Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 December 1895 — Page 2

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There In no longer aoy doubt that we Jp.-e to have in Terre Haute the first of the fjig wholesale department stores. Bui nan A Co. will sell all lines of goods handled by their customers, though it [makes necessary the carrying of a stock Kof diamonds While this is the logical

Outcome of the tendency to consolidate _nd centralize industrial and mercantile Riflairs yet nowhere else has the departzbent store idea been adopted by a wholesale house doing anything like as large

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as Hulman A Co. There is

Harge significance in the innovation. JrJ not only indicative of a change in the (wholesale business but of thd general Haws of trade. I bad along talk with Mr. tBen Cox of Hulman &Co. about the new 'plan and of course learned a great deal,

He said the house had been gradually extending the line of goods handled. The [monthly catalogue is now a bulky iyolume, illustrated in away to save the If rouble and expense of carrying samples ^jf all the salesman had to offer to his customer. Gradually the wholesale justness bad come to include the mmon articles of hardware, of the ftollet and household utensils. The [general store of the country mer pbant really was the first departfment store. It contained all that the [country customer needed in his home or Ion his farm. If the proprietor of this Litore could 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 the full line at comparatively famall additional expense and give the 'retail dealer the benefit of the economy in one transaction. The traveling sales* man selling groceries could sell dry .goods, boots and shoes and, as Mr. Hulman says, even diamonds at no greater expense so far as salary and traveling ^expenses 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 oaused him to smile and oourteously refuse to discuss the probability. He proceeded to argue from the standpoint of "first principle," and set forth that if Hulman A Co. oould ^besthqld trade by fritter ptpvUlon for, "that trade tSeTHfm do so. A retail merchant on Main street to whom I had satd the department •tores were driving the other stores to the wall remarked that it was only the natural course of events and that each retailer must look out for himself. He further remarked that there had been only a living in the retail trade for several years. But suppose you take away the "living," I asked? Well, there again you have the first prinoiple. It is the ultima thule of trade. The devil take the hindmost. I stated some of these facte to Eugene Debs and he was not only not surprised but accepted them as a matter of course. He is thoroughly imbued with the belief that there is to be a big revolution In all these relations of trade and labor. He confidently expects 1the outcome to be a co-operative system. Said he! "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, sd||t)g

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creasing number of this class while the number of those who oontrol the in dustrles and commercial pursuits 1 steadily decreases. This is only a phase of the change that JS being effected. It is temporary. It will entail suffering and hard triaia but it is necessary to the detired end of co-operative ownership." vtar. Debs' theory is that the ceotralization of ownership eventually will result it) the demand for the readjustment by jwhicb all who contribute to the success fcof industrial or oommeroial enterprises pwlll reoelve their share of the profits.

Mrs. Juliet V. Straus*, of Rockvllie, "wife of the editor of the Rookvilie Trlbune, has written good poetry and better prose, but last Sunday's Indianapolis

Journal coutained a story from her pen *Vhtch is evidence of a still higher order literary ability. The title was "The [Taming of the Shrew." It was much [after the style of Mian Wilkin*' stories, ind it was excellent. Mrs. Strauss is .gifted, Indeed. "The Taming of the fShrew" is of that order of stories you

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in read and read again. If we are not mistaken the Journal, which brought James Wblteomb Riley into Wide renown, has given publicity to the ypHlentof another Indiana writer whose fame Is to become #atlooal.

The Republican National Convention has chosen St. Lout* as the place for the I convention next year. The date is June [10. The only objection that has been urged against St. Louis is the climate in L' ttue, the month in which the two great !parties hold their national conventions, lit is not that the thermometer registers 5o very high degree of heat but because bAhe atmosphere is humid—intolerable,

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sweltering humanity characterise** it, gSt. Loots of to day is a much different Icity from what it was ten years ago. It [is now a modern and model metropolis. ITbe St. Louis of old was an easy-going |place where people were content with [conveniences of past generations. Now Ivhere are modern hotels and transportation facilities and all that art or science pan accomplish to make the city cornportable or pleasant has been accomplished. So far as Terre Haute la conomed the choie* Is a good one beeau*© iferre Haute rejoice* In the earnings of '•'s through trunk line roads that connect

this city with the Mound City. Moreover the occasion will serve to give Terre Hauteans ocoaslon to visit the city which really is nearer to it, in more than one sense, than Chicago. The distance to 8t. Loula is less than to Chioago an? there are two direot roads. In all proba bllity tlie fare will be reduced to a figure that will be two or throe dollars less than for the round trip to Chicago, to whloh city there is but one direot road. During the convention in 1888 and the World's Fair in 1883, it was possible to go from here to Indlannpolls and then to Chicago at a less rate than by the Chioago 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 Chioago by whloh the total fare was less than by the C. A E. I. The roads to St. Louis are of a better olass than sofce 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 St. Louis of less than one fare whloh is $5 25. The convenience of additional trains Is a consideration, too, that will be greatly to the advantage of the Terre Haute Republi cans who may want to be present when the representatives of their party eleot the candidate for president. The following

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of the dates and locations

of former Republican national conventions is of interest at this time: 1856—June 17, Philadelphia. 1860—May 16 Chicago. 1864—June 7. Baltimore. 1868— May 20, Chioago. 1872—June 5, Philadelphia. 1876—Jnne 14, Cincinnati. 1880—June 2, Chicago. 1884—June 3, Chicago. 1888—June 19, Chioago. 1892—June 7, Minneapolis

It is not strange that readers of news papers 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 instanoes, 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 all other information in the newspaper wttb doubt in his mind. A gentleman told me this week that the statement in an Indianapolis paper that he was present at a weeding in tfaat oity was wholly wrong. He also said that one of the Terre Haute dailies recently gave the 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

The 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 nine out of ten pairs were run down at tie heels. The minstrel fun-maker is funny in other aspects than on the stage.

The 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 apppopriatlon for a com mission to report on the feasibility of the project. The latest information from Washington is to the effect that tbe measure stands but little show 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 is doubt, of course, of tbe practicability of the canal but the political prospeots of the gentleman from Maine had not heretofore been taken into consideration. As yet nothing has been heard of the other canal scheme, tbe one to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio river. Representatives of a number of Ohio cities met in convention several months ago to advance tbe interests of this canal and there was mnoh enthusiasm but the convention seems to have exhausted the efforts of the friends of tbe oanal. The subject of oanal navigation reoelved a great deal of attention some months ago and New York state voted a large amount of money in thatdireotlon.

What has become of the appeal In the Nioholson law oases carried to the Supreme court from Jndge 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 (owes 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. The defense In the Vigo county oases were ready to submit their briefs and arguments and only waited the filing of tbe brief on tbe part of the state. In the meantime tbe December term of tbe county eommlwloner*' court has been held throughout the state with tbe result of added doubt and complications In the enforcement of tbe 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, waa displeased when asked about the conference by a newspaper man who had received a telegram of Inquiry from Chicago newspaper. He protested that he would not aay anything about it that other leaders must have given the snap away, etc., bat thai he wouldn't talk. He did sey that the

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conference was not to be held but more than this he would not say. Mr. Rankin believes in secrecy and he abhors a newspaper man who would endeaver to get a secret from him. I know because I have tried him. He was in a good humor, too, when he was told that the Chicago newspaper wanted information but Immediately be declared he wouldn't talk. It is ray guess that the conference waa oalled for this city because Debs had just returned to his home. How muoh of apart he will take In national politics next year cannot be told but that be will not be a candidate for any office there is no doubt. He is a Populist because he has no faith in either of the old parties as a friend of the workingman but I do not believe be 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 tbe kind of money is seooudary to the question of how much of any money the wage earner is to receive.

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

A meeting of representatives of a half dozen or more cities will be held at Indianapolis on January 7th, to arrange for a circuit of oities where running race meetings can be held in the early part of next season. President Beauohamp, of the Vigo Agricultural society, has been In correspondence with gentlemen in a number of oities for several weeks with the object of forming a circuit. Sinoe the agricultural society at its annual meeting practically decided to give a running meeting next year instead of a trotting meeting, President Beauchamp has been busy making inquiry in all directions, and is now more convinced tbata 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 tbe movement to form a circuit with Indianapolis a member. The meeting is called for January 7th, because the state bosrd of agriculture will hold a meeting on that day, and this will bring to the oity a number of men who may be interested in forming the cirouit. The plan is to start the circuit at EvaosviHe/iF tEfct City will come in, and If not to start here. Evansville would be a good point about the first ®f June because it would draw horses coming up from the south The meeting here will be held during the week of the national convention of the Travelers' Protective Association.

The 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 that body Senators were expounding constitutional and international law, while the main question before congress is to make the appropriations come witUin the revenue or increase Uncle Sam's income. Tbe government is being conducted at a cost exceeding the reveuue, and the two aocounts must be made to balance. This cannot be done by years of "expounding" constitutional law. The senate is in need of just suoh men as Mr. McKeen, and the people of the country will welcome the silence that like a poultice may come to heal tbe wounds of the sound of debate.

Tbe Terre Haute Athletio club will see about this order from the police com mlssloners to stop the sparring oontest arranged tor December 23d between Tommy White and Kid Lloyd. The managers of the olub say they have been assured that their contests are not in violation of the law and therefore the polioe cannot stop them. Thefaot is that down underneath the controversy is not so muoh between the olub and tbe polioe as to down the Gazette. Those who want the fight to take place do not berate the polioe, but refer to the Ga sette ae the serious obstaole to pulling off tbe fight. At the time of the former fight between White and Van Heest the" Gazette called for Interference on tbe part of the offloers of the law and did succeed in getting Judge Taylor to call on the sheriff to do something. not known just what oourse will be pursued but the ctub will not call the fight off simply because the police commissioners have shown their fear of the Gazette. The commissioners used to enjoy theee fights by proxy and the fights then were of the knock-out variety but the Gazette was not calling attention to them at that time. We shall see what we shall see.

As a result of his correspondence with tbe officer* of a number of fair asaocla tlons In thin state and Illinois Secretary Duncan of tbe Vigo Agricultural society hat practically arranged for a circuit of fairs by which the exhibits at each fair will be Increased and the interest of the exhibitors be enhanced. Tbe circuit most likely Will bo arranged so that the fair here will Immediately precede tbe state fair at Indianapolis which will be one week in advance of tbe Illinois state fair at Springfield.

All of the justices of the supreme oourt 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 etop to look Into any shop window that strikes their fancy. Usually they saunter along In couple*, and It Is a pleasing spectacle to eee the diminutive ohief lattice marching along at the side of the gtgafctic Gray*

BAB'S LETTER.

pyrlgbti 1886.] TAW YORK, Dec. 12,1895. iQther* black-bordered card tbq/day book of 1896. It ilt&Mr name of one of the [tefl the day, but, better upon it these words: fegtuftes" tbe friend of

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to be past* bears greater still, if "L'aml women man, thehut most of woe

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Ire Dam48. A great writer, a great reader of heart, a great reader, that ef ail things, of tbe heart tifAfmote than that, astu

dentt audMNHCoeaBful one, of tbe heart, brttta#fid knewj&e other, II but *lw« Alwajfl nized fcha

of women, for he well jfcbat tbe one had on tbe loured woman as she is, ih& was pitiful to her. rgjtve, and always he recogjwhfn she committed the sin

which Wooden look upon as the sin of all sins, it.fH because she loved too much, an&'hr# maintained that, first of all, the mln should be the one to forgive her. Eve|y one of his plays teaches that. Aliftiys thefre is the friend who looka at things clearly, and who says, in some way otf other, "Forgive, my friend, forgive this woman. Pardon is 'an attribute of God try to reaoh close to God."

NTMAS' STRANGE LIFE.

And yc&.lf there ever was a strange story, it was that of Alexandre Dnmas. Until he #as a grown man be had no name except that which had been given to him baptism, for he was one among'tbp thousands of children who cannot s^y HMy mother" without blushing. ^Thmday came when his father recognijod him and was proud of him WMgenfegous to tiim and assisted him but alwaVj# there hung over him this dark cloud that enveloped him from his birth. ^&^d even before his birth. Do you believe in heredity? It seems to me that, If you think, you must.

Teara ago, in Paris, there was a young man, ambitions, imaginative, magnificently str&ng physically,^and poor. All his d*ys were spent in the pnblic libraries, studying out the* histories of France, fiudiu|Mut each little story connected with thtr^ngs and queens, and building a romajabe about It. Full of life, be soon, sjpent the small* amount of money Ibad. Occasionally a few franos were earned by- a* story, or an essay ttold to obfiMf"the ^B^rnals.of the day* This yemug m^n grew.pooref atid podrfcO^Th publishers, laugbed a^ie, novels, and refused to read themi The day came when there was nothing left. Before him there seemed only starva tion. That he would not submit to. All of one long day he worked in the library, and went home only because he .knew there was pistol there. Such a hoitte! A garret room at the top of a miserable house, tenanted oy poor writers like himself, thieves and wretched women. He entered his room, found a match, the 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 VOICE IT WA8 THAT SPOKE. She said: "My neighbor, do you wish a light? Take one from my candle." A little seamstress, a trim grlsette, 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 hie room. The door was closed. Alexandre Du mas, pere, never forgot that night, when all the world was reading the "Three Mousquetaires," but oan you blame Alexandre Dumas, fils, for having in his nature muoh that was dark, sinoe his father was thinking of killing himself and his mother was unhappy and half starved?

But always this child of a great author and a poor seamstress plead for women always his pity went out to those little children against whom the world's hand Is raised before they are born and surely jio better words can be put upon the tombstone of Alexandre Dumas than tboee whloh formed the title of a great play—"L'aml des Femmee." gfeema gtrangy that while we are all thinking and talking of this great writer hla plays should be put upon tbe stage and the leading parts played by a woman ,^0«e rendition of them would have pleased their creator. Oan more Chin that be said She Is an interesting woman, almost as much of a girl aa waa Juliet and yet with Juliet^ ability to read the human heart.

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XjOVKLY JHTOLI8H WOMAN.

Ton know who I mean—Olg* Nethersole. She 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 comes just tbe 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, a we-stricken, and held in his hand what waa strange to him in this country, but which I knew as tbe bloom of the South—the passion flower. How did It come there? Who can say? By chance on tbe wings of heaven, brought by a balmy wind. Thai la Olga Nethersole.

She is the beat type of French woman, and ah# comes from England. Tbe voice la soft wad sweet, without any accent Hie eyes are pitiful. They look up to yon and ask for your lore and sympathy, and never a word is spoken. They are wonderful eyes, pure eyes eye* that tell their own story of goodness and of aee ing goodness in other people, which is so much better than announcing one's owu virtue. But "the play's the thing."

DECEMBER 14,1895. Twenty-sixth Year

Last night It waa "Camille." Before that It wa*» IfFrou Frou," and before that it was "Denise." Such wonderful women 1 And eaoh so unlike the other. I say to this oitizen of the world, for England oan no more claim Olga Nethersole than can Franoe or America, "How do you feel when you play a part? Are you Denlse?"

There was no hesitancy—tbe 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 aay their words, when I am living ber life, before I know it I am overcome by tbe 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 that woman. If you said to me, 'Cougb,' could not do it. But

WHEN I AM CAM1IXB

"I never give it a thought. The cough comes naturally because I know I am dying of consumption, and that 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 nnlovaWe side of her nature. I oouldn't. I would not be Frou Frou. Thet was the woman. Just as she bad won your love and your forbearance by her sweetness, she did some wilful thing that made you conscious of the other side of her nature. What a woman would call tbe 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 bad reached the point I mean to, and was perhaps forty or even fifty, but that, by accident, I did come is a fortunate thing for me. There is something that urges me to do my best, and I mean to. "I had an odd experience in Boston witb one of its great sobolars. I bad played Juliet—which I have never seen played—and I did something which was not in tbe book of tbe play, but whloh 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 reaohlng among his books—for I was supping in his house—he took down Hazlitt. He found where Kean, in

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quite new, and bad been derided by tbe critics because of it. Then he turned over several pages, and came to tbe account aLt he acting of another great man 'whb^ww^^Stnanded' by tbe critics of his day for omitting trt db 'thait'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 over this it was the woman with a throat and neck like Langtry's with beautifdl hair like Mrs Kendal's with a grace like Sarah Bernhardt'a, but with clear eyes, and with an individuality that was Olga Nethersole's, and her'a only. Interested? I am. We women make the success of tbe woman actress. We have been looking for many years for 7 A 8UC0ESS0K TO MARY ANDERSON, whom we loved, because she was beautiful, because she was good, and because she looked the parts she played. I think the successor is found. Of her, it must be said, that having the beauty, tbe yonth and tbe 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 be never can return to us—last nightafter the 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 says "That's what you think and I think nothidg more"—yes, but we didn't take tbe trouble to say it to tbe world, whereas the great writer touched tbe keynote called humanity, and bis audience was large. Talking about tbe theater, he said, "Men and women go to the theater only to hear of love, and to take part In the pains and joys thst it has caused. All tbe other interests of humanity remain at tbe door." True? What are the plays that live? The love stories. Romeo and Juliet, Camille, and all that long list which tell the history of a love, which means, oi* heart. Again, and oh, how well this Is known to be true by women, he says, "Celibacy, marriage and adul tery—this is tbe tragic trilogy in which tbe life of women struggles. It Is In this that poets may find eternal dramatic subjects. Of the three phases of tbe tragedy, tbe most painful is evidently the last named." I turn over tbe psge and 1 read, "Whenever there are assemblages of men and women, there are souls to be won."

WHEN A WOMAN'S HEART 18 TOUCHED. Tou think this isn't true, and yet before me there arises the story of a play, the story of a tragedy in a tragedy. A great actress was playing Frou-Frou. In her audience was a group of people who represented what Is oalled fashion, and among them was a woman and a man who had once loved each other dearly, so dearly that when he put tbe marriage ring on her finger he believed that it encircled all happiness for him. As the yearn went on theee two people grew apart. Hie rifts is the lute were many, and tbe song of love was hushed, or had drifted into a harsh discordance. Before tbe world these two people were simply like many others, but 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 tbeatershe

asked her husband to come home with suite of rooms, and all without tbe mas her instead of to the gay sapper where' ter's knowledge. So vset is Blenheim.

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

THAT WAS GOOD NIGHT.

The smile on her face was one of eostaoy. To his good-morning, she gave no answering word, for death had claimed her In the night. In her cold hand was tbe bunch of violets that she htfd taken from him just before she left him, because they were like those that Frou-Frou pinned among her lacep. She slept with tbe violets, covering ber, for four years, and then beside her was laid tbe body of the man who, during that time, bad been alone alwayB, and who had never ceased to grieve, because he bad bad 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 bow to tell tbe story of a woman who was never bad, but only weak. Do you remember when Frou-Frou asks ber husband to take her away? Think how different her life would hata been if he had done as she asked him! How different all life would be if eaoh of us could realize when tbe other is reaching out for helpl

Somebody says, "You are enthusiastic." Perhaps. KNTHUBIA8M IS A GOOD THING "&L —it keeps people young—for it always furnishes tbem 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 I 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 that no opinion was ever bought that WSB 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 him, as a special oourtesy, to put in the end of this letter as it 1b (be can leave out the postscript'if-he likes,) IMsmy way of answering a request mads to me to say an unkind word about a woman. Will you do this to oblige BAB.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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

The delegates to the South Carolinla Constitutional Convention have given Gov. John Gary Evans a watch and a recommendation to go and get married.

Governor-elect Bradley, of Kentucky, was one of the 306 stalwart Republicans wbo voted for a third term In the presidency for Ulysses s. Grant in tbe Chicago convention of 1880.

A minister in Topeka, Kan5., Is Hf^ing to hold his congregation together and get them to church regularly by reading to them a continued story in weekly installments. His scheme is said to be a sucoess.

Mr. and Mrs. Jules Harmon, of Lansingburg, Mich., celebrated 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 anniversary, they were remarried.

Jesse Pomeroy, "the boy murderer," whose ghastly exploits made such a sensation twenty years ago, is 36 years old now. His long period of practically solitary confinement in the Charleston jail does not appear to have affected unfavorably his abnormally acute mind. He has become a great reader and student and speaks three languages fluently but his moral sense Is just where It was.

When tbe dramatized version of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's famons novel was put on the stage forty- five years ago the first impersonator of Uncle Tom was Samuel 8. Sanford. He is a veteran minstrel man, now a resident of Philadelphia, and it Is bis ambition to celebrate tbe semi-centennial of that event five years henoe by appearing as the leading actor in tbe play before a Philadelphia audience.

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

In the new home of tbe new duchess of Marlborough there are said to be 20 staircases leading from tbe main floor to the second. And so complicsted 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 duke, famed for hospitality, was frequently imposed upon by scapegraces of good family, who would put up at Blenheim for weeks at a time, dining princely, using the horses in the •table, and occupying with valet a good

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