Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 October 1889 — Page 2

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TUB SLTNDAY EXPRESS to-morrow will be an unusually interesting issue. "Bab" will gossip about women here, there and elsewhere, their desires and their possessions, and Edgar Wakeman will tell of the Rhine, as seen from a car window. There will, of course, be all the telegraph news, from abroad and at home, and all the local news, as well as the gossip of a general local interest.

The first day's hearing of testimony and presentation of evidence in the Cronin case is an illustration of technical law. It was to prove that Dr. Cronin's death was the result of murder. No doubt able lawyers could explain why it is necessary to prove that his death was thus brought about but the finding of the naked body, with head bearing marks of violent blows, in a catch-basin would seem to be. conclusive on that point.

Dun &, Co's weekly report gives the first sign of relief in the eastern money market since the heavy demand for crop movements began and the occupation of the Democratic editor is gone. During the unusual stress on the money market for ca9h for the farmer, whose big crops bring him unusual prosperity this year, there was a stringency in the eastern money vaults and straightway the Democratic editor discovered that the banking firm of which Vice President Morton is a member was causing a panic to force up the premium which the government would have to pay on its bonds when buying them in to put money in circulation. It should be said in justice to the Democratic editors in general that a mugwump newspaper started the story and to some few Democratic newspapers that the latter denounced the political artifice.

THE NEW SCHOOL BOOKS-

Tim EXPKKKS would call especial attention to the interview with Mr. Iieilman, reprinted from the Indianapolis News this morning, on the school book question, lie tells the true story of the school book "fight" so well that it would seem to be unnecessary to say any more. THE EXPRESS never believed the school book law met the demands of the occasion, but it has honestly advocated its enforcement as a law that would bring some measure of relief from the oppression of a monopoly that had robbed the people of the state for many years. This monopoly has expended much money before and 6ince the passage of the measure in an effort to create a hostile sentiment. Much that has been done and said was disreputable in the extreme. The books provided by the company have been critici/.sd with all unfairness of reckless assault. Theee books were accepted us standard by the state board of education, two of whose members reside in this city, President Parsons, of the State Normal school, and Superintendent Wiley, of the city schools. It is not necessary to vouch for their ability to any one outside of Terre llaute even. They, like the remainder of the board, could not and can not Btoop to a controversy with the old monopoly as to their act in accepting the books furnished by the Indiana school book company and so it has been possible for the corrupting agencies of that fraud on education to make assertions with all the recklessness incited by freedom from contradiction. To be sure there are flaws in the new books but they are no worse than to be found in those discarded and above all the poor man who wants to give bis children the benefit of a free school education is not robbed in the purchase of the books.

THE E.\TKK*S would further add that there is abundant reason for saying that the books are meeting with approval throughout the state. Here and there peculiar influenced, not necessary of proper characterization have been successfully exerted to make it appear that they had been abandoned but the whole truth is that the books are equally as acceptable to the teachers and the parents generally as the old ones.

AN AP0L0GT.

THE EXPUKSS owes the News an apology and would pay the debt. When our contemporary started on its vogaye over the rough sea of journalism we remarked that it was believed the new paper would advocate the tariff reform or free trade side of the tariff issue. This opinion seemed to be warranted by the well known views of those who were to control its expressions. A few weeks ago there appeared in its editorial columns a sneer at another esteemed contemporary for its persistence, in season and out of season, in advocating the doctrine of so-called tariff reform. At the time we believed this paragraph to be a slip of the tongue, so to speak, and as the NewB had not announced to its readers where it stood on the tariff question, we did not consider the paragraph to war­

rant any comment. On Thursday, however, there was an editorial of more significance. To be sure in the last sentience the reader is informed that what is Baid is not to be understood as discussing the tariff question, yet it is Buch a telling criticism of the usual style of arguement of the free traders that we reproduce it in full. We are the more justified in doing so in this connection because the News has failed to make known where it stands on the issue, one which certainly does not require absolute avoidance even by an independent paper. The following is the editorial:

At the tariff reform meeting Tuesday evening Mr. Lee, the state secretary, asked that every laboring man in the room whe had $20 In his pocket should hold up his hand ahd not a hand went up. Perhaps there wers not any laboring men present. But If a meeting were called of the business men on Main street after banking hours a large number might be found who had not *20 In their pocket. Most men as a rule only carry a small' amount of money about them, merely for contingencies. But when Mr. Lee found that not a laboring man present had $20 In bank, always assuming that there were some laboring men present, he should have Inquired how many had 520 In some Building and Loan association? If there was no response, then it must be confessed that something Is wrong but it cannot be entirely attributed to protection. Admitting all that the tariff reformers claim, and we are all tariff reformers, there Is something else that Is radically wrong when the average worklngman of this country has not $20 liild aside for emergencies, and If he Is temperate, Industrious1 and thrifty does not have hlB own home. But Mr. I.ee says that on account of the protective tariff the worklngman has not a Brussels earpet, a piano and a library. Of course then In England where there Is free trade the laboring men do have all these things. Mr. Lee should speak for Bluffton where fie Is better acquainted. A canvass of Terre llaute would show that the homes or a great many of our worklngmen are supplied with these luxuries. AVe do not wish to be understood as discussing the tariff, pro or con, but simply as calling attention to one or two weak spots In Mr. I.ee's address.

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A 'ecesniiry Process.

Laura—Tom, you area regular brick. Laura's Dad-He will be alter I have tired him. His name Is mud just now.

A Fiery Speaker.

Dentist—llow would a celluloid set suit you? Statesman—1 am afraid they wouldn't be safe. I am going over to Ohio to make f»w speeches next week.

Weatlier Indications.

Wlbble—There is going to be a cold winter In the Kast. Wabble -Why do you think so'.'

Wlbble- I've seen several reports from Pittsburg that the natural gas Is playing out.

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The man with plenty of X's and V's Can well afford to take his E's. "Ten Nights In a Bar-room" was the llrst tank drama.

Persimmons are on the market. Prepare to pucker. It takes a cold, chilly man to lead an lce-olated existence.

Many a plug of a man with a bright, sensible wife lliitters himself that he Is "self-made." "Now for a cracking good time," said the first thin Ice as It saw the skater coming.

A

woman can throw a stone as straight as a man. it's the direction the missile takes that puzzles her.

The horse car editor Is responsible for the statement that a tie-up occurred on several- fishinglines last week.

We are pleased to note that anew style ol cockroach, dressed In black and trimmed on the edges with pale yellow, has made Its appearance.

The cur-lew will never become an Institution In this free country where the poorest citizen can own irom ten to an Indeiinlte number of dogs.

He GueHsetl It,

"What is a cant hook?" said a teacher in one of our country schools, the other dny, addressing her pupils in general.

There was a long flash of silence, ana then a little hand went up in a remote corner of the room. "Well, what is it Sammy?" "A muley cow," said Sammy, triumphantly.— [Logansport Journal.

Fighting In Samoa.

Sydney, N. S. W., October 25.—Advices received here from Apia, under date of the 15th inst., state that a battle is reported to hare taken place on the Island of Savaii between forces of Malietoa and Tamasseee.

Three hundred men were engaged on each side. Several were killed and a number wounded. Which party won the victory is not known.

Mra. Kendall'# Chestnut.

"Have you not read any American paper yet?" "No the only thing that I read was something which amused me very much. I laugh now on thinking of it it is truly American in wit and originality. I saw marriages, births and deaths described in a paper as matches, hatches and despatches."—[New York Interview.

New Keincdy for Hydrophobia. Pitn. the new remedy for hydrophobia recently discovered in Spain, seems to be a name given to the flower stalk of the aloe, a plant common in some parts of Spain. The story goe6 that its virtues were discovered accidentally by a man in a tit of hydrophobia falling on an aloe plant and unconsciously biting the stem.

To Dlu by Electricity.

Nkw York,October "25.—Charles

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vain, l.' years old, murderer of Christian W. Luca, while committing a burglary on the night of August

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last, was

sentenced by Judge Moore, in the Kings oounty court of sessions this morning to death by electricity at Sing Sing prison on the week beginning December H.

Shtikiuc Up Old Mexico.

St. Loci*,

October

25.—Dispatches

from the City of Mexico say earthquake shocks were felt over a large part of the country Wednesday evening, but no damage or loss of life is reported.

Hoy Suicides.

Three boys attending gymnasia or high schools in Berlin have shot themselves within the last few days on account of disappointment in not being promoted into higher classes.

So ICngliKli Y'Know.

The prince of Wales has Bright's dieease, aud the popular salutation among Xew York dudes is, "Aw, me boy, how are your kidneys?"—(Chicago Herald.

The Machine Hard.

The poet sits uj near the sun And weaves fall verses by the hour. If you should ask him how 'tis done lle'll say. "Br autumn-attic power." —[New York Sun.

NO. "13" WITH RAILROAD MEN

Rajlroad men "down East." according to some New England papers, are being controlled by superstition in the matter of running on engines whose numbers are 13, or any combination which amounts to that unlucky sum.

No railroad terminating in Chicago has engines numbered as high 88^1313, with the exception perhaps of the Wabash, says the Chicago News. But with a view of ascertaining the amount of superstition among the Chicago railroaders an Evening NewB reporter spent a few hours in a "switch shanty" at Western avenue, where the knights of the link and pin of several roads congregate and swap stories with the engineers and trainmen.

The crowd was muoh the same as one would meet in most any switch shanty. Some were shining up their "glims," others were making out their time and switching blanks, others were playing pedro, and in general the recent wrecks and "lung-pulling" exploits were the subjects of conversation. The minute the reporter mentioned the number 13, one man, who is at present tending the cross-over switches, but who had an arm and a portion of a leg taken off several years ago while switching, poked up the fire, shivered, and said: "Boys, now you uns have allers been a-telling yer thirteen yarns, an' kinder b'lieve in them. You bed better jist sit 'round here and tell the reporter what yer have been dreaming on." "Oh, yes. Some folks sez we is foolish fer b'lievin' in this thirteen business, but I do, just the same," chimed in a fireman.' "To begin with, I knew a fireman who fired 313, a switch engine in the north LaCrosse yards. While he had that engine he had three fainting spells. At the last one he fell dead at his doorstep, while hurrying home from his engine. Now, I think that was an unlucky engine. She's down in the Chicago yards now." "My cousin ran No. 13 on the old Wisconsin Valley from Tomah to Wausaw some years ago, and he never made a trip without some accident happening. One day she slipped an eccentric, and while repairing her two drunken Indians nearly killed him. His wife had such a horror of that big-stacked wood-burner that she dreamed of it. One day she kept her husband home and made him promise he would give up No. 13. He did. He is now on the Chippewa Valley & Monomonee division, and feelB better as he pulls the throttle of the 295," said a young engineer. "Well," said a St. Paul switchman, "I never did believe much in this thirteen business until one night three winters ago. You remember Charley Marsh had just brought his engine (364)in on Council Bluffs 4, and it was nearly dark when hereachpd the round house. He was to go back on No. 3 that night, and he hurried home, leaving the engine so she woul(J not quite 'clear' the passenger yard le.ad, She was steamed up to 130 and had sixty pounds of air. The green Bwitchman from the Central tried to move her, and she got away from him before he could shove in the throttle. The yard had thirteen crews in it that evening, and most of them were coming in. Everybody knows how 364 went through that stretch of yard. Past the transfer house she flew at sixty miles an hour. Switoh enjines justly barely out of her way were black with switchmen anxiously thinking of their brothers at the 'top end.' Would they get out of the way of 301 as she sped on? Messages were sent to Pacific junction to ditch her, but she never reached Pacific junction. At the top end a 'Cragin pull' was just taking a string out on the main track. The engine had already gained the main line, with only two cars behind her, when 364 struck the train. Well, boys you know it was just under the boulevard bridge, and my! wasn't the wreck piled up! Old 304 was always causing trouble, and when the superintendent came to order the wreckere around the first thing he did was to pick up pieces of the old number plate. First he fished out the 0, then the 3, and after a hunt he found the 4. 'Three, six, four well, that is thirteen, as sure as I live I heard him say. Since that time I hi.ve sort of thought that 304 was built to pile up cars and people."

Just then an extra from the Pacific rolled in. She had besides her regular stock cars the wrecking train and a lot of demolished freight car trucks on the Hats.

"Say

there is nothing in the thir­

teen business, oh, no !', said the veteran switch-tender. "See that wrecked box car, C., M. & St. P., 'Red Line,' 1,129. She is the one that jumped at Kirkland Tuesday night, and piled the red cars up like cordwood. See, 1,129. Isn't that 13 Oh, the thirteen combination always meet with some accident." "Hang it, if I don't believe a little in that myself," replied a passsenger-brake man. "One morning we were coming down the Chicago division No. 2, with thirteen cars, our regular train, by the way, and engine No. 724 was pulling us. At Pacific junction the switch-tender let us into the ditch, and we blocked everything for three hours. No'. 724 was not injured very badly, but the switchtender was fired. There is that thirteen again—7,2,4. Seems to me there is something in it."

An engineer began to pooh-hooh the the men, but a switchman who had worked in the Elgin yard told a clincher. A stock freight had just rolled down the bill, at the foot of which is the St. Paul depot, and was taking water, when another stock train, which had refused to obey the brakes, came tearing down the hill, struck the first train's caboose, threw it from the trestle into a store, and demolished three stock cars, sending the cattle and hogs adrift on the ice of the Fox river. A switchman who was sleeping in the demolished caboose arose at Pingree Grove and turned his feet to the door. He had hardly fallen asleep when the orash came. After picking himself up uninjured. he found a triangular piece of the engine's number plate at his feet. '•There was the No. 13. The engine was the mogul 713. The part with the figure 7 remained on the boilerhead. Now, as 1 remember, this was on the 13th day of December, and 513,000 was the total loss to the company. How are you going to explain these coincidences?" "Come on, boys: here are your engines!" cried the night yardmaster at the door, and the switchmen, after lighting their lanterns, went to work. One of them said to the reporter on the quiet: "Say, this is the tenth lantern I have used up in this yard by a gettin' 'em caught in the dead woods. When it reaches thirteen I'll bet you my light gets squeezed out. I never knew it to fail. In a jiffy the melancholy switchman had boarded his switch engine, and was being whisked up into the "cornfield," where he "chased cars" while most of the readers of this article slept.

Around house foreman, who superintends the firemen and engineers for two

THE TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1889.

divisions and all the switching engines, said he took no stock in the superstition about No. IS, and none of his men ever refused to run engines of that number or combination of figures. "If one should quit a thousand would take his place," said he.

AN OIL TRAIN WRECKED.

Horrible Catastrophe on the Lake Erie Railway Yesterday. Special to the Indianapolis News.

Kokomo, Ind., October 25.—Freight train No. 92, north-bound on the Lake Erie & Western railway, was wrecked at the city limits of South* Kokomo this morning at 4 o'clock. The engine was thrown over and twelve tanks of oil were piled around it, which took fire immediately, and one after another exploded, setting fire to and consuming two box-cars loaded with Kokomo freight and four cars of coal. Engineer Jacob Mehle, Fireman Ed. Burnett and Front Brakeman John Spellman were caught in the wreck and burned past recognition. Conductor ToDea and Brakeman Heilcbew, who were in the middle of the train, jumped and escaped uninjured. The engine had juBt croBsed Kokomo creek and whistled for Kokomo station when it struck the switch leading to the bottle factory. Something raised it up and threw it sideways from the track. The box cars shied off into the field and the tank cars were piled up on the engine.

The sight, as one after another exploded, throwing tanks hundreds of feet and burning oil 200 feet in the air, was awful. The heat wss so intense that it broke windows and burned the paint off all houses in the neighborhood. The creek was a sea of flowing, oil which burned the wagon bridge. The remainder of the train was out loose and run down the grade out of danger. The disaster was cauBed by wreckers, who have made several attempts lately to wreck Lake Erie trains. The men killed all live in Peru. Mehle was 40 years old and leaves a wife and two children. Burnett was aged 35 years, and leaves a wife and two children. Mr. Spellman was unmarsied. The bodies were recovered, burned to a crisp. After the inquest this afternoon they were taken to Peru. The scene is a horrible one, and attracts large crowds.

Obituary.

CONXEHSVII.LK, October 25.—Francis M. Roots, one of the most prominent citizens of eastern Indians, and an ex tensive manufacturer and capitalist, also a leader in the Presbyterian Church of this city, died this morning.

BOSTON, October 25.-t-Mrs.E. A. Lunt mother of Neil Burgess, the comedian died at her home in Dorchester, Mass., Wednesday, of paralysis, in her 74th year.

Ilmira, N. Y., October 25.—The Hon JAemiah McGuire, ex-speaker of the nbly. died at 4 o'clock this morning. iad been in poor health for some

Notable Weddings.

NEW YORK, October 25.—A Washing ton special to the World says: The marriage of Miss Gwendoline Caldwell to the Prinoe Murat is announced to take place at the papal nunciature, at Paris, on Tuesday next. The bishop of Peoria has been asked to officiate.

NEW ALBANY, October 25.—Lieutenant Malvern Hill Barnum, of the Third regiment, United States cavalry, was married here last evening to Miss Martin Scribner Maginnes, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. E. A. Maginnes.

Strike at Evausvllle Knded. Evansyille, Ind., October 25.—The strike on the Louisville & ^Nashville road was ended this morning and adversely, too, to the strikers. The workmen who came from EaBt St. Louis and took the places of the strikers will be retained by the company, and about two-thirds of the strikers will be taken back. The leaders and those who made threats against the company will not be recognized. The new force went to work at 10:15 this morning and good feeling prevails.

A Ulass of Whisky With a Cracker. ROCKFORD, 111., October 25.—Robert Weetendorf was sentenced by Judge Cartwright yesterday to four months in jail and to pay a fine of $2,000, and to stand committed until paid. He was found guilty of selling liquor without a license. Patrick Downey, who gave a glass of liquor with every cracker he •old for a dime, was sentenced to four months in jail and to pay a fine of $700. These are the longest jail sentences that have ever been imposed for liquor selling in this county.

Working the Bull.

We are asked by a correspondent what we think of working his Jersey bull, and if we advise it, how to do it? We advise it. We have always been in favor of working bulls, and have frequently so expressed ourselves. There is not the slightest reason in the world why a bull should not be made to work, except the objection that may be raised against the employment of oxen. We think that oxen might be used with profit more than they do. But working will do the bull good. It is just whas he seeds, and he should be worked hard enough to take crankiness out of him. With nothing to do the bull has too much opportunity to study deviltry. There would be more decently behaved bullB if bulls were worked. As to how to do it, work him the same as you would an ex. Yoke him up with an ox. It hardly need be said, however, that the animal ought to be "broke" when young.

Aii Inventor Commits Sulciile. LAWRENCE, Maes., October 25.— Joseph S. Bonney, aged 02 years, and for thirty yeara a resident of this city and a well-known inventor, shot himself through the heart this morning.

The horse is blanketed to prevent colds, while the cow is turned out to face the storms. The cow cannot endare cold any better than other animals, and though it may not be necessary to blanket her, yet she should have a shed, or some other protection in the barnyard.

The rich black liquid that flows off from the barn-yard contains the wealth of the farm. Use absorbent material, and save it. The loss of liquid manure is great, and if saved would not only add fertilizing matter to the farm but increase the value of the solids.

To keep eggs for hatching purposes place them in a location of the cellar to prevent freezing, and turn them half around twice a week.

When Remus jumprd over his brother's little wall how were his sprains cured without Salvation Oil.

FIVE CHILDREN ASPHYXIATED.

Natural Gaa Leak Almost Causes Dreadful Fatalities. The five small children of Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Dorsey, of No. 41 Buchanan street, have been near death's door since yesterday, from asphyxia, caused by natural gas, says the Indianapolis News. To-day they are improving and the physicians in charge say recovery is assured. Mr. Dorsey is a laborer. He and his wife always arise and have their breakfast before the children are called.

Yesterday morning after breakfast Mr. Dorsey turned on the gas in the room where the children were sleeping, and then went away to hiB work. Mrs. Dorsey busied herself with her household duties in another part of the house until the usual hour for calling the children. When she opened the door to the room in which they slept a strong odor of escaping gas almost strangled her. On entering the room she found the five children in bed, unconscious. A canary bird that ocoupied a cage hung near the head of the bed, was dead from the effects of the gas.

Mrs. Dorsey called for help and some of the neighbors assisted her in getting the children into a part of the house where no gas was escaping. Drs. R. H. and R. F. Bigger were summoned, and after working with the children all day brought them out of danger. If Mrs. Dorsey had delayed waking the children a half an hour longer they would probably have been past recovery. An investigation showed that the escaping gas came from a leak in the service pipe near where it was attached to the stove.

Morton's Marble Bust.

A marble bust of Oliver P. Morton has been received by the Morton family from Sculptor Simmons, of Rome, Italy A. A. McKain, of Indianapolis, is preparing a grani pedestal for it, and the statue will be placed in position at the grave of the great war governor, in Crown Hill, by November 5t,h, which is the anniversary of his death. The hight of the memorial when complete will be ten feet. The bust is of heroic Bize. The likeness is considered fair by those who have examined it. The Morton family is very well pleased, though its members regard the profile view as more accurate than the view from the front.

Euglisli Syndicates, Indianapolis Concerns. It has been reported that the Indianapolis cabinet company has been transferred to an English syndicate for $412,250, says the Indianapolis News. President Rjberts, of the company, gives no support to this report and another officer of the company Bays that, while some English people were looking at the property in June, no deal was made and none is probable.

It hBB also been reported that the Moore desk company has been bid for. The company's officials deny the report.

How the Burmese Work Their Oil Wells. Dr. Noetling, of the Indian geological survey, to whose report on the petroleum deposits of Burmah reference has already been made, gives an interesting description of the native method of digging the. wells. As soon as a native has made up his mind where he is going to have a new well the workmen, usually four in number, begin to dig a square shaft, the 6ides of which measure between 4 feet and feet 6 inches. Over this pit across beam, supported on stanchions at either side,ie placed, in the center of which is a email wooden drum or cylinder, which, with its axis, is made of a single piece of wood, the latter running on coarse forkehaped supports. The leather rope used in hauling up the oil passes over the drum, and on it is fastened the workman who is going to be lowered down, as well aB the com on earthenware pot in which the oil is drawn up. If possible the well is so placed that the men or women drawing the rope walk down an incline plane along the elope of a hill. The tools employed in digging are quite primitive, and can only be used in soft strata. Timber is used to support the walls of the Bhaft, and the latter is lined with wood. This wooden wall has considerable strength, but it has to be carefully watched lest it should give way.

The workmen are lowered in an inge nious way. The man sits on two slings formed of strong rope running between his legs and knotted over his left shoulder. To prevent sliding, a thin rope runB down from the knot, across the breast, underneath the right shoulder to the back, where it is fastened to the rope forming the elings. A second rope for the sdtne purpose is fastened round the hips. On account of the explosive gas filling the shaft no light can be taken down the workman therefore, ties up his eyes previously to descending, so as to enable him to see during the short time he is in the well, otherwise it would take him longer to accustom his eyeB to the darkness than he is able to stay down on account of the gas, which renders breathing difficult. The data obtained by Dr. Noetling as to the time occupied in the ascent and descent, and the period during which the laborer can remain below, show that not 25 per cent of the total workiDg time is really spent in extracting the oil. Two hundred and ninety Beconds is the longest time any man, however Btrong, can re main below without becoming unconscious, while in some he can only remain only sixty seconds. With increasing depths the difficulties in obtaining the oil after the Burmese methods become insuperable. Hence the limit is 310 feet, and the workers object to more than 250 feet.

The drawing up of the oil is as primitive as everything else. The rope is fastened round the neck of the ballshaped pot, and, being lowered, is allowed to fill by sinking in the oil below. The oil thus raised is poured into another pot of the same shape, but much larger, and twelve of these are packed on each country cart.—[London Times.

The Women Have the "Go" Too. CHICAGO, October 25.—In a drizznng rain 4,000 ladies of Chicago went to Central music hall this afternoon where a mass meeting was held under the auspiceBof the woman's auxiliary committee of the world's fair committee. Mrs. John A. Logan presided, and speeches were made by Mayor Cregier, the Rev. George C. Lorrimer, Rena Michaels, the dean of the Northwestern woman's college Rabbi Hirsch and Con-gressman-elect Wilson, of the state of Washington. Arrangements were made for raising several hundred dollars, and the ladies pledged themselves to appeal to the women of America to direct their efforts towards securing the world's fair for Chicago. After the meeting Mrs. Logan declared "Chicago is bound to win when the women evince their patriotism, which they did this afternoon notwithstanding the weather."

A good record—In thirty-three years Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup haB never failed to cure a cough, cold or general hoarseness. It is nonpariel.

1XPRE8S PACKAGES.

THK AUTUMN OIRL.

Who can believe who sees a maid ID flannel 'mong the wavelets tossed That beauty when'tis unadorned is then adorned the most?

This Is an error we contend— The following are truthtul words And from a proverb often heard: ••Fine feathers make birds."

The autumn girl in colors gay, And ribbons, furbelows, and things, Is simply In the eye of youth

An angel lacking wings. —[Boston Courier. The Florida orange crop this season is estimated at 2,000,000 boxes.

Aristocratic French women still practice the old-fashioned deep courtesy when receiving visitors.

J. W. Branch, of St. Louis, received a letter the other day that was written to him twelve years ago.

Henry Drum, of Tacoma, will be lonesome when he gets to the legislature. He is the only Democrat in the state Benate.

A French sergeant has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for offering to sell a Lebel cartridge to General Moltke.

An eccentric Detroit millionaire got into an argument with a woman, one of his tenants, and she slapped his mouth with a dishcloth.

The New York parks will henceforth be lighted with gas only—at least until the electrical danger question is completely settled.

The school boy strike has at length reached London, but the demonstration has as yet attained no special strength or importance there.

One of the important reasons assigned for the retreat of General Boulanger to Jereey is that he may obtain peace and fresh air enough to enable him to complete his-great work on "The Art of War."

A bear going about seeking whom he might devour entered a school house in Adams county, Ohio. The lady teacher, with fire in her eye and a ten-pound poker in her hand, drove the beast from the door.

The monuments of antiquity at Athens are being cleansed from the dirt and rubbish of ages for the approaching royal wedding. In doing this several entire streets of the modern town have had to be pulled down.

It is proposed to bring in a bill at the next session of the British parliament to put a restraint on improvident marriageB, the great proportion of such marriages being made by those under 25 years of age.

In the entrance to the dining-room of one of the finest hotel restaurants of Vienna is the photograph of the unfortunate Prince Rudolph, splendidly framed and surrounded by the menus of the dinners which the prince partook of in this establishment.

Three Americans are exhibiting a graphophone at Vienna, which, they claim, possesses the same power as the phonograph invented by Edison. They assert that it was invented by a Professor Tenders long before Edison's invention was known.

A recent clever invention is the taxanum, a little lantern-like apparatus which, ingeniously placed at the back of a cab, measures the exact distance traversed by it. It is now being tried at Berlin under police inspection, and is said to answer exceedingly well.

The city of Cologne is to hold next year an international war exhibition, consisting of all articles appertaining to war or necessary for the use of an army. It is the iutention of the promoters to make the show of an international character as far as possible.

Queen Victoria doesn't wear a great deal of fur. She has an odd cloak, however, in which she comfortably incases herself when traveling in the cold weather. It is made entirely of ermine, and the ermine is outside. The cloak gives her a very regal appearance.

The other evening an Atlanta clergyman received a call from a couple who desired to be married. The young people declined to enter the house and he performed the ceremony while they were standing on the porch in the pale light coming from an electric lamp.

The magnificent romanesque cathedral of Worms, which dates from theelevehth century, is to be entirely restored, under the superintendency of Baron von Schmidt, of Munich. The church is built of red sandstone, and the interior is remarkable for some very fine sculptures and carvings.

Typhoid fever, always a disease pecul iar to Paris, is very rife just now. The cause is attributed to the use of the abominable water of the Seine for domestic purposes, due to the last five months' drought. No one ever drinks it who can afford to spend two sous on a bottle of natural mineral water.

The city of Leghorn, Italy, is excited over the disappearance of the Duchess d'Aurel, a member of one of the most aristocratic houses in the kingdom, who has left debts to the amount of $200,000 behind her. The police are endeavoring to discover her whereabouts, but as yet have been unsuccessful.

The action of Sheriff Flack, of New York, in appealing from the order of Judge Bookstaver annulling the decree of divorce issued to him is severely commented on, and the comments are all the more severe because the sheriff continues to make the use of hie official title as conspicuous as possible.

Cardinal Gibbons, judging from his recent statement, evidently agrees with Alphonse Karr that if the abolition of capital punishment is to be introduced the assassin should begin first. The cardinal sees in the tardiness with which justice is meted out to criminals a serious menace to order and good government.

While passing through his farm David Hembree, of Milton, Ga., saw a king snake swallow a rattlesnake's pilot. When he found them the king snake had killed the pilot and had Bwallowed about half of its head first. Mr. Hembree stood by and saw the job completed, which took about twenty minutes. The king snake wbb three and a half feet long and the pilot two feet. He did not kill the king snake, .knowing it was not poisonous and was the enemy of all poison snakes.

A schoolboy in England hit upon a novel method of obtaining the answer to an arithmetical problem. He dropped into a grocer's shop on his way to school, and said he wanted certain commodities at certain prices. Afier exhausting his list, he said: "Now, if I give you half a sovereign what change shall I get back?" The grocer told him, whereupon he thanked the shopman and turnedjto go. "Wait for the things," called the grocer and his disgust can be imagined when the ingenious urchin told him he was too late for school and, as he hadn't learned his arithmetic lesson, he had adopted that method of gettiDg the sum worked for him.

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Advance sale opens Monday. 1'rlces, 70, GO and '25 cents.

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Seal Walking Coats, Seal Newmarkets, Mink Saciues,

Fur Lined Circulars, Seal Capes,

Seal capes with Astrakhan and Persian trimming.

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Neok Pieces in all the late styleF.

FUR ROBES. GOAT RUGS.

IN CLOAKS.

All the late styles in cloths and fancy weaves now in. Plush Sacques at 620 to $45 not surpassed anywhere.

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& CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

O^Agents lor Butterlck's Patterns.

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