Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 January 1888 — Page 4

I

-t

si

wm

rHE

MAIL.

A/PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TTUHSCKIFTION PRICK, 12.00 A YEAR.

PUBLICATIOX ornac,

Vn*. 20 and 22 Booth Fifth Street^ Printing House Square.

TERRE IIAUTE, JAN. 21, 1888

biazzards:

We are beginning to know what a blizzard is, not yoar half-way, milk-and water Indiana blizzards, but the real genuine article, such as are kept on tap in the vicinity of the North Pole and sent down via Dakota once in fifteen years or so. A dark cloud hies along the horizon on a sunny, spring-like day, as harmless apparently as the fleecy piles that float through the sky in mid summer. The people unsuspicious of danger, start out for the distant town, and the children go to school. Suddenly thewfnd wheels round to the north and blows a gale that is filled with millions of needle-points of snow. The temperature sinks like the hopes of a disappointed office seeker, and the intense cold, combined with the furious wind and the blinding, stitling snow and ice, bewilders and overpowers Its victims.wherever it finds them. Childdren perish quickly and the strongest men are no match for the fury of the elements. People are sometimes overpowered near their very doors and die before reaching them.

The recent storm in the Northwest was a blizzard of the most virulent type. It came as a thiof in the night and clai-ned it* victims by scores, if not by hundreds. It will not soon be known how many people were frozen to death but the fatalities were many. The cases were numorous where children who had gone to school never returned. They were buried in the snow which became their funeral shroud. The amount of Buffering entailed by one of these arctic storms is beyond comprehension. Railway travel Is blockaded and trains are snowed in for hours and sometimes for days. Nothing short of a rotary snowplow can cut a passage through the mountainous drifts which lie fifteen to thirty feet deep and are as heavy and hard almost as pilesof sand. The inconveniences and discomforts incident to to such a country in the winter season may be imagined. It must try one's pluck and courage to live there. The poor dumb beasts suffer like their liu man owners. 1-Intidrods perish and the losses by such a storm as the recent one amount to many thousands of dollars.

Home time ago it was announced that the weather bureau would establish warning stations in the Northwest to chance to get ready for tbom. If this could be done It would be of great service to the people who live in that section of the country. As it Is, they are at the mercy of the terrible bliz/.Hrds and must live in a sort of constant dread and terror. After what what has happened in Dakota and tho other Htates and Territories of the fair North, people who live in this latitude will feel thankful that their lives have not been cast in the land of the blizzard.

RELIGION FOR THE FEW. There are all kinds of issues in these d&ys—people who are ready to preach any sort of doctrine, no matter how absurd, and others who are willing to accept it, no matter how ridiculous. Prof. Felix Adler, of New York, has made the astonishing discovery that religion is for tho few only and that no attempt should be made to teach it to tho masses. Only a few great souls, he argues, can profoundly experience religious feelings and "to force religion upon every body means an infinite digredation of thoughts of the master minds of religion, an infinite lowering and caricaturing of religious ideas."

There was ouce a great religious teacher who did not view the matter in this light. He was the founder of the greatest of all religions and should have known whether religion was a thing for the many or the few. He was always surrounded by a multitude and "the common people heard him gladly." He also seemed glad to speak to the common people. He regarded them as especially fitted to receive his doctrines. He had little to do with tho rich and powerful. His sympathies were with the poor and the lowly and among them were the soeds of the gospel sown. It did not occur to him that religion was degraded by their acceptance of it. But Profesfor Adler has advanced beyond the ideas of|Jesus. "Let us kvp religion for the religious," he says, "let us not make religion a common property." Christ said, "he that is whole needs not a physician, but he that is sick."

What kind of a religion is this that will be degraded by the possession of the masses? Evidently not the religion of the Sermon on the Mount. It must be a new species, only recently developed. It will not turn the world upside down. Things which are too fine for the masses are soon laid on the shelf—a very high Hiielf,—and are not taken down except to blow the dust of oblivion off of them. The world is in no imminent danger from Adlerism.

M«. T. P. O'CONNOR has started & paper in London aouiowhat of the American oHer. It is the London Evening Star anti will advocate the r*irhfsoffh- poor and make use ott intei v. .^w* ai.u other American peculiarities, Mr. O'Connor will h*ve the old fogyism of London again*t »im but should have a big success In long run.

JUSTICE LAMAR.

By grace of the votes of two Republican Senators, Stewart of Nevada and Stanford, of California, with that of Riddleberger, Mr. Lamar has been con Armed as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was strong!}* opposed by such men as Edwards, Evarts, Sherman and Hawley, who pointed out his unfitness for the place in vigorous language. He is too old, too poor a law yer and too much of an unreconstructed rebel to be made a judge of the greatest judicial tribunal in the world. But in spite Of these strong arguments against him, Mr. Lamar has been given the place.

And the worst feature of the case is the suspicion or belief that the result has been secured by improper motives on the part of the Pacific coast Senators. The Central Pacific Railroad, of which Mr. Stanford is the chief owner, is under the charge of having swindled the gov erment out of millions of dollars and its affairs have been made the subject of investigation. The charge has been found substantially true and the reports of the investigating commission are in the hands of the President. Mr. Lamar has exhibited a peculiar weakness for the Pacific roads in opposition to the vigorous course of commissioner Sparks and it is this desire to have a good friend at court and in court that is supposed to have animated Messrs. Stanford and Stewart in supporting Lamar. \\t

Altogether, it is not a nice way to get a place on the Supreme bench of the United States.

DISAPPOINTING\

President Cleveland's esc age oh the Pacific railroads is a rather disappointing document. Although a special message, there was nothing special about it. The document deals in a very general and somewhat gingerly way with those great corporations that have swindled the government out of millions of dollars. The treatment of the case by the President, together with the appointment of Lamar to the Supreme Court, certainly does not look as though the administration were likely to be very energetic in its fight against the big Pacific rings. The whole matter is remanded to "the discretion of Congress," which body should act with something of the vigor indicated by exOov. Pattison in the Investigating Committee.

The sending in of the message the very next dajr after Mr. Lamar was confirmed by the Senate may have been purely accidental but it has a suspicious look, especially in view of the fact that the report of the committee was in the hands of the President for a month before his message was given to Congress

TnKREcan be no doubt that the vast improvement that has taken place in the climate of the once malarious por

is,.

The more the land is under-drained the more the soil is lightened and the air above it relieved of impure and noxious vapors. This work of draining low and wet lands has made wonderful progress of late. At the annual meeting of the Illinois Tilemakers' Association at Springfield the other day, it was shown that nearly 9r,000 miles of tile drain have been laid in that state at a cost of not less than $15,000,000. This seems likoa big outlay for tile drainage, but it has doubtless more than paid for itself already by the increased productions of the soil which it has brought about, besides making the country nuich more healthful to live in.

Not less than 200 people were frdzen to death by the recent blizzard in the Northwest, while many others lost arms or legs and will be maimed for life. The terrible sufferings of the people have been much aggravated by a shortage in fuel. It will not do to fool with an arctic winter and the people up there should not let another summer go by without laying In fuel enough to withstand tho blizzards.

MB. BI.AIXK has reached Venice in his European journey. Venico should be very glad to see the American plumed Knight. Indeed there should be mutual satisfaction over the meeting. There seems to be something specially appropriate in Blaine and Venice coming together. ________________

CERTAIN people want to have Jay Oould brought back to this country to answer a charge of misappropriating funds. That is a great mistake. The best thing this country can do is to let Jay Oould stay out of it as long as he will.

THK temperature in Florida Thursday morning was below the freexing point, but no serious to frait trees is feared. Unusually cold weather prevails throughout the South.

THK Senate has passed the bill refunding to the several States the war tax collected in 1881. And that seems to be about all Congress has done up to date.

AT (?VTIT.I is steaming up the Nile In Egypt. The Egyptians are holding their breath for fear he may carry off the country river and all.

THK Keruueky legislature is considering a bill to punish wife beaters with forty lashes on the bare back.

GOVKRNOR TKMTUK, of Washington Territory, has signed the woman's suffrage bill. h.

There were lynched during the year 1&?7 in these United Stoles no fewer than than it persona. Of tba various States and Territories, Texas leads the list with "'teen lynching*, and Mississippi is ititled to second place, with fourteen to her credit. All the victims were males, eighty of them being negroes.

TBRRB HAUTE SATTJRDAY EVBNIfrl MA TL.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A Michigan bookseller is doing well by loaning books at a cent a day. Cleveland at fifteen was a tall, thin lad, and made few acquaintances.

Arnold, the writing fluid man, has made half a million of blue-black dollars out of it*

John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, carries $300,000 life insurance and Chauncey Depew 9500,000.

When General Sickles visits the Nat ional Museum at Washington he can now have the doubtful satisfaction of gazing upon his own thigh bone, which has lately been placed upon exhibition there%

ANew York doctor who has made a life-long study of inebriates, says he has known of only four permanent cures of old soakers, no matter where or how they were treated. Just let an old soaker know that there is nothing which can take away his appetite for whisky and he will be tickled all ovef.

Hiram Haines, of Utica, Minn., has been asleep almost continuously for seven years. His strange period of somnolence followed an attack of fever and ague. He was in normal condition for about a month in 1884. He wakens at at eleven o'clock each evening and is awake five or si^c, tpinu|e!j whgn he is

given food, fa A man named Parcell, recently arrested for perjury, in his divorce suit in Kansas City, blames his attorney for his trouble, and says that the lawyer fixed up the schedule of questions and answers and that he followed his directions in swearing. His reasons for getting a divorce were that he and his wife could not live pleasantly together, and that when they went to church they could not keep *tep with each other.

Ex-Senator ilancheK. Bruce since his term expired has divided his time between his plantation and lecturing. He is oue of the strong cards on the platform, especially in the interior in small country towns where life is that slow, monotonous and unexciting that his prestige as the first colored Senator still lingers in the form of curiosity. He is a ready, flowery talker. Bruce is a shrewd man and a wealthy one, worth probably $150,000, and in some respects the most successful man of his race in the countrjT, barring Fred Douglass, whose influence among the colored people has not yet been shaken by any later proph et.

Among some of the more liberal churches in New York, like that of Robert Collyer, a movement is said to be on foot to replace the regular pulpit orators during the summer months with laymen who have been accustomed to speak before the footlights. The plan is to have six congregations in the syndicate and secure six lay preachers for six ,.¥ vtn.t put tmcil the congregations. The Jay preachers so far considered for this movement are Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Steele Mackaye and Richard Mansfield. Two more actors will be added to tho four, and they will be invited into the pulpit.

The New York Star tells of a very dirty and boozy old tramp who was shivering on one of the seats in Washington Park on"Friday, and yet watching with a smile of stupid pleasure a beautifully dressed little girl who 'vVas trundling a hoop near by. At last he rose and approached the dainty little maid, saying: "How dye do, my dear?'' She ran away in fright, and tears came to the eyes of the battered old wretch, called up, perhaps by some touching remembrance. Two young swells in passing tossed him some coppers with tho remark, "See the old rascal cry." The tramp straightened up, flung the alms on the walk with a savage gesture and growled out: "There's more in those tears, ye cursed tailor's blocks, than'11 ever be shed over your coffins."

THE

SOUTHWESTERN

RAILROAD.

Editor of The Mail. I am glad to learn that in my portion of the township there is 'an increased feeling in favor of the Southwestern railroad. The people are becoming alive to the fact that it is railroads which develops country and that no section can be developed without them. Has the time come when Harrison township can say no more railroads? Are we to stop forever 'with what we already have. If so, then let us build a Chinese wall around the township, come into our holes and go to sleep. All other cities throughout the West are drawing to them all the railroads possible, and when it is proposed to bring one here which taps an important section, and we are asked to.voteavery reasonable tax to assist in building it, an opposition manifests itself in some quarters where it was the least expected. It was reasonable to suppose that the opposition would come from our citizens who paid the largest amount of taxes, but on inquiry they are almost, without a single exception in favor of road. They know that their prosperity will increase, if this road is built, greatly more than the tax they hare to pay. ^hy any one who pays no tax, should vote against the tax Is difficult to understand.

We must have the Southwestern railroad and all other roads that we can get on the same terms, which are pdfating in this direction. The votes in the out aide township, in my judgment, will cast their votes, by a large mrjority, in favor of the tax. HASBBOX.

The cause may be hidden while the effect is notorious. You may not know you caught that cold, but the effect of that distressing cough you know, alaa, too well. Cure it at once. Warner^ Log Ctebin Cough and (Consumption Remedy—a simple compound, but wonderfully effective.

DiSHoa sells paste in any quanity.

A NEW CYCLOPEDIA.

From a careful examination of circulars and prospectus describing the New International Cyclopedia, we have discovered such a decided improvement on on all that have formerly appeared, that we have no hesitation in recommending it to the readers of The Mail. It is later than any other, coming down to the year 1887. It is the fullest, not only in number of titles, but iu the relative amount of matter given each title, and has 23,000 more titles than Appletous, 19,000 more than the Brittannica will have when complete, 20,000 more than Chambers, and 4,000 more than Jobuson's. It also has the advantage of being International. The Britannica is lamentably deficient in American matter, and Appleton's is silent on many foreign subjects of interest. In The International, the articles on foreign men, places, histories, laws, etc., are written chiefly by foreigners of distinction, while the articles pertaining to American interests have been prepared almost entirely by American editors. This gives the International a completeness wanting in other Cyclopedias. It is the cheapest Cyclopedia of its size in the world.

Wherever thei*e is a wide range of work to be done and information is needed on multitudes of subjects, it finds its higheat usefulness. It can fittingly be called ajworking Cyclopedia, making its aid felt in all callings—in the minister's study, lawyer's office, the school room, library and home. Having examined the Cyclopedia with reference to these characteristics, which summed up read

as

follows: comprehensiveness, clearness conciseness, completeness, convenience and cheapness and having found it so satisfactory in all of them, we feel that it cannot be recommended too highly. Every teacher in our city and county schools and all students at the Normal school preparing themselves for teachers, ought to own this Cyclopedia. It can be obtained through the local agent, Capt. C. A. Power, on terms placing it within the reach of hundreds with moderate incomes from wages or otherwise. It places the whole circle of human knowledge before its owners and readers and is equivalent to any library of a thousand miscellaneous volumes. Chautauqua, and other literary societies will find it the latest and especially adapted to their wants.

THE BRUISER KIXO.fr

THE WHOLE WORLD PAYS HOMAGE TO SULLIVAN, OUR SULLIVAN.

Boston may hug herself with positive unction in the knowledge that three re hm nAiMilim' miltiiro have won unusual social recognition iu England—Lowell, Holmes and Sullivan.

According to the English idea, the "greatest" of these is Sullivan. The phlegmatic English populace is seldom "enthused" to the point of unhitching the horses from the carriage of of a popular idol, while excited men wrangle for the honor of a chance at the ope which is to drag it through the streets.

It well illustrates the power of mind over matter!

Sullivan, dined and winod by the nobility, followed and cheered by surging masses of "we, the peoplo," drawing crowded houses at his exhibitions, must be seated, if one of his stamp can bo, with adulation and applause.

It would be a sad "blow" to him if he should be "knocked out" in his coming contest with the English chamv/ion.

The best of athletes reach, sometimes early, a point at which their powers be gin to wane. Over training often produces serious effects. John C. Heenan died in the prime of life, wasted away with what was caUed consumption. A post-mortem examination in many of these cases has revealed that it is the primary organs, the kidneys, liver and heart, that are most affected by athletic over training. If they are taken care of, there is little danger.

Harry

are

Wyatt, the celobrated English

trainer and athlete, says: "I consider Warner's safe cure invaluable io all who

training for out-door sports. I have given it to many whom I have trained for the athletic world with great benefit."

Sullivan is beyond question the present "Athletic King." and if he follows Wyatt's advice, he will no doubt long remain at the head of the "profession."

The Greatest at the Rink and Dancing.

I

50 pes

Turkey Red

r-

Extra Heavy A*' Beautiful Patterns

Guaranteed Fast i? Colors.

"V-3

?rx2

asps?

v"

,— E :t

John L. Sullivan, whose success has been greater than that of any visitor to England except "Buffalo Bill," is a t.vpi cal American in that all of his successes have been won by "hard knocks."

(100

A

8

J'4*.

Carnival ever witnessed to-night. Extra music

Dr. Elder's

telephone Is No. 185.

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and whotesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and eannot be sold tn competition with the mvlt tttade of low test, short welaht, mJumorphos-

Mixed Candy, per pound 10 Bulk Bilking Powder '10 Ritter's Preserves, per pound 15 Hitter's Plum Butter, per pound 10 \Kitter's Quince Butter, per pound 10 fivruu. Choice Table, per gallon ^-lO .. ™jrtj{Htter, Choice Country, per pound 20

Pickles, Sour, per dozen

Fireproof Stew Kettles, each ,10 California Canned Apricots, per can .15 White Cedar 3-Hoon (brass) pails, each 35 A 10c Cake of Floating Toilet Soap for 5

Frank Siddall's Soap, Comb Honey. All the above goods are new and fresh, warranted equal to the best sold on this market. We are ready to take back and will thank you to return any goods thai do not suit you and returning your money for them. Remember th in'is for 10 days, to unload' .»to.ck»„ When sold these, lines will not be replaced at this money.

W4W.^CLIYER.

,:r

&WABASH

031 Wabash Avenue.

29 north 4th Street,

Vf-v *rK- TKRRK HAUTE, IND. Has on hand a full line of fresh Farm and Garden Seeds, e? Flower Seeds, Seed Corn, Potatoes of all kinds for Seed and +'V1 eating purposes. Ground Oyster Shells for Poultry, and v* Poultry Food. Hammond's Slug Shot kills Potato Bugs,

Cabbage Worms, &c. All kinds of Onion Sets, also Wholesale Produce Dealer in Vegetables and Fruits, Butter and Eggs Yours, Respectfully, '»v V'"

C. H. GOLDSMITH.

DRINK PURE WATER

BV

U8INO THE

Bucket Pump and Water Purifier

In Your Wells and Cisterns.

A Model Invention Hand in Hand with Sanitary Science which, for Superior Merits over all other Pumps, Challenges the World. 4 Endorsed by all Scientists, the Medical Profession and aU whe ara using them.

Sestroy

r^fR

•w PJ'« -, a %miyl2

'•?.

a2!F^'

The spread of ftanftanTAcferice has made moot hotmcholds whether in city or country, aware of the prime importance of looking well to the water supply. They know that for fhe Ignorant and careless in such matters death lurks In the pipes, and disease in the unguarded well or cistern. Yet many people are to-day using water from wells in dangerous proximity to sources of pollution, from cisterns that in a short time accumulate from the washings of the roof an unsightly sediment, composed of dust from the public highway, droppings of biros, decayed leaves, and exuvJw of dead insects, and continue to use such water only because they have not learned thnt the danger to life and health thereby incurred, may be obviated by a simple and inex-

ensive change in the pumping machinery employed. To the germs of zymotic disease, it is only necessary to secure the thorough oxygenation and ventilation of the water. Oxygenation is teration. This Is accomplished by the Bucket Pump and Water Purifier, illustrated herewith* which combines the easiest and cheapest method of drawing water from wells or cisterns, with a purification of the water so perfect and so thoroughly In accordance with scientific principles, as to render the foulest well or cistern absolutely pare, sweet and healthful within ten days after its Introduction. And in every Instance where It fails to do thbi, the price paid will be refunded.

Every Pump Warranted for 5 years.

Call at our place of business, No. 16 south Second street, west of New Court House, and see glass model, showing the

MCFERRINBROS.water.theonairtheofaction

No. 15 South Second Street, Terre Haute, Ind.

'-'I

"I'll

Next .Week!

rA

3d Week

-OF OUR-

Great Linen Sale!

Besides the many bargains now offered in this department, several new ones will be placed on sale Monday Morning among these will be 50 pes Genuine Turkey Red Damasks, full widths and entirely new patterns, choice 48c per yd|f worth 65c, warranted fast colors. More. Barnsby Damasks and Huck Towels another lot of Lunch Cloths, just opened, also German Table Damasks.

Root&'Co,

Jobbers and Retailers. Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

Groceries Retailed at Wholesale Prices for '. Cash, for. Ten Days.

7 1

100 doz. Vancahip's Tomatoes, per Cftfl 10 fe 75 dor.. Baltimore brands 4-pound Tomatoes, per can „1© t,ms J: 25 doz. 3-pound Standard Pie Peaches, per can 12{ ,^50 doz. best Standard brands Corn, per can .,,*-10 ^|r0 doz Yarmouth Corn, per corn 12X 20 doz. 2-pound Standard Blackberries, per can 0

25 doz. 2-pound Standard Peas, per can 10 25 boxes

1

bars, 75 pounds to box) Babbitt's Best Soap, per box. 3.75 '."i

15 boxes (tin bars, 00 lbs. to box) New York City Soap, per box 3.25 Evaporated Dried Blackberries, per pound 10 -California Evaporated Peeled Peach©?. 30 Pitted Plums, per pound 15 y.'r '18 pounds Turkish Prunes for....

Shoulder meat, Sugar Cured, Warranted, per pound

Maple Sugar, per pound 10

"A

s'\

7H

5

1

*5

•..

..V

SEED STORE.