Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 December 1895 — Page 1

/ol. 26—No. 25.

MAN ABOUT TOWN

There it no longer any doal)t that we ,*e to bare in Terre Haute the first of the ig wholesale department stores. Buinan A Co. will sell all lines of goods ^andled by their customers, though it 'makes neeesaary the carrying of a stock tf diamonds While this is the logical

Matoome of the tendency to consolidate }nd centralize industrial and mercantile ^affairs yet nowhere else has the department store idea been adopted by a wholeale house doing anything like as large .justness as Hulman A Co. There is a large significance in the innovation* It

I not only indicative of a change In the ..bolesale business but of tbcf general laws of trade. 1 bad along talk with Mr. [.Ben Cox of Hulman A Co. about the new "plan and of oourse learned a great deal.

He said the house had been gradually extending the line of goods handled. Tbe [monthly catalogue is now a bulky Jyolume, illustrated in a way to save the trouble and expense of carrying samples »f all the salesman bad to offer to bis customer. Gradually the wholesale justness had come to include the )mmoo articles of hardware, of the f^oilet and household utensils. Tbe

General store of the country mer Chant really was the first departFinent store. It contained all tha£ tbe country customer needed in his home or Jfon his farm. If the proprietor of tbls r^torecould buy from one wholesale house all lines of stock naturally he would save time and possibly money in doing so. ,Hulman A Co. figured that they could handle tbe full line at comparatively j&mall additional expense and give the ^•retail dealer tbe benefit of tbe economy

In one transaction. Tbe traveling salesjan selling groceries could sell dry goods, boots and shoes and, as Mr. Hul^man says, even diamonds at no greater expense so far as salary and traveling rex peases are concerned. But one account would be opened and but one bill would have to be paid. The retail department store has come to stay. Why not the wholesale department store?

I asked Mr. Cox if the logical conclusion would not mean, eventually, but one mam month wholesale house in a city? This caused him to smile and oourteously refuse to discuss the probability. He proceeded to argue from the standpoint of "first principle," and set forth tbat if Hulman A Co. could best bold .its trade by jitter provision -'for, that trade the flrm should do so. A retail merchant on Main street to whom I had satd tbe department stores were driving tbe other stores to tbe wall remarked that It was only the natural oourwe of events and tbat each retailer must look out for himself. He further remarked that there had been only a living in the retail trade for several years. Rut suppose you take away the "living," I asked? Well, there again you have the first principle. It Is the ultima thule of trade. The devil take th« hindmost. I stated some of tbese facts to Eugene Debs and he was not only not surprised but accepted them a* a matter of oourse. He is thoroughly imbued with the belief tbat there is to be a big revolution In all these relations of trade and labor. He confidently expects ^he outcome to be a co-operative system. Said he1 "What Is to be the immediate result of this department store idea? Only this. The small retail merchant will be forced out of business. He will become a wage earner, addling to the increasing number of this class while the number of those who control tbe industries and commercial pursuits steadily decreases. This is only a phase of tbe change tbat is being effected. It is temporary. It will entail suffering and bard trials but it is necessary to the desired end of co-operative ownership." 'Mr. Debs' theory is that the centralisation of ownership eventually will result ft* the demand for the readjustment by jwhich all who contribute to the success Rof industrial or commercial enterprises rwlll reoelve their share of the profits,

Mrs, Juliet V. Straus*, of Rockville, wife of the editor of the Rockville Tribune, has written good poetry and better prose, but last Sunday's Indianapolis journal contained a story from her pen ftrhlch is evidenoe of a still higher order literary ability. The title was "The Taming of the Shrew." It was much after tbe style of Miss Wilkins' stories, ,nd it was exoellent. Mrs. Strauss is gifted, Indeed. "The Taming of the Shrew" Is of that order of stories you read and read again. If we are not ^really mistaken the Journal, whiob brought James Whltcomb Riley ioto wide renown, has given publicity to the f&ieutof another Indiana writer whose lame is to become «»atioaal.

Tbe Republican National Convention baa chosen St. Louis as the place for the convention next year. Tbe date is June ]6. Tbe only objection that has been urged against St. Louis is the climate in 'une, the month in which the two great parties hold thetr national convention*. It Is not that the thermometer registers •o very high degree of beat but because

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atmosphere is humid—Intolerable, »s sweltering humanity characterises it. St. Louis of to day is a much different city from what it was ten years ago. It is now a modern and model metropolis, Tbe St. Louis of old was an easygoing place where people were oontent with conveniences of past generations. Now there are modern hotels and transportation facilities and all tbat art or science accomplish to make the city com* Wtable or pleasant has been aocomliabed. So far as Terre Haute is concerned the choice is a good one because rre Haute rejoices in the earniogs of •ts through trunk line roads tbat oonnect

this city with the Mound City. Moreover tbe occasion will serve to give Terre Hauteans occasion to visit the city which really is nearer to it, in more than one sense, than Chicago, The distance to St. LouU is less than to Cbloago anl there are two direct roads. In all proba billty tbe fare will be reduced to a figure that will be two or throe dollars less than for the round trip to Chicago, to which city there is but one direct road. During the convention in 1888 and the World's Fair in 1893, it was possible to go from here to Indiannpolls and then to Chicago at a less rate than by the Cbieago A Eastern Illinois. The roads out of Indianapolis cut rates and the visitor to Chicago was enabled to pay the regular round fare price to the first city and there buy a cheap excursion ticket to Chloago by which the total fare was less than by tbe C. A E. I. Tbe roads to St. Louis are of a better class than solae of the Indianapolis and Chicago routes, it is true, and may maintain rates, but the* tendency and probability alike is that we will have around trip rate to 8t. Louis of less than one fare wbioh is $5 25. The convenience of additional trains is a consideration, too, tbat will be greatly to the advantage of the Terre Haute Republi cans who may want to bo present when the representatives of their party elect the candidate for president. The following statement of the dates and locations of former Republican national conventions is of interest at this time: 1866—June 17, Philadelphia.-v**.,* "j

I860—May 16 Chicago. 1864—June 7, Baltimore, 1868—May 20, Chloago.

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1872—June5, Philadelphia. 1876—June 14, Cincinnati.

Tbe appearance of the Field minstrels In tbe parade was typical of the strolling fun-makers. They wore big, lightcolored overcoats and light colored tall hats but their shoes were not blackened and nitae out of ten pairs were run down at tie beels. The minstrel fun-maker is funny in other aspects than on the stage.

Tbe proposed ship canal from Lake Michigan to a point on the Wabash river near Delphi or Lafayette is again before congress. The proposition is in the shape of an apppopriation for a com mission to report on the feasibility of the project. Tbe latest information from Washington is to tbe effect that the measure stands but little ahow of passing for the reason that Speaker Reed is in for economy and retrenchment at this session. This is said to be part of bis plan of campaign for tbe nomination for president. There la doubt, of course, of the pracjlcabillty of the canal but the political prospects of the gentleman from Maine had not heretofore been taken into consideration. As yet nothing has been heard of tbe other canal scheme, tbe one to oonnect Lake Erie with the Ohio river. Representatives of a number of Ohio olties met in convention several months ago to advance the interests of this canal and there was much enthusiasm but the convention seems to have exhausted tbe efforts of tbe friends of tbe canal. The subject of oanal navigation received a great deal of attention some months ago and New York state voted a large amount of money in that direction.

What has beooroe of the appeal in the Nicholson law cases carried to the Supreme eourt from Judge Taylor's decision? Two months or more ago Prosecutor Huston told me the delay was due to the purpose of Attorney General Ketcham to make an omnibus case out of all the test eases in the state. He was in correspondence with those who had appeared in local courts for the law to agree on the plan of proceeding. Tbe defense In the Vigro county cases were ready to submit their briefs and arguments and only waited the filing of tbe brief on tbe part of the state. In tbe meantime tbe Deramber term of the county commissioners' court baa been held throughout the state with the result of added doubt and complications In the enforcement of the law.

There was to have been a secret con ference of national Populist leaders In this city this week, but for some reason It was postponed. Mr. Morton Rankin,, who Is tbe treasurer of the national committee, was displeased when asked about the conference by a newspaper man who had received a telegram of Inquiry from a Chloago aewapaper. He protested that he would not say anything about it that other leaders must have given the anap away* etc., but that he wouldn't talk. He did say tbat the

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1880—J une 2, Chicago. -jjpy 1884—June 3, Chicago.^f-,"Mv^^sC: 1888—June 19, Chicago. 1892—June 7, Minneapolis. It is not strange that readers of newspapers often remark that "you can't believe what you see in the newspapers." While the comment is an extravagant assertion, yet there is cause for it. A newspaper may print the news accurately in a thousand instances, and be wrong in one, and yet be discredited all through by the one mistake. If the reader has personal knowledge of the error, unconsciously he receives aril other information in the newspaper with doubt in his mind. A gentleman told me this week tbat the statement in an Indianapolis paper that he was present at a warding In-that city- was wholly wrong. He also said that one of the Terre Haute dallies recently gave tbe names of a number of prominent society women as being chaperones at a dance, and not one of them was present. It is an old adage in newspaper offices that a column sensation, which is accurate in all particulars except the spelling of a name in the last line, is spoiled by the one blunder^

conference waa not to be held but more than this he would not say. Mr. Rankin believes in seoreoy and he abhors a newspaper man who would endeaver to get a secret from him. I know because I have tried him. He waa in a good humor, too, when he was told that the Chicago newspaper wanted information but immediately he declared he wouldn't talk. It Is my guess that the conference waa called for this olty because Debs had just returned to hla home How much of apart he will take in national polltics next year cannot be told but that he will not be a candidate for any office there is no doubt. He is a Populist because be has no faith in either of the old parties as a friend of the workingman but I do not believe he is a Populist in the sense that Mr. Rankin and others are on the money issue as the ohief issue before the people. He thinks the kind of money is seooudary to the question of how much of any money the wage earner is to reoeive.

When the Princes of tbe Orient conclave was over there was a universal demand for the establishment of a permanent organization to repeat the great success. Sinoe then but little has been beard of the enterprise. It will be a mistake to let it die.

A meeting of representatives of a half dozen or more olties will be held at Indianapolis on January 7th, to arrange for a circuit of cities where running race meetings oan be held in the early part of next season. President Beauchamp, of the Vigo Agricultural society, has been in correspondence with gentlemen in a number of cities for several weeks with the object of forming a circuit. Sinoe the agricultural society at its annual meeting praotically decided to give a running meeting next year instead of a trotting meeting, President Beauohamp has been busy making inquiry in all directions, and is now more convinced tbah ever that a running meeting would be very successful from all standpoints, He was in Indianapolis this week, where he had a conference with Mr. Thomas Taggart, who is at the head and front of all the race meetings in that city, and found him ready to enter into the move ment to form a circuit with Indianapolis a member. The meeting is oalled for January 7th, because tbe state board of agriculture will hold a meeting oh tbat day, and this will bring to tbe oity a number Of men who may be interested in forming, the circuit. The plan is to start tbe ciroult at Evansvllle, irt'Eat City will come in, and if not to start here. Evansville would be a good point about the first ef June because it would draw horses ooming up from the south. Tbe meeting here will be held during the week of the national convention of the Travelers' Protective Association.

Tbe proceedings in the United States senate this week are calculated to make a demand for the election of such men as Mr. W. R. McKeen to tbat body. Senators were expounding constitutional and international law, while the main question before congress is to make tbe appropriations come witttin the revenue or increase Unole Sam's income. Tbe government is being conducted at a cost exceeding tbe reveuue, and tbe two accounts must be made to balance. This cannot be done by years of "expounding" constitutional law. The senate is in need of just such men aa Mr. McKeen, and tbe people of the country will welcome the silence that like a poultice may come to heal the wounds of the sound of debate.

Tbe Terre Haute Athletic club will see about this order from the polioe commissioners to stop the sparring contest arranged for December 28d between Tommy White and Kid Lloyd. The managers of the olnb say they have been assured that their contests are not in violation of the law and therefore the polioe cannot stop them. The faot is that down underneath the controversy is not so much between the olub and tbe polioe as to down the Gazette. Those who want tbe fight to take plaoe do not berate the polioe, but refer to the Ga sette as the serious obstacle to pulling off the fight. At the time of the former fight between White and Tan Heesi the" Gazette called for Interference on the part of the offloers of the law and did succeed in getting Judge Taylor to call on the sheriff to do something.,

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not known just what oourse will be pursued but the olub will not call the fight off simply because tbe police commissioners have shown their fear of the Gazette. The commissioners used to enjoy tbeee fights by proxy and the fights then were of the knock-out variety but the Gaaette was not calling attention to them at that time. We shall see what we shall see.

As a result of his correspondence with tbe offloers of a number of fair associations in thin state and Illinois Secretary Duncan of tbe Vigo Agricultural society has practically arranged for a circuit of fairs by whiob tbe exhibits at each fair will be Increased and tbe interest of the exhibitors be enhanced. Tbe circuit moat likely will bo arranged so tbat the fair here will immediately precede the state fair at Indianapolis wbioh will be one week in advance of the 1111nota state fair at Springfield.

All of the justices of the supreme court except Judge Field, who Is too old, take a good deal of outdoor exercise. They are particularly fond of walking, and they are democratic enough to atop to look into any shop window that strikes their fancy. Usually they saunter along in couples, and it Is a pleasing spectacle to see the diminutive chief justice marching along at the aide of the glgahtlc Gray*

BAB'S LETTER.

npyright, UBS.} BW YORK, Deo. 12,1895.

There is^Biother' blaolc-bordered card to be pastejffo' the/day book of 1895. It bears npojaittbe name of one of the greatest *«tthe day, but, better still, it twara upon it these words: "L*aml dllL ftffifies" tbe friend of women |pex^||dre Dumas. A great man, agrMt Writer, a great reader of tbe homip Jbeatt, a great reader, that most of all things, oi the heart of woquMfeg more than tbat, astu dent» audN*ico^e8fnl one* of tbe heart, brain knewtbe otber.i but ilwa^ Always hi nixed that

Jy of women, for he well it jkbat tbe oue had on tbe Sofcftred woman aa she 1b, was pitiful to her. rgave, and always he recog^wh^n she committed vhe sin

wbioh Woolen, took upon aa tbe sin of all

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much, an^ href maintained tbat, firat of ail, tbe m£n should be the one to forgive ber. SSvef^ One of his plays teaches that. A1 way* thefre Is the friend who looks at thing* clearly, and who eays, in some wayior other, "Forgive, my friend, forgive this {woman. Pardon Is an attribute of God try to reaob close to God.'t,

DUXAS' STRANGE LIFB.

And yM^.lf there ever was a strange story, it was that of Alexandre Dumas. Until he »#raa a grown man be had no name exi|pt that which had been given to him baptism, for he was one among'th^B thousands of obildren who cannot sa# "My mother" without blushing. fThflday oame when his father reoogntaea him and was proud of him was geifferaus to him and assisted him but alvrayp there hung over him this dark cloud that enveloped him from his falrtb. even before his birth. Do you believe in heredity It seems to me that, if you think, you must.

Yeaira ago, in Paris, there was a young man, ambitious, imaginative, magnificently ati^ngpbysioally, and poor. All his diys were spent in the public libraries, studying out the histories of France, flndlnapout each little story connected with thiP^ags and queens, and building a romance about it. Full of life, he soon sjpent the -small'amount of money lie" bad.' Occasionally a few francs were earned by a story, or an 'essay sold to-onaof tbe jdajpajsof the day, ghte youugraan grew pooref emd ^litteheM^led MVhis novels, and refused to read them* The day came when there was nothing left.

Before him there seemed only starvation. Tbat he would not submit to. All of one long day he worked in tbe library, and went home only because he .knew there was a pistol there. Such a hotfie! A garret room at tbe top of a miserable bouse, tenanted oy poor writers like himself, thieves and wretched women. He entered his room, found a match, tbe last one struck it to light the bit of candle that was to show him how to aim' correctly. The match went out. It was fate. He laughed long and loudly. Just then he heard a voice in the hall, for he had not thought to close his door. A WOMAN'S VOICB IT WAS THAT SPOKE.

She said: "My neighbor, do you wish a light? Take one from my candle." A little seamstress, a trim grisette, stood before- him and pleased his eyes. He ohatted with her he found he could laugh, and laugh merrily. He was still young. She followed him into his room. The door was closed. Alexandre Du mas, pere, never forgot that night, when all the world was reading the "Three Mousquetalres," but can you blame Alexandre Dumas, fils, for having in his nature much that was dark, sinoe his father was thinking of killing himself and his mother was unhappy and half starved?

But always this ohild of a great author and a poor seamstress plead for women always his pity went out to those little ohlldren against whom the world's hand Is raised before they are born and surely no better words can be put upon the tombstone of Alexandre Dumas than those which formed the title of a great play—"L'ami des Femmds."

Itltama strange that while we are all thinking and talkihgof tbls great writer hla plays should be put upon the stage and the leading parts played by a woman whose rendition of them would have pleased their creator. Can more than that b* said? She is an interesting woman, almost as much of a girl as waa Juliet and yet with Juliet's ability to read the human heart.

A LOVKLT XTTGI.I8H WOXAK. You know who I mean—Olga Nethersole. 8he comes to us from England, and when you took at her, when you hear her speak, and some one says "English" you smile in disdain. Then there Is a hint of the Spanish blood, but your smile oomes just the same. Once, years ago, I visited in the North, and with the early springtime went out to look for arbutus. One in our search party came to me, awe-stricken, and held in his hand'what waa strange to him in this oonntry, but which I knew as tbe bloom of the South—the passion flower. How did it come there? Who oan say? By chance on tbe wings of heaven, brought by a balmy wind. That is Olga Nethersole.

She la tbe best type of French woman, and she comes from England. The voice la soft and sweet, without any accent. The eyea are pitiful. They look up to you andaak for your love and sympathy, and never a word is spoken. They are wonderful eyea, pare eyes eyee that tell their own story of goodness and of eee ing goodness in other people, which Is so much better than announcing one's own virtue. Bat

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G, DECEMBER 14,1895. Twenty-sixth Year

Lastnightlt was "Camllle." Before that It was l*Frou Frou," and before tbat it was "Donise." Suoh wonderful women I And eaoh so unlike the other. ,1 say to this citizen of the world, for England can no more claim Olga Netbersole than can France or America, "How do you feel when yon play a part? Are you Denlse?"

There was no hesitancy—the answer came quickly. ''Honestly, I could not say to myself I will be Denise, I will be Frou-Frou, or I will be Camille, but, when I say their words, when lam living ber life, before I know it I am overcome by the strong personality and become another woman. It seems as if, whether I willed it or not, the spirit of the one woman came into me, filled my heart, brain and body, and I speak and move as if I were her, because for tbe time being I am tbat woman. If you said to me, 'Cougb,' I could not do it. But

WHBN I AM CAMIIXB

"I never give it a thought. The cough oomes naturally because I know I am dying of consumption,, and tbat cough is one of my pains and one of its terrors Then there is Frou-Frou. I have been asked why I did not conceal or gloss over the unlovable side of her nature. I oouldn't. I would not be Frou Frou. That was the woman. Just as she bad won your love and your forbearance by her sweetness, she did some wilful thing tbat made you conscious of the other side of her nature. Wbat a woman would call the kink in her. About tbe stage. Do, you know, I was afraid to come to this country at first? I thought I ought to wait until I had reached the point I mean to, and was perhaps forty or even fifty, but that, by accident, I did come is a fortunate thlnj? for me. There is something that urges me to do my best, and I mean to. "I had an odd experience in Boston with one of its great scholars. I had played Juliet—which I have never seen played—and I did something which was not in tbe book of tbe play, but whioh it.seemed to me Juliet would have done. Tbe critics all noted it. I spoke of it to this great student, a Boston man, and reaching among his books—for I was supping in his house—he took down Hazlltt. He found where Sean, in playing a certain part, did feomething quite new, and had been derided by tbe critics because of it. Then he turned over several pages, and came to the aocOuutftjUyhe acting of another great roan 'who *w^?e^Wna©ded by tbe critics of his day for omitting to do tbat which Kean had .done. He looked at me and said: 'Some people make roads for other people to walk over—you keep on making roads.' Wasn't that a beautiful compliment?"

It wasn't Frou-Frou, it wasn't Denise, it wasn't Camille who looked joyful and happy oyer tbis it was the woman with a throat and neck like Langtry's with beautlfdl hair like Mrs Kendal's with a grace like Sarah Bernhardt'^, but with clear eyes, and with an individuality that was Olga Nethersole's, and her's only. Interested? I am. We women make the success of the woman actress. We have been looking for many years for

A SUCCESSOR TO MARY ANDERSON, whom we loved, because she was beautiful, because she was good, and because she looked the parts she played. I tblnk tbe successor is found. Of her, it must be said, that having the beauty, tbe youth and the goodness of Mary Anderson, she has in addition the ability not only to look the part she plays but to be it.

But to return to Dumas—alas! he never can return to us—last nightafter tbe play was over I picked up a book and caught a phrase here and there—phrases that you and I might think, but which it took a master mind to put in word. That's the art of writing—when the reader eays "That's what you think and I tblnk nothidg more"—yes, but we didn't take the trouble to say it to tbe world, whereas the great writer touched the keynote called humanity, and his audience was large. Talking about tbe theater, he said, "Men and women go to tbe theater only to hear of love, and to take part In the paina and joys tbat it has caused. All the other interests of humanity remain at the door." True? Wbat are the plays that live? The love stories. Romeo.and Juliet, Camille, and all that long list whioh tell the history of a love, which means, otaheart. Again, and ohj how well this is known to be true by women, he says, "Celibacy, marriage and adnl tery—this la the tragic trilogy in which the life of women struggles. It la In this tbat poets may find eternal dramatic subjects. Of the three phases of tbe tragedy, the most painful is evidently the last named." I turn over tbe page and 1 read, "Whenever there are assemblages of men and women, there are aoula to be won."

WHIN A WOMAN'S HBART IS TOUCHKD. You think tbls isn't true, and yet before me there arises the story of a play, the story of a tragedy In a tragedy. A great aotrees was playing Frou-Frou. In her audienoe was a group of people who represented wbat la called fashion, and among them was a woman and a man who bad once loved each other dearly, so dearly that when he pnt the marriage ring on her finger be believed that it encircled all bappineaa for him. As the years went on these two people grew apart. The rifts in the lute were many, and tbe song of love waa hashed, or had drifted into a harsh discordance. Before the world these two people were simply like many others, bat when they were alone they scarcely spoke. That night, as the play went on, the woman's heart was touched as It had not been for years, and coming out of tbe theatershe asked her husband to come home with her instead of to the gay supper where'

they were expected. He did, and when they were together she asked his pardon for all that she tad done that was wrong, and she begged of bim to give her another chance to prove that sheloved bim. Tbat night, for the first time in ten years, he kissed her—tbis beautiful woman—and bidding her good-bye at the door of ber room, he said: "To morrow we will be married afresh we'll start on our honeymoon, learn to love eaoh other again for always, and away from all the rest of the world."

THAT WAS GOOD JFLGHT.

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The smile on her face was one of eoataoy. To his good-morning, ahe gave no answering word, for death had claimed her in the night. In her cold hand was tbe bunch of violets that she hrfti taken from him just before she left him, because they were like those that Frou-Frou pinned among her lacep. She slept with the violets, covering her, for four years, and then beside her was laid the body of the man who, during that time, bad been alone always, and who had never ceased to grieve, beoause he had had no opportunity to make her happy in life And the reconciliation came because a master in the art of play writing and of reading hearts had learned how to tell the story of a woman who was never bad, but only weak. Do you remember when Frou-Frou asks her husband to take her away? Think how different her life wonld ha^e been if he bad done as she asked him! How different all life would be if each of us could realize when tbe other is reaching out for help!

Somebody says, "You are enthusiastic." Perhaps. BNTHUSIASM IS A GOOD THING —it keeps people young—for it always furnishes them with illusions. If I am enthusiastic, my friend, I am truthful. There is not enough money In the whole wide world to buy my opinion. Years ago, when I knew, oh, so well! how muoh a little money meant, I took for my motto these three words, "Litem scripts manet." I translate it. "What I»write, I mean," and I have never written what I did not think to be true, and I can stand before man and God, and say tbat no opinion was ever bought that was signed BAB.

Postscript—Once in a while I write one. It is usually meant, as it is now, for that hard-hearted person—the editor. Sometimes, in some forms, he objects to personalities, but I beg of bim, as a apeolat courtesy, to put in the end of this letter as It is (he can leave out the

poftecrlptlf-be '£Ma.w*ra jr of

answering a request made to Dae to say an unkind word about a woman. Will you do this to oblige BAB.

PEOPLE AM) THINGS.

John D. Rockefeller's income Is $27,000 daily. Probably tbe most extraordinary journal in tbe world is published in Athens. Its contents are written entirely in fiigt verse, even to the advertisements.

Tbe delegates to the South Carollnia Constitutional Convention have given Gov. John Gary Evans a watoh and a recommendation to go and get married. ?/.

Governor-elect Bradley, of Kentucky, was one of the 806 stalwart Republicans who voted for a third term in the presldenoy for Ulysses H. Grant in .the Chicago convention of 1880.

A minister in Topeka, Kan., is trying to hold his congregation together and get them to church regularly by reading to them a continued story in weekly install ments. His scheme is said to be a sucoess.

Mr. and Mrs. Jules Harmon, of Lansingburg, Mich., oelebrated the silver anniversary of their wedding In a queer way last Tuesday. Sixteen years after their marriage they were divorced, and last Tuesday, the twenty-fifth annlveraary, they were remarried.

Jesse Pomeroy, "the boy murderer," whose ghastly exploits made such a sensation twenty years ago, is 86 years old now. His long period of practically

In tbe new home of the new duchess of Marlborough there are said to be 20 staircases leading from the main floor to the second. And so complicated is tbe arrangement of the rooms that people can visit for weeks without ever meeting each other except at dinner. It is said that a former dnke, famed for hospitality, was frequently imposed upon by scapegraces of good family, who would pet up at Blenheim for weeks at a time, dining princely, using tbe horses in tbe stable, and occupying with valet a good suite of rooms, and all without the master's knowledge. So vast Is Bienbelm.

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solitary confinement in the Charleston jail does not appear to have affected unfavorably his abnormally acute mind, -'f He has become a great reader and student and speaks three languages fluently but bis moral sense is just where It waa.

When tbe dramatized version of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel was put oh the stage forty- five years ago the first Impersonator of Uncle Tom waa Samuel S. Sanford. He is a veteran minstrel man, now a resident of Pblla- ~J delphia, and It is his ambition to celebrate the semi-centennial of that event five years henoe by appearing aa theAsf^ leading actor In tbe play before a Philadelphia audience.

Women made anew political move In Olympia, Wash., last week. There w»s an election there on Wednesday, and on tbat day and for a few days previous an advertisement appeared In tbe Olympian asking "the women of Olympia" to meet at the Presbyterian church, at half-past 9 on election morning, "for earnest prayei tbat the voters may be guided by Almighty God in the selection of candidates for city officers."