Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 November 1890 — Page 5

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

HDBSCHtPTIOS FaiCK, *2.00 Jk. YKAJU

E. P. WESTFALL,

PUBLISHER.

PCBLIOATIO!* omct,

frm. 20 and 22 800th Fifth Street, Printing Hoone Square.

TKHKE HAUTE, NOV. 22,1800.

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of Prof. Koch's consumption

cure is on the way to this country and doubtless It will soon be In all our principal cities for administration to the afflicted. May our expectations of it not be disappointed.

Is Berlin the gas works are owned by the city to which they brought a clear profit last year of $1,760,000. And yet we are told there is no money in gas. American cities should try the plan of municipal gas-making.

IT

is said that Col. Ingersoll and his Irionds fully realize fliat it would be 'hopeless for him to run for any-public •office. Much as men admire the intellectual gifts of the brilliant orator, his notorious attacks on the Christian religion would condemn blm to overwhelming defeat.

A COMPANY has been organized with a large capital to get direct rail connection from Chicago to the eastern coast of Labrador and thence operate a line of steamships to Europo. It is claimed the ocean trip can thus be made two days •horter than from New York, while the people of the West, who want to visit Europo, would be saved the journey by rail to the East. It Is a great project and will no doubt be carried through if it is practicable.

THE

practical failure of the great Eng­

lish banking house of Baring Bros, is the most notable event in financial circles that has takon place for some time. The house was established nearly a century ago and has always been regarded as finHnclally lmpregbable. Its capital *nd surplus was put down at 100 millions, yet but for the Bank of England coming to its relief last Saturday the great concern would have toppled over. Kveu as it is the Arm Is to go Into liquidation and retire from business. Practically its enormous resources have been swallowed up in bad investments and there Is danger that a good deal of similar "wild cat" investment will topple •over othor English concerns or seriously cripple thom.

Blaim's

reciprocity idea is rapidly

growing in favor throughout the country. The more It is studied the more it is seen that there is a great deal in It. The South Amorloan States furnish a inarkot for onormous quantities of our produce and manufactures. Take Brar.il for example. Each yoar we buy |00.000»000 worth from her and sell hor about ono-sixth that amount of goods. With a reciprocity arrangement—-the goods of •each country to be admitted free into the other—our sales to her would be perhaps ton times that sum. And so with all South American States. Surely there is A larger Held here for increasing our foreign trade and one that will develope rapidly with tho growth of thoso great undeveloped countries. The idea may yet make James O. Blaine President.

Mont people doubtless were surprised to bear that there Is danger of an Indian outbreak In Dakota. It has been the popular belief that life and property were safe from the murderous attacks of Indians in Dakota, but such seoms not to bo the case. It appears the Indians have been worked upon by tho Idea that a Messiah has come to lead them and moved by some sort of a religious enthusiasm they have been pre* (arlng to go on the war path. The settlers in the vicinity of Mandan are greatly alarmed at the prospect of an invasion of the red-skins and are said to Jhavo lied from their homes In some places. Perhaps the danger has been exaggerated, but the Indians are so stealthy and treacherous In their attacks that it Is no wonder the settlers are «(Rt'iued at any reports of an intended outbreak. ____

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Chicago, the other day, was laid the corner stone of what will be, when completed, the largest building devoted to cold storage purposes In the world. It will cost nearly $2,000,000 and will have a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of space ior storage u»o», with a refrigerating •capacity of 600 tons of melting ice per day. It is in fact an enormous refrigerator for the preservation of fruits, vegetable* and all kinds of perishable goods. This method of preserving produce has only come iuU general \»se within recent year* and has re-suited in snch a saving of perishable products that it has been deviated if it had been known thirty yearn agv enough would have been saved io p*y oit the entire war debt of the lrnUrd NtV.cs and that if it bewmes ifcuprai, *MHiUszU will be saved to put a ioh*W h«uM» at ifwery err** rc»t!» without taxing the people, Swreiy this a grand a?hfc»vemNVt, and a plant of the kind suiBi-iout for the oeeds of tho community ought to b«s erected in every considerable town in tho country.

ilHAXtL,

IS is Just a year now that BrassU has tw« a repuMto xs abundant that the new system of government would not stand because it was n«t started right, the not rtvadr for it, V®t Hits newly born free country appwurs to be getting along v«ry well. The provisional gov. ornment managed to get along until the

elections were held, when a new constitution similar to our own, was ad 1

The future of the new republic looks bright. With an area larger than tbe United States (not counting Alaska), a population of 12 to 14 millions and great natural resources, Brazil may become to South America what the United States is to tbe north half of the continent. Surely it has a grand futnre if peace and a stable form of government shall prevail. Tliere is no reason why the country should not make enormous progress within the next quarter of a century. Brazil ought to be tbe leader in South American civilization and progress and stimulate by her example the other States around her to adopt enlightened ideas and policies.

WHERE THE MONEY GOES. "The money spent by tbe laboring classes in drink if saved by them and invested In railroad securities would in ten years transfer to their ownership tbe entire railroad system of the country." This was tbe declaration of a Congressional committee inquiring into the cause of poverty in the United States. It was spoken deliberately and states a fact susceptible of mathematical demonstration, And what a statement! That the workingmen of tbe nation should absolutely throw away every ten years money enough to buy up all the railroads of the country. Worse than that even. This enormous sum of money is not only thrown away but is spent for that which diseases and ruins both soul and body.

To be sure tbe drink evil is not limited to the laboring classes. Fortunes are squandered by ricb and dissolute men and the wine and liquor bills of the wealthy run into the. millions every year. But tbe rich are able to take care of themselves and if they squander their money they have plenty left. With the wage-worker the case is very different. If he Is to rise in life it mast be by earing, not by wasting.

In view of this enormous evil it is no wonder that the women of the country have joined hands for its destruction. And they have accomplished a great deal already. Many of tbe States have legislated against it and others have provided by law for instruction in tbe public schools as to the effects of alcohol on the human system. There is less drunkenness than there used to be. Temperance sentiment is making headway. But a prodigious work yet remains to be done. The education of the people in the work of temperance reform must go on steadily and persistently for many years to come before the great evil will be even measureably eradicated.

KOCH'S DISCOVERY.

Allusion was made in last week's Mail to Prof. Koch's consumption cure. Since then fuller report* of the great scientist's discovery have come across the 8ba and the medical men throughout tbe country have been deeply interested in the matter. It is only within the last few years that the parasltio theory'of disease has been suspected, investigated and established. For thousands |f years medical science assumed that there was an inherited tendency to disease in man. The researches of Pasteur, Koch and other investigators in the world of microscopic existence, have established the fact that certain kinds of diseases aro due to the presence of Invisible organisms in the body and tbe problem has been to kill these diseased germs without harm to the body. Prof. Koch believes he has discovered tbe true nature of the bacilli which cause tbe disease known as consumption and a way to destroy them if taken in the earlier stages of the disease.

If this be true the discovery will be perhaps the most important ever made by medical science, since more people die of this disease than of any other, or possibly of any two or three others combined.

And the best of it is the wonderful discoveries that must com* to medical science in the future if the germ theory of disease is thoroughly established, and understood. If small-pox, consumption and otner diseases can be prevented, mitigated or cured by fighting the germs which produce them, doubtless many other plagues and scourges of humanity will be found amenable to similar treatment and medical knowledge will be revolutionised by tho discoveries yet to be made in the infant sclenceof microbe study.

RAPID ORO WTH OF CITIES. The most notable thing about the new census is the disclosure which it makes of the rapid growth of our towns and cities. This tendency has long been noted but no one was prepared to expect the eleventh census would show threetenths of the population of the country living ta towns. During the last ten years the gain has been fully 60 per cent. In Massachusetts 75 per cent, of the people dwell in cities. That is to say, as our manufacturing industries grow the people are more and more drawn from the country to the cities*.

This tendency of our population forsake country for city life presents some interesting «{nations for study. Is It due in part, for instance, to tbe social proclivities of the race which cause men and women to find urban life more congenial than the more isolated life of the country? No doubt Ibis factor bdis its influence. Is there a prevalent idea, also, that money can be made more easily and rapidly in lb# large citicsf For, after all, gold is tbe magnet now, as it has always been, that Chiefly draws men from one place to another. If it were established tbat a gold mine existed at tbe North Pole Die impowsiMlity of getting there would soon be overcome.

In tbe main, however, work, tbe op­

portunity to gain a living, most be conceded the chief factor in drawing population to the cities. Men and women will go where they can find employment and the vast manufacturing and commercial establishments which build up in tbe cities furnish work for multiplied thousands.

This is the brightest side of the picture. Tbe dark side is tbe many avenues of vice and crime tbat exist in the cities and the great preblem—tbe hardest with whicb America has to deal—of good government for these vast municipalities. New York has long been a cess-pool of political corruption and Chicago is little if any better. What is to become of these great, misgoverned cities is a problem tbat taxes, if it does not defy, the best minds of the century.

But philosophize as we may, people will continue to crowd into towns and cities, at least until the real or fancied advantages and pleasures of urban life shall cease to surpass those of thecountry.

AMUSEMENTS.

"A SOAP BUBBLE" TO-NIGHT. Naylor's will have a funny attraction to-night in "A Soap Bubble," Montgomery Phister's farcical comedy. As the people of this city like fun, a good house should be the result of the engagement. This farce is said to be even funnier than last. New music, new medleys, new dances, new jukes and new people ought to make the farce. Ed. Connelly's old role of the barber is now played by Charles W. Young, a mirthprovoking comedian, who will be remembered as having impersonated the dude in Murray & Murphy's "Our Irish Visitor."

A TRIP TO CHINATOWN.

Hoyt's "A Trip to Chinatown," wfelch is to be presented at Naylor's Tuesday evening, Nov. 25th, while called a ffurce comedy, is as radical a departure from Hoyt's first farces as is bis "A Texas Steer." It treats of a frolic by people of high society instead of as in "A Tin Soldier." Kitchen life, and the scenes and incidents are correspondingly refined. The title tells that tbe scene 1b laid in San Francisco, where one of the sights of tbe town is the Chinese quarters at night. A party of young people started out with tbe avowed purpose of making a tour thereof. How far they get and what they do and see tbe play tells. There is more plot in "A Trip to Chinatown" than in most of Hoyt's farces. The musical introductions are all bright and catching, but of a character tbat requires good rendition, anil a cast capable of doing it justice has been secured. Lena Merville, who plays "The Widow," has a national: reputation as a clever artist, and Mr. Hoyt has wrtten in "The Widow" a part especially for her. Harry Conor, the leading comedian, is a brilliant young man who achieved his first success with Hoyt in **A RJig Baby," and has since done goftd

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Ollle Arch mere, Mattie Hornby Irene Murphy are three younfc lad imknowl*dg«d ability audi all line era. George A. Beane, jr., one, of cleverest actora on tbe stage, Harry Oilfoil, whistler and mimio, Bert Metcalf and Lewis Finniger complete a cast of unusual strength. The company carries special scenery and costumes that will be a revelation in farce comedy, made from band-painted designs secured in Paris by the celebrated costumers, Dazian and Hawthorne. It will be presented here next'Tuesday night, The seat sale opened to-day with a rush.

FANT ASM A,

The Fairy spectacular, "Fantasma," will be presented at Ntfylor's opera bouse on Wednesday & Thursday Evening Nov. 26 & 27, and at a special Matinee Thanksgiving day. The Hanlon Brothers evidently travel on the principle that the publlo enjoy and appreciate being treated honestly. They have been before the American people now for many years, and are known throughput the country for giving just what they advertise. Their production of "Fantasma" at Powers' last season far exceeded In splendor any expectations. "Fantasma" is a spectacle, a pan torn I ne. The scenery, is fresh and magnlfioent, and the effects are startling and thoroughly amusing. In this production the inventive genius of the Hanlons shine very conspiciously. Tbe tricks which are connected with the scenery and paraphernalia used in "Fan Us ma" are surprising and highly amusing. To attempt description would convey but a faint idea of the beauties, the highly picturesque revelations and the startling and original effects evolved on the stage. As far as the spectacular features are concerned, "Fantasma" is equal to any entertainment of this order ever offered. The company is numerous and capable, Edward Hanlon leading tbe cast. The pantomimists are clever and the young ladies pretty and attractive. The specialties are numerous. The transformation scenes at the end of the second and last act are bewildering in the way of various and bright colore, made resplendent by the application of tbe calciums. "Fantasma" is one of the few attractions that can be seen and enjoyed the second time. The advance sale of seats commence Monday. sot. SMITH Bt&SBUU

Tbe management bakes extreme pleasure in announcing the engagement of tbe favorite comedian Mr. Sol Smith Russet! on Friday Evening, Nov. 2$, fn bis drawing comedy, "A Poor Relation," a piece tbat has been seen here before. It is rich in pathos, humor and situation and poor only in name. Sol Smith Rowel is orre of Tim Halite's fayorite actors and h* Is always greeted by a larg» fashionable audience, and the engagement on next Friday evening writ! be no exception. Tbe advance sale of Msats announced to take place Wednes-

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We show a

Holiday Bargain

GENTS'

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Handkerchiefs,

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Pears, Delaware Grapes, Concord Grapes,

Choice Apples, Cranberries, Quinces.]

Tokay Grapes, Catawba Grapes,

Oranges, fkocy Celery, Eggplants,

Sew Sorghum, Pumpkin, String Beann,

Squash, Maple Syrup,

Spinach, Honey, Xtaefcwbeftt Flour,

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Dressed Chickens* Dressed Turkeys, Dressed Docks,

Foreign and! Domestic Dried Fruit.

FOUNTAIN PENS.

A good fountain pen for 10c simple in

"When, looking for your Mother, your Sisters, your Cousins and Aunts, your Friends or your:

Neighbors, where mil you invaribly find them when out shopping? Nine times out of ten at

Hobergv Root Co.'s

The Popular Dry Goods and Cloak House of Terre Haute.

Yon Can See

At a glance that all the life, hustle and bustle is centered at this store.

Mantles and Fur Capes,

Are everyday attractions on our second floor. As our assortment is so enormous and prices so reasonable, we are enjoying a tremendous trade. A great many new Jackets have been added to this popular department this past week.

Silks & Dress Goods

Of unusual richness are shown in great variety. Our Rough Plaids and Stripes, Serge, Checks, Camels Hairs and Henriettas and Broad Cloths are greatly admired. Our Black and Colored Silk "Velvets and High Art Novelties are the choicest of imported fabrics. Special—10 pes. Black Boyal Armure Silk at $1.20 yd worth $1.50

Dress Trimmings and Buckles

Our assortment of this line is so large it will be impossible to give you any idea of the style we show. We make a specialty of Dress Trimmings and can match any Dress Goods you may bring to us.

HOLIDAY

Housekeeping Linens, Fine Laces, Silks and Lisle Hosiery, Fine Fans, Chenille Curtains, Fur Rugs, ana Fancy Holiday Novelties in Knick Knacks are daily arriving. The finest line of Japanese Embro Silk Handkerohiefs in the city. Please call and examine.

HOBERG-, ROOT & CO.

518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

ODE NOVEL' GUESSING SCHEME.

Guess the Number of Blades of Grass in Collett Park and You Can Have the Earth.

If the above is too touch ecuees work for you, go to the mammoth House-Furnishing Emporium of C. WOOD & CO. and guess how in the world they can sell

prices. Now, the reason we can do so will become apparent to vou wben we tell you that we have three stores combined in one. We have but one set of clerks to employ instead ot three. Kent to pay for one establishment instead of three. We have the goods—a full and complete lin? in all departments—that ordinarily are found in these separate stores. Now you can guess how it is possible for us to do business on a much less expense, therefore

sell at much lower prices, than any other firm in the city. GOODS SOLD FOR CASH OR ON EASY PAYMJENTS. Do not buy till you have investigated and satisfied yo truth of our statament.

C. WOOD & CO., 23 & 25 S. FOUKTH. E. R. WRIGHT CO.

^J"rw"^,r-|Fechheimer, South Fourth Street

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THE STOCK MUST BE MOVED.

As I shall soon remove to No. 516 Main street, my large stock of

HATS&CAPS

Will be sold at Clearance Sale to reduce stock. There never wan an opportunity to secure bargains in Hate and Caps. All of the latest styles and bought of the leading manufacturers for the winter trade.

S. LOEB, HATTER, CO»33"3Eie

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We show the finest GENTS' All Linen Initial

Handkerchiefs

in Terre Haute. Beautiful letters and extra good quality of linen, worth 50c.

A large line of new goods for the ays, .pique, oaa ana curious, See our display.

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