Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 November 1881 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PTTBUCATIOX OFFICE,

No 10 Booth 6th St., Printing House 8quare.

TERRE HAUTE, NOV. 18, 1881

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of thi*Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, baa a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND KDITIOX, on Saturday Even lng, goes into the hands oCnearly every reading parson In the city, and the farmers of this immediate vicinity. Bvery Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

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THE SHA KSPEAREAN MYTH. Under the above title Mr. Appletow Morgan has written a learned book which to an effort to show that the Shak spearean playB area collection of anonymous productions, composed by a num ber of authors and simply edited by Shakspeare for the use of his theatreand occasionally changed by him to suit stage necessities and the tastes of his audiences. The argument is that an uneducated boy and busy theatrical manager, such as the traditional Shak speare is represented to be, could not have achieved the varied scholarship and profound philosophy which it is evident the writer, or writers, of these plays possessed.

This is but anew presentation of an old and sorc&what hackneyed subject the new point in tho discussion being to give the authorships of the plays to sev *1 persons, instead of to Lord Bacon, or any other urimgle individual. The radical weakness of all these theories would seom to be in taking for granted that vast and profound scholarship was requisito for the production of tho Sbakspearean piny a. Such wo think is not the ease. Tho essential beauty and power of the plays are not theoutgrowth

learning but tho upspringing of an inborn spirit of poetry. It is as a poet that Shakspeare has always been, and must always be considered. Ills work has its origin in' the heart and the imagination, not in those faculties of tho mind which are Concerned with the acquisition of knowledge. In proof of this, let any passage be selected in the plays which has grown familiar to the whole civilized world by reason of its beauty and it will not be found that great learning or scholarship is the source of its popularity. "To be or not to be," "How sweet tho moonlight Bleeps upola this bank,"" The quality of mercy is not stained," etc., what is it that mnkos those. passages live in the memory like the echo of a sweet strain of mnsi«? Is it learning or philosophylaw, medicine, divinity or any other of the sciences of the schools? Evidently not. It is the poetic spirit which breathes through them. It is so with everything superior in the Shaksperian plays. Take his female characters wondrous bright, witty spiritual, these are not born of learning. They are the flue, ethereal creations of a poet's imagination. Heavy, lumbering learning would have hindered rather than helped at their creation. So with his jolly, grimacing, coarse-grained clowns—among |the finest of his creations—are they compouudo-i of scholarship? AH that is beautiful, spiritual, exhlleratingf in the Shakspeare dramas la the out blossoming of a poetical temperament which has little or nothing to do with learning of onokind or another. Nothing should seem to be more manifest than this, that the plays are the work of one who has gone about in the world with great, observing eyes, feeing and noting everything, and painting his pictures from the living, blooming, moving world around him. If there is auything that is conspicuously absent frown hie works it is the mustiaesa of the closeL If there is any quality by which th«y are particularly characterised it is the freedom, lift and realism of the world of men and nature.

Nothing has been more exaggerated than the evidences of great historical or other knowledge in the 8bakspeare plays. It is the picked up learning of a newspa]«r writer who crams for the particular occasion. Shakspeare could easily bav* got all he needed of it from the learned men with whom he habitually associated. In this view of the ease there is nothing incredible in the life of the traditional Shakspeare. Granted that he was distinctively a poet the poetic faculty is from heaven, not from boaks. What la there more incredible in his history than In that of Burns? It ought to be settled by this time that the gift of poetry has nothing to do with how or where one was born, or what his ancestry was, or with the manner of hi* bringing a p. Poesy springs up, like the wild-flower of the woods, when and where it wills. We must ncitqaesUon the genuineness of Its beauty or the fact of its existence, simply because the soil Is thin and poor where itgrowm. Nature has her own way of making wild-flowers and poets.

Tint boom in railroad building continues. It ia stated that about 8,000 miles of new road will be built daring the prawnt .rear, the largest mileage ever constructed in one year, except that of lsra.

Tttn Odd Fellows now ha**'*!* active membership of SS.7S6 in this State, an Inert*** if about 400 in six months.

MJSINO.

"Tell 'em we's rising." As a prom! nent General in the army was coming home, at the close of the war, be said to his colored boy, "What shall I tell the people at the North about you?" "Tell 'em we's rising," said the bqgr. That same boy is now a professor in a South era college, and he stood, the other day, before one of the

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gent audiences that could be assembled in an Eastern city, and read a paper on "The Strength, Weakness, and Needs of the Colored People," which for breadth of grasp, eleganoe of diction, tact in putting things, and genuine eloqnence, few white men could equal. He admitted freely the moral weakness of his people, and well said that the race which for generations bad seen its illegitimate children treated better than the legitimate, and its women who yielded to the wishes of their masters petted, while chastity was punished, could not be ex peeted, in a single half generation, to rise to an equality with the whites that those who had been educated to feel that they were but property, and that, therefore, taking for their own use other property was all right, could hardly be cured of thievery in a few yeans of freedom. But while these moral weakn still exist, yet they are greatly dimin ished. The race itself has rapidly in creased in these years of freedom, so that instead of four millions, there are now about six millions of them. In the last fifteen years of freedom, they have raised more than a million and a half more bales of cotton than in any fifteen years of slavery. They are already the owners of property which runs up among the millions.] |These are very striking and suggestive facta concerning the strength of the negro. No race in the history of the world has made such rapid progress as the colored race of the South since the abolition of slavery.

THE colored people are in the South to stay. They are not to be driven out or starved out, or killed out." This is a sensible conclusion. There is no doubt that the climate and labor of the South are better adapted to the negro than those of any other region. They must be free to go North, East or West, if they choose to do so. But they must also be free to stay where they are. And being free to do this, they will stay there. The South needs them, and, other things being equal, they are better off there than they can be elsewhere.

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A CHANGB of sentiment in to tho colored people has already begun The better elements in the South are beginning to feel, and very strongly too, that the negro must be educated. The teachers who goffrom the North are still ostracised by a large majority of the people, but they are not despised and abused as formerly. In nearly all the Southern States there are prominent men, like Senator Brown, of Georgia, who are outspoken friends of negro education, and of the schools established by Northern benevolence. A change is rapidly working in public sentiment on this subject.

THE Mahone movement in Virginia, may be said in this connection, is, without doubt a purely political movement. Mahone is no worse, and probably not very much better than, politicians generally. He is ambitious— and this is no sin. But the movement what he leads—aside from the debt question—is a. most important and significant one. Mahone has had the sagacity to recognize and the skill to combine the growing sentiment of the South in favor of political freedom and popular education. These were really the issnes in the recent campaign there. The bitterness of the opposition is not all on account of the debt question, but because of the position of the new party toward the colored race. The opprobrium which they attempt to cast upon the Mahonites is that they are in favor of "nigger rule." This is the awful spectre to which they point those who are inclined to forsake the old party for the new. And the "Readjusters," on the other hand, recognise and accept the issue. Instead of calling it "nigger rule," they call it political freedom and popular education. Let the negro vote as freely as the white man, and give white and black alike the means of edaoation. This is the soul of the movement. Drop this out and bitterneee on the one hand and enthusiasm on the other would cease, and the people oataide the Btate would have no more Interest in theoontest than in that of anyother State. Politicians see little more than party success or failure. But careful students of the times, and wise patriots and philanthropists see in this contest the upheaval caused by the slowly accumulating forces of yean of thought, experience and observation. There have been but few premonitory mutterings which eould be beard, but the forces' were gathering, and the eruption has come. Wise men will get out of the way. Fools will try to smother the volcanic fires, and in the end be swallowed by them, or be petrified in the irressistible streams of burning lava which will overtali e*nd sweep past them. ,i

PATTI is not creating the furore In New York that waa anticipated. Indeed, notwithstanding the fact that the price of admission to her concerto was reduced from the figure originally intended, her engagement is going on rather quietly. It may dawn on the minds of the European singers and players by and by that there is a limit even to American gullibility and when that time comes we may hope to hear the great artists at something like a reasonable expense.

TH* publishers of the Journal, §ensine!. TioK* and Herald, of Indianapolis, have been indicted, for publishing lottery advertisements, under the new law.

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TERR® HAUTE SATWDAY EVIWiSO MAIL

AIVOTHKX sensational robbery forms part of the past week's news. The victim waa Jeaee Baldwin, an old man of eccentric habits, living near Youngstown, Ohio. In the latter part ef October the old man took some f17,000 worth of Government bonds to Washington to have them redeemed. He would have nothing but gold in payment, saying that he had paid gold for them, and he would have gAd in rettra. The amount due was counted out to him in double eagles, the whole weighing some seventy pounds. He took his gold home and put it in an old-fashioned safe which stood in a closet under the stairway. The entire family slept upstairs. Ok-iaes-day night a party of robbers forged their way into the house, blew the safe open with gun-powder, carried of the gold, and made good their escape with a carriage and horses previously taken from tbf barn and held in readineafe. The famffl^'were'wakened by the noise of the explosion, but only XB time for the son-in-law to fire ineffectually at the departing burglars who rslbrned the, salute, evidently Mr. Baldwin did not oonilder the banks in his vicinity safe.

THB trial of Guiteau ia progressing fairly, at Washington, having commenced on Monday. No question of jurisdiction was raised, and the work of selecting a jury began at onee. Considerable trouble was experienced in finding twelve men that were satisfactory to both sides, but by Wednesday evening the panel was full. The jury i#^aomposcd mainly of. business and lal^ring men, and is said to be one of the- best that has ever been empaneled irrths Court. On Thursday, Prosecuting Attorney Corkhill made the opening,statement for the prosecution, and tbetaging of evidence began, Secretary Blaine being the first witness called., /Ouit^jyi is very nervous, and occasionally^ interrupts the proceedings by his dwu vjemarks. The trial, of course^ attiacts much attention, and tho cou|t-roo$t is crowded with men and women, ttia case promises to be a tedious on&

THERE is quite too much meth Guiteau's madness. He goet gether too much trouble to self insane. It is one of them characteristics of insanity to protest that it j|%uae. No sound that thinto it is unso$: insanity comes, a far reached to the afflicted mind, his faculties appeaf and normal as tbey Guiteau is angry beca lieve,in his insanity. he has prepared disclose to carry the conviction He iterates over and oven sination was the Lord's work? and manifests the coarsest ifrevetwnce in speaking of the Deity, as if life were in close partnership relations with tfepivsas in a in an speak of God as Guiteau will doubtless be evidencflltwHnced tending tgsupport tbe the«*y||Oi$8§iiity, but the fact of Guiteau's mends' dtl lowing him to go at large over the oountry is not very corrobatory of the story that they then considered him insane.

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OK Thursday afternoon, House, a well known dianapolis, attempted to by cutting his throat with a tal depression, consequent ing from rheumatism and rarily out of a situation, the deed. He says be was stti desk at home preparing seemingly as rational as eve*, impulse came to do the deed. It grew upon him and in a moment he ha^, stuck his knife into hie throat. The wound is an ugly and dangerous one, but is probably not fatal. Mr. House la well known as a ready writer and keen paragraphist, being employed on the Indianapolis Herald until a few weeks ago. His friends all regret to hear ol the aad misfortune which has overtaken him.

TYPHOID fever and small-pox have almost reached epidemic proportions in some of the towns of the State, and in view of the constant going and coming of people between places, there is much danger of the latter disease becoming widely prevalent. Vigorous precautions should be taken to prevent the spread of the dreaded disease from the limits to whioh it is now confined

CINCINNATI is to have Patti, in December. She will sing in the Oratorio of the Messiah, to be given by the May Festival Chorus and the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, and several distinguished soloists from other parts, all under the direction of Theodore Thomas.

IT IS stated that not since the days of the war, when fortunes were suddenly made, has there.been such extravagance in Gotham aa at present.

SA YINOS AND DOINGS.

The richest men sometimes wear the poorest clothes editors, bankers, an# fellows like them.

When you see a newspaper man after office, you may make sure that the pnblic are not after his paper.

In the last letter Charles wrote (on the day before be died) said: "I will have leisure to-morrow.

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An editor wrste a head line, Horrible Blunder." to go over a railroad accident, but thought it waa the printer*# fruit that it got over the aoeount of wedding. The editor was the man thrashed all the same.

The wedding of a prominent lawyer of Ottawa, Ont., was stopped at the opening sentence of the ceremony by a friend whispering in the ear of bridegroom the fact that his fiancee was a desperate adventureae.

PASSING SHOW

PLAYS AND PLAYERS

A more touching, romantic and thoroughly natural story is ieldom told with more dramatic power than that which Bartley Campbell has woven into "My Geraldine," played at the Opera House, on Tuesday evening, to a good audience. A small audience on Wednesday even ing, was testimony that Terre Haute isn't big enough yet to turn out two large audiences, on successive nights, to the same play. The oompany presenting it is pretty much the same as last sea son. Where changes have been made, it has not been for the better.

Last night the very best draniitte&m pany that visits this city—Hoey A Hardie's—played the drama of "A Child of the State," written by Mr. Hoey, and in which he makes a grotesque, pleasing, and intensely interesting figure of Groe "Rene for himself to play. Hardie, his companion, is given an aesthetic persona tion, which is strongly rendered. Every member seems perfect in the role as •Signed, and together make a finished performance. The same play is repeated this afternoon and to-night this strong company will appear in Sardou's drama of "Diplomacy," which, says the Phila delphia Times-, "is one of the most skill fully wrought of all modern dramas, The interest which is awakened with the opening scene, deepens as the play pro grosses, and the audience becomes who! ly absorbed ere the first act is finished They de not awaken to the fact that they have been witnessing -a play until the curtain falls."

Next Tuesday evening M. B. Curtis wil|i present his life picture, "Samuel of PoBenthe Commercial Drummer, Speaking of his first appearanoe in St, Louis, the Globe-Democrat slid:

The popularity of the star and his piece was clearly evidenced by the neisy impatienee -of the audience previous to »the opening ef the performance, and afterwards by the quiet which reigned during his presence upon the stage, and which were broken only by the frequent fits of laughter which rewarded Sam'l of Posen's happiest pieces of acting. There can be no disguising the fact that what is known as character acting is intensely liked when the subject has been chosen With 'tact and faithfully imitated. In selecting the Hebrew Drummer for his

model, Mr. Curtis acted upon a very hapinspiration, and the fact that he has iroduced the charaoter with fidelity been attested by hundreds of dented audiences, no one of them more

Iban that whicn jammed the Oltnypic rday evening. From opening to Of the play the lifelike representakept the house in roars of laughter the actor was called before the cur taJh at the close of each act.

Pauline Markham, supporiara by ffie Hftfth Avenue comedy company, will play the drama of the "Two Orphans" Thursday afternoon and evening. This from the Syracuse Courier: "Miss Pauline Markham, Louise, the blind girl, is a lady quite celebrated for her beauty. Indeed, Richard Grant White "sang her praises" in the Galaxy declaring that her arms were the arm of the Venus of Milo. Miss Mark ham enacted ber character in a manner th%£. proved most accaffeable, and demonstrated that she possesses abilities of a high order.\

The Philadelphia Sunday Mirror says: One of the musical journalists wants managers to understand that "singers atto necessary in an operetta." Not at all. Suppose this: One manager does

Olivette" with a troupe of artists solely for their abilities as ers, every part sung as well as it id be. Manager No. 2 does "011with a jolly group of pretty girls with pretty forms and a willingness to display them, half the music cut out, the other half got through with in any sort of fashion. Who'd draw the biggest^ houses V. -, I4

In Genevieve Ward's "Forget-Me-Not," the two speeches of Stephanie which received the loudest applause in Boston (so says the Sunday Times of that city) were: "Why ia it that a man can lead two lives, while a woman must stand or fall by one?" and, "There would be no room in creation for such women aa I, if it were not for such men as you?"

—Young man get fitted for business at Isbell A Miler'a Terre Haute Commercial College.

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—The 8ugar Grove Temperance folks propose having an Oyster Supper, Saturday evening, Nov. 29th. If you want to enjoy either a good dish ef oysters or an excellent sapper, do not fail to attend, as they intend to sustain their reputation of making a success of whatever tbey undertake. A cordial invitation is extended to everyone. No admission charged. ___________

For ThankaclTtBg. Hertfelder A Wu rater, the grocers at the corner of Fourth and Cherry streets, are making big preparations for a great lay-out next week for Thanksgiving. They have some advantages in the way of oatching the choicest and freshest country prodnoe, including poultry, butter, eggs, etc. Call on them for your Turkeys, Chickens, Celery, Cranberries*, and everything in the way of green or

fall line ot Overcoatings at J. P. Brennan'8 to be closed out at reduced prices, before the holidays.

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Mantels and Grates Full stock, cheaper than 1 ever at Balls Stove store [303 Main.

POWDER

Absolutely Pure. MADE

from Grape Cream Tartar. No other preparation makes such light, flaky hot breads, or luxurious pastry. Can be eaten by dyspeptics without fear of the ills resulting from heavy, indigestible food. Sold only in cans, by all grocers.

ROYAL BAKING FOWUKR CO., New York.

Wanted.

WANTED—COWS—I

WANT TO PUR-

cliase two (2) good A 1. Milch cowsfresh. J. H. BLAKE.

WANTED-ATTHE

FERN ROCK POUL­

TRY YARD, Lafayette road, one (1) mile north of Terre Haute, Ind., One thouand turkeys and five thousand chickens.

H. GREENAWALT, Proprietor.

WANTED-MONEY

TO LOAN. THOSE

who wish to borrow or loan money on beet terms for short or long time, to cail on RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO. Southeast eorner of flth and Main streets up-stairs.

TIT ANTED—HORSES TO PASTURE. Pcr-

YT sons wishing to send their liorses to the country for the winter are »esnectfully asked to correspond with GEO. F. MYEIt. Prairieton Ind.

WANTED—TOand

in the city country with the best grades of hard and soft coal, the coming fall and winter. Prices as low as the lowest. Prompt delivery orders by telephone carefully attended to. 1,2 aril S south Third street, between Main and Ohio. 13-it. R. ROGERS 4 CO.

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ANALYSIS OF

WE ARE CLOSING OUT

Phillip Best's Bees,

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OUR STOCK OF

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AH we are retiring from thai branch of the bnslnesn.

513 Main Street.

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'M*y not be able to prove bis counsel Soorille insane for lack of testimony but scores of competent witnesses do testify that the

PLIABLE HIP CORSETS

Sold by the

BUCKEYE CASH STORE

For 50 oents is the best corset for that money ever sold In the United States. These goods are still on sale in all the required rises. If you have not seen them you should call and examine them. And when in, be sure you takea look through oorff_.

CLOAK AM) SHAWL DEPARTMENT

You will find our excellent assortment rfl new and very cheap. Yet you should not stop here, but make a THOROUGH inspection ofEVERY department, that you may be able to compare OUR goods and' prices with those of other houses. We are perfectly willing to submit prices to the moat crucial comparison with any market in this country.

D. Fasig & Co.

The following analysis waa made from four pints of Best's Beer, which I purchased August 38th, at Walker's Suwu on Court Street. Solid Matter—Malt Extracted 7.812 Composed as follows:

Albumen....... ,0.037 Dextrin, gum, mucilaginous 3.320 Sugar 1.525 Hop bitter, eta -1.530 Thissbltd matter is held in solution in a fluid composed of

Water —87.179 Alcohol AS50 Aoetic Acid 0.16# The above analysis proves that Ph. Best's bottled Beer, Is free from adulteration and is a perfect product of the brewer's art. Its alcoholic strength is a little above that of European Beers, and Its preoentage of water somewhat less.

The solid matter or malt extract it contains, namely 7.312 per cent, shows it to be richer than the best German Been, which inextract indiwell malted

The very low precentaae of acetic

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acid shows the brewing to have been intelligently and skillfully done. I do not hesitate to say that Ph. Best's Milwaukee Beer is by all odds, as shown by actual analysis, the purest and most skillfully made beer In this market.

J. N. HURTY.

Chemist for Indiana Bureau of Geology.

STATE OF INDIANA, loa. COUJTTY OF MARION,

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Before.me, Horace McKay, a Notary Public, in and for said County and State, this 12th day of September, 1881, J. N. HUNTY Analytical Chemist, subscribed to the annexed analvsis of Philip Beet's Beer. witness my nand and Natarial seal.

HORACE McKAY. Notary Public.

Dealers and Families supplied promptly by

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This Beer is not rebottled here from stale beer, but is sold in original packages, as bottled at Milwaukee.

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SUPPLY 5,000 FAMILIES

the undersigned have opened a receiving Room in tho roar of No. 17 South Second Street, where I am prepared to receive Rough Tallow, Grease of any kind, Pork and Beef Cracklings and Bones wnether green or dry, for which Iwili pay the highest cash prices. And will also buy Dead Hogs by the single hog or car load. Hogs received on tho Island south-westof the city, at the factory office No 17 South Second Street, in the rear entrance from the alley. Terre Haute Inil.

HARRISON SMITH.

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is.'<p></p>November

Tuesday ^15th.

5,000 yards Linen Crash, 18 inches wide, 8 cents per yard—cheap at 10 cents.

26 pieoees Half Bleached Table Damask at 40 cents—worth 56 cents. 20 pieces ditto—better quality—at 45 cents—sold elsewhere at 75 cents.

65 dozen Linen Huck TowelB—large size, 12H cents each—worth 18 cents. 50dozen Gents' Linen Handk'rchiefs at 12K cents apiece—'well worth 20 ssnts. 18 pieces Black Cashmere, all wool, 40 inches wide at 'the unprecedented

*0:oe?tsr-n,?ve| sold at less than 55 'cents.

NEW- YORK STORE,

J. ROTHSCHILD & co. Prop.

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Terre Haute, Ind.

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DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT

Will be many new and desirable novelties the coming week of both domestic and foreign makes, while our BLACK CASH MERE# at once elicit admiration and astonishment admiration on account of ys beauty, astonishment on account of low prices. To buy a Cashmere before examining ours is to do yourself an injustice.

BUCKEYE CASH STORE

Cor. 8th and Main street,, Terre Haute, Ind.

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