Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 January 1891 — Page 4

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THF. MAil.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SUBSCKIPTIC* PLUCX, 12.00 A YKAB.

E. P. WESTFALL,

PUBLISHER

PUBLICATION OMOK,

rn«. 20 and 22 South Filth Street, Printing House Square,

TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 3, 1891.

THE President of the French Republic and his wife entertained 300poor widow* at their New Year's dinner.

EUITOR CHIEFS distributed #20,000 in Christmas gifts among his employes. How an editor must enjoy that sort of thing! But it isn't all of them that can spare $20,000 on Christmas day.

TITOSK Canadian newspapers which advocate the purchase of Alaska by the Dominion should remember that ittakes two to make a bargain. When Uncle Sam sells any of his territory it will be for more money than Canada would ever pay. 1

WHEPHKRD, who made the

miles of beautiful streets In Washington, is now making millions for himself at mining in Mexico. Whether he was a good shepherd for the Washingtonians has never been satisfactorily settled. At any rate he is evidently a good shephard for himself.

THK grand old man Gladstone celebrated his 81st birthday on Monday. He has lived for flfty years at Hawarden Castle and has the great good fortune to have the wife of his youth still by his side. Both are in good health—a remarkable pair, the like of which there might be many more if proper and sensible ways of living prevailed more generally.

TJIK new railway building for the year makes a good showing, the new mileage being 0,080 miles as against 5,200 miles for 1880. The heaviest building was in the South and West, Montana leading with 421 miles and Georgia second with 375 miles. Iowa built only one mile and Massachusetts but 16 miles. Most of the additions have been connecting links and spurs to the old lines,

Dit. TANNKK, who fasted 40 days, has been surpassed by Succi, the Italian, who wont without food for 45 days and did not die. Succi claims that the pangs of hunger aro under control of the will for a considerable time and wlion they become unbearable they can be relieved by an herb decoction with which he became acquainted while traveling in Africa. If thero is any medical preparation that has power to ward oft starvation it should be made public and placed within the reach *of those liable to need it.

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TJIK January number Magazine has an article on Aust: that is full of interest for Americans. Considered from a political standpoint, Axistralia Is perhaps the most interesting country in the globe. Young as it is it has already come nearer to wise self-govornmont than any other people. It was left for Australia to invent a method of voting that America was glad to borrow and there Is a probability that we shall have to adopt other beneficent inventions of this wonderfully active and practical people. For if it be true, as oue of their public men declares, that the Australians aro already provided, at tho cheapest rate, with the public works they most need, public libraries even in remote country districts, an advanced state of popular intelligence, strong interest in public affairs and sturdy patriotism, Americans have a good many points to learn from them and are far behind in the race towards the goal of "the greatest good for the greatest numbor." And Australia is not done experimenting by any means. The young and active nation whloh has made such marked political progress proposes to go on originating and developing until the summum bonum of political government shall be reached.

LESS MEDICINE.

Ate patent medicines going out of vogue? There are some pointers in that direction. An English syndicate which bought out a supposed establishment And valuable patent medicine at a big figure now finds no such profit as was •xpected. Undoubtedly there are still patent medicines which produce large revenues for their ewners. The advertising oolums of the newspaper* are proof of this. But the wide, almost universal use of these nostrums which once prevailed has greatly declined in later days and lu enlightened communities. People who are sick nowaday* prefer specific prescriptions by those who can examine their condition and trired the medicine to the particular part or organ affected, rather than take into their system a mess of compound, drags which may or may not be suited to their disorder. This surely is the scientific way of dealing with disease and is becoming the popular way.

There l» also another good tendency that is worthy of notice, vis,: a much smaller use of medicine of any kind than formerly. People have learned to •ome extent the pewer of lemons and other simple remedies, water, abstinence at timee in eating, and they decline to dose themselves with the drastic and nauseous compounds formerly poured down by quart and gallon. An improved diet, consisting more largely of fruits and vegetables, and better cooking of food, has done much to lessen disease. So that, taken all together, there is lea* occasion for drag* than formerly.

We all part with regret with the old year. 1890 was a good year for this country—one of the most prosperous in the history of the United States. Our foreign trade was greater than ever before, with an increase in imports and exports of about #100,000,000 each. While crops were not so large as in 1889 the higher prices realized more than made good the difference to the farmers."

Taking the conntry over, business has been little disturbed by strikes. Labor has been generally and profitably employed, in mine, factory and other lines of industry. There have been no epidemics of disease and in all ways the nation has prospered. The financial flurry in November did not prove to be serious in its consequences and monetary affairs have again returned to their normal condition, with a bright and inspiring outlook for 1891. There seems no reason indeed why the prosperity of 1890 should not be continued through the present year. Certainly all will hope and work to that end. A Happy New Year is the wish The Mail extends to all its readers and to all the people of our good town.

CONSUMPTION CURES. The great boom in Koch consumption lymph is on the wane. As usual in such cases'exaggerated reports were circulated at the outset and the public was led to expect too much from the discovery. It may yet prove to be an efficient remedy for incipient consumption and in the end may be found a most valuable addition to the science of medical healing.

Another discovery, made by an American investigator, promises possibly greater results than I-rof. Koch's. Dr. Shurley, of Detroit, has been experimenting for several years to find a cure for consumption. His system is radically different from Koch's. The latter believes consumption is caused by bacilli in the tissues while Dr. Shurley thinks the diseased tissue produces the bacilli. He believes he has found, by along series of experiments, that a certain combination of chlorine inhaled into the lungs will kill the bacilli.

Both theories rest on the apparently established fact of bacilli or disease germs in the lung tissue and the problem has been to discover some means of killing them. There seems to be a reasonable ground to hope that this has been accomplished.

ALASKA.

About the only great, unexplored ter ritory now remaining to the United States, is that vast stretch of sea coast, islands, mountains, ice, polar bears and whatever else may be there, known as the Territory of Alaska. Besides being a terra incognita, Alaska has long been considered a land of ice and snow with nothing to recommend it as the abode of civilized people.

But we are gradually finding out that this is a mistake. During the last few years a good deal has been done towards exploring limited portions of the great rritory, with gratifying results. Rich mitres have been opened in the southern part and some of the largest quartz mills in the world are now at work there. It is surprising to learn that this section alone exported #9,000,000 worth of products last year. And this is only the beginning. 5

The idea that Alaska is like the Arctic regions is a mistaken one. The greater portion of it is in the same latitude with England, and the Japanese current tempers its climate as the Gulf stream does the atmosphere of England. The average temperature during the winter in the southern portion of the Territory, is not below 32°. The central portion is believed to be as good land and as favorably situated for agriculture as the great wheat belt of Russia, and some of the vast farming country of Sweden and Norway. So that a great deal may be done even in agriculture. But the greatest wealth of the Territory probably lies in its mines of gold, silver, copper, iron, and other minerals, its variety of valuable furs, and fish and timber.

Congress will probably provide for a more thorough and systematic exploration of .our grand northern Territory, but whether it does or does not, private exploration and development will go on at an accelerated pace. Presently there will be a railroad along the coast from Seattle oifTocoma to Alaska and then immigration and development will go on much faster.

One of the grand projects of the coming years is the building of a railroad from Alaska to Asia, via Behring Strait, which is only 25 miles wide in its narrowest part. This could be tunneled or bridged and direct railway connection be had with Europe by means of a transcontinental railway which Russia is now building. All this may not be done immediately but it seems fairly certain that great things are ahead for Alaska and the far northern Pacific coast.'

A man's beet friend is that one who has his every interest at heart and would have him always appear at his best. Thus a Loeb is the beet and truest friend of every gentleman in the city, for there is not one whom he would not have supplied with the latest styles in hate, scarfs, etc., in order that he may be in keeping with the times." So, gentlemen, cater to your own interests and do your buying ef nobby hats and caps at 616 Main.

Frames at Herring's.

Go to Peter Miller for lap Robes, Blankets and Harness supplies of all kinds. Prices there will surely please. 505 Main street.

Go to F. A. Soeburger dt Bra. tor your Sunday meats. They have the best shop in the city and will give you the choicest cuts of any kind of meat you. wiah 711 Main.

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Was takin' in with open mouth Our tales of battles in the South, Which none of us had ever seen,

EBKRE HAUTE SATOItt*YB\»ENING MATTi

[Written for The MalL] THE BOY'S REBUKE.

We were loaflin' thar in Crooksea store, An1 makin' up most monstrous yarns, An* talkin' of our friends' consarns An' of a hundred things er more. A little chap about fourteen

When Bryan Smith from off his chair, j|k Watch in' his pipe's blue ringlets, spoke i* "See h^re, my lad, would you like asmoke? I've got 'baccy' an' a pipe to spare."

But rem the pipe the lad drew back "1 never smoke," was all he said But Bryan patted him on the head, An' givin' his well-lllled pipe a whack-

That sent it spinnin' acrost the floor, Cried, in a voice that was choked with tears, "I've smoked a pipe fer fifteen years, But blanked if I do it any more."

"How does it happen, lad," be said, "That you have never wished to smoke?" The boy looked up an' musin' spoke, As he slowly shook his curly head

"I hardly think I know, sir but"— With eager look in eyes of blue—•, "If you've some plug I'll take a chew, Only the kids here chew fine-cut. —J. I* Paics.

A GLASS OF WATE&:?^ [Selected.] At the close of an address before the Young Men's Christian Association in Boston, John B. Gough seized a tumbler of water from the table, held it up toward the light and uttered this most eloquent tribute to one of the best gifts of God. It was often repeated by him and held every audience who heard it in a breathless rapture of delight. g|p '•Look at that, ye thirsty ones of&arth! Behold it! See its purity! How it glitters, as if amass of liquid gems! It is a beverage brewed by the hands of the Almighty Himself! Not in thesimmerIng still, oversmoking fires, choked with poisonous gases, and surrounded by the stench and sickening odors and rank corruptions, doth your Father in Heaven prepare the precious essence of life-*-tbe pure, cold water but in the green glado and grassy dell, where the red deer wanders and the child loves to playthere God brews it and, down in the deepest valley, where the fountains murmur and the rills sing and high up on the mountain tops where the naked granite glitters like gold in the sun, where the storm clouds brood and the thunder storms crash, and way far out on the wide sea, where the hurricanes howl music, and the waves roar the chorus, sweeping the march of Godthere he brews it, that beverage of life, health-giving water! And everywhere it is a thing of beauty, gleaming in the dewdrop singing in the summer rain, shining in the ice gein, till the trees all seem turned into living jewels, spreading a golden veil over the setting sun, or a white gauze over the midnight moon sporting in the cataracts sleeping in the glaciers dancing in the hail shower its bright snow-curtains softly about the wintry world and weaving the many colored iris, that seraph's zone of the sky, whose warp is the rain of the earth, whose Woof is the sunbeam of heaven, all checkered over with cetestial flowers by the mystic hand of refraction—still always it is beautiful, that blessed life-water. No poison bubbles on the brink its form brings no sadness or murder no blood strains its limpid glass broken-hearted wives, pale widows and starving orphans shed no tears in its depths no drunkard's shrieking ghost from the grave curses it in the words of eternal despair—beautiful, pure, blessed and glorious, forever the same sparkling water!" ZjJ

MRS. GRANTS DREAM. [Exchange.]

"My early home was in St. Louisi" says Mrs. U. S. Grant, in an interview now for the first time made public. "Now Orleans was then the great commercial metropolis in the South, and with the young people of my acquaintance, a visit to New Orleans was the great event of a lifetime. When one of our circle was so fortunate as to be able to spend a few dayB there he was the envy of us all. One night I had a dream. In my dream I seemed to be in the oity of New Orleans, and the people came out In masses to do me honor. I was invited to dine with all the leading persons of the city, and feted until it seemed that the whole oity had turned out. The populace brought great rolls of oarpeting and spresd it on the walks, and the enthusiasm was as great as though a queen was receiving fealty of her subjects. "But all the time it seemed to me that while all this was In my honor, and I was permitted to reoeive the honors as if no one else shared them, yet another was present, and his presenoe was the real occasion of the enthusiastic reception that was tendered us. if"I married General Grant and the for* tunes of war plaoed him where his kindness of heart enabled him to place the South, as they thought, under the most lasting obligations, wad they never seemed to tin of expressing their gratitude. After the General retired from the Presidency, as you know, we made a tour of the South. When we visited New Orleans my girlhood dream all came true. The entire populace of New Orleans turned out to do us honor. They unrolled great rolls of carpet on the walks, as though the flag-stones were not good enough for us to walk on. We were the guests of the leading men, and of the city itself and were feted by everybody as though everyone was tlying to out do the other. Never did any person reoeive a greater ovation, and I could not help feeling that it all came from the generous hearts of the people •a a token of their appreciation of the General's kindness to General Lee and his army."

Pictures at Herring's.

& STANION ON WOMAN'S DISABILITIES. [Woman's. Tribune.] |3p Hi I wish I could convert the world to the belief that woman in her normal Condition is not a bundle of disabilities, ?but as capable as a man of filling any position. Talking with a Bishop not long since, he said, "Women could never take an active part in politics because of their many disabilities." "Will you mention one?" said I. "Surely you -will admit," he replied, "that maternity is a disability?" "Certainly said I. "How comes it that you iorify motherhood in your church ice, aud chant the Magnificat in all ur temples round the globe, if .ternity is a disability?" "Well," he, hesitatingly, "you must admit dress is a disabiliy?" "Alas! dear hop, if we had been born with long es, highheeled boots, and corsets, I might agree with you, but as it is we a easily throw all these encumbrances a ide. The flowing robes are emblems dignity, hence you wear them at the a lar, and judges wear them on the inch of the Supreme Couit, but for a five exercise in the ordinary affairs of li you lay them aside. When women to the polling booths they do not

W iar decollete dresses, bare arms, and ig trains. If women were we'l born, red and clothed, there would be no ability or suffering in maternity. disability is caused by our civilizati o, tight-lacing, unsanitary dress si tentary lives, and ill-assorted marri ife. I have had a large family, yet it hi been no disability to me in my publii work. I sufiered little or nothing. S: rfcges do not suffer the pains in iternity that we do. Motherhood si mid never be quoted ns disqualifying a foman for equality and just, civil, ar 1 politically rights. It gives her tbs hi kest claim to them. As for the lyere qi sstion of dress that can surely be ea lly cut to meet the required measure, can arrange our clothes when we get ou »ju*t rights."

WARD MCALLISTER'S FOUR HUNDRED. [Twentieth Century.] I is a mercy that McAllister's book Is too txpensive for the poor to buy, and tha most of them are too stupefied by poverty to understand its significance for ills a better revolutionary document thanlPrince Kropotkin or John Most ever Wrote or ever could write.

Soma time ago a man threw a stone through one of Delmonico's windows, and v^hen he was arrested he said that the skht of so many persons eating crazedlhim for the momeat. Ol course nothing was accomplished by breaking the window, except to get himself arrested? but the.incident showed what a hungry man would do in the sight of food that was not for him.

McAllister's book might act that way on the slaves who enrich the Four Hundred if it should ever circulate among them, for in that book, at through a window, they could see what is done with some of the money that is legislated aWy^frolb them.

Let us hope that the people will grow sane enough to effect such changos in our social arrangements that no man can have much without working some, and that no man who works even a little shall be destitute. Then will society no longer be infested with tramps or McAllisters. _•

HEARTS IN Jh WJELR Y. I [Exchange.]

•To be really fashionable just at pres ent you must possess some piece of. jewelry in the shape of a heart. Beautiful heart-shaped pins and rings are shown composed of a turquoise surrounded by pearls or diamonds. If you don't care for jewelry you must have a tieart-shaped imine for the picture of your dearest frlend and place it on your dressing table. Tables and mirrors of this shape also find fayor. 'Mv' man fe Birschler ask all those who have not bought their winter clothiog yet to call at thMr store and examine tlieir goods and prices. They have ajtfout 600 overcoats on hand yet and the pablio can rely upon getting an overcoat at their place |for less money than Law ever been kneW before. Goodman A Hirschlsr are the oldest and largest clothing house in th« city and always oi&n what they say. r%

The First Company to Pay Riddle, Hamilton Co. have received the following letterj *hick explains it-

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TBVELBBS IiretfifctircB OOKPAJSTY,

ICa^AWD»AJerlu^r^,,'* FORD CONK, ft 30tb, 1800. Cb., Agents,

No. 870,253, written b» this company the life of the late|J»mes

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All Linen at

5c 6c 8c

10c 12c 15c 18c 20c

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Upwards to $2.50 each Nothing like them ev«r shown before.

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TOWNSHIP.

CItyl Harrison Honey Creek Prairieton Prairie Creek Linton Plerson Riley Lost Creek Nevlns Otter Creek Fayette Sugar Creek

jfaggrs. Riddle, Ham Terre Haute, Ikd. GKNTXJEMKN—We ss$D herewith our deck on Fourth Naticlm hank of New t»rk City for the sum|often thousand dollars (10,000) payablOj tothe order of llizabeth R. McGregor| ijj payment of ^eath claim under regu|« accident poli-

ble for

Gregor, of your oity, who accidentjly shot while drawing gun from wagon the 22nd of this montli v,l [Let us have policy an| a^tpt discharged and executed in flu© form by •rid Elisabeth R. McGregor, wife and teneficiary, at your early wony^nience, 4oM oblige yours, vary tru%.

RODNEY DKfTXlg,

-iMve your measure for a imit or overat Goodman Hirsch!*r| you Vant the largest and best line select from and want a petfeet fitting rmenfe. They have made |g.oo flO.OO reduction on each suit

December 31, 1890.

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in order to make roon®. for their pring goods, which they expect iQ abont tune or four weeks.

Annually, Once a Year,

A Linen Sale

We do this now becauso now is the time to buy your Linen and Housekeeping Goods. We give this department special attention at this season of the year and make unusual preparations months ahead to have a very large and complete stock to show you. We take the new stock and carefully remark the old one and make prices that always bring us a very large crowd of shrewd housekeepers who know when we offer them a good thing.

Hoberg, Root & Co

Have now this sale open and if you come once to attend you cannot help but come again.

OUR DISPLAY

Comprises a collection of Housekeeping Linens selected with the greatest of care for both rich and poor. We have all quailities and prices.

At 3c, we show Towels, better ones at 5c, 6c, 8c up. At 5c, we show an All-Linen Crash, 19 incTies wide worth 8c.

At 25c, we show the best Turkey Ked Table Damask in the city for the price.

See our 35 and 50c Barnsly Cream Table Damasks,

Upwards to $1.00 Yard.

See our Bleached Table Damasks at 45, 50, 68 and 75c, and Double Damasks up to $2 yard, with large Napkins to match.

See the finest line of 25o Towels ever shown in the State. Also our 75, 85 ai 98c Bed Quilts.

Bee our Table Linen Sets with Napkins to match at $4, $4 50, $5, $5.50, $6, $7, $8 up. The most beautiful collection of Fancy Towels you ever saw also a superb line of Hemstitch Table Cloths, Hemstitch Tray Cloths, Lunch Clothe, Meat Cloths,- Doyles, Napkins, Linen" Sheetings and Pillow Casiags.

Muslins and Sheetings at New York Wholesale Prices. Come Monday, if you can.:.

518 & 520 Wabash Avenue.

i- STATE AND: COUNTY

Taxes for

Notice is hereby given that theTnx Duplicate for the Year 1890 1H now in my bauds, and that I am now ready to receive the Taxes charged thereon. The. following table Bhows the rate ol taxation on each 9100 taxable property and Poll Tax in each Township.

Levied by State.

Levi'd Com.

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Levied by Township Trustees. JKOAD

GO 60 50 50 60 50 50 50 50 60 IP

Delinquent Lands are advertised on or about the first Monday In January, and are offered for sale on the second Monday In February of each year. The Treasurer is responsi

taxes he could have collected therefore tax-payers ought to remember that their taxes MUST be paid every year. No County Order will be paid ta any person owing Delinquent Taxes.

Road Receipt* will not be received except on First Installment of Taxes. Tax-payer* who have Free Oravel Road and Drainage Tax to pay, should see ihat they have a separate receipt for each road and Drain the property is assessed on.

For the collection of which I may be found at my office in Terre Haute, as directed by law, mr Pay Yonr Taxes Promptly and Avoid Colt

GUS. A. CONZMAN,

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Total Rate and Poll Tax

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1 20 1 36 1 15 1 48 1 47 1 40

2 74 2 74 2 50 2 76 2 74 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 00 2 24 2 74 2 44 2 50

1 1 22 1 29 1 88 1 25 1 28 1 8ft

Dog Tax: For every male, 11,00 for every female, 12.00 for each additional dog, '#.00. Examine your receipt before leaving the ofllce and see that It covers all your property. People are taxed on what they own on April 1st of each year.

Taxes are due on the 31st day of December, and tax-payers may pay the full amount at such taxes on or before the third Monday In April following or may, at their option, pay one-half thereof on or before the said third Monday, and the remaining one-half on or before the first Monday In November following providing, however, that all road taxes charted shall be paid prior to the third Monday in April, as prescribed by law and provided further, that in all cases where as much as one-half of the amount of tax& charged against a tax-payer shall not be paid on or before the third Monday In April, the whole amoant unpaid shall become due and returned delinquent, and be collected as provided by law.

Treasurer Vigo County.

WAU-KE-MAUGH

THE MDIM DOCTOR

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