Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 September 1885 — Page 4

THB=MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,5

EDITOR AND PKOPRIETOR.

ruBUCATioH omcm,

No*. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing Home Hqoare.

TERRE HAUTE, 8EPT.

26,

1886

SCIENTISTS are tenting the medical virtues of dogs' tongues. If tbe "hair of tbe dog i« good lor the bite," why wouldn't tbe tongue cure hydrophobia?

IT is said that foreign ere own abont 25,000,000 acres in thl* country. From airs some of them assume when over here one would suppose they owned the earth.

JUMBO'S skin will be stuffed for a museum, his skeleton will be sent to tbe Smithsonian Institute and Barnum will have to Call back on his white elephant and Chinese giant.

'FALL, the glass founder «:f Paris, has at last, after thirty unsuccessful trials, succeeded in making a crown glass disk without a flaw, for the great Lick telescope in California. We may now be be able to learn further particulars in regard to our neighbors on the surrounding planets.

THK bankers in convention assembled at Chicago have declared that tbe silver •dollar "must go." That lsall very well, bnt what If the people say it must stay Let Congress make it an honest dollar, a hundred cents dollar, and it may well enough be allowed to remain. An 80 cents dollar is a failure whether made of silver or gold.

"DURING the past week the premonitory symptoms of approaching winter have been in tbe air. Snow in Vermont, frosts in the north and cool nights everywhere. The good housewife should be putting the finishing touches on her winter supply of pickles, preserves and so forth, for the time for ripening fruits and vegetables is almost at an end.

IT is said a large fund is being raised in Iudiana to run tbe Ohio campaign. The Democrats in some instances are sending money to tbe Prohibitionists, arguing shrewdly that this i* the surest way to defeat tbe Republican party. As for the Prohibitionists, p*wple are divided in opinion as to whether, politically apealiing, tbey are kuaves or fools.

EIGHT Indiana townbliip trustees are miSHiug and aro supposed to boon tho Canadian side of the Falls. No wonder tho Domlulon people are getting tired of having all our rascals unloaded on them and want a modification of the extradition troaty. Tbero should bu no trcuble In getting this. It is no more tlian fait to ank tbe United States to take care of her own graceless scamps and Uncle Sam ought to be quite willing to undcrta' the contract.

IT sooms that Washington has not even yot abandoned all hope of securing the remains of General Grant. The program, according to Ex Senator ChalFee, is to got Mrs. (1 rani's consent to the remnval of the body to Washington and then ask Congress to act in tho matter. In Homo quarters it is thjuijht that the real purpose of this kind of talk is to stir up the people of Now York and infuse new K«al into tho monument committee. ______________

KDUAK L. WAKEMAN, editor of the Current, still remains In the mouastery whlrh he entered during the financial troubles of his paper. If he had been the editor of a political daily and was remiiining to expiate hU sins we should never expect to see him agaiu in this world, but as the Current isa clean, respectable paper, its editor needs no confessor. If be wished to find tbe farthest pua»lbl« extreme from publishing a newspaper he did well to seek a monaster*:. 1

THR cigar makers of Cincinnati are finding that strikes are very expensive tbing*. During the past two years there have been 152 strikes and lockouts, which coat the union $210,000, for supporting its members while out of employment. As only 69 of these strikes were successful It would seem that a great deal more was spent than was gained by thmn. Indeed it may well be questioned whether, taking tbe average throug'i, strikes are profitable to workinginen. Yet they seem to be about the only KNOrt left tbetn for the redress of their grievances, untew a general system of at bit rat ion culd be established which would undoubtedly be much better for all concerned.

SAM JONIW. th.» sensational Georgia preacher, has a perfect contempt for base ball, bnt dynamite and cyclones get the drop on him. A few days ago his barn was blown to smithereens by a dynamite boom placed there by some one whom the reverend Sam had offended by his canstfc remarks, although one would suppose tbey would blow op Samuel instead of hi- barn. A fe* nights later a cyclone struck the immense tent where he was holding •ervtce* and be did not have time to fold it, after the manner of the Arab, "and ideally steal away," but tho entire canvass came down, something like a wet blanket, upon the shrieking, frightened congregation, who bad to cat holes and crawl out into the darkness and drenching rain. This waa one of the times when tbe Ixjrd did not temper the wind to tbe shorn iscnb.

RRALLY the literature of the present

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come to be swayed more by such read ing than all others combined. Books are bonght and placed upon tbe shelf

CHEAP books are the order of the day as well in England as in tbls country Hngb Conway's story "Called Back,' sold at a shilling, bad the enormous of run of 300,000 copies, while his "Dark Days" came close up to it with 200,000. In similar cheap form Anstey's ''Tinted Venus," recently published, bad a first edition of 30,000 copies quickly exhaust ed. Other publishers took the cue and novels by Ouida, Smart, Mathers, Fenn, Harte and others have had immense sales in cheap form. Some books in other departments of literature have also been Issued in this popular form with good success. *,

IN one field of labor at least women are pushing up to tbe very front with men. We allude to the production of imaginative literature. Of the notable works of fiction reviewed in tbe October Atlantic three are women, the writers being Miss Murfree, better known as Charles Egbert Craddock, Blanche \Villia Howard, and Sarah Orne Jewett. All have gained eminence in literature and now rank among tbe most widely read of American novelists. To thin list may be added the names of Mrs. Burnett, Constance F. Woolson, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney and a number of others equally well known.

TAKING it KII in all the crops of Indiana this year were immensely bountiful. Tbe wheat crop, it is true, fell below tbe average, and yet it runs up to some 28,000,000 bushels, which is not a small crop by any means. The oat crop was one of the largest ever produced in tbe State and is estimated at 20,000,000 bushels. But Ein^ of all the splendid corn crop, enormous almost beyond beyond conception, and variously estimated at from 130,000,000 to 140,000,000 bushels. It makes one's head swim to try to realize what tbe figures mean! These are only tbe staples. Sandwiched in between tbem are tbe various kinds of fruit, butter,eggs, milk, poultry, pork and beef, the diverse products of tbe garden, honey, and a thousand and one smaller things, which, in the grand aggregate become very great things. Verily tbe Hoosier State baa prospered during tbe -past season and there should be no talk of hard times.

REPLYING to an atlicle in the New York Sun, tbe Chicago News denies that there lias been an increase of infidelity in this country of late years, and cites the growth of the evangelical churches as evidence to the contrary. As to numbers, tbe churches increased from 3,030 in 1800, to 43,078 in 1850, 70,148 in 1870 and 97,090 in 1880, The increase in

number of communicants is equally

satisfactory. In 1800 tbe number was pj0(jed

increased 116 per cent., while tbe growth evangelical communicants has been 185 per cent. These figures certainly do not show that Christianity is declining but on the contrary it is increasing. There Is, as a matter of course, a vast amount of unbelief and skepticism existing, but it is not as great as it was in 1810, when Bishop Mead, of Virginia, expected every young man he met "to a a a a is to when, in 1745, the president of Yale college found only five church members among its students or when, In 1807, President Appleton, of Bowdoin, found but ote professing Christian among tbe students of that college. On the whole the church people have no cause to be discouraged.

THKRB was a singular sadness and ragedy tn tbe death of the Rev. Robert Sloss, once a prominent minister In the Presbyterian church, and for a long time pastor of tbe Third church of Indianapolis. Dying in a iriserable room over a low saloon, at tbe end of a wretched debauch, with whisky jugs surrounding him. nothing was wanting to m*ke the anadow of tbe dark picture complete. TUB circumstance will be seised upon by unbelievers as an evidence of the fallacy of the Christian religion and tbe insincerity and hypocrisy ot many of its professors. Tbe prob abilities are strong, however, that Mr. Sloes was not a drunkard for the mere sake of dissipation, but was drawn into the use of stimulants in tbe hope of relieving a terrible malady from which be had long suffered. Tbe Indianapolis News takes this view of the matter, saying: "It Is atlegetber prolwbte that ht* senses were dulled with tbe drag"taken legitimate-

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MMbly days before be shut box** ot rootpbine and jus*

ly hour* ami himself up wit of whisky. Uts memory is entitled to tbe benefit of U»e

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tbe awumptlon

of entire innocence. Men of bis character do not do «eh thti-K* deliberately. He was was a man from hi* youth up devoted to holy living. For yearn be has gooe In and out before tbls people without spot or re-

earm*4 Unrtwtlao worker, 'whom

delight was In tt»«» I* of the Lotd. There is no logic, no moral prograsrioo. no evolotloa, in the ending which aamines a guilty dcbaoeh. Tbe boitw ot the attending dreamAtsneeaon his taking off Is tbe very strongpmaltak premmpiian that be was swt hlmvrif. bnt was olnmrfy V«aid« blmsetf, tntamo,."

TmcPali Mall Gazette has now dis-

age Is that found in the newspapers, covered that Mr. Howells is a great arThere are bnt few who find time to read tiat and that Ida "Rise of Silas iApham" anything outside of dally or weekly is the great American novel. The critic periodicals, and henca the world has declaies that,

"Tbe extreme delicacy and tightness of bis humor, tbe exquisitely evanescent aroma of latlve genii

his truly native genius, have prevented a solid, stolid, hard-beaded race, brought up on beef and beer and Dickens, from readily ap-

there to lie until dust and worms have predating the nnrivatled daintiness and mnWAri thAm unfit to he handled or gracefulness of his masterly touch. Wexre rendered tnem unrit 10 oe nanuiea or

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read, while the newspaper has been gone to tbe airy little bait that dangles so cleverly on/1 fantftstiMllv hAfniw over and over nntii its columns are known to every one of the household

nation too slow and heavs to rise at onoe

and fantastically before us. Well, we are glad our English cousins have learned to appreciate onr dainty and graceful novelist at his true worth. He is certainly "one of tbe finest" in his way, and if his way is not a great way, still it is always an entertaining, witbontever being a vicious one. For the mere purpose of pleasant relaxation it would be hard to find anything in literature more tempting than Mr. How-|to ells' stories. Beyond

thiB

the anthor

apparently doee not care mucn to go.

WHILE tbe selection of Ira L. Daveuport to head tbe Republican State ticket in New York was something of a disappointment to the conntry, it was probably a good piece of work on the part of tbe convention. There are many Republicans in the Empire State of far greater eminence and reputation than Col. Davenport, bnt he is said to be a man of fine education, very fair ability and unquestionable character a mas who has few enemies and many friends, and who will be likely to poll tbe full party vote, while his nomination will appeal effectively to tbe Independents. As an "available man," as the expression goes in political circles, it would probably have been difficult to make a better selection.' *, y. -fTfftirfwj:

THBBB have been rumors and tbreatenings of war in Enrope throughout all the year, but they have not borne tbe bloody fruit to conflict. Again the air is filled with threatening reports and one of the princes of Turkey is in rebellion. Poor Turkey! It is always Turkey when anything unfortunate is to happen. Her territory is falling away piece-meal and it will not be long until little if anything will be left. The armed powers of Europe have long had their hearts set on dividing "the sick man" up among them and it is only a question of time when the divide will be finished.

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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Blinders, which area torture to horses, ate said }o have been invented for tbe English nobility to put their coats-of-aruis on.

John Hugg, of Texas makes corsets by molding paper pulp directly on a human form. Here ia a cbanco for dudes and would be Venuses.

Rev. Sam Jones says: "I would rather have a boa constrictor about my nfck than to have a drunken son-in-law. Girls, the devil can do no worse than that."

Detroit Free Press is of the opinion that the first midnight yell from Oscar Wilde's boy baby did more to make a man of tbe father tbau all his travel and culture.

A oi uj|ifc wuj(ju

about 364,000, in 1850, 3,529,000, in 1870, him. It was probably from a kick-R-?O AAA loan in HAA

0,673,000, and in 1880, 10,065,000. To express it in another form, in 1800 there was one evangelical communicant to

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great force and nearly kill-

lug cow. Dudes will take warning. Tbe Tor-

was one evauge..c». «a.^U.UontoGlobe gives an account of one who .very UK of population lo the count, j.

In 1850 there was one to every in 1870, one to every iX and In 1880, one to remove upon go.nB to stop evory 3. Since 1850 our population ha. In boo^y condition.

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In China they pile weights on a murderer aud slowly crush him to death. It may do you good to know that it takes over two thousand pounds to crush the spirit of a strong man.

A Wiscons in man who

was on

his

way

to the river io commit suicide was bitten by a rattlesnake, aud tbe way he got a doctor around and beseecbed him to save his life made tbe whole neighborhood hum.

Some people apparently do their best to crowd as much misery as possible Into every day of their existence. It is a faot worthy of note that they genorally meet with pretty fair success in tbe enterprise. i,v

A Washington burglar has Invented a thirty-foot rope ladder which weighs only three pounds and can be tied up to look like an umbrella. He bas applied for a patent and will shortly issue a circular to thieves.

A society lady at Newport ssys she can gather at any time a hundred young, handsome and rich women as guests but to find half a dozen young men not spoiled with admiration, selfish and egotistic, would exceed her ability.

A New York physician "who is taken by everybody to be ten or fifteen years younger" than be is, attributes this favorable condition to tbe use of lemonade taken regularly four times a day. He bas used 3,000

lemons a year for ten

years. Sam Small, the well-known humorist and journalist of Atlanta, Ga,, was converted Tuesday of last week and preached to 500 people in tbe street thst evening. He said his conversion came like a flash of lightning abont 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He had just recovered from along spree.

A former evident of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and now of Utah Penitentiary, says in a letter to a ftiend: "I am serving out a six months' sentence for loving, cherishing and caring for my dear families, consisting of three of the best, noblest and loveliest wives in tbe Union, and twenty-three just aa good and pretty children aa ever came from heaven t-j sojourn for a season on this mundane sphere."

THE PASSING SBO W.

An sadience, respectable in numbers, bnt which would have been vastly larger at more leasonable prices, gathered at the opera house last night, and Clara Morris held it spellbound by a personation which will long be stamped upon the memory. Her presentation of the character of "Mercy Merrick'*" is a marvelons portraiture of extreme emotions, so delicate, so refined, so subtle, so grand and powerful. She seems to play her* part through inspiration, utterly forget" ful of self, and you forget the actress, the stage, the audience, and even tbe orchestra which fiddling away in the pathetic parts. It is not in her pathetic S passages that she shines most it is in her off-hand colloquials that she appears best advantage, Jor while her voice is very sweet when nsed in natural cadences, it becomes harsh when strained.

To-night Lester A Allen's Big Minstrels appear at the opera bouse in a programme that wil) tickle the lover of fun. The big feature is the appearance of John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, in a series of Roman and Grecian statuary. The manager desires it stated that "Mr, Sullivan does not take part in the performance except in the statuary. It is not the desire to attract the hoodlums but to give all people who would not attend a prize fight an opportunity of seeing the most perfectly put together man in the world. Sullivan is not large and would not attract especial attention on tbe streets, for be dresses quietly, but when he takes his clothes off, look out. Its tbe way he's made that gives him tbe chaaapionship." Another feature is the appearance of the O'Brien Brothers, the most marvelous of sll acrobats. Aside from these the entertainment will be purely a minstrel show, accompanied by fine orchestral music, together with specialties of a very high order.

John T. Raymond will play his great character of Mulberry Sellers, Tuesday evening, and the sal« of seats opened at Button's this moraijDg. Says tbe Chicago News:

Every point in Mr. John T. Raymond's wonderful Impersonation of Col. Hellers wa* taken aud enjoyed by tho audience at Hooley'u last night with as great relish as If it had been a first performance Instead of the three thousand and some odd. The sympathy between the stage aud audience wassockse that Mr. Raymond felt its influence, and acted with renewed spirit. His life-like realization of the good-hearted constructor of gigantic cloud castles was never in better form. From the first dilation on the millions in his rapidly evolved schemes to the final embrace of the Jury, he was followed with rippling laughter and sporadic guffaws, which told to the best sort of appreciation. His meal of turnips and water went with a roar, while the lecture on stammering cured by whistling convulse the house. There is something inimitably droll about the utter seriousness of Ool. Seliers's intoxication which in irresistible. There is nothing disgusting in his manner. It is a simple, harmless, innocent drunk. There is no affectation of dignity, but merely an unconsciousness that the la^t ingredient found for his celebrated eye-water has been a succession of midday eye-openers. The manner in which Raymond takes possession of court, lawyers, and the jury in the trial scene is Intensely amusing, Of course It is tbe wildest sort of absurdity, without parallel in fact or excuse even in caricature, but it makes tbe snecta tors roll in their scats,

On Wednesday even!ng^the'* Diamond Broker," a successful eomedy-drama, will be presented, introducing surprising mechanical effects and new scenery, painted expressly for this play by tbe emiuent artist, Griffith Morgan, whose scenic aud artistic work bas won the warmest commendatiou from tbe public and press of New York. The first act opens with a view of one of tbe open air concert gardens of Now York, showing tbe East river and tbe lights of Brooklyn in tbe distance. The boats of Fulton ferry are seen ploughing their way, darting here and tbere under the shadows of tbe great bridge. In tbe third act is presented one of the best known localities in New York, Astor square, showing the elevated railway, tbe Cooper Institute, the Bible House, and other no'od features of that locality.

For the week following next week we are to have tbe Ivy Leaf Company, Monday, Oct. 6th Barlow fc Wilson's Minstrels, Wednesday the 7th, and L!z zie Evans, Saturday tbe 10th.

Mr. Cox, tbe New York artist, bas arrived, and with assistants will retouch tbe scenery, paint some new ones, and a new drop curtain. Iv*

KEEN RUTTING KUTLFRY. No razors ever brought to tbls city will equal out "Elliott Barber's Razors." We are the only housecarryingfull line of Rogers and Wost en holm's Pocket Knives. Ladies should see onr Star Scissors, fully warranted, at A. G. Austin & CO'8. *'V

Best Yarn at Foster's.

PSORTQUE cures Itch and Wabash Scratches in 20 minutes. For sale by all druggists.

Oil cloths oe Foster's.

—For sndden colds try the Antizymotica. Directions and .formula on bottle. V'

Ginghams 5c. at Foster's?"

—Jacob Kern ia just now making a specialty of Spectacles, having a very large stock, including the real Pebble. If you are troubled with yonr present glasses and see if he can't salt your eyes.

New window shades at Foster's.

A

Remarkable Discovery.

As a Blood Purifier and a Lung Remedy, use Dr. Jordan's Long Renovator, the great Blood Purifier. For sale by all druggista.

For consumption tm« remedy stands unequalled. Thousands have bean cured with it. Try It. See testimonials. Also good for au Scrofula, Skin snd Eruptive diseaees.

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CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS.

Hie Terre Haute Commercial College.

The best evidence of the merits of this Institution is thefftct that it receives the unqualified endorsement of those who have been recipients of its benofits. No other school or college, no matter how rich in endorsements or eminent in professorship, not even the highest Universities in the land can present a better record for usefulness and no other institution has started more young and middle aged men on the road to success.

A CRASH!

HAVING BOUGHT THE STOCK OF

Boots and Shoes

OF C. CUMMlNt3S A CO., OF ST. LOUIS, AT

50c. on the Dollar,

The people can look out for some of tlie

BIGGEST BARGAINS

known in the Boot and Shoe trade of Terre Haute.

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