Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 May 1883 — Page 4
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P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TEKHK HAUTK, MAY 5, W83.
"HONORSareeven" in the spring elections in the several cities of this State last Tuesday.
FOLLOWING in the wake of New York Chicago is to have daily, weekly and Sunday illustrated paper to be called the Graphic. __________
AT Cincinnati, in one day, there were ten men sent to the work house for wife beating. Query,—how many of these wives would have paid the fine if they had bad the money?
THE- report has already been sent out that the peaches are all frozen but we are used to that. It has an ancient and fish like sound. There will be peaches,— some at least. There always are.
STBIPXDsuits for men are very fashionable. The State has been furnishing striped suits for a great many years but the style has never become popular till now. The same may be said of the closely cropped hair.
BUSINESS, which has been quiet an lagging during the backward spring, gives indications of newness of life with the advent of these bright and seasonable days. If May shall keep the golden promise of its beginning, the wheels of trade and traffic will soon hum.
A NATIONAL Bank at Newberry, S. €., has a lady President. Mrs. Louisa B. Stephens is President of the First National Bank at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is »t at all uncommon for a lady to be a bank cashier. We have several in Indiana. People are beginning to find out that It isn't sife to trust a man with .too much money.
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Professor is laboring to
that we are tivo years behind time, and that this ought to 1888 instoad of 18&3. He not make many converts. Time tiles entirely too fast without taking a leap nf five years at once. The confusiou this would croate is inconceivable. Besides what is five years to lose In a couple of thousand Our share of the loss is so small we can stand it. "BYa new process, food may now be digested before it is eaten and when taken into the stomach it passes directly through and Is taken up by the blood. The most dollcote invalids may be thus nourished. As this process
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very ex
pensive only the wealthy can afford it. It will now be in order for the communists to make an outcry because rich people can buy their food already digested while poor people must digest for themselves.
WASHINGTON gossip is to the effect that Uresham and Harrison have reached an agreement whereby the former is Is not to be a candidate for governor next year and Harrison is to nameQresham's successor as judge and Gresham is to have an open field for the United States Senatorshlp before the next Legislature. It is said Judge Gresham would like to be in the Senate and it is certain that Indiana would be honored by having him there. But Mr. Voorhees will be around about the time that little contest comes off.
HON. GRHHN B. RAUM, commissioner of Internal revenue, has resigned his office, the salary of which was $6,000 a year, on the ground that he could not do justice to his family with such an Income. It would .be interesting to the average mind to know how much a Washington official deems a sufficient sum to raise a family on. There area good many fatuities even In this country who manage to gst along pretty comfortably on less than six thousand a year. But then it is true they don't have to live In Washington.
OSCAR WILUK, in a recent Interview, says, "Kvery one In America is anxious to catch a train, yon know." He could not better have described the feverish hurry of our American life. All foreigners notice It, Every man and woman Is trying to do a little more than they are able to do, and in a little less time than it can possibly be done. Young people and even children are full of ambition and going beyond their •strength. Everybody is tired. Nobody has time to stop and enjoy the Traits of ills labor. Each year Increases this nerve-destroying activity, and we only mitft to labor when we cease to live.
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IRI8H NATIONALITY. 4 OUR BED RELATIONS. The London
Times
Irish convention at Philadelphia with
the law." Such is the view of the great English journal. But the New York Tribune does not see it in the same light.
The Tribune says that in the famine year preceding the Laud agitation, it sent to the island a special correspondent, who has since become a fanatical chamoion of the Irish cause, and that his letters convinced it that the unfor tunate peasantry were the victims of the laws of man even more than of the laws of nature, and that the land system was an intolerable evil, a disgrace to English civilization.
This opinion the Tribune still holds. And it may be added that it is the opin ion of most intelligent people on this side the water who have given any thought to the subject. The policy recommended by the London Times is precisely that which the English government has pursued for centuries, and which has brought such poor results. If "to ignore Irishmen" and to make them "feel the strong band of the law' were likely to solve the Irish question, it wou Id have boen solved long ago. But the fruit which this policy has borne, does not recommend it and the civilized world, outside of England, has long beeu'convinced that a radically different policy ought to be tried. It is not true, as the Times asserts, that the Irish have convinced the rest of the world that they are us fit to have national independence. On the contrary, the rest of the wfcrld, or a groat deal of it at least, believes that national independence is just what Ireland needs, and that it would be her salvation. The old cry that this and that people are incapable of self government, has been beard long enough. The events of history have stamped the lie upon it time and time again. Irish independence will be as good as French independence or American independence. The time is past for believing that any civilized people mast be held in subjection by some other nation in order to be taken care of and protected from themselves. It is all a humbug, and the world has found it out. Any nation can govem itself better than any other nation can govern it.
The Times may ridicule and belittle the Irish movement In America as much as it likes, but that movement will constantly grow in influence snd power until the asntiment of the Ameilcali people will be felt in Irish affairs. It will not, of course, be a dynamite sentiment, nor the favoring of crime and bloodshed, but it will be a demand that Ireland be given her freedom, and that she be allowed te govern herself In her own way that her people be given some rights in the soil which belonged to their ancestors, centuries and centuries ago, and which has been wrested from them by foroe and fraud. The Irish question in America will not be laughed out of countenance by the sneers of the English press. ______________
THK great dramatic festival which has been going on- at Cincinnati during the past week, has proved as much of a success as the music festivals which have made the city famous throughout the world. The setting of the great Shakesperian plays, Julius Ceersar, Othello, Hamlet, etc., were not only of the utmost magnificence, but were artistically true to history, having been prepared with the aid of all the light which study and research has been able to throw on the times represented. With such actors as Barrett, McCollough, Murdoch, Rea, Clara Morris, Mary Anderson and others of equal fame In all the Important roles, the superb character of the acting may easily be imagined. Competent dramatic critics pronounced the rendition of the great plays unsurpassed by anything ever before witnessed, not excepting the Sbakesperian revival in Edwin Booth's theater in New York some years age. It is to be hoped this will only be the beginning of a series of snch festivals in the splendid music hall of Cincinnati, for there can be little doubt, judging from the attendance at the present festival, that they would be equally as popular as the festivals of music.
THK Inter-Ocean emphatically contradicts the report sent out from Washington recently that the loss of live stock amounts to about $66,000,000 annually, mainly doe to pleuvo-pneumonia. It
Th*"old hens," l. e. the elderly gentlemen of the New York Clubs, have long been in the habit of occupying the »y» ^e great bulk of the cattle of the
windows roost of the day and watching and criticising the ladies as they pass by. Lately, however, the dudes have crowded them out and taken possession of the windows. An exchange tells us that the "hens" hit upon this plan to rout them. Perfumed notes are sent in, requesting
United States grass west of the Alleghenies, and that it is doubtful if really authentic case of the disease can be found in the West. In the great cattle growing regions of the West it is absolutely unknown, the losses there being doe almost wholly to severe storms. In
the dndes to hold an interview on the ordinary seasons the loes of cattle on the next corner. They rush out, discover plains does not average over two per that tbev bsve been fooled and comej cent., but the tosses this year, owing to back to find the frontseats all taken. It the unusual severity of the storms, Is Beems a pity that both these old snd placed at ten per osnt. young Grands cannot be put to work. It! =======3=88=39* these are a
men of the men New Mr. Blaixk, It is sakl, Is devoting
York girls have to choose husbands himself wholly to completion of his book from It Is not strongs that tbe news- on American politic*, from which his papers are complaining of the incrswe publishers expect to make a 5100,000. No in the number of old maid*, but ws pno-j doubt the book will have a large sale, test against charging this state cf affa rs, The author's name alone will insure to the extravagance of women. that.
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dismisses the great The old and familiar name of our In
dian brothers
the statement that it began in folly and appeladon was perhaps correct enough ended in the same fashion, and that the nnder the circumstances it was applied, whole scene would be painful if it had bat why these circumstance existed has not been supremely ridiculous. The been a much mooted question. At all only lesson it can find in the proceedings events a method has at last been diacovof the convention is "for Great Britain ered which gives fair promise of convertto ignore Irishmen, and abandon all ing the red devils into our red relations, hope of bringing them to a better frathe This is nothing more nor less than the of mind, by a continuance of unmerited education of the Indian children in the favors. They have already convinced manners and learnings of civilized life the rest of the world that they are unfit The Mail has more than once commented to have national independence, and they upon the success of the few Indian must be made to feel the strong band of schools which have been undertaken .and
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAlLt
was "the red devils. The
the longer the experiment is continued the more evident it becomes that in this direction lies the real solution of the hitherto difficult Indian problem.
An intelligent
and
apparently fair and
honest correspondent, writing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, gives some facts in regard to the Indian school in that city which are of the most encouraging character. The school is supported by the Board of Home Missions of the Prtsbyterian church and contains 80 pupils, representing nine tribes-of the Pueblo Indians (who dwell in fixed villages and are not migratory), and two or three of the savage tribes. As to the capacity and willingness of these Indian children to learn, the writer ssys: "It is astonishing how rapidly the Indian children learn and no one who visits the schools will come away with out expresssion of surprise at the eagerness with which they seize upon the rudiments and the rapidity with which they advance in the steps of learning. They are taught not only the ordinary branches of common school education, but the agricultural lessons in farming, in carpentry, and other kindred industries and the girls in sewing, cooking, and housewifery. The Indian boys and girls who two years ago had never seen book, who did not know there was such a thing as arithmetic, and couldn't have told for the life of them whether there was such a place in the world as Illinois, are now as far advanced as the children of their age in the public schools of Boston or Springfield, Mass., and study their lessons with an ardor that disproves the theory that the stolid Indian character knows no enthusiasm."
They learn penmanship and drawing easily, and write a plain round hand. In fact, they learn whatever is taught them with as miich facility as the children of white parents do.
The correspondent narrates an incident which shows that the unlettered parents of these dusky youths are not wholly uninterested in the work of civilizing their children. An old man and his squaw bad come ninety miles over the mountains on their ponies to see how their son was getting on in the school, and as they squatted in a corner and silently watched his writing and drawing on the blackboard there was a dazed and bewildered look upon their faces, as If the mystery] was far too deep* for them to solve. The old man said he did not wish the child to return to his former mode of life, but wanted him to live among the white people and be a carpenter. 'a****
There are 10,000 Indians of school age In the Territory and the government has appropriated |23,000 for the erection of an enlarged buHding for the Albuquerque school and the citizens have donated twenty-five acres of ground upon which it will be erected. But even these Improved facilities will afford schooling accommodations to but a small percentage of the Indian youth In the Territory, and the government ought to make far more ample provisions for their education. Indeed, considering the experiences of Indian wars and the great advantage, even from a money standpoint alone, to be derived from educating and civilizing the Indian tribes, the slow movements of the government in this direction seem unaccountable. The explanation is probably to be found in the incredulity of the average "statesman" as to the civilizing capacity of "the red devils,'" an incredulity which in time we may hope the efforts oi the press will overcome. _________
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Thk appointment of Judge Woods, of the Supreme Court, to succeed Judge Gresham, is construed In some quarters as indicating that the leadership of the Republican party In Indiana has practically passed from the hands of Senator Harrison to those of Judge Gresham, or that at least there will be a divided leadership hereafter. This notion is based on the fact that Judge Hines, whom Harrison recommended for the place, did not get it and the belief that Gresham was a strong friend of Judge Woods. It is far from certain, however, that this view is correct. There was a strong pressure from the bar of the State generally for the appointment of some one outside of Indianapolis and this sentiment finally centered upon Judge Woods and secured his appointment, so that it may mean nothing more than that, as party policy, it was deemed advisable to place the appointment outside of the capital. The fact remains, however, that the Senator recommended an Indianapolis man and that his recommendation was not followed. There are those who see in the selection and in the appointment of Judge Gresham to a place In the cabinet a deep laid plot on the part of the President to control Indiana for himself in in 18S4,
but whether this be true or not
can for the present only be conjectured. It may beaddei that Judge Woods is in the prime of life, forty-six years old, is a fine lawyer and judge, and is in every respect thoroughly qualified for the high place to which be has been called. His home Is in Goshen.
Doj»*r destroy your last summer's straw bat. Make a banging banket of it.
"FUNNY BUSINESS." Peoria Call. Th*»following bit of "funny business,** so ..iled, is taken from Peck's Sun, the journal that now claims the lead in this particular branch of newspaper work. The excerpt is given exactly as it occurred in its original publication, aud is as follows:
A boy at Oberlln, Ohio, who says he reads the Sun regularlv, and thinks it .s a daisy, writes as follows: "My pa is pious, and thinks if a feller lafl\ he will go to hell sure. He says if I don't learn a hundred verses of the New Test-unent so
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can repeat them
Easter *und*y, he vrill kick tbe liver out of me. What would you do if you was me Well, bub, this is a pretty tough case, and we faiu would pass, bat since you seem to be a real nice boy, we will tell you what we would do. We would compromise with the old whelp. We would learn fifty verses, and then till our coal-tail pockets with pieces of a brick boose and let him kick. A boy has a right to bailast his coat-tali with any kind of ballast, and if his pa wants nice pious ex ercise, give him a shew. Try it, anu write\ what he says after he has kicked your liver out
It might be well enough, having read this extract once, to read it again, so as to get the full dritt of it. It is set down as something to laugh at, and is on a par with scores of like paragraphs published in the Sun for alike purpose, and supposed to be "funny." But where doe* tbe fun come in Is it in the boys let ter or in tbe advice which that epistle calls forth from the "fun ny" editor Or is it in the gentle term "old whelp," applied to the boys's father, or in the slur upon religion which runs all through the article Look it over once irore and see about these things.
And yet, this clipping is a fair sample of tbe writing that fills Peck's Sun and which is now foisted upon the public in the name of "funny busiueqp." "The Bad Boy" is the present hero of that journal and has boosted its circulation up to 60,000 copies weekly yet the sayings and doings of tfeat erratic youth are made up of that which is very low and vile in human natures—such words and actions as will do more to poison the minds of tbe boys and girls who read of them than all the dime novels in tbe country. For where is the dime novel that teaches a boy to call bis father an "old whelp," or advises him to throw bricks at him if he wants to have a "nice pious exercise.
If only these things came in a different form people would not have them in their families for worlds. But they are supposed to be spiced with "funnlness,' and hence they stalk boldly into every household. So it is that tbe children are made familiar with the ways of licentious men and of women of base morals. They are taught to despise the Instructions of their parents, to supect the honor of men and tbe chastity of women, to lightly esteem religion and to look upon the most sacred of family ties as a mere mockery. They are taught to think that it is smart to sneak, to equivocate, If not to lie direct to "put up jobs" on their elders and "sow wild oats general ly."
That all this is about as bad teaching as children could possibly have, who esq) doubt?
But yet, because it is labeled "funny," the people take it and cry for more. The author of the "Bad Boy*' papers has just compiled them into a volume and published tbem in book form. He has sent a circular to the newspapers throughout the county to publish the fact that bis first edition was 100,000 copies, that it was quickly exhausted, and that their presses are now running day and night on tbe'book, and still tbey cannot fill their orders. In every book store, on every train of cars the book Is for sale, and it is bought and read by thousands of young people all over this country. It is sold as a "funny book," and yet it is filled full of just such things as have been noted in this review.
Anthony Comstock is on the lookout for Zola and Walt Whitman, and gets their books ruled out of tbe United State mails, yet neither of these, no, nor yet Tom Paine and Voltaire and all the rest of infidel creation to boot, though scattered scattered broadcast in our homes, could do half the barm to our young people that they are receiving from this source, which is received because it is "funny."
MAYOR SEARIGHT, of Vincennes, who was defeated for ie-election last Tuesday, committed suicide the next morning by shooting himself. He was sixtysix years of age, and leaves a wife and family. ___________
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ATTRACTIVE HOMES. These warm days are causing our people to stir themselves, in the way of house-cleaning, painting, papering, and in other ways msking their homes pleasant and attractive. And in doing so, one of their first thoughts is of J. W. Robefts A Go's elegant paper hangings. Never before has he shown such an elegant and varied line as this season. Give their house a call. You know where it is—corner of Ohio and Sixth streets. Make your selections^ aided by Mr. Roberts' good taste, and he will send out his paper hangers, real artists i^, their profession, who will make a wonderful transformation In thedinary walls ot your house. The reputation of this bouse has been built up on low prices and good honest work.
SPRING LAMBS.
J. H. Pinnell's popular meat market at 26 north Fourth street is supplied today with the choicest .fresh meats, including nice spring lamb.
SKATING RINK PBIZE. Next Tuesday evening a contest will be held at the Skating Rink fora|15 pair of pants, special prize offered by Ford A 'Owens to the most graceful skater, forward movements-.
"PERFECTLY ELEGANT.'* This is tbe exclamation of all. who visit the new Ice Cream Parlor Will White has fitted up on the second floor, adjoining his confectionery, and where he is serving the pure ice cream for which he has such good reputation. His Soda Fountain is now in full blast with pure syrups, and his counters and shelves filled with the choicest confections.
INSURE AGAINST LIGHTNING. Riddle. Hamilton A Co. Insure Dwelling Houses, against Lightning, whether fire ensues or not. See them before you insure.
Temperance Workers Take Notice. The meeting of the Vigo County Temperance Council has been postponed until Sunday May 13. The meeting will be held at Sugar Grove Hall, two miles east of the blast furnace. Every lover of home and the Christian Sabbath, every prohibitionist, and every person oppoied to the rum traffic is urgently requested to be present. Will you see that dolegates are appointed from your church and Sunday school A prayer and praise service will be held at 10 A. M. A business meeting at 3 P. M. A children's meeting at 4 P. M., and amass meeting at 8 P. M. D. B. Ross, Sec. of State Christian Temperance *Tnlon at.d other prominent workers wi.l be present during tbe day and evening.
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Take pleasuao in calling the attention of those who may wish to make a good Investment, or who desire to purchuse Home cheap, to a few of the many pieces of property In their hands for sale. Our list of property for sale is so large and hiis such a great number of Bargains, that we will shortly issue a Bulletin, In which we can do full Justice to all parties who have placed property lu our hands. 1. A four story Brick Storo Room, No 519 Main street. 2. A desirable Residence, No. 1029 south Seventh street. Lot 100x108—a ijulot and pleasant location. 8. Business Lot, southeast corncr of Blxth and Elm. 76x140. 4. Undlvled one-half of V/t acres on south Sixth street. 6. Two vacant lots on northeast comer of Sixth and Co lege.
The above property will be offered for sale for a short time on favorable terms. fl. Three Residence lots, N. W. corner Seventh and Linton, known as the Old Brewery property, having 143 feet on Seventh street. Can make the sfise of the lots to suit the purchaser. 7. Northeast corner of Eighth and Mulberry, Lot 100x140. Owner wants to dispose of It immediately. Large hou e, good home and No. 1 location as a residence for a businessman. 8. A beautiful snd convenient Home, No. 1003 south Heventh street, 8. W. corner of r«eventh and rlngton, lOOxlffi, is offered on unusually favorable terms. Price 14,500. ». A large, well improved and In every way charming reside me |i oyerty, No. 1 south Third street lot, lo. .*m house in good order, twelve rooms,two a goa wirn, two cisterns, good fruit one of the prettiest homes in this city of beautiful homes must be seen in the summer to be fully appreciated. Price, 8,600. 10. No. 1 vacant lot on south HJxth street 70xJ68, will be »old cheap for cash. 11. Five acres on Lafayette avenue. nwr the city limits good ground for subdivision. 12. House of four rooms, small lot, but very ciiMpt on north Ninth •trwt, 1900*
House and lot 69x140, north Third street •BOO. 14. Four desirable vacant lot*, on hi grouti Cash,
ind, east of Nail Works. Will sell all for
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1& A vacant Joi opposite Female College, on south Hlxth, 48xl«, for §1,350. 16. Vacant lot. next to rr*lfience of M. w. Williams, Esq.,on *outh Blxlh lot, S5xlflH. 17. Vacant lot on east Main.
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18. A valuable tract of ground on south fUxth street, suitable for su addition to tbe rfty the^wpec!*l attention of capitalists is tiled to this tract. 19 Twelve acres on south Seventh street will be sold on easy terms a bargain. ». Tract of land known as tbe ''Vern pronerty," adjoining tbe residence of William Kgc&aal,on north Sixth street, 37 feet
with Engine and Holland
other machinery, snd a small corner on Lafayette avenue, very cheap for Cash. 21. Three lots on south Third street, very cheap and on long time.
Two bouses and lot* on south Thirteenth and Half street. ground 75feof three rooms each will sell both on easy terms fort 1.900. 23. Vacant lots In Jewett** addition, very cheap and on long time. 24. Vacant lots in Toell and t"«0ierj« adliilon. ebeap for cash have four lying together, two being corner lots, which c*n be bad at a bargain.
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