Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 December 1894 — Page 13

OLD TIME CHRISTMAS

HOW DINNER WAS SERVED IN FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

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Botr't Bead, With Rix»*mary, Brought In to the Maalc of Trumpet*—Kowtod l'esoock the Pride of the Frnt—Barbarous Appetltct of Brave Knight* »nd F*lr

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It was a gay scene—that great hall, •where the yule log was blazing in tlie sooxu^a nappy wiui ui« u*pww»immensw fireplace, big enough for two the coming Christmas morning. mknla AYfln t'.ri Kit thMTtfviri* t.Vit* ti..t nA^tnA/1 KnM

whole oxen to bo roasted therein the high rafters festooned with branches of holly, holme, laurel and ivy the wide portal crowned with mistletoe, and the table, which was literally a board of boards, all of oak and polished till they shone, stretching the whole length of the room, 160 feet

Twelve o'clock has just struck, and the household is mustering iu the mag*

Wiv uuurauvtu uiuovwui^ 'M WW upon vne Ufippy wiliuxtui wuu nwv niflcent hall, it being "covering time," trimming Christmas trees and hanging or the hour for preparing the tables for stockings for old Santa Claus to fill. dinner. The steward in his gown, a

The yeomen of the ewery and pantry, oonducted by the yeoman usher, then enter the dining chamber. As they pass through the door they bow reverentially, luiuugu ujuuw* ne neartt rxo sung uuu wugu™

The boar's head, with a great golden pippin placed between its tusks, is then placed upon tho table, where it is served with mustard sauce, and the Christmas dinner begins. No napkins or forks are used, and brave knights and noble ladies wipe their greasy hands upon the tablecloth and throw the discarded bones and pickings upon the floor.

Besides the famous boar's head, tho first course consists of roasted beef joints, pigs roasted, venison with frumenty (a curious concoction of boiled wheat and eggs seasoned with sugar and spices), broth of pork and onions, custard and a subtlety, the latter being an ornamental dish representing a ship, a castle or a human being, just as the taste of the cook dictated.

Tho second course is introduced by tho bringing in of a peacock with all its gay plumago on and its whole body oovered with leaf of gold. A singular dish, was it not? Like the subtlety, it must bo intended merely for an ornamental dish. Not at all. It was a real dish to eat The peacock was stuffed

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Jollies of meat or fish, all manner of fowls, roasted or boiled capons, hams, pies of carp, tongues, mutton pies and plum puddings followed in due order, and thee© were displaced by a dish of jelly, fruits and another subtlety. There were but few vegetables to accompany tho various dishes of meat and fowl.

After the solid food was disposed of, wine and ale were drank in profuse quantities. One wonders how they could eat and drink to much. People had barbarous appetites in those days, and a lady of rank would swallow two or three tankards of ale at a single m*U.

This dinner on that long ago Christmas day lasted two hours. In the evening there was more feasting, and the historian amases us by the vast enumeration of swine, aten, sheep, pigs, hares, kids and fowls slaughtered and the tons of ale and wine drank. England was merry England then, and rude license and boisterous cheer characterised the Tuletide festival Yet doubtless we who «at our Christmas dinner with much less form and noise enjoy ourselves as truly. Certainly, we have more refinement than those fair ladies and gallant knights, who greased their fingers and •oiled the tablecloth eating the boar's bead and the stuffed peacock and the jfnxmenty at that Christmas dinner of the fourteenth oentury.—Christian AdVooate.

with all manner of spices and sweot here tfie little wanderer was. His t.. 4l. m. I

herbs, thoroughly roasted, basted with yolk of ogg, served with plenty of gravy, and was considered tho greatest delicacy of the Christmas feast

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It was something' of a task, as you may imagine, to prepare this bird of Juno for tho table. Tho skin was carefully removed before it was baked, and then, when it was taken from the oven and cooled, the skin was sewed on again dexterously, not so much as a feather being milled, It was carried to the tablo on a silver basin, with a lighted piece of cotton, which bad beea saturated in alcohol, placed in its beak. No part of the dinner was so eagerly anticipated as this, and all manner of TOWS were pledged over the beautiful bird. Tho chronicles of tho middle ages record many of these vows.

ONE CHRISTMAS EVE*

]Hi|vlMd a Rcnpir, the Chrtit Child Sevlu Shelter—A Ueruaaa Ujead. Here ia a Christmas story that haa been told the little children in Germany for many hundreds of years: a: 'Twas the night before ChrfBttuai A little child waa wandering all alone through the streets of a great city. People were hurrying hither and thither, and express wagons were being rattled through the streets. Even the snowflakes seunud happy with the expecta-

rnuuoi. auo o«wni»» Cold and alone the little wanderer moet important looking personage, is goftly tiptoed his way up to a beautiful standing at the uppermost part of the -window through which he could see a

hall, surrounded ,by most of the ohief officers. The table is neatly oovered with a purple velvet cloth, saltcellars vrivu a a lime girl QOIIUUg lu mo tr-muvMi and trenchers, under the supervision of frovraed and shook her head, saying riaKor nf thfi hftll ii/ TIT a ^aa Knatf fn fnlr the usher of the halL

and they do the same upon approaching children, he climbed up the broad the table. They then lay down at the

side of each trenoher a knife "hafted with silver" and a spoon. No forks are laid, for these convenient articles have not yet been invented. Next in succession comes the yeoman of the cellar, who dresses the sideboard with wines, flagons, drinking cups and such vessels as are consigned to his care. The yeoman of the butlery follows him, and brings up beer and ale, and arranges the pewter pots, jngs, and so forth, on tho sideboard.

The dinner time has now fully arrived, and the steward's command is taken by a gentleman usher, who knocks respectfully at the door of the state chamber and summons King Richard and his nobles and guests to dinner. In they come, dressed in their court attire, the king and his lords in magnificent long green colored velvet tunics, silken hosiery and red leather boots, with very long points the pretty girl queen, Anne of Bohemia, and her ladies in particolored kirtles of white and blue, cotehardies edged with fur, and their hair done up in a gold fret or cone of network.

When tho guests were assembled and seated, the king and queen occupying a dais above the others, the trumpets sounded, and a band of niusioians entered the hall. The server followed them, bearing upon a huge golden platter a boar's head dressed with sweet rosemary and rose leaves.

Bat the little child seemed to have no home and wandered on from street to street No one noticed him exoept perhaps Jack Frost, who bit his bare toes and made his fingers tingle. The north wind, too, pierced his ragged garments and made him ahiver with oold. Home after home he passed, looking with longing eyes through the windows in upon the happy ahildren who were

Kif mnat nf 1 1..1 ffori r* rr tree loaded with gifts and glittering with lights. He tapped on the glass, but a little girl coming to the window

"Go away. We are too busy to take care of you now." Back into the dark street he went Coming to another happy home, where he heard tfce song and laughter of mer-

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steps and gently tapped on the door. It was opened by a tall footman in white hat and gloves. He looked at the child then sadly shook his head and said: "Go down off the steps. There is no room for such as you here."

Again and again the little child rapped softly at door or window pane. At each place he was refused admission. Later grew the night and oolder blow the wind. Farther and farther the little one wandered. The street was lengthy, when suddenly there shone ahead of him a single ray of bright light He hurried on, saying, "I will go where the little light beckons me."

Ho soon reached the end of the street and went straight up to the window from which the light was streaming. It was a poor, little, low housa What do you suppose the light came from? A tallow candle. Looking in, the little one saw standing upon a small wooden table a branch of a Christmas tree. Near the fire sat a lonely faced mother, with a baby on her knee and an older ohild beside her. She was telling them a Christmas story.

The little wanderer crept closer and closer to the window pane. So sweet 6eemed the mother and so. loving the children that he took courage and tapped gently, very gently, on the door. The mother stopped talking the little ohildren looked up. "What was that, mother?'' asked the little girl. 'I think it was some one at the door. Run quickly, dear, for it is too cold a night to keep any one waiting in the storm."

The child ran to the door and threw it wide open. The mother saw the little stranger, cold and shivering, clothed.in rags, and his little feet almost bara "Oh, you poor, dear child 1 Come in quickly and get warm. Have you no home? No Christmas to celebrate?"

The mother put her arms around the strange child and drew him close to her. She sat beside the fire with the little one on her knee, and her own two little ones warmed his half frozen hands and, bending low over his head, kissed the little wanderer's brow. They gave him the bowl of bread and milk that had been put away for their own breakfast and when he had eaten it the little girl said, "Now let us light the Christmas tree and share our presents with this little child."

So busy were they lighting tho tree and getting the presents ready that they did not notice that the room had filled with a strange and beautiful light

They turned and looked at the spot

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M.nx Uttufnil tltlHl 1 I 1 I .1 1.^ „UJ.» ragged clothes had changed to garments white and beautiful ffcs tangled curls seemed like a halo of golden light and his face shone with a light that they could scarcely look upon.

The 1 ttle room seemed to grow larger, the roof of the low house to expand and rise until it reached the sky.

With a sweet smile the ohild looked upon them for a moment and then slowly rose and floated through tho air, higher even than Aha clouds themselves, until he appeared like a shining star in the sky and at last disappeared from sight

The wondering children turned and whispered to tho mother, "Oh, mother, it was the Christ child!" And the mother said in a low tone, "Yes, my children.' '—Exchange.

Children's Alrln**.

A child needs change of air, and on a day when the weather does not admit of his going out he should have a shawl thrown around him and be taken for a little airing about the house, taking ears of course that the passages are not rirafty, or it is a good plan to put on his outdoor garments, and provided that the day is not too inclement to open tho nursery windows wide, having previously seen that the door is shut, and either walk up and down the room with him or drive him about in his perambulator for a short time. The children's domain should be made as bright and cheerful as possible, and they should have a nurse with a pleasant, kindly manner. Anything approaching noise and excitement is extremely bad for young babies, and an overflow of boisterous spirits on the part of their attendant should be guarded against—Chicago Post ... ..

Correct Way to Cat Far.

To out fur the tyro naturally tries to separate the hair and with scissors cut along the line thus made. Tbt- result is an uneven edge and a fluttering profusion of loose hairs cut in the process. The furrier will tell you to lay the fur face down on a lap board or table, and on the back of the pelt role a straight line. Then with your shsrp penknife cut lightly down the line, being careful that the Incision shall not go entirely through the skin. Then the strip oaa be drawn apart with the fingers without the loas of a single hair of the fur and with even edges to boot

TERRE HAUTE BATURDAY EVENING MAIL, DECEMBER 22, 1894.

A MYTH OF THE RHINE

VXTFLOU^ VERSIONS OF THE^ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS TREES.

How the Custom of Decorating Spruce Haa Spread to All Christian Nation* —A Legend of Martin Anther—Memories of

Tiny Tapers and Sweet Surprise*.

One may read in tho folklore of the Rhine district of a mysterious tree that blooms only on the night before Christmas, and tho old myth assures us we have only to go to a certain spot to flu I it all to be trua As the first authentic acoomtts of a Christmas gift tree are in the annals of this same Rhino neighborhood, may we not believe that the holy mystery supposed to be concealed in the blossoming tree was commemorated and perpetuated in the deooration of the Christmas spruce? At all events, it is in historical records of Strasburg from the year 1605 we first read of a real Christmas trea The man who has lef' the record writes: "During the Christmas holidays a spruce is set up in Strasburg homes, on which arc hung horses of many oolored paper, apples, consecrated ^afers, jjlpy ouckoos, sugar," eta ,?

Tho use of the tree spread very slowly during the 200 years following, and we noxt read of it in 1648 in a theological work oalled "Milk of the Cate chism." This time it is not montioned lovingly, but the author inveighs against its use in the home in these words: "Among other frivolities with which more than with God's word the holy days are oelebrated the Christmas spruce is found, which is set up in tho houses and deoorated with puppets and sweet things. Finally one shakes it, and so its blossoms fall Whenoe comes this oustom I know not The whole thing is ohild's play. Better would it be if one allowed the ohildren to keep holy day around that spiritual cedar tree, Christ Jesus."

Next wo hear of it from tho stand point of the juris^ in 1787. In a very learned treatise "On the Gifts Bestowed on Our Redeemer's Birthday" a jurist striving for position of docent at Wit tenberg speaks of tho candle decked Christmas tree, under whose boughs the gifts to the housefolk are spread, gifts whose justification he sees from a legal standpoint

Late in the eighteenth .century the tree was more frequently mentioned, and it was even the great Goethe who introduced it to the literary world in his ""Sorrows of Werther." Goethe first saw a Christmas tree in 1765, when he was 16 years old, at the house of Theodor Korner's grandmother. He says, "It was hung with all kinds of sweets, mangers holding the Christ child, the Virgin Mary and Joseph standing beside the oxen, asses,and lambs."

Do you remember Werther's visit to Lotte on the Sunday before Christmas, when he finds her alone, preparing packages of presents for her small brothers and sisters? Just as he, suspect ing nothing, pours out his ecstasy over their friendship the door suddenly opens, and the Christmas tree bursts on his view, with its glimmering wax candles, its cakes and apples.

Germany's other idol, Schiller, does not himself write of any Christmas tree, but in a work by a friend of his we learn that at Christams time, 1789, he became betrothed to Lotte von Lengefeld and withdrew from an engagement to "pass the holidays under the Christmas tree" with a family in Jena in order to be with her.

Tho following Christmas he and his Wife Lotte stood beneath a "brightly' glowing tree" in their own homa

The first time the Christmas tree was enshrined in verso was In 1805, just 200 years from its first historic mentionFrom that year the oustom of decorating a spruce at Christmas spread rapid, ly all over Germany until about 1880 it went over the border into France and was introduced in 1840 by Helen, duchess of Orleans, into the Tuileriea Now ovor 40,000 trees are deoorated annually in Franco. The French people observe the custom with all their characteristic enthusiasm and warm piety. They have a very protty way of protecting tho roots of tho tree and planting it again after the holidays are over.

The Christnms tree found its way into England through Prince Albert soon after his betrothal to Queen Victoria. A peculiar English custom is that of passing a small tree round tho tablo after the Christmas dinner, from which each person plucks the gift previously placcd there for him or her.

Nor are these the only countries to follow the Germans in their Christmas festival. In Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and Scandinavia the little ones are made happy by the blooming of the Christmas tree. Indeed an old German legend ascribes the origin of the custom to Sweden, whence it was introduced into Germany at the time of the Thirty Years' war. But this is only legendary and has no more claim to our belief than that other legend at Martin Luther taking a forest tree into his house and decking it with numerous lights to symbolize the glory of the starlit heavens.

In our own country the history of the Christmas tree is young, and although many foreigners think the only kind we have ever seen is one from which the poetic sentiment is fled, one made of iron and lighted by the pressing of a button with gas or electricity, we, who have our delightful memories of trimming the fragrant evergreen, of helping it blossom and bear fruit full of street surprises, and who have lighted the tiny tapers amid much merriment not unmingled with tender awe at the thought of the starlight whose rays have beamed upon us since thai first Christmas long ago—we can testify to the beauty, the poetry, the warm glowing love, surrounding our Christinas tree, which blooms perennial in oar hearts long years after the mystery of hearts.—Boston Transcript

FATHER'S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

They War* TTtefnl to the Family, and JI® Saw Little of Them. We were talking about Christmas presents, the girls and mother and I, when father came in. Then we changed the subject just a little bit, because it was father's presents we were discussing. Father sat down by the stove and rubbed his hands—he had just been out at the barn—and a queer expression plowly settled upon his features. "Say, mother, and Ned and girls," he said,4 'I don't want any of you to get me any presents. Tain't no use, you know." "Why, father," said Lena in an aggrieved voioe, "we always get you useful presents, don't we? I don't myself believe in things that are not useful"

Father's eyes twinkled. "Yes," he said, "but I sometimes think they area little too useful, you know."

Nell shrugged her shoulders impatiently, but mother said: "Let father have his little joka What is it this time, father?"

The old gentleman, having warmed his hands, settled himself back oomfortably in his big chair, and his eyes twinkled more than ever. "Well, let's see," he went on in a ruminating manner, 'Do you remember the dozen hemstitched han'kerohiefs that yon gave me last Christmas, Leny? I guess I used one on 'em just once. Some way or other," with a genial, impartial glance at the company, "Leny and Nell have been usin of 'em, and I've been usin of Leny and Nell's old torn ones. He, he! I don't know jest how 'twas, but it's a faot Then, Ned, do you remember the compass you got me for a birthday present last June? It was a nice little compass, and I guess a feller about your size thought so, too, for he's been usin of it ever sence. Then, let's see, there was the silk han'kerchief that mother give me at birthday, and I put it away choicelike, and the fust thing I knew Leny was a-wear-in of it inside her jacket Yes, my pres ents are all useful, a leetle bit too useful, mebbe. See the point, don't you?

Father's next presents had his name written on each of them, and none of us ever again thoughtlessly used the dear old man's things.—American Agrioul turist

CHRISTMAS EVE IN PARIS.

Forget and Forgive Is the Custom—Midnight Mass and the Family Sapper. On Christmas eve in the homes of Paris, when the ohildren are fast asleep, with the bonnes to watch over them, the older ones and the parents go to the grand high mass, lasting from 10 o'clock till midnight This is a very solemn service and is sung with great ceremony and with row upon row of white veiled nuns, whose narrow belts of blue, orange or red show their peculiar order, kneeling in the transept

Just at midnight the mass ends, and the altar boys snuff the tall candles. Then the family returns, and there is the reveillon, or the supper of waking —the one meal of the year at which are gathered the brothers and sisters to the home of the oldest married child. There are places for the grandparents, too, and, if a ohild has been lately born to swell the family oircle, a seat of honor next the grandmere for its mother, who is queen of the feast.

The "supper" is a great dinner, at which good will is the order, where are drunk innumerable glasses of harmless, unintoxicating grape wine, and whefce toasts are offered to every conceivable good luck, past and to come.

At the reveillon are discussod all the affairs of the family. If during the year the relations between two of its members have become strained, all is often forgiven and forgotten in this family love feast

So with toast and rally and story the hours creep by until it is far into, the small hours, when the party breaks up. —New York Press.

a Economizing For Christmas. There is a touch of humor in the petty economies practiced by many men for several weeks before Christmas. Tho man who has been acoustomed to costly lunches, and who invariably bestows a substantial tip upon the waiter, about this time of tho year is likely to affect a liking for a luncheon consisting of a sandwich and a piece of pia He does not smoke quite so many cigars as formerly and convinces himself that a less expensive weed is quite as satisfactory as his favorite brand. He does not frequent the cafes as much as formerly, and there is a noticeable lack of his usual free hearted hospitality when he encounters his friends in such places. This strange parsimony which has come over the man is not due to the fact that he has met with financial misfortune, nor that ho has suddenly become sordid and mean. He is merely economizing in his expenses in order that he may have more money with which to purchase Christmas gifts for those he loves. It may be a wife or child, mother or sister, for whom he makes these sacrifices, and there is no doubt that in the happiness be brings to other hearts ho will find ample compensation for it all The Christmas season is marked by innumerable instances of self denial—J* York Sun. _____

The Christmas Brrakfast.

The main dish at the Christmas breakfast should be chicken, fried in the southern fashion. Wash and cut up a young chicken and let it lie in salt water for about half an hour. Cut up some fat salt pork and fry it in a pan until the grease is extracted, but not bravn^d. Wipe the chicken dry. Pepper and dredge with flour. Fry in the until each piece is brown on both sides. When the chicken is fried, ponr a cup of rich milk into the pan, thicken with a tablespoonful of flour and one of butter. Chop some parsley into it, toil up anoe and pour over the chicken, gi

Potatoes a la create form an cxcellcnt aooompaniment to this Christmas dish. Chop some cold boiled potatoes into a boiling sauce made by mixing 8 tablespoons of melted butter, a little chopped

parsley, pepper, a cup of rich milk and a couple of spoons of flour. Light, delicious muffins, a flaky omelette and the perfect coffee, without which no breakfast is a success, should complete the Christmas breakfast— Selected., a j. 'Daudet's Artistic Wife.

Mme. Alpbonse Daudet dresses with infinite taste and carries to the highest point that household craft and art which appear in the smallest details of equipment and furniture, in the composition of a dinner, in everything that surrounds an accomplished maicresse de maison. To Mme. Daudet the artist or the impressionist is a person who knows how to bo useful as well as enchanting. She was brought up by her mother, Mme. Allard, under the severest traditions of the good old French bourgoise, which are quite the opposite of that modern culture which despises needlework and cooking. She has sung her needle in charming poetry she understands everything about good dinners. Thanks to his wife, Daudet had a very pleasant home from the beginning, long before he had won success and fame and fortune.—Ladles' Home JournaL

B'.»clp« For Brown Betty.

We find tho following recipe for an old time favorite in The New England Homestead: Go gather the apples that red ripe are lying

And cut all the cores and the peelings away, Then slice them just as one would slioe them for frying,

And we'll bake a Brown Betty for dinner today.

lien get a deep pan with a close fitting cover. Alternately apples and crumbs in it lay. With sugar and cinnamon sprinkle over.

Oh, we'll bake a Brown Betty for dinner today.

Kow go fill the pitcher with milk that Is creaming

And carry Brown Betty along on a tray. An odor delicioualy spicy comes steaming. Oh, we'll have a grand feast on Hiss Betty today.

Bad For Baby.

The way some good natured nurses have of tossing and swinging a tiny baby about, says a physician, under the mistaken notion that they are giving the poor atom pleasure, is very injudicious. They are simply terrifying the ohild and causing more excitement than its little brain is oapable of bearing.

"A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed." A friend advised me to try Ely's Cream Balm and after using itsix weeks I believed myself cured of catarrh. It is a most valuable remedy.—Joseph Stewart, 624 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

My son was afflicted with catarrh, I induced him to try Ely's Cream Balm and the disagreeable' catarrhal smell all left him. He appears as well as any one —J. C. Olmstead, Arcols, 111.

Price of Cream Balm is fift£ cents.

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iTREKT IMPROVEMENT FINAL E8TIMATS. Notice tit hereby atven that the r**i! mnt« report-of the *wt of the Improvement nf Knitrti *«reet from Flshtli *v. n»i« to Mrtld»-n Ij*ne o» the ISth d«.v IVvem-

I»M rwfpmnl othe commlttwomitreets and alleys, and any perron by such "Iwat* may apoear before wild vtuui»Mt«*e, 14th day of January. at the office ... tii«j «.•» ir vli itKliieer In rt y. and make oNn-tlous thereto, wtileli object Ions will be reported bv «ald commute lo the F.inmon

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the next rt-guixr meeilnaof Hwld council nfter -otitttilH'3 *h*fI conclude lb® hearing upon *ald objection*, at which time objectni and nil peranus Interested may be bean) In reference losnch objection* before

the council. CHAS. H. GOODWIN, .s-s City Clerk.

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ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE OF SANITARY INSPECTOR. Section 1. Be It ordained by the common council of tbe city of Terre Haute, that the office of sanitary Inspector be and Is hereby established tbat there be elected by tbe council a competent person to discharge the duties of such office, which are hereinafter mentioned, and such person shall be known as the saultary inspector, and he shall be elected immediately upon tbe passage and taking efleci of this ordinance, aud thereafter when other officers elected by the common council are elected, subject to removal at the pleasure of the council.

Such officer shall be a graduate of a

veterinary school, and shall be sufficiently familiar with the use of the microscope and other scientific methods necessary to determine the purity of all articles commonly used as food and drink.

Bee. 3. It shall be the duty of such officer, when be deems it necessary,or when notified by a citizen. In writing, to Inspect free of charge any cattle, sheep, bogs, poultry, tlsb, game, fruits, vegetables, canned goods, milk, and all articles of food aud drink offered or about to be offered for sale, and if any of said articles and any food and drinks so inspected shall be found to be unwholesome and unfit for use, to condemn aud destroy the same, provided that wheu live cattle, sheep, hogs or poultry are inspected aud condemned, thty shall not be dest oyed, but the owner or anyone else shall not be allowed to sell or offer the same for sale, for food, until .after the same shall be pronounced by the inspector wholesome and fit for use.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of such officer to determine the existence of Infectious or other diseases among animals which may in any way imperil the life or health of any person within the city, and he shall have the power to direct whatdlsposltlon be made of anl mals so diseased.

Bee. 6. It shall be the duty of such officer to render medical and surgical treatment to all animals which belong to tbe city, or for which the city Is responsible, the

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viding such medicine or appliances as may be required. Sec. #. It shall be the duty of such officer, at suitable intervals, to inspect all dallies In or adjacent to tbe city, and supplying milk and butter to tbe inhabitants of the city he shall examine the condition of the animals from which such supplies are derived, and the character and quality of food, the cleanliness and fixture of barns and yards provided for them, and report the same to the board of health.

Seo. 7. In the discharge of his duties he shall co-operate with and be under the control of tbe board of health, and be Invested with the same authority as one of Its members in the performanceand carrylngout the duties of thiB office.

Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of such officer to personally or through the board of health, from time to time, report to the common council anything which in his line of duty be may deem of sufficient lm{ortance, and whenever the general heaith and welfare of the city may be Involved.

Sec. 9. Any person who interferes with such officer while be Is performing his duties, or attempts to prevent him from performing the same as are prescribed by this ordinance, shall upon conviction be fined In any sum not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars.

S^c. 10. Any person violating any ot the provisions of this ordinance shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollara

Sec. 11. The salary of such officer shall be fifty dollars per mouth or six hundred dollars per year.

Seo. 12. All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the city of Terre* Haute being In conflict with any of the provisions of this' ordinance are hereby repealed.

Sec. 13. An emergency exists for the Immediate passage .and taking effect of this ordinance, therefore the same shall be in full force and effect from and after Its passage and publication.

Approved and adopted by the common council of the city of Terre Haute, Ind. at a regular meeting thereof, held on Tuesday

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GOODWIN, City (. lerk.

ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE OF GOODS AT AUCTION. Section 1. Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Terre Haute, that It sh»-ll be unlawful for the owner to sell or offer for sale at auction, within the corpornte limits of said city, any damaged goods, wares or merchandise or any goods, wares or merchandise which are, or shall be advertised or placarded or ollered for sale as "bankrupt goods." "bankrupt stocn," "closing out sale," "bankrupt sale," "assignee's sale," "sale of damaged goods," ''damaged stockt" "receiver's Bale," "auction sale," or any similar form of advertise ent unless such owner shall first obtain a license therefor from the mayor of said city.

Sec. 2. Any person owning and desiring to sell at auction within said city such goods as are described in Section 1, or desiring to sell goods In the manner specified in Section 1, may obtain a license for the period of one week, one month, or three months, as the applicant may desire, for so doing, upon applicatlos to the mayor of said city and paying a license fee as follows, to wit:

For one week, the sum of $50.00. For one month, the sum of S100.00. For three months, the sum of 8200 ^0. 8aid fees to be accounted for by the mayor and paid into tbe city treasury.

Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for any duly licensed auctioneer or any other person to sell any goods for any owner thereof who has not compiled with the provisions of this ordinance.

Sec. 4. Any person violating any of the provisions or this ordlnauce shall, upon conviction before the mayor of said city, be fined in any sum not less than five dollars nor ore than twenty-five dollars for each violation, and each separate sale shall constitute a separate violation.

Sec. 5. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as applying to any goods tbat are sold under authority of an order of court or other judicial proceeding.

Sec. 6. All ordinances, parts of ordinances and resolutions In conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. An omergency exists for the Irame dlate taking effect of this ordinance, and the same shall take effect irom and after Its passage and publication.

Approved and adopted by too common council of the city of IVrre Haute, Ind at a regular meeting thereof, held on Tuesday evening, December 18th, 1891.

CHAS H. GOOIiWIN, City Clerk.

ANCENSING

ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR LIAUCTIONEERS. Section 1. Be It ord»lued by tbe common council of the city of Terre Haute, Ind., that It shall be unlawful for any person not actlog as a public officer, or under the authority of an order of court or other Judicial proceeding, to act as an auctioneer within the corporate limits of said city unless such person shall first bave obtained a llceme so to do, as her-Inafter provided fee. 2. Any person desiring to net as an auctioneer within the corporate limit* of tho elty of Terre Haute, Ind., shall before doing the same apply to tbe mayor of said city for a llcent-e so to do, and tbe mayor, upon such ap llcatlon -being miwle, shall issue to suoh applicant a license for one day, one week, one month, or one year, as the applicant may desire, for which license the applicant shall pay to the mAyor for the use of said city license fees as follows, to-wlt:

For one day. tbe sum of •lo.uo. For one week, the sum of $20. 0 For one month, the sum of $4 .00. For one year, the sum of *10i) 00. said fees to be accounted for by the mayor and paid into the city treasury. see. 8. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon conviction before the mayor of said city, be fined In any urn not ie«s than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. t*ec.4. AH ordinances and resolutions In conflict with thls( ordinance are hereby re'^^ec^. An etrergency exists for the Immediate taking effect of this ordinance, therefore tbe same shall be in full to and effect fiom and after its passage and publication.

Approved and adopted by the common council ot the city of Terre Haute, Ind at a regular niettlttg hereof, held on Tuesday

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HA'li8H: OOODWl.V. City clerk.

TREKT IMPROVEMENT FINAL EsTIMATE. Notice is hereby given that the final estimate report of the cost ot the Improvement of Haneo-k streei from I bird street to Sixth *tr»et was on the 18th day of December, 1894,' referred to tbe committee on treets ana alleys, and any person aggrieved by such estimate mav appear before said com ml t.tee on tbe 14 day of January, 18& at tbe office of the city civil engineer In said city, and

make

objections thereto, which ob

jections will be reported by said committee to tbe common council of tbeclty of Terre Haute at the next regular meeting of said council after the said committee shall conclude the hearing upon said objections, at which urn* objector* and at! persons interested may be heard in reference to such objections before tbe counclL CHA8. H. GOOD WIN,

City Clerk.