Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 December 1889 — Page 3
A Trip On Donkeys to the Interior cf the Island Back of S\
Michael.
EXTRAORDINARY USES OF THE AZOREAN DONKEY.
The Dream of .Azorean Beauty, the Idyllic Valley ol Furnas.
(Copyrighted. ihsb.'I
Special Correspondence ol the Express.
ST. MI^HAEI-, Azores, November o, 188U.—"Boa viogem! boa viagem!" (Good voyage!—good voyage!) not only came from the lips of Manuel's wife and daughter, as we mounted our donkeys for our trip to the interior, but the same came from a score or more of the populace who had gathered about the door of iny venerable host's house to witness Wiiat were to this humble neighborhood most unusual proceedings. Manuel had got three donkeys and a lad, Mateito. Mateito is diminutive for Matthew, and this donkey-driving lad himself was diminutive of anything. Hut what he lacked in size he furnished in expedients ar,d mischief, and while apparently dutifully engaged in all good offices of expedition, was in reality vigorously applying sundry Becsel. intimations well-known to his animals, resultant in such whirlings and Bwirlinge, pirouettings and cavortings with endwise and sidewise rushinge, that both myself and my aged guide were vigorously taxed to retain either our dignity or our sittings. Our own, or Matoito'a, popularity was so increased t,hereby that the little street echoed and re-echoed with cheers and we at last sallied forth at great speed, the entire concourse massing at our sides, and continuing their pleased attentions by still more stentorian vivas and sundry resounding whneks upon our donkeys' lhinks and ribs all greatly to the edification of grinning folk at doors and windows, until we finally fairly outran them all and came to a halt for inspection and repairs at the hill tops above thequaiLt old city.
This little occurrence brought about an instructive disquisition from Manuel on the subject of donkeys in the Azoree. Thousands can be found in the larger cities doing all manner of labor and service while in the country no peasant is en poor as to not possess one. In front of the Matriz Church in Ponta Delgada, hundreds may be seen at any hour of the day, most of them accompanied by a barefooted driver with an iron-pointed goad as large as a hoe-handle, and caparisoned with a rope around its shaggy neck, in lieu of halter [or bridle, and a huge wooden saddle with upturned wooden yokes at the frout and back, 'l ou do not sit astride the little beasts. You ride them, something as you do the wild and vaulting Irish jaunting-car, aitting sidewiso, with your legs dangling over the donkey's right side, and in moments of peril, with your two hands violently clutching the horns of the front yoke. You will mike a sad business out of it if you undertake a rigid and stately posture but observing the native Azorean doubled upon his donkey into the form of a printer's reversed mark of interrogation, and faithfully copying his riding, which is chielly upon the*bucks of the knee-joints, you may always do almost as well as to— walk. From padre to peasant everyone owns a donkey, and they are brought into requisition for the moat trilling journeys. The padre will not walk a rod if his own or any other person's donkey be wilhin call. The goa'.herd on the mountain has him for an inseparable companion, and if the feeding ground be shifted but a half mile all the preparations for a long journey are made and the goatherd rides in state t.o his new station among the rocks. Sr if a peasant-laborer is engaged for a day's Hurvice on an adjoining farm, if he lias occasion to go from one Held to another, or if women in the o.nintry wish a bit of gossip at the next cabin, or cross-roadp, each sets out, with boundless preparation, arrives as if from a ten di ys' pilgrimage, and giving the donkey a kick or a whack as admonition r.o self sup port,never recalls so trilling a subjectmatter as the beastj until it is wanted for the return trip. Then all any Azorean has to do to get his donkey is to say that he wishes it. A horde i'f lads, whoopinir and howling, hunt
Imu,
capture him, and rush him to his owner in a perfect hurricane of lavadust, ponds and llor,id Portugese oaths, when hiB dut ies are demurely and faithfully resumed. The other extraordinary uses to which the Az jrean donkey is put were illustrated fully in our few hour's journey betweeu Ponta Delgada to Sette Cidades, or the ancient crater called the "Seven Citiep."
The roads seem tilled with them. Here is a procession ridden by peasant women, each cloaked and cowled in the monRtrcus cap'to capello, on their way to Ponta Delgada with all manner of country produce swaying from the wooden saddle yokes. A lone donkey laden with water-casks plods along without companion or driver, Bent from somewhere to nnewhere over this ofttraveled way, and with a pitiful look of worried responsibility in his gray, old face. Here come a bevy completely hidden by piles of corn-leaves piled so high that it seems the stacks are waltzing into the city on invisible legs. Bells jangle in a mutlWd way beneath the fodder and barefooted country lade prod the bobbing mysteries viciously. Again a score came tripping and mincing alorg a sieoder path benenth a huge wa'l, laden with wheat and corn in casks and patiiers. Two are met sustaining a st rong beam across their backs, and to this beam a trunk of a tree, being con veyed to the city for pier timber in this outlandish way, is swung, and, being nearly balanced, one end bangs the donkey '/head and shoulders while the other lightly bounds along the way a source of peril to all passers upon the road. But the oddest burden of all was met just as —having wended our way past fountains where donkeys, peasants and wa-ter-carriers were all loitering to bray, babble and gossin, over hills, down dark and ferny valleyp, and through a half dozen straggling villages— we had reached the higher uplands leading to the precipitous edges of the 6even citiep. This was a patient being transported to "da Miseri-
cordis," the splendid hospital of Ponta Delgada, for some surgical operation to be performed.
The
sufferer was a wom
an who had fallen over some cliff in the mountain beyond. Two timbers were fastened lengthwise along the donkey's back?. From the ends of these, timbers extended across from back to back, securely fastened with thongs, and from the latter, ropes depended and sustained a rude hammock of pine staves, such as are used in boxing oranges, covered with the stout linen woven by the peasantry. The sufferer was thus being very comfortably borne from her mountain home, accompanied by a large delegation of relatives
Bnd
neighbors, all prompted by
their sympathetic natures to continually give expression to grievous moanings and iamentations.
We hBd now reached a grand plateau, from which the view was surpassingly beautiful and inspiring The topographical outline of St. Michael was almost entirely visible. The mountein ranges, all jagged, hollow cones and overflows of distinct volcanoes, almost in the form of a Greek cross, with its head to the west, ran the full length of the splendid island, its short, clumpy arms breaking away in the direction of Ponta Delgada at its southwestern corner, towards the fine city of Miberia Granda, near its northwestern extremity its extreme head terminating in the wonderful waveeat.en and cavernous headland of the CapellBP, "the Chapels," from their resemblance to vast lava-arched churches, and near its base to the eost, that dream of Azorean beauty and pence, the idyllic Valley of Furnas. Not a clou 1 was in the sky, giving it in its intensity of blue a sense of inconceivable distance. To the north, south and we6t swept the illimitable Atlantic, calm and spotless as the sky above, and so blue that, save for some distant sail, no horizon could be traced. Then along the vast shore line ran a dazzling fringe of white where the ceaseless surf sparked like a rift of be diamoned plumes swaying in the sun. Between this and the foothills more than a score of cities and straggling villages could be seen, their blue or white walls contrasting pleasantly with the lavish verdure almost enshrouding them, or with the red of their quaintly-tiled roofp while nearer still, following the valleys, or perched picturesquely along the edges of darker gorges were the white, wide and ample quintas and villas of the rich, their demensea being outlined with gray and sinuous walls while still nearer, and almost at our Teet were now and then a mountaineers' cottage, a goa' herd's hut, or a carboneir's cabin, set with its humble belongings, like some pretty nest within the upland valleys, the breezy heathf r, or the fragrant pines. Even in this November weather, flowers and bloom are in every hedge and copse, and lavishly clambering upon every cottage and wall. A subtle odor of mingled heather, pine and orange fills the air and, rniugled with the distant chiming of village church-belle, the nearer tinkling of countless bells among the herds, and the notes of the shepherd's pipes far and near in the mountains about us, are heard from hidden groups of peasants snatches of their high-keyed island songp, mocked and mimicked in the notes of innumerable island birds.
We had proceeded pleasantly for a little time in climbing the heathery upland?, when our road, now nearly an unfrequented bridle path, came to an apparently abrupt termination. Quietly dismounting, old Manuel bade me follow, and in a moment more it seemed that half the space beneath the horizon had disappeared. "See!" said Manuel with a lofty gesture, "there lie the Seven Cities before you!"
No real seven cities were to be seen. But we stood upon the brink of undoubtedly the vastest extinct volcano crater in the world. We were nearly rS,C00 feet above its lowest levels. It was over nine miles in circumference. At a score of places near us on the north and east side?, one could step from a bunch of upland heather and fall
Bheer
2,S00
feet. Though now but little after midday its lower swnile were purply and dark. [lawks circled about its jutting teeth-like edges in search of prey. A thousand feet below, gulls like Hakes of enow, tluttered, poised and uttered their gurgling, whistling cries. Two lakes like bits of polished glass reflect in mid-day the stars. These are Lagoa Azul and IJigoa Grande. The first is alight blue in color, and the second, though connected with the former by a living stream, is a deep green. No one has ever taken the trouble to account for this startling difference in colo'-, nor to settle the question how the as remarkable name of Sette Cidades, or "Seven Cities," where there never was a city, came to be given the lone and eerie spot. On one side of the valley crater are seven ghostly hollows or tarns, whose centers show the gleam of shadowed pools. Sette concavidades means "seven hollows and, iu any event, if you come to the Azores and journey to this wondrous and grewsome crater, you will come in fact not to "Seven Cities," nor any other number, but to the great valley of the "Seven IIollow&." Away down, down there in the dark and purple of the western edge of the basin are a few tiuy ppecks of white. This, Manuel tells me, is the village of Sette Cidades. The only signs of life in the splendid but" lonely spot are there. So round and down we went, here crowding the lava walls lest we topple over there clinging to the furniture of our donkeys for precipitous upward scrambles again barely escaping plunges over deep abysses, often passing wholly underneath mist-like waterfalls from the heights above and, at last, coming to circling gentle descents where we gladly remounted our doiikeyp. which scampered into the little village as if conscious of possible hospitalities for the coming night.
But both they and myself were disappointed. The one ramshackle estalugem or inn, was beneath old Manuel's notice But a little beyond we would tied friends and true Azorean hospitality, he said. I wanted to loiter in the place, such a quaint litt'e Caatskill village it was. But my guide was unrelenting, and our donkeys were mercilessly larrupped and graded into a lively pace. As best I might I to'd Manuel how like Irving's simple village it was, and of poor old Hip's adventures in the Caatskills. His eyes instantly kindled. In Portugal, he said, and here in this very spot, the legend had its prototype. Surely our great American eecriptororliterator must have carried his master-piece over in his baggage from Portugal, whence it had come from his own beloved island of St. Michael. And as we ascended the mountain side, pausing at times to emphasize his tale with gestures towards the receding village below and the darkening and forbidding heights above, old Manuel unfolded the centuries-old legend of the Azorean Rip Van Winkle.
EnCiAK L. W.\K F.MAN.
Painting!* Owned by the City of Paris,
The artistic wealth of the Paris municipality in paintingp, sculptures, engravings, etc is estimated at $2,500,000, outside of the great treasures owned by the nation.
LIGHTNING'S STRANGE FREAKS.
An Aeronaut's Adventures Among the Clouds. "Yes, an aeronaut has experiences which to other people seem incredible.
The speaker was an ancient navigator of the atmosphere who has abandoned the air-ship for the fireside. He never takes passage now in any vessels except a pair of loose slippers whose heels trail safely upon the floor as he sails about. For & rudder he asks nothing more than an odorous old clay pipe, which, being clinched firmly between his toothless gums, points the way
always,
straight
ahead. "Yes, my eon," he continued, "I mean incredible to people who htve never cast off all hold upon the earth, with the feeling of solidity it gives, and shot thousands of feet up into the clouds. A person never realizes what a sense of absolute, perfect helplessness is, until he finds himself the sport of the wind, with not a single possibility of touching anything firm, and with only a big, frail, fickle bag of gas between him and inevitable and horrible death. "Some of our strangest experiences are with the lightning. I remember one time I made an assent from a fair ground over near the Ohio line. There was no wind, and the balloon wont up straight to a tremendous height. It got up after a little to where the air wns so cold I WBS almost frozen. Then we began to drift toward the northeast. I was about to open the valve and let out some gas so that I would sink down to a more comfortable region, when I saw tha9 only a few hundred feet below me was a huge cloud, frozen solid. Thick vapor clouds were below it, and altogether the weather looked decidedly squally. The ice-cloud was one of the most beautiful sights I ever saw. The sun shone brightly upon its upper surface, and it reflected the rays back in a thousand dazzling, changing colors. "Of course, I doa't mean that the cloud was a solid chunk of ice. That wouldn't be reasonable. It was like a great compact mass of the delicate needles which you see on the underside of ice formed on a pond. I was afraid to settle down upon it, but I was freezing, and the cloud seemed limitless in the direction in which we were moving. But relief came in a remarkable way. As I was leaning over the side of the car won-' dering what I should do, there was a blinding fia3h, accompanied by a loud crash. When I recovered from the shock I saw that the lightning had made an opening clear through the ice cloud. I opened the gas valve and the balloon sank down through the opening. Iwas saved, but it was a close squeeze, for the ragged edge of the hole almost tore the canvas as we went through. I heard afterward that the residents of the region of country over which this phenomenon occurred were surprised that day by one of the strangest hail storms ever heard of. "There was another incident in my ballooning career which 1 regard as the most wonderful of all. I had made an ascent on an ugly, dark day. I didn't want to risk it, but a large crowd had gathered to see, and when it was whispered about that the ascent was likely to be abandoned people thought they saw a trick in it and grew boisterous and angry. So I went up I was drifting about through dense clouds, with no means of judging where I was, when in an instant there burst on the silence an explosion so terrific and a flame so dazzling that I lost consciousness. I remember that my last thought was that lightning had struck the balloon and that I was being borne downward with measurelees rapidity. It was not a sensation of falling, but of being shot through the air. When I recovered consciousness I was hanging in the forks of a tree. From where I hung to the ground the trunk of the tree was riven to splinters by the lightning. Above me it was unharmed. The bolt had struck me on its way to the earth and pushed me iu front of it to the tree. When I lodged it ran down to the ground. The balloon was destroyed by the lightning, and if I hadn't been exactly in the path of the electric bolt I should have fallen to the ground and been dashed to pieces."
WOMAN AND A MAN'S ARM.
Is There Such N Tiling SIH tho I.IMISNNSRO of tlie Miwrlen?—A Womnu's Opinion.
I read somewhere,.a short time ago, that a man can tell pretty well how a girl feels toward him by the way she takes his arm that if she does'nt care a rap for him he can tell it by the indifference of her muscles if she has great confidenca in him the pressure tells it and that friendship is as distinct from love in that mode of expression as in looks or in words, says a writer in a Cnicngo paper. The writer went se far as to say that a womn. could not take the arm of afello she liked with perfect comfort, even if she ba 0 feet tall and he only 4.
This last sounded so much like a lie that I concluded to submit the whole matter to a lady who knows as much about women's ways as anybody.
She laughed heartily, and then said:. "If the men who wiite women's gossip for the papers would talk those things over with their wives before printing them they would have more l«dy readers and make fewer blunders. This stuff about language in the way a woman takes a man's arm is perfectly absurd. "Of course when a girl is really head over ears in love with a fellow, and the engagement ring is all safe on her third finger, and the day is ret, she is apt to snuggle a little when eho takes his arm. But to say that a man can learn the progress he is making in a girl's affections by inducing her to take his arm for a walk now ar.d then is as funny as it can be."
THE EARTH INCREASING IN SIZE.
It Is JI Planet With a Future anl I* .SU1I In It* In fancy.
The earth, travelling in its orbit around the sun, and onward with the entire solar system around some unknown and still greater center of attraction, is constantly traversing new regions of space, which it depletes of meteoric dust and meteorites thus steadily—no matter how slowly— increasing in diameter. Now let this growth continue till the earth has just twice the attractive power which it now pofseesv we should then have twice the number of meteorites and double the quantity of dust falling annually upon it than now.
Fortunately for our heads the earth has not as yet attained very formidable dimensions, but we may look upon it aa an established fuct that it constantly gains in weight and thit in proportion to such gain its attractive power steadily increases.
The attracting force of the sun is so enormous that a perpetual hBil of meteorites and a torrent of dust particles must rush upon it from all directions, and some of the foremost observers are now of opinion that these falling bodies are the sole cause cf the 6un's heat.
In the light of this theory, says the
American Geologist, our earth is a young and growing, not an old and dying planet, a planet with a future, which ought to be cheerful nfcws to all of us, although we ehall not live to reap the benefit of it and the sun, far from being on its last legs as an expiring luminary, is steadily gaining in heat and lighting capacity.
A MAD SPECULATIVE SCRAMBLE.
Bussia's Sta'e Rank Besieged for Bonds of tlie New Lottery Loan. The financial success of the new lottery loan in Russia is complete. The love of speculation, joined to a strong distate for awkward facts and figuree, makes the average Russian a willing victim to any scheme which holds forth the prospect," however remote, of a 20,000 rouble prize, provided it eminateB from the government. The scene at the state bank, and at three private banks authorized to receive subscriptions, was Buch, perhaps, as Western Europe has not witnessed since the South sea bubble or Law's Mississippi scheme.
The institutions were besieged by crowds, estimated by some papers at a total of over 100.000 people, men and women, jostling one another from 5 o'clock in the morning, in order to secure a place which would ensure the reception of their subscription at the state bank. General Gresser had to maintain order, and at 11 o'clock a. m. the officials begged the thousands beyond the gates to disperse, as there was no possibility of their reaching the desks before closing time. Ordinary business was at a standstill, and one clerk, having bills to deliver, could only affect his purpose by passing through the kitchen.
It was known beforehand that there would be a rush to secure the new bonds, and most people restored, therefore, to the ordinary trick of asking for five, ten, or even twenty times the number they really desired to have allotted to them. Others, knowing that all subscribers of one bond were pretty sure to be gratified, made use of their servants and their servants' friends to insure at leBst half a dozen bonds or more. One millionaire prince subscribed the whole nominal amount of the loan, eighty millions.of roublep, or over sixteen million dollars.
Prince Mestcherky,in the Grashdanin, the great champion of the landed gentry, lays stress on the fact that this is not a state loan, the government only allowing the lottery in aid of the noble's bank, and not for its own purposes. But considering that this bank owes its capital to the state, it is evident that the finance minister, in enabling his debtor to borrow money, cannot claim credit for disinterestedness. The Moscow Gazette excuses the loan on the grounds that it is only an exception, and that as lottery loans already exist in Russia, it matters little whether there is one more or less. The Novoe Vremja, however, bravely defends the loan, even on principle, and quotes a saying of Bastiat in support of its view.
•ALBERT PIERRE ROASTED.
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On the night of November -1 a victim of alcoholism named Albert Pierre set fire to the house in which he lived, at La Perrier^, in the department of Doubs, France. Resolved to bury himself in the ruins of his house, he had made all necessary preparations for the execution of his project. Fearing that be might be seen in this work, he besmeared the windows of the ground floor with a coating of liquid tar. Then he drenched the furniture, partition, and floors with petroleum, after which he started the fire and went up into the attic. There he drove a spike into a beam, fastened a rope tt it, made a noose at the end, and placed it about his neck, after which he jumped into the air, at the same time putting a bullet through his skull. It is probable that Pierre had conceived the idea of this frightful death some time before, for in the onlyrfiutbuilding that was saved from the flames was found a wooden cross painted black. To this cross the unfortunate had nailed a Hat piece of wood upon which he had written his own epitaph in the following words:
A I,BERT P1EKRK. HOASTKl). Burn May 1, 1837.
Died Nov. 2, 1889.
Do not pray for lilm, Ills hell Is finished. The date, November 2, thus inscribed by Pierre, though his euicide was accomplished only on the '1th, indicates that some circumstance or other delayed a little the execution of his project.
AN IMMENSE FLOWER.
I.IK" HS a WA 'on Wlu'OL and WEIGHS OV«T Twenty Pounds.
Ju the farthest southeastern island of the Pbillipine group, Mindinao, and upon one of its mountains, Parag, in the neighborhood of the highest peak on the island, the volcano Apo, a party of botanical and ethnological explorers found recently, at the height of 2.fiOO feet above the sea lev*), a colossal Mower. The discoverer, Dr. Alexander Schadenberg, could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw, amid tho low-grow-ing bushes, the immense buds of this flower, like gigantic brown cabbage heads. But he was still more astonished when he found a specimen in full bloom, a five-petaled fl iwer nearly a yard in diameter—as large as a carriage wheel, in fact. This enormous blossom was bjrne on a sort of vine creepiug on the ground. The native who accompanied Dr. Scha-denb6.-g cnlled it bolo.
The party had no scale by which the weight of the flower could be"ascertained, but they improvised a swinging scale, using their boxes and specimens as weights. Weighing these when opportunity served it was found that a single Hower weighed over twenty-two pounds. It was impossible to transport the fresh tlower, so the travelers photographed it and dried a number of its leaves by the heat of a fire. Dr. Schadenburg then sent the photographs and dried specimens to the royal botanical gardens, Breslau, where the learned director immediately recognized it as a species of RHHI-S sia, a plant formerly discovered in Sumatra, and named after the English governor, Sir StBmford Rifiies. The new flower was accordingly named Rafil-?6ia Schadenbergia.
The five petals of this immense flower are oval and creamy white, and grow around a center filled with countless long violet-hued stamenp, thicker and longer in the fertile Hower than in the unfertile.
A Patriotic Family.
It is doubtful if there are many, families in the country that can show an army record equal to that of Gersham Davis, of the town of Welles, Pa. Davis and his eight sons enlisted in the Union army early in the war. The father and four of the sons served until the war was over and returned home. The four other Rons were killed in battle.—[New York Sun.
ALCOHOL RUINS THE BRAIN.
A Physician Pronounces It a Para'yxant, unci Says It Never Creates Anything. It is one of the curious errors that alcohol stimulates the imagination, and gives a clearer, more practical insight into the relation of the events of life. The whirl of thought roused up by the increased circulation of the blood in the brain is not imagination it is not a superior insight or conception of the relation of events, but is a rapid reproduction of previous thoughts, soon merging into confusion.
The inebriate never creates Bny new ideas or new views all his fancies are tumultuous, blurred and "barren. The apparent brilliancy is only the flash of mania, quickly followed by dementip. Alcohol always lowers the brain capacity and lowers the power of discriminating the relation of ideas and events. After a few periods of intoxication the mind under the influence of spirits is a blank, blurred page.
The poets and orators who are popularly supposed to make great efforts under the influence of alcohol only repeated what had been said before in a jtangled delirium of expression. The physicians who are supposed to have greater skill when using spirits have paralyzed their higher brain centers and have lost all sense of fear or appreciation of the.consequences of their acts, and hence act more automatically, simply doing what they have done before without any clear appreciation or discrimination of the results.
The inebriate is the best of all imaginative personp, and the one in whom the higher brain forces of judgment, reason, and conception are the first to give way. The man who uses spirits to give mental force and clearness is doing the very worst thing possible to destroy the effect.
Alcohol is ever and always a paralyzant, according to T. p. Crothers, M. D. It never creates anything it never gives strength or force that did not exist before it nevergives a clearer conception and power of execution, but always lowers, destroys and breaks down.
Cats Banished From Switzerland.
The Society for prevention of cruelty to animals in Switzerland has resolved to banish cats from the republic, on the ground that they are killing off the birds.
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cure with West Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions are strictly complied wlth They are purely vegetable and never faU to give satisfaction, jlugar Coated. Large boxes, containing 30 I Ills. 25 ccnts. Kor sale by all Druggists. Beware of counterfeits and Imitations. The genuine manufactured only by JOHN C. WbST A CO., The Pill Makers," 862 W. Madison street, Chicago. Kree trial package sent by mall, prepaid, on re Mot ot a 3-cent stamp, bold by J. C. Baur. Druggists, southeast corner Seventh Btreet and Wabash avenve, Terre Haute, Ind.
FOR MEN ONLY!
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•ifcmtuwnhiiK TO WEAK MEW
Buffering from the effects of youthful orrori, early decay, wasting weakness, lost manhood, etc., will Bond ft valuable treatise I sealed) containing foil particulars for home cure.
FREE
of
c.h^g® A
splendid medical work shonhTbe read byevei7, man who i» nervous and debilitated.^ Address, Prof. F. C, FOWLEH, Jloodun. Conn.
BOBXKT H. BLACK. JAMKS A. SI3BKT.
BLACK & NISBET,
Undertakers and Embalmers, 26 North Fourth street, Terre Haute, Ind. Warerooms 25th at. and Washington ave. All calls will receive prompt attention. Open day and night.
A
Incorporated 18SS
J. St. CLIFT, Secretary and Treasurer.
CLIFT & WILLIAMS §.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Etc.
AN1) DKALKK8 IN
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Glass, Paints, Oils and Builders' Hardware,
Corner Ninth and Mulberry Streets. TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.
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Health is Wealth.
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TREATMENT
D«. K. C. WKST'S NKKVK ANI) HHAIN THKATMKNT, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Convulsions, Kits, Nervous Neuralgia, Headache, Nervous Prostration, caused by the use or alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental Depression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in Insanity and leading to misery, decay and death Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power In either' sex, Involiintary Losses and Spermatorrhoea, caused by over-exertion of the brain, self-abuse or over-indulgence. Each box contains one month's treatment $1 a box, or six boxes for $13, sent by mall prepaid on receipt of price.
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order received by us for six
boxes,.accompanied
with
$5,
the purchaser our written guarantee to refund the money If the treatment does not effect a euro. Guarantees Issued only by J. & C. Baur, Druggists,
sole
agents, southeast corner Seventh street and Wabash avenue, Terre Haute, Ind.
NEW MOVK! NEW MKDICINK! OASTO'S COI'GIl NYKUP. At your grocers'. Price'^()c and 50c. Hnniple free.
Positively guaranteed or money refunded.
Kor Catarrh, Hay Fever. Headache and Cold In the Head this remedy has no equal. Hy diluting with water and uslne as a wash It will iiuickly cur® ttie worstca.se of catarrh. Kor s»!e by all grocers. Made only by Da. J. C. CASTO. 210 Main.
5CENTS
5J
we will send
IS THE ONLY COMBINED
SOAP CLEANER:
tP POLISHER
LEAVES SKIN SOFT AND SMOOTH.' CLEANS AND POLISHES ALL E A S A N W O O W O
WITHOUT SCRATCHING. A CAKE. ASK YOUR GROCER.
The MODOC TRIPOLI MINING CO. Cincinnati,0.
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