Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 April 1887 — Page 4

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TERRE HAUTE, APRIL 2, 1887

THE circus men, upon whom the InterState hill falls particularly heavy, pro pose to raise a purse and test the constitutionality of the law.

HENBV GEOROB'S ideas about land are spreading rapidly and, whether right or wrong, will have to be met seriously and on their merit#. Sneers, denunciation and ridicule will not answer his lucid arguments.

IT is said the President has nearly made up his mind to visit the west. Any President who has never been west of Buffalo and refuses to come out and see our great country, should never be given a second term, sure.

THE Chicago Tribune suggests that as the cost of firing otf a single big gun is enough to keep a missionary and his family for two years, modern warfare is becoming too expensive to be indulged in. That does not follow. The missionaries may be dispensed with.

IT was announced the other day in the English parliament that Canada was fully authorized to buy and operate armed eruisers in Canadian waters. This probably means that Canada intends to conduct the next Ashing season quite as vigorously as she did the last one.

"Doc" WILSON is going to publish book and tell all about his romantic and mysterious experiences with Mr. Moon. He will also use the same material for a novel. "Doc" should not stop at any hair-way business. Why not also write it up in a play and sing it at an opera?

UNLIKE the man in tho familiar comic song, Mr. Gladstone seems to be just "as young as he used to be." His speech in op]Ksiti(rti to the Irish coercion act on Tuosday was as strong and lucid an ar guinent as "tho grand old man" has mado in a long time. One of tho beauties of Mr. Gladstone's oratory is that he believes what he proachos.

THE NOW York Herald wants a penal colony established in Alaska to which convicts may be sent as they used to be sent from England to Australia. Tho argumont is that they could bo put to work there on railroads, highways, clearing forests, otc., and thus improving tho Territory without bringing their work into competition with free labor. The idea may be a good one, worth looking into at least.

THE fact that tho Delaware peach growors are predicting a bountiful crop of fruit this yoar is well calculated to excite suspicion. The public has become so familiar with the old story that the frost had killed all the buds and there would bo no poaches, that it does not know just what to mako of this new version. As plenty of poaches always come after bad reports It is now feared that fow may come aftor this favorable one.

Tho war botweon tho newspapers and tho railroads over tho interstate law has beon inaugurated at Cincinnati, by the railroads docllning to pay in transportation for the publication of timo tables as advertisements. Tho Cincinnati papers appeared yesterday without the column telling of arrival and departure of trains. Tho Indianapolis News also dropped the table yesterday, and the Journal printed only about half the roads entering that city.

DAKOTA pooplo are going to raise a fund to be used in tightlng]the administration and every Congressman who workod against her admittance to tho union as a State. Plucky Dakota was entitled to that privilego, and as she has an established reputation for raising great disturbances on short notice, some of tho two by four statesmen will perhaps wish they had tackled one of Dakota's blixxards rather than the com hi net! and the orpanUted wrath of her people.

THE Inter-State Railway Commissioners met and organised this week. For a while their's will bo no child's play. The railroad people are about the smartest tho country affords and they have evidently "got it in" for the commission. One company, it is said, has a list of some 2,500 questions prepared to be submitted to the commission for decision as it gets in working condition. A good many others will come to the front with similar requests for interpretation of the law. Taken all in all it seems that the lot of the railroad commission is not likely to be altogether a happy one.

Pnov. It ten Aim A. PROCTOR contributes an article to the April Forum ou the reality of the aea serpent in which he eouie* to the assistance of that tuuch abused and greatly maligned creature. While Mr. Proctor is not exactly ready to admit that the sea serpent is a serpent he is very decidedly of the opinion that it is more than floating seaweed, mountains seen through mist or any thing of that sort. He believe® it to be a real monster of some sort of other which probably belongs to some specie* of marine animals not yet classified. On the whole Mr. Proctor gives the sea eerpent a very fair send off and there is no good reason why he should not exhibit himself more liberally than ever next summer.

The Stewart bric-a-brac, pottery silver ware, etc., sold for better prices than the pictures brought on an average, although some of them brought large prices. Spoons brought- $10 apiece, while ten times their value was obtained for articles of small value. It is fashionable to have something from such collections if nothing more than a ten-cent ash tray or a twenty-live cent match box and crazy people boast of the big prices they pay for such trifles.

THE railroad commissioners of New York have made a.report to the Legislature urging the abolition of stoves and oil lamps in cars. -Thev say the problem of heating short trains by means of steam from the engine is an accomplished fact, and they believe the system will be perfected to such a degree that it can be applied successfully to long trains as well. The coming light will be electricity. Evidently the day of stoves and oil lamps in ears will soon be pai»t.

TIIERE is no end of real estate booms just now. The fever seems to be epidemic and is going all over the country. Staid old towns like Louisviile, Cincinnati and St. Louis eatch it and property goes up a sailing and a selling. Ashland, Wisconsin, about a hundred miles east of Dulutb, suddenly discovered, a few weeks ago, that it had been oblivious to its great natural advantages and promptly waked up from its lethargy. Real estate began to go up, the little town was crowded with buyers and now the speculators are so thick there that it is hard to find a room to sleep in. This boom business is one of the diversions of the time and will have its run and go down, like overy other epidemic. But there will be piles of money made by those who are lucky enough to strike it just right-

TIIK report on the Knights of Labor which Cardinal Gibbons has made at Rome repels the idea that the Knights encourage strikes and violence, as has been charged in some quarters. So far from this being the case the Cardinal says that the laws and the principal au thorities of the knights, so far from encouraging violence or occasions for violence, exercise a powerful preventive influence, seeking to keep strikes within tho limits of legitimate action. As a rule the Cardinal is doubtless right, although there have been some unfortunate exceptions. Mr. Powerly, however, has always discountenanced strikes and has used his influonco to prevent them and and in time we believe the rank and file of the order will see the matter in the same light and will resort to arbitration for the settlement of grievances.

SHERMA N IN THE SO UTH. Senator Sherman's short trip through the South has been tho subjoct of much comment. He doclarod that the visit had no political purpose, but in spite of this assertion he has boon generally supposed to be doing some preliminary campaign work on his own account. If so he did "it very well. He visited the principal manufacturing centers of the South and was received with cordiality everywhere. Ho made an effective point with the colored people by summarily leaving a hotel to which entrance was denied them. His speech at Nashville was listened to by an immense audience and produced so prfound an impression that the Democratic leaders in that vicinity have been anxious to get a Democratic speaker of national reputation to answer it. The speech was solid, strong and yet tompe^tc. His views on the tariff, the currency, commerce and other national questions are beginning to find hearty indorsement in certain parts of tho South. In the iron districts especially a strong protection sentiment is growing up which promises to divide the South politically within the next fow years.

The Sherman Presidential boom is fairly launched. It remains to be seen what progress it will be able to make. There is talk that ex-Senator Warner Miller, of New York, is in the combination for Vice-President. Such a ticket might do very well but Hawley would be a stronger man. On the other side, Postmaster-General Vilas is said to be willing te ruu on the ticket with Cleveland.

BLAINE'S TRIP.

Mr. Blaine is making a western trip as Mr. Sherman made a southern trip. And speculation is as ripe respecting the former as it was concerning the latter. He passed through this city on Wednesday afternoon, his objective peint being the home of his daughter in the Indian Territory, whom he wishes to see, but politicians are disposed to see a great deal more in his movements than a simple visit to his daughter.

The opposition to Mr. Blaine construe his visit as intended to qniet dissensions which are springing up in the ranks of his followers in Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and elsewhere and to stop the tendency toward Sherman, Allison or some other candidate, by personal contact with leading men of his party.

Others who are friendly to the man from Maine explain the trip as designed to consult with his friends, listen to their advice and agree upon a course of action that will harmonise all conflicting views and bring the strongest candidate forward for 1888.

If the trip means anything in a political way it is more likely to mean the latter than the former. Mr. Blaine cannot certainly be anxious to run again for the Presidency and be beaten. He will not insist upon thrusting himself on the party if the party doea not want him and does want tome other man. He may wish to know the eentiment of the party in the west, as he already doubtlesa knows it in the east, In order that he may act intelligently and pursue a

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wise course. If he is not to be a candidate himself he will doubtless want to throw his influence to some other man who will be agreeable to him.

The indications multiply that Mr. Blaine himself cannot be the candidate. There is a growing feeling of opposition to him, an increasing tendency to look in other directions for an available candidate. It may be Sherman or it may be any one of a dozen available men, but it can hardly be Blaine again for 1888.

THE LAND QUESTION. Father McGlynn, the Catholic priest, of New York, who was deposed from his clerical office for participating too actively in the Henry George campaign, was accorded a grand ovation Tuesday night, when he delivered his first lecture on the land question at the Academy of Music in New York. The great hall was packed with a wildly enthusiastic audience and the speaker was frequently and loudly applauded.

His silbject was "The Cross of a New Crusade and its meaning is explained in this sentence: "Our new crusade is for enforcing the great primal truths, equality of right to all God's children. He has innde us land animals, and anv set of men who shall restrain our right to the equal possession of the earth, the sunlight, air, water—and land fapplause] arc guilty of blasphemy against the universal rather—guilty of making millions feel that the giving of life was the work of some hateful fiend."

This is the key to the lecture which was an argument for a new land system substantially like that Henry George has presented.

Dr. McGlynn is an able and sincere man and his determination not to be terrorized by the church of Rome will be admired, however widely men may dissent from the new doctrine which he has set out to preach. He has given the subject, ho says, deep thought and has become convinced that it is his duty to advocate the view which he has taken. Many other intelligent men are thinking of it too and the land question bids fair to be one of engrossing interest. Any way it may be viewed it is a great question and is worthy of all the thought that can be given to it.

SIMPLICITY IN STREET A TTIRE. Helen Campbell, in Brooklyn Magazine. Tailor-made gowns have brought abput the revolution sighed for many years ago by sensible women, and it is only here and there that one sees silks and velvets on the street, their appearance there indicating that the wearer is underbred and ignorant, or is wearing out her old drosses preparatory to coming into her real kingdom and tasting the delights of a simple, compact, well-made suit. The shop girl, who follows always close behind, fs learning this, and a suit of cheap material, because nothing but cheapness is possible for her, but modeled on the severe simplicity she sees in the dress or her best customers. English fashions mav have led us astray at times, but we owe to them certain emancipations that could hardly have come in any other way. Sensible women had long ago adopted many of them, but fashionable women, some of which are not sensible, could never have been brought to low heels and thick boots and plain gowns and simplv dressed hair, if it had not beeu "so English, you know."

SOME OLD SUN DAY CUS'IOMS. Dr. Egglestou contributes an illustrated paper on "Church and Meeting-House before the Revolution" to the April Century. From it we quote as follows: "In Connecticut, perhaps more than anywhere else, Sunday was a sort of popular idol, nor did the rigor of its observance abate perceptibly until long after the Revolution. This extreme scrupulosity about Sabbath-keeping was doubtless the moving cause of the building of the "Sabbath-day houses" these were little shanties standing on the meeting house green, each intended to accommodate a family during the interval between the two services. Some Sabbath-day houses were built with a stall at one end to shelter tho horse, while the family took refuge in the other, where there was a chimney and a meager furniture of rude seats and a table. Here on arrival before the first service the owners lighted a fire and deposited their luncheon, and to this camp-like place they came back to eat their doughnuts and thaw themselves out after their first long sitting in their arctic climate of the meeting-house. Sometimes two families had a Sabbath-day house to

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ather sometimes there were two rooms a Sabbath-day house that the sexes might sit apart—for nothing so agreeable as social converse between boys and girls was permitted during the consecrated time. But some parishes in Massachusetts, and perhaps elsewhere, had a common "noon-house" for all comers to rest in. Fireside assemblages on Sunday, whether in the parsonage or the noonhouse, were in danger of proving delightful to those who were prone to enloy the society of other human beings, and hence the pastors "were put upon their best contrivances," to have most of the interval between the services filled up with the reading aloud of edifying books and other exercises calculated to keep the the mind in a becomingly irksome frame."

There is a good deal of bosh written about the "square gambler." In the games he plays the chances are usually so much in his favor that there LR no need of crooked work.

FACT.

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Hundreds of men will tell you that thev never read newspaper editorials, but put something into an editorial that one of them doesn't like and see how quickly he will discover it.

WHERE THE BILL IS WEAK. [Omaha World.} The Interstate Commerce bill utterly fails to compel palace car porters to make a distinction between long and short hauls.

Don't! If a dealer offers you a bottle of Salvation Oil in a mutilated or defaced package,—don buy it at any price,—it may be a dangerous and worthless counterfeit. Insist upon getting a perfect, unbroken, genuine package.

Free of Charge. Your Druggist will refund your money if Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup does not give you satisfaction and cure your cough. Price 25 cents.

Prof. Grothe, Brooklyn Board of Health, says Red Star Cough Cure is free from opiates, and highly efficacious. Twenty-live cents.

A LESSON WITH A MORAL.

WHEN WILL OUR EYES BE OPENED fO THIS GREAT NATIONAL CALAMITY?

The year 1886 played sad havoc with many prominent men of our country. Many of them died without warning, passing away apparently in the full flush of life.

Others were sick but a comparatively short time. We turn our files and are astonished to find that most of them died of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous prostration, of malignant blood humor, of Bright's disease, of heart disease, of kidney disease/ of rheumatism or of pneumonia.

It is singular that most, of our prominent men die of these disorders. Any journalist who watches the telegraphic reports will be astonished at- the number of prominent victims of these disorders.

Many statements have appeared in our paper with others to the effect that the diseases that carried oft so many prominent men in 1886 are really one disease, taking different names according to the location of the fatal effects.

When a valuable horse perishes, it becomes the nine days* talk of the sporting world, and yet thousands of ordinary horses ara dying every day, their aggregate loss is enormous, and yet their death creates no comment.

So it is with individuals. The cause of death of prominent men creates comment, especially when it can be shown that one unsuspected disease carries off most of them, and yet "vast numbers of ordinary men and .women die before their time every year from the same cause."

It is said if the blood is kept free from uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis, nervous prostration, pneumonia, rheumatism, and many cases of consumption would never be known. The uric acid, we are told, is the waste of the system, and it is the duty of the kidneys to remove the waste.'

We are told that if the kidneys are maintained in perfect health, the uric, kidney, acid is kept out of the blood, and these sudden and universal diseases caused by uric acid will, in a large measure, disappear.

But how shall this be done? It is folly to treat effects. If there is any known way of getting at the cause, that way should be known to tho public. We believe that Warner's safe cure of which so much has been written, and so much talked of by the public generally, and which can be obtained of dealers everywhere, is now recognized by impartial physicians and the public as the one specific for such diseases.

Because public attention has been directed to this great remedy by means of advertising, some persons have not believed in the remedy. We cannot see how Mr. Warner could immediately benefit the public in any other way, and his valuable specific should not be condemned because some nostrums have come before the public in the same way, any more than that all doctors should be condemned because so many of thom are incompetent.

It is astonishing what good opinions you hear on every side of that great remedy, and public opinion thus based upon an actual experience, has all the weight and importance of absolute truth.

At this time of the yoar, the uric acid in the blood invites pneumonia and rheumatism, and there is not a man who does not dread these monsters of disease but he tteed have no fear of them, we are told, if he rid the blood of the uric acid cause.

These words are strong, and may sound like an advertisement, and be rejected as such by unthinking people, but we believe they are the truth, and as such should be spoken by every truth-loving newspaper.

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popular shoe house, 104 south Fourth street with a very elegant stock of Spring foot wear, and bought at such prices as enable him to give his patrons genuine bargains. Boegeman has made a great reputation, not alone on his prices, but on the excellent, solid quality of his goods. We are undoubtedly on the eve of a boom in trade, and Boegeman intends to do his share with low prices and good goods to make the big boom bounce. s-- Free Homes.

If you want a Free Home or low rates to Kansas, go out April l'2th and 26th. Call on LEGGETT BROS

Spring Neckwear jusf, opened at Hunter's. Prices below all others. 523 Wabash avenue.

New Carpets.

Our Carpet stock is now full to overflowing with all kinds of Floor Coverings, and prices are exceedingly lows A. Z. Foster, Carpets and Furniture, 422, 424, 426 Main'street. jp

Bonbons.

Celebrated French balbrlggan underwear. Drawers from 26 to 50 waist, shirts from 32 to 50 breast. Prices from 50 cents to $1.50, best goods in the country, largest line in the state. Same make as we have sold for the past'five years, at HUNTER'S, 520 Main street.

Finkbiner & Duenweg have now and will keep on hand a full line of Mantels and Grates. Contractors and others who think of building this year will further their interest by calling on F. A D. before purchasing mantels.

Old papers—large sizes—for putting under carpets, house-cleaning, etcM can be had at The Mail Office.

POWDER

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Thl* powder never varlea. A marvel of parity, nreugtli and wholowmenow. More eeofwmlcaltnaa the agUBafy .kin** be sokt In oompetition with the mu*

The Live Stock Commission firms doing business at the Indianapolis Stock yards have indorsed the Market reports of The Indianapolis News and adopted the quotations of that paper as their official quotations at the yards. This will give new signifiance to the market reports of that paper. The afternoon hour of publication of the News, printing just after the noon closing of Boards of Trade in the commercial centers, necessarily gives The News one day the lead of morning papers—a very important advantage. Then its low price of 2 cents a copy makes its cost the iherest trifle to the producer for the quotations alone, and gives him a model paper for his family into the bargain.

One of the institutions that the people of Indianapolis are proud of is W. G. Sherman's elegant restaurant, on Meridian street, just south of Washington. It is the popular place for. the mid-day lunch for business men, and our people over this way who once .'visit it never think of going elsewhere for their meals when making a brief visilj to the capital. Tho cookery is superb, thfe service genteel and the low prices artj a surprise.

Gossamer Face Powdery warranted the best. Our price 18c, at F«2hheimer's, on Four th stree t. ?•, 2

Paint, Varnish and Whitewash Brushes of different sizes for sale by Finkbiner fe Duenweg, 420 Wabash Avenue.

The best Swan's Down Face Powder, 13c, at Fechheimer's, on Fourth street.

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Laff every time you feel tickled, and laff once in a while enny how.

Marry yung, and if yu make a hit, keep cool and don't brag about it.

Hold the baby haff the time, and allwuss start the fire in the mornings and put on the tea-kittle.

If you have dauters, let yure wife bring them up if she has common sense

she can beat all yure theorys. Luv and respekt yure wife enny how. It is a good deal cheaper than to be all the time wishing she waz somehow differnt.

Don't have enny rules for long life that you won't break be prepared to die to-monvw, iz the best creed for long life I kno of. But so long as you live, buy yure groceries at E. R. Wright's White Fruut grocery.

They have to-day Strawberries, New Asparagus, New Lettuce, New Spinach, New Cucumbers, Kale, New Pie Plan:,, Celery, Cranberries, Oysters, Dressed Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Fresh Fish, Wild Duck, Jack Snipe, Choice White Clover Honey, Choice Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Maple Syrup, Sorghum, New Orleans Molasses, Buckwheat Flour, Bananas, Entire Wheat Flour, Graham Flour, English Plum Pudding, Peaches for Cream, California Wines, pure and cheap Choice Country and Jersey Butter, a fresh tfrrival of Choice Teas, and many other thing too numerous to mention.* (,

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