Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 September 1878 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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•DITOB AND PROPRIETOR.

TKRBE HAUTE, SEPTEMBER 7,1878

TWO EDITIONS

—mimTurrr m* -fr Xtie FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening fcae a large circulation in BUT rounding

Iffn, whan It la sold br newsbeysand

ifiM —mxp EDITION, on-Safcumiay E*e»lag, goes Into the hands «f nearly every rj media® person in the city, -and the farm sa of this immediate vicinity.

Btery Week's Issue la, In fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, IB which all Advertlaidnenta appear for

COT CHARGE

Aw exchange considers this "an -age of inexplicable murders." f#r TH* Batler campaign badge in Massachusetts, we see it stated, will be a spoon.

Gten.Lxw WAIXACE has been-"fixed." The President baa tendered him the -governorship of New Mexico

Goi/B sold yesterday in New York at l*4 cent premium, the lowest since the -suspension of specie payments.

MOKE suicides are committed, in proportion to population, in San Francisco 'than in any other civilized city.

"EKTBMOINO

ness bouse into the newspaper," is the 'latest definition of advertising

Tax yellow fever has come into Kentucky, and sixty cases with twenty •deaths are reported at Hickman

In'1673 we exported but twelve million yards of cotton goods last year we exported one hundred and eleven mil 'lion $r«r4fl.

IN New "York the average death rate Is 760 per week. Greenwood cemetery •contains nearly 490,000 graves—more than tbe (population of the city when Jackson was president.

THxQraml Central Hotel, at Omaha, the finest west of the Mississippi river tbiadde of Han Francisco, was burned Wednesday sight. Four firemen were traded and killed by a falling wall.

WASHISMTTOM has a population of 181,400, of whom 43/MO are colored. There were found twenty-two colored persons over 100 yean old, one being reported as old as 1M. Seventy persons were between 1» and 100.

the front of your busi

IT is a tantalizing act, says an exchange, to give an ague patient a bottle of medicine and tell him to ''shake well befove'tafeing." tiU

TBS Boston Herald is in favor of a full -day's work, because the time gained from labor will probably be largely given "to fightings

Too-soon will come the winter months. It is to'be hoped that it will not be the "winter of discontent," as that is the .coldest.of all winters.

CacAao excels In everything at wbteh she takes a hand. Three hundred and twenty4wo applications in bankruptcy were reported in the Times as having bean filed on Saturday, the last day of grape.

TBSQCOMI THOMAS tells an interviewlag reporter that, "after New York, the bast aadienoea In this country are to be found in the West and they are more intelligent and attentive than any others, and they are larger." 7^

"Aa Around the House or How to Make Home Happy," is the title of a book just written by Mrs. Henry Ward Beeeber. The Ear. Henry oould write a book on "How She Makes Home Lively,'* If rumor does not belie her character. ___________

Tu many lovers of Bryant's poetry will be pleased to hear the Appleton's will aoon issue new and complete editions of the poet's works In various styles. Doubtless tbe new editions will be out In time for the holiday trade, If not before,

ISAMDULA TOD, an eloquent woman's advocate In England, writes to the Northern Whig, advising that lathers take their daughters into their own business or profession. good suggestion, and carried out already to some •Slant In tbls country.

Wi do not learn from any souroe that the exchequers of any of the poHtioal parties are especially plethoric at this time, or are likely to be in that condition during the campaign. There la a decided lack of funds all round, which feet will probably aid in securing a more honest deottoo than usual.

Tim patent office has many queer things offered for patent. The latest Is that of an Alabama inventor, who applied for a patent for a chalk mark. He ban discovered, be says, that ants •will not cross a line of chalk, and his 44ea is to protect things from the pests 'by drawing a chalk line around them. Tbe application «u refused.

TERRE

AcoBBBnanm writing from New York says the approach of fell brings enoouraging signs of an active season in business. The vast grain crops of the West are pouring in and also, great quantities of manufactured goods from New England. Tbe feeling in business circles is one of confidence and better 'spirit.:/-: _______

HKX&Y WARD ETCHER announces that he is a Orant man and always has been. Although he made some mistakes in conducting the government Mr. Beecher thinks that after fifty years have passed away, Grant will be regard ed aa one of the wisest and moat sens! ble Presidents we have ever bad, and that he will be looked back to as one of our greatest men. The "man on horseback" seems not to lack warm friends, to say the least of it

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On Wednesdsy evening, the Princess Alice, an excursian steamboat plying on the Thames river, was run Into just off London, by the Byweli Castle, aiyl almost instantly sank in deep water. Of the eight hundred people, an excursion party, on board, not more than one hundred and fifty were saved. If things keep on the way they have been going it will not be in order much long er for the English to lecture Americans for their carelessness and want of skill

'A NOVEL feature of the temperance crusade has been introduced over at Springfield, Illinois. August Barberger was in the habit of going home drunk at all hours of the morning and disturb ing his neighbors with his drunken yells. The other morning he was sur prised to find himself seized by half 1 dozen women, who knocked him down, pulled his hair and rolled him in tbe dust. It was not until August feigned death that his tormentors let him alone He has not been drunk since.

THX New York World thus bids gobd bye to the bankrupt law: "Exit the bankrupt law. Exeunt premiums to specula tore in merchandise, real estate and stocks to, take risks with a bankruptcy whitewash in perspective. Exeunt peijuries, frauds, bogus assets, swindles, black lettered lawyers and commercial jackals. Enter more confidence between buyer and seller, more pluck for the debtor, less suspicion for the creditor and a quieter feeling in the discount market. So the curtain falls with hun dreds eager but unable to get behind the scenes and register their manuscripts with the prompters."

WX. H. VANDERBILT is reported to have said, in the course of a recent interview, that in his opinion, general business would be very much improved this fall. The exceptional advantages enjoyed by Mr. Vanderbilt for feeling the pulae of trade entitles his opinion to considerable weight, and we consequently take pleasure in recording his pleasing prediction. The feet that tbe grain crop of the west is Simply enormous, added to the other fact that tbe European demand promises to be something unprecedented and no important factor seems to be missing. There is only ene thing that can prevent the return of better times, and that is tbe machinations of the politicians. 1

THK bankrupt law expired last Saturday as it were in a blase of glory. Thousands of petitions were filed throughout tbeStatea and tbe registers' offices were kept open till midnight in order to accommodate the throngs of seekers for relief. And now the oountry breathes easier. There will hereafter be more confidence among men. Tbe brakes on commercial recklessness and dishonesty will be tightened and men will trade again on tbe theory of honestly paying for what they buy. "The remedy for the present depression," said a leading merchant of New York recently, "is in restoring the lost confidence of man In man." The repeal of the bankrupt law will have a perceptible Influence in restoring that confidence. With the end ing of the political agitation next month and the actual resumption of specie payments next January, tbe country will be fairly started upon a new era of oommerolal prosperity. All that is needed Is to quit grumbling and go to work.

EVERYBODY has heard of the "Howard Association" and ita doings in New Orleans and other southern cities afflicted with the yellow fever. But it is not perhaps generally known just what the association is. The original Howard Association was incorporated in New Orleans in 1842, but baa now extended to other cities. Tbe object of it is to relieve the destitute and tick In periods of epidemics. Its seal baa on it tbe head of John Howard, the famous prison reformer and philanthropist. Its afhlrs are managed by a board of directors and tbe active members are required to be citizens of New Orleans, and cannot exceed thirty in number. No member is allowed to supply, or to fill any order drawn by hlm*elf for account of the association, for groceries, provisions or medicine, or any other articles required to be given in the relief of the sick and poor. It Is sparely benevolent institution and is winning golden words of praise for the work It is doing in jtfie afflicted regions of the south.

•©Reqtjjrr players will be Interested In knowing that the game originated In France and thence passed into England {up make the heart rick. There is one

iu Abe (beginning of tbe seventeenth century. Jt ran entirely out of feshlon in the eighteenth century, and was not evired .until Abe year 1850. It continue® popular for no other reason, probably, than that Jft is one of the few oat door amgaetneujta jn which tbe two ixes can jot?#? /enn%j terms.

THB carnival of death in the South goes on, and tbe daily reports coming

little gleam of good news this morning from Grenada, where the fever seems to have exhausted itself, but it is for went of victims. At other points there hi no abatement, and it is spreading from the larger cities to the smaller towns and villagea. It is stated that there are 12*000 cases now in New Orlcaus, with a

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mortality of ten per cant. At Memphia tbe people have eettled down to aetata of deepair, giving thought to anything but the care of tbe sick and the burial of tbe dead. Sixty dead bodies, of which the public undertaken were notified, remained unburied Wednesday night, simply because of the inability to bury people aa feat as they die. Wholesale cremation ia actually eontemplated to get rid of the decompoaing bodies. At yicksburg, and other points, it is tbe same sad story of sorrow, suffering and death. Nobly and generona is the North responding in the way of money, physicians snd nnraea. New York has sent ita first *100,000, and Bonner, of the Ledger, leads off with fl,000 on another like sum. Theaters are giving benefits, societies are donating out of their treasuries, unions are making up purses, dime subscriptions are started, and entertainments are springing up all over the country to help swell the relief fund. Never before was this country so afflicted with disease, and never before was there such an eager proffer of men and money to relieve tbe distsess. Surely sectional bate cannot exist, nor the age be given np to materialism, when such an uprising as is now witnessed can take place.

SOME

of the reports from the plsgue

infected cities South are absolutely appalling. Anew Orleans correspondent, among other cases equally distressing, mentions this: "The driver of tbe charity wagon, while passing the building 290 Poydrss street, heard a shriek of agony within, and, entering the prem ises, quickly ascended a flight of rickety stairs leading to aside gallery. He hurried into a back bedroom, and was startled to behold the yellow corpse of a child lying upon a filthy bed. Seated in a rocking-chair, olutching a palmetto fan in one hand, and reeling heavily upon the bed, sat a woman who, upon closer inspection, he was shocked to see was stark and stiff. The cries contin ued, and he hurried to the front apartment into which the room opened. There upon the floor lay a mother dead. The older woman had evidently thrown herself on the floor in a frenay of delirium. Upon the only bed in the room, writhing with fever, lay the man whose call attracted his attention, and a child eighteen months old bad at the time crawled over her dead sister, snd was pulling the dress off the dead mother's breast. That driver had hauled twenty corpses from the house since the epi pernio commenced." Such awful scenes sre enough to drive sane men mad.

THE FARMSRi

Slowly the country is settling to Itk normal condition. The tide of emigre tion westward and southward for the past year or two has been aimoat unparalleled. Thia means a large increase in tbe development of agriculture. It needs no argument to show that the cultivation of the ground ia the very foundation of national prosperity. No matter bow many mills and fectoriea the raw produota of tbe soil go through, yet the food and clothing of the world come principally from the ground. The country may seem tame and uninteresting when compared with the bustle and aotivity of the peat cltiea, bnt the cities draw their life from the country, and not tbe country from the dtiaa. Let the crops fail and the wheels of com merclal activity stand still or turn but slowly. f-

Ithaa been often aald, but it cannot well be said too often, that there ia no more certain, independent and honorable vocation than that of terming. That there are some hardahlps about it ia not to be denied. There ia long and exhausting toiling in the fields, under a blazing aun. There ia anxiety on account of too much or too little rain. There ia disappointment sometimes by reason of the failure of the crops. But there are oompenaattonsjloo. The farmer can have more than one wheel te his wagon. He can arrange it eo that if one kind of crop fails several others will aaooeed and thua he be enable to average pretty well at all eventa. After the hot and proatrating summer oomea the Invigorating winter, whan there ia no rash and abundanoe 0/ time for aocial enjoyment and mental culture and recreation. With hia familyand occasionally bis friend, gathered about a roaring fire in the long winter nlghta, there ia no reason why tbe thrifty farmer may not be aa happy aa it fella to the lot of mortala to be.

Tbe farmers of the west need to pay more attention to their home life, bowever. There ia no good reason why tbe farmer's home should not be neat, tasty and beautiful. Let him choose a pretty site for hia house and not grudge tbe space for a bandaome yard with walks and drtvea, let him plant treea, and ah rubbery and flowers, and build with some regard to the laws of architectural beauty, and be may have as fine a home as anyone need wish for.

PATH TO POPULARITY. Schiller's La Roche expreasea a very general feeling of men who live to do doty. "Wort sweat, become weary, and you expend your time and trouble in vain. Who lnquirea after your desert? Who trochlea himself about that Crouch, flatter, make yourself a hunchback, stroke gently the eat* bade—that commends your man! That is the way to lock and honor I Here la a parasite who even at school fawned on tbe teacher, obeyed submissively, knew bow to appropriate the eervioe of others to himself, to lay his eggs in foreign nests. He did not shrink from any humiliation in order to ingratiate himself, and make a nest for himself. He knew bow to pretend, flatter, and sail with every

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wind." This ia a cynical view of the world, but it haa a grain of truth. Partisan journaliam^ectarian exoludveneea, rigid party diadpline, aocial prejudice, all belong to the age and make it very difficult for a man to go through tbe world smoothly without flattery and

aelf-degradation.

Popularity ought to

depend on the service actually rendered to others, by giving them ideas, rendering them material help, correcting their errors, or hindering them from acting unjustly. But aa an actual feet, society uanally pays ita censors, even though they be tbe beat benefactors, with oontempt or hate, and ita flatterers who puff persons! vanity, with rewards and honors. A better age will proyide better places for Its best friends. Even now, in the long course of events, society learns to appreciate the genuine claims to eateem, and after exciting irrational hopee in the hearts of ita sensationally notorious pets, sets them down where they belong and forgete them.. The oak takes longer to grow than the soft msple, and it lives longer. A negro minstrel is apparently more popular with us than Shskspeare or Baoon. But most of us would preferto be either the poet or philosopher. I

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COUNTY FAIR

The annual exhibition of the Vigo Agricultural Society will be held next week at our beautiful.fair ground—the prettiest in the state. Every preparation has been made for an attractive show. OurtoWn people will generally find it conveniet te spend at least one day in the week at the grounds. A desire to simply see whst is on exhibition will attract most of the oity folks. But .for the farmer this is a season that should be enjoyed to the fullest extent. Every farmer in Vigo county should make it a point to take bis entire femlly and if possible spend tbe whole week there. For notwithstanding the life of Independence led tty our farmers as a class, there are some not inconsiderable drawbacks to the pleasures of that life. One thing is the solitariness of their labor. Farmers work a great deal alone, or in company with a hired man or two, who are frequently foreigners or unintelligent boys, whose society in general is not very stimulating. The results of this want of companionship in their work are visible in the characteristics of tbe farmers of this country. They have, one may aimoat aay, the sturdier qualities of manhood to perfection but they are lacking in sociability they have neither the enjoyment that comes from constant intercourse with their equals, nor the very considerable stimulus and diadpline that cornea from that souroe so that, as compared with men ol the aame general grade who work together in the shop or feotory, the farmers have less ease In conversation, less intelligence apparent to a stranger, and usually a less flow of spirits. Gray's fine and far aounding line, "How jocund did they drive their teams afield!" doea not seem to us to describs with precision the current life of farmers nowadaya. Perbapa they are as happy aa moat men, but their happineaa, at any rate, is not Of the demonstrative kind. Their acattered poeitlon, their aolltwj work, their oonsdousness, amid tbe more marked prosperity of merchanta and manufacturers, of some loss of the andent prestige of their olaas, and the unavoidable vexations and disappointments of their calling, may foeMr a kind of secret brooding. Mid acoount for those evidences of ill nature that have eeirvineed aome unbiassed obaervera that farmera are not an eqwcially happy claas of mens 1^1

As to the point of their exoeptiohabie good health, no one can have had fetr opportunltiee of observation amoogthem without finding occasion to questlon it. Their sanitary habita are careless they most alwaya eat in basts, much of their food ia of an Indigestible kind, and they often pram me upon the outwardly healthful conditions of thdr life to violate aome of tbe eaaentlal lawa of health. Accordingly, itiaaald by aome phyaidana that a larger percentage of farmers have dyapepaia and kindred dissssss than even of aedentary men. Our own obaervation among them oonfirmathat Maertlon and whenever audi a disease ia feirlj fastened upon a practical fermer, hiadrcumataneee.are not favorable for throwing it oft Hia cares are continuous, his cattle are exacting, and his vacations never come, \,

Under all tbeee conditions the boildsys of farmer* are none too numeroua, thdr opportunltiee of social intercourse with each other aid with other people are all too limited, at best, and in this point of view the fell fairs have a significance and value beyond thdr obvious purpose of promoting better breeds of cattle and horses, snd exhibiting the largest turnips and fattest hogs. Tbe fermers need to exhibit themselves, to come in contact with one another, to compare notes, to see maehinee and talk with thdr inventors, to see and talk with all classes of men, to get oat of themselves, to find out what is going on, to talk a anatch of politics while looking at tbe poultry, to aeeto it, in short, that while the braeda of horses are improving, the breed of men who

the rough joki voioea it, and the sharp repartee old ideas get jostled prejudice looeen up a little new methoda are snggeeted old experience is talked over,.and the farmera are lifted out of the rut in which they are otherwise sure to run. They wake up and drive back to thdr endleas work wiser than they went.

These festivals have a fascination for the farmers and for others which show how really useful they are. They never seem to die out their return Is greeted with afresh interest the crowd is ss great aa ever and the inatitutkra seems rooted in human nature and in the wantriHof a vastly important class of men. Such festivals are now in full career of celebration all over the country, and it ia the duty of our people to see that tbe fair of the Vigo Agricultural Society is succeesful in every respect.

THE BALANCE OF TRADE Editor Saturday Evening Mail: As you have reluctantly granted me space sufficient for a brief rejoinder to the artide in last Tuesday's Express upon the "balance of trade," I will, •without any preliminary remarks, enter upon its disoussion.

I will state a few simple and,'I tlilnk, self-evident propositions. When tbe bills of exchange drawn in fevor of, and payable to, the merchants of any country,—tbe United Statee, for example,—equal in amount those drawn against, and payable by, the merchants of that country, exchange is sdd to be at par and no balance exists. If the bills of exchange are drawn against commodities sold only, then a slight preponderance of imports over exports equal to the profits, freight snd insurance due tbe merchants of the United States msy, and should exist, and the equilibrium of exchange will not be affected thereby. At the present time a large proportion of the import and export trade of the United States is in the hands of foreigners, who operate through agendes and branch houses established in this oountry, and in consequence much the larger proportion of the profits of our foreign trade is resped by foreign merchsnts. It is a lamentable feet that owing to our navigation laws and protective tariff, ship-owning has almost ceased to be a

Sleetimsted

rofitable business in this country. It by competent authorities that seventy-five percent, of our commerce with foreign nations is carried in foreign bottoms. Captain John Cod man an intelligent writer upon the subject, statee that of over four hundred Iron steamers engaged in carrying tbe trade between tbe United States and foreign oountriee, onlV four are owned in this country, and that we annually pay 130 mllliona of dollars to foreigners for transporting our merchandise and passengers across tbe ooean. Consequently tbe amount which should be credited to thia oountry on acoount of freightage ia amall. As better ratea of insuranoe can be obtained in foreign countries where capital is more abundant than at home, it is reasonable to infer that most of the risks are taken abroad, and this item does not out a large figure in the calculation. So that if we should asaume that the amount duo the dtlcena of this oountry for profit, frdght and inauranoe on aooount of foreign commerdal transactions is ten per oent. of the exports of the oountry alone, we eertdnly would not underestimate the Importance of thia element of the odcalation.

If then at any time, as shown bv the custom house books, the exports of the oountry with ten per cent, added abould exceed the imports, and exchange remain at par or so nesrly par that there would be no extraordinary shipment of bullion to this country to balance the excess of exporto, we may reasonably conclude that some other agency la at work to maintain the equilibrium.

During tbe year ending Jane 1878, according to figoree given in the Cindnnatl Commerdal, the exporta on ronnd numbers were 708 millions, and tbe im-

Krts,

including bullion, were 487 inline. During tbe year ending Jane 1877 the exporta were 688 millions, and tbe imports 492 mllliona.

Applying the teet given above we find that there Is a defldenoyof imports to balance ex porte, during thoee two years of over fifty per cent.

How then can we aooount for thia great preponderance of exports, while onr exchangee remain at par or nearly eo.

Tbe Expreaa would have it that the eonntry le impoverished to the extent of this balance, and that our merchants have Bunk fifty per cent, of thdr venturee in foreign trade, a manifest ab eurdity, and one that entltlee ita author to admission Into Ben Harrteon'e lunatic a^ylumi

How then can thia difference be accounted forT As stated In the prevloue article, from the year 1880 to 1878 a large amount of government and railroad ee curitiee were sent abroad, and aethey bore agood rate of interact* found ready eale. The proceede of these securities were returned In the shape of commoditiee which swelled our Imports during tbeee years much above our exports, aa ahown by the custom house books.

After 1878 no railroad bonds were saleable abroad, and later still, after tbe granger movement had been inaugurated, and repudiation of our obligatlone waa advocated by tbe Demooratle and National partiee, and the moral cowardice of Oongreas was shown by the paasage of tbe diver bill, our eeourlties were returned to thle country In large atnoonta for eale, in addition to those called in for redemption by the Secretary of tbe Treasory, snd tbe proceeds of these were aent ia c.mmoditiee which were prrieired to bullion on account of the demand for tbe latter at home in antic! petkhaof 'reeumption.

This is tbe only National explanation of tbie paradox, and it sbowe not only that our products are finding newmarkata, and that our cooaompcion of foreign products Is decreadng, but tbatoar capitalists are Investing in securities formerly held abroad and that tbe trib ute heretofore paid to forden capitalists In the ebspeof interest will be reduced to that extent.

drive them shall not degererate. Good I Chicago Tlmee in defence of iU position. I have bad no opportunity to amine the contexta of tbeee articles

breeding is precisely what our fermaia want, and they are apt to gat a touch or two at tbe county feir.

The truth ia, that the world la moving a little fester than tbe sadudei cultivators of tbe soil are well aware of, and they need a nudge at tbe elbow now and then to fog them along. They get it at tbe feir. Valuable and bating instruction comes therein various ways it oomea^y impact it breathes through the crowds it speaks In the machinery

Tbe Expfesequotea Adam 8raith and Toe Kxpsese quocea Aoam smitn and

Tlmee ia competent authority upon economio aubjecte, suppose he favors his readers with occasional extraota from the trenchant articlee of that sheet upon the flat money and other popular delusions of She day, and .contrast the healthy tone of ita utteraooea with the senseless drivd of the Express upon the same aubjecta.

BLACK SILKS,

Black Cashmeres, Black Alpacas, MOURNING

DRESSG00DS.

Elegant Stock at Low Prices.

HOBERG. I ROOT & CO.,

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Invite ladiea who appreciate a pure Blaok Silk, with no ohanging or impurities of any kind—In fact, a silk tbst will wear a lifetime, to call at their silk counter and examine thdr magnificent line of

FINE BUCK SILKS

At 75c, 85c, fl.00, |1J25, fl.35, fl.50, up to |3.00 per yard,

BLACK CASHMERES

Our fell importation now opening at 50c, 60c, 75c, 85c, 00c and $1.00 per yard, The best ever sold for the money. J*:

BLACK ALPACAS,

Handsome goods, at 20o, 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c, ®0o per yard.,! .',J"

Mourning Dress Goods.

Henrietta Cloths, Bombasine, Tamise Cloths, Mourning Cashmeres, Crepe Cloths, Baratheas, Merinos, Delaines, etc.

It will be to your interest to examino and price our goods before buying*

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

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practice In this city 1 have shown what can be done for those who need such medlelna 1. Hihelp as I fed Justified In stating 1 am abls to render. I have, with the UTMOST SATISFACTION to the patients, treated bunOreds in this city and vicinity for DEAFNESS, NOISES IN THE HEAD, CATARRH, and various diseases of the THROAT, LUNGS, IMPAIRED VISION, NERVOUS and GENERAL DEBILITY, and other CHRONIC MALAD11BB, a large

proportion of whom had rslinquished all hope of ever being cured, and came to me

as a LAST RE40RT.

The NAMES and TESTIMONIALS of one

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what bearing they bad upon tbe subject. I presume Smith wsa combating the mercantile theory, ao-c*lled, which hdd that gold and diver were the only wealth of a country, and that protective lawa and all ether applianoea which would indudea flow of the precious meUis into a oountry were evidences of true sfaiasmanohip. Political economists,—except those of tbeOarey school —have abandoned these notions. Tbe quotation from the Times cumes with bad grace from your neighbor. If the

hundred and twenty cured patients have long been before the public, and they were from the most reliable and best cltisens (as P11 I never publish a TESTIMONIAL* unless tbe giver is a RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN).

My stay In Tsrre Haute has been prolong ed at their request, and their ASSURANCE that many wished yet to be treated by me. To all persbns who desire to be, treated by me I wish to say now that they SHOULD

NO LONGER DELAY, BUT CALL AT

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F. A. TON HO8CHZI8KBB1 M.i.

HAUTE HOUSE. ZS'

Charter Oak Stoves, Favorite Stoves, beat the world, at BALL'S STOTE STORE.