Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 July 1889 — Page 2

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and fur but

THE EXPRESS does not retract

one word it has said in opposition to the action of the city council in selecting Donn Roberts to be city engineer, here's to his health, his family's and may they all live long and prosper.

The journey of the prize fighters eclipses the movements of royalty and nearly surpasses the Interest taken by the people of the great republic in the journey of Ijhe successful candidate to Washington. The only unfortunate incident in this grand display of enthusiasm for the manly art is the proclamation of the southern governors who have been so utterly tried with the Ku Klux murders and wholesale killings that they are now zealously trying to stop a fist fight.

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THE CITY'S WARRANTS. -3C

The city warrants issued by the city clerk yesterday for the June pay roll, and stamped "not paid for want of funds" by the city treasurer, could not be discounted at the bankB, simply because there was no date fixed for their payment and because the city had practically exhausted its credit.

No one can'call THE EXPRESS to account for thisjleplorafcle condition of 'the city's financial condition. This newspaper began sounding the alarm [year ago, indeed five years ago when the high school elephant first carried the debt beyond the constitutional limit. And this spring THE EXPRESS tried to impress on the people the fact that the councilmen to be elected would meet this present difficulty if they did not take quick action to raise money by a saloon license. THE EXPRESS also urged that there was ample room for reduction in the expense of city government. To this latter proposition our esteemed contemporary, the organ of the official advertising ma•®jority of the council, said there could be a saving in refunding the city debt. What bosh! All the debt possible of refunding, if the rate of interest were cut in two, would not result in a saving of $2,000 in the ensuing fiscal year, and the pay roll of tine amounts to $10,000, without a cent in the treasury.

Moreover, the city can't borrow $50,000, leave alone refund the present debt. S:

C. O. D.

JTgr One Day Only.

Let every patriot loudly shout' This Is the day most glorious, To fling the starry banner out

With greetings most uproarious. So, freemen, open out your souls, Also likewise your pockets, And punch ths sky chuck full of holes

With candles, booms and rockets. Let England, Austria, Germany Turn their monarchic eyes on us, And looking from across the sea,

Perceive there areno flies on us.

A Combination of Circumstances. Miss Prye—Doesn't It make you Just a little bit jealous for your husband to have that pretty girl with him In his office all day?

Mrs. Watklns—No. He still shaves at home. When he gets to going to the barber shop may look around a little.

He Did the Best He Could.

"Why do you poison yourself with that vile Stuff?" asked the Prohibitionist of the tramp. 'Cause It's the best I kin afford, You don't expect a poor workln' man to be a-blowln' hisself agin champagne cocktails, do ye?"

O. H.

"We are no alarmist," but it Is highly probable that arnica will reign supreme to-morrow. It Is all very fine to have a phonograph to record your correspondence exactly as you want It written, but It will be an awful task to dictate to one of the darned machines In fly-time.

The average patent-medicine advertisement runs about In this manner: "The doctors know noth Ing about disease, we know less than the doctors therefore do not fail to take our tnfalllble remedy."

Now that Professor John L. Sullivan, ot Boston has lumped the rope 1,000 times "to see if his legs were all right," we may expect to seethe skipping, rope become an Important feature in the curriculum of our dramatic schools.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Minneapolis Tribune: South Carolina justice seems to be about as rotten as] South Carolina politics.

Cincinnati Commercial: The outburst of applause that greets the nomination of Foraker is one of the most remarkable things In the history of politics In this country.

Freeport Journal: The Irish In America are generous and patriotic, and their hearts bleed for the down-trodden of their race on Irish soli, but they are not Intentionally murderers and violators of the law.

Philadelphia Ledger: Mr. Depew seems to rise with each new occasion to greater heights of that

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lain, simple, common-sensible wisdom that was distinguishing characteristic of Benjamin Franklin.

Albany Journal: Douglass, Lynch and Smalls! Another one-day exclamation of Democratic horror over President Harrl»on's "failure to recognize the colored man," has been dissipated by acts which speak louder than words. ©lobe-Democrat It may not be out ot place to remark that never before was there so mach capital being sent from free-trade England for invest ment In this protection-haunted country of ours. Evidently our kin across the sea are wiser in their practice than in their theory.

Globe Democrat: Several cotemporarles have essayed to defend the Clan-na-Gael on the ground that the denunciations of that society have been paid for by British gold. There Is very little of either sense or truth In the argument or In the allegation upon which it Is based." The opposition to'the Clan-na-Gael Is due to the fact that the society Is nn-Amertcan In its objects and methods that It is also anti-English Is a mere coincidence.

THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY.

Whentbe Fourth of bly is mentioned, at once arises a vision of fluttering flags

and

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One War. $10 00 Six Months.....—.. 6 ®i Months One Month....—.. 86 One Month

the Bmoke clouds of booming cannon. The three things have become in separably joined in the American mind. But anew question has arisen in this connection. To-day, how many stars will the flag contain on its azure field? Are there to be forty-two or does the old number, thirty-eight, still prevail?

Some inquiry has been made for answers to these questions among men whose connection with the army and navy makes them competent authority to decide. All agree that forty-two stars on the Fourth of July, 1889. would be premature. Some flag manufacturers, however, think otherwise, and are send ing out the bright banners Btarrier than ever before. They, perhaps, do this from the characteristic American desire to keep "ahead of the procession."

Secretary of the Navy Tracy recently issued an order that government vessels starting on long cruises should prepare to place forty-two stars upon their flags. This was misunderstood by some people, who thought it meant -the new number of stars is to be used immediately. It meant that the vessels should sail prepared to introduce the proper number of stars when the time comes.

But when does the time come? The natural answer would be, "When the new states are admitted," but it would be incorrect. Probably very few people know there is a law regulating this. This law says that the new stars Bhall be added to the flag on the Fourth of July next after the states are admitted. The new states of North and South* Dakota, Montana and Washington have just taken the first step toward admission to the Union.

Congress has decreed that they may enter. Now they must ratify this decree, and then congress must once more take up the matter and formally declare them Btates. It is plain all this cannot be accomplished before another winter. Consequently, according to the law, the flag must contain but thirty-eight stars until July 4, 1890. In the meantime patriots will cheer the red, white and blue with swelling hearts, whether it has thirty-eight or forty-two stare, or no stars at all.

Captain F. M. Green, who has charge of the bureau of navigation in the Brooklyn navy yard, was asked about the change made necessary in the flags by the admissfon of the new states. "We shall not make any radical change," he said. "As the flags now in use are worn out and requisitions are made for new ones, we shall issue those which bear forty-two stars instead* of thirty-eight, as at present. There will be no general change. It would be too expensive. If the change was of such a character as to make a difference to the eye,of course a general calling in of all the flags would be necessary, but you can't tell whether a flag flying in the air has thirty-five or forty stars in the union. "The law about the flag is very vague, anyway. It simply provides that it shall consist of thirteen alternate stripes of red and white, with a white star for every state, on a blue field for a union. The sizes of the flags are not provided for, nor are the sizes or arrangement of the stars. The stars may be in horizontal lines in circlee, in the shape of a big Btar, or in any other shape, and Btill be a regular United States flag. "We have arranged a union which has the stars in six horizontal lines of seven stars each, and changed the shape and size of the flag so as to make the least possible waste of bunting. All of the flags used in the service about here are made in the yard. We generally have a force of about fifteen or twenty women who sew the flags together, and a couple of men who sew the heads on. They were laid off some time ago on account of a lack of funds, but were put to work again July 1, when the new appropriations became available."

Uncle Sam is not a particularly liberal paymaster, and these women do not make wages enough to get rich. They are paid about th^ee and a half cents a yard for sewing, and by working hard are able to make from one dollar and twenty-five cents to one dollar and fifty cents a day.

As is well known, the stars and stripes are hoiBted above each fort and arsenal belonging to the United States, every morning at sunrise, and float there through calm and storm until the booming of the sunset gun. This is required in order that the majesty and omnpiotence of the national government may be continually kept before the minds of the people. It shows that the government is not at Washington alone, but that it is everywhere over the great domain which it rules.

The suggestion has been made that this idea would be still further cultivated in the hearts of loyal citizens if the flag was hoisted in the same manner every day above each government building in the United States. The forts are chiefly on the frontiers, where few inhabitants are clustered about them, and the number of arsenals is small. It the flag ran up every day on the government buildings, it would be seen by the people of nearly every large city in the country. The red flag of the anarchist would be an insignificant bit of rag compared to the great bright folds of red, white and blue gracefully rising and falling high above, as the wind caressed them and the sun shone upon them.

Save Your Strength

Young mothers, be as chary of your strength as a miser is of his money. You will have abundant use for all at your command in the rearing of your children. All used unnecessarily is wasted, squandered. You have a certain life supply, and when this is exhausted, you must fail, though that exhaustion may occur at forty years of age. Like the moments, never returning, the vital supply, that was intended for the whole life, can not return, when once wasted. Let little feet run up and down Btairs to do little errands. It will do the children no harm to do a part, and will favor you very much. Do not lift a whole tub, or even a pail of water, if in any way it overexerts yourself. A little planning, a little time taken for a hard effort, a little rest taken when you are weary, will prove economy. Overwork will prove aB disastrous as the payment of exhorbitant interest.—[Hanaford. J"-

She Can Everlastingly Drink Soda. "There goes a girl who is the champion soda water drinker of Buffalo," said a Main street pharmacist to a man who is addicted to the habit. "Yes, sir," continued the garrulous compounder of nauseous drugs, "that girl can get outside of more soda water than any three girls in the High school. She came in here on Saturday, and, on a wager, poured seven glasses of the stnff down

her pnttgr little t&ioai in joit flftaaa minutes. She drinks at least two glsssw of aqda, with vanilla flavor, tinshe oomes in here."—[Buffalo Express.

HOW KOCKHH

ARI XADK-

PynteelnlMI SwntstM by an Kxpstt ta Che Halted States Army. Rockets are made for three purposes —for signaling, for decorations or celebrations, or as projectiles in war. For signals the charge consists of 12 parts of nitre, 2 of sulphur and 3 of charcoal.

The ornamental or deoorative rocket the one we sse ustfd on the Fourth July, and the composition of whioh it made comprises 122 parts mealed finely pulverized powder, 80 of nitre, of sulphur and 40 of cast-iron filings.

of is

or 40

The main part of the rocket is a case, made by rolling stout paper, covered on one side with paste, around a wooden form, at the same time applying con siderable pressure. The end is then "choked," or brought tightly together, with twine.

The paper case thus made is next placed in a copper mold, so that a conical copper spindle will pass up through the choke, and the cofbpoeition is then poured in and packed by blows of a mallet on a copper drift or packing-tool made to fit over^the spindle.

The top of theease is now closed with a layer of moist plaster ofj paris one inch thick, perforated with a small hole for the passage of the flame to the upper iart, or "pot," writes Lieutenant W. R. lamilton in St. Nicholas. The pot is formed of another paper cylinder slipped over and pasted to the top of the esse and surmounted by a paper cone filled with tow.

The "decorations" are placed in the pot and are scattered through the air when the flame, having passed through the apertnre of the plaster, reaches a emalr charge of mealed powder placed jn the pot. The stick is a piece of pine wood, tapering, and about nine times the length of the rocket. It is to guide the rocket in its flight.

The decorations in the pot may be "stars," "serpents," "marrons," "goldrain," and so jon. "Marrons" are small paper shells filled with grained powder and filled with quick-match. "Serpents" are small cases about onehalf inch in diameter, in which is a composition of three parts nitre, three sulphur, sixteen mealed powder, onehalf charcoal. This composition is driven in the case, the top of which is closed by plaster of Paris, having a small aperture through which passes apiece of quick-match.

INDIANA CAMPAIGN.

Republican Committee Called for July 19 —Chairman Huston Determines to Resign. Special to the Commercial Gazette.

WASHINGTON, July 3.—Treasurer Huston, who is chairman of the Indiana state Republican committee, has issued a call for a meeting of the committee for the 19th inBt., at Indianapolis. This meeting will be a very important one to the party in Indiana, as Mr. Huston will then tender his resignation as chairman. The time is approaching when the preliminary work of the next state campaign should begin. The campaign will be the most important one to the administration that will occur between now and 1892. If the Republicans should be defeated in the president's own Btate, it will look like a condemnation of his administration.

Party leaders here say it would end all chances for his renomination. On that election will hang the question of whether the present Democratic gerrymander of the state is to stand, as well as the choice of a United States senator. Indiana Republicans who are here claim that the party throughout the nation will be interested in this fight. They say the Democrats now hold four seats in the next congress whioh were only obtained through the gerrymander. If these seats were occupied by Republicans they would give the party a safe majority in congress. They point" to the fact that it is admitted the party will lose in the next election

Borne

of the

seats now held, and it becomes doubly important that the Republicans should carry Indiana.

In view of all these facte, the resignation of Mr. Huston is of great interest. His great-success in 1886, and again in 1888, has given the party great confidence in his leadership, and it will be hard to find one who will be willing to aocept the chairmanship. The selection to be made on the 19th will only beto fill the vacancy until the reorganization of the committee next February, but the preliminary work, which will determine practically the final issue of the campaign, will devolve upon him. In view of all the facts and of the great interests involved, many of the Indiana Republicans here have urged Mr. Huston to continue in charge of matters, but he has notified the president that he has determined to resign.

Come to Indiana for Scientists. The officers at the head of natural science work in the United States know where to get competent assistants. This summer Professor David S. Jordan, of Indiana university, accompanied by a young naturalist named Bradly Davis, of Chicago, will explore the streams of Colorado, to classify the fishes of the region. Professor B. W. Evermann, of the State Normal school, with Professor Seth E. Meek, of Iowa, late in the State university, will do a similar work in Missouri and Arkansas. Charles Ballman and Bert Feeler, late students of science in the same institution, go to

Georgia

on

the same errand. Professor Jenkins, of De Pauw university, with two assistants, go to the Sandwioh islands to study the fishes, and Professor Gilbert, ot the State university, is in sole charge of the United States vessel Albatross, sailing up and down the Pacific coaat of North America studying sea fauna. Professor O. P. Hay, of Butler university, has been invited to assist in the cataloguing of the fish in the Smithsonian inatitute at Washington.—[Indianapolis News.

Indiana State News.

ShelbyvUle is rejoicing In the electric light on Its streets. Work has began on the Belt railway which will encircle Lafayette.

While Oscar Bodenbarger, of Mulberry, was cleaning his revolver, the weapon was accidentally discharged, the bullet penetrating the brain of his brother, aged four years.

While the cashier of Solomon tiler's bank at Llgonler was eating his dinner Tuesday, a thief crawled through a window and abstracted $1,000. The window was in plain view of numerous persons, but the robber was not detected.

Jacob KeUer, while visiting friends in Clay township, Laporte county, Sunday last, fell asleep in his chair after dinner, and when the family attempted to awaken him it was found that life was extinct He was aged 64 anda bachelor.

The swindling fraternity fairly over-ran Sooth Bend at the time of a recent visit of Forepaugh's circus, and the South Bend papers say that the principal feature of the day was the grand variety of robberies and choice array of change-cheating, flim-flam, thlmblerlg, three card monte and other operators, who seemed to he on terms of most cordial Intimacy with the so-called Plnkertoo detective force accompanying the show. Ticket sellers worked the change racket In every conceivable way, and visitors from Plymouth and other points wen serious losers.

Willi A BkOKV UftU..

•n, Bst walks Oat «f la Thsre waa a Wake the other afternoon ait 144 Charry street, NtwTork, over the body ot.a lira. Carroll# -and among the mourners was Mrs. Ann Dobbins, wifeof James Dobbin* a oooper living at 134 Cherry atnet. About 6:30 o'clock Dobbins thought it was time for his wife to be home, and he wtont after her, but ahe disagreed with him 'and went home under protest. Gradually ahe worked herself into a terrible passion. Her husband had seated himself in front of a table, resting his head on one hand, when the woman, without a word of warning, picked up a small hatchet and struck him a blow about three inches above the temple, causing a compound fracture the skull.

Dobbins bled oopiously, but did not lose consciousness. He went into *u~ street and summoned Offioer Charles Lee, who arrested Mrs. Dobbins and looked her up in the Seventh preoinct station house. The wounded man wait to the Gouveraeur hospital without assistance^ end-feed his head examined and esssd by Dr. Perkins. Then he said he wanted to go home for some clean clothes, and waa permitted to depart.

When a World reporter aaw him in his rooms he was getting ready a package ot clothing and preparing a canful of coffee, which he said he was going to take to his wife. Although the jnan said he felt "all right," his manner was not altogether rational. He waa perfectly sober, but seemed flighty and uncertain in his talk. He readily promised to return at onoe to the hospital when so advised. The doctors there say there is a possibility-of serious consequences

Society Women Who Work. The craze for young women to be something and to do something has struck this town very hard. Miss Miland Fuller, the daughter of the chief justice, who graduated at Welleeley college the other day, ia to read law with her father and is to be a lawyer. If she will put on the stunning black gown and mortarboard cap in which Ellen Terry argues her cases she will be something nice to look at. Another of the chief jastioe's quiver full of daughters is studying music professionally in Germany. Miss Pauline Fuller ruined her professional prospects by getting married. Senator Wade Hampton's daughter, of South Carolina, the very blueet.of blue bloods, is studying in Baltimore to be a professional nurse, while Representative Breckinridge's daughter is one of the teachers in a public school in Washington. As for writing for the newspapers, it is a regular fad, and several charming society girls do amateur reporting at balls and parties and receptions.—[Albany Journal's Washington Letter.

gan Francisco's Prise Schoolgirl. The prize schoolgirl of the West arrived in Chicago Monday morning. She came from San Francisco, and is not only a girl in a thousand, but has proved herself number one of the entire 60,000 attending school in the city of the Golden Gate. The result is that the bright little lady is now en route to PariB With her mother to visit the world's exposition, the prize she won being a round-trip ticket to the French capital, with all expenses prepaid for herself and parent. Miss May Ayres is the name of the winner. HOT modest demeanor was the first thing to impress those who were aware of her identity at Richelieu hotel, where she was stopping. A pronounced brunette, not yet near "sweet sixteen," her trim, slight figure appeared to advantage in a aim pie grayish traveling dress, and attention was centered at once in the attractive, clearcut features and the expressive dark eyes, that told in an instant the owner knew what she was about.—[Chicago Mail.

The Newest Occupation for Women. The neweat occupation for women is described as that of euperintendent of weddings. A young woman in her late twenties who makes a success of the profession is installed in or near the house of the bride prospective some little time before the ceremony. She selects the trousseau, advises what ia latest and .finest in underwear, buys the material, designs and makes or superintends the making of the gowns. She is au fait in stockings, boots, gloves, lacea and handkerchiefs. She sees to the millinery and the jackets and wraps. She gowns the bride's mother and the younger sisters, if any. She dictates to the bride-maids, and ia the fairy godmother who thinks of everything and lets the engaged couple enjoy themselves v^ith unanxious mind. One family who have found her valuable recommend her to another, and she has obtained quite a clientage.—[New York Fashion Bazar.

Making the Most of It.

Thefe is a lady on Walnut Hills who went to Europe two years ago and married a count. She mortgaged all her property here to enable the count to live and came back to America with only a baby to ehow for her investment. Now when people call on business she Bays: "Wait until I have finished this letter to the count," and when her intimate lady friends call she says: "Oh, pray, do excuse me, I am so busy writing a letter to my dear count." To outsiders it looks as if she had counted herself out.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Nice, Fresh Country Butter. CHICAGO, .luly 3.—A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., says: J. A. Lawrence, assistant Btate dairy commissioner, seized 1,200 pounds of oleomargarine from the warehouse of a packing company yesterday afternoon. The presence of oleomargarine in a dealer's place of business is regarded as prima facie evidence of intention to dispose ot it in the state, and so Commissioner Lawrence seized the lot and confiscated it. The lot seized was a part of a shipment billed through from Kansas City to Ashland, and was taken from the car here.

A 9puuBj lunnu awwm

A Spunky Idaho Town

ALT LAKE, Utah, July 3.—Further ails of yesterday's fire at Hailley,

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details of yesterday' Idaho, are to the effect that all the business portion of the town was destroyed, except Friedenthal's fire-proof house. There is left but one!, hotel, two livery stables, one lumber yard, one grocery store, one saloon and one dry goods store. The tire did not reach the reeidence portion of the town and no suffering exists except among the business portion. The owners declare they will rebuild without delay. LOBS, $500,000 with insurance.

Two Tears on the Wltnsss Stand. Nfcw YORK, July 3.—The longest recorded examination of a legal witness hss just been concluded in the esse of the state of New Jersey against the Morris A Essex railway company for 91^)00,000 back taxes, Richard F. Ste-

ths aspsrtwhoaxsaiasdths Mil-

testified tor two houis eveiy week up to this afternoon. His tsstimony when printed will fill three huge volumes.

POK&KJN VKA2ICB.

The National Chun* Proves fcs Much for Iks fmahlsarnis.

Bat if thees clube and five or six more which might be named, lead joyous livee, and, above all, joyous nights, ssveral others appear to vegetate, says Paris Illustre. That they do so is ojnngto America. The United Stataa that eend their eons over to France, that have caused a fall in farm rent, have also imported a new game, the poker, which reduces the reoeipte of our olube. Shadsa of Lafayette and Rochambeau hide their faoee! Why did you not leave Washington's oompatriots disembroil themselves ss best they could with their mother country?

The poker is indeed a plague for the coffers of the clubs and solely because it is about to supersede baccarat. Impositions were easily levied on this isst game. Certain sums were charged for holding the bank at suoh a rate, for the packs ot cards burned during the deal, etc. It was the very ideal of the impost and at the same time a sure and copious source of yield, something analogous to tobacco relative to duty in Franoe. In the case of

"poker"

it be-

oomee monstrously hard to raise a tax and to fix upon the moment for raising it. The players continue at the game for along time. When the caisse has levied a duty it has nothing to do but to look at the "pokerritee" who remain seated for hours speaking a language intelligible to moet people

uJe

suis blind.

Vous m'avez blune. Faisons-nous un pot" (pronounced poh).

WJC CANT HAVE "THE ANGKLUS."

But Rosseau's '-Farm ia the Woods" Is Secured for America. NEW YORK, July 3.—The World's Washington special says: It is authoritatively stated that the Corcoran art gallery of this city had sent a representative over to the sale at Paris with requisite funds and instruction to bid for "Tne Angelus" up to $100,000. Of course, when the French government entered the lists as a bidder it meant that it was determined to retain the picture in that country as the property of the nation, at any price, and it was therefore practically useless for other aspirants to contend.

Still the bidding went up to $110,009, when the other contestants withdraw from the struggle. Some consolation for the disappointment experienced by the gallery in this respect is found in the fact that it aucoeeded in securing one of the best paintings in the collections—a landscape by Theodore Roeseau. It is entitled "The Farm in the Woods," and though not large, is an exceedingly fine example of the artist's best wqrk. It is liksly also, that other pictures in the collection will be acquired by the gallery before the sale closes.

Obituary.

ST. PAUL, Minn., July 3.—George Hamilton, one of the best known railroad men in the country, died very suddenly yesterday. Mr. Hamilton has been prominent in Northwestern railroad affairs Bince 1864.

VIENNA, July 3.—Her Von Weilen, editor of the late crown prince's work, entitled "Austria Hungaria," is dead.

PITTSBCKG, July 3.—William Lyon, the oldest iron manufacturer in the country and one of Pittsburg's most prominent men, died suddenly of apoplexy this morning. The deceased was 78 years of age.

Ia the Days of Our Youth. Little Nan, of 4 Bummers, considering it her duty to entertain a lady who is waiting for mamma, enters into conversation:

Nan—Have you got any little girls? The Caller—Yes, I have two. Nan—Do you ever have to whip em'? The Caller—I'm afraid I have to sometimes.

Nan—What do you whip 'em with? The Caller (amused)—Oh, when they've been very naughty, I take my slipper.

Nan (most feelingly, as mamma enters) -Y-yo-you ought to use a hair brush my mamma does, and it hurts awfully.— 'Life.

Modest Mr. Weber.

When Charles Weber stood up for examination as to his qualifications to serve as a juror in the Conger trial yesterday no one was prepared for the intereeting statement he was to make. Mr. Dickson, the defendant's attorney, asked him how many children he had. He declined to answer what he considered an irrelevant question, and appealed to the court. He waa ordered to answer, and Baid that he was the father of five pairs of twins, all alive and healthy. He was accepted as a juror.—[Cincinnati Enquirer.

Foreshadowlngs of Greatness. Johnny—It puzzles me to know where that marble of mine has gone.

Willie—Move a little, can't you? There it ia You were standing right over it. Puzzled you, did it? What agallusold detective you'll maKe some time.—[Chicago Tribune.

Too CareleM, Altogether.

Mistress—Have you that ribbon for my hair? Maid—Yes, mum, but

But what? Now I've mislaid the hair.—[Texas Sittings.

The Lord's Prayer.

There is a claim in the patent office for a patent on the Lord's Prayer, the specifications being that the repetition of the same "rapidly in a loud tone of voice" will cure stammering.—fCourierJournal.

Non-Comm Ittal.

"I say, doctor, you know medicine from to Izzard, what do you do to yourself when you have a bad cold?"

Phyaician (who does not believe in giving advice gratis)—Cough.—[Judge.

Orrectly Named.

Ida—Mamma, why do they call those things dog carts? Mamma—Because, dear, so many puppies ride in them.—[Time.

The Fashionable Freckle.

Freckles of large size and old-gold hue are the proper thing this year. The oldfashioned tan and sunburn are no longer popular.—[Philadelphia Press.

A Radical Reform.

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"Will you have a cigar?" "No I have quit the use of tobacco entirely. I only smoke cigarettes."— rouraaL

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ft A'- nrosndnmcB »AT Bound tJwhew gag Tlay ths pettle-tong. Let the Jaw-hooe jinste, ft* this lathe VenrthofJaly. No cnndiltnc dynasty shall hash our noise, No bold policeman Mtht our bally boys This Is the day to make the welkin shake As once our fathers made their tyrants quake. Goto! Shall not all earthly things this day Be dashed together, hard. In socfi away That din stupendous, in stentorophonle clangs, Shall prove that patriot hearts now beat In bangs? Let orators by millions spont to-day And while they do so, let the trumpets bray, BererberaUng thnnder split the sky. And lightning blase, to lick the ocean dry. Set Are to everything, and )am aronnd The whole created world, to swell the soand Kindle the poles, like two great eracker strings, And All Symmes' hole with dynamite and things Anticipate the awful crack of doom, Fire on the cannon with a clangorous boom. And swell the noise with shouts yell, split yonr throats, Beat on the base drams, blow the bazoo's notes.

Sound the hew-gag. Play the pattle-tong. Let the jaw-bone jingle. For this Is the Fourth of July. —r David A. Curtis. Kanaas raised laat year one fifth of the silk cocoons produced in the United State.

Artificial ice is cheaper in southern citiee than the natural article in the North. 'our young ladiee officiated as the pall-bearers of a popular young man in Shamokin" laat week,

A prisoner in a Kentucky jail attempted to commit auicide by eating two dozen pads of blotting paper.

A swarm of bees broke up an auction sale at Scranton the other day by settling down in the midst of the bidders

The men of Berlin have set a comfortable fashion of carrying Japansse fans and sunshades through the warm weather.

A man at Hawkinsville, Ga., has been married twice in the aame trousers. They are forty years old and he still wears 'em.

The wine cellars of California are so full that there will not be room for this season's crop, and grapes will be cheap in consequence.

A Chinese leper was discovered in the Sacramento jail recently. He had been sent there from Foisom for refusing to pay a poll tax.

Dr. Burke, of Walton county, Florida, who is years old, is the father of thir-ty-nine children. He has been married five times.

A lumber dealer, of Indianapolis, says that the inhalation of the ordor of pine lumber is the reason why lumber yard horsss are so healthy.

An immense order for corsets has been received in Paris from Brazil. The explanation is that the emancipated .slave women have taken to wearing them.

On account of the fears that consumption is contagious the German war minister has decided that the chest of every soldier is to be measured once a month.

The~South Australian government haa made arrangements by which an engine driver who has run his trains for two years without accident Bhall be presented with 150.

According to the most reliable estimates, the population of London is now 4,250,000 of this number 900,000, or more than one-fifth, are in receipt of some form of pauper relief.

It is said that the belief that the Eiffel tower causss thunderstorms has become an article of faith in Paris. Never have thunderstorms been so frequent there as in the last fortnight.

Although there are seventy-three different languages and about eight hundred dialects spoken by the American Indians, the sign language is equally understood by all the tribes.

Two bad boys in Georgia placed a bar of iron across a railroad track, and then signalled an approaching train in order to get a free ride to the next town as a reward for "saving" the train.

A half Bmoked cigarette once puffed by Red-Nosed Mike is valued very highly by Robert Marsteller, ot Allentown, Pa. Clarence Slib9, of the same place, owns a splinter from his gallows.

An Alabama woman heard a ghost in the house. Her husband heard nothing but rats.- She stuck to ghost and he to rats, and they began a suit for divorce the next day on the grounds of incompatibility of temper.

At Birmingham, Ala, a Baptist minister took fifteen converts to the mill pond owned by one Burton, for the purpose of baptising them. Burton declared he did not believe in immersion, and drove the party off with a shotgun. "John Gilpin's Ride" was admitted to be read in evidence by a Jackson, Ga^,v court,l,he other day, on the ntrength of monotony in the proceedings and the residence of the plaintiff's father near the scene of the poem.

A monster rattlesnake, supposed to be two or three feet in circumference, judging from his trail, is causing considerable excitement among the residents in Eaat Hill, a suburb of Pensacola, Fla. A grand hunt is proposed by some of the anxious ones.

The private detectives of a railroad company must be constantly shifted, so that their faces may not become familiar -to the employes and arouse suspicion. The cost of secret" service to a railroad is often very large, but can never compare with the proportions of adroit and successful freight robbing. •.

W. D. Wynne tried to cross a swollen creek near Madison, Ga., in his buggy. He was carried down stream, but by cutting the horse loose from the harness and holding to the reins his life was saved, though the creek was very deep and he could not swim. The horse went ashore, pulling bis owner after him. "John Colter, I give you all this property when I die, for you and your wife, for taking care of me so long and Tim Crowley, you hear me Bay this," is the way James Ryan's last will disposed of a $500 lot The bequest, written by one of Ryan's friends, was filed for probate recently.

A patient gentlemen, who collects statistics, brings out some figures to help the cause of peace. It seems that from 1852 to 1877 war killed 1,948,000 people, and, what is still more wonderful, the killing of each man cost more than £2,000. The total coat was £2,413,000,000 so, that peace has its good points from an economical Bide.

Mrs. Tom Lse, who lives a few miles from Hinesville, Ga., has a turkey gobbler that is a valuable addition to the poultry yard. This spring he took charge of a brood of little turkeys and raised them. He developed a propensity to set, and Mrs. Lse has gratified him. He is now setting on a dozen turkey eggs and two dozen hen eggs.

A resident of Morgantown, W. Vs., has a dog that is trained to act as a cssh boy, and with a written order and the money in his month he will do the marketing properly, his only fault being that if he meets another dog he will awallow the money to have a fight. The mutor has lost $7.50 in this manner. It he has any sense he frill now. lose, the dog.

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Dress goods continue to be the piece de resistance of dry goods. Our dress goods business is like a Niagara torrent, the main movement is deep and strong, and as it moves it is jeweled with a brilliant spray that sheds over all a changing beauty.

INDIA SILKS.

They make the beauty. We make the bargains. Fifty different styles of theee

FIGURED FAVORITES.

—AT—

$1.25 Reduced to

On the Counter Monday Morning.

A rare chance. No reserves.

S. AIRES CO,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

TIME TABLE:

note Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked 'thus run dally. All other trains run daily Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE.

T. a A I. DIVISION. LEAVE FOB THS WEST.

No No. No. No.

9 Western Express (SAY) 6 Mall Train 1 Fast Line (PjfcV).....i.«*M«.........i 7 Fast Mall

No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No.

1.42 a. m. 10.1H a. m. 2.15 p. m. 9.04 p. in.

LEAVE fOB TBS BAST.

No. No. No. No. No.

12 Cincinnati Express (S) 6 New York Express (S4V) 4 Mall and Accommodation XI AtlanUc Express (P4V) 8Fast Line*.

1.80 a. m. 1.61 a. ra. 7.15 a. in. 12.42 p. m. 2.00 p.

ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.

9 Western Express (S4V) 5 Mall Train 1 Fast Line (P4V) 8 Mall and Accommodation.......... 7 Fast Mall

1.30 a. m. 10.12 a. m. 2.00p. in. 6.46 p. m. 9.00 p. in.

ARRIVE FROM THE WEST.

12 Cincinnati Express (S) ... ia«(84Y).... 20 Atlantic Express (PAY)........

6 New Tark Express' 8 Fast Line

1.20 a. m. 1.42a. m. 12.87 p. m. 1.40 p. m.

T. H. ft L. DIVISION.

LEAVE FOR THE HORTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mall &00 a. m. No. South Bend Express 100 p. m. ARRIVE FROM THS HORTH No. 61 Terre Hsute Express 12.00 noon No. 63 South Bend MaU 7.80 p.m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DR. E, A. GILLETTE,

DENTIST.

Filling of Teeth a Specialty.

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

w. & In •. BARTHOLOMEW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

(Saecessors to Bartholomew ft HalL 529^ Oblo St. Terre Haute, Ind.

I. H. C. I^OYSE,

NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN.

DENTIST.

All work warranted as represented. Office ano residence 910 North Thirteenth street, Ten* Hants, Ind.

ENGB*

Tmoia NAPOLIS- IND