Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 June 1889 — Page 3

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%Ut bspiv boon «cn omm whm Tom And t, some nxautroM wbaie te win, Went fishing In the rocktncctMlr

Off tbeptazzawltbaplnT Our will were epr«aa,onranefaori weighed, We were the captain and the crew, Far oat from land on cbutag warn

Before the gale ne rocked and flew. -Mow ichool of m-ckerel pawed as by. Now dolphin* came la rainbow flodu, Now, lifted on a distant wave,

utrange mermaldeo combe her lock*. Cape FlnUterre, and Baffln'a Bar, And Crusoe's I*l«, and Bed 8ca ihores _,"We left behind, and saw ahead

Van Dlemeo's Land and the Azores.

.We breakfasted in Behrtng Straight, And then, for the sweet sake erewblle A)f Mows and the bolrashes,

We caught our dinner In the Nile.

But for rve reasons that we had, Some memories of delightful scenes, Jit nightfall we a harbor made

Always within the Philippines. We boxed the compass as we pleased, The winds from erery side was blown, .'•.Oeography and time, and spa«e, .. In that line voyage were all our own.

Sometimes the storms about us burst. And we went slipping round the deck. Sometimes we rocked so near the edge

We narrowly escaped a wreck. Far oil we saw the huge whale spout Just over the horizon's rim. But though we sailed, and sailed, and sailed,

We never quite caught up with blm.

And never shall we steal from time Ous half so glad as those wberein We fished In the old rocking chair

Off the piazza with a pin.

-[Harriet Pnscott flpofford in Youth's Companion, __ ..

OLD MR, HENDERSON.

TBy Helen Varick.]

One day Ethel and her mother went room hunting in New York, and on that day they fell across old Mr. Henderson. Etnel thought then, as she thinks now, "that he was the most unique old person —always excepting old Mrs. Henderaon —that she ever saw or heard of. 5:

Ethel and her mother belonged to that numerous class—reduced people. Their reduction, as Ethel called it, compelled them to live in other people's houses inste&d of their own.

At first they tried boarding, but after a few weeks of it, Ethel cordially agreed with a certain Euphemia she happened to read about, who hated boarding, and who never felt at home except when she was out, and who finally, in desperation went to housekeeping in an old canalboat

Ethel told her mother she would be forced to hunt a canalboat too, if they continued to board, so they talked the matter ofer, and concluded to try the furnished room and caterer plan.

They looked over the advertisements, selected those most likely to suit, and started on a tour of inspection.

No. east Twenty-fifth street was a very desirable location—near Madison Square, near all the places one is likely to want to get to. The parlor and bedroom that were to let were handsomely furnished, capable of being made homelike and charming With a little exercise of Ethel's asjthetic tastes, and—best of all—reasonable in price, considering all the advantages.

Ethel's mother decided to take the roomB, and the usually pretty and well mannered young Irish woman said they had best stop in the reception-room and make the final arrangements with old Mr. Henderson—"the jold gentleman who keeps the house, ma'am."

So into the reception-room they went and a very entertaining place Ethel found it, while they awaited the advent of Mr. Henderaon. It was a small room, and it seemed smaller than it really was, because of the lot of furniture and odds and ends of all sorts it contained.

The most prominent feature was two large paintings—though really itjMems a libel on art to call them paintings—full length representations of girls of eight and ten years of age.

One was a blonde and one a brunette. They were dressed exactly alike in blue dresses that appeared to have been inflated from under the dresses drooped long pantalettes with lace ruffles, and below the ruffles were the flattest of feet, encased in brown gaiters.

The artistic ensemble was so striking that Ethel quite lost herself in its contemplation, and had not time to make an inventory of the rest of that unusual room, before Mr. Henderson made his appearance. Mr. Henderson was well worth a second glance.

He bowed

often and so profoundly

as he advanced into the room that Ethel thought he must have lived in China and caught the fashion from the mandarians.

He did not at first give the impression of being an old man he was tall, thin and wiry, with a smooth face, a very curly auburn wig and two rows of the whitest and evenest artificial teeth. As he came nearer, the lines and marks of time Bhowed that he was way past his meridian.

His coat was not new, and he wore a great deal of necktie wound around a tall collar.

His manner, like his coat, was eminently of the

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school." He bowed

and waved his hand whenever the opportunity offered, and indeed when it did not. He made old-fashioned compliments to Ethel on her youth and beauty, and older fashioned ones to her mother.

After the arrangements of taking the rooms were completed—and he seemed to regard the idea of renting rooms as a gigantic joke—he favored the ladies with some chapters of pereonal history. It is easy to give Mr. Henderson's words, but his manner—the deep chest tones he employed—the impressive way in which he would first thrust his hand in the breast of his ooat, and then wave it

racefully in the air, is something that description, written or oral. "Yes," said he, "we live here alone, my wife and I she's a very old lady, muoh older than I am. I'm 72, she's 76. We bought this house nearly forty years ago, andhave always lived in it. Our children are all dead but one, my son James. "Those"—waving his hand at the remarkable paintings—"are our two daughters, Wilhelmina and Margaret they were young ladies .about your age, my dear, bowing to Ethel, "when they died "We have two grapd SODB living in Boston their father wae my eldest son. He bad two much brain—really too much brain, and he died of it about three years ago. My son James is married and lives over in Jersey with his wife's people, so we old folks are left alone, and as we

need so few room* I thought Tdljrt out, for company, you know, and ttm —in a burst of oonfideoee—"it helps to pay the taxes. "Mrs. Henderson don't take any interest, so Ellen—that's the girl you sawEllen, she runs the houses I'm just a sort of janitor, ha! ha! and I potter about down here and read a great deal— I'm a great thinker. I am not in business now. I was a successful cloth merchant A good many people could tell you about Abram Henderaon, the great cloth merchant but I've retired from business now."

He had so much to Bay, it was some time before the ladies could break away from him. When finally they bade him good-bye, and went on their way, Ethel's mother wondered if they had done a wise thing in engaging the rooms. "It is so odd for a man to keep the bouse, and be seems such a peculiar old man," said she. Ethel agreed with her that he was peculiar, "and," she added, "that's just why I am glad we are going there. I feel sure he will prove the greatest source of entertainment, and that when that nice Ellen gets a little acquainted with us, we shall hear no end of funny things about him from her."

And they did though they had lived quietly and comfortably, and, indeed, too uneventfully,' Ethel thought, for nearly a month in Mr. Henderson's house, before they heard anything of the old man.

They had met him once or twice in their incomings and outgoing?, and he had been most respectfully profound and profoundly respectful in hie greetings. On this occasion as they were about going out, he stepped from the receptionroqtn into the hall, and accosted them. He shook hands with great empreesement not only once, but twice, and begged to know if they were entirely comfortable. "Anything," said he, almost with tears in hiseyee, "anything that I can do to—to augment, yee to augment your happiness, only let me know of it. You must not mind Mrs. Henderson not calling on you"—here this voioe fell into a stage whisper—"you musn't mind her she is a very old lady, she's jealous of me—jealouB of me. I'm still a young man, you know, if I am seventy-two. I'm active and gay—"

He was prepared to talk right on, but Ethel's mother said it was too bad, but they were in somewhat of a hurry, and would have to continue their conversation with him some other time. "Well," exclaimed Ethel as they left him bowing and waving in the* doorway, "I am not sure, but I really think he is a little—just a little off, you know."

The next morning, when Ella came to attend to the rooms, she told them, laughing a little, that Mr. Henderson had asked her if he bad "made a fool of himself talking to the ladiee" yesterday. "The truth is, ma'am, he takes a little too much sometimes nothing strong, you know, only them Angostura bitters and a drop of whisky, but the leaat bit sets him off and makes him too talkative. Indeed, he is very much mortified to think he spoke to fou at all," said she.

By degrees Ethel and her mother heard a great many amusing incidents of the Henderson regime from 13i(en.

It seemed they were the first ladies to whom rooms had been let. Heretofore only gentlemen were permitted tooocupy them, on account of old Mrs. Henderson's antipathy to her own sex.

She considered Mr. Henderson a very hnnrinnma and fascinating man, and it was gall and wormwood to her to hear him making polite and effusive speeches to the ladies, and to hear the ladies being amiable to him—she always heard, because Mr. Henderson was rather deaf, and the ladies had to be pleasant in forte voice.

She hated the housekeeper, Ellen, cordially, for she thought her too young and pretty to be under Abram'a constant observation but then Bhe hated all the other housekeepers they had tried even worse, and it was difficult- to get good girls to stay.

Ellen paid no attention to the old lady's grumblings, but was under orders from Mr. Henderson so the old lady had to put up with her, though, of course, under protest.

Mrs. Henderson hated music only a little less than Bhe hated women so, although in her private parlor there waa an elegant piano, it was never opened— except, indeed, on one occasion when, she was exceedingly vexed with A-bram, as she called him—then she opened the piano and banged away at random on it in away to wake the echoes, as a vent to her overcharged feeings.

She had seen Mr. Henderson with a candle in his hand, peering in all the nookB and corners of the staircase, and tven in her room, a place he Beldom visited. When she wanted to know what he was looking for, he said he had dropped his upper set of teeth somewhere, and asked if she had seen them. "Not I, indeed," snorted the old lady. "You were gay last night (so she always termed his wanderings from the paths of temperance) I heard you you did not come iu until 10 o'clock." "You've lost them in some of your haunts ("hants," she pronounced it), I suppose. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Teeth, indeed!" And outraged at the thought of the money it would take to get a new set she flew to the piano and made "Rome" and Abram "howl" together.

Poor old Mr. Henderson bad to hie him to the dentist's and order another set of teeth. He kept hidden in his little den for three daya until they arrived and he once more could face his fellow sn.

That very afternoon as he came home from settling the bill for his new teeth, he dived way down in his veet pocket for something, and if there wasn't his old set He had put them there when he did not just where he was, or what he

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or who he was, and had

never once thought to look therefor them. If old Mrs. Henderson was jealous of her husband, old Mr. Henderson was jealous of his wife—though in a less degree.

Now, the old lady was very fond of the sterner sex, and she particularly singled out her doctor—a rather young man—as her favorite. The doctor, who probably had an eye to the main chanoe and hoped the old lady would remember him handsomely in her will, used to send her presents on Christmas and at Easter, and such times. One afternoon there came a ring at the door bell, and the old gentleman chancing to answer it, a boy handed him a large, beautifully blooming rosebush in a handsome pot, for Mrs. Henderson.

He took it in the reception-room and rang violently for Ellen. When ahe oame, he was in a great state of excitement "Here, Ellen," said he, "that jackanapes of a doctor—i know it's him— has had the impudence to send my wife this rose bosh. She shan't hate it—I say she shan't have it Don't yon tell her it came. You take it right up to Mr. Blank's room (Mr. Blank was a club man who had a room in (he house) and present it to him with my oomplimeata —Mr. Henderson's compliments—d'ye understand?"

Ellen took the bush up, and it waa

with thaaks by Mr.

About an hour later she stopped aMit Heoderaoc'a room aboutsoa—thing. The old lady waa entertaining bar daoghtar-in-law, who had oome over from to spend a oouple at daya. with folui

As EUen was leaving the room ah* happened to hear the daughter-in-law aay: "By the way. Mother (HendenRW, I bought yon a pretty rose bush at Klunders this morning. I thought th^y would have sent it before this."

Ellen flew down stairs and told Mr, Henderson. "And the doctor didn't send it after all?" he cried. "Good gracious, Ellen, what will I do? I can't take the bush beck bom Mr. Blank—the man would think me a Cool. What on earth will 1 do?"

The best thing EUen could anggeat waa for him to go to Klundeia and try to get one just like it So off trotted the old man. He had only a very vague ideaof what the thing looked like, ne bad been ao incenaed at ita arrival, bat fortunately the young man at Klunden remembered the kind of roae sent to the Henderaon address. So, aoon after the old man got home, along name another bush foraire. Henderson, almoat a duplicate of the one originally intended for her.

Not long after this little episode^ Mr, Blank gave notice of hie intention to vacate bis room—he was going to be married.

The old lady wandered over into it, and there she saw the rosebush. "Dear me, Ellen," said she, "Mr. Blank has a rose-bush exactly like mine. It seems aa though they ought to be together, and when he goes to housekeeping I shall have to send him my rose-bush as a companion to his." Ana she did.

Young Mrs. Blank waa quite pleased with the idea of her husband having been such a favorite with those "dear old aouls he lived with, you know," that they ireeented him with twin rose bushsa.

Ihe will never know the train of circumstancea that led to their presentation.

Every few daya Ellen had some funly whinesal lit) le doing of theold folia to regale Ethel with. The quiok-witted young Irish woman took in and appreciated the domeatio comedy that waa always going on under her eye, as keenly

did the young lady who waa such a delighted auditor when ahe related the various incidents. Some things staggered Ellen a little, though, and aha would come to Miss Ethel for an explanation.

Among other peculiaritiea both the old people had their own erratic viewa on the subject of eating. They ate juat when and whatever their fancy suggested. They did not have meals cooked regularly in the kitchen. Mr. Henderson waa a generoua patron of a first-class delicatessen near by, and would often come home loaded down with all sorts of cooked stuffs for Mrs. Henderson and himself. They were both extravagantly fond of hog's-head cheese.

One day Mr. Henderson ate a great quantity of it, and aa he had been drinking a little, he grew quite sick, and had to go to bed. He waa sure he waa going to die. He aent for bis wife and told her he was going-he had eeen all the children, John and Wilhemina and Margaret, and they were waiting for him.

Poor old Mrs. Henderaon waa overcome. She was very fond of A-bram, when she was on good terms with him (which unfortunately waa seldom), and she begged him not to leave her, and finally prevailed on him to take an emetic, after which he rallied very quick-

Ellen came up to toll the ladiea how the old man hid been. "And Miss Ethel," she said," he says he had fatty degeneration of the heart, but he threw it up. and "What?" demanded Ethel,. "Well, indeed, Miss, he Baid that a pieoe of the fatty degeneration came up, ut I'm more for thinking it was some of that hogshead cheese." "I quite agree with you," said Ethel, shaking with laughter.

Ethel often told her mother in those days that she really thought the amount of free entertainment they had enjoyed since living in the Henderaon house almoat made up for the aocial privations they were compelled by their limited in* come to undergo.

As a rule, the old gentleman waa very particular to whom he let the rooma but on one occasion when he waa a little "gay" he rented a small one to a man of doubtful looks and antecedents named Potter. Pretty soon Potter seemed to forget that Mr. Henderson did not rent rooms entirely for love, and let the weeka run by until he owed quite a little aom.

The old man waa in a great way. He wanted his money and he wanted Potter out of the house so one Saturday afternoon he told Ellen to keep on the watch for Potter, and aa aoon as she caught him to say that Mr. Henderson wanted 869 him. "I'll tell him he must go," said Mr. Henderson. "I won't 'have him in my house he is not a gentleman he cornea home drunk, and he's an objectionable character. He shan't Btay—I'll have nothing to do with him and he shall pay me my bill, too, or I will go to law," and the old gentleman retired to hia little den ana took frequent doses of whisky and bitten to brace up hia nerves for the coming interview. "And do you know, misa,"said Ellen, in telling Ethel about it,

hardly got a

bit of work done for waiting and watching for that Potter. Aa night came on, I kept running oufin the. yard and looking up to see if there waa alight in hia room—thinking perhaps he might have alipped in when I was off guard a minute. 'About 8 o'clock the old gentleman, who was pretty well under the weather, tot tired of waiting and went out. An iour or more afterward I atepped out on the stoop for a breath of fresh air, and there oame the old man ataggering along, with hia hat on one aide, looked arma with some man, and when they got under the lamp who should I aee it waa but Potter nimaelf. "When they got in the house I beard Mr. Henderaon telling Potter to make himself at home and not to mind about that little he owed. 'I'm a well off man,' aaya he, 'and I don't want any money from you. I've got money in the -bank. Here—here's $10 for you,'and I peeped into the room, aad there he waa giving that beat of a man more drink and money, jsat aa pleasant aa you please. And there I had been tiring myself to death watching for Potter to make him pay up. Mr. Henderson will be mad enough with bimaelf when he comes to his senaea and I tell him what he has done. But did ever you know auch an old man, Mias Ethel?"

Ethel had not the alightest hesitancy in semiring- her that never had ahe known anybody like old Mr. Henderaon.

When the spring time rolled round the little grandaona oame on from Boston to visit the old people. They were bright, aturdy little fellows, and Mr. Henderson waa vary proud of them. Ha took them lota of trips to all aorta of plaoss

Angoatura" bitters and whisky wefe tabooed, and ha kept straight enough untO the fourth week of thau stay than one day whan ha had them out, inclination got the better of good intention,

then a tittle mors, awl got a highly gsnerooa and jabilast tint.

Tfeelittle boys did not know jo* wbatto make of grtindps, he was so queer, fle bought tbegraataat amount of useless trash on their way boawr among other things, three Japanssa par aaote, which he insisted on their raiaing and carrying.

Ethel, glancing from bar Window, wondered what eo many people were looking at, and putting ber head out, there, Bearing the door, was the tall old man,with hia hat and. hia wig both

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vivid one* over than. ben Ethel and her mother packed their trunka to go away for the summer, Ethel fairly sighisd to think that ahe waa going to lose sight of theold people.

She waa going to £e married while away, and she and her mother would not live in New York aftor that but aha reaolved that whenever she visited the city aha would atop in and sea and bear all ahe could of old Mr. Henderson.

THK LIKE-KILN CLUB.

Ike Bight HOB. Blackberry Dsvla Dellon Lecture. "I ar* pleased to a-nounoe de fack dat de Right Hon. Blackberry Davis, of Charlotte, No'th Caroliny, ar' wid us to-night," said Brother Gardner, aa the meeting opened in due and ancient form, records the Datroit Free Press. "De Hon. Davis ar' known to moaa'of you aa de inventor of root beer, an' de man who fust found out dat a dog aleepin' under the bed made it enhealthy fur de pussons above. He ar' on hia way to da Norf Pole, an' baa atopped off yere fur a day or so to wiait dia club an* caliber hia address. Da ad-

Ma which he will favor us wid to-night ar' named 'De Laws of Health,' an' I trait dat he will receive your ondivided attonehun while he spsaks. He will now be brung in an* interfaced."

The honorable/ didn't waste muoh time in getting down to busineea. He investigated the contents of the pitcher of buttermilk placed before him with a sign of satisfaction, wiped off his mouth from north to south and back again, and in a voioe resonant of cow-bella and liberty, he Baid: 'My frens, what ia health? I doan' spose one single puesun india hall haa eber giben de leaat thought to dat queahun. Dar' ar' two sorts of healthgood an'bad. 1

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Agitation.] Some of ua

nev one sort an* some de odder. Aa a rule, man ar' bo'n in good health. Natur* starts him out all right, an' it anything poena to gin him the biliyoua collick, it'a hie own fault. [Suppressed groans.] Darar'eartin lawa to govern society, aioh aa not atealin' anybody's chiokens keepin' away from odder people's wood-piles gwine right by a smoked ham which de butcher haa keerleasly left hangin' out doahs ober night. (Sensation on the back Beats.] If you obey dose lawa you needn't be akeert' an jump under de bed when a policeman knocks on de doah. If you doan' obey' em you must suffer de quenseoonsee. 'My frens," continued the orator after looking into the pitcher again, "dar' am eartin lawa icgardin' health. Dey ie natur's laws. She holda -us jist aa accountable aa de police. Fur instance, if Picklea Smith invites Samuel Shinober to hia houae to dinner, what doee Samuel do? He doan' aat nuffin' fur two daya befo' hand, when he sots down to dat table, groanin' wid all de luxuries which wealth kin purchase, he palkerlatea on filling right up to de brim. He eats till dey hev to draw him away from de table. He haa transgressed a law of natur'. Natur' says we mus' not obercrowd our stomachs. [Agitation.] Along about midnight Samuel is tooken wid awful pains, and three doctors hev bard work to save hia life. [Faint cheers.] "Natur' says we need 'bout eight houra sleep. Qiveadam Jonea goee ober to Bee Elder Toots, an' dey aot an' play checkers till 2 o'clock in de mawnin'. Nex' day boat am limpin' around an' growlin' 'bout de weather an' cuBsin' de rioh. [Agitation.] Dey transgressed a law of natu'an' ar*payin' de penalty but in deir ignerance dey lay it to anything else. Shindig Watkina hires out fur a private watchman at a saw-mill. Seven o'clock cornea an' he laya hieaelf away on a pile of lumber an' aleepe till half past six denex' mornin'. Den he gits up an' growla about dis bain' a billyus kentry, an' labor bein' crushed by capital, an' goee home to tell de ole woman dat liberty am a sham an* a delusion. He tranagre6aed a law of 'natur—slept too long. [Gasps of SBtoniahment.] "My dear frens," continued the orator, aahe gulped down the 1 aat of the buttermilk, "dar am sartin puaaons who regard de human stomach as a soft o' carpetbag furniahed free gratia by natur*. In da oo's of a day dey will throw in whisky, beer, ginger ale, soda water, coffee, ice water, meat, 'taten, augar, vinegar, apples, berries, vegetables, an' whatever else cornea handy. De stomach kioks, or orter, an' de owner ia greatly aurprised about it [Cheers.] it is only indelss'five r'are dat de cull'd people of dia kentry lev come to realize dat dey had lee an' lunge. [Sensation.] Colonel Huckleberry Johnson used to wonder why de smell of burnin' Lathers choked him up, but he sot it down aa a monopoly of some sort He let hie three dogs sleep under his bed an' went around rueasin' dat a rat had died, under de loiiea. Laughter." "Dar am aartin lawa of health whioh ar' arbitrary an' ar' broken at your peril. "Doan* go to aleep wid yoUr feet eticking up to a night breeze to cool off. "Doan' sprinkle da sheets wid ice water to cool off the bed. "Doan' gat yer ha'r clipped off when de wind ia in de norf. "Djan* let yer feet go from October to June an' den draw a hull tub of cold water an' try to get fraw with de job in one evenin*. "If you hev bin chased by de police until you perspire doan' ait down on a bar'l in de alley an' let de breeze blow ober you tooool you off. "You mua' remember dat de air ie full of bacteria and microbes. Dar ar' varus aorta erf 'em. An ole ca' pet on whioh eeben young chill'en hev bin brang up, along wid twice seben yaller dogs, will {in out microbes when shook. If you inhale 'em you may be took wid almoat aay complaint from earache to gwine orazy. A dead cat left alongside de front (ate, or a load of ole potatoea and bonea left around da back doah will throw off bacteria at de rate of 2,000 ponndato 4a tquar' inch. Yon may dodge 'em and oootiner yer wild career, but you may be tooken down like a flsah, and not even hev time to make a will. [Shuddaia all along the back rowa.] "My freoe, you cant be.too keerful to keep welL Obey da lawa of Natur* an' you may live a hundred y'aia. I feel honored b* da privileges of ateearin' befo* yon. If I hadn't nuffla' eue to do I should sartinly move to Detroit an' jina dia dub. [Chaera.] Wid thanks fur yar alna attanabnn, an' hopin'de asadnaa fell on epecific sile, I now bid yon gocdbfa."

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Plant Sale!

Thirty Days.

AoDKBaa:

wall grown novelties Mry Kveryboey Is tots eall and sis for

FARMERS

LITTLE!

Welgtxt 25 Pounds.

Handsome Metal Base. ..

Braik Trsat-

guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Mad

Can be Used in AnyKind of Stove.

Dimensions: Base, 22 16 in. Height, 28 inches.

E a a wire cloth trays, containing 12 square feet of tray surface.

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/U«y°urW AR SAKT* Cum VOAP.

CHICACO.

PHCENIX

Foundry and Machine Works

NINTH STREET NEAR UNION OEPOT, TERRE HAUTE, IND. Binmonnn or

Engiries, Boilers, Mill and Mining Mactiiijery.

ARCHITECTURAL IRON WORK A SPECIALTY.

Belting, Beltiai Cletfc, Pipe, Brass deeds, and Alt Kinds ef Mill aad Hiachlaery Bspplles. tW Jagtws aad Boiter Repairing promptly attswdsrt to.

Is selling fine suits at wholesale prices. A fine line of pants at less than cost. Overalls from 35c to 60c.

A big line of straw hats at cost. Also everything in the notion, line for both ladies and gents.

Give us a call and you will save money.

1238 MAIN STREET.

SEE FENNEL & LITTLE FOI?

Monarch Gasoline Stoves, Ice Cream Freezers,

SCREEN DOO^S AND WINDOWS.

1200 Main Street—Cor. Twelfth and Main Streets.

EAST MAIN STREET HARDWARE STORE AND TIN SHOP."

AND PBCIT RMS!

EVAPORATE YOUR OWN FRUIT.

THE "U. S."

THOROUGHLY TESTED AND APPROVED.

CHEAPEST

FACSIMILE OF MACHINE COMPLETE-PRICE $7.00.

If IS THE GREATEST LITTLE BREAD WINNER ON THE MARKET.

With it you can at odd timea, aammar or winter, evaporate enough wasting fruit t&, for family use, and enough to aell or exchange for all or the greater part of you roceriee, and in fact houaehold expanaea.

As a Great Economizer and Money-Maker for Rural People it is without a rival.

Has it ever occurred to you that, with little labor, wasting apples, berries and rag atablea can be quickly evaporated, and are then worth pound for pound for flour augar, coffee, butter, rioa,*oatmeal, etc?

TO THE LADIES 0! THE H0DS8I0LD TOWI OR CODHTET.

IT IS A LITTLE GOLD MINE.

No labor you can perform for cash returna [paya aa well aa that of converting wasting Fruita into evaporated stook. These praducta are among the highestpnoed luxuriea in food products. Evaporated peachea, cherries and raspberries, 20 to 25 ceots per pound apples, pears, blackberries, eta, 10 to 15 cente all aalable to or may be exchanged with your grocer for anything he sells.

We will send this complete Fruit Drier (freight paid to any part of the United Statoa) and the

WEEKLY EXPRESS,

On* Tear, for $5.

GECfeM. ALLEN,

BEST

xtra Fires.

Always Ready for Use and Will Last a Lifetime.

Easily and quickly set off and on the to a empty or filled with fruit.

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Publisher The Fxpr

SSSJS!

Terre Haute. Ind.