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VOL. 27—NO. 36.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

Uncle Harry Ross celebrated his ninetysixth birthday last Tuesday, March 2d. Ninety-six years ago last Tuesday he first saw the light of day in Saratoga county, New York. Did you ever stop to think what tremendous changes have taken place during the lifetime of this one man?

When he was born the Union contained but sixteen states. These were Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island, the thirteen original states in the order in which they ratified the constitution, together with Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee. All that portion of the country contained in the present states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, the Indian Territory and Oklahoma, belonged to ranee, and it was not until the little fellow was two years old that it became the property of the United States by purchase from France.

Indiana Territory had but a year before been carved out of the immense territory northwest of the Ohio river, and William Henry Harrison had been in May, 1800, appointed its first governor. The capital of the territory was Vincennes, and on the very next day after the birch of Baby Ross in far-off New York, March 8, 1801, the first session of the general court of Indiana Territory, assembled at Vincennes.

When "Uncle Harry" Ross was born, George Washington had been dead but a little over a year, and Bonaparte, who was afterwards to startle all Europe with his boundless ambition was a young man of but thirty-one. The United States had had but two presidents when he was born, and his birthday preceded by two days the inauguration of the third, Thomas Jefferson. Although there had been but two presideuts at that time the first thiri en men to hold the office of president had been born, and but one of them had died, Washington. The thirteenth president, Millard Fillmore, was not a year old himself in 1801. "Uncle Harry" was a likely lad of eight years, and over, when our own Colonel Thompson was. ushered into life down in the Old Dominion, which was afterward to be greatly honored by his nativity. All these changes have been compassed within the lifetime of one man. Is it not wonderful.

A sudden spasm of virtue has seized the police department. Superintendent Meagher has discovered that there is a dive down in the west end that should be wiped out of existence, and has announced with a great flourish that he will not permit it to continue its demoralizing influence any longer. Captain Hyland issues an ultimatum to the same effect. Asa matter of fact, Q. V. several months ago called attention to the fact that rumors were current to the effect that a place was in operation down on the river side that was said to rival in its sensational features the "nooehie coochie" effects of the worlds fair. And Superintendent Meagher can't say that he didn't know of it because he doesn't read The Mail, for he does. Can it be that the new police law which makes it possible to completely reorganize the police department has caused this sudden spasm of virtue

Times are not getting any worse under the McKinley administration, at least. Mr. Otto Heinl is still at liberty, and the editorial end of the Board of Control of the Plain Held Reform School has not called lijpi a big. cruel brute aud sham reformer since iiC?n on the 4th of March. If £hjs lsi}'t sign of good times, what is it

If the city eouuC!! "would order all the allevs in the city paved with brick, buy a team or two to assist the garbage contractors to pull the proposed new garbage wagons up the incline at the crematory,they might be all right. The people wiU not blame the city council so much for this ill-advised piece of business as much as the sanitary committee. As a matter of fact, some practical man should be made chairman of the important sanitary commit tee. What business man is there in the city of Terre Haute, getting every cent of iiis revenue from the citizens thereof, as the city does, who would think of spending* t.400—which the garbage wagous will cost without even trying to find out whether that #1.400 could be spent in Terre Haute? There isn't a business man in Terre Haute that would think of such a proceeding. Yet the council went to work and ordered $1,400 spent in South Bend, and after the ortler had been placed on the recommendation of the sanitary committer' it is discovered that Terre Haute men can build garbage wagons that will answer every purpose for several hundred dollars cheaper than this. In city affairs V. believes in patronising home industries, even if It costs a little more. If it costs les«. as iu this case, all the more reason for patronising them* The expenditure of several hundred dollars on the crematory a year or two ago, without the authority of the council should have taught that body that the affairs of the sanitary committee needed the attention of a practical business man. or a man who {laid some attention to the laws and ordinances of the city of Terre Haute. It didn't, however. Whether it will or not. remains to be seen.

Patrolman George Hofland and Charley Baur ought to have a gold medal, each, for the way they nerved the Polytechnic rowdies Wednesday night. Q- V. haa codgelled his brains many and m*nj a time

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todiscover, if possible, a reason why a lot of young men of good character, from respectable families, intent {on fitting themselves for useful careers in life, should become rowdies because they happen to be away from home for educational purposes, and he thus far has been unable to find the reason. The affair at the Terre Haute house other night was a most disreputable one. A member of the Sophomore class was jumped on by the Juniors in the effort to keep him from attending a banquet there and an attempt made to take him away by force. If an affray of the kind had occurred in the west end a riot call would have been sent in, and the entire police department would have been called out, if necessary, to disperse the mob. When Patrolman Hofland arrestedoone of the prime movers in the affair, the other members called on Manager Banr to secure his release. The latter declined to do so, whereupon the other members of the class, which had already made arrangements for a banquet there, refused to fulfill their part of the contract, and went elsewhere to get their eatables. The Terre Haute House hasn't closed its door since this, and it isn't likely to, but Manager

Baur has been generally commended for the stand he has taken. Rowdyism isn't to be approved, no matter by whom it may be committed, and if the police de parlment

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Vwever desperate, shonld not constitnte ground for a lawsuit. Hereafter in that state when young men are supposed to have arrived at the critical stage in prospective matrimonial affairs, the young women, if they are at all smart, ill have parents or guardians, or cousins, or little brothers whose testimony will be competent, placed in a very convenient place to hear what is said in the height of a flirtation, in order to prove serious intentions. It opens wide possibilities to the developments of the graphophone and instruments of that kind for parlor use, and no doubt graphophone stock will take a sudden rise when the full import of this decision is realized by those most nearly concerned.

A Busy Woiuaa's

Here is the week of a ba»y woman told in rhyme: Monday's workfc fco wash apace.

Tuesday's work Is to iron with grace. Wednesday's work is to bake and seW Thursday's work is to cieaa for show: Friday's work is to sweep, dust, brush s.atnrdayvs work Is to cook with a rash. The next that «no©s Is Sabbath* day. And then she's too ttred to rest or to pray.

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in all cases of school rowdyism as was taken by Patrolman Hofland the other night, school students here and elsewhere wouldn't expect privileges that are denied ordinary people.

MAKE HIM PUT IT IN WRITING. Young women whose sweethearts grow lax in their attentions after having once become business-like will have to take more serious steps to protect their right1?, as a result of a recent ruling of the New York Court of Appeals, which has decided that a man's attentions to a woman, in a case involving a young woman's right to damages for breach of promise of marriage, must be followed by a contract before she has any right to sue and recover damages for her lacerated affections and feelings. Out here in Indiana, a young man who calls on a young woman nearly every night in the week and stays uni.il eleven o'clock, walks home with her from church, expresses a wish to make her happy, talks about buying a lot on which to build a home, and asks her opinion as to the beBt lot and location, is supposed to mean business. That is what the New York young woman took for granted until her best man «iarried another. Thenahe brought suit for damages, and the court has decided, and the judgment will have its effect in other states, that the young woman has no cause for action, because she cannot show that there was a definite contract of marriage. The court holds that in order to support a recovery for breach of promise, there must be evidence of an express contract that a mutual contract to marry could not be inferred from mere courtship, or even facts tending to show an intention to marry on the part of the defendant. In the reasoning the court goes further, indicating that, as "thorough acquaintance with character, habits and disposition is essential in order to make an intelligent contract," parties "may form such an acquaintance without having the inferences of a contract." But in the absence of fraud and deception, the court holds there must be a contract a meeting of the minds of the contracting parties, and the evidence must be of such a character as to justify a finding that such was the case. No form of words is required. A formal offer and acceptance are not necessary, but there must be an offer aud an acceptance "sufficiently disclosed or expressed to fix the fact that they frer% tp niarry a^ pearly as if put in formal wonts." file language Used hittfit such as to show that the minds of the parties met. Contracts of marriage concern the highest interest in life, and should be sacredly guarded. If the conduct and relations of the parties clearly indicate that they regard themselves as engaged, it is sufficient, otherwise not. Mere courtship, or even an intention to marry, is not sufficient to constitute a contract. In ict, the court holds that mere flirtation,

Troy Russell and Reekie Rmssell. Jnhn MW'« -Mi* Leurai»han. Wm. I\ *chMd and t" Murphy. Robert «*n»d Jane John W. Ad and Maud ttir. John J. Hot* ui and Carrie ii-mpft. Herahard sinjt and Anna Schlotterbeck. Henry Cactii and IrtKila Roberts. Wm. E. Hank and lata Alexander.

ABOUT WOMEN.

It tsa shame that more woWh Are not mistresses of their own kitchens. Houses of even moderately well-to-do people must be equipped with the apparatus of a gymnasium, that the mothers and daughters may have exercise. Harriet Beecher Stowe long ago cried out against the necessity or the pretended necessity of the masseur for indolent women. "Women," she says," lie for hours to have their feet twigged, their arms flexed and all the different muscles worked for them, because they are so flaccid and torpid that the powers of life do not go on. Wonld it not be quite as cheerful and less expensive a process," she asks, "if young girls from early life developed the muscles in sweeping, dusting, ironing, rubbing furnituand all the multiplied domestic processes which our grandmothers knew of?" and then adds: "I will venture to say that our grandmothers in a week went over every movement that any gymnast has invented, and went over them to some productive purpose, too."

But it is not only the women of wealth and leisure who are not mistresses of their kitchens. The slatternly houskeeper whose kitchen is always "in a mess," whose food is half cooked, whose dining-room is untidy, fails in her duty as

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Whether a woman does her own work or not, she ought to manage it—not let it manage her—and she ought to have time for other things, for out-door walks, a ride yes, on a wheel if she wants—for clubs, just so she is not clubbed to death for a little playtime with the children, a visit to friends, a little courtship with her husband, time for new books and old ones, and papers and magazines. She need never suffer from ennui. And that's the kind of a woman who makes a home that Is somStftfHg' walls."

It isn't very hard to make a women if,ol happy—that is if she isn't the grasping kind who wants everything in sight. The remembrance of an anniversary, the gentle courtesy expressed in a box of flowers, the real friendship in a kindly thought, these touch the woman's heart and these linger in her memory long after other gifts have ceased to afford any joy, and other occasions have mixed into a heterogeneous and misty congregation of benefits forgot.

If husbands only realized what the little attentions mean to their wives there would bo many happier unions. It is not the cost of a gift that makes it precious to the recipient. A tiny bunch of violets brought home at night betokens the thought given to her even while business occupies his attention, the most trifling souvenir of wedding or birthday anniversary becomes a valued possession in her eyes because of the sentiment underlying its proffering Women may be foolish, they may be all heart and very little reason, but the man who understands their nature and caters to it is the one who stands higher in their estimation than the one who acts as though all they cared about was material comfort given Tvith any Sort of bmsquerte.

Of course, tfaerd drd ifiafiy fflefdenAfy women. Thousands and thousands who marry for a home and for rich raiment, These pooh pooh the violets and value only the diamond^, but the average feminine heart, the sort which a man wants to beat beside his own, the foundation of truest sympathy and love, is moved more by the little attentions in which sentiment is in vol ved than by the great offerings represent ing only a stupendous sum of money in volved.

Sometimes when we see the unnecessary torture that a man or woman inflicts upon those dependent upon them for words of encouragement and kindness it seems as though the vein of cruelty must have very early in life been developed to a degree that accounts for its flourishing so vigor ously in later years. Accused of cruelty these individuals would undoubtedly declare that the term was harsh and misleading, yet there is no other word that so perfectly defines their line of conduct.

Now does this in* %te inherent degen eracy or is it the *ine of lax training In the majority of oases we are led to be- enconraggfflgtit !i?vw that it it th" result of the latter rather than the sequel of the former. Mothers, sweet, well-bred women, too, will sit quietly by and watch their little boy or girl maul a kitten or puppy nntil the poor animal to escape its torture scratches or bites its tormentor, this act being punished by the adult onlooker with a slap, which, as little as we believe in corporal punishment shonld have been gfoen to the child rather than its long-suffering victim.

The years roll by, the boy and girl mo longer tease the kitten or the pappy, but they persistency an boy those weaker than themselves. They take a delight in saying unkind things to those who have no it dress and in opening up heart sores that wsre jfcst beginning to heaL They do not

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woman who never goes into her kitchen because the man who supports her can afford to keep a cook and a butler

And, too, the woman who is a good cook and tidy and all that one can desire in that way makes an utter failure of her work if she is tied down to her kitchen and her houshold duties all of her waking hours If she is her houshold's slave, she is not its mistress. Mrs. Senator Cannon, of Utah, in a recent interview, gave it asheropinion that the women who stay at home all tbe time, make the most unpleasant homes while those who think about something besides cook stoves, wash tubs and baby flannels make the best mothers, a truth that most people who know women and mothers most readily assent to.

mean to be cruel, but the something that impels them to pull the cat's ears or poke the puppy's eyes is dominant when they use the words that wound or the manner that hurts.

It is so easy to be kind—it means so little as an effort—so much as a factor in life's social amenities that the cultivation of kindness and consideration should be deemed as of as much importance in the education of children as those accomplishments to which so much thought is given and which really count for so little in the truest and best relations of life.

OUCHT TO TAKE SOMETHING FOR IT. The .baked beans of classic Boston do not seem to agree any better with the digestive apparatus of the Hon. John Clark Ridpath than did the hog and hominy, or the more ethereal liver and bacon, of western Indiana. After making an ineffectual attempt to break into Congress from this district a few months ago, the learned gentleman accepted a position as editor of well-known Boston magazine, chiefly noted for its pessimistic view of things, morally, financially, nationally and other wise. The bracing!*ait from Back Bay does not seem to hSVe changed Mr. Ridpath's view of life, and in the first issue of the magazine after assuming control we find the following dismal comment on the present condition bf affairs:

Tire sentiments which inspired our fathers, the influences by which they were guided, the principles which they proclaimed and fought for, have been confused and retarded not a little in the evolution of our career and at no time have the confusion and retardation been more alarming than iu the present era. A g' eat part of the patriotic zeal which fired the hearts of our colonial ancestors has been quenched and lost. Another part of that sublime spirit is still preserved in the hearts ancL purposes of the American people. H" "On the whole there has been a manifest decline in the force and prevalence of the bold, free democracy of our fathers. They who speak of the' current prevalence of Jeffersonian principles speak nothing but ignorance and delusion. Gradually the imperial spirit has entered our national consciousness. Gradually it has supplanted the radical sentiments and principles of the founders of the republic. Gradually it has transformed, and is still transforming, our institutions. At no particular date has this transformation been alarming but the aggregate resulthas become dangerous in the extreme to the preservation bf our old-time liberties and to the further spread of these liberties and the rights of men. It is not too much to saytbatthe democratic republic which

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tion, by battle, by sacrifice and patriotic consecration—is rapidly becoming, or has already become, an imperial republic, not without its striking analogy to that imperial republic of Rome which preceded the empire.

In the name of reason and history, why is it that this tremendous miscarriage seems to threaten the American republic Why is it that here, as elsewhere in all tbe civilized countries the ruin and suppression of democracy seem to impend Why is it that like melancholy miscarriages have disfigured the history of the past, rendering its final results dubious and sorrowful

It is said that far more than half the ills to which human flesh is heir result from a bad condition of the liver, and Mr. Ridpath evidently is very badly in need of something for his. The sun will shine brighter, the trees and grass look greener, and life generally will take on a more inviting aspect to a man whose internal arrangements are in good working order. The Mail commends to Mr. Ridpath a carfful reading of its business colur'ns, in which will be found advertised a great many valuable preparations that will certainly do him a vast amount of good.

AMUSEMENTS.

THE AVENUE THEATRE.

J. W. Roscoe, of California, theatrical manager of twenty years experience has assumed the management of the Avenue Theatre and will~^Sresent "A Midnight Call", a sensational comedy drama, with a new company, Monday night, March 8. The same company will also foltew with another piece Thursday night and0n Monday, March 15, Oliver Doud Byron will begin a three nights engagement. Other first class attractions have been booked and with the patronage by Terre Haute amusement goers, others will follow. The Avenue theatre is the only theatre in this city and deserves encouragement.

Mr. Roscoe is a man who understands his business as he recently managed a circuit of seven theaters on the coast It is his intention to remain in Terre Haute permanently and with the close of the present season will thoroughly remodel the house and make it a first-class family theater. He promises that nothing but first-class attractions will be booked, and tbs Theater should receive libera)

John W. Davis a well-known lawyer of this city, died Tuesday evening at the residence of Judge Mack, on Eighth street, aged 48 years. Deceased was a son of the late John G. Davis formerly a representative in congress from this district, and was a brother of Mrs. Wm. Mack.

Miss Pet Alexander, formerly a clerk at tbe Havens & Geddea Co., and W. E. Hauk, bookkeeper for Clem Nagel, were married Wednesday evening at the home of the bride south of the city. They will be at home to their friends at 1413 south Third street after March 15th.

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OUR PRESIDENTS.

Four presidents have died in office. Only five presidents have served two full terms in succession.

Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland are the only living ex-presidents. Jefferson was a riper scholar than any of his successors. Madison was probably the greatest constructive statesman among the presidents.

Grover Cleveland is not the. only man who has thrice run for the presidential office. Jefferson ran three times, Jackson three times, Martin Van Burenfour times,

Two counties in Virginia produced four ''residents. Washington and Monroe were born in Westmoreland county, and William Henry Harrison and Tyler in Charles City county.

One president of the United States, John Tyler, has afterward been in rebellion against it. One vice president, Breckinridge, has led against it in the field.

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John Quincy Adams and James A. Garfield were probably the most eloquent of the presidents. Lincoln was doubtless tly most impressive speaker. None has beei more forcible than Benjamin Harrison

Virginia was the mother of seven P|£sidents, Ohio of five), North Carolina of three, Massachusetts and New York of two each, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont of one each.

The name of Adams reappears on a presidential ticket at least twice in a generation. Nine times the American people have been called upon to vote for a member of this Massachusetts family, either for president or vice-president.

Lincoln and Washington were the tallest of the presidents, Van Buren, Grant and Benjamin Harrison the shortest, Van Buren and Jackson the lightest and Cleveland the heaviest. A majority of the presidents have been six-footers.

John Tyler holds the record for cabinet advisers. He had twenty in less than four years, including three secretaries of state, four secretaries of war and five secretaries of the navy. Andrew Jackson had fifteen different cabinet members during his second term.

Van Buren was the first president who was not clean shaven. He wore side whiskers. Lincoln wore chin whiskers. McKinley has revived the old, smooth-shaven statesman style of face. In the interval

a mustache and one Burnsides. Franklin Pierce was the only man elected president and serving his full term who made no changes in his cabinet. Garfield, the elder Harrison and Gen. Taylor made no changes, but they died in office early in their terms. Millard Fillmore, who succeeded Taylor, got along with the same cabinet for three years.

Maj. McKinley is the twelfth presiden: out of 25 who had previously served his country in a war. With three exceptions, all had attained a general's rank. The other two were Monroe, who was a captain in the revolution, and Lincoln, who was a oaptain in the Black Hawk war.

Four American presidents have retained the cabinets of their predecessors. They were John Adams, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler and Andrew Johnson. Only in the case of Van Buren was this a fortunate undertaking. The cabinet of Adams intrigued against him Tyler quarreled and parted with his, and Johnson's conflict with Edwin M. Stanton precipitated the impeachment proceedings.

Daniel Webster was secretary of state under three administrations—Harrison's, Tyler's and Fillmore's. Thomas Ewing was secretary of the treasury under Harrison, Tyler and Taylor. Timothy Pickering was post-master-general in Washington's first term and secretary of state in his second, as well as secretary of state under Adams. William Windom was secretary of the treasury for Garfield, Arthur and Benjamin Harrison.

The presidential succession is fixed by chapter 4 of the acts of the Forty-ninth Congress. In case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice President, then the Sec re tary of State shall act as President until the disability of the President or vice President is removed or a President is elected. If there be no Secretary of State then the Secretary of the Treasury will act and tbe remainder of the order of sue cession is: Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster-General, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Interior (the office of Secretary of Agriculture was created after the passage of the act). The acting President must, upon taking office, convene Congress, if not at tbe time in session, la extraordinary session, giving twenty days' notice. This act applies only to such cabinet officers as shall have been appointed by the advice and consent of the Semite and are eligible under the Constitution to the Presidency.

BITS OF PHILOSOPHY.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for tbem. The lives of seme people are open books the lives of others are blank books.

We could all be great men If we could be measured by the great things we intend to do to-morrow.

When a woman has a pretty hand and Wrist and anew pair of gloves she doesn't object so strenuously to standing ipU a

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street car and clinging to a strap as she might otherwise. Some people are born poor, some achievepoverty, and others have to support their poor relations.

How much you read is of less consequence than how much you think about what you have read.

We have all heard of the pink of propriety. The pink of impropriety must l»e the ballet dancers tights. "The dearest spot on earth is home" sings the poet, and, as a matter of fact, many find it the most expensive.

Some rich men's eyes fill with tears the sight of poverty so that they can't seeto write a check for fifteen or twenty dollars to relieve it.

Some men are so purse-proud that they would u't toss up a cent to decide a question. Nothing less than a five-dollar gold piece would be good enough for them.

The tendency of the times is illustrated! by the fact that the bicycle advertisements are crowding the camera advertisements out of the magazines and newspapers.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

It is said that Colonel E. D. Sims, of Kentucky, whose political disabilities have just been removed by congress, is the "last of the unreconstructed rebels."

According to our last census, 3,981 per--sons over 100 years were found, and of these 2,583 were women. In France in 1895 there were only sixty-six men and 147 women over the 100 mark.

There are fewer than fifty newspapers published in the entire kingdom of Portugal, the population of which is nearly 5,000,000, or about the same as that of Pennsylvania, in which the total number of newspapers published is 1,433.

The demand which hails from Kansasthat all bachelors over 22 be taxed annually and all over 80 be sent to the penitentiary has all the earmarks of feminine instigation. If this becomes law, let all bachelors combine forces, refuse to pay their fines and go to the penitentiary. They wouldn't be there over night before the women would pass another bill to let them out.

The "Vinegar Bible" was thus named from a ludicrous typographical blunder— The Parable of the Vineyard," in the twentieth chapter of Luke, being made to read "The Parable of the Vinegar." Thf» edition of the bible was published ip

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and most of the copies were destroyed" hjr the publishers, though several got intocirculation before the blunder was discovered. It is asserted that not more than a dozen copies of this book are now in existence.

Mrs. Louise Pitt Yokum, the -superin^ tendent of education in Dolores county, Colorado, has refused a teacher's certificate to Victor C. McGirr, principal of the Rico public school, because be smoked. Mrs. Yocum takes the ground that a person who smokes is disqualified to teach in the public schools because teachers in that state are required by law to instruct the children against tbe use of tobacco. An appeal will probably be taken to the state board of education by Mr. McGirr, who is a graduate of the Toronto university and is very popular in Rico.

Before retiring from the senate this week: John Sherman had been keptbusyfurnishing autographs. Every morning before the senate convened he signed about a half hundred autograph books for the senate page boys, who were always waiting for him. One day recently a little fellow had three autograph books and fifteen or twenty cards which he wanted signed by the Ohio senator. Mr. Sherman took the popularity as a matter of course until the boy with the fifteen cards came up- Then he said, smilingly: "Look here what do you boys do with my name "Oh," replied the little fellow, "we sell it to autograph collectors."

Capt. Daniel Fasig, of Vigo division, No. 83, as acting assistant inspector general of the Uniform Rank, inspected Terre Haute division last night, and installed its officers as follows: Captain, A. C. Duddleston first lieutenant, H. A. Pritchett second lieutenant,

Charles A. Miller recorder,

Philip Best treasurer, H. F. Schmidt guard, R. O. Miller sentinel, Charles O. Ebel. Terre Haute division last night adopted a new fatigue uniform consisting of blue coat, West Point style, white duck trousers, and fatigue cap. A committee consisting of F. M. Clift, H. A. Pritchett, C. A. Miller, S. C. Budd and W. N. Kramer was appointed to correspond with various uniform houses to secure propositions for furnishing this uniform, which it is hoped to be able to wear in public tbe first time ?n Decoration Day.

The combination sale of S. J. Fleming & Son this week proved more successful than last year. There were 200 horses sold for a total of $36,473.50, or an average of $174.50. An average of $150 is usually considered a good one. Jersey Wilkes, the famous trotting sire, owned by W. RMcKeen and W. P. I Jams, brought the highest price at. the sale, he being sold to Samuel Fleming for (1,075. He is sixteen years of age, and cost Mr. McKeen originally $16,000. Later a half interest in him was sold for $10,000.

J. E. Somes, the south Sixth street drugghct, is an active cancidate for position as member of the state board of pharmacy, created by the present legislature.