Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1898 — Page 1

0N|THE QUI VIVE.

The financial sensation of the week, the resignation of the cashier of the Chemical National bank, of New York, on account of bad loans made to a man named Grable, has a peculiar significance here because of the similarity of Grable's methods and those of Ben Blanchard. Like Blanchard, Grable ran special trains to carry the investors whose money he was endeavoring to get a chance to handle, and like Blanchard he worked the members of his church, the Methodist, to a queen's taste. There's many a good old brother of the Methodist faith in this city and vicinity who burned up some money with the wily Ben, and said nothing about it, and s^me of them were smart enough to make some money on his schemes—at five per cent per month—and then quit him in good time. Blanchard had a deed to the old Asbury church property on south Fourth street at one time, gaining it by a protended purchase of the Deming lot at Sixth and Oak streets, on which he proposed to erect a handsome church and donate to the congregation. If all the trustees of the church had had the faith in Ben that some of them had he would have owned the Fourth street property, and there would have been no fine church at Seventh and Poplar streets. This man Grable seems to be a modern rival to Henry S. Ives and Ben Blanchard in the race for the right to wear the title of "Napoleon of finance."

Those who are on the inside are wondering who Dr. Larkins is after in his proposed investigation of the books of the county auditor and treasurer, which he advocated in a resolution presented to the city council Tuesday night. It is a wellknown fact that his presentation ot' the original resolution for the investigation of the books of the city treasurer and clerk was done with the idea of "getting'-', a former city official, whose books it is understood have been found to be all right, no doubt, greatly to the disappointment of the statesman from the Eighth ward. In fact he tnade a statement at a meeting of the finance committee of the city council, when the resolution was under discussion, casting a reflection on the official in question, and in a statement to the Gazette last night he admits that ex-Treasurer Il iuck was the last person he expected to find short in the investigation. The books of ex-Treasurer Fitzpatrick and City Clerk Goodwin had already baeu examined and reported on, and the investigation therefore was practically narrowed down to one ex-official. It is to be presumed that in his pro posed investigation of the county books he fcxpects to find something against some particular person. as in the case of the city's books. The present officials of the county are of course in favor of the proposed investigation of the county bioks, and it is hard to see how any honest official could oppose an investigation of his books, no mutter how expensive it miy ba. The county as well as the city cm well afford to pay for any investigation that will establish the honesty and reliability of its present or former officials, and such money is bertainly well spant. Whether the judge of the circuit court or the county commissioners have

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to order an investigation of the books of the county officials, it ought to badone, and at once. In the light of recent events it is due the men who have held and are holding official positions that the public should know that their bjoks are all right.

If there is anything to which Q. V. makes claim it is that of baing gallant towards the gentler sex, and he would perish before he would charge a young lady on the eve of b^ing married with having her "failings." Young ladies have no failings, and when contemporaries quote from this column they will please be careful not. to misspell words that carry as much weight as "fallings" when "feelings" is the proper thing. The Gazette, in quoting the article referring to the use of the phonograph in a court proceeding last week, said that "an official court stenographer has her failings as well as any other person," when it should have read "feelings." There is a decided difference between "failings'' and "feelings."

A well-known member of the medical fraternity of this city has had charges pre ferred against him b?fore the Vigo Medical Society, of which he is a member, of violating the medical code of ethics. The code of ethics of the medical profession, like that of the legal profession, is a wonderful thing. It forbids regular paid advertising in the newspapers, but permits a doctor to get a half-column write-up of some surgical operation that will advertise his skill—provided it is furnished free of ck&tge. The heinous charge this medico is to defend is that of having advertise^ tvis skill as a specialist by distributing circulars He makes a novel defense, and says that i^such circulars wj»rcdistributed it was by

kind friend without his

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The city council has engaged Robert B. Stimson, who was city attorney when the Birrytt street improvement law went into effect* and who devoted considerable time and attention fcu the preparation of the blanks and forms for that intricate law when introduced her*, to act for the city in the settlement of the alleged shortage of ex-City Treasurer W. W. Hauck. The bondsmen have made a definite offer to the city to pay into the treasury the amounts said to be short on account of the street improvement fund collections,

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President Harrison's Michigan City street railway company went into the hands of a receiver this week. Wonder if Mr. Harrison's complaint about persecutions at the hands of unfriendly public officials "went" up there? The Michigan City plant is greatly indebted to the Terre Haute plant for supplies and materials sent there from here.

There are no new developments in the Ohio street opening case. Attorney R. B. Stimson presented a communication to the council Tuesday night, in which he expressed himself in unmistakable terms as to his opinion of the manner in which the council had acted in the new stand it had taken in the matter. The result of the postponement of the proceedings to await the pleasure of the railroad officials regarding a viaduct means practically that Ohio street will never be opened. When the proceedings were first begun in the present to open the street, Q. V. prophecied that neither he nor any of his children's children would live to see Ohio street opened, and the present condition of affairs confirms him in that belief.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The largest dog in the world is Nero, owned by Wayne Bailey, of Rutland, Va. He weighs nearly 300 pounds, and measures eH feet from tip to tip.

When a suspicious-looking person approaches one of the tellers in the Bank of France a private signal is given to a conCalled photographer, and in a few seconds tn? suspected individual is secretly photographed.

In Manitoba you can turn a furrow 100 miles long and not encounter a stone as large as your fist. The earth, for a distance down from three to five feet, is a rich, black loam, made by centuries and centuries of decaying vegetation.

The United States, Mr. Bateman proves, consumes less than half as much beer as England, aud in commenting on the figures the London Times says that our country "seems for a time, at all events, steadily treading the paths of temperance."

The longest reach of railway without a curve is claimed by travelers to be that of the Argentine Pacific Railway, from-Brie* nos Ayres to the foot of the Andes. For 211 miles it is without a curve, and has no cutting or embankment deeper than two or three feet.

During the Crimean war more than onehalf 63.5 per cent) of the amputations that were performed resulted in death. In the American civil war the mortality from amputation was still 48.1 percent, but in 1890 the statistics of amputation showed that the mortality had been reduced to 0.9 per cent. The value of antiseptic surgery is thus showu.

Policeman William Nesbitt, of the New York force, is a preacher of twenty years' experience. He preaches every Sunday at some church, is an old-fashioned Methodist and believes in muscular Christianity, manifested by experiences, noise, shouting and enthusiasm. He has a splendid record and is noted for the number of tough characters and desperate criminals he has arrested.

NOTES OF FASHION.

SleeVes to ball dresses and other evening toilettes are suspected rather than seen. White suede gloves are the thing for afternoon and evening wear, and white suede slippers are worn for dancing.

Something new in lace is a "wire grounded" Valenciennes for trimming underwear and warranted to wear out the nainsook it decorates.

Plush is making a vigorous bid for favor again, and used in combination with Venetian point lace, embroidered with gold aud silver ttfread, it makes a very rich dress trimming.

Handj.ome gowns of black crepe de Chine are trimmed very simply with small ruffles of the same, edged with narrow black silk guipure lace and set on, one above the other, at the skirt edge.

The newest things among the novelties are gun-metal baading, very mltch seen on fine half-mourning dresses, and gun-metal buckles for bats and throat latches, and in dress decoration gun-metal belts.

Tea gowns are very ornate and fanciful in style. Formerly of one color, the most approved models are now generally made of three contrasting colors and as many different fabrics. QThe latest thing in hats is a toque of white broadtail trimmed with white feathers. The low, broad effect in arranging the trimming on alt hats is the novelty in midwinter millinery. High one-sided decorations are ont of date.

The promises of May are already being made, and tender hearts who will not have the plumage or bodies of dead songsters in their hats can this spring trim the hats with lowly ibis feathers, that cost no lives and are fair to look upon.

Antique satin, peaa de soie. and satin duchesse are favorite silk.s of the moment.

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VOL. 28—XO. 32. TEKRE HAUTE, I3STD., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1898.

$10,150.59, and $160.50, on account of overcharge on the street commissioner's pay roll, and this is all they have offered to p.-ty. The other items they dispute, and One of the most admirable attributes nothing will be done towards a settlement! that a woman can possess, according to until these matters'have been agreed masculine views, is pluck. You feel that a man has a sincere admiration for one of the opposite sex when he sajs with an honest ring in his voice: "Sheik a plucky little woman." And he does all he can to

Myers Bros, have purchased and will derness, ardor, tact, consideration, and, shortly have on exhibition two Stearns' above all, perseverance, will make her his wheels, lSa? model, which they will give more surely than anything else in the away to their patrons. They have not yet world- And if he possess these qualities dccided on the manner of the enterprise, and wield them well he can triumph over

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encourage her and make the burden less haavy to carry, for if the Lord helps them that help themselves it is equally true that mankind follows the high example to the letter.?^

When a woman is gritty she is thoroughly so, aud keeps up under trying difficulties, fighting off mental and bodily ills which, without meaning anything detrimental to the stronger sex, we must add parenthetically, would cause a man to succumb at the outset. She struggles alonj£, and before the world is brave and cheerful, making lighf of the worries that are in reality eating out her very soul.

But when the necessity for wearing tlife mask is laid aside aud she can hide away in some little corner where naught but affection and tenderness can enter, what is she then A woman through and through, helpless, clinging and without a vestige of those go-ahead qualities that have given her the reputation for pluck. Woman's nature doesn't change, even though the need of money or the desire for fame urges her out into the hurry and worry of that side of life so different from the encircling protection of the home 4?

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circle. She may appear indifferent to outsiders, but she is not so in reality. She may show a pair of bright, keen eyes, that look as though their brilliance never could be dimmed by tears, and yet the struggle may sometimes prove too much, and .in the seclusion of her own room all the pent up trouble will find vent in such a fit of weeping as would astonish those who think they know her best, but who in reality know her so little.

Ah, plucky little women! It takes a woman to read your hearts, to ferret out that inner life hidden so far beneath the surface, and it is a woman's earnest sympathy for you voiced in the one honest sentence: "God help you."®

Probably there is no other woman so universally disliked and execrated as the woman who has contracted the borrowing habit. We all know her. We have all been her victims, for she has all times and seasons and neighborhoods for her own, and though you journey to the uttermost parts of the earth you shall not escape her ,importunities. St|g jig one of t^e^peatsyjf •Society, and"the' wonder is that in a worldtoo full of laws we have not yet found any way to abate her as an unmitigated nuisaftce.

Apparently she never provides herself with fyiy of the necessities of life, however much she may flaunt the luxuries before your face. Indeed, the time comes when you are forced to the conclusion that her borrowing habit is nothing more nor less than a kind of blackmail she levies on the neighborhood in order to spend her money on show and not on plain, everyday living. At any rate, a familiar and monotonous figure in your kitchen soon comes to be her servant or child with the request, "Mrs. B. says will you please lend a cup of sugar, or a little coffee, or some baking powder, or a teaspoon of vanilla." Of course, you lend it to her. Sometimes she pays it back, generally in an inferior article, oftenest you never hear of it again. Now, the question of generosity does not enter into the matter at all. You might and would be delighted to give it outright to her if she needed it, but it is troublesome to have to go and get things out, and equally troublesome to put them away again if they are returned, and with fatal persistency the borrower always sends just at the most inconvenient time, when you want least to be interrupted.

Naturally, the borrower always has her nerve, as the slang goes, along with her. She does not hesitate to send over and borrow your new waist to see how the trimming is put on, or your patterns before you have used them, or your papers and magazines before you get a chance to look over them. These are so many economies she permits herself at your expense. Then, if you happen to have the misfortune to be staying in the same house with her, she borrows your stamps, and your fine stationery, and yon soon come to know that if your perfume, or any little belonging is missing, you can hunt it up and locate it in her rooms. "You are so goodnatured I knew you wouldn't care," she says, sweetly, "and I just happened to be out," as if she was not eternally out of everything she ought to have.

Worst of all the borrowing fiends is the one who borrows your clothes. On the slightest acqaintance she will presume to borrow your new cape, or your picture hat, And friendship with her is simply purchased at the expense of your entire wardrobe.

There is no earthly exense for borrowing. It is simply a bad habit, of which every self-respecting woman should break herself if she has contracted its It is far more dignified and respectable to do with* out things than it is to borrow them.

"It is not a man's good looks, brains, position or wealth that wins a woman's love," said the woman of the world. "It is his capacity for lore-making. His ten-

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with wresting every known emancipated man, the Bachi.sNiow torn the hist sacred ii^g'from him. This time it is the :ey that* goes—the latchkey that heretofore has been supposed to be the sole prop^fty of the man about town who meanders home in the early morning houtf sotrifewhat the worse for wear.

But the&aclitelor Girl is nothing if not dettygpiinskli, and so she has adopted the last c^ma^iaing article that man could call his owu. ^When the key came, the pocket had to come with it, of course, and now it is cniPin tij& back of the dress skirt very nea^t ihe bolt line, and with a bit of a flap over it to cohceal the fact that a coat tail is mitisi^r And thus it is that the freed wonittA g6es on her way, conscious that she nij&y act least enter her own doors at all sorts of coveted and fascinating hours without arousing every one from the butler to* the aged grandparent who "disapproveapHarriet, disapproves."

When the pocket came the key chain had |t' follow in its wake, and, behold, from a sttspender button proudly sewn to the ta|lor girl's "weskit" hangs the jeweler's fi$vice, for she has not been emancipated,long enough to leave off sterling, silvetr'ahd take to plain nickel plate. She will, though, when moons have rolled arouluf and she becomes as wise as that latchkey will let her be.

When the Bachelor Girl went into business was forced into some of the needs of a man, and some of the patented rights of his royalty had to come to her, and so there came the key ring, in the train of the key and chain, and there was another chance-for the smithy to turn out pieces of artistic workmanship. They are oftener heart-shaped wires of silver, solid and wide, o£course. So it seems that woman never gets so "new" that she cannot carry hearts around. Other designs are serpents, and over their spring-set tails go the door key, the mail box key, the escritoire key* and all the rest of the lot that used to be always "among the missing."

THE SENSIBLE GIRL RESOLVES.

ThaffT^will Take a walk, beginning with at least four blocks daily, increasing graddually the distance until I walk an hour every day.

That will practice deep breathing through tihe nostrils instead of through the mouth, t&broaden my chest and increase my lung fa^aci^- y..

busy, to bathe every inch of my body once every day of my life. That I will use as little strong coffee and tea as possible, that my complexion may not become sallow and coarse.

That I will never buy a piece of scented soap unless it is made by a firm whose name is a guarantee of its excellence.

That I will have my head shampooed twice monthly, and never omit brushing it at night and braiding it loosely.

That if I use powder at all. none but the very best will I buy, since cheap powders ruin every skin quickly.

That I will never use anything in the form of rouge, or "make up" my eyes as some girls do. -t

That I will visit the dentfst once every three months at least that bo may arrest the first symptom of decay or tartar even.

That nothing shall tempt me to put a drop of vaseline or cold cream upon my face, lest I have a growth of down—not to say hair—appear.

Thst I will get someone to tell me everytime I speak too loudly, that I may obtain a low voice by next year.

That I will try to do without a pillow at nights, or one of very small dimensions to keep roy chin from "sagging."

That I will eat some kind of fruit or green vegetable, such as lettuce or spinach, once at least in 24 hours.

That I will not bathe my face in cold water in winter or hot in summer because some faddist says so, but will study my own comfort. %•.

That I will not wear shoes -too tight or gloves too small simply to be laughed at ^y others and make myself miserable.

THE BABY.

"She is a little hindering thing/.' The mother said '*T do not have an hour of peace

Till she's in bed. "She clings onto my hand or gown And follows me

About the house from room to room. Talks constantly. "She is a bundle of nerves.

And willful ways She does not sleep full sound at nights. Scarce any days. "She does not like to hear the wind.

The dark she fears And piteously she calls for me To wipe her tears. "She is a little hindering thing.**

The mother said "But still she Is my wine of life,. My daily bread."

The children—what a load of care Their coining brings But. oh! the grief when God doth stoop

To give them wings.

Licensed to Wed.

Noah Snow and Lulu 6. Marquis. Albert Thompson and Nancy C. McMiiien. Win. M. Bailey and Anna A. Ramsey. John V. Meredith and Anna E. Wise. Patrick Sallivaa and Lain Jones. Jonathan R. Oliver and Sarah Boyd. Lloyd W. Turner and Lena Close.

AMUSEMENTS.

MR. AXD MRS. OLIVER BYRON*.

Of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Byron, who appear at the Grand, to-night in the "Ups and Downs of Life." .the New York World says: The Ups and Downs of Life with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Byron in the leading roles opened a week's engagement at the Grand Opera House to a big audience. The play is a melodrama abounding in exciting situations, happily Intermingled with comedy. Mr. Byron as Vivian Ransome takes the part of the hero in away that evinced his possession of dramatic talent in a marked degree. Kate Byron as Jane Judkins displayed much of her old time attractiveness and spirited acting. Fred Warren and Lionel Barrymore aif the Lord and Baron caused much laughter and received well merited applause. Miss Lillian Buckingham as Alice, the double wife had a difficult emotional part but fills her role in a most exceptional manner. The other members of the company are equally satisfactory. The play is a remarkably strong one abounding in startling climaxes."

DE WOLF llOI'l'KR IN KI. CAl'I TANf The principal charm of John Philip Sousa's and Charles Klein's genuine novelty in light comic opara, "El CHpitau," which is to ba given at the Grand Monday night, with its stirring marches, infections melodies and spirited finales, its brilliuut ensembles, its series of gorgeous stage pictures and effective costumes, is the delightful atmosphere of harmony, mirth and spectacle which permeates the spirited performance from start to finish. Perhaps the most potent factor in its re markable success is the music of the two great march finales at the end. of the second and last acts of the opera.

The great "Boom" march, which concludes the second act of the opera, is oue of delicious harmony and lively motion, and the extremely pretty girls and comely young men of the organization, as well as every principal, from star to utility man, simply throw themselves into this impressive scene, as if their very lives depended upon their efforts. \'El Capitan," with the greatest of all comic operatic comedians, DeWolf Hopper, surrounded by his mammoth company of eighty people, which comprises the entire original New York cast of principals and grand chorus of fifty, will be the gr&»t attraction at the Grand Opera House on Monday evening, February 7th.

The opera wiU be given here identically.

other large eastern and western cities, as all of the sumptuous scenery and gorgeous costumes, as well as all the novel stage effects and other expensive equipment used in those cities, will be brought into requisition here, and an overflowing house is an assured fact, as a feast of mirth and melody is in store for our theater goers.

WALKER WHITESIDE.

A dramatic event of unusual interest is to be the engagement of Mr. Walker Whiteside at the Grand next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings when he will present "Hamlet" and "Merchant of Venice. Mr. Whiteside's Hamlet is familiar to Terre Haute theater goers. It'is said that his conception of Shylock is one of the best in the history of the American stage. In reading the part it is the actor's task to depict an almost unnatural mingling of avarice, pride, thirst for vengeance, paternal love and fear of pacuniary loss. Ail the passions must rush through the heart an 1 brain and countenanoe of the old Jew in quick succession, anrlat times the dividing line between the tragic and grotesque is so narrow that the actor is in peril of-a ruined reading. From the beginning Mr. Whiteside does not forget to invest the Jew with dignity which his supposed power justified him in assuming. In the court scene Mr. Whiteside's portrayal reaches, as It should, a degree of intense truthfulness to the phase of htiman nature he is portraying that brings forth the heartiest applause from an audience that has already manifested extreme satisfaction. Mason Mitchell, who is directing the tour of Mr. Whiteside, has greatly strengthened his company by the engagement of that polished actor Chas. D. Herman for leading man.

KICK & BARTOX."

The Rice & Barton Big Gaiety Extravaganza company will be at the Grand next Thursday night. The company is an unusually large one, and contains some of the cleverest specialty performers before the public. Among them are Swan & Bnmbard, who are undoubtedly the kings of all acrobatic comedians. They mingle sommcrsanlt and wit in such away as to keep their auditors in a constant roar of langhter at their comicalities and still hold them spell-bound by their wonderful acrobatic contortions. nj

THE GIRL 1 LKFT BEHIND MB.

The elements of romance and chivalry are employed effectively in "The Girl I Left Behind Me." These are elements which appeal to American theater-goers and they should draw out a large audience at the Grand on Monday, Feb. 14th. But no elements are magnetic nnless Uey axe combined effectively. That this has been done in "The Girl I Left Behind Me" would seem to be the case, if the various endorsements of various cities in which the play has been acted are of any significance The piece is a war drama, with the red-skin on one side and the United States military on the other. The far west is the scene, and the beseiging and bivouac of a stockade form the prin­

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cipal situations. The "play is by those well-known dramatists. David Belasco and Franklin Fyles.

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Margaret Mather says she will make a revival of "A Winter's Tale" next season. Carlotta Stubenrauch, who came here as a violinist with the Banda Rossa, will change to vaudeville.

William Gillette is making an English version of a French farce, but it is understood that he will not take part in it.

Selina Fetter has closed her travels with "Captain Impudence," of which her husband, Milton Royle, was author and principal actor.

Fanny Davenport may appear in "Madame Sans Gene," if the play can be delivered to her by Kathryn Kidder, who is hindered by a prior disposal of the American rights.

H. A. Du Souchet author of "Man from Mexico," is revising "My Wife's Step Husband," which had an inadequate production out of town, and it is to be presented in New York.

Perhaps the greatest fortune ever made by actor or actress is invested iu the estates of Adelina Patti. She is worth today over $2,000,000, and in the zenith of her career she was rated at many millions more. Every cent of it was made behind the footlights.

In one pack of new portrait playing cards, which promise to be quite the thing, the queen of diamonds is Lillian Russell the queen of heavts, Caroline Miskel the king of clubs, Richard Mansfield the ten of diamonds, Francis W ilson the king of hearts, Henry Miller, and the joker Marshall Wilder.

The world renowned contralto, Sofia Scalchi and her great company of operatic artists will appear at the Grand Opera House soon. The name of Scalchi is known the world over and it is conceded on all sides that she is without a rival in the operatic field to-day. Associated with S&alchi is Mile. Toulinguet, said to be one of the greatest dramatic sopranos in the world. The other members of the company are Mile. Marrie Du Bedat, mezzo soprano, late of the Royal Curl Rosa Opera company Sig. Guarina, tenor Sig. Alberti, baritone, and Sig. Gallia, pianist and accompanist.

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PHILOSOPHY VR

Complaint is a confession of failures The latter-day Cupid'^greatest fa

Many of the greatest troubles spring from idleness. Tt is not what we earn but what we save that makes us rich.

A good live man is not wanted in the undertaker business. Words may wound cruelly, but the hurt of silence is far deeper.

He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow. At a certain age every girl gets an idea that it is cultured to rave over cut-glass.

While a man is making his way in this world a woman is generally having hers. Just because a man admits that he is wrong is no proof that he thinks he is right.

We all do much better in life,, ns on wheels, if there is some one to set the pace for us. \i"

A lover would like you to believe what he affirms—a husband what he does not deny.

The enthusiasm of youth receives its primary shock with the advent of the first gray hair.

As soon as a man begins to be sorry he got married, he begins to try to trap his wife into admitting iU^V

The best points in a story are the ones you think ?ou would have put in if you had told it instead of the other man.

The man who affects to despise love passes as a person of experience, but it is generally a bitter one and not to be envied.

The easiest way to make a bitter enemy of a man is to tell him a good story and then get it off at a dinner before he has a chance to.

It is only the rogue who is detected who lacks admiration. Craftiness that defies exposure is commended in modern civilized society.

The only real use the average woman has for a man is to shut the front shutters and to blow out the alcohol lamp under the chafiing-disb.

If we would spend le*s time worrying over the wrong we have received and give more thought to the wrong we have done, our personal happiness might not be augmented, but that of others wonld assuredly be.

"Treble Clef Concert.

The Treble Clef club gives its semiannual concert at the First Congregational church next Thursday evening, Feb. 10th. The club is always snre to give an enjoyaable programme, and for this concert they have as soloists Mrs. J. M. Tune and Miss Ivimi, of the club, and Mrs. Amelia Robertson Pinnell, of Kansas, whose magnificent contralto voice will aid in making this a notable programme. The tickets are as nsnal twenty-five tjents. On sale at the music stores. HSf?

The largest mass of pure rock salt in the world lies under the province of Gallicta, Hungary. It is known to be 550 miles long, 20 broad and 250 feeUa^lpkness.