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THE EXPRESS.

GEORGE M. ALLEN. Proprietor.«

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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For President,

WILLIAM MCKINLEY of Ohio. For Vice-President, GARRETT A. HOBAKT of New Jersey.

For Governor,

JAMBS A. MOUNT. Tor Lieutenant Governor W. S. HAGGARD. For Secretary of SU.te,

W. D. OWEN.

For State Auditor, A. C. DAILY. For State Treasurer,

F. J. SCHOLZ.

For Attorney General, 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 DistMct—W. D. ROBINSON. Second District—WM. J. HENLEY. Third District—JAMES B. BLACK.' Fourth District—D. W. COMSTOClfi

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.

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

For Coroner,

iALARIC T. PAYNES. For Treasurer, WILTON T. SANFORD.

For Sheriff,

JOHN BUTLER. For Surveyor,

WILLIAM H. HAURISi For Assessor, WILLIAM ATHON.

For Commissioner,

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

Mrs. Lease, who wanted a dollar that would stay at home, has been so quiet late ly as to arouse the suspicion that she is at home watching a dollar.

Teller is one of the most honest deserters that the Bryanites captured. He is about the only free silver Republican who is standing up to his collar and doing any work.

Mr. Sewall was seen to be busy around his barrel with a mallet and chisel, but it turned out that he was merely caulking the cracks with oakum and tar a&d nailing a piece of "tin over the bung hole.

They say that cigarettes contain morphine, opium, belladonna, glucose and Jimson weed—and yet the generous manufacturers throw in pictures and campaign buttons with every package in addition to these expensive flavoring materials.

The Tammanyites of New York hang out red banners with pictures of Bryan on them. When a red flag with Bryan on it was hung on a factory in Massachusetts some one set lire to the factory and another telegraphed congratulations to Bryan on the happy event.

Over 32,000 names are on the petition of the Illinois sound money Democrats for a place on the official ballot. The Bryanocracy

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but 32,000 Democrats withdrawn from the -Bryan vote, with more to hear from, in Illinois alone, is no laughing matter for Bryan and Altgeld.

The fruit growers found their trees bending under double the weight of fruit that was upon them last year, and when they took double the quantity of fruit to market they found that every other grower had also brought in as much. This was the chance for the free silver orator and he seized it to say: "Friends, your peaches are cheap because the dollar has gone up and buys too much." The first laborer that comes along answers this by saying that he can afford peaches this year because they are so plenty.

Mr. Bryan said to the people of Harper's Ferry in regard to the act of 1S73 that it was "A financial policy which was changed by the representatives of the people in darkness and without discussion, and, as many believe, by a fraud actually practiced upon the people. (Applause.) And for twenty years after that act of demonetization was secretly passed it was denounced by the Democratic party, and even the Repub licans never openly defended it."

It seems an idle euphuism and waste of ink to call this a misrepresentation when its exact character can be expressed with the four letters which spell "A lie."

THE POPULISTS' LAST CHANCE. There have been many Populists who hoped or believed that some day their party would take the second place by beating either the Democratic or Republican party and that having taken the second place, it would pass on to the first. Men, who had such an ambition, would not admit that their party was a tool for either of the old parties, or playing the part of the jackal to a lion. Thoy were equally as bitter in their denunciations of either of the old parties.

What seems to be a defeat is often a victory, as when a party that was once insignificant shows a great gain and reaches a position which makes it formidable for the next campaign. When a party reaches such a position and remains independent it has achieved much, but if it then merges Into another it yields its advantage and sacrifices its gains and such i3 the position of the Populists today.

Asamanhidesa distant dollar by holding a dime near his eye, leaders of the Populists for petty, personal or local gain, or

applause, have lost the distant important prize. The shrewder politicians had looked forward to a time when one of the old parties should break up into factions, or become demoralized by repeated defeats or too great success, and allow them to take its place and gather in its deserters. Beyond and much sooner than their expectations this chance came with the split of the Democratic party. The division of that party into the partisans and foes of Cleveland, into silver and sound money men and the factions of states, was the opportunity of the Populists, not to make a bargain with the Democratic party to save its life, bilt to complete its destruction. 16 the game of politics the Populists were children in the hands of the Democratic leaders. In a slow, but sure progress toward the top of the ladder the strong, wise politician would have bent his energies to forcing the Democratic party from its second place and putting the Populist party in it. It looked for a time as if the Populists might preserve their identity, but they have abandoned it and are being used as sticks in the raft which holds the fortunes of the larger part of the Democracy. By electing Bryan, who is in the hands of the Democratic managers they will save Democracy, and will receive no favors without giving a pledge to continue their support of the Democracy. If Bryan is defeated the Populists also will be defeated and will be buried in an unmarked grave. If the Democrats are defeated, by the aid of the sound-money Democrats, when preparing for 1900 they will be more likely to desire a restoration of Democrat!^ harmony than to seek the aid of Populists who failed to save them In

18D6.

If there ever was a chance for the Populists to become a national party it has been flung away by incompetent or selfish leaders, who have cared more for little gains in a county or town to help themselves than for a party's power in a national game which was too big for little men to handle.

WAITING FOR THE ANSWER. ./ One of Dicken's strange characters drew near to his end, and his friends, wishing to solve a mystery and discover if a scion of some noble family had been living among them unknown, begged him to lift the veil and tell them whom his father was. He slowly raised his head and fell back dead from the effort of saying plainly and distinctly, "The Lord Nozoo."

This was at least as clear as Mr. Bry^ an's answers to the great question of the day. If he has ever said anything that taught his hearers a word of the financial history of this country, or of the relations of silver and gold prior to 1893 we have failed to discover it. His answers to the crying demands of the campaign have been about as follows:

QUESTIONS TO BRYAN. Why will free coinage of silver make it equal to gold?

BRYAN'S ANSWER TO SUCH QUESTIONS. Yet iu this campaign for the Brat time we have a party which openly seeks [to perpetuate that sys-

When did free coinage of silver make it equal to gold?

Where does free Item which was fastcoinage of silver make |eued upon this counit equal to gold? try without the coii-

How can silver at $1.29 an ounce be easier to get than silver at 66 cents an ounco?

sent of the people. More than that,- not only do these opponents desire to fasten upon the people perpetually a system which they adopted against their will, but [they propose to sub-

How can a silver dollar worth as much as a gold dollar be easier to earn than the gold dollar?

How can the silver miner sell 371 1-4 grains of silver for $1 and the farmer get them for 53 cents worth of wheat?

mit the destinies of the American people to the decision of foreign legislative bodies, when they say that we must endureit until relief coipos from abroad.

Is it easier to lie than to tell the truth? Is it harder to appeal to reason than to passion?,

My friends, some bf the financiers down East doubt the ability o£ these people to at,tend to their own business but wheri,!''I' find a financier who) distrusts the American people I generally find a financier" who visits the country that lies west of New York. We have many of these advocates of the gold standard who are far better acquainted with foreigners than they are with their own people, find if they insist on putting their trust in those who live abroad I jconsole myself with tne thought that a great many people—yes, a vast majority—are better acquainted with the rebourccs of this country than these 'fellows—financiers— and this great majority instead of toadying to anything that is foreign arc willing tp trust their ail on ,thls republic and risfe or fall with it.

If our big Democrats who have a pecuniary interest in a gold standard are willing to leave the party in order to advance their pecuniary interest, why will not a Republican farmer or Republican laborer, or [Republican business [man leave the Republican party in order to protect his home, his Ifamily. and posterity I from the distress consequent to a foreign Ipolicy?

THE GAY DECEIVERS.

Congressman McMillin of Tennessee is a funny fellow. He said a very good thing to the crowd that was waiting at Union Square to see Mr. Bryan. McMillin said that the money in which Washington and Jefferson paid their bills was good enough for him, and the crowd roared with applause and laughter. The crowd, however, did not see the real humor of the remark. McMillin was the real one to laugh as he cajoled the crowd to yell for the money that Washington and Jefferson seldom saw. Washington died in 1799. From 1793 to 1799, inclusive, the United States mint coined $1,036,538 in silver dollars for the seven years. George Washington paid very few bills in either silver dollars or American gold. Jefferson died in 1S26. From 1S00 to 1805 the mint coined $502,000 In silver dollars, in all. From 1806 to 1J26 it coined not a single one. Jefferson probably never paid a bill in American silver dollars, in the last twenty years of his life. Mr. McMillin, however, intended to convey the Impression that' Washington and Jefferson paid bills in silver dollars and therefore the crowd ought to vote for free silver coinage, and the crowd laughed its approval. The only silver that Washington and Jefferson saw much of was the worn and

Iln may have thought, "We will make these people demand the money of Washington an? Jefferson, but they will get (he Mexican dollar, or the 63-cent dollar,

WHEAt AND SILVER FAR APAfcT. Wheat has advanved 12 cents in three weeks and is higher in London and Liverpool markets than it has been Bince 1891. Foreign buyers are eagerly seizing all the cash wheat that is offered. The foreign demand is due to the advices of short crops in Russia, India, Australia, the Argentine Republic, Canada and the United States, the aggregate shortage, over last year, being estimated at 200,000,000 bushels. Europe is the wheat buyer and this shortage puts up prices in anticipation of future demands and scarcity. Through the boards tof trade and speculative buyers, and the rapidity of communication, the rise In price is put upon wheat at once. As telegrams arrive at Liverpool reporting a decline in supply prices on the board are marked up and telegraphed to Chicago, where prices' also advance.

While Mr. Bryan has been traveling across the country telling the farmers that a decline in silver is reducing the price

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the joke will be on them." Are McMtillii and other advocates of free coinage of equal Intelligence, honest? If they are hottest why do they never tell their audiences tbit there was no American silver in circulation in the days of Washington and Jefferson, or that free coinage was a failure for years? It was so much a failure that a strong party demanded the closing of the mint, on the grounds that it cost the country too mueh and did not furnish the people with any money.

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wheat and increasing the price of the dollar the farmers have been marking up their w-lieat or decreasing the value of the dollar. IU fact, the dollar has stood still while wheat has climbed up. John Clark Ridpath and his school of inventive philosophy go around teaching the people that the price of a bushel of wheat and of 371*4 grains of silver is always the same, rising juid falling together, that about 371% grains of silver will always buy a bushel of wheat, and, consequently, that the 371% grainy of silver ought to be worth $1.00, so that the farmer can get a dollar for his wheat.

Unfortunately for Rldpath's argument, while the 371% grains of silver are worth 50% cents a day, wheat is worth 15 cents more in gold and is also worth about 480 grains of silver. Silver is not in the game. The wheat which goes abroad raises the price. It is sold for gold and the farmer's wheat and the planter's cotton are rising in gold. Silver cannot raise their prices neither can gold keep them down.

MISFORTUNES OF A MISFIT. If there is a man whose soul the iron has entered and who may be driven to strong drink, it is Mr. Sewall, candidate for vicepresident on the Bryan ticket. Mr. Sewall was a respected and contented man of business, enjoying a position that was enviable, rich enough to be free from care, not rich enough to give up healthful effort and Important as a citizen who contributed to the prosperity of his town and state. There seemed nothing left for Mr. Sewell to do but to dabble in his state politics, as a side diversion, attend to business, build ships, round up his fortune and then be gathered to his fathers full of honors. In an evil hour he was caught up in the witches' dance at Chicago and nominated as a runping mate to Bryan. Probably there is not a more unhappy and disappointed man

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politics today than Arthur Sewall. He is abused by the silver and Populist lnenjbqys of his piebald party. To stick is reproach, to retreat is disgrace. He knoWs thi£ adds not a feather's weight to the {ticket and yet to retire will give an excuse to a lot 6f respectable old fellows like hhris&f to abandon ,a crowd in which they fe'fel ashamed of themselves. He is but a bad joke in an aggregation of absurdities and he, the smug representative of New England respectability, has lived to be called "a wart," "a knot on a log," by a wild cossack from Georgia. Poor Sewall, he is only holding the bag in a game of political "sniping."

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OCTOPUS THROWS OUT A TENTACLE. The Standard Oil Co. has got so much surplus that it will put some of it on ice. The ice men will soon discover that it is a soulless corporation, as it is reported that the Standard Oil Co. will enter the ice business in the larger cities. The ice companies, who, as it is well known, do business for the sake of doing good and making people comfortable, will not be willing to give up this field of missionary effort to a soulless corporation and they will make a fight which will put ice down, there being a good deal of leeway between $2 and 50 cents a ton for such a fight.

The people will buy ice cheaper, but the ice companies, if they are wise, will take a lesson from the silver syndicate and persuade the people to join them in a fight against the "soulless." By showing that Rockefeller is a capitalist and a monopolist many free and independent citizens can be persuaded to resist his nefarious schemes for putting down ice. If he is not Checked New Yorkers will buy a piece of ice twice as big as formerly for half the money. It will be no trick at all to prove that this means the inflation of the dollar and not the inflation of the daily chunk of ice. There are some people who can be persuaded that cheap cold ice is a calamity by a proper use of red hot invective against capital and monopoly.

THE ELDRITCH SCREECH OF THE BRYAN POPULISTS. As a really comic writer Artemus Ward was not in it with the writer of the proclamation of the C. A. Power wing of the "ferry Hut Bryan Populists. Democrats who do not know for what they are going to vote, or for whom they are going to vote, must read it. There is nothing in it to bring the blush of modesty to the most innocent cheek. It uses such words as "Hades," where a low, coarse politician would not, and is very lady-like. It betrays familiarity with the Roman republic and a thorough intimacy with plutocracy, slave

shiny Mexican and Spanish coins, Mcilll- I Rowers and serfdom, but In aomo of its more

powerful passages it suggests a subdued nightmare or a rumbling colic. To break a link as false In this circlet of gems would be unkind, so we must conclude that the •lander on Blaine was merely the slip of ignorance. The Express especially recommends this proclamation as a reading exercise for young persons whose lungs are weak, or for old men who are short of wind as the effort of holding the breath from-pe-riod to period will develop^ lung power and a large chest measure.

BRYAN OFFERS NO EXAMPLE. "Bimetallism," said Mr. Bryan, can only exist where two metals are admitted to the mints on equal terms and coined into money of legal tender at a ratio fixed by law."

Thomas Jefferson taught that bimetallism could only exist where two metals are admitted to the mints on equal terms and coined into money at a ratio fixed by the markets of the world. He denied that the ratio could be fixed by law.

The United States failed in 1792 and 1834 to find the commercial ratio and the two metals were admitted to the mints on equal terms and coined into money of legal tender at a ratio fixed by law, as Mr. Bryan now prescribes, but the two metals as money never circulated at one time from 1792 to 1878. Before Mr. Bryan says that gold and sliver will circulate together under hjg-plain let him show when they ever (J|d circuiate together under such a plan.

UNWISfc, REPUBLICAN TALK. John Sherman, in a speech in Chicago, a few days ago, look occasion to deny the assertion, sometimes made that the Republicans are "opposed to silver" and "are in favor of gold exclusively." "On the contrary, my countrymen," be is reported to have said, "we have done as a party more for silver than any" other party has ever done. It wag the Republican party that provided for the coinage, of silver in 1878, the coinage of the silver dollar, and in 1890 it provided for the issue of a great amount of notes against deposits of silver bullion."

As a statement of a historical fact this is correct, but the history which it mentions is not creditable history, asserts the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When the Bland law of 1878 was passsed the Democrats had control of the house and the Republicans' had the senate, though by only three majority, and the presidency. In the form in which it passed the Democratic house the bill was a free coinage measure, but the Republican senate changed it to a limited coinage bill, thus destroying its most harmful feature. A smaller portion too, of Republicans than Democrats voted for the bill in both forms, and a smaller portion of them voted to pass it over the veto. A majority of the Republicans in each branch, however, voted for the bill in all its phases. The act of 1890, of course, was a strictly Republican measure.

But it is unwise for the Republicans to boast about what the party did for silver. It is well enough to say that the party does not intend to "strike down" any of the silver currency we now have, but the vast majority of the Republicans believe that if this currency were only a half or a third of its present volume—that is, if $200,000,000 or $300,00(1,000 of the silver represented by certificates or Sherman notes were still in the ground—the country would be far richer and.far more prosperous than it has been In recent years. The course of President Hayes in vetoing the Bland-Allison bill, and of Morrill, Hoar, Conkling, Blaine, HsCmlin, Garfield, Hiscock, Frye and other Republicans in voting to sustain the veto was the course of iinanical common sense, and it is well to proclaim this truth whenever any Republican attempts to "placate" the silverites. Had the Hayes veto stood, and had the policy which that veto typified prevailed to this day, the country would have had hundreds of millions of dollars more gold than it has now, and the financial convulsions, industrial disaster and the consequent national discredit and humiliation which have come since 1878 would all have been averted.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Indianapolis Joiirnal: The Popocratic committee will do well to havo tho promised money of the bonanza miuc barons in their hands before they begin to pay out fundstThe warning given by tho New Yorker who put $400,000 into the purchase and running ot the New YOrk Mercury upon the assurances of the bonanza silver mine senators that they would make It all right with him and then left him in the lurch should not be lost upon the men who are engaged In carrying out their scheme to double their wealth la silver mines at' the expense of the country. Mr. Tom Patterson represents the same greedy "combine" of silver senators and un-. tcnifuloua political adventurers that victimized the New York capitalist.

Chattanooga Times: O, yo free silverites! Your chief cry for twelve months has been that the price of wheat and cotton is controlled by the price of silver.

Explain why wheat has risen 8 1-8 cents a bushel and cotton 1(39 points within tho past sixty days, while silver has fallen cents an ounoe during this same period.

Now York Commercial Advertiser: It la now thought that D. B. Hill wouldn't know his own mind if he fell over it in broad daylight.

Indianapolis Journal: In-a speech at Kokomo a few days ago Mr. Shively, Popocrat candidate for govornor, used the following "spring-wheat" argument in favor of freo silver: ''It tho government should pass a law that spring wheat should not be ground into flour tuid sold as breadstuff, but winter wheat alone should be admitted to the mills, ground and sold as breadstuff, the prloo of winter wheat wouid go up and the price of spring wheat would go down to a. level with stuck feed. Now suppose thut after this law had been in operation for a time it should bo repealed. Would not the price of spring wheat go up and the prico of winter wheat come down until an equality of values were roadbed, when both were admitted freely to the mills?

Memphis Commercial Appeal: We don't know exactly what Dave Hill would bolt from unless he is bolted himself.

Chicago Times Herald: Chairman Jones complains that "the newspapers do not treat him fairly" and Immediately issues a bulletin claiming that Bryan will carry Ohio by 25.000 majority. Mr. Jones ought to leave the newspapers severely alone and confine his literary talents exclusively to the comic weeklies.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: It is evident that Bryan feels the back platform shaking a little when he declares that if free silver docs not win this time, it will be sure to next time. A little way back on the road he was congratulating himself on having this year ft bigger crop of votes than he could take oare of.

Springfield Republican: Our typical citl•en is convinced, or is becoming so, that free silver involves practically a large repudiation of debts, and that It threatens grave Immediate Injury to tho community, with great uncertainty as to future benefit. So on both moral and presidential grounds we think ho will oppose free silver.

A .Bride H.UU Herself.'

Cairo, 111., Oct. 1.—At 5 o'clock this morniug Mrs. Frasier, a bride of four days, shot horaelf through the heart, dying Instantly. .\"o reason can be given. The young couple were prominent in church and society, both members of the choir of the Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal), in which churoh they were married last week, going from the church to their handsome home, where the young bride now lira dead.

The only surviving great-great-grand-daughter of General Israel Putnam is Mrs. Mary Putnam Sharpe, who lives in the little village of Pomfret, Conn. She is now 84 years old. and her grandmother was General Put„—,,n,,~vpr. ft is Pomfret that the celebrated Putnam'* wolf den to located.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

He* Wtddlar.

Lo! here to grandma, just stepped down From the picture oa the wall, Dresed In her famous wedding gown,

To attend the fancy ball! No wrinkle mars her dear, sweet face, She looks, with cheeks aglow, Just as she looked in poarls and kWMt ttgM

Seventy years ago!

No wonder she was worshiped then In all the countryside! .1 No wonder hearts were broken when,

She wore this gown, a bride! And, oh! tonight site's just as fair With girdled waist and powdered hair

Seventy years ago!

The satin, once spotless white,

As free from ill and woe, As was her perfect wedding day, Seventy years ago!

Seventy years ago!

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Is yellowed with the years: The veil that fell in folds of light' Is stained, but not with tears For grandma's life was one long Ma

Tonight, in all her youth and grace. For all to praise that see. The old love-light upon her face,

She comes to dance with me. .A: Ah, rose so like the parent flower! Full soon our love shall know The Joy that crowned her bridal hour,

—Lewlston Journal.

The cause of temperance is making great strides in Paris. Two wealthy Hebrewl*%feffl|fidad now own all that remains of the anciSSWown of Baby Ion.

The queen's will is engrossed on vellum, quarto size, and is bound as a volume, and secured by a private lock.

The Kansas City women who are color blind are preparing the usual startling combinations for the Priests of Pallas ball.

The corridors of Farnham Castle, England, the Episcopal palace of tho Bishop of Winchester, are 1,794 yards in length, all told.

Bluff City, Tcnn., boasts cf a pumpkin elxty-flve inches In diameter which Is stifl 'growing on a vine belonging to Mrs. William Derry.

An effort Is to be made this year to raise the mtnimum salary received by the ministers of the United Methodist churches of England.

Three' hundred convicted murderers were sent to tho penal settlement on the Island of Saghalien on one steamer that left Odessa recently.

Having taken his bride's namo upon marriage, a Topeka man who Is suing for divorce wants now to retain the untarnished name of his heyday.

The French Academy of Sciences has appointed a special committee to Investigate the new treatment for consumption advocated by Dr. Crotte of Paris.

A young man living at Breedvllle, Mich., is turning green from the use of cigarettes. Most cigarette smokers are more or less green when they begin the practice.

In Hlcksville, O., recently, a wedding party was stormed by tramps, ^ho locked the groom in the smokehouse, ate the wedding supper and stole the marriage licensc.

Princess Dhuleep Singh was fined 12 shillings in the Burton-Upon-Treht, England, police court for taking her lapdog to drhe in her carriage without having it muzzled.

The prizes won by the prince of Wales." yacht Britannia during the past season amount to $8,000. Some of the crew of tin Britannia have returned to their homes ai Wivenhoe.

Prairie schooners bound east are the spectacles to which Nebraskans around Arapahoe are treated now. The people are being forced iway from the southwestern country by drouth.

The apple crops In the province of Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia promise to be unusually large. It is estimated that the aggregate yield of Canada will amount to 3,000,000 barrels.

In view of the extremely low prices now being paid for tobacco the farmers of Mason county, Kentucky, will meet at Maysville to consider the question of restricting the crop next year.

Hessian graves at Bennington, Vt., were decorated recently by a 10-ycar-old girl whose family is summering there. It is said to be the first time that any flowers have been strewn over them.

A widow was recently sent to Jail in London who had made a practice of attending weddings and stealing presents. She was long unsuspected, as she had a good social standing and an income of $3,500 a year.

A negro whltewasher was compelled tr disappoint ono of his patrons, bccause, he explained,, to her, he "wore out ridin' on his wheel an" fell off and hurt his hand ,an' was feared of gettin' quick liiue into tho soah."

Tho late duke of Marlborough, in alluding to tho size of Blenheim palace, used to say, by way of a joke, that it was the only residence in England which required $4,000 worth of putty a year to keep the window panes in order.

There are not many islands with a more stormy or more heroic historic than that of Crete. In remote antiquity it was the redoubtable "Isle of One Hundred Cities," and had an illustrious line of kings, among whom were Rhadamanthus, Minos and Idomeneus.

It has beeo» proved that the incandescent electric lamp does not "smoke" the ceiling, as has been claimed, but that the smoky effect is due to dust. The heat of the lamp naturally causes a current of air to arise, and the conscquence is that there is more dust deposited on the ceiling above the lamp than anywhere else. "We must economize," said the husband, peremptorily. "I'm so glad!" exclaimed his wife. "You take the announcement more, good naturedly than usual." "Yes, it'o pleasant to hear you use the plural number. Ordinarily when there is any economizing needed you expect me to do it ali."

A lucky inspiration has come to sonic Eastern silversmith, who has Invented a lemonade spoon with a hollow handle, so that it can be used instead of a straw. It ix one of those things that set everybody to wondering why it wasn't thought of before. Of course no one will think of using it fo: anything but lemonade.

It is said that several women of Gotham of proud family but impoverished incotnt make an honest living by dusting rare bric-a-brac once or twicc a month in millionaire mansions. One such is said to have dusted her way into the affections of a widower who is a Croesus, and society anxiously awaits tho denouement.

The curfew over in Kansas City, Kas., sends tho old people to b»d earlier than formerly, as well as tho children. When th.? youngsters arc all safely housed there no occasion for their parents to sit up awl consume hard coal and gas. The rffcct of the Curfew is so marked that the drug itores close at least half an hour sooner than under the old system.

The scarcity of employment and* the stringency of the times may be inferred from the following specimen of advertisement: "Mister: I want a job. Mi folks ain't rifeh an got to russle. Th*y are ded. hcl how hard times is. can do rhors. look well in store does an learn fast, want a job in your ofls. Let mc in."

A figure of sudden importance in colored icircles In New York City is Marie Miller, a comely negro woman of 45, who, by tho terms of the will of her late mistress, Mrs. Hicks-Lord, is to receive an anuuity of |I00 a week as long as she lives. Marie is JUI carried and entered the service of Mrs. Lord when she was but 16 years old.

There Is a neighborhood in one of Kansas City's suburbs iu which one telephone call rings up three or four different houses, the particular family addresses being indicated by a certain ring which is intelligible to all of the rest* nut the subscribers governed by this system are so well bred and so thoroughly imbued with a seuse of honor and propriety that none of them ev»r listen to a message designed for another number.

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At all times —Every business day In the year— Our goods tell their own story of perfection In quality and fit. You only have to examine them to be convinced. You 6nly have to wear them to be delightedly comfortable. —For this week we underscore OVERCOATS and HEAVY SUITS, and in our Furnishings department, HEAVY UNDERWEAR. —We may have said before, and if so, we now repeat: COME AND SEE

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When You Buy it Here, It's Good.

There Is satisfaction in buying a dresj pattern which you feel is good—wh'.ca jou Vnow has a reputation for quality and style back of it. Lots of dress goods we don't, hope to sell, some qualities we would rather others be responsible for, but if you need

A Good Black Worsted A Fashionable Colored Novelty, A Fine Black or Colored Silk

SEND FOR SAMPLES,

You'll find the qualities as good as cut reputation. The prices are as low as you '.vould wish them.

LS.Ayres&Co

INTJIANAPOLIS. IND.

Agents for Butterjck'« patterna.

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. 16 Main. M- S. W ATKINS. M'tfR.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS'

I, P, I, Excursion To CANTON, 0., and Return

To Visit Hon. Wm. H. McKinley.

$5.00 M, 45.00,

Special train composed of sleepers, chair cars, first class coaches and refreshment car will leave Terre Haute Friday, October 9, 1S96, and run as follows:

Friday, October 9th, leave Terre Haute 8 p. m., arrive Crestline, O.. 7 a. ni. (break­

fast)

arrive Canton, O., 9 a. m. Saturday. Returning, leave Canton Saturday, October if), 3 p. m., arrive Crestline 5 p. m. (supper),, Iprtb Crestline 6 p. m. arrive Terre Haute 1:32 a. m. Sunday.

Traveling men, wheelmen, McKInloy club and thn general public invited. Full infor-l umtion furnished at Big Four city olflces, at Terre Haute House and Sixth street station.

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E. E. South, General Agent.

J. G. S. GFROERER,

PRINTER

Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

33 SOUTH 5th.

ALEX L.CRAWFORD

DEALER IN

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Best grades Anthracite and Crawford Coal Co's Brazil Block. CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY

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Office, No. 710 North Second street. Branch office telephones, Nos. 62 and 71.

DR. W. S. DAVIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

320 Ohio St., Tel. 260.

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