Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 November 1881 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPBTBTOB.

PUBLICATION OFTIO,

No 18 South 5th st, Printing Heoae Square.

TERRE

HAUTE, NOV. 12, 1881.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of Paper are published. flie FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding (owns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. She 8 ECONH, EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes Into the hands o£nearly every reading person in the city, and the farmers of this Immediate vicinity. livery Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS.

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

NEWSPAPER SENSE.

Nothing seems easier, to a vast majority of men, than to ran a newspaper, unless it be to ran a (arm. A very little practical experience with either a now* paper or a farm, will convince most men who try it, that what looks so easy Is no fool's task after all. Said one of these wise farmers, who was wiser after his experience than before it, "I have put moro money into the ground, and taken less out of it, than any other living man." He probably exaggerated so far as putting himself at the head of losing farmers, but was probably correct in his judgment that ho had fed his farm in stead of Jiia farm feeding him,—had emptied his purse into the ground, instead of the ground filling his purse. In fact, we very much doubt whether many of those friends of ours who do some times—not often—discuss matters con Hected with agriculture and horticulture, in the so-called Horticultural Society, would really do much better at tho newspaper business. But however that may be, a newspaper is like a farm in this, that it will easily absorb more money than it gives back. In nothing is it oftener true than in the newspaper business, that "The best laid plans of xnico and men gang aft agley."

And one reason for this is that the combination of faculties needful to edit a newspaper, or to write successfully for its columns, is a poculiar one. Real tiowspaper men, or journalists—like poets—uro born, and not made. If a man has originally newspaper sense, experience and education are doubtless a benefit to him. But without this peculiar mental combination—almost, perhaps quite, undeflnablo—called uewspapor sense, no amount of eduoatiou or exporionce will make a mau successful in •newspaper writing or editing. All this is true, in a degree,.of every other pursuit. Thore must bo an aptitude lor it to be suevossful in it. But tho aptitudo for newspaper work is rarer than for almost any other calling. There are any number of lawyers and clergymen who are excellent writers, but who know uo more about writing an editorial or an artlclo for paper, than most editors do about conducting a casein court or managing a revival. They have no idea what people will read aud what they will not. They have no Idea of the art of putting things so that pooplo will read what they write. They do not know what to leave out or what to put in. And worse yet, they do not know where to begin or, worst of all, where to leave off. And they never will or can learn. No preliminaries, and no tailoring off, are things they cannot understand. On the other hand there are men, some with a •college education and many without It, who tako to newspaper work as naturally as ducks to water. They swim tho first time they plunge in, just as easily and as naturally as old ducks. It requires but little experience iu an editorial chair to recognize a born journalist at first sight of his article. Of course thcro are somo things, like personal abuse, for example, which will always be read, just as everybody will rush to see a dog-fight. But the skill to take up common subjects, and write -upon them so that people will read what is written is quite another matter. Hence it is that mjvny of the criticisms which are made upon newspapers are very amusing to those who are managing them, and have some little judgment .as to what is needful to success.

THKRB is, however, a legitimate field •St criticism for those who have not this newspaper sense. It does not require Any peculiar talent to discern what kind of a paper has a g-ood moral influence, .or an immoral influence. The man or woman who cannot write an acceptable article for the weakest sort of a paper, •can judge as to the moral quality of what is written. -refining in tluenoe of a paper or an article. No newspaper has aright to ignore, or run counter to the best moral sense of the community. Sometimes it must, in obedience to Its own convictions, say -what some oxeeileut people think it aught to say. But still it does hold that the moral sense of the community, or of the Individual, has aright to criticise, and criticisms of this kludare as valclable coming from one who cannot write as from one who can. The question really is whether the critic has sound moral sense. The man for example who flies angry at the first criticism upon himself and calls his critic a liar, is not the best judge of what a high-toned and moral paper should be. Rut honest criticisms as to the moral character and influences -of a journal are not be lightly esteemed •when they come from thoee who have a

high moral sense, no matter how poorly such could conduct the newspaper business themselves. to

IT this connection it is fit that we should discharge a duty too long neglected, and express our gratification that Dr. Lyman Abbott, who was for five yean pastor of the Congregational church in this city, has become the sole editor of that most excellent paper, the Christian Union.- We know of no man who better illustrates what we have said about newspaper sense, than Dr. Abbott. He has it as nearly perfect as any man of whom we know. He has put the Christian Union, in our judgment, at the head of the religious press in this country. He very gracefully and, doubtless, truthfully, expresses his indebtedness to Mr. Beecher, with whom he has been associated in the editorial work, for the inspiring influence which he has exerted. But the real work of the paper has been done by Mr. Abbott, and he is to be most heartily congratulated on assuming the position in which he can not only do the work, but also have the credit for what he does. We but voice the senti ment of his many friends herein extend ing to him most hearty congratulations We learn also that Dr. Abbott now has the controlling pecuniary interest in this popular paper, Mr. Beecher having sold his stock. It should be added in justice to both Mr. Beecher and Mr. Abbott, that their relations ever have been, and still are, of the pleasantest kind. Mr, Beecher simply turns the paper which is the product of his inspiration over into the hands in which he can completely trust it.

AUDITOR ALEXANDER, of this State who succeeded Mr. Ely in the Fifth Au ditor's office in Washington about six months ago, has ferreted out irregulari ties in his office which required the resignation of the chief of the consular division and one of his clerks. Mr. Cowie the resigned chief, is out in the custom ary card in such cases, charging his removal to spite work and a desire to make places for others. He is compelled to admit, however, that he failed in his duty to the auditor, although he well knew it. This admission takes all the wind out of his sails and is, of itself a strong justification of the auditor's action. It grows more evident that an occasional change in the heads of the Washington bureaus is advantageous to the public service.

WHEN the war closed it was predicted by many that the colossal debt which resulted from it would swamp the nation and that it was hopeless to under take its payment. We know how it has been wasting, away, year after year, like ice in an April thaw, the reduction in the past year reaching $101,000,000. The estimated reduction during /the coming year is 8125,000,000. Thus by paying off, and refunding at a lower rate of interest, the great Rebellion will, in a few moro years, be but a mere trifle. The administration of the American Treasury during the past fifteen years has certainly displayed financial wisdom and ability of the highest order.

SPITE of the complaints against the new Irish land bill, the measure is proving itself of practical benefit to the tenantry. The decisions under it have been decidedly favorable to the tenants, causing a reduction in rents of from 25 to 80 per cent., and carrying with it other incidental benefits. The result is having pacifying influence and if the professional agitators could be muzzled for awhile, there is no doubt but amicable adjustments of difficulties would be brought about in many cases.

MR. C. E. WHITSIT of Madison, Ind, writes to the "Farm Herd and Home" that there are now about 400,000 peach trees growing in that vicinity and that there will probably be as many more planted this year. The crop of the present year was about 100,000 bushels and the average price received, about :,75 per bushel. Though the first was fine and the prices good, the expense of picking and marketing was heavy, so that the net profits were not as large as ordinarily.

THE designs for wall*paper which took prizes of §2,000 recently offered by New York House, were as follows: Design of honey-conib, marine designs, design of lilies, and a design of pink peouy. All were made by ladies aud the competition was not limited to this country. These are the quiet victories of women which remove the barriers that are supported to hedge in her sex.

THE Indianapolis Times declares an average daily circulation for the first week in November of 8,015 and says its books are open to the inspection of all who mav wish to inspect thettu

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THE Hebrew fair at Cincinnati, for the benefit of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, cleared $$$00 above expenses. It

Such also can judge of thesis a cardinal doctrine of the Jews to be liberal to their own poor. r'

THE sixth week of the Atlanta exposition shows an increase of interest. There is no longer any doubt of the success of the fair. 4 ..

Ho*. CHARGES ARIO,of Legansport, has started for Sidney, Australia, to enter upon the duties of Consul at that port. ___________

THE Presiti'MIT has designated Thursday, Nov. 24th, as the day for annual thanksgiving and prayer.

Kv Astsvitjun is enjoying a religious revival which promises to attain extensive dimensions.

A statue of Lord By run has been erected at Miseotanghi, the plans of his death.

a TEEKEi HAUTE SATu^A^EV^KX^a MAIL

There aro needed reforms, if not in the theory, at least in the administration of our Government, and there is none which ranks superior in importance to that of the civil service question. It is has been much discussed and the discussion should go on until some practical results come of it. Senator Hoar's article, and an article by Mr. Dorman B. Eaton, in a late number of the Princeton Review, are well worth a careful perusal by all persons interested in the discussion of political questions.

BLAINE has a fortune variously estimated at from one to three millions, and is not at all dependent on the salary of his cabinet position. It is said that legitimate investments in coal lands in Pennsylvania, made some years ago, constitute the foundation of his wealth. His new house, in Washington, will cost him 980,000, and another §25,000 to furnish it. When completed, next January, it will be the scene of' many brilliant entertainments. Although Mr. Blaine will soon retire from the cabinet, and, for the present, from official life, he will continue to live in Washington, and await the opening of the next Presidential canvass, in which he will be the most conspicuous, if not successful, figure. He is said to be at preset^ in excellent health.

A CHINESE student at Marietta College, Ohio, who was preparing for the ministry, committed suicide the other day from love of a pretty German servant girl. It seems the attachment was mutual and the girl was willing to marry the young Chinaman, but a Miss Woodbridge, keeper of boarding house at which the Chinaman lived and who was opposed to the marriage, through some intrigue caused him to lose faith in bis mistress and to fall into such a fit of despondency that he put an end to his life. Ah Kim, or Neakim as his Americanized name runs, is represented to have been a young man of unusual intelligence and culture for one of his race and -frave promise o^jgouch usefulness. Miss Woodbridge ought to be taken care of.

THE result of Tuesday's election Is not such as to give much encourage*, ment to the Democrats. It was thought at first that New York had probably been lost by the Republicans, but later returns give them that State, as well as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Virginia was carried by the Readjustee, or Mahone party, which indicates a break in the South. While the majorities are not as huge as ordinarily, the result, considering that it is an off year, Is very satisfactory to the Republicans,

THE Washington Territory Legislature has voted against woman suffrage, the vote in the council standing seven to five. This is not far from an equal division, and may lie accepted as an evidence that the movement Is making some

SENATOR HOAR'S AS TICLE. I THEN ewark bank proves to be short The North American Review for No- some $2,400,000, but where the money vember contains an article on "appoint-

ing power," by Senator Hoar, of chusetts, which is evidently the result of much thought and observation oh the subject of Republican Government. The basis of the article is the need of a reform in the civil se^rvice which will cease to make the public offices of the country the mere reward of the party services. After giving a brief and ad mirably compact history of the* origin of the present system of appointments, which he traces back of Jackson to the time of Jefferson, Mr. Hoar states some of the objections to to the present method.

He says: "If the only question were how to get a capable body of officers I do not feel sure that the political method of getting them is not as good as any likely to be devised. But the complaint is not chiefly that the public is not faily well served. It is that the appointment to and removaffrom office is a disturbing influence, and sometimes a corrupting influence, upon the elections and upon legislation."

Acknowledging the necessity for and usefulness of party organization to a proper extent, he says:1 "But party spirit is an unmixed evil when it transfers to that association a love, allegiance and obedience due enly to the State it self. What must be the effect in inflaming that spirit, to have nearly one-half of the people continue for a generation to feel that they are excluded from all share in the Government by reason of their opinion, even from those functions which their opinions do not affect? To them tlae Government becomes only the representative of their |antagonists. It is, to their minds, only organized party, Every act of its necessary authority is viewed as the act of an enemy. Its vie tories in war, its most successful and beneficial administration in peace, are regarded with jealousy and dislike, as tending to prolong the rule of foefc, and perpetuate their own exclusion from power."

These sentences are freighted with pa triotic suggestion and deserve to be well considered by every lover of his country. The history of all times and of all nations has shown that the greatest danger to the Government is»the decadence of patriotism and the growth of factions, It is this spirit which has sapped the foundations of many free governments and broken them them into fragments. It is this danger that the wise and farseeing Washington warned his countrymen against in his farewell address. It has been said, and often repeated, that the foundation of free government is the intelligence of the people. But what will intelligence avail if there-is a lack of interest to exercise that in gence or if it is exercised for and unpatriotic purposes

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went has not yet been made out. It may yet be found that Baldwin, the comprehensive cashier, has put some of it in a safe place, wherewith to soften the asperities of his declining years. The examiner thinks the depositors may .receive from 50 to 00 per cent., while the stockholders lose not only the amount of their stock, but an equal stun in ad dition to that.

It is not generally known that the leaves, blossoms and wood of the oleander are a deadly poison. Prof. Law writes that a few leaves eaten by a horse produced death, and that seven out of twelve persons who ate roasted meat in which branches of the oleander were used as skewers, were fatally poisoned. The flowers, too, have produced death in persons who carelessly picked and ate them.

THE London Times estimates the lo: to American commerce, through the lack of American shipping, at 180,000,000 year. The American ship question is the coming question in the politics of this country, and should engage the at tention of our statesmen far more than the tariff.

THERE is quite a small-pox scare at Jeffersonville, and the Mayor has issued a proclamation requiring all unvacci -nated persons to be vaccinated, on pain of prosecution. The disease was taken to the place by a young lady from Minnesota, who caught the infection in Chicago. _____________

THE territories of Dakota, New Me*ico, and Washington, will apply fbr admission to the Union, at the ensuing session of Congress, each of which, it is said, have a population sufficient to entitle them to admission. A proposition will be made to divide Dakota into two equal parts, by a line running East and West.

A LATH cabinet rumor is to the effect that the new administation will be made up of out-and-out Grant men. But there is little dependence to be put in the gossip of the Washington correspondents.

CHEAP morning papers are coming to the front. The latest venture is the News, just launched in St. Louis. It will distill unalloyed Democracy, at the rate of three conts per day.

THE farmers of the" United States number 7,600,000. We have some large cities, but, after all, the country is a lit tie the biggest thing.

THERE are 4,000 dram-shops kept by women in New York City. Only one of the number is a native American.:

THE Giteau trial is set for Monday, and it is positively stated that there will be no further delay.

IT was only a year ago last Tuesday that Garfield was elected President.

THE Minneapolis sawdust is to be mixed with peat and pressed into fuel.

THE Shakers are dying out, notwithstanding their thrift and industry.

WHAT we now want, says an exchange, is a boom in honesty.,, 5l

SA YINOS AND DOINGS.

Christmas is coming, and woman is at work studying up slipper-patterns. Some wag says that a man's wet goods cost more than his wife's dry goods.

Americans wear more watches than any other nation. We have the system of tick to a perfection in this country, v*

An account of a Chicago funeral says that the burial casket "was made to conform, as far as possible, with tho comforts the occupant was wont to surround himself with in the home he has left."

One intoxicated man said it was a bundle of rags that lay on a window sill two hundred yards away, at Austin, Texas, and his companion said it was a woman's head. They made a bet, and decided it by shooting at the object and neither won, for it was a boy's head which the bullet grazed.

A journal published At a Jewish charity fair, in Cincinnati, takes the ground that it is the Jews who are exclusive, and tells them that they ought to be more tolerant of Christians. "We assert qurselves," it says, as a 'pecpttt* people,' and, except in our business«wn ciations, hold ourselves aloof from the Christian world."

In a Montreal breach of promise suit, it was shown that thej^ir agreed upon a day for marriage,, and .marked it in a calender of her dfery, and that he twice surreptitiously rubbed out the mark and put it a month ahead. She eaught him at it on the last occasion, and sought by a recourse to the law to compel him to keep the original promise.

A projected hotel, in Toledo, will have no bar-room, but in its stead a small chapel, in which the guests may bold religious services. The man who to going to build this bouse believes that hotels are wickeder than the average of travelers, and he means to provide accommodations especially for Christians. He is said to be wealthy enough to try the experiment without danger of bankruptcy*

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NEW BOOKS.

WITHOUT A HOME. By E. P. Roe, 18 mo. cloth. Price SLfit. Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. For sale by

E. L. Oodecke, Opera House Bookstore, Terre Haute. Mr. Roe adds another volume to a series of novels that have been jfcpular and widely circulated. The first, "Barriers Burned Away," written years ago, was sufficiently remarkable to attract both sweeping criticism and flattering notices, and the whole list of eight has attained an aggregate circulation of 140, 000 volumea.

Mr. Roe writes both as reformer and novelist while he draws with minute details his graphic sketch of the struggles and fate ox the victim of morphia, and the trials of illy paid and oft oppressed shop girls, he does not interrupt the progress and romance of the story. The reader will be able to follow wjith unflagging interest the growth of the hero from rustic hobbled boyhood to his successful, cultivated manhood, and varying fortunes of the heroine through plenty and penury, happiness and despair, to the final happy day when the marriage bells ring Venvoy. „.. ...,

Revolution In Door-I^ocks. Builders, especially owners of property, should demand that the old shell excuses called Locks, in past ages, shall curse no more doors for them, when they can buy for a small prioe a simple, strong and secure Lock, needing no repair, at A. G. Austin & Co's. See these Locks before your doors are butchered so they cannot, support the "Coming Lock

—NotHing like the Princess of Wales Bustle. If thoy do not give satisfaction, we will refund your money.

GARRA BRANT A COLE.

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DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. The Partnership heretofore existing between Lucius Ryce and Edward M. Walmsley, under the firm name of Ryee & Walmsley dealers in Carpets, Wall-paper and General House Furnishing Goods, was this day terminated by mutual agreement. L. Ryce retires from the business, which will be continued by E. M. Walmsley, !who assumes all the Indebtedness of the late flrra. All unsettled notes and accoauts due them must be promptly paid.

LUCIUS RYCE.

EDWARD M. WALMSLEY.

Terre Haute, Ind, Oct. 29th 1881,

CARD.

Referring to the above notice of change of firm, whereby I retire from my connection with Ryce A Walmsley's Carpet Hall. I desire to state that the business baa its origin in the year 1844, when I bought the first lot of Carpets that wore sold in this city, and added them to the Dry Goods stock of the old "BuckeyeStore." Siuce that period, thirtyseven years ago, this community has been largely supplied from our establishment with Carpets, Wall-papers, Oil-cloths, Curtain Goods, Fine Mirrors, Rugs, Mats, and a great variety of other Etouso Furnishing Goods. The "Carpet Hall" has alway been, and is to-day the only exclusively House Furnishing business in Terre Haute or the Wabash valley. Its growth and popularity have been recognize*! in a very substantial manner, and confidently and earnestly ask for my recent partner and succcssor in the business, Mr. E. M. Walmsley, who has been its active manager for many years, and to whom I have this day sold my entire Interest, a continuance of the generous patronage so long extended to the house by an appreciative public.

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Fine line of Men's WINTER SUITS 4 from $10 to $12. Men's heavy weight, cold weather Overcoats, $8 to $10. Daily we're getting in something in Youths' and Boys' Suits and Overcoats.

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