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FB1DAT, MARCH 81. 1808. AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND. Thomas F. Bayard had the distinction of beintf the first ambassador ever appointed by the Government of the United States. The eonatitutioa recognizes ambassadors, but hitherto we have contented ourselves with envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, which is certainly an impressively high-sounding title. There has been a widely-prevalent feeling that ministers accorded better with republican ideas and principles than ambassadors; indeed many have gone so far as to hold that it is not *t all proper or becoming for a republic to lend forth an ambasra* don For, in the strict meaning of the word, an ambassador is the personal repre•entative of the sovereign of a state. But With the 'growth of popular institutions, of parliamentary government and responsible ministries, this distinctive quality of the ambassador has ceased practically to have such significance. Practically, the situation is just this; the civilized nations of the world recognize three grades of diplomatic agents: Ambsssadors, envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, and charges d’ affaires. Whatever the rank of the diplomatic agent may be> his duties and functions are much the same. He is the representative of bis country, at the seat of government of another country, for the transaction of his country’s business with the government to which he is accredited. ‘ It has been customary for countries of the first Rank to send diplomatic agents of the first rank, that is to say ambassadors, to other first-class powers. Thus, Great Britain maintains embassies at Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Madrid, Rome and Constantinople; and it has just raised the minister at Washington to the rank of ambassador, it being understood that an ambassador* would be sent to London from this country. The title ambassador gives its bearer , precedence/ of all ministers of lower rank; just as a lieutenant-general takes precedence of all army officers of inferior title. The ambassadors at the seat of any government are a small and select group. Minis, ten take rank in accordance to the length •f their service, the senior in point of time taking precedence of- all other ministers, whether he comes from a great country or a small. So it might happen that Mr. Lowell or Mr. Lincoln at the court of St James would in all ceremonial functions be outranked by the minister from Peru. Of courss that was not pleasant either for our minister or for the country. & America is a power of the first class: its representatives abroad . should rank wit! the representatives of other powers in name as well as in fact That is All that it means, as we take it, in calling the man wfe, send to the court of St James an ambassador and his official residence an embassy, rather than minuter and legation. It does not savor of toadyism or fiunkyism or a foolish desire for the frippery of title, to our minds, apy more than using the title. General, or elevating the Commissioner of Agriculture to Cabinet rank and title. We believe it tb be to our advantage to call certain of our foreign representatives ambassadors instead of ministers, and so, very sensibly, we adopt that title. As w* are a first-rate power we ccltforut for practical reasons to the custom of first-rats powers in diplomatic intercourse. Our representatives will thus stand in all lespsota just where they belong. They will be in the first group, in sodal‘recognition •ad in official privileges, act on a level with the envoys of third and fourth-rate

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The propriety and desirability of raising As rank of our envoys to the great

meat being passed increasing the burdens of the trade over Government opposition. It is cHriout that the Hi hot Ministry, which hsis known only stormy .weather, should finally go to pieces on u -b leat so iiuie connected with the disturbances which lately menaced the integrity of. the republic. The Ribot Ministry was formed January 10, and the Chamber lias expressed its confidence from time to time until yesterday, when a question of financial expediency caused a government defeat by a majority of five. There are always unforseen possibilities attending a French Cabinet crisis. A new Ministry may act with wisdom and caution at the critical hour of its selection and win at least a temporary confidence. In the new Ministry that must he formed it is probable that the ghost of Pssuuaa wiii still be seen. The ahock of that scandal is likely to cause uneasiness for a long time to come.

THK HEADSMAN AT WORK. Mr. MaXWKM. is beginning to get his gnillotiue in fine working order. At preaent indications the fourth-class heads will soon begin to drop as fast as they did when Clarkson hid the job. Yesterday, for example, eighty-five heads tainbled into the basket, and 188 appointments were made. Counting six working hours as a day for the fourth assistant postmaster-general, we have aB appointment every two minutes, 4 removal every' four minutes. That is doing pretty well for a beginner. Bat wait! Of course, the postmasters are not under the civil - service law. They are now nearly all partisan Republicans. Until a change in the system of appointment and the tenure of office is brought about by cougressionaP act, nothing else can be expected, we fear, than that a change of administration from one party to the other shall result in wholesale partisan removals and appointments. But it is not an inspiring spectacle, surely. So far^ the entire strength and energy of the new administration have been given to dividing the patronage, removing one set of fairly competent men, Republicans, to pnt in another set, Democrats*. There is no pretense that this is done for the good of the service—oniy for the good of the party, and especially for the good of the “party of the second part” The way things go the first few weeks after a new President takes the helm, one might fairly infer that what the two great parties really and truly contend for in this country are not principles and policies, but petty postoffices, consulships and the like. We have faith to believe that it will not be always so; that some time, and not verylong hence, either, the business of the Government will be conducted on business

principles.

laws in each of the States provide inade- | qttate penalties. Mr. Bishop makes the : point that before our laws cau be made j more effective the power to de- ; eltle contested election eases mnst be Wtinsferml from the Legislatures to die ; courts. "Ulttil such transfer is inade,” he j says, “no corrupt practice act, with a' penally of forfeiture of office, could Im j enforced against legislative esudHiatos, and for that reason the including of such u penalty would be, partially, at least, a futile ennettneut.’’ That States so widely separated and so representative as New York, Massachusetts, Michigan and Colorado aru interested in this matter is encouraging. As a result of this experiment aud example, some elledtive measures will certainly be adopted by all ths States before uiauv yean. . Tub Choatiiws ate juet killing.

Mr. Allsbtom'b connection with the Indi anapolts street-car strike has become the chief weapon of the IlSrrisonitee in the Chicago mayoralty contest. Thkre are eighteen women oandhiatee for mayor in thg State of Kansas. If elected they can do ae worse than Kansas statesmen.

Toe attention of the city authorities should be called to (if It is not already fixed upon) the Empire Theater, which proposes to vioi late the law by holding another performance next Sunday night This theater manifests a disposition to break the law in this particular that needs the rebuke of law enforcement, with the punishment made and ptbvided. This theater also disfigures the dead walls of the town with obscene posters, for which the management and the billposter should be arrested and punished.

Ufa and Death. Two snowflakes, horn of winter’s storm. Fell through the aw; Two down v flakes of stariike form. Beyond compare. One rested on the sun-kissefl ground. And. thawing, died; 'While one a sheltered ice-drift lound. And death defied. Two human sou!* by God’s decree Vere scat to earth; Each with a different destiny Was given birth. • One struggled ’gainst an evil fate, Nor long survived; The other, born in happier state, . Grew strong and thrived. Ah, who can solve the hidden sense Of God’s design* We trust in His omnipotence And Jove divine. Not length of years, but deeds sublime Can call us blest. He longest lived who, in his time. Has lived the best. — Milton Goldsmith. The Road to Yesterday. Will some wise man who has journeyed Over land and over sea To the countries where the rainbow And the glorious sunsets be, Kindly tell a little stranger Who has oddly lost her wav. Where’s the road that »he must travel To return to Yesterday? For, you see, she’s unfamiliar With To-day, aud can, not read What its strange, mysterious sign-posts Tell of ways and where they lead, And her heart upbraids her sorely.

esterday. For she left a deal neglected, * That she really should have done; Ami she fears she’s lost some favors That she fairly might have won. > So she’d like to turn her backward To retrieve them If she may— Will not some one kindlv tell her Where’s the road to Yesterdav? —[J ulie M. Lippnaan in March St. Nicholas. “SCHAPs.”

feraent that Minister Gray is six feet. l — fin bight, has got into the current

Tub st ten inch

items, and is now going the rounds of the press, which leads a contemporary to remark that probably ten feet, six inches is meant. Isn't “turning the rascals out” reforming the civil service?

VLEWrS OF THK STATE PRESS. One of the most favorable signs of the times is the i.nlispntuble evidence from every quarter thut no American community wants the Coriwit-Mitehcll fight. At least no bids of sufficient size to excite the cm* nidity *.l the sports *nd other fakirs are being made.—[Evansville Tribune (Ind.) The boycott "is the weapon of cowards, and no man professing to be an American citizen can afford to resort to that method of mom) assassination. There is a hopeful prospect that the courts will hold boycotting to be a crime in the eyes of the law, and that result once obtained and the precedent established, there will ensue a new order of things of positive aud practical benefit to nil our social and material interests.—[Lateyetic Courier (Rep.) No ouc ever bad a right to doubt the Demoorucy ol the News, hut our reader* may rest assured that we shall never undertake the job of defending the record of the last Legislature. There may he foine consolation for the Republicans in this, but we can not see where it eomee in. The minority was about as stupid and unrepresentative in its make-up as the majority. Both parties will be called upon in the next campaign to make better nominations. —{Tell City News fDem.) Indianapolis has set out to raise a fund of $50,100 for the G. A. R. encampment by private subscription and will succeed. And this is the proper manner of raising money for this purpose. The proposition to force contributions by taxation was very property defeated in the last Legislature, but fa providing means for the entertainment of the ex-sol<

Anthracite coai was discovered in 1701. You can’t eat your cake and have it, too. llitt it’s different with up onion. ' s -- The Phillips Brooke monument fund committee in Boston has now all the money

it wants.

“There, blast you!” said the dynamite to the rock. Then it went oil' about its busi-

ness.—[Trov Press.

Blocks sixty feet long without a break are ( found quite frequently in the onyx quarries \ An Englishman in Philadelphia says he hasn’t eaten bread for twenty years, but he

patch (Dem.)

It is not astonishing that all Republican newspapers are not stanch advocates of civil-service reform. Nine-tenths of the employes in the Government service are Republicans, and a strict application of the civil-service law will give them life-time positions. Two of the three mem tiers of the civil-service commission are Republicans, and nearly -every chief of division in the vai iou« ikpartments i» wedded to the faith of Kepfeibiicauftm. Of course none of these boss officials are partisans. No Republican is, but both they and the Republican newspapers desire it distinctly understood that civil-service reform is a good thing—for the Republican party.—[Elkhart Truth (Deni.)

PERSONAE MENTION.

CORRUPT PRACTICES LEGISLA-

TION.

The many complaints against our Amer-

ican State legislative

~ We repeat that the brick piles should be removed from our principal streets. It is not

necessary t^at our great thoroughfares should ^ ^

be turned into brick-yards, carpenter shops ea j. s mt . n t f( )U j- times a day. and mortar beds because a new building is | X) u . total recorded immigration to this going Up. Bigger buildings than-Indianap- | country is 16,0!>4,09.’t, almost as many as the' oils has ever «6«h, or perhaps ever will see, whole population of Spam, arc built daily in large cities and not I The excavated temples near Bombay, in one foot of the roadway is taken ! India, would require the labor of 40.000

of the side- ] far forty years to complete. hurt to • ’ "Here's another blow at American aeri

I culture,” said the fanner when he saw a j cyclone coming.—[Kansas Farmer. * A Georgia editor says he would rather be

up, and practically none walk, for passageways are

struction that we sufl’er is entirely ur.necesB&ry, and the building inspector should be lifted up tb a realization of his duty and held there. If this is the-necessary process to get these obstructions removed. There is power in the authorities to keep the streets clear, and they should be kept plear.

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powers have long been urged. But it has bean difficult to get Congress to take the simple, practical view of the question. Only at its last session did Congreae authorise the appointment of am bsssadors. Ike long precedent of a century of na'ttoaol life was conclusive to many. Other* hosed their opposition on the original o«d stmt meaning of the title; other, ^•cod #o were deporting from 4 republican simplicity; others doubted the wisdom of maintaining permanent min-

M. - " *•*•« •broad nowadays, 'anyway, and

00 opposed elevating their rank. As - to this last point much could be ML But so long os we do have minister*, we should stand on an equal footing with the other great powers of the world. Congress at .test came to th^iej; and exSecretary of State Bayard is a worthy choice to he first to bear the now title.

their lamentable failure to appreciate the seriousness of their functions, lias, the part winter, canned thoughtful people to consider method# by which a better class of legislators would be insured. Going to the generis ii? the matter, it ha# been qbviotts that the first place to work was in primaries and ronyeiitioiis. With honovable nml worthy •candidates selected by all parties, the next thought would be iu respect to honest elections. Experiments in legislation jfltfuinst corrupt prnetiecs ore making in Etteland und in u number of our Stated We my experiments, for in Amerien, nt icm-t, the regulations are only in a form;:live state, and must be slowly perfected ti# the result of experience, Sir Henry James, author of the corrupt practices net in Groat Britain, writes in the Forum of the successful operation of that measure, which has been in force since 18&’. There are four corrupt practices recognized by the British act. Bribery, treating and undue influence are well known to the law, but the act Of 1883 added aupther offense, dedhriug that "personation and the aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring the commission of the offense of personation” should he a B corrupt practice. Bribery is broadly defined, and treating also is prohibited explicitly. Every person is gnilty of undue influence "who directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in his behalf, makes use of or thrcatei to makfe use of any force, violence, or strand? or inti ids, or threatens to inflict } by Inmself, or by any other person, any teplporal or Spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon or against any person to compel him to vote or to refrain from

voting.”

Ths penalties attaching to conviction are setere. Bribery, treating and undue influence are misdemeanors, punishable by imprisonment, with or without bard labor, for a term not exceeding one year, or a fme not exceeding $1,000. Personation is a felony, and maximum imprisonhient is, for a term not exceeding two years, with, hard labor. Certain incapacities also attach to persona convicted under the act. A fixed schedule of permissible expenditures is provided, and*infractions of the law In this respect belong to a minor grade of offenses defined as illegal practices. Abuses have ceased in most localities, and everywhere they have greatly diminished. The enforced substitution of volunteer canvassers and "workers” for hired agents, has driven the professional politicians oat of bnsinass. Under this act several coses have been tried in England since the general election of test July, and three in Ireland. Of the English instances three resulted in the unseating of the mcrabere elected. A supplemental paper on the working of the corrupt-practice tew in Massachusetts is contributed by Joeiah Quincy, Assistant Secretary of State, who wye largely instrumental in procuring its adoption. Tiie Massachusetts tew is not com prehen•ive enough to be compared with the very effectual . English act It defines and forbids certain acts as constituting "corrupt practices,” but it is mainly uirected to'securing a” full and public # 'count of ail political expenditures >ut there ,is no limit to their amount, and there are no restrictions, except that no candidate may make any expenditure for the purpose of securing his own^ nomination or election, except through a political committee. Although this legislation is hardly direct enough to he of any great service, it is regarded as

Therb is a general demand that AttorneyGoueral OIney giv# a sample of UU trust-

smashing abilities.

A nt.Gt who accepts a position of honor

bodies, evoked by j and trust, where he Stands as the representa-

tive in any respect of the higher life of community, is subject to the strongest condtmnatiou if he use the position for his personal profit. We know of no plea that can, be urged in extenuation. A man, yon see, does not have to accept a public duty, lie is under no obligation to do that. But once he has accepted, ho Is under the highest obligation to cotiduct himself as an honorable

and honest man.

The little dogs and all—Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart—have been on exhibition

this week.

Ms. Suaxklih is still the difficult chessman whom Mr. Cleveland hesitates to move.

A casual inspection of newspapers would lead anyone to suppose that all the Democrats worthy to hold office live in Indiana.

Duaipici tho last administration, appointing editors to ptibbe office was widely characterized, especially by the mugwump papers, as “subsidising the p ess.” What is it now? The faithful editors are receiving a good deal of comfort now, as well as in times gone by.

Latimer, the matricide, who murdered the guafd at the Jackson (Mich.) Slate prison, was a convict for life. Michigan has done away With capital punishment. The Latimer episode makes many Michigan people Wish thst the gibbet were still in existence.

KRKNCH CRISJ& few- weeks fige ti»e*j threaten eatejnity.

and the trial

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By the Aid of his “pull” Senator Voorhees is pushing many of his friends into office.

Mr. RtatWY has strenuously denied that he was ever a member of the Knights of the Golden Cii ele. Brother-in-law Voorhees also makes indignant denial for Mr. Itislcy in a dispatch from Washington to John E. Lamb. Voorhees declares that the story that Rlsley has shunned Indiana is absolutely false; that Sisley went to New York in October, 18£3;

that hg visited Terre Haute in 1865, and has Visited in the State «t least once a year ever ! little less popular than since. He declares that if any money was " ” I x

placed in Risley’s hands in 1863 by anybody for any purpose which has not been accounted for, RJsley will not plead the statute of limitations. Voorhees quotes Col. William E. McLean, a member of tho military court that tried the Golden Circle cases, who declares that the trials connected Risley iu no way with the treasonable organization. But Risley’s •compromising letter to H. H. Dodd, written froth New York in August, 1884, is not explained. And, furthermore, the esteemed Journal this morning quotes from the published report of the treason trials of 1864 a portion of the testimony of William M. Harrison, by which it appears that Risley was present and participated in the formation, at Terre Haute, late ip August, 1863, of the Grand Council at the Order of American Knights. Moreover, New York dispatches say that there are uncomfortable things in Mr. Rlsley’s later career which need much

explanation.

“a fiddler on the court of Tybce than a player of the mandolin at tho millc.nn'ium.” A number of .sportsmen at Washington, Pa., have secured u 2,dJ0 acre preserve, for the experiment of breeding pheasants for sport. ’ A social club has been organize I in F-ast-mnn, Ga., which rejoices in the title of “The Society of the Amalgamated Prevari-

eatots.”

A man proposes to import monkeys and train them to become bootblacks. Will the public put up with Hueh monkey-shines?—

[Siftings.

A fair estimate places the number of bananas brought into* the United States from Central America and the West Indies last

year, at 12,8o5,f>B> bunches}.

Mrs. Jane L. Fowle. of Dedham, Mass., has been awarded §450 by a Boston jury against a dentist who extracted a sound

tooth instead of a decayed one.

The greatest waves known are said to be those off the Citpe of Good Hope, where under the influence of a northwest gale they will sometimes reach a hicht of forty feet. Forty-four gnns are fired for a national salute, one for each State. The national flag is sainted with twenty-one guns..the President with twenty-one and the Vice-

President with nineteen.

The “phi Guard” that stood by General Grant in the Republican national convention of 1880 at Chicaco will celebrate Gen. Grant’s birthday at Philadelphia on the 27th of April. About one hmidred and fifty survivors of the famous 306 will be present. Warren county, Tennessee, lies almost exactly in the geographical Center of the State and its boundary is almost a complete circle. McMinnville, the county seat, is very close to the ceographieal renter of the county and roads to the Court-house are like radii. The sea horse is a wonderfully shaped animal. It has the head of a horse, the wings of n bird and the tail of a snake. In swimming .it assumes a vertical position and when wishing to rest it attaches itaelf to a convenient stalk of seaweed by means

of its tail.

“Oh, dear,” sighed Widow Jenkins, "if John had made a will, there wouldn’t have been all this trouble about the property.” “Do the lawyers bother yon?” "Bother me? They almost worry me to death. I declare, T sometimes wish John hadn’t died.”—[Tit-Bits. A SuratogV (N. Y.) tramp ha* evolved a brilliant scheme to visit Chicago at the opening of the World’ll Fair. He was looking at a Chicago paper to find if some great crime had been committed in that eity. so that be could write a confession to the chief of police, and thus secure a free ride on a

.requisition.

Stained glass for domestic decoration is a Jtie less poptilar than it was, partly-bc-eause in the recent craze for this.sbrtof thing much cheap and mean glass waa used. The imnetus given to American stained glass has, however, survived the craze, and the beauty of such glass in this country

still improves.

Christian Joachim Mohn, a Norwegian linguist, who was acquainted with more

President Nunez, of Colombia, has rea pension of $30,<X)0 a year. Ex-Secretary Tracy says that in addition to the liard labor 41 nd constant! anxiety, his cabinet life cost him about $60,000 a year over and above his salary. King Oscar, of Sweden, is a very simpleminded man. When he went to see the Pope, he kissed the Holy Father on both cheeks. Such a salute was quite irregular, long usage having established the Custom of kissing only the Pope’s hand. This rule was only broken once, in the case of the late pontiff, by a president of the United States. General Grant simply shook him by the hands and said, “How do yon do.

sir?”

Long before Elaine Goodalc went as a missionary to the Indians to become the wife of an educated savage, Delight Sargent bad tried to couvertttie Choctaws ami Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and married E. C. Boudinott. w ho was a prominent figure in the land troubles between the Cherokees and the United States. After the assassination of her husband, Mrs. Boudinott went to Troy, N. Y., where the venerable lady died a few days ago at

the age of ninety-two.

An ** Office Cot.” Worth Having.

(April St. Nicholas.'

A parsonage cat whose favorite seat is on the study table has found a new use for himself. He watches his master’s pen, and 1 .occasionally, when the writer is tired, takes the holder iu his mouth. But’his real usei fulness is to act as a paper-weight When : a sheet is finished and laid aside, the cat 1 walks gravely to it and takes, bis seat on the paper. As soon as another is laid aside, he leaves the first and sits down on the second. Sometimes, to try hjm, his master lays down, on different parts of the table, sheets in rapid succession. But “Powhatan” —the cat—remains seated, shrewdly supposing that to be fun, not business. When work begins anew, the cat seats himself on the last paper laid down, and waits for another. Thus he shows that he watches his master’s work, and perhaps thinks it his duty to keep the paper from blowiug away.

1 Malt a* a Manure. [Meehan's Monthly.]

In a general way every one knows that salt is a good fertilizer for the asparagus plant, It is not so generally known that it is very useful in other instances. Its chief advantage is in r attracting moisture from the atmosphere, therefore it is an admirable help to fertility in soils that arc likely to become comparatively dry. In heavy wot soils salt is worse than useless. For lawaa, salt has been found of great value; and as

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The New York Store] The New York

GLOVES # I HIM nil— FOR EASTER. Our swell ^-button Suedes are quite the proper thing, and come in greens, blues, rose, heliotrope and all the staple shades. /They cost $2, which is very little, quality considered. Then there’s another very “swagger” glove—-the large button glace, 4-button length, which comes in^*^ n # ;^« 'the price being $1.75 and $2. Our dollar glove! Now here’s where we become env , . * thusiastic with a very large E. The dollar glove is a 4-button or 5-hook Glace, and you’ll seldom see it equaled .even for $1.25.

=5= New 1 [tstaUishrA M

T EASTEB CM 3,000 pounds ""fine

made to our special order, pure and fresh. The

quote you are for A choice of ail our fine

Candies, such as Nougas, Marac Glaces, Minuets, Opera Dr etc.,,etc., usually sold at 50c

pound, at 39c.

A choice of 10 kinds of Dips, assorted fruit flavors,

25c a pound.

All our fine Chocolate nut Bon Bons, Mint

Squares, Cream Almonds, etc., re

25c and 30c, at 19c a pound,

1,000 pounds fine* assorted Cream Bons. I2]4c a pound. • « 500 pounds large Jelly Beans, xH flavohs M/4 c a pound. ’ 500 pounds special Mixed Candies, 10c

a pound.

300 pounds fresh Boston Nougas,

a pound.

Extra help will be in attendance so that all will be promptly waited upon. *

Wafers, ’ W;

Men’* Wear. 15 dozen Columbian Dress Bows in shields and bands, the latest spring ideas; prices 42c and 50c. 15 dozen light Tecks and Four-in-ilands, 25c kind for

17c. ^

Fine Kid Gloves in the latest reddish tan shades, regular $1.25 gfade, for 98c. Fine Dress Shirts in linen embroidered and fancy pique bosoms,$1.25 quality, for 89c.

UtabrOilea

12 dozen ladies’ fancy trimmed crook Umbrellas in reds and blues, English glo-

rias, at $1.75.

Hoeiorr..

Children’s imported Derby ribbed Hose in tans and reds,

50c quality, 35c.

Children s imported last black Jersey ribbed Hose, 35c

kind for 25c.

Fine ribbed cotton Hose in tans, reds and slates, im ported goods, 50c kind, 35c. Ladies’ imported fine cotton and lisle Hose, fancy boot Patterns, regular 65c value,

for 49c.

L«die»’ Underwear.

bilk ribbed Vests in cream and black, regular $1 goods,

for 85c.'

Fine Lisle Vests in ecru; and white, regular 65c value,

for 50c.

West Bargain Table. _

38-inch mixed Bengalines and fine stripes at 25c a yard;

regular 39c goods. It is a

light-weight spring fabric in

desirable shades. the light sprinklings of snow.

MU lard Fountain Syringes, t quarts, We, CaaintereTiLuf Soap 10c. Moth Balls 4c a box. 60c BotUe of Sea Foam only Wo. Peary* Fullers Earth i6c. heather Puffs only Ifcc. . . Fancy Decorated I’criume Atomlier only 50c. Tripie Handkerchief Extracts, all odors, with bottle, ioc an ounce. Lot assorted stylaj Bottles, glass stoppers, ■ at ftc each,' ^^re^MejUjiSrelig

Faster Lilies. ■ [Meehan's Monthly. 1 In the old world the Easter lijy is the whjtc lily Lilian! candidum. or the variations of toe white Japan lilies. In our country the Calla or Richardia Ethiopica usually receives this designation. The word Easter is a corruption of Eostro, who was an Anglo-Saxon goodese, worshiped in |the month of April in Britain, with peculiar cerem'otiies. ’When the island was converted to Christianity, thepname was retained and the Christian festival supplanted the older ceremonies. Kindness Rebuffed. ITexa* Siftinf*.] , ‘‘Gentlemen,” said an indignant passenger on a Third-avenue car, “will none you

tonxues died at Nanleit earlv thiafoonth f 1 ! 88 ^ ar <-‘ ^enty years if I.am any

The New York Sun’a demand for free trade bears the fervor of the original brand.

Now, Mr. Morton, please hold the weather lever about where you are for a while.

be a familiar figure in the British Museum, , and was well known in most Continental |

European cities.

“What means this coolness between Jon-, son and Joanes—is there a difference be

tween them*” ‘‘Tliff’ci.n/u

A Sad Bereavement.

[Chicago Record.],

A story of sad bereavement comes from Kansas City. According to Dress dispatches

A» ^ I a gentleman, on learning of the death of an itiemmiLd 1 " nc > wh ,°.M died ^tertate, buret into

tween them?’’ “^Difference? I should say

a gentleman and a donkey.” "H’ra! But which is the gentleman and .which the donkey?" “Well, it is just there where thev

differ.”— [Boston Transcript.

The visiting spinster stood looking with artistic appreciation at the new clock. Of course it was the little three-year-old who broke the silence: “Aha! pspa, I found oo out in a ’tory.” “ Why, Lottie, what do vou

have suffered!

On tho Ocean Steamer.

[London Tit-Bits.]

“Does the captain say whethej we

^ ...,.... shall break the record or not?”

“Yes, he says the record or the boiler

_oyi

mean talking that way to papa 1 ?” “You f must go.” said Miss Primpey was ugly enough to atop “How lovely!” a dock, and she don’t do any such fing.”— !

[Detroit Free Press. I Tho Soprano’s Piety.

There lately died, in Mexico a miser of the nafne of Moneeke. His relatives were

Now Arkansas hoe local option over half unwilling that his body should be interred, during prayer? the State. But there stands Kentucky like a as he had tattooed his will over his chest Soprano—The

stone waU. Governor Flower is one of the members of the syndicate which has purchased the New York Time*—an item for the personal

perusal of Senator Hill.

with some jrd pigment justead of using pen marliable “human document” should be copied aud the representation duly attested m the presence of witnesses. This was done, and the Court has pronounced the

queer will genuine.

The question of whiskers is agitating the

_ r w jMMPHPIL. British army journals. The regulation govRepublicM* show'™ courage than diacre- and Sit her M^jertA

not permitted to shave the upper lip at all, though some enlightened eommbnding offi-

iDetroit Tribune.]

Why don’t you bow your head

church owes me for a

month’* salary.

^ A Strong Point. [Cleveland Plain Dealer.] One of. the strongest points the President makesjs when be points toward the door.

Ohio Republicans have declaredTor the old principles and high protection. The Ohio

Hon

—

. It is about time for Massachusetts to move away and take her elbows off the pie-countar.

B^Btehop speaks of the gfc*

York law as the weakest enacted! by Jtty American State for the regulation of campaign expenditures. Statements are required of the candidates only; the committees arc free'to do as they please. The JO-suit gains nothing exi-ept an idea of the individual cxpardtitires Of candidate*. Colorado aud Michigan, like Massachusetts, include ciqupaigu committees in the requirement for eworn publication. Tke

cers permit young men to shave, bn the strict understanding that it is done for the purpose of stimnlatmg the growth of a backward mustache. Some officer* of high rank are said to disregard the regulation, and so set a bad example to the 1 servioaiy

going dean shaven. ’

Earliest Contract f-*tx>rer».

[New York Sun.]

The earliest contract laborers imported into this country came not in defiance of law, hut with the full knowledge and apprbval of the authorities. These were the

ot - t j, e colonial period, derho came over under agreeint the cost of their passage had advanced the money.

Old ladies of tenacious memory in rural purls of the South even yet recall the fact

that the ancestors of perhaps offensively purest form of carbon. _ _ urospereo* neighbors were redempttaners. ! has been smeared over your shoes, the 1 fric*

Doesn't "look* as site aught—tha weak, nervous and ail big woman. A* long a* she suffers from the aches, pains, and derangements peculiar tq her sex, she can't ex-

pect to. >

But tbdre’s only hersffif to blame.

Ferry Was Vernier blit’s Double. M, Jules Femr was remarkably like the

iu to

M. Jules Ferrv was t’eiuai

late WiUtauVH Vsnderbilt _ { figure. To those who knew the late Ameriton millionaire the resemblance was strike

■“Do you know that when your shoes With D*- Ftefce’s Favorite Preemption, she’s

With tho M Favorite Prescription,” all tho functions are restored to healthy Periodical pains, weak back, bear-

finitesiinally small diamonds and eveAr £ lail,MdfcHr 11 If it doesn't pve satisfaction, mauwito aWonhistitoes mavivrt ** '*** it’s recommended.

irue. ne coawuueu, -tun 1 will Show you t 1 * M S7£r why. Bonedust, which is tho principal ingredient in shoe blacking. Is almost pure carbon. The diamond, yoq know, is the actloa *

When this paste

eature and man with a shino on his shoes may revel in

the knowledge that he wears a cluster of diamonds on his feet.” — [Philadelphia

Record.

Can something else offered by the dealer, though it may pay him better, be “ just ae

Drees Goods Counter.'

Just received a new lot of

54 inch cloth for Ca the good shades gray. The prices

trom 50c to $2. ‘

On Saturday, we 20 pieces 40 inch French Serge in all

ular spring shade's . at

yard. .

In the center aisle the usual

crop of honest bargains will

be ofifered.on Saturday. Silk and gauze hand-painted Fans, el)

colors. ?5c, worth |t.

Gauze Fan?, s Iver stick*, handsomely

decorated. 51.25.

Triplicate Stand Mirror, oak frame, only 10-inrii Shopping Bag, leather handles,

outside pockets, 98c.

Plate giass black Hand Mirror, 19c; reduced irom 26c. y

range

will sell all-wool the pop-

44c a

1 air.

Shoes.

200 pairs of Ladies’ finest Russia Calf ’ Shoes, handsewed turn opera toe, tipped, our $3.50 leader, this once at $2.99. 250 pairs Ladies’Tan Goat Oxfords, tipped opera toe, the $1.50 leader, special $1.29. 175 pairs Ladies’ Dongola Oxfords, patent tip, handturned, good value at $2.25, special £1.89. 200 pairs Ladies’ White Strap Sandals, regular $1.50 grade, at Si.29. 150 pairs Misses’ Dongola, patent tip, common-sense Oxfords, the $1.50 kind, for $1.27. 300 pairs Ladies’ tan blucher Shoes, a good $3 value, for $2.79. A very swell shoe it is, too. 100 pairs of Children’s red goat Oxfords, regular $1.25 kind, for 98c. Boys' and Youths’ Shoes at very much whittled prices. Center Bargain Table. 75 pieces Cords and Chevrons, all in light spring effects; a genuine ipe fabric sent to us by our New York buyer at an especially advantageous figure. The whole lot will be closed out on Saturday at

6c.

Rant Bargain Table./ ^

There will be a special clearance sale of all, the Easter Novelties in the candy department, some made of sugar, some of papier mache, FA^TFR FL0WER~SALE No room on the main flbpr for the magnificent collection of flowering plants that vill go on sale tp-morrow morn-

ing. There are over 1,000

of them. All of the popular

blooms, including

Bermuda Lilies, Hyacinths, C alia Lilies, - Tulip#,

Pansies,

There will also be a most complete range in the variety of cut Flowers. Everything that first grade florists keep will be there and not at florists’ prices, but at one-third to one-half less than that.

Cinnerarnee,

Flowering Begonias.

Handkeroblete. 560 dozen Ladies’ white embroidered Handkerchiefs, 20c kind, for 15c. 700 Men’s all-linen white hemstitched Handkerchiefs, three widths ol hems, at I2#C. SECOND FLOOR Cloak Department. One of the swellest, spring Capes comes in different light shades and in brown and black, With velvet derby collar trimmed with the new ribbor. edging. It is a stylish, sightly garment at a popular price— Fashionable short Jackets in light tans and gray mixtures, half silk, lined witl^ big pearl buttons, from $6.50 to $10. .« 1 Suits and waists in all the new styles; all at New York Store prices, too. 300 genuine Artists’ Proof , Etchings, 23x33 inches, unframed; handsome enough for any room in Indianapolis; and the price — we’re afmost ashamed to say, it’s so low —59c. . Book Department. To-morrow night shall see the last Easter Card leave our .countersf^prites will be in accordance with this idea. Flower and Vegetable Seeds 3c a package. 2 Gladioliis Bulbs 5c. ' Tube Rose Bulbs ic each. 1 ounce Nasturtiums. 5c. Wire Egg and Vegetable Boiler 8c. A most convenient Easter accessory. Easter Souvenir Spoons, a pleading and lasting remembrance. Sterling silver, with gold bowls, $1.25 and $.1.50. Gold Band Egg Cups, genuine China, 25c a dozen. Bigger and better ones 75c. Pettis Dry Goods Co.

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There are two brands, the‘'Reliable,” which Is the beet In the world, and the 'rin4teaa N brand, which is just as pure but is second selection and is enough cheaper to nuke* it an object Ask your butcher or grocer lor KINGAN’8 and insist on having It

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OFFICE FURNITURE. ' Business men refitting offices and counting rooms

are invited to call and see what we ofler in Office Furniture—Chairs, Tables, Desks, etc.

Moderate prices.

FRANK'S FURNITU: 115, 117 and 1J9 East Washington St. :

' pair, .' - • IJ

Our Bargains This Week

A modern style Square Piano,

carved legs, and lyre, newly revamished, in first-

class condition f : £x63 A new Upright Piano at: 317® A thoroughtly [guaranteed

high-top Organ : t. If you can not call and : instruments, write us, give full description by 1 some one to call on you.

D. H. BALDWIN

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