Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1898 — Page 5

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DR. H. C. MEDGRAFT,

McKeen Block, 7th and Main

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seems that Horace G. Burt is to be Jthe new president of the immense Union Pacific railroad system, recently acquired Jjby purchase at the sale made by the government. Mr. Burt is a Terre Haute boy, •and was the first graduate of our High (^School. The story of his life is interestingly told by the Gazette: After his graduation Mr. B^rt helped to survey the

Vandalia between this city and St. Louis. He was married to Miss Anna Teel, sister of Russell and Frank Teel, in this city, about twenty-five years ago. Mr. Burt left Terre Haute to accept a position with )the Olatha & Santa Fe road in Kansas, but soon afterwards became an employe of the Northwestern, and has been with that road continuously up to the present iime. His first work for the road was as a civil engineer at Chicago, and he displayed such marked ability that he was soon promoted to chief of engineers.

While in IOWA, engaged in building a branch road,

Burt received a hand

some offer from Jay Gould, and in order to hold him the Northwe3tacn increased his ilary and made him division superintendent. From that time on his advancement was steady and rapid. The Northwestern leased the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley, and Mr. Burt was elected president and succeeded in putting the ro:id upon a paying basis, something it had never been before he took charge. His latest promotion was when he was called to St. Paul and made third vicepresident of the entire system.

The same week that the promotion of this former Terre Hautean was made known, comes the announcement that still another former resident of Terre Haute, Will Peddle, son of the late Chas. li.. Peddle, and for a long time superintendent of the Central road of New Jersey, has b3en appointed to the responsible position of superintendent of the immense Southern railway system, with headquarters in Washington. The Southern is the ,V successor of the Richmond & Danville and

East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railways, and is one of the most important systems in the country. Mr. Peddle has been engaged in the railway business for a great many years, and while his visits to I his oil home have been few and far I'^etweon, he is well remembered by his old "friends here.

The Thompson elub is making an effort to secure the annual meeting of the Lincoln League of the state for Terre Haute next month, on the 12th, which is the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in whose honor the league is named. It has been the custom heretofore for the league to hold its meetings at Indianapolis, but this year it has been decided to hold it itvsome other city, and the one offering the greatest attractions will secure the meeting. A. M. Higgins, the president of the league, of this city, J. McDonald Huff, of Washington, and Mayor James B. Gamble, of Princeton, constitute a committee that will meet-in this city the Idth inst., to decide where the meetiug shall be held. The meeting will bring about three hundred delegates here, if it is decided that Terre Haute shall have it.

Vigo Division, No. 8U, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, which has a reputation for giving meritorious, as well as •original, entertainments, gave a "cake walk" at Castle Hall Wednesday night, at\dife attracted a crowd that tested the capacity of the place. In additiou to the regular dance programme, there was a cake walk participated in by members of the division, blacked up to represent colored jnon and women. TRe first prize was awarded to W. W. KantTman and

IT IS EASY TO TELL

People who fail to look after their health lire like the carpenter who neglects to sharpen his tools. People are not apt to get anxious about their health soon enough. If you are "not quite well" or "half sick" have you ever thought that your kidneys may be the cause of your sickness?

It is easy to tell by setting aside your urine for twenty-four hours a sediment or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of the kidneys. When urine stains linen it is evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate, scanty supply, pain or dull ache in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order.

There is satisfaction in knowing that tlje great remedy, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Hoot, fulfills every wish in relieving weak or diseased kidneys and all forms of bladder and urinary troubles. Not only' does Swamp-Root give new life and activity to the kidneys—the cause of trouble, but by trenting the kidneys it acts as a tonic for the eutire constitution. If yon need a medicine take Swamp-Root it cures. 4Sold by druggists, price fifty cuts and one dollar, ot by sending your n*jdress and the name of^this pAper to Dr. Kilmer &

Co.. Bingham ton, N. \\, you may hare a sample bottle of this great discovery sent to you free by mail.

Robert Moon, the second

75c

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Jottn Kadel

and Dan Lynch, and the third to George Wolf and Walter Gates. "Buff Kauffman attracted a great deal of attention by his make-up. He wore a silk hat, full dress suit, and a shirt that was so loud that it could be heard as far as Kokomo. The entertainment netted a handsome sum for the division, and every one attending enjoyed a happy time.

At the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association at Indianapolis this week. Prof. Francis M. Stalker, of the State Normal School, and interested in the Inland Educator company, was elected president for the ensuing year. ProfJaihas. S. Meek, of the High .School, was J^cted one of the vice presidents of the association.

The Cox brothers, Louis, Robert, John S. and GeorgeS*., whose father the late Roberts. Cox, was actively-identified with the old car works company, have secured a controlling interest in the Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Co., by purchasing the interests of the Seath estate and those of Miss Minnie Hager. The acquisition was made on Thursday, and under the new control the prospects of the institution look very bright. The company already has a contract for the construction of 800 cars, and several other large contracts are to be closed within a short time. A large force of workmen will be put to work about the middle of the month.

The Thompson club held a watch meeting last night, watching out the old year. The rooms in the Beach block were Well filled, and a most interesting programme of exercises was given, including readings, recitations and music, both vocal and instrumental.

The Wabash Cycling club gave a banquet at the Terre Haute house, last night, which nearly two hundred members attended. Before the banquet, which began at eleven o'clock, the members attended the Brownie performance in a body. The banquet wast elaborate, in keeping with the reputation of Manager Baur, and was thoroughly appreciated by the large number who participated in it.

Patrolmen Patrick Casey and Harry Phillips have been in deep disgrace this week, having been suspended from the force, pending a trial,for being drunk on Christmas day. The police commissioners will meet on Monday to try them. Casey has announced that he will plead guilty, but Phillips will fight the charges, and promises to make some interesting developments when the case comes to trial. Phillips is one of the new men who went on when the new police law took effect Both are Democrats.

The Woman We !Love.

She is the lffctle woman who does her best to please everybody, especially her husband. She looks after her relations, has a pleasant smile for her neighbors, and isn't gruff when the tea-canvasser calls.

Her husband likes her because she runs no debts. When he arr* home in the evening the dinner is always ready and without a lot of fuss. This makes him happy and pleasant to other people. His friends would do anything to please her, because she entertains in such a quiet, sensible fashion. She makes everybody feel at home in her house, whether you come from next door or a hundred miles away.

How good she is to poor relations, too Whpjever would some of hubby's brothers do in their illnesses without her There's no storms or quarrels where this woman is.

Good Luck Finger Rings. What do you think the girls are wearing now. Finger rings made of horseshoe nails. They are certainly not pretty or graceful, but they are said to bring good luck to the wearer on certain conditions. To be a genuine charm the ring must be made from a nail taken from a horseshoe found by the owner herself and nobody else. This is taken to a jeweler, who bends it to fit her little finger and cuts off the superfluous length. The ring is not welded together, and the head of the nail stands for the setting. There's no way of proving it but those who have adopted these ornaments say that they bring' just as much good luck as a horseshoe itself hung over the door with "ends up.

$10() Reward, $100

The readers of this paper will be pleased to leara that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucuous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, fchatf they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO.", Toledo, O.

Sold by druggists, 75c.

P. J. Kaufman,

Wishes all his patrons .... •,

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

He is able to contribute to a good start on the New Year with a very full line of

poultry, etc.

choice groceries, fresh vegetables, dressed nothing more, jelat worst what a resonant and imperiaimarion of a voice!— "A Short Help to Literature," by Ed* mund Gosse. -V

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Seventh and Main Sts. The event of the week will be the manufacturers' cost sale at Pixley & Co's.

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|t ir a notable and noteworthy fact tbdt many of the greatest moral and po|itical revolutions which the world hak experienced haye been preceded or accompanied by prognostics of one kind or? another.

Lord Bacon's remarks upon this subject are worthy of reproduction and are as follows: "The shepherds of the people should understand the prognostics of state tempests. Hollow blasts of wind, seemingly at a distance, often precede a storm."

Instances of prognostication of this kind are by no mean@ unknown in history. 4,

Thus Bishop Williams in the reign of Charles I clearly foresaw and predicted the ultimate triumph of the Puritan party in England, and having the courage of his opinions he abandoned the government party and sided there after with the opposition. At the time the bishop took this decided step there was no outward sign whatever that such an event was imminent or even at all probable.

Dugdale, the antiquary, predicted and anticipated the ruthless destruction of ancient monuments in the cathedral churches which took place in 1641, and he made haste, therefore, to complete his wanderings and labors in taking drafts of and copying out. the curious inscriptions upon these ancient monuments, so, as he himself says, "to preserve them for future and better times."

Browning and the Athennnm Clnb.

Calling upon Robert Browning at the Athenaeum club, then as now, says Colonel Higgenson in The Atlantic, the headquarters of intellectual pursuits in London and of which it used to be said that no man could have any question to ask that he could not find somebody to answer, that very afternoon, between 5 aud 6 o'clock at that club, it Beemed strange to ask a page to find Mr. Browning for me, and it reminded me of the time-when the little daughter of a certain poetess quietly asked at the dinner table, between two bites of an apple, "Mamma, did I ever see Mr. Shakespeare?" The page spoke to a rather short and strongly built man who sat in a window and who jumped up and grasped my hand so cordially that it might have suggested the remark of Mme. Navarro (Mary Anderson) about him—made, however, at a later day— that he did not seem like a poet, but rather "like one of our agreeable southern gentlemen." He seemed a man of every day, or like the typical poet of his own "How it strikes a contemporary." In all this he was the very antipodes of Tennyson. He had a large head of German shape, broadening behind, wfh light and thick gray hair an4 whitish beard and had blue eyes and the most kindly heart. ..... a

Shoestring: Statistics.

The Philadelphia Record's calculating barber says "I 6ee that your shoestrings are tied in bowknots. Did you ever stop to think how much of the Btring is required to make those useless loops? Probably three inches of each end. Tie the laces in ordinary knots, and you could cut from the pair four pieces, each three inches long. There are 500,000 people in this city and 80,000,000 in the United States Who wear laced shoes. If each of these bought three pair of laces a year, that would mean 90,000,000 pair, from which could be snipped 360,000,000 ends. These pieces, placed end to end, would make a continuous shoestring 17,045 miles long—long enough to stretch two-thirds of the way around the earth. Suppose that the shoestrings cost at retail an average of 8 cents a pair, then the 90,000,000 pair used annually in the United States cost $2,700,000. One-fifth of their length could be done away with by cutting off the useless ends, and the value of these ends is therefore one-fifth of their net cost, $540,000. This sum would buy upward of 10,000,0u0 pocket handkerchiefs for the heathen of Africa. Witch hazel or bay rum?"

The Earliest of Nonsense Verses.

I should like to know whether there is anything earlier in this way than the "History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women, Illustrated by as Many Engravings, Exhibiting Their Principal Eccentricities and Amusements. London, Printed For Harris & Son, Corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1821," which forms No. 15. of Harris' "Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction," 26 in the set. This little book, published by New berry's successors, is an exceedingly rare one, with colored illustrations of the drollest. Perhaps space may be spared for a verse, taking one back to therdays when lotteries were not illegal: There was an Old Woman of Ealing Who junip'd till her head touch'd the ceiling,

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prise to th' Old Woman of Ealing.

—Notes and Queries.'

Of What Help Was Carlyle?

IS Yet it is difficult to decide what Carlyle has bequeathed to us now that the echoes of his sonorous denunciations are at last dying away. Standing between the infinite and thwindividual, he recognizes no gradationsno massing of the species he comparenpe two incomparable objects of his attention and scolds the finite for its lack of infinitude, as if for a preventable fault Unjust to human effort, he barks at mankind like an ill tempered dog, angry if it is still, yet more angry if it toove& A most unhelpful physician, a prophet with no gospel, but vague stir and turbulence of contradiction, a voice and

Dad Them All.

"Arthur, I cannot stand this city air. I must have the foliage of the forest, I must have birds, 1 must"— "But, my dear, you have all that on your hat."—Fliegende Blatter.

you have never

tried Cleveland's baking powder you do not know what the best cake tastes like.

You may be a good cook, but without Cleveland's baking powder you are. at a disadvantage.

Guarantee.

Grocers are authorized to give back your money if vou do not find Cleveland's "the best baking powder you have ever used.

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Cleveland Baking Powder Co., N.Y.

The Cooking of Marken. v'",

Marken is lonely islet on the Dutch coast, which of late years has been visited by a crowd of strangers who believe in going to places out of the ordinary stereotyped lines of travel. It is a flat, fertile island, and the people preserve much of the simple manners and frugal habits of two and three centuries ago. The old style of wooden shoes are worn and make the village streets as noisy as a stone crusher. They have old fashioned kitchens in their homes, with goodly fireplaces, and also little clay stoves, in which charcoal is used for fuel. In a few there are stoves which burn coal, but these area rarity. The good housewives preserve foods according to reoipes which have been kept as heirlooms. Some of the preparations are very delicious. They treat fish in an odd manner. The fish is thoroughly scraped, split and cleaned, put into a pot with salt, niter, vinegar and spices, inoluding cinnamon, ol#ve, bay leaves, laurel, peppercorns, mustard and cayenne. More fishes are added until the pot is almost full, when it is put in a storeroom and covered with an earthenware cover.

It stands until it is thoroughly Boused, which is known by the bones becoming soft through the dissolving of the lime by the vinegar. When this stage is reached, the fish are removed with great care and put into smaller crocks or jars and are then covered with a fluid made from water, vinegar, oil, the spices mentioned, onion, leek and sometimes a clove of garlio. These crocks are sealed in clumsy fashion, the commonest way being with stout brown paper, paste and cord. Fish treated in this manner retains its delicacy of flavor, is very white and very appetizing. -—New York Mail and Express.

Finally tie took up the neins sadly and drove home to his wife. As soon as he entered th& yard she threw her apron over her head and hurried forward to meet him.' ,/ "Ephraiorsays some of the folks was hurt," she called. "How Inuch was it? Did they break their legs or their arms

The farmer drew in his now paoified steeds at the post and let the reins slacken in his grasp. "Well," he said reflectively, leaning forward, both elbows on his knees, "I thought one on 'em broke his leg an another a collar bone, an so on, but I guess I didn't hit it right. I stood by while the doctors were talkin on't over an 'peared to me as if, arter all, 'twas only some of them Latin parts."— Youth's Companion. ...

Conflicting Legtl Styles.

A good anecdote is told of the two celebrated barristers Balfour and Erskine. Balfour's style was gorgeously verbose. Erskine's, on the contrary, was crisp and vigorous. Coming into court one day Erskine noticed that Balfour's ankle was bandaged. "Why, what's the matter?" asked Erskine.

Instead of replying, "I fell from a gate," Balfour answered in his usual roundabout manner: "I was taking a romantic ramble my brother's garden," he said, "and on coming to agate I discovered that I had to climb over it, by which I came in contact with the first bar-and grazed the epidermis of my leg, which has caused a slight extravasation "of the blood." "You may thank y^ur lucky stars," replied Erskine, "that your brother's gate was not as lofty as your style, *or you would have broken your neck."— San In&ncieco Wave.

Fine clothing at^ the cost oi" making at the manufacturers' cost sale at Pixley & Co's.

A Handsome Complexion

is one of the greatest charms a woman can pomew. Ponobi'a Couumos

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There had been rather a bad runaway acoident in a mountain town. Several persons had been injured, and the doctor was miles away. But, as good luck would have it, a clever young medical student happened to be on the ground and did excellent service.

When the doctor came, there was nothing to do, but he listened with great interest to his young colleague's exposition of the cases. They talked for a long time on the hotel piazza. The farmer who had been driving the horses and was himself unhurt listened with eager interest to explanations wherein scapu^}, humerus and _tvicle played prominent parts.

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CORNER FIFTH AND J-' MAIN STREETS.

SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE O 1 8 9 8

A GREAT PROGRAMME. The Story of tlie Revolution by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, to run throughout the year. (For the first time all the modern art forces and resources will be brought to bear upon the Revolution. Howard Pyle and a corps of artists are making over 100 paintings and drawings expressly for this greatwork.) 'S in A. T. Malian's "The American

In the Revolution." to be Illustrated by Ha

Captain A Navy In tlu, by Cfarlton T. Chapman, the marine artist, arry Fenn, and others. Thomas Nelson Page's First I^ong

Novel, "Red Rock—A Chronicle of Reconstruction." Mr. Page has devoted four years to the story, and he considers it ids nest work. (Illustrated by B. West Cllnedlnst.)

Kudyard Kipling, Richard Harding Davis, Joel Cliandler Harris, George W. Cable, and others, are under engagement to contribute stories during 1898

Robert Grant's "Scarch-I,lglit Jjetters"—replies to various letters that came In consequence of his "Reflections of a

Married Man" and V-The Opinions of a .Philosopher."

'•The Workers" in anew field—Walter A. Wyckoff, the college man who becane a laborer, will tell about his experience with sweat-shop laborers and anarchists in

Chicago. (Illustrated from life by W. Ii. Leigh. The Theatre, The Mine, etc., will be treated In "Thb Conduct of Great Businesses" series (as were "The Wheat Farm," "The Newspaper," etc., in '97?, with numerous illustrations.

PRICE,

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A TEAR,

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Our 20th Annual

LINEN SALEl

Commences January 3d, 1898. jqy

It has been customary with us for the past twenty years to inaugurate a linen sale just after the holidays, and as this is our first Linen Sale in jL our new store we have taken particular pains to make it interesting for the economic housekeeper.

Notwithstanding that the prices on Linens have advanced, the prices

we have made on all Linens are below those of the importers of to-day. jL There are Linens from every Linen-producing country, and you'll find the very lowest prices here. Every article is new. Plain Linen Sets, fringed sets, hemstitched sets. Towels and Toweling, bleached and unbleached jn\ Table Linens, turkey red and fancy Damask, Napkins and Doylies, Tea Cloths, Lunch Cloths, Tray Cloths, Table Cloths and Table Covers, Chenille Covers, Tapestry Covers, Bed Spreads, etc.

Special prices on Sheeting and Pillow Casing—ready-made Sheets, Pillow Cases and Bolster Cases. Pillow,Tubing, the seamlesi Pillow Casing in, the different widths. VV?

In connection with our Linen Sale we offer remarkable bargains in jf|l

MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.

A complete new stock at special low prices now ready "for "your inspection.

There'll be lively selling here, and as every article will be at a special .?. low price it will more than pay you to visit our store during this great sale. Ill

W HAIbmHt & Co.

the big store

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

L.ife at Girls' Colleges—like the articles on "Undergraduate Life at Harvard, Princeton and Yale." and as richly illustrated. Political Reminiscences by Senator

Hoar, who has been in public life for fortyfive years. C. T. Gibson *will contribute tWd Serial sets of drawings during '9*, "A New York

Day." and "The 8even Ages of American

Woman."

erTiie full prospectus for '98 lIlrtftAll book form (34 pages), printed In two rolors. with numerous Illustrations (cover and decorations by Maxfield Parrish), will be sent upon application, postage paid...

CENTS A NUMBER. FL&I

CHARLES SCBIBSEB'S SONS. NEW YORK.

L. PRICE, Attorney.

NOTICEJ.

State of Indiana, Vigo county, ss: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Edward A. Johnson, deceased. The estate is solvent.

The Perfume of Violets

The purity of the lily, the glow of the rose, asd the flush of Hebe combine in Pozzoxi's wondrous Powder.

To the Young Pace

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COKFLEXIOIT POWDKB give* fresher

I charms to the old. renewed youth. Try It.

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Fund 08 For Clt-y Funding Bonds of 1895 Interest Fund 02V4 For City Funding Bonds of 1895 Sinking

Fund 01&, For City Funding Bonds of 1890 Interest Fund 01 For City Funding Bonds of 1896Sinklng

Fund 01

Total rate on each $100 '. $1.18 POLL TAX—For each male resident of the city of the age of 21 years, not over 50 years, s0 cents.

I)OG TAX—For each male, $1.00 for each female. $2.00 and for each additional dog, $ 2 0 0

NOTICE.

People are taxed for what they own oil April 1st of each year. Taxes are due the first day of January, and taxpayers may pay tho full amount of such taxes on or before the third Monday of April following, or may. at their option, pay the first Installment on or before the said third Monday and tho last installraent on or before tho first Monday in November following, provided, however, that all special, poll and dog taxes charged shall be paid prior to the third Monday In April, as presftjribed by law, and provided, further, that In all cases where tho first installment of taxes charged against a taxpayer shall not be paid on or before the third Monday In April, the whole amount shall become due and returned delinquent and to be collected asprovlded by law.

Delinquent real estate is advf rtised on or about the first Monday in January, and Is offered for sale on the second Monday in February of each year. The treasurer is responsible for taxes be could have collected," therefore taxpayers should remember that taxes must he paid every year.

Examine your receipt before leaving the office and see that it covers all your property, Pay your taxes promptly and avoid costs.

For the collection of which I may be found in my office, in Terre Haute, as directed by law. fVr CHARLES BALCH,

START RIGHT FOR THE

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OF APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATRIX.

ANNA JOHNSON.

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HAUTE'S

City Taxes

For 1897.

Notice is hereby given that the taxdupllcate for the year 1897 is now in my handstand tVat I am ready to receive tho taxes thereon charged.

The following shows tho rate of taxation on each $100.00 of taxable property. For General Fund Sewer JO 15 For General Purposes 79 For Library Purposes 03 For General Fund Sewer Bond Interest Fund OS v, For General Fund Sewer Bond Sinking Fund 01 For City Funding Bonds of 1890 Interest Fund 04 Fbr City Funding Bondsof 1890Sinking

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WAGNER SLEEPING CARS. PRIVATE COMPARTMENT SLEEPING CARS. ",„f

BUFFET PARLOR OARS. VT ELEGANT DAY COACHES

DINING CARS

ELEGANT EQUIPMENT. -,t SUPERIOR SERVICE. E. O. McCormick. Passenger Traffic Manager Warren J. Lynch, Assistant General Passen- 3 ger and Ticket Agent.

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Terre Haute, Ind., January 1,1898.

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