Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 April 1889 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLED

EDWIN P. WE8TFALL, DOUGLAS H. SMITH,

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TERRE HAUTE, APRIL 27, 1889

SUICIDAL INSANITY.

•Students of moral and social science -are confronted with no harder problem than the increase of suicide in the United States. In 1881 the number of seif-de-ntructionists throughout the Union was 4505 and that was considered a large nuin •ber. But the next and each succeeding year uhowed an increase 'until in 1888 the number had climbed to 1,487 and the present year bids fair to distance even this appalling record. There have been .-already over (MX) coses of self-destructiun since the first of January and there were five in one day in Chicago recently.

Hard conditions of life do not account for the increase of this hind of crime 'There are, to be sure, instances where poverty and the struggle for existence furnish an apparent cause for suicide But the uct is by no means limited to this class. Of late the list of self-de •stroyers has Included men in good circumstances, clergymen, pliysiciabs lawyers, merchants, bankers, railroad men, and, wonderful to tell, ten ofllceholderH! (Perhaps the latter feared they were going to be turned out.)

What can we make of these facts? No men or women in the world ever worked /harder or endured more than, our hardy ^pioneer ancestors and yet suicide among them was rare. They lived close to na lure's heart in primitive simplicity and found life to be worth living,, hard and bare as their condition now seems to us. Their appetites wore natural and healthy they believed they were in the world for noma wise purpose and they had the courage and fortitude to light the battle of life to a finish, whatever it might have in store for them.

What ails their degenerate progeny that, surrounded by comforts of which the pioneers not even dreamed, they should decide life not worth living, show -tho white feather and make an end of •thomsolves with rope, rat poison or revnher? We believo the fact Is duo to the unnatural and unhealthy mental and moral atmosphere in which we live. Not content with what God sends us, with the simplcrjoys and pleasures of a healthy existence, we stilve with insane desire for artificial things that are beyond our reach. We work and fret and worry until we can't sleep, insomnia brings mental disease and iii a fit of "temporary insanity," so-called, we slip tho noose or tiro the fatal shot..

The tendency towards this form of insanity will doubtless continue until people return to healthier modes of liv-ing-eat simple food, have regular habits, cease to kill themselves with overwork, and settle down to the conviction that the body is moro than raiment and & puro heart, clean hands, and contented mind are worth more than houses and lands, band stock or railroad shares. It is as truo now as It was two thousand years ago that a man's life does not consist In the multitude of the things he possessoth but rather in possessing his own self. With a return tosimple, honest, healthy living will come an abatement In the suicidal mania.

CONSTITUTIONAL CENTENNIAL. Next Tuesday marks the centennial of constitutional government in the United States. While independent* was declared in 177«i, the thirteen colonies struggled along as best they could separately for thirteen years thereafter. The arrangement was not satisfactory and in 1779 they formed a perpetual union and chose Washington for President. Then was inaugurated a form of government that has endured without change since, and bids fair to last for many years to come. It is doubtless the most perfect, all things considered, of any now existing, although not perfect and perhaps susceptible of some improvements which the people may mako in it from time to time.

April 30, of this year, has been declared by Congress a national holiday to be observed by religious worship and appropriate patriotic ceremonies. A wave of genuine patriotic sentiment seems to be rolling over the land and extensive preparations are under way to give the day a fitting celebration. In New York the ceremonies, attended by the President, his cabinet and other high offers of the government, will t*t sp« Uly magnificent, while in other large cities the arrangements under way contemplate an eutire abandonment ©t business and the observance/^ the day as a grand holiday.

So, all through tho wintry, there will be fitting notice of this ceatonntal occasion and one of the most pleasing features of it will be the exorcises in which the children of the public schools will participate. Flag pole# will he raised, patriotic addremnS# nwule and the children will join in »in|rlog the national anthem. Beeidea this tfeej no al idy been instructed in ma«v African history having to do \&- period celebrated. **.

All thia commutes an excellent lemon in patriotism for both yonag and old and is at lite time a rtn-frn- of the divine fan** which w. nation's birth and progr* fKraa the "be* giauittg. the day should he widely and observed throughout the entire nation in such way ihemind of the rising generation.

OKLAHOMA.

which is 200 miles long by flu wide—three

times tho size of Oklahoma—will soon be opened up to settlers and there is good prospects that a vast area of the Sioux reservation in Dakota will also be thrown open to white settlec* at an early day. If all three of these great tracts shall be opened up homesteads will bo furnished for many thousands of our population. It seems likely Indeed that the Indians, in the course of a few more years, will be obliged to be contented, like the whites, with 160 acres of land for each head of a family. Land is getting too scarce and valuableeven in America to be used as mere hunting grounds. Civilization or extermination is the inevitable destinv of the red man.

WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

Already admitted to Statehood and only awaiting organization, Washington Territory is just now attracting more attention than any other part of the Union. The tide of emigration into California has been ohecked, the great hotels at the southern resorts are slimly occupied, the country has been over-boomed and is suffering the relapse which inevitably follows that condition. Some years will be required for the country to grow up to its present urban developement.

In Washington tho status is very different. The boom is on in Seattle, Tacoma, and to a lesser degree in other towns. A Chicago man, just returned from a two months' tour through the Territory, says that residence lots in Seattle aud Tacoma are selling in some quarters at $ 100 and ?200 a foot, although iust cleared, and in the rear shaded by the virgin forests of firs, Rents in theso two cities are enormous, a 92,000 house yielding ?50 to fOO month. This condition of things is duo to the rapid inovoment thither of capital and emigration, the carpenters being unable to supply the demand for new houses.

Back of this are great resources In the way of agriculture, minerals and timber. The climate is good. Pugent Sound has fine natural harbors and can be entered directly by vessels from all parts of the world. It is the natural expectation that a great city will arise some here on its shore, and the rivalry between Seattle and Tacoma begins to resemble that of St. Paul and Minneapolis. They are about the same size now and only two hours apart by rail. The race between these twin cities of Pugent Sound promises to become one of tho interesting features of the near future.

AFTER trying prohibition some years ago Michigan has turned round and adopted a high license law, the rate being fixed at $000, and if drug stores want to put liquor into the soda water they sell, they must pay the licenso the same as saloons. There is one admirable feature of the new law that ought to.be adopted everywhere, namely, that no screens, curtains, stained glass or other device shall hide the bar from public view. Men may drink but they must do it openly and not sliuk behind a screen to do it. This is right. The people who hold that there is no disgrace in taking a glass of beer or a dram of whisky now and then, as they need it, have no more need of being screened in the act than of eating their dinner in the restaurant hidden from public view. Let us get this drinking business up to the same level as eating and we shall have less need to talk prohibition. The general sense of what is pure, healthy and decent will settle the question.

SINCK the American press and people have spoken out very freely demanding the fall rights of the nation in Samoa, it is noted that Prince Bismarck is ready to concede all that is asked for. The iron chancellor respects pluck and when the United States abandoned its policy of accepting Whatever other nations might accord to it without protest, Germany concluded that it was time to reoognixe America as one of the nations of the earth.

Ir begins to Itvk as if Canada may cease to be an a$ylnm for 'American thieves and defaulters. The Canadian House has passed the Weldon bill, with the retroactive clause left out. This! means that the bo-•Hen already there may *-fa\ no morf must come. It will i.* tho fail* to become a and pr m- :wo thieves and em7.- '^rs in the UnitStates may as well be up sne tiher summer resort. 4-"

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Oklahoma is settled. It was settled between noon and sundown of last Monday. No country was ever settled in such a fashion before. The pen of Dickens would have delighted in snoh a subject as Oklahoma. Imagine the great caricaturist picturing the grand stam-. pede across the line, the staking out of lue* ^Ten Henry town sites and speculation in corner lots I Minnie Maddern has secured the of the future metropolis! The

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may yet be others, but for the most part the settlers were good natured and took things as they come. Doubtless there will be many contests in the courts when the courts get into operation, but many of the disappointed ones will turn their attention to other quarters. The proba bilities are that the Cherokee strip, I

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY ^EVENING MATT,

SHOWS AND SHOW PEOPLE.

The report that Mary Anderson's sister, Blanche Griffin, is going to go on the stage, is denied by her relatives.

The portrait of Ellen Terry by John S. Sargent was unveiled the other day in London at the Beefsteak Club, at a ban-

of "Featherbrain," which she will bring

Martin Chuzzlewit wonld have been I out in New York in May. The heroine nothing to it. is described as a woman Dundreary. The 4,000 square miles of Oklahoma Fred Warde lately lost $1,600 worth of were converted from a wilderness into a railroad tickets at San Diego, Col., where populated country in a day and with I he had purchased sixteen tickets for his less of lawlessness and violence than I company from that city to St. Paul, thero was good cause to apprehend. Henry E. Abbey has succeeded There have been a few murders and there

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up the quarrel between Hading

and Coquelin and the two famous actors will appear together in London next month. at

A fund for the erection of a statue to the memory of Lester Wallack has been started by a number of New York so ciety ladies. The sum desired is $15,000

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no fears for the result

Minnie Palmer, the actress, Insoflered to clean all the public statues in New York at her own expense. She will be gin at the statue of Franklin, in Print ing House Square, and gradually cover the city.

H, B. Conway, who is one of the hand somest young actors on the English stage, formerly with Irving, has signed a contract with Daniel Frohman to go to America and support Mrs. James Blaine, Jr.

Cornelius Matthews, commonly called the "Father of American Drama," died at his home in New York on Monday in his 72d year. Mr. Matthews has been associated with literary work and the drama for nearly fifty years.

An "opera hat" for ladies has been patented by an English woman and consists of a hat on a wire frame, trimmed with lace and flowers. It will close similar to a gentleman's evening hat and can be sat upon without injury.

Marcellite Thome Garner, the daughter of the late William T. Garner, of Poughkeepsie, oxpends $10,000 a year for dresses alone. When her father was drowned in his yacht, Mohawk, a few .years ago, he left her a fortune of $10,000,000.

A well-known Englishactrftss is angry because a manufacturer of false teeth has placarded his town with pictures representing her "before and after" taking a set of his famous teeth. The "before" portrait is the one which makes her angry.

A story is told of a Kansas woman with a family of girls who reared them with the fixed determination that not one of them should ever marry a Missourian, a Democrat or a man named John. The very first husband combined all these objectionable things.

An enterprisiug manager in New Briiain, Conn., advertised that Booth and. Barrett will appear at his theatre in

Uncle Tom's Cabin," with Booth as Uncle Tom and Barrett as Eva. The announcement says that the prices will be 10, 20 and 30 cents.

During the performance of "The Stowaway" in Brooklyn this week two wellknown ex-cracksmen, named "Spike" Hennessey and "Kid"' McCoy, will blow open a genuine safe in the burglary scene. This is realism with a vengence —and without a vengence, too.

Booth cast his first and the only vote of his life for Abraham Lincoln in the autumn of 1804. A short time after, on the night of November 25,1804, the three Booth brothers appeared in the play of "Jalius Ctcsar," Edwin as Brutus, Junius as Casslus, and John Wilkes as Marc Anthony. IF

During the fifteen years of "Evangeline's" existence a number of famous actors and actresses have graduated from its ranks. Among them are Crane, Nat Goodwin, Laura Joyce Bell, Pauline Hall, Sadie Martinot, George S. Knight, Harry Dixey, Vernona Jarbeau, Lillian Conway and Lillian Russell.

A lady living in Tocoal, Ga.,* claims'to have discovered a sure cure for hydrophobia. It has been tried in several instances and always cures. It is a tea made from a well-known herb, which possesses the remarkable power of entering the blood, permeating the entire system and neutralizing the effects of the dreadful poison.

Wedding theater parties are now considered to be the fashionable way of winding up nuptial festivities. Hie Casino is the favorite place for them, and one held here this week embraced forty-seven guests, who kept up a lively How of conversation between the acts of "Nadjy." As all the ladies in the party had large, handsome wedding bouquets the effect was quite novel and brilliant. —[New York World.

When Mr. Booth and Sig. Salvini played their brief engagement together in the East Miss Marie Wainwright was "bosen to play the heroines. Her knowledge of French enabled her to interpret for the two stars, and the Italian tragedian was so taken with her that he recently wrote offering her a large sum to support him. Her own starring tour compelled her^»o decline.

WHAT BOYS SHOVLD LEARN. To I«i 'Mgarsttes alone. To build a fence scientifically. To be manly and courageous. T~- rfie, row. —t and swim. Tw gentle t-. iii IHtli* Asters. To shnt witho-it nming. To do em! pro::,p!i andclv rfolly To wvr on iratun and darn a stockinc. ^*hei and make hi* bed w.soa nt»ry.

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explane that it's all fur effect. Wen thay git left it ain't quite 90 funny. Boys '11 be boys an' on the same prineipple men '11 be polytishuns eny way you can fix it. Ef I was a man I'd tend to biz an' let polyticks take keer of herself. I'd ruther be the head uv sich a grocery house as E. R. Wright's White Frunt than be runnin's fer eny offis. Mister Wright knows jist what the peeple wants and you kin allways find ax good things there an kin be got enywhere. He has to-day:

Strawberries, Lettuce, Radishes, Spinach, Young Onions, Kale, Asparagus, New Beets, Rhubarb, Maple Syrup, Dressed Turkey, White Clover Honey,

Choice Sorghum, New Orleans Syrup, CllCGrflllly ai'O

Honey Drip Syrup, Mince Meats, Apple,

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Sunday, April 28th.

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Game called at 8:00

Admission 25c. Ladle* Free.

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Bee Line Excursion to New York City. On account of Washington Centennial Celebration, the I. tfc St. L. Ry will sell round trip tickets from Terie Hante to New York April 27th and 28th, for$23.25.' Tickets will be good for continous passage in either direction and are good returning on trains leaving New York until May 6th inclusive. Full Information furnished at Sixth street depot.

E. E. SOUTH, Agent.

A New Building and Loan Association. Shares in the new series of Vigo Building and Loan Association can be obtained at the office of J. D. Bigelow, Opera House.

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Bengalines perhaps no light weight wool material

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Side Band Novelties prettier shades, prettier colors

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Robe?, unmade with panel, vest front, collar and

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