Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 January 1889 — Page 4

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THE MALI.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

SUBSCRIPTION PKICK, 12.00 A YEAK.

FCTBLI CATION OF7ICX,

Koa. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 19,1889

THE Legislature is being flooded with election bills. Boll them down, gentlemen, into something sensible and practical.

IT is announced that "Lige" Hal ford is having a real scissor-tailed coat built for use in Washington. This is the first time that editor Halford has been guilty of such a folly, but under the circumstances he is perhaps excusable.

TVTJSSELI, B. HARBISON is not without honor in his own country. Upon his return to Helena the citizens gave him a grand banquet. When Montana comes into Statehood, Russell may have his choice between the Senatorship and Governor.

OUR Secretary of the Navy has sent a government war steamer to protect American interest in the Samoan Island?. Germany has been doing as she pleased there of late but she will soon find out that Uncle Sam is not to be trifled with, even if he is slow to anger. How "spunky" we are getting all at once.

CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER wants to amend the national constitution so as to confer upon Congress the power to enact a uniform marriage and divorce law. Wo undoubtedly ought to have such a law, the present looseness on the subject being detrimental to the best interests of society. But it is a pretty roundabout way to get it.

THE Democrats in Congress now see that they made a mistake in keeping the Territories from statehood and are anxious to correct the blunder. Sunset Cox said the other day that every Territory should be admitted except Utah. That is the way to talk but even if the House should pass an admission bill now it would hardly repair the damage which the Democracy has sustained by their failure to act before. However, let ns have some new States, whether they are to be feathers in the Cleveland or tho Harrison cap. The new States are tho main thing after all.

Gov. AIA'IN P. HOVEY was inaugurated on Monday with rather more of eclat than has ordinarily marked the induction of Governors into office in this State. His caroer iu Congress and his long experience in many important official trusts warrant tho conclusion that Gen. Hovey will make a most excellent Governor. Like Gov. Gray, the new Governor, in his inaugural address, emphasized tho importance of enacting an efficient election law. With the suggestions of both Governors before them on this subject, tho members of the Legislature can have no excuse for delaying action any longeron a question that is of vital importance to tho welfare of tho State. A Democratic and Republican official havo alike urged the necessity of ncti n, tho press demands it and the people miand it. Tho Legislature will be recreant to it duty if it shall fail to enact a wise law governing our eloctions.

STATE SENATOU BARRETT'S bill on the subject of trusts will command the attention and approval of tho peoplo. It provides in substance that all trusts, combines, agreements or pools between any porsons or corporations to prevent competition in production, manufacture or sale of any article of domestic growth or manufacture, or which shall tend to fix, limit or reduce production or tend to create a monopoly, shall l»e deemed guilty of a conspiracy to defraud and shall be fined from $1,000 to $10,000 and imprisoned for from two to five years. It is also provided that auy corporation organized under the law of this State that enters into any such combine, pool or agreement ahull forfeit its charter. This going to the meat of the matter without mincing words. The bill may require some modifications but it makes a start in the right direction and it is earnestly to be hoped that the present legislature will enact an iron-clad antitrust law, so that Indiana may set an example worthy to be followed by other States on this subject.

IN a recent report of the amount of customs paid by Chicago importers an interesting fact came out. In answer to the suggestion l»y the Appraiser that there did not seem to be as much duty paid on silk goods as might be expected from the volume of that trade in Chicago, the manager of

V. Far well Co.

said the fact was largely due to the increasing use of domestic silks, and that American manufacturers are now turning out tapestries in Philadelphia which cannot be eompetc-d'with by European manufacturers. It Is cause for national pride that such a statement can be made. It shows that Americans can do all that the people of any other ianci'ean do and frequently better and in the end quite a* cheaply. Ti me was when all our silks came from Europe, with groat deal elwe that we now make at home. And even yet the idea ia quite loo prevalent that anything made abroad is better than an article of similar kind of heme production. The word "imported" acts as a charm with many people to whose mind it implies something finer or bet tor a home made article. It ia a foolish and unpatriotic idea. I*t taa believe in our own country and In the quality of things thai American ingenu-

ity and skill can produce. There is country on the globe that is better than our own or as good and none which better things can be manufactured. The silk and earthenware industries, as well as many others, .bear testimony to this statement.

THE Democratic Legislature now session cannot do a better work for the State than to heed the plea of Gov. Gray for the enactment of astringent election law. Indiana has long been disgraced and scandalized by loose laws on this subject which permit all kinds of fraud to be practiced on the ballot box. It has come to be a settled conviction abroad that the State can be carried for one party or another by the mere use of money in other words, that elections are won by bribery in Indiana. Unques tionably there is a large per cent, of ex aggeration in this idea but the mere fact that such an opinion prevails is evidence that some foundation exists for it. And the additional fact that the people suffer a lax law to exist when other States have enacted salutary laws on the subject seems to imply that our people do not want honest elections and are willing to tacitly invite the inflow of large corruption funds at every national election. The great State of Indiana cannot afford to rest under such an imputation. Both parties have professed themselves in favor of honest elections and a wise law to protect the ballot-box. Gov. Gray, in his message, has suggested several features of such alaw. The Democrats have control of both branches of the law making body. Let us see if they will enact a new election law.

A OA INST TR JJ8TS.

The decision of Judge Barrett, of the Supreme court, of New York, annulling the charter of one of the companies involved in the Sugar Trust, is one the people will approve as heartily as they did those of the same judge in the trials of the New York boodle aldermen. It is the first of what we trust will be a long line of legal decisions in the same direction. We have heard very much of late about these oppressive combinations to forestall the market, destroy the competition and make the necessaries of life higher than they need be. There can be no doubt as to the power and the right of the people to crush them. There is probably law enough already in existence to accomplish this if the courts will but enforce it.

Judge Barrett is one of the bright, progressive men of the judicial profession. He does nothiggle eternally about technicalities but goes to the meat of tho matter and strikos at the root of lawlessness with a sharp ax. We need more men of that kind on the bench and the people should see that they get there men who are animated by broad ideas of justice and right and who will use the power of the courts, not to shield criminals, but to prqtect the people against the extortion and robbery of bande.d capital. If there is a remedy for every wrong there must be a way to crush theso obnoxious "trusts" and it is the duty of tho courts to find and apply the remedy.

JAY GOULD.

The doath of Jay Gould's wife will doubtless have the eflect of hastening his own steps to the tomb. Although comparatively a young man yet—only 53—he has been aging rapidly of late and is now prematurely old and decrepit. He is practically an invalid,suffers much from insomnia and a complication of disorders and is much broken in lioalth.

Jay Gould is very rich but be has paid too much for his wealth—too much in mental strain and anxiety and too much in the strain to conscience and integrity. If he began his career as an honest man he did not long continue in the straight and narrow path. Thirsting for money and tho power that money gives, he early entered upon that career as a railroad wrecker which has had no parallel in this cr any other country. Beginning with the Erie road he has brought every railroad he has touched to bankruptcy, robbing the stockholders to satisfy his own avaricious dreams* Worth millions before the age at which men ordinarily begin to accumulate, Gould has gone on manipulating stocks and multiplj'ing his millions until he has become the Croesus of modern times.

But what does it avail him? What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Gould has not gained the whole world—not quite all of it yet—but he has certainly lost his soul if ho ever had one. The mania for money-gettinghaschoked out all the finer and better instincts of heart and mind and the man is a slave to the one absorbing passion. The strain of it will shorten his days and he will go down to a premature grave, unenvied and nulamented. Does it pay to be the possessor of millions undersuch circum stanccs? Surely not.

Mrs. Harrison with a modesty and good sense that the people will appre eiate, whatever their politics or opinions regarding matters of appetite and apparel, has emphatically declined to set herself up as the arbiter of female fashions and of social customs at the behest of certain overzealous ladies who sought to force her into some such absurd position. The wife of the incoming president, like the amis^'e wife of Mr.Cleveland,, is above ther s.nilous notion that her husband's station has conferred an authority upon her to die* tato fashions and customs to the women of America, after the manner of Eugenie of the French.

For Constipation

I'M

Hereford** Add Pboiphate.

Dr. J. R. FOKSTTON, Kiowa, Ind. Ter., says: "I have tried it for consvipation, with auccesa, and think it worthy a thorough trial by the profession.

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The Theatre is Not -Wicked.

A SERMON BY THE REV. MADISON C. PETERS.

The Rev. Madison C. Peters, formerly of this

city, now of

Philadelphia, preach

ed an interesting sermon upon the theatre, of which the following is an ab stract which will be read with interest. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor-"—Exodus, xx, 16 The theatre owes ita origin to religion. In Greece, India and China the drama was originally a religious ceremony, and it was intended to promote religion. In the course of time the drama ceased to be a religious ceremony and became work of art.

Every student of church history knows that the modern drama sprang original ly from the church. In the dark ages the priests put the whole of theology on the stage, and in this way the rude and unlettered mob that gathered on Saints' days were taught in an effective way the truths of religion so that in the Christian era the first theatres were the churches, and the first actors the priests The preachers first taught the stage what they knew, first showed actors how to act. But secular competition grew apace and in 1378 the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral petitioned Richard the Second to stop certain dramatic performances jvhich were being got up in London outside the churches. Why? Because the Cathedral clergy of St. Paul's had spent so much money on stage scenery and costumes inside the Cathedral, and were eager to crush all secular competition. In Elizabeth's reign the Becular drama had grown so popular that a preacher exclaims,

,Woe

is me! At the

playhouse it is not possible to get a seat, whilst at the church vacant seats are plenty!" The clergy did not object to the principle of acting, or because the play was immoral, except when it satirized drunken and smoking rectors. Nor did the clergy object to the play because it hurt the people, tut because it pleased them. They groaned when the people shouted.

God has implanted a dramatic element most of our bodies recognized and cultured it in the Bible. Man is not responsible for the dramatic element in his soul, but for the perversion of it. What is tho Lord's supper but the dramatization, the acting out the Lord's death?

I care not where you open the Bible, the eye will fall upon a drama. Genesis is a glorious drama. Tho Book of Job is a magnificent drama Shakespoaie more like unto it than any book in the world. The Book of Solomon's Song is an allsuggestive drama. Have you never read tho soul-revolutionizing drama of the Prodigal Son? In the Book of Revelation the fire of dramatic pathos burns to unexceled brilliancy.

As the Bible opens with the drama of the first Paradise, so it ends with the drama of the second Paradibo Lost and Paradise Regained.

If vacant seats are plenty in the church whose fault is it? The preacher s, I say. The human mind is the same in the pew as in the theatre. The world suffers more from too little dramatic power in the church than from too much outside of it. A preacher asked Garrick, the tragedian, "Why is it you are able to produce so much more effect with the recital of your fictions than we do bjr the delivery of the most important truths?" "My lord," said Garrick, "you speak truths as if they were fictions we speak fictions as if they^ were truths." The men who brought most souls to Christ wore dramatic and humorous, too. Wherever to-day, all Christendom though, there is a man in the pulpit with graceful gestures, modulated voice, elegant expression, appropriate emotion and graceful action wherever you find a man as natural aud impressive, as audible and interesting as the actor, you will find a crowded church. Lot the preachers work at the people with the same power, intelligence and will as the actoif is obliged to work at the public, depend upon it their achievements will be in proportion. The actor does not grumble because the- people won't come to the theatre. He says: "I am to blame.*' People don't come to church because they are not interested. Instead of droning and whining and canting, and moan ing, and croaking, and funeralizing religion let us learn from the actor how to read and how io infuse life into our service let us freshen up and get out of the old ruts and introduce into our sermons the brightness, the holy sarcasm, the sanctified spice, the epigrammatic power, the blood-red earnestness and the fire of zeal. Then the problem "How to

Reach the Masses" will be solVed Other things beside religion are good. Dtcken's works are eternal arguments against injustice, and in writing novels he was better employed than in preaching the Gospel Mendelssohn, by his sublime compositions, did better serve the world than going dut as a missionary to hina and Shakespeare served the world and his Maker better as a dramatist than as a bishop, preaching sermons that nobody wanted to hear. The arts and sciences must go with religion and morality. The church of the past stood aloof from the world. The church of the future will assimilate with it. The church has spent much »ime in peering into amusements to see what evil they contained, and has kept digging away at this, instead of putting Divine grace into them and letting that elevate and regulate them. We have been absorbed in ferreting out and declaiming against the evil, and forgotten that we have a corresponding duty to develop the good. The church has failed to regulate popular amusements, it has withdrawn itself from them, and if the devil baa come in and taken full posaeasion the church ia

to blame Let us bring the leaven of the Gospel into the amusement lump and teach the people how to use amusements without abusing them.

The world is growing better,the.church is growing wiser. "'l!' .'j? As an ethical question most persons are agreed that amusements in the abstract are not wrong. Many people object to amusements, they don't know why. Some mistake prejudices for con scientious scruples. Amusements are proper for Christians because they are right, and they are right because the law divine written in our hearts makes them so. "Man has an animal nature as well as rational faculties he has instincts that are purely animal as well as charao teristics purely intellectual and spiritual, and the playing out of these impulse within the limits of moderation are just as sinless in the animal man as in the animal pure and simple." Our amusements may be prostituted to evil so may horses. Because they are often the gambler's richest resource, shall we refuse to use them at all.

The true end of the drama is to represent human nature to teach a complete knowledge of human character. Give a man all kinds of knowledge—in history, poetry, philosophy, science, languages let him possess the graces and bearing of a god, and the golden thoughts and musical words of a poet without a knowledge of human nature all his other accomplishments would hurl him into an absurdity. "Know thyself" was the maxim of old Greek philosophy. Know thyself and all thy fellow creatures is the truer and wider maxim of a higher philosophy.

All actors are not moral. All preachers are not moral. There is not a better woman in our churches to-day than Charlotte Cushman or Mary Anderson is, who, when in this city, with vieled face goes to St. John's every morning at 5 o'clock. Nor is there a man in this city whose character is more spotless and life more beneficent than Joseph Jefferson's,

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Crimes are oommitted on the stage so they are in the Bible. odness and badness are put in opition in both books and plays. The bhief themes of the theatre are the passions of men. So are the subjects for the chisel of Angelo, the brush of Guido, the pencil of Dore, the burden of the sermon on the mount by Christ, in whose lips there was no guile, and whose every thought was without spot or blemish.

If the exposures of sin is an indecency, to be consistent all the literature of the world, both sacred and profane, must be committed to the Tames. Call the roll of all the plays that achieve the widest and most permanent success. They are as innocent as milk, and men like Booth, Barrett and other leaders of the stage would be astonished at being accused of producing an immoral piece.

The preacher contrasts virtue and vice from a positive point of view the dramatist presents pietorially the contrasts between virtue and vice and I know of no standard play in which the former is not always triumphant in the end.

The theatre is primarily for amusement and not far moral instruction. The home, the social circle, the church, the Sunday-school, the companionship of good books, and, above all, the Word of God, are to teach us what is right, pure and true. "The theatre and the opera," says tne Christian at Work, "are to be usad only in an incidental way, just as you find a coin in the course of a walk. The theatre and the opera are to be justified only when tho amusement is pure and sweet."

Amusements are valuable, but they cannot pay for the loss of your soul. Confirmed theatre-goers are unfitted for life's duties. How many of you are so given to levity that you are incapable of a solemn, serious thought. Your hearts are set on having "a good time." Dugald Stewart tells of a man who spent fifteen years/rying to balance a broom on his chin. Their lives are summed up in rising, dressing, dining, loafing, visitand sleeping. Busy men about

ing trifles, pitiful butterfly specie*, flitting from flower to flower, and dying like autumnal insects, despised and forgot-

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Merring ia closing oaf "a nice

line of Cabinet Frames at coat. Engrav

ings

and other picture* very cheap. Picture Framicg at prices awajr kwn. 22 north Fourth street.

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NAME OF TOWN

TOWNSHIP.

City Harrison. Honey Creek Pralrleton Prairie Creek in to Plerson

Lost Creek Nevins Otter Creek Fayette Sugar Creek Town West Terre Haute

charged shall

Delinquent Lands .—

offered for sale

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ble for taxes

Tax-payers

as tho County

I preached this sermon from a sence of fair play. So many sermons preached on this subject apply to the state of the stage as it was in the time of Charles II. It was vile then. But a larger and more refined class oi people attend the theatre now than ever. A higher tope of morals prevails in the plays and is manifested in the characters of the players. I purchased a score of sermons against the theatre, upon any one of which I would agree to convict the preacher of slander. The sermons that havo been preached on this subject are direct violations of the commandmept, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The pulpit's vituperation of the theatrical profession is so false and unchristian as only a clergyman who never saw a play would ever dream of making. The stage seldom or ever strikes back. The numerous scandals of American clergymen now serving terms in the yarious penitentiaries of the land afford legitimate material for the stage. These ma terials remain unused because the dra matist, the manager and the actor have too great a respect for the religion of

Christ to weaken it by emphasizing the sins of any Of His servants. Honor to whom honor is due. The men who write against the sensuality of the tbea tre remind me of the speaker in Canada who declaimed against dancing in such a manner that the dancing went on, but the parson was himself discharged on account of the vulgarity of his discourse

JAS.

5 ,,r.i Stt

MOORE

THE OLDEST

iWE ARE GETTING READY TO

Take Stock

Odds and Ends of all kinds in Winter Goods 'must be sold. A few nice Blankets and Comforts at about half price to close out. Hosiery and Underwear at reduced prices. Remnants of Dress Goods, Silks, Satins and Plushes at less than cost. If you wart a Cloak, a nice Plush or Cloth Garment, just take a look through our line which is now of course, a little broken, but we still have some of the choicest garments left. They are now cheap, very cheap, less than the price of material. Suppose you see them, no harm to look. Our Linen Department has been made replete again, by a recent invoice of choice Bleached Table Damasks with Napkins to match, more new Towels, Turkey Damasks and Novelty Sets. Prices very reasonable.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

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

STATE AND COUNTY

Taxes for 1888.

Notice is hereby given that the Tax Duplicate for the Year 1888 Is now In mv hands, aud that 1 am now ready to receive the Taxes charged thereon. The following table shows the rate of taxation 011 each $100 taxable property and Poll Tax in each Township.

40}(, 40$

10k 40k 40

40k 40'-i 40U mz 40

Dog Tax: For every ?eipt.

Taxes are

9 10 11

50 cents General Purposes.

Items 1. 2 and 3, levied by State: 4, 5, and 6. by County Commissioners 7, 8, 9, 10 11 and 13, by Township Trustees Item 12 (Poll Tax) is levied as followed: $1.00 for State, $1.00 for "founty, the remain^

County, the remainder by Trustees, as shown In Item 18. Dog Tax: For every male, $1,00 for every female, $2.00 for each additional dog, $2.00. Examine your receipt before leaving the oltlce and see that It covers all your property. People are taxed on what they own on April 1st of each year.

due on the 31st day of December, and tax-payers may pay the full amount of such taxes on or before the third Monday in April following or may, at their option, pay one-half thereof on or before the said third Monday, and the remaining one-half on or before the first Monday in November following providing, however, that all road taxes

be paid prior to the third Monday In April, aa prescribed by law and provided further, that In all cases where as much us one-naif of the amount of taxes charged against a tax-payer shall not be paid on or before tho third Monday In April, the whole amount unpaid shall become due and returned delinquent, and be collected as provided by law.

are advertised on or about tho first Monday In January, and are second Monday In February of each year. The Treasurer Is responsi

the second Monday in February of each yearv 'I he Treasurer Is responsi-

he could have collected therefore tax-payers ought to remember that their ixes MUST No County 1

taxes MUST be paid every year. No County Order will be paid to any person owing Delinquent Taxes. Road Receipts will not be received except on First Installment of iaxes.

who have Free Gravel Road and Druinage Tax to pay, should see that they have a separate receipt for each road and Drain the property Is assessed on. For the collection of which I may be found at my offlee In Terre Haute, as directed by law Bar Pay Your Taxes Promptly to Avoid Cost.

SPECIAL NOTICE. Reports to the Auditor of State must show full returns of penalties therefore all taxes not paid when due as above shown will be collected with full penalties

Auditor cannot under auy circumstance remit, the same under the conditions required In report to the Mtate.

Brown :—I had just the same experience, until I read one of the Ivory Soap advertisements, about too much alkali in some soaps, which draws the natural oil from the"skin and leaves it dry and liable to crack, so I sent out and got a cake of Ivory Soap, and found it all the advertisement promised my hands are soft and smooth the year round.

A WORD OF WARNING.

There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the Ivory' they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it

PLTJMBEB

IN TERRE HAUTE

Is prepared to do all ktnda of work In bfa llpe, promptly, at the moat reafwnabie price* zrviG&f

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JAMES COX

December 31, 1888. Treasurer Vigro County.

White:—Just as soon as cold weather sets in, my hands roughen and crack. I buy the best and most expensive soap my druggist has, but the result is just the same sore hands every winter.

"HR B. W. VAN VALZAH,

JLS Sacoemor to RICHARDSON A VAN VALZAH,

3DE3STTXST.

Office—8onthwe*t corner Fifth and Streets, over National State Bank (entraoea on Fifth street.