Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 November 1886 — Page 4

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THEJVIAIL.

A PAPKR FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

HL'HSCKIFTION PRICE,£L00 A YEAR.

PUBLICATION OrYICE,

?7OB. 20 and 22 Houth Fifth Street, Printing House Bquare.

TEH RE HAUTE, NOV. 27, 1886.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRKT EDITION on Thursday E\-enlng ban a lurge^circulation in the surrounding towns, where It 1# Hold by newsboys and agent*. 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, Vn which all Advertisement# 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.

Mayor Grace, of New York, has appointed two women on the board of school commissioners of that city. This novel innovation is causing a good deal of comment but it is likely to prove salutory. In other communities women have done excellent service on school boards, as they have a special aptitude for educational work.

A MONO the places which are now enjoying a big boom are Wichita, Kansas, and Dallas, Texas. The former is said to have a present population of 22,000, while in Dallas it is said that that buildings can hardly be put up fast enough to accommodate the rapidly growing population, and land which a fow years ago could be bought for $2f a foot is said to bo now worth #700 to $800.

Another notable man has passed away in the person of Charles Francis Adams, who died last .Sunday morning. lie was the son of President John Quincy Adams. Coming from one of the most distinguished families of the country, he was himself a man of dlstlngulsod character and ability, filling high offices In the service of the people. His death was sudden and unexpected and was the reHult of a cold.

NHXT Friday, Dee. 3d., is tho (lav fixed for the execution of the Chicago anarchists, but they will not be executed on that day. Tho case is now pending an appeal to the Supreme court of Illinois, and able counsel, Including Col. Robert Ingersoll, has been employed to present and argue the case. As tho record is very long, a good deal of time will necessarily be consumed before the case can bo decided. |jg

KX-AI.I»KHMAN FrI.T.OKAKK, one of tho squealing New*York boodlers, has been iiotiliod to hunt up a new lunch-room by tho proprietress of the one he has bcetl }n tli# habit of patronizing who, in accordance with the wishes of the majority of her customers, politely requested him to "move on." It is not stated whether Fullgrall's company became disagreeable because of his part In the transactions of the boodle hoard, or on account of having "squealed," but the chances are that It was by reason of the latter fact.

In the city of Pesth the rather novel experiment Is being made of supplying the city with hot water. An artesian well has been bored, to a depth of hooo yards. At present there is a supply of about 175,000 gallons a day, and the water has a tomperature of lil degrees. It is thought, when the borings reach a lower depth, that a supply will be obtained sufficient to meet tho demands of tho city, and the temperature of the water wlil be 178 degreos. Is the time coming whon hot water will be conveyed through mains in all leading cities? tt leglns to look like It. Verily tho world movesr

THKHK has been some discussion of late to whether the pouring of oil on the waves In time of a storm would have any oflbet In lessening their action upon a ship. It appears that the experiment was tried on board the British steamer Teutonla, on her trip from 1/nulon to Philadelphia. The vessel was overtaken bv a severe storm producing such a heavy sea that the waves swept the decks fore and aft. Oil was then placed in bags which were hung over the vessel's side to windward. The eflfcet was magical, according to the testimony of the captain. The oil spreading over the water so calmed It that not a sea mine aboard afterwards. From this it appears that "pouring oil on the troubled waters'1 is no longer a mere figure of speech, but a practical reality.

THK right of g*» vs. coal Is making progress. An Ohio man now claims to have discovered process by which 4TiO,000 feet of can be made otit of a l**rrel of petruiv.im, leaving a residue equal In value the original oil. His process is that of forvlng air alternately through water and oil by means «f system of siphons. For either b\.tTre or Illuminating p»rpows this artiiui^i gas is said to be superior to the natural g*s* III*] claimed that practical chemists have in-j veftlgated the matter and found it to be as represented ami the inw!*n 1s expected to completely revolutions* the business »»f fuel and light vn *. Some such invention is greatly needed In the Interest of cleanliness and convenience and a dust and smoke ridden public will

hope that the Ohio man's invention wUll I»g place of «mohre par prove a Mtcve**.

EVERY MAX HIS OWN BANKER. Every now and then the newspapers contain accounts of considerable sums of money being stolen from private houses by thieves and burglars. Recently near Butler, Pa., about $10,000 were captured after a desperate fight in ^which one member of the robbed family was so badly injured that her recovery is doubtful. The people who thus keep money in their houses do so because they might lose it if deposited in bank. The plan is a most dangerous and injudicious one. However great and constant the efforts at secrecy may be it is impossible to conceal the fact that money is thus being kept. In some way or another the matter will get out in the community and will come to the ears of the thieving fraternity who resort to ingenious devices for making such discoveries. There are not wanting desperate men who will risk their own lives and the lives of their victims in their efforts to capture money or valuables where they know them to exist.

Thus to the danger of losing their money is joined the constant consciousness of danger to life or limb from an inroad of burglars. Such a feeling must rob sleep of its best element, the sense of security and freedom from care. The sleep of the man who is his own banker must be fretful and uneasy. He must wake often with the dread that some unwelcome visitor is in the liouso and must start in alarm at every noise. And the time is pretty sure to come, sooner or later, when his fears are well founded and the desperate burglar actually confronts him.

It is a good deal better to put one's money in the strong vault of the bank. It is really much safer there and the sleep at home is sounder and sweeter. m* »•GILDED HELLS-."

While the possession of moderate wealth undoubtedly conduces to the enjoyment of life, there can be no question but that the advantages of wealth are as a rule greatly overestimated. Col. Ingersoll said recently: "The poor imagine that the rich live in paradise. I know that the most of them live in a gilded hell." There must be a great deal of truth in this. Every now and then the fact is revealed to the public as tho door of some princely palace is opened a little way and the outside world is permitted a partial glimpse at the wretchedness within. The old adage that one half the world does not know liow the other half lives, is commonly supposed to have reference alone to the squalid misery of tho poor. As a matter of fact it applies with almost equal force to the rich. The discomforts of the poor are on the surface and are easily seen. They are open to all eyes. Tho sufferings of the rich aro, as much as possible, concealed from the public gaze. They are hidden away. Only at intervals and in fragmentary form are they disclosed.

On the whole dame Nature apportions the pleasures and comforts, as well as the hardships of life, much more impartially among her children than is generally supposed.

Boston has a new trouble. Tho women there are becoming so cultured, thoy won't notice the average every-day man at all. The number of unmarried femalos is becoming dreadfully alarming.

Boston is putting the full weight of her philosophy into the problem, and is puzzling It out very laboriously. Evidently it is a hartf nut to crack. With all the women going to college, and all tho men going to the wall, fears are entertained that the Hub of the universe will eventually become a "howling wilderness," and that civllation must eventually die out in the most cultured corner of tho world. The Boston Herald declares, despairingly, that there aro 7.»,000 unmarried women in Massachusetts. It speaks of them in the most glowing terms, and says that "the intellectual and spiritual salvation of Massachusetts and the saving of the state from ^lapsing into practical barbarism" depends largely on them. As to the male portion of the inhabitants of that enlightened section, it says: "While freely admitting that the average standard of men available for husbands is deplorably low, it will not do to abandon them altogether."

It seetns too I tad for the Massachusetts men, whose forefathers made such a gal lant record in revolutionary days, to be so crushed by culture in these peaceful times.

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Every wife who reads this will be careful how she awakens her husband tomorrow morning and calls him to breakfast. Ho may 1k seized with the same kind of a fit that took hold of a fiendish Kansas husband last week. His poor wife got up and built the kitchen fire, prepared his breakfast and then went to his bedside and aroused him. He was so enraged at being aroused from his sleep that he shot and killed the poor woman, shot and killed two of his children, wounded a third child and a sister-in-law, and then started awa^ to finish the work by killing his wife's parents. Fortunately for the latter, there were neighbors brave and resolute enough to head the murderer off. and then he flew to the open arms of the law for protection. A strong guard was placed over him to save hint from the vengeance of the enraged people. But Judge Lynch made a quiet luwinew rail on htm in the evening, and he was hanged up on a tree, otU of reach of the dogs, {granting as a general principle, that mobs are never to lxcmonn^ed,«tn it be said that the written laws, as construed by quibbling and wrangling lawyers and atuptd judges* meet the cinergpearies of such a »se as this?

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

In an interview since his return to this country Henry Ward Beeeher recounts how he stirred up the natives of England on the subject of eternal punishment. Giving one of his audiences the opportunity to ask questions at the conclusion of his address, one of his auditors arose and propounded a question on that point. Mr. Beecher's reply was: "If any man does believe in the eternal, conscious torment of the wicked, he living in mirth and happiness the "while, he is a monster, and if so believing he brings children into life, the earth trembling under his feet with the displeasure of the Almighty, the amusements, and delights, and "merriments, and enjoyments of society like a hideous cover while myriads of men under his feet are suffering eternal torment, no relief pos sible, consciously existing in that eondi tion forever and forever, he is a mon ster?"

A story entitled "A Bad Turn," and to the following effect, is going the rounds A clergyman was devoutly reading the Holy Scriptures to his congregation when he came to certain words in the lower right hand corner to which he de sired to give great emphasis. So he read with a loud voice, "I am"—turned over two leaves and continued—"an ass, the foal of an ass"—then, seeing his mistake, found the right place, and added—"that I am," which, of course, nobody would deny. This is a very good story—to spoil. The man who tells it didn't know his Bible. The phrase "I am that I am" is in Exodus the phrase "an ass, the foal of an ass," is in the last of the Old Testament and the first of the New. So that, in order to mix the two sentences in the way described, the clergyman would have to turn, not two, but several hundred, leaves. In view of this thick ness, the story is altogether too thin.

THE SLOUGHY GAIT. Milwaukee Journal.

One reason why women are more graceful than men is that they have no pockets to put their hands in and acquire a slouehy gait while young.

For Ladies' Comfort.

Many ladies in this city have cause for giving thanks to SteiA & Heckelsburg for supplying them with such comfortable and warm fleeee-lined shoes and slippers, of which they have an elegant variety. The enterprising house has also a nice line of extra high buttoned overshoes for ladies. In fact, for everything in the shoe line, our readers will do well to call at 421 Main street.

Ia-:/!' Embroidery Work. Miss Annie Hays, of the Singer oillce, is making some very line Embroidery samples, with improved attachments, on the New Light-Bunuiug Singer Ma chine. Ladies are invited to call and examine the work.

—New patterns in Carvel's anil Butcher Knives at C. C. SMITH'S, -'KM Wabash avenue. 'J

For the Holidays.

As a Present, nothing would be so highly prized as a Truthful and Finely Finished Portrait of a dear friend.

For one-half or full life-size, the Bromide Photographs are the Newest and Best improvement in Photography, being equal to the Finest Crayons in finish, superior as alikeness and at onefourth tho price. They do not fade. am prepared to make them from old Cabinet or Card Negatives, or New Sittings and warrant them to please.

Cabinet and all other sizes and styles of Photos I can furnish with a finer finish than heretofore done in Terre Haute. For Holiday Work please call soon. D. II. WRIGHT, 421 Main St. jsjt viy -jsj 1 Nice Meats,

When you want something extra nice in fresh beef, lamb, mutton or veal, it will pay you to call on J. L. Humaston, at 305 north Fourth street, the former Dan Miller stand.

—Turkey Carvers at C. C. SMITH'S, S0H Wabash avenue.

$140 $140

Everr 20 cents Worth of Laundry Work Done for you between November 1st, 1880, and January 15th, 1887, entitles yon to a guess on the number of NAILS in sealed carboy for our

THREE GREAT PRIZES

$80 Gold Watch, f45 Sole Leather Trunk. uM $15 Gold Handle Umbrella. ^HUNTER'S LAUNDRY*

JOE MILLER, the 515 Main street grocer, has the choicest Country Butter, extra Honey. Vegetables and a great line of Canned Goods.

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Glad Tidings To All.

By the aid of thix Automatic Fire Lighting Clock you can hare yoor Are lit and your mom warm and breakfast readr when you arise, and thus add one hmirof solid comfort to every day of your life. This dock Is nerd the poor numV txtat it Hods Its way into tbc cabin and palace alike. IIIomtrated firrularn free to all plainly written addnswes.

Add raw: Patent CloeK Works. 6th A Cherry stiwet, Terr* Haste, lad.

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I rede in the papers that owln' to the high price of befe, thejneepul down in Tavaus, Florida, hev taken to eatin' allegaitor stoaks, and pronounce 'em dilishous. well mehbe they air and rnebbe they liint. The printin' ov it in the noQspapers don make It so by a jugfull. Howsomever my observation convinces me ov this: that as long as a man has got to eat a thing he'll pronounce it delish-

rright's big Whltc Frunt grocery, a sight of good eatin'. He always

has everything that's to be had in this fruitful country and his display this mornin' was just scrnmptious. There may be found

Choice Clover Honey, Maple Syrup, Buckwheat Flour, Dressed Chickens, Dressed Turkeys, Dressed Ducks, Quail and Rabbit, Oysters, Celery, Cranberries, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Choice Aples, Sweet Cider, Horse Radish, Sauer [root, Table Sauce (In bulk), New Sweet Pickles, New Crop Teas (very choice), Choice Jersey and Country Butter, Extra Fine Cheese, and many other things too numerous to mention at rock bottom prices. 647 and 649 Wabash Avenue.

P. J. KAUFMAN

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PROCESSION OF UAMB.

Wild Turkeys, Mallard Ducks. Jack Rabbits,

Opossums, Pheasants, Squirrels,

Rabbits, Quail,

CHOICE POULTRY AND MEATS. Boneless Pigs Feet, Drowed Turkeys,

Dressed Chickens, Dressed Geese, Dressed Duck*,

Beef Tongues, Pork Tenderloin*. Spare Rib*,

Potted Meats, Sausage,

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. California Takay Grapes, Malaga Grapes.

Catawoa Grape!*, Concord Grapes, Bananas.

Oranges,

JERSEY SWEET POTATOES. Stuffed Cucumber*, Staffed Mangoes,

Stuffed Melons.

EXTRA FIXE SELECT OYSTERS. Tnr oar Whitaker Hams made in St. Louts.

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doubtedly have no equal.

Clear Up "Broken Iot$!'|

518 and 520 Wabash Ave Jobbers and Retailers of Dry Goods.

Boys Overcoats'" and Suits!

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More to see every day. Next week more Overcoats and Suits for Boys and Little Boys will be coming in. Among the first arrivals will be the finest Overcoats for Boys that even we have ever had. If you made a Pyramid of Boys' Clothing the city over, OUR'S WOULD GO ON TOP for Excellent Style and Service. We make no compromise with poor materials. The finest is our aim. .aOur Alpine Overcoats and Cambridge Suits show that. Sightliness of £oods, cut and finish of Garments Jl- gets better every season with us. It needs to to keep ahead in the battle of competition. CAMBRIDGE SOU

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We have been cutting down prices in all departments. Noticeable bargains will be found in our Dress Goods and Silk Department. Odds and ends in Hosiery and Underwear, Blankets slightly soiled at less than

Buttons, Trimmings and Jersey Flannels marked down, and all Cloaks at special prices. Our Holiday Goods are now arriving and we must

hav more room on our first floor to make the proper displar We will have some grand bargains in Handkerchiers to offer before long. But first we must clean up Odds and Ends even at a great loss. Come and get a bargain.

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FURNISHING GOODS.

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