Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 February 1889 — Page 6

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THE MAIL

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WE8TFALL, DOUGLAS H. SMITH,

MAJTAOKB,

LOCAL. EDITOR.

BUB8CBIPTIOH PBIGE, 12.00 A YEAK.

PUBLICATION OTFTICK,

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

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 9, 1889

WHITE caps are not mnch better than anarchists. Both defy the law and both should be exterminated.

HARRISON'S administration will be notable for several things. Several new States will be admitted, a new Territory will be created and a new member added to the cabinet—that of Secretary of Agri culture, the bill for which has passed the House.

COMMEOTINO on the murder or suicide of Prince Rudolph, which ever it was, German newspaper refers to the so-called "American method" of fighting duels which consists in casting lots to see which one of the contestants shall com mit suicide. Now what another slander Is this on America. In the first place nobody fights duels in America except few Southerners, and they always shoot to kill. If there is any such method of dueling as that spoken of, it certainly is not an American method.

THE correspordent of the New York Sun has relieved an anxious world, having followed Gen. Harrison into a shoe store, where the latter purchased a pair of extra high heeled shoes of heavy leather with a double sole, six and a half in size and made on a "D" last. It is gratifying to know that the presidentelect shows such wisdom in the selection of bis foot gear and that his feet are of normal size. Over anxious office seekers should bear these things in mind. Beware not to exasperate the new executive.

WE all remember the warmth of discussion in Indiana over the proposition to submit a prohibition amendment to a vote of the people. The Legislature refused to make the submission, but the doctrine has made marked progress in some otherStates. New Hampshire will vote on the question soon, the Legislatures of Pennsylvania and Nebraska have agreed to submit it to a vote of the people, and it is likely that Massachusetts and perhaps Illinois will take the same course. The growth of the prohibition sentiment is certainly steady and ooncluslve.

THE question whether life and marriage are a failure has been applied to housekeeping and a number of bright women discuss the question in the North AmeTtcan Review. It ie gratifying to know Uiat tViem Iwlte* hM® teMhed the conclusion that housekeeping ia not entirely a failure. They agree that if we must live housekeeping is better than boarding. Well, we must live, it seems, and so it follows that we shall have to keep house. But isn't it queer that we should be asking such questions? Our forefathers never stopped to ask if life, or marriage, or housekeeping were failures. They went right ahead enjoying life as best they could.

IN the event of the passage of tho Oklahoma bill by the Senate before the present term expires, President Cleveland would have soveral very nice offices to givo to Democrats. Tho bill, which has already passed tho House, creates anew Tei ritory, provides for a Governor, Secrotary, throe judges of the Supreme court, and a requsite number of land offices. For IIvo years all these places may be filled by non-residents of tho Territory. There is little probability, however, that a Republican Senate will be disposed to throw such handful of fat plums into Air. Cleveland's lap with In a month of a Republican administration coming in, and these nioe things will be resorved for Goneral Harrison to distribute. It is safe to say thit the politicians will be as eager after these offices as the "boomers" are to get quarter sections in Oklahoma.

THK disposition Is increasing in many states to pass compulsory educational laws. In some states there are such laws but they either do not meet the requirements or are not rigidly enforced. New York State is considering anew compulsory education bill to control the children who work in factories and shops. One of its features is that children between eleven and sixteen years, who work for a li »*ing, shall be obliged to attend school at l^ast fourteen weeks in each ye*r. All children who are not at regular work must go to school throughout the year, just as children between seven and eleven years are forced to do. Heretofore the law in New York has been that parents or guardians who failed to give children the requisite tuition could be proceeded against only after judgements had beeu secured. The new law makes failure to comply with the law a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Another excellent feature is the provision that in cities of over 250,000 people ample school accommodation shall be provided within five yearn, and in smaller places within two yearn, or the public school moneys shall be forfeited. The growth of manufacturing in New York has made imperative astringent law that will reach the class th»t refuses to give a common school education to its children. The law passed in 1$74 In New York has re suited in failure because the chief offense could not be reached. If the proposed bUl passes the legislature its workings will be watched with much iuterest by all friends of education.

^POLITICAL ASSASSINATION. The recent assassination of John M. Clayton, at Plummerville, Arkansas, will not be allowed to pass without severe comment in the North. The murdered man ran for Congress at the November election against C. R. Breekenridge and was defeated on the face of the returns but was contesting the election on the ground of fraud. It was while seeking evidence in the ease that he was shot through a hotel window at night and instantly killed. The assassination was deliberate and must have been committed by some person or persons concerned in covering up the frauds perpetrated at the election. Clayton was a Repbblican and a brother of Powell Clayton, the well-known Republican leader In Arkansas. Up to this time the murderer has not been discovered but unless he shall be hunted down and punished for his crime the atrocious act will bring discredit and damage not only on Arkansas but upon the whole South.

The worst of it is that this spirit is too widely prevalent in the South. Another man who is contesting a Congressinal seat in Arkansas has been warned to desist and in Florida threats have been made against the attorney who is getting evidence in a contest in that State. There is quite too much of this sort of thing going on in the South, and if not discontinued, it will creat a state of feeling throughout the North that will be very inimical to Southern prosperity.

A SUGGESTION.

One of the strongest objections to the admission of Chinese into this country is the fact that they tend to keep down the wages of labor. This is true and the point is well made against them. But there are other influences tending in the same direction amon^ our own people that are worthy of notice, The head of a large dry goods house in Chicago, speaking of the wages of clerks, said recently that as many as a fourth of the enormous number of applicants for places are persons who do not have to work for a living, chiefly young women in comfortable homes, who want to earn more pin money than they are provided with. Not obliged to pay board or to buy their own clothes, they are able to work for nominal wages. Doubtless they do not stop to think that low wages to them means lower wages to poor girls and women who have to work for a living and perhaps support others out of their scanty wages. Yet this is the effect. There is just so much of a certain kind of work to be done and the more there are to do it the lower will be the wages paid, for when ten people are anxious to do a job of work the employer can have it done for what he likes.

There need be no excuse found in this for girls of good families to be lazy or idle. There is plenty of work to be done in every community that carries no pay with it except the love and affection of those benefitted and the regard of all good men and women.

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The fee system la a breeder of corruption in politics. Knowing the large emoluments connected with these offices men are tempted to spend large sums to get them. If they fail they are often ruined if they succeed it is too frequently by buying votes and resorting to other demoralizing practices. To this fact more than to any other is due the corruption In our politics. Were a stated and known salary attached to each office men would seek it intelligently and the public would decide very quickly whether a man who was asking for a $3,000 or $5,000 salary was worth that much.

As the Indianapolis News well says: "It Is the very fact of the increased rewards attached to these offices that attracts to the cormorants and corrnptionlsts like Sullivan that holds out to them the idea of making politics a trade that starts such men in as council men, contributing many times the salary of the office in oider to secure the place, which they use as a stepping stone to one of those fat county pickings. Thus the evil spreads up and down and out on all sides, corrupting all public duty that may be used to further the advance of fellows who, lured by the big fees, start out for a career of office-holding, just as a man might start in apprenticeship to a trade."

The question has been discussed long enough. The public mind is fully decided about it and the present Legislature should not allow the session to end without abolishing the present system and establishing a judicious salary law.

IF Gen. Harrison is trying to get up a cabinet equal to that which his grand father appointed, 48 years ago, it will keep him busy to do it. Daniel Webster was Secretary of State in that cabinet.

Mr. President.

if,

of charity and

mercy, young

women want to earn money, as they

have a right to do, they can take Up something out of the line of common work that everyone can do and that will not interfere with the wages of such as must work for a living.

FEES AND SALARIES.

The heavy defalcation of county clerk Sullivan at Indianapolis calls attention anew to a matter upon which The Mail has often commented—that of paying county officers salaries instead of fees. All the federal officers from President to postmaster (with only a few exceptions) are paid salaries. The plan works well. The incumbent knows precisely what he Is to have and can govern himself accordingly. A United States Senator gets but $5,000 a year, while some county offices in the large cities get five and even ton times as much. The Marion county clerkship is worth f15,000 or $20,000 a year yet the very best ability could be had and is now being had for $5,000. Probably $3,000, a judge's salary, would procure equally good service and $5,000 is certainly a very liberal allowance.

KEBRB HA "PTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

WHY not invite some one of the great editors of the country to a seat in the cabinet? Journalism has come to be the greatest factor of all in politics, if not in statesmanship, and yet no editor has been called to any very high place in the Nation. Clarkson, of the Iowa State Register, has been talked about a good deal, but it has been more on account of his work as a politician than as an editor. He can hardly be regarded as one of the great editors of the country. A man like Halstead, or Medill, or Whitelaw Reid, or Charles Emory Smith, might well be honored with some large position, and they would fill it doubtless with as much credit and success as the politicians do. Give the editors a chance,

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FOB those who have boys and girls off at school it is not a pleasant fact to contemplate that more students were expelled from Harvard college last year than ever before, for such offenses as gambling, drinking and like misdemeanors. It is coming to be that a set of fast young men, mostly the sons of wealty parents, get into the colleges who pride themselves on their fast living and the amount of money they can spend, caring little or nothing about their studies. They constitute a demoralizing influence in the college and make it more diflicult for students of limited means to get along respectably. This is particularly true of the older educational centers of the East, but we may expect the evil to extend to our Western schools unless it be vigorously fought against. If wealthy men could be brought to see the matter in its true light they would put their sons on a limited allowance at school, giving them enough for comfoftr able living but no excess for indulgi in vicious superfluities. J«j

ABOUT WOMEN.,x

The Woman's Christian Tempe: Union wants an $800,000 buildin Chicago. Of this amount $200,000 already been rsised, and it is tho the other $600,000 will be shortly fi coming.

The bags which French ladies carry^o the theater have grown to immense and are big enough to hold hdnd-g powder-box, sugar-plum box, huge pire fan, gloves and laoe, opera,hq necessary. '/l

Miss Lindo is trying to ^stahli*h stalls throughout Loudon, where palatable soup can be obtained at a erate cost. The stalls will be kept at hours formerly monopolized by public houses—that is early in the ing and late at night.

A supersensitive young lady in York has attempted suicide becaus was twitted about the attentions best young man. If all the have to undergo this ordeal wo to quit business, the world Into perp«ttt»t mo«un4«iMSi

A woman receiver for a seems about the right thing pie of Mason City, Iowa. The Cl bank, of that town, owned by Mi Jones, closed its doors one day last! with no capital, and the court appo' Mrs. Lizzie Fitch as receiver for stitution.

Since her escape fiom the pondero and wearying etiquette of the Germ court to the perfect freedom of Winds not only has the Empress Frederick proved in health, but she has develop an Independence of demeanor whict is hardly likely she will ever allow to stlfied by her son.

Several villas at or near Naples ha' been inspected during the last fortnig by an agent from St. Petesburg, who is charged to engage a residence there for the Empress of Russia, as a thorough change of scene is declared to be absolutely necessary in order to prevent a complete breakdown of her nervous system.

Mrs. Leslie, who, since the death her husband, the late FranR Leslie been the head of this great publish! house, leaves New York City this week on an extended tour through the Wept. She will be accompanied by a staff vf, special correspondents and artists. It is the intention of this accomplished lady to visit all the far southwestern States, including Arizona and New Mexico, finally touching and traveling northward through Southern California. "A British Matron," writing to the Observer on the subject of "The American Girl," insists that the real reason why so many of them marry Englishmen is that the latter are better dressed, better bred, and altogether finer looking specimens of humanity than theavererage New Yorker, Californian or Boston an. The Bostonian, according to the writer's view, is the best educated of the Americans, but even he lacks the polish which comes naturally to his English brother.

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The Hadihg veil has had the effect of causing American women to fly to paint and powder as though their salvation depended upon it. The thickness and voluminous character of the veil makes any other face than one brilliantly and artificially tinted seem pallid to an outside observer. Women have realized this, and thSy have put on the rouge at first carelessly and then thickly until a Hading veil means a painted face in nine cases out of ten. It is a great blessing to women who have always rouged, for they loofc quite pale and interesting under the heavy folds of this latest fad.

Mrs.:'":*«Llly" Langtry Is thentloned among the thousands, professional and otherwise, who will go to Europe during the coming season, but whether to procure new gowns or to push on that always "unfinished business" the gossips who arrange her domestic matters talk •bout, can only be conjectured.

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THA TKITCHEN RANGE. [New York Graphic.] The kitchen range in the White House, so Mrs. Cleveland writes to Mrs. Harrison, is a miserable old affair, bought in Andy Jackson's time. Well, if Mrs. Harrison doesn't like it after she has cooked her first meal on it

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W? A NOVEL BOOM. [Bloomlngtou Herald.] Lincoln, Illinois, has started an interesting and novel boom. The Monitor of that city is calling attention to the numerous comely maidens and beautiful young ladies of Lincoln. It dilates upon their charms of person in poetical and extravagant language, and dwells with infinite pride upon the female loveliness that abounds in Lincoln. We suspect that this boom of beauty inaugurated by the papers of Lincoln has for its ulterior object the attraction to che city of young men of capital whom it is hoped will come, see and be conquered by the divinities who throng its streets and are seen in all the public places of the town. Other cities have attempted to boom their prospects in various ways, but we believe this is the first instance wherein a town has striven to attract population and wealth through the agency of the grace and beauty of its maidens.

V, WOMEN AND REST. [Chicago Herald.] Many women never rest. They seem not to understand what rest—real rest— means. To throw one's self down with a newspaper or a book is not rest it is only a change of occupation. To sit down and keep the fingers flying over some sort of fancy work, as if one were pursued by a demon of unrest, is certainly not rest. But to lie at full length on a hard surface, arms extended at the sides, head back, with no pillow, eyes closed, all cares and worries dismissed —this is rest—this wilt smooth away wrinkles in face and in temper this will give an air of repose to the tired, anxious, nervous woman this will take away many an ache and straighten out rounded shouldeis and craned out necks.

English girls who are famous walkers are taught to lie down for a few seconds whenever they come in from their tramps. If Americans would learn the value of lying down frequently, savs two or three times a day, they would have (Lwice as as much go ahead and power to go ahead as they are now famous for.

"BO ULANQER AND A WIDO W. [New York Evening Sun.] In 1876 a distinguished Baltimorean gave a dinner. At table the fiery glance of the General rested on a beautiful ashlngton widow. The guests bad risen when he broke away from the he had taken in and asked to be ted to the fair enslaver. He could wriwiWMWI 6 the

*£&eneral's devotion was in pos,4i of the room. He followed the to Washington and there his atten became so assiduous that the lady ame frightened and retreated to an er chamber, from whence she plead .ness. Nothing discouraged the brave eneral planted himself at the door with presistent regularity. "Madam, has your daughter a doctor? Get one, get two, get three 1" "General Boulanger, rest assured my daughter shall have all the medical attention her illness demands," replied the intrepid mother, parleying on the doorstep. The General then proceeded to bombard the invalid with letters, threb a day—curious epistles, written in French and laborously Englished by gaeana of a dictionary. The time came when the General had to

set

sail, and he composed what to him was a fitted farawell. "Now that everything is over,' he wrote to the lady, who was unaware that anything was begun, "I beg you to remember that I am a gallant man" (un gallant horame.)

OUR DAILY BREAD.

Heavy and sour bread or biscuit has a vast influence through the digestive organs upon the measure of health we enjoy. How important to our present happiness and future usefulness the blessing of good health and a sound constitution are, we can only realize when we have lost them, and when it is too late to repair the damage. Ifotwithstandlng these facts, thousands of persons daily jeopardize not only their health, but their lives and the health and lives of others, by using articles in the preparation of their food the purity and healthfujn«ss of which they know nothing. Perhaps a few cents may have been saved, or it may have been more convenient to obtain the articles used, and the housekeeper takes the responsibility and posslblv may never

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she shall have a new one. It was only the stinginess of an Administration bent on piling up the surplus as an "awful example that prevented an appropriation for that purpose during Mrs. Cleveland's time, and it is sincerely to bo hoped that Mr. Cleveland has suffered a little from indigestion because he did not get his wife what she ought to have in the way of kitchen appurtenanoes. He ought as well expect her to scrub without a brush or wash without a tub, as to oook well without a perfect range.

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the

mischief that ha*»'been wrought. I'ater familias may have spells of headache, the children may have lost their appetites, or look pale if so, the true cause is rarely susp£ct©d. Th© weathor, tb© lack of out-door air, or some other cause is given, and the unwholesome, poisonous system of adulterated food goes on. Next to the flour, which should be made of good, sound wheat and not ground too fine, the yeast or baking powder, which furnishes the rising properties, is of the greatest importance, and of the two we prefer baking powder, and always use the Royal, as we thereby retain the original properties of the wb«t, no fermentation taking place. The action of the Royal Baking Powdei upon the dough Is simply to swell it and form little cells through every part. These cells are filled with carbonic acid gas. which passes off during the process of

k^The^Royal is made from pure grape add, and it is the action of this acid upon highly carbonized bicarbonate of soda that generates the gas alluded to: fitted, tested and adapted to each other, that the action i* mild and permanent, and is continued during the whole time of baking, and no residue of poisonous ingredient* remain to undermine the hmlth, no heavy biscuits, no sour bread, but if directions are followed, every article will be found wholesome and sweet.

An unusual spec table in th© courts was the legal renunciation of a German nobleman of all fight to his prospective American bride's fortune. Charming are some of the sacrifices for Cupids

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RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO., 6th and Main streets.

Money to Loan. MONEY—TO

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amounts on easy terms. J. D. BIGELOW, Opera House.

MONEY

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centime,t[

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Beach Block Sixth and Main streets.

VALENTINES

FANCY and COMIC at POST OFFICE LOBBY.

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THE SULTAN.

A Sultan sat by Danube's tide And sore distressed aloud he cried While like the waters to the sea His tears ran down both fast and free.

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those tears so' fast "descend

"Alas he sobbed, "I've lost aH hope

I've lost my cakc of IVORY .SOAP. And made that man a Turkish Bey, No more in pride through town I'll go, With servants kind and Viziers sage. With garments clean and white ar» snow And fifty wives to chccr his age.

A WORD OF WARNING.

For Sale.

FlOR

There are many white coaps, each represented to be "just as good as the Ivory' 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.

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SALE—A Home on ............ ments. Good house ot-8 rooms with desirably situated. Apply to

R. GAGG,

DEALER IK

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES

Picture Frames, Mouldings Picture Frames to Order.

McKeen's Block. 648 Main st, 8tb ana 7th.

fvR W. VANVALZAH,

JLS Successor to

RICHARDSON A VAN VALZAH, UEnSTTIST. Office—Southwest corner Fifth and Main 8treet*,c on Fifth

over National State Bank (entranos street.

JSAAC BALL,

FUNERAL DIRECTOR.

Cor. Third and Cherry Sto., Terre Haute, Ind. Is prepared to execute all orders

his line

with neatness and dispatch.

Embalming gpeetultjr.

HORACE M. Sxrra. JOH* R. HAGER.

Smith & Hager.

Jt ACC!IKNT and LIFE

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100 Pieces

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The handsomest line ever shown on our counters. Plaids, stripes and check in large and small patterns, also plain in all colors. These are choice goods for Children's Dress, Aprons and Waists. Colors warranted perfectly fast Entire line displayed on Dress Goods counters. Please call and see them.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

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

But in disgrace must move about, By scornful fingers pointed out." "Not so," the noble stranger cried "I have a piece and will divide from his coat-tail pockct drew.--A cakc afcu tiroKCT idir 111 two. Then rose in joy the Sultan gray,

QHOLERA HOGS.

Cosh paid for dead Hogs at my factory on the island southwest of the city, also Tallow, Bones and Urease of all kind. Dead Animals removed free of charge. Office No. 18 2nd.

Telephone No. 78 and 74. HARRISON SMITH.

C. O. LINCOLN,

DENTIST

810 north 13th street.

All work warranted as represented.

GEO. MARBAOH,

DENTIST.

REMOVED to 428% Wabash Avenue,

over

Arnold's clothing store.

GYDNEY B. DAVIS,

Attorney at Law.

PATENTS OBTAINED.

Room 3 Warren Block, s. w. cor. 4th and Main sts.

Have associated with me Geo. M. Davis, fa graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute] who will examine Inventions proposed for Patents, make drawings, etc.

Established 1866. Incorporated 1878.

pHCENIX FOUNDRY AITI MACHINE WORKS}

Manufacture and deal in all kinds of

Machinery and Machinery Users Supplies.

Flour Mill Work

OUB SPECIALTY.

Have more patterns, larger experience an4. capacity, and employ more mechanics than any other similar establishment wnhln sev-enty-five miles of Terre Hauteu

Repair and Jobbing Work.

Olveu special attention. Write or call on us and see for yourself. 901 to 336 N. 9th St., near Union Depot

Terre Haute, Ind.

HOTEL

GLENHAM,

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N. B. BARRY, Proprietor

New and perfect plumbing, according the latest scientific principles.

J)R. GILLETTE., DE2STTIST. Gold ruling a Speciality.

Office—Corner Seventh and Main streets, in McKeen's new block, opp. Terrs Haute House