Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 October 1889 — Page 2

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The Indianapolis News says that if General Mnnson had voted the other ticket he would never have been asked to resign. That is the truth. He would never have held the office and of course would not have been asked to resign. See? There are two Bides to this question of federal office holding.

THE EX TRESS this morning gives a large proportion of its space to,the proceedings of the opening day of the Cronin trial. The opening statement of the state's attorney furnishes a connected story of the murderous conspiracy such as everyone should read who expects to have an intelligent understanding of the daily reports of the trial from this time on. The story as told in this morning's report is familiar only to those who have been familiar with the daily developments of the last H\e

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The I'aii-Amerlciui Reception. Klrst Committeeman—What llower do yot.think will be the most appropriate to decorate the re-ception-room

Second Committeeman-Buckwheat.

A Choice of Letters.

Wickwlre—I'm In somewhat of a quandary. Yabsley—What's the matter Wlckwlrc-My wife wants me to go with her to a pink tea, and Mudge wants me to go out to take a little red eye, and I hardly know which proposition to accept.

Ho Hit.

Clara—So he has ciult calling oil you, eh? I.aiir'i—Yes. I duln't like to tell him that lie was a nuisance, so I got Tommy to work that old chestnut about my hanging my hair on the back of chair when I combed it, and he has never been around since.

Took No Klsks.

Aludge—Will you be kind enough to telephone tor a hack for me? Yabsley—Why don't yen do It yourself?

Mudge—I've got a mash on the telephone girl, and I don't want her to smell whisky on my breath.

Generous.

Deacon Watts and Deacon Podberry had been trading horses, which

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ing prayer ottered up by Deacon Watts at the regular weekly prayer-meeting: "Oh, Lord, we pray that you will continue to shower down your manifold blessings upon us as we deserve. And perhaps, Lord, you had better shower onto brother Podberry a few that he doesn't deserve, or there's some danger that he won't be In It."

Tlio Chllil Is Father." Ktc. When as a boy a nickel got, Whether given or lent, You may rest assured I rested not

Till It was spent.

And now. and then, a "nick" ^etshot Within my pocket. Tntil I find some handy slot

In which to drop It.

Note.—The reader's attention Is especially called to the easy, smooth way In which "drop It" rhymes with "pocket." If the gentle reader takes any exception to the rhyme atoresald, he Is at liberty to drop a nickel In the slot and get a dlflerent one.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Huston Traveller The Hon. Green B. Raum. or Illinois. Is to be commissioner of Tensions, and nn worthier man could have been taken. General Haum Is an I' corruptible public servant and liaa been tested In most Important public relat'ons ip connections In connection with our revenues and ilnances. He Is a soldier with a noble record, anil the American people will feel assured that In his selection a very judicious settlement of a troublesome Issue has been accomplished.

Pes Moines Register: Where Is the democratic state that can be compared with republican lowa? Speak right out. There are states that have been solidly democratic all the time that Iowa has been republican. Trot out jour champion democratic state and see how her record of good government, tine capltnl, excellent charitable Institutions, schools, churches, manufactories, low taxes, and everything which conduces to happiness and prosperity compares with Iowa. .New York Herald: Chicago deserves the sympathy ol' the whole country In her ellort to punish the murderers of Dr. Cronin. The more thu matter is probed the more it becomes tvi*lent that her ofllclals are struggling against a vast and almost Invisible power that seenie to embrace manv influential men with money at their command. For the credit or the nation we hepethe great city of the northwest will succeed In crushing this conspiracy and thus deal another blow to murder by committee.

Akron Beacon: The men who are managing the Democratic party's campaign In Ohio are known from one end of the land to the other. From 1SS3 to lSb6 they were conspicuously notorious They forged, they bribed, they placed colored loters in jail on election day In order to prevent their voting, and when the day was over released iliem without trial or explanation. They, con Irolled our public affairs during Hoadly's administration In such a way that an Increasing surplus of over hair a million dollars In the state treasury was converted. In two years, Into a rapidly Increasing deticlt of even a greater sum.

Tlio Wronc Klud.

"GentleiueD," said the quiet citizen who was attending his first political caucus, "in rising to nominate Mr. Simpson for this office, I wish to

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know him to be well qualified and in every way worthy, lie is not a man of many word?, it is true. He is a plain, unassuming American

And amid wild yells of "£own wid "im!" "Put 'im out!" and "Hang the blag'yard!" the quiet citizen put on his hat, jumped out of the nearest window, and abandoned politics forever.—[Chicago Tribune.

A Startling KiVect.

Mrs. Dr. Kate Bushnell, in a lecture at Minneapolis on social purity, related her experience as physician of a flourishing hospital, and her fruitless endeavors to provide homes for unfortunate girls. In winding up the story she demanded: "Where could those poor girls go?" And pausing a moment, as if waiting for an answer, she thundered out: "To hell! That is where they did go!" The effect was somewhat startling.

A Sure Sign.

"Weil, summer's over at last," remarked a man who came in. "Yes, I think it is: I noticed you left the door open."—[New York Sun.

EATON'S STRANGE WILL.

The will of IiUcien B. Baton, late of Steuben county, Indiana, conveying a large landed estate to trustees in trust for the benefit of indigent old maids and widow ladies over thirty-five years of age, on account of its singular terms and conditions, and the disposition which it makes of the testator's large estate, has been the subject of considerable comment in the newspapers throughout the country. In a recent issue of the Chicago Herald it was asserted that the validity of the will had been established by decree of court, in an action brought by the son, Isaac Eaton, to set the will aside on the ground of the mental unsoundness of his father at the time he executed it. This idea was misleading, inasmuch as the case was submitted to a jury who failed to find a verdict, which leaves the case pending for trial at the November term of the circuit court of Steuben county. The extraordinary will and the remarkable man who executed it are together worthy subjects to be woven into the extravagant fiction of H. Rider Haggard, and are certainly strange enough to excite general interest. Old man Eton came to Steuben county at an early day, writes an Anglo correspondent of the Herald, from the state of New York, and settled upon a farm a few miles west of the village of Fremont. He was at once recognized by those with whom he came in contact as an eccentric man. He was of more than ordinary intelligence, a devoted attendantand member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a preacher gifted with considerable power of oratory, his sermons and conversation bearing evidence of careful mental discipline and a thorough education, yet withal so groveling, miserly and penurious in his habits, and in his manner of living so greedy for wealth, as to provoke very general adverse criticism. Within a few years from the time he settled in Steuben county he was married. The woman of his choice wns seemingly possessed of many of the peculiarities of her erratic husband, and together they lived, or at least managed to survive, in a wretched and dilapidated old hut, through which the wina coursed without restraint. Old hate, bits of rng carpet and straw were made to supply the place of missing window panes. A broken cook stove, nn old discarded square stand, two or three diemembered chairs, and a collection of rags aDd sheepskins for bed clothing constituted all the house furniahingp. and with these miserable surroundings they practiced the most rigid self-denial and deprivation, being at times in absolute want, untii the year 1870, when the old lady died of pneumonia, no doubt the result of self-imposed starvation and exposure to the rigorous winter weather. It is said by those who visited them during Mrs. Eaton's sickness that the family was literally starving to death, there being no article of food in the house, except the coarsest of chop made of corn, such as farmers feed to their stock, although at that time Eaton was a wealthy man. and surrounded with every means for making his family comfortable, having a large amount of wheat and live stock on his farm. But the accumulation of property had become a mania.

The chief delusion of the old man's mind was his apprehension of coming to want, of which he wns constantly complaining. At the time of his wife's illness, his neighbors urged him to kill a cow and have some of his wheat made iuto flour, to provide the means of sustaining life, but the old gentleman drew himself up and with solemn impreseiveness informed them that "such things were not for poor people, but were only intended for the wealthy, for the kings and potenta'es of the earth." After the death of his wife the old man lived in a state of wretchedness and squalor that would rival thBt of the most degraded savages. The ravages of time and tb6 elements having almost demolished the hut which had been his abiding place for so many years, he dug a hole in the ground beneath the floor, and with an old 6tove and a tin dish with a rng in it to serve the purpose of rude lamp he passed two winters under ground. The dimensions of this hole were so small as not to admit of its being occupied in a leclining position, and to provide a place to Bleep he dug the dirt out of one of the sides of this hole, thus forming a cavity, in which rested one end of a wide board, the other end being placed upon the dilapidated stove. A quantity of coarse wild grass, covered with rags and sheepskins, made the bed. upon which he slept with bis head in the cavity hollowed out of the side with his feet resting upon the stove hearth. Afterward, he spent a year living in a sort of dog kennel, which he made by hollowing out the side of astraw stack and leaning poles against the stack, covering them with straw, thus forming a hole in which he slept. The last few years of his life were passed in an old log structure, which had originally been used as a stable, without windows or light except what found its way through the holes in the roof and sides. Notwithstanding the hardships and exposure he endured he lived to be seventyseven years old.

He died on the 27th of February last, leaving an estate valued at 540,000, consisting principally of land, of which be owned over one thousand acres. This, with the exception of forty acres deeded to his eon, he devised to the board of county commissioners in trust, by his wi'l directing them to sell the unimproved lands and to divide the improved portion into five-acre lote, and with the proceeds derived from the sale of the wild lands erect on each lot a dwelling house, 16 by 21 feet, a chicken coop and cow stable, all to be under the control of the commissioners and to be known as the "Eaton Home," and to be open for occupancy only to indigent maidens and widows over 35 years of age, of good reputation, who had resided in' Steuben county for six months immediately preceding their application for admission. And if. after constructing the buildings, there should remain a surplus of money, the same should be expended by the commissioners injpige.poultry and cows for the use of the inmates of the home. Immoral or unladylike conduct on the part of anyone of the inmates was to be the cause for immediate expulsion. The most necessitous and deserving of these beneficiaries were to be first selected by the commissioners as the objects of his bounty. It was further provided by the will that the commissioners as trustrees should receive no compensation whatever for their services, and only be allowed their actunl and necesssary expenses in relation to the trust, and in CBse of their failure or refusal to accept the trust authority was conferred upon the judge tof the circuit court to appoint two or more persons to act as trustees, who should serve without compensation.

Suit was instituted by Isaac Eaton, who is the son and only heir, to have the

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will declared void on account of the insanity and mentBl incapacity of the old gentleman when he executed it. In this suit the board of commissioners appeared and disclaimed any intention of accepting the trust, and the judge appointed trustees in order that the validity of the will might be tried. It is doubtful, in the event the will is sustained, if any person can be found who will accept the trust and perform the provisions of the will without compensation, as the will itself specially provides. Aside from What has already been stated the will made no other disposition of his property except a small bequest to Isaac, the son. and to provide that a plain marble slab be ereuted at his grave with his name, date of birth and death inscribed thereon.

The old man had a sister living in New York, who was in very humble circumstances, and a few years prior to his death an effort was made to induce the old man to contribute something to the support of this sister. Of this he complained bitterly, saying that "'she was a little, withered-up old maid," that she couldn't eat any more than a rat, and he didn't see why his relatives should continually annoy him about her.

Since the will has been commented upon in the newspapers throughout the country the lawyers and county officers have been deluged with correspondence from antiquated spinsters from all over the United States desiring further information, or to make application for admission to the "home." To the people living in the northern part of Steuben county the tali, giant form of Lucien B. Eaton, wbite-baired and clBd inn very long and dilapidated brown overcoat held tegsther at the waist by a bit of rope, was a very familiar figure, and those who knew the old man, his peculiarities and religious tendencies were strongly reminded by him of Peter the Hermit in the time of the great crusade.

A MILK T£ST.

How to Catch Your Milkman if He Puts Water in It. The milkman who waters his goods generally does so under the impression that the water poured in incorporates itself with the miljj, and cannot be detected except upon chemical analysis. This shows gross ignorance. The milk will hold only its own fluid all foreign fluid will be percipitated if the mixture is allowed to stand for a couple of dByB. Any housewife may spot a dishonest milkman with very little trouble. Let her take long slender bottle, cleanse it thoroughly aod let it dry out. If, then, it is filled with milk and allowed to stand in a cool —not cold—place for forty-eight hours, all the foreign fluid will b9 precipitated —that is, it will settle to the bottom of the bottle. The soured milk will then till the middle of the bottle and the fatty substance will be Hosting on top. Sometimes the top will be a layer of cream, then will come a layer of albumen, another artificial device to make the milk look rich then will come the soured milk and at the bottom will be the foreign water. The whole scheme of deception can be read by a glance at the bottle after one has had a single lesson in the rudiments of milk inspection. This sort of work is not scientifically satisfactory, but it will always develop the fundamental fact— whether or not the milk is normal.

NEWSl'APSB ADVERTISING PAYS.

What "ii Successful Merchant" Says in llie Men's Outfitter. Nothing is high that will produce a profit. If spending 5100 a year in advertising will cause an increased net profit of $200, it is a magnificent return. My experience is that the ratio is much larger. I have tested the matter in every way. I began by not advertising at all, and I confess that it was your example that led me to do so. Then I tried sign boards on the country roads. They brought in some out-of-town folks who did not know me before, but did not influence the townspeople. I tried handbills, but the distribution was not good unless I sent my own clerks out with them, and that was too expensive. I found that though the handbills were cheap enough, the

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and the bills together exceeded that of an equal space and distribution by the newspaper.

Then I couldn't be all the time getting up and distributing the bills, and BO what interest they did excite was spasmodic and temporary, while the newspaper was a persistent advocate. Not only that, but I became convinced that the newspaper announcement was more influential than the street flyer. It lent somewhat of its own dignity and respectability to whatever was said in its columns.

Almost Hugged to Death.

At South Salem, Ross county, Ohio, Miss Ella Wilson, a popular young lady of the neighborhood, is reported as beirg at the point of death as the result of interal injuries caused by being hugged too tightly by Will L. Lavery, a young man. The girl, in fun, threw a glass of water on young Lavery, and he gave her a tight equeez9. As he is stout man he squeezed a little too hard, and broke something. The girl fainted and for a long time was in an unconscious stats, but may recover. The young man is broken up over the result of what he intended as merely a little fun.

Turkey yullls for Whalebone. "Yes," said an exporter who was superintending the shipment of a number of cases of southern turkey feathers, "they manufacture dusting brushes in Europe of these feathers as we do here, but they also do more with them. A large number of the quills are too heavy for that purpose, so they are ingeniously shaved into strips, firmly put together and bound in clotb, to be used as a substitute for dresswaist whalebone. In this form they are light, pliant and strong. Perhaps I should not have disclosed the fact, for some of your Yankee readers may utilize the idea." [New York Tribune.

A Sensational Pamphlet.

A pamphlet, thought to be from high sourcee, has just been published in Berlin, SBying that the reasons which prevented Germany during the days of Emperor William from bringing matters to a crisis between Russia and France on one side, and the triple alliance on the other, have now disappeared, and a precipitation of the contest may be looked for at-any moment.

A Fact Not Generally Kuown. A non-commissioned officer of the United States army may, by passing a competitive examination, obtain promotion to a second lieutenancy after obtaining that, his chances of further promotion are the same as those of other officers.

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I jumped from a car and sprained my ankle. Salvation Oil, the great pain extinguisher, cured it in three days. It iB now as well as ever.

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THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, GCTOBE 25. 1889.

NO PIE AT WHITE HOUSE BREAKFASTS.

Ex-Steward Zieman Contradicts a Story— Bata Rob the President. "Hugo Ziemao, Washington, D. C.," was set down in big blue letters right among the nameB of English members of parliament, Buddhist professors, and brokers on the Richelieu register yesterday afternoon, says the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Hugo Zteman in the flesh was moving about the hotel as in other days, and telling everybody about the time he had when he was steward of the White house. The first thing Mr. Zieman said was that he had had no trouble with Mrs. Harrison. "I never met finer people than the president and hie wife," he said. "They treated me with the greatest courtesy and gave me all the liberty any man could desire. The only disturbance in the domestic arrangements was caused by a Frenchman named Petronard. His wife had been toiking for the Eoglith legation, and I gave her the same place in the White house, and told her husband that I might make him butler. He went away to Europe. While he was gone Mrs. Harrison became disgusted with the woman's cooking. The president's wife wanted plain food, and the cook insisted on serving rich pastry and sauces. Mrs. Harrison was never usf to that sort of thing. Plain meats, potatoes and white bread suited her better. Tne president is troubled with indigestion sometimes, and the new cook's dishes laid him out. So I discharged her. Now 6he and her husband threaten to sue the president for $450. "The New York World is paying his expenses and egging him on, and he has putin circulation all sorts of stories about the president's table. Why, they even have printed thatMr. Harrison eats pie for breakfast. GreRt Scott! Think of it! Pie for breakfast! Why, sir," and Mr. Zioman's expression of indignation and horror gave place to one of offended pride, "I would desert the palace of a king who would commit such a crime. It in heinous, abominable, vile—wha1 shall I say—atrocious! "The president occasionally eats pie, and I deprecate even moderate indulgence in the habit, but only after dinner. He told me once that he formerly ate hot mince pie and toasted cheese, and to that he attributes his indigestion. Now he indulges in the more simple varieties—cranberry, apple, and pumpkin pie. Mr. Halford also eats pie—but not at breakfast, sir. Both gentlemen like a dish I seldom 6ee ordered—fried apples. The colored cook Mr. Harrison brought up from Indianapolis fries apples nicaly."

Mr. Zieman says if he hadn't left Washington because his place was too dull, cr because Mr. Bemis wanted to pay him more money, or because he is going to marry a pretty girl and make Chi.'Bgo his home, he would have been chased out of the White house by the rats. "I never saw anything to equal the way that old house is overrun with vermin. Rats can be heaid scampering through the halls in the right. They invade every room. They ate up a small picture of President Lincoln hanging on the wall of a cabinetroom. They stole into the president's bed-room one night. Mr. Harrison likes to eat fruit the last thing at night, and he had fallen asleep with a banana in hiB hand. The ratB pulled the banana from his hand*and scampered away. Fact, sir. Why, I used to invite my friends to the house and spend an afternoon killing rats. It was great sport. When I left the ratcatcher was at work with his ferrets. He got twenty-eight rats in the garret alone. Mre. Harrison stood by and saw them caught-, and it was funny to hear her scream just like other women when a rat got near her. "Next after the rats are the cockroaches. They are big, brown fellows with long legs. They are most as big as rats. Fact, sir. I never 6aw such be fore or so many."

Handed In by Slug Nine.

When I think of the towel, the oldfashioned towel, that used to hangup by the printing house door, I think that nobody in these days of shoddy can hammer out iron to wear as it wore. The tramp, who abused it, the devil who used it, the comp, who got at it when these two were gone, the make up and foreman, the editor poor, man, each rubbed some grime off while they put a heap on. In, over and under, 'twas blacker than thunder, 'twas harder than poverty, rougher than sin front the roller suspended, it never was bended, and it flapped on the wall like a banner of tin. It grew thicker and rougher and harder and tougher, and daily put on a more inkier hue, until one windy morning, without any warning, it fell to the floor and was broken in two.— [Burdette.

Leaving the Mormou Church. The Salt Lake Tribune says the Scandinavians are rapidly leaving the Mormon Church. The Scandinavian Methodists and Lutherans are the cause of it. For two years or so they have worked quietly, but most effectually, among the Scandinavian saints, and have cut swath after swath in the ranks of the church. At the rate they have been holding revivals and gathering in the harvest from the Mormon fields, there will only be a corporal's guard of Scandinavians left in Salt Lake Israel by another year. They are being converted faster to Christianity than the elders can send over fresh supplies, and when once converted from mormonism make excellent citizens.

O.'il Time Justice in Ca ifiiriiia. "I remember," said the old timer, "a certain judge in the old days who was very matter of fact. A tough citizen wae up before him on trial for murder, but somehow or other they could not or did not convict him, though there was little doubt of his guilt. The judge in discharging him said: 'Prisoner, you are discharged because we cannot prove you guilty of murder, though I have no doubt you are guilty, and I know you stole some horses last year at Fort Collins, but I'll let you go,' and he went. But he was lynched within an hour for the horse-stealinsr. That was in 1873 near Laporte."—[Denver Times.

St. Lonlt' "ew Merchants' Kxchanjrer An official announcement was mace yesterday by the board of directors of the merchants' exchange that an option had been secured on the Planters' house property at $300,000, good until December 1, and that a vote of the exchange had been ordered for November 27 for the purpose of authorizing the payment of a sum not exceeding that amount for the property. It was known, of course, that the management of the exchange have been contemplating the purchase of property for the site of a new exchange buildiDg.

Prince HatzfeUlt** Alleged Brother. HAMILTON, Ohio, October 24.—Count Ferdinand Edmund von Hatzfeldt. who

is to marry C. P. Huntington's adopted daughter, lives here in a email one story house. He has been keeping a saloon for years. He haB proofs of his identity-

THE 1IK.N L\W FAILS.,

Judge Taylor Gives a Decision Setting Aside a New Law. The mechanics' lien law, enacted by the last legislature, has failed to stand a test in court says the Indianapolis News. In the auit of Francis et al. against Langsdale et al.. Judge Taylor sustains a demurrer made to the complaint by the defendants, on the ground that the new law attempts to accomplish one thing, while in reality it accomplishes another.

By Eection 5, of the acts of 1383, to en aole a mechanic, performing labor for a contractor to acquire a lien upon the property he was compelled at or before he performed the work to notify the owner that he was performing the work for the contractor failing to give such notice he could acquire no Hen upon the Droperty by any proceedings. By section 9 of the act he could hold the owner personally liable by giving the notice provided, setting forth the amount of his claims end the services rendered. However, that personal liability notice was different from the noHce p-ovided in B^ction 5, and dots not discharge the lien when it

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tached, unless the personal liability amount is equal to the amount of the lien. Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the acts of 1S83 are amended by sections 1, 2, 3 and of the act, of 1889, and by section 5 o' the act of 18S9, section 4 of 18S3 is repealed. It was the intention of the legislature to repeal section 5 of the act of 1883, and that eection was named in the title of the act, but in the body of the a- eection 4 is named, and Judge Taylor holds thBt that is the one repealed.

Uaaer the ruling, mechanics' lien can only be inforced where the provisions of section 5 of the nc* of 1SS3, as mentioned above, are complied with. The ruling is one of importance to mechanics and contractors.

(iUH.TLE.SS, BUT A CONVICT. •.

A Business Jlan Wrongfully Sent to Prison as a Horse Thief. kiF FKiisoN vi 1.1 ,k, Ind., October 24.— In July, 1887, Charles Smith, a Gibson county business man, went to Cincinnati and disappeared. A few days ago he was accidentally d'scovered in prison under the name of James Wilson. His story is that he was knocked down and* robbed while indulging in a spree, and being ashamed to tell his friends he decided to walk home. At HarrieoD, O., he was overtaken and given a ride by a man calling himself Robinson, whodrove a two-horse team which he claimed to have received in lieu of wages. In Ripley county they were Brrested, and it proved the team was stolen. They narrowly escaped lynching, and Smith was so frightened that he lost bis senses and gave his name as Wilson. He was taken back to Lawrenceburg and sent to prison for six years, and has been tht re two years. Steps to secure his pardon are being taken.

In the Open Street.

Eli White, of Mooresville, created great excitement on ^Kentucky avenue, Indianapolis, yesterday morning, by shooting himself in the open street, and in full view of several persons. He fired his revolver twice. The first bullet made a slight wound in his forehead. Then he placed the muzzle close to the back of his head. It seems that the bullet went too low to enter his brain. He was able to sit up in the wagon, and was driven through the streets with blood streaming from his wounds. In one of the wounded man's pockets was found a slip of paper on which was written his name, and addresses and the words "family troubles." What the family troubles are is not known, as White is an unmarried man. The hospital physicians say he will recover. Mr. White resided with the family of J. G. Moffett, at Mooresville.

Indlannpolin' Now Bank.

The Capital bank will probably take quarters in the Condit block on South Meridian street. Messrs. Heilman Bnd Huston are in the city making arrangements.—[Indianapolis News.

I) ESI ED BY DR. TALMAGK-

Ho Has Ai-keil Xo St. Louis Man to Pay For a New Tabernacle. Special to the Chicago Tribune. j-

NEW YORK, October 23.—A dispatch from St. Louis states that the Rev. Dr. Talm.ige telegraphed to Benjamin Deering October 22 saying that he would leave for the Holy Land October 30 and that the new tabernacle would cost 1350,000. The dispatch furthfr stated that a St. Louis manufacturer was asked to contribute to the cost of the building and to permit the new structure to bear his name, but that gentleman declined the complimentary proposal. When Dr. Talmage's attention was called to the above this morning he said "Nothing in it, nothing in it, except my leaviDg for the Holy Land October 30." "It is rather strange that 6uch a story should be printed in a prominent paper if not true. Don't you think so. doctor?" said the reporter. "There was such a proposition made some time ago, but it failed, and I have heard nothing more about it," Eaid the doctor. "Did you communicate with the St. Louis gentleman?" "No mo'e than I have with other wealthy christian people. I have mBde an appeal to all through the press for assistance, and I have written to some, but nothing has come of it. The largest contribution we have received was $500, and that came from a friend near home." "What is the name of the St. Louis manufacturer?" "I don't know."

TBen Deering is the Evangelist and manager of the Culver Park assembly at Maxlnktickee. oneoed this summer by the Culyer brothers, stove manufacturers, of St. Louis.—EDITOR EXPRK-O 1

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E&P&ES8 PACKAGES.

FIBSTBRKATH OF RAINKSQIVIXQ. Let winds blow cold, let wind* biro high. Let dajs be dark and drear. Wliocareg? ThankfglYlng'g drawing nigh.

A time of mirth and cheer.

What though we burn wood br the cord And weather prophets croak? Soon on the roaring restive board

The turkey, stuffed, will smoke. Then something to the poor we'll spure— Who're always with us here— And we'll forget ail grief and care in sweet Thankglving cheer.

I Boston uourler.

A writer on architecture makes the suggestion that architects affix their names to buildings just as painters sign their pictures.

Previous to the year 1S40 the only barber in Dexter. Me., was an amateur who worked not for pay, but to accommodate his neighbors. Tne only compensation he ever received was a handsome pair of shears, for which some of his friends took up a contribution.

A. M. Bisbee, who is the Chinese delegate to the maritimeconference at Washington, is an adventurous Yankee, born and bred on Cape Cod. In his travels he drifted across the continent and over the Pacific, and he is now coast inspector of the imperial maritime customs service of Chine.

The California state board of trade is making energetic efforts to get up an exhibition at Omaha for the benefit of the Pan-American delegates. A general Bppeal has been made for fruits, wines, raisins, etc.. of the very best qualities, to be sent to Omaha, in the hope that the disDlay will induce the delegates to visit the Pacific coast.

The Hoppes manufacturing company, of Springfield, O., have just completed and shipped an exhaust steam feedwater heater, 19 feet long, 68 inches high and 3S inches wide, and it has a total lime catching and heating surface of 570 square feet. It was especially designed and built to remove the mud from the boiler feed-water at the plant of the Southern cotton oil company at Gretna, La.

Miss Clara Barton says that since June 15 over twenty thousand persons at Johnstown have received aid at the hands of the Red Cross representatives. Three thousand families have been supplied with the articles necessary for reestablishment of home life. Six houses have been furnished, warmed, and lighted and passed into the hands of local physicians for the use of homeless sick needing shelter and care.

Hong Kong is growing with marvelous rapidity, and the rumor that it is to be made the oriental terminus of the line from British Columbia, completing the British circle around the world, i6 tempting thither capital from all sections of British dominions. It now has 7,000,000 tons of shipping per year, over $35,000,000 of locally registered capital, and it is practically the financial center for the whole East.

The newly selected capital of South Dakota got its name of Pierre from Pierre Chouteau, one of the St. Louis Chouteaus in the days when all that region traded extensively in furs with St. Louis. Old Fort Pierre was abandoned a great many years ago, and scarcely a vestige of it remains. It wns at Fort Pierre, in 185G, that General Harney met the Sioux Indians, whom he had whipped, and made a treaty with them.

At the funeral of Mrs, Isaac W. Sherman, which was solemnized last week at Newport, R. I., the first carriage contained the bereaved husband, two of his brothers and a sister, the combined age of whom was 308 years, nn average of seventy-seven years. The longevity of this family is really remarkable. Mr. Sherman has six brothers and sisters living, and the combined age "f the seven is 525 years, an average of seventy-five yeare.

A Kissimme, Fla., paper says that S. W. Short, of that city, while digging in an Indian mound unearthed an indescribable gold something, supposed to be a trinket or ornament belonging to the long-ago era of mound builders. It was found only a foot below the surface, is very bright and Btnooth and somewhat resembles the old flint skinning knives used by the Indians before the introduction of steel. It weighs ten pennyweight. about the value of a 310 gold piece.

The strike of the Scottish schoolboys, which began at Harwick, has spread to Glasgow, Gcvan, Greenock, Port Glasgow, and other places in the west of Scotland, and also in Ayrshire and about Aberdeen. The boys have formed labor like parades, with banners and cries for "shorter hours." The strike has also spread into England. The other day 100 malcontents paraded the streets of Barnet, demanding "abolition of the cane, less hours in school, and no home lessons."

Early to bed and early to rise, Mind your own business and tell no lletf. Don't get drunk and spoil your ejes. Pay yiur debts and advertise, Spokes and Inndles of any size Made to order or otherwise," is the sign over a little manufacturing concern among the eastern hills of Hampshire, and is good counsel for Wall street as well as for a modest village trying to raise the wind.

The family at RoscofT, Finisterre, of which five generations are living, are named Tanguy, and this is the list: Marie le Mat,one month old the mother, Marie l'Hostin, twenty-three years grand-mothers Jeanne Miroannot, fortytwo years, and Marie Menu, fifty years great-grandmothers, Henrietta Guyadre, seventy-four yeare, Annette Guyadre, seventy-eight years great-great grandmother Ehrle Tanguy, ninety-three years. The whole crowd were present at the baptism of the baby Marie in the church of Roscoff.

PURE

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Its superior excellence fproven In millions of homes for more than a quarter of a centurv. It Is used by the United States eovernment. Endorsed by the heads or the great universities as the strongest, purest and most healthful. Dr. Price's Cream Baklug Powder does not contain ammonia, time or alum. Sold only In cans.

PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.

SEW rORK," CH«AOO, ST LOCH

R0YAL.MSS2

Absolutely Pure^

This powder never taries. A marvel ot purit* •trength and whole«omeneis. More economics I than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold In competition with the multitude «f low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. BOTAL BAKI«» POWBKB CO.. ll^ Well St., N.Y.

TVTAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 1.^ WILSON NAYLOR Mi}.

THURSI) ami FltlD

iuav.OCTOBER 24 AND 25,

The most magnificent spectacular piece ever presented In Terre Haute, the neatest of all successes, gorgeous production of

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$20,000 Burlesque, the

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A liream of Oriental Magnificence! Brilliant SceiiU Effects: Magnificent Costumes'

Elaborate 1'ronertjen!

Advance sale opens Tuesday, l'rlces. $1, 7u, iu and 25 cents.

NAYLOR'S OPERA H0USH,

WILSON NAYLOH. MAXAOKU.

Saturday, October 26,

•'The Electric Hit." Mr. (lus Tlnmts' *ue cesslul comedy draiun,

THE BURGLAR

A Prama of Intermingled laughter and tears. Presented by tlie same company ol populnr play ers as produced at the Madison tijuare Theater. New York.

Advance sale opens Thursday

G^R-R-AN 1) OPENING.

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That would be "grand openirg," the young men might think—and cool weather is coming on, too.

But we deal not in trivialities here. The essential thiDgs of

HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, GLOVES,

Are our theme. In underwear we have Jersey fitting in cotton and wool. Basket braid, natural wool, scarlet, camel's hair,'fine white cashmere and merino for ladies, gentlemen and children.

IN HOSIERY—Silks, lisle, cashmere, natural woole, fleece lined and fast black goods in every variety, and a particularly large line of silk and lisle novelties for ladies, in fall styles.

Our plove department is larger than ever. Kid gloves in the new fall shades, dressed and undressed. Mosquetaires and driving gloves in every variety. Cashmere gloves, wool and silk mittens, and a large stock of gentlemen's lined and unlined dress gloves.

S. AYRES & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

tSJ^Agents for Butterlck's Patterns.

.... LIVE STOCK

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INDIANA LIVE STOCK INVESTMENT CO., Of Crawfordsvllle, Ind.

CASH CAPITAL, $100,000.00

The Oldest, Strongest and Beat.

RATES REASONABLE. NO ASSESSMENTS.

Over $110,000 Paid for Dead Stock Since Organization in 1886.

EVEIIY LOSS PROMPTLY PAID

Policies Liberal, Covering Any Place In the State.

For rates and tenns of Insurance call on, or write to,

ALLEN, KELLEY & CO.,

666 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, Ind. Telephone No. 248.

FIRE INSURANCE AT ADEQUATE RATES.

NO GETTING AWAY

From the low prices we are selling

BOOTS«SHOES

All new and styllch. Remember, we give with every ralr of button shoes a Unch nlckle Button Hook.

1105 WABASH AVENUE.

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