Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 August 1890 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

tMinscBiirio* PBICK, 12.00 A YJEAB.

FI. P. WESTFALL, MANAGER. pumACATioy orwicx, ftm.'JO and 22 South Flith Street,

Printing Booae Square.

TKKHK HAUTB, AUGUST 8,1890.

II I.SAO TJSPSI SAX, the daughter of a Japanese nobleman, who came to this country four years ago at the age of 19, returns as a Christian missionary to work among her countrymen.

Gov. Fifeb hae signed the "World's Fair bill, passed at the special session of the Legislature. Now let the ground be "made" and the buildings started or things will not be ready for the big show inlSSW.

TUB American nary is getting there. The ordnance officers have succeeded in shooting a dynamite shell through a two inch iron plate and exploding it on the other side. That will be an ugly customer for ordinary war ships to deal with.

Mrs Stanley's bridal shoes were made of "silver kid," a curiously pretty .material which is sure of a great run.

Mr. Stanley should have bought the entiro stock of silver kid. All brides will now want shoes of that kind and the explorer would have been a millionaire in no time.

CHABI.KS Nokdhoff, for many years the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, has been retired on half pay for life. Thatis somethingnew in American journalism but should commend itself to tho rich newspapers that can afford it. The Mall has hardly reached that point yet.

TICK managers of the Louisiana lottery boast that they gave $10,000 to the Democratic campaign fund for the election of Gov. Niohols and that they will give a like sum to defeat him, should ho be a candidate again, because be vetoed the lottery bill. They may succeed in keeping him from being governor for a sec-ond-term but there is very little credit in being governor of such a State anyhow, white there was a great deal in having backbone enough to veto the nfamous lottery bill.

AT last Mr. Olarkson has been located. He is not going into journalism in New York, St. Louis or Chicago, but will becotno the editor of the Denver News, which has beon purchased from Col. Arkins for half a million dollars, and will be changed from a Democratic to a Republican paper. Col. Arkins in turn will go to Chicago and attempt the resto ration of the moribund Times to its pristine glory and power. Mr. Clarkson however, denies that he is going to Den ver. Then where in tho nation is he going?

Knomhti newspapers are at a loss for Bngllsh language strong enough to properly characterize the brutality of killing criminals by electricity. That is probably bocause the experiment was first trlod in America. The Kemmlor case was bad enough, to be sure, but not a tenth or a hundredth part as bad as many cases of hanging have been. The systom should not bo condemned on Its first imperfect trial. It can be made to work perfectly and will then probably be found much more satisfactory than the old systom of legal execution. The fact is that the whole system of legal *xocutlon Is a relic of barbarism and ought to bo abandoned In civilixed countries. There is better use for a man than to slaughter him in cold blood, however •olentitlcaUy, and so far as the deterrent efleets upon others is concerned, it has beea shown over and over that men will not be restrained from crime by fear of death.

DouwrtiJcss Postmaster General Wanamaker meant well in ordering Tolstoi's "KreuUor Sonata" excluded from the malls. His purpose was that the government should not bo a party to the circulation of an indecent and vicious book. But however proper his motive it is evident that his judgment was at feult and that he made a big mistake. His action has served to advertise the book throughout this country and the world and to excite a curiosity in the public mind that will make the sales of the book a hundred fold what they otherwise would have been. "Tho KrueUor Sonata" is probably the dullest, stupidest and certainly the nastiest emanation from Tolstoi's prolific pen. It is the offspring of his dotage (he is now some 74 years old) and we will Indulge the hope, that there are no more like it to follow. Aside from the strongly condemnatory reviews in the news­

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the book had practically fallen

from public notice and the demand for it was small. Mr. Wanamaker'a action has unfortunately given it a new lease

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Every time a Judge resigns his placo on the bench to accept more lucrative employment, the newspapers raise the cry that American judges are not paid enough and compare their »a!ari«e with those paid in Kugland, which run from to $T»0,0C*\ But England should bo more be a guide tor us in this matter than in others where we decline to follow bm example. Our judges turn not so much given to resigning that the administration of j«*tk« i« seriously int*r?#r*i with nor do we experience any trouble in getting wmpetettt mm to go oti the Iwnrh. It i* wot by any means a rule that the lawyer who can make mo*t

money at the bar is best fitted to adorn the bench. The judicial mind comes by birth and is frequently not a moneymaking faculty. It so happens that we are able to get first-class judges for the moderate salaries provided, which are not niggardly by any means, bat compare favorably with the average earnings of the bar. Indeed our judges who remain long on the bench usually come into well-to-do circumstances.. JBetter let the judicial salaries alone, /$

"BABYLON 18 FALLEN." The election at Salt Lake, Utah, on Monday last resulted in a clean sweep for the anti-Mormons, who elected their entire county ticket by majorities ranging from 300 to 600.

The fight was close and bitter, the Mormons leaving nothing undone to keep control of the political offices. It seems to have been a fair, square contest and the liberal elements won the day. The Mormons are reported to be badly broken up over the result and well they may be, for it is hard to see how they can recover from such a blow. The influx of new blood and enterprising business men from the older states will rapidly tend to turp the scale still more heavily against the -Mormons, who will suffer from the depression of defeat while their opponents gain by the prestige of victory. With nearly 1,000 majority against them in Salt Lake City— the long powerful seat of Mormonism— it certainly looks as though the scepter had departed from this modern Babylon. All that is needed to make the victory complete and permanent will be for "the gentiles" to keep up the fight as persistently as they haye done and there is little cause for anxiety on that score.

KEMMLERS DEATH.

William Kemmler.the New York murderer, was electroclsed at 6:40 o'clock Wednesday morning, in the presence of twenty-seven witnesses. According to the press roports his killing was a most horrible affair, for in the fiist application tho electric current failed to produce death even though given for seventeen consecutive seconds. It was at first thought that life was extinct and the machinery was brought to a stop. Then evidences of returning respriation, accompanied by a deep groan, appeared to the horror of all. Again the alternating current, run up to its highest pressure, was turned on and passed through the. unfortunate's body for fully four minutes. This time a horror almost equal to non-killing resulted, for the body began smoking, undoubted ovideuce that the iiesh was almost burning. Several witnesses were sickened by the sight. This is not to be wondered at, for it must have been an awful spectacle.

Thus the first experiment in electric killing was a failure. More than that it was a horror. The whole civilized world thinks of it with condemnation only for the Legislature that provided for the experlirient, and public sentiment will ho doubt speak so forcibly that further experiment in such a manner of killing will be indefinitely postponed, if not entirely abandoned.

CHEAP 1IAILROAD FA UES. Great and unparalleled as the industrial development of tho United States has been it seems past belief that 33,000 miles of railway—over one fifth of the entire mileage of the country—should have been built in the last four years. Yet such is the fact, and although there was a loud cry of over-building a year or two ago the roads have been excep tionaly prosperous the past year. Their gross earnings in 1880 were over one billion dollars and the net earnings were such as to make this form of investment more profitable than either agriculture or manufacturing, as a whole.

One reason for this Is that the railroad business has been better managed than formerly. A gradual reduction in freight and passenger rates has stimulated travel and traffic, while the relative cost of operation has been correspondingly reduced. In 1889 the railways of the United States carried 71 per cent, more passengers that in 1882. It was more profitable to carry well-filled cars at lower rates than nearly empty ones at a high tariff. Recent experiments in Belgium with greatly reduced fares have proved so satisfactory that all Europe ia investigating the matter. Doubtless the railroads in this country would be still more prosperous if they should make further reductions in passenger lares. As a rule our people are fond of travel but the great mass of them are not able to aflfbrd the expense of distant journeys. Make the charges lower and many will travel who now stay at home and others who travel some will travel more. The railroads will make more money and the masses of the people will more generally enjoy the pleasure and improvement of travel.

GROWTH OF URBAN LIFE, The constant tendency of towns and cities to increase "much taster in population than the rural district*, continues to trouble philosophers and moralists. Of fifteen counties in central and southern Illinois, it appears that fonr have lees people now than they had in 1880, two gained less than 100 and two less than 1,000. Nearly half the gain in the fifteen counties was in Sangamon, which contains Springfield, and the counties having the largest towns invariably show the greatest increase. Cook county, which contains Chicago, has nearly ©nethlrd of the entire population of the Stat®*

These figure# only serve to illustrate what has been proved over and over, vlst that tirban growth t* much greater than rural growth. The social spirit or something else I* drawing people from the country to the town# and cities. It ta ml u*l*d tm healthy tenqp morally vmrnurnot the many av^ae# ci

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vice open to men and women in great cities and the strong temptations by which they are surrounded.

But we seem helpless to do anything about it. If people will go to the towns and cities there is no way of preventing them. The newspapers, magazines and ministers all argue against it but people Continue to prefer life in towns to life in thecountry.

After ail perhaps there Is no need to worry about it. Nature is greater and wiser than men, and she klways retains control of affairs. When life in cities becomes harder and less satisfactory on the whole than life in the country, the movement will set the other way. Or it may be that rural life will in time take on a more urban aspect, becoming less lonely and isolated. Not infrequently men see evil in that which eventually turns out to be good. It may be so in the present instance. ^^-7

BILLIONAIRES*

It is an encouraging sign of the times that the press of the country has begun to speak out sharply in protest against the rapid accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few. In a strong article in the Chicago Tribune, we find these words: "Paradoxical as it may seem, the present unparalleled accumulation of superfluities of wealth has lessened rather than increased benevolence! The poor are giving more than they used to give the rich are giving less I The richest man among us, dying, thinks it no shame to leave $1,000,000 in charity and $139,000,000 to his son, and the son thinks it uo shame to profit by his father's disgrace!"

The policy of the shrewd money-get-ters is that old, familiar one of getting all they oan and keeping all they get. So far they have been allowed to do it, but will such forbearance always be exercised? The same article continues: "With moderate (though increasing) patience the masses have seen the classes advance their standard of desirable wealth from $100,000 to $1,000,000, from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000, and from $10,000. 000 t6 $100,000,000. Does any man in his senses fancy that this will be suffered to go on to the next proportionate step, $1,000,000,000? Of course not? Then it is admitted there is a limit. Where is'lt?"

Ten years ago such sentiments would not have found utterance in such a quarter. They would have been regarded decidedly heterodox. But new light has come. People have been thinking alonuc many lines of the laborand capital ques tion and this thought has yielded fruit, as free, untrammeled thought alwayR does. In the light of new fkcts and in the atmosphere of new seutiments many of our ideas of property and social rights will have to bf modified. Indeed such modification is rapidly going on at the present time:

I want to find four things in a sermon says a Chicago clergyman. Intellectual vigor, strength of feeling, freshness of truth, and ethical and spiritual helpfulness. I want to find intellectual vigor, for without this the sermon fails to command respect. I want to find warmth and feeling, for without this it has little interest. ,1 want to find freshness of truth, or truth put In fresh ways, for without this its impress!veness is slight. I want to find helpfulness for the higher life, for without this it is not a sermon. Good sermons possesses these excellences in varying degrees. The great sermons of great preachers have great intellectual elements, but they are liable to lack In warmth of feeling. The Bermon of popular preachers are liable to lack in intellectual elements, but for me they have an excess of the emotibnal. Sermons of the evangelists are aimed at ethical and spiritual helpfulness, but they fail usually to be properly supported by Intellectual weight. The sermon of the great intellect is the great gun, but without a proper charge of powder. ^The sermon of the great heart is a gun with a supply of powder altogether too great. The sermon of the evangelist Is well aimed, but the gun itself is too small, and the ball it carries not fitted for long range. The sermon of the perfect preacher is the perfect cannon, in which gun powder and shot, of intellect and of heart, are all properly adjust* ed to each other.

7 CashPrizesto Newsboys.

Contest to Begin Aug. 23d. 1st Prize $10 in Gold.

The Boy Getting the Most New Subscribers in 15 Weeks. Contest to Gioee Dec. 1st

It is now but two weeks until The Mail's prise contest opens, and our newsboys are requested to keep the fact in mind. The basis on which the prises will be awarded is to be the. number of papers over and above the total number each boy would have sold had he secured no new subscribers after August 16th. litis was, however, carefully explained in the cards given the boys two weeks ago, and it will not be necessary to repeat the details. These suggestions are offered:

Each boy's card will be numbered. This number must be remembered. Each boy will buy according to his number, as "No. 25—16 paper*.*7

Every boy has an equal chance fojrthe

No boy will be allowed to buy papers fttr other boys. Each boy will keep his record on his

Once each month all cards will be collected and a comparison made with oar books.

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WOODLAWN.

S—Minnie M. Flnlej*, 4 months, cholera infantum 613 south second. Jabez R. Hedden, 74, old age north Eighth.

tion Harrison townshi 29—•Geon north Slxt highland lawn.v 1—Seliastaln Kramer, 46, heart' failure Chestnut. 2—Thomas Madison, 51, typhoid pneumonnia Harrison township. 2—William Rosenbrlnb 8pringfleld, 111. 2—Anna Patton, 55, congestion stomach 108 Park* 8—Charles Robinson, 8 1808 Wabash ave. 5—Harry S. Fisk, 2 months, imperfect circulation: 100 north Fourteenth. 5— Louis S. Calder, 57, accidental 623 Swan. 6—Leroy Odell, 4 months, congestion stomach city. 6—Thomas Johnson, 24, accidental drowning city. 6—John M. Lawler, 5tnonths, cholera infantum north Center. 8—Minnie Robinson, 44, suicide city. 10—Mary Price, ttmonths, meningitis: city. 11—Geo. AlthofF. dysentery Harrison township. 14—Clara M. Norton, 38, cancer 180£ south Fourth. 14—Caroline 8. Base, still born 618 Ohio. 14—Kate B. Dix, 19, suicide 222 Spruce. 14—Infant McGregor, still birth 223 south Second. 15—Henry Calder, 81, old age 570 Lafayette. 15—Baby Baker, still born city. 17—Viola Smith, 2 months, pneumonia 1121 south Eleventh. 18—Sarah C. Brown, 42, typhoid malaria Lost Creek. 18—Infaut Wernz. 2 months, pulmonary congestion 718south Second. 19—Aogust Berndt, 63, heart disease 632 north Fourth. 20—Mary C. Llewellyn, 7 months, summer complaint 1903 Cruft ave. 20—Lucy Hudson, 29, acute athrophy liver 936 north Seventh. 20—Infant Ellis, 2 days, inanition 1817 north Eighth. 21—Infant Booker, premature birth city. 21—Jessie Pearson, 4. 25—Jacob Layer, 81, dysentery Harrison township. 26—David Bacon, 1 month, congestion of bowels College street.

Alice Brown, 6 mouths, dysentery Vigo county. Total 48.

A few Baby Carriages left they go at cost, you bet. The Fair, 325 Main street.

Special prices on refrigerators as the season is coming to a close A. U. Austin «k Co.

Go to Peter Miller for fly nets and dusters. Do not forget the comfort of your horse as well as yourself in this terrible weather.

The Post Office News Stand, No. 12 North 7th street, are selling their 25c novels at 15c. Go and see them before they are all gone.

DB. L. H. BARTHALOMfeW, DENTAL OFLICR, removed to 671 Main, over Royse's furniture Store.

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THE DEATH ROLL.

During the month of July, interments were made in Woodlawn and Highland Lawn cemeteries as follows:

J^-JoseptaDidrick, ST, erysipaiis corner Third and Main. 7—Elizabeth w. Hamilton, 62, paralysis of throat 710 north Tenth. 8—Bertha Beckle, S months, summer complaint: Harrison township. 10—Emma Price, 40, cerebral congestion 1022 south First. 11—Edward E. White, 20, pen typhi litic abcess south Seventh. 13^—Philip May, Waukesha. Wis. 18—John McKennon, 83, typhoid fever 112 north sixth. 16—Indiana Lambert, 51, paralysis: Tenth and Maple. 16—Ellis Nichols, 38, brain fever 932 south Seventh. s. 1U—Leo Werner, 68, eerihosls: city. 19—Mary J. Ashley, 58, paralysis Brazil, Ind. 26—Infant Buckingham, inanition 724 south Center. 20—Mary C. Helnl, 75, senile gangrene 581 north Fourth. 29—^Catherine Irwin, 59, nervous pros trail p. 29—George J. Krapf, ol, railroad accident

A strike of switcmen on the Mackey lines at Evansville occurred Thursday but wad promptly settled by the company acceding to the demands of the strikers.

A NEWFEAIURE.

On the seventh page is given the first contribution to anew department which is to be known as- .»

Chips from an Irish Workshop. i,

-'fhe opening number is a short story of au irishman's love and is of peculiar interest. Succeeding numbers will be contributions with and without brogue of stories and general items of interest to not only Irishmen but readers in general.i

Im-ara, who Is a local author you might say, is a constant writer and is continually growing in reputation. Iu such a department as this he will have room to gratify a natural tendency, and his contribution will not only be interesting to the reader but will show the enjoyment the author takes in writing them.

KERN.

jeweler and Optician.,

Sas moved from 641 Main Street to No. 12 North Seventh, two doors south of poetoffice, where he is fully pre* pared to do all kinds of watch repairing. He makes a specialty of adjusting spectacles. No charge for examining the eye. Satisfaction guaranteed.

25c novels at 15c at the Post OfSce NewsStand, No. 12 North 7th street. Call on Jas. T. Moore for tin work and plumbing of all kinds. Also galvanised iron work in latest pa terns.

Dr. B. HL GLOVKB,

Specialty: Diseases of the Rectum. RXKOVBD TO SEVENTH AOT Poplar STS

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