Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 January 1891 — Page 4

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TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 10, 1891.

ICE six to seven inches thick in Virginia. How's that for a Southern winter!

THE despised onion continues to be a popular esculent. A California farmer cleared $4,200 the past year from 16 acres of them.

MAJOR POND will make $75,000 or $100,000 out of Stanley's lecture tour. The major will not have to catch many fish of that size to make his fortune.

IT is believed in Washington that Vice President Morton is entertaining a Presidential bee. He is a nice man but he will never preside over the great American Republic. We cen tell him that right now.

THI.S item is going the rounds of the press: "Blind Tom is dying of con sumption, and the $500,000 which be earned by his skill as a pianist has mysteriously disappeared, leaving him a pauper inmate of a lunatic asylum." It is said there are persons who will steal the coins off dead people's eyes. Those who had Blind Tom in charge must be long to thin tribe.

THE Chicago Tribune recently invited men who had failed, to state the reasons therefor in its columns. Quite a number responded, assigning many and varied reasons why they had not got on better in life. Several attributed their failure to not taking the advice of their wives, but it is significant that not one of tLem laid the responsibility of his failuroat the door of his wife.

THE massing of American war ships on the Pacific coast may mean war with England, but it probably only means that the Canadian seal poachers shall not have everything their own way hereafter. If the Canucks don't fish according to law they will not fish at all, whatever John Bull may think about it. By the way, the new war vessels come in right handy at this juncture.

THE talk of war with England over the seal fisheries continues off and on in the Democratic papers, and the question is whether Congress will legislate any In that direction. Many a war between nations has beon caused by smaller things than the Behring Sea question, but that was when it took less to cause a war than It does now. England and the United States may play a fine game of bluff over the seals, but they will think long and well before golafc into a •war that would cost more that^all the seals In Behrlngs sea will be worth in a century.

MR. BLAINE'S answer to Lord Salisbury on the Bobring Sea controversy displays at once the highest order of diplomacy and the true spirit of American independence. The President is fortunate in having such a man for the head of his cabinet. It has been the criticism of American representatives abroad that thoy know little or nothing of the shrewd and wily diplomacy which is so large a factor in European statecraft. This charge cannot bo sustained against Mr. Blaine. His correspondence on the fisheries question shows a perfect familiarity with English and American history and a consummate knowledge of tho art diplomatic. England has no superior in this respect to Lord Salisbury and Lord Salisbury has moasured swords to Ills disadvantage with the American secretary.

PKOPLK who have been encouraged at the decreasing use of alcohol by men find themselyes confronted now by a tornblo discovery, viz: its increasing use by women. At least this is what Dr. Lucy Hall claims and the fact is one of dreadful portent. As wealth and luxury have increased the use of wine at table has grown more common and tho women partake of it very generally. When the influence of tho mother upon the child is considered the conclusion is obvious that the use of intoxicants by women is far more dangerous than by men. It would be a pitiable commontary indeed on the temperance movement that after women had, by persistent effort, reformed men from the liquor vice they should succumb to It themselves. Tho fact as to the use of liquor py women ought to be more fully known. Perhaps it is in this direction that there is most ne of temperance effort at the present time.

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CHICAGO physician who has investigated the working of Dr. Shurley*s consumption cure at Detroit, expresses gr«at hope of Us success. So far the patients who hare been treated with the iodine or chlorine preparation appear to be rapidly recovering. It is said that guinea pigs inoculated with the spittle of a consumptive all died but after the patient had been treated for a time the spittle had no effect upon the animals. It Is also found that after treatment the spittle of patients ceases to contain the microbes with which it swarmed before th« remedy was applied. If these things be true there would seem to be good ground for hope that a real cure for consumption has at last been found. But the world has been treated to so many alleged discoveries in this Held, which have been the sensation of an hour and then been forgotten, that credulity will

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be alow to have faith in Koch or Shurley. Yet Ve ought to believe that nature has provided a cure for every diseaso, if we only can find it why then should not a remedy for the terrible consumption scourge be found? We believe that it has been, or will be.

The State legislature is now in full running order, with both houses completely organized"and the great majority of members on the ground. Hon. M. J. Ni black graces the speaker's chair in the chamber of representatives, und "business" is the order of the day. With recklessness bordering on depravity, all appearances at least so indicating, the members have plunged into most extravagant measures, and if the first two days are to be taken as criterion the State will not only be landed high and dry in short order, but will be mortgaged for several coming generations long before the session is over. The most serious feature of it all is that the treasury is exhausted, and all the State institutions will soon be badly in need of funds. This condition is described in press dispatches as follows: Considerable consternation has been created among the members by discovery that for the first time in the history of theState there is no money in the treasury to pay the salaries of members or the other expenses of the session. There is now but $110,000 in the general fund and this, under a law of the late session, is set apart for tho various State institutions for the current month. It can hot be drawn upon for the reason that it is made a penal offense for the auditor to draw a warrant upon the fund for any other than the purpose for which it is set apart. Even if this sum were available for current expenses, it would not be sufficient to meet the legislature and other expenses during the session. The situation will call for mighty wise legislation if relief is to be had in any reasonable length of time.

BANKS FOR THE PEOPLE. The matter of postal savings banks has long been discussed, but the recent failure of several private banks has called attention anew to the subject. Postmaster General Wannamaker, with his common-sense, business way of looking at things, is earnestly in favor of such banks. The great want of this country Is a system of perfectly safe banks for small depositors. Many people who lack confidence in the banks keep their savings hid away at home—a dangerous policy and a bad one, because it keeps a large emount of moaey out of circulaBut the moral effect is that people who would be encouraged to save in the gov eminent banks, now spend their earnings, rather than risk losing them in private banks. The building and loan associations have grown into an enormous business simply because they con stitute a safe place for the investment of small sums.

England, France, Belgium and other European countries have established postal saving banks and they have had a great success, having increased the accumulation of small savings in the hands of the people enormously. It has been demonstrated that such banks can be conducted advantageously by the postofflce department and the wonder is that America was not the first instead of being the last country to establish them.

EMMA ABBOTT.

The sudden death of Emma Abbott comes with a sense of almost personal bereavement to the people of Terre Haute. She had sung so often and was so popular here that her sudden and perpetual absence will be a cause of poignant regret to all bur music-loving citizens.

While not a great artist like Patti, Nilsson or Jenny Lind, Enrma Abbott was so conscientious, so thorough, so winning and so perfectly lady-like, that she won everybody to her side. In marked contrast with many great artists who are cold and selfish in their natures, Emma Abbott was kind, generous and helpful. No good cause appealed to her in vain. Many a time the entire receipts of one or more performances went to some charity or the relief of those who had been overwhelmed by sudden misfortune. Yet she prospered, as no other singer has done. Full houses greeted her everywhere and "business" was never otherwise than good with the people's favorite. Her earnings were so wisely and safely invested that the estate she left ia estimated at the enormous value of $4,000,000.

Yes, we shall all miss "honest" little Emma Abbott. There is no one to take her place so far as we can now see. For twenty years she has been one of the popular stars of the American stage. Young men and women looked forward with anticipations of keen pleasure to their first opportunity of hearing the prima donna and the older ones, who had heard her often, were always glad to hear her again.

HO If" TO TREA1 THE INDIANS. Stanley, the African explorer, says we do not manage the Indians in the right way. His idea is that "all the Indian* should be corrralled and disarmed, and furnished with neat cottages and given a start so that they might become useful cititens."

This plan Is not new to the people of this country. It has long been known that Indian affairs have been mismanaged that the red men have been fleeced and swindled by dishonest agent* and traders, thus keeping them in a state of constant discontent. The "untutored savage" does not limit his wrath to the rascally agent. He is suspicious of "the Great Father" and when a thieving servant of the latter robs him he is willing to believe the government is conniving at the wrong.

What should have been done long ago

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was to tarn the whole Indian matter over to the war department. Then*the Indians would not be cheated. They would get what the government allows them with the promptness and integrity of military management.

Then the savages should undoubtedly be disarmed. For the government to furnish them with arms and ammunition is but to encourage their violent outbreaks. There are only two alternatives for the Indian race. One is extermination the other is civilization. The present policy means extermination. The allotment to them of farms and compelling them to live on their separate holdings, means eventual civilization. That they can be civilized is proved by the present condition of some of the tribes in New York, Wisconsin and other States. But it will never be accomplished while they are permitted to roam at will with rifles and cartridges in their bands, and skinned and fleeced by rascally government agents.

A WOMAN'S TOAST TO MEN. [Exchange.] Many gallant and eloquent toasts have been made by the men to the gentler sex, but the following to the men from a womau caps the climax: "God bless 'em. We halve their joys, double their sorrows, treble their expenses, quadruple their cares, excite their affections, control their property, and outmaneuyer them in everything in fact, I may say, without a prospect of successful contradiction, without 'em it would not be much of the world anyhow. We love 'em and the dear things can't help it we control 'em' and the precious things don't know it. "As husbands they are always convenient, though not always on hand as beaux they are matchless. They are the most agreeable visitors they are handy at state fairs and indespensable at ice cream saloons. They are splendid as escorts for some other fellow's wife or sister, and as friends they are better than women. As our fathers they are inexpressively grand. A man may be a failure in business, a wreck in constitution not much to boast of in beauty, nothing to Speak of as legislator of woman's rights, and not even very brilliant as a member of the press, but if he is our father we overlooked his shortcomings and cover his peccadilloes with the divine mantel of charity. Then, as our husbands, how we love to parade them as paragons! In the sublime words of the inspired poet— '. I

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"We'll lie for them, We'll cry for them, And if we could we'd fly for them: We'd do anything but die for them."

ABOUT WOMEN.

The women are after Dr. Koch. Dr. Helen L. Betts, of Boston, has been selected to visit Berlin to investigate the lymph cures.

The Sultan of Turkey has conferred upon Mrs. Whitelaw Reid the order of the Shefkat, the highest Turkish decortion that can be given to a woman.

Mrs. Garfield is so much p&Sttred by foolish letter writers that she wishes her correspondents would come along and read and answer their own missive?.

The newest American singer to achieve prominence in Paris Is Miss Huberwald, of New Orleans. She has a contralto voice and is a fine-looking 'girl with a vigorous physique.

Mrs. Miles, the wife of the general who is looked upon as the nation's best Indian fighter, is a niece of General and Senator Sherman and a sister of Senator Cameron's wife.

Mrs. Andrew Camegie is not a pretty woman, according to recent description. Her hair is dark aud her features somewhat irregular, but she has a slender, erect figure and pleasing face.

Miss Belle Stewart, a plucky girl in Crittenden County, Ky., has gone to Texas and pre-empted 640 acres of land, out of which she proposes to wrest a fortune in farming and raising stock.

Mrs. Dahlgreu, formerly Miss Lucy Drexel, received as a wedding present from her mother recently a grand piano, an old Cremona violin and a harp of exquisite tone and workmanship.

The Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia, widow of the Red Prince and aunt of the German Emperor, has clan* destinely married her first lord of the bedchamber, Baron von Sekkendooff.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has expressed a liking for Seattle, Wash., and has purchased some property there, near Turwater Falls, which is said to be one of the most picturesque parts of the State.

The Turkish sultan's daughter has been educated in accordance with European ideas and is a young lady of taste and accomplishments. She is especially known as a pianist of remarkable execution.

Miss Rachel Sherman, who plays the hostess in her father's New York home, is a low voiced, pleasant-faced little lady, and is said to be the General's chief dependence for names and dates that have escaped his memory.

Clara Morris has been on the stage for a little more than twenty years. Her first appearance in New Yerk was in 1870, with Daly's company when on short notice she took apart that had been assigned to Agnes Ethel.

Princess Beatrice, now that she has got ont of tne reach of her royal mother's leading strings, has found time to torn authoress, and has recently published a translation of "The Adventures of Count George Albert, of Erbacb."

There are five American ladies attached to the Italian Court, ail of whom have married Italian noblemen. One of these ladles, the Marchese Theodoldi, was Miss Conrad, of Philadelpiia, and Is now the chief lady in waiting at the court, as well as the moet beautiful woman In Italy.

A Little Way Down Street

[Burdette in Ladies' Home Journal.] My boy, you came in rather late last night, and this morning, when your mother asked where you were, you said, "Down street." Then when she wanted to know whereabouts down the street, you said, "Oh, just a little ways."

Now, I don't think you intend to lie to your mother. As a rule, you are a truthful boy, and your mother can believe you. But I wonder if you know how far down street you were last night? You were right when you said you were "down street whenever a boy comes home late at night, and is afraid or ashamed to tell just where he has been and what he has been doing, I know as well as he does, and his mother knows, and everybody who knows anything about boys knows, that he has been "down street."

And more than that, my boy I know that he has been along way down street. A long, long way. Have you a map of your route last evening? No? Well, never mind we know "you were down street, and we can make a map in a minute to two. Sit down here, and ws'll see how far a boy travels when he leaves home after supper, end goes "down street a little way" and doesn't get back until ten o'clock or later.

Here is your home, this bright little spot like a star on the map. The sweetest, purest, safest place this side of Heaven the home where, from father to baby, they love you better than all the rest of the people in all the big, wide world. Now, you start from here and go "down street" somehow the street always has a down grade from home when you sneak out after night. See how far you get from respectability and self-respeot, when you reach this corner, "just a little ways down," where you loafed—eh? Well, I'll say "loitered," if you prefer it—where you "loitered" last night. Here are the fellows with whom you loitered. You had to meet them here, because you can never meet them in your home, for two reasons in the first place, your father wouldn't permit one of them to come into his house, and in the second place, you would be ashamed to invite them there, whether your father forbade it or not. Sweet "gang" for your father's son to "loiter" with, isn't it? It's a long ways from your respectale home, from your mother's friends and your father's guests, to this corner "down street," isn't it?

Then—look on the map, my boy—see how far it is from manliness and decency. Two ladies hurried past this corner, friends of your mother possibly they had been spending the evening at your home. Thank Heaven they eould not see you as you slunk back into the dark doorway, feeling like the sneak tnat you were and, as they passed by, one of the loafers with whom you were loitering shouted an insulting remark after them. Your cheeks burned in the dark, at that. Didn't your home and your sisters seem to be a thousand miles away just then?

See, too, how far you were from purity. Some of the boys told some stories do you think you can repeat them to your sisters? Don't you wiBh this morning that you could forget them forever? Don't you wish you had never heard them? Don't you know your mind will never again be as pure and innocent as it was before you went "just a little way down street" last night? While you were listening to these stories, punctuated with profanity, the dear ones at home gathered in the sitting room, your father opened the Book, and read they knelt at the family altar and commend ed themselves to the keeping of the Heavenly Father, and tenderly remembered the boy who was "just a little way down street." Then the lights went out one by one, the house was still, and only the loving mother waited anxiously and sleeplessly for the boy who was down "street." It was more than ten million miles away from the sweet, old chapter that your father read, dow.n to the stories that you heard, my boy. And what a steep grade, all the way down I

And it was a long, long way from the truth. When you avaded your mother's question, and said you were only "a little way down street" the lie in your false heart looked guiltily out of your eyes as it rose to your cowardly lips. Just see where you were you, ordinarily a brave, manly, truthful boy, turned

into a liar and a coward 1 You would fight, I know, if any boy called you such names, but just tell yourself the truth don't lie to youreeli. Weren't you ashamed to tell your mother where you were? Yes. Well, doesn't that make you a sneak? And weren't you afraid to tell your father? Yes. Well, what does that make you? And did you tell the honest truth when your ,mother asked where you were? No. Well, what are you then And let me tell you that

the "half truth" and "half lie" you told your mother is like all half breeds It has all the worst traits of the vilest race and none of the virtues of the best. "But," you say, "a boy doesn't have to go with toughs and riff-ralf when he goes "down street" there are some mighty nice boys go down street at night." My boy, I know it there are some, "mighty nice boys" go out of nights, but they are not so nice when they come back. You can't select your company en the'street. The corner is free to everybody. There is no ezclusiveness in street company. There ia no safe "corner" for you after night except the chimney corner. And when -you leave that, and spend the evening on the street, and can give no account of your doings on your return beyond the statement that you were "just down street a little ways," we know, with pain and sorrow, that our boy has locked up in his mind and heart, shameful, guilty things that he dare not tell in his home. Keep off the street after night, my boy. Other people will tblnk better of yon, Mid, what is a far more important thing, yon will think much better of yourself.

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SAI_E CONTINUES.

OUR ANNUAL INVENTORY we must reduce stock in a great many departments, which are at present pretty heavy. We have carefully gone through these and made a great many decided reductions. For instance, in Dress Goods we have slashed right and left into prices. Our $12 and $14 Imported Pattern Suits are now $8. Our $15, $17 and $18 Suits are marked down to $10. Our Finest Imported Novelty Suits at about half price.

At Even $7.00.

You can pick out any Oloth Newmarket in our house that formerly sold up to $25. Our $30 Plush Sacques are now $19.

Our $40 Plush Sacques are now $28. Our $40 Plush Sacques are now $35.

Our $5, $8 and $10

are Worth $10, $ 15 to $17.

If you want a fine Wrap or Mantle, a nice Imported Fur Trimmed Jacket or Coat or a Child's Cloak of any kind, come to us next week and we will promise you a rare bargain

Hoberg, Root & Co.,

518 & 520 Wabash Avenue.

STATE AND COUNTY

Taxes For 1890.

Notice is hereby given that the Tax Duplicate for the Year 1890 is now in my hands, that I am now ready to receive the Taxes charged thereon. The following table shows rate of taxation on each S100 taxable property and Poll Tax In each Township.

Levied by State.

Levl'd Com.

Levied by Township Trustees. ROAD

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

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

Road Receipts will not be received except on First installment of Taxes. Tax-payers who have Free Gravel Road and Drainage Tax to pay, Hhould see that 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 otflce In Torre Haute, OH directed by law tag- pay Your Taxes Promptly and Avold'Cost.

Total Rate and Poll Tar

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1 20 1 80 1 15 1 43 1 47 1 40

2 74 2 74 2 50 2 70 2 74 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 00 2 24 2 74 2 44 2 50

1 80 1 22 1 20 1 1 25 1 26 1 36

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Dog Tax: For every male, $1,00 for every female, 82.00 for each additional dog, 32.00. Examine your receipt before leaving the office and see that It covers all your property. People are taxed on what they own on April 1st of each year.

Taxes are due 011 the 81st day of December, and tax-payers may pay tho full amount of 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 tho remaining one-half on or before the first Monday In November following providing, however, that' all road taxes charged shall be paid prior to the third Monday in April, as prescribed by law and provided further, that In all coses whore as much as one-half of the amount of taxes charged against a taxpayer shall not be paid on or before the third Monday In April, the whole amount unpaid shall become duo and returned delinquent, and be collected OH provided by

GUS. A. OONZMAN,

December 31, 1800. Treasurer Vigo County.

Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17,1889.

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