Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 November 1896 — Page 1

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iWOJj. 27—NO. 21.

ON THE QUI VIVfi.

What will the harvest be? The election is over, the Republicans hare won, and a number of fat offices are to be given out, and the question agitating the minds of a great many ambitions citizens is, who will get the plums?

There area lot of citizens willing to give tip their private business for the time being to work for Uncle Sam.

The principal plumb is that of revenue colledtor to succeed Judge Jump. It pays $4,500 a year. There area number of ap plicants for the position away from here, chief among them being James H. McNeely, of Evansvilie. Mr. McNeely was at one time editor of the Express, but was so wrapped up in the town on the Ohio that he sent his laundry down there—the Terre Haute work not being satisfactory to him. Mr. McNeely has taken up the side of Mr. Fairbanks in the senatorial fight and exhibits a zeal worthy a better cause. He evidently believes the Indianapolis man's influence will do him more good in his aspirations, a feeling that that gentleman has not been backward about fostering. Here at home, Nicolas Filbeck is looked upon as the strongest candidate for the revenue office, to which he was entitled under Harrison's administration. The place went, however, to a gentleman from Orange county, whose chief claim to distinction after getting the office was in inviting the confidences of many wellknown members of his party and then revealing them in a wholesale manner. There has been talk that Alex Crawford is an applicant for the revenue collectorship, but he denies the soft impeachment. W. I. Overstreet, who has been in politics for along time, chiefly for the amusement in it, and who has never asked for anything for himself, is also mentioned for the place. He is not thought to be candidate although tie would hardly leave the country to keep from taking the place if offered him. There may be other candidates for this nioe office, but they have not forged to the front.

For the postoffice there area number of names mentioned, and either of the gentlemen named would ably fill the official Akoes to be vacated by Postmaster Don /ham. Among them are Frank Benjamin, county chairman in the recent campaign,

Capt. A. 0. Ford, W. C. Isbell, W. F. Ar nold, Qeo. M. Allen, Geo. J. Hammerstein, D. C. Greiner, M. N. Diall, J. W. Cruft, H. C. Hanna and Max Joseph. It is not known how many of these gentlemen have expressed a wish to write M. after thelr naunocipgEt O&hter andflpn dsst.li nnmoM, bat it i* not likely thai either of "occurred at 1:45 Friday morning. She had

them would decline the blushing honors if thrust upon him. There is not likely to bt any thrusting, however, and the man with the longest pole will knock this offi~ cial persimmon. _____

The fun, however, will be in the fight for police commissioner, and control of the I polico department. There will be a merry time when the hour rolls around for changing the police commissioner. There area number of active applicants for that position and nobody seems to know \*ho will have the most influence with the governorelect. The candidates who have been named for the position are L. L. Williamson, superintendent of the water works, John

Barbaxette, Daniel Hirael, Chas. H. Goldsmith, I. H. C. Royse and C. H. Traqualr. Ben Debaun would like to be*superintendent of police when the change in commissioners is made, and the Republicans gain control of the department So would R. P. Davis and Josiah D. Jones, both of whom have seen service under the city. Chas. M. Daggett will also be a candidate for superintendent of police, and will very likely be a formidable one. I* F. Perdue has been mentioned as a candidate, but he denies the soft impeachment and throws rocks at any person who accuses him of it. The change in the police department will be the first t« take place as a result of the election, and the other lights will be kept in the background until this is settled. Governor Mount is said to have ahead of his own and is familiar with the political situation here in Vigo county, so far as the connection of the police department politics is concerned, and when he fes to apply th6 remedy is sure to make

IVctive. ______ The recent election cost the taxpayers of county In the neighborhood of $8,000, ty nothing of the cost to them indlreetfor expenses tor the printing and dis Iributing of the state ballots. The present ballot law throws the necessary safeguards about the sanctity of the ballot, but it coat* too much money, as compared with the expense under the old law. It Is certain that no more efforts will be made to amend the present law, unless it can be done with a view to reducing the expense. In RochesPter. New York, in the recent election,, a counting machine was used which did away with ballots, and all the expense connected with their use, and allowed a voter to register his vote on a machine, which made it possible for him to vote a straight or mixed ticket, prevented any misuse of the machine, and enabled the election board to report the result of each precinct's vote within a tew minute* after the the polls. In using the machine a ticket was shown, giving the name* of every candidate on the several party ticket*. If a man wanted to vote a straight ticket, he pn a knob under the emblem of his Ipa- This locked every other design,and it was impossible for him to oast but one vote. If he desired to vote a mixed ticket jhe 4 a knob in front of each man hs de*».«*i u»vot® for, and the machine locked itself so that he was able to vote for bat one man for each office. All that waa Aecoessary when the polls were dosed was for thtiiaeUM ofloantooiM Use machine

and take dowh a summary of the votes cast for each candidate, which required but few moments, and thus the vote was ready for announcement within a short time after the close of the polls, rhe machines are expensive, but when the cost of printing tickets, time of election boards, etc., is taken into consideration the machine voting will be found to be less expensive than under the old plan. Any change in the ballot laws, other than the addition of machines, will be resented as a waste of money. Machines do every thing for us nowadays but think, and these voting machines come nearer doing this than any others yet

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AMUSEMENTS.

The engagement of Clay Clement at Avenue Theater, next Thursday evening, November 19th, has been the occasion of much comment on the part of theater goer. The following, which is only a sample of the press notices Clement received in Chicago, will interest his admirers in this city: "It was but two month# ago that Clay Clement startled the public of Chica go with his true and exquisitely finished art, and set the managers guessing who he might be and why the New York brokers bad not mentioned him in their catalogues. Since then Mr. Clement has been talked of a great deal in Chicago, and even one august manager, who hails from New York, actually thought it worth while to institute inquiries about this actor who had the temerity to come out of the west with brains in his head and histrionic talent to his finger tips. Last night Mr. Clement demonstrated that he is entitled truly to be called a great actor, a consummate artist, with a control over dramatic, the pathetic and the humorous branches of pure comedy, which very few living actors possess. There is no doubt at all about Mr. Clement's destiny, and we may as well et accustomed to ranking him with the best of our actors. It may be also Mr. Clement's happy privilege to adorn the stage in two capacities, as dramatist as well as actor, for 'The New Dominion,' in which Chicago has seen him on both his visits, in his work, and while it lacks structural strength it contains a great deal of witty dialogue, some situations which are in a most natural and unaffected fashion dramatic, and character drawing of delightful truth."

Death of Miss Cora Westfalli The many friends of Miss Cora Westfal1, daughter of Mrs. N. M. Westfall, were inexpressibly shocked yesterday by the an-

been ailing for sometime, but in the past few days had improved materially and the idea of anyserious illness was the farthest from the thoughts of herself and family. Shortly before one o'clock yesterday morning her mother was aroused by her labored breathing, and when she reached her bedside found her unconscious. Medical aid was summoned, but to no avail. She never recovered consciousness and passed away within au hour. The cause of death was congestion of the brain.

Her unexpected and untimely death has created the most profound sorrow among a large circle of friends of the family. She was the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Westfall, and was born in this city, where her entire life had been passed. She received her education in the public schools, and evincing a natural aptitude for art work took an extended course at St. Mary's institute, where her artistic nature was greatly developed. Her work in painting and in decorating china won her great credit, and she was looked upon aa one of the most capable artists in this line in the city. It was in the home circle, however, that her greatest merits were developed. Kind, patient and persevering, her presence was always encouraging. She was ambitious in all her undertakings, and her seal, no doubt, led her to overtax her energies, with the sad result just related.

The other members of the family, on which this sorrow has fallen, are the mother, Mrs. Nancy Westfall, a sister, Mrs. Robert G. Watson, and four brothers, Edwin P., George, Clifford and Herbert Westfall. They ha*e the sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends, to whom this untimely taking away comes as a deep personal loss.

The funeral services will take plaoe tomorrow afternoon, at the family residence on north Seventh street. Interment will be at Highland Lawn.

James K. Piety, who is the first Republilican to be elected to the position of Circuit judge in this county under the present arrangement, has made some especially good appointments and if he shows as much good judgement and ability In the transaction of the business of his office during the coming six years, he will probably be invincible should he be a candidate for re-election at the end of that time. He has made the following appointments: Simon Himmvlbaner, bailiff: Miss Chrrle Hyde, stenographer W. H. Bailey, messenger, and Charles JJnUer. jani&or. Mr. Hhnmelbauer is a well known member of the Cigar Makers* Union, an old soldier, a (rtaentative German, and above all a jerving man who is well qualified for the position. Miss Hyde is a daughter of Or. John Hyde, Republican candidate for coroner several years ago, Mr. Bailey is rhn son of a well known farmer of this inty, and a graduate of the Commercial college, while Mr. Butler has for several years been holding the position to which he has been reappointed. There were any number of applicants for the several pod* ton, and the majority of them were deserving, but that none of them have any fault to find with those appointed tea tribute to the latter'* merits.

A GREAT STORE.

With flowers and music, and decorations fit for a palace, the magnificent new store of L. B. Root & Co. was formally opened Thursday night, attracting a crowd the equal of which has never been seen in this city at any similar event. A palace it is, too, in every respect. When the Hulman building was opened it was the universal opinion that no such building for wholesale purposes was in existence in this country, and that opinion was repeated on Thursday with reference to the Root building in comparison with other retail houses in the country. Nothing like it was ever) before attempted, and it will be a long time before its equal in completeness wtlF be duplicated by any retail dry goods house in the country. From fifteen to twenty thousand persons vied with each other in gaining admission to the new store on Thursday night, and if the expressions o$ admiration of the place could be put into cold type it would make an immense volume:.^

The building Itself is a triumph of tt»e architects' and builders' art. The plans were by Terre Haute architects, Messrs. Floyd & Stone, and add new laurels to their past achievements. It occupies €4 feet frontage and extends back 142 feet. There are six stories, each appointed with the latest in the builder's, furnishers' and decorator's art. The basement is perfect in its lighting and ventilation, and can be counted as practically another story.

The high ceilings of gold and white steel1 are new features in Terre Haute. The front of the building is of pressed brick, with beautiful terracotta trimmings. Two elevators facilitate the handling of crowds. The beautiful quarter-sawed oak fixtures and furniture were built by the Bloomington Co., of Bloomington, HI. A surprise in store for visitors who had not seen the interior by day is the perfect lighting system, which is obtained by windows iu the front and rear and by a massive skylight, 25x80 feet. The system is so complete that there is hardly an inch in the entire structure to which the sunlight does not penetrate. Another admirable feature is the cash carrier system and the manner in which bundles are quickly wrapped and returned. The retail store occupies the first two floors and the wholesale department the third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors. On the first fiqor are all the departments of. t^e retail' sfedck except the cloaks, .lofts. On elegantly appointed reception room

The wholesale department Is as yet "only partially removed to the new quarters. From the sixth floor, which is one of the highest points in the city, a magnificent view of the city may be obtained. .2

The house of L. B. Root & Co. under different firm names is the oldest in the city. Mr. Root ctfme here in 1857 from Hartford, Conn.,at the instance of Ed sail, Rice & Co., who were running a dry goods store on the corner of Sixth and Main in the National House block.

There was only one store in the block at the time and none in the square on the south side of Main between Sixth and Seventh except a saloon on the corner. A few weeks after Mr. Root reached here Mr. Rice died.

The style of the Arm was then changed toEd sail, McDougall & Co. In 1859 the store was removed to the corner of Fourth and Main in a part of the building where Myers Bros., now are. In 1860 Mr. Root went to Ft. Wayne, but returned later, having sold his interest in the Ft. Wayne store to Mr. McDougall and bought the latter's half here.

The style of the firm was then changed to Edsall, Root & Co. In 1885 he returned to Ft. Wayne but he later came back to this city and bought the Interests in the store here of Mesers. Warren and Oakey and Mr. Hoberg became the resident manager. The firm name, was then changed to Hoberg, Root & Co., tinder which style it continued until last April, when Mr. Hoberg retired, and the firm hame became L. B. Root & Co.

Mr. Root is certainly to be congratulated on the beautiful building he has added to Terre Haute's attractions. Such enterprise and liberality must succeed. A building that would be a credit to Chicago or New York, set down in the midst of Tern Haute's business center as if by a magic hand, is aa advertisement for Terre Haute such as she is not likely to have again soon. It will be a monument to his energy and push such as few men can have. The Mail extends congratulations to Mr. Root, Along with thousands of Terre Hanteoaa, with the wfeh that Ua day* In the land may be long Co'enjoy the fruits of his magnificent achievement.

The following is a complete list of those connected with this model establishment: omens AND xxptom

Mr. Lewis B. Root, Resident Buyer, New York City. Mr. Robert a Miller. Credit and Financial manager.

Mr. Chas. M. Mills, Manager of Retail Department. Mr. Samuel G. Bndd, Assistant Superintendent.

Mr. Fred J. GrifBth, Manager of Wholesale Department.

TERRE HAUTE, IKD., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1896. TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR,

SILK DEPARTMF.XT.

Mr. Louis Baganz, superintendent Mr. Chas. Drake, assistant. BLACK DRESS GOODS. •Mr. G. U. Jarvis, superintendent.

FINK DRESS GOODS.

Mr. W. L. Galloway, superintendent Messrs. Edward Hagey, James Rigney, and Chas. F. Smith, assistants.

GENT'S FURNI8HING DEP'T.

Mr. Richard Chranicki, superintendent Messrs. Orvill C. Hall, and George Paige, assistants.

GLOVE DEP'T.

Miss Lena Werner, superintendent, Miss Nellie Doane, assistant. EMBROIDERY AND LACE DEP'T.

MIM Eva Cook, superintendent. RIBBON DEP'T. Miss Bertha Sanderson, Superintendent.

DRESS TRIMMINGS,

Miss Nellie G. Welch, superintendent. HANDKERCHIEFS. Miss Loukw Hauish, superintendent.

ART DEP'T.

Mrs. Sarah D. Rodenbargei, superintendent Mi** Anna King, Assistant. DRESS FINDINGS, ETC.

Miss Eva Hoopes, superintendent Mr. Wm. Welch, assistant. NOTIONS, PERFUMES, ETC.

Miss Ida Frick, superintendent Miss Irene MacKenzie and Mr. Frank Fisher, assistants. LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S HOISET DEP'T.

Miss Amelia Pescheck, superintendent Miss Lizzie McBride, assistant. LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERWEAR

DEPT.

Miss Mary Haffey, superintendent Miss Hattie Adams, assistant. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR DEP'T.

Miss Venie Spencer, superintendent. "1~ CORSET DEP'T. Miss Teresa Frisz, superintendent.

BUTTERWICK PATTERN DEP'T. Miss Bertha Baganz, superintendent, LINEN DEP'T. Mr. Robert H. Wittenberg, superintendent Messrs. Wesley Black and P. O. Dozois, assistants.

FLANNEL DEP'T.

Mr. Clarence Marlor, superintendent Mr. Harry McFarland, assistant. DOMESTIC, PRINTS, ETC.

Mr. Chas. Harris, superintendent Mr. Carl Wegrich, assistant. CLOAK AND SUIT DEP'T.

Mr. Cary Winans, superintendent4 Mrs. Anna Cooper, Miss Kate McEntee, Miss Emma Scott, Miss Grace Lee, MissMayme Nelson and Mr. Percy Cline, assistants.

CURTAIN AND UPHOLSTERING DEP'T. Mr. Gus. Roembke, superintendent Messrs. Ben McKinley and Fred Butz, assistants* .\&»"' J*

WRAPPING DEP'T.

suits, draperifes,'blanket^ fend coig$» j^STr. tidufa Kramer, rowliHMiwlt On the second floor also Is located Messrs. Thortou Neale, Leslie Ferguson, Earl Way, Henry Buder, Chas. Phillips, provided with chairs, tables, writing material, etc., where ladies when shopping can rest and write. The cloak department has been pronounced the handsomest in the country. The doors of the cases are hung on ball-bearing rollers and though very heavy, being made of handsome plate glass, may be moved with but little effort. There are two sumptuously furnished dressing rooms in this department, many exquisite rags and divans.

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David Welch, Ray Lineberger, Harry Dengler, James Hayman, Omer Dozois and Otto Fisher, assistants. Wm. Lucas, superintendent of bundles Chas. Gregory, driver Ross Brewer, driver Wm. Forthoffer, elevator Albert B. Hergersheimer, window and interior decorator W. S. Gage, engineer and machinist Robert Yest, day porter F. A. Harrison^ janitor. office.^3^

Mr. R. O. Miller, superintendent Messrs. Herman Dilge, head bookkeeper Harley L. Duke, assistant bookkeeper Will H. Meyer, assistant bookkeeper: Richard Cronin, cashier Miss Gertrude H. Flynn, stenographer.

WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT.

Mr. Fred J. Griffith, manager Miss Nellie Fitzgerald, stenographer. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.

Mr. E. T. Hays, superintendent Mr. Gilbert Logan, assistant. ,, NOTION DEPARTMENT.

Mr" Charles E. Hays, superintendent Mr. Ed Dinkel, assistant. MANUFACTURED DEPARTMENT.

Mr. T. O. Miller, superintendent Mr. Frank Ausherman, assistant. BILLING DEPARTMENT.

Mr. Van HUBS, charging clerk Miss B. McCarty, entry clerk Mr. Joon Kennedy, billing clerk.

PACKING DEPARTMENT.

Mr. W. J. Keplinger, superintendent! TRAVELING SALESMEN. Messrs. Clarence Griffith, Illinois territory John Balch, Illinois territory Ed Smith, Illinois territory Charles Hunter, Indiana anu Illinois, and Harry Davis, wagon man in country districts.

Rose Ladle* Aid Society/"*"

Hie annual Thanksgiving reception of the Rose Ladies Aid Society will be held Nov. 19th, 20th, and 81st, in room, No. 158, Rose Dispensary.

A committee froth the iociety will be present on each of these days from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. to receive from their friends the customary donations.

Children of the public schools are invited to send through their teachers their offerings.

Addresses of worthy recipients for Thanksgiving baskets will be given to any who may desire them.

Donations adapted to the needs of the Home for Aged Women, are especially solicited. The same should be so designated.

A correct list of all offerings will be kept and acknowledgements made in the next Annuals of the society, a copy of which will be mailed to each donor.

An earnest request is made that all packages of second hand clothing be sent to that member of the visiting committee residing nearest the donor. For the accommodation of those sending such pack *«es, the names and residences of the visiting committee are given as follows: Mrs. Bin Ball, 33S sooth Fifth Mrs. Caroline M. Gorden, 1126 south Seventh: Mrs. Persle Jones, #10 south Center. Mrs. Amanda DMack, 116 north Eighth: Mrs. Mary Sydney Miller, 6 south Thirteenth: Mrs. Mary M. Morris, 00 Mulberry: Mrs. Elisabeth W. Parker, 9GBsouth Sixth: Mrs, Louise Fence, 115 sooth Second Mr*. Charlotte Preston, 1353 Poplar Mrs. Christina Rubsch, 880 north Fourth Mrs. Sarah a Spottswood, 1743 north Tenth, Mrs. Mary J. Weiss, southOentec.

MAN ABOUT TOWN.

Terre Haute has graduated a number of good newspaper men in the past fifteen or twenty years. It is not in evidence that any of these products of Prairie City journalism are at all likely to involve our planet in flames, but most of them occupy desirable positions and are getting on very satisfactgrily indeed.

It is not always the youiig mftn entering the large cities in search of newspaper work receives a cordial welcome. On the contrary, he generally meets with one rebuff after another until ail hope and courage and grit are gone. Whether he stays or not, depends largely upon the kind of stuff he is made of. If his determination is weak, if his heroism is at a low ebb, the stern aspect of the situation will cause him to retire and take the first train for home!

Ir. quite recent years a mere boy, having little experiente as a reporter, went from this city to Chicago for the purpose of casting in his lot permanently with th press workers of that metropolis. He ha been in rather hard luck and was reduced, in point of his money possessions, to less than $5. A railroad friend furnished the boy transportation to Chicago, and he landed there with the amount mentioned.

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in December and the lake brefefces

were not tempered to this shorn lamb. They whistled through his clothing and chilled his blood. He was reminded that a berth in the open air would be unpleasant.

The boy first found a room and paid $2 in advance for'it, thinking he would at least have something between him and those lake breezes, The next day after arrival he visited all the newspaper offices and asked for work. "We've just laid off sixteen men," was the answer one.city editor gave him. "Where are you from asked another. "Terre Haute," answered the boy, wondering what was coming. "Well, my good fellow, Terre Haute is a good town—a heap better town for you than this. One can't buy a job here now."

The Terre Haute man had been in Chicago a week and was yet unemployed. He had shown up daily at the city rooms of all the papers, but had been regularly turned away without an assignment. There was just one man in Chicago that he knew—an assistant city editor. This man was anxious to befriend the boy, but had nothing to offer him. The two met on the street one afternoon, and the Terre Hautean must have looked pretty blue. "Hello! you here yet "Yes."

"Got a job!" r. "No." 'u'2' "How're you fixed for money "All right." "Hadn't you better let me loan you a few dollars

This question startled the youth not a little. There was music in it. The boy's room rent was due the next day, and for a goo.1 many long hours he had not eaten enough to hurt him. Still he replied: "I guess not. I'm all right yet."

The newspaper man looked sharply At him. "See here, old fellow," he said, "you look hungry. I was against the same game eight years ago myself. How much money've you got t" -s

The boy weakened.

The boy's heart sank lower and lower as the refusals piled up and the color gradually faded from the sky of his hope. At lost ho struck the "main guy" of the Press Bureau. Here .is the' encouragement he ceived: "Get your money together, young man, and get as far away from Chitago as it will take you »Ba. .it Is true, then, that when workingmen. he came back in these words: "Not on your life. I came to Chicago to get work and I am going to camp right here until succeed." "Very good, but we can't help you," said the bureau man.

"Since you press the question," he said, with the least waver in his voice, "I've got 80 cents." 'Your nerve's right, my boy you'll win. Take this and hold on."

The assistant editor placed two ten-dol-lar bills in the lad's hand and left him wrestling with his amazement. The boy recovered and was shortly in a cafe enjoying the first square meal he had seen since landing in Chicago. The next day the Press Bureau man, who had been all frost at first, thawed out a little and agreed to give the boy a few days' trial if he was willing to work for his living expenses. The boy was willing. 'But you mustn't think we will keep you at the Auditorium*" said the Bureau editor." 'I've not been living at the Auditorium," replied the youth grimly.

On his very first assignment the boy scooped" two crack men and got a first page story in all the afternoon papers. The morning following he was given a department. That was three years ago. To-day the young man Is high in the confidence of probably the strongest newspaper In Chicago, and his salary ranks up with the salaries paid the best of them.

During the annual convention of the Young Men's Christian Association in this city a year ago, a powerful address was delivered at one of the night sessions by Dr. Graham Taylor of Chicago. It was easily the master effort of the convention. Several hundred college men heud the discourse and were profoundly influenced by it. Dr. Taylor came from one of the worst districts oidarkest Chicago, and the bar-

den of his address was the ignorance, want and crime in %jj jnivl$t ..pf which...hu.,had,,.. been laboriug.

The utterance was in the nature of a call to duty and was addressed particularly to young men who are at present being educated for active life. It sought to convince these young men that physical and intellectual power entails upon its possessor a high responsibility, and that the world's need* for such power, properly directed, is very great. Dr. Taylor simply laid the social problem—that gloomiest of riddles— upon the conscience of his hearers. While millions of people were without mental,, moral or spiritual nourishment—indeed, with but poor and scanty physical nourishment—Dr. Taylor believed that any ambition on the part of a young man that did not address itself more or less directly to these conditions was an unworthy ambition.

Dr. Taylor, since speaking here, has spent one more year in the Chicago slums, and now he is announced to address the Young Men's Christian Association onoe more at its annual convention in Crawfordsville next week. The local city and school associations will send a large number of their members to this convention, and all will be sure to hear the discourse of the great missionary from the metropolis of the west.

It appears that the merchants of this city are not looking for a very heavy holiday trade. They expect possibly a little better business than they had last yearr but most of them would accept a pretty large increase and still not complain of the rush. The jewelers do not look for a much greater influx of currency into their coffers in 1800 than gladdened them in 18d5, and yet they admit that they may be mistaken. Hard timesf at the Christmas season do not affect the jeweler so badly as they affect most other dealers. People who can buy rubies, diamonds and gold, who can afford to stock their closets with silverware—these people are generally able to gratify their tastes whether the music of industry makes the land joyous or not. Not so with the wage earner,. If the fires are out and the wheels still, he visits the holiday exhibits only to look. He takes his children along the streets and lets them Bee the "pretties" in the windows, but he does not buy. The great festal day, happiest of the Christian calendar, is a quiet one in his home—not gloomy, perhaps, not without the hope that "springs eternal," but less joyful than Christinas oq^httofafe.

are idle Holiday business does not boom* They had little to do last year and Christmas as a consequence was not the day it usually is. This year rather dull times seem again inevitable. To be sure a rapid change for the better seems in progress, but the laboring man will not be able tospend money for holiday novelties and pleasures, no matter how soon he finds employment. All he can earn for some time to come will absorbed by his living and the debts that the hard times have forced him to incur.

Thoughtful Facts.

The proper distance between the eyes is the width of one eye. The one hundred and twenty-four largest cities in the country show a steady and almost uniform decrease in the average size of a family.

Bread made from whole wheat flour will support life, and a man might live on meat alone, but it would be a very imperfect diet.

The smallest known species of hog is the pigmy swine of Australia. They are ex-» actly like their larger American brethren in every particular except size, being not larger than a good-sized house rat.

Professor Fheltshue says that if we reckon the depth of all oceans at an average of three miles there would be a layer of salt 800 feet thick in their basins, should the waters of all suddenly evaporate.

In France there are twenty-two botanical gardens in Germany, thirty-five in Great Britain and Ireland, eleven in the Indian Empire, nine in Italy, twenty-two in Russia, fourteen, while there are but five public botanical gardens in the whole of the United states.

Hnsbands and Their Wives' Kisses.

"Where," writes a man to the Atchison Globe office, "do women's magazines get the notion that men like to be met at their doors at night with a kind word and a kiss? "I believe that the influence these magazines exert upon the woman is pernicious and mischievous. When I go home at night I am so tired and cross I want to slip into the bouse unnoticed, and eat my supper without any preliminaries. After it Is over I feel rested and hetter-natured, and it makes me cross again to see that my wife is looking like a martyr because I forgot to kiss her when 1 came in, and she will look as if she wanted to go home to her mother until I do. "I claim that no man can go home front day spent in annoyances and feel like kissing any woman, particularly if that woman Is bis wife, and that the magazines which advise women to exact sncb greet* Ings should not be allowed in any man's home. It Is all well enough for lovers, but when fancy I* subdued by fact wemen should learn that such greetings are a* much a part of the past as blushes and picnics." -1-1—M-1111_I11M__I^

Maid of Women.

The best woman is the one least talked about.—Fried rich von Schiller. The sweetest thing In life Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. —Nathaniel Parker Willis.

I have seen more than one woman drown her honor In the clear water at diamonds. •—Contesse d'Hoodetot.