Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 April 1885 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

FUBLICATIOH

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Woe. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing Hoose Square.

TKRKE HAUTE, APRIL 261885.

THE New York World collected $25,000 from 25,000 people for the Bartholdi ststne pedestal. While the rich men of the great metropolis were holding their1 parse strings and refusing to give, the World called for small subscriptions from the masses of the people who responded generously.

THB war news from Europe is again of a more threatening character. Russia is indisposed to make any concessions and there is a hitch in the negotiations between the two countries. It may yet turn out that the Bear has been all the while acting the part of consummate treachery, and using the delay purchased by negotiations apparently conducted in good faith merely to strengten her army in Asia.

THK law passed by the late Legislature prohibiting base ball playing on Sundays has no emergency clause and will therefore not be in force until the laws have been published, which will not be before the middle of the summer. At the end of that time the managers wl'l make a case to test the constitutional

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of the law upon some halr-splUMng technicality and will thus gain the rest of the summer, if not one or two more, while the case is dragging its weary length through the courts. Evidently the managers of clubs don't intend to be harmed by the law as long as they can help it.

EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR is reported to be badly broken in health and low in finances as the result of his efforts to secure a renomination at Chicago. He paid the bills for expensive public meetings in his favor in New York and for a big delegation at Obicsgo and was sadly disappointed at hif failure to receive the nomination. He has resumed his place in his old law firm in New York, but it is not to be supposed that political ambition is exhausted. He will watch the wheel of fortune closely and will be on hand when there is anything in State polites which he cares to take in.

AN Indianapolis wholesale merchant says the influence of women is shown by nothing more plainly than the nature of the pictures found where they do not go that in the offices of wholesale stores, where women rarely or never go, the walls are covered with nude pictures and such as border closely upon the obscene. He thinks that great harm is done young boys by Buch pictures, and in this he is undoubtedly correct. The truth is that a great many of the chromos and advertising cards that are now put out by the thousands are obscene, vicious and demoralizing, and ought to be suppressed by law.

AN effort is being made in Indianapolis to Increase the license for selling liquor from |fi2 to $100 a year. An ordinance to that effect was introduced in the council at its last meeting and by the close vote of 11 to 10 Its consideration was postponed for two weeks. In the meantime those in favor of the measute will agitate the subject with a with a view or creating such a public sentiment in its favor as will carry it through. The license proposed is quito small enough and should be promptly levied, not only in indianapolis, but in all the larger towns in the State. It is a mere bagatelle compared with the enormous profits which the saloon-keepers realist from their business.

So far from being a dead man, General Uratt is planning for his summei's corafdrt to spend the month of July at or near Saratoga and the month of August i» the Catskllis. He continues to improve and has been able to ride out with his family several times this week. There are possibilities that he may recover, but those familiar with that form of cancer from which it has been sup-* posed be was suffering say the chances are much greater that he will suffer a relapse and go down more rapidly than he

has

gained in strength. Should bis

improvement continue and he bo eventually restored

to

health, the public will

never Le brought to believo that hi® disease was cancer at all, whatever as sertlons the doctors may make to the cntary.

AOCOROINO t^the

Chicago Tribune the

one hope of the Mormons now is to get I*(ah and Dakota admitted together as twin States, the one Democratic and the other Republican. This would be in strict keeping with the old policy which prevailed before the war when, Blaine shows in his book, new State# were admitted in pairs by a method s» systematic that the political status of the Union was kept perfectly balanced, one Democratic and one Republican State being admitted at the same time, or in alternate order. Once In the Union as a State the Mormons could regulate their marital relations according to their own pleasure. But they will find it an I® possible undertaking to get Utah admitted Into the sisterhood of State* with filth of polygamy clinging to her skirta. The awakened conscience of the people on that subject without reference to political affiliations, will not tolerate such a thing.

SHOULD an appeal to arms be the final outcome of the controversy between Russia and England, the sympathy of all Christendom ought to be with England. The Russians are wholly ia the wrong, and have apparently been pushing on towards England's Indian possessions with no other object in view than to provoke hostilities. Gladstone has exhibited the greatest forbearance from the outset. While the people and the press were yelling for war be has insisted upon a patient waiting for the full details and was more than willing to listen to any justification of-her con duct that Russia can give. It is very clear that the English premier has not wanted war, but peace, and if he is com pelled at last to declare war it will be after every honorable effort to obtain peace has been exhausted.

AN Indianapolis woman who is dependent upon her own earnings for her support, gives a soirowful picture of the petty persecutions which women of her class have to undergo at the hands of employers, boarding-house keepers and brutish men generally. She says 1 bat if a man could be placed in the situation cf one of these women for short time he would discover that there ae more reasons than he ever dreamed of for women wanting to be married One of the severest charges made is against the employers of women, who will not, as a rule, hire women unless they will do the same work for less money than men. Then the competition with women who have homes of their own and are willing to work for a mere pittance tends to bring the price of their labor down so low that women without homes can hardly keep soul and boby together on what they are able toearn. There is evidently only too much truth in the picture and it is a very pitiable one.

IT has been announced that the new version of the Old Testament will be published next month, but the announcement has caused nothing of a sensation like that which followed the publication of the new version of the New Testament. The latter was the subject of much interest and comment for a time. Everybody was anxious to get hold of a copy of the new work and note the changes of thought and expression from the standard edition. But the interest soon died out. The new did not replace the old, as some enthusiastic persons believed it would. The old version is still read in the churches and by the people, and there is little call for the new one. So it will be with the Old Testament. From our childhood we have been familiar with the language of the bible as our fathers and mothers, and their fathers and mothers before them, read it. The diction is simple, grand, majestic. There is beauty and richness in many of the passages that are not equalled in any other literary work. Indeed the bible as embodied in pure and simple English by the King James translators, has been the adntfraation of literary men from that time ,to this. The people will not give It up and there is no good reason why they should. The new translations will, however, be valuable to students of the scriptures for the new light which is thrown upon many passages, and the careful rendering so as to convey as nearly as possible the exact meaning of the original, but beyond such a use it will never be popular.

CONSIDERING that there is no political campaign on hand just now, and none prospect so far as the nation is conberned for more than three years, there appears to be a remarkable amount of talk going on in the newspapers as to the relative merits of the North and the South in the late war. Here is the St. Louis Republican suggesting a joint monument to Grant and Lee and the Macon Telegraph complaining that if the North expects the South to weep for Grant the South expects the North to treat Jefferson Davis with becoming respect. Then the Republican organs of the North take up these declarations as texts upon which to preach strong sermons to the unrepentant rebels of the South and the old bitterness between the sections is in a measure revived. All this is very unnecessary and very foolish. It was supposed that the time bad come to

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by-gones be by-gones" and

it waV agreed by the people of the country to quit talking about the war and waving the bloody shirt, and we believe this wae and is the desire of the masses of the people, but a few hot-headed politicians seek to secure their own interests and those of their party by keeping up a senseless agitation between the two sections of the country. Any reasonable man shonld know that the time has not yet come, if it ever will, when the people of the South can take exactly the same view of the war as the people of the North. Perhaps it does not greatly matter whether it does or not. All the same the questions which the war was fought to settle are settled. Slavery is destroyed, the Union is preserved. The South acknowledges this just as the North does. Nobody is proposing to dispute it, nobody is undertaking to disturb the result. All there is to wrangle about is a certain hero worship in the South—a disposition to put the generals of the Confederacy side by ride with the generals of the Union. The North will not agree to that of course, twit what Is the good of wrangling about It—saying bitter things and calling hard names? The Union was scarcely worth preserving if it is to be a Union In name and not in heart. Why not drop this unfruitful discussion and talk of the present and of the future instead of the part?

Let oa talk of the whole conntry, not of ware of whiaky straight.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MA.1L

sections. The Mar was ended twenty years ago. What need is there to fight its battles over again Let us go forward to build up, to develop, to unify to make one great, happy, prosperous, united nation. That is what the people say and what they mean to do in spite of the badgering, quarrelsome disposition of a few newspapers here and there.,,

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Doyle, the sculptor, who is making the statue of the late Senator Ben Hill, says that a marble monument in this climate will not last over fifty years.

President Cleveland told a corres pondent that, in accepting a Cabinet position each member of the body understood that it was for the entire four jears.

General Grant rarely smoked prior to the battle of Shiloh. The newspapers told of his smoking during that engagement, and, being afterwards deluged with boxes of cigars, he acquired the habit.

Dr. H. Wardner, of the Hospital for the Insane at Anna, 111., says that numerous experiments conducted with bis patients show that regular occupation is a great aid in restoring mental equilibrium.

There is nothing that so takes the starch out of a young man who has been wedded about a year as to have to go to a store where there is a girl clerk with whom he used to keep company, and in safety

A man down in Mississippi has been gent to jail for thirty days for "playfu.Uy pointing an empty gun" at anotbe. person. Every Slate should have a law making the sentence in such cases 365 days instead of thirty.

W. H. .Eag'ish, of Indirnapolis, pays over sixteen thousand dollars taxes this year on personal and real property in Marion county. He also pays big taxes in other places, making a total of about twenty-five thousand dollars.

The will of the Hon. Thomas Hege of Franklin, Pa., provides that "should any of the officials of the Venango National Bank become conscience stricken and conclude to return to his executors the H5.0C0 they stole from him, he beqdeaths that sum to the cemetery." ''President Cleveland at church," says a member of his congregation, "is an attentive listener. He prays in an audible undertone, sings in a clear baritone voice, and is not addicted to the habit ef turning in bis seat to look at late comers. Altogether he is a model churchman."

A theatrical manager, speaking of the proper pronunciation of the word drama says: "Itdepends upon what part of the country one is in. In Boston, I call it drammab, in New York drawma, in Philadelphia drama, in Chicago drammer, but in St. Louis, in order to make myself solid with the citizens, I have to talk about the draymy."

ANew York shoe dealer says the man who succeeds in the business is he who succeeds in pleasing a patron with the first or second pair of shoes taken from box. Let him fail in this before be kas spread a large arifey of footgear before the prospective purchaser, and he will have almost endless trouble. It all lies in tbe ability to tell almost at a glance the quality of shoes desired by a customer.

THE ABUSE IS HARMFUL. [Fort Wayne News.] The abuse of progressive euchre Is harmful. For the same ladies and gentlemen to gather at each othets* houses three or four times a week, and play euchre, until two or three o'clock, as was done in this city last week and the week before, can onfy result in absolutu injury health. tJnder such circumstances, it becomes a dissipation as disastrous as roller-skating or any other abuse of physical powers but to say that progressive euchre is harmful of itself, is as silly as to denounce backammon, or chess, or checkers, as evil their tendencies. It is not the pastime, in the case of roller-skating or proares sive euchre, it is the abuse of it, and the waste of time by silly people who are unwilling or unable to control their desires for these amusements. V'¥.C

WOMEN.

POLITENESS TO [New Oileans LeUer.] Street car etiquette here is very strict. The men are extremely polite and I have not yet seen a woman standing in a car while a seat was occupied by a man. What struck me as being most remarkable was tbe universal politeness with which all womeu are treated. If an old, awkward and ragged negress climbs into a «ar three or four men are on their feet at once offering her seats, and her fare is passed up to tbe box with as much courtesy as a Duchess could desire. It is a fact that young women are not one whit more poiitelv^tban their older and plainer sisters. But the graclonsness shown to negresses is very stiikiugto visitor?. By the way, you never hear of a negro or negress here—everything is nigger-man or nigger-woman, even by the most punctilious of talkers.

*4^, SERMON TO MY BOY. [Whitehall Times.] My boy, when you desire to commit any wrong in your basement, have some one attract attention by proclaimlngyonr virtue from the housetop.

When you make up your mind to call a man a liar always pick out some fellow

you

can lick.

When your pail of milk ismtfUed,don't sit down and cry, but go for a fresh cow tad refill your pail.

When yon decide that the world owes yon a living, pall off your coat and take ft ont of tbe world's hide.

When yon think the world oan not get along without yon, poll a hair from your head, wad see if it makes you baldheaded. be-

Whea you want to walk straight

NAT GOODWIN'S EARLY FAILURE. [Philadelphia News.] "Nat Goodwin, now at tbe head of tbe list as a comedian, was another failure when hefirst began," continued Thome. "I was playing in Providence and Nat had for a long time been at me to get him a chance to act. He must have been then 18 or 19 ysars old and was rather an ungainly boy. Finally we were to produce an old temperance play called The Bottle. I induced the mana ger to cast Nat for a small part, and on tbe night of tbe opening we rigged him up in some sort of a costume. His part was to come on and say lo the villain of tbe play: 'I will avenge,' and fire at him. When the time came for bis entrance Nat was scared out of bis senses. He rushed on, forgot bis' lines, sboved the muzzle of the pistol into the fellow's ear and puled tbe trigger. For unately it bung fire or it would have blown the fellow's head off. Yet Nat stood there stiff as a post. The prompter ho'lereu. 'Go off go off!' 'Where? where?'say a Rat. 'Anywhere,' says the prompter, 'so you get out.' Nat struck straight across tbe stage, out of the back door of the theatre, took the first train to Boston, and going directly home sank in:o a chair in the sitting-room and exclaimed-: 'Mother, 1 have tried it and can't act.'

LOTTA ON INTELLECT. From the Kansas City Journal. There hsd been seme previous talk about intelligence and the queer peonle one meets in traveling, and Lotta continued "What little specks we are, after aU! We think we are great, and we die and some one immediately springs up to fill our place. No matter bow gifted we a-e, others will follow to gather the same laurels. And yet how beanMfal it is to cultivate oneself, to improve and to grow strong mentally. It is tbe only thing that permits people to grow old gracefully and acceptably. After all, the only nobility is that of. the intellect. Tbe Prince of Wales even recognizes this when he is in the presence of genius. No man bows sooner to it than he. "Lately," continued the lady, "I have discovered that I have some talent for painting. While'in St. Louis I took some lessons in water colors. I do not dare to paint with oils it is^so unhealthy."

A DREAM OF POKER. A man who bad been to a poker party dreamed that night be had a "straight flush," but bad six cards. In the attempt to throw away tbe sixth card he struck his wife on tbe nose, who, being aroused and confused, asked: "Did you call?" "Call, thunder! I raised you."

AN IMPORTAN1 FOOD REFORM.

PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALLY PURE CREAM OF TARTAR—TOTAL ELIMINATION OF ALL LIME IMPURITIES-

NEW DISCOVERIES IN REFINING— A LONG STRIDE TOWARDS PURE FOOD.

[New York Tribune.]'

Discoveries of much importance 'on account of the relation they bear toward a more wholesome food supply and consequently upon tbe public health, have been recently made in tbe process of refining cream of tartar. Cream of tartar, as is well known, Is a bitartrate of pota8sa purified from the orude tartar, or argol, which collects in a crystalline deposit npon the bottom and sides of wine casks during tbe fermentation of tbe wine. This tartar, in its orude state, contains lime and other impurities, which no process of refining known pror to that here described was able to entirely remove. It has been possible, it is true, to neutralize tbe lime to some extent by tbe aid ef chemicals, and this method was resorted to in order to procure cream of tartar in.small quantities for tbe pharmaceutical purposes but it was open to serious objection in view of tbe fact that the chemicals employed for this purpose were not always washed out but remained in quantities that were uncertain and prejudicial to its quality. The supposed impossibility of vemoving the lime has, accordingly, caused cream of tartar to be classed and sold as pure when it did not contain more than five per cent of tbisimpuiity. Tbe major part, however, of that used in commerce, or for culinary purposes, contains the tartrate of lime io an extent much greater than five per ceut. uot infrequently being found, upon analvsis, debased to a degree equaling onefourth or more of Its entire weight.

In a report upon tbe subject of food adulteration made to tbe New York State Board of Health by Professors Chandler and Love, it is stated that of 27 samples of cream of tartar bought from dealers as pure 16 were adulterated with various substances from 3 to 93 per cent., while of the remainde all contained tartrate of lime, some as high as 10.o9 per cent.

The serious character of this adulteration is more readily appreciated when It

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recollected how largely cream of tartar enters into the preparation of the food of every family. In connection with soda in baking powder it is tbe chief agent now employed for raising and making light and digestible all our biscuit, cake, and other pastry, and is besides, in many communities, supestling the old-fashioned yeast for al' leavening purposes, so that it is employed some ex'ent in almost every meal of which we eat. Tbe amount of cream of tartar used in this country in a year in halting powder and otherwise in tbe i) enaiation of food, is estimated at ten l'ton pounds. If this were 90 per cent, pure—a high estimate—we would consume one million pounds more of lime annually as a subs'itu'e for bread. So large a deterioration becomes appreciable In the deprive ion of our food of a portion of its nutritive element not only, hot if, ss is now supposed, this excess of lime taken into the system baa a relation to the painful affections of tbe kidneys so prevalent in this country, its bearing upon tbe health of tbe entire community Is too important to be overok

The new process by which cream of tartar is produced 100 per cent, pure— that fat,

with the lime totally eliminated

—by treating tbe crude material under presents instead of using any chemicals whatever for the purpose, was the discovery originally of a German chemist, but has been developed and perfected by tbe Royal Baking Powder Company of this city, though whose efforts a few years since in behalf of a high standard of purity in food, the public was rid of the poisonous alum baking powders at that time so prevalent.

The determination of this Company to

place upon the market only absolutely

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ture goods, and 'he impossibility of dothis from the cream of tartar of commerce, made it apparent that some new method must be sought by which cream of tartar could be produced in large quantities, tree from lime and chemically pure. Tbe cream of tartar refiners of this country and Europe when approached the subject, declared such a result impossible, and declined tc incur tbe expenditure necessary to make the trial. Tbe Royal Baking Powder Company, accordingly, resolved to solve the problem for itself and havingsecured the aid of tbe test chemists of Europe and America, proceeded with its investigation and discoveries until the result, after several years of labor and the erpendlture of over half a million dollars in the purchase of patents, perfecting of processes, and tbe erection of buildings and machinery, was reached in the complete attainment of the end sought. The works (now owned by Tbe New York Tartar Co.) are located in Broklyn, and exceed in si-re and capacity any other similar refinery in tbe world. They produce a chemically pure cream of tartar, which is now exclusively used for pbarmaceut'cal preparations, and in the. manufacture of be celebrated Royal BaLlmt Powder.

The energy ana outlay that have effected this will undoubtely be fully rewarded by tbe public which will chiefly benefitted by the successful issue of t'oe investigations. Poople are coming daily to more fully appreciate the value o? pure and wholesome food. By the exclusive use of this chemically pure cream of tartar, 1 be Royal Baking Powder is produced entirely free from lime, and absolutely pure, qualities possessed by no other biak'.ng powders yet made. A baking powder entirely free from lime or other impurity must not only contain more strength or leavening power and produce better food ana therefore be more economical for use, but what is more important, possess qualities of superior wholesomeness.

Chemists and physioisns have looked upon the experiments with much interest, and regard their success as a matter of much importance.

Glad They Used It.

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