Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 September 1888 — Page 4

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.THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

KDITOE AND PROPRIETOR. SUB8CKJFTIQK P&ICB, 12M A YKAB. ptnn»icAT!OK orncR, rw. 20 and 23 Sooth Fifth 8tree\ iTinting House Square.

'lfcl KK HAVTE, SEPT. 1, 1888

UNHAPPY HOMES.

There are many bsppy homes and there are some homes that are not as happy as they seem to the outside world, There are buabands and wives who public are full of courtesies to each other but by their own firesides are stolid silent and indifferent. Each blames the other for a want of feeling, or a want of repression of feeling, and by frequent discord and disagreement a separation wall of concealment and reserve Is grad nally built up which too often leads to permanent estrangement. Yet each means to do right but the lips are closed to the utterance of what is in the heart This lack of sympathetic expression is responsible for many misunderstand ing» in married life.

A man should love his wife, and, lov ing her, should show his love by word and deed. He will have it chiseled on her tombstone when she is dead but that does not fulfill his duty to the liv ing. He loved her as a sweetheart and was never weary of the attentions and courtesies of love. Why should marriage make any change in this respect? If anything they should be greater than before. Ernerson says that all men love a lover. But how all men and all worn on love a husband who, with an invalid, deformed or stricken wife, is unceasing ir his acts of devotion snd tenderness! Nothing so attests the depth and loyalty of his love as this. It was easy enough to lie devoted to a pretty, young girl whose every rounded line was a curve of beauty, but to never weary of the brokon, faded or deformed woman, whose whoso grace and charm of youth have all departed, is a very different thing Yet there are husbands and they are many, whose love burns steady and bright uutil doath for the wife of their youth.

But nil tho obligation is not on one side. Constancy and devotion in the husband call for tho same qualities in the wife Industry,faithful application to business effort to got along, call for contentment on tho part of tho wifo with the lot In which alio finds herself. There, are wives who make their husbands wretch od and tlielr homes miserable by unceasing complaint at their ill fortune. Because they cannot live as good at Mrs. or Mrs. Y, they are in a continual state of grumbling and discontent. Nothing so tries tho soul of an honest man as this When ho has done tho best that he can do ho has done all that his marriage vows or any rule of right living can demand, and it is the duty of his wifo to share his lot with contentment. If she cannot do this she would better not bo his wife and ought never to have assumed that relation to him. Some men turn all they touch into gold. It is thoir faculty and multiplies mnrvelously the "creature comforts" of their families. Other men equally good, ofton greatly bettor, have no such faculty. They can get but little and that little by the hardest toll. When the wife of such a man complains because he is not a better money maker and borates and worries him for his weakness, she is not worthy to be his wife or to be any man's wife, for she lacks tho primo, essential element of wifehood, that of taking a husband "for better, for worse." So long as fine houses, tine clothes or grqnd living are counted as of more worth by women than the (loop and tender love of a true man, so long there will be unhappy homes.

In a recent speech in Maine, Mr. Blaiue nuswerod very thoroughly to criticisms on Ills former statement as to the savings of English and American wage-workers. He not only gave the figures to prove that our workmen under a protective system are able to live better and save much more than English laborers under free trade, but that protection does not favor any one section of tho country to the detriment of any other. During the twenty-seven years since the present protective system has been in operation the wealth of the agricultural State* of the West has increased more rapidly than that of the New England States, while the South has not only recovered tiie $2,000,000,000 which they lost in the freeing of the slaves but have added two billions more to it up to 18*0 and has Increased greatly since then. This is because manufacturing is not confined to any particular section of the country but has extended to all parts of lu

TUK Bloomington Eve, which is published In the heart of one of the finest farming regions of Illinois, replies to the charge of the Chicago Tribune that the tariff la compelling tho farmers of the West to pot mortgage* on their lands, bv myim that "instead of putting mortal" on their farms the owners are taking thorn off.

%dds: "The country

was never more prosperous than now and none so prosperous as the former^ which of itself should be complete refutation of the fallacy that fiw trade will better our condition."

Ois.RKRT aud Sullivannew opera tin "Tower of Ijondou,** satirlaea the I^on'dou crsxe for totiiuitio* wjiicUlly for old architex tual landmark*. Doubtless humor will be obvious ©»©«#h to

English mind* bill appreciation of Uwill be* IHtle dim on this did* the wat*r wtore we a*e not facially «p in all of the English eraser

MEDICAL science in the old world is still intent on finding a cure for consum sumption, if such a thing be possible. Supposed cures have been announced from time to time for which the claim of success was made with the utmost confidence.) But after a little while the matter has dropped out of public notice, not having given the results hoped for and the consumptives go on dying by thousands as before. Again the savants of Europe have held a medical congress in Paris with the hope of discovering an antidote for the fatal germ which, it is agreed by physicians, is the foundation of the disease. If this search of the medical scientists shall be rewarded with success it will be the greatest achievement yet made Dy them in behalf of the human race, since consumption is the most /atal and prevalent of all modern diseases. In Paris alone the scourge is computed to carry of 10,000 people each year and it prevails generally through out the world. In the United States it claims far more victims than any other single malady. Should the Paris con ference result in throwing new and im portant light on the nature and possible cure of consumption it will confer blessing whose value will be beyond all computation.

IT is easy to see that the Prohibition ists are wording into the hands of the Democracy. They may or may not in tend suoh ares a It, but the result comes whether intended or not. In this State the laws are and will be made either by the Republicans or the Democrats, the Prohibitionists only having 8,000 or 10,000 votes out of half a million. Their party has always drawn more heavily from the Republicans than from tho Demo crats. The margin between the two parties is very small. The inference is inevitable that if the Prohibitionists hurt either party it must be the Repub licans. Yet that is tho party which has enacted all the temperance laws that have ever been put on the statute books In the State and which has now doclared, through its local option plank, in favor of prohibition wherever a majority of the people want it. What .more need any Prohibitionist ask? If a majority.of the community aro not in for prohibition it would be a dead letter at any rate, as it has been wherever tried in such communities.

ON last Saturday evening a well-known citizen of Evansville, Ind., fell over the stair banister of the Palmer, House, at Chicago, and desending from the sixth story to the floor beneath was instantly killed. It does not appear that the man was intoxicated and it is said that a similar, though not fatal accident oocured about a year ago in the same place The clerk at the hotel thought the bannister was three feet high but upon investigation the coroner's jury ascertained that It was only 26 inches. It seems rather singular that the managers of a groat hotel would maintain such a dan gerous stairway, especially after one ac cidont had warned them of its unaafety and if the heirs of tho deed man do not proceed to bring an action for damages would seem that they have good grouuds for doing so. In any event complaint should be made by the proper authorities an 1 the hotfel be compelled to keep a house where guests are not In danger of breaking their necks.

THE church problem In tho large cities has come to be a serious one to people of small means. Tho Chicago Journal recently gave the case of a young man who, ith his wife, wanted to attend church but upon inqiliry found that two sittings, such as they desired, would cost $80 for the forty services they could attend, or at the rate of $2 an hour, besides hich they would be expected to contribute about 920 to the weekly collections. As the young man's salary was only $100 a month while the preacher's was that much a week, he felt that he could not afford the expense of going to church. The churches will have to let down the financial bars, so to speak, if they are to prosper and do the good they ought to do.

THK Democrats began the campaign by strenuous assertions that they were not for free trade but the pretense is growing thin as the contest goes on. Judge Thurman has placed himself on record as unqualifiedly in favor of free trade and as he is one of the candidates on the national ticket, he would hardly take such advanced ground without understanding that he was representing the sentiment of his party. One thing is certain: the Republicans are for protection with no ifs or ands about it and if there Is to be a party in real opposition to them that party cart hardly avoid taking the other side of the question and standing for free trade.

THK Prohibitionists claim to bo getting votes right and left from both the old parties, but claim that their meetings are disturbed, the speakers being assailed with eggs or stones. If this practice is indulged in very much one can readily believe that the party wtU grow. Under similar treatment the old Abolition party prospered finely and ao will the prohibitionists. The right of free speech is one of that the people of this couuuy for *nd there is uo surer way to a f-u :.y grow than to Oinow missies at those who advocate its princ ca.

A PtttUArRUFHtA pol.ucian of Innal celebrity blew his brains out the ihwr day. For several years he had been loatog social, financial and i«lf,w?.* '.b,eon dwith f\«iiy ». MRAGV INANITY. •::.* UJII-UU mm

L.-'t gone n-.-jo pbllrv-'tMaluv Mtd like most others who do so,

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in the end only disappointment mm failure.

TKRRE HATTfE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

ROBBBT GARRETT, the Baltimore millionaire, is now in a private insane asylum in New Jersey. His mind is badly shattered and it remains for the future to disclose whether or not it can be restored. It seems altogether likely that worrying over his vast property interests combined with intemperate habits of living, are the cause of his misfortune.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., has been having a serious scrimmage with the yellow fever, which is now pronounced epidemic. Up to Thursday there had been 131 cases, of which 19 were fatal. Thirtyfour new cases were reported in one day. So far the epidemic has not gained a footing in other cities but there dauger that it may do so.

THE New York Shakspearean Society is getting out anew edition of the famous author's works. This must be rather crushingon one Ignatius Donelly.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Ben Shott, of Cincinnati, is a Coroner. When he sits ou a doubtful case his signature comes 'handy.

Evangelist Moody advises young men who desire to be revivalists to start out as book agents and study human nature

Miss Mary Garrett, the heiress of $20,' 000,000, is said to have wonderful business ability. She has nothing to .do with the young Napoleon of finance.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, is a Jackson Democrat, and believes that "to the victor belongs the spoil," but he puts it in this way: "When I fight a mau, and lick him, his scalp is mine."

The stauding joke in Pennsylvania is that Matthew Is the Quay to the situation. If you don't know how to pronounce Quay you will not be able to see how droll those Pennsylvania boys are.

A well-to-do citizen of Macon, Ga., usos for a bathtub a zinc-lined coffin box. It was intended to contain the cdffin of his neighbor, but proved to be too large to enter the gravo, and was bought by the present owner for a song.

Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, laments in the Fortnightly Review what he thinks the alteration is for the worse in the tone of American society. He says that scientific societies that were formerly flourishing are now languishing where everything elso prospers.

J. K. Emmett, the actor, has just purchased for $5,000 the St. Bernard dog Plinlimmon, said to be the finest of the breed in the world. Plinlimmon is five years old and has never been beaten but once on tho show bench. This is the largest price ever paid for a dog.

There are several left-handed writers in Congress. Representative Hopkins of Illinois, writes with the left hand exclusively, never having learned or tried to use the pen with the right. Mr. McComas, of Maryland, writes with either hand at pleasure, but not with both at once.

A correspondent of an English magazine alleges that a perfect cure for sleeplessness is to think of souio dream one has had, the more recently the better aod to begin to go over again in the mind, as nearly as possible, the details of the dream. Sleep comes, he asserts, almost Invariably and often as quickly as the fall of a curtain.

Henry R. Smith of San Francisco, Cal., died a few years ago and left a most peculiar will. He bequeathed his property to his widow, stipulating that she should educate their son as a lawyer and have him taught tho Chinese language. Mrs. Smith has faithfully carried out these provisions,and her son, who is now of age, can talk American law to a Celestial without effort.

A young man in .Marianna, Fla., dreamed the other night* of making a balloon ascension and making his descent by means of a parachute. He thought he threw every garment overboard, not even retaining his gauze shirt, before making his perilous descent. Imagine his disgust when he awoke, standing up in bed holding to an open umbrella with a grip that made his hand ache. He says he lost no time In hunting for bis lost garments. 4

CHANGES IN LIBRARIES. It looks as if libraries were gradually to be relegated to the collection of rare books. The rush of the printing press is so deadly at present that if books were sent free to all libraries there wouldn't be room for them and if there were there never would be time or funds enough to ^catalogue them. Time was when a library that bad not the latest novel was considered shamefully behind the time. The latest new novel now! Who can tell which is the latest new novel? There is some difference between now and the past in that respect. Twenty years ago when a novel came out it had a show for its life and for the reputation of the writer. Now, a great many novels make a great deal of money, and are forgotten before the accounts are ui v'e up. There is not much that -~-h! ij* oollcfted in this age, however, aui the value of li\ tries lies almost en tlrely in old and g»*l works. The cheap editions are »k ,ng it rather trying for libr uiea th ch, in tb'- u. It is less Tr-ubie to gr .in* pay Vi cents at a store out! own tb« L, thau to go th« library borrow i, return St. And the queer subjects ana the qu-vr tuunc* iiegin to illy pur?j" lh- coilU«rt the book r- vtrr nn:i ?V vi. Th* mane* va.r.. 1 of*®**, rsn so |u* iy nr:« ant '-"•kncflaltt tt "illustrative" 'Way *r»!ly what i*» »vfll ar,4 wh*: isabxik adt-r. t* hard to determine^

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BASEBALL.

IS IT A BARBAROUS GAME?

Joel Beaton in American Magazine. The base-ball of to-day has, to be sure, its primitive germ in the delightful boys' game we used to know, but its departure from that in character is both marvelous and malign. Its main object seems to be to obliterate all the fun the game naturally supplies, with one other, the development of a "pitcher." He is called a "pitcher" principally because he won't or can't pitch. That is he has learned a contortion of body and swing of the arm that defeats all expectancy of the batter and extinguishes the true fun in the game. On him more than on any one else depends the success of aside but what it* succeods to it would be difficult to tell. When it getsits "innings" they are more or less useless, because another "pitcher," with tricks peculiar to hiu -elf, excites agaiu the admiration of the crowd of spectators by making hits either scarce, accidental or in possible.

In the old game of free and frequent hitting, aside was uo more persistently "in" man one is now. It went out as often, but it could tell what it gained iu an "inuiug.'' it secured the sport for which ball playing was first invented, aud lor which it has beeu played certainly 2,000 years, viz: the joy of hitting the ball. When it went out the other side succeeded to its rapture and experience. The modern game, on the contrary, is something like what fishing might beeome it »ouie one would invent a "regulation bail" which uo fish would ever bite, or like the huntiug whicn a proprietor of a grove reccouimended aud was called to accounting for reccoiumending—when he replied tnat: "There WHH uo game iu the grove, I knew, but I thought that fact would laake all the more hunting.''

The "catcher"'in modein base ball is another developement that must not be passed by. In the circuses there is often a trained athlete, who stands in front of the cannon and catches the ball in hvs hand when it is fired out, at no very great distance from the gun. The charge of powder which sends it, however, is measured, and serious accidents resulting from the undertaking, I think, are no« numerous, But the catcher of the regulation base ball implement, or globe, or toy—call it what you will, takes his life iu his bauds. He has to catch a ball which might as well be a cannon ball, with little power to tell where it will find him or lie it, and with a certainty that if it hits him, serious or fatal injury is most likely to eusue. To make it less possible that his nose or jaw shall be troken, or to prevent his teeth from being knocked entirely out, he now wears a wire cage over his face, not wholly dissimilar to an ox's muzzle or a burglar's mask.

This device, however, does not always prevent a catastrophe. Injury and viftual mayhem to the hands, tbo catcher is always sure to got if he reniaius in the business long. Calloused joints and broken fingeis are certain to come. Injuries which no sane person not a base ball player would accept for a princely fortune given in advance are made light of by a true catcher, and are often referred to by the craft as if they were the scars won in an epoch-deciding battle. The "regulation" ball is really an impleofbarbarism.lt has hurt others thau the catcher, and oceasionaly kills an innocent person, who happens to stand in the lino of its path, with easy celerity.

Western Harper has removed his full stock of new and second baud Furniture, Stoves, etc., lrom 1226 Main street to 113 south 4th, where he will keep a full line at low prices. Cash paid for all kinds of goods

FRESH O YSTEIiS.

E. W. Johnson intends this season as for many years past, to lead the oyster trade and make his establishment headquarters for the finest New York and Baltimore Oysters. He received this morning a choice lot.

Miller's

Busiest

Day

Is usually Saturday when Jie provides for hundreds of hospitable Sunday dinner tables.

People have found that it doesn't cost much to live nicely if they buy at

JOE MILLER'S

He has isorne extra nice peaches, egg plant and poultry this week. 515 Wabash Avenue.

Amusements.

"KfAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE -i-N Wilson Naylor—Manager.

GREAT HIT LAST NIGHT. Last Performance To-Night,

SISSON & BRADY'S

Company of Comedians resenting tlie Latest, brightest, Funniejana Best of Musi 11 Uomedie*,

LITTLE NUGGET!

New Songs, New Dances, New Music. Qrand Metropolitan Oast Nugget Quartette. New

The Famous id Wonderful Effects.

Scienic and Mechan.

Prices, 75,60,85 and 25c.

Money to Loan.

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Plush Jacket

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This is a little side attraction we are making to unload some of our Cloaks before the season opens. It would pay you to see this Jacket

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Yort've noticed how busy wVve teen all this week. That's the way we intend to keep right along. Our enormous stock and low prices and kind treatment to our customers must make it so.

Day Lfight

In every nook and corner of our store. Come and see the improvements, the grand skylight, our new passenger elevator, fec., fcc., and our enormous stock o£ New Goods. Three times as many as you see *:t in any other Dry Goods Store in the City.

A Grand Opening will take place in the near future, when all of our improvements are complete. In the meantime we watit you to come and see what we are offering i» the way of Bnrgaits in New Fall Goods. Join the crowds t6 our stora

We are the Great "Leaders and Makers of Low Prices.

We Place on Sale

Monday Morning*, Sept.. 3d.

OUR IMPORTOTIOX OF

Our Trimming Department Your Attention.

Crochet Buttons in every imaginable color. Ribbons effects.—Endless Variety.

for $13.90

Dfess Goods

The Choicest Novelties and Plain Weaves of the prominent high class manufacturers of the Leading Centres of the world.

Our Investment in This Department Alone is Between $15,000 and §20,000. It would be impossible to give you any idea of the different varieties and styles of materials in this advertisement. Wo kindly ask you to call and see them. also Invites

We aie also showing ail elegant line of

Stockinet and Jersey fitting Street Jackets, Prices from $3.88 to $15.00.

A Great Sale of Blankets

Will take place soon. Wait for our announcement. Remember a look if not a purchase will please iw just the flame. Bargains tnrougbout our establishment.

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HOJBERG, ROOT & CO.

518

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A GENTS WANTED! rv ToenvnuforoM of the t»nrMt, I taUldwd BtelT KNOWS NUUfcERI^ 'n i-' tiecotmiiy. Mo*tliberalterma. Uneqt «*. OKWKVA JtfKSBBV. 'IMA. W. *', All work warranted as K^fwated* Aug

in the latest

$25.00

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We will sell you a fine

Seal PlushSacque

Worth $35.00

If you would pay $25,00 elsewhere for a Plush Sacque it would make you feel bad to look at yours and then ours It beats anything you ever saw for the price.

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Wabash Avenue.

C. 0. LINCOLN, DENTIST S10 north lath