Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1890 — Page 4

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TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 1, 1890,

EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND gets $35,000 a year from the New York law firm of which he is a member. Few ex-Presi dents have fared so well.

'THE first woman to go round 5BE world was, it is said, a member of Bou ganville's expedition in 1766. The jour•ney required two years and four months Nelly Bly made it in 73 days, or just about one-twelftb the time. Such is the •change a century and a quaiter

wrought in methods of travel.

IT is announced that the next revolution in the railway service will be the construction of coaches made of steel -entirely fire proof. Several steel cars frhave been in use for some time in the .postal service and are said to give the greatest satisfaction. A great plant is about to be established at Chicago for the manufacture of the new cars on a large scale.

THE cost of sending a boy to Harvard Is said to be §2,000 a year. There does seem to be a

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after all. But the chances are that few -of the boys that spend $2,000 a year going *to college will ever earn that much after they get out. Their habits are too luxurious and effeminate. It is the boy who denies himself and works to get his education that makes the best use of it.

"TIIK poople who have been swallowing "antipyrine" in unlimited quantities as a harmless drug, should take warning. The stull, like all other drugs when used to excess, is found to produce bad -effects upon the system. Br. Regnord, an eminent Paris physician, declares that grave injury results from the use of .antipyrine, and that it ought not to be used except by the advice of a physician.

NATIONALISM, the outgrowth of Bellamy's "Looking Backward," is growing in all soctions of the country, but lias had a phenomenal development in California. In San Francisco an offort will be ntude next fall to elect a Nationalist tiokot. If successful, steps will be taken towards the municipal ownership of the wator, gas and eloctric light works. This will be the first attempt of the Nationalists to carry their ideas into practical politics and the outcome will be of interest to the country.

IT is said that Lyman Abbott is drawing nearly as large congregations to Plymouth church as Beecher did in his last days. Mr. Abbott will be remembered by the older residents of Torre Haute as a minister of unusual grace and power. With his broad views and .large love for humanity, Lyman Abbott ds a worthy successor to Henry Ward Beecher. Ilis sermon last Sunday was a vigorous arraignment of the present system of society, declaring that the danger which threatens the country is not so much democracy as plutocracy.

THK best argument that can be made for the government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, etc., is the fact that the plan has been profitable to the poo pie wherever it has been triod. The colony of Victoria in Australia, with a 'population of a little more than one mil lion, operates the railroads, telegraphs and express business by the government. Last year its income was $41,000, 000, of which §15,500,000 come from profits on the railroads. Having adopted tho Australian system of voting, we could not do better than to imitate Australia in the matter of railroads and *lelegraphs.

SKNATOK FAKWKMJ, of Illinois, has beeu considering the propriety of fighting the President's nomination of a man for collector of customs in Chicago. Mr. "Farwell should recall a similar contest which Roseoo Coukling had with President Garfield and the outcome of it Grout a man as Conkling was, the people •of New York said they had not made him a Senator for the purpose of wrangling with tho President over appointments to office, and if he could find nothing better to do than that ho might go back to private life, which he did.

Mr. Fanvell is a tomtit compared to Conkling, and if he undertakes a fight with tho President over the offices the State of Illinois will be apt to drop him vverv suddenly.

HELP NEEDED.

Although the Dakota papers have been tinwisoly trying to cover the matter up, it is evident that much suffering and destitution exists in that country. The Chicago Tribune sent out a correspondent to get an honest report of the situation. Her story is that hundreds of families are practically without food, clothing or fuel. They have managed so far to subsist on hominy and pork no bread and no flour to make any of —shivering in rags, in cold houses about stoves into which hardly enough precious coal Is put to make even the •iron warm. There Is such lack of food for the stock that many horses and cows will die before grass comes and the •pioneers will be without the means to put in their crops, A desolate thing surely to spend the long Dakota winter in such fashion! Yet the settlers are &r*ve and hopeful. They only ask to be

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helped over this hard time and assisted to put in their crops next spring, when they believe all will come out right. They have no wish to give up their farms or go to some more genial clime They have full faith in the fnture Dakota and are willing to fight it out where they are.

The people of the older States would be only too glad to help them, but their distress has been denied by the local press from the mistaken idea that to publish the facts would injure the State abroad. Now that the truth is known provisions, clothing and fuel should pour into the brave people is fully relieved.

SENATORS GONE WILD. Some of our legislators have evidently gone daft on the subject of war ships It is proposed by the Senate committee on naval affairs to spend 1350,000,000 for the building of 18 first-class, 12 second class, and 8 third-class battle-ships, monitors, 11 rams, 42 armed cruisers. 10 dispatch boats, and 120 tarpedo boats!

This is probably the most astonishing proposition for war expenditures in time of peace that has ever been made in the Congress of the United States. What in the world are the gray-bearded Senators thinking of? Do they imagine that all the other nations of the world are about to combine for the destruction of Uncle Sam? Even then we would hardly need such a navy as that.

Surely we are not going out on the high seas to fight the nations of the earth or to evade their territory. If we had such a navy it would cost about 100 millions a year to keep it afloat, 'and we would have no more use for it than a boy has for a bumble-bee. Such a bill would not make a first rate card for the next national campaign.

IS THERE DANGER?

The election of so many men of enormous wealth to the United States Senate, calls attention anew to the dangers which menace the nation from the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. Is there any danger from this source? Andrew Carnegie, himself one of the great millionaires, thinks there is no danger. He says: "I do not have any apprehensions about the dangers which surround the republic. Never did nation advance so fast and all we have do, and what the American people will do, is to follow it out on this line and hold fast that which has proved itsolf to be good." Good for Carnegie and his fellow millionaires, surely, but hether so good for the rest is not so evident.

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Let us hear what another man saidAbraham Lincoln not a millionaire, not plutocrat, but a man of the people whose great heart beat always true to the oppressed, whose wise judgment on national questions was rarely mistaken. Lincoln said: "I see in the near future crisis arising that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. By a result of the war4 corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. I feel, at this point, more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war."

Have tho tendencies which Lincoln predicted been going on or not? Hjs words have the effect of prophecy. Seventy persons in the United States are worth $2,700,000,000, an average of $37,500,000 each, and 25,000 people own onehalf the entire wealth of the country. Mr. Lincoln was afraid Mr. Carnegie is not. Is Lincoln or Carnegie the best man to follow?

DOGMA AND RELIGION. The discussion of the Presbyterian creed, which is now going on in that body, promises to take a wider range. One writer predicts that we are on the eve of a doctrinal discussion that will shake every prevailing system of theology to its very foundation. It is noted in the history of the church that these doctrinal agitations have been periodical. "We have not had one now for many years and it is argued that the conditions are ripe for a general discussion of the fundamental doctrines of religion, such as the inspiration of the Bible, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the vicarious atonement, the second advent, eternal punishment, etc.

Some recent novels and the interest they have excited seem to point in this direction. Robert Elsmere, The Story of An African Farm, and John Ward, Preacher, all deal with phases of religious belief and indicate much earnest thought ou the part of the authors. Aside from Looking Backward they havo been the notably successful novels of the day. There is undoubtedly a modification of religious sentiments going on both inside and outside of the church. These stories are at once the outgrowth and the promoters of this change. "Religion must conform to common sense," David Swing declared in his pulpit last Sunday. "Thef best thing the Presbyterians can do is to break up their camp at Genevas and march back to Judea. The time has dome for them to let Calvin fall and to take up Christ." ••Every succeeding age," says Dr. Patterson, "must make its own definition of God, for every succeeding age will stand in more light." "I intend to teach that there kre no infants in hell andUtftt there is no limit to God's love, and that no man is punished save for his own sin," declared Dr. Van Dyke, of the Scotch Presbytery, New York.

And so it goes on. Men are not satisfied with the old dogmas. What Is Calvin or Edwards or Wesley or any other

creed-builder to them? They are not bound to take any man's exposition of the Bible. The book is as free to them as it was to the men of a century ago They will read it for themselves and put their own construction upon it. Each age has more light than that which proceeded it and the creed of one will not do for all. In truth less creed and more religion is what we need any way. We doubt if any such interest in dogmas can be developed in this age as characterized some of the theological debates of former times. "J_

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR. .1 Senator George, of Miss., joined the Baptist church before he started to Washington.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis is engaged on

life of her husband, which will soon be ready tor the press. Benjamin Butler's big house on Capi tol Hill, Washington, is to be leased to the Government for Congressional purposes.

Prince Arthur, Queen Victoria's third son, wiU arrive in Canada from Japan next May and will visit the United States.

In the next European war, with anything like favorable ground, artillery will effectually stop advancing infantry at 4,000 yards.

Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland will attend the wedding of W. S. Bissel, Mr. Cleveland's former law partner, to Miss Louise Sturgess, of Geneva, Feb. 6.

The followers of Dr. McGlynn in New York city gave him $1,600 for a Christmas gift. This is just double the amount he ecelved the Christmas previous.

King Humbert of Italy has inhaled so many cigarettes that his bronchial tubes have become affected. He now sucks champhor instead of tobacco smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, as youthful as his old age is, declines to follow the example of certain of the great English masters and issue a volume of poems.

An eccentric old lady living near Dresden, Tenn., has purchased her burial robe. She is seventy years old and insists that she can't live much longer.

Leland St^adford, who is worth $80,000,000, always orders the same luncheon week in and week out. His order is calves'liver and bacon and a bottle of beer.

Representative Lester, of Virginia, is Baptist clergyman, the first to sit in the lower house since the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of Brookfield, held a seat in that body.

Asocial directory of Holyoke, Mass., contains a special list of "families in good standing whose men members do not make ordinary calls in full evening dress."

W. Clarke Russell, the marine novelist, who is now hopelessly crippled by rheumatism, liyes at Brighton, England, and puts in most of his tiir*e in a wheel ed chair.

Last year there were recorded 1,021 strikes. In 489 cases the men were sue cessful and advanced wages $358,551. In all the others they wero defeated and lost $1,083,653.

Ex-Secrotary Bayard has accepted an invitation of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina to deliver the anniversary oration of the society in Charleston on April 13.

An American company haye given two French painters an order for a panorama of Stanley's two journeys through Africa. It is intended for the World's Fair of 1892.

Of the hundreds of birds killed last year by flying against the Liberty statue in New Yarlc harbor, 60 per cent., it is said, belonged to one species—the Maryland yellow throats.

A table that once belonged to the First Napoieon was recently sold in Dover for $22.50. The intrinsic value of the article was probably $20 and its historic associa tions fetched the balance.

Queen yictoria's crown, kept with other royal regalia under strong guard at the old Tower, and only worn on state occasions, is worth $600,000, metal, gems, and decorations included.

The venerable Ex-Vice President Hannible Hamlin appeared in public at Bangor, Me., the other day to present a national flag to the High School, and made a stirring speech to his auditors.

The heir apparent of the Japanese empire became of legal age (eleven years) on November 3. He was appointed to some honorary offices and given a sword that has been kept in the imperial family since 701.

M. Pasteur is in very bad health. He never regained strength after his serious illness two years ago, and he has devoted so much time and thoaght to the work in his institute that he has bad no chance of recuperating.

ANew Hampshire man has purchased an entire town in Maine. It contains 8,500 acres, and the

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part of it includes a custom house, a postoffice, a steam sawmill, a store and three or four dwellings.

Calyi S. Brice is said to be worth $5,000,000 and is getting richer every year. All his prosperity has come within the last ten years, and a decade ago he was a red-whiskered, blue-eyed yonng lawyer of 30 odd years on the ragged edge of a country practice.

gentleman who recently returned from Europe says that James Gordon Bennett's hair is now gray and that he is one of the most distinguished looking men in Paris. Mr. Bennett is turning his attention to yachting again, and some sesult of importance to the world of sport is expected.

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THE PASTOR'S DAUGHTER.

Worthington Company announce as their next new volume in their International Library, The Pastor's Daughter by W. Heiraburg, translated by Mrs. J. W. Davis with photogravure illustrations. It is an intensely interesting and touching story, presents powerful sketches of character skillfully contrasted and has a peculiar charm of its own. From the outset it arrouses the reader's sympathy. It is particularly well illustrated. On sale at Button's Book Store.

One of our leading dry goods merchants remarked the other day, "Trade is opening up splendid. The past two weeks' sales has shown a marked increase over the corresponding weeks of previous years. Our Muslin Underwear, Embroidery and Housekeeping goods sales have made things pretty lively with us, especially the Muslin Underwear, which we sold stocks of. We look forward to a prosperous business year."

The MAIL wishes them success.-

Fresh Oysters,

Eflis fc Co's Star brand, in can or bulk. They are fat, white and clean. For sale at Eiser's, wholesale or retail.

Edmondson *fc Cox, the celebrated opticians, will again visit Terre Haute, stopping as before with J. M. Big wood, the Jeweler, commencing Monday^ February 3d.

Call and see the display of Tile Hearths at James T. Moore's, No. 657 Main street. The stock includes a great variety of designs. Grate Baskets, Ash Pans, etc.

Any lady or gentleman who bought spectacles of them heretofore and are notsuited'. will piease call and have them made right without extra charge. They make scientific ocular tests free, and invite every one to have their eyes tested.

Dr. O. T. BALL.

Limited to treatment of catarrh, throat nervous diseases, tumors and superfluous hair, removed to 115 south Sixth st.

New crop Comic Valentines, aesthetic, refined, sentimental and impersonal, at Postoffice News Stand, No. 12 North Seventh street.

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