Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 June 1898 — Page 1

VOIi. 28—NO. 49.

on THE QUI VIVE.

[, How bin Is Donn M. Koberta' pa. I That people call him tough? Is ho like FIU, or Corbett,

And thus can run his bluff? Every person that knew anything, and some people don't know anything, knew that when the Indiana Construction Co. was given the contract for the north sewer and there would be trouble. And there hasn't been anything but trouble since the sewer extension was begun this spring. Donn Roberts, who is the head of the company and superintendents the work, has everybody and everything bluffed. He isn't so very big, nor so very strong, but his bluff seems to go to a great extent. Inspectors that tried to call him down were hit with bricks, or life was made so miserable for them that they resigned. The notoriously faulty work being done on the sewer led several persons to make an inspection of the work one night this week, and as a result a special meeting of the council was held last night to act on the matter. The character of the work being done was reported, and an attempt was made to change the inspector, that the work required by the contract might be done. "Senatorial courtesy" intervened however, as it was represented that it would be discourteous to the sewer committee to make such changes while two members were out of the city. The matter finally resulted in the council adjourning to make a midnight trip through the sewer against which such strong complaints are made. This inspection will lead, no doubt, to the refusal of the council to accept the work from the contractor unless it is done strictly according to contract. If all reports are true the city is simply throwing money away in trying to build a sewer like that one under Are, nn£, under the present contractors.

Charley Duffln was elected president of the Travelers' Protective Association at the national convention at Omaha this week, an honor that was almost within his grasp a year ago at Nashville. He won on the flrst ballot, after a hard fight iti the preliminary skirmish. Duffln is an active, energetic fellow, who has done much to build up the T. P. A, in this state, and who will do still more during his presidency to increase the membership and enlarge the field for operations of the order, which is a most worthy one. The salary attached to the position is $1,800 a year, with an allowance of 11,500 a year for traveling expenses. Duflln's name has been mentioned quite prominently as a candidate for congress in this district this year, and his success at Omaha will no

sdoubt

increase his chaises for. sepuelng the nomination should he desire it. He would make a hustling candidate, and no mistake. He has a commanding presence, a voice like a foghorn, that he can use to advantage, he can make a good speech, and tell stories unlimited, and it would not surprise many persons if he secured the nomination without any trouble.

There is but one candidate talked of in this county, besides Duffln, Sam Hamill, who was formerly Congressman Faris' law partner. He is said to be seriously considering the matter, although he has not positively announced that he would accept the nomination, if it should be given him. _____

The Democrats profess to have great faith in their ability to beat Mr. Faris this fall. Of course each party manager always claims to be sure that he is going to defeat his opponents, but such claims are not always made in good faith. This year the Democratic managers claim in good faith that they will beat Mr. Faris without doubt. One gentleman, who has been through the mill, and knows, says he bases his opinion on "the explosive power of postoffices," of which there are several hundred in this district. Another wellposted Democrat gave Q. V. the following estimates of the majorities for the two candidates in this district:

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County. Paris. Opponent Clay.... Hendricks .................... 1W0 Mot*au JW Park® Putnam Vermillion —30° Total tew U00

According to this estimate, with Vigo to hear from, Mr. Faris will have a majority of 500 over his opponent, and Vigo county can make or break him. The gentleman referred to, who Is a tolerably shrewd observer of events and men, is of the opinion that Vigo county will give the Democratic candidate a majority sufficient to overcome this .V*). and elect the Democratic congressman. He bases his opinion on the fact that with but one exception since 1876 the party thatcarried the county lu the presidential election invariably lost it in the election two years later. There Isn't very much logic, in this argument, because all precedents are broken in time of war. The gentleman is doing the Patrick Henry act of judging the future bv the past.

All that is necessary for a man to be able to dance in the head set to be from Terre Haute. Take the case of Major B. F. Havens who was confirmed this week an additional paymaster in the army, with the rank of major. Senators and congressmen and great men, looking for places for their son*, have been crowding the Whit© House and the department* for weeks, seeking appointment*. Suddenly, without any warning, up step* the president with a silver salver and hands a Terre Haute man a #3,500 job, altogether without any solicitation on hi* pan. The

first thing that Major Havens knew of his appointment, or that he was to be given such an appointment, or that his name had ever been suggested for such a thing, was when he saw the announcement in an Indianapolis paper last Saturday morning to the effect that he had been named as a paymaster. It pays to be from Terre Haute.

Isaac R. Strouse, the editor of the Rockville Tribune, who writes as if he thought that every man opposed to the Populistic Free Silver platform was making a personal attack on him, no doubt had a "cat fit" when he read that the president had appointed Wm. J. McKee, of the Indiana National Guard as a brigadier general. Isaac went off "half-cocked" last week because the president had appointed Russell Harrison and other well-known Republicans to positions in the army, and refused to appoint McKee, who was known to be a Democrat. The Tribune is having the wind taken out of its sails every day, and is like James Whitcomb Riley's hero, who "had nothing to say." ~4

It is announced that H. H. Six, one of the proprietors of the Tribune, is grooming himself as a candidate for the legislature this fall on the Democratic ticket. He served as a clerk in the legislature during one session, and it whetted his appetite for more. If selected he proposes to make the race on the same platform as his demi god, Bryan, and is going to be for the "common people. ,,

Many friends of Captain "Jack" Beatty, of the police force, are urging him to become a candidate for the Republican nomination for sheriff, but he has not yet decided what he will do in the matter. He is one of the most popular officers on the force, and attends to his own business in such an unostentatious way that he has not built up a regiment as enemies, as many men do who are called upon to perform police duties.

The new water works company has an nounced, through its president, that no effort will be made to take advantage of the charter granted on the 8th of March, and which gave three months in which to begin work in order to make the charter good. This is what Q. V. intimated at the time the movement was started for the new company. It was simply a bluff to bring about a reduction in meter rates to the large consumers. The statement is not made as to whether the bluff worked or not, but as the new company is not to do anything, the presumption is that, it did,

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HOW TO CONDUCT THE WAR. *1 Theqe isn'tanew&paperqffioein ttteTKIid that doesn't contain a strategist that, if given the opportunity, could lay President McKlnley's board of strategy in the shade. The man who knows how the war should be conducted is omnipresent. He is in the 8tores, the shops, on the railroad trains, in the street cars, in the lobbies of the hotels, and once in a great while he visits the newspaper offices to have his views given publicity in order that they may reach the president's ear. The Peru Republican thus describes this strategist, with whom we are all so familiar, so accurately that it is worth reprinting: "Criticism is his principal forte. The difference between what he knows and thinks he knows about military affairs is comprised in the exact knowledge of the military expert, for whom he has the utmost contempt. He can originate strategical plans that will in every instance bring discomfiture and destruction to the enemy. But alas for the country, his Ignorance is ignored. Great opportunities for overwhelming victories have been lost forsooth, because his plans were not followed out. He can follow to a mathematical certainty the exact location of the Spanish fleet, the knowledge of which would be of incalculable benefit to the government, and yet it is loth to accept his statement and our admirals continue to waste precious time in systematic search for this elusive squadron of Cevers's. He annihitates space. In a night's time he would swoop a thousand miles around the Cuban coast and close the exit against the Spanish armada which is reported to have entered the bay of Santiago de Cute. Distance only lends enchantment to the grandeur of his military ideas, 'Coal be blowed run in an* take 'em.' "Ammunition? What's ammunition? Hem 'em in run 'em down. That's what I say.' Loug ere tills he would have had 50,000 soldiers on the Philippine islands, although but three weeks have elapsed since Dewey's great victory, and at that time we had not yet mustered in a volunteer soldier. He cannot conceive why men like General Miles with large military experience hesitates to order au invasion of Cuba at once. •Occupy the island,' says he. 'Move on to Havana, rainy season or dry season.* 'If arms and ammunition are lacking, why don't the government get them? What is it waiting for I'd like to know!" Were he at the head of affairs things would move faster or heads would drop. He believes in pushing things and his favorite quotation is, "delays are dangerous.' But should one precipitate move be made which would bring disaster to onr arms he will be the first man to say 'I told you so.'

The public has bean notified that some manufacturers, not finding wood pulp cheap enough have resorted to "minerallne" as an adulterant o! floor. It is some kind of clay, sud it will be safe to buy Terre Haute Hoar, made by millers known to be honest ^31%!

PEN PICTURES.

IN SANTIACO DE CUBA WITH CAMERA AND NOTE BOOK.

Recent Rambles of .Fannie Brtgham Ward Around One of the Oldest Cities on the Western Hemisphere-

Its Harboi One of tlie Most Magnificent In the World. Sf 'v Special Correspondence of The Mall.

WASHINGTON, May 80.—Should Columbus and his cotemporaries come on a ghostly cruise over' the course they took more than four centuries ago, they would have no difficulty in recognizing this old city of St. James—such an ancient and Iberian savor has it retained to this day. Besides it our boasted San Augustine is as an infant in arms, and it was growing a trifle gray and weary when the pilgrim fathers first sighted Plymouth Rock. What a checkered career it has had since that autumn day, in 1514, when Don Diego de Velazquez christened it-in honor of Spain's patron saint! Ponce de Leon lived here before ever he began searching for the fountain of eternal youth. Cortez sailed from this place to the conquest of Mexico. Juan de Grijalva made it his base of supplies when, in 1518, he started for the conquest of Yucatan. Narvaez recruited the 400 men here for the first invasion of Florida—all of whom were lost in the cypress swamps of that land of promise and mystery and here De Soto's expedition tarried awhile, in 1528. Since in Santiago the red and yellow flag of Spain was flrst raised for the conquest of the two Americas it seems in "the eternal fitness of things" that here the decisive naval battle should be fought which will forever banish the banner of blood and gold from this side of the world.

I visited Santiago a few weeks ago—as usual with note book and camera. In a previous letter I told you about the narrow, winding channel which leads from the open sea into the harbor, pursuing a sinuous course past the Morro and other fortifications of quaint construction, between low hills and broad meadows, cocoanut groves and fishing hamlets—all the time so close to shore on either side that you seem to be navigating an inland river —until suddenly you turn a sharp angle of the hills and enter the broad and sheltered bay which old seamen call one of most magnificent in the world. It is no so big as the bay of Rio de Janerio, and not so beautiful in some respects, but like the Brazilian harbor, it is studded with islets and mountains are encamped around it. The water is too shailow for la Ttiaasln tft- approach -'its *Wh$rvS&," steamers anchor a mile or more from shore. The weather-beaten quartermaster in the forecastle applies the match to his brass twelve-pounder, and hardly have the reverberations died away among the hills before the steamer is surrounded by a swarm of boatmen in queer little covered canoes, clamoring to land passengers and their luggage. But unlike other West Indian ports, there is nobody bathing in the luminous waters, and not an urchin offers to dive for coins. The harbor is full of sharks—big, hungry ones of the maneating variety. You may count dozens of them from thedeck of the vessel, especially at night. So extremely phosphorescent is the water that, when the wind blows, every little ripple makes little sparks of fire in the darkness. A fish swimming through it has the same effect as the wind, leaving a trail of fire behind him like the tail of a comet. Every big, stationary spot of phosphorescent light you see is caused tJy a shark, lazily moviug his fins as he lies in wait for a meal. They are the tigers of the ocean—the terror of the local boatmen. However good a swimmer a man may be* he has no chance for his life in these waters. To fall overboard is simply to be torn limb from limb, without rising once to the surface. z,

Landing at the wharf you are instantly beset by the drivers of half a dozen volantes and victorias, whose antiquated vehicles comprise the entire wheel transit of Santiago and they fail to secure a passenger unless it be an unusually verdant "Gringo," because the steep streets are so atrociously paved that everybody who does not ride a horse or mule, prefers to trust his own two feet. The hills which enclose Santiago on three sides rising in green terraces from the water's edge to the farther mountains, are good to look upon from the water's edge to and afford excellent drainage to the city, but are no end of a nuisance for daily climbing. Starting at the surf line, the narrow, stony streets run sharply up 150 feet or more, and appear to have never been repaired since the days of Velasquez. Tropical rains have washed great gullies down them,

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the traffic of nearly four centuries has uprooted the original cobble-stones and worn dangerous pitfalls and mantraps. The sreet which our consul lives in (one of the principal thoroughfares), is not passable at all for vehicles, nor for horsemen after dark, and to walk through it at any time is almost at the risk of your neck. Most of the narrow streets, are lined with cement side-walks, from 10 to 15 inches wide but others have no sidewalk at all and in them pedestrians are obliged to take the road, dodging donkeys, carts and naked children. The latter are always to be enoonntered, without a rag of clothing on them, playing in the streams of dirty water that percolate through the broken stouts. It is no wonder that this old city is so notoriously unhealthy. Housewives and servants come to their doors and throw oat slop and garbage of

TEKRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EVENING, JCXE I, 189S. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR

all sorts into the street, regardless of passers and playing children: and with all this filth festering in the tropic sun, and no street cleaners but the carrioh birds, the surprise is not that yellow-fever makes an annual visit and carries off many victims, but that it does not remain the year around. "A more favorable field for the study of |i'natomy could hardly be found than Santiago de Cuba, where "living pictures" abound in the thoroughfares—drapery of any sort for boys and girls of the lower classes under ten or twelve years of age being thought entirely superfluous. When it rains in these regions—and how' it does rain during certain seasons, reminding sone of the Bible simile that "the windows of heaven were opened"—these narrow, perpendicular alleys become filled with torrents of such impetuosity that no bne can cross them on foot, and even Norsemen hesitate about ascending the Steep grades with their unknown pitfalls. At such times stout cargadores turn an onest penny, standing knee-deep in the uddles and "toting" jpxe citizens across on their shoulders. The city might easily have an inexhaustible supply of pure water, if only there were sufficient enterprise among the people to cause it to be brought in pipes from the neighboring Ijills. Though there has always been uch suffering and ill health resulting lack of this prime necessity, no steps have ever been taken inaugurate a system of water works. iir1

JiA brief visit will not give the traveller a true idea of Santiago. One must remain long enough to get en rapport with the spirit of the place in order to understand and appreciate it. The flrst impression gA|hed from its tumble-down buildings, it|k tough, neglected, dirty streets, naked gamin, abounding poverty, lean curs and frightfully abused mules and horses, is by no means favorable—even to lovers of the quaint and antique. But after you have become' better acquainted with its hospitable- people, and have seen the interior of some of its casas—which were built a lull century before the first Dutchman had set upra house on Manhattan island—you discover the charm of the rare old place and Qttd yourself in love with it, in spite of its ti&ny shortcomings. The finest mansions •'are confined to no particular locality, but are 'scattered around haphazard and are as likely to be found sandwiched between .Ijegro shanties or commercial warehouses lis anywhere else. They are all of the rder of architecture which the Moors rougta& into the Iberian peninsula—low frnd largfe. with enormous windows reachlag tropik roof to pavement and having ift^ ja^MKli.lwfi»i titan?i floorsof tiles, .square bricks or blocks of marble, and inner courtyard with limes and pomegranates growing around a central fountain. Toilsome and dirty though they are, the streets of Santiago never ceases to interest they have such curious signs stretched across them or protruding over the narrow sidewalks, and the commodities exposed for sale are to us so strange and often ludicrous. The shop fronts are all open, and inside we see clerks in their shirt-sleeves flirting with mulatto girls over gay-colored calicoes and gaudy ribbons. Ladies of the aristocracy never visit the shops, but buy what they require from samples, through their servants. Fat and comfortable negresses, with enormous earrings and gorgeous turbans compared to which Jacob's coat would be a colorless affair, squat on the ground at the street corners, with baskets of "dulcles" (sweet meats), fruits and boiled yams to sell. Half way up the hill is the main plaza, adorned with statues and thick set with trees and benches. The military band playB here on certain evenings of th'e week, when, according to the universal custom of Spanish-America, everybody turns out to see and be seen. The ladies in their newest gowns, mostly bareheaded, and many with bare shoulders and arms 'glittering with jewels, promenade in pairs, Tound and round the plaza while gallants line the walk in triple rows, looking on with more or less silent admiration, and the less fashionable portion of the population observe the beauty show at a respectful distance. Or rather this is what they used tp do. They kept it up bravely until a fewweeksago but now, between hunger and anxiety as to the fate of Santiago, with the American fleet in front and the insurgents behind, the plaza is deserted, except as a convenient dying place for the starving reconcentrados. Above the plaza rises the great cathedral, the largest in Cuba, with its double towers and facade of porous stone which gives it a singularly mottled and crumbling appearance. It is of the usual Spanish architecture, with an esplanade in front, its extremely simple interior adorned with garlands of paper flowers and old Spanish paintings. The several other churches are all small and dilapidated, and within their sombre walls one seems to have stepped back into the fifteenth century, for the foul air and musty odors seem to have been imprisoned at least four centuries. But if Santiago's sanctuaries are somewhat behind the times, the saloons and club bouses are certainly up to date, and unaccountably numerous for a population of only 88,000. There are six "casinos," or club houses. Mine of them fitted up with surprising magnificence—marble floors, cafes, salons de billares, reading rooms, dancing parlors and all accessories. No Spanish-Ameri-can town of any size is destitute of these anti-domestic Institutions, whatever else it may lack, where the male population may pan the evenings and get rid of their surplus cash. There appears to be no skeleton concealed in their gilded Closets, however, for the

interior arrangements of the swellest club house are exposed to the view of passers by, through the grated windows which extend from floor to ceiling, entirely devoid of shades or screens. Passing along the principal streets, one is struck by the multiplicity and gaudiuess of the drinking saloons, especially in the evening, when they are dazzling to behold, with their lights and glasses and colored liquors, their marble tables crowded with cardplayers, each with a glass of his favorite tipple at his elbow. But one seldom sees a drunken man in Cuba. The natives drink often, but lightly and the gin to which they are universally addicted must be exceptionally poor—or else the climate renders it comparatively non-intoxicating.

The upper streets of the town are even narrower than those near the landing, and to reach the crest of the hill, on whose slope the city is built, you must thread several blind alleys, lined by the houses of the poorer and dirtier classes, where unclothed babies are held up to the window gratings and youngsters, precisely in the suits they were born, follow you begging for centavas. But when the hilltop is gained, near the long line of buildings belong to the Beneficiencia hospital, there lies before you such a view as few are privileged to see twice in a lifetime. Beyond the far sloping roofs of sunburnt tiles which stretch compactly down to the water's edge, lies the bay, its surface of heavenly blue encircled by emerald hillsall glorified with tropical sunshine.

It is difficult to say how the 88,000 people in Santiago ever managed to make a a living—of course few of them pretend to now—for nobody appears to be doing anything. The only industrial establishment of the place, except the private enterprises of the American copperminers in the near by hills, area fe sugar factories, a tan yard and a soap manufactory.

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I FANNIK BRIGHAM WA'RDI itmb- flft

fi BUGLE CALLS OF 1898..

got'm bot'l'd up, *1 got'm bot'l'd up, & got'm bot'l'd up In the harb'r. got'm bot'l'd up, *M got'm bot'l'd up,

*K'.' He Can't net away at all. Cevera Is worse than old Blanc6,

... And Blanco is worse than old Weyler, VAnd Weyler is noisy like Polo, tefil But Oevera's run to the wall. lit88* .? ^I'm here at Manila,

I'm here near Oavlto,' And they're out o' coal and corn. They can't use their cable, Because they're not able, They are mine when Lwant 'Can

twWhere's that fleet from Cadiz, (01 Cadiz, Cadiz, rf^Where in the hades that old fleet from Cadiz?

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tfwe are ready to smash it, i, v* $ fe Smash it. ifirt 'VSmash It, ^If It will only show up ,^You bet we'll s-m-a-a-ash It. —New Ya -New Yort Sun. t*?

"'Parent's Meeting.

There will be a meeting of parents, teachers and others interested in the study and training of children, Wednesday, June 8, at the High School hall. Two sessions will be held, one at 4, the other at 8 p. m.

The afternoon session will be addressed by Prof. Denton J. Snider, of the Chicago Kindergarten collegeon "Frabel's Mother Play as a Help" io Mothers," aud by Miss Bertha Payne, of Hull House, Chicago, whose subject will be announced later. At this session there will also be an opportunity for the informal discussion of any topics pertaining to child nature and training.

The evening hour will be given to an address by Miss Payne on "Good Citizenship, Where and How is It Developed." Miss Payne is well fitted by her connection with Hull House, the great Social settlement, of Chicago, to see not only the need of good citizenship, but also what constitutes It and the possibilities of the home, the kindergarten and the school as social forces In its developement.

No admission fee will be charged at either meeting.

One Good Result of the Wa#®""0 The passage of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment through Baltimore in 1861 is historic. The hostility shown toward it was unbounded. When the Sixth Massachusetts regiment went through the same eity on Saturday It was received with un measured hospitality. The city was gayly dressed, and the streets were lined with people anxious to make their welcome as warm as the hostility was thirty-seven years ago. The men were pelted with roses instead of paving-stones, with sweet words of fraternity instead of rifle-shots. Not from the citizens of their own State did the volunteers receive so great an ovation. This typifies the new epoch. The old war is forever closed, the north and south are one Baltimore and Boston are not apart in feeling and sympathy. Onr glorious country is thoroughly united, The new war is a great demonstration of that great fact.

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks held the last meeting for this summer Wednesday night and the next regular meeting will be held in September. On this night were initiated Peter M. Clark, George Schenck, George DelaHunt, Russell Bement, Hairy H. Six, and Grant Fairbanks. Hie work was done by Hie new exalted ruler, Roes Bronson.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

A good way to cure insomnia is to sleep

A woman knows"every b'atjy buggy in town. Every mother thinks her boy is very apt in some line.

Every boy reaches an age when he wants to be a jig dancer|£|||l'| When a widower buys false teeth people like to look suspicious.

Almost anybody can invent a hair restorative that will sell. We don't see how anybody can be induced to drum in a band.

It does no kind of good to tell a man of a fool bargain he has made. Refusing to respond to encores is not necessarily a sign of genius^l

We fail to understand the object of a wig without any hair on it. If a man has the reputation of being a lair, he might as well be one.

A woman can write with a pen so poor that a man wouldn't pick it up. Military men have no patience with those who use technical terms wrong. /,

It sounds worse for a preacher to talk egotistical than for anybody else. "j Preachers may cheat in playing a game, and nobody dares call them down.

A woman wearing a pretty, new dress can never keep her cloak buttoned. No man ever gets so old that he forgets how he used to have stone bruises.

We notice tbatamusio teacher rarely ever has any business in the bank. When a woman runs out of adjectives to describe a thing, she calls it "fine."

Some men's only virtue is that they pay their debts. A good many haven't that. We can easily tell a real young girl be* ?s cause she never hesitates to tell her age.

Nearly every man has a grievance and you will find it out if you touch him right. No grown up person can eat candy without looking ashamed of himself, more or less.

A woman never owes a cent without thinking of it every time she sees her creditor.

We always have a good opinion of folks who can do some one thing exceptionally well. j,

People who talkof nothing' bfit of^hoyn?.'^*^ they can save a .pminjr, uppaltydoft't ettjoy^

over and over till our friends get tired to def' .4% How many men there are who do not know when not,to tell. abojuit their love affairs. 'I,

What an unconcerned look everybody has when the contribution box is passed their way

Nobody can helf Noticing theappropriateness of a doctor talking with a tombstone man.

The funnlestr thing about the man who dyes his hair is that he thinks he can fool other people.

Nearly everybody wastes about half his time getting out of fool snaps he got into the other half.

We don't know why new men always rush into business so much harder than experienced ones/ ...

Men who are continually telling what they have done are usually not engaged in, doing much now.

People employ homeopathists for their children, because if they do no good they at least do no harm.

We always feel sorry for a real stingyman, because he is so miserable at every" cent he has to spend, j,

At the funeral of a vel^ dld man, we* get to enquiring about the ages of all the', old people we know.

We often hear men say, "how's everything," when we know by their conduct* they never do anything.*

Seeing an undertaker and a tombstones man conversing together is enough to giveanybody the nightmare.

They very best crokinole player in Washington is a preacher, and he works* all sorts of schemes to win*j*V •A woman is a good deal prouder ot a jacket made out of an old one than sheis of one made of new stuff.

People who like to brag that they never* had a mortgage on their property frequently have nothing else on it.

Cigarette smokers will discuss the different brands the same as preachers discuss methods for gathering in sinners.

We can always tell the addrels on an envelope, written by a woman, because not a punctuation mark is omitted.

Some men can't possibly think very hard on any subject withont being laid up with the headache for a week afterwards-

When a woman wants a very pretty dress she buys

a hand-me-down,

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man buy

ing a fine suitof clothes gets it tailor-made. It don no good to warn people to keep $• out ot any kind of business, because they will only think you are envious of their foresight..

An interesting announcement this week was of the appointment of the Hon. B. F. Havens as assistant paymaster in the army with the rank of Major. Mr. Havens is a, veteran of the last war. His appointments 4' was unsolicited. j|gpg