Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 December 1883 — Page 4

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, DEC. 1, 1888

TH» National Debating 8ociety—Congress—convenes on Monday.

A MAN in Callensburg, Pa., has bad bis picture taken and placarded, "J. C. K. Father of 84 children." Send it to the Roga.'.O.ll.'y.

A WATBRBUBY, Conn., man licked hi® wife because sbe bad only gM babies. It is now her turn to lick tbe old man because she has any babies at all.

MOB« than 18,000 homesteads were entered in Florida last year. Where's the police? Why don't they catch tbe burglars

MBS. LASOTKT is filling an engagement in Louisville this week. The play is the School for Scandal and she plays it to the ve»y life, both on and off the stage.

MR. BLAIWB'S daughter has a son. Col. Coppinger is its father, but that is a Mere accident, and the baby will only be known to the world as Mr. Blaine's grandson. ___________

HKNRY WARD BRBOHER is quoted as saying, "I advise very young men to follow in my footsteps." No doubt the young men would enjoy it, but their parents might object.

Youwa ladies are busy making slippers for the minister, aud about Christmas be will wish be were a centipede that he might wear them all at once and make no invidious distinctions.

THE Salvationists are having such a rough and tumble time saving souls among the Canucks, that tbe Canadian police commissioners have sworn in nine Salvation At my constables.

KITTEN'S heads adorn tbe fashionable hat. Now may the young lady, as she reclines upen her lover's Bbouider, verify the old saying, "she leans up against him like a sick kitten to a warm brick."

THE ohrysantheasuu? is just now the rage for corsage bouquets and, as it is a very cheap flower, the florists are in despair. Tney will have to make up for it in their charges for weddings aud fuuerals.

POINTBD shoes are on tbe decline but the corn crop was never so abundant. Hence the uecline of the toothpick shoes. Broad toes will be the style this winter aud tbe corn doctor's business will decline.

NOTWITHSTANDING all the stars and prima donuas that are sbeddiag an electric light over New York City, the only house whloh is making any money is Nibio's Garden, with a spectacular piece and a ballet.

FRANK James can reflect at leisure oh the ingratitude of republics. The idol of an hour, he now alls in poverty and distress within his prison cell while tbe flokle and morbid pubiio are making a lien of Sergeant Mason.

CHICAGO margins are said to have taken more than $200,000 out of Parke countysiscetbe first of January. A number of men mortgaged their property to raise the necessary funds and lost all they had. The more fools they.

AN elegant new elub has been opened in Chicago called the "Indiana." Tbe novel feature or it is that the gender »ex will be admitted. Ibis is awfully nice for the ladies, but it is hard to see where tho men are going to have any fun.

ALL the newspapers are eiclaimlng in tragic tones, "Mnrmonism must go!" and it seems.tobe going very rapidly, all over the couutry, and the farther it goes the stronger iu gsis. Where next wHl the newspapers be pleased to have it go?

TIIK New York Independent makes a good point in demanding a law to compel chitons to vote or forfeit the right of suffrage. The writer argues that society hat as touch right to demand this of a man as to demand his service on juries. There is good sense in the sugges- 'on.

GKISKINGKR, who sang here last winter in Boccaccio, is said to be nearly sixty years old and, in private life, a graodaiothe.lv, domes ic German woman. We will have to see the papers for for this. Stage make-up wUt do a great deal but It will not trHU.vortn a godmother into as young and pretty a woman as Ueistio{ »r.

THE last report of tbe health officer at Washington City proves the Capitol to be among the healthiest of cities. Oy members of Congress and other publ'c o«cens who come borne broken down, played out and used up generally at fall back upon the comprehensive word "Malaria.*' It won't do. Wine, women, cards and general dissipation will better express it.

I? appears that there is one thing at toast that women ^a't do, a »d that la i-} play W TV *!. *f?i- uaie base hall & combinat St tifflrts 1',»Md the had to a? hr 'to the 1,. M*yor them ratine 1 p«j—s io ,g®t tuck t« I .r miea la Fir .M- ph'a.

Perhaps il- tr itm mm that she dab was naadr r* -H *««*«. Ith "yet to be dc u«trated tb.»? *es a girls could not succeed as base ball players.

SERGEANT Mason will open a cigar store. That's too small a business for a celebrated man. Why don't he start a saloon? Sullivan is going to sell his and ran for Congress. Here's a bargain. Somebody ought to tell be Sergeant.

THE giantess, who was married at Pittsburgh a few days ago, requires seventy-five yards of s5,k for a dress, and yet there are husbands all over the country who compla'n because their wives ask for twenty yards. Some men never know when they are well off.

THE Inter-Ocean says, a "A Woman's Exchange is to be opened in Washing ton. Wonder what they will exchange?" We do not know, but yon can safely bet they won't exchange good money for bad liquor as men do in those resorts for their sex which are known by the name of "exchange."

DURING the year ending Nov. 22,1888, there were begun 123® divorce suits in Chicago. Of these 729 have already been granted. Can any city in the world beat this record? And who can compute the heart-aches, the wretchedness, tte disgrace and tbe ruin represented by these 1236 applications for divorce?

THE editor of the Peoria Saturday Evening Call is going to give a Baby show, with several hundred dollars worth or premiums. Ho has bad bis hair cut with a lawn mower, bought himself a base ball mask, had his life heavily insured and will give all the prizes by proxy. Still, we think Brother Henderson's days of usefulness are about over

THE Supreme Court of Massachuieits are still discussing the question whether a woman "is a "person." "Until they decide, she will continue to remain Bimply a "thing." j\"

Since writing the above,Hie Court has decided that she is a "person" but not a "citizen." She may serve upon the Board of Trustees of almshouse, lunatic asylum, Jkc., but may not practice law although fully qualified.

THERE are people so superstitious as to refuse to sit at a table where there are thirteen guests. It maj|Hcomfort such to learn that none of the thirteen men who sat down to dinner In New York city on Nov. 13, 1882, to defy superstition, died in tbe year following, and they dined together again on the recent anniversary. In front of each plate burned a black candle, on tbe left hand was a gravestone bearing the wine list, and upon the right hand a colli with tbe dinner list on. This mocking at death is very poor wit.

A BOSTON correspondent says that, in the oldest families of that city, insanity is becoming frightfully prevalent, apparently as the result of several generations of over-culture. He does not say whether Joseph Cook has been attacked. We always thought Boston was overdoing tbeculture business, and now they have a "craze" that even baked beans cannot cure. Of course it is only a question of time till it attacks our western people. Some of our Art and Literary societies already show "symptoms."

THE A. T. Stewart Working Girls' Home Wfts declared a failure. So was a similar one, built in Paris, by Napoleon. The working people would have nothing to do with them. There are two sides to his question. While tbe object of such homes is a good one, yet they are so o'ten under the management of ignorant and tyrannical persons, and the rules and regulations are made so obnoxious, that the working people prefer to go where they can have more independence even though the accommodations are not so good.

CLARA BELLE says ladies swear. The o'd girl seems to know all about the "female sect." Well, they can swear without waiting for an amendment to the Const it ution, giving them the right. Of course it wouldn't

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pretty but it

would make them feel good and that is all tbe excuse a man can give for the bubit. There area number of these lit. tie irregularities that men would get along without it they found they were be'ng general'y adopted by women. A man rather prides himself on beiog bad, but he will make almost any sacrifice to keep tbe women of his family pure and good. 4 "ANOTHER Runaway Girl''Is becoming as stereotyped as the daUy items about rape, wife murder, great fires, shipwreck anticyclones. The gt^l gratifies her love ef adventure, gets some flattering advertisements in tbe papers, becomes an object of great inte est to her family and finds herself tae lioness of tbe season, when she rets ma. The best way to treat snch girls would be as little Bo Peep did her sheep, "Let them alone, and they'll come home." The roruai.ee will soom wear off and tue runaway wiU be glad to return to her parents. But if each of these girls Is to be made a heroine we may expect this amusement to become fashionable, pff

A COMMITTEE of ten old ladle*, among the most respected and reverend of the Quakers at Richmond, Ind., vis ted a variety theater of that place a few nights ago, to find out tor Ibscnse1 vee, what sort of a performance l» was. Toe play did not exactly stop, bat a sort of wet blanket fell upon the.emwd. It is not stated whether they found ibehr own husband* there or not, bat tbey probably went out suddenly to see a man and forgot to take a check at the door. If ladies only had the con-aje® to insist upon going to tbe same enter laluments thst are vMtad by husbands and sons, they covld do much toward breaking them js but it takes all the dignity and saintiiness of a Quaker to do it.

TERRS HAUTE SATURDAY EVETM TNG MAIL

THE LIQUOR QUESTION^ &

We have not seen a batter tempered or better reasoned artisle on the temperance question than one which appeared in a recent issue of the Evansville Journal. After deprecating the evilsof intemperance in language strong enough to satisfy the most pronounced

prohibit­

ionist, the writer points out the unwisdom of trying to pull up an evil by the roots without stopping to reflect how deep its roots may run. Headlong reformers cry for heroic treatment, a treatment which may and often does do more harm than good. Tbe writer continues: "Skillful physicians do not act in this way with respect to bodily maladies. They are in no haste to wholly stop a running sore of long standing. They kuow that to be a false species of therapeutics and they leave its practice to tbe quacks. The written history of man does not go back to tbe time when the evils of intemperance began. The age when men were free from drunkeness is prehistoric. The stream of intoxicating liquor which flows through tbe experience of humanity has it source in an undiscovered country. All we know about them is that they are sources which are not to be dried up by attempting to dam tbe stream below. Their waters can not be kept back thus. A channel had better be cut for tbem, through which they may be conducted as harmlessly as may be to the sea, leaving the stoppage of the sources to the only agencies that can effect it—namely, the spread of intelligence, culture and morality."

It is admitted that the time may come when prohibition will be practicable,but then there will be no necessity for it, for tbe reason that temperance is not a product of law. The history of law demonstrates that tbe race must practically work out its problems before it can codify the results in statutes that will be enforced aud obeyed. rj|||'

If prohibition is not now practicable, what is the next best thing? -There is a strong public sentiment everywhere in favor of rigid regulation and restriction. Even the Germans, liberal as their notions are on temperance, are willing for this. That great good can be wrought by such laws ought scarcely to need argument. Liquor drinking is much less prevalent now than it was fifty or twen-ty-five years ago. The very familiar decanter has vanished from most sideboards, and there is far less drunkenness. Religion, literature, social forces of various kinds have wrought the change, not prohibitory laws. Measuring prohibition with regulation,the writer compares Maine with West Virginia. The population of tbe two states is about the same. Maine, under prohibition, has over 900 saloons, while West Virginia has less than 800. The number (rt saloons increases in Maine at the rate of about 100 a year, while in West Virginia tbe rate of increase is only about 80. It can hardly be supposed that the comparison of a semi-southern with a New England state on this question should be unfair to the latter.

The winter concludes that "a regiv lative and licensing law which can been forced will do more good than aprohibition law which oan not be enforced. A chronic disease is a disagreeable thing, but that .does not alter the fact its existence or the difficulty of its cure. The question with temperance people everywhere should be whether they shsll practically do the best tbey can with it, or only theoretically abrogate it and let the system go unprotected against its ravages. The trouble with the prohibition extremists is that they demand to have everything their own way. They are not willing to make even tbe most unimportant concessions and it is, therefore, not surprising that the almost universal rule is for them to overreach themselves and defeat the very objects they have most at heart."

These ideas are not new, but neither is anything that, is said or written on tne temperance question. It is an old subject and a hackneyed one, but it is tbe most important Subject now before the American people and should be treated with tbe wisdom and caution its

great

inportance entitled it to receive.

COMPTROLLER KNOX, of tho United States treasury, shows in his annual report, that deposits in the savings banks of the country have increase $205,000,0Q0 within three years past. No better indication of the general thrift and proa* perity of the country can exist tban|his, as these figures represent the actual savings of the laboring classes. Large as they are, tbey would without doubt be much larger could there be a satisfactory assurance of tbe safety of these savings Institutions. But there have been so many disastrous failures of these banks recently that people have lost confidence in tbem and are disposed rather to spend their money than take the risks attendant upon depositing it in a savings bank. The government owes it to the working masses of tbe people to establish safe depositories for small sains, either by postal savings banks, or some other satisfactory arrangement, and thus stimulate and encourage these small savings which in tbe «d and aggregate would be found to reach enormous proportions. This is one of the important questions that should engage the attention

of

Con­

gress at the approaching session. It is a matter upon which men of all partiescan heartily assist

THE newspapers are mak'og terrible racket because they have discovered, or think they have, that ladies pad their hips. Well, why not? G*ntlam«n have always padded their shoulders and the exact location of th* pad doesn't make it more or less objer nabte. Bat tbem are some people so fastidious tbey would even discourage tte use of a liver pad.

THE action of the President in pardoning Sergeant Msson, whose crime, it will be remembered, wasin firing an ineffect­! ual shot at Guiteau, will be bearlUy approved by the people. It was technically proper, no doubt, to enforce the law against this soldier who violated bis doty as a soldier by attempting to take into his own hands the punishment o? a redhanded assassin, but it has always seemed rather hard that poor Mason should be compelled.to lie in jail for two years for merely shooting at Guiteau, on the impulse of the moment, while the "respectable" citizens in this and other States who band together to break down jail doors and deliberately takeout and hang prisoners confined therein, should never be either punished or even so much as tried for their crime. But it is true, as a clergyman said in a recent sermon, that our goddess of justice is never so blind but that she can see to count tbe number of wrong-doers, and A hen there are too many of them she promptly leaves the temple of justice. The individual wrong-doer is punished but the mob of law breakers escapes. The trouble in Sergeant Mason's vase was that he "went in alone." If a whole company or regiment had shot at Guiteau, or even shot him, it would probably not have been deemed neces sary to enforee the law against them The law should beenforced but it should be enforced on all occasions—against mobs as well as against individuals. In any event Sergeant Mason has been pun ished enough and we are glad be bas been liberated in time to eat bis Thanks giving dinner with "Betty and tbe babies."

The Indianapolis Sentinel says: There ere a number of youug laoJes iu this city, lilgb-bo-a, favorites, o! e'e^ant appearance, au ornament society and i.»eir homes, who are practically ba" ed \om attending at rbe thea'e or e'sewhere, because .iey are without a fu .ier or brother to uci. as esi.ort. There ae also a number of youug men, p'-ac caPy dwles, me in be."s of lije&wdll olubou Meridian si 'eet, whoseek tne society of Jhese young laues at tneir homes or at coc-c ga.-ieriags, or wherever else it oosJs li ile or notb'o^, but who never votuuiee/ ac'end them on "society n'.jlils" at gatherings where an eroenso would follow. i»iese "dudes" wouldu:t fo-~ tbe world missa"' lara Mor.,js"n:gl)tui the tiieate\ but iosiead of ex-eodiugau invention to some you )g ladv' io accomoaoy jem theypu'Chaseu8iandina-room tickets, 'spend tne early part of he t-venJag wui) oe s, who already to cry wit.i ves? ou because ofthea'-aab. iiy .O go, aoa then s'io RWI..V In time to catch .ie last ac.s of tbe )?tay pud be seen rassiogout with thecrowd wh.oli nas sat ou'itoe entire per ormance.

Can these things? Come over to Terre Hauie, &V Js, and just see bow differently our boys act. Ou "b!gnyh:s" at the theater they wouldn't be so mean as to keep a young lady home all the early part of Ibe evening and miss tbe best of tbe play, themselves. No, indeed, they buy a ie*e ved seat (one) and see the whole performance, and then they go and spend the next evening with their girl.

THIS "week, in Cleveland, the third aeason of the Educational Bureau was most successfully inaugurated. Ibe vast Tabernacle was crowded with five thousand of the working people. General John Eaton delivered an address, tbe s' age was filled wi'th flowers, the band played, tine Btereoptican views were exhibited and books were distributed free among the audience. This week in Ter.e Haute, the new Variety Theater with liquor attachment, was inaugurated. As there is no respectable entertainment furnished for the same amount of money, many of our working people and young men will, no doubt, spend there evenings here. It ?s simply a different way tbe two cities have of providing for the needs of their people. 1 ____________

HKNRY WARD BE«CRER is becoming as sensational as Talmage. Last week be made au aggressive speech on Free Trade, Sunday he entertained Irving and Terry at dinner, walking home a-m-in-arm with tbe much-married actress, and this week be attends a most immoral opera with he scene laid in a sporting bouse and the heroine a prominent member of tbe demi-monde. He say be is too old to have his morals unde-min-ed by any corrupting influences of the theater, and as long as he takes Mrs. Beecher with bim perhaps be won't get picked up by tbe ballet girls, I I

THE boom for one or both of the national political conventions next year at Indianapolis is growing. The Cb'cago papers favor it and tbe citizens of Indianapolis are very ea"nestin tbe matter and agi*ee that-there shell no lack of accommodations, hotel

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otherwise, if

the coovent'ona are he'd toere. The proposition is to build a tempo«-arv wigwam of sufficient capacity to accommodate the pub'ic necessities or such a convention. Try it by all means. Thep*sidentiat ligb'ning would have plenty of home tim be-to play among,and it would be interests in every way.

SOUTHERN Dakota polled a vo eof 25,000 at toe recent e3ec on on be adoption of a constitution, and tbe majority in favor of tbe cons, :on was about 6,500. Tbe erritory composed by toe oposed new State Lies sou.h ot ihe 46th pa aUel that heiog*tbe d'vidiog line be weea tne two S-aies which it is o.roeu to make of tbe Territory. It cia:med that tbe bona fide popo'a-'on of soulh IUtto^a is folly 223,000. The new Stale will now appty for adtniauoo in'o the union and she ooght to be admitted.

TH business men of tbe country a* urging tbe passage by Congress of bankrupt law that will protect creditors alike in aH the states. Tbey argue tbat business interests demand it, as there is no sufficient protection to creditors as laws are now administered. It is quite probable that Congrew will paes such a law at the approaching session.

I MR. BLAINE'S plan for disposing ol the surplus revenue of the government, seems to be a wise one. It is'not to 1 abolish ^'together the tax on spirits, because tbe gene -al government does not need tne revenue so produced, but to authorize (he states individually to convinue the tax for suite purposes. Mr.

Bla'ne points out the fact tbat of all our taxes the state tax is the heaviest upon the people, fal'!ng with direct and crushing force upon property. In few states it is less than ooe percent., and in most it is over two. The tax on spirituous ):quoi3 is a just one and is little felt. "Can it be wise,'' he asks, "te continue a direct tax on property and at the same timesliow a burttul luxury 1'ke spirits to go free?" Certainly not. The sates shou'd manifestly be given the power io collect the tax on spirits for tbe'r own use. This tax would amount annually to more than (3,000.000 for the stale of New York, over $7,000,000 for Pennsylvania and over $5,000.000each for Illinois and Ohio. The'amount that would be received by Ind'ana is not stated, but on tbe basi&of population, it would not be less tbat $4,000,000, enough in ooe year to build two state houses. Such an income would come rear to doing away ent-rely with the necessity of levying a state tax and would afford a most gateful relief to the burdened tax-payer.

George Washington, tbe first president of the United States, never saw a steamboat. John Adams, the second p-es'dent of the United States, never saw a rail-oad. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, knew nothing about telegraph. Abrabam Lincoln, the sixteenth president, never dreamed of such a tning as the i^'epaone. "ij

I Purpose this year to surpass all previous displays in Holiday goods, and that my intentions have been put into practice, convince yourself by an examination of my stock.

THEO. STAHL, 622 Main street. The bankrupt stock of Alexander & Brown is fast closing out. Uyham Bros.' shoes for $1.00 to $1.50 less than former pricesJ^513 Main st. Note the place.

Just received. A fine line of Chamber Sets, very cheap at THEO. STAHL'S 622 Main Street.4*

Adams, the Photographer is fully prepared for a large Holiday business. His styles are beautiful, and stock of frames complete. Call early.

Let Down Gradually

After the Big Thanksgiving Feast Don't Come Down -v to Plain Diet too r* •rr'fc'U.* fwsSoon.

Pork Tenderloin," I Spare Ribs, Sousage, Pressed Turkeys,

Dressed Chickens, Dressed Rabbits, Dressed Ducks, Quails,

Wild Ducks, and Squirrels.

Amusements.

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HOUSE.

TKRKE HAUTE'8 LAUGHIXO NIGHT,

Saturday, December 1st.

THE

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THE FAMOUS COMEDAINS. Louis Harrf*oa

IIOBERG, B\ROOT,v*mm

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Main Street,

Low Prices

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Silfcs, Dress Goods, '•1 Qloaks,

Shawls, .' Blankets.

See our White Wool Blankets at 1.48 and 1.90. Splendid Value.

Look at our Black Gros Grain Dress Silk at 85c.

Ask for our 25c Dress Goods in all shades.

See our 'Century' Cashmeres in Colors at 50, 62 1-2 & 75c.

Professional Cards. R. GLOVER,

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IGorner of Eighth und Poplar Streets.

CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED. ST TELE PHON K.

JQR. W. C. EICHELBERGER,

Ocnlist Anrlsi

Room 18,8avlags Bank Building.

Office hours,

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As the Sudden Change May Prove a Shock to the System but go to P. J. H"

Kaufman's and Get tj

W. BALLEW,

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Presenting here tor the Hot time the Cometog il He usatkm of tbe Century,

SKIPPED!

By the Light of the Moon.

eating a genuine furore in all the principal citten universally acknowledged to be the fnnmcatt play yet produced.

I'AKTIES,

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PIANO or ORGAN

tBhoakl not fall to call at

KUSSNEE'8

Palace of Music.

I i-ive the besTstocit kept in this city with advantage*, beside* unpo*ieHK*) Dy any other itrm in alike bosanessln the city.

A cat' and comparison will easily eooTtnce PIanas and Organ* Foi Cent and sold on easy monthly payments.

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43S*J4 Main Street, over S**«» old eonfMtlonfiry TEBKKHAUTO, IND Oan be round tn office night and day

O. LINCOLN, DE2IT1 Office, 19% Sixth, opposite P. O. (extracting and artificial teetb specialties. AM work warranted. fd*w-tft

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ARTISTS' SUPPLIES,

PICTURES, FRAMr-S, MOULDING?.

Picture Fnunea

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Hafc«,

Bonnets,

to Ordu.

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Being Compelled to Move

To another store January 1st, on account of J. RoUwchi A Co. going out of btuiness I offer my entire stock ol

Millinery Goods

Flowers, Ribbons,

Feathers, Birds, Etc.

AT ACTUAL COST.

R. A. HASTINGS,

With J. Rothschild dc Co.,

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2 422 Main Street.

Now is the Time

BEFORE COLD WEATHER

TO OCT YOCK

Kurriaces

JAMES T. MOORE'S, 4 657 Main Street. [f Particular attention given to

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FURNACE REPAIRS

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By competent workman.