Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 October 1897 — Page 4

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TBLEPKONE 72.

When the returns are in it will be a case of alas, poor Low!

It is undeniable that some sturdy fellows have been playing loot ball with Richard Croker's pull.

If General Blanco licks General Gomez he will have to be a sight better mar than General Wcy-ler....

It is true that the Ohio river is down pretty low, but it is still considerably deeper than the Platte.

Virginia is feeling lots better since the Republicans made,up their minds to nom* inate ft state tisket.

Seth Low may be as holy as he pretentds. but the evidence pointing to such a fact is not entirely overwhelming.

Asheville, N. C„ has a defaulting bank president by the name of Breeze. He seems to have been sowing the wind.

So long as Plattism nominate for -office men of the Tracy stamp nobody can raise any reasonable objection to it.

George Fred William «ays

has a eure

thing this time. Yes he is a sure-thing men, but the'.people are on to him.

Boston should understand that the reason the miners of the Klondyke eat bacon and beans is that ..they can't get anything else.

Baltimore has a brush manufacturer who is, a candidate for mayor. If he gets there at all it ought to 'be by a sweeping majority.

If General Blanco makes a success of his campaign in Cuba he will have to fire something else than that kind of cartridges.

The Hon. Horace L. Chapman is still publishing the "millions of Idle men" buncombe. He must think this is a continuation of the' Cleveland administration

The more one thinks of the achievements of Mr. Bryan the more he is disposed to doubt the theory that -the earth is surrounded by only thirty-five' miles of air.-,-.

The statement may be correct that Mark Hanna hais "a faculty literary style,' but lots of great men haven't been exactly armor-plated on the rhetoric proposition.

Somebody in San Francisco registered a dead man as still on the police force. Probably no one will doubt that if the dead man was on the police force he was still,

It is understood that Kentucky has never been able fully to realize that in the state of Maine they make a serious attempt, however unsuccessful, to prevent the sale of whisky.

Now that the free silver people in Kentucky cannot draw crowds by means of barbecues they should begin to realize that the people are pretty well fed under this administration.

The Kansas City Journal cites a nunibe! of disasters going to prove that Willie Bryan is a hoodoo, but fortunately the adoption by the United States of free silver coinage is not one of them. •-7- .i

President Harper of the University off Chicago has a queer notion of foot ball. He thinks it ought to be so played as not 46 result, at least as a regular thing, in fractured sculls and broken legs.

Mr. Bryan has not been notably successful in politics. However, as a county fair attraction he would beat an air ship. It might be contended by some people that Mr. Bryan is something of that sort himself.

Near Pittsburg they are boring a hole two miles deep. The Popocratic candidate for governor of Ohio might negotiate for the result of this enterprise. Possibly he could perfect some Arrangement for pulling it in after him.:

At one time Thomas Moore did not think much of the United' States, but that was when he did. not know a great deaL The Congressional Library miana^'ment should not be so small as to hold a bit of boyish folly against the Irish poeL

SOME GAME REPUfSLICANS. Virginia has some Republicans that refusa to lie down. They have nominated a state ticket and will fight for It with all the vigor possible, notwithstanding the corrupt Democratic control of the election machinery and the consequent likelihood of defeat. Not long since. Colonel Lamb, state chairman, proposed a ticket and a hot fight, let the result be what it might. He was deposed from the chairmanship for this proposition and another man elevated to his place. The deed was done by a majority of the state committee, which favored no ticket except in the legislative districts. From all over the country indignant protests poured in on the itate committee from Republicans who take It that the party in Virginia owes something to the party in the nation, as well as lomething to itself.

These protests" have borne good fruit. Colonel Lamb and his faction have been encouraged by them to call a convention and nominate a state ticket. They propose to to into the campaign for protection and round money and for an intelligent and economical administration of the affairs of Virginia. They realize and affirm that the triumph of Republicanism in their state can never be brought about by tactics that smack of cowardice, or ajt best of a dishonorable kind of devotion to party. They also appreciate the fact .'that if the Republicans of Virginia are to come into the next national Republican convention and hold up their keads they must win the respect of the party by keeping its principles to the front whethir the offices are in sight or not.

Colonel Lamb's faction should receive the

,58"^.-. support of every Republican in Vir­

ginia. The opposing clique should now throw away its banner of inaction and retrogression. It should forget factional bitterness and do all it can for the success of the Republican ticket. It is possible', nay it is assured, that Virginia cannot always be kept in the grasp of the Democratic party by its unblushing manipulation of the returns. A day of reckoning is coming for all forms of political crookedness wherever they exist and by and by the Republicans of Virginia can go into campaigns with a good show of winning "ictories. So soon as they cease to struggle for Republican principles they have no right to recognition as members of that party end should make no claims for federal consideration upon the basis of their alleged Republicanism.

MONEY KEEPS PACE WITH TRADE A good illustration is furnished at the preset time of the certainty with which the volume of the currency expands to meet the demands of trade. In July, 1896, the country's per capita circulation—the proportion of the money in the people's hands and in the banks, on a basis of population—was $21.10. That was a period of profound business stagnation, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Bryan had just been nominated on a riot and repudiation platform his candidacy evoked wild enthusiasm among the revolutionary elements all over the country, conservative persons were timid, and the outlook seemed dark. The volume of the circulation consequently shrank to a lower figure than had been touched in many years, but, small as it was, it was beyond the needs of the business of the time.

The election, however, showed that the forebodings had not been justified by the clrcumi-tances. The revolutionary elements were not as strong as had been feared. Political sanity and business honesty were shown to be more widely diffused throughout the country than many good people imagined. Bryanism, with its attendant lunacies, follies and vices, was crushed. Then the business situation was swiftly transformed. There was a prompt financial rally, and business—slowly at first, but more rapidly in the past two months—has been Improving ever since. The business revival quickly -egistered itself in an increase In the currency. That per capita circulation of J21.10 at the time of Bryan's nomination had advanced to $22.76 at the beginning of September this year, and had gone up to $22.89 thirty days later, at the opening of the present month.

Population is growing, but the volume of the currency is growing faster. It is larger now than it has been since 1894, in which year, notwithstanding the Debs rebellion and other disturbances, Republican victory in 'Congressional elections was seen to be certain, and an improvement in business '^lis believed to be at hand. The silver menace, however, which subsequently allied itself with the rest of the crankeries and immoralities collectively called Bryanism, tfjiJjeared, the business revival went down to' the low line or $21.10 at the middle of 1896, when the perils which had been gathering in various quarters for years converged and culminated. These were swept away by the election of the McKinley ticket, business revived, and the circulation went up. It is certain to go higher than the point touched at the beginning of this month. The increase, moreover, is in the best form of money. Gold is flowing into the country from the four quarters of the globe—Europe,

Alaska, Asia and Australia. The country has more of that metal now than it ever had in the past, and its stock is sure to be largely increased from the mines and from outside sources in the next few months.

CURRENT EVENTS.

Mr. J. O. Jones, who was postmaster here in 1842, says he does not recall the accident by which the steamboat Visitor was sunk, although it may have occurred in that year. Mr. Jones' memory is very good, and it seemed strange that the two big steamboats, such as the Visitor and Hiram Powers, are represented as having been, could have been in collision here and one of them gone down and he not remember'the fact. But it is now explained that the accident was' in 1851 A somewhat capful examination of the files of the Wabash Express for 1842 did not result in finding a report of the accident. However, it was possible that the paper had reported the news, but in suoh «nall space that the report could have been overlooked in going through the files for the year. Strange as it may seem to the reader of the present day, newspapers it would h-ave been ip keepii^j with the manner of conducting newspapers in those days to have given only a few lines of space to the news of the disaster. There is not, in the aggregate, in the fifty issues of the Weekly Express of that year more than five columns of local news. In many issues there is not a word of local news. There are editorials of two and three columns each and many speeches delivered in congress are printed in full and all the miscellany, except that devoted especially to the farming interest, if of the controversial order on national and international issues. The sinking of a big steamboat here would hardly be accepted as worthy of much space when all these constitutional and international law questions were supposed to be the stuff the people wanted to read. It was not because casualties and crimes were tabooed, for every week or two there is a long story of crime in Europe or in New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore and such headlines as "Horrible Particulars" are frequent. The story of the hanging of Beauchamp in Parke county for a murder committed in this county is told in fifteen lines.

There are columns and columns about Joe Smith and the Mormon excitement at Nauvoo and many articles, communicated aftd editorial, on the proposed extension of the Wabash & Erie canal to Terre Haute. Colonel Thompson writes from Washington, where he was representing the district in congress, to correct a misrepresentation of the votes of some of his colleagues on the bankruptcy measure and at another time to say that he was trying to get the postoffice department to run four-horse mail coaches between here and Lafayette instead of two-horse coaches. The report of the big reception to Henry Clay in Indianapolis in October of that year occupies a page, small type. In the account it is said that the great crowd assembled the night before Clay's arrival wanted a speech and called for "Thompson—Dick Thompson," and that the young congressman from the Second district spoke for an hour.

The accusation of illegal practice against a law firm at the present time and the frequent talk of the lack of dignity or of dishonorable methods, gave peculiar interest to a column and half communication in The Express in 1842. The editor gave great prominence to it, setting it in double leaded form. The first sentence of the article was as follows: "That public opinion pronounces that there is, in the ordinary character of legal practice, much that 1b not reconcilable with rectitude can need no proof." There you have the accusation of dishonorable methods, made though it is in the "rounded period" style of writing of the time. We often hear it said that in the old days there were no such scandals atttut tfcs jiractice of lav as are common

now, but thia communication contradicts the assertion. In this connection it may be said that there was Just as much scandal about corruption in public life in the first half of the century as there Is now. In his speech at Indianapolis, Henry Clay referred to the fact that he had been assailed as one who had been corrupt in office. No doubt much that was said about the bar, or about public men, was not warranted by the tacts but, as now, the stories were told by personal or political enemies. The underneath talk about the Terre JIaute bar at the present time originates mostly from the stories told by lawyers themselves. For instance, three prosecuting attornes have told the writer of attempts to bribe them, made by oher lawyers, two of whom stand high at the bar and in the community.

Mr. J. O. Jones, who was a resident of this county earlier than perhaps any, other living resident, says there were large boats in the Wabash river trade, the laTger ones coming here in the "June rise," which could be counted upon with certainty. Indeed, shipments were ordered accordingly. Boats would start from Pittsburg with merchandise for this part of the Wabish valley, the captain taking it for granted that he would find a stage of w'ater for a large beat at that time. In the fall there was goot boating stage and also in the spring. At other times smaller boats navigated the river to Terre Haute and above. Speaking of the "June rise," the following from the aWbash Courier of June 14, 1838, is pertinent: "In consequence of the late rains the Wabash river has risen seven or eight feet. It is now, we believe, navigable for steamboats of the larger class."

Mr. Woolsey, who built the Indiana Distilleiy here and sold it out, is building one at, yi#cennes. He was in Vincennes Saturday and told a reporter that the impression th»( the distillery would not be operated is a. mistake. He says it will be in operation bjr Ueceinber. The Sun says that Messrs. Teuscher and Murphy of St. Louis will operate the distillery. It is also said that it will start with a capacity of 3,500 bushels of corn daily. .....

They had a society women's minstrels in Washington, Ind., last Friday for the benefit of a local charity. The following is the programme, which will be read with interest here, where we are soon to have a women's burnt cork show: ~v'«

PART I.

TEHEE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 12.1897.

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Grand Opening Suwatfee kiver Opening Overture Orchestra Baliad—"Heart of My Heart" »....

Miss Jennie May Heartburn

Song—"Ma AngelIne"..Trylbiannac Johnson Ballad—"The Little Girl Next Door".. Miss Eliza Marlah .Douglass 'Song—"I Don't Love No-body"

Mss Belinda Boomershine iSpilkins

Ballad—"School Play Ground" Miss Hanna Biac-i BloWhard Song—"Oh My Jonah" ..

Ophelia Jermima Skimmerhorn

Ballad—"The Birds Have iBeen Ringing About You" Miss Cleopatra H. Mdntgomery Closing Chorus By the "Company Interlocutor Queen Lil Director of .Orchestra.Martha Ann. Perkins

PART II.

Blaclcville Banjo Quartette ..Miss Phoebe Brown Miss MallndaHarrison, Miss Sally1, Ann Sebastlon,

Miss Sarah Jane Jones. Ventriloquest Mrs. Julius Robinson Comic Song By Black Patti Two Little Girls In Black

The Snowball Sisters

Honolulu Picnic..By the Entire Company Wing Dance Black Sisters Song—'.I Love You My Honey"

Caroline Yempley

Poem—'IWhy the Poor Girls Left Home" Miss Piety Bee be Stump Speech Mrs. Brother Gardiner

Dance and closing chorus from the comic opera, "Oh, My Jonah."

The newspapers are reporting first cases of diphtheria.

S. M. Faster of Ft. Wayne, a brother of A. Z. Foster of this city,' was one of the speakers at a banquet held in that city by the Business Men's Association. The local newspapers say that his talk caused a sensation. He "kicked" on things generally, •but especially on "the much to be deplored fact" that men "sought office solely for their own enrichment when the public welfare should have been their ideal." The Gazette's report- refers to his address as follows: "He bad seen, he said, men sitting cosily in their homes pocketing the unearned increment that society and Increasing population were giving their property. Before much benefit can be realized by the city, he said, this spirit of selfishness and disloyalty must be wiped out. The thought was applauded. One thing the people of Ft. Wayne must do is to make up their minds to do the best for the institutions in their midst which are honestly conducted. He told of the struggles of the knitting mills, which had overcome difficulties without the local patronage it should have had, until now it fo independent of all local interests, If need be, and openly defies the comptetition of the world. Mr. Foster was severe in his strictures on the partisan press, which he said engaged in harmful crimination arid recrimination of those in olflce and out who are really seeking to give the city an uplift. The city, he said, needs a new heart and should divorce politics from its municipal management."

A dispatch from Milwaukee says coal dealers there are expecting a coal famine. The normal amount of coal required for the supply of the trade is 800,000 tons. The reports show that the amount of soft coal W^ich has arrived thus far this season Is 300,000 tons. This makes it necessary to bring in 500,000 tons before the close of navigation. It is admitted on all sides that there is no probability of this being done even under the most favorable- conditions. Anthracite coal is also short 100,000 tons, and the situation, taken all around, has not a cheerful outlook for the dealers with large contracts on hand. Just at present everyone is borrowing from his neighbor with the understanding that he will repay when he is lucky enough to get a cargo. One thing which complicates the problem is the fact that Lake Superior ports are as badly off as Lake Michigan ports, and ag the season of navigation closcs there much earlier, more attention will be paid' to getting a supply above the "Soo" before the ice stops navigation.

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Edncati Tom ttovrel* with Oueants. Candy Cathartic, core constipation forsver. 10c, 55c. If C. C- C, fail* druggistsrefuad monsy.

TOM JOHNSON'S TBICK

CLEVSLAKO STKKKT RAILWAY MAONATE TURNS THINGS TOPSY-TURVY.

Henry George's Friend Brings Confoalon Into New York Politics—8eth how Repudiates a DwL

gptejaj t0 u,e Chicago Record. New York, Oct. 10.—I suggested last week that the presence of Tom Johnson in New York as the manager of Henry George's interests was a guaranty that the campaign would be exciting and sensational and the prediction is already fulfilled. The erratic gentleman from Cleveland has already turned things topsy turvey and thrown both the anti-machine parties into a state of con* fusion and bewilderment. Young Mr. Reynolds, who is chairman of the executive committee of the Citizens' Union, last Friday afternoon was enticed into the rooms of Mr. Johnson at the Everett House Mid there entered into a combination on behklf of President Low with the supporters- of Henry George, under which the latter agrded to place upon their ticket all the nominees of the Citizens* Union for town, county and district offices, Mr. Reynolds, consenting to this fusion without the consent or the knowledge of President Low or any other of the candidates, or any of the fellow members of the executive committee, with a single exception. He explains that he was not allowed time for consultation or reflection—that Mr. Johnson insisted upon an answer on the spot, and that he consented to the arrangement because he thought it was "for the interest of good government." If the Low and George partias were to unite upon a ticket several of their candidates would be certain of election, and he believed it wise to accept a sure thing when it was offered him.

There is a good deal of curiosity as to the compensation which Mr. Johnson exacted in exchange. Mr. Reynolds is a young gentleman without experience in politics or worldly affairs, except what he has been able to pick up in a theological seminary and the classrooms of a university, while Mr. Johnson is shrewd enough to be trusted in a trade with the evil one himself.

As soon as the fact became known the executive committee of the Citizens' Union was called together, and President Low met with them. He repudiated the arrangement (instantly and with indignation, and Reynolds and others who favored the scheme labored with him nearly all night. The committee adjourned without taking action, and after a few hours of sleep, a bath and breakfast its members met again. In the meantime the newspapers had got hold of the story from the George men, and several of the good government candidates who have more anxiety about their election than their principles attempted to use their influence with Mr. Low. But he declared that he would retire from the canvass rather than ratify the deal. Finally a compromise was agreed-upon to which he assented. The Citizens' Union, as an organization, repudiated the fusion, and its leaders issued a proclamation to that effect, but they formally acknowledged the propriety of any person or association supporting the whofe or any part of their ticket, and the right of any candidate they have named to accept as an individual the indorsement of any other party or*organization.

Thus the matter stands at present, but to avoid any further foolishness Mr. Low wilt tomorrow take charge of his' own campaigp and relieve from all responsibility the amateurs who have been looking after his interests. He has escaped from an embarrassing dilemma without sacrificing the respect of his admirers or his own self-respect.

But the followers of Henry George are not so easily satisfied. His nomination has been indorsed by half a dozen or more political organizations, by many of the labor unions and otter clubs and associations, all of which expected to be represented by candidates for minoi offices upon his ticket, who are naturally disappointed and consider themselves betrayed, for the Citizens' Union nomdnees are merchants, bankers, manufacturers and capitalists, with whom they have no sympathy, and without exception opposed Mr. Bryan during the recent presidential campaign.

Nor have these candidates any sympathy for the socialistic platform upon which Mr. George is making his canvass. This platform- has attracted to his headquarters all the queer men in this great city, men with wheels in their heads and these who see things at night men who have all sorts of new and novel ideas of government and plans for the reorganization of society, so that the waiting room at Mr. George's hotel has resembled a ward in a lunatic asylum. When the deal with the Citizens' Union was announced it became a bedlam, and he and Mr. Johnson were accused of selling out to the capitalists. Mr. Johnson known to be the chief owner of a street car line in Brooklyn, and it was charged that he has been arranging a deal so as to secure additional franchises. What his motives really were has not been disclosed, and what he expectB to accomplish by throwing the George vote to the Citizens' Union ticket is a matter of conjecture. Many people think that he was seeking contributions to pay the expense of the campaign, for the supporters of Mr. George—Mr. Johnson excepted—are men who are notoriously without means. Others think that his object was to effect a basis for heavy trading in the polls witlt the minor candidates on the ticket, who might be Induced to sacrifice Mr. Low and throw their influence to Mr. George to secure their own election. But whatever may have been in his mind, Mr. Johnson has placed himself and his associates in a grotesque situation.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of the Old World. The betrothal is announced of Prince Eugene of Sweden, the youngest and artist son of King Oscar, to Princess Olga of Wurttemberg, daughter of Duke Eugene of Wurttemberg, and of his wife, the Grand Duchess Vera of Russia, sister of the Queen of Greece, writes the Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. Young Princess Olga and her twin sister, Elsa, who married a short time ago Prince Albert of Schaumburg, are the two wealthiest royal heiresses in all Europe. In addition to the fortunes of their father and mother, they have inherited all that of their grandaunt, the Russian-born Queen Olga of Wurttemberg, who died two years ago.

The twins are exceedingly pretty girls, and both the duke and duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha did everything that they could to bring about a marriage between their only son, Prince Alfred, and one of these two princesses.

The royal twins have long been fatherless, Duke Eugene having died so suddenly at the time they were about 1 year old that it always has been alleged that be either had been killed in a duel or had been slain by some man whom he had mortally offended.

The match is a very fortunate one for Prince Eugene or Sweden, who is popularly known as "the red prince," on account of his democratic opinions. He is very badly aff financially, and when studying painting at Paris in Julien's studio under an assumed name, had more than once his effects pitched Into the street by indignant landlords for

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It happened in this way: One day while attending the races at Newmarket Fred attempted to pick the pocket of Baron Hirsch. The latter, who knew Fred well by sight, the man having been pointed out to him at Paris by some of the private detectives in his employ, turned laughingly to him and exclaimed: "Fred, my friend, you have made a mistake today. If you will look at that pocketbook which you have just taken you will find that it is quite empty, as luck has been against me. The best thing that you can do is to give It back to me."

Fred was so much mortified by this break on his part that he determined to repair his damaged pr.estige by means of a master stroke. So when shortly afterward the prince of Wales attended the races at Epsom he maneuvered so cleverly that he was able to possess himself of the pocketbook of his future king without the latter's perceiving his loss. Fred was so tickled by this feat that he could not refrtflti from addressing the following letter to Ifhe prtneei0which is carefully preserved among the latWt'ti correspondence at Marlborough hdti!S&'v'2it runs as follows:

Sir: Your royal hi-^Wfteas'^'ill have noticed on returning fram iEpsom -that your pocketbook had disappeared containing bank notes to the following amounts: (Here follows a list of the notes.) I think it my duty to inform your rftyat highness that the pocketbook is in my possession, and that it has in mv eye a double value, not so much on acoount of it3 contents as by reason of Its former ownership. I had the honor to take it from your royal highness as you were leaving the royal stand.

I remain, sir, with the most profound respect, your royal highness' humble servant, Fred,

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King of the Pickpockets.

The prince was so much amused by this letter that he sent for the man, propiis'ag that no harm should befall him, *nd had a long and most entertaining conversation with him in Sir Francis Knolty's room at Marlborough house, subsequently expressing a warm appreciation of the man's astounding sleight of hand and knowledge of the «rorld, especially his unerring and pointer-like instinct as to the gaire worthy of being followed.

It may be added that although Fred's inscription was known at every police office throughout Europe, yet he never was arrested, so far a3 is known, since he never allowed himself to be caught in flagrante delicto. Indeed, the only time that he made what may be described, as- a ta."A pas was when Baron Hirw requested him to return the empty pocketbook.

It is a relief to learn that the missing king of the Belgians has at leflgth been found. Ho has landed at Larisb, on the coast of Morocco, and now is traveling In the interior of the Moorish empire, beyond the reach of either post or telegraph, under the name of Count Ravenstein. It is stated officially that he is hunting wild pigs. But' this is merely a facon de parler, as Leopold has always abhorred eve.y form of sport o*&ept horseback riding.

What is Blood Poverty?

Blood-poverty is want of red corpuscles in the blood, due to defective nourishment of the 1Jood, brought about by imperfect or bad digestion. A positive cure for this ailment is Ir. John W. Bull's Pills, a surpassing digestive tonic and an excellent bloodmaker. Dr. Bull's Pills oome sixty in a box cost but 25 cents trial box, 10 cents, sold by all dealers, or by mail. A. C. Meyer & Co, Baltimore, Md. Accept only Dr. John W. Bull's Pills.

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Win. Jennings Neukrm. 648 Lafayetta avenns. 6«o. Rel*. Second streat and Wabash avenue.

Greatest Drinkin of Alcohol. A learned professor at Geneva, Switerland, states that France drinks more alcohol annually any otiter nation In Kurope. His ealoulatlon Is based on the percentage of alcoholio liquors consumed. According to this standard, each person In France drinks 18 quarts of alcohol in many more quarts of wines, been, eto.. in the course of a year. 1. •••si

TO dc COStfST AND HAPPT U«e "Carlaud" Stoves and 2tut«v

for 25c.

g— Bed spreads, large sue, beautiful patterns, hemmed and ready for use— sold in most stores for $i.as, here only 08c.

5^'A SO pieces 40-inch Noveity Dress Goods, regular price 50c for 39c a yard. gT"42-inch Fancies, the biggest and best assortment is right here, and ST prices will set you thinking. Some stores ask 75c for inferior goods^SZ:choice 33c a yard.

Yard .. ide, a'.l wool novelties, enly 25c a yard, & sr High class dress goods at 65c, 75c, 86c, 50c, $x.oo to $1.50.

Handkerchiefs.

Here's another bargain. We bought 150 dozen at a price way below mZ- their ieal value. They are Swiss Handkeichiefs, with an embroidered edge, --g rr formerly sold for 10c, now 4 for a quaiter. -^Z gZ Our Cloak ard Suit Department is coming to the front. Don't miss it as -jg SZ it means a saving to you. ^3

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Now that Sagasta has become prime minister once more, It may be of interest to recall the fact that in 1868 ho was in*ici«d as a red revolutionist, and was upon the point of being sentenced to death by the garrote. a penalty which was vehemently demanded in his case by Senor Igon, who was at the time the principal law officer of the Spanish crown. A few years late, when Sagasta became minister of justice, he heaped coals of fire upon the head of Senor Igon by ?fpointing him president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the kingdom. Sagarta is probably the least vind'ctlve Spaniard in existence. Unlike his countryman, he does not appear to know the meaning of the word revenge.

The prince of Wales has many queer acquaintances, some of them respectable *.nd others quite the reverse, but as a *ule each of them distinguished for pre-eminence in some particular art, calling or even mere trick. One of the strangjdst of' these acquaintances, and certainly one of the cleverest, was an individual vflo waft known by the name of "Fred," and'Whb was wont tor style himself the "king of the pickpockets," a title that was accorded him with a certain degree of deference, not only by his brethren, of the craft, but likewise bj^ 'tHe police authorities in London and all over the continent of Europe. He has just died prematurely, and sincerely regretted by a large host of admirers, including the prince, whose pocket he picked on one memorable occasion about eight years ago.

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(»CC?FJtViON Or THE 7BRBE HAUTE WOMAN'S CLUB FOR THK TEAR.

'The tfa« Book »t FraMnl Coder Consideration—One. Year Given bo Tfeackeiay.

For the ausfe eighteen years tie Terrs Kautr. Club has been applying self to'the pursuit of knowledge.

In tiat- tior it has swept over quite .large Held, of study, comprehended more 01 less adequately under the heads cf history, litlraturo anl art.*

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This notable organization was born in a January and frqm its birth to the present its year's work has begun when the bells were ringing out the false and ringing ia the true.

It happens therefore, that Just now th« club is in the very midst of its study for the year 1897. Last January it began the study of Thackeray under the direction ot Mrs. Davidson of New York, sister of Professor Noyes of the Polytechnic, a woman whose keen intellect and comprehensive literary understanding were made manifest -to1 the people of Torre Haute last winter, when Mrs. Davidson delivered a few lectures in this city.

At present the Terre Haute Woman's Club Is studying Thackeray's novel, "Tho Newcomea." Mrs. Davidson sends the ffictribers an outline for their guidance, accompanying it with a series of questions and each one is supposed to be able to answer all the questions when the meetings occur. Occasionally certain members are chc«ea to write papers on the different characters under consideration and perhaps the entire club will be given an opportunity to record in 9 formal way its impressions of the simple-hearted Colonel Newcome.

Since the club's" work has begtfn annually in January, so it has ended annually in January. The women composing the organization have been slow to sanction any chaDge and as a consequence up to this time the Terre Haute Woman's Club takes a fresh start when other societies of a similar character, as well as schools, colleges and universities, have their year's work only half finished. At last, however, the strong sense of conservatism in the club is yleldlnq and next fall this organization will start out on a new programme along with its knowledge hunting contemporaries. Thackeray will occupy its attention until January, when the study mapped out for 1891 will have been completed. Then another author will be taken up under Mrs. Davidson's tutelage and will be studied until June. Who this author is to be has not yet been determined. It is believed, however, that he or, she will be a -writer of fiction. .'••

No literary club In the city pursues its work more persistently than the Terre Haute Woman's Club. The latter Is the oldest of them all and its vitality is far from waning. Indeed, the society appen..'* to get a firmer grip on life year by year and it promises to abide as one of c'ae creditable and thoroughly profitable institutions of the city's higher life.

THINK IT STRANGE.

Local Authorities Say They Notified Sull!-. van Officials About Burr.

The members of this city's po.Ve force are of the opinion that the failure of the authorities at Sullivan to itrrtwm them as to the whereaborts of Ciaude Burr is reprehensible, to say the least.

When the grand jury returned the indictment against Burr, for passing his worthless checks, the warrant fov his arrest vas handed over to the force. The offlcerS at once notified tne authorities at Sullivan, where he was supposed to be, of the fact and, up to the time he was released from jail there Saturday, had received no irord, though it has since com* to light that the fellow had been about there, and tha. the officers were cognizant of the fact.

Burr was this c'ty a week ago, on his way from Sullivan to Brazil, but as the detectives had no description of the ma-j and did not ksow him. he was allowed to go unmolested. When he went to Brazil he committed a similar offense to the .vie for which he was indicted, and upon his return to Sullivan was arrested and lodged in jail. He efterward released on ptcwiice of leaving the country. The T^rre Haute authorities were not notified that he was In Sullivan at all. a »j knew nothing of it until the fact was chronicled the p-pen.

Odd Fellows to Meet H«tre Today. There will, be a grc.t gathering of Vigo county Odd Fellows in this city today. Officers and members of every lodge in the county will be here. The grand Instructor of the state will te In attendance at the sessions and assist the Daughter of Rebekili In the conferring of degrees. The session is to be held In the afternoon. The work of the Initiatory degre^ is to be performed by the team of Amico *dge.

The Medal Medicine Is the Model Medicine.

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