Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 January 1887 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 22, 1887

Doubtless the impressionable nature of the young girl had much to do with the matter. She conceived the idea that these men were being unrighteously prosecuted and that there was a conspiracy to execute them. Her whole being rebellod against such an injustice and she become heart and soul enlisted in their cause. She attended the trial day After day and when at last it was over, and the terrible (hiding of the jury was mado and sentence pronounced, she did not give them up. They had now become martyrs in her eyes and her romantic interest in them and particularly in one of them was only heightened. She visited the dark and miserable jail from day to day. Her sympathy for Spies ripened into love and the plighted faith of the lovers was made through prison bars. At length she obtained the consent of her parents and an engagement of marriage was made.

Thus, although the man is now under sentence of death and stands in the shadow of the scallbld, this ardent girl has not been dissuaded from becoming his wife. The case matches any which the love-legends or ancient times can show.

That is one side of the case—the romantic side. There is another, the practical, common sense viow of the matter. This regards the proposed union as shocking and scandalous and the girl as being controlled by emotional insanityl It looks upon Spies who is the girl's senior by eleven yoars, as willing to make a tool of her in the hopo of creating a public sympathy for himself and his condemned companions which may help to shield them from the gallows.

The public senitiment of the country lias spoken emphatically in protest against the union, which, under the circumstances now existing, seems^obnoxious to overy fooling of humanity and decorum. So strongly has this sentiment expressed itself in Chicago that the slioriff of the county has declared his purpose to prevent the marriage by not permitting the access of the parties to the jail for the purpose of consummating it. Had that officer and his deputies possessed the forethought to prohibit the girl's daily attendance at the jail when they saw the direction which the a flair was taking, the present deplorablo outcome might perhaps have beon prevented.

The whole case Is singular and anomalous and one of the most remarkable features of it is that parents of the romantic girl appears to have made no serious effort to dissuade her from the execution of her purpose of marrying a man standing in shadow of the gallows. Curious people they must le.

Mil.LII)SA IRE SEXA TORS. Indiana has no rich men in either house of Congress and may therefore speak the more freely on the subject of millionaire Senators. Unquestionably there are too many rich men in the United States Senate for the good of the people. Here are the names of some of them: Sherman of Ohio, Stanford of California, Palmer of Michigan, Sawyer of Wisconsin, Jones of Nevada, Payne of Ohio, Dolph and Mitoholl of Oregon, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Cheney of New Hampshire, Spooner of Wisconsin. Stewart of Nevada, Hearst of California, Stockbridge of Wisconsin, Farwell of Illinois, Quay of Pennsylvania and Camden of West Virginia.

It thus appears that nearly one-fourth of all the Senators are millionaires, some of them millionaires many times over. And besides these there are other Senators of very considerable wealth, though by no means Crvvmises. It is hardly to be supposed that these men fairly represent the people of the country. All of them are identified with great corporations and their sympathies naturally go out in that direction, even if unconsciously. There is too much cause to fear »1 so that in the case of some of these men their money has an undue influence in procuring their election.

It will not be a good thing for this country when the United States senate shall come to represent the money power rather than the people. The present tendency in that direction should be vigorously discouraged.

IN the New York Senatorial contest It looks vary ranch as if fieri P. Morton had vigorously shaken down ths tat plumb, which Frank Hiseock had nothing to do but lastly pick up.

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A REAL LOVE STORY.

There have been few more romantic love stories than that of August Spies and Miss Nina Van Zandt, of Chicago, Miss Van Zandt is a comely young lady of twenty-one, who conies of a good family, is well educated and an heiress to $300,000 or $400,000 in her own right By mere accident she went, in company with some other ladies, at the invitation of Judge Gary, to the trial of the anarchists. She there recognized in Spies the man she had once before met in a busi ness way as editor of the Arbeiter Zeitnng, and to whom she had then been somewhat attracted. Her interest in him rapidly developed. She obtained an introduction and soon fell ardently in love with him, although there was no other opportunity for love-making than that afforded by the prison bars.

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THE RAILROAD BILJL. The inter-State commerce bill which has passed the Senate, and will undoubtedly pass the House, is apparently worrying the railroad magnates of the country. Their opposition to the measure was to have been expected however They would be opposed to any bill on the subject unless it were framed directly in the interests of railroads. To man they join in denouncing the Cul-lom-Regan bill and profess to be apprehensive that it will do the business in terests of the country great damage.

It may be that the law when it goes into operation will be found to have serious defects, but it would be next to impossible to make a law on such complicated subject perfect in the first instance. Something must be tried After experiment the things that are wrong in the law can be cured by amendment. One thing is certain: the great railroad corporations have done as they pleased too long already. The business interests of thecountry and especially of the West, have been largely at their mercy. They make the most outrageous discriminations in favor of some points and against others. jp

For twenty years the people have felt that some just restraint by legislation should be put upon the railroads. The Granger laws were tried but they did not accomplish the end sought. The pending bill is pretty binding in some of its provisions and if the railroads can be made to observe it there is every prospect that good results will follow. At any rato it is a beginning and the matter need not be dropped now until a satisfactory and effective law shall be worked out.

A MISTAKE.

The Republicans in the Legislature made a serious mistake, from a party point of view, in entering into an agreement with the Democrats whereby Senator Smith was allowed to preside over the joint convention to elect a United States Senator. This gave the Democrats an excuse to abandon their propose of holding a separate convention and it gave them also a strong advantage in the joint onvention, where Judge Turpie only lacked one vote from the outset to secure his election. j:

Good party management would have dictated to the Republicans to go right in the way they had marked out, making no concessions or compromises and obeying the strict letter of the law. Simply because a Democratic judge had decided against .Col. Robertson's title no sufficient reason for giving up the tight, especially as the case was appealed to the Supreme court, where it is still pending.

The Republicans' carried the State last November by a gallant contest, but it looks as though certain weak-kneed men in the Legislature had thrown away the fruits of the victory, or at least put them in imminent jeopards*.

RECENT developments have disclosed a most shameless and scandalous state of affairs in the Pacific railroads which were largely subsidized by the government by vast tracts of land. It is shown that something like $150,000,000 has been divided among the great railway kings, which is in effect stolen money. Ths House has passed resolutions for the appointmentofacommission to investigate the matter. It is strange that such an Investigation was so long deferred and it is to be hoped that it will now be prompt and merciless. It is these acts of colossal fraud and theft by the great plutocrats of the country which causes the discontent among the laboring classes that finds expression in political discontent and socialism.

OnK of the pleas of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal monopoly has been that they paid their employes better wages than formerly. Like the rest of their pretensions this has been shown to be false. An investigation of the facts has disclosed that the average weekly wages of the miners were §7.58 in 1882, and that they steadily declined to $6.47 in 1885. Thus these corporate vultures have been fieeeing consumers and the poor miners at the same timo. If this scandalous combination is not broken up it will be to the everlasting disgrace of Pennsylvania.

THE Epoch, a new weekly paper projected in New York, is expected to appear early in February. It will be a somewhat ambitious venture, on the order of the Saturday Review and the Spectator, of London. An important feature of the paper will be the publication of signed articles by writers of reputation and the expression of contradictory views will be permitted. There will need to be plenty of money back of the enterprise if it is to succeed.

CANADA is likely to "hear something drop" before long. Uncle Sam has about made up his mind that the little power on the other side of the St. Lawrence has bullied and blustered long enough. If Canada does* not behave herself about the fisheries her fish and other products will be excluded from United States ports.

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retaliatory policy of this

kind will soon bring the Dominionites to their senses.

A BITI has been introduced in Congress appropriating $100,000 for boring a hole in the aarth to see what it is made of. This is only for a "starter," the intention being to appropriate annually such a sum as could be used to advantage. There is more sense, in such an undertaking than in throwing away so much money on North Pole exploring expeditions. ,j|

The Galveston News wants passenger cars4'so constructed that they will fall to pieces when turned over, so the people can escape."

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MR. BEECHERS LETTER.

SHOULD WOMEN BE HANOEDt

MANY OF THEM AS WELL FITTED FOR HANGING AS MEN—A HANGING WOMAN A MORE IMPRESSIVE SPECTACLE

THAN A SWINGING MAN—ALL HANGING SHOULD BE MADE PRIVATE—OUR PRISONS IN THE HANDS OF POLITICIANS —A FEW PERSONAL REMARKS BY ^1R. BEECHKR. ... .' Correspondence of Saturday Evening Mall.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 19.

Should women be hanged? Why not? There are many as well fitted for it as men. I do not see any reason why they should be denied the right of the gallows? In all the developments of the ages there is nothing more dramatic and and admirable than the march of women from their Oriental degradation to their modern eminence. They were slaves, ignorant, ministers of pleasure, degraded and degrading. They are now risen to eminence for refinement, virtue, social and religious influence.

Feeble tapers in the household, they were forbidden to let their light shine beyond its precincts. Now the light is at liberty to stream abroad as far as it can reach. All the way up from the age when they were but the plaything of the household their right of development has been contested. It would almost seem as if religion and morality had set themselves to keep woman in the physiological sphere. Their emancipation and moral development have taken from them no delicacy, no refinement.

It has not been a strife to convert women into men, but to develop womanhood into its full disclosure. They were women in bud they are women in blossom. They cannot be deprived of the essential quality of womanhood by enlargement of their sphere, by any degree of intellectual culture, to any normal function. There is not the slightest danger that delicacy, grace, clinging affection, domesticity and all the charms of motherhood will be lost by unfolding in intelligence, publicity and variety in occupation.

If a man has aright to preach, so has a woman to write, so has woman to teach, so has woman to conduct a farm or a commercial business, so has woman. If it is right for a man to enter the functions reserved for woman, to cook, to knit and sew, so lias a woman to perform a man's work. If he may turn nurse she may turn physician. Each one has a right to do all lawful things which they are adapted to.

If, then, a man has a right to swear profanely, so has a woman to steal, so has a woman to commit murder, so has a woman to be arrested, tried, convicted, so has a woman! From the cradle to the gallows, we claim for woman her fj^fl schedule of rights. Indeed there are some aspects in which a hanging woman is a more impressive spectaclo than a swinging man! ..

As long as men are to be hanged,..let, no one deprive awomanof theprivileges of the gallows on the same edifying conditions! _____

But is it best to hang men? I do not think it is. Is it best to hang women? Is it best to hang anybody? Is the spectacle refining or brutalizing? If it could be shown that hanging was the best disposition that could be made of bad men, it should be secret from the public. It should be done in silenqe, in seclusion, with no eye beholding but the officers of the law. The victim of crime should simply disappear. The gloating eyes of morbid curiosity should have no brutal spectacle of hideousness provided for them at the public expense.

A certain amount of physical restraint is indispensable in the present state of civilization. Rut cruel and barbarous penalties more and more defeat their own aims.

The English people have wiped out of their statute books a multitude of savage laws and penalties. No penalty has in it any benefit which does aim at least to benefit the criminal. Society is defended from crime by the reformation of the criminal. We have never tested the possibilities of reformation. We never shall be able to establish a school of reformations in prisons as long as prisons are put into the hands of politicians. So long as creatures like "Fatty" Walsh are made the superintendents of prisons, we may despair of criminals. But a time will come when, with all the resources of wealth, of humanity and of a true religious spirit, something more may be made of criminals than a prison education into fellowship with crime, and something more than furnishing the dissecting-room with subjects.

HENRY WARD BKKCHKR.

-J' NOTE.

Since I began to write these weekly letters many inquiries have reached me, and though I have not replied to any of them as yet, they will, many of them, form the basis of future articles. And I desire just here to append a few personal remarks: 1. This series of weekly letters was commenced at the earnest solicitation of a large number of personal friends who believed that some good might be accomplished thereby. I reserved to myself the liberty of intermittent work. I intend to maintain an unbroken series of weekly letters, but I shall retain the liberty, when health, sickness or excessive taxation require, of omitting a week's contribution. 2. I do not propose to confine myself to any uniform line of subjects. Sometimes I shall discuss social questions, sometimes religions, sometimes political, and, when the spirit move moves, den script!ve and poetic themes. Of course, it will be wise to keep aloof from partisan politics and controversial religious themes. Yet I must have unrestricted liberty to give my opinions or convic­

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tions on any theme which I may wish to write upon. 3. These letters are furnished early in every week. They are not designed to be contributions to the Sunday paper. Yet, if Sunday papers are to be published, are they not a good pulpit from which a clergyman should preach? 4. I shall be glad to receive questions on every side, with the liberty of discussing them or leaving them unnoticed, as it may seem expedient especially ethical questions which arise every day —in the household, in relations of busi ness, in public affairs and in religious research and experience.

HENRY WARD BEKCHER.

A SYNDICATE of Dutch bankers of Amsterdam, Holland, have bought 900 square miles of timbered land in western Florida, the largest land sale made in that State since 1881. It is proposed to build a railroad, develop the tract and colonize it from Holland. The Dutch do not seen to have exhausted ail their energy on New York.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARESA YINO.

Boston Courier: Man wants but little here below—zero. Lowell Citizen: Heresy does iiot do half the mischief that hearsay does.

New Haven News: It's a wise child that knows when to lay down a poker hand.'

Life: While the fashion of high hats is in vogue is the time to elevate the stage. 0^

Burlington Free Press: Fresh resolutions, like fresh eggs, are getting very scarce.

Boston Courier: In old times parents brought children up, but now the children bring parents down.

Boston Herald: Sarah Bernhardt has reached Panama. She must feel at home in that narrow isthmus.

Lowell Citizen: A pew in Beeeher's church sold for $1,000. Did wo hear somebody say that salvation was free?

Life: Truth lies at the bottom of a well, but if you want falsehood in any quantity you must goto the tombstones.

Macon Telegraph: The man who wrecks a train is a murderer. The man who wrecks a whole railroad is a financier.

Philadelphia Times: Oh that a locomotive engineer should put an enemy in his mouth to steal away other people's 1

New Haven News: It will be noticed that women who wear their hats in the theater are afflicted with some scalp disease.

MEAN MEN.

The meanest man on record is the one who gave his wife an alarm clock for a Christmas present to enable her to get up early in the morning and build the kitchen fire.—Newark, (N. J.) Call.

The meanest man in the world lives in Oregon. For some time past he has wanted to read a certain book, but was too stingy to buy it, so on Christmas he purchased it as a Christmas gift for his wife.—Seattle (W. T.) Press.

A citizen of Salt Lake, Utah, recently saw an incipient fire in a store and smothered it with his coat. He thus prevented a conflagration and ruined his coat. The proprietor of the store refused to reimburse him, and FO did the insurance agent who had a risk on the building. Now the flame-extinguisher declares that he will let the next fire burn before he will put it out.—Boston Globe.

A balsam peddler lost $50 a few days since, which was found near Buckingham's shoe store in Centerbrook by a little nephew of the shoe-dealer. The peddler soon missed the money and returned to find it. When it was given him he was so filled with gratitude that, when reminded that some reward was due the child, he opened his heart and his valise and gave hfm a bottle of his medicine.— Deep River (Conn.) New Era.

TAILOR-MADE GIRLS. Philadelphia Times.

"There goes a tailor-made girl," said a Chestnut street ladies' tailor to the stroller in the afternoon, as they stood at the front of the store looking out at the men and women passing up and down Chestnut street. The young woman had a fine figure covered with a white cloth jacket that fitted very tight. "Tailor-made girls don't mind the cold weather," continued the tailor, "or at least they don't appear to. Now that coat cost as much as a rich warm wrap, and there's hardlv any warmth in it, but a woman with a tine figure, or at least nine out of every ten, would rather wear one of those tight-fitting jackets and freeze, than wear a wrap that would hide her figure. The women who wear circulars and big cloaks are mostly poor fignres. Just watch the girls who wear tailor-made coats and ja and you'll observe that they have forms to be proud of, and that they're envied by the women who wear wraps."

NEWSPAPERS AS EDUCATORS. Michigan City Dispatch. The boy or girl who is a regular newspaper reader vill grow up in intelligence, and will use good language, both in speaking and writing, even with a limited education. It is news, science, literature, grammar, history, geography and spelling combined. Sometimes it is a little difficult to get children interested in newspapers, but after they once get started their intellectual cravings are as sure as the desire for food, and it is as necessary to feed the mind as well as the bodies. The local newspaper, above all, will interest tbem, and it has become a necessity in every well-regulated family.

"How, GenYal, you're pasted come! Give an your view*. In a brush at the front, what's the powder to one?" He winked at a Mar as he polfed his cigar, And slowly replied, I never use powder, but—SOZODONT."

Go Wfeere Toa Will

you'll find SOZODONT in vogue. People have thrown away their tooth-pow-ders and washes, and placed this oderiferous preservative of the teeth on the toilet table in their place. It keeps the teeth in spl«ndid order, and spices the breath.

"Spalding** Glue," sticking point.

always up to the 15-4W.

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WOMEN WITH GREAT NERVE. [New York Journal.] "Pop" Whittaker is the father of Roman hippodrome in America. There is not a man, woman, or child in the tent show business that dare admit, even it it were true, that ho or she is not on terms of intimacy with "Pop."

Mrs. Nat Austin, the wife of the noted clown, according to Mr. Whittaker, was a woman of remarkable nerve. She was a wire walker and a trapeze performer. Her ascensions on the wire were the highest ever made. There was no such word as fear in her dictionary. "We were out in the mining country," Whittaker said, "and night houses were rather slim, so one afternoon, when we were playing at Murderer's Bar or Hangtown, I forget which, I gave out that at night, before the show began, Mrs. Owen would walk to the top of the highest tree that could be found.

The tree selected was a tall one standing on a crag. The wire was scarcely long enough to reach from the ground to its top. "There was hardly any angle to the wire," Mr. Whittaker continued, "and when that woman walked up it backwards her shoulders almost touched it. It was the most daring thing I ever saw done, and the miners were almost wild with admiration. They insisted in giving a substantial token of their appreciation and presented her with about a pound of gold."

Mrs. Austin's trapeze acts were about as daring as her performances on the wire. She had a habit of falling and grasping a distant rope that made the audience below bulge its eyes out and catch its breath. She was the only coolheaded woman who rode in the hippodrome hurdle races, and when Barnum gave the Battle of Bunker Hill yoars ago at the American Institute she personated Co'umbia, riding an incline that old cir-cus-riders refused to ascend.

Mme. d'Ollatte, a Frenchwoman, who weighed 200 pounds, aud afterwards became Mrs. Austin, No. 2, was as brave as she was lucky. She came out in O'Brien's circus as The Woman with the Iron Jaw. She used to be drawn to the top of the tent's high dome twice a day, hanging to a bit of leather by her teeth and holding in her arms a small boy to whom she was deeply attached.

A New York butcher, who thought himself equal to the Madame's act, got about half a dozen butcher friends to go with him to the circus early one morning. He fell before he got half way to the top of the tent, and had both ankles so horribly injured that amputation was necessary. Mme. d'Olatte was a daring woman to go on with the act after that, bitt she did it.

Miles. Leon aud Lolo, Frenchwomen, fearless as athletics, w»-re Barn urn's performers, who made national reputations for wild flights through the air many feet above the heads of the spectators.

Remarkable in her timo was Mile. Victoria, whom Mr. Barnum brought over from Paris at a fabulous salary. Though a petite and refined lady, whom a mouse might have thrown into hj'sterics, she danced on the high wire and rode the bicycle across it while blindfolded.

She braved death twice a day for several years and then fell from her bicycle in Paris. Her head turned under in her fall and her diamond earring pierced one of her lungs, causing internal hemorrhage. She was potite, and no lady in America was ever held in greater respect than she by her circus companions.

Mrs. Lizzie Thatcher, the wife of Geo. Thatcher, the celebrated minstrel, was before her marriage, a high-wire dancer and rope-walker.

The originator of the dangerous feat of being fired from a cannon to a trapeze bar fifty feet above the grouud, was long supposed to be a woman, whose name on the "bills was Lulu. The act was one that meant death if any error was made, but there was no quailing.

The Farini family not many years ago startled the American world by Jts wondrous mid-air performances. The sisters, Rose and Lizzie, used to do a double trapeze act together that made the blood run cold. All depended on catc' hands and feet at the right moment,

Rose Farina, who was afterwards known as Mile. Zael and married George Starr, of Starr A Harris' spera company. was a wire walker. She was a,p educated lady and became connected with the circus through the fact that her father was at one time a dealer in circus l^rses.

She was the first woman to walk a high wire with feet encased in baskets and eyes blindfolded. Later she became Lulu's successor as a cannon shot, asd was given a necklace made of little cannons oy the Prince of Wales. Her last triumph was in being the first of her sex to be thrown into space from a Roman catapult, with only a rope between her and death. "That was a woman without a thought of danger," said veteran Whittaker, "so is Mile. Marie Zanfretta, the 'Human Fly,' who walks with head downward on a floor against the peak of the tent, hold only by the vacuum in the hollow of her rubber shoes. She and her sister, Louise, swing from high pedestals and catch each other in their flight. Nerve? Well, I should say so."

Mile. Tounaire, who walks head downward, with toes caught in rings hung a woras "i'ornerov few feet apart, and does wonderful feats upon each envelope..

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in balancing in a swinging trapeze sixty feet up In the air, and seems to feel as safe as though in her boudoir, in a wornan without knowledge of terror. :f

All these ladies ana many now with the great tent shows making the publics blood tingle, performed their feats before the authorities insisted on nets beplaced under trapezes and high wires and rings. The danger is lessened by the nets, but the nerve is required just the same, for nets often break and jealous rivals are liable to play tricks that may mean serious.

HEALTH HINTS.

It would not be a bad idea if the prac-""', tices of tho ancient Egyptians were occasionally imitated by modern Americans. The subjects of the l'haroahs considered it a bounden duty to "purify" themselves at least once a month. It was.' done by first taking an emetic, then a purgative and finally a bath. They con-^ sidered that most diseases arise from a bad diet and intemperance, and they were not far from right.

Are you troubled with cold feet? Well, get some genuine woolen stockings—not lambs wool, so-called, or merinos, or other delusions, but genuine old fashioned woolen stockings. Don't begin by saying that you oannot wear them. You can if you will, and your health will be ten times better for it. Persevere it is better to stand a little scratching on the skin, which vou will soon grow accustomed to, than a big scratching in the bronchial tubes.

Next procure some thick calfskin boots, with double uppers and triple soles, and wear them from the first of October to the first of May. Apply a* good oil blacking to them frequently.

Finally, if really troubled with cold feet, hold them in cold water a quarter1of an inch deep just before going to bed two or three minutes, and then rub them hard with rough towels and your naked hands.

With cold feet go a poor circulation, a full head, palpitation of the heart frequently, andabad complexion. Following the above will obviato these difficulties.

In what does nerve food consist? In what do we find it? Is it meat? no white bread? no potatoes? no. If it is not found in these staples, in what is it to bo found? I answer, in tho exterior of the white kernel, in the skin of the potato, and in milk, partiallv also in eggs and fish. I answer, the chief food staples, in the present diotetic system,* are almost entirely deticientin brain and nerve building material. In viow of those facts is it a result to be wondered at, that the starving nervous tissue in the overworked masses iittempts to satisfy an intolerable sense of craving, of physical hunger, by the use of stimulating poisons, that temporarily supply the place of brain and nerve food? The cause of intemperance is based upon a fundamental error in tho presout dietetic system. Let it always be born in mind that stimulating brain poisons—alcohol, opium and tobacco—temporarily supply the placo of brain and nerve food. What is the remedy for intomperance? I swer norve food—buildli supply tho waste of lie

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the nervous tissue

I answer, further, a re-

in the masses. form in the present popular system of & dietetics by reducing tho proportion of

fat and muscle-forming elements, and increasing the norve and brain building material in a proper ratio. Let the supply in each case meet the domand, and no more.—[Herald of Health. 6 1

LABOR AND CAPITAL,

''X A5 [R. Q. Ingcrsoll.] Here is a shoeshop. One man in the shop is always busy at work during the day—always industrious. In the evening he goes courting some good, nice girl. There aro five other men in the shop who don't do any such a thing. These spend half their working evenings in dissipation. The first young man by and by cuts out these others and gets a boot and shoo store of his own. Then ho marries the girl. Soon he is able to take his wife out riding of an evening. The five laborers, his former companions, who sees him indulging in this luxury, retire to a neighboring saloon and pass a resolution that there is an eternal struggle between labor and capital.

The Pittsburgh Chronicle has tried it and affirms tnat if you hold ono hand in hot water and the other in cold you can't tell, aftera minute or two, bnt what both are in hot water. This saves heating half the water to wash in.

We find that in various parts of tho country uncrupulous druggists, for the purpose of making a largo profit, are palming oft on a too-conflding public a worthless couuterfeit of Pomeroy's Petroline Plasters, under the plea that it is "just as good," and in some cases that it is Pomeroy's Plaster. Trust no druggist who makes any such representations. Beware of all such imposition. Insist upon getting tho genuine article, take nothing else, and see that the words "Pomeroy's Petroline Plaster" are

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CLOSING PRICES.

We have still left in stock a few Fine Short Wraps which we .. must sell, even at a fearful loss. One is an elegant Seal Plush Short Wrap trimmed with Mink, another trimmed with Black

Martio, Two trimmed with Natural Lynx, and another trimmed with Russian Hare. Now if you want a Real Bargain at about one-half New York Cost—see the above garments. They must be sold before taking our annual Inventory.

Also a Lot of New Markets at 33J^c on the dollar. We are cleaning up nicely on Cloaks. Now if you will help us out on what we have left, you certainly shall be pleased with your purchase.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.,

Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

P. S. Just three weeks more (until Inventory, Feb. 12th.) will wind up our great Linen Sale. Housekeepers please take notice. I 4

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