Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 March 1889 — Page 2

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Mr. Andrew Grimes, who posed so long as abetter element Democrat, was quick to show his adherence to the gutter element by opposing the bill permitting cities to increase the saloon license to $250.

Indiana is already well 'to the front. Governor Porter as minister to Italy, A. C. Millette, an Indiana man, governor of Dakota, and George C. Tichenor, a former resident of Terre Haute, first assistant secretary of the treasury.

There was opposition in this city to the $100 license on the alleged ground that it was not high enough to accomplish any good as a restrictive measure or to furnish much revenue. Jsow we can fix it at $250. Suppose the restrictive influence of that figure closes fifty saloons, we yet have 125 to pay S250 or $31,250 a year into our city treasury, now so sorely in need of money.

The Grimes Democracy, when it was made known that a few of their number would with the Republicans pass the $250 license bill, the document was stolen. Singular, isn't it, that when a Terre Haute Democrat becomes connected with the senate the stealing of bills begins? Grimes can find consolation in the fact that when Bert Kelley went to the senate the same thing occurred.

The first appointments for Indiana by President Harrison were made yesterday, ex-Governor Porter as minister to Italy and S. U- Chambers to be district attorney. Governor Porter will repre sent the United States at Rome with grace and good sense. In the selection of Mr. Chambers as district attorney, the people are assured that the federal court will be purged of the Leon Bailey style of management.

Some years ago General Harrison was engaged in a law suit wherein the ques tion of breach of trust on the part of an employe was involved. It was shown that the employe had been instrumental in raising a fund from other employes to purchase a costly present for the employer, and on this Gen eral Harrison made the strong point of bad faith. His argument in the case was based largely on the trick of the presentation as a means of deceiving the employer.

Many corporations that employ a large number of men, forbid this practice which, generally, is an insincere performance. To be sure there are exceptional instances. The misuse of these testimonials of regard has, long ago, come to be suspicious. As between members of a fraternal or social organization it is altogether different, but, in the case of Commissioner Black, it is nothing less than extortion and blackmail.

0. O. D.

Dot lets.

A proper frame of mind—the cranium.

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Parisian court recently set aside a verdict liecause a juryman spelled majority with a "g." A judge who would do such a thing in America would strike a deadly blow at the most sacred pal ladium of our liberties.

The presence or a majority of the police force at the Black Crook last night Is very easily explained. The name misled them. They expected to see Bill Hicks.

The old time rushlight was even dimmer than parlor gas. Still, the young men of those days were very well satislled with It, and didn't call early to avoid the rush.

Things One Would Katlier Have Left I'usaUl. Mrs. Walworthy—Henry. why don'tf^ou write some of those funny "things one would rather have left unsaid" for the paper?

Mr. Walworthy—I can't think of any excepting, of course, the time I proposed.

Realized His Loss.

Mis Ann Teak-I met your old friend Mr. Warble last evening. We had quite a conversation about you. You were engaged once, 1 believe.

Miss Katandforty Yes. Miss Ann Teak—He grew quite remenlscent as it were. Said ke never would have quarrelled with you If had realized how much he was losing.

Miss Katandforty Really Miss Ann Teak- Yes. He said you only wieghed about ninety pounds then and you must weigh at least 175 now.

Miss Katandforty—Oh you hateful thing.

SAn Apt Illustration.

A Chicago minister last Sunday lu asserting the existence of a material hell, admitted that the human mind is incapable of comprehending the idea of such a place, but fortified his position by the statement th st the angels were incapable of comprehending the existence of such a place as Chicago.

Mr. Nevergo Gets Another Reminder. Mtss Smith Won't you have an orange Mr. Ne verge?

Mr. Nevergo I never eat oranges except Just before breakfast, Miss Smith. Miss smith -Neither do I.

THE OWLS' REVENGE.

[From Macmlllan's Magazine.] ni.

Old Oliver trudged down the road from the little town on the hill, with his fairing under hia arm, thinking of his old wife sitting in her chimney-corner, and of the days when he bought the pretty young farm servant her first fairing, in that same town and on that very same day in May, Bome five and forty years ago. Straight before him were the Cotawold hills, and on their slope he could see the spire of Highfield Church, and further down and nearer was the great dark mass of Truerne wood, hiding the hamlet where he had lived all his life. The sight of the wood made him think of the owls, and he unconsciously quickened his pace, as if to make haste and see that all was right wi|h them as yet.

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rre.WfiffffiWT&'J li^ftferal JoTiTT C. Black In recoenltion of Ills peerless administration. It Is not possible that General Black has any knowledge of this movement, because lie was so much horrified when a similar movement was made to secure a testimonial for his predecessor.—[Washington special.

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Down the long sloping road he went, and then turning off by a bridle path passed through another wood—not his, and therefore no place for dallying in— and crossing the river by an old floodbeaten bridge, took his way through a wealth of buttercups that gilded his old boots with yellow dust, to the further side of the water meadows, where his own beloved wood cam4 do'wn in gentle slopes to the valley. Evening was coming

and the light was subdued all

was quiet and peaceful unless a nightingale broke out suddenly in song from a thicket, or the voice of the chiff-chaff rang out from overhead. Over the bluebells the shadows were lengthening, and against their deep blue, as it mingled in the distance with the blue of the sky peeping through the branches, rose the straight and darkening stem of many an-ancient tree. Wkat a change from

noise and worry and ill dealing and cruelty of the fair! When he came to his own old oak he paused and listened, but no sound was heard but the song of the woodwren in the higher foliage. "'Tis all right as yet," he said to himself, "they're not astir so early as this but maybe they'll be hooting when Pogson and the pigs come along later, and then they're marked birds the warrant '11 be out against 'em. The Lord deliver them out of the hand of the Philistines," said the old fellow, quite aloud. "I'll get a bit of supper and come and have a look, presently and he went on up the ride.

Close behind him was the gamekeeper, Mr. McNab, finding that there were no spaniel puppies at the fair, had no further reason to stay there for he had a poor opinion of the people of those parts, and did not care to listen to their stupid talk, or to help them to drink bad beer. Moreover during his visit to the barber he had satisfied himself that his do mains were really in danger of being in' vaded by unsportsmanlike clodhoppers in search of owls and the more he thought of it, the more impossible it seemed to have fellows like Pogson roaming about in his woods with firearms. It was bad enough to have pigs driven through your wood every fairday, though that could not be helped where there was a right of way for man "IHfecT the man as a" noisy, bulTylngTout,

So he had left the fair soon after Oli ver, only stopping at a shop in the out skirts of the town to buy a good-sized twist of strong cord. He did not stay to look at the view, or to sit on the bridge and watch the water, or to admire the bluebells when he came to Truene wood Mr. McNab was a man of a practical mind, and a swift walker and he had nearly caught up with Oliver when he arrived at the old oak tree, so that he just heard the old fellow's ejaculation about the Philistines, and then Baw his smockfrock retreating up the ride. The Scotchman stopped and watched it dis appear, "Yon auld Oliver has mair gude sense," he said to himself, "than a' these blath ering gowks of pigdrivers and he kens his Bible, too! A wee bit too saft—iuair backbone, mair backbone! But he's no sae doited as the rest!"

The sun was almost setting, but the owls in the old oak were still silent. "They'll be hooting in an hour or twa," he said, as Oliver had said it before him and drawing the twist of cord from his pocket, he stepped aside among the blue bells of the oak tree. Plenty of young ground ashes were springing up among the flowers, and with the help of these,and of a low hazel bush or two, he contrived to fasten the cord in a pretty tight circle around the tree trunk, at a distance of some half-do/.en yards from it, and about a foot and a half from the ground. There being still plenty of cord, he looked about for a log of wood, and finding one not too heavy, he tied the cord around it, and hoisted it up on a low branch of the big tree, on the side nearest the ride, just balancing it at the junction of one gnarled bough with another, so that a strong pull at the string would easily bring it down. This done, he fastened the other end tightly down to his circle below, and then paused, with a face of extreme gravity, to contemplate his apparatus.

Suddenly his severe features relaxed. There had shot across his memory a certain scene, when as a bare-legged callant playing on his native braes, he had de vieed just such a booby-trap to catch another ooy, with a view of securing for himself a certain nest in which eggs were about to be laid. The grim features of Mr. McNab relaxed, I say, and in his solitude in the wood he buret out into a hearty, ringing laugh. "At bairn's wark in my auld age! And what whad the Dominie say? Wad I be for a crack wi' the tawse,or the knuckleend of the auld crab-stick at hame, eh!"

Mr. McNab lit his pipe, the better to resume his ordinary composure, and putliog at it with lips which now and then a convulsive movement almost compelled to laughter, he strode away through the wood tol his own dwelling on the further side of it.

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And now the wood was left omce more in profound peace. Since old Oliver passed through it the shadows had grown still longer, and from the west there now cauie a flush of sunset through the boughs, turning the blue carpet into one of deeper purple, while against the fading light the great tree trunks stood up solemnly, slowly blackening as their shadows died away. Here and there a wood pigeon broke the stillness in the boughs, or a nightingale broke out in a flash of song and ceased again as suddenly: but the owls in the old tree began to be6tir themselves in soft silence, and reserved their hootings

until they should have procured^ a meal for the downy nestlings in the deep warm hole. But beware, O ye owls and owlets, for the Philistines are at hand, and the warrant of the ladies is out against you!

As the last hues of sunset died away on the Cotewold hills there

came

through

the wood unlucky little Mr. Weekes small in person and small in acres discontented with his dealings at the fair, and with things in general, and ready for any project that might put a pound or two in bis pocket without actually endangering his limbs or his liberty. As he passed the great oak a

large

creature

flew noiselessly over his head in tne direction of the tree, and woke up Mr. Weekes' memory, which had been Halting in the slough of his discontent. "Ah, the owls!" he thought. ^Half-a-guinea a piece, did he say? Well, it might be, if there's a run on em and that fellow Pogson said he was coming here first thing to-morrow morning to shoot 'em but I'll be even with the prosperous fat brute."

Mr. Weeks thought of the mornings pig-driving, into which he had been compelled by Pogson's superior force of character of the two ribs of his wife umbrella which he had broken on the back of one wayward squeaker and of the long detour he had taken when leaving Northstow, to avoid falling again in with the pig-driver, and being once more driven to drive.

So he went home to his rickety little home-stead beyond the wcod, and reached down his old gun from its place above the chimney-place only yielding to the injunctions of his wife that he must eat a bit o' supper first, and that if he must be for shooting owls, he should begin by shooting the one which was stealing all the young pigeons. Obedient as usual, though querulous, Mr. Weeks presently took up his station in his yard, watching the dovecote and the darkening sky but luckily for the pigeons, whom the owls were nightly protecting from their enemies the rats, no owl made his appearance for a full half-hour after Mr. Weeks, had given them up in despair, and had carried off hiB gun to the wood in hopes of better luck.

Meanwhile Mr. Pogson, after purchasing Borne dozen or so of fine porkers, and a bottle of brandy to help him in the arduous task of getting them home safely, began in the late afternoon to drive them down the long high road towards the wood. The pigs were lively, and their owner began to be a little unsteady on his legs—a sensation which he more than once sought to correct by a draught of strong ale at a roadside public house. The remedy did not have the desired effect, and his progress became slower and slower but in spite of all obstacles, and by dint of extreme severity and a lavish outlay of bad languish, he contrived to conduct himself and his charges across the bridge and the meadows to the edge of the wood without serious mishap, arriving there about the time at which Weekes was prowling in his yard after the barn owl. The bottle of brandy was, by this time, more than half empty, and the wood was as dark as pitch.

If Mr. Pogson had been in full possession of his wits he would hardly have tried to force his way through the wood, and would have avoided the bridle-path and taken his pigs a couple of miles round by the road but he had gone like an unr^soning animal in the way he was accustomed to, and now it wos too late to turn back. He took another pull at the bottle, switched the nearest pigs, "Seep to"fiie open°path.

In the dense black darkness and still neBS, a sleepy and a sickly feeling came over Mr. Pogson's usually hide-bound senses, from which he was only for a moment awakened by a sudden move ment of the pigs in front of him Whether it was a badger in the path, or a prowling fox that had frightened them, certain it is that at this moment they all faced about, and rushing with loud squakings past the legs of their driver, vanished in a general stampede away into the wood.

Mr. Pogson stood aghast, and leant against a tree-trunk for support. The noise of the pigs died away, and he was alone—alone in a blank darkness. Even pigs are company, and now he would have given a good deal for the cotapan ionship of a single one of his victims. There was a singing in his ears, a cold sweat on his hard brow he felt quite unable to go further his head swam.

Suddenly he heard a voice from overhead—a gentle voice, reproachful and somewhat hollow and ghostly— "Whoo? Tu-whoo?"

Mr. Pogson felt a creepy sensation and would have cast himself to the ground and hidden his face in the blue bells, but again the voice asked: "Whoo? Whoo? Tu-whoo?" "Pogson o' Highfield?" cried the belated man in answer. But, still more reproachful accents, the voice demanded for the third time: "Whoo? Tu-whoo?" "Pogson o' Highfield, pig-dealer," cried the wretched man in stuttering accents "a man as never did no harm to nothing in all his life!" "Whoo? Whoo?" said the voice, seeming to retreat, and urged to follow it by some mysterious influence, Mr. Pogson staggered forward a few paces. But he had hardly left his tree for than half a minute, when something caught him on tbe shins and tripped him up, at the same moment he received a violent blow on the head which, added to the effects of the brandy, stretched him quite unconscious on the ground. There he lay in the darkness, with the bottle slipping out of his pocket, while the mysterious voice continued to question him in vain from the old oak tree overhead.

And now, but for the voice, all is silent again for a few minutes. Stay, who is this coming down the "light" betray ing his presence by the crackling of*a dry twig beneath h's boot? It is Mr Weekes, bent on further profitable destruction who would not have ventured himself in the wood after dark for fear of ghosts and other terrors, but is now urged to unwonted courage by the hope of gain and by the companionship of his old gun. He is making for the tree where he saw the owl at sunset.

As he advanced deeper into the dead blackness of the wood, Mr. Weekes began to feel a slight uneasiness, which was soon uncomfortably increased by strange noises on his right hand, as of wierd creatures making toward him through the underwood. But he was now close to his tree, and he could hear the hooting of the owls that were to be his prey. He was in the act of raising his gun, ready to fire when an owl should cross the bit of 6ky-line open above him, when the noises increased to his right, and, with a terrific crackling and confusion, an army of terrible creatures burst out upon him into the ride. All his courage fled. With a yell of fear he discharged his gun at his advancing foes, and then, throwing it at them as a last resource, took to his heeis and ran from them. But he had not run many yards when he tripped, first over a heavy body and

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 13. 1888.

then over a tightened cord, and, lewing at once hie balance and his senses, Mr. Weekee swooned outright. v. "Did ye hear the gun then?" said the keeper to Oliver, as they met a few minutes later at the entrance of the wood. "There's mischief here, forbye at the barber's. Tak' yon big stick, mop, and gang ye on wi' the lantern."

They went softly down the ride together, neither speaking again. Presently the keeper stumbled over Bome solid body lying in the grass, and Oliver, applying the lantern to it, discovered the corpse of a pig. The keeper whistled softly and turned it o^er with his foot. "Lawfu' spoil," he whispered, "lawfu' spoil. Ye shall taste Pogson's bacon yet afore ye die, Oliver."

Then they found the gun, which Mr. McNab, now in his element, seized as further spoil, and gave to Oliver to carry instead of the big stick. And now he turned aside for a few yards to see what other sports his bairn's tricks of that day might have brought him. Oliver followed close at his heels with the lantern. "Whoo! Tu-whoo!" said the owl overhead. "Ay, ye may weel hoot at 'em," said the keeper, as the lantern revealed the prostrate forms of Mr. Pogson and Mr. Weekes the latest arrival lying across the other, and seeming to embrace him with one arm, while the hand of the other was thrust into a tuft of faded primroses.

Oliver and McNab regarded this spectacle for a few moments in silence. Then Oliver, catching sight of the bottle slipping from tlie pig-dealer's pocket, turned his wistful eyes on the Scotchman. "Mr. McNab," he said, "I am an old man, and maybe as I won't be woodcutting here much longer but don't you— for my sake don't you" (here he shyly laid his wrinkled hand on the keeper's arm,) "let such sodden brutes as these come along and take the lives of innocent creatures—creatures as God above loves, and has made me for to love too—and all for a few shillings, or maybe guineas, and to please the ladies in Lunnon as don't know what a wood be like, nor what creatures lives their lives here. I've known this tree for more nor fifty year, but the owls ha' known it belike for 500 and now, afore I'm dead, the warrapt'sout agen them. The fine ladies wants their feathers, but they don't know what they're doing—they don't think what they do, Mr. McNab. 'Tis fashion, 1 take it, only fashion, and it'll blow over in a bit if you'll but stop 'em now. I'm an old fool maybe, but God know's I've none too many to care about, or for to care for me, but my old woman, and besides here there's none but these birds and beasts in the wood. And the peace of it, and the quiet of the life in it! Don't you let it be rooted up Mr. McNab, nor the wild beast of the field devour it!"

The keeper slapped him on the back of his smockfrock, and then Beized him by the hand. "Oliver, my auld lad," he said, "ye've just saved them out o' the hands of the Pheelistines! And ye shall never want for friends to care for ye, be they owl& or be they McNabs!"

And this was the story that old Oliver used to tell, with maay a kindly word of respect for his friend the keeper, till one day, as I said at the beginning, death came upon him painlessly under that very tree, while the cuckoo sang in the distance, and the chiff-chaff's two notes Bu"iTir."jrugHon' uuu ltie "pigs is~m6re than 1 can tell probably the owls told it to him, or it may be that the conscience stricken pig-dealer revealed to him alone the story, as to one who understood, as none else did, the mysteries of Truerne wood.

However that may be, it is certain that the enemy never invaded his paradise. The owls were never disturbed, and by some mysterious agency the placard disappeared almost at once from the barber's window. Mr. Pogson never passed through the wood again, and finding that distorted versions of his adventures were abroad in Highfield (where they are still told with relish by the winter fireside), he removed to a vit lage some miles away, a milder and more merciful man. Mr. Weekes, too, was not long in giving up his farm and disappearing entirely from the neighborhood. In peace the owls and Oliver lived out their days under the grave but kindly guardianship of Mr. McNab, the keeper and when I last passed through the wood it showed no signs of the presence of the Philistine.

Example From Locrlnu Legislation. The old man's face beamed with al most child-like enjoyment as the spring sunshine bathed him in a warm flood yesterday afternoon. Even the dusty, grimy windows of the transfer car could not materially diminish the brightness of the atmosphere. "I've been attending a few of the sessions of the legislature lately," he remarked to a friend who stopped a moment while waiting to change cars. "After going home from there yesterday I, by chance, opened a favorite volume of Irving at a place which chimed in with my sentiments at the moment so well that it has been running in my mind ever since. Irving, in that delightful style which nobody has been able to imitate, says: 'Charondas, the Locrian legislator, anxious to preserve the an cient laws of the state from the additions and improvements of profound country members or ofScious candidates for popularity, ordained that whoever proposed a new law should do it with a halter about his neck so that, in case his proposition was rejected, they just hung him up—and there the matter ended. This salutary institution had such an effect, that for more than two hundred years there was only one trifling alteration in the criminal code, and the whole race of lawyers starved to death for want of employment. The consequence of this was that the Locrians, being unprotected by an overwhelming load of excellent laws, and undefended by a standing army of pettifoggers and sheriff's officers, lived very lovingly together, and were such a happy people that they scarce made any figure throughout the whole Grecian history—for it is well known that none but your unlucky, quarrelsome, rantipole nations make any noise in the world."—[Indianapolis News.

A Booster's Torpedo Thrower. Lieutenant James Weir Graydon, formerly of this city, has located in London, where he is vigorously pushing the torpedo thrower of which he is the inventor and patentee. It has been patented in all the principal European countries. Offers are open in all the large continental citie6, and the invention is receiving much praise from European military scientists.— [Indianapolis News.

The fruit of the Boom.

Minneapolis has 2,000 men who are looking for work.

STEAMSHIP SUBSIDIES.

England and Germany Obtaining Control of the Ocann Mann. CSAX FRANCISCO, March 12.—In an in. terview to-day, J. D. Sprecklee, president of the• Oceanic company, whose steamers ply between this city and the Samoan island*, New Zealand and Australia, said: "I do not expect our steamers to run to Samoa and New Zealand after the end of October. The companies have taken a decided stand against maintaining the line any longer. Unless the United States bears one-half of tbe total cost, the service may not cease entirely, because the North German Lloyd's company are arranging to secure. They are running a steamer from Germany to Sydney and are anxious to extend the service which would be part of their Samoa policy. The steamer would stop at Samoa as ours now do, and the Germans would control this Pacific trade. Without the aid accorded to foreign steamship lines, we cannot compete with them and would not attempt to do so. The North German Lloyds receives enormous subsidy from the German government such as we could never hope for." Spreckles says they were now stopping at Tuteula, the southern one of the Samoan groupes, dropped the mails there to a schooner which took them to Apia, tbe scene of the present dispute. He satd: "Our steamers do not call at Apia, the capital of Samoa, but could do so if our company was paid for extra ooal required to make longer distances on contract time. As it is, the United States does not offer any encouragement to have direct connection with the capital of Samoa, although the American steamers pass near there and the government could receive a week's later intelligence than is now possible, and avoid the necessity of having the mails pass through the hands of foreigners. Mr. Spreckles said that the United States government was now paying the

North German Lloyds company $1.30 per mile for carrying mails across the Atlantic, while American vessels are receiving 7 to 25 cents per mile. "In the South American trade steamers flying the American flag get less than we do," said Mr. Spreckles. "If our government extends the same policy to the Lloyds on the Pacific coast aa it does on tbe Atlantic, we can not compete. The German vessels also are exempt from tonnage dues in our ports, whereas the American steamers pay at the rate of 30 cents per ton, and the American vessels are compelled to carry the mails whenever the postmaster general may demand."

Mr. Buckland, the general of the Samoan government, said New Zealand was anxious to join with the United States in maintaining an American line, but unless there was a co-operation they would accept the German service, as the United States would have to pay its portion if it was a foreign line carrying mails. ____

SH0RTES THE SCHOOL TEKM.

One Result of the Reduction of Interest Rate on School Fund Moneys. It is estimated that the bill reducing the rate of interest on the school fund from eight to six per cent, will shorten the schools of the Btate about one-half month.

In many counties the full amount of the legal tax-levy, 25 cents on the §100, has long been collected, and there will bg no possible method cept by lowering the wages paid and consequently impairing the effi ciency of the schools. In Hendricks, La Grange, DeKalb, and other counties containing no large towns and few or no saloons, the maintaining of the schools has been a serious question. In DeKalb for instance, the length of schools has been kept at from five to six months, by reducing the average wages of teachers to S1.20 per day. With the taking ef feet of the new law relating to interest, these schools will have to lose a large per cent, of their length or the already meager wages must come down yet another step.

If the bill.increasiag the limit of local tax levy to 33 cents on the $100 had passed it would have neutralized the effect of the reduction of interest. Representatives from the counties most affected were very anxious to secure the passage of the tax bill, but in the hurry of the closing hours of the session they failed to secure action on it.—[India napolis News.

The Inauguration Rusli.

More than one hundred and five thousand people were carried to Washington over the Pennsylvania railroad during the inauguration period, and were delivered in Washington before noon of March 4th. It took 210 trains of ten cars each to convey this immense throng, with an average of fifty persons to a car. Ail trains were run in sections, and in many cases the number of sections to a given train reached ten. This involved a continuous stream of crowded cars entering the station at intervals of a few minutes, discharging their passengers and being shifted to make room for the incoming current. The system was managed with the greatest care and smoothness, and no delays were experienced except such as safety necessitated. The revenue to the company from the inauguration travel will amount to $500,000.—[Philadelphia Record.

Government Telegraph Doesn't Pay. The state telegraphs in England still fail to meet expenses. The outlay last year exceeded the receipts by more than £6,000, and there was still interest to pay upon a loan of £10,880,571. The total deficiency amounts, therefore, to no less a sum than £332,501. Since 1872 the country has paid in taxation toward the working of the telegraphs the enormous sum of £3,357,700.

Easily Done.

Ticket Agent (at railroad station)—I wish some way could be invented to keep men away from the ladies' window.

Bystander—Easy enough. Put the Bign "For Ladies Only" on the other window.—[New York Weekly:

An Indian'* Endurance.

An Indian runner in California ecently traveled 120 miles in two days to carry an important message. He showed hardly any sign of fatigue.

Gibraltar's Fortifications Useless. The duke of Cambridge says the fortifications of Gibraltar are utterly inadequate for defense against modern artillery.

The Versatile Sparrow.

English fakirs paint sparrows yellow and sell them for canaries.

The beet phycians assure us that Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is a reliable and never failing remedy.

Ki PRESS PACKAGES.

In the spring the youth bis person in the latest fashion decks. And begins to cast admiring glances on the other sex: In tbe spring nameless yearning, something that he cannot trace. Comes upon him when he meets a maiden with a pretty face And the fluttering of a ribbon, or the perfume of & glOV6, Thrills his raises, and his "fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." In the spring the maiden doffs the glossy sealskin saoque she wore. Which enables her to don a Mgger bustle than before. Then she puts on lighter garments, snowy laces ribbons gay. And a gorgeous hat the climax caps of her new spring array All tbe secrets of the toilet uses with a woman's skill. Tor her heart too. Is responsive to the season's magtc thrill. -1 Boston Courier.

A swell affair—A bullfrog choruB. Patti can converse in five tongues. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, is a tall spare man with a strikingly ascetic countenance. His father was an eatinghouse keeper at Newark, N. J.

Mrs. Ella Dietz Clvmer, who has been elected president of Sorosis, is one of the founders of the eociety and one of the oldest expoaents of its principles.

The average age of the men who composed President Lincoln's cabinet was 56 years, two years less than the average of President Harrison's cabinet.

John Madison Morton, author of "Box and Cox," "Lend Me Five Shillings," and numerouB other farces and comedies, is an invalid in an .English almshouse.

Lucie Latrance lived ten years next door to her sister, in Montreal, without knowing it, and then the pair became known to each other through their grocer.

A St. Louis man believes that the number of his home should correspond with that of the year, and to carry out that hobby he has moved every year since 1863.

Mayor GobUe, of Muscatine, Iowa, Democrat, has been re elected mayor by 520 majority. This is about the only office gobbled by the Democrats so far this spring.

John Gamble, who lives near Brownsburg, Ind., is 92 years old, and when he rides to town on horseback once a week he wears a silk hat that he has worn for the last forty years.

E. A. Collum, of Detroit, is not ashamed to stand up and confess that he invented the term "razzle-dazzle. The punishment to fit this crime has not yet been discovered.

Mrs. Louise R9ed Stowell, teacher of microscopical botany at the University of Michigan, has been appointed special microscopic artist of the botanical department at Washington.

Chicago Daily News: When the legislature of the two Dakotas get to enacting laws for those states they are likely to make it a penal offense for any person to own a thermometer.

Bowie knives aro being manufactured as plentifully as ever, but they are altogether for show. There is no record of one being used for years. The sight of one keeps the other fellow off.

New York Herald: In a Bowery restaurant: Vociferous waiter Two pies an' puddin'—two coffees. Affrighted Teutonic patron—pison for two, poodt in two coffins! Mein gott! I gits me oudt!

This is how the kangaroo got its name Captain Cook first discovered the animal in Australia. When he inquired its nama.of jt-jjiniitta -t.ha language is "I don know.

Mr. Windom is the oldest member of the new cabinet, being nearly 63 years of age. Mr. Miller is the youngest, not having reached his 48th year. Mr, Blaine and Mr. Rusk are about the Bame age—59' Mr. Proctor is 58 and Mr. Tracy 60. Next to Mr. Miller the youngest man in the cabinet is Mr. Wanamaker, who is not quite 52.

Dr. E. G. Robinson, president of Brown university, is to resign at a special meet ing of the corporation called for March 20. The reason for it is that the doctor has determined to give up hard work for tbe remainder of his old age. He is now.74 years old, and has been president of Brown since the resignation of Pro fessor Alexis Caswell in 1872.

Mrs. Clara Foltz, of San Diego, is president of the San Felipe and Desert land water company, which has undertaken to dam San Felipe river for the purpose of irrigating government land In addition to this Mrs. Foltz practices law and will soon begin the publication of the Desert Pioneer, but she has little time to devote to the cause of woman suffrage.

R. Bellingham, who has just retired from engine driving on the Great Northwestern railway, England, after forty years' service, was a driver on a railway between Paris and Rouen in 1848, when the revolution broke out which caused Louis Philippe to flee. He remained at his post and drove the last, train which went from Ronen to Paris prior to the mob burning the bridge across tbe Seine, and by that means cutting off railway communication with the north era provinces of France.

Mrs. Richard Perkins, of Boston, has presented to the Bostonian society three-page letter that John Hancock wrote from London March 2, 1764, to the Rev. Daniel Perkins, of Bridgewater. In it Hanceck said: "I shall with satisfaction bid adieu to this grand place, with all its pleasurable enjoyments, for the more substantial pleasure I promiso myself in the enjoyment of my friends in America. The greatest estate in England would be but a poor temptation to me to spend my days here."

Secretary Bayard was the only man in the senate chamber last Monday who failed to rise to his feet during the prayer in connection with the inaugural exercises. Every person present, the president, General Harrison, the justices, senators, diplomats, and in fact everybody on the floor, from page to the president pro tem, of the senate, stood reverently erect, excepting Secretary Bay ard. All through the prayer he sat with bis bead upon his hand as though sunk in a reverie and unconscious of what was going on around him.

Since the introduction of Salvation Oil the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has nothing to do but to rub occasionally.

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NAYLOR'S OF3ERA HOUSE

Thursday, March 14.

GREATEST MUSICAL NOVELTY OF THE SEASON I Engagement of Mrs.

ALICE J.SHAW,

The Whistling Prima Donna, Supported by the following Artists: Miss Ollie Torbett. Pianist: Miss Edith Pond, Singing Header Miss Jennie Campbell. Accompanist for Mrs. bhaw, Mr. S. V. Downey. Piiuiist Mr. trustav Thalburg, Tenor.

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Friday Ev'g, March 15.

AT 7:45.

ruder the Auspices of the Charity Organization Society. DK PAUW UNIVERSITY

Concert and Zouave Co.

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Dean of the School of Music, and

LIEUT. WILLIS T. MAY, U. S. A., Commandant DePauw Corps of Cadets.

Lena Eva Alden, Solo Pianoforte Hosa Marquis, Solo Violin Anna Allen Smith, Pianoforte: Herman Hlnschlng, Solo Clarionet Edward Rldpath. Solo Trombone: Charles P. Benedict, Captain of Zouaves

ASSISTED BY

Mrs. Bertha Hoberg, Soprano, of Terre Haute.

Zouave Company, Nineteen Members! Orchestra, Twenty three Members

Prices—5#c, 85c and 25c.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus

fa

denote Parlor Car at­

tached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) de note Bnffet Cars attached. Trains marked tnus(») run datly. All other trains ran dally Sundays exceoted.

VANDALIA LINE.

T. A I. DIVISION. IJE AVX FOH THX WBBT.

No. SWestern Express (8AV) 1.42 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train* 10.18 a. m. No. 1

Fast Line (P4V) !i 15 p. in. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.04 p.m. LXATK FOR TH* XAJ9T. No. 12 Cincinnati Express *(S) 1.80 a. No. 6 Now York Express (SAV) 1.51 a. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a. No. 20 Atlantic Express »(P4V) 12.« p. No. S Fast Line* 2.00 p. in

ABHTVB ntox

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No. 9 Western Express (3kV) 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 6.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. m.

ABRMT FROM THE WOT.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express*(Sl No. 0 New York Expres#*(8fcV) No. 20 Atlantic Exiiress»(PAV)

1.20 a. m. 1.42 a. m.

Exiress»(PAV) 12.8 p. tn.

No. 8 Fast Line* 1.40 p. m.

T. EL fc L. DIVISION.

LXATK FOB THX SOBTH.

No. Gil South Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. South Bend Express 100 p. in. ABBTVX nam HOBTH. No. 51 Terrt- Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.90 p. m.

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