Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 September 1888 — Page 8

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Tbe parents make great mistakes. They have on idea that to refuse this, that or the other to their children is an unkindness. As a matter of fact, it is the truest kindness ofton to refuse. A majority of parents hesitate to refuse favors to their children from the most selfish motives, unrecognized, but existing, all tbo same. Discipline requires strength of mind. It requires not only mental strength, but moral strength and physical endurance. Very few of us are endowed with all of these, and the great majority of us have little of either. It takes time and patience to train a dog, therefore it is very much cheaper to pay a trainer $10 a month ij than it is to bother one's self about it Precisely so with children. We spoil them at home and send tbom to school for their education. Thyro is so much in us that is unused, so much that might be made available, to put lb selfishly, for our own comfort, for our own happiness, for our own delight and appreciation of tho bounteous gifts which ore showered upon our path, but which wo have not the sight to see.

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AN OBJECT IS LIFE...

HOWARD DISCUSSES THE QUESTION, WHAT ARE WE HERE FORT

Ill* Amass Man Is a Fool and Dleth as tbe Fool Dteth-Xlstakc* Which farents Make—An -Aim. Uotrerer Humble, 1» a Good Vhlng.

Tbe average man is a fooL And be dieth as tbo fool dieth. Qnietly sitting in your New England home, contented with your breakfast, comfortable In your sarroondings, a peaceful otompbere •suggesting an everlasting freedom from unpleasant activities, take a piece of paper and write on it the names of tbe great of the earth. Pnt down men and women greet in any line—mental, moral, physical, financial. Include statesmen, financiers, writers, orators. inventor®, explorers, humanitarian*, aye, and if yon will, pot in those who are anted simply for length of days, or personal prowess, or height or weight.

How many have you? Oughtn't that list to be longer? What are we hero for? Oughtn't there to be an aim for every human being besides the caere getting of bread and butter, providing of a (belter and clothes? Parents may with some degree of Justice say: "Well, it is too late now for me to have an aim." But it seems to me, when they have gotten that far in tbo sentence, the faces of their children should rise before them, and the thought born on the instant, that their aim should be to give their children an aim, should be thenceforth their guiding star, the very belm of the voyage of life.

A man who goes through life with no other ambition than saving money is a mean man tot after nil he has an idea. He wants to die a rich man, and ho does die rich. Everybody laughs when ho dies but ho has had the solid satigfactiu.i, all his life long, of pursuing a course designedly and deliberately marked out. Tho fact that it is an ignoble aim has nothing to do with the case. Ho has on aim, and ho follows it tbe end. A man who desires to becomo a good public speaker may fall in convincing others that he is a good public speaicer l»ui bo, having marked oat that lino endeavor, educates himself, reads books, practices oratory, yells behind tho barn, shouts over the bounding billows, talks in the seclusion of his study, speaks as ho walks tbe crowded streets. ^Do you mean to tell mo that he is not having a good time! Do you mean to toll mo that ho is besido himself when he docs that? Can't you see that bo is abetter man, a more useful man, even if ho nover succeeds in reaching tho goal?

The very fact thot the moment we begin to consider the subject of aims, our minds divides them into classes, proves conclusively, first, that it is an interesting thought, and second, that it is ono which, outworked, will do us good. I don't mean to intimate that the averago man, the ditch diggers, tho day laborers, tho slaves of capital, tho Indians in their forests, the van hordes In junglo, swamp or glado, need be expected ever to stand upon mountain tops and view tho prospect o'er, hoping by expert cyo to detect some glittering point toward which to shoot tho arrows of their desire, but I do say, if ambition could bo implanted in their breasts, lowly, humblo, poverty stricken though it be, tho man would bo happier, more useful, more contented, and tbe raco would be elevated many points.

Tho ditch digger who means to havo his ditch strnighter utid cleaner than that of any other man has an object in life. Tho man who build* stono fenco and regards its neat, regular surfaco, ita direct courso, with satisfaction, and compares or contrasts it with tho fences of others less careful about Him, has an ambition, and ho is abetter man for tho fact. Ttio express clerk, whoso tally look la legiblo and whose crate list and drivers' books urt newt, with readable addro^so* and decipherable figures,' is a better ina:i, bettor servant to his company, a moro acceptable public worker, than his follows who scribble tbo scrawls we ordinarily find in express delivery books, tbo oulv legible featuro about it being tho cabalistic sign of u. d. Oo into any groat printing establishment and you will find that there are certain clerks in tho advertising department with whom tbapohlia prefer to deal. Why Because they are dssiroos not only of ssrving their employer by pleasing hit patrons, but of advancing themselves in thoir employ. It is their aim to bo civil, to bo obliging, to l*s helpful cad to be correct.

Go into tho city editor's room and talk with him. If he will coudcscend, between bis cigarette puffs, to his oracular Hpe, ho will tell you of the twenty or thirty reporter? under his control three or four are tho group upon whota bo chiefly relic®. Why? Because they am ambitious along their lino of work tacsueo they are always on time because they have a quick now for news because their copy is clean because they don't spend an hour in revising ami interlining and crossing oat and change tog exprw^iono.

I went to school od« to a nan whose finger niils wtro always dirty. lie produced .. rofound iuipgearion on iuo, and I doa*t be-

I have ever had a dirty finger nail staeo. Ho little knew what his object tn life was, but so far as I am concerned, tho only thing I ever kemed from him was by observation of his excessively dirty Cogw nails. —Joe Howard in Boston Globsx

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Tfco cab driver who was on doty at tho 8bcridan resfcl -oe i' ing tin .eoeraT* UK tKS* stood oa U^catw joenxar-iag and diecocned learnedly to &e reporter abaci cab barm **Tb mfceafinS ctese cab horse," Mid he, "tho beet way la to tabs a broken down street car bono, the older and tougher be is the better. Takeoff his shoes and tarn feist oat to pasture for a season then brine him in and pat him In haram Be will stand twice tho work and roogh handbag that woold ruin a phxmp yoang horse firaos tbe country. Tbs hardest work an boms St •otseraci oar work by any tasana A km will be broken down tmtcfeaoomr iaa buflftta Tbe umnciH pavements dry wei and cmdk bone* boot aoonsr than tbe iwbMs wT

•WMaKBIiBaP

THE MAN BEFORE EDISON

Tbe Original Inventor of the Qeetrle

A L«t Idea*

Anybody that cbooees and knows bow can make incandescent electric lights now. Tbe only person who had any right to prevent them has been asleep for a good many years at tbe bottom of tbe Atlantic ocean. Most people think Edison invented these lights, and so be did, but he was not the first. Some years ago, a yoang man in advance of his age, by the name of Starr, came to Mr. George Peabody with a new invention, asking advice and assistance. Mr. Peabody was not only a philanthropist but a shrewd man of business. He saw at once the possibilities of tbe electric light, and gladly famished Starr with the nM«n« to go to Knglwnd and take oat a patent, after consulting experts and scientists there. In those days every new discovery had to have the stamp of England's scientific approval to make its way elsewhere. Mr. Starr, like many a genius before and since, was by no means an experienced and cautions business man, so Mr. Peacody engaged a rn*n named King to go with him as his business agent and to conduct tbe negotiations.

Tbe two men set sail for England, had a prosperous voyage, and met with a flattering reception. The invention was exhibited to the first authorities in tbe kingdom, was carefully scrutinized by tbem, and was unanimously pronounced to be a brilliant and successful one Tbe two men remained for some time in England, and received nothing but consideration and encouragement A patent for the invention was obtained, but by a usage allowed by English patent law, was issued in the name of the solicitor, Mr. King, instead of that of tbe inventor, Mr. Starr. The unsuspecting inventor does not appear to have observed this, or made any objection, or at least there is oo record that he did so.

The two men started on their return to America. They bad been at sea but a very few days wben Mr. Starr was found one morning in his berth dead, from some mysterious and unexplained cause. His body was buried at sea, sod bis companion continued his journey, and presented himself to Mr. Peabody with his report. That gentleman listened attentively to his account of the journey, with its various business transactions [and its tragic finale. On concluding his narrative Mr. King asked tho millionaire if he would continue to back up the invention with his money and influence. Mr. Peabody *8 reply was to rise, open the door of his private office where the interview had taken place, and sternly point toward it. Tbe discomfited attorney, without a word, went out through the door into oblivion.

And that is the reason why Edison had to invent the electric light all over again. Tho invention lay in a stale mate, as it were. It was credited to King, and he alone could dovelop it, but bo bad disappeared. It was not known till 1870 that Starr was the real inventor, and even then, as he was dead, and tbe patent issued to another man, nothing could be done. Finally Edison went to work on his own book, and thought out his scheme but tho highest English courts have just decided that the King patent anticipated bis and makes them invalid. And as tho earlier^ patent has lapsed, tho idoa, under thi£ oision, is common property.—Once r"

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Unhappy Facility of ExpreMli Some people have such an unhappy facilht of expression, combined with slipshod methods of thought, that they are likely to indulge in speech which it would "puzzle a Dutchman" to translate. The "History of Weare, New Hampshire," refers to a loquacious townswoman who reversed tbe old mn-rtm, and "went ahead" without being sure she was right.

One of her stories was to tho effect that her .husband sowed some flax, wbich came up and grew, until the frost struck it and blighted every spear.

Then tho worms took it and ate it all up then the drought took it and killed it all, and when they came to pull it they didn't have a crop. After that they rotted it, and her husband done out some of it, and it wa'nt good for nothing.

Then they let it lay a ycc.r, and it was tbe best flax she ever see. Sho used some of it to make cloth for her husband's shirts. "It was cotton linen cloth. It was tow warp, and the warp toxs filling, and tbo bluo was yallor, and it was dyed in huckleberry, and it was thick as tho table. It wore splendidly, and my husband liked the shirts so well that ho wore them all out in a fortnight T1—Youth's Companion,

The "Chippy** Toting Drummer.. lo us old timers on the road nothing is so amusing as the "chippy" drummer. We can ulways tell him at sight. He may look as fly as a thoroughbred, but his baggage gives hlui away. He cmius* on his first trip with a runk full of clothing, and when he gets on a car be is loaded down worse than an old maid who is going si::ty mi lea. He is sure to have two valises and a sachel with a strap hanging from his shoulder. A hat box, two canes (one for every day wear (tod the other for Sunday), an umbrella, three railway guides, a half dozen Rand & McNally state maps, a silk traveling cap, a new novel, a pair of slippers, a rubber coat, a mohair duster, a flask and a pipe, are a few of the things which he surrounds himself with. We knew him because he kick* at everything. The road is rough or crooked, or the time is slow. Ho notifies tbe conductor of the Pullman before be leaves tbe depot of his intention to report him. Ha discourses for an hour upon tbe extortion of the baggage master.

When he gets off at a station be refuses to pay 50cen$ptothe omnibus man and walks to the hotel, and swean later wheu required to pay a drayman 75 cents for hauling his baggage from tbo depot Ho asks for the beat room in tbe hotel, and does not get it Meet that same fallow four years later, and be has dropped all of his valises except one small one, and he no longer travels with canes, umbrs'u, slippers, railway guides, maps, rubber ..at and all that One side o! bis valise will contain his samples, and all the be will need for a two months' trip is on the other side. He carries two suita of underclothing, two white shirts and a change of socks. When tbe train is aide tracked while tbe road is being cleared of a freight wreck, be takes a nan. When he goes into a hotel the clerk recognises him as one of the boys and gives him tbe best tbe boose affords, and then be takce a band In having fan with "chippM" himself.— Chicago uraomcr In Globe-Democrat

Cinder ta tbe Eye*

Railroad conductors get a great deal rf medical information and the understanding of many btipf&i little acbemsa to tbe coarse of a long ytart ran. Many of tbe conductors, who, among the many otber His and ailings of tbsir paawitgi ri, have found that at a peurtiele of dirt or cinder in tbe •ye to be tbe moat tosqusnt and painful, carrr' with them a soppily of boras hair. •ir experience mekas them experts in doaMfng tbe hair and drawing It over tbe eye while tbe Udia eioeed.—Chicago

tbe mills at Bajr Gfcy, MM.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING1 MAIL

THE JUGGERNAUT MYTH.

UONCURE D. CONWAY PLAYS ICONOCLAST TO THE BLOODY CAR. »r4

Tbe Custom of Self Immolation Under the Wheel of the Hindoo Idol Neve* an Existence—Row tbe Story Might

Have Originated.

Tbero is no horror mora widespread than that of the car of Juggernaut No church or chapel or Sunday school room is unfamiliar with the vision of idoiators throwing beneath tbe blood stained wheels. There are few American girls—boys even— who have not sbed tears and dimes tgr tbe victims of that cruel idoL Tbe dreadful self immolating has added a proverbial similitude to pulpit and platform eloquence. Grim Juggernaut has got into cyclopaedias. But the chariot of truth is passing through tbe world many cherished fallacies must be cast beneath its remorseless wheels among them must be crushed this world wide notion about Juggernaut It is a delusion. Hard as it is to lose one's pet horror, this one must be given up. The supposed custom of immolation under tbo whee^of Juggernaut does not prevail—never did prevail On the contrary, Juggernaut is the most humane of all oriental deities, and his cult tbe most civilised.

I could fill a column with official and unquestionable proofs of this paradox, but reserve the space for some facts of more interest to tbe reader. It will be sufficient to substantiate tbe point by a few competent authorities whose testimony has not been disputed.

GAZSTTXBB GEXKRAL'B REPORT. Dr. W. W. Hunter, gazetteer general of India, says in his Orissa (1873): "In a closely packed, eager throng of 100,000 men and women, many of them unaccustomed to exposure or hard labor and all of them tugging and straining to the utmost under the blazing tropical sun, deaths must occasionally occur. There have, doubtless, been instances of pilgrims throwing themselves under tbe wheels in a frenzy of religious excitement But such instances have been rare and are now unknown. At one time several unhappy people were killed or injured every year butthey were almost invariably cases of accidental trampling. Tbe few suicides that did occur were, for the most part, cases of diseased and miserable objects. Tho official returns now place this beyond doubt Indeed, nothing could be more opposed to tho spirit of Vishnu worship than self immolation. Accidental death within the temple renders the whole place unnjean. The ritual suddenly stops and the pointed offerings are hurried away from the sight of tbe offended god. According to Cbaltsnya, the apostlo of Jaganath, tho destruction of the least of God's creatures was a sin against the Creator. Self immolation he would have regarded with horror. The copious rp,{* ious literature of his sect frequently dfrr car festival, but makes oo ipe-* sacrifice, nor does itcontaiv* could be twisted into a Fazul, tte Mussulma" |ilcn^ a'

at Puri stiklKO Being in India elevJtr. was published, I convert^. on this subject, and found Wi* even for suicide under tho ca» diminished since his work was wnu English commissioner at Orissa had years known but one death by accident, and two in wbich the victims had rid themselves of excruciating complaints. This was just after-the provinco passed under English rule, which did not interfere with tbe festival Professor Bain, of Aberdeen university, says (1870): "An Indian civil servant, Mr. James Ocddes, who had been resident magistrate at Orissa, where tbe festival is held, informed mo, from bis own knowledge, that no trace of the practice of immolation could be found in tho publio records of the district"

According to Wilson, the orientalist, pilgrimages to Juggernaut have been custom ary for only sonio 150 years, so that the annals are traceable. Dr. Hunter has gone carefully through them, has conversed with tho oldest inhabitants, and found no explanation of tho bod reputation of tho cult It is sur mised that some early missionary who witnessed tho car festival did not understand that the reason why human beings drew it instead of animals is lest one of these should get kil«cd and so pollute tbe sacred precinct Tbe man can say if ho is ill or exhausted, but not tbo beast, who might bo driven to his death. Shocked by an apparent degradation of humanity, meant to preserve animal lifo, such surmised miAionary, if an accident occurred, might suppose it part of the programme. His physical and moral nerves unsettled might inflate tbe story, and wben this gained currency in missionary meetings and swelled collections, its inflation would hardly diminish. There Is an evolution in stories a survival of tbo fittest for raising contributions might so develop a Juggernaut accident or suicide that tbo original witness would not recognizo bis narrative as told in tabernacles. Suicide is different from immolation. There are moro religions suicides in England than in India. On tbe day after tbe Prince erf Wales attended a thanksgiving at St Paul's for his recovery, 1 reed a paragraph stating that several pc rwere at ono point crushed to death. Ti item might float like a thistle seed to some for land, and spring up to a belief that in England human victims are offered on tho recovery of a prince from illness.—Mancure D. Conway in Boston Herald.

Italians at Summer Eetorti. From what I havo seen of well bred, well to do Italians at summer resorts I should say they tako their holidays-la ways nxM s^_siblothan rich Americana They main far less display in dress and eqcipogo, they better boors and avoid excess in exer» and amusements. They show lets anxiety to be exclusive in their association! and high toaed ta their masses. They d| not thrust kog pedigrees or long purses yoor throat. Tbey bravely wear bio old clothes. Their kirtles and their Urtir coats and their coaai o£ annsssc upon them

Many a fair oootessa. wboeo homo in «s»o» or Iftofiw is an ancient jnluto,' Iocs of blood curdling family trrdltiocs about ft, a big gallery at family portraits in it said a family specter or two. tafcrs with her to tbo baths of Lacca ar the iraside far kss aad km oostly a baggage than caacy New York beDe, with ao ancestors to speak ot, and aoljr a photographic album of fngfir portrait^ from aspeoterlsH boarding bow to or Long Branch.—Qraos Orssa ivoAutMr.

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Money to Loan. MONEY—TOon

la with small gold handle, was lost on Wednesday evening, on south Fim street, probably south of Hulman street. The finder will be very liberally rewarded on leavlag it at this office.

LOST—UMBRELLA-Gents

-i-^l Wilson Naylor—Manager.

TWO NIGHTS.

Wednesday and Thursday Sept 12th and 13th.

The dlstltguished Tragic Btars, ZMI.A.IIRXZEj PEESCOTT AND -R. ID. IMT'IiZE-A-OSr

In a Repertoire of Legitimate Plays. Supported by a Strong Company.

Wednesday Evening,

As You Like It.

Thursday Evening

"Vir^inius,

Popular Prices. 25, 35, 50 and 75c. Advance sale of seats opens Monday, Sept. 10.

Opera House Bookstore.

E. L. Godeeke

'^flELLEK, STATIONER

Jackets,

LOAN—In large or small

amounts eaaiy terms. J. D. BIGELOW, Opera House.

MONEYsecurity

TO LOAN—In any sum on mortgage only, and on easy terms. RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO., 8. E. corner Sixth and Main.

Lost.

LOST—UMBRELLA—A

^adiee silk umbrel

silk umbrella

purple lining,-cane handle. Finder will be rewarded by returning it to this office.

For Rent.

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It RENT—House and barn. 673 Poplar street. Enquire on premises, MARTHA B. FELLINGER.

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RENT—STORE ROOM—A person desiring a location for a number one rill bear something to their advan-

grocery tage by applying to Foulkee & Grelner, 415 Obio street, or L. Kussner, 628 Main.

Wanted.

WANTED—PlastersA

13.50 per day for nine

hours. BOWN McCADDfeN, Contractor, Peoria, Ills.

Amusements.

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HERZ' BULLETIN.

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Mr. A. HERZ is now in New York and we are receiving daily some new attractions.

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Underwear and Hosiery. rted

We are showing this season a grand line of Import Domestic Ribbed, all wool, silk and wool mixed Vc Ladies and Children.

One case of Ladies Jersey fitting Ribbed Vests, full weight, at 50 cents each. One case of Ladies Jersey fitting, all wool ribbed Vests, colors: Cardinal, "White, Pink, Blue and Natural, at $1.00 each, warranted not to shrink.

Kid Glove Department

Is now complete in every detail especially so since we secured for tnis city, the sole agency of the world famous

"Centemari Kid Gloves"

Which have no equal as to

Our Fall Clothing

READY.

MYERS BROS.

Leading One Price Clothiers.

Corner Fourth and Main.

GREAT SALE!

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Manufacturer's Bankrupt Stock:

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Sale .Beginning Saturday Morning, September 8th.

Buy Your Cloaks Now and Save Money. Garments will be Sold at Cost of Manufacture. The Opportunity of the Season.

lot of Jackets worth from $l-.75 to $3.00, only 75c. 1 lot of Jackets worth from 5.00 to 7.00, only $3.75. 1 lot of Jackets worth from 8. to 12. only 5'75. 1 lot Short Wraps worth from 25.00 to 35.00, only 11.00.

Newmarkets, worth from $5. to $6.50, only $3.00. Newmarkets, worth from 7. to 8.50, only 4.50. Fine Garments at Cost of Manufacture.

Children's and Misses Garments at Half Price.

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