Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 March 1889 — Page 2

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There is a good deal of financial gloom in Eogland as well as in France owing to the disaster to the copper trust which received no encouragement in a protective tariff.

A few days ago the Gazette ridiculed Mr. John R. Griffiths, the new reporter of the supreme court, because he mad« the argument that the law which was intended to deprive him of his fees was unconstitutional. The supreme court has agreed with him and the Gazette shows its tendency toward last ditch bourbonism by referring to the members of the court after the manner of the Sentinel which once "damned their cowardly souls." The Democratic member of the court joined in the opinion which was ulso supported by an opinion by Justice Fields, of the United States supreme court, a Democrat who is universally recognized as the ablest jurist in his party. Vet, we suppose our contempor ary does not doubt tbat it WH3 fully justified in its sneer at Mr. Griffiths ability as a constitutional lawyer.

THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND IN CHARGE. The action of Secretary Noble in case of General B. M. Frentiss is rea suring to those who believe the general government should hasten to recognize in every suitable manner, the men wh fought to make the government what it is to-diiy. General Prentiss was the hero of the "Hornet's Nest" at Shiloh, and a braver man never went into battle. He has not been paraded as a "physical wreck" or "the hero of two wars" for political purposes, but has been living in quiet at his home in Missouri. At this point in his life he found himself in need of an income, and modestly made appl cation for the postmsstership at hi home, the salary of which is SiGOO a year

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When General Nable learned the request he dropped all gen eral matters pressing on him -his. liratr.days at tha hjaftd _of$ hours handed the veteran a commission as an employe of the Indian bureau $2,000 a year. The act was performed quietly. There was no clap trap about it. We say that it is especially reassuring to the old soldiers because General

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Noble is the chief of a department of which the pension bureau is a part.

THE PAY OF SENATORS AND MEMBERS. The report of a discussion in the senate regarding the pay of United States senators is, no doubt, sent to the country for the purpose of drawing out an expression of public opinion on the proposition to increase the salary from 85,000 to $10,000 a year.

No one will hold thatsenators could not earn $10,COO a year, nor will any one deny that many of them do render service of that value. That the senatorial laborer is worthy of hire is undoubtedly true, but the question of policy involved is as to whether the encouragement of an aristocratic style of life in Washington iB advisable. While it is true that the duties devolving on a senator or repre eeutative in congress are more onerous than heretofore, the chief argument in support of the greater salary is that a senator cannot live in Washington in a 'style befitting his position on !?•",OCO a year. All things go by comparison and this shortcoming 6imply calls attention to the growth of elegance in Washington life. Durirg the past four years especially the spirit of extravnganca in oflicial society has been most marked. Costly social entertainments have been the noteworthy incideuts of an administration ushered in with the promise of JefTersonian simplicity. The salaiy of s?10,00'J a year in a few years would be as inadequate as is the $3,000 now if the rivalry in "high life" were continued. Perhaps the true relief for our public men is to show that true worth is not measured by extravagance in social life. The parvenues may continue in their display of wealth but the people are quick to discern which of their representatives are more nearly tilliug their real representative capacity.

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1 lie Way Luna Are Made.

l.obh\ ,s: DUI you get j-our b'1! through prohibiting the i'e otclE ire pleu'-es. BllMngs? Legislator Billings •-Easily. Wadberry trial to cet In a spc 'igainst It but a good m:my ol the boys hail passes to t'.is "BlRek Crook" matin? *, so the bill was uislit 1 through In time for theiu to attend the show.

C'otilllrtlnc Opinions.

Mlscs 1 tell you the new cat -her our club's got Is a daisy. He's a wo.-ld-beater and no rots'iike. WifKs 1 don't s~e how he can be a world-beater. He don't k'lcnv enough 'o pound sand.

I'leHMires of Anticipation.

Miss Dlsoentre This l.enten observance seemi so rl o'culous to nie. Miss lllcherch—You ought to tt.r It once. Tou have no idea how delighttrl a little frivolity can made by foi iy day's abstinence.

Sponges go with Slates.

A sponge can always be found hanging near the slate behind the bar. And several "sponges" can usually be found haDging around the bar.

The police system of Russia, intolerable as it is, is not a whit more dangerous to the liberties of the people than the French system under the last Napoleon was, says a writer in the New York Sun. In the last years of his reign he brought the spy corps to perfection. Outside of the criminal police, the emperor had thousands of political spies in his pay. No work was too degrading for these men. They had the contempt of the regular police and' the hatred of all honest men, but Napoleon increased their number and encouraged them in their high-handed measures. He feared investigation, revolution, assasination he believed,"or pretended to believe, that he lived over a slumbering volcano. French sentiment was drifting toward liberty, and he aimed to kill it. The Russian masses are fifty years behind the French.

When the time comes they will do just as the French did, and the czar and his spies and police will be helpless. Napoleon smothered liberty by threats, insults, imprisonment, confiscation, and other bulldozing methods, but when the alarm came he was helpless. In one single hour his power and greatness fled away, his numberless spies turned traitor or hid themselves, and the people threw off the yoke forever.

In the early days of the war I was selected by our government to perform a certain mission in France. I had travelled all over that country,- could speak French like a native, and President Lincoln honored me enough to believe in my wisdom and discretion. This mission was connected with the attitude of France toward this republic. If Napoleon was not hostile to the United States, and had not plans to further his boundless ambition, he was_ at least causing great axiety in Washington by his hesitency and half-heartedness.

When I landed in Havre I was tjur rounded with all the safeguards one could ask for. I had my certificate of American citizenship, a passport, a letter to the American minister, and my movements were to be controlled from his headquarters. My departure from Washington was known to less than half a dozen officials. We had no ocean telegraph in those days. There were Frenchmen among my fellow passengers but I had been very discreet. 1 may have been over cautious. It may have been for this veiy reason that was "spotted" as soon as walked down the gang plank, for spotted I was. I had been engaged in detective and secret service work long enough to pick up a good many pointers I had shadowed men. and I knew how to detect a shadow on my own trail. As I walked from the plank to a hack I felt that I was an object of solicitude to some one in the crowd. I could not pick him out, but I knew he was there.

I did not propose going to Paris for several days. 1 drove to a hotel, regis tered plainly and correctly, and went to my room. Almost immediately I descended again, to find a spy and the clerk with their heads together over the book, and I heard my name men tioned. The spy was'a slim, spare mac of 30, well-dressed, black hair and eyes, and carried a cane. I knew from his nected with the regular police, and if so he must be a political spy. I returned to my room without being seen, and half an hour later had a call from the mar. "I beg a thousand pardons, monsieur, but you just arrived by steamer?" he usked. "I did." "I had friends, relatives, two sisters, who were to sail by her from New York. They have not arrived. I am veiy anxious. Perhaps you met them?" "What is the name?" "Dubois, monsieur." "Ah, yes. Well, I have sad news for you. They were swept overboard and drowned on the third dry out."

He threw up his hands, uttered a sort of shriek, and fled down the corridor. He had simply come to make sure that I was an American, and to get a closer look at me. His "sisters" were myths, and I gave him the guy because I new that such was the case. We landed before noon. After dinner I took a walk about, and I hadn't gone four squares before I tumbled to the fact that I was shadowed. My spy had changed his hat and coat and donned a red wig, but 1 knew him by his build and gait. Men can disguise their faces and bodies, and draw on gloves to hide scars on the hands, but no man living can long disguise his gait. He may limp, toe out, toe in, or make any other change, but he will unconsciously relapse into his old gait after a few minutes. I gave the fellow no attentior, and after a little he grew bold enough to almost walk beside me. I was out for a couple of hours, and he shadowed me back to the hotel. That evening I went to the theater, and he had a seat not far away.

After breakfast next morning I received a visit from the spy's superior. If I remember right, he said he was chief of some division acting under orders from Paris. He politely asked for my passport, and I not only gave him that, but some letters which seemed to open his eyes very wide. "Oh, yes—certainly—excuse excuse!" he hastened to say. "Monsieur is a prominent American, of course. I am very sorry, and hope you have not been inconvenienced."

He went away seemingly satisfied, but when I went out for a drive the spy took up my trail again. When I rent out after dinner it wbt on foot, and the man had now become very bold. He must have argued that I could not remember his voice nor penetrate his disguise, for, as I sauntered down toward the quays, he overtook me and said, in French: "Well, Julius, what brings you here?" "I think you have made a mistake," I replied, in English. "Ah! so I have a thousand pardons!" he exclaimed, bs he lifted his hat and bowed. "You closely resemble a valued friend of mine, and I whs so sure of his identity, you know. You are English, monsieur, one from England?" "Well?" "I like the English. My mother was an English woman. Are you seeing the sights?" "Yes, ti ying to." "They are not grand, monsieur, but it is a pleasant place. Hps monsieur been long from London?" "Only a few days." "Ah! And monsieur can only speak English? It is too bad." "Yes, so it is."

I understood that his object was to find out something about me, and that it did him lots of good to have me tacitly admit that I wps an Englishman when he knew better. I could speak French, and he kaew it, but he encouraged me to deny it. In this way he could make me out a suspicious character. He wpt with me for two hours, and we seemed

to part with regret. That evening as walked out he followed me in a new disHq lost sight of on© only bs 1 slept until I took the train for Pans. At Rouen we had a delay of half an hour owing accident, and a second spy took me in charge. He was got up as a shopkeeper on his way to Paris on business, and he addressed me in French, and I answered him promptly enough. I felt

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of his identity, and as we rod® together he exhibited the despicable side of character for which the political spies were notorious. He had discovered that I was an American traveling for pleasure. "Ah! how glorious to live in a republic where the masses reign!" he exclaimed. '•The Americans are right to detest monarchy. Monarchy is corruption and oppression." "Your people don't seem to thmk so. "But they do, monsieur." "Then why don't they make a republic here?"

He was delighted at my expression, That was "information" for which he would get credit with his chief. He entered Paris with me, drove to the same hotel, and as soon as I had gone to my room, he disappeared. Two hours later a very genteel-looking man paid me a visit and introduced himself as an official of the bureau of publie safety. I was a foreigner. It was his duty to inspect my papers. "Monsieur is English, I believe, and from London?" he queried. "No. I am an American, from New York." "So! Does monsieur travel for pleasure?" "Oh, no. I am in France to buy chestnuts for the American army." "Chestnuts for soldiers?" he queried. "That is strange. Monsieur speaks French?" "Sorry to say that my Frensh is a fail ure." "Ah, so! 1 will look at the papers.

They were papers, as I have said, that no official would dare question, and, af ter looking them over, fie bowed very low, and inquired: "Will monsieur remain long in France?" "That will depend on the state of the chestnut market," I replied.

During the day I called upon the secretary of legation for consultation, and when I told him of the spies, he said that every American in the country was under surveillance tcfa greater or less degree. The war in the United States was exciting the French people and making them restless, and the political police had been doubled in number, involution was breeding, and Napoleon was determined to apply the knife with vigorous hand. Suspects were arrested and imprisoned in the most arbitrary manner, and no one felt that he could trust any one outside his own family.

I was to go from Paris to Reims Spies had followed me everywhere in Paris, and I planned to get out of the city without being shadowed. The clerk at the hotel office hoped I would give him a day's notice of my intended departure. He wanted to inform the spies, but I determined to beat him. ate my dinner as usual, went out for a stroll, and when I returned I rushed for a valise, already prepared, demanded my bill on the instant, and was out of the house in ten minutes, pleading case of life or death. I went on foot for three squares, engaged a cab to take me to the station from which I could depart for Versailles, and as soon as he had put me down and departed I walked away and engaged another vehicle to convey me to the right depot. We ar

and got away with the rush. As came to know subsequently, there was a great row raised over my departure. Spies were sent out by the dozen, telegrams despatched by the score, and I arrived at Raima to find crowd of no less thon six officials waiting to arrest me. It was not exactly an arrest either. As I left the tra'.n an official touched me on the arm and re spectfully said: "Monsieur the American will oblige me?" "If possible," I replied, knowing well what was coming. "Then monsieur will accompany me in my carriage to make a call at head quarters."

Two carriages followed ours, and after a drive of a mile we drew up at the headquarters of the bureau of public 88fetv is Rsims. It was S misnomer, shouid have been called the bureau of public peril, for the arbitraiy measures of this department were makirg fresh enemies evei/ hour in the day. The chief was a veiy pompous and dignified man. He received me politely, but coldly, and the first questjpn asked was: "Is monsieur guilty of some crime that he leaves Taris so secretly?" "I left when I got ready, and after my own fashion. Here are my papers. Examine them and satisfy yourself."

He looked them over. No official in France dared dispute them or put me under arrest after seeing them. "But why did monsieur claim to be an Englishman?" ne asked "I never did." "So! But you speak French, and yet you denied it." "I never.denied it." "But you say you want chestnuts for American soldiers. What do they do with them?" "Make soup, of course." "Oh! That is different. It must be good soup. Monsieur asked why the French did not make a republic!" "That was to please one of your political spies." "Spies! Have we spies?" "Thousands, sir. They are at every station, in every hotel and cafe, on the steamboats, in the omnibus, in the theater and church. They have dogged me ever since I landed. Napoleon is afraid I have come to usurp the throne. You had better search my hind pockets and see if I have my usurper with me."^

They looked puzzled, and, after a consultation, 1 was bowed out of head quarters and sent in a carriage to the hotel. Twice afterward, at Amiens and Lille, I was brought up in the same way and sent off after examination and during my three months' stay in the country there was never a day that I was not under surveillance and suspicion.

California Rose*.

From a jingle rose field in Almeda county 30.C00 rose bushes hare been shipped. Of the whole number 10,CCD were shipped to Seattle. That town ought to be rose embowered a few months hence. Thousands of roses have been shipped from smaller gardens and other thousands have been sold for planting nearer home. For while the amateur gardeners sell nothing, rosegardening has become a profitable business. Rises may be seen in bloom in the open gardens in this midwinter season. But those offered in the market* and displayed in the windows of the florists at this season do not grow in the open air. It is not so much frosty weather that keeps them back as the long rain-storms, which arrest the unfolding of the buds and bring about rapid decay.—[San Francisco Examiner.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1889.

THE MAN AND THE OFFICE.

Colonel Clark Carr, is a candidate for cor.Bul at Liverpool or Paris. General Gross, of Newcastle, Ind., is an applicant for the position of second assistant postmaster general.

General W. H. Gibson, one of the candidates for pension commissioner, is dangerously ill at his home in Tipton, Ohio.

Mr. George Bain papers for the Glasgow consulship were laid before President Harrison. A more formidable presentation of any candidate for anything has not be9n made since President Harrison took his seat.

The Peoria (111.) slate has been arranged. Mr. Julius Starr, a well-known lawyer of that city, is to receive the appointment of internal revenue collector. Sandy Stone, of the Transcript, is te be postmaster.

Among the Indiana office-seekers who have recently arrived in Washington, are Captain Craig Miller, who wants to be postmaster at Lafayette, and M. S. Ragsdale, of Worthington, who is a candidate for Commissioner of Indian affairs.

It is reported that the president told the Illinois people on Saturday that he had made up his mind to give the pension commissionership to Corporal Tanner, of Brooklyn, whose chief influence, however, has been Lew Wallace.

It is understood that C. F. Meek, general traffic manager of the Denver, Texas fc Fort Worth railway has been tendered the position of general superintendent of the railway, mail service. He is an Iowa man and a personal friend of First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson.

President Harrison will have the ap pointment of several justices of the supreme court. No one will be surprised if at the end of the present term Justice Bradley retires. He is 75 years old and has waited fou' years in order that a Republican president might ame his successor. Justice Miller is 71, but he is vigorous that no one looks for his retirement till towards the end of the administration. Justice Field, who is also 71, is not so Vigorous, but he thinks he has strength enough to last him for four years. Then if a Democratic administration does not come into power he will reluctantly let go. The Democrats think Field should have retired a year ago, so that a Democratic successor could have been appointed, but he never had any such notion. Justice Matthews' office may become vacant by death or resignation.

A New York dispatch says: A wellknown banker of this city, a friend of Senator Sherman and of Senator Evarts, who returned from Washington yesterday, said last evening that the president would nominate Senator Evarts for the English mission, immediately after the assembling of the United States senate next Monday. This gentleman says that he knows from the very highest source that this fact that the president has already offered the place to Senator Evarts and that Senator Evarts has accepted it. A reporter of the Times cautiously revealed this to a leading friend of ex Senator Piatt and a few leading friends of Mr. Warner Miller lait evening. They did not seem surprised, and each made a characteristic remark. "This is a Piatt legislature," said Mr Plati'a friend. "I suppose Piatt thinks that he will get Evarts' place," said the Miller man, "but he wonV

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"No but look out for Chauncey M. Depew." Major General B. M. Prenties, of Bethany, who has just been made inspector of a land office in the West by Secretary Noble, has be 3n in Washington Eince inauguration. When Colonel Clarke E. Carr, of Illinois, was talked of for assistant postmaster general, General Prentiss went to him and spoke for the postoffice ut his home in Bethany, Mo., Colonel Carr stated that he would gladly give him the position, if it were in his power, but as it was not he advised him to go to Secretaiy Noble, who would probably do something for him. General Prentiss accordingly went to Secre tary Noble and laid his state of poverty and request for the postoffice before him. The secretaiy stopped the general in the midst of his tale of woe, and said: "Don't say anything more about your wants your stoiy only makes you weary and makes me sad."

The secretaiy then continued: "I know who you are, general, and if I am obliged to turn evei official out of my department and the department itself inside out, will make room for you somewhere. I will see that you have a position and that your commission is signed within twenty-four hours. The United State 3 can not well afford to ignore men of your calibre."

The next morning, which was yesterday, found Secretary Noble true to his promise, and a commission was signed for the "Hero of Shiloh." General Prentiss left to-day for the West, where he at once takes control of a land inspector's office at a salary of S'2,CCD per y6ar. The post-office at Bethany, Ma., the position he asked for, pays SCO.

Ex-Marshal Hawkins Pleads the Baby Act. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfokdsville, Ind., March 16.— Judge Snyder has given his decision in the petition of Ed Hawkins, United States marshal, praying that he be released from having to pay $200 on a judgment of $40) against Chas. Osbtfrne for the false arrest of Chas. Haas, at Wayntown, on election day. The judge held that Hawkins was not liable, and Osborne will have to pay $103. The plea made by Judge Claypool in the case was that the law only authorized the appointment of United States deputy marshals in cities of twenty thousand population or over. Hence Hawkins could not be held responsible for the acts of any deputy in any town having less than twenty thousand people.

Interesting to Dndelets.

The dude contingent have discarded the bang, to some extent, and a new way of brushing the hair has appeared among them. The hair is cropped close all around the sides and back of the head. On top it is left long, and it is also long in front. If brushed down on the forehead it would make a respectable bang. The hair is parted in the middle and plastered down. The long hair is also brushed from the forehead to the right and left and, being longer than the rest on the top of the head, causes an odd appearance. When the gilded youth finishes fixing bis hair it looks as if it had been parted with a wet towel. A diagram might explain this more clearly, but space is limited.—| Baltimore American.

A Conscientious Crank.

One of the most conscientious of dietarians and vegetarians was Joseph Garretson, of Cincinnati, who died recently at the age of 31. He had ab-

stained for sixty-two years from tea or coffee, for fifty years from meat, and for twenty-six years from salt. All kinds of grease, he claimed, were injurious to the luman system, fried meat being his bete noire. In his later years, his ussiness extended to cooking himself all the food he ate, and whenever he traveled he took along with him his peculiar preparations. Water was his principal drink, although he sometimes dissipated with a lemonade.—[America.

EXPENDITURES UNDER CLEVSLAJiD/

Enormous Amounts Required to Bun the Government. The cost of running the government of the United States is something enormous, says the New York Sun.

During the first session of the Fiftieth congress nearly 8307,000,000 was appropriated, the largest amount in twenty years, and for that year the permanent appropriations aggregated nearly $11G,000,0C0, making the total expenditures of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30,1889, nearly $423,000,000.

During the second session of the Fiftieth congress—that which has just ended—almost two hundred and eightytwo million dollars was appropriated, thus making a total of nearly five hundred and eighty-nine million dollars (exclusive of permanet appropriations) which one congress has taken from the treasury in two years.

The following table shows the appropriations made by the Fiftieth congress at its two sessions: 18S9. 1890. Agriculture -$ 1,716,010 $ 1.669,770 Anny 24471,810 24,300,115 Diplomatic 1.423,465 1,980.025 District ot Columbia.... 5,046,410 5,687,436 Fortifications 3.972,0"0 1.265,5M Indians 8,263,700 8.035.724 Legislative 20.7E8.178 2J,840.535 Hllltary academy 315.043 902.766 Navy...' 19.912,835 21,692.510 81.758,700 81.855.20J

Pensions. Postoffice Rivers and harbors... Sundry civil Miscellaneous

G0,860.«3 66,603,341 22,397.616 26,320,804 25,277,341 111,170.862 5.500.500

Deficiency 19,563,383 16,423,360

Totals $ 306 985,514 $281 878,695 In some instances the appropriations for 1890 were larger than for 1889, but no river and harbor bill was passed at the last session. There was a decrease of $3,000,COO in the deficiency bills and of nearly that amount in the fortifications bill, and the total appropriations for 1890 are about twenty-five millions leFS than for the year ending June 30, 1889.

Appropriations are made in advance. The first bills of this character signed by President Cleveland were for the fiscal year 1887. The aggregate of the regular appropriation bills which he approved, compared with those signed by Presidents Garfield and Arthur, were as follows:

CLKVKLANI). I «ARFIF.Ll-AKTHC*. 1887 $ 363.914.613 1883 $297,314,388

188 8 248.7?0,511 188 9 3r0.9K5.544 1690 281,878,695

1881 231,993.647 1S35 195.710,r88 1886 219,595,?S3

Total $1101.519,363 Total $941,613,903 So in the four years of his term President Cleveland signed bills taking over one billion one hundred million dollars out of the treasury, an amount $15G,S95,457 greater than the appropriations approved by the ad mi cist ration which preceded him.

For the year 1890 the permanent appropriations will aggregate 8108,091,055, being for interest on the public debt, sinking fund, customs collections, drawbacks, repayment of importers, eto., thus making tne aigregate disbursements for

for 1889.

WHAT COULD A GKNTLEMAN DO?

Tlie Southern Code of Honor Among Gan tlernen, .Sail. Eugene Field tells this old stoi/ in refreshingly new way: "You have no idea, sah, what a de mawlized condition we all were in, after the wah! Fuhst thing they did, sah, was to send a Yankee down hyah to be poas'master. One mohning Colonel Starbottle, perfect gentleman, sah—membah of one of our fuhst fam'lies—Colonel Starbottle went into the poas'office and handed in three letters at the window, saying: Mr. Poas'master, sah, I'll trouble you to put three stamps on those letters and charge the same to Colonel Starbottle.' Now what do you reckon that Yankee poas'master did? He says, 'Colonel Starbottle, sah, we don't do business that way, sah,' and he pushed the letters back—back, sah, under Colonel Starbottle's nose! What did Colonel Starbottle do? What could he do? Why, sah, he drew his pistol, like a gentleman, and shot that Yankee poas'master--shot him dead. Now,to show you how demawlized our institytutions were: Do you know, sah, that on account of that personal affair we all had the -—est time to keep Colonel Starbottle from becoming involved in litigation?"

No Sunday Parades in the Army. Secretary Proctor is an advocate of a Sunday rest law, as will soon be demonstrated by the appearance of an order from the war department abolishing the Sunday dress parade at all the posts throughout the army. This subject has been agitated in the annual reports of officers for years, but none of Mr. Proctor's predecessors has seen fit to direct the change. General Sheridan waB opposed to its abolition, which probably occounts for nothing being done in late years. The present commanding general, however, believes that only absolutely necessary work should be done in the army Sundays, and has strongly indorsed a recent report of the inspector general of the army recommending the abolition of the dress parade and other unnecessary work Sundays. These papers are now before Secretary Proctor, and, although he has not yet acted, he heartily approves of the proposition.

Get There First.

President Harrison's new rule for catch-as catch-can handshaking, "get the first hold and not let the other fellow get the grip on you," displays the same sort of wisdom as is found in the famous couplet, an emanation from two minds: "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. And four times he that gets his blow la last." —New York Sun.

Forethought.

Mrs. Lyon-IIunter—How was it you didn't invite the baron to your house before he went away?

Mrs. Frank—Because I was afraid my husband might be rude with him. You know he hates to have strangers ask him for money.—[Life.

Vienna's Odd Ilaslnea*.

There are in Vienna six companies which make a business of hiring out steam boilers to small manufacturers.

A Queer Fact.

In proportion to the population there are morn Massachusetts people in the state of Iowa than in Massachusetts.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

REACTION.

Though young Jones was well and hearty tie would ne'er attend a party. For he said that social pleasure made him weary, weak and tore Not a whit cared be for dancing, or a maiden all entrancing.

What to others proved a treasure simply was to him a bore.

He found Uttle consolation In the art of conversation And all nature's wondrous beauty from his careless eyes was hid Music, painting could not please him, and high art would only tease him.

So, as If from sense of duty, he became an Invalid. But I found one great attraction that would rouse him tnto action (He'd declare he was not sickly, such new strength upon him came). When with every Indication that he'd reach his destination.

He would walk a mile so Quickly, Just to Join a poker game. —[Drake's Magazine. There is a noticeable increase of hoa tility to foreigners throughout China.

A Japanese paper complains that there are too few qualified physicians and dent ists in that country.

A man tried to raise money in A mer ious, Ga., the other day by mortgaging a 23-year old mule.

A Florida vegetable grower has contracted to deliver three ton» of watermelon seeds to Northern seed houses next autumn.

A man who has been baching in an old cabin near Blaine, W. T., climbed up into the garret one day and found there a skeleton.

A strange dog got into the yard of an Athens, Ga., man, and would not let him enter. He was obliged to seek the sistance of the police.

The Lake View cemetery association, of Cleveland, is unable to meet the interest on its £390,000 stock. Garfield's grave and monument are in the cein etery.

Two young ladies of Pike county, Georgia, have rented a farm, off which they are supporting themselves and an invalid mother, besides laying up money.

An 18-year-old girl was arrested in San Francisco the other day who testified tbat for the past year she had been consuming over §2 worth of morphine daily.

Two ruffians of Boaie, Nev., entered the room of a man against whom they had a grudge, tied him to a bed-post, filled his eyes with red pepper and left him to suffer.

A San Francisco photographer, who testified in court that his wife didn't know where he was, was given four days in the house of correction to give her an opportunity to find him.

The following avertisement lately appeared in a Paris newspaper: "A lady having a pet dog whose hair is of a rich mahogany color, desires to engage a foot man with whiskers to match." "Uncle Chas," the mail carrier between Barnesville and Zebulon, Ga., has been making regular daily trips for a little more than eight years. It is estimated that his trips aggregate 65,CC0 miles.

Since the last postmaster general al lowed two of hi clerks to get married and retain their positions in the office, the number of married couples in the departments at Washington is increasing rapidly.

Besides the loss of prestige, the pe cuniaiy losses of the London Times by the collapse of its charges against Mr. Parnell have been very large, and the proprietors anticipate libel damages of •:1 .non.rr

A Dalton Ga family owns a clock which is thirty years old if a day. It went through the war, lost one of its hands by a spent minnie ball, but will keep accurate time, and has never been repaired but once or twice.

A man has died at Cherry Tree, Pa. who was 9:5 years old. His death will be mourned by twelve sons, 160 grand children, thirty-three great-grandchil-dren and eight great great-grandchil-dren.

The Madrid physician who made the post-mortem examination of the body of Piggott declares that he never saw such a well formed skull and brain, the latter indicating a man of superior force of character and imagination.

The kangaroo is said to have got its name in this way: Captain Cook first discovered the animal in Australia. When he inquired its name of a native the latter replied, "Kan-ga-roo," which in the Australian language is "I don't know."

A Washington tradesman charged a Philadelphian, who went to see the inauguration, 25 cents for four crackers and two red herrings. ThiB is reckoned to be about on a par with the old cost of 10 cents for a "California hot lunch," one cracker and pepper sauce.

At a recent evening reception to the Quarante club in New Orleans all the ladies present appeared in costumes representing the classic heroines of ancient Greece. The part of Iphigenia was assumed by Miss Winnie Davis, the "Daughter of the Confederacy."

The Rev. Norman La Marsh, an eloquent preacher in charge of the Methodist Church atSearsport, Me., is totally blind. A touching feature of the services at this church is the sweet Binging of the pastor as he folds his hands and turns his sightless eyes toward heaven.

Complaint is heard in New York of women who talk audibly during the drawing-room readings. Lately a reader stopped, smiled pleasantly, and said she would wait until the ladies finished their conversation. Chatter is heard at church, at the opera and at the theatre.

A fashionable young woman in New York has undergone a remarkable surgical operation, long and painful, by which her tip-tilted nose became an organ of pure Grecian design. The cruel charge is made that the new nose does not suit the general conformation of her face.

Dr. Rawlins, of Sandersville, Ga., was called to visit an aged colored man. An eld woman, who was waiting upon the man, proved to be his mother. When the doctor asked the woman, who was eighty-five, how she was feeling, she replied: "I'm purty well, but, my mother is getting rather feeble now."

Two gentlemen, not of erona, but of Greensboro, Ga., have been baiting a fish hole in a creek near there. At a recent visit to the hole the bobbing noses were so thick that one of the gentlemen could not contain himself, and struck a terrific blow at the water with his walking stick. He killed and took home four large fish.

A doctor at Corvallis, Ore., so the story goes, put a thermometor into the mouth of a small boy to te6t the temperature of his patient, who was ill with brain fever. The boy bit off a section of the instrument and swallowed glass, tfiercury and metal. In a few hours the boy began to rally, and at last accounts was on the fair road to recovery.

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Gallery Wc Family Circle 2(e Kntlre Klrst Floor Box Seats 50c

No extra charge for reserving seats at Button's Book Store.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) de note Bnffet Carg attached. Trains marked thug ran dally, ill other train* run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDAtIA LINE.

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No. 9We«tern Express (S&V) 1.42 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train* 10.18 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line* (P4V) it 16 p. in. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.04 p. m.

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No. 9 Western Express (S&V) 1.30 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train 10.12 a. in. No-1 Fast Line (P&V) 2.110 p.m. No. SMall and Accommodation 0.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. in.

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