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A PAPER TOR THE PEOPLE:

Notes and Comment.

Terro Haute is being paragraphed all over the country a* the town where cows run at large. .? '. 'v

They «ay that strawberry boxes are made taller this season in order to get the bottom higher up.

Natural gas in Indiana perversely persists in staying around the smaller towns. Why this is so it would puzzle the acutest mind to conceive.

There is an old saying that the shoemaker's wife and the blacksmith's horse go unshod, but the lawyers do not go without business when the lawyers make the laws. •. ,'

King M'wanya, of Africa, is only eighteen years old and already has a thousand wives. A King's troubles begin early and last long in Africa. Fortunately their feet don't get cold in that country. ••Sam Jones is in Minneapolis shaking that city over the flames of the fiery pit," was the graphic statement of a newspaper recently. If he would let it fall in St. Paul would have mudo it to the evangelist's Interest.

A Chicago woman imagined that her pocket hud been picked and caused two men to le run down and beaten by a crowd. Then she went eolmly home and found her money on the bureau where she had left it. Such is womankind. ______

It is a pretty safe thing to bot on the Chicago base ball club getting walloped the present season. Now and thon they chance to get a game but it is evidontly pure a'ceident. The club has sold most of its good players and might is well give away the rest. _____

The eccentric Now York millionaire Edward Hen, who lived on twenty-five cents a day, left a big fortuno and a will which his relatives are going to contest. He would betterjiave spent the mousy himself and had somo fun as he went along.

It seems incredible in this age of rapid and cheap transit that any one should live along life without ever having rode on the cars, but such is said to have been the case with David Smith, who died recently near Freeport, 111., at the age of 102 years. He is said never to have oaten at a hotel or ridden on a railway train- _____

An enterprising citizen In Indianapolis is engaged in raising a fund to be used in a grand popular demonstration when the ball club of that city wins a gameprovided such an opportunity over offers Itself. From tho present outlook the aforesaid opportunity Is going that expresss peed In another direction.

Fifteen women and children were drowned at New Orleans last Sunday while witnessing a baptism. Perhaps

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catastrophy should not of itself be construed as an argument against baptism by Immersion, but it certainly does ahow that more care should be taken on such occasions to prevent accident.

The Washington monument is being so mutilated by visitors that those in charge of It are discussing the advisability of closing it to the public. If this shall be done thousands of unoffending people will be excluded on account of the sins of a few relic-hunters.

AY hen a Boston policeman sees a figure in white gliding noiselessly along the street In the night time, he pursues and catches It and finds it to be a barefooted maiden In *#nlght-gown who is out for a somnambulistic walk. The Boston girl will be eccentric in some way or another.

Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Lafayette, who made things lively out in Kansas lately, will sail for Europe on the 25th insU Mrs. Gougar is a talented and earnest woman whose whole heart Is In the temperance and suffrage movements. She will lie heard from wherever she

Many people surfeit themselves with imported fruit and vegetables before the fresher and more wholesome homegrown varieties have make their appearance. Just now it is the soar strawberry brought from a long distance for people who cannot wait for our luscious homegrown variety. Such are the persons to whom wealth does not bring genuine happiness.

Kissing on the Hps has gone Out of fashion in New York high life. Osculation, even among women, is now confined to the cheeks. A correspondent thus describes the process: Whenever two misses or dames met, one put out her Hps and laid her right hand on her friend's left shoulder. *The friend instantly turned her fare away, arched her neck and threw up her left cheek to be kissed, chastely, formally and without *.n explosion. The klseee repeated the performance on the ki«enr.H

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Indianapolis had better hurry up that gas pipe line or her boom may boom oat. So for there has been nothing to build it on butgas, and no gas has been found nearer than Greenfield and Noblesville. AVhat it will cost to pipe it in remains to be seen. AVhen they once actually get natural gas in Indianapolis there will be something t^refilly base a boom

The New York Mall and Express says: •'Twenty-seven crimes, five of them marders, are recorded in the telegraphic columns of the morning papers. In each the cause is rum. A stronger temperance lecture it would be hard to find." Such facts are more eloquent than anything Murphy can say. No wonder the anti-rum sentiment is growing. It will sweep all before it In time.

John Wanamaker, the great Phlladel phla shop-keeper, being asked recently which of his opportunities had been most useful to.bim, is said to have replied "Thinking, trying, toiling, trusting in God, is all of my biography." Those who have not succeeded in life their satisfaction, or, as they think, cording to their deserts, should try this plan of living if they have not done

The Hon. Bill Cody, otherwise Buffklo Bill, Is a shrewd manipulator of adver Using schemes. The day his AVild West show opened in London the Queen call ed upon him, and he had tho news cabled to this country immediately.—It's very likely that before the long-haired gentleman gets back all the newspapers will be printing stories about his forthcoming marriage to the Queen, or some (Other just as likely thing. sy:

The retiring city council, in electing police commissioner, simply followed the example set by the last Democratic board of county commissioners which performed the same sort of sharp practice in the election of a county attorney. If this thing grows very soon the Incumbents of office will elect and make contracts with minor officials for years in advance, Just as they pile up debts for the next two or three generations to pay.

A gentleman prominently connected withAhe E. it T. H. road says there have no4£jneej) and are now no negotiations pending for the sale of the road to tho Chicago «fe Indiana coal road company. He thinks some newspaper men have been lying about it. He doesn't express his opinion quito as strongly as that but adopts George Washington's, method of referring to the newspaper writers. There has just been unearthed a message from the father of his country to Congress in which he recommended that it would bo a good thing to publish a newspaper with tho army that the people might have a channel of information by whioh they would be kept from believing despondent rumors. George says that "an ingenious man" would fill the bill, which Is neat and polite way of putting it. _____

The most natural comment about town on the delays at the gas well is that drillers of the experience of those engaged there should not have used so much defective material In boring the well. At the rato they have been getting down into the bowels of the earth, they will not reach Trenton rock before October, and in the meantime every little town in the State will have found gas and attracted many manufactories that otherwise might have come to Terre Haute.

Terre Haute after all Is not to depend on the one well for natural gas. Patience is exhausted by the slow progress there and now enterprises are on foot. A company has been formed to open up the two wells plugged along about 1870, when neither water or oil was found as desired. The first well was bored at the corner of the Terre Haute house. At I825» feet oil was found that yielded about two barrels a day. The boring was continued and at 1793 feet sulphur water came to the surface. This was used in a bath house. Later the artesian well was bored and a slight flow of oil was found. Boring was continued to a depth of 1912 feet, the present depth. The first well was sunk for clear water. The second was a search for oil. The third well, the one back of Frank Prox's, was sunk for oil, the cra*e then being uppermost. At 16£ feet 22 barrels of oil a day was pumped, but the price falling off the well was plugged with a seven foot piece of wood as was the first one. These plugs, it Is held, can be easily removed and the drilling continued to Trenton rock. It is also reported that a company Is quietly being formed to sink a well northeast of the city. „,

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On Thursday last every printer "In Terre Haute, along with every fellowcraftsman Identified with the International Typographical Union, and living east of the Mississippi river, contributed the price of one thousand "ems" to the Child*-Drexel fund, which was established last June by the unsolicited gift of

to the I. T. U. by Geo. W.

Childs and A. J. DrexeL A committee from that organisation decided to invest the fund, together with auch contributions as would be secured from the craft, and with this erect a home tor disabled end indigent printers. Aooozdingiy,

last September, on tli^birthday of Mr. Drexel, every Union printer living west of the Mississippi contributed the price of a thousand "ems,'' and on Thursday, which was Mr. Childs birthday, those of the fraternity east of the Mississippi did likewise, and the joint effort is likely to add substantially to the fund, particularly as Mr. Childs generously offered to duplicate the amount raised on his birthday. The much-talked of "war"-, between capital and labor would be trilling, if all employers could

Some mouths ago, Tom Ochiltree, the Texas adventnrer in prominent society told, for the amusement of friends over the chagrin of a fellow who had been telling big lies of western shooting scrapes, the story of Walter Ridgely, of Texarkana, who, to protect a commercial traveler from the rapacity of two ferrymen, was compelled to shoot them and then in protecting himself from their Itnetigefs shoe flvfc brothers. Tiiesto crawled through the country and a few weeks ago bobbed up In a special dispatch to the St. Louis Republican as an actual occurrence. The Chicago Tribune took hold of it and started a fund for the benefit at Walter Ridgely. Traveling men by the hundreds sent in their contributions, when the hoax was discovered. Now the Tribune is mad and it is said old man Medlll has issued such orders in the office tabooing certain kinds of news, that life is not worth living to the writers on that paper.,,,

And still the telephones go out of use, the people preferring to do without them to submitting to the bold extortion of an illegal price. Only 131 are now in use, 04 being sent away this week. The net results will be, in this city at least, that soon so few will be in use as to ruin the good of the service. The original mistake in this telephone business was in the acqulesence of the people to the demands of tho company, which no longer pretends to impose upon the public the claim that it in turn is a victim of the parent monopoly, because it is now known that the Bell company Is also the Central Union company. If when the $3 law was first In force the people in the State had shown a general demand that It be compiled with, the company would not have begun Its rough-shod method of riding over it. The 'phones would not have gone out of the State that was a bluff that won the game. Indiana was in the lead in legislative action and should have held her position. A duplicate of our jaw is now before the Illinois Legislature and will undoubtedly be passed If the company does not use barrels of money to defeat it.

There is nothing funnier on ahigscale than the operations of the whisky pool. Just now the fun is fast and furious— for the big fellow in the business. The pool is an institution operated on the principle of the survival of the fittest, i. e., the survival of tho richest. It is a combination by which the product of whisky is limited and an arbitrary price maintained. If a fellow has a little distillery and can't run it profitably, a big distiller pays him so much a day to keep closed and runs his big dhstellery at an increase over his allowance by the pool of an amount equal to the little fellow's capacity. Of course it would be better if there were no little fellows and that is what is the matter now. The pool goes to pieces. The big distillers rash into the newspapers to say there is no hope of its being reorganised and that complete demoralisation in prion will follow. Sure enough they do. The big fellow cuts the price with a broad ax, as it were, and in a lew months the little fellow is exhausted in the competition and goes to the walL When this exhausting process has eliminated enough small eonconcerns the big fellows give each other the wink, get together, talk over the cost of the game aa compared with the expense of keeping the little fellows in the pool, quietly reoiganixe and put up the

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sentiments as this, which accompanied the donation: "I feel a warm interest In what concerns the welfare of all who work for wages, and in the wise management of the trades nnions and other kindred organizations it has become ad* visable for them to establish for the promotion of their true intereste"^-and then by every-day actions establish the truth of the saying. Such sentiments as these, expressed by suo& a man as Geo. W. Childs go$a great way toward creating the feeling which should exist between employer and employes, and of which his own business is a shining example. ______

The talk about not being able to enforce laws Is all nonsense. This was clearly shown in New York last Sunday where the authorities undertook to enforce the law forbidding the sale of liquor on Sunday. The law was so effectually enforced that not only were the saloons closed but even the hotels and restaurants gave out no liquor to their customers or guests. It was a really dry Sunday in New York. When the liquor law can be enforced in such a city as New York with the success that has attended this offort it is idle to say that It can not be enforced In smaller places. It and all other laws can bo enforced anywhere if the authorities are really in earnest about enforcing them.

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price of whisky again. Some one seeing in the newspapers this week that the pool had gone to pieces and the same day seeing also that Mr. Fairbanks would rebuild the distillery to double the capacity of the old one, was moved to wonder what the meaning of it all could be and finally as his face lightened with the thought he remarked: "Perhaps Crawf. is one of the big fellows and the pool won't be ready to be reorganized until the new distillery is ready."

The contest before the Republican Council caucus for the position of city attorney was the most spirited affair of kind in along time. Up to the afternoon of the evening of the caucus it was very generally understood that Mr. J. D. Early would bo chosen, as he had the support of four-fifths of the business interest as well as the endorsement of the politicians who, knowing he had for years given his services to the party, believed he should be rewarded on the occasion of his first request of any kind. Late in the afternoon, however, one of thecouncilmen Informed him that his previous promise to vote for him as a second choice was withdrawn and that instead if he received a majority vote in the caucus he, the councilman, would bolt his party in the council. This of course would destroy the possibility of election because It would leave only six Repub iicans votes, or one-half of the council There was no danger of the Democrats electing their man, because In case the bolting councilman had caused a tie the mayor has no right to cast the deciding vote in the election of officers. But the threat served its purpose and caused at least one supporter of Mr. Early to waver, so he had but three of the seven votes, a good many when it is remem be red that one of the voters present had said he would become a turn-coat to defeat him. The opposition was not so much to Early himself as because he was supported by certain gentlemen. The upshot of it all was that Mr. Early's friends kept the balloting goiug until they saw a chanco to elect his friend, Mr. Nevltt.

Mayor Kolsom has ordered a strict enforcement of the city ordinance probibing cows from running at large In the time. If tfte order is faithfully carried out, It will be some relief to otir "people who will then only have to stand guard in the day time over their gardens, grass plats and choice shrubbery. But cow owners must bear in mlncl that the corporation line is a "dead line." Our neighbors on the outskirts are up in arms, and determined to enforce the new state law. They have suffered until patienoe is exhausted from the depredations of the marauding city cow. Under this new law land owners are not obliged to fence against stock, and damages can be collected from any person permitting their stock to tresspass.

A pool has been formed in the retail ice trade and prices are to be increased about fifteen per cent. This was brought about by the only dealers In the city, Perdue and the Maxinkuckee Ice Co.— the Eugene company having dropped out of business. The dealers say that last year they made no money and that this year's prices are still low as compared with the rates in other cities. Instead of 25 cents fer 100 pound lots this year the consumer will pay 30 cents and instead of 25 cents for 50 pounds it is 35 cents and for 25 pounds and under 50 pounds 50 cents instead of 40 cents. All under 25 pounds Is 75 cents instead of 50 cents, exoepting 5 pound orders which are at the rate of one cent a pound. Indianapolis has also raised prices. ,,

'A long bicycle ride will be made tomorrow by A. Hulman, Fred Probst, O. Bartlett, F. Fisbeck, E. Hulman, A. Griswold, F. Miller, B. Cooper and perhaps others. They start from the corner of Thirteenth and Lafayette at 3:30 to make a run to Noblesville, Ind., by the way of Crawfordsville. The distance by this route is 125 miles, and the roads for the greater part are of the best. The pace will be so aa to average about 10 miles an hour, which will bring them to Nbblesville about 7 p. m. They will visit the gas wells of that place and return Monday. The Noblesville wheelmen will meet them and dscort them to the town and make their stay pleasant.

As mentioned in another paragraph, the Harrison township people are after the town cow in earnest and the marauding railcher that strays to the green commons beyond the city limits is sure to fall into the hands of those who are enforcing the State law. Of late these commons have not been as delectable resorts for the cow as formerly for another reason. Many cow owners have been puzzled to account for the small quantity of milk their cows give when they came home in the morning and have just learned that men too poor to own a cow have been milking the "poor man's cow."

The drill the gas well is still pecking away at the rate of about fifteen feet per day. After it gets through thia rock it will make progress of from fifty to sixty feet each day. It is now nearly 1,000 feet

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The railroads will give excursion rates for the races this spring but not quite so low as last year. The A'andalia last year cut the prices so low that the road had trouble all along the line, Indianapolis and all other points wanting the same favor granted Terre Haute.

Crawford Fairbanks, who is now the sole proprietor of the distillery, has determined to rebuild, and the work will, if possible, be completed in ninety days. It will be increased to about double its former capacity, enabling It to use about 7,200 bushels of corn per day. The cost of rebuilding will be about $100,000.

The new city council, which no'w stands politically, 7 Republicans and 5 Democrats, upon taking up the reins of city government on Tuesday evening elected the following officers:

H. C. Novitt—City Attorney. George Grimes—City Engineer. J. A. Wime^-Street Commissioner. Frances Boyd—Market Master. Drs. Jenkins, Glover and Larklns—Board of Health. _________________

The importance and (he magnitude of the coming races is indicated by the fact that there are now at the fair grounds about as many horses as usually assemble on the day before the races. We have the best mile track in the state and our Association is one of the most liberal, two causes for making horse men glad to get here. ik..

The first cheap excursion of the season will be run to Indianapolis next Wednesday. The lodges of I. O. O. FWiave chartered a special train which will leave the Union depot at 8 o'clock a. m., and run through without stopping. Returning, will leave Indianapolis at 8 o'clock in the evening of the samo day. Fare for round trip, only $1.60. This rate is open to the public.

Jesse Harmon died last Friday night, and Con Callaham was arrested for his murder and lodged in jail. The grand jury in session this week has found an indictment 1 for murder in the tirst degree. Mr. Callahan, as may be expected, is much depressed over the fatal termination of the act. He has employed for his defense Hon. John E. Lamb and McNutt it McNutt. The principal plea in defense will probably be that the doctors killed the man In extracting tho bujlet*- It is stated thff|he dead man's neighbors are raising a fund to assist the prosecution. A change of venue has been taken from Judge Mack to Judge Allen, and this morning Callahan was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000.

Mention was made last-week of tho unexpected resignation of Rev. J. L. Corning. At a meeting of the Congregational church on Monday evening, a committee was appointed to wait upon Mr. Corning and requested a withdrawal of the resignation. Their mission was of no avail and on the following evening the resignation was reluctantly accepted, with resolutions expressing love and respect for him as a pastor and friend high appreciation of his efforts to broaden and liberalize religious thought thorough conviction of his unswerving loyalty to what he believes to be the truth admiration for his exceptional abilities as a pulpit orator and expounder of the religion of Christ, and esteem for him as a cultured Christian gentleman

AVm. H. Armstrong returned yesterday from the capital city, where he attended the meetings of the State Medical Societies of both the regular and eclectic schools and exhibited all the latest improvements in surgical instruments and appliances. The original Bergeon gas injecting apparatus for the new treatment of consumption, asthma and diseases of the respiratory organs, made by Dr. V. Morel, In Paris, France, and the new style instruments for antiseptic surgery attracted much attention and favorable comment, and many orders were received for them. The very substantial evidences of appreciation received from the foremost men in the profession shows that Mr. Armstrong made no mistake in the venture of establish Ing a business house devoted exclusively to surgical, dental and optical Instru ments and appliances, and banking only goods of superior quality and most im proved design.

The Indianapolis News remarks that there is a good deal of a temperance sermon in the base ball notes which occupy almost daily space in the newspapers. It is that many players who get special commendation have added to their praise that they are "not touching a drop," so rigid has the rule of total abstinence from alcohol become that a man who dallies with it cuts himself off from employment. It is the same spirit that for years has been manifested in many lines of business, it might be easy to say thst total abstinence will in time become the rule not as a moral, but as a business consideration. fr?

How charming it Is to read of George Bancroft, eighty-six years old, speaking in all enthusiasm of Mrs. Polk, eightythree years of age, «s "a handsome, noble woman." Many of us hope to be able to speak of the women we love best in that way. But so few young wom&n think of It.

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WHAT THE PAPERS ARESA YIXG.

New Orleans Picaj'uue: New York. has had Most too much. Wilkins' Proverbs: Nevef look fort»/• steady occupation in a grab-bag.

Waterloo Observer: The back garden shows the waste and the thrift of wintorLowell Citizen: A burglar generally makes his home run after he reaches thcplnte.

AYhitehall Times: Borrowed trouble* sprinkled with idle tears w^.fimitify

iuto the Simou-pure article. Washington Critic: A question of tho ,• day—Shall we go to hear Patti,attend thc» races or pay our rent!

Philadelphia North Ami rican: We» are approaching the time when summe*^ boarders are "taken in." S-4

Drake's Traveler's Magazine: "Tho man who invests his money In lotter^ tickets will never have his will contest-* ed.

Boston Commercial Bulletin: There* does not seem to be much of anything: coming up this spring except the oarpetau

Carl Pretzel's Weekly: Dor felle? dots vill blow his own drum must tanz todrnr mooslcs of some odder fellers sorcpsra— ness.

Lowell Citizen: The surest way fear sweet girl graduates to get into print tea to weftr c&lioQ dresses on cammencemenlr day. /,

Boston Transcript: If the death penalty is to be executed by means of electric*— ity, the family of the condemned willlM# justified in speaking of the deceased am. having been struck by lightning,

Philadelphia North American: An afc~ tache of the White IIouso is quoted an. saying that this is the first administm— tion in a quarter of a century in which? children were not to be seen running:, about the house. Some people never wilM give anybody a reasonable chance.

Lowell News: An exchange says that, "invention has not yet Interfered with brick-laying. Bricks are laid one by ota» to day, as they were in Egypt 4,000 yeara/ago." The same may be sald'of eggs and. carpets. ^,

Philadelphia North American: To their list of memorable remarks, New York: society now adds that of Mrs, \jBtor= "Never seem conscloutf of jtoui buitie."

Chicago*Times: The Inter-State Railroad bill does not seem to aftfeet bast* ball. When it does, the people of thisr country will rise in their might and destroy the bill and Its authors.

Philadelphia &ews: One of the healthiest signs of the times is that children are allowed to be children, and nefc trained into perfectly proper little prifp* and genteel hypocrites, as in daya of! yore.

Philadelphia Press: The biggest gam well in the world has been struck out im, Indiana, and it isn't named \roorhee*w either.

This is the season of bock beer. Havo you ever heard the legend of its discovery? In the fifteenth century lived colony of pious and austere monks fat the beautiful town of Munich. Tfcagp-. bad very strict rules, and they were few-ife bidden by their founder to eat fleeter#tmeat, fish or eggs. Very soon the gooel monks found themselves In a bad lemma. Experience had proved to then beyond a doubt that to live* on herhe^ water and air was not possible. simplest way of remedying the »til| would have been to modify their rakmu^ But the monks were too fervent to evem^j think of such a thing. So they made noveoa in honor of the patron sainfceffi their monastery that is, they, for nlBCK successive days, implored by the aid of certain prayers the intercession of their guardian saint. And, behold! at tho expiration of the novena, one young moeJc informed the prior that he had an idda*. The worthy prior asked the young man to let him have an idea of his idea. And these were the words which onr you monk spake: "Arenerable father, wcr*. have been fasting too long. I have now:' found a means of fasting and fat notwithstanding. Drinking tfoum not break the fast. Now we m%ht anr well drink beer instead of water. And that beer may of course be strong and nutritious. Such beer I have inventedCome and see." And forthwith the prlor\„ followed the young monk, thirstin^after^ a knowledge of the now beer. Antf the» young cleric made very good beer, whi«&» pleased all the fathers exceedingly.

And they drank and fasted. Now the good monks did not wish to have all thet enjoyment of the new beverage to themte!ves soit was resolved in council tolet the children of the v..rid drink, thereof also. And the clii.:ren of tb» world did drink thereof, they drank. even to excess. And w«, they bad taken more than they cr id Mtand tbey began to behave like s»Uy people, even like goats. And now to solve the my»~ tery let our readers bo informed that goat Is in German bock. *".*

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Marriage licensee have been tamed thfis week to the following:

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Wm. M- Balrd and fit* F. H^rtaTif Cha*. Bertram and Jennie Hlntonl^. Frederick Johnson aod Looiist Lsnjmtr.t Charles Bertram and Jennie Hlntoe. Frederick Johnson and Loot**

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