Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 May 1898 — Page 1

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

The machine politician—o he is known as the "boss"—can take his men up to the chute leading to the polls, but there his power ends. By threats and the use of "pull" and influence he can get him that far towards following out the plan that has been mapped for him. but there his efforts reach an end. The "boss" doesn't know what the man will do when he gets in the voting booth. There was never such an illustration of this as in the election in this city last Tuesday. Both political machines had their cogs completely "busted." The Democratic bosses did not expect to carry their councilmanic ticket—they didn't want to, as a matter of fact. It gave them a responsibility they did not care to assume at the present time. What the bosses wanted, and what they worked for, practically at the expanse of everything else was the election of "Pat." Walsh as city treasurer, and he was beaten. The Republican bosses wanted to retain control of the council, with all that means in the way of subordinate offices, etc., and that is what they didn't get. So both machines are badly crippled, and from this time on there is bound to be a pretty lively war, especially in the Democratic ranks, where the soreness that exists is far beyond that that followed the Democratic revolt against John Lamb, when he was beaten for congress in a district that he had fixed up for bis special benefit, and which was labelled, "John Lamb, his'n." So bitter is the feeling that threats of personal violence are used against a few prominent Democrats, who are accused of not having done what they should towards electing the Democratic idol erected for use in this campaign. In fact, Thursday night an attempt was made at tho corner of Fifth and Main streets-towards physical violence against one very prominent Democrat, but wiser coutisel prevailed, and the attempt was dropped. But from this time on these men will

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Seeburger. As a result, Walsh's majority there was fur behind the normal Democratic majority, while the Democratic candidate for council was beaten, the first time in the history of the ward as it is now arranged. Tho same was true iu great measure of the Third ward.

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thing that can be done against them will be used by the powers that be.

Whi'e the. Democratic leaders are sore over the defeat of Pat Walsh, an analysis of the vote will show that he was defeated in the strong Democratic wards. In the First ward, for Instance, where there was a strong fight among a lot of influential Democrats against the renomination of Charley Seeborger for council, the forces

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E. HVgarty, who was born and raised in the ward, wauted to be treasurer, as a representative of the organized labor element, of which ho was a capable, creditable candidate. The party leaders who were managing Walsh's campaign went down Intjo that ward, throttled Ilegarty and his friends, and did it. so thoroughly that ho would not permit his name to go before the convention. That ward has such a large Democratic majority that it is almost enough In itself to make the city D^nracratic. But it did not give that, majority this time. All of which emphasizes the fact, as was remarked earlier in this article, that the political boss can drive and threaten uutil he gets his party membars up to the chute that leads to tha little booth, and there his authority ends. By and by »rty bosses will learn that, tha people at large are not like the politicians. The politicians always vote the party ticket. They can't do anything else. They have baen raised on that, sort- of pap. The ticket may ba ewr so distasteful to them, but they vote It just they same, because there is always a hereafter for thenl. But the people do not fear the crack of the bosses' whip. When they find that the bosses are becoming too autocratic, wh»n they feel that the whip cracker begins to sting more than the circumstances demand, they walk into the booth and vote the ticket that will hurt the presuming boss the most. The Democrats were taught this lesson this week in a most forcible way. and the Republicans were given a like pointer. The Republicans. as a result of Republicans voting the Democratic ticket in some of the strongest Republican wards in the city, have lost control of the city for at least four years to come, with all that implies in the way of patronage. Two years hence, with a Democratic mayor in the chair, the Democrats need to elect bat. three council men to control the disposal of the loaves and fishes, and there is no man so foolish to think that they cannot elect that many council men. So, as a lesson to political bosses, it is readily seen that the Democrats and Republicans were beaten by voters of their own parties voting with the opposition. It la a lesson, however, that is not likely to be headed, if the dire threats that am now being indulged in tell anything.

With an Impression that they would not be able to carry the council at this election. the Democrats made many promises for positions in the gift of the council, and now they have their troubles as a result. There aw said to be forty candidates* for street commissioner alone. John Hirt. the former councilman from the old Fifth ward, is said to have the pull right now, although Mike Kennedy is still la the race, la John Giurrettsou, George Curtis, and others. For chief of the fire department

there is a great 0ght on. John Kennedy wants to be chief again to be vindicated. He has been chief a number of times before, and there are several members of the party that think that this nice job should be passed around. James Daugherty has an opinion like this, and so has Wm. Armstrong, councilman from the Tenth ward, who is looked upon as one of the hardest workers up there. There is considerable feeling in this fight, and it is said that a scheme has been arranged, by Dwhich if Armstrong is turned down in the Democratic cancus he will resign the first thing Tuesday night before the newly elected Democrats take their seats, hi3 resignation will be accepted by the Republicans, "who will elect a Republican to succeed him, thus making the council a tie for the next two years. In return for this he will be made £hief of the fire department, to succeed Dory Goodman, who will resign for that purpose. Armstrong under such a plan would serve until next September, when the newly elected city officials will take their place, and would by that time develop such ability for the position that there would be hard work in declaring his office vacant. It is not known from whose fertile brain this plan was evolved, but it is a good one. Probably it came from the head work of one of Armstrong's friends, for the purpose of scaring the Democratic caucus to appoint him fire chief.

Peter M. Foley will in all probability be the new city attorney. Time was when his relations with the Lamb people were of such a character that he could not get even a pleasant look, but things have changed materially since then, and on election day the two former enemies drove around the city together, looking after the "boys," and seeing if the latter were obeying the orders issued about voting tho ticket. George A. Scott would also like to be attorney, and so would Louis Levequo, but the latter is making no fight for it.

For city engineer, there is also a host of applicants. Ralph Sparks, by virtue of the splendid work he did as chairman of the city committee, thinks he ought to be given the place, but there are some others, among them Joe Roach, Edgar B. Smith, Frank Bacon and A. J. Gibbons, the latter two of the Vaudalia. For places on the engineer's force there area hundred applicants, and

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etc., there are euough applicants to make a full regiment for war with Spain. The feelings of disappointment that will follow the failure of the great, majority to get a isition is one of the features of an unexpected and overwhelming victory like this.

The recent campaign developments emphasized the fact that it p:vys to advertise. Frank T. Bargstrom, who made such a phenomenal race for city treasurer, is assistant cashier of the Vigo County National bank, and it is not to be supposed that the bank will lose anything by his promotion to guardian of the city's funds. The Vigo County bank is the only bank in the city that advertises. The moral is plain.

One of the things talked of since Tuesday is a determination on the part of the new Democratic council to redistrict the city, and so distribute the big Democratic majorities in the First, Third, Sixth and Ninth wards as to overcome the Republican majorities in the other wards, and make it reasonably certain that the Democrats will continue in coutrol of the council for all time to come,

NEWS FROM THE PHILLIPINES. The streets have been wild with excitement. this morning over the bulletin from Washington that Commodore Dewey's official dispatch announcing his victory at Manilla had be received. He announces that he killed three hundred and captured four hundred Spanish sailors, and destroyed their fleet of eleven ships. He had six men wounded, but none were killed, and his ships were not damaged. He is in possession of Manila bay, but has not taken possession of Manilla, although it is at his mercy. The president cabled his congratulations to Dewey, and announced that he had appointed Dewey acting admiral in recognition of his bravery.

The Grand Opera House ushers will meet to morrow to complete the programme for their minstrel entertainment at the Grand on the night of Decoration Day. They will have something out of the ordinary in the way of entertainments, and will introduce many novelties. The first part will be a Chinese scene, with costumes. In this part, the end men will be Harry Miller, George Schaal, Roy Sibley, El Wagner, Earl Rippetoe, and Chas. Stewart. The soloists will be Will Kataenbach, Arthur Goldsmith, Hoy Lawrence and Will Stein^ camp. The entertainment will be one of the most enjoyable ever given In the city, and the management of the opera honae hi doing every thing possible to make It a financial success.

Kansotne Steele, formerly an employe of the Clift & William* Co., died this morning at his home on south Eighth street, after a brief illness with pneumonia. He wa* a member of Euclid lodge, F. & A. M.. nnder whose auspices the funeral will be conducted. The time has not yet been fixed upon.

ABOUT CUBA.

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THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFITABLE INVESTMENTS AFTER THE WAR.. FR

Matanzas, "The Birth-Place of Pa* trlotlsm," will be the Temporary Capital of the Cuban Itepublic-r.

Fannie Brlgham Ward's Letter,?

Special Correspondence of The Mail. WASHINGTON, May 1.—I have received a' good many letters of late, asking abouf business opportunities in Cuba, an4 the prospects there will be for profitable in* vestment of American capital when tho war is over. Speculators have already^ turned their eyes t-het way, with divers! schemes in view. I have been particularly looking up the chances for the average American who is not overburdened with cash, and does not expect to sit idly by and get rich in a season, but is willing to do a reasonable amount of work for fair returns. When th'e war ends—as of course it must in the independence of Cuba—the new republic will have to begin at the bottom, economically as well as politically. The island is so largely agricultural that its future prosperity, at least for some generations to come, de-* pends upon the rural districts. Beyond a few tobacco factories, there have never been any manufactories of account in Cuba, and the wasted tissues of industrial life can only draw new blood from the sml-

Those who were acquainted with the Queen of the Antilles in her golden days of prodigal prosperity would hardly recognize her in these nefasti dies. A trip through the country reveals unexampled desolation—burned fields and orchards, ruined houses and sugar mills, and often hungry people. Last month I made a railway journey from Havana 350 miles toward the interior. In all that distance I saw only two-cornfields, and not a single garden or occupied farmhouse. Said my traveling companion, "What this island most needs is tombstones and truly it looked so. There was plenty of corn stand irig, though smoke and flames could be seen in every direction. The sugar estates are so very large—often twenty miles in extent—that fires may rage in them for a long 'time and yet leave a considerable portion unharmed. This year the cane was choked with weeds for lack of laborers and ^yielded much less than the cus tomary amount of juice and that was far below the usual vilue, beingc|rtr)feojiI fjy ft Kftg^Mfmxture of scorched cane. Yet it was well worth cutting and grinding, whenever permission could be obtained from Maximo Gomez, the insurgent chief.

The Spanish authorities readily gave the planters permission to grind, and guaranteed them protection while doing so. This unwonted generosity on the part of the mother country was not entirely for the welfare of Cuba—Bless yon no! but because it helped to pay the army and provided a good place for convalescing soldiers. A very large proportion of Spain's boy-troops succumb to yellow fever, typhoid, vonitivo. etc., during their first season in the West Indies and those who survive the acclimating process must be cared for till strength returns. Soon as released from the hospital, they have been sent to the plantations, where at least they were sure of getting something to eat. Guard-duty does not tax them heavily, and when fully recuperated, they ciin be utilized again in the field. Meanwhile the men amuse themselves according to their natural bent, which is usually more pleasing to themselves than to their unwilling entertainers. Every page of this paper might be filled with tales of their cruel prauks, which have been told to me on the various estates I have visited and are amply verified but space forbids the recital of but two or three. On the Santa Gertrudis plantation, about forty iniles beyond Cardenas, where a company of soldiers were "protecting" the people a lad of 14 years, one of the poor reconcentrados quartered on the place, was going joyfully to his parent's hnt one morning, carrying a chunk of beef in a sack, which the planter's steward had given him. The soldiers overhauled him and demanded to know what was in the sack. The boy took to his heels in affright, but was speedily captured and bronght into camp. Meat was scarce and the .soldiers almost as hungry as the reconcentrados, so they decided that the boy had "stolen it," In vain he protested and begged that the steward be sent for he was tied to a convenient palm tree, and while the soldiers cooked and ate the meat, was flogged at Intervals during the day—to make him confess, they said. Being released at nightfall, the boy tried to crawl home, bnt died on the way.

On another plantation, whenever anew lot of reconcentrados were bronght in, the captain of the guard detained ail the girls and good-looking women In his tent, and afterwards sold them to his soldiers, making a Jocular auction of it-for jackknives, food ratl ins, etc.. as the men bad no money—the highest bidder being allowed first choi ce. On the Santo Tomas plantation, in Finar del Rio province, lived! an honest old colored man, a veritable "Uncle Tom/* whose only son was supposed to have joined the insurgents. One day when amusements ran low, it was decided to "kill time" with the old man. He was bronght to camp and ordered to disclose the whereabouts of his son. tills he could not do. had he so desired, having no kiea where the constantly moving rebel army was situated. The soldiers tied him to a tree and flogged him awhile* without avail he could not, or

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would not, tell. Then they compelled him to dig his own grave and kneel be* Side it—and into it he fell, pierced by a score of bullets.

The planters say that in any event there must soon be acute famine in Cuba, because nobody within the zones of cultivation and the garrisoned places has planted vegetables or other food products for two years past, but has devoted himself to raising crops which would bring in most money, in order to hurry his family out of the" country. Most of them took to tobflceo planting, as promising quicker restills than sugar. The insurgents cannot Sjfcop the production of tobacco as easily as they can prevent cane grinding, and maybe tney are less disposed to interfere with it, a$ any Cuban would rather forego his bread, and certainly his sugar, than cigarette's. I saw one particularly fine looking tSb&cco farm, and was informed that it Belonged to the captain of the local guerillas. His place was duly guarded by Spfcpish troops, which he got detailed at government expense, and he also paid the insurgents not to molest his crop by giv. ipg them one-third the value of it. Last winter several Americans took advantage of the times and made large purchases of tQbacco lands. At present the tobacco itidtistry is good for nothing, principally owing to Wevler's decree two years ago, forbidding the exportation of Havana leaf tobacco. The insurgents retaliated by burning factories and all the stored to tjac6o" they could lay hands on. But the Mitrquis of Teneriffe appears to have been a thrifty fellow as well as a "butcher.'' Already, a millionaire, he made another fdfrfcune out of his celebrated order, for many so-called American tobacco firms exiwrted thousands of bales in spite of" .the prohibitory decree, pretending that it was a diplomatic transaction between Washington and Madrid. The real secret was that Weyler graciously permitted shipments to be made by those who gave him liberal commissions. The very best tobacco raising,region in the world is Cuba's "Vuelta Abajo but. today every plantation iu it is abandoned and in ruins. After Weyler's little game became known the rebels attacked it with special fury and destroyed upwards of four million pounds of tobacco in & few months. It will take twenty years for this famous Ihegion tp become as fiourishii|g as in January, of '96. BIIKV the iu$omparable :sjOil, climate aud natural conditions regj&n. unimpaired Jby "war's „wildf iuaruins.^HrKl those who come in with a little money when peace is restored may buy the best tobacco lauds very cheaply and become Roesuses in due course.

Among the refugees at Key West 1 met an ex sugar planter, who was anxious to sell his estate and for a Cuban he seemed to have developed remarkable adaptation to the ways of the "trading Yankees." His method was to edge up to every group of men he saw talking together and join in the conversation. Presently he would be heard to say "the soil of Cuba is too rich that's what's the matter with the island," then he would go on relating what ruinously large crops he had himself been raising—so remarkably large that they had invited destruction by envious rebels and Spaniards and invariably ended by inquiring who wanted to buy 30,000 acres of the finest sugar land in Cuba, worth $10 the acre, for 30 cents the acre. To be sure his plantation house and mills are in ruins, but he pointed out what profit could be made on the same in the line of scrap iron and old brick. Up to date he has not found a purchaser. I heard one man tell him that he would rather have three measley acres of corn and potatoes in Ohio, Pennsylvania or Illinois, than the whole 30,000 of 'Cuba's best' under present conditions.

Somebody will no doubt be making money out of Cuba's ruined homes and mills within the next few months. The boilers and machinery and other junk of thousands of destroyed plantations can be had for almost nothing, but the market for scrap iron must be outside of the island. The brick and mortar would hardly be worth buying, but might be used on the spot in rebuilding. Now, grasses and wild vinesf growing over the melancholy heaps, have softened their harsh outlines and made them a picturesque feature of the landscape, but they are not to be considered as an element toward building up the resources of rural Cuba. In spite of the war, several syndicates, with an eye to the future, have lately purchased large tracts of land. Last winter a company of New Englandelrs bought eight thousand acres in the beautiful Trinadad valley, near Santiago. They ara not doing anything with it now, bnt say they can afford to wait for years and then realise heavy interest on the money invested.

As to business enterprises on a smaller scale, they are innumerable for men with a little money, and money energy. A few acres in market gardening, with continuous crops from one year's end to another, would perhaps yield the quickest and largest returns for the smallest amount of capital. Chicken raising, too, has always been a strangely neglected industry in Cuba. Fowls and eggs figure conspicuously in the everyday Spanish-American menu hnt nobody on the island has ever gone into the business of supplying the demand on a large scale, with incubators and brooders, as in the United States. All winter, before the present siege began, eggs sold in Havana at fl the dozen, and poultry 50 cents the pound—and what it is now, goodness knows, with beef, at last advices t2 a pound! A man with eyes in his head aad the business instinct of the

average American will see avenues for profitable investments of money and labor in every direction as soon as peace is restored in the island.

It seems a pity to take advantage of other people's misfortunes, but many are the fine old casas in Havana and other cities which will be "bought for a song. These stately palaces of impoverished granduer. with their marble floors and pillared corridors, and inner court yards, their fountains and palm trees, are fairly beggicg for purchasers, owing to the financial distress of their owners.

It goes particularly hard with the proud hidalgoes to have to sell their property to the hated Yankees, who are looked upon as a horde of greedy shopkeepers. As if any nation under the sun could be more greedy for gain than Spain has shown herself since the earliest days of the Conquest! Everywhere in Spanish-America you hear a great deal about the invincible valor of Spain aud the sordid character of the Yankees. Their literature tells us that Spanish patriotism is unconquerable while North Americans love dollars more than country, and that when the latter seek to "meddle" in the affairs of Cuba, illustrious Spain will teach them a lesson in international manners. A pamphlet, widely distributed in Havana not long ago, furnished rich reading to the few Americans who remained in the city. It says that in the event of the aforesaid "meddling," all Europe wonld rush, to the rescue of Spain, "whose ever-glorious history constitutes the grandest page in the annals of the world." It reminds the money-grasping Yankees that when it comes to war, valor is a necessary element, and that they must not think they can fight Spain's heroic soldiers with dollars alone! Then the little book goes on to give the denoument. It describes the invasion of Cuba by American troops recounts battle after battle in which the immense superiority of American numbers is always overcome by the "invincible valor of our illustrious army." And finally, after an unbroken chain of military triumphs, for Spain, extending over a series of months, and culminating in a stunning defeat for the United States, the Yankees humbly sue for peace, pay Spain a heavy indemnity, and withdraw from the island, with many apologies, having learned 'that Spain is unconquerable by reason of the^superb valor of her son#., iftfrl pltv^of four centuries behind it and a yet more brilliant history ahead—has long been called "a nest of rebellion" by Spanish officialsand "the birth-place of patriotism" by the patriots themselves. It is- Cuba's second city in population, wealth and commercial importance—perhaps first in beauty and healthfulness, arid it is destined to become of greater interest in the near future as the capital of the Cuban republic. Its population of about 00,000 in time of peace, was largely^ made up of the descendants of titled grandees from Old Castile yet its sudden decline to half those figures was due to the fact that thousands of its best citizens, including professional men, merchants and sons of wealthy families, went to join the insurgent army.

The vice-president of the embryo republic and his secretary of state—Senors Mendez de Capote and Moreno de la Terre, were both bom ill Matanzas also the Guiteras brothers, Jose M. Galvoz, Alberto Ortez, and many other prominent revolutionists, pomez' forces are already at the deor of their new capital, so to speak, being encamped within the province—prepared, soon as our troops are landed, to establish headquarters here and transfer their seat of government from Cubitas. They might have done so long ago, had the times been ripe for holding the easy conquest. Of course Matanzas can be more readily taken than Havana, and, what is equally to the purpose, will be retained with less difficulty, in spite of any force which Spain may bring by land or" sea. Havana will doubtless be the ultimate capital of the reconstructed country, on account of its superior natural advantages, larger harbor and handsome public buildings—but not for years to come. A long time will be needed to make it habitable, according to modern ideas, after this cruel war is over. Think of the hundreds of thonsands who have died in it during the last three years, of starvation and disease, in the teeming hospitals and prisons and Los Fossos—to say nothing of the numbers, killed in battle and all these dead buried in shallow rented graves, from which they are speedily evicted to the charnel yard. Think of the absence of sewerage and other sanitary regulations in a populous city amid all these horrors, and the eternal presence of small-pox and yellow-fever, and yon cease to wonder why the broad bay, washing its shores, so reeks with impurities thai no fish can live in it. If ever a thoroogh "house-cleaning" was required, after four hundred years of neglect and no scavenger but the carion birds, it is in Havana.

Meanwhile, Sgatanzas, sixty miles to the eastward, on another broad and beautiful hay, will do well for a temporary capital, as Philadelphia served as before Washington was ready. Its shallow harbor is sheltered within an ampitheater of bills, and may be strongly fortified—if Uncle Sam will famish his ward the money. At present it has only the old castle of San Severino and another stone-walled fort of equally ancient date at the entrance to the harbor, several miles from the city, and the remains of the new earthworks which oar guns destroyed the other day. By the [GoxrnrtnsD ox EOUBTH PAOB.J

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AMUSEMENTS.

POROTHY T.EWIS.

V.J I Dorothy Lewis, one of the brightest stars iu melodrama will twinkle tonight as "Tiny" in "Alone in Greater New York." The play is stimulating, the star is captivating and every one wants to see her.

THE WOI.FOKD STOCK COMPANY.

The Grand will have for an attraction five nights next week, the Wolford Stock Company in one of the strongest repertoire of plays ever presented in our city. This is one of the strongest compauies on the r8ad. Every play presented by the company will be mounted in a most snmptu ous manner. All the scenery and mechanical effects used in the productions are carried by the company, nothing being used, but what was especially made for them. The plays will be mounted with the same care and lavishness that characterizes all first-class productions iu the large cities. Although-an expensive undertaking, they will play at popular prices, therpby giving all an opportunity of seeing a really meritorious performance at little cost. "The Brand of Cain" will be the opening play, and ladies will be admitted free when accompanied by another person bonding a paid thirty cent ticket.

NAT GOODWIN.

No better evidence of the great interest manifested in the return of Nat. C. Goodwin next Friday eveniug for one night a the Opera House could possibly be given than the large and unprecedented advance saleof seats, and it goes without saying that the engagement will prove the artistic success of the present amusement season. The desire to see Mr. Goodwin and Miss Maxine Elliott in their greatest success "An American Citizen" appears to be unanimous. The production will be identical to that seen, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, earlier in the season, and which was pronounced by the press of the metropolis the %nost notable presentation seen on the American stage in years. An interesting feature will be found in the mngnifioicent gowns to be worn by Miss Elliot and other ladles of the company while the scenic environ-, ments will also prove a revelation. The company surrounding Mr. Goodwin and Miss Elliott includes Wm. Ingersoll, Clarence Handyside, 'Estella Mortimer, Hattie Russell, Gertrude Elliott, Louis Payne and others. !*t "^*^55

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MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

Very few people ever use a dictionary. Nobody can tell how butter will taste, by its color.

Some people are always looking fo? a chance to be lata. It is astonishing how soon shiftless people find each other.

Even an undertaker gets enthusiastic over good business. When a man can't.preach he goes to sailing encyclopedias.

One is surprised to sen first-class musicians who do not wear glasses. A man whose beard doesn't grow, gets shaved just as often as others.

Any man will talk too much about his business if he isn't very careful. A woman can't keep a grievance to hersslf anymore than she can a secret.

A hen-pecked m'in always walks bahinrt his wife when they are out together. No man can successfully wait on the table, because he is too anxious to eat.

A woman turns up her nose at anything she doesn't like a man swears about it. When a woman has a grievance, if you are persistent you will hear all about it.

Any man could tell when he is to have a surprise party if he would only watch his wife.

Often when people deprecate their own things, they do it to get others to brag on them.

Very few people apply a preacher's advice to themselves without making it a virtue." ,v -'i

Some people quarrel with their neighbors for the sake of telling about it afterwards.

When a woman has a grievance, she can't feel happy till she tells somebody about it.

A man who can't raise a beard always looks as if he felt foolish when he goes to a barber shop.

When yon see an old bachelor of 40 or more, you may know lift has been rejected or his girl died.

Men who can't raise beards wish they could, and those whose beards grow fast wish they had none.

When a fellow is feeling bad, he makes np his mind to diet himself, and as soon as he gets well he forgets all about it.

Lots of people try to console themselves for missing an invitation to asocial function by saying they didn't expect an invi' tation, anyway.

We are all in danger of calling everybody prejudiced who does not believe jusfe as we do.

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Joseph P. Trueblood and Charity E. Smock. Samuel Morgan and Katie Kennedy. John L. Murphy and Aflie May Coons. James P. Goosey and Jennie Bartlett. Wm. Williams and Levi!I* Clark. Geo. W. Leisey and Helen Smock. «. Leonard W. Oliver and Anna I). Clutter. an and LllJleJPoland. arch vet H. Mesdoi Geo. Elbrecht and Lina Banr,

Wm. A. Boweman and ... Harry W. Church and Mary D. Stlnirer. H. Meadow* and Leoretta Daggett. Harve

John Sanders and Anna Baysinger.