Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 February 1899 — Page 4

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fHE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

CH \RLES BALCH, Proprietor.

Publication Office. No.SOlH Ohio Street. Telephone 469.

The Mail is sold In the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mail, at the rate of $1 a year, or 50 cents for six months.

Entered at the Postoffice at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

The financial end of the terms having been made to his satisfaction. Gen. Gomez is preparing to make his triumphal entry into Havana some time this month.

It appears that during his enforced retirement for six years General Egan will draw full pay, and at the end of his suspension he will be eligible for retirement. It will thus be seen that his sorrow will not be unmixed with profit.

The American Steel and Wire Truit has announced an advance of from five to ten per cent in wages, to take effect oil March 1st. This includes laborers receiving up to per day. People should not, however, conclude from this that trusts are a good thing.

The American branch of the Fillipino junta lias been moved to Canada, the haven of all such outcasts. In their new location they wont find as many sympathizers as they did in Washington, where they were used as convenient, and willing tools by the enemies of the administration.

The city council of New Albany varied the monotony of its proceedings last Monday night, by breaking up in a disgraceful row. Knives and razors were drawn, blows and knockdowns were numerous, and considerable blood was spilled. It is such little episodes as this which draw attention to an unusually quiet neighborhood that otherwise would remain unoticed and unknown.

An epidemic of making appropriations for public buildings struck congress this week, no less than sixty-live bills, carrying with them appropriations aggregating received favorable consideration at the hands of (he house on Wednesday. On the list Indianapolis comes in for ?lHeretofore Speaker Heed has sat down on this kind of legislation, but this time he seems to have given the boys a chance, of which they hastened to take advantage.

Several cases of smallpox have been reported in various parts of the state, and in the localities affected there is a scare of much largur dimensions than that caused by a declaration of war. In strange contrast with this is the manner in which an epidemic of diphtheria is received. Where smallpox kills one diphtheria finds a hundred victims. Yet the latter is taken mildly as a matter of course, in most localities the disease being allowed to wear itself out under lax sanitary rules rarely enforced.

William Jennings Bryan was not stirprised over the ratification of the peace treaty, and says the real light will be made for a resolution declaring the national policy. Mr. Hryau need have no uneasiness about the policy to be pursued. He seems to think that his views are the only views, and that his policy is the only policy which the country needs. Andrew Johnson. with more brains ami wider experience, at

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time *et himself up as the

Moses who was to lead the people to the promised land, but- the people didn't lead, and Andrew Johnson relapsed into a state of innocuousdesuetude. Mr. Hryau should heed the lesson, but Mr. Hryau is one of those who learn nothing. His talk only serves to give the opposition the means of knowing the intentions of his followers, and, taking advantage of the situation, he will lind himself without a platform and without following in the next campaign. Some people know when they have had enough, but Mr. Hryau is not one of those.

PANAMA CANAL.

In its last issue the Scientific American makes statements and gives figures in support of them which should cause this country to pause before taking any further action in regard to the construction of the Nicarauga canal. All the world agrees that a canal should be constructed across the neck of land which divides the two Americas, and it is also agreed that only one canal can be operated success

fully. In its article the Scientific Amer lean disclaims any partiality or interest in

the Panama scheme, and Insist® that our

canal plan

the chief engineers of the Manchester aud Kiel canals, the chief engineer of the Croton Dam, and other eminent engineers. who say it can le carried to a successful termination. The paper then goes on to say The Pauatua canal then is feasible, and theeo*t aud time of Its construction are accurately known. Two fifths of the actual excavation is completed, a plant that cost originally *\000.»*VHs scattered alone the route, engineering surveys of the most thorough character are completed. the working plans for every structure big or little are completed, and the specifications drawn up. and a company, compos! of representative's of the leading financial institutions of France with ft:*.-• iOU**1 of paid-up capital stands ready to concentrate a maximum force of labor upon the work with a view to its energetic compiet ion

Finally, in respect of the all-important ijuestion of control, it will doubtless sur prise many of the public to know that by

the

articles of a treaty concluded in IMS between this country and New Granada which is

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government investigate it before going th«s boy who stood on the burning any further. It appears that the French ,1,^

and work have been thoroughly ^nd then a disturbance arose among examined by a commission consisting of }Jeept

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privileges, "guarantees" (to quote the treaty) the perfect neutrality of the isthmus with a view that free transit from one to the other sea may "not be interrupted, and the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory."

These rights are of the very essence of sovereignty, and, in accordance with their stipulations, this country has already had occasion to land its forces to protect the property of the Panama railroad.

The Filipino losses in the late battle of Manila may never be accurately known. Their estimated loss is 2,000 killed, 8500 wounded and 5,000 prisoners. For tbis loss the country will hold the distinguished gentlemen of the upper house of congress who fought the ratification of the peace treaty responsible. As the treaty had nothing whatever to do with the future policy of the government towards the islands there was no sense in the prolonged and bitter opposition which its ratification encountered. The proceedings of the senate for several weeks were far from creditable to the country. The spectacle of a portion of the highest law-making power of the United States fighting the administration over the settlement of a foreign war, which had been endorsed at every step by this same body, has been a sight for other nations to behold. It was a case in which patriotism was held in abeyance in order that party ends raigbt be attained. The delay and obstruction which the treaty encountered has been the means of encouraging the Filipinos in their absurd demands and was the direct cause of the slaughter which followed.

SCHOOL READERS.

It is uo wonder that our children and young people have an unquenchable thirst for high-class literature. %To wonder that nothing but the classics will satisfy them and, before long, we shall expect to see Shakespeare and Milton and the like bookmakers become standard authors for our everyday school readers.

The children like realism that is, they like to read about things as they really occurred, which gives them the proper taste and hankering for murder trials and divorce suits, and other gay matter as it appears in our metropolitan press. The school readers portray life just as it is likely to be, so that when you have a story you can feel thatvGuy Maupasaunt or Tolstoi could have done no better. The school readers give the children such accurate notions of human life, and of the motives and conduct of everyday folks.

In one prominent school reader is a story about William Johnson and his little brother, Sammie. They were carry iug a basket of clothes to the washer woman. They carried the basket by inserting a long pole under the handle, and each boy carried one end, like the spies of the Iraelites who went over into Yosemite Valley and gathered grapes. William soliloquized thus: "Now, if I shove the basket towards my brother's end of the pole, he will have a good deal more to carry than I have. But if I take the short end of the pole, the most of the load will be upon me. My little brother, Sammie, does not know this, as I do, so I will not do that. It would not be right." And then William gave himself a credit mark for his thoughtfulness.

Then you may remember the story of the runaway horse. The boy was out on the prairie herding sheep and eating turnips. One day as he was sitting on the rail fence eating turnips and trying to make up his mind what to do about annexing the Philippines, a runaway horse came dashing down the pike. The boy shut up his jack-knife and dashed in front of the horse and stopped him. The horse belonged to Mr. Harlow, the famous inventor of the pocket knife, which has probably damaged more furniture and other movable property than pestilence, fire and Hood. When Mr. Harlow came up, some such conversation as this followed "My brave lad. how much do I owe you for catching my horse?" "O, don't mention it," replied the boy "I enjoy catching runaway horses besides, your horse is such an old, decrepit plug that he couldn't have hurt me even if he had run over m«." And then he laughed a merry laugh and proceeded to eat another turnip. I Mr. Harlow then asked the boy: "Don't you get tired herding sheep all day long?" "O. no sir. I hare to do it to make a living since my father died in the war from eating embalmed beef, and whenever I get too tired I 'Kemember the Maine' and then I do not thiuk of becoming tired." "Then, my little man. your father seems to be dead." "O, yes sir, he is very dead,

obliged to eat them

but, shall do my duty, even

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rushed away to drive

away some wolves in sheep's clothing, and Mr. Rarlow went and had it put in the Third Header.

What bright, sane sensible American boy wonld not be built up by such an episode, such a probable tale, such a human story? What wonder that Nick Carter's 5-cent library flourishes, when our school readers contain such thrilling stories that never happen.

Ilr. Bull's Cough Syrup will positively cure croup. Many a home has been made desolate by the loss of a dear child which could have been saved by this great remedy.

Heautifnl new Carpets at Dobbs'. 635 Main street.

Special rates at The Modern studio all this month of Febroarv.

INVESTMENT.

Real estate is the best at present prices. See what we have to offer you.

RIDDLE-HAMILTON CO.

MATANZAS DE CUBA.

WHAT THE TRAVELER SEES TO-DAY

In a Hallway ltide Through the Central Provinces Family Life a la Cubana—Mysteries of the Cuisine. Special Correspondence of The Mall.

MATAXZAS,

Jan. 12.—Railway traveling

in Cuba is always uncomfortable and very expensive—as high as twenty cents a mile on some of the roads—and there are peculiarities about it which the foreigner will do well to understand beforehand. For example: A passenger ticket does not provide for any baggage in the line of trunks, etc., and on each piece is a considerable charge per "arroba." or twenty-five pounds. If your trunks are extraordinarily heavy, their transportation may cost more as baggage than your own fare and in that case you would better buy a regular ticket for them, as for another passenger. People are permitted, however, to carry all manner of truck into the coaches, free of charge, from household goods to sacks of fruit and huge bundles of clothes tied up in sheets, in spite of the warning conspicuously posted to the effect, when turned into Euglish, as follows: "Noticia The Senores, passengers, are notified that on this road they will be allowed no luggaee but one valise, one hat and one game-cock."

The cars are of the first, second and third classes. Those of the first class are cane-seated, tolerably clean, and have few passengers but women. Nearly all the men ride in the dingily upholstered second class cars, preferring to pay half the price for equal discomfort, though their wives and daughters be riding "primera classe" on the same train. The third class cars, at one-third the first-class fare, are mere freight or cattle cars, furnished with rude benches, and to them are relegated the laborers and colored people. These were the "iron-clads," bristling with guus, which during the late war were filled with Spanish soldiers and attached to every train as a guard against insurgent raids. There are no smoking compartments in the Cuban railway service, because here, as in all Spanish countries, men smoke everywhere—at the table, in the parlor, the theater—with never a thought of the lady alongside, it being taken for granted that nobody can possibly object to the odor of good tobacco any more than to air, sunshine and the fragrance of flowers.

Instead of the omnipresent newsboys of the North, lottery-ticket venders board the train at every Cuban station, and ragged peddlers, male and female, scurry through the cars, or importune you at the windows, offering baskets of cocoanuts, mangoes, bananas, dirty looking bread, the spongy white cheese of the country, brown slabs of gauva jelly, song birds in wicker cages, bunches of quail and plover, tied together by the legs and pitifully struggling, and boxes of living glow worms. The last named articles of commerce find ready sale among curiosity-seeking foreigners. Each tiny ''lightning bug" earries a lantern under his tail, so brightly shining that two or three illumine the darkness better than a tallow dip. Now-days there Is a lamentable drought of the gauva jelly that used to circulate by hundreds of tons in Cuba, because the trees which yielded such enormous quantities of gauvas were mostly destroyed by one army or the other. The favorite compote, with whose agreeable taste and benificent qualities everybody is familiar, usually comes in bars, like brown soap, or sealed in cans. In all first-class hotels and private houses throughout the West Indies it figures prominently at breakfast and dinner, served with queso (cheese) at dessert and the traveler soon considers it indispensible.

Now and then the train stops to water at some wayside elevated cistern always close by is a so-called lunch room, wherefn unkempt negresses dispense coffee, Cata lina wine and cana rum, together with unguessable stews and dulcies. The trayeler who has not brought along a wellfilled lunch basket, finds himself worse off than the foolish virgins whose lamps went out, for he stands a chance of semistarvation in the long journey from Ciea fugoes to Matanzas. But he would better endure the pangs of hunger than imbilie his "peck of dirt" prematurely in the miserable but high-priced food, handled by the unwashed, sampled by prowling dogs and naked babies, and liberally peppered with flea-laden dust. At every station the scene is the same idle habitans, doing the heavy standing around business in rags and wretchedness lean curs searching hungrily for crumbs and disputing each "find" with juvenile gamin, airily attired in dirty skins and women, clad only in one scant garment, sitting comfortably Hi cottage doors, undisturbed by the thought that polite society might demand mofc clothing. You pass through many picturesque hamlets, all bearing the unmtftakable ear-marks of antiquity and old Spain. Each has its whitewashed churcl), with a breast-high facing of piled dp stones, showing that it was turned into a fort during the war, and all the ware houses and depots along the line are protected by similar walls or covered wifch corrugated tin or iron, with loopholes for guns. Every village has its posada, which might have sat to General Lew Wallace for a picture of the one described in Ben Hur. In front of the posadas groups of natives are puffing lazily at cigarettes and rows of shaggy ponies are tied with their noses close to the open doors. People, ponies, houses, hedges, are all stained and discolored with the red soil, like onr Western Indians arrayed in their war {Mint. This pigment, constantly blowing in billows of fine dust, penetrates everything, and each separate grain of dost carries with it an exceedingly active Sea—apparently the only industrious denizen of this land of ma nana. Hardly a wheeled vehicle is to be seen in a long day's journey, for the country roads of Cuba are fit only for equestrians, and not for them daring a portion of the year.

NVaring Matauxas—Cuba's second city in sice, which lies within sixty miles of Havana—the prospect undergoes consider able change. Decent houses, with tiled

URDAY EVENING MAIL, FEBRUARY 11, 1899.

roofs and tinted walls, are more frequent roads that look tolerably good wind off among plantations, and the paimbark huts of the paiasanoes—the hapless country-people whom Weyler "concen traded" almost to their extinction—again shoif signs of occupation. Some of the farmers are scratching up the earth with rude plows made of crooked branches of trees, precisely like the implements that have been used in Egypt since Moses' day Indeed, the-whole landscape reminds one of Syria and the Nile region, the dustbeing that of Egyptain deserts and the thermometer hovering in the neighborhood of ninety degrees all the mid-winter day, Occasional groups of splendid palms are seen, tossing their green plumes against a cloudless sky. The song of the thrush and the tomeguina is in the air and here and there are evidences of cane planting and garden-making. But the valley of Matanzas—the incomparable Yumuri, "vale of Paradise", of the aborigines—is no longer the beauty-spot of the world. Today it is more like a grave-yard, of wrecked fortunes and ruined homes. Each melancholy mound which marks what was once a habitation or a sugar-mill, is thickly overgrown with blossoming creepers—so quickly does mother nature hide her wounds in these regions of eternal summer. You are struck by the sickly, under-sized, half starved appearance of the cattle, like the lean kine of Pharaohs' dream—though verdure of certain kinds is so rank and beautiful for no rich green sward grows in the tropics and hay never made.

Approaching Matanzas city—hot, hungry, weary, and so bepowdered with "the sacred dust of martyr soil" that your dearest friend would hardly recognize you—a sudden whiff of cool air, blown straight from the Mexican Gulf, revives you like a draught of wine and presently you see the broad, blue harbor of Matanzas glistening like a polished mirror under the afternoon sun. Around the commodious railway station you find cabs, hacks and volantes galore, and Jehus who have lately picked up enough English to assail your ears with cries of "Here, Seuor, coom wis me al Hotel del Ferro Carril!" "Bes' house el Ciervo d' Dro (the Golden Stag)!" "Casa la Lonore!" "Hotel Endsor!" "El Lion de Espana!" and all the rest of them.

Whatever the old city of Matanzas de San Severino may lack, it is certainly not hotels, so far as the number of them is concerned. Their quality is quite a different matter. It really makes little difference which one you choose. You may as well shut your eyes and go blindly with the first cabman for in any case you will be sure to wish you had tried another. On this third visit to Matanzas I am so fortunate as to be domiciled in a private house, which gives me a fine opportunity for scraping acquaintance with Cuban family life. The main features are the same from Mexico to the tip of the southern continent, but there are variations in the matter of food. As in all parts of Spanish America, desayuno, (of bread, with coffee and chocolate), is brought to your bedside enrly in the morning. Breakfast proper, served in ceremonious courses between the hours of eleven and two, is Aho prominent meal of the dtiy. In Cuba it invariably begins with eggs, in one form or another either huevos, pasadas por agua caliente (literally eggs passed through hot water), or huevas fritas (fried eggs), or en tortilla (omelet). Even French cooks are outdone by the Cubans in multitudinous varieties of omelets. They are compounded with chopped ham, kidneys, or meat of any kind with tomatoes, rice, peas, or peppers, potatoes and fruit with lemon, cinnamon, sugar, wine, mushrooms, fish, oil, what not and they are always delicious. Rice is invariably served with eggs, and about ninety-nine times in a hundred tomatoes and red peppers are stewed with the rice.

The second course is fish, of which there are as many kinds and ways of cooking as there are "many men of many minds." never saw badly-cooked fish in Cuba, and at the poorest table the fried fish is sure to be a regular chef d'oeuvre, done in olive oil, of a beautiful golden brown and without a suspicion of grease about it, served with sliced lemon. For boiled fish there are delicate sauces, the best of which are compounded with tomato or picante (with pepper like liquid fire), or "Salsa tomato." A Cuban entree, which finds favor with most Americans, is the land crabs (camerones), found in all parts of the island and superior to the hard and soft shells of the Potomac.

Next to fish comes sesos (sheep'* brains), fried in oil or fricasseed, and a much more appetising dish than it appears on paper or calf's liver, boiled or stewed or a kid's head, baked entire oragiblet stew: or hash of anything under the sun. Very appropriately hashes are called piccadilloes (small sins), and at least one or two are served with every meal. A hash of rabbits and tomatoes, for instance, or of pigs' feet aqd cheese, or of chickens and rice, is not at all objectionable, if you only know of what yonr "small sins" consist. Having thus disposed of preliminaries, you now come to the substantial part of the breakfast. First and foremost Is the ubiquitous "bif steck" (Cuban for beefsteak). which there is no dodging if you are American, for our nation is believed to be addicted to it as a toper is to his cups but you will fail to recognize it a la Cubana without explanation, being a chunk cut from any part of the be#f creature between horns and tail, sizzled in fat to the toughness of leather. There are mutton chops, also sausages, which the Cubans greatly affect, and sometimes veal or pork. With the meats, papas fritos fried potatoes) and bananas cooked in grease. Then comes the ensalada (salpd), which fat sure to be excellent enough to make up for other deficiencies, whether of lettuce and tomatoes, or of crisp, pungent cresses, fresh from some running stream, or a strange compound'of fish, flesh or fowl, with fruits seeds, nuts and vegetables. Then the pasta de guayaba con queso (gauva jelly with cheeae) is in order and afterwards fresh fruits of various sorts, followed by coffee. The latter is strong and bitter, which yon are expected to tata with sugar, bat no milk, and may* with a dash of cognac. All thi*

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time a bottle of Bordeau claret, or the thin, sour wine of Catalina, has stood at your elbow, and you might as well ask for the moon as for a glass of water, which as a table beverage is not thought of in Spanish-America. Butter, as we knpvv it in the North, is not a "cosa de Cuba." There is a yellowish-looking, strong-smell-ing compound, brought, from Denmark in tin cans and labeled "American Butter," which resembles wagon grease, and sells at a dollar a pound—when it can find a patron.

Dinner is a duplication of breakfast, with the addition of broth, and maybe game or poultry. The caldo (broth or soup) is made thick with onions, carrots and seeds or mavbe is a worm-like mass of vermicelli, wriggling amid garlic or the favorite caldo de pan (bread soup), which closely resembles a poultice.

Woman's Relief Corps and Ladies of the G. A. R. Committee—Lawrence Burget, chairman C. P. Murphy, J. W. Haley Frank J. Turk, Charles Oakey, Charles Hunter.

Hotel and Private Accommodation Committee—M. N. Diall, chairman M. W. Stack, Maurice Walsh, Henry Meyer, N. Filbeck, Charles Baur.

Parade, Horses and Carriages Committee—Jesse Robertson, chairman Charles Baur, W. T. Beau champ, P. J. Ryan, John R. Coffin, George W. Biegler, R. H. Catlin.

Public Order and Comfort CommitteeMayor H. C. Steeg, chairman Superinintendent Charles Hyland, W. E. Dwyer, John Beattie, O. E. Raidy, John Barbazette. Sidney B. Davis

Music and Medical Corps Committee— M. C. Rankin, chairman H. S. Richardson, Carl KrietenBtein, Dr. S. J. Young, Dr. W. H. Roberts.

Decoration, Hall, Stands and Privileges Committee—Samuel C. Budd, chairman Charles H. Payne, Henry C. Albrecht, A. G. Austin, George G. Hammeretein, David Denny.

Public Schools Committee—George E. Partington, chairman Win. H. Wiley, John L. Gordon, Herbert Briggs, Miss Helen E. Tyler.

Bureau of Information Committee—-J. C. Bickel, chairman John Boyd, G. M. Luce, Ed O'Neill, Ransom Walker, Wm. P. Bennett, Samuel Henderson, Will GottacLalk, J. E. Thomas, Albert Whitmer, Loy Cowgill, George W. Schatz, Harry Lewis, W. H. Huff. A. G. Clark, Ben Wimer, Will Bailey. Wm. F. Strong, W. S. McCoy, Fred R. Corbin, W. A. Haley, J. W. Perry, H. I* Don ham, Russell Bickel, Charles Pearson, Thomas Stevenson.

Industrial Parade—A. Z. Foster, chair- 1 man E. P. Fairbanks, P. S. Kleetnan, P. K. Reinbold. C. A. Stahi, A. L. Crawford, W. N. Carhart, A. Lerinson. A. X. Smith,

Invitation, Reception and Transportation— H. C. Royse, chairman S. C. Stimson, Jamas E. Piety, Frank McKeen, B. G. Hudnot, John T. Beasley, A. C. Ford, Joshua Jump, Jobn G. McNutt, I. N Pierce, Charles Wbitcomb, George Crane.

L. B. ROOT CO.

New Silks O

N MONDAY we will display our admirable stock of Silks, bought for this special sale. The assortment will be found to be very beautiful, full of charming new effects and rare new colors, which no one should miss because not ready to buy just yet.

FA.N.NIK BKIOHAM WAHD.

STATE ENCAMPMENT.

The executive committee having in charge the arrangements for the coming state encampment in this city met in the parlors of the Filbeck on Monday evening. With the exception of Col. W. E. McLean, who is in Washington, all the members were present. In the absence of the chairman Morton C. Rankin presided. Nicholas Filbeck was unanimously elected treasurer. The following committees were selected, each one being presided over by a member of the executive committee:

Finance Committee—A. Herz, chairman N. Filbeck, Lucius Lybrand, N. Smith, W. H. Albrecht, Marx Myers, Harry Schloss, Fred Hertwig, Owen Miller.

Press, Advertising, Printing and Badge Committee V. N. Griffith, chairman Captain George W. Biegler, T. S. Moore, Henry Six, John F. Joyce, Charles Balch, G. I. Reed.

Camp-fire Committee—George W. Miller, chairman W. S. Roney, R. L. Alder, J. H. Mullen, Felix Burgess, Prof. W. W. Parsons.

Entertainment and Amusement Committee—Charles R. Duffin, chairman John F. O'Reilly, Horace Tune, Alex Sandison, Edgar Smith, A. C. Duddleston, Fred Hertwig.

Paris Says Stripes, and tho combination of stripes and colors is very CiCgant. Japanese

Foulards—Tho

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ble silks will be charming. The Never-Failing Black is made fresh and novel by many new elegancies of weave and design.

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secured on all the railroads, and if this is done Terre Haute will be called on to eutartain one of the largest crowds in its history.

Arrangements were also made for the yearly meeting of the Women's Relief Corps and the Ladies of the G. A. It. during the encampment week. An invitation was also extended to the Loyal Legion, whose members are also members of the G. A. R., to be present at the encampment. From present, prospects the Grand Army encampment at Terre Haute will be the biggest event of the year, and will bring business to the merchants of tho city.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local ij disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. ,T. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address

P. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family pills are the best.

Grand Opera House

T. W. BAHIIYDT, JH.. Lessee and Manager.

TO-NICHT.

THE DAZZLER"

NIONLDAY, FEB. 13,

Stuart Robson

In "THE MEDDLER"

TUE8DAY, FEB. 14,

THE HEART OF MARYLAND

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15,

Darkest America

THUR8DAY, FEB. 16,

AT GAY

CONEY ISLAND

8ATURDAY, FEB. 17,

THE HIUH DAYMAN

WANTED.

WANTED-Everybodv

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Hie encampment will begin on Tuesday, May 23d, but the officers are expected to arrive on Monday, and the next three days will be devoted to the encampment proper, It is expected that a one cent rate will be' Telephone IBS

to make their

wants known in this column. I'rirc one cent per word for each inset tlon. No advertisement taken for less than ten cents.

I

WILL now offer to the stamp 4-year-old rye at

lubllc double-

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per quart. 25c per pi not as represented All I ask Is to sample this rve.

gallon, flOo

int."lf»c per half pint. If I will refund the money.

PETER N. STAFF

FOIT SALE.

OR 8ALE-Gool farm of seventy-seven

Haute on gravel road. Also one trottinKbred stallion, full brother to Irax. 2:W4 onAj imported Clydesdale stallion one Bpaninh lack, and one matched team of drivers, geldings.

WM. W. VAKGIT,DKR.

I'rairio Creek, Ind.

8ALE—8pace in this column atom X1 cent per word, but nothing less than ten cents taken.

FOR KENT.

TpOR BENT-A1J the space yon need in thin column at one cent per word.

LOST.

08T— Money lost every day In the week by not advertising In this column at onI cent per word.

PEKSOXAL.

PERSONAL—A.

J. K.~Everything wfU

forgiven, but hereafter put your ads In this column of The Mall atone writ per word

FOUND.

TiX)UXl—The

best paying advertlsemen'

is in this column at one cent per wort!. Try it.

A. M.

HIGGINS.

Lawyer, Over McKeen's Ban^