Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 January 1889 — Page 4
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THEJVLAIL
A PAPER
FOR THE
PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
8UB8CBIFTIOH PBICK, 12.00 A YKAB.
PtTBLICATIOS OFFICK,
FOB. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing Houae Square.
TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 26,1889
THE Senate has made an end of the everlasting tariff debate by passing the Senate bill as a substitute for the Mills bill. It is not lively, however, that the Hduse will agree to the Senate measure and if not the subject will have to lie over until the next session unless President Harrison shall summon an extra session after March 4th, which many think is likely to be done.
"THE destruction of the poor is their poverty." So said the wise man centuries ago and with the statement that the poor frequently have to pay $4 a ton more for their coal than the rich get theirs for, it is evident the words are as true now as they were in Solomon's time. The ..rich can take advantage of the markets and buy in quantity when things are cheap. The poor are obliged to live from hand to mouth and buy in small amounts when things are high. It is a very uneven game surely.
REV. GKOKOK R. Mn/roN, of Elgin, 111., is gaining notoriety, if not fame, by extravagant sermons against secret societies, particularly masonry. To his way of looking at it all secret societies are composed of worshippers of the devil and he thinks he has virtually taken his life in his hand in characterizing masonry as he has done. The Rev. Milton is possibly courting a violent death in order to become a martyr, but if so it is not likely that he will achieve such distinction. It is too late in the day to get up another Morgan sensation over secret societies. The people are to used to this harmless form of lunacy.
WHEAT which was up to $1.20 a bushel a few months ago now ranges at about one dollar. Reports from the country show an enormous quantity on hand, while the in ills and warehouses are tilled to overflowing with ilour. It is seen that the gruesome prophecies of a short crop and spoilod grain were the work of interested speculators for the purpose of creating a false standard of valuo in the markets. It had that effect and Hour is yet $7.50 a barrel when it ought to and might well be much cheaper. And now there is talk of a combination to boost wheat again into a fictitious price. This is not in the Interest of the people who buy bread but of the millionaires and speculators who corner markets. But, in the familiar words of Boss Tweed, what are we going to do about it?
£•$#14 &-*»k people who" think "advertising P»y" should consider the words ofjohn Wanamaker, the great Pniladelphia merchant. He says he spends $5,000 a week for advertising, besides paying a man skilled in the business $1,000 a month to write his advertisements. "Advertising is the leverage by which this store has been raised up," he adds. He believes, moreover, that it is continuous advertising that is most effective and brings out the best results.
The most successful business men in other cities will corroborate the gieat merchant prince of Philadelphia In this experience. Advertising does pay when done with judgement and discretion. Combined with good business management it is tho leverage that has raised to success many an enterprise.
AN effort is being made by the Citizen's Association, of Chicago, to break up tho Louisiana lottery gambling in that city. It is estimated that from $23, 000 t.)$40,000 a month goes out of Chicago to feed the New Orleans octopus and for the most part it is the hard earned money of tho working classes, which ought to go for food and clothing. The same thing is K°inR
on
over the country.
The State legislatures have passed laws forbidding even the publication of lottery advertisements in newspapers, but they are published, some way being found to evade the law. It is astonishing that this grand lottery humbug should be suffered to continue, fleecing the people and robbing the poor. The trouble is that the authorities wink at the evil and the peoble let them do it with Impunity. PulverUe the Louisiana State lottery!
SAMOA.
Shall we have a brush with Germany over this Samoan business? It looks a little .that way unless the Faderland ahall put down its back a bit when it learns the true st«t« of the case. Uncle Sam is not
going
to tamely submit to
have American citlr.ens imprisoned, their property taken and the flag torn down and burned, as it is reported the German war ships have done in Samoa. And so two of our big war ships, the Trenton and the Vandalia—a familiar name in those parts—have been sent out to see that Unele Sam's flag, people and property art? respected in these far-off Islands of the sea.
Where is Samoa anyhow? Well, it is a group of islands in the Pacific, nearly half way between San Francisco and Australia. .The soil ia wonderfully fertile, producing the various tropical product* in profusion. There are not many Americans there, the 40,000 people being mostly Samoan*, Chinese and negroes. But American, merchants and planter* bav« valuable interests In tba islands and the place Is important as a way station for veawls.
Home years ago, wlwo Chin* was at
asese, a native chief
Mataafa, who
is fighting against the
will discover that the subordinates'in charge of affairs at Samoa have exceeded
by the home government. In other
Trenton and Vandalia.
of schools for the teaching of anarchy to
H/tn 1 1\1 A. \I1 tl F"
CONGRESSMAN JOHNSTON. The Indianapolis News says: Congressman ^Johnston, of the Terre Haute district, comes nearer being one of the peoplo than any other statesman from the Hoosier. commonwealth. He was her& this week, surrounded by an admiring group of his constituents. "What dO you know that would be interesting?" inquired a newspaper man. "Notadurned thing. I am just around with the boys. Will go up to see Harrison, perhaps, before I start for Washington to-morr^ow." Mr. Johnston is credted with being an aspirant for the Revenue Collectorship of his district.
It is told of Mr. Johnston at Washington that he is the most approachable of 11 the Congressman. Even the janitors are on familiar terms with him. "Where is Congressman Johnston?" inquired an Indianian who was at the Capitol,speaking to the spittoon cleaner. "Haven't seen Jim at all to-dajT," responded the man of the mop.
WHETHER or not Mr. Blaine will be a member of (Jen. Harrison's cabinet is in as much doubt as ever. But it is certain that the men who are urging his appointment are guilty of a stupendous piece of political folly. They are arousing antagonism against him by the other class of men who sdo not want to see him in the cabinet and who especially do not want to see him forced into it. Agafn, they are doing an unseemly thing in trying to interfere with the President's free and untrammeled choice of his cabinet, which is his conceded l'ight. He is not bound to call around him for his legal advisors any particular set of men simply because they stand high in the party. The President is supposed to ha in mind the carrying out of a certain policy and to do so he will naturally select for his cabinet men whom he believes will be in accord with his own views. It is not the public's nor the party's business to tell him he ought to select this, that, or the other man. Gen. Harrison is the man to decide whether he wants Mr. Blaine for secretarj' of State and he should be allowed to decide it without undue pressure from other partie*.
DECLINE OF THE LA WYER. Is the lawyer as important a factor in the community and the commonwealth as he was in former times? There are
tempting to get control of the islrnds, England, Germany and the United States entered into a tripartite agreement by which the independance of Samoa was assured and the nativestvere given the right to elect a king and to establish a rliCuv Oicvt a aiuit nwu vw government regardless of foreign|pow- yer flourishes best in anew community, ,. 1 tw and niiffnsiAinns. era. Germany is now to establish Tam-
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of a few anarchists in Chicago did not put an end to the spirit of anarchy, that is very certain. These noisome revolu tionistsstill exist, hold their secret meetingsaud inculcate their lawless doctrines in the minds of the youug. Milwaukee is one of the worst hot-beds of anarchy. In that city a meeting was held recently looking to the establishment of anarchist schools. Tho meeting was held in a saloon, of course, and on a lot owned by the saloon keeper it was decided to build a school house for the teaching of anarchy to the children—a work that is already being carried on in Sunday schools both in Milwaukee and Chicago. It may well be said that freedom ot speech has gone to seed when it permits the teaching of anarchy and revolution to the rising generation. A stop should be put to such business in some way or another.
indications to the contrar\\ It is noted .. ,. that State law-making isgradaallvpass-
log (rem the grip of the gentlemen bf
Germans and their older they grow also more conservative
tool. The United States insists that the and less contentious and less lawyers Germans shall keep their hands off the proportion to population are required political affairs of the country and shall keep the people in hot water,
England is pass-
not vieJate the treaty ive or nearly so. Although it is now said that she has
taken tbe same view of the matter as istration begins the talk of the insufflthis country has and will join in de- ciency of the White House as a residence for the President and bis family. According to some of the stories it is an
manding that Germany leave the Sam oans free to settle their King business in uausi a their own way. It is quite likely that old, tumble-down affair, not at all nice when King William hears from the American eagle and the British lion he grace to the great country it represents.
mansion,
palaces
band. If otherwise, however, we shall two ordinary residences, with ceilings expect to hear good reports from the 30 feet high. The
SCHOOL FOR A NARCH Y.
It seems a strange thing indeed to hear
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING- MAU/!!
lawyers to do and pay generous fees to their attorneys. But people as a rule have found law suits to be very expensive things and are growing more and more disposed to settle their differences by compromise or arbitration. The law
where folks are gritty and pugnacious,
on the throne. King and there many things to provoke one
has the people at his back, another to wrath. As communities grow
{m^THE WHITE HOUSE. With the advent of every new admin-
or convenient, and something of a dis-
—. talk. The White House is a magnificent their authority and cannot be backed
There is really no foundation for such
patterned after one of the ducal
of England, 170 feet wide and 86
feet deep. The
East-Room,
flne a mansion
^l^ll 0 ll T1 CT1
Ot
children in this country. The hanging
liphe
famous for
its state receptions, is alone as large as
rest
tlIllts wut3u vuo
aQ(j buj|t
of the house is of
similar grand oroportions and the whole is richly furnished. Considering the time when the White House was planned
js rather remarkable that so
should have been erected
1 ll. It /v*
iiutj a uiausiuu
fact j8
vvv"—
evidence
that our forefathers
thought the President of the United States worthy of a home in some measure corresponding with the palaces of the old world.
This grand old mansion is sufficient for the present, as it will be for many years to come. President Harrison at least will ask for nothing better, even though he should be called on to occupy it for a double term.
THE MORAL PlIASK OF DANCING. There is a great deal of argument being indulged in at present in regard to the morality of daucing, but if anyone has an idea that the rotary exercise is growing unpopular in New York he should contemplate the patronage of the leading dancing teacher of the town who has his big square house on Fifth avenue thronged with pupils from morn till night, and then up to 12 o'clock. At 5 o'clock on every afternoon, when the young people's classes are breaking up, 'the avenue in the locality is thronged with a larger array of carriages than the* greatest social event in New York could call forth, and the hurrying, scurrying with their maids and their mothers,form one of the most bewildering sights of the metropolis.
A clever thing on the part of the swell dancing master is his manner of retaining people for his pupils season after season. He does this by. inventing a new dance each winter and altering the waltz to such extent as to make it necessary to go to him for the latest movement. In this way lie keeps ladies on his fl or that were considered the poetry of motion more than ten years ago. Considering the immense amount of patrons that this man receives, his iucome during the winter must, bo quite colossal. Now that the minuet is to be made fashionable again, he will doubtless have to hire some more mansions to accommodate his overflow of customers.
SHOWS AND SHOW PEOPLE.
Phil. S. Greiner, the original "Bad Boy," is in the city. His company, playing a repertoire, disbanded the first of the year and has not yet been reorganized.
a°d
the bar. In the present Legislature of Bnaaell produced a doctor's certi«oate to Illinois there are but 38 lawyer, while sbow how tights endangered her health there are as many farmer*. The same, Fin Jly the matter wM compromised by tendency is «en In Congress where it ia Mis. RUSMII agreetng to give A bond to qnlteacommon thing at send prominent W f2-000 Duff as damagm business men as representatives and Mr. Lawrence Barrett is very enthusieven senators. John Wanamaker, the astic over
And while the lawyer has been shorn will have a^strong **mpany assist of power and influence in these dinec- him in its represents Mr. Barrett tions be has suffered from another course expects to produce two or three other —the failing of litigation. People are] plays that year. not as prone to "go to law" as they used to be. The is of course a great deal for lawyers to do yet—too much, in fact. restding
Ihat If .1.0 appeared ,n t.ghu
wo°ld
•""longer ,hcaU:
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great merchant, has been prominently William Young, which be will produne named in connection with a place in the at the Chicago
cabinet. Years 3go the lawyers monop- It admits of great spte' ular :ument, olised all these high places. The lawyer and Mr. Barrett thinks it is exrepuonalwas the great man in tho community ly strong in human interest- He is so and he was looked up to by ail. Hia hopeful of its success that he will spend word was pretty nearly law. $30,000 in putting it on the and
Chinese Sottas and D-if.co LIKE IS Cmx*. Very
Bui tho most profitable litigation of the ing and instructive. hinoo W present times is (bat which conies from Ceremony, Idol Worship, School Room, corporations. The railroads and great Music, Art Gallery. A great, d.'al more chartered companies of one kind and than yon wilt ex}-*, O puion*! another, with their millions of capital church, Monday evening, Aduits behind them, have much business for 25c, Children 15c.
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A Fairy Scene.
That is What the Ladies Call sthe Kir mess.
The Biughaiotoo (N. Y.) Daily Republican, Uuder the above headlines, published this dunog Kirmets week at Binghamton: "A veritable fairjl^nd!" was the delighted exclam&tiou of a bevy of Indies as tbe eoterel the Armory iast eveuiog. in And in truth it was. It is doubtful if Aladdiu's magic lamp ever nor jure 1 up more dazzhug 6C»ues than were pr» seated to the admiring ejt-s of the throng that prtesed and snrged into the hah. The stage was a bower of beamy The ti*uu'iu£ of gay etie-imere, the gleam polished hdjrL.m nte, ibe flash and glitr?r of jewels, ai/d above all me sparkle if butd eus of excited eyes, mud* a spectacle that must, be Ssen to be apprecia'ed.
Biuifhbmton is, to a popular phrase, "stuck'' on the Kirab sa It divides attention with the :anff, and that issayin/not a li'th*. JLhe Armory wab orow to tbe dour both at the matue and evening ent-ait^iumeui. Tne tiHocrd bad lobt wbut*Vor of diffi lence muht have been observable tbe previous evening, and enter into tbe Vttii U9 tvt-ijt-with a daeu and spirit that won fn-quent hearty reo*lb. If anyoLe doubts that thrt Kirmees Das captund the town he has ouly to glance into the Aimory when it is in prug~tss to ba cared ot Liu skepticism. ^The national dance of Hollai op*»i»'l th» program last evening after tiie procession and tableau in wbica a bu"i of buxom Dutch maidens !o fc art.. The uaovemant is slow aud s#int(infc, a rt of rhythmic glide tbao wuuid lull t*a«oioat nervous maa to e^p. The dai ce lb very pretty one and was waimly hp plauded.
Th»n followed tbe Swedish W'ddiog dunce, iu wtnoti two Z9j merry ludt and lasteunpaged. It is irore anim^teu than ihe p.tceclu.g nnd is intersperse with several beautiful tableaux. Tuouusio is lively yes soft aad th* uctitu Js tbe dauaera full of easy grace iVtHu\ of the
fcUiliet
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The wife of Mr. Baldwin, of the company playing a week's engagement here, is a Terre Hautean. She was forrnerally Miss Pearl Smock, one of the three Melville sisters who began their career en the stage at tho same time.
Mike O'Brien, formerly of this city, is succeeding as one of the editors of a dramatic paper at Cincinnati. Thepaper is mailed to dramatic editors throughout the country and is extensively copied because of valuable in formation, it contains. ..
It is announced that Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston is to join "Mark Twain in giviugentertainments similar to those formerly given by George W. Cable. Colonel Johnstou is the author of "Dukesborough Tales" and other books in the Georgia dialect, and is a regular contributor to staudard magazines. The new partners will begin reading in Baltimore.
The trouble betweeh*Lillian Russell and Manager Duff has been adjusted. Miss Russell said that she was subject to
M"»
Sanelon," the new play by
fpera
next -o tson.
ce consider*-d it tie prettiest
on the program. The Tyrolean dince followed, wbicHi^ alsj very picture que. it is repruse ter. by marly a so-ire of little mus^s ai geutl«nneD, who tni mI its iutric tcitt wi'h afl rbe zsat ,'ider oo^s K*te Hchnell sang a rolenn sui
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Watbifrth" at both perforinauces iu clear soprano of exquisite swtetneess dhe ri'ed iii received a warm encore.
The Spauifrh. dauce with its sensuous poses aud gr.cpful movements also won a prolongs! burst of a^p nnse. Miss Winnie VV limns sing *p, prihte eleuti iu in ht-r usual pleasing nuiuter and received an encore. '1 he dairy maidt followed in their Jiv.-lv di nee, wnich bus alre.tdy bem declined iu these column*. Missjetrsie MCDOJI UI favored the andience with a aong wbico is most happily tvot-ived
Tbe Miumet, the event on the program, w«is repr« s.-nti by p^inteil datuts aii" pBeudo c.mitier.-11 io*t!er^0 wigr. Thty were attired in tbe gorgeous Prtu-ch cobtumaof se er^l O'u-teb tgj. at,d moved tbroug'.t tne st«t tigiif all tbt grace that we are «ui.t to associate with the artificial .urt Me of Fr nue »:urin# the reign of the Louis.
This w«s ft.lit'wei by the sirigbtl Gypsy nee, which is certainly t-ne the most cuptivatiug on tie pri am. I1 is bnllumr, wi c»:.jr aud brt&k with li'e. The audience coull not r^frtiam eutbn^ia »'he" itp lively paitnii.a tF bounded off h3 stage and ap 1 uJed lout/ and owd. Tije {.jiooessiou aid 'al le«u which opened the entert'inm-'til was repeated aud the curtain cl *pped The spectacle eo novel, so out of MR order of ordinary entertainments that it is thoroughly EI y-tbli from first. IHBT. The dances are so short tuat the) uot wery, nnil PO varud in their mov«M,» ent Had oostummg that one is oot stautly oi the qui-1live for a new surpri e.
Tte booths were liberally OHt^or'z-d bo afteri-Q »n and evenit g. The Freucl booth wa* tiie oyix snre ot many even and he grande damett presidium ver gaioed tt lion's share a {miration The Indian Tepee, uem»d sitv in bower of evergreens, wa* sna»oel i«-es a»imirtd. The Gvpsy camp, tbe Ita!
AH bo-th woh daik- y»-o oocupants and others were curi u~J, linn, 'd bv crowds of efg^i s,ettoir. Miss Eager and them^nagemeut are to be Co' g^atulnte.l up«3n r.bf undoubted luterest aud success of th fair.
Elmira has bad it« Kirmeps, but has evidently n» bai en u^h of it Mr. Stiv a E hap engagt 200 s»atp, the s«me cumber of suupers and tares for a party from tbat city on Tbnrs ta evening Birebamtou is not given to boa^tiug, it i^ proverbially modest, but it is going t-j make those Etmirans euvious when tbey come. Elmira uo'fonbtedly balagood Rirmees, but the:r ladies lack thepers nal attractions neceesnry to make euch an ever.t thoroncbly satisfactory. It ip stated that Owego and Ooeoata will also s»nd contingents to admire it before .it closes.
A pleaeing feat tire of tbe affair is tbe dining rmim. tt was well pitrouized before and after tbe entertaiin:,* nt, a good repast being served at rea^ juable cost l'he Dickinson—Bemau orchestra, ably assis'ed by Mrs Mo-eat the pi mo. furnished the music. The Kirmes" Record, edited by Mr Fred Parsorsand an able etsff of assistants, publishes the program every day. .*
Clean forked Brazil Block coal at |2.40 per ton. to any part of the city. PETER KORXMAX. 29 south 4th street and 615 north 8th St.
Box paper—24 Sheets, 2A Envelopes— 10,15,20 and 25 cents. Very large aipuffr ment at BAKER A WATSON'S-
Three Cars
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of Nortbera Burbanka cir of Choice Appltjg BRIGGS, covoer Cherry streets.
Overcoats tbat Ua* at ftt, Cor $3 at A*
ad one
at J. H. uurth and
/e
ready sales
Ford'®.
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Come and Get Them
P^~€LOAKS
MONDAY MORNING
'5 At Inventory Prices.
You'll get the best bargain you ever got in your life in a Cloak right now. Price Cut to Insure a Ready Sale.
We commence opening our New Spring
Domestic Wash
DRESS GOODS,
New Ginghams, New Sateens, New Prints, New Skirtings New Percales, etc
See our 75c Corset Window
The best Corset in the Country for the Price.
New Goods Opened Daily—Inspection Invited.
HOBERG, ROOT & CO.
Jobbers & Retailers. Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.
Special Shoe Sale!
FOR ONE WEEK
..Commencing' Monday, Jan, 28th.
And continue during the week, during that time I wflS offer some extra Bargains to close out the Remnant Lots. W^have as follow®: 47 pair Women's Kid or Dongolia Butfam, all different styles, which we formerly sold from $2.00 to $2.35, will bfr sold now for $1.50. 38 pair Women's Kid or Dongolia Button, all different styles, former prices $2.65 to $3 25. Among this let are some
Hand-Turned Goods, selling now at $2,00. 42 pair Women's Pebble Goat Button, all dif terent styles, some Goodyear welts and wardwelts, some nritichine sewed and Walking Fast The best Custon Made, former price $2.75 to $3.00. now closing out, choice at^$2.0 0. 16 pair Misses Spring HeeJ| at 14 pair Misses Oil Gr^ Button, Sob Tip, Spring Heel, sold at $1.75 now at $}..$&.
17 pair Misses Grata, Button, Vla\n Toe, Spring Heel, must,be sokj, at $1.00, former prioe $1.35
38 pair Women's Oxford, Laoe, Newport, Button and Ties, former prioe $130 now at 99c.
24 pair Youths and Boys' Button, Shoes. Choice of the lot $1.08.
30 pair Children's Calf Grain Button Goods, bt 88c.
This is positive for One Week Only and goods must be c\etftied oiK, first oome, first served, we will make it a Grand Bargain
A. H. BOEGEMAN,
104 s. 4th st., south of Ohio* st.
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ONES—"He praised your tresses in his rhyme, Your shining hair, your golden hairf He sang that sunshine lingered there,
The sunshine of the summer-time 1 He told you love had hid a lair In tangles of your shining hair.
LOUISE—"Yes, Agnes, I have caught a beau With these blond tresses fair Because I cleanse them oft, you know,
With IVORY SOAP, as pure as snow, The soap without compare."
A WORD OF WARNING.
There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as *ood aii the '',v00,'j" 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.
Gopyricbt ISM* by Proctor A Gambia.
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