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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

How Bonlanger must envy Hon. Buffalo William in Paris. Time bring* change, but tee is Blow in comparison with the weiither.

Turn the rascal® out has ceased to be a popular cry. It is now throw them into the tureen.

Luck is certainly with Terre Haute. Even our base ball cjiub is at .the head of the league.

The oil excursion was a complete success. Terre Haute always succeeds in what she undertakes.

The Wabash valley can well afford to be proud of this city. Sister cities share a mutual interest in our oil discovery.

Col. Bob Ingersoll makes f160,000 a year practicing law. He can afford to let the "mistakes of Moses" go uncorrected now. _____

These are the days when everyone should go prepared for the changes in westher, with a linen duster and a winter overcoat.

Our citizens responded liberally to the fund for the relief of Johnstown, and added to their reputation for liberality and charity. ________

The Potomac was not able to drown out the office-seekers from Washington. An application for office is better than a dozen aoqident policies.

It is fortunate for Editor Halstead that the Senate was not in session or they would probably have attempted to prevent his trip to Europe.

It is time that the powers that be should call on the clouds, in pugilistic parlance, to "break away." We have had nn abundance of rain.

Fortune smiled on the city on Thursday. Oil divided the clouds and permitted the excursions from neighboring cities to visit the Prairie City.

Twelve boys, made insane by clrgaretto smoking, are in a California insane asylum. Comment could add nothing to the force of this statement.

The Brazil Enterprise says: "We want to be let alono in our niggardly exclusiveness." Terre Haute may yet be able to take In Brazil as a suberb.

A Danville, Illinois, editor was indicted for publishing a lottery advertisement. Homebody must have invested hoavily and failed to draw a prize.

These are the days when those who h«ve made large investments in the West regret having been hasty in planting their capital outside of Terre Haute.

Boodler MoGarlgle was received in Chicago with open arms. Sim Coy got an ovation in Indianapolis. This may be some encouragement to crooks across the border. _____

The Commercial Gazette is still warring against the big Sunday issues of the Now York dailies. The C. G. should join Parson Shepherd In his campaign against Sunday papers.

It is calculated that American tourists will spend one hundred million dollars in Europe this eommlng summer. What would Europe do, anyhow, without America to draw on

Could Indianapolis, on the banks of Pogues Hun, have wkaeased our demonstration on Thursday, she would have felt ashamed of the treatment accorded us since the oil discovery.

Oil stockholders should not dream of getting immensely rich. They may as well count on extracting gold from the sunset glow. There is money in ill but not a bonanza as many snppoee.

What can a youug man marry on? asks an exchange. If he has a number of shares in oil companies the quesllon mn easily be decided and he need not fear the rejection of his proposal.

Speaking of a national flower, what is the matter with the four-leaf *ioverv Judging from past prosper!^ Uncle Sam must carry a fouMeaf blossom in his Inside pocket or a rabbit foot,

President Harrison Is said to be tiring of his office. While sympathising with him one should nofc forget the poor fellows he has ijiade isred by keeping in suspense of pending appointments.

In a Philadelphia shooting gallery the local sportsmen use a living dog instead of a painted target. On an are-age one dog lasts seventeen days. Our policemen would challenge them hut for the fear of being beaten.

The Lafayette Call saya: "If the railroads want tohelp Lafayettto, this sum-

mer, suppose they run a few excursions shot at is to this city, not all away from it. Try this plan for a thnnm.*' Ihe Lord help them that help -slwa. What is the matter with I*fayett»'» bustnesa men that they cannot ran excursion*.

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Old "Hi" oomee high, but we must have him- so it seems. Seventeen fifty was paid the association for the-privilege this season v, ahr.

A man by the name of Gun has been appointed postmaster in this county. It is not known how much noise he made but he knocked the persimmon.

Sallie Coker, of Washington county this State, is couvted by the ghost of her deceased sweetheart. Under such circumstances her other suitors probably do not stand a ghost of a show,

Chicago papers are calling on the detectives to hunt down everyone implicated in the Cronin murder. Never mind the detectives, the reporters are doing the best work on the mystery.

Governor Hill says of Democrats: "We believe in temperance, good order and honest government." We now believe the Governor does not standi ghost of a show for the Presidential nomination.

White the dallies are upbraiding Bume of the foreign press for belittling our oil discovery, it has not oocurrc a to them that tbey did not fully realize the importance of the discovery for a week after the Diall well had been a gushing.

The son of Allen G. Thurman Bays that no Democrat having the least sympathy with protection can be elected Governor of Ohio. Why didn't he say that no Democrat could be elected Governor of Ohio and be doae with it? •t

The Gazette suggests that a bottle of oil be placed on every mantle in the city. This would require the presence of a de-

This would require the presence or a ae-i

soothing to the business senses, is anything but pleasant to those who are not oil company stockholders.

The following stanza has been suggested as a fitting announcement of Terre Haute's oil discovery: y""

If asked what place It comes from Oi'r sole reply we'll note: From sU.toen hundred feet below 'The town of Te:re Haute. The Terre Haute ball olub should be given a reception when they return home. They have been playing good ball and a large attendance should mark their return. We are prepared to tear down part of our walls to give- the club a triumphal entry into the city of derricks.

Science has discovered that bacteria lurk In greenbacks that people are bandling daily. This may account for the expression, "filthy lucre." However, since the announcement greenbacks are just as hard to obtain and there is no disposition on the part of those wfco have them to let go of their fcold. "Oh, that mine enemy had written a book!" cried "Job, and the level-headed sense of the ancient patriarch is attested even to this day. Eugene Schuyler was knocked out of a good office by something he had published in one of his books, and no$r Marion Crawford, the novelist, will not get to be minister to Greece because of his book, "An American Politician."

An Ohio statistician has been at work. He estimates that.thirty-six and thirtyseven million babies a'-e born into the world each year. The rate of production is, therefore, about seventy a minute,* or rather more than one for every beat of the clock. It will probably startle a good many persons tHfind on the authority of the writer that could the infants of a year be ranged in a line in cradios seven deep they vfcmld go roubd the globe.

A lady conies to the defense of some of the peculiarities of her sex by criticising the gentlemen. She asserts that men have as many if not more absurd and disagreeable customs. She asks if there is anything graceful in the manner in which a ne plus ultra gent parts the tails to his dress coat when he sits down? Or the disagreeable yank he gives his trousers so as to pull the folds above the knees, or the careless manner of tleing his shoes, or the precN form in wMrb he folds his handkerchief, or the dMating practice he has of constantly lling at his moustache, or hauling at his necktie? Then half the men-folks are forever exploring cfter their cufls, which in riably seem to have a habit of pi+jiug hide and-seek up the coat sleeve.

The annual report of the h-i -trt^n.1ent of police is interer^'ng iu of particulars. Fbrty-ae*.-.-u wereM :, to the penitentlaty« while tho previous year the number was 16. This semis like railroading en ka to ti j. rather speedily and TM work is mended. The nuu._er of pkun dr^ka was "87, Only one arrest was mad«- for gambling but then this is a v!«le-oper-. I city, and one arrest was made for rjoiat-j fng the Ifcjti• law. Tvn ^rrtr-1 red, and l» wlulu were twkHMv te.sj,,.!. Ibf: number of IB? uerit-h.-d umter u»c *a aita of the coppers how:h.n wore!

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Oil and Otherwise.

Thursday was a gala day in this d$y« The oil excursions met the, expectations of the business men who had them W charge and to whose activity the success was due. The weather was threatening during the fi-st of the week and it was feared it would rain on Thur»day How* ever the sun came out brightly and the day was all that could be desired* Business houses decorated and on Main street and other business streets the decorations were profuse, rlags, bunting and streamers waved from every building. Main street was especially pleasing to the eye, being literally one decoration over ,'ts entire length. Crowds began arriving early in the morning and continued until the afternoon. Special trains were run on all the roads entering the city and thousands availed themselves of the opportunity of-vising the city. It is estimated that fully 5,000 visitor, wore In th. olty. The rtre.t» W fwt.. Tbe Ell.ott

wen crowded .1! d.y Md pedertrton.

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about the ordwded thoroughfares. The cruah was only surpassed by the im men day.

One of the busiest places in the city was the headquarters of the :-eception committee on Main street, near "the board of trade rooms. Numerous bus! ness men were at headquarters* early and dozens of haebfe, cabs and other con

veyanoea crowded the rtreet. Viator.

well. The original intention, was* to open the enclosure from 11 o'clock In the "morning. Long before this hour hundreds went to the well and t'he exhibition'commenced befor$ the hour announced and cpntlnued lpng6r than had been anticipated. Hundreds thronged the place and saVthe slmon pure article gush from the well. The flow was opened and continued, to pour in a steady stream into the tank at the well. TJbe auanWy

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that before it was shut off it had been* *5 pumped into ihe tanks at the gravel pit and bad overflowed, there being a waste of many barrels. The wells where drilling was Ih progress were also visited by large crowds, who had never perhaps witnessed the work. At the Pcenix foundry the visitors were given a practical illustration of the manufacture of illuminating gas from the oil. An engine drove steam and air through a tank coi^ta'nlng several barrels of the oil. I he lighter oil was vaporised, and when burned f-om a largo pipe having numerous holes in it, the sight was a pleasing one. The process is one that was devised by Dan Reagan, foreman of the boiler loom of the Phoenix. He has conducted a number of experiments, and now thinks he has almost a perfect machine. The oil, jafter being Ireafod to a steam bath, is not lessened in quality. The process also refines the oil, and It becomes a much better grade of lubricating oil than before. ^s

Tho most important move made this week has been the organization of a fuel gas company. It is confidentially expected that natirnl gas will be found somewhere a^oot Terre Haute. However the new company, composed of home capitalists, purpose to manufacture fuel gas. The company is known as the Wabash Valley Association, and on Tuesday night secured the right from the city council ta lay pipes through the streets. The president of the company is W. R. McKeen, vice president J. C. Kolsem, treasurer B. V. Marshall. The officers and the following compose tbc board of directors: Joseph us Collect, D. W. Minshall, Crawford Fairbanks, John E. 1 umb, Ray JencVes and

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Natt. The company will at once commence signing contracts for fi nishing business houses, private residences and manufacturing establishments in the citv. The new enterprise nx in» a ve-y oat change in the faei »Mtifir in ih's ci v. The capital that is r. -uted in dui» company and the sun.liiog of ihe nu-n is a guarantee ot the reli.ii.Uiiy o? the organisation. Hie coinj my jaia anto«# to supply faei to ooasnmers witnin the nest year.

Mart H'I is «tili adding laurels to

.ii selves, *nd this week conceived an id. wl.i -h, v. h»*n carried into execution, proved to hftvp a very satisfactory retn!%. Since ho dim overy of oil the flow has T5"**--i«at ip fdnk ia theweii, Notwithstand-

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In the race f?r oil the contest is more «lose than ever. The Kinser well closed first week with a fair lead. The :chang» well has been pushing their

Irilling and the second week ends with neither well having an advantage. The wells both reached the limestone stratum Thursday night. The rock is very hard and progress is slow. The Big Four well holds third place. The Button Well has reached a depth of about

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were piwented with a bottle ot oil from be in ope-ation the Diall well. Those who desired to visit yiy point ^f interest hither city

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oderizlng agent for the smell, while it isi' were oonstantlv going and com- foment weather has prevented oil men

were loud In their. praise of the courte" sies extemUfl th^n. The center, of

Parties were constantly going and coming during the-mornlng and ihe eoene frol piling far ont into thewmotry wwone of univeraal «!tlvlty. Stranger. An oil n«n thi. week porehM^ a tract of about twenty aces north of the city from Samuel House. He had no hesitancy in stating that he represented the

attraction was the Diall

Some of the oil companies have had cards printed giving the names of the officers, the boaid of directors and the ^ixte^holders. -The oards are valuable only lor the information, and is an easy methdd of answering the question so often a^ked, who are the stockholders in a certain company.

SA'UOE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Life: Is marriage a failure? Of course it is not. Marriage Is an assignment. San Francisco Wasp: Give tone to society—The belles.

Atchison Globe: The average man loafs about the town half the night, believing that something important will happen, but nothing ever does happen.

Philadelphia Times: The true reason why Bismarck shut Out the American hog is now. apparent. He foresaw the pigs in the clover.

Washington Hatchet: fPeace fs not preserved in a family jar. Providence Journal: It is a little surprising that the "Old Settlers' Historical Society" has not yet been organized in Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Harper's Bazar: If th6* child is the father of the man, the step-daughter must be the mother-'n-law of the exwidow, which is poss'blv why they do not get along very well together.

Harpe*'s Bazar: The music ot tBe waters may be a Nepiune, as is suggested by a co-respondent, but we have always suDposed it to be something of a dew-wet-

HarVey W.""Curry is no more as county superintendent of schools. Mr. Ctfrry is a "Democrat and h.as held the office for four years. He was reelected two years ago by Republican votes, the trustees of the county being equally divided politically. It was thought that several Republican votes could be secured for the Superintendent and all day Monday there was wire pulling with the ustees. When they assembled at 5 in the afternoon Curry was beaten by a party vote 5. C. F. roe jean was elected to netted him. He is 28 yean of age, graduated from the Normal in *81 and has since been a tea- her, He resides at 1008 south Eighth street

Rain prevented ngon the opening day this week* On Wfi lesday there was quite a la -ge attendance and on

le a? eady won. He has overcome Thursday one of vhe largest crowds that ever assembled on the g.ounds was present. The races were exciting and proved •octree of great delight to the spectators. The track was heavy which prevented faster time btnng made.

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msiant. The oil poured Wednesday, Daisy C. won the 2:21 paee. a Ijre^ stream, -md would after a taking the ae^rmd, fourth and fifth h*At* best time, 2:1' Frank B. won Use

#e:i was about equal heats beet time, 2:32. On Thor.-ei in a steady fT Dial! Almont won the 2£Z trot, taking r'pe witV'ta Ute casing first, third and foorti. iieats best ti*ui bottiv. of the well. 2:21&. Sir Archer won the 2:35 pace ii wd to find that a steady three sfceaigitt beats 2:21& Madau ihMcied, and tint tihe Maimittette gave exhibitions of her a o:»

ton Anti tr.pouring of the oil brought derful riding and driving.

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up quantities of the drilling which had ^settled to the bottom of the well. It is probably that there is no sediment at the bottom of the well. Diall is of the opinion that the fiow hasbami increased, liie rock from which the oil flows is porous, and from the fragments obtained the conclusion is drawn that it must lesemble a sponge. It is more than probable that, oil rapidly passes through the stratum and that we are situated over a large subterranean oil lace. .'

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well, situated with A about 800 feet of the Diall well, and work wi 1 be commenced the'first of the week. Considerable delay has been caused by the late arrival of drive pipe. Orders sent in ove: a week ago have not a -rived. By

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Standard Oil company. Several new companies have been organized this week. It seems, howeve", that the rush is over, and that in the next few weeks new companies will be rather scarce. If more oil is struck there will then be more excitement, and no doubt companies will be rapidly formed.

Are Women to Blame?

THE UNHAPPINESS IN MARRIED LIFE DISCUSSED BY LEADING WOMEN. '4*i'i

Leading women have recently been discussing the question, "Are women to blame for unhappiness in married life." Many of them place the greater portion of the responsibility upon the wife.

Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis regards the modern passion for riches and display as the most potent inlluenoe in creating wedded unhappiness. She doubts whether in quiet country communities there is so much marital misery in this generation, at least whether there is any more proportionately than might be expected from the general fallibility of human nature, but she has no doubt that In the artificial, would-be fashionable society of the cities the evil grows, because every tendency in life is at war with that quiet home life wherein alone true weddedt bliss can flourish. Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke admits that "if women are to blame for unhappiness in marriage men also have their share in the unpleasant responsibility." But she thinks it worth while to note at length some important particulars in which women often are blameworthy, with the idea that the first step in reforming our faults is io know them.

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In the first place she says women often marry from wrong and inexcusable motives, and this is the first step in wretchedness. It does not follow that a woman should marry only from love, for the fancy of youth may fasten itself on an utterly unworthy person. But no one should marry without love, and to marry merely for wealth or position is in itself a degradation, and makes what should be a sacred and blissful union only a life-long imprisonment. "Again, secondly," Mrs. Cooke goes on to say, "women are unhappy In marriage because they enter into that condition with entirely mistaken views of their relation and responsibility petted and indulged at }iome, they expect to be equally indulged and petted by the adoring lover, who in a very brief time becomes the every-day husband, and expects his wife to bocome, in the language of Scripture,

help-meet unto him.' It

would be as easy for an orchid to become a cabbage as for a gav, spoiled girl to be: 'come at once a good housewife add an unselfish mother and the deep and bitter consciousness of this inevitable fact has made many a woman melancholy and fretful—two traits which particularly exasperate the average man and make his home a real desert. If our mothers would train their daughters to the ordinary duties of daily life, and instruct them in patience and unselfishness, instead of so-called accomplishments, there would be no need of asking if marriage is a failure. Thirdly, women make married life unhappy because the average woman is impatient. If things arise in her young experience which are new and painful she either does battle with them in an ignorant nr futile fashion or yields to tears and despair she wants "the mills of the gods" to grind with impossible speed, and resents the fact that she must wait months and years for her grist, whatever It may be. "Fourthly, women are exacting roth by nature and education especially in these latter days when the whole aim of the so-called 'weaker' sex seems to be to arrogate to itself the strength, authority, and capacity of man. A woman who desires to be her husband's equal, not oniy resents his natural place as the head of the family, and affronts his innate mastery, but because she is really, after all, only a woman, she also demands those carQ« and attentions that the feminine soul considers Its right. No woman, in spite of modern opinion and'effort to that end, can fill a man's place in the world or at home. The Creator who made them two separate sorts has never undone his work and his creatures never can undo it. The primitive intent of marriage was not a 'partnership' or a state of •equality,' but a headship vestal in the stronger party to the contract, under which the weaker party should receive affection, protection, and care, yielding due respect and obedience to this God-given authority. "Fifthly, women are inconsiderate. They are not eotiHtittitionally as fciii-li as men, but they find it hard nii'I-r-stand the nature of men and judg. by fcheir own standard, perhaps in a life-time discovering that men are ruled by other laws and motive* thaii tli' »-«e v. ieh govern worn on, **That a wc an ph-mM tr-rp^r^, extravagant, (jiven to

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her a small matter '-i.t to meif punctuality fs a of cxifte»*c: to late Si tlu-far ptu of at au appointment, a rai LY trai I earner, •^r-uigee their *rh It schen." oi ,'*?• for it-.- time, sod Ike 'iiMressrl it or iM* u0 thing to often th? oegtau

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of vanity or pleasure, the golden grains he has gathered one at a time. A milliner's or dressmaker's bill is too apt to be the tiny seed from which springs a perennial thistle by the threshold of home. Nor is it conducive to family happiness to have the conversation in those hours when there is any time for family Intercourse, devoted to the faults and follies of mutual friends the 'unruly member' has kindled many afire that has eaten away 'bono*, love, obedience, troops of friends.' "Lastly, women are almost always jealous. Let women give themselves to the cultivation of their womanly virtues become patient, oonslderate, submissive and gentle cease to be exaotlng, extravagant, and jealous let them oonslder that marriage is a condition that cau be made blessed or cursed according to their use of It, and give their whole hearts to rendering It what It should be let them take oounsel of wisdom which Is from above—for no relation In life has more expllolt direction given for its guidanoe in Holy Scripture—and act in this supreme and lasting position as a Christian woman should—and marriage would cease to be a failure no louger be shunned and sneered at and that primal and saored flat of the Creator would be fiulfilled—"And the Lord God said, It ia not good that man should be alone I will make him a helpmeet for him."

ABOUT WOMEN.

Turkish women eat rose leavea with -butter to secure plumpness. A London milliner has Invented a oork bonnet. It is made wholly of the bark of the oork tree and is very light. ..

Youngstown boasts th»t she has £§2 eligible widows—of course most of them young and pretty.

The authorities in Holland have decreed that women cannot Berve on a school board. In Sweden it has been decided that they can. _" ,:

An item for the girls: "Miss Emily Faithful now gets a pension of 9200 a year from the English Government.'* Moral: Be faithful.

Little Annie Daily, of Syracuse, was told that arsenic would give her a beautiful complexion, and so she sprinkled some on her bread and butter and ate It. She died.

Woman flogging exists as a punishment in the Transvaal. All the South. African press is violently opposed to it,, but only recently a woman was sen~ tenced to receive fifteen lashes/

The New York Press is giving the opinions of aotresses as to the propriety of kissing on the stage, and they agree it is the proper thing. There is no question about it off the stage. That is settled. (f*, S ''V

An organization in New Haven, known as the "Secret Union," is composed of young women, each of whom has to take an oath to be married inside of a year. Since its object has become known, the young men are fleeing to a new haven for safety. J*

Woman's right to cloth herself in masculine garments is fast being recognized in Paris. Formerly It was prosecuted, but is now tolorated by the police, and Is recognized as permissible in high society oircles. One well known 'authoress is said to exhibit herself almost every day on the boulevards in th# disguise of a man.

A lady reporter of the New York World went to answer the following advertisement: "Wanted—Twenty-five beantlfvl young women splendidly remunerative situations. Apply to Mrs. H., 800 West Twenty-ninth st.V She found a woman who wished her to take part in a beauty show, and the "^fendld remuneration" amounted to f8 jp,e|j^eek.

London was the first of the'W^cities of the English-speaking ra^ t^ i'ioj uhe custom of women guides, organ./Cfl and properly bar'r^d, to aid who desire to find pedal localities tirisee the sights of the metropolis/. But York his now taken up the pJ»p',' ktirtf*has at least one woman guilq ^IX' -jtt&Jkes good living by meeting Wwiaftrafr^ directing them ta hoiM*!". ^ui&jMiprxUy attesting to theft*ne«u.

Before the i^'.-iit^ars inXfi^fl, the street cars in ,yajpa0uv were wanned ith condueuma of jfete mftkf voiif but tl. 7 were drafted and thinnettuutit so, tli ii It rr-M' hf^few#tyy •A'Vmpioy W UH'M..Til', uijfllifjthe 11 vr-y i»Opo'.ar that they .jbfve Jit-Id tijf,.places, ansl tbf fa-.!,i,on Iimm spread. Tbestanger 11'' t'r«ve'- tne Jhillkii at first iuw^jij.ef, tj-Stor on ^yen ii'.- uiistake I«M

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