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The deficit lhaa climbed up to $137,t00,000. ''Democracy is ia ta,x."i

Congress eannot run, much, longer. {Hall end Money dived enough. ink to ^iake a large toll Stop.

'As Pennsylvania's last president was frames Buchanan it Is not strange that at thinks Quay 4s large enough to fill |ils place.

I 'A' worked out stone quarry would }etem to toe the most useless hole imaginable, but dn France muBhroons are cultivated ttn 3,000 caves, most .of jwihlcb are old stone quarries.

Mr. iBdwler et!ill tholcis the bat and gnawing knocked out the .Venezuelam. rcxmmLsslon. is ready for something new. JJowier ds the most unique specimen: 'in lihe curionis Cleveland, mueeumw

A Chicago, al'lnaroundi store that ad(vertlaes, (between isilk chiffons iat 49 icents and ctups and saucers 'at 3 cents, »'teeth extracted free, without pa!n," to prepared to hold customers ire all emergencies.

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The (Indiana state convention cannot fee'too explicit on the currency question, •ftmt it will iwaste time In talking about finstructions. Take care of sound money and let the .delegates take care of themselves. They are good men from Indiana*

Charles IBradlau'gh, M. P., was once fvery .prominent as a leader among the free thinkers and atheists of England. He -used to lecture at least once a week in the (Hall off Science and shocked the Cihris'tl'ans iby iwhat1 seemed ito .them rvery blasphemous utterances. The soiciety of atheists (has 'failed to1 pay its rent and the Salvation army has rented the iha.lL

•Lord rWolseley, commander-to-chief •at the iBrltlsh, army, does mot believe in universal peace. He does not tbeldeve in ithe happimess of a nation that has no [history. He also saiid that the man Who Jbel'ievied ifchat tihe time was coiming wheni (there would toe tno (wars was a dangerous dreamer, especially dangerous If he [happened to ihold a public position. fThie tgemeral iproibaJbly would not nomiitnate tlhe president of t'he petee society las secretary of war or of the navy.

Mr. [Bayard has toeeri'tvvell received in tmany parts of Great' Britain but if he iwants 'to enrjoy an overwhelming ovation he ought to go jto Yorkshire, the gjiiiinci'pal woolen man.ufacturing district lof tEJniglaind. (Brad/ford, its (busiest city, iwlould much like to see the mam who opposes lAmerioani protection. Various causes contrii'butedto depression inBuadford (for nearly twenty years, one of fwhich rsvaa .the 'gofing out of fashion of lustrous iwVDOlen fabrics, such as alpacas jand other lustres, tout the McKinley law tivas tworse than the decrees of fashion, ,p,s figures for three years will show. In ithe year ending September, 1889, the

XJuitied IStates took $6,500,000 in worsted coating® from) Bradford. In 1894 the wale 'had fallen to $1,275,626, but in 1895, ithe 'Wilson, year, Ht rose to $7,575,052. For years the (English, factory women (have ibeen leaving the mills to go back Ito house service and many ihouses were Vacant, tout now there 19 not house accommodations for the workers who (have .returned from domestic service to fco info t'he m'ills.

Mr. Bayard and the mayor of Bradford migtot put their Iheads together to tmake an explanation why the IWa'lson daw is thought to toe so good for America toy them and why it does not work the same way in Massachusetts and [T orksh ire.

The report of the commissioner of (pensions shows that there were dropped from the pension roll during the last year 42,411 cases. They were dxopped (for causes prescribed by tha pension acts, for death, remarriage of widows, for minors that had passed the pensionable age and for failure to claim pensions. Such are the causes that will continue to reduce the pension payments, year after year, but none will welcome t^e reduction that is accompanied by 'the iDead March over old solfliers.

These reductions are always Included Sn the boasts of Democrats about the Sreductions made toy the administration to pension payments, but they are sayings for which the administration is entitled to neither credit or blame.

There have 'been dropped from the list, either temporarily or permanently, for other causes 14,506 cases, as stated Iby Congressman Overstreet in his very stole speech on pensions, in which he showed the injustice and want of equity often exhibited in reopening cases that bad been tediously and painfully proved, accprding to every requirement of law, and a deiftartd made for the repetition of efvidence. years after the witnesses had been lost sight of or laid in the grave.

Mr. Overs tree t's point is very cogent, and ought to be valid, that when charges are vamped up against the pensioners, the'burden of proof should fall upon the accusers and not upon the defendants, jwho had already complied with the dictation of a very complete and minute system of investigation.

When (Democratic speakers go about Ithe country, this summer, bragging of the eavin-g in the pension payments, |Chey-should oalieti upon for & toill of

particulars, 6tating how touch was due to the natural expiration of pensions, without their help, and how much to the arbitrary suspension of Justly due pensions.

THE PLATFORM MUST SAY WHAT IT MEANS. The probabilities are thaJt the Republican state executive committee will present a sound money plank to the committee on resolutions from the state convention for its consideration and that it will be accented.

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"It is altogether probable that the platform will declare for a sound currency, good the world over, 'composed of gold, silver and paper, with a declaration against the free coinage of silver," says the Indianapolis Journal, which says also that there are some who think! thalt the subject should be dismissed with a repetition of the financial plank in the national platform of 1892, not because they* do not believe in sound money or desire to throw a sop to the silver people, but because they do not believe in giving any prominence to the currency question, preferring tp make the fight on the tariff question.

Such men will find that the questi'on they try W dodge or run away from will be forced upon them. They may wish to make the fight on protection, but can they guarantee that they can keep it there, or keep it from coming around to the very question, on which they have shown what will be called cowardice?

They, who want to adopt the 1892 plank, may claim to be sound money men, but there wil Ibe no brand on the package to prove it. Should Indiana Republicans adopt the '92 currency plank they will become the laughing stock of the United States and the press, from Boston- to San Francisco, will teem with gibes at Ithe Indiana men who call themselves sound money men, but do not dare to slay so, who say they do not want to throw a sop to the silver men, and yet sedulously avoid giving them a provocation to fight.

New England, Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota and even the Dakotas, hlave spoken explicitly and dictated to the national convention their terms for the financial plank. Can Indiana, a this late day, come forward and propose the '92 plank to the St. Louis convention of 1896, with any hope of success, or of escaping the charge of being a weak kneed, trimming and stupid political huckster? iReed, Morton and Quay are willing to stand plumiply on a clear cut platform. Indiana can raise the sound currency flag as high as those o"f Maine and Massachusetts, New Yortc and Pennsylvania! and sink or float with them. The Indiana Republican convention wants to be as radically opposed to any Voorhees finamcflal vagarism as possible. It must not go batik to the cautious groping of Ohio, but should emulate the bold%r policy of those who know where they are going.

ABODI PEOPLE.'

Thomas Haggerty, 18 years old, of Peekskill, N. Y., swallowed a tantP of chewing mum and is dying of appendicitis.

The largest woman in Rhode Island was Mrs. Ann Fox of CenitlW Falls, who died last week. She weighed a little less than 400 pounds.

Young King Alexander of Servia has got the mitten again, Princess Marie of Greece, whom he hoped to marry, having become engaged to Grand Duke George Michaelovi'tch of Russia.

Julius von Payer, the arctic explorer, has painted four large pictures of the Franklin expedition, which are albout t'o be exhibited in Lond6n. They are called "Last Moments of Sir John Franklin," "The Abandoning of the Ship," "Divine Service" and "Starvation Cove."

The Kansas City Journal is in receipt of a letter from ex-Consul Waller announcing his purpose soon to remove with his family to Kansas. At present he is in Washington, looking after business matters and receiving treatment for his eyes, which he says were seriously injured by confinement in a dark prison cell.

Mrs. Lucretia Perrin of Exeter township, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., celebrated her 103d birthday on April 16th. She was born in Andover, N. H. Her general health is excellent, but her sight is not good. Among those who congratulated her on her birthday was a woman friend in Massachusetts, who is 101 years old.

A clever but somewhat unscrupulous draper of ^.Vienna, who bore the name of Wagner, bethought himself last year of using the head of his noted nathesake as a trade mark, and Richard Wagner towelings and Richard Wagner fast colors became popular. Frau Cosima did not relish it ^at all, and brought suit, but the draper came out ahead.

Ed'ward Parker Deacon writes to the New York Herald as follows: "Please contradict the statement in today's World. I am not recognized to my divorced wife. I am not in precarious health. To avoid constant litigation, I have given my two eldest children to their mother's care and keep the youngest, who is to be entirely under my care."

Professor Flinders Ptrie says that the granite taiblet recently discovered at Thelbes, Egypt, contains the first inscription found on Egyptian monuments that in any form makes mention of the Israelites. The tablet was made under the direction of King Merenpthah, and records that during his war in Syria, about 1200 B. C., he fought the people of Israel and spoiled them.

•Mr. Balfour recently Inveigled his Uncle Salisbury Into his first and only indulgence In the game of golf. The prime minister was on a visit to his distinguished nephew at Whittlngham, when he consented to handle the golfing iron. He rather characteristically aimed a terrible blow at the ball, struck too low, and, looking around for the result, he asked the caddie: "What have I hit?" The Irreverent caddie, noting the removal of a lump of turf, gruffly answered: "Scotland, my lord."

Headache From Heavy Hats. hav» been called In by several married ladies who say they suffer from a peculiarly irritable kind of (headache

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which has commenced- to trouble them recently. The (husbands of nearly all of them, told me privately itihat never had they found their wives so disagreeably snappish everything eeemed to annoy -them, especially when they toad their hats on. 1 asked to see the articles and found them to 'be very much alike— large structures of straw, with masses, of flowers and ribbons towering (high into the air. The weight is Itself -too heavy for the delicate cranium of a woman, but worst of all is the anxiety a lady must feel in ikeeping such a thing properly poised on her head. Of course I prescribed the usual remedies for what they tcall the "migraine,",but strongly advised them to put aside such, headgear and wear light, reasonable bonnets. Some of them did, and were,completely cured others did not not, and are getting more snappish and disagreeable every day, to such an extent to threaten the domestic peace. And is it to be wondered at? Who can calculate the amount of worry to a man with a t'all hat on a windy day? If we were not a strong brained people our asylums would 'have been full long ago from that very cause. Women are not able to bear the same strain successfully, and if they persist in wearing hats taller and more difficult to manage than men's, nothing but domestic, or even mental, disaster can ensue.—A Physician in the ILondon Telegraph.

THE RAILROAD SUBSJDY.

Attorney For tlie T. H. & H» Talks of the Effect

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Ballots Not Cast,

H. C. Pugh, attorney for the T. H. & M., was asked yesterday If it was true, as has been intimated by those opposed to the appropriation to the Terre Haute & Mississippi (River Railroad, that if a voter fails to vote one way or the other, he 'is counted in favor of the appropriation. '"No, it is not true," replied Mr. Pugh, "in fact, it is perfectly absurd, and those who make such assertions only do so for the purpose of urging voters to go to the polls by misrepresenting the facts. The tickets will be '"Yes" and "No" on the proposition of appropriation, and when counted from the boxes if there are more tickets stamped in front of the word '"•Yes" than the word "No-" the appropriation will be carried, and vice versa, whether all have voted or only a small per cent of those entitled to vote. In other words, if out of 8,000 or 10,000 voters only 100 have voted for the appropriation and 101 have voted against it, it will have been defeated, although 7,799 legal voters have not voted at all." "It has also been suggested that 4n your petition to the county commissioners you make no agreement as to the construction of this road if you are given this aid. Why didn't you embrace some such agreement in your petition?" •'For the very best of reasons, viz., that the law specifies just what such a petition shall contain and in our petition that provision of the statute was copied verbatim. And beside the law has 'been amended since former appropriations were made by this city. Then a company could obtain an appropriation and do just as they pleased with it, but now every safeguard has been placed about the tax payer and the law expressly stipulates that a company to whom aid has been voted must put its road into operation, must complete its road so that trains may toe running over it 'before the law will permit one cent of the appropriation to be paid to the company. It would therefore be utter nonsense to make any agreement with the commissioners to do those things that the law compels us to do, and for the reason that the law provides exactly what shall be done the board of county commissioners, who are taking the best of care of the people's interests, have not asked us to do what the law compels us to do 'before we can get one cent 'of the appropriation. Furthermore, if the company does not go on with the construction of the road the law provides that the appropriation shall go back to those who have paid it and the people are thereby protected against any possibility of loss. The company must build the road in order to get the appropriation, and the people either get the Toad or they get their money back."'

HISTORY OF A FAMOUS POEM.

How Mrs, Thorpe Wrote "Corf ew Most Not Bine Tonight." Mrs. 'Rosa Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote the exceedingly popular poem, "Curfew Must Not 'Ring Tonight," lives fin a pretty frame cottage at 'Pacific Beach, ne^r San llego, Cal. When asked recently toy a representative of the New York World to 'tell how she came to write tihe poem that had made iher famous she replied:* "I cannot remember when I did not write poetry. I have done so ever since (I was a child. My mother did not approve of my writing 'hi (fact, she disencouraged it. One day after school I went to my room. I had been studying the historic period of which I was about to write in my poem, and the incident impressed so strongly upon' my mind ilat 1 felf impell.d to write about 4t. I was about half way through when my mother came lm saying a young friend had come to spend the afternoon and take tea with me. In great distress I called out: "Oh, mother, can't she wait a little while?* My mother, thinking I was solving a ihard example in arithmetic, said she would amuse my friend until 1 could leave. At last I finished it and 'iut it away. Two or,three years later*! wanted a poetm for publication in a (Detroit paper, w'hicth 1 had been in •the habit of contributing short poems gratuituously. I was unable at the time to write, as usual, an original poem for the next issue, and, on looking over my papers, found this one which I decided to send, though doubting its acceptance, as it was so long. A day or two afterwards 1 received a note from the editor complimenting my lastcontribution highly and prophesying for it great and 'immediate success."

Dr. Price's Baking Powder sunshine in the family circle.

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HOUSES BUILT IN TREES.

New Guinea Claims the Distinction ojt Furnishing This Unique Spectacle* Man was indubitably at one period of his existence an arboreal animal. He had much to do with "the trees of the garden." In some places and as represented by some races, he still lives among them, says the Philadelphia Intjuirer.

The natives of New Guinea climb like monkeyis and travel for long distances from one tree to another, without descending to the ground. The birds build little fairylike cabins on the ground, but tihe people construct Oheir houses in the top of the tallest forest trees. First, a native having climbed the great trunk of the teak or cedar or oak tree he has selected, begins by cutting off some of th* brandhee tire right length

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tx Buppox* a platform of (bamboo on which hi* (blouse da to rest. Tou would wonder ban be could do amy thing with the tools (he use» yif you should eee them. (He has too saw or steel edged ax, but only a man of «D£oaha.wfc made of stone andi (knhre* of bone or hardwood. Wlhesn, however, be has in some way imanaged to get the limbs of bis tree tso cut and fashioned as to support his house bis hardest work fe done.

The thouse itseJf is soon built, and is made of bamboo strips and that eked witih palm leaves. All parts are firmly lashed together .with, strips of rattan, palm, a very tough vine, used by .the natives ia place of ropes. It is not a large house, though sometimes conbains several rooms, but it is a safe and secure retreat for the women and children In case of «a sudden attack by hostile tribes. •The house Is reached from the ground by along ladderor Inclined plane, im'ade of woven vines, dn case an enemy appears the ladder is drawn up and the' man and this family and the pig are safe within the "house. The elevation not only secures the household from wild beasts and from ttie~£nts that roam the country, seeking what they may devour, but also from disease germs, w*hich, like those of yellow fever, do not rise above a certain -level. The breeze, too, rocks the ihouse gently, like a cradle and sets t'he fresh air into circulation, making It delightfully refreshing after* the sultry heats below.

If you Should climb the long ladder and peep in at the door, you will (find the family, perhaps, all asleep or sit-

"PRESIDENT SAM OF HAY1*J.

Tiresias Simon Sam, who succeeds the late General Hippolyte as president of Hayfci, is a full blooded negro and was a prominent member of Hippolyte's cabinet.

ting about 'tihe floor eating yams, cocoanuts and bananas, and sharing them with their pat pigs, parrots or poultry. You will (find there no pictures, toys or^ playthings, suoh as even the poorest children among us possess no music and no books, no furniture in the room, not even a 'bed, and no mats on the floor.

Many a true built nest is constructed with more art and fs more comfortable for t'he 'little ones who are born in it, and far prettier ones 'Chan the rude huts of the wild men of New Guinea.

AUSTRIA'S WOMEN BARBERS.

They Must Serve a Three Years' Apprenticeship and Acqnit Themselves Well. The Austriains make no changes with' t'heir barbers. They must be good and t'he Barbers' and Wdgmakers' Union of Vienna sees to it that they are. Provision is also made 'in their code for women barbers who desire to carry on the business of their husband's in case of the latter's death or illness, say® a writer dn the New York World.

But in order to do this the wife must (have been enrolledi in the union as an apprentice for three years. Apprentices, by -the rules of the union, must appear to Vienna in -the presence of judges of the union and ShoW their skill before thiey are allowed to open 6hops of their own.

A properly certified barber must have a knowledge of and pass an examination ixi sbavLrag, -hair cutting, hair curling and wig making,,-and during the period before the issuance of a certificate the poor and others who are frugal serve as subjects for experiment.

At t'he examination the you or men have their razors dulled by 'four strokes in a pine plank, and they must then sharpen them. A subject Is assigned to each, Who (must be toneorially perfect, in t.he opinion of the judges, when the apprentice has released 'him.

After this a certificate is issued and the apprentice serves two years as a journeyman before be may open a stoop as an employer. The average age of apprentices when t'hey (begin to learn ,their trade is 13 years.

Enduring are the WOTM'S Fair honors gained by Price's Baking Powder.

How They Cook Bacon In Indiana. T'he cooks nowadays know precious little about smoked meats, to say nothing of cooking them. They don't even know that 'the marrow in the cheek bone of a smoked join will cure the mumps, and how the mischief are they to know that bacon is food for the gods, when properly cooked? Out our way every mother's son of us knew how to •fix up bacon fore we were 15, and orie of the reasons why lndianians are so all .fired polite to every body is because their mothers threatened to cut off their bacon supply every t)me they did anything* wrong.

Bacon! Well, I guess if you want to know how to cook it good, old true Indiana style that would make Joe Blackburn wi§h he had been born awross the line very time he tastes it, why here it is: Cut into the thinnest possible slices one-quarter of a pound of fa't bacon arrange in a 'bowl or crock,with alternated layers of cracked ice let stand thirty minutes remove and brown om one side, then put them back in ic& w&tcrj i€t

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cold again, and broil crisp on the other side. The sudden changes in temperature disintegrate the fiber of the meat, making it more palatable.

Xf broken "fine with a knife, mixed wFth soft boiled eggs, and served on toast, the

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tizing breakfast dish. (Roast Baoon—Select a choice piece or bacon, cut square, and weighing from three to four pounds. Soak it over night -next day, boil tt slowly an hour to tha pound, and allow it to stand in the water until It becomes cold remove drain and skin rub into the fat a liberal quantity fcnma or S?aj»iUt#d

eugar moisten with pint of champagne, sauterne, or other light wine, and coast, or, rather, bake, brown baste constantly and If the wine Is not convenient, use elder "vinegar or (hard elder. —'Richard J. (prightin Twentieth Century Cookery.

SPRING CLEANING A HABIT.

Women Conld Do One Boom a Week instead of All at Once. House cleaning is Jargefly a habit. The' thrifty housekeeper gets in the way of having a general upheaval twice a year and she could not diapefcse with it, or she thinks she couldn't. And yeft some authorities declare that the periodibal house cleaning is an unneccessary infliction. Their plan Is to give one room a cleaning every week. Thus, if there are seven rooms, eacht room gets a renovation every seven weeks and the house never has an opportunity to become dirty enough to need troublesome overhauling, says a wtrtter- in the Neiw York Press. •But it Is hard to make the mdthodteal housekeeper fall into this way. She likes to turn the house out of windows in the spring and fall and she does it. This is the time for spring cleaning and there are hundreds of poor men groaning in spirflt as they scent the baittle of carpet beating, window cleaning, pa'per hanging, that comes with the first suggestion of continued sunshine. So this spring there will be just as much house cleaning as ever, in spite of new theories of mismanagement. The only thing that is wajited now is

weather—that is, the right kind of weather. Men dislike scraJbches on furniture. Marks on tables and chairs seem to hiave a peculiarly irritating effect upon the masculine mind, greatly disproportionate to the importance of the injuries, as it seems to the housewife. However, since it is conceded that this is a weakness of man, it fs well to know how to meet it. Polishes should 'be used frequently and vigorously. One of the most satisfactory polishes is also the simplest—namely, a mixture of linseed oil and vinegar, kept in a well corked botitle and shaken before use the furniture must be dusted first, then the mixture can be applied over a small surface, polishing quickly with old silk rags. This compound has a double advantage it does not form a cake over the wood (which cake invariably produces cracks), and the combined oil and vinegar removes many stains, and grease marks that ordinary polishes do net touch.

Mirrors and looking glasses should be cleaned every time a room is done. A little spirits of wine judiciously aT|lied with a soft rag will remove the most obstinate marks. Picture frames and books, too, should be well dusted and the cupboard shelves dusted and relined wiith clean paper.

UNIVERSAL PIANOS

Can be bought at a great sacrifice, which is being made for the purpose of introducing the goods to the retail trade and giving every one an opportunity of purchasing a good piano ait an unequaled low price. They manufacture pianos with attachments consisting of harp, mandolin, zither, etc., which enables the player to obtain charmingly beautiful effects, that must be heard to be appreciated.

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their factory at the corner of Sixteenth street and Maple avenue they have in stock a choice line of pianos in all kinds of foreign and domestic fancy wooas, and the people are invited to call and be convinced that they are ^ing offered at uneqiialed low prices.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

•Chicago Inter Ocean: The Washington Post thinks the two wings of the Dernocrati'e party are going to the Chicago convention "with a firm determination to flap c'ach other to a finish." Let 'em flap.

New York Mail and Express: Mr. Cleveland, according to all accounts, is determined that the free silver shouters shall wot control the national Democratic convention if "hi can help It. He will soon feel «ibout as the Puyalluip Indian did who opposed the building of the Northern Pacific railroad across the reservation, and who showed his apposition iby tying one end of his laria't around his waist and lassoing the Joleomotive of a flying express train with the other.

Abelien "Reflector: Because this is leap ivear is no reason why the young man with hfs 'hair parted in the middle and a cbne in his mouth sh'au'd dodge up the alleys. The new woman is not looking for him.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Whlat's this? A New York woman is going to Boston to teach the people of that town bow to cook a codfish! Why, now there will be trouble. 'Fancy a child of 4 trying to tell the chef of a cannibal tribe how the main course of the tribal dinner should be prepared. Fancy a drummer boy giving Napbleon points on the conduct of a war. Fancy anything that seems toppingly absurd, and it will be the essence of reason compared iwith what this woman intends tK) do. Why, the ood floats, a civic emfolerri from the dome of a Bay state eapitol! Teach Boston bo cook a feod Indeed!

Kansas City Journal: Oajptain Grenerai Wevler's expected objections to Consul General Lee, might, perhaps, be removed toy an intimation that John Sherman is Lee's understudy. New York Journal: The Spanish Ories is about -to stop decrying the perfidious Yankee and (Sscirss the advisability of granting reforms in Cuba. While they are discussing General Maceo will Still be found doing business at the oid stand. The Cortes will do well to disctJss reforms in Spain, as they are a little late for Cuba. There the revotut fontsts Will attend to the matter Oor themselves.

Hard Work.

"Your pastor looks worn out."* ""Yes a minister's life is not what i\ used to be. He has to get up at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning and read -thi onmDAPfJi to ret his text."-—Trucih.

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Work, ud Despair If,

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Goal of all mortal Stars silent rest o'er ua„ ji Graves under us silent .v.?' While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding or terror, Comas phfetntusm and erroTt'"'r

Perplexes the bravest

Mexican miners have to pay thirty-two separate taxes before they can get wheat from the field to the consumer in the •'•rm of flour. This Is of apiece the whole system of taxes in Mexico.

On the queen's birtl/day next ratontth the great fort near Wt'orte, B. C., vr-11 be opened to the public wi extrttSive military and navaf display artd a shamr battle. Tue fortress is earned Fort Maca^ilay, and fs said to be impregnable.

An ice sk!a.t1ng rink is to be buSIt on rtof of Miadlson Square Garden, New York. This rink will be IntoTosed in glaj»s and .witl occupy the space utilized by the roof garden jn summer. The necessary alternations Will cost $75,000 and sktating will be in order from October to April.

Years agb a speculator sent a swam of bees to the West Indies, hoping to have honey in plenty. But the wise little rogues soon learned that there was no use in piling up honey for winter, because 'the flowers were in blossom all the year round. A bee Isn't a fool by any means.

The report of the superintendent of the San Francisco mint a Wows that the output of gold in California increased from $13.863,281 in 1894 to $15,834,317 in 1895. Thlrjythree of the figty-seven counties of the state are regular producers of gold, and new mines are being discovered every year.

A seven-acre tract of muck on All Gottsh all's farm In Harrison township, near Logansport, Ind., has been burning for more than a year, and even the recent heavy rains have failed to extinguish the fire. Holes have been burned to a depth of eight or ten feet. The tract is a perfect honeycomb and the ground Is almost ruined.

A 5-mon this-old boy wlas abandoned by ia w'offrian last week in a cortfesdional of 'the Church of Lady of Mercy, Now York City. The infant was neatly dressed. Several of the neighbors saw the woman enter the edifice with the balby jn her arms and leave a few moments after without •the baby, ©he is a stranger in the neighborhood.

The first Statement of campaign expenses made under the Ohio corrupt practice a of has been filed with Secretary of State Taylor by W. S. Kerr, Republican candidate for congress in the Fourteenth district. Mr. Kerr's affidavit states he expended but $1 in his campaign. Of this amount, he says, 50 cents was for railroad fare, and 50 "cents for hotel accommodations.

Anew wrinkle alboutpaltms which a Dondlon florist Indorses is that the leaves Should 'be washed, not with pure water, but with milk and water, which has a wonderful way of preserving them and preventing the appearance Of the brown spots, which are So disfiguring. Another suggestion 'about pHants is that a little cold coffee poured over the earth at tone roots occasionally wfll be found (beneficial. Coffee is a good fertilizer. This trea'tment is especially recommended for hyacinths.

The largest miastbdon in t))is country is in the process of m'ounting Rachester, N. Y. This monster was found in New Jersey and

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for a quart and get only a pint. The state law will toe rigiidly enforced. The annual address of Village President Bturges of Saratoga, N. Y., to the newly organized board of trustees. States, amlong other things, that he will continue the rigid enforcement of the laws against all forms of gambling in that place. 'He cr't" icises those .who

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Without doubt and misg1v1-n®i But heard are the voices, Heard are the sages, 11 Th* worlds, aind the ages •"Choose well your choice Brief, and yet endless. "Here e~M3 do regard you In etepni'ty's s'tiKness, Here is ill fullness, Ye brave, to you, 1 Work *nd despair not

Goetbe (tr. Carfyle.)

to persuade him

allow certain gambling houses to conduct their illegal business.. The trocha, abbu't which so much is said in the Cuban dispatches, is a line pi troops and forOiflcations extending across the island from north- to south with the insurgents on the western side of it. Theoretically, jt is a fine thing, but practically it has its disadvantages* inasmuch as almost the entire Spanish artay is required tto keep it up, and there are no troops left to go out and fight the enemy.

One of the articles of fbod most prized by the Chinese on the Pacific coast is dried duck. An American in Contra Costa county, California, has started a duck•drving business and has a (monopoly oi the Chinese trade. He buys hundreds of ducks from hunter's, fills 'them with salt, and hangs them in the sun for

six

They become as hard as sole leather or dried codfish, and wife keep indefinitelyThe Chinese used to import their dried diuck from China, but now patronize tfte home industry almost exclusively.

A device has lately been perfected by a young man in SteubenvWe, O.. an employe of the W. & L. iE. rafllroad, which, it is said, renders it absolutely impossible for the detached portion of a train to overtake and crash into the head end in case the .trains breaks in two or more partb on a down grade. Such accidents cause th'ouisand's of dollars' damage every year to nearly all roads. Tt is also sad that the engineer and flrfirtan

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stantly if the train breaks a coupling or a car breaks down. (In Germany 'the view obtains that the execution of criminals should be by some means more certain than even the electric c-ttalr. Dr. E. Cuhmann, a celebrated •chemist, suggests the use of carbolic acid. According to his plan, the criminal wou.d be carried to a ccfll which can be filled with carbolic acid in gaseous form, from floor tto celling. When the

gas

reaches the

delinquent's mouth and nose it causes instant paralysis of the lungs and utreonsciousness, and life departs without previous pain.

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Melon lM"a ngo. White ad Co Bread, Canned Peach, Gobbler Cheese, OLTPPi TOR—Stowed Rice, iBaked Fg*3.

Bread and Butter, Rhubarb Sauce, Cookies, Tea.

BRISKET OF BEEF.

Four or six pounds, rub with vini*jar and salt, place in stew pan with boiling water to cover, simmer ard skim, put in two carrots, four turnips a-id six sr.ull onions, simmer until the meat is tender, then out the bones, make mavy with Che liquor thickened, serve the brisket on a platter, ,i*mr a-tfttle bravy over, serve Test jn g^avy pltch-r, the vegetables uay be placed about the meat. (Copyright.)

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It is an undisputed scientific fact that liwen, of all known textiles, is the least conductor of heat—that tt makes the coalert possible garment for summer wear. Thfa scA9on it is also undisputed that Fa^hlo»n has approved linens is the Ciost desirable among summer fabrics. ,17e are sure that as soon as you are aware of the variety, extent and beauti of our assortment of these goods that the superiority of our stock will likewise be•undisputed.

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is supposed the huge beast

wandered through the forests there thousand's of years ago and' sank in the mud so deeply that it perished. Its height is (from twelve to thirteen feet, and witn tusks its length is twenty-four feet.

Inspector Williams, acting upon the advice of t'he mayor and city solicitor or YoungStown, O., has served

notice

on mer-

chiant's, grocers and hucksters that an (fruits and berries must be sold by dry measure, and n/ot in the skeleton baskets in

general

use, wherein purchasers pay

and 16%) at 1-3 and oft regular pricel began this morning.

E. & T. H. R.

SIMMY RATES.

Taking effect Sunday, May 3d, and until further notice, we will sell Sunday excursion tickets at a rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets limited to date of sale for return passage.

J. R. Conlielly, General Agent

HONEST

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C. & EJ. R. R.

Summer Resorts of the North, Northwest and West

are reached most directly bj the Chicago & Eastern Ulin ois R. R. Three througL trains daily to Chicago, male• ing direct connections to a'f points in the above territory,

J. R. Connelly. Genera! Ag.ut.

Ji Gi Si GFROERERr

PRINTER

Estimates Cheerfully Furnished,

33 SOUTH 5th.

B/F. HAVENS,

Attorney At Law.

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3i2W Wabash Avenue,

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