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

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DAILY EXPRESS.

GEO M. ALLEN,

Proprietor.

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In the caucus vote for speaker Mr. Browne, of this state, voted for Mr. McKinley, Mr. Owen for Mr. Reed and Mr. Cheadle for Mr: Cannon.

The Indianapolis Journal of yesterday discussed at length "The Umbrella of the Future." It is the umbrella of the past that worries mankind.

Mr. Used made many admirers when here last fall in the campaign who rejoice in hia selection by the Rspublican caucus for the speakership.

The city council will meet to-morrow night and allow the monthly bils amounting to ?10,000 or 312,000 and the city's creditors will be forced to take warrants instead of cash. This disgrace ful state of affairs is wholly owing to the cowardice of a majority of the members of the council on the license question.

The Minneapolis calamity makes plain and urgent the noedof official inspection Bnd supervision of large buildings wherein many persons are employed The Tribune building was a fire trap unci it was notoriously known aa such Criminal responsibility rests somewhere, und it should be fixed upon the guilty ones.

We F.sk our free trade friends who want to buy where they can buy cheapest if they will buy the Chicago dressed meat when it is brought to this city, as pro posed, and help fulfil the gloomy prediction of our esteemed contemporary, the Gazette, that it will be a 6orry day when home slaughtering comes to an ead.

The Republican party for the first time in many years is to day in the majority in both branches of congress, and has the administration. There is again the opportunity for it to do something in line with its best achievements in the past. The measures that are to be taken up for consideration aud action were set forth in the platform of last year and no doubt, will be freshly impressed upon cangress to-morrow by President Uarri son in his first message.

Judge Anderson's decision in the Mor tnou. .tk-i:-3n3hip cases is a righteous judgment. The Mormon is possessed of no moro of the patriotic spirit than the Indian or Chinaman, ludeed, he is more of an enemy of the government than either of these. The investigation made necessary by the applications for citizen ship served a good purpose inasmuch as it dispels the impression created by the Cleveland administration that the Mor mons were inclined to show hotter alle giauce to the general government. The fact that since the lirst of the 'year there have been more prosecutions under the Hdrounds law than in all the four years of Cleveland, with this en dowmout house exposure, is very fair evidence that the Mormons had been making rapid headway in their purpose to get their state into the Union to help the party that befriended them and yet retain their iniquitous institution.

SJ far as the good of the city, in the way of advertisement, is concerned it wero better that we have no paid or pro fessional base ball club next season than to confess that the city ranks as second class to Evansville, Quincy, Peoria and and like cities. Of course the gentlemen of the bas's ball association must be supposed to know their own business better than do outsiders, yet it occurs to nearly every one who is in the least a "crank" that Terre Haute could well support a club in the Inter-state league. The local base bail fever was at a high .pitch last season because we had a winning club, a picked up team that made the game interesting to the best of the visiting leBgue club3 which were induced to come here. If that independent team had played poor bail there wrould have been no interest in the sport. Ttie proposed attempt to duplicate last season's experience is a very risky undertaking, la any event Terre Haute people do not relish the idea of being placed in the secondCIBSS. Base ball has come to be recognized as a means of advertising a city, and if it is possible something should be done to avoid having Terre Haute published from day to day in the newspapers of the West as a second-class citv.

THE EMOTIONAL SOUTH.

Governor Gordon, of Georgia, once upon a time told a Boston audience that he was going straight to Georgia and tell the people of his state what he had seen in New England and the lesson Journal.

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Mr. Cannon will be the right man in the right place as chairman of the appropriation committee.

From all reports there seems to have been just a little tco much senatorial interference in the caucus held to select officers for the house.

he had learned, that his beloved people might adopt the ways of the Yankee. Again he went to Ohio and kissed a northern brother Democrat before a great crowd to show that he was fully reconstructed. Saturday he was in Chicago wrapping the stars and stripes about himself in the presence of three or four thousand persons. If he is consistent ha will go back to Atlanta and join the Atlanta Constitution in eulogizing Jeff Davis and the confederate cause, which eulogy, of course, will be as "fervent" as his "earnest words" at Chicago, which, we are informed, "had an electrical effect." The trouble about all this "fervent" and "electrical" emotional whangdoodle is that it is nothing more or less than a beautiful curtain to hide the injustice and inequality of political relations in the South. Governor Gordon insists that the South be left alone to solve the race problelm. Consent, so far as local affairs are concerned, but the whole country has a right to interfere when the South uses the colored population to secure a representation in the electoral college and in congress altogether disproportionate to that secured by other sections of the country. No one objects to the

South solving the race problem which itinherited from its pel barbarism of slavery. Xor does any one object to the ex-Confederates worshiping Jeff Davis or any other leader of the lost cause. It is the worshiping of the lost cause to which objection is raised, and the At lanta Constitution can not separate the man from the cause, any more than can the bourbons whose doings and sayings the usually conservative Constitution often feels called upon to criti cise. The Atlanta newspaper says "When Jefferson Davis dies the general and spontaneous tribute of the American people will down the discor dant notes pealed out here and there by a few savage trumpeters." That is all right enough, but when tha Constitution proceede, as it does, to eulogize "the lofty ideals [secession], clean methods [Jake Thompson's atrocities], fearless cour age [petticoats] and the noble life of the grand old man," we submit that it is guilty of teaching ideas that the war was supposed to have done away with forever.

THE NEW SPEAKER.

Undoubtedly the West would hav6 preferred another than Mr. Keed as speaker of the house, but when the sue cessful candidate's temperament and position on public questions are more carefully studied and better understood there is nothing to cause this sectional objection to him other than his place of residence. He is broad gauged in hi views on public questions aud as a mat ter of fact is a much traveled man. He lived on the Pacific coast for many years and in the navnl service saw much of the world. Indeed the only "Yankee" abou him is his place of birth and the twang in his voice which has remained with him through all his varied experience,

It was eaid in behalf of Mr. McKinlej* Mr. Heed's chief opponent, that his was more of a judicial miud, and therefore better litted for the impartial considers tion of the questions the speaker is called upon to decide. While it is true that Mr. Rjed is more intensely partisan than Mr. McKinley, it is also true that circumstances mak6 the choice of Mr. Reed peculiarly appropriate because of this fact. Mr. Mills and the Democratic leaders in the house, even including the conservative Mr. Carlisle, announce that they will rule the proceedings of the house now when they are in the minority as arbitrarily as they did when they were in the majority. In that cheerful spirit of bigotry they believe that as they alone are striving for the best interests of the people and their doctrines being the cjprrect ones, they are justified in re sorting to all the extreme filibustering tactics, eveu to revolutionary measures to thwart the execution of the will of the mfijority in legislation. They will iind in Mr. Reed a most alert and deter miued presiding oflicer when they un dertake their policy cf rule or ruin.

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The Score.

Wibble-What was the score In the football game'.' Wabble—Two broken legs, seven blaek eyes aud thirty-live teeth.

She \Vits Tired.

He How I wish I was the bracelet on that lovely wrist. She—That would be nice. When 1 got tired ol vim I eauld put you away with so little trouble.

AH Had ns Possible.

Attorney—And now, Mr. MeCarty. we will hear your opinion, as ail expert, of the building. Contractor MeCarty—It was bail, very bad, sor. It couldn't have been a worse job, your annei. If

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A Symptom.

Mr. Watls Doctor, I am afraid my mind Is get tins derange:!. I have suddenly developed a strong deslre to walk on railroad tracks. They seem to ive a fascination for me that 1 cm hardly resist

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BOWIOJS—Oh.

your mind Is all right. Yon

have probably caught cold and it has made you a little deaf, that's all.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

(ilobe Democrat: The Democrats iind It a good deal more dtdicult to secure offices by skullduggery in Montana than In West Virginia. l:lobe Democrat: The I.Ue silver convention stuck a feather In the cap or Mr. Bland, and the speaker of the new house will pull It out by placing a Republican at the head of the committee on coinage, weights and measures.

Indianapolis Journal: The fact that steel rails have,been selling In London and Pittsburg. Pa., at the same price has sadly defaced the most valuable spook In the free trade museum. It Is very bad for the free trader to be referred to the markets at the expense of his maxims.

Chicago Journal: It Is pretty safe to say that Olllcer Flynn Is not the only policeman who has forgotten" certain things coduected with the Cronln case—tlilnss which. If published, would make mighty Interesting readlne to eAerybodj. save the suspects and their friends.

Two Busy Kditors.

One Cheboygan editor calls the other ''Doggie" and the other says the one is a "Sewer."' Both of them put in the reef of their spare time telling other editors how to run their newspapers.—[Detroit

THE MAN IN THE FUR COAT.

Jonathan, quick enough at moat other things, is backward in learning the art of amusing himself intelligently. A lightning calculator in matters of business, he is baffled when the problem of recreation presents itself for solution.

Make the riddle an easy one—give him the clews implied in the possession of money and leisure, and the chances are ten to one that Jonathan will fill up the tip of his left ear with the thumb and fore-linger of his right hand—a gesture indicative of extreme doubt—turn the precious baubles overlook at them curiouEly, and wonder what iti the world he is going to do with them.

It is even betting that he will finally decide to go to the theatre, not because he is interested in the drama particularly, or because he knows anything about the literature or history of the stage, but simply because he is helplessly incapable of amusing himself, and the "show" is his only refuge. Having decided to be amused, he remembers that the flamboyant posters on the fences all over town announce in shrieking colors and gigantic type that performances of he utmost merit, involving the outlay of an unheard of treasure, are keing given at every play house in the place.

All this is very exciting, particularly the money parr for of ail things Jonathan most adores the spectacle of a "financial venture." Now Jonathan is a philosopher in his way, and this sort of thing is rigbt in the line of his philosophy. Jonathan's pylosophy is not very thoroughly formulated, but he has invented a terse dictum that answers every purpoe.

That dictum is: "Money talks." Along with it, and as a Eort of corollary to it, Jonathan has another ingenious phrase which he uses when he wishes to test the sincerity of a man's convictions. Let there be a difference of opinion about a given matter, and Jonathan almost immediately exclaims: "Put up or shut up!" Ic his friend for any reason declines to "put up," Johnathan looks triumphant there is not the slighest doubt that he was right, and the matter is dropped.

Nothing could more completely justify the comment of foreign critics that Jon athan is "essentially speculative in his tendencies" than these two charming phrases: "Money talks!" and "Put up or shut up!"

When, therefore, Jonathan reads that this production is the "costliest evor put on the American etnge" he promptly decides to devote an evening cf his time and 81,50 of his money to see it, on the principle that having costa lot of money it must be worth seeing.

But just here is where Jonathau falls an efisy prey to our friend in the fur overcoat—the shrewd manager.

This i1(fable and agreeable gentleman has made a careful study of Jonathan. He knows his philosophy by heart, and in wording his posters he keeps his dictum well in mind. He appreciates Jonathan's intellectual limitations in matters of art, and he has a nervous, panicky fear of "playing over his head he knows what will make him laugh he cpi estimate to a hair'6-breeth the amount of pathos that should be mixed with a given quantity of levity to make the dish acceptable to Jonathan's peculiar palate he understands very well how, by an adroit reference to some preposterous American peculiarity, to make Jonathan's soul swell and his eyes diiate and glitter with patriotism.

In short, this gentleman in the fur overcoat, whose plump, white hand is modestly decorated with a large diamond ring, which makes tha hand that wears it look all the whiter—this gentleman, r.o well dressed, so quiet, so polite, and so soft-spoken, could tell Jonathan things about himself that would make him stare and gape. He knows how much Jonathan works and how little he plays how he bolts his lunch and devours his dinner how, often enough, Lakes "bracers" between meals and smokes strong cigars in the wind, and he knows that when Jonathan cornea to the play he is more than likely to be too fagged out to make tine distinctions or to detect bad spots, or poor, miserable work. He has remarked that while Jonathan will sometimes laugh till he criof?, and pound with his feet in the extravagance of his applause, he never hisses—significant fact. In a letter to M. Charles Fechter, in 1SGS, from Washington, Charles Dickens said, referring to his readings in this country: "Generally thev are very good audiences, indeed. They do not, I think, perceive touches of art to b9 art but they are respousive to the broad results of such touches."

Mr. Dickens hit it exactly—and he was sneaking merely of the comparatively simple affair of a reveling. Jonathan is responsive to the broad results only of touches of art, and he refrains from hissing because his art instinct is undeveloped. At a political meeting, however^ Jonathan does not hesitate to hiss a speaker of whose ideas he disapp oves. The art element is not a factor in this case, and Jonathan knows his mind about politics, aud is capable of expressing himself vigorously and volubly on that eubjsct.

The man in the fur coat knows, too, that Jonathan doesn't want much, and that what he wants worst is aa excuse to laugh, and if he knows his business he doesn't keep Jonathan waiting long.

Before the lirst scene of the first act is over Jonathan is pretty sure to be laughing heartily—not, however, because there is anything to laugh at particular ly.

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once started laughter is conta

gioue. and then the whole, empty, paltry affair is rushed through under cover of storm of laughter. Nothing funny occurred, much less was there anything to provide immoderate mirth. How was it done? That is the great and profitable secret of the man in the fur coat.

Obviously Johnathan makes two mistakes, when he reads the mendacious posters—first, he believes them and second, believing them he concludes that the outlay being large the "show" must of necessity be good. He is in too much of a hurry to preceive that this tremendous outlay is always lavished on the scenery, and doesn't stop to consider that it is the players and not the clothes they wear nor the scenery that surrounds them that make a good play. A9 a matter cf fact these laughing shows are the cheapest affairs on the road. A few hundred dollars a week suffice to pay expenses There are no big salaried people in the cast. The play cost nothing originally—it has been "built up" on the stage. The profits are enormous—but the price of admission remains the same.

That Jonathan should be blind to all this is the more remarkable because he is thoroughly alive to the purchasing power of a dollar and a half, and he doesn't usually give it up without scrutinizing pretty closely what he is getting in return for it. But at the little window in the box-office he seems glad to get rid of it, and joj fully pockets his

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pasteboards without a doubt that the gentleman in the fur overcoat, who is standing in the lobby watching him approvingly, will do the Bquare thing by him.

And so he goes to the play. The theater, perhaps, is cold, and the seats are too close together, and he sits for two hours and a half painfully doubled up in a draught: the music is wretched, and the show—well, as a rule, the lees said about the "show" the better. It is true that Jonathan laughs, but he eften has a mute self-consciousness that if any one outside of a theater should ask him a dollar and a half for anything twice as funny he would be scandalized. Between each act he rushes out to get a drink—usually a cocktail or some raw whisky. He swallows this standing up before a bar in a great crowd of thirsty play-goers, who are all clamoring for whisky. Behind the bar half a dozen brutal-looking fellows are snatching bottles and glasses and making change. Perhaps the man in the fur overcoat saunters in. He observes ttie crowd from a comfortable distance, smiles to himself, and departs. He doesn't drink whisky standing up before a bar.

The breath of fresh air revives Jonathan, and the whisky stimulates him thus fortified he returns to his seat. Finally the play is over. He takes one more drink and stands up all the way home in a crowded street car. He gets to bed late and tries to go to sleep quickly, for he remembers that he must be at his desk at 7:30 the next morning. What has Jonathan got for his money? The answer is obvious—nothing.

Before Jonathan is well out of the theater the lights are extinguished, for electricity, as well as gas, costs money. The iron gates are swung to in front, all is dark.

But there is a little light yet burning in the box-office. Presently a figure enters there is a short consultation, and the figure appears 8gain, carrying a heavy bag, or, perhaps, a little Rachel, and hurriedly gets into a cab. It is the man in the fur coat. He had got his money. He drives comfortably to his hotel, which is sure to be the best in the place, puts the bag in the safe, partakes of a light supper with glass or two of champagne, leaves word that his bath shall be ready at 10 in the morning, goes to his room, arrays his well-groomed person in silk pajamas, and gently falls into a peaceful, refreshing slumber.

This is what the man in the fur coat gets for making Jonathan laugh at nothing. But let us not think ill of him. It is infinitely better for Jonathan .to laugh at nothing than not to laugh at all. Think what a' tragic-looking creature he would be if in his hot pursuit of the winged dollar he never stopped to smile.—|The Observer in the Chicago News.

THf WORLD OF TRADE AND LABOR

The miners'organizations have secured the co-operation of the Knights of Labor and the Federation of Labor in a boycotting campaign against William L. Scott, says a Pittsburg dispatch. The war is to be carried on at Chicago, on the lakes, in western Pennsylvania, and in the anthracite region of this state. At Chicago and vicinity the school boards and municipal authorities have been urged to buy DO coal from William L. Scott & Co., or the Brazil block coal com pany. The request-, it is claimed, has been accompanied by a suggestion of a political influence impossible to ignore, Labor leaders here point to Scott's re cent letter to Governor Fifer, of Illinois, wherein he says he can sell no coal, even at a reduction, for proof of the effectiveness of the boycott. They refer aleo to the recent forced sale of the Chicago & Indiana railroad as the result of the same influences, and claim to have ruined the business of a New Albany, lnd., manufacturer, once worth $3,000,000, because he worked in harmony with the Scottclique. L^ke steamers have also bson induced to quite patronizing Mr. Scott's interests. The same policy is to be pursued with regard to the Youghiogheny coal company, Mr. Scott's chief concern near Pittsburg. In addition it has been decided to fight all Mr. Scott's political movements in Pennsylvania, aud this will have an important bearing on the coming gubernatorial campaign.

Charleston, S. C., is to have labor paper.

Yankton bricklayers have raised their scale to S4 50 a d3y.

The Journeymen Tailors' national union hua adopted a funeral benefit-. The Iron Fourders' union of Great Britain is eighty years old. It has 10,COO members and owns $100,000. The work men average SS 20 to 810 a week.

Fifteen thousand members of labor or tanizitions were in line at Pittsburg Thursday, when the monumsnt to Thomas A. Armstrong, editor of the Labor Tribune, was unveiled.

A branch of the International Amai gamated Sailors' and Firemen's union with headquarters in London, has been established in New York, and chartered by the American Federation of Labor. The New York mrent has been authorized to expend £10,000 in fitting up a board ing house and reading rooms for tho members. O'.her branches will be ea tablished in this country.

Sir Edward Sullivan: la spite o" excessive cheapness, there are millions in this country who only taste freeh meat once a week or once a fortniaht. The pauper clnss numbers 7,000,0G0 out. of a population of 34.000,000 there are 14,500,000 receiving lets than 10= 0J a week. The working classes have only been allowed to see the face of the fr.»e trade medal, but there is a reverse even more important than the face. The fi.ee of the medal is cheapness the reveres of it ie cheap lubor.

Krflfton TTin§ Auothcr Suit.

The Canadian miiniaterof agriculture has given a decision affirming the validity of the patent for the Edison incandescent lamp, owned by the Edison electric light company, and originally granted to Thomas A. Edison. The case involves $'20,000,000 of capital. It is understood that the Edison company's chief business rival in the United States, the Westinghouse electric light company, of Pittsburg, Pa., was behind the Royal company in the Canadian contest.

Huston's I5ig Fires.

Boston has indulged in a good many large fire6. Her first great fire was November, 167S. when forty-six houses were destroyed. In the fire of 1679 eight dwellings and eighty warehouses were destroyed. The fire of 1711 burned 100 buildings, and that of 17G0destroyed 319 buildings. The great fire of November, 1S72, destroyed over S00 buildings, and burned over a district of sixty five acres.

Catarrh originates in scrofulous taint Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, and thus permanently cures catarrh.

AMUSEMENTS.

Lovers of old-time minstrels will have a chance to gratify their desires next week. Happy Cal Wagner's old-time minBtrels will be at Navlor'6 on December 13.

The notice that appeared in THF. EXPRESS yesterday, announcing the coming of the great and only Hermann at Naylor'e on Friday and Saturday evenings, has created quite a stir among theater goers.

Miss Anna Boyd will be seen again, on Thursday evening at Naylor's, in that delightful comedy, "Zig Zng," which created such a favorable impression when here last season. The four "Little Lord Fauntleroys" is a beautiful act introduced by four charming ladies. A number of new specialties will be seen.

Miss Anne Carpenter, the beautiful prima donna soprano who accompanies the Boston Quintette club, and who will sing at Naylor's opera house Tuesday evtning, December 3d, was for some time the soprano at the Brick Church, Fifth avenue, New York. She afterwards pursued her musical education in Paris, where she was the pupil of Li Grange, and was one of the few American singers who have gained marked distinction in the private musical circles of that city.

To-morrow, Tuesday evening, the Boston Quintette club plays at Naylor's opera house. Of one of their concerts, given in Charleston, S. C., the Courier of that city says: "The greatest musical event of the season came off at the academy last evening in one of the incomparable concerts of the world famous Boston Quintette club. It is folly to attempt anything like criticism of the performance of these great artists. Their music is simply the very perfection of harmony. Each member of the quintette is a master of his art, and the five combined pour forth the most enchanting melody. Every piece was rapturously applauded." Tickets for sale at Button's. Prices 25, 50 and 75 cente.

Lady ushers have been introducted 86 a novelty at the Bangor Opera house. Jeffreys La wis is again playing "La Belle Russe." She appears in Philadelphia next week.

Fanny Davenport last week played to $3,000 during her three nights' engage ment at Proctor's theater, Albany.

W. A. Mestaysr and Theresa Vaugn are doing well in the renewal of their early success, "Tourists iu a Palace Car."

William Castle, the famous tenor of Eoglieh opera in this country, has a school of vocal instruction in Philadelphia.

Bertha Ricci, who retired from the stage on account of consumption and marriage and eo on, is as well as ever, and her reappearance is indicated.

Iu Paris a tax of 10 per cent, of the profits is levied on the local theaters for the benefit of the poor. The amount for the last fi.3cal year wa3 about $409,000.

The season cf opera at the Metropolitan Opera house, New York, which starts iu on Wednesday evening, prac ticslly marks the opening of the social season in town.

A minstrel feature of next season wi be the appearance of George Thatcher at the head of a big minstrel bBnd under the management of Rich, Harris and Gilraore.

About 600 theatrical companies of one sort or another are on the road, besides opera and variety troupes galore. The country is being "showed to death or, if the country is not, the business ie.

The report that the McCaull company will disband after this season, and that DnWolff Hopper is arranging to take out a company of hie own, probably contains enough truth to preserve it from utter condemnation as a base fabrication.

Booth and Barrett will next season again "double up." Mr. Edwin Booth is to receive fifty per cent, of the profits, Mr. Lawrence Barrett forty per cent., and Mr. Arthur Chase ten per cent. Out of Barrett's part ho engages the com pany and pays all expenses, it is said.

The cloak which Mine. Modjsska wears as Ludy Macbeth is said to be one of the most expansive and elaborate garment? ever Goen on the stage. It is made of dark green cloth of the finest quality, and ie handsomely embroidered with real gold, while costly jewels are also used as an adornmeut.

New York World: "Aunt Jack"prom ises to eclipse Bome Madison Square achievements in comedy which have heretofore been regarded as unapproachable, Every night it has excited the laughter of a large audience, and for A goes Booth-Schoeffel it has been the best success of her career in a decade.

The realism of the exciting scene of the horse race in "The County Fair," by Neil Burgees, has been greatly enhanced by the introduction of a revolring picket fence in front of the race track. The fence ruovea at the same velocity as the panorama at tho back, and the effect, it i3 said, is wonderful. The play is now crowding the Union Square theater, New York.

Little Corinne i» meeting with great success everywhere. She seems to please her audionces more than ever. Her new idea of introducing a ballot-box for the world's fair has made a big hit. In each city visited by her the box office is furnished with two ballots—one for New York and the other for Chicago each purchaser of a ticket is banded both and requested to drop one in a box at the door which is plaosd there for the purpose, thereby ascertaining the exact f«e)inz of the public a» to where the fair should be held.

Manager McVicker, of Chietgo, ie going to try a new scheme to get rid of the high hat nuisance in theaters. Says be: "All women under 2-1 years are to be requested to remove their hats. The 'ads' will contain a line reading: 'Ladies under 24 years will remove their bats.' The same will be conspicuously printed in the programme, and will get into the gossip fashion chat of the day. As people come into the theater at night they will be confronted with a placard in the lobby: 'Only ladies over 24 years will wear bonnets,' and the usher will direct each lady to the wrap and toilet room."

TillmHjre and Paul.

About one hundred Michigan newspapers are publishing iu their "patent insides" a larsre type headline which says:

Talmsge Follows Paul." And they are right about it. He follows him pretty near 1,900 years in time, and 10,000 years in knowledge.—[Detroit Journal.

Johnny Doesn't Sea tlx Point.

"Hi, Johnny Henpeck, who wears the trousers in your house?" "First me fader has 'em, 'n then I

'em."—[X-.w Yo-k Sun.

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Worth its weight in gold, Salvation Oil. 25 cte.

.EXPRESS PACKAGES.

THE CAFE MOLINKAL'.

The Cafe Molineau ts where A dainty little uilnx Serves tfod and man as best she can

By serving meats and drinks. Oh, such an air the creature has, And such a pretty face, I took delight that autumn night

In hanging round the place.

I know but very little French (I have not long been here). But when she spoke her meaning broke

Full sweetly on my ear Then. too. she seemed to understand Whatever I'd to say. Though most I knew was "oony poo," "Bong zhoor," and "see voo play."

The female wit Is always quick. And of all womankind 'Tls here In France that you. perchance,

The keenest wits shall iind And here you'll find that subtle giftThat rare, distinctive touch— (Combined with grace of fi.rni and face)

That glads men overmuch.

"Our girls at home." 1 mused aloud, "Lack either that or this— They don't combine the arts divine.

As does the Gallic miss. Far be It from me 10 malign

Our belles across the sea, And yet I'll swear none can compare With this Ideal she!"

And then 1 praised her dainty foot In very awful French. And parleyvood in guileful mood

I'ntll the saucy wench Tossed backjier haughty auburn head And froze me with disdain— "There are 011 me 110 Mies," said sbi, "For I come from Bangor, Maine!" Paris. November,

38K) EIT.ENK FIELD.

Land boomers in Oregon are called "razxoopers." Statistics show that Ohio has 31,600 more boys than girls.

Wolves and ether kinds of game are pletty in northwestern Florida. A Mexican giant 7 feet (j inches in height is employed as a special officer at Scranton, Pa.

John Horn, of Orville. Ohio, is 0 feet 4 inches high, weighs 335 pounds, and is 22 years of age.

A West Virginian has been arrested for personating his deceased twin brother and drawing the pension of the latter.

A proud mother in Merced, Cal., owns a 4-moDths old baby that weighs twentysix pounds and has cut four teeth.

An exchange chronicles the fact that Mrs. Sophia Bennington,of X9nia, Ohio, aged 40, has given birth to her twenty fifth child.

It is reported that the sheep raisers of eastern Oregon are selling off their flocks BS fast as they can. About one hundred thousand have already been disposed of.

The lances reintroduced lately into French cavalry are considerably shorter and lighter than these used in this branch of the service under Napoleon I

A colored woman who said her age was 101 years wrs arrest9d and put in the Birmingham, Ala., lockup the other day. She had been quarrelling.

There ie a mission grapevine at Carpenteria, Cal., which has a girth of six feet at the base, branches out in every direction for a hundred feet, and this year produced four tons of fruit.

E. A. Taylor, who lives about three miles from Smithville, Ga., caught in a trap in Kinchafoonee creek, Sunday and Sunday night, 1 ,'200 pounds of fish. One cattish weighed over forty-five pounds.

In London they are utilizing electrici ty iu a novel way. During heavy fogs horses carry an electric light on their heads, which can be illuminated as occasion reques, the storage battery being in the wagon.

If you would gaz? on an example of superb disgust, find the Maine hunter who thought he fired at the shining orbs of a ferocious wildcat, and afterward discovered that he had iitled a tomato can with shot holes.

The marriage between two students at Moines (Iowa) college, which resulted in their being expelled, is likely to cause further trouble, as many of the students say they will leave if the couple are not reinstated.

A Seattle contractor tried to get twenty-five men to work one day Inst week. A police ofli jer took him to a saloon where over forty men were lounging about. Out of the entire number only four expressed a willingness to la bor.

During the heavy and unceasing rains a loon, in *ts aerial flight over the village of Martinsburg, PH., left its home in the clouds and descended to terra tirma, and after wandering about all day was captured at nightfall by EJdie Butler.

A watch for blind people has been in vented in Switzerland. In the middle of every figure is a small peg, which drops when the hour hand reaches the figure. The owner feels that the peg is down and counts back to twelve to determine the hour.

Eight cotton factories, sixteen banks and various other enterprises have been started in South Carolina within a year, Corporations charted between October, 1888, and Ojtober, ISS'J, number e'ghtytwo, with an aggregate capital of over $11,000,000.

The batch of dough set on the hearth to raise by an Erie county. Pennsylvania, housewife raised so effectively that it aroused the family, as the diah which had been placed over it rolled ou the 11 lor. The ledy, in order to save the "batch," got up in the middle of the night and baked her bread.

A queer circumstance has just been brought to light in the Marvinville, Ohio, postotlice. A large rat was discovered by the postmaster which was in the habit of making one meal a day out of the adhesive portion of postofTiee stamps and another out of postal cards. After being deprived of this diet the animal soon died.

A large tract of swamp land on the line of the Jacksonville Southeastern railroad, near Manito, III., has been recently drained. The result of the tilling has been peculiar. In some places the roadbed of the Southeastern sunk four feet, and the road wa6 compelled to spend a large amount of money in making necessary repairs.

A gentleman from Hartford, Conn., offered the Springfield, Mass., water commissioners. on Saturday, to furnish the city with 5,000,000 gallons of water per diem, agreeing not to charge a cent for his plant, machinery, etc until he had satisfactorily accomplished this and hia plan proved a thorough success. He proposed to do this with a number of driven welle.

Text.

At a recent ministerial gathering in Chicago one reverend gentleman read a paper entitled "The Limitation of God in the Bestowment of S.-ilvation." If ministers of the gospel would confine themselves to such texts as "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden Bnd I will give you rest," instead of telling us of God's supposed limitations, they would meet with greater success in their work.—[St. Paul Pioneer.

The cool winds chill the heart of the ice cart driver, and he now sits shivering on his box, a blue nosed victim of despair the striking words "use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup" state him in the face.

watarrh

Is a constitutional and not a local disease, and therefore it cannot be cured by local applications. It requires a constitutional remedy liko Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, working tlirough tho blood, eradicates the impurity which causcs and promotes the disease, and

Catarrh

effects a permanent cure. Thousands ot peoplo testify to the success of Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for catarrh when other preparations had failed. Hood's Sarsaparilla also builds up the whole system, and make* you feel renewed in health and strength.

Catarrh

For several years I liavo been troubled with that terribly disagreeable disease, catarrh. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla with the vary best results. It cured me of that continual dropping in my throat, and stuffed-up feeling. It has also helped my mother, who has taken it for run down state of health and kidney trouble." MKS. S.

D. HEATH, l'utnam, Ct.

Hood's Sarsaparilla

Bold by all druggists, ft slxforSS. rrepare.lonly by C. I. HOOD fc CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mai*.

IOO Doses Ono Dollar

GREAT CLOAK CUT!

We have closed out a manufacturers' line of ladies' newmarkete, children and

misses' cloaks at about fifty cents on tho dollar, and every one a choice garment,

and of good style. Ont of this we shall

make one of the best bargains ever offered here, H3 we shall sell the goods at

about prices we paid for them. Call and see them before buying. When you

do that the question of buying will set­

tle itself. A full line of gentlemen's smoking jackets.

S. AYRiiS & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

Agents for Buttertek's Patterns.

XTAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE,

Thursday, December 5,

W. W. TILLOTSOFS COMEDY CO.

In the great musical farce comedv.

ZIG-ZAG

I'retty (iirls!

Funny Comedians! Klegant Costumi's

FUNNIER AND BETTER THAN EVER.

•Sale opens Tuesday at Button's. Usual prices, 75, 50 and 25 cents.

NAYLOR'S g| SPECIAL

FRIDAY AID S&TOMI, DEC. 6 I

SPECIAL MATINEE SATURDAY.

The Kmlnent Presildlgltnteur

E A N N

Assisted by Mrs. Herrmann and others In a performance or

Mirth, Magic and. Mystery.

Worth Traveling Mllfstosee.

C5?~Advajice saleopens Wednesday, December 4.

NAYLOR'S "OPERA HOUSE,

WILSON NAYI.Ott, ltA.NA m.

Tuesday, December 3c}.

I'ntler the iiiKsplce.s ot UioTcrri.* U:iuUj

CONCHKT ASSOCIATION.

!BOSTON! QUINTETTE

MK. JOHN K. RHODES

lliiitK

ii

Solo Violin

PAIL MESIIK La'e Solo Violin of Pattl's Concerts HKUKADOLI-H BLLTOSK

Ma.

AKJIIN

MK.

Lor IS

Miss

Flute Virtuoso from Berlin

HKt'KEK....Hoio Viola and Violoncello

BLL'.MKNKEKI .. .The great American Violoncellist

A.SNIK CAHI-KNTKU

Soprano

d^Advance sale commences at Button's .Saturday. Prlees-25, 50 and 75 cents.

TIME TARLiE.

Trains marked thus iP) denote Parlor Car Ht tsched. TnViis marked thus (S) denote dleepiru Care attached tictly. Trainn marked thus (B) denote BulTet Cur* sttached. Train* marked ti"i« rnn d«U7. All other traln« run dally dun.iayp, excepted.

iVANDALIA LINE.

T.

a

& I. DIVISION.

IJCAVB FOR 7HX WH2I,

i. 9 Western Kxprens (S£V) .... S Mall Train 1.1 Vait Line* (l'AV) i. 21 i. 7 Ka*i ilaii

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 0 New

y«rk

1.4U ». m. 10.2! a. m. 0 p. m.

a 10 i'. in. si.01 p. ID.

LKAVK ?OH THX ivAST.

No. IU Cincinnati Express (SI No. 6 New York Express (atV) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. Atlantte Kxprmn (PAV) No. fait Line No. 2

J.WH. ni. 1.61 It I,:. 7.IS n. l'J.+7 p. IU. i. 5.05 p. in.

ARRIVE FROM THX JCA8T.

No. 9 Western Express (S&V) No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Kast Line (P&V) No. 21 No. 3 Mall and Accommoo.hUon No. 7 Fast SI all

1.30a. in. 10.15 a. in. 2.(0P. HI. 3.05 p. in. li.-tS p. in. 9.(W p. m.

AKKIVK FROM TUK WZST.

Express f3-iV)

No. 110 Atlantic Express (PAY) No. Ka»t line No. 2

1.2D a. m. 1.4'J H. in. 42 p. in. 2 Id p. ir. 5.00p. m.

T. II. 4 L. DIVISION.

LEAVK FOK TKlt S0I1TH.

No. 63 8oath Bend Mall 8.(X)a. m. No. C4 Sooth Bend Express 4.00 p.

ui.

ABKIVJC FROM T1IK HOBTH

No. 61 Terre Haute Express lioo noon No. Sf South Bene? Mall 7.80 D-

crfAsMicf.'fOM WOOD FNnfiPi

fc Unf

UOUDtAN-ST.

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