Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 February 1891 — Page 4

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TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 7, 1891

ANNOUNCEMEN1.

Dating from next Monday The Mail will be edited by Mr. Will Duncan, who has just returned from the West. Mr Duncan will prove to bean old acquaintance with The Mail readers, having been associated with the late Perry S. Westfall in 1879 and 1880. Mr. Arnold Layman, who has been connected with this paper for nearly two years, will retire and will devote bis entire attention to bis course at the Rose Polytechnic in slitute. His connection with The Mail has been marked by a continuation of its prosperity, and although h« has not been able to devote all of his time to the editorial duties has accomplished most satisfactory results. He leaves with the •congratulationH and best wishes of all persons interested in Tho Mail.

E. P. WESTFALL.

ONI.Y nexFyear comes another Presi dential •lection. Sorry it isn't about four ywars longer. •S». RKTAKY BLAINE will attend the national convention of Republican clubs in Cincinnati next April. Jim always did like to get round among the boys.

HKNATOU INOALI-S has so many rich things offered liirn on silver platters that tho caustic Kunsan is bewildered which to choose. He can haye $10,000 a year for writing one article a day for the New York Sun, has been offered th«editorialship of two papers and can get $15,000 for 30 lectures. Why not take the Sun proposition and lectures combined, making tho snug income of $25,000 a year?

SKNATOK TUIUMK has done a progressive thing in introducing a joint resolution in Congress for an amendment to tho constitution, requiring Senators to bo elected by a popular vote. Such a change in our organic law ought to have been tnado long ago and should not be delayed any longer. Very cogent arguments have appearod in the press for years past urging the reform indicated.

IN some respects tho Reapportionment bill passed by Congress is less important in its efforts than wan anticipated. The number of Representatives is increased from 332 to 358, but owing to the mixed state of politics it is hard to toll whether the Democrats or the Republicans will be strengthen by the change, and the National election of 1892 will again be an open contest. One important effect of the increased electoral vote, however, is to give greater strength to tho West as against tho East, New York merely holding its present position, while the Mississippi Valey gains some 12 votes. By reason of this now factor, the iti•crease of the electoral college, the campaign of 1692 will bo one of peculiar interest.

IiAD INDIANS.

President Harrison and Secretary Noble have been speaking out pretty plainly on the Indian question. So far as their powers go they insist that all has been done for these "wards of the nation" that can be dons. They are not responsible for what Congress does or leaves undone.

Speaking of the grievances of the Sioux Mr. Noble says: "The treaty with the#* Sioux provides that they shall be supported until they are self-supporting. They have been given arable land*. Th*y have been furnished free with hoes, spades, plows, reaper*,, mowers, mills, and everything ntcessary to enable them to till their lands and become rich through their own exertion. Many a white man would be glad to get half the encouragement lavishly given by this great American people to tbese savage--. We build school# for them and feed, clothe, and maintain their children when hey send them to be educa ted. We spend millions annually ,in thsir support and we prelect them in their rights."

Now what returns do the Indians make? Some of thetu work, gradually learn the white man's ways, sund their children to school and put themselves in the way of becoming self-supporting citizens. But another and probably larger class are laity, fault-finding aud juare!some. They eat a week's rations in a day or two aud then complain when their food runs short. These must be dealt with tirmly and vigorously. The, government means to be just and geneiv us but the Indians must be taught and disciplined as well as fed.

PA MSG DEBTS.

Blessed is the man who pays his hon est debts promptly when he can. There are some who put the collector oftand of} until the money due is fairly earned by the time and effort spent iu collecting it. Beau Brumuiel is said to have declared that paying debts was a useless waste of money. But it is to be hoped ther* are Hot many Rrummels in the world, although there are loo many who act as if they shared his opinion to a considerable extent. Says ait exchange: "The nonchalant ease with which such persons can decline to make payment, the trivial and contemptible excuse* they can offer and the small importance which they attach to pecuniary obligations, especially if the obligation is

small, are enough to make honest debtors, temporarily unable to pay, feel it an added sting to their misfortunes that they are in daBger of being confounded with this class of social parasites

Who does not know them? Every community has a few of them, men who have no sense of financial honor, al though often making great pretensions to social standing and luxurious living. Fortunately the great body of society is made up of honest people who pay their debts and experience pleasure in doing so. They want to be "even with the world," dealing with others as they would be dealt with by them. It is these prompt payers that keep the wheels of business moving. When a man can collect his bills he can pay his own and so the money goes from hand to hand in an endless circle of debt discharging, But alas for the rhan whose chief reward for years of business or professional ser vice is a lodger full of "bad accounts"' that are not worth the paper on which they are printed. More than worthless, they aggravate and irritate him every time be looks at them.

ONE AT A TIME.

General Palmer, of Illinois, tells that in an interview with Lincoln in 1865, the latter said to him: "If I have contributed to the saving of the country, it was because I attended to the duties of each day with the hope that when to-morrow came I would be equal to the duties of that day."

In other words the great war President lived one day at a time, and only one. In that way he managed to bear the great burden laid upon him, which he could not have borne bad he borrowed trouble from the future. Meeting the difficulties one by one as they came to him he was able to master them.

And so might any of us do. What ails so many persons, breaking them down in spirit and in body, is not the actual work and trouble of life, but the imaginary. One day at a time is not enough for them. The evil thereof is not sufficient unto the day. They must look ahead for days or wt,eks or years and worry over things they may never live to meet. How foolish would it have been for the late Secretary Windom to have been troubled about a possible financial panic in June when he died in January. We are wise if wo solve each day's pioblems as they come to us, for death at any moment may save us the trouble of solving to-morrow's.

It has been said that the greatest trouble of lifo is that which never comes. It is the trouble borrowed out of the future and it never comes at all as a rule. The troubles which really come are new, unexpected aud unforseen. "Yet we manage to bear them when they do come, just as Lincoln managed to bear his, by disposing of them one at a time.

'"HAS CHRISTIANITY FAILED?" A discussion of unusual interest is that in the North American, Review for February between "Ouida," the wellknown novelist, and Father Ignatius on the question "Has Christianity Failed?" Ouida's paper is cold,, clear and brilliant, butterly lacking in appreciation of what Christianity really is. Her reasoning is much in line with that of Ingersoll, dwelling spocially on the cruelties and immoralities of the Cathoiic church of monkish times and on tho fact that iti these latter days nations which profess to bo Christians are guilty of cruelty and oppression against those weaker than themselves. This is not denied by Christians themselves, but as Father Ignatius shows the religion of Christ does not seek to dominate nations but only tho individual hearts of men. It seeks to reform tho race by reforming each heart aud iife and so long as there are godless men in the world they will commit godless deeds but when all men shall have been brought under the influence of the religion of Nazareth, war, slavery, and all wrong-doing will cease.

Some of Ouida's statements are so absurdly untrue that it is & wonder how one of her intelligence could make them. For instance she asserts that Christianity, by teaching that the body should be despised has fostered filth aud uncleanness. Now if there is any ono thing Christianity teaches it is habits of clean llness aud purity. How Paul dwells on this theme, that the body is the temple of God and is therefore not to be defiled. And it is declared that "cleanliness is next to godliness." With a perversion of tho truth that is incredible, she declares: "Christianity ever has been the enemy of human love." Christianity is following the example and doing the deeds of Christ, ft it possible anyone should conceive his life as unloving? Read Paul's marvellous sermon on love in 1 Cer. 13, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity" (love), etc. Then read Drum mood's little book founded upon it, "Love, the Supreme Gift," and imagine, if you can, that Christianity is the enemy of love!

Again she says that all the intellectual life of the world is leaving Christianity rapidly. How false is this when to-day there is ten fold more study of the bibie than ever before. The best minds in the world are at work upon it and almost a library of volumes are issued every year which have the bible for their subject. It may trrly be said that never before in the history of Christianity has it exerted such a power in the world as it is doing now never before were there so many thousands of earnest, humble, devoted followers of the Nazarene as today never before was the outlook for a universal kingdom of Christ upon eaith no bright in this last decade of the 'century* :r:

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throw a «ton*» straight to save her soul, but mhe can sft in an May chair and en* chant a man so that he will go and throw it for her.

BACK FROM lOWN.

Old friends alius is the bestfr. Halest-like and heartiest: Knowed us first, and don't allow We're so blame much better now! They was standin'at the bars When we grabbed "the kivvered kyare" And lit out fer town, to make Money—and that old mistake!

We thought then the world we went Into beat "The Settlement," And the friends 'at we'd make there Would beat any anywhere! And they do—fer that's their biz: They beat all the friends they is-%'-'Cept the real old friends like you 'At staid at home, like J'd

McAllister Bedroom.

Ward McAllister's bedroom would startle the dainty creatures who look upon him as something almost divine. Fancy would picture the sleeping apartment of the author of "Society as I Have Found It" as something entirely too exquisite for use by the ordinary mortal. Any person who could write of polite stationery as this modern Beau Brummell writes, with whom a proper wedding card in correct mourning envelope is much more a thing of beauty and a joy forever than a Rubens or a Raphael, must, one would suppose, sleep in a room where the very air hangs heavy with the latest perfume.

But instead you find an apartment that reminds you of nothing of the dandy except a long, low bookcase fqll of shoes. Thi&bookcase is the first thing that strikes your eye upon entering, as it stands facing the door. It is an bid fashioned afiair with three shelves, aid behind the glass doors is an assortm of footgear tbat would fill a shoe sal man's head with wonder and admi tion. Everything is represented in collection, from daucing pumps to ing boots and rubbers. The shelves almost filled with them, and they evidently been dusted and put away with as much care as the choicest vjfcumes. Oa top of the bookcase arescoj&s of bottles containing pa-tes, polish®!, varnishes, tooth powders and othfcr things, some of which are empty & others full.

Beyond th6 bewildering array of one looks in vain for any eviden that elegance which pervades "So as I Have Found It." The bed is an fashioned affair of black walnut. Ilris not antique. One could imagine the "Beau" reclining, under a satin counterpaine on lace pillows, in a bed on which Marie Antoinette might have lain. But this bed is one of the clumsy atiairs made twenty-five or thirty years ago in this country, in which all idea of grace and symmetry is lost in heavy, awkward masses of headboard aud footboard. An ordinary white spread of the $4 or §5 variety covers the bed, and folded up at the foot is a quilt of cotton staff, of an ugly, dirty red color. The pillows at the head show a muslin covering, the texture of which Is not by any means too fine.

Of the same uncouth style as the bed is the dressing case that stands only a few feet away. Nothing about it suggests the white silk Chinese bedroom suite on which the leader of the "Four Hundred" dwells so lovingly in his memoirs, as being the first thing he owned in this line. Bottles, brushes and toilet articles of a very ordinary make are scattered about on the marble top, but not in such profusion as the stranger would suspect. Instead of white silkcovered divans, settees and chairs, with gilt decorations, suoh as would alone seem proper in a "Beau's" chamber, Mr. McAllister's bedroom boasts of just four chairs. Of these the one which is evidently his favorite is a huge wooden rocker, one of the comfortable kind with a cane seat. The remaining chairs are evidently of the same age as the bed, and, from all appearances, originated from the same factory. They are treach-erous-looking affairs, prepared, seemingly, at a moment's notice to spill you out on the floor. The seats are covered in rep of a dark red color and of uncertain age. ,«.

If you should call on this modern Beau Brusameli just after he has taken his bath, you would probably find, drawn up before the open fire, an old walnut towel rack, a chair and some other handy pieces of furniture. Hanging on these are the dandy's undergarments and bath robe. Here, again, the Illusion of exquisiteness is rudely shocked. of purple and fine linen, in which such a dandy would naturally be supposed to deck himself, the garments are of wool, serviceably thick and evidently having seen considerable wear. No ribbons no silk. I

The disenchantment Is complete, and yon wonder if all the dandies of history were similarly quartered and habited.

Boys, don't forget that your oomic and fancy Yalen lines are on sale at P. R. Smith's 5 and 10^cent store.

pyale&ti&es. ,5% Valentines.

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Wy, of all the good things yit I aln' shet of, Is to quit sF "v Business, and git back to sheer These old comforts waitin' here—'" These old friends and these old hands 'At a feller understands These old Winter nights, and old Young folks chased in out the cold!

Sing "Hard Times '11 Come Ag'in No More!" and neighbors all Jine in! Here's a feller come from town Wants that-air old fiddle down From the chimbly! Git the floor Cleared fer one cowtillion more!—1 It's'poke the kitchen fire, says he, And shake a friendly leg with me! —JAMES WHITOOMB RriiKY in Century* ".a®

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Valentines.

The largest and finest line of Valentines ever brought to this city, post Office News Stand No. 12 north 7th street two doors north of Main street

THE DEATH MOLL.

During the month of January interments were made in the different cemeteries as follows: 4

Jan. 1—Jehu Johns, consumption, south Thirteenth. 1—Ernest Raehl, 65 years, hydro pericardium, Illinois. 3—Frederick C. Sage. 26 years, acute diffuse erltouitas, south Mgnth. 3- Jobn B. Rape, 7U years, pneumonia, 818 south Third. 15—Infant McKinstry, imperfect circulation, 801 north ^Eighth. 16—Andrew Denny, tU years, heart trouble, 1604 Kagle. 17—William Watson, 31 years, city. 19—Infant Richie, still born. city. 21—Annie M. Kuhhirdt, 55 years, heart disease, 1108 Wabash Avenue. 23—Sarah Rothe, 63 years, consumption, Darwin, Ills. 25—Susan McGlone, 71 years, hydropriconditis, 323 north Third. 29—Infant Howard, premature birth, 711 north Second.

HIGHLAND LAWN.

Jan. S—Louis Herbert, 54 years,' lung fever, Seeleyville. Ind. 3—Freddie Smith, spinal meningitis, 726 north Fifth. 5—Amanda Peck, 63 years, carcimona of liver, north Fifth. 5—Charles Wilson, Jr., 8 months, congeni tal syphitus, 422 north Fourth. 9—John L. Lee, 56 years, carcinoma of tongue, St Anthony's hospital. 12—Charles May, 28 years, suicide, (gun shot) 110 Park.

IS—Thomas P. Harris, 21 years, spinal affection, 1320 Liberty avenue. 15—Catherine Broseton, 61 years, bronchitis, north Fourth 17—Hallie Gordon, 3 months, entero enteritis, 503 north Fourth. 18—Mattie G. Marian, 10 years, cerebral spinal fever, 1004 Lafayette. 18—Hugh A. Duncan, 2 years, acute dysentery, Fort Defiance, A. T. 18—Minnie Cordes. 44 years, typhoid pneumonia. 1230 south First. 19—Mary T. Twaddle, 40 years, pulmonary tubercolusis, 653 north Third. 24—George Tallain, 1 year, scarlet fever, 1449 Liberty avenue. 25—George Hahn, 71 years, suicide, Lost Creek township. 28 Infant Sturgeon, 129 north Third. 30-Eliphalet Hunter, 72 years, bronchitis, city.

Total, 29.

Somerville Journal: When a lady of uncertain age tells you coyly that she has seen twenty-seven summers, it is altogether impolite to ask her if she re members how the last one of the twenty seven looked.

Stein & Hecklesberg wish to announce great bargains in all lines of goods from now until March 12 in order to reduce stock and make room for new goods. A special offer is a fine ladies' rubber fur 30 cents, worth 50 at the lowest. Keep this announcement iu mind.

Valentines at P. cent store.

R. Smith's 5 and 10

W. M. Slaughter announces the following special bargain in real estate: two story brick residence at the corner of 6th an Eagle streets for sale at a very low price for cash will also be sold on time or in exchange for other property. Other bargains in city and county property as well which those contemplating invest ing shou'd look into at once. Call early at 320 Oh.o street.

-v"'*wholesale Rat Catching, by "Marty Perfect Rat Trap," A. G. Austin A: Co., sole agents, north side Wabash Ave 16 Rats caught, during the night, in one trap.

Cooper, Morris & Co. have, now become established in their beautiful new room at 421 Main street, whieh is ono of the best arranged aud well lighted places in the city, and are prepared to sell at lowest prices all kinds of builders' hardware, household utensils, skates, knives, etc., etc.

"Well, well, how ia it possible that they can sell nickel plated Sad Irons at 5 cents a pound and plain Sad Irons at 3% cents a pound, when others are compelled to sell them at almost twice that amount?" we heard a lady exclaim as she emerged from the ever popular store. The Fair, 325 Main street.

Fancy Valentines in all possible and imaginable designs at P. R. Smith's 5 and 10 cent store.

Go to F. A. Seeburger fc Bro. for your Sunday meats. They have the best shop in the city and will give you the choicest cuts of any kind of meat you. wish 711 Main.

Have you seen our elegant overcoats, those heavy winter coats that we are now making up for $30? They are the same kind usually sold for $46. Thes6 fjixQ the greatest bargains ever offered. Come and get first choice. All shades.

KNIGHT GROVER.

Rooms over Buckeye Cash Store, cor-ner-Sixth and Main.

Valentines.

New Comics, New Lace Valentines, and New Novelties. Valentines of all kinds at the Post Office NewsStand, No. 12 north 7th street, two doors north of Main street.

Mardi Gras.

$22.25 rtftfnd trip via Evansville Route, to New Orleans, tickets good going February 3rd. to 9th inclusive, and returning until February 28tb. Only one change of cars. Shortest and quickest route. Call at 636 Wabash Avenue for Information in detail.

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CAMPBELL, Genl. Agent.

Young and old, rich and poor are all of the same opinion tbat The Fair, 325 Main street, is the best stocked, cleanest kept and most popular yariety store in the city. Try it.

STATS OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, LUCAS COUSTY, FRAXK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY A CO., doing business in the City of Toledo County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the snm of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for.each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CCBK. FRANK J. CHENEY.

Sworn to before me and! subscribed in my presence, this 0th day of December, A. D. 1888. A. W. GLEASON, [SEAL.] Notary Public.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly upon the. blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send

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The new Wash Material, light and dark grounds lovely patterns.

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ILoberjr, Root & Co.

Haye the Goods, the New Goods aud Piles of them. The Prettiest Goods 7n Town at so Very Reasonable prices.

WE ARE' ALWAYS BUSY.

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Never late first in th® field is characteristic of us. We show the new things while our neighbors are thinking of what to buy

Monday, Come and See Ds.

DRESS GOODS

IN PARTICULAR.

The New Plaids, Tke New Pattern Suits, The New Henriettas, The New Diagonals, The New Cheviots, The New Scotch Homespuns, The New Silks for Waists aud Trimmings, The New French Flannels. Some New Things in Dress Goods which we don't mention, but we hare them. Just what the fashion journals recommend. Also

New-: -Black-: -Goods

From the well-known Bradford manufacturers, B. Priestley & Co.

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In all wool at 50, 65, 75, 80, 87^, 91c and $1, and you never saw such values.

lOOPOS. 200 PCS. lOO IPCS.

Pongee, Batists, Sateens,

In all the Latest effects, light and dark grounds. Choice styles.

15c.

Best Shirting Prints 5c. Good Dress Prints 5c. Flannelettes at 10c and 12^c. New colors.

Hoberg, Root & Co.

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New Dres^i Trimmings, New Hosiery and Underwear, New Corsets, New Torchon Laces, New Embroideries. The Best 50c White CJnlaundred Shirt in Terre Haute, Come and see what we are showing in new Spring Goods. x* v"

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

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