Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 February 1883 — Page 4
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THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
ruBiJCATiojf annex,
Hot. 18 and 20 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing Home Square.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TBRRE HAUTE,
FEB. 17, 1883
THE people of tliis country spent two million dollars for dolls and toys last year. ___________
FEBRUARY promises to not be behind January in the loss of life and property by flood and fire.
REV. CROFTS has the hearty endorsement of every paper in town in his "common eeose view of amusements."
THE best doctors say that the only sure protection against neuralgia and sore throat is a fall beard. This is bad for the women and the beardless young men
PERHAPS when the Logansport and Greenca^tle postmasterships and the col lectorship of the Kokomo District are settled, the President will be able to take a little needed rest.
THROUGHOUT all the northwest the ground is covered with an enormous mass of snow and ice, the accumulation of the whole winter. When this mass melts in the spring thaws a flood is an ticipated the like of which has seldom been witnessed.
THE new five cent piece now being coined is said to be a very pretty coin but is liable to be made an instrumentality of fraud. If is just about the size of a five dollar gold piece and aa there is nothing to indicate its value except the letter "V" a coating of gold might cause it to deceive many persons.
ANEW YORK correspondent, writing of the Orant family, says they are get ting back more into the privacy of life this winter than they have done for years. The General has become quite domesticated and loves to sit in his quiet library and talk over the gossip of the day with his friends. He hates speech making and avoids going to public dinners when he can.
PAPER car wheels have proven BO successful that it is now proposed to try the same material as a substitute for steel rails and experienced railroad, men Express the belief that it will prove equally satisfactory for this purposo. If paper can be used for these purposes why may it not be made to replace iron for many other things? In other words, are we not about ready to advance from the iron to the paper age
PROMINENT iron and steel manufac turers expressman unfavorable opinion of the tariff bills now pending before congress and predict disastrous results to the iron industries all over the country in the evont of their passage. Mr. Weeks, Secretary of the Western Iron Association says the effect of either bill "will be to bind our manufacturers hand and foot and leave them at the mercy of foreign manufacturers and reduce American workmen to a level with the pauper labor of Europe." The trouble with all these statements and predictions is to know whether those who make them are lying or not. We have become so used to hearing falsehoods from all great monopolies that it is not easy to believe them when the wolf is really in the flock at last.
THE Democratic majority in the Legislature have put through the metropolitan police bill under whip and spur and without allowing any discussion of itfl merits. Although the real purpose of it is undoubtedly to put* the police force of the city of Indianapolis under the control of the Democrats, and thereby secure a strong leverage for party sac cess, it is by no means certain that tbe measure will accomplish what is hoped from it. The public mind is somewhat sensitive to jobs of such a character, and not infrequently there is a reaction that helps the party which it was designed to injure. We predict that the metropolitan police bill will prove to be such a measure, and that the time will come wheaihe Democrats will wish they bad never fceard of it.
RKMMUUNO to the condition of the American working men, the Indianapolis News savs: "They are a vast unorganized, aimost helpless body on one side, iu a eenflict with a body oa the other side U»at represents capital and in telligence tfcat has all the 'sinews of war' that has the ear of the country that can ittdoeeable attorneys to make an argument for them which will bewilder the wortdngman and leave him dumb with only the unexpressed know! edge that, toil as he may, he doeant get on in iife."
This is not wholly true, but it is true enough to merit tbe earnest consideration of the workingmen. They are ma&tag steady, if not rapid, progress in tbe direction of united effort against monopolistic combinations—and in this direction lies their safety. Consolidated capital mast be met by consolidated labor not in any improper or unnecessarily antagonistic sense, but in the sense fretrying iu rights and receirtkc full rewards of its toil.
AS OTHERS SEE IT.
Speaking of the life of a minister Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says: "It looks an easy life as you see it on the surface, but it is not so easy," and then he goes to show why it is not so easy. But the celebrated pceacher's explanation will not probably satisfy the great majority of those who simply look on and see how apparently easy it is. Indeed, not long ago, the writer heard an intelligent and experienced journalist—a man who should have known better if anybody should—express the opinion that ministers have an easy work to do. And yet it is true that ministers not seldom leave the pulpit and go into other and apparently harder walks of life. Why is this, if the ministry is so easy
It is the old, old story. All work looks easy except to him who does it, There should be one exception, how ever, to this statement. Those who work at hard manual labor of any kind are seldom envied. All men are ready to admit that the coal digger, the factory hand, or even the farmer, earns all he gets and earns it by honest toil. This is because manual work of every kind is open and visible to the lookers-on. Every blow which the blacksmith strikes on the red-hot iron caii be seen, and we know that it is really tiresome to shove a carpenter's plane all day. But when it comes
to
intellectual labor of any kind
it is differont. Most of this is not seen. Most of it is not even known except to the worker himself. Not being freen or understood it is of course not appreciated. One of the most familiar experiences of a
lawyer
en the
KVANSVIIXE is enterprisingly gaged just now in publishing to world that she is the only river town not liable to overflow. Even from the present unprecedented flood she escaped un scathed. It must be admitted that this Is a pretty strong card just now and ought to win.
is that clients often
grumble at fees for which he has worked much harder than for others which they pay without a murmur. In the one case they have seen the work progressing and are able to form an intelligent idea of the labor involved in it, while in the other the work was done in secret.
If any person imagines that his work is harder than that of others let him go and talk confidentially with some other man about the business in which he is •engaged. Let him get a peep behind the scenes, and the chances are that he will be surprised very considerably. It will be like looking behind the curtain at the theatre. He will hear of a hundred drawbacks not one of which had entered his mind before. Indeed not seldom he will find that the most disagreeable features of the business he had no suspicion of. Successful lawyers are always envied and yet old lawyers get terribly tired of their profession and would De glad to quit it. It is so with every business. It is not only the grim, relentless drudgery that makes it distasteful, but the miserable methods resorted to by others engaged in the same business. The sharp competion in every class of business makes it really hard work to succeed in any. The man who does not work with his hands mnst work with his head, and often the head work is harder than tbe hand work. So things are evened up more than we imagine, after all, perhaps. Possibly there is not so much difference in the lots of men and women as is commonly supposed. Nature is a more impartial mother than her children give her credit for. If each one thinks his burden is the heaviest it is only because he has not carried tbe burden of his brother.
THE GREAT FLOODS. The floods of the past ten days in the Ohio river and its tributaries have been unprecedented. Even the great flood of 1882, which hitherto had been the standard of high water measurement, was exceeded. At that time the water stood 64 feet and 3 inches in the river at Cincinnati. During the present flood it reached the astonishing height of 66 feet, 4 inches, being two feet higher than in 1832.
The destruction of property at Cincinnati and other cities along the river and the suffering of the thousands of people who were driven from their homes, it is impossible to fairly estimate or realize. Hundreds of business blocks, manufactories and dwellings were submerged and a vast amount of property utterly ruined. The gas works in Cincinnati have been under water, and the city left for nights in almost total darkness. The troops were called out to guard the city, and the streets are petroled by boats carrying food supples to the people imprisoned in the upper stories ol their dwellings. At Lawrenceburg the entire town is submerged and cut off from communication, except by boats, with the ontside world. Many families, drowned out of their houses, sought refuge in the court house, from the windows of which they looked out at the passing boats. For a time there was much suffering from lack of food/ hut this was partially supplied as quickly as possible by generous contributions from Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other points. Jeffersonvilie was nearly all under water, and at Louisville the river was three miles wide, and ten thousand people rendered homeless. At certain points the river presents the appearance of a great sda, the country for many miles being totally submerged, and no land in right. It is at once a magnificent and appalling spectacle.
On Thursday the waters began to recede gradually at Cincinnati, and it was felt that the worst had been readied and passed. Bat there yet remains a vast amount of suffering and distress for the people of the stricken region. Hundreds of houses have been swept away, leaving their occupants without ahelter. Many have lost all their possessions, and under the most discouraging circumstances, have to begin life anew. The houses that were not carried away will be soaked with mud and water so as to be practically unfit for habitation for weeks. To clean them ont will be a bwuleau and expensive t*sk, while
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much of the furniture, carpets, bedding, clothing etc., will be absolutely ruined. Tht a great deal of sickness will be engendered as the result of the longcontinued over-flow can hardly be doubted.
It is evident, therefore, thai the offer ings of charity will need to be large, generous and persistent. The State Legislature appropriated $40,000 for the relief of the suffering in Indiana towns, but this will be exhausted in supplying the immediate necessities of the des titute and suffering. Considered in all its aspects the suffering |im mediate and remote, from this terrible visitation will approach that of the great fire at Chicago and the efforts for its relief should be on a correspondingly generous scale.
PRISON REFORMS, s,
Men who make their mark in history often achieve success and reputation by fortuitous short-cuts through difficulties that others would go around. Ben jamln F. Butler is such a man. Though his vision and methods are somewhat oblique he is entitled to the term "smart" in all its Yankee fullness. His happy solution of the problem involved in the colored refugees at Fortress Monroe by declaring slaves contraband of war, his Dutch Gap Canal, and summary quieting of the insulting rebels in New Orleans were short-cuts to proposed results. His latest move towards reforming abuses in the penitentiary of Massachusetts is along step in the right direction which may be as effectual as simple. It may accomplish by a stroke of the pen what legislative enactment and legal red-tape have not yet done— protect human beings from the tyranny of licensed cruelty. There is a sentiment of respectful admiration for our penitentiaries and asylums. The visitors to them are impressed by their vastness, their silent discipline, the immense kitchens and heaps of food, the busy work shops and the long lines of subdued inmates. A community disturbed by a dangerous Rtidifer, or annoying Hicks, gladly stows them in the distant prison where they are out of the way of temptation and lawyers. We readily transfer our criminals of every grade to the vicarious reformation of the warden and his turnkeys, trusting implicitly in the annual report, and the sum totals of thereon victs* earnings. This is a wholesale age in which our hotels, schools, asylums and prisons must deal with the masses in a lump in which in great general results useful- details are overlooked. It is a mooted question if there is not abetter plan than gathering patients in one great asylum,or convicts in one huge prison. It is known by occasional out-croppings of scandal that great outrages occur here and there in such institutions where unlimited authority rest's in officials, troubled with only limited espionage by flying visits from committees. Although the tendency is always towards Increased utility and humanity, few individuals can be trusted with dark cells,gags, tread-mills, shackles and water-tanks to prescribe at will to imbruted, vicious or sulleu men, often born to their estate. Reade in his dramatic "Very Hard Cash" and "Never Too Late to Mend,"points out with convincing clearness the difficulties that may prevent even an innocent convict or a sane inmate of a lunatic asylum from securing relief Ijy the proper authorities. Soft-hearted men do not seek jailers' positions. Humanitarians are not the most efficient wardens. The inflexible system necessary to govern as one man, a thousand convicts, crushes many more sinned against than sinning, and we regard as a happy thought ths plan of Butler to throw open to the gaze of the Executive Council the cells of the prisoners. There will be much ungrounded complaint from restless convicts, but there would be an end to much seoret punishment that hitherto was concealed by the self-interest of the keepers, and the fears of the prisoners. The most practical result to be secured in prisons from which every year some are to be released, is the reformation of the criminals. Its success is to be estimated by the per cent, of those reformed. Nothing can prove that a man can be driven into virtue. Force will crush him but not shape him. The Butler method is to be commended to 'every State as a step towards the proper treatment of miserable criminals, which is not only a question of
4mercy
but of practical
economy. ____
TRIED FOR MURDER! Read the remarkable case of circumstantial evidence and test of woman's faith on first and second pages.
A New York artist, a woman, whose husband and son had both been ruined by liquor, recently painted a picture for which Stokes, slayer of Jim Fisk, and proprietor of Hoffman House bar-room, offered her a large sum of money. On learning, however, that it was to be used to attract drinkers to his saloon, she refused to make the sale.
A UAiyT SUPERSTITION. Americas (Oa.) Republican. One of tbe many superstitions among some of the negroes is thst if an ax is,
better. This ax-healing cently tried by a colored woman in this place on her sick daughter, and she wasi
well aa ever was.
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immensely troubled the next morning to find her child bad grown worse during tbe night. She declared that ber daughter would die—that there was no hope for her recovery—a part of the superstition bring that if the placing of the ax under the bed at night did not cure tbe sick person, death would inevitably follow in a short time. Bat in this esse the girl did not die, but is now as
"What a contrast this dark, dank day is to the other flashing morning, when all the trees looked like cut steel, and even that sheaf of wires from the telephone tower looked beautiful—like a beam of light from a Drummond lamp —hideous.old spider web now." '"Blue, are you?" 90. "Yes—and Valentine's Day, too," replied Miss Laura, looking askance at a large envelope that the Professor's worst boy had sent him. "Couldn't you, for the fun of the thing, hint that I am going be married. Think of it,7' counting off on her fingers,^"seven reported weddings—youth or money, beauty or riches, in all of them—delightful, isn't it except to think that in such a crowd, one is left out," and having piqued their curiosity she turned to her plate. "The match to think of is the 'Unequal Match,'and the Jersey Lily in it," said the Professor. "Ridiculous, the way you all run after her," said Laura, who having seen was indifferent to the celebrity, and therefore was going to honor Lent. "No dissipation, I am sure, in going to see Langtry. We don't go to the theatre, we go to see
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"Seea what?"' "Well, what kind of taste the English have—the idea of their having any!"
The Professor paid, mournfully (he had a ticket): "I thought it a shame that three times as much of a rush was made for Langtry as for Salvini. 'Whither are we drifting?'" "My dear young friend, no platitudes, if you please. You know tbe story of the audience that preferred to hear an actor give a pig's squeal badly, to hearing a real pig give one well. We want to hear the imitation, and see some one from the charmed circle near Regent Park. The whole incident of Langtry's career is a little drama that surpasses any that Taylor, or Scribe, or Bartley Campbell could write. It is a novelty and a play that all want to take part in, and if my two dollars and Derby's complimentary will help her to go back and drive her little turn-out on. the Rotten-row, and have her little receptions—largely attended by the gentlemen—we don't care, do we, John "No! If it wasn't for this complication of that asinine Gebhardt I'd think tbe Langtry episode quite a moral. It would improve the traditions of the stage, in showing that a lady could go upon it and retire with honor—in fact, be a practical illustration of the right kind of woman's rights—tho right to do anything that she can do as well as an other. However, the next society woman that tries to do the samto will get fifty cents, where she gets two dollars— a dollar fifty premium for the patentee, you see."
It was discovered that the family were going en masse, to see what others had seen, for no one's opinion is as good as one's own.
McEwan wondered why the Major was not after the Collector's office. The Major, disinterestedly, as the grapehunting fox, said he wouldn have it as a precious gift. "I'd be abused for going in, and Sua pected for going out." "You Wouldn't be much of a man if you didn't get a fillip now and then, would you asked McEwan 'No. It it rather pleasant to have a little interest taken in one, if it is only to abuse, but if any man—preacher, politician, office-holder, or what-not-*-thinks to glide through life without having people try to read between the lines of what he says or writes, he forgets the natural fondness of the human mind for puzzles and conundrums. What if there is no writing there, it is looked for."
McEwan said: "You must confess that in these days it looks strange to see a man well fitted for a responsible and influential office lay it down voluntarily." "Yes, it is uncommon, but Mr. Minshall is not a common man—not understosd by many—perhaps misunderstood by others—but known to be incapa ble of making a mistake by design or accident—believed to be so wise and diplomatic, tfl|t it follows, as matter of course, that there is supposed to be a history to all that he does. There is no reason for it, doubtless, but you can't wonder if men say—" "Say that there is an influence in this very town working to give the Collector's office to Lafayette, for instance. Perhaps that is groundless, too?" "Yes—absurd and though I doubt if there is his equal to administer the office, I believe the Collector's successor can be found here—still I don't hope for it. You can bet your bottom dollar tbe Peirce influence is not strong for Terre Haute."
McEwan said: "While I do not wonder that tbe gentleman felt annoyed by a carping doubt, I think he showed his cards before his hand was called."
.TOO FAT TO LIVE.
Samuel Scott, of Warthurg, Tenn.f has just died, his weight being 350 pounds. It is thought that his death was due to his extreme obesity. He was about five feet right inches tall, but his
r®" I and he slept in a very peculiar position, usually kneeling, with his bead resting "t is said be would sleep as well in this apparently uncomfortable
oU a
chair. It is
attitude as any one in abed of down. He disregarded his physician's advice, bowever, and went to bed as any other person, and died daring the night, it is thought of sspb/xta.
—MONEY TO LOAN to Fsrffi&rs 6s tbe best of terms. RIDDLE, HAMXTOS A
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for one oi these valuable
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Chilblains. Corns, Tetter
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FOR
BOEGEMAN &
CCS, Dissolution sale of Boots and Shoes, No. 101 south Fourth street.
WANTED-MONEYlongLOAN.
TO THOSE
who wish to borrow or loan money on best terms for short or time, to caU on RIDDLE, "HAMILTON CO. Southeast corner of 8th and Main streets up-stairs.
To Trade.
TRADE-FOR A HORSE—A good cabinet organ for a reliable family horse. Will give a bargain to the party having a suitable animal.
Call on or address M. B. CRAWFORD. 302% Main street. Terre Haute.
For Rent.
FOR
RENT-MY STORE ROOM, on Main street, between 4th and 5th street, NO long occupied by Philip Schloss as a Clothing Store. WM. E. McLEAN.
RENT—My House, on south Sixth street. Also rooms ior rent in Marble Block, suitable for office or lodging rooms, inquire of M. A. Rarldon, No. 002 Main street. T7K)R RENT-TWO NICE ROOMS, for gentleman and wife. Water, water closets and coal bins handy, in Koopman's Block. None but respectable parties need apply, cor 6th and Cnerry, reasonable rates.
Also stori B. W.
room at AN.
For Sale.
T7IOR SALE-BOOTS AND SHOES AT I cost. Big Bargains at A. H. Boegeman dt-Co'a great Dissolstion Sale No. 104 south Fourth street. Call before the bargains are gone
FORhave
SALE-JERSEYS-COWS AND HEIFER8 of good butter makiog record. Some made 12 and 14 pounds per week. One with young calf. I. V. PRESTON.
SALE—A desirable Home, with two vacant lota, corner of notth Seventh and Sim streets. For Information write to
J* A. S. W1NTJERMUTE,
Ja27 tf HackettStown, New Jersey.
Fsoutheast
)R 83 LE-MY FARM. SEVEN MILES of the city, of 200 acres, in high state Of cultivation, together with farming imp) iments, new reaper and binder and stock necemary to run the farm. PomesKion will be given immediately. N. ANDREWS.
OT8 FOR SALE.
The following vacant lots will be sold on reasonable terms, or ow for cash: LOT 1 in Preston subdivision of lot No. 5, fronting Oak street. LOT 00 feeMront on Oak street, in Welch"» subdivision. LOT 40 feet front, south 16th street in Cooker! y*B subdivision. LOT 172 in Barnum's addition, fronting Liberty Avenue. LOT la Adklns subdivision, fronting Scott street and Sixth street.
For further particulars call at L. KUSSNERU
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Music Store, 218 Ohio 8tr«et.
THE BEST
Family Washer and Bleacher IT IN E W O
The quickest and moat thorough washer ever Invented.
One thousand dollar* reward for any machine that can beat it20 darn trial.
Guaranteed as represent
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OUR
CLOSING OUT
SALE,
IS SO SUCCESSFUL,
Our Yery Low Prices
SO MUCH APPRECIATED THAT
.WE CONTINUE
—FOR—
ANOTHER WEEK
THE SALE OF
LAST
THINGS."
Prices Often Ridiculous
FOR INSTANCE:
A fine real Mink boa for 50 cts, and other furs in proportion.
Goods from Cloak Stock 50 cts, 25 cts. on the dollar.
Kid Gloves, Winter Gloves, 10 cts on the dollar.
Dress Remnant for a song-— anything that sells them.
Lace Goods and Laces, exactly half-price.
ABOVE ARE EXAMPLES.
There are Remnants, Job Lots, Odds and Ends, in every stock To be Closed Out
This is the most genuine reduction sale ever conducted in this city.
THIS IS BONA FIDE
So much so that many goods are are almost a free gift.
COME AND SEE.
H0BERG.R00T& CO.
GULICK & CO.
HAVE A FULL LINE OF
Patent Medicines,
INCLUDING:
Sandford's Catarrh Cure Popham's Asthma Remedy, Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Ely's Cream Balm. Shilo's C. Cure.
Warner's Safe & Cure Hunt's Kidney Remedy. Simmon's Regulator.
Kidney Wort. S. S. S.
Dr. King's New Discovery Boschee's German Syrup Allen's Lung Balsam
Warner's Tar Syrup Cutler's Balsam
Wistar's Bahara of Wild Cherry Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup. Crook's Wine of Tar.
Brown's Iron Bitters Wayne's Elixir.
AT THE OLD DRUG STAND Corner of Fourth and Main Sts.
GULICK & CO.
pRAKK PRATT, Importer asd Dealer Aa ITALIAN MARBLE AND GRALITB
MONUMENTS,
Statuary, Vases, &c., *!., COR. FIFTH AND WALNUT STS
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