Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 July 1889 — Page 2

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The most annoying feature of theee holidays is the two Mondays in one week.

Kentucky, whoee hope for the future of the American republic has been much obscured of late, will see things in a brighter light to-day. Proctor Knott won the race at Chicago yesterday.

The secretary of the Persian minister at Washington says that the minister, who is going across to England to meet the Shah, will not, probably, return to this country because the press has indulged in brutal attacks on the Shah. How else would he have one attack a brute?

Mr. John L. Sullivan arrived in New Orleans yesterday. We expect to learn of his movements from day to day until next Tuesday, when if it is reported that he went down before Mr. Kilrain the public will be relieved of further chronicles of his movements. This is the big fellow.s last chance us

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There could be no better illustration of the eclipse of all greatness by the prize fight than in the report of the Kilrain journey west from Baltimore, in' which the fact that the wife of the president and members of his family were passengers on the Kilrain train is alluded to as merely an incident of the slugger's travels.

Terre Haute did not concentrate its oelebration of the glorious anniversary in any one event, but never before, perhaps, was there such a general observance of the Fourth of. July in the city, The people were ready for it. The daily turmoil was foregone for the one day, and the fireworks augmented the celebration by picnics, excursions and Jthe like as never before.

It is a conservative estimate that a quarter of a million dollars were spent yesterday for admission to the national game. The sixteen games of the two national associations drew not less than $100,000, and the many minor leagues from Maine to California and to the Gulf certainly swelled the gross expenditure for the amusement to the amount stated. Forty-two stars on the flag are none too many for a country whieh is so filled with patriotism. fifi

The county taxes have been raised to $1.46, an increase of 28 cents. The city's treasury is-bankrupt. How long are the „-pe0ple to be thus imposed upon? Every man of average business sense knows that this condition of things could have been obviated by the exercise of but a small degree of business ability in the management of our county and city affairs. In other words we should have quit spending more than our income

Jong before this crista.

Mississippi's governor has received permission from Alabama's governor to 1 send troops through the latter's state to capture the pugilists if they attempt to fight in Mississippi. There is something strongly suspicious in all this. No one l._ will dispute the fact that the governors of Mississippi have winked at atrocious murders and the most criminal violations of the law when the acts were to the benefit of the political welfare of the governors and their political friends. In short they have been bribed with official preferment to ignore one sort of crime.

What kind of bribe does this oyer-zeal-ovs mngistrate expect in this instance?

C. O. D.

Dodging the Issue.

"Here's a fellow wants to know," said the

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swers-to-correspondents editor, "whether he should say Gubblns was hanged on Monday, or Gubblns was hung on Monday." "We'll fix him easily enough," said the police reporter. "Tell him neither one Is correct. Gubblns was strung up on Friday."

She Had a Sizable Foot.

Minnie—And did he take his rejection very bard? Mamie—Oh, awfully. Said I had trampled on his heart, and allthat sort of thing.

Minnie—His heart must have been utterly smashed If you really did set your number sevens on It.

To Cover the Pafehes.

Wlbble—I wonder why ministers always wear long-tailed coats? Wabble—It you were a country minister wlt£ a $300salary and a large family you wouldn't ask soch a fool question as that ^3^ "k.

A Miserable scoffer.

Mr. N. Peck—Arejou going to housekeeping, Fledgely? I noticed you buying a cookstove this afternoon.

Young Fledgely—I—I am going to get married next week, and I thought It would be a rgood plan to have everything In readiness, you know.

Mr. N. Peck—"In time of peace prepare for war," eh? He Kxperlmented. "No more whiskey for me," said the little man with a bandaged eye. "Why so? Did you have a fighting jag on last night?" asbed his friend. "Oh, no. I had just enough to be funny. So I thought it would be a great snap to try to light a firecracker with a red-headed girl. And that's what's tbe matter with my eye."

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[Special to the ChlcagoD«lly News.] NEW YORK, July 2.— Apropos of Chicago's Cronin murder and the mystery which preoeded the finding of his body, it is an interesting fact that while scores of men disappear from society every year, their mysterious absence causing wonder, newspaper talk and discomfort, they turning up safe and sound in the end, there are, nevertheless, from every great city every year an extraordinary number of permanent disappear' ancee.

Of these the public hears nothing. Since the centennial oelebration here the police tell me they have been applied to to ascertain the whereabouts of thirtyfive reputable, fairly well-to-do men of affairs. There is no publicity given to these disappearances. A brief line in a paper may now and then tell something about it, but beyond the simple record, and that is not always made, nothing at all is said, and outside of the immediate circle of sorrowing family and wondering friends there is no sensation caused. It is with these disappearances, as with death, the only chance for general knowledge arises from the possible publicity or celebrity of the person who goes away. You remember the case of Stillman Conant, managing editor of Harper's Weekly. Of aft men in the world he was the last whom I would have picked out to voluntarily take him self away. Like all newspaper men of industrious habit, he had hours of relaxation, which would -have been hours of depression had he not found companionship in his club or among his friends, where the social glass and the soothing pipe meant much. I knew him during all the twenty-five years of his hard professional life. In fact, he was my next-

built, the very soul of courtesy and good nature. His mind was "naturally alert, and his attainments, linguistic, historic and contemporaneous, were far beyond those of the average good scholar. He had a happy home, a brilliant wife, a. devoted son, and an income, looked at from a writer's point of view, that was satisfactory.

One day he disappeared. That's all there is known about it. He was heard of here and there in this immediate vicinity, and it was generally oredited that he was last seen on Coney island. That may or may not have been so. The first remains that this man of affairs, who for twenty-five years had crowed and re-crossed Fulton ferry four times a day with the regularity of clockwork, whose face was known to every newspaper man in New York, who had climbed the various grades of journalism from polygiot reporter to managing editor of the New York Times, and who had become noted among literary men of the day as the conductor of Harper's Magazine and as one of the beet-informed as he was one of the most constant attendants in the Century club, literally dropped from sight as though he were 100 pounds of lead plunged into the sea.

Where is he? I have always contended that this big brain of his had a lapse somewhere, and that he had gone off, led by caprice or whim or whatever, to scenes of earlier occupation. Conant, after a course of erudition here, wound up in Heidelberg. Qermany was for years his home, and, oddly enough, the older he grew the more like a German he looked. He spoke and wrote the language to perfection. In fact, his lingual accomplishments were very marked, not alone in the ordinary lines of French and German) but outside, in the solid fundamentations of Latin and Greek and the more modern Italian. He had followed his learned and illustrious father to a certain extent in Hebrew, and it really would have made very little difference to him, so far as his ongoing was concerned, whether he were dropped in Palestine, Constantinople, Paris, Berlin or New York. The only possible argument against his having gone away is that he loved his home and, being a man of sensibility, could not, it seems to me, have kept away all these years without sending some olive branch of testimony, Bome leaflet of indication, that he was yet alive and might again return. On the other hand, people don't always think, and are not, particularly if there is a vein of crankiness in them, so considerate as they might be.

A very apt illustration of that 1 find in the conduct of a watch-maker who lived not far from my father's residence. He had a wife and three daughters. Many years ago he announced suddenly and without apparent predetermination his intention to go to California. In those days going to California was a mighty effort. It was as hard then to get to the land of recently discovered gold as it was in Lyman Beecher's time to go from Litchfield, Conn., to Cincinnati in Ohio, when the good old dominie moved from Litchfield, Conn., to take charge of a college in Ohio the entire township turned out, led by the pastors of the various churches, and held a public meeting of prayer to the Almighty, beseeching His special protection and providential convoyship during the perilous journey that the beloved brother and family were about to take. Well, my watch-maker friend started for California. He was heard of from Panama. Then nothing came. The months grew into years, the years of worry and bereavement settled down into a condition of despair, and that led up to the more comfortable plane of belief that the end had come and death had forever parted man and wife. Ffteen yean later, almost to the very day of his departure, the watch-maker opened the front door of his house, hung his hat on the rack in the hall, and appeared with the suddenness of a vision before his so-to-speak widow and the one daughter who remained unmarried by the mother's side.

He was a peculiar man. In fact, he was such a peculiar man that his wife after a hystericky greeting suppressed all desire for information so far as asking questions was concerned. The business had long since been closed up, the man had money, and everything went along pleasantly and comfortably for two years, when, without a word save that announcing his departure and goodbye, he again left the house, and now ten years have elapsed since he went, but his wife and daughter look for his return with entire confidence, accepting the peculiar condition1 of affairs which they attribute to "papa's queernees," made comfortable, it is fair to say, by ample provisions before he went.

Another woman in the case? Well, no I don't think so. If there were it wouldn't be so difficult to understand. No there was no woman in the case, so far as Cotiant was oonoerned, and I doubt it there is in this watch-ma-ker's odd behavior. In fact, I think thia

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universal join about "Who^s the woman?" ia oarried a little^too far. There are quite. as many food,- ior* as there am good men, sad it ia a fact that the Lord- pat a woman in thA garden of Edeo/if we may acoept biblical authorityrand while it ia an obvious fact that many men are 1 MkAMida

evil-minded men rain quite as many women? I think the disappearance of reputable men is like the inexplieible conduct of a well-made clock or wstoh. I.have a cuckoo clock in my bed-room whioh I bought from Gonpil feCo. twenty-two rears ago. For twenty years it hong in ita aocufltomed spot unoleanaed, untouched, save to be wound up, keeping perfect time. Then the demon of house-cleaning on one occasion thought it waa "an outrage to leave-that clook so long without its being oiled," or whatever, so it waa sent to a clock-carver, and from that time until this bleessd morning it is a delusion and a snare so far as accuracy ia concerned, and an infernal nuisanoe so far as ita ouckoo is oonoerned, oomir in with an enfeebled squawk instead, its old-time ringing note either just before the cathedral tene of my big hall clock tells the hour or a little after the church bell in an adjaoent tower announces the time of day. So it is with the man who, thoroughly equipped for life's race, pushee along the highway with celerity and buoyancy, achieving triumphs with every endeavor, until, without apparent cause, he ewitohes off, zigzagging across the road, plunging into a ditch of folly, climbing the tree of uncertain sturdity, turning sometimes his very back upon the goal, and conducting himself in various ways so as to warrant his friends in believing his head unbalanced.

A man may be unbalanced.ment ally and yet not be useless. A clock may go too fast or too alow and yet be of considerable service. One would prefer a thoroughly matured, carefully adjusted mind, as he would a perfect timepiece, but preferences are not always realized in either one case or the other. It is no part of. my purpose to enter into a psychological discussion. My attention was attracted by a police record, and the thought very naturally occurred: "Why is it that so many men, in apparent good condition, mental, moral and physical, disappear?" Isn't it because we are wound up too hard? Isn't it because we are trying to go too fast? Isn't it because we are attempting to live more than one life at a time or is it because the mental faculties are not sufficiently strong to endure the tremendous strain put on them in the race of ambition along the path to wealth, to political advancement, to social distinction, to professional oelebrity? In a lame majority of sensitively organized mentalities I think an exceaaive use of stimulants may have much to do with theae peculiar outworkings. Tired, exhausted, played out aa it were, we add freah and quickly burning material to the flame. Matutinal oocktaile, frequent nips,lead up to a steady course of drinking and when excitement can no longer be produced by alcoholic atimulant recourse ia had to a numberless catalogue of drugs put cunningly upon the market under guise of reet producers, sleep suggeaters, nerve soothers. It is a very pretty and a very interesting and a most suggestive'line of investigation, and if we were to judge men and women from a lofty point of view, and not from the common mundanic stand, by which One man would be just aa interesting as another, I think we would find that the money question doean't enter into it aa a factor at all. The poor man is just aa likely to run away and leave his family as a rich man, and vice versa. Temptation comes quite as readily to the one as to the other, not through the same door, obviously, but it gets there all the same. Mr. Conant, for instance, who was mentally a MacGregor among the clan, had no money. My watch-making friend, who waa very or-, dinary in his mental composition, had plenty of money.. As between the two you would admire and love and respect and esteem and listen to Conant year in and year out, while the frequent presence of the other would be almost an offense. Yet they both went away. The watch-maker returned once the second time he has made no sign. Conant went away, and has as yet made no sign. Some of his family believe him to be living, others have closed accounts and mourn him dead. It is a great secret and it is a great mystery, this curious mentality.—{John Howard.

Human Pincushions to be Hatched. NEW YORK, July 4.—Louis J. Beck, of Newark, N. J., the human pincuahion, said yesterday, in reply to the challenge from |Prof. Franklin, of Arkansaa City, Kan., which recently appeared in the Sun: ',1 will meet Prof. Franklin at any hall in this city for $1,000 a aide and the entire gate receipts, or agree that the full amount be donated to any worthy fund, the conditions to include the insertion of 5,000 needles in the faoe, breast, lege, arms and ears. I will also agree to use horseshoe nails, sailmakere' need lee and penknives. The only way to make the match in a business-like way is to send a deposit to some responsible person. Mr. Franklin can communicate with my backer at the Police Gazette office any time. I will go to Arkansas City if Franklin will allow expenses."

A Fatal Cutting Affray at Chicago.

CHICAGO, July 4.—A fatal cutting affray occurred at the Benton house at an early hour this morning. Charles Brooks had a quarrel with his wife yesterday and she left him, taking a room at the Benton house, where John Burns, a peddler and former admirer, waa also atopping. Seized with a fit of jealousy last night, Brooke, armed with a butcher knife, went hunting for the party. He found Burna and charged him with coaxing away hie wife. Then he sprang at Burns, slashed him accroes the right cheek, down the right arm, across the breast near the heart, and in the stomach. Burns was taken to the county hospital and can not live. The murderer was arrested.

Killed by Chicago Hoodlums. CHICAGO, July 4.—Peter Peterson, a young Swede, met his death at the hands of a gang of hoodlums at his door, a little after 1 o'clock thia morning. As Peterson and two companions were returning home they were met by several men and some remarks were passed. Just as Peterson was going up stairs, one of the men drew a knife and cat him, killing him inatantly. Four men have been arrested, charged with the murder.

Mew York Not Afraid.

To heed Chicago's loud talk one might think that the city now expected to climb past New York, as well aa the big village on the Delaware. But wft fancy .we can hold onr own. If it oOmes to growth by swallowing suburbs, we warn Chicago that we can at one gulp take in half a dozen tidbits in that line by which we can double our present size.— [New York Sun.

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Whan JSoditofo* State Iter want into office he found* dozen or more aasoniations doing a life insnranaa business in Indiana on the assssaoient plan. Says the Indianapolis Journal: A majority of tfaam pate sot altogether substantial, direct or legal in their aeaiingi with the people. The •ttuation became threateniDg when Michigan drove a number of opmpanies beyond her border*. They settled in the towns and cities in thia state, new the northern boundary, but their stay waa brief, ae they oonld not obtain from the auditor permission to do busineas. All of these companies, with many of Indiana origin, are gone except three, and the auditor says they are working legitimately and with ample reeourcee. put theee three companies, on going into New York, were refused permieeion by the insurance commissioner of that state to remain. That, however, did not deter the Flour City Life association, of Rochester, from coming into Indiana with a request for a permit This wss aoout a month ago. and its repreeentativee said that Indiana assessment companies were allowed to do business in New York. Auditor Carr granted the permit, but recently, on diacovaring that the law of reciprocity waa not obeerved, decided to revoke it Thia he did yesterday, and fofao doing, in addition to the reason bwed on a lack of reciprocity stated that the insurance commissioner of New York had found that the Flour City company used S4,950.69 of ite mortuary fund to pay expehaaa, that it oarried on an endowment insurance, and that it settled a claim of $5,000 for $1,009. All these things, with the lack of reciprocity, were violations of the Indiana law.

An Important Arrest.

The United States treaaury agents ssy they have run down another member of the gang that has been dealing in the counterfeit $10 greenback. Tuesday night Samel Rivers, aliaa "Pap" Wiggenton, was arrested at Shelby ville, charged with handling the spurious money, and yesterday morning ne waa brought to this city and placed in jail to await a preliminary examination. Rivers is aieo under indictment in Shelby county for horse-stealing. The officers who have been working on the counterfeit case regard his arrest as the most valuable that has yet been mader They claim to have evidence ahowing that he was an extensive dealer in the bad money, and there is a possibility that he may be induced to furnish some valuable information as to those who make it.—[Indianapolis Journal.

Still Waiting for Pay.

The deputy United States marshals who were serviceable to the Democratic party at the last election have not yet been successful in getting pay. Many of the affidavits as to service, sent to Washington through the United States marshal's office, were not approved by the department, and have been returned for correction. As a result, all the deputies, exoept those employed in Terre Haute, have been required to file new claims. It is thought the claims will be allowed as soon aa the new applicationa reach the department.—[Indianapolis Journal.

X* She New Insane Hospitals. The- provisional board of the additionr al hospitals for the insane held its regular monthly meeting yesterday, and disposed of a great deal of routine business. AH the hospitals will soon be ready for occupancy, and the members of the board express themselves as well pleased with the progress and character, of the work.—[Indianapolis Journal.

Sale of the Old State Offices. The property used for etate offidee while the state house was under construction has been Bold to Frank A. Maus for the appraised value, $40,000. He paid one-half cash, and the remainder iB carried on one and two years' paper.—[Indianapolis Journal.

Bfsney for Pensions.

To the credit of the penaion agency of thia city $1,000,000 has been placed. During the paat fiacal year $8,000,000 waa paid out at this point to nearly forty-five thousand pensioners.

BLAINft'S SUPERSTITIOUS FKAR.

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Refusing to Begin a Journey on the Anniversary of the Garfield Tragedy. Secretary Blaine's friends eay he is superstitious about only one thing in the world, and that is the assassination of Garfield. Mr. Blaine was invited to accompany President Harrison on the trip to Woodstock and had accepted the invitation, when he discovered that the date of the journey was the -anniversary of Garfield's murder. The secretary withdrew his acceptance and started for Bar Harbor a day ahead of the preeident's departure for Connecticut. Not at all sensitive on the Garfield scare, the president walked the Penneylvania railway station Tuesday afternoon, setting foot on the silver star which marks the scene of the tragedy of eight years ago to a day. Secretary Blaine refuses to talk even to his intimate friends about the Garfield tragedy* though that he is not generally Buperstitioua has been clearly shown by his taking for a Washington residence the old Seward house, built on an ancient burying ground, and the scene of one famoua murder and one attempted assassination.

Shot by a Blind Man.

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., July 4.—Yesterday while Thomae Acres, a blind soldier, who recently reoeived a very large sum of money as a pension, was counting a roll of bills, George Hess seized a $50 bill and fled. The blind man, hearing the retreating footsteps, and( with no other guide than his hearing, aimed a double-barreled shotgun and fired twice. The second shot brought Hess down, but he recovered and escaped. Officers are after him with a warrant

Frightened to Death by Firecrackers. Morris Stolz, 65 years of age, was -frightened to death Tueeday night in Brooklyn. He was sitting in the door, way of his residence, 65 Main street, at 10:30 o'clock, when some unknown boys, who had began to celebrate the national holiday, placed a bunch of lighted giant firecrackers under his chair. The explosion terrified him so that he jumped up, with a scream, and then fell back dead. No arreata were made.

A Hint for Americans.

Americans resident in France will do well to take note of an extremely idiotic law just passed by the government of that oountry, according to whioh every child born in France of foreign parents is regarded as a French citizen ana liable to military aervice unleaa at the time of attaining hie majority ha goee through the formality of renouncing his French

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"The money need in a single year to foot the salary and expanse bills of the traveling salesmen of the United States would pay off the entire national debt and leave a few dollars over."

Thia rather- startling statement made by a junior member of ona of the large dry goods housss of Philadelphia who has a foroe of about fifty travelers under his immediate charge. Ae proof of his aasertion he preeeuted theee particulars: "There is hardly a whpfeeale, jobbing, or commission house in any line bosineee in the United Statee tha' dot a not have at least a single traveling* repreeentative, and from one lone man the traveling foroe ranges up as high aa 12S at 150 men, and there may be one or two houses with even more. The average of the moet reliable eetimatee places the total number of commercial touriata in thia oountry at 250,000 and, mind you, thia does not mean peddlers, but only thoee who eell goods at wholeeale. "The railroad fares, chargee for carrying sample bsggsge by freight orexprees, hotel bills, and numerous incidental traveling expeneee of theee men will range between $4 and 12 per day, but eome men will epend $25 in a single day for theee purpoees without resorting to any extravagance. Take, for instance, some of the carpet, clothing, or fancy goods men who cany 10 to 15 trunks full of samples, take a packer with them, and hire a hotel porter to display their goods whenever they open their trunks. But the number of these men is comparatively email, and $6 a day will fairly repreeent the average expenses of the 250,000 men. There you have $1,500,000 per day for expenaee, alone. Multiply this by 365, and you have $517,500,000 as the amount expended in one year.

The item of salary is nearly aa large. Few men are paid lesa than $900 per year. The largeat number receive between $1,500 and $2,500, either in aalariee or oommisBiona. Aleeeer number are paid from $3,000 to $5,000—thoee receiving the latter amount being comparatively few. But there are traveling aaleemen who are alwaye in demand at $10,000 and $15,000 a year, but they are few and far between. The lower salaried men predominate, aa might be aupposed, and an average of $1,800 per year ia not far out of the way. Figuring 250,000 men at an average salary of $1,800 per year givee a totat of $450,000,000 according to my arithmetic. To thia add $547,500,000 for expenses and you have $997,500,003 for theee two itema. "But there are other itema to be charged against the aaleemen'a account. It is impossible to give any accurate estimate of the coat of trunks, aamplee, and other requisitee of the traveling men, but the itema as we figure them in our atore will give something to judge fiom. Our fifty men require 150 trunks, costing $8 each, or $1,200. Theee men require two sets of samples yearly— one in the spring and one in the fall. The ooet of theee two sete of samples is about $1,000 per man. Of thia $50,000 worth of gooaa which are required for samples every year a considerable portion ia loat, while moat of it ia so soiled and damaged by constant handling that it has to be sold at a heavy reduction from the actual coat or elee given away. To cover thia depreciation we make an allowance of 33% per cent upon the coet of the aamplee, or about $17,000 per year. Trunka do not need renewing every year, but repairs and replacing loet onee form quite an item of expense. From these figures it is evident that the similar expenaee of greater or lesser amount borne by every wholesale house will swell the salary and traveling expenee item of $997,500,000 far beyond $1,000,000,000 per year."

The New Dance.

"The latest thing in dances is the 'dervish,' and it beats the racquet all to pieces. "It gets its name from a fancied resemblance to the whirl of the derviahes of the African deeert tribes," said Profeesor Fredericks, the dancifigmaster, yeeterday. ."Special music is written for it, and it is as tuneful aa the old racquet, popular even to-day. The dance begins as an ordinary waltz, the opening movemente being rather alow ana etately, for the time ia increased and the dance enda with a dozen rapid waltz evolutions that are said to make the dancers dizzy and impress the lookers on that it is wicked to take part therein. The only thing necessary to carry out the derviah idea is the howl that should accompany th» whirl, but the dancers are too well bred and the dance suffers."—[Detroit News.

New Mexico's Constitutional Convention. Governor Prinoe, of New Mexico, has issued his proclamation giving notice of a constitutional convention to be held at Santa Fe September 3,1889, and of the election of delegates to it, which will take plaoe the 6th of next month. In hie proclamation, the governor eaya: "Without statehood we cannot hope for any rapid increase in population or in the influx of eastern capital necessary for the development of our natural resources to secure it in its beet form, requires the careful labor of our wisest and moat experienced citizens."

Hadji Hasseln Ghooly Khan. Hadji Hassein Ghooly Kban, the Persian minister, expects to leave for Europe next week. He is going to London to

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ay his respecte to the shah. HA is in whether h9 will return. He hae been here only a few months, and, while he is pleased with Waahington as a place of residence^ he is more or less disgusted with Americans and American newspapers. He doesn't like the reflections upon the shah wnich have recently appeared in print The minister does not epesk English very well, but his eecretary, Murza Mahmond Knap does.

Florida Flying-Fish.

H. P. Braziel brought into our office this week a genuine flying-fish, caught by him in Sterrett's creek, near Seymour's Point This wss unlike any flying-fish of which we have read, in that it had two perfectly formed birdlike wings in addition to fine, also four legs reeembling those of a large spider. Tne wings were beautifully tinted like the prisms of a rainbow, and whan drawn out of the water with an ordinary hook and line the bird fiah flew to a height of some six or eight feet—[Fernandina Mirror.

Athletics Not ia the Curriculum. "You don't look strong enough for a job of this kind,"young man. It taken muscle to feed a threshing machine when it is going lively." "I- wasn't asking for such a poaition aa that, but I thought you might need somebody to carry water or whip up the horses." "You say you am a college graduate?" "Yes, sir, a college of—er—journalism."—[Chicago Tribune.

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SlMewas ooea a Tuscan painter named Spaghettt Miwlwwnl. Who save his life onto the art he loved all else above. And hla inssterplece he painted one bttaht winter in Mentone 'Twaaaadfet and lifelike portrait of his blueefvd ladylove. But the lips so warn and crimson, and the ejes so soft and dswy.

And the hair so rteh and glossy, and the features Oooldn?iSin%ranatfteo(Clileai6or 8t Loots, Or a Healer down in Liberty or Pine or Cedar

But one day Into the workshop of 8ptgbetU Macehetonl, la the latter nade a luncheon of a pleee of apple pie, Stepped a dapper man of badness named Koderl«kllalOQ«v,

And the "portrait of a lady" in a Jltly caught bis eye. And bis ardent admiration for the same he could not smother—

Be bought it at tbe artist's price and with It did depart, Maeeheral knew he easily could paint himself another,

Because she was his "best girl" and he knew her all by heart Now Is Maocberonl famous, tor bis lady's eter

On a palace wall, suspended by a dainty crimson rope And she's likewise In tbe papers and tbe magazines beguiling.

And she tnere extols the virtues of Maloney's toilet soap—[Harper's Bazaar. In Chicago sugar and water iB called the "dudes' razzle-dazzle."

According to its new direotory Toledo olaims over one hnndrad thousand population.

The oomet crop is short this year. Only fohr have been harvested so far. .Lobster catchers along the ooast of Newfoundland are having asuocsssful season. SAdvices from Michigan state that tbe apple crop this year will not be so heavy as it wss last

A radish twenty-five and a half inches around wss exhibited the other day in a store at Winte* Haven, Fla.

A Michigan man had his clothing removed by lightning while sitting at the supper table the other evening.

The Woodbury (Tenn.) Courier condemns a threatening notice posted on a tree in the public square by "a noted click of tougha."

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Henry Walterson, of Jefferson county, Ohio, carries in his pocketbook a piece of his scalp whioh the Sioux Indians cut from his head when he was out West

There is a claim in the patent office for a patent-on tbe Lord's Prayer, the specifications being that the repetition of the same "rapidly in aloud tone of voice" will cure etammering.

A Van Buren county (Mich.) man procured a marriage license before he nad asked tbe girl to marry him. He wss very much surprised when she refused to go on with the play.

Reports received from* many sections of California indicate that the coming almond crop will be a large one. The trees are loaded and bid fair to produce a yield somewhat in excess of last season.

A Titueville paper tells of a novel wedding tour. The young man, who could not leave town, purchased $5 worth of tickets for the merrv-go-round, and they prooeeded to ride to their hearts' content

A Nebraska clairvoyant has just lost $1,000 by invssting that amount in a bogus mining scheme. It is a mournful fact that many people who are gifted with second sight have very little first sight.

A Charleston druggist advertised that the milk of a cocoanut would remove freckles, and 4,000 of the nuts were sold at retail in two days to women folks. He got a commiss'on on all sales. The freckles still abide.

Mrs. John Gehan, a stout woman of Mahanoy City, Pa., spanked Grocer Goodman with hep shoe because she thought he had overcharged her boy for pot herbs. The court fined her six cents, in addition to the $30 costs.

Two medals are to be struck .in connection with the Paris expoeition the first to be the "medal of reward," and the other the "commemorative medal." July 18 the designs will be judged and another two months will be accorded for engraving the dies.

As an example of the epirit which animates the German army, and which doubles its force. Prince Kraft Hohenlohe tells a fine story. At the battle of Chateaudun a battery found itself without ammunition under a heavy fire. What was not be done? The offioer commanding ordered the gunners to take their places on the limbers and sing the "Waoht am Rhein," "in order," as Prinoe Kraft says, "that they might pass the time agreeably while waiting for freah cartridges."

A curious accident, whioh unhappily proved fatal, has befallen M. Boutet, an artist residing in Paris. M. Boutet wa9 working in his studio, when, inconvenienced by the Bun, he asked his servant to get on the roof and pass alight linen covering over the glass. As the woman was arranging this awning she slipped, and, falling through the glass, alighted on the table at wbich her master was feated. Oddly enough she sustained no injury worth mentioning. M. Boutet, however, was not so fortunate. A piece of the broken glass struck him on the neck, severing an artery.

A curious discovery has just been made at Vimoutiere, France, by a peasant living in the village of CutesBon. He was digging in his fisld when the ground suddenly gave way, and he -fell into a hole ten feet in depth. The peasant had accidentally lighted upon a subterranean chamber, the exietence of which WSB not even suspected by the oountry people. On examination a number of human bones partially petrified were found in an adjoining vault oonstruoted in the form of a circle. The bones are of exceptionally large dimensions, and appear to have belonged to a raoe of gigantic stature and great breadth of frame. In fact, the persons who have etudied the case on the spot are of opinion that the bodies must have been interred in this burial plaoe at a very remote period.

Richard Chandler, a prominent and wealthy resident of the town of Irving, a few miles south of Black River Falls, Wis., is on the verge of the grave, as the result of an affliction that has puzzled the doctors, and which stands unique in the records of medical history. For several months Chandler's month has been gradually growing together, and now the artifiee is only about the eize of a small marble. All efforts to check the strange growth has been unavailing. Chandler is now unable to take sufficient nourishment to satisfy the demands of his system. It is proposed to cut his mouth open and prevent its further closing by artificial means, but the patient says his affliction is a forewarning of his approaching dissolution, and will not allow his physician to operate on him.

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