Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 October 1896 — Page 1

/VOL. 27—NO. 17.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

The acute stage which marks the politi' cal situation at this time of a presidential campaign is manifesting itself in bets. Scarcely a man who pretends to talk poll tics, and who doesn't can make a statement but that it is challenged, and somebody wants to bet on it. The smart man always looks for odds, although this will not apply to every case in which odds are asked. One day recently two well-known men about town, a Republican and Democrat, were discussing the Silver Republican club. The Democrat made the assertion that there were at present seven hundred former Republicans in the club. "I'll bet that's a blankety blank lie," said the Republican. "How much'll you bet," answered the Democrat. "I'll bet ten dollars it's a lie," said the Republican. "What odds will you give me," answered the Democrat, and then when he realized the position in which he had put himself he walked off without putting up any stakes.

Genuine and general regret is expressed at the announcement made this week that John G. Williams will remove to Indianapolis with his family immediately after the election, and engage in the practice of law there. Mr. Williams has for many years been one of the leading members of the Terre Haute bur, and, indeed, of the state, his position as general counsel for the Vandalia bringing him into prominence as one of the leading constitutional lawyers of the country. His loss will be severely felt here in a personal as well as professional way. While Terre Haute regrets his departure Indianapolis can be congratulated on acquiring a citiaen of such prominence. The story that Mr. Williams would become a partner of exPresident Harrison is pronounced by him to be untrue.

Wm. K. McKeen, who will be the next United Suites Senator from Indiana in the event, of the Republicans currying the legislature next mouth, celebrated his sixtyseventh birthday anniversary last Monday. Mr. McKeen was born in this county October lath, 1829, and has been identified with the history of the county. He received his rudimentary education in the schools of th's county, and afterwards took a term at Vie old Anbury university at Greencastle. In June, 18(17, Mr. McKeen became presi dent of the T. H. & I. road, and up to the time ofcJtfs retirement, a few months ago was one of ttyq most prominent railroad officials in\.fee oountrf!rNo man" ever had -Control of niflrriBff tliaf stood so htgh in t8fe 'etAcftm of the men under him as* Mr. McKeen, and the good will that he has merited in all his business transactions, railroad and otherwise, stands him in good stead now, when ho is a candidate for the Important position of United States Senator. He is Terre Haute's most public spirited citizens, and the men who have been associated with him the longest and know him best are the most active in promoting his interests in the present campaign. The good will that is felt towards him is not confined to the political party to which he belongs, and many of his pollt leal opponents will do all in their power elect a senator and representatives from this county pledged to his support in the caucus which will nominate a successor to Senator Voorhees.

Manager .Tames B. Dickson is back from New York with an opera house in his pocket, at least with a plan for an opera house that should receive encouragement from every public spirited citixen In the community. The plan contemplates the erect iou of an opera house on the ground in the rear of the Terre Haute house, and will cost in the neighborhood of #100,000, counting land and building. According to the plan proposed the house is to be built on something like the building and loan plan, with monthly payments on ihe stock subscribed. The plan seems a most feasible one. and if the proper encouragement is given the projectors the house will be built yet this fall. In is not too late this fall to do something in this direction, and if the people of Terre Haute take hold of it In the proper spirit it will be built. Over In Decatur, when their fine opera house was destroyed by fire, a new one was erected Creaity for business in sixty days, and what

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is possible in Decatur Is possible in Terre Haute. It is to be hoped that this plan will meet with the proper receptiou from the business men aud others in Terre Haiite. for it would lie a shame to have a city of this si ice do without a fine opera house for a whole season.

The contract for the conversion of Bindley hall into a place of amusements has been signed, and the work of reconstruction will begin shortly. The place will be un ier the management of Chas. W. Russell and when completed the house will haw a seating capacity of about seven hundred. The first performance, it is said, will take place on the evening of November 7th. and in the absence of a larger house this pUoo will no doubt draw good crowds If the proper attractions atv offered.

Ai moron the Democratic managers are «ai! to h. v.' directed the members of that |Kir to abstain from voting in the Chicago Record postal car I vote on the presidential question. «jm -of the members of the party seem coh.iv*? voting, according to Use return*. The result of the vote up to and inclu ling th vot counted at Ave o'clock Tbur*.l«y evening show* that in Cook county, Illinois, McKinley haa received £0 per wtit. of th votes cast, Bryan, IT: Palmer, i, an.l levering, the Prohibition caadidi 1. The Hffl'1 rote shows that in Cook county McKinley# gain tram Clewlaud voters who Intend to vote tor McKinley

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is 7,844 votes net. The most significant feature of the vote is in that of the percentage of votes cast for the presidential candidates this year as compared with the percentage of the last presidential election, when Cleveland and Harrison were the opposing candidates. In Iowa the percentages are as follows: Cleveland, 44 Harrison, 50: McKinley, 70 Bryan, 28. In Indiana the percentages are, Cleveland, 47 Harrison, 46 McKinley, 69 Bryan, 29. Missouri shows an equal gain for both, as the following figures indicate: Cleveland, 50 Harrison, 42 McKinley, 45 Bryan, 53. If these figures indicate anything, it is that Illinois. Indiana and Iowa are safely registered in the McKinley column, while in Missouri, the silver candidate is going to increase the Democratic majority of 1892. In the states, outside of Illinois, where Cook county votes in full, or has the opportunity to do so, only ten per cent, of the votes are given the opportunity to vote in this contest, and the figures are an index only to that extent.

POLITICAL NOTES.

The date for the big demonstration the Republicans, set for the 24th, has been changed to the 28th. It is thought that a larger crowd can be attracted here in the middle of the week than on Saturday, on which day it will be impossible for many engaged in business to take part in such a demonstration.

Announcement was made this week that Tapt. James W. Haley, who retired from the city council last spring, to which he was elected as a Republican, has espoused the cause of Bryan and free silver. Capt. Haley was a candidate before the Republican county convention in June for the position of county commissioner for this district.

One of the political sensations of the week was the announcement by Col. W. E. Mcljean, Democratic state senator from this county, that he was opposed to Bryan and would support, McKinley in the present campaign. This announcement was made at Indianapolis Tuesday night, when Col. McLean presided at the meeting of old soldiers which was addressed by the union generals, Sickles, Alger and others.

Terre Haute can produce as many nove election bets as any city in the country. Mention was made recently of a peanut rolling bet, and it is announced that Geo. H. Hebb, the well known printer, and Jacob J. Truinett, the Democratic cand datcyfor the legislature, have made another peculiar bet. Both are in the rubber stamp, business, and as Hebb Is as confident of McKinley's election as Truinett is of Bryan's, each bets hiB rubber stamp outfit against the other on his candidate. The loses agrees to retire from the rubber stamp business for the perio 1 of ten years.

The date for the Bryan meeting here has been definitely fixed for next Thursday. October 2*2. The presidential candidate will arrive in the city from the east at 8:80 Thursday evening. He will make a speech from the east steps of the court house shortly after his arrival, and will speak from the balcony of the Terre Haute House at 8:80. He will be accompanied by his wife, who joined the party in Minneapolis this week. They will spend the night here, but will not be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Lamb as has been announced. They will stop at the Terre Haute House, and will leave for Danville, 111., early Friday morning.

The wheelmen of this city and vicinity will have a big McKinley parade next Tuesday night, in which bicyclists alone will participate. The ladies have been invited to participate in the demonstration, and it is expected that quite a large number of them will accept. Prizes of $75 have been offered for the most appropriately decorated wheels, single and tandem. The parade will form on Ohio street, and the line of march will be west on Ohio street to Second, thence to Main, east on Main to Twelfth, north on Twelfth to Chestnut, thence west to Seventh and south on Seventh to the wigwam, where the meeting will be held. It is expected that from 1,000 to 1,500 wheelmen will take part in the parade.

The Terre Haute delegation that visited Canton last Saturday arrived home Sunday morning, highly pleased with their trip, and enthusiastic over the treatment received at the hands of Major McKinley and wife. The Canton Repository referring to their visit said: "Oneof the unique features of the day was the introduction of the next party by Master Clydie Wilvert. known as the boy orator of Indiana, and only ten years old. He made a political address of several thousand words with all the force and energy of an old cam pxigner. The party he introduced was composed principally of commercial travelers several hundred in number coming from Terre Haute, Evansville and Vinceu-

Ind. With this party came J. J. ^hnttleworth, a former Canton'an. who presented the party and introduced the youthful orator.'*

Corns on Nervous hildren. A chiropodist says that nervous children are apt to have corns. This is oftentimes because such clinch the fingers slightly, almost imperceptibly, and are apt to draw up the toe* at the same time. It is a alight but frequent movement, and It cramps the toes and finally irritates the tender surface at the joints. He e^rtasheea again that It i* not broad sfc 4 so much as loaf shoe* that should be worn by growl og children, and assert* that the pointed toe I1 *ga'~n wv,-fc such a catalogue of it—ctnfeol an b__i brought, to by no means such unhygienic wear a* others more commended

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ABOUT WOMEN.

We who have had weddings in the house all know how tired a family can look after the bride has gone, the last guest departed, and with him the necessity for further effort, writes L. H. F.in Harper's Bazar. How each one drops exhausted on to chair or sofa, to discuss in inert tones and broken inconsequential sentences, interrupted by requests to passing servants, the events of the day! The flowers still fill the house with their perfume: the new dresses chosen with such enthusiasm for the occasioh*till have all their charming freshness but a stranger entering suddenly would know at once that the day, whatever it was, was' done. Expectation is over, and satiety has taken its place. The thought of what has been has given way to a sort of weary wonder whether, after all, such work had been necessary for such transient results.

We know, too, we who have had weddings, how the days that follow must ailways be as full as the days that have passed, though robbed of the stimulus that comes from laboring for picturesque results. While the littlfe bride is journeying, unconscious of our straits, we are striving to make the wheels of our household run smoothly again, to care properly for her presents, to arrange that her home1 coming be as sweet as that of her going. Then it is that, rest not having come to us, the man of the house becomes concerned with bis wife's tired face. He begins tf grumble, to talk about the fuss and folly of such ceremony, the waste of strength ijb entails, the bad example of it, the extravagance. And by-and-by, when some months have flown and carried with them the remembrance of the more delightful part,

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little bride herself, grown by that tame into a sense of responsibilities, anxiety, perhaps, and disappointments, will begin to question the wisdom of it all. If she&ti poor and worried about money, and find herself without any color in her life or opportunity to get it, she will wish she had the money to spend that her wedding-dress cost—that dress she dreamed about auat insisted upon having, and which has lain? ever since in a trunk, done up with bits of white wax to keep out the yellow stain^

What then, has this talk about folly and futility and fatigue to which we listen to do with the wedding of some child we love? All our croaking will not cure our desire, for the instinct to mak^ marriage a time of rejoicing is deep-seated in humanity, like that of sending a man on his journey with good wishes and good gifts.

Now and then one hears that secret marriages are best that confusion and fuss can be avoided in that way. Yes! Quite true and one can start with a bigger bank account for all the extra tins and kettles that one needs. But what has been done meantime with the sentiments When people begin the new life that marriage and a house in common mean, good wishes count as much in the launching of new purposes as any petty surplus in the bank. Besides, why should we rob the world of even one occasion when its happiest may be expressed Those who Would do so in order to avoid fuss and bother will tell you that marriage only concerns two people, that it is their affair, and no one else harf any business with it. But for all that, no act in life belongs so completely to others as marriage. The relations of individuals cease then to be personal. They belong to society and the world, and the individuals

its codes and its ordinances. It is only the woman who marries for the second time who can afford to have surprises about her wedding, to do without all that makes the marriage of younger people so charming. She can afford to do this, because she knows, and the world knows, that the sentiment felt by society for the younger bride can never be hers as the widow who marries again. Her taste then controls her, and she spares her friends the obligations for any but spontaneous expressions of good-will.

But the young girl! Why make her wedding ami its expense a bugbear? Why not give her all we have without grudging, without stint, not indulging in extravagance, not cultivating it, not keeping up a false appearance, nor pretending to what we have not, but keeping all the truest* -t, and best sentiments alive, and not tuujraing if after much trouble nothing remains of it all but a memory What rise left of a beautiful flower

There Is a rebellion among t&ft JJWtty girls of Wyandotte, Mich., against the restoration of tight sleeves, and they have In lividoally and collectively declared that

We all know these things, and yet we gd on year after year repeating the same ex*| periment, and will do so to the end of time, cipient mustaches or whiskers, are talked Papas will grumble as much, but be asj about than there used to be. But there is

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generous. We will do for our secom daughter what we bewailed with ourflrst as much for our nieces as we did for our children. And I, for one, am glad of Every woman is glad secretly in herEearSfV For each one knows that this is the one time in a girl's life when, as an object of interest, she is supreme, and no one would rob her of an iota of her glory. In every event afterward that interest is divided. So all the world will do what it can for a bride be she rich or poor. It will work for her as if no other bride had existed before. The young girl does this for her friend because dreams of her own are filling her. The married woman does it because halfforgotten dreams of her youth come back again. She may be cynical about marriage, but she likes to encourage its trial by others. She is always deluding herself that some one of the new ventures may prove the greatest success, and she wants to help it if she can.

are governed by its laws and its customs, heart. A woman battled with a man. He disarmed her. "I am now at your mercy," said the man. "What helped you over the great obstacles of life?" they asked a successful man. "The other obstacles," he answered. "Where," asked one woman of another, "Is the best place to keep a man's heart?"

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they will not wear the horril things, even though they are decreed by the modistes. The girls assert that in the first place they prevent the circulation of the blood in the arms. Not only this, but after getting on the arms cannot be raised to adjust the hat. The only thing to do then is to put on the hat immediately upon raising in the morning, then dress, removing the hat in the evening just previoas to retiring. Now the tight sleeve would be all right were it not necessary to wear some other things, but this time of the year it is folly to think of adopting sleeves to the exclusion of all other articles of wearing apparal. The girls of Wyandotte who possess more common sense than vaniqF have declared against the free and unlimited manufacture of sleevesa ratio of 16 inches of person to 1 in5 cloth, and are overwhelmingly in favor of a mo^e expansive standard sleeve. They won't even attempt to secure an international agreement, but are acting independent of the disciples of tho late lamented Worth. Medium-sized sleeves are good enough for their money, and that is what they propose to wear. They will at once send a protest to their modistes against attaching the dreadTu' things to their gowns, and asking that garments made with suitable sleeves be declared a la mode.

Some pseudo scientists have been saying lately that it is altogether likely that the woman of the future, not the very near future, perhaps, but fifty or 100 years from now, will be beVhiskered and will sport a mustache, side whiskers, and even, perhaps, a full beard, just as the men do now. This prophecy has arousod some little interest on the part of both men and women, and it must be said has not been thought pleasantly of by either sex. Men say they very much prefer women as they are at present, and the man is yet to be found who thinks he could endure with any degree of equanimity a wife or best girl who had anything even remotely resembling a beard or a fraction of one.

Statistics do not show that the woman of to-day, taken on the average, has any more hair on her face than the woman of fifty years ago had. Of course, such great strides have been made in the application of electricity for removing hair that many gaore cases of women who do possess in-

no medical man who would say, and several prominent ones have been questioned by the writer, that hair on the feminine jjfaoe has increased.

Scientific men generally laugh at the proposition, and the favorite expression they used in connection with it is "moonshine." There is not the slightest evidence that such a thing will happen in the future, and judging from the past and the fact that women have existed in this world for 6,000 years and have been beardless all this time is considered a good and sufficient reason why women are likely to continue as they are in this regard. The men who have brought forward the theory have never adduced any reason why.

Their Sons Met.

The other day at McMinnville, Oregon, at the meeting of the Bimetallic League, Samuel Brown, son of John Brown, of "soul goes marching on" fame, met William Booth, son of the sheriff who hanged John Brown. As is the custom of all conventions in Oregon, every delegate does his best to get acquainted with every other delegate, and all delegates speak whether acquainted or not. Several delegates were going about introducing a rather handsome man of forty or thereabouts, whom they called Mr. Booth, of McMinnville. They would say of him: "Mr. Booth is the son of the sheriff who banged John Brown, of Osawatomie, at fiarper's Ferry."

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than a common interest in Mr. Booth. Finally Mr. Booth was introduced to a man of excellent appearance, whose name was Samuel Brown. After the introduction, Mr. Booth and Mr. Brown chatted vi pleasantly for a minute or two. "Mr. Booth," said Mr. Brown, "was it your father who hanged John Brown at Harper's Ferry "Yes," said Mr. Booth. "He was sheriff at that time, and it was his duty to officiate at the execution. No relative of yours, I hope "Only my father," was the quiet reply»

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Away from his head," she replied. "Why can't I break the chains you weave?" asked Love of a clever woman. 'Because I make them so light," she in swered. "Why ace you not more glad to see me?"

Pleasure of one of her favorites. 'Became yon call so often," answered the spoiled girl.

A bird sang a beautiful song, which was echoed again and again. "I would have had to listen to shrieks," said the bird, "had I first uttered them." —imm tleenaed to Wed.

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Jamst E. WHcbtand Mary K. Murray. Chas. W. Barley and J»ora A. Cale. JohawUian J. Cansford and Lsearina Hill. Samuel Arkett and Lara Boom. Ovrtn A. Burtres* and Nora O. Newman.

Some men learn enough in a year of travel to bore oth«rs for a lifetime.

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GENTRY LAY-.

A GREAT EVENT OVER THE FAMOUS TERRE HAUTE TRACK.

The Fastest Pacing Horse on Earth to Go to Beat Two Minutes—Indications of a Big: Crowd—-Closing Movement for Tuesday.

To quote the language of Forest Kendall, who cab tell in more flowery language than any other person in this vicinity the merits of horses and the beauties of horse races, next Tuesday, October 20th, will "long live in song and story" as a day of deed mighty—the making of a record of a mile in two minutes over the famous Terre Haute track. John R. Gentry, "the little red horse," will go a mile that day to beat the record made by himself of •2:00' ,.', and it is the belief of his owner, Mr. ainipson. of New York, that the mile can be made over the incomparable Terre rfaute track. Superintendent Jeffers, whose lieart is in the work, will wager a few years of his existence that if the elements will let him alone he will have the fascist track next Tuesday afternoon that hoof of horse ever touched. It is always fast, but right now it is faster than ever, and when John R. Gentry makes his appearance Tuesday it will be to make the record of the two-minute horse that we have been hearing about so long, but have never seen. Two other races have been arranged for that day, a fast trot and a fast pace, and the list of entries is likely to make these contests most interesting.

The Terre Haute Trotting Association, under whose auspices this meeting is given, h.v* decided to make a popular price of admission, and it has therefore been fixed at fifty cents, with grand stand free. It is within the reach of all, and as the railroads aru to give excursion rates on that day, it likely that large crowds will be drawn hr \. fui' this wonderful event. 'ihe merchants have taken hold of the i.itter in the right spirit, and many of :.}m will close during Tuesday afternoon, i:ive their employes an opportunity to .. jL.iesH this record breaking evtnt. Up to the hour of going to press the following business men and firms have sigued the agreement. It is likely that by this evening the list will be largely increased: P. J. Kaufman. E. R. Wright. Chas. H. Goldsmith. Miller Bros. E. II. Bindley Co. & T)ook. Bell & Black, (l. L. Braman Co. J. It. Duncan & Go. S. C. Barker.

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PEOPLE AND THINGS.

For the first time in forty years the circuit court of Logan county, Kentucky, convened in regular session recently without a murder cas on the docket.

A New Yorker received a commanication from a detective agency, requesting him to call on a matter that concerned him deeply. He called and was shown a snapshot picture taken iu Central park that made him seek a divorce lawyer.

J. O. Thurber of East Turora, N. Y., recently purchased from a farmer a cent of 1804, the price asked by the farmer being 50 cents. Thurber received a note from a dealer afterward stating that the coin was worth $1,200. There is only one other in existence.

A few days ago a man in Cincinnati was married to the materialized spirit of his dead sweetheart. The room was darkened, the bride-spirit floated out of the cabinet, and the spirit of a minister performed the ceremony, not forgetting to pocket his fee. The ghostly bride then disappeared, and the bridegroom went home.

Great Britain and Australia are the only islands which exceed Cuba in natural resources. When not wasted by war Cuba produces, with a large share of her soil untouched, 1100,000,000 worth of sugar and tobacco annually, besides the products of orchards and forests, rivers and mountain mines.

A young New Yorker, who, within the past few years, has almost entirely dissipated a large fortune left him by his father, has settled down and gone into business for himself. He has taken desk room in an office downtown, and his business card reads: "Heal estate and merchandise broker. Any old thing bought and sold. Money to loan sometimes."

Of countries for which dependable statistics are returned Ireland takes the highest place for numerous families, the size of the average family being 5.2. Next in order comes Russia, 4.83 Spain, 4.65 Italy, 4.56 Scotland, 4.46 Holland, 4.22: Sweden, 4.12:

Germany, 4.10 England, 4.06 Austria and Belgium, 4.06 Switzerland, 8.91 Hungary, 3.70 Denmark, 3.61, and France, 8.08.

The report is current that the syndicate of New York and Philadelphia capitalists, which has been formed to construct an electric trolley railway between these two cities, has given out work that will cost #415,000. A power-house to cost •I00,00',t according to the report, is to be built near Boundbrook, N. J. The length of tbe road, with Its large number of brandies, will, it hi computed, be over 1,300 miles.

Hundreds of men who went to Alaska last spring to dig gold ar« now coming

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b-ick to the northwestern cities. The universal complaint of these refugees is not of hard work, cold, frosts and snow, but of the almost intolerable burden of mosquitoes. "They are there in such swarms that sometimes you seem to be looking at the sun through a snowstorm," says one ex-sufferer, in a Seattle paper.

Anew Bource of revenue is to be opened to the farmers of America, and especially to those of the eastern and middle states, in the European demand for apples, which is growing rapidly. Last year 85,000 barrels were exported, while tbe exports this year already amount to more than 600,000 barrels. The fruit brings good prices, but* only the best of it can be sold in competition with the foreign product.

Twenty years ago, when the British formally annexed the Transvaal, they found in the republics's treasury exactly 36 cents. This year President Krueger has asked—that is, commanded—his Boer legislature to appropriate from tbe surplus of the country $4,250,000, for the purchase of arms with which to suppress any inclination the tux paying English residents may show toward interfering with local polltics.

PARAGRAPHS PITHLY PUT.

Many a blessing in disguise effectually eludec detection. It is in the darkest corner of the piazza that love can see best.

Fight your troubles one at a time and those in the front rank will run. Until a person is out of debt he never knows what it is to breathe freely.

The girl who protests most violently against marriage is the soonest wedded. Few men remember their wedding anni versaries, but their wives never forget them.

There are few wicked actresses as wicked as their press agent would have the public believe.

The man who looks around and laughs after he has fallen down has a keen sense of humor.

When a boy says "No" at the table it doesn't mean no it means that he is tryng to be polite.

Some men cannot consider themselves truly religious without making other people uncomfortable.

One reason why many people care nothing for the school of experience ip that it never gives any diplomas.

Peopli who are digging out their last winter's underwear find that the moth has been having underwear to burn.

If one is anxious to kill time the surest weapon is hard work, though sometimes it does other killing than that intended.

It is a wise woman who never puts on paper anything but that which she would not mind were the whole world to read.

The owner of pretty feet and silken Bkirts always finds the crossings too dirty to walk over without raising her draperies.

Nothing is more disheartening to a man than the discovery that he haft married a woman who loves to keep his writing table in order.

The mildest-tempered man in the world will slam the door after him when his wife asks him to bring the flower pots off the porch so the frost won't hurt them.

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to a photographer and has its picture taken sitting on a hair rug with all its clothes off. An engagement ring is one a girl puts on her finger so as to show off before the other girls. A wedding ring is one a woman puts on to remember something by and then forgets what it was.

Reflections of a Bachelor. Praying for a husband doesn't take the place of watching him.

Men who think they know too much to get married generally don't know enough Some women don't dress for their husbands for fear they might not feel at home.

Men would have more respect for babies if they believed they really understood tbe language women talk to them.

Tailor-made gowns may have lots of style about them, but the average man likes the woman best who wears something soft and fussy around her neck.

When you hear a girl talk about her "boudoir," she has generally rigged up a corner of her bed room with some sofa cushions and a Japanese lantern.

Y. M. C. A. Lecture Course. The Y. M. C. A. lecture course will open November 17 with a concert by the Redpath Grand Concert Co. The other numbers in tbe course are as follows: Dec. 15, Robert J. Bunlette Feb. 9, Rev. N. D. Hillls, D. L). Feb. 22, George R? Wend ling March 30, Boston Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club April 20, LelandPowers. No more interesting programme was ever arranged for a lecture course than that offered here, and it is likely to prove a financial as well as a artistic success.

Maximillian Berndt, an eighteen year old boy, who was formerly an inmate of the Rose Orphan Home, but is now employed in tbe mines at Fontanet, this week received $2,2S0 in gold from his grandmother's estate in Germany. His father, Ernest Berndt, was formerly a cigarmaker in this city, but several years ago committed suicide. His mother placed him in tbe orphan home, went west, and was burned to death in a hotel fire. Tbe credit of securing him the money belongs to W. E. Hendrich, the attorney, who haa been working on tbe matter for six years. He receives for his share in the transaction the neat littie sum of £538*