Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 June 1896 — Page 8

WAYS OF "PLUNGEBS"

1 »S0ULU£I|IS8 OB MHN WHO WOO VOBTDHB8 ON THE TUFIF.

jRUey Gr&noan, Pat Sheedjp gnd *Tl$t*tnrs Ptul- and Their Iffaacotti—Variderbilt and bis SlOO Bets.

Gamblers are proivcrtrliaMy' supe-nstt-'faoue p:nri anjy one wibo (has done even a 4ittfe amalteur gajnlbl.rag knorws'tihat t!he.re rare endlles reasons wihy-peoplewho make •to business of chasing Mils tress Fortune fin tihe 'betting ritng should be eupersti-

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It as am o3'd iaiot that mieaiily every omfe xf tihe Wig 'bettors, "profess-OnM or amaifceur, wiho fequent ithe large race tracks about tlhe metropolis Grave queer ways of Gourttog thie -Savor of tfiie goddess of Stihe toettiitog rins. Even aruiitonaires are mot exempt, altihougih it raaikes -no earth-

iy diff-aretaoe to them din -tlhe end whether they win or lose. There da WllTiiaim K. VaradJerMlt, ifathier of tihie Du'cihass of Marlborough-, .for fiirjsta'noe. He ,ta a regular attendant at

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o,f the We races and inever wages snore than. $100 on a single race. It 'he Host rbh'iis sum on etatcfh of .the six races daily, feveiry day in the y.aajr, Ihe woulid regard 'tlhe amusement as whea^p, (but Jflie lis too much of a sportsmram. to ps content wiith -losing. Mr. Vamderbilit tocome from life eighty odd mallion's i31 over $10,000 a day so a $100 bet Cs to hiim •what ia 5 or 10 cant wager iis .to Ithe ^ordinary man.

Yet Mr. VannJerbiit puts 'himself .to some Imcom'vem.iemioe willien he .makes ai wager. Hits dldea of a Iwxcdboo lis to talk Itto any ©me $tft'er the 'ttor^sa Jaiaivs faced 4Ihe s'lia.rfor at itlhe ipo^c. Ho usually pucka ia seciudeid spott rat front of tihe member*?' ft amd and •wiaJtfcth'els the rnaoe in silence. •If the 'horses and! jockeys are rjot £raicfc'iO'UiS amid1 the ©tart to made din a dhort time, It Is an1 'easy tiMiing for Mr. Vamiderbilt to ward off ttye (hoodoo, 'But lira a race thait takes itiwenlty or 'tihlirty mi!n utee to tmake the start 'ft is qunte a

difficult (matter for 'him tio ward off his enemy. Some one is sure to :stroll ibis way amid engage h'im to conversation. I (It & oorotirary to Qmman miataire to iba •ion speaking itie^mis witihi a Yainderbilt !amd 'not let hli'rn know you are M/v.rng irwhein you see Mm. 'For ibh'i® Teascin' Mr. •'Vamder^lt fo certain to fee overtaken iby many gossdpera. Of toourge, 'he is never to'polite enougii 1K avoild a'n acquia'Unitanioe. He take's ih'iis med'icLne in/ igood ,hiumSr amd tilfeis agaiiri om 'tihe next race.

Hh isieicreit fleak-ed ou)t oin the first day of t?he Mcrriis Parti imeietitrng. After 'the §i9coind r^ice he walked toward a grot. 'of frienids xn 'fhe clu'b -house steps, aruJi tonje them said: "iDM you wwn^ Vamdiefrlbilt?" "N'b tlhat chaij^wiho taJke-d to me dur-

Img th-o race cost me $500. I had $100 or* tiha't 4-tto-l 'horsie, but I 'never can) •win wJiiein amy one talks/ to me." it wiaa a jjireait blunidesr for the milMcin^faire

cob'fesis hi?s wea.kness. His

irfrtends ihave 'faken 'adlvta'ntaige of 4t, anid, Wthemeyer a rtaicie iis on oai'e of them iwii-li say:1 "'Wafrc!h me make Vamiuierbi'l't itosp his Ihuindreid." Them Ihe .goes over land irilsiiis'tis upon .tiailkinig tto the v^oi^p. [Riley Gramma,n 'is naturally superstiittoue, and this Ihoodoo lhas taikea a:n odd form. lA's the greatest plu:r,iger on- tlhia lAmeriioam turf todauy, Grran'nan Tnas natI urally iprovoteed imu'dh cnit^cism by Ms elhi^'b'by cl'ptfhe®. Stranger® wiho see him tor 'fclVe first it'ime are-

d'j3app'iinltncl.

fThey ex.pect to see a main alrr-os't covered .w.i'tih dteirn'oindB and wi'tlh "faultles'sly fitting olo'tihes, .neat ih-eadgear and polttisihed Ibootsi Insteald t.hey see a ir.iam whose looimipliaste ra:im.ent. would 'not 'bring ait puMo auC'tiom $1.25. 'Giraininiain ihas been joked a ©raait deal ia!bou't ihis1 clothes. Ome day lhs ex.plained tlhe mystery tin t'hii's way: "You .fellows cam lau^h all you •please, ibut I oain't afford' to weia.r ©cod c'or hes. 'Y'ee, tlhiat's what I .mean. I oain't afford) iit. Why, oinie day after I had made a ijpretitiy faJiir wtomim\g I ithou'giht I would be .a dude. 3 bougih a ?75 suii't of c?ot'h'e3, am $8 Iha/t and a $1,6 rpaiir of ehoes. The in, 5 spent $120 .for six isuits of siT'k umider-

I toouglht a (half diozen .pair of silk .for

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and paid $300 for a d'ia»'

ano np scairf piirn. Till en I pai'd $120 'for a sraljus watch ohasifn a.nd $175 more fc^r a pair ot dtiam^nid sleeve buPtoina. I didm/t need a watch forT ihad os^, 'but paid $15 for a yellow Ueat'hier case for tny field g^a«'se«. Tihe reuse .had' my 'hiiItiatlS 'i steirita^ silver and a toig eihcudder strap wftSh a yeltow boiok'l'e. 1 paid ?S for t'wp padre of yellow kid1 ©loves. I must ihave span't a thousaind that night. 1 took a Turkish ba^h amid the mex* mormlmg' 1 (put o'n aill the stuff, .^hat ida-y I lost $60,000. 1 -felt Idk# a 3"ser tlhe minute I got to tlhe track, TV"hen I igo't back to the c.it.y that mi&ht II gave away afil tlhe dude tihin'gs except t'he diamomdis. 'And I did'nt' get back my -luck again uaitdl I got a loan O'n 'tfehem. No, ert, I would ratiher 'be lucky •amid look li'ke a Wani^erinlg Willy than iuai'lucky and look l&e a dude. If at (hadn't feei^n .for 'these dude clothes I aixi^ht .have won a m.illi'oin that day."

George S3. Sm'i t'h-, 'better kmow as "'Pi't'tsiburg Phil,' 'tih.e immediate predeces'sar ot Graaiman in the premier ijilunging fcusiiness, toe very mild supersxHionis for a man wfho makes such fbig 'bct'S. He lis hard beaded and praclitioal to ©verytihtajig, auyd believer ti'hut ivsucoess in the foetting rMi'g does mot de^omd upon luck, 'but uipon kno .vled'ge. in-dusti-y and a miiin.ute acquai'mtance Avith a'.? it he comd'ttMoms governing a race.

Snvlt'h for mcmy yearis was -uhe leader of the "ra:l bird's." Toe latter are t'"e (men who ih.ug the rail and watch the (horses at "work early in1 'the mornimg, and jn the limbering-up gallops im the afternoon. Snvith makes his 'bets on the •jforan ehoiwn by the racers, and re'iies •ab^o-luttly on his own judgement as to "whetlhter a horse is lin Winning foirm.

H.rs favorite position durjng a race is jus»t to the left of the judges sl'and. S»:.amidi-^r close 'to 'the raca a»^ has aimcat «s good a view of .'the races as the judges Long experience has given him the facudty of waj ch'img and notingthe work of each horse an che race. He ••us a fine memory, ar.d citiho-ugh forty, Bfty and sometimes sixty 'horses may co'mpete during the afcemnocm* no! ih.jng escapes 'Mmi about rt helr icdtviildual woirk. Houses thait fimiish In the ruck fcmd wfaich are ignored by flhe average be'ttoc aire rear.'emibeied- by SmVih. a.nd jreneraily Isefcre tihe scu-som closes he m*akes a Wig haul cm them. He knows when they are ripe and when the co.n3? ians of 'tihe race should suit them. Smith atiway^ wears am emenadd pin tm th'as scarf, aind h-'s frietfids say tihat be frnvariably rubs (t with his itfaaad before «. nace. Whether die Joes 6t for mascot purposes is a que^tijoin.

Pat Sh^f'dy, the big^^est geumbfter of them aJl, has onily one pecu'^araty oci Uhe jtaoe tracks, amd 'thait iSs to bet every vant he has to -ahe -world at ctne time. •Pat has the greatest contempt for .-R-tiott he coils "door mart" gam.Wers— ^th-art as tlhe bettors who driibble jfout ^heir manej- On tnam-y bets. Sheedy repu'tlaitbon of •being' broke {©fGjner Wilam any other professional fcie (mtoe d^T9

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oiit of ten, Ijiut long experierac* baa •tanxglbt Qiiao tfftuaA tsoyn«c oop dabew foi^ Cuaa cruait tywae waj^ ebxi ivrJteO flfle •d£«8 atba' &se«v£ly fodenC Ttotto tihe iftotit (he idoas tie to pay oft fobs vdiebts. If the Yfitxa two 0^ 4Qnred t'toaes dip ^Ksoesslcci bats «hi& V-esaOltlh of (a goUd mine. Ifie cJ»ei(3S!t fe seeimlLnigty endleea, for tihe leasoin ibhat be hats never yet faijlod ibo make good.

Mike .Dwiyeir, tTae miam •wtho bets |3(?.000 to wiqi $3,000, toaJs ome of 'the oJdfiaehdaaed oomper penmies as bier as silver IhaiJf dollar, -wMclh. ihe itrea^u'rea as a mascott Durfling a race toe aflway» licCds 'tlhte in hie ihtarod to woo th^ fickle goddess. One of his friends laugh rag ly offeireid iDwyer $1,000 lor .'tlhie copper cent but the cfter w»as sertously deoijned.

Tllae bettor wibo rubs tlhe defoirmity of a 'huacihbiaok and Who always faimb at ithe isi®ht of a funeral when an lUheir way 0 .fche 'track aire Jegton. Womctn bettors a.re m'onre saipeHrtutli-ous tlhiam men, amd 'to ciluromdicle aiil of t.l.ne-ir idosyncrasijes "WO'ufldi be a task of vast imk.giniltude.

BREAKING A FARO BANK, fjff

An did filealer^on Some of the Delusions of Gambling. "YicS," remarked1 !bhe ol4 faro dealer to ttlhe New York Preds, as ihe iindulgad to a quiet retrofspactyve smile, "a greaJt many of 'em used! to labor uindeir that same delusion'—came 'in. -with a dhoeetirimg and igo out witlh a 'bamik roll. Tlhat was their ovenruaisterung am'biti'on., and St cost tihem a barrel of moniey (hiuimoriimg it, but rjhey (never tost hope, and th'ey flipped away theiir salaries amd to'oom.es to dimes and quarters witlh mtev€fr »a Tnsurmnir. It wais th-e old', ouial 'some day •we'll''h-it you' .that 'lured 'em on, and. we always1 used' to encouraiga tihem in that .pleaisainit and, lo .us, profitable fallacy. "Why, whew I was dealimg tank'm that Sixth avenue s'hop above Honest •John Kelley-s, QUT bi-ggest piay usi&d? to come 'from those same cheap, W'Onild-toe baink breaikens! On Saturday in^ht, •especially, itihe plaice was full of them, and i/t kept eight of us on. 't'hie jump froim. 9 until 4 the next morning rakinig. im tiheiir i'itt'le t'wo-for-a-cent piuinigeis. "A 'great many of them weire iba:nike(rs' aind brokers' clerk®, amd they were tlhe sons -of rich men who purposely -kept itihem on ©mall aillo wantces iin- the ihoipe tftnat tihey were -iearrvLnig to 'rough it,' as tihey "had done when tlhey were moys. These young cihaps wysu'lid teaoh. itlhrir 'emp'Loyeirs shooti.'m:g diice 'aind playing poller after the exclhari:ge 'had closed and "by SaJturd'ay might they were ready 0 plum.ge itheir last ''bcinie.' Amd let me teill iou now that of ail' mem I ihiawe seem aiiouind' a roaile'tte or fiaro 'layout ineine of 'em could touc?h those bnokers' clerks axw^i oolleg-e boys foir pure, raw nerve. "Your $1,000 pliumij.er i© alii right, but tiha ®2-5 an|d $50, whiicih was all thee'e feiIo\v% had, meant just as much to them/, and they would watch' itlheiir care fare tome wiped away wi'tihout a wimee or change of expre'ssioin. Wlhen you 'get a mam reduced to playiing his car fare o.n tih'a 'turn of the card or the spin of tihe wheel aind he loses it wiith ease.amd grace, you finarve got 'a mam who some day wiiTl malte Wall street squirm, or e'lse wiijl .wiind "up 'im.' Sinig. S'ir.ig. "The little faro 'box and ithe old' roulette wtheel are faithful servaints, and 'tlhey never betray their maisteirs, im the long rum., (bu't someti'me's they wl'll get thoughtless for a spell, and I have seen some marvelous win.n/.'ngs miade off of almost imo.th'in.g. The cases are few and fair bet'weem, though, and When, you ihjeatr a mam d'islecursii'nig cm how he broke the tow.ni om a plugged 10 cent piece you can gamfo0e that thia't man is a heavyweight liar. "You can't beat the little 'box if you stay

iit, and the wild wimnin.gs that

you hear about are made mostly of 'the novices and the amount of winmiings imicrea&tis iin it'he same ratio .that tlhe story .grows. 'Dink' Davis is one' of 'the few o'd gamblers who ever really made a big winning amd did mot go and lose it the next cay or .the .next week. "There was metihod) to 'hi® mtadiness. He :'s the owly man tlhat I know who knew enough to leave the g'aime alone after he had beaten it. "For two straligiht m'ig'ht® he played it, and he played i't na'rd and fast, .bu they were 'oominig .his way,' amd While t'hey came he stuck to it. Those two niglits have gome dowin iinto1 history mow. No or.e before or since 'has' bucked the tiger •with soicih iinidcm'i't.aibie ceuraige, backedup with' 6»ucih marvelous luck. He dD'tul'din't miiiss a be't, amd he oailed the 'Tjrn 'wi t!h ain ease uhat paralyzed them all. "No one wi'il ever forget the oSghit 'Din.k' began Ihijs ws8d-.plum'ge. He was such a quiet, unai-suming chap. Th'at •331 me l'it'Me sjcuil.1 cap .'tihat he wears mow was puJiled do'wm. over hti3 eyes, amd •he placed (hills bets witLi such, modesity Llrjitt the iha'T'ifr words itlhalt were om, every ct.ie's lips faiited tlhem, and they ci&uld omly cash this wCmmlmgs without

g'rumb.le. Aid mighit lomg he pllayed .i.n^ithe same way. He seemed 'to have X.% little scilver box hypnotized, amd aM the .dealleins in tcwri could not break 'Jhe speid. "They tini'ed them aO,l, too called itihem in from different .house®, and in hlis qu'jat, .unpreitem'ii'ous way he laughed •at .them 'aC.l. If hie played 'the ten spot to win it Was a dead open and shut •that: the te.n spot* was going '.tto witn. Every piiTy was pumct'i:a/red by a quiet emrJ.Misils tlhat made {he usuaH jibes and comimernts ridiculous and commonplace. "He was plavlj.-rg the old system, 'double out'—that is, two ca'rds were played to win ami tihe -cMier two to lose. Im 'the ten spot onfiy he fal'leid on the first two plays. "Each itfflme the numter last when he was pflayiimg frt to win amid ,cn the third one he tripled the bet, ain^l the dealer almost had nervous projjtrat'iom. "His wlnmrrngs .th'at wigh't have bee®, e-itima't.ad ait all .the way from §25,000 'to $50,000, but 1 know that all he pulled out of 'the game was somewhere 'between $10,000 amd $15,000. 'Dimk's* was oh:e best winmimg tliiat I have ever known of, amid it tvas become a unit of measure, but I have setm equaMy as good mcmey pulled cut om the captftal inves'te'd. "Cete T.iigh't a ycumg HaTvard chap came itnHo rav s* pCa^e in Twentyeig(hi »h stree't. He had justt i0 bemts to pay hus car fiare to dire G-rand Central station, a'"d he left fiiife hfatell with the firm resolve of keepimg it. He .had two hour©, however, before hte tra&n left, ond he decoded to play Mb surplus with DBrck 'amd get a. good dinner along with iITSS plusn'ge. "He ca?me Snto the rcorn witho-ut ainy attempt at coincfeatimg his free lunch sch«gne. amd anr.ounced frankly that he was goirvg tb p3'ay 10 cente worth, and then gt down amd eat up $he dfrnner. He put (Ms dSme otn No. 17 on the rouleute tibia and we gave h3m a stack of quarter cihilps. "He fc*3 '^atml,' and 00 the next spiini h*e soa'tteTed b*is qiaarter chips aU over (ihe board amd caught a 'flat foot.' Thait gave Ihfcm a gogd start, aind ihe followed i?t up. tfeeifoni either ihe or we knew St ihe haxi won $60, amd then he decided •to oas& in s*nd go d-own to dimmer

After dimmer he found ilh&t he couHd 20 Sooto^t, amd: 'lie

giavfe $50 •tot jb frttead am*} spent the remajtojtjnig $10 4a a stack of fettles. I cevjw seew. luck ran the way fy did for him i{hjat KiBghit. He ooxaldiri't tti^? AI 'fiiait foot/ Uiie tmied. "Onto© ihe lefit 36 moo^retned', amd Jufft betfore I itw*trled tlhqhlaill he dinopped1 tihie last &mr cthips Qv?^^uin lit, and it jumped .up }u3t as Pt knew •wihait a sucl^er tit was b\raWSn.'g agalknat. [He' won ahtout $40 on ttotit 'bet alone, and hid tfiajci ftfite: aerfis^ feafefhi to amid go home. Oil thtart offte 10 'cerat piece Ihe had gofb a sootir dimtner that was worth $2 tamd $160 6n- cafeh b'esM'es. "He ihiae tveen toere a dozen' tfenes eiinice amd I suppose we. hiatve got •tlhat $160 baJok misuny flime®, "but toa doean'it kmotw i'L He .te Wvfeng stfeHi om the etren'gtlh of that wOn and ^omdJy Jvettteves that he Is tiway alhead of itlhe game. "Amid tihere are humidireidis just like ihiau."'

WHALING WITH LIVE WIRES

A. Captain.Who WiU toad the Harpoon 'YI -tVith 10,000 Volts. (Now lit dis.ipropoised 'to fit ouit a wihMSne veetsel wiith a dynamo and toll wihales toy a current of electricity seant throug-h the 'harpoon, says a New York ietter. The salt had iso much faith, tin this scheme 'thia't he (has engaged' aia d'aotrJciam to 'build a dynamo that •would' generate sin. aUternating cuirremt of 10,000 volts. That .dymiamo he will have rigged up ata ihsis .slhip, and then1 he wdll sail 'aiwiay to the North, to capture the 'whole in, a fim de si'elcl'e manmer.

Captalin Charle's W- Hers'heHl of Halifax, owner anidi coanimamder of 'Che whaQtotg ship Rosalie, iils ithie mam who imv tends .to wipe ou the customs and' tra-^ diitions of .tihe wihal'ilng to'diuistry with, a' small wire anid a 'l'arge dynamo.

As to tihie method of application., thte captaun explained it las follows: "I aim 'goittvg 'to place the dymamo om the whaletr iamd mot put iit to operation, until the why'.ling grounds are reached. Om ibca.rd I will tuarve a 'big reel of heavily insulated wine. 'The reel will be placed im .tihe smaller •boat, in wihfrch we go out to m©et ithe whale. We shall lhaive seveiral thousand feet of wiire on the reel. One end "vVii'II •be commeofced with 'the fiyinama At .the other end. wihiich will be tin the smaller 'boat, will Ibe a 'hard rutibar st'ilcik four feet im .length. Tlhe wire will be run 't'.h.roug:h tihat stick, so ithat it may be handled easily aind safely. "At the end of tlhe stlick will be attached a piece of metail twenty-four tnches «4o'Wg 'amd one l-acfh im diameter. The point of that meedCe wifljl bo sharp, so as to penetiahe the flesih of the whale •easily. "The halrd .rubber stick andl t'he IbJIg n)3«d'le wt'll be us^ed just ae we use tlhe {harpoon, today. When ear the 'big fish, as. near as. we get .te the old waV, the Iharpooijer will throw the eletotric barb. "At tlhe tfime there wiOl be a curren't of 10,000'vollas ruirnnin'g t'hroU'g.h 'the wiffte. When the poimit cf the rneedle strii)ke3 the wibaile a currem't comnection will fce foirmeid with Ihe dynaimo amd 'the whale will g'et the tfuffl 6'ho.ck of tlhe high voltage, air.d wi'il 'be dead to.'the 'fraction of a setcomid."

NOSE MEED FEAR IT.

The Pyramid Pile Cura Cures the Most Aggravated Cases of Piles with Absolute Safety.' *'r*v

Pyramid Pile Cure will cure the most aggravated case of hemorrhoids in an astonishingly sfhort. time. It relieves the congested parts, reduces the tumors instantly no matter how large, allays the inflammation and stops the aching or itching ai once.

Thousands who had resorted to expensive surgical treatment have been cured by the Pyramid Pile Cure—in a number of instances persons who had spent months in a hospital under a pile specialist.

It is a remedy that none need fear to apply even to the most aggravated, swollen and inflamed hemorrhoidal tumors.

If you are afflicted with this stubborn disease you can master it and master it quickly. This remedy is no longer an experiment, but a mecUcarcertainty. It is manufactured by the Pytfaraid Drug Co., of Albion, Mich.

Druggists sell it at 50 cents per box. It is becoming the most popular pile oftre^Jiis country has ever fenofaii and cfrngensts everywhere are ordering it for tlieir dus« tomers.

Flirting Danfferonp In Sicily. Ip Sicily young inen who are eligible partis have to exercigo extreme oafe in th^ir demeanor toward young ladies. To dance with thorn eo often a# to bo remarked, to attempt to talta t^bxn alone, is, td use {ho ingenuous expfdis^n of an Italian friend of mine, to be eipopted to make you their fututo-in-law. lower classed a vendetta results if pays attention to an unmarried gl out marrying her. Yendottas are qu!to prevalent still. I heard a characteristic and rather amusing story about one the other day. A gentleman's coachman did bis part In a veudettu and was sent to prison for a term—there being no capital punishment in Sicily. His master went to visit him in prison and asked if ho could do anything f&r him. "Yes, signor if you will pay half a franc a day for me, I oaa have better ropm and better food and a shave." Heattaohcd most importance to the shave. If a man gees his' brother being murdered, not moro than any one olso in the crowd will he do anything to bring the offender to justice. He may not even interfore, but he will take, it upon himself as a saored duty to kill the murderer whenever I10 has him at his morcy.—London Queen.

LHthe

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Glass For Bearing*.

Should not something more be done than is being done, experimentally if not practioally, in the use of glass for bearings? Somo experts speak highly of it for wood working machinery. It is said to require less care than any other material, running with little oil and keeping cool. In methods of shaping and cutting glass such advances have been made that it should be now a comparatively simple matter to adapt it to general use. Glass sleeves could, of course, be easily furnished, perfectly true, both inside and out, and there are numerous places where such sleeves, bushes, thimbles, or whatever they might be oalled, oould probably be employed wjth groat satisfaction. Glass would probably be better adapted to high speeds than to heavy loads.—American Machinist.

George Eliot and "Komola," George Eliot's first arrangement with the publisher of "Romola" was for no loss a sum them 10,000 guineas. "As that is so very large a figure," he said, "I must run it through 16 numbers of The Cornhill." "No," she aBswered. "Itraust ftoiah In 13 numbers, or the artistio effect of the story will \o lost. I quite understand the necessity for its prolongation from a commercial point of view, so we'll say 7,000 guineas instead of Che 10,000." And 7,000 guineas was accordingly paid for the copyright. Three tbousnbd guineas seems a largo sum to give up for an ar£istlo scruple, but she did it.

Tickle your palate by smoking Sweet Moments cigarettes. They are the best.

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Castoria*

TERRE HAUTE JfXPRESS JUESDAt MOKt^mo- JUNE 2, 18S&.

MG£YE GLASSES Ubl!fi

PBS? ABAT10N8 FOR A spnumno BX' RXBMTO TO KBXICO JUNE IA. "m

Oxford and :Hkrrard Professors Hope to Winders with Their Mew Telescope* ha "S 4^

ato-epawa fortune (tor the mere sake df looking alt id slJair seemfa aaxyttiMrug iboitt a goaexvtiifio pToceadn/mg" yet &xr months past .tihie worM's scieait&Jts ihlaive ibeea making tihs' cosStlSeiitt pxepamtiioins tfcxr tihat very ttfhtag amid wtWl begSmi t'he woirk il'Q Juovsv iwrSkei O. 45. Rus@eU Sod tihie iSte, Iyou'js GlbtoePittemtobrsut.

Oa tihie 12Ui fd£ m»exit iraomtlh! itlhie plam'Qt Mails ia to petWi'rfetiaini, ais the astronomefra say, wlhljoh tmeaina tlhialt tit wil'l itttnea ibe mefeLiriest tiha Bm- Am 'extpeidlltJomi, com-* prisimg memiberts'cif Itlhe faieuBty of alt tihe fteadbng uniJvieriSitijeis to tihieoofumifcry, also of Oxford, CJaimlbTOd'ge, TlrinlJty amli Barcelona, wi© on tll".lat day ineiuguiraibe Sn Me^too clfcselrva»ti'oirjs of Mars. The clhJa.rooter LIS such it/halt t'hie gteaitoft reanBits are expected.* Thie "l^oirk will (bo iraatd® umidieir Idhe spettiaA su^srvialion cif tthe Hairvaird otoservatary st'aff. /The aomiciwhat lhaiokneyeid! ipjgibli&miS •reigandtoig Mairs are anafc to .ifoiun ,tttie dhieiife .- euibjcictls o'f tovteiat^altaoT^.' (Flap i£r,osgi.ti)t. Tlhe daauails o'f tiiae jtoiii^t iieiail'liy Ibekhng to lamlaienit hiSStiory mow. The quieisitjgijf of lohe popuilaittiiomi of Maws w41i! Ibe approached frtocn amotSheir stankipqim't ajltog"eit'her.

Cami'lLe Fi'a.mimaiilto'n, Itlhlei tfeumioue Fremcihi Eitar .gazer, iwiho thJais. itlaken the igrealt'est imtere'st to ifhie ciamtog expiedit'ibm, giiives tli as ih&a opinion that the canaHs cam. mo flonger ifi'gune to asSfcronomy as ICTQ malim, elemue.mt of imtportiar.ee to IJhie fieiry planet. In. ithfe iSohUa'p^Tellii the mo less ^m'imemlt BtalSan) afeltral expert, coiniai'dtis. The Hairvairld) afuj^horitties, toeeidting tlinase vtielwiS', h'^ve had Itlheir mciiv $60,000 lens, dcmfet'ructied isoilely 'for 'tlhie purpose of'tihe esspediiitlom, .refreacted) Cor general exaim/Lmiatiom loommtect'ed wiitihi CVllams. Not ia. Eiaiinti'lla O'f eviidienoe Ibealrlinig tiipom' tlhe exisit'eimoe of 'dlwelters' on 'tlhe eujlface of 'tltoapiamieit will ©sciaipe Itlhe storuitfimy o'f tOneiwatcihie'risi,

The (regritom. of Oaxaca, ia ®IDeodi!oo, amd .tlhe meigfliibca-hwa' otf tfluetceipiittaa city ctwere sieQected' ais the ©ilte for tihe t-eaiporairy .crciae'rv'ialt&ry, (because ino» wihere el'sie to frthijwioiriid c-iam the reld stair 'foe gazed) uptein. 'to ttetter a/dvainitiase..,

The aeixim(pamiyljn|g paraph'smaliaJ Ihlave /toe.em to ,propesis jlf tmannrfajcture ftar tliiree yiaiaals. mhieimeichla.rJ:isim lie ep di^K'ai'be tlhlait (tfhireie exici&fecUilnl^ly mlimuite ipr.in.gls hioild it t'to 'oqrJtirol.

!I»t

w.'il!

'fc-e £lh/ .pped on a sip^ii.all' icair wt'thto a •fie/w day®, a»'3 atfltajicih'es of 'tlh^ dbsieirvar* tory «:re to laiaaompahy 'ift tlhorougih tio ais Jd'eiiUi-natten..

The adhlJeveinueinitSs ctt aistonomfcumters to 'th3 past (have tofe'em, woridlrou'is, todieed, t'he reisui'tis :c'f (tlhl.'ls1 Aimerlicain um-

(but

d/c'rtak:in.g aire iciomiftdiemit'ly expeiptieid to "become ihil-itioiritoail. Ten thbuisamid dol(lars lis ithe sum expended upon the phoitog!raiphiinig. 1a.ppliiajr.ic/e0 ailcine.

Perhaps tfhug wSd^lbe .the fiirdt t'iimte Whle •klime tosoope ihais ever fig'tu'ed .as a fatc'tor to aistt.Tonioim'y. It nvi:M re.gijstelr mtoety changes to a eeiccmid, a slower fralo tion of tCm-e ithfain lamiy previously 'relcioTidied. Tihie 'gr!a.nd toifaail 'df expense foir lth.e •um'dieiriaiktimg its a round Ih&Iif mi'lEion dolQia.'ilo.

No womdeir (the as'tiromomidal worii looks fox very 'diaftniite 'results regarditnig the mciihent'oois .amd fascirtatimg riddle of poputoWon'. .But 'tlhat is by no means t'he 'far away star, must answer.

As every .school- boy would know if he studied his (lessons-, Mars' 'is the planet whose orbit iis mea.rest the eairth." The coming expeditiiom will 'aiscertaini it, ithaniks to tlhe direction® of Pro'fess'or Pickening., but it is about 4,400 m'il'&s. Mare is 139,000,000 miies from the sum.

On, Juime 12 next ithe expedition, according to its own calculaiiion, wiiill view the planet when it is .nearly five times as bright as ithe ordinary phases allow it tk .be. The star will alls© be mosit bril'Mam tly illuminated 'by the ray® of t'he sum an.d, as iits 'diiisitance from the earth will be m'o more '.'than 33,80i)',000 miles, t'he superb telescope will 'com miamd iit perfectly::

Only omce every seventy-.m'fri'e years cam. Mars be examined under .the most, favorable auspices, when the blazer of the plla.net ds so gdrgeou.-/as to lead to the impression r-thak it is a new star.

The highest' as'Crono.mtea.l skull will be deployed, eo to speak,' to gather facts for the science. {Not alone the staff Of Harvartl's Obse rvatory, but representatives of t'hue Lick stiaff of the Greenwich Observatory, of the astronomical observaltory In Turin, amd numerous otiher seaiis of the heaverily science are to take part in the 1'om'g Mexican vigils. The reports of the work are to be tramsilat-ed toito' every European lamguage.

The people who Jive on Mars, assuming- them to have amy ex is ten ce at all, •are to be left without amy excuse for not knowing of our existence, although we may mot be thoroughly aware of t.heirs. The 'Martians must, in the nature of things, be far im advance of ourselves intellectually, pnyswalily, amtd it may be morally, as they are older thain we. No dou'bt they Wave tried to communicate with us, but owim'g' to our lack of co-operation, no message has been, as it were, deilivened.

Jamille Plammarion' is

TIO

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some highly important to vest ig atuo-ns into the nature of the media through which Martian .imifermaficm. must necessarily be .tramsmittod. He was at first inclined to suspect that a ray of light would ainsweir the purpose. That is why we heard so muclh a fe# years ago a'bou.t the feasibility Of a ^radiant efful'gemve systematica'Iily cc^ rived uxon our earth's surface as a sigmal to our fellow creatures, if it be -not ftoo fanciful t-o call them so, so maJi*y mi'liion!, miles away.

But FViammaricin has a'terj'3 his view®.' He mow inclines to the theory of am air current dexterous.'y directeff as a. connecting thread of latmcspihefe alonig^ which eiignals, perhaps aci:s arift' dee^.s, may be made manifest and effective.

Omce .the 'M'm'in.rfeimf?- ether mow ^u.nderi'ng Ma.rs amd earth like a dividing chasm has beem pemetrat'Sd the Whole difficulty vanishes. Then not messages, but meetings, how 'imperfect and .partifaa their nature matters little, becomes ordimary as the Atlam'tio cable. These are the co'nsjderations wikiah impart^ to June 12 Ti'eoct an, almost feverish expectancy from-, the astronomi-dal stamdo:m t.

The young men ifixwn Hairvard, Ox-foi-kl and etea^ihere are mow the eravy of •thleir less favored /elOorw-stuident®, mot itlhat tlhe cold amd oalcailfeLt to« prtyfiessors ailow lamyitihllng- buHimiatSiteiroatticaSly ex'aicit consideaTaitC.ioms, to eniaer ta'to lHveflr foredastB df -the result. Moreover, fit would' toe raitCier tfaTt&al im them to ffrtake extravagant teiafemd ss to whJatfc tlhey hto(pe to aEfcetritatp^ Fiallure tto mealdze tihe?ir exipecta'Aoms wortM. auibjecS .them to ridf.cule. N€»ver,tkiicijesB, tihe expeditfJcxn has such far-oeetog- ends fen vieiw tihait -ev&n. tihe coolest otf "Che ast)nomit|meTis hbive (beaxii tesmpbed taito spetoutot-ijnig up001 cetrtaim posfeSfofildtSes jtruvobireid to what may ensue iwSueo "tihe cBscioveirtes are m'ade.

ad tiise jgprc&t: Sclitfapare^il.

puts jif am un/wDtrttogly oftered sne*dhun SI qointmiuriscatioia -pneoexited to tihe 'My t!ja.ns ty oureeavee. On that kmeR. Uhey are sa rfiar our supeotons tin. toVeiZjgenice «s mo ibe 'atoife to setee oppcirtuinltties Wtei-oh we would fall mot akure 00 tlake sktwuBftBgei df, .bu't even, to see. "Were ttfug MartSamis analavoktat It/hey imigihit oadaajoar twihlait weiw ouM mabtaitoe tor u. It rtamtfftwkyiM IS«!«3nijO OOIKVlll^iOn, Ibut wtoiJchjfei Teafljty mufit be ain-adt otf tuo&tfiJ.'Sy OBI, their pant. 'Be these •tihltogs as they m%y^cund mb doufclt tihe 'ima'ssas of omanktod will i»otihiieir theiiir atea'ds very Btltte a*bo.ut fthieim 5K fair a» ajctbuafl, .wtarrttare its oontoerneid, s8r?hiiaipwiroicii and 'Fiaimma.iCoa tio tthe ttODifenaaqf nlc*tiwftld»rtlajr.iQljiig, at Is liniter•eetdng to »o«e (djufe oamiparatt\jveily »elc-onidiajy-arnjwatlamise of thetdasaiils.

OThiSA© oamal's of Mans Hnt.vie .been, pretty wieil exploited ib-y t^iis time. ThEa escpedS'Ston olf HairvanldJs h%us rewdesrad iithiS •scfjemoe «Jf aistlnonomy a ga'aat servlJce !by dJemactniS'traitlihug (flhait itlhe ihntaiiaiii eye, a'jetfrd tihouigth ijft ibe by the most powerful items imajn •ctam KJervflae, 3s powerless .to diet'ermOine tlhie quessttlJoni taf ltihie realty of Maifs" den'Saene. Oot^latieriEil evildenice, the ibasstiimony d( pertformamces midt of origans or ibedinigs, miudt Ibe itlhe fimaJ au'tihiOtt^itiy. Uipon th'iis phaise df -tlhte proibleim wuill atbemitlion. itfe canicen'taated.

Not oan amy ome douibt who umidieristlamtdb tih/a ftesxnliing', tlhie /wealth, tfae gerJiiij^, anld miore tiham evem. aH thiese, It'he umrweartrng1 pa'Cferaoe amd industry. Of our starry itoSQiersi, lt!ha/t a^ tmiumph of mo orddnlatry igKanideaur awallts 'tihem to tttveir approaching- June vig'jl.

Onily once to se^iemity-trtiinie yeaj*s dioes tlhlis lekteeroess Ito Mar® odcr^.r, artd (by tftie

:t8me

Sit soimtls oroumid' a©ato—'tlhiough.

we shall mot be hiere tto know It—fit maiy Ibe 'tihiaft Mams aind ttoe dafftis^ iwili tialk itogether litoe "meutiBvieis." '^y

AT THE AQUARIUM.

A Snrprlse Cor a Mjkn Not Familiar With BaHfiras Characteristics. A oeareighto^ stranger who saw a bnllfgo($ standing on its htock Tegs and resting its ffre feet ag*iost the glass front of one of tha tbnk^ in the aqijariupi stopped to look at it. It was a big biillfrog^ oihe that Tvouiameasuro about a foot eyteqded, and it stoo^ there as motionless as au imago except for the silignt regtHat movement th^t respiratioh imparted to its ex-1.,' pansiv^ throat.

The stranger was not an e^ert ij) ^rogs, bub h$ oould dee that this was" a find liullfrog. lcoked as though it had been stafeding thar§ for a month and was going to stand there in Just that attitude till next Fobrth of Jhly, and &e was intoMated. Heiatew neaf^r to examine ft. His hhb w?ltp toughed the front of .the tank, ana hp topJtms liat off so that he could get closor'tp the glass.

He saw the broafl, flat top of the bullirfaoo of the like dormer Wirfaofts. Jast below tbef water he saw the frog Is great mouth, running around eo far that he almost wondered, as many people had wondered before, whether the top of the frog's head wasn't held on 6ya hinge at the back. Ho counted the toes on tjhe frog's fore feet, which rested against the glass, and found that they numbered four each. Descending to the legs, wliicji rested on the bottom, ho had ju§t di&ooverod that one foot had five toes while the other had only four, when suddenly the tka£ seemed full'of bullfrogs. It was like a bullfrog fireworks, with bullfrogs flying ati~d tumbling in all directions at onoo for just ouo moment, and then everything was still again, and anybody not qn ^expert in bullfrogs who had seen this bviljifrog in its nejv Attitude over on the other side .of tho tank, motionless as an image, would have thought that ic had boon st&ndiif 'there sinoo last autumn and was going to stand there till next fall, at least.—New York Sun.

frog's head jubt abOvo the water, with the e&jps projee low:

Grant's Indifference.

General Sherman, illustrating the difference betweon his own mental and moral makeup and Genoral Grant's,^said: "When have arranged my plans and made iby dispositions for a battle, I am anxious abou$ what the enemy may bo doing on the other side of the hills. But Grant', after be has made his arrangement, don't care a picayune for what the other sido is doing."

A story told by Senator Jones of Nevada and reported in Mr. Willard's "Half a Century With Judgos and Lawyors" shows General Grant as self reliant in private lifo as he wa3 in military. ihe general, while walking out in the suburbs of Washington, frequently met a tutchor driving a horso to which he took a strong liking. After much negotiation ho bought the anifnal and had it taken to [lis stable, whore one day Senators Conkling and Jones were i&vited to look at the new purchaso. "Well, gentleman, how do you like the horso?" askeid Grant after the animil had been inspeoted. "How much did you give for him, Mr. President?" asked Cohkling. "Four hundred dollars." "I'd rather have tho $400 than the horse," rejoined Conkling. '•That's what the butcher thought," coolly romarked Grant, pulling out a cloud of smoke. "Put him back into the stall, John."

His Rum Rations.

W. j. H. Nourso of Boston, who was a member of Genoral Wolseley's Nile expedition of 188|l, tolls some interesting stories about it. "iSvery evoning," he says, "wo had a ration of Jamaica rum served to us. At first we were allowed to oarry off our giii, but the men got to saving it up in a bottle for a blow out, and so we were mada to drink it on the spot. In our command were firemennamod Pratt—not ono of thom related. Four wore temperance men and would not cake their rum. But Johnny Pratt had no such scruples, and every timo 'Pratt' wascallcd he would Btop up and get the gill. Five gills gave him a pretty good edge, and one day he went up to George Pratt. 'Shay, George, have you any brothers?' ho inquirod. 'Yos, four,'was tho answer. 'Whyinthunder didn't they enlist?' Later on, howovor, several of tho other Pratts wont into natural history and piokled scorpions and similar reptiles and insects in their rum rations. This Johnny never approvod of. It cut off four-fifths of his supplies."

Ineennooa.

Mr. Stilby—Really! Miss Chatter, I don't soe how you find so much to talk about. I am very glad to have boen introduced to you. It is a' pleasure to Iwar an original person talk.

Miss Chatter—Yes. Our hostess said she thought we would get on nicoly together. I think pooplo of opposite characteristics are always likely to bo congenial, don't you?—Detroit Free Press.

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No. 4,086. State of Indiana, county off Vigo, ss.: In the Superior Ooiuijt of 'tfigo county, Alarc*h 'Wfh, 180$. Oorft^lta. A. £F\irraw vs. X-fasinah Slussor, Benjamilni

Wiilhelm, as cross complainant Jn the above cause, having filed his cross ccmpla .TDt therein, slko an affidavit rftowing "that defendant, Han.n^ah Slusser, is nott a resident of Ch4s state tftat itoe cause of a^tian alleged in affiant's crol3« co-m-p'aint in this actiron is oomrLdotod wiith tiud founded unon a ccmtiact in £t)Uioii, to real estate tn ?.his siute, Mjo vjat the object of afflam'? ci-oss complaint lp. tms e.cti®sn te to enforce a lion upon Fsai estate in thds state." Now, therefore, toe it known, th«» on the 12ith day of May, ISM, it ^as^'vdtlred by tho court, that the clerk .notify tv ^ahhoatdon, sa'.'d Hannah Slusser, as n6n-re^. debt defendahit of the tion ailesred against ber i*aid orosa ccun-

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fore he.^ n'otdiied of 'rti&^dwncy of said action against her, and she 'be 'aind aipfearon the th5rty-th^rd (33rd) juditSall day of the June term. 1|96, of the Suitor CouTt of Viso county, to be holden on the ninth (9th) dav of July. la». at the court house in Terre Haut(S in KiO county and state and answer or demur to said oros3 complaint, the same will bo (Heard and determined In hor, aJhsence.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand aij'J affix the seal of said court uhds iith dav of May, 1SD6.

Atitest: Hugh D. Bequo^

POLITICAL

We are authorized to announce the rama of Joseph as a candidate for county commissioner of thy Second district *uoject to the decision of the Republican, county convention.

authorized to announce

niame

of Andrew

tho

Wiseman

township

Suear Creek

candidate

for

missioner

county

com

of the Second

to the

district, subject

decision

of the

Republican

county

convention. Wo are authorized W announce the name of William Tichenor as a candidate for the office of prosecuting attoiin^y of the Forty-third judicial circuit, subject to the decision of the Republican county convention, Juno 6, 1896*

The undersigned will bo a candidate for county commissioner, Secoi-d fcjtrict, subject to 121® decision of the Kep&Jlvcan nomiAiaitflng convention.

James W. Haley.

James E. Ptety is a candidate for the office of Judge of the Vigo Circuit Covrt sobjeot to the deC^oa of thfe Republican county convention. "N^rtttistamding the Express editorial of May 25. I am sciH a candidate for #tate senator, subject to fhe^ of the deiefpatses of •fen Repubiioan vantion.

coumt7 cvon-

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Ohartcs M. Daggett will be a candiaate. beft,VB the ReirubMcaji ftaminittnig coaveotdofl tor sfos pc^tf.on of ooaaty com-