Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 22, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 September 1891 — Page 1

UVol. 22.—No. 13

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TOWN TALK.

CONCERNING AN EX PARTE TRIBUNAL THAT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED.

Flattering Proupects of a a

Concerning tl»e

and Oth*r Matter*. The recent demand

Although the campaign is some distance ofl yet the prospect of a large crop of .jandldates in all partloa promlsos to bo exceedingly large next year. As tho presidential contest comes thon both the old parties aro alroady skirmishing around and getting their housos In order for tho great battle which will ho at Its height twelve months from now. At this time It looks very much as though there will bo a third party in tho light In this county. There Is a sulllclent number of soreheads In both parties to command a following barely sulllclent to secure recognition a* prescribed by law. Many people may go Into tho movement as the tight becomes warmer through an honest couvlctlon that they are resenting a wrong which they will try in vain to remedy. Hut they should not allow themselves to be led around and bulldosed by any man or set of men who are In It for money and shout for profit. While the city may have more than a fair share of oillces that fact is no evidence that county aflairs would be managed any better If placed In the hands of a professional agitator, who has wanted office all his life, and who would rather stand around on the street corners and abuse better men than himself in preforerenco to working for a living. Nor would It

Im

Saturday

CroP

of

Candidate* Next Year, with Few Remarks

New Tax Law,

for

a session of the

grand jury to take up the Musgrave case and sift it to the bottom passed unheeded by the Judge of the Circuit Court, and big action, or failure to act, in thin ca«e in commended by many. This ex parte tribunal is fast losing friends, and most people are now of the opinion that if it ever bad any usefulness the day has passed long ago. It is nothing more nor less than a cumbersome half-way house between the examining justiceand the trial court. The fact that evidence on the part of the State only is heard by the grand Jury, and that oven without regard to the rules of evidence, results in many cases being sent to court in which the prosecutions utterly fall. It occasionally happens that men who at once prove themselves innocent when confronted by their accusers, aro made to rest under the odium of an indictment, and the expense of a trial, for the perpetuation of a

relic

of barbarism. That

the grand Jury Is a relic of barbarism is sufficiently ovidentfrom the outlandish, Inappropriate and obsolete language in which the fearful and wonderful Indictments found by those bodies are couched. If it Is intended to charge that a person committed a crime, the use of every carnal weapon known at tho time of the Inauguration of the system must be charged Hgalnst him. Not long ago an examining justice who was holding a preliminary examination on a charge of criminal libel, said: "The article Is criminally libelous on Its face, and I will send the case directly to the grand jury." Why, in this and overy othor Instance, should not the caso bo sent directly to the court having jurisdiction for irial? The grand jury is no more nor than a grand inquisition, which is only too often used for Hplto work and an unwarranted spying Into private affair* for the gratification of curiosity and the injury of Innocent persons. rOMTlCAt. CHOI' I'ROSI'KCTS.

any improvement to place

them in charge of the other fellow who has held oftlrt until his greed became so great that he was kicked out of sight. It is a pitv that such follows as those described can find any following at all, and it would be a greater pity still if they could rind backing sufficient to boost them into office.

A HKAI,, t.tVK IHSl'R.

Talking about candidates reminds one that the new tax law will be one of tho liveliest isMio* next year which the IVmoorniic party has rvory tackled, and their opponent* will not fail to keep it in the front of their procession within plain sight of all, and in such a position that all must see it. Notwithstanding an increase in the value of taxables of four and three-quarter million dollars in this county U* cititens will be called upon to pay an increased rate and nearly A fly per cent more for State purpose than they paid last year. For county purpose* and city expenses the levy win bo materially reduced, and the sum required will no mo** than In former year*. The State launder control of the Democrats, and the

county

and city are

ruled by Republican*. It was urged in favor of the new law that it would reduce the taxes of the farmer and the owners of homos of moderaM* pretentions and increase tho taxe* of corporations, but right at the start the rate for State purtMwwx* has been Increased six cent* per one hundred dollars on the increased valuation, while the Republican county commissioners and city eeunoll will both make a material wduotlen in the rat#.

It

i* very strong card In this

city and county, and will be played for all it I# worth. The Democrat* may be able to explain It, or they may not. If

they do not they will have a hard fight next year, with a very flattering prospect of losing the state, at least so far as the legislature is concerned.

THE W'OBK HOCSB.

When the board of county com til 1Bjsioners met last Monday morning they found communications from seven different persons who had desirable sites to sell for work house purposes, at prices ranging from $675 to $5,000. Some of them were in town and some were not. Some were convenient to the railroad and others were away from it. Thus far none of them have been purchased, nor is it likely any of them will be. By the way, one offer at $4,500 was for a piece of Honey Creek land which is appraised at $1,820. The suggestion made a short time ago that the old jail building, on the comer of Third and Walnut streets, be converted luto a work house meets with almost universal approval.

The location could not be improved upon, a prison could be added at a very moderate cost, and there is now a building on the west end of the lot which could be used for work. The house in front is in good repair and could be used by the superintendent and for laundry purposes by female inmates. The impression seems to be that no ground will be purchased, and that tho old jail lot will be the site of the new work house. It is only a' little more than a square from the railroad, and the city teams could easily haul the stone from the cars as they go to the work house for loads.

AN KXI'KKT'.S opinion.

Talking about holding meetings to consider the propriety of windenlng the sidewalks on Ohio street reminds T. T. of a meeting once held in a town, not more than a thousand miles away, for a purpose somewhat similar. It was attended by quite a number who were opposed to the imnrovement, and they expressed their views freely. A prominent physician and influential citizen who favored the plan listened for a long long time in silence, although known to have decided views on the subject, and a vigorous manner of expressing himself. Finally he assumed the perpendicular and made a few remarks. Ills speech was, in substance, something like this: "Gentlemen, I have practiced medicine for many years. In the course of my professional career I have had occasion to many times pags on the sanity of numerous persons, but it has never been my fortune to hold an Inquest on such an aggregation of lunatics as those of you who oppose this improvement. You ought all to be in tho insane asylum, and tho sooner the better." there was a dead silence for a few minutes and thon the meeting adjourned sine dio without a motion to that effect.

Notes and Comments.

The census jubt issued shows that the population of Alaska has fallen off 2,000 In ton years, and that the native population has shrunk 8,000, ascribing it to tho whito man's whisky. Pity the poor Indian must find in tho advance of our boasted civilization always a row of whisky barrels rolled in front.

It would bo strange Indeed if, after all the sport we have made of South American revolutions, we would have to admit that one of them taught us something about the art of war. It is not improbable that tho Mannlicher gun, nsed with such terrible success by thecongressionallsts In the civil strife in Chili will be adopted as the standard arm by this govern ment.

A white man in Texas, who is, of course, also a colonel, says he has organised the colored cotton-pickers of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama into a kind of trade union and that 1,000,000 of them will strike. Probably tho Texas colonel is not telling the truth. It is a long way from the days of the Ku Klux, but organizing the negro laborers for rebellion against the whites is an enterprisestlll regarded with distinct disfavor in the south.

A Kansas lawyer conceived a scheme for cheating Alliance farmers, by sending circulars to them saying that he could defeat mortgage foreclosures on homesteads. When he went into court to try it, the judge allowed him full swing for a stump speech on constitutional rights, and after he got through the judge quietly remarked that if he had taken a fee from the farmer for such nonsense he ought to be prosecuted for obtaining money under false pretence®.

Out in Idaho they have taken up the question of improving and elevating the convict In a truly western and admirable manner. Without waiting for any teiioos and often futile legislative deliberations and enactment* or for the promptings of any societies of ministers and women, the officials of the penitentiary determined to make a atroke toward polishing the convict on their own hook. The ring was formed in the prison yard, two guards acting as bottleholders, Messrs. McCreary and Ianlap, the two convict* deemed mmt worthy of first experiencing the benefits of this laudable movement, were supplied with hard glove* and fought to a finish. But one objection can be rmts^l to this effort toward inculcating self-reliance in the poor eonviot, and that is that the accom­

plishment which it teaches is qnite useless In Idaho. By substituting bowieknives for hard gloves the officials might not only encourage the convict and lighten his deary existence but fit such of him as survived fur a useful and distinguished citizenship.

The Farmers' Alliance is lying low in Kansas just at present, and the awfnl calamity and hopeless poverty wails have been laid away for protection from the blight of the big crops. The loan and trust companies and the banks in Topeka are receiving thousands of dollars from the farmers of the state every day, and the following are samples of the statementa that come with the remittances: "Half my wheat crop paid off all my debts. I am going to Europe for a trip." "Here is $1,000, and I dog it all out of my farm. Thank God I don't owe a cent to-day."

A Boston house employing 165 workers has been experimenting with the theory of profit sharing. At the close of the year they paid to each worker his share, equal to about ten per cent, of the wages, paying one-half in cash and reserving one-half, subject to interest at five per cent. Other things equal, it is evident that workers will be eager for employment In such establishments, and the general public will be inclined to favor the practice. When the employed sees that the prosperity of the employer means his prosperity, he will be less inclined to complain. I

To send the negroes to their primeval home, Africa, would be to drop them back Into darkness. Whatever of good they have gained among us would speedily be lost, and the evil which they assimilate all too easily would but thrive 'he more in anew soil. To send them back to heathendom, and to miasmatic,

fever-breathing

districts, would

be to perpetuate even a worse evil than that which we worked in first bringing them to America. California is not big enough to relieve the southern states of their entire burden, but she may well be regarded as a paradise by those sons of Africa who are selected for her new colonists.

In the performance of its own mission the press necessarily becomes a mighty adjunct to all creeds, all pulpits. The ability of a pieacher to reach an audience is limited by the range of his voice. When the press reports him he has the potency of a million readers. If his words'are worthy, like seeds carried on the wings of the wind they will find useful lodgment far beyond the range of his personal influence. This is understood perfectly by the mass of professodly religious persons. They have no quarrel with the press. It is the religious dyspeptic, or the religious dogmatist, dealing damnation around the land on all he deems God's foes, who cries out against the press and its influence.

Mr. O'Douovan Rossa modestly requests the stale department to furnish him with a passport which will guarantee him immunity from arrest while on British soil—and engaged, presumably, In the pleasing occupation of inciting British subjects to commit treason, arson or murder. Mr. Blaine's subalterns have been forced to Inform Mr. Rossa that through some oversight or other our treaties with England contain no stipulations which enable us to send dynamiters over there without subjecting them to the same liability to arrest that all persons upon British soil are under. Possibly this defect can be remedied and Mr. Rossa be accommodated. Meantime there is a melancholy probability that Mr. Rossa will forego his foelgn tour.

There is nothing like a good honest tight against a great evil. The lottery people who have connected the name of IiOuisiana with their enterprise for so many years are at last on the run. The arrest of the publishers of various newspapers, in Milwaukee for printing advertisments of lotteries is good evidence that the Jaw is being enforced. It is said by postoffice officials that during the past year the power of the Louisiana company has been greatly crippled and that its revenues have fallen off. They claim that lottery matter is now practically excluded from the mails, and that the lottery company is confined to the use of the express in the distribution of its tickets and lottery literature. A sign of the reduced business of the notorious company is the cutting down of the advertised prizes. Next spring the people of Louisiana will vote upon the amendment to the constitution renewing the charter of the company. The fight will be a hot one, but it is predicted by the state politicians that the lottery will lose.

The Young Men's Christian Association, of this city, is about to commence a canvass of the business men for subscription* for a building for association purposes. Up to date #,000 has been raised in membership fees. The building and lot will ooet about $50,000, and it is expected that the business men will subscribe the required amount. If the foil amount is not raised the money subscribed will be refunded. The buildwill be about 75x90 feet, and will be fitted up with a gymnasium, bath rooms, pool, reading rooms, etc. It will probably be the ftnest structure of the kind in the state.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19,1891. Twenty-second Year

A MAN'S OBSERVATIONS.

WAY TO READ NOVELS IF YOU WISH TO REMEMBER THEIR CONTENTS.

In the Rash of Business Men Find Time to

Want

a Home—Some Observations

as

to the Manner In Which Boys Should be Taught to Expand.

The really serious objection to novel reading is the habit contracted of loose, light, skimming, surface, unthinking perusal. Most people complain that they cannot remember what they read, and if they reflect a moment, they will see that, as a rule, what they read is not worth remembering and so they fall into the habit of reading without any intention of remembering, and at last are able to read all day without any tax on the mind whatever. If a person will make a practice of repeating, in substance, at the dinner table whatever has been read during the day, he will soon find himself reading with a view of capturing all the leading facts he finds in books, with a view of repeating them and his memory will soon retain them intact.

How many of our business men, do you suppose, live on the wish that they had a quiet little rural home, with a competence for their support, and leisure for reading, writing, gardening, sporting. tc., all in a quiet way? Go round and talk with them, and you will find that sweet chimera dancing in the brain of more than you could possibly imajgine by merely looking upon them in their zeal and intense activity. You will find that nearly every tired and anxious trader and business man has his eye fixed on the sameugreen spot, a little place just out in the wuntry. But when it comes to reality, though numbers of them might retire if they would to that model simplicity of life, there is scarcely one such place to be found in all our country to give it beauty and attractiveness. Of all these looglDg visionaries not one can be persuaded to quit his rage for business and a little more money for the leisure diversiom and mental enjoyments which haunt his dreams. We half regret that this is so. But there is no help for it. It this country and this generation there can be but very little of the slow life which looKs so attaaotive as we rush along. As one looks from the window of his car upon the lovely landscape which captivates him, but soon rushes recklessly past and forgets it all, so we rush on with a wish and a pang which are lost in a moment in the solicitude to reach the next station. Generations hence, when the land is filled with its millions on millions, when the races have flown together and all humanity is settled to a quiet level, then It may be that excitement will give way to the proper aud intelligent enjoyment of a true life. But alas! we of to-day may not see it.

You can never get anything too big for a healthy, growing boy. You really can not, madam. Your notions of the esthetic may be shocked by his demand for shoes two sizes too large for him, and for pantaloons "a world too wide," but he is to wear the things, and he knows what feels best he isn't caring a cent about the looks of things—that grace will come to him with the down on his npper lip. And at present be wants to "feel good," and he feels best in voluminous garments. His pride is interested in the matter, too. He wishes to look big, far Digger than he really is. That would be a weakness in a man it is the sign of strength in a boy. The boy who is afraid of having things too big for him will never need large things. Never. The best of his race will never get things as large as he now believes fate and necessity to have ordained for him— when be gets to be a man. When that day comes he is to be as rich as Vanderbilt, as strong as John L. Sullivan, to have horses as fleet as Bonner's, to lead cavalry charges that Custer would have envied, to be, in short, the cavalier without fear and without reproach. Of course be won't be any of these things. He will probably sell hosery, intrinsically worth forty cents, for fifteen cents, to meeta pressing demand for cash. But if at ten he is not a warrior, a millionaire, a sailor, or at the very least, king of the cowboys, you may shudder to think how very near the rear of humanity's torchlight procession he will be at thirty. There Is nothing so deplorable as a boy without capacity to clothe himself in an Infinity of greatness. We all of us grow smaller as we grow older. Even Alexander, or Napoleon, acknowledged at forty that they were not the kind of men they beheld themselves to be at fifteen. But If there had been none of the unutterably vain imagination of boyhood there would have been none of the great realities of manhood. Yon meet the boy who was afraid of having things too big for him, on every day of his man's estate. He Is always saying, "Sit down. Smith." He is an Insufferable nuisance. He Is afraid that the opera house will seat more people than will ever go there to be seated. He dreads more people coming to the city than the hotels can take cars of. He ts vexed lest the railways should be over­

burdened with passengers. He is afraid that the factories will produce too much. When he reads of labor unions he is alarmed lest they should demand too muoh. When the people agitate the question of the crossings he Is afraid that the railways may be forced to concede too muoh. He is a small being. He has found out that the world is too large for him. And he is afraid that the city will grow too large for him. He is often in the city council. He was raised by an injudioious mother, who always bought breeches and shoes a size too small for him. He was fed on platitude. They took the Daily Mouthpiece for their sole newspaper in the home of his youth. Small articles of antique cant, clad in sonorous monosyllables, fed his boyish mind. You see what this treatment has made of him. And there are sadly too many of him in this world at large, and in this city in particular. Neyer discourage your boy's aspiration for big things. Dress him loosely, give him the biggest torch that be can carry, the noisiest kazoo that he can blow, give him a nickel to buy fire crackers with, and tell him to get the finest ones he can find, then let him march in the procession with the big fellows. It will do him good. "He will le**n a great deal of mischief," did you say? Well, let us remark! What else do you want him to learn? The little boy who would rather learn a verse of hymn than play marbles for keeps rarely makes an eminent citizen in after life. And not infrequently be makes a very dishonest one. Teach your boy to tell the truth, to be pluoky, and to wear big clothes. There

Senator Morgan, ot Alabama, iff a leading authority on constitutional law. He is a tall, thin and military-looking man, who is Southern in his every thought and action. He was born in Tennessee-

General Miles has put himself to unnecessary trouble in denying that he was cruel to Jefferson Davis when he bad that gentleman shut up in Fort Monroe. The Geueral is not built on the petty tyrant plan.

Thomas Hughes, who made himself the friend of every sohool boy in the country by writing his famous "Tom Brown,His a bafHSter elii"'" practice in London earning some $8,000 a year and living quite within its limits.

The King of Bavaria, who is oven too crazy to be a lecturer on the faith-cure system, has four suits of new black broadcloth made for him overy week and the old clothes men have begun to look upon his valet as the most important man In the country.

Old Hutch smilingly admits that there is a good deal of truth in the claim that his mind is not so clear as it might be, and cites as a proof the fact that be only made a million and a half out of the wheat deal, when he ought to liave come out with five millions.

Everything tends to show that an effort will be made to save Almy, the New Hampshire murderer, by pleading that be is insane. If the plea is admitted it will put lynch law at such a premium that Almy will not likely be the only man to experience it.

Cornell's new library, the gift of HonryW. Sago, will have accommodations for 47,000 volumes, so it is safe to assume that there will be ample shelf room for the boating, base ball and sporting literature so much needed by the modern University student.

The Prince of Wales was asked why he did not commission someone to deny the reports derogatory to his character which were being sent across to the American papers. "Why should I take the trouble?'' was the reply. "I notice that the New York journal always com mences a new story by contradicting tt-e old one."

Sir William Gordon and Lady Curnming's coming reception in New York is already a matter of anxiety tt the fashionable few, and it is earnestly debated whether to give them the cold shoulder or to receive them with that studied warmth which would best emphasize the Four Hundred's opinion of English wickedness.

While it is pleasant to know that General Miles is willing to organize a parade of Indians for the World's Fair, it may be questioned if he would not do better to organize a band of his beloved red men to kill off and scalp about one half of the army of official deadheads ^tho are pottering around the show and Impeding its progress.

John Mackay ha* none of the gorgeous tastes of his fashionable wife, and carefully abstains from giving any outside appearance of his vast wealth. Pearl buttons ere good enough for bis shirts, though he might wear diamond* as big as dock eggs, and as for being a gourmet, he Is more content with a "boiled spud" and an underdone steak he would with the finest bill of faze that his wife's chef could serve up to him.,

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Clear, dark green shade* will be In demand to combine with woolen dress goods.

THEY WOULD COME HIGH.

THE WATER WORKS HAS A BIG BONDED DEBT HANGING OVER IT.

A Paid Capital of Hnlf a Million they say, and They Owe More—Under the Circumstances the City lan Hardly Purchase

It, Though it Pays.

It

a great

demand for men who were brought up that way.

People and Things.

The question of purchasing the water works and running them by the city continues to be agitated, but the question does not receive that attention which it deserves. One thing is certain,if the city purchases the works the price paid will be a large one Iu the latter part of last year a banking firm ot Boaton, New York and Chicago, sent out a circular offering $30,000 consolidated first mortgage, six per cent. 10 20 year gold bonds of the company for sale. The price asked was lul and interest. The circular stated that the paid up capital stock is $500,000 and that the outstanding bonded Indebtedness is $600,000.

The city hydrant rental and income from railroads, which is over $30,000 per year, has been set aside for the exclusive purpose of paying the interest on the bonds. A siaking-fund of fifteen per cent, of the gross annual income of the company, except city hydrant rental, has been provided for, and after the year 1899 will bo applied to the redemption of these bonds. In order to show what the works are doing the following statement is made: Years. Grow Income. Op'y Ex. NH liu 1886 983,090 48 »11,042 12 822,048 81 1887 87,820 87 11,128 01 20,203 80 188 8 41,080 00 12,267 42 28,812 68 1889 48,713 86 15,144 20 88,569 6« 1890 86,986 99 17,000 00 39,080 98 1891 74,000 00 17,000 00 57,000 00

The income for this year is esti mated. The circular promised that commencing with January last the oompany would make Its charges to the various private consumers, railroads, breweries, hotels, car shops, mills, factories, etc., according to meter rates, which would increase the income over $9 000 annually, without any Increase In the number of patrons or the present actual consumption. This, however, has not been doneyet, but may be looked for at any time, if the promise amounts to anything.

At the commencement of the year there were 991 consumers, which was a small number, when It is considered that there are more than 5,000 buildings w4thl&4helines of the company's mains, but the figures show a steady yearly increase in the patronage.

Jo case an attempt is made to purchase it would be a difficult matter to got at the value of the plant. If the oompany has paid in $600,000 and still owes $600,000, that would mean $1,100,000 as the purchase price, a figure which no one would dream of, nor even half the sum. While it might bo a good thing for tho olty to own the works, no one is going to favor the payment of a fancy price for it. It would be better for a oompany of citizens to put In a plant and turn it over to the city, subject to tho Indebtedness incurred in its construction.

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.

Reinstatement of an Old I.odjfe at Sullivan bv the Torr« Han to Trudge. Last Wednesday was a Held day in Sullivan In Knights of Pvtbias circles, and will long be remembered by all who participated in tho lelnstatement of the old lodge of that town, and the Installation of new members. About forty members of the order in this city went down to participate In the ceremony, and all returned home highly pleased with the treatment received. The old lodge, which diod out sometime ago was reinstated, and 88 new members were instlated. The ceremony was conducted In the elegant new ball of the order, and was conducted by Grand Chancellor E. F. Williams, assisted by SamBudd, acting G. P. C., O. C. Hornung, G. P., and a grand vice chancellor from Vincennes. The work was commenced early in the evening, and was not concluded until about 5 o'clock the following morning. A part of the programme was an elegant banquet, served from nine till twelve, which was heartily enjoyed by all. Among those who attended from this city were Elmer F. Williams, G. C., Fmll Froeb, W. M. Lyons, P. C., Oriental Lodge, O. C. Hornung, P. C., Occidental Lodge, Charles Garen, Harry Freors, Charles Zimmerman, John G. Piety, Robert Ha man, Henry Schonfeld, Sam Budd, James A. Nisbet, John Fratls, Ilet II. Fredericks, vV. 8. Dean, Harry Grube, W. J. Butler, H. W. Kiqbards, T. C. Smith, Frank Carmack, A. C. McLaren, H. Brown, Phil. Thormaij, C. O. Ebel, Bert Benson, Herman Foster, Fred Hertwig, W. C. Dorsey, Gus. Elser, Arthur

L.

Bigham, Jeff

Walsh, C. H. Coldsmith, Jr., and Bert Wolf. The new lodge starts out under more favorable circumstances than any which has hitherto been instituted in the State. The membership is composed of the best citizens of the county, has an elegant hall, and paraphernalia which cost them over

two

thousand dollars.

Colonel Tom Ochiltree says that if Ingalls la worth $500 a night for lecturing an auriferous-haired oratorical cyclone from Texas should be worth twice a» much for keeping still.