Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 August 1889 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WESTFALL, MA5AOKB. WC WJCKJPTIOI* PBICK, fUXS A T&AJL PUBLICATIOW oniCl,

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aad 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, AUGUST 3, 1889.

One-would think the juvenile world was prwtty well supplied with periodicals but anew one i» announced for October. It will be weekly, with the taking name of Santa Clans. Ita projectors promise a paper that will compete with the Youth's Companion.

Ei-bctbicity seems destined to supplant steam. Its use for motive power is growing rapidly and is doubtless yet In its'infancy. After beasts, steam, after steam electricity, after electricity comes what? Keeley's motor, to be sure! Whither are we drifting?

Ex-Senator Wabnkk Milleb,of New York, is devoting his time to miscellaneous reading and is reported $s saying as saying that if he bad devoted more time to letters and less to politics he would be better off to-day. How many professional politicians could truthfully say the same thing.

A explanation of the large investments of English capital in this country of late is the a'.leged fear of a general European war before long, which would render property in the old world unsafe and unremunerative. Hence the desire of the thrifty Briton to put his money where it is likely to return handsome profits in the event of a foreign war.

Cincinnati saloon keepers are hard fellows to handle but they are beginning to realize that there Is no joke about the enforcement of the Sunday laws. Last Sunday some of the most rebellious ones kept their places open iu defiance of law to make a test case. The court dealt with unexpected vigor with them and gave them to understand that the full penalty would be meted out to them for continued violations of the law.

Canada is greatly exercised because of the seizure by Uncle Sam of the Black Diamond sealer which was catching seals in Behring's sea. Practically the Dominion threatens to "lick" the United States if England doesn't take the little job off her bands. The best thing the Cannucks can do is to get themselves annexed to the United States. Then they oan seal fish all they want to. But as long as,they area part of Great Britain they are not going to oatoh our seals if Uncle Sam knows himself.

Cimcaoo was visited last Saturday night by the severest vrma atm storm ever known in the history of that city. The sewers were unable to carry off the enormous quantity of water that fell and it was backed up into basements and cellars. Many of these were Allied with stooks of goods and a dam age estimated at #1,000,000 resulted. A brick building was blown over upon a frame cottage in which eight persons were killed and four seriously injured.

Thr question seems to be whother the British are going to leave anything unbought in tho United States. Having secured 78 grain elevators In the Northwest, an unlimited number of breweries, Hour mills, etc., they are now trying to buy up some of the large stores in New York, tho St. Louis elavators, profitable theatres throughout the country and whatever else there is that may have any money Jin it. We are not sure that we quite like the notion of Englaud owning so much of the United States. ..

Nkw Your and Chicago are fighting for tho World's Fair of 1892, which is to bo In celebration of the 400dth anniver

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of the discovery of America. Washington fs also a candidate for the honor and has the good will of several Congressmen, because It is tho seat of the national government. The west will favor Chicago as against Xew York or any eastern oily, Aiul this, not from local or selfish motive.1) alone, but from a feeling that it is time to give the great big west a show. Theoentennial exposition of ISTti was held in Philadelphia. The next grand tiatlooal show can justly be demanded by the «'cU Chicago is in many ways suited for such an undertaking. It is centrally located, has vast hotel accommodations and a delightful auuuner climate, with the great lake for purposes of recreation. Chicago ought to have the world's fair in ISSflZ and we believe ahe will get it.

STA 1 OS TU RO USD. there seems no longer any room for doubt aa to the fate of Prof. Hogan, who started out some days ago in Peter Cferapball'a alleged air ship. The thing tttKauie unmanageable from the start. Ho«an was carried out to sea and no doubt met the fate of Danaldson and Uriniwood, Who went up tram Chicago years ago and were lost in Lake

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But it is hard to see that any'good coulcl come of it even if we could master the secret of navigating the air. The voyage would be more uncertain and treacherous than is that of the sea which does not compare in safety and speed with travel by land. The swift currents and counter currents of the air would necessarily render its navigation difficult and dangerous, while no such speed and control of direction could 1m had as is possible on an extension steel rail behind a steam engine.

We shall probably never be able safely to do more in the way of air sailing than to rise above the earth several thousand feet when the air is calm for the sake of getting a grand view of the earth beneath. We may in time do a little pleasure^riding in the air, but for purposes of travel or transportation the solid ground will always be more safe and satisfactory.

BIO FORTUNES,

The newspapers seem never to tire of publishing lists of the enormously rich men and women of the United States. One of these, cut from a recent daily, names a score or more of women in Philadelphia alone who are worth etch several millions of dollars, besides along list in other parts of the country. And this is a mere fraction of them. As the collector of these gilded statistics declares, there are many more millionheiresses in this country than in any other because there are more millionaires from whom to inherit. Every city and town throughout the country has its very rich people and if a complete directory of the Croesuses of America were compiled and published it would create a profound sensation. It would be a flue stroke of enterprise for some of the great dallies to undertake this work. Most people would buy a copy of that paper. And besides being a good piece of journalistic enterprise such a publication would do the country a real service, in that it would show the rapid accumulations of vast fortuns in the hands of the few—a tendency that should be regarded with serious concern by the masses of the people.

Ij'or the other side of the picture, the black shadow of poverty, wretchedness and sin, the newspapers have less care. It is not pleasant reading for their subscribers. The story has become old and thread-worn. We have come to think there is no remedy for it that it has always been so and must so continue to the end that it is the result of liquor, extravagance, lack of forethought. And that much of it is so cannot be denied. But the rich debauch, waste and destroy as well as the poor. Sin and crime are not confined to the hovels on blind alley8 by any means. The coal miner as things are to-day can barely live, work he ever so hard and spend he never so carefully. There are many others in the same condition. Shirts are cheaper than they were in Tom Hood's day but tnv' Tivunu ..M in tr machines can sing the same song they sang then.

What is the matter? Well, several things are the matter. One of them is this very congestion of the wealth of the country In the hands of the few. The blood distributed throughout the body, means health and vigor congested in the heart or the brain it means death. Why does not the same rule hold with reference to wealth and the people? Comfortable, decent living moans health for the family and the state.

In order that there may be a money king there must be many paupers, or at least many very poor, for there is not enough to go round in that kind of a division. if a thousand people have $1,000 each it would take it all to make one man worth one million, So if there ait) ten million families in the United States, each worth #1,000 their united wealth would serve to make ten thousand families worth a million each. There are probably that many million families, but some of them ran into the tens and even hundreds of millions each. Just how many single millionaires they ould all make is an interesting problem. We need some statistics on this subject. It might be profitable, as well as interesting to know how much wealth there is in the country, how it would divide up equally among thapeoplo and how it is divided up now. Mr. Atkin» son, who is handy with his figures to prove that humanity would starve on less than ten hours of toll per day, should find this field an interesting one for investigation.

It la contemplated, we believe, in the census of 1S90, to endeavor to gather some additional statistics on the nationwealth. It ahould have been so before this. All we oan learn from the census 1880 is that the total aas-^ed value of real estate In the United Suues was flS, 766,925 and that of personal property ga,3t&,23f»,61S, total of about seventeen billions. This Is probably not a third of the real wealth of the country, aii property on the average Is not aaaeaa-.i for more than a third of its fall value. We may safely place the wealth of the country then at fifty billions in Thefe was then $1,000 of wea*-n for r^.-h man, woman and child pn ti*» ooi $S,000 for oaeb family of five per* as!

When we consider the many other thousands who have practically notlil and many other thousands wk sessions amount to but a few 1 idn of doltani to each femfi went better idea of the in.

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The bolW'-f ation filed _.ilck* v. ak Iterday with a capital «tockof$:.» The directors mre Meaara. 3. U.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EV1MNG MATT,

Chat About Wortieh:

ELIZABETH fcADY STANTON ON THE LIVES OP SOME GREAT MEN'S WIVES.

ilsf "The household," says Emerson, "is the home of man, as well as the child. The events that occur therein are more dear and effecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies. Domestic events are certainly our affairs. What are called public events may or may not be ours. If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world, with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state house or court room. The subtile spirit of life must be sought in faces nearer. It is what is done and suffered in the home, in the constitution, in the temperament, in the personal history, that has the profoundest interest for us all."

And yet what a record of selfishness and indifference some of our greatest men have left of their domestic life. Though ignorant, no doubt, of the farreaching consequences of every word or action, yet the penalty is as swift and sure as if the law were knowingly violated.

Dr. Franklin, the far-famed utilitarian kite-fiyer, went to Europe, leaving his wife behind him, and never saw her face for eleven years. She bad shared his poverty, practiced his poor Richard maxims, pinched and economized, patched and darned, worked early and late, bred children and nursed them through jaundice, red gum, chicken-pox, whooping-cough, measles, scarlet fever, and fits, while Benjamin enjoyed the splendors of a court, velvet couches, good dinners, and choice society. When he came back the poor drudge was no match for the great philosopher there was a wide gulf between them. Like too many women, she expended all her forces on the animal wants of her household without one hour in the day sacredly kept for her own cultivation and improvement. That her heart rebelled iu her solitude |and neglect is manifest in the headstrong acts of her children. Franklin quarreled with his sons, and disinherited one of them. Thus were the mother's wrongs revenged. A just retribution for every injustice to woman is sure to come in the vice and crime of her children to the third and fourth generations. Harmonious children are born only to happy, contented mothers.

Henry Clay, too, thought he could safely leave his wife at Ashland to bear

children and make butter for the Lex-lE. [Robinson. The capital stock was ington market, while he made laws for the nation, and love to lovely women in Washington. There his heart stood always open as any boarding-house door, but shut against her, whp was playing Solomon's wise woman on a farm in Kentucky, cutting out linsejjiw and jeans for the negroes. His dream of ambition over, sick and sad he went fA iftKlajru) iA mestlo drudge, called by the holy name of wife, had reared up for him a race of degenerate children. He was filled with disappointment, but his sorrow mea# ured the depth of the mother's humiliation. The angels of evidence and retaliation were but equal. Was it the unhappy mother that made one son crazy with hopeless love, another a sour, discontented man, overcome through life with a sense of infirmity, and jockeys and gamblers of the rest? Truly, wisdom is justified of her children. We do not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles. We cannot quench our thirst at sweet and pleasant streams whoso fountains we have poisoned. Henry Clay, the great pacificator, the staunch protectionist, is dead his compromise measures are scattered to the winds, but his misdeeds lived long after him. His sou Theodore lingered in the insane asylum upwards of fifty years, a long, weary life of hopeless despondency.

Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and successor of Benjamin Franklin at the court of France, married the granddaughter of the Governor of Connecticut, Roger Wolcott. She was well educated, saw the best society of the ti me, inherited rare talent, and had strong natural sense. After marriage she gave up books, society, travel, and devoted herself to raisin ^a lanre family and managing an extensive form. To both departments she brought such high qualities that her labors were entirely su »«sful. All her children possessed health, sense, and sound moral principle, while she so prudently managed their financial afiairs that wealth also was their inheritance.

One s.m was an influential member of Congress, Governor of Connecticut and Judge of the Supreme Court. Another was one ot the largest land owners in the West and Commissioner of Patents at Washington. One daughter married the io bis keys and his jack-knife, bis Clif Justfw of the Supreme Court of] «ruai! change, his shoe buttooer^andhte Cuauect^nt, etc., all alike taking first rank in society. Late in life, revhnv mg her course and it* results, ahe used to

say that ahe had made one grave error. Sl» had thought it her constant duty to ,y with her family on the farm, asj shorottld best help her husband. 15e went to Washington always without her, to France without her, And th igh tl *r iAffection was not lost, their knowledge of each other became unaatisfao-, lory. She used to say her daughters "Keep with your husbands, go lor a few weeks every whiter to Washington ever mind the long, tedious, hard -tage ride keep with them at «acrice. Read, think, study the S tations ot th? h"«ur, the literature of the day, k«yp pace with thr-m in knowledge and a*. ^'-nnu nt. Thu« v.'y

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he had. We were alike of spiritual and intellectual companionship, bat I, forgetful of my first duty, self-develop-ment,* gave up all the advantages and opportunities for improvement, and lived wholly with children and servants. I took no note of the world without, no interest in the laws and constitutions of my country, no interest in National questions, in the subjects that absorbed his mind. With extensive reading, thought, good society, foreign travel, his views grew broader day by day, too broad to meet me in the narrow grooves where all my thoughts and interests -rere centered. Absorbed in family selfishness, I knew nothing of the people, books, and subjects that engrossed his later life. We bore the same name, my solitude was respectable, but my heart yearned for companionship."

This grand woman did her duty nobly to her husband and children, and in their success she had a certain reward, but her philosophy in reviewing her life furnishes another example to prove that self-development is a higher duty than sel -sacrifice.

E O I W E S

Torre Haute now possesses another flowing oil well. The drills at the Phoenix well, back of the Pheonix foundry, reached the oil sand about supper time Wednesday afternoon, and although the rock was barely tapped, the oil rose to the height of soveral hundred feet in a very short time. Operations were suspended until morning when the tools were sent down afoot or two deeper and the oil began flowing from the well. The flow is not so strong as that at the Diall well, but it is thought by working slowly downward the oil will be given greater opportunity for answering the pressure behind it. A smaller pipe will be put down inside the casing also, thus reducing the weight of the column of oil to be supported. This was resorted to at the Diall well and it was found that the pressure bfcame about constant while the flow was not perceptibly decreased. The stockholders are quite jubilant although their well cannot be called a gusher. The Phoenix company was organized May 23rd, with tlie following stockholders: Phoenix F. alid M. Works Co., S. J. Young, L. B. Martin, H. B. Jones, Jno. S. Beach, Edward Gilbert, H. C. Gilbert, Jos. Strong, James C. McGregor, Wm. C. Ball, Spencer F. Ball, Jno. O'Neil, James Hunter, James N. Philips, Jay H. Keyes, Jno. D. Moore, Hugh

Crea (Springfield), Geo. Buntin, Frank

£4,000 and the site for the well was secured by allowing the Phoenix company fignt shares of stock, and one sixth of the oil which flows from the well. Arrangements have been completed by tyliich the Guarantee association will ha|dle the product.

The Smith well tools would hn-uo the sand mday but for a very unforktojiccident on Wednesday evening. jdrMswere being raised out of tbo fwell and had almost reached the surface |rhen the big belt over the windlass flipped off, and before the brake could |e applied the heavy line dropped down to the bottom of the hole, lifting the heavy wheel out of its bearings and demolishing things generally in the immediate vicinity. Several men were near at the time and narrowly escaped injury. The damage was such as to ina serious delay, the tools being lost in the hole. The line was recovered ate yesterday afternoon however and drilling was resumed last night.

The Ellsworh well is now thought to bea good gas well but its actual value cannot be determined until a packer can be secured so as to exclude the water. The packer, which is to fill the hole between the casing and the stone, has given way three times just as it was thought to have been made secure. The gas burned about ten feet high Wednesday, when a match was applied.,

The Button-Hole Is now 1590 feet, and indications for oil are good, the material the drills are now in being similar to that which was found at the Diall and Phoenix wells at a smilar depth. The fate of this well will be known to-day The West Terre Haute well ia 1,750 feet deep and work will continue to a depth of 2,000 feet. The drills at the Colonel Thompson well, south of the city were started yesterday afternoon. The wells east of the Kinser are being abandoned and some of the companies will drill at other locations.

GERMAN ETIQUETTE. iKxch:«niflS} Perhaps the best criterion Of the mln uteness of German etiquette is the little unwritten code of pocket manners. Genua:, g«od form is shocked by the helter-skelter condition of the American pocket. A well-bred German never al-

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purse as if he owned all the notes of tie Imperial Reichsbank. In paying fir five cento' worth of beer he goes lown into his trousers and draws out iis flabby pocketbook with a dignity thanking heaven that he is a mannerly, high-born Fru.^un, wad not tradesman like the American at hia has just slapped down on the table a u»4seof gold. *ilver. keyaand manicttre apfmratua. Th'1 snull German schoolv,. iv la not r»v«o ail- ivf-d to hia oar tre Bt a parse.

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CONTINUATION OF OUR

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Lawns at -*c» 6Kc, 8}$c. Reduced from 5c, 6£c, 10c and 12*cje Ginghams at 4c, 5c, 8He, and 10c. Reduced from 7c, So, 10c and 123fij. Challie Beiges at 5c. Reduced from 10c. One bale yard wide Brown Muslin at 8£o, worth 7Xo. Figured Challies at 5c, reduced from lOo. Parasols reduced to half price. See the market lot for 79c for choice. Gold Cap Sun Umbrellas at reduced prices. Yard wide Batists at 8J^c, reduced from l'2c. Ladies' Jersey Ribbed Vests at 5c, 10c, 18c. Reduced from 12&C, 19c and 35ev Big lot of White Dress Goods at 5c yard, former price 10c. Turkey Red Table Damask at 25c and 37J*c, reduced from 35c and 50c. Summer Silks at 25c yard. Stripes of various colors. A lot of Black Dress Goods, all wool, choice 50c yard. Best American Indigo Prints at 6%c, warranted fast colors. Many other Bargains will be found iu our Hosiery Department, Lace Department, Ribbon Department, Ladies' Muslin Underwear Department, etc. Please call and examine.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.,

Jobbers and Retailers. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

LADIES FINE PHAETONS.

Tlie Best Work in the City.

Buggies, Cabriolets, Surreys.

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