Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 March 1888 — Page 4

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PAPER PEOPLE.

A?. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

•I PTIO PRICK, $2.00 A YEAB.

pt*BI.U'ATION ornc*,

Fm. 3D and

South Fifth Street,

Printing Houae Square.

TEHRK JIAVlTi, MAR. 17, 1888

THE CITY ELECTION.

In a few week« the annual spring election for the elioi-je of members of the City Council will le upon us. It is an election the inoportanceof which isquite out of proportion to the value of the offices to be tilled. There is not much money in'being a Councilman—so far at least as the mere salary i* concerned— but when the benefits to the city accruing from a wise and honest administration of its affairs, or the damage rr^ulting from the opposite course, are considered, the importance of choosing the right kind of men for municipal legislators becomes at once apparent.

Whether that body shall boabeii-ror worso one than the present will dujieiHl upon the degree of interest taken In the matter by that elemeut of the community known as the "good eltteenH." If this element shall manifest a proper «motint of interest and exert itself suffi--ciently, efficient and reputable members of the Council can be elected. If they, as is too often the case, allow the election to go by default, the rounders and heelers and ward bummers will be on band at the primaries and the polls and will see that their votes are counted.

As our city grows its municipal interests multiply and the work of the Council grows in magnitude and responsibility. Men of first-class ability are needed to manage its affairs upon sound business principles and men of integrity and honest purpose to keep jobs and crookednoss from bleeding the public treasury.

The time for this important local election is so near that the better class of

citizens

on safe

should at once set "about fixing

and

reputable men in every ward

for candidates. The class of men who aro most needed are not usually those who seek the office. But they will often consent to act

by a strong public sentiment. There are no political Issues in these elections and they should not be conducted upon a partisan basis. Safe, honest, level-head-ed business men are domanded, who will act for tho good of the city alone *nd it doesn't make a button's.difforence whether the man be a Democrat or a Republican, a Prohibitionist, a Woman Suffragist or a Mugwump, so long as he Alls tho bill for Integrity and capacity,

NVhat 14 CoAgwfcSgolW to do \w3 tfoe swindling sugar trust? And what are the people going to do with it? The more it is understood the clearer it becomes that this great "combine" is one of the most rascally and oppressive on record.

The value of the refineries poolod in the trust does not exceed $15,000,000 but it was put In at 160,000,000, four times its value, and upon this enormous sum it is proposed to pay dividends by forcing up the price of sugar. This country uses three billion pounds of sugar a year and an incroase of half a cent a pound means $15,000,000 of profit to the "combine." It Is stated that the profits of the trust in four months have been nearly half that sum. The prices of sugar have been foreod up from 14 to IK cents a pound, which shows how enormous has been the gauge of tho manipulators. The consumer* of sugar, who are. largely poor people, have been plucked of millions of dollars already for no other purpose than the Illegitimate enrichment pfthi| gang oj public robbers.

It is unconscionable that such wrongs should be perpetrateed that the people should be at the mercy of such grasping conspirators. There must be some way to break up these vicious practice®. Let Congress or the courts And out how to do it.

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WATERING THE DESERTS. The possibilities of the great arid region of the United States adjacent to the Rooky Mountains are undetermined but the problem is one ot uncommon iuter,4, has been found by experience that the soli only needs water to make It highly productive. Wherever irrigation has been found practlele good cro^s have been tho result. But the streams are not sufficient In number or capacity to water the whole territory and it is now proposed to extend^ the area of irrigation by constructing artltibial reservoir* for the storage of rainfall.

The undertaking is too great for prints enterprise and the proposition is that the general government shall take the work in hand. A joint resolution faa« been introduced in the Senate and the Secretary of the Interior has been authorised to investigate the practibllity of constructing such weenrolr*. If such a scheme could be carried out success

fully

millions of •*«•, which are

now arid and intlllable, could be con verted into fertile terming land#, the Bovernment could well afford to make a liberal expenditure tor the porpose. Much of this territory basan «*Ue«i climate end would be exceedingly desir

able

for residence purposes. If toe plan is feasible sonle of the surplus in the United States Trea«**y spent in carrying It out.

Acvoantxa to the Atlanta Oonstutkm Mr. Randall is the greatest living Demo* erst. Rut Mr. Cleveland will continue as heretofore to

living.

the biggeet Democrat

A GREAT STORM.

Dakota has been almost distanced in the race for meteorological distinction by the performance of the weather in the East during the past week. On last Saturday a snow storm set in which was general throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey and is reported to have been the worst experienced in fifty years. The snow continued falling for two or three days until-it had reached a depth of from four to six feet in some places and was blown into enormous drifts ten to fifteen feet high.

Travel and communication of all binds were stopped. The telegraph poles and wires went down, trains were snowed under, the ferry boats ceased to run and business was at a stand-still. In New York the street car lines were abandoned and even the elevated roads could not be operated. On Monday not a single train left the Grand Central depot in New York and but one entered it. This shows how complete was the embargo on travel for a time. Coming so'late in the season as the middle of March the storm was remarkable for its length and severity. So cold was the weather that the river was frozen over and people crossed on the ice to Brooklyn. The distress and suffering were very great. A number of people lost their lives through accident and exposure and the losses to property and by interruption of business ran far up into the millions, those in ihe city and state of New York alone being estimated at ?20,000,000. It is evident from this instance that the West has no corner on the blizzard market.t

HENHY BBROH, founder and president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, died in New York last Monday morning. His death is likely to prove a sad loss to animals aud children in whose behalf his long life was actively spent. He was the head and front of organized effort to prevent cruelty to dumb brutes and tho little ones, hut his death should not and will not be allowed to stop all systematized efforts to prevent such brutality. This species of cruelty towards creatures that are weak and helpless to protect themselves is only too common. It is a cowardly and shameful practice against which all merciful and humane people should set their races until extermination is com-

pl8te"

invited and urged to do so

TITK Chicago Journal has polled the Illinois Legislature to ascertain the preferences of the members for President. Sixty-five answers indicate that the Democrats are practically unanonimis for Cleveland while among the Republicans Judge Gresham is the favorite, having 10 votes to 7 for Sheridan and 3 for Sherman, the two next highest. Minnesota is also understood to be favorable to Gresham. It would be an odd thing, wouldn't it, if some of the other States should take up Gresham and force his nomination in spite of the senseless opa if & S In a S a if

TTRK Indiana Prohibitlor/state con vention at Indianapolis, Thursday, noml. nated the Rev. J. S. Hughes for Governor and adopted a platform demanding strict prohibition and woman suffrage. Electors-at-llrge and delegates-at-large were chosen, and four members of the W. C. T. U. were added to the State Central Committee.

WITH the Chicago Tribune jumping on John Sherman and the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette pitching Into Judge Gresham, tbe harmonious condition of "the grand old party" Is painfully evident. But this is "bofore" the convention. After the convention will present a picture as different as those in the patent medicine "ad."

THE Massachusetts Senate has sensibly decided in favor of biennial instead of annual elections of the State Legislature. The singular thing about It is that the wise men of Massachusetts did not abolish the nuisance of annual elections long ago.

A STRIKE of engineers and firemen on the Atchison, Topeka fe Santa Fe system was begun Thursday afternoon at all points on the lines. It Is feared that strikes will also take place on the Union Pacific, Kansas City, Fort Scott «fe Gulf lines. .. ______________________

THIS is not the snake season but there are some prewy tough stories out already. For example It is said that a New York woman has Just had apiece of boardinghouse pie removed from her side which she swallowed when a child.

TARIFF revision has only got so far as the consideration of the Mills bill by the Ways and Means Committee, At this rate of progress the youngest of us will be old and gray before any of the surplus Is cut off. A

MR. OROROK W. PBCK, the MSUPKNKEE millionaire humorist, has presented*^!* Crane, Wtp., his former home, with a public drinking fountain. Thus does the "Bad Boy1' male amends for his evil deeds.

As long as Bismarck lives Germany will be all right, if he should die there would be more commotion among the great powers than the death of a docen kings would tnake.

THX Chicago papers on tryftig to find out who Cain's wife was. If they want to send a reporter to lnterview Mr. Gaix^ on the subject they eertainly know^is present location.

IF we eoald haTe a revenue bill that would put a prohtbitary tax on cigarette smokers it would meet with strong popular indorsement.

JAY GOCXJD has got as far as tbe island of St. Tfeomas on lifts way home. Ha will prr»bebly bring the island with him.

TERRE HAUTE .SATURDAY T^NTNO

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The Anti-Treating Club, of Chicago, numbers 450 persons. Everyone drinks alone.

Editor Chas. A. Dana is 70 years old, yet no man walks up Broadway with a jauntier air than be.

A man is never so likely to show what he does not know as when he attempts to tell what he knows about women.

Gen. Albert Pike uses only quill pens and preserved every one when worn out. He has a collection of 10,000 old quills stored away in cupbord*.

A" Pennsylvania court has been called upon to decide whether it is criminal for a school teacher to punish boys by compelling them to sit with the girls.

ANew Yorker wrote to a prominent actor and a prominent clergyman asking each to name his favorite book. The actor said the Bible and the clergyman said Shakspeare.

John J. Flanagan, city editor of the Utica Observer, once persuaded a man as a personal iavor to be hanged two boars earlier than the time set, so as to give him a "scoop for the paper.

Henry Huckins, of Nebraska Ciiy, Neb., has not spoken to his wife for several years. Though be lives in the same house with her. He is under vow of eternal silence towards his spouse.

A Chicago father offered his bookkeeper, a well educated young man, $25 if he could learn the school lessons set for a girl 12 year old in the time allotted her and the bookkeeper made a failure of ifc.

A Chicago "faith cure" chap has killed" two patients, raised three scapdalsy broken up two families, and ia-^now in jail for false pretenses. Thrfs ought toconvince all people U^attkfere is something in the theory.

A merchant at Elgin,til .passed a man's account to profit and loss after dunning him about fifty timesiand the man sued' him for damage to hi4 character and got a verdict of $400, Dekd beats have more legal rights than hottest men

The Rev. J. L. nine out of every born thieves. The feel awfully loneso

ter says thatninetymndred Arabs are lother fellow must not to be a thief. ihe

The Arabs believe i|i a heaven of their own, and it is just asi.well they do. A Florida clergyman recently defended the opening of th^ Florida Sub-Trop-ical Exposition on Sunday on the ground that the devout contemplation of tbe orange as one of the noblest works of God would grebtly promote spirituality

The three EvHng brothers, of Lawienceburg, Ind.Lwere born at the same time fifty-four y4ars ago. They are said to be the oldest,' largest and best-looking triplets in the United States. Abel weighs 225 pounds, Joshua 243 and Putnam 248 total, 716 pounds.

There are seven American defaulters, bank-wreckers and murderers in Buenos Aj^ies, flJBfft Is said*ihatE&fey ^•erso-'iilei gusted Jpth each other that they as* not on spetf^Hbg terms. No outlaw can ever take an hour's real peace of mind, no matter how big a pile he got awajk with.

Ex-SenatofTabor, of Colorado* has an income of oveifal,000 a day from his Vulture mine, nelr Tuscon, A. T. He recently received) from the mine a gold brick weighing\i33 ounces, and valued at 112.000, which|represented the product of the mine for apttle more than a week.

Among the correspondence of fit Philadelphia professor dentistry there cam# recently a rather Vdd Inquiry from a Western member oi the profession. He A about to open an Mfice, and ittsked the price of a bushel of Id teeth which he Intends placing on exhibition at .bis place to impress a cr Idulous public with "his ability" at extr eting.

At a recent iawsull Texas thirteen expert cattle brander swore that when cattle were branded "the dark of the moon" the brand will never get larger than the first impressfon, no matter hoyr' much the animal ma&grow. Byt if branding iron is applied in the light ^f the moon," the scar wife spread, and the lighter the moon tbe laijer will be the spread

A Washington correspondent has made an interesting matbemalhtd caljoulation regarding the nnmber of Bt^ds shaken by the President and Mrs. Cle land during the last few months. The figures are startling. Since the lat of

TO THE

Clothing for Children

last July Mrs. Cleveland has grasped fully 100,000 hands. The President has shaken nearly twice as many. "Mrs. Cleveland's hand," says the writer, "is longer, narrower and thinner than the President's. The nerve is even better and the grip firmer."

Francis Murphy, ths temperance advocate, wants a law passed making it a crime for a man to treat or be treated. Upon this subject Mr. Murphy said in Bufialo last week: "It is an awful thing for a nan to say no when he has not been weaned. Look at tho effect on a baby that has been on the bottle for two years when yon undertake to wean it. What, think yo«t must it be with a man who has been on a bottle for twenty years?"

John Fry, a notorious "hotel beat, was captured in St. Lowis tbe other day. He made his boasts tbat in ten years he never paid a hotel bill, although he was stopping at the best hotels in the land. Ho had three disguises and a rope ladder, and it was a cold day when he couldn't get the best of a hotel detective. His wine and cigar bill at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel for two weeks was $78.

THE FUNEREAL. MONTH MARCH,.

The eye that^s unusually bright and yet has "a pallid ofjightness, the face upon whose cheeks naaure paints a rose of singular beauty ar.m flushv more marked in contrast with thcnalabaster appearance of the face, is o®p of those whom the skilled physician %ill tell you will gome day dread the furareal month of March, because it is tbHthat that con sumption reaps its rich sumption they tell us i' that and the other thi by deficient nutrition, and one things, but wh decay begins with a couj dy that will effectually that cough cures the di!j

If you have a cough, mgbt sweats,

"positive assurance in your own migd that you, oh—you, haw' tto'oonsump-

tjtpp «nH vat. Inn*

6Wi^j|ina

flns1l1V3petite,

MATT.

larvest. Contused by this in the blood, a thousand .-er the cause, md the remeEp the cause of of the lungs.

That is all there is ofpi. The cough is an evidence of a wasting. To stop it effectually^||i-emedy must be used that will searchgfuit the cause, remove that and then away with the cough. er, special to itself, Warner's Log Cabin sumption remedy. Til led notion of narcotics an old-fashioned prepan] roots and herbs, sucha» ancestors many years of which has been sc by the present mauufa trouble aud exponse. dryer. It is a systeuubuilder and oonsuni_ Where others fail, it whis, because it g^ets at the constitutional cause and removes it from the system.

tbelung and do This is the powIsessed alone by ugh and Colitis nonew-fang-id poisons, but lions of balsams [as used by our the formula

Fed exclusively lurers at a great ft is not a mere archer and uption expellant.

J. W. Hensaw, of CSreensboro, Pa., on Jan. 15. 1888, reported that "he derived more real benefit for tbe length of fnoin Winer's Log £a£in Qough j/t CijpHuQipnv.^ reinedfy than hadi fdf ears from thjsNtast state physicians.?

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n," and yet lose flesh as your lungs wast* now that soon the fu March will claim you and faithfully you use If other reniediea have one thoroughly. If othei feist the more on .tryln preparation. £Sne per8ons are

.Mr:

Who are looking for

u' v»f

We wish to 8ft:

OuF^Spring Stpek |s Perfeet

Beyond criticism or compariBoi, We^re shoeing the correct styles of the season, perfect in fabric, faaltleae in make and material, of our iwa r|aaii^cfcare.

Tli Prices are Low.

The Scholars' Favorite Bote dren'a

PIXLE

^eesented

you may (jbontfa of Jopaaptly

-£jte named jred try this are offered, Inthis uneqUaled

ne to comsumpn6ver allow the

they shoul

estese to become sea'

edq^Sbcourslone \|la the Bee Line. The Bee Line has/decided to run a series of cheap semi-rhonthly excursions tajgoints in Kansas,^Texas, Arkansas, Nebraska, New MexlcoV Iowa, Mlnnesota^ahd Dakota, and the principal points in the sunny Sobth, including IgBntucky,Tennessee, Flonda, Mississippi Alabama, Georgia, Nortk and South Carolina. Tickets to the on sale March 12th and and 23d. To all other W&old March 20th May 8th and 22nd and Rates will/be one fa return limit, 30 day lars call oti or add: St. L. Ry

uth will be h, April 9th ts tbey will 3d and 24th, 5th and 10th. round trip full particuof tho I. &

An excess of ^blmal food and a partial closing of thw'pores of the skin, during -fttoritbs, cause the system to ,«..ed witn impurities. These moved and the blood purified invigorated by taking Ayers Sareaparilla. Price fl.

FREE with Ohil-

"Our Jennie

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A Lovely Jacket, all shades. Have' some and will have more.

An observant metropolitan barber says that he can tell one's physical condition by the state of the hair!

The Bible tells us that with his hair gone Samson lost his strength. The Romans considered baldness a serious afJUoUon and Julius Csesar was never quite satisfied with himself because his po.'i waajbare. _Xh.^ face, however, is the open book and one can readily trace in it various expression*, lines, changes and complexion tbe statStof the system.

Very Stylish, conies in »nd Plains.

Neat and Pretty, all Rhndee. Have* a few, more to oorae.

I fa*!

New Line

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The Styles .• at Hoberg's

Are Always Cprrect No matter what department you go to In this large establishment, you always And the choicest, moat attractive and desirable and tho best of everything.

SPECIAL! OUR GRE.

Opens next Thursday, March 22dfandfto ooutlnue Friday inf.Saturday, March 23d aud 21th. The mere mention ot the great sale should crowd the depart ment?

SALE

Hext Week

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'-Our Vivian"^, TV f~*\

JAM*

"Our Fannie

Spring Shades for 59c worth $1.00. New Style$ Collars and Cuffs, 23c per set. Trimming Laces at 5c per bolt for Next We^lc

South

DHINK PURE WATER

Biiekef Pump and Water Purifier

In Your Wells and Cisterns.

A Modal Invention Hand in Band with Sanitary 8olenoe which, for

Next Week

—OF—

Black Silks

if Commencing Monday Morning. Prices 69 88c, 98c, $1.10 $1.18, $1.2t, $L35*

A slight advance above mnmt/acturora cost»

Our Opening Sale of

j|i8.o Dress Goods,

This past week was a decided aCtractionk

Our 50C Table

fe ••XV""*.»" Of All "VVooitlNovoltv,' Plaid" andi diock BiilHngs^s a great wonder. We'll contiiiue this sale for the benefit of those who couldn't attend this week. Wo don't always do it, but we take-into consideration the weathen wgo been having,.

Trimmlffgs,'A Great Spicialtj! Please

ememb«r Our Great Parasol a a."

Hober|,W6t&C6l'

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IJor One Week Only. 5 lirfi-

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520 and o'25 Wabash Avenue.

Terre Haute^ Bicycle Co.

Are haji&ng these

Celebrated Wheels,

Ssmplen now linstock *t

Probst & Fisbeck's

Merita over all other Pumpe, Challenflres the World ij

Endorsed by all Scientists, tbe Medical Profession and all whe ara ueingr them.

Wabash Ave.

For Catalog

U£H,etc.,

qf looking well to the wti W lgnnfatit an(t«arel«M in *nch mattcnj/leBth larii* ift WwjdpeK, and di«eMe la th^ tmguaMledvrell or claim. Yet maoy people are to-day U«tr:g water from in dancer* atutprmtlmlty to Bonrce* ol poilotlon, from ttiat in axboH time accaititisate from the WMhineBM the roof an uBfightly sediment, earned of daft fnm tbe public highway, dropping* of {/Irovdeca/ed leaven, Xbd e*uvl» of ..meh wateronlyjh^caase te danger to life and health obviated by a jgmpie aod inex •nSrr empfc&ed.

water* tion 1* 'amp and tttn&ti from

6 Seoind,Street, Terre Haote, Ind,

J.FREDPROB9T Manager.

V.'

Superior

Tbi* in accomplished hjr Purifier, illustrated herewith^, uad ebMpest metijod of drowMr k, w^ a purifl'^aUkjn of tbe rdance with 1 or d^tera ten day* after tafia to taace wherflt do

And In every

pries paid will reSKuid«d.

Er^ry Pump^ Warranted for 5 years.-

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