Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 January 1888 — Page 4
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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. •UBSCBIPTIOS rP-lCK, $2.00 A YBAB.
PUBLICATION OFFICE, 20 and 22 South Fifth Street,
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TERRE HAUTE,
JAN. 28, 1888
world and pretty much all kinds of peo
who go into matrimony as men go into business—?by seeking partners through -the advertising columns of the newspapers. In Chicago there are several matrimonial bureaus which apparently do a thriving business in affairs of the heart. One of these publishes a paper with the romantic title of "Cupid's Quiver' in the interest of his business. A recent number contains four pages of advertisements like the following: "American widow, 31, wants husband between 40 and 45, dark, affectionate and lover of home." "American maiden, 19, toll, noble
figure,
NO EASY PLACES.
The "grind of life," as it has been fitly called, is hard and it cannot be escaped, but after all tho burden of monotony and toll is more evenly distributed than is often imagined. Men and womeu are seizod with dissatisfaction for the pursuit in which the* And themselves en-
gaged and fancy that others haveamuc
easier and more interesting field of labor
but the idea is for the most part a delusion. An hour's talk or less with the merchant,
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MATRIMONIAL BROKERS. rfously impeddd for a time. The region It taken all kinds of people to make a
fair complexion, will
correspond with tall, slender, dark gentleman." "American jwidow, 41, fair complexion, good size, happy disposition, good housekeeper, has her home but wants a husband to love."
There are some eight columns of these languishing maids and widows who are anxious to love and wed and there are about seven columns of the other sex who are equally anxious to obtain life partners. Ono of them writes from far Wyoming: "I am a Western boy under 30, and in a condition to support a wife, but Oh! where is she?" Give it up, Dale. But you oughtn't to never despair. There is a wife somewhere for you. The woods that is to say, "Cupld'b Quivor," is full of them. A Montana bachelor of 37, with a good house and ample means, wants afair complexioned maiden under 30, and a California bachelor of 82, with good busines and means, would like to sail matrimonial sea with a "nice young wife of a blonde type." A Colorado widower of 56, who is tired of western life, will sell his lurge amount of real estate and return East to an intellectual lady of means, and aNew Mexico passenger conductor of 25, who finds "single blessedness unendurable" may ho never find the other kind still more so, is anxious to roeelvo letters from the fair sex. And so they run on, nearly every section of the country being represented.
Tho man who carries on this bureau says he has more business than ho can atteud to and has advertised for a partner. He claims to bo doing a legitimate business and has letters from two alleged clergyman who acknowledge the receipt of satisfactory wives from his agency. A novel method of advancing the cause of matremony su/ely! And novel eople they must bo who will resort to auch a method of finding life partners. It only illustrates what we saldjat the ouUiet that this round world of ours contains a large variety of nion and women.
lawyer, or doctor, or the
men and women engaged in any vocation whatsoever, will disclose the fact that tho grind of life extends to all their occupations and that thoy all have their special form of drudgery aud monotony. If any ono doubts this let him change his business, as many have done, and see how quickly he will find it out. The iron law of supply and domand operates not only in the material markets, but in the immaterial as well. There is no easy work in this hard
world,
work
were
because if any
easy so many would rush into
it that the competition would necessarily make it hard. And indeed it may almost be said that in many occupations the work itself is not so hard as the effort required to obtain it. it be conceded then that the toil and monotony of life be escaped, and what course is so wise as that of facing it day by day without repining, discontent or worry cheerfully accepting it aa the lot assigned by nature, working without friction and without fret, and making the most of our opportunities for social and intellectual enjoyment? It is such a temper that Insures faithful effort and conscientious work, and these are, in a great measure, their own great rewards while he who habitually slights and skimps hia work is not happy either in or out of tt.
gan Fraaelfteo doesn't get the Democratic National Convention it will not be her fault. So far she has promised to par tho expenses of the delegates both ways and board them free while there. If these inducements are not sufficient, the Golden Gate** will probably give a lot to each delegate In the bargain. There are BO flitt on Criiforoifc
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Tint twoHsebrask* school teachers vriftfl poyoe and Miss Freeman, whose heroism saved the lives of their pupils in the recent bli«ard are being somely remembeml. A popular fund has been started for them and the generous Nebraakane will doubtlee. make It every substantial testimonial. It is a worthy thins to do.
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TO DAKOlAi
It is likely that? Dakotajwill suffer serious loss next summer in the matter of immigration because of the terrible experience of the present winter. Many people already there will be discouraged and will want to go to a warmer climate, and others who are seeking new homes will not care to go to a country where blizzards make life a burden. The tida of immigration will therefore on lines farther South and Kansas, Colorado and California will prosper at the expense of Montana and Dakota.
As a matter of course Dakota will not
___ be forsaken, but its progress may be se-
js nQt inhabitable.
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pie are in the world. There are other part of the country Jn growing to
jt has millions
good land and can surpass any
other part of the country Jn growing wheat. The Territory will continue to improve and will in time formoneof the prosperous States of the Union. But the people and those on all that far northern line of settlement, will have to make better provision for contending with the elements than they have yet done. People in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota would suffer terribly in winter did they not have warm houses and plenty of fuel at hand and yet many of the settlers in the West and North have been pranti cally without fuel and in houses very in adequate to protect them from an arctic winter. No wonder they suffered terri bly and that many died. The experi ences of this winter should and probably will lead to better preparation to meet the cold hereafter. The houses will be made warmer and a sufficient supply of coal will be laid in during summer and fall to last through the winter. People who live in a* arctic country must have suitable equipments if they expect to survive.
THE Pioneer Press, of St. Paul, favors consolidating the two cities, but as might have been expected, the Minneapolis Tribune, is opposed to the union. Meantime the "manifest destiny" of the two ambitious rivals seems to be to unite since they are all the time growing towards each other. Nature seems determined to marry them, fractious as the coquettish Minnie insists upon being. "Minne-Paul" would certainly be a prettier name than either of them now has and it would be a pity to have the nomenclature of American cities bereft of so charming a combination. The country has a right to expect these two young people marry.
THE w&r scare in Europe continues, though what it is all about nobody on this side of the water seems able to dedetermine. In fact the more one reads about it the less he knows for the reason that each writer has a different theory. The one fact is that Russia is concentrating her forces on her western frontier, which with that power usually means war, while Austria looks on with uneasiness and is not disposed to be found unprepared when the decisive moment arrives. With immense armies grumbling at each other over an imaginary border line it is easy to see that it would not bo hard to get up a fight.
Wnx thecoming murderer be hanged? He will not be if the recommendation of the commission appointed by the New York Legislature to ascert-un the best method of inflicting the death penalty slmli be accepted. That body has reported in favor of dispatching criminals by electricity, as being more humane and civilized. The old method does seem unnecessarily coarse and bungling and might well be supplanted by one more in keeping with the times. We should bo able to make progress in as well asjn other things.
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ROGKHS, PEET TT Co., a large merchantlle establishment inNew York City, recently gave their 300 employes a dinner at which the firm announced a dividend of 8& per cent, to the employes on the amount of their salanes for the past year. While the sum received by each was not large, it served to show the good will of their employers and to promote harmony and good feeling on both sides. The house will be more than repaid for the liberayty thus displayed in the faithful and efficient service of its employes.
GRANDMA GARFIK^D is deadat the age of 85. Her life was one of remarkable experiences. Simple and unassuming as she always was, one of the four childred whom the death of her husband left her became President of the United States and she lived to witness his inauguration and his sorrowful death soon afterwards. She was a fine old lady and won the hearts of all who knew her.
THK "poet Whittier is reported to be unfavorable to the project of having a a fund raised by popular subscription for the purchase of the poet's old homestead In this he shows his good sense, as The Mail pointed out a week or two ago. A good deal batter use for the money would be to buy the poet's works and circulate them among those who are too poor to buy them. _________________
CONGRESS has been in session almost two months now and the surplus Is pil ing up in the national treasury as fast as ever. It looks as though the present session would be spent in simply "monkeying" with the question.
IK the tales of suffering that have come from the Northland "Brown's Valley" on the Northern border of Dakota, "leads all the reet." After homing up everything in sight the freesing people attacked the railroad round house, took all the coal and then chopped the building up and used that tor foe).
What has become of George Francis Train and Edison's phonograph? Both seem to hare disappeared from view, hut the former at least never will be missed.
TEKRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENI3SIG MATL..
THE German Crown Prince is reported to be rapidly recovering. Frederick William must have the iron constitution of his venerable father, not to have been killed by all the high-priced doc tore who have been at work on him.
THERE is room just now for a first class comic opera composer. Messrs, Gilbert and Sullivan seem to have ex hausted themselves on "The Mikado." The coming musical genius should be an American, but where is he?
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
President Cleveland complains that he rarely sees his wife.( A South Haven, Mich., man pays 13 dog tax and $2.50 on real estate.
Sam Jones and Sam Small are drawing bigger houses in Kansas City than all the theaters in town put together.
Some one says of Morrison that -iie says more mean things and does fewer than any other man in public life."
General Lew Wallace has received 937,000 as royalties on "Ben Hur," the sales of which have reached nearly 200,000 copies.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, believes that "book larnin' spiles a black man and sets him agin workHe is for^ nist education.
N. K. Fairbanks, the Chicago lard millionaire* is proud of the fact that he served as a mason's apprentice and can lay brick as well as the next man.
Josiah Daily, an Indiana man, has received a patent on a scheme for making "pure, fresh maple syrup" out of cane sugar and a decoction of hickory bark.
A Tennesseean began coon-hunting when he was 13, and he is now 63. In tho interval be has cut a notch for every coon he has killed, and the number is 7,422.
The Mayor of Boston has dyspepsia, and of the 300 remedies recommended him all but two contained whisky. Ho can't see how it is that some people suffer so long from this complaint.
At a spelling school in Des Moines a reporter on a salary of $9 per week downed the whole crowd twice over. Among the worst spellers were two bankers, three lawyers and a judge.
The Rev. Augustus Littlejohn, the once famous revivalist and fellow laborer of John B. Gough, died in the almshouse at Paw Paw, Mich., a few days ago, and his remains were consigned to a pauper's grave.
A justice at Rondout, New York, has decided that you have a perfect right to give your note payable "after death," instead of""after date," and that if the other fellow accepts it he must stand to his unpromising bargain.
A Philadelphia millionaire asks through the Times for suggestions as to the best public use ta be made of $50,000. The gentleman contributes liberally to all charities and never turns the poor empty-handed from his door.
Dave Lasher, engineer of the cannon ball train on the Texas fc Pacific, refused to take his train out of Texarkana the other night,because he had dreamed it would be wrecked. Before reaching Bonham, Texas, the train had gone through a trestle.'
The fact that men are wearing red neck scarfs and bright linings to their coat sleeves, and that tailors put a bright-colored piece of V-shaped silk in the back of the waistband of the trousers leads a Cincinnati philosopher to argue that men are drifting back to the days "of blue silk coats, yellow vests, green knee-breeches and lace collars."
An aged and wealthy gentleman of Americus, Ga., died not long ago, and his family clad his body in the finest garments that could be bought and buried it in a $300 coffin. Recently it was discovered that the coffiin had been dug up, the body taken out and stripped of it clothes, and then buried again by thieves, who stole everything but the corpse.
T. H. & M. R. R.
Editor ol Mall. I have heard it said that the men of small means and those who have no property subject to taxation, intend to vote against the tax to secure the building of the Southwestern railroad. I do not believe this. By what possible process of reasoning, can a man who has no taxable property in this city persuade himself that it is his duty to vote against this road. If he pays nothing towards its building certainly the levying of the tax can not hurt him, and if the road is built it may, in many ways, be to his advantage.
Suppose a young man is working on a salary, and this daily, weekly or monthly Income is all be has, why should he vote against a tax not one cent of which comes out of his pocket? I must confess 1 can not see the consistency of any one thus situated, doing such a thing. Hie road when completed may be the very means of securing him a good and pro fitable situation, and if not built might work to his disadvantage. Of all men In this community, it does seem to me, that the non-taxpayers are the very ones who ahould be unaminously in favor of this road. They certainly can lose nothing if the road Is built and might loose much if it is not built.
Another thing which the laboring men of this township should distinctly understand, and that is this, that the 9100,000 asked to be voted, every dollar of it, under the law, has to be expended in tills township. Not only this, bat I have no doubt if the mad Is built, twice 9100,000 will be expended In this city by the company. Then I ask why should any non-taxpayer and wage worker in this township vote against this road when it will add so much to the general proaperity. I dont believe they wilL
ANNEXATION OF CANADA.
THE DISASTROUS ATTEMPT TO ACCOMPLISH IT BY FORCE—A FAMOUS RETREAT.
The present agitation concerning the relations between Canada and the United States rcealls the time when the annexation of that country was proposed to be brought about by force of arms. The project was entrusted to the brave General Montgomery, assisted by the famous patriots, Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner. While engaged in this invasion Ethan Allen was taken prisoner by the British and sent to England, where he experienced very harsh treatment.
It was Colonel Warner who twice conducted his men safely home, though the march was constantly surrounded by dangers. Once Montgomery sent them home becouse their time was out, and though they were willing to continue in service, they were without sufficient clothing, and none could be hail in that country.
Colonel Warner had hardly arrived home before he heard that Montgomery had been killed, and the cause, as well as the lives of the men, were put in great jeopardy. He collected his men again and at once started for Canada to assist his countrymen in their extremity. But his efforts were of no avail, and it was found necessary to take up the line of retreat.
It was in the dead of winter, and only necessity sanctioned moving the troops. The terror of pursuit and the rigor of the season furnished sufficient cause for for alarm and haste. Colonel Warner remained with the rear of the army, and aided them in many ways most effectually as he was a man well posted in caring for the sick and this knowledge came into excellent use.
He must keep the army in motion, not a day must be lost, and yet he was without any chest of medicines. But he understood tho medical use of roots and herbs, and of proper care at critical times, and with these allies, he made an effectual fight against diseases among his men".
When Ticonderoga was reached and the roll called, thanks to Seth Warner but few vacancies in the ranks appeared.
Col. Warner saved the lives of hundreds of men in this way, and he did a noble work, but it remained for his namesake, H. H. Warner, head of Warner's Safe Cure establishment, to give the same kind of remedies then used to the people of to-day, in "Warner's Log Cabin Remedies." These remedies have been adopted after thorough trial and investigation, and they are remedies of established reputation. Being wholly vegetable, they can be used without any fear as to the results.
Among the new remedies is a Sarsaparilla for the blood, Hops and Buchu for the stomach and digestion, Cough and Consumption Refnedy, Scalpine for the head and hair, Rose Cream for that terrible disease, catarrh, a Log Cabin Liver Pill, a Log Cabin Plaster and an Extract for internal and external use. Our readers may rest assured that there is merit in every article.
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SALE OR EXCHANGE—My property at the northwest corner of Fourth and Cherry streets, known as the Archer property. For sale or will exchange for desirable residence property. Apply to ISADORE A. WHITE, No. SM south 6% street, or R. Catlin, 503)$ Main street.
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and cistern, south Seventh street near Willow. For further particulars, enquire of Miss Weinhart, No. 115 south Second street.
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ISJAYLOB'S OPERA HOUSE. .UN
Wilson Naylor, Manager.
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PLUMBING and GAS FITTING A 4 dealer in Qu Fixtures, Globes and
Supplies.
To Reduce Stock
Before Taking Inventory. ^,
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FINE BLANKETS,
25 boxes (100 bars, 75 pounds to box) Babbitt's Best Soap, per box. 15 boxes (60 bars, GO lbs. to box) New York City Soap, per DOX Evaporated Dried Blackberries, per pound California Evaporated Peeled Peaches 80 Pitted Plums, per pound 15 18 pounds Turkish Prunes for 1.00 Shoulder meat, Sugar Cured, Warranted, per pound Maple Sugar, per pound 10 Mixed Candy, per pound 10 Bulk Baking Powder 10 Hitter's Preserves, per pound Ritter's Plum Butter, per pound Hitter's Quince Butter, per pound Syrup, Choice Table, per gallon 40 Butter, Choice Country, per pound Pickles, Sour, per dozen
Firoproof Stew Kettles, each California Canned Apricots, per can White Cedar 3-Hoop (brass) pails, each A 10c Cake of Floating Toilet Soap for
Frank Siddall's Soap, Comb Honov. All the above goods are new and fresh, warranted equal to the best sold on this market. We are ready to take buck and will thank you to return any goods that do not suit you and returning your money for them. Remember this is 2or 10 days, to unload stock, will not be replaced at this money.
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