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DAILY EXPRESS.

GEO. M. ALLEN,

Proprietor.

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of Terre Haute, Ind.]

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Boom the oil well excursion.

Tbe Cronin mystery at Chicago deepens with the report of-the post mortem examination by the doctors, but there is no lees doubt that a diabolical murder has been committed, perhaps not by his Irish enemies but by his so-called Irish friends.

So it seems that the gift of the office of city engineer was meant to be a high compliment to Donn Roberts, as the Gazette says, and nothing else. In the end a Republican is called to the post of duty and responsibility in this important era of Terre Haute's development.

Sheriff Weeks who held back his alleged claim for fees for unusual service until after his re-election last fall is now busy prosecuting the taxpayers in a suit whereby he hopes to make them pay him around sum. Sheriff Weeks has got through electioneering, and now wants to "go through" the county.

When the schemers were pushing the Main street improvement the city engineer and his organ declared that the sewer could be built for 820,000. Bids for less than one-half of it were in the neighborhood of $15,000. If the courts had not stopped the boodle crowd they soon would have involved the city in an expenditure of any amount from $00,000 to $75,000. As it

the city is out at

least 82,000 for the junket trips, advertising, etc.

c. 0. 1).

No Difference.

Mrs. llaslicroft—Can you tell me the difference, Mr. Billings, between livery and unirorm? Billings—As fur as the breakfast blll-of-fare Is concerncd, they seem to be Identical.

An Unjust Judge.

"Why dlil you raise such a riot In the street?" asked the judge. "I just wanted to get my name up," replied the prisoner. "You thought It would make yon a man of note to riot, eh?" asked Ills honor, and the attorney for the defendant Immediately filed Ills protest against "cruel and unusual pun-lshment" being Inflicted on Ills client.

(Juite Convenient.

Miss Prye-I thought It my duty, Mrs. Braggs, to tell you that Mr. Braggs was seen down town thjs afternoon In an awful slate of Intoxication. I thought you might be thankful, perhaps, If I came and told you that none of us In the neighborhood think any less of you on that account, In fact, you have the sympathy of the entire community.

Mrs. Braggs—Tou can keep your sjmpathyto yourself. This spree will keep him out of the way while I am cleaning house.

She Insinuated.

DMlss Pyrte—What makes you such a continued woman-hater, Mr. Olebacli? Mr. Olebach—Well, when 1 was a young man a woman made a fool of me.

Miss Pyrte—And you never got over It?

KXC1IANUK ECHOES.

Cincinnati Commercial: The president will soon have to shut down on the olHce-seekers. lie has duties other than those of hearing the claims ot the Importuners. (.lobe Democrat: The murder of Amerlcus Neeley was just as much a political assassination as the murder of John M. Clajton. The Democratic party of Arkansas Is responsible for both crimes.

Detroit Tribune: Memorial day will be very generally observed this year In the northern states-more so probably than ever before—and the president of the Uulted States will not go off on a fishing excursion that day.

Charleston News and Courier: The Southern Presbyterians will never consent, and should never consent, with any union with the Northern branch ot the Presbyterian family until the sectional and political bars have been pulled down and burned to ashes. Union Is most desirable on many accounts, but a union that would require on the part of the Southern church the least sacrllice of Its christian sell-respect Is to be deplored and resisted.

St. Louis (ilobe-Democrat: President Harrison Is dlsplaylngjjooil Judgment In his appointments to lederal odices in the South. In tills matter It Is difficult to please both parties, and It Is not necessary that both parties should be pleased. The president's selection In the South, however, seems to have leen well received by the representative people or that section. The Democratic politicians do not like them, but this is a point In their favor.

New York Tribune: Every furnace lias poured out iiieas with the molten metal. Every mill has drowned a host of sophistries with the rattle and roiir of Its machinery. Every yard of cloth, every pair of shoes, every glass tumbler, every plate or knife, ax or saw has gone out Into the world an apostle of protection, teaching buyers and users that protected Industries secure cheaper goods to consumers at the same time that they give higher wages to workers.

TI1K EFFICACY OF 1I1GH LICKNSE. Detroit Tribune: Under the new liquor law Boston's 2,IX- saloons will be reduced to 780, but the Prohibitionists for revenue only will probably tell you that 7SU saloons are just as bad as 2,00«. But, happy thought, you don't have to believe It.

Laifayette Courier: The number of drinking saloons In Philadelphia has decreased from 5,773 to 1.205 under the high license law. The Internal revenue reports show that the consumptloa of lluuor In Iowa lias increased since the so-called prohibitory law went Into effect In that state. The moral Is obvious.

Cincinnati Times-Star: The contest over prohibition In Pennsylvania Is lively, but as tbe time Tor decision draws near It Is apparent that the proposed prohibitory amendment will not carry. It will be defeated for the same reason that prohibition was rejected In Massachusetts. The people are convinced that high license is the only practical method of solving the saloon problem. A leading Republican of Pittsburg says in a published Interview "that the sentiment at the beginning of the agitation was much stronger In favor of prohibition than it Is now," because the high license laws "have helped to satisfy a large class of citizens who are temperance men but not problblUonlsts. but who might have voted the Prohibition ticket had not the supervision of the liquor traffic been made satisfactory." A system that has reduced the number of saloons In Philadelphia from 6.800 to l.tfio. and effected a like proportionate reduction In all the large towns of the state, besides putting the business everywhere In better hands and throwing restrictions around It, certainly has merits that level-headed temperance people must recognize and appreciate. A similar system In Ohio would leave nothing more to be desired In the way of tlquor legislation. It would cut down the number of saloons in Cincinnati to about five hundred, rooting out the worst class of places—the pestholes of Immorality and the source of political demoralization. By a similar system we mean high taxation and a rigid enforcement of restrictive laws.]

NOT A SHAM REFORMER.

[Special to the Chicago Tribune.] WASHINGTON, May 22.—The Demo

cratic newspapers which are denouncing this administration as a "spoils administration" do not know what they are talking about At the same moment that the opposition press is complaining of the president's alleged undignified partisanship it happens, curiously enough, that not a few Republicans are dissatisfied because the president is not enough of a partisan and too much of a civil service reformer. Like his predecessor the president believes civil service reform popular with the masses no matter what the politicians say, but unlike his predecessor he is giving to the civil service commission an honest and sincere composition. It is one of the curiosities of the irrepressible conflict between patron-age-seekers and the statutory barriers which confront them that many Republicans are now denouncing the president for having made the commission too d—d honest.

What these purveyors of patronage wanted was a Republican imitation of the Democratic civil service sham as personified in practical politician Oberly and old Bourbon Edgertjn. In some quarters there is genuine disappointment at the failure of President Harrison to continue the bureau as a farce. The president takes the stand that if civil service reform is worth anything at all it is valuable only for its honeBty and sincerity. He wants it to have a fair trial, and gives to the commission a personnel which dumbfounds all these critics who were preparing to denounce his administration as one of pure spoilsmanship.

The fact about it is the president is evincing not only a great deal of honesty and sincerity but a vast amount of courage. He is bold enough not to be afraid of the praise of the Mugwumps. If he continues his present policy throughout the four years and becomes a candidate for re-election he will, in all probability, have the support of the men who erstwhile were so infatuated with Grover Cleveland. The president extended civil service rules to the railway mail organization against the emphatic protests of spoilsmen. He has widened the scope of the law as applied to various classes of service here, till, in the great department of the interior, with its 3,000 employes in Washington, there are only 130 posts not protected by civil service regulations. A prominent congressman from the West said that the beet he was able to do for one of his constituents who wanted a place in this department was to have a laborer discharged from his $660 a year job and the constituent appointed to the vacancy. Secretary Noble has a well developed sense of humor and occasionally indulges in laughter over the appearance in his office of two great United States senators begging for a messengership for some needy politician from their state. To make matters

Btill

worse, from the

spoilsmen's point of view, the president is in favor of extending the civil service to the census bureau, not so much for the "protection" of the employes, the work of course being only temporary, as to make a step in advance along tbe road to an ideal civil service by doing what no other administration has ever doneselect censustakers from the people without regard to their party allegiance. Of course this would please the reformers, and undoubtedly the best Eense of the country would indorse it, but it would not please the politicians, who already discover the civil service to be so much in their way that the pickings are irritatingly small, and who have been counting upon the census* bureau as a last chance to pay obligations to persistent constituents. A great deal of party pressure is being brought to bear on the president to induce him to leave the census bureau in the hands of politicians, but at this writing the odds are against them. The president has shown himself to be one of the most stubborn of men when he believes he is in the right.

There is no disguising the unpopu lnrity of the civil service reform idea in Washington. Outgoing Democratic officials revile it incoming Republicans despise it. The air is filled with instances of its absurdities in practical operation. It is declared the departments are being tilled with women and children who can pass the examinations in which men fail or in which they will not compete. These statements are made not alone by place hunters but by heads of divisions and expert employes. If one spends some time in the departments he will frequently hear conservative men, for many years in the employment of the government, say the civil service examination mill has caused a deterioration rather than an improvement of the public service.

The chief of appointments of one of the large departments says the examination plan of securing competent help is a failure. "If I had my way about it," said he, "I would examine candidates simply on their general intelligence, their business experience, and their ability to write a good letter. This last is one of the best

teBts

in tbe world. We

get every year from the civil service commission a large number of employes who are well up in school book geography, grammer, arithmetic, and so on, but who cannot write a letter fit to go out of the building. The writing of a good business letter, the knowing what to say and how to say it, and above all the sense of not saying too much, is a rarer thing than people think. I know a successful business-man who does not profess to know anything of literature, but he is one of the best judges of letters in the world. "No man is quicker to see the merits of a well written letter, or to condemn a poor one, than Phil Armour. Some years ago a young man named Quinn went to work in Armour's office in a humble capacity. The butterine war in congress came on, and a great many letters were to be written to senators and congressmen. Two or three men drafted a letter for him, but not to his satisfaction. The packer is a remorseless critic of business letter-writers. Finally, in sheer desperation, Quinn was asked to try his hand on a missive to one of the senators, lie complied, and the product of his hand went to Armour for approval. Everybody expected that would be the last of Quinn, but the letter pleased Armour so well that for eeveral months Quinn did nothing else but send letters on the butterine question to members of congress. Now he is one of Armour's right-hand men, and enjoys a fat salary and the packer's confidence. The writing of a good business letter is one of the best tests of a subordinate's usefulness, and a test which the government would do well to make more of than it does."

Postmaster General Wanamaker is one of the few great merchants who have anything like a civil service reform system in their mercantile establishments. Wanamaker has an elaborate system of markings by which the record of every one of his 4,000 employee is kept from year to year and by which promo

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tions are made. Bat in hiring sew help Wanamaker sets more store by business experience and training, no matter how slight or rudimentary, than by crammed familiarity with the text-books. Soin his views of the government service Wanamaker is said to favor all the principles af civil service reform excepting the examination mill.

INTKRNAT10NAL CONFLUENCES.

The Congress of Nations and the Marin® Conference.

It now seems probable that the American international conference, which is to be held in Washington in October, will be a success so far as a full representation of the different countries is concerned. Already the following governments have taken steps in that direction, and most of them have officially informed the state department of their acceptance of the invitation: Mexico, Guatemals, Salvador, Hondurijs, Nicarauga, Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chili, Argentine republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. It is exacted that Mexico will be represented by several delegates the Argentine republic by three delegates, Chili by two delegates, Venezuela by two delegates, and the other countries named by one delegate each. Persons who are well informed in matters of South and Central American policy and politics express the opinion that the conference will agree upon a uniform plan of arbitration, but that the other results and benefits of tbe conference will be mainly such as will arise from a more intimate acquaintance with each other.

There will be an important gathering at Washington a few months hence, exclusive of the one which is restricted to the states of the American continent. This will be the international marine conference, which will open at the capital city about the middle of October, two weeks after the beginning of the congress of American nations. Nearly all the important commercial countries of the world will take part in it. Delegates will be present from Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Italy, Russia, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil and a few other nations of Europe and the western hemisphere besides those mentioned, as well as from Japan and China. The conference is creating more interest in England, France and Germany than it has thus far aroused in this country, but it will undoubtedly attract a great deal of attention here also. The conference will concern itself chiefly with the formulation of a common marine code for all the nations.

WILL SELL TO STANDARD OIL

The Big: St. Louis White Lead Concerns to Be Gobbled Up. ST. LOUIS,

May

23.—The

Standard

oil company seems determined to make the national white lead trust a success. Several weeks ago representatives of Colonel Rockefeller's octopus stopped off in this city and tried to induce the Collier white lead company and the Southern white lead company, two of the largest concerns in the United State?, to join the trust. After a lengthy conference the proposition was declined. Now these Standard oil men are back here with a more favorable offer, and it reported tonight that the Collier company and the Southern company may join the trust. Colonel H. H. Rogers and Colonel William P. Thompson, of New York, are posting the negotiations here for the Standard oil company. They make no secret of the object, but refuse to say what degree of success has been achieved. The Collier company is capitalized at $1,0C0,0C9, and the Southern at $5C0,0C0. Both are very successful.

Til 8 SILVER ANNIVERSARY.

Features of the State Convention of Indiana Sunday Schools.

The state Sunday school convention which meets here June 4, 5 and 6, may not be misappropriate^ called the "silver" anniversary of the organization. Many county organizations will emphasize the occasion by a contribution of twenty-five silver dollars. It has been in existence a quarter of a century.

The indications are that 500 persons will be in attendance, and all these are promised a cordial reception and free entertainment. The committee on entertainment requests that church committees report places of entertainment to the Rov. G. G. Mitchell or the secretary of the Y. M. C. A.

Professor W. A. Ogden, the composer, has been engaged to lead the music. Six preliminary meetings, in as many places, Tuesday afternoon, June -1, will be held in the interests of the six branches of the Sunday school work. Officers of schools and county organizations are requested to send their statistical reports and contributions to the state officers, that note may be made thereof in the annual reports. Railroad fare at one and one-third rates for the round trip is available on all lines.

Prohibition Contest, ill Oratory.

Hanoter college will not have a representative at the prohibition contest in oratory at the Y. M. C. A. hall, Indianapolis, next Wednesday night, but the other state institutions will be represented as follows: Butler, DePauw and Indiana universities Central Normal, Earlham and Valparaiso colleges, _and Roanoke seminary. A prize of $50 is offered. The admission will be free. The subjects are entitled: "Individual Responsibility in Government," "The True Servant of the People," "Prohibition by a Popular Vote," "Do We Want National Prohibition?" '^Prohibition as a Political Question," "High License vs. Prohibition," "Prohibition vs. High Li-

New BnildiiiK for the Blind.

The local members of the blind institute board of trustees received their commissions from Governor Hovey today, and will take full charge of the institution immediately. The board expects to hold its first offioial meeting within a few days. One of the earliest matters which it will consider will be the erection of a large, handsome addition to the building. For this the legislature appropriated $45,COO. It is designed to build awing extending from the north side of the present structu re. As it is hoped to have the addition ready for occupancy next winter, no time is to be wasted in getting the work under way.—[Indianapolis News.

Indiana State News.

Tbe Rev. Frost Craft, of Trinity Church, Lafayette. preached a sermon in which members of his congregation falling to pay their debts were sharply hauled over the coals.

State Senator A. M. Kennedy, of Rush county, and Mrs. Sarah Hall, of Greensbunt. were united In marriage yesterday. The groom is aged 71, and this Is his fourth matrimonial venture.

Edward Conway, of Henderson, Ky.. found on the Indiana side, and Charles Sheldon, colored, of Evansvtlie, who Is locally prominent in Democratic circles, were arrested yesterday on Federal Indictments charging bribery and illegal voting. Both gave bond.

FrflDAY

TO UNITE THK BIS HILLS-

An Kaglish Syndicate Trjlnr to Bay Uw Minneapolis Flour Mills. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 23.—It ha

been rumored for several weeks past that there was a scheme brewing for the purchase of the mining interests in Minneapolis by a syndicate. These rumors have been denied by prominent millers. Yesterday, however, they were confirmed by a telegram from London to the effect that a movement ia on foot among English capitalists to secure control of some of .the largest flooring interests in the United States, among them being the Pillsbury properties in this city. The same report went so far as-to say that negotiations have been under way for some time, but without any conclusion having been reached. The plan is believed to be an attempt to syndicate or form a stock company to control large and valnable milling and elevator properties. This report, local millers were willing to acknowledge, was not a mere canard.

Of course, all the mill property, like any other property, could be purchased provided enough was offered for it. One prominent miller, however, did not heeitate in saying that the flouring industry had not been profitable dnring the last year, and he would not be surprised if all the mills in the city could be purchased on reasonable terms. Another mill owner said he knew of four or five pieces of mill property that were offered for sale some three years ago, and he had no doubt that the same and possibly others could be purchased now. It is moreover a fact that the Pillsburys have been considering for sojrie time the advisability of placlng ttieir vast business in the hands of a stock company, so that in case they wanted to dispose of their interests at any time it would not be such a difficult matter to do so. This plan would, if adopted, make the Pillsburys large stockholders in part payment for their property, and thereby largely relieve them of their present responsibilities. It is no Becret that they have been approached in regard to this scheme by Minneapolis parties, who are desirous of uniting in such a stock company the Washburn mill interests as well. By those interests would be meant the C. C. Washburn mill and the W. D. Washburn property. The Fidelity trust company, of Philadelphia, hold in trust four-seventhB of the stock of the former for the daughters of ex-Gov-ernor C. C. Washburn. As for the latter property it is thought that Senator Washburn is desirous to sell, in the same way that he was desirous of selling his Anoka lumber interests previous to the entrance upon his senatorial duties in Washington.

Ex-Governor Pillsbury said that his firm had been approached upon the subject of forming this stock company, but having acted rather indifferently in the matter nothing definite had been accomplished. In fact it was a great deal talk.

MEMORIAL.

Mrs. Laura L. Denny, born March 6, 1830, in Saratoga county, state of New York, and moved to Vigo county, Indiana, with her parents when she was 4 years old. She has lived

Dear

Farewell,

her pres

ent home about all of her life up to her death. She was married to Harrison Denny March 25,1847. By this union they had six children, Mrs. George Modesitt, Mrs. J. W. Hall, Mrs. Samuel Mass, Vincennes, Ind. Walter H. Denny, Mrs. Charles Orth and Frances J. Denny, all of whom are living except Mrs. J. W. Hall, who died February 25,1888. One brother, Celestine Ballou, and one sister, Heloise Whittaker. With her children and scores of relatives and friends mourn her loss. She was loved by all who knew her. She has been confined to her bed for nearly three years and bore her pain and suffering without^ a murmur.

thee,

dearest mother!

Tho' death claims thy body as his, •-t Thy spirit has ris'n triumphant, To the beautiful realms of bliss. i.-w Thy sorrows on earth were many—

Thy pains and afflictions were great But thou didst bear them with patience, And uttered'no murmur at tate. e.

Thou hast gone to meet dear father, Who awaits on the Heavenly shore, ToglvetheaffecUonatewelcome, where parting shall be no more. Only a few more years, so fleeting,

Must pass e'er again we'll meet No tongue can tell of the rapture And bliss, of communion so sweet, Sweet be thy rest, dearest mother! "V

Thy days of suffering are o'er! Yet sad must now be our parting, •. For we'll see thee on earth no more. Oh! may the angels watch o'er thee,

In thy grave In the passing years, While we strew the spring's bright blossoms, Badewed with affection's warm tears.

SAMUEL MASS.

POLITICS AN1 POLITICIANS.

The Kentucky Republicans nominated John Z. Barrett, of Louisville, for treasurer for the election in August.

A call has been issued for the fourth annual convention of the Ohio Republican league at Columbus, June 25.

General John M. Palmer, of Illinois, is being groomed for the Democratic nomination for president in 1892. Governor D. B. Ilill is also entered.

The Connecticut house to day passed the secret ballot bill—182 to 9. It provides for the adoption of the Australian system with one apartment for over one hundred voterp, the ballots to'be furnished by the state.

It is stated on what appears to be perfectly reliable authority that the president tendered the Berlin mission to Governor Foraker, and Mr. Haletead urged him to accept it, but he declined. This may be very easily construed to mean that Mr. Foraker has his eagle eye on a seat in the United States senate, and that he expects to succeed Coal Oil Payne.

Indianapolis Journal: The banquet to be given to ex-President Cleveland next Monday by the Young Men's Democratic club of New York is to be an affair of 350 plates at $12 a. plate and much politics. The distinguished guest is expected to pay his way by striking a "key-note," after which such other prominent Democrats as District Attorney Fellows, ex Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, and Mr. Collins, of Massachusetts) will join in the chorus. Governor Hill is on the list of speakers, but is there merely to be kept out of mischief, and is, of course not expected to add anything to the Cleveland boom. Tbe country may prepare itself for some very profound observations from the lips of the ex-president. He is doubtless hunting for them in the encyclopedia

Bayard's Consolation.

The report that ex-Secretary Bayard is engaged to be married to Miss Mary Willing Clymer, of New York, gives the friends of the old gentleman much pleasure, for it is conceded by all that he needs consolation. His losses have been great during the last few years. He has lost his grip on Delaware, lost the reputation he had as a statesman, and finally his cabinet position. If Miss Clymer wishes a recommendation for Mr. Bayard the entire Republican party will give it to her. We can certify that be is

HORNING, MAY 24, 1889.

the mildest, limpest, most peaceable and inoffensive man in the United Stater. He wouldn't hurt a fly. a Dutchman or an Englishman. He doesn't approach even the oonsistency of' skimmed milk —[Omaha Rapublican.

"ROBERT ELSMKRE" AT TALK.

The Theological School Torn Up Over Questions of Faith. NEW YORK, May 23.—The World's

New Haven, Conn., special says: The Yale theological school is torn up with internal dissensions, and its professors and President Dwight are on the anxious seat. The ideas or beliefs put into the mouth of "Robert Elsmere" by Mrs. Humphrey Ward are at the bottom of it. The book has been widely read there, and a few weeks sgo Professor John Russell lectured to the students, taking for his subject the "Miraculous E'ement of the New Testament." He said there was something deeper than miracles upon which to base our faith and that something was ths history of the Christian Church for the past nineteen centuries. He said he had not ground to deny the authenticity of miracles, but that there was BO much room for doubt that no man ought to be excluded from the Christian Church because he entertained those doubts.

Professor Fisher, who was present, locked horns with Professor Russell, and said that the Christian Church hBd as a necessary basis miracles, and miracles could not be excluded from it. The faculty heard of Professor Russell's deviation from the eetablished faith, and in a short time his resignation was asked« He tendered it, and has accepted a professorship at WillamB college. ProfesEor Russel had-a large folio wing in the class, and all sorts of pressure was brought to bear on tbe faculty to retain him, but to no use. Some of the students are now uniting and threaten to leave. Howard R. Vaughn, of Egypt City, N. J., says that his want of faith in miracles and his agreement with Professor Russell has compelled him to conclude to forsake the ministry.

TURF NOTES.

Lair Bros.' 3-vear-old stallion Kentucky Volunteer, by Victor von Bismarok, dam Ryland, died Tuesday morning of paralysis at Paris, Ky. He was valued at $10,000.

The Lima, Ohio, trotting association completed arrangements for the spring meeting, which will be held in July, commencing the 25th and continuing four days. Four thousand dollars is offered in purses, and nearly one hundred and fifty horses have been en tern'.

A Columbus, Ind., special

Bays:

number of fine horses have arrived and are in training for the races to be held here next week, beginning May 28 and continuing four days. The track was never in better condition, having been recently scraped and prepared for the races.

Entries for the four-days' Driving club races, beginning May 28, at Dayton, closed with all classes filled. In the free-for-all trot are Joe Bunker,

2:194'

Kit Curry, 2:18 Geneva S., 2:19)4 Joe Davis, 2:17% Betty Jones, 2:22}£ Clipper, 2:23J£, and White Stockings, 2:16. Four entries in the free-for-all pace are: Emma, 2:16£ Wilcox, 2:16)4 Dr. West, 2:17)^ Doctor M., 2:17)4-

lie Passed.

"Young man, you want to marry my daughter?" "Yes, air." "You have no objections to.my asking you a few questions. What's the sure way of coming out ahead on a horse race?" "Don't bet." "Very good. What is the beBt hand in the deck at a poker game?" "Ace high, if you have nerve enough." "What's the beet way to get along with a woman?" "Give her everything she wants." "Young man, it's useless to question you further. You are fitted to make a model husband."—[Merchant Traveler.

Obituary.

NEW YORK, May 23.—Colonel George F. Gardiner, a well-known lawyer, was found dead in his bed, at the Coleman house, yesterday, having died of heart disease.

THe was 62 yeirs old, a native of Washington, D. C. His father was Captain C. F. Gardiner, who was killed In the Seminole massacre, and his mother was a daughter of Commodore Barnett, United States navy. Hs was a page in the United States senate, afterwards went through West Point, studied law in New Haven, served as colonel ot the Seventieth Connecticut during the war, was subsequently [Jros -eating attorney of New Haven, and for many years had practiced law in this city

Another Marine Disaster.

LONDON, May 23.—The British steamer Curfew, from Swansea, May 7, for Madras, ran into ~and sank the British steamer Nyanza, from Cardiff May 4 for Zanzibar, while the latter was lying at anchor in Bitter lake, Suez canal, last night. No lives were lost. The Curfew is leaking slightly, but proceeded on her voyage. The Nyanza was a vessel of 1,215 tons. The Curfew registers 1,201 tons.

On a Barren Shoal.

SEATTLE, W. T., May 23—News has been brought here by- steamer that the bark Lizzie Williams, with a crew of twenty-seven and ninety-seven Chinese, was wrecked near Tugidak island, a barren and uninhabited shoal, April 12. Six Chinamen and two seamen were drowned. The vessel and cargo, valued at $130,000, was a total loas._

Cannot Force His Wife to Sopport Him.

The supreme court of Indiana has decided that a husband cannot enforce at law an agreement by his wife to support him in consideration of his deeding to her a house and lot. The court held that it was the husband's duty to support his wife.

The Truth About It.

Briggs—Got your spring suit yet? Griggs—Of course. Briggs—That so? When did you get it?

Griggs—Last spring.—[Clothier and Furnisher.

vs Easily Explained.

Mike—Say, Bill, why do they have a red letter box on the corner, and a green wan beyant?

Bill—Why, thim green boxes is where ye drop all th' letters for Ireland.— [Time.

Oklahoma Societj Note.

The accomplished Miss Lulu Grady, late of Wichita, is making a short stay with friends from St. Louis, in the red wagon in the hollow over north of the creek.—{Oklahoma Herald.

Wherein Lonsdale Beats the Record.

Lord Lonsdale has this to brag of. He is the only man that has started for the arctic regions who didn't require a rescuing expedition to bring hii back alive. —[Boston Herald.

MT HKJiHKRT. .Vj ...k:

I feed a soon of hens or more Dear hens they are to me The eggs they lay

Will hardly pay

The time It takes, yon see

Soms days it take* two dozen hens To lay one egg at vast eggspens. 1 cannot herd them In the yard—

They'd fly akove the moon And now that spring Is on tbe wing They keep the place In tone—

•Cot-cut—ca-daw-cut!" are the words That Ot the anthems of my bird*.

"Cut-cotea-daw!" They scratch and claw. They sear the dlmoled lawn Flower beds I make

For them to rake

They scratch from early'dawn

Like surface moles they dig great holes. And wallow In their dusty bowls. Why do I herd this useless bird,

That cackles but not lays That wastes her time, And much ot mine, In all these busy days?

Because when I moved out of town—I knew it— I kind o' somehow thought I ought to do It —[Robert J. Burdette.

Dan Walker, of Eustis, Fla., has an alligator that he is breaking to drive in harness.

Two thousand acres of wheat caught lire recently near Santa Monica, Cal., and the entire tract was destroyed.

Another litter of fox cubs has been discovered under a barn between Alloway and Frieeburg, in New Jersey.

Two slick strangers managed to pass $500 in counterfeit money in two hours on the merchants of Rushville, Ind.

An archaeologist at Monticello, Fla., has a tree which bears quinces, pears and apples. It does not seem to be a graft.

Eugene Muore, of Waukeenah, Fla., has 500 alligator skins on hand, taken from captures made in the Wacissa and Aucella rivers.

Ex-Sheriff T. C. Kennedy, of Mound City, 111., 80 years of age, has just married a woman nearly fifty years younger than himself.

Field mice are eating up the corn which is being planted by the farmers around Mexioo, Mo. One man had twenty acres destroyed'by these pests.

A Des Moines woman who has for six years been suffering from pains in the stomach, coughed up a lizard six inches in length. She has felt better since.

A woman living near Freehold, N. J., nearly 80 years old, claims she has traveled but once on the cars, never saw a steamboat, and was never more than twenty miles from home.

The way things look to a Southerner is somewhat peculiar. At an auction sale in Concord, N. C.. a big road wa&on went for $1, while a single barrel gun about six feet long brought $3.

George Bullock, of Birmingham township, near West Chester, is 73 years old. He has a son 43 years of age, a grandson 21 and a great grandson 6 months old.

The cod banks recently discovered 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, Cal., by the fish commission steamer Albatross, are to be investigated, with a view to immediate development, it is reported.

Billions of grain weevils (the calandra oryza of Linnaeus) have attacked the barley in live of the principal call board warehouses in San Francisco. Barley to the amount of 8,000 bushels has already been condemned.

The young ladies of Monticello, Fla., took the "early closing" movement in hand, visited the merchants and persuaded nearly all of them to agree to close at 5 o'clock daily, Saturdays excepted, from June 1st to August 15th.

Eliza Jane Starr, an Okland, Cal., widow, has petitioned the supreme court to increase her allowance of pin money. Her husband used to give her $1,500 per month, ana she is now only receiving $1,000, which she claims is not sufficient for her incidental expenses.

Something described as a petrified snake was unearthed by a farmer while plowing at Ohioville, W. Va. The piece was about as thick as a man's wrist and twelve inches long. It is supposed to be part of the remains of a reptile at least ten feet in length.

One afternoon while Nellie Sawtelle, of Smithfield, Me., was sleeping on a lounge, a pet cat of the family threw across her neck an adder which measured three feet in length. She threw it on the floor, where it

Bhowed

They have a great unknown in the St. Joseph, Mo., work-house. He was run in as a vag and is doing time on the rock-pile. He is way up in the law, medicine, literature, politics, theology and science, but is completely mum as regards himself. In Shakespeare and the Bible the strange being is said to be a giant.

A settler who has a ranch across the bay on Lummi island enjoyed rather a novel sight the other morning, says the Sehome (W. T.) Gazette. On looking out he saw a large whale complaoently spouting a few yards out in the bay just before his door. The leviathan continued this performance for some time, to the great enjoyment of the rancher's family. &•£"•*

A bombshell has Been thrown into the scientific world through the discovery of Brereton Baker, of Dulwich college, about oxygen. That gas, which is known as the great agent of combustion, loses its character when dried. It becomes inert. Even charcoal will not burn in it when heated to redness, nor phosphorus become luminous. As yet there is no explanation.

The following remarkable instrument is the last will and testament of Dolly Jones, colored, of Jasper, Fla., and was signed September 27, 1888: "Farder I want you to take them 2 cows and my biG Pot and 5 head of hogGs and keepe them as long as you live it is my Will for you to have them an do the best you can cos I must di and cant live you must mete me in hevean when dun with wourld."

The first paper mill in A merica was built at Roxborougb, near .Philadelphia, in 1690, and the first papermaker was William Rittenhouse. Steps are being taken toward the celebration of this bicentennial, and a gathering of papermakers and printers is urged. Horatio Gales Jones has sent circulars to those interested, calling for expressions of opinion relative to the character of the observation.

The Spirit of the Age.

When the announcement was made in a certain household located not far from Auburn, that the seventh heir had made his appearance on the scene, the oldest member of the flock, a lad of 9 summers, shouted "Chestnuts!"—[Auburn Gazette.

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Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping 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. LKAVK FOB THK WKST.

No. 9 Western Express (S4V) 1.42 a.m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.18 a. m. No. 1 Kast Line (PAV) 2.15 p.m. No. 7 Kast Mall S» 01 p. in.

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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (SiV) 1 61 a. ni. No.

Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a.m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.42 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line 2.00 p.

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No. 9 Western Express (SAV) 1.30 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.12 a. in. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.00 p. m. No. 3 Mail and Accommodation 6.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mail 9.00 p. m.

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No. 12Cincinnati Express* (8)...:... 1.20a. m. No. 6 New Ywrk Express (SAY) 1.42 a. in. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.37 p. m. No. 8Fast Line* 1.40p.m.

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