Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 May 1888 — Page 2

Begun In The Mall Mfirch 31st.

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One evening at the very close of the winter, Philip Breton called a meeting of his help, and the old market hall was packed from door to platform. Reporters were planted by their tables, to catch every word of the mysterious proceedings. Representatives from all the factories in the country elbowed the crowd for tbeir three feet of standing room, eager to learn some new device for making money out of thoir help as good as the other. But the great audience was strangely silent. It knew not what to expect. Perhaps the economical mill owner was going to announce a now reduction in their wages everybody said ho was reducing everywhere. The feeling in their hearts was more of fear than hope, and it was a look of piteous terror, almost, that they cast at the slight form in black, that came forward on the platform. They reminded Philip of a flock of frightened sheep that had never had a shepherd. Then be thought of a. great army massed beforo the smoking cannon mouth, an army that had never had a general. He saw they feared him. "I have been for along time trying to think •of somo way to make your lives moro fair for you, and yet be fair to myself and my class. I have boon cutting on oxpeases to make the whole business machinery as economical as I know. Now, at last I am ready to take you into my confidence and make you a proposal."

There was a stir in the great audience, as if every man changed his position at the same moment, so as to be sure not to lose one precious word of the new gospel.. "I oannot feel that I ought to give you anything. A :d I cannot see that it would be reasonable to pay moro wages than others pay that is, than you have now."

A hush had fallen Upon the people like death. There was no hope for them, then. Still the speaker went on. "But if your labor is profitable to me, so that I can pay you your price, and pay my other expenses, and pay me for the time I give to the business what such service as I do is paid elsewhere, and then have something besides"

Tho reporters dropped their i»ns in astonment was the man mad? "I am disponed to think that you have •earned a share in it." He paused to catch his breath, and one could have heard a pin fall in that crowded room. "My capital should be allowed for, too. In a word, I propose to divide the profits of my mill, after all expenses are paid, into two equal parts hereafter, one for labor, yours and mine, and one for tho interest on my money. The part which belongs to labor will bo distributed according to the worth of each one's year's work. Tho one that earns the largest year's pay will have tho largest per cent, of that dividoud. We shall all be stockholders together, each with a share large or small according to the value of his work."

BRETON MILLS.

CHAPTER XVIL ,V TH3C NEW STOCK COMPAJTT.

The terrible t- of s$ icion sown in Philip Breton^ ruu*d bore „i*t bitterest fruits through the dreary winter months. JSTo efforts of bis will, nor course of reasoning uld comfort him. For a mome.»t he miglf find relief, but his torment would o,ih* return afresh. Humanity are slow to believe good of fellow creature but no'lAng seemed too bad to be true. Ho thi it might have calmed him to have been assured even of the worst. He believed that he might despise the woman he had elevated to the highest pinnacle of his ideal temple of womanhood, if she bad made so little of the most sacred gift of God. But it would have been a violence tc liia feelings to inquire of those who must know. Her father must know, but his smiling face will reveal nothing, and his very reserve was peopled with horrors for Philip, His wife Jane must know, too, but he could not bear to think of the malicious pleasure she would take in detailing the shameful story to him. 8he would sate her hate in his nil 'iy. But what if it were not a shameful st

A Romance of New England Life.

Still he could not form his

lipe to ask. The humiliation of such a question from him, a discarded lover, about her at whose feet he had been proud to sit, shocked him into silence. He even dreaded lest they might speak to him of her, although it had been months since he had beard Bertha's name once breathed.

Tho building trembled with the roar of applause that went up, and it was several moments before PhUip could make himself heard again. Ho had thought there was nothing left in his life, with love gone out of it, but as he stood that moment with the glad shouts of the poor ringing iu his cars, and felt he hml led them out of bond ige, his heart thrilled with a proud joy ttat was almost ectasy. His wealth had brought him a hap piuess that made even a life like his worth living, had conferred on him a glorioui mm of the dignity of manhood which lifted him as on wings.

They must listen while he explained the terms of his plan more fully. He motioned to a dosen boys aad took a printed sheet of paper from the pile of similar sheets which be ordered distributed among the workmen. He then rend aloud the following from the naner in his hand:

The first divided will be distributed Aug. 1 for the year ending July 1. The surplus is 1300,000 $100,000 is set apart as the allowance for capital invested, which leaves #100,* 000, to bo distributed to the labor in proportion to the wages or salary earned by each. The whole amount of wages and salaries earned in the mills was about •». Therefore tho rate per cent. ©fdtwrai is about 37 7-10 to be calculated on the w* tor salary of each man, woman and child as shows by the pavmasterbcok for t** past year. For example, the man whom pay roll shows to have earned 1900 for his year* work, will receive 277-10per cent addition. or about I8&.IQ as 1 div: ad. The paymaster, who received a salary of &000, will receive at it $514, and as rvsiager worth a salary jf $5,000, shall rt .t* more than twice the dh Uaod of the paymaster. Certain re* 1 tfons will to imposed. First* only one-bali tbe annual dividend wOl be ia cash, for It would Irart the interests of the nti& to so much from the business. other half will t» to stock, wfckfc will draw dr.. Is as tbe rsstofths capital 6k cannot be transferred axcepttoo^ ss, but will be redeemed at the ecu ro».

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CHARLES J. BELLAMY,

Editor of the Springfield {Mass.) News.

[Copyrighted by the author and published In The Mall by arrangement with him.]

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holders leave the as *ock wffl yWd dividfods only ..older* work is the mill* Holders of stock may hold insstings and choose a committee to examine the books

dl ihlimils yijf. Philip Breton sat down a notoy huan

of voiei followed as the people read and commented upon the prospectus. The figures looked anything bt:t dull to them. The bright sabilities that am© up before their imaginations as they read were such as no gentle ca-V-vir* of poetry

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have given them.

rf nnly they wiu!.l never have tired of myJitig the wonderful words of hope and quod ehees over and over, except that the outer door swun^ open and a tall man's form enu rod. Philip Breton from the platform saw it and tVj pride sickened on his heart. The crowd abuut the door passed the whisper around, and it was hardly one short minute when the building shfcok again with cheers as they shouted the name of Curran. it was he who pushed his way well into the room, and then stopped and took one of rint"! sheets as if he were unconwi' of their cheering, and read till his face, that had looked so stern and terrible, softened like a child. Then he mounted a settee for his platform and uncovered his bead with a new grace that became him as well as bis strength. The old bitterness had gone from his lips it had given place to a touching sadness that sobered every face that was turned toward him. "He means to deal well by you he wants to make you shareholders in your work." Philip had risen excitedly to his feet. The sight of the man who had been with Bertha, who came perhaps but this instant from the woman he had wronged so terribly, was at first almost maddening to him. Ah, how grand and beautiful he was, with his deep mighty chest and shoulders, and his limbs like pillars of some temple. There were no laws for such men as he the holiest and purest of women love to make themselves base and common things to win smiles from his proud eyes, and men forget their vengeance, and only remember how small and mean they seem before him. But who could look at his melancholy face and tho calm dignity that rested upon him always, and believe he could be vile? Yet perhaps nothing was vile or low fa) him, and even sin was glorified in his eyes when it suited his caprice to sin.

FaiHp had come to tho very edge of the platform and beckoned a friend to him. "Do you see the man talking—the man with the auburn hair curling about his neck? no, don't look yet his voice was husky with excitement. "Get behind him while he is talking and stop him beforo he goes out. I must see him and speak with him I would rather $10,000 than lose him. Quick, now." As Philip sat down again and watched his friend trying to make his way through the close packed crowd he heard Curran's Voice again. What was there changed in it? It had lost its old ring, there was a queer drag in it sometimes, and when he used to raise his voice till every nerve tingled for sympathy, he seemed now to let it fall, and his long, sonorous sentences died down at tho end like a muffled hell. "If others were like him," he was'saying, "the reform 1 would dia for would come soon, would be upon us."

Ho^r slow his friend moved, Philip actu-1 ally hated the people who were too stupid to get out of his messenger's way.

Had Currau finished, was this all that was left of his eloquence? Yes, be was stepping down and moving toward tht door. Philip's friend was almost thero, the man must not escape thus, and plunge again with the woman whoso life he had blastod into the obscurity he seemed to love. Philip leaped to his feet and almost shouted to the people. All turned their faces expectantly toward him, Curran with the rest his pale worn face. Philip's friend was come almost to him now. If Curran could only be detained for one moment more. "It will of course bo for the interest of all of you," ho knew he was talking weakly, but it waa no matter, "to earn tho most wages you can, to lose the fewest days, to turn off the most piece work." Of course, he spoke too stupidly Curran turned on his heel and moved toward the door. Almost instantly then Philip Breton gave a sudden short bow to the audience and disappeared back of the platform. He bounded down the narrow stairs, four at a time, and rushed* around to the front of the building like one *nad, to stare for a moment in the faces of the escaping crowd. Then, wilder than ever at the thought that Curran might have gone out among the first, he ran back and forth after one group and another, but all in vain. Then he forced himself to stop and think, and forthwith made inquiries for Curran's boarding place. He reached the place at last and ran breathlessly up the stairs. In another moment he would know the truth if it killed him to bear it. He must remove the poisonous shadow of suspicion that was polluting all the holiest precincts of bis nature. Certainty was better far, for tho nerves can brace themselves against tho clearly defined features of ever so hideous a monster far better certainly than this crawling slimy terror that made him ashamed of a manhood that could cherish it.

He dared ask Curran for the truth, 1m did not shrink from it, If the man were innocent he might strike him down for the insult to the purity of his wife. Philip thought such atonement would seem just and proper. But if be were guilty, ah, if Bertha was guilty through him what death was terrible enough for his penalty I

A portly woman, with the unmistakable expression of be expectant boarding mistress on her face and in her attitude, met the pals faced young man at the top of the staira. Shi did not recognise the proprietor of the Breton mills, in his slight form. She would have looked for a man of lofty stature and commanding mien, and not a mere lad whom nobody would glance twice aft on the street, "Where Is Currant I—I want him." "Why, he* just gone he drove off to Lewiston.19 "To Are you sure!" Why, this must be important personage after all, he was so peremptory. Poor people can bully, but there is a shamefacedness or an over affectation of authority that betrays them their self coaadousMa tats tike whole secret out. "Either Lewistou or Raleigh Ican'tteQ, really, sir. Shall I get you a carriage, Mr.— Mr.r "Two horses and a baggy a driver, toa them it is for Mr. Breton and,1 shouted after the woman, "if they give ma a poor horn ha will be dead before tibegr «wr

St seemed aa hoar before the horses drew up before Hie boarding bowse door, and asother hour before ttar bad left the vfBafe behind. Then the littfe pattern Philip had forsook him. He caught the nates Crv a the astonished driver, aad at the threatening soap of the whip the borsee took their fastest

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

It was a little pest 9 o'clock the next morning that Philip Breton, pale from a sleepless night, knocked at a low studded door in an ill ventilated tenement house, where they him Curran lived. Within was Bertha, the high bred woman, wonted to the costliest luxuries of wealth. And she was willing, then, to live in such squalor as this to be with the man she loved. Could change have been cruel enough to have touched her? Perhaps an infant hung hungrily on her bosom, and Curran, fallen back into his vulgar traditions, lounged in red flannel shirt sleeves in her presence. Could he bear the sight? But she might be alone his heart beat faster with terror and hope. She would lift her sweet eyes pleasantly to him—so easy it is for women to forget the agony they have caused* She would hold out her shapely hand to him, but it would be stained and worn from hardships. Should he fall at her feet? Would ho be able to remember she was another's—dead to him?

He knocked again, possibly no one was at home. .•'Come in." It was a man's voice. »i

As Philip opened the door he saw the man he sought by the window, eagerly looking up and down the street, as if waiting for some sign. There was no guilty fear or shame in the calm face that was turned to his visitor. "Breton." He gave him his hand with hearty good will. "Somehow I could not speak last night, bat you have begun a noble work. Why, I had rather fed the proud satisfaction you must have, I would rather be in your place than the greatest man in the whole world."

Philip was afraid to look about him. Perhaps Bertha had no wish to speak to him, or else &he was not here there was no atmosphere of a woman's love and care in the place, somehow. But Curran went on in his quick, eager way, "Tho rich men have the most glorious privilege ever men had. Each man of wealth can let the fountains of light and joy into the lives of a village in some way which shall make his name blessed forever. Instead of that, whole generations of us have to break ourselves in pieces in the effort to wear away their rock. We fail, as the wretched 2,000 creatures who strike here today will fail, to gain ono privilege more for ourselves, yet our children may profit from our sacrifices, perhaps, or their children. Anything is better than spiritless, eternal submission."

Philip released his hand from the man's clasp and turned to look about him. No woman's shawl hung on the rack. No baby's shoes or toys were in sight. A man's rude hands had set the chairs in an awkward row. A man's hands made tho comfortless looking bed that stood in one corner. There was no soft scent of perfume, such as Bertha would have left behind her if she had but lately gone. Why, Bertha could never have breathed for a moment there. Love can do much, but it cannot make a woman over. 'Where is your wife?" Philip asked in a low, breathless voice. "Bertha.",

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Where is your wife?" -:.

The eager look faded from Curran's face, and his blue eyes grew troubled. For an instant he did not answer, but stood with folded arms gkzing out into the street. "What is a wife?" he said at last. "A woman who loves a man and lives in his love, who pines in his absence and listens to the coming of his foot steps, as the sweetest music in the world to her to whom all the gifts of life would be nothing without him to whom poverty and disgrace would lose their hatefulnoss if he shared them. A wife is a sweetheart, a hundred times tenderer and happier." His voice grow bitter and hard for a,moment as he added, "No, I have no wife, Bertha has left me."

He heard a shout, and a score of hurrying forms rushed by his window. He turned from the window in a sudden passion of excitement. "The strike has begun. Whafpity do the rich deserve? Even their women are taught only to break honest men's hearts. They are beautiful as the angels of heaven and cruel and pitiless as the angels of bell." "But wait," criod Philip, catching him by the arm. Curran had not yet spoken the longed for words to protect Bertha's name from the insult of another suspicious thought. But a shout rolled up from the street, and another and another in quick succession. Curran shook him off and, catching his hat from the table, sprang down the stairs.

CHAPTER XVIII. COULDN'T Sine HAVK WAITED?

The new maid, who showed Philip Breton into Mrs. EUingsworth% parlor, was not nearly as pretty as her predecessor in office, but be was too much absorbed with his delicate errand to take any notice of ho*. Bertha was alone somewhere, deserted, unprotected. Something must be done for her. It was a strange place to seek pity for her, in the woman's bosom which he bad seen heaving In hate of her but a magnanimous heart ia wont to count on the generosity of other*, The had said Mr. fillingsworth was not in, and so he was left to appeal to the womanly tenderness of his wifa.

He rose suddenly from tho satin covered sofa and looked woadcriagly al a woman's form in the doorway. Could this be the poot little factory girl, this fashionably dressed woman, with a train like a queen's? He had stupidly enough expected to find her in tbe same old calico dross, perhaps with tbe dingy, plaid shawl about her shoulder*.

But tbe girl was not so sensitive as to be annoyed. Ha! not she kept him waiting while she dressed purpose to enjoy a triumph? And now she was quite pleased at the plain evidence of it. She smiled rather consciously as she extended her jeweted little hand to

"Why haven't you called bi&rer Be* voios had kwt tbe desperate or sullen tone he remembered In it of old, but he was not sure be liked it any better. He bowed, like any gentleman, as fas toucfasd her hand, and noticed the great gold tmoek*s on ber dim wrist*. Philip was nnpieassntly reminded of manacles, and then tbe ruswfon chain around her neck, with a huge tockafc doped like* padlock, had suggestions, too, of a sort, ha fancied, the girl would hardly have liked if AtkdthoBjtecfUiwi, H* glanced at her ottve Auto, and the ufiglttljr ^iblique aad the voluptuous fuQnecs of ber farm. How could an American viSags bare prodnofd so perfect an odali^as)

"I did not wisEl to interrupt your honeymoon." He seated himself again. Sho was looking oddly at him, as if curious Jwhetber he had forgotten her indiscreet visit, when she had told him of her own broken heart.

PM8p suddci% met her eyes as she sat opposite him. "Tho truth is, Mrs. Ellin^sworth, I have hardly been ia the mood for poiito calls of late. I sapposa you understand." "How should If She elevated her dark brows rather unpleasantly as if to dismiss, ouco for all, any further confidences with him. Philip smiled, in spite of himself, at ber tactics.' "Do you know where Bertha isF he asked, simply. ,•

A sadden flash of color lit up her cheeks. "I hato tho very name of her," she c::claimel, aacl«j roso as if to leave him. She was not yot wontcsl ta tlia customs of her new rank. "Don't go," ho urged, "I am so anxious to know whero sho is. No doubt you have causa to be angry with her," Philip did not notice the growing passion in the girl's eyes, "bat you surely would not have ber starve to death, or suiler and die alone." "Perhaps cot Jane meant to smile, but sho only produced the effect of showing the cruel white of her teeth. "Hasut sho got—" tho word stuck in her throat, "himp* "Why, didn't you know," cried P^hilip broathlessly, "sho has ldft Mm? Sho is alone somewhere, for all Wo know, in want think of it, and she too proud to—?—" "Left ber—husband?" "If ho was her husband I didn't know," he hurriod on, as if afraid of the answer that would come "I never heard, and I didn't like to ask."

Sho had seated herself on tho pink satin beside him and caught his hands as she bent toward him to read his thoughts before he spoke. "Did you hear they were not married?" sho almost hissed at hi m. "Why, yes, that is—" he looked away in his shame. "It was told about the village, but you know better, of course." He tried to lough, then grew sober again. "How vile of thnm to whisper it, and it was vile of me to let even tho taint of a fear into my mind."

But sho did not answer him yes or no. Her eyes- had grown proteraaturally large, and thero was a happiness in them as if sho looked right into the gates of heaven. All the common expressions were gone from hex' face. One could read there now nothing but purity and sweetness, such as makeup the substance of dreams of love. "And he is alone. Oh I where is hel I must know. I must go to him. It cannot be true." The angelic look flitted, the exquisite drooping at the corners of her mouth was gone. "If you havo dared to lie tome." Philip was perfectly astonished at the sudden change in her face and voice. Her black eyes biased ungovernable passion into his. The quick transition from tho height of blissful hope to the depths of deep despair seemed to boar her over the line of humanity. "Tell me, have you lied to make a show of me?"

Sho trembled for an instant, like a wild creature beforo a spring, then she clutched with her hot supple fingers at his throat, magnificent as a tigress and in every motion a perfect, terrible grace. Philip throw her from liim as he would some untamed animal it was hard to remember her womanhood then.

Sho sat where he had left her, as if just awoke from a terrible nightmare, her fingers partf*' and curved and moved smsmodically as if she yet held him by the throat. Then she buried be^ face in tho cushion in a flood of tsars. "I "didn't know what I was doing," sho sobbed. "Don't remember it," I was mad." She rose tremblingly to her feet and came forward covering her face with her hands. She might have been an abused child, so gentle and sweet she seemed now. She took down her hands from her faco what man could bo so cold and hard as to stand against such eyes as hurt: looking through their tears.

But she was alone. "Oh, my God, my God, why couldn't I havo waited

She tore tho gotd chain from her neck and cast it on tho floor. Her husband had given it to her, and sho hated him at this moment and the proud name he had put upon her. She had rather one smile of that other's than all these empty golden favors. "I am sick of their soft ways and their lying tongues," she moaned "why didn't I wait?" Jane Ellingsworth began to walk rapidly about the room, wrenching the great gold bands about her wrists, unconscious that she chafed and bruised the skin "I might have known God would not deny him to mo, I wanted him so much. Oh, my love, my darling, I would have fought for you, I would have starved for you. I® would have been sweet with you, and I could not wait one year. I might havo known it would come, but I could not wait." Sho drove her nnila into her fiesb as she clasped them in her anguish. She panted for breath her rich silk dress seemed to suffocate her, and the perfumed air was too heavy and dead it seemed to strangle ber. "He is free he would have opened his arms to ma He may be coming now to ask me to go with him. He could never havo loved font cold, bloodless creature. Ah, how I could have loved him. I would have taught frim that a woman can lorn"

She unclasped her hands and let than fall gently to her side, and her convulsed face took on a new, soft tenderness. "I would go with him," she murmured. "A hungry heart cannot feed on such things as these. Oh, but he would not have me,

She fell

a low creature who

bas sold herself ha would not have me. He would despise ma he would not even look at me.

bade

in one of tbe satin covered

chairs she bad bought with ber husband's money, cried and sobbed till the salt foOTtfriwi dried up.

was then, white sha

aat silent and tearless, looking at her bruised wrists and at the wounds her nails had made, that she beard a familiar, delicate tread In the balL

was as well

Mr.

Ellingsworth

did not catch tbo expression on ber set, weary face

as his tali form appeared in tbe doorway. He seemed to ber fancy that moment the twngfc terrib le monster in tbe world, this elegant figure of a man, whoso disposition a the very essence of refinement, and dropped ber eyes to tbe carpet

ss he came

toward her with his eternal smile. "All alone, Jennie? Why you have dropped your chain, here it is on the floor."

,4Oh,

thank you," bat she shuddered in spite of herself as be seated himself near her and warmed ber bands fondly between his own soft, white palms. "My little girl," he began.

Yes, she was his/his and no other's, his every day fend hour at

ber life, for badnt

he bought her, and what better title was there than that by purchase! She raised!** eyes and nude them rest on his fine, smooth diavenfsoa She bad newer noticed before a certain cold and cruel light ia his eyes, ss if be could enjoy keenly the torture of a living souL or that beside tbe sensual Bate of his finely chiseled raouth there was a mrpttfr of an exquisite brutality on the t»i« lip*. She trembled before him. "I bare a favor to ask you." He looked admiringly at ber as be spoka. Mr. Ettlagv-

of his wife's beau$$r* If Bertha's mother had beau like her there M»d never havo been any unpleasant stories in the community on her score. And Jahe was lovelier than over today, with this peculiar brilliancy in her eyes and tho fright rod spot ou either dark chcek. She didut know how' to furnish her parlor very well, but be had never yet been sorry he married her. She seemed to understand so well how to manage him, never too fond, always a littlo on her guard, like a judicious artist, who will not let even tho most ardent admirer como too near his canvas. "It is about Bertha," he continued, not seeming to notice her start. "She has left that fellow. I havent troubled you before, but sho has been alone up in Vineboro for a good many months. I think best she should come home now. It wUlbo in better taste"

Mr. Ellingsworth m-e to his feet at a rumbling noise and stepped to the window. When ho came back the color bad faded from Jane's cheeks and hor small mouth closed very tight. Her hands were trembling violently, but she had hid them in tho folds of her dress, so her husband could not see her intense excitement. Her heart was beating loudly her old madness seemed coming upon her again, but tins man's cold, smiling-face subdued her. "When is sho coming?" 'ft •*-. "Ididntknow but that wasthfe carriage well, I suppose she may bo here," bo glanced at his gold faced watch, "perhaps in an hour or two."

The girl's lips quivered she almost broke into a passion of angry words the hato that seethed in her heart for that woman was almost bubbling forth its bitterness. But the cool assurance on her husband's face, as his keen, pitiless eyes seemed to search out all the secrets of her soul, cowed the woman. She rose and moved, as one in a dream, toward the door.

I must get things ready then.?' And so fhin was what her gentle voiced husband called asking a favor of her. Sho did not love him, but she feared him, now, as sho remembered her secret. Sho would obey his nod as if sho wore his dog, she would study tho sigtMT on his placid face. He had never anything but smiles and kind speeches for her, but she would have sunk into the very earth at his feet rather than that ho should open his mysterious armory of instruments of deadly torture for the soul. "Well, well, I thought she would: make more fuss."

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Bat this treatment in .cases of simple Catarrh gives but a faint Idea of what this remedy will do in In the chronic forms, where the breathing is obstrocted by chokputrid mucous accumulations, the hearing affected, smell and taste gone, throat ulcerated and hacking cough gradually fastening itself upon the debilitated system. Then ft is that tte marvelous curative power of Hanford's Radical Cure manifesto Itself Intnstantaneoox and grateful relief. Cure begins from the first application. It I* rapid, radical. permanent, economical, safe.

Haoford** Radical Cure constat* of one bot^ tie of tbe Radical Cure, MM

box Catarrhal

Hoi vent, and one Impro^Inhaler, neatly wrapped In one package, with full directions ^P^terDrug A Chemical Co^ Boston.

Pains and Weaknesses

OF FEMALES

DYSPEPSIA

Censes its victims to be miserable, hopeless, confused, and depressed in mind, very irritable, languid, and drowsy. It is a disease which does not get well of itself. It requires careful, persistent attention, and a remedy to throw off the causes and tone up the digestive organs till they perform their duties, •willingly. Hood's Sarsaparilla has proven If just the required remedy in hundreds of cases.

nil. GEO. MARBACH, -L7 DENTIST. *T REMOVED to 42&>$ Wabash Avenifi?T 5ver

Arnold's clothing store.

Tm R. \V. VAN YALZAH, _l—' Successor to RICHARDSON

«e "i •es 1 to 1

I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla for dyspepsia, from which I have suffered two years. I tried many other medicines, but none proved so satisfactory as Hood's Sarsaparilla.* THOMAS COOK, Brush Electric Light Co, New York City.

Sick Headache

For the past two years I havo been afflicted with severe headaches and dyspepsia. I was induced to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, and have found great relief. I cheerfully recommend it to all." MRS. E, •XKABXJC,New

Haven, Conn.

Mrs. Mary a Smith, Cambridgeport, Mass., was a sufferer from dyspepsia and sick headache. Sho took Hood's Sarsaparilla and found it the best remedy she ever used*

t!"

Hood's Sarsaparilla*'

Sold by all druggists. six for $5. Made only byC. I. HOOD it CO., Lowell, Mass. \r

IOO Doses One Dollar.,

DB•

GILLETTE.,

IDE25TTIST-'

Gold

puling

Speciality.

Office—Corner Seventh and Main streetVin McKeen'a new block, opp. Terre Haute House

1NCOLN & HAYNES, DENTISTS Office south 6th st~, opposite post office.

All work warranted as represented.

A VAN VALZAII,

I?,"* IDZEnSTTIST. Office-Southwest eorner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entranoe on Fifth street.

H, C. PUGH. O. E. PUGH.

T3UGH & PUGH, :r I

Attorneys at Law,

320»i Ohio Street.

Money to Loan at Low Kates of Interest,

JSAAC BALL, 1

V-!: FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Cor. Third and Cherry Sts., Terre Haute, Ind. Is prepared to execute all orders In his line with neatness and dihpatchv„f

Kmbnlmiiig it Specialty. ,,

J. NUGENT. M.J. BROPHY.

^UGENT & CO., ^4

PLUMBING and GAS FITTING A '1 dealer »n« v'* Qas Fixtures. Qlobes and Engineer'*

Supplies.

505 Ohio Street. Terre Haute, la A

JJOTEL GLENHAM, J:/

FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK,,, Bet. 21st aad 23d sts., near Madison Bquare. £9 EUROPEAN PliAN,

N. B. BARRY, Proprietor,

New and perfect plumbing, according the latest scientific principles.

Established IMS. Incorporated 1878. FOUNDRY

"DHCENIX JL a f- :Sr

AWD

!MACHINE WORKS,

Mftftn{pctiireM!

deal In all kinds of

Machinery and Machinery Users Supplies.

Flour Mni Work!:-

T* *u S 't?f OUB SPECIALTY. r.%

Have more patterns, larger experience and oapaeity, and employ more mechanics than any other similar establishment.wuhin sev-enty-flve miles of Terre Haute.

Repair and Jobbing Work.

OITOU special attention. Write or call on US: and see for yourself. 901 to 286 N. Otb at., near Union Depot erre Haute, Ind.

Established 1861. Incorporated 1888,

QLIFT WILLIAMS CO.,

Successor* to Cllft, Williams A Co, W.S.CWWT,Pres. J. H. WILLIAMS, V. P. and Sec*jr.'

J. M. Ckirr, Treas

HAWTTTAOTUMBS Of

%%&!

SUSS!

Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc.

xno DtAhxss l2r

fVit

LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES GLASS, PAINTS, OILS

AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

Instantly relieved by the Cutlcura Paw Anti-Pain Plaster, a agreeable, Instantaneous fallible fain tally caapted to Pains sod Weaknesses.

and ln-

Warranand

vastly superior to all other plasUrr% and most -perfect Antidote toPaln. lnflamaand Weaknew yet. coo pounded. At ail

the tfou and Weakness yet. oooponmwi druggist*,Scents Ave tor fL00 ?, posUge freejof Potter Drug and Chemical C&, Boaton,"

Mnlberry.street£*orner 9th. rre Haute, Indl

1ST'

OTCCK OF

PETITION TO VACATE! STHEErS.

Notice is hereby given that tbe underslsned bas tiled In the office of the Auditor of Vigo County, Indiana and at the regular June session of 1888 of the Board of Commissioners of said county will present to mid Board a petition praying for the vacation of Second, (3), Third, and Fourth (4) streets In Krumbhaars subdivision of the Northwest quarter of the Southeast quarter of section Thirtythree M) in Township Twelve (13) Worth pfoHTO*.

By J. D. Attys.

IVAN8VILLE ROUTE.

most

10 Hours -f:

Quicker time than via any other route to all points in the South. Only hour# betweenp Ten* Hatite ard Jacksonville, Fla, with but one change of cars. Woodruff and Pullman,, sleeping cars to Nashville, For tickets and full information,eall on

R. A. CAMPBELL,

General Agent, Terrs Hauts, Ind»