Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 December 1882 — Page 6

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

ruBuCATtox omcjs,

Has. 18 and 20 Sooth Fifth Street,' Printing House Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PBOPRIBTOB.

TERRE HAUTE, DEC. 23, 1882

OUR HO LI DAY NUMBER This issue La not what we had planned month or

since. It

the inten

tjon to produce to-day the finest specimen of newspaper printing ever in thia city. But for reason* not nooosssry to explain, that project waa abandoned and It was decided not to print a holiday number thia year. Bat early in the week, finding advertisers still encroaching on oar space, this edition of twelve pages was hastily prepared. While artistically it is not deserving of particular mention, there will be found scattered through it# twelve pages a considerable amount of Christmas literature, of interest at this joyous season of the year. ____________

CHRISTMAS.

Before another isue of The Mail reaches it readers Christmas, 1882, will have come and gone. To all our readers and the world in general we wish that it may be a very merry one. Let it mean more than it ever has meant before Happy family reunions, board* groaning with good cheer the making light the hearts of the children, who have eonnted off, first the weeks and then the days, until Christmas should be here. Let their joy have free course and be unbounded, that thia one great day of all the year may be the one they shall valoe highest and treasure most lovingly. Such a day it ought to be, for it keeps in remembrance the greatest and beet event that has ever happened to this world—the advent upon earth of the Gospal of peace and good will to men. Old things passed away, and all things became new when the religion of the Babe of Bethlehem appeared upon earth. The universrl equality of mankind before the law, which is now the foundation of the Christian state, was first taught by the Man of Naiareth. It was a part of Hia Gospel of peace. With Him came also that care for the weak, the sick, and the suffering, which has distinguished the Christian religion above all others that ever appeared on the earth. Before the Christian era, hospitals for the reception of the aged, infirm, and those a Alio ted with disease or wounds, were utterly unknown. Those who would substitute for thia some other religion, should first stop and oonHidor what Christianity has dofie for the world. Let them take in the full significance o! Christmas, the greatcat ami boat of all the worlds festivals, and they will be content to let the old religion alone.

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Tim Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean telegraphed that paper the other day that a ruinor was afloat in Washington of ono of the Judges of the Supreme court of the United States having lost f10,000 in one of the gambling houses of the Capital. I'poti investigating the matter the correspondent could not find that it was substantiated, but ho did find, what will probably surprise some people, that it is a common thing for members of Congress and other high officials iu Washington to frequent the numerous gaining houses for the purpose of playing for money. One newly-elected Congressman. from Missouri, lost f.t,000at poker In a single night, and many a high official salary goes to support the lUshuien who congregate at the Capital. The correspondent in search of news, gained entrance to ono of those gambling houses, and this is what be saw "The room contained the usual paraphernalia of faro, roulette, and rouge-et-noir. It was brilliantly lighted and thronged with government officials and professional sports. A cluster of under secretaries of foreign legations, who are inveterate gamesters, and a brace of Southern Congressmen sat at one table, fisnke! by professionals aud government clerks."

No wonder wise parents who know the dangers and temptations of Washington life, are opposed to having their sons go there to take subordinate places iu the departments. While some are strong enough to withstand all these temptations many fall into habits of dissipation which bring upon them irretrievable ruin. Washington ia a good place to avoid, if people could only be brought to believe iu

lit an article in the North American Review Prof. Stevens argue* at length that no evils have resulted from the eo*d oration of the sexes, worthy of being compared with it* becefita. The most serious objection has been that overambitions girls have studied too ban! for their health. There is no doubt but the sentiment in favor of co-education is making bead war. Pressure te being brought upon the authorities of Columbia Cottage, New York, a wealthy conservative institution, to cause the opening of it* door* to

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A COMETARY CATECLY8M. Mr. Ignatius Donnally, author of the "Atlantis," an entertaining book displaying much research and ingenuity, has just published another volume entitled "Ragnarok," the purpose of which is to show that the great ice age of the geologists was the result of a collision between a comet and the earth Previous to this visitation, if Mr. Don nelly's theory is correct, our planet had a tropical climate from the equator to the pole, and was the abode of civilized races, which, however, may have been guilty of the violence attributed to the antediluvians in the book of Geneei# Few men survived the catastrophe, seeking shelter in caves from the cold and darkness which followed the shock and continued until a more normal con dition of things returned. This theory is supported with a good deal of plans! bility, one of the argnmeata being drawn from the faeftthat the various nationa of the earth have myths respecting the con flict between light and darkness, and of great physical convulsions in the dim past. "Ragnarok" means the darkness of the gods, and the book takes itsjnsme from the Scandinavian myth that two wolves once devoured the sun and moon the stars fell from heaven and the sea rushed over the land. This is supposed to be a poetical way of telling how comet struck the earth. That such catastrophe occurred is proved, it claimed, by the drift which lies between the surface soil and the stratified rocks In its lowest part, the hardpan or till there is no appearance of stratification Mr. Donnelly argues at length that it can not have been occasioned by great waves, by icebergs, by glaciers, or by continual ice sheet. The rocks under the drift are scored and grooved by seme external force, but the washings do not all run in the same direction, so that there could not have been a steady move ment of ice from the north, and there is no reason to believe that the deposition of the silt was instantaneous. Moreover, a complete sheathing of the globe by ice would have killed all animals and vegetation.

Mr. Donnelly, of course, combats the popnlsr astronomioal theory that comets "are such stuff as dreams are made of," and analyzing the evident we have as to their nsture, renders the conclusion that they are solid enough to do substantial damage in the event of their collision with another planet. His view is that the force of the collision smashed and tore up the rocks and drove the material of the comet into the underlying rocks. The shock was preceded by in tense heat, and followed by an atmosphere overloaded with dense clouds

The great work of restoring the waters of the ocean to the ocoan begins. It grfrws colder, colder, colder. The pour ing rain turns into snow, and settles on all the'uplands and north countries snow falls on snow gigantic snowballs are formed, which gradually solidify into ice. The fiora and funa of the temperate region become arctic that is to say, only those varieties of plants and animals survive in thoso regions that are able to stand the cold."

The creation of the world, as narated in the first chapter of Genesis, begins with the return of a warmer temperature after this great cateclysm and the same fact is preserved in the curious traditions of the American, European and Asiatic nations.

All this is iugenious, but far from sufficient to prove the hypothesis contended for. While it is probable enough that dim memories of some great convulsion of nature are preserved in the curious myths of the various nations, it does not follow that a comet played any part in the matter. Indeed the geological theory of the earth's formation would seeui to bo more satisfactory than thecometary one.

THK death of Hon. Oodlove S. Orth, of Lafayette, closes

year*.

the career of oue of

the oldest and best known public men in the

State. Mr. Orth came

Indiana

from Pennsylvania when a young man, aud has beea identified with the public history of the

State for more than forty

was a member of the State

Senate from 1843 to 1830, served in the 38th, S8*tb, 40th, 41st, and 43rd Congress, after which he filled the mission to Austria. He also served in the 46th and 47th Congresses, but was defeated in the late election by Hon. Thoa. B. Ward, of Lafayette. He was an untiring worker, and a cultivated and genial gentleman. Mr. Orth was

in his 66th year at the

time of his death.

MR. HXSDIUCKB resents the imputation that he will be a candidate for Governor in 18$4, and says he does not want to be misrepresented for the sake of helping the chances of any other person. Thia is supposed to have reference to Mr. McDonald, and to indicate some bitterness in Mr. Hendricks* breast at the growing presidential prospects of that gentleman. Evidently Mr. Hendricks docut like the idea of being laid on the political shelf, bat that time cornea with nearly every all presidential aspirants, and a man might as well yield gracefuUy to the inevitable.

Tntt Lafayette Journal baa been sold by V«t«r A While to Harry L. Wilson, of Craw ford* vi Lie, for 113,000. Mr. Wilson i* a vouttj^ man. the, sou of the late Jmmm Wltaoa, a well-known lawyer

"THK usual Qtmgttmk»nal holiday re- and orater. lie is to be congratulated i« to he wisely dtsp*r ~1 with this on being able to begin hi* career in year." So two the RefK..*can new*- under such aunp.'dous drpapers few ago. Bat it was a. «nn»&an<m. He vtmtm W a family chartni*tafc«. The viftai of the Hou* wis! artnissie for ability and wHJ doubtless not to the««dii|keepthe Joarna} In the path of substanwas agree*} in take m-"-* from Deeem-! tial prosperity which it parsoed under her 22ttd to January m,.—»d. Ttiia i*a

?th*

short fcoweiw and perfeaf* the said, will pn uUygole C. ifor «tor»-

late management. Mr. Vst-r, it is

r'Ti^'f

The road presents some peculiar features. Almost insurmountable obstacles have been confronted but have been overcome by an energy little short of marvelous. At the Powder river bluffs four road-beds were made and all slipped into the river before a permanent bed was finally cutout of the bluffs. At the Forsyth, or Sliding Bluffs, the mountains were cut down hundredsof feet but contained a soapstone rock, which on being exposed to the air Blacked like lime. The slacked matter kept pouring down in in such quantities that 2,000 men and 1,000 horses were required to keep the track clear until the mountain had completed its sloughing-off process. These are only samples of the obstacles which have met the buiHers of this vast line of railroad. The Northern Pacific is perhaps the only road in the west that ever paid from the end of its track as the rails were laid down.~~~In less than a year the gross earnings increased more than million and a half over those of the previous year. It is said the road traverses a better country than the Union Pacific, and will give a route for for the China and Japan trade 1,-500 shorter to New York than by the former road.

DOLUS are rising in importance. According to a New York dealer the value of those imported during the past few weeks is not less than Kfc,OQ0. #hey are no longer to be put off with a single dress made of the cast-off clothing of some live doll, but must have outfits as elaborate and complete as those of their admiring mammas. A ready-mady doll's costume of ordinary elegance costs $50, and from that upwards, according to fineness and style: Nor is this all. A fashionable doll requires trunks, bandboxes, toilet articles, jewelry,etc. They also have the various articles of furniture needful for the comfort of child life. Here are samples of the cost of some of these articles: "A miniature bedstead with a brocade velvet spread and cardinal satin cushion costs $9. More luxurious couches cost $15. Cunning rustic chairs are $3 and $4. Bronze high chairs, secured in a manner to prevent very active dolls from jutnpingor falling out of them, are $8 and $10 apiece. Lace curtained cradles for dolls which have not et been weaned may be bad for $9." It might be suggested that there is a great deal of extravagant nonsense about all this, but it would not be worth while. It is the American way of doing, or rather of over-doing things, and there is no use to complain. The doll^fever must run its course like all the rest of our national weaknesses.

NEITHER Jsy Gould nor Jim Keene can see anything in "corners" that is detrimental to the public. In their judgment corners only hurt the men who organize them, while the people at large are oenefitted by tbem, rather than harmed in fact, corners are indispensable in great commercial enterprises, and are valuable civilizers. It is not very surprisiug to hear such views from these great speculators. The men whose profit is largely derived from speculations are not likely to condemn the business. But the public mind will hardly be governed by the views of railroad kings and speculators in this matter.

THK New York Tribune gives the Republicans this recipe for success in 1884: Reform the tariff by adopting the scheme of the tariff commission as a whole abolish all internal revenue taxes, except on liquors and tobacco pass the best measure of civil service reform attainable. This is short and simple snd could easily be done in three months if Republicans were all of one mind on the important questions mentioned, bat such harmony is hardly to be expected in a national legislature.

Yocxo men in the crowded dlies who contemplate rushing into farm life might do well to note the observations of Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, and who, in bis younger days, was himself a farmer. He says no business requires so kmg a time, and that not one city-bred man in .a handled can make farming a

A XKW ORLSAMI fruit seller say* be sends 9 cocanut shells to New York each jwd to he ground un with black pepper. People may now kn*w where to get a pure article gro-s

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A GREAT RAILROAD. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette who has returned from a second trip to the eastern end of the Northern Pacific Railroad, gives some interesting information relative to the construction of this great work. The whole lengtL of the main line is 1896 miles, of which over 1,2Q0 miles are now completed and in running order on the eastern division, and 380 miles on the western division. This leaves but little more than 300 miles yet to be completed to close the gap in the middle, and on this 6,000 men and 3,000 horses are at work on the eastern division, laying track at the rate of a mile and a half a day, and 5,000 men and 2,500 horses on the western division, completing the road at the rate of one mile a day. Thus the gap is being filled at the rate of about two and one half miles a day, and except for the tunnel through the Bridged Mountains, which is over a mile long running through the solid rock, the road would probably be completed by next summer. This tunnel is being driven from both ends, and it is thought will be oomplgpd by next August. The end of 1883 was set as the time for the completion of the road, but this correspondent believes that if the present winter continues favorable for work trains will be running through from St. Paul and Duluth to Puget Sound by next October.

A BEAUTIEUL ILLUSTRATION. The Peoria Saturday Evening Call prints the extract below from a sernton by Rev. E. Frank Howe—the first preached in the Congregational church of that city after his recent bereavement. The text was Luke 21:18. "But there shall not hair of your head perish." "Our earthly life has in it much that is painful, more to some than to others, but, sooner or later much for all much also that is mysterious, much to dread in the oncoming and much that provokes tears in looking back upog it. But a master mind has planned it all so that, all things considered, the way in which he leads us is the best way, and by and by that 'Hereafter* comes of which the Master said, 'What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter.' And the revelation then made will not only dry our tears and hush our complaints, but it will fill us with wonder at the love and wisdom which planned the way and ever com pelled us to walk in it. "Travellers in I tally remember the trip from Bologna to Florence as at once the most disagreeable and the moat delightful in that country which sur passes all others in both the disagreeable and the delightful. As the traveller crosses the Appenines he ascends overs steep grade, the train at times winding up tne mountain-side along galleries cut into the solid rock en the lace of the precipice, which towers hundreds of feet perpendicularly above and sinks hunareas of feet perpindiculariy below he crosses mountain, streams and ravines, over bridges of wondrous strength, anc and valleys over viaducta which are of great length and wonders of masonry. The curves are so sharp and so numerous that the engine seems turned back toward the starting point well nigh as much of the time as toward the point of destination. There are indeed wonders of engineering skill, and there is beauti ful mountain scenery, but only glimpses of these are caught ere the traveller is whirled into dark tunnels and almost stifled with smoke and gas. In the eighty-two miles there are forty five of these tunnels, an average of more than one for every two miles, and some of tbem are more than a mile in length, and in them the air is so bad that many can endure the trip only by breathing through some moistened substance. But when, after passing all these, half sick, or entirely sick and feeling that he cannot endure another one, he comes out, near pun set, upon the southern slope of the mountains, and there lies spread be neath his eye one of the most beautiful landscapes to be seen in the world, the very garden of beautiful Italy, with its forests, fields of grain, and vine yards, and, winding in and out among these the river Arno, he forgets his discomforts, and he blesses the skill that built the road, and the necesbity which com pelled him to take it, and he baa indelibly photographed upon his mind a picture which is a joy and an inspiration for all after life. He has also nad' an experience which ought to teach him a lesson concerning the road along which the All-wise leaas his children on the journey of life, that it is a road which has been laid out with the highest wisdom knd skill, that there are no stee grades, uo backward curves, no darl and stifling passages, except where these are absolutely recessary and that in passing them we are still on our way, ana the best way, to our desired destination. We may not see as we pass them, the wondrous gttllcries, bridge?, and viaducts by means of which the Father is enabling us to rise higher and higher. We may catch only glimpses of these, and only glimpses of the rare beauties into the inidst of which we are rising. Wo may have our eyes blinded and smart* ing, and may be half stifled, but by and by, as sinks the sun at the end of life's day, or certaiuly as it rises on the morning of the eternal to-morrow we shall have a revelation which will cause us to bless the skill and love which laid the road and make it necessary for us to travel just that way. We shall recognize this wisdom and skill and love when we reach the southern slope of the mountains of life. Let us have faith to believe in it now while we are toiling up to the northern slope." ___________

COMPETENT critics pronout.ee the posthumous story of Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Dr. Grimshaw's Secret," receutlv published by Julian Hawthorne, as evidently genuine. It has all the peculiar characteristics of Hawthore but is even moro somber in tone than his other works and gives evidences of failing powers. In these respects the story is similar to Charles Dickens' unfinished moral, "Edwin Drood."

ACCOKIMNO to a writer in the British Medical Journal, the opium hpbit may be discontinued with perfect safety and without discomfort by gradually reducing the dotes of morphia and substituting bromide of potassium in increasing doses. The point is to keep up the proper proportion between the two drugs, and hence tbe necessity of medical supervision. It has been said that such modes of cure simply substitute one bad habit for another, but it should be borne in mind that a bromide habit is easily cured, while tbe opium habit sticks considerably closer than a brother.

IT used to be regarded—a great many years ago—as a pretty good joke to speak of putting cayenne pepper in tbe eye to cure the toothache. Yet there is a physician who writes for the Medical and Surgical Reporter who is practicing in dead earnest a course of treatment which seems at first glance quite as absurd as the process referred to. For •ick headache hia prescription to—epeotades. They are not taken inwardly, either in a erode form of powdered, but applied to the eyea jast as spectacles are by peroons who have no sick headache. The physicians theory is that the pain in the head is tbe cause, not tbe effect, of the internal rebellion and that the pain in the head comes from straining the eyea. In his own case and that of a sister be claims to have effected a complete core by tbe use of proper glasses to correct the defective vision and relieve the eye from strain.

ONE OF MANY. Btt-v Journal.

At a recent v«*oe trial the wife waa aadted a quart too, to which ahe made tbe following repiv: When I was first married I was so jea^-u* cf my bttsbend that

tboucbt every woman

Un nqpeli.**

saw wanted

him, and now I wonder bow lever mold have been #ucb a fool as have wanted T)Q

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THEY WENT TO SLEEP AGAIN. Detroit Free Press. Some girls aren't afraid others like to think they are afraid while others pretend they aren't afraid when they are. These "three of a kind" were at Mackinaw last summer. One said it's silly to be afraid of a bat another said they scared her almoet to death a third said—nothing. One night a bat appeared on the bed. The girl who wasn't afraid stuck her head under the bedclothes the girl who was afraid got up and waked upthfegirl who said nothing. She came over and rolled the bat up in a wad inside the blanket. They took the blanket to a window, unrolled it so as to let the bat fly out, and found that they had been frightened by a black stripe on the blanket. Then they all tucked their heads under the sheets and went to sleep again.

IT is bad policy to despise small persons or small things. A single grape shot settles the destiny of an Empire, and a diamond necklace haa contributed largely to a bloody revolution. The gabbling of geese saved Reme. The sccident of two spectacles-glasses at proper focus gavs the world the telescope. The fill of an apple revealed to Newton the law which hangs the world in space, the grandest law of the material universe. The clang of two hammers upon a blacksmith's anvil suggested to Pythagoras aud relations of musical sounds! We cannot comprehend a great truth by intuition. It is only by learning now and then, aud here and there, a small truth that wo are enabled to construct any great idea we seek. Our destiny is suspended on slight and trivial things. To despise them is to despise life, fortune, happiness.

A PRONOUNCED OPINION. Medical News. The danger of tooth-drawing uuder chloroform ansesthesia being so pronounced and so resdily explained, we hold that no physican is justified in running such risks.

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MEEKY CHRISTMAS

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