Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 April 1890 — Page 4

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5 A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. BUBSCKIPTIOK PSICB, W.00 A YXAB. E. P. WESTFALL,

MANAGER.

FTJBWCATIOK OTT1CX,

Kos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing Honae Square.

TERRE HAUTE, APRIL 26,1890.

GROVEB CLEVELAND is getting so fat that his friends are alarmed and think of putting him on a diet of toast and tea It is evident that he will be too fat to ran for President in 1892.

WHAT about the South American republic named the United States of Brazil? Seems to be getting along pretty well without the aid of Dom Pedro, in spite of all the croakings that followed bis deposition.

THE fastest train in the world will soon run between Chicago and New York, over the Michigan Central. Tha running time will be 23 hours, not quite a day and a night. Two combination cars, a dining-room car and sleepers will make up the train and it will go past the small towns so fast as to only leave a streak behind.

ST. PAUL'S ice palace, Pueblo's ore palace and Sioux City's corn palace are to be imitated by a salt palace at Salt Lake this summer. Afterwards, if this effort succeeds, a cheater one will be constructed for the world's fair. The salt will be compressed into hard blocks which can be varnished as a protection from tho weather. Who shall set bounds to Yankee ingenuity?

TIIK town elections throughout Illinois, on last Tuesday, were nip and tuck botweon the license and prohibition people. In many places one side carried the day and in many other towns the opposite side won. This

result

EDOEHTON is ono of the Kansas towns that is going to try poticoat government. The "horrid mon," with their liquor, cigars and tobacco, have been tried In the balance and found wanting and every place in the municipal government, from mayor to police judge, will bo presided ovor by ladies—all married women—during tho coming year. The pictures of those ladies, as presented In the columns of tho Chicago Tribune, show them to be serious and sensiblelooking women who may be relied on to do the right thing every time.

THK

proposition to hold a great Inter­

national review of the navies of tho world In New York harbor in October, 1892, as a part of the Columbus exhibition, meets with general favor. It would be especially appropriate to havo such an exhibition in American waters because we area peaceful nation, with no loreign complications and all the powers would feel free to send their ships to the show. It could be made the grandest naval pageant ever seen in the world, but it should be held in 1893, during tho World's Fair, so that the Europeans who come over could see both shows without Jbaving to make two trips.

T«K subject of mauual training in schools has attracted a good deal of attention in this country of late and promising beginnings have been made in that line of work. A good deal more needs to be done. The city of Paris, where the value of trained artisans is highly appreciated, spends $200,000 a year for maintaining free schools for instructing artisans in the various lines of work. The result is to develop a high class of manual skill which makes the artisan a real artist and not a more •'blacksmith*' at his trade. We need plenty of such schools in tliis country—schools like our own Rose Polyteebnie—which educate

the hand and mind.

IT

shows, we be­

lieve, the wisdom of the local option law which

permits

each community todecide

tho question for itself, and just as frequently as tho pooplo may choose to vote on it.

IT is hoped that tho present Congress may adjourn by July 1st. The tariff, tonnage, direct tax,, bankruptcy and silvor bills are the most important ones that remain for consideration. Doubtless some important work is being done by our national statesmen but the people do j.ot seom to bo hearing much about it. What lm« this Congress done so far, anyhow? Can anybody tell? Perhaps we shall find out when the next campaign comes orr!

IT looks like a grab between England and Gorrnany as to which shall have the most or best of Africa. Emin Pasha heads the Gorman deal and Stanley looks out for John Bull. What ever the out •com© it will be in aid of civilizing the Dark Continent and this will be the gratifying fact of tho matter. There is no natural reason why Africa should not becomo ono of tho great busy centers of the world, and it will be fifty or a hundred yoars from now.

the eye as well as the

THK romantic and retributive have happened, or are about to happen. That is to say, Miss Winnie Davis, "Daughter of the Confederacy,0 $» to marry the grandson of, a noted Abolition leader, Alfred Wilkinson, of Syracuse, X. Y. As Mr. Wilkinson is a young lawyer of Syracuse, Winnie will probably there to live. Then what will the Southerners do for some relic of the Confederacy to worship—Jeff dead and his daughter married and moved away? Tsui! you, Wilkinson, a better scheme. Go to Washington to practice law and all tho Southerners will send you their cases beeauae you are Winnie's husband. See?

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is announced that President Harrison will take another slice of the same White House pie if it is offered him, We see no serious objection so far. He has disappointed a good many politicians bat his administration has been practical and conservative and the country is prospering in the main. However, it is rather early yet to talk second term, when little more than a year of the first term has passed. We shall know more two years from now.

THB campaign for United States Senator in Indiana this year will make one of the liveliest political fights seen here for some time. Senator Voorhees will be a candidate for re-election and the "Tall Sycamore" is able to get nearer the hearts of the Democratic masses than any other speaker, now that Thomas A Hendricks is gone. The Republicans might match him with Porter, but that gentleman will hardly be induced to leave his easy and luxurious retreat at Rome for the terrible strain of a campaign with the giant of the Wabash,

IT seems quite unfortunate that the new and flourishing society, known as "The King's Daughters,**' should have bad already so serious a disagreement over a doctrinal point in theology as to have ^caused its disruption. After long discussion of the doctrine of the Trinity and the Atonement the central council has«dopted the Unitarian view of Jesus and the society has been split wide apart. An evangelical order of King's Daughters will be organized by the withdrawing members who claim to have nine-tenths of the membership on their side.

THE Philadelphia Presa concludes a well digested review of the earnings of actors with these words: "It is difficult to believe that even eminent and rare talent on the stage will long secure, as it does now, net returns of from $30,000 to $100,000 a year—sums ten times greater tbau the theater pays elsewhere." It has been difficult to belieye all along that Americans would continue to pay exorbitant prices to see and hear actors and singors, but they have kepton doing so. How long they will continue to be fleeced in this way it would be hard to say, though there are some indications of a change in this respect, and we shall probably in time come to what is reasonable with the stage people, as we have in most other things.

AMKKICA has lost one more of her ornaments and jewels. Buffalo Bill has bought a house in Naples. His head has been turned by tho honors heaped upon him by foreign potentates and princes and by the ducats with which they have filled his pockets, and he will havo no more of his native land. This is sad. It was bad enough that our pretty Ameiican girls should run away to marry deayed and shabby nobles, but who would have thought that our own wild, original, unique, indigenous Buffalo Bill, the only one of his kind, who has bad no forerunner and can have no successor, that Col. Buffalo William Cody, of Nebraska, would become infected with the sickly sentiment of foreign courts and lese the desire to live in his own land It is sad.

IT is said that a Frenchman has discovered a method of photographing colors—the dream and despair of artists for years. It seems there is nothing that a Frenchman can't find out and this ingenious fellow has Invented a process of photography that glve! all the colors but two and he expects to be able to master them also. This is a most wonderful discovery. The only drawback of the photograph hitherto has been its inability to reproduce colors. Faithful to the smallest detail in recording form, its work has only been imperfect in that its pictures were unvaryingly monotonous hi black and white. If now all the colors of face, landscape, sea and sky can he faithfully portrayed by the camera what marvelous transformation has been wrought in art! Can it be that this is literally true?

THE proprietors of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper have arranged to send an exploring expedition into the heart of Alaska, where the foot of the explorer has never trod, so far as known. About 1.50 persons, mostly natives, will be employed and the expedition will cost round sum, but it is expected to throw valuable light upon a vast territory of the United States, of which nothing is now known. Exploration is quite the order of the day, and if America can furnish the pluck and energy to blaze the way for civilization through the dark continent of Africa, we surely ought to be able to know what is in our own country. Alaska is the only territory of romance and undiscovered possibilities we have left and we ought to make the most of it.

Muca as they make fun of him, Dr. Talmage does say some sensible things, and none is more so than his recent declaration that the curse of American society is that our young women are taught that the chief, if not tho only thing in their life, la to get somebody to take care of them. This is no now thought, to bo sure. It has been uttered many times but it cannot be spoken too often. The situation is not nearly so bad as it used to be. Our girls are learning to take car© of themselves fur beyond what was ever dreamed of. A hundred new occupations have opened ttp to women In the last ten years and they have demonstrated their fitness and their ability to win suooena in them. But oar social and family conditions will not he altogether right until an equal or greater cans taken to educate the daughters to habits of stJf-depend-eneeaa Is now shown to the sons. While the married atate is desirable alike for both sexes, provided they lie wise mar­

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riages, the woman should be as independent as the man of any necessity to enter the conjugal relation, and it in a fact that the young woman who is best qualified for wife and mother is the one who is thoroughly able to take care of herself.

LAST Monday was the day appointed by Erickson, the California lunatic, for the destruction of Chicago and several other cities. Of course nothing happened, as no sensible person supposed that anything would happen. Yet those dire prophecies are not without miscbevous effects, and the Chicago Journal makes a good point when it says: "The press is partly in complicity with them in giving the ghastly prophecies publicity. They frighten thousands of nervous people, especially susceptible women and those in delicate health, and they have driven many persons crazy. They ought to be treated like any other disorderly person or public nuisance." Tbat is it precisely. The newspapers ought to pay no more attention to these silly utterances of notoriety-seeking cranks than they do to the gibbering of any other lunatics gg^

WAR NO MORE.

Hon. James G. Blaine has reason to feel proud of his scheme for a Pan American Congress, which he proposed several years before its final consumation. The Congress has been in session at Washington for several months and while it has not made much noise there is reason to believe that results of substantial value have been realized. 't

One of the important points agreed upon is that in tho future all the American Republics shall arbitrate their differences instead of going to war, the arbitrators to be chosen, from among the high officials of other nations. This agreement will be binding when ratified by each of the governments represented, as it doubtless will be. One of the worst drains and drawbacks the Ceutral and South American republics have had lias been their frequent wars with one another. If these can be stopped and they can become mutually helpful instead of destructive to one another, their progress in civilization and material prosperity will be much more rapid than heretofore. MS

It is eminently fitting that tho American continent should lead in the movement to abolish international wars and that such an arrangement should be brought about by the eflorts of the United States, whose foundation principles are liberty and peace. How long will it be before the artny-ridden nations of the old world will fall in line^and march to tho music of America? w&i

A NEW IDEA.

The Union League Clubof Chicago last Tuesday evening listened to a discussion that was at once novel, important and perhaps practical. Col. Jackson spoke on "A Succession Tax for Educational Purposes."

The speaker has thought on this ques tion a long time and has reached the conclusion that poor parents should be recompensed for the loss of their children's labor while the latter are at school. The compensation ought to run, he thinks, about as follows: For parents who have a child at school between 12 and 13 years of age, §50 per year between 13 and 14, $75 between 14 and 15, $100 between 15 and 16, $125 between 16 and 17, $150 between 17 and 18, $175 between 18 and 19, $225 between 19 and 20, $300.

Of conrso it would take a pile of money to meet such an outlay, but Mr. Jackson has a way of providing for it. He proposes a graded tax on ths estates of deceased persons, starting with percent, on estates less thau $25,000 and gradually rising to 50 per cent, on estates of $5,000, 000 and over. 4

This seems like a very radical projfjosi tion at first blush, but who will say that it is not a righteous one? It is admitted that education is requisite to good citizenship, yet we see children kept out of the public schools on all sides because their parents feel unable to dispense with their services. On the other hand who needs these great estates, from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, that are descending from generation to generation? They might well be taxed for so good a purpose as that of universal education for,the children of the ?ouu-

OUR BOOK TABLE.it

Worthington Company announces as No. 9 in their International Series, "The Fleet of Love," by Anne Reeve Aldrlch, arthor of "The Rose of Flame." "The Fleet of Love is a brilliant and remarkable study of American social life. Th6 sparkling wit and satire with which the fashionable and literary society of the day is depicted, is relieved by touches of tender pathos. Among the minor characters, the yonng French lad is exquisitely drawn by a master band, and hia patience and suffering form a strong contrast in the gay and careless life which composes the setting of the story. It is a most original and striking novel, both in treatment and plot, and is illustrated with portrait of the author and numerous finely executed photogravures. Sold by J.Q. Button.

Smith & Dunn are going to give the beat values for Sand 10c this month ever given.

Don't

miss them. 319 Main.

WALL PAPER

ings. Hughes fc Lewis, 23 8. Fifth St.

Daily arrivals of new

Furniture

are still being received at

Probst's.

Prioes away down. 642 Wabash Am

CASHMERE

Ombre Sateens,

12|c.

Large and beautiful collection of choice^ styles just received. Exact copies of the French,

This one $o. former price

Finest fitting Underwear in the world. Anew and choice collec-

tion of Gowns, Chemise, Drawers

and Corset Covets just received. l|pjaidg jraIlcies, S DimTfl rjlTTTl sold heretofore at 60c,

I MlNll InJi

4§8 White.

10c up. 'The latest effects. Infant's Specialties in great variety.

THOMSON'S

Thonf^son's Summer Corsets

price.

WP,

E. R. WIRGHT & CO'S

Nothing could be nicer.

J—THEY

HAVE ALSO

Oranivea, Lifttaons, Bananas,

Cranberries, Apples, Cucumbers,

Beets,. ]ttaoe, Radishes,

Mint, Water Crees, Pie Plant,

Asparagus, Maple Snffsr, Maple Syrup,

Dreeed Chickans and Tnrkayu, Creamery and Conn try Butter. B. B. WRIGHT CO.

JOE MILLER

Has the nicest, fattest poultry. 515 Main St

offer o£ our nU

woo] NoTotty Stripes

68c and 75c a yard. lieduced to 49c a yd.

LACE- CAP.***"

We haye 'em in all Black and all

Best Towels in the city for 26c. Best Indigo Prints in the city at,6c Best Prints made at 5c. Best 25c Ladies' Hose in tho city. Best 50c Corset in the city Best 50c Black Cashmere in city.

b7orette™MoroepenlthTherS Please call awl See Oiu- Great Bargains. fitting Corset

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Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

HOBERG-, ROOT & CO.

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Exceptional^ values will be offered nex ?V: week. Bargains to suit the season.

HOBEEGnMOT Im's

mmense purchases made this season to be offered at less than wholesale prices. The weather has been unseasonable and now ust makethe best of it.

!®#S

All our French,and English Novelty Suit Patterns

rv It Cost and Half Price.

$7.50 Suit Patterns at $4,98. $10. Paris Robe Patterns at $8. $15. Paris Robes at $11.50. $18. Paris Robe Patterns at $14.50.

English Suit Patterns at 17.00. $25. French Novelty Suits at 18.00. $35 French Pattern Suits at $

The above are all new, fresh goods, this season's purchase. jsuit pattern of a kind. No duplicates

We offer the finest line of Real English Mohairs, extra fine Lustre and well worth SI. 00 a yard. Our price will be 69c a yard.

I I A in 4 6 in A W a 7 5 sold at 50c yard. Big lino of All-Wool Cloths 36 and 38 inches wide TO US FOR A will be sold at 39c yard, former price 50c. Our line of Double Fold

All- Wool Suitings, former price 32£, now your choice at 22c yard. The aboye lots must be sold. Low prices will close them.

aVe We doiife the Curtain'business tbat we Are' doin^k

this season. Our stock is complimented upon every day. The ladies

all tell us ours are the prettiest and cheapest. See our 49, 68, 75 and ", 90c pair 3-yard long Curtains. No. such values were ever shown in this city before. See our $1, $1.25, SI.38 and $1.50 Rich Nottingham Curtains, worth 50 per cent more.*' See our fine $2 and $3 Curtains. The finest $5 Curtain in Terre Haute. Elegant line of Silk and Chinelle Curtains, Madras and Scrim Novelties. Real Brussels, Tnmbour and Point Curtains. The finest line of Upholstery Goods and Curtain Poles in Terre Haute.

Jackets and Wraps,

A large and choice collection See our elegant $3.50 Sockinet •Jacket, worth $5. Children's Suits, Accordeon Skirts, and Infant's Specialties.

See our grand line of The Celebrated P. D. Muslin Underwear, Gowns Chemise, Drawers, Skirts and Corset Covers price 25c up..

Only one

We offer our entire line of 46 in. English Serge, also Frcnch De Beige Suitings, Price from now on will be 87|c.

Best 50c Mohair in colors in the city. Best $1 Black Silk in the city. Best $1 Colored Faille Silk in city Best 5, 8 and 10c Ginghams in the city.

Only a Few of Them..

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CHICAGO,

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The Above are

Jobbers and Retailers.