Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 January 1890 — Page 2

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Why refund a debt when you can pay it und save money by doing so?

Cyclones and thunder and rain storniB in the middle of January are out of date.

The Democratic newapaperF. in a frantic effort to save Senator Voorhees from the ill effects of his contact with Senator IvJmunds, assert that the latter was opposed to a proposition that looks to the punishment of anybody. This :s not true. Senator Edmunds said that if the Dudley letter were genuine it subjects its author to punishment.

The supreme court of New ^orkin general term has upheld the law which gives a preference to honorably discharged soldiers in holding civil appointments. Commissioner of l'ub'ic Works (Jilroy, of New Vork City, recently discharged .John Sullivan from his position a9 laborer. The issue was fair and square, and it settled the question so far as New Vork is concerned.

The friends of Mr. Simeon Coy at Indianapolis are rejoicing because his book of reminiscence, the story of a sharp fellow's association with thieves and confidence men before and during his own term in state prison, has had a larger sale in Marion county than Mr. LSlaine's book of reminiscence of his life in congress. Tin: Exi'Hi'.ss pleads guilty to the charge of having made severe reflections on Indianspolis but it never said anything as bad as this.

The Chicago Tribune's suggestion that the world's fair be postponed until the spring of 18'.).'! is receiving the indorsement of such men as Senators Edmunds, Stanford, Sherman and Hawley who, having given much consideration to the subject, reali/.s that if we are to make a success of the fair, surpassing all others, it should not be held earlier than 1S0:3. The American people are capable of accomplishing great results in short order but there should be sufficient time for the preparation of this fair to make it the big thing all Americans expect it to bo.

Senator Gorman is opposed to the Australian system because, as he says, ten or fifteen illiterate Democrats were disfranchised in every voting precinct in Boston. Of course he is wrong. In Massachusetts no man who can not rend the constitution or write his nsme can vole. But Mr. Gorman is opposed to the law for the same reason that Governor Hill is opposed to it. The law prevents the successful practice of the schemes by which Boston, New York and Baltimore, under Democratic rule, pile up illegal votes to offset the thousands of votes of honest men who are not in ward politics.

Mr. Cleveland, the beau ideal of the pharasaical reformer, is not reaping ary benefit from his irritable attack on the New York Sun which recently coupled his name with a new schema for New York street railway legislation. Mr. Cleveland declared that ho had in no niinner any connection with the proposed legislation. The Sun shows that he is named in the till as one of the commissioners and recalls the fact that when ho was governor he signed the Broadway job which resulted in the great scandal and that while no dollar of the corruption fund has ever bo?n traced to him yet his friends were the beneficiaries. Mr. Cleveland's connection with that job was like his part in the Washington improvement scheme. His friends engineered it. llis suburban property was made to jump value from £30,000 to fl!0,000, ho in the meantime prating about public oflice biing a public trust. The Albany Evening Journal referring to the Jacob S iarp swindle says:

Urover Cleveland was closely, very closely. Identilied with the legislation that gave to Jacob Sharp and the Broadway bood'.ers a national notoriety. If llr. Cleveland did not protit by Governor Cle\eland's signature to the general street railway act of 1SS1. certainly his Intimate friends were the benetlciartes of the act and equally certain It is thai (iovenior Cleveland signed the bill despite iu unsavory record In the legislature and plentiful warning that a saturnalia of corruption would follow In the New York City board of aldermen.

Undoubtedly it is true that Mr. Brice would never have been a senator of the I'nited States from Ohio had he not acquired a great fortune. It is also undoubtedly true that he possesses admirable traits of character, and that since he "went into politics" he has been an industrious and zealous partisan. Still we don't see vhy it is necessary to class him with the Payne Standard oil crowd unleES there is as much evidence of the use of boodle ns there was in the election of Payne. Mr. llaistead, of the Commercial Gazette, tells the Chicago reporters that Senator Edmunds will object to Mr. Brice being sworn in as a senator from Ohio on the ground that he had not, in the meaning of

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the Ohio constitution, been a resident of the state a sufficient length of time when chosen by the Democratic caucus for senator. Mr. Brice was born and lived nearly all of his life in Ohio, but he acknowledgsd a New York residence only a few months ago. There may be a substantial objection to his admission to the senate on this ground, but we submit that if it is possible to do so the stronger objection ipon the ground of corrupt us# of money. Mr. Halstead's newspaper is free to make the charge that there has been corruption of this nature. It would be a ten strike to prove it.

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Strategy.

Mrs. Hashcrolt—You might as well move on and tell your starvation stories somewhere else. There Is nothing here for tramps.

Tramp—But I really am starving. 1 have been boarding for the past week at the house across the way.

It is needless to state, etc., etc.

"I,a Grippe" Does One Good Turn. Mr. Longyarns Say, Wlckwlre, have you heard the latest

Wlckwlre (resignedly)—No. Mr. Longyarns—Well, It's this way— Atclioo! Atclioo! Atchelio!

Wlckwlre—By teorge. that's pretty good: I'll spring that on my wife when I get home. Kattlinggood Imitation, too, Longyarns.

And he girded up his loins and lied before Longyarns could jonnnence Ills story.

Maybe He I.Ied

"Talking about dark nights." said the colonel, "I believe last night for darkness couldn't be beat. I couldn't see my hand belore my face four Inclms away." ••If your hand couldn't be seen four Inches rrom that headlight nose o' ypur'n." remarked the Judge, "I guess It must have been summat dark, for a fact. But still last night wasn't a marker to one night I remember back In '14. You see, I was on the old volunteer tire department In them days, and that's how I remember It. It was o* a Christmas night and we was all enjoyln' ourselves at the Inline house, when a alarm was turned In for a big lire in the south end of town. Well, we hitched up the old machine and started out, and what do you think We actooally run clear apast that cussed fire. It was such a dark night that the lire couldn't be seen." "Boys, I guess It's on me this time," was all the colonel could find to say.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Ohio State Journal: One of the amusing llilnes ol tiie present time Is to witness with what alacrity

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Cleveland i»es to exp aln his position on this or that question, as if the American public were yearning for wisdom from that source, (irover, you're dead, i'lease.take a dead man's pr.vilege to keep quiet.

Boston Journal: The refund of j?'J,000,000 by the government, which is made necessary by the decision of tiie Supreme court as to the duly on silk and cotton ribbons used exclusively at bat trimmings. is one ol the largest, ir not the largest, on record. Such a decision makes a large hole In the diminishing surplus. pat Louis (Hobe Democrat: The Southern men who have testified before the ways and means committee say that the congressmen Irom their section do not correctly represent the sentiment of the people. If this be true, the people of the South are more to blame than ihelr representatives. if the people want the protective policy to be maintained tlieyc«n readily choose men to congress who will support this system, The chances are. however, that the particular Individuals referred to are wrong In their judgments. Protection sentiment Is undoubtedly on tbe Increase In the South, but a majority of the people of that section, or even a third of the people, ao not yet entertain it.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Is the Editor of the Gazette a I'ree 1 rader Tu tlit Editor of the E.riirc*n:

Sii:: When we ask for impossibilities it Is not with the expectation that the Impossible will be performed, and while the (iazette editorial, Let There Be Light" vra» probably as good a reply to the article on lamp chimneys as any one could make, it was not such an argument as needed an answer. The fallacy of raiding a new Issue and hi piling from that instead or squarely meeting the essential difference of the original contention, is too old a dodge to deceive anyone. The vital points of the talk on lamp chimneys were that a chimney costs 111 cents at retail, that the duty on the material In a chimney is less than a quarter of a cent, that we have no means of making change for so tiiiali an amount, and that therefore If the tariff on black carbonate of soda and carbonate of p»tash was replaced, the users of lamp chimneys would receive no benefit from the change. The dealers would still keep the 10 cents and that they would not do so neither the Gazette nor any other person can show. It is quite certain that so far as lamp chimneys are concerned the duty on soda ash costs the general public absolutely nothing.

Hut the Gazette editor hints at one thing upon which It would be gratifying to hear him speak out. lie intimates that a duty of a millionth part of a cent on lamp chimneys would he a steal, and If that is so. would a duty of a millionth part of a cent on e-n-h one of those mllhical "more-than-4,Cf!i attlcles" also be a steal',' And are all tariff taxes. be they ever so small, virtual robberies'.' And. finally. to come to the point. Is the Gazette editor an absolute free trader or not? So far as the writer of tills is concerned, robbery or no robbery, he Is an earnest believer In the wisdom of protection, and is ready at ail times to give reasons for the faith that is in him. Will the editor of the most Influential Iree trade journal In western Indiana be as frank and tell us, ouce for all, what his convictions on this subject are'.' Or if he feels disinclined to do that, will he have the goodness to point out the difference between a free trader and a person who denounces a duty ot a millionth of a cent as a steal'.' C.

Tkkuk Hactk, January ilth.

Tbe Duteh Taking New Vork.

At the annual dinner of the Holland society in New York Friday Chauncey M. Depsw, who was one of the speaker?, valiantly declared himself to be a Dutchman, and then the presidents of tho various other societies looked at him sadly. Well they might, for he has bean an Irishman, a Puritan, a Frenchman, Welchmnn, and a German by turns. Carter Harrison used to claim a good many nationalities, but Mr. Depew has beaten him. Among the guests was another newly-diBcovered Hollander, Thos. Edison, who has applied for membership, and whose ancestors came over here in ]i74.

The World Uirdler*.

A cablegram froai Aden says that the German steamer Prussian, with Mies Elizabeth 13island on her trip westward around the world in a race with Nelly Bly, arrived thsre Wednesday four days ahead of time. This will bring MisBBisland to Brindisi about January 10th and to Paris the next day. Nelly Bly is now on tho Pacific ocean bound for San Francisco, where she is expected on January -0th.

Of Course.

Big brothers know a good deal, but now and then one of them tinds himself unexpectedly anticipated by his little sister. "Marion," said Henry, proud of his newly acquired knowledge, "do you know that the earth turns round'/" "Of tos it does!" answered Marior. "Thnt's the reason I tumbles out of bed."— 1Youths Companion.

Such Seems be the Cane.

The weight of reputable evidence is to the effect that the Kepublie of Brazil is several degrees more despotic than was the government of that amiable gentkmau, Dotu Pedro.—[Providence (R. I.) Telegram.

Grant

A prudent man is like a pin his head prevents him from going too far.—[Toledo Bee.

THE 0KEEFEN0KEE FOLK.

The Okeefenokee 6wamp, commonly called the "Okerfeenoke," is one of anomalies. Since the days of the Indian wars in south Georgia and Florida little has been heard of it, because railway and telegraph lines and missionaries and civilization shun it as they would a death-exhaling upag. But there are people there—people who chew tobacco, and spit red, and say "thar," and "cuss," and cut each other's throats at brief intervals. The swamp has never been penetrated by civilized men, and never crossed by men of any kind. Beginning in an unsettled portion of south Georgia the swamp extends for over a hundred miles, more than half of it being in Florida. It is from ten to fifty miles wide. It is an ocean of cypress, morass and tropical undergrowth. It is at once a mud and a quicksand, and to venture far in it is to perish.

Over this miasmatic void ever-collect-ing tropical clouds hover like ill om«ned birds from day to day, and, lazily turning their violet Hanks, they burst in drenching showers upon the already Hooded swamp, says a writer in the Atlanta Constitution. The Okeefenokee itself is a territorial menagerie, more full of hoofed and horned creeping things than the lowered sheet which the dreaming Peter saw. On its outer edges deer walk, coons crawl, and jcatamounts and panthers climb, while inside, over its oozy, inky bosom, huge ten-foot saurians with iron, grasping jaws and serpents of every siza and shade luxuriate in the green and bottomlesB slime and feed upon intruders and upon each other. For many miles in width bordering on this swamp there is one of the finest cattle ranges in the world. It is in this range that thorough denizens known as the "Okerfeenoke people" live. They live on honey and hunt bears, and don't have any tops to their houses to speak of. The increase of their herds they drive to the nearest shipping point once a year and sell. These people are rougher than they are poor. Still, they have their redeeming qualities and their ideas of hospitality, but you have to draw them out.

It. waa the second day of November that I landed at. the nearest railway station to the locality I wanted to visit. I hired a team and drove sixty-five miles —a two days' journey—to Mylervilie on the Okaefenokee. Mylervilie was my destination. 1 p&id the driver the morning after we got there, and he drove away and left me. I never felt so civilized and lonesome in my life. Mylervilie was not town. It was "settlement," and extended for many milee, the houses being grouped together with intervals of from one to four miles between each house. I ergaged board for three weeks with Jack Myler, the patriarch of the "settlement." The man was dressed in osnaburge, and looked like a bear. He bad a wife and daughter and six grown eons. His wife was a dilapidated-look-ing creature, with bulging eyes and a twang to her voice. The one event in her life, which she spoke of constantly, WHS a thirty-mile ride on a steamboat, which she had taken the year she wa3 married. But her husband generally threw a damper over the boasting she made about her travels by reminding her that when she boarded the steamer they had to blindfold her and back her on board like a refractory calf.

Old man Jack's sons were all single and lived, with him. They were the ruling spirits and "society leaders" of the neighborhood. They never considered' themEelvea dressed for company unless they wero e.ccoutered with a revolver, a dirk and a bottle of "colic cure." Beyond these indispensibles they cared little about what else they wore.

One day young Jack told us of a party he had jubt attended in tho neighborhood. It had been a social failure. He said: "The ticker gin out at 10 o'clock, and thar weren't but two lights durin' tha hull evenin'. Tha party waa a failure outen and out. But," he continued, "next Saddy night thar's a gal name Victoree Miller gwine to marry upon Black creek, and you mast go 'long with us to the weddin'. You'll have a nice time. They'll have no end of grog they'll dance all night and 'long to'rds daylight there's bound to be some o' the alltirdest liten you ever see in yo' life. I jess see em' knockin' down p.nd draggin' out now."

And young Jack'B face fairly glowed with an anticipated pleasure. I didn't catch the spirit, of Jack's enthusiasm. He noticed it, and said: "Ef you want to take a hand that night you sail in. Us six will 6ee you out."

The following Saturday night I and the six Myler brothers set out on horseback for the wedding on Black creek.

I felt a little squeamish over the fact that I was going unbidden to the feast. It was the first wedding to which I had ever gone uninvited. But the six brothers said it didn't make any difference, as they and I together would whip the entire wedding party if anything was said about my not being welcome. This eased my mind considerably. Arriving at the residence of Mies "Victoree Miller" we found a double-pen one-story log house all eglow with light, around which horses were tied so thick that they looked like huge Hies around a gigantic lump of sugar. At least 100 guests were present, and outside of my own party of seven every man had come on horseback, bringing a jug tied to the horn of his saddle and a girl on behind hitn. I was anxious that no one should know I was uninvited. But as soon as old man Miller, the father of the bride, was introduced to me he carried me into the house in front of the guests, and, calling them to order, exclaimed: "This is Mr. treat him well. He ain't invited here to-night, but he's jest ue welcome es anybody."

I sincerely wished that "Victoree's" father had never been born. Soon afterward the magistrate performed the ceremony. The groom was arrayed in a buckskin jacket and a pair of jeans pants. The bride wore a spotted calico dress. She was barefooted and had a blue ribbon bow tied on each big toe. They made a striking appearance. After the supper and ceremony the dancing began. At that time I weighed about a hundred pounds. My partner was a girl of 18, who wore No. 9 shoes and weighed at least 170 pounds. The dance grew fast and furious, and every time I went to turn my partner she would grab me by the hands] and swing me round BO whirlingly that the to6s of my shoes would just touch the floor like the feet of a dancing jack tied to a string. At last, in the midst of the dance, somebody stepped on somebody else's foot, and a general melee ensued. I never smelt so much whisky and heard so many oaths and saw as many dirks and revolvers drawn in the same length of time in my life. Four or five men were knocked senseless the women screamed and Hed, and all the candles were blown out but two. Men were yelling like panthers and surging in every direction. I concluded that if I didn't draw a revolver like the rest they would think I waa stuck up and unsociable and murder me

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1890.

for it. In the excitement of the moment I dived my hand into my overcoat pocket and drew what I thought was my pistol and flourished it aloft in the dim Hickering light. Immediately every man in the room made toward me with a rush. I thought my time had come. I tried to pull the trigger, but I could neither feel nor find it. At last the men got to me, but instead of striking me they began to pat me on the shoulder and cry out: "Shoot me first! Shoot me first! Shoot every barrel of it into me!" For the first time I looked at my weapon and was amazed. In my excitement I had drawn a pint flask instead of a pistol, and had been trying to hold the crowd at bay with it. I shot them with it until the ammunition gave out. The drawing of the unusual weapon put and end to the fracas, and the dance continued in peace till daylight. When I left the groom gave me a bearskin that the pair had received as a bridal present. And the bride's father announced his intention of sending me four hound puppies and a jug of buttermilk when he went to town the next time to sell his cattle. During the remainder of my three weeks' Btay my position in Okeefenokea waa unquestionable.

The flask had been put in my overcoat pocket by young Jack through mistake while it was hanging up. And being unaccustomed to either a pint flask or a pistol I couldn't recognize the difference by handling them.

AN OIL WELL OF A BEAR.

A MonsUr Silver-Tip in the P.luck Hills Which Yielded Twenty Gallon*.

Mr. 11. E. Ahrens, a hunter and trapper of some renown, has recently returned from Bn extended trip to the country where game abounds. He brought in one of the finest elk heads ever seen in this country, and a bear skin which is large enough to carpet a small room. In fact the skin measured nine feet and two inches from the tip of the nose to the tail, and nine feet and nine and a half inches across the shoulders from the right to the left fore feet, lie related the adventure he met with in killing this monstrous animal as follows: '•My pard and I were camped not long ago down in the country where bruin makes his home during the winter. We had dug several pits about three miles from camp and had set our traps upside down, covering them with brush and boughs of trees. I rode out one morning with an ax on my shoulder and not a gun at all. When I got to one of the traps I dismounted and saw that something had been fooling Bround there. Not knowing but what I might have captured a silver-tip I approached the trap catiously, poking the brush with a limb of tree but I could hear no sound, 60 I prospected around and found tbat the trap was gone, and, judging from the trail, it had been about, three days since the bear had walked off with my trap. "I went back to camp and got my Winchester and etarted on the trail. The signs were very plain where the bear had dragged the trap along. I followed him all day, camped that night, and at sun-up wns still after him. Sometimes I'd come across a tree all marked up where he had climbed it, and I wondered how he hud managed to get along at all with that trap and toggle fastened to him somewhere. Ou the morning of the third day I was getting rather anxious for fear the part of him that the trap was fastened to might rot off and 1 would lose him. 1 could tell he was a big 'un, and 1 wanted him. The trail was very fresh that morning, and after going a short distance my horce refused to go any further, so I staked him out and continued on foot. "I emerged from a little patch of timber, and right in under a big pine I caught sight of my meat. He hud his head between hii pawe, and wa9 all curled up BO that only his back was visible. I got a little nearer to him, and then snapped a good-sized twig to attract hie attention. He caught on in a minute, raised his head and slowly straightened himself up on his hind legs and say. I've been a hunter for a good many years I've caught and fought many a besr, but I'll be jiggered if I ever saw one that looked b« big as that fellow when he got. up to his full height! He wheeled around toward me, and I saw that the trap was fastened on his right front foot. He gave a whoop and came for me. I retreated a little, and when the time came I plugged him quickly, and he dropped in his tracks. I went back to camp and got my pard. and together we skinned him and rendered the grease. We got twenty gallons of tallow out of him, and I'll bet he was the biggest sil-ver-tip killed in this state for many a year.

A I'romisiiiK Event.

Probably one of the greatest and most prominent events of the season will b« the occurrence of the second annual ball given by Typographical union on January 1G. There is every indication of a go id attendance, and an enjoyable time for those present is an assured fact. That their balls are among the foremost is an assurance Batisfactori'y attained by the character and degree of success they hare met with on former occasions. Consequently those who contemplate attending this source of pleasure on this occasion will never regret it, but will wait patiently and diligently for ench successive season's annual ball.

The Greiit Dutnotllu Secret.

The New York World recently offered a prize for the best recipe for keeping a husband at home. It was won by a lady who wrote: "Keep him at home by encouraging him to go out occasionally.

Employ no art of coquetry. Become his choicest comrade. Ke?p the details and worries of

the household from him. He hn hie full share of worry outside." If, after all this, he gori elsewhere, she adds, "ne is not worth keeping at home." True, madam. Your husband has a treasure of good judgment and common sense in you.—[Chicago Tribune.

Mrs. Vnnderbllt'a Wouclvrful Nurklnce

The diamond and pear! necklace worn on state occasions by Mis. Cornelius Vanderbilt has excited the greatest wonder and admiration. The striking feature of this necklace is the diamonds are pierced through the center and are Btrung alternately with pearls. It ia said it required many weeks of patient labor to pierce each stone.—[Washington Post.

Cleveland Will Visit Ioriluim.

Ex-President Cleveland has written a letter to Chairman Henderson, of the Indiana Demecratic committee, accepting an invitation to come to Indiana next summer with hie wife and spend a few weeks at the Martinsville mineral springs for the benefit of his health. The time of his visit he says will be fixed as soon as possible.

Old and young, rich and Door, all unite in testifying to the merits of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.

HEIRS TO KINGSHIP.

The Striking Fact That Many of Them Ar« Young Fsople.

It is a striking fact that many of the heirs to kingship are young people some, indeed, are very young, says the Youth's Companion.

The heir apparent, for instance, of the great German empire and the Prussian kingdom is the little PriDce Frederick William, who ie only 7 years of age. Should he die before reaching maturity, hia younger brother, Prince William, now aged 6, would become the heir.

The heir to the Portuguese throne, to which Dom Carlos has just succeeded, is Louis Philippe, prince of Beira, who is only

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years old. The future queen of

Holland, Princess Wilhelmina, has recently completed her 9th year, and is likely to succeed her aged and decrepit father ere very long.

The present king of Spain, Alfonzo XIII, is not 3 years old, and came to the throne at hia birth, his father having died before the little king came into the world. Should he die before marrying, his eldest sister, the Infanta Dona Maria de las Mercedes, now 9 years of age, would succeed to tbe Spanish throne.

Some beirs to European thronea have jast arrived at young manhood. The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, and the duke of Sparta in Greece, have recently celebrated the completion of their twen-ty-first year. Young Victor Emmanuel, prince of Naples, the heir to the throne of Italy, was 20 years old last November. Thus it appears that with the exceptions of Great Britain and Austria-Hungary the heir to every important European throne is younger than tjje constitution of the United States requires a member of congress to be and Prince Otto, the heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, ia only '2G years old.

Moreover, the succession in England belongs to the prince of Wales, who is 4S years old. But it ia said that the prince of Wales' health iB precarious, and it is not improbable that hta mother, yueen Victoria, although she is 70 years old, may outlive him. In that case the heir to the throne would be Albert Victor, the prince of Waleb'eldast SOD, who iB now 25 years old.

A few yeara older is Guatof, duke of Wermland, who is the heir to the throne of Sweden and Norway, and who is 31.

There are, of couree, several heira to thronea who are past middle life, but the large proportion of young people at this time is remarkable.

SENATOR INGALLS' EMPHATIC DENIAL.

He N«'ver Made tliu Statement* About Harriion Democrats Charge Him With.

James P. Rose, of Wabash, treasurer of the Republican county central committee, is in receipt of the following letters from Senator Ingalla denying the truth of a statement made in the Mobile Register:

Washington*, D. C., January3,1800.

The lion. Joint* Koss. Intl.: Mv Dkau Sik: 1 am much obliged to you for giving me the opportunity ot denying the truth ot the statements in the Inclosed clipping from a Democratic newspaper In Alabama. 1 have seen the stiry so frequently repeated and In so many dine: ent forms that. fearluK it might have reached the attention of the president, I called on him this morning to assure him of its absolute falsehood. 1 have never said anything derogatory or disparaging President Harrison's administration, and have always been and shall continue to be Ills earnest, loyal, faithful and cordial supporter and friend. Trulyyours, John J. Ingalls.

The article in the Alabama paper reads as followF: Senator Ing^lls can be bitter In his comments on other people besides Democrats. He is reported to have declared that (.enerai Benjamin Harrison deserves more thank* from the Democrats than from his own party. The measure of (ieneral Harrison has been taken a snuffy, commonplace Hco.sler Is vltiibie, but nothing more. As brilliant as a blue-book, as Inspiring as lire damp, as commandini as an old cow, (ieneral Harrison toddles along the narrow path of politics with no more majesty than Baby McKee, Ills most trusted adviser, displays from the dizzy height of Cheap John Wanamaker's velocipede.

Humanity'* Uetter Half.

Atchison Giob^: A woman's happiness ia in danger when sh6 begins to compare her husband with other men.

Baltimore American: StrBnge, isn't it, that a stately woman's carriage shows to the best advantage when she walks?

Exchange: The girl who gets the most invitations to go riding while the snow is on the ground may safely be called a sleigh belle.

Somerviile Journal: It is just as easy to tell the truth as it is to tell a lieespecially when you kaow that your mother in-law saw you.

Binghampton Republican: Chicago sa 's the women of that city are "up in arms" about the fair. If that is so no better place can be found.

Washington Star: When a young woman powders her hair and wears a cap it will b9 rather strange if there is not a bang somewhere in the vicinity.

Burlington Free Press: Tell a woman that she looks fre3h and she will smile all over. Tall a man the same thing and if he doesn't kick you, it is either be cause he has corns or daresn't.

Proponed Substitute for Profanity.

lt'a bad enough to have any of the one hundred and seventy-sevan thousand forma of disagreeable sensations known as the "grippe," or the influenza. It's bad enough to hear roystering tomnoddies still howling the adventures of that unfortunate idiot who should be allowed to rest in submarine security but when "another Enoch Arden turns up," even tbe best of men restrain themselves with difficulty from emitting explosive words such as, to adopt the system of expletives founded by the R^v. Waldo Messarop, corn jeef and cabbage! K-iw onions with cucumbers! Frizzled beef and potatoes! H—11—d corn!—[New ork Sun.

High Art in I'lilluduliikia.

Holding his camera over the great wall of a young ladies' seminary not far from the city, an enthusiastic amateur photographer secured a Monday morning view of the buck yard after the wash had been hung up. He struck off several pictures for his friends, and they are all marked thu&: "White wings, or the Fd.ory of the main brace."—[ Philadelphia Record.

Hut De.«rvt»l. 1'orhap*.

A man in Cincinnati who has a record of having eaten five dozen raw eggs, shells and all, hr-3 been made an honorary member of tKe Cincinnati city council for life. The punishment seems a horrible one.—[Chicago Tribune.

Arr They In Itilluenza'* Grip?

The faith cure people are wiseing a large opportunity these days but perhaps they are mostly down with it themselves.— [Philadelphia Ledger.

Alio Wine.

Queen Victoria has got the rheumatiz, instead of the influenza. Her majesty is eccentric.—[Boston Herald.

The cashier of the German bank of Baltimore, August Weber, Esq., recommends Salvation Oil for headache, sprains and neuralgia.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

A OHKAT INVESTOR.

He made a new Invention nearly every other week. But something always ailed It, and it always seemed to shirk Its functional activity was somehow very weak.

Its whole vitality was low the blamed thing wouldn't work.

He mad# perpetual motion things, but they would never move _• And then he made a big machine for (lying through the t-ky. But there was a slight obstruction in the piston rod or groove.

And the only trouble with It was he couldn't make It fly,

And Ue made marine toboggans for sliding on the sea, A very pretty compromise of bicycle and boat, And on the second trial trip he sal'l 'twas his Idee

The thing would slide tremendously, If he could not make It float.

And he made a panecea that would cure every 111, The long sought life-elixir, to the world so long denied He took the medicine himself—a large, green looking pill—

And twenty minutes later he laid him down and died. [S. W. Koss.

The debt of New York City is S9S,003,072. Two thousand tons of January rubber are expected at Para.

The winter in St. Petersburg ia described as "the mildest and unhealthiest known for many years."

Works for the sixty-fifth annual exhibition of the Academy of Design in New York must be sent in between March 10 and 13.

One of the crack hotels at Pasadena, Cal., has proved so poor an investment that the owner haa turned it into a storage warehouse.

The fashion of powdering the hair is re-establishing itself with the Paris beaux, and is expected to show itself ngain in London.

Two thousand four hundred and nine-ty-five telegranh poles have been hatcheted is New York, and 14,500,000 feet of wire has come down.

The Iv9v. Robert Collyer has a little grandchild that lately Btumped him in mental arithmetic. This was her problem: "A boy went five miles a fishing: Now, how many fish did he catch'/"

In the year 1889 there were laid in the United States 5,300 milea of track, which means an investment of $100,000,000. This seeni3 large, but it is estimated that Americans abroad in 1889 spent 8100,000,000.

For the first time, it is said, since their discovery the straits of Mackinaw are free from ice at this season of the year, and if the government had not put out the lights for the winter, vessels would pass through as usual.

A stranger fell headlong through the window of a store at Bloomsburg, Pa. He produced a §20 bill and offered to pay for the damage. The proprietor took out £1.50, but after the fellow had gone discovered that the note was a counterfeit.

Thirty yeara aero Daniel Harris took up a claim in Oregon and farmed it until laet year. Then he laid out the town of Fairhaven, which now has stores, residences, wharves, hotel?, schools, and ia disputing with Seattle and Tacoma ua to which is the best port for shipping.

Many hundreds of thousands of francs were lost by the great Louvre establishment in Paris because of the influenza. During the holidays no one would visit the place to buy the mountains of Christmas and New Year's toys, which remain unsold, and will probably be carried over till next year.

Since the establishment of tha Vienna free kitchens the number of drunkards is said to have greatly diminished. The medical profession testify to enormous improvement in the health of the lower classes. Derangement of the stomach, formerly the most frequent caeea in Vienna hospitals, have decreased to one-third of the number of ten years ago.

Arthur Mack, ex-chief of the Shanghai detective force, asserts that while China has a population of over 450,000,CCD, yet the criminal element in proportion to numbers is less than 10per cent, of what it is in the Chinese quarter of Sao Francisco. lie accounts for this by the greater stringency of the 1-iws for the punishment of crime in China aud the greater certainty in their administration.

A Pennsylvania railroad man says young men are selected as drivers of the locomotives on fast trains because old men do not have the nerve to stand the strain of the terrible speed of these trains, and even the nerviest young men get afraid of them after awhile. Then they get to letting up a little in speed, the trains run behind time, the engineers are given other runs and new men are put on in their places.

A new helper for the society of ladies in New York has appeared. A clever woman in that city proposes to meet them once a week and give them the gist of every new story worth reading, as well as a comprehensive review of magazine articles and such other literature as may appear advisable. Any society woman of ordinary brightness can thus acquire in an hour or two all the information necessary to sustain a reputation as a brilliant conversationalist.

A large class of applicants for teachers' positions assembled in the rooms of tbe Santa Clara, Cal., school superintendent last week. They were set to work on the examination papers, and everything went smoothly until this question oropped up in the history division: "What waa the name of the head steward of Stanley's exploring party, and wss he any relation to the ameer of Swat?" The whole class silently left the room and walked out into the drizzling rain to cool off.

Many amuaing comtnenta are made upon the "Angelue," now on exhibition in New York. An old lady explained to a voung companion what it meant. "Isn't it a beautiful picturei"' 6he said. "It is a love scene,dear. See, tho young man is making a proposal of marriage. Look how modest the sweet young woman ie, and how she bows her head as she hears his words of love." The old lady, however, is not alone in making thia mistake. A clergyman, a few Sundays ago, in Blluding to the "Angelus" in the course of a sermon, spoke of it BS "a love pastoral."

A use of the telephone, which is very suggestive as pointing to future possibilities, is reported in an English paper. The parish clerk in a Norfolk village, being prevented by rheumatic gout from attending church, waa presented by the manager of the local telephone company with a double telephone, which was fixed from the church to the old man's cottage, so that he and his wife could follow all the services. The old man is quite unable to hold anything, so the telephone is arranged so as to fit against both his ears. He can hear anything in the church quite clearly, and if a book is dropped or if any one cougha the sound iaas distinctly heard as if he were in the building.

"It's only a question of time," and a short time, too, aa to when your rheumatism will yield to Hood's Sarsaparilla. Try it.

•SjFV

Handle It Without Gloves!

We do that with prices. You need not do it with anything

While They Last!

35 dozen genuine Foater 5 and 7-hook,. nearly all light ahadea, former price 61.50 and -52 15 dozen Harris' aeamless 3 button, black, 5J-ij to

l4',

Tff

former price 8125

10 dozen Harts' Seamless 3-button, in colors, former price $1.25 7 dozen Jouvin 0 button, 5} to G'.i', former price 81 10 dozen Undressed Kid, 4 and 0 button. in colors, nearly all large aizes, former price 81—

ALL AT

Q9 cts.

TIM"0

7

A PAIR.

THE GREAT REMNANT SALE

Has caught the general attention, and the response is heavy. It will continue until all remnants are closed out. Come right along.

THE CUT CLOAK SALE.

This goes on from day to day. Many cloaks at one half less than actual cost.

L.

S. AYRES & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

KIT"Agent* for Butterlck's Patterns.

Naylor

opera house,

WILSON NAYLOR MANAOKR

Tuesday eve, Jan. 14th.

W. H. POWER'S COMPANY

rresenting the Homantlc Irish Drama.<p></p>IELL

THE FAMES'

(A Companion Flay to THE IVT LKAK.) A Strictly Kirst-C'asH Company. Including the Talented Irish Comedian,

CARROL JOHNSON

(Late of Johnson Siavin's Minstrels. Scale of Prices: 75c, 50c and 25c.

Naylo r's Wednesday, Jan. 15,

The trio ol comedians,

WILLS,-:-HI£iNSHAW

TKN JJKQKCK

Accompanied by a select cast of actors, vocalists and comedians, In the extravaganza,

mDoperatic

CROIIES

JJ

One scream of laughter from beginning to end. Usual prices-75.50 and 25 cents.

NAYLOR'S EXTRA

Saturday, January 18,

America's Favorite artisie.

Supported by

MR. CHARLES ABBOTT

And her own eliiclent roniiany. In her latest success,

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Special Cast. Special Scenery. Scale of prices-25. 50, 75 and 1. Seat sale opens Thursday at button's.

TABLE.

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Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car at tached. Trains marked t)jue (8) denote Sie«pln Cars attached dhi y. Trains marked than (B) denote Buffet Car* attached. Trains marked thus ran dally. Ail other trsTii run 3o'.l7 nundays

VANDAL1A LINE.

T. H. I. DIVISION. LK&VX POK TH* W*8T.

No. 3 Western Express (8&V) No. 6 Mall Train No. 1 KaaE Line (PAV) No. 21 No. 1 Ktat Mall

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (81 No. 6 Ne* York Express (SsV) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. HO Atlantic Kxpres* (P&V) No. yaet Line No. 2

1.42 a. m. 10.21 a. m. 2.UI p. m. 3.10 p. m. «.04 p. m.

LXAV* FOK TUX KA3T,

1.80 a. m. 1.51 a. in. 7.15 a. is. 12.47 p. in. p. m, 6.05 p. m.

AHK1VX FHOM TUX KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) No. 6 Mall Train No. 1 Fast Line (P&V) No. 21 No. 3 Mall and Accommodation No.

1.»i a. m. 10.15 a. m. 2.KI p. in. 3.05 p. III. 6.45 p. m. tf.00 p. in

Ka*t Mall ABK1VH FHOM THX WX3T. No. 12 Cincinnati Express (3) No. 6 New y^rk Express (34V) No. HO Atlantic Express (P&V) No. Fast Line No. 2

1.20 a. m. 1.42 a. m. 12.42 p. m. 2 10 p. in. 5.00 p. in.

T. H. & L. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOK THK HOKTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mail 8.00 a. m. No. South Bend Express 4.00 p. m. ARHIVK FKOM Tn* nORTH No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.11) nocn No. 58 South Bend Mall 7.80 p.

ERMANIA HALL.

FRABKLU AHimSARJ BALL

—:IF-

Terre Haute Typographical Union

Thursday, January 16. Admhslon 75 cents. Ladles admitted free. Ml jilCbyTlIi MILITAKY OKCIIKSTKA.

BOOTS 11 SHOES!

Now is the time to

SAVE MONEY

In buying your Footwear at

1105 WABASH AVE.

As the holidays are over and we want to mak room for our spring stock. Kemember

make}

1105 WABASH AVENUE

GEORGE A. TAYLOR\

FE.ESH SEW TORK ASH BALTIMORE OYSTERS

-AT-

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0X5 MAIN STREET.'