Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 September 1887 — Page 4
I HE_MAIL.
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE HAUTE, SEPT. 24,1887.
HTTBHCBIPTION PRICK, 12.00 A YKAB. PUBLICATION OFKJCK, Nog. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street,
Printing House Square.
IF Shakspeare really did write those plays he has a great deal to be sorry for In the light of recent events.
Now that Philadelphia has had her centennial celebrations she can go to sleep for another hundred years, and •enjoy a nice nap.
A PHILADELPHIA paper summed up 4hd entennbil Celebration with terse truth wheu it said: "How *weet and pleasant a thing it is to eat a big dinner for one's country."
AND now It is said that Edison, the in ventor, will build a house in California and live there part ot tho time. Hereto foro he |has divided his time between New York and Florida. Pretty soon he will not know where he does live.
»uovEH doesn't cure for It, ltobcrt doesn't want It, and .looms won't linvo It. Is It possible that the Presidency 1« to go a-begging? —[Chicago Mall.
John said he would be willing
IT nop. BHRWRR, of 8t. Louis, cut the claims of the receivers in the Wabash case from §112,000 to 970,000 each. This was for lews than three years' service. Half tho sum would have been largo .pay, as tostitlod by high-salaried railroad oxperts. Why will judges make such Outrageous* allowances in litigated cases?
RWITZKKLAND has pursued tho right coumo in prohibiting Mormon missionaries from further proselyting In that country. Now let all the other European countries makoa similar decision and ono of tho main sources of Mormon growth in Amorica will be cut off. Tho .States of the Union should also adopt a similar policy.
IT is rolatod of Verdi, tho great composer, that at a watering place recontly, he hired all tho hand-organs and filled two of his rooms with them, in order to -nvoid hoaring his own music ground out continually. He had one small room left and that ho lived in. Tt cost him a good deal to do this, but he considered tho money well spent.
HKNIIY (JKOWJK has boen lined $100 for refusing to appear for jury service in a New York court. ITe claimed to he too busy to sit on a jury and whon it is considered that he is a candidate for a slate otlico, tho editor or a paper and tho head •of a now political party, it would seem that his excuse might be considered a good one. There are very few men anywhere who are as busy as Henry George in these days.
TitK race between tho Scotch yacht, Thistle and tho American Volunteer, Is to come oil' next Wednerday and promises to bo tho most interesting event •of tho kind that.hasyet taken place. The Thistle has been showingofl'a little since alio has come over to Now York, but has not pretonded to do her best. Yet, she has shown herself much faster than any of tho English boats that have tried to got the cup and no little apprehension is felt, as to tho outcome, But tho Volun.tflpr has easily run away from all other
American yachts and there is a general belief that she will distance the Thistle.
Miss PHELPS' new book, "The Gates Between," must be as original and peculiar in its theories of the other world as •was her famous "Gatos Ajar." A physician of learning and high standing, in nil respects prosperous and successful but not a believer in Immortality. He Jhad thus failed to lay hold on the things of eternal life, and though a man of consequence in tho flesh, was a pauper in the spirit. Killed by an accident, he had been dead for several hours before he knew it. He walked about the city upeaking to men lift knew and was amoxed that he received no answers. By muling a newspaper ho presently learned that he was dead and found his new environment extremely embarrassing. The book is curious and fanciful and will at least be interesting.
IT is evident that we bate along siege ot the Bacon-Shakes pen r« controversy before us. Ignatius Donnelly's cipher has stirred up the doubters all along the line and they are gting for tho sweet bard like rack of hungry panthers. vnvrin Browne, of Washhave extorted a contaph on Shakespeare comes Edward Gor--'ted with the North who declares that Hugh Black, o. vt.tario, Canada, sent an Article to that uiagaalne, which was revived too late for the September nam* bt»r, that contains substantially the aimo claim, Tlx: Txml Bacon's billteral cipher, applied to the epitaph, shows that Bacon wrote the plays. All this is wonderful and confusing, especially as there is no telling when it will end or what will be the outcome of it. It is well that Bacon and Shakespeare are fcoth dead.
Mr. Herbington, fossii-afro. tombstone don Black, American
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it somo time ago. Has anybody heard of his having changed his mind?
MIKH KKLLKY gets 34,300 for the tseaHon from the Boston bane ball club. As tho reason lasts only six rnonts, that is at the rate of about $716 a month. If Mr. Kelley could employ the other six monlhs of the year to as good advantage the anti-poverty problem would be effectually solved for him.
TOLSTOrS
EFFORT.
No writer now living has attracted more attention than Count Tolstoi, the Russian nobleman, who conceived the theory of making others happy by becoming poor himself and living the life of a peasant.
His latest book is founded upon his experience as a census-taker in the poorest and worst quarter of Moscow. He became one of the enumerators for the express purpose of obtaining a personal knowledge of the condition of the people. Much as he had been led to expect in that direction, the amount of degredation, poverty and vice which he saw appalled him. He could not see such a state of things without trying to improve it and he began to give his own money with a free hand and appealed to tho wealthy classes to help him.
He has to confess, with disappointment, that his efforts were not successful. "It turned out," he says, "that their demands grew in pro}ortion to their aid, and that there was not and could not be any way of satisfying them." As tho result of his work of benevolence he says, "I did not help anyone."
The problem how to abolish poverty is as hard in Moscow as it is in New York or Chicago or Terre Haute. It is certain, however, that it is not by giving money, except where it is needed to relieve immediate distress. Honest work and honest wages are the only true povertyabolishera. There would probably be little if any real poverty in the world if men and women would abstain from vice and seek to support themselves by useful labor. How to get them to do that is the groat and troublesome problem.
CALIFORNIA BOOMERS
It is hard for people in tho east (this is now the oast) to properly appreciate the hight and d6pth and full proportions of the tremendous real estate boom which for months past has been "on" in California. It seems probable that the influx of the people in southern California next winter will be without a parallel. The Santa Fe road has already contracted, it is said, to carry 250,000 excursionists into that section. The majority of these people are mere sight-seers and will nbt stay there but many of them will remain, and*some who do not will be carried away by the fever of speculation and will invest in real estate.
In.Los Angeles, San Diego and some other places, the craze for real estate speculation surpasses belief. San Diego is laid out for 36 niiles along the coast, while Los Angelos is said to have more ground cut up into lots than is embraced in the limits of London. Sand, fleas and climate are all there is to it but these are reckoned to be as valuable as gold mines.
Of course tho business is largely done in options. The speculator takes an option on a piece of property for say 30 days for which he pays one per cent. Then he hustles r^und to find somo "tenderfoot" who will buy tho property at an advance sufficient to give him a more or less handsome profit. If he fails he only loses his one per cent, or $10 on $1,000. If he succeeds he may make anywhere from $100 te $10,000. It is a fascinating form of gambling and has been highly profitable to many. How long it will last deponds entirely upon tho number of people with money who can yet be induced to "go to California" and spend it. Some of the bonanza railroad kings are debating whother it would not be profitable to give free transportation to every one who wants to go to tho Golden State. But they will probably savo that expedient for a time when the influx 6f people begins to slacken.
EASY 1)1 VORCES.
The judges of the Superior Court at Indianapolis have sot a good example to judges elsowhere in the matter of divorce cases. They have determined to sift these cases more thoroughly than has been the custom hitherto, taking a hand in the examination of witnesses themselves when the attorneys engaged do not bring out all the facts in the case.
It sometimes happens that a wife who has long been abused and neglected will allow her husband to get a divorce upon some flimSy pretext, when if the whole truth were known, tho court would not grant the decree. She is simply tired out, disheartened, and willing to let him have his way. But the man who has mistreated one women without cause should not be given the right to wreck some other woman's life by being released from his matrimonial bonds. There has been altogether too mnch jugglory in the divorce business, too many cases where decrees have gone by default to a scoundrelly husband who ought not to have been freed from his marital obligations. Judges everywhere should take the matter up and see that all the facts are brought to light in such cases
before
a decree of divorce is given to
either party. 1 |ng
PARSOSS, one of the condemned Chicago Anarchists, published day before yesterday an appeal to the American people that is regarded as an appeal to his friends at large to storm the jail and effect his freedom by force. He reviews the case at length, holds that there was no evidence against him bnt discountenances further appeal to the courts, which he stigmatises as the instruments ot the capitalists, and says he does not want any commutation of his sentence to imprisonment. This, it Is argued, can onlymean that he wants an effort made to rescue him by force. Whether there are any considerable number of persons outside the jail mad enough to undertake such a desperate thing remains to be seen, though there is not much probability that it will be attempted. The authorities are well prepared to resist any effort to rescue the prisoners and there Is not one chance In a thousand that such an effort could succeed. rv
TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.
LOWER HATS.
It is announced—and the information is certainly welcome—that ladies' hats are to be very much reduced the coming fall and winter from the towering dimensions which they attained last season. Some of the new importations, not yet publicly exhibited, are said to fit quite snugly to the head.
This will be good news to theatre and opera goers, who had to take their chances last winter of seeing anything even after they had paid their money for the best seats in the house. In spite of all the efforts of the press and the public to ridicule these monstrosities out of existence, there were women who persisted in wearing them and unseemly contentions occasionally grew out of them. Doubtless the ladies will be as glad as the rest of mankind to have the nuisance abolished by decree of high court of fashion, for they are not fond of giving needless pain or annoyance, and there is now a good ground for hope thslt the millennium of reasonable head gear for women is not far distant.
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THE Boston Globe makes Gov. Gray the subject of an editorial, discussing his merits as a Vice Presidential candidate. It concludes that Cleveland and Gray could carry Indiana in 1888 as easy as falling off a log. It is doubtful whether either the President or Gov. Gray would entirely coincide with the Globe in this view of the matter,
THE preponderance of evidence in the case really seems to show that Mrs. Cleveland intentionally snubbed Gov. and Mrs. Foraker at the centennial celebration. It was an unpleasant thing, to be sure, but we do not see how it is to be made an issue in the Ohio campaign.
LIEUT. ZALINSKI'S long-range dynagun is able to knock an eighty ton schooner into smithereens at two shots at a mile and a fifth distance. Now let the effete dynasties of the old world send on their war ships ifj they want to see some fun.
TAR. B. W. VANVALZAH,
X/ Successor to RICHARDSON & VAN VALZAHJ
ZDEHSTTIST, I
Office—Southwest corner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entrance on Fifth street.
DR.
E. A. GILLET., D. D. S.:
DBITTIST.
Makes a specialty of fine gold fillings. 106 north Sixth first door north of Baptist ch rch.
INCOLN & HAYNES,
-Li .f? -iv DENTISTS 1 Office 19% south 6th St., opposite post offic^. All work warranted as represented.
H. C. PUGH. G. E. PUGH.
pUGH & PUGH,
Attorneys at Law,
'•*1 329* Ohio Street.
Money to Loan at Low Bates of Interest,
J. N0GENT. M. J. BROPHY.
TTFCGKNT & CO.. PLUMBING and GA& FITTING
A 1 dealer in
Gas Fixtures, Globes and Engineer'* Supplies. AOS Ohio Street. Terre llaote, In«l.
JULIUS F. ERMISCH jr -STEAM DYE HOUSE,5
656 Main Street, McKeen's Block, fe Cleaning and dyeing ot all kinds of Ladle and Gents clothing. Gents garments ai" neatly repaired. Write for price list.
Opera House Bookstore.!
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T"'* 406 Main St.
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Bookseller, Stationer and dealer in School Books and School Supplies.
Townley Bros.,
Removed to 609 Main,
Next Door East of Buckeye Cash Store.
Stoves, Rafiges, Furnaces, Cutlery and Kitchen Furnishings
Lowest Prices.
JJ)W RATE
Excursion Tickets
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NOW ON SALE
All Summer Resorts via Chicago & Eastern Illinois
THREE TRAINS DAILY FROM
Terre Haute to Chicago
Making clom connection with all roads diverging- Call or write tor copies of
Tourists Guides
Giving a description of the vmrtoos rowiMt retortaof tbe North and Northwest. WM. HILL, A. CAMPBELL,
DRESS GOODS.,
We have now opened the finest and richest lot of Foreign and American Dress Fabrics ever seen in Indiana. The assortment is a superb one and no lady should fail to see this magnificent display 100 pieces Chattenay Cloth, 38 inches wide, all wool, at 47c, worth (15c. 40 pieces Ladies' Cloth, 36 inches wide, all wool, 39c, worth 50c. 60 pieces Novelty Stripes, 54 inches wide, pure wool, 75c, worth $1.
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25 piecesScotch Novelty Cloths, 38 inches wide, all wool* 68c, worth 85c. 40 pieces French Serge, 25 different shades and black, 40 inches wide, all wool, 68c, worth 85c. 100 pieces Arnold Suitings, double fold, checks and mixtures, 15c, worth 2oc. 200 pieces Fancy Cloth Suitings, Scoth fleets, 10c, worth 15c.
effects, 10c, worth 15c.
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Great Sale
Silkil,
Velvets, Plushes,
Magnificent new goods which are being admired by everybody.
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Rich Black Silks at 09c, 89c and $1 per yard, way under regular prices. Our $1 Blapk,Silks. are. the talk of the to
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Ric!i Colored Faille Francais Silks, exquisite new shades. Black Faille Francaise Silks—another lot expected to-day, at $1.12%c, worth $1.50. Plaid Velvets, nil colors and black, self shades, 50c, worth 7-JC.
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Fancy Velvets and Brocades of every style and quality. The scarcest thing in New York City today are Moire Silks. We have a magnificent line of shades. The largest Silk Department .in the
State. ____________
Wrapper Blankets.)
Elegant line, exquisite new patterns. Nothing like them ever shown in Terre Haute. Prices reasonable. .. 'fit':
Holiday Excursion Tickets
TO
'EUROPE
OVBB THE
Famous French Line of magnificient Express Steamers. The Guion Line to England and Direct Hamburg Line for Germany.
Rates and further information apply to
JOHN GL HEINL,
Terre Haute, Ind.
DRY GOODS STORE
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50 different shades of Dress Plushds at $1 per yard and upwards, worth more on every yard.
The Busiest Place in Town. :'..-
GREAT DOINGS MM The Grand of the Week!
And one which will not only interest our city people but also the thousands of strangers expected next week
Grrand Qpeixiiig of
The Largest and Finest Lot of Dry Goodk, Notions and Cloaks ever seen in Indiana. Lovely Things for the Women, Useful Things for the Men, and Pretty Things for the Children*
Monday Mornings SeptX^26th
There will be a Regular Earthq,uake in Prices. &u
Flannels, Flannels, Flannels. -1
Complete is the proper word for this department. With its wealth of warmth of every kind, of every grade, of every color, of every weight, of'every price, from tho substantial heavy Red Twills and White Shakers rp to the beautiful and elegant Eider Down Flannels, in all the light and dainty shades, as well as the fine Jerseys in Stripes and Checks. Good Heavy Cotton Flannels at 5o, 7c, 8c and 10c, never sold before for these prices, considering quality. Our 25c Heavy Red T\viU isJa j?prk.or worth 40c. ... Heavy Grey Flannels at 10c, 12£c worth double.
KID GLOVES.
Our own Importations*. Bargains to be had in this department. 5 Button Scalloped top3, all alz63 rind colors, 48c, worth 75c. 5 Button Suede, (undressed), scolloped tops, tun, etc, all sizes, 59c, worth 8oc. 5 Button Heavy Embro Backs, 78c, worth $1. This is the greatest bargain ever offered. Elegant line of Foster's Real Kid Novelty Gloves, with heavy 3titch on back, dressed and undressed.
Blankets.
I-Atelv c!o*od out for cash from one of the largest manufactures in this country. Never such Bl&nkots shown before for the money. Away under last season's prices. Heavy 10x4 White Blankets at 98c, $1.25, $1.48 ami $1.75. Scarlet All Wool Blankets at $3.50, worth #1 more on evory pair. Grey Blankets at i)8c, $1.25, $2 and very large size. California Blankets and fine grade wool
Blankets in richest qualities.
^"PROGRESSIVE,1JIs
Is Our Motto.
raOBERG, ROOTP&&t)Q^
if. The Lowest Priced Dry Goods House in Indiana. Jobbers and Retailers. Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.
THE BEST IN THE MARKET!
The Best Soft Goal Base-Burners Can Be Found at Zimmerman's.
The "West Point" Hard Coal Stove
AND THE
"FAVORITE" COOK STOVE
Are UssorpaaMd. A Fall Line of
House Furnishing Goods.
OEO. S. ZIMMERMAN",
Sheet and Metal Roofer. 648 Main Street
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JACKETS^ 4
Jackets. Jackets/ Jackets. For Ladies and Miss^t
Expecting another large "Jacket season" we bought heavily of all the ohoice#t Novelties that were to be had in New York and Boston. Everything from a Nobby Cloth Jacket to a Dainty Trim med Seal Plush Jacket. At prices never before matched. Our assortment is enormous and every Lady and Miss should see them before buying. 100 Novelty Jackets at 3.60 tJO Check and Striped Jackets at 4150 75 Paris Tailor Made Jackets nt5.0Q
Fine Jerseys and Meltons. at Reasonable Prices.
SHAWLS.
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mere Shawls. All new and choice. Fine Novelties for Evening Wear a Specialty.
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CLOAKS.
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CLOAKS. CLOAKS.
OpOlaing of this Department nounced soon.. Wesliayepnl-
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7,000 Garments
For lindies, Misses and Children and expect a great many more.
As Usual We Will Lead and Hold Down High Prices.
Our competitors say: "Since Huberg's commenced making a specialty of cloaks there is no more profit in the cloak bupinesa."
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W. A Ctrrr. J. H.
WII.LIAMH.
J. M.
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QLIFT, WILLIAMS & CO.,
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Sash, Doors, Blinds, eta
A1I0 DIAMS8 III
LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES GLASS, PAINTS, OILS
AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE. gL^gJiMulbeny «treet,.coraer 9tb.
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Term Haate, Ind
Established 188*. Incorporated 1878.
FOUNDRY
Aim :*?.$'/''
MACHINE WORKS,
llanofactore and deal in all kind* of
Machinery and Machinery Users Supplier
Flour Mill Work
OUB 8PBCIALTT.
Hare more pattern*, larger experience and capacity, and employ more mechanic* than anr other similar enabltahment wmbln *er-» enty-flT# mile* ot Tern Haute.
Rep«lr and Jobbing Work.,
Given medal attention. Write or call on tu and aee Tor yootvelf. 801 to 280 H, 91b at, uv Union Otpot
TMT* Hsnto, Ind.