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LOSS OF THE IUTINE.

MORE THAN $1,000,000 WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.

Only Two Survivors Picked Up, wad They Soon Died—Of the Vast Treasure* *5 OO,000 Has Been Recovered—Extensive Opemtions Under Way to Secnre the Best.

There is an oaken chair in the office of Lloyds', in London, the great maritime firm, which has a strange and romantic history. It was made from the rndder of the king's ship Lutine, which, in 1799, was wrecked in the North sea, with the largest amount of gold on board that ever went to the bottom. The secretary of Lloyds' recently gave to the public an interesting account of this wreck and of the numerous attempts to find her lost treasure. The Lutine was a 86 gun frigate, captured from the French in 1793. "In the autumn of 1799 it was necessary to send a large amount of specie across the North sea, and, as usual, application was made to the admiralty for a ting's ship. This method of conveyance was thought the best guarantee for honesty, the best assurance against capture by foreign foes. Although some money is supposed to have been transmitted by the Lutine to pay British troops then serving in Holland, the bulk of the treasure was forwarded for purely commercial reasons. "London merchants trading with north Germany in those days were in the habit of sending their goods and then drawing bills for their value upon Hamburg and other houses at so many months ahead. By the time the bills fell due the goods had been sold for cash, which was paid into the banks to meet engagements. But a protracted frost in the early part of 1799 had so long sealed the Elbe that the merchandise had been detained ice bound and could not be landed or disposed of in time. "The London traders, to save their credit and escape the expense of protest, providing new bills and other probable commercial disasters, resolved to send cash across to cover their drafts as they came to maturity. So grave was the orisis, so great the sum to be embarked, that a king's ship was asked, and nearly every banking firm in Lombard street dispatched a member in charge of its own cash contribution. "Moreover, as many legal questions might arise, an experienced notary—his name is preserved, Mr. Schabrach—was secured to accompany the party and advise in any difficulty. The precious cargo was insured principally fit Lloyds'. "Various ideas, and nothing quite authoritative, prevail as to the exact amount on board the Lutine. Sometsay the specie, whioh was in coins of all •Orts, gold and silver, guineas, golden piasters, double louis d-'or, Sicilian goldpieces, silver piasters and dollars, tilso in gold and silver bars, reached a total value of upward of a million. 'In October of that year the Lutine was ordered round to Yarmouth to take treasure on board and. proceed to the Elbe. Her captain was one Lancelot Skynner, JR. N., an officer of distinction, and no doubt his mission was muoh to his taste. The short voyage was likely to bring him considerable profit, for it was the rule to pay naval captains a commission of 1 per cent on the total value embarked. "On the evening of the 5th of Ootober the Lutine lay in Yarmouth roads with a merry party on board. The captain, no doubt in excellent spirits, had given a grand ball to the leading people in and about armouth. The last of the guests had hardly gone ashore when peremptory orders came from the admiralty that the Lutine should forthwith go to sea. She sailed in the early morning of the 6th, and from that time very little Was heard of her. "It is, however, known that she steered a straight oourse for Cuxhaven, at the month of the Elbe, wind strong from north northwest, and greatly ih favor. After landing passengers and treasure the Lutine

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of merchantmen to the Baltic. "Soon after midnight, going free and under full press of sail, she struck on the outer bank of the island of Vlieland (Flyland), the next to the Texel and one of the ring of islands that hem the mouth of the Zoyder Zee. She must have been slightly out of the course, and it is said that there was a strong lee tide running. During the night she went down with all on board. Another king's ship, the Arrow, Captain Portlock, was in company, but she could give no help, cor the 'scoots* or fishing boats of the ooast, and when day broke there was no Lutine. Only two survivors were picked up by a Dutch lugger atfdaylight clinging to the wreckage,'one of whom died almost immediately, and the other, Mr. Schabrach, the notary, very soon afterward died, but not until he had told the little he knew. "Repeated efforts have been made to recover the money. In the year immediately following, when the whole thing was fresh and before the sand had silted or drifted over the wreck, the Dutchmen fished up some £55,000. Then more systematic and some really costly efforts were made, and by 1857-0 another £50,•00 was recovered. "The present operations wen begun in 189S by an English engineer, Mr. Fletcher, who had been engaged on the Dutch ooast in raising a sunken dredger. He became interested in the Lutine, and anooiating himself with another eminent engineer, Mr. Rinipple, they have approached the business in a novel way. Their idea is to clear the ship of sand, but to inclose her in a central area or dock faced by sandbags, whioh will prevent further silting, while they ransack the interior of the wreck by divers. This area is 800 feet in diameter, from which the sand will be removed by powerful taction dredgers." New Orleans Times-Democrat.

3 The second Seminole Indian war be* van in 1856 and lasted until the does ef 1858. The total number of listed for this war was 8,687.

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PUTTING UP A STOVE.

A Version of the Operation .Th»t Happens In Real Elfe, This is about a man who put up a stove. *4*.

So that afternoon Johnson's wife sent the children over to visit on the other side of town and stuffed rags in, all the cracks to deaden sound. After a fervent prayer that all the neighbors would be out of town for a few hours that afternoon she was ready for Johnson.

He arrived promptly. "The stove is out in the wood shed," said his wife.

The stove was not very large, and after Johnson had dressed himself for the occasion, with the help of Mrs. Johnson, who had taken care to have his old clothes and gloves handy, he got the stove to the back porch without much difficulty. Jj|' "It must be blackened," said Mrs. Johnson as she mixed the bjaoking. It blackened to a beautiful finish with very little rubbing, and Johnson whistled at his work.

Then he tacked down the oilcloth mat and the zino and kept on whistling. He took the stove in carefully and put it in the right place.

There was plenty of the old stovepipe, and while he cleaned it in the alley with a stick Mrs. Johnson sat on the back porch and listened to him whistle.

The first joint went on all right, and (he damper staid in place. The next joint fitted so well that Johnson almost stopped-whistling in sheer admiration for it, and so did the next one. The elbow fitted admirably, and the collar and last joint went on like a top. The seam was on the right side all the way up.

There was not even a speck of soot on the papers Mrs. Johnson had spread on the carpet. jo

In ten minutes more .Johnson had a lovely fire in the stove and was In his business suit again spick and span reading the paper while, his wife jgot supper.

It was just} here that there was a savagp nudge in Johnson's left ribs and he heard his wife tell him to wake up, and hustle out now, for it had been daylight for half an hour.—jTopeka State Journal.

BUILT THE WRONG WAY.

Why

the Quaker's Chester Hogs Took Mo Prises In Georgia. "I never shall forget an incident wbioh occurred at the .first fair I ever attended in Georgi^" said-a retired jOinbinnati meat packer. "It was at Maoo^, and I think theycalled.it a state fair. At any rate it was a big thing for the town in those days. They had some fine stock on exhibiion, and a Pennsylvanian had sent down about 20 of the finest looking hogs 'you ever saw. They were mostly Chester Whites, and if I recollect aright they were exhibited by Thomas Wood, a great tog and cattle fancier of 20 and 80 years ago. He itwas who introduced that famous breed of hogs, the Chester White, and he made a great deal of money out of his fancy stook. He was ,a Friend—a Quaker, you know—who used the plain language and wore a broad brimmed hat. He was a smart old gentleman, honest and prosperous. He sent his hogs from state fair to state fair, and they took so many prizes and blue ribbons that each hog looked like a boy who had spent all his money making a collection of badges. "When the Macon judges made their awards, they gave blue ribbons very liberally to the razor backs, but'not one of the fat, sleek Pennsylvania hogs got a prize. The owner of the exhibit did not understand it, so he hunted up one of the judges and said in the language of the Friends: 'I know thee to be an honest man, and I do not question thy fairness in the award, but to gratify my own curiosity I would be glad to have thee tell me why thee gave all the prizes to the native stook and what fault thee found in mine?' 'My friend, the committee admired your hogs greatly,* the judge replied. 'They are certainly handsome, and I have no doubt that in your section they are the best breed to raise, but they are not suited for this country. They are so short legged and fat that a nigger could catch them in two minutes. What we require in a hog in the south is legs and wind. We give our prizes for speed.'" —Atlanta Constitution.

A Powerful Burning Glass. The most powerful sunglass ever constructed in France was that made under the supervision of the savant M. de Villette. This glass generated heat sufficient to melt a copper coin of the •lie of otur silver 85 cent piece in 7H ffffiondg.

George Parker of fleet street, London, made a glass muoh mere powerful Una that which resulted from the Frenchman's efforts. Parker's was three feet in diameter and so powerful that it was actually used to melt substances which were too refractoacy for the furnaces. The best authorities on heat say that it had a power of 166,869 degrees F. This is best understood when it is known that it only takes a temperature of 2,787 degrees to melt cast iron so that it will flow like water.—St Louis Republic.

The first alcoholic perfume was Huntry water, made from rosemary by lisabethof Hungary, 1870, she having procured the recipe from a Hungarian jharmit This perfume became popular throughout all Europe in that and the fmH'fwtffing oentuiy.

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It is unnecessary perhaps to go farther with it. You know in advance just how he sw'ore and tore and spoiled the carpet, and the pipe didn't fit and he tirinned his knuckles and cut his finger and spilled soot down, the back of his neck and finally went up town and got six men to finish the job. "Johnson," said Johnson's wife at dinner yesterday, "I want you to come home early this afternoon. I want that sitting room stove up and going by Sunday." "All right, my dear," said Johnson. •Til be home at 4."

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT,, FEBRUARY 1,1896.

A JMELBO0ANE MHO.

Betas

tf#al In AoWtaralla.

Although as yet rational,dress has soft met with i|)ohugeneral aocefetance at the liands—or should we say legs?—of Australian women as their French and Amerioan sisters, still there are during spirits among them who do not hesitate to boldly adopt ::the biforcatld garb and flaunt it in the eyes of the public. The picnic at whioh ft number of Melbourne .women-iigored in male oostume and lived for a day or two after the masculine fashion in tents hds been illustrated in this journal, and readers have alio been presented with the' Australian rationalised female as she appears on the bipyole. Here is a picture of the Australian girl in a new role, that of riding horseback, manlike, clad in the doable barreled garment. The young lady in question is ^n art student at the Melbourne National gallery, and With her brother she tode 800 miles in ten days through Qippsland, one of the roughest and most sparsely populated porticos of Viotoria, where traveling is long and tiresome, the country mountainous, densely timbered, picturesque, and convenient halting places are few. The young lady is enthusiastic in praise of the rational dress and the greater comfort to be derived from its use, and consequently the more sensibly balanced position of the rider on horseback,'Is compared with the cumbrous habit and

ungainly.attitude whioh an unkind custom ha^j^htfid^.miti^te the pleasore of bors&riaing (for women*

While some of the women of Melbourne are thus engaged in a vigorous fight for the 'knickerbockers, others we waging deadly war against these "abominations," and they have Suotiteded in induoing the Victorian Cycling Tourists' olub to striotly prohibit the use of rational dress* fembng its lady ifcttttbers.

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iff io&nlpOSiBd of male and fe­

male ^heelisfcs, and the wearing of the rational dress by a few members was felt to be subversive of perfect pdace and pleasure, because th6fee who Strongly objected to the gaifb w^tofc&d tc ride with 'thelrtj&lb'g tfiiided feniales, and thtis 'iticur the ridicri'le oif-a $tiblic xiotf yet acf^ust&iied 'to, the^j'p'e^.^ss and a suspicion that they ijJprtvW oi women riding in this, fa^ion,, So an agitation was set on foot to rigidly suppress these. rationalized females, with the result that the following resolution Was almost unanimously carried by the club: "That the action of the cwnmittee in proposing to pass a bylaw to the ef feot that lady members of the olub be prohibited from wearing the rational dress on club runs be approved and confirmed." The general male objection seemed to be summed up by one member thus, "In the case of the majority of women, knickerbockers simplj brought to light all that was least sight' ly ig women."—London Sketch. -r

It ia a great domestic remedy, and should be kept in every home. Mr. Norman Cheatham, Waverly, Sussex Co., Va., who has never been without it for twelve years subscribes to'' this opinion. He eays: "Our family has been using Dr. Bull's Cough. Syrup for twelve years and are never without it in the hou^e. It is Invaluable."

Gertrude Hopkins.

Miss Gertrude Hopkins of Cleveland was recently appointed official stenographer of the Cuyahoga county common pleas court. She has been engaged in stenography and typewriting for foni years. She has reported a number oi important cases in the courts and haa earned the reputation of being one of the most profioient stenographers in the county, especially at court work. Miss Hopkins is described as a pretty and accomplished young woman, who keeps house in a cozy little home for two younger Bisters and a little brother, theiz parents being dead*

The New Woman's" Mecea.

Finland is the Mecca at the new woman. Here there are few occupations which she may not follow. She is employed as clerk, dentist, bank cashier and even as house builder. It is not only the so called lower olasses which are filling the same positions as men, for the Baroness Alexandra Gopenburg ia the editor and publisher of a progressive little paper devoted to the inteoresta of women.

A fthallanfa.

There Is no instance on reoord whan woman suffrage, once conceded, has em been repealed by the voters. We invite the opponenjta to account fcr its invariable popularity. A tree is-known by its fruit, and the fruit of woman suffrage, always and everywhere, is good government.—Boston Woman's Journal

Bh—aaatlsin Bw» JUpt

l^HMu thereJUi la^c ^cid in ^te blood. Linimsota and lotions will be of no permanent benefit. A cure oan be aooom-

plished only by neutralising this add and for this purpoae Hood's SanapariUa i* the beat mediate because Hood's Saraailla is the only true blood purifier ntolnantly In the publte aye.

Hood's Pilla act easily, yet promptly and eflsotiyely, on the liter and boWels. aBo.

The Rhone Idght Hearted Blwr. Of all the rivers which, being navigable, do serious work in the world, the

Shone is the most devil may care and (light rbearted. In its 600 mile dash down hill from the lake of Geneva to the Mediterranean its only purpose--other than that of doing all the mischief possible—seems to be frolic fun. And yet for more than 2,000 years this apparently frivolous, and frequently malevolent, river has been usefully employed in the service of mankind.

It has served under many masters. In the Bhone valley of the present day Celtio flints and pottery underlie Ronian ruins here and there a bit of Boman magnificence remains almost intaot. On the hilltops still stand the broken strongholds of the robber nobles who maintained their nobility upon what they were able to steal. Naturally, these rhined castles, and the still existent towns of the same period, being so oonspicuously in evidence, the flavor of the river is most distinctly mediseval, but everywhere, to the discerning eye, are traces of tin barbarism, of the civilization and of tnesemibarbarism which successively were plowed under before what we have the temerity to .call our own civilization began.—ifhomas A. Janvier in Century.

Women In Egypt,

A woman writing to a friend from Cairo says: "The city is entirely differ* ent from anything we have yet seen. The maximum and minimum of creation meet here as nowhere else, I believe, on the face of the globe. Luxurious elegance and abject poverty and filth are side by side. "The condition of women here is diltressing, the writer continues. "They are slaves to the caprices of men and are mothers and burden bearers only. Our donkey boy said to us, 'Men go tc heaven women go where donkeys go.' We are told that £he present khedive has .many progressive ideas for hit country, including its women. He cannot too soon begin to put them in practice.

Very Like a Yell.

Smith college has no "yell." Its president announced this officially some time ago, but the young ladies of the bollege are sometimes, in moments of excitement, beard to utter a cry which runs thus: "Rah, rah, rah—Soph-i-ah —Smith." Sophia Smith was the founder of the college, and if this is not a college yell, what is it?—Hartford Times:

He Noticed That.

Husband—Really, I didn't notice the presses. Mrs. Brown, though, wore her gown en train.

Wiff^It's a wonder you noticed that much! -.j.:'-ink, Husband—Copldn't: help it—I stepped. on it.—Chicago Record.

Every year sees a development in the manufacturing interests, and it haa spread toward, the west and south.

A KENTUCKY MIRACLE.

JUDGE JOHN M. RICE TELLS HOW HE WAS CURED OF SCIATICA.

Circuit Judge, Congressman and Assemblyman. (JYom th» Covington, Ky., Pott.) The Hon. John M. Bice, of Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky,, has for tha past two years retired from active life as Criminal and Circuit Judge of the sixteenth Judicial District of Kentucky.

He has for many years served his native eounty and state in the legislature at Frank' fort and at Washington, and, until his retire ment was a noted figure in political and Ju dicial circles. The Judge is well-known throughout the stats and possesses^the_best qualities which

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called upon Judge Bicet who in ^the ing words related the histoi

that led to his retirement ft is just about

six years since I had an attack of rheumatism slight at first, bat soon developing into Sciatic rheumatism, which began first with •cute shooting pains in the hips, gradually extending downward to my feet.

My condition became so bad that I eventually lost all power of my legs, and then' the liver, kidneys and bladder and in fact, my whole system, became deranged.

In 1888, attended by my son John, I •went to Hot Springs, Ark., but was not much benefited by some months stay there. My liver was actually dead, and a dull persistent pain in its region kept me on the rack all the time. In 18001 was reappointed Circuit Judge, but it was impossible for me to give attention to my duties. In 1891 I went to the Silurian Springs, Waukeshaw. Wis. I stayed then some time, but without improvement. "The muscles of my limbs were now re-

Dr. WilliaiM'flak BBs for Pale contain all the slswsrts aeesssary to newlifo and rkhnsss te the bleed and shattered serves. They may be had of all druggists, er dhreet trim Ae Dr. Williams' Medietoe Oompe^. Ssheneetady. H.Y, fat »0e. per beat, ersixeexss for J8J0.

Belief In 81* Honrs.

Sooth Amkbioa* Ctms." This new

the urinaiy piu»age« in maje or female. It telieTes retenUonofwaUrlndpainmpassIt almost lmro^aiately. you w«it sk rellefand ettre this Is your remedx.

I by E. H. Bindley A Co. and Cook, Bell A and all dragyist^Terre Haate, InL

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Bamoved to «H Main St. Terre Haute, lad

Citizens' Fnel& Gas Co.,

507 Ohio Street.

J. H.& G. Brotdhnrst

Miners and dealers in

Sugar Creek Coal

For steam and domestic use. All Coal thoroughly screened.

Office 122 S. Third St.

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my liver that was I

felt gradually wearing my life away. Docton gave me up completely. lingered on in tills condition sustained slmoet entirely by stimulants until April, 1893. One day John saw an account oi Dr. Williams' nnk Pills for Pale People in the Kentucky M. This was something new, and Jonn prevailed upon me to try them. I rememberl wasnot expected to live for more than thrsser four days at the time. The effect of the pOls, however, was marvelous a&d I eouldsoon eat heertuy} a thing I had sot done for yearn. The liver began almost Instantaneously la perform Us functions, and has deae sa ever slnee. Without doubt the pills saved wtf lifo and while I dt net erave notede^r leaaaet rsfoss to testify to thehrworth.

C. I. FLEMING, M. D. C.

VETERINARIAN.

Special attention given to diseases of horses cattle and dogs. Office 811 Main street.

SANTC. DAVIS. FRANK J. TURK,

DAVIS &.TURK

ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

420M Wabash Ave. xg TERRE HAUTE, IND.

J. .A.. DAILEY,

503 Ohio Street.

Give him

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JSAAO BALL & SON,

FUNERAL DIRECTOR8.

Corner Third and Cherry streets, Terre Haute, Ind- are prepared to execute all orders In their line with neatness and dispatch.

Embalnrtagra«peciBlty.

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^ELSBNTBAL, A. B. Justiee of the Peace aad Attorney at Law, Terr* Haute, Ind.

Every nursing mother needs the kind of nourishment there is in

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To be had at all firuggists* and Grocers7.

Prepared by

ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS'N, St Louis, U. S. A.

Send for handsomely illustrated colored booklets and other '/eading matter.

ALBERT FTESS,

Has Just received a complete line of

Lap Robes and Blankets,

Trunks and Telescopes.

650 TULA-XTST STBEET.

A Gas Stove

Builders' Hardware, Furnaces,

and First-class Tin Work,

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Will heat a bed or bathroom" for less than x% cents an hour. This is cheaper than to take cold. The stove is always ready for use.

Moudy & Coffins

Leave orders at 1517 Poplar St., 1241 South Fifth St., 901 Main St., Terre Haute, Ind.

Hotnstow, Prest W.'P. Blaib,Sec. Office: 25 S. Seventh St.

Yitrlfled Shale, Hollow BM, Drain Tile, Fire Clay Construction Goods.

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TRAD& MARK.

The baby needs it in order to grow healthy and plump the mother needs it in order to keep healthy and plump.

Jqhic H. Tatlob,Supt. Works: St. Mary's Re*d.

Terre Haute, Ind.

A FEW FACTS

Those who contemplate a winter's trip'' to« this amiable climate will bear in mind the

BIG FOUR ROUTE

is the "Best Line" geographically and substantially from all points Bast, Northeast, North, Northwest and West. Solid trains of magnificent Wagner Buffet Sleeping Cars, Buffet Parlor Cars, elegant Coaches and Dining Cars dally from New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus. Sandusky, Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis and Intermediate points to Cincinnati, where direct connection Is made In Central Union station without transfer across the city, with through trains of Pullman Sleeping Cars to Jacksonville, via the Queen

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Crescent Route and

Louisville A Nashville Railway. For full particulars call on agent "Big Four Route" or address

E. E. SOUTH, General Ageilt,

D. B. Martin, Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

E. O. McCormlck, Pass. Traffic Mgr.

Stimson, Stlmson & Condlt Attys. foy Plfft. OTICE TO NON RESIDENT. go, in the

State of Indiana, County of V, Superior Court of Vigo county/ term, 1895.

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No. 4773. Leonard D. 8cott Ballou, if living, and If dead, t-_, heirs of William Ballou, impleaded wit'' others. In action to quiet title. jg

Be it known, thaton the 25th day\f Deafl ber, 1895, said plaintiff filed an aflraiavpj due form, showing that said William Ta% and the unknown heirs of William Bf? are non-residents ef the state of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendants are beret), notified of the pendency of said action agalns them and that the same will stand for triarj February 18th, 1896, the same being at the De cember term of said court in the year 1895. 2718 fSEAU] HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk.

8. BK. Haa ton, Attorney for Plaintiff. OTICE TO NON-RESIDENT.

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surance to place. He will writeyou in asgood companiee as are represented in the city.

State of Indiana, County of Vigo, in the Superior court of Vigo county, Decemberl E.j ^No.' 4TO! Cora M. Burrell vs. Charles Burrell. Divorce.

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Be it known that on the4th day of January *#6, it was ordered by the court that the clerl' notify by publication said Charles E. Burrel as non-resident defendant of the pendenc. of this action against him. defendant Is therefore hereby notifl of the pendency of this action against hi: and that the same will stand for trial Marc 5, 1886, the same belngat said coort in

at the March term oi ROQUET, Clerk.

GAGG'S ART ST0R3

Artists' .Supplies. Flower Material. Plctdre Framing a Specialty. 11 648 Wabash Ave. North SideJ

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

DE. B. W.VAN VALZAH,

OOea, No. 5 Soath Fifth Street.