Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 May 1883 — Page 4

THEMAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

FUBUXSATIOI* OFMCK,

No*. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

TERRE HAUTE, MAY 26, 1883.

This sentiment, expressed by a wellknown female writer of the West, will be responded to by many hearts which have not yet lost the power of feeling for the wrongs of their fellows. The people are thinking of those things. Thoy cannot help thinking of it. It is forced npon their attention day after day. The aggressive, grasping, all-con-suming spirit of the money kings and great corporations compels the notice of every thinking man and woman. Palaoea are not fine enough for these men. They lavish their millions in building houses which put to shame those of the nobility of the old world. Marble and gold are hardly fine enough for them. They imitate in their daily life the luxury of kings and princes. This is not *the country for that sort of thing.

America, the land of the free, the home for the king-ridden and oppressed of tbe old world, shall not be brought to the condition of enslaved labor which it was her especial mission to destroy. And yet the tendency has undeniably been in that direction since tbe close of the •war. The chasm between the rich and the poor, between capital and labor, has been constantly growing wider and and deeper. The great corporations ge on swelling, absorbing, monopolizing, until tbe man of small means, or of no means at all, is completely at their mercy The worst of it all is that the money power has too much influeuce with legislation. The charge is openly made and believed by intelligent persons who are In a position to know wbat they are talking about, that euough members of the legislature can always be bought to carry through any measure provided su nident money is forthcoming. Whether this can be true to the extent charged or not, thero can be no1 doubt and there is hone, that legislation, both State and National, is unduly and improperly influenced by the large moneyed corporations of tbe country.

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be done. legislation cannot continue to go on in the iutere*t of capital and against the interests of the poor and the working people, There must be a sharp turn in the national policy. The impending contest will be a fight of the working men of the country against the tyranny and oppression of the money power.

TKRRIBI.K and ealamitous as the cyclone is, a writer in the Inter Ocean endeavors to draw comfort from thedneaded visitant by suggesting that in the providence of nature it may serve a benlRceut purpose, by clarifying the air and banishing malaria and |«estilence. He says "A cyclone may kill a doten people or eo. but the pestilence which dies upon tbe wings of atmospheric pohton members its victims by the bun dreds and the thotwamle.

THKT have been having a dreadful time over in Russia in getting the new Cfear crowned. When one reads of all the flapdoodle that is gone through on such occasions in the old countries the riding aboot of mounted heralds in feathers and gold, proclaiming tbe ceremonies for days in advance tbe carrying of the monarchs' crowns by high officers of state in the grand procession, and all tbe rest of it onedraws a sigh of relief that he lives in a conntry which has at least got beyond that sort of business, however many other deficiencies and drawbacks its system of political government may have. But all this parade and tinseled pretension doubtless tends to strike tbe Russian masses with awe at tbe power of majesty, and thus in some degree to keep them in a spirit of fear and obedience. It this is spf it will not long have such an effect. Tbe Russian mind is fast outgrowing the period of baby toys and playthings, and will overturn tbe whole system of monarchist rule one of these days, and forever. There could be no more unmis takable index of this feeling among tbe people than the fact that persons who want to occupy windows on tbe line of the royal procession are required to give evidence of their character, and that no

THE IMPENDING CONTESTL In an interview the other day, ex-At-torney General Baldwin, expressed tbe opinion that the next political contest in Indiana would bo fought upon the tariff Issue—the question of free trade or protectioo. In part Judge Baldwin maybe right. The tariff question is undoubtedly tbe prominent one before tbe conntry to-day, but it* prominence is rather incidental than substantive, for back of it, and as it were, shadowed through it, is tbe question of tbe monopoly of capital over labor, and it in only as the tariff affects the interest of the working men and women of the country that it has any special importance. ""The coming tight then in to be Against what isjpopularlyand not naptly termed suspicious articles are contained on their 'the Money Power." Not indeed indeed in any communistic or nihilistic d«n the carrying of oranges into buildspirit, for such a thing would be utterly foreign to the order-lovingsentiment of our people, but with an iuvincibledetermination to restrain the corrupt aud undue power of money, and to hold it within legitimate bounds. This fight must and ought to be made. Say what down beneath the popular will, we may of the principles of political economy, and the self-regulating ten dency of labor and capital, the fact re mains and is Indisputable, that the odd.* against the laboring class is too great at present in this country. In such a land as this, teeming with agricultural and mineral riches, there is something wrong in the political system when hard-work-ing men and women find themselves threatened with starvation as the result of a single week's illnesa. "Little children, he pless women, industrious men are t«-day cruelly eiwlavel by methodn of oppression, legalized by our laws, toleraleil by power. The bondage In which Homo of our working men and women, and, alas! little cnlldron, are held by great monopolies are In some cases equal to some of the darkpHt pages of African slavery."

persons. Tbe police have even forbid

ings from which a view of the procession may be obtained, for fear that one of these innocent looking articles might prove to be a death-dealing bomb. A government which stands in such dread of its subjects must sooner or later go

REV. DR. PIERSON, tbe successor of Dr. Bartlett as pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, has formally severed bis connection with that church. Dr. Pierson went from Detroit to Indianapolis about a year ago and at once took a high position as au earnest Christian worker. He at once demanded an enlargement of the church in order that room might be provided for the people outside who might be induced to attend the services, but it appears that some of tbe membership were not inclined to go much into the evangelical business, preferring to worship in their comfortable church as they had done in the past, making welcome those who might wish to join tbem. This comatose coudition ot affairs did not satisfy Dr. Pierson who for some time has felt that his mission was especially to preach to the masses outside of the church. In severing his connection with the Second church the Doctor intimated that he would probably engage in evangelical work if no satisfactory field presented itnelf before next winter. It is not often that a Presbyterian minister voluntarily relinquishes a salary of |6,000 a year in one of the pteasantest churches in the country and strikes out not knowing whither, and the fact that Dr. Pierson has done so is strong proof of his sicerity and earnestness. The church and the world would be the better for more such preachers of the Word.

THE monopolizing and oppressive disposition of the soulless corporations which are fast getting this country into their power has another Illustration in tbe business of stock raising in the West. A correspondeutjof the New York Times, writing from Montana, says the great capitalists have discovered the possibilities of the business and as usual they intend if possible to crowd everybody else to the wall. The writer says: "The young man with small means is thus placed In competition with boundless wealth, and stands about as much chance of making a good thing as he would among the hulls and bears of Wall street If the small ranchmen should refuse to sell out at the buyers own price, or should he protest against encroachment on his range, he Is lost. The bonansa cattle firms do not parley with him. Ten thousand head of cattle are ariv« upon his range and among his cattle, and he never sees his beggarly herd ot a few hundred head. Competition of this lawless sort is the chief hindrance to conducting the business on a small scale

Ond so it goes all along the line. Might makes right is the motto of the money power. It spits upon public opinion and defies the law. America, which was once for the poor man,is now, it would seem, mainly for the rich man the capitalist, tbe bondholder, the rail-

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clones that have ever swept over tbe make this a sort of gala day, oae of reMiesimlppl Valley did not kill «o many joking instead of consecration. Let as people as have often fallen victims to one cholera season in

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be admitted that this view Is not without some plausibility, and may be thankfully accepted in the absence of anything more consoling.

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A VBRY neat and sprightly paper, entitled "Every Sunday Morning" has been coming to our table with request for exchange. Our exchange list is already too large for ttee, and the request has been passed by until the receipt of the following appeal which cannot be denied:

CMSSTOI* IOWA, May 21,1888.

We would like to exchange "Every Sunday Morning" with such a model paper as the Malt Qui yon favor os

Your* truiy, HV?«SAKKR. SCITCL.TX A Co. Pub*. Every Sunday Morning.

THE name "Decoration" day baa been changed to "Memorial" day which li much prettier and more appropriate. There is a disposition, as we grow farth-

... All tbe cy-! er away from tbe fresh griefs of war, to

not forget that while it Is a pleasure to show onr love for the dead yet it is a day filled with md regrets and solemn memories.

A CLRVRUXD man feed dead while price! ng chickens In tbe market. It Is with fear of a similar catastrophe that we now approach a grocery man and ask the

THKRK are ¥SO styles of parasols in the market and every lady Is expected to have one for each costume. What woold price of an old hen, sines they have get our grandmother*, with th«ir one ging-j to selling live poultry by tbe poand. bam umbrella have Said to all this fool- The pries Is liable to produce a fatal

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

A NEW catering company is being formed in New York. It is a stock corporation with a capital of 9100,000. Prepared meals will be sent whenever and wherever ordered, in a newly invented wagon with special apparatus. Each meal will be pnt op in a tight box, with silver-plated dishes made to fit and kept warm by steam. This is one of tbe many plans that are being tried to avoid the bnrdens of housekeeping and also the unpleasantness of boarding. Usiug gas stoves, going ont to meals, having them sent in, co-operative cooking, these and varions other devices have been attempted, bat none are quite satisfactory. Ihe old-fashioned housekeeping, with the big oook stove, tbe family dining room, tbe good "home-made" cooking, can never be supplanted, but they represents great deal of hard work, of cateful management and ceaseless attention, and in this age of progress yon cannot quiteconvince a woman that she should do nothing else but cook. Nor is it reasonable that we should demand this. We can afford some self-denial to broaden her sphere and make it more pleasant. It is never right that the sacrifice should be all on one side.

Two young ladies were abusing another at a terrible rate in a street car, when the object of their abuse came in. Recognizing her sweetly, they continued their conversation without a break, only upon an entirely different topic. A gentleman acquaintance who bad been listening, was amazed at their smooth hypocrisy and spoke to one of tbem about it. She informed him coolly that it was a custom among ladies to always have some common-place subject to fall back upon when caught in a bit of gossip. She also said that if she and two other ladies were together and she found it necessary to leave, she always took one of them with her. You see, "said she," if I take one of tbem with me, we can talk ubeut the one we leave behind, but if I go away and leave them together, they will talk about me, and that's a risk I never run if I can help it." Tbe gentleman commenting upon this,says, that be has settled one question in his mind, "Instead of women being greater fools than they seem, they choose to seem greater fools than they are.''

MR. U. CUMMINGS, who has spent a lifetime in tbe manufacture of limes aud cements, writes to tbe Scientific American that there can be no doubt but that the famous Egyptian obelisk in Central Park is but a mass of concrete. Hesays that hieroglyphics were fastened to the inside of a box before the soft mass was poured in, that letters made in this way cannot be mistaken for the work of a obisel. So confident is Mr. Cummings of his position that he offegfto erect a duplicate of tbe obelisk in any city for 915,000. He says, "I*:an get the granite in Connecticut, tbe bitu«ninftgs matter in New York and hyd^auncTime in Buffalo, and with these make just as good obelisks as were ever turned out in Egypt." If we cannot put our trust in a genuine obelisk with real hieroglyphics, where can we pin our faith? Who knows but that somebody will be offering to manufacture mummies at so much per head I

IN Germany where they exorcise a most rigid censorship of the press, all prominent newspapers employ a "responsible editor," who recsives a regular salary for serving out in jail, the sentences imposed by the government, and it is said, he spends most of his time in prison. As the position requires no intellect, and the prisoner is made very comfortable, tbe place is not bard to fill. Our American editors generally manage to keep out of jail, but many of our belligerent papers, so they say, keep a "responsible editor" to receive the lickings, shootings, fcc., from offended citizens. Our government has too much dignity to notice newspaper attacks, but tbe angry subscriber may "take it out" of the editor in any way he thinks best.

"OATH" thinks the Irish women should not take any part in the present agitation in Ireland. He did not approve of Mrs. Parnell'8 presence at the recent convention in Philadelphia. He says, "We achieved the American revolution without a woman on the platform.'' He Is too shrewd to say anything about tbe late rebellion and the eloquent speeches of Anna Dickinson, Mrs. Livermore and a number of less distinguished speakers. There is quite a difference between tbe position of woman now and a hundred years ago, but if all men were like "Oath" she would stand socially, politically and intellectually just where she did at tbe close of the Revolutionary war.

TUK idea that writers for the press are necessarily vagabondisb, disreputable persons must be uprooted. The staff of onr leading newspapers is composed of some of the most brilliant reliable men of tbe country. Indeed, the "Bohemian" element is fsst giving place to the highest respectability, and the introduction of a vast number of lady writers had had great influence in elevating this standard. ___________^

THB Viennese authorities announce tha* married mm wilt not be permitted to go np in a balloon without the eonsent of their wives and children. The kind of a man who woold want to go op in a balloon eould no doubt get a very willing oonsent from his wife, who woold be glad to sea him start.

THE Empress of Austria is a poetess. She has a miniature printing press, and Is learning to set type and print her own poems. Hist it right. All poets should be made to set up their own poems. Type setters have some rights which ought to be rnpseted*.

THK Railway Age is thoroughly investigaing the question of Sunday trains and has sent letters to all the leading railroad men in the country. One of the most important answers received is from Chas. £«. Colby, President of the Wisconsin Central and also Preeidentof th*» V. M. C. A. He says it is the custr of their road to do as little Sunday work as possible but he regards tbe discontinuance of all Sunday trains as wholly impracticable. The manager of the Chicago, Burlington and aud Quincy road and the Illinois Central makes the the same reply. This agitation of the Sunday question will result, as all such movements do, in a compromise. It is advisable from every point of view, to give Sunday to laboring people for rest and recreation as far as possible, but to absolutely suspend all kinds of business is neither practical nor possible and it never will be done.

THE exposition of railway inventions aud appliances which has opened in Chicago is one ot the most interesting exhibitions of machinery ever held in this country. In no department of modern industry has there been such a display of inventive genius as in the thousand things appertaining to the business of railroading, and it is the aim of the managers of the exposition to bring together the machinery of all tbe various stages of railroad development, from tbe first crude efforts of the early inventors, down to the all but perfect appliances of tbe present day. In contrast with tbe superb engines and coaches of to-day those of the ancient time will form a study of much novelty and interest. The exhibition will be open until the 23rd of June, and will be well worth a visit from those who happen to be in the great railroad city of the West.

AFTER all tbe fuss that has been about Patrick J. Tynan, the famous "No. I" of the Irish Invincibles, and that he could nowhere be found, it appears that he has been living quietly in Brooklyn, under his proper name. He has a wife and eight children, and is said to be a genteel, well-educated man, who has no fear of any charges which may be brought against him and is ready to give himself up whenever he is wanted. So far, however, it appears that no demand for him has been made by tbe British authorities. Such is the information given by his counsel, Roger A. Pryor, and there can be no doubt as to its truthfulness. So that if the English authorities want "No. I," it appears that all they have to do is to say so.

THE Morton Monumental Association have been notified by Simmons, the Sculptor, that the statue of the late Senator Morton will be ready for shipment from Munich about July l. The association is still short some $2,000 on the amount due Mr. Simmons and an urgent ca.l for subscriptions is made by tbe committee. It is to hoped that this small balance will be immediately forthcoming. The matter of providing an appropriate monumeut for our great war Governor has been too long delayed already and it ought not to require a second invitation to th6 people of the State to raise the trifling sum which is yet required. '*t Ii f-

A HUNDRED members of tbe House of Commons have signed the letter to tbe Prime Minister in favor of extending the county franchise to women who are qualified. In tbe Canadian Parliament a bill toenfrancbise women has been introduced without any demand for it from tbe women, themselves. American women have been asking this privilege for years but their English sisters will probably be the first to vote. We hear a great deal about the chivalry of American men, but perhaps our countrywomen would prefer less chivalry and more justice. ______________

MRS. LYDIA PINKHAM, who many people have believed to be a myth, died at her home in Lynn, Massachusetts, last Sunday, of paralysis. In connection with advertising her medicine, ber name has been printed in the newspapers oftener than any woman who ever lived in this country. As a result of this persistent advertising, to tbe extent, it Is said, of $180,000 annually, she built up a business of over $300,000 a year

"THE remarkably cold weather of the early part of the week, accompanied in some sections by severe frost and snow, is reported to have been very damaging to the fruit. Especially was this tbe case in portions of Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. Fortunately cloudy weather prevailed throughout most of the territory covered by the low temperature,

been.

it otherwise would have

THE Indiana State Convention of Funeral Directors in session at Indianapolis last week, with entire unanimity, adopted the following:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that the practice of uncovering at funerals is injurious to public health, and can therefore be abandoned by a Judicious appeal to ministers, the press, and families in which funerals occur, and we unauimouslr,agree to lend our best endeavors to abolish tbe custom.

Many instances were given in which people attending fuderals have lost their lives by colds so contracted, audit is said to be a fact that funeral directors of long practice are almost invariably sufferers from catarrh or subject to vioient and incurable headaches, aud in this connection "long-winded" ministers came in tor their share of consure. They say a "long-winded" minister and a funeral director cannot be friends only in name, and all recite with pleasure tbe growing frequency of the bereaved family requesting tbe minister to detain in such a distress as on a funeral occasion, no longer than is commensurate with due respect for the dead. i-

"WHAT we Eat" is the title of a new book just out of press. We hadn't any use for it. There are certain butchers and grocers who promptly tell us with an itemized bill at the end of each1

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IT was asserted by many persons thkt tbe Star Route cases would go to the Jury withont argument. They evidently didn know lawyers. If any man supposes that an attorney will lose an opportunity to make a six day's speech, he isn't acquainted with tbe profession.

THE Russisn government gave tbe representatives of tbe press $100 each to pay carriage fare during the festivities attending tbe coronation of the Czar. Such liberality should have secured very favorable reports.

HOBACS HEFFUBI, S prominent Democratic member of tbe last Legislature, and well known throughout the Stste by reason of his record during tbe war, died suddenly at his home in Salem last Sundsy. ________________

THE saloon keepers of Des Moines, who closed their grogeries aud refused to pay a license tee of 91,000, have surrendered, and now fifty-three are paying that sum each.

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THE distribution of the acts of the, last Legislature begun on Monday, and as soon as all the counties acknowledge the receipt of them the new laws will be ,17XTa in force. EG\ PTIAN LAWNS, new,

A SPRING POEM.

Three oarpets huug waving abroad In the breezeAbroad in the breeze as the sun went down And three husbands, with patches ef dirt on their khees,

Whacked wbneksthat were heard for miles up and down. For men must work, and women must clean,' And the enrpets be beaten, no matter now mean,

While the neighbors do the bossing. Three housewives leaned out of their windows raised—

Of their windows raised, where the light streamed in scrobb°'1

And their ears were filled with a horrible din. For the pots will fall, and kettles go bang, And boilers refuse in the attic to Hang,

Throe Judges sat on their benches to judge Three cases that came from a house-clean-ing row The parties asserted they never would budge.

But wanted divorces "right here aud now." So the men went off, and the women went home, And hereafter will do their house-cleaning alone,

While their former partners snicker.

BETTING ON BASE HALL. Chicago News. The gentlemen who have been turning over some honest dollars by lotting the Chicagobasejhall club lose, are now turning over some more honest dollars by letting the Chicago base ball club win. The great American game is a good one to bet on, providing youarein the secrets of tbe men who manage the league.

QUESTIONS

Have you seen our store since repaired Have you seen our stock made to order for this market?

Have you bought your Spring Clothing? Are you posted on spring prices? *, Have you seen Spring Goods marked in plain figures?

Have you ever bought Clothing, Furnishing Grooas or Hats at wholesale prices? JJo you know the difference in price be tween us and the small dealers

Have you thought of the advantages you get in buying of us The affirmative answer to these questions will be of great benefit to you. You*can get them at

OWEN, PIXLEY & CO

508 and 510 Main Street.

OUR BUSINESS

For the months of

MARCH, APRIL and MAY

Of this year, shows the following increase over same months last year: March 34 per cent. April 40 per cent. May (up to the present time) 60 per cent. We attribute this immense increase to the fact that people appreciate

GOOD HONEST GOODS

AT LOW PRICES,

and that they will patronize the house where the best values are to be had. We are stimulated and encour­

by this very marked evidence of growing public favor, to do all we can to merit it We are pleased to have an opportunity to show goods and quote prices. Call and look at our White Goods, our Black Goods, our Silks, our Dress Goods, our Hosiery, our Hamburg, Swim and Irish Print Embroideries, Laces, Ribbons, Gloves, Corsets, and in short look through generally and satisfy yourselves, whether that which we claim is true or not, viz that the lowest prices are found at the

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Low Prices.

VICTORIA LAWNS, 10, 121,15, 20, 25, 30, 35c.

PRINCESS LAWNS,

20, 25, 30, 35, 40c.

SWISSES,

35, 40, 50, 60c.

15, 20, 25, 30, 35c.

White Piques and Marseilles, White and Colored Tarlatanes, Figured and Dotted Swisses, French Nainsooks, Cambrics,

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Nansooks, Linen Lawns, etc.

NEW LACES,

For Trimming White Dresses.

Bear in mind, Urn* Ladies'

Muslin Underwear,

At Low Prices.

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