Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1890 — Page 7

COLLEGES FOR WOMEN.

:ADSTJDNE WRITES OF NEWNHAM'S CLASSIC HALLS.

Daughter of the English Statesman

Gives a Hcxt Intcmtlng Glimpse of This Fa mom Institution for the Higlier Edu

cation of Women.

It is often amusing, but often not less tireome, to bear complete outsiders talk about omen's colleges as they conceive them to be. 'rtaey are usually wrong, whether as regards praise or "blame, and chiefly because their con|Ceptiou3 are not sufficiently commonplace.

It is now comparatively rare to meet with he utter and unreasoning condemnation of ormer days. Women's colleges are an established fact they have received much favor from our ancient universities many hundreds of young women have passed, or are passing, through them to various kinds of .work. Toe education of our children is largely ia the ha'tids of former students, and many others are known to be leading useful, honorable home lives as wives, mothers or daughters. The strangeness hnss worn off and the usual attitude of outsiders is one of more or less sympathetic curiosity, unless hey have already been irretrievably bored ly too much talk on the subject.

TOO MUCH TALK.

There is, jwrliaps, too much of such talk altogether. There is certainly far too much of tvjbolesale theorizing apart from Lhougnt and ^'-perience, of discussion whether women "uonld cultivate their minds or become fit for [dome duties, whether they are intellectually the equals of men, or of no intellectual value worth mentioning if some people tend to forget that women are "diverse" from mon otjbc r- forget that they are in any respects #mil«i.

But with all this talk there Is little knowledge of the ovei-y day purpose and aspect of women's colleges, and that is why I venture to add to the talk. I have no particular theories to propound and nothing new to tell, but over twelve years' experience of Newnhftin college, first as a student, then as an official, should enable me to show a little of wfybt we are doing and trying to do. /The end and aim of Newnham college is one neither new nor startling nor eccentric, but simply the "higher education of woman." It is part of the great movement of the present day for higher and more widely diffused education, a movement which has especially A

affected women on account of the growing '-'recognition of their individuality, responsibility and capacity, and on account of the relatively low standard of their education hitherto.

In the early days of the movement people connected with all grades of education bestirred themselves, and much was quickly done towards giving girls of all classes opportunities for education as good as that of boys. Many university men took part in this work it was natural that they, and especially those connected with that university which has been most forward in widening its sphere of action, should think of promoting not only the education of girls but that of women. This was an entire novelty through all the centuries of its existence tho University of Cambridge, six of whose colleges were founded by women, had, I suppose, never looked upon women as in any way within its sphere nor probably had women themselves, as a class, even wished that they should be so.

The matter was full of difficulties—'educational, Boclal and financial few women bad had the needful preliminary training, and of these it might be that few would have sufficient ability, desire or freedom for sustained intellectual work it was impossible to carry the very best instruction to scattered pupils, while objections were made to bringing, the pupils to ttto center of the best instruction and the poverty of women added much to the difficulty of any permanent scheme. Nevertheless, by a remarkablo combination of moderation and cautious experiment, with boldness and great generosity, tho difficulties were surmounted. Instruction was supplied In tho place where it could be of the very best kiud, and pupils as they came were provided for with the utmost care.

Newnham college, then, aims primarily at supplying the highest education to women who desire to receive such education and are fitted to receive it. It is established in Cambridge, and its students take the university courses, not in order that women may compete with men, but because the framework of the university, the courses of education, tho instruction and apparatus, and the whole influence of tho place are the outcome of centuries of effort to provide high intellectual education, and do, in faot, provide it.

T11B KKMINTNE MIND NOT INFERIOR. I do not forget the differences between men and women but, granted that women should have the opportunity for higher education, and assuming that, generally speaking, the 3 opportunity is only used by those who care io uso it, and who are fairly well qualified to use it, I do not see why there should be a marked difference between men and women either in the subjects they study, the extent to which they study them, or the methods they use. it is true that chore is the excitement of competition but competition is by no means wholly an evil. It need be no more of an evil to compete with men than with women, and thoroughly good teaching and thoroughly interesting subjects are a great protection from competition in its damaging sense.

The greater number of stv.dents work for a tripos and stay three or four years, but some aim only at lesser examinations or take no examination at all, and generally remain a shorter time.

Besides the definite and immediate object of which 1 have spoken, the college has other objects in view. While it aims at giving women opportunities for the development of mind and character till lately enjoyed by few I of them, it has constantly tried to do this under conditions of life thoroughly wholesome and suitable for them, and in conformity, in all essentials, with what is customary for young women. Adequate supervision and discipline have always been provided, but rigid rules are as few as possible, self government is greatly encouraged and students altogether are treated as responsible young women and not as school girls. This system is greatly helped by the division of the college into three balk, no one ot which contains more than about fifty student*, so that the principal and vice principals can respectively know and be known by every student in their charge they are in friendly and not merely official relations with the students, they interfere^with them as little as possible, but live with them and are freely accessible to them at almost any time.—Helen Gladstone.

Mists Mary Morris, daughter of William Morris, the poet and Socialist, possesses a great talent for embroidery and designing. She is turning it to account by starting a regular business, where she receives orders 'for work and gives steady employment to a number of women.

At a recent wedding in Philadelphia the room was festooned in red, white and hta*, in honor of the patriotism of the bride,, who jhad declined many European offers awl d»cbfad to give bar baud to an American.—E»» change.

pins and

In Iowa there are 005 farms owned and managed by women. In England there are 452 women editors and 1^309 women photographers. WT

How is it that women do not relish jestras much as men! The reason seems to be thait the essence of a jest is ill nature, and that women are better natnred than men. —Lord Lytton.

If you want to have Patti sing for your private benefit you will have to pay $4,000 a night. Patti is more or less fond of music, but she especially admires bank note®.

Three or four barrels of charcoal set in different parts of the cellar will be of great help in keeping the house sweet.

How strongly does nature plead for them that we should draw our first breath in their arms as we sigh away our last upon their faithful breasts.—O. W. Holmes.

Bider Haggard's mother died lately. London papers speak of her as a woman o£ many accomplishments. She had published some volumes of verse.

In damp weather in summer a fire should be lighted in some'room in the main part of the house and the doors in all the rooms be opened, in order that all the house may be kept dry.

Oriental furnishing so* delighted the German empress during her stay at Constantinople that her majesty intends to fit up some of her apartments at the Berlin palace in eastern fashion. She has commissioned the she German ambassador to the port® to procure for her large quantities of carpets, hangings, divans, etc.

Love Making on the Stage.

Consider what love making on the stage really means. A young girl comes into a theatre to play iiigenue parts. She stands in the wing ready to be called upon the stage, and she sees a man and a woman making love. The man says: "Dearest, fly withme." The woman says: "I dare not." The man says: "We will go at once. Come." The first time such words as those fall on the ears of a young girl unaccustomed to them, they might, if said with fervor and passion, mean something but this is the way it generally goes: "Dearest, fly with me." "No, no, no!" from the stage manager "when you say that, you stand at the back of the chair, you lean over Miss Snooks' back she waves her hand against you. Now try it."

This is gone over twenty times, until at last the idea of "Fly with me," as understood by the young ingenue, must be of a most appalling kind. The gentleman has had his right arm, his left arm, his right leg, his left leg, his back, his chest, both his bands, his head—all talked over. He has tried it in a high voice, he has tried it in a low voice, he has tried it in a thin voice, he has tried it in a heavy voice, until there is no sense left of what "Fly with me" might under other circumstances mean. All the romance of love making is gone. Therefore, what effect can it have* In love, is it not the fact that some of the charm lies in treating of an unknown landf—Mrs. Kendal in Murray's Magazine.

Coiitcniiuj ItrldemaidK.

Instead of being only so many graceful ornaments at the marriage ceremony, as nowadays, the bridemaids in olden times had various duties assigned to them. One of their principal tasks was dressing the bride on her wedding morning. At a wedding, too, where it was arranged that the bride should be followed by a numerous train of her lady friends, it was the first bridemaid's duty to play the part of a drill mistress, "sizing" them, so that "no pair in the procession were followed by a taller couple." She was also expected to see that each bridemald was not only provided with a sprig of rosemary, or a floral posy pinned to the breast folds of her drew, but hM nr^tynltlMicai chaplet in her hand.

In many parts of Germany It is still customary for the bridemaids to bring the myrtle wreath, which they had subscribed together to purchase on the nuptial eve, to the house of tho bride, and to remove it from her head at the close of tho wedding day. After this has been done, the bride is blindfolded, and the myrtle wreath being put into her hand she tries to put it on the head of one of her bridemaids as they dance around her for, in accordance with an old belief, whoever she crowns is sure to be married within a year from that date. As may be imagined, this ceremony is the source of no small excitement, each bridemaid being naturally anxious to follow the example of the bride, and get married within a year.—New York Ledger.

Game of Art Criticisms.

Each person in the company takes a pencil and a sheet of paper and draws upon the top of the paper a picture describing something "which they have in their minds, such as a storm at sea," "the meeting of Stanley and Livingstone," or any scene. When all these drawings are made, perhaps occupying live minutes, each one passes his picture to the person on his or her left hand, and then begin the art criticisms, which are written at the bottom of the page so that it can be turned over out of sight. Each one endeavors to describe what they see represented on the paper and then doubles his description under and passes tho paper to his left hand neighbor, who in his turn receives one from the right.

Wheu tho pictures have all been passed round aud received the criticisms of each one playing, tbey get back to the hands of the originator. Then each one in turn shows the company his picture, states what he intended it to represent, then reads out all the opinions of those present as to what his intentions were supposed to have been, the result being in many cases most ludicrous and laughable, and therein is the fun of the game. It is not at all necessary that a person shall be able to draw in order to take part in the game on the contrary, the worst performances very likely lead to the greatest fun. While the papers are being passed round no one sees what the others have written.—Exchange.

For Chilblains.

Any

one who suffers from chilblains will be glad to try the following remedy recommended by a writer in Arthur's Home Magazine: "I made a strong solution of white oak bark, as hot as I could bear, and bathed my feet every night before retiring. It made a perfect cure. I bed been troubled so much that I used to dread the cold weather on that account my feet would fester and be so swollen and sore that I could not wear shoes. Now I have had chilblains since I applied this remedy, a good many years ago."

Put dishes, tumblers and other glass articles into a kettle, cover them entirely with cold water and pot the kettle where it will soon boa When it has boiled a few minutes net it aside covered close. Wheo the water is cokl take out the glass. This process will harden the articles that they will not be so easily brotsn.—Medical Classics.

Bern and raised in a Chinese tea drinking establishment, a Chinaman in Philadelphia says the oolywafto mate tea is to powr the boiling water

the leaves, stirring them

briskly at the same time. Il should be served after allowing merely time to settte. The' whole operation takes only a minute.—Chicago TitlMML

O rare, sweet rose, your creamy leaves Enfold a dream of one fair June, That month of violet skies and flowers^

When birds and hearts sing but one tune. Your velvet petals touch my cheek In mute caress, you do not^know That even now your sweet leaves fall

Down to my feet, adrift of anew. Tbey fall as fell my dreams of June, When bilW'and hearts sang but one tune..

0 fnnsy, with your baby face, You bring to me forgotten years. 1 smile, but, ah, in human hearts

Dear flowers, tho' innocent jou seem, A whole life's history you conceal In your true hearts, but to none else

Will you the hidden thoughts reveaL The dew lies thickly on your leaves, My tears shall mingle with your dew, "Twill seal the promise you have made,

My secrets shall be safe with you My life has lost that month of June, Tho' birds and hearts still sing that tune. —Florence A. Jones in St. Paul Pioneer Press.

A CHAT WITH THE GIRLS.

Building the White Temple They Are to Inhabit Later On. Girls, come over here to this cozy corner and listen to me a while. Come, every one of you—bright eyed Susan, bonny Mary, fairy Lilian, gentle Annie—come and let me tell you something it may be well for you to know. That's right, dears, draw the portieres cozily, so that we shan't disturb other "Householders."

I don't suppose you have had time in your young lives to think, as yet, very seriously but you've been blossoming so beautifully in this heyday^of your youth that we haven't had the heart to bring one serious look upon the faces of our lovely human flowers. But, my dears—alack a day! life isn't going to stay quite so full of sunshine and moonlight and dew as it has been hitherto—there will be a few clouds to pass between you and the golden luminary and more than once the dew will forget to place its cool moisture on your thirsty lips. And for this I wish to prepare you.

First of ail, that these perverse trifles may not overwhelm you, let it be your pride and ambition to develop within yourselves true womanhood or, in other words, be true to the womanly instinct that will come to you like soft whispers of some gu|urdian angel, if you but listen with willing ears.

At this very moment you are unconsciously building for yourselves the white temple you are to inhabit later on. Examine carefully each block before you put it in position —cast out the discolored, the unworthy, the impure, the false, using only that material that is perfect and pure.

Does this block seem to shine with a peculiar radiance? Turn it all about, hold it in another light—ah, you see its luster was but borrowed, and it crumbles at your touch! Does the sameness of tone make this one unattractive to your eyesf Place it in position —see, it fits into the place exactly and note the crystal clearness of its purity 1

Girls, the foundation of this temple is to be laitl at 'bome^wB^^IwMe^wfioloTeyOT'' can assist in the laying of the corner stone. The work "begins" there—right in the heart of home. Your leisure hours are full of golden possibilities—build fast while yet you claim them for it is not the hours intakes to finish your edifice, but the manner in which you build that is to be considered. In this work, time counts for little and the temple of one may be finished to the very altar before, in the structure of another, the keystone is placed in the arch.

Each act that brings, a smile of joy to a loving mother's face each effort of yours that turns a father's admiring eyes upou you fondly—these go to form blocks of beauty. Others are made by kind words and amiable endeavors to help a younger brother or sisttr over the little hindrances that, to their childish eyes, look so formidable. Sympathy with the world of suffering causes your spiritual edifice to grow with wondrous celerity, and the making of pure and noble sentiments of others your own, lends an embellishment to the masonry.

Shun the society that threatens the delicately clean cut edges of your building material. Turn recluse, rather, young as you are, and live with the pure and lofty natures met in books. Not the dogmatic, the artificially pious, the unnaturally staid, but the cheerful, jolly, winsome, free and humanly good heroes and heroines our sensible modern writers have felicitously placed in the niches of ancient, worn out models, that were prim, aud cold, and conventional, and impossibly perfect.

Above all cultivate the Christian graces. Try to see the good in all things, and believe that evil is but misdirected good, and let your heart be filled with pity for the wayward that walk in darkness.

Eschew grumbling and railing at fate so long as you do battle with her, just so long will she show you a countenance repulsive and severe. But bold out your hands to her in welcome, offer her bravely the best in your possession, shut your eyes to the undesirableness of the thing she brings you, and. if I haven't learned the wrong lesson, she will turn toward you a side robed in radiant garments, her smile will reflect your own, the gift idie has brought you change with the magic of your touch and become a thing precious and desirable

Oh, girls, believe me, for I know her welt —Mra Sixty in Detroit Free Press Household

The Eieort'i Arms.

In his last comedy, "Marquise," Sardou mainfjiinc that a gentleman, escorting a lady either from table or from church, should offer her his arm, and always the left arm. The reason be gives is, that a man should keep his right arm at liberty, that if needful he may be able to give a cuff to any person who does not make way for the lady, or for the mon* peaceable purpose of opening a door which may bar her passage. A writer in L'lntermedi&ire states this doctrine, but contends that it ignores a distinction, deiicate indeed, but which ought by no means to be disregarded. In ordinary cases be admits that the left arm should be offered by an escort, and that for Sardou** reasons.

Ia church,however, and in a salon beholds that the right arm ought to be tendered. In churches and salens there is no danger, and a man ought not by his gestures or attitudes to •how himself apprehensive. In a festive hall, accordingly, giving a lady one's left arm argues a suspicions temper, and maybe taken an insult by a supersensitive host la treating this matter L'Intermediaire mentions an odd custom now in vogue on the French stage. At the opera a man never offers his arm or band to a queen or princess, but presents to her doobltid ftst 0* pofo? forme).—San Francisco

Argonaut.

A TTTB] SATURDAY EVENINGy-MAIL.

A smile is so akin to tears. "A thought," ah, yes, a thought of one I knew in days that buried lie, A tender thought, given for the sake

Of those dear days, so long gone by, O pansy blossom, tender, true. We'll keep that thought, just I and you. My fair, sweet lily, many a time

Our rocking boats adrift would lie Upon the lake, while, floating there, We watched your sisters bloom and die. "One shall be taken, one be left,"

His boat has drifted into June, Where living waters cool the land, And pure, white lilies ever bloom. Fair lily, in your waxen cup A dream of love is folded up. •.

RAGPICKERS OF PARIS.

nrfftS. FRANK LESLIE WRITES THE CHIFFONNIERS.

Some Astonishing Facts About Strange Scavengers of the Streets of the Great French Capital—Their Organisa

tion and Their Work.

M. Bouff, a dealer in diamonds, lost a fine, large pearl, weighing 125 grains and valued at §8,000. He immediately put posters up on all the walls of Paris offering a handsome reward for its recovery. Several weeks elapsed, when a poor woman called on the commissary of police in the Rue Montmartre and handed the lost pearl to that official. Her name was Gautier. She was a chiffonniere, or female ragpicker, by trade, and had found the pearl in a heap of rubbish in the Rue Laffitte. She lived in a small wooden shanty in the Rue du Ruisseau, a poorly tenanted street belonging to a quarter known as Les Grandes Carrieres, so named from the "large quarries" on the northern slopes of Montmartre, where the city formerly got much of its fine limestone for building.

The new law that forbids housekeepers placing their rubbish in the streets over night has been a sad blow to the corporation to which this poor, honest woman belongs. Some compensation has, it is true, been offered them by the tolerance of the police, who close their eyes to the infringement of the regulations in the narrow streets which are lined with shops and warehouses. They have each their own concierge, who permits them to forage at daybreak among the rubbish brought down by the servants from upstairs.

They have a longer day's work now. Formerly they started out at 10 at night, and at 4

5 in the morning, when the carts made their rounds, they bad disappeared from the streets. Now they must remain until the scavengers appear on the scene, or at least until the boxes of rubbish have been emptied into the commoh bin placed on the edge of the curb by each concierge.

They have the work of sorting to do when they get back from their early morning task of collecting the refuse. Some sell it to a boss or trieur (sorter), as be is called, who stays at home and does nothing else. He sits in his room liko a gentleman, and there quietly assembles, examines and separates the different articles picked up by his work people. He then sells the material to buyers of various sorts.

The business is anything but a lucrative one. Parisians, however, throw away every year more than 300,000 tons of stuff, which the ragpickers collect and sell for upward of 25,000,000 francs, or nearly $5,000,000. The daily returns amount in all to more than 70,000 francs ($14,000), but there are 40,000 men and women to share the sum between them, so that each gets an average of 1 franc 75 centimes, or less than 85 cents. Two hundred pounds of waste paper cannot be sold for more than a couple of francs, woolen rags are only worth 5 cents a: pound, cotton S cents, and bones at best fetch 1 franc 85 centimes, or 87 cents, per hundred weight.

A man working steadily all night—for they still ply their trade oh a snugfe scale, despite the edict of the prefect—mqprearn, if he has a fair amount of good fortune, froni forty to sixty cents, but not more. A silver spoon does occasionally turn up in the rnbbish, but a pearl of purest orient hue—well, so to speak, never. Besides, every member of the corporation oT ragpickers is bound under severe penalties to deposit any valuable he may find at the nearest police office. Each has a card or ticket with a numberinscribed, and a number corresponding with thai on the card is fastened to the. hotte or basket, Ragptckers,. moreover! have always been noted for. thefc industry and honesty.

The "new law" I t&ve alluded to was a aS* cree enacted .by M. Poubelle, prefect of the Seine, requiring every concierge to provide abox for the rubbish of the tenants, and to have it ready for the dust carts on their morning rounds. It came into force Jan 15, 1884. The evident effect, if not the object, of this regulation was to check" the chiffonnier'8 occupation, and to give the dust contractor a monopoly of the refuse. On sanitary grounds the prefect may have been right, but policy required moderation even in a question where the health of so large a city as Paris is concerned. The fact of suddenly reducing so large a crowd of honest servants to downright beggary was a mistake.

Public opinion, which in Prance, as in other countries of a similar high degree of civilization, is the supreme ruler, spoke up in favor of the ragpicker and against that minor sovereign known as the prefect of fop Seine. Many deputies also humanely joined in tho protest, so that the now immortal M. Poubelle was constrained to offer partial excuses for his action irv the matter, and promised that the utmost tolerance should be exercised by the authorities in behalf of this particular and—as he admitted—"most honorable" industry. The ragpickers were in future to be allowed to turn out the new dust boxes, so as to be able to rake over the contents.

I will conclude this article about ragpickers by relating the story of a poor woman, Mme. Van&rd, who arrived at competency by collecting orange peel, and thereby not only helped herself, but gave occupation to others. She became a rich person, a great patroness of art and a regular habitue of the opera. Her husband was in business as a distiller of spirits and sences, such as are used by perfumers and dealers in liqueurs. She gave him as much assistance as she could. He, however, died, whereupon she tried for some time to carry on the distillery alone, but without success.

Talking over matters one day with the keeper of a restaurant where she used to take her dinner, she was much struck with a remark that he made, to tbe effect that there was a fortune to be realised by some clever person in the orange and lemon peel which was daily thrown away by the garcons of the cafes.

She took the hint and pondered over it. The next thing she did was to sell her stock in trade and become a sort of amateur chiffonniere, with this difference—that the object of her quest was orange and lemon peel wily She struck up business relations vnth the limonadiers and tbe various waiters who —well, you know bow men are!—were glad to help a young and, as die was then, good looking woman. Tbey alL in fact, watched ber venture in this new line with considerable interest

She had a tiresome task at first, but soon as die got to be known matter* went on more smootluy. The peel idea proved a success. In fact, she prospered so rapidly that she was ere long able to employ other hands to do tbe dirty work of collecting the material from the streets, as also from tbe theatres, for the sweepings of which she contracted.

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She presided herself over some thirty young women in her orange and lemon pe« warehouse, all of whom were busily occupied cleaning, pressing and peecking the peel as it arrived jm IpeEuioo which she £risteoad by the word "tester." Vast quantities of teste were daily seat away to all parts fat France and abroad to form the bask of Dulchcuraix*, orangeade, ^trooadea^ the many of light drinks ami aperient* which are met with over the continent. has now retired from fewness, and enjoys the bard earned fruits of her former 'abor.— Mra Prank Leslie in Detroit News. ifiiiia

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Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Cars attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached daily. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run daily. All other trains run daily, Sundays accepted.

•V-AuDSnD-A^IiI-A. XiliTDS. T. H. & I. DIVISION.

LEAVE KOR THE WEST.

No. No. No. No. No.

Western Express (S&V). Mail Train Fast. Line (P&V)...... Fast Mail *.

ARRIVE FROM THE WEST.

No. No. No. No. No.

12 Cincinnati Express (S) 6 New York Express (s»«sV). 20 Atlantic Express (P«V). 8 Fast Line

Vice Pres. Gen. Pass. Agt.

THE POPULAR ROUTE BETWEEN

CINCINNATI,' -INDIANAPOLIS TERRE HAUTE

ST. LOUIS, LAFAYETTE, and CHICAGO.

The Entire Trains run through Without change, between Cincinnati and Chicago. Pulman Sleepers and elegant Reollnlng Chair Cars on night trains. Magnificent Parlor Oars on Day Trains.

Trains of Vandalia Line [T. H. 4 DivJ makes close connection at Colfax with C. I. St. L. C. Ry trains for Lafayette A. Chicago

Pullman and Wagner Sleeping Cars and Coaohes are run through without change between St, Louis, Terre Haute and Cincinnati Indianapolis via Bee Line and Big 4.

Five Trains each way, dally except Sunday three trains each way on Sunday, between Indianapolis and Cincinnati.

The Only Line^llfgSt^lS:

tive point for the distribution of Southern and Eastern Traffic. The fact that it connect* in the Central Union Depot, in Cincinnati, with the trains of the C.W.4RR. R., [B. A O.J N. Y. P. A O. R. R., [Erie,] and the C. C. C. A I. R'y," with tne [Cincinnati ... east and Southwest, gives It an advantage over all its competitors, for no route from Chicago, Lafayette or Indianapolis can make these connections without compelling pas* sengers to submit to a long and disagreeable Omnlqus transfer for both passengers and

b^frough

MILLS

Tickets and Baggage Checks to all

Principal Points can be obtained at any Ticket office, C. I. St. L. A C. Ry, also via this line at all Coupon Ticket Offices throughout the country. J. H. MARTIN, JOHNEGAN,

Dlst. Pass. Agt. Gen. Pass. A Tkt. Agt. corner Washington Cincinnati, O and Meridian st. Ind'ols.

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

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1.42 am 10.21 am 2.10 8.10 0.04

LEAVE FOR THE EAST.

No. No. No. No. No. No.

Cincinnati Express41 (S) New York Express(S&V). Mail aud Accommodation Atlantic Express (P!fcV). Fast Line

1.80 am 1.51 am 7.15 am 12.47 2.30 5.05

ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.

No. No. No. No. No. No.

9 Western Express (SvfeV). 5 Mail Train ......... 1 Fast Line (P&V) 21 3 Mail and Accommodation as a

1.30 am 10.15 am 2.00 pm 3.05 6.45 9.00

1.20 a 1.42 a 12.42 2.10 5.00 n»

T. H. & L. DIVISION.

LEAVE FOR THE NORTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mail No. 54 South Bend Express ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH. No. 51 Terre Haute Express No. 68 South Bend Mall

6.00 am 4.00 pm

12.00 7.80 pra

THE BEST LIUE

BETWEEN

TERRE HAUTE, ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO,

X35T3DX^.3Sr APOLI8 ANn ItrSHYlIXB, CONNKRSVIMJE,

HAMILTON, DAYTON, and

oiisroiisrisrjLTi Where direct connections are made with line diverging for all points North, South and East.

Tickets on sale at all coubon offices throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. NO CHANGE OF CARS BETWEEN

St. Louis, Terre Haute and Cincinnati.

For additional information apply to^J.'R. McCord, Gen. Agent, Indianapolis. M. D. WOODFORD. E. 0. McCORMICK,

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94 Miles tbe Shortest and the Quickest.

CINCINNATI to NEW ORLEANS

Entire Train, Baggage Car. Day Coaches and Sleeping Cars through Without Change. Direct connections at New Orleaas and Shreveport for Texas, Mexlcoand California. UO Miles tbe Shortest, 3 hours the Qulcke* from CINCINNATI to JACKSONVILLE, Fla.

Time 27 hours. Solid trains and through Sleepers without change for any clans of passengers. Tbe Short Line between Cincinnati rt. ,thours

Lexington, Ky., time, 2% Knoxville, Tenn.. time, 12 hourn Ashville, N. C. time, 17 hours Chattanooga, Teun., time, 11 hours Atlanta, Oa., time, 15 hours Birmingham, Ala., time 16 hours. Three iSxpress Trains Daily. Putiman Boudoir Sleeping Car*.

Trains leave Central Union Depot, Cincinnati crossing the Famous High Bridge of Kentucky aud rounding tbe base of Lookout Mountain. .. ..

Over one million acres of land in Alabama, the future gneat State of the South, subject to pre-emption. Unsurpassed climate.

For rates, maps, etc., address NKIL C. Km*, Trav. Paas. Agt., No. 94 W. Fourth street. Cincinnati, O.

D.G. EDWARDS, G.P. AT. A*

a C. HARVEY, Vice President. caxanrxATi o.

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