Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 March 1894 — Page 1

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ONTIEQDI VIVE.

The Coxey march "o'a to Washington was under discussion the other oight at the Terre Haute. One member of the group suggested that "it van too bad that this movement bad not begun before the death of the late eminent phyHiciau, Dr. V.arlow. Wbatapictur esque character he would have been as the leader of division of the Cox-ey army." Anot"ner remarked that if the eminent doctor had joined the urmy, Louis i^eve^ne, or Sam Austerrrjiller, or Joe F'otey would never have been satis lied until they had secured commissions from lb© local papers to act as special fiorrespoBdents to report the progress-of the army, and the movements of ttheir fellow-Hermanite, Dr. Marlow.

A lecal lodge of au order whose-»im is chieliythe payment of insurance on the d«ath Of inemberM, initiated a fvumber of candidates one night jecently. They were placed in front of the altar, taking the obligation, when the officer iracbarge —a very prominent man in the order— made a pause, and remarked to one of the 'bystanders, "What a combination for this lodge." The bystander was nonplussed for a second, and then looked again at the row of candidates. At each end of the row was a doctor, and in the center was an undertaker!

'Professor Wiley's life as superintendentof tho public schools is notaltogether a bed of roses. Thereare fully two hun•dred and fifty children in the city who ure not permitted to attend the public •schools for the reason that they are not vaccinated, as required by the orders of tho State Board of Health, and many of the parents blame Mr. Wiley directly for this. Recently a man who has been employed about tho courts, visited thn (superintendent and proceeded to raise a row because his children were koptoutof wrhoo],charging itall to the-superintend-ent. The latter triwd to reason with his visitor but without success. "Let us suppose, then," said Mr. Wiley, "that you were directed to serve a subpoena issuod by thecourtof which you werean officer, could you ignore it?" "But that isn't a parallel case," responded tho objector. The superintendent thereupon declined to discuss the question further with such an unreasonable person,

It remained fora former Terre Uautean to tell tho people of Chicago-»il "''^vAey know no more about real music and grand opera than a porcine does about the lirst day of the week. Mrs. Mary Stuart Armstrong, formerly of this city, is I unning a society paper in Chicago called The Elite, and in a recent number she criticises very severely the grand opera about which the Chicago papers have been raving. The lone of the criticism inclines one to the beliei that the editress oT 101 ito was not on the complimentary list.

A (•omuiittro appointed by Judges McNiill and Taylor to revise th list of attorneys now praetie'ng at tho local bar reports that there are lKi. There wore Id-l, but Frank McKinnoy has been disbarred. That's an average of one lawyer to every :»f0 inhabitants of tho city, which surely ought to be enough for any well regulated community.

There, came near loing lOd practicing attorneys at the bar at the close of the "Jim" Godsoy trial, when Ex-mayor Panaldson moved that the defendant, who had conducted his own case, bead mitted to tho bar. Judge Taylor smiled but said nothing. The next morning when the vordict of five years was re turned, the ex mayor withdrew his motion, telling it asa good joke on himself that "Kid" Gerard, whom ho defended, got seven years, while Godscy, who defended himself, got but five.

Of course there ia a Terre Haute man with tho Coxey army. What great movement ever started for the emancipation of a suffering people frmn tho thralldom placed upon them by a base conspiracy among the bloated plutocrats that amounted to anything unless it had the approval of the State of Terre Hnute. When the Greenback movement was at it* height, our own Major Smith was the central figure hi it, our own Editor Ball has been at the fore front in the fight against the iniquitous robber taritT, and his denunciations of Carnegie (pronounced Car-i»age-y), the Fricka. et al., who have been for years "robbing Peter to pay Paul," have gained him fame our own Eugene V. Debs has forcakeu the love of hia life to join the Populist#, and now our own Lawrence Mahoney, who was ouce au employe of the lower rolling mill, has joined the Coxey army. The truth is mighty and must prevail.

Terre Haute 3. A. R. men who attend tho »tate encampment at t,afayetu» next week are going loaded down to the

guards with arguments to convince the of a big crowd of men cleaning the convention that Terre Haute is the best streets was a harbinger oi spring, but a place to hold the annual meeting next more striking proof that an election was year. The chief opponent for the honor cloae at hand. Another infallibte sign will be Muneie, but the Tfcrre Haute del- of the latter Is the number of petitions egation should Uave no trouble in laud- and resolution# that begin to crowd the ins the prixe. What a myal welcome council records about this time of year, the Trairio City could and would give calling for electric lights, water mains,

those brave old fellows, who, so far stone crossings, aw»v that it seem* almost a tradition,, never fails.

risked their all to save the honor of the nation. Q. V. hopes the Terre Haute people will be successful in their efforts, and then we will show the visitors what a city that produced a Topping, a Cruft, and trnndreds of others of lesser rank batequal bravery, can do to honor them.

The current discussion of the crema-tery^-or crematatory, as many persons tesist on calling it—and its merits and -shortcomings does not cause Q. V. to change the opinion he expressed when 'tho contract was made for it, that if it as such a g'»od thing neither the •council nor the city would lose anything by a judicious wait. On the other hand, if it* was not capable of doing what was promised for it, the delay would be beneficial to the city. In tho crematory's present condition of innocuous desuetude it cannot be said that the city's sanitaiy condition is greatly improved.

The masher, Beckwith, whose elopement with a Terre Haute girl was more than a nine days' wonder, writes from New Orleans to a friend here to ascertain 1f it would be safe for him to return here. Of course it would be safe. A man who indulges in an escapade like his can always pass through it unscathed, and be looked upon as a devilish smart fellow, who has succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of some 'girl who was an "easy mark." Of course it would be safe for him to return. He probably would be met at the depot by a committee of silly girls and presented with the freedom of the city.

It is really wonderful how popular civil service has become with our leading politicians. At the letter carriers' meeting Saturday night Mayor Ross, Judge Taylor, Postmaster Dinham and Dave Fieriry told in accents that were t'irilling how thoir every heart throb was for civil service. They are like James Whltcomb Riley's old man, they are "jist wrapped up in it." They will wvil and gn»*h their teeth and tear thoir hair if Congress ever passes a law doing away with civil service, and thus make postoffice jobs a reward for the faithful of their respective parties who get out and hustle on election day.

"A mau that's his own lawyer has a fool for a client." Jim Godsey says that is arrested for forgery. His reputation was bad. He couldn't prove an alibi. Everyone expected him to plead guilty. He stood pat. Tho prosecutor prosecuted. Jim defended himself. His father, Thomas Godsey, swore to the facts which would send the son to Jeffersonvllle. Jim cross questioned the old man. They say it was laughable to hear the colloquy between the convict son and me stern, relentless parent. But Jim cried. And »odM the jury. Then the boy matle a speech to the jurors. He argued, he pleaded, he cried, he begged. The jury retired and to the surprise of all, they hung for six hours. Prisoner Jim thought the jury would acquit him They returned a verdict of five years. Four of hem. wanted to send him up for the limit, fourteen years. Now he wants anew trial on the ground that he has become insane a la Frendergast. If he w.is sane, a new trial would be the last thing ho would want, providing the west, end police state bis case correctly. They usually do.

If a poor west end devil with a bad reputation gets five years for .forging his father's name for $(,50, how many years will a man of high standing as a banker and Christian get for—but, as Rudyard Kipling would say, that's another story.

A man named Rodman, who ia an a wo wed candidate for council in the Sixth ward on any platform or any ticket to beat "Bud" McCoy, made a speech fropi the court house steps last night before an enthusiastic audience. Tho "Tenderloin Quartette" sanga number of songs, and Mr. Rodman, whom the crowd insisted on cheering as Mr. "Rodney" discussed the finance "Question in every phase, and declared there was but one man in Terre Haute not corrupt. Some man in the crowd asked the name of the one man, and the speaker made a great bit when he answered "Riley McKeen." If Mr. McKeen ever wauts to be Governor, he can count on the Tenderloin district.

LICSySED TO WED.

Charles Hampton and Ada Rhoad*. Hiram Spark* and Emma E. Austin. Albert Wenoand Juliana Bree*in*. At ten Richardson and Mat tie Thompson. Kttx'rt Sampson and Made Lynch.

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Thomas Miller and Mary Robert Middleton and Maltnda J. Smith.

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Pearl Scotland ARnes Cumin. Charles P. Cltne and Ida Heady. OHIe Vaughn and Maggie Wilkinson. 3Mrjre F. White and Sybil D. Johnson. Wesley A. Heeler and Mary Elizabeth Der» riiyrer. 0»«»r Young and Ariantha A. Frakes.

A«.hur Cunningham and Eltnabeth Long,

It uned to be said that the appearance

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BAB ON NEW DRESSES.1

SHE SAYS GIRLS' FROCKS THIS YCFF*. WILL BE STUNNERS. F'

Her Opinion that Men are theOnly iwj Makers—The Volgarity of Ear Rii.-*— Women's Great Admiration for

HOW TO DUESS.

If thare is any one thing a woman ought to know, it is how to dress herself, and yet, somebody who is very little over five feet with a waist that would requ're to be hugged in sections, and a general development under her chin that hints at a dairy, will elect to wear a black brocade with huge bou quets of pink roses upon it, and nobody has the courage to tell her what a mistake she has made. If anybody did say anything she would cry that kind of a woman alwaj's cries and says that the material waa handsome, and she couldn't help being fat. Well, she can help looking fat. She has a funny fashion of wearing a jet belt. Now, any kind of a belt will make her look larger, but she ought to Abhor jet as she does poison, for anything that sparkles makes its background appear twice as big.

Then, too, it is possible that, having a large, fat lobe to the ear, she sticks in a diamond solitaire, and she ought to know that she should never wear any stone that glitters. Pearls or turquoise belong to the stout woman all the stones that sparkle to the slender ones. By the-by, speaking of earriogs, aren't you glad to see that the women who count themselves the elect uo longer wear them? They have at last discovered that a pretty ear doesn^t need a jewel to attract attention, and that certainly one shouldn't be put in an ugly ear to draw the eyes of the lookers-on to its defects. The only earrings I ever heard of that I thought must be beautiful were those worn by Salambo and, if you remember, they were hollowed pearls filled with exquisite perfume, and so swung on spirals of gold that they swayed to and fro, and dropped the scent on lier beautiful bare shoulders. Evidently, in those days, the art of dressing was thoroughly understood.

WOMAN'S SHIRT FRONT,

By-the-by, I am going to say something that maybe you won't like. It is this—that, for the spring and summer, in the mornings, in the mountains, or vrbea traveling, there is no girl who looks so perfectly well dressed as *he who is tailor-made. It is perfect nonsense to say she looks like a man. She doeaa't. The American woman couldn't look that way if she wanted to. She is built in tbe most feminine fashion,and, consequently, coats and shirts only intensify tbi#,, and while they give her a kind of rollicking look, they increase, rather than take away from, her femininity. The other day I was talking with a fashionable shirt-maker In New

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATTJRL)^ C'EVENING, MARCH 31,1894.

Muscles—A Woman'* Letters. LCopyrlght, 1894.] I I feel like saving "Hurrah for'the gi with trtae new dress!" The new dressjs the right of the young woman. Sornf day she may have a vote some day sb may be a Senator and make the laws frf|

the nation, but I don't think anything,* of this sort will give her as perfect w^rshlp'them so abjec'tpleasure as the possession of a neWj-yj no )men who so dread being left frock. Of course, there are frocks and,.^thoi%

frocks. But the frock of this year is tb6^or

girliest frock of all. It fairly runs riot |))bj6y

fits in at the waist and comes out very (Xqu

smallness of one and the breadth of the other is most pronounced. 1 like a girl with anew frock. It tends to make her amiable. It is her right. It is what men should work for, and I do really think a man enjoys seeing his ducats go for something so positively feminine.

THE SEASON'S LOVELY FROCKS. This year the new frock has a touch of green about it. This isn't meant to explain the girl. Oh, dear, no. It only means that she ^s yodng and tender,and altogether charming. A woman with new frock can accomplish much. It makes her believe in herself. It causes her to be amiable to all mankind, and makes her so loving that she will yield an inch with the certainty of getting a yard. The new frock tends towards diplomacy. The wearer of it disarms her enemies by her amiability, and makes her friends love her more than ever. She finds it difficult to be disagreeable when she is enshrined in the newest stuff, the most becoming color and a cut that is supreme in its perfeo tion. It is queer how much a cut means. A gingham cut by a master hand, I mean that to be masculine, because there is no doubt that men are the best dressmakers, has an air of its own, an air of smartness un know% to the most mrfir uificent brocade", if the scissors that shaped It were guided by an apprentice's hands. You and I and everybody else have seen people in brocades who looked like sofa pillows, and girls in cottons those delicious pink and blue ones, that looked like angels.

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be did for a man's. With many jhr-s be said: "A man is just ip and down, you know, and a }/ell, a l$dy—you know—a lady baa.curves, and a man's shirt wouldn't btfEtt' -nber." I thought that knocked ot^r re whole.theory of masouline belongings, taking away from the sweet womanliness of woman. Probably the most feminine women in the world are the English ones, aud they are the ones who first saw the desirability of the comfortable cloth skirt just escaping the

belt^na ,he easy fitting cutaway jacket. !J%MFI*ATION FOR STRONG MEN. Tt'.8 ,*re no women in the world who •tirely governed by their men,

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with laoes. It gets wildly excited with |^^*ealcs out and writes a disreputable •ribbons. It sways to and fro and an- TOok, but usually that woman would be nounces that it is lined with silk, and it pLrfeotly

broad on the shoulders, so that the tjj-agbftig^for her bad beh&vior. The

ndersized, and who can't swim, or wj^-'C-e, or svloot, or ride or knock the oi i'Xy.1rsin out of anything that lives, tlie^Oaey stop talking about the brain arfd mouss, frocks. Brains are very ft •..•t''* r, gtfS to have. None of us like to bhS Nek them, but when there ari/fis ioe'l for soldiers, a woman g.lor-ifitts'-In-thinking that the man who

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THE SUMMER'S OUTINGS.

What are you going to do this summer? Have you found the ideal place where you will have a comfortable r6om, simple, good food, agreeable people, and where the drives are pleasant? That is the place we look for every spring. And the one we never find. We go on a chase for happiness, and we may have a good time in the search,but li the rooms are comfortable, the chances are the people think you are dieting and give you precious little to eat. I once stayed six weeks in a country house where the woman who kept It said she thought it was vulgar to have MI appetite. We all remained and starved because the grounds were so lovely. She objected to calling us boarders though she bad no fueling in regard to taking our money, and she •aid she felt that in letting strangers come into her house, she was giving them an opportunity to enter the society whioh it was more than probable tbey had never been in before. They Itodn't. She was a very clever woman, nearest livery stable was run by undertaker, and I used to hire what

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a dollar apiece more for a woman's shirt toothing about finance, made this propo-

buggy and a mild horse, but

balled the horse a sheep. However, it f&gwered our purpose. It didn't nin .way with us, and it had a pleasing'way stopping aud thinking, which gave ns to opportunity to go to sleep. The lady wboai we paid our board possessed horse that was sheepler even than the

who rejoiced in the name of Jonaen, and whom I drove, or rather who permitted me to hold the reins while he: #ent. The lady, who said she knew

ground, o.f the clean shirt, the pretty It was interesting to hear tho landlady tell of the blueness of her blood, while we looked at the pinkness of the tea, and then, too, when she marshalled her children to give them maternal advice, it pleased us all to know that she didn't use ber slipper, and that probably she hurt ber hand as much as she did the children. It was very cheerful if we happened to want a larger carriage than the famous buggy to have the undertaker tell of the funerals "that there barouche has been to," and it was cheerful, more than cheerful, when we paid the bill each week to have him tell us how much he asked for the hearse, and to hear him say that if we had ten car riages there was a reduction on it.

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worsl'lp ofHhe English woman for muscles in most amusing. They don't consider brains compare with them in a ijian, and a whole household will koollno to the great big fellow who has won .1 ooat ract Und count of no moment at all 'Jiis rath1- delicate brother who has achieved/.' «*st honors in all his classes. Well, it il! ^.return to first principles. Tv savagt Voman adores the man'who iiti rush 'n, kill the one who already otv 3 her and carry her off. I don't Is -./w that I am altogether out in this \vp .kne8s, and I believe almost every W^inan likes a man whom she feels could u-ejjiis fist in defense of her, rather than a'.fo" npt to settle an insult by arbitrt? tiiVt^ W6meu love to talk about their aeration of the brain, but when the is represented by somebody who is

sition to me she propose^that I should buy a buggy for two hundred dollars, and then I could have the use of her horse with it every other day, and when I went away Icould leave her the buggy. I didn't accept this offer, I am not much of a financier, but somehow this seemed a little one-sided, and afterwards the masculine element said that that woman ought to go on to Wall street,.for if she iid she would own a railroad in two days. Still, though we were starved that summer, we had a pretty good time

UPS AND DOWNS OP COUNTRY LIFE. Still, we are looking for the ideal place. Personally, I don't tbiuk it exists outside of heaven. Just fancy anybody he ing fortunate enough to go to bed with sheets that weren't too short, pitohers continually filled with fresh water, strong coffee and weak eggs, golden butter, silvery fish, beautiful red beef and agreeable people. Oh, no that will only come with the millenium. One year the man who kept the house where I stayed, thought it was his duty to see that I didn't get all my letters at once. He delivered tbem at intervals during the day. He said, in explanation: "Wimmen is gettiu' too knowin' this yere havin' letters and readin' 'em is what makes wimmen sassy. Now, my wife never got but two letters in her life. One, whon her mother died, aud another when her sister got married to a worthless ^drunkard that nobody wanted in the family.' It makes wimmen kind o' independent like'to get letters. They thinks as how they's equal to their bet ters, and I aint goln' to have no sassy woman round yere."

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think it is rather nasty tb'at so many o-jf-'the new books—the books that are called novels—Insist on bringing in chapters about all sorts of diseases. It isn't your business, it isn't mine to read about these things. It makes us nervous, and the chances are, uine out of ten, that we may know somebody who is consumptive, who dreads insanity, or who has some terrible Illness like Damocles' sword hanging over their heads. These beoks don't help any tbey only hurt they only make us throw ourselves face downward and give the old cry, as we think of somebody for whom we care, of "My God, njy God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" We don't heed to have our hearts torn to pieces. All that we ought to do is to try and help those who are not strong to live as they should mentally and physically, and to cause life to be as fail of sunshine as we can for those who suffer. I hate to think that it is women who have written these books. It seems to me that when they will write books, recognizing as they do so many of the horrors of life, they ought to feel that it 1b their duty to give good cheer to the living and forget the sinB of the doad. Bat there, I don't want to be blue, too I want to represent a certain amount of cheerine&s in the world.

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if I have a^eftfetiess it is liking' to get my letters with my coffee. I shouldn'! like to be thought to be sassy, but still, I don't particularly care for anything musculine to decide when and where 1 shall hear the latest news, and under what conditions. Why, even the few people who know me and like me, insist upon receiving at its regular time that variable epistle signed, BAB.

NEWS OF THE CITY.

Philip Spengler, the Main street ban ber, will open a fine eight chair shop in the remodeled f'ilbeck House.

It has been decided to hold a summer echool of science at the State Normal under the direction of professors Gillum, R^ttger and Stalker, of the Normal faculty.

The Wabash Fishing Club, composed of employes of the northern rolling mill, will give a mask ball at Conrath's ball. Third and Lafayette streets, Monday evening.

W. W. Cliver has done so well with his new grocery at Fifth and Mulberry that he has been compelled to take another room adjoining, which be is fitting up for his business.

The spring term of the Normal school will begin next Tuesday. Several of the tooms In the new addition will be furnished and used for class rooms, and the contract for the work has been awarded to D. W. Gardner.

The T. P. A. of this city gave a delightful reception at Bindley Hall last night, that was a success financially and socially. John A. Lee and Louis LeBaume, of St. Louis, national president and secretary of the T. P. A., attended the reception.

The firm of Myers fc Walsh, of the Health Office, has been dissolved, Ed. Walsh retiring. He will engage in other business, but has not yet made up his mind what it will be. The Health Office business will be conducted by Albert Myers.

The Oratorio society gave its last recital in the Christian church course last e^ening^ consisting of selections from "Elijah," and a programme of solos and choruses. The soloists were W. W. Byers, Miss Dora Hauck, E. T. Hazeldine, John H. Taylor and Mrs. H. J. Mater. 4 vv

It ia seven years this spring since we t(ad a triangular fight in a city election, although never a county election occurs With less than three, and sometimes foui^ ifclEGta in the field. In 1887 the Labor party had a full city ticket and a candidate for council in«ach ward, and the Populists are likely to duplicate! that programme this spring. The primaries for nomination of candidates for council and selection of delegates to the city convention will be held next Monday, and the city convention on Wednesday

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evening. Not all the members of the party are iu favor of the movement, but all will unite in support of the ticket, and thus add to the complications of the political situation.

The Terre Haute Bicycle Co. is the title of a new firm that has recently begun business on Main street just east of the Terre Haute House. The members of the firm are practical men, and can not only make all repairs on a damaged wheel, but if necessary build one from the ground up.

The Cosmopolitan', the mouthly magazine published "by Dr. B. Tomlin, has suspended publication. ,Ed. Seldomridge, who had charge of it, and who did some of the best work of his life in the way ol illustrating, will continue in the service of Dr. Tomlin, having charge of his special advertising. "Schlummerlied" (Slumber Song) Is the title of the latest composition of Fred Kessler, the Terre Haute composer, whose Cafe Baur waltzes made such a hit. It is a beautiful composition, touching on the classic in music, and will prove very popular. It can be had at r^ulschner tt Son's music house

Louis Maier. of the 'IVrre Haute Distilling Co's office, died very suddenly Monday at West Baden springs, where he had gone for the hem li• of his health. He was a son of Conrad .Maier, an old and well-known cuizu i,and a brother of Geo. Maier, secretary of the Disiilling Co. His wife and ouechiid survive himj

Some time ago the heirs of tlirt late Geo. Krapf, a well-known Big Four engineer who was..killed a collision in the E it T. H. "yards, between a Big Four and au fc T. engine, secured judgment for damages against the E. ft T. H. The Supreme court has-reversed the decision of the local court, holding that the Big Four is equally liable.

Wilton T. .Sanford is announced this week as a candidate for the Republican nomination for county treasurer. Mr. Satiford is a well-known businessman of this city, jai.d is peculiarly fitted for the duties of tret\&»rer. He comes from a fami^y^.of stftiv^rt Republicans, tins always beetr &Wojr'ker for his party, and his nomination Vvorild add strength to the ticket, jy

The Elks held their annua', ele'cliov Wednesday night, with the lolloping

Exalted .Knlji H** a Loyi'l ic."icht—Romeo O. WeltflM eiir*=5 Lectin-, r'.trbt.—Charles A. MilleV Secretaiy--Lnv.'d L. Watson. Treasurer—Charles Batch. Trustee—James M. Dishou (and -••j other).

Tiler—John R. Byers. The Saturday before Faster is mad^ the occasion for the christening of new' babies at the Episcopal church, and last Saturday the class was unusually large. One bright, little four-year-old, who was an interested obsorver of 'he ceremony, caused no little stir during its progress. During a pause she remarked, in a very loud stage whisper, "I sink I ought to have my head wet." The smile that went round came uear beingasnicker.

Ford tOverstreet, the merchant tailors and gents' furnishers, have secured a lease of the storeroom at the southeast corner of Sixth and Main, and on or about August 1st will open a department store on a large scale. They will continue their present lines, but will add a number of new ones that will prove very popular. The fixtures in their present location they have sold to Myer Mannberger, for so long with A. Arnold, and bis brother-in-law, Gus Strouse, of Illinois, and they will open a first-class hat and gents' furnishing store. They are both well known here, and will no deubt meet with success in their Vjnture.

Mr. Morton Rankin, who is treasurer of the Populists national committee, says the report sent out from Washington that the committee is at the expense there of $3,000 a month in sending out campaign documents is grossly inaccurate. He says the total expense is not over $300 a month, including National Chairman Taubeneck's pay of $150 a month and the $75 a month received by Jack Turner, secretary of the committee. The total disbursement of the national, committee in the presidential campaign of 1892 was but $4,200. The committee at Washington is sending out speeches and documents by the millions, however, but these are franked and individuals are paving the printing bills but the aggregate is nothing like $3,000 a month. Mr. Rankin is hopeful that the Populists will carry Oregan in July and Alabama in August and that this will give the party a boom in the states which bold elections in November.

It is amazing to thick that there are people in this country who have never seen a looking glass, but it seems to be the case. Charles Patterson, a farmer, living near Galllpolis, Ohio, has never had one in his bouse. He went to town the other day and bought one. That evening his 10-year-old son saw it for the first time in his life. When he saw his image there it frightened him dreadfully. He thought ft was a ghost, or some equally nacsnny thing, and seizing a shotgun fired at it, shattering the new mirror Into a thousand fragments.