Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 May 1888 — Page 4
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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. SUB8CKIFTIOI* PKICB, tZ.00
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1?0«. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.
TERRE HAUTE, MAY 12, 1888.
HOME BUILDING.
Terre Haute in a city of homes and yet there are many people here who ought to own their homes but do not. We say they
ought
to because it is possible for
them to do so and there is nothing better for a man to do than to be the owner of the roof that covers his family, to own the house he lives in and feel that it is Ihig and that he no longer has tribute to to pay to any landlord. The property owner takes pride in beautifying bis premises and having everything comfortable and convenient and the pleasure of his honsehold is greatly enhanced by his ownership of a home.
The moden device of building and loan associations make it possible for workingmen and men living on even moderate salaries to be owners of homes. "There never was anything yet invented that is at once so safe and profitable as the investment of small sums in these associations. It is within the power of almost any man or woman to put by a small amount weekly or monthly from his or her earnings and these little sums swell remarkably when loaned and re lbaned through the agency of a building association.
Having saved a few hundred dollars one can buy a lot and borrow money "from the building association to put up bouse, paying back the loan in weekly -or monthly installments. This will cost him something more for a few years than rent but at the end of that time he will be the owner of a home, with no more rent to pay ever after. No young man ever made abetter investment of his money than in putting it into a home and every young married couple should ».set out at once to become the owner of Ktftieir own homes at the earliest possible day.
CALIFORNIA A OA IN.
'When will the truth about California be known? Los Angeles has been famed as a health resort, but in a recent magazine artiole Charles Dudley Warner aounded the note of waruing that if the city of angels did not provide abetter rsystem of drainage it would soon become a oity of angels sure enough. And in this view he is supplemented by a gentleman recently returned from the glorious state who avers that Los Angeles is full of malaria, that the town has no sewerage, its stroets area mass of decaying muck, that the water is inexpressibly bad—and, worse than all, that there is an epidemic of small-pox in the oity. Realjontate speculation Is over, ho says, and tho majority of people who bavo bought property on installments will not not make their seoond payments, and the land will revert to the sellers. That seems like pretty strong talk, and it may be possible that the speaker was looking through disordered •eyes. It is highly probable, however, that towns which have built up with the phenomenal rapidity of Los Angeles and •some other California cities, have neglected those sanitary precautions that igrowing cities commonly observe, and •are now reaping the results of their negligence. One thing is certain, namely, that no climate, however healthful, will •1)0 an antidote for the poison that lurks in cess-pools and sewets which have no proper outlet for the foul matter they oarry, and disease and death will prevail oven in California if sanitary laws are disregarded.
THE METHODIST WOMEN. The manner In which the women delegates were excluded from the Methodist Oeneral Conference comes very near being a victory for them. Many loading clergyman warmly espoused their cause and argued for their admission and the reason of the thing was clearly on the side of the women. The case was finally disposed of on constitu tioual grounds, it being urged that the proceeding* of the conference might be rendered irregular and illegal by the participation of females in the proceedings. But even on this theory the vote to ad* nut the woman was 173 to 249 against, the vote of the lay member being almost equally divided. The question wow goes to the several churches and Annual conferences for decision as to future general conferences and there is not much room for doubt that it will be decided favorably to the women in the end. It Is pretty safe to predict that there will be women delegates in the next genera! •conference of the M. K. church.
TUB talk in Democratic newspapers tiow is that the Harrison movement is realty in t&e interest of ft'sine. It is argued that after the favori
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are disposed
*t Chicago th? contest will narrow down to Blaine and Oresham. If the former te nominated then Harrison will toe given the second place on the ticket. 'This Is all nonsense. Harrison does not mutt second place, and Indiana Republicans do not want Blaine. There is much mora likely to toe combination between liarruion and Sherman men, *mt as the ease now stands Hainan's feteaU* an for t»Utt and really ths»-S .be has a good show of being nominated.
XIiCTt* uxs u11 have meant what fee****! lien be the leiter dec lug .1 twit it t# jwtnairfcable bow many people think he meant iu
BOOTH AND BARRETT. It Is a matter for surprise when one considers the enormous sums of money that are expended by the people for amusements. Not to sneak of the great national game of baseball, for which many hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent each year, take the single in stance of the Booth-Barrett dramatic combination. It is estimated that the profits of this company for the season will be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, of which Mr. Booth will get 9600,000and Mr. Barrett $400,000. As these immense sums represent only the profits over and above expenses the gross receipts must have been very much larger th$n these figures represent.
II seems amazing indeed that a single man or woman should be able to win such stupendous sums in the short space of one dramatic season. Many persons do not make a twentieth of the amount by the work of a lifetime. Earning $1,000 a year, which is above the average of earnings, a man would have to work six hundred years to make what Edwin Booth is reported to have made in less than a year! This does not seem to be a fair division of the rewards of labor. Yet it is hard to see how to help it. It is the result of notoriety, of standing on the topmost round of the ladder of fame The separate contributions which made up these vast sums come from people who in the main were easily able to spare them. It was a matter of of free and voluntary giving. They were able to pay roundly for the privilege of seeing this rare dramatic combination and they were willing to do so. The stars pocket the money and there is nobody to blame.
But all the same it is wonderful that two actors should be able to make a clean million dollars in the short space of a single season.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
On last Monday night Mr. John Wanamaker, the great Philadelphia merchant, presented to 272 of his employes —all whose names was on the roll of honor—with $40,281, an average of nearly $150 each. Besides this $10,000 was put aside as a pension fund for those permanently disqualified from any cause for service. During the year there were paid to 1,800 employes special percentages over their usual salary, amounting to $59,168,06, making in all, including the amount paid into the pension fund and the $40,281,02 paid to the persons whose names are on the roll of honor, total for the year according to the plan originally proposed by him on April 8, 1887, of $109,439,68.
Besides dividing a portion of his profits among his employes, Mr. Wanamaker has also provided for a system of promotion based on the civil service plan and a saving fund. This great merchant, who believes that newspaper advertising has been the foundation of his success in business, has shown himself to be a genuine and intelligent friend of labor and has set an example worthy to be followed by all employers.
COMMKNTINO on the case 6f Indiana in tho next national convention, the Philadelphia Times says: '•Of course, Harrison won't and can't be nominated, but he seems to be In the position to repeat tho (log and manger fable and defeatureshum because Harrison can't got the nomlnntlon himself. Enthusiasm forGreshnm in Illinois Is very gratifying to the Judge's friends, but it goes for nothing while Harrison holds Indiana In his hands and is ready to throw It to anybody whose name isn't Ores ham."
The Times is a Democratic paper and is disposed, in common with other Democratic papers, to put the worst face possible on the Republican situation in this State. The case is not so bad as that by any means. There is just as good ground for believing that Gresham could carry Indiana as the Presidential nominee as there is for believing that Harrison could carry it. If either were nominated Indiana Republicans would take off their coats, roll up their sleeves and go in to win. The delegates to Chicago will understand this and will feel free to take either one of Indiana's favorite sons, in case either one shall be deemed available. If the Republican party in Indiana does not feel that way about it, it had as well disband at once and quit the gfi^ne of politics.
ANOTHER effort is to be made to establish anew daily paper in Indianapolis. Messrs. F. L. Purdy and C. J. Seabrook, formerly of the Cleveland Press, are the proprietors. It will be a penny paper, will be called the Sun, and is to make its first appearance to-day. In the light of recent experiments the undertaking would not seem to be a very hopeful one but with the new boom that is on in the Capital City the Sun may make it go.
FOR once the boodlersgo to jail and atay there. The Supreme court of Illinois haa affirmed the judgment against the ex-commissioners and other boodle officers of Cook county, who were convicted by the Chicago court some months •go-
Tire Presidential boom that can bold out one month longer is alt right.
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The cit of Free port, Ills., and surrounding countr was devastated by a cyclone last* night, w*ny were Injured and tfc-usan N of Hars worth of property desi n\vcl. A ti*. mendnos wind storm also passed over X'-stbern It.!!• *vrr« I!: -lg In Its P^r y-":uh: r*r- v.--® Li-mi from the railr. .uL' The telegraph wires are down la all directions, ao that but a iim icor aoom: nt of theda!n'4fe-juii be We can' •Tract tu*~T untrrt* lis:- Ifiing uuu Miiwn.r. tbeonty -m'# to in-nrr #g.»iiit Ihv
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TERRB HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING
AMUSEMENTS.,
A particular favorite In this city appears at Naylor*s to-night in his new comedy "LitUe Puck." It la a dramati zation of Mr. Anstey*s clever novels "Vice Versa" and "Fallen Idol." The chief theme is of an old gentleman's desire to be a little boy again and of his son to become a big man on change The two beeume interchanged and a vast amount of fan results. As the stock broker, Mr. Daniels is said to have a role that he makes remarkable in a way of comic creation, jiidt as he did of Old Sport. The company contains an unusual number of pretty women, including Miss Rillie Deaves, Miss Louise Essing who created such a commotion among our susceptible young men when here with the first Bennett A Moulton com pany, Miss Louise Quinten and Miss Bessie Sanson. An exchange tells us in the following paragraph of Rillie Deave's striking costumes
Pretty Rillie Deaves, the well known com medlenne, now with Fiank Daniels' "Little Puck" company, has excited no little com ment and newspaper talk through the coun try by the striking character of the three gowns she wears In Daniels' new hit Miss Deaves, as Is well known. Is a wonderfully handsome young lady. 8he is gifted, not only with a beautiful face, but nature has also endowed her with a form that is the envy of all her sex. In the first act Miss Deaves wears a carriage or semi-riding habit that Is a wonder to benold. It has a masculine white shirt front, with collar and tie and other ma appendages which give to it a novel cffect. But is the second-act costume that hascreated such a sensation In the first rows. This dress Is marvelous In its simplicity. It Is made of ginghnm, blue and white, large checks, and the bonnet Is of the same material. It is supposed to be a school dress, and the only trimming noticeab Is white lace, where the skirt Is gashed, but «s a figure revealer It is certainly up to the times, and a little beyond. Miss Deaves, it might be remarked, makes her own dresses. As a designer she is certainly a success, for she understands the art of fascination in arranging either a skirt or a sleeve, or a collar, or a cuff. Some ladles have characterized Miss Deaves' costumes as being loud, but the man is yet to be found who will acquiesce in such an opinion.
Robert McWade, now playing in St Louis to immense business will give us his Rip Van Winkle on Wednesday evening of next week. Washington Irving never gave to the world of letters a more beautiful thing than "Rip Van Winkle." Irving has long since passed into the land of spirits, but the story lived and deserved to be dramatized. It is laid in the Hudson Valley, famous in poetry history. The Catskill mountains are in the background, and Rip Van Winkle is handed down to us in martial lineage as the hero. He was beloved of the village wifes and children, but a jealous wife could not Bee his virtues, and like many men, before and since, failing to receive kind words at home, drowned his troubles in the flowing bowl. He wandered off into the mountains, took drink of Holland gin and slept twenty years. In that sleep he had outlived his dog, his gun had grown old and rusty, and he had also outlived the woman who had driven him out into the storm. Me Wade does not change the plot from Ir vlng's story. To do so is to mar it. The sale of seats opens Monday morning at Button's.
A fine line of Stationery just received at Central Book Store in all the latest styles.
ApolUnaris, Hatborn, Hunyadi and Bitter water by the glass at Somes' Pharmacy, northeast corner Sixth and Ohio.
Plenty of
at diver's.
fresh country Butter
Waukesha water on draught atSomes' soda fountain, northeast corner Sixth and Ohio.
Central Book Store for a large line of Hammocks and Croquet at low prices. FOR SALE.—15,000 acres of magnificent pine ash and cypress timber land at $2.50 pet acre. Railroad and water facilities for shipping. A rare bargain. For further particulars call on or address, Riddle, Hamilton A Co., Terre Haute, Ind.
FAEMEES.
Look out for A. H. Boegeman's Cora Backet next week.
Homes and Investments in the West Write Secretary Board of Trade, Garden City, Kansas, for free circular,
All kinds of early fruits "and vegetables at Oliver's, 631 Wabash avenue. fi§
Wall Papers.
Parties out of the city will do well to order of us. We wholesale and retail. Samples sent free. Special discount to dealers. HUGHES A LEWIS, 28 South Fifth street, Terre Haute.
Perdue A Kennedy, successors to L. F. Perdue. 108 sontb Sixth street and 818 north Seventh street. Full supply of HARD COAL, also block, nut and lump rfa-
Dr. Elder's
telephone is No. 185.
COME ONE! COME ALL! And partake of the good things that we will offer you for the next few days.
All our goods are fresh and new, and not shelf-worn, as we have advantages in disposing of goods that our competitors do not possess. Goods guarantead to give satisfaction and delivered to any part of the city.
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Dr. B. B. GLOVER,
Rectal diseases only. No. 115 Sontb Sixth street. Savings Bank' Building
TAXPAYERS, TAKE NOTICE! The last day for paying city axes without penalty will be Wednesday, May 16th, 188a
Pay your taxes on or before that date and avoid penalty and costs, JAa FITZPATRICK,
Treasurer.
Far Fair Orawnb ami Oewetry. rs'Ttr— er.-Ti-r-Mi w**h r.?l ItoR* 'SMS top. If t* :r .'H'-eded,' teiepnc 3H&, mio
^niS°N & WILSON, T3TPECOX^STSiaRX3SrO-. No MHitb 6th stnet. t«* w.-rSc'rsi{ id wat-
W. W. CLIYER, 631 Wabash Ave., Terre Haute, Ind.
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Six Lots 5
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$1,000
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North Eight Street, South Collett Park.
Apply to
TOWNLEY Coal Cook, TOWNLEY
Ice Cream Freezer.
TOWNLEY Bath Tubs, %g Stir? TOWNLEY
Granite Ware, i?v &
TOWNLEY
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Wooden Ware
Largest stock and lowest prices the city, We wish to call especial attention to our Styles and Prices on Gasoline Stoves and Refrigerators.
Townley Stove Co.
009 Wabash Avenue.
Spring Arrival 1
OF
Canton Mattings.
Carnival of Novelties !i
Brilliant Display."
Housekeepers of Terre Haute call itbout delay exposition of pieces of the cheapest and most colorings of
without delay and see our magnificent mora than one hundred elegant
China Mattings
Ever brought to this city, in red, white, green, olive, blue, bronze and fancy colors. These more in fav come to be oonside eessity.
MATT,
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20 South Fourth Street
Specialities:
Wood Cook,
TOWNLEY Gasoline Stove^ TOWNLEY
Range,
TOWNLEY Furnace, TOWNLEY
Refrigerator,
TOWNLEY Water Filter, TOWNLEY
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39c
Is the reduced price on a lot of 38, 40 and 42 inch All Wool Dress Goods, former price 50c to 75c. The lot comprises All Wool Cashmeres, All Wool Checks, Plaids and Stripes, Nun's Checks, Serges and Mixtures. Choice 39o per Yard.
89c
Is the Adduced price on all our yards wide all wool Novelty Dress Cloths, including our elegant collection of India Plaids and Stripes. Prices yesterday $1. and $1.25. From now on 88 cents.
78c
800 pairs
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TOWNLEY 4 Mantels and Grates, TOWNLEY
Roofing and Guttering
more and ve indeed
These goods growing in favor every year, ha to be considered a hous
household ne-
BR0KAW BROS.,
Keeping pace with the demands of the times, are prepared to meet this want wltb such attractive STYLES and PRICES that one can fail to get Just the tbibg n«!d.
Brokaw Bros,
413 Wabash Avenue.
Grand Clcaiiny .Sale
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HQBERGS!
We are overstocked. As we always consider the first loss the best we offer the following reductions on all of our Choicest Goods.
every yard of enrlettas,
Is the reduced prices on every our 41 and 46 inch all wool He the finest goods made in the world Silk finish. Our line of colors are some fifteen in the newest tints. Former price $1. and $1.25.
Is jihe reduced price on a lot of all wool Foule Beige Mixtures, beautiful line of Colorings, 40 inches wide were imported to retail at 85c. Price 50c per yard.
69c
Is tho reduced price on our entire line of Imperial Serges, 44 inches wide. Thrf most magnificent line of shades ever shown. The last lot received was too much for us, now we are compelled to take a loss, Former price $1, now 69c. .%W
98c
Is the reduced price on all of our finest French Serge Plaids, all wool and silk and wcol, sold before at $1.25 to $1.50 per yard. Take your choice now at 98c a yd
Cheaper Goods
Reduced in Proportion.
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Laee Curtains
The handsomest $1.50, $2. and $3 Curtains ever shown in the city, At $5.00 a $7.0C Curtain,
At $6.00 a $9.00 Curtain.
SILKS:
Faille Francaise. beautiful line of
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We show the handsomest Black Silk ever shown in the city, well worth $1.25. Warren ted to wear.
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The largest department in the city. shade in Surahs, Qro Oraios, Eve Rh
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2,000 pieces.
Most
India Silks
China Silks, Summer Silks,
Grand and complete assortment of
Black Silks.
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Laces! fLaces! Laces!
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SEASOIT
Has already opeued with us, and such ve hav Thousands of yards V** v* vilov* txrac
a display as we havevou can't imagine. of almost every pop^ ular wash fabric.
Sateens
At 8%t 10.12H and 15o per yard.. End•,s less variety of styles.
Seersuckers
At 5, 8 and 10c per yard. Choice novelties sold as nigh as 25c heretofore.
-r Lawns.
At 3, 5, 8 and 10c per yard. Plain and tinted grounds. Organdy styles.
Batists.
At 8K, 10 and 12^c a yard. Magnificent goods and fast oolors. Yard wide.
Ginghams..
Plaids, Stripes, Checks and Fanoies. Dress stylos at 8,10 and 12io a yard. Apron styles at 5, 7 and 8Ho a yard.
Gerlnafl Dress Linens
Plain and Figures. 50 different patterns
Koechlin's
Fine French
100 different Plains patterns, shades.
A-
lO cases Cheap Dress Cfoods,
At Special Prices Next Week.
Most exquisite styles. Rare tints. Odd shades. Blocks, Stripes, Piaids, Checks and Embroideried Stripes and Plaids, at
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26c upwards.
A most important department with us by far the largest in the city. All the novelties out are shown at our counters. Immense line of staples such as
India Linens, Victoria Lawns, -I French Nainsooks, Plain and Plaid ISTansookis, ^»r'
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We havejust opened another large invoice of Black Chanrilly Flouncings. Also an exquimte line of Fedora, Spanish, Spanish Guipure and Chantilly Cream Flouncings, narrow laces to match. Oriental and Egyptian Laces in great variety. Swiss and Nainsook Embroideries, confined patterns. Cream Silk and Wool and All Wool Dress Goods.
The Grandest Display Ever Made in the City.
Every Department a Store in Itself^ W
HOBERG, ROOT & CO.
Jobbers and Retailers. Nos. 518, and 520 Wabash Ave.
Organdy Plaids,
Civillian Stripes, Mulls, Swisses, Etc. Si
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