Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 August 1887 — Page 4

FHE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

KDITOE AND PROPRIETOR. HtJBSCRIPTIOK I'KICK, |U0 A YSAB. FtJBLICATIOK OTT1CX, ITos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street,

Printing House Square.

TERKE HAUTE, AUG. 27, 1887,

JOHN B. MOORK,

Gov.

THE

MR. OLAINK

EMHON'H

of Concord, Mass., is

dead. He introduced the culture of the ••Concord" grape and was worth more to humanity than the whole school Concord philosophors.

ADAMS,

year

18#7

THBUK

of

of Colorado, haa asked

for the aid of federal troops to put down the Ute rebellion. That does not look though the trouble was so inconsiderable as certain parties have represented.

Iowu Republicans at their State

convention, did not formally indorse Senator Allison as a presidential candidate, but they intimated that they would bo solid for him when the proper time comes, and that was better than aper functory indorsement.

TUB

seems destined to go

into history as a celebrated one for fires ami destructive railway accidents. Not quito two-thirds of the year Is gone and yet the deaths from railway accidents h:ive alroady exceeded those for the entire twelve months in recent years.

scorns to have been a verltablo

epidemic of railroad accidents during the past few weeks. Taking them altogether, littloaud big, they have averaged pretty nearly ono a day. Who oan account for such singular epidemics, or whatever else they are to be called?

TAI.MAPOE,

the railroad president wLo

diod some time ago, may have been a very good railroad manager, but as a man he was cut out of a very small pattorn. He loft an estate of half a million, of which ho gave thirty dollars to the three children by a first wife and the remainder to his second wife.

Is Paris to have a spasm of decency at last? It is said that Zola has disgusted even his admirers by his vlleness and a plav has been withdrawn from a Parisian theatre because the public would not oouutenanco Its lack of doconcy. A reaction against licentiousness in Paris is cause for satisfaction indeed.

IT Is

emphatically denied that the President has offered a 10 gold prize for the bost set of triplets to be exhibltod at a New York village fair. It is oredltable to his aonse of delicacy and propriety that no such thing was ever authorized, but It is unfortunate that the report was not oontradlcted at the outset.

appearH to have departed

from his usual shrewdness In denying so often and so vigorously the stories about his failing health. His Interest in the matter seems to Indicate a supersonnltivonoss on the subject which Is not born of perfect health. Mr. Blaino may be as good as a gold dollar, but If be is he should not talk too much about it.

latest discovery is that the

hoat of an ordinary stove can be converted, by means of magnetism, Into electricity for lighting the house. He Is working to perfect the machinery necessary for tho purpose and believes that the undertaking is quite feasible. If such a thing can b© done economically it will bo a hard blow to tho gas eorapaolos.

As head of the Labor tlckot in Now York it will le interesting to see how wide a swath Henry George will out. Ho and his followers couut on getting a largo vote »nd it is not improbable that they will. George is a "hustler" and he has some good workers among his adherents. Both the old parties are somewhat afraid of him, as they have reason to bo after the experience of the mayoralty contest last fall.

Tin? tangle which the State flnauces are in must seriously handicap the Democrat* next year. The State Treasury was in a highly satisfactory condition when the Republicans turned it over to the Democrats about three years ago. It had a surplus of half a million dollars, nil of which is now gone and the Stat© debt lias boon Increased more than a million dollars. It will be pretty hard to explain these facts to the satisfaction of the neople.

SOON the school* will be opened again and the question of exercise for the children, and especially the girls, becomes of pritne importance. As showing the effect* of regular exercise* the height and weight ofS5G female pupils of a Brooklyn

school,

where regular gymnasium exer­

cises Is required, have been compared with those of 10,000 Boston school girls taken at random. The figures show an average in height of two years' difference in fav.vr o' the Brooklyn girls and an average In weight of from 13to 18 pounds In their favor. 1-et parent* and teachers have an eye to the physical as well ss the mental development of the children, particularly the girls who are less liable than the boys to secure a fair amount of exercise. ....

THKRK

is a growing opposition to Mr

Powderty in the tanks of the Knighl* of Labor, sod seen** probable that be will bardlv be able to secure a rejection as chief execute officer of the order at the annual convention in Miiwusptto. lie hi charged with being wo autocratic and his opposition to trades onions has raised up many enemies against him. But perhaps this Is not to be wondered su Tfter* would be opposition to any man who had filled the principal oflk*

so long as Mr. Powderly has done, in an order composed of so many diverse and inbormonious elements. He has acquitted himself well, standing for law and order, counseling temperance and thrift, and giving the Knights good and sensible advice in many ways. But it seems that his efforts have not been fully appreciated. His advice and his methods have not been sufficiently radical to suit the hot-heads who are now clamoring for bis deposition. The Minneapolis convention promises to be the most stormy or any yet held in the history of the order, and it seems doubtful whether the present head of the Knights will be able to retain his position.

EXIT OF THE SWALLOW-TAIL Few people will regret the departure of the "swallow-tail" dress coat which seems now in a fair way to be banished from polite society. ANew YorR paper says the dress reformers have been ui usually energetic iu their warfare on tho swallow-tail this year and are almost certain to be successful. The garment had an unusual lease of life as fashions go and it is time it should give way to something else. As we said, few persons will regret its going. It is not a graceful or becoming garment. It is as far from the picturesque as anything well could be.

But what shall replace It? A tailless coat is finding favor in certaiu quarters, but precisely what sort of a garment for gentlemen's dress fashion will eventually evolve to supplant the present stiff and formal aflair is yet to be disclosed.

"1HE AMERICAN PARTY." This is the day ef new political parties. They are springing up like magic on all sides to the bewilderment of politicians and office-seekers, who are at a loss to know what the effect upon old plans and parties is going to be.

One of the newest of these many parties is the "American Party," which is to hold a national convention at Philadelphia in September. "America for Americans" is to be the battle cry of the new organization and it is not a bad one, if reasonably understood. Prominent among the objects which it will seek to accomplish is the restriction of immigration and a thorough revision of the naturalization laws and further the reservation of American lands for American citizens only the protection of Americans in all their rights, on land or sea, in all parts of the world to restrict and guard the right of elective franchise to abolish polygamy in the United States immediately and entirely to enact and enforce such laws as will tend to eradicate intemperance and to adjust the relations between labor and capital on a rmanent basis of equity and justice.

This is abroad platform and embodies much that is indorsed by all other political parties but it is to be presumed that the question of foreigners in the United States is the main and cardinal principle of the new party, and it is a question of the highest importance to the people of this country. It is not necessary to revive the old Know Nothing cry, nor to shut our doors to all who wish to come from other lands. So long as they are peaceable, law-abiding, industrious, moral and self-supporting and wish to become American citizens, there will be nb objection to their coming, as there never has been. But this country is not to be foreignized. If people from Europe do not want to identify themselves with our institutions, manners and mode of living, they are not wanted here at all and should stay away.

There is probably no call for a new party to advocate these views, however, because they are the sentiments of the old parties and the people and can be workod out through extsting agencies.

THE "BOOM" OF 1887

Some Interesting figures tending to show the magnitude of real estate speculation In the South and West havo been recently given to the public. Tho total transfers in forty-three cities for the first five months of the year were $451,172,004, against $206,156,698 for the first five months of 1886. In Kansas City they amounted to $44,686,461, as against $2»,257,010 for the same period last year. Denver) showed an increase from $2,980,095 to#15,604,408. The transfers in Omaha nearly doubled. In Wichita they Increased from $2,907,75*7 to $35,893,565. In Bismarck, Dak., they more than doubled in Louisville they nearly trebled themselves Little Rock, Ark., Increased its land business sevenfold, and Memphis, TenIK, threefold.

Nothing like this ha* fever before been seeu in this country throughout so wide a scope. There have been seasons of large speculation in certain localities, but not in so many and so widely sepa rated districts. Much of this speculation has been regarded as wild and craxy. Some of it undoubtedly is so. But after all there is a certain basis for it In a real advance* of values. The large Increase during the last few years in population railroad building and general development of the rwonrws of the country, has increased the value of lands. So.all towns have suddenly grown into large cities. Vast tracts of farming lands have been brought under cultivation. Valuable mines hsvc been opened. Hundreds of thousands of people have been transferred from tin old sections of the East and North to the new sections of the West and the South.

But while there was thns a basis for a substantial rise in land values In many places, the boom business has been overdone. In some places lots have been transferred almost dally. Everybody has been buying and selling and prices have been advanced without regard to actual vatnes. Fortunes bare been msd« by those who were lucky enough to get out In time, but there Is danger of terrible ooilapse shook! there come any

-V ks

disturbance to the financial world, and people who have regarded themselves as rich will find themselves ruined.

THE

death of the venerable O.

S.

ler seems almost like the death of phrenology itself. His name has been associated with the science (if it be a science) for many years as a writer and lecturer. In fact it was largely to his efiorts that phrenology gained the large notoriety which it attained some years ago.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARESA YINO.

Boston Post: Tho gilded youth soon tarnishes. Harpers Bazar: In the bright lexicon of speculation there is nothing so uncer tain as a sure thing.

Life: Thebank cashier of the period does not seen to think anything less than half a million worthy of his steal.

Boston Globe: The bridegroom said: "Let her go, Gallagher," and a Boston clergyman married a couple in eighty seconds.

Peoria Transcript: There is not 'much danger of severe punishment in Chicago for stealing, if a thief only has presence of mind to steal enough.

New Orleans Picayune: A young man going into politics should give his character to the devil and his pocket-book to his wife. When he repents he may be saved.

Life: The fact that Mrs. Cleveland does not remove her gloves when at dinner is not nearly so astonishing to western congressmen as Mr. Cleveland's habit of eating with his coat on.

In "Recollections of the War," a series of articles published some years ago in Harper's Magazine,' an officer tells of riding up to a hut on the mountain of Virginia, and asking for a drink of water. The old woman had no water, but offered butter milk, remarking: "Butter milk's wettener'n water."

It is not difficult to determine that she meant by this that butter milk would go farther in quenching thirst than water, and she was correct, as has been proved by numerous examples. There is no drink so welcome to workers in the harvest field as butter milk. A few dairymen in large cities have established depots for selling milk by the glass, and buttermilk sells readily at five cents for a pint glass. That makes it 40 cents a gallon, which for a product that usually goes to fatten stock, is a pretty good profit. The man who would keep such a stand here would give a boon to suffering humanity, and clear a very haudsotne little profit for himself. Or let some one of the numerous stands for selling refreshments put up a oard, "iced butter milk," and see how many people would take advantage of it.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGSi It is not necessary that a boy who learns a trade is compelled to follow ltj all his life. Governor Palmer of Illinois' was a country blacksmith once, and began his political career as a constable in Macoupin county. A circuit judge in the oentral part of Illinois was once a tailor. Thomas Hoyne, a rich and eminent lawyer of Illinois, was once a bookbinder. Erastus Corning was too lame to do hard labor, and commenced as a shop boy in Albany. When he applied for employment first he was asked: "Why, my boy, what can you do?" "Can do what I am bid," was the answer that secured him a place. Senator Wilson of Massachusetts was a shoemaker. Thurlow Weed was a canal boat driver. Ex-Gov-ernor Stone of Iowa was a cabinetmaker, which trade the late Stephen A. Douglas also worked at iu his youth. Large numbers of men of prominence, now living, have risen from humble life by dint of industry, without which talent is as useless as a gold coin on a barren Island. Work alone makes men bright, and it does not alone depend on the kind of work you have to do whether you rise or not. It depends on how you do it.

WHY KEEP TO THE RIGHTf A writer says one of the anomalies in American customs is that of a driver of a wagon sitting on the right hand side, while he always turns out to the right when passing another team. It matters not whether he be on a broad, safe thoroughfare, or on a narrow lane or crowded city street, his seat is the same. Thus situated, it is very difficult to see the exposed wheels in passing—those which require the eyes of the driver. Doubtless this is a prominent cause of the many collisions between passing teams, and the wonder is that more do not hsppen.

The custom was brought over by the Pilgrims, but like a Dutch sentence, the parts got transposed In the translation. Across the ocean the driver sits on the right, but always turns to the left. In copying the practice we retain the useless part and changed the essential for some unexplained reason. Possibly our fathers thought to be consistent in the matter, and rather than be right-handed in sitting while left-handed in driving, changed the latter to suit. At all events, the thing, as now practiced, is very inconvenient, and is a worthy subject of reform.

ANew York lawyer being asked what a contingent fee was. replied, "If I bring a suit for you and lose the case, I get nothing if 1 win the suit yon get noth Log." If this or any other lawyer had been asked which is the best place in town to boy boots and shoes, he wonld unhesitatingly answer, "Stain A Heck eisberg's, 421 Main street," because they bny only the best makes and, in order to dose oat summer stock, are selling at astonishingly low figures.

New Colors for Ribbons, Feathers, Ties, Sashes, etc~, can be made from Diamond Dym. All the fsshkmable shades are readily obtained, and good results are certain. Colors.

Old papers large iliw for -putting under carpets, boose-cteaning, ete^ can had si Tho Mail Office.

OBSAT FBONTXBB

Fow­

PARADE.

Wild West Indians and Sharpshooters. One Thousand Men and Horses. Four Bands of Music.

Weather permitting, the street parade of the Great Porepaugh and Wild West shows, Tuesday morning, August 90th, will be the most novel, attractive and costly show pageant ever seen upon the streets of this city.

The first section will be headed by Mentor's band, followed by a long line of palatial animal dens, containing giraffes, sea-lions, and every animal known to natural history, and of sufficient interest for public exhibition many of them will be opened to the public view. These will be followed by 12 MARCHING ELEPHANTS, led by "Bolivar," Jumbo's only rival, and now the largest living elephant in captivity then will come groups of lofty headed and haughty stallions, and hundreds of gaily caparisoned horses, mounted knights in armor, Amazonian warriors, followed by the Mikado of Japan and all his royal courtiers, including the "three little maids just from school," all riding upon three little mules, and led by the band from the town of Titupu. The second section will he composed of the unique, romantic, and picturesque

WILD WEST SHOW

features. A genuine Cowboy brass band, costumed in true frontier style, will precede this detachment of the parade, which will be followed by the first delegation of genuine far-west Indians ever seen in this city, all in full war paint and feathers, together with the scouts, sharpshooters, lassoists, Indian ponies, elk, deer, buffaloes, Ac., and then will follow the

OLD DEADWOOD MAIL COACH,

which was manufactured for the Ovorland Stage Company, before the completion of the Pacific railroad six horses will be attached to it, and one of the company's old time drivers will "handle the ribbons." The survivors of Custer's old command will ride side by side, and in the great Wild West show take part in the drama of Custer's last rally, a most reallstio representation of Indian warfare. All these frontier features are arranged for an effective Illustration of

WILD WESTERN LIFE,

in natural scenes, thrilling episodes, and infinite variety of incident in life, love and death on the border line. This picturesque and instructive feature will b© followed by realistic scenes from the ancient east, mingling with the romance and reality of the new world. Lalla Rookb's department from Delhi, and Cleopatra, In her barge of beaten gold, surrounded with nil the luxury and extravagance of her time, and attended by her beautiful maidens, will add to the splendor and novelty of this colossal and costly pageant.

MEMORY OF ACTORS.

There are few classes whose memories are more severely taxed than the actors'. The, amount of reading matter —upon all sorts of subjects ancient and modern—that pipes through the wards of their brain is, in a few years, Immense. Of course, a great deal in respect to time required to study a part depends upon the style of the author they have to momorize. The ordinary sensational play Is comparatively easy, the language is common-place, and the substitution of words other than the author's, with the same meaning, (and which is sometimes au improvement), is not objected to but in what is called the "legitimate drama" it is vastly different. In the latter case the performance must be "dead-letter-perfect," which can only be acquired by hard and patient study.

People are apt to think that Shakspeare is difficult to commit to memory, whereas he is not by any means so much so as many others. There is that beautiful flow of words, that musical rhythm in the language of the immortal oard, that thinking power readily retains. Bulwer is haraer to deal with than Shakespeare, but the most difficult of all is Sheridan Knowles. The blank verse of this author is so peculiar, abd at tl mes so twisted, as to give an actor or actress a great deal of trouble to memorize It.

Some astonishing feats of memorizing have been done by the members of the dramatic profession, which shows what wonders may be performod at "the seat of sensation and intellect." An actor has been known to assume a part at a few moments' notice. In such a case he notes down at what point of the piece he is "off the stage." Having mastered the first scene, he has to trust to these intervals when ho is out of sight of the audience to cram into his brain the remainder, and to tight his way through the whole play. This is called "winging a part."

A company, nearly all of whom were strangers to each other, found themselves in afar away country town. On the day of their opening they discovered that their luggage coula not reach them for two davs at least. Tho bills bad been posted, ami many seats taken In advance. There were no play books to be had In such a place. In the afternoon a book of The Wonder was fished up. The manager cast the piece, tore up the book, distributed the leaves, each performer to study from a leaf, then pass it to another, and so on. That night The Wonder was played to a crowded house, and went oft with thunders of applause.

C-tl-o-o! C-h-o-o!! C-h-*-o!H Don't sneeze, sneeze, hawk, hawk, spit, blow, and disgust every body^ with your offensive breath. If you have acrid, watery discharges from the nose and eves, tnroat disease, causing choking sensations, cough, ringing noises In the head, splitting headache and other sym ptoms of nasal catarrh, remember that the manufacturers of Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy offer, in good faith,

HOBERGS'

French Plaids Plaids

$ In Plain Colors and "Mixtures

per yd.

worth 75c.

P.

«500

reward

for a case of catarrh which they cannot cure. The Remedy Is sold by druggists at only SO cents. gnrihh Spavin Liniment removes all Hajn£ Soft, or CkUoused ^m^and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin, Cartas, Splints, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains, Sore snd Swolten Throat, Cough*, etc. Save$50 by nse of one bottle. Warranted. Sold by W. C. Bnntin, Druggist, Terrs Hau te, Ind.

The marks of premature age may be effectually obliterated bv using Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers. It color* uniformly, and always give sstlsfrcUon.

This is The Circus of them all.—Cinclunati Enquire.

''23d YEAR'^P

Great Forepaogli Show

Fresh From Victorious Fields,

Will Exhibit at

Terre Haute,Tuesday, Aug.30

In all its vast united entlrity, after performing 22 weeks in New York, one week In Chicago and one week In Philadelphia, bearing the brand and guarantee ot Metrpolltan approval.

The Greatest Showman's t, Greatest Show.

Quantity the Greatest, Qualify Unexcelled, 71 Variety Unparalled.

4-PAW'8a'SSr,VSrWild West

known in New York.

4-PAWWi5^"Hippodrome

Ktud.

4-PAW'SEw!3KTMenageries 4rPAW'SIn„0':Sgi«°S3aCircuses

fctnjfe.

4-PAW'^'^nsC' Spectacle*

•Coster's Last Ralty/

4-PAW Jr.S Specialties!

The Performing Elephants, Blondln Horse, Reining and Riding 91 Horses. All arriving here in three special trains. A regiment of performera and auxiliaries. A BaUaliion of Horses.

About 10 o'clock each day

The Grandest Gorgeous Public Parade Ever Witnessed. It's a cent—

your

Open Up Their Dress Goods Dep't.

Monday Morning, August 29th,

-WITH A-

GRAND SALE

-OF-

I)kES.S GOODS

1 "p FALL STYLE8.

Their lfijftbrtation.|yDirect From the Mills.

Magnificent Display—Showing all the Latest Plain ana Fancy Weaves and Novel-*• 5J., ties of the Leading Manufacturers of the World,

PARIS ROBE DRESSES!

ds, Stripes, Checks and Combination Suitings, Broad Cloths, ids, Cloth Novelty Mixtures and Flannel and Trioot Suitings,

Gro. De Royal, Sebastopol, Solile Francaise, Henrietta, Serge Geneva, Camelett, Cuir DeLaine, Century Casbmeves, every imaginable Color, Trimmings to match

We Open This Sale with a Few Decided BargainsV.u 150 pieces ^100 pieces 100 pieces /.Cloth Saltings, (Mtaney Cloth,

40 Different Colors and fixtures

All wool, 1| yd wide, All wool, 38in wide, All wool, 40in wide,

ACTS :a ^7CTS -i?OCTS OUper yd. I

'CTS per yd.

worth 60c,

»si.

s. *,

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I

These are the Best Values Ever Offered to Our Customers. We make these prices to start Our Sale which will commence Monday, Auc. 29.

Hobe^Jtoofeij^ Co.,

Jobbers, and Retailers. 518 & 520f,WabaRh.

Our First Shipment of Ladies and Misses Jackets Now Open for Inspection.

S'l Ti 'fef

Offering to

ItwpertortnaBees will "be tbe same her® as In New York Philadelphia and Chicago-not not a star less, but ft easts |&~0UOadaT today to do It, and It pay*.

toe

Excundonson *U lines of travel. Get particulars of

*tatton agsnt.

Admission FIFTY CSNW children node* aloe half prices. Performanee* afternoon sadoigM. wors open at 1 and 7 begins otte hoar later.

Ticket* and reserved seats for the «wmmodatton of the public placed on sale at tin Bsoaf slight advance at Button's Book Stora, Forepangh'sis tbeOnl^jbsrge Show Coming

Will exhibit at Wwtfeliigton, Aug. Mil and at Danville, Aug.

Cloth

20 Different .Shades— French Dye

JJCJper yd. worth 85c.

COUNTY FAIR

fir

The People's Show!

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'T I tteari't 14 Ha I

COUNTY FAIR

ir

The Most Notable Fail

For Many Tears.

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August 29th to Sept. 2nd.

MONDAY Entry Day. TUESDAY County Cap Race, Mule Running Race, Fine Bicycle Race,

Children Admitted Free, Pony Show. WEDNESDAY Display for Townley, Zimmerman, Hickman and Kidder

Premiums, Floral Display, Bicycle Race for gold and silver medals, Two Trotting and One Running Race, 8how of Baby Boys. THURSDAY Great Light Harness and

Draft Horse Exhibition, Two Trotg, Paoo and Running Race, Exciting Foot Race, Hbow for the C. Kuiittt Premium Range, Show of Pretty Baby Girls, Oreat Doable Balloon A*ra»nslon and Thrilling iii~»ur Tnij/tMi Performance by Gomes and Smith, Ex* cursion on the Logansport railroad. RID AY The Sweepstake Horse and Cattle Show, Free-for-all Trot, 2 year old Trot and Running Hace, Assension by Two Balloons. v,

Over 1,000 Blu» and Rod Ribbons In. place.

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Note These Rases.

Wednwd*?, 4 jw old Trot/" Thursday, year old Trot.* Friday, 2 yew old Trot.

Vigo County Fair

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