Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1897 — Page 4

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That dash into the lecture field is the b'ow ".that killed Mr. Bryan's 1900 chances.— Washington Post.

But Mr. Bryan never had 1900 chances.

After trying hip lecture on the Atlanta people Mr. Bryan went back to Lincoln and told the Traveling Men's Bryan Club that he couldn't see that the Republicans had done anything yet tp, impvpv.e th tip?e|.

It will be annoying to have a letter, containing the Cameron resolutions, addressed to the president of the Cuban republic, returned, and bearing the stamp? "Not found," and "Always put on street and number."

Senator Blackburn "would like to see trouble with Cuba." -If the senator will have himself appointed as a humble deputy sheriff and detailed to guard a Kentucky toll-gate or a negro prisoned, he will find all the trouble he wants, but perhups it is not for himself that he1 wants trouble as political warriors seldom do. ,.

The Washington Port's remark that "NewYork's new governor is being tendered a job lot of advice by a job lot of politicians who are out of a job" applies just as well to the Democratic tariff reformers and financesharps who are offering so much advice to the incoming Republicans. Their advice is not accompanied by samples of their last work, but we know where to look for those.

Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, displays the Spanish quality of ^practicability in suggesting that a Cuban parliament should be presided over by a viceroy of royal blood, which is a folly that Great Britain do,es not try in its colonies. It is jirobable that after Spain is given every chance and ample time to effect a favorable settlement in Cuba she will make- evqry concession inoperative by some sixiecpth century bigotry and stupidity. The JJnited States may not long to interfere but they may have to during the next administration.

The sugar question is one of the most perplexing that will come before congress, as Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Wilson will be free to confess after their experience with it. At the start the members of the committee have the fact before them that this country pays nearly $100,000,000 a year for a foreign pro-

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This Is '97. There is luck in odd numbers, said Rory O'More, except in '93.

Everything is favorable for a chance to try more wp.rk and less politics this year.

Having done all they can to make this a

good year the Republicans wish the country "A Happy New Year."

In imitation of Mr. Longfellow it may be said that it is better to swear off and relapse 'than never to swear off at alL'

Ex-Queen Lil is acclimating herself by taking sleigh rides at Boston. Then she ia .going to call on Mr. Cleveland.

Do you remember your last year's lesolu Lions? They are good enough for today and ,probably are not worn out by excessive use.

». This will be a remarkable year as in it we will bid adieu to Mr. Cleveland who has ^weighed upon our siprits for nearly thirteen belong years,

5* This is a much brighter New Year's than the last. We can believe that the hardest times are behind us and the brighter times •r near at hand.

competition, Mr. McMillin pointed out that this was not the. fact in the case o£ many protected articles. This., Mr. Chase said, was due to "artificial combinations." The admission of tjii? seetaed very satisfactory to Mr, McMilliq, but. Mr. Steele of Indiana, smiled blandly across the table at his Democratic colleague as he inquired, "What are you going to do about it?"

The sly.ae§s of Mr. Steele's inquiry, "What are you going to. do about it," was. in calling the attention of Mr. McMillin to the fact that it was his business to investigate "artificial combinations," as the law departbent of the government ift Democratic control.:

Those wrho ridicule W. J. Bryan as the qx ponent of BryaQism are not at all afraid that he will again be a presidential candidate or ever a formidable man, but Bryanism is mischievous, disorganizing and injurious as far as it goes. The Glo.p.e-Derggsra^ diagnoses} the case in saying: "This would be a very scod time for Mr. Bryan and his fool organs to give the country a rest from their campaign howling. Bryan in a speech two or three nights ago said: 'The Republicans have promised to restore normal conditions. What they may do hereafter remains to be seen, but it is evident that they have thus far failed to bring relief to the people.' This characteristic bit of idiocy is echoed in some shape or other every day by some of Bryan's papers. A stupid Pop organ in this town dekls put the same variety of lunacy in almost every issue. The Bryanite talkers arid writers apparently think that the people who smashed! firyanism altered the coristitut'oa and statutes at the same time so as to ntake the presidential and congressional term begin. in November or December instead of March. .Not much attention is paid to the ravings pf Bryan or of the corporal's guard of Bourbon malcontents who ciinc, to him now, but, as far as it goes, the slight influence which they are still able to exert is, of cpursc. distinctly vicious."

THE NEW YEAR.

Following a year of unusual evdntfuiness 1897 dawns amid greater calm than did the ye^ur which closed last night though tremendous possibilities of storm and wreck lurk in some pf the unsettled questions of the times. A year ago w? freely discussed, as a ceming event a quarrel with Great Britain that might end in war. A sharp, fierce altercation between Germany and Great Britain was precipitated by the Transvaal incident and the English flying squadron was held like a hunting pack in Jeash,ready for Salisbury to let sl!p "the dogs of war," either ir. America or Germany but these portents faded like summer cl.ouds. We have beep agitated by Armenian massacres and Cuban horors, have seen the agent of he Red Cross Society, Miss Clara Barton, doing blessed work in Armenia, and our filibusters landing arirjs and dynamite in Cuba, but npne of these, with their accompaniments of war and slaughter so stirred the people as the discussion of the standards of monej into which simple elementary questions the people entangled every phase of social and political life, arriving at a state of mental excitement seldom paralleled in this country, and this also passed away like a summer storm which suilenly retires with distant rumblings and intermittent flashes and is gone. An event which would have been pronounced impossible thirtyfive years ago was the admission of Utah to statehood so quietly as to cause no further comment than the discussion of it's senators' silver views although Mormonism was still its leading religion. Each crisis or development alluded to proved that great issues tan be settled with words instead of swords, and where the sword was drawn, by Italy in Abyssinia and by Spain in Cuba was the most humiliation.

The year opens with the arbitration of the Venezuelan boundary substituted for war, with a treaty for arbitration of all difficulties between America and Great Britain on its way and with the administration trying traditional

to maintain peace and th-s policy of non-entanglement in difficulties.

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The year opens also with the general return to prosperity and the belief that while the nations of Eurojpe are enjoying industrial activity and financial ease

duct that could be raised on native soil this country cannot continue in its excepnpt next year or in a nuinber of years, but. tional state of^ commercial depression- The still in time every pound of sugar consume^ I interchange of partisan incivilities incidentcan be raised in America. It is estimated jal to a change of administration is no sign that the amount of sugar imported from that the feeling of hopefulness is not nearly Hawaii alone would givl employment to over universal today. This js a better day than 200,000 men if raised in this country. We last New Year's. It promises more calmness will always have Hawaiian sugar and probably will call it a domestic product one of these days, fcut we buy more elsewhere, even Egypt sending sugar here as well as cotton

of feeling, more steadiness of business, more work, less talk, and a better ending for the year to come than we could hope for

twelve mouths ago.

During a tariff hearing Representative McMiilm of Tennessee had a sharp dialogue on the subject of ad valorem duties with Mr. Si B. Chase of Fall River. Again] when the latter declared that tie selling price of goods was kept down to the lowest point by Schomburgk line. The favorite barytone of

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THE WILD SPANISH-AMERICAN. A recent incident at Caracas appears to have thrown our South American friends into a terrible excitement, anj, for the time being, at least, divered their emotions from the once overshadowing question of the'

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tt& lp,caj opera ,to.upe refused to. respond to 4,n ejagojc§, tfqij paly that, he t&uated» he insulted the inflammable audience until they: screamedj a^aln. A dozen Bf^ombijrgk lln^| could not have so aroused a bra.ve and p$ trlotlc people. Ten revolutions running simultaneously, would not have produced .0 one-hfIf the garble and prpfanit^ $ay* the W^WjiSton Post W entertaining eln,

The news ot this tremendous incident comes to us by cable from Caracas via Haiti, to the esteemed- New York Journal,' and once more we have to thaak that preat moral and intellectual engine for keeping ns promptly advised of the really, vast and palpitating events of the 1£y. The opera^ojf the evening was Verdi's "Ernani," thc barytone wks "Pacini a*! beautpftai' ind me^ lodioua ltalian attached to the ^oupe.' Pacini, had long been t%,9afling the Caracas public^ 'As 'Alphon^e, in 'Troyatore, as the court iestei: in "I^gglettp.'.as ihe incendli|ry feherman to "Masaufeilp",',1!. as' Camoens in "Dpru Sebastian/' as a do^en other heroes in a dozen other ogeras", calling i^or fiery action and seductive Facial had touched tlte hp%rt appfojiriated the affeptipn «^t- Carftq.^s, until it ?pme tp pass t^at when th?y applauded some special aria with, special fervor, the favorite

But there was no repetition. 'Whit ailed Pacini may never be known. Tt may rkiiiaiii ope of those tremejidovis mysteries like ths: source of the, Nile, or the ae.?r3jt'^tf p|rj|eti)al motion, perhaps the/spaghetti'' "was not good that day. Perhaps tHe olla pojri lj hid a fly in it. Perljiaps anything. At any, late Pacini wou^d not sing again. And th.eii the trouble l?ega,p. The now infurLited Venezuelans boiled and spluttered! The" air wai$. filled to suffocation with onion,s %nd imprecations. The audience besaa to- r.e ?troy the ifutpiture- Ladi.es fainted in Ifce, boxes. Strong men wept and raved,in their passipn. Then the police seized Pacini and d^mand^ed the song onc§ mpre. Pacini,refused with contemptuous words and gestures. Then the police lugged hi'm "to the calaboose $nd locked him up. The "curtain fell," the audi ence screamed out and demiuded the return of their money, the affrighted managers disgorged, the iigh'ts'were extinguished, |jio military were summoned to prevent a ripty and, at last Caracas, throbbing, wild-eye^ loaded to the guards* with ra.ge ami anguish, dropped off into a fitful and a feverish travesty of sleep. Next morning the impresario proclaimed his bankruptcy, and Pacini ^tras' consigned to the deepest dungeon beneath the castle moat. And there you are,

England may tha,nk her stars of destiny, together with the timsly ititervontipP djf Mr. Cleveia'nd, for ha.ving escaped conflict with a people of so furious and so indomitable as this. Let England cohteinplae that desolated opera house, thai ebuUit'ioh of unconquerable fury, the Incxrc'srate-l acini, and shudder—shud ler pever&l

A STABLE BANKING SYSTEM. Mr. Eckels, comptroller of currency, has given out a reasonable review of the linking situation, in which he 2jien|^jns the many influences which affect sensitive credit and create distrust and timidity. lie is not far wrong in his allusion io the reckless utterances in regard to foreign oor.jpUcatioiis, but though he ascribes them to a part of.-the press, a part of the senate is equally culpa1.- jjv

"I think it is a cause for profound congratulatioh," continued Mr. Eckels, 'tbat after long1 years Of inflation aud reckless speculation, financial depression, tariff agitation, political turmoil concerning the flycal policy of the government, Ahd the events and excitement that we have experienced during ihe last four or five months, only thirteen out oi" a total of 3,6S0 banks shbul 1 clos4 their doors, and all of them .)tn local reafeonS', 'Ivhile newspapers throughput'thd country are daily publishing serfaatiouai dispatches that, under the most favorable circumstances, would disturb vaiuesiau'd'excite appreherisioh in the minds" of business men and investors. -xf "It seems to'me that this e::perienceaiia.s demonstrated the soundness of the jn.-tipnal banking system. The records' pf this dffiee show that out of the entire numberoltnatiorial banks that have been organized since the present system 1vas adopted, and they number 5,053, with billions upon billions of' capital and deposits, but 323 have failed or passed into the hands of receivers." :1Ehey werei carried through "four panics, *in 1873, 1884, 1890 and lb!)3, and the wild sjpeculatioii during" flush times and the timidi'ty^and apprehensieh of commercial and industrial depression. T^he boo'ts Pf the office also sh&w that these 323 barikiS'have paid an average of more than 75 per cent, of the Clainis of fhel^ cTcditors, a showing unequaled by any other system of settling insolveht estates. "Notwithstanding the thirteen failures that have occurred this fall 'and winter," said Mr. Eckels', "the last returns under the call of December 17th'show that deposits are Increasing1 generally' throughout' lie country, and that loails and discounts are expanding. his proves that money that has |een hoarded ie now willing to be invested, and improvements wilt bring about ousiness activity but little improvement can be expected as long as the newspapers keep up the agitation of foreign complications in such a reckless and' inexcusable manner as we have lately seen in "some quarters." -v

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MB. DOUGLASS H. SIV0ITH It is with profound regret the Express informs its readers that with the old year passed away the spirit of Mr. Douglass H. Smith, who has been long and favorably known in newspaper circles aritl in terre Haute. Mr. Smith was a young man of far more than average ability, of most amiable temperament, honorable character and high ideals. He has always shown an industry and ambition that deserved success and courage and hopefulness under the most discouraging circumstances. Those who best knew him will feel the vain regret that he was taken from life before realizing the success that certain undeniable tatents promised for him.

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Dancer of Lynchlna Compelled a^Trana*er P* Prlsonera. 'I Livonia, IndT. t)ec"'3i._Jolin SexjWn and John Brown, of Louisville, Ky., who*"kUled John Rippey, a farm hana, at the K6me of Richard Land, while pretending to arrest Harry Brooks, an escaped convict, were Amoved to New Albany Jast evening for safe keeping, public indignation being so strong that there were fears of lynching, If they were permitted to remain at Salem. The details of this affair make" the action of the Louisville officer* inexplicable. They had no authority- to serve warrants on Indiana soil, their authority as officers of the law being confined exclusively to Kentucky. -1

Richard Land,' "by whom Rippey was employed, is a farmer and stock dealer. He was awakened before daylight by the presence cf a closed surrey In front 6f hls houae" fitid aa i_i. .• -.!i .-l!

invitation to^ cpine otft, by,t, fearing. thAt the visitors were robijerB^, he pretended to be. looking for a lanternr and returned to the house. -Mrs. Lan^ then closed tfee, door an.4, re/useji to let him" out agttin. Meanwhile, he had asked tor the shotgun, which had been le£t in the smokehouse, and, without waiting for an order, young ^Uppey stepped, out. and started, tar .it'The vfiltbri then made a'rush on Rippey, who was heard "to sayT "1 hain't, I haih't," before there was a flash of the pistoL and a groan, followed by. his fay, a, qprp*e. The visitors lighted matches with which to cxanilhe the tody, and again' called upon Richard Land, to corcie out, at no time stating that ihey were of&cers, and then one ol them Was overheard, advising, that, the. shejr,if| bp, %uipmoaed, and the surrey wai|, $riven

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repeat it for. them to their, immeasurable delight and gratitude. On the occasion in question Pacini had just finished th.3 great barytone solo in" "Ernaui"—the invocation to the pictures of his ancestors—and the whole house arose as one iu and screamed with ecstacy. It is a gTand song. From the days of Amodio down lb those of Campanini it has always enraptured" Ehosjs who love, song^beitter th^n recitative and singTrig better thain intoning, Pacini sang his best, and Caracas jreiled accordingly.

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of. the n?en disappeared upon the. approach o| %and. fcifl^self went. to. thos a^nd secured an undertaker, bii ^•laes Uj^gr^Ki^i tor't&e CQmyfr,'

Rohert nephew^ who is. 17 years eld, acted as a guide to the Louisville officers, rnd he is the one who told of the supposed v/hei er aboiiits of Harry Brooks, who had escaped from Ilw at. Louisville. He claims to have re* icelved his. information frcyoi his father, Lewis fJi.dCwho

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with. Brooks, and"wiro knew "of. the conspiracy hr®a,k out pf. jail. There was a reword- ot $100 fof

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youngster had hopes 6f. earning. Through, his father, he was told that Brooks was employed as a farhl liind by Mr.'" Richard' 1-aua, fpf whom young Rippey alfeo worked, and he now clHlms that at the time of, the shootipg he saw a man running toward the wuotlsj and that if he were Brooks, be evidently escaped through a window, ^rookii Wa», Hflow# A*. "Vuk«»."

Qhar.le^ Richardson, of Salem was the liv eryrpan, who dr,ove. the, Louisville mep to the RiC'h^fa 'IAna. home, d'na he' "coiMrdbdrhf^S farmer Land'61storyi adding that before th« shots were fired, he heard, Robert, Land, who bad gone further around the house, call 'jut, "Here he goes^ here he goes, "and that Land afterward laid that Brooks sprang out of a window, and by that means escaped. Richardson returned to Salem for the sheriff, nd= a* they, were driving, back to Land's, home they met'the" Louisville bCQceri, and 'yoUhg' Land, oW: of thefii carrying Richard' Lind'S otiotgun, and all of. them'claiming that ttlppey had been shot in self:dpfense. No one. l-elievea that Richard Land, knowingly harbore Brbbks. although it Is said' that" '-ne of tli

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"Duke," an alias at out tim!«. assumed by Brooks. received, from Louisville show that neither Sexton' nor Brdwh had authority to bear'arms or Make ah arrest tai Indiana soli, ^nd the fact, that they seeking the arrest of a federal prisoner cut no. figure. A rjefetilrty eofifefitufed'trftfted States' officer, in fact, has no legal right until he has first secured arwarrant from: afi Indiana otflqbr. and .even then l,t is advisable to take «vti Indiana mi^.to serve the warrant. In fact, b6(jr,e'they started, for Indiana they requested Captain

Hunter, deputy1 United States 'marshal, tfc accompany them, but this wa,s disapproved botli by Hunter and, the chief deputy, who thought th^'pl-opier cpttrse'^hs by'regular capias.'1'

The 'Temains of young Rippey were buried yesterday afternoon at Mill Creek, t^ie funeral, being largely." attended'.' The deceii3ed was" the drphar* srdn pf thfe late M. N. Rippey, and a quiet. 'iaoffensive young fellow. His murderers have retained counsel, and these attorneys express the opinion that the accused will be" acquitted on thei ground that they act-' ed within the line of their duty.

,iB0UT PEOPLE. •A i|v William Lyman of Middlefield, conn., who died a few days ago. was the inventor and manufacturer of the' Lyman gunsight, in use all oyer the, wiorld.'

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Mrs. Grover Cleveland, with several of her classmates, is to make a present of a beautiful stained glass window to Wellesly College, where she watj forjiierly a student The shipe is a'half cftcle.'

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John La Farge, the artist, has designed .the window, selecting as the main feature a large figure of a young woman. She has spernt much time and thought tipon the subject, as she wishes the window to be a memorial of, her^plf.

Dr. Isaiah R. Sexton of Sparta, Kent county,- Michigan, is one of the'thirty-^three survivors of the war of 1812.

Lady Haberton, the apostle of dress reform in England, is the wire o»' the viscount of that name. She' is described as a "weirdlooking iftdy, who parts her hair on one side, scorns corsets and belongs" to the Pioneer -lub."

Mr. Gladstone writes to a friend: "The book longest in my possession is 'Sacred Dramas',' presented to m«- by the authoress, Hannah Moore, inscribed 'As you have just coirt into the world and I am going out'of it, allow me,' etc."

Kaiser Wilhelm is having a large building erected near his palace'at JVIon Bijou for exercise in winter. It will contain a gymnasium, tennis racquet 'courts, fencing. roo^js, and.„a covered bicycle track.

Harold M. Sewall of BatJi. Me., son of the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Is the Republican candidate for state representative to fill' the vacancy caused by the resignation of John O. Patten. The special-election willbe held January 4. 'f

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The late Mr. Abbey, who had many business dealings with Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, arid directed1 several of her longest toUrs through the tTnited States, oncfe said that of all the actresses he had ever known she was the most generous-hearted.

If the stories told of his wealth are true. Congressman-Sprague,:the new representative from the eleventh Massachusetts district, will be the richest member of the heusel His wife is said to possess ?25.0OO,000, and 6n her weeding day she gave "Charlie" a check for $1,000,000, a Sum he has since greatly increased. Mr. Sprague was a young lawyer' iir Boston before Tils marriage.

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Gerald Du Maurler Is quoted as saying that his father Invariably pronounoed the name Svengali "with the accent on the'first syllable'.". .'

The Alpine Journal records the death, at the age of 70 years, of Charles Packet author (it what still remains the best "Guide to tft6 Pyrenees."'1!"J|rV Packe," said the Prince te Joinvllle, who'went there a' good deal, "is king of the Pyrenees he invented them." The natives venerated him, "and would do anything for him, even to the length of -ndeaToring to tiake an interest In his botin ial researches."

Chester A. Arthur, son of the late ex-presi-dsrit Is said to be a,' ciuididatc for it diplomatic appointment under the new administration.

FACTS ABOUT KINGS. Servian kings were formerly all called eleazars or lazars.

For ovr 400 years every Parthian king bore the name of Ai saces in addition to his own. The ancient monarchs of India were called Palibothri, from the name of their capital city

The Hune number in their annals four great king*—Attilai Bleda, Ellac and Dengeak. The present king of Norway and Sweden, Oscar II., ascended the throne September 13, 1S72. Including the present klilg, Sweden and Norway have enjoyed the rule for forty-seven severelgiis.

Some English genealogists pretend that there is a family of union connecting Queen Victoria with Alfred the Great.

Kenneth became sole king of Scotland in 83-1. Frotai his time to the ascension of James VT., Scotland had forty-four kings

The naine Agag, mentioned in Jewish history as that Of-an Amftlekite king, Was used in common

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all sovereigns of that country.

Prussia has had, including the present kinfe, who is also a German emperor, seven Kings. The royal house of HoheflSollern "W&a estftHlished'by-Prederick WllHam of Brandenburg In 1701.

The present king of Italy is King Humbert," who ascended the throne January 9, 187S. Victon Emanuel, his father^ ascended the throne Of Sardinia In 1849 and became king of Italy March 7, 1861.

The present king of Corea is named LI Chung, without any Chang attachment to his cognomen. He ascended the throne in 18M, and will remain there until the Russians' or a pa iv of

From the tlme of Julius Caesar to that of Constantino the Great the popular nam^ for a Roman emperor was Caesar after the reign of Constantlne the sobriquet In the easterji empire was 'Constantirie.

The house of Bourbon furnished kings to France, Spain and Naples and sovereign dukes to Parma. At one time «t was said that the humblest member' of th.s royal family' was bore influential than a prince of any other,

The:present king' of fiervi'a, Alexander I., was elevated' to the throne in the place of His disreputable father, In 1889. He was bore in 1876, And is now a sturdy youth, who, it is Said" gives promise of being" as disreputable as ex-Kifii: Milan ever

The present ameer Of Afghanistan is Abdur Rahman Khan, who ascended the throne in 1880. It is a little known fact that Afghanistan once had a Greek emperor," 1t beiny eomsrtseta within the'limits of the territory tenfiltered by AleSar.der the Great. 1 -nm

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The song that we're singing bears with it a moral tp4heart t^e young and the. While Time, envious fellow, so quietly steallvg -1

he maiden who trifles with honest affection, Who think^ youth eternal, ah I let her beware She'll find out too late, with a bitter reflec,ttmii i-

That Time, is relentless—she's no longer fair. "x. "The clock ticks on!'

There's the note that, you gave—such an'easy transaction, Three month's to elapse ere the payment is --••dHeA't

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"The clock ticks on!"

Your friends are departing—how sadly you it is But you count not the hours so mournfully told And sadly oblivious to Time that is passing.

You dream not a -moment' that 'you're growing" old. 'Vi ••••'. "The clock ticks on!" -.-wn —Harper's Weekly. Sixty pounds was the weight of a beaver trapped at West Urarieh, Mich.

Near Blue Rapids', Kan., a bed of petrified clams has been fduhd in a gympsum deposit. In a speech at a London dinner party the other tiight Lord: Roberts said that'he "would prefer leading a foroe -into the field to writing a book."

A paper in Missouri devoted to publishing, social scandals has beett' squelched- by the counts, and the editor sent the penitenttiary for two years,

It is said that in York county. Maine, there is a tree -which grew through the hole of a grindstone' and now wears the -stone ascollarette well up the 'trunk.

An Anglo-French society for the development of more cordial relations between England and Prance has just beeh formed. The society is called "L'Entente Cordiafe/'

One boy recently Christened in* Madison county, Kentucky ishonia bs asefurted of good straddling ability, the parents having nam^d him William Bryan McKinley- Stevens.

Herr Krupp, the. German gun manufacturer, hafc-dlisfnissed all' foreign workmen and officials from his employ, .on the ground of possible betrayal of. secrets--to—foreign governments.

Quantities of apples are to be sent fic-m Winthrop, Me., to Portland, the Maine Central railroad agreeing: tor transport them without charge, and they are 'to be distributed to the poor. -t

The boer does just as little work as well keep himself and his family alivek and most of that he gets done by' kaffir servants who, In the more out of the way districts, at any rate, are practically slaves.

Railroad Commissioner Billings of Michigan is authority for the statement that "unless business picks up wonderfully at least 1,000 miles of railroad track will be abandoned (In that state) "»ext year."

Feople familiar with the conditions under which-the wot^f is supplied with rubber say there is reason.-to: fear that the destruction of the trees produoing this precious substance is proceeding at a rate which may have disastrous CPnseguences in the near future.

Force of habit strong in life is illustrated in the trappings1 of a dray mule in New Orleans which used to hauL a bob-tall car, and now refused to draw the wagon art Inch unless the old car bell dangles from its collar.

Professor Charles'Lane Poor of .Johns H6pkins university has just'finished the construction of an equatorial telescope, with which he -intends to photograph the stars from some far northern point next summer.

All the clerks of Owen county, Indiana, since 1852 are living and they. unite .in .giving an annual banquet. The. present clerk was born on the day on which the oldest Pf the company was elected to the clerkship in 1852.

There' are-twenty^-four 100 and 105 toil guns of 17-inch caliber in the Italian nayy» carried on the Duillo, Dorla, Lauria, Lepanto, Morosini, Italia and Dandoto, It is contemplated to.,replacei. these monster guns' with- -more1 moderate sized ordnance.,-. .. v-n ...

The frequent dismal failures of French vessels of war is chiefly due, to changes of naval' administrations, each new one having its particular hobby to ride. The blame-for overweight, unseaworthy ship^ is therefore not to be laid to the constructors, but rather upon the superiors.

A recent official medical report published in London quotefe with approval the words, of Professor Conn that "the public health is placed, in jeopardy when oyster dealers, for the.sake.of. producing plumpness, place oysters in the mouths of fresh, water creeks in close proximity to seWers."

It has been discovered that three of the figures in .* stained glass window ofia rural English church—the subject .-representing King Saul and .hiscounselors—are lifelike portraits of .Lord .Salisbury Mr. Gladstone and- the, late Lord :Beacqnsfleld, The. .king, himself is, Thomas Carjyle, while the David has the head and. shoulders ot Adelina Patti.

After a. canvass of-the'lea'dlng nations Of the world- it Is figured that the total number of copies of newspapers printed in a single year is 12,000,000,000. Some idea of what this enormous figure means may be had if one bears, in- mind that to print the1 world's newspapers a year requires 781,240-tons of paper, or 1,562,480,000 pounds, while It would take the fastest press In America 338 years to print a single year's .edition, which -Would produce a stack of papers nearly'fifty: miles high.

Arrangements are now almost complete for the holding of van exhibition of postage stamps in London, as otie of the side, shows of the approaching, ^lebratipn of the six: tieth anniversary of the r^igh of Queen victoria. T,he last philatelic exhibition Was held nearly seven years, ago, on the jubilee, of tne penny postage. The forthcoming exhibition will eclipge.-all fprmer efforts of the. urn-

brophije to bring before the vulgar gaze the little "gumpaps" he treasures up in his album wfttt such fatherly carp. ,,

So many Christmas toys sold, in. the United

:States

,have their origin in Nuremberg .of other German cities that. it is' a matter of curious interest, to. find none on sale irt_ the big Paris shops. Patriotism forbids exhibition of the label "made in Germaiiy.' which has caused such a fusjr in .England, .and fts a Result only toys of French rtianufattHre are to be found in the world celebrated bazaars. The display was never finer than this! year and the chcf d'oeuvrc was an Arab oh his steed, each life size and in ail'the panoply of war.

C. C. Shockey,

who

:the

resides near Cumber

land, Md., has a coat 104 years old. of whlch he is very proud. It wag the wedding ccat Of his grandfather. Christopher Shockey who was born in 1768 and.etied in 1862. fn !.- he wAs married to Catherine Sechrist. nnd wore the coat

now

in possession of Mr.

Shockey. It IS a swallow tailed coat, made Of blue cloth, with a very,high and wide collar. The coat passed: to jiip son aj\d then to the grandson. The coat is in a good condition and coxild ndt bfe tfought for Cny amount Of money.

The P. Hi Kelley Reorffaolieation^ St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 30.r-The Anal step In the reorganization of the P. H. Kelly Mercantile Company wa-s taken today wtei articles of incorporation of the Fo'.ey Brothers and Kelly Mercantile Company

were

filed in the'ofljjed of secretary of state.

The

document shows that the new corporation has an authorized capital of $200,000. The

officers

of tlie corporation are as fol

lows: President* Timothy Foley „vice president, P. H. Kelly secretary and treasurer, M. H., Foley. Jn addition to these, Messrs. Thomas and John Foley form, a part of the new corporation and its board'of directors.

Rich Red

absolutely essential to health. To-hare pure blood and good health,' take Hood's Barsaparilla,—the best medteine for the ^iloodiver produced, its une$taHedSwcceas ju curiig^E^fuliv'saSti^heum, itlODct^poismi 'r)le8riiktisffif ca^rAir^ysp^ftiar, fierfoiis prostration and that tired feeling have made

a* j::r~rz -m --'gv. e=?£

One True Blood Purifier. 2a.ld.{ Urge, 4s. Id. Sold by *ll chansUte, «r ¥y poit of tX I.

not*

W, Bill, -r a a

Hood 8 Pills Hood'iSanaparilta.U.trii

He Rhea,

In JOSEPHINE,

The Empress sf tte Freud" SNOAF'S OPERA HOUSE, PARIS, ILL. Tuesday, ian. 5 th,

19T

l*he fiig Four will inaugurate its OpcTS special Train Service,

55c. BOUND TRIP,

Sp^ci^^rain will leave Sixth St. Depot at 7:15 pTm.and return immediately after the pefforitihnce. Reserved seats on sale a: Terre Haote House Big Four City Office.

Great Cast, Excellent Company. Prices of admission 35c, 50c, 75c and $1.00. One htuidred seats reserved for Terre Haute people!" Diagram now open.

Home Seekers' Excursions to all points South and West Jan. 5th and 19th. Florida and California Tourists' Tickets on sale daily.

E. E. SOUTH, General Agent.

FRANK ft HIGH, M. tt.

Physican and Surgeon.

Office and Residence 216 North 6th St. Office hours 9 to 12.a. m., L:80 to 4 p. m.. Sundays 9 to 10 a,

JOHN O. PIETY, 3S

AnORNEY ATLAWani' lilOTARV PUBLIC. 423 1-2 WABAS^T AVENUE-

THE SUN

QMie first'

Newspapers,"

American

^•tl-4Chas. A# Dana* Editor.

The American Constitution, the American Idea, the American Spirit. These first, last and

time, former,

all

Dally, mil $6 a ]fear.

Daily and Sunday, by mail $8 a yea

The Sunday Sun

Is the greatest Sunday Newshl paper in the world, gj

Price BjhmU42.00 a yqar,

Address THE SUM, New York.

7 THRICE-A-WEEK EDITIBH.i^s

18 PAGES A WEEK. 186 PAPERS YEAu

Is larger roan taiy weekly or semiw^ekly piper' jwihllshsl ana- is the oiily lmportant Detoocf'atlc "weekly" published in New Torn City. Three times as large sis the leading Republican weekly ol New York City It *ill b? of especial advantage to you during the Presidential Campaign, aa it is published every other day, except Sunday. anI has ail the freshness and, timeliness of a dally. It com" bihes ail the news with a long list

All

vthee«

without &nV iiierea»e itf th®

teresting aeparttrronM^ unique features, cnrtOo.na and graph'c illuistrations, ths latter "being a spaoialty.

improve men rs have been mad

coat,

remains ler year

•Which

Holiday Excursions

....VIA....

E.&T.H.R.R.

The E. & T. H. R. R. will sell excursior. tickets to points within Central Passenger Associa'tioti Territory at

One and One-third Face for the1 Round Trip.

Tickets on sale Dec. 24th, 25th, 31st and Jan', ist. returning, good tip to and includ- 4 irijjJan, 4th, iiBgy.

STUDENTS, on presentation of certificate signed bjr the president of the school, will be sold at above rate on any day be- ,fr tween Dec. 15th and 25th, tickets good re« turning up to artd including Jan. nth, 1897.

For

:fuither

Information apply to R. D. DIGGES,

i, Ticket Agt., Union Station.

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

I. C. S. GFROERER

pgj PRINTER.

J*.

Estiaales Cheerfully fiffiililifj

33 SOUTH

6th,

REAL ESTATE, LOANS

Collecting Ageiicy ahd AccWent and Life Insurance.

Loans promptly made on city property anc farm tend at lowest rates.

THOS. A. U. CANTWELU,

219-23 Ohio SL. Lon Block, Room 1

Ttio^ cteHctous fragrance,

1 a a A

kc/fF

fceaaty im-

iml ii tha by Poazesi'fi Powdhb, I cu^iewfaltto all laaiea.