Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 June 1885 — Page 8

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The Catalps Tree.

This is tho time of year when trees are in bloom. Of tbaae the catalpa is one of tbo choicest, i, in# :W *4" i,

SPIKE OF CATALPA BLOSSOMS,

The flowers are somewhat bell-shaped, with a two-parted calyx. They are good-sized, white, tinged with violet, and dotted with purple and violet in the throat. ,,

SINQL* VtOWSR llR UEAT.

The troo grows to the sice of an ordinary forest tree. It is found wiia along the southern Mississippi, but it is hardy. The name, like the beautiful tree Itself, is one we had not to borrow from Europe. "Catalpa" Is the native name, given to tho tree by tbe Indians of Carolina. In tell and -winter it is coverod with a shower of long seed pods. From this it is sometimes called the cigar tree.

It may be propagated either by seed or uttings. Not only is it such a handsome tree, but it is of use beside. The timber •m.mhea

choice wood for cabinet work and

other purposes. It is of a very fine texture, and takes a brilliant polish. Whether it will grow satisfactorily in tho far northwest, however, we belieye has never yet been entirely settled. The experiment should be tried.

Another fine ornamental tree is the Turkish horse chestnut It ii a handsome grower, blossoms in much tbo same way as the catalpa, but, unlike that, the wood has no special value. i-***

Slouch Work.

Occasionally it seems as if about all th« mechanical work done in America was of the sloudh order. Tbe main object in making things appears to be to get them off in th quickest and cheapest way consistent with concealing their dofect*. The present system of building tenement house* for the poor ii an illustration. It is infamous. Mud mortar, bricks that break in two in the handling, rotten timber*, and sower pipe* that discharge in collars, wore some of the peculiarities of workmanship that became apparent at the coroner's inquest after a six-story building feU in and crushed a dossn poor laboring men more or leas.

Then there was a notorious lire disaster coining on the heels of the tenement-house crash. A building was raised from its foundations, set upon screws, Chicago fashion, and other repairs were made. The work was supposed to be done, and the screws were taken away. About a hundred working people were engaged in the structure. A Are broke out, and the flimsy walls, "repairs'' and all, fell In together. At the coroner's inquest that followed this affair it was shown that the repairs had been undertaken by a man who had not sufficient mechanical knowledge to mend a cellar door. But he undertook the raising and remodeling of a four-story building fttll of heavy machinery and containing a hundred people during work hours. There was worse than slouch work here. Thar® was crime.

Such jdumbing aa is done in America would be punished br flue and imprisonment in any other country. Occupations involving most serious consequences to life and health an "picked an" by anybody and everybody. Any quae* Is a "doctor," and a half-decent barber is a •'professor."

Into the smallest details this slouch tness of workmanship enters. There is very little real art skill in oar country, because cmr would-be artists will not take time and pains to learn to draw. Put the pictures In our illustrated papers, comic and otherwise, alongside those of a French or German funny paper. As compared with the execution la those, the American drawing is as stiff and ugly as dothss-horse.

George EUot say* rf Adam Bwie that hk work bad always been apart of his religion,

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be saw meet dearly that good carpentry was that form of God's will which Pity American carpenters ix»t maker* could not bavesta revelation. At thlsmomset in the mind. A Married coepls kadilong£ sired a substantial book-oasa. They bai lieen too poor to bay It tor jeara. At leat the coveted bmhot wm to Mr the Uiswts was UussX tate looksi a marvel of nrnsiasatsl woods aa* tngaai haweeri WaH.it hai beea te the bouse an(2 a Urn weak* wiea *a

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CATALPA.

The illustration shows the full-grown tree. The wonder is that this beautiful bloomer is not more highly appreciated. The late Dr. John A- Warder spent some of his best years introducing it into southeastern Indiana and the vicinity of Cincinnati. The result of his labors in that locality is seen in shaded avenues and lanes of splendid catolpas, thirty to forty feot in height. They have great heart-shaped leaves of pale green and luxuriant spikes of flowers that doom in early summer and make the whole air fragrant. The flowers hang in magnificent starry clusters, thickly dotted over the tree.

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1 japing brass handles of the drawers came oft in their Screws fell oat and were lost, glass doors refused to fasten, and all their joy in the new purchase was spoiled by wretched workmanship.

If you move into a new house the door knobs all but roll off if you look at them, the plaster upon the walls crack, and you are fortunate indeed if tbe roof does not leak.

A farmer

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lately had his barns and outbuild

ings tin-roofed at a cost of $1,500. The first rain thereafter poured in through the defective soldering in a torrent, and ruined his hay and corn crop. The tinner had "picked up" his trade of roofing. He would not take time to learn it thoroughly. He was a dishonest fraud.

The very desk on which this is written was new and two months ago. It has had the best of usage, yet already the mam drawer is so rickety it only opens and shuts by Jumna and spasms. Tbe keys never did fit in the locks, and the joints are gaping and skaky. Substantial,

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furniture and carpentry work are blessings unknown in the United States. The same spirit of slouchiness runs through iron-work, machinery and railroad building. It is a disgrace to the nation.

The report of the superintendent or publie schools in Boston discusses the experiment of manual training for boys. Two hundred boys, from ten different grammar schools, have been under instruction in carpentry two hours a week since September. They were selected by the masters from among those 14 years of age or older who i« the permission of their parents to take the instruction. "The experiment has already gone far enough to prove that work of this kind can be joined to the ordinary grammar school work with good effect," says the superintendent, and he advocates the making of provisions for industrial training for girls as well as for boys.

Facts of Interest*

The Medical Journal states that a few handfuls of common salt thrown daily into closets, and an occasional handful into wash basins, goes for toward counteracting the noxious effects of the omnipresent sewer gas.

Few people are aware that, when they find a wall paper that suite them precisely, by having it properly varnished they can render it almost time-proof. It can be washed when it becomes dingy, and it will last for many years.

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Tho White Cross army an association for promoting moral purity among men. In an nddres3 delivered ac one of its meetings Dr. De Costa laid stress on the fact that most people eat too much. From that they are led on to drink too much in order to stimulate them to boar tho haavy load of indigestible food. Gluttony leads to drunkenness and thence to all other sins and vices.

The terrible sickness which devastated Plymouth, Pa., has been finally decided to be typhoid fever. Plymouth was only a little country place, yet there were nearly 1,000 cases of tho fever. A frightful percentage of those attacked died. The town is destitute, and the public has been largely drawn on for its support during the epidemic. And the origin of all this misery is directly traceable to filth, cesspools, and want of drainage. f."

An entomologist has reported having found 724 species of noxious insects in the trees, shrubs and plants of the New York parks last year. These include the cotton worm of tbe south, the wood borers of the west, the sugar cane beetle, many species unknown to the entomologist, and some entirely new species. Tha most destructive insects to the trees are the bag worm, the tent and web caterpillars, the scale insect, the coccus and the elm beetle. Of these insects seven bushels of cocoons and egg mosses were removed.

A Wash I)ru.

After a late, cold spring, no matter how long it lasts, the heat always appears to oom« suddenly. By this time our lady reader* will be skirmishing around in a lively manner for their summer dresses,

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ORXSS O* KMBROrDKRED Accordingly we present them with a very pretty pattern for an embroidered chambery gown. The robe comes in patterns, in all the popular colors. The patterns have four and a half yards of embroidery with edging to match. The skirt is finished on the bottom with a narrow, plaited ruffle, and three rows of the wide flouncing are gathered upon the right side of the skirt below a puffed Motion of tbe overskirt Tbe ample back drapery is looped upon the back of the basque in imitation of a polonaise^ and the kmg tonic front hi trimmed with a revers of the flouncing. The jacket is trimmed, aa shown in the plate, with the embroidered edging, with standing collar and cuffs en smite.

A straw hat is trimmed to match the dress. The parasol is of the same color. Hats and parasob very generally match the color at the onetnme this summer. have a pareeol and a hat to go with

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Aeo-eeDed "tal poodre" lately took In the town hall in Brighton. All the

SSL white

appeared with powdaed hair, the in the asnsl evening dress, only with waistcoats and a white lower ta their bat-

The hostess, Mrs. Cooper, won velvet wtkh old laee aaddieuaossds, her a white satia Areas esabrofderad

tahfisr aai Made Chaatfily laee The tabUer

Tossed it ended with a large pnff tjund tbe bottom. Tbe bodioe and rain were both made of velvet, trimmed vith splendid lace, and a garland of buttercups went across the bosom. Another charming toilet consisted of a sapphire blue satin skirt, densely embroidered tfith reel amber beads, a tunic and waist of net interwoven with gold threads, and a blue velvet train. To this, turquoise ornaments and white feathers in the hair. A dark blue tulle costume with plush side breadth, which, iflro thB waist, was covered with bluish steel heads, was very original. A white tulle toilette with large silver butterflies as trimmings was greatly admired. White was ogain the predominant color among the dressefe worn by the younz ladies.

Superb Trimming.

A handsome dress of black satin rhadame was lately trimmed in away that attracted general, admiration. The trimming was a woven fabric of mingled jet and steel. The steel was not of tbe old-fashioned, glittering polished kind, but rather of the dull shade known as steel blue. It was woven into a loose-meshed network of large beads. Upon the network were large drops of brilliant jet beads. The trimming was about two and a h*if inches wide. It formed cuffs and trimming down the front of the basque, was laid down the whole edge of the long overskirt at the side, and made dashes of brightness here •nH there upon the drapery. Every time the lady moved this superb trimming twinkled light moonlight upon the water. Being of the dull blue rather than the polished lmtfa and fork steel, it was not painful to the eyes, but was simply brilliant without being blinding.

•js Watch Chains and Lacs Pins.

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HO. 1—THE "CLAUSTRA." FIG. 2—QCE8X CHAIN.

Fig. 1 shows a new style of self-locking lace and shawl pin which is attracting attention. The '.'Claustra" is made in a variety of lengths, hence includes sizes suitable for brooch, shawl, lace an4, hair pins, and even bonnet ornaments. ,1c is made both with and without pendants, and is susceptible of a great' variety of designs and styles of ornamentation. Some of the designs fire very unique, as, for instance, one in which the head of the pin is composed of gems simulating a great spider, while the cap that goes over the point of the pin

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which is suspended from the head

by means of a slender chain, represents a fly. The effect when the pin proper is concealed in lace or ribbon, is that of a cunning spider drawing by a golden cobweb an unwary fly into its trap. All the popular designs, such as enameled flower patterns, crescents and stars, swords, etc., are represented in tbe "Claustra."* C/

QUEEN &HABT.

This style of chain, shown in Fig. 8 of the illustration, is still the mode. The watch is worn in a little ohamois leather case inside the bosom of the dre3s. The short chain, about four inches long, terminates in a tiny h«ll or other fancy design, and hangs outside the corsage. Chain and ball are seen in the illustration. Somatomes, a bow of colored ribbon is tied to the ring of the watch and ornaments the corsage outside. Of this little chain The Jewelers' Circular says:

As it is susceptible of an infinite variety of pattern and material, it is likely to please for along time to come. Numbered with attractive patterns are chains finished with three small balls set with gems, and chains on which a solitary ball opens in half, disclosing a lock or vinaigrette. Again, the flniah is fanciful, as a vinaigrette in form of a jug, a teapot or a rose. Counted with fancies rather than fashions, are enameled chains incmsted with colored gem?, to wear with watches similarly decorated. Ladies? watches, by the bye, remain small in sice.

Decoration* for Dining -Koom&

The decorative dishes and plates lately eo fashionable are being replaced by pictures of still life, studies of trees, large panels of antique embroidery and so on a gilt barometer is put opposite a clock in dial case. Ihe sideboard is considered a cumbrous piece of furniture for many dining-rooms if only of middle sice, and instead are seen antique dressers or small presses in Norman or Breton style, on which, on shelves, are placed silver tankards and old drinking vessels, as also sets of Bohemian and crystal glass. A timepiece answering tho-£angiture has also its place at one corner.

Mushroom Parasols.

Mushroom parasols aro among the novelties. They aro made of silk canvas, woven gauzes, black, white and colored, and covered with a shirred circle of piece lace, black, white or colored, with a ruffle at the edge to match, or sometimes with a deep flounce of lace, which does duty for both covering and border ruffle. The lace forms a chou (cabbage) or tuft at the top, made more decorative by the addition of a ribbon bow and loops and floating ends, the artistic handle being adorned.

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Shape of the Face.

The human faoe should he oval, and the dressing of the hair and the arrangement of the bonnet trimming should be done with regard to producing this effect. Before buying anew bonnet the purchaser must decide whether her hair is to be worn high or to be brought down in a Catogan braid.

FASHION LETS.

Drab white is the newest shade of this color. Plum color and pale ram Is a fashionable English color combination.

Gold turtles are the latest golden fancy for hat and bonnet ornamentation. Tbe high odors of the newest jackets and frocks are stiffened with wiggan. E Blade or navy bloe stockings are worn by •mil girls and misses with drawee of any

White mohair or alpaca, with small red or bhse poenpadoor flgnrea, are being made up tar afternoon wear at tbe seashore and mooa-

•Pinkish fawn is a krvety «»d popalar color for tailor made coetames, and may be (raided with either gvid or silver and a darker £awn or tan braid. fior sooner dDta, eottom and ttgkt wootano, Ike "fan umdiess" la a farutite style. Tbe •aterial la front la plaited to the belt at Ike top, fallteg la platta a quarter of a yard te lasgtfc. Thase era stitched along eack edge. Fhrthar dowa tfce maudieM dlvideoia Ike cartn and isdrmwa va

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TER]^rHATJTE SATURDAY UVENIISTG MAH2 .,:

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Baeae of these fan ft ante are idpil wMkkw^

FOUR ACTS PLAYED!

Sad Keport About Ex-President Arthur.

Will the Fifth and Final Act be a Tragedy

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. "Dr. Lincoln who was at the funeral" Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex-" "Arthur looked very nnwell. He is" "suffering from Brigbt'sdisease. Dor-" "ing the past year it has assumed a very" "aggravated form."

That telegram is act IV. of a drama written by ex-President Arthur's physicians. In act I. he was made to appear in ''Malaria," of which all the country was told when he went to Florida.

In Act II. he represented a tired man, worn down, walking tbe sands at Old Point Comfort and looking eastward over the Atlantic toward Europe for a longer rest.

The curtain rolls up for Act III. upon the distinguished actor affected with melancholy from bright's disease, while Act IV. discovers him with the disease "in aa aggravated form, suffering intensely, (which is unusual) and about to take a sea voyage."

Just such as this is the plot of many dramas.by play-wrights of the medical profession. They write the first two or three acts with no conception of what their character will develop in the final one.

They have not the discernment for tracing in tfhe early, what the latter impersonation will be. Not one physician in a hundred has the adequate microscopic and chemical appliances for discovering bright's disease in its early stages, and when many do finally comprehend that their patients are dying with it, when death occurs, they will, to cover up their ignorance of it, pronounce the fatality to nave been caused by ordinary ailments, wberas these ailments are really results of bright's disease of which they are unconscious victims.

Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent, of all deaths except from epidemics and

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dents, result from diseased kidneys or livers. If tbe dying be distinguished and his friends too intelligent to be easily deceived, his physicians perhaps pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis, pyeemia, septicaemia, bronchitis, pleuritis, valvular lesions of the heart, pneumonia, etc. If the deceased be less noted, malaria" is now the fashionable assignment of the couse of death.

But all the same, named right or named wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in While it prevails among per sous of sedentary habits,—lawyers, clergemen, congressmen,—it also plays great havoc among farmers, day laborers and mechanics, though they do not suspect it, because their physicians keep it from them, if indeed they are able to detect it.

It sweeps thousands of women and children into' untimely graves every year. The health gives way gradually, the strength is variable, the appetite fickle, the vigor gets less and less. This isn't malaria—it is the beginning of kidney disease and will end—who does not know how

No, nature has not been remiss. Independent research has given an infallible remedy for this common disorder but of course the bigoted physicians will not use Warner's safe cure, because it is a private affair and cuts up their practice by restoring the health of those who have been invalids for years.

The new saying of "how cbmmon bright's disease is becomin

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ag amon old, and as sa^r, sounds

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he Englishman would "stupid"—esLsocially disease is rap:

"stupid" since this

jidly detected by the more

learned men ana specialists of this disease. But the "common run" of physicians, not deteoting it, give the patient Epsom salts or other drugs prescribed by the old code of treatment under whioh their grandfathers and great-grandfath-ers practiced!

Anon, we hear that tbe patient is "comfortable." But ere long, maybe, tbey "tap" him and take some water from him and again tbe "ccomfortable" story is told. Torture him rather than allow him to. nse Warner's safe cure! With such variations the doctors play upon the unfortunate until bis shroud is madef when we learn that he died from heart disease, physemia, septicaemia or some other deceptive tbougn "dignified cause."

Ex-Presiddent Arthur's case is not singular—it is typical of every such case. "He is suffering intensely." This is not usual. Generally there is almost no suffering. He may recover, if he will act independently of bis physicians. The agency named has cured thousands of persons even in the extreme stagesis to-day tbe mainstay of the health of hundreds of thousands. It is an unfortunate fact that physicians will not admit there is any virtue outside their own sphere, but each school denies virtue to all others, tbe people act on their judgment and accept things by the record of merit they make.

Tbe facts are cause for alarm, but there is abundant hope in prompt and inde pendent action.

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This is the Easiest Time in the Year for High Living

At Moderate Cost at Jno. Dobbs' Ghrocery.

The best of good things is as moral law. He has Strawberries, Summer Squash, Gooseberries, Mint, Parsely, Currants, New Peas, Oranges, New Beeta, Lemons, Cucumbers,

Bananas

and a fall line of other things. South Fourth street below Walnut.

MIXED PAINTS,

(In earns of one gallon and less.)

Glass, Varnishes, Oils,

Paint and Whitewash

BRUSHES,

Ladies Satchels, Supporters, Feather Dusters, Choice Perfumery, 'Pore Wines and Liquors.

GULIClT& CO.,

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Corner of Fourth and Main sts.

Low Price® Guaranteed.

What is this world coming to?

Is it going to be altogeth

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PH(ENIX FOUNDRY

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MACHINE WORKS,

Manufacture aad|deal in all kinds at

Machinery and Machinery Users Supplies*

FLOUB MILL WOBK

OarSRpooialty, 4

Have more patterns, larger exjwrteneeand capacity, and employ more mechanics than any other establishment within sev-enty-flve mile of Terrs Haute.

Repair ud JebUai W«rk Given special attention. Write or call on us and see for yourselves. *01 to *35 Hortb JTIatb Mar Union Depot. Tarn Hsstalsl

HOWARD & CO.,

FOOTS, HUNTER CO., 123 south 3d street

We will have aa

Atctim Sato ovwry Satwday,

at 1« o'clock of bones, wafoos, haraea^T*- ..—. etc. All borse«. mtsBkn. We families wan

etc., bought and fir* particular nilw« liniiM Al

bought and sold on com'*r attention lo All onlen frr u«e or Rnsll. promptly

bonmar mnl«Oai»e or Mm

cash paid for boras* and mules at •11 times. Onikn solicited and saOs^actkm

filled.

n««iiouem Tsof aeneu ride in style,

ws nave pmn^rbogrtBS, new hanees and first class horses in our livery.

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Is honesty goihg to vanish, or is it going to fight itsway through and finally come out victorious and reward itssupportera?

These are the questions we have' ask 'ourselte^i^ "thousand times during this demoralized state of affairs which seams to exist and take the upper hand in the DRY GOODS BUSINESS IN THIS CITY, DURING THIS ENTIRE SEASON.

WE THINK they* ore NOT YET BLIND ahdv hope they are not going to be, and we shall continue to do business on THE SAME OLD STRAIGHTFORWARD AND STRICTLY HONESR PRINCIPLE, to which we have adhored FOR 16 YEARS.

WE WILL FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE r|TAND WE ARE SURE TO WIN. ,r\ sf«i

^. When we offer a special bargain IT IS NOT BE'CAUSE WE EXPECT to makeup for it, by charge ing double for other goods. Our prices throughout our stock are universally low and will remain so. W v*

We have sone special good value in store for next M'fv week, to which we invite inspection.

& y.'i HERZ^j BAZAR.

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JDEALEBS IN

HARDWARE!

Main. Streel^J:,

PliiCE

TO BUY YOUR

Hardware, Lawn Mowers, Screen Doors and Windows, Wire for Screen Doors and Windows, Glass, Oil and Paints,

Sash, Doors and Blinds Iron i*?? Fences, Rubber Hose for yard :u., and street sprinkling, House

Numbers, Etc, Etc., Etc.

Established 1860. Incorporated 1878.

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We call especial attention to the above figures and that there 1* no question in our mind that ont of 86,000 Bolls of Choicest

Wall Papers

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Vorld of deception?

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ARE PEOPLE BLIND? Do they grab for a bait like fish and allow themselves to be caught? ^'1" Jsfcfefp*# fete

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In designs, patterns and colorings the most fastidious can be fully and satisfactorily suited. The stock embraces some very choicepatterns from French, German and Engiuh factories and from all tbe leading American manufacturers. We would respectfully otter

INDUCEMENTS:

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The largest and choicest stock to select from. Our thorough knowledge of the business thereby enables us to assist you in m»king wise selections.

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Oar very low prices. Fair and honest dealing with courteous treatment.

We have also secured the service of

SKILLED WORKMEN

From ucher cities whose reputation for artls^ tic labor is unexcelled and will garantee satisfaction in every instance te all who have their work entrusted to our care.

Having purchased at osstgneeM sale last fall the stock of C. H. Traquair, will otiter all* that Is left of the same at exceeding low prices.

Thankful for the large patronage extended to 0* In tbe past, would solicit and hope to merit the continuance of the same in our new quarten.

673 Main Street,

6 daon wert of 71b street, sooth side.

THE J. W. ROBERTS CO.