Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 March 1897 — Page 1

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VOL. 27—NO. 38.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

Is Governor James A. Mount, of Shannondale, Montgomery County, Indiana, what the small boy would call a "feather leg?" A great many persons are asking themselves that question to-day, after learning that the Governor has decided on leaving the appointment of the police commissioners of this city to a committee consisting of Hon. W. R. McKeen, Hon. Jacob D. Early, author of the police bill, Hon. James E. Piety, judge of the Circuit court, Hon. David W. Henry, judge of the Superior court, aud Hon. Fred A. Ross, mayor of the city of Terre Haute. The governor has appointed the police boards in the majority of the cities affected by the new law,.and just why he should pick out this city as the one in which to refer the appointment to a committee is not exactly clear. The responsibility belongs to him in this city, as it belonged to him in the other cities. If thp committee should agree on a board there is no guarantee that satisfaction would be given, and the Governor would have to bear the responsibilitr just the same. Without violating any confidence Q. V. is able to give in substance the letter which accompanied the appointment of the commmittee in question as follows: "It seems to me eminently proper to call to my assistance your services. If I cannot find suitable help from a committee consisting of a man at its head whose life and energy has been given and whose money has been expended to make the city, and who is assisted in his work by *he senator who created the law, the ju *ges of the Superior aud Circuit courts, together with the mayor of the city, then where may I seek safe connsel "I desire to have you name men of integrity, of honor, and of character. Men whose social life and business standing commend them to public confidence. Men who will see that the law is enforced and its dignity preserved without attempting persecution under its guise. Men who, in the management of their business, have demonstrated a capacity to manage police affairs, insuring good service at minimum expense. "The foregoing is the standard by which I am seeking to make appointments of police commissioners, and forestalls the platform upon which I expect them to

,J), V. ha& not been able to learn whether or not all the members of the committee will accept the responsibility the Governor •would endeavor to place on their shouldeis, but if one member should decline it would necessitate the appointment of a new committee or the reference of the matter back to hitu. Q. V. is led to wonder if It is not true, as he suggested some time ago in this column, that the Governor is a possible candidate for Senator before the legislature to be elected next year, and would especially like to be "solid" with Vigo county, which next to Marion county, will vote for more candidates for the legislature than any other county in the state.

There has been no little excitement this week over the appearance here of a lot of "public benefactor*" who were go to sell to the people of this city and vicinity some #50,000 worth of first-class clothing for something like 35 pur cent of its real value. The public has taken the statements of the amount of clothing with something of a doubt, and this doubt increased to a certainty as it became known that, when Township Assessor Ofcto O. Carr, alive to his duties to the people who hire him, went after the new store for taxation, the managers objected to being Assessed for two-fifths of the taxables they asserted that they had in stock. They were willing to be assessed for what they act ually had in stock, according to the selling prices iuarke.1 thcroon. When the invoice was completed it was discovered that, instead of $50,000 worth of fine clothing, they had about $2,500 worth, on which they paid tuxes. The dwindling of their claims as to aiuouut of stock is in direct proportion to the dwindling of their other claims regarding the merits of their goods. Q. V. believes firmly that such institutions should be kept out of the city, not simply beenuse they interfere with legitimate business men who are here the year round, and by paying their share of the taxes make it possible for us to have public schools, libraries and other advantages that depend on the paying of taxes for their maintenance. He believes that this Is a stroug reason why .vhese fly-by nigh: affairs should be kept out, but there is a higher aud better reason why such visitations should be prevented Today they are here, .m next day they are in Milwaukee, or some other seaport town. The guarantee they give as to the merits of their gvxxla is worth about as much as a promissory note written on the sands of the Wabash river just before high-water mark. As a rule such institudon't sell goods that wilt stand a guarantee, but when this fact is discovered by the dttlude purchaser, the guarantor ha* folded his tents and departed, ami his destination, tf know a, is of no import. If the purchaser patronizes a home merchant. who is here from January 1st t» December 31st of each calendar year, he can go bacl| on the merchant for the guarantee. Goods can't be sold for the price* that them* affairs advertise, and do busi-1 ness ou the square. Ten* Haute institu-j tlons do busi mission the square, and should be maintained. Yon can boy good goods Just about as cheap In Terre Haufee an you can in Chicago or Indianapolis, and Q. V. believe* that when Terre Haute people have money to spend tt should be spent

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with those who live here and help to make it possible for Terre Haute to be a city. G. W. Faris, who is to referee the fight for the postoffice in this city, according to the Marquis of Canton rules, is in the city, arranging rules under which the fight is to be conducted. Mr. Faris is not the only pebble on the beach. In factj from the importance he assumes in the matter, he is hardly to be considered a pebble. He is a large-sized "dornick." What he says goes in our postoffice fight, and there is a whole lot of interest in his visit home at this time. He did not come in the interim between the close of the regular session of congress and the meeting of the new body, and his visit at this time is supposed to possess great significance. The ostensible objects of his visit is to see that the opposing factions in this city "get together." It is said that in order to secure harmony he is willing to recommend to Senator Fairbanks the appointment of Mr. Filbeck as revenue colic and that of Capt. Ford as postmaster, thus recognizing both factions. Again, it is said that he may recommend Judge Henry as revenue collector and Mr. Filbeck as postmaster, although Mr. Filbeck has said that he is not out for the postoffice, but for the other, and will accept no such compromise as that suggested. Meetings have been held in the interest of the various candidates for the offices, and if Mr. Faris doesn't wear a worried look before he sets his feet again on the soil of the District of Columbia it will be because he has a Fitzsimmons constitution, and can stand most any kind of punishment.

The tax committee of the city council, at a meeting held last night, decided to recommend to the city council the rebate of taxes on the proposed new opera house, for a term of five years. The resolution should, as it deserves, meet with the approval of the council, which will be the first to give an impetus to the erection of a new theater here, which the city needs badly. Q. V. is a crank on the tax question. and believes that taxes are not levied and collected with the strict impartiality that should mark the exercise of the taxing power, through no fault of the officials, but through defects in tl$ law. The rebate of this tax, however, means much to the city of Terre Haute, and instead of calling on the business* men to donate everything to such anenterprisa the people themselves should be called on to donate something. The amount of the donation to the taxpayers in the city will be so malMfoat if they 'were asked to go down, into their pockets for that purpose they would do it quickly and without protest. We need anew theater here, and this is one step that the people's representativi can take that will have a good effect. Q. V. hopes that the council will unanimously approve the report of the tax com mittee and give the new theater boom a "push."

It is to be hoped as a matter of fair play that when the new police regime is inaugurated one of the first things it will do will be to see that no special favors are shown officers over the men, and that flesh will not. be made of one and fowl of the other. For instance, that an officer who lays off duty should not be allowed to draw full salary when a patrolman who does the same thing is "docked" for his lost time.

There was what the sports call a "hot" chicken fight ou the north side Wednesday night. Chickeu fights are not strictly according to "hoyle" in the revised statutes, and the police heretofore have made it a point to put a stop to all fights when they "caught on" to the fact that such contests were to take place. This time there was no effort made to stop the fights. It was generally understood that they were to take place, and it was a matter of common report as to where they were to be palled off. The reason given for the failure of the police to interfere is that the owner of the. pit where the fights took place notified the police that if he was stopped in his effort to "turn an honest penny" he would file complaints against every place in the city where gambling is going on at present The pollcemau who didn't know that there was to be a cock fight on the north side on Wednesday night, was pretty slow. One thing seems to be certain, that is, that there was a chicken fight, and that the police didn't interfere. You can draw your own conclusions.

Considering the hard times, the amount of money that changed hands on the Cor bitt Ft Usi mons fight in this city, was large. It is said that not less than $8,000 to $ 10.000 changed owners on the result of the big fight. One pool room had 13,000 in the box, and another had in the neighborhood of $3,000, while outside of,this there were many good bets. A well Known bar ber lost $400 on account of his weakness in favor of Corbett, and a bartender in a well known dowu town saloon dropped $200, because he thought the Califoruian was the better man of the two. The excitement about the bulletins in this city equalled that shown during election times. In one of the places where bulletins were read the operator translated the sentence regarding "File's wind" as "FiU wins," and the crowd went wild over it. Men were rushing around to get their pool tickets cashed and there was a regular pandemonium. After that there were very few pools sold oa the result.

The Hon. Daniel V. Miller is to preside over the "moot court" to be held by the young law students of the city to night at the office of J. O. Piety. The court it to puts on an interesting replevin rait and very exciting time* are looked for. Every day as the Judge passes The Mail office on hit way to hi* mittage^sen, he carries with himanartnfulof law books

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and a worried look. If it was a decision at first base, or second base, for that matter, Judge Miller could have rendered a decision without consulting any authorities. But when it comes to deciding a replevin case in a '"moot" court it is another thing. If any of his friends notice that he has lost flesh in the past few days they will understand after reading this the cause of it.' ",'i

Col. Thomas W- Harper, Councilman Dean McLaughlin, and Carl Stahl, of the Stahl-Urban Co., are understood to be the only Terre Hauteans who saw the big prize fight on Wednesday. The last named was an ardent Fitzsimmons man, and as he backed his judgment with his money is understood to have paid his expenses, with cigar money on the side.

It is talk on the street that Martin. N. Diall is looming up as a "dark horse" candidate for the postmastefship. He was an unsuccessful applicant, for the position in 1880, when Congressman R. B. F. Pierce appointed J. O. Jones to the position, and created such dissatisfaction that he was subsequently defeated in a Republican dis trict by Hon. John E. Lamb. Mr. Diall is not an applicant for the position this year, but probably wouldn't decline it if notified by the president that he was appointed as a compromise candidate. ..

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

Most men feel more at home when their wives aren't. Suspect the woman who talks of her virtue.

Some girls can never blush without feeling conscious. Every man knows of times when he has been too-discreet. "As you please" is the wife's first word of indifference.

Woman lives by1 sentiment where man lives by action. There are but few moral wounds that solitude does not cure.

Money matters can always be settled, but feelings are pitiless. A man is strong when he admits to himself his own weaknesses.

The only really happy animal is a goat. He can eat anything. There is nothing like the exercise of power for teaching you politics.

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There are some men who are always polite—they have gloved souls. In the medical profession a ii IfHW often more essential than skill. M~

The old critic is always kind and coti siderate the young critic is impacable. Wo«xen are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.

He who does not bestride success and grasp it firmly by the mane, lets fortui escape.

As soon as a man gets through fixing the furnace he has to begin to take up the carpets.

When a girl picks a thread off your lapel she always looks sideways and tilts her 1 iead back.

A girl can never decide which she enjoys most—taking a baby out walking or having a good cry.

The devil was glad when women weie created, because he couldn't be everywhere at once.

If women were angels they would always be worried for fear the men would muss their feathers all up.

God himself was deceived by the only woman he had to govern and whom he had taken pains to make.

When you see a girl shrug her shoulders it isn't always a sign that she is too stuck up to wear red flannel.

It is natural to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we cannot understand, and insult what we envy.

Some girls seems to think that when they walk along the street all the men ought to wear blinkers-, like horses.

When a girl decides that she has dyspepsia she limits her dinner to a plate of lobster salad and a big cucumber pickle.

Generally when a girl calls a man a pet name, she can be pretty sure some other girl has called him the same name before.

When a woman gets to thinking how it would be if her husband -had married some other woman she always feels so sorry for him.

When a woman cries at a pathetic child scene in a play it is a sign that she made the children go to bed early so she could go and see it.

When the devil met Eve in the garden the day she ate the apple he probably began by saying: "What a handsome husband you've got !n

A woman can never understand why her husband has to work so much harder than other men to get along when he is so much smarter than they are.

When yon meet a man of a shy, retiring disposition you may be pretty sure he used to recite pieces at all tha church entertainment* when he was little.

Chauncey M. Depew said "It has been my fortune for a qu.irt--? of a century to be the counsel as a lawyer and associated in br,w::r men whr*»aecumulntfrrs diaii- S ti ~i among their fcll-r-v# as n-A, it hm l-.-. .ray experience, as I sum up through a quarter of a century of review of the liv,* of the thousand men wfc..h»v« bi-n represented upon my ledger or iu my «fcret counsel, that the majority of them have either failed in bustae** or died poor."

ABOUT WOMEN.

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When the door is opened, if there pours out a gush of bird-song, it is very likely to give you, a stranger on the threshold, a quickening fancy of the cheer and pleasure in the house. And if, beyond the birdsong, there comes also the sound of happy laughter and of the sweet shrill voices of children, you feel that there is something worth living for in that bouse that it has a centre, and that the people in it have an objector love, work, and anticipation, says t^vriter in Harper's Bazar. Perhaps your thought goes farther, and you feel that thia family is apart of the future of the world, that it has a hold upon the race its life is the life of the great vascular tissue of humanity, of the things that reach before and after, and all that in a way Impossible to a childless family, none of wiose blood descends to mingle with that if the generations that are to come. And wtth that the childless have in your thought an added loneliness, a sort of aloofness and alienation from the rest of the world. ,'

Th/s mother who lias lost her baby out of ier arms, who* is acquainted with siletjbe where once were singing and laughing, asking and coaxing* pattering feet and clinking of toys, who feels only in dreaftn the pressure of soft arms about her neck, and the touch fit a peachy cheek on 3r& kr oman

woman who has never held a baby of her own, witfa|the exulting sense that she herself brought this perfect thing into the world, knows nothing of it, and can hardly guess the joy that she has missed.

The presence of children in the house means life and all that life involvesmotion, sparkle, countless activities and pleasures—and with it the tide of new emotions, of joys and sympathies and sorroWs, flows through the house. Where they are, one's own youth can never be forgotten and the perpetual reminders of it keep the heart open, incline it to tenderness make one wider and deeper, better acquainted with humanity, better acquainted, too,/with divinity.

Moreover, this presence obliges one to be interested in the affairs that are external to one's self, in the affairs that belong to youth under the new conditions of the growing time, so in another way obliging an intimacy with the spirit of perennial youth... To any who kjtoy bittftftiesB that islwmetimes'^HIjF^^A^^^hei as if one she affairs of the young than ifon^ri^ii&& mummy, this, not me^ly,J^ ability to keep along with the young, but the inability to avoid doing so, that comes with having children in the house is seen to be a blessing worth all the care and trouble tha^'tuay have preceded it. But one is apt not to think of this till too late, till old age is upon one, and there are neither children nor grandchildren to make one glad.

In the house where there are no children, what are the holidays, with all the joyous preparation that belongs to th?m in other houses what are birthdays, Sundays, story-telling twilights, bedtimes what the glad morning hour Surely it is a dreary place without the shouts and cries, without the outside interests, innocent, fresh, amusing, that children force upon it and that is a forlorn woman who has none of the strangely wise questions to answer that children ask, none of the dear confidences to receive, none of the happy excitement of training a young spirit as she would train a flower, of shaping a life, of seeing herself perhaps reproduced, with the chance of correcting and obviating her errors. The mother with her baby on her knee, showing him his first flower, his first picture, watching his first hearing of a tune, his first rapture over bright colors, over another child, the first expression of his tenderness, will tell you that there has been no interest and no joy in her life comparable to this, and will wonder at you if you smile, and will pity you if destiny has left you without that experience. fSven the mother who has lost her child has an interest that is. deep and vital, and in away satisfying, in following that child's spiritual growth still -with her thoughts, in feeling that she is not without ti child, nor is the child motherless she has thrown an anchor over into the deep untroubled waters, and she has a sacred joy and certainty in the midst even of grief.

That there are women who look with disinclination upon the idea of bringing this great happiness into their lives seems incredible. It means to them the dropping of a year out of their active pleasures, out of dining, driving, dancing, bicycling, horseback-riding it puts a bar to the parading of possibly gorgeous toilettes, a limit for the time being, and perhaps for a time afterward, to theaters and operas and all the social gayeties. They are not afraid of sickness and pain—very few women fear pain excessively—but they want the pleasure of the passing moment, and they do not want care and responsibility. They entirely forget that much of he sanctity of marriage depends «pon the presence of children in the family that health is preserved by obedience tdfiatural laws and that, if the purpose of the universe is the gradual pMedUon of tfete race, then they are contravahlft|Srthe divine In-1 ntion when barring tH^r fa^nsion of the race so far as powe goes. A woman whose husband is a or insane may feel that die has no right to continue that awful inheritance a woman in porerty %tay hesitate about a larger fam If than she can clothe and educate—very often theIbesitatiQn is not on her side such women anyway are greatly to be commiserated. But the unfortunately

childless women in better circumstances have no idea of what they. deprive themselves—a happiness to which no pleasure of ball or toilette is comparable. They make for themselves a desert, a middlelife without companionship, and an old age without love. And they rob themselves in the heyday of their health and strength of the embrace of little arms, of the kisses on velvet cheeks, the watching over dewy sleep, the adoring worship of tender new-born souls, the ineffable delight of loving something infinitely better than they love themselves.

A dear little five-year-old ran up to a very busy, mother the other day. "Mother, mother, does you love me today same's any other day?" she asked, anxiously. "Why, yes, dearie. But mother's so busy she can't talk now. She can't spare a minute." "But, mother, mother, It doesn't take a minute just to give me a mother-cuddle."

And at that pleasing request of the child down went the mother's work, and the dear baby had the mother-cuddle she longed for. "It doesn't take a minute," if we only thought so, for the mother-cuddles that both older and younger children need for their best growth! We are all busy—so busy with the piled-up woi'k that as ou* sighingly said, "I've given up any hope of ever getting through." And often, although we know how much good these gifts of mother-love and mother-talk and motherhelp might do, we feel constrained to put them off because of the hard* insistent demands of more material things.

But sewing, or house work, or social duties should have no rights where the call comes for a little pure expression of the iove which mal&s the motive of all work, and without which all our work is a shallow pretense. Perhaps if we looked upon "mother-cuddles" as hard but necessary work, we might find more to give them!

The conventional costume of the wellbred widow possesses every known, quality unhygienic, non-eesthetic and costly dress. Proper exercise while she is mourning is out of the question. Seclusion is secured in ways less barbarlous perhaps than inducing deformity of the feet, yet our occidental mourning customs effectually keep women within doors. The heart of the stoutest warriors might quail within hiftl if a quiet stroll required the wearing tvto crepe veils, each six feet long, one wor&over the

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hang down the back More than this, the materials and dyes in use In the fashioning of mourning materials are often of a very poisonous nature, frequently injuring the skin and ruining the complexion. Not less injurious is the irritation to the respiratory tract caused by minute loose particles of poisonous crepe.

Gloomy garments, darkened rooms, all the subdued life of a house of mourning, lower the vitality and reduce the quantity of domestic ozone.

The charming young widow in her costume of unrelieved crepe, is a figure that henceforth will be but seldom seen. While she is doing her best to restore her ruined complexion, build up her demolished vital ity and regain something of the beauty that she has lost, she is succeeded by the sensible woman who wears light motirning for a few weeks or months simply for the purpose of self-protection, and then tries to brighten and lighten her garb as effectually as she may

The Philharmonic Club. The Philharmonic club will give its second concert at the Central Presbyterian church next Friday evening, and the pro gramme is one that should attract a large audience to this popular entertainment. In addition to the orchestral effects, which created such a favorable opinion at the firs concert, there will be a vocal solo by Miss Maude Paige, a harp solo by Miss Schellschmidt, of Indianapolis, who made such a hit at the first concert of the club. The quartette will render the popular Bacherino Minuet. The programme will be made up of a number of popular as well as classical music, and it is due the membera of the club that it be given liberal patronage. The price of admission is but 50 cents, which includes a reserved seat. Seats are now on sale at Godecke's, Buntin's, Paige's and Cox's, and reserved seats may be secured at Paige's music store, three days in advance of the concert.

THE USED-TO-BE.

Beyond the purple, hasy trees Of summer's utmost boundaries Beyond the sands—beyond the seas— Beyond the range of eyes like these,

And only in the reach of the Enraptured ftaze of Memory There lies a land, long lost to me— The land of Csed-to be. A land enchanted—sach as swung In golden seas when sirens clung Along their dripping brinks, and sang To Jason In that mystic tongue

That dated men with its melody— O. such a land with such a sea Kissing Its sb-r^s eternally, Is the fair Cs

f'to-be.

A land where music ever girds The air with belts of singing birds. And sows all sounds with such sweet words, That even in the low of herds

A meaning lives so sweet to me, Lost laughter ripples limpidly From lips brimmed over with the glee Of rare old Used-to-be. O land of love and dreamy thought*. And shining fields and shady spots Of coolest, greenest grassy plots, Embossed with wild forget-me-nots?

And all ye blooms that longingly Lift your fair faces up to me Out of the past, I kiss In ye The Ups of Used-to-be. —James Whiteomb Klley.

TWE^TY-SEYENTH YEAR.

FREE LIBRARIES.

THE MAIL'S CONTEST FOR SCHOOLS.

917 5 in Libraries to be Given to the Public Schools Displaying the Most Enterprise—Other Prizes Offered to the Most Wide-Awake Boys and

Girls—Full Details of The Mail's Library Contest. The Mail to-day begins one of the most novel and interesting contests ever undertaken by a newspaper in this section of the country. Full details were given last week, as they were announced iu the daily papers, but they are worthy of repetition here. Beginning with to-day and continuing until Saturday, September 4th, 18W, The Mail will print each week at the head of its editorial columns a coupon, which is to be voted at The Mail office for the most popular city school, the most popular member of the city school force, and the boy or girl furnishing the most coupons to The Mail in the contest. At the close of the contest, the first Saturday before the opening of the fall term of the city schools, to the public school in Terre Haute receiving the highest number of votes The Mail will give a Library of Books, to be selected as the successful school may decide, to cost $100. To the public school in Terre Haute receiving the second highest numof votes The Mail will give a Library costing $50. To the public school in Terre Haute receiving the third highest number of votes The Mail will give a Library costing $25.

In addition to these substantial prizes for the schools, The Mail also offers the following inducements to every person interested in the award of these Libraries:

To the teacher receiving the highest number of votes in the City Library Contest, The Mail will give a Webster's Interternation Dictionary, the latest revised edition, with Complete Reference Index.

To the boy who is credited with the highest number of coupons in the Library Contest The Mail will give a $10 Gold Piece.

To the girl credited with' the highest number of coupons in the Library Contest, The Mail will give a 110 Gold Piece,

The first coupon is printed in The Mail to-day. In Philadelphia, where the library contest was first undertaken, it met with great success. It practically had the endorse*' ment of the school authorities, the teach* ers and pupils, and arousi^ g]reAt interest a dent of the Philaieipllfl^mbl!c BCftoe said "The value of reading- gSiifllirbookia?both for general culture and the culture of language, cannot be overestimated. One of the best things a teacher can do for her pupils is to develop a taste for good reading. The greatest blessing the city could confer upon its citizens would be to put a library of well-selected books into each of the public schools."

The Mail cannot undertake to put a library of-good books in every public school in the city, but it can and does untake to put three libraries In the schoo exhibiting the most enterprise, libraries nth $100, $50, and $25, consisting of books best fitted for the purposes of the schools, and selected by the teachers in the schools winning the prizes. In addition to this, The Mail will give a Webster's International Dictionary, with patent reference index complete, to the teacher in the public schools receiving the highest number of votes in the contest, and two prizes of ten dollars in gold each to the boy aud girl furnishing the highest number of coupons in the contest.

This issue of The Mail will fall into the hands of many who are not regular readers, and a careful examination is invited. If you are favorably [impressed with the merits of the paper, your subscription is respectfully requested, either to the office direct or to one of the hundreds of little fellows who each week make a business of selling the paper on the streets ami delivering at the homes of subscribers.

Treatment of Kables.

It is wisely observed that intelligent people are beginning to understand the importance of protecting the nervous system in infancy and the danger of a shock to childish nerves. As a rule, the more quiet a baby is kept during the first year of its life the better chance it has for a life of health and happiness. The fact that so large a proportion of the human family die in infancy is due largely to the folly of nurses and the ignorance of mothers. Overbright babies do not commend themselves to physicians, who know that the first year of a child's life should be npent largely in sleep. All efforts to arouse the dormant mind of the child at this period is attended with danger. The foolish practice of tossing a helpless baby in the air, -while it screams both with affright and delight, is a most dangerous one. A physician with a large practice tells the story «&»<precociously bright child, which showed evident delight when tossed in this way by a doting grandfather, who was accustomed to jlay with it in this way every evening. The child trembled with delight When the night's frolic was over, but one evening from this trembling it passed into a spasm, the first indication of one of those fatal brain diseases against which medical science is helpless. Not hi ng could be done but to wait until the little life had flown to a happier land.

Licensed to Wed.

John 8. Splady and Clare B. Goodner. Scott Humble and Clara Meison. John D. Price and Kettle McCrockiin. Chas. Goiding and Julia Richartz. Wm. Morris and Anna E. Ellison. Wra. L. Allen and Martha A. Graham. Cbas. M. Fortune and Mary L. Sparks. Harvey I'ritchard and Ailce Joyner.

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