Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 June 1889 — Page 2

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Richmond is one of the cities which have lately passed an ordinance for a $250 saloon license. They are all doing it That is to say, all except Terre Haute which alone of Indiana cities receives no revenue from the saloons.

Every city in the state collects something from the saloons as a revenue except Terre Haute and nearly all of them are changing the amount of license to the full amount—$250—permitted by the new law. Is it the logic of this contrast that Terre HBute is wiser and better governed than all these other cities or is it that Terre Haute is lees able to assert its rights and obtain all that is due it under a policy of good government?

While the president of the United States, who works more hours each day than any workingman, was at Cape May he went to see a game of base ball. We have no doubt that this will cause a great deal of criticism by those able editors whose chief aim in life is to pose as the incarnation of all wisdom and who perform only such labor themselves BB is involved in writing articles intended to convince the reader that the writer is truly great.

We Vigo county people have been taking a great deal of pride in the horses raised on the blue grass of Kentucky because the seed from which first sprouted the now famous blue grass of Kentucky was obtained here at Ft. Harrison prairie by the troops engaged in the Indian war and carried back to old Kentucky by them, but this thing of letting a horse from way out in the bulfalo grass country win all the great race events will cause UB to hang our heads in shame.

General Butler in his four column letter attacking Admiral Porter makes some very positive statements, but THE EXPRESS lives in hope that the one in letterfe

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based than any of

the rest. True, he intimates that he has a reserve supply of ammunition to fire at a vulnerable part of the admiral's career, and it is quite likely he has, but let's have done with it all. Neither Butler nor Porter can ohange the records and each has managed to secure a distinction in the history of the war, not altogether enviable and yet not despicable, by valor and the use of opportunity for bombastic emanations of their pens. As good, if not better, fighters fought as well as they did, and to as good if not better purpose, and used far less ink up to this year of our Lord which is many years later than the day on which the war was brought to a close.

(ieneral Simon Cameron was (or many years a notorious character In American politics. His brief connection with President Lincoln's cabinet marked the zenith of .his political career. His days have been lengthened beyond thealloled span of life. The end seems near.

It is 100 to 1 that the Gazette could not furnish any reason for this brutal paragraph other than its purpose to hit a man who at the time was not quite so far down as six feet in the grave. The one who writes of Simon Cameron that 'the zenith of his political career" was the connection with Lincoln's cabinet writes himself down as wholly unacquainted with national politics up to 1872 at least. Simon Cameron was a power in 18G4, 18G8 and 1872 in the national conventions of the Republican party and from the close of the war until 1874 he was a leader in the United States senate. The easy use of the "notorious' with the lack of information as to this prominent man's career displayed in the nbove paragraph furnishes another instance of the recklessness of dyspeptic journaism.

WEST POINT ARISTOCRACY.

The military academy seems to be turning out too many officers and the ranks of the army seem too much depleted by desertions. At least the reports that come through the red tape of the department at Washington would indicate as much. How would it operate if for a while a few privates became officers? Perhaps '.there would be encouragement rather than curses for the private soldier in such a change hope rather than oppression by insolent superiors, and in the end a morale for the rank and file that would make of our skeleton army what it should be, a nucleus for a strong and vast array of men equal to any emergency.

The private soldier is merely an excuse for the existence of the officer who commands him, and, in many instances, heaps intolerable abuse upon him, so that if he be a man of spirit, as a soldier Bhould be, he will not submit and none but a loafer will enlist, seeing no likeli-

hood of decent treatment or prospect of promotion. The desertion of one-third of the men in line each year points to a logical cause and we have no doubt that the true one is to be found in this wall •V.: ... .•

between men who are All enlisted in the army of a free and equal country..

ONCE MORE THE MUTTON."

Speaking of the Clay comity troubles the esteemed TEBBE HACTJB EXPRESS says: Every sensible person knows that the use of oil and natural-eas fuel has deprived the coal industry of a large part of its market.

That's what the Sentinel said last October.— [Indianapolis Sentinel. But that is not what Senator Voorheee said this spricg. The senator made a direct application of the condition of the coal industry to the "robber tariff." Will the Sentinel, which was so quick to criticise his vote in favor of 75 cents duty on coal now criticise his assertion that the tariff has brought on the strike and consequent distress in the block coal field? It must do so if it would be consistent.

However,

the Sentinel is not honest

when it usee THE EXPEESS paragraph to it appear that THE EXPRESS takes the position that the tariff duty is no protection to the industry. Nor must it be understood that THE EXPRESS believes that the 75 cents a ton duty on bituminous coal has any effect at all on the market price of the Indiana product but the duty does protect the Indiana miner. While imported bituminous coal if admitted free would not enter into competition with the product of any of the mines that supply the Western market it would close the sea coast market to the West Virginia and Virginia mines whose miners would straightway come West and the inexorable law of

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and demand of labor

would soon place the bituminous miners at the mercy of the operators as has the over supply of miners in the block coal mines placed them at the mercy of the operators.

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Home, Sweet Home.

Mr. Brlggs—Whom do you consider the ablest at is Mr. N. Peck—John Howard Paine.

A Question of Efciket.

Correspondence Editor—Here's a young woman wants to know whether she should allow her young man to take her arm. I hardly know how to answer It.

The Religious Editor—It all depends on whether she has a plump arm. A Far-Seeing Father.

Mrs. Brlggs—Uncle Moses, have you named the baby yet? Uncle Moses—Oh, yes, we dun named her free weeks ago. Ole woman she wanted to call de chile Liza, but I hear a geman down to destoah readln' out'n de paper dat In twenty yeahsfum now de whole kentry would be owned by de 'Cindy Kates, and 'Cindy Kate Is what we done named er.

A Fair Exchange.

Sharp-eyed Speculator—Is there any chance, do you suppose, for me to buy your Insane Asyium? Chicago Citizen—What the dickens put such an Idea as that into your head?

Speculator—I was thinking of moving it down home—I'm a Richmond man myself—and putting it on exhibition on the site of the old Llbby Prison.

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A tloatlng roomer—The trans-Atlantic passenger, The tombstoae Is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on Its face at the same time. corcfthg to the Chicago Tribune. Exactly. And that's the very reason they are so doosld slow about annexing themselves.

Another engagement has been broken, merely because the young man, in the fullness of his affection, wrote "I used to be troubled by night" mares, but since we met they have entirely left me and instead of them I now dream of you."

Anew religion has been started In Burmah which Is described as "a mixture of Christianity with Buddhism." Its followers observe the Sabbath after the manner of the christians and abstain from strong drink after the manner of the Buddhists.

And yet I know the sunset glow Long lingers o'er the saffron leas sings Nellie Talbot Kinkead, In the CourierJournal. The intelligent compositor who refrained from making that last line Into "saffron teas let a great opportunity pass which may never occur to him again.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Boston Journal: It Is said that the Samoan conference marks our debut In European dlplo macy.

New York Tribune: There probably never was a criminal case more prolific of blunders and mistakes than the Cronln murder.

Philadelphia Press: There Is a growing belief that the echoes of Bishop Potter's great mugwump sermon were drowned In the big Hood.

Toronto Mall: The Investigations of the detectives in connection with the Cronln murdercase seem to have resulted In the uncovering of a nest of as precious scoundrels as ever walked unhung.

Omaha Herald: If It Is proved that Dr. Cronln's death was the result of a deliberate cousptracr in a secret society, "to cronln" will take Its place In the English language with "to burk."

Bulfalo Express: William Walter Phelps, as Samoan commissioner, has shown that he knows how to handle the Hermans. Why not send him back to Berlin as minister? There's a heap of brains under Phelps' bang.

St. Louis Republic: In spite of the lies told by Woodruff, the person accidentally arrested by the Chicago police on a charge of horse-stealing, It is evident that he is one of the accomplices In the murder of Dr. Cronln and that he is in possession of many of the secrets of the assassination.

Denver Republican: The cause of Irish home rule is worthy of every dollar that has been contributed In its aid, but an American Is under no obligation by reason of his sympathy to Ireland to contribute of his substance to enable a lot of pretended friends of Ireland to line their own pockets with gold.

Atlanta Constitution: To cur minds, the crusade of the Republic Is Ill-advised and foolish. Nothing Is to be gained by It certainly the cause of democracy will reap no benltits [from It. It Is not only premature, but demoralizing, and this without regard to the truth or falsity of the charges made against Governor Hill by the Republic.

Only His Honey's Woiih.

Mr. Wraggs (to lodging house clerk) See here. Mister, I can't sleep, because dat feller in dar nex' room snores so awful.

Clerk—Huh! Yer didn't expect to get a lullaby by der Metrypolitan opera house orchestra fer fifteen cents, did yer?—[ Puck.

A Trick to CatcH Travelers. Some Swiss engineers are planning an rerial railway by which they propose to connect two of the peaks of Mount Pilatus with wire ropes about 2,000 feet long, and to send tourists from summit to sumtnit in cars sliding along the wires.

Iron and Coal In Colorado.

News oomes from Gunnison, Colo., of the discovery of a huge mountain of almost chemically pure manganese of iron, together with almost unlimited veins of anthracite. This manganese is essentially the spiegel eisen of commerce.

An Opening' for Sportsmen. The Union Pacific road offers $2,000 cash to any passenger on any train that will shoot a train robber, and several parties are making frequent tripe in lopee to get a shot.

WON AT LAST

Or, The Legend of Sandystown. [From the Nebraska State Journal. I. "And now, Gertrude, I must bid yon farewell the team well to my eyee at the thought, but alas! it must be done." "And leave me to mourn forever, Henri?" 'That's about the size of it. When I asked your stern parent for your hand he spurned me as though I were a worm. But let him beware! The day will come when 111 be in the spurning bunneM myself."

As he spoke, Henri Wintergreen's eyee were ablaze with anger. .k Although but a poor bricklayer,'he had loved Gertrude Prancee Pedigree as intensely as though he had drawn a great salary in a large wholesale house.

His love was reciprocated. The beautiful girl admired his manly form, his generous disposition, and Btrict integrity.

She had consented to marry him if her father made no kick, and Henri had bravely asked the parent for his blessing, but the wealthy banker haughtily replied that bis daughter should never marry a bricklayer so long as the court knew herself, and the despondent lover could only say a few sad words of farewell to the beautiful girl and depart forever.

The words were soon spoken, and Henri went away into the darkness, while the heart-broken girl fled to her own room, threw herself upon the couch and wept with a bitterness which the author hopes, gentle reader, you may never know.

This is indeed a bleak, barren world. II. Sandystown, the important commercial city in which our story opened, was rivalled by Squawkereville, seven miles distant.

An intense animosity existed between the two places, which grew into a positive hatred as the years rolled on.

When the Great Western syndicate erected a two-story hotel at Sandystown, the Phoenix Occidental syndicate erected a three-story hotel at Squawkereville. The newspapers of the two trade centres were continually quarreling in a most disreputable way, and violence frequently occurred.

One morning, four years after the events narrated in the previous chapter, Mr. Pedigree, the banker, was striding to and fro in his office very excitedly. His brow wore an ominoua frown, while his eyes had in them the light of fury. AB he walked he spoke angerly to a tall, handsome man who stood quietly by, in the following strain: "There's no use talking, Mr. Bulletin, something must be done. If you can't strengthen the Sandystown nine, the Squawkereville outfit will wipe UB clean out of the field. They've won four straight games already, and to-day's game is the last of the series." "I have told you," replied Mr. Bulletin, who was manager of the local base ball club, "that I have signed a phenomenal pitcher from the East, and he's liable to be here any moment. Until he comes I must keep Jimalong in the box. Will you be at the grounds to-day?" "Yes, I want to see at least one game captured from the general ruin. lir nnfiaAQoiriD*) this club for fun."

The manager departed, and a few moments later a tall, Bwarthy young man entered the banker's office, and was coolly received.

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"Mr. Pedigree," said the newcomer, "when I signed as pitcher for your club you promised me the hand of your daughter, Miss Gertrude." "Ob, I did, eh?" replied the banker, with the most withering sarcasm "and prithee, what have you done to have such a reward? The Squawkereville pitcher has walked all around you and made the whole town dizzy. I'd rather see my daughter marry a one-eyed hired man than to tie up with a pitcher who can't hit a church." "Well, you promised her for my bride, and, forsooth, if you don't keep your word I'm going to sail into you ana pound about three bales of hay out of you." "What, knave! You threaten?" "That's what I do."

For a moment the men glared at each other, but the banker fiualiy grew nervous, and in a voice that faltered somewhat, said: "Mr. Jimalong, let us be calm and dispaseioned. You will be in the box again to-day, and if jou win the game for Sandystown, you can marry my daughter before sunset."

The young man deliberated for a time, and then replied calmly: "That will do." When he reached the door he turned, and pointing a threatening finger at the banker cried: "But mind you, no monkey business goes." iv.

Little did the haughty' banker know* that the above conversation had been heard by his daughter, but so it was.

She had come down to the bank to work-him for some stuff, and hearing a conversation in his office, applied her ear to the keyhole and became acquainted with the cruel compact which had been made.

The wretched young female sped to the house with tears streaming down her face.

She abhorred Jimalong.

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He was not her kind of people. He had a squint in his left eye and smoked bad cigars.

Sooner than "splice with him," she murmured, as she flew along,

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nounce the world and move to St. Louis." Reaching her room, she gathered a few of her treasures in four trunks, had them Bent to the depot and went down to take the train. v.

There were fully three thousand spectators at the park when the base ball game opened.

Many of them were from Squawkereville, and their howls of derison when Jimalong took his place in the box could have been heard quite a distance.

Squawkereville had won four straight games, and to win another would forever humiliate Sandystown.

Jimalong was pale but determined. He knew that a life's happiness was at stake, and he intended to govern himself accordingly.

Four innings had been played, and the banker was speechless with rage and mortification, as were many of the best citizens of the town.

The score at this stage of the game stood: Squawk ersvllle. Sandystown

3 2 6 1-11 0 0 0 0-0

The Squawkereville sluggers had

THE TERRE MOlfoAT MORNING, JONE 23/1889,

field, and

poonded Jhnalong all over the ribald jests of the visit town could be heard oa ev

I from their hand. at of faintwent np ndystown

Mr. Pedigree was on the ing, when wild, glad ah from the throats of 2,0" people: "He oomes! he oomes! won!"

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He had indeed arrived. A man magnificent form and commanding presence stepped lightly into fie diamond* took Jimalong's place, and-—

Bat why deecribe the warderful work he performed? Before he had pitctad ftr five minutes he had the visitors BO badlj rattled that they pounded their heads against .the fence. W

His curves are spoken of to this day. When the last inning had been-played the score was thirty-two to eleven in favor of SandyBtown.

But the phenomenon fiercely and thundered '•None of your taffy am Henri Wintei spurned! A vaunt!"

the banker stand and had won

Quivering with emoti stepped down from the sought to honor the the game.

.upon him

giraffe!

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Then the heroic young man went to the depot, where Gertrude was waiting for him, he having met her •hen he came in on the train. The happfteouple went to the next town, were married, and went on a tour to Europe, where Henri was knighted and given a baronial castle by a well-known and popular king, to whom he taughtUUUL

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pitching

EPILOGUE.

Our story is nearly ended. Crushed and mortified by the failure of his atro cious machinations, the banker lost his reason,'and is now confined in a private madhouse, where he persists in calling the superintendent an umpire, and amuses himself by loping around his cell under the idea that he is making home runs.

He is indeed a pitiable object. Jimalong led a miserable life for a few months when he was given a situation as an umpire, and was lynched by an infuriated populace.

Mr. Bulletin, being unable to produce the phenomenon at the next game, was Bent to the Dry Tortugas, and iB now subsisting on roots and barks in those melancholy wilds.

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Thus we see, reader, that virtue always triumphant in the end. The evil man may flourish for a while, but retribution will finally camp on his neck and make him tired.

DJ5KP DOWN NOTES.

Pipe manufacturers will advance the price of pipe on account of the increased demand.

Vincennes Sun: If Princeton has a "gusher" and Sullivan a "starter," does it not argue that Vincennes, lying between, is going to Btrike a "howler."

The deepest wells in Canada are the Sulphur wells at London, 2,250.. feet and St. Catharines, 2,200 feet Nutchell, 2,COO feet, and in none ol these has the Trenton horizon- been reached.

The largest order for wrought iron pipe ever placed in this country is about to be given by the National Transit company. It is for fifty miles of 12-inch pipe. More than one-half of it will be required to supply Sandusky.

Journal of Oil and Gas: The soulstirring cuts which appear in this issue of the Journal were _baa THE UTSKREIDHTRRI, 110erty at any time to forec1|Jr uj electric plant in return for same

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A Bonham, Texas, special says: In sinking an artesian well for the water works in the northern part of the city, at a depth of 860 feet a strong volume of oil was struck. This was examined thiB evening by an expert who is familiar, with the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and he givee hie opinion that it is a heavy lubricating oil worth at least $18 per barrel. A further examination will be made to-morrow, when the exact volume of the oil will be determined.

Mattoon Special: State Geologist Ralph arrived in Mattoon to inspect a number of natural gas flows. The Wilson well, which is the strongest at present, shows a pressure of ten pounds to the square inch, and throws a blaze fifteen feet in the air. The gas is of pure quality. Other wells will be inspected to-morrow. The $10,000 capital stock of the Mattoon natural gas, oil and fuel company has mostly been taken, and it is likely that drilling will soon begin.

A Lima special says: The Standard oil company still continues to reaoh out, and are now making preparations to build an 8-inch oil pipe line from Cygnet to Detroit, for handling fuel oil. The line will connect at Cygnet with the connecting pipe line that is now in operation between this city and Cygnet, and will be run on the same basis as the big Chicago line. The right of way for the new line has all been secured, and work will be oomawnced on July 1st, an'd the line will be rushed along so as to be* ready for the oil by the 1st of September.

Lima special: Wm. Nugent, an oilwell pumper employed by Hoover Bros., went on his trick on the Hetrick lease, about six miles south of this city at mid night, and to-day at noon his dead body was found in a 250 barrel tank,.which was partially filled with Lima oil. How long he had been dead no one knows. He had climbed up on the tank, when one of the boards broke and let him fall. He was suffocated, as there were "no means of escape. Nugent was a single man, about 21 years of age, and his parents live near Dunkirk, N. Y., for which place his remains were shipped to night.

New York World: Reports from Western oil fields say that Ohio oil is being refined at Lima for an illuminant. It is not claimed, however, that the refiners' great desideratum—a means of deodorizing the burning fluid—has yet been found. A lamp in which Lima oil is used will give a fair light, bat the odor it emits is vile. S^H, notwithstanding this objection, there are people in this city who are glad to. get it, and to them, as the report goes, the stuff iB shipped eastward by a large Ohiq.. refinery. Vice President Tack, of the Consolidated exchange, and a recognized authority in oil matters, has just returned from an extended trip through the oil fields of Ohio and Pennsylvania "The reports about the Standard oil people's great activity in the Ohio fields have been somewhat exaggerated," he said yesterday to a World reporter, "but they are doing enough work to retain their leaser. In some Ohio towns, where the refined Lima fluid has been us»d a ma illuminant-, its odor was found so unbearable that, as I learned on my trip, its use was prohibited by the town authorities. In Pennsylvania I found great activity with the drill, but new fields are unproductive, old ones are worked out, and, in view of the rapid rate at whieh the visible supply of petroleum is decreasing, the question, where are the new so' of supply to oome from? grows serious every hoar."

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Kn. IJWCtrj ha4 TtoMd Her CoatnMt. Gustave BrOcbe, a abort, stoat Httle Frenchman, who was cook tor Mrs. Laagtcy for juat a week in February last, •ays the New York San, sued the actress yesterday before Judge Simon M. Ehrlieh in Pert I1L of the oifcy court, to recover the amount of his salary for the week, amounting to $105, and for $112 in extras which Broche alleged Mrs. Luigtry had ordered for the table. Mrs. Ltogtry was not in court, bat was repreaented by her oounsel, Mr. Bowers. Monsieur Broche's case was presented by Lawyer Mathot. Broche was the only witness.

He said he had made a written contract on February 16th last to supply the dining-room and cook the food for $15 a day. This contract was read. Broche's lawyer said he wanted to prove that Mrs. Langtry had ordered extras and supplies for half a dozen people instead of for two. ••Why dont you doit?" said Judge Ehrlich. "With whom did you make this wntten contraot?" Broche was asked. "With Mr. Gebhard."

This was objected to and ruled out because it had not been shown that Mr. Gebhard had any right to represent Mrs. Langtry in commercial transactions. "But," urged Lawyer Mathot, "I want to establish the relation between Mrs. Langtry and Mr. Gebhard." "We are being blackmailed, or some thing," growled Lawyer Bowers, when Mr. Mathot interrupted bim, and declared that Mr. Bowers had offered to pay money to settle the case.

After a fruitless effort by the cook's lawyer to get before the jury a description of the extra viands ordered in the Langtry household, Lawyer Mathot announced that he would abandon the attempt to collect the $113 for extras, and would bring suit for that amount againBt Mr. Gebhard. Judge Ehrlich informed the jury that the terms of the contract should be strictly held to, and the verdict was directed for Broche's salary, $105, with interest from February 16 total, $107.10.

UE HAD A SUCKER.

How A. G. Williams Misused a Friend Who Gave Him Muclt Honey. Los ANGELES, Cal., June 23.—A. Williams, arrested some days ago for forging the name of Arthur Gorham, of Boston, to a draft of $500, had made another statement of events leading up to his arrest. He states that he nursed Gorham for a month while the latter was sick, and that Gorham, on recovering was very grateful, and promised to provide for him all his life. Gorham sent him on a pleasure trip to London, with Wm. Prosser, a nephew of Baroness Hastings, and that He (Williams) remained in London several weeks. 4Ie returned to go on the Btage in Chicago, but Gorham persuaded bim not to take this course, and gave him mors money. Williams then concluded he would go to Australia, and Gorham purchased a ticket for him, signing his own name to the ticket. Williams says Gorham then wrote out

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apers for him to sign, releasing Gorfor a nominal amount, for all claims for services rendered. Gorham Baid he wished to show this paper to his brother Jim, who was greatly opposed to Williams. He promised to give Williams $15,000 in two years if he would sign the paper, and also give him 85,000 i!ie third year. Williams said he signed

Jooumont no Al. O. Bloke. Gorh»m \hen gave him $3,C00 and both went en a spree. The next day when Williams left for Los Angeles, Gorham gave him a check for $100. Williams says he has no fear of consequences that Gorham was very confidetial with him and he don't think the latter can afford to go back on him.

Few Women Stutter.

Few women stutter. The proportion of stutterers must be five men to one woman. Women talk faster than men as a rule. Their lungs are not as free as a man's to expand. Their vocal organs are the same as a man's. The reason why they do not stutter so much as men is chiefly because they naturally sound the vowels more than men do. Men clip words more than women do they talk in a rougher, more abrupt way. From a party of men there does not arise the same soft murmur of conversation that comes from a party of women talking. The woman's voice and tones are softer, which comes to a great extent from the better use of the vowels.—[New York Sun.

She Hopes to be a City Yet. Indianapolis was never more steadily, solidly prosperous than it is to-day. A South Meridian street merchant, who has lived in other cities, said recently: "There never was in Indianapolis such a broad, substantial foundation for a big city as there is to-day. I would rather have my chance here to-day than in fifty other cities I could name. The only thing we don't want is an attempt at a 'boom.' We want to go right along as we are going now—steadily, surely in the right direction."—[Indianapolis News.

Their Other Name is Whiting. When Forepaugh's circus was here the Eddy brothers, "accrobats and tumblers," attracted great admiration. There were but few people in the vast audience that were aware that the "Eddy brothers" are Indianapolis lads. Their names are Whiting, and relatives of the notorious Frank Whiting, killed while trying to escape from^Michigan City. But they are of a very different stripe from their notorious brother.—[Indianapolis News.

An Electrical Change.

Mr. Brush, who was the pioneer in arc electric lights, was a reporter on a Cleveland newspaper at $15 a week, less than fifteen years ago. He still lives in Cleveland, where he owns a $1,000,000 house.

The Africans Will do the Work, The new Congo railroad in Africa, in which a number of American capitalists are interested, will be graded and the track laid by Africans themselves.

Transplantation of Mncons Membrane. Mucous membrane from the mouth has been transplanted successfully to the upper eye-lid, the entire graft living and giving perfect results.

How to Get There.

Grit makes the man and want of it the champ the men who win lay hold, hang on, and hump.—[Oil City Blizzard.

Pickles Too Mnch for Faith.

A Chicago faith healer refused to treat man for dyspepsia because he would eat pickles.

A Good Time to Fish.

Whales are very numerous along the Massachusetts coast juet now.

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There WM a you* lad* named Moll Wbo nordiased anew parasol With a handle so tons

That she had to be strong Or ite couldn't hare held it all. She metayoang man who, twas plain, Wan staggering with might and main

To steady his gait 'Neath the terrible wctaht Of his dreadfully cumbersome cane. So Intent was the beantital Moll On lugging her loog paiasol

That ute passed theyoung swain With the cumbersome cane And never once saw him al all. what a narrow escape tor the swain! Had she recognized him be would fain

Have lifted his hat But bow could be do that And carry bis cumbersome cane? —[Washington Post. Paola, Kan., has rented its public park to a carpet oleaner.

There has been an increase in the population of Denver, Colo., during the last year, the total population being estimated at 125,000.

A London paper advertises: "Lady wanted to draw, at home, original deaigns for coffin furniture." Cheerful employment that, very.

The Bupreme court of Mississippi has imposed two fines of $250 each upon a railroad for failure to provide separate but like accommodations for the black and white raoes.

Lookout for your rubber boots. A Yale sophomore is very seriously ill in New Haven, his blood having been poisoned by the aniline dyes of the lining of his rubber boots.

Down in North Carolina an 11-year-old eon of the bora brick mason is earning his $2.50 a day. He is at work on the outside of the wall, where none but experts handle the trowel.

The ruling passion was exemplified in a Williamsport, Pa., lady who, seeing flood-stained baby clothee sold at a sacrifice, expressed regret that Bhe hadn't a baby to utilize the bargains.

A tramp stole a clothes line worth 25 cents from an Indiana farmer, and eighteen men turned out and pursued him for thirty miles to give bim a switching. The object was to convert him to honesty.

Inspector Byrnes 'says that thirty-five years of observation have satisfied him that only about one person in 100 respects the rights of the general public. The average citizen is pretty near a hog in most matters.

When the doctor was called to see Mrs. Hastings, of Green Bay, the other night, she declared that she had eaten nothing but a pint of cherries two dishes of ice cream, two oranges and a chunk of raisin cake.

At Crystal Falls, Mich., Mrs. Joseph Clark was found Monday with a 3-months-old babe and not a thing in the house to eat. She has lived on a dozen eggs for a week. The good people proyided for the starving woman's wants and will look after her in the future.

There are some curious men on the legal bench in this country. A Connecticut court fines a man $5 for lying in wait to kill his wife and stabbing her and an Ohio court calls it assault anc battery when four bullets are fired into a farmer and be is robbed of his wallet.

An unknown desperado rode into Golden City, Barton county, Mo., began firing right and left and made people dance under penalty of death. He terrorized everybody for twenty minutes and then rode away, but was pursued and captured after being wounded in three places.

The London Times is jubilant over the fact that Irish emigration to America fell off greatly in the month of May and is much below what it was at this time last year. It is expected that the extra steamers which have been for some time past calling at Queenstown will have to be discontinued.

Anthony Burrows, of Walker county, Georgia, has a small pine stump that has been petrified. It is as heavy as stone, cuts hard and resembles a rock, though the Btreaks of rosin and growth can be seen, and beyond a doubt has been a small pine stump, which shows the marks of an ax.

A French chemist named Beaumetz exhibited at a recent meeting of the Paris academy of medicine a new alimentary substance which he names fromentine. It is obtained from wheat by the aid of special millstones and is really the embryo of the wheat reduced to flour. It contains three times more nitrogenous substance than meat, and a large proportion of sugar. It is thought that it may advantageously replace powdered meat as a concentrated food. It may be employed for making soups, and even for making biscuits.

T. S Robins, of Eatonton, Ga., says his father built a house in Greene county in 1854 and a hen laid two eggs in the boxing under the eaves of the house. The carpenter, not knowing the eggs were in the boxing, ceiled them up and left them inclosed. Recently the house was recovered, when the eggs were discovered. As the boxing was tightly ceiled, no one could have placed them there since, hence it is believed they were deposited in the nest when the house was built, which makes the eggs thirty-five years old—the oldest eggs, we suppose, on record.

A Canton letter in the Washington Post bears testimony to the decorous demeanor of the Chinese women. The writer says: "To see the ducks I hired a boat, managed by three women, and spent over three hours on the river. I have had occasion to remark everywhere in my travels the decent behavior of women. Here were three women who were born on a boat and whose whole life was spent on one, and yet they had as much decency and natural modesty os if they bad received a Sunday school education." Most of the large junks are said to have female captainB.

Merrill E. Shepard, of Haddam Neck, Conn., is the owner of a hen which made its nest in the woods near his home and laid several eggs only to desert them finally. A partridge then appeared to usurp the claim, and, after laying a few eggs, settled down for the usual three weeks' stay. Five young rchickens first appeared on the scene, but these were removed by Mr. Shepard in hopes the bird would stay and present him with some young partridges. He was disappointed,. however, but on the principle that fair exchange is no robbery, the partridge eggs were hatched by a hen.

This story comes from Boston: A lady opposed to corporal punishment visited a school, not in a fashionable part of the city, just as a boy was being flogged. Before going away Bhe spoke to the culprit, and asked him to come and see her on a certain evening, promising to make it pleasant for him. At the appointed hour a boy, dressed in his best, came, and for an hour and more the lady and her daughter laid themselves out to amuse him. Then the lady began to speak of the importance of good behavior and obedience to rules, when the fcoy interrupted her: "Oh, I ain't that feller! Hegi'me. 10 cents to oome instider him,"

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Our Special bargain day—Friday— doee not suffice to cover the cuts that at this time we make in so many lines of our large stock. Therefore,

BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 24,

On sale: 200 parasols, all styles, in three lots at $1.45, $1.95 and $2 45 former prices $2.95 to $6. 2 cases ladies'. ribbed vesta 12J^c worth 20s. lease ladies' Jersey-fitting vesta 15o worth 35c. 2 cases ladies' balbriggan vesta worth 40c. 25 dozen ladies' pure silk vests, pink, blue, white and cream,' 75c worth $1.50. 100 dozen gentlemen's half hose, balbriggan, fancy stripejand plain colors 15c sold for 25c. 200 dozen ladies' fine quality striped cotton hose 25c sold at 35 and 45o. 50 dozen ladies' regular made striped cotton hose 15c worth 25c.

Black silk hose G3c worth $1.... .,0' 2G^ dozen ladies' Frenoh lisle hose, in the latest novelty patterns, 95c former price $150 to $2.

A vast variety of Bilk mitts and gloves at .very low prices.

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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All otber trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANOALIA LINE.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) 1.42 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train 10.18 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.15 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.01 p. m. _•

LKAVK FOR TKX CAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (SI 1.90 a.m. No. 6 New York Express (S*V) 1.51 a. m. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.15 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12 42 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line 2.00 p.

ARRL VIC FROM THB KA3T.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) 1.90 a.m. 5a No. 5 Mall Train 10.12 a. in. No. 1 Fast Line »(PAV) 2.00 p. m. No. SMall and Accommodation 6 4fi p. in. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. IU.

ARRIVK FROM THE WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New Y»rk Express (SAV) 1.42 a.m. *7 No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.37 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line 1.40 p.m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

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T. H. 41. DIVISION. L.KAV* FOB THIS WOT. A*

LKAVK FOR TOT NORTH. »_

No. 62 South Bend Mail ai)0 a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p.m. ARRIVE FROM THK NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 69 South Bend Mall 7.90 p. in.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DR. E, A. GILLETTE,

DENTIST. 2\ Filling ot Teeth a Specialty. M*

Office—McKeen's new block, cor. 7th and Main sts

W. R. MAIL. H. BABTHOLFIMTW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

Der)tists.

(Successors to Bartholomew A HalL 629}4 Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

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NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN,

DKNTIST,

All work warranted as represented. Ofllee ano residence 810 Noitti Thirteenth street, Terr* Haute. Ind.

M. A. BAUMAN,

Painting:, Graining, Glazing, Oalclmlnlng and Paper Hanging, NO. 23 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. (Residence, 1KB Chestnut street)

Your Patronage Bespectfully Solicited. »s,v

WORK PROMPTLY DONK. 5'

A. J.GALLAGHER,

PLUMBER,

Gas and Steam Fitter,

424 Cherry Street. Terre Haute

For inventions promptly secured. Reference, bynermission, to Hon. Wm. Made. Address

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O. E. DUFFY,

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