Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 December 1886 — Page 6

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TERKE HAUTE, DEC. 18, 1886.

Twelve Pages.

THE W. C. T. IT. should organize a branch in Mexico.

TJIK short session of Congress will be long enough if the buncombe speeches are made correspondingly brief.

KAII.RO.AD Journals note an influx of ticket scalpers in Florida. Geronimo and his braves must bo the drawing card.

JAY OIINI) doesn like Judge Gresham's decision in the Wabash case. That is an excellent recommendation for it.

Ih the black age of witchcraft to return again? A woman living near Columbia, 8. C\, has been murdered under the belief that she was a witch. No wonder Columbia was shaken by earthquakes.

TICK first duty which a steamboat passenger owes to himself and his family, if he has one, is to inquire where the lifepreserver is located in his cabin. And if non« is there he has no business in the cabin.

Tn KHK are indications that the National opera company may not survive a great while longer. The enormous expenses are out of proportion to the receipts and the stockholders are getting tired of making up the deficiency.

FROM Aug. 27 to Dec. 1, Charleston, 8. C. had seventy-six shocks of earthquake. Each was less violent than its predecessors, however, and the people are begining to believe that the bottom of things is not going to fall clear out yet awhile.

HAM JONES says of the newspapers that they have brought more criminals to Justice and punctured more shams than all the other agoncios combined. This is not the loss true because the newspapers havo boen puncturing Sam pretty lively of late.

IT is said that District Attorney Stono, of Pennsylvania, is collecting evidence to show that he did not mention the President in his speech. But this will not help the matter. Mr. Stone will only have the evidence, while the other fellow will have the office.

CONOUESS should make a note of the fact that American boodlers are still fleeing with Impunity into Canada. The session should not go by without tho ratification of anew treaty that shall put up a high fonco betwoen the United N tat OH and the Dominion.

ANOTHKH train robbed by throe men although it had five soldiers on board! One of tho most remarkable things about this professional train-robbing is how two or three man can awe a hundred, some of whom havo revolvers and know how to be handy with them.

AKTKK all our undo Joseph McDonald may got something. It is rumored that the cabinet will soon be reorganized and that a prominent Western Democrat, probably from Indiana, may be given a port-folio. this doesn't moan "old saddlebags" whom can it mean?

ACTORIUNO to tho Chicago Tribune the best artists of that city have been driven ICaat because they could not make a living there, which leads a St. Paul paper to remark that "there is a living chance for tho art center of the West to be located whore there Is less hog and fewer perilous grain pits."

UNITED STATKS COMMISSIONER Van Huron, of Indianapolis, has decided that he has jurisdiction over the cases of the men charged with changing the tally sheets at tho election In that city. This is encouraging but it will be still more satisfactory if tho seamps can be convicted and sent to prison. Turn the rascals in.

TIIKRK seems to be no room for doubt that the cholera Is increasing in South America. The epidemic has been so far confined to certain cities of the Argentine Republic but there is serious danger that it will spread. Hnutll is quarantining against the Infested ports and there is real cause for apprehension that the plague may rwich this country next spring unless the strictest precautions are taken to prevent it.

STKVR DOR*Kt"wi11 have occasion to look after his fences in more way* than political one. The interior department has ordered him to t«*r down rtfty miles of

barb-wire

fence which he built around

land to which he had no right. Now if he and the reat of the grabbers who have been doing this thing could be made to pay a fair rent for the land they bare been using without right it would be only sim pi« justice.

AFTER the

American opera company

had played a whole week la Cincinnati .Jd haduken Its departur*^ ministerial brethren took council together and came down vigorously upon the ballet. It was thoughtfully time the ballet gets round to .gain the excitement *i^avedtadoot, the ministerial pro** b«n torgo^^ and the music hall will be filled with good church people a« usual.

IT was at English, Ind., that William Reed was shot and killed by Ren Smith as the result of a dispute over the proper spelling of a word. Evidently the citizens of English mean to keep their English pure and undefiled.

RUSSIA'S army costs annually $230,000,000 France's f168,000,000 England's $156,000,000 Germany's $113,000,000 and America's $30,000,000. Thus the greatest of all the nations pays only from an eighth to a fourth as much as the other powers for the maintenance of her military establishment—another proof of the beneficence of free institutions.

COMMISSIONER SPARKS is after the big cattle barons with a red-hot poker. He recommends that 165,000 acres in New Mexico and 82,000 acres in the public land strip south of Kansas, illegally fenced in by companies and individuals, be opened up to the public. This is going in the right direction. Let the commissioner go on until every acre of land unjustly gobbled up by the cattle kings is restored to the people.

UP to date Congress can be credited— that is tho House can be—with the passage of the bill providing how the votes of the electoral college shall be counted. The Senate passed the bill last winter and the House should have done so, but preferred spending its time in "monkeying" with the tariff.- The bill is an important one, as the experiences of 1876 amply demonstrated, and it should be made a law without unnecessary delay.

THE labor candidate for mayor of Boston accepted the nomination upon the express condition that he should be guaranteed seven thousand votes. This was done, the various laboring organizations endorsing him. Henry George made speeches for him, and all efforts were made in his behalf—and yet when the vote was counted, last Tuesday, only half of those who had agreed to stand by him had done so. The ties of the old parties had proved too much for the remainder.

THE new Scrlbner's Magazine, which has been much talked about, will hardly fulfill the expectations of the public. The cover is plain almost to bareness, the illustrations are not equal to those of tho Century or Harpers, and the contents are not different from those of other similar publications. An editorial department will also be missed. The new venture does not seem to give promise of freshness and originality which the old Scrlbner's of sixteen years ago did in its initial issues.

THERE seems to be an impression in Europe that war is likely to come between France and Germany in the spring. The new French cabinet is regarded as a war cabinet and the apprehensions of Germany have been evident for some time. With both countries strengthening their armies and mistrusting and abusing each other, It will not be hard to find a pretoxt to go to war about, though whatever the pretoxt may be the real reason will be the desire of France to win back Alsace and Lorraine. A war between those two powerful nations would bo a fierce and bitter one and it will be the hope of Christendom that it may be avoided.

IT is said the republican members of Congress will not tako any united stand on tho tariff question, but will leave each member free to proceed in his own way. This plan seems open to serious objection. The Democrats are in a small majority, to bo sure, but that fact will not excuse tho Republicans from offering to the country some tariff scheme which they may consider better than that of their opponents. Senator Sherman has proposed free sugar and tobacco. The party to which he belongs ought to propose something as a party, else the people will have no good reason to believe that it is any more competent than the Democracy to give the country a wise system of tariff legislation.

THE burning of the Mississippi river steamer J. M. White, with the loss of many of her passengers and crew was one of those appalling disasters which used to be frequent on western rivers. That they do not occur more often now is probably due largely to the fact that there is much less travel by boat than formerly. The boat was lying at a landing when she was burned and it seems remarkable that so many lives should have boen lost when only a few feet separated the vessel from the land. Nothing was said in the published accounts about life-preservers, and appliance with which every vessel should be well supplied and in such a manner as to be readily accessible to the passengers. The absence of these may help to account for the large loss of life. *1

THE old proposition to make a cabinet office of the Department of Agriculture is again before Congress. Important as agriculture la It is not easy to see why it should have a representative In the cabinet. Manufactures, commerce, transportation, mining, banking, and several other pursuits are also very important and the same kind of reasoniug that would put agriculture into the cabinet would put the rest in also. This of course could not be thought of. As the federal government Is organized there are cabinet officers only for the great departments of the governmental machinery—the State, the Navy, the Postoffice, the Treasury, Law and the Interior. No Industrial pursuit of the country Is represented in the cabinet and it would not seem necessary or proper that any should be. Besides It fat net apparent in what manner a cabinet officer presiding over the department of agriculture could serve the terming Interests of the country any better than the commissioner of agriculture can serve them. 5,

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DOWN WITH STRONG DRINK. The rapid growth of the anti-saloon sentiment is one of the brightest indications of the times. More or less it is going on all over the country, but it was particularly shown in the recent municipal elections in Massachusetts, where, out of seventeen cities, only four voted in favor of licensing saloons. Nine cities which voted for the license system last year voted against it this year. The Legislature will be expected to modify the existing liquor laws and will undoubtedly enact more stringent measures than those now existing.

It must be admitted by all who think upon the matter that the drinking habit is the worst of all foes to purity, morality and thrift. It not only wastes the earnings of industry it incapacitates men for earning, either with hands or brain. It brutalizes men and subjects women to cruel suffering and outrage. It causes children to go hungry, halfclad and unschooled.

Were the liquor vice "banished utterly from the earth it is difficult for the imagination to conceive the change that would be wrought in the condition of society. This cannot be done at once. The work must necessarily be gradual. But the rapidity with which the evil can be abolished or mitigated depends largely upon the vigor of the effort against it and this effort is becommg very strong and very general. \*y

^'BuJ^WBOOOANINO.iWS^m Tobogganing (pity the name) is sliding down a hill, either natural or artificial, on a toboggan, and a togoggan is a broad board turned up in front. There are indications that this sport is to have a great run. All the large cities are already provided with slides or chutes and the smaller towns are also taking the matter up. Long slides are built upon timbers, covered with boards and this is flooded with water which freezes and forms a surface of ice.

The toboggan sport came from Canada whore it has flourished for years past and increases in interest each year. The number and membership of the clubs steadily increases .and the Governorgeneral and his official staff are among its most enthusiastic votaries.

It is good, healthy sport, full of hardihood and fun and it is the belief in the East that it is destined to become as popular in this country as it has proved in Canada. So, get your toboggan toggery ready if you expect to be in the slide.

IN the Senate debate On Mr. Morrill's tariff resolution, Senator McPherson of New Jersey, made a strong point the other day. Answering Mr. Dawes who had declared that the man who would attack home Industries and home labor would strike a deadlier blow at tho welfare of the country than could be inflicted in any other manner, short of war and treason. Mr. McPherson said, ^e was himself a protectionist to the extent of giving American lator all the protection it needed to compete with foreign labor, but he was in favor of giving labor the raw materials which would enable it to compete with other countries and he cited the case of the silk manufacturers of Patterson, N. J. There are about 100 silk mills there and with their raw material admitted free tho manufacturers are prosperous and are able to sell silk at Lyons, France, the very heart of the silk manufacture of the world. This question of admitting raw materials free Is an interesting and important one which the people of the country would like to hear discussed with fairness and candor.

W. J. ARKELL,proprietorof the Judge, a comic New York weekly, has set on foot a novel scheme for raising money for building the Grant monument. Prizes are to bo given for the largest lists of words made out of the text: "Who will be our next President?" Each conpetitor contributes 50 cen^s to the fund, half of which it applied to the monument, and the balance, after deducting the legitimate expenses, is placed in a common pool, which at a stated time is divided up into six parts and given to the successful persons. Here is a chance to learn English and contribute to a good cause at the same time.

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TENNYSON has not written any good poetry since he was made a lord. His latest poem, "Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After,'' will mar rather than help his fame. It is the wild ranting of a man who looks upon the struggle of humanity to improve its condition from the selfish and self-conceited position of the typical English aristocrat. There is neither heart, poetry nor imagination in it. It is such stuff as would be called by the coarse but expressive term of "hogswash," if it had come from some unknown pen instead of that of Tennyson. It would be well for the poet laureate's fame if he should give his pen a long, not to say perpetual, rest.

DR. MCCOHH, of Princeton College, has written a sound and timely letter on the subject of college games. As now played these games are Cast running into all the gaming, drinking and jockeying evils of horse-racing and bringing reproach upon the colleges. Dr. McOosh suggests a convention of representatives from the leading colleges to agree upon some plan for eliminating these evils. Something needs to be done and no action can be too prompt or thorough In the direction of doing away with the disgraceful abuses which now exist In college sports.

IT IScruelly suggested that the Pittsburgh Times gave young Jim Blaine a place on Its staff for the sake of the free advertising that would follow. If thla is true, Mr. Elder, the publisher of "the little Chicago Magazine," which Miss Cleveland does not edit any more, misssd great opportunity.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARES A YINQ.

Toledo Blade: The call to arms— "John, take the baby." Gorham Mountaineer: A fashionable bonnet is the height of folly.

Idaho Free Press: Justice is the soapsuds with which we wash the flannel shirt of wrong.

Philadelphia Call: An exchange has an article on "Why Bees Make Honey.-' They make it to cell.

Boston Pout: Socialists claim that a man who has accumulated his millions is guilty of a capital offense.

New Haven News: A new kind of stove is called "The Infant." Wonder if it isn't a base burner.

Philadelphia Call: "This soots me," said the head of the family as he was putting up the stovepipe.

Philadelphia North American: When a man gets to be a leader of workingmen he is able to quit work.

Boston Commercial Bulletin: There are many signal failures when the weather bureau flags are hoisted.

Binghampton Republican: Queen Victoria has thirty grandchildren. Is there a chestnut bell in the country?

New Orleans Picayune: "A charge to keep I have," was the song of the old gun that no one knew was loaded, j,

Merchant Traveler: "This is a new wrinklo," sadly remarked the elderly maiden as she surveyed her face in. a hand-glass.

Detroit Tribune: What is Congress going to assemble for? Oh, yes, mileage, salaries, and appropriations. Anything else?

Lynn (Mass.) Bee: The affections of a man who is proved to be false are valued at over $8,000. How valuable are the affections of a true man

Alta California: Mike McCool is dead. Michael was a prize-fighter, but he will live In literature, for he originated the famous phrase, "Put up or shut up.''

Milwaukee Journal: If a poor man wears a ragged coat he is either called shiftless or else his wife is accused of being lazy but if a rich one does the same thing it is called eccentricity, with the laudatory addenda that he has a mind above trifles.

8OUTH HUTCHINSON.

News Notes from the 1 Wt-it der."

There is considerable excitement over rumor that Cincinnati parties have made arrangements to lease twenty acres of ground adjoining the town site, for manufacturing purposes. Lots in that vicinity took a sudden boom.

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SOUTH HUTCHINSON.

As 8een by a North Hutchinson Re-

[Hutchinson Daily News, Dec. 9.] "Yesterday afternoon, a reporter of the News was strolling leisurely down south Main street, when along came Mr. J. A. Curtis, in an elegant turnout, and upon solicitation, jumped in and accompanied him to South Hutchinson. Now, it must be remembered that six months ago this "burg" only had one solitary house within its limits, and as the one hundred houses of to-day loomed up before the reporter, as he crossed the bridge, to say he was astonished would be putting it mildly. After you cross tho bridge, the first thing that catches the eye Is the barbed wire factory, that is located on the east side of the town site. The main building is being built of brick, three stories high, 100x50 feet, with a fifty foot addition for a foundry and engine room. Through the courtesy of Mr. J. Coon, who has charge of the structure, we were shown through the entire works. The machinery for this mammoth institution is all on the ground, and covers nearly ten acres. Their force of twenty-five hands Is now hard at work, and if the weather will permit, they will have the buildings completed and machinery in operation inslae of thirty days. This plant is valued at sixty thousand dollars, and has a capacity of one and a half car loads of barbed wire per day. South Hutchinson made a "ten strike" when she secured this enterprise, and when Ben Blanchard gav®

the ald he

didj

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just what he was doing. We had no idea of the magnitude of this factory, it being far ahead of all expectations, and it will pay any one to drive over and take a look through the works. Mr. Blanchard has gone east after his family, and while there, will purchase fifty car loads of material.

RELIEF FOR RUPTURE, The Philadelphia Truss Go's. "Improved Patent Champion Truss" is advertised elsewhere in this issue. Hernia, or rupture, is one of the most common of troubles snd It is one of the most important matters thst the afflicted should secure the best truss made, In order to cure their trouble. The most practical truss in the market and the one that is becoming the most popular is the improved "Champion." This truss wss awarded the premium at the centennial exposition snd the New Orleans exposition, and Is in use In the United States army, navy and marine hospital service. It is handled by all the leading houses, many of whom are using these goods to the exclusion of all others.

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Dr. Chittenden is putting up four new buildings on avenue east. Parties are now here contracting to sink a drilling seven hundred feet, or until they reach coal. We understand the parties mean business.

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