Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 April 1884 — Page 4

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ITHE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, APRIL 12, 1884

THS results of the elections generally were not such as to justify either party in patting ap a "rooster."

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an effcrt is being made to again

introduce the fashion of wearing masses of false hai,r, but it is meeting with decided opposition from sensible ladies.

A NUMBBR of cities, who have con siderable pride in their "crack" military companies, are asking themselves "Have we a Fourth Regiment among us?"

BARHUH'S new white elephant 'is named Toung Toulong, and the papers are already teeming with jokes about the man who asked his wife why she resembled the white elephant, etc

THE prices on pills, etc., have been very much reduced. This will never be a truly great republic until the poor man is able to stand side by sidt with the rich and purchase all the physic bis system demands.

QUAILS being out of season, the egg gourmand conies to the front. One of them is eating, on a wager, sixty eggs a •day for five consecutive days. Bismark would be justified in keeping this ^og out of Germany.

A YOUNG man in Baltimore made abet that it would be impossible to find a pure white or pure black cat of American breed. An advertisement was put in the papers offering fifty dollars reward, but no such oat could be found.

CKARLKS READE, the noted English novelist died yesterday afternoon. He first became known in the literary cir •cles in 1852, as the author of "Peg Wof flugton." His last novel is "A Perilous Secret," now running as a serial through The Mail.

NEW YORK has seven thousand butchers, bakers and grocers and ten thousand saloons. But what does it matter whether a man has anything to eat, so long as he has plenty to drink Give •ns the luxuries of life and we will do without the necessities.

"LITERARY luncheons"are the proper ''thing. The "collation" is very light and tis followed by solid matter in the shape •of recitations, music, lectures, etc. It is not predicted that they'will be very popular as most people would rather have the "collation" heavy and the entertainment light.

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looking over the lists of the riot victims, one can not but notice that the killed and wounded were nearly all honest laborers, the support of families while the thieves and roughs either escaped entirely or were taken prisoner, to be held a few days and then released.

THE reporter of the Indianapolis Journal makes Henry Ward Beecher converse in a very coarse and undignified manner while he was dining in that city. We cannot tell how much of this is due to the great lecturer and how inuoh to the reporter, but one ot them uertainly needs a copy of "don't."

reprint on the first page from last

Sunday Indianapolis Sentinel an editorial article on "The Opinions of Women," where in a graceful tribute is paid to Jilrs. Ida A. Harper. Coming from the !fen of the gifted and brilliant Col.

Maynard, it is a high compliment to Mra. Hm whose writings for The Mail extend over a poriod of eleven years.

PROFESSIONAL "window dressers" In New York city make from |25 to f80 a week by arranging goods in show windows. Merchants say the goods sell one hundred per ceut. better when attractively displayed. It is stated that only men are employed, as women have not sufficient artistic taste. This is obviously incorrect and we may expect soon to see women take the lead in this business.

WITHIN the past few weeks Mr. TilAden's general health has improved in the most wonderful manner. With the exception of a slight feebleness in the vocal organs the sage of Greys tone may be said to be as vigorous aa ever he was in his life. But he has no notion of being a candidate,--"not for Joseph." He prefers the ease and luxury of his splendid library to the toil and turmoil of pnblic Ufa—that Is just now.

ATTORNEY T. C. CAXPBKU^ who bas lately gained an unenviable notoriety at Cincinnati, has demanded of the judge a full investigation of the Berner trial which led to the riot. He claims that the judge selected every one of the two hundred and seventy-five jurymen and the entire trial was conducted in a fair and proper manner. Mr. Campbell has received an immense amount of advertising and will no doubt be overwhelmed with business in the future.

ILLINOIS has a valuable law known as the Habitual Burglar's Act. On the third conviction the burglar is sentenced for twenty yean and the Governor cannot interfere. If there were more cases In which the tiowroor could not intertern, tbesv would not be such diMstls faction among the people when a criminal Is given a v*ry long or life sentence ,but now they feel thats pardon may be granted at any time, the prisooar escape punishment and be again turned loose upon the community.

THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTLES. Much interest is felt just now among religious people and others in the celebrated manuscript discovered recently in an ancient library in Constantinople, and which is entitled "The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles." There appears to be little room for doubt as to the genuineness of the document, which is believed to have been written in the early part of the second century of the Christian era, or not long after the death ol some of the Apostles. Its authorship is unknown, but it appears to have been composed by some person well versed in the doctrines taught by the Apostles and professes to set forth their teachings in an authoritative manner. There is not in the document much that is positively new, many of the statements being similar or identical with those of the Sermon on the Mount. It is not in any sanse contradictory of the doctrines of the New Testament, but is fuller in some particulars, especially in certain forms of church practice.

For instance, touching baptism, the form' given is essentially the same as that stated in the New Testament, but with the addition that the ceremony is to be performed "in running water," with this proviso: "But if thou hast not running water, baptize in other water and if .thou cans't not in cold, then in warm. But if thou hast neither, pour water upon the head thrice, into the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit." From which it would seem that the Apostles permitted a good deal of latitude in mere matter of form and ceremony.

In regard to alms-giving the teaching is the same as the Sermon on the Mount, closing with these words: "But it bath also been said concerning this matter: Let thine alms sweat in thy hands, until thou knowest to whom thou shouldst give." That is to say, our charities are to be wisely and intelligently administered and not wholly by impulse and at random.

The document, which has been carefully translated from the original Greek, in which it was written, by eminent scholars, will furnish interesting and pleasant reading for all persons concerned with religious matters, and supplies an important chapter in church history. Possibly other original manuscript may yet be discovered, hidden away in those ancient libraries for safe keeping, which will throw much additional light on the Scriptures.

THERE are Indications that the presure of popular sentiment for a reform in the judicial methods of dealing with criminals with bear quick fruit. The terrible exhibition at Cincinnati has focused the attention of the entire country upon this important subject and the discussions which have taken place have produoed, and are producing in the public mind are overwhelming sentiment in favor of a more stern and inflexible enforcement of the laws. The udges of the Superior Court of Mario County, Indiana, at a late meeting of the full bench, determined that hereafter the law which excludes from service on juries persons who have served sn any jury within a year, shall be rigidly enforced. The effect of this will be to get rid of the professional jurors, who area great obstruction to the administration of justice, particularly in the larger cities, and to compel business men to serve upon juries. They also agreed that they would not excuse any man from jury service except for the most urgent cause. This vigorous practice, if carried into effect, will go far towards securing a better administration of the laws. The same policy ought to be pursued everywhere in the State. The law has bedn on the statute book for several years but has failed of accomplishing the objects intended by its enactors, dimply because it has not been enforced. This shows that it is not so much more laws that we need as the vigorous enforcement of the laws we have.

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to date the preseut Congress has been about as worthless a one as the country has seen for a long time. It has been in session four months and the net results have been the passage of the whisky bill, the bill restoring Fits John Porter to his place in the army, and trae appropriation bill. There area number of important measures before Congress, suoh as the tariff bill, the bankrupt bill, bills relating to the admission of several of the Territories as States and to the restoration of millions of seres of public lands, but scarcely sny progress has been made towards perfecting these important measures. The time has been spent mainly in trying to make political capital for the coming National campaign, and it is but fair to say that very little even of that has been made up to the present writing. If the politicians st the capital only knew It, the best way to score a point in the coming contest would be to put through, in a business like way, such legislation ss the country really needs and then adjourn promptly. But instead of this being done the present indications point to along and us profitable session.

SINCE the riot In Cincinnati they have discontinued ringing the engine house tower bells in case of a Ate, depending simply upon the electric alarms and telephone. The Enquirer ssks that this may become a permanent custom, in onier to keep away the crowd and more especially the thieves. This argument will apply to all cities. There is no advantage in sounding a public alarm. The crowds that gather are no assistance, tbeyars a positive bhidnmety the looddangingof tbebellslsareHcof the past and is no longer necessary.

It seems then that these small things are worth doing, and that they are worth doing well. The Divine Word says so and the greatest of men says so* We are here for a purpose or we would not be here at all. We are here to do the things which lie nearest us, and to do them the beet that we c*n. It does not perhaps make a great deal of difference what one does, but it makes a great deal of difference how he does it. The humblest work may be dignified by the sincerity and faithfulness of the worker, just as the noblest may be disgraced and degraded by a slip-shod execution of it. If we could suppose, for example, that all the women who perform domestic labor in families were careful, saving, tidy, contented and really competent, how vastly the happiness of many households would be increased! It would be the next thing to "Paradise regained," as the present state of modern house-keeping is certainly "Paradise lost," yet in spite of its apparent impossibility, this is not an extravagant supposition. It might easily be it ought to be and it would be, if each individual person did the simple duties of her station to the best of her ability. And this is only one out of many illustrations. How much humanity suffers from shiftless, careless, Indifferent work! The world is full of shirks, quacks and cheats. The honest conscientious workers are in the minority. Men work too much for wages: too little for the satisfaction of knowing that they have done their work the very best that they could. There is a pleasure of driving a nail into something solid, where it means to stay. Many a man takes money which he feels In his heart that be has not honestly earned. He is not the man of character that he is who feels more pleasure In the thought of having done good work than in the money which it brings him. May it not be true, as Emerson says, that if we weave a yard of tape as well as we can we shall sometime see that the threads we braided were Time and Nature

DR. TALXAOK is about to begin anew series of special sermons on tte great questions of the day, among which are the following:

Should divorce be made more easy Are the tbeaten of America Improving very rapidly In high moral tone? Can the unpardonable alh be committed la our time? la modern Sptrttoallsm a revelation or a swindle? Shall monopoly* role every thing? Is life worth living? Is death a good thing? Why does OkJd let Satan and «fn continoe, when with one blow he eoaid annihilate them? How shall we meet this immensity of foreign population? Are the dead aware of the tenon done tbem and the garlands pot on their graves

These are sensational topics and will loss none of their startling featoresat the of Dr. Talmage, but it cannot be denied that they are of vital importance to the interastsof the public.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

WEAVING SHOE-STRINGS. Hiere are times when one grows tired of the monotonous grind of the eom-mon-plsoe duties of life and longs for something greater and finer to do. Emerson voices the sentiment when he says: "We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition, low debts, shoe bills, broken glass to pay for, pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal. 'Set me some great task,ye gods! and I will show my spiri t.' 'Not so,' says the good Heaven, 'plod and plough, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoe-string great affairs and the best wine by and by.' Well, 'tis all phantasm and if we weave a yard of tape in all humility, and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all, but some galaxy which we braided, and that the threads were Time and Nature."

This is a poet's view of the situation The case is idealized somewhat by the imagination. Charles Eingsley expresses it more simply, thus: "You will feel more and more that the world is going God's way and not yours, or mine, or any other man's and if you have been allowed to do good work on earth, that work is probably as different from what you fancy it as the tree is from the seed whence it springs. And with this growing sense of the pettiness of human struggles will grow on you a respect for simple labors, a thankfulness for simple pleasures, a sympathy for simple people."

Another poet says: "A man'6 best things lie nearest Mm, Are close about his feet." There is no doubt but all these views are true. It is inspiring to look at the sun and the moon and the stars,and try to conceive the infinity of space, the vastness of the universe and the beginning and the end ot all created things. But this is not very profitable work, when carried to extremes. The little span of human life shows up but poorly against the million or so of years which marked but a single stage of the earth's formation. Forty or sixty years, that is all. It seems quite insignificant. There are stars which go at the rate of 200 miles in a second and have been keeping it up for some millions' of years! Set a single human life and it achievements against that. Is this little bit of a beginning really worth anything at all? What does it amount to? Why did not "the good Heaven" give us a thousand years at least, as the patriarchs had, so that we might have accomplished something Well, the sufficient answer is that "the good Heaven" didn't do it. That ought to be enough. It is our business to make the best of things as we find them. Butterflies and flowers are very perishable things but they are pretty while thpy last. At present our business is to vamp old coats and weave shoe-strings and td do it the best that we can. "Great affairs and the best wine by and by or, as the bible puts it "Thou hast been faithful in a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things."

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THE DANGEROUS ELEMENT. The alleged "good citizen" is catching it now—he of the slippered feet, an excessive fondness for borne and an unpraiseworthy apathy in matters political. He is getting it roundly from all sides and he deserves it. Hitherto it has been supposed that the bruisers and bummers, the pot house politicians and the self-serving demagogues, were the dangerous elements in the body politic, but this has been found not to be the case. It has now been discovered that "citizens who forget to vote, rich men at the club and never at the primary, the great mass of educated, intelligent, enlightened, comfort-loving, profit-mak-ing men," constitute the real mob and the dangerous classes.

This may seem like "a hard saying," but it cannot well be denied that there is truth in it. The proofris simple. The rowdy's vote counts for just as much as the doctor's or the minister's, and when the latter abstain from voting they do all they can to put the government into the hands of the rowdies. The latter are always on hand. They are reliable voters. If there is anything they glory in it is voting. Elections never come too often for them. They would like to have one about once a month if they could be accomodated. Eut the elections are quite too numerous for "the good citizen." He doesn't like to be bothered about such matters. He can't very well spare the time it takes to find out for whom he ought to vote, and especially to help do the preliminary work of an election. He thinks it is asking enough of him to go and vote on election day without being expected to attend primaries and waste valuable time in such disagreeable business. And then, of course, if the men nominated do not suit him he thinks he bas aright not to vote for them and lets the election go by default So "the good c'tlzens" stay away and the bummers go and vote and the result is what might be expected offices of trust and power are sought after and obtained by unworthy men, and by the ruse of corrupt means there is waste and extravagance in the public expenditures, and there are "rings within rings," whose business it is to enrich the few at tbe expense of the many. Tbe good citizen contemplates these things, when tbe enterprising newspaper of opposite politics exposes tbem, and becomes more than ever disgusted with polil'cs find disinclined to have anything to do with them.

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The simple truth is he blames the wrong parties. Th* fault really lies at his own door and at the doors of those like him. Having turned the business of government over to the professional politicians and ward wire-pullers, he ought not to be surprised at the result. The crop-is the legitimate fruit of his own planting. The fathers who founded the republic did so in the faith that the wisdom and patriotism of an intelligent people would preserve it. But they never for a moment supposed that tbe duty of carrying on the government was to be delegated to the worst elements of society. If they had been cal'ed on to confront such a problem, it 5s safe to say that they would have glTOa up the idea of popular government in despair. Yet such is the practical tendency of this increasing disposition ot late years on the part of many of the best cii-i/ens to neglect their pollcical duties. It is all wrong and tbe press of the country does ^well to call frequent attention to the subjeot. The New York Sun truthfully says: "No State can prosper so long as any considerable body of its cilizers nerleci the'r public duties. Let every qual 'fled elector attend the caucuses aud pi mary meet' pg* of bis party, vole at all elections, and doxy erform bis part in tlie adtn.'oisiraUon of j»i3tice by serving as a Juryman, and we shall nav& less frequent oceaaions for tbe po'iUcal reform movements which have been so common of late years."

INDIANAPOLIS Republicans are getting to be tolerably independent* When the nominations for local offices do not suit them they manifest their disapproval by staying away from the polls, knowing from past experience that alight Republican vote means the election of the Democratic ticket. Their justification of this conduct is that tbe primaries are "set up" by a coterie of wire pullers, who parcel out the offices among themselves and their friends at will, and the voters at tbe primaries are helpless to resist. In this condition of affairs they have adopted the rule of not voting for the ring candidate when be is not a good man, thus accomplishing at^ihe polls what they are unable to effect at the primaries, and teaching tbe "bosses" that they are not to be fooled with. The strict party men do not like this kind of political management -and complain loudly of it, but to tbe unbiased citizen it looks like a very good method of reforming abuses within the party organizations. Some of this same kind, of party independence would do good in other places than Indianapolis.

MMIT TWAIN has a perfect horror of autograph fiends, and a number oi nia friends, including Mr. Beecher, formed a conspiracy to play an April Fool joke on him. On tbe morning of April 1st, the postman brought him between three and four hundred tetters asking for his autograph. When he had read a third of tbem he was raving mad, but by tbe time tbe first half was finished the joke began to dawn and he acknowledged himself "sold."

THE many newspapers which are at* tributing tbe Cincinnati outbreak to tbe members of tbe legal profession, should distinction between the respectable lawyers who take criminal business in connection with the rest of their practice, and the disreptuable fellows who hang around the jails and police courts and make a living off of the criminals. This is a vast difference.

SA TINGS AND DOINGS.

In Montana the law prohibits a woman from marrying until she Is 18 years old, and a man canaot marry until he is 21.

In China a son is oblige to divorce his wife if she displeases bis parents. Mother-in-law means something in China.

A Georgia woman the other day committed suicide in a singular and horrible way. She filled a large pot with water, put it on the

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and when it boiled

plunged her head into it, and was discovered dead in that condition. It will not be necessary, this season, to borrow your neighbor's children in order to add an air of virtuous respectability to your circus-going. Intensely proper people will get up circus parties, just like the theater parties which have been so fashionable during the winter— at least, this is what they are doing in New York. ____________________

THE Chicago News says the methodlst church at Pendletofr, Ind., is dreadful'y torn up over the persistence of apart of the members in using fiddles in leading the church music. Evangelists have long ago given over their opposition to organs, melodeons, and cornets, but when it comes to desecrating tbe house of God by drawing the hairs from the tail of a dead horse across the intestines of a night-blooming cat, it is a beastly performance anyway, the sanctification of which is more than doubtful. He the brethren draw the line.

Lost.

LOST—OVERCOAT—LastrewardBunter's

Saturday night

between this city and Lockport, on ihe Lockport road. A liberal wl). be given for its return to Fouts A livery stable.

OST—$25.00 REWARD—Lady's gold I watoh, (name engraved on oase) between corner of Seventh and Mulberry streets, and Richardson & Vanvalzah's dental rooms. Finder will leave it at the National State bank and receive the above reward.

Wanted.

WASTED.—Horses

F°w.

and Cattle to pasture.

Plenty of grass, water and salt. Apply to JOS. GILBERT, Fruit. Ridge Avenue, 1% miles east of city. 42-31

WANTED—A

SITUATION in a small

town or village, as CUTTER In a tailoring shop. Has had ten years expe: lence in the trade, and gives perfect satisfaction.

Address C. F. this office.

For Sale.

Fage,MOORE,

IR SALE—A substantial fam»'y CarriWith two seats, and tongue and shafts. A ba'-gaJn for somebody. Ca'l on DR. W. 646 Eaje Sireet.

SALE-SECOND HAND SPRING WAGON w'llgivea ba-',ain. iOS. STRING.

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SAtE-CHfiAP SQUARE PIANO a good condition. 552 Soulh Fifth Street.

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SALE—Plymouth Rock, Golden Hamburg and Leghorn Fowls and Eg&s aleo Bees and Honey.

ractSALE—In

T. HULMAN SEN. North of the CJty.

Lewis county, Tenn., 1700

es of heavily timber land, for $1.00 per acre, within three miles of the Nashville and Tuscaloosa Ry. Addiess J. B. GROVER.

Office of Terre Haute Stone Works Co.

To Loan.

MONET

TO LOAN-HOME CAPITAL-

In sums from $900 to $3,000 and upwards on Real Estate mortgage, farms or city property on reasonable term*.

I. H. C. ROYSE,

Loan Broker, 60% Main, Terre Haute, Ind.

MONEYtime.LOAN—collateral

TO at lowest rates on

long Good required, Call on or address EDWARD BARTON, 824 Main street.

Amusements. PERA HOUSE.

'ONE NIGHT ONLY.

Monday, April 14th., 1884. An Evening of Popular Song,

BY THE

Assisted by the

Apollo Orchestra.

Prices—60, 85 and 25cta. No exf ra charpe for reserved seats. The sale of seats wilt begin Friday morn-rig ftt Jl, at Button's book sio~e.

THE KINK

GBEAT ATTRACTIONS.

Saturday Eve

April

12th.

The best MMtout lady skateis' prize and other tiovelile*.

THE APOLLO BAND

Ajrn

OECHB8TEA

Respectfully call attention to tbe announcement that they are fuUy prepared tofurnton music for

Balls, Parties, Parades, Funerals, !Serenade8,Political Meetings, Pleasure Excursions,

Picnics, &c.f

Or any occasion upon which the services of a band or orchestra may be required. Terms, liberal, for which apply to George B«rt (l«*der) at band office,«, w.cor. 4th and Main st*over Myem clothing store, front room, 3d floor, or to Thoa. McKennan, at his pia* of badness, Ohio st. bet. 3d and 4th one door west of Shannon** Bank.

Military Band folly, Uniformed and Eqnlpp«d. Entire satisfaction guaranteed on all contracts.

Hat and Bonnet Bleachery.

LADIES'AND GENTS HATS of ktodj cleansed. Dyed

andbe*b»ped»a

styles

tte Jawwt

to look aa well aa new, on snort °AJso Plaster Hat and Eonnet Blocks for ""Millinersnew and old work solieted,

JOLTOJt CATT. Prop.

south Third street, Terre Haute Ind,

For Ladies, Gentlemen, Misses, Boys and Children. Large and varied assortment and wonderful bargains. i,

374 dozen, 4,488 Handkerchiefs just received., comprising Plain, White, Fancy Bordered, Embroidered and printed at

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5c, 8c, 10c, 12«c, 15e, 20c and 25 ctsl

Up to the Finest Cambrics, Ladies see our plain H. S. at 12$ cents, worth 20c. Our all linen, large size, printed border at 10c worth 15 cents. "J

Our fine Cambric Hem Stitched £, 1 and 2 inch hem, at 15c, 20c, 25c,'30c and 35c. [The best value ever offered in this market

Gentlemen can save moneybuying their Handkerchiefs from ns. Our plain and fancy bordered at 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c are from 10 to 20 per cent, better than the sam® haaadkerohiefs elsewhere at these prices.

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H0BERG, BOOT & CO.,:

Easter. Eggs!

Pie Plant, Lettuce, RadisheC. pp Spinach

to** 5'/

i)

And everythlag good for

Easter Dinner1

—AT— "V

W. W. OLIVER'S

631 Main Street

The Greatest Comfort

Can be secured by the nse of a

GASOLINE STOVE.

•"GET THE BEST!

EOLD BY

JAS. T\MOORE.

It h«s a new arrangement for starting th# fire. Clean and Neat These stoves are "^SAVING OP FUEL AND LABOR.

A Line of the Prettiest and Best

LADIES' SATCHELS

POB SALE A

GULICK & CO.,i Druggists,

POCKET BOOKS, TOILET GOODS. BRUSHES, CHAMOIS, ETC., ETC

Special Attention to Prescription*,

OLD DRUG STAND,

Corner Main and Fourth Streets.

1668. 51884

TSJI&I&IEJ HAUTE

ICE:

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Notwithstanding the high Hver and BO harvest at Terre Haute we will as have a fall supply for all demands both le cat and foreign. Wew^l sell the

Best Lake Ice

Solid and pore. Orders given to drivers left at the office, promptly atteudtd to.

L. F. PERDUE,

proprietor and Manager,

No. 26 north 6th Street.