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For President,

•WIH/TAM MeKINLET of OHIO. For Vice-President, ttARKETT A. HOB ART of New Jersey.

For Governor,

James a. mount. S*«r Lieutenant Govern^ W. S. HAGGARD. &or Secretary of 8tat

W. D. OWEN. For State Auditor, A. C. DAILY. 'Tor Sta*te Treasurer,

F. J, SCHOLZ.

For Attorney Gerueral, Wit. A. ICETCHAM. Far Reporter Supreme Court,

CHARLES F. HEMY.

(far 0E»ertntervdeat Prfbiic

Instruction,

D. M. GREETING. For State Statistic ia-. BiMEON J. THOMPSON.

For Appellate Judges.

First District—W. D. ROBINSON. «estmd District—WM. J. HENLEY, Third District—JAMES B. BLACK. Fourth District—D. W. COMSTOC&.

Fifflh District—U. Z. WILEY. Tor Congress, Fifth Distrlot, GEORGE W. PARIS.

For Judge Circuit Court, JAMES E. PIETY.

W JProsecutor Forty-Nhird Judicial Distrtet WILLIAM TICHENOIW

For Senator,

JACOB D. EARLY, For Representative, WILLIAM H. BERRY. CASSIUS H. MORGAN.

Ver-

fW Jtatot RiepregenUtf.ive, Sullivan, million and Vigo, ORA D. DAVIS.

For Coroner,

ALARIC T. PAYNIi For Treasurer, WiLTON T. SANFORIX

For Sheriff,

JOHN BUTLER. For Surveyor.

.WILLIAM H. HARRlSt For Assessor, WILLIAM ATHON. •For Commissioner,

First District—THOMAS ADAlfv Second ^istriot-ANDREW WISie^-MAN.

Farmer Bryan seems to 'be taking1 two weeks' rest right in haying time.

Mr. iSewall 'does mot 'put his wealth in barrels .but in HegZ (He will now proceed to open a smaiil keg.

We canot regret that Bryan prefers his own a-clvilee to that of Senator .Jones, as Jones is thie wisest of the two.

Mr. W. C. P. Breick.'Tiftelige in his resolve to lead a better Hife has left his olid companions arid joined the sound money Democrats.

Bryan's trip to New "York seems to have been a quotation from Napoleon's journey to .Moscow. He is welcome to it and can keep it.

One reason that a 53 cent dollar goes eo far in Mexitoo is that its owner iveare a raiw hide sole an'd a shoe string instead of a good shoe.

That bill for. damages by fillibusters that Spain will present to the United States will not realize 53 cents on the dollar, nor be worth a Brytan dollar.

The root 'dif'ttoe .hot Weather feM from the sky in Arizona :l.ast week, in the shape of an aerolite, and made a twoacre hole tn the ground. It is cooler now.

Anyone that has seen a rablbit get a.way on flour.feet can guess how fa.r Bryan'e twenty ralblb'lts' feet wall take him. He wi.ll be a hard man to find next year.

The s'econd heat in the New York oratorical 'contest •co'meis' off tonight. It seems to be conieed'ed hat the Nebraska wonder is outclassed 1j the New York campaigner.

The Frenltfh-tOanadians in Maine cannot talk much English, but as. "protectfon" looks alike in French and English, and silver doets not, they are going to vote for Mionsieur McKinley.

(Mr. Pile, la'te secretary of the national silver party, was incinerated under the direction of a theosophic society. It was not an unnatural combination, free sllverism, theosophism and incineration.

A good old lady put her watch into the collection .for the missionary cau-e at a revival meet-ins down east and now her son. who don't think "time is money" is su'ing the preacher for the watidh.

They say that Mr. Bryan can remember faces and names wry well when Mts. Bryan is near to tell him what they are. The conv otion is growing

that Mrs. Bi-yan ought to have been the nominee.

Btryan and Watson are for irredeemable paper, Bryan and Sew-all are for 63 cent silver dollars and McKinley and Hobart are for 100 e^nt dollars, one as good as another. The farther you go the better it grows.

Enjoy good health' by using Price's Cream Baking Powder.

Dr.

The Bryan-Democratic campaign eomimititeee eahnot be cabled a national committee, as there is not a man on It from east oef Ohio, and the Ohio man is the money Barred called John R. McLe«an. The man "from Vermont don't count.

"The demo net! ration of silver out off one-hall^of the demand for si'ver," say the free coiners, one-half of what demand did it cut off? iPrior to 1S73 on£y g.031,238 silver dollars had been coined In this country. The totail of dbllans

Van Foozleum has one of those sensitive organizations which catches everything ifrom the first tooth to a wig. He hais gone through, meastes, scarlet ras'h, scarlatina, imnmps, toneil.itis, whooping cough, dilphtheria, flatisim, socialism, apaism, silver ism, theosoiphy and 'faith cu-re, and no he is moulting through the single tax. His aged iparenbs think he iwS live to be a real tiro nig man iif he is 'fuiLly acielimated to tihe American oliimate'.

IS myth, the Democrat'iic chairman in Nebraska, has made a great discovery. He has run aground of the fact that "the po,p definition- of fusion is that the pops ifiurnish the .candidates while demo-pops heOp to elect them." It has b^en a painful discovery for .the Bnyariites to learn that the Popuilists have ilearnetd the difference befcwen a shadow andabone and that they don't propose to let the Demoora.te play pitch and toss with 'the co.in that says "heads I win, tai£s you lose."

The New York World said on Thursday, "We do not think there is another silver advocate in the country who could write &o able or so effective a plea for his cause as that of Mr. Bryan." The World must have a poor opinion of silver advocates in general, as it said next day, Friday, "Mr. Bryan's speech lacked dignity, consistency, elevation of thought, stateiani2.n.ship. There was too much of assention without proof, of convictions having no visible- [foundation. His words were those of a politician appealing to ignorance rather than to reason —to paiseion and prejudice rather than to princijple.

Ch-e mists agree that' Cream Baking Pow&er pure.

a-ntf sulbeidSary attvesr coined) beiw-een esttord B. Hayes, your old ookm«l, as 173* And im mem ot the- tata.f president at the United State*, to otrte that promise In the Resumption txf coined since 1973. WBat demand was cut off, «kw» ebe„4emaj^ alter 18711 'O C/i

WdKiam M. Si®€parly, Democratic ecfrdtorr and a fafce Democratic oan-dWa for gw«rnor orf Pemwyhratila, tbinfcs hie state will give 400,000 majority for MkfiEOiniley. Stingeriy imgpresses one b!s .being' a very coneerva^ve sttd ^eX-ooa-tained man.

Mr. Blaine, who was a« tactful anrd •happy in every ptibllc address that he delivered, made a mistake in going to New York, or such as Burehard made it for him. Mr. Bryan went to New York with much less capital and bankrupted himself more promptly.

Senator Qorsnan does not seem to get along any better with the Bopocracy than with the Cleveland Democracy, but protoaJbly the last MSck is the most htim-fria/tlng.'' He feels Mke the widow whose grietf was anixed with shame because her husband had been, kicked to dea'th. by a anule.

The avera®e citizen wthen he finds a merchant has charged him two pr.fce» for an arti'efle apt to exclaim that has been ro'Hbed. John Sherman wa^ not far out of th,e way in denouncing the unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, while the true ratio ks 32 to 1, as "Iflraud and robbery."

Few can ddsipirte^ihe •wi-S'dom of Senators Oorman and Jones in preventing Bryanls wild' 'goose chase into Maine, yet after the -exliibkkrr~of Mr, Bryan's wsant of practicai sense his plan of opentinig the 'headquarters sut Chicago has been adopted and the name over the door will be Ailtgeld, Bryan & Co.

It is said that the arrangements for admitting 'the people' to hear Bryan at Madison ISquare were very bad, but emptying the hall was much better as the people commenced to leave soon after the speaker began and steadily oozed away without any crowding. All they wanted was to get out.

It was not the n-dlnina'tron of Lincoln, Grant, Blaine -ana"Harrison that made t'hem great men, 'but their greatness made theim nominees. The accidental suiocess of 'Mr. Bryan was as independent of his record as 'the convention was indifferent to it. It wJH never be known if Bryan- is a great .man until 'he has done something to show that he ie, or has the chance to show it.

It shoull'd' .be ramembercd that the experienced Democnatic leaders (predicted that If the Chicago convention declared for free coinage at 16 to 1 it wouf2d desnuipt and ruin the Democratic party. Mr. Bryan 'has discovered during Ms visit to New York that the Democratic party in the East is ruined for years to come an'u can do notihing to insure his election. He 'will make more discoveries during his travels.

Dr. Price's is perfectly

Mr. MbKinley said more for honor, -Pri-mary-.

honest money, and patriotism in the

brief extract below from his talk to

lli® war comrades than Bryan could

overcome in eight columns of sophiscry

and fal!acy in

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Lincoln: Washinig'ton told us over and over again that there was nothing so important to pr&sarve as the nation's honor. He said that the most inrprtrtani source of stiren-g"th was the public credit, and t'hat the best method of preserving was to use it as sparingly as possible. N'o government can get On without it preserves its honor. No government is great enough to gat «n without it. In the darkest days of the Revolution Robert Morris, its financier, went to one of his friends in Philadelphia, aifter he had involved himself as a debtor for a large sum of money on account otf the government and said to him: "I must have $1,500,000 for the Continental army." H-is friend said: "What setcur'i»ry oan thee give, Robert He answered: "My name and ray honor." Quick came the reply: "Robert, thou shalt have it." and from thvt hour until now the country's honor had been our anchor in every stonm. Lincoln pTedgpd it when in time of war we issued pajper money. He said: "ESvery dollar of that money shall be made as good as gold," and it was left to Ruth-

specie payments in 1879.

TEREE tlAUTE EXPRESS. TtJESDAlT MDROTPfG, AFOUST18,18961

iMr. Bryan «akl in bis speech of acceptance: "While it Js not the purpose «f free coinage to especially aid any particular class, yet those who believe that the restoration of silver is needed by the whole people «bould not be deterred (because an Incidental benefit will come to the .mine-owner."

Mr. Bryan may remember that he and the other free traders diverted the minds of the people from the benefits of protection to home industries by dwelling upon the incidental benefits to manufacturers. By wholesale abuse and slander of successful men they persuaded other oven to throw away their own advantages. 'Because one man could dip .more water ^ut of a flowing river than another the free

The very great 'benefit the silveriner expects from free coinage is a good argument against free coinage according to Democratic precedents..

TWO-FACED FINANCIAL POLITICS Mr. Bryan sai'd to one audience, "Sixteen to one means this, thit if you owe a d«lbt you can go out into the market and buy silver and have it coined and use tihat silver bo pay your ddbtte." If there is anything to lie aiined by buying silver and having it coined for the purpose of faying delbts instead of using the kiin'd of dollars in circulation todiay, It will be In being atole to buy silver to turn, it into dollars oheaiper than one can buy dollars. We buy money wii'bh other money, lagbor or commodities than the dollar of he oan "buy silver enough to pay a $1,000 delbt for leefs tihan he can buy1 $1,000 he is being told that the dollar

that free and unliimited coinage by the

United States alone will rali'se the bul-

world." This is utterly irreconcila/bie

with the first statement about 16 to 1. If silver is worth $1.29 an ounce it W ll take one dollar in gold, greenbacks or the present silver coin to buy enough silver to coin a dollar. It will take the same amount of wheat, corn, or pork, no more nor leas, that it does today, to buy the 371%, grains oif silver in a 16 to 1 dollar. What benefit would it be to sipend money for bullion and take it to the mint ilf the product would be the same nuimlber of dollars that was paid for the bullion? A man- would have only his trouble .for his .pains. The seller ojf laJbor or produce would- not get a cheaper dollar, but a dollar of the same cost as the dollar that Mr. Bryan calls a dishonest dollar, because it is at a parity with $1.29 silver and it" he would not get a cheaper dollkr he would not get more dollars for what he sells. .'

Mr. Bryan has promised two contradictory results from free coinage/First, that the buyer can be (benefitedby buying Wis own silver and liavirjig .it coined, the only benefit possible being the ability oif the buyer to get more dollars than, he formerly did for fhe came out lay of currency or labor second that the silver miner will have his silver raised to such a price that the buyer will have to pay nearly douible present prices for it, thereby losing all the profit from cheap free coinage that he has been promised and finding that he has not only a dear gold dollar but a dear silver dollar to contend with—all for the good of the silver mining syndicate.

Expert cooks use Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder because it insures success.

THE PRIMARY HUMBUG.

3iiverites

dist

is the word uaed by j£he

much as the good old Metho-

iingered over "-Mesopotamia," be

cause is 6Uch a gQd w}rd

haven

of money

got

„We

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that

would be scorned by Washington and

pri

.mary

money

says the agitator, and it is echoed by hte followers who know 'that ward

primaries, primary schools and primary money are great things. Thi's country has more primary money in 1896 than it had in 1872. A larger proportion of its money is primary than in 1872. In 1872 the total amount of coin in ciruclation in the United States was $26,000,000. In 1S96 the total amount of coin and coin certificates /^circulation is $946,225,472. The coin certificates represent coin that is held in the treasury to redeem them, so nearly one thousand millions of dollars is thfe same as hard money. S *j

Of this hard money nearly $p00,000,000 is gold, which is twenty times the total of gold and silver in use-tn 1872. The remainder, nearly $500,000,000, is silver. The "primary" man will pop up and say that this silver, is not primary money because we have not free coinage of silver. Admit that—and let the government call In the silver

fend issue It in -bars metal, in its primary state—H still trill b« -worth at S3 cents on the dollar, .1338,706,176 and the total stock of .primary money, or of money worth its fa.ee in the commercial value of its metal, will be 1737,643,436, or nearly 30 tlam* the amount of "^primary money to circulation in 1872. In- 1872 the specie in circulation was one-thirtieth of all the .money in use.: In '1896 specie at its ounce valuation is one-half of the money in circulation. The "primary" man must acknowledge that the money of the United States is a great deal better in 1896 than it was in 1872, or he will, if fair.

he will get under free coinage is cheaip-^ er, can be bought wit'h lesis money, la-., bor or comimodies, than tlhe dollar otf today and that with less ttian $1,000 iri money he oan pay a $1,000 deibt. Tha^ is, he will be alble to buy silver for pay-, ing the $1,000 defot to.r less, under free coinage, tihan he can 'buy the gold arid'

siilver money of today. In short, the

etlver bougiht for free coinage will cost' the delbtor lesis than $1.29 an ounce, or somewhere near it© present price, 67 5-8 cents.

Compare this deifinition otf 16 to 1 by Mr. Bryan with what he said a few days la/ter at New York. "We contend

BRYAN IS PICKED UP/* Aa allusion made by Mr. Bryan to France is noteworthy. The Democratic candidate says that the Bank otf France reserves to itseiif tihe right otf paying its notes in either gold or silver, and, for all that, he adds, gold and sll-

ver have the same value in France,

traders urged that the river shouH Mr. Bryan omitted to say that if the French five franc piece has a value be dried up so that no one could get water and, because the best-paid laborer could not earn as much as the employer of a thousand men and a great capital, they advised the laborer to vote for stopping the mill to his own damage as well as to that of .'hls.jemployer.

equal to that O'f gold, it is because since 1873, five franc pieces are no longer coined in France. It would be i.mpossible to do in Piaris that which Mr. Bryan would like to see done in Washington. One cannot bring to the mint pieces of silver worth 2 francs 50 oent'jmes and have them transformed into five-franc pieces. BimetJallisim exists in'naime only in Framce. In reality gold is* the only metal that the public can get coined in the Fremcfh mints.—Courier Des Etats Unis. fv^ .. IMr. Bryan was picked up by atlreris than the Frenc.h paiper oif Now York for his disingenuous allus'ion to French money. He Intended to convey the impression t'hat France is a silver country or at least uses the option to pay silver. It Is like this country in the reqpaot that it is us'ing the coined silver on hand without increasing the supply, Chough in fact, this country is now coining more silver than France. Mr. Bryan ateo wished to show by France that the payment of silver only to the government would act eerud gold to a premium. He said: 'We are told that an attempt uipon the part of the government to redeem 44s obl'Lgaitiona -in silver would put a ipremlum upon gold. But wliy sfiou'd it? The Bank of France exercises the right to redeeam all its bank pamper in either gold or silver, and yet France maintains the parity beitweeen gold and silver at the ratio of 15% to 1, and retains in circulation more silver per capita than we do in the United States.

The Bank otf France is a good exAmiple to prove that paying out silver will force gold to a premium because 4t prevents customers froim drawing

gold in excessive amounts, or at lneon-

venule n't times, or for exportation "(by charging a premium on gold." It cannot exercise its option e,f paying silver without charging an oceasional premium on gold.

France was one of the countries to set this one the example of dropping

free ci 8,lver, It not a coun.

try whose poiicy Mr. Bryan wishes to

Jlon value of silver to (its coinage value adopt and its experience was quoted and thus make silver bullion wortih., by .him to eon'fuse and not to make clear $1.29 par ounce in gold throughout the

the

currency question.

£XCMGE MOES.

Chicajgio Chronicle: The convention to meet at Indianapolis on the 2d of fiaptti.TUber, will represent 'the Democratic revolt a^ did tth^ Van Buren Buffalo convention oif 1848 or the Breckinridge convention o£ 1S60. It wiill have as its dh&m-pio-ns many otf the ablest and -most respected Democratic leaders of the nation every section, and -it will certainly command for itis ticket 20 per cent o.f tihe Dci.roicratiic votens of the country, and prcOoaExy lead 10 per cent of t'he Democratic voters to vote directly for McKinley. Those w'ho assume that a nomination cif a Democratic ticket, on a sound Democratic 'platform ithat "grapples directly with -the revolutionary heresies of ithe Chicago platform, will not be an important factor in tihe (battle otf 1896, have studied pofliitids with little .profit. The one tihtn.g 'that wi'l certainly assure the dtife-at Oif Bryan is the nomination of an honest Democratic ticket on an (honest Democratic platfortn ait Indianapolis.

Looiii3.ville Times: Mr. Bryan explains that he read his New York speech because he Chought beslt "not to risk tlhe errors .which aluvays creep info the report of an extemporaneous spsech." Btf't s-udh errors 'wou/id have been of small moment as compared with t/he errors otf fact, of lcgic, of theory, of 'science and of sentiment, with which tlhe deilvera-nce. carefully written out a® it was, abounded.

Minneapolis Tribune: Bryan pretends to believe, and soime- o.f his followers hcipe, that -free coinage would enhance the (price oif silver so as to make the 'silver in a silver dollar worttih 100 cents. But men ctf more experience in business and finance believe that the silver dollar undr free coinage would be worth only about 50 cents. A.t best it is a dangerous experiment, and one that the country cannot afford to try.

Fthiladeuphla Record: Consider the difficulty under wbicih poor Mr. Bryan labored in trying to square the principles laid'down in the Chicago Populistlc plaitfoi'm with accepted notions oif honesty, aritlbmetlc and economica! It was a task that would have staggered Lucifer, the Son otf the Morning, with all his powers C'f persuasion.

Peoria Transcript: The United States has today a very much larger supply of f-uii legal tender silver money 'than any other country In the world, except India and China. At present it is all equal to gold, because practically convertible, but free coinage would bring the entire imass dewn to a silver standard.

Kansas City ©tar: Governor Stone's deliberate insults to tihe sound money Dtimceracy and Mr. Bryan's studied avoidance otf any aippeail to party loyalty are very certtaln to widen tlhe spflit in the Democratic ranks and intensify the opposition of sound money Democrats to tlhe free silver ticket.

Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer: Perhaps the wcrtd should so Conduct its affairs as to make six ounces of silver worth one ounce of goCd, bur tne world has neglectd to do this. At the present market price it takes about thirty-one ounces- of silver to be wotitih one ounce ot gelid, bait the silveritets want the world set straight by act of congress. Under the Popocratic pressure congress would say that the silver!tes fihall have their way, and then the world would smile In derision at congress and the Popccrats. Congress can fix the ratio between brea3 and butter, but would the ra'tro stay fixed?

Every spoon-ful of Dr. Price's Baking Powder does perfeot work of leavening.

Act of a Jealons Htubmnd.

Chicago, Aug. 17.—In a fit of jealousy Charles Nelson shot and almost instantly killed his wife this morning in their home, 18 North Western avenue. After sending two bullets into the woman's left breast the murderer turned upon the 3-year-old daughter and fired a shot at her head. The bullet struck the child on the right side of the temple but glanced off, irnflictftig but a slight wound. The little girl was stunned, however, and fell to the floor while Kelson supposing she, too, was dead, ran from the 'house. He was arrested a few minutes later,

Jltf jtfti lA(£ibl&

JUrtb aunt towui* wit Uw 5wje. Do tihe rosy owa. Ms. 1 i~. ret* &uarm ciouci OAriientxl tsi«

West,

Bre sv«r.a «haidaw -o niglit gave warntog, Winen life seemed ondy a pleasure guest. Why. nlhen, all humor and comedy scorn-

I i.Kcd higSh tragedy ibetft.

I the: chaillenge, the fierce fought duel, ..... u. dealth or a pai*ting to,every act, 1 his^a tae \-^aln no oe more cruel 'Alaan ttae basesc vlliliakn couid be. In fact, For it fed the fires otf any mind with fuel

Of itihe 'Qblnss Hbat my itfe ia«k«d.

But as fhe tione /pased on and I mets real sorrow. And she tlayed «tt -nlghtt on the sta#e at my hean, I found tbait 2 could not tforget on the 'inoiruvr

Tne paia I -had ifett In her tragic 0*nt And. alats! no (anger I,needed xo borrow Miy grief from 'tme actoans" hoart.

And as life grows elder, and, therefore, sadder (Yea sweeter, may -be. Id US auftumn thaze), I find more pleasure In watdhlng the gladder

And lifter order of irutnorous ffinys Where .the mirth is as mad, or may be naadder

Than the mirfh of my lost days.

I like to be forced to tough and be merry llho' ithe earth with sorrow is ripe and rife I like for an evening «t least to bury

All 'dhought otf (trouble, or pain, or strife. In sooth, I like to be moved to the very Emotions I miss In life. —Blla Wheeler Wilcox.

There are abotft 1,530 theaters in Europe, Utaly possessing more than any other country.

A nail tmaMng traaicfhine produces as many nails in a given 'time as were formerly made iby' 1,000 men.

Wlhat is believed to be -the celebrated Swifft siilver mine in Rook Castle county. Kem/uiaky, was rsnddsootvered a tf«w days ago.

Vesuvius has started up again after keeping quiet for eighteen moituhs. Thro atreatmis ot lavs, are making ttMir wuy slowly toward the cbservatory.

A Buioicaporrt. (Me.) llsiherman. pulled up a monster sea crab .the other day ana on one side oa the'.orestcune 'Was fastened a pair of scnofeed eyegtassea.

A new company htas been organised to manuOaioture printing presses for printing a-iuminiuun tplavea. The ofoject Is ohlefly ito use -aluminium In lithography.

In the awdss Canton WaSl.a the medieval custom still exists of ringing all (Ihe church bells to aveat an imtpending thunder storm or untimely fall otf snow.

When a atpeck of dust or metal gets into 'the eye the best plan is to shiut It, and keep It shut for over a minute. There wliil be enough 'tear Ilka moisture tto get rid of the Obstruction. "I am very, very happy, though wicked," wrote a British wife DO her husband, after eloping. She d.ec"Jared in the same letter Hihlat she Intended "to blossom out into a literary lady amd get some cash." Her toustoand got his divorce.

Banking seams to (have been more profitable in the ifiret half or onis year. The London and Westminster bank pay 6 per cent dividend, and a bonus otf 1 per cent, which is eJbove ttthe rate a year ago. The London and Yorkshire alsfo pays a higher dividend.

The finest mosaic pavement In England, and one ctf the tflnesi in Etorope, exists in tlhe remains of tihe Roman villa in the parish of Bignor. Sussex. If the villa was equal to fhe pavement it must have been very sumptuous, and on a level with the besit in Italy.

Lord Masham's income of $500,000 per annum is very largelly due to the lucky idea ctf utilizing the waste of silk tfor the manufacture .otf plush. He started this industry on a la.nge scale, and was soon one o.f the biggest imanutfa'cturerg of plush in Engiland. Since tihen Ih'te has turned his attention to coil tout plush was one of the main foundations otf his wealth.

The G-uarauno Indians are to be found all over the delta of the Orinoco. Thoy eat .little id wea.r letss. They suhsis't on the meriefhe palm tree. The tree In question is without doubt an ind'isipensable factor in the problem of life. Not onSy dffe® it fuirnlafh a saife elwaitlon for a heme, but gives a nuftTitioiiis Bago, or meal* from whlcfh bread Is made a tree fifteen years old yielding 6C0 poutnds xf this meal. In addition, the juice furrhisties a ldnd of wine, and out oif the fiber is -made cord, rope, hammock's, and a rude .species of cloth.

M. Moi'ssan, the French chemist, has .found out that if iron is saturated with carbon at tlhe thigh t-empenature of the electric furnace some of ithe carbon, in cooling, will separate in the form otf a true diamond. Mr» Rossel has shown that hard steel, owing to the metihodts ctf manufacturing. contains diamonds, minute crystals being .found when the steel 1 sdiseolved iby acids.

Something of a philatelic curiosity Is the post card Ju®t manufactured in France to be used by the subjects of the Abyssinian negusw In one corner of the can! is the lion of Ethiopia, and in the other the stamp, with the portrait of Menellk, wearing a tiara, with the inscription. "Menelik, Aerhiopae, Imp. RpX." The value is represented both in native eha.rac.ters and In Roman figures.

A Eiteamer flying the Japanese flag, tha firstt merdhan't ves.se! of that nationality •ver seen In European waters, recently sailed In to the port otf Marseilles, France. It was the steamer Idumi Maru of the Japanese Siteam Navigation Company, the same corporation which has recently perfected arrarngaments for a regular steamer service between Japan and the Pacific, coast of this country. For the present the vessi4is of the company will make monthly trips to Marseilles.

One of the most curious inventions of the past year was that of a safety coffin, invented to obviate the results of premature burial, and invented by M. "V ester, a German. The ooffln was made larger than required by the Sl£e of the body It (had at the head a movable lid. communicating with the open bottom of the grrave. Tho arrangement was euch that a person might readily escape (from the tomb. The inventor proposed to place refreshments in the tkxffln as a prudent precaution against starvation.

The village inn at Addington, in the county of Surrey, at which tihe aronblshop of Canterbury 1s the ground landlord, has been tenanted b«y the members of one family since 'the reign o£ Henry VIM. On the death of the mother of the present hostess she tetft no son, but only three daughters to survive her. The three sisters in turn took possession and the present bfostess Is the last of th©m. The Jolly Millers' lrn at Newnham, Cambridgeshire, has been kept by a "family of tlh« name otf M'USk for the last 400 years. It is recorded in Camtoridge annals that Quepn Elizabeth once stopped here and drank a quart of "ye oVJ English ayle" wiUhout getting down from Iher boree.

Edison never Invented' anything? of greater value than Is Price's Baking Powder.

Comptroller Declsre* Plvldend*. Washington, Aug. 17,—The comptroller of the currency haa declared dividends In favor of 'tlhe creditors of Insolvent national banks-, as fofilow®: Ten per cent, the First National Bank of Johnson. City. Tenn. 5 per cent, th« Livingston National Bank, of Livingston, Mor.t. 10 per cent, tjig National Bank ot Kansas City, Mo-

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Monday, Aug. 17 we will open our Fall Merchant Tailoring with "Casey at the bat —Leave your order early, as so many' good dressers didn't buy a spring suit there'll be .. a rush this Fail.

0B0 8 OVERSTBEET.

FINE TAILORING,

New "Jamestowns"

"Imitation is the slncerest flattery," cundt these excellent fabrics have probably be^n imitated to a greater degree than any ocher American dress material.

For twenty years we have sold and jhcommended for their merit these splendid goods, and for the past nine years hiava been sole agents for Indianapolis. YOU'LL NOT FIND THEM ELSEWHERE.

Other similar fabrics may be good va&uo and have like qualities, but they are not the genuine Jamestown.

We placed on sale MONDAY, AUGUST 3, more than 200 designs of original Jamestowns direct from Jamestown Worsted Mills, Jamestown, N. Y.

Good serviceable mixtures. 36 inches wide 29o

Pretty novelties. 38 inches wide 39o

All wool, as stylish as Imported novelties at twice the price, 3S inohes wide. 50o 52-inch Mohair Diagonals, the best value in their class 75c

Other qualities up to $1.25 per yard.

Fresh, new designs, as good as they can be made.

L.S.Ayres&Co

INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

Agents for Butterick's Patterns.

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All Trains.

AUGUST 20th, 21st

Good returning August 23 inclusive. Account Driving* Club Races.

Indianapolis

AND RETURN.

All Trains.

AUG. 18,19 and 22.

Good returning until Aug. 23rd, inclusive. Account Driving Club Races.

Trains leave 7:00 a. m., 10:00 a m., 3:05 p. m., 4:31

E. E. SOUTH, General Agent.

j. G. S, GFROERER,

PRINTER

Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

33 SOUTH 6th.

COAL!!

Until October zst, we will sell our Lump, best in the city, at

$1.65 per Ton

Special Prices on

NUT AND STEAM

GOAL.

All Coal thoroughly screened and free from dirt. Office. 122 South Third street. J. N. & GEO. BROADItl-RST.

The delicious fragrance,

refreshing coolness and soft^beauty Imparted to the skin by Pooori's Powmou commends it to all ladles.