Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 May 1897 — Page 7

m, AUTUMN.

jTow beautiful the tree shadow He oa The paler green o' the grasses. October wind stirs them little and CloU^^hadows sail above them and are gone. The trees are iike a golden fountain's

J,ikePgofdefi waters raining. X»Vhen the October skies and ways are

The trees "alone have the heart to be gay.

Yet there's a blue sky, and the sun Is gold.

A gold tree and a bird in it, A Jenny "Wren or a belated linnet. Singing away, though all the nests are

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The' tree upoiT'the* grass his a bird's shadow, tAs the live tree its bird.

Shadow and substance joyfully praise the Lord ,, As well as when the world was all a meadow.

•Which is more beautiful, the living" tree, Like golden waters shining. «, Or the tree's shadow on the sward reclining? js I know not. Come and praise the L#ora

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me!

There were several "toughs,w as they eay in the Etates, among the new hands, and of these the worst was a big mulatto known as Gilead Mack.

Two weeks after his arrival the catastrophe occurred. Marriott, the paymaster, •with his colored servant Cicero, drove to Warren ton one Saturday to draw the week's money from the bank there. His usual hour of return passed, dusk fell and there was no sign of him—7, 8 o'clook, and, seriously alarmed, we started a search party.

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—pall Mall Gazette.

SAVED BY A WHEEL.

bad come to Florida to take up an ap pointment a# assistant engineer on a new line one of the great millionaire hotel owners bad decided to construct down the eastern coast of that low, sandy peninsula. The work was, of course, all done by negroes, a rough, half civilized lotr, good workers when well" looked after, but very fiends when fired by drink or gambling.

There were five white men only in resilience at the camp, and the number of darkies varied generally between 70 and 100. Lately we bad been hard put to it to get sufficient bands in these sparsely popuJated wilds and bad in consequence taken on all who came \o us and asked for-work, "without any sort of inquiry as to their •character or antecedents.

Five miles from camp, where the road ran through a naosa hung oak scrub, the jiale starlight revealed a horse, a broken buggy and two riddled bodies, Marriott's nnd that of bis faithful servant, stretched on the bloody sand.

Four furious men were soon scouring the country for assistance, and ere morning a strong party of white settlers and planters were following with bloodhounds the trail of the cowardly scoundrels.

In little more than 24 hours after the crime bad been committed the perpetrators were caught, run down in the blaok depths of the inland swamps. There-were three of them—camp negroes, as we bad suspected.

Portions of the plunder—poor Marriott •watch and ring—were actually-found upon them. There conld be no defense, so jus--tice was meted out, short, sharp and terrible, and three dead bodies dangled from a giant live oak, a warning to the rest.

During their examination two of the three implicated Gilead as the planner and instigator of the whole thing. But he was proved not te have left the camp that night, and though some were for putting him also out of the way of further mischief, it was eventually decided he should simply be flogged and turned out of camp,

And flogged he was! Such fearful thrashing with heavy liiokory switches as I trust never again shall see.

This was in March. In May I bad ten clays' leave, which I was to spend with th8 Warburtons, old friends I had known at home, who had come out to llorlda chiefly for the. sake of Mr. Warburton health. They lived on the coast, about SO miles due south, and to reach their place I took steamer down the Indian river.

Rarely have I enjoyed myself so thor oughly as during those few days. The Piirf bathing was perfect, as could well be imagined, the fishing superb. Sailing on the river and hunting turtles on the beach gave us other delightful occupation, while perhaps the best fun of all was long bicy cle rides by moonlight.

We had splendid ground for a spin. Between low and high water mark the smooth beach was as firm as a turnpike road, and except for here and there a soft stretch 100 vards.(gr so in- length, one might drive the living wheel many a mil© north or south.

Two years before, something more than a friendship had grown up between Lena Warburton and myself. Before a week was up we had come to an understanding, nnd my happiness was as nearly complete

bs human happiness ever is in this world My leave of absence was not up till Thursday. My disgust, then, may be imaigncd when on Tuesday a darkyboy nppeared on pony back with a note from Northcott, the euperintehdent, requesting me to return at once. Vaile, the second engineer, was ill, and my presence urgent ly required.

There was no river boat going north be fore Thursday, eo my only way of return led up the beaoh. I was about to go over to Port Lea to hire an animal which could ride or drive when Jack Warburton came to my assistance with the offer of a bicycle—he had two—on which, he truly sriid, I could get back to camp very much quicker than on any animal I should be likely to get in the neighborhood.

It was about 8 o'clock when I started, glorious summer night, whose heat was tempered by the soft sc* breeze that came sighing off the luminous crests of the long Atlantic rollers. Lena and her brother accompanied me for some fivo or six miles on Biy way.

As I rode the loneliness came home to ine. iN'orth and south, in an almost per fcctly straight line, the bare, broad bcach extended, on one side the sailless ocean, on the other the low. monotonous palmetto crowned bluff. Back of this bluff lay milo or more of unbroken scrub, the haunt of rattlesnake afnd panther, and behind that the wide, shallow Indian river, on whose inn4-bank our camp lay.

Two ht*s had parsed. Scarcely five miles now befoto I must turn to the left into the track eui through the scrub from the camp to the beach. bo far the only signs of life visible had been the multitudinous crabs and a couple of huge, unwieldy turtles the only sound that reached jmjear the monotonous, hissing roar of the breakers on the bar.

But suddculy a low, distant, drumming noise attracted my attention, and, glancing back ovei*»my shoulder, I made out three mounted men galloping HP behind me. As they gained rapidly I turned again and perceived, with a sudden, unpleusant fhock. that they were all negroes, and the foremost no other than that yellow rascal, Gilead Mack.

Then the whole matter became clear to me. Ihad.no doubt, been enticed onto this lonely beaoh by a forged note. Gilead was quit*1 smart enough for that. you never know what you can do till you have to. And I venture to say few professionals would have been in it with me at the speed I acquired within the next two minutes. Had the beach been oxjly sound all the way. I should have been all riiiht.. but unfortunately the tide was half way in and the good ground narrowing, goft spots impeded me, and at the end of another three miles my pursuers were still vitbin sight-and hearing. r? 3 And t-ben thought occurred to

the remembrance o? that mile or more of soft, candy -road across the scrub, where a bicycl? would be useless, and my hunters on their ponies would have me absolutely at their mercy. Could I possibly get sufficient start before reaching the turn?

At the entrance to the scrub road 1 was but 700 or 800 yards in front of the foremost of the negro©?. My one chance now wjas to continue straightaway up the beach and endeavor to wear their animals down.

On and on, mile after mile, on the whole increasing my lead. Even though compelled once or twice to dismount, rarely less than a mile ahead.

I had reached a part of the beach totally unknown to me. but the going was good, and again I slowly gained. Their beasts were obviously flagging, and they no longer kept together. If I cet!?d but hold out another few miles, I might hope to completed distance them.

The shore before me took a wide curve, the first bend for 30 miles or more. I rounded it, and, at the pace I was going, as nearly as possible cLtove jnachineand all into a great inlet half a mile wide, through which the rapidly rising tide was flowing in toward tie lagoos. at between two and three knots tin hour. was trapped. Certainly I could swim a little, butTDowhea» near enough to cross this wide, rapid estuary. Should I take to the scrub? It seeangd the .only possible alternative.

And then an Inspiration came to me. My pursuers were more than a mile behind, as far as I could judge. I had therefore six to-seven minutes in hand. Throwing the bicycle an tie sand, in almost less time than it^kes to write it I had deflated And stripped off both the tires. In a very few moments I bad pumped them full arfesb. Then I kicked off my boots, and having with my belt secured both the air filled tubes under my arms, plunged boldly into the rippling, moonlit water.

A growl of disappointed rage from my baffled pursuers rang through the night, and then t*a^'#adk, a couple of piBtol bullets flew hjgb^er my head and ricocheted in tjhe vpavelets beyond. But a •man's head,, bobbing about a hundred yard6 away, ie af.poor mark by moonlight, and an in8fcant%fcr I was whirled safely around the cowiej-of the bluff, ad soon out into midst&am beyond.

The water was quite warm ana little danger of sharks inside ths bar. But I was at the mercy of the tide and did not know how long it might be before I might be able to land. In half ao hour I was through the line and adrift on the wide bosom of the Indian river.

Here the current, bore me southward, and all night I was carried on. Dawn and the turn of the tide found me weak and exhausted close to a small islet which recognized as only a couple of miles north of our camp. Here I managed to struggle ashore and stretched myself in the long, coarse grass, where the welcome sunlight soon dried, my saturated garments and body.

In the -course of the morning I was tak en off by a fishing boat and landed safe at the camp, where liiy arrival caused, aa I had expected, surprise. Northcott declared he bad sent me no lbessago.

What was more to the point, as far as I was concerned, be gave me another week's leave, and you may believe I didn't lose much time in getting down again to Port Lea. But this time I struck to the river getting a passage on a small schooner.

None of us ever set eyes on them again Only a short time ago, though, my wife, formerly Miss Lena Warburton, came to me in some excitement with a paper which gave a graphic account of the capture and subsequent lynching of a big mulatto whose name was supposed to be Gilead Mack. He had been caught in the very act of firing the barns of a man who

I employed him. Jy wife and I live in a cottage near Port Lea, and ours are now by no means the only bicycles you may see spinning down the beach by moonlight.'—Answers.

Touch Talk Failed.

It was recently suggested that it would be a vast improvement of the existing method of teaching deaf mutes to talk merely by hand signs if a modification of the Morse telegraph code were applied to sign language. A correspondent writes to say that experience has shown this plan to bo impracticable. Some 14 years ago a member of an aevluip board of managers, while on an official inspection, suggested the Morse alphabet as a medium of conversation between the unfortunates. When it was explained to the pupils, they were delighted. The method was illustrated on the blackboard! Deaf mutes are proverbially quick to learn, ahd it was only a few days before tho alphabet was mastered and conversations were constantly held between pupil6. But a difficulty soon arose.

The lack of powers of speech and hearing renders a deaf mute peculiarly sensitive, and out of this grows the most deep rooted jealousy. No sooner were two en gaged in this secret conversation and an other inmate happened to catch a glance of one of the party's eyes than the green eyed monster took possession of the looker on, and the teacher was informed that So-and-so had been "talking about me." Another curious outcome of the innovation developed into an intolerable subversion of discipline. After the lights were extinguished in the dormitories the inmates, who formerly had nothing to do but go to sleep, now could and did talk by touch, and they were enabled to run from bed to bed and carry on a silent conversation, oc caslonally breaking out into a laugh which discovered them. It finally became necessary to forbid the use of the alphabet under all circumstances, and the use of touch conversation was decided a failure —St, Louis Globe-Democrat.

Witness Claimed Advance Fees, In a negligence case tiled recontly be fore the lord chief justice of England a doctor was called to testify to the injuries suffered by the plaintiff. Upon taking the stand the witness objooted to giving his evidence until his fees were paid. He had received half a crown with his subpoena and bad been offered a guinea more, but as he had been in attendance three days he thought he ought, to have a fee for each day. Lord Russell hild that under the ciroumstances he was not bound to testify but suggested that he might see fit to do so, inasmuch as he was already in court. The witness, howover, said that he must persist in his refusal, in the interest of the medical profession, and the case was closed without his testimony.

The Smallest Verdict.

Probably the smallest verdict ever given by a jury wa6 returned by 12 men at Sig' ourncy, la., recently. The oase was that of Thomas Kelley, reoeiverof the Richland bank, against C. J. Ste*sle, a suit on a note. The claim was for $25 and attorney's fees. A counter claim of $24.75 was filed and allowed. The amount of the difference was 70 cents and ft mills. Tho jury re turned a vcrdiot for 71 cents for tho plain tiff, making two courts, one of them awarding the 70 cents and 9 mills on the note .ind the other awarding 1 mill for at torney's fees.—Exchange.

Crane lu Battle.

This is how the Lewiston (Me.) Journel boils down Stephen Crane's war dispatches I have .seen a battle. 1 find it is wry liku what

I wrote up before. I congratulate myself that .. I saw a battle. I am pleassd with tha

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of war.

I think it is beautifulI thought it would be.

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I am sure of my noae for battle. I did not see say war correspondent whbe I was wetcbiag the battle except

TEBEE HAUTE EXPRESS, MONDAY MORNING. MAY 25. 1&K-

ACROSS THE GRAVE.

Where murmuring waters meet A. tale you told. And all the dusky sky

Flushed red and golt

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"With tender eyes of love You looked In mine. "Beloved, from heaven's neigot

stars stilt shtne.

"And homeward through the woods A hand you gave. And, lo. that hand doth reach

Across the grave! —New York Tribune.

REWARD OF VIRTUE.

With all possible good intentions and sincerity man cannot refoirm among his own people. He is not taken seriouly. His abstentions from deeds of vioe are imputed to interested motives. Manktaid-at the club assembles and meets together to jeer at him. His brother laughs him to soorn. The women mistrust him. Only many years oan set him right with them, and man does not like to wait. When hf» re forms, he wants to do it. at once. He has no fancy for wearing the stained g&rb of sin until the sun of virtue shsll bleach it .white. He would don immediately the snowy robe and be made welcome -among the elect Which may not be. If y?u to reform, you must go away.

Lovat grew sick of -the life he had led for ten years—ever since he hiad been a pretty boy of 18 wbo ^hould have ,been learning useful things. It hnd not b'?en such a very bad life, but it rtainly had not been a good one. He tried to-do right at home and failed.. Then he came to

StNowthe

Stated—if fbii except'perhaps

New York—is a place where there are neither town6 nor temptations. Over all its broad prairies, where sleek steers browse and gentle coursers stray, there hangs an atmosphere of soft, pastoral virtue. There is also in the human heart a true, natural goodness learned from the unspoiled savage. There is no tittle tattle, and a man is what he is, not what he has been. They know this in England, just as we in the States know that there is one fair sized town in Australia and that all the rest is bush.

Lovat knew it, and he also knew that it was most true of Montana. That he was aware of the existence of Montana shows that his youth was not altogether wasted. His family had some land there. Of this family it must be said that nothing in England is better or older. Lovat is a name of such luster that no bearer of it, whatever his misbehaviors, could tarnish it. It is also a rich family—very rich. Wilton Lovat was the younger son, but he had a decent fortune of his own. Therefore he could do pretty much as he pleased, and when he quarreled with bis father and his allowance was stopped he didn't care. His father argued with him persuasively, "Why the devil, if you want to reform, can't you stay here and do it?" "Becausea chapcan'tin hisowntown. "He can if he's any character."

"No, he can't." it, I say he can. What the devil do you suppose I did?" His voioe subsided as he contemplated himself in the pleasant light of an example. "You didn't reform You only married."

Which happened to be so true that Lovat senior was unable to reply, save in the not uncommon parental fashion of answering the unanswerable, known to tliildhood as "getting even." He cut off the allowance, but graciously permitted his ungrateful son to dwell upon the Montana lands.

Wilton went at breeding racers, as is the custom of Montana. He had a loghouse on the ranoh, and it was furnished with rough chairs and tables and bunks and with many sorts of string instruments, and with pictures of his family, and .of some girls who had liked'him, ahd of professional beauties who were not nearly so beautiful as his own sisters, for his family was handsome, as well as of great repute and rich. There were also royal groups from The Graphic and Illustrated News on his walls, and there were books in five different languages.

The change was not unpleasant. He looked after his stock, and played the musical instruments and read the books in five languages for a twelvemonth. He decided that he was reformed then, and began to grow tired of being a patriarch over

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his own herds. Patriarchs, as he understood it, had wives and children. Ho had only horses, and they didn't take the place of society. He was fond of society. So he made the acquaintance of somo of tfle officers at Keogh. They gave him stag, dinners in Miles City and they entered, him at the post club, but they did not in-, vite him to their houses. He did not meet their daughters or their wives. An Eng-t lishman has to grow wise before he learns that this is a small world and that the tight little isle is not too tight for rumors to escape from it—that the rumors, moreover, are frequently exaggerated. Lo^at began to grow wiso. At first he wondered, then he understood. He asked himself what, after all, is the reward of virtue, and he determined that it has none. There those who hold otherwise, but the question is not yet settled. He was lonely, expatriated and homesick. He was also young and full of energy and anxious to be met half way. But he could T:ot travel the whole road alone. He burned and went back to where he had started from. There, at least, there was feminine companionship—of its kind. His vice was less gilded than of yore, but that was the fault of the country. He threw over once and for all every hope of admission to the society of his equals in the garrison. The service is critical and jealous of its women. But he was still entertained by the men.

When it was too late to mend—for, copybooks to the contrary, notwithstanding, it frequently is—ho came to repent more heartilv than ever before, aye, bitterly. He met ancl fell in love with Constance Chamberlain, as many another roan has done and still does, though she is Mrs. Brookfield now. She was even prettier then than today, for she was very young, just 18.

Lovat knew her by sight, but he had never spoken to her or heard her speak— which was a harmonious treat—until he came upon her one day some five miles from the post. She bad dismounted to tighten her saddle girths, and she was alone. How should Lovat have guessed that she had seen him coming ere she had slipped to the ground, and that shs was purposely goading her placid black steed to be unmanageable? He came to her aid with an "Allow me to be of service," which sfce answered with a "You are very good, thank you." "You shonld not be away off here alone, Miss Chamberlain, 'he said. "I know it."

Ic is not safe." "I am so tired of being safe." Her voice was sweet, low and unemotional. There was no suggestion in it of unfeminine rebellion. And Lovat, who had not beard thp voice of a gentlewoman for many, many months, was pleased—well pleased. "I only trust you may never learn to know, as most women do, what it moms to be tired of not having been safe."

Then he mounted her and put theTSins In her long, slender hands. He bad' seen no long, slender hands, either, in many, many months.

When he, too, was mounted, he raised his sombrero. "Good morning, Miss Chamberlain." he said.

But Mis? Chamberlain had no mind that it should end thus. Her narrow black eyes looked at him innooently. Weren't you going to town?"

Lovat hesitated, "I know you wae.' Come." '-l"—

Oh, if you don't wantto, yoa needn't!" she." said, gently aggrieved. She was al^ ways gentle.

Miss Chamberlain I You know it is noti&hat." Then why don't you oome?" tf&ur father would not be pleased, to be quite frank."

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Wouldn't he? Why?" jevat looked at her searchmgly. snflMed gullebehind sucbunnatural in-

nocence, but the sweet questioning of her

saintlike face reassured him. He did not answer, but turned and rodo with ber. They talked of many things, for Miss Chamberlain was a clever and accomplished little person, and at last they sgoke of-music. Miss Chamberlain knew nothing of it. ""What a pity!" Lovat ejaculated.

inine. You look like one.

And before they parted they had planned to meet again. She did it, but he didn notice that. Tbey met once and again, 4nd yet again- and again, and Lovat was in'love. Then indeed he tfftly regretted the barrier he bad built between himself and this girl, who was innocently risking everything—perhaps her life, for her father was a fiery man—for him. It had taken him only a dozen years to construct between himself and-any good woman he might reedly love a wall that in all his days could never, be razed. He decided finally that the only course that would be fair to her and easier for all would be an ojienona.

Tbey Sat together on the shady side of a low hill late one day. Constance," he said, "I'm going to Hsk your father .to let you marry me, if you are willing to."

The bright color faded from ber cheeks. "Don'tsay you Men'twilling! "he cried, She still said nothing whatever. "Are you, Constance*" "Yes." "Then why did you get so pale?" "I don't know. Did I?" She cried a little and said she Was tfiry happy and that she would marry him, even if her father would not consent. "But don't ask him till after the races, will you?" "Two weeks—a whole fortnight! Why?" "Because." ,-i 'p "Very well."

He did not see her again before the races. She sent him a note saying that she did not dare to meet him, that her father had forbidden the long rides alone. She would wear hi? colors at the track. For Lovat was to ride. So were several of the officers. It was a gentleman's race. The cup was given by the garrison women.

Lovat won it. He and the officers went into Miles City to rejoice. Some were in a buckboard, some, with their wives, in the ambulances, most were on horseback. He rode with these latter and watched Miss Chamberlain, who was ahead on the road, riding with Lieutenant Garret. She had not worn his oolors though, to be sure, she had worn none at all. Lovat had kept studiously away from the post women all day, but just once he had passed close to Constance. "Will you meet me tomorrow.at th^pla place, dear?" he said quickly.

She did not raise her eyes or seem td notice him, but she answered, "Yes, Wilton, at 4."

It happened that Lovat was riding be side Captain Chamberlaain. "Captain Chamberlain," he said, as I have won the ladies' cup, do you think they would consent to baptize it for me? "Why, yes. I should think so."' "Then will you have the ambulances and Miss Chamberlain stop in front of Stewart's, and I will send it out to themf

So the ambulances stopped at Stewart's, and the officers got out, but the women staid in, and Miss Chamberlain and Garret waited too. Garret was a temperance man and verv good. Lovat filled the cup with champagne and sent .it out with his compliments and thanks. He felt just a bit bitter as ho ilid so. He watched Constance from an open window. She did not see him, and when the cup came to her she 'rejected it with disdain. She was playing '\o Garret now. Lovat heard hor say, "I odon't drink wine, Mr. Garret, more especially when it comes from a man like Mr.

Lovat." "Perhaps it's only bluff," the Englishman tried to tell himself. He hoped so until the next day at 4, when Constance and Garret cantered by him as he waited at the trystihg place, and Garret raised his cap to him, but she ignored him and laughed her low, pretty laugh as she said to the lieutenant, "What a serious British face he wears!"

Before long even the men dropped Lovat. Still, they were sorry when he shot himself in tbe lonely ranchhouse one night. But Miss Chamberlain was secrctly rather proud.—Gwendolen Overton in Argonaut.

Rough on John.

Mrs. Billus—John, are you going to vote at the primary election this morning? Mr. Billus—No. I haven't time. (A pause.)

Mr. Billus—Maria, what are you doing with that old suit of minei" Mrs. Billus—I'm going to put it on and go and vote at tbe primary. I don't want folks to thinit we haven't a man of some kind about the house.—Chicago Tribune.

Bricks From Grant's Tomb. Mayor Strong of New York has not given away any of the thousands of bricks from Grant's tomb stored in the basement of the city hall. He had several applications, which were refused. "These bricks," ho told applicants, "are not for individual distribution. They will go to the G. A. R. posts. Contractor Brady is the man from whom to get the tmicks. He has 16.000 or 17,000 of tbem. I guess he will give anybody one who asks for it. A man offered me $10 for a brick today, but I told him they were not for sale."

Burglar's Novel Plea.

Fred Huermann, 18 years old, was arraignod in Justice Furr's court, in Sedalia, Mo., charged with an attempt to rob the store of Charles E. Messerly. Huermann said be was dancing on an iron grating, when it gave way, and he was precipitated into the cellar, where he was arrested. He was held for criminal court in the sum of $50G.—

Democrat,

St. Louis Globe-

No Jealousy.

Fnfldy—Between you and me I believe my wife thinks more of the butcher than she does of me.

Duddy—You don't mean itl Fuddy—I do. But I am not jealous. Duddy—Not jealous? Fuddy—You wouldn't be surprised If you knew what. kind of thoughts she thinks of him.—Boston Transcript.

jNot For That, Though. "i-

Mrs. Quiddle—I wonder what has become of Joiin! He went out airly this morning, and here it is most dark and I haven't heard a word from him.

Mrs. Raddle—Bo you really hafS fears Jor his safety? Mrs. Quiddle—Ob., I f^eas his safety all richr. but I'm afraid he ha« fallen oC the confounded thing and broken his leg perhaps- —Boston Transcript.

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OHILDBEFS CQECMN.

SILVER DOLLAR TRICKS.

They I»olc Hard, bat Are' as Easy T3® Please When Yon Know How. There are a number of amusing and I puzzling tricks that can be performed with I silver dollars whioh will afford m^ch en-

well

mystification to your

friends. The first of these Is called "Telling the Date.''

Place several silver dollars of different dates on a marble slab, glass or any other cold surface, with the dates downward. Some one shuffles the ooins about on the surface. The performer then requests a

tho«»p.Drto

lips, was« very of the coins, and passing it around to the

at a harp, you are so tall and so exceedingly slight, and you've the face of a StCecilia." S

Well, Ifm not a musician ahd I not a saint. SaintS never have black eyes. But, alas, he thought now that they had, because .of the soft voice and the picture face and the little, chiseled features and the parted, low knotted hair, and also because he had known no -woman like her for many, many mfinths.

You'd be perfect! other members let tbem secretly take note of the date. Now the performer suddenly sweeps the coins on tho slab into a hat.

The passed coin is aiso put into the hat, and all are jangled together. Tho per-

THREE DOLLARS IN A BOW.,

former reaches into the hat, and examining each coin in turn invariably gives the date on the dollar that was drawn. With this simple trick a child can mystify a roomful of gray heads.

The explanation of this trick is very simple. The performer recognizes the passed coin by its warmer temperatu^ from handling.

Here is another triok: Lay three sHver dollars touching in a row on tbe table and name tbem A, B, C. Now, the problom is: Don't move or touch A (except as it is already touched by B).r Put between A and B.

The solution of this is easy. Place the forefinger firmly on B. XSraw away a few inches and bring it back forcibly against tho rim of B. T3bo j?epction will cause A to slide away quite a distance. Move between A and B^-

Tbe next trick furnishes a remarkable optical illusion, and after you have tried it you can play it on your friends with great effect.

Place before you on a flable three silver dollars in a line, touching. Mentally note the distance across the ooins, A, and C, from outside to outside. Now quickly by less of the eye" draw B, the middle coin, toward you. The feat is to draw so that thedistanoe between its upper edge and the lower edges of its companions, A and C, is equal to their total face measurement first spoken of. Understand clearly, then try and see if you are not amazed at the result.

This is a very old puzzle, and perhaps you never have heard it. •How many "Ms" on the silver dollar, and where are they?

Two Ms are in the inscriptions, another the initial of the designer of the coin (Morgan), is on the base of the neck of the Goddess of Liberty, another on the left side of the loop of the bow which ties the wreath just below the eagle's tail. It requires an ordinary magnifier to get satisfactory results, but the Ms are all there, as you can prove.—E. M. Kerr Chicago Record.

How Josey Was Caught.

Josey liked to keep office for his "uncle doctor," as he called him. But the doctor did not always like to trust him there when he was called away, for Josey had a habit of looking into things that made the doctor fear he might get intomisohief. One day, however, he found himself alone and began to look at everything on the table. The electric battery pleased him most. .. ,, "Ho! I know how to fix this, hfe said. "If any man came in that wanted 'lectric treatment, I could do it as well as uncle doctor. There, now it's all right! Now you take bold of these handles.

The taking hold was easy enough, but letting go was quite another ma££er. Any little boy or girl who has ever tried it will know how Josey's arms tingled and aohed, but he had to hold on. He could not let go, and there he was, tears running down his face, when his uncle heard his screams and came in. ,, "You got caught that time, .Tosey, said his uncle when he had 6et tiim free. "Now, remember that bad habits hold fast to a boy worse than an electric battery does and are harder to gee rid of, and meddling is a very bad habit." "I won't have any more to do with either of them," said Josey.—Sunbeam.

A Gentle Request.

Tho wide straw hat with its daisy wreath Shelters a bright little face beneath With big brown eyes and a sunny smile That might the saddest soul beguile.

A frolicsome wind is out today, Tossing and blowing each leaf and spray, And it blows the little maid about ruffles her cueJs in its merry rout.

Curlylocks makes a little stand,. Clasping the hat with each dimpled hand, And as she catches a sobbing breath The brown eyes fill, and a soft voice saith:

"Oh, wind, dear wind, don't blow me so. I'm only a little girl, you know." On goes the breeze with a parting puff. To such trust and faith what could be rough? —Youth's Companion.

Wanted It Himself.

It was the first time that Johnny had been to church. When the basket was passed around, his sister looked at him, expeoting him to put in his money, but he leaned over and whispered to her, "Mamma said she would pay my fare."— Youth's Companion." -r

A Plague of Rata.

The residents of Pelee islands. Ontario, have been suffering from a plague of rata for some tiiue, and nothing that was done seemed to afford any relief. The rodents fairlv overran the place. Not long since a number of farmers started out to rid the neighborhood uf the pests. Jitter a days hard work 1,100 rats were killed, but the executioners were exhausted, and declare that in future a new method will have t-t. be in^nted to kill off the rats. A great number of valuable fruit trees have bee destroyed by the rats, and the farmers are afraid that unless drastic measures art adopted at once the 1897 crop will be sen ously damaged.—Toronto Mail and Em fire-

THE CHICAGO MARKET.

Xarbet Opsaod Wltfa Steady Adv*ac*. BqtaSlBWf T»Uow«l. Chicago, May Aftoran advaaoe of %c, wheat turned w«fck today closed at %o doehne .Confidence that tbe coming crop* would be wi immense on© was the pttoe factor in the liquidation which caused the decline. Other speculative markets wer«:. without special feature or material chaogoC in prices.

Wheat during the month kept the advanca going, which was under way as Sacuntay's session came to an end. July which closed Saturday at 72 cents started with buyers at from that up to 72%c and for about an hour and a half 72c was the lowest it 30ld at. It rose to 72%c before it had any serious set back, bu iby 11 o'clock it had declined to 71%c. Before noon it hSid advanced agaan to 72%c The French situation was the trump card when the bulls were leading and the fine prospects for the home spring wheat as had not been killed outright was one of several good cards the bears made tbe utmost possible out of. Statistics for the weekly aud dailyy movement were for the most part bearish. Northwestern receipts were 621 ears compared with 530 Monday of last week and 593 a year ago. World's shipments for the week to Europe were 7,lG5s,000 bushel and amount on ocean passage increased 1,520,000 bushels. Chicago receipts were six car loads and 276,000 bushels were withdrawn from store. The home visible decrease, 1,441,000 bushel, or about 600,000 bushel less th*n had generally been looked for. The quSality in the visible now is only 28,296.000 iijffrA fifroncr:

bushels. The foreign markets were strong: Liverpool started at %d advance and added another %d to that, making Id advance for the day. The market hung around i-c for nearly an hour but became very weak towar dtbe end. There was an almost total lack of shipping demand^ Thie -and confidence that the coming domestic crop will be at least 100,0000,000 bushels more than that of last year gave the bears confidence to press their sales and the market once started declined very rapidly. The closing prs:a for July was 71^4c bid.

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May 24. May 22

fTTIBAT. July ... Sept...

T2M 67?i

July.... Sept... OATS jqiy..Sept..

71H 66*

71* MX

67K-M

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24tf-K 25X

72'?. 57

2W MX-V4 25*

18 18

24* tiVtM 25*

17*

17* 18

17» 18

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July—Sept--. I, AUD JulySept

8 15 8-20

8 27 8 30

8 10 8 17

Julj... Sept..

8 17-20 8 21-25

3 75 3 82

4 47 4 50

8 20 8 25

3 77 3 87

3 72-78 S 82

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3 75-77 3 85

3 8C 8 87

4 50 4 35

4 45 4 50

4 50 4 53

4 60

4 52-51

THJ5 LIVE STOCK MAKKET.

Cattle Market Weaker—Hogs Slower and Lower—Sheep Unchanged. Indianapolis Union Stock Yards, May 24.—

Cattle-Receipts

light. Shipments none.

There were not enough cattle here to establish prices, but there was a weaker tendency in the market. Good tor prime steers, 1.3o0 lbs. and upward Fair to medium steers, J.3o0 and upwards Good to choice 1,150 to 1,300

lbs.

4 40® 4 65

ib!

4 30® 4 BO

Fair to medium 1,150 to 1,300 lb. steers Medium to good 900 to 1,100 lb.

4 10® 4 SO

lOU oiu tuns x,

Veal calves $}•

Hogs—ReceIpts, 1,000 "head." Shipments 300 head. The hog market was slow, with packers and shippers buying at a general dec.lno of 10c. We quote: Good to choice medium ana hpftVV Jo.OOQW./W, Mixed a lid heavy packing..

Coffee and Suear Market.

New York, M-ay 24.—Coffee options opened steady, unchanged to 5 points lower, further eased off under local liquidation fallowing disappointing European advices. Brazilian receipts \x-rv heavy. Closed quiet at a net decline of 5@10 points. Sales, 9,500 bags, including Septenjricr, [email protected].

Spot Rio quiet, mild steady eordt-va llVa @%, 7,000 bags Ki No. 7 at 7^. Sugar—'Raw, dull and nominal refined a

When bilious or costive, eat a Cascsret, candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10c, 25c. a

N'OTICK

SIONKE.

Notice is hereby gi*cn to all whom it may concern, that the undersignea lias been duly aDDointed, and has qualified, as asmgnee of ail the^roperty rights, credits and effects of the Indiana Glass Sand Company, and that the matter of said assignment is now pend.ng In the Vigo Circuit Court of the state of Indiana, me vit," v, Willis O. Iteynolds.

Terre Haute May S. 1S97-

MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN—On good farm lands In sums of $1,000 or over at 6 to 6V« per oent inter est payable annually.

In sums of *300 to *1.000 at 7 per cent paable

semi-annually.

•31

3 8s@ 4 10 4 10® 4 35 5 GO® 4 00 3 25® 3 SO

Good to choice "feeding steers .... Fair to medium steers Commofi 10 good stoclcers

Butchers' cattle we quote: Good to choice heifers Fair to medium heifers Common light heifers 3 00® 3 25 Good to choice cows #60© Fair to medium cows Common old cows

Inquire of

UBECHTCR & KK1./LY, oil'is Ohior

WANTED.

WA^K»^-Btac^ walnut !o*» or blocks. Highest cash price paid at HlRhlaad .gunstoelt factory, or address II. A.

Torre Haute, lud.

SALESMEN

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3 50 2 90

ftfl

3 25® 3 50 2 75® 3 00 2 00® 2 50

Heavy calves Prime to fancy export Dulls .. Good to choice butcher bulls .. Common to fair bulls Sootl to choice cows aud cnlves.. Common to medium cows and.

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*i*70®l*75

Good to choice lightweights 3.7003.^ Common lightweights 2"—Si*^ ps_, 2.(0®3.i& Roughs'" 3.00®3.25

Sheep-Receipts light. Shipments none. There was no, change in the sheep or lamb .,, market. Good to choice lam....bs. *3 «£@4 ,5 Common to medium lambs 3 00®i Good to choice sheep 3 »0@3 Fair to medium sheep 751 Common sheep

The above quotations are for dipped stoca.

Haltimore Grain Market.

Baltimore, May 24.—Wheat, firm, spot 80 @80H- Corn easy spot, 29%®291,4c Sept. 30V4®30%c Steamer, mixed, 28%@2S%c. Oats steady No. 2, white, 28@28Vfcc.

Peoria Com Market.

Peoria, May 24.—Corn active, (steady No. 2, new,

2"'/3c

•'I •i,dj -I

olats, quiet, irregular: No. 2,

white 20@22c. changed.

Whisky market steady ,un-

Minneapolis Wheat MarketMinneapolis, May 24.—Wheat weak May 72Vic July, 71%@% Sept. 03^8 No. J. hard, 74*4 No. 1. northern, 73 receipts, 324 cars.

The Toledo Market

Toledo, O., May 24.—Wheat active, No. 2, cash and May 86Vfc July 75% Corn active, steady, No. 2. mixed, 25c. Oats dull, steady No. 2, mixed, 19c clover seed, neglected prime cash, $-1.25 nominal.

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Ky^'ew first time, as well tbe standard and ornamentals. previoe*Tpei-le»c« *e-(-eMserv. Write for terms, statin* Hoopes, Bro. Tfeoroas. Staple Atw»h«««•Manericatage. w**r dwMer,