Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 October 1896 — Page 1

ON THE QUI VIVE.

It doesn't seem possible to do anything nowadays without having the taint of politics attached to it. Afternoon ten parties resolve themselves into political discussions. Euchre parties, whether of males or females (and females are more bitter than the opposite sex), are likely to break up in rows over the merits of gold and silver. Even the schools are affected by it, and it is said that the utmost endeavors of the teachers cannot secure the work from the pupils that would be possible were the*differences between McKinley and Hobart on the one side and Bryan-Sewall-Watson on the other settled to the general satisfaction. The afternoon tea parties, the euchre clubs and the school teachers and their pupils will be mutually satisfied when the question at stake

And when it comes to manifesting feeling in the present business the Gazette certainly takes the cake. For about 258 of the 818 publication days in each campaign year, the Gazette editor is one of the cleverest fellows that ever was. He

severest renown mat e.er ..

is

jovial ana jouy, jnies piwwHu., election of McKin about Mr. So-and-So, talks jocularly about ^8tandinKarm2 the Anti-Crooked-Back Bicycle Club, of which he is a member, and in other ways does various things to make himself a good fellow, which he is by instinct, birth and education. Then for the other sixty days he allows mean things to go in his paper that even the Chicago Dispatch and New York World wouldn't print—and that is saying a great deal, for no person has yet been found that could produce any mean thing that these papers wouldn't print.

F"or instance, one day this week the county commissioners were assailed because they had raised the tax rate in the county, in various amounts, in the city the raise being from $1.14, the 1895 rate, to •1.80, 1(1 cents. It would havfi been easy enough for the papdr that wanted to print the news, separated from politics, to discover that fourteen cents of the sixteen raise, wm made by the board of city school trustees, and was a matter with which the commissioners had nothing to do. The notable falling off in the enumeration of school children in thb city last spring necessarily causes a reduction in thf apportionment of taxes due the board, au! hecessitates an increase in the revenues from the only source possible, their taxing power. Right now several of the schools of the city are furnishing only half day schooling to the children in certain districts because it is impossible to accommodate them, and had the trustees refused to provide means for future accommodations there would have been such a howl that nothing else would have been heard. For instance, look at the protests that have been made on the school accommodations of the districts in which new buildings are being erected, because of the inability of the contractors to finish buildings according to contract. If the school trustees had failed to make any provision for these school districts, there is no telling where the trouble would have ended. The trustees did the only thing they could do under the circumstances, especially as the state is receiving less interest on its school fund loans than ever before. They raised the tuition tax from 11 cents to 25 cents, reported the fact to the commissioners, and it was necessarily made a part of the levy. Then the Gasette goes to work and raises a great cry about the extravagance of the board of commissioners that necessitated a raise in the county taxes. A little investigation would have disclosed the cause of this raise, but It would have deprived the paper of a chance of making political capital, and during these thirty days that would be a great hardship. It may possibly affect a few votes before «leetton day, and that apparently is all that is desired.

The commissioners did make an increase In the county taxes by levying an assessment of two cents on all property In every toynship for the purpose of creating a nvol road fund. Every business man la community, every taxpayer, will apk)Vp of a movement to bettor the roads in county, and gravel roads cannot be juild on hope and sunshine. It takes money, and the only way the commissioners have to raise money is by taxation. For years we have been endeavoring to improve the roads of this county, which as a rule do not compare with those of Parke, and other counties in this vicinity. The

allow si miliar bills contracted by Mr. Stout, Mr. Butler's predecessor. Spartanvirtue, to be properly exercised, must invariably show up the shortcomings of your political adversaries, and when it comes to tftis Mr. Hyde and "Uncle Jimmy" are Spartans ont of sight. Dr. Jekyll can fix it np all right after next Monday night, and beginning with the issue of Tuesday. If there is anything he is a past master in, it is in the art of making everybody that he has slurred during the thirty days previous to an election feel good in the days that immediately follow such an event. ______

settled, and so will a great many others ing, barring enthusiasm. All of which who are disgusted with the feeling that is serves to call attention to the immense difference between Evansville and Terre manifested in the present campaign.

Down in Evansville when Bourke Cockran spoke in behalf of Sound Money, and against the party with which he has always been identified, the Lamasco roughs attempted to break up his meeting with a

riot. meeting was as peaceable as a prayer meet-

When he spoke in Terre Haute his

Haute, even so far as toughs are concerned.

Wonder if Eugene Debs, who has a great many friends in Terre Haute who like him but not some of his radical views, will tell those friends, and expect them to believe that he believes it, what he told some of

the le

J„vl»l «r,d jolly, writ*. ple^.ot thing. tCVwhen

chlawo he made a cam-

.lection of McKln-

ley means an increase in the standing army of the United States, with a bayonet at th$ back of every workingman who attempts ask for justice. It's safe to wager that he doesn't. That would go all right in me of the tough wards in Chicago, but not here among his friends and neighbors.

This is Hugh Roquet's last day as clerk of Vigo county. To-day David L. Watson will be sworn in and will become practically clerk, that a Sunday may not pass between the expiration of the term of his predecessor and the beginning of his own. Monday the present officials will be on hand to give pointers to the new officers. The easiest thing in the world to do is to give a good word for a man, and yet it is the hardest thing to get some people to say, but Q. V. wants to be put on record as saying that Hugh Roquet has made a good cler^ of the courts of Vigo county, and he has had about him a mighty good set of assistants. He has treated everybody having dealings with him fairly, and while the fortunes of political war have made it necessary for him to retire he wil be followed by the good wishes of all. His successor, David Watson, has made good appointments to the several positions under him, and it is safe to say that the office under his charge will be conducted as efficiently as before. It will be run in the right way, which is the only way it should be run.

POLITICAL NOTES.

Anii outer eounuc* in iais .. fir*t practical step towards it is thus criti- *PPly for them »to«K*, the engageeised. This is because the Gaaette Mr. Hyde is editing that paper now for campaign purposes. After the election Is over and the good Ir. Jekyll resumes his labors.

and the goou nr. Jexyii resume® to will ri«. up ~I1 »l«™i tt, mm, or

men who first suggested and put into action the effort to better the roads of this county.

Sheriff Butler has cotne in for more than his share of attention in the Gasette in the present campaign, not that its Mr. Hyde is any tnore desirous of defeating him than any other of the candidate®, but he la a shining mark on account of having more public printing to give out to Dr. Jekyll after the campaign is over. An examination Into the expenditures of the county, AO far as the sheriff's office relates, under the present administration and of that preceding It, is not Hkel to show any glaring difference in favor of the tatter. The Spartan virtue exercised by Jimmy" Cox in objecting to the allowance of bills contracted by the preeent sheriff does not "gee

The Democrats are going to have a big time to-night and Monday night, and will wind up the campaign with a rush. Tonight at the wigwam Hon. John E. Lamb, Judge McNutt and S. R. Hamill will make speeches, and Monday night, Hon. Eugene V. Debs will make an address. A special effort will be made to have a large crowd for the Debs meeting and an attempt will be made, it is said, to have the labor organ* ization turn out for him.

Wednesday proved to be what it was claimed for it in advance for it, the red letter day of Republicanism in this county. The daylight demonstration was the greatest ever given in this county by any poll tical party, and if the claim that farmers are all for free silver, evidently the demonstration of Wednesday disproved it Every outside township was well represented In the parade, which had in it from 5,000 to 6,000 persons. The townships that were especially well represented were Otter Creek, Honey Creek, Sugar Creek, Prairie Creek and Lost Creek. In the afternoon Col. R. W. Thompson made his first speech of the campaign at the wigwam, and pleased h« audience greatly by the vigor of his re marks. In the evening there was an immense torchlight procession—probably the largest of the canipaign.

AMUSEMENTS.

oritxrsro of thr avkxtk thratkb. The new Avenue theater, which is the name to be given the remodelled Bindley Hall, will be opened next Thursday night with a performance of "Jim, the Penman," one of the most successful dramas produced under the direction of Charles Frohman. The company producing it is said to be an nnusaally strong one.

Those who desire good seats should

ment promises to be the most successful of any during the current season. The play does not need any words of praise now. it is not and never will be forgotten

sary to say it is headed by such sterling artists as Frank C. Bangs and Marie Edith Rice, not to mention a do*en others of unquestioned ability to insure the remarkable impersonation of each character and this is only small praise when the general excellence which characterises the ensemble work of this organisation is considered. Reserved seats will be placed on sale at Buntin'a drag store Monday after* noon. ________________

Bill boaids are to be utilised for the dissemination of Scriptural teachings at Muskegon. Mich., a wr-'ny for the prosecution of the work MM V.SO for the distribution of hand cards bearing Biblical texts

"Uncteiand illustrations having been organized there by A. K. Staoden, a commercial \are!ler of Chicago, who got the Rev. Dr.

with his willingness to'-oseph P. McCarthy to act a* President

ABOUT WOMEN, 'i

hats, except the unobtrusive flat headgear, were removed, and the managers' mail ha^, been crowded with commendatory letters* among which were not a few from th% ladies themselves. "The permanency of the reform rests with the ladies," one of the managers said. "No amount of mere legislation will effect anything in this mat ter. Now it may be that the ladies were so well pleased with the experience that they will doff their hats again and again, and what was a novel experiment will become the fashion. A comparatively few ladies may bring about this result if a number of ladies well known in society would take off their hats, others would doso merely by way of following a good example—by way, in other words, of being in the fashion. It would be recognized as a matter of good taste to remove the hat in the theater—which it certainly is—and the reform would be then effected permanently."

The mother who hopes to promote the welfare of her daughter by taking upon herself every burden of care and work and by depriving herself of comforts that her daughters may have luxuries is committing an error too grave to be overlooked. We owe it to our children that they regard us with respect as well as love, and we owe it to thepi that they learn to make some personal sacrifices as well as we. How beautiful the sight of a young girl, herself needing no adorning for her freshness and youth, beaming with happiness and love as she adds little thoughtful touches to her mother's toilet and with a kiss assures her that she is a mother to be proud of.

How different is the impression one receives of the girl who is always "going out" and who "must have nice clothes, you know," and whose mother turns and brushes the dingy old dress with a tired sigh for the new Henrietta or silk she did so long for, but gave up that Minnie might have "as good clothes as any girl." Minnie "goes in good society, you know," and the mother goes in none. She stays at home and sews all week, and wears her faded dress—not more faded than herself —to church on Sunday. She looks at Minnie, so trim and fresh and faultless in her new array, and is consoled by the thought that a good marriage is sure to be her handsome daughter's portion. But is it? Are there not some eligible young men of discernment enough to choose for a wife the girl whose mother looks fresh and handsome at 50? Who needs a morning beauty sleep most, the daughter at 15 or the mother at 50? Who needs to learn self-denial in order to be a lovely woman, who has given her best years to her children? Where can a girl learn to keep a house with the most success? In her mother's home and under her mother's careful instruction. Any other circumstances are attended with humiliation, inconvenience and often bitter heartaches, as well as indigestion.

The health of every girl should be precious in her mother's eyes. Too precious to be sacrificed to any other consideration whatever. "You mould her character let that mould her face, and God will take care of her figure." Don't put her into stiff corsets nor drag her down with heavy skirts about her hips. We dress our girls sensibly, with clothing suspended from the shoulders and with low-heeled shoes until about the time when we shonld most surely see that no undue weight nor pressure interfere with the perfect development of the form. Then there comes a change. The girl has hips now, and, of course, they must have been meant to hold up her .skirts. She is beginning to taper at the watat, which is thought to lndisate that she needs help In that direction, and a corset Is brought forward. Her lengthened figure requires further lengthening, and we add half an inch or so to the heels of her shoes, and after all this care on the part of the mother the girl must possess almost superhuman strength and powers of endurance if she reaches the age of 80 in a strong, healthful condition.

Girls should lead a very quiet and unexciting life between the ages of 13 and 17 or 18. How many of them do? And how many more are in a constant whirl of concerts, juvenile parties and other entertainments that keep them not only awake, but in a state of nervous excitement until the latest hours kept by the grown-up women of fashion? It is needless to say that no young girl may, with any sort of justice, be left to come and go at her own will, receiving company of her own choosing or accepting. Particularly should she be brought up to know that her parents or brothers are her proper escorts whenever she requires attendance, and that lovers, »ilk dresses and jewelry are things not suitable for schoolgirls.

Every girl should be a schoolgirl until she is as well educated as her brothers ought to be. The higher education of women has come to be a necessity among tW right sort of people. We shall not «h off our daughters and put them on the matrimonial market at 18. They an to be young women, well equipped for Ufe. Tbey are to have their minds so stored with useful knowledge, Inspiring hopes and lofty purposes that they will

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no time for flirting with young men make "lovering" a profession, at a mother should be her daughter's idential friend is so self-evident that thj truth scarcely needg discussing, but hef to achieve such a relation is a questi4 not every mother finds it easy to answ. r. Certainly, the mother will not reoeive the daughter's fullest confidence unless she invites it and finds it interesting. We must keep our hearts young enough •o respond to the hearts of our girls, Talk

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After several ineffectual attempts, through newspaper appeals and otherwise. to end the big theater hat nuisance in Sau Francisco, the managers of the Baldwin theater hit upon the expedient of making a personal appeal to^each lady patron. On the opening night of the season each lady on entering received a card on which was an appeal to her good nature not to needlessly lessen the enjoyment of other pa- fcver everything and advise with them trons. The plan was a success. All th«/»bout our own. affairs. Nothing invites

confidence like confidence in return. Not that we may unduly burden their young lives with care, but that we may show our children how entirely identical are our enjoyments and their enjoyments. If mothers would only go out with their daughters more, it would promote their good comradeship and would renew the mother's youth, while strongly supporting the daughter's inexperience. But whatever the mmtna unto this end, let no mother fail in being her daughter's closest confidential friend and we may to a great extent give the keynote of harmony or discord to their lives by what we are.

If a thoughtful woman were asked, "What is the greatest curse of your sex she might well answer "Impulse." It is responsible for almost all the mistakes made by the good-hearted among us. May it not be safely said that a few minutes' thought before speech or action would prevent most fatal blunders Many of us are in positive bqpdage to our bird-like quickness to feddBo show our feeling, to retort, or to ret^md. If we are hurt, we "must immediately "give ourselves away," as the phrase runs, if not by bitter speech, at least by look and manner yet reflection frequently brings the keenest regret for the lost dignity, and betrays the secret. Many a one has wrecked her own happiness for the want of the patient stoicism which would have led her to stand aside for awhile, watching events until they brought with them her opportunity. Even when we are happy, it is not always well to let the bright stream bear us away rudderless. The impulsive manifestation of affection, the hasty proposal of marriage, the hastier acceptance, have they never proved the beginnings of misery Or has a rash word never sundered true lovers, true friends If these things are true, it Is likewise true that the fault in the comtangement has been that of feminine imlsiveness. The defect is a generous one, and, therefore, commoner with us than it is with men, so that it handicaps us unfairly in the struggle of life. And truly it is a weary task to be always "with a host of petty maxims preaching down" one's heart. But we must do it either we must rule feeling or feeling will rule ub. It is a goftd servant, but a bad master. Our loving women's hearts are like the fire of the domestic hearth—the light of the home when duly controlled, warming the whole house but if the fire be not kept in its subordinate place what a conflagration ensues!

One of the most practical of the recent feminine organizations is the Rainy Day Club, which states its object: "We desire to establish through the agency of this club distinctive, sensible dress for business women." Mrs. Bertha Welby, the secretary of, the club, would like to see all business women dressed in a uniform, decided upon by the club, and distinctive enough to be recognized as such. The dress of today, she concludes, is an absurdity for busy women. "It is impossible for a woman to keep neat and clean, even in dry weather, and I believe a gown so constructed as to enable a woman to keep immaculately fresh on adusty day and dry and neat on a wet day is going to add to her self-respect, as well as her comfort, and thus contribute to her highest and noblest advancement. My idea of a suit for a business woman is a light-weight skirt, reaching to the boot tops, 2 inches higher than we now wear, which would bring the skirt too short to be injured by the most inclement weather. The waist I should leave to the taste of each woman, only stipulating that It should be without frills or furbelows."

Miss Maud Morrison, a prominent business woman in New York, declares herself strongly in favor of the "Rainy Day" dress, and is a bloomer advocate. "A pair of thick, black bloomers to fasten at the knee and come down long enough to make the skirt hang nicely, but not long enough to step on, are, I think, admirably adapted to the purpose. Over this alight dress skirt of reasonable length. Jacket and waist to please the wearer, strong, well-fitting shoes and leggings and a hat that can stand rain complete my ideal costume."

Mrs. Marie Merrick says: "I don't approve of the uniform part of it that is, I believe every woman should consult her own taste in color, etc. But I emphatically do believe in a distinct rainy day attire. Let it be composed of a short skirt, over knickerbockers or bloomers. And If one dreads attention in this garb, I would suggest wearing as an outside wrap a light gossamer. Simplicity and neatness are the essentials of the proper costume, and neither of these can be obtained in the present mode of dress."

Mrs. Emma Beck with, who is an ardent clab woman, from Sorosis down, la another prominent member of the club. The costume Mrs. Bock with deems appropriate for New York's most erratic weather moods is as follows: "The most essential item," sbe says, "is to have heavy cloth—men's suitings would be the best so that the wind may have no effect on it.* The skirt most come to the hoot tope. Twould spoil the effect if cat «ither above or below. It most be of the

divided skirt pattern, and exceedingly full in the extreme back to hide the divided effect. It should be buttoned on either side, with twd large pockets under the laps. The waist should be plain and shoes well fitted. In cold weather knickerbockers should be worn under the divided skirt."

HER INVENTIVE CENIUS.

Some of the Tilings Women Have Thought of and Patented. A bicycle skirt.

Non-refillable bottle. A improved dust-pan. Improved window sash. An improved medicine glass. An adjustable quilting frame. Fastener for bottles, jars, etc. Abdominal supporter and bandage. An improved self-heating sadiron. An improved duplex dress shield. A telescopio-shaped miner's lantern. An improved device to aid the hearing. A table implement for holding green corn.

A protecting pocket or screen for ranges. An ingenious machine for hanging wall paper.

A device for supporting flexible gas pipes or tubes. A shoe upper made of one piece of material and joined by one seam only.

An improved refrigerator wherein the shelves revolve, giving ready access to the contents.

A scissors holder consisting of a metal loop, with ends bent backward and safety pin attachment.

An ingenious work table provided with handy little pockets and drawers which pull out just where wanted.

A combination of curling tongs and stove or heater for same, with fuel, and all combined in a pocket case.

An ingenious hiuged garment stretcher, which simulates the human form, and when not in use folds into small compass.

A sectional blackboard for school purposes, with sections so arranged as to permit several scholars to work at once without interference.

A lapboard which, instead of being made in the ordinary shape, is made round, and prevents any possible looseness in tbe outside material, as the board has practically the curve of the body.

Many Millions of Matches. The Diamond Match company, recently made a world's record on production in their factory in Barberton, O., says the American Woodworker. In one day they produced 12,856 gross of boxes of matches, which means 1,779,264 boxes, and 100 matches are put in each box, making the day's output 177,926,400 matches. At that rate that factory can produce in a year 64,948,136,000 matches, which means 927 matches a year, or nearly three matches a day for each one of the 70,000,000 inhabitants of this country. All this work isdone by automatic machinery that is without its equal in the world. This work was done by 840 workmen and thirteen "continuous match-making machines." The largest match factory in Great Britain employs 8,000 workem, but they cannot equal the output of the 340 workmen in the Barberton mill. The comparison is instructive all around. The machines used by this company have added ili to every share of their capital stock.

Literature and Marriage. The most prolific women novelists seem to be as much given to marrying as to writing. The indefatigable author of "Phyllis' and "Molly Bawn," popularly known by her pseudonym of The Duchess, having been discovered to be Mrs. Argles, confused her multitudinous readers by becom ing Mrs. Hungerford. It is hard to learn whether Mrs. L. T. Meade, who is now Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Toulman Smith, has been married three times or only twice. Allibone and "The American Catalogue," throw no light on the question whether she was born Thomas and married Mr. Toulman, or was born Toulman and plightr her maiden troth to Mr. Meade, or whether the "L. T. Meade" of her title pages la merely a nom de plume. Miss Annie S. Swan is Mrs. Burnett Smith. The name of Smith seems to be as popular among women authors as among other women.

The Poster Girl.

A great deal has been heard about the "new woman" and much about- the "summer girl," but the latest thing of all is the Poster Girl—not the one that has been pictured by Aubrey Beardsley, but the real thing in flesh and blood. She is all the go in Paris, has been talked about in London, is the rage in New York and has put in an appearance in Philadelphia. As a rule, she does not resemble Raphael's Madonna so much as a lively French picture, but she is something of across between. She studies her style and poses. There must be a proper droop to her figure and an undulating curve to her waist. As to her costume, an Alma Tadema yoke, huge and puffy sleeves, a girdle of gold or silver and agreat trig hat generally of black with plume®'is essential. The Poster Girl is unmistakably the coming freak of fashion.

Never i4co2d.

Avoid the scolding tone. A tired mother may find it hand to do this, bat it is she who will get more good by observing the rale. Tbe tone of scolding tells upon the throat, just where a woman who is not oventrong is apt to feel the ache of extreme fatigue. The children, too, who are great imitators, will be sure to catch the ywUfag tone, and will talk to their dolls, to one another, and by and by to their own children very much as their mothers now talking to them.

TUESDAY'S ELECTION.

The judgement of th\» average man regarding his attitude and vote in Tuesday's election is probably fixed beyond change now. In the last day or twocampaign sensations and roorbacks may be sprung, likely will be, and effect a few votes, but the majority of persons have become familiar with this feature of elections, and take no stock in these latter-day surprises. All that argument can do has been done. There has never been a campaign in which literature has been so generally distributed and speeches delivered in such profusion as the one jnst closing, and every man has had the opportunity of forming clear conclusions as to what will best benefit him in the selection of a candidate for whom to cast his vote. This work has had one effect plainly to be seen, and that is that the people are determined to vote on Tuesday. The registration in every state where registration laws are in force is larger by far than ever before. So, whatever the result may be, it will be the voice of the people speaking, and the people must rule.

On a straighout vote between the Democrats and the Republicans there can be but little questio but that the result would be in favor of the latter. But a great element of uncertainty has been added to the election by fusion between the Democrats and Populists. In twenty six states, with 368 electoral votes, fusion has been effected, the division of electors being 190 Democrats and .73 Populists. There are defections in both the regular Republican and Democratic parties, and it is a question whether or not the Populist effort at fusion will draw all the votes of the members of that party to the electoral ticket made for them by their leaders. The uncertainty of the result so far as being able to tell with any definiteness how the several states will go, can be no better shown than by a comparison of the claims made by the chairmen of the two leading committees. Mr. Hanna and Mr. Jones do not seem to be able to agree on the states their respective candidates will carry, as shown by the following table, the first column in the tabulation below being Mr. Hanna's claims of the states that McKinley will carry, and the second Mr. Jones's claim for Mr. Bryan. It is apparent that one or the other of these gentlemen is a very poor guesser.

HANNA'8 CLAIMS. Connecticut 8 Delaware 3 Iowa 13 Illinois 34 Maine «8 Michigan 14 Maryland 8 Nebraska 8 N. Hampshire 4 Ohio 23 West Virginia 0 Pennsylvania 38 Vermont 4 North Dakota 3 Washington 4 Wyoming 8 California 9 Indiana 15 Kentucky 13 Kansas 10 Massachusetts 15 Minnesota 9 Now Jersey 10 Now York 36 Oregon 4 Rhode Island 4 Wisconsin 12 South Dakota 4

JONES'S CLAIMS. Alabama 11 Arkansas 8 California 9 Colorado ........... 4 Florida 4 Georgia 13 Idaho 3 Illinois 24 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Kansas 10 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 8 Maryland 8 Michigan 14 Minnesota 9 Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Nebraska 8 Nevada 8 North Carolina.... 11 North Dakota 3 Oregon 4 South Carolina .... 9 South Dakota 4 Tennessee 12 TexaB 15 Utah 3 Virginia 12 Washington 4 West Virginia ... 8 Wyoming 3

Total 302

Total 292

The Chicago Record's postal card election, to show which way the wind is blowing, did not prove as successful as was anticipated, owing to the notice of the Democratic national and state committees in the several states advising the members of that party not to take part in it. Not to exceed thirty-three per cent, of those who received postal invitations to participate in the election took opportunity of expressing their preferences, but of those who did Mr. McKinley seems to have had the best of it. Whether or not this is a fair indication of how the states named will go cantlot be told until after next Tuesday. Below is the net result of the postal card vote, which closed with the count of votes received at the Record office in Chicago last Tuesday:

McKinley. Bryan.

Palmer 388 106 13 8 80 287 182 82 197 300 192

Kentucky 5,203 5.771 Minnesota 8.309 1.883 South Dakota 1,480 847 North Dakota 758 280 Kansas 8.941 3.534 Wisconsin 10.112 !,193 Michigan 12,899 3.995 Nebraska 5.371 2,1® Indiana 13.973 5,710 Iowa 14.425 4,839 Missouri 9,808 9,149

Chicago 87.795 14.179 1,593

Total 173J501 60,235 3,683 It will be seen that in all of tbe states but Kentucky McKinley had decidedly the best of the vote.

How He Won Him.

"Tommy," said Mrs. Bllmber to her eldest hopeful, "pass tbe Rev. Mr. Todgers a potatoe." Tommy seized the potatoe between a thumb and finger, and before his mother could utter a horrified remonstrance he had tossed it across tW table and squarely Into the good man's lap. "Judgment I" cried Tommy. 'One strike,'' qnoth the good man. "Tommy, leave tbe table," shrieked hi* mother. "Madam," said the pastor, "do not judge him harshly. See how beautifully he put the sphere over the plate." And now there isn't a more earnest worker in all the big Sundayschool than that same Master Tommy.

Licensed to Wed.

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crtj.i.ri Star* .-f.'j Cei- -:la Cart- -ter. Geo. E. Thrnc i' nd Cora K. Barney. Percy B. anil: -itt and Jane Wood. Hiram E. Hankey and Forsyth. Martin F. Foody and ¥lr B. Knight* Z. Delias Ells and Bose M. Stout. Otto o. Hornnng and Carrie M. Sage. Win. E. ileller and Olive 8. Carr. Jawb Gopeland and Maude E. Paynei Walter A. Haley and Minnie Krtetensteln