Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 October 1887 — Page 6
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1JAPER FOR THE PEOPLE
P. S. WESTFALL,
KDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE HAUTE, OCT. 1, 1887.
HUBSCHIITIOjr PKICE, 32.00 A YEAK.
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IH.ICATIOS OFFICE,
Nos. 20 and 22 .South Fifth Street, Printing llouse Square.
THAT there should still be people who persist in believing iu Shakspeare only proves how hard it is to u-proot old prejudices.
MONTREAL'^ boodle aldermen should come (over to New York as a partial set off against the New York boodle aldermen in Canada,
A N"w volume of "Wit, Wisdom and Beauties of Sbakspeare" has just Ibeeu published. How tired such things must make Ignatius Donnelly
THK President came through Ohio in a closed car and at dead of night. Well, if that is intended as a snub to Ohio, the Buckeye State will survive ilg
ARIZONA is going to erect an irrigating reservoir with a capacity of 15,000,000,000 gallons of water. It will'make thousands of acres of desert land blonsom with corn and potatoes.
ONIjY seven new students have entered Andovor Theological Seminary this term. The disputes of professors and trustees over what shall be taught is not the best way to build up a college.
CHICAGO is raising a fund to buil5 a monument on the Haymarket to the memory of the policemen who were killed by the bomb on that spot. It is a timely and appropriate thing to do.
CONOHKHHMAN SCOTT, of Pennsylvania, has given the President 10,000 Havana cigars. At the rate of three a day they will last him nine years. He can give his wife 50 cents a day for pin money.
NINK of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Indians have returned from England, unable to stand that foggy climate. And yet ridiculous Americans leave their own country to seek health in England.
WITH a man named L'Amoreaux on the Now York Republican ticket and Lovering heading the Democratic ticket in Massachusetts, it would seem there should be peace and harmony all along the line.
THE fomale bustle is an important adjunct to the business of foreign silk and lace makers. It would be past all credibility were a statement made of the amount of goods smuggled into this country by way of the bustle.
AoconniNU to Mrs. Black the wives of tho anarchists are all going to commit suicide if tholr husbands are executed. But Mrs. Black appears to be as much of a "crank" as the anarchist women, including Nlua Van Zandt.
SKNATOR STANFORD, of California, says his great university will be for the use of tho poor alono and that no rioh man's son or daughter will want to go there. But is ho certain that poor boys and girls will want to go to a college where the rich do not go?
AFTER all thero are wonderful possibilities in California. Blanche Buswell, of Now York, wont out there on a visit year ago, marriod a 60 year old husband, who has since died, audshe is now worth six millions in her own right and Is not *25 yoars old yet. A great country is California.
Mn. BLAINK is apparently having a pleasant and leisurely sojourn In Europe. He spont a week in Vienna, tarried among tho lovely lakes of Switzerland and will reach Paris next week. His family aro reported well and enjoying the tour. After this year of rest and foreign travel, the eminent Republican ought to come back in tine trim for next year's work.
ALTHOI-UH the cholera has reached TJew York the season is so late and cold weather so near, that thero Is believed to be little danger of an epidemic in this country during the present year. There is nirtch more danger of an outbreak of plague next summer, tho seeds of the disease loing preserved through the winter. It will behoove every town and cltv to anticipate an outbreak by the strictest sanitary precautions.
THK Grand Army will hardly be able to keep politics out of its organisation through another Presidential campaign. That has been *succ©9»fully:accompli«hed hitherto, but tho battle-flag incident and the many pension vetos of President -Cleveland, havo aroused so much feeling among the old soldiers that it has been impossible not to give some expression to it. If M*. Cleveland shall be a candidate for re-election next year, a split injtli nd Army seems probable.
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byville I York and Mr. Ray has by his urgent
\Y, editor of the Shelhas been to New it to Governor Hill, national reputation (i one single point,
vi«: that undv. Democratic administration Democrats alone should have the offices. Upon that single issue he has boomed Gov. Hill as the next Democratic candidate for President, the latter being a "spoilsman" after Mr. Rsy* own heart. The visit mentioned doubtless had this matter in view and it remains to be seen what effect the Sbeibyvllle editor's conduct will have on Democratic harmony in Indiana next year.
THE will of Vice-President Wheeler is being contested by his relatives and the chances are that it will be broken, for wills don't count for much nowadays. The wise man is he who executes his own will during bis lifetime.*^
JOHN FIXERTY, the Irish orator and editor, who made speeches for a compensation for the Republicans Indiana in 1884, has now a $12,000 office in Chicago, the gift of a Republican mayor. If Mr. Finerty was after "soap" he got it at last. _____
JACOB SHARP, the notorious New York briber, is at the end of his string at last. The Court of Appeals has affirmed the judgment against him and he will join his companion boodlers in Sing Sing. The courts are doing some good work of late ,, if*-
AND now it is said that Anarchist Lingg has a pa^r of sweethearts. The Chicago authorities ought to prevent silly, sentimental girls from having access to the jail. It is no place for women anyway, much less for romantic and light-brained girls who want to enact the role of hero-worshipers.
THE author of a new book for girls, "After School Days," gives this bit of philosophy, which is worthy to be niomorized and acted upon by everyone: "If life has taught me anything it is this —to value the present, to the enjoy the utmost Its pleasures, to estimate at the highest its opportunities, to praise the Lord for its blessings without looking forward with anxiety or backward with regret."
IN order to be more gorgeous than anybody else, Mrs. Bonanza Mackay is going to have a mantle made of the breasts of birds of paradise. It will take about Ave hundred birds and two hunters are now slaughtering them in New Guinea. There area great many women, we hope, who can look forward to Mrs. Mackay's possession of that trophy without the slightest jealousy.
HIGH license appears to work as well in Minnesoto as it has done in other States. The new law went into effect on July 1, and according to facts gathered by the Pioneer Press, has already closed 550 out of 1670 saloons. In Minneapolis the number of saloons has been reduced from 354 to 227 in Duluth from 113 to 64 in Stillwater from 42 to 82, and in Winona from 93 to 33. When the law takes effeet in St. Paul it will probably reduce the number of saloons one-third. High license and local option really- amount to prohibition wherever the sentiment of the community will enforce prohibition. 4.' ,v ...
A STORY drifts from Muskegon, Mich., which lays over all tales of piano punishing heretofore told. As the story goes a young lady played so incessantly that the neighbors complained of it as a nuisance. This touched the damsel in a tender spot. She got on her musole, so to speak, and determined to show what Bhe could do when properly fired: up. She banged the piano for 108 consecutive hours, less the time required for refreshments and when at last an officerfof the peace interfered, the exhausted girl fell fainting into his arms. It is not stated how the piano came out or of what make it is.
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FAT DID IT-
Tho New York Herald kicked up a big rumpus last Saturday by publishing an editorial reflecting severely on President Cleveland. The gist of the article was contained in this paragraph: "The 00.000.000 of our American people have been amazed up to the present moment at the mature direction and influence of Mr. Cleveland. How the 00.000.000 of people have been controlled by a Buflblo mayor can be explained by asking the question ofjthe first butcher or green g.ocor i,o be met in the city of Buffalo, and perhaps h« win tell the secret And, for that matter, perhaps we, who are entirely disinteres ed, may give it. It is fat. Fat told as mayor, fat told as governor, fat tells as president."
Scattered through the Herald's editorial page was this legend: For President,
OROVKR CLEVELAND, late of New York. For Vice-President, BALLARD SMITH, late of Kentucky. Mr. Smith is the writar connected with the New York World, who recently obtained a long iuterview from the President for publication in that paper. Up to the time of its late "Break," the Herald was an out-and-out Cleveland paper while the World was captious, critical and not seldom condemnatory. The Herald must feel pretty sore over the favortism shown its rival to indulge in such a sudden and savage outbreak.
THE YACOT RACE.
For more than thirty years American yachtsmen have beaten their English competitors at fast sailing. In 1851 the yacht America crossed the Atlantic and won the cup in British waters, and ever since the cup has remained on this side. It bids fair to stay here still. Much has been expected of the new Scotch boat, the Thistle, which was bnllt expressly to beat In this year's contest, and she is undoubtedly the swiftest boat in British waters. But it does not seem that she can beat the Volunteer.
The first course of the race was sailed on Tuesday with the weather conditions favorable to the Thistle. Yet the Volun leer ran away from her easily, snrpris ing everybody by the agility of her performance. Another nee was to hare been run Thursday but a heavy fog prevented it. It was the belief of those who saw the first performances however, that the race was already settled in favor of Yankee
sloop,
as it did not seem likely
that the Thistle could do any better than she had done. The second race was ran yesterday and the Yankee came in three miles ahead of the Britisher. Not until the Englishmen consent to build their boats after the American models can they hope to beat a Yankee yacht.
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FOOD AD TJLTERA TION. The New York Times has been doing a good work in denouncing the practice of food adulteration. When, some time ago, Phil Armour, the great Chicago porker, was trying to get up a cotton t»eed oil trust, he admitted that he us$d about one-iifth of the entire cotton seed oil product of the country for mixing into his lard. The statement created a sensation. It may be, as Mr. Armour claims, that cotton seed oil is as healthy if not more so, than hog's lard. That is not the point. People have a right to know what they
are
eating and should
not be deceived into buying one thing for another. Glucose may be healthy enough, but it is not as good nor worth as much as cane suyar, and It ought not to be sold for cane sugar uor mixed with it. The whole business of adulteration is wrong. It is worse when the ingredients used are deleterious, but it is wrong even when they are harmless. If a person wants glucose, or cotton seed oil, or butterine, he should bo able to buy them in the market for what they are, not under the guise or mixture with something else. And if one wants pure butter, lard or cane sugar, he shoulu also be able to buy them by giving what they are really worth.
Let the adulterated thing be sold, If it is not harmful to health, but let it be sold for what it is, not for something that is more valuable. These are tlje sentiments of nine people out of ten everywhere and they should see that legislators embody them in proper laws, and that the laws are executed after they have been enacted.
THE SHAKSPEARE CIPHER. The New York World publishes Mr Hugh Black's paper on the Shakspeare epitaph and a summary of Edward Gordon Clark's, both of which are to be published iu the next issue of.the North American Review. Mi
The effect of these writers, as of Mr. Browne, of Washington, is to unearth a cipher in the four line doggerel inscription on Shakspeare's tomb wbioh proves Baoon to be the author of the plays There is certainly muoh ingenuity displayed in this task and the results are somewhat remarkable. But the borrowers of this alleged hidden cipher overdo the thing. They find too much so muoh indeed that one is forced to wonder if the whole thing Is not a mere figment of the imagination.
Mr. Black finds in the inscription that "Francis Bacon wrote Shakspeare's plays." But Mr. Clark, by applying the same rules that Mr. Black uses, is able to deduce a number of readings, such as, "Francis Bacon wrote here: Aye, Aye! Shaxpere," "Francis Bacon wrote here his cue aye, aye," "Aye, Francis Bacon 'writ' here as Shaxpere," "Shaxpere: Bacon was he," "Bacon raised deceased William," "Bacon will narrate all Shakespeare here," eto.
Mr. Clark in his enthusiasm even goes so far as to express the belief that an anagrammatic biography of Shakspeare can be written from the cipher hid in this four line epitaph. Decidedly this seems like getting quite too much out of so little material and suggests that it must be the inventive power of the decipherers themselves, rather than the thing deciphered, that is able to tell so many different stories.
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Pretty much everything has been organizing into "trusts" of late. Even a "Salt Trust" has been formed. The object of all these combinations is to limit production and keep up prices. That is to say, to restrict competition, which is the natural cheapener. The meat and bread of the poor man's table, tfie salt with which they are seasoned and the coal to cook them yea, even the oil that gives light to eat them by, the glass that admits sunshine into the house, and many other of the comforts and necessaries of life are made to pay tribute to the greed of these monopolistic rings.
The city of Chicago has a big gas trust and is considering the advisability of making war upon it. Local and eastern millionaires have consolidated all the gas companies into one central monopoly for the purpose, of course, of stifling competition and making gas .dearer. The question is whether the several companies have not forfeited their charters by this proceeding.
Ths city has not yet decided what course it will pursue in the matter but there is a strong feeling that it ought to fight the outrageous monopoly to the death, and It Is to be hoped that it will undertake the contest. It is high timo the people were rising up against these unlawful and oppressive combinations and putting them down. Greedy men with unlimited capital will grasp and grind without mercy just so long as they are allowed to do it. But rings of every kind can be smashed if the op pressed majority set themselves to ac complish it.
ALWAYS TELL MOTHER, [Ban Francisco Alta.] There is something that tugs at one's heart in the last words of the young woman in Sacramento who shot Patterson and then committed suicide with morphine. After being long in a stupor she rallied a moment and said to the attendant: "Please don't tell mother." It was the final illumination of a path
that wan ending in gloom and di Made the victim'of heartless selfi by the man she had killed, and going to her final account tarnished end forlorn, she was. after all, the victim of not telling mother. There is no way of estimating the sorrow and sin and suffering that would be avoided if the confidence of children continued through life to ran to their mothers. Over the grave of this girl, dead untimely by her own hand, on which was the blood of another, might be inscribed the epitaph: "Died In her youth, heartbroken, dishonored, a slayer, self-slain, because she would not toll mother.**
POST MORTEM THANKS. An article on theoustom of publishing cards of thanks, taken from the Kokomo Dispatch, is going the rounds of the State press, an4 is universally indorsed as the expression of the opinions of the papers publishing it. As it seems to give voice to the best public sentiment on a delicate
(subject,
it is presented to
The Mail readers for their consideration, as follows: We see, with a sigh of absolute relief, that the post morte 'card of than ks' business is drifting to ridicule and fast falling into disuse. The gentleman down In Daviess county who came smilingly to the front recently to thank his neighbors through the medium of the county press for their kindness 'during the illness of his horse,' probably builded better than he knew. There is something strained and unnatural about the gratitude that must needs rush to the newspapers for expression on the solemn occasion of the death of a relative or friend. It is something in the nature of the farce following the tragedy. It Is hardly probable that neighborly sympathy is so rare a thing that it should be set upon a pedestal to be admired by the gaping crowd. Indeed, the frequency of these "cards of tbfeuks" would indicate the existence of quite a contrary state of affairs. There is much viitue in the obedience of the divine command to visit the sick and comfort tho afflicted, but it neither deserves or desires to be publicly commended as something out of the ordinary course of human affairs, as It certainly is not. Gratitude is one of the noblest attributes of man, but its quality is not enhanced by conspicuous advertising. Kindness can usually be paid in its kind, obligations may be met Dy the ethics of reciprocity, and that is enough. The silly sentimentality is being indifferently reformed. Let us reform it altogether.
HOMES VS. SALOONS. Florida Times-Union, Dem.
There are two institutions at least which are in utier and everlasting antagonism, the home and the liquor saloon At home the ladies and the innocent children make the atmosphere bright and wholesome, and fill the spot with peaceful memories. The saloon is the antipodes of all this. It is eminently a masculine arrangement—a one-sided concern. No man, unless sunk in the depths of degredation, would dream of Introducing his wife and children into it. The women in our day, in all civilized countries, are endowed with liberties which are gradually extending, but they were never asked, and will never be asked, to support the whisky saloons. It has been years gone by as if the male of humanity,' not Deing sufficiently refined to be satisfied with the joys and comforts of home, endeavored to find something radically opposite, with which to console himself during some part of the day or night. That a mau never invites his "helpmeet" to share his unsanctified pleasures shows at least his ap-
Bciatlon of her higher nature, and his acquiesenoe the Idea that the surroundings and influences of the saloon are not fitted for a creature of fine tastes and inclinations. It may be that some such thoughts as these have haunted those in this and other States who are closing UD the liquor saloons under the operation of the local option law. They have recognized the fact that if the home is to yield its full power in making man only "a little lower than the angels," these
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daces must be closed which induce him many Instances to fall^until he is only a little above the scale of the devils.
THINGS THAT A WOMAN CAN'T DO. Shoot straight.
See any beauty in a rival. Keep track of abase ball game: Sit down without mashing her bustle. Endure the smell of a stranger's cigar. Cut an old admirer without looking bdcki
Hold up a dress without showing her
Sep the extravagance of anything she wants. Take an interest in the Vital questions of the day.
SHE'D BE IN A BAD FIX. [New Orleans Picayune.] A night-gown that covers one from neck to feet, and has long sleeves, is a proper enough garment to be seen of men but a woman trying to sleep at night with a full dreBS for balls on would be In a bax fix in case of fire in the hotel.
mind but thankfulness, cause I know that when I go to E. R. Wright's White Front grocery next day. I'll see sumpin good to eat., an' that I'll be able to git it at a livin' price. They do the worryIn' now I dont do none uv it. I know 'at they'll bev everything 'at's a goin', an* all I'll Jiev to do is jest to take my choice. Oh! It's a blessed thing to trade with men like Ed. Wright and his clever clerks. Here area few
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