Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 March 1896 — Page 4

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•Somebody wants to have a statue of Princess Eulalie placed Ln tbe rotunda of the capital. After he waIks through the ranks of -the Princeton base ball end foot ball clubs he will not wantit, for he will be dead.

Mary Anderson's "iVI.cimciri.ei3," like Joe Jefferson's pldasir.lg au'oalbi'Ggr'aiphiy and Irving's lecture on Macbeth, sho,w th)at an actor is more than a mifmlc a'nd th'a-t bright in't£:Iligen.'ce ls behind good acting. Mrs. Navarro's reaoHeCtictns of her life on the stage are ch'arming revelations of a line nature, .temperament and mind and will be enjoyed by a hast o"f readerts

Ch'aiinman Carter is mad only nor' by nor' west, as he can tell a 'h&wk from a hlandsaw, sometimels. He made a very g-okyid ruling for :the benefit of the Syracuse RepubJlean's, who- were desiring tb jghu't the door against returning bolters, and s'aild, "Rules in conflict with bhe broad, cordiaJ invitaition, extended to all voters, who hionestfly believe in Republican principles and indorse the Repuiblilcia/n loltoy should be, in the pa,rty interest, dilscoumte'nvinced and condemned."

General Gnrosvenor's ho-pe seem to be the father of his belief. He has furnished the correspondent of the Cincinnati Com.meirtoLal-'G'azefte .with a 13=»t of 'deleig'ates which he claims are instructed for M'cKinley. Hi's li'3't includes 30 delegates frtam Indiana. There are only 8 Indiana d'elegates instructed to vote for Mci'Knley and if General Gnosvemor's tdl'al of 209 irtetmctefd delegates Js 'to be measured as Indiana can toe there iis a figh'Ui'ng chanice for several candidates. It must -be conceded that GrOsvenor h'a's amipile tGounda'tli'on for hJ3 belief. In'di'ama, instracted or uninstrudted, wiTl oast It's vo te one or more times 'Cor MlcKin'ley, tout a delegation of which only 8 members aire bounld

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always be an element in the calculations of every candfda'te. It may be found in the rush line which will Bweep MoKinley to victory in the firs't fdw ballots or it may 'be found in the grand 'break which nominates an un-lookeld-lfor victor.

The report® of the great strength of Ihe Mahdi empire which came from correspondents that know as much about )t as we -do, are interesting and furnish the basis for future reports to show that the first were airy guesses. The MaJidi will .never put 300,000 men in the field, as predicted, though what he does ©end forwiard will 'be fighters. 'His fieckwation of a holy war under the green Iflag affects only his subjects j.nd not the entire Mohammedan world, which would "be moved if a holy war was declared 'from Constantinople.

It is now stated that the British government began last year 4o prepare for the movement up the Nile which would indicate that lit has a more definite plan than the publichas any knowledge of Salisbury and Chamberlain may be charged with rash or ambitious schemes .to secure personal glory, but it ought to be very well (known that (British cabinets are cautious in undertaking uncertain schemes which involve expensive military campaigns, but they never count the cost when the rights of subjects are involved because then 'the country will be behind them. The extreme caution shown by Salisbury in his (American and Turkish complications support the belief that he kpows what he is about in his more daring (Egyptian move, and the successful result of his bluff to Germany, by which the 'British hold \n the Transvaal has been maintained, also encourages the belief that Salisbury and Chamberlain are making no political mistake in Egypt. The new move by civilization against barbarism should receive more sympathy than abuse.

Economy of flour is secured by Dr. Price's Baking Powder spclils none.

OUR PLEASANT VICES. Major Handy, who is a very earnest lupporter of McKin'ley, urges Mr. Reed for the second place on the ticket.Very Justly, he points out that the qualities which fit a man to be a candidate for vice-president would make him desirable as a presidential candidate, although it has become the custom lately to regard the second place as of too little to port a nee to trouble the convention rery seriously. It has been the case several times that a. man who never could lave been nominated to the first place has succeeded to it by the death of the president. Since there has been a number of successions by the death of presidents it seems that Americans cannot ifford to be careless in the nomination Df the vice-president. It does not folkvv that he must be selected from the ispirants to the presidency. There ire men who do not aspire so high who ire perfectly (Capable of filling the office, but they should 'not be chosen at the behest of some bosses. Reed would be an unusually conspicuous candidate for the second place—so would McKiniey. or Allison. Perhaps Mr. Reed would be the ideal candidate for vicepresident and president of the senate. The people would like a man who would be Able to do in the senate what Reed

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has done in the -house. If hje cannot do it none other can. The senate would be dignified by the appearance at is •head of amain who is called "the master parliamentarian of the world." It will be remembered thiat S-tevenson and iMor.ton as presidents of the senate 'never filled the eyes of -the -public as did Reed, who, contemporaneously with them, held 'the

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may have been due both to the office and the men, but some men are always at the head of 'the table, whereever they axe pil&e^dj apd JjSjr. Re?d is one of them.

MdRinley and Reed, Reed and Mc•Kinley—sounds well either way, and yet some other combination may be the slogan.

IMPORTS DISPLACE HQME PRODUCTS. The Domcnaon Coal Company, in which Mr. Whitney and some Boston •men are vn'terected, has at l'aAst plaate'd the first cargo cf-Canadian coal ip New England and supplied some mills wil ih trial lots wh'jch prove to be very satisfactory.. Much of the soft coal used in Massachusetts has .come from the Virginia mine's. This coal has to make a journey by water about equal to than made by the Dominion Company's coaQ, but it has, in addition, to be shipped over about 4Q0 mile.s of rail. If the coals were equal in quality, the Virginia co'a'l t'o compete would have to be sold less the railro&d freight, and, on a$ excise a margin as soft coal is usually sold, that freight, in the end, wowtd •come out oif the miners' wages, or most of it, ats "there would probably be a Utile paring in other lines, but of course the railroad rates would not be donated, nor would the sellers stand all the loss.

Under a tariff providing free raiw materials, or lower duties, the Virgti'nd'a coal would be driven ou't oif Massachusetts, or sold at a price wrhllch would be secured by potssifbly three cuts, one in profit, one in fre'ight and the other in miners' wageis, and three home combinations Would ithus sacrifice something for the benefit of Massachusetts a'nd Canadia. This individual oase is not as h'arrfofwing as i/f the coal came from a British company, though it does check the consumption of American coal by substituting coal from a foreign goii'l, and it does contribute to loiwetr wages by retdulcing a demand for labor or fortei'ng a new suipply of coal into some market already .supplied by other htome mines.

The Wilsomite's might ask "Wha't difference does it make to -you, as an individual, where your coal comes from if you can buy it cheaper? You can. •save $20 a year by touyting at 10 cenits a ton less," all of which sounds reasonable entough. If, however, you are a tradesman or hiousefburlder in the town of Clinton and to save $20 a year transfer your coal trade to Canada, if you could, it is probable that the lesson soon w'ou'ld be learned that the Clinton mines in losing your trade 'and Other trade, for the same cause, entail a loss upon you .of mJore than $20 a year. To "live 'a.nd let live" means more than moving in one's own narrow groove, allowing the other felDow to exist if he cain.

Economy of butter and eggs is secured by using Dr. Price's (Baking Powder.

HOW GOODS ARE MADE CHEAP. The condition of underpaid labor in Vienna and Berlin, the capitals of two countries which send their manufactures to this country, has been the subject of investigation by parliamentary commissions which reveals the existence of much degradation as the result of wTetched pay and overwork, a condition which has increased the number Of unfortunate women in Vienna flrom 40,000 to 60,000, in the last five years, and from 35,000 to 48,000 in Berlin in the last two years. The investigation of the Austrian committee, undertaken with the purpose of improving the lot of laboring women, discovered that the wages of women and girls were scarcely sufficient to provide the most meagre materials for actual existence, in spite 'of very long days o'f toil. The class examined by the committee which complained the least was composed of workers in feathers and millinery. In those trades the most expert earned $4 a weeik, and the average workingwomen half of that, after serving an apprenticeship of several years at from 60 cents to $1.60 a week." In the paper-box trade, employing 2,500 girls, beginners at 25 cents a week, received an increase of 5 cents about each two months until reaching the average maximum of $1.60, or, for unusual expertness, as much &s $2.20, for fifteen hours a day in busy seasons. In book-binding wages ranged from 75 cents to $1.75 per week. These •were examples to show the value of woman's work.

Vienna, one of the finest capitals of Europe, is not a cheap place and the toil of the workers cannot wring from it more than a fare of coffee and bread for two meals, with soup added at the third, or for a holiday, jl dish of roast horse-meat instead of^foup.

The reports freim- the Berlin committee were as bad, if not worse, showing that the net allowance for the food and clothes of multitudes is 6 or 7 cents a day for each female. The (fine imported suits, jaeficets, waists, etc., whose foreign make and style command them to the buyer, are made by women who earn $1.75 to $2.25 a week by working from 5 a. m. to 10 p. m., on women's jackets, or $1.75 a week for (fifteen hours a day, on sacques and waists.

Vienna and (Berlin, or London and Paris, are not the only cities in the world where the humblest toflers, in crowded fields, find it difficult to support even a half-starved, meanly-clad, poorly-warmed existence. In our -own great American cities an immense num berof women are paid too Uttje acd Uv-

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too meanly. They have been forcer down fed dpwn by the eppypetition of home and foreign labor. The prices "of artificial flowery and curled feathers, of sacques and suits, or of & hundred fancy articles, are (governed by t'heir cost in Bertin and Vienna. The price of labor, too, is affected by the rate set by the multitudes, trained to live under a low standard, that pnanage to re^ch this coyntry.

The existence of degraded labor in Europe does not excuse its existence here, neither do thecheap prices at which goods are sold in Germany

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The demand of the free trader and .foreign importer is, "We must be allowed feo buy in the cheapest imarket." Tf it is granted they will buy flowers and feathers }n Vienna, and cloaks, suits and jackets in iBerlin—unless American women are compelled to work at the foreign rate. They will be compelled to worfc at that rate, if they cannot exact more, and if they could exact m'ore t'heir productions will not be sold, to keep them busy, because the free trader or tariff reformer will buy what he can get the cheapest, even if it was made by the despised Chinamen or execrated Turk.

In the respect of buying where he can buy the cheapest, there is really no difference between a free-trade man or a protectionist. Each will buy the coat or t'he drees which is the cheapest, no matter where it was made. The difference is in their policy, one demanding that he shall have free choice between New York and Berlin goods, the other, willing and anxious that the Berlin goods should be given the second place and that the American buyer shall pay a premium, if necessary, for the foreign •brand and as the premium remains in America he is not, in tbe end, impoverished by it.

It is the competition of standards of living which gives vital importance to the theory of protection.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Philadelphia Times: If England makes any atdva.ncas.4n Egypt she is likely to demand reail estate as security.

Kansas Qity Journal: -Spanish indignation Was subsided to sudh an extent that window gl.ass as beginning to fee1! reasonably safe once more.

Wichita Eag&e: Tihs English army that goes up t'he Nile Will met eomipare wUth the Democratic army tih'at will go up Salt Creek.

Kansas City Journal: There is a young worr.iain in Pasadena, Cal., wihio claims to •umd'ersrtand magazine poetry. In other respects dhe is sa/Jd to be perfectly rational.

St. Louis Globe Democrat: T'he Abyssinian general, Miakounen, appears to know a good deal about military science for a nvan who was mot educated at West •Point or any similar school.

Boston Traveler: "Shiooild t.h& Democratic party spiit at CMcago the party will die," says ex-Governor James E. Campbell cif Ohio. Worse tilings have happened to the natlion than tire death of a party that is walking around to make trouble and save funeral expenses.

New York Press: A s&ptent Kansas judge rules tihat a main who calls upon a wamain regularly and occasionally takes her to entertaimimunits 'is engaged to her. If th*s notion ever becomes general mlciyt women •wi'll bejcMiged to pay for their own theater 'tuckets.

New York Morning Advertiser: Mr. Richard Croker's Mcntauk is wot exactly a favorite for the derby, as the betting stands alt present. ©tiMr as the edids against him are only 50 to 1, he may be said to be scimeXiung more of a favorite in England than Mr. Croker is in America.

Vindicated.

"This last night's burglary," said the chief of police to the great detective, "is one of the strangest affairs I ever heard of. The money was take.n from the safe without the lock being tampered with." "Ah, I can explain that," said the great detective. "The burglars used rayte instead of the old fashioned drill to penetrate the safe, and when the door had become invisible, seized the booty and escaped." "Sleuth," cried the chief, "you are worth more to the city than its water supply and he forthwith placed the great detective in charge of a case in which pistol shots the evening before down on iBloody Row had led him to suspect that some bloodthirsty outlaws were again engaged in the wanton shooting of craps.—ITruth.

English as She In Spoke.

The d'ar'ky i'S fond of long words. The meaning dioesh't matteir, so the word's 'are long, as 'this absolutely true story will testify:

On the 's plantation in Mississippi lives am old "before the war" darky, too old to do any work ha-rder than throwing feed ito the poultry. She .has kndwn no other home and is a character. Vi'sft'ors to the plantation always go to 'her caibin and to their question, "How are you this,, morning, Aurot Chris?" never fa'il to rece'ive the foillaw'i'nig reiply: "Well, honey, I'm kinder oraaomplilcated. De superfluity ob the morn'in' done taken the vivosity outen de air and left me de consequence ob eotmprehenahon."—"Ediitor's Drawer," in H'anper's Magazine for April.

Economy is heeded by the use of Dr. Pribe's Cream Baking Powder.

Wherein the Strength Lies. According to our purpose shall be the success of our spiritual profiting and much dilgence Is necessary to him that will profit much.

And if he that firmly pu-rposeth often faileth, what he do that seldom or but weakly purposeth anything.-—Thomas A. Ketmpis.

Principally In Name.

Mrs. Cawker—Ware there many people at the meeting you attended Sa^t •night?

Mr. Cawker—Aboait thirty or thirtyfive. Mrs. Cawker—What sort of a meeting wai3 it?

Mr. Canvker—A miass meeting.—Puck.

One Way.

"Bridget, you've broken as much china this month as your wages amount to. Now, how can we prevent this occurring again?" "Oi don't know, mum, unless yex raises me wages-"—ILife.

Homicidal.

"Jones and Grymets are threatening to kill Ukerdek, and then murder each jther." "Wh-aiti all the trbuible about?" "Ukeridek met Orymes and called him Jones."—-Truth.

•^Empire" and "Ni-cbols," the new tees men's shoes amd very swelL IRhcads Carhart, Fifth and Main.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2i 199a

ALASKA GOLD FEVER.

SIV WOMKN IV BLOOMERS frbONl) FOB TUB ABCTIO CIBCLK,

They Carry Rifles and SeWlng Machines and Bmpect (o Barn High Wages by Coins Housework.

Six women wearing bloomers and carrying rifles started from Tacoma for Alaska on the steamer City of Topeka ten days ago. They were bound for Circle City, the new. town within the Arctic circle, where they expect to niake high wages by cooking, sewing, and doin® other kinds or women'g work in a region where white women took with them sewing machines. They wore "bloomers because only in that costume wouJ4 it be possible to make the arduous and dangerous overland journey across the rough country and snow covered mountain passes. These women will make up the first round dozen of white women who have ever traveled into the far interior mining camps of the country. Indeed, it is doubtful if half a dozen white -women have preceded them, says the New York Sun.

Aboard the same steamer werg a imotley crowd of 300 adventurers bound for Alaska. The decks of the steamer were piled high with varied outfits, Alaska sleds, Yukon stoves, and mining implements of all kinds. Every berth on the steamer was taken, and almost a hundred people were left behind for lack of room.

The rush to Alaska so far t'his season has been extraordinary, and there is every indication that the volume of travel will increase during the next month or two. Every steamer for the past six weeks ha© been crowded to its utmost capacity with miners and people who want to be miners, and the (Pacific Steamship Co. last week determined to put an extra vessel on the route for the next few months. The sealing vessels going north are taking as many passengers for Alaska as they can accommodate, and in addition probably a dozen schooners and several other vessels will be*chartered to carry miners from IPuget Sound on the way to the gold fields.

The greatest excitement seems to be in regard to Cook's Inlet mines. Several schooners have sailed from Puget Sound direct for Cook's Inlet, carrying parties of from two dozen to fourscore miners, and week ago there wefe five schooners outfitting in the sound for a voyage to the same place. Several schooners also halve sailed direct from San Francisco for Cooks' Inlet, carrying each a iparty of twenty-five or thirty miners A bag brigatine, that will carry a hundred men, is also outfitting at Tacoma, •to make several trips to Cook's Inlet during the s'pfing, leaving- on her first voyage the. last of this month. A California syndicate is trying to secure a •steamer to put on the route to the inlet. The sterner Utopia also is scheduled to sai'l from Tacoma for the inlet on April 1st, and will tak(? between eighty and a hundred miners, practically all her accommodations being already engaged. The steamer Lakme is to sail from. 'Port Townsend on March 25th •with 125 passengers, already booked, for Cook's Inlet. The steamer Willapa sailed 'from Port Townsend on March 5t'h with close upon 600 passengers, bound for 'Alaska, and on her previous voyage, a month ago, she 166k 607 'passengers, mostly miners. The steamer Al-Ki, with accommodation for 400 passengers, was due to leave Port Townsend on .March 9th, and almost all her accommodations were engaged two weeks ahead. The greater part of the passengers by these last named steamers were bound for the Yukon country.

The whbSe of t'he Pacific coais»t seems tb be in a fever af excitement over the Alaiska gold fields, and from &"!<! accounts there is bound to be a great deal cf 'suffering in the campus and all thrbu'gh the country as a result of the rash ventures made by many p'art'iefs and individuals. Many of the passengers h'ave gone with sc&.rceiy a dollar in their pooke'ts. Men have gone to Alaska taking with them, their families, and having biu't twenty or thirty ddllara in their potese&s'ibn. Those who know AfaSka well say that no man, whether going there ate a miner or simply to look for work of any kind, should l'and in 'the country with less than $200 or $300 of spare cash. In the toiwlns rent^ are high and provitetons dear and a man intend'ing "tb go tb the mines ought to 'have mioney enough to provide an outfit and to supply his wlaoilts most of the Ee&s'on.

But, while very mtiniy people have gone to Alaska ill-prepared, there have alsto gome this season a number of !ar|ge parties of experienced miners, under ajble leadership and tho.rvughfy equlipped, who may reasonably expect to realize well on their ven.rure. One such party, numbering fifty men, letft San Francisco on the City of Pueblo two weeks ago. They were bounid for Forty-mile Birc'h Creek, 700 miles in the interior of Afaiska. The party expected to reach the mines by about the middle of May. ATI intended to remain until the mflddDe *f August, and at thJa:t time those w*ho 'are tired of the life, or have made enough mioney to satisfy them for the seiason, will have an opportunity to return. It is expected, however, thlit mbst of the party will winter at 'the mines. It is estimated th'at ait Idast 3,000 miners will go to the Yukon dilsftirlitet alOne this spring.

It is estimated that pmbably 1,000 miners will go to the Cook's Inlet fields this spring, though there 4s said to be ample room there for 3,000 men to take up gtood dJa'Sms. The inlet is 1,000 miles beyctrrfd Sfltkta, on the North Pacific. Lastt year the only way of reaching tbe inlet was by steamer to Sitka, thence by the mail boat to Kadiak, whenice a sm'all tweflve-tkm sailing veesel made .irregular tT'ips to the inlet. Thie dis/bartice from Tacoma by this rbute is 1,000 mSfle's and the fare was $100, without freight or outfit. The vessels sa£!Anlg direct from Puget Sound to Cook's Inlet this spriaig are taking miners throutgih for $50 and carrying their outfits amd 800 pounds df provisions free.

So flar the .mining dt the inlet hals been placer work eirttrely. Kiteh quartz has bee-n ftwand there and it is believed that by another season stamp mills will be at work Ithere. SJast Slimmer 225 miners worked in the region, a-nd 125 of these remained all winter tto tfe on the ground ready to start work th'Is spring. The smallest amount wta^h«d out by any mam Hast summer was $8 a day and the Kijgheet $20 a dlay. The best recJord was ihbit of four mem wto, wP:h two rqtokers, took out $1,320 in five days.

Bear, moose and other game are saifd to abound in the region ajbout Oook's IT fat, the country 9s Said (to be nvutoh m'ore hospiSklMe tbtm- 3m the Yukon. The arth is covered wfth graisfe, wild cratiberrtes are plentiflua amd there 'js a c'onsideraible amount af small timber.

Chinese JKuglc.

The comments of PtariereweM and tfarstek, the vtotinikt. udot* tbe Chtoeae .uusto they heanJ ia Cbiciago durir*g

their euafur?orJ3 -Sftto Ch4i^towp are __ kLx'Jttoig. To the maijorlty of vigors, tousScal or cliheilwtoe, the so undo extba?ted by an oiohf&'tra of Mongolla'na from t'heir primftve banjoes and guitar® ia harder 'ts endure than the u'srecii'in-'iag of the blagtpipes or the baring of the tkamtam. area't waf the i'unyci'se Tjwhfia Pader&wski expresised raot orXy aprprel2iatton but apprefbation cif the mr»si3 executed by the chamapion 'artists af Chtati'Jciwn. Aiffcer awUrding ft his- d'joaest alctenbton he annountc^ thUit it w5ls n«t only harmonikma, bu was demiruatted by a jus't acid r^istntiininjg sense

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in«ttud cif crude state ctf mwisBeal OeveCotfimen't. This il^ wh'at the Chinese themselves stay. It is our mu^Tc they thilmk primitive. tMlariick, however, ts Of quite a different opinion. He satys he csan find neCl'her form, nor beauty, nsor art in the IbewMerirug whining and bruying of a ChicaigO muisisal composition. Hasan's tilrit it undoubtedly oon'tains harmoni-es find that what Is known among the cq-mitvon herd as taines qccjit sionially appeaT in it,- and wander en with const'a .repe tit tons ami variartions of the original theime. But to find in it any expression- of advanced ar't is to him 3m«pcss?ble. Dike 'the rest oif the world, he thinks it music in the savage •state, the tentative attempts of a peor pie who haive not yet got on as far as "Little An-ilie ^oney."---H,arper's W

RED RIBBON OF FRANCE.

Worn by Raymond Henachel, a Street Car Conductor. For a fact, fortune is a fickle Cairy. W'itlf wh'at fatuity and fastidiousness she seems to fawn on her faviorites,. and yet with captious caprice draws the days of her disdain over others none the less worthy. Anon, a whim may sej^e her and she dashes her darlings into the lowest dapih^ of desperation and eflervates her erstwhile enemies to em'ii^-ntae, says the Cincinnati Tribune.

Livtaig in the city and working the humble position of a conductor on a street dar is a man of gentle birth and breeding, Ria/ymond Henaichel by name, world's ease and ta&ted many of- its who once rede upon the 'top of the choicest joys. He has ed'utoa tion and reifineiment, with dignity and elegtamce of manners, light and beauty of conversation, and seductive and fa^cfina'ting powers of address. He is a pertfeiclt 'type of the sicholkr and gen til em an, with the pride and bearing of a Greek. He is a native of facr France and fled frtMm (the convenltSo.naTiit'ies that brnid and burden in Mis own country to find freedom and fortune in ours—Ibu't. alias, the rude storm

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him since his arrival sdm'e rn'o-riths ago •with tempestuous violenice. Unable to find employment suited to hiis talent's, he turne:d his hand wi'th heroile fort.itoide to wha't wovfld at least keep the gaunt spetoter of poverty from h'iS own and lowed ones' hto'me.

Mr. Henachel, iw'hen seen by a Tr.ilbune repoiitte)r alt Ms htoime, 214 Walde street, hlad this pMn a-nd simple anna! of his Itfte to tell: "I was born in Pltcardy, France, about twelve kilometers from Amiens, which ie the icaipftlal city \t the department. IDt was always the aimiblllion and wish of my parents fhfa.t I should have a liberal educat'ton. To this end I was sent to the vifflaige school, where, at the age oif -11, I received the first certifi.ca.te oif primary studies. This encouraged my flather amd. after several consultations with superintendents and pr*i!nc:i'ples oif government lnstStiution!3, I was sent to the college Charlemagne Lyceum. My parents a'greed to pay full rate the fiirst year, -which should be reduioed to a haif in case I should work my way up to the head of my doss in every branch. Ontee inside the high walls my motto was: "To conquer is to live, to fail is to d'ie!" With this I set to wbrk night and day and received many a punishment flor staJdying aifter sleeping hours—but it was to small avail. Such Was my will I must find a way. At the close eff the year I gtot, out of thirteen branches taught, eleven first prizes and two second- mention. "Tears of joy shone in! my poor mother's eyes, and I determined to dto even more, and graduated at 17, with all the honors of my class and my d'irfloma handed to me by M. Thiers, the firs't president of the republic after the dbiwnlfalll of Na-poieon III. Then 1 worked harder and gained my license letters iwith the Red Ribbon of the Legilon d'Honeur. I came to America in •the hope of making a living with my briain, 'thinking that my abilities as a tefeteWer of Hang-uagets, my profession in 'the old country, and which was destroyed through political influences, waul# aid me in 'the object. In this I hfeive so far been disappointed, and I •accepted' m.y present employment rather than, remain idle. I consider mytselif a master df English, French, Greek and Laitin. I cannot but feel h^umifliated at my non-suocess here. Hbwever, I have .hope and with th^ help Of some Hoyafl friends I h'ave made, expetot brighter days."

Food maJde wuth Price's Cream Baking PoKvder greatly relieves dyspepsia.

EXPRESS MENU FOR TODAY. Thou shla.lt thyself be served by every lease Oif service thou hast rendered. —Browning.

BRBAK'FiAST—'Oranges, Wheatena, Shepherd's Pie, R!tce Croquettes, Graham Muffins, Stewed Apricots, Coffee.

DdNiNBR—©calll-oiped Oyst-eirs, Saratoga Potatoes, Caned String Deans, Squash, Barberry Sauce, Cucumber PicW

Bread and Bm'tter, Figs amd Dates, SaU-

SITBPE)R—Oream Toast, Canned Peaches, Wlhole Wheat Bre"ad, Ginger Cakes, Tea.

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SHEPHERD'S PIE.

Butter a small platter tWoroughfly, spread twer wairm mashed poitaito made soft with milk, flute the potato around the edge with a silver fork. Set in the oven to •brown. When stiffened enough to retain Jts dhape, pour (over a mince of cold lamb, seasoned well and warmed in gravy. Serve viary hiot. (Copyrighlt, 18%.)

Big Fire at Pittsborg.

Pit'Wburg, Pa., March 22.—At an early h»ur this -morning fire Sn the Atlantic refinery claused a los of $100,000. TSie fire ^tailed from some unknown cause in the wtanefberose and before it could be checked had enveloped the warehouse and spread tio the tantes. The tournfing oil' rushed down from the tanks and spread in Streams of fire over the properties. The Water poured on the oil Wad no effect and only served to saaltter fit. The fluid rushed over tihe tracks of the AUeehenv Valley raBroad and blocked all traffic. The telegraph and telephone wires and poles near tihe refinery were burned down from the intense beat. Nine twwks of oil, mostly refined, were consumed.

GINGHAM SENSATION. The ad of S. Devi Sunday should have read as follows:

Gingham sensation—.The manufacturers of the celebrated Parkhill Zephyr Ginghams caused (the sensation, when they offered their entire stock of Ginghams at a little over one-half actual value. We secured over 2,000 yards of them and sell them at 10c per yard.

Note the price at which the goods were purchased and what ithey ore being sold for.

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Castoria*

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Man's Work Is Pone at Set of Sun,

But Woman's Work is Never Pone.

Sort is but Christain Charity to save her all the work we can. The Invention of Tailor-Made Suits, Ready Made Silk Waists and A "Af Shirt Waists is a move in the right direction.

OUR PERFECT F1TT1WC

Redely Made Suits in Blazers, Norfolk and Resfer Jackets ai» just Combination of High ^xt in Weaving, Manufacturing and t.,, ", -lEconomical production.

SUITS AT 87.5Q, SIO, $12.50 and $16

SILK WAISTS.

RIBBONS.

Life.

"What te life but what a man is thinking of all day?"—Emerson. If life were only what a man

Thinks daily of—his little care iiis petty 111 his trivial plan His sordid scheme to horde and spare His meagre ministry his small

Unequal s'treng'th to breast the stream His large regret—repentance small Hiis polar, unrealized dream— 'Twere ararceGy worth a passing nod

Meet alt Should end where it began. But 'tis not so. Life ds what God Is daily thinking of for man. —Julie M. Lippmann, in Harper's Magazine for April.

IA very umusual thing has happened at Cfhiioagto where a widow has sued a man for wooing her too persisteneSy.

In Switzerland a favorfte dish Is boiled chesltnuts mashed fine and served with Whipped creaim and it sounds as if it might *be good.

A "slick" notlber in Chicago entered an establishment with a dinner pail in his hanld, and walked out with ajbout $5 worth of plunder.

Boss PJaltit says that the tendency of the McKinley movement "reminds him of the dog wSrkrh was phasingTh© raibhit, and ran so fast tha't he got ahead of the rahtblt."

A man at Kankakee, 111., died from the rupture of a 'btobtL vessel while quarreling with his son. T'he mtoraS of this incident iB that old folks stwuild permitn young people to ha vie their own way.

A woman who died last week at Alton, 111., a't the age of 93 years, enjoyed the distiTiction oif having celebrated (two silver weefding anniversaTL&s. At the ruling price for the wWte metail, that would be about equal to one golden wedding.

Tihiere are .more tihian eigihty different •theories regaa^ding the sit© of the Garden oif Bdetn, and, as none of these locate that once sifMieiss abode of man in the Missouri valley, it .is Inferred thait all of them are without proper authenttoaition.

The pa/rlc commissioners in Boston are gaidto.be favorafcfle to the proposition to peiWBt tihe sale of beer and light wines in the jiubfltc parks 'this season. Of course, Pljm-ciut'h Rook is stationary, but, in a sense, i't gets farther away from Boston every year.

Thfis man Garner, who has been investigating 'thia stm'ian language among the apes and gorili.ais in the wilds of Africa has never read a line oif Browning. Oh happftnesB, how far we flee Tlhine own sweet patlhs to search of thee.

Henry Hammond of We&t Gould'borough, .Me., has a stone in his dooryard which he declares is growing. He says that it was brought from the seashore by his little brother fority ye^rs ago, when it weighed about thirty pounds, and now it weighs nearly a hundred.

Something new and "catchy" in Chicago aire lectures by a woman arranged in scenes from the Me off the subject. A ipanbrama of events in the lie of the great Elizabeth proved highly instructive and entertaining. Kansas Gity should make itta^te to "catch on."

Charles T. Barney, who is posing before •the anatomy cflase in the Art Institute of Chicago, began his muscular career as a butcher and firs't achieved celebrity by killing a calf with one bloiw c!f his fist instead of a hammer.. But in- Chicago i't is not what a man has been, but what ha is now.

By way of taking the starch, out of New York, which boasts a good deal about its "chamber of horrors" in the Eden Musee, the Grand Opera House management at Chicago put on a bill one night last week in which Richard Mansfield appeared in •the fourth act of "Rodion, the Student," the fourth act of "A Parisian Romance" and two acts of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

The Boston terrier is ihe fad of the hour among dog fanciers. It is a cross between the bulldog and the English terrier. It is a desirable house dog, and combines the admirable qualities of cleanliness and courage, rt is, as a rule, brindle in color, wfth liberal wMte markings, and, as its Biostonesp maime woil-fl .Irrdisa'ie,

Are gems of elegance and durability. Separate skirts at 98c, $x.o8 $3.75 and $4.98 are al) made to sell for more money.

Beautifully made from fine Dresden Finished Warp Silk entirely new. So easy to have it done with. Come to us. Shirt Waists in endless variety.

We thought the ribbon makers had reached the acme of beauty, but it seems not, for an added prettiness makes the 'q6 ribbons more attractive than ever before. Especially fascinating are the Persians and warp printed ribbons with their rich and brilliant blendings. Just received Monday new belting ribbons and ready made belts. Such beauties. Ask to see them at notion counter.

HOBERC, ROOT & CO.

Importers and Retailers.

vt

is

highly inteOltgewt. It sells as high as ?40 a pound. A woman known as Sister Julia left her entire estate, consisting of a large arn'ourct oi property, to tthe Order cif St. Benedict of Sit. Joseph, Mlinn. Her brother contested the will on 'the ground that, bt'rng a member of a religious, order she was not a free moral agent, and wats therefore incoraipetertt to id ©vise her property. But the wiM has been sustained in two courts and has bean ordered to probate.

Some Zulus were on exhibSitoon in Aberdeen and a gentleman, who had been in South Aifrifca himself, went and began to talk with the men in their own language. One of tthe natives was exceptionally shy, which rather attracted the gentteman attention. He looked at hdm more closely and recognized him as a man who had worked for hiira in Natal and had run ojw&y 'with pair of trcuscrs "ftirncn uiu not beflang' to ftiSm.

The bdll before the MassslicWusetts legislature to appropriate 150,000 for a stajtue to General Butler has aroused vigorous opposition. In an article en Hi tiled, Shall We Have a Monument to Demagogism? the Boston Transcript sajys: "If the legislature ts worthy of tts trust tt will reject the proposal to erect a Butler statue at the expense off a people the majority of whom would be glad to forget his record altogether."

One of the interesting and encouraging T€®U'1ls otf 'tlra potato plot pftan in .Now York has been the awakening of agncul•tjurafl enterprise to the peolple who engaged in

it.

Many otf them have

yqaxtg

signified

their willingness to go into the country to live either as farm laborers or independently, and demand® have already begun to ootme in from the farmers forthe services at peopOe who have hlad the brief (training otf last summer1 a exiperiment. .Mr. James Huneketr object ts to Robert Tiber's Romeo because Ws Stags are too stout and his manner too ph.legm-atsM. He says that no man with a cfhin like Taber's can make fervid Hove.' As for Mrs. Tlaber's Juliet, he thinks that is even wors». He insists that rfhe #s ccSfloquiial, and wif.hout "temperament," that her acting is angular and jerky, and without any Illuminating spirit, but he admits that she is an attTacitive

woman With a pleasing

voice and a ttrfe pair otf

vyea.

wthich, in

the opinion ctf other discriminating crttics be"3des Mr. Humeker oonatifcute her Bode qualifications for a dramatic career.

On IJauret hill in BridgOton, N. J., there stands a house between whose walls Is hidden a quart botltle of 'the purest appleJack. The bottle has rested there for thir-ty-nine years, and has, according to the •story itlold, eleven years nsore to stay. When the house was bufft, tWrty-mine years ajgo a quart txt!tte wofl fiflBed wnin "Jack" amd tSghtBy seaied and pi altered 8m the wall by a man who had the house built. The bottle Is not to be taken from itis dark recess until "Che son of the man who placed It fNwe for htsn beewmes 60 yeare otf age. The "bov"

lb

now 39 years

of age, and in ali these years has kept ttme tihe promise made in the days at

Mbto

youth to hlsteWher not to touch the taottla otf agypSej-osok untKl he reaches the twa-if century mark la life'* journey.

TIME TABLES

VAND ALIA LINK.

West Boniul. akmiyk I DBPAB1 Western Kxpress* St. Louis Mail* ... St. Louis Limited* St. Louis Express*... B.fflngham Acc'n Indianapolis Acco'n..! 6:30 m. Fast Mail* 9:Qo p.

1:30 a. m. 10:00 a. m. 10:00 a. m. 2:25 p. m.

East Uonnd.

1:40 a. m. 10:15 a. m. 10:05 a. m. 2:33 p. m. 4:05 p. m.

9:04 p. m.

AlHitVl I DBP\»T 1:10 a. m. 3:25 a. m. 7:30 a. m.

Cincinnati Express*..I 1:00a. New Tork Express*.! 3:25 a. m. Indianapolis Acc'n....I Efilngham Acc'n ....(9:80a.m. Pennsylvania Speo'l*) 12:3a p. m. Past Line* 1 2:05 p. m. New York Limited*..| 5:05 p. pa.

12:37 p. m. i:10 p. m. 5:10 p. m.

Michigan Division.

Teirre Hauio Express Ar. 110:55 a. m, Terre Haute Mail .Ar. 7:00 p.m. St. Joseph Mail Lv. 6:30 a. m« South Bend Express Lv.| 4:00 p.m.

Peoria Division.

Decatur Accommodation ....Ar. Peoria Mail Ar. Peoria Mail Lv. Decatur Accommodation ....Lv.

11:0® a. m, 7:00 p. m. 7:05 a. m. 3:55 p. m.

EVANSVILLK A TEBBE HAUTK

North Booad.

No. 6. Nash. & Chicago Llm..Ar. Terre Haute & East Ex* Ar. No. 4. Chicago & Indpls. Ex..Ar. Mixed Accommodation Ar.

2:44 a. m. 11:15 a. m, 11:10 p. m. 4:45 p. m.

South Bound.

Chicago & Evansville Ex*...Lv. Evansvilie & Indi polis Mall*Lv. No. 5. Chicago & Nash. Lim..Lv. Evansville Accommodation .Lv.

5:28 a. m, 3:15 p. m, 1:21 a. m, 10:30 a. m.

EVANSVILLE & INDIANAPOU&. North Bound.

Terre Haute Mixed Ar. 110:15 a. nv Mail and Express Ar.| 3:15 p. m, Sooth Bound. Mall and Express Lv.l 9:00 a. Worthington Mixed Lv.| 3:30 p.

CHICAGO Sf EASTERN ILLINOIS.

North Bonnd.

Chicago&Nashville Llmlted'Lv. Chicago Mail and Express..Lv. Danville Accommodation Lv. Chicago Night Express* Lv.

2:49 a. m. 11:20 a. m, 5:00 p. m. 11:20 p. m.

Sonth Bonnd.

No. 3. Mail & Express Ar. T. H. Accommodation Ar. No. 1. Evansville Mail & Ex.Ar. Chicago&Nashville Limited*Ar.

5:20 a. m. 9:20 a. m. 3:00 p. m. 1:16 a. m.

•Daily. All other trains run daily except Sunday. Above trains arrive and leave Union Depot, Tenth and Sycamore streets.

CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO ST. LOUIS (BIG FOUR).

East Bonnd.

No. 35. N. Y., boston, Cln. Ex.*. 1:32 a. m. No. 4. Indianapolis Acc'n 8:00 a.m. No. 8. Day Express and Mail* 3:06 p. m. No. 18. Knickerbocker Special*. 4:31 p. m.

West Bound.

No. 35. St Louis Express* 1:32 a. m. No. 9. Day Express and Mail*.10:03 a. m. No. 11. Southwestern Limited*.. 1:33 p. m, No. 6. Mattoon Acc'n 7:06 p. m,

Tonsoria! Parlor

Cincinnati House, Norlh Fourth St.

EDWARD CARNEY. Proprietor.

BARBERS: John Davij, Wm. Scofield,

F. Miller.

COKE

EVERYTHING NEW, POLITE ATTENTION-

YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED.

Coarse $4. Crushed $4.50

DELIVERED.

Sample to test, 3 bushels, 25c. Equal to Anthracite Coal.

CITIZNES' GAS & FUEL GO

507 hio Street.

Isaac Ball & Son 3

FUNERAL DIRECTORS

Can be found at all times—night or day—ready lo »upplj those in wank of anythinc in his lias Telephone 89 85, 10 Narth Third Haut* IariL

SART a DAVIS FRANK J. TtTBH

DAVIS & TURK

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

20% Wabash avenue. Terre Haute, Ind.

M. Dishon and no othec 'Goes forth in haste "With bills and past* S8 And proclaims to all creatMn^

That men are wise .33 Who advertise tutu la th« present geaaeratlo^.