Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 February 1889 — Page 4

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TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 2, 1889

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Every Week's Issue is, In fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, in which all Advertisements appear for the price of ONE PAPER.

Advertisements first appearing in the Saturday issue go in the Thursday edition of next week without extra charge.

NOTICE.

The publication of The Mail will be continued without interruption, the business department under the direction of Edwin P. Westfall, the local features in charge of Douglass H. Smith. It is hoped that the pleasant relations that have existed for so many years between The Mail and its patrons may be continued, and every effort will be made to merit the generous support accorded it.

SENSATIONAL FRANCE.

France, that country of sensations, has had a new one in the election of Boulanger in Paris. Bolanger has been an objeot of ridicule to this country ever since and before bis theatrical duel with Floquet, when the latter stuck hi in in the neck with his sword. But Boulanger at home and abroad are two very different men. In France the hot-blooded General seems able to get whatever he wants and has been elected to the chamber of deputies from several districts in turn. He chose at last to try his fortune in Paris and the gay city elected him by an overwhelming majority.

In this oountry such an event would be of no special interest. The existence of the government is not supposed to be imperiled by the election of one man or the defeat of another, but in France it is different. The people and the politicians do not know what to make of the triumph of Boulanger but they are agreed that it means a great deal. The German press regards the matter as one of profound significance, indicating the speedy downfall of the republic and a rupture between France and Germany. The English newspapers take a somewhat similar view and Lord Stanhope, Secretary of War, was indiscreet enough to predict, in a public speech, the outbreak of war in Europe, "the fiercest and most horrible ever known."

These expressions probably exaggerate the importance of the Boulangist movemont. 'J^lie French are a mercurial people, soon tired of one thing and eager for auother. Like the Athenians of Paul's day, thoy are always on the qui yive foi some new thing. Just now they are tired of the present management of affairs and want a change. Boulanger is a novelty, a sensation, and they are willing to take him up for the sake of a change.

It cannot be doubted, however, that there is an elemant of danger in the case. Boulanger is nothing if not a soldier. He regards himself as a great general and delights in nothing so much as in military exploits. Undoubtedly he would like to havo a war and there are many Frenchman who share this feeling. It is nearly twenty years now since France has sought glory on the field of battle and twenty years of peace is a pretty dull performance for the French who would rather fight than eat. Then, too, there is a young, impetuous and not overly discreet emperor on the throne of Germany who is supposed to inherit a rather strong war temperament. When there is plenty of tinder on both'sides it doesn't require much of a spark to light the fire. There is danger ahead. Whethor it will bo warded off or not remains for the future to determine.

THE PULPI1.

Inconsistency, the difference between theory and ^practice is illustrated in church affairs of this city. During a religious awakening, among those who sought the remission of their sins were a number of servant girls employed by families prominent in social circles. These girls were faithful attendants at all services and zealous workers in both church and Sunday school they assisted in all entertainmeuts for the benefit ol the church and conducted themselves always most respectably. This ought to have Insured them a place in. the hearts, at least, of Christian people. Ministers adjure their flock to go out in the byways and hedges and bring in the poor,'the destitute and the outcast and give them a home in the bosom of the church, to lift up the fallen and tell them that Christ is no excepter of persons that His smile will make the vilest pure and white. In what church of to day does the poor, picked out of the byways and hedges, outcasts and the degraded find a home? Does having one's name on the church record and a bench on which to ait twice a week mean a home? Kind words, smiles and band shaking being included in the interests of the cburvb and invited by it® members to sit at their board means home to those naturally conscious of the past. If servant girls

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choose to allie themselves with the church and contribute out of their hard earned wages to its support and prove themselves by years of service worthy of respect and recognition, why should they in the church, be excepted from the general class, treated with the respect due them by its members, why, under another pastor are societies formed, including every young lady but themselves. "How to reach the masses" is the question asked by the pulpit of to-day. The trouble is, there is too much reaching and not enough actual contact too much standing at arms length and touching with dainty fingers by both minister and congregation! Not enough hearty hand grasping and arms'.thrown about the down trodden to draw them into the church too much preaching and not enough real love manifested to hold them when they are once secured. If God is no exceptor of persons then why should men be so in the house of the Lord even if there be rich men, poor men, beggar men or thieves.

THE CASE OF MOORE.

Indianapolis is a staid old town and not ofteni sensational but when it does go into the sensation business it goes in to win. Some of the bank failures of that city will not soon be forgotten—cer tainly not by those who lost all their money in them. But the Joseph A. Moore smash up beats without half trying anything that has preceded it. Here is a man going in and out among his neighbors for years, having business connections of wide and various kinds, living on a grand scale with fine city residence and a country villa of luxurious beauty, stealing money all these y^ars at the rate of $50,000 or $100,000 a year, and yet regarded by his friends and neighbors as an honest and upright man. Suddenly one day the bubble is pricked and behold the man is found a defaulter to the tune of half a million or more.

What did the man do with the money? Spent it in extravagant living, in unprofitable investments, in speculation. With the latter factor added there is little need to ask where the money went. The New York stock market and the Chicago grain pit can swallow a million dollars as easily as a whale can swallow a microbe. But it seems curions enough that a man can cover up for years such gigantic crookedness and not be found out in a town no larger than Indianapolis. ..

And strangest of all is the fact that the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company could have an agent of that kind in its employ and not know or guess that it was being robbed at such a rate. It itf worse than the wholesale robbery of the Charter Oak company by Bartholomew a year or two ago, and that seemed bad enough. It is such things as these that bring lifo insurance companys into distrust among the masses. The company at present involved is fortunnately strong enough to stand this enormous drain upon its resources without impairing its solvency—that is, if it has no more agbnts like the Indianapolis man at work for it. But it is not a cheerful thought to the man of small earn ings, when he pays the heavy premium on his life insurance policy, that by possibility the money is going into the hands ot such a man as Moore, to be spent in riotous living. Unless the companies can take better care of their surplus, invest it more safely and have fuller knowledge of the doings of their financial agents, they cannot hope to have the entire confidence of the public. Unfortunately such developments as that at Indianapolis tend to bring suspicion upon all the companies, just as the escapade of one church member tends to bring the whole cause of religion into disgrace.

THE CABINET.

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The past week has made important developments as to Gen. Harrison's cabinet. While not officially stated the newspaper men feel satisfied that Mr. Blaine is to have the same office to which President Garfield called him and Senator Allison that which he declined from Garfield, the Secretaryship of the Tresury. It also seems settled that Wanamaker, the great Philadelphia merchant, is to have a portfolio—either that of the Post Office or Navy-—that Warner Millfer will be given the new cabinet office of Commissioner of Agriculture and Mr. Piatt, of the same State one of the two places for which Wanamaker is booked, with Alger, of Michigan, the nrobable Secretary of War.

This arrangement will leave Senator Sherman out. but it may be his choice to remain where he is in the Senate.

The obvious fact, if these promises be correct, is that Gen. Harrison has taken no counsel from the mugwumps but is surrounding himself with the big, strong aggressive men of his party. The nf» salt must be an able, if not a brilliaift administration, and brilliancy is not so much to Gen. Harrison's taste as soundness and safety. It is gratifying that the Secretary of Treasury is to come from the West* instead of New Yor*. The financial policy -of the nation has been too long dominated by the East and we may expect a broader gauge pol icy upon the introduction of a large minded Western man into that important office. The cabinet as outlined will be a strong one and will insure an emi nentiy successfu ladministration.

AN AGE OF THOUGHT. This Is surely an age of thought.

Sunday before last I attended sarvices at two different churches. In not one of them did I hear the word "hell" or "eternal punishment," Yet fifteen or twenty years ago from these very pulpits that i^ was expounded so forcibly that one a a vivid imagination conld alritait bear the boofe and see the horns «nd pitchfork. This has all given away

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to a better thought. Thinking people have outgrown the sulphur belief, just as a child outgrows the belief of a Santa Claus. Perhaps this thought of eternal pnnishment and fear will do for those whom the law must hold with a firm hand, but the keys of library truth are no longer held by an exclusive few. The truth, like God's love, is sufficient for all who seek for it. The tendency of theology just now is to spiritualize all thought. The change is certainly for the best. One cannot drive people into heaven by holding fear over them.

RK ANEW INDUSTRY.

If the Senate tariff bill becomes a law it is probable that a new industry will practically be developed in this country. We have large deposits of tin in Dakota and New Mexico bat these valuable mines have not been worked because manufactured tin can now be brought into the United

States more cheaply than

it can be made at home, there being no sufficient auty to protect it. The Senate bill adds of a cent a pound to the present duty and this increase, slight as it is, will be sufficient, it is believed, to protect American manufacturers against the cheap labor of Europe. As we import some 20,000,000 worth a year of tin plates, it is evident that the mining, transporting, and manufacture of this metal would give employment to a very great number of workmen an^ keep twenty millions of dollars at me which now go abroad. Nor would the increased duty of of a cent per pound make any perceptible difference-in the cost of tinware. It would not qp^felt, noticed or known, but the country would be largely benefitted by the development of the new industry.

OptNiotfs differ widely as to whether or no anarchy is dead in Chicago. Recent indications point to. the existence of a good deal of the old spirit yet. On last Sunday a festival and ball was given for the benefit of the families of the dead anarchists which was attended by some 3,000 uncouth and untamed foreigners. Describing this meeting the News said: "Everything was strange. The language, the faces, the phrases of their Germanworded print, the airs of the band, the philosophy of the orators, were all strange. An English-speaking participant was difficult to find, and the visitor who came with less than a caricature of oountenance and an unbroken use of the speech of this country was instantly the object of dark looks, suspicion, and unfriendly approaches. The performance was in keeping with the performers. The hall was decoratod with sacreligious cartoons, the speeches lauded the executed anarchists as martyrs to the cause of freedom, and incited those present to follow their example when the opportunity presented itself. It was a gathering very like those which preceded the bomb on the Haymarket and it reiaains to be seen how long it will take to hatch another such riot if this kind of thinjg is to go on without let or hindrance." p*

THERE seems to be a great craze jqst now to supplant the gallows by electribity. Ohio, following in the wake of New York, has passed a bill for executing criminals by electricity and simular bills are pending In ahe Legislatures of Illinois and Missouri. Other States will doubtless follow suit and we may expect to see a general stampede in this direction. There may be too much haste in the matter. It is true the New York law went into effect on the first of January but there has been no execution yet by the new process while there is a good deal of diversity of opinion among electrical experts as to the advantages of the new method. And it must be admitted that the descriptions of the process, as given by the men of science, do not inspire the fullest confidence in its being an improvement upon the old one. Better wait and seo how the thing works in practice before enacting' too many laws on the subject. It may prove a failure or at least a vdty imperfect success. It will be time enough to make execution* by electricity compulsory after we shall have had satisfactory evidence that the new method is more humane and decent than the old.

ONE of the things the present Legislature should look into and amend is the law governing chattel mortgoges. Our law is very similar to those of other States and they give entirely too much power to the money-lender. The money shark can loan at 10 per cent, a month on household goods worth many times the amount of his debt and upon the slightest default in payment can gobble up the entire property of his victim and sell it at auction to satisfy his debt. There are people who are obliged occasionally to borrow a little money to tide over an emergency or who have no other security than their personal property to give. Such persons—often widows and those in narrow circumstances -deserve in an especial manner Vie protection of the law, instead of being to the tender mercies of cut-throat money-lenders. The law should provide against usurious Interest on this kind of loans and that there should be no taking of property except on foreclosure in court upon due notice, to the mortgagor.

THK Senate tariff bill provides for a bonnty of one cent a pound to manufacturers of cane, sorghum or beet sugar. This has raised the ire of tbe gluecose men, who claim that they are entitled to the same bonnty on their alleged "grape sugar" made from corn starch. Grape sugar made from corn is about as much like real sugar as oleomargarine (is like genuine butter and deserves as mnch protection. There will always be enough bogus stuff manufactured we may be sure, without paying any premium for it and it is not likely that Congress will set the precedent of offering boon that class of manufacturers.

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THK strike pendulum has begun to swing back the other way. Both 1886 and 1887 Were bid years for strikes but 1888 showed a heavy decline in the number of strikes and the number of hands thrown out of employment by them. Although costly thing these strikes have not been without value. They have had an educating influence. They. have taught wage-workers to look upon the strike method of settling controversies as not the best one that could be devised. They have also taught employers of labor to treat their men in a more friendly spirit and to be more willing to meet them half way in the settlement of grievances. When this spirit of moderation shall have had sufficient development on both sides there will be no longer any need of strikes and we may hope to see this system of settling labor troubles fall Into "innocuous desuetude."

•V^HAT with gold mines and seal fisheries Alaska is turning out to have been a good purchase whether the country possesses other sources of riches or not. The seal fisheries are enormously valua ble and the gold mines are reported to be of transcendant richness. A brother of the present Governor of the territory has been telling in Chicago that the Treadwell mine is producing never less than $130,000 a month, or well on to two millions a year. Other mining projects on a large scale are under headway. Doubtless other mineral deposits of high value will be developed in that far northern country a»id we may yet hope to see it become an important factor in the wealth of the United States.

Indianapolis produced another sensation this week, the assignment of John E. Sullivan, the poultry king, who owns a branch establishment in this city. The assignor is at present county clerk of Marion county. His liabilities and assetts are upwards*of 975,000. An effort was made to save Sullivan by his friends, but it proved unsuccessful. Sullivan's financial ruin is tracable to politics. It cost him 310,000 to be elected clerk.

•SHO TTAS AND SHOW PEOPLE.

C. Wallace Walters, author of Maggie Mitchell's new play, "Ray," is a Philadelphia journalist, playwright and litterateur.

John Stetson has taken such a dislike to New York that he will not visit the metropolis even to transact important business.'" Jt -1

Annie Ijewis Johnson, the author of "On the Frontier," has just completed a new play for Frank Howard, entitled, "The Hebrew Lady." It will be seen is this city shortly. \*s,

Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has been engaged by Manager Daniel Frohman for two years. She is to have part of the profits of her starring tour, be supplied with costumes and have both a female companion and a maid.

Frank Mayo was the heaviest buyer at the sale of Lester Wallack's effects, his purchases being principally of costumes. The prices fetched by the mementos was small, considering tbe age, history, etc. Augustin Daly was the next heaviest buyer. No enthusiasm was manifested by the'bidders. ».•'

A supplement devoted to a discussion of the American drama, by the following American playwrights. Augustin Daly, Edward Harrigan, Bronson Howard, William Gillette, John Grosvenor Wilson and Steele Mackaye, with a critical review of the subject by William Winter, will appear in the number of Harper's Weekly issued January 30.

George H. Adams's part in "He, She, Him and Her" is that of a lad, supposed to be about nine years old. A motherly old lady witnessed a performance of the piece not long since in Chicago, and was so impressed and deceived with Adams's impersonation as a lad that next day she sent him a ball and bat, a toy gun, and a letter of advice, and hopes that he would not allow his associates to corrupt his morals. George thanked her in return, saying he had sent them to his little son, who he knew would be delighted at their receipt. Adams is thirty-two years old and the father of a family

In the autumn of 1872 a ^rell-know Detroiter, on his way down town to business one bleak (November) morning, noticed a little girl with a bundle of Tbe Detroit Free Press under her arm. She was the only "girl cewsboy" in Detroit. She was shabbily clad. She blew her warm breath on her finger-tips, bangfed the toes of one foot against the heel of the other, and hunted the sheltered side of a lamp-post, patiently, if not cheerfully, waiting for customers. Her dress reached just below her knees her stockings were much darned on her head was a worn out straw hat, its only embellishment a poor bit of bright red ribbon. Her hair hung in a mass down her back but her eyes were bright, her voice piped eh eerily and she bad the pluck to brave out tbe raw day till her wares were all sold. That child was Margaret Mather. All the world know her after-story. She has been on the stage six years, having made her debut in the. character of Juliet at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, August 18, 18S2. jr

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defendant*) thereto, and praying therein or order and decree of said court authorizing tbe sale of certain real estate belonging to the estate of said decedent, and in snia petition described, to moke assets for the payment of the debts and llballtls of said estate and that said petition, so filed and pending, is set for bearing in said Circuit Court at the court house, in Terre Haute, Indiana, on the 27th judicial day of the February term, 1880, of said court, the same being tbe 13th day of March,

Witness the clerk and seal of said court, this 18th day of January, 1889. JOHN C. WARREN, Clerk.

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In the Circuit Court of Vigo county, Indiana, February term, 1889. Probate cause No. 1,465. FrancisSteverxon. Administrator de bonis non of estate of Patrick McEiroy, deceased, vs. Elizabeth B. Miller, etal.

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in'.on defendants thereto, and praying tii' in for an order and ree of said court t.rizlng the sale of cert a real estate belonging to the estate of said decedent, and in -:tid petl Hon described, to make assets for tho ymentcf the del'!- and liabilities of said c*i.*te and thst «uid petition, so filed and pending, Is tor hea'iigin said Circuit ^irts! i/ww in xerre Haute, In'iuna,!i tii.* _Tth ii iicialday of the February form,

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