Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 August 1889 — Page 2

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The Ohio Democrats put ft protective tariff Democrat on their ticket yesterday with a tariff reform platform.

The G. A. R. expresses itself on the pension question this morning, and we commend what it says to those who are apt to arrive at a conclusion on half-in-formation.

(Everyone who realises that the Vigo fair is of decidedly material benefit to our city, county nnd surrounding territory will be willing to yield to it for a day. To-morrow is Terre Haute's day and all business houses are to clo&e at

The next time the city council asks Judge Mack to appoint a board of appraisers it would be well to have it understood that the board is also to have in charge the interests of the city that is, that what they do will be final as the city fathers are incapable of supervising their acts.

The resolution of the city council means that there was fraud in the gravel pit transaction or it means nothing. If the council was unaware of any fraud in the transaction the special meeting and l,ho adoption of the resolution surpassed in asininity the action by which th® council sold the property.

It tins been shown over and over again that the lurid In no way allects the price or supply of coal 111 the striking districts.—[ Forty Protective Tariff Organs.

Then why become red headed when It is sought to repeal anything so utterly

useless?—[Chicago

Herald. Hut it does affect the miner. Imported free coal would drive the miner out of the mines in Maryland and West Virginia, and although it could not reach the market of the Ohio, Indiana and Illinois mines to "affect the price or supply," the .Maryland and West Virginia miners would soon be here to affect the "supply" of labor.

.O.O.D.

One Who Was Certain.

see that a weol puller has failed In the East,' said Mudge, as he thoughtfully looked, at the foam 111 his glass. ••I know one that won't rail." replied Mr. N. Peek. And then lie looked up at the clock and remurke.1 that lie thought he had better get on home.

What She

IIail

Heard.

Miss Yellowieaf—I cannot understand why you call Mr. Sheighman bashful. I talked with him' over an hour last evening and he seemed perfectly at. ease*

Miss Klyppe—I'm sure 1 never said he was bashful. In tact I have often heard that I11 the society 01 old ladies lie was a most charming talker.

Touched a Sympathetic Chord. The boss barber happened to look toward the new man and beheld tears as big as gooseberries rolling down the cheeks or that Teutonic individual. ••What's the matter, dus?" asked the boss. "Keller I yoost schafed vas een eatln' llmpurger, utid 1 got me to t'tnkin' ot homo," was the tearful answer.

I.ove's Youiii I)renin.

They sat within the parlor dim, .Making love and chewing gum, I'lrst a chaw and then yimi-yum, For he loved her and she loved him.

"Take Something.

Yabslev 1 wish 1 had the lliuor question brought before me for settlement. Wlekwlre-What would you do'.'

Yahsley—I'd answer in the alllrmative.

An Appropriate Device.

Money," said the orator, "stands or ought to stand—us the representative of labor." ••I suppose that's the reason why they puts sawlmek on a twenty dollar bill ler." remarked the tramp.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

7' tin- Kilitur the K.r/irw. Sin: l.amartlne is determined that our people shall know how to properly pronounce the name 11I their own city, but in all he has written on that subject he has not once hinted at the rule which really governs the pronunciation of such names as that of our town happens to be. In his zeal tor Krench aspirates and his determination that we shall know what letters his countrymen never sound, be quite forgets that we pronounce the name. Terre Haute, without thinking or caring fur either.

The rule to which all nations conlorm In regard to geographical names is that "they shall be pronounced in accordance with the analogies ot their respective languages." With Americans, propernames are anglicized, and it can make no diner dice to us whether the Krench call their capita city Pare or not, we call It Purls, and 110 sensible American, unless he happens to ba talking rench. 1 lilnks of pronouncing It as Parisians do. Lamartine should give some attention to the good people oi Vlncennes: they are greater olfemlers in this particular than we.

All authorities agree that "English analogic. in regard to proper names, should prevail over that HI the language from which the names are taken and there is a tolerably well recognized modification of this law. It Is that states, cities and smaller communities may decide upon the proper pronunciation of their own names. Arkansas tlxed hers bv act of legislature, and the names or many towns In the Southwest can be learned only from the natives. If I.amartlneVants to tlnd out how to properly pronounce the name of our city, let ill 111 conic here and ask the tlrst Intelligent looking person he meets and he will know all about It trom the people, who have the best right to say what It Is.

A Tragedy in Heal Life.

Husband (at the opera)—See how pale Mrs. Upwell is! I never saw her so affected by tragedy before.

Wife (sagaciously)—It isn't that—her back hair is coming down.—[Epoch.

Not So Very Uncommon.

First Omaha Mamma—Your baby is a very strong child. Second Omaha Mamma—Yes, when it has the colic at night it raises the whole house.—| Omaha Cribber.

A PERILOUS ELOPEMENT.

A Buffalo correspondent of the New York Sun writes to that paper as follows*: Within the past ten years the coast of the eastern end of Lake Erie has been growing rapidly in public favor as a health and recreation resort. Beginning at the mouth of the little stream that empties in the lake near Angola, the building of camps and cottages has spread in both connections, until now there is scarce an available headland or a creek bank between Buffalo and State Line that does not boast of from one to a dozen summer homes and is not bright on a pleasant afternoon with blazers and jackets and caps and all the paraphernalia of a seaside resort. For the most part the camps and cottages are built in groups by parties of people who are acquainted with each other and are of sufficiently congenial tastes to want to live in the same neighborhood. There .is very frequently a common dining hall managed by a native, where the town folks get their meals instead of bot hering with separate kitchens and dining-rooms for themselves. The two railroads that run along the lake shore run trains in a way to favor the people at these resorts, and, in consequence, not a few people move into their cottages early in May and live there until October, the gentlemen coming to Buffalo, or going to and from their business places, wherever they may be, night and morning, just as they do around New York City. On Sunday and commonly on Saturday the gentlemen are in camp all day, and a very comfortable time they have of it, for there is no end to the delights of boating and dancing and music and card parties.

Very seldom does an accident happen to mar the pleasure of these charming resorts. With one exception, nothing more serious has happened this year than the upsetting of a boat, which did no

more

than wet those in it. The one

exception plunged two families into mourning. It was an accident with a sequel.

It was on May 19 last. The day was pleasant and the water on the lake smooth. Among those who took advantage of the occasion to go rowing were Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge and Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Denton. They were camped on a headland with a dozen other families, all old friends and acquaintances who had leased cottage sites there for years.

As is customary among campers, Mrs. Denton went rowing with Mr. Eldridge, and Mrs. Eldridge with Mr. Denton. It was a particularly good arrangement in this case outside of the social custom, for Mr. Eldridge and Mrs. Denton were the most daring of all the campers in facing a Burf on a windy day, while Mr. Denton find Mrs. Eldridge lingered near shore, afraid to venture about as the other couple did.

When the party went out in their boats there was a little black roll of a cloud getting up in the West, but no one paid any attention to it, for it was not big enough to excite the fears even of timorous Mr. Denton and Mrs. Eldridge. As for Mr. Eldridge and his companion, Mrs. Denton, they grasped the oars, and with strokes that excited the openly expressed admiration of. the spectators along shore, fairly lifted their light craft over the little waves. They rowed out so far that the spectators along shore could barely see the boat, looking like a stick bobbing about on the waves. Then they turned about, and, heading for the shore, let her drift.

After awhile the little black roll of a cloud became conspicuous. It was a big black roll, and the blue sky became gray, and the sun was blotted out before it had reached the horizon. Both Mr. Denton and Mrs. Eldridge, having hastened ashore, wished a hundred times, and expressed the wish half as many times, that the pair in the boat outside would not take such risks.

There was a squall coming this time and no mistake. It was a whistler. People along shore remember to this day about the squall of Sunday, May 19. The people in the camp on the headland saw the wind coming away off to the west. They saw the white sheet of foam that marked its progress cover out of sight the little black object they knew to be the boat with their friends in it, and then they gathered about the wife and husband who were left on shore, and talked encouragingly about the splendid skill with the oars which the two afloat had more than once exhibited, and the staunchness of the cedar skiff, and the short time the squall was likely to last.

There was need for such talk then, and need for heartier sympathy later on. An hour passed, and the squall was done, but darkness settled down over the lake. Every one went down to the water's edge from the camp and started over the water. The clouds cleared off, and the stars came out. They strained their eyes for a glimpse of the boat. Once a man in looking through a pair of marine glasses thought he saw the boat. He was quite sure of it, but the firing of pistols and other signals brought no response. When he looked again he could not find the object.

The men patrolled the beach at night, and the next morning about daylight found the boat bottom side up, aground where the low waves broke on the Bhore, near the National guard shooting range. A broken oar was found near by that had belonged to the boat, and further awav still the other oars and a grating. Last of all they found the hat (alight straw) that had belonged to Mr. Eldridge. It was plain to all that the boat had been upset by the equall and its fearless occupants drowned. The man who had seen the boat through the glass after the squall said it did not then seem to be upside down, but now he was sure he had been mistaken. At any rate he had seen no one in it.

Mrs. Eldridge and Mr. Denton went into mourning. Their cottages were closed for the season and both went to their homes in a village back in the interior of the state. A liberal reward was offered for the bodies, but without much hope of getting them, for Niagara's current carries bodies lost here over the falls, although light substances, like oars and boats, are drifted ashore by the wind. The bodies were not washed up.

Early in August a Sun correspondent met on Niagara street in this city one of the campers acquainted with the circumstances, atid was told that the common sorrows of Mr. Denton and Mrs. Eldridge had served to draw them together, and that they were engaged to be married at the end of the year from the time of the loss of the skiff in the Lake Erie squall.

Yesterday came a New York drummer to town with a story that completely turned the current of grief for the dead into one of anger for the living. Mr. Eldridge was a physician, but he had made his headquarters at a popular drug store in his home village so long that all the patent medicine and other traveling drug men had got acquainted with him. A man who drives a wagon for a well-known line of medicine made here had extended his

route over into Connecticut, and there by chance met Dr. Eldridge in a drug store in a village on the Bound. 'The drummer's name is Henry Montgomery. He refuses to tell where Dr. Eldridge is living, but says that Mrs. Denton is with him, and that he saw her. The two were in nowise embarrassed by the meeting, but asked him to say nothing to the reporters about their location, because it is convenient to New York. Dr. Eldridge said that if Denton and Mrs. Eldridge chose to get divorcee he would marry the woman he had run away with in a Lake Erie squall.

It would be interesting to know just how they managed to get ashore and escape detection on the railway train, but of that they would not talk to Mr. Montgomery.

MUST STAND A TEST.

Sen* Text-Book Law in Court—Injunction Against the Indianapolis Board. The school book monopoly dies hard, says the Indianapolis. News. The new text book law, enacted by the last legislature, has been assailed from every civil point withont success, and now the monopolistic concern proposes to make a last desperate effort to break it down in the courts.

The initial step of the latest movement was taken this morning by Ivison, Blakeman & Co., of Chicago, filing suit in the United States court to enjoin the Indianapolis school board from introducing in the city schools the geographies to be furnished under .the contract with the Indiana school book company. The complaint in the suit was drawn by Addison C. Harris, and covered twenty-live or thirty pages of typewriter copy.

The complaint alleges, in the beginning, that prior to April, 1S8S, Guyot's geographies were in use in the Indianapolis schools, and in March of that year the school board displaced Guyot's series and substituted Swinton's, published by the plaintiffs in this suit. It is then alleged that Bfter the new geographies had been adopted, Ivison, Blakeman & Co. entered into a written contract wittt the school board to furnish books for six years at a stipulated price.

This contract, the complaint says,^ is still in force and will be for nearly five years yet, and cannot be vitiated by any act of the legislature, because the constitution of the United States provides that "no state shall pass any law impairing the obligations of contracts." Therefore, the complaint holds, any statute adopted after this contract was entered into null and void. It is also maintained that the new law does not apply to the schools of Indianapolis, because they are not mentioned in the act.

The complaint seeks to give numerous other reasons why the new law is null and void. One is that it is in contravention of good government and safe public policy, because it seeks and proposes to establish a monopoly by placing the manufacture and sale of school books in the hands of one man. A second reason is that it seeks to make the township trustees the state's agents, bailees and salesmen of the alleged monopoly, when the constitution of the state says that "no man's particular service shall be demanded without just compensation."

Considerable stress is laid upon the fact that the statutes have for many years provided that school text-books should be selected by local school boards. The new law, it is maintained, does not repeal the old act, and it is therefore claimed that local school boards still have the legal right to say what text-books shall be used in the schools they control.

In conclusion, the complaint alleges that the new law has no claim whatever for validity. The people of Indiana, it is asserted, have never delegated to the legislature the authority to say what books shall be purchased, what price shall be paid, and who shall have charge of the education, training and conduct of their children. Many minor reasons are given why the law will not stand a test when measured by the provisions of the national and state constitutions, and the plaintiff alleges that if they are not permitted to carry out their contract with the Indianapolis school board they will be damaged to the amount of several thousand dollars. They say that, believing they were to supply the city with geographies for six years, they have manufactured a large number of books specially for this city, and that the stock of such on hand is valued at $2,000.

An immediate hearing of the case was asked for, and by agreement of all parties concerned, the petition for a temporary restraining order will be heard next Monday before Judge WoodB.

While there is nothing in the complaint to intimate it, it is generally believed that Ivison, Blakeman & Co. are backed in the movement by all the other book concerns that have been crowded out of Indiana by the passage of the new law. In other words, this is to be made a test suit, and if won, other companies will bring similar suits against school boards and trustees all over the state.

The majority of school boards in the state have contracts with publishing companies out running from one to ten years, and it will be urged in this case that these contracts can not be abrogated by the passage of any law. Attorney Harris, who brings this suit, feels confident that he will be able to have the new law held unconstitutional.

Was Death Accidental?

This morning the body of Michael Hare, a G. A. R. man, who for three years has been employed as a street car driver on the Stock yards line, was found in the river near a tree below the abbatoir, says the Indianapolis News. He was last seen alive Sunday when he was on his car. The water where he was found was quite shallow, and there is a suspicion tnat death was not accidental.

Hare lived at 4G1 south West street, was 1G years old, and has a wife and six children. The body was taken to Kregelo's morgue, where Coroner Wagner is holding an inquest.

Value Itecelved.

Proprietor-(Russian bath)—That man who just, went out didn't appear to be in a very good humor. Did he get «his money's worth?

Attendant—Ob, yis, sir, we made him howl loik a cat.—[New York Weekly.

Trade and Labor Notes.

The Pennsylvania steel company proposes to establish a department Tor the construction of steel ships.

Cotton goods manufacturers or the City of Mexico formed a combination and propose to purchase cotton only In the L'nlted States.

Considerable Interest has been aroused In Iron circles In the Lehigh valley by the otllclal notice that at the annual meeting of the Thomas Iron company, on September lOtn next, the stockholders would be called upon to vote on a resolution to sell the enUre plant, li Is current report that a number of Englishmen are back of the proposition to buy. and that they are willing to pay a good figure for the stock. The company has valuable property in several counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and though costing about four million dollars, would be held at a higher figure by the stockholders. The par value of the stock Is $30. The last sale was at t68. The dividends of late have been at the rate of 10 per cent.

THE TERRE HATJTE EXPRESS, THUKSDAY MORNING, AGUST 29, 1889.

ATLANTIC CITY'S TRAGEDY.

Mr- and Mrs. Hamilton in Jail Awaiting the Result of theXnrae'i Injuries. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 27.— There is nothing talked about in this city by the sea this morning except the stabbing sensation in which Robert Ray Hamilton figures so strangely. Around the cottage where the stabbing occurred there is a tremendous crowd, and hundreds stand for hours gazing at the windows and doors of the house as if they sought to learn something new from their appearance. Atlantic City has never had such a sensation before, and the throngs of Philadelphians and others who are here are discussing with relish every bit of detail concerning the tragedy which they can get hold of. Mary Ann Donnelly, the nurse whom Mrs. Hamilton slashed with her ivory-handled dagger, is still lying in a dangerous state, and great fears that peritonitis will set in are entertained.

There is also a big crowd around the jail where Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton are confined—the former as a witness, and the latter to await the result of Nuree Donnelly's injuries.

The hearing had here to day in the case of Mrs. Evangeline Hamijton, wife of Robert Ray Hamilton of New York, grandson of Alexander Hamilton, who iB charged with having stabbed Mary Ann Donnelly, a domestic in her employ, developed several new points which are detrimental to Mrs. Hamilton. Justice Irving conducted the examination. The prisoner, when brought in, showed signB of great mental distress, and all during the proceedings Bat with her head bowed on the railing in front of her. Robert Ray Hamilton was the first witness. He testified as to the discharge of the servant previous to the cutting, and hesitatingly admitted that the knife used was in the hands of his wife at the time. Witness gave his age as 38, but was not questioned as to family relationship. Policeman Biddle, who arrested Mrs. Hamilton, stated that the latter told him on the way to the station house that she did it in self defense. Police Sergeant Loder stated that just before placing Mrs. Hamilton in a cell yesterday he asked her if she had committed the deed, and she admitted it, saying she had used a white handled dirk knife, and that in her excitement she had thrown it on the bed or in the closet, she did not know which. The weapon was afterwards found in the closet. This concluded the testimony and Judge Irving remanded the accused to prison at Mays Linding without. bail to await the injuries of Nurse Donnelly. She was taken to jail this afternoon. Robert Ray Hamilton was held in SG00 bail, which he endeavored to secure under surveillance of a detective. The high standing of Hamilton has made the affair one of great interest, and intense excitement has been caused. The attempts of some to prove that the man is not Robert Ray Hamilton have proved futile. Justice Irving has proof of his identity which cannot be denied. The wife has a bad record, and when Hamilton, who has an income of $15,000 a year, married her his family objected strenuously.

The Troubles of the Cliicaco Times. CHICAGO, August 27.—H. J. Huiskamp, one of the proprietors of tne Times, this afternoon procured warrantB for James J. West and his secretary, Charles E. Graham. He charges them with illegally issuing 1,000 Bhares of stock in the Times company. A constable has gone to Mr. West's residence to serve the warrant. Shortly afterward, when the board of directors of the Times were in session in the Times building, Mr. West and W. A. Patton, a former director, appeared and presented a writ of injunction issued to-day by Judge Jamison, restraining the present board of directors from acting as such. At about, the same time Mr. Graham, Mr. West's private secretary, appeared, and the constables, with the warrants for their arrests, having also put in an appearance, Messrs. West and Graham were taken into custody. West's debts areS'250,000. Justice Lyon held Mr. West and Mr. Graham to await the action of the grand jury, fixing bail for each at $10,000. Mr. H. Hart, of H. Hart & Co., and Mr. George H. Taylor Bigned the bonds, and the prisoners were released.

A Strange Coincidence.

During the past week Mrs. Simon, wife of a well-known grocer of Loporte, Ind., has been entertaining a young lady from Indianapolis. At three o'clock Monday threeclocks in the house stopped simultaneously. They had all been wound the previous day and were in excellent running order. Mrs. Simon, noticing the strange coincidence, was seized with a belief that she would soon hear bad news. About half an hour later a telegram from Indianapolis announced the sudden death of the visiting lady's father at Indianapolis at precisely the same hour and minute the hands on the clock recorded.—[Chicago Herald.

A Curious Test of Breeding. It is told of a wealthy family in New York that it is their regular custom to apply to new acquaintances a test of breeding which they are accustomed to call the "booby trap." They seat the stranger in a rocking chair and sit about to watch him or her. If the visitor rocks the verdict is given against him and he is thenceforth cut off from the calling list of the family. If he or she sits quietly and does not sway to and fro the case is considered as being decidedly in his or her favor.—[Boston Courier.

Judge Terry's Fateful Name. It is curious how the name David runs through the principal incidents in the life of the late ex-Judge Terry. He was named David, and he killed David C. Broderick in a duel. One of Broderick's seconds was David D. Colton, and the duel was witnessed by David J. Brewer, United States circuit judge of the Eighth judicial district of Illinois. Terry was killed by David Nngle, and Justice Field's father and one of his brothers were baptized David.—|San Francisco Alto.

Can You Explain these Tilings? On Wednesday W. H. Short called at the office of an accident insurance company and asked that a policy of So,000, good for the next day, be written for him. Before the agent commenced writing it, Short saw a friend, with whom he wished to speak, Bcross the street and went out, telling the agent not to write the policy until he returned. Unfortunately he did not return, and the next day he was killed.—[Indianapolis News.

The Center of Population.

The center of population has traveled West, almost on a straight line from the vicinity of Annapolis to a point seven miles southwest of Cincinnati. The last census took it across the Ohio river, a short way below Riverside. The pre­

sumption is that the next census will take it across the river again, locating it in the state of Indiana' not far from Rising Sun.—[Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. J*

BAYLESS W. HANNA IS AT HOME,

He Claims Still to Represent the United States at Buenos Ayres. Bayless W. Hanna, who has been representing the United States as minister to the Argentine republic for the past four years, arrived home at Crawfordsville Monday unannounoed. His

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who has been acting as his private secretary, accompanied him. Mr. Hanna says that he has received no official notification of the appointment of ex-Gov-ernor Pitkin, of Louisiana, as

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SIXTY SECONDS

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Why Tliey Make a Minute All Over the World. Why is an hour divided into GO minutes each minute into GO seconds, etc.? Simply and sole because in Babylon there existed by the side of the decimal system of notation, another system, the sexagesimal, which counted by sixties, writes Max Muller in the Fortnightly Review. Why that number should have been chosen is clear enough and it speaks well for the practical sense of tho3e ancient Babylonian merchants. There is no number which has so many divisors as GO. The Babylonians divided the sun's daily journey into twenty-four parasange, or 710 stadia. Each parasang or hour was subdivided into sixty minutes. A parasang is about a German mile, and Babylonian astronomers compared the progress made by the sun during one hour at the time of the equinox to the progress made by a good walker during the same time, both accomplishing one parasang. The whole course of the sun during the twenty-four equinoctial hours was fixed at twenty-four parasange, or 720 stadia, or 3G0 degrees. This system was handed on to the Greeks, and Hipparchas, the great Greek philosopher, who lived about 150 B. C., introduced the Babylonian hour into Europe. Ptolemy, who wrote about 140 A. D., and whose name still lives in that of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, gave still wider currency to the Babylonian way of reckoning time. It was carried along on the quiet stream of traditional knowledge through the middle oges, and, strange to say, it sailed down safely over the Niagara of the French revolution. For the French, when revolutionizing weights, measures, coins and dates, and subjecting all to the decimal system ot reckoning, were induced by some unexplained motives to respect our clockB and watches, and allowed our dials to remain sexagesimal—that is, Babylonian, each hour consisting of .Bixty minutes. Here you see again the wonderful coherence of the woi'ld and how what we call knowledge is the result of an unbroken tradition of teaching descending from father to son. Not more than a hundred arms would reach from us to the builders of the palaces of Babylon, and enable us to shake hands with the founders of the oldeBt pyramids and to thank them for what they have done for us.

Skuuks on Dress Parade.

A friend in Wisconsin tells me of an amusing incident he noticed in the woods up there. Himself and a companion were riding along together, when there suddenly stepped into the road ahead of them a little army of skunksone old skunk and five half-grown kittens. These seemed perfectly fearless, and halting by the wayside, the gentleman's companion began firing at them with a six-shooter, although he did not hit any of them. At the sound of every shot, the skunks, which had marshaled themselves into perfect line, threw up their tails -in perfect unison, as straight and stiff as a ramrod, above their backs, making no further hostile demonstration, and simply standing at a ready until their fear had partly subsided. They repeated this maneuver a dozen times, and my informant says the total effect was funny in the extrem.e—[Forest and Stream.

Josli Billings' Philosophy.

Prudes are coquets gone to seed. The man whokan't do any hurt in this world kan't do any good.

To be thoroughly pittyed will take the courage out of eny man. The grate art ov keeping friends iz tew keep them in expectancy.

Love has a most vorashus appetight, but a poor digestion what it feeds on moBt alwas distresses it.

Wimmen quite often possess superior talents, but their genius lays in their pashuns.

There are people who are so addikted to exageratiou that they kan't tell the truth without lieing.

Information Wanted About a "Sw inker' What is a "swinker?" This question is asked with growing anxiety Eince the Macon Telegraph characterized a political candidate as one. A swinker is popular'y believed to be a person who unites the dignity of the beglerbeg with the esprit du corpse of the scharamouch but, if this is erroneous, our esteemed Mocontemporary seould set the thing right.— [Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Threw a Roll of Greenbacks in the Fire. While Mrs. Fred Stafford, of Pekin, 111., was cleaning up her house, she found a little bundle tied up in a rag, and, thinking it was trash, threw it into the fire. It turned out to be a roll of $3S5 in greenbacks, rolled about a ten-dollar gold piece. The latter was all that was saved.

A Chance For Comstock.

Amelie Rives, it is said, has decided to abandon literature for art, and the first products of her brush are promised for exhibition at an early day. It is hnrdly necessary to say that Anthony Comstock is on the alert.—[Chicago Herald.

A Plain Definition.

Mrs. Brown—What is a bunco-steerer, my dear? Brown—A man who always offers to give you something for nothing, and often succeeds in giving you nothing^or something.—[New York Sun.

To Make His Courting Stick. "What can I do," asked she, "to mase my lover stick to his promise?" "I don't know, my dear," said her playful adviser, "unless you try court plaster."—[Chicago Globe.

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BKECHAM'S PILLS cure bilious and nervous ills.

CORN ON THS COB. •. ..

My sweetheart eats corn on the cob. 'Tls sweet to her palate and eye. Though Its kernels her visage bedaub

And set her fair features awry. In butter deeply Immersed, This horse-feed with her raises hob: O, this of my Ills Is the worst.

My sweetheart eats corn on the cob! O, corn on the cob! O, corn on the cub: It gives ine a very loud pain In the knob

To behold my own dear Stretch her mouth ear to ear In the eating ot corn on the cob.

My sweetheart eats corn on the cob And taints her complexion of pearl With the porker's own food, that would rob

Of beauty the lovllest girl. I weep, and reflect with a groan. As my cardiac furnishings throb With anguish, how can she atone

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cessors, as reported in Washington dispatches. He claims to be still in possession of the office and entitled to the salary.

Kor eating this corn on the cob? O, corn on the cob! O, corn on the cob! It makes my (esophagus up and down bolt

As I think of the woe That must gripe her, I know. When my sweetheart eats com on the cob.

John Talinan In the l'loneer- Press.

Nearly every man of Gallup, N. M., owns a pet badger. Some ladiee' boots shown in a Boston shop window are $100 a pair.

A national chrysanthemum society has been formed in this country. A Chattanooga man tried the other day to pawn his false teeth to get money to buy drink.

Mrs. Ivesterson, of Fultou, Ky., has five sons, and the birthday of each of them is July 24th.

Nearly every vessel clearing from San Diego, Cal., nowadays carries from ten to fifteen tons of honey.

A toad-stool three feet across and very beautifully colored was found in the woods above Martin's Ferry recently.

A toadstool three feet across and very beautifully colored was found in the woods above Martin's Ferry recently.

A judge down in Tennessee has instructed his grand jury "to indict all persons who publicly express infidel sentiments."

When completed the Indiana soldiers' monument, with one exception (the Washington), will be the highest in the world.

Thomas B. Moss has just resighed the principalshipof the Meson (Ga.) academy, a position he has held for forty-one years.

Joseph Gilder states, in the Critic, that the Century company's new dictionary has cost over fiva hundred thousand dollars.

Mrs. Harrison recently remarked that if a woman loves.the society of her husband she should never encourage him to become a public man.

Thomas W. Sweeney, of Reading, Pa., has the pistols with which Judge Terry and Senator Broderick fought a duel. They are French, 34-calibsr, with hair triggers.

Warren Humes is the oldest guide in the Adirondacks. He has hunted there for forty-five years and has killed over four thousand deer and more than two hundred bears.

Within the last few weeks more than fifty thousand acres have been bought in the Bahamas by British and American capitalists to be devoted to the raising of sisal hemp.

The world-renowned Blondin has made a bet of 820,000 that he can walk a rope from the top of the Eiffel tower to the central dome of the Paris exposition building in five minutes.

Anna E. Dickinson denies that she is an invalid, and says she will, before many months, "take up her public work, probably for a short time on the platform, certainly on the theatrical stage."

Cleveland has a '-fresh air camp" outside its limits, where the sick children of the poor are cared for in summer. The charitable people of the city sustain the camp with gifts of money, bedding and clothing.

Joaquin Miller contemplates purchasing a yacht and leaving San Francisco for a cruise in the South Seas. He may discover Robert Louis Stevenson, who is hobnobbing with cannibals and other eccentric people.

Bill Nye has been financially "done up" by 11 Minnesota real estate man, who induced the humorist to trade his house and lot at Hudson, Wis., for some worthless suburban lots near Minneapolis having a $1,000 mortgage attachment.

The king of Holland, who ought to have been in his grave six months ago, according to his doctor, is getting on wonderfully well in every respect save one. He does not seem to recover sufficient muscular power in his lower extremities to enable him to walk.

It is said in the north of England that Prince George of Wales will not need any allowance—that, in fact, he iB already provided for. The report is that Lord Armstrong is going to leave all his money to the second son of the heir apparent. He has no eons or daughters of his own. If the report is true Prince George will be very wealthy.

The pope is taking a summer holiday. He left the Vatican to stay in a small pavilion at the end of the gardens, called the "Casino of Pius IV." and thoroughly enjoys the change after being restricted to the same Bppartments for over eleven years. The pavilion is very small and rather damp, but his holiness would not listen to any objection to his removal. He intends to establish an astronomical observatory in the Vatican.

John II. B. Latrope is the oldest lawyer in the United states practicing his profession. He is8G years old graduated at West Point in 1822 at the head of his clasp soon retired from the army and studied law \vaa admitted to the bar sixty-five years ago, and has been in active practice ever since.

A local brass band plays all day long in a room at the Edison laboratory, in West Orange, N. J., for a phonograph, and large numbers of duplicate cylinders containing the melody are made and shipped to the Paris exhibtion. The manufacture and shipment of the cylinders will continue so long as the exhibition remains open.

A big Chinese colony located near Lake Ponchartrain is making considerable money catching fish and shrimps. The shrimps are boiled, when the shells are removed, after which they are al lowed to dry and smoke over a slow hickory (ire, and are then packed and shipped to New York, San Francisco and other cities with large Chinese populations. The industry is said to be a very growing one.

A dispatch from Shoshone, Idaho, sayB the agents looking up fraudulent land and water right entries are making important discoveries. The upper Blackfoot river has been found to have fine nas. ural meadows, covered by desert entrietOn one tract of 11,000 acree claimed by prominent Utah Mormons were found ten mowing machines cutting thousands of tons of hay. Prosecutions are promised to place these lands back in the public domain, while examples will likely be made of some offenders charged with perjury.

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VANDALIA LINE.

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