Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 October 1876 — Page 2

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TEKKE HAUTE, OCT. 21, 1876.

LETTING THE OLD CAT DIE*

Not long ago I wandered uear A playground In the wood, And tlit'ie beard words from a youngster's lips

Now, let the old oat die," he laughed maw him give a push. Then gravely scamper away a*he spied

My nice p«-ep over the bush,

Bnt what he puttied, or where he went,- v. I could not well make oat. On ncco«ntof the thicket of bexdlng boughs

That bordered tho place about.

The little villain has stoned a cat, Or hung It upon a limb, fei And left it to ale all alone," I said,

But I'll play the mischief wlih hlra."

I forced my way between the boughs, Tho |Kor old rat to seek, And what did 1 And but a swinging child.

With bright hair brushing her cheek.

Her bright hair floated to and fro, Her lUtle red dress flashed by, But the loveliest thing of all, I thought,

Was the gleam of her laughing eye.

Swinging and swaying back and forth, With the rosy-light in her face. She aeemed like a bird and a flower in one.

le rosy-light in her face, led like a bird and a flow

And the forest her native place. "ttteady 1 I'll send you op my child," But she stopped me with a cry:

Oo way I go way I Don't touch me, please— I'm letting the old cat die!" You letting him die!" 1 crlod, aghast—

Why, Where's the cat, my dearf" And lo! the laughter that tilled the woods raWas tt»« thing lor thr birds to hear.

"Why, don't you know," said the little maid The flitting, beautiful elf,' That we call It 'letting the old cat die,

When the xwing stops all of itself*

Then swinging and swinging, and looking back, With the merriest look In her eye, 8he bade me "Uood day," and 1 left her alone,

A-lettlug ttif *1(1 cat die.

Match-Making.

I wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived And sho meant it, or, what answers the sumo purpose,she thought she meant it. Alter all, how few of us ever really know what we do moan "I engaged myself when a girl, and tho simpleton thought he owned me. soon took that conceit out of him, and sent him about his business."

The voice was now a trifle sharp What wonder, with so galling a memo

"No man shall ever tyrannize over mo—never! What the mischief do you suppose is the matter with this seeing machine

Annoyed at your logic, mast likely," said my friend, a Dright-eyed young uia tron, as sho threaded her needle. "Mv husband is not a tyrant, Miss Kent/'

I am glad you are satisfied," was toe laconic answer. It was quite evident by the expression of the dress maker's face that she hid formed her own opinion about my friend's husband, and was quite compe tent to form and express an opinion jpn any subject

Mis* Kent was a little woman, ai an a girl, and as plump as a robin, wasn't ashamed to own that she Mfas forty years old and an old maid. She bad earned her own living most of Her life, and was proud of it. Laziness was tho one sin Miss Kent could not fotgive, She was a good nurse, a faithful friend and a Jolly companion but Stroke her tho wrong way, and you'd Vish you hadn't in much shorter timp than takes me to write it. Her vii&ws on all subjects were strikingly original, ana not to be combated.

What are you going to do when you are old persisted the mistress of the establishment.

What other old folks do, I suppose." But you can't work forever." Can't say that I want to." Now, \iiss Kent, a husband with means, a kind, intelligent man—"

I don't want. I don't want an man. I tell you, Mrs. Carlisle, I wouldn' marry the best man that ever lived, if he was as rich as Croesus, and wonld die if I didn't havo him. Now, if you have exhausted tho marriage question, should Hko to try on your dress."

That there was something behind all this know woll. My Iriepdjs eyes danced with fun and as Miss Kent fitted the waist sho threw me a letter from the bureau. "Head that," she said, with a knowing look. "It may amuse veto."

This is what the letter said: Mr I)kar Jjkwnik: I shall be delighted to s|end a month with you and •our husband. There must be, however, one stipulation about my visit—yoa must promise to say no more about marriage. I shall never pe foolish again. Twenty-five years ago to-day I wrecked my whole lift."

Hotter embark in a pe^r ship, hadn't he?" put in Jennie, sotto voce. So unsuitable was this'tnarTiage, so utterly and entirely wnrtelted have oeen Jts consequences, tlmt I uu forced to

Itolievetho marriage institution a mistake. So, for the last time, let me assure you that I woukht't- marry the best

woman that ever lived, if by so doing I onuld save her life. Your old cousin. MA'RK LAWBIWO.

Rich, Isn't it?* WH Jennie, and

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pointed to the chobby little figure whose bark happened to be turned. I shook my hoad and Ifcughed,

-mtm **ebk».

Yrtu'U Fee," conttfttied the incorrigi-

what inquired Miss Kent, to mime.

fluite unaware of our pan "That pat tides vtMrh are chemically ^Isttrarted will nnft* #f eon?*© an alfkall and an aetti~clfn*t ^ou think this sleeve is a little too long, Miss Kent?"

Not after the seairi is off. But what ^were vAtn savin* *«bout alkalies and ,1 '*ekls, Mr*. Carii4f f" The other day at

IiaP*ote«or Boyntonfc I saw some won„Vderful experiment*?' IMd thev f" inquired Jennie, ^lomurely. ••DHMtiftiliyi'U 1 never botched a fo! "So w?Ul?udne^

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*aid Hit the torn* w*» much better onto red than I «xp^t»d« The next woek Cousin Mark arrived, and! liked him at one*. An nnbaftpy marriagf would have bwn thel»rt thing eonnectlon with the g«otleman. Me bad aooeUed the ^tuatlon like a man, Jennie told me, and tor flft*en ream carried a lo«l of mtewy U»at few could have endured, «*m« to his relief at lasL and now tbepoor fellow honestly believed himself an alien from domestic bapplneaa.

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Mark waa the emhOdlnwint g®od bMtlth and good nature fifty, ^rb«W. though he dldiin look it, lud an rot«»»d and fresh in his w^y as t|ie litttc drw»maker was in hers. As I looked at Who I defied anybody to see one and not be immediately reminded of the other. True he had more of the polish which oomes from travel and adaptation to different classes and Individuals, but ne waa not a whit more intelligent by nature than was the little woman whom Jennie had determined be should marry*

I was surprised you should think necessary to oautlon me about that, Cousin Mark,' oooed the plotter, as she stood by his side looking out of the win dow. The idea of my being so ridiculous 1" and in the same breath, with a wink at me, "Come, let us go to my sitting room. We are at work there, but it wont make any difference to you, will it?"

Of course Cousin Mark answered No," promptly, as innocent as a dove about the trap being laid for him. »This is u»y cousin—Mrs. Lansing, Miss Kent," and Mr. Lansing bowed and Miss Kent arose, dropped scissors, blushed, and sat down agaiu. Cousin Mark pioked up the refractory implements, and then Mrs. Jennie proceeded, with rare caution and tact, to her labor of love. Cousin Mark, at her requeet, read aloud an article from the Popular Science Monthly, drawing Miss Kent Into the discussion as deftly as was ever fly drawn into the web of the spider.

Who waa that lady, Jennie Cousin Mark inquired in the evening. Do you iU6&n Miss Jvont said Jennie, looking up from her paper.

Oh, she is a lady I havo known for a long time. She is making some dresses for me now. Why?" "She seemed uncommonly well post ed for a woman."

Under other circumstances Mrs. Car lisle would have resented this, but she only queried, "Do you think so and that ended it. &

Two or three invitations to the sew ing-room were quite sufficient to make Cousin Mark perfectly at homo there and after a week he became as familar as this:

If vou are nottoo bnsy, I should like to read to you this article and this what Mi9s Kent would say:

Oh, I am never too busy to bo read to. Sit down by the window in tbi8 comfortable chair and let's hear it."

After a couple of weeks, when tho gentleman came in, hoarse with a sud den cold, Miss Kent bustled about, he. voice full of sympathy, and browed hhn a dose which he declared he should never forget to his dying day but one dose cured him. After this, Miss Kent was a really wonderful woman.

Ay, Jennie was an archplotter. She let them skirmish about, but not once did she give them a chanoe t© be alone to gether—her plans were not to be destroyed by premature confidence—until tho very evening proceeding Cousin Mark's departure for California. Then Miss Kent was very demurely asked to remain and keep an eye on Master Carlisle, whom the fond mother did not like to leave quite alone with his nurse "We are compelled to be gone 8 uple of hours Dut Cousin Mark will read to you, won't you, oousin

Certainly, if Miss Kent would like it," replied the gentleman/ The infant Carlisle,* thanks to good management, was never awake in the evening, so the victims in this matrimonial speculation would have plenty of time. The back parlor was the room most in use daring the evening, and out of this room was a large closet with a large blind ventilator, and out of this closet a door leading to the back stoop and garden. Imagine my suiprise when was informed that Mr. Carlisle was to lodge, and that we after pro warnings about the baby, and promises not to begone too long, were to proceed to this closet overlooking the back parlor via back gate and garden In vain I protested.

Why, you goose, laughed Jennie "there'll be fun enough to last a lifetime. John wanted to come awfully, but I knew he'd make a Boise and spoil everything, so I wouldn't let him." The wily schemer had taken the precaution to lock the closet door from the outside, so there was no fear of detection. On a high bench, as still as two mice, we awaited results.

Cousin Mark (as if arousing from a protracted reverie)—"Would you like to have me read?"

Miss Kent—"Ob, I'm not particular." Cousin Mark—"Here is an exoellent articlo on elective affinities how would you like that?"

Jennie's elbow in my side almost took my breath away. Miss Kent—"Who is it by

Jennie (clear Into my ear)—"That's to gain time: see if it isn t." Cousin Mark—"It's by a prominent French writer, I believe."

Miss Kent—"I don't think I care for a translation to night." Cousin Mark—hNor I nor reading of any kind. This is my last evening in New York, Miss Kent."

Miss Kent-"I hope you've enjoyed your visit." Jennie (Into my very head this time) —"SheHi as sby as a 8 year old colt."

Cousin Mark—"I didn't think I should feel so sorrv about leaving." Jennie—"He is the wreck, you remember."

Along pause. Mtes Kent—"I think I hear the baby."

Cousin Mark—"Ob, no. You are fond of babies, aren't yon. Miss Kent No answer from Miss Kent.

Cousin Mark—"I have been a very lonely rrran, Mtas Kent, but I never realised how lonely the rest of my life mnst be until 1 came to this house."

Jennie—"Oh, how lonely." Cousin Mark—"Now I most return to ray business and my boarding house. Think of that, Miss Kent—hoarding house—boarding he use, for a man as fond of domestic life aa I am. Miss Kent."

Just then we very distinctly heard a little kind of a purr, which sounded verr much like a note of intense sympathy from Miss Kent

Cousin Mark—"I haVe friends in Ban Frttndao, of course, but x*o fireside like this, nobody to oare for me, if I am

I, nobody to fteel very badly il 1 die." Jennie—"That'll fetch her.* Mfln Kerit (voice a little quivering)— I

wish I lived in San Francisco. Yoa QOQM always call upon me if you needed anything." fJeonteIn

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In just that position till we rang the bell half an hour after. "How did you know?" I asked of Jennie.

My dear," she answered, "my whole reliance was upon human nature and let me tell you, goosle, whatever else may fall, that never does." "Why, Miss Kent, what makes your faoe so red?" inquired Jennie, upon entering "and, Cousin Mark, bow strange iy you look! Your hair is all mussed up."

And I hope to have It mussed often," said Cousin Mark, boldly. "Miss Kent and I are to be married next woek."

Jennie laughed till her face waspurole, and when I went up stairs Miss Kent was pounding her back—[Harper's Baser.

MAKE THE BEST OF IT. Of the troubles whloh afflict the human family, It has boen estimated that fivesixths are borrowed. Some people takn a morbid delight in anticipating, and virtually coaxing on, their fancied sorrows before they make their appearance. Deliver me from the society of such a person! One grumbler is enough to poison the happiness of a whole faintly, for the time. Young men seeking lifo companions are hereby advised toselect a young lady with a disposition to cheerfully view all difficulties and whoever is blessed with a husband or wife habitually merry, it is itMposslble, in tho nature of the case, that there should be unbappine3s in that home. Some gifts are natural and some aro acquired. Many think they must act according to inclination. This is simply folly. Almost all temperaments may be acquired they certainly can be assumed or imitated. Assumed cheerfulness no one objects to. Let us all rememberthat however adverse our fortunes may be, seem ingly, we can always look around and discover some one with still heavier burdens to bear. We all are the recip ients of God's continued favor to a d« gree fer exoeeding our deserts. This should stimulate us to make the best of every dispensation, and wo ought to strive earnestly after the grace of an industrious and well ordored life. It is surprising how imaginaiy troubles will disappear if thoroughly investigated Dear reader, if you are known in you circle as as professional grumbler, throw off the miserable habit, and assume cheerfulness, and soon you will insensi bly come to acquire reputation for good humor, even if you do not feel it.

TACT.

People cannot help having been born without tact, any more than they can help having no ear for music but theri are occasions when it is almost impossi bio to be quite charitable to a tactless person. Notwithstanding people who have no tact deserve pity.

They are almost always doing or saying something to get themselves iirw disgrace, or which does them an injury They make enemies where they desire friends, and get a reputation for ill nature that they do not deserve. They are also continually doing other people harm, treading on metaphorical corns opening the cupboards where family skeletons are kept, angering people shaming people, sayiug and doin^ the most awkward things, and apologizing for them with a still more terrible blunt ness.

If the good fairy of the old stories should come down at the baby's curis tening, and promise to bestow one so cial boon, and one only, upon the little Btrsnger, let the anxious mother beg that it may ^e tact for without tact the career of the richest and the most beautiful is often utterly marred.

OOINO 7HE ItO UNDS AGAIN, In 1856, or thereabouts, there went the rounds of the press the following lines:

In twice two hundred years, the Bear.'* The Crescent will a-st-all ,11 But If the Cock and Bull unite,

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to California with ne, Miaa Kent, wait another week." Mtes Krafc—"Why, Mr. Lansing,what do vou mean What would folks sav?,f

Oousin Mark—"I don't oare for folks, Mb* Kent. If you'll go well have a houae a* pleasant aa money can make Ik You abafl have biftia, and flowers, and bones, aod all the scieaUtie monthlies you waut—dooosd if you shan't—and yon shall rever aew a stitch for anybody bnt DM. Will you be my wife?"

Just then Jennie and I stepped up another pe«, and there waa that little old maid, who wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived, huned efoae to the man's brMMt who wouldn't marry the

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The Cross shall stand, the Crescent wane. Dissolve, and disappear." They constituted and old monkish prophecy of tho fifteenth century, it is saict, ana were rather remaikable, if truly so old, in view of the circumstances of Turkey's somewhat narrow escapo from the hug of the northern bruin in the closing struggle in the Crimea. The rising temper of the same bear may snon render them more noteworthy still.

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A BASK TRICK.

Strangers, says the Free Press, often remark that Detroit ladies seem to have a great fondness for carrying gold watches, and any person walking ten blocks on Woodward or Jefferson avenues will see, if it is a fine day, at least one hundrea ladies with gold chain* hanging down to the watch pocket. But, is the watch there On a Woodward avenue car, yesterday, there were half a doten ladles and only one gentleman. Satan mttRt have put him up to do a mean thing. Taking out his watch be looked at it, shook it, sighed heavily and said:

Ought to have been cleaned a week ago. Will you please give me the time?"

The lady addressed had oti a magnificent chain, but she blushed, half rose, eat down again, and wbl*pered

My—my watch Is—is out of order." "You have the time, perhape?" he asked of the next.|

Y-yes, sir—It's ten o'clock," she replied, looking out of the window. Does your time agree with that he asked of the third.

believe so." she coldly replied, though she well knew that her chain was pinned to her drees.

And what does your watch say be smilingly asked of the fourth. "It's a little slow, I think,"she an swered, drawing her shawl closer.

Hie fifth lady had a watch, and a fine one, too. She drew it out, mado as much display as possible, and called out:

Ten minute* after eleven!" The gentleman smiled, the other four ladles bit their Hps and scowled, and tho driver shook npthe linos, and nailed out: "Uo on, now, you raw bones l"

A rtRctrs that travels in Texas has an uncovered canvas encloanre. At Brack* ett, a tree overhanging the rftig was oacupied by men ana bors, who thus saw Um show free of coal. A performer's feet included firing a revolver on horseback, and at the first discharge spectator fell dead from the tree. Thereupon the circus men were mobbed, and escaped only by a practical use of their skill In horaemanahlp.

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A voxd mother named her liaby Elaine, after Tennyson's charming heroine tut when the little one grew up, she developed such a violent temper that her name was changed to Madeleine.

Learning la an ornament In prosperity, a reftise in adversity, and an excellent provision for old age.

ENGLISH ETIQ,XJKTTH.

A Code »/"Mmncr»" at, Table^JDreta.

[Olive Logan in tho New York Graphic.] When ,seated at tho table do not be botrayed Into that cheap boarding house habilqffdeking your napkin up under yoitflihlu, nor even the French restaurant trick of pulling one corner of it through tho buttonhole of your coat but lay it across your knee with no

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Alter you have been helped to a dish fall to and eat to wait forolheis lobe helped betrays a miserable lack of aavoir faire.

Also when wine is served drink of it whenever you liko the custom of nodding to the hostess or host bejore drinking has quite gone out.

Clicking glasses is still retained as an accompaniment to drinking choruses on the stage but it is no longer indulged in at the repasts of the beau monde. "Pray you, avoid it."

On no account refuse to take the last helping on a dish. To decline it seems to infer that you suppose the diBh cannot be replenished or it may be your refusal to tako it might be bonstrued into a contempt of it as "leavings."

If there are wines at table and servants do not keep tho glasses well filled you may (and, indeed, this is your duty, evon at another table than your own) till the glass of the lady or ladies near you. They cannot very well help themselves, nor can they ask to be helped to wine but you must remember to pour out sherry or sauterne with soup and fish, hock or claret with roast meat, sparkling wines between the roast and confectionery, madeira for dessert liquors come after coffee, and are served by the servants.

A special point to be remembered in going to au engagement to dinner is to boat the house of your host exactly at the time fixed for the dinner. If you come betoro it you are in tne way look at your watch before you enter the house, and if you aro ten minutes early, sit in your cab or take a few turns before tho door prior to going in. If you should bo so unfortunate as to be appreciably late—say twenty minutes or half an hour—do "not attempt to go to the dinner at all, but retire, and either return late in the evening and make an apology, or call again on the first oppor tunity and explain the matter. Though regrets will be expressed, of course,with au assurance that you would have been welcome at anv time, "better late than never," and other polite platitudes, you may nevertheless rest assured that it was better for you to act as you did, and make the sacrifice of what probably would have been a pleasant experieuce if you had been in time for it, than to throw host and servants into a fever of confusion by obliging them to set about serving you with soup, tish, and entreea when the rest cf the guests have passed all these and got on lo the roast or even the game.

To a people so universally well dressed as the Americans it is scarcely necessary to say much on that branch of the subject. Yet unless the dinner be a formal one Americans are likely to shirk putting on a dress suit for diuner. I was once the guest of a wealthy brother and sister who live all the summer and part of the winter in a very quiet old homestead away up in a lonely place in one of the northern counties of New York State yet whether they had company or not these gentlefolks always dressed for dinner—the gentleman put on bis dress suit the lady something lighter and more l'ancifnl than what she had ieen wearing all day. They both said there was no affectation in this. They did not dress for "style," especially when there was nobody to witness it,but they simply felt better and enjoyed iheir dinner more alter dressing for it than if they had "slumped" down to table in the attire they had worn during the afternoon and morning. In many New York houses of a certain elegance this custom now prevails, and most of our fashionable young men are seen only in dreas suitpin the evening.whether there be anything special in the way of engagements on the tapis or not. One thing is imperative among men of good breeding in London after nightfall, and that is tu don a dark coat. It may be a frock, and you may wear it with trousers but a "lounging suit"—what we call a businers suit—is something no gentleman must be seen in under gaslights. 1 perceive that the English gentlemen show a disposition to "cut" the white cravat with the dress suit, and wear in its stead a very large black bow. To my eyes this is not so pretty as a smaller tie, either black or white but as it Is the fashion!

I am pleased to see that English ladles are falling into at mode which I main tain is a true Americanism, namely, the dinner toilet made as richly as one likes and from that fact mo*t indubitably ontitled to be oi!led "dress," and yet ma«l. without being cut low in the neck and hboit in the sleeves. It is now indeed a very grand and lormal di.-.ner which demands the conventional full dress very trying to scrawny necks and arms, and so opt to be iminodett when these aro the reverse. I believe tho day will coino when this fashion will bo considered a shockingly indecorous one and portraits of grandmothers, dressed, or uudressed. in this way will bo something to giggle at or blush over, -i

A PARTY of belated gentleman, about a certain hour, began to think or home and their wives' displeasure, and urged a departure. "Never mind," said one of the gufsts,"fifteen minutes will make no difference my wife is as mad fcow asshecan be.'?

MY notions of life are much" ASWshuie as they are about traveling—there is a food deal of amusements on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

FRA XT RIPS ROOT 1MTTRR.S, THR fIRKA RLOOD AND HUMOR REMEDY. from Cleveland Buutlay Morning Voice.)

That Fraider's Root Bitters possess an efthwy greatly superior to any other Preparation for searching tho blood, of which we are acquainted, we can testify from actual observation. We know many Instances where individuals fot years aflrtlrted have been permanently restored to health by their nso.

Mr. Frarier. the proprietor, is a resident of this city, and is widely known,, as one of our most prominent business men. 1 lis references to I he great vahr#

of his Root Bitters are also persons well known as citieens of standing an! in* tegrlty, In whose statements Implicit confluence may be nlaced, and their testimony may he tsJten aa conclusive evidenced the estimation In which Mr. Fraslefe Remedy hi held, particularly at home. Here it baa tlreadgr attained th»t portion that require* no recom atlon. Having stood the teat of we can with safety and do recommend with entire confidence its tise else where, bv all who may be afflicted with snv klntf of weaknem or humor in the blood as the most searrhlnf, strengthening and healing remedy of which wt ha*e any knowledk-f. advertisement in another column headed fl,0W Reward* ... ,,,,,

A TERRIBLE DUEL.

T\m combatants were two Africans, and the cause of dispute the usual one— a woman. At the appointed tine the duelists, two stalwart aavagaa, nearly naked, appeared upon the field of honor, each armed with a stout est, or triplethonged whip, capable of Inflicting the the most tremendoua blows—blows that might make an o^bellow. Having arranged the few necessary preliminaries, they pitched three oyster ahella each at a given mark to decide which of the two should receive the first lashing. The unfortunate lossr immediately took hla atmd, and received, without flinching, the given number of blows—five and twenty. Then came the turn of the other. With heroic firmness he offered his back to the sufferer, whose arm was not made lighter by the pain and the pitch. Thus they alternated until one gave in and had the umpirea fudged that the twain had suffered sufficiently before either would give up, they were at liberty to stop the duel and award the victory to him who bad borne the greatest number of blows without flinching. And ever after the sacrified backs of these heroic men were displayed in token their honor and of their bmvery.

THE Danbury News throws the weight of political matters iipo\i the shoulders of the women of the country in the following decidedly peculiar manner:

This is not only an exciting but a very inreiesting political campaign. Women as well as men have a duty to perform to their countrv, and they should not shrink from it. They cannot vote er appear in proccsHion, but they can cut the wood and bring up the coal, and thus leave the men more time to talk up matters.

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SPECIAL ITEMS—COME BEFORE ALL SOLD—10,000

WIDE PERCALES, for 8 cents. (These goods are in handsome dark colors and sold last fall for 15 and 18 cents.) 10,000 yards, BEST DELAINES, at 12X cents. 8,000 yards, TYCOON REPPS, at 12H cents a yard. (These Repps were previously sold for 25 cents.)

Big lot genuine SPRAGUE PRINTjS, at 5 cents. Entire stock COCHECO AND PACIFIC PRINTS, only 0 cents.. It sif\ '•7

DRESS GOODS AND BLACK ALPACAS!

We are now offering in this department the finest display of stylish goods ever brought to this city, and the prices on all are extremely low. For instance: Nice PLAID DRESS GOODS, at I2K cents, 15 cents and 20 cents.

New colors in PLAIN GOODis, at 10 cents, 12* oents and 20 oentsM ,• BLACK ALPACAS, 40 and 50 cents, well worth 55 and 65 cents. Real good BLACK ALPACAS, at 25 cents, 80 cents and 35 cents.

First-class BLACK SILKS, for $1,00, |1.20, fl.25 and fl.50. 4 •.' it it

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GREAT BREAK DOWN IN CARPETS. CASSIMEKES, JEANS, BLANKETS AND FLANNELS,

They were never so cheap before as they are this fall. Few samples of prices area GOOD COTTAGE CARPET, at 20 cents, 25 cents and 80 cente. HEAVY FARMERS JEANS, at 25 cents, 80 cent* and 85 cento.

EXCELLENT WATERPROOF CLOTH, for 65 cento. ELEGANT BOUuEVARD SKIRTS, at 65 cents and 75 cento. GOOD HEAVY CASSIMERES, at 80 oents,6Q oents and 65 cento. In an Imtaenno stock of goods such as we carry It Is simply Impossible to"give quotations on every article.

All we can do ft to select such as the people will most readily understand. This enables thorn to compare our prices with other stores. It is almost impossible to realise how cheap goods are this season without a

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Musical Instruments,

John IMerdorf tho accomplished Piano and Organ Tuner and R«pairer, varnlsher, polisher, eto., Is prepared to pat In good order all kinds of musical Instruments making them almost like new, at the lowest rates possible. Orders left at K. Gage's Art Emporium, on Mala street, between 3rd and 4th, or where he lives, over Goets's furniture store, on Main, between 6th and 7th streets, will receive prompt attention. (octl4-3m)

EORGE E. SECOR, C*mBslasl«B Merchant, And Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Foreign and Domestic

Fruits and Vegetables,

217 8. Madison Bt.,aod Central market, PEORIA, ILLINOIS. CorfBignmsotsrespcctfullysolicited. Orders by Mail Filled Promptly. Refers, by permission, to M. Henebery, Wholesale win Ac., Peoria W. E. Htone Nat'l Bank, Peoria John

Ac., Peoria _W. E. Htone, Esq., Cashier! M. G1 pps, of lpps A Co., Brewers, Peoria Secor Hewing Machine Co., Bridgeport, Ct M. M. naasett,of Cooper &. Bassett. Peoria'C. Bacon, Esq., Peoria E. T. Holllstwr A Co., Commission Merchants, 8t. Louis, Mo

INTERS! OYSTERS!! OYSTERS!!!

M. C. RAFFERTY,

Main street, tast of Sixth, has the for the best brands of Oysters, which ue offers to the trade at reasonable figures. He sells the finest FUh in the West.

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STRIKE RIGHT AND LEFT WITH YOUR READY MONEY—(JIVE THE PEOPLE SHOWERS OF BARGAINS AND THEY WILL SHUN

"OLD STOCK" anrtlGH PRICED FIRMS

AS THEY WOULD A PLAGUE.

The days for gulling people are over—talk is cheap. It is deeds alone that tell. A SPRAGUE PRINT at our store at 5 or 6 cents, is the same quality as if we charged 8 or 9 cents, and so on through the long catalogue of goods.

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ARTESIAN WARM BATHS

TERRE-HAUTE, 1ND.

NATURE'S OWN REMEDY/

For all ailments flesh Is heir to. A medicine gushing up with re men nous force 2,000 teet firom the bosom of the earth. It* natural warmth 81 degree# Farenhelt, and made warmer and Colder to mil the patient.

Thousands of people aro being cured of the most obstinate chronic cases of Neuralgia, Saltrbculn, liellow Jaundice, and Rheumatism, Ostarrh, Eresypelas, Neuralgia, SaUrbcuin, ^c'low Jaundice, and all kinds of Skin diseases Liver Complaint, Kidney an4 Spinal Affections, and Private Diseases of every type. If yon are afflicted In any degree, come and test the almost universal strength of these waters, as others are doing from all over the country. Tho baths, though so healthful, ajf perfectly safe. »peci|| directions given each bather. a,.*

Mineral Water Shipped to all parts of the Continent. VAPOR BATHS A SPECIALTY.

.7. S. MILLKK & CO., Proprietors.

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