Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 April 1896 — Page 1

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Thete seems to be nothing doipg the past Week except discussion of the councilmmiir candidates to be selected by both the Democrats and Republicans at the xneetlngs next week. The Prohibitionists attempted to place a ticket in the field this -week, but did not succeed. It is said, :however, they will make a further effort within the time prescribed ay law.

There has been little discussion of the Democratic candidates, so far as I have been able to hear, and there will be very little dispute over the nominations in the different wards. 'Hub names of the winners were given last week. There is likely to be some trouble ia getting a Republican candidate in the First ward, although a number of good Jiames 'have been mentioned. That of Emtt Froeb was sprung yesterday, but foe absolutely refused to take the uominrftion. On the Democratic side, the name of Albert Fiess has been added to the list of possible candidates

In tib© Second ward, Capt. Haiey w&i not be ft candidate, and there is likely to fee a lively contest over this nomination Capt. Haley%s friends want to save ham Jor a«noreimportanfc office, that of country con«niHaiorwr for the second district. The colored residents of the lower part of the ward still hiniHt, that- they are entitled to Tepresentation in the council, and will en•deavor toniominate one of their race. In the Third ward there is no change in the situation, and the opposing candidates will very likely he Joe Roach and Wm. McKam^y. In the Fourth ward a numHber of now name^have been sprung, bnt it istolenlHly certain that Lee Goodman wifH be the Republican candidate, and Harry «chl0HH or Chairles White the opposing •one. In the Fifth ward to oppose Frank Wey the names of Bert Hebb and Ben "Voelker have ibeen added to the list of candidates, ilnthe Sixth ward Joe Bnice and August Wegener will be the candidates, although anew man may be sprang ou thtvconvention by the Democrats te defeat Wegener. In the Seventh ward the race 'for the iiepublican nomination is between La/wrence Burget and Jehu Lewfc on the Republican side, while the Democrats have not yet «w?re«d on a candidate. In the Eighth ward there is quite a contest for the n6mination, but, no new names have been added-to the? list given last week. In the

Ninth wnrdffone new name has been added to tl«? Dtimooratic list, that of Philip Braun,fchWcigar maker, who is being urged by his friends as an available candi-

urged by his friends as an available canal-1

leading candidates are John Kenley and Fred Kanzleiter, and yesterday some friend* of the other candidates circulated a poster through the ward, to the effect that as there "is a bitter fight between Kanzleiter and Kenley. men, and to nominate either will mean defeat, let us try and nominate a man who will representthetax pnyers Of the Tenth ward and not the city rings." The circular will doubtless lead to the introduction of another candidate into the race, and the primary Tuesday evening is likely to be quite interesting. William Armstrong will very likely be the •Democratic candidate.

It is quite a striking co-incidence that .Benjamin F. Havens, who was mayor of Terre Haute from 1879 to 1881, and Eugene V. Debs, Who was city clerk during the «tame period, both elected as Democrats, ,nre not mow meml»ers of the Democratic •party. Mr. Havens recently became aconwert to Republicanism, while Mr. Debs Is a Populist, and has been mentioned very •frequently as a possible Populist candidate for governor. Mr. Havens was elected by ,a plurality of 80 vates over Joseph M. Wildy. National, the Republican candidate, James Hook, receiving but 920 votes, while Havens had.3,022, and Wildy, 1,942. The

Republicans were in Ifcard lines in this vicinity then, and out of twelve candidates on the city ticket, they elected but two, Hugo Duonweg, treasurer, and Jack SOB £tepp. assessor. The Nationals elected one member of thexouncil, Polk, in the Third ward. Mr. Dueiuveg was elected by one •vote o*ef ante* P. Foley, who afterwards •unsuccessfully contested the election. Eug«ne Debs was elected toy a plurality of 1,1217 ovtr suchjsfcrong me* as the late Clifton! W. Boss and Grove Crafts. All this fa antiiei* history, and is rtferred to simply to show.that the. man who the Democrats Are now abusing publicly awl privately for lits chance of f«ilh, was g»od enough at A .gme when thing* looked dacidedly blue for fcoth tHe old parties, and tiie Greenback party w&S'threate&ing to pusb them both off ittoe earth. For .jsome reason or other they do not indulge in abuse «f Mr. Debs for Ms demotion of tl*e party, although he has Jwien honored by it in various ways, and soleoted by the Democrats to lead In the attack on Mr. Harrison in 1888. Perh«|w they Aorgive htm his apoatasyfor the efforts he made as editor of the Firetmr'a M«gaaine in 1893 to elect the Democratic ticket, when he ahused the Republican caadtiate f«r vice president becaws he had bee* running a noji-union pric ing office, bnt«ipport«d the Democratic Mndidate for the same position despitsfthe fact tlwkt he was prusMeat of a mining company eontrx^i»g the uost notorious non-union mines ia the state of IUinai*. The coiidu^ of the Firemen's Msfcasine

Torre Haynte seems to have bee* in need gjr rilUHpits revival, for the effort* of the Br*. Henry Ostrom at the ^Ahodist churches seem to have aroused twat in teeest- The evangelbt has been successfnl In his work, as indeed hs*1sJl vivallsts who ever undertook reliai»us forts hem The meetings will c^e tomorrow night. ...

The city council, at itsmeeting Tucadaf night, extended the time for payheiit of city taxss thirty days from the thiii lionday In April. There was but ivote against the extension, that of A. |. Ciawfotd, who b+» InvariaWy voUd| against

such extension. He gives as a reasojj for voting against it that the parties it is inr-! tended to benefit by the postponement of the last day, the laboring classes, .Ik not benefitted at all, the chief beneficiaries be ing the wealthy individuate, companies and corporations, who invariably took tor such extension, and thus get use of their money for an additional thirty 'While the majority of the smaller tax payets, as a rule, pay their taxes within the 8smit prescribed by law.

"C MODERN PHILOSOPHY-

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Twtfe wa^^theriUAi-aAsrh^ ^jfer is a young man of great push and on that is litely to be interesting. The

The conduct of the nretIt has a capital of *505,(WXOOO and a revenue during that eampaigu did of 16,500 an hoar, has 3,300 engines, and ti AV ftaiiafe onanism for the B. 1a F.. or the cause «f orjanised labor, and It didn't take Mr. Deb long after that to get out of It,

Whether or not silence Is golden, speech Is undoubtedly sil-ver in the present, session of Congress.

ANew Torkpdliceman has ju^died from the small-pox. This shows that*che smallpttx can be cattfpit during sleQp.

An agricultural exchange r.ks: "How ean we?prevent cider fro» working?" You might 'get it a'governmmt poe ition. "Feed My'JLtambs," reads motto that hangs in a *Wall street broker's office. "Shear My-I^mbs" would'fce more appropriate.

It is safd that a Cfeinaman never goes •craey. Tbr.re is no reason why he should. Millinery bills are unknown in the Flowery Kingdom.

This is the time when the wise editor Hays in atftout club and an iron- bound waste 'basket «in anticipation of the poets that feloon* fv the spring. •It.is' said that woirry kills more people than «*ork. The -perfectly independent mantethe tramp, w3*o has no work and no •worry, and nothing'4o wear him out.

When a young man of 21 looks into the future, it seems almost an eternity. When a man of 50 looks into the future, it seems as brief as a rabbit's tail.

A "woman may not be far-sighted In business matters, but she can diagnose the trimming of a bonnet as far as a man can smell fried onions.

W Important Business Change. gjfK •Stoat it is the unexpected that alwuys happens was demonstrated this week by the announcement that Max F. Hoberg had retired from the firm of Hoberg, Root .& Oo., with which be has been connected b» man and boy for thirty-six years. The announcement was made Thursday morning, Mr. Hoberg's connection with the yjirm ending at that time. The business will be continued under the firm name of

L. B. Root & Co.. and R. O. Milier, junior member of the old firm, will continue his connection with it, and will have general

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company's affairs. Mr.

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energy, and his long association with the •firm has made him alive to the wants of the public, and the business is certain to prosper under his direction. Mr. HOberg began service with the original firm, Edsall & Co., in 18(50 as cashier, becoming interested as a partner in 1867, since which time he has been constant in his devotion to the interests of a firm that is locked upon as one of the most progressive of Terre Haute's many reliable institutions. His retirement from the firm, which was done by mutual agreement, will give him a well-deserved rest, and he will make no plans for the immediate future. Mr. Root, the head of the new firm, has long been its New York buyer, and his permanent residence in New York gave him unexcelled advantages for watching the markets to secure all that is latest and best in the line of goods handled by this house. It is -said that the new firm will move at once tin the matter of securing new .quarters, .and it is likely that an immense department store, for its use will he er«cted on the Deming property on Main street, near .Sixth, a plan that has

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ation for a long time. If this is done the wholesale department will also be ^iven room there, and the immense estabJishment placed under one roof. The new arrangement will not disturb the relations of S. C. Budd, who has charge of the reItail.part of the business, and who as well Jootei after the advertising of the film in auch a clever manner.

Tlie *'American Volunteers** Lrafler. Thebreach in the Salvation Army seems te be widening, despite the_ efforts of General Booth, his daughter. Eva, andhhis son-in-law, Booth-Tuckei Ballington Booth,.the seceder, who has started -"The American Volunteers," is the second son of General Booth, General Commander of ftll the Salvation Army. He is now thirtyeight years old, and much resembles JWs father in appearance, though his mother in character. He formerly commanded the international fcraining quarters in London,, and later was placed in command of the Army ia Australia. Mrs. Booth was Miss Maud B. Charlesworth, and her father was the Episcopal rector of Limehouse, London. She was in boarding school when shedecided to join the Army, and at once feeg&n work. She was married to Ballington Booth in 1887, and they came to this .country in that year, where they had charge of the American Salvation Army till the present trouble.

XGreatest Corporation on Earth. Probably the greatest corporation in the United States is tfee Pennsylvania company, and the greatest corporation on earth is also a railroad, the London & Northwestern Railwaj Co., of England.

3,301) engines, and

employs 60,000 men. ESverything is mWie by the company—bridges, engines, rails, earriages, wagons, and aa innumerable lot of other things even the coal scuttles and wooden limbs for the injured of its staff. Repairs to the permanent way cost $130^)00 a month.

"Bab** Is "Ilttth AsUmorc." The Providence Journal isaway, way oft. Its assertion that "the Ruth Ashmore who writes the *Side Talks With Girls* in that immaculate journal of minor civilisation, the Ladies' Home Journal, is Editor Bok himself," is Inaccurate. The "Side Talks" aw doubtless written by various hands, hut the one most concerned in their production Is Mrs. Isabel A. MaUou,-*»»w York Recorder,

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SAT URDAY EVENING-, APRIL 11, 1896.

NEWS OF THE CITYji

There were forty-fowr fctermente In^e city cemeteries last^fconth, in Woedlawn eleven and in Htg^h*d Lawn thirty-oliA

Daniel V. Ifillef lias been named by the Republicans and Vern J. Barlow by the Democrats as^city election comnJissioneya.

The condition of the woolen trade isstieh that the Riverside mills were compelled to close down this week, and will not be opened again until the market for woolens become better.

The Y, M. C. A. basket ball team wifl play the Indianapolis Y. M. C, A. boys ft the old Asbury church next Tuesday evfetf-: ing. The^local team will play the EvM»ville team some time the latter part of tne presentanonth. %a-

Michael

Hall, for tliirty-aix years a qk

repairer for the Vandalia, died at his hoiifc oa north Twelfth street Tuesday." Deafn resulted from gangrene, caused by the appjication of some medicine to acorn that had been troubling him. Deceased le&v^B a wife and two daughters^ Mrs. Jamais O'Neal, of Binghampton, N. Y., and Miss Sarah Hall, of this city.

Capt. James H. Pierce, ofthe police:fo4oi» has. invented a top that 4s likely to me^t with the approval of the male portion of tthe rising generation. To it hae been plied a ball bearing device, on the plau of the bicycle ball bearings, and it.issaid that a top can be madfe to spi* an unusually long time as the result of this devire has applied for a patent oa it. i§E

The police force will bsgin ibe work^ of taking a census of the oity next Monday, the extra/men, assisted by the day men during the work. The data to be secured will consist of the name, age, resid^St color, nationality, etc. of theTesidente of the city, and it is expectedthat the returns will afford a valuable 1st of. information regarding the growth of the city in population since the census of 1890. was tak&ju/

The Canton McKeen h41d: its annual election Monday night, and selected the following officers to take-charge of the team in the prize contest at Buffalo in August next: Captain, John N. White lieutenant, Wm. Shoffner ensign, Geo. H. Snider clerk accountant, Thomas Beatrd wood. The canton will hdld regular meetings from this time until the date of the Buffalo meeting, and expect to makb a good showing in that contest.

Tho McKinley club at1its rwgulm mcci ing Tuesday night admitted fifty hew members, and decided to hold the exercises dedicating the new club rooms on Wec^esday eyening,. April 20th. Col. Ri^p^ Thompson will deliver the principal address of the evening, and there will be other interesting features. The next meeting of the club will be held on Monday evening, at which the question of uniforms for the coming campaign will be discussed.

Myers Bros, will move their grocery department to the second floor of their establishment after the close of business tonight, and will open their big store in all departments next week. Their new elevator is now in working order, and they will have one of the handsomest places in the city. The eufergy and push of the vdde-awake members of this firm make it certain that they wiH meet with success in the immense enterprise they have undertaken.

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William O'Brien, for many years a resident of this city, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. James Dodsori, on north Fiftee/ A street, Tuesday afternoon, aged seventy-six years. He was a native of Ireland, came to this country when a young man, and had been a resident of this city since 1854. Three children survive him, Mrs. Dodson, Edward O'Brien, of O'Brien & O'Connell, and James

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of Evansville. He was a brother of Edward O'Brien, of south Ninth street W. I. Overstreet, of tftiis city, was this week appointed by Chairman John K. Gowdy, of t^ft Republican state committee, a member of the exeeutfce committee, to work in conjunction with that.body. Another member of the committee:is Hood P. Loveland, of Peru, who was at one time a member of the police force iin this-tfity, and acted as office man and secretary to the police board. He is now practicing! law in Peru and doing well, beingassociated with his brother, ex-Senator Robect J. LovelancL

The Republicans will ende*vor to take a big crowd over to Maztfenavtille next Wednesday, to attend the congressional convention at which Mr. Faris will be renominated. It is expected thaft at .least fifty members of the party wSl go from here, and an effort will be made to take the Ringgold band along to faradah music for the occasion. The delegates Irosn the counties north of here will unite to .go with the Vigo county delegation. Mr. Faris will be present at the convention.

John N. Phillips, a well known resident of-this county, and a brother of ex-eounty Recorder James N. Phillips, committed suicide at his residence on the Lafayette road Just north of the city Thursday morning. He was despondent over financial troniies, and sought relief in this manner. His wife was in the house what the suicide occurred, and when she heard the re* port of (the pistol, which caused (he death she harried down stairs to find her huaband bwathing his last. Deceased waa fifty-nine jears of age, and a native of this county. He leaves a wife and seven children, ex-deputy county Recorder Walter A. Phillips and Mrs. Fred Beauchamp being two of them.

Under the direction of the township trustees outside the city and the school trustees of the city the work of taking an enumeration of the children of the county entitled to school privileges began yesterday, and will be completed within twenty days. An effort will be made to secure an unusually correct enumeration. In recent years Terre Haute has lost by the system of padding prevalent In some other cities of the state. The eharge has never been made against this city, but an effort will be made to have the present enumeration thoroughly correct. The men engaged far the work by the school trustees are & &J

Erney, George R. Wilson, Peter S. Kester, Martin Keroheval, James K. Allen, Andrew Williams, A. C. Mustard, J. C. Bennett, Charles Dwyer, W. A. Barton, R. L. Hawaii, wm. R. Terrell. Herbert Briggs and John L. Gordon.

William Paddock, a pioneer resident of Vigo county, died at his home on north Eighth street yesterday morning, at the age of seventy-eight years. He Was born in'Clark county, Ohio, March 18,1818, and came with his parents to this county in 1819. He was identified with the early business community of Terre Haute, having been engaged in the pork packing and grain industries in the early fifties. In 1865 he became interested with Samuel McKeen in the milling business. In 1874 the firto of Paddock & Co. was organised, the other members of the firm being his son, B. Frank Paddock, and his brother, DavSl E. Paddock. The business has been conducted since then at the same place, at the corner of Fifth street and the Vandalia railroad. Mr. Paddock was twice married, his second wife surviving him, with two sons, B. F. and Charles, the latter for along time connected with the banking house of McKeen & Co., and three daughters, Mrs. Closser, of Indianapolis,

Miss Letha Paddock, of the public library, and Mrs. Ernest Rounsaville. Mr. Paddock was at one time auditor of Vigo county, having been elected in 1870, and was the only Republican to be elected to that office from that date until 1894. He was a man of exemplary character, and a substantial business man of integrity and honor. He was quiet and unobtrusive in his manners, and was held in the highest esteem by a large circle of close friends. The funeral will take place from the family residence, 212 north Eighth street, Sunday afternoon at 2:80, and will be conducted by the I. O. O. F., of which order ,e had long been a member.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A balloon sent up from Paris recently attained a height of 15,000 metres, or about nine and a half miles, beforeit came down near Cambrai.

Mrs. Dr. Evant* wife of the president of Hedding Cofiflege, 111., who has made the subject of dress a careful study for twenty years, declares that women first invented trousers and that men subsequently adopted, them.

All the fashionable women wall be at least two inches taller than they were last season. Thds increase in height will be due entirely to theiir heels. High heels are to4be all ttye vogue both on evettlng slip^peii^dstreefcboo^Wr-^. -.iW^ss-4^^

At Marshall, N. C., the other day, Lafayette Shalton, a boy sixteen years old, was hauled to the state line in an ox cart to be married. Shelton is a deformed boy, can't stand, sit, nor walk. He married a girl by the name of Mary HdlL She is deaf and dumb and about thirty years old.

Two women, Miss Bettie Munday, aged ninety-eight, and Miss Lucy Munday, aged ninety-two years, reside near Harrodsburg, Ky., and since coming there, in 1804, have not been more that a mile from home, have never seen a train or steamboat, nor have they been sick a day in their lives. They don't use a cook stove, but eook on the open fire.:

A swinge which evidently "is* new in Missouri is being worked with great sue cess in many towns there. A woman book agent appears in a town and goes from house to house leaving books for examination. Next day a man calls to see if the books are wanted, and if they are not he takes them away with him. Usually they are not wanted. A few days later the woman agent appears again, and on being told that the man has taken away the book weepp copiously, says the villain has been collecting her books all over town, pleads poverty and so on, and accepts the proffer«1 compensation. "Brick" Pomeroy, the noted printer, editor and promoter, is dying of dropsy at Blythebooxne, L. I. His case is considered hopeless amd death is only a matter of a few days. Pomeroy made himself famous during the war .while publishing Pomeroy's Democrat *t 'LaCrosse, Wisconsin. His paper had a Qatge circulation, and was noted for its extreme views on financial and other gorermental affairs. He afterwards founded a,pa per at New York, which was not successful. Mr. Pomeroy's full name was Samuel Clarke Pomet»y. He was born at Southampton, Mass., January 8,1816, and was twice elected as a Republican* senator from Kansas, 1861 to 1873.

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the leader of the Derv^ es, against whom .the British have been Lighting near Kor«ala, is a renegade Frenchman, a native of Bouen. He is now chief of the sheiks of the eastern Soudan, and is known as the "French Arab." He was born on the banks of the Seine in 1836, and was christened in the cathedral set Rouen under the naase of George. His father was Joseph .NeSVit, and, wheu the hoy was about 11 yean of age, the father failed in business and, with his family, went to Egypt. There he died and his widow married a wealthy MffhaawnvHsn merchant, Osman Digna, who later entered young George Nesbit in the military school at Cairo under the name Osman Digna, jr., which name he •Mil bears. When the insurrection broke out in 1882, he espoused the cause of Arabi Pasha, and coon his power becauneso great that both the Mahdi and his successor were compelled to treat him with extreme consideration andtaqra*.

Lawyer* Onr Rslen.

The president aad cabinet are ail lawyers except Mr. Lamont and Mr. Morton, who are editors.

The vocations followed by senators are indicated as follows: Lawyers, 64: business men, 18: farmers, 3 doctors, 1 clergymen. 1: editors, 2: no data given, 0.

The occupations followed by representatives are follows: Lawyers, 348 business men, 71 farmers, 1$ editors, 9 doctors, 6 preachers. 4 printers, & Five give no data as to vocation. More than threequarters of the senate and more than twothirds of the house are lawyers.

A N A BOUTTOWNr

The Central Union telephone company is going to issue some millions of bonds for the extension and improvement of its plant. The money is for the establishment of underground systems in a number of cities— Indianapolis is one of them—and for putting in the metallic system in other cities. It is said there will not be an expansion of territory but increase in the facilities of the existing plants. That means, for Terre Haute, that there is no prospect of connection with near-by cities in the Wabash valley. As to the underground plant, we may not expect that for many years to come. Last Spring the council authorized a committee to inquire as to the best means of distributing the poles and wires of the several electric companies. The committee entered into an extensive correspondence but months went by without a report from the committee. In the meantime the Bell company began erecting the big poles and taking possession of the streets. Nothing was said in the council. The work went on to a finish, as we say at the ring side, and all that conld be learned as to the part the city was taking was that some com mitteemah had given his consent. Here was a city trying to find the best way to handle poles and wires and while spending money in the search for information the telephone company stepped in and practically disposed of the question by the erection of its poles. Some one said that it had done so in a manner to help the city but the city- was not given an opportunity to pass on the question. When the monopoly company had taken possession of the streets the committee of a year before submitted a report of its investigation Then it was also learned that part of the game being played by the Bell folks was to make it more costly and difficult for the competing company to erect a plant. So, altogether the council played the mischief with the city's best interests and now that the city is bound hand and foot seventeen councilmen say that no one shall loosen the bonds that the city may no longer be a prey for the vulture monopojy. Of course adummy man of relief is up before the public but the chances are that we will not have the benefit of competitive telephone prices for a year or more. We might have been enjoying that benefit by this time but for the manipulation of the council last year in the interest of the monopoly,

It is significant that Judge Taylor, Judge McNuttand Colonel McLean in their remarks on the occasion of the dedication of the Social Settlement commented on the fact that this reformatory enterprise had not received aid from rich, people. spid the rich would come forwam aSeritlie movement had be«8ft

demonstrated to be a success. Judge McNutt, said there are many such "eleventhhour" philanthropists. He thought such people are not deserving of praise the good women and the men who had assisted them in creating this union home for the unfortunate are the ones who should and will receive the just reward that awaits all who unselfishly and unostentatiously ameliorate the condition of fellow* beings. Judge McNutt expressed his disapproval of the so-called philanthropy of Rockefeller. There is more need, he said, of Social Settlements than of gifts of a million dollars to a university by a man who had taken $150,000,000 from the pockets of the people. Judge Taylor said there are people here "walking on stilts" who had no right to be thus elevated and he told Miss McComb, the manager of the Social Settlement, to push them over and out of the way if they did not get down and join her in getting in touch on a common level with unfortunate humanity. Judge McNutt said that society is wrongly organized—he did not want to be undestood as being a socialist—and there must be a change and would be one what shape the change would take he could not say, perhaps a cataclysm, but he must believe there would be one or else yield his belief in God and that he would not do. Two or three years ago such criticism on the unequal distribution of wealth caused the person uttering them to be roundly condemned as an anarchist.

Judge McNutt believed that so long as society continued as it is the Social Settlement idea is a good one. It is not a remedy for the bad condition it can only be helpful. It is no more likely to cure the disease than catnip tea would cure small ipox or leprosy. The disease is deep-seated .and needs heroic treatment but the Social Settlement will effect most beneficent results. The settlement idea, according to Judge Taylor and Miss McComb, is to uplift the thoughts of the wretched people who live amid squalor and by association and suggestion give them an incentive to live cleaner and better lives. They have been imbued with the thought that they are outcasts of society that the world is against thsm, that there is a hopeless struggle, and that they might as well be against the world and violate all laws of God or man. I don't believe anyone is more nauseated and disgusted than I am with the average Sunday School book or. paper which tells the ridiculous stories of reward for being truly good and pious but there is a whole lot of practical common sense in the underlying purpose of the Social Settlement to rescue children from becoming moral perverts. A bowl of soup aivrl an evening's entertainment at the Social Settlement will make many a boy and girl strive for better conditions. If women and men from the better-fixed element of the city will give a little of their time to meeting and talking with the boys ami girls Mid the older denizens of the West End they will be surprised to learn how little they know of the other half of the world. Heredity and environment are responsible for nine-tenths of the Crime and

the ill-effects of both can be largply pwvented by Social Settlement#. The Salvation Army ia the greatest missionary movement in the world. It has saved more souls and at teas cost than all the missionary societies supported by rich church members who contribute of their wealth as If to a conscience fund. Thedepravity human suffering in the West End which attracted but comparatively little attention from the ehtuslMi af the

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city until Miss McComb showed what could be and ought to be done there has been deserving of the money Terre Haute sent to save the souls of heathen.

A Vandalia official says Terre Haute ought not complain of dull business because the town is doing more business in proportion than any of the cities on the Vandalia system. The proportionate volume is heavier than at St. Louis, Peoria, Decatur, Legansport, and South Bend or Indianapolis.^,

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The Graham & Morton company will have an additional boat, three in all, on the Chicago and St. Joe line this year, a big one having been leased from the Grand Trunk road. The total daily passenger capacity between the two ports will be 5,(500. Two boats will leave St. Joe every night at 11 o'clock. This doubling up on the night run across the lake will enable the company to handle still more of that Michigan fruit which Terre Haute people have seen filling the wharf boat night after night in the fruit season.

The Fort Wayne city authorities soem to be proceeding on the doctrine that the way to open a street is to open it. The mayor and a force of city employes laid a crossing over the tracks of a railroad at night. Fort Wayne was the first city to try to condemn railroad property for a street opening. The case went to the Supremo court and the city was defeated. It was the decision in this case which caused the legislature to amend the law to obviate the objection made by the court. This was that in the legal proceeding by the council and city authorities it was ,not specifically set forth that the property was to be used for a like purpose, that of a highway. The opinion of the court left it to be inferred, so the lawyers who are advising the condemnation proceeding in the matter of the Ohio street crossing, say, that if the specific purpose is declared the right of a city to condemn exists. The newspaper reports from Fort Wayne do not say whether or not proceedings have been had since the decision of the Supreme court. About the same day that Fort Wayne was trying the forcible method of opening a street the authorities of Carthage in Rush county, were doing the same in effecting a crossing over the Michigan division of the Big Four. There was a free-for-all-fight and many persons were injured. It is a quaker community, too, but there is nothing more likely to start the most peaceable citizen to throwing missies than a crossing war with the possible exception of a county seat fight.

A newspaper dispatch from Wichita, Kansas, says that Professor Lucien Blake, of the University of Kansas, had arrived in that city to'takett shadowgraph of^Bie wrist of a man who is suing the Atchison road fors damages on the claim that the company's physician bunglingly set a fractured bone. The shadowgraph is to be used as evidence. Professor Blake will be remembered as a member of the Rose^ Polytechnic institute faculty.

Perhaps the members of the ministerial association were easing their conscience by making a perfunctory request of the police board to enforce the Sunday closing law. Surely the ministers did not believe their request would be granted.

Thb senatorial contest inside the Republican party is becoming involved in all the phases of party controversy in the state. Captain Jack Gowdy, the erstwhile obedient servant of his committee and of his party, is running things with a high hand and perverting all his authority as state chairman to promote the aspirations of his friends, Fairbanks, McKinley and Doxey, the latter for the nomination for governor. He and his friends say he is forced to take this action because the other side has arrayed itself against them, the logic of which assertion, even if it were true, is not to be accepted. The fact is, if the Republicans of the state could pass upon the conduct of the clique in charge of the party organization at Indianapolis they would soon vote Gowdy out of office. Every day the feeling of displeasure with the conduct of affairs at state committee headquarters is increasing, and there is coming to be real alarm lest the reckless and selfish policy shall bring disaster this fall. This sentiment is all to Mr. McKeen's advantage, because it is known that Fairbanks is the dictator of the acts of the state chairman.

Deepest Mine In the World. At the greatest depth ever attained by miners in the history of the world, the mlties in the vertical Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet & Hecla, Michigan, copper mine have recently stopped sinking at a depth of 4,900 feet, as this is the required depth necessary for this company to reach the limit of its underground territory. Bored wells have been carried down to a greater depth, but the Red Jacket shaft is the largest and best constructed mining shaft in the world. Its Inside dimensions are I4x22)£ feet, divided into six compartments and timbered throughout with pine. The shaft was started in the fall of 1880. The hoisting machinery, which consists of two pair of triple expansion engines of 8,000-horse power per pair, will hoist a load of ten tons 60 feet per second, and was planned and put in place while the gtnUwg of the shaft was going on. .,

Base Ball.

The Tern Hautes defeated the Owensboro, Ky., team this week, and after some good practice are playing the Chicago Maroons at the park this afternoon. The same clubs will play to-morrow afternoon and if the weather is favorable it is likely there will be a large crowd out to greet the home players, who have shown up In very good form.

On Tuesday the Chicago National League team will play here, and ar. old "Anse" is a great favorite, there is likely to be a big turnout of "fans.".

Closely net wavy lines in orange,' gold and silver gray in mohair and silk are in good favor. A very fashionable weave of this kind shows chestnut-brown stripes and four inches wide which cross at right angles an&fWMBdged^with a sold border.

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