Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 March 1887 — Page 4

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TERRK HAUTE, MARCH 19,1887

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was burned in Buffalo yester­

day morning and at least thirty persons perished. The year 1887 starts out with startling list of terrible disasters and loss of life. _.

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Jim Blaine has already got

enough of "journalism" and has gone into business in Wall street. We con gratulate Mr. Blaino on having purchas ed his neyrapapor experience earlyand cheaply.' .' T,

THK report that Rev. Matthew C, Julian, of New Bedford, Mass., will be called to Plymouth church, is doubtless premature. Mr. Beecher's place will not be filled in such a big hurry. &

JAY Gori.n sighs for the days when he was a country boy and milked the old cow on the farm. No doubt Jay had a lighter heart and an easier convene3 in those days than he has now.

PKKMIDENT

CI/KVELANI

has already

vetoed more bills than all his predecessors put together and his term is only half out. He has a dead sure thing on going down to history as the great veto President.

DENTIMTHY is large citie* is no mean profession.

There

are said to be in New

York a score of dentists who make ?20,000 a year each, with a large number who realize $15,000 and others still who mnke from g:8,000 to $10,000.

PKEMIDKNT CI,KVKLANI was fifty yoars old yesterday. He is only the fourth President to celebrate his semi-centen-nial in the White House. The others were "Polk, Pieree and Grant. Garfiold died a month before he was fifty.

MH. GKOKOB JONES, proprietor of the Now York Times, says if ho were allowed to place a man in nomination for the Presidency he would name Judge Greshatn. The Republicans might go farther and faro a groat deal worse.

A CALIFORNIA paper declares that there are thousands of acros of good land there which can be had for $1 .*25 per acre, and on threo years' time, with a whole lot of climate, sconery, and jack rabbits thrown in for nothing. That land must be an awful distance from Kansas City or Wichita!_

SOMK of the trade dollar specula tors will come to grief and nobodiy will bo sorry for them. Those who bought up a largo number of these coins which had circulated in China and been stamped with Chineso characters, now find that they will be redeemed only as so much bar silver.

BLAINK is undoubtedly losing strength as a Presidential candidate. Even the Philadelphia American, which was an original Blaino paper, admits that it would not be advisable to nominate him for a second race. It is altogether likelj* that Cleveland will have to measure swords with some other opponont next year.

THE Chicago Inter-Ocean declares: "Tho people of tho Unltod States are not crowded to any extent. The entire 50,000,000 people could be settled in the (State of Texas and then not be as much crowded as they are in mamy countries of Europe." But Americans must have plenty of elbow room. They can't thrive without it.

ARK we to have an era of falling railroad bridges? The terrible accident near Boston on Monday, was followod on Wednesday by the falling of a rotten trestle near Vincent Station, Ohio, which was only prevented from destroying many lives by a division of the train and the fact that the passenger portion had not yet gone upon the bridge.

ST. Loins has a hard time trying to get any new railroads. By some means or another every attempt to permit a new road to conic in is defeated. As the Post-Dispatch puts it, the Legislature will not allow a new road to come in over the tracks of an old one, and the olty council will not permit a new one to come in over its own tracks. Thus between Soylla and Charybdis St. Louis is having the life strangled out of her.

Yovxo authors are often surprised when their offerings to the magazines are not accepted, but if they knew the inside workings of these establishments their wonder would bo much less. For instance It is s.Ud that Harper's received over 12,009 manuscripts last year while the entire capacity of the magasine is not quite 200 a year. Thus it was only possible to use one out of every 60 of the contribution.-* ottered, even if all were good enough to print.

TF Henry George is a erank on the land question, he is sound and logical on a good many other questions which Involve the rights of labor. He agrees with recent decisions of the courts that combinations of strikers to boycott and coeree by violence and threats are inimical to the true interests of labor and are rightly punishable by law. He adds: "The true line to follow for the emancipation of labor is not the multiplication of restrictions, but the sweeping away of

restrictions— uot the creation o(" new week on an average horse, and that's the monopolies, but the abolition of all reason draymen have their animals pro* monopolies." vided with iron shot*.

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THE real Estate boom is spreading like a prairie fire among the towns in the Mississippi Valley. Sharp boom managers who worked their schemes in Kansas City and other places have sought new fields and pastures green- In newer parts of the country. By and by the bottom will fall out of some of these booms and a good many people will get hurt.

MAINE has just abolished capital pun? ishment, substituting life imprisonment for it. Michigan abolished it some time ago and is now considering the advisability of restoring it. The humane heart shudders at the thought of executing anyone, but when wo contemplate some of the crimes that are committed we can hardly feel that it would be safe to retire the hangman's rope for a while yet.

THIS country used to congratulate itself that it was free from the enormous war burdens of the nations of Europe, but of late there has not been much room for glorification in that respect. The New York Sun has figured up the army, navy and pension

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passed by the last

Congress and fiuds that they amount to upwards of $125,000,000. This is more than the army and navy expenses of Germany. It is something to think about.

THE Minnesota Legislature has passed a sensible law on the subject of libel suits. It provides that no person shall bring a suit for libel against a newspaper until after three days' notice is given of such purpose, during which time a retraction can bo made which must be received in evidence when the suit is tried, and the plaintiff can recover only such damages as he is able to prove he has actually suffered. Such a law is fair, just and reasonable to both parties and might well be adopted everywhere.

THE benelits of high-license are shown in a striking manner by some statistics recently compiled. It appears that in tho four cities of Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, where the tax range from $500 to $1,000 the saloons average 34 to each 10,000 people, while in those where the tax is from $200 to $300 the average is 63, while in those where the license feo is from $50 to $125 the number of saloons is 71. More than that. In tho high license cities the saloons that are closed up are of the worst class while those that remain open are more orderly and decent.

I)R. JOSEPH PARKER, of London, is said to be the favorite in tho talk of a successor for Mr. Beecher. He was an old and warm friend of the latter and is a strong preacher. The fact that he is an Englishman is however somewhat against him. Dr. Lyman Abbott is also favorably spoken of, and would probably come as near filling Mr. Beecher's place as anyone can hope to do. But no choice will be made in a hurry. For some months to come a number of leading ministers of the country will be invited to preach in Plymouth and the congregation will take time to make up its mind.

ANOTHER Now York minsiter, Rev. Thos. Illrnan, of the Universalist church, has followed the example of Dr. McGlynn and Rev. Hugh Pentecost in advocating Henry George's social theories. He has given up his church and will dovote himself to the discussion of great social questions which relate in the welfare of humanity. The fact indicates the deep hold which the various propositions for the betterment of the working masses have taken upon the minds of thinking people. That ultimate good will result from all this discussion cannot be doubted.

THE court of Queen's Bench, at Toronto, recently made a decision which ought to afford a good deal of encouragement to the Mormons. The court decided, according to report, that under the Canadian law of bigamy any married citixen of that country who crosses the line and marries again in the United States cannot on his return be prosecuted successfully for bigamy providing he did not leave Canada with intent to commit the offense. Under this construction of the law it would seem that a Canadian may have as many wives as he wants, or can get, so long as he comes ever to the United States for them and swears on his return to the Dominion that he had no intention of marrying a new wife when he left. The Mormons ought to give up their project of going to Mexico and remove to Canada for resi-

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ANOTHER appalling railroad accident occurred last Monday on the Boston and Providence Railway, a few miles out from Boston. It was the 7 o'c'ock morning suburban train from Dedham to Boston and was loaded with workingmen, shop girls and other passengers. Tho Busaey bridge passes over a highway at the height of forty feet. The engine and three cars passed safely over when the bridge suddenly gave way, precipitating the rest of the train in a terrible wreck. Twenty-five people were killed outright, many of them women, and more than a hundred were more or less seriously injured. The horrors of the scene would have been Increased by fire bnt for the timely presence of a chemical engine. The accident was one of the worst that has happened the past winter and its cause appears to be involved in some doubt, although a serious flaw in one of the iron trusses was probably the starting point of the trouble. A thorough investigation of the matter will be made and may throw additional light on the aflkir.

It lun been found that horse shoes made of gold would not wear over a

TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

FUNERAL EXTRAVAGANCE. Mr. Beecher did a good and characteristic thing in directing that his funeral should he simple and inexpensive. This was from no feeling of economy, for the great preacher spent his money lavishly. It was evident from a desire to discourage by his example the needless waste upon fnnerals which custom has so long sanctioned. Others have used their influence in the same direction and there has come to be a well-settled conviction in the minds of thinking people that a radical change in this respect should be inaugurated.

The present method of burying the dead has much in it that is ostentatious, insincere and

un-Christian.

Most peo­

ple realize this and if they were governed by their own feelings rather than by the dictates of custom, there would soon be an end of the foolish and ext: practices which which go to the modern funeral. The lessly spent by people in nanKptrcumstances in this country in bjjflpikg their dead would go along waj^flMprds feed' ing and clothing the livifl^^he money thus spent is worse thangpitfown away, for aside from doing no oM any good, it helps to rivet the chains of a barbarous and absurd custom still farter,

Mr. Beecher had witnessed much of this in the course of his ijoftiteareer as a clergyman. The absurdi® o$£tfre custom must have been many tim by him most keenly. He wished to set the seal of condemnation against it by his own example. It will be •tfell if the lesson shall be heeded and the silly, extravagant and often insincere display over the burial of the dead be dispensed with.

OUR SMOKERS' BILL

Last year $120,000,000 worth" of proper ty was burned up in the United States by fires. This was an unusual and uncommon loss, but it was discounted by the country cigar bill. Add $60,000,000 to the fire bill and we get tho cost of cigars. Add $26,000,000 to that and we have the cost of all the tobacco consumsumed by smokers in this country each year. That is to say, $206,000,000. If we add $50,000,000 more to this for chewers we

have$256,000,000as

the annual tobacco

bill of the country, or $3.44 to every man, woman aijd child in the country. What an enormous tax is this to pay for a useless If not vicious indulgence. But there is another nearly three times as heavy. The annual liquor bill of the country amounts to $700,000,000. Here is almost a billion dollars for liquor and tobacco. Our sugar costs only $187,000,000, our coffee, tea and cocoa $130,000,000 and our schools $110,000,000.

It is almost enough to make a Prohibitionist out of any man to contemplate these figures. The tobacco habit, if indulged within reason, is not perhaps so very bad, but it is made terribly harmful and dreadfully expensive by the extravagance of its votaries. As to the liquor habit we all know what that means. There is now and then and here and there, a moderate drinker, but he is one in a hundred. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the habitual use of liquor means excess, debauchery and premature death. It is no wonder, and it is high time, that a great temperance tidal wave is sweeping over the country.

A DAY OF REST.

There has been a tendency for some time past to make Sunday a day of labor rather than one of rest in many lines of work. Years ago it was a rare thing to see any man at labor on Sunday. But the constantly increasing wants of society have required more and more Sunday labor to minister to them and there have not been wanting men who

were

willing to work seven days in the week, or to make others do so, in order to increase their income.

The matter has come to be so notorious now in all the larger cities that people of humane impulses have taken it in hand and are making an effort to check the evil. In Chicago last Sunday a large meeting was held, in which many prominent citizens took part, to discourage Sunday labor. There are thousands of men and women in that city whose occupations are such that no rest day is permitted them. Not only do they work seven days in the week but they work more hours a day than any man or woman ought to work. The statement, hardly exaggerated, was made by one of the speakers, that some men go to their work so early and return so late they do not know tho of their children's eyes.

This state of things is a disgrace to our civilization, to say nothing of the Christianity we profess. There is no call forit and excuse for It. With thousands of pwp& idle for lack of work there is no need that others be worked to death. It is tine that Sunday work cannot wholly avoided, but much of it coold as well as not and where it most done, those who work on Sunday shoul and could be given some other day for rest. It is moral, social and physical death tor any one to work continously seven days in the week. Nature and religion alike require a regularly recurring rest day.

THE following description of Parson Tal mage's style of lecturing, given by the Chicago Herald, la too good to let go by:

The wa-arid is what you make Itttr suffice

Two a* will »ot to expres* the breadth and vnlumc of that awful yawp the combined vtetonsnem of three t* Is barely adeqaateto overcome the shock of Its sadden rkMW. The great month opened like an abyss 1111 the speaker's ears beat together sad gently fAnnedhU wwphagoii then the string was milled, thewTOUght-*t«*l Jaws cJosed together with a click, and all the people wondered."

Unlike "Editor Cutting,'* Mr. Tfclmage geta "paid for being a cariosity."

The Buffalo Express propose* as a question for workingmen: "Which Is best, days of work and nights of rest or, Knights of Labor and days of idleness.**

PEOPLE IVE READ ABOUT.

Boston Corbett, who recently so successfully adjourned the Kansas Legislature, owns a small farm near Concordia, Elan., and is looked upon in the region round about as something more than eccentric. He has an abiding belief to the effect that the Mends of Wilkes Booth would like to kill him, and for that reason he has not been East for years. He shot Booth while the latter was looking through a small opening in the barn in which he had taken refuge from his pursuers, and shot without orders. The barn had previously been fired, and Booth, possibly hoping in his desperation to draw the shot which came so oiomptly, was leaning on his crutch oment, suffering from the pain hif sprained ankle. As he fell the dieira at Corbett's side rushed into the and dragged him out, and was soon thrown into a wagon, still breathing, and started on the road to Washington Corbett was a religious Enthusiast of the singing and shouting kind, and the no toriety he won by his sHot has not tended to make him les#*eccentric than he was at that period.

Matt Carpenter, who represented Wisconsin brilliantly in the Senate, at one tUnfe decided to enter the ministry, and began the study of theology. He had lost his sight for a time, and there are many old people now living in the little Western town where he spent his first ten years at the bar who can well remember the earnest prayers and eloquent talks of the young lawyer. Carpenter was then a tall, square, blackeyed fellow, handsome as Lucifer and as dangerous. Rufus Choate sent him to New York to put his eyes under treatment, and ho stuck to the law. His determination to go into the ministry was a fleeting surrender to despondency, but his old friends always cherished their dreams of his future fame as the great blind preacher of the West. It was at this period injhis life that Carpenter acquired his fondness for Scripture reading, a trait which explains the simplicity and clearness of ..his speeches in the Senate and at tho bar.

In his will tho late Gen. Durbin Ward gave to his niece Ella Ward the jewelmounted sword which had been presented to him by the privates of his old regiment. He enjoins her that she shall "deliver it to her eldest son, should she ever be blessed with one, and if he. should die, to the next eldest in succession, and with it the charge never to draw it in a bad cause, and to never leave it sheathed should a good one require its aid, and command him also to send it down to posterity to tho eldest son in the direct line so long as any Ward blood can wield a sword, until that blessed time when all swords shall be beaten into ploughshares."

Emperor William, Count von Moltke, Gen. W. S. Harney, U. S. A., and Col. E. G. W. Butler, of St. Louis, are believed to be the oldest four military officers in the world. Between the last two there ib a good deal of rivalry as to precedence. Butler went into the army before Harney—that is, at West Point— but Haruey received his commission before Butler got his.,

Charles A. Pillsbury, the great Minneapolis miller, was poor when, in 1803, he was graduated from Dartmouth Four years later, still poor, he went to Minneapolis and established a business which to-day is the largest of its kind in the world. His mills turn out 10,000 barrels of flour daily, and he pays for freight alone on his wheat $1,500,000 yearly.

Joel Chandler Harris is said to do all his literary work with a goose quill. A short time ago Mr. Harris found that the use of either steel or gold pens caused a peculiar and unpleasant numbness to make itself felt in his wrist and arm he therefore adopted the quill, and since has suffered no inconvenience.

Hon. A. G. Talbot, of Kentucky, who Is in Washington looking for the Austrian mission, is a fine-looking old gentleman with white hair and a pink complexion. He has never tasted spirituous liquors or smoked cigars. What kind of a Kentuckian is this?

WHAT WILL THE PRESIDENT DOf "What will the president do when he returns to private life?" asks a reporter of the Sun of a Wall street man. "I can tell you precisely,"' said the other. "He will not go back to Buffalo, but will make bis home in Albany or in New York city* more likely the latter from his sayings in the White house. He will purchase a large, handsome house in the eminentlyres pec table and not too fash* ionable part of the city, frerhaps Gramerny park. Mrs. Cleveland will continue her Social career in a manner nk enjoyed by any wife of an ex-presidentSinoe the days of Dolly Madison. Mr. Cleveland will fit up for himself down town an elegant law office, In which he will «T little time and really do work, as he will only desire a nomlfflci place at the bar. He would not expect vfnrllnuch of a very lucrative practice.!B(#*rhat is he going to live on? That's®) rub of the story to which I was about to oome. He will be made the president of one or two, possibly more, large new business corporations, to whom his name, his habits of industry and reputation for good common sense and strong will power will easily be worth anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000 a year. In short, he will repeat on a little larger scale what Secretary Man las been ning has asked to do."

WORSE THAN SNORING. {London Troth.] A young woman at Burslem, who has been married for only live months, has applied for a judicial separation because her husband will not cut bis toenails, which are of abnormal length, and she complains that she Is scarred from head to foot by them.

An observant bather says thai hair in the ears denotes that a man Is forty or more.

A NEW YORK OIRL.

An observant New Yorker furnishes the San Francisco Argonaut with the following graphic picture of the New York girl, who is decidedly one of the institutions of the country—quite as much an institution, in fact, as the "glorious climate of Californy: "A New York girl begins to fade at 22. From 15 to 17 she is occasionally wonderfully lively. She has the frail, fine beauty of a tea-rose—the highly-finished beauty which is only seen in great cities, and which is destroyed by the same atmos-

Sancing,

here that gave it birth. One season of gaslight, and late hours blights the tea rose. But she makes up for its loss by her brightness and her clothes. She is is justly renowned for the most stylish manners and the best made dresses of any woman in America. A stylish' manner does not of necessity mean the best manner, but the manner which is most fashionable at that moment. There are fashions in manners as there are in clothes, and these the New York girl is sharp as a needle at seeing, and clever as a star actress at adopting. Some years ago that ugly fashion came in for excitable manners, when the girls talked so fast and gasped so you felt as if the whole female portion of the town spent its life in running to catch trains. In one week they all Droke out in it. Not a girl who was anybody retained her old form of address. Since then the English manner has come in. The use of the broad "a" fell on them like a pestilonce. Not an "a" was left to pursue the even tenor of its way unmolested. The word

ulady"

was pronounced bad form, and

"woman" substituted "gentlemen friends" was boycotted, and "men that I know" took its place. In a premature ly short time the change was effected, and one could not but believe that it was the work of years. Now the languid

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manner is chio. The girls who gaspe and nearly fell into spasms four year ago are half asleep to-day. You would not believe they were the same creatures The quick turns of the head, the rapiigestures of the hand, all, all are gone into the limbo of the past, and a drowsy, magnificent languor reigns in theii stead."'

A LEVEL HEADED EDITOR. [Macon Telegraph.] The latest book published in New York to tell men how to be gentlemen and women how to be ladies says this "Kissing in public is no longer permissible in good society." If any one has designs upon us, we will step behind the door.

TIMES HAVE CHANGED *[Louisvllle Post.] "How styles have changed since I wax a girl," said an old lady. "When I was young wo used to wear our dresses up to the neck, and gloves with only one button. Now they wear the glove up to the neck and only one button on the dress.^

COST OF NECESSARY FOOD. [Spartanburg (S. C.) Spartan.] When you consider the question of necessary food for afield hand you will see that it costs little. A hand can live well on $1.73 a month, provided his cooking has not to be paid for. A bushel of meal costs SO cents, a quarter of a pound of meat a day will cost 55 cents, and that leaves 40 cents for molasses, salt and other extras. That will bring the living up to $21 a year. Tho farmer who boards his hands can do it at this price, if ho attaches no value to his vegetables and fruit and the occasional chicken pie on extra occasions. If any one should hire a dozen hands and hire a cook for them, they could be boarded at $20 each a year. Living is now cheap. It is waste and exravagance that ruin most people.

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Novelties in Checks, Plaids And Mixtures, with and without Hoods. Several New Lots of Jackets and Wraps received this morning. Paris Beaded Wraps in Great Variety.

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