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GOVERNOR MOUNT'S INAUGURAL. 'The inaugural ceremonies attending the installation of Governor Mount passed off with republican simplicity and sufficient taste and dignity. The governor's address was commendable for its brevity and recommendations. In touching upon legislation for trusts and combines, a leading issue of the times was treated. Those who believe that anything desired can be accomplished by statutes are liable to be disappointed when they learn, once more, that all movements of trade and capital cannot be governed by rule and precept, but the governor voices the demand of the times that legislative bodies must be more than ever above the inuenoe of lobbies, combinations and money and more chary in giving away privileges. He was not narrow or demagogical, however, for he urged the equal rights and interdependence of human interests.

His remarks upon the centennial celebration were not altogether encouraging to the prosecution of that scheme. In speaking of the insurance laws he brought out figures that area little starling in showing that during twenty-three years Indiana has paid out double the amount in insurance premiums (if the interest is added) that it has received for losses. He has been interested in. farmers' mutual insurance and speaks with experience.

The governor's recommendations in regard to public institutions were appropriate, especially in commending the merit system for the penal institutions and the separation of the reformatories for women and girls. Every rair-mimded citizen will hope that the gensral assembly will take his view of apportionment laws as its guiding principle. His suggestions in regard to the live stock sanitary laws, good roads and county coinmissioners and township trustees were the practical ones to be expected from a'man whose personal experience had taught him what

Is needed. It will be found, we think, that 3overnor Mount will always understand just what the average people want, as his address promises.

A BADLY MIXED CASE. Many have a very clear idea of what they would do with the Pacific railways, but ioubtless not many have as clear an idea of the merits of the case, for they are much involved with local feeling, personal hatreds and the mixed views held concerning government ownership of railroads. It is very natural that Californians should hate the management of the Pacific roads. Questions of law and of cost to the national government are nothing alongside of their bitter feeling against the railroad combine. Such cases would be settled differently If both parties were corporations, instead of one being the government, for in courts the speeches made to congressional districts would have no effect.. While the government was imposed upon thirty years ago, it is responsible for complications that have arisen and losses that have been made in late years. As one paper remarks: "It could, moreover, be pointed out that the payments annually made by the railroad companies to the United States treasury in anticipated liquidation of their indebtedness were most scandalously used. They were employed under conditions that prevented the companies paying this money from receiving, except in a slight degree, any benefit in the way of interest. When for a long term of years sums of money amounting to millions of dollars are thus badly financiered, as these payments by the Pacific railroads were when they passed into the United States treasury, a moral obligation is incurred which courts of equity would recognize if the party to the contention was some one other than the United States government."

There is much to be said on both sides, as has been said, and as it is a certain loss ^f money either way, doubtless the majority prefer to lose on the side which is against Huntington, without regard to legal points or the rights of owners who have come into possession of stocks and bonds since the original owners held them.

Are the biscuit and cake light? Yes, if Dr. Price's Baking Powder raised them.

AUSPICIOUS DAWN OF 1897. War in 1776, and in 1812, and a Sreaty of arbitration in 1897, with Great Britain. The last is a great historical incident and an evidence of the boasted superiority of Anglo-

Saxon

civilization. It may exert a great influence upon the peace of the world. In this age when the voices of the people are heird in the French assembly, the German reich-

kstag,

the Austrian reichsrath and the Italian parliament, it is most probable that the example of Great Britain and the United States will have its effect upon tlie countries so heavily burdened with armies and navies and in time .though doubtless a long time, lead to partial disarmament. Such people as the Germans and French will not go on forever staggering under their joint standing army of a million men and the point of beginning of reform will be in arbitra.ijn.

Of course no treaty is a guarantee of perpetuity. Some friction might arise between the Americans and British which would prevent a renewal of the treaty of arbitration at the end of five years. Men can be hasty ar fools in their united capacity as nations is well as individuals but are not as likely '.o be. Let us note the conclusion of this ind the Venezuelan treaties as a fine introluction of 1897. It looks like good weather 'or this year.

VELCOME TO THE EX-GOVERNOR 'j This district of Indiana will extend a coriial welcome to ex-Governor M-t hews when ke returns to make his residence wi.hin it* is a private but distinguished citizen. No one can have more friends, gained by his

WBonsl qualifications, than th« Hon. Clauds

Matthews. Critical occasions have occurred during his administration requiring decidel action that attracted attention to Governor Matthews and made him conspicuous among the governors of the union. Political favor also made him conspicuous and placed him among the prominent figures of his national party. He retiree from office with more distinction than has been accorded to some of his predecessors or to many of his cotemporaries in other states. The Fifth district therefore welcomes him back as an honored citizen and an esteemed friend. As he modestly spoke in his farewell address of. returning to the plow that Governor Mount leaves, we trust he will find one which will turn up furrows that will teem with abundant and golden harvests (we say "golflen," governor) while health and happiness attend him and his.

THE LAST DEBT IS ANEW ONE. Mr. Hamlin, assistant secretary of the treasury, said at the Chicago Jackson banquet, No. 2, that the present administration in issuing bonds to protect the gold reserve has in effect but reissued those bonds which the previous administration unwisely purchased and canceled." Sometimes a poor excyse is worse than none. As usual, an administration official ignores the fact that if the bonds were issued to protect the gold reserve, it was made necessary by deficiency of revenue and the resulting encraochment upon the gold reserve. If the government should go on issuing bonds until it had put out $1,000,000,000 Mr. Hamlin would arise to say that it had merely reissued the bonds which once represented the war debt. If a business concern, that after many years' struggle has succeeded in taking up all of its outstanding paper and starts out on a cash basis, again finds 4tself issuing paper the only explanation is that it is running behind and losing money or extending itself.

The revenues must be increased, for the explanation that others issues of bonds will be but reissues cannot turn deficits into surpluses, or losses into profits.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON. The 140t^ anniversary of Hamilton's birth will be fittingly celebrated tonight (January 11th) by the Hamilton Club. This celebration is peculiarly appropriate at this time, following as it does upon aljresidential election in which the honor and integrity of the government was apparently at stake, for it is with the organization of that government that Hamilton's fame is forever associated, said the Times-Herald.

It is true he took but little part in the framing of the constitution, and the instrument as adopted by the convention was widely variant from any plan of his, but after the constitution was actually submitted to the people no man contributed so powerfully to its adoption as he, and the federalist survives today as its best expo-, nent.

But it was not the federalist, nor the organization of the treasury department, nor his marvelously lucid and powerful state papers that give him place beside the greatest statesmen the world has known. It was his quick perception that the American people were a nation, and that, no matter what the phraseology of the new constitution might be, they must have a national government. It was a fortunate hour for this republic when Washington became president and Hamilton his chief adviser.

The executive action of Washington'.? first administration and the direction given to the legislation of that time, all comprehensive in its varleyt and mass, was controlled and permeated by Hamilton's genius. He it was that, guided the ship of state after it was launched aratd raauy surmises and many fears, and he set the compass so that its course could not again be lightly altered.

The constitution contained within itself the seeds of death and of life. Hanitlton breathed on it and it sprang into vigor. Out of it could have been made a -ope of sand. He made it a chain of steel. No man of all his successors has ever been able to do more than add to or improve his design. The form and character of the government is his.

Much that he did and much that he believed in political ideas and methods has proved to be erroneous, but nothing can ever deprive him of his just fame as the organizer of a government that promises to be as enduring as it is wise and beneficent.

The New York Sun, having heard of the temporary eclipse of one of Indiana'3 brilliant daughters, remarks: "No emphasis need be placoi upon the fact that Mrs. Helen M. Cougar, one of the most active and able of Indiana orators and politicians, has resigned from the Nirional party. The' National party cannot be regarded as large enough for Mrs. Gougar, and will probably feel more comfortable without her. On the o'.'.nr hand, the retiiement of this distinguished leader may prepare the way for a union between the Nationalists and the new party which is due,in Tonawanda in exactly three c'ays. A new party is formed in Tonawanda on the 13th and 26th of every month. Probably the National party itself originated in that home of progressive political thought.

The internal revenue receipts show an increase of 1 per cent in the income from the tax on spirits and of 6 per cent for malt and other fermented liquors. The per cent of increase on spirits being slightly less than the increase in the population indicates a slight decline in the use of spirits and a perceptible increase in the use of the other, if the ratio between the two was greater it would not be a bad sign. If the law in affixing penalties was to show similar prejudices to those held by the Texas justice against peach brandy it might promote the use of the slower poison.

Are you in a hurry with the biscuit? A friend in need is Price's Baking Powder.

The Kansas City Star, usually accurate, errs slightly in the following: "Visitors to the St. Louis convention last June will doubtless recollect the well dressed, pleasant looking, black whiskered scholarly gentleman who acted as temporary chairman and iniflcted a written speech of nearly an hour's length on the impatient delegates. He will be the next senator from Indiana, so the Republican caucus has just decided. His p.ame is C. W. Fairbanks."

It was not the Republican caucus, but Mr. Fairbanks' caucus which had just decided what its own views were, but it remains to be s^en how general the views are.

The request for a protective duty on sauer kraut invites the attention to a growing industry that will be better understood when it is well stirred up in congress. If Congressman Saeurherin* of Pennsylvania

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12,18H7.

will interest himself in the matter the people al»o wHI be interested.

"We are not all as rich as we were al the beginning of last year," says Scribner a Magazine "but we know more than we did twelve months ago." Yes, many have knowledge to sell and are ready to sell it.

An old Honolulu -woman says she is1124 years old, and yet they say the Hawaiian^ are dying off. She says also she remembers what happened 122 years ago, and yet they 6ay. the Hawaiians.have been converted.

Governor Stone of Missouri wrote a farewell annual message a newspaper-page long without saying a word about 16 to 1. It was the same In Indiana. Some men know w*hen the play is over and the curtain drops.

We regret to observe in aNew York Sun article the expression, "as they say out West, bull-ragged." Never—what we say out West is "bully-ragged,^ as given by reputable dictionaries.^?

Now comes a man with a claim against the Pullman Co. of $25,000 for catching cold in one of its cars. Wbat if he is like the man who caught cold when he dreamed of an open window?

The deficiency of revenue cannot be ascribed to the position of silver when Great Britain can report for the year a surplus revenue of ?13,000,000 over the estimates.

There were last year 122 legal executions and 131 illegal executions or lynchings, and this year Altgeld started his pardon mill to encourage more illegal acts.

Missouri is going to put Benton into bronze and send Vest back to the senate. What a fine exchange it would be if the men could be changed around.

It would be a case of stultification if the state of Ilinois, after showing such a de3ire to get rid of Altgeld, should send Madden to the senate.

It is now Governor Mount.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

M. Chauchard, proprietor of a large Paris department store, has ajjain made a present of 164 000 francs to twenty-five local charities.

Cecil Rhodes Is a hearty supporter of the Salvation Army, "and he has made General Booth an offer of land in Rhodesia for the' army's use.

St. Clair McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, writes from Rome that he has recovered his health, aud will soon return ^to active duty. I

Governor-elect Andrew E. Lee, Populist, of South Dakota, owns more land there than any other resident of the State, and is still adding to his possessions.

Bernard Shaw says that Irving as Richard HI. woos Lady Anne "as if he were a Houndsditch salesman cheating a factory girl over a pair of second-hand stockings."

Mrs. Annie Brown Adams, daughter of John Brown and last survivor of his family, is in direst need. Horatio N. Rust of Pasadena writes that Mrs. Adams is living in the Northern part of California,. struggling with adversity and trying to bring up her family of teight children. Recently the house took fire and with its contents was burned. The family is struggling to pay off a mortgage and has nothing except what friends supply with which to build a house and live through the winter.

The Czarina of Russia has a refined, ddli^ cate face, but a look of pneasiriess lurks itjthe eyes, ever on the alert for fear some Nihilistic crank will end her life and her husband's.

The new Archbishop of Canterbury is said to be a stanch temperance advocate, and enjoys the distinction of being the greatest consumer of tea, as well as the worst dressed member of the clergy in England.

The late Baron Charles de Golgne was the father-in-law of Robert M. MacLane, who was United States Minister to France ten years ago. The Baron was one of the dandies of the early days of Louis Phillippe, and an Interesting character. He knew more about opera singers and ballet dancers than almost any of his bontemporaries. as his book, "Little Memoirs of the Opera," showed. He was 88 years old at the time of his death.

H. Helm Clayton, the observer in charge of the Blue Hill, Mass., meteorological observatory, and his assistant, S. P. Ferguson, recently performed a novel feat of interest to aeronautists and ornithologists. While making simultaneous observations of cloud heights they took measurements of a flight of ducks and by means of trigonometry discovered the ducks were flying 958 feet above ground at the rate of 47.7 miles an hour. a/'

The De Rothschild family of Paris has jtt&t' been thrown.into mourning by the tragic death of the Baroness Emmanuel Leonino, daughter of Baron and Baroness Gustave De Rothschild. It was at a stag hunt near Cbamat that her horse, becoming frightened, dashed her against a tree, throwing her to the ground and inflicting wounds from which she died two hours later. The Baroness had been married three years and was one of the belles of Parisian society.

SPEAKING TO THE DEAF.

A Mistake Is Often Made In Trying: to Enunciate Very Plainly. Many people, I am sorry to say some teachers of the deaf, fall to realize, in practice, at least, that speech 1s not as clearly visible to the eye as it is audible to the ea"r, and think that by speaking slowly, word by word, and opening their mouth to the widest extent, they will render the task of the speech reader easier. As a matter of fact, they render it all the more difficult. A child in school may learn to understand a teacher who mouths his words in this manner, but this ability is of no value to him when he leaves school. Indeed, perfectly natural, deliberate speech is easier to understand than the exaggerated form of articulation which people are apt to use the moment they know they are talking to a perfectly deaf person, writes John Dutton Wright, in the January Century.

People who depend entirely upon their speech reading for understanding others have requested me, when introducing theia to strangers, not to say that they were deaf, because they find it easier to read the lips when the person speaking is not aware that he is being understood in that way. I have in my acquaintance a young man educated wholly by this method, who travels a great deal, and picks up acquaintances on the steamer or on the train just as people do who possess all their faculties. I have in mind, also, a congenially deaf girl of 14 whd is not considered unusually bright, yet whose speech is clearly intelligible to strangers after the first ten minutes, who is intelligent on the topics of the day, an whose conversational repertoire is much larger and more entertaining than that of many young ladles of 20 and over that I have met in metropolitan society.

Biscuit are best if Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder raised them. 1

The Papers Ware Not Correct Mrs. Marian Dishon, who is insane and who has been in jail for several days, wohld have been taken to Indianapolis yesterday but for the fact that the commitment papers were made out In a faulty manner. The name of the patient was spelled two ways and the officials of the asylum sent them back to be corrected. The woman will be taken over later in the week.

Call on Ehrman Coal Co. for the only eenuine Brazil Block, 605 North Seventh.

COKBIiN'S LOST ESTATE

MANY MILLIONS THAT HATK BBKN ,£NTIBELI SWEPT AWAY.

Utopian Dreams For Lone Island and Bis Railroad—His Klsa to Opal woe and Sadden Downfall. W

The final taking from the' family of Corbifc of control of the Long Island Railroad Co., in the report of the liquidation of the Corbin estate indebtedness through purchase of the Corbin atock of the road by the Pratt interests, practically forms the last chapter of one of Wall streets' most interesting stories, says the New York Mail and Express.

Seven months ago, when Austin Corbin was killed in a runaway accident on his grand estate in New Hampshire, the public believed that he left an enormous fortune. It was estimated in figures all the way from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000. Today it is probable that the value of all that remains for his heirs is less than one-tenth of .the smallest estimate.

The shrinkage may be traced in greatest part to the railroad on' Long Island,- which Austin Corbin built up until his name and that of the road became synonymous. In 1880, when the old Long Island road was bankrupt, he purchased a heavy interest in its Shares and then, going in as receiver, straightened out the company's affairs, extending it, building up summer and pleasure resorts along its lines and in a thousand and one ways planning for a great future for the road. He wanted to create a transatlantic steamship line, which should be the shortest in existence, to connect the eastern end pf his road with Europe at Milford Haven, in Wales. Then he wanted to connect the western terminus of his road by bridge or tunnel with New York City and the vast transcontinental connection to-be met there.

The result of his energetic management was that the company's stocks became an investment paying dividends, and until trolley competition set in on the west end of Long Island, promising to continue one of the highly regarded railroad corporations of the country. But in the magnificence of his schemes and disregard of minor practical matters of management while considering the former, was evidenced the trait which has brought a seemingly enormous fortune down to less than enough to maintain his family in their accustomed state. Mr. Corbin was too sanguine and too visionary and an imperious man as well, unacccustomed to brook the advice of others.

While he was thinking that the big scheme would go through dividends were being paid upon Long Island stock that were not earned. Moreover, it is now believed, these were paid with money advanced as loans to the company by Mr. Corbin himself and checked uj^as "floating debt."

Wheal he died and other hands took hold they changed the policy he refused to forsake. Then the value of Long Island stock became reduced to its valuaiton on the market, and the Oorbin estate's holdings of 60,000 shares were virtually ufimarketable at public sale, and it was evident would cease for the time to make any return to the Corbin family.

The Charles Pratt estate, which owned $3,500,000 worth of the stock, now comes into control of the road through the sale .of the Corbin stock by the estate at a price only sufficient to pay off loans made by Austni Corbin. In other words, the Corbin Interest in the company has simply been wiped out.

The widow still holds the family home at Fifth avenue and Twenty-eighth street, the country place at Babylon, the grand farm in New Hampshire, an interest in the Corbin building on Broadway, and some Western land worth altogether, judges say, less than $2,000,000.

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Years and years ago the man who organized the first national bank in the United States was worth more money than that. He began to lay the foundation of his 'fortune as a young lawyer in Davenport, la. There he built up a large business in mortgage loans, inducing Eastern and European capital to invest. He started his bank and then came East, organizing the Corbin Banking Co. in this city in 1873. Enormous profits were made, but the period c)f mortgage loan failures cut into Corbin's fortune.

He continued to make money, though, in 'the railroad business. He reorganized the Philadelphia & Reading and becames its president, holding that position as well in the Long Island, Elmlra, Cortland & Northern, Manhattan Beach & New York and Rockaway Beach.

Among Mr. Corbin's investments, which were expected to pay great profits and were counted as a part of a large fortune, were over 10,000 acres of land in Arkansas, which were to be populated by immigrants and developed into rich property. Out of $600,000 bonds on this Mr. Corbin was supposed to hold $400,000, and today it is said the property would not bring $100,000. Other holdings were Manhattan Beach bonds and stock, the latter selling almost for nothing, though, when estimates of a huge fortune are made securities are sometimes counted at par. The 27,000-acre New Hampshire estate was said to have cost about $80,000, while estimates of its market value are placed at about one-quarter of that sum.

Thus it will be seen how in part a fortune in lands and securities, not having an immediate market, may be first greatly overestimated, and when the pinch comes dwindle away to a figure representing no more wealth than that owned by thousands of individuals in the country who are considered no more than well off. "'cxonjc Island'* HI«tory.T':.-

The Long Island Railroad Is made up of a number of separate properties, which during the past fifteen years have been gradually absorbed by that company, until every steaan surface road on the island has been piaced under its control. The success and general scheme of consolidation belonged to the late Austin Corbin, and when, with his new Long Island Co., in 1880, he secured control of the Long Island Railroad, then chiefly running from Long Island City to the extreme ends of the island on the north and south shores, with lines to Coney Island and Rockaway beach, the first step toward realizing a much-fostered ambition was taken.

The original Long Island Railroad was chartered in April, 1834, being one of the first legal grants for the construction of a railroad by the legislature of this state, and shortly afterward the work of building the line was inaugurated. Jamaica was the fixed eastern terminus of the road, and it was proposed to build a line from that point to Greenport, a distance of nearly ninety miles. The main line was completed in July, 1844. For the next thirty-five years the road made little headway, although its history was marked by the building of branches. Several attempts were made to form an interesting and profitable property out of the lines, but they failed, and when Mr. Corbin and some friends organized the new Long Island Co., in 1881, to take over the property, his plan was looked on with distrust. His idea of consolidation soon became apparent, and he lost no time in formulating an ambitious plan of extension and absorption. The attractiveness and proximity of the various resorts on the island to this city were soon made known, and befQre the death of Mr. Corbin this ambition

had beep well attained. He had succeeded in controlling every, steam road on the island, and although that cost millions it has made the company the absolute master of the situation.

When the new Long Island Co. took over the property in 1881, the stock aggregated $3,260,700. An increase to $10,000,000 was immediately secured, which eight years later was further Increased to $12,000,000, for the purpose of securing the Brooklyn and Mont auk Road. The Corbin plan of absorption by lease and purchase of other lines tbiat had been independently built was put into effect, and in Bixteen years the entire system grew tS 368 miles, with main line, branches and sidings, These were: Main line, 205.56 miles, and branches, 98.43 mites leased lines, New York & Rockaway Beach, Brooklyn and Jamaica, North Shore branch, and Montauk extension. By a recent arrangement the company secured the operation of the Prospect Park and Coney Island and Bath Beach roads. The Montauk extension was built with the idea of making it the eastern terminus of a transatlantic steamer service, on the claim that it was the shortest route between Liverpool and this port.

The company has a funded-debt of over $14,000,000, and the Central Trust Co. is the trustee of a mortgage issued in 1888. It guarantees bonds aggregating over $15,000,000 for extensions, new lines and mortgages. In the spring pf 1894, $1,275,000 debenture fives were sold, and a like amount of improvement loans and bills were retired. The company, from 1892 to 1894, paid 5 per cent dividends, when it was reduced one-quarter of 1 per cent. The report of operations for 1895 showed gross earnings, $4,014,019 operating expenses, $2,593,323, leaving net earnings, $1,420,696. After paying charges, interest and dividends, a surplus of $24,154 remained. This represented a deficit of $50,345 over 1894.

ROENTGEN RAYS AND PLEURISY*

Successful Diagnosis of the Disease By a Physician In France. New York, Jan. 11—Dr. S. Mi lington Miller of this city has received an account from Paris of a successful diagnosis of pleurisy by means of the Roentgen ray. The account says that at a meeting ofjhe French Academy of Sciences, December 21st, Professor Charles Bouchard of L'Hospitale de la Charite described his diagnosis of pleurisy by the Roentgen ray.

If the chest (thorax) of a man in good health be plaoed between a Crookes tubs and phosphorescent screen the skeleton of the thorax appears on this screen in the form of a vertical dark band with parallel edges, 'with less dark oblique bands on each side, which represent the rib3. In addition, on the right side of the vertical column, at about the middle lof the dorsal region, there is a shadow, produced by the heart, in which pulsations may be perceived. Lastly, the shadow produced by the liver, which is convex above, rises and sinks in the thoracic cavity with the respiratory movements. Apart from these shadows, all the rest of the thorax appears in white on both sides. Ths dividing membrane between the heart and lungs, marked by the vertical columns, does not show.

Iu thirty patients suffering from right pleurisy which effusion he found that the side of the thorax occupied by the pleural liquid presented a dark tint in sharp contrast with the light color of the healthy side that, if the effusion did not fill up the entire cavity, the apex of this side was light, the dark tint answering exactly to the upper limit of the effusion, as determined by per cussion and other means of physical examination that this tint gets darker in proportion as one proceeds from the upper limit, where the effusion is thinnest, toward the lower strata, where it is thicker, the dark tint mixing with that of the liver. He also ascertained that in these cases of right pleurisy the mediastinum, which is not perceptible under normal conditions, threw a shadow on the left of the vertebral column, in the form of a triangle, with the apex upward, the base being continuous with the shadow of the heart, which showed that the mediastinum had been displaced toward the healthy side of the thorax by the pressure of the effusion.

Dr. Bouchard says: "There 6 every reason to believe that examination by means ol tjie Roentgen rays will be found useful in medicines as in surgery."

These conclusions throw an entirely new light on the possible medical use of the new ray.

TRAPPED BY A REFORM AGENT.

Artist Arrested For Painting Nude Pictures —Says Bis Accuser Led HI in to Dolt. New York, Jan. 10.—Paul Shearer, an artist, arrested on complaint of Agent Joel of the Comstock Society and charged by him with painting immoral pictures, accuses the agent of setting a trap for him by suggesting the idea in the first place of making and selling the pictures.

Shearer, being In pinched financial circumstances, was compelled to paint little marine and landscape scenes on the inside of shells and peddle them on the streets that he might keep himself, his wife and two children from starvation. In the course of his daily transactions he encountered a man who put strange notions into his head. That man, he says, is Joel. "He suggested that I should paint nude figures on the shells," says Shearer, who is now in the Tombs, "and I told him that to do so would be a violation of the law, and refused to carry out his idea." "Oh! but you must have courage," said the man to Shearer, "as yop can make twice ths money by painting something with ginger in it." "Finally I gave way. I drew the outline of a nude figure with my pencil and passed it to the man for examination. He said it was something like what he wanted, but suggested a change. I got the picture to suit his tastes and only charged him 25 cents for it. Then the man went away and I remained at home all that day working out his idea."

He finally had eight pairs of shells ready for the man and sold him one the next day for 50 cents. The next thing he knew be was arrested by the purchaser. Joel refused today to discuss the case.

Be sure and get what you always send for, Price's Cream Baking Powder.

MRS. EDWARDS' NEW NOSE.

It Was Constrneted By a Skinful Sorgeon From On* of Her Flneers. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 11.—As a result of skillful surgery by Dr. Joseph P. Tunis at the Methodist Hospital Mrs. John, Edwards of Chester now has a new nose and a fairly prepossessing countenance. The third finger is missing from Mrs. Edwards' right hand, but St is now a part of her face, for it was grafted there to form a much needed nose for her.

Mrs. Edwards was admitted to the hospital late In the fall to be treated for a cancerous growth. This ailment was checked, but it bad left an unsightly blemish where the patient's nose had been. Mrs. Edwards grieved over the facial disfigurement, and when Dr^ Tunis suggested a remedy she Immediately agreed to undergo the operation.

The patient was etherized and the operation was begun. Dr. Tunis cut off the end joint of the third finger of her right hand and •disarticulated the remaining two bones. The hand was held in position over Mrs. Edwards face and tho boneless flesh was laid over the damaged nose and stitched to the face. Bandages of crinoline, spread with plaster of Paris, wero wraped about the patient's body, holding the arm firmly in place. Her hand almost entirely covered her face and it was nccessary to feed her by means of a tube Inserted into the left corner of her mouth. Occasionally the bandages were removed, but the hand was never allowed to change its position.

At the end of three weeks the finger was firmly grafted to the face and Mrs. Edwards left the hospital with a nose hardly less perfect in form than the original.

To Cure a "Cold in One Day.

Take laxativo Brcmo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 2Sc.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

Satisfactory Ciiaperonago* I rowed with-Doris in my boat Far from the city's noise And found & pleasant spot to float

Where leaves and lilies poise Upon the little waves that creep To rock the drowsy birds to sleep.

We talked, but wo were not alone. Which seemed to disconcert us Aunt Josie was our chaperon, O*

BUt little did. she hurt us, For wheji I looked I found her deep, In calm, unchaperoning sleep/

The chance was far too good to miss And. Doris being wlliing, I backward leaned and took a kiss

That se- my pulse thrilMng When lo! 1 saw Aunt Josie peep The wretch had only feigned her sleep.

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But Doris sat with downcast eyes Nor dreamed we were discovered, 'Jtt While Just a hint of mild surprise O'er Aunty Jo's face hovered And then she winked to show she'd kerp My secret, and^again feigned sleep! .-j, _New York Sun.

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Eggs "are selling in Spokane, Wash., at

$8.6*

a case and scarce at even that figure. Louisiana now remains the only Stat« which confers the suffrage upon foreigners advance of naturalization.

Last December 2,776 cars of Western freight bound for Europe passed through Portlandi Me. This doubles the record of any previou month.

A Washington paper mentions casually thai these tariff hearings are costing the govern* ment at the rate of $25 an hour, or, say, $150 a day, for the reporting alone.

According to the statistics of the weathei bureau the property loss from tornadoes during the last ten years has been five times ai great in Missouri as in any other State.

The formality of kissing the Bible is to b« omitted at the inaurguration of the new Stat* officers in Kansas. The reason assigned foi this departure is the fear of the transmission of disease germs.

Cuba has a population about half that oi the State of Iowa and material resources of less magnitude. The debt now charged by Spain against the island Is $425,000,000, or about $400 per inhabitant.

Kaiser Wllhelm's jubilee cup, to be raced for by British yachts next summer on tha occasion of bis grandfathers reign of sixty years, is three feet high. The course of tha race will be from Dover to Heligoland.

According to the United States Supreme Court a man who distributes lists of lucky numbers in a lottery drawing is not guilty o( violating the anti-lottery laws, because bis action is subsequent instcud of precedent ta the lottery.

President George Falloon of the Ohio fisli and game commission says that the supply c' fish in Lake Erie will be exhausted in two or three years unless the existing laws regulating the catch are quickly revised and thoc«^ oughly enforced.

Ernest Young, a small boy of Scotsbtirp, Ind., possesses a very unique combination

a team for his milk waj^on. It consists

dog and

For the first time iti the history of Nebraska its State Government has passed entirely out of control of the Republican party. Within the thirty years since its admission into the Union Nebraska has had. but five State of fleers who were not elected on the Republican ticket, and of these two occupied non-politica positions are regents of the State University.

Benjamin Riddell of Elmsville, Franklin County, Ky., has celebrated his 94th birthday, lie hasn't lost a tooth, can see as good as ever and is a splendid rifle shot. He has ten children, equally divided in sex, fifty-two grandchildren, and -fifty-seven great-grand-, children, making a total of 119 descendantu, whose aggregate ages foot up more than years.

The railway mileage which has gone intc receivers' hands since the 1893 panic exceed! 45,800 miles, or more mileage thau defaultee on bonds during the entire nine preceding years, which included the panic year of 1881 The bankrupt capitalization involved since th last panic amounts to

came

Stt

foi

$2,821,000,000,

pet hog, which work together tc

the little wagon in hauling the milk to neighboring creamery. The death of a young woman by malpractice and the suicide of her lover, an offle«r. to escape his disgrace have led Jules Lcmaltre. academician, playwright, and critii opposed to Zola and his school, to mak defense of such operation.

Petty thieving has become so prevalent it Callaway County, Missouri, that the propriftj of organizing a vigilance committee, with 2 published schedule of the number of lashes administered for the various minor crimes, is being seriously discussed. •.

An order has gone into effect at the union depot, Atchison, prohibiting persons from smoking cigarettes in the waiting room. Th« depot master has orders to eject any person wlo rifus-js to ot3y th: mandiie. Ttn.-e will be no objection to smoking cigars ot pipes.

Julius Barthman of South Carolina has been in Germany studying the beet sugar industry and has arranged to bring over 500 Saxon families for whose occupancy he has bought 18,000 acres of land. This will be divided Into forty-acre farms, one-third of the land to b« devoted to beets and the balance to othef crops.

In Penobscot County, Maine, the fines imposed on dealers who violate the liquor laW pay all the county expense. The fines are collected with as much regularity as if they were licenses, but the prohibitionists say that if the amount of liquor consumed and the revenue are the same there is a difference in the abstract morality of the transaction.

or abou

one-fifth of the total railway capitalization pi the country. During the nine years to 1SS, the stock and bonds of failed

roads..

gated $2,094,800,000, or a less amount than

the past four years.

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EVOLUTION OF VISITING CARD, Tho vlsitine card as we now know it baTely a century old.

gradual revolution

is the result of

and .its

present form

not nearly so attractive as that of its earliei stage Visiting cards were a developmeni from'the old style of message

and

'nvltation

cards. Throughout the greater part of last century it was the custom to write messages and invitations on the back of Playj"f that had been used. Sometimes instead o) being chosen at random the card was P»|kec out for some pat significance and the wrltei could show a pretty turu of wit.

The name "Curse of"3cotland" is given th nine of diamonds for the reason that it is alleged the duke of Chamberland

in wrl""fJ1

order refusing all quarter to defeated high landers after Culloden used the back ol a nine of diamonds.

Sometimes the backs of playing cards usee for invitations were elaborately Engraved. From the use of cards for this purpose it ii aiTTasV step to the engraved visiting card, At first the person who used a card to an-

the hack of one. About 1770, in raris, ii u«

customary to pay visits by simply leaving a card.

Lovesick Clerk Easily Cured. Holland, Mich., Jan. 10.-A "masher,* who clerks in one of the stores here and visits the postofflce unnecessarily about a dozil times a day, recently received a letter, read-

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"Sweet Boy:—I love you you know no! who I «n, but I have often admired yo from a distance. I have noticed you gomg to the postofflce and take this method oi reaching you."

The clerk was in the seventh heaven delight till he turned the page and read: "Now, you blathering idiot, come bacl and go to work. You have kept the track hot between here and the postofflce long enough. This is a good way to cure you. Now hustle. I will attend to the mail hereafter.

Your

Employer."

The "masher" is cured. ,,N

Great

IA0 proved by the statements of leudOclIGS ing druggists everywhere, show that the people have an abiding cohfidencs in Hood's Sarsaparilla. Great proved by the voluntary state\sl!r(sS ments of thousands of peoj :--, show that Hood's Sarsaparilla luis «n over disease by purifying, rOlfwi riching and invigorating tiie blood, upon which health and life depend.

Sarsaparilla

Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1. j, nJ1 are the only'pills to take IlOOU S PillS with Hood's Siarsa-arilla.

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