Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 November 1886 — Page 4
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TERRE HAUTE, NOV. 13, 1880.
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Theodore Roosevelt is about to rush out of politics into matrimony. "Teddy" is one of those young men who are not easily discouraged.
HOKE, the absconding wrecker of the Peoria bank, gives hotice that he is not going to leave Canada if he can help it. Ho will probably leave Canada all the same, however.
IN 1870 Durham, N. C'. had a population of only 250. Now it is said to be a place of 10,000. This is where the famous Durham tobacco is made, and which in turn has mado the town.
Mm. ltniI,Ei!KHHKit, of Virginia, bids fair to cut as big a figure in the next United States Senate as his countryman Mahono once did. It may bo that the control of that body will be in his hands.
TITK New Jersey Legislature stands 39 .Republicans, 40 Democrats, 1 Labor man smd 1 district tied. It has a United States Senator to elect and there is a line opportunity for the display of modern electioneering tactics.
HAVING found that it costs nearly $30,000 a year more to collect fares from foot passengers over tho Brooklj'n bridge than the fares amount to, the managers have concluded to let people walk over tho bridge froe hereafter. The wonder is that they didn't think of increasing the fare.
MII.ITIA
service is not altogether a pic
nic business in Chieago. A fellow is liable to bo hustled out of bod in the middle of any cold night to shoulder his gun and march to the stockyards to quell a mob of strikers, without she slightest intimation as to when ho will be permitted to eat supper with his family again-
IN 1818 the Lenox property on the east sido of Central Park was sold at auction for $$,920. In 18«4, the land was valued at $0,000,000. Similar enormous increases in tho values of real estate have occurred in other rapidly growing cities. One of tho questions wliioh thinking men are now asking is whothor or not all of such increases ought to go to the owner of the property.
SENATOR HALE, of Maine, has been in terviewed on tho outlook for 1888. He expressed tho opinion that Blaine is the natural leader and will have no opposition. He denied tho reports that Blaine had determined to stay out of politics and said ho was ready to lead the party again. Mr. Halo appears to have much the same ideas regarding Mr. Blaine The Mall has expressed.
THE alleged Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant, is doing what he can to preserve his reputation as an impostor. Some months ago he came to the United States to raise money by lecturing and now he is in jail in New York on tho charge of impersonating a soldier and trying to get a pension from the Government. Tho pretended Sir Roger seems to bo a thorough-bred fraud.
IF they don't soon quit finding iron ore in Michigan people will begin to believe that State Is made of iron. The latest report is to the effect that three young men have discovered a veritable mountain of iron within the city limits of Marquette. It t* to be a rich quality of ore and is no situated that it can be run dircctlv from the mine to a vessel's hold without any charge for transportation at all.
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now looks as though there would bo four Presidential caudidates before the country in 1888, Republican, Democratic, Labor and Prohibition. If this shall be so the contest will have a good many uncertain quantities in it. The Prohibition vote Is a growing quantity and the labor vote Is a thing that may develop nmaxingly within the next two years. In such a four-cornered contest there is no telling what the outcome would be.
WOMANsuffrage has met another rebuff. A few days ago the lower house of the Vermont legislature passed a bill giving women the right to vote but the Senate has refused by to 10, to agree to the measure. The ground of the opponents was mainly that women, as a class, were not in favor of granting tho privilege,, and that if granted it would not &*t "W dragging women Into the turmoil of politics that it would be va*d a vote just as the lMftd of earh family voted when it was •vailed of by wive* and daughter* that It wa» not ftr the best welfare of the women and not expedient to grant the privilege. A Senate that will talk Uke that ought
THE sporting world loses one of its brightest stars in the death of Fred Archer, the famous English jockey. He is said to have been Jthe most successful rider that ever mounted a horse. He was remarkable for his instinctive judgments of an animal's capacity and had the art of getting more speed out of the horses he rode than any other jockey of his time. He rode Iroquois, the only American liorse that ever won the. English Derby. Although he made a large fortune by riding his head was not turned by his riches.
THEJIE are indications that the great strike at the stockyards in Chieago, involving thousands of men, is about to come to an end. The packers rescinded their action in agreeing to employ only non-union men hereafter and the men will probably return to work on the ten hour basis. The packers were not justified in such action, as they are themselves organized and have no right to say that workingmen shall not also organize. There is as much right on one side to organize as there is on the other. But the present strike by the men was foolish and ought never to have been gone into, as there was no sufficient warrant for it.
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THE contest to break the will of Samuel J. Tilden has commenced. It is said the suit involves about fifteen millions of dollars. This money was bequeathed for certain educational and benevolent purposes but the heirs think they can get hold of it by showing that the provisions of the will are contrary to tke settled policy of tue law in such cases. Mr. Tilden should have established the institutions which he has provided for while he was living and then there would have been no such unseemly strife. The outcome of this contest will be the more interesting in that the Tildon will is similar to those of Mrs. Stewart and Lenox and if successful may establish a a precedent upon which those wills may be contested.
THE Lord Mayor of London was installed on Tuesday with the usual display of pomp and magnificence and at the same time the starving laborers of that great city held an immense meeting in Trafalgar square to protest against the system of society which gives the few more than they have any use for and denies to others tho common necessities of shelter, food and clothing The spectacle is certainly a pitiable one, whether it be presented in London or elsewhere and somothing is wrong when and where it exists. The demand of the workingmen for the opportunity to earn the necessaries of life by honest work is one whose justice cannot be deniod. This much society ought to do, or society is no better than barbarism.
THE PROHIBITIONISTS. Except the Labor party, the Prohibitionists can probably get more com,fort than any other out of the late elections. An approximate table of the Prohibition voto is given as follows:
Indiana ,?'£§ JMlii Ohio 11,269 2a,000 Wisconsin 7,656 22,000 Pennsylvania California 2,920 New Jersey JM{» New York Illinois J2,00o Michigan 18,403 Connecticut
4,500 18.000 32,000 19,627 40,000 4,800
In ©very one of these States both the Democratic and Republican vote fell off whilo the Prohibition vote shows large gains. It seems clear also that the Democrats have lost more than the Republicans in this direction. The size and growing character of the Prohibition vote lead to the belief that the party has become so formidable as to cause it to command greater attention than ever in the next national contest.
"PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRA CF." The supporters of Henry George in New York held a meeting in Cooper Union last Saturday night, and made a preliminary' organization of the new labor party which is intended to be national. Tho name decided ttport, "The Progressive Democratic," is to our thinking, an unfortunate one. It seems like tying to tho apron strings of one of the old partial. It is not fresh, clear-cut and aggressive, as the name of a new party ought to bo. Nor does it seem to characterize well the purpose and intentiou of the founders. To have called it the Labor party would have been much more apt and much more taking.
But the name aside, there is a good deal to be said in favor of the new party. There are wrongs to be righted which both the old parties have so far tailed, and are likely to continue to fail to remedy. The laboring vote of the country, if thoroughly organized and competently led, can wield an enormous influence. Tli is was shown not only in New York but in other cities. In Chicago it was large enough to hold the balance of power and elect those candidates on either of the regular tickets which were indorsed by it. Even in its crude and incipient state it has elected three members of the next Congress. Two years from now it ought to be much more formidable and if, as now seems likely, a labor candidate for the Presidency shall be nominated in 1888, the influence of a party will have to be considered bv Presidential slate-maker*.
The platform of the Progressive Dem ocratic party declares* among other things, that the value which attechee to the surface of the earth by
reason of the
growth of population, belongs to society at large and proposKW to abolish all taxation upon buildings* improvements and all other articles of human production, and to levy ail taxes on the land alone. The idee* which it embodies axe in the main thoae which Mr. George has set forth in his scwral book* upon social and labor topic* wad are at least worthy of serious attention and study.
TERR® HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS. New York is about to follow the example of Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago in establishing manual training schools in which boys may be taught trades. These schools have accomplished excellent results where they have been tried and ought to be largely increased in number, unless indeed the common schools of the country should be required to give instruction of this kind.
The necessity for this special instruction is largely owing to the policy of the labor organizations in limiting the number of apprentices. It has got to be so now that only a few of the boys who wish to learn trades can get the opportunity of doing so. The rules of the labor unions provide that there shall be only one apprentice for a certain number of hands and the workshops and factories are'practically closed against our native youths. The purpose of this restrictive policy is to keep wages up bv limiting the number of skilled workmen. But it is a short-sighted policy, for there is nothing to prevent skilled laborers from other lands coming to the United States and as a matter of fact they do come and will continue to come as long as wages aro higher here than in the countries where they live. Thus American boys are kept from learning trades and fitting themselves for honorable pursuits while the places which they should fill are largely occupied by foreign artisans.
The labor organizations ought to reconsider their action and throw the doors of the workshops open to all boys who want to learn trades. It would not be any worse for them in the end and it would be a great deal better for the rising generation and for society generally. It would be better to have the boys learn their trades in the workshops than in schools, because the education would be more practical but if they are kept from learning them there the schools will have to supply the deficiency.
AX CHICAGO paper propounds this conundrum: "If It should happen that no party has a majority in the next electoral college, nor a majority of States in the lower house by which a President could be elected, nor a majority in the Senate to elect a Viee-Presl-dent who would become acting President, what would be done?"
Give it up. But why cross the bridge before we get to it.
Gaily the candidate Who has "got there" Smiles as he walks about
Head up in air.
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Mournful his soul. *'5
IT IS A MISTAKE, 'si* 1
It is a mistake to think that your actions or desires have any influence on the Dispenser of weather. You should be thankful they do not. If they did, Old Probs would go mad and your fellow countrymen go madder.
It is a mistake to think your interlocutor is listening to what you say. He is thinking either of what he has said or is going to say, just as you were and will be.
It is a mistake, young man, when you think the girls are just dying after you. It is only you who are thoroughly in love with yourself.
It is a mistake for a preacher tQ say, "One word more and I am done." He but lengthens his discourse by so much, without deceiving any one of his hearers for an instant.
It is a mistake to suppose that everybody is thinking of you. You do so much of that kind of work yourself, that you exhaust the subject.
It is a mistake to expect a direct answer from a politician. His life is given to dodging questions before election, and giving evasive answers after election.
It is a mistake to suppose that your children will be satisfied with your experiences. You didn't accept your father's, but preferred taking a term in the same dear school.
It is a mistake to suppose that your friend is consumedly interested in your eloquent description of your liver troubles. On the contrary, he is excessively anxions to tell you of his catarrh.
It is a mistake to wish the butcher would remove the bones before weighing j-our meat. How would you like to be weighed that way yourself?
It is a mistake to suppose that physicians know how to treat your constitutional disorders as well as you do yourself. You know well enough what is best for you, but you dislike to undergo the proper regimen. You employ a doetor, paying him for shouldering the responsibility of your sickness, and handicap his efforts with all ydur unhealthy hnbits and practices.
Don't run into a friend's house when some one is under the doctor's care and suggest fifty different things which he had better try. Don't tell him about all the people you have ever known to die of his disease. Don't tell him how bad he looks Mad that he fails every day. Don't try to get him to eat things which he has been directed to avoid. Don't discourage him. Don't interfere. Don't stay too long and don't call too often.
WHAT WOULD A WOMAN DO If the storekeepers wouldn't cut off samples?
If she should foiget to look under the bed foreman? If she had to wear boots that didn't cramp her feet to a peek?
If sealskin sacques should suddenly drop down to two dollars apiece? If she couldn't reflectively scratch her head with a knitting needle?
If her husband should oflfer to get up once to quiet the howling baby? If she couldn't say anything when her husband came Into the house without brushing the snow or mud off his feet?
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Newmarkets,
Just Received. At Very Low Prices.
else, an' 'at he sells cheaper. '2s'I kin prove it without chawin' the bag. I say, ef yo want first-class groceries, nice and fresh, don't go prancin' all over town to the one-horse grocery stores, but jest make a bee-line fur the "White Frunt," whar you'll find to-day
Choice Clover Honey, Maple Syrup, Buckwheat Flour, Dressed Chickens, Dressed Turkeys, Dressed Ducks, Quail and Rabit, Oysters, Celery, Cranberries, Oranges, Leinons, Bananas, Choice Ap-
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—Riddle has "Lots" of money to Loan
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is particularly recommended for children. It cures coughs, colds, croup, sore throat, and whooping cough. It is pleasant to the taste, ana acts like a charm. 25 cts. "Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance" just as long out in the open barn as they lease. The free born American citizen on't fear neuralgia with Salvation Oil to the front. Price only 25 cents.
POWDER
Absolutely Pore
This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold In competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only In cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDEB CO., Wall st. N. Y.
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Chicago, Hilwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Minneapolis. St. Paul,
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Some folks likes winter best, an' some don't, but ez fer me, gimme Wright's "White Front" groceries, or gimme none! I liaint been a trottin' up an' down this vale o' tears fer fif— twenty-nine years, with my eyes shet. I know good groceries when I see 'em, an' I kin re-cognize bargain without it's havin' a bell on it. I know 'at E. R. Wright keeps a better assortment an' kin be found a' most anywher
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Elegant Short Wraps,
Opened This Morning'.
Seal Plush. Wraps, with Natural Beaver, Martin, Lynx, Raccoon and Seal Trimmings' 50 More Black Astrakhans, Tail Trimmed
Wraps at $12., $15., $16.50, $1S..
Mucli Under Regular Price. Be Sure You See Them.'*t,-
$25.00 will buy our "Leader" Plusli Sacque
worth 33.00.
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INSPECTION INYITED. I
HOBERG, ROOT & CO.
Boucle and Astrakhan Jackets at Reduced Prices to Close Out
Overcoat'Thoughts!
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Crowd upon us to-day. Not quito cold enough for Chinchillas or Fur Beavci*s, but just right for Corkscrews, Chevoits, Neat Mixtures, Tricots, Herringtons and all the new mixtures made up in light and medium weight Overcoats. Our store is crowded with
Overcoats for Boys and Little Boys
You would think to look at our Boys' Department that wo clothe all tho boys in Terre Haute and many more. Woll we do clothe a good portion of them. Mothers aro great "sticklers for neat wcll-mndo Cotliing, and a 30 per cent, saving induces many of them to go a block or two further,
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