Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 January 1897 — Page 1

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The council did a sensible thing Thursday night, when the members decided to engage an expert sewer engineer to go over the plans of John A. Cole and pass judgment on them before they are adopted by the city. If the Cole plans are all right I can't see why any person should object to haviDg them examined by any expert. In the first step towards spending $200,000 or $300,000, it would be a very wise thing to do to get the very best experts in the country to pass on the plans. It is not a reflection on Mr. Cole to submit his plans to another engineer for an opinion. If his plans are all right and furnish the best plans for a sewerage system, Q. V. does not believe that there is a councilman who is in favor of a sewer system who will vote against them because Mr. Cole made them. The zeal displayed by a few members of the council to force the Cole plans through, whether or no, finally led to the order that another engineer should be engaged to pass on them. The expert to be employed is

Samuel M. Gray, of Providence, Rhode Island, who is said to be of extended experience as a consulting engineer.

For a while it looked as if some of the members were going to be "bull-headed, as a few of them were when seized a year or so ago with an acute attack of Boslerania. They wouldn't believe that Bosler WHS anything but perfect, nor that any of his plans for street improvements were assailable. Those who objected to Bosler's methods were sneered at as political conspirators, and to show that they had confidence in him the city fought a number of law suits brought on account of a bad grade established in the alley just jw the colored church at Third and Crawtflrd streets. In November Inst the city decided to spend *1,200 to compromise these very suits, after allowing a law firm $200 as a retainer for assisting in the defense. Last Tuesday night the bill for costs in these suits was filed with the council showing that there is yet to pay over $717 in court costs. Of this $300 is for expert testimony given in the trials. This 'Will make that fit of Jioslerania cost the city of Terre Haute over $2,110. which is a neat sum to expend for that express purpose.

Mayor Ross and City Attorney Pugh attended a meeting of the mayors and city attorneys of the state at Indianapolis this week, to talk over a revision of the general laws governing cities, bringing, them up to date. The present laws were adopted in 1807, and are woefully behind the times in nearly every respect. There is urgent need also of some revision or straightening out of the laws governing street improvements, insofar as they relate to the collection of the cost from street railways. The present construction put upon the law makes it exceedingly difficult for a street railway t® bear its share of the cost of street paving. As a rule street rail­

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are run on streets that are the first to be selected for permanent improvement. Under the present construction in this city the railways are not permitted to take the ten year plan because their tracks are not abutting property. The city then or the company must pay cash to the contractor for the cost of improving along the tracks, which makes an unpleasant question. There are many other laws applying to cities that stand sadly in need of revision, and it is to be hoped that the present legislature may do something towards bringing relief.

It begius to look as if the "fans" here in Terre Haute would be treated to some firstclass base ball this summer. The Central league was organized at Evansrille this week, with the following cities interested: Kvansville, Nashville. Terre Haute, Cairo. 111., and Iexiugton, Ky. It is expected to complete the circuit by the additiou of Chat tanooga. KuoxvJUe and Memphis, all said to be first class ball towns, between which there is great rivalry in a lase ball way. An Evausville man was elected president, secretary and treasurer, and another meeting was fixed for February. The salary list has been fixed at $900. and each club will be required to put up $500, as a guarantee that it will play the season through, one-half of this to be deposited in February and the remainder before the seastHi opens. The season will open May 1st and close the middle of September. The guarantee to be paid the visiting club will be

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lege of half the gate receipts. At first glance it seems that the jumps in this league are too long, but it has been figured that a round trip of the entire circuit will be but 1.100 miles, making each club travel during the season about 4,.*00 miles. It is impossible to organiw? a league of clubs that would attract crowds herv iu Terre Haute i«i cities any closer together than this. A meeting is to be held herv next week to organise a club, and sell otic hundred share.* of stock at $10 a sh«rt\ which will furnish ample funds with which to open the season. Popular season tickets will be placed on salo. and it is thought that Terre Haute amusement goers of all classes, who have Ixvn deprived of every sort of amusement this season, will break out with the baseball fever in the most virulent manner. There

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be no politi­

cal campaign* the coming summer, there is proHt*v| for great improx euient in business, ami the ye*r 1*»' ought to be a good one in the base ball line. One thing is sure, and that is that base ball will not pay in Terre Haute when this city is a member of a "raspberry" league, with cheap, inferior players. With good clubs, evenly matched, the game can be made to draw here. Out la the Western league, which furnished some good players for the

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big leagues this year, any amount of good ball players are being signed for from $40 to $75 per month. The hard times have affected base ball as everything else. In the big leagues players who formerly had from $4,000 to $6,000 for six months' work, and easy work at that, are now content to get from $1,500 to $2,400 a season. A good club of active young players with reputations to make, can be had for from $900 to $1200 a month, and that kind of a club can be made to win here in Terre Haute.

The guardianship matters in the circuit court are in a worse shape than they have been reported, and a glance through the list of guardianships that has been prepared for Judge Piety shows an alarming condition of affairs. Guardians appointed fifteen and twenty years ago, and put under bonds, have never made a report to the court of their trust. One case in particular that I noticed because the names were familiar was that of a guardian appointed in 1885, and put under $2,000 bond. The guardian never made a report during his lifetime, and he has been dead five or six years. If there is such a thing possible as being haunted, a man who will treat a trust in such a manner as this ought to be haunted to his grave for his misconduct. Some day such a thing as an individual acting as a guardian or administrator or executor will be done away with, and all this work will be done by trust companies. It will cost less, better service will be secured, and there will not be the endless delays in closing up estates and other trusts as now. Many an estate has been eaten up by court costs, and administrators' or executors' or guardians' fees, when a judicious management would have prevented this waste. The day# is not far distant when the greater portion of this business will be done by trust companies, and men with considerable property had better postpone dying until this state of affairs has come to pass.

Grim visaged war has tal^en his departure from the Republican camp in this city, and peace like unto a turtle dove has settled on the scene. That is, as far as outward appearances are concerned.

The small boys can begin to save up their pennies now, for it is announced that the great Barnum & Bailey shows will be here the last week in May.

The legislature is going to investigate the matter of the debt said to be due the state from the Vandalia railroad, according to the provisions of the charter granted it, which provided that a certain per cent of the

earnings

should be turned into

the school fund. The house and senate have adopted resolutions on the subject, and it is certain to be well investigated.

The Gazette is authority for the statement that Alexander L. Crawford has returned from a visit to Canton, Ohio, where it is supposed he went to talk with Mr. McKinley about the revenue office, for which it is understood Mr. C. is an applicant. The latter was a schoolmate at Gambier college of a son of Mark Hanna's, and is understood to be on such confidential standing with the latter gentleman that he stands a good chance of getting the revenue office, which pays the very comfortable salary of $4,500 a year.

Sam Young, whose company opens a two weeks' season at Germania hall Monday night, struck a "snap" in the wilds of Ohio recently. He found a daily paper, the only one published in a town of over ten thousand population, in which he secured a half page advertisement for a whole week for three dollars. He thought he had struck a snap until he footed up the receipts of the week, and found that he had lost money. Now he has made up his mind that cheap advertising doesn't always pay.

You AV111 Never be Sorry For living a pure life. For doing your level best. For being kind to the poor. For hearing before judging. For thinking before speaking. For standing by your principles. For stopping your ears to gossip. For bridling a slanderous tongue. For being square in business dealings. For giving an unfortunate perd6n a lift. For promptness in keeping your promises.

For putting the best construction on acts of others.

Quite a number of Terre Haute people will attend the cycle show at Chicago which opens this morning at the Coliseum. Geo. C. Rossell and son, who will have charge of the Indiana exhibit of the Stearns company, went up yesterday, Rollo Day and wife and Mrs. Camille Urban, who will meet her husband there, went up last night, and among others who will attend are Fred Probst, Carl Wittlg, Frit* Meyers, Jos. McCluskey, W. S. Duenweg. Wells Button, Albert Rout ledge, Chas. M. Miller, Logan Hughes, Wm. Schluer, Will Krietenstein and J. McDermott.

Col. W. K. McLean, during his recent visit to Washington formed a partnership with Mr. Glavis, of that city, who is the representative of the Atlantic steamship lines in their business before the several departments of the government. The colonel leave# on February 1st for Washington, where his business will keep him I about half the time. Mr. Gla vis, is the father of Mrs. Henry C. Nevitt, and is not unknown to older residents of this city. His wife was a daughter of the late

James Ross, of this city.

Sheldon Swope left Saturday night for Dayton. Florida, where he will spend the remainder of the winter.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

The wisest woman I know is not a college1 graduate she is only a delightful creature whose wisdom is what one may call everyday wisdom, writes Candace Wheeler in Harper's Bazar.

She adapts* means to ends with such absolute fitness that the circumstances of her life, various as they are, fit as perfectly as the joined and dowelled and glued and lacquered compartments of a Chinese jewel-box.

And, after all, this is the kind of wisdom we all need —the wisdom of daily life, the best possible combination of all its multitudinous happenings. If the ground-work, the little patches of experience which make up life, are matched with practical cleverness, then, and then only, one can fly ovfer and above them in an atmosphere of clear and perfect enjoyment.

My "cleverest woman" does this and what a bird she is in the sense of freedom! Always ready for companionship, always ready for social opportunities, always gay and fresh and sympathetic, simply because she has time to be and the time exists because it is saved in advance—there is always a reserve of it. Everything that must inevitably be done, or ought unr questionably to be done, is done before^ hand. And that brings me to the keep? sake list. 5\

It is written in a flat, black-covew book, which is kept in a semi-private loc ed drawer of a much-used desk. There i^f a small label pasted on the outside cover,' which, says plainly, "Keepsake list," and it is one of the first things that woii come to the hand of the nearest friend member of the family to whom it shoul fall to assort and destroy papers suddenl, become unnecessary by the "rhoving 6 of a human soul.

It holds all the small bequests madefronf day to day and week to week, while my wise friend is yet in touch with life—things'

which would seem trivial and burdensomei

in a legal disposition of one's accumula| tions. A book, a picture, a ring, a brooch, a chair, a desk, an old bit of china or needle? work—all, or any, of these go into thf keepsake-box anything durable in its na| ture which is especially appropriate to the circumstances or in accordance with the taste of some one who has made up thdj human surroundings of the one who prei pared these small memoranda. JV-

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It seems to me a beautiful thing to as well as to have done. It is full of appreciation and discriminating tenderness in the doing, and will bring a harvest of tender and grateful remembrance when the doing is past, and it comes to be among the things which are finally done—done without possibility of change or addition or recall.

The slender black book is packed with friendly thoughts which will some day suddenly take wings and fly, each to its own destination, revitalizing the link between two friends whose meetings may have long interrupted, and whose intimacy may have slackened by reason of years and circumstances.

My "wisest woman" is by no means p., rich one, but the accumulations of a person quick to feel the value of beauty during twenty years of mature life make a sum of small treasures which is not inconsiderable and it is my belief that she has allowed herself many a one of these pleas-ure-giving indulgences with a clear and conscious thought of the friend to whom she should bequeath it. She buys it for two people—herself, and the some one to whom it will also be a pleasure-giving possession when she herself has gone on to farther and wider possibilities of happiness.

But think what the keepsake-book might be in the hands of a rich woman who was wise enough and loving enough to include with herself her world of associates and friends!

Jt makes one remember dolefully the personal belongings that are often scattered at the death of such a one, unhindered by a sentiment A affection or sympathy) because affection and sympathy had not been expressed by anything in the life Of the one to whom they belonged.

A keepsake-book would double and treble the value of every costly thing, putting it not only beyond the reach of the auctioneer's hammer, but adding to it the appreciable value of association and friendthip, and making the memory of the former possessor "smell sweet and blossom in the dust."

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One worn" ao declares laughingly that het .•. are "of assorted sizes," has four little ones between two and ten years of age. With regard to these children she os^ said to me "I try to remember that my •allest girl was once the baby, that my seven-year-old boy was in his turn petted and coddled, tuad that only a short time ago the next to .11

Lie youngest was the lamb of the flock, and received his share of Cosseting. These children have, through no fault of theirs, been pushed along the line to make room for the baby. I have made it a matter of principle never to allow them to feel that they have lost anything by the arrival of another child. I still pet and 'mother^ each of them with as much tenderness as if he or she were the only child in the home. Each one&f them is still 'man^L

ma's baby.' Theii%ommoa-sense teaches them that the baby sister cannot wait on herself, and consequently requires con* stant can, bat they know she receives no more love than they. And I ah*n try to make them fed that, even when they are men and women, they shall nevet be too oil for their mother's petting."

Wise woman! Would that more moth-

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ers had such thoughtful consideration for their children, who, although they have outgrown babyhood, have not outgrown the love of being loved

Too many boys and girls lose petting with thdr baby-clothes.

The mother who pets only the baby, and gives up caressing the growing boy or girl, loses her strongest hold on her daughter's or her son's heart. She surely has "enough ove to go around," and the child who is iubjected to temptations to naughtiness pnd is not attractive to everybody needs the mother-love and petting even more than does the cooing, dimpled darling whom everybody seems to love, and upon whom everybody is ready to bestow a tender word or caress. _______________

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Now kiss away. The doctor says it is healthful, after all. You can't tell from the way a man speaks in prayer meeting how he speaks at home.

The number of actors and actresses in the United States has increased far more rapidly than has the population for a number of years past. By the federal census of 1870 there were, at that time, 2,053 actors and actresses. By the census of 1880 the number had grown to 4,812. Iji 1890 it was 8,815, and it is now clearly in excess of 10,000.

Chicago trees are dying at the top, and the cause is considered to be the proximity

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electric arc lights. The nearest trees suf-

fer most, but those suffer that are as far as 100 feet away. Botanists say that the direct cause is the fact that the lights keep the trees awake all night. Trees, it is said, need sleep as much as other forms of growth, and when deprived of it wither at the top and gradually decay.

In the case of the drowning of husband and wife it has generally been held that the woman, being weaker, died first but ^nii^reifteoce'caae^spendingin N^York where the distribution of a matter of $20,000 depends upon whether the husband or the wife was the first to succumb to the flames in which both perished. The question is said to be anew one, and much interest, therefore, attaches to its settle ment.

While Joaquin Miller was walking along the streets in Seattle recently, says the New York Times, a man approached him, and, without saying a word, lifted the poet's beard and examined the right side of his neck. Then he remarked: "Yes you are Joaquin Miller." Naturally, the man was asked to explain this singular behavior, whereupon he said that 40-odd years ago he had pulled a poisoned arrow 'from Miller's neck, and with his lips had extracted the venom from the wound. The poet remembered the occurrence, and a few mintues later the two old men were fighting all over again an Indian skirmish that took place on a shoulder of Mount Shasta. "Wayfarer's Rest," is the title of a lodging house and restaurant in Chicago where weary travelers can obtain bed and breakfast for the sum of two cents. The lodgers all sleep in one large room. On a layer of straw on the floor is placed a carpet tacked down at the edges. Into this room the guests are turned to pick out a soft spot that suits their fancy. Early in the morning a gong arouses them from their slumbers. They file out into another room, where a bowl of soup is given each as a morning repast. Then the proprietor makes the big bed by sweeping it with a broom, after which it is ready for another flock of "Weary Willies." The proprietor of the establishment says that he is "making all kinds of money."

Sam Young's Melville Co. The two weeks' engagement of Sam Young's Melville company in repertoire will begin at the Germania Theater Monday night with a performance of the Pearl of Savoy. A complete change of bill will be made nightly. The company this year is pronounced by Mr. Young to be the best he has ever had, and the reception with which the company has met elsewhere bears him out in his assertion. In addition to the theatrical performance Mr. Young has secured the Optiscope, similar to the Vitascope, which has created such a sensation in all the large cities, and a series of pictures from life will be given with each performance. At the popular prices that will prevail, this will be one of the most enjoyable series of performances ever given in Terre Haute-

Sense and Sentiment.

More die by food than famine. The h«*cv *oor robbeth the house. Yoti^qraga itle and sing at the same time.

Sfn not toofib ^thread lest it break in weariug up. One cannot earn even daily bread without some pain.

No sweetqess in a cabbage twice boiled or a tale twice told. The acuteness of some natural instincts becomes dolled by civilization.

Genius has its drawbacks, which chiefly affect its neighbor and its kindred.

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NING-, JAMIARY 1897.

It should be re­

membered that with the disappearance of baby dimples and baby plumpness the fondness for mamma's tenderness does not also disappear. Many a heart under a rough school-jacket or a white pinafore longs for the "mothering" lavished upon the last arrival in the family. One mother tells her eight-year-old daughter that she is not petted as is the little brother because she is "leggy and awkward, and not round and pretty like baby."

NEWS OP THE CITY.

The Philharmonic club will give its first public performance week after next, and has secured for its attraction Oliver Wil lard Pierce, pianist, and Adolph Schellschthidt, 'cellist, both of Indianapolis.

The following officers of the Y. M. C. A. have been elected for the ensuing year: President, H. P. Townley: vice president, J. Smith Talley recording secretary, J. W. Crook treasurer, J. W. Landrum.

Mrs. A. H. Taylor, wife of Archie Taylor, line repairer of the Vandalia died at her home on Elm street Tuesday, aged fifty-five years. Her husband and one son, George, who is a lawyer in Chicago, survives her.

The stockholders of the Terre Haute & Mississippi railroad will hold their annual meeting for the election of officers at the Terre Haute house tonight, when reports will be made as to the progress that has beeen made in the work.

Jessie Creager, formerly a clerk for Ford & Overstreet, of this city, but who has been living in Sullivan for some time, died there last week. His wife, who is a daughter of Louis Teichman, of north Ninth street, survives him.

Terre Haute is to have another artificial ice plant the coming season, the Maxinkuckee Ice company having decided to erect one with a daily capacity of twenty five tons. The new plant will be erected near the Vandalia yards in the eastern part of the city.

The Moore & Langen Printing Co. was incorporated this week, with a capital stock of $50,000. It succeeds the firm of Moore & Langen, and will do a general printing and publishing business. The directors for the first year are T. S, Moore, Ewald Langen and E. J. Langen.

Social Masonic lodge No. 86, has made a proposition to James Hunter to add an other story to his proposed new building at Sixth an Cherry streets to be used for lodge purposes, on which it will take a lease for along term of years. Mr. Hunter has not yet replied to the proposition.

One of the most enjoyable church entertainments ever given in this city was the old folks' concert at the Washington avenue Presbyterian church last night. The costumes were unique, the songs more than unique, and the immense crowd so thoroughly enjoyed jbhe ggtformanga that it is likely to be

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Quite a large party of Terre Hauteans went over to Paris Tuesday night to hear Misses Lilian Nott and Ella McDonald of this city, who are members of the McFee Matrimonial Bureau company which appeared at the Shoaff opera house. They have leading parts in the performance, and made a favorable impression on the audience.

Several changes have been made in the retail deyartments of the Havens & Geddes Co. for the ensuing year. Henry Neukom, for so long in charge of the cloak department, will hereafter have charge of the furnishing departments, while George Robinson, in addition to being window dresser, will have charge of the cloak of the cloak department.

The bicycles made by the Terre Haute Manufacturing Co. will be handsomely displayed at the big cycle show which opened at Chicago last night. The exhibit will be under the direction of J. E. McDermott, manager of the company, and will consist of four of the tandems manufactured under the patents of Wm. Schluer of this city, together with models of the Damascus wheel, ladies' and gentlemen's.

Township trustee Henry M. Griswold makes a very favorable showing in his report for the seventeen months he has been in charge of the office. On account of the hard times the demands have exceeded those of former years, but he has made a saving to the taxpayers of $5,159.10 over the seventeen months previous to his taking charge of the office. He gives the charity organization society and the police c1 apartment credit for having rendered him material assistance in reducing expenses-

Judges may come and judges may go, but the John S. Beach case seems destined to go on forever. John G. Williams, B. V. Marshall, Harriet G. Beach and W. R. McKeen as parties to the suit of Henry G. Wyeth against Beach, asked for separate trials, which is now under advisement of the court. Judge Piety is disqualified for trying the cases, having been counsel for some of the parties whp have actions against Beach, and the opposing counsel have agreed on Byron K. Elliott, of Indianapolis, as the judge before whom the cases may be tried.

William H. Walker, a colored man employed at the southern rolling mill, and living on south Tbirteenth-and-one-half street, had an experience last Monday night that he hopes will never be repeated. Walker, who has quite a reputation as a colored masher, has been living with a Mrs. Hughes, whose daughter, Ella, was divorced some time ago from Henry NolK who is janitor at the Washington avenue church. Walker, it is charged by some of his neighbors, had to do with the estrangement of Noll and his wife, and since the divorce has enjoyed the favors that formerly fell to Noll's lot. Tuesday night Walker was taken from his bed at Mrs. Hughes' by a crowd of colored men who were disguised in snch a manner that their identity could not be discovered, marched ahd dragged to a cornfield near Fourteenth and Hulman streets, where there was talk of hanging him. He escaped from them, however, took a two mile ran into the country, and in the morning returned to

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the city and lodged a complaint with iie. police, giving the names of some men whowere supposed to be implicated in the affair. Eighteen residents of Bagdad were arrested, and tried before Mayor Ross Thursday afternoon. Whitecapping under the law is a penitentiary offense, and the twelve men arrested were glad to get off with a plea of guilty to assault audi battery, with a fine of $3. The trial aroused? a great deal of interest in Bagdad society, which was well represented, and the examination! of some of the witnesses created a great deal of amusement.

At the convention of the American

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eration of Labor in Cincinnati in December, it was decided to make an effort toestablish an eight-hour work day in trades affiliated with that organization, on May 1, 1898. With this end in view a series of mass meetings will be held simultaneously in all the principal cities of the country on public holidays. The first will be oik. Washington's birthday, Feb. 22, and theC. L. U. and local representatives of the A. F. of L. are now making arrangements for the meeting in this city. The other meetings will be on May 1st, July 4th, Sept. 6th (Labor Day), and Thanksgiving.

Twenty-five years ago last Monday night, January 18th, a party of Knights of Pythias from Indianapolis instituted the first lodge of that order in this city, in the" rooms of the Odd Fellows, now occupied by Biel, the photographer. The lodge wasi christened Occidental lodge, No. 18. Last. Monday night the silver anniversary was properly celebrated by the members of the order at Castle hall, iu the Beach block. There were addresses by members of the order, a musical and literary programme, followed by dancing. When Occidental lodge was instituted it had a membership of twenty-four. Now it has 240 members, while in the three lodges in the city there are 800 members.

The Hunt Floral Company is the title of a new corporation whose articles were approved this week by Judge Piety. The corporation grows out of the division of the estate of the late Myron A. and Julia M. Hunt. According to the petition of the heirs the estate was divided, their several interests being as follows: George E. Huut, $4,867.02 Charles A. Hunt, $4,590.87 Fannie M. Hunt, $4,425.84 Sarah A. Hunt, $4,790.51, and Mary H. Paige, $4,928.65. The green house property, valued at $18,000, is not included in settlement and it was turned in as part of the capital stock of the company.'""The directors of the company for the first year are Elisha H. Hunt, Charles A. Huut, Grace B. Hunt, Mary B. Paige and Robert Paige.

Chas. O. Ebel & Co. issued their new directory of Terre Haute this week. It is the twelfth volume issued by this firm. It presents a handsome appearance, and fills a long felt want. The directory contains 19,407 names, which according to directory averages gives us a population of 43,616. A noticeable' thing in connection with the issue is that the letters B, C, H, M, Sand W contain over one-half of the names in the book. The Smiths still lead in numbers, 231 plain and 38 ornamental, making a total of 269. The Smiths are followed in order by the Browns, 153, Millers, 148, Davises, 144, while the once numerous Joneses have dropped to 79. The book contains all the old features that have made the Ebel directories so popular.

The building formerly occupied by L. B. Root & Co. will be occupied as a dry goods*, store by W. H. Albrech't & Co. after it has--been thoroughly remodelled this spring by the owners, Sheldon Swope and Max Hoberg. The present lease of the building will expire March 1st, after which the work of remodelling will begin. The building will be five stories in height, with a white stone front. It is expected to have it ready for occupancy about the 1st of May, but if this is found impossible the opening will be postponed until the 1st of September. With the improvements to th'is building, the erection of a new builds ing in place of the one now occupied by Pixley & Co., and the changes and improvements to be made in the Deming buildings for the use of Herz's Bazar, Main street will present a great changs when the work is completed.

Sensation lovers have had a feast this week in discussing the affairs of Wm. Ellsworth, a Sugar Creek farmer, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cliver, on north Fourth street. Harry Cliver accuses Ellsworth of having been more intimate with his wife that the usages of good society permit, Mrs. Cliver accuses Ellsworth of making improper advances to her, which she resisted, while Ellsworth accuses Cliver and his wife of attempting to blackmail him. Ellsworth seems to have bad the short end of the argument thus far, for when Cliver found the Sugar Creek man at his house the other day he slugged him, and Ellsworth lost a $150 diamond pin, which he accused the woman in the case of having taken from him. Cliver threatened suits for divorce and damages for the alienation of his wife's affections, while Ellsworth talked of criminal prosecution for blackmail. As is usual in such cases all the parties imitated tbe parrot and talked too much, greatly to the satisfaction of the reporters who interviewed them, but the latest report is that all the threatened suits have been dropped.

Licensed to Wed.

DeLaskle J. Matthes and Mary W. Kable. Thos. L. Davte and Hannah Allen. Frank Herman and Mary E. Grace. Glenn O. Chandler and Pearl E. Mann. John Smith and Minnie Bchrlver. Chas. A. Threlklld and Jennie Tyler. Willis Edwards and Hattie Willis. Otto Bertsch and Margaret Gannon. Jephtba M. Boy 11 and Leona C. Stark. Joseph Mueller and Christina Mohr. Wm. Park and Leona B. Park.