Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 October 1897 — Page 4

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TELBPKONBI2.

We shall all feel safer now General Miles has sailed for home.

The strange thing about Seth Low is that the Lord left off his wings.

The Nicaraugua revolution is over, pend-. lug negotiations for the next one.

Mark Twain has been so hard up lately that he has contracted a severe case of the, goutv

Since the Chicago Federation of Labor met the other day, anarchy has been wearing another black eye.

Europe is preparing to go to war at a moment's notice in order that she may have peace for all time.

St. Louis husbands are selling for $4,000 DOW. There is nothing like having good Re-, publican times.

If Emperor William must compose some more music, let him introduce as many "rests" as possible.

Kentucky is suffering from a severe drought and what Kentucky is least able to stand is a dry spell.

Cleo de Merode's performance is said to be all right, but she has a painfully modest haibit of preferring clothes to tights.

It is understopd ex-Queen Lil is at last beginning to realize that she probably has a life tenure of the job she isn't holding.

Emperor William has forbidden bicycling in his hunting grounds. His next step should be to try to regulate the wheels in his head.

As the days go by the American people become more and more pleased with themselves that they did not incline to boy orators last fall.

Bradstreet and Dun are thoroughly nonpartisan, but they find it impossible nowidays to keep from knocking the props fron* under Popocracy.

Kaiser Wilhelm is disposed to boss Uncle Bam about Samoa. He should understand your Uncle would as soon ewat a Hohenzollem as anybody else. I

Now that Sagasta is premier of Spain he may be expected not to talk any more about how easy it would be for that country to wallop the United States.

It is said that thousands of people die an-, nually in India of snakebites. That country seems to need an up-to-date edition of the lamented St.. Patrick.

It is a fact that Chicago has only one woman in the street cleaning department, notwithstanding that the sketch artists make it appear that there are about fourteen.

Spain may continue to protest that Uncle Sam has no business concerning himself about Cuba until the old gentleman will feel called upon to do some positive talking himself.

In view of the temperature prevailing in this part of the country these days, the people who went to Alaska without waiting for spring probably did not make any mistake after all.

Grover Cleveland says he learns something brandnew every day. He doubtless refers to his growing appreciation of what he meant when he coined the expression "innocuous desuetude."

The statement that John R. McLean thinks he can make the people of Ohio believe there is no prosperity in the United States Indicates that John has that kind of faith which can cause mountains to slide about over the map.

LABOR CONSERVATIVE. Many of the persons that view labor's interests from the standpoint of theory are prone to radicalism as a means of escape from the ills, real and imaginary, now afflicting the toiling masses. It is worthy cf remark '.hat the men who look at the same vuiesticn out of practical eyes are found counselling conservatism and opposing resolutiUps to designate as martyrs tht? men who paid the penalty of the Haymarket massacre. The Chicago Federation of Labor is the latest organization to declare itself upon this subject. It held a meeting Sunday afternoon at which more than 200 delegates were present and only three or four of these recommended a tribute of praise to Spies, Fisher, Engle and Licgg.

The issue was squarely brought out. The friends of the anarchists introduced a resolution that the Federation of Labor take steps to participate in exercises commem•ratlve of the "glorious sacrifices" of the men named on November 11th, the tenth anniversary of their executiou. S^-eral speeches were made in regard to this resolution, among them two or three of a violently revolutionary nature, but presently the conservative men of the convention opened their batteries on the proposition and it was killed in a twinkling.

All the conservative men that addressed the meeting told why they opposed any sympathy with anarchy. They pointed out that wherever labor had adopted such tactics "it bad scored a defeat and that wherever jit had won a signal victory its success had peen due to a prosecution of its fight upoi^ lines in no way hostile to the existing farm of government or to prevailing social ideas. The logic of the conservative ipetches was that theoretical labor reform»rs are not capable of successfully handling the interests of men that actually work. Experienced laboring men cannot delegate their thinking to professional students of the labor problem. They cannot trust such IwUtrc to dominate their affairs and develop

their policies. They must fight their battles: in the'forum as they fight them in the factors

THE RICH AND THE POOR. Carrol D. Wright, United States Iabo^ commissioner, has an article in the current Atlantic Monthly which deserves wide circulation and careful study. Mr. Wright has done many admirable things in the way of collecting statistics for public information, but he has at no time touched a point so promising of good results as that treated in the article in question, says the Kansas City Star. For years the demagogues and mjechief makers ha\e been spreading discontent by alleging on every possible occasion that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer in this country. Mr. Wright's object is to show not that the rioh are not growing richer—for that would be impossible—but to prove that while the rich are growing richer the condition of the poor is also improving. This is inevitable, for, as Mr. Wright stateE, wealth is not stationary and the gain to the rich is not by .drawing from the poor, as a rule, though it is true that the provident gain while th$ improvident lose.

The total wealth in this country in 1850 •was $7,135,780,228, which was $308 per capita. In 1860 the aggregate had increased id $16,159,616,068 of $514 per capita. If the increase from $7,000,000,000 to upward of $16,000,000,000 had all gone to the rich, then the statement would be justified that the poor were remaining as poor as before, but that is not the case. On the contrary, the distribution of the added wealth is about equal between the rich and the poor, or, to be exact, about in proportion. In 1870 the aggregate wealth was $30,068,518,507, thd per capita being $780. In 1880 the total was $43,642 million dollars and" the per capita $870, and in 1890 the aggregate amounted, to $65,037,091,197 and the per capita had increased to $1,036. In 1870 there were 12.505,923, or 32.43 per cent of the whole population supporting themselves. In 1880 the number of workers employed had increased to 17,392,099 and the percentage to 34.67 per cent of the whole. In 1890 the total force of breadwinners reached 22,735,661, which was 36.31 per cent Of the total population. Thus it is shown that there are a greater number of men employed now than formerly, and it only remains to prove that the wages are better' now than, say, in 1860 in order to establish the proposition that the poor aro not' Rowing poorer. Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island recently presented to the country a statement on that subject which ehoWS that the wages have nearly doubled within that time, the hours of labor greatly diminished and the purchasing power of the wages earned increased in nearly the same proportion.

It is true that the rich are growing richei* and maybe their improvement is more rapid. But this is a naturdl consequence ancl has been the condition from the first. The man who has large capital can earn more by the wise employment of it in a year than he who has less. Suppose, for example, two men engage in the mercantile business simultaneously, the one with a capital of $200,000 and the other with $1,000. The percentage of gain on a year's sales, assuming that they are equally diligent, are, of course, twenty to one and the rich man multiplies his capital more rapidly. But the $1,000 fellow needn't despair, because the other is going at a gallop while he is moving at a fox trot. The man of large means has greater expenses to meet every year and a larger draft on his reserves, while the merchant with small capital enjoys his annual accretions and iw {fie end will also have command of a large property and a big business.

The genera] condition of the population in this country is improving. Comforts are multiplying among the people. Those who make no pretensions to wealth now enjoy a great variety of conveniences which were once accounted luxuries and were monopolized by the rich. The facilities for providing for the truly indigent are vastly superior to those of twenty years ago, and there is, in this country, a more equal distribution of all the blessings that render life desirable than there has ever been before.

GATES' WONDERFUL MICROSCOPE. Apparently Professor Elmer Gates of Washington has made one of the most important discoveries ever achieved by science, a discovery that may unlock the secret of life by hauling into light the most 'infinitesimal microbe and enabling us to learn how it works and what will destroy it, says the Chicago Tribune. The discovery is that a second microscope can be used to view and^ magnify, again a small part of t&e imager .produced by a first microscope. Thus th'e"pd«^i" of-the human eye is increased 3.000,000 times instead of 10,000 times, as Kthfc#{» for though the human eye canlidt^T1 cotxree, see the image directly it ca*ri''s£6 a photographic reproduction of the image and thus, as Professor Gates says, microscopy is carried as far beyond the present art as it is itself beyond the power of the eye. Professor Gates describes his process as follows:

On an Abbe plate, consisting of fine lines rule# close together, a 12-inch object showed four lines and three spaces. With a 16inch it showed nine '.ines and eight spaces. Then taking a second, with a 2-3-inch objective, or a 14 objective, it was focused upon the real Image of the miscroscQpe bv introducing the ocular of the first microscope. so that the plant of the second objective was in the plane of the real image, and then two lines and one space covered the entire field of vision. This is only, however, a first step. When I replace the 2-3 objective of the second microscope the magnification is 400 more diameters, "but the image cannot be seen by the eye, but must be photographed. With a twelfth tfbjecive on the first microscope and a three-inch on the second I get a magnification of 3,000,000.

Even those who are not miccroscopists cannot fail to comprehend that this means much to human health and human life. Jt is well known that most, if not all, of the diseases which carry mankind off before its time are caused by minute organism* which need only to be caught and examined to bei destroyed. The present microscope has discovered a vast number, but the deadliest have hitherto been beyond its reach. If Professor Gates is correct in his opinion of his experiments /disease will practically bei banished from earth, and it is not too much to hope that before long we shall learn what are the molecular changed whose manifestation is called old age, and shall know how to prevent, or at least retard them.

(UKRENT EVENTS.

The specialist who writes a weekly review of trotting meetings for the Chicago Record says the Terre Haute meeting "eclipsed those of all previous years." The writer thinks that all things considered Star Pointer's mile was a wonderful performance. "No more glorious failure was ever chronicled," he says.

The Great Northern Road has been testing an invention by which the engineer is warned by an automatic device some distance before arriving at a station or siding where his orders from the train dispatcher call upon him vo meet a train. The device which is the product of an engineer's genius is said to have worked perfectly and will bei used on all engines. The mechanism is

simply but positively connected with the forward trucks of the engine. It accurately measures the distance traveled which & shown on a dial placed in front of the engineer. Above this dial are iarrangel fifteen triggers, or dogs, pivoted &t equal distances around the center, when the engineer receives his orders he sfta one or more of theee triggers to a point on the dial which is one mile short of thedistance to be traveled before reaching tie stopping place designated in his orders. The mileage indicator on reaching this point releases the trigger which sets a si^nkl whistle blowing. If this device had been in use on the Vandalia the night* Engineer Menifee ran into the eastbountt' strain he would have avoided the accident.' The best railway authorities have been iftfliSting for some years that there never would-be such perfection in human operation ^ofr.railroad traffic as to put accidents beyqsdi/chance. It has been recognized among those who have given the most thought to the subject that automatic safety appliances must be depended on to guarantee freedom from accidents.

The Luetgert trial is again "ffemJmM^tihg the fact that expert testimony is wholly unreliable. The high class experts who have been testifying in the case flatly contradicted one another in regard to the character of the bones found in the sausage maker's vat. It will be recalled that in the Kellar murder trial in this city last year the doctors disagreed in the most positive manner and the expert who had analyzed what was supposed to be human blood spots admitted before he left the stand that the blood of a number of animals could be mistaken for human blood. For several years there has been a growing sentiment in the medical fraternity in favor of some action on the part of medical societies or the legislatures by which there could be a regularly employed expert witness and thus avoid the spectacle of doctors flatly disputing one another when called as witnesses. It has been recognized by the physicians that they were bringing their profession into ridicule and at the same time doing nothing to further the ends of justice.

It has been suggested that if the council is nervously apprehensive that some one will be injured by rapid transit street cars, something ought to be done to stop the racing around the corner of Seventh and Maim streets by hackmen and other drivers as also by wheelmen. It is the worst crossing in town for pedestrians and not on account of the street car traffic half as much as on account of the carriages and wheels.

The annual fall races at Lexington"are said to be the occasion of the gathering of more men who are interested in the harness horse than any other meeting of the year, and there are hot times in Lexington every night. Most persons who attend these meetings lay in a big supply in advances Today there will be trotted the famous futurity for 4-year-olds, worth $15,000. China Silk is the favorite. The Transylvania comes on Thursday. It is for aged trotters of the 2:14 class, for $5,000. Of the fifteen horses entered Oakland Baron has the fastest record, 2:09 Vi.

Whatever of childishness or spite work there may be in the slow transit movement, on the part of either side, it will hardly be questioned that Terre Haute will not accept a change to slower transit. If there has been anything more desirable than another in modes of urban transportation it has been speed. Ro far as Terre Haute is concerned the accidents that have happened recently were not due to rapid transit. In each instance the accident would have happened though the,cars were moving at muls speed. If there is any adequate protection of course that is desirable but slackening of the speed will not remove the danger.

If President Harrison is doing what it is contemplated to make him do as an object lesson for the public he is doing the public a favor. If the public doesn't want the service it has an opportunity to make the fact known. If the ordinance should be put into effect and then be found to be unpopular it would be very much more difficult to get rid of the inconvenience than it will be if public sentiment prevails and prevents* the passage of the ordinance. There seems to be no good point in favor of stdp^lng at the near crossing. In the cities~where cable cars and trolley cars run in! trtfns of three and more cvs

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downfall. rhioaeo Chronicle: Employment agencies come to tihe front with a 'bitter watt that there is absolutely no demand for servant girls who ride ^bicycles. Employers say tfiat the servants who ride^ are so anxious to get out that thplr work too quickly and stay out until unseemly hours,

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morning coffee is muddy andI the breakfast lute It Is small wonder that cne average Bervant girl consider* the fest of the world li- league to deprive her of persona. a a the' privilege of us lag tihe parlor piano, there is now an audacious proposal that she shall not use her mlhtresfl' bicycle and cycling togs when so inclined.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "Tammany dodged the Chicago platform! shriek the Brvanites. Of course 11 did and that dodge will cost it thousands of votes, which will go to Henry George. But the dodge was very strong. If had mdoised the platform it would have lost thousands of votes'. It must be remembered that the Democracy, standing on the Chicago platform. was overwhelmingly "beaten in the Democratic as well as the Republican .0 caUties throughout the entire state of New York last vear, and that plaform is weaker now even" han it was then. Tammany situation was desperate.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The gold exports from England to the United,!State* trouble some of the British financial papers. Neverheless gold will have to come to this country from that quarter In considerable amounts between this time and ne end of he calendar year. I is a natural movement. The trade balance in the United States' favor is large, more 'American securities are apparently being bought abroad than are being sold there, ajid the business Improvement here attracts in•vestrments from other parts of the-world. Under such conditions the gold current to this counry must continue.

Washington Post: We believe Aslvbel P. Fi'ch has landed on hie feet mofe frequent'v than any other man who has been in politics. Mr. Fitch was elected to congress as a Republican, and wt»e& he tired of the party he flopped and was sent back bv the same district as a Democrat, Tammany thought so well of Fitch that it made him comproller of New York, and now all the ticket* in the municipal fight carry Fitch (for comptroller. CVir. Fitch evidently belongs to the puesy-footed school of politics.

TO HATB HEALTH AND HAPriNRSS Use "Garland" Stoves and Ranges.

ARE THEY OFFENDED?

INDICATIONS THAT CERTAIN MINISTERS HAVE BERN PIQUED.

Apparently They Do Not Like the Rev. Mr. Perclval's Personal Invitations to the Students.

At Monday's meeting of the Terre Ministers' Association the subject was "The Ideal Minister." The paper was read by the Rev. Tillottson, of the First Methodist Church, and the discussion was participated in by all the members present.

It is not known whether that paper gave such a definition of the ideal minister as would not allow of his issuing special appeals to people to attend his church or not. It is certainly believed that at least some of the preachers of the city do not regard i: as strictly correct practice in a divine to issue direct personal invitations to persons to come and hear what he has to say.

There was perfect good feeling at the meeting of the gentlemen of the pulpit. They were becomingly gracious and cordial. The Rev. Mr. Percival, of the First Congregational Church, was there and so were one or more other ministers who are believed to have taken exception to certain of Mr. Percival's methods. But the matter was not brought up. If it was thought about the thought was k^pt deep down and not allowed to give ue slightest indication of its existence

Recently the pastor of the First Congregational Church, evidently under the impression that tnis is a iree country, issued personal invitations to the students of the High School to come to his church and hear him tell them some things about what constitutes correct conduct and true character. Mr. Percival delivered this sermon designed specially for the requirements of pupils of the High School, and it is understood that a number of the young men and young women of that institution were present to profit by the discourse.

Shortly it developed that the Congregational minister had in mind a series of sermons of this kind. He wanted to talk not only to the High School pupil3 but to the students of all the schools in the city. He had something to say to the pedagogues who attend Mr. Parson's big institution tip on Sixth street, and also to the young men in the high collars and hair parted in the middle who wrestle with science under the direction of Professor Mees and his fellow teachers of the Polytechnic. Mr. Percival appears to have thought that a minister had a right to ask these searchers for knowledge to visit his church and get a little from him, and so he invited them to come.

There are indications that his policy was not pleasing to some of his brethren of the pulpit in thia city. At all events on the particular Sundays that Mr. Percival was to address the Normal students and the Polytechnic students the ministers in question took occasion through the newspapers to say In connection with their regular announcements that Normal students or Polytechnic students, as the case might be, were "especially invited."

This may not have been an attempt to set up counter attractions to that announced by Mr. Percival, but a man enjoying the elevation of even a small tree might interpret the situation in that way. When it was well understood that the Congregational man was out with invitations to Normal students for a certain Sunday, the fact that other preachers appeared with invitations to the same persons for the same day is likely to suggest to the average lay mind that some resentment was felt at Mr. Percival's manner of getting people to attend his church.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenen With the Nobility of the Old World. In order to understand the aversion with which Queen "Victoria's Indian secretary, the munshi Abdul Kareem, is regarded by the other members of the royal household, and in particular by the military officers who are attached thereto in various capacities, it is necessary to bear in mind the almost forgotten fact that the munshi first of all came to Windsor in a menial capacity, and that he is very far from being a high-caste Indian, writes the Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. He was originally engaged by the queen on the recommendation of Dr. John Tyler, the superintendent of the great convict establishment at Agra, to serve her majesty much in the same capacity as her Scotch "gillies"—that is to say, to carry her shawls, her wraps, and to assist her in getting into and out of the carriage.

Dr. Tyler himself first attracted the queen's notice while supervising the Indian section of the colonial exhibition held in London in 1887, on which occasion he brought some carpet weavers from Agra in order to demonstrate how Indian looms are worki?d. Abdul Kareem came along with him in the guise of half messenger, half native clerk, and thought himself well paid with wages of $5 a month.

The queen was struck by Abdul's fanciful attire, came to the conclusion that he would constitute a picturesque feature of her household. so far as appearances went, and on the recommendation of his employer, the jail superintendent, engaged him as personal attendant.

By degrees the queen got in the habit of speaking to him aB she does to her Scotch gillies, made him tell her the name first of this and then of that in Hindoostanee, and finally became seized with the idea that it would please her 280,000,000 Indian subjects if she were to learn their language. Accordingly she promoted him from the rank of servant to that of teacher, and now that she is able to speak Hindoostanee fluently and to write it easily and correctly in the Persian character, she has still further promoted him to the rank of Indian private secretary. To the horror of those military officers who have seen service in India, she has placed him, to all intents and purposes, on the same social level as themselves. Several ef his kinsfolk have been brought from India to serve as her personal attendants in his stead, and the queen seems to talce a real pleasure in his society, bestowing upon him greater marks of royal good-will than any member of her household has received sine* the death of John Brown. The favor which he enjoys with her majesty is so thoroughly understood that it is upon him that visiting sovereigns and royal personages from abroad lavish gifts for the purpose of propitiating the queen.

Her majesty seems to realize that bis caste is not sufficient for her to bring him into contact with distinguished Indians who visit Bngland. For she keeps him tarefully out of sight whenever she has occasion to receive either in audience or at dinner any one of the great feudatory rajahs and princes of her oriental empire who may come to Europe for the purpose of paying their respects to her.

It may be added that at Balmoral and at Osborne special cottages have been constructed for the use of the munshi, or professor. the name by which Abdul Kareem Is known, while at Windsor the pretty villa known as Frogmore cottage, in the palace grounds, has been assigned to him as a residence. There he lives with a staff of native and whita domestics, devoted to the service of his family and of himself, and few who have had occasion to observe the arrogance of his manner and the many privileges and prerogatives which he exacts as a right can realize that only ten years ago this supercilious oriental dignitary was merely a $5 a month half office boy, half clerk to a jail superintendent.

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Encouraged probably by Lhe immunity that has been accorded Captain Boitscheff, that aid-de-camp off Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who was convicted of a shocking murder of the Roumanian actress, Anna Si-

mon, another officer belonging the mill-

tary household of the prince has now been arrested for blowing out the brains of a popular Roumanian divette who was known at Sofia as "Olga Blonda," but whose family name is Dragicestu.

Having met the girl in a square in one of the least frequented parts of the city, he deliberately shot her with his revolver, firing three times in succcssion. Left for dead, she was found by a peasant, who, with tho assistance of some companions, conveyed her to the hospital, where she made a dying statement, charging the captain with her murder. The" ,letter, on the demand of the Roumanian minister, who acted under special Instructions from King Charles, was arrested in Prince Ferdinand's palace, this being the second murderer who in the space of a few months had been arrested under Ferdinand's roof on]charges of murder preferred by foreign diplomats.

It is idle, however, to hope for any punishment of the man, no matter how conclusively he may be convicted of the crime with which he is now charged. Indeed, he realizes this, for when arrested he snapped his fingers at the Roumanian consul who was present and dared him to do his worst. The fact is that Prince Ferdiand has broken with the European courts and with western civilization, and in his new role of oriental dignitary and vassal of the sultan probably seea nothing reprehensible in the getting rid of a tiresome woman by drowning or shooting.

Intense annoyance has been created at the English court by the ridiculous article entitled "Royalty," which Prof. Max Mueiler has published in the current issue of the new magazine, Cosmopolis. The professor, who hitherto has been regarded at Oxford as one of the shining lights of that university and as one of the greatest living authorities on Sanskrit and Indian lore (which is, however, denied by German scientists) seems, like so many other clever people, to be utterly devoid of any sense of proportion and compfletely 'blinded by his vanity and conceit. The majority of anecdotes which he relates concerning his intercourse with royal personages not only show him in the light of a most arrant snob and even as a toady, but actually describe the repeated snu'obings, sometimes veiled, but mor% often not, to which he seems to have been subjected by his illustrious acquaintances whenever brought into contact with them.

Indeed, his stories anent the members of the reigning houses of England and Germany are sb ridiculous, so devoid of dignity, and from tiieir imbecility so exasperating to the ordinary reader—and, therefore, a hundred times more pb to the royal personages to whom they refer—that it is difficult to conceive how the editor of Cosmopolis could have had the audacity to palm them off on the readers of his magazine. It is doubtful, indeed, if anything in more execrable taste ever has been printed about royalty. And while the queen is deeply offended by Prof. Mueller's reference to her youngest son, the late duke of Albany, the prince of Wales is exasperated by the professor's relating that the only time that he ever played whist with the heir apparent, the latter, "as usual, haggled over the scoro"' and made a difficulty about losing the coin which the professor, according to his own account, has retained as one of his most "highly prized treasures."

Mueller, who a few years ago by dint of much begging and wire-pulling got himself made a privy councilor and secured a nomination for his son in the English diplomatic service, likewise tells, with much unction how on one occasion the German ambassador took him by the arm and literally pushed him out of his room at the embassy, saying, "Make haste! run away the prince is coming," while on another page he says that in response to some compliment of a highly seasoned character that he had addressed to Emperor Frederick, the latter had angrily exclaimed: "I am sorry to perceive that you, too, have joined the flatterers."

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The Yellow Fever Scare.

"If yellow fever were a more familiar disease in the United States our people Hvould pay but little attention to it," said Mr. Charles S. Swisher, of Boston, at the Shoreham. "In Havana, where it Is common, no more attention Is paid to it than ttie Mexicans give to smallpox. There is hardly any time that Mexico hara't the last named disease somewhere in Its borders. I heard renowned docttfr say that yellow fever hadn't killed one-fifth as many people In this country as la grippe. The latter scourge -has caused hundreds whose *ves were toared to !ow their vision and scores of others, maddened by the agony it produced, have committed suicide. "But the fever creates a panic that makes men act inhumanly and unreasonably, and paralyzes tbe trad* oft cities and whole sections of the country. Its ravages are not to be compared with the other against wh."ch here is no thought of ehotgun quarantine, though it is said to be catching. Verily, the actions of mankind are past accounting for, and with all the progress of civilization hum in nature remains much the same through the changing centuries." —Washington Poet.

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ABOUT FBUPLB.

Lord James of Hereford lately s«ttleJ labor dispute on tha Northeastern railway so satisfactorily'to both sides that the men

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him an iddress of thanks and the com-

pany has presented him vim a gold oadge as a pans over its itios. The sultan of Morocco has been offered a bicycle as a ircient, tout the poor monarch dare not accept it. At any rate, his grand vlzer. who is the power behind the throne in Morocco, wouldn't let the sultan ride a 'bike, because he was afraid he wou.d fall olf and get hurt, and the chances are that he woulci have done so.

One of the most interesting figures amort£" the Maoris of New Zealand, the famous chief, -Major Roysale Waharsah, died a I the beginning oi July at the age of 90. H« rendered gallant hervice on behaif of the Europeans in the early days of the colony. In return he had the Vow Zealand orom conferred upon 'him, and he received a handsome sword from the queen, a libera* pension and a seat in the .legislative council.

The new "piano .prodigy,-" Bruno Ste:n* del, who is only 6 years old. will make hu first appearance .in lingland at tho Crystal palace, in London, at the Opening concert of the season. The child has already cro ated a sensation on the continent and his teacher. Professor Leschetizky, is said to hav4 expressed the opinion that he is far the Jtnost .extraordinary of all the "wonder children,'' who have yet come before the' pub'Jc.

Rev. WashJburne West, who died lately in London, had the distinction of able, through a judicious distribution of his property, to oast iwenty-ihree \otes at each parliamentary election. I-Ie was Kept busy in rushing from one polling place to another on election day, as he was Interested in politics. At the 1892 e.ectipn- he (managed to vote t-he' "Conservative tiokel seventeen timej.

Miss Anna Forties Goodyear of Boson, well known for her work fjr the advancement of the poorer classes, is nnrd at work at present to perfect a plan lo estahllsn a [farming colony in Washington, hers the poor of the East may make c^nifprtab.e^ homes.

Grover Cleveland has ibought a large tract of unimproved land on tiie shores of Eibow Pond, about six miles Troni hir summer home. Gray Gables. He i'lteiids to stock the pond with bla-k bass. i.iJ otntr fish, and will build a lodge, where he will entertain his friends.

The Rev. Dr. Pa.rkhurst says in a recent letter to a friend in New York: "T cannot stand bv the Sunday saloon pure and simple, but I do believe in allow'.r.g the sale of beer and light wines on Sunday, provided they are the accompaniment of an honesit meal, honestly paid for."

Noman B. Covert, a 7S-year-cld citizen of Ann Arbor, Mich., ha$ been converted from Methodism to Brahminism. He if* supposed to be the only Amtrican convert to chat creed, and -he has not adopted' all of its doctrines, for he will not abstain from the use of animal flesh for food.

FOUGHT WITH CATTLE THIEVFS

One of Them Shot and Captured--The Other Escapes. Baker City. Ore., Oct. 4.—Sheriff Kilbourne's posse engaged In a battle with two cattle thieves last night on the lower Powder river. In all about forty 6hots were« exchanged. It was dark when the sheriff and hie men came upon the two bandits, who had with them eighty cattle. Both sidas opened fire, and Fred Hull, one of the thieves, was shot through the arm. Both escaped in the darkness and Hull rode to this city, where he called a doctor to dress his wounds. He was arrested in his room. His partner. Earl Wheeler, has not yeO been captured.

It was the plan of the thieves to drive the cattle into Idaho and exchange them, and then dpive the strange cattle back hero for slaughter. The thieves are members of a gang which has operated extensively in this section.

Lint of Krctnt IJetttti*.

Ralph, the 14-year-old son of (he late James WheatfiU, died Saturday evening at the home, 1432 Eagle. Funcra was held yesterday afternoon.

Ruth E.. the 3-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wll? E. Church, died yesterday morning Funeral yesterday afternoon.

John, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Andrew of Clay City, died Saturday. The funeral of the late Frank Mills was held Sunday afternoon. The pall bearers were Fred Jones, Ed Clift, Dr. E. L. Larkins, E. D. Gibson, James Burden and Joseph Frlsz.

Mrs. J. J. Lakin. the aged grandparent of Mrs. Ora C. Foulston, and Miss Jessie Lakin, died Monday morning at her home in Salem, 111.

IUt of Kmnt Birth".

To Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heller of 1540 Crawford street, a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwards, a son.

To Mr. and Mrs. William Lowry of South Third street, a son.

Au Independent ('hnmlcal Work*. It is understood that Mr. John L. Charl?s of the Terre Haute Soap & Chemical Co., which is now in the hands of a receiver, will operate a chemical plant independent of the old company and will start up at once at the old location on Uppir Eighth street.—Evansvllle Journal.

Pousse Pat£.

And why not a pie-pusher as well as a coffee-pusher It's far more necessary. Do you suffer with dyspepsia Ayer's Cathartic will cure you. Take a », "W*

PILL AFTER PIE.