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THK Gazette 18 now printed 011 its own press, and with its new type presents a greatly improved appearance.

COLLBIT PARK will be thrown open to the public before many weeks, bat despite its attractions several thousand able-bodied citizens will stay from it this summer, rather than walk or pay 'bos bire,

INDIANAPOLIS is the State capital, the largest railroad center in the State, etc., etc., but Terre Haute has one advantage over her, besides which all ethers dwindle into unaignificance. We have no base ball club.

THR Central Telephone Co. threatened to withdraw its service from the entire State if the rate was fixed at $3 a month by the Legislature. This is looked upon as a "bluff," with no idea of its being carried out.

Now that Col. McLean's Washington appointment makes it necessary for him to resign from the Normal trusteeship, Governor Gray can perform a neat act of justice by replacing* Joseph Gilbert on the Board.

THK getters up of a cottage prayer meeting at a private bou*e on north Second street, Thursday evening, were horrified at seeing a paragraph in the Gazette stating it was to be a progressive euchre party!

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regulation ef fees and salaries, the Legislature will adjourn without taking any action on this highly important matter. This explains the bland smile which ornaments the faces of the county officials.

PROHIBITION evidently does prohibit in the little town of Pralrietou just below us. A saloon was started there, which proved objectionable to the people of that borg, and they ordered him to close up, or else have his stock emptied into the street. He closed.

THB new fast trains ou the Vandalia now admit of New York papers of one day being read here at ten o'clock the next morning. Verily, these be movirg times, and before long our citizens will be complaining because they can't get their mail from New York the evening the same day it Is forwarded.

COL. W. E. MOLHAN was appointed yesterday by the President, First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, to take effect on the 16th of this month. The •alary is |3,600 a year. While congratulate the Colonel on picking this nice plum, it is a matter of regret that we must lose him from active citizenship.

OOL. THOS. H. NBUSON has returned from Washington, where he has been hobnobbing with the representatives of the effete monarklee, at present stationed there. He says that President Cleveland,with bis forty-odd years looks almost as young as he, with the traces of thirty-nine pleasant summers on bis brow.

TUB new superintendent of the street oar company seems to be Infusing new life into that organization. This week the run of the Sixth street line was extended to the Union depot, and passengers can now be transfered from one depot, to the other for one-fifth the previous cost. The new lines are said to be paying beyond expectations, and if the track could be extended up to Collett Park, it would also be found to be very remunerative.

THR gasoline contractors do not want the city to deduct anything for the lights that do not burn. Inasmuch as there were 2,471 lamps reported not lighted during March, the contractors do not ask for very much. Gasoline lamps area miserable apology for lights at the best, and it we are expected to pay for something we do not get, it would be economy to replace them with reliable lights. _____

Rkv. K. F. Hows, formerly pastor of the Congregational church in this city, eeems to be blessed with an abundant harvest, as the result of his work the past winter in Peoria. The Call of that city says the First Congregational church received, last Sunday, Into membership eighty six persons seventy-six by confession and ten by letter. Added to the forty admitted a few Sundays ago, this makes a total of 138 accessions since the first of the year.

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mander of the McKeeo Rifles for several years, declined a re-election owning to a roat trouble which is easily aggraby giving commands, and at the thia week John H. O'Boyle, a capable member of tbe company, elected to that position. The comalso reduced the Initiation AM with •view of increasing Its membership, b»t with the waning of the military s|rit hers this l* not likely to meet with

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WHAT THE MAIL BBARS.

That'lf. ll. Jeffera would like to be the next Mayor of this city. That President Cleveland couldn't well make a better appointment than that of Colonel McLean to the position of deputy commissioner of pensions.

That Joseph Gilbert ought to be given the place on the Normal board of trustees made vacant by the removal of Col. McLean from this city. Hj|

That the street commissioner is doing some good work ia having the streets thoroughly cleaned.

That Billy Griffith is preparing to join the noble army of Benedicks. That the electric light gives great satisfaction, anduis destined to enjoy a great boom.

That it would not be a bad thing to have our streets lighted with the "light of the future pit -&? or tne luture.

That this city, with the reputation it Las for patronizing first class shows, is having too many ten cent snaps thrust upon her.

That it was only for fear of offending Mr. Briggs by refusing to accept b's resignation that Messrs. Kolsem and Wlldy insisted upon that action being taken at the council meeting last Tuesday night.

That Mr. J. Mattsankey ought to have the Democratic candidacy for mayor in order to soothe his wounded feelings, sadly lacerated by Tom Hanlon's appointment to be revenue collector.

That Evansville wants the office of the revenue collector to be removed there also that she won't get it!

That Mayor Armstrong ought to be presented with a gold medal for his stand on the "cow ordinance." 1 hat Eugene Debs is disgusted with the legislature—and that about sixty thousand fair-minded citizens in this county are on the same side of the feDce with him.

That Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" combination is going to hold forth at the base ball park, in place of the fair grounds..

That Will Arnold is being spoken of as a possible Republican candidate for mayor. 4

That several hundred shares of stock in the Terre Haute Base Ball Association can be secured very cheap for cash.

A. H. DOOLKY, formerly of this city, who receutly sold the Indianapolis Herald and who has been looking out for a good place to locate, paid a visit to Rich mond, Va. It Is a fine city, he saye live and business like, a good plaee to make money, but the people are far behind the North In literary culture, and there waB an atmosphere about the place that he did not find congenial. Mr. Dooley concludes that possibly he has lived In the North too long to assimilate readily even with "the new South." At any rate be decided that he did not want to live in Richmond.

A BIOHT at once pitiable and deepic able is that of a man who has neverdoue for himself all bis life long, but who has depended, and has been content to depend, upon others. From his youth up he has lost situation after situation which the compassion of friends or relatives has procured for bim. You can charge him with no grave vices. He Is not drunken, or dishonest, or dissolute. Nor can you say he ia absolutely lazy. He is always doing something, though that something may not be the most useful or manly thing. He has a talent for pottering, and loves to do little miscellaneous jobs about the houae. If life were made up of trifles, this man would be a hilarious success.

A wis* young woman says she always gets anew winter dress on the edge of spring, because there are bitterly cold days when less warm apparel would be fatal, and yet so much bright sunshine that every well-worn defect becomes conspicuous, A warm, pretty, "left over" dress, that the wearer knows bv heart and ha* already proved to be a success, comes In capitally in the early autumn, before the new styles are fully determined.

BACK NUMBERS.

For thirty cents we will send a few sets of the back numbers of The Mail, containing the story of "Wyllard's Weird,"—commencing December 6th, 19 weeks. These numbers also have the serial stories of "Dark Days" and "Called Back," besides some twenty or mora choice short stories and a vast amount of interesting miscellany. So much good reading cannot be had anywhere for the money.

MARRIAGE LICENSE Tbe following marriage licenses hav* bean Issued since our last report:

Chas. K. Caas and Annie Thomas, Christian John Smith and Mary A. Smith. John KoUch and KUx*beth Bigtey. Henry Uaterand Margaret Lambert. Harry O. Skinner aad Gertrode Tbcapson.

John M. H. Johnston and Ruanna Fteaber. Hlnun Cmtf and Clara 1L Tlllie. C. Andrew Mat since* and Anna Zimmer-

Gonm must go. Tsabtaa. are fashionable.

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42.r?/E TERRE HAUTE, IN P., SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 11, 1885.

POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. Speaking of President Cleveland's luck, the thought occurs that there are undoubtedly lucky men and unlucky ones. One of Glrard's rules was never to have anything to do with an nnlucky man. Tbe Rothschilds will not employ a man who has the reputation of illluck. Most people are believers in luck. History is full of it. Cromwell trusted 1R September 3 Napoleon on December 2. Many great men have worn trinkets to give them luck: Many a woman who puts on her stocking wrong-side out will not change it. Few care to be one at a table ol thirteen. In Russia they will not pass tbe salt. Men bate to do anything important on Friday. Millions believe in the virtues of the horseshoe. Even the most sensible people have little confidence in tbe ultimate success of a man who has been tbe victim of an extraordinary run of ill-luck. A man's intelligence and integrity count for nothing in the popular estima tion when paople have seen his enterprises fail one after another. There is a general disposition to balleve that it Is better to be born lucky than rich.

THERE are few, if any, human beiagn among us who are completely and rapturously happy for any length of timd. Lovers in each other's arms, benefactors relieving suffering, mothers clasping their babies, actor and author under the fresh laurels of triumph—all these know Burely what the ecstasy of bliss is. But tbe child leaves the mother's arms, the benefactors receive ingratitude, the lovers weary, or deceive or die, the actor or the artist finds that one warm heart had been better than the hollow ring of all those plaudits and the ecstacy with all has been brief. And that is what the moan is about—that it can not last to all time, as If in a world that "spins forever down tbe ringing grooves of change," every moment, with its invisible forces, must not pull the preasnt combination apart to effect anew one, and as if were anything but childish kicking against a wall to remonstrate or complain of the Inevitable lor by submitting and trying to make the best of it, something, at any rate, is to be gained. It being conceded, then, that every lot in life has its bitterness, "while laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning take hold of the end of joy," that corroding cares beset the possession of our best earthly treasures, it becomes a selfevident truth that tbe chief relief from that lot is to cease to consider it.

FOR introducing something ndw and novel, and useful, in tbe way of a matrimonial scheme, a lawyer who lives in South Carolina, is deserving of a vote of thanks from all timid people, and es pecially from the ladies, who are ordinarily denied the privelege ofsuelng for tbe hearts and hands of the sterner sex. At a recent wedding reception he proposed "that one man in the company should be selected president that this president should be duly sworn to keep entirely secret all communications that should be forwarded to blm in this official department that night, and that each unmarried gentleman or lady should write bis or her name on apiece of paper aud under it the name of tbe person tbey wish to marry, then band it to .the president for inspection, and if any gentleman and lady had reciprocally chosen each other the president was to inform each of the result, while those who had not been reciprocated in their obolce should be kept entirely secret." After tbe appointment of the president, communications were accordingly handed up to tbe chair, and it was found that twelve young ladies and gentlemen had made reciprocal choices, but whom they had chosen remained a secret to all but themselves and tbe president. "I was," says tbe lawyer, "passing through the same place a few days ago, and was informed that eleven of the twelve matches bad been solemnized, and that the young gentlemen of eight couples of the eleven had declared that their diffidence was so great that tbey certainly should not have addressed their respective wives if this scheme had not been introduced.1'

CHARLES KINOSLBY gave a good recipe for the improvement of the world. Have charity," be says, "have patience, have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly. Ignorant or weak, above all, any little child, to shame and confusion of face. Never by petuUnce, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste, never, above all, by indulging in tbe devilish pleasure of a sneer, crush what Is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in tbe heart of any fei-low-creature."

A ScbnecUdy paper tells a sad story of bow two lives were blasted last summer by a fly's misstep. A couple were married several years ago, and lived happily until one morning, when a fly fell into the wife's coffee. It was scooped oat by her hasband and accidentally tossed upon ber plate. She became angry and left tbe house. Tbe separation is final.

In one year a Jacksonville, Florida, lady became a wife, widow, mother, and wifeagaia. •,.

In a wise hen who knows her own egg when it's decorated for Easter,

THOSB who complain most of the cold last winter will be the first to find fault with tbe heat.

WORK on the new oourt house and the government building is now being pushed with si! possible speed.

THR Maude Atkinson dramatic company will play at the Opera House every night next week, with an afternoon performance on Saturday.

THR Board of Health has issued a timely order, a copy of which is printed in another place, in regard to a general cleaning up, that should have the prompt attention of every householder.

JOSEPH COOK, who needs no introduction to our readers, will lecture on "Certainties in Religion," at tbe Presbyterian church next Thursday evening. Admission will be forty cents, and reserved seats, without extra charge, can be bad at Button's on snd after Monday.

REV. J. L. CORNING will give the first of his three lectures on art, at the Congregational, church next Tuesday evening, beginning with "Raphael, and the Solden Age of Paint'ng." With a powerful Stereopticon be will give nearly half a hundred Illustrations, showing all the representative works of the great master, from his boyhood to. bis death.

THE concert of tbe Davis Family on Monday evening was a gratifying sue cess as it deserved to be. The people filled tbe Opera House and the family filled tbe people with simple ballad*) and touching melodies, with a smart sprinkling of operatic aud tbe higher class of music. The latter was gratifying as evidence of the progress this remarkable family is making in music. but it seemed tbe audience most enjoyed the songs of sentinient, the popular, joyous mel»des. The repeated encores wh^ch followed these at times seemed to invite a question of endurande between the singer* on the Qtage and the hand-clappers in the auditorium.

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MR. C. C. FARNHAM, manager of the Terre Haute Distrjgt Telegraph Co., has now got the requttW 800 signatures, but as he Is not got^ *°Jjugh with all tbe business bouses, continue to call upon the buaine«f^je» f°r one week, putting in the bojfiafto dents month rental. All romfl^'lnhtfter that will be charged $1 a month. It ought to be in every bouse in the city. It is an instant call to the fire department, a suie protecMon against burglars and your doctor can be summoned any hour of tbe night Without any extra charge. If there are any who wish to see the box a postal card sent in care of Ohmer Dejoi Hotel, will meet with prompt attention.

THE ttiost quietly elegant event of the week was tbe marriage of Miss Gertrude Thompson to Mr. Harry Skinner, ol Baltimore, which took place last Tuesday morning. The ceremony was wit •eased only by tbe relatives and\ wat* followed Immediately by a large reception which continued three hours. An elegant lunch was served and tbe guests were entertained with that delightful hospitality for which Dr. and Mrs Thompson have been so long distinguished. The numerous and handsome presents were not displayed, with the exception of several beaatiful flowei pieces. The bride wore a stylish traveling suit of brown cloth and looked lovely and happy. She will be greatly missed by the many friends among whom she has grown from girlhood to woman hood, and especially does she leave a vacancy in that home circle where as daughter and sister she has been so beloved. Mr. Skinner, during bis brief stay in the city, has made a favorable impression by his modest and dignified bearing. He has taken bis bride to their own home on one of tbe handsomest avenues in Baltimore, a few blocks from the famous Druid Hill Park.

AMUSEMENTS.

The Maude Atkinsou dramatic compady will play at tb? Opera House every night next week, producing such play* as Fanchon, Lady of Lyons, Queen'* Evldeuce, French Spy, Fate, etc., at tbe low prices of 10, 15 and 90 cents admission. It has been piayiug at Evansville this week. Concerning tbe initial performance the Journal says: "Fanchon," the very popular pastoral drama, was presented in splendid style with Miss Atkinson iu tbe lending role If tbe Writer was correct his was Miss Atkinson'* first appearanee befo.e an Ev»usviiie audience, but she hasoertain made a decidedly lavorable impression. Tbe highest compliment that can be paid her Is that in tbe rendition «f the character of "Fanchon" site Is well nigh on a par with M*«de Mitchell, she is a pleasing and painstaking act'e*» and deserves libera* patronage this week. Her support is very good. Mr. Johnston as "Dtdier, and Fox as "Luidry being ex oeedincly well rendered parts. "Madeton" was played with Miss Zoe rarnsworth in excellent style. The "Father Oalhara" of r. F. D. Montague was so original as to convulse the home. His version of the character certainly UOSWOMLS at least one charm, that of originality. Taken altogether tbe company is a good one-noasaalljr good lor the proles rf admtsrion charged.

There are in thia country at present, accenting to estimates, very nearly, if not fully, 50,600 skating rinka.

PURELY PERSONAL.

Mrs. John Paddock will return from Florida next W6ek« Judge Carlton started for Salt Lake City, Wednesday afternoon.

Lee Hirsh has returned to this city with a view of resuming business. Mrs. M. T. Husk, of Evansville, is visiting Mrs. E. T. Haman and family.

Mrs. Ida A. Harper and ber daughter, Miss Win nlfredi came home this week from Florida.

J. P. Crawford and wife returned Wednesday night from Charlestown, West Tirginia.

Frank Pratt has an orderto put a |500 monument over the grave of the late Tnomas B. Snapp.

D". M. H. Waters started Wednesday night for New York, called there by tbe serious illness of bis father.

Miss Ella Curtis and Mr. Frank Campbell of Clinton, ind. are the guests of Miss Ollie Leggett, this week.'

Hiiam Sanford, brother-in-law of Dr. Young, of this city, is lying very lew, with little hope of recovery, at hla home in Paris.

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Judge Allen and his daughter, Miss Lizzie, came up Thursday morning from Florida, where the latter has spent tbe winter.

Will the gentleman who picked up a package of curtain fringe and books at corner of Main and Fourth streets please leave It at Tbe Mall office.

George McDonald, of Bement, Rea A Co., one of the oldest and best known traveling men of this city, died of cancer last Monday morning at his home in Montezuma.

John Nelson, a well known favorite in Printing House Square, has secured a place in the government printing bouse, at Washington, and left for that city last Sunday afternoon.

John R. Hager will continue the weather record kept so long by bis uncle, tbe late L. O. Hager, and will probably succeed bis uncle in the insurance business. Mason Dpncan, who is thoroughly acquainted with the insurance business ftom having been associated with Mr. L. G. Hager so long, will assist in settling up the business.

R. Forster's big furniture house, 320 Main street, is now well filled with an extensive variety of the most elegant Parlor and Bedroom Suites, which he ia selling at prices to suit tbe times.

Persons desirous of buying, trading, bouiesteading or pre-empting a farm in Kansan, will do well to call on W. T. Leggett, and secure a list of farms and low passenger rates for April 14th and 28tb. Best inducements to settlers and laborers these dates. 407% Obio St.

S. Loeb A Co. never before bad such an attractive and desirable a line of soft and stiff hats for spring and summer wear. The styles are the very latest out, for each season Mr. Loeb goes In person to tbe New York barters and selects bis goods. His long scquaintance with our people, a knowledge of their tastes, enables bim to suit the most fastidious and canrlclous.

Still another lot of elegant suitings arrived this week at James L. Brennan's merchant tailoring establishment, 651 Main strebt. The styles are remarkably elegant this spring, and Mr. Brennan's exquisite fits make tbem still mor6 elegant when made up. Mr. Brenuan is securing a large share of custom work by reason of bis moderate prices. •},

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Mrs. W. T. Smith, of New Haven, Conn., wrote PresidentCleveland's Inaugural message, 1,688 words, on a postal card in two and a half hours. She sent it to Mr. Cleveland, with a request for bis autograph, and be has returned it with bis signature across tbe ceatet of tbe

A strange sight was presented in th streets of Tucson, Arizona, one day last month. A woman appeared carrying a child's empty coffin on ber shoulder, followed by a lot of little girls. Later tbe scene was re versed •, and the coffin was borne by four little girls, followed by several women. It Is no uncommon sight to see a coffin borne to the grave on the shoulders of a man, but a woman readeripg tbe service was a novel spectacle. 'J--'

Mrs. Tom Thumb, who took a second husband on Monday, is no longer tbe pretty and petite, doll-faced child she was a quarter of a century ago. Care and age have furrowed her brow, the crows have planted their feet by her eyelids, tbe bright red blood of youth has forsaken tbe veins. Nothing pleases her so much as to be followed by gaping crowds nothing recalls so vividly the visions of other and happier days as tbe ohs and ahs of a paying multitude, and when, turning ber back upon tbe icebound rocks of sterile N*w England, she sought tbe limited sheckels of metropolitan dime museums, die took so tremendous a professional tumble aa to excite general amazement and almost justify tbe lame of a commission la

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DARLING DOLLIK Your charming letter has been received. It was kind in Mr. Westfall to publish that letter. I will tell you how it ciime to be lost. Bob said he could icail it as he went into "that alley" the papers talk about so much, and there was aback way to some saloons where there are some sharpers in cards, and he could get some points for me so I could cheat a little at "progressive." He went there and somebody picked his pocket and got $8.00 and that dear letter. I suppose the pickpocket threw the letter awny and Mr. Westfall found it.

Oh. Dol'ie, we are just having heavenly times in "Progressive Euchre." Games nearly every night, Saturday especially. Of course, we dont play after 12 o'clock Saturday. nights, but then John, ho is the dear fellow I told you about, stopped the clock an hour. Dont let this get out on us but we did uot get home till 8 o'clock oue Sunday mornlug." Just tnink, papu won the clock that night and we have put it up in the kitchen for the hired girl. She is a great Methodist and opposed to all kinds of gambling, and objected to a clock won at cards Sunday morning, in her kitchen. But it is right pieity und she finally consented to let it stay.

him to put on the plate and Pete had cents his mother had got for making overalls and tbe other boys had some money. Well, Bob got out hi* dice box and played a lit le for fun and let them win to draw tbem on. Then he goi them to put up all the money they had and he just slipped in his loaded dice when his time come to throw, and he won all their money as slick as papa did the clock the other night.

They all took it pretty well but little Pete. You know his mother is a widow and very poor. Pete cried and said his mother gave hlin that 60 cents to stop at the drug store as he came home from Sunday school and get ... •. YJnU InmihoH 11T.

lie VttlllW HUlllO Iiwu 7— a bottle of cough medicine. Bob laughed at him and told him next time he woulu win a dollar. Bob fe alUtlesorry,gave him back a quarter, and took bis kmfe and^ ripped a bolein Pete's pocket and to him to tell his mother he lost the other money out of that hole. Pjtesald he never had toid his inotlur a lie, but he would do as Bob said.

Bob told Char es Augastus to tell his pap he put the money on the plate at Sunday school. Cl aries said he would.

Bob look in 6.00 that morning and it beat papa's clock. I te 1 you Bob!is getting to be a smart one»,and omy think, LoHte. be has got his ideas this winter from progressive

Boh is takftig lessons in cheating at cards from those fellows along "that alley." and when he geis a little better educated I am going to persuade mamma to let him go to the "Silent Progressive Euchre ub." They will think him a greeny, but he will take the "Butter dish" from a 1 of thetn. "Progressive Euchre" is very progressive, Do lie. You can hardly keep up with it You see at first it started with all kinds of people, belonging to good society, and when you got 48 together they talked and screamed so, it interfered with the game. 80 some long, cool heads got together and formed a committee ana started th« "Silent Progressive Euchre Club." The chief by-law provides that not more than 24 shall talk with a full head of stea at a time. The silent progressives are very quiet. They have not as yet been heard by anyone over two squares, but thei has been several incipient outbreaks and no one one knows whst a day may bring forth.

The "Quiet Progressives" are those who indulge in a social^olemn ll'tlegame of Kundsy nights but as the curtalnsareal' kept drawn nobody knows much about It. E -ster evening after dinner, mamma Invited in a few friends and we p'ayed till papa come home from the club at 12 o'clock. Bob and Jo both took a hand and Bob beat the whole party.

Oh Dollie I must stop. I can count 9 progressive and silent progressive and Quiet

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Sunday-school. A good many of the progressive friends" makes fun of Sundayschools and preacbcrs, and mamma you know dotes on her children and she thought if they continued to go to Sunday -school it might keep them out of good

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Now mum is the word ou 'bis. Bob has learned some sharp things from the hoys aioug "that a ley.,f He was there Saturday night 1111 2 o'clock. He has taken to dlee now. He says it beats all the progressives. He has a box made of elephants teeth ana there are spots on thern. Now you shake the box and throw the dice, and whoever g.-ts the most spots up wins. W» one of those men along "that alley" give Bob some loaded dice, they are heavier ou one side and always bring up lots of spots.

Kuster Suuday we did not get up till noon. But dob was up by times ana be got Charles Augastus Gladstone and Pete Filiey and two other boys as they were noing to Sunday «ohoot and got tltem to come into Mlkeii room—the coachman—when he had gone to mass. Charles had Ave dollars his pap hRo

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ust think awful Pol ie to have so many funerals—they interfere so with t^e gamm. 1 send this by Bob. If he looses it may be Mr. W. will find It. Good-bye, sweet, dear friend, good-bye. Yours progressively.

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LITTLE SERMONS.

Fretful people always shut out tbe 8unahla$^nd grumble about tbe darkI

Patience is a very easy thing to talk about, but hard enough to practice for tbe beat of us.

The disappointments of to-day may be tbe seeds from which will spring the flowers of to-morrow's happiness.

Almoet every callow youth feels In his heart a supreme, Byornlc contempt for tbe world but tbe world Is not aware of it.

Victor Hugo says: "Certain thoughts are prayers there are moments when whatever may be the attitude of the body the soul is on its knees."

It is foolish to become provoked or irritated by passing trifles. There are so many trials to be met in life, we need to save our temper and our tears for occasions that will tax tbem both severely

Who would think that ex-Secretary Chandler would permit himself to be bothered by such visionary influences as counting white horses for Inck? He counts every one that he sees until he reaches thirty-nine, and then he begins over again. Speaking of this once, he said be had often wondered why be did so, for his reason told bim that it was nonsense, yet be felt uncomfortable unless he did.

CAN THIS BE TRUE Burlington HawkeyeTbere are to-day over 100 families living together in Burlington and being received in society as honorable and upright people, when tbe facte are tbe

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