Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 September 1898 — Page 1

VOL. 20—NO. 12,

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

Wesley Hauck at last disappears from public view as a criminal fighting for his liberty, and is free of farther prosecution. The indictment against him was quashed to Judge Piety's court on Wednesday. The judge ruled against the plea of the state's attorneys that Hauclc had concealed his embezzlements. Had this been shown the /statute of limitations could apply only 'since the discovery of defalcation was made. Judge Piety, however, ruled that the ex-treasurer's acts had been open to all through the records, which did give up the fact of shortage, as when his books were checked and the deficiency appeared.

The prospects for a brilliant race meeting and a crash of records next week are very good. The assemblage of horses will be Remarkable. At the top is Star Pointer, the only harness horse to beat two minutes, and the two horses that seem most 'ikely to equal him at some time. They are Searchlight, 2:041. a four year old, and Klatawah 2:06K, a three year old

Pacers are great favorites with the peopleas their races are usually the fastest, 'and probably their races, theSidewbeelers, for !J:18 pacers, and the 2:05 pace will draw the best. But some people like the trotter they are going to be pleased. We will Hep the particular stars, Askey 2:0S^, who has been winning in the west, and Grattan Boy 2:iW!K, who has been winning big money in the east. We will have some local favorites in Parker S. 2:00), Dick

Kay Wilkes 2:14 and Indiana 2:07%, but all these are only a few among the 21)7 horses named in the entry lists.

Mr. C. R. Duflln's resonant voice will tell the drivers to "go back there!" or to "Go!" for he will be starting judge. He has filled the posit ion often enough to become quite a starting sharp. The races always run smoothly hero and are on the .square.

So many people were kept from seeing races at the State Fair, where the first three days were lost through rain, that we •can expect a large influx of visitors from the east of us.

Our neighbor, Crawfordsville, is going to have a street fair, to be in the fashion, for this new old thing is running over the country like wildfire and the old country style of taking business and amusement Into the open air is being followed.

The street fair work in this city is acquiring much momentum and is really going to be a big thing. Q. V. has been •entfcrtftlned by the various comments «j.nn it. Some men don't like it because It is so new that they do not know all About it.

If it was so old and played out

that they knew all about it they might like it and perhaps take two dollars' worth. Others acknowledge they do not understand it but are willing to plank down some money. Some thrifty souls who do not believe in it and won't give a cent are expecting to get a good rent for a room or a lot, or some business out of the crowd brought here by other people's money.

The various objections made recall a Turkish philosopher, who on being asked by a neighbor to lend him a rope, said he was using it to tie up flour. The neigh bor thought it a very queer use for a rope, but the philosopher said he could use his rope for any thing, when ho did not want to lend it, and ao in the times of popular I movements any kind of a kick can be I m:ule to keep of! the subscription list. I rlowevor these cases are in the minority, while the live business meu. as usual, do their part, as they have done in everything ele There are hundereds of men, and I too, who are showing quite a l\v iv interest, and expect a very unique a interesting show.

Turning from one open air sport to another we come to ball and to the game between the ministers and lawyers, which livas very interesting to those who

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/and were comfortable enough in the raw day to enjoy U. The list of ministers who took part iu

the game shows some unclerical names, but those of four clericals save the reputation of the managers who might otherwise be accused of false pretenses in advertising that a game was to be played •)y men who did not intend to play. The change did not hurt the game, however.

Base ball is an innocent game. And charity covcrs a multitude of sins, but for all that there was a meaning smile or covert glance iu many of the pews when the ministers along with the notices of prayer and missionary meeting* announced the ball game. Old-fashioned iieople object to such notices from the pulpit, and to bill boards in front of the churches. To them these seem incongruous, but, as some one said in excusing the Iwrrowlng of music from operas to accomtwuoy hymns, that he did not believe the i*'rtl had a right to all good music, so many think that other things can be borrowed from the world, such as advertising and amusement*.

Post t».. Travelers' Protective Association. has rented one-half of the sixth floor :f the opeV* house block for their club rooms, which when fitted up as designed will be the finest lodge hall and suite of rooms in the country. The travelers of Terre Haute area great force. Thousands people In other towns get their only vie* of Trrrv Haute from the commercial ravelers which go from bene to the aomhtr of to £00, and the idea roast be a one. for part of a traveler's capital is bis ability to make people like him, ami If York by sailing vessel and was nearly tlx he like him they will think well of his months on the way,

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town. A traveling man spoke yesterday of his trials. He J.nt*vr hnr, his customers blamed him for selling uiu high and the house jacked him up for selling too cheap but he laughs and wears a large vest, and brjgi of Terre Haute.

The alleged thoughtful trick of a clothing house in throwing iu school books with each suit of boys' clothes is not any more of a bargain than would be throw ing in a suit of clothes with every set of books sold by a bookseller.

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The Liquor Dealers' Association No. 1 has issued an announcement in which it says "it has wisely decided" that beer by the keg should not be delivered upon orders of candidates, as it is a detriment to the saloon business and leads to drinking by minors, for which the saloon men are censured. The candidates probably would not object if they can be relieved of the tax for kegs of beer.

Ther§ are premonitions of trade revival Business houses are being renovated and improved and ageuts of empty rooms are receiving some encouragement about renting them, several having prospective renters from in and out of town. An offer has been made for the Naylor Opera House corner, which, if lower than the value of a few years ago, is high enough to be an evidence of confidence in Fourth and Main as a business locality.

THE STRIKING MACHINE.

I have just returned from attending the county fair. Many sights impressed me. There was a man selling silverware solid, sterling silver, at $1.00 per bushel. Some people looked at him incredulously as he made that statement, but anyone who was a student of physiognomy couldn't doubt him. He had one of those impassive, innocent and lamb-like faces that convinces one of the truthfulness of his statements, and he sold much genuine silverware in consequence. I told him, on the quiet, that he would become a flnonr cial wreck if he kept on selling pure silver at such ruinous prices. But he said he didn't care. He didu't care a doggone, he told me confidentially, for he was a man who wouldn't swear. He said profanity is vulgar besides, it brings one into bad repute when he is giving people such bar gains in silverware. He said he didn't care for

money

any, just as long as he

could make people hnppy by selling tht-m things cheap. 1 bought two or three wheelbarrow loads of silverware, and so did a good many others who owed their last winter's COHI bills. I notice that the best customers these itinerant bargain counters have are those who are behind with all the home merchants.

There was also a merry-go round that gave one a ride and a charming sernadeon a hand organ, for a nickel. The hand organ was run by a darkey dressed up in a suit of Uncle Sam's Sunday clothes, and he never stopped. I spoke to him, but received no response. Maybe he was dead. There were many other attractions, including a lovely snake ulmnner from Tick Hldge, with the mumps on one side of her face, aud drop on the end of her classic nose.

Ever and anon one could hear the dull, sickening thud of the striking machine, as some husky gent, who lets his wife chop her own wood, would try to knock the daylights out of it. I observe that the most regular customers of the striking machines are the meu who have the least acquaintance with work and are lying awake nights trying to invent labor-sav ing machinery. Those of its who didn't spend all our money with the honest man who was selling silver siioon-i nnd butter knives, spent it for chances to maul the striking machine. 1 conversed with the man who ran the striking machine, and found him very intellectual, indeed. He was attired in a coarse ml flannel shirt and a pair of brown overalls, which he had held in place by means of a piece of rope, which he wore around his waist. The other end of his overalls he wore carefully concealed in a pair of cowhide boots, which he had neatly greased with tallow. He wan also addicted to the use of tobacco, about a nickel's worth of Battle-Ax At one chew, which he would roll from one side of his mouth to the other, as he addressed the crowd in clarion tones and advertised the enjoyment to be derived from patronising his striking machine. I spent money quite freely for the privilege of mauling the stuffing out of his strength detector, notwithstanding that I owed for the sack of flour I bought just before the one I didn't pay for, if that is clear. We spent our money recklessly, because that is the best way to have a big time at a county fair. A crowd stood around the striking machine, belting away regardless of whether Joues paid the freight or not. And not even caring a cent why "Smith left, home." A fellow gets reckless that way quite frequently when associating so much with such gay sports. If all the energy expended In pounding that striking machine had been applied the splitting rails, therw would have been enough to build a long Jfence, but not enoufch to fence In all tine chumps who buy silverware they don't need because they think it is cheap.

The Kidder*. the east Main street millers, have made two shipments of flour to Santiago. This is not their first experience in Spanish trade. Long before the war they made a large shipment of floor to toe Philippines which was seat via New

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MRS. WARD IN CTIBA.

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TRIALS AND HARDSHIPS OF ANGELS OF MERCY.

Nurses Lodge In Palaces and Lack the Comforts of a Cottage—Our Correspondent a Model

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Special Correspondence of The Mail. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 25.—When Surgeon-General Sternberg's female immunes arrived in Santiago, a month after the battle, no provision had been made for them. They had united two days on board the ''Olivette" in the harbor, when General Wood, military governor of the city, came to Miss Barton and said: 'For God's sake, tell me what to do with Sternberg's nurses There is work enough for them in the hospital, but where can they eat and sleep They can't remain on the 'Olivette,' for she goes to sea to-morrow nor can they stay every hour of the twenty-four with the men in the hospital. There are some young ladies from good families among them and they must have suitable protection when not on duty."

It was really not Miss Barton's business, in the mission of Cuban relief on which our good president had sent her but since the surgeon-general had neglected this branch of his own department she promptly shouldered the burden. "Send the nurses ashore," said she. "They can co to work at once in the hospital, and before night a place shall be provided for them."

An empty house was immediately secured, furniture rented, necessary crockery aud cooking utensils purchased and a couple of Cuban uegresses engaged to do the work. But who could spare time to superintend the thing? One glimpse of the slip-shod servants who understood no word of English, showed the necessity of a head. The immune ladies had come to "nurse," not to housekeep, aud every member of the Red Cross party was already overworked to the limit of endurance. At this juncture, your correspondent—who is merely a visitor iu Santiago—offered her services as matron, pro tem, for the nurses Home "Why, could you? Would you?" .said Miss Barton, with a sigh of relief, "I can, am I will, was the answer." Show me the house send me brooms, mops, soap, servants and rations and you may tell the ladies that dinner will be waiting for them at 7 p. m." And so I assumed my inglorious role among the workers in Cuba. "I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls"—a dream came true. Ours is a big, bare palace, the once splendid home of some proud grandee, but like its owner, now decidedly down at the heel. Its high ceilinged rooms, mostly without partitions and partially divided by lofty arches, present an imposing vista of "magnificent distances," court-yards and corrid )rs. Double doors of staiued glass, extending half way up, afford some privacy to the bed rooms, while admitting free circula­! tion of air. The beautiful floors are of white and colored marbles, laid in patterns, like a patch-work quilt walls frescoed and painted in panels, the rafters hidden by white canvas stretched taut overhead and the great windows, without glass, and open from floor to ceiling, are furnished with iron bars outside the latticed shutters within. Nothing can be more picturesque than the ancient casas of Santiago—all stuccoed and painted in time-mellowed tints of rose-pink, skyblue, pea-green and yellow their projecting roofs of red tiles covered with moss of centuries, their quaint verandas, barred windows and enormous doors. But every one of them is typically Castilian in character—a brave and beautifnl front, dwindling to unparalled poverty and meanness behind the outward showing. Like other palaces of the old regime, ours was extremely dirty, infested with vermin and void of every convenience. Soap, water and eternal vigilance have somewhat modified the Tirst-mentioned evils, and news sity mothers many make-shifts in the latter line. The hired furniture, for which alone we pay $25 per month (the rent of the empty house is $50, American gold), consists of a hundred chairs, marble-topped stanu and cane couch in the parlor, rickety side-board and dining table, two useless kerosene lamps, and in each sleeping apartment a wardrobe, dresser and bare iron bedstead, without mattresses or covering. Fifty United States dollars bought a very limited supply of pots, pans and dishes, and most of those articles are lacking which are considered indispensable in every northern kitchen. Hence "the mother of invention" turns every emptied tin can into service, its edges neatly hammered with a stone every crate, box and meal sack is eagerly seized upon and devoted to some important use, and a lard pail is regarded as little short of a boon from heaven. Have we occasion for a bread-board and rolling pin, the clean bottom of a dishpan serves the former purpose while a glass bottle does excellent duty in the latter capacity. Every trunk masquerades as couch or table a wardrobe is pantry, cupboard and locker the sheets of an army cot answer for table doth, and a cambric petticoat has been converted into napkins. To be sure, we might dfapetrap with such luxuries as the two last-named, but when the wearied iroroes return at at (hi* aching in every fibre from along day's toil, their refuge should bear the nearest possible resemblance to a real home. If the reader imagines th*t under these conditions the house mother's task

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1898. „\, TWENTY-NINTH YEAR

is an easy one, let him, or her, come and trvit a while. We are subsisting upon army rnwona, eked out .by Red Cross supplies— soph as beans, bacon, hard-tack, corn meal, tinned beef and coffee—plentiful and good inequality. The daily menu—bacon, frSd mush and coffee for breakfast tinned beef, beans and hard-tack for dinner—will sustain life indefinitely and serf£s excellently well even every day. for a week. But eternal sunshine grows monotonous in time, and the best things pall -when too often repeated! Our a fair sample of CAstilian chararchitecture. Beyond the vast, marine-floored sala and dining-room, a long, arched corridor leads past open court yards and rows of bed rooms to the rear of the casa, where some holes in the thick adobe walls—windowless, doorless, dark and destitute of every convenience, constitute the culinary department. There is'neither table, chair, shelf, nor cupbdard. The dishes are washed on a mound -of adobe, out in the open patio, where—if Cuban customs were strictly followed?*they would be left till wanted, to dry themselves at leisure iu the sun. The so-called range is an adobe altar, breast high aud faced with broken tiles, with three holes in it, the size of small plantpot. In each hole you build a separate charcoal fire, bottom side up, so to saythat ft, with the kindling on top. It smokes, of course, like "all possessed," while you fan it vigorously with anything at haud and by the time the blaze gets well "going," the charcoal has burned out aud you must begin again. Over these tiny fires all the cooking is done, laere being no oven, no gas, no other alternative. As cultivators of the Christian graces— these Cuban ranges are without a parallel and when one has possessed her soul in patience jbhat she can prepare a threecourse dinner-without once mislaying her temper—she. is surely ripe for ahother world.

Our servants rriatcli the TuCchen to a T. They are elderly negresses, with families of their owil, and like mother birds they nightly convey t6 the home nest every morsel of food not carefully locked up in the wardrobe. Their every day costume is distinctive, if not) appropriate. It consists of a single, voluminous white skirt, very short in front and* trailing far behind, with a low-necked bodice and short, puffed sleeves, leaving the skinny arms bare to the shoulder. The front of the corsage is elaborately embroidered and secured by a string at the top, tied so Joosely*# tied at all, that a strip of bare bronze back stands confessed to the waist line. The wooly heads, gray with the weight of years, are topped with gaudy turbans the bare feet are thrust into slippers of white canvas, and when my lady walks abroad she covers her gaping back with a bedraggled white silk shawl. Both women consider themselves monuments of virtuous industry in consenting to lend a helping hand to las Amerlcanas —for could they not, like all their neighbors, be well fed without work, so long as Cuban relief supplies hold out But they are not injuring their constitutions by hard labor! When not sitting in the front windows, smoking cigarettes and gossiping with friends outside, their aimless step-shod feet go slapping about the marble floors, like the stars, "unhasting yet unresting." The slow, monotonous slap, slap, slap of those heelless slippers so wears upon the nerves that one indulges in strange flights of fancy as to what might accelerate their movements. Should the seven angels of the Apoca ypse, carrying the seven golden vials filled with wrath, heralded by trumpet notes and wrapped about with awful glory, come knocking some fine day at our front door —slap, slap, slap would go those same slow feet to admit them.

My family of nineteen includes Miss Annie Wheeler, a daughter of ex-Governor Packard of Louisiana, several ladies from New Orleans, two Cubanas from Key West, and seveAl others from various parts of the South, mostly all immunes, recruited for the work by Mrs. Curtis, of Washington.

As every moment of the time must be spent to the best advantAge, where such an ocean of suffering is to be staid by a few frail hands, we breakfast at 5:90 a. m., and immediately afterwards each goes on her appointed way, to hospital, dispensary occonsultario. The dinner hour is set for WM but oftefjn it is 8, or even 0 p. m. before the tired ladies can leave their pressing dnties, to snatch a hasty meal: and then go straight to bed for a few hours needed rest. If your imagination is fertile enongb, you may perhaps fancy some of the experiments I have tried by way of making a change in the daily menu with the materials at hand—essaying French toast, of hard-tack soaked in condensed milk And fried in bacon fat hash of canned beef, minus potatoes and a chopper corn bread, baked in a frying-pan over an uncertain charcoal fire, and savory ragouts compounded of all the odds and ends obtainable. Occasionally I ransack the city market in search of something new, and then my experiences are indeed varied and entertaining.

On such occasions I am accompanied by one or both of the elderly band-maidens, who. in addition to their trailing white skirts and silken shawls, wear each a wide smile, which she would fain make wider were It not for the position of her ears. Up and down the steep and dirty streets we toil, those everlasting slippers slapping the stones a few paces behind me, until the market Is reached, when they range alongside, as a necessary guard against Importunate dealers. While yet obscured

by intervening walls, the proximity of the' terday for a visit in Chicago.

market house is announced by new smells of extra vileness, swarms of fat, green flies, and the slap, slapping of many canvas slippers all toed in the same direction. And snch a market! What tales it tells of native shiftlessness, poverty and gree^L The house-mother who expects for a fetor dollars to purchase the ingredients of a modest dinner may as well cuir u»s herself against disappointment. She may bny some measly potatoes, at the rate of a medio (six cents) apiece eggs, warranted storage, for two dollars a dozen coa$se bread, baked in Santiago, thirty cfints the loaf a string of meat (animal unknown), which may serve for stew, though any well-bred northern dog would disdain it, 12.50. A handful of onions for disguising the flavor of the stew will cost fifty cents aguacates, for salad, a dollar, and pineapples, for dessert, seventy-five cents apie e.

The first time I visited the market, a woman pursued me from stall to stall, chattering Spanish like a magpie. She only wanted to buy the clothes right off my back, beginning with my necktie and ending with my shoes! This female pawn-broking business seems to be a favorite method of "raising the wind of Santiago. Every day we are' visited by mysterious women, some of them evidently belonging to the better class, who wish to buy, sell or exchange all manner of truck, from a broke-nosed tea-kettle to a jewelled sword. Yesterday a young Jamaica negress brought a rose-colored silk shawl, magnificently embroidered pricc not stated. Another female brought an ancient mandolin, made of tortoise shell, what she said was "dirt cheap" at $75. Maybe, but we are not investing in musical instruments just now. *A third had an old wash tub, one hoop gone, which she offered for two dollars—and I bought it. A tub we needed badly a new one costs in the shops of Santiago from $3 upward aud the extra dollar may go into to-morrow's soup.

There will be joy to-day in the nurses casa! Just now the great commissary wagon, drawn by six mules, rattled up to our door and delivered, besides the usual rations of beans, bacon and hard-tack, some canned tomatoes and a big piece of fresh beef, brought in the cold storage of some blessed ship from "the States." Said the blonde young giant in army blue who delivered ,it, "After this, ma'am, s'long's this 'ere meat keeps, I'll bring you a chunk every day." Bless the dear boy!

Now I go to surprise pay. gijjls with a, real Yankee pp^roast. .** FANNIE B. WARD.

AMUSEMENTS.

81TERBA.

At the Grand on Monday and Tuesday night next the Hanlons will open that theatre's season with anew production of their patomimic spectacle, under the old caption of "Superba." Into this popular spectacle they have introduced much that is new and apropos of the times, with subsets suggests! by the action of the times. The Hanlons go on, year after year, playing to almost the same overflowing houses, because they have ever kept faith and have not depended upon a reputation made to foist an inferior article, on the wetted appetite of their faithful auditors. In this year's production the same effort to please will be noticed, and the same lavish expenditure will be apparent to all, and the same consistent and conscientious attempts to present a high class article of pantomime will characterize the entertainment. There will be four new ballets, a new and clever specialty in a humorous bicycle act by the three Powers Brothers, fresh from a tour of the continent some charming Tyrolean warbling and clever monologue by Heloise Dupont and eccentric musical renderings both vocal and instrumental. The scenery is all bright and new from the artists' fame.

THE GOVERNORS.

"The Governors," the new farce comedy creation in which Ward & Vokes are touring this season, is the joint work of "Happy" Ward and Fred S. Gibbs. Their company will be larger than ever before, numbering thirty-two peisons. Louise Montrose, Margaret Daly Vokes, Emma Lewis, Johnny Page, John Keefe, Charles W. Young, Hal S. Stephens, James Cherry and the Boston Quartette will be in their company, which will appear at the Grand next Wednesday night. vy, HKI.I) nr THE ENEMY

Lorin J. Howard, comedian, late of Broadway Stock, Denver, Neil Stock, Cincinnati, and Oliver Byron companies, will play the part of the war correspondent, Thomas Henry Bean (the part originated by Mr. Wm. Gillette) in the forthcoming production of "Held by the Enemy." Mr. Howard played the part during the past summer with great success at the Great Northern Theater, Chicago. At the Grand next Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee.

The Flower parade will be under the direction of Mil. H. C. Travis, of Kalamazoo, assisted by a local board of lady managers, and is expected to be very beautiful. Among the free attractions to be shown in the open air, twice a day during fair week, is a man standing on a globe that revolves on a tight rope, and ascends and descends an inclined plane of IKS feet. Another is the dive from a tower 110 feet high into a net at its foot. There will be many other ran Irrille and circus acts. Several bands will be playing all the time and a hot time may be expected.

Mrs. J. E." Somes and daughter left yes-

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FACTS FEMININE.

The Czar of all the Russias has set his face against war, and report says that the Csarina has set her face resolutely against cigarette-smoking by women. Cigarettesmoking by ladies seems to be -very much more common in Europe than in this country, and the fact that the Czarina is so emphatically opposed to it indicates that in Russia at least, it must be rather prevalent. Of the few American ladies who smoke, the majority will be found to have brought the habit back from Europe* where it is possible to form and practice it in very good society. Why women don't smoke a great deal more than they do is rather a puzzling question. If tobacco is as good a thing as the consumption of it indicates, there is no obvious reason why men should have a monopoly of it. Perhaps women's indifference to it is one more sign of their superiority or possibly fashion, which has so much to answer for, has some things, and this among them to its credit.

To Miss Elsie Reasoner, of Kansas, belongs the distinction of being the only American girl who followed the boys in blue through the campaign before Santiago. She is the daughter of Judge Calvin. Reasoner, of Leavenworth, and is as dainty a little body as a bit of Dresden china. Conceiving the idea that her duty led her to Cuba she made her way to the front by her own exertions in spite of every obstacle, and by her winning ways forced her way into the hearts of the brave men who fought through that florce campaign. That however, is not sti-auge when it is considered that she was just 10 yearn old and as refined and demure as any one could desire.

Table centres are no longer the newest things, certainly, but they are still much used and are made of all kinds of material. The soft cream silk, fluffed out into billows, edged and crossed with trails of smilax, with sprays of roses, either all of one color (though varying in shade) or harmonizing iu tint, laid on it, would look exquisite with the silver lamps, especially if you had a rather high basket filled with roses loosely arranged as if falling out of it, a trail being wreathed, around the handle and kept in place With„. a deftly-tied bow of satin, ribbon for tho ce'htre-pleoe. ,'

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Almost any woman can wear a llnei* skirt nowadays. Nobody looks as awkward ub a man who can't drive a team.

The men whom everybody is glad to sea go to war, never get shot. Not every man who does not drink beer or chew tobacco, gets rich.

A drunk man is not very particular about who are his associates. Nothing draws a crowd quicker than A notice of a "reward offered."

You can't tell by a man's looks whether or not he knows the catechism. Nobody is as friendly and as giddy as & widower when he launches out.

Many a pair of patent leather shoes cover socks that are full of holes. People frequently ask your opiniOR merely to get to express their own.

We believe the principal use of a vest is for its pockets, which are so bandy. Some women's only show to get into society is to join some organization.

A man is prouder of a bargain made at an auction store than anywhere else. A man who knows that be is fair-minded may be set down as anything else but fair.

One advantage a street spinkler has, he doesn't have to contend with muddy streets.

If we stopped to read them, it would take all our time to read life insurance statistics.

We are all too apt to consider as a success anything that there is a lot of money in.

A man is as proud of a good bargain in a suit of clothes as a woman is at a bargain counter.

We have seen men so red-headed that we were surprised to see barbers not afraid to cut tbeir hair.

A boy and a girl who go to a sodA fountain in broad daylight are probably not married.

A man may bave his name on a Sundayschool roll of honor and yet cheat his neighbor the first chance he gets.

Some men save money no matter bow little they make, while others dd not sava any, no odds bow much they make.

Nothing sounds funnier than to hear* somebody get off as original a remark yon ive just heard some one else make.

The worst hen-pecked man in town wears a red, white and blue necktie to show how brave and patriotic he is.

A great many men are perfectly willing to allow everybody to bave political freedom as long as it doesn't interfere with their own pet hobbies.

Al.KX

MlIXKIL

At the Northwest M. E. conference, at Plymouth, Ind., Rev. Worth M. Tippy was assigned to the Centenary church for another year, Demetrius Tillotson to the First Methodist. J. W. Greene, to Grace church E. C. Shu maker, to Maple Avenue O. H. Berry, to Mattox Chapel W. N. Dann, to Montrose and W. W. MoantaiUa, to Trinity.