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Address all letters*- •, •••.= ,TWX. C. BALL CO* GAZETTE. Terre Haute.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1879.

IT is laid the constitutional amenr1^ noents will cost the State $1,000,000 the first year, and $300,000 each subsequent year for their enforcement and operation.

WOOLEY, the mysterious gentleman whom none of the visiting Democrats in the disputed States had any confidence in, has not yet been examined by the Potter committee.

DAXVILLE, Indiana, it going into hysterics over the birth of a child weighiogonly one pound and a quarter. This seems like a very small thing to be making a fuss about. aim

OUR City Council is imitating John Sherman's policy of refunding bond6 bearing a high rate of interest in the same securities at a lower rate. It works well in both cases, for it is true that a dollar saved is a dollar made. v^t? O

PRESIDENT HAYES ought to hare some views on the bill reducing the tax on manufactured tobacco. If he would interpose his veto, and thereby prevent its becoming a law, he would do the country a service of value. ^^WWSn^nna

INCREASING expenditures f&IRTY^ or fifty millions of dollars for arrears of pen" sions, and reducing the revenue several millions by lowering the tax on tobacco are two measures likely to bring the present Congress into unenviable notoriety.

EX-CONGRESSMAN BURCHARD, who ha6 been appointed director of the mint, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Dr. Linderman, is a believer in silver money, and the "dollar of the dads" will now be under the protection of a friend.

ONE of the maryels in connection with Christiancy's resignation of his seat in the Senate, his acceptance of the Peruvian mission, and Chandler's election to the vacant Senatorship, is the fact that the former has succeeded in selling a $4,000 house for $11,000. W ..

A DISPATCH from New Albany, ptifblished in this issue of the GAZETTE, and announcing the illness in that place of two persons supposed to be stricken with the black plague, is of considerable importance. It is not a pleasant disease to have fooling around the premises. I

A WITNESS at the Vanderbilt will trial reports the old Commodore as once having said: "I put my trust in Providence because Providence is as square as a brick." The language hardly conforms to the usual theological formula, but the old capitalist had views and they were evidently orthodox in spirit if not in form.

A THE Chinese delegation at Washing ton i6 considerably agitated-over 1he prospects of the passage of the anti-Chi-nese emigration bill which has just been passed. When it comes before the President for his signature they will file a formal protest against it as in violation of the existing treaty between the United Stata^and China.

Now it is Don Camerson who proposes to measure Swords with the administration, notwithstanding the fact that Conk ling, who is a vastly ablef man was badly beaten at that game. Hayes it seems has appointed a man to office who is obnoxious to Don, having once upon a time opposed that dynasty The son ol his father proposes to see if his same cannot be rejected in executive session.

MAYOR WILDY announced to the Council last night that mil danger of smallpox in Terre Haute had |assed. The one case that had been in the hospital had been discharged and that institu tion closed for the season. No other case beside this one had been discovered by any physicians or by tbe Board of Health. The promptness of the authorities in attending to this one case saved the place from what might have teen a .source *f serious trouble.

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A a* L* reducing the rate of taxation on 34 cents to

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16 cents per pound is now pending in the Senate. It has passed the House and bids fair to pass the Senate. So far the discussions on the subject in both branchof Congress have failed to disclose any good or sufficient reasons for this reduction of tax. Tobacco is an article which all persons are agreed is a luxury and should bear the highest possible rate of taxation which can be collected with certainty. If the distinguished gentlemen who make laws for us would be at pains enough to explain themselves the people would listen with interest, if not with approval.

Q^six VICTORIA is doing reasonably well with her hoys. Albert Edward, otherwise Prince of Wales, and her eld est son, is receiving a liberal salary while he waits for his mother's crown. Henext son, also liberally provided for with a salary, as indeed are all of her family is in training for Lord High'Admiral the Navy. The next is preparing himself to receive the commandership- inchief of the Army. Another will soon b^' made Viceroy of Ireland. Still another is intended for the Archbishopric of Canterbury. A daughter's husband is the' GovernorGeneral of Canada. Some other daughters have married kings, beside receiving annual salaries from the British Treasury. What more could a fond mother wish for her progeny? Ambitious £nglish youth must sigh when they observe the royal lamily absorbing all the best paying and most honorable offices in the kingdom. If Victoria had been less numerously 'a mother there would not have been much mourning among her loyal subjects.

THE PENALTIES OF SUCCESS The weak and unfortunate excite no envy. The pangs of disease, the cravings of hunger, the depths of despair, are not coveted. But the man who has, by streogth of brawn and brum, curved a fortune from the world'* pelf, and -established a name which means persistency, honesty and good judgement, is an object of jealousy, the most sleepless and consulting.

Every lawyer who has an abundance of paying clients who rely upon his knowledge of law, his accuracy of reasoning', and his ability to render them a desired service, seems to be the particular object of villification by all the briefless barris-. ters in his immediate neighborhood. His success has appealed to all that is mean in the nature of those whotai he has outstripped in the race for bOnOrs and (Sorb" petence. They hate and' malign him,liecause he has accomplished that tjhicli tbey have failed to accomplish.

Each disciple of Esculapius—from the village doctor, unknown

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yond a radius: of fiftfefcn mile.'*, to the leaders of the pro on who have made medicine a soHrce of wealth, honor, or good repute becomes a target at'which quacks squirt slander and charlatans throw dirt with tireless aeal. Becoming a target for failures and vagabonds to sling mud and garbage at, is a penalty of buccess. s.

I|ven the pulpit has *Been ^nown'fb contain envy. And to-day many of the mpst insidious foes of Beecher. are, clerically, hurling thunderbolts at the Devil on Sundays and inutndoes at Beecher duringli/'/the^ff week^^the latter being always spiced with the greatest- sincerity« A*- a pleasant* popular preacher, Iftecher has, by virtue Of superior brain and a wonderfully pul-pit-adapted temperament, become to the American pulpit what Bilmarck has to European statesmen, the one visable personage the one grand individuality. Therefore, small exhorters, mere yelpers in the cause of Christ, are everywhere envious of Beecher, and from thpm^Jif has received, and will continue to receive, the^Os^^stilsn^inncjances.

THE NEW. HAMPSHIRE TRAMP LAW. P':'j fp New Hampshire has a very severe law againtt tramps. It has excited considerable comment over the country because of the stringency of some ot its provisions. For the information ot our readers we copy the law entire, as follows:

Section 1. Any person going about from place to place begging and asking, or subsisting on charity, shall be taken and deemed to be a tramp, and shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor 'Hwthe State Prison not more than fifteen months.

Sec. 2. Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling-house, or kindle any fire on any highway or on the land of another, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any firearn, or other dangerous weapon, or'shall threaten to do any injury to any peson, or to the real or personal estate of another, ehall be punished by imprisonmen at hard labor in the State Prison not more than two years.

Sec. 3. Any tramp who shall winfully and maliciously do any injury to any parson, or to the real or personal estate of another, shall b» punished by imprisonment in the State Prison not more than five years.

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tled to a reward of ten dollars therefor, to be paid bv the cnuaty. Sec. 6. The Ma nr of every city and the selectmen of every town are hereby authorized and required to appoint special constables whose duty it shall be to arrest and prosecute all tramps in their respective cities and towns.

Sec. 7, This chapter thall not apply to any female or minor under the age of 17 years, nor to any blind persons.

But if the law is rigid it is also effective. In a recent number of the Saturday Magazine is an article from the City Marshall of Nashua, N. H., giving an account of its operation in that place. He says: •&,* ?This law has had a wonderful effect. Three or four of their number has been "sent up the river" fcr thirteen and fifteen months, and the result is empty station houses where one year ago there loosed every night-from twelve to twen-ty-fire persons. The good effect is also seen and felt in the country towns. Women are no longer afraid to be left alone in the farm houses, children are no longer in fear when traveling on the highway to school, and the housekeepers in cities and villages are.not summoned to their back doors to find a villainous looking bully who dertiands fcod, and is not content unless given the best in the house. We admit that the law is severe, but we say, in view of what our people have suffered, it is better to house a few tramps in the Stat^ Prison than that our wives and little ones should live in constant fear and danger." ..

A law that can work such wonders is nof to be despised.

,CITY BONDS.

At Its session Tuesday night CouuCil passed a very important ordinance. It pWvides fcr the issue of low rate bonds to refund outstanding bonds bearing 7 and 8 per cent, interest. It is thought they can be negotiated at par for 5 per cent or even lower. The ordinance

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and the discussion in relation to it will be found in the report of the proceedings of the Council in another column.

In a short time $83,000 of City bonds will have passed the first period of maturity, When it is in Jthe power of the Council to call them in if it so desires. These bonds bear 7 and 8 per cent interest. To meet them the city has $30,. 000 in the sinking fund. This will leave $53,ocx) worth of those bonds outstanding. The object of the refunding loan is to pay this off, leaving in its stead bonds bearing a rate of interest not higher than 5 per! cent. At this point a question was raised with reference to the floating debt. As will be seen a loan of $50,000 would leave $3,000 of bonds unredeemed. It was proposed by Schloss, chairman of the finance committee, that the city sell $100,000 worth of bonds. After tbe outstanding bonds were taken up this would leave $47,000 to be applied to the floating indebtedness of the city. Nor is it too much. The city has most money in the treasury on the ist of May the {axes having then just been paid. On the 1 st of May last year, after till the money was collected that could be, thecity had notes outstanding to the extent of $44,000, covering her floating indebted edfness. She now hafc a floating debt Of I90.500. It will increase for two months yet. This floating debt is borrowed at 8 per cent. Forty-four thousand of it is permanent, and bears interest for twelve months* The difference between that and $90,500 ($46,500) is borrowed formless than twelve months. Since the debt will be increased for two tnohths yet it might 6afely be a*siimed that $50,000 bears interest for periods ranging between one and eleven months. Thij» would make a sum of $25,000 at interest for twelve months. It really make* the city pay per cent, interest the year round on about $69,000. This is a little higher than it was stated by Mr. Schloss, but it is believed, to be correct. By borrowing $100,000 on 5 ^percent, bonds the city could save three per cent, on $47,000 of her floating Indebtedness as well as from two to three per cent, on $53,000 of the money used to buy and cancel her outstanding 7 and 8 per cent bonds. However, this relates to a proposition that was voted down.

What the Council did was to pass an ordinance pro* iding for the issue and sale of $75,000 worth of bonds. This will effect a considerable saving, though not as much as if the larger issue had been determined upon. With this amount borrowed at 5 per cent, the city will be able, by the use of the $30,000 in the sinking fund, to cancel the $83,000 of outstanding bonds, and have $23,000 to apply to the floating in* debtedness. This will effect a saving as follows: The $30,000 in the sinking fund may be supposed to cancel the $28^000 of Water Works bonds, and $2,000 of the

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Any act of beggary or vagrancy

by any person not a resident of the state shall be evidence that the person committing the same is a tramp within the meaning of this chapter.

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offense descriMd in this chapter, may apprehend the offender and take him before a justice of the peaee for examination, and on his conviction shall be enti

of sewer bonds. This will leave

$53,000 of sewer bonds, the saving on th« annual interest charge of which, by reducing the rate from 8 to 5 per cent, would be $1,590, and on $22,000 of floating debt would be $660.

This would make an aunual saving of $2,250 in the matter of interest For it the Council deserves the congratulations and thanks of the community in whose behalf and for whose benefit the .subject has been discssued in all its phases and worried over for some time*.

With tbe prudent management which sow controls the dty it is not to be wondered at that the credit of our Prairie City is quoted in money centers as A. 1.

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REMARKS ABOUT ABSALOM.

About Males. Alan, aad Marriages aad Qaail on Toast and the SUintr's Death-Bed.

Gymaantlcs sf fHctanl of nets' plaor Wktch Konody But Talmage Attempts !towa ,• jw days.

1 From tbe New York World. ''The two great characteristics of Absalom." Mr. Talmage announced yesterday '-were his woildly ambition and his long hair. By the one be was debased and by the other hanged. He was a bad, bad boy. this Absalom, and broke his father's heart. He wanted his lather's throne and he got up an insurrection. The two armies are drawn up ready tor battle and David sits waiting anxiously to hear about the safety of his son. The father was mightier than the king. He 6its—(the preacher perched himself with crooked knees on the edge of his hymnbook stand)—and 6ees the dust afar before he sees the messenger, but he knows it is a messenger and he rushes—(two bounds across the platform)—and snout6, 'Is Absoloir. alive? Sa-ay, is Absalom dead? Is my boy wounded? Tell me quickly. What do you say? Is the young man Absalom fafe?' But the messenger had no very decided intelligence to give, so he stood aside. Then there came a second cloud of dust. (Position on hymn-book stand resumed and the afflicted father makes a lorgnette by rolling up his hands). 'Sa-ay, is the young man safe?' Alas! he was not safe. Absalom was riding on a mule, the meanest animal of the world to ride on, hardest at the bit and stiffest at the neck. They went under a tree and Absalom's hair got mixed up in it, and the mule went on as they always do when they should not, and with an awful negative the text was answered. I want to utter a fe.v words about the safety of young men and men generally. While men may get along without Christ in a general "way, they are turning points where they must have God or make a big mistake. One important pass in a man's life is the time when he establishes his home. It is not a matter of surprise that affiancing for life should be treated as a joke? When a man marries he marries for heaven or for hell and he begins to experience it right off. Do not build your hupes of earth and the hereafter on a parcel ot ribbons or a finely tinted face. you do not want a pet but a heroine in the house. There have been Christian women who could in the days of their poverty get more music out of a Wheeler & Wilson than in the days ot their prosperity they ever got out of a or a grand. Some of you never knew your homes until they got touched by misfortune, and then, oh how your wife towered up, like the host shouting on the shores of the Red Sea. Over that house where a daughter of the church officiates as wife the angles of God move (wing-tip illustrations). It is another crisis when a man meets his first success. It may be this young man has been taken into parnership, and then comes the test. Now, what shall I buy? Some rush into disfipation, some take on arrogance, and whole caravans might pass through the eye of their meannitss. The man goes on faster and faster—8, 20, 100 miles per hour—untill he wakes up to find that he is drawn by thefirey hoofs of eternal disaster as they come clattering down the pavement ot hell! The Israelites had such a crisis when they cried out for meat and got quail to the right and quail *0 the left. They ate and they ate until quail on toast became an abomination. And 1 tell you (shouted Mr. Talmage in his loudest thunder tones), it is not the hardship that destroys men, but the quail, the quail. (Gentle surprise in the assembly.) "Another important pass is the first sorrow. The ship in smooth water needs no extra cordage, no carpenter but when the waters dash clear over the hurricane deck (a wonderful feat of gymnastics illustrated this movement) tbe captain cries out 'where is the car' penter?' Christ is your carpenter on the sea of life. Oh, rov God, who can stand trouble without Christ 10 comfort? Who can bear the pawing of the pale horse without Christ as a physician? There is one more paw, when we meet the latt hour of existence here. You and I can alike heed i'or this pass. I suppose you are all wanting to expire at home, to have one friendyto hold the hand, another dear face to look into and others standing about. If you^ are a parent there are directions to be given about children. You have a message to give. All these friends are helpful and comforting, but jou want a divine triend. We want a pilot for our trip. If we go without Christ we take a leap into the dark. Some one says I am going on and I will take the risk. Oh, what a terrible display of rashness! Some will say it is as easy to become a Christian as to turn the hand." What a mistake. Salvation is not easily won. It is a hard fight, but one worth the winning- We start out as the excursion steamer on the Niagara River some miles above the falls, full of people, and down the stream they went in merriment and glee. Somebody called the attention uf the captain to the advisability of going back, but he said he knew how to act. At last the captain turned he shouted to the pilot to point her away from the falls, but the tide had grown powerful. 'Put on more steam yelkd the captain, as tbe boat seemed to be losing ground. The engineer did so. 'Put on more yet!* 'It will bust the boat,' answered the engineer. (The preacher endeavored with some success to become an explosion). 'Put on more steam!' was the captain's only response. The people were aroused and, with the falls echoing in their ears, called for help to the chief engineers on high.

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the abvss and slowly pushed up the river. Would von not when your life is in danger lay hold Of the oars and pull?"

The preacher here went through an exercise which, if carried into actual practice, would swamp a pontoon-boat and, suddenly stopping, surprised his audience by adding, "Let us pray."

Cincinnati is not the Paris of America. It is the Ham-burg-—[Canton Repository* r,

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TOM POTTER'S FEATS,

A* RSLATLD BY A PERSON WHO WAS A FRIEND TO THE SOLID TRUTH. From the Camden J. Democrat.

They had been talking about the remarkable performances of Dr. Carver, the marksinan, who 9hoots with a rifle glass balls which are sent into the air as fast as a man can throw them. Presently Abner Bying, who was .sitting by, said: "That's nothing."

What is nothing?'* "Why, that shooting. Did you ever know Tom Potter?" "No." "Well, Potter was the best hand with the rifle I ever saw beat this man Carver all hollow. I'll tell you what I've seen thin man Potter do. You know, maybe, along there in the cherry season Mrs. Potter would want to preserve some cherries, as Tom would pick 'em for her. and how do you think he'd 6tone 'em?" "I don?l know. How?'' "Why, he fill his gun with bird shot and get a bof to drop half a bushel of cherries at one time from the- roof of a house. As they came down he'd fire ana take the stone clean out of every cherry in the lot.' It's a positive fact! He might occasionally miss one, but not often. But he did bigger shooting than that when he wanted to." "What did he do?" "Why, Jim Miller—did you know him? Ko? Well, Tom made abet once with Jim that he could shoot the button off his own coat tail by aiming in the opposite direction, and Jim took him up*"... .,.. "Did he do it?" 4, ''Doit! He fixed himself in a position and aimed at a tree in front of him. 1 he ball hit the tree, caromed, hit the corner of a house, caromed, struck a lamp-post, caromed and flew behind Tom and nipped the button off ais slick as a,^ whistle. You bet he did ill" "That was fine shooting." "Yes, and I've seen Tom Potter beat it. I've seen him stand under a flock of wild pigeons, billions of them coming like the wind, and' kill 'em so fast that the front of the flock never passed a given line, but turned over and fell down, so that it looked like a kind of biown and feathery Niagara. Tom did it by 'having twenty-three breech-loading rifles and a boy to load 'em. He always shot with that kind." "You say you saw him dQ this sort 01 shooting?" *. "Yes, sir and better than that, too. Why, I'll tell you what I have seen Tom Potter do. I saw him once set up an India rubber target at 300. feet and hit the bull's-eye twenty-seven times a minute with the same ball. He would hit the target, the ball would bound right tack into the rifle barrel just as Tom had clapped in afresh charge of powder, and

And then the company rose up slowly and passed out one by one, each man eyeng Abner and looking solemn as he went by and when they had gone Abner looked queerly for a moment and said to me: "There's nothing I hate so much as a liar. Give me a.man who is a riend of the solid truth, and I'll tie to him."

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Joaquin Miller writes a hand which it is almost impossible to read. Swinburne does likewise, using a quill pea. Walt. Whitman also wields a quill, but his writing is large, bold, careless and distinct. Ruskin's chirography is as fine as if written with a pin point. Lowell writes A ladylike, running hand, very plain, with the exception of his signature. Froude's penmanship is distinct and fine Kate Field's square and bold Geo. Macdonald's large and manly, and William Winter's is like forked lightning. Robert Buchanan writes an "easily read, affectedly literary hand, as though he were trying to be unintelligible, but did not like to be altogether so." He also decorates his letters with boyish curly queues. Mrs. Oliphant writes worse than anybody else, apparently using the point of a hair.—[Courier Journal.

What constitutes "news?" A man reads long colums of murder cases, half a doaen suicides, aa many divorces, twice as many defalcations, an entire renovation of the map of Europe, deaths of statemen, savans, 'and poets, and the nomination of a sorce or two of the Presidential aspirants and when his friend asks," What's the news?" helanguidly replies. "Oh, nothing." Again we ask wbat is "news?"—{Boston Transcript.

A PENSION AGENTS FRAUD.

HE OBTAINS $L8,000 FROM THE GOVXRMENT AND IS sKNTENCKO TO TEN YEARs' 1MFRI60NMENT.

C«pt. George Prince, a man 6a years old, pleaded guilty before Judge Fox, in Portland, Main, of obtaining fraudulent pension claims from the government to the amount of$18,000, ana on Tuesday was sentenced to ten years imprisoment at hard labor in the State Prison at Thomaston. The Portland Argus gives his story of his crime as follows: "I was an examiner of widows' pensions on the Iowa desk, but as for beginning any fraudulent transaction of the kind alleged while in the Pension Office in Washiogtou, that is not true. The loose manner of doing business in that 0 encouraged me after I resigned my clerkship in 1866, in the belief that could successfully carry out a scheme for defrauding the government out of about $1,000 a year. I tried the scheme, and it worked to a charm. For xa years 1 drew pensions for tix widows who never wedded nor wore weeds save in my own imagination, and might have continued so doing if I had not been sick of the business and desirous of closeing it up. I killed off one of my widows and in her place substituted Sobina R. Mudge, and no suspicion wa6 excited at the Pension Office. If I had kept Mrs. Mudee at Portsmouth, N. H., where I called her into being, all would have been well. But I moved her to Bath, Me., and when I attempted to kill her off the matter attracted attention." "Thenyou wrote the notice' ef Mrs. Mudge's death which first appeared in the Boston Post?" asked the reporter. "Yes," replied the Captain "I went to Boston for that very purpose, and there's where I again put my foot in it." "I didn't come here to interview you Captain Prince," said the reporter, "but before it slips my mind I would like to ask if your method of securing these fraudulent pensions was substantially as alleged by the govenment and printed in the Argus the morning after you were arrested and brought to this city?" "It was," said the Captain. "The District Attorney had sifted the matter thoroughly, and made himself familiar with the method I uned successfully for over 12 years. And here I want to say a good word for Mr. Lunt. I consider him not only a very able man, but a gentleman. I shall go to Thomaston with the best of feelings for District Attorney Lunt" "But," continued the Captain, after a slight pause, ''I san't help .thinking my sentence a severe oue. It amounts to the same thing as a life sentence. I am 62 years old and shall never live to see my seventy-fourth year. They accuse me of committing forgeries—something I never did in my life. All names I have ever

so he kept her going backward and for- signed on pension papers, besides my ward until at last be happened to move his gun and the bullet missed the muzzle of the gun. It was the biggest thing I ever saw the very biggest—except one." 1 -j 1 "What was that?" "Why, one day I was out with him when he was practicing, and it came on to rain. Tom didn't want to get wet, and we had no umbrella, and what do you think he did?'' vfli.t "What?" "Now what do you think that man done to keep dry?" "I can't imagine." "Well, sir, he got me to load his weapons for him, and I pledge you my word, although it began to rain hard, he hit every drop that came down, so that the ground for about eight feet around us was dry as punk. It was beautiful, sir— beatifui."

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HE'S HELL ON HEAD LINES. Trom the Indlanapolia Herald. Charley Dennett, who is now getting a salary of $5,000 a vear, used to sung solid minion on the Cincinnati Commercial, and made an average of fifteen dollars a week. He didn't strike journalistic oil until after his fortieth jear. McCullough took him to Chicago to work on the Republican. He finally became telegraph editor of the Times at a salary of I40 a week—his great point being a facility for the invention of startling hMd* lines. It was Dennett who shocked the Christian world by the biting sarcasm with which a line of black type announced that a canting murderer had been "Jerked to Jesus." He owes his rappid rise in value to a swearing match with Old Storey, in which the great blasphemer was completely vanquished. The proof reader had been changing some of Dennett's head-lines against his repeated protests, whereupon he resigned. Storey, who ordinarily does not take much interest in the employment or discharge or subordinates, was loth to lose Dennett, though he had but the most distant personal acquaintance with him. He sent for Dennett to come to his room. Knowing Storey's style, Dennett expected to be blown up, and entered defiantly. Storey fired off a volley ofd—ns, and then Dennett broko loose. Tbe gas lights burned blue, and the window-glass rattled with the vibration. Storey was struck dumb with astonishment. As soon aa he recovered he toldDennett that he could not think of letting such a talent for profanity go out of the office at anv price that he should go back to wqfk at double his salary, and would have an order made that nobody hould be allowecUo interfere with hts head lines.

A IrtltlM ChMt fcr 29 Ceafs. Perhaps no oae medicine Is universally required by everybody as good .eathartoe mm'i Tan Aim hxmaubi Km are prepared expressly to meet this nesesslty. They are mud in their operation, produoe ao griping, aad are traly a valuable purga

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speneat, aati-biUous aad eathanio medicine. .They stimulate the liver is healthy aeUea, cleanse the sssssaefe and bowels of all imparities. Curing sick aad aervons headache, dyspepsia or us digestion bilions or intsrmtttent, remittent and eon-

Boshes of heat, lemale irrsgulantics, aad for a bUihos aad costive aabit, ao medicine is so prompt aad effectual as Pa. Swarara Tan ako 8anaaraatM.a Pius, rar drngglstor store keeper has not got them, or wilfnot prwmre them for yon, wo will farward them by mall en receipt of price, |ln currency or postage^ stamps!. eeata a box, or Ivsbo»s tor fl. Address letters, Dr. awsyne* Sen, Ko. Ml lferth Mixth HLMVL ALLILOWPBLLE

Sold by Buntin Armstrong Terre Haate.

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