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A Bilver poet la late In using "deliver" as a rhyme to silver, as "stand and deliver" was always a part of the sllverltes' game.

McKlnley's cabinet very likely will be like heaven, as a. good man found It. Those he expected to see were not there and those he had not expected to meet wfcre there.

A tall young fellow is riding on a smaller donkey to California to satisfy an election wager, and yet the donkey- that does the work was not the one that made the bet.

When the solidarity of Ohio is assured we may learn the composition of McKInley's cabinet, Mr. Foraker seems to be in an amiable mood and we guess it Is all right.

Today they meet at Indianapolis to nominate a new currency system. Some day Indianapolis will be known best as the great sound money center if it keeps up its '96 gait,

The expected size of the appropriations at the next session of congress will make Holman tear his scanty locks because he cannot begin to object until the next congress meets.

If Bill Chandler wllll express his many seething thoughts in a Chandler bill and get knocked out all at once, the sooner the better. William is a good man when he is good, but when he's bad he is horrid.

It would be a good thing, if possible, for congress to figure the appropriations on an economical basis and then hold enough back to meet the defljclt until the treasury is straightened out. It would be hard on the poor and deserving petitioners for new buildings, but then the deflect is hard on all of us, even if it is not our fault.

It may not be a bill of conservatism to

resolutions but they usually were presented

large profits are not made with certainty

and therefore we do not believe Mr. Cleveland has accummulated over $975,000 since he left Buffalo with $25,000 fourteen years ago.

Some Western labor paper objects to a shureh funding some of its means anrl using the Interest to extend Its work, ft thinks this Is very rapacious, but at the bottom of Its criticism Is an attack on interest paying in general and ehurchts in particular. Tho abolition of interest would not affect capitalists alone. There Is more than one labor organization which loans Us funds and uses the interest' to extend its work. Colleges, hospitals, asylums and industrial schools, whose advantages are offered to the people free or at less than cost, owe part of thlr revenue to interest from Investments. The savings of labor put into savings banks and building and loan eoeltties produce Interest and contribute to a fund for that day when old age on disease will stop the busy hand of industry. If men in business can uso the borrowed funds of labor, Institutions or cap-1 ital at a good profit, 1o grow rich, it Is but just they shouid pay pare of the profit to those who furnish the means. There can be only one objection to a church having money at interest, that It is an- excuse for men to refrain from giving as much as they can afford, but if the interest, is used well the •money is doing good. The laboring man who has boys and girls to jaise, whom he wlshra to grow up In honesty, temperance

and virtue wJJl do well to take his wife's views about churches and let the labor if leavened with Price's Baking Powder speaker .or writer know that it is a question entirely outside of his l!ne.

Price's Baking Powder is needed in preparing wholesome food for children.

"There are too many healthful signs of improved conditions since the election to doubt the return of better times, though it may be i. long time before the rising flood can reach every nook and corner, some of which may never be reached, for new enterprises often riwHsn the decline or by the ruin of others. Tiia»Inter-Ocean says of this: "i'he Democratic newspapers in good standing are doin£ their part toward confirming that belief in an improved condition of trade, which Is essential to a return of prosperity, It is to be regretted that there are a few—fortunately a very few-—organs of Populism in the rural districts and of anarchy in the cities that are viciously resplute in proclaiming that times now are worse, rather than better, than they were prier to the election cf McKinley.

Enthusiasts may exaggerate ths spfed cf the movement toward prosperity. Occasionally a false report of revival or enlargement ef a special business may find its way Into the colmuns of the most carefully guarded newspaper. Such Incidents are inevitable in a country cf 70,000,(00 people, most ef the adults of which 'send Items' to the press. But after allowance Is made for Ml exagggerations and false statements, it is feeyand dispute that many thousands of men have found employment since the first

Tuesday in November, that railways are giving orders for new cars, that shipmasters are buying new ships, that old debts are being liquidated, and that the retail trade iS brisker. 'Broadly speaking,' says Dun's Review of Trade for the past week, "the gain has been greater than was expected, and it is not surprising that a part of it is in excess of the present demand.'

It can be seen in a city like this how long it will take for a revival at the great centers of trade and manufacturing to affect It. Storekeepers, for instance, do not begin selling more goods because iron, woolen and cotton mills start up and the banks lend more money, but they will have to wait on their customers, the mechanics and country people, whose circumstances must improve, and that requires time. Money that has been saved will! be let out more freely now that confidence is restored, but the savings from newly earned wages are not yet In hand, nor have the debtors and crippled enterprises yet had time to recuperate, which some of them may never do.

SENATOR AGAIN

CHANDLER RAMPAGES.

William E. Chandler, one of the "terrible infants" of the Republican party, has emerged from temporay subsidence to shake his silver rattle, rattle his drum and disturb his care-worn parent. Mr. Chandler has addressed a British review with the information that he is a bimetallism To prevent the English from thinking that he 5s a Bryan .bimetallist he shows that Bryan was a silver monometallist and further bangs him by saying: "Conservative people—and America has more conservatism that the Europeans think—wer-j alarmed at the character of the followers of Mr. Bryan and at their doctrines additional to the one favoring free silver coinage. All the socialists, anarchists and wild men of society whom Kuropa has sent us shrieked for Bryan, although the great bulk of our adopted citizens voitd for McKinley. The platform seemed to countenance rioting as a means of redress of grievances, and it made one of its planks |janx. a reconstruction of the Supreme Court, in order to change a legal decision."

Mr. Chandler himself is not a silver monometallist, nor a gold monometallist, but a real double standard, 15% to 1 bimetallist, as he says. He discredits himself, we think, as a reliable reasoner by the following unsound promises: "How then can the late decision of the

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age Injure the contest for bimetallism?

other Populists to say that Peffer will be "But none of the forgoing reasons—not a better senator than any other the Pop- even the one concerning the national honor ulists are likely to put in his place. Peffer in connection with the civrrency—influenced has been credited with many wild and crude

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dustries by adequate ttfriff duties on foreign products." While the votes that defeated free coinage' of silver included many from bimetallists, like Chandler, there is little doubt that free coinage was beaten by those who were opposed to it. The sound money Democratic vote did not bother itself about immediate or deferred free coinage but tried to kill It, permanently.

Mr, Cleveland 1b said to be a rich man. We can recall few instances of estimated fortunes that yielded the amount of estimates to the heirs and doubtless Mr. Cleveland is not worth nearly as much as guessed, but he hasarigh'tto be well off, and it will always be gratifying to know that a retiring president can live as an ex-presi-dent ought to. H© has a right to be well off because he Jhas had a salary for eight years which allowed handsome savings, and when a prudent, careful man has $25,000 in eash to invest each year, and good advisers, he has the opportunity that poorer men ean not embrace when they occur, but very Kinley and against Bryan. They cast the

Mr. Chandler says that the principle of protection influenced more voters against Bryan than any other reason. That may be true, but if Mr. McKinley and his supporters had relied upon protection alone they would have been beaten. Of course tho rank and file of the Republican party ard for protection and ljaturally voted for Mc

bulk of the vote but it was not the bulk of

year after year, especially in the last four, the vote but the plurality which won the I Baltimore American: There will be a short and terrific treatment of the turkey question light. Wellington army balanced and re-

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gold and silver shall be admitted to free coinage at the ratio of 15^ to 1, and made the standard money of the world, and the measure of the values of the world—is a proposition which would receive the suffrages of four-fifths of our voters if this proposition alone could be fairly presented to them, even without further debate."

If it can bo proved that airships are better in.every way than steam cars and ships, trolley cars ahd bicycles, the United States will be in favor of them. That "if" is a wipe gap to cross but not more bridgeless than the proposition stated by Chandler, just as he states it. There may be an inter-

Chandler may be trying to amuse the forI eign bimetallists, but his position is more mischievous than amusing and prolongs the consideration of a theory that is becoming harder to crystallize into practice as the world advances toward a universal single standard.

Pan cakes on good terms with digestion

THE KEY WEST BUREAU. A large proportion of the Cuban anecdotes which are received by the way of Key West have been discredited by later information or have never been confirmed. We seldom get the particulars of many bloody battles and their heavy losses. Through the same channels of information we receive accounts of the cruel deeis of the Spaniards, for which tlere is enough foundation to cause their ready acceptance, but never enough authenticated detail to insure the truth. In fact we hear through the Cuban bureau cf publicity of the same kinds of infamy that the Confederate newspapers ascribed to General Sherman's army on its march to the sea, and to other Union soldiers, but their publication did not make the charges true. There is no desire to defend the Spanish nor condemn the Cubans, but an exaggerated public feeling, fanned by war stories should not be allowed to sway the administration, which in in duty bound to bt» guided by official information. When this government is obliged to ihterfere, of Which there is a growing probability, its Interference will be ba?e3 upon principles and facts that cannot be controverted jby other nations or expose Jie honor and dignity of the nation to any question, in short, congressmen who are disposed to fan

the Cuban feeling into flames must demand the information in the possession of the administration and exclude the Key West dispatches.

HOW THE RAILROADERS VOTED. It may be accepted as a fact that'all the railroad men did not vote for McKinley and sound money, but that the majority of them did vote as they said they would i$ equally true. It is not a matter that can bp definitely determined. It is probably better that the votes of no body of men can be accurately traced, as it would weaken the virtue of secret balloting, but it is not ^unreasonable to judge of acts by results a»d The Railway Age endeavors to account Jtpr tho railroad vote as follows:

"la all there were 600 railway" men's sound money clubs organized during the campaign. Two hundred of these, with a membership of 100,OCO, were distributed amoag twenty-three large cities through the various wards and precincts of which the members were so scattered that it would be impossible to arrrive at any close estimate of the weight of influence of the railway men. From 150 other points the re turns are given in detail in comparison with the vote of 1892. The 150 club uoints in 1892 gave a Democratic majority of 9,S56. This was convrted in 1896 into a Republican ma jority Of 149,274. There was an increase in the total vote of 136,502, an increase in the Republican vote cast of 147,866, and an actual Democratic falling off from the vote of four years ago of 11,361. The Republican net gain at 134 points was 160,981. Deduct ing the Democratic gain at the remainder of the 150 club points the net Republican gain was 159,230 votes."

A HOPELESS LOST CAUSE. Is it expedient to commit the Democratic party further to free silver, inquires the Louisville Post, which says:

We think not. The election shows that the country is oppposed to free silver, and, to use the phrase of the New York World, that "the sound money line is imprsgnabla." It takes 224 votes in the Electoral College to name a president. Now look at this pha-'

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Connecticut 6 Illinois 24 Iowa 13 Maine Maryland ..8 Massachusetts If Michigan Minnesota 9 Is'ew Hampshire 4 Xe wJersey 10 New York 36 Ohio ...23 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 Vermont 4 West Virginia 6 Wisconsiu 12

Total ,...226

Philadelphia Times: Regarding foolish theories of finance, why should any statesman indulge in a wild goose chase when his own can be so surely cooked?

Philadelphia Times: As the only class not in much demand just now for working purposes, the campaign liar may start in as a hard winter prophet.

pulsed Napoleon's but Waterloo was not Philadelphia Times: A partisan tariff com- ... _. mission would accomplish no good on the won until Blucher came with the night, contrary, it would do much harm.' ,In like The sound money vote, of which so much was German, was our Blucher, and Chandler cannot write off that fact.

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manner a partisan comihission on tfrei aipney issife would quicken agitation and dislijust and be a source of disturbance rather than of tranquility but if such commissions cotfld be appointed on strictly non-partisan MfoeSjt and thus summon eminent and unprejudiced ability to the task of meeting, from time to ijilne, the changes needed in our financial system1.' and

Chandler sums up his views in saying? "That the United States is opposed to the single gold standard, and is in favor of re- al'^o"to'give'raVfulTtud^'andTnt'elWfeenC adtracing, in due course and with careful re- vice as to the modifications whlchy.tnfw be gard to the national honor, the steps taken necessary in our financial system, iJie most

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Plurality. 50,000 138,000 68,000 55,000 32,000 169,000 55,000 50,000 35,000 85,000 305,000 50,000 ?95,000 15,000 38,000 13,000 103,000

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There is not a doubtful state on the list and neither Kentucky, California, Washington nor Indiana is there. It is welll to consider the matter as one of practical politics. Committed to free silver, the Democratic party is doomed to perpetual defeat.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Wichita Eagle: Kansas doesn't want any back talk from New York. New York cast more votes for Bryan than Kansas did.

Chicago Inter-Ocean: Windy Bryan organs who are telling how "Senator Hill will be allowed to take no part in reorganizing the Democratic party" know little of the man or the party. The club Hill uses will settle any four-score of them into permanent silence.

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Mrs. l-ouise Chandler Moulto poetess, has returned to Lond, journ in the sunny South

Baron \'on Wlssmann. late governof of German East Africa, has been elected president of the Berlin Geographical society.

Mr. J. Murrle, who claims to be the inventor of a successful aerial machine, is a master engineer at Cranston Hill, Glasgow.

Ex-Senator J. H. Reagan, who is lying ill at his home in Palestine, Tex., 1s now in his 79th year. His illness war. brought on by exposure and overwork during the campaign.

national bimetallism, and we have pledged 1 Mac-Coll, the well known Anglican clergyman. I ourselves to look for it, but it is not unlimited free coinage of silver.

The rumor is revived that Canon Malcolm

is on the point of surrendering his .clerical dignities and responsibilities in order to devote himself entirely to political pursuits.

Mrs. Phoebe J. Clym'er of San Francisco, who has been totally blind for thirty-six years, lately recovered her sight. Her family believes that this was a divine dispensation granted to them In response of constant prayers.

Oom Paul wants £1.000,000 damages for his republic, and the Old man has a quiet way of getting what he wants.

Governor Pingree is said to be already evolving a scheme for planting office seekers.

Emperor William is writing a drama, and the German press will carefully refrain from suggesting that it will be the one night stand variety.

The action of the English legal mechanism in the cases of Mrs. Maybriek an^Mrs. Castle shows how kindly disposed our cousins over the water are to Americans.

Price's Baking Powder has the smooth road made by giving satisfaction.

MORE OF BREIDENTHAL.

Former Tarre Hautean the Rlggest Populist in Knusas. A Topeka special says of a former Terre Hautean: "The man most talked about In Kansas is John W. Breidenthal, who has been slated to succeed William Alfred Peffer in the United States senate. If ever a man has earned this honor, Mr. Breidenthal is that man. I-le ia not one of the probationary Populists of Kansas who jumped Into the new moveipent when high offlce was ready to knock af his door. "He was preuching the doctrines of therhew party when Senator Potter was accepting, offices from the Republican party. He .was fighting the battles of the greenback party in southern Kansas WhH«j ex-Governor Eewelling was hisldlng offlce under the Republican party in Iowa, honors which were- bestowed upon him by such men as the Clarksons. Senators Allison, Gear, Governor Klrkwood and other*. Breidenthal has been in the greenback movement ten years before ex-Congressman W. A. Harris ever dreamed that he would desert Democracy and join the Populist party. "This is the kind of argument the friends of Breidenthal are using to get votes for him for the United States senate. That it has had the dosired effect is shown In the hc&Hhu boom whicb jka stata chairmM'R car-

didacy has takes on. It would be one of the miracles of Popultst politics If. this man should fall to gather in the senatorial nomination when the caucus is held in January.

Bora on a Minnesota farm.

"Mr. Breidenthal was born on a farm near he Sueur, iu Sibley county, Minnesota. June 27, 1857. While yet a boy his parents moved to Terre Haute, Ind., coming to tiabette county, Kansas, in 1887., His parents died at their home in Clietopa, Labette county. Mr. Breidenthal's parents were Pennsvlvanians. Miss Julia Slaughter, a native of Illinois, became the bride of Mr. Breidenthal, and four children. three boys and one girl, are the frutts of this union. "When Breidenthal came to Kansas he devoted Tils time to loan and Investment schemes, loaning great amounts of money to the farmers of southern Kansas. His business methods were .above criticism, and his honesty was never questioned by anyone who had dealings wtth him. About eight years ago he became connected with a socialist colonization scheme, which had for its objects the purchase of lands In the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, where it was proposed to establish a colony on the Bellamy plan. Breidenthal. C. B. Hoffman and other Kansas reformers went into the movement, and one shipment of people was made to that country. Several eastern socialists were connected with the movement. About 160 people from this and adjoining states went to Mexico and located the colony on the Bay of Topolobampo. For two years an effort was made to grow crops, and money was sent there to keep the people through two dry seasons, but finally it was decided to abandon the plan."

ON SCOTCH WHISKY.

A SCOTCHMAN'S POULTRY GOT DRUNK QUITE REGULARLY.

He Sued a Distilling Company for Making Common Drunkards of Ills Hens.

A letter to the New York Sun from bonnie Scotland contains the following story, which 1^ something out of the ordinary:

He went on to aay that on Sundays, when the distillery was not In operation, the condition of his flock was pitiable, but Mondays were their worst days, for then they drank excessively and fell into the water frequently, and he had to employ a boy to look after them. They would take no food until they had first paid a visit to the brook. In fact, their conduct was thoroughly reprehensible, and the ducks were no better than the hens. When they came Wck from the brook they spent the day in sleeping and fighting alternately. Turner admitted that he had some sober hens, but the drunken ones broke their eggs, and, all in all, the demon alcohol had quite destroyed the profits of his business.

At the conclusion of his testimony the plaintiff triumphantly produced the wicked' Laggan hen in court. Tne dissolute creature was brought in in a large wicker cage and placed upon the bench in front of Sheriff Mactavish, who prtsided. This colloquy then took place. The plaintiff's lawyer asked: "Was this hen at the distillery brook this morning?"

Any one could see tha!," responded Turner. "Is it sober?" "It is not." The behavior of the bird seemed to justify this answer. It sat on the bottom of the cage, stretchel its neck up through the bars, and crooned to itself in what the plaintiff termed "a maudlin style." "How are the other hens today?". 'Worse than this one." "Was this the only one you could bring to court?" "Yes." "Why?" '"^he rest were too drunk.*' "So that on the whole the Lsvggan nwi is not the worst?" "That is so." "How do you acount for that?" "She can stand it better."

The counsel for the defence wished to reai an article by Andrew Lang referring to a somewhat similar case. The other side objected, as Mr. Lang was not present. The counsel replied that Mr. Lang had been summoned, but had failed to apppsar. The court ruled out the evidence. When both sides had finished, Sheriff Mactavish confessed himself, or rather he said that the

case being a peculiar one he would reserve place

Such is in substance the version of this extraordinary case printed by the newspapers. Scotch newspapers were never known to tell a lie, at least not so ingenious lie as this. At. all events, If the story is not true, it is qui,te good enough to be true.

tla«l Heard of Pwtsy.

While L. A. Russell, the Bryanite candidate for congress in the Cleveland, O., distict, was making his canvass Bryan swooped down to assist him in getting swamped by 5,000 adverse votes. On the night in question*Russell was talking against time to a large crowd, endeavoring to hold them till Bryan arrived. The congressional candidate has a high pitched voice, and in the course of his speech said: "This country has produced but one truly great man."

Then he paused, and after looking searching^ at his hearers, said: "Can you tell me his name?" "Patsy Tebeau!" promptly shouted a shrill voiced youngster In the gnllery.

In the howl of merriment that followed Rugsell shrieked "Abraham Lincoln:" six times, but was unheard.

Ohio strives for pure food. As a vesult Dr. Price's Baking Powder grows in favor.

The Most Useful Metal.

It is said that a ton of steel will make 1,500,000 pens. Steel rails were first used for railways at Chalk Farm, near London. 1862.

The hot blast was introduced into furnace use some time between 1832 anfi 1S3S. Occasional instances have been found of perfectly pure native iron in meteorites.

A large part of the finest iron and steel of commerce is made from magnetic ores.

"These be times" when people want all that money can buy. Those contemplating the purchase of clothing or furnishings have & rare treat in store by waiting for the opening of Pixley & Co.'s great removal sale that begins Thursday morning.

The Poet's Wife—Got a checu rrom «ar publishers? -J Poet (wearily)—Yes a post-card, saying: "For mercy's sake give us a rest!—Puck,

To Care a Cold In On*

Take laxative Bremo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it falls to r.urn. ,'fie.

EXPBBSS PACKAGES.

Fair Phyllis, sweet and dainty maid. Sits waiting 'neath the rose tree's Bhade The roses bloom upon her face In each stray curl a witching grace, For prisoned in its meshes light The vagrant sunbeaihs wander bright.

The blue of ntrmmer skies in June,ft§» When lovely things are ,all atune. Looks with the dawn of love's surprise, From half-veiled depths of her dear eyes. A dark cloud passes o'er the sun.' Softly the petals,, one by one, Falling, perfume the rose tree's shade. Unheeded by the little maid. Gone are her own fair roses rare. Gone are the sunbeams from her hair.

For one she loves comes not to meet Fair Phyllis at her garden seat. .,!'1 Sadly, and with a heart of gloom,,' -«•, Adown the path where flowers bloom, She wanders where the -fading light Gleams on the stately lilies white. Just as the sun sinks in the West. She hears the volca that she loves best The roses bloom with rarer grace Upon her glowing, bluBhing face. And all the blue of summer skies Speaks welcome sweet from her dear eyes. —Anne Van Poelieu. It costs Great Britain over $6,000,000 a year for military uniforms.

The first cargo of Hawaiian sugar ever landed in Boston arrived there the other day. The cargo~consisted of 48,315 sacks.

The mayor of W^ltham, Mass., has vetoed the aldermanic appropriation of $600 to be expended in caring for the grave of General N. P. Banks.

Tho California board of health finds that In San Jose the average duration of life is tfbout 43 years, which is longer than that of any other city in the United States.

Doctors have removed a piece.of glass seveneighths of an inch long from the eye of a little child in Barbour county, Ala. The glass had been there for about eight months.

Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, having attained her 16th year, has -Just made her confession of faith as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and has'been confirmed.

Elijah Uawson, a compositor of Milwaukee, has worked steadily at the case for sixty-eight years. He is. it is thought, the oldest com

The oddest and perfiaps the funniest lawsuit of recent record occupied the attention positor in the country, nor is his position one of honorary membership in the trade

of a Scotch court at Oban on Wednesday last. John Turner, a poultry raiser, claimed damages in £50 from a local distillery company because it had been the cause of his hens and chickens becoming habilaul drunkards. A little brook flowed from the distillery through the plaintiff's farm and on six days in the week, he asserted, the water was so polluted with alcoholic refuse that the poultry which drank from it became regularly intoxicated. Turner told the story of the mAal and physical downfall of his ducks and hens fix lugubrious detail. It was a new hen which he had bought in Laggan that had led the whole flock astray. The defendant's lawyer interrupted at thi6 point to suggest that the poultry were afflicted with "gapes," whici^ had been Introduced by the Laggan hen. "Yes," responded the plaintiff, "whisky gapes."

Sarah Bernhardt can be depended upon to make a success of Sardou's new play, If It Is called "Splritisme."

Amsterdam will have next year an international exhibition of hotel arrangements and accommodations for travelers.,

Kentucky is not lacking in patriotism—such as it Is. More than 500 flagpoles were erected in one county in thtft state during the campaign.

A girl horsethief who was arrested at Dayton not only admits she took the horse, but wants to take all the blame. No kleptomania there.

To look at the Swedes who come to this country nobody would ever suppose they belong to a nation stuck on anything as dainty as woodcock eggs.

A New York boy who found $20,000 and, on returning it, received a reward Of ?50, may be president some day, and then again, he may be a careless street car driver.

The newest spoon this year Is one that stirs a claret cup. It has a handle eighteen inches long and promises not to get lost, no matter how deep the pitcher may be..

The Kansas City undertaker. who gave an invitation to "call again" to a widower who had just paid a funeral bill for his third wife doubtless meant to be polite as well as thrifty.

Among other travelers' stories is that of a commercial tourist who tells the Washington Post that he recently saw a colored woman in Mississippi with hair eleven feet long—including the kinks.

The big foot ball team will be after ,the Alabama man who was resuscitated after being hanged for a murder. A 200 pound man who can survive a drop on the scafTold ought to be able to stand considerable hard usage on the gridiron.

In New York the board of aldermen have adopted a resolution prohibiting the carrying of infants on bicycles. This throws the wheelers back to their pet dogs, .and in New York dogs are more popular in fashionable society than babies.

A Montana woman is said to be wandering about the country looking for her "affinity," but she seems to be handicapped to a certain extent by the fact that the only thing that she is absolutely sure of is that' her husband is not the man.

The experiment of Jjieating cars by electricity has proven a most gratifying success. Evidently it is an economical plan or it would not be followed by well managed street car companies. So far as the saving of dirt is concerned, it is the ideal heat for offices or dwellings.

A favorite Christmas game in England is snap dragon. A plate or bowl of brandy is prepared and lighted, into which raisins are thrown and then plucked out of the burning brandy with the bar? fingers. The feat requires considerable dexterity in order to avoid burning the skin, and blistered fingers are as common in England the day after Christmas as burned hands in America on the 5th of July.

Philadelphia claims, and perhaps with reason, that she is the best lighted city in the world. It is the only municipality on earth where the whole population goes to bed at 9 o'clock, leaving the lights burning all night.

The New Yorkers find in the sincerity of Mr. Moody and in his crude and rugged oratory a welcome relief from the vapid dilettantelsm of the "higher criticism." Moody's preaching is like country sausage—it sticks to the ribs.

A monkey who lives in a Boston bird store escaped from his cage early Sunday evening, and as there was nobody nigh to hinder, he proceeded to have fun with a fine collection of parrots, canaries, goldfish, rabbits and guinea pigs. Some of these pets he killed, a few he ate and the rest he tossed about the shop In wild hilarity. The exciting sport continued for hours, but finally two policemen drifted that way, decided that the tumult they heard was the result of some unusual cause, broke down the door and after much difficulty persuaded the monkey that he had bet-

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ter retire to his prison scene of awful and complete devastation. The monkey was the only creature or thing in the

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his decision. parrot could qhow more than two tail feathers, After adjournment of the court somebody offered the wicked Laggan half a glass of whisky, which it began to imbibe greedily.

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the goldfish lay amid the fragments of their globes, the canaries were buried under avalanches of bird seed, the disconsolate rabbits were weakly trying to digest the fragments

Soon it began cackling at a great rate, to the of puppy cake that had been crammed down their throats. The owner of the store intends intense amusement of the bystanders.

to kill the monkey as soon as he can decide whether the crime committed was breaking the Sabbath or cruelty to animals.

Price's Cream Baking Powder lasts longest because purest and strongest.,

At Normal Hull.

On Friday evening. December 4th. at 8 o'clock, Professor J. B. Wisely will lecture on "Life in Minnesota." Prof:ssor Wisely has lived in Minnesota and is well acquainted with his subject. He will entertain and instruct you. Tickets 20 cents. Sold only at the door.

"These be times" when people want all that money can buy. Those eontemjHating the purchase of clothing or furnishings havi a rare treat in store by waiting for the^pen ing of Pixley & Co.'s great removal sale that begins Thursday morning.

Tliey Understood.

Dcacon—Boys, boys! you shouldn't play marbles today. Sunday's a day of rest, you know.

Spokesman—Yes, sir. we know it: but we L'.Vt tired, sir.—Pittsburg Bulletin.

I proved by the statements of leadO ulCS jng druggists everywhere, show that the people have an abiding confidence in Hood's Sarsaparilla. Great PllrAtt proved by the voluntary statevUiCS ments of thousands of people, show that Hood's Sarsaparilla has great DftU/Or

over

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ky purifying, en-

OWvl richiitg ancl InvlgoHfthig the mood, upon which health ?md life depend.

Sarsaparilla

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

mj n1, are the only pills to take MOOu S PlliS withHood'sSarsaparilU.

We Want Dissatisfied Women

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To investigate the advantages of shopping by mail. Don't buy something you do not like, when a postal card addressed to us will bring to your door the select assorment of a stock like our&. This week we offer

Special Values in Brocade Taffetas tor Evening Wear.,,.

Plain colors..50c Dainty stripes 75c

New Broadcloths in latest colors 75c to $3.00 per yard.

L. S. AYRES & CO.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

TO INDIANAPOLIS

AND

RETURN

Aooount DEDICATION OF

TEMPLE A.A. SCOTTISH RITE

Tickets on sale Nov. 30th, Dec. 1st, 2d and 3d. Good returning up to and including Dec. 5th, 1896.

TO MUNCIE, IND7ANF RETURN

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Account Christian Endeavor Union of Indiana Meeting.

Good re-

Tickets on sale Nov. 27th and 28th. turning until Nov. 80th.

USUAL HOMESEEKERS AND SETTLERS' rates will be on sale Dec. 1st. Don't forget to Inquire about The Settlers' rates to Prinoipal Southern Points, as we have very low rates ineffeoton that date. For full particulars call or address the undersigned, Terre Haute House or sixth street station.

E. E. SOUTH, Genoral Agent.

FRANK 0. RICH, M. D.

Diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Office Rdie Ditpeniary.

Rooms 208-209.

Office hours 9 to IS a. m., 1:30 to 4 p. m.. Sundays 0 to 10 a. m.

JOHN O. PIETY,

ATTORNEY AT LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. 423 1-2 WABASH AVENUEr

THE

NEW YORK WORLD

THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION.

18 PAGE6 A WEEK. 186 PAPERS A YEAR.

Is larger than hjiy weekly or semi weekly papw pubjlahs.l an-.i is the oniy important Democratic "weekly" published to New Torn City. Three limes ad large as the leading Republican weekly of New York City. It wijl be of especial advantage to you during the I^residenlial Campaign, as it Is published every other day, except Sunday, and has all the freshness and timeliness of a daily. It combines ali tihe news with a long list of interesting department unique feature?, cartoons and grap-Vc illustrations, the latter being a spxia!ty.

All these impro\'eTien:.-j have been made without ajiy increaw In the cost, wbieh remains at $1 per year

WINTER TOURISTS

—AND—

REDUCED ONE WAY TICKETS

To the South Via.

E. & T. H. R. R.

The E. & "if. H. will sell on the 1st and 3d Tuesday of each month one way tickets at greatly reduced rates to all points in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and to some points in Kentucky, Louisana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia. Also regular winter tourists tiekets to the south and west. For furthes information apply to R. D. DIGQES,

Ticket Agt., Union Station.

J. R. CONNELLY, General Agt. Tenth and Wabash Ave.

I J. C. S. GFROERER,

PRINTER

Estimates Cheerfully Furnished,

33 SOUTH 5th.

DR. W. S. DAVIS,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

320 Ohio St., Tel. 260.

Office Hours...,

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