Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 November 1885 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. PUBUCATHM orncK,

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20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TKKKE HAUTE, NOV. 14, 1886.

FHED WARD

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expresses the hope that

be may live to get out of jail and oegin life all over again. In the event of his doing so the public will certainly hope that he will begin very differently from what be did the first time.

JOHN MCCOIXOCOH,

the tragedian,

on whom fell Forrest's mantle, died at hi* home in Philadelphia, last Sunday afternoon. It Is now claimed that the unfortunate actor was not insane, and that placing him in an asylum was a mistake.

past few days have shown rather

a uotable increase of business failures throughout the country. While none of them Involve exceptionally large amounts several have been for f100,000 or more. There is nothing in the business situation, however, to warrant the belief that times are not improving and these failures cnuat be regarded simply as the natural miscarriages of a certain percentage of business ventures.

thing in favor of cremation Is its

tendency to lesson the expense of funerals. The coffin in which the body Is taken to the crematory Is destroyed after the body has been incinerated and it is theretore recommended that the coffin for this temporary use be of a plain and cheap character. The undertakers do not look with favor upon this Innovation as it is to their interest to keep funeral expanses up to a good round price. ______________

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must be trifle agitating to have a message pfaoed in one's hand apprising him that he has fallen heir to $7,500,000. Such experiences do not happen very frequently outside the story books, but one happened tho other day to Mr. Charles

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wreck of tho steamer Algoma in

Lake Superior, with the loss of nearly all on board, Is another evlvenee of the perils of lake navigation. The steamer waR an Iron one and strongly built but there is no vessel that Is able to withstand the fury of the storms which so often prevail on the uppor lakes when daahed upon the hidden reefs of those treacherous waters. It is said, and apparently with truth, that the navigation of the lakes is more dangerous than that of the ocean.

FKHHINAM) WAR1»IS

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finding the way

of the transgressor very hard indeod. According to his story the life In Slug Sing 1* killing him by Its severity. The public Is not called on to sympathize unduly with theeon\iet bauker, but at the

time a reasonable degree of

humanity ought to be exhibited by the keepers of prisons. The prisoners ought to be assigned to work that is not beyond their physical strength to perform. Prison life must be dreary enough at the beat and there is no call to add cruelty to its other hardships.

OMR

of the patients in the Cook coun­

ty, HI., insane asylum was strangled to death the other night by bis room mate. Chicago and Cook county have been in the hands of corrupt political rings so long that all their jubltc Institutions stln it of jobbery and mismanagement. The asylum is entirely inadequate to uieet the wants of it* tJOO patients, both in tho matter of room and and a sufficient corps *f attendants. It is high time that the honest people of the city, without regard to politics, rise In their atiength and squelch the rings and rlngsterw.

boom in railroad stocks and

bond* since the 1st of July, has been simply enormous. The statement is made that the advance in twenty leading stocks auiouut* to 1500.000,000. The question agiiating a good many persons Interested in this kind of securities Is whether this tremendous advance has anything oubatautial in It or is only speculative. It is probably mainly of the tatter character. There has been no rre«| ondlng rise in the prioee of other commodities and reported earnings of the railroads have cettainly not been such as to warrant any extravagant rise in the price of stocks.

To the charges so often made against the political methods of the South four Governors of Southern State* have responded through the columns of lb* Ronton Herald. Tbey explain the poliUo«l situation aa tbey see it and all prof«*» eagerneas to have the Northern Republican spankers me south to meet the "Solid South" at home and see that It la not the disloyal, outrage breeding thing it is enoK&itries painted. These expressions show that there is ad Is position on the part of leading men of the South to discuss the political status of the Southern States in a spirit of fair* new and without passion or piejudk*.

It la an invitation that should be accept­1tbem ed by the public men of the North. It would be a good thing for both sections to have an interchange of speakers in poliueal campaign*.

baa not been made very clear upon what theory editor Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, was convicted of the crime of abducting the girl Armstrong. It appesrs, however, that his crime was merely technical and nominal rather than a substantial infraction of the law. In order to expose the scandalous practices of the nobility be resorted to methods similar to those used for procuring young girls for immoral purposes, but with no design to injure the victim so obtained. This was a technical infrscttion of the law perhaps, bnt certainly when the end had in view by Mr. Stead is considered his punishment should be as nominal as bis crime. If the people of England can afford to send such a man to prison be can surely afford to go there. But whatever disgrace attaches to the conviction and punishment will be upon the people and not then an

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announced that polar exploration

is to take anew turn and that the next craze among discoverers will be the ex ploration of the waters surrounding the South Pole. The wonder is that thin field of discovery has been neglected so long as it has. While northern exploration has penetrated to with 400 mi leu of the Pole, the South Pole has never oeen approached more nearly than a thousand miles. One naturally has the impression that antarctic exploration would be less difficult and dangerous than that in the opposite direction, but this idea is probably erroneous. Indeed it is the opinion of someautborittes that the.South Pole is enveloped by a thicker coating of ice than the North Pole and will be even harder to approach than the latter. But this is probably a mere conjecture rather than any well founded deduction from solid scientific reasoning. At any rote the south pole should present unusual attractions to arctic explorers from the fact of Its novelty and it is to be hoped, if we must have polar exploration, that it will take a turn in that direction. It would be interesting to know what lies beyond tbe antarctic circle and in the frozen regions of the South Pole.

THERE

Barker, of Newburyport,

Masa. He Is only 28 years old and unmarried and the question la, "What will he do with it T" Perhaps Mr. Barker can And Home girl who will bo willing to help him spend It.

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growth of St. Paul and Minneap­

olis is certainly marvelous. Five years ago St. Paul had a population of 50,000, which is now 90,000 and Minneapolis had 60,000, and now claims 130,000. These figures may possibly La a trifle extravagant, but after making sufficient discount the surprising fact remains that in this cold bleak region of tbe north tbero is a renter of population having not less than 200,000 souls. And this is not the end by any means. The people of those cities are now more hopeful and enterprising than ever. The permanence of their prosperity, long doubted and distrusted, is now assured, and capital is more disposed than ever to go there for Investment. Tbe surrouuding territory is tbe most productive grain country in tbe world and it is believed that Minneapolis is destined to be tbe great flonr and wheat dopot of tbe United States. Many persons who invested there judiciously a few years ago have made fortunes and some who did not invest have had occasion since to regret it. The ouly other large place that has kept pace with these twin cities of the north land is Kansas City, which has done as well if not better even than tbey. It has the advantage over them of possessing a more hospitable climate and of being surrounded by the fertile country which produces not only wheat but all varieties of agricultural products.

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action of tbe President looking

to the punishment of all persons engaged In making war on the Chinese throughout tbe Pacific Slope will be generally commended. Tbe antl-Chi-nese movement has assumed such proportions that tbe general government cannot afford to let It pass unnoticed in the Territories. In California and Washington and Wyoming Territories there is a general movement looking to tbe expulsion of tbe Chinese either peaceably or by force. In some places tbe rental price of property is placed so high as to be out of the rescb of tbe I Mongolian puree and different plans are I pursued to compel the Chinese to leave.

So long as force la not used to expel perhaps tbe government has no right to Interfer, bat where Chinese are openly driven out, as tbe have been in severe! instances, It Is tbe plain doty of I tbe federal authorities to we that tbeae

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is no question but that Dakota

Is booming. In 1880 the population of the Territory was 135,000. Now it is reported to bo upwards of 400,000. The past year has been one of great prosperity. The crops have been bountiful and the prices realized much better thau those of a year ago. Manufactures are springing up, new ltnes of railway surveyed and a general industrial activity indicated. Dakota ought to be admitted as a State at the next session of Congress. Her population is already much larger than that of the other States when they were admitted, and her continued prosperity Is- assurred by the fact that she possesses immense agricultural resources. Her soil and climate are essentially the same as those of Minnesota, whose growth during the past ten years has been phenomenal. There is onlje one serious drawback to her admission, namely, that tho Territory is Republican and tbe Congress Democratic. It will be hard to overcomo this objection. The best plan perhaps would be for all tbe Republicans to move into the northern and all the Democrats into the southern half, then divide the Territory in the middlo and make two States of it. The would preserve the balance of power and Dakota would be welcome to come in.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

unfortunate people are protected in tbelr rights. However distasteful their presenoe may be, so long as the law gives them the right to settle in tbe country the government must protect their lives, and property even if it has to be doneat the point of tbe bayonet. The adminis-! tration has tardily adopted this view of tbe case and has given orders according-j ly. It remains to be seen with wbatdiligenoe and efficient tbey will be carried out.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A Washington bridegroom recently gave tbe minister a #1,000 bill for tying

Mrs. Nast, tbe tall, beautiful wife of Thomas Nast, is said to be the original of tbe Columbian figure so frequently portrayed by that successful artist.

A graduate of a theological seminary in New York has been refused a license to preach because he lived tooexpensively and dressed too fashionably.

A Boston man was taken ill out West. When asked if he wanted anything, he said "Ob, give me anything made of beans." So tho attending physician gave him castor oil. ,*

New York has a "profeasor" who describes, for a certain fee, the good points of painting owued by vairr people, and qualifies tbem to impart tbe.informaticn to thf ir visitors.

The poor but proud young man may take comfort in the face of the assertion of the London Lancet that "the wearing of overcoats causes more cases of rheumatism and lumbago than going without tbem." "Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with •lady,' writes Ella Wheeler WilcoX, Ella should start this reform hfei-self. Ufo ordinary persons are going to risk 'their hair by telliug a lady that she is a woman.

The history of a Vermont mountain town is thus epitomized by a good observer: Tbe early settlers cleared up givgi farms, and the children got rich J^om them. The grandchildren ran them down, and loaded tbe town with debts. Tbe next generation shipped away to the West.'

The great men of the late war are rapidly passing away. Grant, Lee, McClellan, Thomas, Halleck, Lincoln, McDowell, Stanton, Meade, Bnrnside, Banks, Farrogut, Foote, have crossed tbe river to tbe unknown shores beyond. Sherman, Sheridan, Lo^an, Schofield, Pope are about the only ones of prominence who are left and, in tbe natural course of events, it will not be long before tbey, too, will have disappeared from human vision. "Adirondack" Murray began a lecturing tour at St. Johnsbury, Vt., tbe other night, and after he had finished his dlsdiscourse lectured bis audience because a local newspaper had called bis life a wasted One. He said he bad gauduated from tbe ministry, and for six years bad studied to fit himself for another kind of work and that, instead of having "dropped down and out from among forceful men," he proposed soon to appear in a quite opposite character.

ONE BLACK BEAN JN A HUNDRED. One of Gen. Grant's newly-appointed ataff officers bad never been in any serious engagement. But almost tbe first day tbat be reported to Grant he was placed under afire of tbe hottest and most severe kind. Tbe screaming of tbe balls, the roaring of the cannon, and the sharp crack and rattle of tbe musketry throughly demoralized him. He became absolutely sick and paralysed with fear. He was so weak from nervous excitement that be lost physical ontrot over himself. Gen. Grant came np

are frightened. That is natural enough. You will get over it. Suppose," continued Grant, "I should come to yon with a bat containing ninety-nine white beans snd one blsck one, and I should ask you to thrust vour band into tbe hat at a venture and pick out the black bean do you think your chance of getting that black bean would be very good Well, your chance for being bit under this fire is no greater than your chance for drawing tbe blsck bean." The officer at once took beart, and from then on be never showed tbe slightest sign of fesr.

—Next week week we will open for display our new stock of Holiday goods, such as Dolls, Fancy Cops acd Saocers. Pluab and Leather Hsnd Bags, Plush Mirrors and Toilst Cases and Toys, which will be sold at remarkably low price*, at tbe Half Cent store, 406 Main

THE POWER OF 80NQ.

One time I bad to take a train and ride in the caboose. It was full of Irish laborers just drunk enough to be noisy! when we started, and as the night wore on tbe whiskey went in, and they soon had things all their own.wa^. It was pandemonium let loose. The conductor and brakemen were helpless. I had pretended sleep in oue corner, but it was no nse, for soon a big, burly fellow tumbled over me, and out I came, just about as angry as a Christian ever should get. Things were coming to a crisis, when the conductor interfered, but that only made matters worse. He hsd drawn tbe attention of my Irishmen, however, and I bad time to think. There were at least twenty-five against the conductor, brakemen, and myself. 1 happened to think of the 'Exile of Erin' and of an old tune which my fatber used to sing it to. Fatber was of Scotch descent, but had learned Irish melodies from my mother's people.

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now tbe Mormons in Idaho are

beginning to catch it too. The other day Justice Hays sent eight of them to tbe penitentiary with tbe parting suggestion that "a religion based on crime can not and will not stand." Something for the persecuted saints to reflect upon in their spsre moments in prison life. This is all very well and the bobbery which tbe Territorial judges are kicking up is greatly discouraging to the polygamists, bnt this good work is largely neutralized by tbe batches of Mormon m-mits which come in at regular intervals from Europe by way of Castle Garden. These degraded end ignorant people are gathered from tbe four quarters of tbe earth by the Mormon proselyters and are anything but a desirable acquisition to our population. Tbe policy of fighting the old Mormons in tbe Territories and at the same time admitting new ones by tbe hundreds from Europe does not look like a consistent one. The coming of these people should be promptly stopped. -.

So I walked up to one who was mellow enough to be tender-hearted, and to far gone to be dangerous, and holding him till 1 could whisper in his ear, I said: "I can sing the 'Exile of Erin."'

You should have oeen hiui tbeu. He yelled at the top of his voice: "Howly mother! here's a fellah as can sing the'Exile of Erin.' Be still, ivery mother's soul of ye." Bnt he only succeeded with three or fiiur, and getting down with their heads all around me (oh, tbe stench of whiskey breath!) I Sang tbe old tune of the "Blackbirds": iere came to our beach a poor Exile of

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The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill. For hi* country he sighed when at twilight repairing To wonder alone by some wind-beaten hill.

But beforo I could get. at the rest of the verse, or the other part of the tune, I bad tbe wbole car-load about me, and on top of me, and crawling over me, with such requests to go on, and such applause as would turn tho h*ad of a professional musician. I think it was about the worst singing I ever beard, but the audience was not critical, and each one screamed at tbe others at the top of bis voice to keep still for the lile ot him. and let the poor man sing of "Ouid Ireland." •God bless the sowl of him! I'll go ye my month's wages that he's an Irishman himself away back."

After awhile they were still as death, and then: But the day-star attracted liis sad eye's dtvotion, For it ro^e o'er his cwn native isle of the ocean, Where once in the flru of his youthful emotion, lie sang the bold anthem of Erin go Bragli.

The French say that tbe uian who can get a hearing has already seouied half the business". 1 bad all of and paused. 'Do you know any more of it? 'Oh,"yes. I know it all, and if you will only sit down I 11 slug, bnt if you stand up and keep ou interrupting me, why, I cannot sing, of course."

That settled it. They were clamorous for more at whatever cost to themn»lves, three or four of them saying in the same breatb: "Me father used to sing it, and mother sang it, and we all sang it, in ould Ire land'' Now my audience was plastic and thoroughly interested. "Sad is my fate," said the heart-broken stranger, "The wild deer and wolf to his covert can flee But I have no refuge from famine and danger,

A home and a country remain not to me, Never again in the gre^n, sunny bowers Where my forofath rs lived shall I spend the sweet hours, Or cover ray harp with tho wild-woven flowers,

And strike to the numbers of Erin go lirugh." Some of you will smile when I tell you bow these poor men sat mute and attentive, as their eyes tilled with tear* over old and sweet memories which floated off in the song of the "Green Isle of the Ocean."

Call it a shallow sentiment If you will, but the wise man said that by sorrow of the countenance the heart is made better. And so I sang the song through to tbe end—"Erin Mavourneen, Erin go Brash." "Boys, msy I tell you something?" "Yes." "You've heard Tom Moore's other song, haven't you?" "What one?" '•'Come, Ye Disconsolate.' "Och, bedad! and did he do that?

Would ye mind tip'in' that to us tbe night?" So I sang that old, familiar hymn as I never sang it before, snd tbe silence snd Interest were unchanged.

Some had gone to sleep I was so hoarse I could hardly speak, when two of tbem came, and, sitting down by me, said some tender and pleasant things 1 shall never forget.

Would I teach them just a verse of that last song and let them sing it with me Now this may a'«l seem very droll to you, as it did at first to the conductor, but when tbe time came to separate tbere was an audience somewhat mixed in its appearance, but quite well behaved, listening to an Improvised quartet which

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Joy of the desolate light of the Straying, llope, when all other dies, fadel.ss and

fere speak* the Comforter, tenderly saying. Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot

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ladles and Mens Underwcif sold at grest «acrsfice at tbe Half Cent Store, call and be convinced. MRS. L. ROSENBERG—406 Main 8t.

POWDER

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Ilifp powrfer never varies. A marvel of Mom ^n«»u'iiii»i fhan tbe ordinary kinds, awl eannotbesoid in eompetttiaa with the mnl-

parity, 'strsnath and icalfhaa tttade of low test, abort weight, alum or ptona e^sa^&Sn-S S3 *. N.T.

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Bargains! Monday Morning

eases of Canton Flannel--Heavy Unbleached--at, 8 cents worth 13^ cents. 50 pieces of

Heavy

One Night Only—Tuesday, November 17th.

Grand Triumph—Latest London and New York Sensation.

EDWIN THOENE'S

All Star Dramatic Gomi auy in the GrentSuccetw,

m—m THE BLACK FLAG! •hh

In five acts bv Henry Pel ttt, Esq. The strongest of Melodramatic Productions. The Purest in Motive. The Htrongest in HiuiailouB. The Most Realistic In Scenic and Mechanical Effects. Note—When a convict escapes from Partland prison, England, they hoUta Black Flug. Usual Prices. Reserved seats at Button's.

—"PEEK-A-BOO" "I SIEjIEJ

One Night Only—Friday, November 20th.

Engagement of the Great Irish Comedian and Vocalist,

W F. SCANLAN

Under the management of Augustus Pltou in a new Irish play written by IriNhmen,

SHANE NA' LAWN An Irish Love Story

By .TumM C. Roach and J. Armour Kuox (Texas Sittings), il lust rating Hcenos on tho Batiks ot tbe Winding Shannon near Historic

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tics, lledcoafeior Process Server, abounding in new and starting Dramatio Situations, Tragio and Pathetic Incidents, tind Idyllc Love Scenes, brigtheued by an abundance of Genuuio Irish Comedy iuterpered by a company of capable artists.

Every iailjr attending will receive a beautiful Souvenir Photograph of Mitt, original Harp of the Poet Toin Moore. Usual Prices. Secure seats at Button's.

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Matrons and Friends

'A VV?1 1

Lo not be deceived or mislead hy dealers who shout bljf tilings which they cannot show or do not produce when railed for, It is only their decoy to get yon in, and then "p make what they can out of you before they let you go.

We st'll just what we advertise,

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Red Twilled Flannel, at 25c worth 40c.

100 pairs of 10-4 Red Factory Blankets-all wool--at $5.00 worth $5.50.»,*. 300 Ladies Cloaks, at $2.60, $3.00, ^50 $5.00 worth double ,^The above are all Special Values. Inspection Invited.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

518 and 520 Main Street.

^MUSEMENTS-NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE.

true picture of Irish life, without Poli­

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RKST (300DS IN THK MARKET, AT THE LOWEST PRICKS, and guarantee every article just as represented, gg

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m'/ ii-}' -•uS'ti.f ..40p'K£,:j*«„-.v.U, We could jiive vou a list of prices as long the moral law, hut space prevents. We are not ashamed of onr pricrs as stock in marked In plain selling figures. All we sak is a comparison of goods and prices before buying elsewhere. EITHER READY-MADE OR MADE TO ORDER, FIRST CLASS IN EVERY PARTICULAR. I Invite your inspection.,

J. T. H. MILLER,

Clothier Merchant Tailor and Gents' Furnisher, 522 Main Street, North Side, near 6th.

PHILIP SCHLOSS

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In The Field

MVITH A LARGE STOCK OP

WINTER CLOTHING, Gents' Furnishing Goods And Merchant Tailoring

At Prices to Defy Competition.

Northwest corner 5th and Main Streets.

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Good Goods

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Low Prices.

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