Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 July 1889 — Page 4
THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
EDWIN P. WE8TFALL, DOUGLAS H. SMITH,
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LOCAL EDITOR.
HtTBSCJUPTIOK PKIC*,ttOO A YKAB. RVBUCATIOK omci, rcw. 30 and 22 Booth Fifth Street,
Printing House Square.
TERRE HAUTE, JULY 6, 1889
Ttre glorious Fourth is past oDce more. Aren't you glad of ltT
SECRETARY BLAINE ha* gone off to Bar Harbor until September. There will be no foreign war for the next two months at least.
OLIJ Simon Cameron la said to have once remarked that his son Don had many advantages, but lacked one which his father had, namely, poverty. Most people are willing to struggle along without that advantage.
THK profits of the notorious sugar trust are said to have been 14 millions last year and over six millions for the first live months of this year. The price of sugar lias risen from six to ten cents a pound. The trust has destroyed all competition, shut up refineries, thrown thousands of men out of employment and levied a tax upon the people that is appalling in Its proportions. The thing is unlawful and outrageous and yet the people seem to be powerless. Strange, isn't It?
JOE MACKIX, the notorious Chicago ballot-box stuffer, has been pardoned out of the penitentiary within a month of the time when his term would have been out. The pardon, however, saves his citizenship, which, as the Tribune well says, "is the very thing he ought to have lost." A man who tries to defeat the vote of the people by fraud is not entitled to citizenship because he has struck at the vital principle of citizenship. Doubtless Mackin made the most solemn promises of reform am! was deeply penitent, but it would have been better to have let him serve out his term.
A JOURNAL devoted to the discussion of economic questions claims to be able to show that the oost of living has decreased 80 per cent and the rate of wages increased to the same extent within the present century. The Inference is that the net result is equal to an advance of 100 per oenfc in wages. But is it true that the worklngman can live twice as well to-day, in comparison to the rich, as he could A hundred years ago? That is the real question, because, after all, these things are only relative. We bardly think the worklngman is as well off relatively in this country as he wan at the beginning of the oentury. There has been an enormous increase of wealth but it Is not as equally divided as it was then.
IF the English game of lawn tennis is beoomlng rapidly adopted in America, mo Is the great American game of base ball to make its way in England. The English people are beginning to take quite an interest in the game and to-day a club selected from Yale and Harvard clubs sail for England to give Instructions in the game at various schools in that oountry. After some preliminary Instruction the American nine will be divided and two mixed ninea will be formed, these playing against each other. Their expenses will be paid by a number of Englishmen who have become Interested In the game. It's a groat game, as our English cousins will find when they have had a few fengerfc and noses broken.
THK opponents of electrical executions in New York are making a strong fight agalust the new law. Expert electricians now declare that death by electricity is most painful that there is great uncertainty aa to the amount of the fluid required to produce instant death that If too little Is used the victim may be merely thrown into a trance and burled alive* and that If too much is used the body is mutilated and disfigured And that under all circumstances there is terrible pain whether It be of long or short duration. The little we know about the mysterious fluid and its operations would seem to make It of very doubtful propriety to apply electricity to the execution of crlmlnala. But all this should hare been known as well before the law was enacted as now.
THKRK is no doubt that our whole Industrial system needs reforming. Just how to do It is the problem and it Is certain there Is a great waste of labor when three establishments are doing the work that one might as well do. The struggle of men for a living has caused too many stores, shop* ami pretty* much everything else, to spring up. It is useless •work, for instance, to publish five dally newspapers where two^ ild serve the community just as we«^Thus many thousands of dollars are spent for advertising, type**tt*B*t book-keeping, pa-per-tnaking and a score of other things, whteh could be wisely saved. But how about the hundreds of people who are supported by working on the three supertiuou* papers? Would ih*y not be thrown out of employment* Xo. They oould work at benelleW or the hour* of labor could be rnfuml aU renmi. It Is oertaln unneceesarv
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rest for recreation and social and mental enjoyment. But how shall that state be reached? As long as the majority work ten hours the minority will have to do so too. Human wisdon ought to be able to solve the difficulty and wiU be some time, we believe.
CHICAGO.
Chicago is now, in one sense at least, the largest city in the world. By the election held last Saturday the outlying towns, cities and villiageB embraced in Hyde Park, Lake, Lake View, Jefferson and a part of Cicero, were annexed to the city. The corporation now covers 174 square miles and has a population of about 1,100,000 souls. Philadelphia includes 129 square miles, London 118 and New York but 41.
Of course a great deal of the newly annexed territory is but sparsely inhabited. Part of it is yet planted in corn and cabbage and not a few acres are used as pasture lands. But that doesn't matter to Chicagoans. It is enough for them that the city i« the biggest (in square miles) of any in the world. The rest they will come to in due time, they argue. And like enough they will. Chicago always has been "a growin' kind of a place" and It is likely to keep on growing. It gets more free advertising than any other city. It is always before the public eye in one way or another.
Well, it is not a bad sort of town. A little too much given to boasting and money making but it will get over that in time. Just now it is like an overgrown school boy or girl. By and by it will fill out and get comely.
THE 01 HER SIDE.
Whether the Indianapolis News be correct or not in all its statements concerning the trouble in the Clay county coal miners, it deserves praise for the courage of expressing its convictions fearlessly in favor of the poor man as against the rich man. The point the News makes is that aside from the profit the operators made directly on their coal they have four other sources of income, viz: the profit on sharpening the miner's tools, the good round profit on the goods sold by the company store, in renting houses to the miners, and in retailing coal to the miners at a higher price than they get from others. When the miner has paid all these profits to the operator, is it any wonder that the meagre wages he is able to earn do not suffice to provide for his family?
So, we say, the News argues and whether in all things correct or not, it is gratifying to see that one paper has courage enough to tak'6 up the workingman's side of the case as against the capitalist. This country needs just such talk and a great deal of it. Money will take care of itself. The companies and corporations that own coal mines will see that they don't go to the poor house. They may be trusted to make a plausible case{before the public of thed'iffloultiea in the' way of making coal compete with natural gas and crude petroleum. The other side of the case is not so likely to be understood. It is well to see both sides and it is a fine thing when a powerful newspaper takes up the workinguian's side and presents the difficulties under which he labors.
TOO MUOH LA WYER.
Chauncey M. Depew always talks well and his recent eulogy of the legal profession was no exception to the rule. Mr. Depew declared that the lawyers have taken nearly all the high honors and prises in public life tinoe the formation of the government. The statement Is near enough the actual truth, but the Chicago Tribune argues that in recent years the lawyers have been more potent In political affairs than they were in the early days of the republlo, or than the oondiUona of life have justified.
It is admitted that President Harrison, more than any of his predecessors, has broken the record of giving all the good places to lawyers. He has reoognlsed the ability and fitness of newspaper men by calling editors to some of the highest positions in his gift. In doing this he has also honored the profusion of journalism, the most important and powerful agent for forming and expressing public opinion in the country.
General Harrison will be heartily indorsed In this action but the masses of the people should follow his example in the matter of choosing Congressmen, members of the Legislature and incumbents of the offices. There has been too much of a disposition to let the lawyers run things. They are by no means a progressive class as a profession. They stick to the old precedents and worn out methods of doing things. The press has complained so much and demanded reform In legal procedure so vigorously that even leading lawyers have reluctantly admitted the need of such changes. Judge Altgeld, of the Superior court of Chicago, recently used this plain language "In the mercantile world. In the manufacturing world, In agriculture, in medicine—in fact, in nearly every field of knowledge or human activity—there has been an advance, a steady Improve* merit, a movement in the line of common sense, an honest effort to keep abreast of the spirit ot the nineteenth century while in our methods of administering justice we seem rather have retrograded. Can we not also ga forward?"
Must not every Intelligent, unprejudiced lawyer concede the truth of this arraignment? It will be far better for the people of this wwurTry wh—ti cn-rr bright, l«ve!-hesded, p.„R re« i-us other callings of life are -laced It potion* of influence and at the head of public aflklr* and tJMf legal relegates! it* proper pr **T! •. 3 Uwyet* kwa tfeirfttan. *.efei of )f$i*l*Uoa bat dost ti= tmnjofMSty cfafStirs.aa tltey ir ::y m'Arly had !A the pa*$»
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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR ~*3 y$.y.
A Chicago faith healer refused to treat a man for dyspepsia because he wouM eat pickles. r|
It is claimed that John L. Sulliyan in ten years has boxed before audiences that paid nearly |600,000 to see him spar.
The Turkish government is building a special palace for Emperor William when he visits Constantinople in the fall. li
George W. Winana, State Superintendent of schools of Kansas, twenty-one years ago worked as a common laborer in excavating for the foundation of the building in which he now holds an honorable office.
The assertion is made that Bishop Potter is the only clergyman in the United States who wears knee breeches in the evening. This is not strictly true. Bishop Doane, of Albany, effects the English costume.
The Duke of Newcastle is expeuaing nearly £250,000 in building a church on his grounds at Clumber, England. The Duke of Nocastle is in this country looking for a wife. There is often a great difference in dukes.
The latest fairy lamps for lawn parties are made with big heads of owls, cats, dwarfs, etc., through whose glass eyes the light streams, making an odd effect when the lamps are hung among trees and shrubbery at night.
An American was arrested on the Austrian frontier for having in his luggage unmistakable dynamite bombs. On further investigation they proved to be cocoanuts, something that the Austrian authorities had never seen.
Probably the youngest mayor in the country has just been elected at Asheville, N. C. His name is Charles D. Blanton and he is only 28 years of age. He is a Democrat and has made a fortune by his own unaided effort^.
Jay Gould Is very careless as to how he draws bis checks. While traveling on a western trip he once drew up a check for several millions on the back of an envelope. The whole was in his own hand-writing, and was honored on sight.
A Texas steer tackled one of Barn urn's elephants on the highway the other day, and the results were eminently satisfac tory to everybody but the elephant. He was so well licked inside of three minutes that he turned tail and ran away.
Amasa Sprague, elder brother of the late Governor Wm. Sprague, of Rhode Island, and once the owner of f10,000,000, has just accepted an election to the office of sheriff of Kent oounty, in that State, an office worth three or four hundred dollars a year.
Arthur L. Thomas, the new Governor of Utah, was a messenger boy in the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company in Pittsburg from' 1887 to 1869, and every night in the year ma$£his rounds hour by hour with a batch of press reports for the papers.
The prize recently ordered by a Little Rock, Ark., paper "for the largest family? in the State, has just been awarded to W. D. Grten and wifii, at Marfreesborough, Pike county. They were married in 1886 and have had twenty three children, eighteen of whom are living. More than fifty families applied for the prise.
Young Ulysses 8. Grant, formerly head of the world-renowned firm of Grant 4 Ward, has returned to the ways and practioes of Wall atreet on a smaller soale. Instead of being at the head he is now at the smallest tail end of the stock firm of Fox, Leonard A Co., of lower Broadway. He Is included in the "company" and is not prominent ostensibly in the business of the firm.
The President has received from William Clandy, a stonemason, of Melbourne, Australia, a photograph of a beautiful and imposing monument to the memory of the late President Garfield, which Candy erected in his front yard. The monument is of unique design, being a summer house, and has suitable inscriptions on the stone front. A bust of Garfield ornaments a niche over the door. Candy states that he is an Englishman, but has a great love for Americans.
A prominent citizen of Parsons, Kan., determined to sup with a party of friends against the will of his wife. He was resolved that he would, and she that he should not go. His friends missed him, and just for fun invaded his residence, where they found him and his wife sitting In their chairs fast ssleep. He bad given her an opiate that he might slip away, and she had given him one that he might not.
King Mataafa, of Samoa, will soon receive a useful present from this oountry. The commandant at the Mare Island (Gal.) navy yard has been ordered by the navy department to have built a whale boat of the finest material and workmanship. Its construction will take about six weeks. When it hi finished It will be taken to Apia in care of three officer*, survivors of the recent disaster in the harbor of Apia. They will bear a letter of thanks and gratitude from President Harrison to the Samoan king.
William H. Burgess, who lives a Alexandria, Vm., assisted In 1833 in building Washington's new tomb at Mount Vernr-n. He says: "I was a lad then, hot I remember tint in removing the ik* of O^itie and Martha to their ?it t'mb we de":]^l to Ofyrt the •.Tin. II '1 :!»and s.i-f Gen. Wis
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Cool coats and vests 60c at &21 Main street. A. C. FORD, Order your Sunday ice cream of E. E. Lawrence, Fourth and Cherry.
Gall on Owens A Knight, leading merchant tailors. Special sale of hats and ribbons below cost. Complete line at J. W. Douglas', 826 Main street.
Call and see the bargains at E. E. Lawrence's 5 and 10 cent store, 325 Main street.
Sullivan-Kilrain Fight.
Persons wishing copies of the Police Gazette, illustrating the Sullivan and Kilrain fight, will do well by calling at the Post Office News Stand, No. 12, North Seventh street. Leave your name and the number of copies yon want.
Summer coats and vests for 60c. A.C.FORD, Men's coats for 35c at Ford's.
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are among the choice things at Wahler's Meat Market, on scuth Fourth street. All kinds of fresh meats of the nicest.
You can always find the celebrated W. A. Sheap ice cream at E. E. Lawrence's, Fourth and Cherry.
Stop your horse at Peter Miller's, 505 Main street, and see the new lot of elegant lap dusters, fly nets, light harness, and whips at very reasonable prices.
Expecting to retire from the business I have reduced prices. Full figure cabinet photographs of one person |2 per dozen. Half figure £2.50. Vignette bust |3.00. T" D. H. WRIGHT
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You can get twelve sheets of good writing paper for 5 cents at the Postoffice News Stand, also twenty-five envelopes for 5 cents. No. 12 north Seventh street.
With two days notice any magazine or novel can be hsd at the Postofflce News Stand, No. 12 north Seventh street.
D. H. Wright has made a great reduction in prices of his first-class photo's, but he wishes to emphatically state that there will be no falling off in the quality of his work. Cabinet photos only 92, 92 50 and 93 per dozen, and all warranted to please.
Now is the time to purchase real estate before the boom comes and prices advance rapidly. Already there has been a sharp advanoe, but property is yet very low. Call on Wm. M. Slaughter, 329 Ohio street, and oonsult the many bargains be has in real estate. Residence property and, vaoant lots for sale at very reasonable terms.
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Stein A Heoklesberg have reduoed the prloes on slippers, Oxford ties, tan colored and summer goods. Their stock is large and must be sold. In order to ef feet quick sales the prloes have been plaoed very low. It will pay you to call and examine the line before making purchases. All goods are guaranted to be of the best quality.
ANNUAL EXCURSION.
13th Annual Bos Llns Excursion to Colorado and the Rooky Mountains.
At the urgent request of quite a number of regular patrons, the Bee Line and Big Four will arrange for one of their popular, personally conducted, excursions to Kansas, Colorado, Salt Lake, Rooky Mountains snd Pacific Coast, under the management of the experienced excursion agent, Mr. D. Jay Collver. In order to acoommodate all and give ample time to prepare for a visit to far west, Tuesday, July 28d, has been selected as the date leaving Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Springfield, Indianapolis and Terre Haute. Bee line agents at each point named, will be provided with full instructions and can give full information regarding rates, routes, etc. Address, E. E. SOUTH, Agent, Terre Haute, or D. Jay Oollver, Bee Line Pass. Agt^ 178 Superior street, Cleveland, O. Vvr
Note.—Ask any of our former patrons how the Bee Line takes care of their excursionists. 1
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why, but the ole man don't seem tokeer bout gittin' out an' husllin' with a stock subscripshun paper. I tell you whut when we git more ile thair wont be rnme to holed Terry Hut an' well spred over the hull sger-laiden valley uv the Wabash. The song uv ev'rybody now winds up (appologyes tn Jim Riley) about as follows:
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We are marking down goods every day to clean np stock. Nearly every department has been looked over, so that odds and ends can be closed out. Prices away down. Our stock of lawns is too large also ginghams. Parasols will be sold at less than half price. A few long handle umbrellas at a bargain. Summer underwear, gloves, silk mitts, corsets, ruching, handkerchiefs, etc Elegant line of drapery nets, flouncings, embroideries. Laces at very low prices. India silks, fine ginghams and French sateens at special low prices.
HOBERG, ROOT & CO.,
Jobbers and Retailers. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.
FINE LADIES PHAETONS.
The Best Work in the City.
Buggies, Cabriolets, Surreys.
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North Thirteenth Street, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
For Sale by Wm. Poths, South 81xth Street.
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