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For President,

WILLIAM mckinlbv of owa For Vfqe-Prealdent.

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of New Jersey,

For Governor,

JAMBS A. MOUNT. 'For Lieutenant Governor^ W, S. HAGGARD.

For Secretary of States W. D. OWEN. JTor Btate Auditor.

A. C, DAILYV

For State Treasure^ F. J. SCHOLZ. For Attorney Genera^

WM. A. KETCHAM. For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARGES F. REMY. For Superintendent Publio Instruction,

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

For Appellate Judges,

First District—W. D. ROBINSON. Second District—WM. J. HENLEYi, Third District—JAMES B. BLACK. Fourth District—D. W- COMSTOQIJ,

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

For Jydge Circuit Courts JAMES E, PIETY.

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

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

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

For Coroner,

ALARIC T. PAYNE. For Treasurer, WILTON T. SANFORIV-

For Sheriff,

JOHN BUTLER. For Surveyor,

WILLIAM II. HAUfUS, For Assessor, WILLIAM ATHON.

For Commissioner,

First District—THOMAS ADAMS. Second District—ANDilEW WISEMAN..

An exchange speaks of the Rev. Myron Heed becoming sensational. Becoming?

Even the man who gets down to his last dollar can be glad that it is not a Bryan BO-cent dollar.

The newspapers continue their daily race serials about Bryan racing after the people and the people racing to see McKinley, and they show that Bryan has more of that hupted, worried air than McKinley has.

Mr. Bryan has distorted the meaning of .words by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Blaine, Henry Ward Beecher and the author of the book of Acts. He must rely on all these men being dead to escape correction

Labor is paid in "dollars worth 100 cents every day and everywhere. Mr, Bryan says the Mexican 53-cent dollar is an honest dollar. As labor wants a 100-cent dollar it does not want Bryan's "honest Mexican dollar."

Mr. Bryan's mine-owning friends prefer to keep him East until they settle that little affair at Leadville. One of his speeches to Eastern labor would be worse than dynamite at Leadville and dangerous for the fich bosses, but be will take another text ojit theje.

Some of Bryan's fine schemes have not as yet panned out well. The arrangement at St. Louis, with its secret compacts to farce the Populists, pell-mell, into the Democratic party, hangs fire and the lunch with Hill and the supper at the hunting lodge were a flash in the pan.

''If you want good business you must have good politics," said Mr. McKinley. We have had bad business for nearly four years. There has been too much free trade and free silver politics In congress and they have made bad business. Bryan as a free trader and free sllverite stands for bad business and the country cannot afford him.

"Bight thousand railroad men marched shoulder to shoulder in a great Republican demonstration at Terre Haute, but out of that number there was not one who could be by any means induced to complain of 'coercion.' "—Lafayette Courier.

The Courier is correct probably it does not know "Sarah and the $iildren," the interesting characters {n one of the Gazette's bright little novelettes. Sarah is the "Mrs. Harris" of the Gazette offie.

The remarkable success of "coercion" in Maine and Vermont will sink into insignificance when the majorities for McKinley in pther states are counted. In Pennsylvania and New York 300,000 in each state will •how what kind of "dumb, driven cattle" the people are, and in other states the tremendous rush of voters to stamp into the earth the ruinous schemes of the Rocky Mountain syndicates and heartless, conscienceless political tricksters will mark the power of the indignant and patriotic sentiment of the people, or of "coercion," as the Popocrats call it.

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Several things disprove the charges that the Sentinel has "accepted" a bribe for supporting Bryan. "Accepted" implies the paying over and receiving of money. The silverites pay nothing but promises. Like the scriptural character of old and Infernal anism memory, they stand up on a mountain in point out possessions belonging to other people and promise to giVe them to their dupes. The silver senators promise to subsidize the New York Mercury but the owner sank $400,000, LaFollette, the go-be-tween, lost $55,000 and got into jail and the senators never put up a cent. The silverites do not propose to give anything more than 50-cent dollars in exchange for 100oeat dollars. No, the Sentinel has not "ac-

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The Bryanites question the sincerity of the business men who do not wish to see general business injured by depreciated money. They probably would not believe that reputable physicians do not wish for pestilences and epidemics, that the clergy do not hope for an outbreak of sin or that tlie carpenters and brickmasons are not praying for great conflagrations. There are several kinds of business men that would be very congenial to the Bryanites— the Mexican brokers who make money by scalping silver and gold, the wreckers who make money out of disasters and not out of the safe and prosperous voyages of ships, and such as Mr. Jerry Cruncher, the resurrectionist who liked a good supply of fresh-ly-made graves.

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BEECHER ON THE SILVER-LINED DITCH. Mr. Bryan lugged the name of Henry Ward Beecher into his Brooklyn speech with his usual happy facility for misrepresenting the helpless dead. On that occasion he said: "I am glad to be permitted to present the cause of the people of Brooklyn. I only wish that that distinguished divine whose name has added even to the fame of your great city, Henry Ward Beecher, were with us today, that he might again champion the cause of the people In their great fight. Any man would whose sympathies were on the side of humanity, my friends."

Mr. Bryan claimed to be a champion of the people, aa thousands of would-be leaders have done since the days of Catiline and Jack Cade, and he offers to them as the universal panacea for every ill the free coinage of silver. Many a so-called quack may believe that he Is the friend of the people when he assails all schools of medicine, urges the people to use one cure-all for every disease and leads them to neglect rational and tried remedies until it is too late to restore shattered health by rational and tested treatment.

Mr. Bryan wished that Beecher "we^e with us today." One only has to read yhat Mr, Beecher said of the proposition to pay government debts with greenbacks, made by Mr. Bryan's predecessors, to know exactly what a scathing denunciation Brywould suffer from him if he was alive today. The extract from the Thanksgiving sermon, delivered in 1.S77 by Mr. Beecher, which is printed below, seems remarkable in its applicability to thct, silveK fallacy and^elusion of today, but ife|s apf* plicable today because the greenback and free Bilver issues violate the Baine laws of financial, commercial and political honesty and threaten the same.dderiQraUonot credit and morals: .. -J

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cepted" $25,000 yat but the amount i« a mere tor tbs tiivfrltai to ise.

poy^rnQr Matthews has been exonerated from the charge made by a precipitate correspondent that he showed discourtesy to ex-President Harrison on the Indiana.v Mr, Matthews' has never beep accused of not being a gentleman. The man who wants to succeed hipi &s governor, Mr- S&ivejy has not yet been acquitted of the charge that he made a gross and vulgar allusion to a body of Jews. No one h^s said that Mr. Shively is too much of a gentleman to make such allusions, pr, if he is, that he vas temporarily aberrated at the time,

Many year# 4go The Express was accustomed to publishing in eyery issue the current value of the bank notes in circulation, Every deajer had to watch the lists to learn what the notes were worth each day. After 1861 the price of gold was published daily to show the fluctuations in the value pf the greenbacks. After November 3d, if Bryan should be elected, Tho Express will resume its quotations of gold %o show the daily fluctuations in the value of silver and paper money, but it does not expect that the people of this country are going to vote for a discount on their own money and a premium on the money of for eign nations.

The Nebraska wonder says that the Mexican dollar is the really honest dollar, because it is not worth more than the silver in it. He is inviting the American work man to change his $10 or $15 a week in American dollars for 10 or 15 of these honest Mexican ijojllars. The American dollar is an honest dollar because it will buy just as much as its face says it will. The Mexi can dollar is not an honest dollar because the st&mp on it, when it was first engraved, meant that it was worth ft dollar, but al though it is worth only 50 cents now, it is still stamped a dollar, just as some soap makers are using on half-pound bars the same kind of wrappers they once used on pound bars. Soap and silver are alike, however, in the respect that a half-pound never is worth as much as a pQund, eyen if marked a pound.

The Bryan orators, from the leader to the imitator, ignore the principles that underlay successful business and prosperity They profess not to be able to understand why a banker or insurance officer is opposed to free silver if it will enable him to pay his depositors or policies in cheaper money. They do not understand why a manufacturer or employer of labor opposes the free silver that will allow him to pay lower wages. What they fail to see Js that legitimate business requires a prosperous people with good money in its pocket for healthy and long life. The bank, insurance company, merchant and manufacturer that combine to debase money and impoverish the people are planning to kill the fowl that lays the golden egg. Banking, insurance, manufacturing and merchandising do not flourish in countries where the people are not prosperous. Free silverism is an invitation to these vocations to transfer their business from the United States to Mexico, or from American to Mexicanized conditions. When a banker, insurance agent or merchant opposes free silver he says that be prefers Americans to Mexicans, and prosperous to unprosperous people, as customers, and by his very zeal for his own self-interest he proves the sincerity of his belief that free silver will inflict damage upon the people.

Mr. Beecher spoke in reference to the

ie effort to pay the government

bohd* in depreciated paper money,' as he would speak of the effort to pay the bonds ii depreciating silver, ft? follows '3 begever, to any nation, there Jn.sueh 0 attempt to tamper with standard* ,^at tSe moral sense of fn$n is bewUdaredv#nd liberty if given tp unprincipled meji at l«rg£ to cheat, to be unfaithful to eblhM* tfpns, to refuse the payment of honest 4ebt« —Whenever that tftkes place Jt is fill,the worse if done with the permission of jaw! 1 hate the devi} riding on & law W9V*9 I dp the devil riding without a law uoder him- Whoever tampers with established standards tampers with the

The danger into which we are running is hidden under the mystery of finances and the currency. All money is but a represents ative of property. As now, by facility of intercourse, all the world is one open mar» ket, the need of one and the same standard of money, uniform, universal and unaltera* ble, becomes imperious! Gold is the world's standard. Gold is the universal measure of value. Other kinds of money there are silver, copper, paper—but they all piu$t conform to gold and be measured by it, and be interchangeable with it, in fixed and definite proportions. Gold is king in commerce. All other money must represent gold. No vote of legislature can change the nature of commerce, the nature of property, the pature pf its representative in money, or the relative superiority of inferiority of different currencies. Gold came to its supremacy as a representative of property by the long established consent of mankind.

No act of congress can ever make ope pound equal to two pounds. No act of congress can ever make a thing inferior equal to a superior. Silver coin must be made proportionate to the rvalue of gold as determined in the open markets of the world! All paper currency must be convertible into gold. Any other course is to teach men to cheat by law it is tp teach honest men to cheat without knowing that they cheat it is to teach fraud Ity legislation it is a high crime and misdemeanor and if men in congress do not know it, what are they there for? When the blind are leading the blind, and they all fall into the ditch together, it will not help them to find that the ditch is silver lined.

IDLE DREAM OR WILD PROMISE. One of Mr. Bryan's answers to questions in the East was that free silver will give such a stimulus to trade as to double the demand for labor and therefore increase its pay.

This is conjecture to begin with, and a very large conjecture in assuming that every shop, mill andtstojifl will want twice as many employes, tfnd^fchat'fhe railroads will want 700,000 new hands and a doubled equipment. The doubling of demand for products will not necessarily double the profits, but wp.lild lea& to-redoubled efforts to multiply labor f-'saving and more rapid machinery. The demand for most .staple articles has been increased many tinges b^jt prices grow less, as in iron, sugar, leather goods, etc., and in no case does doubltttg the demand double wages, as wages depend on the profits and, at the best, ri$e' but slowly, even when demand increased t"a$idly.

Mr. Bryan accepted the premise that ^e silver dollar would go down one-half Jji3d offered as a conclusion that wages would go up to double rates. They would have to be doubled to match the decline in money, but if they fail to rise to that ex^ tent labor will be worse off even if wages rise 25, 50 or 95 per cent. Anything below 100 per cent, will be a loss. No laborer of any experience can be made to believe that the demand for labor can be doubled, that the 800,000 operatives in manufactures can be increased to 1,600,000, their wages raised from $300,0000,000 to $600,000,000, and the annual products, from $9,000,000,000 to $18",000,000,000, by the change to free silver. Mr. Bryan's theory means the doubling of the amount produced, not the doubling of its nominal value in half-price dollars. Tb fulfill his promise of double wages the above drean^ would have to be reality. It is on such dreams the laborer relies who expects as good or better, wages under free silver.

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FADING OF THE MIRAGE. The editor of the Fairmount (111.) Monis tor, after whooping it up for Bryan sinoe the Chicago convention, has recovered from the excitement and hypnotism of that spellbinding occasion and come out for McKinley. After discussing his temporary enthusiasm in a long explanation of his course he speaks of his return to sobriety and reason and the questions which arqpe in his mind to perplex him. As he says:^ "Since then, in calmer moments, we have read the many speeches of Mr. Bryan, a&d are more mystified than ever to comprehend hov," any sane man could have b«®n misled by such inconsistencies and surdities. 4 "We are now asking how^can money Income cheaper and at the same time double in value? "How can good times be restored through ifcpanic? .--4 "How ckn the laboring'man get better wages while his product sells for less?

EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29,1896.

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pd vitality of public faith. What would become of this land if all standards were tampered with? Wfcai if the legislature this year should ordain rtfcat foot should consist of only ten inches, £pd next year, the power being takep ,out $f their hands by the other party, it should be ordained that it should measure fourteen inches find so every three or five years the standard should be changed on which immense and innumerable conracts were based, it being necessary for such contracts to follow the altercation, sometimes damage ing and sometimes unjustly favoring the contractors, and enabling men, under the shield of party and of law, to commit fraud as if it were an equity? What if the pound weight should be tampered with, and it should be ordained now that a pound is ten ounces, now that it is twelve, and now that it is fifteen? W^iat if the quart and pint should be tampered With, an'd made to differ tomorrow from what they are today? What if the yard measure should be tampered with? What if all the standards on which business is conducted should be subject to fluctuations and caprice, so that no man could tell what was right or just, and so that ethieal questions, with all t^ffir casuistry, should swarm as mosquitoes in summer about a swamp, or insects in a country tavern? What chance would there be for honesty, for integrity, or fpr solid prosperity?

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"How can the farmer get better prices for grain and meat while the laborer is to buy his subsistence cheaper? "How can confidence be restored by wiping out credit and casting honor to the winds? "How can we Increase our volume of

money by drlving.one-half af Jt J4V!&*9PT«t fuig secure hidipg p)«ce»?

"Our dream is over—the theory is. beautiful and the mirage perfect, but it tuts vanished In the calm daylight of reason, and, like all dreams, theories and mirages, disappears tetgn rgauty, «jhi truth."

SILVER'S TRUSTING VICTIM.

Mr. William Noble, owner of the New York Mercury, lost just {400,000 in seventeen months by putting faith in the promises of the silver leader?. The United States can lose $4,000,000,000 in one numt$ by trusting in the same promises. Mr, JsTo». ble bought the paper in March, 1895, on the strength of an agreement signed by Senators Dubois, Pettigrpw, Jones of Nevada and others, who promised to make the Mercury the free silver organ and tp back it up. Later on, Senator Jones, chairman, pf the national committee, urged the upfortur nate Noble to keep pn and promised that he should have some money later.

The incident shows that the silver men were actively at work early in J895, and that they were counting on ^pending a great deal of money to carry out their schemes. The failure of the Mercury indicates that the silver men failed to put up their own money, or to get the money of others, or that they saw the uselessness of sinking more money in a losing cause, but the silver men did not lose their own money. They allowed Noble to be the victim.

M'KINLEY'S

VICTORY IS ASSURED

There is no mistaking the signs pf the times, Never greatly ip doubt, the election of Major McKinley is now as certain as the coming of election day. One after another the debatable states have taken themselves out of the debatable column, and in most of them the only open question is as to the majorities which they will give for sound money, says the Times-Herald.

Here is the fine roster of states which will surely give their electors.} vote to McKinley and Hebart Connecticut 6 3 36 South Dakota •. 4 Delaware 3 Oregon ... 4

Pennsylvania .. ... 32 Rliodo Island ... 4

Iowa .... 13 Vermont ... 4 Maine ,.... 6 Washington .. 4 Maryland 8 West Virginia 15 Wisconsin .... ... 12 Michigan 14 Minnesota .... .. 8 Total .. ...S59 New Hampshire 4

With the assurance of thirty-five more electoral votes than a majority we couple the confident expectation, based on the most carefully weighed information attainable, that the following states wlU &15Q return McKinley electors:

Virginia Wyoming

California Montana Kentucky Kansas Nebraskaf'

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Total ...

The states fairly to be conceded to Bryan and Sewall or to Bryan and Watson are these 3 a a 9 15 3

Alabama ., 11 Nevada Arkansas ':»vy. «... 8 South Colorado .... 4 Texas Georgia 13 Jjoufsiana .... .... 8 Mississippi .... 9 Total

Leaving as the only states the disposition of whose electoral votes is still in doubt: North Carolina ....111Tennessee 12 Missouri 17

Total ...47

Idaho 3 Florida ...... 4 This is a sweeping claim, but it is justified by the situation as it appears today. The duty that r?mains is to make the overthrow of Bryan so complete and the sound majority in the house of representatives so large that no party will dare again raise the flag of repudiation in the lifetime pf thip generation.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

To the Editor of The Express: Sir:—In several of its recent issues, the Gazette, frpj9,lts,standpoint, pretty thoroughly dlscuss.es,,the railroad meeting of last Thursday evening that was addressed by Vice President Brooks of the Pennsylvania Company.

The main line of the remarks hinge upon the alleged fact that Mr. Brooks receives a salary of $35,000 per annum and that hia speech was an act of intimidation or co-er-cion directed against the employes of the railroads.

The Gazette demonstrates to Its own satisfaction that the Pennsylvania Company is a soulless corporation and Is not, in the least, swayed by sentiment. Does it not follow that Mr. Brooks' salary is fully offset by Mr. Brooks' services, or in other words, that he gives value received? The Pennsylvania Company has in operation a system of civil service that is far superior to that of tha government, and under this civil service, Mr. Brooks has won his position by merit. The wage earning capacity of all men cannot be gauged indiscriminately'by the number of hours they give to their duties. It is probable that the editor of the Gazette draws a better salary for a shorter day than the printer's dovil and probably very justly too.

In regard to the second point, Mr. Brooks made a very positive offer to defray the expense of a lawsuit instituted to punish any one who might be found guilty of intimidating voters, and if the Gazette is so well informed upon this point, it would be an excellent opportunity for it to prove its assertions without any expense. Under the present ballot system, one man cannot possibly know how another votes and it would be illy consistent with the business acumen asuribed to the Pennsylvania Company to endeavor to co-erce its employes into doing something the results of which they could not possibly know.

Like every other industry, the railroad companies realize tho danger consequent upon so grave a step as the followers of Mr. Bryan contemplate and, as in any other time of publie danger, they are asserting their inherent I right of defending their own from damage, whether that damage arise from open acts of violence or the more insidious danger of financial ruin.

It is a question in the writer's mind, regarding the prominence given Mr. Brooks' salary, whether the Gazette intended currying out Its manifest poliey of exciting elass legislation or whether it was to give weight to what Mr. Brooks said, as certainly the words of a man who earns $35,000 a year are entitled to consideration as emanating from a successful man.

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Of the natives in India about 8,000,000 can now read English* Denmark allows every subject, male or fe» male, who is 60 years of age, a small pension.

The dorklng fowl is the only living bird which in its adult condition possesses a livetoed foot.

In Germany every inn has its room set apart for dancing, and nearly every village its dancing club.

A German patent has been taken out for the production of an imitation of hard rubber out of sawdust, ft is stated that in Belgium alone there are at the present time- 600,000 splendidly trained racing pigeons.

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Farmer Diok Chatten has succeeded in killing about 5,000 jack rabbits on his Goshen, Cal„ ranch lately by the use of arsenic.

A conscientious registrar of births and deaths at St. Ives England, recently certified to the death of an infant aged 1 minute.

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A peach tree In an orchard near Norborne, Mo., from which a fine yield of fruit was taken a few weeks ago, is now blossoming again.

The biggest pear of the season in Boone county, Missouri, weighs twenty-two ounce? and measures thirteen inches in circumference.

Muncie, Ind., young women have a cold feet club whose newest and most .popular amusement Is a "corn roast," at which the chilly members are warmed around a fire.

A fine sixty-pound specimen carried off first honoris at the annual watermelon show in Louisiana, Mo,, the other day. Another one weighing fifty-eight and one-half was second.

M. Maingault, the famous anatomist, has discovered that by forcing air into the larynx of a dead animal sounds could be produced very similar to those of the voice during life.

Two editors of Arabic comic papers in Cairo have been sentenced tp eighteen mouths' imprisonment and a fine for libeling Queen Victoria and publishing grossly indecent caricatures Of her.

From an old tub well lately discovered in the Roman ruins at Silchester in Hampshire a tub in good preservation, though the wood is somewhat rotten, has been taken out. It is believed to be 1,600 years old,

A member of the expeditionary force on board Dr. Nansen's vessel, the Fram, has stated that in -the highest altitude readied by this ship guillemots, fulmars and narwhals were seen, but no other organic life.

The huckleberry crop In the Blue mountains of Oregon is enormous this year. Every bush is loaded, aud the berries are said to be so thick on Blalock mountain that the cattle that range are all "stained purple from walking through and lying down in the patches.

Hundreds of millers flying through the electrjc power of the Pendleton, Ore., Light Company entered the building through an open window one night, and being drawn by suction under a belt leading to the big dynamo, stopped the machinery and put out all the lights In town.

In celebration of the Mexican national holiday a crown of incandescent lights was placed, above the head of the Hidalgo, statue in the ililadlgo plasa of Monterey, and there was clectrlc illumination. in profusion throughout the square In honor o| the^ex!can father of his couutry.

Pine and fir have long fibers, exceedingly well adapted to the use of the paper .maker, but the resinous substances contained In these woods form so large a percentage of the composition and arc so difficult of removal that the paper makers are compelled to use other varieties.

A new illuminating gas made from petroleum has been produced in Germany, which, it is asserted, can be supplied of a quality equal to the best existing photometric standard at a cost of 25 cents 1,000 feet. The generative plant Is simple one able to keep up 100 lights can be built for $160.

A man named Plorro Brandeau, aged 29 years, was arrested In Paris for burning holes in the dresses of a numbur of ladies with a lighted cigar. He stated at the police station, says the Figaro, that lie found an« extreme pleasure in spoiling women's dresses, He had beon in prison for throe months for having sprinkled ink on ladles' dresses and had been ou another uccusion sentenoed to six months' imprisonment for squirting vitrol on them by means of a small syringe.

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EJlegfant Black Brocade Bilk Handsome Black

Wool Novelties. Fine imported colored1 Novelties if 50-inch Clay Worsted fl

Black and Colors,.. These are Values Exceptional

L.S.Ayres&Co

INDIANAPOLIS, IND-

Agents for Bu'tterick's patterns.

The Troy Steam Carpet Cleaner..... is now open and ready for business. Ladies are cordialy invited to call and inspect our work.

Located at No. 15 Main. M.

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EXCURSIONS,

$7.00 to St. Louis and Return.

Tickets sold every Thursday, good returning for five days. Account XJ^ppaiition.

$5.25 to St. Louis and Return

Tickets sold October 3d to gth also morning trains October 10th. Account

St, Louis Fair and Yeiled Prophets Prooession. $14,35 to Barnesville, 0. and Return.

Tickets on sale during September. Good returning until October 15th. Account

"Friends" Annual Meeting

$2.00 added to one way rate is tha round trip fare to western and southern points September 29th. Account

Ilomosooltox's. K. N. South. General Agent.

J. C. S. GFROERER,

PRINTER

Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

33 SOUTH 5th.

C, & E. i. R. R.

WILL SELL

Excursion Tickets

Round Trip or One Way to ail

SUMMER RESORTS

In the North and Northwest

Good Returning Until October 31st.

For furttaer Information apply to J. R. COXNELLY, General Age-nt, Tentlj and Wabash Ave.

R. D. DIGG, Tioket Agon*. Union Depot.

Tho delicious fragrance,

refreshing coolness and volt beauty imparted to the skin by Pozzoiu's Pdwdu,

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