Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 March 1889 — Page 2

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The appointment yesterday of the division superintendents of the railway mail service who were removed by Cleveland to make room for party workers is one of the best of many good things done by this administration. The railway mail service had nearly reached perfection under these men. They can restore it to its old time efficiency more expeditiously.than new men, and that is a result in which the whole country^ now much interested.

The interior department has manifested a purpose to bring to the settlers on the Des Moines river lands what relief there may be in the law for them. They are at present the victims of a company of speculators from whose grasp congress tried to release them, when Mr. Cleveland vetoed the measure, as he did every other one inimical to corporations. And naturally enough when he stepped out of the presidency he stepped into the office of a law firm whose clients are exclusively of such corporations as this Des Moines company

There was a fox drive east of the city yesterday, at which no foxes were caught. Our contemporary, the Gazette, devotes nearly a column to what may have been intended as a "funny" account of the hunt, but which really was an aimless run of words. The funniest thing about the account, however, is that the writer forgot to make a sneering remark about "Deacon Harrison" in brackets at the end of the alleged report of a local event. It is barely possible that the fresh atmosphere of the country relieved his head of some of that mania, which hag deeply disgusted the party friends of the esteemed contemporary, and made glad the friends of Presi dent Harrison, who realize that not even just criticism from that quarter can now have any effect in this community.

NATURAL GAS AND MANUFACTORIES.

It is comforting to those who have cheap coal and no natural gas to be told tl TJ :iv however to allow our wishes to control our beliefs. No one knows or can tell how long gas will last, or how far the yield of new wells will compensate for the falling off in the old wells. There are many men and millions of money today guaranteeing the permanency of the gas supply. g&s continues to flow or ceases one great benefit has accrued to the gas regions and may be made permanent. That is population, capital and trade have gone their way. Quiet or obscure towns have been stirred up to enterprise and energy and no one need count on manufacturers and business men leaving a town because the gas supply has failed. Now, that they are identified with that town, they will pitch in to keep it up. Speculators will be quick to find new fields. Bayers of real estate will lose some of the fancy price paid for land, but the real business of the town can be kept up. Of course when gas is done for the manufacturer may find his fuel costing him more than it would somewhere else, or his railroad facilities less, but unless his business is very large the difference will not justify the cost of moving and he will stay where he is. Therefore it will not do to allow any enterprise to drift from us to a gas towu with the hope that after a while it will come to us.. It will not do to expect the believer in natural gas to accept our unbelief. If he thinks free gas and land in a gas town is worth money, we cannot make him think land at a thousand an acre and coal at 50 cents to $3.35 a ton are as cheap.

If we want factories, etc., the time to get them is before they are located elsewhere, and we must not be too confident that we can make everybody believe that natural advantages without money are as enticing as other natural advantages with money.

C. O. D.

A Heroic Deed.

Skrlbler- Have you read my new novel, "A Story Without a llero?" Carper Y'es. 1 think It Is misnamed, however Any man who reads It clear through proves himself a hero.

At Midnight's Holy Hour,

Mrs. Wlbble's Mother—Does that man stay out tills late every night Mrs. Wlbble—No. Indeed. 1 can't imagine what keeps him. 1 told him you would be here anil asked him to come home early.

She Knew 'Kin.

Angelina Wlil you always love me as much as you do now Kdwln—Always, my darling—Why. what are you. crying for?

Angelina—Either you are not telling the truth, or you never Intend to marry me.

Alout the Same Thing.

Kditor—I am sorry to say that I find your witticisms are not acceptable, Mr. Jinx. Jinx (sarcastically) -Too refined, perhaps?

Kditor—No—110, refined Is not exagtly the word. Say t»o diluted, and you will come nearer the Idea.

Mrs. SIoKee a Student.

Mrs. McKee is a close student of German literature.

CONDEMNED BY THE DEAD.

A Woman's Faithlessness Betrayed By Her Second Sight.

Certainly she was very pretty—pretty in spite of her travel stained garments, her extreme pallor and the dark rings round her lovely eyes yet there was something eerie in her expression, something inexplicably sad, since 1 knew of nothing in the circumstances of her life that was grief inspiring or that could in any way account for the distressful, half frightened look that was perceptible for a moment, then immediately disappeared, as with outstretched hands and smiling lips she warmly greeted "George's friend."

It was the first time we had met—I, George Anstruther's friend she, his wife for though it was now nearly six years since he had married the penniless daughter of a brother officer in his own regiment of Punjab cavalry, and we had been almost inseparable before, chance had kept us apart. I was in the civil service and had only lately been promoted to deputy commissioner, which fact, I verily believe (though a cause for self congratulation, as I had been hoisted over the heads of several seniors), sank into comparative insignificance when 1 discovered that the move attendant on my change of position would bring me into the near neighborhood of my old companion,

Directly I was settled down in my new quarters I organized a shooting party and wrote to George to join us and bring his wife and little danghter, to whom I was godfather. It was a great disappointment when the cheery letter of acceptance that came by return of poet was incontinently canceled by a telegram regretting that the sudden illness of some one they knew very well would prevent their visit. The illness turned out to be typhoid, and seemed to me to drag out its slow length to most unreasonable proportions, for again and again I wrote, and each time was met with the reply that it was still impossible to leave that though the crisis was supposed to be past, their patient was still unaccountably weak and so much depended on good nureing. Perhaps I was selfish in my desire to see "old George" again, and too importunate in my entreaties, for the last rather irritable letter I dispatched had elicited a wire to the effect that they would arrive the following[day and now here they were in my large, roomy tent, George warming his hands at the stove and rattling on in his wonted happy, light-hearted style, while little Beryl, his 4-year-old daughter, danced about in childish delight at her new surround ings.

After the first responseive warmth at my welcome had faded, I was struck anew by the depression noticeable in Mrs. Anstruther's mannner, even her attitude. She had sunk into a low camp chair, and her hands, from which she had drawn her gloves, lay white and ringless on the ground at either side of her, while now and again her heavy eye lids dropped, not apparently from fatigue, more as though to shut out some painful sight and the dark lashes that momentarily swept her cheeks seemed to accentuate their palor. I could not help drawing attention to her state by offering her a glass of wine, which she hurriedly refused, directing a nervous glance at her husband as she spoke. He pleteiy knocked up, She has been indefatigable in mining and really deserves much credit for pulling him through. The doctors thought there was no hope for him at first." "He is not out of danger yet," she said, in a low and thrilling voice.

It somehow flashed into my mind how wonderfully sweet such a voice would sound in the ears of any one who loved the speaker, how precious it might become—ay, perilously so.

Undoubtedly George'Anstruther had shown good taste in his choice she was a woman whom all must find attractive, but she evidently made no attempt to charm. She had that helpless appealing way with her that men find very difficult to resist her movements were so graceful, her manner so gentle and winning while I could well imagine that in a sick room she would bejust perfect, not doing less than necessary for the patient's comfort, not more.

And, as I said, she was very pretty. Never had I seen such lovely eyes, dark and blue, the color of a violet growing in the shade and if her features did not reach the highest standard few would have-had the brutality to assert so much. Certainly not I. With all my heart I granted her graces of face and form I acknowledged every fascination she possessed and yet—

Involuntarily I sighed as I brought back my attention to what George was saying: "The very best fellow in the worldbarring you. You need not be afraid, old chap your place is not going to be usurped. But Laurence Dane is such a good sort—you'd like him yourself, I know, and I hope you'll meet him some day. He's one of those all round good fellows who play cricket, polo and racquets better than any one else, and always have a nag to win a race. Besides which he's so honest, so true, so fond of us all he's always in and out of our house and we try to make it a home to him." "I love him!" whispered my goddaughter ardently in my ear.

She had clambered on my knee, and her arms, thrown impulsively round my neck, prevented my seeing that Mrs. Anstruther had risen, and was standing close beside me. "I am very sorry to break into George's panegyrics. You may remember how absurdly ethusiastic he always is in his praises—yours have been sung to me very many times but I am really a little tired, and if you will allow me

I sprang up, and, lifting the curtain that hung over the entrance of the tent, called for her waiting woman to attend her, begging her to let me know if everything in their encampment was not exaotly as she wished.

She did look very tired, but after she had gone, and I was no longer under the influence of the strong attraction she possessed for me, I asked myself why she had so suddenly discovered what I had seen at once, and then she had practically denied. Was it the conversation that had displeased her? And did she share with many of her sex a foible of which I had often heard? Was she jealous of her husband's acquaintances? Was she jealous of me or of Dane? It was of him that George was speaking when she rose. Be that as it may, there had been undoubtedly a jarred, even vexed, tone in her soft voice and I felt half angry with my old friend for having caused it. The feeling wore away as we talked, and I recognized in him traits almost forgotten, indisputable signs of a character exceptionally high minded and noble for his carelessness never degenerated into neglect of duty, nor did his cheer­

fulness denote a lack of sympathy with the troubles of others. He was singularly unselfish and generous to a fault. Beautiful as Mrs. Anstruther was, and good as judging from her countenance she must be, no one could have wished her abetter husband than the one that by happy fortune she had secured.

Chatting of old times, the hours flew swifter than we knew and we were surprised to see how late it was yhen Mrs. Anstruther returned, attired in a loose artistic gown of crimson plush, and professing herself half famished with hun-

^The rest had evidently done her good her eyes indeed were feverishly bright, and there were two pink spots on either cheek that I thought looked suspiciously lilfft rouge, but might have been from excitement, or even a reflection of the rich color in which she was clothed.

Dinner passed off well. George was always good company, and his wife had apparently recovered from her fit of depression—and had it only been intense fatigue?—and talked charmingly, even brilliantly, of what most interested me —literature and art:

Of society I knew nothing, as perhaps she guessed for with delicate tact she always turned the conversation when her husband spoke of any one they had lately met, or alluded to the life they had been leading tlje last few years. That it had been a gay one I soon gathered, and could well believe that the lovely woman who sat at my table and trifled daintily with the food before her htid played in it no subordinate part. It was impossible she could be overlooked, impossible she should not be aware of her own marvellou^pcharms and yet once or twice I fancied I detected signs of a strange and incongruous humility. It seemed as though she were trying to conciliate—me, whojwas only too eager to be pleased her husband, who evidently worshiped her, and kept glancing my way to see if I shared his enthusiastic admiration of her wit and beauty. He must have been satisfied with what he read in my expression, for indeed I thought I had never seen any one so lovable, so sweet, at the same time BO fascinating for I think perhaps the last adjective is not always compati ble with the first two.

The gayety of her spirits had infected us, and when we adjourned to the tent I had constituted Bitting-room, a merrier trio could not have been found yet once or twice—I watched her so closely, not with any thought of surveillance. but literally beoauBe my eyes could not leave her face —I thought I -noticed a strained look in her eyes, an expectant turn of her head toward the door, which might have been explained by a oasual observa tion from George that they hoped to get a telegram that evening from the man they had left in charge of Laurence Dane. But afterward, when Beryl came to say "good night," the passionate fondness with which Mrs. Anstruther caught her and strained her to her breast, seemed an equally reasonable excuse for her restlessness for now that the child WSB in her arms she was quieter and more composed, presently dropping out of the conversation altogether.

Ten minutes had gone by when I was seized with an inexplicable sensation that something strange was happening near me. At intervals I had heard Beryl's voice conversing in an undertone with her mother, but now she was speaking out aloud and, looking round, I saw that she had slipped off Mrs. Anstruther's knee and had wandered to the door of the tent where it was in the shadow the light of the lamps, chastened by draperies of rose and white, had not reached so far. —-rtivjLv ubo BBoocr, uw mco upturned so that the loose flaxen hair fell from it like an aureole of light her eyes big with an intense surprise, an awe that she herself did not understand, but that kept the smiles from her usually laughing lips and made her voice tremble as she repeated: "I am glad you have come. Are you better now?"

Only silence in reply, and as 1 leaned forward, trying to pierce the darkness beyond, I could see no one to whom her question might have been addressed..

No one. But even as I said so to myself before my eyes there floated, or seemed to float, a subtle presence, something intangible as air, almost as formless, and from that moment I was certain that we were no longer only four in the tent, but five, and the fifth

I turned hurriedly to see the effect of this strange visitation or hallucination upon my companions, and, naturally, my gaze fell on the woman who had so interested me from the first. She was intensely still—not a breath seemed to move her bosom, not a sound fell from her parted lips, and the light from a near lamp, falling athwart her face and dividing it as with a sword of fire, must have revealed the slightest tremor. Over her mouth and finely molded chin the rich color lay like flame but her eyes were in deep shadow, though somehow I knew—guessed from her attitude as she sat rigidly upright, both hands tightly clasping the arms of her low chair—that all her soul was in them that, more anxiously than I had done a moment before, she was straining her sight to solve the mystery in that dark corner near the door.

Slowly I turned to her ffusband. Strangely enough he had not glanced in her direction he had been engaged in relighting his cigar, which, in the heat of a discussion we had had a moment— or was it a year?—ago had gone out.

But when Beryl spoke again his attention was also arrested, and all three sat staring at the child, as, moving a little further away from us, she said pathetically: "Where are you going, Mr. Dane? O, I wish you would not go!" then turned, her arms outstretched in heart breaking distress, her puckered face foreshadowing an outburst of childish grief. "Oh, mother, he is not there! He has gone!"

Still Mrs. Anstruther never moved. It was George who came forward, and, taking his daughter in his arms, strove earnestly to comfort her, and, his voice shaking a little, endeavored to explain tbe circumstances to me. "They have second sight in my wife's family, and this poor mite has inherited it, I suppose. Always when a death occurs in the family the rest is warned of it by a supernatural appearance. But why

He stopped hort. The suspicion which was only forming in his mind was, however, written clearly and concisely in mine. "Why had the spirit of Laurence Dane appeared here, unless—unless

It was a subject for broken sentences. Even I dared not follow the writing to the end.

I stood up and tried to speak of something, of anything that would banish this sense of tragedy from our midst but even as I struggled to make an ordinary remark Anstruther's servant came in with a telegram, which he handed to his master.

Hastily it was torn open, then allowed to flutter to the ground. "It is as I feared Laurence Dane is dead, Nora."

There was no reply. To Mrs. Anstruther had mercifully come a momen­

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tary respite from her anguish. She bad fallen forward from her chair, ana over her prostrate body her little child beat and wept bitterly.

There was never any scandal, no disgraceful denouement in the divorce court only after that night George Anstruther never looked on the face of his beautiful wife again.

By the dead she had been condemned and had attempted to urge nothing in her own defense. Perhaps it was a relief to escape from a husband she had ceased to love or for whom she had never oared in either case she meekly acquiesced in his decision that henceforth they must live apart. The child was left with her, so that no opprobrium ever rested on her name and poor George died too soon (he was killed out tiger shooting with me, through a daring, a moot noble effort to save a fellow sportsman) for there to have seemed anything suspicious in the circumstances of her sudden home going.

She has not married again. I often wonder whether it is from a feeling of late loyalty to her husband—the beet husband that woman ever won—or from faithlessness to the lover to whom she sacrificed her fair fame and all that should have been most dear.—[London Truth.

THAT LOST VESSEL.

Various Surmises as to Which It Was and the LOM of Life.

NEW YOKK, March 26.—A sunken steam launch and a corpse with a life buoy around it.were sighted on Sunday by the Portuguese bark Vasco Dagama, within forty mileB of the spot where the Mallory line steamer Colorado on the day before picked up the bodies of two men,on a life raft. Captain Gaellio,' of the Vasco Dagama, arrived in the Atlantic basin Brooklyn, yesterday, and says there was nothing on the launch to indicate its name or the vessel to which she was attached. The story of the ghastly find of the Colorado and the statement that some shipping men believed that the loBt ship was the Conserve, late Madrid, the Haytian gunboat that left this port for Samana last Tuesday, to engage in the civil war down there in the interest of General Hippolyte, caused some consternation in the office of Kunhardt & Co., the agents of the vessel.

The Maritime exchange people were inclined to believe that it must have been the Conserva that was wrecked when they received a telegram from Boston reporting a clew dkcovered by the steamer Gate City at that port from Savannah. Her captain stated that on Saturday at 11:30 a. m., in 3S deg, 11 min—76 deg, 30 min (this longitude must be wrong, for the point indicated would be on land), she passed a metallic life boat and one Lapstreak boat, the latter newly painted h'te. The first three letters of the name on the large boat looked like "Con." The Gate City also passed a sofa and other wreckage. A third boat further away was not examined. It was plain that all three were quite empty. There was a large quantity of wreckage about. Henry R. Kunhardt, jr., declares that there w'as no such articles as these on the Conserva. She had no metallic life boat, he is sure. Early in the day be sent for O. L. Peterson, of 120 Broad street, who painted the Conserva. This gentleman said that the name of the vessel was plainly marked on her life rafts. No name except that of the maker, Jonathan Gones, of Wilmiagton, rM -t—» "I"*** aedth raft found by the Colorado,

Second Officer Thomas, of the Mallory boat, says that the raft has not been painted for several months. The description does not Beem to apply to the Conserva's rafts, which were painted just before she left port. One fact is interesting, however, and that is that the Haytian gunboat carried such a steam launch as was seen by the Vasco Dagama. Before the Conserva left port there was a rumor that, she was to be destroyed by a dynamite bomb with clock-work attachment, to be smuggled aboard by some enemy of General Hippolyte. This gave rise to many lurid rumors yesterday, and in the eyes of many General Contrea, who_ is now in New York, appeared as a patriot. They thought that he had caused the Conserva to be blown up.

Everything that cari at this moment be said about the lost steamer must be speculation. If guesses count for anything, a very good one must be that the wrecked steamer was the Britisher Yedmandale of about three thousand tons burden, that was sighted in distress twenty four hours before the corpses were picked up, about one hundred and thirty-three miles away. The Yedmandale, Captain Shearrer, left New Orleans for Rouen, via Newport News, week before last. She left Hampton Roads on Saturday, March 16. On Tuesday, March 19, she was spoken by the Bristish brig, G. B. Lockhart, from San Domingo City, in latitude 36 deg, 35 min longitude 73 deg, 02 min. The Yedmandale had a heavy list to starboard and her decks were nearly to the water's edge. She signalled the Lockhart: "Machinery disabled sails blown away. Report me by telegraph to -Lloyds." The steamer Flamborough sighted a steamer in distress last Friday in 36 deg north, 71 deg, 50 min west, the description of which corresponds with that of the Yedmandale. Another steamer was standing by her giving assistance. If that steadier had taken the Yedmandale in tow, the course steered may have been for the Chesapeake, the nearest waters in which she could be repaired. The course from that point for the Chesapeake would be east by north, a quarter north. If the Yedmandale had gone or had been towed 133 miles she would have reached the exact spot at which the bodies were found.

A theory built from this is that the Yedmandale was taken in tow, but was lost during the storm of Friday night and subsequently wrecked, being at the mercy of the winds and sea. If that is so, where is tbe steamer that stood by her? The fittings seen afloat are such as might belong to the Yedmandale. The latter was built at South Shield?, England, in 1884.

The steamer Athohos, from Costa Rica, sighted the Yedmandale, and so did the City of Para. The City of Alexdra, from Havana, sighted on Friday afternoon the poop of a vessel just-a-wash, water combings of a

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painted white, companion-ways and a hatch. These were off Charleston and probably belonged to some sailing ship. They seemed to be too far eouth to be a part of the wreck to which the dead sailors belonged. On Sunday, between Savannah and Cape Charles, the same steamer saw what looked like an abondoned lifeboat. The British steamer Hondo, from Grey Town, on Thursday passed a quantity of wreckage, suoh as hatch combings and deck timbers, off Cary's Fort reef. They were in a position dangerous to navigation. They were too far south, apparently, to have any connection with the men on the death raft.

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A Large Clan licaMag Devices at the Haada of This Aaitoat Masonic Order

No event in Masonic circlea during the year exceeds in interest the convocation of the Scottish Rite, says the Indianapalis News. The rite grew out of the nerfection degree, which is of eighteenth century origin. In 1701 at Charleston the "Ancient Chapter Scottish Riten was promulgated for the first time in America. Since then it_ has been diffused throughout the civilized world. In the Forthern Masonic jurisdiction (which includes Indiana) there are twenty-nine consistories, forty-seven chapters, fiftyone councils and sixty-five lodges. Adoniraim grand lodge of perfection was established in Indiana for- the fi^st time in this city in 1863, Saraiah council, Prinoess of Jerusalem, in the same year Rose Croix in 1865 Indiana consistory, S. P. R. S., 1865.

The 1889 convocation opened to-day, the programme for the week being ae follows: Adoniram grand lodge of perfection, 4 deg to 14 deg inclusive, this afternoon Saraiah council Princess of Jerusalem, 15 deg to 16 deg, Wednesday, 2 p. m. annual banquet Wednesday, 5 p.m. Rose Croix, 1/ deg and118deg, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Indiana consistory, 19 deg to 33 deg inclusive, Thursday a. m. and p. m. Nearly fifty candidates are down for the degrees to-day. The work to-day is in charge of John T. Brush, 33 deg, grand master, and John W. Staub, 32 deg, master of ceremonies.

Blaine and Noble Boys Together.

Secretaries Blaine and Noble were boys together in the ancient town of Lancaster, O. Here Mr. Noble was born, and Mr. Blaine went there when quite young and lived some years in the family of Thomas Effing, once secretary of the treasury. Swing was the father of General Sherman's wife. Blaine and Noble remember each other well, and the latter says that in those days he had a great admiration for the lean, rather domineering lad who is now his superior in Harrison's cabinet. Noble playfully remarks that Blaine would never have been a famous man had he not lived in Ohio for a time.

$150 Check from Emperor William.

BALTIMORE, March 26.—Sister Benedict, superior of the new city hospital being erected at Calvert and Saratoga streets, to-day received a check for $150 forwarded by Emperor William of Germany for the benefit of the institution. It is understood that the gift^ a result of a report made by Copsi^ Heydenreich to the foreign office at Berlin at .the request of the latter to name some institution in Baltimore where a donation from the emperor of Germany would be acceptable. The money will be used to furnish a room in the new building when completed, which will be named in honor of the donor.

No Pay No Legislation.

The

Bixby

days which, by the Nebraska

constitution, is the limit of the time which the legislature shall sit, has expired, and some of the members have gone home, declaring that they would not return to finish the session, as the state was not entitled to their services without compensation. The work yet to be done will probably consume the greater part of this week.

She Wanted to Die at Home.

Mrs. R. L. Stewart, of New York, realizing that she was dying of consumption in Thomasville, Ga., Saturday, and wishing to breathe her last at home, chartered a train for 91,300, on condition that she was to be caried to New York in twenty hours, or at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The feat was accomplished.

Early Farming in Southern Indiana.

Never in the history of Southern Indiana has farming been so far advanced at this season of the year as now. As a rule, the oats are

Bown

and in many

cases up and looking well. Wheat, also, has a healthy look, with every promise of an abundant crop, and there is also a great prospect for peaches and other fruite.

The Times Real Estate Sold,

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The lot and building of the Chicago Times have been purchased by James Blodgett, of Minneapolis, the consideration being $380,000. The Times com pany turned about and immediately effeoted a lease from Mr. Blodgett of the property for a period of ten years at an annual rental of 6 per cent, or $22,800.

New York Too Lively for Literary Work.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett says that

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cannot do literary work in this

city. There is too much excitement in New York air for literary construction.

Origin of "Uncle Sam."

Speculation has recently arisen regarding the origin of the [term "Uncle Sam" as applied to the United States government.

In the war of 1812, between this country and Great Britain, Elbert Anderson, of New York, purchased in Troy, N. Y., a large amount of pork for the American army.

It was inspected by Samuel Wilson, who was popularly known as "Uncle Sam." The barrels of pork were marked "E. A., U. S.," the lettering beiDg done by a facetious employe of Mr. Wilson.

When asked by a fellow-workman the meaning of the mark (for the letters U. S, for United States, were then almost entirely new to them), said "he did not know, unless it meant Elbert Anderson and Uncle Sam," alluding to Uucle Sam Wilson.

The joke took among the workmen, and passed currently, and "Uncle Sam" himself being present, was occasionally rallied on the increasing extent of his possessions. Soon the incident appeared in print, and the joke gained favor rapidly, till it penetrated and was recognized in every part of the country, and, says John Frost, the Boston historian, will no doubt continue so while United States remains a nation.

It is now firmly embedded in the mosiac of our language, like "Tippecanoe," "Log Cabin," and other short but expressive phrases, which refer to important events in the history of the republic. Both "Tippecanoe" Jand "Log Cabin" have taken on renewed force and vitality since their adoption by H. H. Warner, of Safe Cure fame, in the naming of two of his great standard medicines, the principal one known as Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla. They are based upon formula so successfully used by our ancestors in the cure of the common ailments to which their arduous labors rendered them 4iable in the good old Log Cabin days.

The name of Warner's Safe Cure, likewise, will be held in high esteem, as familiar as a household word, Arhiie it continues to cure the worst forms of kidney disease, which. the medical profession confesses itself unable to do.

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Fixed up from hla remain* But—the Lord made 'em. It war by accident, thouah. we air thlakln'

He can't be proud of the job WUh sechtaoioea as ther nave been given Ter gossip an' aoold an* sob

But—the Lord made 'emwoman, ye know, who goaslped In Kden with Satan hlaae'f They re just plumb sore to spread all the new*

An' make It 'fore they're leT But—the Lord made 'em. T*t aafe to trust WIHUMBwith nuthln':

Telleverythin' they know Few th»7 hain't tot no sense ter reason. An' do chance their minds so lot—toe Lord made 'em. -'But—1

They set themselves up on principle, FrustraUn' of the men 'Gainst jeaUce and enny enj'yment.

Nine of 'em out tf ten But—the Lord made 'em.

They're so on reasonable, thar answer Is -'Because 'tis" to every why. Some acts one way, an' some another

We 'una can't track 'em—don't try But-the Lord made 'em.

They five thar advice as confident Ez If nuthln' hen oa yearth War half as precious, an' think it's prisin'

That we'uns shake with mirth -. But—the Lord made 'em.

Yet—talk of foolia'—why a apindlln' Snip O' a gal will fool a man That's six feet high an' two hundred poun'

About ennythln'. She can. For—the Lord made'em. —[Eugene Field In Chicago News. M/siic, Conn., boasts of a singing rat. Spring is a month early from East to West.

A .£1,000,000 bank note is kept at the Bank of England. Brazil has a prohibitory tariff on hand organs and monkeys.

It costs S7 to protest a note in Los Angeles against $1.33 in the East. Calvin's old Church, the Cathedral of St. Pierre, in Geneva, is, it is said, to be restored.

A cat 19 years old is to be seen in the family of N. D. Shaw, Area, Greene county, N. Y.

Delibes has found an opera upon a Norwegian legend. He calls it "Cassia," and it will soon be produced.

Owing to cut rates a man recently rode from Dayton, Wyoming Territory, to St. Louis, 2,000 miles, for $1.

Ahead of cabbage, grown by George Berry, near Pensacola, Fla., measured twenty-five inches in diameter.

The women in England exceed the men by 9,000,009, and yet Englishmen come to America for their wives.

The library of the British museum will not hereafter supply novels to readers until five years after publication.

Two negroes have been seized with leprosy in E'berton, Ga. One has turned white, while the other has broken out in spots.

India rubber is being tried as a substitute for asphalt in pavements in Berlin, and the result is said to be good but expensive.

It is estimated that fully 10 per cent, of the wheat crop in Lincoln county, Washington Territory, is each year destroyed by squirrels.

The regulation professional garb of the English physicians, and surgeons is the high hat—black in winter, drab or white in summer—and always a dark frock or morning coat.

There are marriages Btill at famous Gretna Green. One Willie Lang there takes the place of the ancient blacksmith, and in the public house splices a dozen or so of runaway couples every year.

Life is not worth living if onehaB chronic rheumatism and can't get Salva tion Oil. Price 25 rants.

Coney Island is fast being washed away by the sea. Those who have en joyed themselves there will regret to learn that the old resort is in danger of being totally destroyed.

Cold, piercing winds seldom fail to bring on a cough, cold or hoarseness at this season, and Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup should be kept in every house.

JACOBS OH

ONCE CURED NO RELAPSE. 0il2inal statement, 1882, *«n«w»dHoT.,1886. Kr. a.

original Statement, M.

Senewed HOT. I, 111*. Kr. Jno. H. WaU, Sl« B. «th St., S. Boston, Haas. "Ssflend acute palna S months in both knees se bad eaald not jet np stalra. Applied St. Jacobs OU at night mnch relieved In the morning. Tried it again pain anally left me entirely. 1 have had no retom of pain since. I am completely cored."

B. XyU, Tower

X1U, Appomattox Co.,Va., wrttMK "Had scat* rhtunatisa several yean grew worse ouneat physicians attended me aad spanae no relief not expected to live for koun tabbed all ever with St. Jacoba Oil flret application relieved second restored pain continued ass cared me no telapee la four years do as much

AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS EVEKTWHEBB.

THE CHARLES A. V0GELER CO., BaHimora. Md.

FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRI INSURANCE.

You can get Fire Insurance or any other kind ot Insurance of

Allen, Kelley & Co.,

8CS Wabais Avefflltr Tsrre Hants, Ind.,

TBLKPHOHK NO. 24&

This agency represents the beet fire Insurance companies now doing business, also the best

LIVE STOCK INSURANCE

company in the state. All Lossees are ADJUSTED BT OS and paid within OMB or FITS DAYS from date of same.

ASSETS, *153,000,000.00.

Very Lowest Bates and good treatment. Give us a call.

1 am Satisfied that Cancer Is hereditary In mf fain. Ily. My father died of It, a sister of my mother died of it, and my own sister died of It. My feelings may be finaginefl, then, when the horrible dineass mafle its appearance on my side. It was a malignant Cancer, eating Inwardly In such away that is conkl not

be

cnt out. Numerous remedies

were

nsed for

it, but the Cancer grew steadily worse, untlllt »eenw ed that I wasdoomed t» follow the others of the family. I took Swift's Specific, which, from the a-*' day, force# out the poison, and continued Its until I had taken several bottles, whea I toouimy-i self well, I know that S. 8. 8. cured me. I

Winston, N. C., Nov. 2ft, '88. Mas. S. JR. IDOU Seafl for Book on Cancer and Blood Dlseasw, I THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer I. Atlanta, 6a.|

ur ANION BROS. SrJ

Stoves and Mantels.

finest line of slate and marbletted iron mantles

to*»ipedSf

attention given to slate and tin rooflnt

Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century. It Is used by the United States Government. Endorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most healthful. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in cana.

PRICK BAKING POWDKB CO.

HBW TOBK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.

AMUSEMENTS. NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSCX

WILSON NATLOR, MAHAGER.

SATURDAY Eve., MARCH

30.

Return of the Favorites

JOHNSON & SLAVIN'S

MINSTRELS

1'

The Selbini Troup of Bicyclists.

Special Engagement of

Wrq. HENI^Y RICE, The Famous Burlesque Artist. Advance sale opens Thursday. Prices 75, SO 4 2S.

NAYLOR'S EXTRA.

WEDNESDAY Eve, APRIL 3d".

JiinTf MONTE CRISTOf

BR ILIANT CAST

ELABORATE NEW SCENERY. 'I

i' REALISTIC STAGE PiCTURES* Advance sale opens Monday, April 1st.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked tnos (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) de aote Bnflet Cars attached. Trains marked thus ran dally. All other trains ran dally Snndavs excepted.

VAN PALI

A LINE.

T.ttiL DIVISION. Llin TOB THB WHBT.

No. SWeetern Szpress (84V) 1.42 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train*. a 10.18 a. m. No. 1

Fast Line* (PAV) H5p-m-No. 7Fast Mall* 8.04p. m. T.iinwaiwiiit. No. MClnclnnaHBxpress S No. 6 New York Express »(»tV) No. 4 Mall and Acoommodadw No. 30 Atlantlc Kxpress *(P4V) gNo. 8 Fast

Auup'

fBOllTBIHABTa

No. 9 WesterA Express (S4V) No. 6Mall Tlfaln 100 p. m. No-1 Fast Llfce (P4V) £45 No. 8 Mall anJvAccommotlatlon o-™ No. 7 Fast Maii\*.

8,wv

TOOK THB WB8T.

No. 13Cincinnati\Kipres8*(3). Vmtm! No. 6 New Tork m.

No. 30 Atlantic S" "*V No. 8 Fast Line*. T.EiL. DIVISION.

LKAVH FOB THB HOBTH.

No. IB Sooth Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. South Bend Express 100 p.m. ABRITS FBOM BOBTB. ji No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.88 p. m.

*Der|tist©, (Successors to Bartholomew ft Hall. is 529% Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

I. H. ^OYSE, $

DR. C. O. LINCOLN,

DENTIST.

All work warranted as represented. Offlceanc rosldenoe 810 North Thirteenth street, Terrt Haute, Ind.

DRUNKENNESS

Or the Tiiqnor Habit, Positively Care#

It can be given In a cup of coffee or tea without the knowledge of tbe person taking It Is absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient Is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made temperate men who have taken Golden Specific In their coffee without their knowledge and to-da lng of their own free wl The

their knpwledge and to-da^beUevethe^uiyWnk-BD6C11 becomes an utter lmposslbllty for the liquor ap'

w,

asm

PROFESSiONALCARDS. W. B. MAIL. L, H. BARTHOLOXBW. 4

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

:i

iMortf age Loan

NO. 517 OHIO STREET.

IT NEVER FAILS,

system once Impregnated with the Specific, it

petite to exist For sale by Jas. E. Somes, druggl«*. sixth and Ohio sheets, Terre Haute, Ind.

A. J. GALLAGHER,

PLUMBER

Gas and

Steam Fitter,

424 Ckerry Street. Terre Haute

T. J. WELCH, FAMILY GROCER.

Feed, Wood and Coal.

S. E. Corner Seventh and Poplar St.

W. M. A. BAUMAN,

Painting, Grainlnr, Glazing, Calcimlnlng and Papar Hanging,

NO. 23 NORTH SIXTH STREET. (Residence, 1823 Chestnut street) Tour Patronage Respectfully Solicited.

WORK PROMPTIjV DOK1.