Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 September 1897 — Page 2

AFFAIRS OF THE KAIL

KVANSVILLE HAS A COMPETING LINE FOR 80CTHKKN BUSINESS

The Interstate Commerce Commluion Snspeodi tlw Long and Short Claan

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„on the C. & E. I.

'After many years of a mutual agreement between the Air Line and Louisville and Nashville for a division of business the two roads will becoAie competitors tomorrow. The 'Louisville afed Nashville is said to be. responsible Cor making Evansville a terminal point of the Louisville and Henderson and St.' Louis road in which the Louisville and Nashville is said to have a prominent Interest. When the road was buit the Air Line and the Louisville and Nashville entered into a contract by which one road was not to handle Evansville business for the East via Henderson and the Air Line was not to handle Evansville business for the West via Princeton. Thus the Air Line had exclusive business between Evansville and Louisville and the (Louisville and Nash•ille had exclusive control of business between Evanville and St. Louis. The Henderson road runs into Evansville over the Louisville and Nashville and now that it is to accept businessstfrotrL that city the Air Line is going after St. Louis business and to that end it is said it will largely reconstruct the Western division. At Evansville they think 'the Illinoisc Central will now try to get into Nashville from the southern terminus of the Ohio Valley., which recently passed into the possession of the Central. Altogether the outlook is good for Evansville rates.

C. & E. I. IS FAVORED.

Interstate Commission Suspends the Long and Short Haul Clause.

•In order that the Chicago and Eastern Illinois may meet the competition of shorter lines between'Chicago and Indiana points the interstate .commerce commission has suspended the operation of the long and short haul clause of the commerce law as affecting those poits. In its application for relief the Chicago and Eastern Illinois showed that Its line is crossed at Fair Oaks by the 'Monon, at Wheatfield by the'Mftnoff' and the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, at Wilders by the Erie and at La Crosse by the Big Four, all of which are shorter to Chicago by from forty to sixty miles. It. c&U/-} not compete with these roads bfilow theser. junction poinls-without so reducing its rates* to points• northstBereof- as 'to do business at a loss.' -The oofttfblssidti' -has therefore ordered ttfAV'l^ffiaty' fcharge less for transportation of freight between Chicago and Wilders, *tUA' CWss6, /Wheatfield, and Fair Oaks via its line through 'Momence, 111., and Perry Junction, Ind., than for the shorter distance over the same line in the same direction between Chicago and Pogue, Morocco, firook ancL Perry Junction, Ind., provided that its rates are not less than its. competitors charge and that it does not Increase the rates to the nearest points.

Western Koad* Slash Kates.

Six iCansaa/City railroads yesterday announced a ^out in ^passenger rates from Kansas City..tA.'Qhfcago .from $12.50 to $7, and Kansas City* passenger men fear a demoralization in tariffs that may lead to an open war. The rates wilt be effective on Tuesdays and .Thursdays. The cut was first an*norahced. by' the Chicago Great Western and: when pu't "into effect yesterday was immediately (followed by the Alton, Burlington, Santa Fe, Rock Island and C. M. & St. P. roads

^Railroad Notes.

5.

Conductor* John Baldwin of the E. and T. H., has .returned from a trip to the East: John CT Pittt^n has been given a position of firerftan in the E. and T. H. yards.

Engineer Lou Bergess of the Vandalia is, at work .wjjih 'tlje 'pile driver crew at Lit-,, tie Wabash river near Effingham.

The C..and.E...i. has announced a $1 rate from Danville to Terre Haute on Star Pointer day....The E. and T. H. has made.'a $1.50 rate from Evansville. .•

The office "of'O. E. Raidy, Vandalia trainmaster, "is".

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removed to Thirteenth

street. 'TtriS ^ll jilkije^fr. Raidy in closer communication w^tti the trainmen. uu.. v-

The Big Four's construction car No. 1,000 has juptwbgep .completed at the Br-ighftr wood shops*.. ,(The car is in charge^f. Wijoj J. Hartman. who lor six years traveled Jo^ the Westinghouse company as instructor and expert, and previously was instructor cif engine and boiler management thfri Rose Polytechnic Institute Terre Hautpv

Vice President and enertil Manager W. Peabody of the Baltimore anS Ohio Southwstern railway, has appointed O. P. McCarty general passenger agent, vice* J. iM. Chesbrough.

Mr. McCarty will assume the duties of the office October 1st, when his resignation as assistant general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific takes effect.

It is also announced that Traffic Manager George F. Randolph will succeed Orland Smith as a member of the joint traffic association in New York and that Assistant General Freight Agent Goodrich will retire after the annual meeting in November.

YOUNG PRESCOTT'S DEATH.

Was Serving as a Sailor Under an Assumed Name.

New York, Sept. 13.—The Journal and Advertiser today says: Lieutenant Frank 'Allen Wilcox of the First United States !nlantry, temporarily attached to the torpedo ichool at Wlllet's Point, L. I., has identified "George R. Kahn, able bodied seaman," who was drowned from the American line steamxhip Ohio, as she was nearlng Sandy Hook lightship recently, as George A. Prescott, the only son of a well known retired merchant of San Francisco, Cal. The young man's identity was disclosed by a letter addressed to Lieutenant Wilcox, and written only a few hours before he fell to his death. It was found among his effects and turned over to Shipping Commissioner Power. Young Prescott was until recently a member of the National*Guard of Call fornia, and held the rank of major. He was guest at the Majestic. During his stay In this city he called frequently at Willet's

Point, and was entertained by Lieutenant Wilcox and his fellow officers.

A LITTLE PREMATURE.

Senator Chandler Felicitates Over an Event Not Likely to Occur. Boston, Sept. 13.—Senator Wm. E. Chandler of New Hampshire has given the fol Njwing letter to the Associated Press: "I appeal to all Republicans to meet with Joyous welcome the first step England may iake towards bimetallism. The movement earnestly and zealously begun by President, McKinley, in obedience to the St. Louis )latform, was quickly joined by the French

Ministry and the Joint proposals are being jarefully and seriously considered by the Sritish cabinet, with a reasonable prospect Aat England will reopen her Indian mints, Vill use silver as part of her bank reserve and otherwise cordially aid inremoaetwa^ Won. Every sttch iodlpaUpn triendly feelings in the United Slates, four-

filths of -whose people, as well as ninetenths of the people of India, desire the bimetallic eystem, which so much, depends upon English help. This te no time for discriminating duties or denunciatory demonstrations against any European country, nor should bankers alone assume to voice American eentiment. (I entreat bimetalllsts everywhere to imake themselves heard against the selfish outcries of the engorged money lender^ of New York and Chicago and their subservient newspa.pers. ,-V." Wm. E. Chandler."

LAVELLE A FREE MAN.

Was

Released From the Reformatory at JefTersohville Saturday.

Jame9 C. Lavelle was liberated from the reformatory in Jeffersonville today, says Saturday's Vincennes Sun. He has served eight years, the charge upon which he was convicted being complicity in the burning of records in the court house at Washington, Daviess county, Ind. Lavelle is one of the most distiguished men ever confined in that institution. On account of being a leader in politics, he is known from one end of Indianai to the other, end he still has loyali •friends. Lavelle once made the race for the nomination of sta/te auditor, and came within a few votes of being elected. ilt was while he was serving as auditor of Daviess county that the offense was committed wMSch caused him to be sentenced to prison. One night the office occupied by the auditor was found in flames. The floors and- books had been saturated with oil. Because of unfortunate business reverses, suspicion pointed to Lavelle. Detectives were summoned, and they were not long in arresting Burr Hawes, a prominent man Basil Ledgerwood and Sam Harbin. Lavelle was also locked up. Harbin and •Ledgerwood confessed that lor a certain, sunof of money given them by Hawes they had set the office on fire. Ledgerwood and Harbin owere each given seventeen years, and Lavelle and Hawes each got eight years. Ledgerwood and Harbin were pardoned in fulfillment of a promise made them by the officers, bu not until after they had been a few years in prison. A strong effort was made to secure a pardon for Lavelle on account of his physical condition, and Governor Matthews went so far as to send his physician "to examine Lavelle. The physician reported that the man should be liberated, but for some reason the governor did not act on the advice. For the last five months Lavelle has been in the main office of. the reformatory as an assistant, and by his. gentlemanly bearing has made many fjripnds. The Lavelles live in elegance in Washington.

THE PUBLIC FOUNTAINS.

pdople Using These Humane Pools for Washing Their Cats and Dogs.

City Attorney Pugh is going to make a little municipal law. He has found a case demanding it. tit develops that pieople have begun to take advantage of the public foua-. tains for washing their cats, dogs and dirty linen. The ''Humane" that' is carved in the stone margin of 'these public conveniences is a broard term, 'but it is not meant to be expanded to the point of allowing the fountains to be used as washtubs. It is said that the dogs and cats that have been immersed in these pools have contracted a ifondness for the experience and now run and jump in of their own accord. City Attorney Pugh thinks something ought to be done to put a stop to this sort of thing. He has rumaged about the archives of the municipality and cannot find any ordinance against people using the public fountains for any purpose whatever. So Mr. Pti^h will evolve some law on this subject. Hft will prepare an ordinance making the washing of dogs, 'cats, night gowns and other things in the public fountains an offense and providing a penalty.

Hydrophobia Claims Another Victim. •Waltnr Ke'lly, a young man 24 years of age, died in terrible agony of rabies Sunday. .iKelly was bitten by a dog last May but that he was to Ibe a victim of hydrophobia did not become apparent until^ast Thursday. It was in the early part of May that Kelly in separating two fighting dogsWas bitten on the leg. As no bad results appeared he thought nothing of the b&e and worked on the farm of his father South Twenty-fifth street until Thursday evening, (when he went to 'bed oomplainl&g of a severe pain in his shoulder and arm. Physicians were called, .in on Friday and his actions caused" the'doctors to question him as to whether he had ever been bitten bjala dog. On Saturday the young man ccRj&d ont swallow and Saturday evening locfltj&w set in. He died Sunday in the greatest agony. The funeral will take place this imorning. .:

a Penitentiary Investigation. T^oise, Ida., Sept. 13.—An investigation of ttie penitentiary conspiracy has developed some astounding facte. It is understood that the discovery has been made th'it a number of keys have in somo mysterious manner fallen in the. possession o: -.h« convicts with whch they can open theicell doors. It also developed that drugs and other dangerous articles have been smuggled in to the prisoners. The officiate are determined to get to the bu* torn the matter and the result of their investigation is liable to implicate some who would never beP suspected by the public.

A Voanjt Womsn'l Suicide.

Montreal, Sept. 13.—A well dressed young man, who arrived here on the Delaware & Hudson train from New York askel the porter of the Hotel Cadillac to take a young lady, whom he pointed out, to a respectable and quiet hotel. At the Cadillac tho young woman registered as Miss W rner ,New York. Afterward she was found dead in bed, 'with a vial of carbolic acid on her dresser, half empty,and the name of lie place where it was purchased erased. There are no means of identificatirfl. Her tDilet articles atid clothing were of the best make.

Real Rent and Comfort For Everybody. There is a powder to be shaken into the shoes called Allen's Foot Ease, invented by Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., which druggists and shoe dealers say is the best thing they have ever sold to cure swollen, burning, sore and (tender or aching feet. Some dealers claim that it makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It certainly will cure corns and bunions and relieve instantly sweating, hot or smarting feet. It feosts only a quarter, and the inventor will send a sample free to any address^

There Ira Class of People.

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grolery stores a new preparation called GRAIN 0, mada of pure grains that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it with out distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-quarter as much. Children may drink it with great befiefit. Idc and 25c a package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.

Twenty-four i*er»uni* Killed In Quarry Bias City of Mexico, Sept. 13.—Twenty-four persons, mainly spectators of the great blast at Pancelas quarry, on the Vera Cruz railway, were instantly killed yesterday. The blast went off and the people rushed forward. to see the effects when gases In the air ignited, causing a terrible explosion with terrible results. Many people, were wounded.

biilg^ojjKJsUTe, eau* Cascarrt,

candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10c, 25c.

WHEAT SITUATION.

To make up the deficiency little help is to beexpected from India, Argentine or Australia for months to come, and in so far as Europe will have to import a larger quantity than usual, she will have.,to draw it mainly from North America, -and: especially from the United States, theCanadiancontribution being relatively small. Official returns from Ontario 4nd Manitoba give for these two provinces an aggregate of '51,042,253 bushels.

But leaving out of view the fact that the E largely than usual upon the United'States it is evident that there will in ahy case be a demand for a larger surplus thai-is to be expected out of this year's crop. If '.o our average annual export for th esiif'years 1802-97 we add an European shortage of 99,000,000 bushels, figured out by »BrOmhall, •we get a total of 265,373,872 buSn^ff, and in so far as we fall short of supjftyiri.g that quantity Europe, as compared witfi an average year, must suffer scarcity in^er Tread supply except in.so far as she can avert it "by drawing on the stocks that may remain 'out of the previous crops.

The world's reserve has, however, fcefn reduced in consequence of the short whc.t crop of last year and a deficiency in some of the other important food crop3 will net tend to relieve the tenteion of Uu wheat market

THEY MUST KIBBP MOVING-.

Banana Venders Will Not Be Allowed lo Monopolize the Corners.

You may "take your plc-a two for.a-nick-a" but immediately after you have purchased thfe/banana man must

JTony-Palmer, a corpulent.- son' of. Italy, hased/or months made himself obnoxious about the corner of Fourth and Main streets 'and "yesterday John Johnson, a veteran, who' cofaducts a peanut stand ob the opposite corner, came near gouging & few irregular holes in Palmer's thick hide.1 The smart young Italian was making^inkul'ing remarks to the old soldier and after a war of adjectives the old soldier whipped out a knife and -threatened to carve the. Italian's anatomy into wiener wurst. The'police arrested the soldier. Palmer, who stirred up the trouble and who, the frequenters of the neighborhood say, should have been .fired out of the city long ago, escaped. The trouble on the corner caused the police to order all venders of fruits and otb,pf refreshments to keep moving. They will only be allowed to stop in case they .$j approached by a customer. There are two or three men who have special permits from the city council to operate stafids on the street corners. These will cot be molested. The gang at Fourth and Main however will have to go and keep gone.

LlEBEJR GtETS THE CONTRACT.

Louisville Man to Frescoe the New Grand Opera House.

iNext week the Work of frescoing tie new Grand Opera House will -begin. The con tract for doing this important part, of the work has been let to Mr. Charles Lieber of Louisville, Ky., one of the best known fresco artists in the entire country. The bid of Mr. Lieber was selected out of some fifteen proposals. There were bids from New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. LOuiSj Indiaanpolis and several other cities. The reputation of Mr? Lieber made his bid at once a popular one and there was little time lost in giving him the contract. The plasterers will be far enough advanced in their work next w6ek to permit of frescoing being done. '0

Mr. Lieber, the successful bidder, did some work in Terre Haute thirty years ago nd many of the oll« residents will remember it. Jt was then that he frescoed •Dawling Hall, and the perfect work he did. especially that on the center piece—the Cupids and wreaths—is today remembered by many. Fifteen years' ago Mr. Lieber frescoed McKeen's bank and the work stands as a recommendation of hie perfect t,aste and ability. There is no more jexqu^ite piece of fresco,work In the sta^e,. During the years devoted to the art Mr.Lieber has frescoed 67 opera houss in differnt par^ at the country. That the Terre Haute theater will be a beauty when he has added the finishing touches goes without saying. 1

M'RAE LANDS HOG THIEF.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS,TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 14.1897 CONTENTEB WOMEN.

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CAREFULLY PBETABKD

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BY AGRICULTURAL DEPAl$TV&NT.

Estimates on the European Shortage Show That ThU Country Most Stk'Pift? a Hnndred Million Bushels.

-I' iM Washington, Sept. 13.—^The following, relating to the wheat situation, isf^an extract from the complete monthly rejfort of Mr. John Hyde, the statistician of tife Vgrieultural department, which yfill be issued^tomorrow:

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High prices for wheat have for several weeks past been bringing out supplies quite freely and Increased supplies have caused some decline' from, the highest prices of August. The general tenor of information gleaned from all available sources is not, however, of a character to warrant the expectation or the fear of any matreial cheapening of v.heat until another crqp is in sight with a prospect of ampler stocks.

With an annual average European product of over 1,428,000,000 bushels daring the six years from 1891 to 1896 inclusive, we exported an average of 166,373,ST2 bushels a year. This year the European crop, according to Bromhall's Corn Trade, News, will in round numbers amount to 1.323,000,000 Winchester bushels, or 93.^30,($0 bushels less than the average of the six years in question. If we n.ak.* the comparison with the figures gh en by Been/ohm for 1897 the deficiency in the European crop is still greater, the figures in millions of bushels being: Average for 1891-96, 1,42S crop of 1897, 1,315 difference, 113.

That is, according to Beerbohm's estimate of this year's crop, there is a deficiency of 113,000,000 bushels in European countries as compared with their average product for the six years 1891-96, an average which includes the exceptionally small crop of 1891.

imove

on.

He fannot monopolize- the 'street^corners hereafter. The wiener wurst man must/ do likwise The "hot, hot, red hots" may be sold, but mot in amy one particular place. Like the man wlho sells the bahan the vender of the saulage must keep stirring. This was the order given last night. Tho police department has been overwhelmed 'With complaints against two. or three fruit vender^ and yesterday morning there came near, .^ping a fight between two of thm. Tllis'stirred the police to vigorous action and strict orders were given to arrest every fruit or hot sausage man found with a cart on ?the corners. I

Tonf, Who agreed to go to MeKeen's Bank and identify bim as being all right TLts was last Thursday. The Terre Haute police were put on the case and yesterday Detective McRae went to Farmersburg, where the Overholsers live. The young man sa\V the detective the minute fle alighted from the train and lost no tkqe in getting under cover. litter in the evening and just as a freighttrain was pulling Into Farmersburg on which MoRae intended to come home, he saw the object of his search run out erf his home and go into an Outhouse. McRae had no troulble In bagging his game, for he si&ply waited until Overholser eame out. He brought his man back on the freight train and landed him in Jail. The Illinois authorities will come for him today. VvV*jf'

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL'GtfBEft"S.

Some

of the Queer Thing* That Occur Through Their Inflexibility. The inflexibility of finsslan official orders has resulted in many queer and needless fixtures"" in the offiolal system. The story is wOll known of the sentry who was put on guard over a rose in bloom in the imperial garden in the seventeenth 3entury. The roiie and its bush disappeared, but every day for a hundred years a sentry mounted guard over the spot, because no one bad ordered the service discontinued.

A story quite as ludicrous is now told of a discovery made by the Empress Catharine, mother of the Emperor Paul, who was assassinated in 1801. Catharine at one time was inspired by some passing whim of economy to scrutinize the imperial housekeeping acoounts. In them, among other things, she found that "one bottle of rum daily" was oharged to the naslednlk, or heir apparent.

As her son, who was then a young man, bad never given any sign of intemperate habits, the empress was greatly astonished. She went over the acoonnts to see how long he had been addicted to this praotioe, and /ound, to her still greater surprise, that the expenditure went back to the day of his birth, and, indeed, far beyond it.

The heir to the throne had not only been Charged with drinking over 80 dozen bottles of

fine

Jamaica rain yearly ever slnoe

he was born, but' for a long time before that. The empress, it is hardly necessary to say, made a thorough investigation of this strange matter, and with the aid of an antiquarian she at last reached the original entry.

A century or so before the imperial physipian bad prescribed, for the naslednlk of the period, "on acoount of a violent toothache, a teaspoonful of rum, to be taken with sugar." This dose was given for several days in succession, and the nurse or steward ip oharge had deemed it more fitting to the Itnperial dignity, as well as more pirbfltable to himself or herself, to purchase a new bottle of rum every day. No one had ever given the order to discontinue this purchase^and it had gone on for a century, the rum having constituted one of the perquisites of the court steward. &

The empress submitted the discovery to her husband, who at once declared that the method of keeping the accounts should be thoroughly resfbriried' and such abuses ended. He carried dut his threat.—Youth's Companion.

In Rts Pslviata .OaE...

Mr. I. G. Rawn, general superintendent of the B. & O. S." W.. with offices at Cincinnati, was in the city yesterday. He came in his "private car, bringing with him his brother-in-law, Harry Wills, who will enter the Polytechnic thte week. Mr. Rawn is an old schoolmate of Mr. Lucius Lybrand, vice president of the I.-H. C. Royse Co., and they had not before for twenty years.

German Minister-fcd: Go -.Indianapolis.

Word'has

tj^en ^^ived froan the Ger­

man Methodist confidence at Columbus, O., that the R^v. F. A^ Hamp. who has been in charge of the German M. E. Church in Terre Haute for four years, will go to the First M. E. Church in Indianapolis this fall and the pastor of that church will take the Rev. Hamp's place. The name of the new minister is tlhe Rev. Griewe, and he is spoken qf as a fine speaker.

The ladies of t^e'.Cpflifal Presbyterian Church will give t*Ja. .evening. A good hot weathe^suppefcgi&ill be served from 6 to 8 foiy %.-• cents.-

about reSS 'l?

Viennese papera record the death at the age of 70, of aji artist named Anton Batsehe who became famous aifiong -dealers for 'his ability to restore damaged art works ana antiquities in' such a way that even experts wera often deceived into believing that they .had an unimpaired original article before them: He was finally so much feared that some museums refused him admission, fearing that Oie might imita.te and duplicate tiheir curiosities. But while some of tfiio -dealers who engaged him dou-btless made improper use of "his work to deceive amateurs, he hlmse.f was the soul of honesty and did not merit such a suspicion.

The widow named Christine Codini, who remembers the impression Napoleon I. made on (her as a child, celebrated her 101st birthday a few weeks a«o at Mainz, Germany. She is in good health ana not long ago expressed to her 60-year-Oi-d son a wish to go to America to visit her grandchildren.

A new departure in the appointment of bishops seems to have been taken by toe Salisbury government. Dr. Eden, suffragan bishop of Dover, 'hav"een appointed to tihe vacant

see, o£,^ake,fle.£:

The last appointment made, that of one bishop of Bristol, was likewise a promotion of a suftragan. As the auxiliary bishops are appointed by the archbishop of Canterbury, and not by the crown, it looks to conservatives like an indirect encroachment on the prerogative.

In the library of G-lasgow university there is a rhyming Bible, the work of an eccentric old divine, Zachary Boyd. He conceived the idea of rendering the sacred book in rhyme, a task which had to some extent been undertaken" by severa. writers. among whom may be mentioned Uie Saxon Caedmon and Tate and Boyd rhyming version of the psa ms.

There !?ems a probability that his majesty of Slam may soon become a Buddhist pope. He started some years ago at Colombo in Ceylon, for the regeneration and reunion of Buddhism. The Pr°mc ters of the agitation appear to be hopeful and have asked King Chulalougkorn to become the head of the movement—to be, in ract, the pope of the Buddhist organization.

The Marqui9 de Carcano, a well-known stock-raiser in Lombardy, posseses what is said to be the smallest pair or horses in existence. Every morning he maybe seen in Milan driving his little span. The animals measure exartly twenty-four inches in height.. 'Besides these the marquia owng four Shetland ponies, ..whose height is not over twenty-setfen and onehair inches each. They draw" a tiny Aiall coich tfhtch he has had built express.y fof them S*:!" y**..

An SO-year-o'.d' man of SonfeK-llle. who for half h's life .has be«v parKyJfltad and partly deaf, has recovered his senses In (full without treatment. w.-

The .most noted man^in August/ a man Who is publicly known to have Wbrri the^same straw hat twenty-six summers,

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Stole Hogs in Illinois—Arrested Dow* at Farmersburg.

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James Overholser of Farmersburg Is In Jail awaiting the arrival of officers 'from Illinois, where he 4s wanted for stealing hogs. The Bhoats were stolen from a farmer near Oliver, 111* last week, were driven a few miles and sold to another farmer.: The purchaser of the swine gave the fellow who called himself Frank Simpson a check on McKeen's Bank. Overholser (this is the thief's name) came to Terre Hautei a.n.1 went to Charley Murphy's Baloon. Here he was known by sight by the colored porter.

the s*me cloth cap forty-two winters without a break for repairs or renoya: tlon.

A report is current in Paris that the emoress of Austria expects to visit Paris goon to make a pilgrimage to the scene nf i-he catastrophe of the Rue Jean Goujon where he? sister, the Duchess d'AJencon. perished'. .'

Another Corean student has arrived in to enter Roanoke college next session. His name Is Klu Sik Kim. and he is a Wright voung fellow, with a pretty £od command of EngHrh, three years' study of the language in Corea. .. ,. t.:

I- TO CURE A COtB IN ONE DAT ^Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tabets. All druggists refund the money if It f(41# to cure.

THEY POSS6SS THE POWER TO CHARM WHEREVER THEY MAYBE.

While There May Be Sach Thing a* ••Noble Discontent" There Can Be No Happiness In the Home if Contentment

Xs Not Found There.

"See that girl over tberef" said a girl who works hard because she must earn with her ready .wits and nimble fingers a respectable living. I said that I did, and asked what there was to take particular note Of in the goOd looking young woman with two little lines on hor brow that looked as if they might have been marked there by frowning,. "Well,"continued my girl friend, "that is a'working girl'of the kind yon were asking me not long ago if I knew many of. She belongs to a mighty nioe family, who are fairly well to do, have a pretty house out of town a little way, and everything on earth to make them comfortable, but Laura was not oontented to do as the other girls had done. Of course, there being quite a large family of them, they cannot humor all their whims about dress and that sort of thing bat, dear me, I would rather do with one dress a year, it seems to me, than to cocae In town and work in an office all day. "Her father and brother dislike it, of course, but she will have her own way," "Isn't there enough to.k^P-b.er busy at home? Oh, yes, but they hiro,-sl^st^v-erytbing done.

Yes, she's getting mcrp palary than I am. Isn't that oJd, how it BO often happens that those who need money the least seem to find it easiest to earn?"

I granted the busy girl tbat it was odd that I had noticed tbat fate had queer little wrinkles, of which the one she bad mentioned was not the least. And then I repeated a verse or two of a little poem I believe Mrs. Wilcox wrote about "Whatever Is Best." This I did with the hope that the sentiment the verses contained would keep the busy girl from thinking that the things we do not understand in this world are as bad as they often look, but this is what I really thought: Here is a girl who for one extra fine lot of shirb waists and an occasional tailor made dress, lined with silk that "rustles," will leave a quiet home injjm^.of a family's regret and sally fortn in. the business world to fill a place that a woman more needy would be glad taiiave. "Ah, there's the rub" in the business And all because of a discontentedjfqiqag.

Then there's the dispq^^eqted wom^n in aooiety. Have yon her? If ypji haven't, you have not If^ed lpbg In America. I know, her, have heard her talk, have heard her sigh and even seen her ory. Yes, ory—shed tears, not of sorrow, but of vexation, the meanest use in the world to which tears can be put. And gossip, yes, though I am ashamed to tell it of one of my sisters, and scandalize. A woman to the purple born will do none of this, but the woman who suffers from social discontent is not thus born. If she was content to go on just whesre her mother left off, it would be different, but she iq not. But for this the mother is to blame.

When the family coffer was comfortably filled, the daughter, who was pretty, in a healthy, robust sort of way, was sent away to a boarding school and there learned that even the daughter of a meohanlo might hope to be one day "first lady of the land." After.this housewifely things had no oharin for her, and it was the mother's ambition as well as the daughter's to "marry money.!' This accomplished, and a step or two higher in the social world, and then social rivalry, for other discontented women are in the "set" for whom money has been the talisman that led the way.

It would shook her should some one tell her she would be a happier woman keeping a modest home and fitting her boys for honorable trades. But that is the, truth.

This state of things only leaves one wondering whether or not. clasS distinction is not, after all, a very good thing. Of course, it is a mighty oomforting thought to every American to know that surely every one may try, for the top. Some say that this spirit is wha£ makes, noble.nation, but it is still an open question. A noble nation—well, maybe, but, happy? "Ah, there's the rub" again, so-, cially this time. Contentment is happl-, nesa.

The homes of the men we call "laborers" will show you bet1j$\,t^ %pytbing else just what a cont^E^^^woman may accomplish, because th^O-. b^iflgi^ little to "make the best of", negleojj of this stands out plainly and pjtifully. .,

The laborer's home.p^ere^.a contented woman reigns, shinegj lik^a There are only a few p., t|u« be

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the kitchen, but these are scoured until they gleam like silver against the whitewashed wall. The time devoted to their polishing might have been spent in repining tbat the tins were not a complete outfit of the best granite ware, like her better to do neighbor across the way has, but the cheery little woman is not given to such as tbia.

Her husband and boys have nice Sunday suits, but they do not wear them every day. Their everyday clothes are neat and whole, but suited to the needs of boys who are spending their vacations away from the publio schools in shops learning* the mysteries of electrical fittings or how complicated engines are run. One of these boys may some day be president of the United States, but should tbat honor ever come to him it seems to me he would be none the less able to honorably discharge his duties becanse he knows what toil means. At any rate he is blessed now in his young days with a mother who is contented with the sphere in life in which she has been born.

We hear about "noble discontent" and "without discontent there is no progress," but as there are so many ready to preach this it might be a good thing for a few of us at leaBt to preach how noble it is to bo contented.

The discontented wife of the man who roust work until ho is very weary to ea?u just money enough to provido a very modest home may put a whole year's savings into a very fine carpet to grace the parlor floor and yet not find much happiness or satisfaction in that room. She has accomplished her desire, to have as handsome a carpet as an$ of her neighbors, but cool white matting would- have been cheaper, cleaner and more in keeping with the surroundings. JJvery time a "fine thing" is bought the pinch is f«lt, and everybody who is not very rich knows tSat financial pinches can create lots of family discord.

And there's "the rub" in the humble home—the home that represents an important factor in America.—Margaret Hannis in Sfc Louis Republic.

Mother and Children.

The moffcrn mother cannot permit her-

eradlm. They were left to think their owf thoughts, develop in their own way, de» prod on their own strength, and so bad chance to grow into sime originality an not to be snipped and pruned until the^ were as like every other human creature as two plants in a hedge. Great and won* derful and Valuable are tlie advantages o| good training is childhood, but the best thing may be overdone. Undoubtedly tb€ kindest thing tbat oonld happen to man/ a child of a careful mother would be a lit* tie wholesome negleot and a return to thl simplicity with which its parents wert raised.—Philadelphia Times.

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Woman's Physical Development. It is a well established fact that tb$:? woman who is not blessed with God give# grace and a well proportioned figure mus( have some special exercise suited to hai needs if she would be graceful, and it i( said that practical results of the modern methods of exercise for women in England show that dowagers of. too generoux proportions are rare In comparison to the numbers seen 20 yoars ago. Croquet first incited a desire for exercise among women of middle age and led on through various stages to the bioyole, for which so much is olaimed as a source of health and beauty for women.

Tbat women are taller than they were a generation ago, as a result of outdoor exercise, is not denied, and the graceful exercises which are taught in schools, gymnasiums and health culture classes for the purpose of developing the muscles show progress in physical training.

Young girls and grown women as well have invaded man's domain in the matter of exercise in connection with various fnmes, and it is all very much to their credit. Thepostureand skirt dancing whioh is taught nowadays to give grace and elegance of movement would have been considered a sort of indecorous proceeding years ago, but to tbis has been added jig dancing as well as still more classic dancing.—Exchange.

Woman's Fate the Happier. Mile. Paola Lombroso, daughter of tbs celebrated Italian criminalist, bas written a pamphlet in which she upholds the doctrine that tbe fate of women in the world is inexpressibly happier than the fate of men. Why? Because to Miss Lombroso the true happiness On earth, ts to love, and women alone have the power of loving. The mere lovd of a mother for her children appears to this young girl as so supreme a happlness tbat all man's delights, vanity, ambition and success, pale before it. Beauty she holds cheap, and even of intelligence she makes little. The heart, tenderness, love, the highest love, devotion—in these she believes lies the true happiness of tbi# world.

,„s Mistake Made by Mothers. A woman is out of her element unless iho is acquainted to a certain extent with the aoisnoesaf bakeology, boilology, sfcitohology^tmakedlngy and mendology. How often -we- see mothers busily engaged in domestic duties like a slave, in ord-ar tbat the girl may enjoy every luxury aad do nothing. Indeed many hardly lee their daughters soil their bandB, says a qniet observer. The^e never was a greater blunder than to substitute good l*}oks for good qualities. Every girl ought to be brought np to bave regular domestic duties. Idleness ebonld* be forbidden her. The only dignified i£fe is a useful life. •-Exchange.

X3M Ch&ibwit Tim*.

EngWflh'foHc do *ot call the pastry and ioes dissert, as we do here, the fruit only, served at tfce-end'of every well appointed dlnxer ifr E&g'and, coming under that head* ifrthis #urert which is the signal for tK'e rjtftdr*iij'& appearance below stair* a treal tba&is never denied them, company or no company. Tbey remain With their elafefs about 15 minutes and, except in very jitriot households, get stray dainties from W'feast which is nearing its finish. Tfce &ove to go to the drawing room coffee Is their moment to say good tStire.

""limnTirir Work.

0?cu^ti9!&v'4# whioh a wom&n may mftkfe'xfi6ify1at H6me are sought. Leather work ofTeis 'Sfi B&onjng lQr those who are aootiHate arid There Ms considerable demrfnd fft"^ft6ketbcjkB and cas6s, port-foliosa'M-otn£r'Articles embossed or done in repbUBse.'^A' bright woman will need but a few reWtre'hi the art, the materials may be bougbfctf# Wholesale, and the stitching and pasttffciTg* require only a true eye arid & deft-ftaBdi" v-v' yuUiiiaio TO &&>Tiledaad Wjkll* iriS'liapift&nfclfhat a bed, even If kept during the day, should be mo*ed out a few Hv-iies at night. A layer of air lies against the walls which is subject to little movement even when there is strong ciroulation in the middle of the room. Place the head of the bed to be sbielded from the strongest draft, but let a good ourrent of ohanging air play over it.

A Kitchen Mat.

Several' Newspapers laid one upon the other, then oovered with a sheet of brown paper and stitohed together near the eoge, make an excellent mat to lay upon a hardwood floor in front of the sink or range in a kitchen, and will save the cook a great deal of work. When soiled, this mat can be thrown aside and easily replaced by a fresh one.

To Sponge Black Silk.

There is a use for a pair of old black kid gloves. Put them into a quart of water and boil them to extract the color. Use this liquid to sponge a black silk or a ribbon, rubbing the material over with the glove dipped in the liquid. Do not iron sponged silk, but fasten it upon a flat surface to dry or roll it tightly upon a round stick.

Bed Hands.

Red hands are attributed to a variety of causes—cold feet, imperfect digestion, iinperfoct circulation, tight gloves and clothing and too much or too little hot water. Ugly hands are not worth a moment's worry. Keep them nioe, have the sleeves loose, and the cuff—^»f soft stuff or lacereaching down to the knuckles.

HEEE~A3STD THEBE,

Advicos received at Toronto report tbak all of 25,000,000 bushels of wheat in Manitoba have been out.

A Portland (Me.) cyclist took his wheel to pieces to clean it, putting the small pieces, bearings, etc:, on the doorstep, where they were gobbled up by chickens.

A frog that can't get out of a jug is a curiosity at 'Mayfleld, Ky. The jug, uncorked, was left out on a back yard bench on the plaoe of R. O. James last fall.

According to the statistics of the United 6tates bureiil of li&or, thore- are 27,000 married men in New York city who are supported by their wives.

•elf the simpler methods in dealing with, by the police Monday night and her children. She is weighted down with tons of advice from ohlldleec people and the learned precepts of her mother classes, which teaoh every thought and word and emotion of a obild to be pregnant with deep meaning. The result has been that a oathode ray bas been turned on childhood, under which all its innocence and artlessness have shriveled and died. It is a significant fact that, mothers would do well to remember tbat the men and women who have made our history great have been reared in the greatest simplicity. About their early days was thrown none of the complex system of education that careful mothers now begin in Jheir babies'

The saloons in Kansas City, Kan., were

$3,000 worth of liquor seized and pourod into the gutters. An International congress Is being arranged in Paris for the discussion of means of preventing fires at theaters and other places of publio resort.

For the'first time In the history of the supreme court of California a written aminatlon has been given to an applicaos to practice law. It was taken by Theodoru Gray, a deaf mute. ..

Kalze haTboen foJnd In the most anri&nt Paruvian tomlp. V"*.-