Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1881 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

No 16 South 5th St., Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 29, 1881

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands oO1early every readlng person in the city, and the farmers of this iimnc llate vicinity. Every Week's Is«'-c i*,

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TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which ail Advertisements appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

JS UNCLE SAM SELFISHf And is l.c rich because lie is selfish? That ue is rich there can be no question. His income, last year, above all ex­

was over sixty-five millions of

dollars. He was very nearly bankrupt in lfe( 5. his notes, at seven per cent, interest, being worth only forty-eight cents on a dollar in the world's market, which would indicate that lie was reallj paying about llftoen per cent, on the money which he really borrowed. Now he has paid off one-third of his enormous debt, is paying only four per cent, interest, and bis notes at this rate are above par, and ho is dobating tho question whether ho cannot get money at three, or three and one-half per cent. It is true, as tho Loudon Spectator says, "There never was such a financial triumph in the history of a nation, or one that reflected greater credit on it authors." The same paper adds, "The people hnvo not been skinned, either." "All who will work, obtain a living,and the immense majority secure one which, though not without sordid features in it, and an clement of grinding anxiety, is, as regards food, clothing, lodging and education, distinctly better than that of any large population in tho past or present of the Old World." But Uncle Sam must not toss his head too high on receiving such compliments as these, for the Spectator, which is ono of the journals most friendly to us in England, traces this wonderful prosperity, vory largely, to tho nation's intenso selfishness. Uncle Sam isablo to pay his debts, borrow money at a low rate of interest, Hccuro all his nephews and nieces, and their cousins from tho Old World plonty Of work, food and clothing, a comfortable homo, and a

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hands of their missionaries, will again distribute food among them, and when an American is murdered, or otherwise mistreated, Uncle Sam will demand redress at the mouth of the cannon, as she fins done within the past year. Bnt Turkey is not a part of the United States, and is not subject to our government. If it is selfish to attend strictly to one's own business and leave other people to manage their business in their own way, then Uncle Sam is selfish. We will only suggest that it would be difficult to find a case in which England, or any of the other

great

powers, have interfered with

the affairs of other nations except for selfish motives. They thought they could make more by interfering than by attending tTo their own business. If the United States government can make its people better off than any large population in the Old World, by attending strictly its own affairs, then it can afford to bear all the reproach that can come upon it in consequence. If American prosperity is the result of American skill in minding its own business, and keeping its governmental nose out of other nations' affairs, it has very little cause to lje ashamed.

LIFE and limb Is valued pretty high in New York. In an action brought by a woman for injuries sustained by being ejected from a house with such violence that sh3 was permanently lamed, the jury returned a verdict in her favor for $15,000. By the law of Indiana, where the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act of another, no recover can be had for more than $5,000, that being, it would seem, the maximum statutory value of a human life in Indiana. In case the injured party survives, however, there is no limit fixed and the recovery may be for any sum the jury see fit to give. Thus we have the curious anomaly of a person partially disabled from supporting himself and his family being permitted to recover more for his injuries than his family could possibly have done had they been deprived entirely of his help. This is absurb, and it is almost equally so for the statute to set a fixed value on a human life and say that it shall in no case exceed a certain sum. Doubtless there are lives which are well paid for at the rate of $5,000 and even less but there are others that would not be paid for at twenty times that amount. Tho value of human life, considered from the standpoint from which the law views it, depends upon tho earning capacity of the individual. This varies a hundred and a thousand fold. Some men, under even the most favorable circumstances, are hardly able to

make

education, because

lie does not caro a straw for anybody but Undo Sam himsolf. This paper Bays: "Tho economical condition of tho Union is marvelous, and is a just source of prido to its peoplo, but Americans must not forget that much of their brimming prosperity is purchased at heavy moral price. Thoy do less for tho world, involving self-sacrifice, deliber fttclv do less, than any great people in it unless it bo tko Germans, who may fairly plead their giganticjarmament, etc.' It adds much moro of tho same sort, r.s for example, that tho groat Republic is rich because, among other reasons, "it refuses to maintain ordor in any Asiatic dependency, and looks on the struggles of the Old World with the half-amazed planco of an indifferent spectator," "One Amorican shell would releaso tho Armenians (in Turkey) but it will not be fired." "No nation in bonds looks upward to tho Groat Republic for aid, no struggling people turn to hor fleet with longing." Tho Spectator admits that individually we are the "most generous of rams," but declares that collectively wo will strike no blow for foreign freedom.'' Now wo do not regard this as BOlflshnoss, but it is what we call attending to cur own business. Tho business of our government is to tako earo of the people who live under it, and not of tho people who live under other governments. Over hero we do not think that Ireland, for example, is well governed. We think there are very sorious abuses which ought at once to bo righted there. Thoy have existed for a long timo. But how would England like it it that "nation in fconds" were able to "look up to the Great Republic for aid"? if that "struggling people" were to turn to our fleet with longing? If that perishing race were to lie permitted to hope that the "Western rifle would drive away the oppressor"? No doubt, if Uncle Sam •wore to undertake to aid Ireland obtain her rights, he would be able to spend a great deal of money before ho got tho job off his hands, and would not be as rich as ho now is. But would not England think he had better attend to his own business and leave the Queen to take care of hor affaire herself? and would not the Spectator, which strongly sympathises with Ireland, lie of the same oj inion But If we may not interfere in Irish affairs, why may we go to Turkey .with our fleet. Turkey is not »o strong ns Kugland, and it would lie a less serious matter to us to interfere with her affairs that! with those of the Queen. But that is a bully's reason. Irishmen's wrongs need righting, as orcll as Armenians' wrongs, and Uncle Sam has the same tight in the due case as in the other. When Ireland, through misrule and other causes, Is reduced to Starvation, America will, as she has heretofore done, send ten dollars for overv one which England sends, to feed her, but Kho will not send fleets or rifles to dictate to the Queen how she shall rule Ireland. When famine comes again to the Armenians and Turks, in consequence of the war, the Americans* by the

a bare living. Others have the

accumulative faculty so largely developed that they are able, in a few years, to amass enormous fortunes. Viewed from this standpoint, who could say what tho life of Jay Gould, or William H. Vandcrbilt is worth? The statutory limitation should be removed, and thero is a bill now before tho Legislature for that purpose.

THE maxim, "Uneasy is tho head that wears a crown," is well illustrated in tho cases of men newly elected to important political offices. The prossure for office in this great republic is such that the life of every man who occupies a posi tiou of influence is rondered a burden to him. Something is known by tho gen oral public of tho pressure which has been on General Garfield since his election to the presidency, but the real extent of that pressure can only bo understood by those occupying a nearer relation. When it is said that a member of congress is so lieset with place seekers that for days together his timo is wholly taken up by them and their friends, so that he can do no business at all, someidoa may be gained of the kiud of pressure that is brought to bear on a Senator and a President. It may be safely said that it has not ontered iuto the heart of man to concoive what it is without an experience of the reality.

ONLY three months have elapsed since George Harding launched liisjnow paper, Tho Saturday Review, at Indianar polis, bHt it is already an established success. The newspaper field seemed pretty completely occupied at that time in the capital city, as indeed it always is and has been, and ominous predictions were made concerning the future of the new craft. But the racy originality and vigor of Harding's pen were irresistible, and the Review at once took the rank which his well known reputation and ability were able to give it. Its circulation is quite satisfactory while its advertising columns give abundant evidence of the good will of the business men of Indianapolis.

LKW WAI.LACK'S new book, "BenHur," is exciting a great deal of interest and gives promise to have a very large sale. The church and religious people generally are attracted to it and find in it information, suggestion and coloring which places the bible story before them in a new light and atmosphere. It is really one of the most suggestive and entertaining books that has been produced for some time. It will afford, to religious people, a new illustration of the scriptural declaration that God is able to make the wrath of man to praise hint seeing that the book had its origin in a conversation with the most noted infidel of the present age.

JrsnrK HARLAN, of the United States Supreme Court, has made an order against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati A St. Louis Railroad to pay the sum of ?2S3,12S.JS for legal expense®. Of this sum $190,000 are lawyers' fees. Small favors like that would be thankfully received, one should think, in the present condition of the legal practice.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THERE ought to be no longer any doubt in anyone's mind that the whipping post ought to be restored as a part of our penal system. A man named John Cummins, living near Newark, Ohio, took his little son, seven years old, split a sapling, and put the boy's tongue in the crack, and driving a nril through both stick and tongue, tied the boy to the manger and gave him a cruel beating. This was because the boy had neglected his work and run off to coast, as the brutal man stated. When the boy went to school he sat sobbing terribly, but could not speak. His teacher looked into his mouth and saw that his tongue was dreadfully swollen, and finally drew the story from the lad. He then swore out a warrant and had Cummins arrested. If there is any punishment at all suited or adequate to such a crime other than an unmerciful flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails, we are at a less to know what it is. If brutes like this were flogged until there were no skin left'on their backs, such crimes would rapidly diminish.

THE enormous frauds perpetrated in the pension business have attracted much attentien, and the rapacity of the claim agents who swarm in Washington and who are scattered profusely throughout the country, has drawn from Mr. Bentley, Commissioner of Pensions, certain information- of value to honest claimants. In most cases the claim, if an honest and just one, can be secured by direct communication with the Commissioner, instead of submitting to be fleeced by the unprincipled claim agent. To give out the impression, however, that the department cannot be reached, except through the intervention of their services, is the business to which the pension agents industriously devote themselves, and flood the country with circular letters to produce this belief. There is no more unscrupulous and villainous set of men abroad, and the deserving claimant should not risk his case with one of them without firstascertaining his charaoten^^____

IT has generally been supposed that Yankee cheek exceeded that of all other climes and nations and much has been the satire expended on it. But an advertisement in a late London law journal would seem to indicate that the scepter was passing from Judah, if it has not already passed. The advertisement winds up as follows: "A gentleman who has had the entire charge of several heavy cases in litigation, and who has just returned from a tour round the world, which he has made on behalf of an eminent firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn, having brought to a successful issue the object of his mission, is prepared to undertake the getting up of evidence and the obtaining of reliable information in any litigious matter of importance." In vulgar parlance this may be said to knock the persimmon.

EVERY State in the Union imagines it her duty—or rather the politicians imagine it for her—to have a place in the cabinet and the consequence is that Gen Garfield is bored to death by small-iry politicians who, with the cheek of book agents or lightning rod peddlers, swarm upon him unsolicited and urge the claims of men for cabinet positions whoso names oven the President has never heard, although his long experi ence in public life has given him a wider acquaintance with the prominent men of the nation than any previous Presi dent had at his entrance into the office.

IN the investigation of the Woman's Reformatory now going on before a committee of the Legislature, the notorious Nancy E. Clem, an inmate of the institution, was called as a witness, and gave it as her opinion that the prisoners are not well fed. She says the meat is mostly fat bacon and the tea is cheap. Doubtless the living is not as good as when Nancy was luxuriating in the green pastures supplied by other people's money, but then some drawbacks must be expeoted in prison life.

MUM seems to bo the word at Mentor. Secretary Sherman went there and knew less when he came away than when he went: and Senator-elect Harrison comes back In the same predicament, hearing not a word about cabinet matters. If this is true, Mr. Garfield must be a pretty good hand at keeping his own counsel

CERTAIN newspapers are agitating a reform looking to the abolition of coroners. The "Crowner's quest," they urge, has been the burlesque of jurisprudence from the time of Hamlet down. One thing is pretty certain: Either the office should be abolished or a higher order of incumbents be required.

The Centeunial Exhibition at Philadelphia has had a lingering and painful death. In the form of what was intended to be a permanent fair it lasted until a few days ago, but the railroad companies would advance no more money to keep it alive, and the directors voted to let it die. t:

THE Chicago Tribune gets $36,000 a column a year for advertising. The New York Herald, from $39,000 to $348,000

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CANON CITY, Colorado, has an oil well in successful operation.

HON. STANLEY MATTHEWS succeeds Justice Swayne on the Supreme bench.

THE total receipts for Bemhardt's eleven weeks in this country were §248, 368. ____________

MR. BKKCHER says that he has declined an offer of $300,000 to lecture for one year. ____________

MAINS has had an earthquake, its center being the vicinity of Augusta. No serious damagefresulted.

THE bill to restrict marriage was held to be impracticable and was indefinitely postponed in the Legislature.

THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat publishes its criticism of Bemhardt's performance both in English and French.

THE four largest cities in the State, as shown by the new census, are: Indianapolis, 75,074 Evansville, 29,280 Fort Wayne, 26,880 Terre Haute, 26,040.

AN Iowa man has a novel way of putting up ice. He bought a lot of apple barrels, pumped them full of water, and let them freeze, when they were rolled into a shed and covered with ice.

THE House committee on Territories have decided to report adversely the bill making Dakota a State. The Democrats are afraid tho political complexion of tho new State might not be favorable to them.

AMONG other things in anticipation for the next world's fair are the great East River Bridge, the Hudson River Tunnel, if completed, and a grand display of the latest improvements in the marar time architecture of all nations.

PUT down in one corner of your memory for future use the fact that in 1900 February will have but twenty-eight days, although a leap year. This phenomenon occurs only once in 200 years, and always in the odd hundred.

OP the 327,880 immigrants who came to this country last year, 104,000 were Germans, 66,000 Irish, 35,000 Swedes, 33,000 English and 11,000 Italians. Scotland, Switzerland, Norway and Russia contributed from 7,000 to 9,000 each.

FIVE children in one family died within a week, near Valparaiso, Indiana. The water of a well near a privy vault was suspected of being the cause, and a chemical analysis of it proved the suspicion weli founded, the water being little bettor than sewerage.

THE ice crop this year is immense. Indianapolis dealers have harvested 130,000 tons. They have reversed the maxim of making hay while the sun shines, and Avisely, for they may not have another such opportunity for years.

JUSTICE SWAYNE, who has just retired from the United States Supreme bench, in his seventy-fifth year, is "an Ohio man." That is, he was born in Virginia but went to Ohio when twenty years old and gained his eminence in that State.

A YOUNQACTOR. Cleveland Plaindealer.

The baby in "Hearts of Oak" costs the management $40 a week. It is the child of Mrs. Dear, a resident of Cleveland, who receives $20 a week for the little one's services, and has all her own and the baby's expenses paid besides. .The child is now six mbntlis old and has been on tne stage three months.

JOHNNY CLEM A FRA XJD. A writer in the St. Louis Chronicle gives the "inside" of the history of Johnny Clem, the famous drummer boy of Chickamabua. He says: Johnny was a "marker* for Col. Lefaveur's Michigan regiment, and not a drummer boy —and he did not shoot a rebel colonel nor any other rebel. He was with me the night of September 20, 1863, and rode back to Rossville on my cassion, of battery M. first Illinois light artillery, and ho told me then that the report was false, that he had not been near a rebel that dav, only as his regiment was. Johnny was a very old-headed boy for such a little pigmy, and h"not to correct the report when it reached the ears of General George H. Thomas, who made him a sargent on his body guard.

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column, and the New York

Tribune, from $30,000 to $85,00 a column. No wonder there is a tendency to rush into journalism.

THE Republicans had better stop trying to settle the vexed question of who carried Indiana and devote themselves to the problem of using their victory so wisely that they will be able to carry it again* ____________ t/i 4

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COTTON manufacturing in the South has increased during the past ten years from 416,983 spindles and 45,032,806 pounds of cotton, to 714,078 spindles and 101,937,256 pounds of cotton. ...

THE LAST MANC Z*r, Ind Review. v-».

The "Last Man" has died, the same being Dr. John R. Vattier, of Cincinnati. In 1832, while the cholera was raging in Cincinnati, Dr. Vattier and six others formed themselves into a society, agreeing to meet once a year, enjoy a dinner and drink bottle of wine. When a member died the vacancy was not filled, but the absentee's plate and

were placed at the table, as usual, «t the next anniversary. A bottle of wine, secured in a casket, was laid away, to be drank by the "Last Man," as he sat solitary at the table, in the presence of the six empty chairs and unturned plates of his comrades who had crossed the dark river. In 1855 Dr. Vattier celebrated the anniveraary alone, his last companion having been buried a short time previous. Nothing sadder can be imagined than that solitary meal of the "Last Man," and as ho quaffed the memorial bottle, mellowed with age, be doubtless felt the viewless presence of his companions around him. Each succeeding year Dr. Vattier, true to his promise, sat at that solitary board, in the awful presence of the empty chairs, and went through the ghastly ceremony of dining. Though not ordinarily regarded as a sentimental man, and it is said that the recurrence of each solemn celebration told upon him, and that he grew to dread it worse than he dreaded death. The solemn feast will be celebrated no more. The "Last Man" has joined his companions*

A strBSRiBHR wants to know "how to pot plants for the winter. The beat way is to procure a pot large euough to hofd all the plants and pitch em ta cover with dirt, and then set the pot in one corner of the yard until spring time comes again, gentle Annte. ^pl« may then be as dead as Julius Caesar but this is better than to carry in $5 worth of plants in the fall and bestow $90 worth of labor on them during the winter.

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Our stock of Ladies', Gents and Children's Hosiery, Ladies' Corsets and Hamburg Embroideries, continue the great attraction of our Store, at unusually low prices for which we are offering tb§m.

SENA fOR ISA WYER'S BIO HEART Talk with Congressman Williams.

Last summer during the campaign I passed a Sunday at Sawyer's house. In the course of our chat lie spoke of his business and his success, not boastingly but frankly, as is his custom. "'Yes,'4io said, "I made a good deal of money last year—a good deal of money. I was thinking it over, and the thought came that I was growing old, and if I should die what the effect would be on my business. Now, I had few little mortgages, given me by distant relations and others whom I had helped, I thought that if I should die it might cause them trouble, and as I had money enough I spoke to my son, told him now I felt ana that if he was willing we would send these men a release from their obligations. Of course he told me he tliougnt it would be a good thing to do so. I had the pa-

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pers made out and sent each one of them their The old man lay back and laughed as he said: "It cost me $26,000, but somehow, Williams, I felt the bettor for it after all." Sawyer has a "barrel," you see but to my mind it was a manlier, a nobler thing for him to forgive his poor creditors while he could here on earth than to endow something when he was gone and his money was no longer of any use to him.

CUT IT SHORT. New York Tribune.

Religious services have their proper

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at executions, but they should not prolonged at the scaffold while the

miserable criminal is standing in susise I 3ay

pense upon tho verge of eternity. Yesterday Reinhardt, the Staten Island wife

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murderer, was kept waiting on the gallows four minutes in the rain to hear Bible-readings and prayers, if, indeed, he was able to hear at all, with the black cap over his head and the dread of the coming death paralyzing his faculties. Why should not the ministers mercifully finish their work in the convict's cell? If their supplications have not availed to produce repentance when put forth in tne silence of the prison tney will hardly be of use when the doomed man feels the noose around his neck. So long as society kills criminals by process of law, it fs bound to make the process as quick as possible.

A VICTIM TO APPEARANCES. Boston Globe. A story is told of a North Adams roung man who called on a young lady x'or the first time Sunday evening. After an hour or two of pleasant conversation on various subjects the "man of the house" entered the room where the young people were sitting. He was introduced to the young man, and, after a few remarks upon the weather, etc. left the room ana retired for the nfght.

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the young man had occasion to speak with the young lady, and, when about to resume his down town journey, met the "man of the house" coming in the gate.

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young man, you held on said the old gentleman, -oung man, without stopwent his way, puzzled

whether to commit suicide or go a fishing.

STRANGE EFFECT OF COMING DEATH. Bangor Whig.

Peculiar circumstances attended the death of a man in Lewiston, a few days Mr. Lawrence Eccles, a native of ind lost his voice a year ago, and did~not speak until the night previous to bis death. He awoke his wife before lorning, shouting and laughing. When it became light he made his friends put him on a sofa and wheel him into the sitting room. "Now, I want vou to out me before the looking glass so I see myself die." His friends pooh-poohed the idea, but complied with the request. He folded his hands before his breast, turned his face toward the mirror, and In a few moments was dead.

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