Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 September 1896 — Page 2

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CHARLEY FOWBB AMD A FEW OIHKB8 BATE HEEN KEAO.

«HUdle of the Road" Populists Hake Cwutic Beply to the Unofficial Ctll for a m-m HMtln tomorrow.

The representative Populist*, of Vigo county—the middle of the road men—are about aa mad as it is possible for humanity to get and still stay out of the pugilistic arena. At the same time they are glad and they rejoice and swear by innings. All day Sunday and part of yesterday they were gnashing their teeth. But the political cload cleared during the day and yesterday evening -they were content to close their eyes, satisfied that they held the trump cards in a little game that is to be play6d at the c6urt house tomorrow afternoon. has been a long time since the Populists, or in fact any who claim to be a PJopulist, have had a row of any kind. The leaders and rank and file have worked in harmony. Those who wanted to be leaders and couldn't have been

and again but they have taken their medicine in silence until now. Today all is changed, according to the died-in-the-wool Populists, who declare that an effort is being made to disrupt the organization in the county. The following circular, issued last Saturday, is the cause of all the trouble: To the Populists of Vigo County:

Call for a Public Meeting—In view of the emergency existing at this time, appealing once more to all patriotic citizens who are opposed to our government and people passing under the control of the Republican party, now representing the modern slaveocracy, based upon continued bonding of our people to private banking and other class-favored monopolies, the undersigned invite all the Populists of our country wlio are in favor of uniting and supporting the ticket headed by Bryan, Sewall, Shively and Ridpath, from top to bottom, as the only way open to expression of the principles we stand for, to meet at the court house, Wednesday evening, September 30, 1896, at 7:30 p. m. for the purpose of organizing a Populist Bryan and Sewall club and to repudiate the further authority of state committeemen who show by their action that Indiana shall be lost to Bryan and our principles.

The vice presidency is not the issue in this contest with the plutocracy marshalled again3t the financial independence ef the American people inside the so-called Republican party.

The circular sent out by C. A. Powers and others calling for a mass meeting on September 30, is the work of C. A. Powers and a very few who follow him, and is wholly ignored by your regularly elected county committee. We believe it will also be ignored by the Populist voters of Vigo county. The Populist party well knows the men who issued said circular and since its presentation to the public have congratulated each other on the fact that they (C. A. Power and others) have left the Populist party and are now in full sympathy and are working for the Democratic party, the members of which have spent the last several years in opposing us. The Populists of this county also know that nothing their limited knowledge of the English language could command has been left unsaid in the abuse and denunciation by these men of the Democratic party.

Uenc#, we rejoice in the fact that they havo left our party and that we are left untrammeled to advocate and support with our ballots the p*iciples which we believe to be right and for which we have contended since the Omaha platform was adopted and presented to the American people.

Brjan and W»tscu First and Last. 'The''Populist party is first, last and all the time fh tavdr of Bryaii and Watson and the maintenance of our organization, and the men •eferred to will find us in the middle of the load. Tho Populists of Vigo county Will therefore take notice that said circular is wholly unauthorized and is denounced as well as the men who intersoribed the same.

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Wm. Biel, C. A. Power, A. S. Loudermilk, P. C. Hecklesberg, Jabez Smith, j\v. I. Abel,

Engelbert Kafader, A. F. Smith, F. M. Wilson.

The C»!l Created a Wild Stir. When the above became circulated among the Populists of, the city and county Saturday there was a wild stir. Yesterday letters from all quarters began to pour into the office of the county chairman. They came from the oldest and most influential men in the party. All manner of harsh things were said in these letters, and in almost every case it was demanded that the ticket nominated at the court house some weeks ago should stand and that the men whose signatures appeared under the circular should be read out of the party. Some declared it was a case of sell out, while by others the call for the meeting was denounced as piece of 'hen headedness" on the part of men who have swallowed a big chunk of Democratic bait. But the county committee got together during the afternoon and drafted the following statement which will be printed and sent to the different committeemen: To Vigo County Populists:

S. J. St. Clair, County Chairman.

C. N. Demorest, Secretary. The Populist of the city, and from the country as well, look on the circular issued by the unauthorized^ committee as the entering wedge to an overthrow of the entire county ticket. This will certainly not be accomplished, as yesterday the Populists filed the certificate of election of the ticket nominated in the county last month. Thomas A. Gibble of Vermillion county, who was nominated for joint representative, IS not on the ticket. His name was taken off some time ago and that of J. P. Boatman substituted. Klbbie's withdrawal was due to the fact that he is a candidate for auditor of Vermillion county.

Charley Power, whose name appears on the list In the call for the mass meeting, is patching it from all sides. It is a fact known to every Populist in the county that Power has been sat down oil'at almost every convention held in -the city He is scarcely ever allowed to speak and since the present campaign opened his sudden friendship for the Democrats and vice versa has been the subject of much unfavorable comment. Said an old Populist wheel horse yesterday: "Power and Judge Pierce. am sure, wrote that call. Power has gone over to the Democrats bag and baggage. He Is a high card just now, but there will be dull, sickening thud when the campaign Is over. It will be a case of dropped like a hot potato. Then I suppose he will again declare he is a Populist. Charley has tried almost everything and he might as well train with tho Democrats and get the Whole bill of fare."

Dlda't Waut to Hear Power. This same Populist said that a few nights »go Power accompanied Judge McNutt flown to Riley and that after McNutt finished his speech Power mounted the plat(orm, whereupon every Populist in the auSience walked out.

The third party men thought at first after receiving the circular that they would get the old stand-by's in line tomorrow »nd be on hand to rout the "bolters." This was finally decided to be illl advised from the fact that the meeting would likely be packed with Democrats and the real party men would be voted. Captain J. H. Allen of North Thirteenth street, one of the Btanchest Populists in the county, is quoted as saying that he would fight fusion to the last ditch and if the "middle of the road" men lost he would not vote for the fusion men named.

The conservative men in the party say they are satisfied the meeting called for tomorrow will be a fizzle. They claim to have a good fighting chance of electing two men on the ticket and for this reason th^ straight Populists will tolerate no combination. perhaps the most solicitous candidate on t&d Democratic ticket is Dan Fasig, more,

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recently of the firm of Apman, Fasig Star. Dan wag flying about jjesterday encouraging in every way possible the movement set afoot by Charley Power et al., and It is known that he even had the temerity to approach Charley Gilmore with' the suggestion that he ought to withdraw from the race. Dan had his man sized tip incorrectly. There isnt a stralghter Jowaj? Vigo county than Charley Gilmo^ _%nd it must be said to his credit that he left the Republican party on conscientious grounds. He is a "middle of the road" man and conscieutiously believes in the principles he maintains. It was, therefore, a futile effort to approach Mr. Gilmore with the suggestion that he could make a personal or political gain by being pulled off the ticket. But the matter did not rest with popular Charley Gilmore alone, for he has admirers in his own party who recognize him as a leader and who would not under any circumstance sacrifice him to a demand of a cabal of the so-called Democratic party whose only purpose is to win out matter what may become of the straightforward Populist, whose support the Democrats are now s6 earnestly seeking.

It is understood that Morton C. Rankin, the national treasurer of the Populist P^rty. will be in Indianapolis today at the final conference of the Populist and Democratic sub-committees.. Mr. Rankin is ardently in favor of Mr. Watson's election, but having proposed a compromise by which five Populists are to be placed on the Democratic ticket it is more than likely he will stand by his original propostion. Nevertheless many of the Populists do not favor this move, although they recognize Mr. Rankin's great influence in his party ranks. For this reason it is a matter of speculation if the plot to fuse on the national ticket can be successfully carried out. Two or three men on the Democratic state ticket have a warm personal following and some of their best friends are wondering how they can gain by having this double headed ticket so long as the Populists are determined to keep their state ticket in the field.

HARDWARE STORE ROBBED.

Edgar Dick's Place Entered by Burglars Last Night. Notwithstanfling the fact that George Buckner is in jail, robberies are still being committed. Thieves made a bold move last night when they entered Edgar Dick's place on South Fourth street. They entered the plaee by the rear door and, though there was a bright light in the place, they went to the show case and took several knives and razors. The robbery was discovered a few minutes after it occurred and a search was made for the thieves. One young fellow, found a short distance from the store, was arrested. He was in the alley, and his clothes wjere wet and muddy, as though he had been crawling. The fact that he was drunk, however, probably explains the muddy clothes. The robbers chose a good time to do the work. It was about 10 o'clock, there were but few people on the street and rain was falling. As but a few knives and razors were taken, the police believe the thieves were frightened away.

At 2 o'clock this morning burglars made an attempt to break into Theodore Tierweiler's grocery store, on South Twelfth street, but were frightened away before they had forced the back door.

HIS HOME IN TERRE HAUTE.

John Baker, sC.ft£. I. Car Repairer, Suicides at Danville. A special to The Express from Danville, III., gives the information that John Henry Baker, a car repairer on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, hanged himself in that city yesterday. Baker has been in the employ of the C. & E. I. for many years and was well liked by the officials. When his body was cut down it was found he had $834 in his pockets. Baker was 61 years of age and was married. He leaves a wife and two children. It is believed his family lives at Chicago now, though at one time they resided here. Baker's position as car repairer brought him to this city a great deal of the time and he was considered at home at either end of the road.

The Old Soldier "Missionaries." Dubuque, la., Sept. 28.—Generals Alger, Howard, Siegel and Sickles and Corporal Tanner arrived from the West before daylight this morning and even at that early hour were welcomed by a large number of citizens. They remained in their special car until 9:30 o'clock, when they were escorted to Washington Park, where they spoke for two hours in behalf of McKinley. During the early mornig special trains brought in hundreds of excursionists, and it is estimated that not less than 10,000 were in line. Several hundred local and visiting G. A. R. men formed the escort, and they were accompanied by a detachment of cavalry, a long line of marching clubs and several bands. On the platform at the park besides the generals, and other distinguished visitors were Senator Allison, Congressman D. B. Henderson and Governor Drake.

Colonel Henderson presided and presented the speakers, each being recelevd with enthusiastic cheers of the assembled thousands.

Sewing Machine People Meet. The question of whether or not the plant of the Terro Haute Manufacturing Company now located at Dixon, III., will be removed to this city is yet to be decided. Several of tho stockholders of tho concern met at the office of the Terre Haute Carriage and Buggy Company last night, but on account of the inclement weather not more than half of the stock was represented. There will be another meeting in a day or two. The owners of the plant have several good offers from other cities, but as Terre Haute capital is involved in the concern the stockholders are anxious to bring it to this city. It Is thought a forjual proposition will be made to the Business Men's association in a short ime. In addition to moving the plant the company expects to increase the capital stock from $§0,000 to $150,000. If the factory is moved it must be at once as the winter season is a busy one.

rolitics the Cause of Murder. Gray, W. Va., Sept. 28.—Two lives were lost as the result of a political dispute on Saturday night in Mingo county. John Roberts struck "Doc" Estep with a cane. Estep shot and killed Roberts. King Roberts, a brother, then procured a Winchester and followed Estep, killing him within 100 yards cf his home.

John Wana maker's New Purchase. New York, Sept. 28.—Upon the authority of ex-Judge Russell, son-in-law of Judge Henry Hilton, the statement is made that John Wanamaker of Philadelphia has purchased the lease and stock of Hilton, Hughes & Co. (originally A. T. Stewart & Co.), which firm recently closed its doors. The price paid fs said to be $2,000,000.

Fine Picture of Fntlicr Wil«on.

Edward Osborne, one of the trustees of St. Joseph's Church, has had painted by McLachlan & Painter of Chicago a beautiful picture of the late Father Gerald M. Wilson, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Church. The painting is on exhibition at A. P. Kivits.

Jacob Scl)lot.terb«ck Injured.. Jacob Schlotterback, proprietor-ol the G«f-, mania Hotel and saloon, was very painfully injured Saturday. He was working- in his place and accidentally fell over" a sften ladder. Mr. Schlotterback's leg was broken, and as it is an old break, he will be laid up for several weeks.

TO MARK YOUR WIFX tOVK YOU Use "Garland" Stoves and Ranges^

Many Mistake* Which ua

The room being too small, the board decided to move the books, which was done on May 20, 1892, to the present quarters^ at 709% Main street. In all these'years the library has grown until there are at present 13,000 volumes on hand. The number of books read during the past year has reached 40,000. Counting the number of people who have used the reading room at 20,000, there have been about 60,000 people required to climb those tiresome stairs during the past year. In the face of these startling figures the board finally decided that a room on the ground floor was needed. Negotiations were then entered into for the purchase of the old Emanuel Church at No. 119 North Eighth street, the purchase price being $6,500. The building as a church could not be used, so it was decided to improve it to the extent of $2,500, which improvements are about completed and the building will be ready for occupancy about October 5th. The body of the church will be used as a reading room and will contain all the newspapers and reference books. The room measures 60x30 feet. It is at present being beautifully decorated and papered by the C. B. Brokaw Co. The paper will be of a light color with a blue tinted trimming. At the east end of this room an addition has been added which will contain the many volumes, of books. This room is provided with a large skylight and contains three large arches the height of the ceiling. In the west tod of the reading room will be the statue "Indiana" mounted on a large pedestal in plain view of all who enter the building at the doors

Paddock,

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29,1896.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

NEW BUILDING OX NORTH EIGHTH STREET SOON TO BE OCCUPIED. |-x? cad.-' 3©

f!or,M""'yjly

Taking Place By tbe Public In I Books.

If there is any one plsfce In'a city where its intelligence can be measured it Is fo' the popularity of its public library. It is oply in recent years that libraries have cqtn^to be considered a necessary part of ievery city's educational department. In

:some

of the most progressive cities what ls cafted traveling libraries have been established. These libraries are so arranged that IShey can be loaned to towns too small for ptiblic libraries.' The Terre Haute library 'lias grown to such proportions since its establishment that there is hardly a resident of the city who does not at some time take advantage of the opportunity for reading which it offers. A library has been known to Terre Haute only since 1881. When it was first organized it was located at 624% Main street, with Mrs. L. C. Werner as librarian. It contained' about 1,140 volumes and was a private concern. The school board saw its success and where they found it could be purchased for almost nothing concluded to buy it in the year 1882. The only requirements of the sale were that the board would pay off the indebtedness of $70 in addition to $1 in cash.

either side. This statue is

the work of "Miss' JeAiiett Scudder, and is presented to Terre Haute by the different women's clubs of the city. The new building will be in charge of the present librarian, Miss Letha

and her assistant, Miss

Sallie C. Hughes. The present library room has been the scene of many amusing incidents and it is S.tlse tLt sue* should be tto «. when the great number of people who patronize the institution are taken into consideration. There are a great many mistakes made in judging people by their occupations and also by the clothes they wear. For instance an employe of the city who does work on the streets visits the room regularly aniUs said to be one of the few citizens of the town who takes advantage of the books printed in foreign languages. He has been such a constant reader of

these books that he was asked one day as to -aj

the nature of his reading. His answer was: "They are on the order of the after-dinner speeches of Chauncey M. Depew."

Another visitor to the reading room has

become

known-as "Napoleon."

has read

everything in the library along this line and is at present reading them for the third time. He has been known to read for nine

the past summer and it has often b|en

found necessary to turn the lights o,ut £e- .g

AN EDITOR WITHOUT A PAPER.

Qaeer Character Who Purveys the Hews in a Sonthern Town. The reporter for the Star had been around to let Li Hung Chang ask him 4,000 or 5,000 questions before breakfast, and he was then telling the hotel clerk about it in the hearing of a man who looked as much like a Chicago art salesman as anything else. Incidentally the reporter mentioned that in China there were people who gathered information around the towns and sold it to the curious, and he intimated that Li Hung Chang was on tho make and would probably dispose of his large and valuable collection of facts to good advantage when he got home.

This was taken as a joke, but the Chicago man looked serious. "Well," he said, "I don't know about this Chinese business, but about two years ago I was in a town down South where the press isn't supported with that degree of liberality we expect it to be in this day and generation, and as I stood in the door of the store where I had sold a bill of goods a man came by and began to talk to me—Li Hung Changing me, so to speak, for he asked me more questions in a minute than I had asked me all the time I had been in town. He wasn't a very reputable looking party, either, for his nose was red and his hat had the droops at four corners, but he was a bright sort of a fellow and his eyes sparkled, even if they were bleary and liquor soaked. "As I was answering his questions and trytog to get away from him the proprietor of the store came out and introduced' me to the queer genius as the local editor. Then I began to ask a few questions thyself, but before I .had time to get in ^ery many the town marshal appeared down the street with a prisoner, and the edftor dropped me and went after the latest'excitement. *c 'I didn't know you had a newspaper here,' said I to the merchant. 'We haven't said he, "but we've gotran tfditor.' 'How ciin he edit a paper when there isn't any?' said I. 'He's a genius,' said he. 'He doesn't look it,' said

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'Well, I'll tell you what that chap does,' said he, 'and what he has been doing for a year or more. You know, we have a population c? 700 or 800 here, and we don't get

hold of a daily paper until it la.afghYwnhours old, and then wa don't, get tEat regularly, and nobody in town ^Htoei It/eafetpt Suday. Well, what does this chap do but beg a corner In the room where the postoffice is, and there he puts an old arm chair somebody gave him and cattetf lt the editorial rooms of the Perpetual Gazette. People laughed at him and thought he-via* drunk, as usual, but he went around everywhere in town gathering the news exactly as if he were going to print it, and he knew how, for he had been a bright newspaper man once. "Then he would collect a group of people and offer to tell all he knew for 5 cents from each listener, or, as he did sometimes, he would get up on a barrel outside the office and, after telling what he had to tell, he would pass the hat and collect sometimes as much as 50 or 75 cents. He always got a lot of news out of the daily paper and supplied it fresh every morning of the day after. I have often had him come in here at night and for a quarter got an hour or more entertainment out of him, besides getting the news. "He reads the stories in the papers, too, and if anybody wants to hear stories he can give all the current ones at so much per listener."—Washington Star.

AT A RUSSIAN HOTEL..

Some Amenities of Travel 1"» the Country of the CM*. Much has been written ahout the German bed. But how much might not be written about the Russian bed? Nay, how much has not been written already Even in decent country houses In Russia the sleeping place is often merely a couch or the top of a chest of drawers covered with a rug. But in the towns, especially in the hotels in the towns, there are beds, and such beds! The German bed, as most people are aware, if not from personal experience, from Jerome K. Jerome's description of it, is placed in a deep box, into which you climb, and then pull the bed on top of you. The whole contrivance is so designed as to keep one-half of the body perspiring hot and the other half shlveringly cold, and to suffocate you if you are not constantly on the alert. Its grand redeeming feature is that you cannot tumble out of it, however much you toss about The Russian bed, on the contrary,, is an affair out of which, or rather off which, you cannot possibly help tumbling, however still you lie, says the Newcastle Chronicle. It is an iron or wooden frame, perfectly destitute of rails, and about the width of an ordinary coffin. Upon this is placed a mattress, and the entire arrangement is deposited in the middle of the room. To get on to it is easy enough, for it is quite low. But to fall asleep on it is inevitably to fall on the floor. It is too narrow to turn in, and there is nobody who does not turn in his sleep, unless he 1b a Russian, who, one may assume, has been weaned from the habit by •countless flops in the days of his youth, when he didn't mind that sort of thing. He has brought himself Into harmony with his environment, ss the evolutionists say, and is comfortable. The stranger has not, and suffers accordingly.

Most people before they enter the land of Nod areapt to dream that they have fallen over a precipice, and are going down, down, down and Just as they are about to toueh

daylight, dreaming, I fancy, that he was about to break the record by falling out again. The narrow bed is general where beds are employed at all. Even the imper-

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hours at a time during, the hottest days of ^s^S'ihan the'bed the "fact" tha^ they

furnished with them, and

the couch upon which the murdered Alexander breathed his last, still shown to visitors to the Winter Palace, is of the same type. The Russians, like their Teutonic neighbors, have a good deal to learn about Bedfordshire.

are invariably conspicuous by

fore he would realize the hour. bedclothing, even in the best hotels. The The children often astonish the librarian traVeler is expected to bring his sheets and by saying: "Please, ma'am, I want to take ]anjjets ith him if he requires them, and out a library." The little folks mep that they want a certificate which pp't^les them to the use of the books. Lo,vers of romance are continually inquiring for "The Czar's Widow" and are very much disappointed at being given "The Tsar^ ."Window." People who ought to know^betfer are continually calling for books under the wrong name. A young student w^o recently wanted Rider Haggard's "She" called for "Her."

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their absence,

Dot the fashlon in Russia t0 supp!y

the same is the case in private houses. A Russian would no more think of offering you second-hand bedclothes than you would of offering him a second-hand toothbrush. The railway officials now supply one pillow, one sheet and one blanket to each first class

the stranger, let him be invited guest or ..

own bed-clothing. There are considerations which render this system highly desirable. But it is not without its drawbacks and when we remember that the mean annual temperature of Northern Russia is below

temperature of Northern Russia is below

freezing point, it will be admitted that no

one should be left in ignorance of the cus torn. Its discovery created no small consternation among the English tourists, who were quite unprepared for it, and who arrived at Moscow at midnight, tired to death, and found themselves with nothing to sleep in and with next to nothing to sleep upon. How did they manage? One slept for eight days in his topcoat another wrapped himself up in his dignity and his dressing gown, while a third reposed in a borrowed railway rug.

Guests in a Russian hotel, or in a private house for that matter, ought, if they are

particular, to fasten their bed room doors

hpfnro onp-uffinrr in sorinns flnIntinnc Piiq. before engaging in serious ablutions. Russian servants and waiters, male and female, give no warning of their approach. It is no more the custom to knock at a door than it is to supply bedclothes, and a boots or a chambermaid will invariably enter a room without intimation, "as if," as one writer has expressed it, "Intentionally ig-. noring such obstacles to movement as doors." The fact that the room is a bed room makes no difference whatever.

free-and-easy style may not annoy a Slav, but it is apt to provoke some embarrassing situations among Englishmen, whose morning toilet is a very extensive affair, embracing every part of the man from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet.

Marries Her Reditkin Model. New York, Sept. 28.—One of the most startling and romantic bits of news ever connected with the art world leaked out yesterday when it was learned that Miss Hattie Hashagan, had, a few days ago, been married to Thunder Cloud, the big Indian

Just what day the wedding took place cannot be ascertained. It is only known that Thunder Cloud and Miss Hashagan were made one in the studio of tho latter one day last week.

Miss Hashagan has bad a studio in East Fifty-ninth street for hearly two years. Here she has lived with her mother, and done much good and promising work in oil, water color and wash drawings..From:time to time her work has appeared in the exhibitions. She is, moreover, well-known 4n artistic circles for her beauty,

She is 22 years old, fair coqplexioned, has a head of soft wavy broVn hair, and a pair of large brown eyes, and dresses with great elegance. •. ,,

WHY CANT I BE WELL?

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Always bo Biddy?.

the bottom they wake up with a start, and mother's and a final one down at the church,

heave a sigh 6f relief as they realize that they are on nothing harder than feathers. In Russia'that dream has a terribly actual termination. The visionary wakes with a start to find that he has "gone over" in a

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very literal sense and is wallowing among

h1S trunks. A cunning man will shift his

bed from the center of the room to the wall. ,,

That saves him on one side. But he is still

open to disaster on the other and abed room! ,n

companion of mine used to fall out of bed,

Weak and

gIfltH QoMtloaa tor Ikonniifli Sit fmtvn. A Definite Answer from FV ^Ssfltha Beat Awtfcarlty. MsXM

You are not in good health. There is weakness, a pain, or a tired feelin?, your blood is bad, your nerves are weak, or some organ in thcTbody is out of order and yon need building up. Don't neglect such, a condition, for delay is dangerous.

You can get well and have perfect health just as weli as not.Follow the advice of Mrs. F. Cullen, of 773 Grand, ave., New Haven,-.Ct., who will tell you how she got well and just homyou also can be cured. "I was very weak and nervous and could not hold anything in my hands. I felt tired and nervous all the time, and had no ambition to do anything. In fact, I was nearly in my grave. I took Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and it has done a world of good for me.

MRS. F. CTTIXEW.

"I am now strong and able to do most anything. Dr. Greene's wonderful Nervura cured me, and I am sure it will help every man, woman or child who is weak and nervous."

Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy is a very giant among medicines, performing cures which seem little short of miraculous. You can make no mistake in trying it.

It is the prescription and discovery of Dr. Greene, of 35 West 14th St., New York City, the most successful specialist in nervous and chronic diseases, who gives free consultation, personally or by letter.

HUMORS OF MARRIAGE.

Notably Short and Effective Wedding Ceremonle*. "Make it short." "Very well. Then you do not care to repeat much of the ceremony?" "Oh, no! I am faint now," says she.

That is one experience.

Our next was the very opposite, says the New York Independent. The young couple

wanted all they could arrange for in the

the floor all but chalk-marked where bride

... .. again and again, as though the whole mat-

proportion aa

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three times regularly every night, and after ,, the third time lie talking in his sleep until Just,ce

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ceremony of the Episcopal Church. As

simple as any is the formula of a certain Western official of whom we have somewhere heard: "Jake, du you 'low ter take Sal?" "Yer bet I du." "Sal, du you 'low ter take Jake?" "I 'low ter." "Then, in the name o' ther state of Missoury, I pernounce you-uns man and woman. Amen." ,t

Though somewhat abbreviated, this serv-

cha"cinS

j,v ice was-not quite so short as that of a rath- Jersey.

eccentric old minister in Conn^ticut railroad official could

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ereater par 0 a ba

for years harassed him by seeming at any you could hear the sunlight glint ana at

time about to put their heads into the mat- night the shadows fall. It was snowing rimonial noose, yet never doing It, said: when-I went on at night and all trains were "Stephen and Sarah, do you two really blocked, and by morning I was almost want to be married?" buried. My lunch was long ago gone and I "Why, yes." felt like grinding my teeth into soma "Then I declare you husband and wife." brakfast. Dinner time came and went, And away he went and entered the mar- supper hour passed and no relief arrived, riage In the town records. 1 chewed on lead pencils and rubber bands

wi fe? fae anawered lMtantly

that than another case when in addressing the bride the minister asked: "Do you take this man for better or for worse?" "I can't tell until I have had him a while," interrupted the bride. On this occasion we think it would have been inappropriate had the friend who presided at the piano played for a recessional the same selection that is said to have been performed at a recent wedding In Boston. As the newly married pair retired down the

thg is 8aid t0 have innocently

rendered "Onward, Christian Marching as to War."

DIVORCED ELEVEN WIVES.

Abraham Ithlme* of Indiana Holdn the Record In America. The matrimonial career of Abraham Rhimes of Fulton county, Ind., is believed, This in the point of number of wives, to be witb-

out parallel in the United States, says the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Rhimes is 75 years of age. The story of Rhimes' remarkable experience with wives covers a period of twenty years, during which time he has divorced eleven wives and has just taken to himself wife No. 12. Rhimes started in life poor, but by frugality and industry succeeded in accumulating a comfortable fortune, which after 1876 rapidly dwindled, as the result of litigation in divorce courts. Rhimes may now be said to be rich only in experience.

Miss Emeline Gandy Minneapolis was the Indiana man's first wife. When Rhimes was 55 years old he decided to marry and advertised in a Chicago publication. MisB Gandy answered the want notice, and but seven days elapsed after the exchange of letters until their betrothal, their marriage speedily following. Rhimes lived with his first wife two years, when Mrs. ithimes, on tbe ground of cruel treatment, Obtained a divorce.

He remained single two months, when he chose for his secodd companion Miss Martha Robbins, an Indiana girl. Their married life was one of discord and six months after the second marriage Mrs. Rhimes' .temper formed the basis of a complaint lor

divorce, which was granted. Rhimes immediately set about to capture a third*wife and found a helpmate in Miss Samantha?4 !Jyi Bengal of Detroit, Mich. Their wedded !T life was remarkable for its brevity and in' 1882 the divorce court was again called upon to record the familiar story ot domes* tic Infelicity. Rhimes next found peace or mind in an alliance Tprith Miss Laving Straw of Indianapolis and, contrary to past experience, lived happily with wife No. for upward of a year, when the hand of fate separated Rhimes front his girl bride,: and tbe much married Hoosier was again" at liberty.

Rhimes left Indlana an4 returned later with Mrs. Anna Sol and, whom he' met in St: txulS and mkrried. April 5, 1886, Rhimes was again divorced and he enjoyed single blessedness until July 14th of the succeeding year, when he again entered th« ranks of the married. His sixth wife was: a woman advanced in years, Mrs. Sarah Overly, whose incompatible temper sufficed to drive Rhimes to seek dredress in the courts and the woman who took him to bo her third husband made way for Miss Rachel Magnum of Cleveland, O., theirmarriage taking place in 1888. Rhimes dl« vorced her September 8, 18SD, and two months later repented, and, their reconciliation having been effected, Mrs. Rhimes No. 7, nee Miss Magnum, became his eighth wife. But an estrangement soon resulted" and the inevitable legal separation becama a matter of court record. When Rhimes agreed to disagree with his ninth wife the Indiana courts refused to longer issue bttta of divorce, and Rhimes went to Dakota, where he acquired a residence, secured a decree and returned to Berrien county, Mich., where he was married to Miss Stella Bloomhagen, aged 24. Rhimes lived long enough in Michigan to divorce his tenth wife and, returning to the scenes of his former marital conquests, was married to Mrs. Mary Walsh, with whom he lived longer than any of his previous wives. But the mania for divorce still controlled him, and in March, 1895, wife No. 11 cast off the name Rhimes. Tho Hoosier patriarch was married to wife No. 12 last week.

ADVENTURE OF TELEGRAPHERS.

Knights of the Key Are Sometimes Placed In Peculiar Positions. Telegraph operators have queer experiences at times, especially at the lonely railroad stations where travel is light, hours long and the work Is done at night. An exTperience meeting of sailors, so far as yam spinning is concerned, is as mild compared to a telegraphers' social session as milk is to a tar's shore leave. Several knights of the key were sitting about a table downtown after hours recently when the tonguea began to wag about experiences, says the New York Sun. Gil Bradley started tha ball. "I was sent one night to sub on the Texas & Pacific at a little station called Gordon," he said. "There was one hotel of four rooms a mile from the telegraph station, and two or three cabins about the samo distance off. The regular operator had his rooms over the station aDd freight house, where supplies were received for the coal

several

miles away. It was the lone

uest pijuje I ever

way of ceremony—two rehearsals, one up at After fixing things I lay down J)n ,.

and groom and each attendant was to put faco. There was a big Newfoundland dog his or her feet, the sentences learned and

repeated and every motion sone through

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to ow

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and llberty the nup

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struck, but I had to work,

*n wait for the next freight. I suppose I

jumpea up with a start at

a cold( wet nose sho

ved into my

gging his tail as merrily as a buzz saw

ts through soft wood. Well, that dog

first to the lighted lantern on the floor,

back to me and

then pretty soon I

mething was wrong. Up

and he led me

house

aU gt lei to slllt andbaCk

all through the

up to the operator's rooms

to the office, then calmly went

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nnd one

fQp the traln butearear

before I heard it he began to bark. "The next night the same performance. Well, after that I used to go to sleep and for the week I was there that dog kept watch. You see, the regular was fond of sleep at night so he could play poker aU day. I never told on him, but that was a well-trained dog." "That's no experience," said Billy Marshall. "There was only half a thrill la that. Why, in 1888, during the blizzard.

was holding down a night job in New

But not all ceremonies are by any means until I felt like a girl bookkeeper. I pulled

-pwwwl j," "~VrT so short for, on the contrary, we havtjiin my belt and nearly cut myself In two, passenger. Elsewhere however as stated,

Qf mlnlgters with oeremonles occu-Tbut

bour and

paying lodger is understood to provide his thoroughly the moral law in me with that gnawing at my stomach. All at once I saw three muskrats como up through a hole in the floor. Muskrat was better than starvation, so I made for

was the dreariest spot that a

wQman fee your ers got away to freeze to deat

Soldiers,

pi^ outJ°r s^"

*\7fear0 the Lnlight gUnt and at

the old hunger was there. Just the same,

So I tried to sleep, but there was no sleep

covering pretty thoroughly and the history of the Jews. There is a story of a yourf man who seemed to know a good deal bettar what he was about. When the minister asked them with a poker, killed one and the oth-

h. Skinning

With that fellow and dressing him didn't take

no small degree of warmth. "See here, l°nS. and with wire I rigged a broiler, parson, what do you suppose we came here You bet your life the smell of that cooking for, a divorce?" No more true to life was

rat was

3ust g,eat

and 1 no

chink.

either. It just tickled me so that I fell asleep and only woke up when he was so burnt that the odor nearly choked me. "The snow plow came along soon, however, and when I got filled up again I was sort of glad I hadn't put down the old muskrat, after all. He might not have agreed with me."

JUU-* Jlori!«r*i» Snlirldn.

Westminster. Md., Sept. 28.—Miss Carrie

Horner, daughter of Charles Horner, com

mitted suicide by means of strychnine yesterday, under peculiar circumstances, She was to have been married at 1 o'clock to William Brock, a grocer. Brock suggested that they take a walk In the cemetery, aud there informed her, according to her father's statement, that he was not in a position to marry her. Upon this she complained of 'nervousness, and said «he wished to be alone. She walked to the other end of the cemetery, where she remained for five minutes, at the end of which time Brock heard a scream and rushed over, only to find her in convulsions. CharleB Horner, the father of the dead girl, was so incensed that he started In quest of Brock, swearing to kill him, but the latter had left town.

Profwmor Klcler Still Alive. Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 28.—Professor Eisler, the Adrian (Mich.) balloonist, wha fell from his balloon while making an as«' cension on Friday, is still alive and may possibly recover, notwithstanding that the Jumped when the balloon was from sixty to eighty feet high and landed on a boat loaded with coal. He states that the balloon was ascending so rapidly that he was afriad that it would become entangled with the ropes of the parachute, and thought It safer to make a jump for the river than to chance being caught in the ropes. Ho miscalculated his distance, which caused his injurios. Eisler has made 779 ascensions, and this is the first serious accldont that has befallen him.

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