Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 February 1885 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

4^ PUBUCATIOH EMO, •ZftXos. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 28 1886

MINNESOTA has fallen Into the line of high license States. The Legislature has enacted a law making the license for retailing liquor |500. Indiana is missing ber opportunity In allowing the present session to expire without pass Jng a high license law.

SOUTH BEND has formed a "Citizens' Protective Club," which numbers nearly all the men in the place. The organization is the outgrowth of the recent labor riot and its purpose is to protect property and life from similar demonstrations hereafter.

THERE are Indications that the backbone of this dreadful winter has been broken at last. The present month has been one of ice, snow and cold from beginning to end and with the coming of Match we have a right to expect some sansbine and fair weather.

UNDER the new legislative apportionment bill passed by thd House it is estimated that the Republicans will have to carry the State by about 30.000 majority in order to control the legislature. The bill is a thoroughly vicious one, and it is to be hoped (hat it will not be able to get through the Senate, though the chances are that it will.

THE steady growth and prosperity of the Indianapolis Evening News is shown bv the fact thut it has purchased a large fcullock press, capable of printing twenty thousand papers per hour. The paper will be printed from stereotype plates. The new press has been completed and is now on its way to Iudianapolis. The News is a vigorous, healthy toned paper which deserves all the prosperity it has attained.

Two years ago a Democratic Legislature took from a Republican governor the right to appoint the trustees of the benevolent Institutions. Since then the the most disgraceful developments have come to light concerning the man agement of the Knigbtsiown institution and a Democratic Leuislature has before it a bill to restore the power of anpointment to the governor who is now a Democrat. Does such a record need any comment? _____________

IT is announced that Lieutenant Governor Manson is likely to be appointed pension agent for this State. A better selection could not be made. Gen. Manson is a veteran of two wars, the Mexican and there belliion, and is a thoroughly honest, and excellent man. As Presdent of the Senate he has won the esteem of Republicans and Democrats alike by hia fair rulings. He is getting old and is comparatively poor. The pension office would be precisely suited to him and there Is probably no Democrat lu the State who is more drserving of the office.

GREKNCASTLE, LaPorte and several other of the smaller towns in the Stato, are holding out Inducements to secure the Oliver chilled plow works. They will hardly sucoeed for the reasou that the Olivers want to go to a larg«r place than South Bend, not a smaller one in order to have a wider field of labor to draw from. In any small place their workmen so outnumbered all the rest of the laboring population as to put them at great disadvantage in case of a strike. This objection would not apply to Terre Haute and there is no reason why this* city should not offer extraordinary inducements for the location of such an establishment.

THK conviction of Mackinand his two associates in the election frauds in Chicago, after along trial and an elaborate defense by able counsel, is one of the encouraging signs of the times. These men were guilty of a deliberate fraud upon the voters of Chioago, one of the most brazen attempts of the kind that this country has ever witnessed. Their detection and punishment will have a deterring lufluenoe upon others of their stripe and will at the same time inspire anew respect for the courts and officers of the law who have thus demonstrated their ability so uncover such scoundrelism and mete out to it a just reward. Let the work so well begun in Chicago go on until the heavy hand of the ktw shall be laid upon similar offenders in tn every part of the country,

THE Moody convention at Indianapolis the first half of this week was a great demonstration. There were three meetings each day, and at all of them the large church In which thwy were held was packed to its utmost capacity, the ni«ht meetings being attended exclusively by men. The secret of Mr. Moody's power is said to be his earnestnet*, simplicity and directness. He attempts no oratorical flights or embellishment. He talks in a simple, straightforward business manner. He uses plain, common words which render his preaching so vivid that the most unlettered persons ran understand every Idea presented. His methods are totally devoid of the clap trap devices to which ao many revivalists resort. He does not appeal especially to the feelings of his audience, but rather to their reason and judgment, and at the doss of his direct

and earnest talk he simply invites those who find themselves interested to«meet bim in another room where be can come into more immediate contact with them. His preaching was a revelation to the many ministers who had gathered from surrounding towns to hear him, and one of the best results of the meetings will probably be theinsplration of these men to greater earnestness in tneir work, and their resorting to a simpler and more practical form of preaching. If they can take sonSe of the Moody leaven and set it to work in several churches and communities they will add greatly to the effectiveness of their ministerial labors.

IT is plain now that the present Legislature will do nothing in the direction of increasing the present liquor license. All measures looking to such an increase have been summarily squelched. Although the State treasury is empty, a temporary loan of 9600 000 is necessary, and an increase in the rate of taxation unavoidable, the State solons persistently refuse to strike the liquor interest which might be made a gushing fountain to supply all financial needs. With such a record the nest campaign may well have for one of its main issues the high license question.

THE

passage of the bill forfeiting the

Texas Pacific land grant will restore some fifteen millioc acres of public land to the people. It is a wise and just messure and should,

aDd

probably will

be, followed by others *n tbesamedirection. Some of theee vast land grants are now beyond recall and where the railroads have honestly carried out the requirements of tbe laws creating them, no one would wixh to nee them stripped of any part of their possessions. But where, as in the case of the Texas Pacific, the effort was simply to transfer to a company of speculators an area equal to an ordinary sized State, there is no reason wby the laud should not be restored to tbe public and be opened up to settlement. Hereafter tbe public domain will not be given away in the lavish manner of former times. With three trans-continental railroads in operation the immense territory beyond the Mississippi and Missouri can be developed without the subsidizing of any more railroads.

COMMENTING on the proposed law compelling ttie teaching of tbe effects of alcohol in the public schools the Milwaukee Sentinel observes that what children need to be taught is strength of character to resist temptation and purity to shriuk from immorality of every kind, rather than special instruction in the effects of alcohol. It must be admitted that there is much force in thip. It is not usually from lack of knowledge of the baneful effects of liquor that makes men drunkards. There is uo boy or girl who does not have ample information on that subject. As tbe Sentine^ well says: ''No man will believe that his moderate use of liquors will ever become immoderate. No araobnt of instruction in the effects of tbe excessive use of liquor upon the body and mind will iufluence him,"*for he will not make a personal application of it." It is the lack of self-reliance and vigor of character which makes men drunkards, as it makes tbem other things that are if possible worse. In a world that is full of temptations to evil it is impossible to shield boys and girls from them. Sooner or later they will meet them, and the very best preparation that can be given tbem Is a virtue and strength of character that will enable them to resist ^11 solicitations from the path of purity and right.

EVENINGS AT JTOM. Evangelist Moo^Jy Is a thorough believer iu home influences and in making the home attractive to the children. During one of his discourses at the Indianapolis meeting he referred to tbe sase of a mother who had brought ber son a thousand miles in the hope that he might do him some good. Mr. Moody visited tbe home which was one of singular beauty, but the sons were very wild. Upon inquiry be found that the father spent his Monday evenings in the city council, Tuesday eveniugs at prayer meeting, Wednesday evenings at lodge, Thursday evenings at receptions, Friday nights at church, Saturday nights at home, but locked up studying the Sunday School lesson, and Sunday nights at church. The only time he was with his family was at dinner.

Now there wa« plenty of church going in this but Mr. Moody did uot approve it for all that. He evidently believes that religion may be overworked as well as other things. In such a case he thought it was not strange that the boys were wild. Mr. Moody is right. Children need the companionship of their parents. It is not enough that all their wants are provided fur that they have a comfortable and attractive home that their parents attend religions services regularly and lead blameless lives. They experience a singular enjoyment in associating with their parents, exchanging thoughts with thorn, entering in an actual manner into their lives. No parent can afford to deny hia child this companionship. Let him remember that if hia child Is not with him he is with other associates whose influence may be far from beneficial to him. Children should be taught to spend their evenings at home, a thing that will be easy to do if the home made tbe most pleasant place in tbe town to them, and this ought to be. Bnt it will be hard to keep the boys at home of nights with the father always or generally away from home. Hia example has more influence with them than hia precepts.

The home should be made attractive

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

to the children by the parents making them partakers in its sports and recreations. Nothing is better for parents and children alike than' to play social games together. Children are so easily interested in anything which their elders do that there is no excuse for not entertaining them. And there is no better company either than the little folks if one will but put himself in sympathy With them.

NEVER in tbe political history of Indiana have such revolting and disgusting developments betfn made as have come to light in the investigation of the management of the Knightstown asylum for feeble minded children and soldiers' orphans. As the Journal well ssys, "the head and heart are both sickened to read the report of tbe committee." In a civilized, Christian State like Indiana, it seems beyond belief that filthy, brutish men like Goar could be placed in charge of such institutions. The people of the State should demand an accounting from the party whose control «of the benevolent institutions rendered such a state o* affairs possible.

THERE are indications that Indianapolis is about to enter upon a new season of prosperity. It is thought the new union depot will be built this year at a cost of something' like a million dollars. Anew market house will also probably be erected, and more important than all there is some prospect that the Oliver Bros, will locate their great plow works there, though this has not yet been determined on. The Pan Handle railroad company is just completing its large shops there, which will give employment to t-everal hundred men. On the whole the outlook for the capital city eeems brighter than for some time past.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS:

The Minneapolis papers have a progressive euchre department. A corn-cob pi pa factory at Washingtoh, Mo., employs fifty men.

Theater parties are being discouraged in New York—they lacerate the ear of tbe audience with too much talk.

A plain and square man like Cleveland ought to be able to make a good cabinet. You wood-butcher boots on it.

A scientist announces that the United States will lose one of its greatest men .during tbe present year. Which one of us is to go' now

Union College, at Schenectady, N. Y. boasts of a full-fledged negro minstrel troupe. Minstrelsy must be the latest featu of the curriculum.

Charles Eingsley says: "If you wsnt to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you."

The New York Graphic says: A St. Louis man who was recently accused of swindling twelve of tbe leading lawyers of Texas has framed the charge abd uses it as a diploma. He is also a lawyer.

An unsophisticated youth of Adairsville, Ga., proposed to his sweetheart by postal card and, the missive having been read by about twenty persons before it fell into the bands of the lady, a big social seusation was tbe result.

Tbe man who hacked a piece out of one of the large portieres in the white bouse to get a patch for his wife's crazyr quilt has come to tbe conclusion that the quilt is nowhere near so crazy as he. For the |50 it cost him by way of fine be might have bought a great many crazier things thau apiece of portiere.

The liquor dealers of Rome, Ga., says tbe Savannah News, are preparing to "boycot" a large number of men who continually drink to excess, thus injuring themselves and not benefiting the saloons. When the list is fully made out every saloon keeper will forfeit |60 if he ever sells to a man on the list.

The following good advice comes from George W. Cable: "Let all colored men patiently, persistently, and with all possible intellectual skill ignore their African origin and do, say, and seek everything purely, only and entirely as American citizens." This advice is also good for white men of European origin.

Tbe railroad companies having refused to deadhead the Ohio Legislature to Washington, a bill bas been introduced requiring them to erect and maintain barbed wire fences on both sides of their tracks in the State of Ohio. A bill regulating fares in sleeping cars had been smothered, bat it will now be revived and passed.

Lately a not very good performance was given by a Boston amateur society, and after the entertainment the newspaper men received tbe following: "As the Cecilia do not issue tickets to tbe press, in the usual sense, but only send invitations to certain newspapers purely as an act of courtesy, any remarks upon last evening's performance would manifestly be an abuse of hospitality." This insured silence.

Tbe arm of A. L. Davis, of Hartland, Vt., was so badly mangled a abort time ago as to necessitate amputation, and the injured member was buried, bnt those who attended to this duty failed to wash and clean it. Soon after Davis complained of a bad feeling in tbe band. He said it felt as though full of sawdust, and insisted upon having it taken op and washed. While sitting in a room with hia wife, neither of them knowing that the exhumation bad taken place, he suddenly exclaimed: "They are pouring water on my hand." Thi« was thought to be Imsgination, bnt on going to a back room it was found that some men had dng up the hand, which was undergoing the very operation described by the owner.

DOTS FROM DOCTORS.

A well known writer on hygiene says he cannot mention a table economy more wise than the use of beautiful crockery and linen. It induces good manners quiet, deliberate eating, and other christian decencies. And it wakes food look so palatable that the purchases and labor of cookijag may be sensibly reduced.

Physicians are always trying to break up innocent amusements. A doctor says that ladies who indulge in roller skating should lay aside corsets and all tight fitting-clotheB, and should wear very loose garters and easy shoes while engaged in the exercise. Without these precautions, the doctor says, their health is likely to suffer permanently.

ANew Orleans doctor calls attention to a very simple fact which merits attention from medicine takers. If tbe medicine is mixed with very cold water, and a few swallows oft he water be taken as a preparatory dose, the nervea of the organ of taste become sufficiently benumbed to make the medicine nearly tasteless. The method will not disguise bitter tastes, but acts well in oils and salines.

A doctor who ought to know says that the practice of tbe wholesale use of smelling-salts, which came in with the universal fashion of carrying smellingbottles, is sore to have its influence upon the olfactory nerves sooner or later, and render the victim unable to distinguish cologne from assafetida. More than all that, it causes headaches, sore throats and red noses. The last argument will have its weight. The smell-ing-bottle must go.

A physician gives a suggestive inci dent upon tbe treatment of the insane. A patient who had been enveloped in mental darkness for more than three years was cured by occupation. At first the insane man insisted on the mangle. Then he set himself to picking up buttons, and in a few months had about two thousand on the string, with which he ornamented the walls of his room. He was then offered a small bounty for every rat, mole or muskrat he would destroy, and was given the full liberty of the grounds. He

Boon

gave evidence

of ability to take care of himself and was released from the asylum. A writer in the Weekly Medical Review says: "I have collected every catarrh, asthma and hay fever'sure cure' that is in tbe market, numbering in all fifty-eight, and have carefully examined them. Eighteen of these 'sure cures' are ball-faced frauds. One ounce of quassia chips, a pound of table salt, and forty gallons of water will make one barrel of 'sure cure' that sells for 91 a bottle holding six ounces the same quantity of water, a pound of muriate of ammonia, a pound of ground cubebSj and a little common potash will make another 'cure' that sells for fifty cents a bottle, holding four ounces. 1 heso two are the best of the eighteen frauds."

If men and women would only make a careful study of tbe food best suited to their physical needs, many of tbe ills that they now endure would be avoided. A physician of repute saya that he has known men, and women too, who from various causes bad become so much affected by nervousness that when they stretched out their hands they shook like aspen leaves on a windy day, and by a moderate daily use of the blanched foot-stalks of celery as a salad they became as steady and strong as other people. He has knewn others so nervous that the least annoyance put tbem In a state of agitation, ai.d they were in constant perplexity and fear, who were also effectually cured by a moderate daily use of blanched celery as a salad at meal time others to be cured of palpitation of the heart.

LITTLE SERMONS.

There is less devotion to principle than to appetite.

Tbe current of hate will wash away the foundation of love. Tbe adversities of many furnish success for tbe few.

Man's genius needs woman's encourane(pent to develop it. Few men can be wou by truth when falsehood brings them a revenue.

What you don't know about men oftentimes makes tbem respectable. It is the passion that ia in a kiss that gives it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

In studying character do not be blind to tbe shortcomings of a warm friend or the virtues of a bitter enemy.

Be pleasant and kind to those around yon. The man who atira hia cup with an icicle spoils the tea and chilla bis own fingers.

The man who is jealous and envious of bis neighbor's sucness baa foes ia his heart who can bring more bitterness in to his life than can any ontside enemy.

THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY JOURNAL Will be snlaiged to twelve pages on Snndsy, March 1 next, and be sold for five cents, as other issues of the week. It will be one of tbe most complete Sunday papers published sny where, with number of unusual features, among tbem original stories by such English writers as William Black, Miss Braddon, Rhoda Brougbton, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Hatton, Mrs. Oliphant aad "Quids" Tbe first story will be by "Ooida." Its telegraphic service comprises tbe fullest special and regular telegraphic dispatches from all parte of die world. The Sunday Journal will be oa sale in every town and city in Indiana, hereafter, whether it bas bsso heretofore or not.

Found Out!

The thaw of yesterday, eatfsed many people to find out that they had holes in their shoes and there was a 'general rush made for A. H. Boegeman's where the great Clearance Sale of Boots and Shoes is going on. Now is the time if you want a genuine bargain at Boegeman's 104 south Fourth street.*-

^For Sale.

Fwest

IR SALK-40 ACR«C FARM—TWO miles of Dee&tur, I Is. Pays ten per cent on investment. Safe: part cash, balance on time. See CHAS. O. EBEL. 10 sStti 7-tf.

»R SALE OB TRADE—F6r desirable jity property, a small farm one mile r.oith of Mattoon. Enquire at 318 north 5th street, city. 25-tt IJIOK SAL.

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Amusements.

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Wilson Naylor Manager.

£-^Thursday Eve*®'

March 5th.

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OT1CE.

The E. AT. H. R. E. will sell round trip tickets to Washington, D. C., on the occasion of President Cleveland's inauguration,March 4th next, from Terre Haute, at 919. Tickets good, going, February 28, March 1, 2 and 3 returning, leave Washington on or before March 10th, 1885.

K—SECOND HAND SCHOOL

BOOKS of all kinds, for City and High Schools, for sale cheap, at W. F. SIBLEY'S. 1109 Main Street.

For Rent.

BENT.—NEW HOCTSE of 7 rooms, with well and cistern, corner of 12th anu Mulberry streets. Apply at 083 Poplar street.

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We have also secured the service of

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Having purchased »t assignee's sa'e last fall the stock of H. Traqualr, will oflfer all rhxt is left of the same at exceeding low prices.

Thankful for the large patronage extended to UM in the past, would solicit and hope to merit the continuance of the same in our new quarters,

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IS doors west of 7th street, south side.

THE J. W. ROBERTS CO.

HONEY

IS SOLD AT

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Eertfelder & Wurster

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Eagle Grocery,

Cor. Fifth and Ohio,

Is still the popular grocery house* Low pi ices and first class goods have won.

16 pounds white sugar for $1, 17 and 18 pounds nice yellow sugar for $1. pounds of first-clasB roasted Coffee for $1. fA

Eggs, 25c per dozen.

M. M. JOAB, Attorney, Offlco—31H% Ohio Street. OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

State of Indiana. County of Vigo. In the Superior Court of Vigo County, December term,

No. 1407. Leonard S. Briggs vs. W illiam Prevo, William H. Lewis, et al. Attachment. lie It known, that on tbe 28 day of February, 1885, it was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publlcat son said William Prevoand William H. Lewis unnon-reslden# defendants of ihe pendeucy of this action agalntst tbem.

Said defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendencr of siid fiction against them and that the same will stand for trial April 271b, 1885, the same being March tsrm of said court in th»» year 1885.

4th and Cherry street.

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MBit HILL N. SMITH, Cleck.*

OTICE OF FINAJL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. In tbe matter of the estate of Burrell Jonas, deceased, in the Vigo Circuit Court, February Term, 1885.

Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned, as Administrator of the estate of Uurrell Jones deceased has presented and died his account and vouchers In final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, ou the 11th day of March, at which time all persons interested in said estate are required to appear In suld Court and show cause, 1' any tbere be, wby said aocount* abd vouchers should not be approved. And tbe heirs of said estate and all othen Interested therein, are also hereby required, at the same time and plase aforesaid to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of the er ate.

HENBY C. D1CKEBSON.

Attext: MKRBIIX N. SMITH, Clerk.

TUELGEN'S

STEAM BYE HOUSE,

660 Main St., McKeen's Block. The only Steam Dye House in the pity. Dyeing and Scouring of ail kinds of Imvw Gents' and Children5 wear, such as Silk* Satins, Cashmeres, Alpacas, etc., cleaned at dyed in any desirab shade.

Kid gloves or kid slippers cleaned ordyed, 1*06 cartaloi and tace tics claanGui ftbawis cleaned or died, plomfw, rents' garments cleaned, dyed and repaired*

All my work is done fay a steam process which mak« It look «wnicea»w. Ang can save buym* a new suit by toMng, his old clothing to Nefgen clean, dye and repair it. Ladle" do same with their dresses by having thsa* toWt B.