Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 April 1887 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

HUBSCKIPTIOJ* PB1CK, 82.00 A YKAR. PUBLICATION OFFICE, I'os.

and 22 8outb Fifth Street, Printing House Bquare.

TERRE HAUTE, APRIL 16, 1887.

IF Paul Boyton, keeps on'swimming much longer he will hardly know whother to live in the water or on land.

IF Hon. Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia, will be as crisp in Congress as his name he can make thi biggest kind of a

record.

TUB President has inherited $200 by the death of an uncle. This will help to keep the White House pot boiling for a little while.

MR. BLAINE has rapidly recovered from his recent illness which appears to have boon more serious than was at first supposed. He will soon be as good as new again.

KATE FIKLD is to have a rousing reception on her arrival at Salt Lake. We suppose Kate is going out to see if the Mormons are getting along as comfortably as they ought to.

IT is said the President has given a positive promise to visit Atlanta next fall. For some reason or other ho seems to find the South much more attractive section of the country than the West.

IT is said that Sunset Cox resigned the Turkish mission because he is extremely fond of ham and eggs and could not get them in the Sultan's dominions. That was a

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reason for resigning as

THKHK is still talk of Conkling reentering politics, but it is from the tonguos of his friends and hangors-on. Ho is no more popular now with the masses of his' party thun he was when he went out of tho Senate.

IT does not matter much perhaps what kind of a man Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania is so long as his wife has a necklace of singular splondor, composed of diamonds, carbuncles, emeralds, topazes, sardonyxes and amethysts.

WIIKN tho oil fover broke out some years ago Daniel O'Pay, now president of the Buffalo Natural Gas Company, was working on a railroad for $1.50 a day. llo went for oil and struck it and is now worth soveral millions. Such is luck.

THE throo unmarried daughters of the lato banker Drexel, of Philadelphia, have each $4,000,000 in their own right. It is so much that they are really at a loss to know how to spend it. Imagine yourself with more money than you would know how to spondl

THKKK promises to be a boom in the whale industry. It has been discovered that whale extract Is Just as good as beef extract for soup and a good sized whale will make soup enough for half a million dinners. Hut we shall still have to catch our whale before we can eat him.

CINCINNATI has chosen a wise method of building her now $700,000 city hall. A commission composed of two Democrats and two Republicans will have charge of tho work. This is a first rate way to prevent corruption and jobbery in the orection of large public buildings.

SAHAII BKUNHAHDT is disclosing advertising powers hardly second to those of Pattl. Within a week she boxed the oars of her wniter at a hotel and sprang to put out afire on the stage where she was playing. How these Ingenious dovlces must make other actresses green with envy!

POIUTOUK.SK politician In Spring field, III., Is reported to have become insane because his favorite candidate was nonttuatcd for mayor. When tho unfortunate man recovers he should carefully let politics alone. Anyone who hasn't more cheek than that has no business in politics.

COAI. oil has boon tried for fuel on a Pennsylvania locomotive with apparent success. Ouly five gallons per hour were required, which at the present price of oil costs about five cents. Such a fuel would lo vastly cheaper than coal, be sides avoiding the great nuisance of cinders and coal smoke.

AI'THOHSIIU' IS not a pruhfie field for money making but there are some handsome rewards in it for the few. Mr. How ells, It is said, gets $15,000 a year from the Harpers and Mr. Gilder $10,000 for editing tho Century. Will Carleton makes $10,000 out of his poems and lecires, while Mrs. Burnett has an income from her

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of 18,000 a year.

THK "King business," as Mark Twain calls it, doesn't seem to be so terribly hard on the constitution after all. The king of the Netherlands has just celebrated his 70th birthday, while the emperor William, of Germany, Is 80 and queen Victoria Is 67 and in good health. There arc plenty of peofble in private life who don't hold out nearly so well.

THK notion that girls cannot stand the •trees of college life as well as boys is dissipated by the result at Vassar, Dr. Lucy Hall, the resident physician, has I compared the health record of Vassar with that of Amherst tor the last yttr and finds that the girls lost much toss time from aickneas than the men dkl. The girls gain fl*"»h and color, she ssys, under the regimen of regular work and wholeeoms mental drill.

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MABY I sins an inmate of Mercey Convent, Pittsburgh, who recently inherited $100,000 from her lather's estate, has given it all to the convent for charitable purposes. Part of the money will be expended in erecting an Industrial Home for girls out of employment and to provide a home at a nominal cost for those engaged in offices,stores and factories. When money is devoted to such uses its accumulation causes no regrets.

SEXATOB BECK, of Kentucky, thinks Blaine will not be a candidate next year but that be will be able to control the nomination and will throw his strength to Senator Allison, of Iowa. There is a good deal of philosophy in this view. If Blaine and Sherman should both be before the convention and neither of them be able to get the nomination, the Blaine men would not go to Sherman but could nominate the man they should go to.

TII&RK promises to be a bountiful supply of Beecher literature in the near future. Four biographies are said to be under way already and there will probably be other preparations of the great preacher's manifold contributions to American thought. But the Beecher literatnre will be so much moro invigorating and healthful than nine-tenths of that which is now current that there will lie small danger of its being overdone.

THE director of the mint has issued an invitation to artists to submit designs for the obverse and reverse sides of the silver dollar and the.minor coins. It is to be hoped this will result In getting the present coarse-featured, heavy-jawed female head off the silver dollar. An unhandsomer coin could not well be created and so, whatever the outcome may be, the public may at least hope for some improvement upon_ the present "buzzard."

GBUEN SMITH was very anxious to get into the courts at the lato unlamented Legislature and it Is probable that he will be quite as anxions to got out of the courts before he gets through with the business. The Supreme court having' failed to sustain his case, Col. Robertson has now brought suit for $3,000 damages against Smith's bondsmen to cover the expenses to which he was subjected by Smith's action. It looks as though Robertson had a good case.

IT seems that nearly all tho Presidential candidates who were successful had namos ending with the letter "n." If that rule for the selection of a Republican candidate next year Is to be followed either Sherman, Allison or Harrison would be eligible, while Blaine, Evarts and Ilavvloy would be ruled off the track. But It is not likoly that the final letter of a man's name will be allowed to control, since both the Adamses. Monroe, Polk, Pierce, Grant and Garfield, whoso names do not end with "n" wore elected.

Ex-Gov. WISE, of Virginia, made a speech to the young Republicans of Phildelphia last Monday night. Among other things he charged the Democrats in Congress with the passage of an InterState Commerce law "so bad that its own commission Is forced to suspend its operation to avoid panic and business stampede." Very true. But where were the Republicans about that time? Isn't the Cullom-Reagan bill at least half Republican, and did not Republicans as much as Democrats work for Its passage? Give us a better argument than this, Gov. Wise, or it will not do.

E A S E W IT A N A A

Tho fishing season opens with a Canadian cruiser firing at an American vessel supposed to be within the three mllo limit for the purpose of getting bait. Luckily the fishing boat succeeded in running away from its pursuer and getting into neutral waters before being captured.

From this it would appear ihat the tactics of last season are to be repeated In spite of the warning given to Canada by the action of Congress in passing the retaliation bill. Moreover the British Government has recently announced Its intention of supporting Canada in her violent proceedure. If this position is adhered to serious trouble is likely to result. The outrages co.nmitted by Canadian cruisers last season filled the whole country with indignation and the temper of the people was manifested by the vigorous action of Congress.

The temper of the people and of the press is against submission to the conduct of the Canadian authorities without some kind of resistance. The matter is now practically in the hands of the President and the Cabinet has already considered the advisability of suitable action in the premises. It is announced that torpedo boats will at once be sent to the protection of the lakeport cities in anticipation of any trouble that may ensue and there is little doubt but the administration will use the powers with which Congress specially clothed it in protecting the rights of our fishermen. What the results will be can only be disclosed by the future.

THE ir^ GK- WORK Eli.

The labor movement has been referred to slightingly in some quarters but it has made most astonishing headway by Impressing thoughtful men with the necessity of helping the wage-working classes to a larger share in the general prosperity.

As an example of this tendency the Union League Club of Chicago had under consideration at Its last meeting the question "What can be done by legislation or otherwise to interest,encourage, and aid the masses in securing their own homes?**

The subject was taken hold ol in a

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very earnest manner and ^jpr nsiiion showed that thought bad been expended on it. The value of sound savings banks and building and loan associations was conceded by all as being at the very foundation of home getting atnonj the masses. It was also suggested tba real estate to the value of $400 to $500 should be exempt from taxation. But after all,, said one speaker, "The rich must help the poor, the well the sick, the strong the weak, the intelligent the ignorant." Another expressed tho sentiment that what was most needed was sympathy between the higher and lower classes, so to speak, and the cultivation of kindly feelings between all men.

This it the real key to the situhtion When right feeling exists right laws will be made, right wages paid and right things will be done. The rich and the well-to-do have been too thoughtless and careless of the condition of tho poor. They have been so intent on their own ends that others have been overlooked. There are hopeful signs that a change is coming and that more attention will be given to the needs and the rights of the working' masses than has heretofore been done.

E A W A N E A I O A S It is very clear that up to date the In-ter-State Commerce law has proved anything but satisfactory. As at present understood and construed by the railway managers it seems likely to do precisely what was was not wanted and to leave undone tho main things that were expected of it. The railroads have been quick to take advantage of every provision favorable, such as the lopping off of passes and they are disposed to twist those provisions which are unfavorable to them in such a way as to get a benefit out of them. construed by the the railroads the long and short haul clause means a decided advance in. rates so that certain sections of the country and certain interests find themselves seriously handicapped by the new system. Already the operation of the law has been suspended on Southern railroads and loud complaints are coming from other quarters.

It remains, however, for the Commissioners to put their constructions upon the law and when that is done perhaps it will be made to appear very differently. So far only one side has been heard from—the railroads and their large corps of legal admirers. They, of course, have only cared to see what was favorable to the railroads. It will be the duty of the Commissioners to put such a construction on the law as will carry out the purpose of Congress in enacting it. It will, in in any event, not be very long until Congress meets again and if the law is found to be seriously defective, the defects in it can then be cured.

E O O A N A N E O W To the Editor of the Mall: In this "cow ordinance" business we hear a good deal from cow owners about the hardship to the poor mau should the cows bo shut up. I want to give you an instance of the sufferings of a poor man when the cows are not shut up. I earn $1.60 a day. I have a wife and four children. I rent a house (that has three lots attached) on the outskirts of the city, for sevon dollars a month. My home is some distance from my work but I hoped to use the three lots as a garden spot. Last year I had corn," potatoes, onions, peas, radishes, etc., planted and by April everything was up and looking flourishing. Then my trouble commenced. My neighbors' cows found out that I had something nice in the way of a garden, and the way they went for me was appalling. I have gotten up twice in a night to drive them out. Have found as many as three in my gardenpatch at one time. They would break down the gate to get in. They would jump the fence to get in. -To keep them out I could not. The result was that the only crop that we got was that of radishes. There are other poor men who have suffered in like manner.

CARPENTER.

E O E E O O A S A photographer tells the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that the young ladies of society have been amusing themselves during Lent by having their photographs taken decollete. Fashion has its fling at the photographer, as well as the tailor, and as the women are his best customers, he must be on the alert to devise some new way to attract them. There are ladies who have their photographs taken adoxen times a year, and every time they call they demand some new style. We find the style. If the first lady is flattered, she tell her friends, and they call at once to be taken in the same way. That is why the bust style, which is now the rage, came into such popularity. Two years ago the young ladies would have*thought it "loud" to be taken In a low-neck dress or bust drapery. Somehow they all began to ask for that style this winter, ana lately they have been taken in no other way. Lent is a good time for the photographer, especially for the one who enjoys the clientage of the society girl. She asks to be taken decollete now in the most sang froid manner. Some of them, however, are surprised that they must be dressed for it, expecting the photographer^ to take them in bust style while they wear high-necked dresses.

The Indianapolis News enjoys the distinction of having been the first successful attempt to found a 2 cent paper west of Pittsburgh and has witnessed the demise of thirteen would be competitors In its own citv, where several hundred thousand dollars have been sunk by cheap papers trying to get afoot bold by the side of The News. The successful 2 cent paper* of Chicago, Detroit. Cleveland, Cincinnati, SU Louis and Louisville hive been close students and in most instances very close Imitators of The News method, though none of them reaching its elevated tone ai a family newspaper.

Next week Special Sate of Gloves, 8Uk Tafltta, at 23 cents, at FECHHEI HERTS.

WORSE THAN SMALL POX.

A GREAT DANGER WHICH MENACES AN UNSUSPICIOUS PUBLIC.

The Brompton Hospital for consumptives, in London, reports that over fifty people out of every hundred consumptives, are victims of constipated or inactive kidneys.

Consumption is one of our national diseases, and the above report goes to .prove what has often been said in our Columns during the last eight years, that kidney troubles are not only the cause of more than half of the cases of consumption, but of ninety out of every hundred other common diseases. They who have taken this position, made their claims after elaborate investijr* tion, and their proof that they have a covered a specific for the terrible and stealthy kidney diseases, which have become so prevalent among us, is wise and convincing.

We have recently received from them a fresh supply of their wonderful advertising. They havi challenged the medical profession and science to investigate. They have investigated, and those who are -frank have admitted the truth of their statements. They claim that ninety per cent of diseases come originally from inactive kidneys that these inactive kidneys allow the blood to be come filled with uric acid poison that this uric acid poison in the blood carries disease through every organ.

There is enough unc acid developed in the system within twenty-four hours to kill half a dozen men.

This being a scientific fact, it requires only ordinary wisdom to see the effect inactive kidneys must have upon the system.

If this poteon is not removed, it ruins overy organ. If the bowels, stomach or liver become inactive, we know it at once, but other organs help them out. If the kidneys become constipated and dormant, the warning comes later on, and often when it is too late, because the effects are remote from the kidneys and those organs are not suspected to be out of order.

Organs that are weak and diseased are unable to resist tho attacks of this poison, and the disease often takes the form of and is treated as a local affliction, when ip reality the real cause of ,he trouble was Inactive kidneys.

Too manv medical men of the present day hold w'hat was a fact twenty years ago, that kidney disease is incurable, according to the medicines authorized by their code. Hence, they ignore the original cause of disease itself, and give their attention to useless treating of local sftocts*

They dise the patient with quinine, morphine, or with salts and other physics, hoping that thus naturo maj' cure the disease, while the kidneys continue to waste away with inflammation, ulceration and decay, and the victim eventually perishes.

The same quantity of blood that passes through the heart, passes through the kidneys. If the kidneys are diseased, the blood soaks up this disease and takes it all through the system. Hence it is that the claim is made that Warner's safe cure, the only known specific for kidney diseases, which is sold so largely by all dealers, cures 90 per cent, of human ailments, because it, and it alone, is able to maintain tho natural activity of the kidney poison, as fast as it is

If this acid is not removed, thero is inactivity of the kidneys, and there will

monja, impotency, and all the nameless diseases of delicate women. If the pol sonous matter is separated from the blood, as fast as it is formed, these diseases, In a majority of cases, toould not exist.

It only requires a particle of small-pox virus to produce that vile disease, and the poisonous matter from the kidneys, passirig all through the system and becoming lodged in different weak points, is equally destructive, although more disguk.,~. .If it were possible for us to see into the kidneys, and how quickly the blood passing through them goes to the heart and lungs ana other parts of the system, carrying this deadly virus with it, all would believe without hesitation what has so often beeu stated in advertisement columns, that the kidneys are the most important organs in the body.

They may regard this article as an advertisement and refuse to believe it, but that Is a matter over which we have no control. Careful investigation and science itself are proving beyond a doubt that this organ is, in fact, more important than any other in the system as a health regulator, and as such should be closely watched, for the least sign of disordered action.

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Clothing-

IMPORTANT SALE.

SILKS! SILKS! SILKS!

Special Sale for One Week!

Commencing' Monday Morning, April 18tJi.t:^.

ftl0,000 worth.' of

Black and Colored

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Here's one chance in a lifetime to buy a Fine Silk Dress Pattern at less than manufacturer's cost.

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At tho Following Cut Prices! Black Silks!

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20 yards Heavy Black Gro Grain Dress Silks for $15.00, worth $1 per yard.

20 vard of Extra Satin Finish Black Gro Grain Silks for $17 80 worth $115 yd

20 vards of Extra Heavy Cashmere Black Silk for $19 50 worth $1 25 per yard

Our Entire Line of Colored Faille Francaise Dress Silka will be offered during this sale at $1.29 worth $1.6® per yard. Wear Warranted. This sale will positively last for one week only. Come and secure iirst choice. (S

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Jobbers & Retailers.' 518 & 520 W abash."

Samples Cheerfully Mailed,

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Colored Gro Grain Silks at 50 cents

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All Odds and Ends of Summer Silks, 25 cents per yard.

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Colored Silks

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20 yards of Heavy Colorod Gro Grain Silk in 15 different shades for $14 90 worth $1 00 per yard VT

20 yds of Extra Heavy Cold Gro Grain Silk the tinest quality in our store for $23 00 worth $1 45 per yard 20 yards of Cold Surah Dress Silks 20 different shades light and dark, $15 20 yards Heavy Cold Rhiidame Dress

Silk in all the new colorings, Tans etc for $19 00 worth $1 25 per yard

TinTr'a We never had such a gathering oft|l Bo^s1 and Little Boys' Clothing best of its price, best assortment, and so ,* much of it. It's away ahead of any to be seen outside our walls. For that a reason we expect to push our business this season a peg beyond the 'biggest we ever did. We'll do it if goods and prices help. We nave never disappointed you yet. More goods, more styles, and progress in every direction to make Clothing better and sturdier far service. Little Boys* Suits, good ones, $2, $2.50, $3, $3.50 and $4 better qualities at $4 50, $5 and $7.50. Big Boys' Suits from $3 up good ones at$4, $5, $i, $7, $8, $9 and $10. j* 'Y*\

MYERST BROS.

Leading Clothiers aftd Gents' Furnishers,: Fourth and Main.

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