Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 April 1886 — Page 4

THE MAIL

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TEIIRE HAUTE, APRIL 10, 1880.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper arc published. The FIRST EDITION on Thursday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Afternoon, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person In the city, and the farmers of this immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Issue is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for the price of ONE PAPER.

Advertisements first appearing in the Saturday issue go In the Thursday edition of next week without extra charge.

PROFITABLE EVANGELISM. If the report be true, Sam Jones and Sam Small each took in the neighborhood of §3,000 from Chicago. This, i. will be admitted, was very generous compensation for the time and labor expended, and would indicate that there are financial possibilities in the evangelistic field hitherto unsuspected. Indeed it may be questioned, in the light of this fact, whether opera singing offers much better inducements for money making than sensational preaching. Yet, in this as in other things, there are few who can gain the first honors. The present time Is remarkable for the excess of applause and recognition that are showered upon those who, by some happy chance, strike out in an original path. It matters little what the thing may be, whether roller skates, literature or sensational evangelism. General Grant, lying at death's door, in a few months writes a book which brings to his family a fortuno such as Sir Walter Scott, prince of romancers, scarcoly earned in a lifetime of of hard labor, though his pen seemed to the people of his day, to turn all it touched to gold. So we recompense enormously, often out of all proportion to its doserts, whatovor thing has the novelty and freshness in it that makes it the fashion of tho hour. When, two thousand years ago, the Master said the laborer is worthy of his hire, and sent the disciples forth without scrip or purse, was it in his mind that they should receive a thousand dollars of lucre a week for toiling in tho vineyard? That the voluntary gifts of tho people would mako them rich, enabling them to add house to house, and farm to farm

Probably not or, if his divino nature enabled him to forseo that such a time would come, it may well be doubted if the thing had His approval. Yot wo have it with us to-day, not in one case only, but in several. If the "boy preacher," Harrison, has not profited well by his rovival work and its Utorary attachment, it has not been because he has been lacking in shrewdness to make good bargains or vigor in enforcing them after they wore made.

We have, it would seem, come to the time when success in doing tho Lord's work in tho world is recognized, valuod and paid as success in any other depart: ment of human effort is rewarded. Cities and churches bid against each othor for the services of the evangelist who has largest reputation and can draw the biggest crowds. Soul raving is estimated upon a money basis. Whether this is right or wrong it is not tho purpose of this article to Inquire. We simply sug gest the fact for tho serious consideration of tho religious people of the coun try.

THK Knights of Labor havo issued I grand manifesto to the workingmen of the world, wherein there is groat freedom and frequency In the use of high sounding phrases, such as "the giant of corporate wealth," "the eager ilend, who gloats as he grinds the lifo out of his fellow men, and grimaces and dances as they writhe upon his instruments of torture," and similar rhodomontade. is unfortunate for the cause of the work ingmen that those entrusted with the formulation of their literature should deal in such wild and extravagant phases. All this sounds too much like the official utterancos of a lot of French communists. There is an excess of frenay in these iwrformances which does not Impress the public mind favorably

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Exaggerated speech is never so effective as a calm and truthful statement of the facts*exactly as they are. Mr. Powderly's announcements are in wide contrast with the St. Ixuis promtnciamento. He states the facts as they are, simply and quietly, without excess of rhetoric or violence of invective and they are the weightier for it. The difficulty is that where there Is so much that is manif«*t ly mere figure of speech, it Is hard to aepar-ate the fact from the fiction to distinguish what is false from what is true and the latter is liable to suffer because of the bad company which it keeps with the former. It would 1h» well if these official utterances of the cause of labor were made to state specific grievances in plain and definite terms. Then there would t*» no room for misunderstanding or doubt.

THK trouble at East St. Lonla enlmln ated yesterday in the deputy sheriff** fir ing upon the people with fatal effects— four men being killed and one woman shot in the back, causing a mortal wound. None of the men killed were striker*. The greatest excitement, as may be expected, exists and the Governor has ordered to the scene eight com pnn'.es of militia, Including the Parte Light Infantry.

GLADSTONE was accorded a tremendous ovation Thursday when he entered Parliament for the purpose of making his speech on the Irish question. Members and others came as early as six o'clock, in order to secure seats, in which they sat or secured the same by leaving their hats and going about bare-headed, although the Premier did not begin speaking until four o'clock in the afternoon. It is said that no such exhibition of enthusiasm was ever before witnessed in the House of Commons. The bill which he introduced as indicating the policy of the Government provides for an Irish Parliament at Dublin, to consist of two bodies or chambers, each of which shall have power to veto the acts of the other. The powers of this Parliament will be legislative and administrative. Mr. Gladstone took the broad ground that it was the duty of Parliament to establish harmonious relations between Great Britain and Ireland on a footing of free institutions in which Englishmen, Scotchmen and Irishmen have a like interest. It is to be hoped that Parliament will support Mr. Gladstone in this advanced step in British legislation. We, from America, see that the English Government should have adopted some such measure long ago. It is but simple right and justice to Ireland that she should have some voice in making the laws which are to govern her. Under the wise leadership of Gladstone, who is by all odds the ablest ED^'shman of his i'me, something has been done towards relieving Ireland of the injustice which she has always suffered, and it is particularly fitting that he should lead this yet mce radical movement in her behalf. With separate Parliament for Ireland, it is probable that many difficulties heretofore experienced in the government of tho Island will be removed.

MASTER KNIGHT POWDERLY expresses the belief that both sides have learned a aluable lesson from the present railroad strike, namely, the folly of striking, and that this will be the Jast railroad strike the country will have for many years.

Certainly if the Knights have a reasonable amount of sense they will not plungo into such a strike without having some tangible and well defined cause for it. They have gained nothing and have lost a great deal by the present strike. Their losses in wages have been enormous'and much suffering is reported among them. Those who had credit at the stores so long as they were at work and able to settle their bills each month, are now refused goods by the merchants and being without money and credit both thoy find it well nigh impossible to obtain the bare necessaries of life, and their families are suffering for food and fuel. And with it all what has been gained? Where and what is the compensation? The trains are running in spite of them. Tho railroad refuses to re-employ those who have been guilty of illegal acts. To all intents the strike has been a failure. How much better it would have been to have submitted the points in dispute to a board of arbitration 1

IN IJarpor's Magazine for April, Mr. Frank'Wilkeson furnishes some interesting information on the subject of cattle raising on the plains, of which he speaks -from practical experience. Mr. Wilkesoh is not sk enthusiastic as some othors, nor does he think that the cattle of the plains are going to rendor the buslnoss of stock raising in tho farming sections of the country unprofitable. He shows from statistics that while the cattle of the-country increased some 12,000,000 betwepn 1870 and 1880nearly half this increase was in tho five States of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska, hicli are distinctively com growing States. Many peoplo will learn with surprise that in 1880, Illinois alone had more cattle than Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New* Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington Territories together. Also that Now

York, which is not regarded as a cattlegrowing State, had halt a million more cattle in that year than all the great grazing belt of the west. Mr. Wilkeson's art do is full of information that will bo of valuo to persons interested in the cat tic industry.

WHEN such colossal land swindling schemes as that which has been disclosed in California are brought to light of day, it is no wonder that the people demand some kind of protection. It appears that a Scotch syndicate employed some 600 Americans to pre-empt 160 acres of land each and turn it over for a nominal con slderatlon to the syndicate. Nearly 100, 000 acres of land would thus have been acquired by tho syndicate at a cost of $30,000, or about 33 cents per acre. Tin fact that so large a number of men could be found who were willing to accept such dishonorable employment for the pittance of $50 apiece, is one of the worst features of the whole business. If there is anything in the country which needs particularly sharp looking after just now it is the small remnant of our public lands which yot remains for settlement.

It ought to be made practically impossi ble to obtain them by swindling devices.

SEKATOK HARRISON'S speech on the civil service reform policy of the PresI dent, as exhibited in his appointments to office in Indiana, has attracted wide notice. The Senator goes into the matter with his usual thoroughness and in stead of contenting himself with high sounding phrases and flights of oratory he has laboriously collated the facts showing the mil characters ?f the appointees and of the men who«? placets they were appointed to fill. It is the most telling speech that has yet been delivered in Congress on the subject with which it deals. j..

Inoculation hi seriously proposed as cure for consumption.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THB fact has been disclosed that the author of the short story, "A Brother to Dragons," which was published in the March Atlantic, is Miss Amilie Reeves, of Richmond, Ya. The story is criticised by the Cincinnati Graphic as not justifying the preliminary heralding with which it was given to the public, but we think the Graphic is hypercritical. When the fact is considered that the story dates back to the fourteenth century, the skill with which the scenes of that ancient time are depicted and the conversation and speech of the actors are given, render the production quite a remarkable one. The story discloses originality and imagination in a high degree, as well as fine descriptive powers. The Mail will be badly fooled if Miss Reeves does not take a high- rank among the coming writers of the country, and add another name to the brilliant list of Southern literary women.

THE township elections in Indiana and elsewhere have given results which are very satisfactory to the Republicans. In many places the Democrats almost let the election go by default, apparently caring little what the outcome might be. It is evident that the offices at the command of the President have not been sufficient to go round and the shortage has had a demoralizing influence oti the disappointed ones. If this feeling" on the part of the Democrats shall prove general throughout the country and continue until the next national campaign, there is no tilling what may happen.

THE remarkable weather of the past week may possibly be owing to the rema -liable Easter which wo have this year. It falls on April 25th, the latest date on which it can possibly fall. So late an Easter has not occurred in this century and will not happen again until 1943. It happens only once in each century. The earliest date on which Easter can fall is March 22, and this also is limited to about once in a century. Weather wise people say that a late Easter presages a late spring and tho rule is certainly not open to criticism in the present instance.

"CLAIIA BELLE," whose real name was Mrs. Thompson, the writer of the rather loud" fashion letters for the Cincinnati Enquirer, died suddenly in New York, on Wednesday of last week, of heart disease.

The Passing Show.

SHOWS AND SHOW FOLKS.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West will be here the 17th and 18th of May. It is not probable that we will see Mary Anderson here this season,

The Bennett & Moulton Co. will be here again for a week beginning May 24. Miss Anna Dickinson is writing a historical play to show up man's inhumanity to woman.

Judge

Eggleston's play is progressing

finely and will be ready for the boards the last week in May. Marie r—ort*\tt. tb» ciai equality is impossible off the stage it is IOBS attainable on it."

A manager who has tried it recently said "It is bettor to play at cheap prices and make money than to charge |1.00 a head and starve."

It is claimed to be quite a difficuV thing for au access with a pretty face to make up to- look ugly. The effort to pe 'oade her to try would seem more difficult.

Lulu Hurst, tho olectric girl, with the proceeds of her professional tour, stocked her fathe/'s faVm with short-horned cattle, and has made her family comfortable for life.

Patti and Nicolini are to be married again in June. Theve ft reason to Tear that the giddy young things may yot have occasion to regret their unseemly haste in this important matter.

Riley and Nye refused to give (heir entertainment to about one hundred people who had gone to hear them at Jackson, Mich., a few days .since, and a correspondent remarks that Mr. Nye dismissed them in a ve-y curt way.*

Amusement goers a' ter a weeks rest will enjoy tho feast of good things booked at Naylor's opeia house. On Tuesday evening Murray and Murphy appear in their laughable comedy, "Our Irish Visitors." Have-ly's minstrels come the following evening, Goo. C. Bonilace ap pears in "Streets of New York" the remaining nights of the week. McNish's minstrels are booked for the 22d, and Maude Atkinson plays a week, beginning the 26th.

Some

weeks ago, Manager J. M. Hill

the "discoverer', of Margaret Mather chanced to see that capital brace of Irish comedians, Murry and Murphy, in their play, "Our Irish Visitore," and his discerning eye saw merit and money in the team. Ho decided to yoke them to his managerial cart, and will present them with their laughable comedy at Naylor's opera house, next Tuesday evening The Buffalo Express says: "The play makes no claim to literary merit, for it has none. Plot is also lacking. The whole object is to simply afford a num ber of clever people an opportunity to display their individual talents. The object Is accomplished successfully There is plenty of broad Irish fun, good singing, clever dancing, and, as a result, laughter and enjoyment in abundance

The mnch-talked-of Cragg family, the premiers of the acrobatic and gymnastic world, are one of the strong features with Haveriv's minstrels, who appear at the opera house next week. The work Is revelation to the admirers of gronnd and lof tly tumbling. Instead of the ordinary dress worn by gymnasts on the stage, they appear in dress suits, and perform all their feats without changing to tights and trunks. They prove to the audience

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that there is something in the acrobatic line which has never before been attempted, and a majority of their features are entirely new to the stage, while those that are old are of the most difficult kind. They are quick and graceful, and seem to work without effort. They display no muscles bulging through their shirts, strike no meaningless attitudes, and refrain from treating the audience to intermittent doses of bad pantomime. They go at their work in a businesslike way, and it speaks for itself. The chef d'ccuvre is the pyramid fall. The men, standing on each others' shoulders, four high, begin to totter, then stagger, and finally fall forward until the topmost man almost reaches the ground, when, with the agility of cats, they manage, in a manner which seems almost impossible of accomplishment, to turn handsprings, and land all right on their feet.

Lillian Russell's figure has returned to to the slim and graceful outlines of her early career. The metamorphosis has been rapid, for not over three months ago Lillian was more suited to the Katishas and Lady Janes than the heroines of opera comique. "How did you do it?" she was asked. "By walking, principally. Every day I take a spin of four or five miles. I never use a cab or a horse car if I can help it. I have renounced late hours and wine at dinner. I follow no dietary system save in avoiding potatoes and sugar, or vegetables that contain it, and I've lost thirty pounds. Now that I'm in proper im, I'll take jolly good care not to let the flesh, the world or the devil get the upper hand again."

The dancing of Mrs. Cecil Clay, formei ly Miss Rosina Yokes, who, with her company of English amateurs, has been giving very excellent dramatic per.o»mances in this country, has been much admired. It combines audacity and modesty in a remarkable degree, and one who sees her wondera how she does t. A Chicago newspaper has found out, and explains that she wears no petticoats. "Her clinging trains are lined with silk and bordered with lace. Underneath these, silken trousers fall to the ankle. These, too, are edged with lace, and cling to and conceal the limbs at every movement, having to the audience the appearance of elaborately trimmed skirts. In these Miss Yokes feels secure and her dancing becomes at once a revel ation of abandon and modesty. It is hoped that some of our comedy actres e3 who do dancing will be willing to take few lessons from the English TraJia The average American actress who daAces nowadays thinks she must be arrayed in a dress that is decollete at both ends which, in spite of all that may be said to the contrary, detracts from her grace an womanliness and in a measure lowe the standard of the performance."

Every sensible and well-behaved per who ever goes to the opera house will most heartily indorse the following pertinent suggestions of the Chicago Tribune

A code of stringent laws setting forth the etiquette to be observed at the opera or tho play would be a blessing to the

the filrst aot, the early goers who ruin the last act, the loud talkers who ruin all the acts, and to compel women to remove the abominations they wear on their heads which cutoff the view of those who who have the misfortune to sit behind tlem, rendering visible only the gas borders in the flies, they would confer a boon on the suffering public. In these r*»pects the English, as well as the Continental countries, have tho advantage oi us. The area of freedom which we en joy' is not confined to good manners vuJgarity has tho widest latitude, and a htlf dozen boors in a theater may infringe l*«on tho comfort of more than a thous p.nd people with [perfect impunity. Ai tiifceare days of Reform, perhaps one can suggest a remedy for t'uese

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In these days of sVrikes for better wages we are apt to forfcst that materially morally and mental^ we are far more thin a hundred yeariln advance of our ancestors. In 1784 who performed what would now b* called unskilled labor received twoshilngs a day, and in 1774 his wage was but %lf that amount As McMaster tells us:

He lived in low art dingy rooms, Sand sprinkled on the fl»r did duty as a carpet. There was no gj&s on the table there was no china in hiflnpboard, there were no prints on theWlls. What a stove was ne did not knol coal he had never seen, matches he hinover heard of. He rarely taso fresh meat as often as once in a weekind paid for it a much higher price thaiigposlevity.

If the food of an wgan would

now be thought coarse, hislthes would be thought abominable. ASoir of yellow buckskin or leathern Weehes, checked shirt, a red flannl jacket, rusty felt hat cocked up at corners, %_ akf a (tot. shoes of neat's skin set off! buckles of brass, and a leat comprised his scanty ward leather he smeared with gr it soft and flexible.

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Philadelphia Times Bays: WhLay be named a peculiar branch of femne industry has been recently develol here. It consists of the entrapping intLatrimony of silly and conceited youimcn, with rich fathers, by shrewd,Jough unscrupulous, burlesque actress The voung men, commonly class a as dudes, lay sentimental siege the actresses, under the impression 1 they are irresistible, but the young men are so much more astute and art than their besiegers, that these have rtof chance with them. They end joining desperately enamored of 11—at least thev fancy they are—givii hem costly presents, elaborate supper erything, in short, that money buy. Still thev are as far from winnii heir affections as at the outset, ancle at least plainly told that they mu gree to marriage before they can anv hope of conquering their »nic hearts. Strangely enough, «ugh marriage never entered into thci lcnlations at first, they not infrt uly yield. Then the rich papa. h« of his son's amorous imbecility, the young woman off. and she rele her latest victim to secure another. |f a dozen wealthy within a year, freedom from paying liberally for it.

New Yorkei ive, purchased thei vs' these adventurq by

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HOBERG, ROOT & CO.,

Nos. 518 and 520 Main Street.

isn't True!

That we are selling clothing at a loss, except some trifles. It IS true that new clothing is brighter than ever you saw it. A dollar goes further in dressing a man. There is style that isn't got by money alone. You shall tee it.

Look at a young fellow's wood-brown little-check, light-gray larger over-check suit with square front sack of Auburn cheviot cheery: $12— you'd pay $15 in a minute—you'll go along way before you'll find it for less.

A dark-brown velvety-feeling stuff with a simple snuff-brown square, jja two in the price is tlie style.

four-button cut-away suits, $16.50. A great deal more than a dollar or

A series of sack and four-button cut-away men's and young men's suits of smooth-face cassimere, check and over-check, browns and grays and reds and blacks, at $17, $18 and $20. It's the style, not the price.

English Cassimere, softer, little ohecks of black and bluish gray, $22. It' the style again. All these things are out of common. They show what a very little money can do, when rightly applied, for presentable dress.

One item of quite another sort black corkscrew sack and four button cut-away suits for for so little as $12 so good for the money—that's the point.

Overcoats likewise $8 to $38. Summer overcoat—that's the name for it. One for winter and one for summer. The summer top coat is a modern notion. 'Tisn't half-accepted yet. Ought to be. There's money in it—safety and comfort is money. But—the man who noeds the hint isn't reading to-day very likely.

We mean to have it true that nobody buys—no careful man—without thinking of this particular store. We are putting more taste in clothing. More money too whenever we can.

Just so with boys'. Can't take enough room to tell of it. Norfolk tweed suits for little fellows $3.50 distinguished checks $3.75 aud scores to look at, all the way up to rich and fine at $12.

Leading Clothiers, Fourth and Main.

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Styles all new, of special designs.

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