January were so greatly in excess of those of any other tim« in the history of the institution? Why is it that the insane hospital books do not show that Sullivan was paid 81,000 at one time from the superintendent's contingent fund, whefl it is known that such a payment was made? What the real relations existing between Sullivan and the board of trustees were, antfrdid Sullivan deliver all the goods for which he received pay? Indications sufficient to arouse grave suspicion are found in

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each of these lines of investigation. Dr. Harrison devoted a great deal of time yesterday afternoon to an attempt to explain the enormous increase in expenses of late months. A great deal of stress was laid by the witness on the varying price of beef. The bill for produce in January, 1888, was $1,277, in January, 1889, it was $2,371, an increase of 81,100 for produce alone. "Can you explain this increase?" asked Mr. Henry. "I think the books will clearly show wny this is. Beef and other commodities vary in prices." When Mr. Gapen was on the witness stand he explained that produce as referred to in the insane hospital bills consists of butter, eggs and poultry. That definition is the one which has been used as official in the investigation since. Just what the price of beef has to do with the amount of produce which Mr. Sullivan was allowed to furnish, Dr. Harrison did not render clear. As the question-, ing proceeded it was found from the witnesses own testimony that the price of beef was about the same in the two months under comparison. Thus the beef theory was extinguished as completely as a candle is blown out by the wind. Witness said he knew of the great increase of bids, and knew that Gapen was in Sullivan's employ, and that Sullivan was under indictment in the federal court, but never put those facts together as having any direct relation to each other.

The disclosures in the investigation to-day have startled even the committee and rumors are abroad at the capital that papers are being prepared on which Gapen will be brought into court. A warrant for his arrest, it is reported, may be sworn out not later than Monday. The attorney general of state declined to say anything about a proposod proceeding.

STILL ANOTHER VETO.

The Governor Refuses to Sign the Bill Providing: For Trustees. Another veto message was sent to the legislature yesterday morning by Governor Hovey.

The vetoed bill is the one providing for the eTection by the legislature of three trustees for each of the additional hospitals for the insane. In his message the governor said:

The only objection I have to this act Is the attempt on the part of the legislature to appoint or elect the trustees of the said hospitals at Logansport, Richmond and Evansvllle. My views on the powers of the legislative, executive and Judicial departments, are stated In my veto of senate bill No. 314 of this session, and I still adhere to the position expressed In that message. That there may be no misunderstanding between the legislative and executive departments I shall, as governor of the state of Indiana, recognize no person elected or appointed to any state office created by statute law unless such election or appointment Is directed by the constitution.

I coIcede the general assembly may create new offices necessary to carry on the affairs of the state. I concede that they can direct the election of such officers by the people, or in compliance with the constitution authorize the governor, or the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, to fill such ofllce by appointment, but I firmly deny that the general- assembly has any power to elect or appoint any officer to any office created by the statute.

To permit the general assemby to control such elections or appointments, would be to abandon our republican form of government and sink Into an oligarchy, as nearly ten thousand offices could be changed by one act in one day and conferred upon the friends of the dominant party, whether Democrats or Republicans. It will be a sad day for Indiana when such a principle Is established. The contest in the election of our senators and representatives would be: Who shall have all the offices created by statute laws In the state?

I shall regard no one as a state officer who cannot show a commission under the followlug section of our constitution: "Section 6, article 15 -All commissions shall Issue in the name of the state, shall be signed by the governor, sealed by the state seal, and attested by the secretary of state."

After several of the ablest Democratic members had been called in, the vote reached 54 for the bill and 36 against, so it was passed. Just before adjournment the veto message was called up in the senate and the bill was again passed there.

The Legislature Congratulates Parnell. In accordance with resolutions that were passed by the legislature yesterday, the following cablegram was sent to Mr. Parnell last night: Charles Stewart Parnell, If. I'., Lnndon:

By concurrent resolution of the senate and house of representatives, Indiana cordially congratulates you on your triumph over the conspirators against a struggling nation's rights.

IKA J. CHASE. President of the Senate. MASON J. NIBLACK,

Speaker of the House.

The Township Library Bill Defeated. The township library bill was defeated in the senate, by a vote 28 to 11. Senator Mount, in opposing the system, said that when a township library system was instituted in Indiana, the books were scattered promiscuously about the country, and they did no good. He believed that town and city libraries would be beneficial, but he thought township libraries would do no good. Senator Kennedy also opposed the bill as proposing a waste of public money.

Rejection of the Senate Amendments. The senate amendments to the Curtis board of control bill, providing for the election of a city solicitor, civil engineer and street commissioner, were rejected by the house and, on the motion of Mr. Curtis, who opposed the amendments, a committee of conference, composed of Mr. Curtis and Mr. Hughes, on the part of the house, was appointed by the speaker to agree upon a compromise with a committee representing the senate.

Aid For the State Militia.

The senate committee on military affairs reported favorably on the militia bill, which passed the house yesterday. It allows each militia company $10 a month for armory rent and each militiaman 83 50 a year for uniforms. It also requires that an encampment shall be held one we«k each year and the militiamen in camp shall be allowed 81 a day. The bill will certainly be passed.

The Bridegroom Member Speaks. The house took a receas of ten minutes for the special purpose of hearing a speech from Mr. Ader, the bridegroom representative from Putnam, ou the question "Is Marriage a Failure?" He spoke happily, thanking the house for the telegram of congratulation sent him, and concluding with the remark that he was in a mood to favor anything.

Xen School Buildings for Indianapolis. The senate passed the bill introduced by Mr. Hughes, giving the Indianapolis school board authotity to issue bonds for 8250,000, payable in ten years, the money to be used in the erection of new school buildings.

Culture In Blaektown.

Sam Johnsing—Dem blacks what lib on Robinson hill puts on a heap ob style.

Jim Webster—Yaas, dey owes de butcher for de meat what dey eats wid a silver fork.—[Texas Siftings.

A Man of Few Words.

Ethel—And do you love me? Augustus—I told you so one®, aad I cannot repeat it. I am a journalist, and tautology is forbidden.—[Punch.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1889.

CHRISTIAN FAITH.

Professor Huxley In the Nineteenth century.! The last objection which I have to take to Dr. Wace's deliverance before the Church congress arises, I am sorry sorry to say, on a question of morality. "It is, and ought to be," authoritatively declares this official representative of christian ethics, "an unpleasant thing for a man to have to say plainly that he does not believe in Jesus Christ." Whether it is so, depends, I imagine, a good deal on whether the man was brought up in a Christian household or not. I do not see why it should be "unpleasant" for a Mohommedan or a Buddhist to say so. But tha^ "it ought to be" unpleasant for any man to say anything which he sincerely, and after due deliberation, believes, is, to my mind, a proposition of the most profoundly immoral character. I verily believe that the great good which has been effected in the world by Christianity has been largely counteracted by the pestilent doctrine on which all the churches hare insisted, that honest disbelief in their more or less astonishing creeds is amoral offense, indeed a sin of the deepest dye, deserving and involving the same future retribution as murdef and robbery. If we could only see, in one view, the torrents of hypocrisy and cruelty, the lies, the slaughter, the violation of every obligation of humanity, which has flowed from this source along the course of the history of christian nations, our wor«t mag at ions of hell would pale beside the vision.

A thousand times, no! It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed, without erecting a sad concomitant of human weakness into something to be admired and cherished. The bravest of soldiers ofteD, and very naturally, "feel it unpleasant" to go into action but a court-martial which did its duty would make shojt work of the officer who promulgated the doctrine that his men ought to feel their duty unpleasant.

I am very well aware, as I suppose most thoughtful people are in these times, that the process of breaking away from old beliefs is extremely unpleasant and I am much disposed to think that the encouragement, the consolation, and the peace afforded to earnest believers in even the worst forms of Christianity are of great practical advantage to them. What deductions must be made from this gain on the score of the harm done to the citizen by the ascetic other-world-liness of logical Christianity to the Ruler, by the hatred, malice, end all uncharitableness of sectarian bigotry to the legislator, by the spirit of exclusiveness and domination of those that count themselves pillars of orthodoxy to the philosopher, by the restraints on the freedom of learning and teaching which every church exercises when it is strong enough to the conscientious soul, by the introspective hunting after sins of the mint and cummin type, the fear of theological error and4the overpowering terror of possible damnation, which have accompanied the churches like their shadow, I need not now consider: but they are assuredly not small. If agnostics lose heavily on the one side, they gain a good deal on the other. People who talk about the comforts of belief appear to forgst its discomforts they ignore the fact that the Christianity of the churches is something more than faith in the ideal personality of Jesus, which they create for themselves, plus so much as can be carried into practice without disorganizing civil society, of the maxims of the Sermon on the Mount. Trip in morals or in doctrine (especially in doctrine), without due'repentance or retractation, or fail to get properly baptized before you die, and a plebiscite of the christians of Europe, if they were true to their creeds, would affirm your everlasting damnation by an immense majority.

Preachers, orthodox and heterodox, din into our ears that the world can not get on without faith of some sort. There is a sense in which that is as eminently as obviously true there is another, in which, in our judgment, it is as eminently as obviously false, and it seems to me that the hortatory, or pulpit, mind is apt to oscillate between the false and the true meanings, without being aware of the fact.

It is quite true that the ground of every one of oiir actions, and the validity of all our resolutions rest upon the great act of faith, which leads us to take the experience of the past as a safe guide in our dealings with the present and the future. From th® nature of ratiocination it is obvious that the axioms on which it is based can not be demonstrated by ratiocination. It is also a trite observation that, in the business of life, we constantly take the most serious action upon evidence of an utterly insufficient character. But it is surely plain that faith is not necessarily entitled to dispense with ratiocination because ratiocination cannot dispense with faith as a starting point and that because we are often obliged, by the pressure of events to act on every bad evidence, it does not follow that it is proper to act on such evidence when the pressure is absent.

The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews tells us that "faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen." In the authorized version "substance" stands for "assurance" and "evidence" for "the proving." The question of the exact meaning of the two words affords a fine field for discussion for the scholar and the metaphysician. But I fancy w» ehall be not far from* the mark if we take the writer to have had in his mind the profound psychological truth that men constantly feel certain about things for which they strongly hope, but have no evidence, in the legal or logical sense of the word and he calls this feeling "faith." I may have the most absolute faith that a friend has not committed the crime of which he is accused. --In the early days of English history, if my friend could have obtained a few more compurgators of like robust faith, he would have been acquitted. At the present day, if I tendered myself as a witness on that score, the judge would tell me to stand down, and the youngest barrister would smile at my simplicity. Miserable indeed is the man who has not such faith in some of his fellow-men—only less miserable than the man who allows himself to forget that such faith is not, strictly speaking, evidence and when his faith is disappointed, as will happen now and again, turns Timon and blames the universe for his own blunders. And so, if a man can find a friend, the hypostasis of all his hopes, the mirror of his ethical ideal, in the Jesus of any, or all, of the gospels, let him live by faith in that ideal. Who shall or can forbid him? But let him not delude himself with the

notion that his faith is evidence of the objective reality of that in which he trusts. Such evidenoe is to be obtained only by the use of the methods of science, as applied to history and to literature, and it amounts at present to very little.

THE CHURCHES.

UNITEKSALIST CHURCH.—Services at 10:30 and 7:30. All cordially invited. Sunday school at 11:45.

CHRISTIAN SLXDAY SCHOOLS.—Sunday school at east Walnut street and Park street at 2:30 p. m.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.—Regular services both morning and evening. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor at G:30 p. m.

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Reception of members and Lord's Supper at 11:00 a. m. Evening service at 7:30. Young people's meeting at G:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.

ASBURY CHURCH.—Preaching by the pastor at 10:30 and 7:30. Class-meeting at 9:30. Sunday school at 2:30. Meeting for prayer and testimony at G:30. All persons are cordiallially invited to any or all of these services.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday school at 9:30. a. m. Services at 11:00 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Celebration of the Lord's Supper and reception of new members at the evening services. Young people's prayer meeting at 6:30 p. m.

GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH.—Corner Fifth .and Mulberry streets. Services by the pastor, the Rev. H. J. Lich, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Young people's meeting at G:30 a. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m. To-morrow will be rally day in the Sunday school and a special programme has been prepared.

ST. STEPHEN'S.—Morning service, holy communion and sermon, 10:45 a. m, evening service and sermon, 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 9:15 a. m. Sunday school at St. Luke's 3 p. m. lenten services, Wednesday at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., Thursday at 4:30 p. m., Friday at 10 a. m. and 4:30 p. m., Saturday at 4:30 p. m.

CENT ENARY METHODIST .—Quarterly meeting. All probationers in the church are requested to meet the paetor in the Sunday school room at 9:30 a. m. Baptism and Lord's supper at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Young people's meeting at G:45. Preaching by Presiding Elder A. A. Gee, D. D., at 7:30 p. m.

NOT ES.

Five members will be received at the Moffatt street church to-day. Communion services and the Lord's Supper will be had.

THE REVIVAL MEETINGS.

The Great Success at Centenary One Hundred Additions to the Chnrcli. The meetings at Centenary Church closed on Thursday night. It will be remembered as one of the moBt fruitful in good results. Since the first of October there have been 100 additions to th« membership of the church. The young people's work in the church is undergoing a complete recast in its organization. A large society of the King's Daughters has been formed and is at work. Their first monthly meeting was held in the church parlor yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A large class of probationers will be baptized this morning at 10:30 o'clock, after which the BdcrauiBllt Of the Lord's supper will be administered. Presiding Elder A. A. Gee, D. D., will preach at 7:30 in the evening. The quarterly conference will meet on Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock.

Gospel Temperance Meeting. The attendance at the gospel temperance meetings is steadily increasing. They are regularly held at Dowling hall on Sunday afternoon, beginning at 4 o'clock. The Mendelssohn quartette will sing at the meeting to-day. Good music will be mads a feature of the meetings.

WHY THE CONGREGATION SMILED.

An Old Notice Which Shouldn't Have Been Read I'nder the Circumstances. A story that goes back to the meetin' house in Wrentham is one of a worthy man named Habbakuk a resident of the town, and a faithful attendant upon worship, who had been blessed with four wives, one after another, says the Boston Transcript. Habbakuk was rigidly orthodox, as his name seemed to demand, and was always in his pew on the Sabbath. He sat there in his conspicuous pew with No. 4 by his side, on the first Sunday morning after their marriage. It was a balmy June day, and the zephyrs from the open window toyed playfully with the hide's white satin bonnet ribbons and the groom's silken locks. There was a stranger in the pulpit who had exchanged for the day with the venerable Mr. •, the pastor of the church. After reading a few Scripture passages the stranger proceeded to read a notice which he had found in the Bible, and which was as follows: "Mr. Habbakuk P— desires the prayers of the congregation that the death of his wife may be sanctified to him for his spiritual good."

Then, when the congregation was between stupefaction and explosion, the clergyman went on with the services at a rapid rate. He was at a loss to know why the congregation seemed to be throughout the remainder of the service on the point of laughter, but at dinner Mrs. the pastor's wife, explained to him that Habbakuk sat three rows from the front in the broad aisle with his-brand new wife, and he had read an old notice that Mr. had probably been using for a book mark ever since the death of wife No. 3.

No Balm on Sunday.

A certain politician holding office now in Washington comes from Gilead,

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and he is proud of his native town. It is told of him that on one occasion a visiting clergyman preached in the village church, and during the course of his remarks he exclaimed: "Is there no balm in Gilead?"

Mr. Blank jumped to his feet at once. "Of course there is," he sung out, to the horror of the congregation, "but you can't get it on Sunday."—[Washington Critic.

A Call for a Muzzle.

Why this growing propensity of Jews to rush into print to defend the honor of Judaism? What a lot of silly gush that Hirsh matter called out? Everybody of reason and intelligence recognizes the good the Jews have done to this world amce its creation, and it is useless to continually refer to it. Somebody ought to muzzle the "prominent Jews" who like to "point with pride to the achievements of our race."—[Jewish Tidings.

When beset with headache or other pains use Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain.

EXPRESS PACKAGES. ACROSS THE PSW.

Across the pew, with complaisance And eyes that with love's sunshine dance. My little sweetheart smiles at me—

She is the only saint 1 see The sermon passes in a trance. The panted figures gaze askance. Down from their glassy vigilance

On this our tender heresy Across th* pew. Ah! little sweetheart, the romance Of life, with all Its change and chance.

Is but a sealed book to thee— When opened may Its pages be As fair and sweet as thy bright glance

Across the pew. —f Louisville Courier-Journal.

During the last year the sum total of educational gifts in this country was nearly five million dollars.

The Hudson river ice crop will be about two-thirds the usual quantity, which will be about equal to the demand.

Henry Gilbert, of Westville, L. I., is the possessor of a pet hen which has been setting for the past three weeks on three kittens.

A man in Rutland, Yt., has been sentenced to 417 days' imprisonment for being intoxicated. Vermont's a "poor place for statesmen.

An iceboat on the Hudson river recently ran a race with an express train, beating it easily. Two miles and a half were made in five minutes.

A bill has been introduced in the Kansas legislatu ^appropriating money for drilling four deep holes in the ground "to sea what can be found."

In 18S0 the Maine legislature fixed a bounty ot 8 cents ahead on crows. This bounty cost the state $2,137 in 1882. Two years later the law was repealed.

An exchange says that in the factories of the great butchering towne out West, they are making such articles as combs, buttons, etc., etc., out of compressed blood.

In the great museum" at London is a small watch, one hundred years old or more, in the shape of an apple. The golden outside is adorned with grains of pearl.

A big Brahma hen belonging to a Baltimore man has distinguished herself by laying an egg that was almost the size of a cherry and weighed only seventyone grains.

The practicability of drying fish with artificial heat has been successfully tested at Canso, Nova Scotia. This new method will be tried on an extensive scale the coming Beason.

John Hceg, of Newton, L. I., is the possessor of a musket, presented to him by Captain Bill Sands, and which the latter claims was found in the waters of Flushing bay during the war of 1812

An international exhibition of postage stamps is to be opened at Amsterdam. To give additional interest to the show there will be sketches of the various costumes worn by po3tmen in different countries.

In Kansas the hides of Galloway cattle butchered are cured and made into lap robes. The jet black hair is thick, glossy and handsome, and makes a neater robe than the buffalo, while it as equally warm.

Cliff dwellings are found in great numbers in Morocco which are now, and probably have been, inhabited from the time of their first construction. These dwellings, in all particulars, are like those found in Arizona and New Mexico on this continent.

A French savant recommends freezing milk as a new method of preservation. After having been frozen milk will keep for weeks and weeks, and when thawed will have the qualities of new milk. Large ice machines for freezing milk are suggested.

The Panama canal company in paying up some of its men found that, owing to two men having been murdered, it became necessary to value the loss sustained by their relatives. Ten dollars apiece was the amount settled upon. Life in Panama apparently does not come very high.

Jefferson county, Ala., seems to be between the devil and the deep sea. Not long ago it was overrun with wildcats. A bounty was offered on these, and they were nearly exterminated. Now the county is pestered with rabbits, and its second state is woree than its first.

Four-year-old Laura Coats, of Marengo, Ala., had a remarkable escape from an awful death. Her dress caught on fire and burned to the neck band. The little one's underclothing, however, consisted of flannel, and did not ignite. She escaped with painful burns on the hands.

The Rev. Thomas Harris, a colored preacher of Taunton, Mass, has sued his church for six months' salary at S30 per month. He was to receive 50 per cent, of all collections taken up by the church, but the poor fund has only amounted to 77 cents during his incumbency, and he didn't get his share of that.

John Dennett, of Santa Cruz, Cal.. recently found a two-headed snake about a foot long. The heads were distinctly separate and both were perfect. The heads were little over an inch in length. When aroused the snake would throw a forked tongue out of each head simultaneously, as if they were one.

The Peters Emin relief expedition will consist of 100 Somali soldiers and 500 carriers, who are now being engaged at Zanzibar and along the coast. The force will be led by eight Germans, and several young German officers in search of African adventure have obtained permission to accompany the expedition.

An Oxford county, Maine, clergyman once called on an unlucky farmer, who had lost a pair of valuable horses, and tried to console irim by quoting the scriptural account of Job's olllictions. But the farmer refused to be comforted. "Job," he said, "never owned so good a pair of horses as my Dick and Corey was."

Miss Mildred Maddox, a belle of Brewton, Ala., dressed up as a tramp and attempted to frighten her mother. The disguise was perfect, and Mrs. Maddox emptied the contents of a shotgun into her daughter's body. The girl will recover, but she hardly expected such sincere appreciation of her skill as an impersonator.

Quoddy Head, Me., ie the easternmost point of the United States, Alton islands the westernmost. Point Barrows the northernmost, and Key West the most southern. Taking these points as the basis for work, it is found that the geographical center of the United States is about two hundred and seventy miles west of San Francisco, in the Pacific ocean.

It is an interesting fact that the majority of presidents have had blue eyes. Mr. Harrison's eyes conform to this rule. Mr. Cleveland's eyes are, brown as were those of Arthur. William Henry Harrison had dark eyes. President Pierces eyes were intensely black, as was his hair. Thomas Jefferson's hair was reel, and looked well in the White house.

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Thursday, March 7.

The Great New York Success,

A LEGAL WRECK.

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TRANSFERRED ESTIRE TO TERRE HAUTE!

Sale Opsns Monday. Prices $1, 75c. 50c and 25c.

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Friday Ev'ng, March 8.

Return of the Favorites.

THE GOKMAN'8

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Presenting an attractive programme, concluding with the great burlesque written by Mr. .lames (iorman, entitled

THE PASHA OF BAGDAD.

Sale opens Wednesday. Prices, 75c, GOc and 25c.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bnffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus(«) run dally. /II other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

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No. 9 Western Express (8AV) No. 6 Mall Train* No. 1 Fast Line (P&V) No. 7 Fast Mall

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1.42 a. ill. 10.18 a. in. 2.16 p. m. tf.(H p. iu.

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1.3(1 a. m. 1.42 a. m. 12.31 p. m. 1.40 p. m.

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