Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 December 1902 — Page 4

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A REPUBLICAN tySWSPAPER.

Published by The Tribune CtfmpanV at 661 Wabash Ava. Daily, Sunday and Weekly.

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TERRE HAUTE, IXD., MONDAY, DECEMBER'S, 1902.

Circulation

Word comes from Mexico that Mr. Bryan is urging the rulers of that country not to forsake the silver standard. He argues that if Mexico goes to the gold standard the price of silver will experience an awful slump and that Mexico as a silver producing country will greatly suiter in consequence. It matters little to the world what action Mexico takes. She is of small consequence and her action will not influence the market one way or another. On the other hand it matters much to Mexico. As a champion of the silver standard she suffers from every fluctuation of the unstable silver market and losses to the government are disastrous and far reaching. Iter silver standard drives away capital and renders cumbersome and Mostly her financial transactions. Mr. Brvan is eloquent and persuasive but hard facts are more so. Mexico will abandon an archaic standard of money.

A press dispatch states "that it lias been proposed to remove from JJufl'nlo for display at the St. Louis Exposition i'o building in which President McKinley was shot.. It is it) be sincerely hoped that this statement is a ghastly joke. Purely no person is so lost to a sense of propriety and common decency as to suggest a tfai^ckin^ in the associations of a. crime which shocked and saddened humanity and which robbed the world of one of its ijiost beneficent lives. Is there any man such a fool as not to know that the setting up of that ill-starred, building at St. Loui* would cause the exposition to be boycotted with justifiable bitterness by every right thinking man and woman in the country?

This time last y^ar coal was selling for about half what it fetches at present. It costs not one cent more to get it out of the mine. .No one-heard any complaint last year to the effect that the operator* and dealers were not making A good profit- on all they sold. The piesent situation means just. one. thing* The coal men are adding as net. profit, to thoir satisfactory profit of last year the increase of 100 per cent -to the ronsuryer. How would you like to be the coal man?

-William E. Curtis in an exhaustive, review of the beet sugar industry in the United State^»cites figures to show that a tariff cut of thirty percent in favor of Cuban sugar would not injure the sugar industry of this country. Mr. Curtis and the beet sugar manufacturers are not together in their conclusions. The manufacturers are, of course, in a far better position to speak, with knowledge on the subject than is Mr. Curtis, but on the other hand it must be considered that it is their interests that are under fire.

The word ladv" has fallen into such doubtful decadence that, the Chicago school board has concluded to no longer employ ''lady teachers" confining its negotiations to "women teachers who successfully pass the promotional examination woman, however, the board has decided that those primary teachers who successfully pass the promtional examination shall have their salaries increased yearly at the rate of $25 until a maximum of $900 has been attained. 'j

Several thousand Boers are .reported as enloute to this country to settle. The Boers are thrifty and industrious, but they will find that even these virtues will not enable them to prevent English being taught in the schools to which they send their children. They come here seeking liberty but they must accept the brand they find. The South Aiiiean spirit of intolerance, which led to the downfall of the Boer republic, has no place in American life.,

One result of the late election is decidedly noticeable in the deliberations of congress this session. All sides seem agreed that we have the Philippines for keeps and there is a total lack of the anti-imperialistic twaddle which characterized and disgraced the previous session. The Democrats have at last realized that the people of the United .States are unqualifiedly for expansion and that to combat -the policy is to court

Webster Davis, tlitnporarily out of a job as calamity orator, is devoting his attention to the business of baling hay in Kansas. This is a more profitable and respectable vocation than he has pursued for some time and if when the gentle spring time comes he will only go-one step farther in the path of rectitude and begin plowing corn, the country will almost forgive him for hi3 past.

',3"he Democrats are still casting about for a suitable man for whom to cast the complimentary vote for United States sena-' tor from Indiana. John W. Kern's declination of the empty £'11 honor and his terse designation of it as "a meatless bone" have had the effect of making modest those who mighit otherwise 'fc have aspired.

The declaration that the price of beef has dropped from |?V' four to six cents in the last" four months will be greeted with .pps snorts of disdainful denial by those who have had occasion to buy. If there has been a cut it would be interesting to learn who 1ias reaped the advantage of it. Certainly not the consumer. 4a

During the year 1902 there have been over 6,000 miles of railroad track laid in this United States exclusive of electric lines, sidings, and double trackings. It has been the banner veaj in railway achievement but promises to be eclipsed by the year 1903.

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the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen and the coal supply to weaken. v.:! ,2.

THE WIDE WORLD ROUND.

Army Athletics.

Without doubt that is a judicious order which has just bean iu»d frons the war department and which sets forth that both officers and «*li»ted men shall henceforth have permiktion to visit other posts than their own for the purpose 61 taiciTig part in athletic contests, without having such absentee charged to themftelves as "furlough" or "leave of abOMP* '»'waJ1 7? fr*"-* 'SV4' y. 3G2|OC b'.&'p!#***.-' i-r

Xhis is probably all that the department ^caji' prpperly do for the promotion of athletic contests in the army. It is very liKely a' r^ailt of, the observations by Gen. (Sorbin and Gen. t)f practice of athletics in the British army and of fchenmnixtti beneficial results of, that practice. The amount of it is that the British soldier has a resource in garrison .which the American soldier has not, and that to-that extent the British soldier is in he more eligible situation. What to do with the American enlisted man in barracks in his hours of ease is a question that has vexed many generations'of American officers of the United States army. Mr. Kipling has reminded us that—

Single men -lit barracks don't grow into plaster saints. It is entirely true. Unless some healthy and normal form of satisfaction of the natural and human craving for excitement is provided, some unhealthy and abnormal form of the same Appetite is sure to be provided. The canteen, as it was before the W. C. T. U. began to meddle with it, provided a fiornial satisfaction for this particular r^cl of humaH nature which the enlisted men of the United States army share even with the reversed members of th W. G. T. U. How strange that those reversed reformers should never have considered that, by putting up-jobs to prevent the enlisted man from having his ber under decent and human'auspices, and driving him to get more injurious drink undef worse auspices, they were sitiiply ministering and testifying to the same human need of excitement on their own part which they so vehemently denied to him.

But this is phycliology. The fact is that the young, fullblooded privates needs something beyond and drill. The late Gen. LudlqWj At the outcome nf a sfcries of exhaustive investigations, 'arrived at the conclusion that the private soldier of the United States army was overfed and underworked. The ration was extravagant. The "duty" was not sufficient to dispose of the ration. There is a limit to mere "drill." All officers testify that a soldier overdrilled "goes stale." There is a recourse in "practice marches," which might be made much morj interesting than they are, by introducing the principle of emulation. There is also the resoucce of athletic contests, which arc hJways interesting to all the competitors Esprit do corps penetrate.? each unit of the organization. So we should expect this order of the war department to have a distinct success. But in order to allow to it its "perfect work," we would most, affectionately entreat the W. C. T. U., the Methodist ministere, and all other associations of American citizens who have not the remotest notion of what they are talking about to hold their peace and stay their hands and let the experts have a fair trial of their solution of this problem. .'

Street Car Mail-Boxes and the Labor Unions. It is reported from Washington thai the proposition of the postmaster-general to put letter-boxes on the sides of street cars in cities, to expedite the conveyance of liters to the postoffice, is hotly oposed by the labor unions. They argue that the use of tsreet cars as mail-carriers will be a source of erabarrassment to street-railway employes when they go on a strike, since strikers will not oe able to obstruct the cars without risk of getting into trouble with Uncle Sam. Separate mail cars on tfolley-roads they tolerate, but this idea of mailboxes on ordinary passenger-cars is verly repugnant to them. A spokesman of the American Federation of aLbor is quited as saying that that organization is "opposed to any proposition that looks to furnishing the protection of Federal courts anu troops to the operation of a private enterprise employing a large number of working-men, under the guise of protecting the hiails."' All that federal courts or troops can do is to prevent .stoppage of the mails by violence. Neither courts nor troops could compel street-car employes to work, or to iun cars against their will. This active opposition of the labor interests to the postmaster-general's plan involves a somewhat contumelious reflection on the ability of state, or local officers keep order. By so milch as the labor unions fear the federal authority, by precisely so much they show themselve.s to despise state authority, and to. rly on successful violence to carry through their undertakings.

"Uncle Joe'sw Indorsements.

A Washington banker recently said Representative Cannon's indorsement on a promissory note was too good for his bank to honor. Later he changed his mind. Tt happened this waV: A young man walked into the bank and informed the teller he wanted to borrow $250. He offered his note, indorsed, by Mr. Cannon A moment later the teller brought the note back from an inner office, where he had disappeared. "Very SOTIT, sir." he said, "but we can't let you have this." "Why' asked the young man, "isn't this indorsement good? It's 'Uncle Joe3 Cannon, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, and next speaker of the house. "Y*s. I know. The trouble is it is too good. But. we don know v?u so well. Suppose you should fail tj pay this note. We would hardly like to ask MT. Cannon to pay it. We have to go before the committee on appropriations two or three tintes each year to request favlrable action on ecrtam legislation. We would hardly want to call upon him to pay this note if yoHi should fail to do so. "Ok, that's it, is it?"'replied the young man. I will tell Unfile Joe' that you do not care to accept his indorsement."

He was not given the opportunity. The note was at once accepted, and be received the $250.

TftE PlffrTE'SCOBNER.

Wliiskv straights make crooked paths.

He turhft upon a heiroglyph A swift and casual look,

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Ko man is in a position to teach other then until after he has burnt his fingers a few times.

Lots of men tire themselves to death. looking for an easy job. 4

Tt is hard for the man who is flat on his back to face the world.,

Most bachelors' idea of misery is being alone with a noisy baby. ,«

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He knows a. dozen languages, And scholars love to quote From various riiaash'e volumes which ,1 In leisure hours he wrote. L- Y-i

And reads it just as easily '-x As if it were a book.

®And yet lift stands upon the curb With troubled brow and muses 33e caimat: nndttrstaod the slang r-

The litt)e newsboy uses.

When a man is in loye he doesn't know axle grease from wt«. ...

But for the donkey's big cars he couldn't appreciate his own music.

l!n»iTdfeft"pofp^oplB fo shame when it comes to telling the tTuth. iC

If a man is satisfied with himself he is usually disapppuiteo in other people. -A ^tjawyers have no excuse for going hungry, as the statutes Sate lots'of provisions in them.

THE OAU.Y TRiBUKE: TERRE HAtfTf, 1*0., fHONOftY, BECEMBER 29,1S02^

BEEF PUCES 'TNRE

RETAILERS HOWEVER HAVE NOT CUTTHC PUIPE.

SOPPUV^NOW PLENTIFUL

Wh*(esalera 8«y If PubH* is net Getting Benefit of Reduction Retail*

Inspection of. the weekly quotations of dressed beef prices as chronicled in the files of the National Provisioner, a trade paper devoted to the interests, of the meat trade, shows that the present low cost of beef has come abbut in the last three months,' though previously there was a gradual decline from the maxiinum of prices reached in May or June. The packers attribute the present favorable conditions of things for the consumer to the lower prices of live stockj which are said to be much more plentiful. It is worthy Of note that thie United States charges alleging a beef combination were filed in May, and thtft one Of the charges was that the packers controlled the live stock supply. The assertion that the drop in the jyrice of beef to the retailers has been about 4 cO^its per pound docs not seem borne out by the quotations, which indicate a declifte of about 3 cents from the maximum to the present market.

In the following table the "date" column indicates the date of the number of the National Provisioner in which the quotations on the same line, occur. All prices are per pound for carcasses of western dressed beef at wholesale in the New York market. Between the New York market and the Chicago market there is only a fraction of a cent's difference.. the local prices to retailers being apparently about a half a cent greater tjan those to New York customers, despite the haul of nearly 1,000 miles to the eastern metropolis:

Native .Western Texas *!.-••• Cents. Cents Cents.

Jan. 35 8.0@ 9.5 7.50® 8:50 6J5@75 Feb. 22 83)US) 10.0 7.7o@ 8.50 [email protected] Jleh 22 DJKaJlO.o 7.50$ d.0© [email protected] Aprl lfji 10.0§105. 9.00@ 9.50 8.00@8:5 May 24 »[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] .June 21 10.0^11.5 9.00(® 10.25 7.00@8 S July 19 [email protected] [email protected] 7.00(»7.5 Aug. 23 [email protected] [email protected] 6.503 7.r Sept. 20 [email protected] 7.00@ 8.50 [email protected] Oct. 18 [email protected] 6.00@ 8.00 6.00(»6.0 Nov. 22 [email protected] G.00@ 8.00 T)[email protected] Dee, 20 7.0@ 9.5 G.00@ 8.00 5.00(^6.0

Commenting upon the decline in price the National Provisioner says in a recent issue: "Live sto(!k is cheapcr^and meats have been cheajer ir» the carcass for months past. The retail price has not been cut by butchers, so the eating public are unaware of the change. Swift & Co.'s New York manager, in regard to the matter, said: 'We are selling dressed beef cheaper today than we sold it a few months ago, and our prices are in proportion to the reduction in fhe price of cattle in the West. We sell to the retail butchers hut I do not know whether they have reduced their prices. Another whole saler had the following to say: 'Meat is quite plentiful at present and prices are lower. If.the consumer is not getting the benefit of the redaction, then the retail butcher is to blame. Of course prices may go up to the old figure again, but while" they are'down the retailer is getting all there is in it.' The above is the general condition all over the country. The butcher, however, knows that pretty soon the corn-fed beef will be in the market at a higher price, and to keep from having to put the price up to the consumer at that timejie just keeps it up through the short interirft. Mutton and veal are cheap enough." ...

FATAL SEQUENCE OF 13.

Accident at New, Haven Reveals a Strange Combination of Nt»n»r efals.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Dec. 29—The number 13 figured several times In an accident in this city last nlfht. Joseph Moscana. with thirteen letters in his name, and 13 yejfrs of age, was strock by a trolley, the conductor of which was No. 13. The car 'was No, 58, whicb figures add up 13. The Occident happened at 6:26, which figures make a total of 13. The lad resided at 13 Fr&nklin street, and some one said that when he was 'lifted off 'the fender that scooped him away front the wheels* he had thirteen Scratches on his face and head.

LANDLORD THUMPS B0A«D£R

Latter Criticised the Food and is now in a Serious Condition for His (Ct' VV^', Temerity/ .-tr: =i

JOPLIN, Mo., Dec. 29—-Because 1bou Williamson madie slighting remarks about the sweet potatoes losing served at the supper table at his- boarding bouse In this city, W. P. Scott, the landlord, hit Williamson over the head with a blunt instrument and almost killed him. Williamson is suffering with a fractured skull and is in a dangerous condition. Scott has been arrested.

CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED. with

LOCAL

APPLICATIONS, as they

cahnot reach the seat at the disease. Catarrh is a blqod or constitutional disease, and In order to cure tt you must take In* ternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken iaternajly and act® directly on the

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Sold by druggists^ price 'fee. Hall's Famil-y Pills aiae the bestt.

«Hance's Oloysr Leaf and "True* dell's G$t Edge" Creamery Butter at Hanoe's Dairy Depot, Seventh and Elm.

JfflUY IS KF9SE0

SULLIVAN SHERIFF NOTIFIED THAT HE IS OUT.

WMM ACTS IN FM MATTER

Official Who Allowed a Nefiro Prisoner to be Lynched is Dropped by the Governor.

Governor Durbin has notified ex-Sher-iff John S. Dudley of Sullivan county that he is longer to consider himself a public officer. The letter from the governor- announcing his final decision arrived this morning, and it fell like a thunderbolt on the late sheriff's family. Yesterday he had confidently expected, and so announced, that the word from the governor, when it should come would be good.

Governor Durbin's letter is' short. He goes over the conduct of ex-Sheriff Dudley swiftly, merely saying that he believes it short of wha-t that of a competent sheriff should have been and he closed the communication by saying that while for personal reasons he might dislike to put the sheriff away from the public service, the governor believes it his duty to stand strongly upon the letter of the law.

Ex-Sheriff Dudley has already announced his purpose of contesting the constitutionality of the statute under which he has been deprived of his office. The case has been 4n the hands of Mr. Dudley's attorney. John S. Bays, ever sinco the first telegram from the governor, ordering Dudley to vacate his office. While no definite steps have as-yetjbeen taken, it is well understood that Mr. Bays ha^ all along counseled resistance, and the now deposed sheriff is of the same mind He will prepare to fight to a finish even though it coQt,liiin all his salarv.

A LIBERAL OFFER.

The undersigned will give a free sample of Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets to any one wanting a reliable remedy for disorders of the stomach, biliousness or constipation. This is a new remedy and a good one. For salo by all druggists, w-

IndianaDental Parlors

634 1-2 Main St. Over WATSON'S Store

TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN.

WE GUARANTEE ALL WORK.

PRICES WITHIN REACH OF ALL.

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Teeth -...$3. Full Set 5. Crowds 3. Bridge Work 3. Fillings' 50c up

EXTRACTION GUARANTEED PAINLESS.

Read what Mrs. Nellie Klein of 1610 North Fourth street has to say: On December 5, I had eleven teeth extracted by Dr. J. C. Vaughan at the Indiana Painless Dental Parlors and 1 willingly give this testimonial and will advise all those who have so long dreaded the dental chair to go to the Indiana Dental Parlors.

Indiasa Dental Parlors

DR. i. C. VAUGHN, DENTIST.

634'/, Main Street, North Slds of Street Over Watson's Store. Lady Attendant. Citizens Phone 1311

SILBERMAN'S

We trust to the quality of our furniture and our low prices to secure and retain your patronage.

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and mucous surfaces. Hall'S

Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for yeara, and is a regular prescription, it is cdlnposted of the best tonics known, combined with th4 best blood purMiersi a£tlnjf directly on the mucous surfacees. The perfect combine tloh of the two fngrtsdiehts is what produces wonderful re«ult«4fr curiag Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. p. J. CHENRT 0O., Prop«i, Toledo. O.

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SII BFPMAN'S,

C09 WABASH AVE.

1942—Boy's suit from the 6 year set. Single patterns for 2, 4 and 6 years

The trip there is the best part of a winter in California —that is, it is if you take the

SQUARE OR WITH

Children Suffer

Golden Stats Limited

It is a veritable hotel on wheels—a flying palace where you can sleep, dine, smoke, read, and chat witl all sorts of people whose one idea is to pass time pleasantly,

Leaves Kansas City daily via the El Paso-Rock Island route and Southern Pacific Company. Only a little more than two days to Los Angeles. Through cars to Santa Barbara and San. Francisco. Electric ligrhts electric faas: barber shop bath room: Booklovecs' Library compartment and standard sleepers observation, dining and Duffet-smokine-library cars. Lowest altitudes of any lina across the continent.

Tickets, berths and full Information at any railroad ticket office, or by addressing

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ELECTRIC SUPPLIES.®We

detail same. See pur line and get prices.

Freitag, Weiiihardt

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By Comparison

oftentimes simply because of the

garments yiey wear. One moth*

dresses |jer child becomingly arw

Tj1' neatly, while another mother rhc^

use better material but the cut of

the clothes is incorrect, the fit is

bad and style has been overlooked.

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tractive child of the two who$|

mother has made the error in

made the error

building its clothes. Vy'-1

No mother will make 1 mistake

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terns. These patterns'are accurate, and reliable. Each pattern tells the

amount of material needed. They are put up in sets, or complete ward

robes, no two alike. Send 25 cents to us and we will mail you a full set

for either boy or girl. They can be had in sets from infancy to 32

years of age. State age of child for whom clothes are to be made.

Single patterns, for any garment, 10 cents. t,

THE LITTLE FOLKS' PATTERN CO.

26 West 24th Street- NEW YORK.

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MAJESTIC 1 RANGES

ARE MADE TO LAST A LIFETIME.

G. G. SMITH'S SONS CO."

64^ and 648 Wabash Avenue. Heating and Plumbing

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Crown and Brid8e Work a. Specialty. PAINLESS EXTRACTION. Sixth and Main. Over McKeen's Bank.

Isaac 'Ball & Son

Funeral Directors. Optn nlcbt and day UL »-«C and HO. W Hartk TWrd atawfc

BODIES MADE OF DECARBONIZED GUN BARREL STEEL. ALL RIVITED, NO' BOLTS TO FALL OUT. RESERVOIR' WATER FRONT. RESERVOIR AND WATER FRONT

"Third and Wabash Avenue.

BILLS

VI?3 YOU CAN REDUCE SAME BY USING

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have oak

and styles prices from 1 cent tQ 3£ cents per footer

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.RAGTIC/ UBLIC RINTER,

New Phone 948. 60S Main 9t Next door to Tribune.

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