Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 March 1897 — Page 2

MAN ABOUT TOWN.

This week a local physician, who modestly requested that his name be not given to the public, was talking to a group of professional friends on the subject of tuberculosis and the probabilities of a cure for it being at some time discovered. "I am thoroughly convinced," said he, ''that this disease must sooner or later yield to the skill of the bacteriologist. I do not think there is any remedy at present understood that will cure it# or even restrain it to any considerable extent, but investigations are on foot that in my judgment will by and by result in the ability of the profession to deal effectively with the tubercular baccilli." "Do you mean that the germ will be destroyed after it is once imbedded in the lung tissue?" "Hardly that. It may be. I do not have any clear conviction on that subject. My thought is that consumption will be headed off. The scientists will get in ahead of it, so to speak. The disease is going to be traced to its actual source and treatment is going to.begin there. This enemy of life will be defeated, I think, in the same way that small pox is now defeated. Vaccination is an indubitable success. It gives one comparative immunity from smallpox. Anti-toxin defends life similarly against diphtheria. We do not treat these diseases so successfully after they are contracted, but we do, so to say, occupy the heights against them. We go before they come and prepare for their coming. Our preparation is such that when the enemy arrives he finds a sterilized situation. So shall science by and by conquer consumption. Perhaps the discovery will be long delayed, but great achievements all come about slowly. Progress is mankind pulling the eye-teeth of destiny." connected

Mr. William Brown, now with the Daily Express, used to be post master at Hawthorn, Florida. He tells a very interesting story of how a small bit of circumstantial evidence was made to yield up the truth in regard to the guilt of a negro. One day the officers arrested this black man near Gainesville, the county seat of the county in which'Mr. Brown was then living. In the pockets of the darkey were found a key and two copper cents. It was not suspected that he was guilty of any particular crime, but there was a suspicion that he was not honest, and his arrest was for the purpose of clearing up doubt on the subject if possible.

The negro was taken to Gainesville and put in jail. The key was taken to Mr. James Bell, postmaster at Gainesville, and he made an examination of it. There seemed to be no doubt that it belonged to a postofTice lock box, and the imprint on it made that fact certain. It bore a number «.nd the name of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co., Stamford, Conn. The key was at once sent to this firm. By an examination of their hooks they learned that it had been sent to Hawthorn, Florida, in 1879—twelve years previously—as one of three keys to box 52 in a lot of 144 boxes.

This information was returned to Mr. Bell and he at once forwarded the key to Mr. Brown, postmaster at Hawthorn. /The latter found that the key unlocked box 52 all right and he immediately uwent to Tillis Bros., of Hawthorn, who held the box, and asked them if they knew the key.

They said they did, and that it had been .stolen from their money drawer some months before when their store had been robbed. Officers were immediately dispatched to the country home of the negro where they made a search and found the goods stolen from Tillis Bros. The negro was confronted with the discovery in the jail at Gainesville, and at once made a full confession. He was given five years in the penitentiary. It was a case of a very simple little key unlocking a very stubborn secret.

Recently a man came Into the money order department of the postoffice of 'this city and said he wanted to send $5 to his wife who was away on a visit and wished to come home. The clerk replied that the man must fill out one of the blanks. To (his the stranger answered that he could not write. The difficulty was obviated by some one offering his services to fill out the application for the money order. This was done, the man paid over his $5 and received the order. Several days passed and one morning the fellow who could not write reappeared at the money order window. There was a look of troubled suspicion on his face. "See here, mister." he said, "my wife never got that "Didn't she?" queried the clerk. "No. she never. She ain't been able to «it home yot and I'd like to know where my money is. It's a dad-blamed shabby trick yon played me. I ealu't afford to lose no ?C. They aiu't no $5 bills growin' on the btvsh about here. There's somethin' dead wrong, pardner. What're yon going to do about it?"

The clerk did not fancy the expression in the stranger's eye, so he didn't get gay. He was duly respectful when he replied that there must have been some delay and he would give the man another order. Just as the clerk sat down to make out a duplicate order, a thought flashed through his mind and he turned to the illiterate but honest fellow at the window. "Say," said he, "what did you do with that piece of paper I gave you?" "That receipt?" said the man.

The clerk tumbled. He got up and approached the window. The stranger was Already fumbling in his pockets. "Here it Is," and the original order, soiled and crumpled, was passed to the clerk. "Well, my good fellow, you should have sent this to your wife,"

The stranger was not stupid. He saw his mistake in a minute, reached for the dilapidated bit of paper and was gone.

There is a low, heavy-set man with a] dark mustache who works at night in Printing

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connection with our nerve. Thisj neither taste nor smell *iwl hear but little, man sits where he can hear the jabber of a Ely's. Cream Balm cured iu—Marcus 0«a telegraph instrument and ail night he, ^hantt, Rah way, X. J.

amuses himself and earns his salary by writing down by means of his typewriter what the talkative little ticker has to say, One night an unusually harrowing lot of news had been coming over the wire. Men had been imprisoned in mines, trains had been wrecked, burglars had killed a half dozen victims, an heiress had been kid napped, whitecaps had murdered two farmers in cold blood, a powder mill explosion bad blown fifteen men to atoms and two or three thousand people had been gulped down the seething sesophagus of a Japan earthquake.

Such was the character of the news that had been coming all night—one long story of fire, crime, bloodshed and disaster. When the hero of this brief chronicle locked up his machine and turned out his light about 3 a. m., he was not in a very buoyant or courageous state of mind. He set out for home, going north on Seventh street. As he approached Chestnut he saw a man come quickly down from the front entrance to Mr. W. P. Ijams' house and start for the front gate. It may have been the horrors of the news of the night or it may have been something else. But beyond question the operator began to grow apprehensive. It occurred to him that the person whom he had seen at the Ijams house would try to do him some harm. Nevertheless he pushed on across Chestnut. The electric light was shining there and that gave him some reassurance. Near the Ijams gate he met the man face to face, and his suspicions were intensified by the startling fact that the fellow seemed to have on a mask. His eyes were almost wholly concealed by a black bandage that encircled his head. The operator had a good club in his hand and he gripped it for action. Just as he was at the side of the man with the mask the latter said "Say."

The two men faced each other. The heavy-set man from Printing House Square had a grip on his club that would have strangled a footpad. "Well," he said, rather faintly.

And this is what the villain said next "Do you know where Dr Willien lives My head is killing me. It's neuralgia."

The operator did not relinquish the pressure on his club, but he pointed to the house across the street. The man with the mask hurried off in that direction and the short night hawk of Newspaper Row breathed a sigh of relief that sounded like a robust whisper from the Cave of the Winds. How to Tell Animal fruui Vegetable

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Silk and woolen materials are best tested by burning the threads. All animal products, such as silk and wool, burn slowly and leave a sort of little charcoal bead, which emits an odor like burned feathers. Vegetable products, such as cotton and linen, burn readily, leave no residuum and have no smell. Jute smolders und leaves a light, feathering head. Jute is raiely found in any dress fabrics, with the exception of very cheap silk.

A way to test linen, by means of which the introduction of ootton among the linen threads may be deteoted, is to out off a small pieoe of the material, unravel the threads, and then to exaxa ine them under a strong magnifying glass. The oharaoteristios of flax threads are very marked. They are in the form of cylindrical stalks, divided at intervals by knots, in the same way as bamboo or sugar oane stalks. Cotton threads are long and flattened like ribbon, waved, twisted in spirals and granulated on the surface.

Something to Consider.

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Mow to 1*111 on New Gloves.

First shake a little powder in tho glove, then place your elbow firmly on the table, the hand upright, the thumb at right angles with the palm. Draw the body of the glove over the fingers and arrange each digit in the glovo finger intended for it. See that the seams are not twisted. Carefully coax on the fingers, and when they are fitted smooth the back stitching into place. Then insert the thumb, the back seams again being pulled up straight and the wrist buttoned. The seam at the tip of the thumb should be on a line with the middle of the thumb noil. Always fasten the second button first

IIS is a great mistake to buy gloves a size too small. Many ladies squeeze their hands into tight gloves and expect them to fit Ladies with large hands who wish to keep them pretty and conceal their sire should buy gloves a trifle larger than necessary.

How to R«l(ev« Rheumatism.

To any one suffering from rheumatism a great help, if not a positive remedy, will be found in cotton batting. It should be so used on the person as to envelop the rart affected, and it will be found to much relieve the pain there. If the ache comes from between the shoulders, as often happens, a broad piece of the batting maybe lightly tacked to the inside of the undcrvest there.

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LACK OF XEARXIXG."

PRESIDENTS WHO WERE NOT CVTED IN SCHOOLS.

oratory recently called attention to the fact that Garfield was the best educated of the presidents. Now that we have a new president, the statement still holds good. But I don't believe Garfield was any better informed than President McKinley. Few of our presidents have been college bred, though almost all have been men of good education. Andrew Jackson was illiterate—almost as illiterate as he was positive—and thereby hangs a tale which has come down to me from one old department clerk through another. It hinges on the fact that the president in early days not only signed land patents, but passed on the accounts of officers in the consu A- serv-

B. W Susceptible to Change. This old clerk, whose name was Mustin, had charge of the accounts cf the consular officers. To him came one day a consul who had arrived in the mQrning and was anxious to get away from Washington on the afternoon of the same day. He had his accounts made up, and he handed them to Mustin, with the statement that the president had seen them and said they were all right. There was no indorsement on them, and Mr. Mustin declined to audit and pass them to the treasurer until the president's name was written across the back. The consul hurried to the White House, much annoyed. Apparently the president was quite as much put cut by the necessity of handling so much red tape, for he wrote across the back of the account: "Correct Andrew Jackson. Let this fiat be obeyed." But unfortunately he wrote fiat with an

MRS. M'KINLEV ACCEPTING THE BIBLE.

itive in my expressions of opinion if I were you, Mr. Mustin. The administration may change, you know." "It can't change any quicker than I can," said the old gentleman cheerfully. Fortunately he was not compelled to change, but no doubt he could have adapted his political views to any emergency. That has been the way of his kind.

The supreme court people were much amused when the present Kansas state government took office to read that the new state officers objected to being sworn in by the old method of kissing the Bible because they believed the custom spreads disease through disease germs transmitted from one person to the book and from the book to the next person whose lips touch it The disease germ has become a bugaboo in'medical circles, and every time some one has blood poisoning from contact with a roller towel or with paper money—like the bookmaker in New York who died because of the habit of holding money in his mouth—the germ is brought out and paraded for public entertainment.

The President's B1M*.

Usually the book used at the inauguration of a president has been one purchased for the occasion by Clerk McKenny of the supreme court Mr. MoKenny is a figure in the inauguration ceremony, though a modest one. He hands to the chief justice of the supreme oourt at the proper moment the Bible on which the president elect is to take the oath of office. Mr. McKenny talks interestingly about the Bibles on which the presidents have taken the oath. He has officiated at every inauguration since that of General Grant He was not clerk of the court at the time of Hayes' inauguration, but he was selected to present the Bible on which Mr. Hayes was sworn in to Mrs. Hayes in accordance with the invariable custom to present the voluxie to some member of the president's family as a souvenir.

Mr. McKenny presented the Bibl* to Mrs. Hayes in one of the parlors at tb( White House. As was customary, lie had marked as the president's lip* touched the book the page and the passage. Mrs. Hayes, when be told her this, said, "I hope Mr. McKenny wilt be kind enough to read the vrraoaloud." Several members of the president's family were present Mr. Mc Kenny opened the book at the place he bad marked and read, "And they oppress me—yea, they persecute me—but in the name of the Almighty Gcd Kill 1 destroy them." Mrs. Hayes smiled and Mid: "Oh, no! I don't believe that anrfii

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Andrew Jackson Could Not Spell Correctlr—Few Presidents Have Been College Bred, but All Were Well Informed.

The President's Bible.

1 [Special Correspondence.] WASHINGTON, March 8.—A writer on

"o"

instead of an

"a," so the injunction lost much of its dignity and force. The "fiot" of Andrew Jackson is on the files of the treasury department to this day.

Mustin was hardly more than a pensioner toward the close of the war. He came to the office every day, but he did very little work. He had positive opinions on politics though, and he was a strong Lincoln man. It happened that most of the people in the office with him were opposed to Lincoln's renomination, and one of them, taking the old man aside, said: "I wouldn't be so pos-

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body will be destroyed." Then she took the Bible, asking Mr. McKenny to convey to Mr. Miudleton, the clerk of the court whom he represented, her warmest thanks.

The Bible on which President Elect Grant took the oath was presented to Mrs. Grant The Garfield Bible was presented to Mrs. Garfield by Mrs. McKenny March 5, 1881. The Arthur Bible was presented to Miss Nellie Arthur.

Up to the time of the first inauguration of Mr. Cleveland it had been the custom of the clerk of the supreme court from time without record to buy a new Bible for the inauguration. Mr. McKenny bought a Bible for the Cleveland inauguration. It was a large octavo, morocco bound, and it came wrapped in tissue and incased in a stout pasteboard box. There was no chance of germs or microbes getting at its pages. Therefore it was not for sanitary reasons that the president elect refused to use it Mr. Cleveland is not credited with being a sentimental man, but he has a vein of sentiment in him, and it came to the surface when he sent word to Clerk McKenny that he wanted to take the oath on a shabby little Bible which his mother had given him when he started out to shape his own career. Mr. McKenny is a bit of a sentimentalist himself. So when President Elect Harrison was to be sworn in ho wquld not use the Bible he had bought for the Cleveland inauguration, but purchased a brand new book, leaving the Cleveland Bible to become one of the relfcs of the supreme couft files. President McKinley was sworn in, as you know, on a Bible which was the gift of the African M. E. church.

The Fertile Promoter.

The new secretary of war, General Alger, told me the other day that he had lost $45,000 within the last year through the unfortunate investments of a man whose business he capitalized. If General Alger is disposed to use his money as freely for the relief of indigent congressmen who have "sure things" needing a little capital, he will find opportunities enough. Washington is one of the best fields for the promoter in the whole United States. Senators and members of the house who are impecunious have no conscience about going to their wealthier colleagues and asking them to subscribe to the stock of ventures in which they are interested. The people they have "struck" most often are Brice of Ohio and Cameron of Pennsylvania, and there was a wail from the poverty stricken when these two "good things" left congress on the 4th of March. Next to these two rioh easterners the wealthy Califomians have been visited by the promoters most frequently. Men like Stewart and Jones of Nevada are known as good speculators. Stewart is not a producer,'' although he is always ready to go into anything involving a risk.

Some time ago a member of the house was trying to get capital to establish a factory to make a new explosive. This sort of thing appeals to men in congress because they know the government can be persuaded to buy large quantities of an explosive if it is good and their in fluence with the appropriations committees of congress will be of great value in getting the matter through. The explosive in which the Massachusetts man was interested was very remarkable, to judge from the tests made, and the member had little difficulty in interesting a number of capitalists in it. Toward the end of the session of congress he called on one of the California senators and urged him to subscribe for some stock. Ho commended the explosive especially for use in mines. "I'm not a practical miner," said the senator, "but here are two members of the house, B. and C., who are. Perhaps you can interest them."

How It Worked.

The two members, who were sitting at the other side of the room, were called over, and the virtues of the explosive were explained to them. "If it will do all you claim for it," said C., "I will not only subscribe, but work up an interest for you in California. But I want to ask about one thing. Many of these explosives have been invented. All of them go off with a great noise and display enormous force. But the difficulty with all of them is this: In exploding they create a gas which is dangerous to life, and this gas so fills the mine that work has to be suspended, sometimes for a day or two, until the gas can be pumped out'' "That is all right," said D., who had the explosive in charge. 'I inhale the gas from this explosive every day." And to prove what he said he put some of the explosive on the register in the floor, and leaning over seemed to inhale the fumes. "Let me inhale it," said C. More of the explosive was put on the register, and C. took a good lungfuL "It seems harmless," he said. Thereupon an appointment was made for the following morning.

Toward noon of the following day C. came into the office of the senator. His face was yellow, his hands shook, his legs gave way under him at every third step. "Can you tell me what happened yesterday?" he said to the senator's clerk. "I have a dim recollection of being here, but I remember nothing else except my dreams. My wife tells me I have been out of my head, and I have seen the most wonderful things I ever saw in my life. What happened? Did I have a fight? Did any one hit me on the head?'' "Well, I can't remember that anything like that happened," mid the clerk. "You were here with B. and D. of Massachusetts, and D. showed you an explosive. I believe you both inhaled some of it" "That's it! That's it!" cried C., doing a war dance around the room, "ir was that explosive. Where is D. Wberv can I lay my hands on him? I'll skin him alive!"

Fortunately D. did not keep the engagement, so bis skin is still intact C. is back in California, but he is net organizing a company to exploit the D. explosive.

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jS^TOTICE TO HEIRS.CREDITORS. ETC.

In the matter of the estate of Jatnes S. Jones, deceased. In tle Vigo Circuit court. February term, 1897.

Notice Is hereby given that Thomas Ryan, as administrator of the estate of James S. Jones, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchors In flual settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit court, on the 20th day of March, 18S7. at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any there be. why said account and vouchers should not be approved.

Witness, the clerk and seal of said Vigo Circuit court, at Terre Haute, Indiana 22d day of February. 1897. [SEAL.] DAVID L. WATSON. Cl

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CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given, that on the 16th day of February. 1897. the common council of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for the improvement of Fourth avenue from the east curb liue of Third street to the west curb line of Seventh street, by grading, curbing aud paving the same, the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be 10 feet wide and paved with gravel screenings next to the property lino the width of 6 feet, and curbed with Mansfield sandstone the roadway to be 30 feet wide and paved with screened gravel the said improvement to be made in all respects in accordance with the general plan of improvement, of said city, and according to the plans and specifications on file in the office of the city engineer, the cost of tho said improvement- to be assessed to the abutting property owners and becomes due and collectibie iinmediately on approval of tho final estimate, unless the property owner shall have previously agreed in writing, to be filed with said plans, to waive all irregularity and illegality of the proceedings and pay Ills assessments when due.

Sealed proposals will he received for tho construction of said improvement, at the office of the city clerk, on the t«th clay of April. 1897. until five (f) o'clock and' not thereafter. Each proposal must, be accompanied by a bond with good freehold sureties or equivalent, security, in the sum of \Vo hundred dollars, liquidated damages, conditioned that the bidder shall duly enter into contract and give bond within live days after the acceptance of his hid for the performance of the work. The city reserves the right to reject, any and all bids.

Any property owner objecting to the. necessity of such improvement may file such objections in writing, at the otneo of the city clerk on the 3d day of April. 1897. and be heard with reference thereto at the next, regnlar meeting of the common council thereafter.

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