Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 September 1888 — Page 4

TH E_MAI

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

HtTBSCKlFTIO!* PRICK, 12.00 A YKAB. PITBIJ CATION Omat, Kos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street,

Printing House Square.

TERliE HAUTK, SEPT. 15, 1888,

MR. CLEVELAND'S LET1ER. It ween:H to be manlfent that President Cleveland postponed bin letter of acceptance for three months in order that he might study the feeling the country during that time and modify his utterances accordingly. Hence he has interpolated a disclaimer that tbo Democrats mean to inaugurate free trade and incidently argues that the present protective tariff" will be perpetuated. It is probably too late now for that argument to have much weight with the people. With the Dem ocratic party pledged in its national cam paign for several years past to a 'tariff for revenue only," and many of its organs coming out squarely for free-trade, the country will hardly feel that the Democracy is the best defender of the protective faith.

Mr. Cleveland's declaration that the tariff duties are added to the price of the articles protected and the people thus compelled to pay that amount of tax on what thoy consume, is too puerile to come from a cross-roads politician. The fallacy has been exploded a thousand times and it seems incredible that one occupying his excellent position should make such a statement. The theory goes upon the assumption that American manufacturers simply add the amount of duty to the price ir goods, whereas any intelligent schoolboy ought to know that the intense competition among manufacturers In this couutry insures the production of goods at prices as low as American labor and materials can produce them. And as a matter of fact we do know that some kinds cf goods are sold in free-trade England. Tho tariff has nothing to do with making articles produced in this country cheap or dear. There is always DO much capital seeking profitable investment and so many men anxious to obtain employment that excessive profits in any line of manufacture are effect! vel yprohibited. No men are quicker than Americans to discover ohances of money making and if there is money to be made in iron, steel, textile, or any other kind of manufacturing, they are very sure to jump into it.

For all tho long delay Mr. Cleveland's letter is not a strong document and will not exert a powerful influence upon the country.

INVESTMENTS FOR THE POOR. The Building Associations have come to be an important factor in the industrial economy of this country. Nothing ever devised has been of so much assistance to the poor man and people of small means. In tho building of homes for these classes these associations have had a remarkablo succoss. More than 80,000 homes havo been built in Philadelphia through their agency alone. In Rochestor, N. Y., last year 1,700 homos were built by the building associations. And »o it has been all over the country. Experts have exerted themselves to bring these organisations to the highost state of perfection and much improvement has been made in their methods of operation. Tho results attained have differed widely. In the east some of them require ten and even twelve years to ma tin* their stock while in portions of the west they pay out in seven or oightyears. Some of the Chicago associations have adopted the plan of isxutug paid up atock. For •&'> to $45 one can obtain a nhare guaranteed to pay $100 in eight years. That Is equal to 20 per cent year on the money invested and affords remarkable opportunities to persons of small means. It is often complainod that the rich have great advantages over the poor because their large capital enables them to develop® immense schemes for money making, but when the person of limited means can invest sums as •mall as |40 so as to return 20 per cent. Interest aud bo absolutely safe, there Is not much ground for these complaints, since large capitalists are generally contented with a good deal loss than that on investments that are reasonably safe.

THOSE political economists who prate *o glibly and incessantly on the Impor fence of our manufactures securing the markets of tho world for their goods, should consider what our home market Is, as compared with the foreign market. Between the States and Territories of the Union the volume of trade annually ts equal to six times the entire foreign trade of Great Britain and Ireland com blued. In other words the railways of the United States transport each year a volume of tonnage greater than the foreign trade of Btitain in six ye*rs. And this internal commerce is growing eon stautly and rapidly. John Ball gases at this inarvelously rich plum pie with hungry eyes and longs for the day when free trade wilt allow him to throat In his thumb and pull out, not on«*but many of tho rich plums contained therein. Such an arrangement would be »nuts" for John Hull but it would be sorry day for the people of this country

A mat! on At. convention of liquor dealers suet In New York this week. Resolutions were adopted against prohibition and in favor of tow license. H. Halman, of this cUy. was elected chairman of th« national committee.

TJIKIUB will b? no more stale until the $th of November* the date of national election.

OEN. HARRISON'S LETTER No man in the country possesses the faculty of expressing his thoughts more clearly and elegantly than General Harrison. He has a masterly command of the English language both as an orator and as a writer. His letter of acceptance furnishes a new illustration of this fact. Every point is presented so clearly and distinctly that no Second reading is required to unravel obscurities.

While all questions incident to the campaign are touched upon, that of the tariff is the prominent topic discussed and the whole pith of the matter is condensed into these two sentences: "If the products of American shops must compete In the American ma t, without favoring duties, with th* prod 's of cheap foreign labor, the effect

IT was expected that Maine would go Republican at the election on Monday, but the majority—in the neighborhood of 20,000—is larger than was anticipated. It is about as large as the State gave in 1884, when Mr. Blaine was the Presi dentlal candidate and his own State was of course expected to give him a big send-off. The Republicans would havo been satisfied with anything over 6,000 and are quite elated by the result, especially after the exceptionally large Republican

majority

in Vermont last week

Oregon also went Republican in June Thus the signs seem favorable for Republican success all around, although these preliminary indications cannot be regarded as conclusive by any means These are but slight skirmislie •. The main ttle Is yet to be fought.

THK yellow fever plague at Jacksonville, Fla., lias grown to alarming proportions. On Wednesday the total nambor of deaths had reached one hundred and there had been 706 c&es reported The fatality is largely increased by lack of sufficient physicians and nurses Many of tho people are suffering for food. It is said that nearly 9,000 have neither the means to live nor to get away from the city. Money Is being raised by popular subscription in various cities to be forwarded to the sufferers. The hearts of the American people are always ready to respond liberally to such calls for aid aud it is to be hoped the present instance will prove no excep tion to the rule.

Pnor. RICHARD A. PKOCTOR, who has donoso much to popularize astronomy and other sciences, arrived at New York from Florida last Monday, and took a room In the Westminster Hotel. Tuesday he was taken ill with yellow fever, and that evening was removed to the Wlllard Parker Hospital, where he died with the black vomit Wednesday evening. He was to have sailed for Europe to-day on the steamship Umbria. He came to the United States fifteen years ago aud bis reception was so kindly that he decided to make his home on this side of the Atlantic.

MRS. HARRIET BF.BCHER STOWB is apparently nearing the end of along and honored life. Except for the bad break she made in the Lady Byron scandal the work of her pen has been only for $ood and that unfortunate episode was soon forgotten. Her fame will always rest on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and It is a fame such as Gen. Lew Wallace has won In "Bon-Hur," a book that is already selling in its 185th thousand. We would be glad if the lawsof life would permit men and women like these a greater length ot years than ordinary humanity, but the reaper Death la impartial and implacable and cuts them all down alike.

WITATKVKR else happens, the young people are not to starve mentally. It is now announced that Philadelphia Is to have a high-class weekly journal for young folks, similar In scope and tone to St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion, of Boston. Behind the enterprise are some solid business and professional men, and the best literary element of the Quaker City Is interested In it. This will be good new* to writers, as It will still further widen tLu market for literary wane.

THK Prohibittontets had a much smaller vote both in Maine and Vermont than they had counted on. Looks a* though it would not be a good vear for Prohibitionists.

0»SOKM thinks of remaining in session tratil after the election. It hi a sort of a Rump Congress.

IT is just the Mr. Voorhees whisky.

bit funny to bear

shouting against free

Now It may be spoken of as rover's letter of expectance.

sSTRANGE

I be different, if at

all, only In degree, whether the cheap jahor is across the street or over the sea- Such competition will soon reduce wages here to the level of those aboad, and when that condition is reached we will not need any laws forbidding the Importation of laborers under contract— hey will have no Inducement fo come, and the employer no inducement to send fur them."

This is the issue npon which the con lest will turn and it could not be more truthfully or felicitously stated.

the the

THOSE politicians who count on farmers of the West renouncing principle of protection at the coining election are reckoning without the! host. A recent trip through WHO'S, Jowa, Nebraska and Colorado* gave cor'-espoudent an opportunity to learn something of the sentiments of tue faroers on the tariff question. To say that they havo any sympathy for the free trade tendencies of the Democrats is entirely erroneous. They see that their prosperity depends upon a market neat at home for the produce of their forms. With this thoy will get fair prices for what they raise and will be abie to buy what they need at such pfr^ces^as the competition of our own manufacture's will afford. No "cheap coals" from Europe for the Western farmers, if you please.

Fiieces

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

SUPERSTIT

rONS.

In a Wall street law office a group of men got to talking about superstitions. One gentleman, who had listened quietly while his companions denounced various fanciful ideas as "utterly absurd," "old women's whims," "stuff and nonsense," Ac., remarked quietly: "You may ridicule superstition as you will, but it is my honest opinion that not one person in a thousand is utterly free from its taint. You may say and think you are, but you are mistaken. Look around among your friends and intimate aquaintances and see if you can discover one of them who is not influenced co some degree by some of those odd notions and ideas that you laugh at and pronounce absurd. How many of you would not prefer to have the signs with you rather than against you Now, I don't claim fx be free from superstition some for satisfactory to me if I could begin on some other day of the week. I can reason tba* one tfey is as good as another, but there's that old and universal prejudice against Friday, and I can't help thinking of it. "There are things one learns when a child which it is impossible to shake off in later years., Now, as an illustration, when I was six or seven years old I heard one of my aunts—a lady in whom I had the utmost confidence and whose word neither I nor acyone else ever doubted—1 heard her say that if a person cut his finger nails on

Sunday

some bad

luck would be sure to cooio io him before the week ended. She believed it, and I believed it then, though of course the whole idea seems absura now. Yet her wo ds so Imp "eased me that I have never yet cut my nails on the first day of the week, and probably I never will, I believe you will find that almostevery man is a crank as regards some of these ancient delusions. And women are, as a geaeml thing, even more prone to pin their faith

signs and omens than men.

Did you ever hear a girl tell a dream without flnalJ asking, 'What is that a sign of?' I know a very accomplished, sensible, refined lady, who laughs herself at some of the odd notions which she picked up in childhood and cannot got rid of. If she should spili salt on the tabie and omit to scrape up a pinch of it and throw it in the fi'-e I am confident that she would feel forbodlngs of bad luck. "Then there are the old superstitions about mirrors. Nobody likes to break one nobodv would, even if they cost nothing. There is an old saving that if anv two persons see their reflections in the glass at the same time the younger will die before the year is out. Many a woman, who knows that the idea is a humbug, wouldn't risk making tho experiment. "And when you come to remedies for diseases, why then you can find superstitions enough to fill volumes. Some of the old women's prescriptions may be quile as effectual at times as the regular physician's, but that is neither for nor against them. Who hasn't heard how tojeure warts by rubbing peas over them, then throwing the peas away? Among the strange 'curesf in which I have known otherwise sensible people to bel'eve fully, were such as these: Pare your fingers nails and toenails, cut off a lock of your hair and wrap the

all up together: then bore a hole a tree, push in the hair and nails and drive a tightly fitting plug in the hole as long as the t**ee stands and continues alive you will never be afflicted with the toothache. If you have a sore throat, wear a red woollen string around your neck. If you want to prevent rheumatism, carry a piece of sulphur or buckeve nut In your pocket. You may say that only foolish people can bel'eve in in such unreasonable things but very likely if you think over some of your own beliefs you may come across some thing quite as absurd."

WHAT DISEASE AFFECtS PUBLIC MEN .. [Philadelphia Times.] "What disease carries off more public men than any other?" I asked.

"I should say," replied the statesman, •Bright's disease of the kidneys. A careful diagnosis shows that this has more to do with our great funerals than any other. The public men of the United States live high. Here at Washington he gets into the habit of winiug and dining, he disturbs his stomach with highly spiced terrapin and heats his liver with eold champagne. This was tne cause of Salmon P. Chase's taking off. He might have lived to a ripe old age had he stuck to the cold water temperance diet. He went to Waukesha a few yfcars before he died, when he was a bad way,aud by eating oatmeal and beefsteak and drinking pure water he rapidly Improved and he soon reineo his old vigor. He came back to ashington and nis table, and it was a tabie that fixed disease upon him. It was the same with Senator Anthony of

Ihole Island. Anthony stood the big dinners of Washington for nearly ageneratlon, but they carried him off at last. He was one of "the greatest epicures we have ever had, and he and Ben: Perley Poore had their happiest hours when their legs were under some other man's mahogany. Poo*e had enough bills of fare in his memento collections to have started a paper mill, and he used to smack his lips when he told the story of the good dinne he bad eaten. There area number of the leading public men! of the United States who are afflicted with Bright's disease to-day. They say little about it, however, and as a rule they do not appreciate that it Is carrying them closer ana closer to the grave.

THE LATES7 TRANCE STORY. A young daughter of Henry Searfoes, a prominent farmer near Find lay, Ohio, had been ill for several weeks. Her malady was such that the body would at Intervals grow as eold as la death and was covered with green spots. Last Monday she lost consciousness and for thirty-six hours was In a trance. On

night she was aroused from her slumber. She sr*1 that she had met man who had s: \her how her usuries

He night a sheet, a buckee V**nuinlng wine, dai'-'"i,ao'i 'txplained how it used in eff .v cure, re ussd he ma.-w-i h*»r

caiue ab et an* whtskfv th* OB If u-ey thatatswnoVi"k »*\t -!:«f ,i_d ui '••.it lok -ndl vuo at tv w. a:l ftiat «d at th p«v W »r« U-t :t* the .•-

the it. n.JC failing, I "ternoon !o JT i!i/*Mi ani xi r,:iT,iag -~ho i.-'v j-iiy* ui

CA w' raf-i'iijr v.-net. ojgnly alarmed, haa

treatment prescribed in the trance, and an immediate change for the better made itself apparent, followed by a steady imp -"ovement. Wednesday Miss SearJbss was able to sit up, and is now as well a& ever.

Do not be induced to take soui& other preparation when you call for Hood's Srrsaparilla. Be cure to get Hood's, which is peculiar.

THE WHITE MACHINE.

*The Lady Who Got One at the Fair Greatly Pleased. BALL, Ind., Sept. 12,18SS—Mr. Editor: —Allow me tbiough the columns of the Gazette, to express my thanks to the White Sewing Machine Co., for the machine which I drew by registering my name with the Company at the Terre Haute Fair. After thoroughly testing the machine, l^thinl* can safely recommend it to the public as a first class machine in every particular.

SALLIE MARKLK.

The above appeared in yesterday's Gazette. It is proper to say that J. N. Hickman, and not the White Sewing Machine Co., gave this machine. It is a high compliment to its merits. Still, it is simply a repetition of the recommendation of thousauds of others who have used the White for the past twelve years.

All Kinds of Insurance.

If you want your property insured go to Riddle, Hamilton »fc Co. If you want your live stock insured go to Riddle, Hamilton & Co.

If you want life insurance go to Riddle, Hamilton A Co. If you want your plate glass insured go to Riddle, Hamilton & Co.

If you want a tornado or thunder storm policy go to Riddle, Hamilton & Co.

If you want an accident policy go to Riddle, Hamilton fc Co. If you want any kind of insurance in any amount anywhere always go to Riddle, Hamilton fc Co.

MILLER'S THE

MAN

To leave your grocery order with. He has some very nice looking vegetables this week, among them peppers, oyster plants, sweet potatoes, etc.

Miller makes a specialty of choice live aud dressed poultry. You know the place,

JOE MILLER'S

515 Main Street.

Dr. Jordon's Lung Renovator, the Great Lung, Blood, Liver and Kidney Remedy. Giving Immediate relief in in coughs and colds. In deep-seated throat and lung diseases the most radical and positive cure on record, and for all wasting diseases it stands far superior to any compound known, giving perfect tone to the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. A trial of Dr. Jordon's Lung Renovator will convince .the most skeptical. Dr. Jordon's Lung Renovator, the Great Lung, Blood, Liver ana Kidney Remedy, is for sale by all druggists in America, Canada. England and Germany. tf.

Loo CABINS were not hothouses aud the people who dwelt In them were not hot-house growths. They were a hardy, healthy generation aud the remedies 'used were simple preparations reproduced in Warner's Log Cabin Cough and

Consumption Remedy and Warner's "Tippecanoe" the great stomach tonic.

TlR. C. O. LINCOLN,

JLJ DENTIST 810 north 18th street. All work warranted as represented.

DR. GEO. MARBACH, JL/

DENTIST.

REMOVED to 423% Wabash Avenue, Arnold's clothing store.

J)R. GILLETTE., IDEZETTIST. Gold Filling1 a Speciality.

Office—Corner Seventh and Main streets, In McKeen*s new block, opp. Terre Haute House

TlR. IV W. VAN VALZAEf, JL/ Successor to ^RICHARDSON fc VAN VALZAH,

IDZEDSTTTST.

Office—Southwest corner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entranoe on Fifth street.

JSAAO BALL,

FUNERAL DIRECTOR.

Cor. Third and Cherry 8U., Terre Haute, Ind. Is prepared to execute all orders In his line with neatness and dispatch.

Kmbalmtnff a Specialty.

jAa

T. MOORE

-if.

t" vt*.i,

of .:ie -1 a-ii the Tin- tubuiv. thor--ned to a| i''.f the

THK OLDEST

H1' IN TERRS HAUTE Is prepared to do all kinds of work !u his line, promptly, at the most reasonable prices

J. NUGENT. M. J. BROPHY.

J^UGENT & CO., PLUMBING and GAS FITTING

Tuesday

4 dealer In

Gas Fixtures, Globes and Engineer's Supplies. IM OfcW mi—U Tmrrm HuU, Xa«

Established 1ML Incorporated IMS.

QLTFT 4 WILLIAMS CO.,

SoeeeswHsto t, WiK .m» A On. J. H. WTTXSAS* PiWdeni. J. M.

Curt, and Tr.-ais.

MAKCTACTCnaS or, vtr-

I Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc.

A3TD XK

LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES GLASS, FAINTS, OILS AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

Xailwn7 Stw^w^stb.

HQBERG'S

o* T*

Have the Boomer

A Gusher, Par Excellence.

Luek and Pluek, Hard Work, Perseverariee and Liberality Combined

Has placed us where stand to-day

THE LAKGEST

Dty Goods House

In Terre Haute, one of the Largest in the State.

Has given us the enormous trade we now enjov, which also demonstrates the fact that we have the confidence of the people which we will always try and retaiD.

The Carpenters, Paper Hangers, about through with the work

Plaids, Stripes, Combinations, Suitings, Paris Novelties and Henriettas in all grades, Silk Warp and allwool, and a complete line of shades of all the popular staple Fabrics, such as Serges, Cashmeres, Sebastopol, Drap D'Alma, etc. Also the grandest exhibit of Dress Cloths ever made in Terre Haute.

cento per yaid

Painters and Masons of improvement and

Now For Business

Every Department is complete, brim fall of New Fall Goods.

Commencing Monday Morning,

We will offer for your inspection,

Another Large Invoice

OF-

BROAD CLOTHSvariety.greatinTimmingsDress

That' must be seen to be appreciated The moat beautiful line of shades will be shown, prices range from $1.00 to $2.50 per yd. qualities.

We Also

100 pes. 100 pes.

Wool Novelty Mixtures Several Colorings. Full yard wide.

cents per yard

worth 50 els. worth 60 cts. wo lh 75 cts.

?S inch Silk Warp Henriettas, beautiful, 91.00 por yard, worth $1.25. 43 inch All Wool French Serges, elegant quality, (58c per yard, worth 85o. 88 inch Ail Wool Novelty Pin St-lpes, 50c per yard, worth 75c.

The above are all genuine bargains.

Our celebrated Snow Flake Cantons at

5c, 61c, 7c, 8c and 10c.

The Ijest All Wool Red Twill Flannel for 25c in the city.

All Wool Navy Blue Twill at 28c.

Red Flannels at lac. 18c, 20c, 25c, and s5c, worth per cent mors. These a»-e Auction Prices. Hosiery and Underwear, Great Bargains Next Week.

Silks, Velvets and Plunhes, Dress Goods, Blankets and Comforts. Lace Curtalus, Ladies Muslin Underwear, Corsets, Gloves, Ribbons, Silk Umbrellas, Laces and Embroideries, etc, etc* Just now we aro offering all our Seal Plush Sacques at special prices.

Grand Opening of our Cloak Department will take place soon.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

Jobbers fe Retailers. Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

Even More Necessary than aTFamily Umbrella Is GOLD DOST WASHING POWDER. Why Because it's made to fill a want, and does what it's made for. Cheaper than the cheapest

FOUR POUNDS FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. L'j-i than ONE-HALF the price of other Washing Powders, and yet It is Pure as the purest. For cleaning, scouring, scrubbing, it is unexcelled. All Grocers keep it

N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., Chicago.

are

Offer

LiuMes All Wool Hublt Cloths. Fu'l yard wide.

l(M) pes.

Ladles AH Wool 1'lftln, Hul.ing Cloths Ji yaids wide.

AT cents per yard

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