Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 July 1879 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, JULY 12, 1879

TWO EDITIONS rj|

Of ibis Paper are published. £%", Tbe Klmc EDITION, on Friday Evening, Lao a 'a.-je circilstlon in the surrounding tow as, waere it la void by newsboys and treats. TneSECON' EDITION,on Saturday Evenlag, into tbe bands of nearly every read ng person in tbe city, and tbe farmers ufthis immediate vicinity. Kvery a

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TWo NEWSPAPERS,

In which a I Advertisements appear for '.E PRI E OF ONE ISSUE.

THE VANISHED Pit I VATS SOLDIER— WHERE IS EEf ,{1 There Is a pleasant mingling of satire and humor iu the article given below, clipped from an exchange, which renders it deserving of reproduction:

We do not know where be h, bathe is not here. He has gone away to some piaoe. Perhaps be Las ceased to be necessary. Perhaps if he were here be would be In tbe way. At any rate be Is •ot around. He does not go to the legislature. We do not tind him in con gres*. No one seems to know anything about him. Occasionally be appears on tne pension list with one leg, a wife »nd seven children, and eight dollars a month, if floor takes much of arise he will jot last much longer at that rate, and we sbsll soon be deprived even oi tbe occasional glimpse we now have of him.

It is asserted, and quite generally believed, that at one time he was quite numerous, and was even considered rather cu veulent, if not, indeed, quite indispensable. It was found that upward or one buudred of him were necessary in order to secure mere lines of oomuiissions for three eminent and deserving men. When field commissions were wanted for three even more eminent and great men, upward of one ttiousin I private soldiers were necessary. One inousand It seems an enormous number now, when by consulting the o-jogressional directory we find that tjere are none in this proud republio. iiit twelve or fifteen years ago even mat, incredible as it may appear to us to-day, was considered a small number. Them were plenty of private soldiers taen. There were even hundreds of louuauds of them.

Aud they were useful. They dug itrenche* they constructed long lines of 'breastworks, and then when an enemy came witbiu sight, they climbed over them and went outside of them to fight. Tnoy worked, watched and (ought. Cooperating witn great and eminent men who have since passed to their rewards in one office ana another, these private .Idiers sometimes rendered very useful service in wiuning great battles. Ob, toey were uselui. Some historians bavw even gone so far as to maintain that without them the war would hardly tiHVM ween carried on. They were illy very useful.

Aud uuw they are all gone. It seems sad, looking back at the war, that none bat ibt generals and colonels and majors and linfl officers should have survived its dreadful ravages. Providence, ever mindfui of the wants of a great and growing nation, undoubtedly took special care of these great men, and in great anxiety that tbe country should not suffer from a lack of eminent men, kind of forgot the private soldiers and let theui wander away. Aud so they are all gone. Some of them got married aud moved out ot tbe world, to settle upon tracts of government land, where the I» Hans'could get at them more eusily. Sotae of them went into business. Same of them are teaching school. Some of tbem went away and didn't leave their present address. But all the same, they are all gone, and it seems dreadfully lonesome without them. There u*ed to be plenty of tbem.

DUTY OF A NEWSPAPER. An attorney, ia a recent speech before a jury, in a libel suit brought against a certain promineut journal, made use of the following language as showing the functions of a newspaper: "There has grown up a sort of an obligation, recognised mutually by the prHss and the people, by which the people expect that tbe press, as distributors of userul intelligence, shall inform them as well what is to be avoided as what is to be sought, as well what ia to be suspected as what is to be confided In. And a newspaper, ai a garnerer aud distributor of ne wh,

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is a public monitor, and it

is its duty to admonish tbe people against frauds and shams, aud impostures and dishonesties. It is to be a beacon as well as aguld* and whenever a public newspaper, through Its deversified appliances for the collection and distribution of information, discovers anywhere in public avocation or in public lifa—whfther It be a lawyer, or a clergyman, or a physician—a man who, Instead of securing the public welfare by honorable methods and practices, simply prowls about in the back yard of bis profession, and uses the means and Instrumentalities which honorable title give* him to pander to his own lust and avarice, or any other vile passion, and that paper laila to send out some ad monitor voice and some signal of warning.

ESORMO US ESTABLISHMENT Tbe Krupp gun works of Germany

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of Immense dimensions. One of tbe establishments employs 8,500 workmen, and contains 298 boilers and en which, combined, have 11,000 horse power, aud operate trip hammers, varying id weight from 200 to 100,000

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ounds each. Since 1877, 15,000 cannon been turned out 300 are made on an average every month. Daily 18,000 jus of coal and coke are consumed, and '21,1)00 gas jets are in use. A railroad track, with twenty-four locomotive® and TOO trucks. Is in operation within the works, and between them and tbe nearest railway station. The establishment has twenty-four telegraph stations and eight tire engine* for protec* tion *f*in»t vonfiagratlon. In tbe mine* connected with these works there are 5-SOC workmen. Iron ore the company gets from its own- lands in the north of Spain to tbe extent of 200,000 tons annually, which five steamers that it owns •onvevs to the factories. The company has built 3^1*3 tenements tor its employes: in which 16,200 persons live. The crain in th*» bakeries that supply these pie mth breadis bought by of company In large

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uantUtes. ohleiiv in Odessa, tbe Rusgrain four common schools and an it ?n*riai school tor girls and women ptt .11 i,he elementary Instruction rau *1 by ticity of factory hands.

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OOV. BISHOP AUD THE BUG. Cincinnati Enquirer. During Gov. Bishop's last visit to Cincinnati, a red nosed party, who was a total stranger to him, stepped up behind him at tbe corner of Fourth and Vine streets, tapped bim gently on tbe shoulder, as tbe story goes, and said: "Colonel, would you have any objections if I should knoek a bug off the back of your eoatT" "Certainly not," ssid the Governor, coming to a dead halt "certainly not would oe so much obliged. What kind of a bug, pray "A bed bug," replied tbe red nosed party, with a smile. "Brush it off, friend brush it off," said the Governor, twitching nervously in his clothes.

Tbe red nosed party raised bis hsnd as if to knock it off, but only scratched bis ohin, and remarked 'In a great city like Cinoianati it is almost impossible to keen oneeelf free from vermin of one kind and another,

most impose! keep oneeelf free

snd I observe that these bugs are particularly plentiful." Sir. Bishop remained perfectly motionless, witn tbe exception of tbe nervous twitching. Tbe red nosed man looked closely at tbe Governor's back, as if to reassure himself of the kind of bug it was, and then continued in a louder key: "1 do not oonsider it any disgraoe to a man to have one of these infernal insects found on bis clothing." "My dear sir, be good enough to knock it off," said the Governor. "We are attracting too muoh attention here and perhaps he was right, for several persons had already stopped and were looking on. "You doubtless live in a hotel," continued the red nosed man, and if so that acoounts for it. I used to live in a hotel myself, and it was the oonfounded bedbugs, more than anything else, that forced me to break up and go to keeping house—a step, by tbe way, which I do not regret." "For heaven's sake, man, knock tbe thing off," repeated the Governor in a

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leading tone, at the same time knitting brow, but holding as still as he could under tbe circumstances. "Toe incident," tbe red nosed man went on to say, "reminds me of Burns' immortal lines on seeing a louse crawling on a lady's bonnet in church, In which occurs this sentiment: 'O wad some power the glftle gle us

To see oursels as libera see us.'" "You infernal idiotP' yelled the now thoroughly exasperated Governor. "I'll knock it off myself," and he struck diagonally across the street for a barber shop.

The red nosed party »1, tb

called after him:

"I say, General, tbere is no occason for excitement. If there was any bug on your coat I would take great pleasure in knocking it galley we9t and crooked, but there ain't. I simply asked out of curiosity like, if you would have any objection if I should knock one off. Do you see

The Governor continued on his way, remarking hoarsely: "1 would give the butt end of my boom to have my fingers on that fellow for just a minute and a half."

THE ACTOR'S WARDROBE.

STAGE MANAGER NEEDLES PREPARPARIN.G FOR THE DRAMATIC SEASON AT SUTRO.

Virginia City Chronicle.

A few days ago Needles met a friend on the street and said "Gimme a clean collar to appear in on the opening night at Sutro."

The man took the sagebrush elocutionist to his room and handed him a fifteen and a half collar. "This collar is a trifle large, and looks painfully white ia contrast with my shirt," soliloquized the tragedian. "Could you—am—manage to—er—" "Ob, I see," said the other, pulling out a clean shirt from his trunk.

Mr. Needles laid his right hand impressively over- his heart, while he grabbed the shirt with his left, and a tear of gratitude glistened at tbe end of bis nose. Having tolled up the shirt his professional eye fell upon a vest ha%i ng againsttbe wall. "Is that an odd vest?" "How?" "That is, you have no regular suit to go with it?" "Roll It up with the shirt, Needles?"

But Needles had no intention of rollibg up his bundle so soon. "I've got a pretty good coat," he said, "a farewell gift from John Mackav, but my pants, an old pair, once filled by the classic limbs of Senator Sharon, are in a state of mellow dilapidation. He wore the seat all out in the halls of legislation at Washington."

The tragedian's victim pulled a pair of pants from his wardrobe and banded them over with: "Needles, tbe coat I have on is tbe only one I have left. Don't you insinuate that you want it. But if you want a sofa, a cabinet organ, or a 7H octave Weber grand piano, just mention tbe fact, and it is yours."

Needles cast his eyes about the apartment, and tbe owner shuddered whenever his optic paused an iustant to rest. Presently he did his plunder up in a bundle and started off, flooding tbe apartment of his benefactor with a parting shower of Shakspearean compliments. The latter seemed lost in thought, and then asked "Needles, how much salary do you draw as stage manager at Sutro?" "Three dollars a day. "How much can you save every day out of that sum "Three dollars."

SHE STOOPED AND HE WAS STOOPID. London Court Joarnal An amusing stery of feminine curiosity is going tbe round in Paris just now. A lady of rank, who muoh admired a well-known actor, was fired with a desire to verify the statements of her friends that these inspired souls were frequently stupid clods in private life. Being of an adventurous spirit she disguised herself as a femme de ehambre and gained access to bis dressing-room at the theatre armed with an enormous bouquet which she asserted she was commissioned to deliver. She found tbe object of her curiosity enduring tbe tortures of tying with suooess bis white Vie while "failures." numerous as those of Beau Brummell strewed the floor. Bidding tbe trembling lady to plae* her bouquet on tbe table, he requested her to assist |ilm with his tie and when tbe bnainees was achieved he rewarded tbe •opposed domestic with a kiss on each cheek. Wild with anger at the audacity and at the densenees of tbe man in not

Mvutug MIUI mawvtf »v* actor replied in a lew words to tb_effect "Madam: I have hardly proved mveelfso stupid as you aver, considering that have achieved what many men who would have valued it much more than I have hitherto Called to do»

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TBRRU HAUTE SATURDAY EVENUTG MAIL.

ESTRANGED, Darlington Hewkey£

It was a warm afternoon, and young Mr. Cummagen did not go In the house, but sat down in tbe pleasant porch, ss was his custom, after ringing the bell. Her little aiater came to the door and looked at him with some curiosity. "Does your sister Mabel know 1 am bere, Nellie?" be asked. "Oh yes." replied tbe innooent prettier, **I guess she does she toid me to come out and see how shady it made the front yard when you put your feet on tbe porch railing."

He took them down and sat on tbem.

I EXPERIENCE TEACHES.

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'*& Portland Advertiser. A gentleman, wishing to obtain board for his wife and family in tbe country, was directed to a neat looking farm house kept by an old farmer and bis wife. A brief inspection satisfied him that the place would suit. "But now as to terms," he said. "Waal," drawled tbe old farmer, "you have six children, you say?" Yes, air." Tbe old man reflected a few moments and then replied: "Last year I took children at half price. Do you see tbem p'ar trees and berry-bashes? Waal, this year I will charge full price for tbe young 'uns, and throw in your wife and yourself for

MR. &PURGEON*S LITTLE JOKE. Cincinnati Gazette, Londoa Letter. Mr. Spurgeon recently told this anecdote as he gave out an anthem: A high churchman aud a Sootcb Presbyterian minister bsd been at the same church. The former asked the latter if he did not like the "introlts." He replied: "I don't know what an introit Is." Said tbe churchman, "But did you not enjoy the anthem?" He replied: "No, I did not enjoy it at all." "I am very sorry," said the churchman, "because it was used in the early Church in faot, it was originally sung by David." "Ah!" said tbe Scotchman, "then that explains tbe Scripture: I can understand now, if David sung it at that time, why Saul threw his javelin at him." This was followed by a loud peal of laughter, when Mr. Spurgeon said: "Now, let us sing tbe antbem."

EXTENT OF FREEMASONR Y. Tbe following statistics of tbe number of Free Masons' lodges existing at tbe close of last year, says tbe London Family Herald, will be read with interest: In Germany there are 342 lodges, in Switzerland 33, Hungary 44, Roumania 11, Servia 1, England and Wales 1187, Sootland 334, Ireland 290, Gibraltar 5, Malta 4, Holland and Luxemburg 4«, Belgium 15. Denmark 7, Italy 110, Sweden and Norway 18, Franoe 287, Spain about 300, Portugal 22, Greece 21, Turkey 15, Egypt 28, Algeria 11, Tunis 2, Morocco 2, the west coast of Africa 11, African islands 15, the Cape 41, Arabia (Aden) 1, India 118, Indian islands 16, Australian islands 4, Australia 229, New Zealand 84, China 73, Japan 5, United States 9,894, Canada 535, Cuba 30, Hayti 32, West Indian Islands 65, Mexico 13, Brazil 256, other States in South America 179—a total of about 15,000 lodges. Tbe number of brethren is calculated at above 5,000,000.

I THE ARTICLE OF SHOES. Albany, N. Y., Press. Of all the "humbugs," make-believes and "false pretences" every palmed off upon a people, the shoes now worn by the young women of "the period," occupy a first class position. In absurdity of construction, in an utter failure to adapt means to tbe accomplishment of desired ends, these "shoes," as they used to be called, are "fearfully" and wonderfully progressive. They comply with tbe demands of a most absurd fashion, and, while they do so, they utterly destroy all tbe grace and elasticity of woman's walk all the poetry of woman's movements in the parlor, or on tbe street, and all the comfort and ease with which nature attaches to tbe harmony and beauty of woman in motion. A heel three incbee high, and no larger round than a man's thumb, is not a natural heel while it gives an increase in height, it adds a monstrosity of movement. It changes the natural centre of gravity throws the body forward, and forces it to accommodate itself to an artificial standpoint beneath tbe centre of tbe instep, and leads to such self-torture and such self-caricature as would be ridiculous to the fair oreatures if they were but to see themselves as others see them. No really graceful object in nature is ever so changed for the worse as a fashionable woman in her high-heeled shoes and other fixings. That mincing tread and forward stoop succeed in giving her the shape of an animated S.

Her feet, of course, become deformed by bunions, callosities and deformed joints, as a punishment tor her voluntary and wicked violation of the laws of nature.

A MEAN ADVANTAGE There were score or more of women

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at Mr. Johnson's house. Mr.

obnBon a good-hearted man and a respectable citizen, though he is rather skepticaljabout some things. The women had just organised "The Foreign Benevolent Society" when Mr. Johnson entered the room. He was at once appealed to to donate a few dollars as a foundation to work on, and Mrs. Graham added: -it wouid be so pleasentln|after years lor you to remember that you gave this society its first dollars and its first kind word."

He'slowly opened his wallet, drew out a ten dollar bill, and as the ladies smacked their lips and clapped their bands, he asked: "Is this society organized to aid the poor or foreign countries?" ••Yea—yes—yes!" they chorused. "And it wants money "Yom TW "Well, now," said Johnson, as he folded tbe bill in a tempting ahape, "there are twenty married women here. If there are fifteen of you who can make oath that you have oombed your children's hair this morning, washed the dishes, blacked tbe cook stove, and made the beds, Pll donate this ten doll&TSe" "I have," answered two of the crowd, and the rest said: ,n "Why, now, Mr. Johnson!" "If fifteen of you can make oath that your husbands are not wearing socks with holes in the heels, this money is yours," continued the wretch. "Just hear him!" they exclaimed, each one looking at the other, "If ten of you have boys without, boles in the knees of their panta, this 'X' goes to the society!" said Johnson. "Such a man!" they whispered. **11 there an flvepidrs of stockings In this room that don't need darning, I'll hand over the money!" be went on. "Mr. Johnson,*' said Mrs. Graham, •with great dignity, «*ho rules of the sodety declare that no money shall be contributed except by members and as von are not a member I beg that yon will withdraw, and let as proceed with the routine business."

SPAIN'S FINANCIAL CONDITIO*. Financially Spain is in a bad way. Her publio debt is more tban &£»,- 000,000, and no accounts are ever laid before the nation. There is slight prospect that tbe debt will ever be pnhL For yean the interest has not been paid on many of the bonds. Tbe present revenue of tbe country is estimated at |155,000,000, and the expenditures at U58,0*0,000. Laek of individual and government enterprise and the coet of a large army, together with unwise disbursements for other purposes, are at tbe bottom of the trouble.

THE POETRY OF IRON. Burlington Hawkeye. There Is a wonderful ffcscinstion about iron works and Iron workers. Novelists have msde them the scenes and heroes of their stories poets have made them tbe themes of deathless song. We sing of tbe forge of Tubal Cain, and Hector swore "by tbe forge that stlthled Mar's helm," but tbe other trades are passed over.

When did poet, in lofty numbers, sing tbe carpenter lathing a back room on tbe seoond floor?

Who chants tbe brawny arms or the thrilling deeds of a man climbing a four story ladder with a hod of mortar?

Does anybody stand with rapt emotion watching a painter putty up a nail bole?

I would not exohange my one hour at midnight in the iron works st Ashland for a whole week of watching a man mix mortar with a hoe. Why, theee iron works surround tbe Ashlanders with enough romance to last a western oommuntty at least six weeks. And

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et I suppose there are people about who never saw a nail made in their

I have known times in my own eminently useful and highly ornamental career, times when I was trying to nail a front gate to fa leather binge, when I wished there had never been a nail made anywhere by anybody. And I watched as they fell from the ponderous machines fast as rain drops, and it seemed to me as I watched them fall, that I could hear the dull, treacherous thud ef tbe hammer on the human thumb, the low wail of a woman's anguish, "the big, big D" of a strong man in his agony. These strange, weird feelings and fancies rushed into my mind like a torrent. I stooped and picked up a brand new nail, as a memento of my visit.

Then I laid it down again. Sadly, but not slowly. I have an immpreesion, I know not where I got it, that a new laid nail, like anew laid egg, is warm. And that it is far more perceptible in tbe case of tbe nail. It may not be so in every instance. I presume there may be some nails laid cold. But the one I picked up was not so everlastingly gee-whizzing cold, and I did not investigate any further.

SIPPINQS OF PUNCH.

Guest—" Walter, bring" me another dish of peas and a magnifying glass." The French novel is supplied with all tbe indelicaciee of the season.—Albany Evening Journal.

England may be "mistress of tbe C's," but she has never yet been able to fairly master the H's. "In tbe bright oomplexion of youth we have no such word as pale." and she reached for the rogue box with tbe clutch of an angel. New Haven Register

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A college orator In a spiked-tail coat points tbe way to true greatness and then goes and rents himself as a pitoher of a professional nine.—New Orleans Picayune. "Woman is a delusion," said a crusty old bachelor in our sanctum reoently. Snodgrass retorted: "Well, man is alwaysnugging some delusion or other. —Baltimorean.

A druggist, recollecting the Latin compliment to the product of the vineyard, "In vino Veritas," has put up this inscription to the credit of his... soda fountain: "In soda sonitas."

A young man, the other day, got married against the wishes of his parents, and, requesting a friend to break it to them, said "Tell them I'm dead, old fellow, and gently work thojn up to the climax."

This caps it. Says the New York Commercial Advertiser: "Several pa' pen have been making fun of the Bake of Argyll's red hair, but he can't help it, gentlemen he was born so." Sort o' redheaditary, eh?—Boston Transcript.

A Soft Answer, Ac.—Coster (to swell, who has accidentally knocked up against him,)—"Now, then, d'yer hear, who a' you a sbovin' of?" Swell—"My good man, what a preposterous ouestion! Aw—how the deuce ao I know?"—Fun.

Sympathy.—Little Girl—"Mamma, I do so pity you." Msmma—"Why, dear?" Little Girl—"Because nurse says you have got to go out and eat another great big dinner, after all the mutton chope ana tapioca pudding we bad in the middle of tbe day and nurse says you must pretend to like it, or they would be very, very cross."—Judy.

There was a terrible fight at the West Hill school yesterday afternoon. Two boys, burning with rage and bate, got on opposite siaesof tbe street and called each other "nigger" and "red head" till the sun went down. The boy with the red hair was tbe maddest, but tbe colored boy bad the loudest voice, and consequently was declared the victor. People who live in the neighborhood say it sounded like a Congressional debate.— Hawkeye.

FLOATING FACTS.

Too much fresh meat is not a wholesome diet for warm weather. Much more money has been lost by strikes than was ever made by them.

Ice machines are now used which turn out ten ton daily of the solid article.

Moth flies only make depredations in the dark, whether of room or of night. Don't confine yourself too closely to your office or store this season of tbe year.

Tbe brain when excited need rest as much a* does a fractared limb or an inflamed eye.

Medical authority in England announ ces that alcohol is a sedative and not a stimulent.

A teaspoonful of coal oil to a gallon of water will dlstroy the Insects that infest plants.

The stnpor of drunkenness proves that alcohol bas power to arrest the functions of the train.

Tbe practice of preserving flraita ia generally being left to tbe large canning Mi ihllitinwint^

Ice cm easily be kept for boors by wrapping first in several newspaper* and then in a blanket. mmmmmmmmmmm

The great Swisa Ague Cure shipped ererywhere must be a great remedy for Chilis from tbe good words of th« presa everywhere.

CHILDREN'S CHATTER.

A little Philadelphia boy startled a Mend of the family tbe other day by

remarking that he was "four years old omtb lildre do you like best—pa ••Pa. Which do you t" "Ma, then." "Papa, they don't have any stone in Ireland, do they?" asked a little Bank street boy the other day. "Yes, my boy but why do you ask suoh a question?" "Because, papa, I thought it was all sham-rook over there."

with his ion I" Two children talking of tbelr parents: like beet—i "whiob do or ma?"

A little fellow, who bad recently had a "pineapple cut" on his head, kept feeling of nis short hair, rubbing his band back and forth over tbe top or bis head. His father asked why he did so, and the urchin replied, "I want to feel the outness of it."

A lisping boy was ont in the back yard pounding on a tin pan. The father came tired and sullen, and being disturbed by tbe noise, cried out: '"What ia tnrnea loose In tbe back yard, a wild animal?" The little fellow replied,

Yeth, thlr, it's a pan-thlr." "John, I'll give you a good alapping if ," aaid his

I ever see you do* that again, mother. "The easiest way

kept right along in his course, but he missed his slapping. His mother thought he was too sweet, already. "Marion," be asked, in that style which a big brother assumes when patronising a little sister. "Marion, do you know that the earth turns round "Of tos I doee," answered Marion, resenting the imputation of ignorance "that's the reason I tumbles out of bed."

A new boy at school diverted the minds of the other pupils from tbelr books by munching peanuts, whereupon the teacher relieved him of his edibles and reprimanded him. Next day the "master" received a note from the new scholar's mother, whioh oonveyed this information: "If mi Boy kant eat Pee nuts out loud in skule, I'll edikate him myself at heme."

A little six-yesr old in this city had been iiatening to tbe remarks of a legalminded uncle in regard to the prospect of an indicted person's getting clear by getting a oontinuance of his case from time to time. Shortly after the little fellow got into a scrape which secured for him a promise from his mother of a little dose of her slipper at an early period. He anxiously sought the uncle for legal advice on tbe subject, who could only sympathize with bim, but with no prospect of relief. "Uncle," said be, 'idon't you think you,could get mother to continue tbe case? If we could get a continuance I think I oould get off." He got off.

THE SORROWS OF GENIUS. Homer was a beggar. Spenser died it want. ,v.r. Cervantes died of hunger.' Terrence, tbe dramatist, was a slave. Dryden lived in poverty and distress. Sir Walter Raleigh dieii on tbe scaffold.

Butler lived*in penury and died poor. Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress.

Plautus, tbe Roman comic poet, turned a mill. Paul Borghese had fourteen trades and yet starved with all.

Tasso, the Italian poet, was often distressed for five shillings. Steele, tbe humorist, lived a life of perfect warfare with bailiffs.

Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of |40. Otway, tbe English dramatist, died prematurely, and through hunger.

Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself at 18. Bentivoglio was refused admittance into a hospital he had himself erected.

The death ef Collins was through neglect, first causing mental derangement.

Goldsmith's "vicar of Wakefield" was sold for a trifle to save him from the grip of the law.

Fielding lies in the burying-ground of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot.

Milton sold his copyright of "Paradise Lost" for |75, at three payments, and finished his llfeinobsourity.

Comoens, the oelebrated writer of tbe "Luslad." the great Portuguese epio, ended his days, it is said, in an almshouse, and at any rate, was supported by a faithful black servant, who begged in the streets of Lisbon for him. um

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HOUSE AND HOME.

As to keeping mspie sugar and molasses, whether canned or otherwise, it should be stored in a dark, cool and dry place the cellar will do if theee conditions are found there.

If persons who are troubled with an ingrowing toenail will carefully tuck a small bit of common sponge under the troublesome corner of tbe nail, they will soon forget about it.

Dinner dishes and plates whioh have had greasy food upon them, may be rubbed off with a little Indian meal be fore nutting tbem into water. They are thus'prevented from making the water nnfit for continued use, while tbe meal saved by itself, is good for the pig or chickens.

In the course of a recent lecture, Dr. Sturtevant, of the Scientific Farmer, said. "Steaming food to aid in the process of digestion, is one of the biggest humbugs of modern times. We have no evidence whatever that cooking tbe food increases Its digestibility, but we have plenty of it to prove tbe contrary."

Having seen an advertisement in tbe Terre Haute, Ind. Express of the great Swiss Liver Compound, I received more information by writing to Dr. J. Houriet of whom I got some of the Swiss Ague Cure, which gave me immediate relief.

i* lOfOOOa ml mi Nearly ten thousand Prairie City Cook Stoves are in use in this and adjoining counties. They are tbe best stoves to buy. For sale by

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514 Main street, north aiae.

Bncklen'a Salve. The Best SalvbAraiea

Bruises, Sotea, Dicers, SaltRheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands. Chilblains, Corns, and all kinds of Skin Eruptions. This Salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every case or money refunded. Price 26 cents per bor. For sale by GpTLICKA BERRY, Terre Haute.

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TO all who are suffering from the errors and Indiscretions of ^routb, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood. tec„ 1 will send a

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is there moh a great demand for the "Prairie City Cook Stove"? BBCAUSB, 4 jS?'* 1st. They are known to be heavy,dura ble etovee. 2d. They are known to be splendid, bakers. 3d. They are ver^Jow in price,

4tb. They can be repaired at very

small coet.'

5th. They use fuel economically. 6th. The plates are warranted against fire cracking for one year. 7th. They are greatly improved for this year'a trade.

Ask for the Prairie City and take no other. Don't be fooled into buying a second-class light stove that is just like the Prairie City. Call at Townley Bros', 514 Main street, north side,

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Honest medicine.

Of all medicines advertised to cure any aflfection of the Throat, Chest or Lungs* we know of none we can recommend so highly as Da. KINO'S NEW DISCOVERY for consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, bronbay fever, hoarseness, tickling in the throat, loss of voice, etc. This medicine does positively cure, and that where everything else has failed. No mediolne can show one naif so many positive and permanent cure# as have already been effected by this truly wonderful remedy. For Asthma and Bronchitis it Is a perfect speclfio, curing the very worst cases In the shortest time possible. We say by all means give it a trial. Trial bottles ten cents. Regular slse $1 00. For sale by Oullck A Berry. Druggists, cerner Fourth aud streets,

Terre Haute. (1)

Itohiav Plies.

The symptoms are moisture, like perspiration, intense itching, increased by scratching, very distressing, particularly at night, as if pin wsrms were crawling in aud about the rectum tbe private parts are son. etimes affected if allowed to continue, very serious results may follow. Dr. Swayne'» All* Healing Ointment is a pleasaut, snrecure.

HOME CURES.—We were great suflerers from Itching Piles. The symptoms were as above described. The use of Swayue's Oiutncent in a short time a perfect cure.

J. W. CHRIST,

Shoe House, 344 N. 2d street, Phila. T. C. WEYMAN, Hatter, 8 S. 8th street, Phila, Reader, if you are suffering from this distressing complaint, or Tetter, Scald Head, Ring Worm, Pimples, Barbers' Itch, any crusty, scaly Skin Eruption, use Swayne Ointment and be cured. Sent by mall on receipt of price (in currency or postage stamps), £0 cents a box, ihree boxes, 1 2o. Address letters, Dr. Swayne & Son, 330 N.

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Sixth street, Philadelphia. No charge for advice. Sold by druggists generally. Swayne's Fever and Ague Pills are the best.

Prescription Free

For the spee-ly cure of Seminal Weakness, Loss of Manhood, and all disorders brought on by iuo isoretlon or excess. Any druggist has the ingredients. Address DAVIDSON A CO., 78 Nassua St., New York (June7-lyr)

4 Great Many arc Suffering from C*IUs Coughs, bronchial and asthmatlo affections a neglect of which may result In an incurable lung disease. Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup Wild Cherry promptly cures these dangerous symptoms. The first dose gives relief, and is oertain to cure the worst cough, sore lungs, even after they have become much disordered, We have hundreds of certificates to prove this fact.

Bronchitis, a premonitory of pulmonary consumption, is characterized by catarrh,, or inflammation of the mucous membrame of the air passages, with cough and expectoration, snort breath, hoarseness, pains in the chest. For ailbionchial affections, sore throa aphonia or l«ws of voice, coughs. Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry is a sovereign remedy.

PRICE—'Trial size bottles 25 cents. Large size (holding five of the small) $1, or six for $5. Prepared only by Dr. Swayne & Son, 880 N. Sixth street, Philadelphia. Sold by all prominent druggists. Buntia & Armstrong, Terre Haute. Swayne's Fever and AguelPllls are the best.

Totally IHfftereoft from all Others. London Hair Color Restores is the most delightful article ever introduced to the American people, and is totally different from all other hair restorers, being entirely free from all impure ingredients that render many other articles for the hair obnoxious. Where baldness, or foiling of the hair exists, or premature grayneas from pickness or other" causes, its use will restore the nat*:C ural youthful color aud cause a healthy growth, cleansing the scalp trom all Impurities, dandruff, etc., ati the same time a me»t pleasing and lasting hair dressing, fragrantly per fumed, rendering the hair soft and pliable, making It an Indispensable article In every toilet. Ask your druKxlst for London Hair Color Restorer. Price, 75 cents a bottle, six botlles, 81. Main depot lor the United States, 830 N. Sixth street. Philadelphia, Hold by Buutin A Armstrong, Terre Haute- Swayne's Fever and Agu» Pills never fall.

ERRE HAUTE ICE CO.

We take pleasure In saying to the publio generally tliat we are well supplied with splendid ice. Prices low and orders promptly filled, if left at office or given to drivers.

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PURDUE.

Office, 6llifaln street, between sixth and Seventh.

Evaiisvillc, Terre Haute and Chicago R'y.

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THROUGH TO CHICAGO WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. Trains leave Union Depet, Terre Haute, as Hows: 6:40 a. daily, except Sunday. 9:50 p. m., dally.

Through sleeping cars on all nlght tralns. Close connection is made at V.^n Peoria and points west, also with Wabash trains both east and west.

JOS. COLLET!', Superintendent.

J. 8. HUNT, G. T. A.

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vour piano needs toning or repairing, you can save moaey by employing the pop­

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reliable tuner, A. H. PAIGE, who ikes a specialty of tuning and repairing kinds oflnstruments. All repairs exenbe same as at piano and organ man-

you makes all kl cuted ufectories tuned and cleaned, moths exterminated and wires prevented from rusting without extra charge. Pianos tuned by tbe year at reduced rates. Prices greatly reduced for rebuffing pianos. Thebest of references given when desired. Leave orders SrHh W. H. Paige, tffl Main street, or send your adiress through the

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HJND-THAT WITH ONE STROKEOF pen you can reach, with aii advertisement intbe Saturday Evening Mail, almost Srtrr reading family In this city, as wellaa the nsidents of the towns and country she sounding Terre Haul*.

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