Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 May 1897 — Page 7

HIS HUGE CONTRACT.

SM-F'^dSaSfBrf

WILL MAKE A CHRISTIAN OF INQER•V W SOLL WITHIN SIX MONTHS. !iimr

Joa&ph Bloomfleld Jackson Plans to Save the Soul of the Great Agnostic—He Says He Will Do It by Means of a Singular

Invocation.

Joseph Bloomfleld Jackson of St. Louis claim? to have been inspired to the task of con-verting Robert G. Ingersoll. The plan, as he claims it was unfolded to him when he awakened from asleep on the aft€prnoo1i £t April 22, is to get the great pagan tou pronounce a certain invocation whioh Jie-elmms wag imparted to him by the Holy* Spirit. Should Mr. Ingersoll consent tp repeat the invocation Mr. JackEon e^jecfethb power of God to come up#n bira upon §aul of Tarsus over l,809jte£rs^agq and that the agnostic will begomo ajtochful^ervantof the God whom he has reviled so long. The conversion is to. ooenr before the end of October. Mr. .TaeksapritoeH&ves that God is already workingfupoiFtihe heart of Mr. Ingersoll, preparing iVXor the reception of the message which M'Will take to him as coming from God.

Mr. Jiickson is a successful business man, having worked his way up from an office boy. He claims to be a member of the Mercantile cltib, and says that he has a paying business, which he will abandon to go about the duty whioh he claims God has called him to perform. He lives at the Terminal hotel and has a wife, who is now in Pittsburg visiting relatives, one of whom is her uncle, J. M. Guthrie. Both Jaokson and bis wife have been members of the Centenary M. E. ohuroh of St. Louis for two years, but uaril now Jackson has never been particularly enthusiastic in religious work, although he has always been a regular attendant at divine service. He is intelligent, well educated, gad a perfect gentleman in every way.

Mr. Jackson's story of his Inspiration is that on April 22 he was 1H in his room at the Terminal. He had fallen asleep, and after dozing a short while he awoke with a start and felt the spirit of God upon him. He had not thought of Ingersoll for weeks, he says, but when he awoke be found the plan for the agnostic's conversion fully developed .in hie mind. Raising his'right hand he repeated the invocation which Ingersoll is'to'utter and which is tp bring salvation tothe great blasphemer, as follows: "O God, if there be a God, save my BOUI, if I have a seul. And if thou, the Lord, glveth and also taketh away, if thou would give to thy people here assembled und all over the world an unmistakable evidence of thine omnipotence add almighty power, then I, who have assailed thee and thy word* ^openly for years, do here and now call "upon thee to execute thy judgment against me before all this company and the 'World. "r Whether thy judgment be in the fopw if biltfdness, palsy or death—whatever seeineth best in thy sight, here and jppk, yf'ibhin this hour —stretch forth thine almighty hand, if thou be mighty. But if tibia evidence of thy judgment, thy wrath and power is to come upon me, then, God, if there be a God, have mercy upon my soul* if I have a soul. Help me to see thee and fco know thee before thou callest xne hence, that I may acknowledge thee and thy greatness to this people before thy hand hath laid me low. If indeed thou art all and more than I have said thou art upt, then visit now alike thy wrath and thy mercy upon me. Come, thou almightyiking, thy will be,done."

Mr. Jackson says that, leaping from his bed, he wrote the words of the''invocation" as they came to hiin, and from that day he has nglented his business and devcded himself to writing an address, which he proposes to deliver to Christian people whom he hopes to enlist in prayer for the conversion of Mr. Ingersoll. In this address he has incorporated, the message which he proposes to convey to Mr. Ingersoll. The address to Mr. Ingersoll will be in the nature of a challenge to utter the invocation quoted, whioh Mr. Jackson deolares was inspired. The message assures Mr. Ingersoll that ^upon the utterance by him of the "invocation" God will bless him and send him firth as a great evangelist. The adding# to IngeraOll is made up almost entirely of injunctions and promises taken froj^^the Bible.

The address is copyrighted by Joseph Bloomfleld Jackson. put thp thing in book form and pay the expenses by the sale of oopi^g. H&alsa proposes to give lectures, but soy®, that nq admittance will be obarged.

The address was delivered"for the first time on a recent afternoon in the Four't^enth Street theater before ah audience of four reporters and a ^physician. It was

Mr. Jackson's public QouSe^aflion tothe work which he had Standing Tilone upon the stage, the religious enthusiast addressed his audienoe with a fervor hat betokened earnestness. Mis address was prefaced by a prayer, in which ha besought the conversion of Ingersoll and the coming of a new outpouring of the power of God among the people. He stated that his work would be primarily the conversion of Ingertjollj and also some Kuch evangelistic work as Moody was now doing. In his address he gave a history nf his alleged inspiration and declared his firm belief that "before the end of the tenth month of the present year" Mr. Ingersoll would become a great power for the kingdom of God. He said that the step that he has taken was opposed by his relatives and friends among the clergymen and laymen. "Tknow that the doctors will say that I am insane," he said, "but I am prepared for all such talk."

Mr. Jaoksou's whole plan is founded \ipon the promise of the Scriptures that whatever is asked in faith shall be given. Ho believes in the all sufficiency of faith, tu'w that if Christian people pray with faith Ingersoll will be converted. He believes that the Holy Spirit has governed his actions sinco April 22 and most implicitly In his call to the ministry. He says that the Spirit impelled Dr. Mathews to preach upon jf^nah!? .call to preaoh in Nifiovoh roeentljj asheing especially applicable to aiin. &r. Jackson had sent invitations to all the newspapers and to several clergymen to hear his address. He intended to de? liver it in-the Olympic theater, but the luhnager ifefusfed to allow it without the payment Of rent. He was allowed to use the Fourteenth Street theater free of charged

Mr. Jackson is 38 years old, and was born in Newark, N. J., coming from one of the oldest families there. His greatgrandfather Was a Presbyterian minister. "I am the last of my line," he said recently, "und I believe that unworthy as I feel myself to be God has cho&an me as an instrument for this gieat regeneration which is to be worked in Ingersoll."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

EGGS OF COMMERCE.

The Business Done In the International Trading In Tbciu. (There is a standard joke in the variety theaters, so often told that it has come to have a faaiilitir sound to the ears of patrons, concerning a remark made by a city man who heard that eggs had gone down to a cent apiece. "I don't see how thft hens can do it for the price." Notwithstanding the i?eduction in the price of eggs, and the almost unlimited supply of them in all countries that have developed their agricultural resources, it is a that the trade in eggs, their exportation from one poultry to another, has become a large

Item of international commerce, as some

Jk »a^*ssS 4 ir

recent figures th&rr. The e©se Bepnjark is in point. Denmark's twde in fj.eggs, with foreign countries, chiefly with

England and Scotland, has grown enormously. Twenty years ago the annual Danish export of eggs was 600,000 now it is reckoned at 110,000,000. In the same period the importation of eggs Into England has increased»tenfold, but only, a part of the whole number comes from Denmark, the two 'other egg exporting countries from which England draws its supplies being Holland and Ejapoe. France exports to other countries 600,000,000 eggs in a year and Italy exports 500,000,000 eggs in a year, chiefly to Austria and Germany.

The dairymen of the United States depend chiefly on the •enormous home market, and they have rivals in the export of American eggs in the Canadians, Canada ranking next to France and Italy and ahead of Denmark and Holland as an egg exporting country. Canada exports to other countries 800,000,000 eggs in a year. For the fiscal year of 1895 the treasury figures give as the total exports of American eggs to foreign countries 151 000 dozen, whioh is equivalent^ 1,812,000 eggs. In,the fiscal year 1896, however, the total exportation of American eggs increased to 328,000 dozen, or 3,936,(K)0 eggs, a little more than twice as muoh.*

IC is a somewhat curious fact, that the weight of eggs is materially larger in northern than southern climates. Canadian eggs, for instance, are heavier than those shipped from the United States, and eggs in the northern states of this country are heavier than th06e from the south.—Kew York Sun.

TEE SUBSTITUTE,

"Has Ketchum come down yet? "No. Worse again today. Can't one of the subs take his place for a few days?" "Huh! "Wbataan a sub do against the trained force of The Lanoetf" returned Mr. Sharp sharply.

Just then jbhe outer door opened, also Mr. Sharp's eyes. A young woxoan oamo in neatly clad in a gray flannel 'suit, nattily trimmed with fur. "Mr. Sharp, I beHcve she said, after her brown eyisa "had fcaksPk inventory of the force present. "My name is Mary Ketohuns, sir, and, as fa^er is positively unable to be «ut, I oame to see if you would allow nse to do his work." "Do his w«skP" repeated Mr. ShSJ"pmechanicaly. "Yes, ?if- I believe I and father worries about it so much that it retards his recovery. Pleas^ let me try."

Mr. Sharp felt the sharp points of tie answer he was about

make this prepos

terous young person smoothing and:rounding off in his mind as he looked at her. His grim face relaxed. "If you really think you can do it, Miss Ketchum," he replied, with thawing resolution. "I am su»e I can/' she replied.

A few moment® later Miss Mary departed, a paEcel of bUJs iu her handbag with a list of possible patrons. "There's na fool like an old fool," he grumbled to himself as he took his place at his own desk again. She'll be in crying presently, with not a red or an ad. to show for nay soft heartedness."

The melting vision of the trim young lady removed, he was him self again, sharp Mr. Sharp. 4

No young lady in tears appeared, though Mr. Sharp furtively watched the door until lunohtima

"Gone home to cry," be said then,ag he kicked $ie office cat,on the way out, 6ince he could not conveniently kick himself.

Ho was in the pressroom giving some pointed advice when she did appear. "Lady to see you, sir," said the office boy at a safe distance, for Mr- Sharp was not above emphasizing hi? remarks on days when things went ^wry with him, as they did today. "Well, sir," said Miss Mary, diving into her bag with businesslike promptness as he dropped into his office chair. "We'll, dispose of bills paid and receipted first."

She took a gopdly roH of money from her bag before the astonished proprietor's eyes^and began checking off the names ,and amounts from her list of debtors. "Messrs. Good fc Fuller were not prepared to settle today, but gave me a promise for tomorrow. Dr. Grumbler claims £n error in his hi}} the rest' are all right, I think. Count the money if ,you will."

He did so, his steely gray eyes filled with wonder and satisfaction. There were somenames on that list that he had long classed as. doubtful debtors, but Miss Mary's charms had been more potent th&h their fear of Mr. Sharp's lawyer. "It's^ll right Miss—Miss Ketchura." Mr. Sha^p smiled broadly as he spoke the name. She had caught 'em sure enough. This smile Widened still over his list of ads. engaged. "What, Gruff & Grimjii? How ip blazes did you manage to get them? Your.father has been after therm for a year past." "Has he?" The big bi'owa eyes opened in innocent wonder. ""Why, I'm sure they-were very civil. Mr. Blunt wont In just as I pa

id he ha

Sharp slapped his knee and aqtu^tlly laughed aloud. Mr. Blunt was advertising solicitor for The Lancet, and it tioklefi him to imagine his chagrin at being checkmated, for Gruff & Grimm were not believers in advertising and would patronize but one of the two offices, he well knew. He smiled again as he neared the end of. the fist. If here isn't Growler! How on earth did you manage him?"

Mr. Sharp was growing confidentially unbusinesslike in his surprised delight. "Oh, I had to gossip with him. It really seemed a waste of time In getting one customer, but perhaps it will pay." "I should say it would. A half column ad. for six months. I don't mind saying, Miss Ketchum, that you've done well, very well. Have a"—his hand going mechanically toward his cigar case." "Oh, excuse me, miss. I forgot that ladies don't smoke. Here, you, Biljy."

He darted out and mad» some communication to the office boy, who at onpe disappeared, a clatter and rash of heels on the stairway following the disappearance. Like the little girl in the rhyme who had a curl on her forehead, when Mr. Sharp was good, he was/very, very good, and when he was bad bfc was herrid,

He had been horrid all day until now. He was taking his turn at the opposite extreme. "Tell your father not to worry himself about the office work," he said blandly as he came back to his chair, "that is, if you are willing to take hi« place." "Why. yes, sir, if my work is satisfactory. Indeed, I rather like it," Miss Mary confessed modestly. "He'd better be careful about striking out too soon," Mr. Sharp continued. "A rest will do him good. Haste makes waste sometimes, especially in the matter of health.''

Miss Mary was tying a veil aver her blooming cheeks when the office boy came back, panting with his haste. "Since you don't siooke, permit me to offer you a little treat instead, Miss Ketoh«m," Mr. Sharp said as he gallantly opened the door and filled in her hand a basket of choice, assorted fruit.

Miss Mary Ketchum became a familial figure in The Clips office, and when at length Tom Ketchum came back to his work Mr. Sharp sai^ to him: "That girl of yours, Kuitohum, is a bsripk. I believe sh^'d make an A1 reporter. 'At loast I'm going ro try her, if shs'$ willing.''—Cincinnati Post.

Cheering |Nr JLa*y People. "What doyoH wiisHer the hardest problem of a aaa^'s qsis$ence?" "Getting his eWn cob^r* t© crawl out of bed in thomonoing, Reaord

Disagreeable Features.

1E11KE HAtTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MOKMiSG. MAY 26, lrt»7.

THE ODD FOLK IN AN OLD FASHIONED NEW ENCU.ANQ'TOWN,' ...

There Is Ko Caste, and Almost Perfect Equality Exists—-Far From the Bnsjf, Bustling World ind Free From Its Many

Nobody starves to death in our village, but some of our mountain folk whs live far away on byroads, in places which are often Inaccessible in winter, are very poor, 111 nourished and ill clothed. However, the prevailing tone in Asher Dill's store and in the village generally is a humorous one, a tone of irony and of good natured sarcasm. Almost everybody cultivates a fine sense of humor—in fact, to be, humorous, and especially to be good at repartee, is the one intellectual ambition of the community. We do not cjare much for learning of any sort. Our letters, which we put off writing till about six months after they are due, do not exfael in grammar or penmanship. And it Is really astonishing, even to ourselves, how little we care 'or what goes on in the outside world- We read the papers with only a languid interest, being more concerned aboht

the

trivial

events in the n^at town, duty chronicled in the county paper, than we are about What is said or done in Washington, in London or in Paris. But the sense of humor is developed amotg us in childhood and is never lost, even In moments of difficulty or of danger.

Last Fourth of July a desperate ebaracter who lives on a mountain road in the outskirts of the town drove into the village in a little rickety qart, waving over his'head a woman's broken and battered sunshade, which he *had picked up somewhere. He was very drunk, and before long the cart was upset. His horse, a half broken oolt, kioked and plunged and tried to run away. The fellow pluckily clung to the reins and was dragged about on the ground hither and thither, being finally extricated from the ruins of his oart. But through it all he kept the sunshade in his hand. "I don't care anything about myself," he said, as he was assisted to his feet, the blood streaming from his face, nor about the hoes, nor about the cart, but I wuz determined to save this beauitful parasol."

To discuss why this humorous spirit should be theprevailing spirit in an An-glo-Saxon oohomunity of puritan descent would be a difficult though pleasant task, but I must content myself here with the obvious remark that it could not exist except in connection with an ample background of leisure. Our village—-perhaps this cardinal faot bught to have been stated at the outset—enjoys a blessed immunity from railroads. The nearest station is ten, miles off. and the mails come by stage, Which arrives anywhere between 7 a. m. and midnight—except on some nights in Winter, when it does not arrive at all, being prevented by snow storms. Our manners, though a little brusque, are good, as manners always are in a community whioh has no 'social superiors.'' Every man in the village who is not specially marked out by vice or poverty feels himself to be the equal, in all essential matters, of every other man in the world, and this feeling^ goes a long way toward producing that equality which it assumes. There is absolutely no stealing amongns it would be perfectly s&fe to leave all your valuables on the front piazza at night, and perhaps this immunity is one result of'equality. To steal is a. confession of inferiority, intolerably Wong equals. (Cheating in a horse trade stands, of course, on a different footing, and may be practioed without entire loss of self respect.) Mr. Howells has expressed this truth. "I believe," he says, "that if.ever we have equality in this world, which so many good men have hoped for, theft will be unknown."

The absolute equality which prevails among'us has its good and bad sides. It makes vulgarity and snobbishness impossible. We a*e coarse, but never vulgar. Vulgarity implies a consciousness or semiconsciousness of inferiority, and among us, as I have said, there is no such consciousness. On the contrary, there is a want of reverence in the village. There is no person or group of persons to set a standard of manners or of morals for the rest of the community. Nobody looks up to anybody else—-not even to the minister. Age itself soarcely invites respect, and this want of reverence gives a certain hard abd flippant tone to our lives. The physician stands as high as anybody in town, end yet it was only the other day that I heard him addressed by a little, ditty faced bjby, not 18 years old, as "dec." "Say, dloc, when does the next school term begin?'' was the inquiry made by this urchin ih all sincerity, and/the "doc" gave ljim a civil answer, taking no offense at his want of respect.—Atlantic Monthly.

Stories of Brahms.

Anecdotes about Bzalgss show the departed composer to have been a somewhat unamiable companion. His wit was brilliant, but cruel, and its direct object could rarely join in the amusement it oreated. One story begijSS with the statement that as a. perform# Brahms had an extremely hard touch. Thitf&Uce led a musician who was accompanying 4iim on the cello to exclaim, "I don't hear myself." "Ah," replied Brahms, "you area lucky fellow." When he left the room after a lively evening among friends, he used to remark, "'If there is any one present whoso feelings I have not hurt, I trust he will receive my humble apology."

Brahms never could bring himself to produce an 'opera. "If I composed cine whioh failed, I should oertfunly have a seoond try," lie said to pressing friends, "butlcumot make up my mind to the first. To me the undertaking seems much the same as marriage." The latter institution found no favor in his eyes, and he lived an isolated existence,, recognizing no kinsfolk.^—Now York Times.

SHE GOT THE CALF.

Clan,

Hi Was by a White Lie In Bible bnt Ske Won the Frite. "Speaking of experiences," said a young matron in Brooklyn at an afternoon tea, "I can tell a queer one. When I went frpm New York to Virginia to teach a public school in a small crossroads town, I found the people very religious and sincere, while, I am afraid, I was neither. I went to church, though, because everybody was expected to go. One of the regular attendants was a soJfc of half lawyer, ball farmer, who was no more religiously inclined than I was, and we became firm friends through our mutual sense of humor. The ono ohuroh was presided over by a worthy couple. By that I mean that the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Carter, preached, while the Rev. Mrs. Carter did evangelical work in teaching the Bible dnss. She bad an ai* of omniscience that was deSgftttal, but it Irritated kny farmer lawyer friend. So one day he came to me and said: 'I'll give you a calf if you will take down the Rev. Mrs. Carter.' 'What oan you mean?' said, not a wrestler.' 'Never mind,' he said 'just join our Sunday school class and take her dawn.1 "Well, I joined the class. The lesson for the day was the account of the walking of the three men in the fiery furnace. We were treated to a Wig lecture by oar teacher on the beauties of the triumph of faith, nod as she stopped tor want of breath my farmer friend, who sat behind me, gave me a nudge and said: 'Now's your time take her downJ "I braced up and said: 'But, Mrs. Carter, haven't you heard the latest scientific teaching about that occurrence? 0aven't you .hgucd tbat in is

now believed those tSree iner* wore plete suits o* asbestttg?'

"^jcas not llkely that the good woman had ever heard of the (rabstoncc, but she was rtot to be caught -ifeppibg. So she re-plifed-'f 'Why—er—yes, I think so.' ^TSe lesson was brought to a sudden close! The neoct Sunday we knwrthattha latest teaohi£g of science had been earnestly d&gussed by the pastor and his wife, for th& J$$v. Mr. Garter -proceeded to preaoh a flermon ^n fcaur long on the sinfulness of modeam science. I got the calf."—New YorkSun.

HER EJDPEMENT.-

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Helen White had just come to Miss Mlnerva 'Saodeieon's seminary- She was surprised to sep a girl rush to a corner of the room and turn up the carpet, with an exclamation of "Hare are two, one for you and one tea me, bolding^jp- fcwo letters.

Anothergtrl,with ali$tie4|06i»t46. shriek, jau^bt up her prize and t!«re*it open.

Another YOUNGS lady tbus addressed MISB White: "BWdy, the chaathsrmttid, is our postman. Shell get all your love letters fcr you and bring theA up on tbe 6ly." "I haveji't any love letters. I have no lover," said'Heten, hlashing.

Your ma Js strict, I suppose," said the other. "Wqll, you'll have plenty before you've been here six months."

Helen listened to the epfB^tes, which her companions did not hesitate to read aloud She even helped one of the girls to answer hers, and. she retired by the light of the long wax candle to read herself to sleep over a piece of literature by some French author.

So dawned a sew Hferupon Helen White —a life her mother little dreamed of. She ,also flirted. She also received love letters from strangers. She »1eo subscribed to the library and read bad- French books by the score.

To one of her admirers, who signed .himself "Cartas," she wrote as a girl ought scarcely write to a betrothed lovert

Mrs. White was delighted with Helen's progress. Miss Minerva.ga.ve her a volume, "The Guide to Young Ladies," as a. prize for fine deportment, and nobody had any suspicion'tfast her bead was full cf nonsense and her.pockets. fuJl of love letters' from an utter stranger, to whom she had told all the particulars of her life And the full extent of hear fortune, and to whom she had "given tows of eternal constancy, notf exactly in black and white, for black ink was voted vulgar at Miss Minerva's, but in purpl&

At last the cliiwix arrived Carlos-Offered Ms hand and heart, and. bagged hsr to elope with him.

She readthe-isffeer aloudto Imma,Rose, Qrtloe and Maris, and all in a flutter begged their advice on the matter. "He aays he's a prince," said Helen, with glow on her cheeks, "and, you know, of course, I'll be a princess if I marry him, and, of coarse, we shall invite you to onr oas&le. Last night I met him —I coaxal Biddy to watch and let mein —and he was all wrapped up in a cloak. But he waa splendid. He has a foreign accent and black mustache." /'Oh," cried Maria, "I love a foreign acaentf" "And I've promised to run. away with him tondght," said Helen, "fie says ma will be: sure to fstrgive us, and he's awfully rich. And, oh, how I feel, girls!"

And While Mrs. White, sitting with a dear friend who also had grown daughters, but who kept them at home, congratulated herself on dear Helen being safe at school, this affectionate daughter was packing up her small bundle in preparation for flight, aided and abetted by tbe fottr young tadies to whose example^she owed

:so

much.

Out into the moonlight hurried the young girl. The White beams -showed her pretty, foolish face pstllid as that of a ghost.

She had never set foot inthe 6treefralone at such an hour before. A terror seized her—a sense of her own wickedness.

Perhaps. she would have turned back, but that a figure in a cloak came at the moment from the shadow of a porch and seized her by the arm. "Ah, ihy own Helen «aid a voice.

It was Carlos—Prince .Carlos-—her own prinee. Away ®bey drove, how far Helen did not knew. Suddenly the arm that encircled her was withdrawn and a voice said: "Lpok here, young woman! No noise I I'll dhoke you if you. try to scream. You hare your watch and jewelry with you. I hope, and the money you promised to coax from your mother. Hand them over." "Ob, it is not my Carlos!" cried Helen. -"Oh, what shall I do?" "It is Carlos—at least it is the, man you've been corresponding with, said the voice under the hat. "But I'm no prince, and ho husband for you. Hand over the mohey and the jewelry and I'll not hurt you. I haven't much fancy ior an idiot who yrould run off with a man she didn't ty£jar?- Hurry! I'm waitingl" her purse, her ^Atoh iind all her small possessions to the robber, who, with aloud laugh, gathered theiq iip and jumped out of the carriage, calling to tho driver: "Take that girl back to the school, John, will yon?"

Miss Helen White stood on the doorstep of Miss Minerva's seminary again, but not alone. With her stood the driver in a furious rage. He swore be would be paid, and rang the bell and battered the door until not only the servants, but Miss Minerva and four and twenty scholars appeared in the ball and on the stairway in all sorts of impromptu drapery, and, having decided that it was neither fire nor murder, opened the door to behold Miss White and her amgry companion.

Miss Minerva, recognising her scholar, darted forward, rescued her, slammed the door in the man's face, ordered the servants to guard it, and asked for explanations.

Tho explanation ended in a swoon on the part of Mi6S Minerva and hysterics on that of Helen White.

The nest morning Charles stood before his sister with a peculiar expression on his face. In ber lap she held a packet of letters which she bad perused. "My dear sister," said Charles, "all is as I have stated, and it is as well that, on the part of a gentleman, it was all a piece of acting, Helen was in earnest, and has no idea that her letters were from her uncle. That he, in a mustache and cloak, eloped with her, and wound up to affair by ~rebbing her,i or that the driver was bis old, friend Winter, who has daughters of his own, and who premised to wind up the affair in the mqst dreadful manner possible. Ypu mast, hewevar, promise me to send lor Helen tomerrew, and to keep the truth of this aSair a secret, so that it meif $e a tifetooff lesson to ho-."

And it was n«t until Helen was married that she learned that her lev© affafe, elopomeafe and desestaos were all carried en by bee une£e 6tude^ \^ho knew what the result el beardnig school ffirtatSong might be.—-New Ywk Newa .'-r -v

Niagara OiiMhmn.

A SfpotcfyBQn was taken by an American fE^§nd to visit.Ni^^ya Calls. Already hi» feulinga as a ^ataiot h^ been a little frosted by lie persistent blowing of his conductor ontite gr«atuas»af things. Arnerimn "Bid wu ever hehedd anything'so wontterfulas diatF' asked^herguide. Ay», loan, at I saw a peacock wi? awuigen left was the unexpectedrepl .— Household Wasefe

T&e truly h-anesfi' ittan does that frtnn duty which nma of honor does for the sake of chraacior.— She®stme.

ITHE CHICAGO MARKETS.

Made any Length Desired By the

WROUGHT SlRON RANGE CO

Founded 1864. Paid Up Capital $1,000,000.

Factories, Salesrooms and Offices:

Washington Avenue, 19th to 20th Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO.

/AND

GALL AT 16 SOUTH F.OURTH STREET AND EXAMINE THE WORLD'S RENOWNED

HOME COMFORT RANGE.

Now on Exhibition, and will be for the next fifteen days. We sell ranges tor cash or on time payment® and we sell ihebest range in "the world for less money ihan you can buy an Imitation Steel Range for. We ore peddlers but not drummer peddlers aad we present each person with a nlco cookbook.

Apparently Notfelng Can Stem the Steady Decllna in Wheat. Chicago, "May 27.—Weak outside markets and a fast growlf.g belief in another large wheat crcp BMtde easy sailing for the bears today, and caused a decline of ^c. Corn lost of its previous value and oats closed a shade lower. Provisions ruled heavy but closed at only trifling declines.

In wheat the tendency of the-price was downward for the most part, although starting firm and a little higher thin it closed yesterday. July was wanteed at the opening at from 70@70%c, but the shorts, whose covering caused this little spasm of strength were •so freely accommoditsd that the market soon dropped, the price by 10:30-getting down to 69%c. A slight reaction followed, but about 11:30 the market got an irierease of heaviness andlUroKe its previous bounds, reaching S9yfc @69%c by noon. The early news was not of a character to Influence the' flnarket much either way. The decline at Liverpool was scarcely the equivalent of the drop here, and at any rate, from having been expected, it did not attract much attention. to a

CT.OSING.

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July .... TOM -66 69« 69?i Sept^... 65%

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THE'LIVE STOCK MARKET-

Cattle Steady—Hogs Active and i,o*rer— Sheep Market ^uiet. Indianapolis,. May 27.—-Cattle—Meceipt# 200 head. Shipments light. The -general cattle market was steady to strong. Good to iriiue steers, 1.3DU. and upward Fair to medium Steers, 1.350 and upwards Good lo chdi'ce I,'150 to 1,300

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Medium to good 900, to 1,100 lis. steers t. .. 3&@ %1U Good to choice feedfug sreefs .... 10@

Fair to xaediam steers S 60® 00 Common 10 good stockers 25@ 3 W Butchers' cattle we quote: Good to choice heifers ...$3 80!§ 4 60 Fair to medium heifers 3 40@ 3 Common light heifers 8 00@ 3 Good to choice cows 3 GO0 4 00 Fair to medium cows 3 00@ 8 30 Common old cows 1 r0@ 2 90 Veal calves 4 00@ t! £0 Heavy calves 3 00@ 4 50 Prime to fancy export bul's 3 50@ 3 5 Good to choice butcher bulls 3 ©0@ 3 40 Common to fair bulls 2 40@ 2 !Xi CJood to choice cows and calves 30 OvtflO ui

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calves 15 Of'®?"- ."i0 Hogs—Receipts 3,700 head. Shipments 2,000 head. The hog market was active, with packers and shippers buying, and prites Were a shade lower. All eolvl. We que to: Good to choice medium, fend heavy .... 6f»®3 S) Mixed and heavy packing 3 5f@3 T5 Good to choice lightweights 3 fe@3 00 Common Hghtweigiits ..8 90®3 55 Pigs 2 S0@3 60 Houghs 2 76#.". 36

Sheep—Receipts l'ght. fhlpniente rone. The sheep and lamb market wa» quiet and prices were steady. Good to choice lambs 75JJ 4 Conimon to medium lambs 3 COS'3 50 Good to choice sheep S S 75 Fair to medium rheep 3 Ifi® 3 40 Common sheep 3 r&<® S 00 Bucks, per head

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The above qootatioas ar» frr clipped stock.

Cotfoe and 8nenr Market.

New York. May 27.—Coffc*—Options opened ouiet at u»cha&ged prices wiut trading throughout th» seafion local and ^ery ilght, &bd due largely to ahsenc« o' European inarketB baiag eioaed. Closed barely steady. S points lower. Spot, duil xaitd, gtttij Cordova. llVf&'iS^ic.

Sugar—Raw, strong rained, strong.

Pearls Corn HSrVt"

Peoria, Stay VI.—Corn, satire, easier new No. 2, 33c. Oats, Irregular, easier No. 3 white, lS%®26%c. Whisky, steady at 1.19.

Tnrpeathte Marfcet.

Savannah, May 27.—Turpentine, ftnn at 24% rosin, firm. ',

A MODERN GYPSY.

Thrilling story of circus life, by the eminent novelist. Charles Theodore Murray, profusely Illustrated, beautiful colored cover. ^r gale In all book stores, on /advanr^ advancing cars asd in the circus. Price only 86c. I

Wa*fit«crt'»u Vrr^rli'rr a« 2fj WashingtoD, May SC.—The R*r. Ai G. 1 Harrison, pastor of the IVcylo'e Tawraiela, and his family, disappeared frbtn tlielr home here yesterday and it is reported thux reverend gent'«n3!cn is hi®! accounts. He was giv«n er.tiro ehatv'f of^ the chnrch funds, and aetsorSliig' to tittf chargor failed to pay bills for- furtvitnrp cirpetti and a ohurch enrgtur,

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-BIG STRIKE THREAT®MED.

Tln flate Manufacturers "Will l^ght the Demands of Workers. Pittsburg, May 26.—The 13irplate iniarcEJictureriss are getting ready early to grappS* with the wage question^ A bis meeting ot {he manufacturers took- place at the Unfcoln Hotel here today. D. G. Rc-i.l of ltichmrad, Ind., acted as chairman of the meeting. It was practically decided not to accede to lha demards of the workers for an iccre-j.so aud another meeting will be hel'l tomorrow to decide on metliods to 'miet all contlngenclot. The demands of the Amalgamated Assocla^ tion of Iron &L Steel Workers are for an ad-" vance of 15 per cent at this- timo. .The refusal of the manufacturers to accede to fhe demands of the workers, means a protracted strike unless tin pla:e wago committee cf the Amalgamated is given discretionary powers.

Detroit, Mich., May 26.—Adraiees '.a the tin piate wage scale were adopted by the Amalgamated Association today which sr'ar more radical than many of t)ie delegafes

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anticipated. It is statad tha the increases! average more Ihan 15 por cent, acd ihat tha}, rates as fixed are at ahout the same rirlces which were paid before ihe introiluction of: the Wilson bill. It vras tfiven out that therw! !s a 15 per Cent Increase on 'foliar work, 12^.' in heater and 10 per Cent on doubler work. Much of today's later session was spent de-. bating changes In the association's constitu

Joe Foley'4 I'leasaot OtBclal Berth 1 Attorney Peter M. Foley received a mes-» sago yesterday from Ms. brother Joe announcing ihat tie had been appointed assistant corporation counsel for Gltr of Chicago. Joe's tnany 'rienda hps* ia Terra Haute will rejoice to learn bis good fortune. The office carries with it a comfortable salary, beside which there are fees.

.llauy llctuei Goinp Hp.

It is said faeve aro more bouses he-in^t h'llft this city at pTesemt han for a on{f time past. Mr. H. M. Sjwng, £he real eet&ts, mtA inEmamce man to BpeaSdsg aJxnrt th« present season etetefi (hat in his Judgment ovor one htindec residenoes w«r« being erected ait th« pr«sent tim.

Pikitorage for Stoct.

I will take 100 head of cattle for pasture, at a vmt cheap rate, from May loth to December 1st. Will take any laTge bunch of cattle at a very low raie per month. Richard Oxendine, Darwin, 111.

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Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

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MONEY TO LOAN-On personal security or chattels without removal.

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WANTED.

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