Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 January 1890 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

E. P. WESTFALL,

MANAGER.

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 12.00 A YXAB.

PUBLICATION omos,

No*. 20 and 22 Booth Fifth Street,/ Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 4, 1890.

SOCIAL D1SCON1ENT.

There is a discontent that is bad and there is a discontent that is good. Ordinarily when we speak of a discontented person the term implies one who is constitutionally complaining and unhappy Discontent with what cannot be helped is not to be commended content with what is wrong or unjust and that caw be helped is despicable.

Just now there is a wide spread discontent throughout America and throughout the world. And it is a good kind of discontent, for it is dissatisfaction with social conditions which give too much to the few and too little to the many. .Current literature is full of this complaint. One hardly picks up a magazine or periodical that does not contain a discussion of some phase or feature of this problem. Invaluable material is being gathered up for the use of the people. The figures are being tabulated which show that while the United States possesses 60 billions of dollars, one-sixth of all the wealth of the world, and equal to nearly $1,000 for every man, woman and child in the nation, the wages of the average workingman are not more than two-thirds what is required to keep his family respectably. This means that his children have to help support the family and It is found that even in the prosperous and undeveloped State of Wisconsin, 59 per cent, of persons employed in manufacturing and industrial pursuits in 1886, were under 14 years of age. In some of the older and more densely populated States there is reason to believe it is worse. A startling story for free and happy America! There is good reason for discontent with such a state of affairs.

That may be the worst of it but it is not the whole of it. In spite of the frequent and emphatio statements to the contrary, it is found by those who have carefully investigated the matter that the rich are growing richer and the poor relatively poorer, as compared with former times. And it is only by relation that we can speak of these things. A man worth

$10,000

is poorer among mil

lionaires than one worth but$100 among those worth $1,000. Time was when a man of pluck and energy could go Into business for himself with a few hundred dollars or even no capital at all. Can he lo so now? "Every door is locked with gold and opens but to golden keys." All the avenues of industry are monopolized by combinations of capital. Our grandfathers, our fathers even, started in business for themselves with no capital but their head and their hands. The young man of to-day may work for some com-, pany or corporation for what it chooses to give him, if he be fortunate enough to find one that will employ him at all.

But not only is the industrial power of wealth all the time increasing its political power is becoming perilous and alaftnlng. It buys legislatures and bribes courts. It will have its way by one means or another. It is nearly all powerful. The true theory of government is to protect the weak the practical result of the present system is to protect the strong. In all this there is reasou enough for discontent and the discontent should grow into a reformation of the evils complained of.

"LA GRIPPE."

This is the trans atlantic name for a kind of influenza which, starting in Russia, has rapidly traveled over Europe, crossed the ocean and gaiued a strong foothold in the eastern cities of the United States. The chances seein to be that it will spread throughout the country. The first known of It was in St. Petersburg, where its victims were numbered by thousands, including the Czar and many persons of high rank. From there it seemed to jump to Paris, where it seemed to be almost more prevalent than in the Russian capital. The hospitals were soon crowded and many fatal cases were reported, although the malady is not usually considered dangerous. Thus all the great cities in Europe had it in turn and it was not long in making Its appearance in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The infection was soon on its way westward and St Xiouis, Chicago, Indianapolis and other cities were able to join in the universal sneexe.

Of course we shall have it here, for Terro Haute never gets left on any of the popular fads. It is not a pleasant visitor by any means, and yet no cause for serious alarm exists. It is no such dreadful thing as the small pox or scarlet fever, Influenza is not often fatal or even dangerous unless the system be in precarious condition. But it is an exceedingly unpleasant visitor. The first symptom of attack is a violent sneezing, followed by soreness and weakness about the eyes, headache, and a perpectual desire to weep and use one's handkerchief. One of the most disagreeable features is the profound depression of spirits produced in the sufferer by the torments be undergoes. The attack lasts, on an average, about a week, though the malady often retains its hold much longer.

The best way to escape it is to go about one's business and think nothing of it. jfcar and dread predispose to any form of disease. Keep your feet warm and

dry, the body warmly clad, the sleeping room well ventilated. If the sneeze comes, as come it will in an open winter, do not at once imagine that "La Grippe" has got you and that you are in for a sorry tussle with the arctic bugbear. Regard .the matter as nothing out of the usual order and go about just as if j.ou bad never felt better in your life. In this way you will escape the grip, if it is to be escaped and if it catches you you will have the consolation of knowing that you did not coax it anyhow.Xj

THE GAMBLING VICE\ If the self-inflicted death of young James Byrns, last Sunday, shall result in creating a public sentiment that will throttle the gambling hells of Terre Haute, his death will not have been in vain. It has required something in the nature of amoral cataclysm to arouse this community to a full sense of the enormity of the gambling vice. Time and again The Mail has lifted its voice against this monstrous evil, which is more prevalent and ruinous than most people have believed. Whether in the form of grain or stock speculation, play Ing faro or buying, lottery tickets, it is in essence and effect the same—a cor rupter and demoralizer of youth and a destroyer of manhood. How many bright and promising young men it has sent to early and dishonored graves who can "tell? It is one of these insidious vices which grow upon their victims and once indulged cannot easily be shaken off. The chances are that when a man begins to gamble he will not stop until moral or financial ruin, or both, overtakes him. There is something in any game of chance that has a peculiar and unaccountable fascination for the average person.

It is a shame and a disgrace that such baneful temptations should be allowed to exist in a city like this, where nine tenths at least of the people demand their remoyal. Why tolerate a set of men who do nothing that is good or useful, but spend their time and energy in debauching and ruining young men? The neople can crush out the evil any day they will make the proper eflort. Will they rise in their might and do it?

THERE is no more interesting ethonologlcal study than that presented by the North American Indians. Whenoe they came and to what great family of the race they belong has for many years been a study of deep interest to ethonologists. The question has never been solved although new light is being thrown upon it by discoveries made from time to time. Col. Mallery, of the Smithsonian institution, Washington, who has for years been studying Indian traditions, has recently completed a work in whioh he shows that the Indians did not, as has been supposed, originally believe In one Supreme Being, a future life and a system of rewards and punishments after death. These ideas, Col. Mailer asserts, seem to have come to the Indians only after their contact with civilization. But he admits, "with even greater emphasis, that an astounding number of customs of the North American Indians are the same as those of the ancient Isrealites." The native priests of the Ojibways have told the missionaries that their ancestors taught them for generations similar stories to those contained in the Old Testament, and a Muskoki chief, being questioned as to the myths and legends of his tribe, made answer, "They are all in the Old Testament." Are these then the lost tribes of the children of Israel?

SOMK of the newspaper philosophers continue to predict evil for the new republic of Brazil. Th$y should give the new government a chance to show what it is made of. It is not very becoming for the United States of America to mistrust the motives of the men who overturned the monarchy in Brazil. If we believe in free government as much as we pretend to we ought to hope and predict the best for every new effort that is made in that direction.

IN an article on magazine making, Mr. Edward W. Bok shows that, it costs $87o to illustrate an article of ordinary length for which the writer is paid about $125. That is to say, out of eyery $1,000 spent for literary master and illustrations the author's part is only $125. The question may well suggest itself whether too much money isn't lavished on illustrations in the current magazines.

ONLY about 5,000 miles of new railroad was built in this country last year, against 12,000 miles in 1887. That was a big falling off but not too big. We have been building too many railroads and must "slow up" awhile until the country has had time to catch up.

2 HE MISTLETOE. [Little Men and Women.]

Mistletoe is one of those plants called parasites. The mistletoe is a gray, thread-like plant, and you will sometimes see it for sale about the streets at Christmas time, for, like the holly, it is a Christmas plant.

There are many different kinds of mistletoe, but that which grows on the oak Is the most famous in the English history.

In England, although the people think a great deal of having the mistletoe of the oak to deck their nouses at Christmas, it is not allowed in the churches.

Many, many hundred years ago the mistletoe was a sacred plant in England. The people did not worship the one true God, but they believed in several evil spirits, and these spirits they worshiped and tried to please. For these spirits they set apart the oak trees.

Their priests are called Druids, and they built their alters in oak groves. There they prayed and sang their hymns of praise. Dressed in long white robes those Druids marched In procession to the oak trees, and cut off the mistletoe with knives of gold. After saying a prayer over It they cut it In short pieces ana gave it as aNew Year's gift among the people, who kept It carefully.

The Khedive of Egypt is not in an altogether enviable position. He is a subject of the Sultan of Turkey, to whom he pays an enormous tribute. His country is enormously in debt, and he has to levy enormous taxes on the people. In consequence, he is about the most hated man in. the world. But to his credit he is a monogamist, and to him more than any one else is due the partial emancipation of native women from the thraldom of ancient customs. Nevertheless women still occupy a very restricted sphere in Egypt, and many of the old habits and customs are still in vogue. The curious dress of centuries ago is still worn. The Khedive is much in love with his wife, who wears a modern costume, while their children dress like Americans, The Kbedivah, as she is called, has her harem, or women servants, by scores. She is accompanied whenever she goes out to ride or drive by some of her numerous eunuchs, and she keeps up a big establishment separate from that of the King. When she sits down to dinner or breakfast it is not with the King, but. with her own ladles. The King eats with his officers, according to Mohammedan etiauette, and his apartments, or the salumllk, are separate from hers. Both she and her husband have done much to break down the rigidity of Mohammedan social customs. Their love for each other, and the example of the Khedive in having but one wife, is catching, and many of the other noble Arab gentlemen are following it.

For the first time iu the history of the State of New Hampshire a l^dy has made formal application to the Supreme court for admission to practice as an attorney. This lady is Miss Marilla M. Ricker, whose summer residence is in Dover, N. H., but who practices law in the District of Columbia during the greater part of the year. She is a member of the bar here in good standing. Her application for admission is based upon the law^hat anv person who has been admitted to practice before the highest judicial court of another State may be admitted here upon satisfactory evidence of good moral character, without examination as to other qualifications, when such examination is rendered unnecessary by the circumstances of the case. Stie argued her own petition. Her first point is that the law in question provides that "any person," and not "any citizen," etc., as it does in other instances and in other States, This, she maintains, includes women as well as men. She cites several States and Territories that have admitted women to the bar without.any change in the existing laws on the subject, and argues that it now merely rests with the New Hampshire courts to apply the broader rules of construction here. The court has the matter under careful consideration, and the result is awaited with no little interest. Miss Ricker has never taken an attorney's fee in her life. She has devoted her time to the defense and protection of those she believes unfortunate* and downtrodden. She has an ample fortune, the income of which she spends in charities!. She is a bright, strong, intellectual, well-inform-ed woman, who really knows more law than half the lawyers in the State, and whose robust nature and courage and purity of character entitle her to full consideration. She is a politician, and so well acquainted with our leading pubHe men that she speaks of Senators Chandler and Blair as "Billy" and "Our Henry."

It is almost unprecedented in official society for the wife of a member of Congress to address public audiences in Washington, as the wife of Congressman

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TEKRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT/

Gossip About Women.

A BOSTON WOMAN'S OPINIONS OF ILLDRESSED WOMEN—HOW THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN LIVES—A WOM

AN LAWYER'S PETITION TO THE SUPREME COURT.

It is feared that Boston women can never claim the title of being well dressed. Do what the few may to aspire to that favorable yerdict, there is always the ordinary, uncorsetted hyjgienic majority to cou ntevact it. It would be laughable, were it not pathetic, to note the shortcomings in this one direction of the average Boston woman. She has as much opportunity, as many means of dressing well as women elsewhere, but she invariably fails in producing the effect which strikes the obseryer in New York. Regard the throngs of women who daily pass up and down Boylston street, for instance, and point ten, if you can, who become their clothes, or who carry themselves with grace or elegance, Nearly all have been to fashionable tailors, who have done what lay within their power to give chic, air, style but the Boston woman is stubborn. She will not permit her preconceived notions to be displaced by the newest fashions she will not wear a corset she will wear a hygienic waist, if she wants to she won't wear her hair except so, and she will kick up her skirts at the back because her gymnasium teacher tells her to bring all the musles into play when she walks. Beside this, she is in haste. How can she take life easily and gracefully when sixty different calls are being made on her time and brains all at once? The art of wearing her clothes well is unknown to her. She puts them on. She does*not make her toilet. She wouldn't be guilty of "prinking," nor of being sure her boots were well blacked nor would this usual Boston woman consider it worth her while to take a hand mirror to see if the angle of her virtuous bonnet corresponded with the angles of her profile and her back hair. It is these little omissions, this forgetfulness of detail, which renders two-thirds of our women dowds—In the eyes of appreciative, though critical, observers.

Pickler of South Dakota has already done several times, to the great delight of her..hearers. Her services will probably be in great demand during the winter by temperance societies and Woman's Suffrage organizations, as Prohibition and Woman's Suffrage are the two subjects in which she is especially interested. Mrs. Prickler is a bright, attractive little woman, with brown hair and grayblue eyes which change expression as she speaks. She is a slight, girlish figure and fair complexion. She is quite a contrast to her tall husband, with his dark complexion and black hair and eyes, but together they make a handsome couple.

Oysters, Oysters,

Strictly fresh and fine. Stock in bulk or can at Eiser's. -M

Look out for the great cornetist, LEVY, who is coming to Terre Haute.

Wahlers Tenderloins 15 Sweet Breads

(CHOLERA

HOGS.

and

Are as nice as you ever tasted.

orders south Fourth street, of choice meats.

Coming, LEVY and pany of solo artists.

Leave

Ail kinds

his superb coin-

Fur Robes and- Blankets. Oreasonableiarrival is an elegant line of Fur and Plush Robes and Horse Blankets at Peter Miller's, 505 Maiu Street, which are being sold at very low prices.

!DR. E. E. GLOVER,

Specialty: Diseases of the Rectum. REMOVED TO SEVENTH AND POPLAR STS

Eat your Christmas Dinner for 1890 at your own liorne in "Cottage Place Lots sold on easy monthly payments. T. H. Real Estate and Improvement Co., 652 Wabash Ave.

Two Fast Trains Dally.

Between Terre Haute and Jacksonville, Fla., leaving Terre Haute at 5:20 a. m. and 9:50 p. m., arriving at Jacksonville the following day at 1:55 p. m. and second morning at 8:40 a. m., respectively, via the Evansville route. On}y one change of cars. Solid trains to Nashville, with Pullman buffet sleeping cars attached. Fast time to all points South, accommodations and time a

SR. A. CAMPBELL, General Agent. 624 Wabash Avenue.'

JOE MILLER,

THE FAMILY GROCER 515 Wabash Avenue,

HAJs

Dressed Poultry, Rabbits, -,v Squirrels,'

3/! Spare Ribs, Tenderloins, v, ^celery,

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Cash paid for dead Hogs at my factory ou the Island southwest of the city: also Tallow, Bones and Grease of all kind. Dead animals removed free oi charge. Office So. la S^ond.

Scratched 28 Years.

Body covered with scales. Itchinj? terrible, suffering endless. No relief. Doctors and medicines fall. Speedily cured by Cuticnra at a cost of $5.

Cured by Cuticnra

If'l had known of the Cutlcura Remedies twenty-eight years ago it would have saved me $200.00 (two hundred dollars) and an immense amount of suffering. My disease (psoriasis) commenced on my head In a spot not larger than a cent. It spread rapidly all over my body and got under my nails. The scales would drop off of me all the time, and my suffering was endless and without relief. One thousand dollars would not tempt me to have this disease over again. I am a poor man, but feel rich to be relieved of what some of the doctors said was leprosy, some ringworm, psoriasis, etc, I took. .and. Sarsaparilla over a yearand a half, but no cure. I went to two or three doctors, and no cure. I cannot praise the Cutlcura Remedies too much. They have made my skin as clear and free from scales as a baby's. All I used of them was three boxes of Cutlcura, and three bottles of Cutlcura Resolvent, and two cakes of Cutlcura Soap. If you had been here and said yon would have cured me for Sm00, you would have had the money. 1 looked like the picture in your book of psoriasis (picture number two, "How to Cure Skin Diseases"), but now I am as clear as any person ever was. Through force of habit I rub my hands over xnv arms and legs to scratch once In a while, but to no purpose. lam all well. I scratched twentv-elght years* andJt got to be a kind of second nature to sandltimes.

^Cnticura Resolvent

The new Blood Purifier and purest and best of Humor Remedies, internally, and Cutlcura. the great Skin Core, and Cutlcura

Cranberries,

f,* Bulk Oystei&r:i Can Oysters,

Select Apples, Maple Syrup,

Buckwheat Flour, Fruit Butters,, Grapes, *1 Patent Flour,

2 C.

Sugar Cured Hams 12 i-Q cts. per pound at OLIVER'S.

DE.

Country Butter,

4 Etc., Etc., Etc.

Soap,

an exquisite Skin Beautifler, externally, gneedily. and permanently cure every species o?itehin«, burning, scaly, ctusted,, pimply, scrofulous, and hereditary

dleases

for "How to Core Skin Diseases."

61 ppg««, 50 illustrations, and 100 testimonials.

In one minute the Cutfcura A nil-Pain Plaster relieves rheumatic, sciatic, hip. kidney, chest, and muscular pains and weakThe first and only.pain-killing plas-

nomres The ter.

AT HOBERG-'S The Display of Linens and Housekeeping Goods jA Great Attraction.

Gas Fixtures, Globes and Engineer'* Supplies. 600 Ohio Street. Terre Haute, lad

OPAL. COAL.

We have opened a coal office at950 Main, at the former Kuhn elevator office and keep all kinds of

BLOCK & BITUMINOUS COAL

We solicit a shareof the public patronage.

JOS. LEE—WM. D0RSEY.

i4TERRE

5ArLmen Sale

Oomes but once a year at our store, for this we make extensive purchases and sell at Low Prices to give all housekeepers and the trade generall a chance to replenish their stock of Linens, Table Damasks, Towels, Quilts, etc., eta, and Muslins and Sheetings, -r

We Take Great Pleasure

In showing our Linens to the ladies' and invite all to take a look whether they wish to buy or not Our line of Novelties in Double Bleached Damasks, Hemstitched Table Sets, Tray Cloths, Napkins, Sideboard Covers, Scarfs, Fancy Towels, etc., etc., is very complete. The faintest idea of the great variety we show can olny be given in this advertisement. We would be pleased to have al the ladies call and examine.^

HOBERG,l*OOT & CO.,

Jobbers and Retailers. 518 and .V20 Wabash Ave.

E N E E N

While you see flaming advertisements of promises of Cost regardless of Cost, Half Price, 50 Cents on the Dollar, etc., etc.", a good dollar is only worth a hundred cents. People have found out that poor, shoddy trash goods are dear at any price, but good, well-made Clothing is what gives value in return to the purchasei. Now our counters and shelves are full of good, well made Clothing, Men's Suits, Children's Suits and Overcoats a specialty. Gloves, Underwear, Knit Jackets, at the lowest cash value and prices. We don't misrepresent anything in price or quality. Give you just what we promise you-—the best goods in the market for the price you pay. Don't be deceived or buy till you see our stock and prices. We invite your inspection. Either ready made or made to order.?

j:#! Mil

C. 0. LINCOLN,

Clothier, Merchant Tailor and Gent's Furnisher, 622 Wabash Ave., near Sixth.

DENTIST

310 north 18th street.

All work warranted as represented.

J. NUGENT. M. J. BROPHY.

j^-UGENT & CO., PLUMBING and GAS FITTING

A dealer in

HAUTE, INDIANA.

PREP&RiTORY SCHOOL and SEMINARY.

(Write for Special Circular.)

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

Opens Wednesday, September 11, 1889.

For information call on or address th£ President, John Mason Duncan, or Sydne^ B. Davis, Secretary Board of Trustees.

E. R. WRIGHT & CO.

The White Front Grocers, Have jx a Great Holiday Display.

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Among other things are the following: Sweitzer Cheeee, Prom age de Brie Cheese, Dew Drop Canned Goods,

Catawba Grapee,

Mal&gfr Grapes, Florida Oranges, Bell Flower Apples,

and hu

mors of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, from plmpl«Mdscrotote. Sold everywhere. Price, CrrrxciTRA, 50 cents SOAP, 25 cents RESOLVTETTT, IL09. Prepared hy the Potter Drag and Chemical Corporation,

Dressed Poultry, Sweat Cider, 5 Saratoga Chips,

California Wine, Fruit Cake,

Buckwheat Flour, Maple Syrup, Clover Hon ay,. nberries,

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prevenitoiby CutlcuraMedlcaled!

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FREE FROM RHEUMATISM.

California Prunes, ifJSvaporated PMCIH^' "-sporated Aprioote,

New Sorghum,

New Or!eanB Syrup,

Choioe Brands of Canned goods.

RS. ELDER 4 BAKER, iiOMEQFATHIO

PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS,

OFFICE 102 S. SIXTH STREET, Opposite Savings Bank. Night, calls at office will' receive prompt attention. Telephone N©» 183.

"HE. R. W. VAN VALZAH,

J_/ Successor to RICHARDSON & VAN VALZAH,

X)EnSTTIST.-

Office—Southwest corner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entrance on Fifth street.

R. GAGG,

DEALER IN

ARTISTS' SUPPLIER

Picture Frames, Mouldingo Picture Frames to Order.

McKsen's Block. 648 Main st, 6th and 7th.

STECK

p:la.:n"os. All styles atKassner's Pakce of Music, Albert J. Kussneiy Sole Agent.

Established 1881. incorporated 1886.

QLIFT & WILLIAMS CO.,

Successors to Clift, Williams A Co. JW H. WILLIAMS, President. J. M. CLin, Sec'y and Trea*. jfAnrprAonrBBBS or

Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc.

AND DBA7.KB8 IN

LUMBER, LATE, SHINGLES GLASS, PAINTS, OILS AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

Mulberry street, "-orner 8th.

.Tux POSTOYRICE NJKWS STAND sells the It' AKERIQUE L' AMERIQUE

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All Havana, best 10c Cigar in the city, at PosrorncK JTzwb STAND, 12 n. 7tt street,