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DAILY EXPRESS.

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election

There was snow and an Dakota yesterday. Some one was undoubtedly.

Mayor Kolsem in retiring

left,

We may be "green' the oil business,. -H^air,B

but if the wells of this locality prove to

be "wet" ones we will never have occa-1

to learn the significance of the term sion »»w "duster" used in the oil regions as applying to a well that during the drilling was a "mystery," and in the outcome was as dry as dust. y'.

from office

lired a shot that will be heard around the city. He struck Pitzpatrick and the Gazette in one shot on the third term idea—the former by opposing it at all and the latter by saying of General Grant that there was nothing in his administration to be criticised.

You bet."

Mayor Kolsem in his farewell address said the injunction against the Main street improvement, was granted on "technical" ground. The "technical ground was that the constitution of the state of Indiana prohibits a municipal corporation from curring an indebtedness in excess 2 per cent, of its assessed valuation. The city of Terre Haute was more than $100,mo in debt in excess o^theconstitu^ """"^^Too^to further increase the debt by making contracts for the Main street improvement. And it was on such "technical" misgovernment that the people gave a vote of censure. Evidently the retiring mayor doesn't realize what hit his party a week ago.

C. O. D.

Oil Well That Ends Well.

Have you ever stopped to consider what Is the chief ond of our existence on this mundane sphere' asked the solemn old gentleman with the shining garb. "Dividend," replied the oil speculator.

Inclined to Itelieve it.

Jlmson- It was a pretty little superstition that people had once—the Idea that every manthad a guardian angel, who kept htm out of mischief, If he would only obey the promptings of the spirit.

Simson—I am a little Inclined to think that the belief might have had some foundation. When I proposed to the present Mrs. Slinson, 1 remember a feeling which I then mistook for fear held me back, so that I made three eflarts before I popped the Question.

A Study In Zoology.

Mrs. S. Kelly Tone—What do you think of my costume, dear? Miss V. Nomous—Is It to be a fancy dress ball

Mrs. S. Kelly Tone—No. Miss V. Nomous—I thought maybe It was. anil you Intended to represent a gristly bare.

Talking Sliop.

"If there Is any one class of men 1 detest more than another," remarked the editor, "It Is the teo. pie who are forever and eternally talking shop, shop, shop, and seein to Imagine that becauso some thing Is of particular Interest to themselves It must be naturally of Interest to all the world." And then he went down to Ids office and wrote a long article on the newspapers of the United States, and clipped some ten or twelve "jokes" In whlcii Hie reporter, the non-paying subscriber, and the spring poet tigured In various attitudes.

Absolute ProoT.

Mrs. Wlgg—There's one good tiling I can say of my husband lie never swears. Mrs. Klgg -Are you sure of that

Mrs. Wlgg—He never swears around home, anyhow. Mrs. Klgg—That settles It. He never swears at all.

KXCHANUE KCHOES.

New Orleans Picayune: There are selfish politicians among our own people who would precipitate the worst calamities upon the country In order to gain a paltry present advantage.

Milwaukee Sentinel: IT the agitators would devote less time to hysterical exaggerations and more time to advocating greater care in the naturalization of foreigners they might accomplish something.

Milwaukee Sentinel: Circuses may weary, minstrels may pall, newspaper paragraphs may sadden, and pigs' puzzles cease to entertain, but as long as there Is a mugwump newspaper the public Is not going to lack good l'un. The mugwump press shows there are unexplored mines of foolishness rich In nuggets of nonsense.

Indianapolis Journal: The zeal with which Democratic organs of electoral reform insist on the constitutional right of lunatU*s and Idiots to vote is truly remarkable. There Is nothing like standing up for great principles.

Peoria Transcript: Well, Palmer got there. Illinois Is not gettlug much, but the great state of Chicago Is not doing so badly. Peoria congratulates Chicago, The two cities naturally should be friends. They have a sewage connection.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Kx-Secretary Bayard has been appointed a member of the commission to trace the boundary line between the states of Delaware and Maryland. The office Isn't as big as the one he recently held: but then It is now known that he Isn't as big a man as he was supposed to be a few years ago.

Petersburg Index: Not a Hebrew in Philadelphia. It Is said, will vote for prohibition. Of course not: the Jews know too well what Interference with iersonal freedom, rights and privileges means ever to be guilty of the offense itsell. Besides, there Is not a more temperate people In the world than the Jews.

'ONE OF THE TIGERS."

[A. Gr Gordon, In St Louis Post-Dispatch.] II.

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hlThroughthe

[CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY MORNIKG.] U^RQ^ePi«nd1uloua^BTOWONaof

the Dunkard's house over which the in-

owner was one authorized to preach the

mingled

aspen-leaves

The Tiger sat near the open door of But ^Uow#d ^d he remembered wKinVi the in- I kin Timm in

and sunshine came I

shaken. In this Btate

thft camD

the

the battle, was for the moment ^go^ ten. Almost unconsciously the wounded man begun to hum aloud a joyous far-

confidence near the invalids chair, I

played with the elusive shadows. At the I proac

yQ. knatBat

Mked at

the

asked,

We Terre Hauteans in these days or

by the failure of inadequate research here to find natural gas when Hoosiers to the east and northeast of us were booming in the discovery of the fuel, but now that we have found oil, and have the best of reasons for believing we have gas too, we repeat the words of the poet, quoted by an Indianapolis contemporary yesterday In an editorial reference to Indianapolis local politics— "We may be happy yet

looking at him over her spec-

tS"He

tailed me a tub," said Eli, mdig-

nantiy

and he puffed out his cheeks and

till)

declare! 'Ef you dun't look like one, shore enough. Ye've got that she chucKled contentedly at the sight of

open door the wounded

man saw a bee-martin sail out from his box on the high pole in the lane and attack a hawk who had ventured too near his quarters. He watched the conflict between the birds with an instinctive interest in the exhibition of physical strength and courage. "Ten to one on the little chap, he said aloud. "He fights like a tiger.

his coign 1 clock ten feet away. The hawk and the martin, desperately contending, passed beyond the line of the soldier's vision, that was bounded by the door frame. The Dunkard girl who had found him in the lane

was

engaged

in removing the coarse crockery on which his food had just been served. He turned from the vanished combatants to glance at her trim figure and sweet unconscious face. "Eglah," he said reflectively. Its an uncommon^ame^How^id^ou^on^ chimney place that wojp its summer garniture of green asparagus bushes, glanced at him over the steel-rimmed spectacles, and observed his incredulous expression "Chronicles?" he said. "Are you really in earnest?"

The elder woman laid the yarn sock, which she was knitting, on her lap, and took off her spectacles. Then she breathed gently on the glasses and polished them carefully upon the corner of her coarse white apron. Finally she laid the spectacles on the sock upon her knee. "Perhaps ye ain't acquainted with our folks hevin' their entitles from the scripture, stranger," she said. "I was not aware of it, madam," he answered, "is it a family fashion?" "Fashion has nothin' ter do with it," she explained. "It's our faith. We are Dunkard folks." "I beg your pardon"' he apologized. "I did not understand. This country is all new to me." "I knowed as much an' no harm's done whair none's intended," she said serenely replacing the spectacles on her nose, and resuming her kitting. Then with a significant smile, she continued: "We don't follow|fashions—leastways, the fashions o' the worrul'. Thair's one fashion we air perticklerly agin, which seems ter be quite populous-like at this time." "What's that, madam?" he asked. "The fashion o' sheddin blood," she said. "We don't believe in the right of it. We hev the authority of the book. Thair was awful work at Republic yistidy, they tell me. I heerd the first smack up here. An' at Cross Keys to'ds Harris'nburg the day befo' I heerd tell 'twas much the same. Two murderous fights in two brief days! The Lord furgive both o'yer sides!"

She thrust her knitting-needle with a jerk into the goose quill of the sheath at her waist, and began to turn the heel of the Eock. The tenor of the woman's talk in some vague way depressed him. He wa9 not used to hear the profession of arms thus decried. "Your sect are non-combatants," he said, feeling it incumbent upon him to say something. "People o' peace set down in the midst o' war," she answered sententiously.

The soldier saw the victorious martin sail back to his box, as the woman continued with her eyes fkdd on the rounding heel of the sock. "Armies an' wars—what air they good fur? They eat up the harves' an' the bread that our sons and daughters should eat. They eat up the flodis an' the herds, an' they eat up the vines and fig trees."

This narrative of the tremendous appetites of the contending hosts, with its implied promise of the devastation of his patrimony, tilled the infant eon of Eli with overwhelming apprehension. As his mother concluded her speech he bawled, with his fists jammed into his eyes: "I want apiece of bread!" ..

The soldier smiled. The mention of vine and fig tree stirred strange memories in his brain.

Shet ver mouth," the woman said, "God 6en' the time when they Bhall beat thair weepings inter plough shears an' reapin'-hooks. Eglah, go git the boy a bit o' bite ofTn the cubbud shelf. What aikye, Eli? You've just eat. He'B got the stummach of a orstrich, stranger."

The fat youngster waddled away clutching his sister's gown and the Tiger's face grew grave. The earneetof the Dunkard woman had taken hold upon him. Her scriptural language

f,ST* A jr'S-A*

HAUTE

THE TERRE

and sentiment recalled the far-away p"«t, when lesBona of divine forpveneee and love had been whisperedintohwearaby line long- since grown Bilent foreTer. I Once more the peace of the place

with a thrill of

hTMadame,» he Baid,"from

Word. Flamboyant phantom of inter- J™, «jd*gK SSSSi

From mxne,

down from the great tree near the stile I that over yonder-

flickered any swayed '^naciouaneee that The Tiger was sunning

femd fever hold on him had fervui fever's hold on him had

m«It\s

and of the march, even

fierce and fascinating excitation of

it is very different. ng I

He^roke

tuitive consciousness mat she have no sympathy with

Lund of his voice he desisted from his kepta tight Pf

the

famine and desolation and I down

hia

musician until the air was ended. I-^^^Ts^y'Brown Wileon. "Wftir'a vo'knatsat an tanteen. he r^niniana. Years ago I lived I Wallack benefit.

an' tanteen!" ne 1 Years ago I lived

length. His acquaintance w.th down there they call Point

military, was not entirely new. l&e nea

wandering

query recalled the Tigers thoughts.

"I flung 'em away in a battle, sonny, he answered, laying his hand on the child's round head. "Aint you doing back to dit em. the boy afiked "I'll do wiv you." "You're fit to be a tiger's cub, was the response and the soldier drew child to him. But Eli failed to appreciate the compliment. In fact h® understood it. He repelled the Pr^er®^ caress and trotted across the rag-car-peted floor to his mother. "I don't like the man," he said.. 'Why, what ails you, Eli?" the woman

%he fiax wheel

BC|®°?d

listoDi terest he" yielded to the ingenious impulse that moved him. He would hang his callouse heart upon his sleeve for a little Bpace. Surely these were not daws

^''Thacfa'sweet mother," he said, and

but a little distance off ink.shallowot™

untimely graves. Yet with, no uncer

uuuLuioij &. Yet with tainty he spoke to these people of their

death-smitten

The

valley as peaceful, and

had a soul-searing knowiedge of that which outweighed the balance of battle.

woman shook her bead in mute negation of his assertion. She could not

CI"I'lived

the life of a devil for two he continued "faro bankB, quad

I S «•!-.

roon balls, bull fig^s at the ace Con-

go, bar-room rows—I was familiar with them all. The career of the gambler and the rough was mine. Then the war came. I greeted

it with

delight

P^^WP.TNESPAT

fed,

ecription 7«!come» Prod«m MSll St hid gone over Ltly the climax of the ftense I

WHAT DHiX* MAY COM.

SI,. Urt tabnw«~*(

wayfarer along the narrow toe StheSontf6 I excitement incident to the successful I is, 53*1. He wasthe.only sonof

your stand-

about

tVl th„ in.

Buch

feelings as

the recollection of yesterdays struggle aroused in him. After a brief pause, he

my very life. It helps me .to for-

The Dunkard housewife answered, "Well, I'm grieved tor hear you say soI Do you come Christian folks? y.ainh had returned and taken her wat at the little flax-wheel. Eli oasupied a

and

joined the Tigers. In the which I belong are many desperate men on whom fortune has seldom smiled. I am the comrade and familiar of the stevedores, the toughs,

ranks to

an.d

Orleans. Some of them are.fejocio^

animals. Alfew •frilllife, no men

ever

fought better than

they fight. I have striven not to lag behind them. I got this on the field." He touched the insignia on the sleeve of his dingy blue jacket. "I'm an officer of the Tigers," he said proudly.

The two women heard him, the one with eager interest and profound sympathy with the bitterness of his life the other with stern reprobati of the story which he told. "In their reckless company," he continued, "on the march, by the campfire, in tHe battle, I can forget—I have forgotten."

Eglah felt that though the man's words were spoken to her mother, they had never been uttered save for her. "You have shed human blood," said the Dunkard housewife reproachfully. "It is true," he answered and added, as though in extenuation, "In search of death. But I cannot find it."

His head dropped on his breast. "Not fur death, stranger," said the woman, solemnly. "Seek for peace, an' the Lord will send it ter you."

He lifted up his eyes to Eglah's seat, and saw that when she leaned over the silent wheel her own were wet with tears. [TO BE AONCLUNRAB TO-MORROW.]

Governor Oglesb Expenses. SPRINGFIELD, 111.,

May

14.—In

the

senate to-day, the majority and minority report of the committee on appropriations on a resolution providing for an investigation as to the expenditures for maintaining the executive mansion under Governor Oglesby, was taken up. The majority report declared that the expenditures in question came properly within the appropriations made for maintaining the executive mansion. The minority report simply dissented from this opinion. After some debate the minor'ty report was defeated and the majority report adopted. if#

The Dakota Election.

MINNEAPOLIS,

May 14.—Special

ports to the Journal from all over South Dakota indicate that a very small vote is being polled. There is no opposition whatever to the old Sioux Falls constitution of 1SS5. The Republicans are in the majority in both sections of the territory. Rain and snow in some parts of North Dakota is interfering with the vote. The election develops no excitement whatever, as there is nothing in particular at issue. ilSil

An Illinois .Banker** End.

JACKSONVILLE,

111., May 14. Last

night W. W. Brown, a prominent banker of the city of Waverly, this county, Dut up at the Pacific hotel in this city. This morning he was found unconscioue, with a bottle of morphine near him. Medical help was at once procured, but in an hour he died. It is not known whether the fatal dose was taken with suicidal intent or otherwise.

Emigration to Canada Reduced.

The emigration to Canada has fallen off largely this season. The whole number thus far is 9,605, againBt 14,738 laBt year.

A Limited Fire Protection.

London has fifty-nine fire engine stations to about one hundred and eighteen square miles.

The Illinois Jury Commissioners' Bill. SPRINOFIELD,

Btofco?'

•M-IMer.CiaiwI

NEW YOBK,May1^-W.IrvingB«hop,

the mind reader, played hia la«t tnck at the Lambs club in the small hours of yesterday morning, and died a few hours

exaltation hk I }ftterin catalepio nt, whioh was appar- "p^oted recorder of the general

fonnano0 of

oration

nditted to these enterUinmente, ^nt the gambols set down for last Sunday

the

Bome word in some

etttl™J'iff®

bit of bread.

ar®^R*»

flax.wheel mah

I OSt the Stranger say:

across the nameof

sweet motner, ne uiuu, »uu uaA{f

done no good in the world Bince I lost her. After I was expelled from college and came home to find her dying, drifted to New Orleans, and went day by day and week by week from bad to worse. Whisky, cards, horses, a fast life —you people in this peaceful valley know nothing of the flames of hell that are blazing up in the great cities, are ui»

SOme.things

Madam, there are

worse

Mr. Green and Dr. Irwin fixed upon the word "Townsend," and noting in

spwd. He 1 their minds^the page ^"bey hW I

upon his own and then led the party down Btairs, fo"

his voice trembled, "but I broke her I upon eagerly asked, and heart. She died years ago, and I have la tnat m.

difficulty, and, rapidly, came at last to the page which the name appeared. Skimming it, ne gradually Battled his fingers over

HVOiyuuu,

than war." touching Secretary Green, but insisting The air was even yet vibrant with the I

previous day's cannonading and the

Mr_ Green Bhould

couid

absolutely,however,

covered

as the

his eyes and other parts

and I of his face. After a few moments he said: "I think

L—

it ia a name." Then he

added: "I think it is a man's name." In thie, of course, he was wrong. After

he exclaimed, nervously something to write with, one pulled a scrap of from a pocket and handed it

hesitation Bishop seized it off the word "Townsend," not written in

,e ranuB to natural form, but reversed, as it would ,,

ignorant and appear in a mirror werethe

aboutburst

into

app^^^iouf|rball^i

or lor TOme yeareand was acquainted [Indianapolis News.

with his physical condition, assured everyone that it was one of the cataleptic fits which Bishop has been accustomed to have quite frequently, and that it was not likely to be dangerous.

The mind-reader was stretched upon the floor and soon, under the manipulations of Dr. Irwin, began to show signs of returning consciousness. As Bishop remained in a highly excited state, the doctor ordered that he be taken to an up-ttiirs room. Only two or three persons besides the doctor accompanied him. His pulse was beating frightfully high, and they tried to get him to bed, but he insisted on doing the trick over again for the doctor, and finally had his way. He had great trouble in doing the trick this.time. He was more exhausted and excited than ever after this. Dr. Irwin began to fear a nervous collapse, and when the patient began to improve, sent for Dr. C. C. Lee to help him. Bishop had frequent spasms, during which it was with difficulty that he could be held still and prevented from throwing himself about with a violence that would have endangered his bones. About

o'clock he had

another cataleptic fit, and went from it into a state of coma.( Then Dr. Lee went away, leaving his case hopeless. In a while after the mind-reader manifested a half consciousness and seemed to rep ognize persons about him, but he never had a clear conscious moment from before 6 o'clock in the morning until a few moments past noon, when his pulse and breathing ceased and he was apparently dead. For fear that it might only be cataleptic trance, powerful electric currents were applied, and for half an hour Bome semblance of life was maintained, but at last the current ceased to have any effect, and the doctors said Bishop was dead.

There was nothing abnormal found about the organs except the intense congestion of the brain. There were indications of disease in some of the other organs, but nothing to indicate that there was any cau&e of death except the result of tne great nervous strain to which the mind reader bad subjected himself in performing

hiB

last feat. The

brain was a little larger than usual for a man of Bishop's size, weighing forty ounces. The gray matter was unusually dark in color, but there was no malformation or other physical indication that the brain was that of other than an ordinary man.

,V AM08KMENT9.

The advance sale of seats for the en. gagement of Joseph Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkle" Thursday evening still continues. There has been a steady de mand for seats and the audience that will greet him will undoubtedly be one of the moet brilliant that the Opera house has contained in many seasons. Joseph Jefferson is without doubt the greatest comedian of the present time. "Rip Van Winkle" by Jefferson never grows old, especially as new theater goers come up who have not seen him in the great characterization. It has been now not much less than a generation since he was seen in the great part in in this city and .this may be the last time.

111., May 14.—The jury

commission hill passed by a vote of 85 to 16 in the house to-day.

Murderer Will Be Puralyzed. BUFFALO,

May

14.—William

Kemm-

ler, who is convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of his mistress, Tillie Ziegler, was to-day sentenced to "suffer the punishment of death to be inflicted by the application of electric11v" «BIfViin HtAAlr AAmfnAtllHltlV AH week commencing on

MORSME: MAY IS, ISM.

Monday, June 24th. This is the first death sentenoe under the new law.

THB MY- DB J- TOWSSKND.

A BcprexnUUve Coloi*d Man Appolstod

H«II OIIIT

of the

IJHHI

town, and is accustomed to have I Rrea Wesley idea of

^bols" on Sunday nightonoe amonth the

off* his Bperoh^ with the ii^ hoi«».n,,Only^neiD^Ma|wa^ I *3 careful re-

sanctification. received the

night were the last for to* aeasra I jne aa^n»»B the late tnvil

9^4^°Sec«uiy

club's accounts or Green had not any

Office.

The Rev. James Matthew Townsend, D. D., of Richmond, Ind., who was on

land

the feat. The Lambs I William andMary Ann Towneend, both

of ^o«»d men Si 1 —and a headstone."

the doctor came I still holds the position, ^ebasbeen

of^Marsmret Townsend I three times a member of the generri con-

ferenoe,

theater

be-

ing told that it was, he ledthewaybacjf up stairs, having been blindfolded all the time, and announced that he proposed to tell

wb°t

the

word was in a manner which would demonstrate absolutely that muscle reading had nothing to do with the performance. He had been getting into a highly exciting state as he went on with the trick, and this increased, as he ^ked everybody to stand back. Without

think intently of

Btood

dead of the conflict were ^ing hastened the word he PP^ 'ThiB

apparently in a state

Townsend :ul reenjoyed

thia season t^°advantag™of a common schooled uca-

J^si^uMtta^voRnitMr8 infan^^Uand me neiu UUMI Aftar the war he entered

an exllibition of bia powwta. I J5® »ii^"bu"t"ief before complet-1 gone without whisky for two weeks, has Secretary Green,

a ^^^0

from the

I AmSoan missionary asswaation

^icuTTw^ subsequently was, appointed pnncipalof .T A. I th* colored schools at Evan6ville, Ind.,

has been acommiBBioneronor-

He has traveled extensively in Canada and the United States, and made one visit to the West Indies and then to

E^aanJLre6entative ot

PinleA spell o^herfw™pt|bHnSded? She^ I ownTate, ^d ttn^ man he ^L^Jhd'Assier.basm^a special

this relation he proved himself no competent and efficient than in others. In the last political contest, beginning with the organization of the Republican national convention, Mr- Townsend worked incessantly. He

tl0fhe

fia

a man of

strong convictions, and has very pronounced views on leading political ques-

first man to forward a petition

asking for Mr. Townsend's appointment to office was J. Norman Croker, of the Chicago medical college. Mr. Town send's Chicago friends are much gratified over the recognition their favorite has received at the hands of the administration.

AN OBDEE OF "HONOB,"

Auspicious Opening of the Convocation of the Knights of Honor.

many

more apparently intense I Jrtat^except Oregon""Delaware and Neho ATnlaimed. nervously: "Give me Bt^

pencil to Bishop. Without an instant's nknn

aaiMll it. ana

dfl8D6Cl

secret beneficial orders in the

It has grand lodges in every

T„

Somepaper with a

delegates to the supreme lodge. Among

the arrivals this, morning are Joseph Moreland, an influential politician of West Virginia, and Becjamm Bawden. a of Keokuk, Iowa. J-he

din_ citizen

eight or

which the word was written renectea delegates, is

there. I exclusively to work. To-morrow even"That

it," he exclaimed, and at the I exci

ittuiiiiaL yjj. "TrfvAr nirates of New I same moment, as Dr. Green and Dr. I Tomlmson hall, and Friday the wharf rats

fCm nr^ferocious Irwin nodded their heads and

th®.

nine days' stay in Indianapolis,

not

to be given up

lod

will give them a re-

P®r" ^nine Victoria commandery will give

their honor at Pfafflm's haU.

The Supreme Court and Riley's Case.

The supreme court to-day beard oral argument in the case in which J. W. Riley, elected by the legislature to the board of blind institute trustees, is trying to compel the reluctant governor to issue him a commission. It will be remembered that Judge Howland, of the circuit court, granted Mr. Riley a writ of mandamus to compel Governor Hovey to issue the commission, and th£t the latter appealed the case to the supreme court. A final decision in the matter is expected late this week. J. E. McCul lough is counsel for Mr. Riley, and Attorney General Miohener for the gover nor.—[Indianapolis News.

Applied a Hair Poultice."

"This is the first time I ever heard of an attempt to verify the adage that 'the hair of a dog is good for the bite,'" explained Judge Walker this morning in hearing the suit of Mrs. John S. By rain against Charles Vallrath for damages caused by Vallrath's dog biting her. Mr. Byram testified that after Mrs. Byram was bitten that they procured some of the hair of the dog and applied it to the wound, but that no benefit was secured by the dog-hair poultice. Plniutiff thinks a one-thousand dollar poultice will have abetter effect.—[Indianapolis News.

Two Geologists and One Office.

Prof. John Collett made formal de mand on Prof. S. S. Gorby for the state geologist's office this morning. As was expected, the latter refused to surrender the office. Then the two rivals sat down and had a long friendly chat about geology. Prof. Collett will probably begin legal proceedings within a day or two, for the purpose of having the entire question set at rest.—[Indianapolis News.

Indianapolis Notes. ,"~

The state board of education met last evening. The duties which the new school-boik law Impose upon the board, added to those already prescribed, make frequent meetings necessary.

There Is relief in sight for.lrvington. lithe street car company doesn't make Its track passable and doesn't put on frequent cars, (ieorge WII-' lard, who owns some of the herdlco once In use hercj, will establish a line to Irvlagton.

Iowa Prohibition.

CHICAGO,

May 14.—A dispatch from

Mason City, Iowa, says: John Forrester and Wm. Nolan, residents of New Hampton, became drunk Saturday. The former, in his drunken stupor, lay on the railroad track and was killed by a passing train. The latter, while on his way home, drove off a bridge and broke his neck.

Sunday School Teachers' Normal Class.

On Thursday evening of this week the Sunday school teachers' Normal class holds its first session at the Central Presbyterian Church. All those who have joined and all who feel the need of Normal training in Sunday Bchool work are requested to be present.

Plenty of Room By and By.

Any one who wants a claim in Oklahoma will be able to get all that he wants when the scorching winds of summer set in.—[Peoria Journal.

Unexpected Generosity.

Barber—Here is your change, sir. Customer—Keep it. You are the first barber who didn't tell me that my head was full of dandruff.—[Epoch.

wwim PACKA6BI.

John Wheel, a Dawson, Ga., boy.aa

The people of Adams

oounty

Ohio,!

think they have discovered gold ore in the hills of Jefferson tow Bhip.

A man in Augusta Me., in paying bill deducted 2 cents for the stamp on the letter in which he sent his remit-

office, was horn at I One of the clauses of an August Me.,

omang

„A

Elgt

to be berfather

Readfield beside my

The Connecticut man who hit upon I the device of putting copper tips on the toss of children's shoes has realized a| fortune of $1,000,000 from his idea. "Spuds" is Californian .for potatoes. Spuds are such a drug in the market in Oregon that farmers are dumping many sacks of them into the Columbia.

An exchange says that "another I Southern newspaper reporter, having

hiB

and

debut in the pulpit as an evan-

gelist. Two Oil City policemen and divers other persons shot astray dog the other evening, afcd the next morning the dog was able to eat a pound and a half 01

A curious freak of nature has been found at Weatherefield, Vt. Two birch trees, a short distance apart, are united a few feet from the ground by across branch, which seems to belong to both.

A curious fact in natural comes from Fairlie, Scotland, after hatching several chickens, a tea thereupon a cat took charge Mr. I brood, and has

his race, Mr. I brood, and has since

is a little early coal. The greatest snuff-taking country in the world is France, though it

Bhows

The Correspondence de 1' Est says that a band of Kurds attacked a wedding party in the Morich district, robbing the

ghe wouid

m^a|

.~pt Oregon, Delaware and Ne-

5.000 members. affairs ong the

vada. In Indiana are o.OOO membeirs.

Tfae town of Hyattsville,

elbow8 hiBtoric 0ld

Many men, prominent inpubj^affairs George's single tax theory

Md., which

Bladenburg, is going

issue'inthe recent local election, and three town commissioners who were chosen are converts of the idea.

A. W. Home, of Greenland, Me., recently fired into a covey of wild ducks on Green bay, killing nine and disabling four at the first shot. The three survivors started rapidly away, but Horne fired again and two more of the birds fell. Only one of the sixteen escaped.

A gentleman over 45 years of age, who lull linen, UO.,' IIii8 DB+Bf Tl(l\jeiD On the cars nor seen a river. He has a pair ot eyes and is an intelligent and industrious farmer. The Savannah river is not more than seven miles from his residence.

St. Peter's at Rome is to be further embellished by fresh mosaics. At present the cornice running around the nave and aisles is merely a canvas imitation, but Pope Leo intends to replace it by real mosaic, according to the original designs by Raphael, Bramante and Michael Angelo.

There are two'idle superstitions about cramps that come in the legs and start a man out of his bed quicker than anything else. One is to stick a jackknife in the headboard of abed on retiring for the night, and the other is to arrange the slippers very carefully, bottom up, at the foot of the bed.

A German woman while shopping in Detroit held her 15-month-old child up to another of the same age and said: "Kiss the baby." The young German immediately bit a chunk out of the other baby's cheek, disfiguring it for life. The German woman disappeared, taking her precious offspring with her.

A gentleman of Marietta, Ga., recently had some improvements made on his residence. He noticed out of four carpenters at work three were left-handed. A few days after that he bought a door bell and hired another carpenter to put it on the door, and he, too, proved to be left-handed.

The quality of the roof slates, says a German trade journal, may be easily tested by carefully weighing samples, then putting them for a quarter of an hour into boiling water that is fairly free from lime, saltpeter and ammonia on reweighing the elates those that show the greatest increase in weight are the most capable of resisting deterioration.

A sheep lives ten years, a cat lives fifteen years, a lion lives twenty years, a camel lives forty years, a bear lives twenty years, a dog lives fourteen years, a squirrel lives eight years, an ox lives twenty-five years, a guinea pig lives seven years, a horse lives twenty five years, a whale lives .300 years, a tortoise lives 100 years, an elephant lives 400 years.

There is a lady in Irwin county, Ga., who has a novel way of making her hens set. Whenever she gets ready to set a hen, it matters not whether the hen is ready to Bet or not, she catches them, breaks one leg, puts eggs and hen in a nest and nails them up. She says there is nothing like breaking one leg to make them set. By the time the hen hatches the leg is well and she is ready to care for the chicks.

T. C. Mitchell, of Thomasville, Ga., caught a mother fox and three little foxes a few mornings ago while out hunting. Mr. Mitchell carried one of the foxes home and placed him among a litter of newly born pups. The mother of the pups gives him the same attention that she gives her own offspring, and the little

Btranger

bids fair to be raised by

its foster mother. The Monmouth, N. J., clammers have discovered anew hard-clam bed near the southwest spit buoy. The clams are very plentiful, and eome of the eloopownere gather thirty bushels a day. Moet of the clammers are Germans, who take dogs along with them on their trips. The dogs are mascots, they say, and "the clammers seldom fail to make good catches when accompanied by them."

Siberia'* Sice.

Siberia is larger than States, including Alaska.

United

«uu- ww«r

SOTRRENCRITFG

Its superior excellence proven in miliums of homes for more than a quarter of a centuiT.ltl« used by the United States Government KndorjM bv the heads of the Great Universities as the I Strongest, Purest and most healthful. Dr. Prices

Cream Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, CO. HIWTORK.

decline in the habit. In 18G9 the consumption was 13,000.000 pounds, or seven ounces per head. Now it is five ounces.

The newest feature of personal adornment is of hair from the tail of the African elephant, made into watch guards and bracelets. The elephant is now becoming so "scarce that his relics are said to be very fashionable.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bloodworth, an old lady who lives in Taylor county, Georgia, is an inveterate smoker. A few mornings ago she fell down and jabbed her reed pipe stem nearly through to the back of her neck. She may recover.

CHICABO.

ST.

SFFIS ATAF, A BIG BLACK MARK.

of the

remained their

LOBI8.

ONE HUNDRED PIECES OF

Black Dress Goods!

MARKED DOWN

FOR—

Monday, Mny 13.

They will be

Bold

53,

59,

without reserve for

G1 and

cents a yard which

i# IS ONE-TIIIRD LESS Than regular price. They include all the fancy weaves in checks, stripes and figures.

UNUSUAL BARGAIN.

do for the wedding

LS.1VRESS

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

p. S.—On the same day we will make an addition to our "May sale" of Ladies Muslin Underwear of a line of Gowns, Skirts and Drawers at 95c a P»«*.JJh,ch would be good value at $l.o0 and 9L.

AMUSEMENTS. NAYL6R^S"OP£RA HOUSE

SPECIAL! --'SPECIALI

EBliAliEMffi KITEIOMMM

POSITIVELY ONE NIGHT ONLY,

Thursday Ev'g, May 16.

MR. JOSEPH^--.v

lerson

AND IIIS OWN

COMEDY COMPANI PRKSKNTING

Rip Van Winkle.

Advance sale opens Button's.

TIME

at o'clock prompt at

BZUA2KABLE CASE. For two yearn I ul rlicumnt ism so liml tlmt it disabled me for work and conllncd me to my boil for a whole year,' during which time I could not even rai« my hands to my head, and for 3 moil tin could not move myself in bcd.was reduced in flesh from 102 to86 lbs. Was treated by best physicians, only to grow worse.

Finally I took Swift's Specific, and soon began to improve. After a ivhile was at my work, and for the past five months have been as well as 1 ever was—all V'om the effects of Swift's Specific.

8?p||f^|8

Joint RAT,

•Ian. 8, IBS!). Ft. Wayne, I ud. Books on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. SWIFT SI'Ecinc Co., Atlanta, Ga.

TABLE

(P) denote Parlor Car at-

Tralns marked thus (S) denote Sleeping

Trains marked thus tached. Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE. T. H. 4 I. DIVISION.

t.KAVK FOR THK WKST.

No. 9 Western Express (84V) 1.42 a m. 10.18 a. m. 2.16 p. m.

No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Kast Line (P&V) No. 7 Kast Mall

S p. si.

LKAVK FOK THK KAST.

1.30 a. m. 151 a. m. 7.16 a. ni.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (9f No. 6 New York Express (S&V) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. 2U Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.42 p. in. No. 8 Kast Line ». 2.00 p.

AHKIVK FROM THK KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (SJfcV).......... 1.30 & m. No. 6 Mall Train 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Kast Line »(PAV) 2.00 p. in. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation C.45 p. in. No. 7 Kast Mall 9.00 p. m.

ARRIVK FROM THK WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (SI 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New Turk Express (84V) 1.42 a. in. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.37 p. ra. No. 8 Kast Line 1.40 p. in.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOB THK NOBTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. 61 South Bend Exprew 4.00 p. m. ARRIVE FROM THK NOBTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.30 p. m.

For Inventions promptly secured. Reference, by permission, to Hon. Win. Mack. Address

O. E, DUFFY, i, 607 Seventh Street, Wasnlngton, D. C.