Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 August 1897 — Page 4

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Senator Wellington has discovered that there are other pebbles on the beach in •Maryland.

Cheap wheat and Professor Wilson will bave been observed to have effected their exit together.

If the white metal goes much lower silver watches will soon be coming in 5-cent packages of popcorn.

Read in the light of recent events Mr. Bryan's 1896 speeches seem thinner than circus lemonade.

This is still the dull season, but business continues to improve. The fall trade is expected to be very large.

After the returns are in this fall the friends of the free silver issue will t£tke it off to Eome quiet spot and plant it.

It is earnestly to be hoped that Hawaii, en hearing of the approach of Senator Morgan, will not let all holds go and sink.

It will strike many people that a party is tn hard lines when it is forced to admit that prosperity lessens its chances for success.

It is the consensus of opinion that reliable data would prove that protection has more friends in this country now than it ever had before.

Governor Mount predicts $1.25 wheat. Everybody will admit that the governor's judgment on a matter of this kind is entitled to respect.

David B. Hill is understood to harbor a strong protest against the view of things in New York that consigns him to innocuous desuetude.

Evansville is once more undergoing a siege of terror from typhoid fever. What that city seems to need is a Terre Haute sanitary board.

It has been well established that President McKinley may be depended upon to make a graceful and sensible speech on any occasion whatever.

When Mr. Bryan got back into Nobres.ka his reception is said to have been so cpol that he half imagined he had wandered into the Klondyke country.

It is safe to say of President McKinley's policy toward the islands of the Pacific— notably Hawaii and Samoa—that it will be exactly unlike that of Grover Cleveland.

The Nebraska Republicans wholly ignore the silver question. This means that they think the half-breed dollar—part intrinsic value and part flat—is its own sufficient condemnation.

And now Dr. Andrews is talked of as the tail to the Bryan presidential kite in 1900. From this time forward the doctor probably will feel called upon to work the martyr racket harder than ever.

Senor Sagasta of Spain may be a very smart man, but when he talks in a slighting manner about the fighting qualities of the people of the United States he demonstrates that at least in some respects he is several kinds of an ass.

The esteemed Evansville Courier is showing signs of improvement under its new management. Mr. 'John G. Shanklin, with whose pen the state is familiar, is temporarily out of the newspaper business. He has been a persistent and brilliant fighter in the waning free silver cause.

Weyler is reported as saying that "after all General Gomez is not so game a warrior." The captain general does not seem to realize that the more he belittles his irrepressible opponent the more he reflects upon his own soldierly qualities. General Gomez appears to be keping quiet and attending strictly to business. .•

THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM. It would seem that nobody could be engaged in m4jre profitless business than those people who worry about the horrors of that lime when the world shall have become too small to provide sustenance for its inhabitants. This is not only borrowing trouble but going a long way into a foggy future to get it. It is true that the population of Ihe earth is increasing, and that an overcrowded condition of affairs may be logically expected unless something unforeseen turns up, but the ti«me when anything of the sort can happen is so very remote and lies beyond possibilities so numerous that to get excited about it now is to be supremely absurd.

Among the prominent speakers at the Toronto convention recently was Dr. J. Scott Keltie, president of the geological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He showed that there is a great deal of room left in the world and that vast areas now un-thought-of as habitable would be so under the pressure of necessity. Dr. Keltie believes with other eminent specialists that the population of the .globe will have more than doubled in century and that in about 180 years from now it will have quadrupled. Still he is by no means apprehensive that we are going to run short of room or find ourselves demanding more food than the earth is capable of producing.

Dr. Keltie points out that there are fertile islands in various parts of the world •where no one lives and that much uninhabited territory is available in China, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines, the interior of Morocco, South America and large portions of Africa. The doctor also calks attention to the fact that in Asia there are large tracts that once were inhabited but cow «tand lenantleas and ho looks for a large 4tr«lojgpeat of Siberia rau.jn of

Transsiberian Railway. Dr. Keltie alsd states that only the outer fringe of Australia is inhabited and that if the conjecture that abundance of water may be obtained in Central Australia is verified almost the whole of that continent will be available for colonization and settlement. For some reason or other the lecturer did not refer fo the immense stretches of uninhabited territory in the United States and Canada, but he said enough to disabuse any sane mind of the fear of an overcrowded condition of this planet within any comprehensible period of time.

THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE The leading sensation of the European news budget for the last week, if not for the year, is the semi-official report of the conclusion of an alliance between France and Russia as a sequel to the- ovation extended the French president on his arrival at St. Petersburg early In the week, says the Chicago Tribune. The result is all the more sensational in view of the ostentations exhibition of affection between the czar and Emperor William of Germany within two weeks previously.

The first effect of the intelligence has been to arouse the wildest enthusiasm among the volatile and pleasure-loving Parisian populacc, and the French capital has scarcely presented such a scene of excitement since the days of the commune. The praises 6f the cizki*"' are upon the lips of ,everybody, and'" tM!''Marseillaise" and the Russian national hymn are mingled In the strains of military bands upon the boulevards and in the parks of the principal' French cities. The less mercurial Russian populace in St. Petersburg takes the news more coolly, but does not conceal its satisfaction, while the memories of the first Napoleon and a burning Moscow appear to have been entirely obliterated.

The bearing which the new compact—of the existence of which there now seems no room for doubt—may have upon the future of leading European powers, as well as its influence upon affairs in other parts of

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world, is a question of world wide significance and interest. That p. distinct advantage has been gained by Russia in the furtherance of its plans in eastern and central Asia will be the almost universal judgment of the most sagacious observers of national' movements in Europe. What this may mean to England and its possessions in India opens a wide field for speculation, and will be regarded with all the more apprehensions in the light of events recently occurring on its Afghan frontier. It is also probable that England may, as a consequence, lose the commanding influence which it has maintained in the treatment of Ottoman affairs—although it has shown its inability to control the conduct of the sultan—while its policy in Egypt and north Africa generally, with which France has long been dissatisfied, may be great embarrassed. The development of the policy of the "allied powers" will be awaited nowhere with deeper interest than in England.

Without doubt, however, the most chagrin in view of the result has been felt in Germany, whose emperor has so recently returned from a visit to the czar in which the leading feature was an almost abject displty of toadyism in the effort to win Russian friendship. The view taken in England of the kaiser's humiliating position is indicated in the following extract from the London Saturday Review:

Berlin dispatches indicate a feeling of nervousness there over the situation, though there is evident astrong belief that Russia will not be a party to any scheme, at least at present, looking to the restoration of Alsace and Lorraine to France, which has been the first thought of the French people as the reward they are likely to receive for their part in the alliance. France may be asked, instead of gratifying its desire for "revenge" in this direction, to accept some additons to its territory in southern Asia or in Africa, unless the kaiser should consent or relinquish his hold upon the French provinces for the sake of a large slice in South Africa.

In the meantime all France is preparing to celebrate this, its latest diplomatic triumph, on Tuesday of the present week, which will call out all the enihusiasm of a people noted for their excitable temperament. It may. be taken for granted the ovation* extended President Faure will lie one of the most brilliant and enthusiastic since the days of Louis Napoleon, at least For the time being he is the most popular man in France.

CURRENT EVENTS.

De,bs certainly does get the worst of it in much of the newspaper stories about anything with which his name Is associated. In the matter of this St. Louis conference this is especially true. Colonel Rend, the Chicago operator, who is looked upon as a crank by operators as well as by miners, sent a story over the country to the effect that Debs, Ratchford and Sovereign had called the conference, to precipitate a revolutionary strike. "Debs' scheme" is the way it was referred to iu a number of papers yesterday and in connection with statements that organized labor would not be led into it. As a matter of face no one has less thought of a general sympathy strike than Debs, if for no other reason than that he knows how utterly futile it would be. When he was asked if he wanted to sav anything in reply to Rend he said that he did not thing it worih while. He is making it a rule, which is to have few exceptions, not to reply to any attacks. No doubt that is wise, but it requires a heap of patience. Debs would not talk for publication about the possibility of the conference declaring for a general strike of organized labor because he is not now connected with an organized labor body and he would subject himself to the criticism of trying to map out a policy for those with whom he had no official relation. But. as said, he had no faith in an attempt at a sympathy strike. In the first place he knows thai there would be no sympathy strike even though the officials of organized labor should order one.

If a man can be grievously misrepresented by newspapers until the public acquires a mistaken impression of him. much to his injury, it is also true that very small men are made great by these same newspapers.

The Chicago Tribune of yesterday made public the fact that President I jams, of the American Trotting Association had temporarily reinstated "Bob'"' Knqebs. Ae American horseman horseman who served a term of imprisonment In Germany for "ringing." The temporary reinstatement by the president will permit Kneebs to drive in races at least until the next meeting of the board of appeals, which will be after the end of this season"s racing. In his application Kneebs says he asks for reinstatement on the ground of clemency and that he will show that he has been punished personally and financially to a greater extent thaa any man has heretofore been punished for a like offense. He also promised to Strictly adhere to all the rulea and bylaws of the association. The Tribune seemed to think that this action would serve to create -bad feeling in Germany and that it would retard the growing traffic in American bred harness horses.

President I jams says be thought It nothing more than fair that when a man writes su'th a letter as j^neobs wrote be lftj.£a xota.

vouched for as was Kneebs by many persons that he be given a chance to do something for himself. The German peeple punished him to their own satisfaction, inflicting far greater punishment than was ever before inflicted anywhere ia the world for a like offense. Mr. Ijams did not think any one would want to continue that punishment throughout Kneebs' life. That is not the theory of punishment in this country in any event. The humane theory is to give the offender a chance after he has stood the penalty. As to the apprehension that the temporary reinstatement of Kneebs will create strife or even bad feeling between the two countries or resentment on the part of the Berlin Jockey Club Mr. Ijams thought It was unwarranted. The Berlin Jockey Club was not notified, but he knew the relations of the jockey club and the American Trotting Association would not be impaired and they are very friendly. The German people wanted to afford an object lesson. That purpose had been accomplished whatever may be done with Kneebs here.

The Benton (111.) Standard has a "scorching" writer of that school whoso chief exponent is Brann of the IconoclAst. The Benton man is attracting considerable attention in the Illinois press in counties adjacent to his own. Here is a sDeciment of his style from an article on dudes: "You can tell he is an idiot by seeing him suck in smoke that would make the chimncy of heil cough and strangle, and then with a wall of his eyes blow this smoke out of his nose. And then the idiot generally walks wabbly to another corner in search of another audience. And his muscles are soft and flabby and his bones are decayed, and his nervous system is a wreck, and morality has fled from him in disgust. One of the giftberlng, jabbering victims came into the smoker of a car the other day and pulled out a package of cigarettes and began to smoke, said his father was rich and he had him confined in an asylum, for he had smoked until he was crazy, and he smoked all day and all night, and had wheels in his head, and his heart turned over and he had to be tied down, and he had the Jim-jams, and suffered great agony, but he would smoke. He bribed the nurse and got his poison. Only persistent in one thing. In clinging to the devilish serpent that was ruining him. When we asked him why he did not cut his throat, foe blinked idiotically, and thought that might hurt. The grimmest statlre on humanity of which any genius could conceive, is a dude hitched to a cigarette. And yet that dude was once a boy."

This is from a sermon to school teachers: "The dunce block is a thing of the past. That old proverb, 'Spare the rod and spoil the child,' Is also antiquated. Solomon had 300 wives. He had to maul his childreu. He did not have time to use moral suasion. In fact it took about all of his moral suasion to keep his wives from jerking each other bald-headed. So he used a flail on the children, and they never amounted to much. The less punishment the better. A wise schoolmaster can =keep his charge so busy picking up pearls that all the little devils of discord and mischief will fail to find employment. Tt is curious anyway to think that one can educate immortality by mauling matter. Stagnant water becomes putrid. A busy school is a good one. Action is life. Inaction is death. Use an Intellectual whip and spur, and remember that seven devils always sit on the crupper of a lazy horse. Voila tout."

The Hoosier Hustler, down at Bloofofield, is apprehensive that there will be an outbreak of White Capism in Greene county. The occasion is "the perjury of witnesses preventing the conviction of criminals, the light fines and the monkeying with grand juries to prevent indictments." The Hustler uses a third of a column of space for an exportation of those who are contemplating the formation of White Caps not to do so.

The Delphi Journal has an opinion as is an opinion of deputy fish commissioners and expresses it as follows "A number of twolegged sneaks, representing themselves as duly authorized to seek out and destroy seines, have made themselves exceedingly jfflcious along the Wabash river during the last ten days. Down at Amerlcus the oth«?r day one of these fellows destroyed seveel small minnow seines and minnow buckets. Before he left the little town he arranged with a number of women and small children to report to him if they saw anyone handling a large seine. He offered $2 to anyone giving him such information. Whether or not the fellow had any authority to pass as a champion of the sucker and goggle eye no one knows, but he was permitted to commit the above depredations. There will be a strange face in the other world one of these days, and it would not be surprising if about the same time there were one 'ess seine spy hiding in the weeds and wading in the marshes along the Wabash and Tippecanoe."

The Aitica News says that Miss Edna Hemphill was nearly strangled to death by a bug. She was on the porch singing when a large bug flew into her mouth. It was some time 'before the bug could be dislodged and then a piece of an apple was resorted to to push it farther dowi^

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Minneapolis Tribune: The policemen of the country are improving in markmanship. A Canton, Ohio, cop brought down a burglar Sunday night, several Minneapolis officers scared a pair of thieves out of sight by firing at them down an alley, and a St. Paul guardian of the peace shot himself in tha leg while dusting his trotisers Sunday morning.

Milwaukee Wisconsin: The theory that education unfits men for work can not be accepted without accepting also a contracted meaning of "education." fteal education gives those who profess it a wide and sane view of life, and makes them philosophers, capable of cheerful acceptance of any lot which may justly come to them out of the grab-bag of mundane existence. It enables them to make the most of circumstances, whatever the circumstances may be.

Chicago Tribune—Prince Lulgi of Ita!y has rendered a very distinct service to geographical science by his successful ascent of 'Mount St. Ellas in Alaska, the highest peak in North America. He has approximately determined the height of the mountain and established .the fact that it has never been, a* had previously been supposed, a great volcano. For this servr ice he is entitled to the thanks of the American people and will dduttless receive due recognition from Amrican scientific bodies.

Chicago Tribune: Mr. Bryan has delayed ilia visit.,to Mexico so Jong that it seems lie hay abandoned it altogether. Since the adoption of the gold standard by San Salvador he has apparently &nno to the conclusion that the silver cause Is lost even In Mexico, and now slmp'y awaits the final catastrophe. It is hoped that he will manifest becoming resignation, and be prepared to accept the Inevitable in 1900. He will be remembered, however, as on who furnished the world a vast deal of entertainment by his hare-brained theories, and may even oe quoted in the future as the champion political "freak" of his age.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The greetings extended to President and Mrs* McKinley on their trip through the state yesterday, were marked by a cordiality that bespoke heartfelt esteem. Before he was president, in every station he has occupied, William McKinley was spoken of "by his associates as a sincere man, true, democratic. lovable. He has shown as president the characteristics that won him lasting friendship in the field, in congress and in every walk of life. He likes to be near the people, in tench with them. In returo they have in theirshearts a warmer place for the man and unbounded confidence in the .president. He must be convinced of this by the greetings he receives wherever

TBKRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 31.1897

DEBS ON THE STRIKE

DECLARES PUBLIC'S IGNORANCE OP IjHE SITUATION 18 AMAZING.

Makes a Strong Appeal on Behalf of the Enslaved Miners—Danville Miners Vots to Stand Firm. ji

Yesterday's Chicago Chronicle, under a Terre Haute date line, contains the following special from Eugene V. Debs:

Terje Haute, Ind., Aug. 26.—From the information I have it is safe to predict that the St. Louis meeting next Monday will be the greatest and in many respects the most important convention of labor this country has ever witnessed. It is something more than a labor convention. It is a call for a convention of the people's true representatives, and the indications are that they will respond to an extent and in a manner that will arouse the country to the gravity of tbe industrial situation growing out of the miners' strike.

The ignorance of tbre people in regard to the true situation is as amazing as it is deplorable. This accounts for the indifference that lulls fancied -peace and security when the breakers are so near.

I am no alarmist, but I do not hesitate to say that if the people do not take cognizance of the awful and widespread suffering of the miners and their families and adopt prompt and effective measures for their relief something AviU occur to sho them into a realization of their -obligations to their fellow beings.

These miners are not vagabonds. They are workingmen with families depending upon them, and have been reduced through no fault of their own to a state of industrial helplessness.

Any intimation that these men are shiftless and lazy is totally gratuitious. Upnn this point Governor Mount of Indiana is commendably emphatic in rebuking those who make such false and misleading charges. They were not getting wages enough to live and were forced to quit work. All they ask now is a living wage and if they are scourged back into their black dungeons without obtaining that our civilization is a miserable failure

It Is only fair to say that many of tbe operators are willing to concede the demands of the miners and are heartily in sympathy with them. I have met a number of these and their disposition is most commendable.

But there are others who look upon their miners as their chattels and resent as rank impertinence any inquiry into their condition and invoke the powers of the law to resist any attempt to emancipate them from their worse than convict existence.

What will be the result of the St. Louis meeting? I am not prepared to say. I may venture the prediction that the injunction and its free and indiscriminate use in relation to organized labor will be the engaging theme. The injunction is the leadly bludgeon of corporate capital and labor throughout the country is aroused to this fact.

There will be men at St. Louis and plenty of them resolved to remove the judicial padlock from the lips of labor and open up the public highways to workingmen.

The heart of all labor is with the miners. From end to end of the country workingmen in every department of activity demand relief for their suffering fellows, and it will require little effort to precipitate a sympathetic strike that will simply paralyze the country. It is to be hoped that such a calamity may be averted, but certain it is that the injunction in its modern role has got to go.

If united labor would conclude to stop work just twentyfour hours perhaps the country would realize what the grievance of the miners really is, and if the people were made to suffer just one day what the miners and their wives and children have had to endure for weeks and months the strike would be promptly settled.

I expect to see prudent counsels and harmonious deliberations, yet earnest and decisive action, worthy of American patriotism and American citizenship.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of the Old World. •i France, although a republic, has just tak%n very important step with regard to nobiliary, titles, and those who until now have been under the impression that titular distinctions of a hereditary character were not recognized by the present regime are finding ^themselves mistaken, writes the Marquise' de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. True, the republic declines to grant titles. .But it recognizes them as family property —a fact which has been just demonstrated iti,$ very significant manner by the Paris tribunal, and for the first time since the falkof the empire.

Some time ago the Count d'Archiac, the ijawful owner of ono of the oldest names and titles in France, who is married to a lady of the ducal and historic house of Gramont, and whose country seat is the beautiful castle of Villiers St. Paul, found that a gentleman of the name of Bourdeille, who has acquired a fortune in trade at Calcutta, was posing at Paris with his wife tinder the name of Marquis d'Archiac. Inasmuch as the soidisant marquis did not use either his assumed name or title for purposes of fraud, and in tad employed them only in connection with his own patronymic, the count was at first told that he had no redress.

Finally, finding that his protests and appeals to tbe pseudo marquis were of no avail, he applied in desperation to the courts, anticipating defeat on the ground that republican tribunals could not recognize nobiliary titles. To his surprise, however, the judges decided in his favor, declared that the title and name of Archroc belonged by inheritance to the Archiac family and constituted part and parcel of their property that M. Bourdeille had not the slightest right thereto, and wound up by enjoining the latter against any further use of either name of title, the penalty being a fine of Jo for every infringement of the decree.

This decision bids fair to effect a revolution, not only in Parisian society, but among the well-to-do people throughout the leagU and breadth of France. From the momen: that a man in that country acquires money In trade, speculation or even less reputable maaas, he haa considered it incumbent upou himself to assume not tn»r«ly nobiliary titles, but even high-sounding and sometimes historic namss, emboldened thereto by the reflection that there1 could be no interference on the part of the authorities, since the republic declined to recognize titles. ..

Indeed, even actrests have been in the' babit of assuming names and honors .that figure on the pages of French history.! «, .Henceforth this assumption of names will cease, and not only will the rightful owners ol nobiliary names and titles be able to prevsent their use by strangers and by people who hare no claim thereto, but it Is inevitable that the courts eventually will be led to decide upon the titles of every kind, in which case French hereditary distinctions In course of time will become as valuable as ,tfcose of England, Germany and Austria, tbe two latter countries punishing severely all Illegal Resumption of titular honors.

Extraordinary rumors are current in court circles at Berlin regarding Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia, the sister of the German cmprew. Tt may be remembered that a Jlort time ago a dispatch from Germany »mur.c*d that the princess had Jseta 2®04t &X being iiejucurial Cha£ftl 3 Mildreu'a,

her horse and dragged for several hundred yards, her foot being caught in the stirrup. By those who witnessed the occurrence, however, it seems that the horse was not to blame, and that it was pacing quietly along at a mere walk beside that of the prince, when the princess, who had been swaying backward and forward in her saddle, suddenly slipped off, and without any apparent reason fell to the ground, not even retaining sufficient self-control to disengage her foot from the stirrup iron. The horse naturally shied, but was caught by the aid-de-camp before it had time to drag the princes^, or to injure her in any way.

The prince himscif is reported to bam' sat on his horse looking helplessly at his wife while she was on the ground, without making the slightest attempt to help her, or even to hold her horse. The prince is well known to bave inherited a pronounced taste for stimulants from his father, the celebrated cavalry general to whom Metz surrendered in 1S70. But It was not until about a year ago, at the time of the princess' falling i'nto the watpr while out skating, that it began to be generally known outside the court circle that he had imparted his habits of intemperance to. others.

Oreat astonishment was excited at the moment by the conduct of the emperor in ordering both his sister-in-law and the prince under arrest—that is to say, restricting them to tho lhr.it* of their residence at Glienicko and forbidding them to appear at court for the space of three months. It was urged that this was a queer way of showing sympathy for what was on the point of being a fatal accident to a very near relative, and much speculation was created as to what cause the kaiser could have had for thus disciplining, not only the princess, but also the prince.

It was only by degrees, however, that it oozed out that if the princess had ventured on ice that was unsafe and on that portion of the frozen surface that was marked dangerous, it was because she had been dining not wisely, but too well.

Now, too, it is remembered that a violent quarrel tock place more than two years since between the prince and princess which led to the intervention of the emperor and to reports being published far and wide to the effect that Frederic Leopold was in the habit of horsewhipping his wife.

Indeed, it is owing to the habits of the princess that her eldest sister, the empress, sees so little of her.

The visit of the duke and duchess of York to the Emerald Isle may render It timely to' call attention to the

fact that

the most ancient blood flowing in the veins of Queen Victoria is Hibernian. Queen Victoria is in direct descent from King James I of England and VI of Scotland. James' pedigree can be traced back to King Kenneth II of Scotland, A. D. S54. and to King Feargus More of Argyleshlre, A. D. 487. The latter came from Ireland and his ancestors, through a long line of Irish kings, date back to King Heremon of Ireland, 580 B. C.

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ABOUT PEOPLE/

Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, flatly refuses to mary Prince Bernhard of SaxWeiinar, whom her mother, the Queen Regent Emma, selected as the young queen's husband. The little queen declares she Will remain single until 1889 (she was born in August, 18S0), and will then select her own husband.

Thomas Hussey, bellringer of Leigh, in Lancashire, 85 years of age. rang the church iell in honor of Queen Victoria's long reign. He liad rung the mourning peal for George IV. and also rang for the coronation and death of William IV. and for the accession, coronation, wedding and lifty-year jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Prince Max, of Saxony, alter years of missionary work In Whitechapel, has returned to Dresden. He says he awaits the decision of his bishop whether to return to Whltechapel, hough the members of the royal family at Dresden are exerting their influence to withdraw him from such work and install him in some court religious position.

Julia Marlowe will sail from Havre for New York on August 28.

Nicolina. who has been suffering from cancer of the liver for a long time past, ia aomewhat better.

The son of the late John Millais, the former president of the Royal academy, will shortly publish a life of bis father. •Mr. Spalding, a Chicago lumber dealer, has given $20,000 for an historical society and free library building In his native town of Athens, Pa.

A Boston lady who has just met Iben in Christiania writes: "Dear old atr. Ibsen about the height of Dr. Holmes, but stouter, and look3 just like his picture-"

Clement G. Morgan, w.ho was the orator of the class of 'DO. Harvard, is an alderman of Cambridge. He is said to te the first eolored man elected to such a place in a Northern city.

Camil'-e Salnt-Saens will go to London pext spring to conduct one of his operas |tt Coven! Garden.

The archbishop of Canterbury has established a smoking room at Lambeth for piose of hs»(g|%s .who enjoy the fragfant

I An uncle of Wllli*m Dean Hcwells fives ijear flan Frtnicisco and practises as a physician. ha» gained constdfrable tepuiatlbA w»*a portrait sculptor. He is Aore than 70 years old.

Edward Everett Hale said recently that be Relieves that the thorougn training in Latin given the Boston boys from 1635 to 1775 had much to do with that city's reputation as a literary center.

Mrs. Alphonse Daudet once told of an old aunt who slept in the rooms next her room, and who every evening recounted all the doings of the day to the oorirait of her husband, dead years before.

The Hon. James G. Bailey, whom the Republicans of Kentucky have nominated for clerk of the court of appeals, the ?.-tliiary general officer to be chosen f:t the coming election, is only 29 years of age.

The Princess Louise engaged in sculpturing the figure of an ansrcl with rtv.tstretchert wings, which to be placed wrr the altar in the Prince Henry of B*t*.i-

TO PREVENT FRAUD

TBE MIXKRS WARN VIGO COUNTY PEOPLE AGAINST IMPOSTORS.

New System Inaugurated Which It Is C** SiV&s? UeTei W1H Prevent Farther Trouble. »V

There is perhaps no city in the state of Indiana that has given more ganerotlsiy end liberally to the support of the fi:rlking miners than Terre Haute. The operation of Cf the mines in Vigo, Clay, Vermillion and Sullivan counties means thousands of dollars annually to the business man of thu? cfty, gad there has hardly Seen a subscri4tion paper put la circulation but has been generously subscribed to. In a few cases tho business men and other sympathizers have been imposed on by unscrupulous per-

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sons who have t&ken advemage of the ex- ,' isting conditions to fleece the unsuspecting friends of tho miners. To stop this practice tho miners have prepared a letter to the.r friends which is printed in full below

Fontanel. Ind.. Aug. 21), lSi»T.

Citisens of Terre Haute aud Elsewhere Give Attention to the Following: Kind' Friends—We, the miners of Vigo county, Ind.. greatly appreciate your past kindness, subscribing Hour and money to us, the miners' relief cause.

Knowledge has come to us that fraud and imposition has bean practiced upon you by unscrupulous persons purporting to be committees sent cut from the various mining camps in Vigo and other counties in Indiana. Therefore, as such is no doubt true, wo As coal miners of Vigo county, Ind., are determined that the pubiic shall no longer be thus imposed upon and to this end, by recommendation of M!:ttii^ht and Mr. Kennedy, bQth gontlemen stateS"fflcials of the United Mico Workers of nierici* established what shall henceforth be known' as the Vigo County Miners" Central Relief Committee.

All solicitiag commltteeg sent out (o solicit for Vigo county miners after August 21, 1S97, must bear papers issued from this organization and this organization alone.

The papers which this Central Relief Committee shall issue tc solicitors which it commissions to solicit in Terre Haute and elsewhere will be indorsed by each member and oSlcers of the Central Relief Committee of Vigo county miners, and further endorsed by President Knight and Secretary Kennedy of the United Mine Workers of America, also endorsed by the clerk of Vigo county, Ind.

Said solicitors sent out by this centra] relief committee as above described are to solicit for Vigo county miners and for non« others whatever. These solicitors equippeif as above described, are to turn in to Secretary and Treasurer M. C. Garwood a full and correct statement of the money valu* of goods got plus money they may have received and at regularly appointed times for the meeting of this central committee. Tbe central committeemen must meet and make an equitable apportionment of its goods and money, based on the number of needy in each of the mining camps in Vigo county.

The following will be the form of paper used by solicitors for Vigo county miners after August 31. 1897:

Vigo County Miners' Central Relief Committee, Fontanet. Ind., September .1. 1897.— This paper, bearing the signatures of the Central Relief Committee's officers' names) signed in their'own hand writing, and signatures of State President Knight and Secretary Kennedy of the Federation of United Mine Workers of America, together with the endorsement and seal of the clerk of the Vigo county Circuit Court, is to certify that (name of solicitors) are duly authorized to solicit aid for Vigo county minors. (Signed by Central Committee Officers): Charles Miller, President Thomas Cooper, Vice President M. E. Garwood, Secretary and Treasurer. (Signed by State Officers):

W. Knight, President J. H. Kefinedy, Secretary. (Signed by seal of clerk.)

ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE.

One Way to Spell Tomatoes, Five to Pa nounce Them.

One word in Its time has many pronunciations. For instance: Mrs. Housekeeper the other day was doing her morning's marketing. With her had come the stranger whowa$ spending a week or two within her gates. Standing by while she snapped the beans between her finger to see that they were tender, parted the husks to make sure that the corn was ripe, pulled the pears out of their paper wrappings and conducted herself generally after the manner of a careful housewife, was the clerk, order book In hand and obsequiousness on his brow. The visitor began it with: "These tomaytoes look nice. Get somethere's a dear!"

To which Mrs. Housekeeper replied: "Why, certainly, if you like them!" Then, to the clerk: 'How much are tomahtoes this morning?" "I'm not sure I'll ask. Jim," calling to a felow cerk, "how much Is them terniaiters?" "I'll ask the boss. Say," passing the word further back, "watcher gettin' for tomattoes today?" "T'mats? Oh, two baskets for a quarter, I guess."

Therefore, to please her guest who loved "tomaytoes" Mrs. Housekeeper invested in some "tomahtoes" and Jim, who wis investigating the price o£ "lomattoes" for the benefit of a fellow clork who wanted to know how to sell "termaiters," was enlightened as to what he should charge for 'mats." And the bystander was left marveling at the Infinite variety of "English as she is spoke."

More News of Charley Wood. The missing Rabbit Town boy, alleged to have been killed a week ago by a train at Danville, seems to be a very lively oorpse. The neighbors of the family sweat that the parents have had word from him. as their lamentations have ceased. There is a rumor they are endeavoring to shield him fronv prosecution on account of the debi he coa» tracted with the Chicago Record people. Will Wood, the author of tbe report of his brother's killing, now denies the matter utterly and admits he may have said something of the kind when drunk. The latter leaves next week for the East to join a low comedy company.

Pays Fine For Revolting.

Simla, Aug. 27.—The Uper Swat tribes on the right bank of tbe river have paid a fine of 20,000 rupees for revolting against the government.

AYER'S PILLS

Having been subject, for years, to constipation, irlthout being able to find much relief. I at last tried Acer's Pills, and testify that 1 have derived great benefit from their use. For over two year# past I have taken one of these pills every night."—G. W, BowMAX- 26 East M&ln St., Carlisle, Pa.

CURB

CONSTIPATION.