Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 October 1896 — Page 1

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

A decision of Judge Henry in a building and loan case this week is likely to attract widespread attention throughout this state, in which building and loan associations are numerous and strong. It is th- trst decision of the kind in the state, and if carried to the Supreme court for final settlement will decide a question that has attracted much attention since the taking effect of recent tax legislation in the state.

Last winter, County Auditor Soules, act ing under the advice of the then County Attorney, S. R. Hamill, notified all the Building and Loan Associations of the city that be proposed to asses them for the full value of all the paid up or prepaid stock issued by them, for the years, 1803, 1894 and 1895 as property which they had unlawfully omitted from their list of taxable property returned to the assessor for taxtation

Three of the Building and Loan associations, the Cottage, the Enterprise and the Wabash, by their attorneys, Stimson. Stimson &Condit, immediately commenced injunction suits in the Vigo Superior court, to enjoin the county auditor from assessing them with any paid up or prepaid stock issued by them, on the ground that Buch stock represents a debt of the association issuing the same, and not a credit, and that the law does not require any taxpayer to pay taxes on his debts, but only on his property and credits.

The county attorney demurred to the complaint, and Judge Henry, on last Tuesday, overruled the demurrer, holding that Building and Loan associations could not be assessed for paid up or prepaid stock.

All the other Building and Loan associations in the city, except the three named, admitted the auditor's demand, and paid the assessment upon the paid up stock, as for admitted property. It is not known what steps, if any, these associations will take to recover the money thus, by mistake of laws, illegally withdrawn from their treasuries, if this decision is upheld.

The only case bearing on this point that has been passed on by the Supreme court of this state was that of Torry vs. Denis ton, taken before the court in June, last year. Terry was the owner of some paidup building and loan stock, and he brought suit to enjoin the auditor of Fulton county from placing his paid-up stock on the duplicate as taxable property. He won in lower court, and when it was taken to the Supreme court on an appeal, the higher court decided that when money was paid into a building and loan society in return for stock it became a credit and taxable as any other credit. The court ruled that when a mau borrowed money from a building and loan society it could not be taxed because it was a debt, and individuals and corporations cannot be taxed for wlrnt they owe, but only for what they have actually in their possession or what is due them, in other words property or credits. It was on this decision that Judge Henry gave his judgment in the local case. It in said that the case here would not have any further strength were it not for the fact that an attempt will be made to submit a list of interrogatories, in the effort to ascertain from the officers of the building and loan assotiatious the names of the parties owning paid-up stock. There is said to le hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of paid-up stock in this city, and if the names of the individual owners can be discovered a formidable list of taxpayers will be added to the list of taxpayers in ^his county.

We are likely to have a new record over the great Terre Haute track this fall. The owner of Johu It. Gentry is endeavoring to conic to some arrangement with the Terre Haute Trotting Association, by which a day's raclug cau be given here next week and the champion of all, John K. Gentry, make an attempt to break his own record of v!:0S, made down east a week or so ago. The driver of Gentry says th/it if the Terre Haute track is in good condition, AS it is, be believes that he can beat two minutes. A similar proposition was received some I time ago, but little attention was paid to it, A renewal of the offer from Gentry's owner i» evidence that he believes that his h/rs« is better than two minutes. If he is,

Wore is the track of all others that can j£how this record. The association can do a good bit of advertising for Terre Haute, I* and for the association on the side, if it can come to some agreement by which this record breaking mile can be made over our own peerless track.

Superintendent Harry Miller, of the Vaudalia. has a souvenir of which he is very proud. When his father, John F. Miller, and Mark Hanna, started home from the St. Louis convention that nominate! Major McKinley, Mr. Hanna discovered in the street, as he passed, a large horseshoe. He stopped the cab in which they were riding, picked up the horseshoe anl presented it to Mr. Miller as a sign of good luck. When Mr. Miller, sr., was here this week he made a present of the shoe to his son. The latter took it to Watson's where it was plated, the nails which wmnined in the shoe being plated with silver. It is the Intention of Mr. Miller to present this liorse shoe in a handsome plush ca»*' to Mr. McKinley when he Is inaugngnnitod president. It is a very Interesting souvenir, but if Mr. McKinley should fail of election to the presidency somebody can buy a handsome gold plated horse shoe very theap.

An rvdience of the intense feeling at present prevailing in politics Is shown by the fact that one day this week a bright little girl in one of the sooth side school*, who is a Republican because her father is.

asked the teacher in open class whether she' was for Bryan or McKinley. The teacher was diplomatic enough to say that she was for both of them, and nobody can tell What the result would have been had she announced her preference for Bryan.

Manager James B. Dickson, of Harrison Casino, was suddenly called to New York this week, and it is sail that the dispatch which caused the trip was connected with the project referred to last week regarding the erection of a nt-w opera house. A great many persons still cling to the opinion that we are to have a place of amusement this winter, and it is likely that there will be some interesting developments in this line in the next week or so. As a prophet regarding opera houses my reputation is gone and I can't even make a guess.

Political Notes.

If the programme announced this week for Mr. Bryan's tour of Indiana is correct, Terre Haute people will be deprived of the pleasure of seeing him. He will be in Indianapolis next Tuesday, the 0th, where he will have an afternoon and night meet ing.

John Clark Ridpath, Democratic candidate for congress, who has been endorsed by the Populists, will open his campaign in this county this evening, Bpeaking at Fontanet. He will make six speeches in this county, closing at the wigwam next Tnursday evening.

The Traveling Men's Sound Money club will leave next Friday evening on a special train ovsr the Big Four for Canton, Ohio, to visit Major McKinley. They will be joined here by a great many travelers from the surrounding towns, and it is expected that their party will be a large one.

Terre Haute has a "boy orator" of her vn, a Republican, in the person of Master Claude Wilvert, a son of E. H. Wilvert, the east end confectioner. The little fellow, who is but ten years old, made his first appearance in the political field at the Casino meeting Thursday night, and made a great hit. He has a wonderful memory, a good delivery, and the spectacle of one so young making sound money speeches is calculated to render him a great drawing card during the balance of the campaign. He is said to have memorized forty different speeches and selections, any of which he can give at a moment's notice. He will make a number of speeches in this cam. paign, and is likely to draw crowds where•ver he goes.

It is pretty hard for a Terre Hatite man to get far enough away from home or reach a place that, doesn't contain a Terre Haute man, as Attorney Thomas Donham has discovered. Last week he was out in Kansas anfl stopped at Indepndence, where he was interviewed by the Star and Kansan, a Populist paper, to which he gave the information that Indiana and Illinois were sure to go for Bryan, the plurality in this state beiug fixed at 15,000. In addition to this he stated that there was a Bryan free silver club in Terre Haute, composed of men who had never voted anything but the Republican ticket, and that it had a membership of 400. It happened, as it always happens, that there lives in Independence, a former Terre Haute man, a Republican, who wrote at once to a friend in this city to ascertain whether or not the claim thus made was justified by the facts. When shown the extract Mr. Donham did not take down, and admitted that he made the statement charged to him. Whether or not the claims he makes are true, it shows that no man can go so far in any direction from Terre Haute, and make assertions about the city, but that he will find a Terre Haute man to agree with him or deny the truth of his assertions.

A Notable Church Meeting. The annual meeting of the northwestern synod of the Reformed church in the United States will begin next Wednesday, October 7th, in the Reformed church, corner Eighth and Ohio streets, in this city, and will close on October 12th. This synod is one of the eight district synods under the head of the general synod. There will be present about one hundred delegates, ministers and elders, who will be entertained by the families of the congregation. Divine services will be held every evening at 7:80 o'clock, beginning on Wednesday evening and closing on Sunday evening. The speakers will be Rev. C. F. Kriete, of Louisville, Ky., president of the synod, and Rev. J. J. Janett, of Sheboygan, Wis., stated clerk of the synod, on Wednssday evening Rev. J. H. Bosch, of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Rev. H. W. Yitx, of Franklin, Wis., on Thursday evening Rev. A. Heinemann. of Chicago, 111., and Rev. S. Romeis, of Loran, III., on Friday evening Rev. Dr. Kuelling, of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Rev. F. P. Leich, of Jackson. Wis,, on Saturday evening, this being the preparatory service for the Lord's supper Rev. Dr. C. F. Martin, of Franklin, Wis., and Rev. Professor F. Grether, of the mission house in Franklin, Wis., on Sunday, at 10 a. m., celebration of the Lord's supper Rev. 9- Beisser, of Elmore, Wis., and Rev. D. Hagelskamp and Rev. G. Klliker, of Waukon. Ia., at 2:30 p. m.. In the Sunday school festival Rev. H. C. Nott, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Rev. H. O. Joerrip, of Reeseville, Wis., at 7.-00 p. m., in English, at the aper service of the Christian Youth Society: Rev.-Dr. H. A. Muehlmeir, of Franklin, Wis., president of the mission house, in German, and Rev. J. F. Winter, of Huntingtoa* Ind., In English, at the mission festival, 7:30 p. m. A hearty invitation Is extended to all to enjoy any of the divine services.

Ltc«nMd to Wed.

Geo. C. Etsber and Lltsle Aloaso J. Lee and Vlnale liar I In L. Fox and Sadie Mjrm. Odu Boyle and Edith Joslin.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

Some tinSe' in the late spring a society woman introduced what she called "walking luncheons," and the approach of cool days is a reminder that they can be revived now with both benefit and pleasure. The usual programme is that after a 1 o'clock luncheon and some music and conversation for an hour, the guests, led by the hostess, start out on a two or three-mile walk, and the novelty, the exercise and the pleasure that come as a matter of course make these unique affairs very popular aniong people who area little tired of the conventional routine of entertainments.

If a would-be hostess finds exercise after a meal too much of a tax on her energies, a walking tea or dinner is easily substituted for the luncheon, and then the guests meet at some central point, start off on their excursion, fill their lungs with pure, sweet air, stir up sluggish veins into active life, stretch stiff muscles into pliability, and get up an appetite that will be certain to do full justice to the dinner or supper that is waiting for them. Clever women are beginning to see that while massage and Turkish baths, etc., are all very well, good, long walks and deep, full breathing are better, and many a languid physique has been built up this summer by persistent tramps over hill and dale and refreshing rests in the shade of forest trees.

To be a martyr, one does not necessarily sacrifice life in the cause of religion, says a writer in the Housekeeper. That is the the definition of the word which most frequently occurs to us but one is just as much a martyr who sacrifices anything of great value for the sake of principle. The world is full of such martyrs, to-day. To give one's life is not always the har^pst thing to do. All around us there are persons each day of whose life calls for greater heroism than is needed to enable one to walk through a crowd of curious people, and endure a short period of suffering at the stake, more especially when one is convinced that the suffering is to be followed by everlasting peace and joy.

Did you ever stop to think whether anyone was living a life of martyrdom for your sake It has been said that the world is composed of one-third tyrants and twothirds martyrs. To which class do you belong? Did you ever ask yourself,that question,? g|| -j

There was onc6 an ot est delight was derived from reading the the biographies of Christian martyrs. She had sympathy and to spare for the sufferings. She was a devout old lady, and she never forgot to give thanks, at the close of day, that martyrdom was no longer a necessary part of the Christian religion. Her dislike for the tyrants of those early days amounted to hatred. Yet her own daughter, an unmarried woman of thirtyfive, was living a life of absolute martyrdom—subject every day of her life to petty tyrannies—because her religion would not permit her to forget the duty she owed her mother, and the mother's religion did not prevent her from being a tyrant. The mother calmly accepted the sacrifice as her right, and it is doubtful if anyone could ever have succeeded in convincing her either that she was a tyrant or her daughter a martyr.

Who is there who would deliberately elect that hiB child should live the life of a martyr Yet no one doubts that it is better to be a martyr than a tyrant, even though less comfortable. We can not have one class without the other, and each one of us has a little personal responsibility in the matter. Suppose, then, we look about us very carefully to see if anyone is living the life of a martyr because of us and, if so, what can we do to even up conditions a little. Surely God never meant that His people should be divided into two such classes. No one believes that martyrs serve any good purpose that might not have been brought about with out them. This is especially true of the everyday martyrs, who do a very great deal towards lightening their own bonds of slavery by patiently enduring what they have no right to endure.

To reduce the number of everyday martyrs and.tyrants, three rules might be oatlined somewhat as follows

First: We must be very sure that we, ourselves, are not tyrants. Second: We must be equally sure that we are not martyrs, unnecessarily.

Third We must train our children to believe that martyrs are better than tyrants, bat that that is real ly^ the most that can be said of them for they are, asa rale, unnecessary and seldom deserving of much honor or sympathy, and their influence for good is limited.

"It is fanny," says a woman who has jast accomplished it, "but now I have learned to ride a wheel I feel about as I did in my bridal days about my marriage —as if the experience was one peculiarly and especially my own. Although the world was full of women privileged to be addressed by the title of Mrs., I shared the notion of most brides that my acquisition of the right singled me oat somehow from the rest of womankind. It was surprising and most fascinating every time 1 was addressed by my new name. I delighted to refer to 'my husband' or to quote him as

Mr. Blank,' with true marital familiarity, and altogether I acted exactly as many brides before and since my time have. It is the woman who does not ride a wheel who is uncommon these days, bat I foolishly forget or ignore that and look upon myself as a remarkable person. I still fed very ooaspkmous when I am rushing over the road, and I actually have airs hi talking wheel talk, in which doubtless I display my real Inexperience every

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moment. It is so true that *re are so important to ourselves and so unimportant to everybody else."

A pkminent woman physician says: "The first thing I say to a woman when she comes to me for advice and suggestion is: 'Turn your back to me.' It is remarkable how few women present a good-look-ing back, straight and shapely, with shoulder-tips in line, elbews not poking, hips even, and no protuberant shoulderblade. One has so many resources to con.ceaL an ill-fitting front—one's arms and hams, ft^bow of ribbon and the like but the back is hopeless and must be above reproach. The back is not only the crucial teat of a woman's gown it is also the test of, £|r general appearance. A good back is* vS(y rare. Watch women in the streets and you will be surprised to see hr»w few

The dearest giri in the world has been in to consult me about the significance of a trio of small ornaments fastened to a small ring, and found among a lot of oldfashioned trinkets in a jewel case, says a writer in the New York Recorder. Any one but a girl of this new generation, that haft'all it can do to keep posted on bicycles and bloomers and other fln-de-siecle things would know that an anchor, across and a heart, when in combination, signified faith, hope and charity, respectively. We rarely see the design nowadays. Oar mothers wore earrings in anchor and cross and heart design, but we of this generation descend to more material things, and we embroid$f the Empire wreath and torch on ourftfrniture tapestries, as well as working them into our club badges and other jewels with which the advanced woman deoorates herself. It seems to me strange, sometimes, that the symbol of the Christian religion should be the cross that signfies hope. I could wish it otherwise. Hope is a very unsatisfactory member of the trio of graces, as we all remember them personfled in the three angelic maidens with the flowing draperies. Hope deceives us constantly in this life, and yet the most of ns are depending upon her to right thing? for us in the life to come. What great thiags she promises us every twelve months, on New Year's day. How we believe in her, forgetting her treachery of the previous year, and her failure to fulfill. She is very immaterial herself, a mere phantom-like thingrffa§M she deals ^ta$lg.ia the material thingf^rlife. *1$

The pleasures of hope have alweys fascinated me. I do not refer especially to the poem by that name, although that is also fascinating, but to the real thing, the genuine pleasure to be found in a condition of mind which can only be described by the word hope. "Hope springs eternal in the huntnn breast

Man never Is, but always to be blest." Pope was right, without question, and yet the unvarnished truth, even when told so plainly, has not deprived man or woman of the championship of that phantom which is the daily companion of us all. We all pursue things because we hope to attain them, and if we suddenly find that we cannot, and that our hope and effort have been misplaced or misguided and cannot be realized, we simply give it up, dress hope UP in a new garb, give her a new name, and see as much beauty in her false and hypocritical face as before.

Now, if the cross signified truth, instead of hope, it seems to me the significance would have a tenfold greater meaning.

AMUSEMENTS.

CHAS. H. YAIJC'8 "THK TWELVE TEMPTATIONS." One of the most important attractions ever offered here is doubtless Chas. H. Yale's "The Twelve Temptations," which is to claim attention at Harrison Park Casino next Tuesday night. This is* reputed to be the greatest spectacle on the facejof the earth, having cost the large sum of $25,000 to put on the stage in its present state of novelty and sumptuousness. It is entirely new and colossal in every respect. .The pieces besides being a fairy spectacle with stirring adventures at the North Pole, is literally crowded with fun of the most boisterous kind, and pantomimic tricks which Will raise laughter long and load.

There are hosts of beautiful ballets and some very grotesque and comical ones, calling for the services of the largest and most efficient ballet troupe ia the United States, led by the great Italian premieres. Signoritas Ferrero, Belloni and Vieshie.

The Rosaires in acrobatic flights, John Harty in juggling, the Brothers Elliott in a hot boxing bout, Sisson and Brauo in a "Chanson Characteristique" and Rose Keener as the "Giddy Old Maid," present specialties which will delight everybody.

Gaendolne North, Lida Dexter, Jossie Sisson, Lila Hnttoin, Gas Brano, jr., Chas. H. Henry and other excellent people are in the cast.

At the conference between J. G. Owens, of Evnnsville, member of the Grand Tribunal. Knights of Pythias, of this state, in this city this week, it was decided that it would be/better to postpone for the present the proposed attempt to organise in this city a temple of the Dramatic Order, Knights of Korassahn. The order has made a rapid growth wherever introduced, and in Bvansville, where a temple was instituted in August last, there are twenty-five applications for membership now awaiting the action of the temple. The order is composed of members of the Knights of Pythiaa, although it Is in no W*3T connected with that order. Hie meeting at which this conclusion was arrived at was attended by representatives of the several Kf bodies in thii city.

THE MONEY QUESTION

Perhaps no more thorough and succinct review of the monetary legislation of the United States hRs been made than that just published in a pamphlet by Mr. John G. Williams of this city. Following the review of legislation he discusses the free coinage proposition in a dispassionate and lucid manner which would seem to leave no doubt of the futility of the experiment proposed by Mr. Bryan and his followers. However, it must be understood that Mr. Williams nowhere treats of the subject in a manner that would give to a stranger to party history in this country a hint as to which party was responsible for any money legislation in the past or which party is advocating free coinage. He simply reviews the laws on the subject and in the light of experience answers two questions, the first if the act of 1873 has caused the evils of which just complaint is made, and, will the free and unlimited coinage, by the United States, of silver at a ratio to gold of 16 to 1, banish those evils and restore prosperity to our people? Mr. Williams Is, and always has been, a Democrat but in this pamphlet he gives evidence of his exceptional ability to analyze and discuss a proposition on its merits regardless o." party fealty.

In concluding his review of the act of 1873 he says the old silver dollar of 371 J* grains was dropped, simply, because for years and years it had formed no part of our circulating medium. "Experience had conclusively proven that under the circumstances [the dollar being worth more than 100 cents in gold] the mint was simply used as a machine for putting silver bullion in desirable shape for exportation." Of the small amount comparatively, of 8,005, 838 dollars, coined from 1792 to 1873 very few were in circulation. The conclusion seems fully warranted, says Mr, Williams, that the act of 1873 made no change in our monetary system calculated to work harm to individual or national prosperity. As none were in calculation and had not 'been for years it is impossible to conceive of any theory upon which it could be successfully contended that silver dollars coined prior to 1873 were demonetised. It is true the law made no provision for their future coinage. The silver dollar was dropped from the list so was the gold dollar and the the three dollar gold pieoeq in 1890, yet it could hardly be said gold was demonetized in 1800.

Mr. Williams says that oftentimes before 1873, both in the United States and elsewhere, there were panics, and subsequently great public distress. Complaints, too, about the scarcity of money were often made. It is doubtless true that the price of some agricultural products is low, and he illustrates with wheat how this result is caused by the failure of our surplus wheat to find an unsupplied market abroad. In 1891 we had a surplus which exceeded the total of the crop of 1870, With this enormous increase in production in this country has come an increased acreage and production in France, Hungary, Italy, India and Russia, and now the Argentine Republic. The price is governed by the forceful laws of supply and demand,

It may be said here that since Mr. Williams wrote the pamphlet the price of wheat has advanced sixteen cents by reason of the strong demand in Liverpool, where reports had been received of a short crop in several of the countries named above,

As to the actual and immediate effect of aphase of one free coinage proposition Mr. Williams says: "If a law should be passed which would simply require the mint to convert, without charge, into standard silver dollars of the present weight and fineness, any and all silver bullion tendered for coinage, the depositors of bullion would have to wait for their bullion to be coined and the mint, could not settle with them until the coins which their bullion yielded were ready for delivery. If, however, it should be decided that depositors of bullion mtlst not be required to wait until their bullion could be converted into coin, but that, as has been customary since 1792, they should be paid for their bullion by the mint as soon as its value could be ascertained, at what rate would the miat be required to bay the bullion, and in what money would payment for it be made Would the mint, in advancing money to pay for bullion, be required to use only standard silver dollars, such as the owner of the bullion would get if he waited for it to be coined, or would the mint be required to pay for it in gold, or its equivalent, at the rate of one dollar In gold for 412.5 grains of silver bullion nine-tenths fine Correct answers to these questions are necessarily concealed in the womb of the future."

Farther along Mr. Williams says: "Should the government of the United States establish a mint price for silver bullion, payable in gold or its equivalent, say sixty cents per fine ounce above the average market prioe of silver, it is difficult to see how the money wcrald be obtained to carry out such a ruinous business policy. It would be the people in tbe end who would dance and pay the fiddler. From them tbe money would W collected through the exercise of the taxing power."

He shows how our foreign trade would be injuriously affected and constricted and burdened by an increased expense in the high price of exchange. Our exports of domestic merchandise for tbe year ending June 80,1686, to three countries which use tbe gold standard amounted to 4567,M6,Ml. This woold be paid in silver and the fluctuating price .of silver would be rejected In the price of exchange. The varying value of tbe medium of exchange would set

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veryone to gambling in his commercial transactions. Mr. Williams holds, in conclusion, th vt "above any question of injury to our own internal and foreign trade, present and future, from the adoption of the system of unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, rises the great- question of the effect such a system, if now introduced, would have upon individual and national honesty. 'The nation is made up of individuals. As these individuals abandon honest principles, so will the nation. Is it just, or wise, to urge, or even suggest, a national, policy which would make it lawful both for individuals and the nation to impair the obligations of contracts? Would not the adoption of such a policy work individual and national degradation, and destroy private credit and natianal honor? Junius wrote: 'Private credit is wealth public honor is security.' If the United States, as a result of the opening of our mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio to gold of sixteen to one, goes to a silver basis will not the man who bought property on credit on a gold basis be at liberty to pay for it in silver dollars?' If those silver dollars, measured by the gold standard, should be worth only onehalf the value of the property he got, measured by the gold standard, would not the purchaser be rid of one-half his debt, and would not the seller get only one-half what he would have received for th»r property had the sale been for cash instead, of' on credit? And so with the farmer,, who, borrowing money to impfove his farm, received dollars equivalent to gold,, expended those dollars in improving his farm, and then at the maturity of his noter given for the dollars he borrowed, pays the note in silver dollars worth only one-half the amount he received and spent for his own benefit—would not the persQn who loaned money lose half the amount be loaned, and would not the farmer, in the shape of improvements on his farm, have what the other man lost? And so with the merchant who sells goods under thfe gold standard, on credit, and is paid in silver dollars.—will he not lose and his debtor profit to the exteut of his loss? From this condition of affairs it is but one step to national repudiation and dishonor. If tbe system of free and unlimited coinage of silver, at a ratio of sixteen to one, would bring about such results, it should be avoided as we would a scourge. Its blight would remain upon the nation for generations to come. Surely, 'the dread of something after' free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one should make "us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of."

Tlie Day Nursery.

The annual meeting of the Day Nursery was held at the Congregational church Thursday afternoon, and a most interesting report was made regarding the progress of this splendid work. The purpose of the organization is to care for the small children of mothers who work out during the day. The association is the owner of a small cottage at No. 413 north Fourth street, where Mrs. Mary Rumbley has charge as matron. Any child will be taken care,of for the sum of five cents per, day.

The report of the secretary, Mrs. W. W. Parsons, furnished Bome interesting statistics concerning the growth of the work. For five months in the year 1893 tbe attendance of children was 411, making an average of eighty-two a month. For the full year 1894 the total attendance was 1,800, an average of 150 a month for eleven months in 1895, attendance 1,820, with an average of 165 for the year ending September, 1896, attendance 2,194, an average of 198 a month.

The following directors were re-elected Mrs. M. Joseph, Mrs. Blackford Condit, Mrs. W. H. Wiley, Miss Marcla Mitchell, Mrs. Fred Reckert and Mrs. H. O, Wright.

County Clerk Watson.

flavid L. Watson, who was elected county clerk In the November election of 1894, will take his office on the 1st day of November. He will go into tbe office with Connty Clerk Roquet next week to learn "the ropes," the duties of that office being more numerous and intricate than those of any other of the county offices. Mr. Watson's deputies will be Ross Bronson, Harry G. Thompson and Malcolm Steele, tbe latter being the typewriter. Mr. Watson will devote bis entire time to the duties of th$ office, and The Mail prophecies that be will make one of the most competent and efficient clerks the county has ever had. Hugh Roqaet, whom he succceds, has made a popular as well as efficient clerk, and when ne retir it will be with tbe good wishes of all wbo have bad any dealings with him.

Church Notes.

Miss Cameron, of Coates College, will sing the offertory solo at the First Congregational church to-morrow, and special music will be given by tbe regular quartette, Mrs. Howard Mater, Mrs. Geo. A. Scott, Messrs. A. G. Adams and J. A. Aikman, assisted by Misses Perdue, Eichelberger, Strawbridge and Martin and Messrs. Kilbourne and Clark. Dr. Williams, of San Francisco, will preach, both morning and evening, on his way back to bis home. He is spoken of as a man of eloquence and power by those who have heard him. At the C. E. service Mrs. F. P. Morgan and J. B. Aikman will sing, and the choir will also assist.

The park commissioners at a special meeting on Wednesday decided that after that night Collett Park would be closed to the public at six o'clock p. m.

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