Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 January 1897 — Page 1

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It is likely that Terre represented at the co: state legislature, at le, xial contest is decided, favor of W. R. McKee tion of Terre Haute opening session ct willing to do all in th who is held in such McKeen. TheFairbai the earth for their ca Keen's managers are developments will pn are not founded on the c:ty of Terre Hau see Mr. McKeen eleva position of United Senator, and if left to their choice hi|ion would be practically unHnimouw^ectionwould be creditable to the!

Constables, or w#be cons»«bles, Andrew J. -Thompson! John A. Anderson, do not believe in thfith of the quotation that "it is better! have loved and lost than ne'er to have led at all." The attorney general decl this wee that their election last Novqjbr was uitrary to law, and no speciafection uld be held to elect township leers Hu that timo. 'i'hoir offices will ^efore be aeld by the men who held theiy appointment, and the candidates liaclieir trouble and expense for nothing.,

A life that was I of promise went out suddenly, Thursdlfteruoon.inthe death of Douglass H. Sifi, one of the brightest newspaper men tl| Terre Hn ute has ever produced. He hajoeeu engaged for several months past telegraph editor and proofreader of a Daily Kxpress, and while on duty thmight of December 3d, was seized with ai-morrhageof the lungs, which necessitatefiisremovn' his home on east Main strel He -i several hemorrhages sinothen, ami- hough not sble to work, builitt lo thou.L, was had by his friends th4 he was in inger of his life. A Wo lent hemorrhage seized him Again Thursday ivening. ami caused his death very unexpectedly. Ho was thirty years of age.

His first neWspniH'r work in this city was done on the Bxprvss several ymrs ago, ahd since then he had boeu connected with all the city papers. For several months after the death of P- West fall, former proprietor of TheMnil, hehml editorial charge Of the paper, during which lie demonstrated fully his ability to niakea success of the newspaper business. He was one of the original members of the coi pany which started the Daily News sevei il years ago, and had the editorial manag inent of the paper, which was one of the ost successful evening ventures ever dertaken in this city. After he severed his connection with the paper, bad management led to its su.siension, but many believed that had he been coutinued in control of the property it would have become very valuable. He was afterward connected with the Courier and Standard,of Kvansville. in responsible capacities, but later gave up the newspaper business to engage in the coal mining business with bis father, the late H. D. Smith, in, Pafrecouuty. After the latter's death a few m*jaths ago. he removed to this city with his "pother, and had since been engaged wiUyfcttf Kxpress. He was a graceful, foreefuVxriter. and had his life been sparvd was Wned to make his mark in the prof«sston!

tomorrow

ill be well ion of the the senatohoped in rge delegaattend the es.y tr for a man as is Mr still claim ut Mr. Mcthat later their claims ery voter in be glad to honorable

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to Vigo

county, in which he and reared, and »vould give India# pte

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tunity of saying, sonJ that has not been possible for msar8i that they were represented in tfyjt-'sfc legislative body in the world by ai-bor Hoosier.

He 'e is a gem fri evening sermon of man, at the First Me! "It is said a few mi :i school teacher can out the consent of a

last Sunday W. H. Hickchurch: our city, that fppointed withpolitical boss.

It is said jobs are pu|ugh and taxes increased by a ring ifr to burden the people that a few nmjeU paid." "It is said" is am

way to make

sweeping charges of |nd, which affect the integrity of pujjpcittls, who are sworn to do their d$nd who have no recourse on thostj w^Jake such statements as this. Who fiys that a school teacher can't get ad(lintment in this city without the cony* a political boss, and who is the boss?|o is it-says that jobs are put

throufnd

where?) and

taxes increased by sfc in order to bur den the people thattHv may be well paid? Who is it say#, and to whom is reference made? IfSevils exist in this city, they should bef^ied, and it is the duty of every citize4 knows of this to at least make the kludge public. Has any one

said

this, or one of the rever

eud gentleman's pMoal pulpit sensations. The decadence in custom of observ ing New Year's in $ity in the making Jng of calls on one'a|nds and acquaintances can be no bet&llustrated than in loading" printers that a few years as at its height of ew Years day over cards, Now, if doing a good busi-

the remark of one of Printing House age, when the'ctisfrj popularity he sold $400 worth of Newi he sells $3 worth hj ness in that line.

A»0 other young man con

nected with tuftferre Haute press had such a bright. \ptni$ing career before him, and his lHlU^»ble jje^th at such an early age brings sadness to every worker on ^e\uU press, as well as to a large circle "\riends. to whom

kte genial manners anc aid eared hltu. ^The funeral will take

ing ways had

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afternoon, at the family resi-

dence at the corner of ^ome avenue and and Main stree4"

Annual Elections.

Tuesday night, Oriental Lodge, No 81, K. of P. elected the following officers: C. C.—John R. Harkness.

V. C.—J. T. Shew. P.—W. W. Dickerson. M. of vV\—S. K. Duvall. K. of ft. and S.—J. T. Price. M. of F.—HenryDinkel. M. of E.—John H. Lutz. M. at A.—James H. Caldwell. I. G.—J. F. Albrecht. 0. G.—Simon Withem. Representatives to Grand Lodge—Otto C. Carr, James T. Price and William White.

Trustee—Walter Skelton. The installation will be held next Tuesday night.

Monday night, Occidental Lodge, No. 18, K. of P. elected the following Officers: C. C.—John F. Petri.

V. C.—B. F. Dengler. P.—John M. Rogers. M. W.—A. F. McKee. M. A.—W. Williamson. K. R. and S.—George F. Sweeney. M. F.—George T. Drake. M. E.—C. W. Jackson. 1. G.—William Davis. 0. G.—O. F. Bronson. Trustee—John A. McCarthy. Representatives—H. H. Glick and Geo. F. Sweeney.

The new officers will be installed next Monday night by Installing Officer W. S. Deai*

Paul Revere lodge No. 374, K. of P., Thursday night elected the following officers:

C. C.~O. E. Freyatt. V. C.—Charles Baker. M. of W.—George Glass. P.—Adam Lambert. M. at A.—Percy Luce. 1. G.—L. Dickerson. O. G.—O. M. Emery. K. R. S.—Ellsworth Lawrence. M. of F.—George E. Wolf. M. of E.—F. L. Connelly. Representatives to Grand Lodge—John Kadel and George Holloway.

Trustee—F. W. Hertwig. T. H. COMMANDEKY. Saturday night the following officers were elected by Terre Haute Commandery No. 10, K. T.:

E. C.—Charles Balch. G.—James K. Allen. C. G.—George A. Schaal. Prelate—Thomas B. Long. S. W.—Frederick C. Goldsmith. J. W.—Emil Froeb. Treasurer—William T. Byers. Recorder—Charles A. Melville. Warder—Robert P. Davis. Fort Harrison Lodge, No. 51, I. O. O. F., Tuesday night, elected the following of-

N. G.-J. UV McKinney. N. V.-H. L. Steele. Rec. Secy,—C. M. Gilmoife. Per. Secy.—A. C. Balch. Treasurer—R. W. Van Valzah. Host—D. W. Guston. Trustees—S. L. Fenner, J. B. Fuqua and S. R. Brown.

Amico Lodge, I. O. O. F., has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: N. G.—John Parway.

Y. G.--Herman Stuenipfle. Rec. Secy.—Geo. G. Watson. Per. Secy.—John N. White. Ti-easurer—Gep. R. Thurman

Trustees to setre one yei Wm. L. Arnettand W ing,

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY

ear—Fred Hartm. N. Carhart.

The demands on the time of I. H. C. Royse have become so great on account of the attention he is compelled to give to the growing business of the Terre Haute Trust Co., and that of his own, that he has decided to turn the business of his office to an incorporated company, to be known as the I. H. C. Royse Company. He will be president of the company, with Lucius Lybrand as vice president, W. P. Peyton, secretary and treasurer, and D. V. Miller, counsel. Mr. Royse will divide his time between the two offices, and will have general supervision of the affairs of the new company. It is twenty-three years since Mr. Royse came to Terre Haute from Ann Arbor, Mich., and in those years he has made his mark in Terre Haute as a wide-awake, energetic business man, and prosperity has come to him as a consequence. In his new departure he has chosen well his assistants. Mr. Lybrand was one of the promoters of the Terre Haute Carriage and Buggy Co., and was for many years its business manager. He will have charge of the real estate and insurance departments of the company, in which his wide acquaintance will be of vast assistance. W. P. Peyton is well known as an expert bookkeeper and accountant, and those departments could not be in better hands. Dan Miller, who will have charge of the legal business, is one of the most promising young lawyers of the city, and during his residence here has made a reputation as an able, painstaking, careful attorney. With such men in charge of the affairs of the new company it can not well do otherwise than prosper. ____________

The membership contest in the Y. M. C. A., which has been in progress for several months past, closed this week, and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the "Blues." It has succeeded in increasing the membership 125, making the total membership at the present time 425. The event was celebrated by a banquet at headquarters last night, which was participated iu by.the members of both teams.

Mr. attd Mrs. Edwin Ellis entertained friends, Thursday night, at the hospitable home on south Third street. The evening was spent at cards, the prises being won by Mrs. Geo. W. Crapo and E. B. Hamilton. Refreshments wer* served, after which the party watched oat the old year.

Licensed to Wed.

J«#ph F. Drought and Anna Ehfnhardt. t:..es B. Carney and Eliw Carney. Ei Forbus ana Alice Baird. Bert Tevts and Florence Tevis.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

An elder sister, who was teaching a younger child to read, was found repeatedly reading from a book held upsidedown, and on being questioned as to this pfcQuliar

"I am showing myself how hard itynust be for little sister to learn to read. JHMtnk it's about.the same to her upside up &s to me upside down."

What a woman that calm-judging child ought to have made! says a writer in Harper's Bazar. We can see her administering a household, testing each difficulty that arises by putting herself temporarily but thoroughly in each stumbler's place. That her home is happy is a foregone conclusion, but not every mind can accomplish such a metamorphosis, nor, giv^tt the imagination, are all of us inventive and mathematical enough to know haw to handicap ourselves until we are emasculated to the exact limits of some inferior development with which we have to deal. Seriously speaking, there is a charmingly direct appeal in the pretty picture of the little girl chastening her impatience by a labored reading of print held upside down. We all know that those who are in authority over others have, or should have, lessons to learn in ruling as difficult as those they give out to the ruled but we do not only realize how first and foremost should stand the power to know who has straws and whp has not when bricks are being demanded.

young housekeeper, complaining of the stupidity of her servants, drew out an interesting reply from an old and experienced matron to whom she spoke: "My dear, that's why they are servants. What do you pay your maids Fair wages for them would not hire you or me or any woman of intelligence. If your servants were more competent, they would be of the housekeeper or chef grade, and then you wouldn't want to pay them housekeeper and chef prices."

There is the trouble in a nutshell. We all want all we should get for our money, and the want is as justifiable as it is unjustifiable to want for our money more than our money should get. Into this error never fell the little girl who read the primer upside down, and it ought to be easier than it seems to follow her wise example.

It is wearily discouraging to have more expected of one than one has the brains to accomplish. Most of us at one time or another have suffered under that strain, though we might, hesitate to confess the fact lint 8erv«nt»,' however stolid, are ™^baglMS8

pectation on the part of their employers: Many a maid has called her mistress hard solely because the mistress was overestimating the hireling's capacity, or misunderstanding the various mechanical diffi culties which retard her work. Sometimes little kitchen difficulties are so easily removed and smoothed out it seems incredible that any one could have been so stupid as not to see how to remedy the defect with no ado about it but, as the old house keeper knew, it is exactly in this power of simple adjustment that servants are lacking, and the lack is what makes them servants and keeps them in that rank of life

Unfortunately all mistresses do not, for their own discipline, read their primers/of work upside down. If quick-minded .women would remember that exactly as their bodies are unfitted for heavy work, so are the minds of their servants unfitted for light brain-work, then the connection between wage-payer and wage-earner would be less complicated than it now is.

Patience—limitless patience—is the keynote of success in an executive officer, whether ruling a country or a kitchen.

There are some women who have away of stirring up trouble wherever they go, and an equally facile way of keeping out of it themselves. If a man by any chance finds himself in a family broil or a political argument he goes into it for all he is worth does not try to elude any of the discomfort of the wordy scrimmage, and if worsted takes his defeat according to his nature, either quietly or with a dogged defiance that portends a continuance of discussion. But women—or at least some women—are entirely different. They enjoy mischiefmaking, but are not willing to bear the blame for any of the trouble they stir up. In every grade of society they are to be met with. The grandedame by a shrug, an insinuation or fluttered whisper behind her fan fires the train, and thereafter she watches the conflagration steadily growing, and if by chance the cause of the trouble should be traced to her she will gracefully and firmly decline to take the blame, claiming that her words were certainly misinterpreted, her meaning abso lutely misunderstood.

In boarding houses the woman of this type runs with gossip from one room to another, and when finally intimate riends are no longer on speaking terms and hus» bands and wives looking for legal advice, she gases meekly heavenward and thanks her stars that she is not in the muddle. That is just it. She makes the trouble bnt gets none of the worry of it. If these creatures got their due there would be less worriment for many of their innocent victims, and the poseuse who, in the guise of peace-maker, runs back and forth with, new fuel for the fire of estrangement, would be burned in the flames, the warmth of which she generally revels in am one does at their own fireside.

Wedding in Twenty Years. In Windsor County, Vfc., is about as queer a town as there is is Ute United States. Its name is Baltimore, and It possesses extremely little else except a hie-

It then had

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fcory in which none of its inhabitants exIprete the slighest pride. Baltimore is fail'* ly old, as American towns go, having been setoff from Cavendish and organized in

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presumably ambi-

and hopeful inhabitants, but every taken since then has revealed a growth—downward. In 1800 the glace had lost one citizen, and the subsec$rcit record stands as follows: In 1810, inhabitants 1820, 204 1830, 179 1840, l55 1850,124 1880, *16 1870, 83 1881, 71 and 1899, 64. To-day the number is fifty nine, and one of the fifty-nine spends his wint$ra in the Soldiers' Home at Brattleboro, Nothing ever happened in the town, not e$$n a crime, and it has no. distinguished or daughters. This houses are scatover this territory included within ltimore's limits,-nowhere forming anyng like a village, and there is no store, church, no post offioe, hot even a cider pdtll. The peopi6 are prosperous enough, as Vermont farmers define prosperity, but ti&y keep moving away whenever opportunity offers, and nobody ever moves in.4 is twenty years since a wedding took: Mace in the town.

Herz's New Store.

Twenty-seven years ago, in 1869, A. Herz jbegan business in a modest way in the room at present occupied by Geo. C. RosSell, at• 325 Main street. The strict attentioi|«to the wants of his patrons that has made his store always such a popular reSort with the ladies of Terre Haute led him prosper greatly, and in a few years he as compelled to move further up the Street to the room formerly occupied by E. iW. Leeds, in the "opera house block. There he remained for several years, and finally being again compelled to secure more Commodious quarters, he took the room now occupied by C. N. Murphy, on the north side of Main street, between Fourth and Fifth streets. This was in 1875/ His business increased and multiplied until he was again compelled to engage larger roomsj and in 1887 he removed into the three story building heat present occupies. The growth of business there is familiar to every resident of Terre Haute, and when he realized that he must again move, he looked about for suitable quarters. This week he secured them, having made a lease of the two store rooms at present occupied by J. A. Marshall, R. Dahlen and A. C. Bryce & Co., and as soon as the present leases expire, in March next, the owner, Demas Deming, will remodel the building for Mr. Herz. Floyd & Stone will prepare the plans for the remodelling, which will lOafe® of the building a beautiful modern

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that

will rendertt one of.-the:

most striking among Terre Haute's modern stores. The first floor will be lowered to the sidewalk, and the entire front torn out. Another floor will be added, making it five stories in height, including the basement. It will have all the new ideas in store building, and will make one of the notable improvements of the coming year. The never-ceasing prosperity of Herz's Bazar is pleasing to the citizens of Terre Haute, among whom Mr. Herz is known as an enterprising, pnblic-spirited man, ever alive to the business needs of the city, and always willing to do his part in pressing Terre Haute's claims to the front as one of the most desirable places in all this broad land.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Insurance companies are now claiming that the sickle is far more dangerous than traveling by railway or steamship.

It is said that a musical bicycle has been invented in England which grinds out the popular airs of the day as the wheel turns.

Owing to the introduction of asphalt streets and the use of the bicycle it has been estimated that the street car receipts of Philadelphia have been reduced $700,000 per annum.

Anew bicycle play is being written in which a decidedly novel feature is to be introduced. There will be a bicycle race upon a track which is to run out around the auditorium as well as on the stage.

A Salvation Army woman of Michigan City, Ind., whose husband, coming home drunk, swore that she should not remain in the Army, has asked for a divorce, preferring to stay with the Army rather than with him.

The assistant professor in the Iola High school of Kansas, Miss Donica, has refused a $140 increase of salary giving as a reason the remark attributed to Agassiz, that she "couldn't afford to waste time in making money."

Not all the Kansas farmers are pleased with the men who were voted into office in that state last November, as was shown by a letter received by W. T. Bland of Atchison, district judge-elect, from a rural citizen asking Mr. Bland, please, to tell him where the judge-elect learned to write. "I wish to send my boy to school," the farmer wrote, "and I'm afraid he might hit on the same school you went to." That there is a feeling of respect in Kansas for persons possessing the ability to write appears from the action of Gov. Morrill, who pardonod a convict, Hartwell P. Heath, sentenced from Emporia forgetting money on false pretences, in recognition of Heath's having written the annual report of the penitentiary in which lie was confined. The report treated of the management in a very kindly spirit.

The finance committee of the city council will recommend to that body, Tuesday night, the employment of Herbert E. Madison ami Wm. H. Duncan as experts to examine the books of the former city officers, as decided upon by the council recently.

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•MAN ABOUT TOWN,

Not long ago Mr. Herbert L. Jones, formerly of this city but now of the city staff of the Chicago Chronicle, was in California sojourning for his health. While there he met a number of the newspaper men of the slope and some of them told him very funny stories about the conduct and re^ perience of a correspondent of one of Ihe 'Frisco papers during the late Chino-Jap-anese war. Among the correspondent^ who sailed from the Golden Gate to re^ port the war in the orient for American newspapeas were several men from New York and Chicago, as well as a good sized group of California writers. Among the latter was the fellow who distinguished himself. "•S5 ,^5

When a shipload of correspondents landed in China and were preparing to set out into the interior with the Chinese army, the writer whom we may as well designate as the 'Frisco man, astonished his companions by suddenly appearing among ,them one morning with the announcement that he was going to hire thirty pack mules to accompany him with the troops. "The devil 1" exclaimed the correspondents in chorus. "What do you mean "Watch me," said the 'Frisco man

He bustled away and soon had arrangements made for his thirty pack mules.! When the party began its march the 'Frisco man was on band with his writing materials, his equipment for the journey and his company of jackass cavalry. He attracted the most amused attention from the other correspondents, none of whom had ever been in China before or knew anything about the actual business of^ reporting battles among the orientals.

It was not until after the first fight had occurred and the Chinese had been driven out of a city by their Japanese enemies that the newspaper fellows learned what the 'Frisco man was really going to do with his pack mules. They were not much longer in doubt then. The Japanese troops swept through the town after the Chinese, wrecking everything as they went. Close in their rear came the 'Frisco man with his pack mules. His fellow-writers watched him in amazement. He had come prepared to loot the deserted buildings of the defeated Chinese!

And he looted them in the most discriminating and energetic manner. His proceeds from the first sacked town were enough to load down three of his pack mules, which he at once dispatched to the seacoast in charge of coolies. The booty was shipped at once to the home of the 'Frisco man to await his return. In -the i&xt'city laid wa#ebsF tJie^apaneiBe. the ravenous correspondent repeated his looting operations, sending three or four mules to the seacoast with swag, and so he continued until the end of the campaign. He was present at the great and decisive battle of Port Arthur and all his pack mules had been sent away under back-breaking loads except two or three. The 'Frisco man secured enough relics at Port Arthur to load up the remaining beasts and he was happy.

After the engagement of Port Arthur— or at a moment when it was manifest that Japanese victory was assured—the 'Frisco man performed a very daring act. He mounted the ramparts of the fort and with his own hands tore down the tattered flag of the defeated Chinese—a square piece of cloth with a black dragon rampant in a yellow field. The 'Frisco man held this bit of bunting as priceless. He tucked it away in his clothing and escaped with it to the correspondents' quarters. It was soon packed with other relics and on its way across the country to the nearest seaport town. .?

By the by the 'Frisco man, along With the other correspondents, boarded a steamer for home. The war was over and they were coming back to America to get a glimpse of civilization. The 'Frisco man was in high glee. The campaign had been an industrious one for him. He had not lost any time and now he was going home to enjoy the fruits of his enterprise and daring. He was on the tip of the prow days before there was any hope of sighting land, scanning the horizon for the first faint suggestion of the California coast. At last the ship entered the bay at San Francisco and an hour or so later the 'Frisco man was hurrying as fast as he could in the direction of his home.

He found his wife the queen of an oriental palace. :l He gazed and gazed in a kind of delighted stupor. Everything that he had stolen seemed to he there in the most tasteful and ingenious arrangement. He took his wife in his arms and said to her, with the emotional earnestness of a newborn love:

TWMTY-SEYEKTH TEAK

the large and varied stockj^of H^vatr^ cigars a$ present that thej ttsUally offer W the fastidious tuggsr At the odoriferous weed. If one wit^reft' ,io bvfit *4jk brand of light Bayguta cigar W i^ very apl to fihd that thatjoigar ls not in, stpek. The light'Havatta leat is beeotaing^ry'^catite Indeed. Sirioe Captain General W^erJlS^ the Spanish krmy iu Cuba'Issued his$gct that no more tobagpo hiustj be ex{ from that war-scon rged hind*'? only a question of a little timfc wl ,, Cubani' leaf mu«fc be gone withottt £y the smokers of this country. AS||n^'fSlttie, majemfaeturers le$t that*they\have,fata' hanaUhsB cigar in America will be^ttii^M giant and lamented memory.

One 6t the greatest t0baM0:|d[seWp'i Cuba is a man by the name ot. 3 has a large tobacco factory ik Florida where htt.fiakeS, np his deaf ports from his Own and other pfantAOTmi in Cuba. He recently went 4^.€&ba a&d brought over several ship loacUOf leaf to be "cured" in this country., anticipated the move that lias sihee Men made by the Spanish commander stopping the export^ of Havana le&f and detewnined to'try the "curing" process in this country. This' experiment i9 novrf undfcr way. Mr.- Ybor has already demonstrated that the tobacco can be dried ih Florida, but lie does oo|| contondithat it will possess the s^me flator that the Cuba-dried article possessed, However, he says it will do well aadn^ffft come nearer satisfying smokers* of' the Havana product than anything else that? they can get. Even this.supply is llmited and must in time be exhausted.. Of course the price on Havana 'goods to nattfra&y rising and is not expected to show any tendency in the other direction until after the war is over and Cuban agriculture regains somewhat of its lost productiveness.

People are curious. Most of them are sustaining a case of false pretenses|liear 1 all the time on a smaller or greater scale. It is rarely indeed that a fellow is found who is ready to stand for exactly what he is on all occasions and under all circumstances. He is prone to let the inference stand that he knows more than he does or that he is better than he is. It is amusing to watch a swell crowd—so-called—at a particularly elegant feast, Where all, sorta of novelties^are apt to develop ih food and service. Every fellow has his eye on every other fellow. Smith is watching Jones to see what he is going to do and Jones secretly has the same sort of an inquiring eye on Smith. This is true of nearly .Sill the people about the table, and yet how perfectly unconcerned and knowing they strive to appear tp he! There is a very large farcical

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"You are celestial F* Upon a little closer examination the 'Frisco man mimed the flag he had risked his life to get at Port Arthur. He rushed up to his wife, face colorless and eyes burning. "Where's the flag he exclaimed. "Flag?" she repeated, wonderingly. "Yes! Where's that Chinese flag!•"

His wife drew back mystified. The 'Frisco man became desperate. "Don't you remember that yellow tiling with a black dragon on ft?** he screamed. "Oh," said his wife, remembering, "that Why I brushed these other tilings off with that and threw it in the fire. It was all torn."

The 'Frisco man sank down in a heap. Afterward he said to his friends "All the love I hare for that woman rose at the critical moment or I would hare throttled her."

The cigar dealers in this city have sot

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tious "in company—particularly wheif gathered about a banquet board where etiquette and taste are supposed to govern. We do not know just exactly what is unexceptionable form in every emergency—* at least we distrust ourselves. Why, therefore, should we be so greatly aniused by the blunders of simpler folk? Our mistakes are different only in degree. There are many persons who laugh at their neighbor for eating with fcls knife, while their own most immediate ancestors do the same thing and while they themselves have only stumbled on to the conventional notion about the matter very lately. A remarkable case of a man's unacquaintance with the finger bowl developedat one of the hotels in this city the other day. The fellow was well dressed and apparently a cosmopolite. His dinner was served and after he had finished eating, the waiter placed a fantastically wrought finger bowl, before him. There was a bit of lemon the water.

Presently the waiter returned to Che table. Tie finger bowl was empty.

FASHION'S FANCIES*.

Pure, dead-white silk and satin are now the favorite materials and shades forJridal' gowns. Baby flower girls are very fashionable, and make lovely little attendants at the swellest weddings. The little maids are pressed into service when they are scarcely out of their nurse's airffis, and,the daintily gowned little tots look like fairies and blossoms as they^ scatter rosea along the bridal path.

brother qf Fmnk known Vandalia mgiuser,

"Sun-plaiting" is anew Parieianfashioa of widening and "fulling out" skirts.. Itis, new and very stylish. Instead of accordion' plaiting a skirt, the plaits are put in at the waist in tiny laps, widening out to the bottom until at the hem they are from an inch, to an inch and a half wide. This holds the^ to be a if

Ermine is always a favorite fur. There,'' is something royal abont ermine, and kings and queens, from time immemorial have wrapped the majesty of their perionages within its snowy folds/ Thelintogof the collar of a handsome velvefc' Jaeketi with ermine, and ermine cuffs and ft muff, add a richness to the dostume thWS eteryv woman adores, and this much of 'the precious fur is within the reach of alrttOs#everyone. Ermine? iscapedally faahion-^' able this season, though it fs dliSlfettl^' matter to say when it is anythiag-l&e.

Mack Crookshanfc* tiiirt7:flve'|re«utt for many years a driver for the American, Express company, committed saJcidelasf Sunday afternoon, at hishonieM Sevefitfif** and Ohio streets, by shooting himself jp the head. Crookshank had been drinki heavily of late, was jealoos of mei the combinatioii^, ci rcu ipshfatfi* him to tike hlc own^life. He'wferaf*sc« the Iale Nathaniel Crbok^ink, gifi

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