Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 August 1889 — Page 4

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A PAPER

THE MAIL

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WE8TFALL, MAXAGKB.

HOMCKIPTXOK PRICK, 13.00 A YUUL FTTBXIIOATTOM OTTIC1, Koe. 90 and 23 South Fifth Street,

Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, AUGUST f7, 1880.

SPOKAXK FALLS is getting right npoat of the ashes and will be a bigger and smarter town than ever In a few months. The plack and energy of the people is like that which characterized Chicago after the great fire of 1871. Rebuilding is being poshed with all possible haste and the new houses are to be of brick and stone, no wooden ones being allowed within the burned district.

ACCORDING to the New York independent's statistics there is no call for religious people to be discouraged. During the past year there was a gain of 8,882churches in the United States, 3,875 ministers and 876,996 members. This represents the net gain over deaths and shows an average of about 10 churches of 240 members each for every day !n the year. Now let us hear from Colonel Ingersol as to the number of converts his religion has made.

IT is said that Senator Hoar has come out squarely for woman suffrage in the new states. He declares that nearly a majority of the United States senate are on that side while many who are not, agree that control of the matter should be left to the states. That would be the sensible way to do: let the people of each state decide whethor they want woman suffrage and we shall then have a chance to see how it works in certain localities before we make it general throughout the country.

SOME figures recently given indicate the enormous development of electrical scionco in the future. At the Centennial exhibition in 1876 the electrical display consisted of two dynamos and a few lights In so crude a state as to be worthless. Now over $500,000,000 is invested*, in the electric light business alone, there are 109 electric railways and there are motors innumerable for the operation of all kinds of machinery. Considering that the business is hardly more than a decade old this record Is remarkable and foreshadows marvellous things in the years to come.

WYOMING TBBKITOBY is Retting ready to knock for admission into the Union. On Sept. 2, a convention to frame a State constitution will meet at Cheyenne. The Territory is no second Nevada, but has large resources of iron, coal, timber, oil, building stone and other materials of value. It has fairly good agricultural lands and can graze an unlimited amount of stock. Its extent is oqual to New York, Ohio, New Jersey and Delaware oombined, so that in point of size no objection can be urged. Wyoming will make a good State by and by and must be allowed to come In at the proper time.

NKW YORK and Chicago newspapers are having a great time over the next World's fair to be held in 1892. Each city wants it bad but the Now Yorker's don't manifest the same disposition to put their hands deep down into their pockets as the Chicagoans do. The latter have appointed a large committee of groat big men and the proposition is to raise $5,000,000 by subscriptions to help defray the expenses of the big show. New York, which is rather slow when it comes to money raising, will hardly cover Chicago's hand and we predict that the big western city will get the fair.

PRO?. EI.*'S able article on government ownership of the telegraph, in the July number of the North American Review, is worthy of a wide readtng. It is the strongest presentation of the case for government control of the telegraphs of the country that we have yet seen, and leaves no room for doubt that such action would be for the good of the people. Prof. Kly shows that while in the United States the average charge for telegrams is 50 cents for 10 words, in England it is but 12 cents 12 words, and in other European countries where the telegraph service is in the hands of the government, the rate ia about in the same proportion. Yet while our telegrams cost us so much more than Europeans pay, our letters are actually carried as cheaply aa in any country, although the distances are greater. In the light of theee facts it is hard to aee why anyone should oppose the government ownership of the telegraph.

WASIUXOT\N TERRITORY is being tried by the scourge of tire. On the 6th of June. Seattle was burned with a low of 115,000,000, on July 5th Ellen burg suffered a lose of $2,000,000 and on August 5th the pretty and thriving Spokane Falls met with the fate of Seattle, the whole business district being destroyed, involving a loss of $14,000,000. Tacoina has has not yet sustained the fiery visitation but her people may well feel anxious after what hat occurred. It seem*singular that these Area should have been so devastating in each instance, as many of the business house* were of brick and •tone. While the loaa falls many milHons abort of being covered by the insurant and la a

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nftopleo! the young at*t« bear, there is no queafcto* at all aa what they will do. They*** pluck and mmMT ani-

malMi pioo*or eowmtttittle* and they an* goln§f ah«ad to rebuild their inxick*

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to rebuild th^rn ftrwr

towns at once, ana and better tin* can k*op the new J*t*» of TOm-

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THE Brown-Sequard elixir of life humbug is having a big run, the physiall over the country experimenting with it. They report varying results, in the main favorable, but express doubts as to the lasting effects of the medicine. The thing is a novelty and as such th® doctors are not to be blamed for experimenting with it. It is their business to test every healing agency that gives any reasonable hope of benefit, but some of them have spoken with nndue haste in recommendation of the so-called elixir. They should have waited for a longer test to see whether the apparent good effects would hold oat. Meantime there is a craze for the pulp of lamb and the Chicago firm who advertises "the living tissues in pill form," at the rate of six boxes for |5, will probably have large and fat mails for some time to come, so gullible is the great public.

LOOKING FORWARD.

There is talk of a grand sugar trust that shall embrace all the sugar producers of the world in one great ring. The principal plantations of Cuba, Java, Mauritius and the Phiilipine Islands would give the syndicate control of the main sources of the raw supply, while the surplus stocks of unrefined best sugars in Germany and France are to be accumulated for shipment to Amorica. at the proper time.

Being thus masters of the sugar production of the world this gigantic combination could limit production and advance prices at will. The scheme sounds like some of those described in Bellamy's "Looking Backward" and suggests his remedy for such colossal combinations, viz: government control of the scources of production, as the only one adequate to deal with the case. The tendency of the times is towards combination and it would be possible of course for such combinations to extend beyond the limits of oneoountry and even to embrace the whole civilized world. What remedy would the people have against such monopolies? Congress and the Legislatures appear to be unable to deal with them. The notorious sugar trust has compelled the people to pay millions of tribute to its capacity. The facte are perfectly well known bnt It goes right on in its work of oppression and extortion. Seeing that the sugar manufacturers have thrived so well from combination, men in other lines of production will adopt the same plan until syndicates, trusts and combinations will be the order of the day. The people will not tolerate this sort of thing always. Some remedy for it will be found. It remains for the future to disclose what the remedy shall be.

MORMON ISM.

The defeat of the Mormons In the recent election in Salt Lake is the most hopeful sign that has yet been seen in that direction. The election was for county officers and members of the legislature and the contest was sharp and vigorous on both sides. The anti-Mor-mon tioket won by a small majority of 41, the first viotory of the kind ever scored in Salt Lake City. The result has given the opponents of Mormonlsm immense encouragement and when the election for city officers comes round next spring they will undoubtedly score a still more decisive victorj

The outcome is the result of recent acts of congress for the suppression of polygamy. Until recently women were allowed to vote in Utah, and it was found that they voted on the side of their Mormon husbands. Recognizing the evil of this state of affairs congress stripped the women of the franchise and deprived the Mormon church of its corporate wealth and power. The more or less vigorous enforcement of the United States laws in the Territory has gradually borne fruit and the end of the Mormon dynasty is beginning to be seen. Its power cannot last much longer. Not only is the influx of gentiles into Salt Lake constantly undermining it, but some of the younger and more intelligent spirits in the Mormon church are breaking away from the polygamous ideaa of the elders and resent their dictation in politics and business. The fight is not finished by any means, but a large headway has been made towards the downfall of Mormondom, which must eventually result in the complete dislodgement of polygamy from United States soil. It may emigrate to Mexico or the islands of the sea, but it cannot flourish as heretofore within the United States.

CARNEOISrS ARGUMENT. In a recent article in the North American Review Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire iron manufacturer, admits that very rich men should not be allowed to bequeath their vast fortunes to their deacendents. No restriction he argues, should be put upon the amount of property any man may accumulate or own, during his own lifetime, hut at bis death, if he has not dlaposed of It during life, only a moderate portion of it should be permitted to go to his helm, the rest being held in trust by the state for proper public uses. And thus for the double reason that the rich man's children are better off without inheriting the means of Uir* In idleneaa, and the mass of the tpeo§^ can fx* ben,fl*ed by a wise use of his weal for tic purposes.

So far aa It goes this argument la very well and we hare no il to ke with it. Bat the tact in nt coming from such a man remarkable progitaa in popular on the doctrine of property .-i!x Wo bar® bean accustomed to I *r t*.*l nh*t «mmsmiait'*^aH Ma ly to do with »_#. r. the id**of prevent! thr the mlUkwiaim^s property to

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on a a a a a a still una wrtd to

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TERRB HAUTE SATURDAY EVEHINO

theory that if a man should manage to gobble up half the earth he would have a clear right to transmit it to hia descendants aa

agency feu: gobbling the

other half. But we are ooming to look at the matter differently. We are beginning to see that social organization ia for the permanent good of the majority society may ordain.

This premise settled the property question becomes greatly simplified. It only remains to asoertain what ia for the general good and to require the individual to contribute thereto. Carried to its logical conclnaion Mr. Carnegie's argument means that society may order whatever is for the best interest of the majority that individual rights mnst be entirely subordinate to public rights. Since society is organized for the good of all, this is the correct view of the question and the way is open for the most radical suggestions as to how the general good may be advanced. It is a new doctrine but it is sound doctrine and when it ahall be generally aooepted and people get to thinking earnestly on the ways in which the majority may be benefitted we may expect some good results to follow. Lf

Buy your useful household utensils at wholesale prices at Smith A Dunn's mammoth 5 and 10c hall. Nothing over 10c. 319 Main street. ||j

Probst A Fisbeck have a large stock of new furniture and if in need of a parlor or chamber suite, sideboard, book case, lounge, mattress springs, fancy rockers, chairs, etc. See them before you purchaae. 311 Wabash avenue. 100,000 People, it is said, have visited the oil well but be that as it may, you can always find fresh candies, fresh fruits, ice oojddrinks and delicious icecream at Eiser's, 881 Wabash avenue. Try some of them. _____________

T. J. Griffith hss received a oomplete line of fall goods for his boot and shoe trade, and invites an early call. Among the standard shoes included in the tew stock are those of William Nayior, E. P. Reid A Co., Weayer, Thomas A Kirk, and W. H. Goodger, of Rochester. These brands have been sold by him for years, and their excellence is well known to tho trade. The styles are of the very latest and are certain to please.

On the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of the Soldiers' Monument at Indianapolis, August 22nd, the Big Four,' Sixth street depot, will sell tickets for only $1.45. Good going on all trains of August 21st and 22nd and good to return up to, and Including trains of Aug. 24th E. E. SOUTH.

Stein A Heckles berg, the reliable Main street shoe men, are to make a sweeping reduction in prices from one end of the store to the other during the coming week, the wish being to close out all summer goods, at onoe. Ladies light shoes, Oxford ties, slippers, and gents' summer goods of all kinds to be so! cost. Athletic shoes of vari included in the reduction. to call on them at onoe and neat fitting and elegant styled shoe,

Anew lot of decorated stone ware Jijat opened at Smith A Dunn's mammoth 5 and 10c hall. JjTothing over 10c', 819 Main street.

They all pronounce Richardson A Oot's lemon juioe extractor a success, and only 16o. i|

Ons of the problems of life is how to invest one's small savings where they will be absolutely safe and while earning something be where they can be gotten at if needed. The Cottage Building and.

Savings Association offers an excellent opportunity for such an inveatment. Deposits may be made aa low as 25c per week, and all deposits draw interest from the time they are made. The full amount or part of the deposits with accumulated interest may be withdrawn at anytime without discount. Paid op stock in this association makea one of the best and safest Investments that can be made of aums of $100 and upward. Those who have money In large or small sums that they want to have earning them something, or those who want to borrow money or buy property, are invited to call at the office of the Association, or on any of the directors for full particulars. The Directors are J. T. H. Miller, 8. C. 8timson, W. A. Hamilton, E. M. Goodwin and Bertis McCormlck. Office No. 20 south Sixth street.

Profsasor O. H. Almeda, Clairvoyant.

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HOW TO OBT THE MAIL. Without Money.

You have a boy in the family? Let him as* your neighbor to buy The Mail from him each Saturday. You give him a nickel. He goes to The Mail office and, aa a newsboy gets two copies at 2)£ cents each. He sells one to your neighbor and you have your money back.

Seer Try It! Then your boy can get other subscribers, and earn 25 to 50 cents for a little spending money, in an hour or two on each Saturday afternoon. Besides, it teaches him business habits, the value of money, and reliance upon himself.

The majority of The Mail's newsboys oome from our best families, and it is a pleasing eight to see them gather on each Saturday. _____________ I

W. M. Slaughter, of 329 Ohio street, has six vacant lota in a good locality in the north part of the oity which he will sell for $10.50 per foot If called for immediately. Also a two story brick house of sixteen rooms and lot, opposite the Normal aohool, suitable for keeping boarders and roomers, which he will sell on easy terms.

THOS8

NOBBY

FOR

SALE.—Fine building lots, near ColIctt Park, on Seventh ana Eighth streets, 40 feet front. Street graded ana street cars on Eighth street. Apply to I. FECHHEIMER, No. 30 tsouth Fourth Street. Don't wait prices are advancing.

Broken lines and odd lots of Winter Undershirts and Drawers at Hunter's Clearance Sale for less than half price you should come at once. For 40, 60, and 75 cents we will sell you goods formerly sold for $l, $1.25 and $1.50. James Hunter & Co.

OH, HOW NICE!

Celebrated Dean Brand

Freestone PeacM!

FRUIT.

Michigan Blackberries, Michigan HnckleberraM/ Preeatona Peacbea,

Choice Cling Paachsa, Selected Table Grape*, Bodi Orange* oinwmU Bananas,:: '\z-

Mifornia Peam, W5 Damson plnma,-^®* Wild Goose Plume. VEGETABLES.

Summer Squaah, immoth Choice

Mammoth Sugar Corn, Suing Beans, Plant,

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Cabbega, Acme Tomatoes, White Plume Celery

PO f-TEY.

7 Seventh ami Main.

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Which you see every day on the streets are made by Owens A Knight, the tailoia of 523K Main street Their goods are elegant and the stock includes all the latest and and most fashionable fall styles. Their cutter gives perfect fits in every instance and their workmanship cannot be excelled. Prices very reasonable.

Dr. B. B. GLOVER,

Specialty: Diseases of the Rectum. REMOVED TO

SEVENTH

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JOINYou

the Terre Haute Home and Savings association. We can famish money at onoe. can join this association at any time. No back dues to pap. Apply to J. T. ticovell, corner Third ana Ohio streets.

COTTAGE

POPLAR STS

J(?S

BUILDING AND SAVINGS

ASSOCIATION. New plan, easy payments, small expenses, large dividends, safe management

If you want to save money, to invest money to borrow money, to build a home, or buy a home call at the office ot the association for full particulars. Sfo

J. T. H. Miller, president S. C. Sllmson, vice-president E. M. Goodwin, recording secretary W.A.Hamilton, financial secretary

Bertis McCormlck, treasurer. Office 20 south Sixth street. Telephone 61.

-REUNION NOTICE, 83d ILL. INFANTRY.

I hope all members of our old regiment who may see this, will make extra effort to be at Decatur, Ills., at our annual assembly the 22, 23 and 24 lust. For information of any sort pertaining thereto call at china store, 807 Main street.

H. 8. RlCHARDSON.iiW Principal Musician.

Or W. P. RICHARDSON, Adjutant, Brazil, Ind.

Money to Loan.

rONEY TO LOAN.—In sums to suit the )rrower. on the most favorable terms. ibDLE, HAMILTON & CO.,

free

No. 20 a sixth.

AN—In large or small V^A] «asy

For Sale.

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HOBERGv ROOOV& CO.

WIU, HAVE ON -SS*,

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HOBEKCi. ROOT & CO.,

Jobbers and Retailers. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

LADIES FINE PHAETONS.

The Best Work in the City.

Buffffife, Cabriolets, Surreys'.

^IKEYESBUGGYCO., North Thirteenth Street, TERRE HAUTE, INDl

For Sale by Wm. Poths, South Sixth Streets

Equal Justice tb» All oiir Patrons in Every s* D^artment.

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No Black, Red, Cyclone*. gfc*rifi©e Businesfl to decoy aogr bnt the best goods in the market, at eqnal value, light weight^iaedniin, all grades and prices. Don/t be deoeiired. Call and see us and yon will get good value for your aao*ey, ready made and made Id order in the best of style. New Yonta*, Boys' and Children's wear a specialty.

WE INVITE YOUR INSPECTION.

J. T. H. MILLER

'"522WABASHAYB.

Coates College for Women

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

PREPAHATORT SCHOOL Ud SElIliRI.

(Write for Special Circular.)

Standard College Curriculum. (See calendar.) Seminary of Music and Voice Culture. (Piano, Pipe Organ, Voice.) An Academy of Fine Arts. (Drawings, Water Colors, Oil Portraiture.)

Opens Vedradiy, September 11, 1889.

For Inforti.' ion call oo of addwa tlif Prceid M, John Mason Don* or & Davi^Secretary Board of 1:..

ROBKST H.

BZJTCX. JAM R.1A- FFL" I KT.

BLACK & NISBET,

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UNDERTAKERS »J EM8ALMER8, N. Fourth Ht,Ter» {••••'"•rr-ij.! and

STAR MEAT MARKET.

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KAUFMAN,

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36 iii-Ladies' Cloth. 36 in. Tricots.

C' 50 in..Ladies Clotli.

»«ice 52 flu Broadcloths.'"!

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Coloring's. liantines. a 40 in. Henriettas. I 52 in. Cloth Plaids.

i&S NEWTiDRESS TRIMMINGS,

New Fringes, New Gimps, New Fringe Dre6»]Ph»ts, New Buttons, large and smaUL Also an elegant line of Fancy Bnckles. Please call and examine ,s4-

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Moliair Bril-

OPERA HOUSE BOOKSTORE, E. L. Godecke,

CLEAN MEAT MARKET

Bookseller and Stationer,

BLANK BOOKS, FINE STATIONERY BOOKS IX

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406 Wabash Are. TEREK HAUTE, IND

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SOUTHDOWN MtTTTDN, .SPRING LAMB, PIG PORK, STEKR BEEF, SLICED HAM,

T. J. PATTOX & CO.

FOURTH AND OHIO.

STECK

PIANOS. All styles at Kussner's Palace jof J. ICn-ner,

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