Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1889 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WEBTFALL, DOUGLAS H. SMITH,

FOUR stars in the political canopy are falling into oblivion, Cleveland, Bayard, Mills and Brice, but the disappearance takes place without much disconsolation since four stars have been added to the flag to remain there perpetually.

IT is said that General Harrison has been compelled to smoke fewer cigars, his nerves not being able to stand the strain of a dozen imported Havanas per lay. It is probably not the cigars but the office-seekers that have been bard on the new President's nerves.

THE score or so of men who have been talked of as cabinet possibilities but did not get there will have to be contented with the honor which such mention has done them. It is a little "empty" to be sure, but a good many have found it pretty empty business who did get in.

THB sudden death of Col. George W. Friedley, from heart disease, was a painful surprise to the many who knew and loved him. A brave soldier, an honest lawyer, and a loyal friend, he acquitted himself with honor in every task he undertook, and won the warm friendship of all who knew him. He was not known to be seriously ailing, and his death at the age of 49 came as a painful Hhock.

DAN LAMONT did a plucky and mighty uncommon thing for these times in declining to except the $6,000 of back salary which Congress was ready to vote him, so as to make his salary equal to that which rrivate Secretary HalfoM will receive. It is not often that a man will throw $0,000 over his shoulder in su«h fashion. Mr. Lamont could have taken this money and not oven been criticised for doing so, since Congress offered it to him of their own accord, without any suggestion from him. But having accepted the office at a salary' of $3,.r00 a year, Mr. Lamont, after serving out his term, did not feel that it was proper for hi in to except $1,500 a year more. His action is a .rebuke to Congress for boing so lavish with the people's money and will raise Mr. Lamont several points lu the estimation of the public.

TJIK action of Mrs. Harrison and her daughter in having their state dresses made of materials wholly manufactured in tho United States has something more in it than more sentiment. The late national campaign was contested on the question of protection to Americau labor. That idea won the day and pointed to the inauguration of a thoroughly American system in our national politics. Our people have been quite too much in the habit of sending off to Europe for their finest goods. Anything that bore the oharmed legond "imported" was bought atauy price, without inquiry as to the country from which it was supposed to be imported from. Now we can make just as tine, good, and beautiful things in tho United Suites as can be produced anywhero in the world, and it is doing our designers and workmen an injustice to pass by their work in order to prefer that of foreigners. The coming ladies of the White house have done a sensible and becoming thing iu patronizing American industry.

nrsrxKss and politics. The Commercial Club of Chicago is trying to find out tho causes of the indifforeneo of tho intellectual classes to politics and the remedy. It is a good subject for investigation but the inquiry is too narrow. It is not the "intellectual classes'' only who are indifferent to politics but tho business and professional men as well.

It is easy enough to see where the troubio lies. The Mail has pointed it out more than once. The business of politics is too much lu the hands of professional wire-pullers ami bummers. Decent people become disgusted with what they characterize an "the dirty pool" and wash their hands of it—loo many of them. This Is, of course, not the way to reform politics. The pool will get dirtier all the time if the bummers are left In eonttol of iu The way to purify politic* is for clean and decent people to take hold of them and exert their proper Influence at the proper time—that is at the primaries where candidates are seleoUnl to 1h voted (or.

The Illinois legislature has a bill before It providing that primary elections shall be under the control of the election commissioners where the proper application is made therefor. The principle is a good one. The primaries are really the source of power. There is the place to settle the question of tUness or untlluosa, just as a national convention the place to determine the fitness of candidate for the Pmddeney. They are the sources of political power and if the sourvw be impure the whole stream will be Impure. The Legislature does well to recognise this fact and to provide for bringing the primaries under the con trol of law.

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LOCAL EDITOR.

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TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 2,1889.

THE railroads, too, have been earning less this year than last. Smaller margins of jirofit seem to be the rule all along the line. Competition may be the life of trade but it often proves the death of profits.

THE NEW STA TSS.

President Harrison's administration will be distinguished by the admission of at least four new States into the Union. There may be more, but present indications do not point to the early admission of the other five Territories, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Yet the first two may be prepared to come in at an earlier day than now seems probable.

But North and South Dakota, Mon£ana, and Washington will be admitted early in the new administration. The bill having already become a law, nothing remains but for the people of the Territories to adopt constitutions and elect the necessary officers, whereupon the President will admit them by proclamation. As chairman of the Senate committee on Territories, Gen. Harrison labored strenuously for the admission of the new States and it Is peculiarly appropriate that they should come into the Union at the very beginning of his. administration.

These four States will be the first admissions since Colorado in 1876—thirteen years, and will be by far the most important event of the kind that has happened in the history of the country, when their size, resources and future prospects are considered. Their area is greater than that covered by the entire original 13 States and their present taxable wealth exceeds that of any six of the original States. Their agricultural, mineral and grazing resources are Qf unbounded value and give assurance of a great future for the new commonwealths.

The fear expressed by some of the English newspapers that the absorption of so much new territory may render the Union "top-heavy" is of course groundless. To all intents and purposes the Territories are as much a part of the Union before their admission as States as they are afterwards. They have representation in Congress, are governed by the United States and are settled up by people from the States. Their introduction into the Union brings no radical change in the body politic. It simply endows the Territories with new rights and powers of self-government.

THE NEW PRESIDENT. On Monday next General Benjamin Harrison will enter upon the duties of the high place to which the American people have called him. He with his family left Indianapolis on Monday and havo already been in Washington several days. It will be the first time the State of Indiana has ever been honored by having one of her citizens fill the highest office in the nation. But a more worthy, competent and fitly equipped man for the high place could have been found nowhere, and his entrance upon the duties of President assures the country of an administration of purity and true American virility.

Indiana is very'proud of this distinguished citizen. Her people have taken every opportunity to show their esteem and affeotion for him. He is not "a cold man" to them. Far from it. Whenever he has spoken of the city of his residence and of his State he has done so in words of the deepest affection. His parting speech on leaving Indianapolis was deeply touching. He recognized the heavy weight of responsibility that rested upon him but like Lincoln and Washington he expressed his trust in a Divine Providence that would guide and strengthen him. He is a Christian man and depends upon a power that is higher and stronger than men. Led by such a spirit who can doubt that his discharge of duty as the executive head of the nation will be wise and prosperous?

Naturally Gen. Harrison's accession to the Presidency calls attention to the wonderful progress and development of the nation since his grandfather entered upon the same duties not quite half a contury ago. Then there were no railways and his grandfather was fourteen days in traveling by stage from Cincinnati to Washington. It was a rough, toilsome journey and the means of communication iu the country were so poor that the knowledge of his illness did not reach his wife, who had not yet left the old home, until the President was dead. Far different are the times. A few hours in a palace car, provided with all the comforts of a luxurious home, bridge the distance between the far ends of the land and important news can be flashed from Washington to San Francisco in a moment's time. Surely the new times are better than the old, if the same spirit of content, of honesty and purity, dwell in the people now as dwelt in them then. Let us hope that it is so. There is indeed no good reason why it should not be. If with the multiplication of all the conveniences and comforts of life does notcome increased enjoyment and larger er happiness then is our civilisation a failure, for this is the measure of our achievement.

DEER PARK.

It is a pretty little cottage in a grove of maples, which seem mere pigmies by the side of a towering oak among them, whose branches have been swayed to and fro by the oreeses of several centuries. A porch is stn bed around three sides of the building, and is almost reached by the low jutting roof. Around the house are walks and drives, and back or it is a big barn. The Harrisons will not lack for neighbors to drop in and chat. On the brow of the twin hilt of that on which the Harrison cottage stands is the summer home of ex-Senat Davis. Then comes the residence Bon. Stephen B. Klkins, Mr. Davis's son-in-law, and a personal as well as political friend of General Harrison. On the other side of the cottage towards the hotel is one of the cotU- 'n whU Mayor Lalrobe and Mr. Ji.i: Reii and their families spend the summer. The hotel is aln.~l in whtsf'^e t®. The cottages st t• in asetn ujd there is plenty of space for young Ben jam in Harrison Mckee the w,

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING- MAIII

SHOWS AND SHOW PEOPLE.

Realism has certainly gone to seed. The great tank in "A Dark Secret" holds sixty thousand gallons of water,

It was Charles Vandenhofl, the actor^ who made the observation at a dinner table: "I do not believe a man ever did a chivalric deed in a plug hat''

Francis Wilson says that before he went on as the junior thief in "Ermine" he took the trousers he was to wear and mopped a theater floor with them for about an hour, tor fear they would not look sufficiently disreputable.

Mrs. Langtry will open her season early next September in London, and will play there for some time. She has offers from Australia to produce "Macbeth" there, and one to appear in a series of performances embracing^fcejL entire repertoire in St. Petersburg.

A plucky and successful youug man is M. Antoine, of the Theater Libre, Paris. When he started that venture, two years ago, his only capital was the $30 a month he was earning as a clerk in a gas com pany's office. His first two performances were free to all comers. Now his theatre is one of the most profitable in Paris.

Bill Nye anS James Wbitcomb Riley and Richard Malcolm Johnston, the favorite story writer, appear together in the east. Mr. Johnston, the next to Mr, Riley, haS been the most successful delineator of the characters of his own creation at the recent Authors' Readings in New York, Philadelphia and Washington.

Fanny Davenport has started a new craze now. When out driving she car ries a small Japanese hand-warmer, which is her substitute for a muff. This new toy, which never fails to excite curiosity, is a tiny stove whose dimensions may be six inches by six and three quarters of an inch. Siher is the material and brown ivory. The frame work is dark silver and curiously wrought medallons of ivory are set as panels in the lid. It is a pretty bit of jewelry, and is heated by a carbon pen oil.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Vice-President-elect Morton is an accomplished whist player, King Malletoa of Samoa draws a salary of $20 a month. But then he isn't much of a King, and his wardrobe is neither extensive nor expensive.,

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It is officially announced that at the Inaugural Ball introductions will not be considered indispensible and a waltzer of the sterner sex will have the privilege of asking any lady in the room to dance with him.

Counte9s Martinez sells stamps at the postoffice window in Philadelphia. She was a Balitmore girl, and her husband is a real German count, at present in reduced circumstances and in a Philadelphia hospital.

A Buffalo exchange reader turned in the other day Dr. Watts' hymn beginning "When I can read my title clear," with a credit to the Nebraska Statei Journal. He is now pursuing a course in "Robert Elsmere."

A man who tried to play "White Cap" on his brother was buriedin Queen Anne county, Maryland. We are sorry for him. It was his first attempt and was undertaken in jest. The funeral, however, will genuine.

Ebenezer Burgess Ball, the nearest living relative of George Washington, occupies a stall in the south corridor of the Pension Building at Washington, where he sells cigars and fruit to the clerks. He is nearly eighty years old, and bears a striking resemblance to the father of his country.

The Presbyterian church at Southampton, L. I., has decided by a vote of 50 to 30, not to call President Cleveland's brother, the Rev. W. N. Cleveland, to its pulpit. A few days since it was thought that the reverend gentleman would receive a practically unanimous call, but the pious brethren made a political matter of the call.

It is asserted in Canadian political circles that Sir John MacDonald is about to head off public sentiment in favocof unrestricted reciprocity with the United States by having a member of the English royal family reside in Canada. The person selected for this high honor is said to be Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

Mr. William Bigger, of Redbank, N. J., claims to have caught a rabbit with two tails, on a farm once owned by Geueral Harrison's grandfather. Mr. Bigger will have the left hind foot of the rabbit preserved and mounted and will send it to Mr. Harrison, both as a memento of his grandfather's farm in New Jersey and as a symbol of good luck.

Prince Eristoth de Gourie, the Rnsdan nobleman now visiting New York, whose past history was written up lately by several of the papers of that city, is a nobleman of wisdom and deliberation. He held a meeting, to which he invited the newspaper men, and officially denied the truth of their statements against him. Both sides agreed to investigate the case further, and a trace of one month was proclaimed, the time to be devoted to the gathering of facts bearing upon the case. -. f*

General Horace Porter says that President Lincoln wasn't much of a champagne drinker. Once, after a journey to City Point, Mr. Lincoln was suffering from the gastronomic disturbances incident to sailing on rough water. A you

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grn!-iied a bottle of champagne and thru«t It toward Mr. Lincoln, saying that that was the very thing be needed. "No, young man," Mr. Lincoln said, "I have seen to many fellows seasick ashore from drinking that very article."

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Eiser's for freshr-made Candies, Fruits, Nuts, New Novelties, etc., Ninth $ud I* Wabash Avenue.

The flying feet of the young ladies and gentlemen at the Kirmess this week at. tracted attention. Many were clad in footwear- from A. H. Boegeman's store, 110 south Fourth street, and no wonder they were noticed. Boegeman always keeps the best and can fit anyone. His special prices are still drawirtg purchasers to his boot and shoe emporium. He has constantly on hand alarge stock from which to make selection and he can suit the most fastidious.

When fires occur, and they are likely to take place at any time, it is well to be insured. In considering fire insuiance a reliable agent should be selected. Wm. M. Slaughter, 329 Ohio street, can be highly recommended and those desiring policies wonld do well to call upon him. He is also a loan, collection and rental agent,

Fresh lot "Creesida" Cigars just received at Baker Watson's, is

Ladies in this city have created quite a craze in the way of decorating screens for the parlor. Some very handsome screens can be found at C. W. Merring's picture frame store, 22 north Fourth street. He has a large variety of easels and also a large variety of frames and beautiful pictures. Give him a call.

In the selection of a set of harness care should be taken that they are substantial which insures that they will be serviceable. Peter Miller at his popular store, 505 Main street, has a complete line of chain harness, heavy wagon harness, horse collars, trunks and valises. Anything one needs in his line can be found at his store at reasonable prices.

Stop Paying Rent. $5.25 per month will get you a home. For particulars see I. Fechheimer, No. 208. Fourth St..

Go Look at the South.

TaKe advantage of the very cheap excursions over the Louisville AJNashville railroad on March 12th and 26th. Excursion tickets will be on sale on those dates at all principal ticket offices in the north to Columbia, Tenn. Florence, Ala. Sheffield, Ala. Decatur, Ala. Cullman, Ala. Evergreen, Ala., and Ocean Springs, Miss., at one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good to return at any time within sixty days of date of purchase, and will allow stop-over of fifteen days in both directions at points south of Columbia, Tenu. For any further information write to C. P. Atmore, Gen'l. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ry.

Mardi Gras.

E. & T. H. R. R. will sell round trip tickets from Terre Haute to New Orleans at $21.05 until March 3d, good returning March 23d. R. A. CAMPBELL,

General Agent.

Change of Time on the C. & B. I. R. R. Train No. 3, now leaving Chicago at 8 p. m., arriving at Terre Haute at 3:35 a, m., will, on and after Sunday, March 10, leave Chicago at 11:20 p. m., arriving at Terre Haute at 6:30 a. m.

Train No. 2, now leaving Terre Haute at 10tl5 a. m-, and arriving at Chicago at 5:30 p. m., will, on and after same date, leave Terre Haute at 10:45 a. m. and arrive at Chicago at 6:20 p. m.

R. A. CAMPBELL, Gen. Agt.

INAUGURATION EXCURSION. The Vandalia Line has made especial arrangements for the accomodation of those going to Washington for the inauguration of President Harrison. Trains leave Terre Haute at 1:51, night, 12:42 noon and 2 p. m. arriving at Washington at 6:50 a. m., 2:40 p. m. and 7:55 _! 1' s' •.! P*

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For full particulars apply to R. D. Diggs, ticket agent, Union depot C. H. Mixer, passenger agent, No. 10 north Sixth street, or to

GEO. E. FARRINOTON, General Agent.

BEE LINE EXCURSION

WASHINGTON, D. C. Account of the Inauguration of General Harrison, the I. & St. L. Ry will sell Round Trip Tickets from Terre Haute to Washington, D. C., for

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Sale commences February 26th and closes March 3d. Tickets good to return until train leaving Washington March 8th. Route via Cincinnati and Baltimore jt Ohio Ry or Chesapeake A Ohio Ry. Trains leave at 1:37 p. m. and 12^0 a. m. Through sleepers from Indianapolis and Cincinnati. E. E. SOUTH,

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Sleeping cars through to Washington on the 1:51 a. in., and from Indianapolis to Washington on the 12:42 noon train. Sleeping cars on the 2 p. m. train from Indianapolis to Pittsburg, and through cars from Pittsburg to Washington. Fare for the round trip—Terre Haute to Washington and return, only $17.50. Tickets good going February 26th, 27th, 28th, March 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and to return on all trains up to and including the trains leaving Washington on the evening of March 8th, 1889.

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JSAAC BALL, FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Cor. Third and Cherry 8t*-, Terre Haute, Ind.

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HOBERG, ROOT & CO.,

Jobbers & Retailers. Noe. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

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All the latest things in Black Dress Materials now open for youjo inspection.

VISIT

Our TriniHiii and Button

DEPARTMENTS.

These are complete,, being filled with the Choicest Novelties we could find in the market. Persian Bands Flannels, embroidered in Silk and Tinsei, Applique Bands, Silk Gimps, Bead Galloons, Steel Trimmings, Ornament Gimps, Gold and Silver Braids and Galloons, etc., eto. Our trimming and Button Department is recommended by all the Fashionable Dress Makers.

Paris and Berlin

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JUST RECEIVED.

Exquisite Plaids, Embroidered Robes, Side Bands and Novelty Stripes.

Jackets! Jackets! Jackets!

Immensd line of Stockinette and Cloth Jackets are now being exhibited in our Cloak Department. Prices from $2.98 up.

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Headquarters for Clover, Timothy, Blue Grass, Orchard Grasp, and all kinds of Bulk Garden Seed. I have a fancy stock of Early Ohio Rose, Clark No. 1 and other varieties of Seed Potatoes and Onion Sets.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL STORE,

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Beaded Wraps, Bead Pellerines, New Markets, Circulars, Peasants, Mantles, etc., etc.

Also an elegant line of Ladies' and Children's

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