Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 December 1889 — Page 2

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The council meets to-morrow night It can give the people of Terre Haute a most acceptable Christmas gift in the shape of a license ordinance.

Chicago and Patti have formed a mutual admiration society. Patti'a voice and marital experience both please Chi CllgO.

The general interest in the Cronin verdict is most remarkable. The inquiries for news are as numerous aa following an important election. The people here believe the men on trial are guilty, reach ing that conclusion not so much from a careful examination of all the evidence as from the general conduct of the accused and the miserable effort to establish their innocence.

We call special attention to the com munication from "C" printed this morn ing. Our correspondent has often ex posed the fallacies and ignorance of our contemporary, the Gazstte, but never with more striking effect than in this communication. The Gnzatte has the very bad habit of mailing rash^ assertions—maxims instead of markets being its guide—and nearly always is wrong in the outset of it3 arguments. "C" exposes this propensity in his comments on a Gazette editorial on the copper question.

Judge Mack has been telling the grand jury about the iniquity of cigarette smoking. Why not tell the grand jury that tbere are four or five policy shops doing business in the city, under the direction of the Democratic leader of the city council? Several years ago when the Gazette was publishing lottery advertisements it quickly cut off that means of revenue when The Express called attention to the violation of the law. Will it not now join us in asking for the enforcement of the same lottery law against this Democratic leader?

The sensational report that the dressed beef measure was defeated in the Missouri legislature because the Chicago ilrees8d beef people had more money to buy votes than the local butchers, may be true. The chances are that it is. At the time the courts had not passed on the Minnesota and Indiana laws, similar to the Missouri measure, and in all respects open to the same objection as interfering with inter-stute conference. If the decisions of the courts had been rendered the monopoly would not have spent its money buying the votes of legislators. According to the report the butchers raised a lobby fund, but the Chicago big four raised them out in bidding for votes. Therein is the strength of the dressed beef monopoly— the length of its purse. It will have a longer purse here in Terre Haute in its contest with the butchers for the control of the local supply market. It can make money by spending money until the butchers cry quits. It is a mercilese combine and almost invincible.

When the police want to make a showiug of enforcing the law, or rather want to make a fee, they pick out one or two of the Main street gamblers, and charge them before the mayor with gnmbling. The gamblers plead guilty, pay the line ucd costs and return to their gilded saloons, crack a joke or two about it and resume business. The police and ollicials divide the swag and that is all that is said or done until it is time for another haul. Mark the contrast in the treatment of the gambling game west of Third street. The proprietors were given no Buch opportunity to pay a license foo. Instead, their tools were captured and their patrons arrested. The intention was to enforce the redeyed law as to these west- end places that the Main street houses might have a larger field to work in. Suppose that instead of tbe easy process of filing affidavits raids should be made periodically on the gilded gambling-rooms and their patrous arrested, how long would it be before they would be compelled to close their places?

The only hope now is that the nslounding outbreak of disloyalty to the United States at ths South during the Davis demonstration may have ullow.ed to escape all the disloyalty that Fad been secretly nurtured during all these years and which only needed such means of exposure to evaporate and pass away. As showing the intense spirit of loyalty to Davis and his cause, the following prayer, whose declaration that Davis had gone to the grave unreconstructed was applauded, is given as uttered by Father Eichert, of Vickskurg:

Eternal CioO, tlie Father ot the orphan and of the aillloted, look down In pity upon this sorrowfuj assembly. To-day our hearts are heavy and desolate within us. and the grieving fears of sadness are upon our faces-tor the great leader, ttie great guide. the visible representative of a lost though

riKhtful

cause, ha* been taken away from us. To­

tals note of grief and lamentation comes forth

from millions of hearts, wherever the love of Justice and patriotism is to be found. O my God, the Father of justice, I thank Thee that In these times which witness too many mysteries of Iniquity, Thou permlttest me to speak the name of a Just man, the immortal Jefferson Davis! I thank Thee that the object of this meeting Is to do Justice to the memory of our departed chieftain.

Thou knowest, O Lord, that the principle for which he fought and which he proclaimed with his last breath, Is an eternal principle of Justice and right apd If It be madness or baseness to light for such a ciuse, tell me, my Hod, what cause Is holy, what cause Is glorious

C. 0. D.

Goose and Gnnder.

Brlggs-What do you think you will get from your wife for a Christmas present? Braggs—Oh, something line, no doubt. I caught her kissing the coachman yesterday.

This Is no Joke. In order to be funny the conversation should have been represented as taking place between Mrs.

Brlggs

and Mrs. Braggs, with

the cook substituted for the coachman.

Cloe* Calculation.

Woman—Give me a ticket t» Kansas City. And a half-lare ticket for this little boy, pleaBe. Tlckt Agent—But is not the boy over 7 years old?

Woman—No, he Isn't. He won't be 7 unUl tomorrow. Ticket Agent—At what hour?

Woman—I don't know that that's any of your business, but he will be 7 years old at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Ticket Agent—Ah. That Is Just the hour you will land In St. Louis. Here you

are—half-fare

St. Louis and full fare the rest of the way.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Copper.

To the Editor uf the Kjrprcss: Silt: After keeping tolerably quiet about protection for some weeks the Gazette has once more ventured to tell a small part of what It don't know about the tariff. This time It has chosen a subject that Is full of suggestions and upon which It discourses with all the easy liuency and ready conlldence or total ignorance. It has been talking about copper. Copper suggests brass, of which It is the better part, while burnished brass, bright as gold for the moment, but which a breath can tarnish is a constant reminder of tha glittering arguments of the free trader. Arguments that are like brazen ornaments aud the polish on them. A touch of the corroding acid of honest criticism takes all the shine out ot them in a moment, reveals their true nature, discolors, dissolves them and turns their very substance into dirty dress. But let us see about copper.

The Gazette tells us that copper Is 11 cents per pound In New York, but that if we enjoyed the blessings of free trade It would sell for about (i cents, 4 cents of the remainder being tariff, and for the other cent it does not account. It also says we are exporting copper which, according to Its own showing, must bo sold to foreigners for about cents or 5 cents. less than Its price In our home market. It there was any truth In this claim, the owners of copper mines might be asked to stand up and explain, but, as usual, the Gazette editor wrote before consulting current market reports. According to the Biltlsli Trade Journal for September, published In Loudon, the price of selected copper at Manchester was ,t'4U per ton, acd for the Hrst week of November.'according to the New York Herald, It was $10.75 per hundred In London the head and lront,- not only of free trade but of what the Gazette in its grandiloquent phrase Is so fond of calling the "world's market,-' and before the end of the mouth It had advanced 15 shillings per ton in that city with the price still going up. We may be sure then that copper Is above 11 cents In London to-day. But If we are to believe the Gazette 11 cents Is also the New Turk price. It would therefore he Interesting to have our free trade organ tell us what has oecoine of that 4 cents per pound ot protection, which our law* put on every pound ot copper produced In this country. Aud if copper Is worth 11 cents In the "world's market." Is there any good reason why the American mine owner should sell his copper for 6 cents. Furthermore, last year, notwithstanding our abundant home supply, we imported some millions of pounds of copper ore. This ore, when the duty was paid, cost Its Importers a fraction more than Scents a pound. Will the Guzeite tell us how linished metal from that ore could be sold at 6 cents and a reasonable profit be realized on the business? Again, tor the year ending June 30th, 1S89, vr« exported 25,303,337 pounds of copper and realized for It 14.(i cents per »ound. Was It the duty of our exporters to have put that copp#r on the world's market at 6 cents and thus have left to foreigners S. 6 cents more profit than they got? and does the Gazette do business on that generous plan?

Lastly, on the 1st of November steel rails were £6 5s per ton in London, with the price going up. On Saturday, the 7th Inst., 12,000 tons of steel rails sold In Pittsburg at 834. If It Is true that transportation and duty are added to the home prh'e, will the Gazette tell us why Carnegie did not get about $55 Instead ot $34 for that lot of rails?

The Gazette editor also reproaches the copper mine operators for not paying better wages, though what wages they do pay he probably knows nothing about, and he always manages to keep on hand a full supply ot that kind of generosity that Is only a sentiment, and costs nothing. But when that noble quality takes the more practical shape of full wages to his own employee, he has no use for it. How much It Is to be regretted that with the average reformer benevolence goes no further than exhortation to other people and that preaching and practice should be so often and so sadly at variance.

If the Gazette m*n would get Into the habit of looking Into market quotations before writing so confidently about prices, and drawing Influences from facts that have no existence, he might avoid many embarrassing mistakes. The change, to be sure, would take out of his editorials much of their reckless statement and easy swagger and make their imposition more difllcnlt but he might find at least partial compensation in tin fact that his readers could sometimes actually believe what he says. For the rest, to be able to respect himself and be at peace with his own conscience, ought to be reward enough. C.

Tkriik Haitk, December 14.

Justifiable KuVy.

Mannging Editor—You eav here that you haYe cultivated hot-house lilac bushes that have attained a height of over fifty feet?

Horticultural Editor—Yes, why?

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Managing Editor (musingly)—Nothing, only I wish I could lilac that.— Texas Sittings.

ROUND ABOUr THE EARTH.

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Hydraulic press—The Prohibition organs. It was an Englishman who thought the roads ran underground.

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Many great Americans have been reared on a diet of hope, hog and hominy. The man that keeps a barking dog will soon lind hlmselt very unpupular.

It has not yet been decided whether a starter on a race track should have a hoarse voice or a coarse one.

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, so perhaps the late Mr. McGlnty was merely a mistaken searcher alter her.

Facial Indications are not always correct. For instance, the Hebrew has a hook nose, but nobody leads him around by it.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Albany Exptess: The English press always had words ot praise for President Cleveland's messages. Not one of them has commended President Harrison's. There is too much Americanism In the last message tosult them.

Detroit News: We don't want a national uni verslty, to be run by the government. We want nil the schools, colleges and universities, great and small that private beneficence may endow, but a political maclilne In the form of a school—never.

Philadelphia Press: Free tobacco in the United States will transfer Cuban culture as well as manufacture to Florida aud give a new lease of life to the old fields of Virginia. The farmer pays this tax, why should congress let him when the treasury has no need of the money?

Boston Herald: Dr. Lyman Abbott has spent a fortnight at Harvard, and has returned home with a rather rose-colored Impression of the religious opportunities furnished at that Institution. He is a man of rare capacity for such a work, and Ills report Is of value because It Is a Iresh and candid statement of impressions. During the fourteen days that he was In Wadsworth house over liftyfive students called on him, and of these tourfltths came to seek light on the profoundest problems or religious life. His public services were well attended but this he did not value specially, because he came there as a new man. He went •way after his two weeks' stay with two convictions deepened and strengthened. The first was that young men to-day who think of anything are deeply considering the problems of the religious life. The other conviction was the outgrowth of this. It was that this questioning aftor the truth can not be, must not be, and ought not to be repressed. In the light of this statement, his visit to Harvard must have been as helpful to the student as to himself.

"Nellie Bly," the young woman who is now "puttiDg a girdle 'round about the earth," is a Pittsburg girl. She has, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, been engaged in writing for newspapers a little more than three years. Her first attempt to gain a livelihood with her pen was made early in 1836 on the Pittsburg Dispatch. She had -written a communication to that journal on the condition of workingwomen in the city of Pittsburg, 8nd there was so much original thought in in her deductions that she was requested to send her name and address to the editor. With this she complied, and as a result she was engaged to follow up several of the suggestions she had made. "Nellie Bly'a" first important mission was a trip to Mexico, where she traveled for six months, learning to speak Spanish with fair fluency in that time.

When "Miss Bly" returned to Pittsburg she was put in charge of the society column of the Dispatch, alternating this work with writing theatrical notices and criticisms and in preparing articles on women's work. With her added experience these papers attracted atte*tion in New York and were frequently reproduced in the metropolitan dailies. This gave "Miss Bly" the idea that sha could better herself in New York, and she secured a letter of introduction to Joe Howard, Jr. from one of her newspaper friends in Pittsburg.

Arrived in. Now York she presented her letter and was given several large chunks of fatherly advice and the cheerful opinion that she had made a big mistake and ought to go home. She didn't go, but sought out Foster Coates, man aging editor of the Mail and Express. It was just at this time that Andrew Carnegie, tbe millionaire, had taken unto himself a bride, and it was estimated that if .Mies Bly could interview Mrs. Carnegie such service might bs acoeptable. Wmall hope was held out that success would attend thiseffort,as the most experienced New York interviewers had tried it and failed. "Misa Bly" started in, and by parssverance and the exercise of a little feminine diplomacy obtained a complete and exhaustive talk with the bride, touching upon every subject that would be of interest to women renders.

Like all beginners in newspaper work in the big city "Miss Bly" speedily reached that period when it appeared that lb*re was not a single new thing under the sun to write about. She thought and thought, and tried and tried, but met rebuffs at every turn. She was boarding at a modist little boarding house way up in Harlem, where the fare was just about generous enough to support life, because of the moderate price paid for it. Cheap as this living was, it could not be paid for without an income. The little store of money that the girl had hoarded was being rapidly exhausted. She was indebted to her landlady and could not meet the obligation. To make matters worse "Mies Bly" one day lost her purse, and with it every dollar she possessed in the world.

This misfortune did not discourage her, however, and she was too proud to mako her loss known. Every day she walked six to eight miles because she had actually no money to pay car fare. The situation began to look desperate. Days were slipping by and the board bill was growing. Something had to be done, so, without much hope of success, letters of introduction were obtained from Joe Howard to every editor in New York. After a struggle and the exerciee of a most extraordinary amount of patient perseverance interviews were obtained with the editors or editors-in-charge of the Herald, the Sun,theTimae and the Tribune. Not one of them professed to behave that "Nellie I»!y" would be a profitable investment. The old and favorite method of politely disposing of the applicant by taking her name and address was adopted, and Miss Bly was informed that if her services were needed she would receive a notification by mail.

Then the young woman, who refused to be dlsheartensd, betook her«6lf to the office of the World aud secured an audience with Joseph Pulitzer. It took the proprietor of the World about fifteen minutes f.o make up his mind that "N«llie Biy" might be made useful. He «ng«£ed her and for her first assignment she was directed to visit th9 department for the insane on Blc\ckw«ll's island, ostensibly as an insane patient, and describe its workings thoroughly. These instructions were carried out and resulted in one of the most remarkable storied of its kind ever printed in a newspaper.

For three days "Nellie Bly" rehearsed her part. She bought books on insanity and studied carefully all its phases. She stood in front of a mirror with disheveled hair and practiced rolling her eyes and contorting her features until she felt that she had studied her part well and knew it. It had been agreed that she would romain in the asylum for six days and then her release would be secured. With her raiment disarranged and the pretended glare of insanity in her eyes she wandered into a police station, seemingly too much demented to give anything mora than her natne—Nellie Brown. Justice Patrick GaTin Duffy committed her to Blackwell's islaud, aud on the following day the newspapers contained accounts of the mysterious young woman who had been found wandering in the streets, with reason dethroned. Dr. Field, one of the most eminent alienists in the country, pronounced the patient to be "hopelessly insane." Hundreds of visitors came to see her, but not one of thsm could tell who the stranger was. On the fifth day the patient made a narrow escage from discovery. She had learned to bear the scrutiny to which ehe was subjected daily with tolerable composure, and when on that day she was touched on the shoulder by the nurse and turned around Ehe almost fainted. There stood a Pittsburg newspaper man wtjo had known her well in her own home. He was then employed on a New York newspaper, and had been directed to investigate the case of the mysterious stranger. The recognition was mutual, and the newspaper man was so astonished that be couldn't speak. He had no idea that Nellie was shamming, and thought she had become suddenly insane. He was just on the point of making the girl'6 identity known when ehe, divining his purpose, got close up to him and whispered: "Don't betray me will explain later." The visitor understood the situation in a moment, and gave a glance that meant compliance with the request.

Nellie Brown remained in the institution for thirteen days. She thought she had been forgotten, and actually began to believe that she was doomed to remain forever in the world of lunatics. Relief came at last, and then the story of her experiences, which set the towta

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by the ears and created consternation among the officers of the asylum. "Nellie Bly'e" next important work was the exposure erf Phelps, the Albany lobbyist. She drove this briber of legislators out of the state, and so revengeful was he that he employed deteotives to shadow the bold writer and learn who ahe wss. Miss Bly had been put on her guard and eluded these sleuths so successfully that-at the end of three weeks they gave up the chase. Then she, received an anonymous letter warning her that her life was in danger, and that if she visited Albany again she would be assassinated. She defied this threat by going to the state capital in disguise and unearthing a plot which, had it been carried out, would have resulted in her being sunk to the bottom of the Hudson river.

Following this came the showing up of a notorious libertine named Cleveland, who lured country girls to disreputable resorto and ruined them. Central pBrk was his stamping ground. The exposure was thorough and complete. The modern Miuotaur was furious with rage, and defied the World to prove its accusation. He claimed it to be a case of mistaken indentity. In order to pro ride for just such an emergency a clever reporter had been detailed to keep Miss Bly in eight and afford her protection if necessary. The reporter carried a detective camera, and with this he obtained at least a half dozen excellent views ot Cleveland's face. When the photographs were shown to the roue he wilted like a rug, aud that night fled from New York.

The traffic in babies, and the ease with which infants can be bought for from 810 to $20 in New York City and "no questions asked," is one of the latest achievements of Nellie Bly.

About the best interviewing accomplished by Nellie Bly was her talks with the widows of presidents.

The young woman is not what may be called a graceful writer. At times she is given to verbosity, but as a rule handles her subject entertainingly and with vigor. Her ideas are for the most part original, and ehe has never yet failed in an undertaking. She receives on an average 200 letters a week. Out of this number not lessthan half a dozen are from women who have conceived an affection for her and beg for a personal interview. A dozen more are from men making love or proposing marriage, and the rest are begging letters and threats. The name "Nellie Bly" is never used excep as a signature. About ten young women in different parts of the country have claimed to bs the simon-pure Nellie Bly, and have gained a temporary notoriety. In some instances hotel bills have been contracted in that name and the bills have been sent to the real Nellie, who, by the way, never settles them.

Nellie Bly is now on her way to Hong Kong in her trip around the world, in which it is proposed to circumnavigate the globe in Beventy-five days or less. Her real name is "Pink" Elizabeth Cochrane.

On some day of nezt month Miss Elizabeth Bielund and Miss Nellie Bly will arrive in this city, ufter having encircled tbe globe in the fastest time on record. One of the two will win th6 honors of thiB globe-trotting event. Miss Bly is well known to the public, but MissBisland, outside the circle of literature, has not been much talked of.

This young woman is a LouiBumian of an old family ruined by the ill fortunes ot the civil war. She is as noted for hor beauty as for her literary attainments. Although much of her life was spent on a plantation, she has all th« energy and talent found among New York women. On the Cosmopolitan Magazine Miss Bieland has sccred many successes as a book reviewer, and in addition to this work she has contributed to the magazine a series of articles on "Life in New York,"'The Onteora Club," "Tuxedo," "Co operative Housekeeping," and "The Flower Market of New Yor}i." She lives in ri little home which is said to be daintily arrunged in its interior. When she began her trip around tha world it was understood that she was to be employed regularly afterward by the Coo tnopolitan Magazine. Being still quite young and a beginner she may be said to enter on a literary career with bright prospects.

MRS. THOMAS SCOTT GIFF0RD.

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Story of Her Relation to the New Husband of Mary Thurinan. A special from San Diego, Cal., atating that Thomas Scott Gifford, who recently married a daughter of Judge Allen G. Thurman, the divorced wife of Lieutenant W. S. Cowlee, had an undivorced wife at Fort Lze, N. J., excited no little interest in the latter village. A reporter called on her father, who told the following story: "Mr. Gifford stole my little girl six yeard ago and sent her back a few day* since. I was in businees in Ntvv York, and Gifford used to come into the store and talk to my daughter. A.lice was 16 years old and her mother was dead. One day she left the shop and did not coma back. A young man, however, came acd told me that Mr. Gifford had run away with my little girl. Three years ago they returned to visit me in Fort Lea. They said they ware married, and Mr. Gifford always introduced my daughter as his wife. Throe weeks ago sh* camo to me with her two little bova and said hsr husband would be here later.

Mrs. Gifford refueed to ta!k much to the reporter, but said that she stiil believed hor husband a gentleman, and said that ehe was sure that lie would do what, was right by hia two children. "One day last month my husband told me that he was going to move to New York. He told me to go on there aud he would follow. He bought railroad tickets and saw us off at the depot. The next I heard of him was when the newspapers said he had married Misa Thurman. 1 hare written to him and am waiting for a reply. I was not influ*ncsd by p«opl» in Ohio to leave California, aud, though 1 am mjEslf heartbroken, I believe that he has honor enough to take care of our two little children. If he aeaerta their —(and her bright, eyes flashed)—well, I will wait and see."

v. Phototfrapby^ New LTfe. An Atchineon man hae his photograph taken every yenr. He says that he has noticed that people who have their photographs taken often are not so apt to die as those who never have any taken. It is always the man who haB no crood picture to leave of himself who is most apt to die.—[Atchison Globe.

Keforrainsr the ScIiooI-Mk'kibs A movement has been started in New York to prevent the school-ma'ams from wearing "bangs." A woman with a "bang" ought to be better able to teach the young ideas how to "shoot." Pupils would prefer having the teacher's "switch" abolished.—[Norristown Herald.

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CANNQN AND THE CARD-PLAYERS.

A Terror as a Prosecutor, and Still Worse as an Adversary at Poker. The bast tale of poker thus far unfolded at this session of oongress woe brought to Washington by a returning member from Kansas, says a Washington correspondent. The congressman got it from Judge John McLane, a bale old gentleman now a resident of Wichita, but formerly of Springfield, 111., where he knew at tbe bur Abraham Lincoln, Lyman Trumbull, David Davie, Ward Lamon. General Edward Baker, Olivar Davis and all the old-timers. The judge was prompted to tell the reminiscence by reading in the newspapers about the prominence attained by Representative Cannon in the speakership contest. "I knew Joe," the old judge said, "when he was a poor saddlebags lawyer in Illinois struggling with poverty and ill luck to make an honest living. He was one of the cleverest men I ever knew. Two qualities insured his success—his honesty and bis energy. The older members of the bar in the circuit took a fancy to Joe and used to put opportunities in his way. His first big stroke of luck was his election as prosecuting attorney of a judicial district. The law in Illinois at that time was severe on cardplaying, and public sentiment demanded its enforcement. Joe's income depended upon the number of convictions he secured. There was where his energy did him good service. The name of Joe

Cannon soon stood for the severest prosecutor the district had known. "On one occasion we were all attending court in a distant county. David Davis was on the bench and Joe Cannon was prosecuting. The weather was cold and the tavern accommodations were not the best Judge Davis had the pick of the rooms, and Saturday evening we gathered as self-invited guests about the judge's fire. Court was to open Monday. We had nothing to do but to kill time. Cannon, Ward Lnmon, Dan Voorhees, Oliver Davis, Ed. Baker, Lyman Trumbull, and a law student named Mann were some who were present. It wasn't long until tbe table was surrounded and the cards were being dealt. The game was interesting. We didn't stop until the bell rang for breakfast Sunday morning. Sunday was a day of rest, but as soon as we had had supper we started in ugain and played until daylight Monday morn ing. When court opened the judge asked the sheriff if he had secured a grand jury. The names were called. Mann, the law student, was among them The judge looked down the row and selected Mann as the foroman. We were pnrAlyzed. Ward Lamon leaned over to Dan Voorhees and whispered: 'Great Ca?sar! What does the judge mean? Has he forgotten that Mann was with us last night?' "We tried to get the judge'a eye and to convey our protests against the selection of Mann. The judge couldn't or wouldn't see what we were driving at Our suggestions that another and an older man bo chosen foreman fell unheeded. Finally Joa Cannon, seeing that the situation was getting desperate, went up to the bench and whispered: "'Judge,'said he, 'do you remember whore we were last night, and what we were doing?' "'O, yes,'said the judge, smiling. 'We were in my room having a social game.' 'Judge,' continued Mr. Cannon,'tha young man you have selected for fore man was there also.' "Thfi judge looked sharply at Mann and then asked Joe: 'Is he t.he young fellow that raised info out of $G0?' 'The same fellow,' said Joe. "'Ah,'said the judge,'that changes the situation.' "'Then, turning to the grand jury, he said in a louder tone and with great dignity: "'Mr. Mann, you can stand aside for this term of court.' "The judge proceeded to charge the jury, and dwelt especially upon the injurious effectB of card playing. That night we all met in the Judge's room. The day had been a dullou9 to all of ua except Cannon. At a previous term ho had got fifty/ indictments against the town people for card plRying. Most of them had come into court the opening day, pleaded guilty, and paid their fines, which in each case included $5 for Prosecutor Cannon. We knew all about it, and we entered into a quiet combination to empty Joe's pockets. Somehow to luck was against our scheme. Onenfter another dropped out of the game, until ut 2 o'clock the only men at the table were Joe Cannon and Oliver Davis a cousin of the judge. The rest of us sat, around ready to back Oliver with tbe moral influence of our presence. Occasionally Judge Davis would glance at Oliver's hand and say: 'Piay him Oiiver for all the game is worth. I've got the money when you

run out,' "After awhile judge and said: "'Let me have it, Cousin David the crisis is upon us.' "The judge pulled out S200 slapped it on the table,and exclaimed: "'Take that, Joe Cannon, if you are able.' "'Don't get excited, judge,'said Joe 'I wiil reach your pile in a few minutes.' "And he did it. At 4 o'clock in the morning he raised Oliver for the last time. We all shook our heada. Joe swept the table. Ho had cleaned out the whole crowd. As he got up be look«d around and said: 'Gantlemen, the next time you put up a combination against Joe Cannon make it strong enough to win. I am prepared to lend you all enough, at low interest, to pay your tavern biiis.'"

Oliver turned to tbe

WAR ON THE GAMS.

ICvcnsville Autlinritias Forced to Do Tlieir Duty hj Newipuper. Special to the Commercial Gazette.

Evawille, Ind., December 14.—War upon the fakirs has been declared in this city, and a considerable commotion was precipitated to day. A leading morning paper indulged in soma severe atricturea upon the police for dereliction of duty regarding tbe gamblers, and this led the chief to order a raid npon the fraternity. One named Thomas was brought before the mayor and fined $25, the charge being the fleecing of one of the gams. This acted like a bombahell upon the others, who hsve suddonly made themselves very scarce. More arrests will follow. The fakirs have vowed vengeance ngeinst two reporters of the paper that is exposing them, end threatening anonymous letters haTe been psesed. The city has long been cursed with a large coterie of these gamblers.

High'Stakes.

Mrs. Hilough—The paper says there were two men killed yesterday in Colorado by falling over a bluff.

Mr. Hilough (absently)—Great Scott! I wonder what the ante was.—[Time.

Natural Reason.

Miss Decollete—Do you go to the opera often, Misa Ann Gular? Miss Ann Gular—No I cannot bare to go to the opera.—[Puck.

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The trost-swept marshes seem to sleep. The listless streams Ue sUU and numb, The winds a charmed silence keep.

The hills ace mute, the woods are dumb But Nature wears a thoughtful frown As of surprise with anger blent (is one will cast ones eyelids down In sudden study, deep and brown,

When met by problem strange and bsnt On finding out Just what It meant). So Nature evidently sighs

O'er some deep riddle, pondered well— .. I think it must be at tbe lies That disappointed sportsmen tell. —[Madelines. Bridges.

A competent authority thinks that the Paris exposition drew at least $250,000,000 into Paris.

There are seven monuments in the various cities of Italy to Count Cavour, but not one in Rome.

Minnows two inches long are said to have been taken from a seventy-four-foot well at New Iberia, La.

Near Wapakoneta, O, two brothers were married, one marrying the daughter of a widow and the other the widow.

The Brazilians are said to form the largest and richest foreign colony in Paris. They never haggle over^anything.

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The year 2118, according to the" president ot the Manchester geological society, will see the exhaustion of the English coal.

Farmer Harms, of Kent, Kings county, Oregon, cut down a cottonwood tree last week from which he took 700 pounds of fine honey.

A Salem county, New Jersey woman, past 30 years of age, saw the railroad and took her first ride in a passenger train a day or two ago.

In WilliBmsport, Pa., a bulletin board contains the information that "Maginty died in New York this morning from an overdose of chestnuts."

Phonogrnphs are to be put in the pcstofficas of Mexico,"to be used by persons unable to write, in order to send messages to friendslbrough the mails.

After having devoted seven months to training a running dogaGirardville, Pa., man entered the animal in a race and the dog would not run a step.

Mrs. Hiram Peters, of Richie county, West Virginia, has just found her son, who was stolen when an infant. He is now a clerk of courts in Iowa, and is worth §20,000.

The largest salmon ever taken from the Tweed were caught recently. The weight of four of them were as follows: Forty-three, forty-four, forty-eight and fifty-five pounds.

A wealthy Colorado woman says thut the begging letters which have roached her during the last six weeks called, in the aggregate, for a sum of money as large as her entire fortune.

The late vicar of Fotheringay, in his passage through the bankruptcy court, acknowledged that he had striven to redeem his fortunes by backing a horse or two, but he had had no luck.

A citizan of Hawkinsville, who WRS suffering from asthma, was advised to try a remedy sometimes used by the negroes. He got a hornet's nest, boiled it, made a tea, drank the liquid and was completely cured.

An Augusta, Me., whist crank has occupied hia time during the past two years in the construction of an elegant whist table oh which he hopes to win a good many rubbers. It consists of 500 pieces of wood, no two of the same size and of nearly every variety that grows.

The feat of playing twenty gomes of checkers simultaneously and winning all but one, which was a draw, was accomplished by Clarence A. Freeman in Providence, R. I., a few days ago. His contestants were experts from all over Rhode Island. Ttie play lasted one hour and forty minutes.

Gospatin Apostoloff, a young Cossack engineer, has designed a bateau plongeur which will dive into the Atlantic off the English coast and come up in New York harbor twenty-six hours later. It is the old story of being shaped like a fish, with a spiral ridge on the outside running around it twice, which in some way or other will be made to revolve.

Mrs. Bootman, of Hoosick Falls, N Y.. was 91 years old the loth 15th inst. She is in good health, and a woman of much physical and mental activity. She confesses to being an old, if not a great s:nner, and having been recently converted, was, on her 91 birthday, admitted to membership in the Methodist Cburch on confession of faith

Duriog a recent discussion of the German patent laws in the reichstag it was revealed that last year Germany granted only 3,921 patentp, against England's 9,779 and the United States 20,420. While in most civilized countries the number of patents annually granted is increasing, or, at least, not decreasing, the number in Germany has fallen off 927 in the laBt five years.

George Hardy, a poor hostler, who picked up a lot on the edge of Bar Hurbor a few years ago for $150 and sold it for SG00, built a livery stable on a half acre of ground bordering on the sits of the Malvsry hotel. As hia stable became more objectionable to the Malvern's guests the price of Hardy's property climbsd up. He absolutely refused offers of from $5,000 up to as high as 818,000. finally thought he was doing tbe Malvern's owner a great favor when he sold out for $20,000.

Iron is rapidly increasing in its use for houses. You can buy a complete iron house at the manufacturer's and have it set up anywhere in pieces. A large number of iron villas have been sent from England to the Riviera and put up there upon plots of land purchased or leased, with the provision that when the lease expires the house can be taken away. A comfortable house can readily be built in a month. The price of a room measuring 20 by 13 feet, is about two hundred and fifty dollars.

Norwich, Conn., has still a quaint custom nowhere else observed, perhapB. The festivitiee of Thanusgiving day always hove wound up with barrel bonfires all over the town. A lofty pole bsing erected, barrels are strung upon it and arranged around it in a pyramidal form, with a 6ingle tarred barrel at the top. These barrels are filled with straw, making them as prime conductors of fire aB the shaft of a modern hotel elevator. At dark the firea are lighted, and the barrels, which the town boys have beggad or stolen, are soon consumed.

One cf Georgia's poete wi!! in all probability soon wear convict's stripes. He is S. G. LeBk, whose claim for fame lies in the poem, "The Rid Hilleof Georgia." After it had been printed over Leak's name in the different newspapers it was alleged that somebody else woa the author. Loak started the Leak mercantile agency, announced himself as having strong backers, and opened handsomely furnished ofliues. The furnishings he obtained upon the latter representations, and as he failed to pay for them be is now sentenced to the penitentiary for cheating and swindling.

Do you have dyspeptic troubles? Take Hood's Sarsaparills, which has relieved thousands and will cure you. Sold by druggista.

FURS

SACRIFICED.

At $310, one London dyed Alaska Seal Newmarket, 53 inches long bust 3G.

At $285, one London dyed Alaska Seal Newmarket, 58 inches long bust 3G.

These garments are worth $500 each, but they are the last two we have and may go at the prices named.

At $S0, one London dyed Alaska Seal Wrap, trimmed in black lynx. The regular price was $200.

All our Seal Coats and Sacques at cost.

We are selling any Cloak in our house at cost, and a good many at less.

L. S. AYRKS & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

^"Agents for Butterlck'a Patterns.

XTAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE,

TUESDAY EVE, DECEMBER 17.

[KIKAM^Y'S]

Grand Spectacular Company in the beautllul romantic spectacle.

jLAGARDEKEj

Or tlie llunchbiick of Parle. Scened. staged and costumed In the most magniiicent manner. f7 People! Grami Hiilli-t*! Advance sale opens Saturday.

Prices $1, 75, 50 and 25 cents.

NAYLOR1?"OPERA"~HOUSE, WILSON XAYI.OK. Manai KK.

Thursda'y, December 18

PECK & MSMAN'S COMPANY

In the historic drama.

DAN'L BOONE

Introducing

Eight Pawnee Indians, Six Trained Horses —AND—

Our Own. Bandgend Orchestra.

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TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus

BIG

denote Parlor Car at

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Care attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote BiifTut earn attached. Trains marked thus ran dally. All oihes train* run dally Sundays excepted

VANDAI.1A LINE,

T. H. 4 I. DIVISION.

IJIAVH fOK TUX WJfjT.

No. 9 V/Rjtem XiDfSSA (34 V) No. Mall Train No. 1 Vast L1U6 (PAY) No. 21 No. gftui Mall

1.411 a. m. 10 21 a. n. a.M) p. re. 3 ID p. in.

U.IM p. ni.

LIAVK TOR THK BAST.

N'o. 12 Cincinnati Kxprcss (3) No. 6 New York .Express (34V) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. ill) Atlantic Eiprewi (Pi'cV) No. Ka.it Line No. 2

1.30 a. m. 1.51 a. in. 7.15 a. m. lli.-i" p. in. ''81 m, 0.05 11. m.

AKKIVK FKOi: TItK HAST,

Ho. 9 Western Express (84 V) No. 6 Mall Train No. 1 Fast Line (PAY) No. 21 No. S A'hII and Accommodation No. -7 Kast Mall

l.SH a. nt. 10.10 a. .J '/.Kip. in. 3 05 j). ill.'! 5.46 p. ui.i

U.UJ p. m.

ARHIVK FROM THK WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) No. 6 New Yi rk Sxpresa '(S.VV).... No. 20 Atlantic Kxprosa* (P&Y) No. Kant Line No. 2

1.20a. III.' 1.42 a. m. 1'2.42 p. m. 2 Id p. ni.5.00 p. ill.

T. H. & h. DIVISION.

lkav: una TKit NOETH.

No. fa South Bend Mall No. 64 South Bend Express ARRIVK FROM THK XfOBTB No. 61 Terre Haute Kxpress No. 58 South Bend MhU

6.00». ir. 4.00 p. m.

12.00 noon 7.80 P.

TIME TABLE.

SIXTH STREET DEPOT.

CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS JiAILWAY.<p></p>FOUR,

On an after October 10tb,i.SS9, trains: will arrive and depurt from Sixth street depot as follows:

GOING KA3T *.-*'

No. 12 N. Y. and Boston ISxpreas 3... 1.20 a. in.,* No. 2 Indianapolis and Cleveland «.H2a. in/ No. 18 N. Y. and Boston Limited PSCV 1 02 p. in. No. 8 Day Express and Mall 3.47 p. in. going wkst No. 5 Southwestern Kxpress SV 1.20 a in. '. No. 9 Day Express and Mall 10.0!) a. in. No. 19Southwestern Limited PSCV.. 12.55 p. in. No. 8Slattoon Express 7.27 p. in.

Trains marked thus (PI Parlor Car. Trains marked thus (S) Sleeping Car. Trains marked thus (C) Care Car. Trains marked thus (V) Vestibule Cars. Trains marked thus run Daily. All other trains Dally, Sunday excepted. Train No. 18. the Vestlbuled Limited, has through Sleepers for New York and Boston and Cafe Dining Car.

No. 12 has through Sleepers to New York, also Combination Sleeper and Parlor Car for Clnclnnati.

No. 5 has Sleepers and Parlor Car for St. Louis. No. ID has Sleepers, Parlor Car and Cafe Car for St. Louis.

E. E. SOUTH, Agent.

CHOICE BOOKS

For the Iiol'clays 1 And Standard

BookB

at the Opera House

BookStore. The public is invited to call at our store and see the CHRISTMA.S OFFERINGS.

E. L: G0DECKE,

BOOKSELLER and STATMEU

406 Wabash Ave.

BOBXBT H. BLACK. JAMKS A. HI3BKT.

BLACK & N IS BET,

Undertakers and Embalmers, 26 North Foixth street, Terre Haute, Ind. Warerooms 26th stand Washington ave. All calls will eoelre prompt attention. Open day and night.

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