Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 August 1890 — Page 4

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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E. P. WESTFALL, MANAGER. PUBLICATION orncK, Nne. 20 and 22 Boatb Filth 8treet,

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T.JKKE HAUTE, AUGUST 16,1890.

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RAILROAD

locomotive with a down­

ward draft has been Invented which "emits no black emoke or cinders." That is the machine the traveling public ba« been looking for. The railway managers can't bring it on too quick.

TUB cost of firing a 110 ton gun has been figured out. Each discharge cosle about $850 for jxwder, ball, etc., while the wear and tear on the gun equals about the same amount, a* such a gun Cfin only be fired 95 tlraea. Thus the entire cost of each shot lis $1,700. TH it any wonder that modern wars are expensive?

TjniKK thousand or more Frenchmen are anxious to take the place of M. Delbler, the public executioner, who operates the guillotine, when that functionary is ready "to step down and out." But although M. Delbler has assisted in cutting tbe heads off some 800 people he is •still willing to officiate. Surely, there itt no accounting for tastes.

MKH. ELIZABETH STIXAHT PHELPSWAHII'8 article in the August Forum on Immodest dressing, should be read by every thoughtful woman. It is a powerful arraignment of the prevailing mode of semi-undress among fashionable women and portrays tbe evils of the custom with a vividness and coloring that can only be appreciated by reading the article entire.

TT has been agreed that the anti-lottery bill shall be taken up in the House to-day and pushed to its passage. The indications are thought favorable for its becoming a law. There ought to be no doubt or question abont It. The Representa tive who votes against a bill to extirpate the Louisiana swindle will have a slim show to get back to Congress, unless he halls from a Louisiana distrlot.

THE Congressional action looking to the removal of General Grant's remains from New York to Arlington national cemetery, Washington, is a deserved rebuke to tbe millionaires of Gotham, who promised the erection of a fitting monument to the great soldier's memory and then refusod to build It. It would be fitting that Gen. Grant's tomb should be besido Sheridan's In Arlington and it Is to be hoped that this will be the final outcome of the matter.

IT is serious news If It be true, as reported, that the Indiana gas wells are giving out. Natural gas has beon a veritable bonanza to these sections where it has been found |n abundance, building up Immense manufacturing industries In a very brief time. If the supply should now give out these communities would suffer a severe set-back. Probably the report Is an exaggeration and only new wells are noeded to keep up the supply, as at Pittsburgh.

THR hangman's rope is feeling for the neck of Arthur Day, who enticed his young wife to the edge of the preclpico at Niagara Falls and deliberately pushed her over the giddy height of 200 feet. The horrible deed so haunted him that ho cried out in terror in the night, alarming wife number two and leading to tbo discovery of the awful crimo. It seems incredible that nuyone could be crueii and treaohorous enough to do such an act, but the devil is still incarnate in some human forms.

CHICAGO IS fairly going wild over great buildings. In addition to the numerous immense structures already built or under way, a permit has ju*t been Issued for & six teen story retail store building which will eclipse the celebrated

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Marche", of Purls, and will be the largest building in the world, covering ©4,800 square feet of ground. It Is to replace ''The Fair", on $tato» Dearborn and Ada ma streeU aixii will cost £3,000,000, the ground on which stands being valued at an equal amount.

THK recent "partition of Africa" has practically put that great continent In the hands of England, Germany and France. This insures the civilisation end Industrial development of that vast region of the globe, tor alt the«e countries will push their material Interests in Africa, but it seems unfortunate that the United States should have no hand in the trausformatlon of the greet Dark Continent, since we have four millions of African* in our own land, whose progenitor* come from that country,

THK North Pole Is to be attacked agnln. This time the expedition will go from Norway In charge of M. Nausen end will try a new plea, that of sailing straight through the open

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believed to ararrottnd the pole. It to claimed that recent discoveries prove Almost conclusively the existence of open water around the pole. The crew will number only about 90 men and provisions for five yw* **11 although It i» hoped to complete the •voyage in two years. The Mill has always believed that the North Pole would have to surrender *ot»elii»e to the persistent effort* of man, hat whether or not M. Naueen shall lie the hereof the conquest remains to he Keen.

IF Gen. Sickles is right in holding that murderers should be tortured to death, why not return to the old method of crucifixion? Humanity has got beyond the idea of mere physical punishment in the execution of criminals. The only ground for it is that the example may deter others from committing like crimes. If, then, a revolting and cruel execution accomplishes this#end better than a merciful one, there are many ways of making men suffer a thousand times what Kemmler ever suffered.

THE Grand Army boys have been hav ing a grand time in Boston this week. The parade on Tuesday is said to have been the largest in the history of the order, 40,000 men being in line. There were larger armies than that by a good deal during the Rebellion, but it is a large number of old soldiers to get together 25 years after a war has closed, and it must have been a grand and in spiring sight to see .these annual reunions of the old soldiers from a military pageant of whi«h the people never grow tired.

AFTER a neck-and-neck race for thirty years, Illinois has at last jumped ahead of Ohio and has become the third State in the Union, with a population of 3,800,000 against about 3,500,000 for the Buck eye State. This is wholly due to the enormous growth of Chicago, the out side counties showing a gain of only 6 per cent, in ten years, while the gain in Cook county has been 95 per cent. It appears that Indiana has increased only about 200,000 in the last ten years, or 20,000 a year, and while this is hardly as much as was to have been expected, it is better than a good many other States have done.

WK shall probably not have a famine, as a St. Louis man has expressed the fear, but the year's shortage in food crops threatens serious increase in the cost of living. It is said the potato crop will be short 100 million bushels in tbe United States and more than twice that much in Europe. Fruits and berries have been scarce and high, while wheat and corn have suffered terribly from the long drouth. It is possible that the autumn "round-up" may, as It generally does, show a better outcome than present estimates indicate, but there can be no doubt of a crop shortage that will be severely felt in higher prices of food products.

JEWISH EXPULSION.

The war against the Jews is to be renewed in Russia, it would seem. While no new edict of expulsion has been issued it is reported on good authority that edicts which have been in abeyance for some time are to be revived and put in force against the Hebrew race, and it is calculated that over a million Jews will be driven from their homes and business in a short time. The exodus is already large, some of the wealthy ones going to England, while many are going into Austria or Hungary.

Just why Russia wants to drive the Jews out of her borders is something certain. Various reasons are given but they are not considered satisfactory. Perhaps the fact that the Jews have oecome rather prominent in the tradeeand professions, because they are more clever than dull Russians of the middle class, oomes nearer the truth. To this may be coupled a remnant of tbe ancient prejudice against the race which prevailed generally in the middle ages and has never faded out of semi-barbarous Russia. A thrifty, energetlo, money-mak-ing race, the land of the Czar will not gain anything by the expulsion of the Hebrews.

WHAT AILS OUR NERVES The doctors continue to philosophize concerning the increase of insanity and nervous diseases. In the last 24 years the proportion of deaths from suicide has increased 33 per cent, and deaths from nervous diseases have increased 50 por cent. How muoh the increased difficulty of gaining a livelihood in this country has operated we cannot say, but it has undoubtedly had an important bearing on the question. The financial strain of our modern life must be very potent in producing mental disorders. Twenty-five years ago it was vastly less twenty-five years from now—one Is appalled to thick of what it may be!

The doctors are right in urging that persons disordered mentally should not become parents and indict their misfortunes upou posterity and the race. But at the rate we have been going who will have "a sound mind in a sound body," or even either one of these alone, In the years to fcome? The bauds of marriage will have to be forbidden in more casce than they are allowed!

The radical need of the times is a return to simple living and simple thinking. The money scramble is ruining the American nation physically, mentally and morally. Our multi-million-aires have set the pace for us all and the eflort of the man with #1,000 to out-do his neighbor is as fierce as that of the $ 100,000 man to outshine his. Gold is the only standard of indue. The ai*e of your bank account is your measure of social, moral and intellectual, aa well as financial standing. Money being the only thing valueo the chase for it Is what might be expected—It is strenuous, incessant, never-ceasing. It la the common fad not to he able to sleep at night. Our forefathers and forem others had no trouble to sleep. Easy conscience*, unstrained nerves and tired hodiee were all the narcotic they required. We ahoold find the some tame if we lived moderately and made the solid, substantial en* joyment* of life our aim instead of tbe wretched competition for wealth and splendor.

Call on Jas. T. Moore for tin work and plumbing of all kinds. Also galvanised iron work in latest pa tenia.

Edison Home.

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O 'jTLTimVlXi-LPff A PLACE OF BABE BEAUTY, COMFORT AND LUXBBY-A PEN PICTUBE

OF MRS. EDISON.

Count Thomas A. Edison, Commander of the Legion of Honor, lives in a beautiful house, almost a castle in appearance. "Glenmont," aa it is called, is delightfully situated in the midst of the

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suburb, Llewellyn Park, If.

This place Mr. Ediaon bought after his second marriage, about four years ago. The house is a handsome structure of brick and wood, somewhat Queen Anne as to architecture. There is a wide and hospitable porch at the front entrance large enough to hold a Bettee, piled high with soft cushions. There are benches and several chairs—hospitality beginning even before you step over the threshold. Within there is a charming air of comfort and luxury. The large, square hall is a room in itself, with a recossed window which forms a cosy nook with window seats. A carved oak table holds a curious Japanese vaae or jar and near it is a bouquet of roses. Indeed bunches of freshly gathered flowers greet you in every room in the house.

A large window over the second landing on the stairs is entirely or stained glass, a full-length figure of some mythological character being depicted upon it.

Mr. Edison's study or library Is at the right of the hall, the bookcases, which line the sides of the room, being protected with glass. A large fireplace with its mantel and polished brass andirons and fender, takes up one side of tbo room, while a double window in front occupies pnother side. A little nook or recess has more books and a window of stained glass, with Dante's head pictured upon it.

A beautiful and spacious apartment is Mrs. Edison's drawing-room. There is an archway, supported by onyx pillars, which gives a lofty look to the plan. The prettiest corner in the room is where the piano stands, with a stained glass window above, a little statuette near it, and the door leading to the conservatory also near. Through the door is a glimpse that reminds one of the tropics, for just at present the conservatory is filled with palms and ferns. One noticeable piece of furniture is a small gold and onyx stand. There is only one other like it in this country, and that belongs to Mrs Astor. In a deep recess, which is partly window and partly mirror, isabeautlful marble bust—"The Pose," It is called It represents the head of a young girl and as It stands before the mirror, both the marble and its reflection add to the attractiveness of this part of the draw ing room.

Yott enter the dining room at tbe rear of the hall. This is a simply furnished room. The sideboard stands in a recess and displays a few pieces of Bilver jind crystal. Mrs. Edison, by the way, has a small fortune in silver, which is kept in a safe, only a few pieces being in constant use. An attractive picture here is ohe of Mrs. Edison's old home In Akron O., whioh looks like a pleasant place with Its broad and well kept lawn and spacious dwelling. Leading from the drawing-room is one apartment at present being fashioned into a billiard-room, billiards being a game which Mr. Edison likes to indulge in occasionally.

There are many beautifully appointed rooms on the second floor. Mrs. Edison's boudoir is naturally very attractive, as it is most handBomelike in appearanco. There is everything for comfort and many things for luxury. A fine portrait of her father hangs upon the wall, and many pictures of baby Magdeline stand upon the.mantel. Adjoining this is her sleeping room, from which a door leads to tha roof of tbe conservatory. Over this, in summer, an awning is stretched, and here often a cup of tea is served in the afternoon, as it is favorite lounging place of Mrs. Edison, with its divans, its table with all the pretty and dainty appointments, for making tea, and its huge jars of flowers.

There are many guest chambers, all upholstered in delicate res tonnes and dimities. The beds have small canopies arranged in the French style oyer each. There are nigs and cushions and pretty inlaid writing tables in every room. I noticed two pictures which possessed much interest. One was a photograph of Edison when a boy about fourteen years of age. The other Is a picture of Mrs. Edison taken at "sweet sixteen," shows the lovely, serious-faced maiden. The photograph ot the first Mrs. Edison has a conspicuous place in one room.

To .see Mr. Edison's really magnificent home in all its glory one must visit at night, when it glitters like a fairy palace, with its inumerable electric lights. One push upon a button lights up the drawing-room, where are two chandeliers with countless lights. The effect, even by daylight, is very fine.-

The grounds aourroanding Glenmont are extensive a pretty lawn lies directly front of the house at a little distanoe a garden, with a goodly promise ot vegetable in due season. The stables have a large poultry yard near. Raising fancy breeds of poultry is one ot Mr. Edison's hobbies, and he has several hundred valuable fowls. There are five or six greenhouses and a pasture where one or two Alderney cows enjoy thegood* the gods provide. Mr. Edison keep* four horses but for these he has special fancy as he considers them poor motors^

The family consists of Mrs. Edison, two boy* and a little girl, the latter the child of his second marriage. Mr. Edison's eldest daughter, a young girl about 18 years of age, studying music in Germany, where she has been for nearly a year under the eare of a relative.

Mrs. Edison Is a beautiful woman,

with charming manners, as becomes a Countess. Her beauty and fine manners won high praise last summer while in Ixmdon and Paris, whioh she visited with her husband. Mrs. Edison is twenty-four years old, a trifle above the average height, with a very graceful figure. She has brown hair, which she usually wears high at the back, with a flufly bang over the forehead. Her eyes are hazel and her complexion that clear olive which artists love. Mr. Edison's pet name for her is "Mena." Mrs. Edison always dresses in perfect taste and on ordinary occasions very quietly.

Many French teagowns and handsome dinner dresses were added to her wardrobe last summer, when she was in Paris. She takes a long drive every evening accompanied by her little daughter and her nurse. Her carriage costume at this season is very apt to be an army blue cashmere with passemen-terie-trimmings, and a straw hat with a becoming cluster of pink roses for ornament. Mrs. EdisGn has a young woman's fondess for society and entertains a good deal, luncheon and dinner parties being her favorite ways of dispensing hospitality to her friends.

Altogether the home is delightful, suggestive of com Tort, peace and happiness in every form.

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LITERARY NOTES.

Harper's WeeKly for August 16th contains an illustrated supplement on "The Fishing Craft of the World" by Captain J. W. Collins, of the United States Fisheries Commision.

Mary E. Wilkins contributes to Harper's Young People for August

BIG FOUR ROOTE.

Cheap Exoursion to Niagara Falls and Lake Chautauqua.

Only |5.50 Round Trip with 91 additional to Toronto.

On August 19th, the old reliable Big Four Route (C. C. C. & St. L. Ry.) will run one of their famous low-rate Niagara Falls, Lake Chautauqua, and Toronto excursions, which have done so much to make their route popular with our people for years past. No other line in the country gives such careful attention to excursion business or is as well equipped to satisfactorily conduct it as the Big Four Route, and the large numbers who always turn out and go with their excursions each succeeding year shows the popularity of the line over all other routes.

Their regular excursion agent will accompany the special excursion train through to the Falls, looking after every detail and making the most favorable arrangements for entertaining the party whilst there, presenting the different points of interest in the most attractive manner.

Niagara Falls is a natural attraction one never tires of seeing, and the opportunity of crossing Lake Ontario by steamer from Lewiston, visiting Toronto or making a trip down tbe St. Lawrence river, at the slight additional expense, should be improved.

Stop-over privileges will be allowed at Lake Chautauqua on all excursion tickets.

We trust everybody who can possibly do so will make their arrangements to join the Big Four excursion August 19..

For full information In regard to tickets, sleeping-oar accommodations, and all other matters of interest, call st city office, 710 Wabash ave., Terre Haute House, and at Sixth street depot.

Prepare for the Fair.

Artiste

Should be Getting Exhibits Beady.

prices

THE

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sketch entitled A Sweet-grass Basket, which is accompanied by a fullpage illustration drawn by Alico Barber.

Harper fc Brothers announce for immediate publication Toxar, a romance ef ancient Greece, by the author of Thoth also Giovanni Yerga's The House by the Medlar-Tree, translated by Mary A. Craig, with an introduction by W. D. Howells.

On account of the large number of advance orders received for Mrs. Custer's new book, Following the Guidon, the publishers have been compelled to postpone its publication until August 22d. Theodore Roosevelt says of this work: "It is a book which is not only interesting, but which possesses real and lasting value as a faithful portrayal of a characteristically American phase of life whioh has now almost passed away."

William Hamilton Gibson's series of illustrated articles on natural history, now being published in Harper's Young Peoplo, is attracting yery general attention as a novel feature In juvenile literature. The Commercial Advertiser (New Yprk) says: "Mr. Gibson appeals, not only to those who are wide-awake to the life of the woods and fields, but to those as well whose interest is simply In the printed page. He writes with an Artist's, as well as with a scientist's, enjoy ment of out-door life."

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Alt those who intend making exhibits of art work at the fair should bear in mind that C. W. Merring, of north Fourth street, has placed the very lowest

on all Framing Materials,

Esslea, indeed on Aft Supplies of all frit*** Call at onoe, for not much time is left In which to prepare your displays.

The Post Office News Stand, No. 17, North 7th street, are selling their 2Sc novel* at 15c. Go and see them before they are all goo®. »&

DR. L. H. BABTHALOMBW. DRXTAI, OFJJCX, removed to «U Mala, over Royse% Furniture Store.

THE GREAT GRAND

CASHMERES.

vNone Genuine unless rolled on the "VARNISHED BOARD.".

Every lady

should

-:-Black Goods-:-

DEPARTMENT OF TERRE HAUTE.

HOBEEG, ROOT & CO.,

Wijth a variety second to none in the State,

OPEN THE SEASON

With the most magnificent line of Black Dress Fabrics ever shown, at

Astonishingly Low Prices.

Our stock comprises all the Latest and Fashionable Weaves, a lew of the many, such as Cheviots, Camels' Hair, and Boucle effects being especially stylish. Also Armures, Serges. Whip-cords, Sebastopols, Cuir DeLaine, Kangaroo, Veilings, Drap de Alma, Nuns'Serge, etc.

In connection with the above wo wish to announce that after considerable correspondence with the manufacturers' Agents, we have secured the Sole Agency for Terre Haute, of the well-known and justly-celebrated Century Cashmeres.

A BLACK CASHMERE DRESS IS ALWAYS IN FASHION.

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The Bazar says: We have not seen any before so fine and good at the price. The "CENTURY" CASHMERES are suitable for every climate, and for every season. There is no* material so serviceable, and none more lady-like in appearauco. We have sold itlie goods for, the past four years to the satisfaction of all our customers. They ure imported direct at a saving of 20 per cent, to the consumer. Dyed in the Patent Unalterable Fast Black, and made from the finest and softest wools. Warranted to wear well.

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In Summer Goods

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HUNTER'S.

Largest and Best Stock of Furnishings in tbe City. Flannel Coftts and Vest* at Half Price.

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IVEDEND NOTICE. The director* of tbe OotU*s Building and Savings AMoetation have declared a P*r cent. acxoi-anoaaJ dividend on all money* on deponit Febraaqr tut, 1SSO. Dividend* on Installment stock hare been credited on

Ten different qualities and ALL COLORS always in stock, at prices from 50c. to $1.25 per yard, double width.

S am os a re re at terns, amounting to $5.00 or over, sent carriage paid, by post or express to any distance, at a great saving to the purchaser. Terms cash.

ADDRESS:

Hoberg, Root & Co.,

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Almost a department o£ itself is our immense showing of the most famous of all Black Dress Fabrics,

"THE PRIESTLY

On varnished boards.

New Weaves, New Styles, New Prices. Veilings, Crapes and Mourning Materials in great variety. Also a fnl) line of OB. PRIESTLY 3c CO Fine Silk Warp Henriettas,

Prices from $1.00 upwards.

Department. We'll gladly show you through.

P. 8. Samples cheerfully mailed to out-of-town customers.

Nos. 5IS & 520 Wabash Ave.

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book* and draw dividend* from Fenraary i*t. M*tde»itom|»«Mo|»«toeit irM!fee j*M in c**b at the office ot the AonoetaUon on and after AU&.22A.,

T. J. MILLER, ^reiddent.

Attest: E. X. Ctoomn*. Secretary. Ten* flattie, Xa*L*

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CHICAGO.

BIG FOUR ROUTE

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B'G FOUR BliL OF FARE.

Niagara Valla and return, August CA mtL Tldtetn Kood 5 dan

Balttmote and return iognrt lflttj dfe 9and 170i. food retarding to Aug. 26. IO. £*J

St Mo., and ntorn August 3tt 2Kb ao»'26th.food ratannng onUlSejK on ter^sberl*,lnela»trei

|tOid -Point and relnrn September 6ib MMmtLgoodComfort

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GneocMtteand morn Att*o«t21«t, $4 in •ewnotOkl FoOn*plcn&e l.4v

Ticket* on aaft* at 710 Wabash arantie, Term Battle booaaaad at Stem street depot. E. SOUTH,

General A gen t.