Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 May 1885 — Page 4

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THE'MAII.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

rUBLICATICm OfTICK,

Vat. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing Hooae Square.

TERRE HAUTE, MAY 30 1885,

MINISTERIAL SALARIES. The Churchman makes the point that the straightened circumstances of many clergymen rqpder it impossible for them to do their work to an advantage. Pat upon a pinched and meagre salary, they lose in dignity and self respect, become distracted and dispirited and are unable to render that whole hearted service which the needs of the church require. Of many ministers of the gospel this is undoubtedly true. The poor clergyman with a large family and a salary Insufficient for their decent support, is put at a great disadvantage in trying to do the Lord's work in the world. True, .It is not supposed that men go into the ministry for the sake of the money there is in it, yet it was the Saviour himself who said that the laborer is worthy of his hire. And no man, in the ministry or anywhere else, can do the best that is in him when he has to feel that he is underpaid for his work. If he is doing honest, earnest work and work that is useful to the community, whatever it may be, he has aright to demand a fair and reasonable remuneration for it. But taking the ministry through and through it may be questioned whether it is more poorly paid than other professions. There has been a great improvement in ministerial salaries within the last fifty years. With the growth in wealth throughout the land the churches have become finer, the services mote costly and the salaries of ministers much more liberal. In the larger towns and cities the stronger churches pay their ministers well. There are many who receive from $4,000 to |6,000 and some who are paid as much as $10,000 to 920,000 a year. In addition to their large salaries men like Beecher and Talmage receive a handsome income from their lectures and literary work. •Of course those are "fat plums" of the profession, but what professions does not have its fat plums Take the law for example, and while there are some lawyers who grow rich in the profession there are thousands barely able to make a niggardly living. The average wages of school teachers will fall below those ministers. In the business world -some successful men become very wealthy but how many fail altogether •Statistics show that only three in a hundred succeed in the long run. The preacher has no such chances to run. His salary is fixed. He knows just what he may count on and can govern expenditures accordingly. Whatever he can save out of his salary is clear gain and not a few ministers of thrifty habits and good business management &ave managed to provide well for their 'families, educate their children, and 'have a comfortable residue laid by for •old age. Fifty years or less ago ministers were paid but a beggarly remuneration, but it is not so now. Taking the {profession through it probably averages -about as well as any other.

THB new revision of the Old Testament is now offered for sale by the book •sellers. In cursorily glancing through lit one is struck by the general simularity which it has to the old version. Tbe changes in form of expression are comparatively few. Yet some of them are very material. Suoh is the case with that familiar text upon which the physical resurrection of the body has been largely predicated, "for when the skin worms have destroyed this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." The new rendering is, (we quote from memory only) "And when tbe skin has thus been destroyed, yet, from (without) my flesh shall I see God." Here the meaning is radically changed, the new version of the text being as strongly opposed to a physical resurrection as the old version is in support of it. Important changes in the rendering, like this, have not been made without the most careful consideration and through investigation of the original Hebrew text and there is good reason to believe that tbe new translation, in such cases, is more accurate than the old. In the present instance the change will be gladly accepted by the general mass of readers, for it is certain that among the more intelligent and thoughtful people the ides of a physical resurrection of the body lias been growing more and more distasteful and repellent.

TH* Louisiana lottery holds on its way in spite of the legal obstacles that it has been attempted to place in its way. Its 18lst mouthly drawing is advertised for the KSth of June. During tbe fifteen years of its existence, this wholesale gambling device has robbed the people of more than $42,000,000, while the profits to tbe stockholders have been nearly halt a million, assuming that all drawings have been honest and regular. 7e this vicious, Illegal and immoral scheme for obtaining money Generals Beauregard and Early sell the value of their names for large salaries. As the lottery is illegal both by tbe laws of Louisiana and tbe United States, it oould undoubtedly be suppurated if the authorities would make the proper effort to

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THB Rev. flam Jones, the Georgia evangelist is fast gaining a reputation beyond tbe South, to which section his labors hitherto have been confined. Great success attended bis efforts during tbe psst winter and spring in Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville and other cities of the South, the people flocking by thousands to his four meetings a day to listen to his plain, blunt preaching, and his converts have been numbered by hundreds. Slight of build, unprepossessing in appearance, and totally devoid of oratorical magnetism, Jones' power over the masses seems to be in his quajjat originality of thought, and vigorous, if sometimes coarse, methods of expression. In Nsshville the newspapers undertook to put him down by ridicule, and by setting forth all those expressions that were glaringly coarse and objectionable, but it would not do. His meetings were successful in spite of the opposition of the press, ss they have been wherever he has gone. The New York Tribune of last Sunday, in a complimentary article on the evangelist and his work, sets out a number of Jones' expressions, which are at once replete with quaintnesp, originality and temarkable force of expression. Rev. Sam Jones is evidently one of those diamonds in the rough which are none tbe less diamonds because of their roughness. v-

IN New York a movement is on foot looking to giving the employes of the large retail storm a half holiday on Saturdays by closing the stores at noon during the hot summer season. Some of them have been closing at three o'clock on Saturdays and the proposition to close at noon, at least during July and August, meets with very general approval. The argument used by the clerks is that if the public understood that the stores close on Saturday afternoons they will do their shoping in the forenoon, which is tbe pleasantest part of the day at any rate. The Hearld interviewed a number of leading retailers, nearly all of whom announced themselves in favor of the movement. If this is done it will be a great relief to the clerks, as they will thus be able to get a pleasant bit of recreation each week, with their families (those who are married) in some of the many pleasure resorts which surround New York on all sides. And no class of men and women need such tecreation more, for the life of a clerk is a singularly confining one. keeping them to their posts of duty early and late, day in and day out. When New York shall have taken this humanitarian step forward it will be well for merchants in other cities great and small to consider what they can do in a similar direction.

IN a recent interview the Hon. Sam Randall has given an intimation that he will not oppose the revision of the tariff in the next Congress with the vigor which characterizes his course in the last. In short, he expreesess the belief that the Democracy should carry out the ideas upon this subject which are announced in their last National platform. And now if anyone can tell just what those ideas are we shall know where Mr. Randall means to stand. Any way, tbe free thinkers are jubilant over Mr. Randall's apparent change of front and an affectionate reunion of tbe Randall and'Morrison wings of the party is expected next winter. Tbe Senate will remain Republican, however, for two years at le&st, so that, even if the Democrats can unite on a tariff policy, they may not be able to put it into force.

IN the view of the Philadelphia Times those persons who assisted Prof. Odium in his foolharly venture of jumping off the Brooklyn bridge, were guilty of aiding and abetting him to commit suicide and are liable for the crime of manslaughter under the law of New York. Says the Times: "Boyton and his assistants and the reporters who awaited the man's death in a boat below the bridge and the dummies who played their parts in deceiving the police, are all equally guilty of commiting and assisting at a violation of the law which resulted in a misguided man's death." It is evident that none of the Times reporters were in the boat. Is it possible that this fact accounts for the severe logic which the Times indulges in

ACCORDING to the Atlanta Constitution, Georgia is now the banner prohibition State in the Union, and this result has been accomplished purely by means of a local option law. Ui der this law each county has the power either to license or entirely prohibit the traffic and of the 138 counties in tbe State, more than 100 have have passed prohibition ordinances. The Constitution explains, furthermore, that In these counties prohibition is much more practical and thorough than it 4s in Kansas or Iowa, because the law is backed up by a strong public sentiment, without which such laws cannot be rendered operative.. Here Is something for our prohibition friends to "consider of."

MAJOR BURKS, the director general of the New Orleans exposition and to whose energy it largely owed whatever of success it had, is a man whose career has been a checkered one. He wss born fifty-six years ago In Texas of Irish descent and served in the Confederate army. Afterwards he set op a wagon manufactory in Texas, but failed and turned up in New Orleans as a stone cotter In a marble yard. From this he got Into railroading, then into politics and finally into journalism as editor and proprietor of the Times-Democrat. He is a msxt of much fores and ability.

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TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

TEE Cabinet has decided that the President has no authority to direct the continuance of the New Orleans exposition beyond the time fixed by Congress, and it will therefore come to an end, so far at least as the Government's connection with it is concerned, on to-morrow. On the whole it has not been a success financially it has been a sad failure. It has cost the Government well on to two million dollars and its debts are yet unpaid. Ths reason of the failure has been the isolated location of New Orleans and the sparcely populated territory surrounding it. The bulk of the patronage bad to chome from the North and East and the journey to New Orleans was too expensive in time and money for people living a thousand miles away to make. The exposition itself was very fine and worthy of an attendance that would have made it financially a splendid success. Hsd it been given in Chicago or New York it would probably have more than paid expenses. We should like to see the next exposition of such a character located at Chicago.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia Times writes an interesting letter from Pocasset, Mass., the little village where the terrible Freeman tragedy occnred six years ago. The band of religious enthusiasts of whom Freeman was leader, is broken up, most of them having become spiritualists or outspoken infidels. Freeman is in tbe State Insane Asylum, to which he was sentenced for life, although it is said that he never showed any sign of insanity except in connection with the craze which impelled him to the murder of his* little girl. His heart-broken wife is earning a living with her needle and the house in which they formerly lived is overrun with relic-hunters, who carry off whatever they can get hold of even to tbe shingles on the roof. The singular fanaticism and its terrible denouement will constitute one of the strangest and saddest pages in the history of Massachusetts.

MB. BEECHER last Sunday began a series of sermons upon the subject of Evolution in its relation to Religion. Plymouth church was crowded to its utmost, and hundreds went away unable to get in. In the course of his remarks Mr. Beecher said it had been proven by scientific investigation that man has existed upon the earth for a much longer period than that assigned by the chronology of the church. While admitting that there was evidence tending to support the theory of the evolu tion of man from lower forms of life, be did not think it was so conclusive as to exclude the belief that the race may have come into existence in a different manner. Mr. Beecher has given this line of investigation much thought, and his discourses will attract wide interest.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR. The longest legitimate word in the English language is disproportionableneas.

A teacher received the following excuse recently: "Tomie stade home cos he had no close and that excuz enuff god nose." *fr 4 if

The statement is made on good authority that, as a rule, not more than one letter out of twenty written to the President reaches its destination.

A Jamestown, D. T.f justice decides that profanity is not punishable at law when caused by a neighbor's hens scratching up the defendant's garden.

Thackeray says "there's no fun in winning a thing unless you play for it." Our opinion is that there is very little fun in playing for a thing unless you win it.

It is a disappointment for hundreds standing about Washington waiting for the office to seek the man to be told that the office will not hunt for anybody this summer.

Edward Everett Hale thinks that "in these days the Church has something to do besides singing, reading, and praying." Among the other things, he mentioned "hospitality, education, and charity."

An examination into cigarette-smok-ing among small boys shows that in a majority of cases parents are to blame. The fact is apparent and growing that fewer and fewer people are fit to have children.

Doctors should be careful not to abbreviate when they prescribe rbamnus catharticus. The man who wrote for "syrup of rham. cat." deeply offended an elderly lady who had been his patient for years.

A wedding in Oanisteo, N. Y., was broken up and its conclusion indefinitely postponed by the refusal of the parson to marry the couple because the young man recently played a ball game on Sunday.

Just before swinging off his mortal coll—of rope—Rugg announced that he was going straight to glory. Glory is going to be a dangerous place to live in after dark if they don't draw tbe line somewhere.

A package of $23,000, carelessly wrapped up in an old newspaper, knocked around in a passenger coach on .the Wabash Road all day, and a porter finally took charge ot it under the belief that it was some drummer's old coat.

Nine persons out of ten would say that tbe actual color of gold and silver was yellow and white. Let these nine persons try to match these colors and they will be astonished to find that drab silk matches gold, and gray silver.

A man In Lyon county, Kansas, fourteen years ago married a widow with a little daughter by a former husband.

After twelve years he obtained a divorce from his wife and soon after married her daughter. The most novel feature of the matter is the fact that the divorced wife, now his mother-in-law, lives with her daughter and husband, and all are happy.

We entirely agree with an esteemed exchange in the statement that one of the most mysterious misfits of life is the spectacle of a young man eminently qualified to drive a milk wagon confusing his little brains over Blsckstone.

Among a number of startling axioms in ths late Dr. Beard's "Neurasthenia" is this curious one about cannibalism Why is not man good food for man and why should not cannibals be healthy and strong The answer is that man is good food, and cannibals are tbe strongest and healthiest of savages

The Christian scientists of Boston are claiming that there is no longer any doubt as to Gen. Grant's recovery, and that the cause of the healing is the mind cure. Eighteen persons united their efforts, and he is, they assert, unconsciously being cured by their occult power. These people are not praying for him, or seeking divine help in his behalf, but are silently thinking of him, and the influence of their minds unconsciously upon his mind is bringing him into the "understanding of God," and this understanding harmonizes his being, and so emancipates him from a false belief as to the disease. He simply needs mental treatment, and the mind healei#claim to work through space and at a distance physical presence is not essential. They claim that there is no peradventure in bis case now they know that he will be restored to health.

PA TENT MEDICINE PHILOSOS A E S I S S 9 :K MP A

A DRUGGIST PRESENTS SOME CURIOUS DEDUCTIONS.

A druggist gives some curious views about the patent medicine business: "It is estimated that there are thirtysix thousands of nostrums, patent curealls, which have achieved something of a reputation, and have yielded something of an income, many of them large fortunes, to the patentee or manufacturers. Now, it can be shown by the sworn testimonials which are produced by tbe makers of these medicines that each one has cured say one thousand persons, the most of whom have been 'living skeletons,' 'given up to die,' 'rescued from the grave,' 'unable to walk or talk,' 'all but dead and buried,' etc., when presto! some sympathizing friend 'persuaded' them to try Slocum's Slick Salve or Robinson's Ruin Remover, and not a moment of pain has been experienced since! Thus it appears that only about thirty-six millions of people have been saved from untimely death through the instrumentality of 'tansy' and cherry bark concoctions. In other words, if the patent medicine advertisements are to be believed, instead of being a nation of fifty-nine millions of people there would only be about twenty millions of us, if these universal remedies had not been discovered. "Another curious thing about patent medicines is that every cure of any merit and pretensions at all is worth a dollar a bottle. In most cases it is |the high prices that Bells the medicine. The contents of the bottle may not have cost more than four or six cents, but bow many bottles ot ten-cebt medicine would be sold? Your patent medicine consumer wants to pay a full round sum. It is tbe means of convincing himself that he is taking some healing balsam, some precious prescription of Bome highpriced physician." "Are many of the successful patent medicines made by prominent pbysicians

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"Very few. Some of the most popular are made from prescriptions of men who know little or nothing about the science of medicine. It is, in fact, a violation of the code of ethics of every medical society for a member to lend his name to a patent medicine. A notable instance of this occurred about thirty years ago. Dr. McClintock, a celebrated physician and a professor in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, after a careful study of the common bodily ills of tbe human family, prepared several prescriptions of unquestioned merit, and a large New York house manufactured the medicines according to the prescriptions and put them upon tbe market as 'McClintock's Remedies.' A fortune was spent in introducing and advertising the medicines, but they were a total failure. Moreover, Professor McClintock was denounced as a quack, forced to retire from tbe college, expelled from the medical societies and ruined. An inventor ofpatent medicine wants to be without reputation (except as be gains it from his photograph) and then if tbe worst comes he will have nothing to 1 ASA

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UNCIVILIZED BASE-BA LL PL A Y4 ERS.

Hotel Clerk, in Philadelphia limes. "In many of the hotels the base-ball players are not allowed to go into tbe ainniug-rooms with their spiked shoes on. They always dress for a match before dinner, and have away of tramping about on the carpets and over the painted floors of the dining rooms. Tbe spikes in their shoes ruin the carpets, and leave the diningroom floors full of holes. Now at some of tbe hotels tbey leave their shoes in the hallways, and go into tbe dining-rooms in their stocking feet. Guests object to it, and so there are very few hotels wbo care to accommodate ball players. Tbe average ball player knows very little about hotel life, or how to conduct himself in a din-ing-room. Tbey ask for mince pie in midsummer, and want buck wheat cakes f«r dinner and apple dumplings for supfor supper. I've seen tbem play catch at table with bard-boiled eggs and saltcellars, and tbey invariably let tbe whole dining-room know how the game was played or bow they are going to play," went on tbe clerk, "and only tbe other night at our bote! two of tbem were playing ball with the ottomans in the parlor."

KISSING IN PUBLIC.

[Ladies' Home Journal.]

Men don't doit neither should women and girls. It is a vulgar practice because, intentionally or otherwise, it sttracts tbe attention of strangers. When two women, at a railway depot or other crowded place, rush together with a resounding osculation, like two rapid meteors out ot tbetr orbits, tbe whole crowd grins, and the dodes prick op their ear* and eye-glasses. Don't,

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TRIALS OF A DRY GOODS CLERK IN A NEW YORK STORE.

[New York Herald.]

"How much is this The ladv who made the inquiry tilted her gold-rimmed eyeglasses forward and looked critically at apiece of pink silk lying on the counter in a large dry-goods store. "Six dollars, madam.".' "What, a yard?"

The clerk looked as though he wanted to say "No, a quart," but simply nodded in a very tired way. As tbe lady passed on be turned to a Herald reporter who, seated on a red-velvet topped stool, had been listening to the dialogue. "I'll bet," said he, "that one woman out of every six asks that question. The most of them are very queer cattle, anyway when they come into a store. She doesn't want to buy anything. I could tell that as soon as I looked at her. She is what we call a 'swap.' Ob, Lord here comes some 'quarter-sixes,'" said the clerk, as he looked up the aisle at three ladies who were coming towards his counter. "And what is 'quarter-six'?" "Ob, apart of our slang vocabulary, which means a customer who is hard to please."

One of the ladies wanted to buy a brocaded silk dress. Every piece in tbe stock was pulled down by the long-suf-fering clerk and spread on the counter before her. "There, I think I like that best," said the would-be buyer, after much inspection and comparison. "Don't you, Nellie?" "Well, yes that's very pretty, dear but I believe this would suit you better after it was made up." "Oh, my, no, don't get that," interrupted the third "you will find this vine here much more becoming." "Yes, but, my dears." said the first speaker, "I really like tnis pattern better than the other but if you think—" "Oh, don't let us influence you, May. The dress is for you, and "But I do want your advice about it." "Well, then, what do you think of that flower design over there? Now that would make up charmingly."

And so the conversation continued until tbe lady who was to have the dress was dissuaded from getting what she liked and took samples of the other pieces to show to her dressmaker. "Are you annoyed much by people coming in and wanting to see goods with no intention of buying?" asked the reporter. "Indeed we are—'shoppers' we call tbem. "We always 'railroad' them along by directing them to some other counter. "A favorite dodge of mine when I see a customer just wavering between taking and leaving the goods is to go off a little way and send a cash boy to a friend at the other end of the store and tell him to work the 'snap.' 1 send a sample of the goods along with the boy. He understands it. Presently he comes tearing over as though his life depended on it, waving the sample. He grabs up cloth from in front of the lady, wbo is still hesitating. I stop him of coursewant to know what he means, and get very angry. He must have that piece right off he has just sold twenty-five yardB of it. I can't help that, I tell him. He should have taken it when in was in the fixture. I'm showing it now when I am through, if it is not sold, I'll send it over to mm. But it always is sold—right off, too, always." "What is the most troublesome kind of a customers you have "The matching fiend. A fair specimen of that olass came in tbis morning She had a little sample of thin, drab silk, worth about a dollar a yard, and wanted to match it. "'We haven't got it, madam,' I said. "Why, that's very funny. How do

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rou know you haven't got it in all that of silks? It came from here.' 'I beg your pardon, we never kept it." 'Oh, I know you did I got it myself.' "•Very well, we haven'tltnow. That is the nearest,' and I pulled down apiece three or four shades different, vv-/'-'Oh, that's not it at all.' hi,,, 'I know it, but it's the nearest.' She peered along the shelve?, pointed to a roll and says: 'That looks like it.' So I tooK it down. "'Oh, that's brocaded, isn't it?" she asked. "'Yes. ma'am.' "'Well—ah—there! There's a piece that I know is it. "It's just exactly tbe shade. Oh, yes—there. I knew you bad it all the time. How much is this?' 'Eight dollars, madam.' "'Oh, dear me that's too expensive. I wanted about a dollar silk.' 'I knew you did, madam, but we haven't got ft.' JTben she went away mad. I got even with one of then the other day. though. She had a sam pie of brown cashmere to match. I knew we had not the exact shade, but something pretty near So I took that piece down and let the end drop over my side of the counter. Then, with her sample as a pattern, I cut off anew sample just the same shape as the old one, threw the old oneawsv and laid the new one on the cloth. Of course it was a perfect match, and she took the goods."

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CRAM'S FAMILY A TLAS. An agent is now in this city introducing Cram's Family Atlas of the World, a work of great value, T|ie Indianapolis Times says: ^^,.i.

Long experience and close observation of the wants of the publio have led the publishers to believe that in offering to the people a family atlas in condensed form, divested of a great amount of verbiage found in the larger and more costly work§, it will supply a real and general recognized want. Tbe publishers claim to have issued the lowest-priced atlas in the world worthy of the name of atlas. Cram's Family Atlas of the World will prove invaluable to the professional man, the merchant, the intelligent farmer and mechanic, and the large class of people who will not purchase the more cumbersome and costly works. It should be remembered that Cram's Atlas, while so much cheaper, is in point of practical utility as valuable as the larger and more costly works. What is needed in an atlas is condensed information. The publishers send for the 1885 volume in the belief that its centents will be of solid value.

It contains 100 maps, 5 pages of colored diagrams, 10 pages or statistics, 80 pages of index, giving the name of each postofflce, town, village and hamlet, with a ready reference, so that any name can be found as readily as a word in a dictionary. Tbe war traps of Afghanistan and the Soudan make it of present value.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The monthly meeting of the society will take place Saturday, June 6th, at 11 o'clock a. m., at the residence of C. W. Barbour, Esq., 4 miles northwest of the city. It will be a basket meeting. A display of flowers and strawberries will be made. Discussion, "What is the best treatment of prisoners for their good and the good of the public."

Jos. GILBERT, Sec.

PALACE CAR EXCURSION. Ben Blanchard will run a special excursion to Kansas next Tuesday morning. A special Pullman hotel car will be run through for the benefit of the excursionists. For further particulars address Ben Blanchard, 630 Main street*

Strawberry Festival.

The richest Cream and finest Strawberries of the season will be served by the ladies of tbe Christian church in the lecture room of the church on Tuesday evening, June 2d.

An Immense Stock of Men's Straw and white-col-ored Stilf Hats in New and Beautiful Shapes, at Sykes' Hat Store.

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A handsome line of Children's Clothing, at astonishingly low prices, at the Assignee of Philip Scbloss.

The Assignee Sale of Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods at cor. 5th and Main is still being continued/

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