Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 January 1903 — Page 4

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No fair minded man will deny that the representation of the southern states in the Republican national convention should be radically reduced. In the first place this section never contributes to the success of the party and in the second place the Republican vote in a number of the Btates has been cut in two since the last convention by discriminating franchise laws. And finally, brethren, the quality of this representation is distinctively third rate.

Our trade with our insular possessions, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Porto Rica aggregates one hundred million dollars in the past year, a gigantic increase over the previous twelvemonth. The best part of it ail is that the increment in our insular trade promises to continue for many years to come, and more and more every year will be demonstrated the financial wisdom of the policy of expansion.

Prosecutor Folk of St. Louis states that ninety-nine men out of every hundred are honest. If this is true the people of St. Louis must have gone 6ver the cily with a fine tooth cortib searching for rascals to put in public office. Judging from the trials recently held there one might be perfectly reasonable in supposing that in St.-Louis ninoty-nine men out of every hundred are dishonest.

While senatorial election? will occur in quite a number of states this winter acrimonious contests are expected in onlyDelaware and Colorado. The outcome of the fights in the legislatures of these states is in doubt and it can bo set down in advance that the elections will be more in the nature of disgraceful brawls and simian sandbaggings than dignified parliamentary proceedings.

The coal barons still blandly insist that the coal situation will soon improve. This lias been daily reiterated and repeated since work was resumed in the anthracite region and seems further from realization than at first. "Will soon improve"- is relative term and likely means some time next June.

Senator Tillman insists that if either Cleveland or Hill gets the Democratic presidential nomination he will bolt the tickct ind^ake with him several millions of protesting Democrats, -v tvho would rather see a radical Republican in office than a disoyal Democrat.

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Tliie latest figures show that 121,000 of the people in the federal civil service are in the classified list drawing annual pay to the sum of $85,000,000, while the 114,000 not in the classi fied service draw only $45,000,000. The apparent discrepancy, however, is explained by the fact that 72,408 of those in the unclassified service are fourth class postmasters, the. pay of most of whom is nominal. The figures present an interesting study and in view of the past they unfold an excellent argument for the still further extension of the classified service. Federal office holders drawing forty-five millions a year and depending upon the sucess of a certain political party in power for the retention of their services, it must be admitted, cut some figure in eneral results.

Those people who are insisting on the establishment of free trade with the Philippines evidently lose sight of the interests of the islands. It must be remembered that all revenues derived from the Philippine a rill's are devoted to the improvement and development of the archipelago and that the United States acquires no profit whatever, except as her insular possessions are made more valuable. The Philippine tariff is the most practicable and satisfactory manner for raising the money requisite for the needs of the islands and no complaint is heard from the Filipinos. As for the free traders in America—well, let us be patient with the shortcomings of our lacking brothers.

Indiana has grown very rapidly in population during the past few years yet it is a noticeable and gratifying fact that the poor farm population of nearly every county has decreased. And this too in spite of the fact that the recently enacted township reform law cut in a radical munner the poor relief afforded bv the township trustees a provision which the enemies of the measure declared would fill our poor houses to overflowing. Of course, there is just one explanation for the pleasing condition and that is the incomparable brand of Republican prosperity in which this country is now reveling.

Although we have spent fifty millions of dollars on coast defenses in the last fifteen years the work is not nearly completed and much of that which has been done must be brought up to date. Still there is satisfaction in realizing that a hostile fleet would have no picnic along our coast and that most of our great cities have been rendered safe from destruction at the hands of a floating enemy. Preparedness for war is the best guarantee of peace and no loyal American, who has given the matter thought, will protest against the strengthening oi" our navy or our coast defenses.

It is stated in the press telegrams that Prince Henry is preparing to visit this country again during the St. Louis exposition in 1904. If he coines he will probably be disappointed in the manner of his reception. I-Ie has provided one spectacle for a free people and in a great measure has ceased to be an object of interest. As a visitor in 1904 he would likely find himself playing second fiddle to the King of Siain or some other oriental potentate enjoying a vacation from the arduous dutios of harem life.

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THS WIDE. WORLD ROUNQ,

The City of Jaipur.

India is the l^uid of picturesque cities, but it is universally conceded that Jaipur—the Jeypore of our old-fashionecl geographical books—is the most beautiful of them all. It is the metropolis of the state ot the same name, tins being- one of the tributary native provinces in the important territory of Rajputana, The name of llajputana is famous throughout India. It represents a magnificent cluster of states lying in the northwest, between Punjab and the central states. Each of these twenty Raiput states enjoys its own automony, with a separate chief, together with a British resident.

The state of Jaipur covers an (wea of nearly 15,000 square miles. Though its name conveys little meaning to the average Englishman, it is quite as important a district as Wales, Holland, Belgium or Roumama. The population now reaches about 2,500,000. Of these sonic are pure Rajputs of the old dominant caste others,are of various ineferior castes some are Mohammedans, and some being to the curious Jain sect, whose shrines are usually placed on the crests of the highest hills, and who form a very wealthy and influential part of the community.

Native civilization in India is at its very best in capital and banking center for all the finjput states. Most of the exchange for the whole, of the great Rajputana province is transacted here. The lovely city is one of India's most exquisite show places, which astonishes every visitor by its superlative beauty, but it is a veritable hive of industry. The people, clad in all the colors of the rainbow, all day ply their work in the shops and sheds. On the sidewalk men are being shaved, and dyers come and wave flaring strips of green, red Or blue cloth in the sunshine. Women with their spinning wheels, potters turning the clay, brasworkers, cotton ginners, wheat winnowers, gold-wire drawers, silversmiths, shoemakers and multitudes of handicraftsmen ceaselessly pursue their avocations in full view of all who may chose to look on while monkeys sport on the rofs, and the teeming bird-life for which India is so famous adds to the animation of the scene. Flocks of parrots, pigeons and crows flit about every gable. .-

It is, however, the perennial sunrise and sunset colors in which it is steeped with impart its peculiar fascination to Jaipur. It is the coral city of India, flushed all over with soft, yet brilliant, rose tints. This extraordinary city presents an incomparable aspect. It won an extravagant eulogium from Six Edwin Arnold. He was especially delighted with that Hawai Mahal—"Hall of the Winds"—or nine-storied Zenana, which forms the frontispiece of the mahaiajahs palace. It is indeed a vision of daring and dainty loveliness, with its rosy masonry and delicate overhanging balconies and latticed windows, soaring tier above tier in fanciful aichitecture of pyramidal form. Other grand buildings, besides the splendid white marble palace, are the maharajah's college for a thousand bovs. and the museum, one of the noblest institutions of the kind in India. In the menagerie, maintained at the maharajah's own cost, are a dozen terrible man-eating tigers, trapped in the jungles after devouring many an unfortunate stray villager.

Prosperity Attracts Spaniards.

The Spaniards begin to realize tlje advantage of living in a country over which the United States flag floats and hundreds of them who went home to Spain from Porto Rico when that island became the property of the United States are now returning. In the last fiscal year 541 returned and the number has been increasing since June.- Ihey see that Porto Riet is prosperous and that they are better protected ^there than when at home in Spain.

Many have also returned to Cuba, being satisfied that undei the Piatt amendment to the Cuban constitution the United States will not permit that country to become a home for revolutions, such as characterized so many of the formei Spanish colonies on this continent. With stable government and no excessive taxation such as Spain imposed, both Porto Rico and Cuba are certain to be prosperous. Porto Rico is already in that condition, and Cuba, under a fair reciprocity treaty with the United States, would be equally certain of prosperity if provided with a good government.

The sugar crop of Porto Rico for this year is the largest, with one exception, ever produced, and next year's crop wilt probably be the largest. There has been a considerable increase in the area of tobacco culture and progress is marked in all directions. In 1897, under the Spaniards, there were 538 schools on the island, whereas there are now nearly 1,000. The death rate has greatly decreased, more land is cultivated, new roads have been bui.t, exports and imports have increased and the healthy progress and steady advancement noted is as attractive to Spaniards as to other nationalities.

In the Philippines the same kind of prosperity is spunging up, though Porto Rico has the advantage in the people who make up her population and in closer proximity to the United States. But nothing is more certain in this worlds affairs that the future prosperity of the Philippines as well as that of Porto Rico.

THRPIRATE'S CORNER.

Sucess seldom comes to a man until rather late in the game. By the time he is in a position to got the pic he wants he is a dyspeptic.

Life is made up of events and recurrences.

Th«re is nothing an old woman likes better than to get hold of a. sick man who is willing to try homemade remedies.

Comparison.

Tobacco smoke's expense compels Economy to fret:

.f! -I But coal smoke at the present time Is more expensive yet.

It's usually easier for one father to support ten small children than it is for ten grown-up children to support ono father. i: ... •-. O'.'A:* .'

Hops are said to be a. sedative, yet most frogs aro troubled with chronic insomnia...

Wives fear burglars- will break in, and husbands fear the babv will break out.

A snob is a person who is afraid somebody else will get where they are both trying to get before he does.

The poor old man

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And jiis sigh was ft sigh of despair, "Though I've pinched and hoarded for years,"' he cried, '•I am only a millionaire!"

A woman can learn to love any man that she wants to take away from .some other .^voman. ...

When a woman makes up her mind to marry a man the way she begins to catch him and does catch him is to make him understand she would not marry him for anything under the sun. -vr^r-

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A woman would rather he killed by the man she loves than cured the man she doesn't love.

The Connection. /_

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A duck has a pretty big bill.

What is one man's food is*a|tft$cr man's poison, and what is one woman's idolatry is ano^heAwoman's disgust.

Even a woman living u^derH',e equator would feel cool without furs if she heard some other woman had them,

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NEW LEGISLATOR HAS BILL TO INTRODUCE.

WARM FIGHT IS EXPECTED

Father of the Measure Says Progress and economy Demand Such a Measure.

A new member of the legislature, Henry B. Sherman of Westport announces his intention of introducing sonie bills this winter that, unless they are summarily dealt with at the very start, wul doubtless create a warm fight. One of these bills provides for the establishment of a state printing bureau to do all the state printing and bookmaking and to make school books which shall be supplied free to the school children anqther provides that all notes and other written evidences of debt must be stamped by the county assessor or they will be void by law. "My hobby is the free school book proposition," said Representative Sherman last evening. "I have been intereted in this question for several years and I am anxious to bring it before the state legislature as a direct issue that cannot be dodged. I apprehend that I shall meet with some little difficulty in getting my bill before the house for a free discussion, but I shall at least make the effort for all that I am worth. "Free school books will be provided by Indiana sooner or later. Educational progress demands that that step be taken, and while it will meet with strong opposition at first consideration that is the course every radical innovation or improvement must go through. The states that are leaders in the educational world have adopted this system—

Masscluisetts, Maine., Pennsylvania, Minnesota and California, while New YoriC City has supplied its scl7ool children with free text books since 1800, and Chicago adopted the system two years ago, and .s now fighting the case in the supreme court to uphold the law. Indiana will not long take .a second position in this respect. "The one argument in support of the proposition is economy. Of course, the creation of a printing bureau will entail considerable expense to the state, but there will be a great saving on all the state printing that is now done by contract, and I am prepared to assert that all books that will be used in the schools can be made by the state for a very -little more than the taxpayers now pay to furnish books to the children of indigent parents. It is estimated that the average cost per child for books at present in this state is $3 per child. 1 hold that the state can manufacture these boons for one-third that amount. There are about 750,000 children of school age in the state and about a5,000 of them are in school, so it is seen that the parents and guardians of the children aro now spending over $2,000,000 annually, for text books. I have it on the authority of a man who has been in the school book business that a reader that is sold for 40 cents can be made for less than 10 cents. That is a fair sample of the profit of the school book makers and detailers, and the saving to the taxpayers if the state makes the books is apparent. "In addition to this it is estimated that at least six days are lost every year in getting the schools started in effective working order because the children do not supply themselves promptly with the necessary books. There are 16,500 teachers in Indiana, their annual wage is over $2.50 per day, so the .actual loss there is an immense sum, to say nothing of the irreparable loss in the educational advancement of the children. If the state furnished the books the schools could start off promptly and effectively the very first day of every term and there would be none of this loss. "I shall introluce the uilj—the legislature will do the rest. It may kill the bill and my work may be lost, but the start has to be made some time, and I am glad to have a part in leading even a forlorn hope."

Mr. Sherman's bill requiring the stamp of the county assessor on all notes and other wntt.cn evidences of debt in order to make them legal will, he says, add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the tax duplicates, but he anticipates that this will also meet with violent opposition.

Mr. Sherman has still another bill in which he is espeeialy interested and' that is one to pay the soldiers of the old In* (liana Home Guard for their services during the War of the Rebellion. These men have never received any pay for the time they spent in actual duty or the time that they held themselves in constant readiness for duty. Mr. Sherman proposes to pay them $7.50 per month for the time they spent in readiness for cans and $13 per month for the time in actual service, guarding rebel prisoners in this city or guarding the Ohio river against threatened invasion. Two years ago Senator Guthrie introduced a bill to pay one company for such service, but the governor vetoed the measure because he held it to be unjust to pay part of the Home Guard and not pay them all. ..

For a bad taste in the mouth take a few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Price 25 cents. Warranted to cure. For sale by all druggists.

Gasoline stove season will soon be here for us. Look out. Terre Haute Stove & Furnace Co., 658 Wabash avenue. Sign Big Tea Pot.

Ask your grocer for "Hance's Clover Leaf" Creamery Butter. None Better,

It is time to think of buying a gasoline stove. Sec the Quick Meal. Terre Haute atove & Furnace Co., G58 Wabash avenue, pjgn Big Tea Pot.

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LYMAN ABBOTT HERE

NOTED DIVINE VISITS SCENE OF HIS EARLY EFFORTS.

MISSES MANY PIONEERS

Says His Labors Here were Helpful to the Greater Career Which He, Has Since Acquired.

Dr. Lyman Abbott, the noted divine, pastor of Plymouth church, New York, and editor of "The Outlook," arrived here last night for a few hours v^sit amongst old friends. He went today to Indianapolis to lecture at Irvington. He attended the meeting of the Congregational church- last night, where there was a good attendance of members of the Congregational church, a number from the Centenary and several from St. Stephen's.

Dr. Abbott led the meeting and! Iris talk to the people was of great interest, especially to older members of the church as he spoke reminiscently of his life in Terre Haute.

He spoke of the years he had been pastor of the Congregational church, 1860 to 1865. He had come here from New England, the center of anti-slavery, feeling. He found but very few here who shared his convictions in regard to that and other points, but his people lis? tened to him and were very loyal. He looked back upon those five years as happy years. They were very helpful to him as a pastor and he learned much that was of use to him in his future work. He got much good trom an adult Bible class which he taught. In it was one Unitarian and a straight-backed Presbyterian and between these extremes he found much to intcest him. He still had the book in which he kept the notes of that class and he had often looked over it. -.

After the service the people lingered to exchange greetings with Dr. Abbott, There were not many who had belonged to the ehuren during his ministration. Among the few who- nad were: Mrs. Julia Patrick, Mrs. Nancy Wcstfall, Mrs. Elizabeth Rrokaw and Mrs. Charles Brokaw. Mrs. James Hunter and: Mrs. James Lamlrum were in the primary Sunday school class when Dr. Abbott was pastor. Mrs, Lanormu's mother, Mrs, James Tolbert, being the teacher at the time, a place she filled for many years.

The last service in Terre Haute in which Dr. Abbott took part probably was the memorial services for Abraham Lincoln, a day or two after his assassination, which were held in the Congregational church, which was crowded with the audience that was addressed' by Lyman Abbott an.d several other pastors of the city.

Dr. Abbott showed a lively interest in the scenes of his first pastorate, but remarked that there was a, tinge of melanc-oly in his thoughts, as so many he had known wero no longer here. Among the active men in his church, in former years, were' Lucius Ryce, Harry, James, John and Fred Ross, Dr. E. V. Ball, Zenas Smith, S. II. Potter, Lyndon Smith, James Modesitt and others as well known. The town then was not one-third of its present size. Since leaving here Dr. Abbott has liad a rather strenuous life as pastor of Plymouth church, editor and! an industrious writer and frequent lecturer, having been for many years one of the commanding figures in the Congregational church. His time now is devoted chiefly to The Outlook, a popular religious and literary weekly magazine, and though he has retired from pastol%l work, he preaches quite regularly,

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