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THE EXPRESS.

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(Reed has Massachusetts, Oklahoma a»nd Texas, and, though not a straddler, covert a good deal of ground.

The .book-makers out in San Francisco were defrauded out of $100,000, and |y a ChLnaman. Tv'hat a shame!

Corbett and ,'Fitzsimmons made 'the taistake of not calling their proposed prize fight in Tex&s a political conven

tion.

No dou'bt the women will submit just as meekly and cchnscientiO'U-siy to a high hat law as the men do to such as the Nicholson

AND

Raines ISJWS.

Roentgens is the W. L. Wilson of science and will see his name obscured by I-the amendments issued by enterp.ris.ng

E'disons and T'&slas as toey improve upO'n the initial act.

The war correspondents who provide 'the Mahdi with an immense army armed with the todst of guns are .now recruiting another large force in MataIbele land with lots of guns.

A report of trade says: "General trade /becalmed. Wave of- prosperity needed to push it along." What is the Demo"cratic administration doing when it ought to "be furnishing t'he wave?

If Governor McKinley proves once •more that' a very popular candidate of.ten fails no be t'he nomi.nise he will join a. select company whioh holds suc-h names as Clay, Bla.lne and. Grant.

Preparations for electing a' Democratic president 'have 'been made i'n iLouisiana

!by

driving the colored voters

fro-m the registry. Sbon we will hear

of the terrorized whites "being compelled to shoot the negroes.

An Ohio man now claims to be the predecessor of Roentgens in discovering the ray. Judging by the remarks a.bout the Ohio platform we would not have thought there was a man in Ohio who knew anything about a light that shows the inside of things.

The settlers who have been massacred by the savage Matabeles ih Africa are" the victims to the same fate that befel our own settlers in Minnesota. Arizona amd other Western terri'.ories w'hsn -the Indians were being driven before civilization. In the last, as in the first eases, tho savage races will meet prompt and severe punishment and 'be loroed to submfct to the inevitable.

The British found one t'hing 'too heavy and'big to carry off, and that was our 'M't. St. Elias. It is a simple thing 'to steal a mountain by 'throwing a line, la surveyor's line, around it, but in the case of Hie Alaskan peak. The American engineers have proved that tnis fine mountain 'is inside of the ten league line, which saves to the Uuited Stages ithe highest mountain in North America.

It i#to be observed that the Indiana thas been throwing away $1,000 a day while waiting for moon and tide to get into ithe Port 'Royal dock, or $15,000 in •all. It is well 'to understand that men-of-war oosts lots of money in time of peace and to be prepared while building enough not to build too many. We aieed not worry about the $15,000 lost hy waiting1 in a South Carolina water hole. Of the Indiana had 'got in fifteen days jeooner it would have spent the fifteen days saved somew'her^else at the same ^jate of expense.

From the carefully composed plank of the Ohio platform to the straight out single standard plan'ks in the New York and Massachusetts platforms there is (none that sirfks 'to the demands of the •ifre'e coinage faction of the 'far west, none that requests free coinage of sil-, ver without regard to the action of other countries. Some of them have been written to convey the impression ithat 'the authors want to use more silver than others, but in all of I'hem is a •uniform limit beyond which the use of e'ilver cannot go. The limit is the parity of gold, silver and paper dollars. .When the use of silver Teaches the point .that silver will sink to a discount and fall from a parity with gold there ds 'the limit. The .somewhat evasive

Ohio (platform said that much.

The salie tf 10,000 tons of rails for Japanese roads by New York parties will call forth some remarks on protection, though .how vhe free traders can make much of it is not apparent. There is a duty of over 25 per cent on rails ajid yet these rails are to be exported. On general principles the free trader will eay that a count'.ry "charging 85 per cent •dirty for protection cannot compete with one that charges nothing. Here is an exception. Protection, however, Is no:

on the defensive. The American people as a people is committed 'to protection and -the question that is open is one of rates—of rates that project without pmh.3bi.ting- ansl -that are lifberaJ trU&ouK abandoning the idea that the JLia-erlcan is always to be the most favored "party in a contention between native and foreign in teres, s.

(Mr. J. S. Clarkson. a Republican whb has been disposed to ooqwt with the #il"W faction, is aocommodaititfg hixnjetf to 'the

togrfa otf events and prefporfiig

to support a c&ndiida/te 3uut stands on th« soundest money

platform. He has

discovered t-hat Che West amd Scirtihwest are "beginning to realize ithat lead, igrlteulftire, wool, teattfie and other industries needing protection, are cf nrore importance to them than silver. He -:ays of them, "consequently these territories, rwhlle for free silver or as much iilver.as they can get into t'he American currency, realize that protection is vitally necessary to be restored to hem."

There is quite a distinction between being "for free silver" and "for as muca sjlver as they can g-et inito the currency." The first fs the demaind of men who believe that free silver will raise the prices of the world and is demanded by a natural law. The second is the demand of men who have got silver for sale or are inflationists. When men r.bep from the first to the second and put silver in the category with merchandise they are on Vhe road to sound currency and soon will, be able to accept a system which makes gold the standard without prohibiting the use of silver, which is quite different from a free silver system, tha.it wouid prohibit the use of gold by free coinage of silver. There are only two alternatives open, either all silver and no gold, or some gold and some silver.

It is a very scgnlftcan't fact tihat where prc'txcticn has spread free silverism has waned. The obstructive policy of the free silver senators 'toward protection was the greatest mistake -they made, as their constituents know that free trade is even worse than free silver.

Eradstreet's report for last week contained several points of significance. "Heavy receipts of vegetables at Southern markets are followed by reports of large craps thereof in sight." Mr. Cleveland and the Wilson bill caused that, perhaps.

Dull collections and the commercial calm (dultoess) at important trading centers point to some of the effects Of he prolonged period of withdrawal of ca.pital from enterprises in the United States, and to the unwillingness of accumulated domestic capital to seek now ventures at' presen't. Mr.* Cleveland and the Wilson bill caused that, with a little assistance from the free silver

crowd. jV.,1 Trade in wocfl is almost at a standstill, aside from a few sales made for export and additional woolen mills have closed for laick of orders. Messrs. Cleveland

and Wilson aiyai-n. Only 276 failures are reported in United States, compared with 300 last week, tout an unsusally large proportion of them'are'of Comparatively heavily capitalized -concerns. The iotal. number oif failures in the week a year ago was 232. More of Cleveland's and Wilson's work, and they have eleven months yet to continue it.

RANK

FOR

The contest about bestowing the rank lieutenant-general upon General Miles is to a great extent one affected by sentiment. The rank hitherto has been given during or after a war to those who were pre-eminently entitled •to distinction, to Washington, the great figure of the revolution, to Scott, the conqueror of Mexico, to Grant, after services in 'the rebellion that placed him above all other generals, and to his •immediate successors Who had been associated with him. With such precedents it 'would seem that after the death of General Schofield the rank would naturally remain dormant until another war raises a new 'hero who has earned his distinction.

Until custom or statute has made .the lieutenant-generalship a permanent rank, or decided that it is to remain a -distinction for .rare merit or peculiar services, there will be agitation among officers ambitious for honor, or 'politicians anxious to earn the honor of making a general.

If we need a ranking officer, higher than a senior major-general, to act as a commander, any man Who has risen to be a major-general is good enough to be one, and General Miles is probably as fully qualified as any to assume the rank, but he has no distinctive claim that it should be created for his benefit.

EXCB#TIONAL SERVICES.

It is said that Mr. Cleveland opposes General Miles' promotion on the ground that he entered the army from civil life. We doubt the truth of tha.t, and certainly wouid dispute the sensj?0mendous of it, if true, in a country which, like America, must rely upon i'ts volunteers in time of war, and ,to whom must be open every honor and reward a nation can bestow upon its defenders. Here, as under Napoleon, the marshal's baton must be in every private's knapsack. The soldier whose youth has been elaborately trained for war will always have an advantage over the civilian volunteer, but the training of a long war will sometimes rear a general as good or greater, than the product of the school.

It is not a very important matter in time of pea-oe what is done about the commander of our very little army, and probably "General tMiles cares very little about it.

REVIVING IMMIGRATION. It is possible that immigration will show a cohsiderable increase in the nex»t year, and that 'the tide will turn again towards the 'Northwest, where there is a vast amount of unimproved land, much of it tHlable, mining or timber land. The Northern Pacific has 43,000,000 acres. In northern Minnesota alone it is estimated there are 25,000 square miles of land, much of -which will become available to settlers iev time. II it Is all fertile, or rftt for occupation, the land and ofties of suchalarge area may support over a million people at some future time.

The railroad companies of the Northwest -which own a great deal of land are active Immigration areata and divert

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a tide of immigration from the crowded East to the West. An important move was made lately When 1,000 Dunkards, men, women and children, most of "them from Indiana, -were landeld in North Dakota, taking with them sixty freight cars loaded with household and "farm equipments, in addition to a goodly amount of money in the pocket. 'Such moves as this, transferring population in bulk from, the East to the West, the opening of irJdian reservattons to the public, as in Minnesota, in June, when 1,000,000 acres will be open to a rush, the increase *f irrigated territory and the steady pull of the Northwest for immigration, mut't continue to draw the center of population nearer to the center of area. Nearly 2,000,000,000 ^.ores of public land, the greater part of it west of the Mississippi river, still remain, but little over half of it as yet surveyed. It does not include gi eat corn and wheat belts,-'hut the rise of luxuriant gardening on once arid Western lands under irrigation and the growth wf populatioh in Western territory where 'the soil Is poor above but rich below with minerals make it unsafe to predict how much of the great unoccupied tracts of land will remain forever untenanted. Still westward the star of empire takes it away.

A peculiar enterprise, in the interest of Western immigration has been in operation for some time, and it has disposed of 150,000 acres in Missouri by a lottery^conducfced in "Germany. The company conducting the questionable scheme is a Philadelphia concern which conducts its lottery in Germany under the laws of tha't country. Having been so successful in disposing of Missouri land it is now trying to make a deal with a railroad company for 150,000 acres of land in the Northwest.

German peasant,who for a $2.50 coupon draws a farm, a passage ticket and some flour and bacon, strikes a good thing, but the whole combination has been paid for in full by *the contributions of his neighors. One such company •might do a philanthropic sort of business by its method and build up a thriving community on now unproductive lands. But, remembering the many sharp real estate schemes this country •has known and the avidity with which sharks copy ev-ery profitable scheme 'to reduce it to a swindle it can be predicted that Germany will not long be an open field 'for American land lotteries.

A GREAT WORK IN THE HOUSE Taking the house naval and sundry civil appropriation bills together they seem almost too good to be true. In fact, all the good Americans who realize what these bills mean will be likely to hold their breaths un'til the sundry civil, which is only out of committee, catches up with the naval, which is as much a law as the house can make it, says the New York Press.

The naval appropriation bill (of $32,000,000, in round numbers), whiph is for the benefit of the whole "nation, is $2,360,000 larger than last year's. But by reason of a sensible "increase of the navy" item, in place of a practical cessation of navy increase, such as was planned last year by the administration, it is mearly $13,000,000 larger than it was expected to be.

Thef sundry civil bill (of $23,500,000) is a bill which we may not with strict accuracy call for the 'benefit of the congress districts and the detriment of the nation, but which contains all the local appropriations, which congress makes, and has contained for a time out of mind most of the scandals which congress has made. It is the "pork barrel bill." It is the bill over which the hypocrisy of Holman was exposed, the best thing if not the only good thing, that we ever heard of it. It is the bill at which Arthur laundhed his most fitting veto and which, when passed over his veto, haid the lion's share of blame for the calamitous Republican reverses of 1SS2.

Now, this bill as it comes from the appropriation committee calls for $11,000,000 less than the estimates and for $17,000,000 less than last year's bill. The chief item in this reduction is the sliding of the sum of $7.242,51S from the river and harbor appropriations with which the same bill in the populistic, income-grabbing, deficit-breeding Fiftythird congress was stuffed.

We do not suppose that this bill will pass in its present shape without a trestruggle in which the Republican organization of the house will .have to combat the combined individual selfishness of both parties. The work which the second "Reed congress" has set for Itself at this session attracts far less attention—for it is not proceeding on party lines—'than did the work of the first "Reed congress." But it is none the less important, ana probably more difficult, for the obstacles it encounters are rooted in the most common frailty of mortal na'ture—narrow self interest. It is not mere "economy," this work. It is the far higher purpose of the preferment of the public interest, the needs of the whole country, to the mere desires of its various parts.

If this principle, for the operation of which we prayed, but hardly dared to hope at the beginning of the session, prevails, as it has so far prevailed, in the framing of these measures, the Fif-ty-fourth congress will have accomplished the initiation of a parliamentary reform which in its completion and acceptance will be greater than the historic parliamentary reform accomplished by the Fifty-first congress In the formulation of the "Reed rules."

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ABOUT PEOPLE.

Coi^t Kkuma, the Japanese minister of finance, has held the position twentyfive years.

Max Nordau's "The Paradoxes," a vcttume df 414 pa.ge®, was written oo six-ty-five pages of paper.

One of the Italian papers tells the folknrlwg story

atxttit King Victor Eman

uel: In'I860 "has went to Pisa !o visl't the caithedral. The archbishop forbade tbre olersy to receive tfise king.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, figAI CORNING. MARCH 31, 1896.

a-ad lie 3t£mseaf pretended to be Hi. Fallowed by 30,000 men, tlie kin? fl^paared in front of the cath-^dfrad, the froxfi door of whioh. was closed, lite people began to oheer him. Turning about lie noticed a small door and tfcen, tart tag toward it, exclaimed: "My friends, the narrow way l-eaals to paradise."

Sir Edward Hertslet, now 72 years old, has "been retired from tohe British foreign office, where he bas been librarian a.nd keeper of maps: for thirty-nine years.

Thurlciw Wi&ed Barnes is one of the wealthy violin amaueurs of New York and-ain enthusiast on the subject He owns a Stradrvarius, -witch is appraised At about $10,000.

Explorer Nansen is married to an accomplished woman, who after Ms departure in search of the north pole quietly so.tied down in Christiana as a teacher of vofcal and instrumental music.

Lord Kelvin reaches this year his jubilee as professor of natural history in tihe Un'iversity of Glasgow. The event will be recognized by a joint celebration, in which the city university and students -will take part on June 15th and i6th.

M. Trebuchet, iwho died in Paris the other daj^ was the guardian of MHe Adele Hugo, the insane daughter af the poet, now about 60 years old. The fortune wh.ioh 'Mile. Hugo inherited has irkcreased ifnder the management of M. Trebuchet, so tliat she is raw, French papers saiy, several "times a millionaire. ?he is confined in a priVate asylum, her only pleasure being to visit the theater. It i-s aliways difficult, however, to get#her to leave the building after the •performance, as £he 'thinks a play never ends.

JOHN SHERMAN WAS GENEROUS.

Offered a Fellow Senator His Recollections nt a Bargain Sale Price. Here is a story told of John Sherman by George.Frisbie Hoarjto Daniel Woolsey Voorhees. Sherman is a very rich man. Mr. Hoar has a little money, but (depends largely upon his salary and law practice, while Voorhees lives absolutely upon what he earns, says the Boston Gazette. These three men have been senatorial chums for many years, although Mr. Hoar and Mr. Voorhees are growing distinctly restless over the changes which plutocratic resources are making in the social life of a senator in Washington. 'It seems that Shermaii dropped into a seat beside Mr. Hoar tine day and said: "I suppose you have heard of that new book of mine, Hoar. Of course you will want to see it?" "Of course I will," responded the Massachusetts mentor promptly. "Now, I don't want you to 'waste any money on that book, Hoar. I want you to read it, and I want your conscientious opinion upon it, but I don't want you to throw good dollars away in paying me a compliment." "Much obliged, 1 am^ure^ Sherman," responded Mr. Hoar gratefully. "As I say,*' continued Sherman, placidly, "I don't 'want you to pay me a dollar more for those books than necessary. The set sells for $25, but I have got afew sets up at my house and I'll let you ihave one of them for $7, which is the publisher's price."

Mr. Hoar worried over .this a good deal. 'Sherman was evidently trying to do him a favor. Here was a generous and courteous propos^ion, evidently dictated by kindly feelings, and proposed, no doubt, in a spirit which left nothing possible but its prompt and graceful acceptance. [And yet there seemed to Mr. Hoar something wryg about it. There was 'some element lacking which he coul'd not define or understand. Finally he laid his doubts before Mr. Voorhees. Mr. Voorhees said:

I can't repeat what Mr. Voorhees said, but the sense of it was that if Mr. Hoar had written a book he would have sent it to Sherman and said ndthing about the publisher's or any other price. Mr. Hoar was much gratified that Mr. Voorhees' opinkm seemd to justify an uncomfortable feeling 'that there was something wrong in Sherman's proposition.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Oincinnta'fci OomUmerdial Gazett'te: Nicola Ttisia n'ow h'-as 121 schi^m-e 'tio 'telegraph oy means 'Otf elesctric waves 'instead of wires. Telegra.rlh ccimipandes thaving no wtaves will have to get along With wires, but the man wlfo "can secure a patent on the Atlantic Ocean (has got a clinch an .the cable business.

Cleveland Pres#: Mrs. Leiaise says she will not be dictated to by any man. This ought to bar her from honorary emberghftp in the Typewriters' Urfion.

Kansas Cfty Journal: Possibly Mr. Cleveland is deferring that latter whlich is to take him out of tihe race until he sees some evMence ttihait Ire is In *tn.e race.

New York Marl and Express: Possibly Mr. Da/rld B. Hill Will demand the Democratic nomination for governor as a vindication. If so, it Won't be the flr&t tiime he has insisted upon Shaking hands with a buzz saw .simply for the exoitetment of the thfinig. There is a great opentog thus year for a performer like Mr. Hill.

Atchison Globe: A Woman might as well rrropiose, for after she has been married etfgh't or ten years her liu'sband says she did, anyway..

Washington Unless Morton is mwe than human, ihe will be strongly tempted to fill Senator Vests pa-cR'agos wi'th inignaw5ng' se^eds.

Netw York Press: If Grover Cleveland is bent on hodding office, where would seem to be rio valid objection 'to Ms becoming president of some rod and gu-n clu'o.

New York Mail and Express: Menelek's warlike queen seeims to be able to give Queen Lll piolnitis in t'he now womian busi"mL y^rk Journal: Even the women are fighting that Cuba may be free. and yet Sena for Hoar needs more evidence. dmoinniatl Oomimercial Gazette: A P&rtemOTbh-Horse died otf an overindulgence in chewing tobacco. This was his Only bad hab!t He repeatedly refaised to smoke Xarottes and was bitterly opposed to SI bh"a?er hat, but he died anyway.

Cincinnati Tribune: The Washing-ton Pos"speaks about "the DomocraWc tmU lrink T*h'at 1s exactly what it is. -ine Republic^ meanwhile, are preparing to look in. __

Cih'oflE'a Times Hertald: The-Honorable Hoke SmUh will be compelled to answer Srne of the iiriancial arguments he usad to make, but now that he nas ms eyes open that will be very hard to do.

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WAS HIS OWN UNDERTAKER.

Mexican Indian Who Committed Snicide and Bnrled Hlmsalf. Jose Mendez was a Mexican Indian who killed himself in 1862 San Jose, Cal. At the time ol his death Jose was 36 years of age. He had all his life been an exceedingly active man. Among the daring characters -then residing to San Jose none -coilM excel him as a rider of wild horses. He -was also Ingenious and could no* only make the finest kinds of lartets, but could also use them In maafiy original -Ways. One day the daring cider came to prief-By some means -he was -throwa from wild mustang, and. beln-g stunned and mftde helpless by the Ifall, lie was dragged some

distance in be stSrrnps. Wh»n jLarvd mares eu?6abl« for Ws trade.

flnajly rescu-tfd he was in a condition that "would have been sure and almost instant death to any but a man of wonderful nerve an4-Jtenacl?ty of life, says the Photographic Times.

Injured and helpless he recovered sufficiently to realize that he could never engage in act,ive .pursuits again, and he became very moody and destponden-t. A life in which he was precluded from daring riding on untrained mustangs had no charms $or him and ii} the midst of his sufferings from internal injuries he made frequent -threats of suicide. Once in speaking of the matter to an intimate friend, who tried to dissuade him from the idea, he Baid -that when he killed.himself it would be done in such a manner that no one would ever have any more trouble about him. It was thought at the time that he Intended to drown himself in the sea, where his body -would never be recovered.

Every morning for several weeks thereafter Jose craw-led away from the abode hut in which he-and a number of others lived and came back quite late in the evening. On these trips he took a pick and shovel and occasionally a pieoe of lumber, no one knew for what purpose. Some supposed that he was mining somewhere. By this time he had grown so despondent as to be entirely untommun&tive, and no explanation of his .conduct could be obtained from him. One evening, as was expected, the invalid did not return to the abode, and fthe next day a search *was made in the direction in which he went. Something like a mile from the abode house the searching pa^ty found a small clearing in the grass and weeds-. To the surprise of every one of the party a rude board box about three •feet wide and six (feet long and about eighteen Inches in depth was found lying upside down in the middle of the open place. The box was immediately overturned, but nothing but a heap of loose earth was (found under it. A closer examination revealed the fact that attached to the box were a nuim'ber of pieces of lariet. The explanation of all -this was a mystery, and at first it was not connected with the disappearance of the Mexican.

An intimate friend of the missing man .then made an explanation whlbh was pronounced entirely plausible and

m-ystery-

The

man said

that the Mexican, after sustaining his injury, .had -been" entirely dependent upoin strangers for his support and sustenamce, and he was determined if possible aifter he wias dead not to give ttiem any more trouble. He, therefore, demised a scheme by which -he could not only kill, but also at ithe same time bury himself. How the thing was managed was easily enough determined by an inspection of the ground. The deceased had ug a grave, a rather shallow one, in •whiich his skeleton was found some years later.

After t»he grave was dug, which re quired some time, owing to the feeble condition of the deceased, he placed the loose earth in a box that had been made for th.a purpose. This earth was packed in as solid as possible by being wet an-d then allowed to dry again, so that when the box was carefully stood on 'its side with the earth toward the ground none of it fell out. Several lariats were then stretched across from .the upper side -of "the box, as* it lay across the grave to stakes on the other side. The box was then carefully balanced, so- that any object that might fall on the lariats would cause it to fall over the grave and empty the earth it contained on top of the body. In this manner t'he unfortunate man not only killed, bu't also buried himself almost in the same instant of time. (So well satisfied (were those who made the surprising discovery that their theory was correct that they did not take the 'trouble to dig in order to ascertain that the body was underneath. The theory, however, was further strengthened 'by tihe finding o-f the pistol with which the -shooting had been done in some loose earth near the edge of the grave. It had evidently dropped 'there from the suicide's hand after Ije fired •the fatal shot. This fact convinced the searchers, and they returned without malking further 'investigations, so that the desire elf the unfortunate that no one should be troubled with ^burying h.im was realized. Some years later the skeleton of Jose Mensdez wis accidentally discovered and the theory of Shis friends fully "corroborated.

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THEIR PET NAMES.

and

Ravings of the Pugilistic Heroes Their Expressions. The .Boston Traveller says that Corbett and 'Fitzsimmons are to blame for the disrepute into which boxing has fallen, through the war of words carried on betwe&n them. Corbett poses as a gentleman. Here are a few choice expressions he made toward "Fitz:" "I regard Fitzsimmons as a cur who is not fit for me to wipe my feet on. "He cannot fight hard tnough to keep himself warm on the Fourth of July. "I do not 'thimk '.Fitz' is able to lick his weight in miid. He is no good to himself or anyone else in the world. "If ihe does not fight me I will chase him out of the country, like I would a yaller dog who is threatened with hydrophobia. "Fitzsimmons is a mouth fighter. He is the champion big stiff in the world. He is a cowardly cur, and I'm willing to meet him in any spot or place. I'm a gentleman, and when I first met 'Fitz' I will make him understand that I am. '1 will 'punch this face fujl of holes the moment I meet him.. I made him quit like a cur dog before, and I assure you on my word that I will do so again. (He is the biggest no-good chump the world has ever seen, and I'll show him up as a rank impostor."

In return "Fitz" 'doesn't say so many things, but what he does say is to the point. He freely grins when he reads Corbett's sayings, then he drawls: "I'm the champion, and I would indeed be as crazy as Mr. Corbett is if I took any notice of his wild ravings. I have said of him in the past that he is a coward an'd a wind bag. Those are my sentiments now. I'll fight Corbett one of these days, when I've got lots of time to spare. But 'I'm busy now, and while I'm working I suggest to Mr. Corbett that he go out on the trial and meet a couple of good men before he comes dhinning around where I am. When he whips Maher, Ooddard, Slayin, Choyneki or some other good man I may take him on. At present he is too easy. He Is not worth while doing any training on, tor when the time comes I will lick him with one punch. He is a,

stiff, and

if he knew as match about fighting as he does about making lomg-winded speeches he would be all right. As a fighter Jim is on the bum. That is all I «ar& to say about him."

C. 'Prioe of fefaooat, Ga., will be, at tbevtviudear (Boras, corner Second and •Bopterv tor

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purpose of 'buying ea*8oad ot horses

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The One Desire.

Of all the threads of Ajme which I have spun, I Shall be glad if time save only one. And I wouHd Slave each ward to joy belong— A lyric like a bird whose soul Is sting. There'5s enough of grttef tfo mar the years Be mine a -sunny leoif, untouched by tears,

To bring unto the heart delight, and make AW sorrows to depart, and joy Go wake.

No SEJimon mine to preach, save happiness No lesson mtoe bo toadh, save joy bo bless.

Jjy, 't is Itihe one best 'thing betow, above— The lute's aivlneat string, whose note Is love. —Frank Dempster Sherman in April Century.

Df. Jaimeaon is spending a considerable portion of h'is tim£ in England in refusing proposals of marriage.

The new leader of the Theosophists will be an Ohilo man, of course. This responsibility wiifl devolve on Dr. J. D. Buck of Cincinnati.

The empress of Russia Is nearly two inches taller than her 'hu-sWand, and is just tihe kind of a figure to "carry off" a $200,000 coronation robe.

Emporia, Kas., has. at last adhieved a unique social distinction by the celebration of a wedding at "high midnight." There were no cards nor flowers.

Last eveMng the students of the Columbian university in Washington city gavb an entertainment in eight different languages. Each performer wore the costume of the country in wlhiose tongue he spoke.

The first business man's organization of prominence in Chicago to abolish the color line is Uhe Hamilton dub, .Whicih has admitted 'Do its membership Adelbert H. Roberts, a colored lawyer -Of ihiigh standing in that city."

Miss Florence Jdhnson, a sdhool teacher at Ludlmgiton, MUtfh., earned 25 cents for an "experience social" by wheeling a well kntown business man around a block in a wheelbarrow. The job was worth more money unless the man was under size.

A popular writer for a Ne wYork paper says that it is not uncommon for persoms desirous of gaining notoriety to buy a box ajt the theater afcd then send their menials to cheaper partis of the house charged wftlh the duty of directing attention to the occupants fithe box as celebrated people.

Common domestic fowls are often raised on the ostrich farms In California, and the speotacle of a barnyard hen tryingyto lay in a nest where thdre are ostrich eggs is saeid to be very funny. At this season of Uhe year 'there la always a -large sale for ostrich eggs, which are "blown" and sent East to be used as Easter noveltttes.

A colored drum major sustained quite a succession of accidents in Prescott, Ariz., the other day. While in a state of intoxication he pulled a crap table lover on his Chest, injuring himself imternally. To 'help him out he took five pihts of whisky. This creiaited nausea, anid In attempting to vom.it he brought on hemorrhage of the lungs.

In a Uos Angeles street oar a contest for room arose the otiher day between a woman wltih a baby and a woman with a pug d'og. Tihe woman witlh the baby came out first best, and the woman With the dog was eviotea. There 'Is no danger of stowing too m.uich preference to babies over dogs in this enlightened country, and in any event the line tought to be drawn 'at pugs.

Tihe Raines bill will affect, it is said, the purses of 50,000 New Yorkers who get their daily meals at free lunches wfhere purchasing a drink carries wtith it a chance to make a hurried selection from .those edibles that fill the consumer without depleting the till of the saloon to any appreciable extent. To 'these muist be added tihe "fiends^' who always eat and never buy 'as long as they can dodge the barkeeper's eagle eye.

In the senate the other day while the debtaite was going on over the legislative approprlaitton bill, Senator Peffer objected to 'Che item providing for the payment of seriate barbers, which he denounced as a vicious abuse. This brought forward Mr. Chandler with a mock serious argument as to Ithe Injustice of the plea of Mr. Peffer whose whiskers did not need a barber. Mr. Chandler created much amusement in describing the sWIl necessary in handling a razor around a senator's face. The result was that the barber Item was preserved.

Use only Dr. Price's Baking Powder, as it's of uniform, goodness and strength.

EXPRESS MENU FOR TODAY. If there be •any goodness anywhere, think of it.—James Freemlam Clark. BREAKFAST—Whealtena, Broiled Steak,

Warmed Potatoes, Prunelles, "Light as F&alther Bisoult," Coffee. DINNER—Baked Multton, Canned _Peas,

PcrtaitoeO Seasoned as new. Browned Parsnaps, Olives, 'Barberry Sauce, Corn and WMte Bread, M'ince Pie, Cheese.

SUPPER—'Buttereld Toaeit, Cold Meat, Canned Berries, Cake, Milk, Tea.

"LIGHT AS FEATHER BISCUIT."

One quart sifted fflotrr one plwt warm milk half cake tforopressed yeast one level teaspcton salt. At 9 o'cl'ook Scald milk cool tnto ahofilow oX tihe flour pour milk dissolve yeast and salt. Mix to a fun'oickth dboigh. Hike "one well floured orriolding board knead»twenty anliraultes. Use as little flour as 'possible cover warm (seventy degrees.) In the morning push (tough down wlhcin it rises knead ten minutes. Telir oft tiny bvts and shape with hiands. Keep at eighty degrees tfll twrtce «i»e bake fifiteem minutes leave oven door ooem when done for biscuits to ripen. (Copyright. 1S95.)

Mr. Paul Nestle, representing Albert Gail of Indianapolis, Ind., wijl be at the Terre Haute iptouse Monday, Tqesday and Wednesday, March 30th, 31st and April lst.wifth the finest line of flampie carpets, draperiee and fretwork ever exhibited here, He carries a line of good9 and private pattern.? of designs that are not obtainable iA t^isclty, and odrdially invites all perepn^ fat vetted in Uitfj Hp£ of gfdfcas to ifiSIl and Examine tbisaiBplay.

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Castorla.

This week we display everything that you1 are likely to need for your Easter costume—' Easter Gloves, Easter Ribbons, Easter Embroideries, Easter Silks, Easter Dress Goods, Easter Handkerchiefs, EasteT White* Goods, Easter Veilings, Easter Hosiery and similar belongings are shown in beautiful' profusions.

Easter Dress Trimmings

Easter Belts

Novelties in spangled and jeweled bands, garnitures, vest effects and« reversible buttons in all the late Dresden and jewel effects.

Gold belts with fancy minature buckles, 39c. Spangled belts, inch, all co'ore, with gold and silver buckles, 69c. Leather belts, i-a inches wicje, brown, black and tan, seal, Morocco, panther, alBgatoif and all the new leathers and colors, 50c and 75c.

HOBERG.ROOT&CO.

IMPORTERS AND RETAILERS.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

Health

and

Economy.

Better than Medicine.

DRINK

Dr. Martin's

Nervine

C°FFEf-

Purely cereal glaten and vegetable. A pleasant table drink and a positive cttrefor HeadachdL N«tvoneneea, Dyspepsia, Heart Disease, Sleeplessness, pn, and the many ailmvata 'ee and tea. Barea doctor yonr coffee expense, Pound, rlOO Cups 20 cents. Sample, making 25 caps, by mall, 10 cents.

AND EAT

RoyalBreakfast

Tha Nerve and Brain Invigorat-

Elkhart, Indiana. Sold by Grocers.

Badgely Brothers, George C. Poulkes, Charles F. Murphy, H. H. Hedges, Ueadlng grocers, and Bement & Rea, wholesaler.

Foster's

Synonym of all that is best in

Grloves

In Blacs, Tans, Browns, Modes, Reds and Grays. The $1.35 7-hoo quality fo?

Davis,

Wm. Scofield, F. Miller.

Per Pair.

Thursday Only.

Possibly enough of these to last the day out—perhaps not. Our advice would be to come rather early.

L.S.Ayres&Cc

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

•••Tonsorial Parlor

Cincinnati House, North Fourth St

EDWARD CARNEY, Proprietor.

BARBERS: John

EVERYTHING NEW. ITiflti POLITE ATTEN

YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED.

Dr. C. W. Amerman DENTIST Rose Dispensary Building m. 3,.

Teeth extracted without the use of caine, gas electricity, newBethoi,^^

B. F. HAVENS,

Attorney At Law.

Fire Insurance,and Real Estate Loans

3I2K WabaQh Avenue.

I nsnr«nce Law a SpeCi'alJf.

Isaac Ball & Son 3 FUNERAL DIRECTORS

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