Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 December 1889 — Page 2

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Within the past week not less than a half dozen victims of christian science Lave been reported. At IndiBnapoliB the coroner has been asked to investigate a case of a woman who died while UDder treatment by a Chicago scientist whose treatment consisted of telling her that she lied when she complained of pains. There is a criminal responsibility in these cases of malpractice and the law should be enforced against the guilty ones.

Two banks have responded to Secretary Windam's notice that he would withdraw 10 per cent, of their deposits on January 15th by selling him the 4 per cent, bonds held for security at SI,'27. By this means the secretary reduces the government's interest account and reduces the surplus. r. Cleveland's policy was to let the banks have the millions to do banking business with and the government stand the toss in the interest payments.

Some one of the Washington eulogists of Jeff Davis says he was a Union man and opposed to the secession movemeut. This is now an exploded claim in his behalf. It had Lean often set up and was generally accepted as well founded because in public he ns well as Alexander Stephens pretended to oppose the war, but the.letters which have been discovered, some of which appeared in the Century life of Lincoln furnish incon trovertible proof that he was in the con .spiracy long before a state voted o* the secession ordinance. He was plottin treason long before he resigned his seat in the senat".

JEFF DAVIS.

The death of Jeff Davis ought to help remove the remaining belief in the lost cause. He had been whimpering and snarling about its glory, and had done more than all others to keep alive a respect for the theories for which he led the South into a terrible war. No one objects to the fullest display of affection for the man on the part of the Southern people, but this talk about the "immortal principles for which Jefferson Davis battled" being more and more lirmly hnbeded in the American system of government is arrant nonsense. Our Southern friends who expect, as does the New Orleans States, to see him yet venerated for his "grand but temporarily unsuccessful efforts which conscience prompted, which profound conviction sanctioned, and which indefeasible truth will serve fn immortalize" are doomed to disappointment.

Jeff Davis was not a citizon of the United States, lie refused to ask for the removal of his political disabilities,declaring that he had done nothing for which he would ask pardon. A tolerant, people have listened to his treasonable talk since the war, hoping that it was but tho vaporings of an old man who had made a failure of a life that at one time promised to place his name among the really great men of the century. But it seems that he has had the sympathy of the people in his muttering?, a fact now boiug made plain in every utterance that comes from the South since hit death. There will be much more of it in the next few days but in the passing away of the instigator of it all perhaps the present ebullition may servo to lei escape the sentiment for the cause, lost beyond all recovery, aud to which many have been clinging more for sentimental reasous than because of a cherished belief in its future supremacy.

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Kcvprigo.

Passer-by—See here. boy. what are you throwing .stones at that old gentleman lor? Small Boy—lie's the doctor that brought that hovvlln' baby to our house the other day.

.lust ii Slight Drawback.

Minnie -DU1 you attend the surprise party given on Jennie Klgg'.* Mamie—Oh, yes, and we had a splendid time. We danced until nearly 1 o'clock. It would have been perfect If It hadn't been for one thing—Jen n'e was so sick that she couid not come down stairs.

Not Needed in the Other Case. Yabsley—1 guess there is a deal of truth in the saying that a man lucky with women Is unlucky at cards.

Wiokwlre—There is sound reason In It. too. it takes a ui of good hard sense to be a successful card-player.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Haitimore American: The profits ot the Standard oil trust last year were J'JG UX'.UOO. It is not only an Iniquity but also an organized robbery, and Its great wealth makes It a danger to public morals, for It does not hesitate to spend money lor corrupt purposes. Our civilization will not be complete until such great monopolies are impossible.

Boston Transcript: Perhaps as good a way as any of solving the race problem ts to leave It alone, and to trust to the growing Intelligence of the colored race and the justice of the white race to harmonize all differences. What every good citizen should desire is not a white man's govern meat nor a black man's government, bat a just men's government. At times the solution seems more conspicuous than the problem.

Illinois State Journal: Vice President llorfon is coming to Chicago next week, and the Journal hopes he will avoid the censure of the manager? of the W. C. T. l:. by putting up at the same hotel slid saloon which was their ofllclal heaoquarters during their recent convention. They certainly cannot Had any fa It with such an arrangement, as the saloonkeeper was Indorsed by the unan mous vote of the W. C. T. I". convention.

A STOLEN KISS.

A single ringlet, rashly snipped by an audacious gallant from the tresses of a court beauty, sufficed to breed between two noble English families a feud which its intensity almost attained the proportions of a Corsican vendetta, but which likewise had the more agreeable effect of suggesting to Pope the idea of hia exquisite poem, "The Rape of the Lock." WhBt, however, was Belinda's ravished lock in comparison with the

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illegally obtained by a cheesemonger, for several years resident in Woolwich, irom the wife of a hairdresser carrying on business in the High Btreet of the martial town in question. 'Twos in the latter days of the merry month of May last past that the Bpouse of the Woelwich coiffeur left her husband's shop and happened to pass the dwelling of the too susceptible cheesemonger. There must have been something working like madness in the brain of this vender of Cheddor and double Gloucester, for, swiftly emerging from the door, he put his arm round tho neck of the hairdresser's wife, and kissed her. There is horror in the thought—ay, and horror, mingled with remorse, seems soon to have seized upon the guilty perpetrator of the outrage which we have recorded. The bold, bad cheesemonger found his courage quail 60 soon as he heard that a summons bad been issued against him for stealing that fateful kiss. The con-science-stricken man ran away. He wandered about apparently in misery as dreadful as that which tortured Ladurlad when the curse of Kehama was upon him. His life may have been charmed from the weapons of strife, from stone and from wood, from lire and from Hood. from the serpent's tooth and the beasts of blood but earth, figuratively speaking, its fruits denied him, and water knew him and lied from him, and the winds refused to touch him, and the dews declined to wet him, and ho had a fire in his heart and afire in his brain, and sleep visited him never, and the curse was upon him always, in consequence of that inexpressibly naughty kiss. Police Constable Locock, a bold municipal he, was told off to enact the part of Nemisie. For full six months did the indefatigable officer, armed with a warrant, which, in default of the defendant's appearance to the summons, had been issued for his apprehension, seek for that criminal cheesemonger. He found him at length at Plumstead, and on Wednesday last the culpable tradesman appeared before the awful bench of justice.

The harrowing tale of turpitude was soon told. Lucretia, that is to say, the estimable hairdresser's wife, appeared to testify ogainst thisTarquin of the butter firkin. Few and brief were the words shesaid, but they told weightily ogainst the prisoner. His defense were pitiably feeble. He pleaded that he- had no thought of stealing a kiss from anybody when he left his habitation but the lady brushed close by him he forgot himself he snatched the kiss but was sorry for it directly, and had beensorry ever since. We should think so, indeed! This was a case in which the penitent ought to have ciimbed up the Heavy hill at Loretto with peas—unboiled peas—in his shoes Perhaps he might have compounded for his iniquity, or, at least, partially eased hia conscience by sending a handsome anonymous donation to the hospital for broken heads or the asylum for penitent lion comiquee but not the irresolute, although remorseful cheesemonger went mooning about, fearing, as he put it, that the consequences of his illicit kiss might be eerious, until he got to his father's house. We regret to say that he found the old gentleman very ill—in fact, he departed this life, and the repentant cheesemonger staid to bury him. Still he lingered he hesitated about giving himself up to the avenging sprite. Where he lurked during the remainder of his six months' absence without leave who shall tell? He must have been the pilgrim of conscious guilt his agitated footsteps may have worn the highways and byways between Bexley and Eritb, Dartford and Foot's Cray, Belvidere and Abbey wcod. But, even as the moth llutters around the candle until it is consumed in the flame, and even as the Tarpeian ftock is close to the capitol, so did that cheesemonger find it impossible lo stray far from the scene of his original misdoing Piumstead is hard by Woolwich, and at Piumstead the doomed cheesemonger was run down. All he could add to his weak-kneed defense was that he hoped that the lady would forgive him. Unfortunately, the hairdresser's austere spouse failed to see things in that light. The magistrate compassionately interceded for the peccant cheesemonger. "What do you say, madam?"' he asked "it is six months "go, and the man has suffered." The lady replied very logically that she had undergone a grievous insult, and that the cheesemonger ought to be punished. We say that she was logical, for, although perhaps nine ladies out of ten, if unwarrantably kissed, might possibly have resented the affront by soundly slapping the offender's face, it

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teen repeatedly decided that

an aggrieved party is not justified in taking the law into his or her own hands. If the cheesemonger's ears had' been well boxed, his tingling cheek might have warned him that it was frivolous to bestow osculatory salutations on ladies to whom he had not had the honor of being introduced, but then the lady herself would have been technically guilty of an assault. The hair-dreseer's wife was content to leave her assailant to the law and the law, as expounded, at least by the act of parliament, says nothing about forgiveness of injuries. The magistrate at Woolwich, however, seemed unable to direst himself of the impression that a little leniency would not be out of place in the treatment of the cheesemonger's malfeasance. He mildly bade the lady remember that she should not nurse her indignation, but the undaunted female, as logically as before, reminded Mr. Kennedy that she was a married woman. There it is. To steal a kies .from a maiden is bad enough in all conscience, although there may be cases the circumstances of which can be pleaded in partial condonation of the atrocity wrought. Thus iu the charming lyric of "Come, lasses and lads, Get leave of your dads aud away to the Maypole hey!" as char mingly illustrated by the late Mr. Randolph Caldicott, we are told that the lads kissed the lasses, but that the damsels subsequently quarrelled with the swains, and bade them"toke their kisses back, and give them their own again"—a return of salutations most gleefully made by the strephons in the smockfrocks. To snatch a kiss from a married lady, however, is a muck more serious matter, and the hairdresser's wife was quite right in insisting that a person

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guilty of such a deed should be exemplarily punished. Still did the stipendary at Woolwich lean to the side of mercy. His worship remarked that if the lady had positivelymade up her mind not to excuse the prisoner, he must needs fine him, whereupon he amerced the cheesemonger in the not very severe penalty of 10=.^ He might have sent the prisoner, to' jail, with hard labor to boot, for it has been held more than once than an unlicensed kiss constitutes an aggravated assault but possibly kind hearted Mr. Kennedy thought of the fearful mental anguish wttich the imprudent cheesemonger had undergone since the end of May last how conscience must have gnawed him, and how possibly he may have been pursued, even as Orestes was pursued by the Eumenides, by the phantoms of furious hairdressers brandishing combs of jagged steel and vengeful curl-ing-tongs, made red hot for the scarifying of the profane lips that had dared, unbidden, to salute the countenance of a coiffeur's wife. The wretched cheesemonger, when he learned his doom, had only one more meek apology to utter.

He sa that he hr.d been twice to the bouse of the injured lady

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gized to her husband. Again the lady was pitilessly logical. The cheesemonger, she pointed out, had not apoligizsd to her, yet the fact of his having tendered excuses to the husband induced Mr. Kennedy to reconsider his decision with regard to the fine. Bearing in mind the fact that the prisoner had expressed to the hair dresser his sorrow for what had occurred, he reduced the fine to '2a GJ. We cannot help thinking that the cheesemonger is well out of it. No doubt he has suffered much, mentally speaking but hair-dressers' wives are not to be kissed with impunity, and had the prisoner appeared before a sterner judge be might have found himself laid by theheelsin a manner highly inconvenient and unpleasant to him. The affair, however, will no doubt act as a warning, not only to cheesemongers of gay and roving disposi tion, but to young men in general—not to say middle-aged and elderly oneswho are in the habit of accosting, follow ing and annoying with their importunities ladies to whom they are perfect strangers and who have not the slightest desirotomake their acquaintance. Possibly the cheesemonger who has been fined half a crown ut Woolwich only yielded to an uncontrollable impulse, and was really sorry for having done EO almost as soon as he bad misconducted himself but men should be taught,"fttod very sternly taught, that they are not entitled to take advantage of the weakness or the unprotected condition of fe males to force unwished for familiarities on them. Society would become positively intolerable if a respectable lady could not take a walk unattended without running the risk of being annoyed or aesaulted by thoughtless or dissolute persons of the opposite sex.

INDORSING THE ADMINISTRATION.

KepuhUcait State Conference Fxpre^es It-solf-Rcorjjjinizatioii. The meeting of the Republican state central committee at the Xew Denison house, Indianapolis, Thursday night, did not bring together many Republicans, except those officially connected with the committee. The gossip in the lobby of the hotel before the meeting convened generally turned upon the president's message, and the representatives from all the districts very heartily indorsed the president's recommendations. The members of the committee present were: T, H. Adams, Second district J. L. Irwin, Fifth L. D. Stubbs, Sixth W. T. Durbin, Seventh John H. Burford, Uighth J. A. Swagland, Ninth: E. D. Crumpacker, Tenth S. W. Cantwell, Eleventh: William Runyan,Twelfth, and W. Royce, Thirteenth.

After making a statement of what the committee had been doing, Chairman Michener named the following executive committee: Stanton J. Peele, Horace McKay, Indianapolis J. N. Study. Rush ville W. y. Sayre, Wabash E. H. Nebeker, Covington. He chose the follow ing gentlemen to constitute'an advisory committee: A. E. Nowlin, Lawrenceburgh: J. W. Johnson, Princeton J. B. White, Fort Wayne: H. C. Tiuney, La fayet-te C. W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis William Farrell, Paola J. B. Homan, Danville.

The president's message was indorsed by a resolution i.ffered by J. H. Burford, of Crawfordsville. The resolution declared it to be the sense of the meeting that the recommendations contained in the message would bring greater prosperity to the nation at home and add to our importance abroad. The secretary of the committee was instructed to furnish a copy of the resolution to Presi dent Harrison.

Steps were taken to reorganize the county, district and state committees. It was ordered that conventions be called in each county of the state on January 11 for the purpose of electing new county committees, and that on January 18 the district committees meet aad reorganize. The district conventions to elect state central committees will be held on the Thursday following the 18th.

After the routine business of the committee hid been disposed of short speeches were made by Governor Ilovey Secretary of State Griffin, Mr. Burford of Crawfordsville, Mr. Royce of Warsaw Mr. Stubbs of Richmond, Mr. Irwin of Columbus and others.

I-'iirsman Got Away With $'i00,000, CHICAGO, December G.—The Journal Pontiac, 111., special says: The figures believed to be complete, show that the forgeries and stealings of W. H. Furs man, the absconding real estate dealer and loan broker, of this city, amount to fully 6200,000. In this sum the loans made for Hudson, Burr fc Co., of Bloom lngton, are involved to the sum of $125, 000: C. P. Angel & Co., of Poughkeepsie N. V., 620,000, and rorious others S4o,000. It is believed that he has gone to Mexico or South America.

LIow Z3c Located Him.

"Have you any pBper collars?" he asked, as he sidled into the store on tiptoe. "Certainly, sir," replied the affable clerk. "Will one be enough? How is everything in East St. Louie."—(Clothier and Furnisher.

A Costly Reputation.

"I'd have you to know," SBid Cholly Nan Antwerp, "that my reputation is as dear to me as any one's can be to him." "I should judge it cost a good deal to ret a reputation like vours."— [New York Sun.

Queer!

It is paradoxical, to say the least, that the higher classes are thev lor* classes, and the lower the hire.—[Lawrence American.

"Oh love, what is it in this world of ours that makes people suffer so with neuralgia?" "Can't tell, my pet, unless the average citizen hasn't got sense enough to buy a bottle of Salvation Oil."

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1889.

MEETING OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Officers and Delegates Klecte«l Yesterday —Other Matters of Intfrest. The Vigo county agricultural society held their annual meeting yesterday in the board of trade rooms, to elect officers for the ensuing year and to consider other matters of business connected with the prospects of the society for next year. The old officers were unanimously re-elected, aa follows:

President—L. S. Brlggs. Vice President—J. M. Sankey. Treasurer—(i. A. Schaal General Superintendent—r. R. Jellers.

Mr. Schaal is also superintendent of privileges. The directors voted Mr. Jtffers a present of $100 for his services as general superintendent without remuneration. Mr. Jeffers was notified of this present by the expression of thanks by the society through President Briggs, whose remarks were very comDlimentary but not more than just to Mr. Jeffers. Mr. Jeffers acknowledged the compliment by saying that he would be pleased to be ot more advantage to the society even without remuneration, and that he would attempt to do so. Messrs. Frank McKsen, U. RA Jeffers and G. A. Schaal were made the" fair ground committee, and Mr. J. M. Sankev was chosen as delegate to the

State Agricultural asso

ciation meeting, to be held in Indianapolis January 7. Secretary Oakey was authorized to announce that a library of 100 books would be given as a premium during the nest fair. It has not been decided whether the books will be given to the best district echool or will be equally di-vided-among the three best district schools. The prizes will not be awarded to schools in the city.

The agricultural society and trotting association have not been able to agree upon terms concerning the new club house. The proposition to build the club house was advanced prior to the races and the money was subscribed. It was then proposed that those who should subscribe stock should continue to hold the stock and share profits from the building pro rata to the umount subscribed until principal and interest of the investment should be paid, after which time the building should revert to the society owning the ground. What the hitch between the agricultural society and the trotting association is remains as yet a matter between them only.

THE PAPER HANGERS.

They licet and Fix the Scale of jTrireb ("or l.S!»0—The Otlicers.

The paper hangers' held their annual meeting last night to fix the scale of prices for 1890, and to attend to the affairs of the organization that require attentioh each year. The meettug was well attended, and was interesting because all members reported an abundance of work and good prospects for work to continue for several weeks. The following officers were elected:

President—Dean HIcklln. Secretary-treasurer— Kd Wright. Committee of Administration—Heorge Doxey. chairman Charles F'eltus and Charles Huges.

The following list of prices was adopted to take effect on the 1st of January. Brown blanks, perrol1,12!4c.

White blanks, per roll, 15c. Flats, satins and micas, per roll, 18c. Plain gilts and tints, per roll, 20c. Sizing and pearlashlug, per roll, tic. Embossed gilts and Ingrains, per roll, 25c. Tacking on muslin, per yard. 5c. Putting up moulding, per toot, 3c. Preparatory work, per hour, 85c. Paoer cut in border or moulding, per roll, extra, oc.

All papers double trimmed and butted, per roll, extra, 5c. Borders the same as papers on which they are hung, except one-band borders, which are 25c.

The prices are the same as last year, except a raise of 2 cents per roll for hanging tints, of 5 cents per hour for preparatory work, of 1 cent per roll for zing, and the change to charge 25 cents per roll for one band border instead of charging the same as for other papers on the same walls. It was made necessary for any paper hanger applying for work to present his card as a member of a paper hangers' union.

Cases or Assault uiul Itattery* R-jbert Walker has filed a complaint in Justice Thomas'court against Michael Quinlan for assault and battery. Trial has been set for to day.

A man by the name of Kelley struck Andrew Watson in Ehrnhardt's saloon on Walnut street yesterday, and Watson was badly hurt by striking his head on the floor when falling. Watson is much older than the man who struck him and is inoffensive to those who are acquainted with his style of conversation. They had been talking about prizefighting. Kelley hied himself to his wngon in front of the saloon and drove away at a double-quick pace as City Marshal Thompson was approaching the scene.

General Noble mill Dis Kx-Solller Friends. ST. LOUIS, MO., December G.—General W. Nobie, secretary of the interior, was tendered an informal reception by the Merchants' exchange to day. He made a brief address on the interior department and its cloae connection with "St. Louie. To-night he was entertained by Blair post, G. A. R., of which he is post-commander. Lyon po3t assisted in the entertainment. General Noble vesterdBy sat for nphotogrnph in Grand Army uniform and it was presented to

Blair post to-night.

A Snow Owl.

Prof. McFarland, of Olivet college, Michigan, has presented Prof. B. W. Everman, of the Normal, with a fine, large snow owl, much larger than the averRge size. Snow owls are very rare in this part of the country, but occasionally a straggler gets as far south as southern Indiana. Two weeks ago one wns captured at Pimento, and Prof. Everman attempted to buy it, but the captor would not sell his prize.

I. llcatel to Sundry Worthy Women. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, the well-known temperance advocate, says: "The recent unsuccessful prohibitory temperance campaigns have been attempts to focalize into law against alcohol a popular sentiment that does not exist. If we will seek first the teraperBnce education of the people, all other temperance blessings will, in due time, be added unto us."

The Palth Cure Failed.

Special to the Indianapolis News. LICCANSPORT, Ind., December

Robert Connelly, an old and respected citizen, has been declared insane. He been ill for some time, under treatment of christian scientists, with the result as above. Mr. Connelly is a brother in-law of Superintendent Stevens, of the Wabash railway, and a well-known business man.

Enough to l'uzzle Atijhody. We heard darky say Saturday that he owned pig, and one day gave it a bucket of mush. Said the darky: "He eats de whole bucketful of mush, and den I put de darn little cuss in de bucket and he didn't fill it up half full.\ The

question for philosophers to'settle is, what became of the muBh?—[Msdison-

RAILR0AD NEWS NOTES

General and Personal Montlou of General and Local Interest.

Foreman Bell's gang will repair No. 153 in the round house to-day. Professor Herrmann, the prestidigitateur, travels in a private car as odd in design ss his performance is unique.

The car works at Jeffersonville are turning out twenty-eight cars a day, and all the employes are working extra hours.

The officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, of this city, will institute a new lodge at Effingham tomorrow.

Ex-Sup°rintecdent Gale, of the B:g Four, nnd Assistant General Passenger Agent Wakely, of the C-, B. A- Q., were here yesterday.

The railroads of Michigan have withdrawn all excursion rates to and from points in that state as a result of the passage of a 2 cents-a-mile passenger rafe.

Master of Transportation Hurd, of the E. & T. H., was in the city yesterday. While here he issued a circular forbidding the employes of that road drinking while on duty, or frequenting saloons when off duty.

Messrs. Hoffman, Haines, Kelley, Nasjh and Hollis received a present of cigars yesterday from Mr. Taggarf, for their prompt assistance in subduing the fire yesterday noon. Honors were evenly divided amongst them.

On the fifteenth the C. fc E. I. will adopt a new system of signal lights, discarding the green and using the red and white. The books a'e being distributed among the men, so that they can study up before the day for examination comes.

Mr. Frank Steeu and Misa Ella Hoffman were married

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day evening by the Rev. Mr. Bartlett. Mr. Steen is agent for the E. T. H. at that point, nnd is well known in this city, having been an operator in the E. & T. 11. freight cilice.

HOW FRENCH P0SLAL CLERKS LUNCH.

Extraordinary Rofttiumuit Facilit'e* Afforded Them at Low Prices. The recently-formed intention of the governmental postal and telegraph employes in Francs to establish for their own benefit an eating-house under the name of "Mess of the Postal and Telegraph Department," recalls the fact that a similar plan has been in operation for nearly two years in connection with '"the central bureau of that department. When M. Coulon first assumed the management of the depart ment, seeing that the employee, having but an hour for lunch (ind living far away, were obliged to confine themselves to cold victuals, he placed a room at their disposal and provided them gratuitously with gas enough to heat four large ovens. Five cooks were also placed at their disposal.

In order that there may be no waste, the employees indicate the night before what they will eat the following day. Little sheets are distributed among them bearing at the head of various columns the words bread, ?wine, soup, po tatoes, beef steak, cutlets, vegetables, coffee. In these columns they indicate with a pencil the dishes they desire. The cooks calculate from these the number of cutletp, steaks, etc., necessary, and give their orders accordingly. Thsy have a contract with a baker and butcher, who give them large discounts. The wine and groceries are bought of the Co-oper-ative society of state employees.

By this sysletn they can get un txcellent soup for

cents, a steuk or a cut-lot

for cents, a salad for 2 cent-F, nnd coffee for .1 or 2 cents. If they prefer, they can bring their own meats. In that case they pay the cooks 1 cent for cooking them. One hundred and fifty Indies employed as clerks in the postofllce department nvail themselves these extraordinary restaurant facilities. When the lunch hour comes, they go to a wicket to get the dishes which they ordered the night before, and return to their respective places to enjoy their quiet meal.

A WIFE WHILE YOU WAIT.

.Just Sec How Old Patrick McKcyiiohls Wiiit to Castle Garden. A man whose locks were sprinkled with the frost of seventy-five winters, with slow and solemn demeanor, strolled into Castle Garden yesterday morning nnd said to Detective Peter Groden, now known as the "wife obtainer," that he was Jonathan McReynolds, of Greenwich, Conn., where he has a farm valued ot $S0,000. He wanted a wife, not a giddy girl, but a plump Irish lass who would love him for himself alone, says the New York World.

Detective Groden told him to take a seat and then trotted out Mary McGown, just arrived from county Tyrone, Ireland. Her looks and general appearancesatisfied McReynolds, but her solicitude about his worldly and financial affairs made the old man suspicious. Mary was allowed to depart, nnd Detective Groden is now watching out for nnother candidate for McReynold's hand ar.d money.

The Congressional Sightseer. Tho capitol guides are doing good business just now in showing new members of congress about the capitol building. A great many of these new members have never been through the building, and do not know how to find their way about. Things are strange and interesticg to them. It is amusing to see a rough Westerner, proud of his new pltc, walk about by the side of a guide and admire the wonders he has never seen the like of before. The brides nnd grooms who stand on the echo-stones and listen to each other's heartbeats are not more new or more interested than are the new members of the West. E ich one is generally accompanied by bis wifo, his daughter or perhaps a party of ladies, to whom all is as strange ns to him.—[Washington letter in Philadelphia Telegraph.

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Gladstone and His Scalp*.

Mr. Gladstone is an illustrious Englishman. He has been prime minister three times he has been more remuBnt than any man of his time he has the scalps of a hundred institutions hanging in his wigwam be has betrayed more parties than any three other men have had time, energy, or will belong to. Of anything that he has, in the emphatic Carlylian sense, "done" we, at least, are ignorant, though he has undone much. But still it may be admitted that t^ere is only one Mr. Gladstone and unicity is always something, and in its way an illustrious thing. For the light shines on the good and on the evil, and especially on the more prominent objects in both classes—[Saturday Review.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

WD EN HK WASN'T IS IT.

&«/( She oft goes to dances

zm. And like a fairy trips

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Through waltz, quadrille and lancers With a smile upon her lips. /i

But though I am her escort *. To party and to ball, I've never been her partner.

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And I often view with envy

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The other fellow's arms Around her form so slender Encircling her charms.

I really shouldn't mind It. But It cuts ni# like a knife That I cannot be her partner.,

For the darling is my wife.

But 1 h:\ve the satisfaction As her graceful form I see With another's arm around It.

That her einlles are all for me.

Cherry trees are in bloom in llenldsburg, Cal. Canvas bno.K ducks are very scorce in Chesapeake bay this season.

The

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is said to be preparing a

ne^ catechism for universal use. Arklow house, recently the property of Mr. Beresford Hope, is built on the site of the old Tyburn gallows.

An ice palace, according to the American and Canadian style, is to be erected in January at St. Petersburg.

Mounet-Sully has been made a knight df the Legion of Honor.

Bnd

the result is

a suggestion in England that Henry Irving should be knighted. Of late years the number of women entering the professions of paiuting and sculpture has enormously increased in France, Germany and Russia.

Two hundred a day was the average number of tourists who ascended last month the Vesuvius railway to look down into tho mouth of tho volcano.

The Egyptiau cotton crop is larger this season

thBn

is of superior quality, though not equal to that-of the lTnited States. The papal stables, which used to have forty horses iu Pius I.'s day, have been cut, down to eight horses, and instead of a dozen carriages they have four.

The will of the Indiana man who left 635,000 to found home for old nmids has betn declared invalid by the court, the testator having been of unsound mind.

Frank Erb, of Cunningham, Mo., 00 years old, receutly won prize

shooting

mBtch,

The "Pigs in Clover" puzzle, which both amused and tormented the American public, has turned up in London, and is all the rage. It has changed its name to "The Shamrock," and is taxing John Bull's ingenuity to the utmost.

Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, who died at Kalamazoo last week, aged 91, is believed to have been the oldest member of the Methodist Church in poiut of years of membership in the country. She had been a communicant, for eighty-two years.

The new mayor of Birmingham, at a meeting ot the Diocesan Church of England Temperance society, said that from inquiries he had meic at Somerset house he found thntout of G3S shareholders in local breweries 115 (or more than onesixth) were clergymen and women.

The audit of the London dock strike accounts is at last complete. The total amount of money received from all sources was in round numbers .t'-18,000. of which L'30,800, or nearly two-thirds, came from Australia. The various British trades unions subscribed X'1,000.

A new sort of boot sole has been introduced in Neuremburg, consisting of a sort of trellis of spirnl metal wire, the interstices being filled withgutta percha and rosin. They can be fitted with nails like ordinary soles, are 50 per cent, cheaper than leather, and vastly more durable.

Parisian dandies are seeking for a substitute for the word chic. The words pschutt snd vlan have been employed in its place, and tres swell, tres sport and fetard are being heard now, but none is thought to be so comprehensively or universally expressive as chic. So chic shows signs of coming back to stay.

During the Paris exhibition the committee cf the Eoglish peace society distributed to the visitors -100,000 tracts bearing ou the vexed questions of peace and international arbitration. The secretary has also hold a great number of interviews with leading French politicians, writers and thinkers.

England is considering the notion of having a Shakespeare festival, and the subject proves as great a bone of contention as when poets, dramatists, essayists and critics wrangled und almost came to blows over the proposed statue to Shakespeare in London. Mr. Irving is among the opponents of the festival project.

A Bpacial train on the Michigan Centrul carrying Cornelius Vanderbilt and family, about two

Weeks ago made a run

of 107 mile3 in ninety-seven minutes, stopping four minutes for water, running at one point for three miles at the rat* of seventy-eight miles per hour. This is the fastest railroad time ever made in this country.

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Catarrh

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some of the best marks

men in the state being among the contestants. A Japanese nun is a novelty in a Catholic convent. However, a young Japanese lady belonging to a high family will soo I take the veil to enter a Bavarian nunnery.

A museum of religion, the Guimet museum, was inaugurated in Paris two weeks ago. It is intended to facilitate the study of ancient religions by means of a collection of pictures, objects of worship and books.

The bishop of Chester recently confessed before a gathering of working people that hiB two grentest ambitions in life have always bem to write a good novel and to run a public house "on the beet principles."

4 CO., Apotti-carlcj. I.owfll. Masc,

IOO Doseo One Dollar

\Y.

Warm Weather Work!

All Newmarkets. All Cloth Coats, All Jersey Jackets. All Misses' Cloaks, All Children's Cloaks. All Plush Sacquesand Coats All Short Wraps, All Seal Garments,

ever before, and the cotton

S S

IT TO j.WTARY i.

Every cloak is marked at just what we paid for it, or less in some cases, and at theso prices will be offered for the remainder of this month. The reason is the slack demand on nccount of the warm winter so far.

A Wonderful Chance.

S. AYRkS & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.,'

Agents for Butterlck'a Patterns.

AYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 1LSON NAY LOR .MANAKKK

Iniinense Success

E A N N

A A W

TO-NiGHT

Change of Programme "FATA MORGANA,"

Herrmann's beautiful art views.

NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE,

WILSON NAYLOtt. JlAS.vciKU.

Tuesday, December 10,

A Fashionable Kvent First apnearan^e !re on herstarring tour of tt'eeharmlngcomedlenne MIHS VICTORIA

Supported by Thearle A- Cooper's Comedy Company, In a double bill of )medy.

'•THE ROUGH'DIAMOM)" ami Y."

Advance sale oppns Saturday. December 71 li. Prices *1, 75, 50 and 25 cents.

NAYLOR'S 0 SPECIAL

READ THIS CARD:

Mn»tt(ir.r Xtyl'tr: I hereby agree that all the original scenery and costumes, all properties, br'c a-brac, etc.. of the original New York production shall be used IH THI production of Rice & lilxev's "Pearl of 1'ekln" at Naylor's opera house on the evening of December lltli.

HASI IIAwtISON.

Manager I'earl ol 1'ekln Co.

ADVANCE SALS OPEN MOSDA TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car at Inched. Trains marked thus (o) denote Sleopln# Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Ballet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run daily. All other tralna ran dally Sondaya Bxoepted..'

VANDALIA LINE.

T. H. 4 I. DIVISION. LXAVX FOR THK WBT.

No. 9 Western Express (34V) 1.4'J a. m. No. fi Mall Train a. m. No. 1 Vast Line (PAV) 'J.:o o. m. No. 21 10 p.m. No. 7 Kait Mall v.w t,. uj.

LXAVK FOR TUX KA3T.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express IS) i.») a. m. No. 0 New York Express (b4V) 1.61 a. in. No. Mall and Accommodation 7.Jfi a. m. No. ao Atlantic Express (PAV) ia.+7 p. m. No. Vast Line No. 2 o.6a p. m.

AHHIVK FROM JHE KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (8&V) l.Sfla. m. No. 6 Mall Train pj.]G

ft K1

No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.mp. m. No. 21 3 05 p.m. No. SMall and Aocommodatlon 6.45 p. in. No. 7 Xwt Mall y.oo p. in.

ARRIVK FROM THK WB3T.

No. 12Cincinnati Express* (3) 1.2f'a. m. No. 6 New Y^rk Express (9AV) 1.42 a.m. No. 30 Atlantic Express (PAV) Yi 42 p. m. No. Fast Line* 2 in p. in. No. 2 S.llOp. in.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

LJTAVK FOR TUB 30HTH.

No. El South B«nd Mall 6.00a.m. No. 54 South Bend Express too p. ru. ARRIVK FROM TUJI HORTH No. 51 Terre Haute Exprew izoo noon No. 8S South Bend Mall 7.so p.

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