Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1887 — Page 5

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P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 1, 1887.

GEN. JOHN A. LOO AN. One by one the Generals in the late war are going to their last resting place The death of General Logan, who died last Sunday afternoon, came with a most unexpected shock. It was known for several days previous that he was ailing with rheumatism but not until Saturday was it intimated that his disease was of an alarming or even dangerous character. It appears, however, that his when malady took a serious turn death came speed ily, as in the case of Gen. Arthur, and like him he passed painlessly away.

No public man has died since Gen. Grant whose death was so sincerely and universally deplored as that of Logan. He was atypical American, a brave soldier, an earnest and competent states man and in every relation of life a pure and noble man. From the lowest round of the ladder he made his way to the top. In some of the traits of his character he resembled Lincoln. He had the same blunt honesty, open frankness and unfailing courage. But he was much more impulsive and vehement.

It was the great ambition of his life to enter the White House but in this he was disappointed as every such aspirant has been. But as Congressman, Soldier and Senator, John A. Logan's career was one of remarkable power and brilliancy. Although a successful politician he was no demagogue. On all public questions he had a conscientious opinion and he Hover hesitated to express it. And his honesty was equal to his courage. He had faults, no doubt, as all men have, but no one lias ever charged him with having done a cowardly, an underhanded or a disingenuous thing. He was a hard fighter, but he always fought openly and above board.

There were many who thought that he would have been President if he had bonded the Republican ticket in 1884, and, had he lived, that place might have l)cen givon him in 1888, but it is more likely that he would have been disappointed again. As it is, one of tho forjjOdablo contestants for the prize has been retired by the law of nature.

His noble wife survives him, a wotflan of such social faculty, loyal devoted and high ambition that it has been said she was tho better pnhtian of tho two.

Gen. IiOgan had four years of his term yet to servo in tho Senate. The Illinois Logislautre is Republican and will choose a Republican to fill his place. The country may well hope that a man equal in purity and strongth may be selected.

NT Kit EST IN FIG UltES. Senator George, of Mississippi, recently asked tho National Bureau of Statistics to furnish him certain information concerning the wealth, industries, wages, etc., of the country for a term of years, and the roquost was submitted to Mr. Edward Atkinson, who is regarded as the best authority on such subjects.

From an extensive comparison of wages paid in all parts of the country during a period of twenty-six years he shows that in lWMlthe wages of engineers, blacksmiths, machinists, carpenters and painters averaged $1.5(5 por day, or $468 a year, while in 1880 their wages aver$2.40 a day, or $720 a year. Excluding the item of rent, the cost of living was about tho same in ifwso as it is now. Practically, thorefore, the wages of mechanics have increased nearly fifty per cent. Tho wages of common laborers in sixty establishments wore $wa in 18(50, and are $450 now, showing about tlie same improvement.

It does not seem to be true, therefore, that the poor are growing poorer, as is claimed by Henry George and his school. The statistics from which Mr. George drew his inferences form assumptions which have been shown to be incorrect. But this, after all, is no argument against the effort of the worklngmen to still further improve their condition. There is room for a great deal of advancement yet and their lawful efforts to reach a still higher condition of comfort ai*d prosperity are to be commended.

S»NT-K General lagan's death it appenrs that he was a much poorer man than was supposed. appears that his hook ha* paid nothing so far ai\d may not pay anvt hing in the end. Only a smjill payment was made on the Washing house and the property in Chicago is HIHO mortgaged. Nothing is naid of the rm which he was reported to own and he probably did not own any. He carried tint 910,(100 of life insurance and his debts are said to amount to three times that sum. It is thus seen how greatly the property of public men is often over estimated. _____________________

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norship of Dakota- to become associate editor of the St. Paul Pioueer Press. He will be specially in charge of the Dakota department and will continue*to reside in the Territory Piom4 was formerly a Chicago journalist proposes to stick to his old trad®.

•'The King is dead, long live the King." Simultaneously with the dispatches that announced the death of f/Mranoaiue surmise* and j^nmsip as to his probable suen«Mir. It Is human nature, we anpp*se, and vH it strikes one with a i-ertain .veiise of unseemliness*.

1887.

The Mail wishes all its readers a happy New Year. The past year has been a prosperous one for us individually and in the main it has been a prosperous one for this community and for the country.

Generally speaking it would have been still more prosperous but for the labor disturbances of last spring. The eighthour strikes throughout the country, particularly in the great commercial centers, bad a disastrous effect on many kinds of business, largely checked building operations and produced an unsettled effect generally. During the latter half of the year there was a recovery from the influences and business went on in its accustomed channels. Through out the Northwest railway building was active and more miles of new track were laid than in any previous year The South in many sections enjoyed a real business boom, much more capital being invested in iron, coal and other industries than ever before.

The prospects for 1887, so far as they can now be discovered, seem promising. The new year will not probably witness such disturbances in the field of labor as were seen in the past year. Only two months more of congress remain and it is not likely that the tariff and revenue laws will be greatly changed. It will not be the year for a presidential election either, and so far as can now be seen there appears to be nothing in the way of substantial prosperity during the next twelve months.

At all events let us not anticipate evil, but hope and work for the best. If anything will make the coming year prosperous that will do it.

IN spite of the great hullabaloo which has been made by the great railroad corporations against the Inter-State Commerce bill, the prospect for its passage seems to be assured. It is stated by those who have taken the sentiment of senators on the question that very few of them are opposed to the bill and that it will probably pass that body soon after its reassembling. If it goes through the senate the house will undoubtedly pass the measure. Congressmen have been taking the sentiment of the people, which is overwhelmingly in favor of the bill. The railroads have long done as they pleased and have discrimitated generally against certain sections. It is high time that some restraint be put upon them, and while this bill may not be all that is needed, it will do for a beginning. Changes deemed expedient can be mado in the law from time to time.

WHATEVER may have been the case once there can bo no longer any doubt that the Northwest is to continue to develop rapidly and permanently. The large amount of railroad building in that section of tho eountrj' is the best evidence of this. It appears that in 1886 the new mileage was greater than in any former year, being 2.462 miles against 2,400 in 1882. But in the latter year 9,899 miles were built in the whole country, while in 1880, only 6,719 miles were built In other words, while the whole country's record is nearly one third less this year than in 1882, a small increase is shown in the Northwest. AIL the great railroad corporations are anxious for a good slice of the Northwest business and are pushing their linos vigorously in that direction.

DOXTBTLESS, as we have often before remarked, tho blessings of wealth are greatly over-estimated, but when Prof. Gilman says that "the sleep of tho laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep," we feel inclined to utter a mild protest. There are rich men who manage to get in about as many hours of solid sleep per day as any poor devil of a street car driver in the country, and there is reason to believe that some poor men lay awake nights planning how to take care of their families. Tho hardships are not all on tho side of the rich yet.

AifoRDiNU to Edward Atkinson, who is regarded as a reliable authority, if everybody should quit working in this country the point of starvation would be reached in a little over two years. But in this he includes atl railroads, factories, works, mines, goods, dwellings and tools. The immediately available capital would be consumed in two months. It is the Englishman's "d horrid grind*' which keeps the pot boiling and something in the pot to boil.

THK arbitration act passed by the last New York Legislature is reported to be a practical failure. There have been many strikes but workmen 'have shown no disposition to avail themselves of this method of settling their troubles and it is doubtful whether the law will be continued in force. This is not pleasant news at all. for the theory of arbitration is good and it ought to and would work well in practice.

DVRINO the past year the deposits in the savings banks of Massachusetts have increased over $1»»,00©,000. These deposits for the most part represent the earnings and savings of working people and this large increase shows that the Massachusetts working people have been making more than a bare living during the past year.

Tn American Grocer, a trade paper of New York, reports the tomato pack of to be fiS»547,H© cans, or about one can for each permit for the year. This is not more than about half enough and the prospects is thai there will be a sharp advance In prices* during the next six months.

Till Hart* mountain boars have no !.uin«w in this country until proper re1^ is shown the American hog in the Fatherland.

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TBRBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT,.

FIVE years ago Los Angelos, Cal., ha$ a population of 15,000. Now it has 50,000 and expects in the next five years to grow to $100,000. Many other place? ii Southern. California are growing at a similar rate. Minneapolis, St. Paul and, Kansas City will have to look out.

IT has come to light that Dr. Aveling, the English Socialist, who recently made a lecturing tour in this country, was paid at the rate of $100 a week for his services. The good doctor evidently meant to take care of number one as he went along.

THERE must be something wrong with Mexican atmosphere. Even Patti suffered so much from it that it was doubtful whether she would be able to warble in such rare air. This must have been consoling to Minister Manning. .,

IF they are going to celebrate the birthday of Adam, Boston would un doubtedly be the proper place to hold the exercises. There are more members of the family residing thereabouts than anywhere else in the country.

THE ninety-nine people who filed applications for divorce at the December term of court in Philadelphia doubtless think they are going to start the New Year right and look forward to happier times ahead.

THE "survival of the fittest" is illustrated this week in the purchase of the Paris Times by L. A. G. Shoaf & Co., and consolidating it with their excellent weekly, the Gazette.^

NEW YORK city spends $76,000,000 a year for beer. It will be remembered that Johan Most, the Anarchist editor, lives in that city. •.

ME. BEECHERS LETTER.

A REVIEW OF THE NECROLOGY OF THE OLD YEAR. sin

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His ESTIMATE OF THK CHARACTERS AND SERVICES OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, HORATIO SEYMOUR, JOHN KELLY, SAM­

UEL J. TILDEN, DAVID DAVIS,EX-PRES-IDENT ARTHUR, ERASTUS BROOKS, GENHANCOCK AND OTHERS.—A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN B. GOUGH.

Correspondence of Saturday Evening Mall. BROOKLYN, December 29. \h one who saunters through the fields In autumn gathering flowers, leaves and fruits, so Time comes to this New Year with arms full gathered fropi among men of the gentle, the froward, the strong and wise, and of those who die as "the fool dieth." But, besides the men of name, known and talked about, what numberless hosts have gone into the shadow-land, silently, unannounced, unknown, except to a half dozen who lived under the same roof! /r"

Who remembers the multidude of leaves which clothed the trees around our dwellings? They danced orquivtfp*? ed, threw down their tremulous shadows until autumn came, and one by one they let go of life. No one counted them or missed any single leaf. The wind swept away some, the rain overweighted others the very dew was too heavy for the feeble remainder, out of whose veins the air had sucked the juice. At length the trees are bare. No fruit, no birds, no leaves, nor could any one tell whither all these had gone that made the summer musical and gay. As leaves die so myriads have died this year. The great multidude go forth and no one observes it or much misses their presence. They run, they shout, grow weary, are silent and give place to others, who run the race, strive and shout, grow languid, murmur a farewell into ears that themselves grow dull and hoar no more. The exceeding great multitude of those who every year die, go as the mists go, melt away as clouds melt, and leavo no trace of anything done. Of the uncountable multitude the history might be compressed into an epitaph of three words:

A cry, a strife, silence"—birth, life death. In civilized lands, where mauhood attains a larger diameter, there aro some, but only a few, whose death attracts attention, or checks tho laughter or the passionate cries of men for a day. Fewor yet are they who are remembered for a year, and but very few for a generation! The men whom the world remembers from generation to generation walk upon solitary way, without association or company and alone.

During the year 1886 there have passed from among us a few whose names will linger for a time, but none whom another generation will remember. Who is there that has by heroic life exalted the ideal of manhood and made it easier for men to ascend above all selfishness? Who is there that has given to literature the power to charm away sorrow, care and neglect? Who is there that has widened"t-ho bounds of knowledge and so enlarged the life of generations? Who has purged religion of its sordidnesss, its narrow* ness and its bigotry, and made it seem beautiful to men, distilling joy and good will?

Lower down, far lower, i"n the great crowd of useful men, some have finished their life-labors, and their names deserve a short remembrance before they disappear below the horizon, as all our names will soon do. We mention but a few.

Charles Francis Adams: A good man, untarnished, who in the days of mighty war stood at the Court of St. James and with wise diplomacy kept England out of the snares set for hee, and smoothed the way for lit* country/out of entanglements and foreign interferences. He belonged to a family possessed of the genius of common sense. The quality seems inbred and hereditary. If no one of the name has risen to preeminence, the family, taken together, forms a galaxy. Not popular while living, somewhat cold, unsympathetic, and fearless*

for that deemed right, death mellows men's feelings and they are popular in history. "Horatio Seymour has passed on. A pleasing citizen, suave in disposition and winning in social relations. In public affairs strong among things easy and weak among things difficult, If deep moral conviction had been added to his character he would have been a statesman. He was a little too good to be a successful politician, and .not good enough to be great as a statesman. So kind, so genial, so benevolent, it was a pity that he was deficient in that underlying moral sense which raises men to the top of the times in which they live.

John Kelly: A manager of such men as constitute the politicians of New York City. He sought for himself none of those things with which he bribed his greedy followers. His political philosophy was that national politics are useful for the control of politics in New York State the politics of the State were useful in controlling the city of New York, and New York was useful in governing Tammany Hall. That without many personal good qualities, scorning for himself those coarse elements by which he controlled the sordid crowd of the city, he seemed to have had the same kind of enjoyment with which a driver of wild horses manages his tumultuous team and compels them to work in harness and together. He has left behind nothing wherewith to build a monument or even to construct a tablet.

Samuel J. Tilden: A man of" much political sagacity if the field be not too large. He was a sharpener of other men *s wit. Men went to him for counsel. He kept a sort of seclusion, a veiled oracle speaking in whispers, a sort of feline intellect that avoided open and direct ways, but came round to his ends by a sort of stealth. On the whole his influence upon the economics of the State of New York is good. He was strong enough to be influential at home. The nation was too large for him. He died wholly when he died. There is no more of him left behind. The inscription might be, "He did some good and but little harm."

David Davis: A kind man, waiting for bis opportunity, which never came. He meant to be a great man. He thought that he was fitted for it, and held himself ready to go up whenever his fellowcitizens should call him. It was tho fault of his times that the people dkl not call him. His patience and good-nature were exemplary. A plain, good-enough man, but with not enough oil in his lamp. Death came before his opportunity, and he must needs go out to meet it. He lived in good-fellowship, with moderate usefulness, and did no harm.

Chester A. Arthur: In private life well endowed with all the qualities which invite and secure personal affection, a good lawyer but too much addicted to polities to have risen to eminence, without any consuming ambition, he enjoyed the excitement and good-fellowship of political life as men enjoy the sports of field and forest. He would not sully his own hands with means and motives which he did not scruple to employ on others. By a surprise of Providence he foun$ himself president of the United Stated. High office and responsibility developed the good that was in him. All his tendencies were upward. He was steadily out-living the faults that were incident to lower form of pollticial experience, and had he been elected a second time there is reason to believe that he would have ranked himself among the best American Presidents, unless a too indulgent love of ease had arrested his development.

The editorial fraternity has lost a genial and useful public man in the death of Erastus Brooks, whose life grew more useful with years, and whose services to education and the cause of humanity frame for his name an honorable wreath.

In litterateurs we lose Edwin Percy Whipple, a critic of no mean weight, an essayist of commendable ability, and whilom a lecturer, before lecturing lost its charms with the public. He was regarded as a man of ability even in Boston.

Paul Hamilton Hayne, of South Carolina, a poet of a sweet and tender note, but not Of great strength or scope. Ill health repressed his ambition and limited his flight. Some of his pieces will go into jin anthology of minor sweet singers

Gen. Winfield S. Hancock. His life put to shame the saj'ing that the pen is mightier than the sword. His sword was mighty, his pen feeble. He did not attain to the level of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas, of the North nor of Lee or Joseph Johnston, of the South. He easily led among the honored names of Meade, Hooker, Sedgwick and other division generals. Of a noble build, of imperturbable courage, of quick apprehension, and with all the gifts of inspiring and leading men, he was a soldier's beau ideal of a Leader. He was eminently fitted for hisown profession, and eminently not fitted for political life, to which he aspired, like another great soldier whose name he bore. Iliscountry will paw over the weakness, but will not suffer his great and noble services during the war to go into eclipse.

Time would fail me to speak, accord ing to their merits, of Dr. Austin Flint, whose medical writings are standard authorities of Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, eminent as surgeon and physician of Dr. Dio Lewis, famous for his endeavors not so much to heal the sick as to keep men from getting sick, and who should be ranked as a hygienist rather than a physician of Daniel D. Home, the spiritualist, who for a time filled the world with wonder and, lastly, of John Humphrey Noyes, who sought to reduce social life to the level of the stye and to reduce virtue to a wallow within it. It had been better for the Fonnder of the Oneida Community had he died in his birth.

Thousands of worthy men besides

these have within the year gone where the sun neither rises nor sets. One name of remarkable significance remains, that of John B. Gough. English born American bred, he emerged from dissipations and the captivity of drunkenness to become a deliverer of those in like bondage. He was by nature a dramatist and an orator. For many years, at home and abroad, he devoted himself with unequalled success to the spread of temperance truth. It is probable that no man of this generation or of any other has spoken to so many people. To the end of his life people were not tired of hearing him. Men laughed or wept as he chose. With great descriptive power, with an inexhaustible fund of witty stories, of every shade and degree, which he did not so much narrate as put into life, making them act themselves out with tears and signs and profound pathos, with deep religious convictions and appeals as solemn as death itself, he went flaming through the land to the very end an enthusiastic reformer without bitterness or bigotry, loving, generous, tender, a good man and a Christian gentleman. Other faithful men will labor in the same field, but there will be but ^pne John B. Gough. /C-. HENRY WARD BEBCHBR. v-S",

The almanac for 1887 gives a few items of general interest: New Year's Day comes on Saturday, Washington's birthday on Tuesday, St. Valentine's Day on Monday, April Fool Day on Friday, Memorial Day on Monday,' Fourth of July on Monday, Christmas on Sunday, Easter Sunday will be on the 10th of April, Lent begins March 2. There will be four eclipses, two of the sun and two of the moon. One, Feb. 8, visible in the United States: The annular eclipse of th$» sun, Feb. 23 Aug. 19, of the sun.

Pf ALL FEEL IT.* "Washington Capitol.

A party of old soldiers stood on the platform of the panorama of Bull Run the other day discussing an anecdote I told recently of the idiosyncracies of Stonewall Jackson, and a famousex-Con-federftte remarked:

I saw a good deal of General Jackson before and during the war and noticed his peculiarities, as evory one else did. .1 have heard him assert that his ri^ht leg was hollow and his left leg solid. He used to imagine that he could feel his food passing down the cavity, and if it had been any other man 1 would have said that he was crazy." "I'm the other man," responded General Belknap, who stood by, "for I never take a glass of Burgundy without feeling it run down in side my leg to my great toe." "And I know a man," observed another, "who can not even take so much as a glass of beer without feeling a numbness in his arm from his wrist to his elbow." "Sam Randall," said a third, "always has a swelling of his ankles whenever he takes wine of any sort but that's gout, of course." "And I know a great many .men,? continued a fourth, "who cau got take a drink of whisky without feeling it in both legs, but I never thought there Was anything strange about it."

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Boston Post: The sweets of married life should never be kept in family jars! Hartford Times: Fresh toe martyrs— the youths who buy tight boots.

Pretzel's Weekly: Old memories are like old sores—stirthem up, and they hurt.

New Haven News: Egotism is a man without a collar carrying a gold-headed cane.

Washington Critic: The farther a man gets away from a dollar the bigger it looks. 'yv

Puck: This world is but a fleeting show, and to us all the good seats are taken.

St. Paul Herald: The way of the transgressor is hard—because many feet hare trodden it^f^

New Yorlkf lilorning Journal: Men who love quiet should teach their wives to play chess.

Philadelphia Call: It costs money to advertise, but it costs more money not. to advertise.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The people will love Judge Gresham for one enemy that he has made.

Now Orleans Picayune A literary person is one who can write ashortstory for a magazine."

Norristown Herald: This is the time when you can tell a man's character by the condition of his sidewalk.

New Haven News: In England a politician "stands" for office, but in thiscountry he "runs," and ho has to hump himself, too.

Buffalo Courier: It is now understood why' the French academy made M. de Lesseps an "Immortal." They wished to give him time to construct the Panama canal. "f

Chicago Inter-Ocean: The people will some day wonder how we patiently endured, in public places, all obscuration of view of stage and platform by the high bonnets of inconsiderate fashion.

SHE DID NOT LIKE WOMEN 70MERS. [Pittsburg Despatch.] "I hato women customers," said a saleswoman in a Fourth street dry goods store. She had been asked promply whethor she preferred waiting on men, and this was her plump answer, "Why do you prefer men?" "Because they know what they want, do not keep you standing an hour while they fumble over and rumple up the

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on the counter. Why, only to-day, was showing a lady black stockings^. Of course they were all the same size an quality, yet she dragged every pair out^ of that box and then wanted to see more^ I handed down two more boxes just like:this one, and when asked if we had any» more I told her no, and then she said I, might wrap up one pair for her. The lady next me mado nine different sale* JM to gentlemen while I was fooling with

the ono woman. I am going to try to get a place in a hardware store, or soma place where women do not have to deal£.'. with women."

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Monday, Jan. 3d.

It l:as always 1£|ti customary for us to give one big sale of Linens and Housekeeping Goods every year. Now to say the least, we have made great preparations to make this sale an "Eye Opener1' for close buyers. Immense purchases of nearly $10,000 worth of Table Linens, Towels, Napkins, Muslins and Shefltings, Bed Quilts, fcc., were made during Decernber by our N^w York buyer. Mr. Root, who "picked up" many bargains while around making his daily & trips to the Big Importing Houses. Our stock will

be made so attractive with goods and prices that every housekeeper in the city will take pleasure in looking through. We have "carved deep and mean "Bargains." We must double our last years sales of Linens if possible. We know prices will do it. If we should announce the death of the man that made "those" Towels, don't be surprised.

Hoberg, Koot & Co.,

Jobbers and Retailers. Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

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