Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 February 1891 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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E. P. WESTFALL, PUBLISHER.

J'STB LIGATION Ori'ICK,

f'rw. at and 22 South Fifth Street, !'r!tiling House Square.

TEHEE HAUTE, FEB. 14, 1891.

IT is announced onco more that Blaine is a presidential candidate. In the same connection it might also be mentioned that bo is stronger with bin'party to-day than ever before.

Thkke still survive a few cranks who •profess to believe that the country can bo legislated into a perfect state of morality. Tho fool killer should increase £ho number of his visits.

Twkntv fiyi: States, including Indiana, will spend about four million dollars on their exhibits at the World's Fair. The total for all the States and Territories will bs'iuuch larger than this sum.

For the benetitof ihose who have been staying hard things of him of iate it may be stated that Senator Ingails is fiftyseven years old, is in excellent health, lias a good memory, and never forgets or forgives an-injury.

A' srMKWi of democratic papers of greater or leas note have inaugurated a presidential boom for Senator Gorman, tout between the chilling winter blasts and those of the Cleveland organs it cannot long survive.

Tin-: Arkansas state treasury is empty. No money on hand with which to pay Segislators. This may be hard on the legislators, but if it cuts short their deliberations it will doubtless be a relief to the remainder of the population of the state.

Tin: country is tired hearing so much -of "Sock loss Simpson," the ignoramus who is to misrepresent the big soventh

Kansas district in Congress for tho next two years. Ho doubtless studies to make himself boorish as possible, that iwing his only means of obtaining notoriety.

China favors the free coinage of silver in the United States, because this country would then furnish a most profitable market for tho surplus silver of the Orieut. At present it looks vory much iis though the almond eyed celestial will have to seek elsewhere for a market for his surplus.

Miskouui pays an oil inspector in St. Ivouis $.17,000 a year to superintend the work of a clerk who draws a salary of $75 i- month. Indianu is fee ridden in a similar manner, yet it seems tho most dillloult matter imaginable to draft and pass a just fee and salary bill. To de 'nounco monopolies and adjust the tariff duties are in the politician's line, but when itcomos to reducing his feos and HUlarios ho is being hurt, in a vital spot .and wants none of it in his.

Fon twelve years the legislature of Pennsylvania has been attempting to revise tho mining laws of that state, but without success, it is, perhaps, needless to say that tho miners have derived no benefit from tho law in force, and that mine fatalities have steadily increused. A bill has recently passed the lower house authorizing tho governor to appoint a commission to revise the mining laws, but, judgl ig from past expo* rieneo it is doubtful that any good will como of it.

Wuti.i-: democratic slates have been opposing the World's Fair on account of tho Force Bill, it has remained for the republican legislature of Colorado to re solve that its state will take no part in the great exposition because seventy sjiuo members of the Chicago board of -trade have petitioned congress against the passage of the free coinage bill.

Notwithstanding such child play the World's Columbian Exposition will be a success, aud Chicago will continue to if row in wealth and population.

AT present nu-mbeis of congress are overrun by applications from rural constituents for supplies of garden seeds. The*e applicants secui to labor under the .mpression thai at this particular season of the year the department of agriculture devotes its entire attention to the seed business and that ail they,have to do to procure a large and varied assortment is to make a reijuhHsot^ on their memher of congress. The fact Is the seed is «htiveroil »n limited 'ju nitities, and is distributed equally among the congressmen wjtiunu refereJH'c to the demands 5»f their constituent*.

"M«»r peepie, especiaily women, want to be pretty. One way to have good looks is to have good thoughts, kind Coding*. a lo\ ing heart. The soul wjthiu fashions tbe tenement without. The man wfc.v^e thoughts are incessantly sixed up money getting comes to have a hard. Ur-.-n face. The muscles are held v,» hy Use thought within that St hfv-omo* theft* tixed and settle*! habit.

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to remove their plants to this country for the manufacture of their wares. It is only a few weeks since the representatives of a wealthy linen manufacturing firm were here looking for a location, and this week it is announced that the Sir Titus Salts Company, of Manchester, England, are about to remove to Bridgeport, Conn., where they will engage in the manufacture of plush goods, and give work to 600 bands. If the .McKinley bill continues to operate in this way a reaction must 3oou set in in its favor and the country will be slow to indorse any measure looking to its repeal,

IS MARRIAGE GOIJSG OUJ A large amount of rhapsodical Dosh on the marriage relation has been getting into print of late. Recent instances are the articles "Why More Girls do not Marry," in the North American Review and "Is Marriage a Decaying Institution in the Westminster Review. The latter writer concludes that the tendency of modern civilization is to breed ultra refinement and sensibility which are inimical to the married state the former points out so many reasons why girls should not marry that it is a wonder any of them does!

And yet there seems to be a fair amount of marryiDg, judging from the number of permits that are issued by the proper authorities. Young men and maidens continue to fall in love with each other und can think of no better than the old way out of it. And indeed there is no better, whatever these super-sensitive, lackadaisical the«rizers may say about it. There may be some who find married life irksome, but they find everything else irksome. Tbey are people having no serious purpose in life,-who think only of pleasure and live only to gratify their whims. Everything soon palls on the taste of such .people and it is no wonder they are ready to declare marriage a failure. They are the failures, however, and not marriage. Active, busy, earnest men and women, who establish homes, rear children, and become useful and honored citizens believe that marriage is a good thing and will continue to be as men and women dwell ou the earth. Those who have no object in life except to gratify their whims and desires for pleasure, should keep out of matrimony. It is not intended for them the less their species multiplies the bet ter for the race.

PRESIDENT ELLIOT'S ADDRESS. President Elliot of Harvard University delivered an address in Chicago a few days ago on "The Aims of the Higher Education," which contained many good thoughts. He defined the three principal functions of a university to be that of teaching that of accumulating koowledge in the form of books, and that.of investigation or pushing out beyond the present boundaries, or, in other wdrds, the functions of teachers, storehouses, and searchers for truth.

Most people will probably be surprised to learn that the roll of Harvard shows but few sons of rich men, and that the number of very poor is much larger, the main bulk of the students corning from the great middle class. We have heard so much about the fast life of rich younfe men at Yale and Harvard that it is pleasant to learn they are In a small minority.

Another statement that will cause surprise is this, that the majority of students are the sons of men but commonly educated, in Harvard only one in eigbt being sons of college graduates. Does this mean that college educated men care less than others to send their sons to college or that they have not succeeded well enough as money-getters to stand the expense? Either view of the matter would hardly be complimentary to the higher education, and a truer explanation doubtless is that the proportion of college graduates to the entire male parentage of thecountry is much smaller even than one to eigbt so that there is really a larger percentage of sons of graduate* in Harvard than there is of parents not having a college education.

Although Harvard is not a religious or denominational college, it is pleasant to learn that it has daily morning prayers, a Sunday evening service and a religious service on Thursday. So that even the least religious of our higher institutions of learninggoes farther than the public schools in the matter of religious worship.

7 HE INDIAN QUESTION, After an expenditure of $*2,000,000 in tho suppression of the Sioux, the gov ernment lias induced the members of the tribe to return to their reservations and resume their weekly occupation of drawing rations furnished them at the expense of the country at large. In addition to this several delegations from the tribe have been taken to Washington for the purpose of witnessing civilization in all its glory and making known their wants to the powers that be. The sights have been witnessed and Indian eloquence) so called has flowed without restraint. No word of regret has been expressed over the recent trouble, and all the blame, as is usual in these cases, Is heaped upon the agent and the luck less employes whose misfortune was to serve under him. The chiefs are not sorry for what they have done, and are of the opinion that the government should pay them well in rations, *eeds, farming implements, wagons, etc., to insure their friendship In the future. The Indian I* nothing if he doaan't want the earth and give it to hira he would -till want tuorn*. It 1st Impossible for

him to vi««U his ngeutfy on tbe most trivia* business without •winding' tjp I wu a a for everything team f»s w»non s*mi to mt down fiiaefa »f wltjb wMofe to make! htm -iei)jpare»t*. Tfa^eSous hav» Ik a? K- »h higbljr favored as any U.N*® is xUte$K*. Tuey have bmm front y*« gwemia««i for emr?

man, woman and child sehoofe have been built for them on every portion of the reservation and teachers supplied for their education they have thMrbwn churches, and in some cases their native preachers men have been sent out to teach them farming they have good land for farming purposes, and Wave been given ail the utensils and machinery which are required in farming and trades in short they have had everything. Indian inspectors, special agents and others high in authority in the IndfJ^Q department have been wcwl to preach at other agencies of the many virtues of the Sioux, and to hold thefti up as shining examples of the success of the Indian policy of the government. As the hog has temporarily gone back to his wallow these eulogies have been suspended for the time being, and it remains to be seen what the government is going to do about it. The Indians are all alike. That which has just been done by the Sioux would have been done by other tribes had they not feared the loss of pioperty. None of them want their children educated, and vtry few Jjjrill favor education of any sort unless fo|eed to do so. For similar reasons noq% of them want their agencies managed by military officers, but it is a notorious fact that the best and most successful Indiau school in thecountry is managed by a military officer, and it has |een found that the best agent for the bloodthirsty Apaches is also an army officer. In many cases it would seem as though the government would be safe to do the very things which the Indian doesn't want done, and leave undone much that he wants done. So long as small bodies of Indians are allowed to roam at will oyer immense tracts of land, and are supported at government expense, just so long will they remain savage. The only way to civilize them is to place them in contact with the masses of civilized people and let them shift for themselves. In that way Indian wars will be averted, and if they must have government assistance it can be rendered them at a small cost, comparatively speaking.

THE TREATY WITH BRAZIL. Tho 'terms of the reciprocity treaty with Brazil have at last been made pu lie. Under them the United States agre' to admit free of duty sugars, molass coffee and hides, in consideration which Brazil is to admit on the samj terms from this country wheat, wh flour, corn or maize, and the manufai tures, thereof, including corn meal an starch, rye, rye flour, buckwheat llO and barley, potatoesv beans and pe hay and oats, pork (salted), includi pickled pork and bacon, except ham hsb (salted, dried or pickled), cotton se oil, coal (anthracite or bituminous), sin, tar, pitch and turpiutine, agricu ural tools, implements and machine: mining and mechanical tools, irn uieuts and machinery, incliidipg tionary and portable qpgip^, an^,-. machinery for manufacturing andi in dustrial purposes except sewing machines, instruments and books for the arts and sciences railway construction^ material and equipments.

It is further stipulated that the following articles shall be admitted iulo Brazil with a reduction of duty of twenty-five per cent.: Lard and substitutes therefor bacon, hams, butter and cheese, canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits and vegetables manufactures of cotton, in eluding cotton clothing manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoiug free schedule leather and the manufactures thereof except boots and shoes lumber and the manufactures of wood, including coop erage, furniture of all kinds, wagons, carts and carriages manufactures of rubber and the government of Brazil has further provided that the laws and regulations adopted to protect its rev enues and prevent fraud in the declara tions and proof that the articles named in the schedule or the product or mauufacture of the United States of America, shall place no undue restrictions on the importer nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported.

This is the first of a series of treaties which it is pioposed by the present administration to make with the various nations on this continent. Of the benefits to be derived from it there can be no doubt. Already American manufacturers are preparing to take advantage of it. In the past the balance of trade has been strongly against this country in its transactions with Brazil. The imports from that country have averaged about $70,000,000 annually, while the exports have reached only $9,000,000. Heretofore the manufacturers of Europe have enjoyed a monopoly of trade with all the South American countries, but that state of affairs promises to terminate soon. Tf the new treaty proves a succees, as there is every reason to believe it will, it will soon be followed by others equally as beneficial, and our country will in a short time expand its commercial intercourse until it embraces every nation on the American continent.

The telmonico Restaurant. The remodeled Delmonico is now prepared to furnish regular service of meals, consisting of breakfast, dinner and sup per, at the Delmonico restaurant, 639 Main street. The dinner, especially arranged for the convenience of business men, will be superior to any that has heen heretofore served in the city- Herman Mewes' reputation as a carterer is a sufficient guar an t«« of ibafc. The diningroom has been elegantly papered in gold, hand-lsH paper and throughout it has been att up ifitbaview to the of i» ft?# iliia

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Black Gro Grain Silks, all silk, better at 75o, 82%c, 8oc, 02 l^c, 91.00, 1.18, 1.25, 1.38,1.45 and up.

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The Only Complete House Furbishing Establishment in the City.

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We are now ready for the spring trade with a larger stock of goods than ever. Our bed room suits are of tho newest designs and latest finish, Antique, sixteenth century and old English, added to these are our superior linos of baby buggies, carpets of the newest patterns and fancy colors, stoves, extension tables, safes, dishes, canter tables, lounges, parlor goods, and in fact we carry a complete line of house furnishing goods.

Remember, we lit you out complete on easy payments for the same as other dealers sell for cash, and if you pay cash we will make you a liberal discount.

Don't fail to see us before bu3'iug, for we are here to sell goods. C. Wood fc Co., 23 and 25 south Fourth street,

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"Well, well, how is it possible that they can sell nickel plated Sad Irons at 5 cents a pound and plain Sad Irons at 3)4 centa 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.

Go to F. A. Seeburger & 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 $45. These are the greatest bargains ever offered. Come and get first choice. All shades.

Kmoht & Groveii.

Rooms over Buckeye Cash Store, corner Sixth and Main.

New Art Store.

Watch the windows atC. W. Slerrfng's new art store for new displays of novelties. The very latest bric-a-brac, fine photogravures, etchings, etc., sure'to be seen there. Keep this in mind and when you are down town be sure to go there for new ideas as well as new parlor and drawing room decorations.

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Of the people you meet from day to day! has perfectly pure, healthy blood. The hereditary scrofulous taint aftljctH the large majority of people, while many others acquire diseases from impure air, Improper focd and wrong indulgences. Hence the imperative ueoeKsity for a rei,tb!e blood purifier like Hood Sarsanarilta, which eradicate* every imtvtrHr and gives the blood vitality and Ir cares sc. a!a» «*•.. rh- n, tils, pimj-.^i, a«*d -ill e: ?ued fev ira»tsr»ti«sior j»o. us jr'. he bk .- Ail that is -nlten i:.. 5y« Sar-a^arilla |||&at itic gi^

By order of Mess. Givernaud Bros'., Green St., New York.

As per previous announcements, will place this great lot of Black Dress Silks on sale Monday Morning, sale to continue for 10 days. Ladies will please bear in mind that as* this lot is here on consignment, we will sell every yard at only a slight advance above manufacturers cost.

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Highest of all in Leavening Power.

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Root & Co.,

Also Guarantee- Yard for Yard to Wear Well and Give Satisfaction.

Mess. Givernaud Bros, are manufacturers of Black Silks only,' having a reputation as being the best made Silks in this country Their guarantee as well as ours is to give anew dress pattern should the one our customers purchase not prove batisfactory after wearing a reasonable length of time.

.Black Silks,

89 pieces, value $6,500.

The above which are now and have been on exhibition in our east show window since Thursday, will be placed on sale

Monday Morning, February 16th. at 9 o'eloek.

The lot comprises all the latest weaves, such as Armures, Peau De Soie, Royals, Gros Grains, Surahs, Drap De Alma, Duchesse, Bhadame, Satm Louxre, Regence, Faille Francaise, India and China Silks. SEE THE PRICES!'

69c 88c 79c 98c

Black Royal Armure' Silks, all silk, bette- at 98c, $1.00! 1.20, 1.28, 1.38, l.f0, 1,8!) and upwards.

BIhcIc Faille Frnncaiso Silks, 11 silk, better at. 92Vo, !Si«, 83.10, 1 18, 1 2", L.»4, 1 •"(), 1.03, 1.85 and upwards.

Black Surahs, Black Rhadamas ancl Black .China. Sil&s

all at away down from regular prices.

Some of the above weaves we have at even leas prices but we are not trying to see what a poor silk we can sell cheap. Our object in view is to sell you a "warranted to wear Silk" at the lowest price ever quoted

Sale Opens Monday Morning, at 9 o'clock.*

All the Ladies are Invited to Attend.

During this sale our collection of Figured India Silks will also be shown.

OBERG, ROOT & OO.

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