Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 September 1896 — Page 4

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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For President,

WILLIAM McKINLEY of Ohio. For Vice-Prosident, OARRETT A. HOBART of New Jersey.

For Governor,

JAMES A. MOUNT. J"or Lieutenant Governor, W. S. HAGGARD.

For Secretary of StaUj W. D. OWEN. For State Auditor,

A. C. DAILY.

For State Treasurers F. J. SCHOLZ. For Attorney General1

WM. A. KETCHAM. For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARLES F. REMY. For Superintendent Public Instruction,

D. M. GEETING, For State Statistician, SIMEON J. THOMPSON.

For Appellate Judges,

First District—W. D. ROBINSON. Second District—WM. J. HENLEY. Third District—JAMES B. BLACK. Fourth District—D. W. COMSTOCK.

Fifth District—U. Z. WILEY. For Congress, Fifth District, GEORGE W. FARIS.

For Judge Circuit Court, JAMES E. PIETY.

For Prosecutor Forty-third Judicial District, WILLIAM TICHENOR. For Senator,

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

For Joint Representative, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo, ORA C. DAVIS.

For Coroner,

ALARIC T. PAYNE. For Treasurer, 'WILTON T. SAN FORD.

For Sheriff,

JOHN BUTLER. For Surveyor,

WILLIAM H. HARRIS. For Assessor, WILLIAM ATIION.

For Commissioner,

irst District—THOMAS ADAMS. Second District—ANDREW WISEMAN..

A week from today the great Terre Haute fall race meeting opens.

From Maine—"Tell her you saw me and that I was looking well."

The Democrats intended to be real insulting and mean if Maine did not go over

20,000.

Atlanta has shipped 300 tons of iron to Genoa. It is the low prices that made this possible.

What went you out to see—a Reed shaken by the wind? It was Maine shaken by Reed and swept with a sound money tornado.

Although Bryan has sternly put away a second term, he could be pursuaded to run again, but it is not likely he will be asked.

When Bryan reads the speeches of Schurz and Coclcran he will complain that it is not fair to use cannon against a popgun.

As Mr. Bryan says that freight rates at 38 are the same as whe« they were 100, it is not strange that he thinks a dollar at 53 will be as good as one at 100.

The size of the hall was all that prevented Bourke Cockran from having a larger audience in Chicago than ever Bryan had, and he is only an orator, not a freak.

A Terre Hautean found the land of perfoct rest a few miles north, the other day, where- one of the inhabitants wanted to know whom the Republicans are running for president this year.

Mr. Bryan is Very anxious to provide moro mints for coining the farmers' silver bullion. He thinks they will prosper when they can drive up to the mints and get a peck of new silver dollars whenever they

want them.

The Populists have a faculty of misusing words, as when they call education, intimidation. There never was a campaign in which Republicans relied more upon straightforward and simple instruction in

plain facts.

Mr. Cleveland has damned the Chicago convention and its candidate, figuratively speaking, and doubtless by word of mouth also. We would like to hear from the Gazette, once more, how Mr. Cleveland pounds with his big fist and says "damn."

Ab a specimen of political forecasting

and ability to read the signs of the times, w© commend on this bright Maine morning the following extract from the Rockville

Tribunte of August 13th. "Eugene V. Debs, who has been in the Eastern states since the Populist convention, says Bryan will carry everyone of them except Pennsylvania, and even that boodle ground is debatable."

The Gazette plumes itself on the manner in which it displayed the Vermont returns, but neglects to mention the neatest touch in its arrangement of the news, which was putting it under the head of "Obituary." The news from Vermont was the first bulletin from the bedside of a dying patient The second bulletin, from Maine, shows that there is no hope for the party of desertion and repudiation. It is already moribund.

The first shipments of gold during the present great movement from Europe to America were as loans but the later and larger receipts are for commercial paper and are not due to the favors of bankers. The many mill Ions now coming In cancel credits on American books for products shipped abroad and are the result of legitimate foreign trade which has been stimulated by the very low prices prevailing. After prices get bo low as to cheek production, buying begins, then confidence revives and prices stiffen, money flows In its

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natural channels and a restoration ot production and good prices can be confidently expected. The importation of gold in the natural processes of business is a practical lesson that gold and silver are used in our existing system of money, and that the functions of gold are to settle the large balances of international trade and to serve as the reserve behind the volume of paper and silver which are most convenient for internal trade.

The Chicago Times-Herald, withoufc the fear of Bryan before its eyes, advocates an International spelling book. This is bold, this suggestion of an international conference of educators to agree upon the harmonious spelling of words in the English language. Is Mark Twain's aunt, who never spelled a word right except by accident, to submit to British dictation? No,

by the sacred tea chest of Boston—never will the silverite consent to ask "the aid or consent of any other nation" In getting up a new speller.

The difference between the speeches of Bryan and that of Bourke Cockran at Chicago is the difference between a squib and an oration, between shallowness and profundity. One who neglects the opportunity of reading Cockran's speech suffers a loss and the pleasant sensation of being stimulated and inspirited to a higher sense of his own dignity as an American citizen and of the glory of his country. At the same time he loses a very lucid definition of the issues of the campaign and a scathing review and refutation of the Populistic theories that Bryan is offering to the people as Democracy.

Five per cent 30-year gold interest bearing bonds of the Chicago Edison Co. have Just been sold in London. They could not be sold here, but the Englishmen took them and their money will be good in Chicago. The money will be paid to Chicago in gold. The Bryan platform protested against contracts that will enable the lenders to get their pay in gold. In short, the Chicago platform suggested to the borrowers that they should take gold and try to settle in silver. Honest fellows, those Chi­

cago Popocrats!

Bryan pretends to be magnanimous when he says, as he frequently does, "I beg you to take this money question and study it until you "find out what is best for the people in your condition—and then make your vote represent1 exactly what you want." Of course, that is. very trite and shopworn, but Mr. Bryan at Lincoln suggested to his hearers that if school teachers favored the existing system of money they should be turned out. There was no magnanimnity

in that.

CHICAGO IN 1873 AND 1896. Next month, October 9th, Chicago will celebrate "Chicago Day" in memory of its destruction by fire and in celebration of the remarkable restoration of the great city which was one of the wonders not only of the nineteenth century but of the era of resumption which was ushered in by the "act of 1873." As has been well said the day will celebrate Chicago's "greatest misfortune and proudest triumph."

When at the close of 1871 Chicago lay crushed under the loss of $300,000,000, of which $250,000,000 was an utter extinction of property, unprotected by insurance, it was evident that it required the most stable and favorable system of money for the recovery of its fortune and the rebuilding of the burned district, for it was going to assume a great debt by borrowing the largest amount of money any city ever borrowed in the same period of time. Much of the debt was contracted before 1873 and long before 1879, the year of resumption. Most of the splendid buildings that were erected had mortgages upon them, and some of the richest citizens of today entered the period

of 1873-189$ with a heavy burden of debt upon their vigorous shoulders. They saw the act of 1873 passed and witnessed the passing of the shy and almost unknown silver dollar into obscurity, if we can say It passed into what it had never emerged

from. In twenty-five years the burnt and wasted site of Chicago was covered with a city many times more splendid, prosperous, rich and crowded than the old city. Where can we find a better illustration of the adequacy of the American money system than in the rise of the greatest sufferer in municipal history from ruin and despair to new splendor and pride? Thousands and thousands began life anew, with nothing, and worse than nothing, being in debt. They had the debts made befor^ 1S73, they had greater burdens than others bore, but they found the money of the country a sufficient instrument. Their experience proved %hat it is not mere money, but activity and confidence that make prosperity.

The construction and multiplication of Chicago were not the signs of its own energy and prosperity alone, but of the pro­

gress of the great Northwest also and the growth of business and accumulation of wealth of a great territory found visible expression in the immense elevators, manufactories and railroad system of Chicago.

The crowning absurdity of this year, so rich in absurd things, was the gathering of the Populists at Chicago to wail over 1873 and in an outburst of pent-up agony to nominate Bryan, who is the materialized screech of Populistic anguish. Of all places, Chicago—the most emphatic contradiction to every financial theory of Populism and the great sufferer from Populistic ideas, broken loose. Hang the act of 1S73 on Chicago's tallest building or finest monument, and take the city for a commentary upon It. Put the Chicago of today back in 1871 and replace It with the ground covered with the ruins of 1871 and you will have what the Bryanltes say the act of 1873 has done, but the great city is right there while the Populists gnaw a file.

AN ARGENTINE AGITATOR. A radical leader and revolutionist of Buenos Ayres, chagrined and disappointed by repeated failures, committed suicide recently. This man, Leandro Alem, has been called a demagogue. A writer in the Rio News points out the characteristics in him that are to be observed in demagogues un-

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TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15,1898.

der other systems of government, and in the article reproduced below shows how such men obtain a hold upon the populace which better and wiser men often fail to secure:

Leander Alem exercised an extraordinary power over the mob. He iru the idol dI the "great unwashed." His kingdom was in the gutter, but he reigned supreme. During the time which elapsed between the suicide and the funeral, over 20,000 people visited his modest dwelling In Calle Cuyo and it was quite a common thing to see men and women who had never spoken a word to the man during his lifetime, crying like little children. Full 90 per cent of those who visited the house where the body lay were of the poorer classes—artisans, day laborers and the like. I have never seen in Buenos Aires such genuine popular grief. Sarmiento was truly mourned by rich and poor, but while the educated classes appreciated him the poorer people did not understand him. In Lucio Lopez the people sorrowed for a national loss, but not for a popular demagogue. In Del Valle the country felt that it had lost a great intelligence, a supremely gifted and supremely honest man. But In Alem the people lost their heart's idol—the man who had gone amongst them, who had catered for their applause, who had pandered to their prejudices, who had understood them thoroughly and who, when all is said, sympathized with them.

Alem was a demagogue by profession—a revolutionist by instinct. He never hesitated when he had the power or opportunity to stir the masses into madness. He played incessantly upon that tendency of the Latin Americans to rush into armed resistance against an unpopular government. He never paused to reckon with his host and revolution was to him what constitutional agitation was to O'Connell—a sovereign remedy. His only objective was power his only means, violence. He was an anti-evolutionist in politics, and his doctrine as a statesman consisted in legislating from the barricale.' He produced three Argentine revolutions and they were all military failures. He shot himself because lie was unable to produce a fourth.

He was gifted with the same personal magnetism and with much of the redundant eloquence of Kossuth. Like Kossuth, too, he was a dreamer. But he had none of Kossuth's finer qualities, nor none of his cosmopolitanism. Alem was not a man vulgarly selfish but he was vulgarly vain. The applause of the streets was to him as the breath of life. But while he gloried in the hurrahs of the mob, while he gloried in the idolatry of his fellow citizens, he had not the moral courage to face their wrath. His vanity made him stoop to gain t^e vulgar hero worship of the crowd but his philosophy was not elevated enough to enable him to bear with fortitude the decline of his prestige.

And his prestige was on the decline. The tragic circumstances surrounding his death have for the moment raised him ag^in into the rank of a demigod with the masses but this galvanism will only give transitory vitality to his fame. He will soon be forgotten. The wane of his influence began with the failure of '93. He rushed the country into a revolution thai was smashed to pieces by the government before it had well begun. It was a lamentable fiasco from beginning to end and Alem with his usual obstinacy and with his usual blind confidence in the strength of his popularity went out of his way to take all the blame upon himself. Life to him would have been useless without the excitement of civil war, and would have been too monotonous without the glorification of the gallery.

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"I have terminated my career 1 have concluded my mission, To live barrenly, uselessly and depreciated, it is preferable to

Such were his last words to the public.

THE GAZETTE ON CONSTANCY. The Gazette said early in August, Just after "swapping ends": "On two special subjects there is likely to be a great deal said this campaign. And there ought to be nothing said. One is the quoting of opinions held by people last year, or some time in the past, in conflict with present opinions.. Another thing ojh which much will be said will be conc^rrjing attempts at bulldozing. Bullijozinp cannot bulldoze in Indiana."

In the light of this and its history, it is amusing to observe the Gazette pose as the guardian of constancy and the censor of infidelity. In making some comments without the foundation of much fact on B£r. Mount the Gazette remarks: "There is considerable pleasure in proving him ltconsistenl and a turn coat on this isstae (silver)." The Gazette's pleasure reminds one of the fable of the goat, which had traveled and returned home with its beard cut off. It was received with ridicule and scorn by its friends, and though it endeavored to persuade tliem to shave by assuring them that beards were out of fashion and that it was wrong to make comparisons between a chin of 18SG and one of 1S95, or even of the spring of 1S96, they

mocked him and made Sport of him. The Gazette is closely shorn and would like to find "considerable pleasure" in discovering its counterparts, but this attempt to ring in Mount is very lame. The assertion that a Republican party ever occupied tho position that the Chicag# wing of the Democratic party now docs won't pass inspec­

tion and its weakness is shown by the industry with which tho Democrats garble all the quotations they offer in support.

The Gazette is much mistaken In assuming that the financial question ha3 flothing to do with tho selection of governor. The Democratic party In Indiana would be better off today if it had clocted a man with some ideas In tho first place and sounder ideas now on the money question than Mr, Matthews, and with the possibility of this miserable, strength sapping sliver question dragging along until 1900, if not crusliod in 189G, It is very Important that the gov-. ornors of all tho states, who can exert much Influence, should be firm for honeBt money and Guanoes. No state that casts its vote for sound anu honest money will tolerate a, weak and wobbly apologist for free coln-

ago.

MAINE'S SIGNIFICANT VICTORY. The modest and c&utloiiB estimate of-''plu-ralities in Maine that were given oui Jofore the election have been replace^ by the reports of a viotory exceeding expectations. Republicans have a right to take the Maine vote as a significant and important verdict for sound mo|iey and a crushlng blow upon the piebald1-, body of Pope-* oraoy. In 1893 the Republicans of Maine cast 69,023 votes, agalnBt 53,487, the com-. bine4 votes ef the Democrats, Populists and Prohibitionists. A change- of 7,500 vetes would have wiped out the Republiean plurality of 1892. The election of 1894 was

carried by a Republican plurality ot 38,078. The Democrats made little effort to 'carry that election and there was a falling off from the vote of 1892 of over 11,000. 1896 the Democrats, stimulated by choice of a Maine citizen for vice presidential candidate, have made a. vigorous fight, and the Populists, with the desire of casting a large vote to influence the withdrawal of Bewail in favor of Watson, also have worked hard. Both Democrats and Populists, with their usual boastfulness or ^elusion about the strength of the free coinage disease, expected to make a great gain over 1894 and perhaps on 1892. Maine is not a rich state. Its per capita of wealth is much less than that of Vermont or other New England states. Its population is more largely native American than any of them. Its illiterate male population is less than 6 per cent to over 23 in Arkansas.

In

The Republican candidate for governor has been said to be not the strongest man that could have been put up, but the overpowering zeal for the straightforward Atnetrican policies of sound money and protection, in spite of the hard work of the opposition and the presence of Sewall, under the leadership of Reed, Frye, Dingley, Boutelle and other great leaders, has been crowned with a great victory and "As goes Maine so goes the Union." v-

BRYAN ANTIDOTES.

1. That omission of the silver dollar from

free and unlimited coinage in 1873 "de­

stroy ed half of our money. The per capita circulation in 1873 was $18.04. In 1873 we had neither gold nor silver in circulation. The total of our money, including treasury coin, was $751,881,809. July 1, 1896, our money in circulation consisted of gold coin, $456,128,"583 standard silvtr dollars, $52,175,998, with $378^14,043 in the treasury subsidiary silver, $59,999,804 gold certificates, $42,320,759 silver certificates, $331,259,509 "Shermans," $95,217,361 "greenbacks," $225,451,358 currency certificates, $31,840,000 national bank notes, $215,331,927. This makes a per capita in circulation of $21.10. (gee official treasury report.) 2. That the act of 1873 "destroyed silVSr' as money."

Under our limited coinage of silver we coined from 1878 to

1896,

eighteen years, a

total of $471,927,729, says the Chicago Times Herald. During the entire eighty-five years previously, with free coinage up to 1873, the total silver offered and coined was $222,585,921. (Mint report.) 3. That the act of 1873 was a "gold conspiracy against silver."

It was earnestly supported and voted for by the senators and representatives of the silver states. The bill was referred to the finance committee of the senate April 28, 1870 submitted to the house June 25, 1870 passed through various stages, all public and of record, until February 12,1873, when it becmae a law. (See Laughlin's "Bimetallism," p. 98, or Congressional Record for the years indicated.) 4. That legislation can keep up the price of silver.

During the operation of the Bland-Alli-son act (1878), when the government was buying $2,000,000 monthly, and during the operation of the Sherman act (1890), when the government was buying 54,000,000 ounces annually, silver declined per ounce from $1.16 to 73 cents. (Mint reports.) 5. That because silver cannot be kept at par with gold, in a "poor" country like Mexico, it must not be presumed the United States cannot keep the metals at par.

This is suppression of the fact that all the countries' 'now on the gold standard tried to lffe'ep the metals at par and failed, one group consisting of the combination of France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. Can the United States hope to succeed alone where all the greatest countries in the world, singly or in combination, failed? 6. That gold, and silver with free coinage at 16 to 1 is the "money of the constitution."

Read the constitution. 7. That free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 gold is the money of Jefferson, Hamilton and Jackson.

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Read their writings. Each knew that unless the coinage ratio approximated closely to the market ratio the undervalued metal would not circulate and advised accordingly. 8. Bryan garbles Blaine and quotes Carlisle before the great era of silver production set in.

Read both ungarbled. 9. The dropping of the silver dollar from the coinage fo 1873 cut down prices and wages.

So long as wages do not fall, decline in prices is an indication of prosperity. From 1879 to 1895 the savings bank deposits increased from $802,490,298 to $1,041,867,500. This stands for surplus after wages have supported the earners. It is not hereditary wealth. That seeks other banks. A non-partisan committee of the United States senate reported in 1894 that in twenty-one industries wages were 40 per cent, higher in 18S0 than 1800 and 60 per cent, higher in 1891 than ?n 1S60. The fall in farm products was due to overproduction, other countries competing with the United States. 10. That while free coinage of silver will advance prices of commodities, it will also advance wages.

The same report shows that between 1860 and 1865, when gold went to a premium, as it will under free coinage of silver, the average price of all articles in this country advanced 116 per cent, and the average increase in wages was 43 per cent., although during that time there were withdrawn from the labor market 2,800,000 men, making a scarcity of labor. There will be no withdrawal now. Wages, therefore, cannot rise, because the supply will be in excess of the demand.

A Democrat'e Confession.

A Democrat's confession I'll sit down and pen I sit in congress just like an old hen My reason for sitting so close you will see, Free trade and free silver it never must be.

After tampering with Wilson's free trade bill You'll find this will leave the Democrats A long way behind. They will never get there For a long time you know, for the people in this Country say it must never be so.

The Democrat torches they look rather dim, They are just like their principles, They are not worth a pin. Free trade and free Silver It never can be, you are all well awaro It can never suit me.

You may think I'm quite foolish for having confesed. For I am one that can keep a lie on my

Like Ananias and Sapphlra, you now plainly see, Might have missed a sad end If they'd owned up like me.

Now my poor Democrats, there's morals for

If you are self-seeking you must have a

Fo/'there's so many good people in this country ,,, You'll see, they see as and doubt us Just like

Yfor&s by Samuel Capstick, 1013 South Fourteenth street, Terre Haute, Ind. Air: "VUlikin's and His Dinah:" or Out In the Cold World."

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

God DleM yoa.

When yota'AC struggled hard and long And the battle has gone wrong And the world of carcs oppres you. Like cool water from a spring. Like the balm the south winds bring.

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Are the simple words, "God bless you.

When you're going far away, Far from all love to stray, fel* And the parting pangs distress you, Like a sunbeam in the heart, Though the choking tears may started,

Are the words, "Good bye, God bless you.

When the bitter days are past^ "if™'*"''' When your Joy Is full at last, And the winds of heaven caress you, Then the heart will overflow While the happy head bends low

And the true friends say, "God bless you.

Be his faith In James or Paul, One God, many or none at all, Whose kind lips the words address you, •. Nothing metters when It needs, jfe Doubts, philosophies and croeds

Are forgotten In "God bless you." —William Herbert Carruth.

Over 1,300 tons of melons have been shipped from Fresno, Cal., this season. Part of the Boulevard de Vaeglrard In PariB has been rechrlstened Boulevard Pasteur,

France has kept 200,000 tons of coal storod at Toulon since 1893 to be ready in case war should break out.

A aesthetic taste in Paris is to be improved by covering the bill boards with reproductions of artistic pictures.

Red socks have just killed a hostler At Stamford, England. The dye entered a cut In his foot, causing blood poisoning.

Train robbery is punishable by death in Arizona. The supreme court has just upheld the constitutionality of the statute.

Farmers of Scioto county, Ohio, are forced to kill squirrels because of the mischief the little animals are making among the grain crops.

From

ninety-four,

a .flock of sheep owned

by P. A. Porter of Mount Morris, Wis., has wolves. A French author, M. G. Deschamps, is trying to find out How far the character of modern French fiction has affected the marriage rate.

Up in New Hampshire they have a very effective wav of discouraging the sale ofoleomargarine. The law requires that it all De colored pink.

Truck farming, as a profitable occupation, is to receive more attention in Florida during the coming winter than lias been given •to It heretofore.

Cafe bars have been introduced on the trains running between Paris and ™mt Germain and will soon be placed on those running to Versailles.

To be postmaster of Bumpnose is the ambition of a Jackson (Fla.) man, who has written to Governor Mitchell asking for an appointment to the office.

Butte, Mont., .is probably the liveliest mining town in America. The pay roll approximated $1,000,000 a month. The lowest wages are $3 a day, miners receiving $o.cb. liuue has almost 30,000 population.

Consul Warner of Cologne, writes to the state department that American competition is becoming remarkably strong in Japan. This is especially noticeable in the selling of barbed wire and

wire

nails.

Consul Du Bel let of Rhelms, France, says that about 26,000 w6m out English horses are shipped to the canning 'factories in Hoiland every year. They are then sola in France as fine American cahned beef.

A lady of high social

standing

in Charlot-

tonburg, Prussia, has been found to be suffering from leprosy. She had lived for many years with her husband in a country where leprosy is common among the natives.

An immense cougar was killed by an engine a couple of miles south of Lowell, Wash., recently. He ran along ahead of the train for 200 or 300 feet and finally becoming enraged, turned and sprang at the locomotive.

Evidence of some one's fright or unavailing precaution in the early days of the war

was

brought to light near Moberly, Mo. by a camper who found a burled tea kettle containing $4,(M)0 in coins, all of which bore date prior to 1860.

Shingles that were laid

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taken from the Canterbury, N. H., Congregational Church. They were split and shaved by hand and are in a perfect state of preservation, but worn very thin where they laid out to the weather.

Among the inventions recently deposited for patenting purposes in

Fra°c® is \n

alarm for trains in case of attack by bri gands, having for its object to enable the engine drivers to warn passengers in all the compartments of the train when he sees the brigands."

Ireland has had a year of unexampled prosnerlty. if the deposits in banks arc any indication, the increase in those in Joint .stock bahks being over $6,000,000 and in savings banks also over $6,000,000. The traffic receipts of the Irish railroads, too, were the largest on record.

A doctor in the highlands of Scotland, whose patients are scattered over wide district, takes carrier pigeons with

h1®0"®'8

rounds and sends his prescriptions by them to the apothecary. Ho leaves

pige°°s'

with distant families to be let loose when his services are needed. A new and very efficient insect powder has been introduced In Europe. It consists simply of pyrethrum flowers, to

every

hundredth

part of which is added one part of napthalin by weight. The napthalin must be in very fine powder and intimately mixed with the pyrethrum.

Evidenco Is on record that the farmers of Florida are more prosperous now than they were several years ago. A decade ago between 800 and 900

crop

mortgages were con­

tracted in Leon county alone. This year the books at the court house show tnat less thai 100 have been recorded.

An imvopred diving bell has been invented in which it is claimed that divers can eat, sleep and work 6,000 feet below the surface of the sea if desired. With this and other Improved appliances the recovery of treasures from wrecks at the bottom of the sea would seem to be practicable.

Tho National Association of Manufacturers, which as a delegation of business men now oil a trip of market study in South America, is to follow this up with a sample warehouse to be located at the enezuelmi capital and which will exhibit American products of various kinds.

Apropos of the opening of tho big game season In Maine, it will be interesting to know that ad rove of over 100 caribou was soen recently on Mount Katahdln. For the benefit of the incredulous It may be added that the drove has been seen on several occasions bv reliable parties.

Alexander McRea, 78 years old, died very suddenly In Columbus, Ind., a few evenings ago, due to a sudden stroke of paralysis, lie fell with his head on the front *teps. It is a coincidence that his son-in-law, Charles Bon.nell, three years ago, fell from the same cause and died on the sa:me spot.

Near Shelbyville, Ind., a physician, hunting came upou an old shotgun from which the stock had all but rotted away. It was identified as having been the property of James Reed, a young man, who, after being Jilted sixteen years ago, left home, taking his gun with him, and was never heard of again.

Four English tourists have just had a miraculous escape near Chamounlx. They were driving in a carlage above the Traint ravines, near the Tete Noire, when the horses swerved, sending the carriage over the precipice and throwing out the occupants. They were stopped by a clump of pines 170 feet below, alive, but seriously Injured.

In Paris the first woman's club in France has just been organized. Married women may become members If they have their husband's written consent, but widows are preferred. Political and religious discussions are forbidden. Sixty members have already Joined, and the club is organizing entertainments to which men will be invited.

Nerves

Are the Telegraph System of the body, extending from the brain to every part of the system

Nerves

are fed by the blood, and are, therefore, like It —weak and tired if the blood is thin, pale, impure

Nerves

are strong and steady, there is no neuralgia, braui is unclouded—if tlie blood is rich, red and pure.

Nerves

find a true friend in Hood's Sarsapfcrllla, because it makes rich, red blood, gives good appetite and digestion.

Sarsaparilla

Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.

cure all Liver Ills and

flOOd S PlllS Sick-Headache. 25 cents.

No matter how hard the times, men and boys must be comfortable tobe well, and they must look well to do well. Good warm. Clothing ^ST-v that looks well, good warm Underwear that feels well are the essentials to all these "wells." We have then. If you are warm now without them you won't be when the "Frost is on the pumpkir." Buy early and get just what you want.,

Ford&Overstreet,

Sixth & Maim

Well Bought Is Half Sold

It doesn't take an argument to convince the average customer that

Dress Goods Like Ours

Are good style and good value. That fact is self evident. The newest and prettiest of imported novelties at 85c, 90c, $1, $1.25 and up.

Come and see them if yo» don't buy, that is more your misfortune than ours. If you don't come, remember we mail samples to any address In the United States.

Agents for Butterlck's Patterns.

L.S. Ayres & Co

INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

Agents for Butterick's patterns.

THE PRINCETON -YALE SCHOOL,

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EXCURSIONS.

$2.25 to Indianapolis and Return.

Selling dates Sept. 14th to 19th inclusive, good until Sept. 20th. Account State Fair.

$9.55 to Detroit Mich, and Return.

Selling dates Sept. 18th to igtb, good until Sept. 25th. Meeting German Catholic Central Society of America.

$7.00 to St. Louis and Return.

Selling dates every Thursday, tickets good five days returning. Account Exposition.

55 GENTS to PARIS and Return.

Sept. 15th. Republican Rally. E. E. Sou til. General Agent

J. G. S. GFROERER,

PRINTER

Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

33 SOUTH 5th.

C. & E. I. R. R.

WILL SELL

Excursion Tickets

Round Trip or One Way to all

SUMMER RESORTS

In the North and Northwest

Cood Returning Until October 31st.

For further Information apply to J. R. CONNELLY, General Agent, Tenth and Wabash Ave.

R. d. DIGG, Ticket Agent, Union DepoV.

To the Young Face

Ponoirrti OoKruoKut Poktdrbgives fresher charms to the old, renewed youth. Try It.

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