Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 April 1885 — Page 4

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THEM AIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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NOB. 20 and 22 Booth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TKRRE HAUTE, APRIL 4 1885.

THE Legislature wbich has been dragging its weary, six-dollar-a-day length slowly along bas decided to adjourn one week from Monday. When tbe session is over and the work summed up, it will be found that about tbe most important results accomplished will have been the oiling up of tbe legal machinery ef the State by tbe necessary appropriations, tax levies, and loans so as to keep tbe wheels moving for two years more. This work was merely routine and conventional and might have been transacted in the first half of the regular session.

IT is tbe opinion of Rear Admiral Jouett that tbe French are at the bottom of tbe troubles on tbe Isthmus and in Central America, their object being tbe protection and control of tbe Panama eanal. He believes I bey have soldiers disguieed as workmen on the canal, who can be put instantly into the field In case tbey are needed. Admiral Jouett is also of tbe opinion that tbe United States government will be obliged to take a band in Central Amer lean affairs before tbe trouble is ended, and that tbe sooner she does so the better it will be.

FOR several days Gen. Grant bas been lying very near to death's door. It was hardly expected that he would survive during Thursday and his death waa at oue time reported, but falsely. Towards evening be rallied by the aid of stimulant* and passed a comparatively comfortable night. But be is steadily growing weaker and can at most live but a few days while bis death may occur at any moment. A universal padness prevades the nation as it stands with uncovered head waiting for the great soldier to die. Ibis feeling prevades the South as well a* tbe North. All sections of the country now honor General Grant and are pained by his suffering and approaching death. Tbe bitterness of the war has departed and men can look more eaimly and dispassionately at those events which transpired twenty years ago.

DURING the past week the bulk of the important places in the diplomatic and consular service have been filled, and as yet Indiana bas received very little. State Senator Rufns Magee, of Logansport, was appointed Minister to Norway and Sweeden, but nearly all tbe best places went to the South. Tbe appointment of Mr. Magee is a recognition of the Macdonald wing of the Indiana Democracy and is in itself in excellent one. He is not a partisan in tbe narrow sense of always going with bis party whether right or wrong, but litis acted with aooui mendable degree of independence and has not infrequeutly acted with tbe Republicans when he bel eved tbey were right and his own party wrong. Tbe President has given another evidenoe of bis own independence In the selection of such a man to be honored in the Democratic party of Iudiana.

THE new administration bas now been iu power a month and while it Ins not done anything ot great national importaace, it bas.certainly produced a good impression on tbe country. By the things it bas left undone it bas given a sense of security. Tbe general turning out of officers which was anticipated has not occurred. On the contrary it has been rendered certain that the civil service rules will be respected and enforced to the extent to which they now apply. Other offices will doubtless be filled with Democrats as the terms of Republican incumbents expire, but the change will be made gradually and so as to occasion the least amount of detriment to the public service. It may be said that on the whole the administration has made an excellent Impression on the country, has quieted the apprehensions of business men regarding a change of party and has greatly stimulated public coutldeuee. __________

TNIS inconceivable narrowness and barrenness of a mind that is wholly given to tbe contemplation of money is forcibly illustrated in the recent case of a farmer who committed suicide because he owned a debt of $2,000. It appears that he owned oue fine farm and decided to buy another, for which he was to pay $6,000. He paid 14,000 in cash and and then began worrying over the unpaid balance of f2,|00, which he unreasonably feared that be might not be able to pay when it should become dne although he was worth ten times tbe debl, He worried aud fretted over tbe matter until be finally sought death as a refuge from bis trouble. There can be BO sympathy for such a man. A person who, with books and people and all the wonderful things of nature open for his study, will auffbr his his mind to be contracted to such a narrow pin-point as this has committed virtual suicide long before he takes the fatal draught, lie has given his very soul in exchange tor a little gold. Having destroyed his mind it is perhaps just as well, or better, that he should make an end of his worthless life.

Such a man is far from fulfilling in his daily life the plan laid down by Edwanl K. Hale, that "Each man most

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have every day exercise in bodily strength, in intellectual accomplishments, and in moral and spiritual life, He bas no right to commit suicide of one set of faculties more than another. He has no right so to live that his intellectual faculties shall die out of him, or his spiritual faculties shall die out of him, than be has to take tbe slow poison or to strike the coward blow by which has bodily faculties shall die/'

This is a broad and healthy plan of life. Each day physical^ mental and moral exercise. There are few who accomplish it, and yet it is not beyond accomplishment. The chief obstacle in the way is that people allow themselves to become so absorbed in their business or occupation, whatever it is, as to lose their taste for mental or moral exercises. So it was with this farmer. His mind was so fastened upon money-getting he was so engrossed with the idea of adding to his broad acres, that he lost all relish for books, for art, travel, the social refinements of life. The beet part of bi« being had evaporated. He bad committed sucide of his mental or moral faculties long before the fitting finale had come of suicide of the body. Many stop short of the last act, stop with the killing of the mind and soul, leaving the body td live on. They are narrow, bigoted, emasculated people, who have made a poor, pitiful thing of life, when God gave them faculties which would have made it beautiful and noble if tbey had lived as they mi »ht have done.

MR.BEECHER, who has been making a lecture tour through tbe South, has been favorably impressed with its resou rces. He is reported as having stated at Atlanta that be knew of no section of tbe Union that has a greater future than the Soutb. He said: "Now that the disturbing political issues and the cause of slavery, which stoo'' as a barrier between It and the clviliaed world, have been removed, the country will begin to grow and develop in such a way as to put in the shade tbe wonderful progress made by western communities." It is barely possible that Mr. Beecher is over enthusiastic, and that this statement may have to be discounted somewhat. Generally speaking the South has not a soil equal to the deep, rich lands of tbe West, and hence is not equal to the West for agricultural purposes. But it is a soil which has been poorly tilled and is capable of vastly more than has ever been got from it. It is said that better methods are now being introduced. Oliver chilled plows and other improved farming implements and machinery are being sold very extensively in tbe 8outh, and the system of agriculture is rapidly improving. In some portions of the Sonth there are fine mineral resources, abundant timber aud excellent facilities for manufacturing. These are being extensively developed. Tho shiftless and worthless class of farmers, who have cumbered rather than tilled th6 soil, are emigrating in large numbers to Kansas and the West, and their places will gradually be fillei by abetter class of farmers from tbe East and North, who will be attracted by the milder climate of tbe South. This will tend more than anything else to the development of the South. On tbe whole it may well be said that anew era of pro^jerity has dawned in that section of the country which promises great things for the future.

THE LABOR PROBLEM. A Chicago banker is reported to have said that "the labor problem," of which we hear so much, is the result of there being more people in the world than tbe word knows what to do with, and tbat this has always been so, even from the days of tbe Pharaohs. Because of this state of things he thinks the labor prob.em will never be solved, as the world will always be overcrowded just as it always has been.

This kind of philosophy is not very satisfactory nor is it true. Surely it cannot be said that the great, undeveloped continent of this new world is as yet overcrowded with people. There are miles and miles of fertile territory wbich are yet practically uninhabited and we knovt from tbe examples shown by the old world that even our most populous States are capable of sustaining afar greater number of people than they now have. And yet in the United States, as in Europe, there come times when thousands of people cannot find employment, as during the past winter, and much suffering is the consequence. It is plain that this is not due to an excess of population, for tbe same thing bas happened when the population of the country was ranch less than it is now. Evidently it la due to some deranged condition of tbe Industrial world. When the mills stop, when the factories shut down, many persons are thrown out of employment. Tbey cannot do what they have been doing and they have not the requisite capital to transfer themselves to the unoccupied lands of tbe West, nor to occupy and farm them if tbey were there. It is plain tbat their only dependence is in being employed by somebody who has capital and the places of this kind are already filled. Slack business on the railroads throws many employes out. And so it is all along the industrial line.

Now what hi tb. Mp tor ffiftti. hard to see. The industrial life of tbe world is so complicated, so sensitive that it to impossible to prevent these periodical disturbances. They will come, they cannot be avoided. Now then will be an era of unusual prosperity when more men will be needed almost than can he bad. Now there will be a depression In tbe buvineas world when a much smaller number of workers la required,

Out of it all one thing stands clear. sV

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Wage-workers ought to receive more than is just sufficient tcTkeep them clothed and fed from day to day. They ought to be able to lay something up for the time of adversity, for the day when there is no work for them to do. I

Are they so paid? Many are some are not. It is not easy to fix a limit to one's expenditure or to say just how much is necessary to health and com fort. It is certain that the tendency in American life is towards extravagance, Some people will spend all they get however much it may be. Others will save out of even a scanty salary. Reflecting upon this the banker above referred to complains that in flush times the working people do not save as they might and hense when the hard times come they have to suffer. He adds "When I was a yonng man I had to learn to live on nothing, and I learned to keep a family of five on |50 a month, and we lived comfortably and contentedly, too."

There can scarcely be room for doubt that if the working classes generally were as thrifty and saving in their habits as some of them are, making the best possible use of their earnings and making it a. point to put some portion aside, however small their income might be, the labor problem would to a great extent b? solved. Or, if not solved, it would at least be rendered much lc difficult and much less distressing.

THE SHAKESPEARE PLA YS. Tbe myBtery of the authorship of the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare is so fascinating tbat it is likely to engage the attention of many ingenious and inquiring minds for years to come. With the single exception of tbe letters of Junius there has never been any literary workmanship involved in such obscurity and doubt. It is the only instance we recall of the authority of an alleged author's work being seriously disputed after his claims bad been so long and so generally recognized. But there seems to be something so incongruous and inconsistent between the Shakespeare who is known to history and tbe Shakespeare who cieated Hamlet and jdacbeth tbat it is bard to believe both to be the same per son. And so attempts have been made from time to time to prove that another than Shakespeare was tbe author of tbe plays. These efforts have been ingenious, plausible and to some extent satisfactory. The number of skeptics is probably increasing all the time. The evidences against William Shakespeare, the butcher's boy, are being added to the proofs tbat Lord Bacon wrote the plays are being multiplied.

It appears that a new and important chapter is about to be added to this singular controversy by tbe Hon. Ignatius Donnely, of Minnesota, whose forthcoming volume upon the subject will soon be put before tbe public. Mr. Donnelly goes over tbe whole ground of the lack of education on tbe part of Shakespeare sufficient to produce works which display such a wealth of general and special learning, and the peculiar fitness of Bacon for such a task also the reasons which might well be supposed to have prompted him to keep his connection with the plays a secret. There is a great deal of force in these arguments, whether one is fully convinced by them or not. But Mr. Donnelly goes much further than this. He declares the discovery of a cypher key in the plays themselves which disclose the proof of Bacon's authorship of them in his own language. He says that in studying the subject it occurred to him that Ba6n might possibly have made some reference to his authorship in a cipher woven in the text of the plays, and with this end in view he began studying them and found them a marvellous mosaic of internal narrative from beginning to end. Mr. Donnelly says tbat by pursuing a systematic method in "Henry IV," he found this sentence: "Francis Bacon, of St. Albans, Sir Nicholas, Bacon's son, chancellor and lord keeper of the treasury." He also makes the astonishing declaration that he has dug out of the cipher a consecutive story of Shakespeare's life, how he stood before the world as tbe author of the plays, what Bacon was paid for this, and how he trained the actors in secret.

If Mr. Donnelly's proofs will satisfy others as well as himself of these facts, he has accomplished a great deal and the new contribution to the Shakespeare muddle will be awaited with the greatest curiosity.

THE Indianapolis Journal has recently read the architects of that city some short lectures condemning the wild and feutastic styles which are allowed to prevail in the new buildings. The Journal says: "There are buildings on'avenue* designed when ttie present "school of architecture" WAS in its trundle-bed, which, for simple

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when the present "xtyles" are shut up forever in the speckled and seductive volumes of "cottage architecture," which have been productive of so much that is false and extravagant in modern building."

Tbe "Queen Anne" style of architecture has certainly run mad and will decline as rapidly as it rose. While uiany of its features are pleasant and attractive, it has been so loaded down with whimsical shapes, extravagant ornaments and bizarre colors that ft bas become in many instances a vicious conglomeration of odds and ends of styles without any true artistic spirit or design. It is safe to say that such a fashion in architecture will be as short lived as similar crazes in other things and that before very kmg there will be a return to the more chaste and simplelmetbod^ of genuine architecture. meassssssasmmmms

Kew Jersey sends wile-beaters to the penitentiary tor one year.

POISON AT THE FRONT DOOR.

No article entering so generally into the food of every family bas been found more villainously adulterated than baking powder. For the purpose of underBelling those powders of absolute purity and wholesomeness which alone- are safe for use in food, hundreds of dealers are putting up baking powders with cheap and adulterated cream of tartar, which contains lime, earth, etc., adding strength by the free use of alum.

These adulterated powders are "shoved" upon the public with the greatest persistency. They are first given away —left in samples at private resideucee, with circulars containing bogus analyses and certificates, and false representations as to their value, ete. This fact of itself is sufficient to condemn them. A first-class article will sell on its merits. No manufacturer whose goods are of value can afford to give them away, and none but tae cheapest make and most inferior or unmarketable goods require to be distributed free in order to get tbe public to use them, and this method is adopted only by parties who have failed to dispose of their warm through the ordinary and legitimate channels of trade.

Free samples Of articles of food-left at the house should be regarded with suspicion. There is no guarantee of tbeir wholeBomeness, while there is real danger that tbey contain a fatally poisonous compound. Many instances of poisoning from the use of such samples are recorded.

The only safe way is to consign all 8itch samples immediately to the ash barrel, and to turn a deaf ear to the statements made by tbeir venders. It is not worth while to trifle with life and health to the extent of testing every doubtful baking powder tbat comes along. Better to rely upon an old aud reliable brand, like tbe Royal, wbich ha* by a quarter of a century's constant use proved its perfect wholesomeness and efficiency, or some other brand tbat is not so worthless and cheap that its proprietors can afford to give it away by the cart-load. It is in its favor that tbf Royal Baking Powder is never given away, sold by means of lotteries, nor accompanied by cbromos, spoons, crockery, or other gifts, except the gifts of absolute purity, wholesomeness, full weight, and superlative leavening power. Its own merits have been its chief advertisement, and they have seemed for it the constant patronage of tbe American people to an extent beyond tbe combined sale of all other baking powders. The Royal Baking Powder is certified by all the Government chemists as absolutely pure and perfect.

A WHOLESOME CHANGE. [Frank Leslie's Weekly.] A great number of Chicago girls have given up tbeir situations in shop*, millinery and other establishments, and have engaged as servants in families. It would be productive of good were many of the same class in New York to follow the example of the Chicago sisters. Few shop-girls, as tgfeee employed in millinery stores, earn more than |6 a week, while many receive as little as $2 per week. Domestic service in a respectable family at $12 a month, the lowest that is paid to competent girls, including board, is much preferable to even the highest of the sums mentioned as paid for service in stores or shops.

Mr. E. R. Hoyt, a mechanical engineer at the New Orleans Exposition, was severely injured by a huge derrick pole falling on his foot. He was conveyed to bis residence, and'after only three applications of St. Jacobs Oil, all the swelling and pain disappeared, and he resumed his duties.

BEST GRADES PIANOS for sale on EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS at W J. A. MARSHALL'S, 1$

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328 Main Street.

—100 styles new Dress Gingham and 100 styles ef New Prints. FOSTER'S.

PSORIQUE cures Itch in 20 minutes.

POWDER

Absolutely Para

Thir powder never varies. A marvel of nrlty, strength and wholesomeness. Mow economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only In cans. KOTAX. BAKING POWDKBCo., Wall at. N.Y.

NO USE

TO ENUMERATE.*

flertfelder & Wurster

HAVE FOB

THE

Choicest Table Supplies

to be found in this market

Corner 4th and Cherry streets.

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518 and 520 Main Street.

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Monday Morning-

We will plaoe on Sale

1,000 ITZDS

Fancy Dress Sateens,

"Fast Calers," at

25

cts per yard. Usually sold at 37£ cents.

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This lot embraces all the latest shades, set figures and fancy designs in light and dark colors. They are oertainly very cheap, at LUE

PRIC«- -P(

We call particular attention to our elegant line of

SCOTCH ZZEMTTIRA

la Plaids,Checks,Stripe* and Plain Colors

mm r7»: 8KK OUR

New Cretonnes at 12£c yd.

TO MAKE

A

NICE LAWN

|H Of an old one getting thin, tKjsow a good fertilizer like the v|

Sward Food,

and some of the best

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BLUE GRASS SEED,

such as are sold at .]

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Foote's Seed Store.

T. J, PATTON & CO.,

DEALERS IN

CHOICE MEATS.

Southdown Mutton and,Lamb. Southeast Corner Fourth and Ohio.

NOTICE to TAX-PAYERS Time for payment of State and County taxes will expire April 20tli.

518 and 520 Main Street.

V.

C. A. RAY, Treas.

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I Sl'RINi CLOTHING

is "V CM* wi r- vj| fkWE WILL MOVE OUR STORE, ON OR ABOUT

The 20th of April, to 506 Main Street,

2nd door east of H. Hulman's, where we will be better situated to display a larger and more complete line of

SILK DEP'T.^1

We are now showing an elegant line of Bleak, and Colored

Surah Silks.

See our Special at $1.0* per yarfi. ttptandid value worth 91.&.

Summer Silks,

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Stripes and Checks 8%e, 45c. Mo, flfcr. 4%

A lot of extra heavy colored

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Gros. Grain Silks, 4%

23 in wide, 75c per yard worth $1.00.

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DRESS GOODS

H. M. JOAB, Attorney.] Office—313% Ohio street..

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I. 'V, DEPARTMENT. The largest display of Foreign and Domselt* k. Dre« Goods, ever shown in the city.

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State of Indiana, County of Vt_ Vigo Circuit Court, February term, if No. 18B79. John Cook and Oswald D. Hell, vs. the unknown helraaad devisees of Barbara E. Brecount, deceased. To auiet title.

Be it known, that on the 2Uth day March, 1885, it waa ordered by tho oourt that the clerk notify by publication said defendants a* uon rtsldent defendants of the pendency of this action against them.

Said defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them, and that the same will stand for trial May llth, 1885, the same being May term el said court

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in the year 188S. MERRILL N. SMITH, Clerk.

FLOWER SEEDS

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BULBS.

Pleuse notice that my stock of FLOWER SEEDS,imported by myself from the best growers In Europe,Is very complete.

My bu bsof Lilies,Gladiolus, Tube ose, C»nnu« and Dahlia** a re S E N ID

J. A. FOOTE,

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SEEDSMAN.

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WE ARE RECEIVING FROM OUR FACTORY

LARGE SHIPMENTS

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Children, Boy's and Youth's

And would be pleased to have you call and see tbe ,^

RARE BARGAINS

We are offering at

D: PIXLE & CO. CLOTHING STORE.

jV 508 and 510 Main.

psiRemovair-''

Wear

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and NOTIONS

THAN EVER BEFORE, AND FROM NOW ON

TJntilW Move"

WE WILL MAKE

SPECIAL LOW PEIOES.

IN ALL OUR DEPARTMENTS SUCH A»

Dress Goods, Silks, Shawls^ Housekeeping Goods, Notions, &c., &c.

INCLUDING A FULL LINE OF

Domestic Cotton. Goods.

Hoping our old friends and customers have appreciated our elforts toplease them in the past we intend to exert ourselves still more in oar new location to merit their good will and all new ones who will favor us with a call. Yours Respectfully^

ABD1LL fr BROWN.

Corner 4th and Ohio streets.

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