Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 December 1893 — Page 4

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TERKE HAUTE, IND., DEO. 30, 1893.

THE Prendengast jury has found the assassin guilty of murder, and fixed his sentence at hanging. Now let the sentence be carried out.

THE new Senator from Virginia, Thomas D. Martin, is a man who never smoked, drank or chewed, and doesn't even swear. One so perfect as all that is certainly deserving of abetter fate.

A CHICAGO man killed a companion because be refused to drink a glass of beer with hiui. To refuse to drink a glass of beer— in Chicago—is looked upon as a crime punishable only by death.

THK prison authorities of Ohio evidently are firm believers in the theory of vaccination, for they have just ordered the vaccination of the 1892 convicts the state'H prison at a cost of $2,000.

IT'S a trifle early for April fool jokes, but somebody has begun springing them with the talk about Secretary Gresham being a candidate for United States Senator from Illinois to succeed Senator Cullom.

IT is said that the President has announced positively that no more diplo matic or consular positions will be given to Indiana, but he probably made a mental reservation in favor of our own Ben Havens, who has the happy knack of getting what he goes after.

PATTI is going to sing in Indianapolis next Tuesday night, at three dollars per head for admission. And doubtless many will give up that much to hear the divine songstress who cannot find it in their hearts to donate three dollars for the benefit of the hungry, whose numbers are increasing in the capital city.

TUB Wilson bill is destined to have a hard road to travel when it reaches the Senate. It is announoed that Senators Hill and Murphy, of New York, will array themselves with the Republicans against the measure, and as the Democratic majority in the Senate is so narrow, their defection may result in its defeat.

HOWEVER bard may be th» reality of the hard time«, the people are trying to experience the glad emotions of the Christmas holidays. Nothing could better attest the abiding spirit of joy on earth and peace and good will to all which comes with Christmas than the determined effort to celebrate the anniversary with accustomed cheerfulness.

COSTKI.M), the prizefighter, who jumped his bond to escape a senteuoe of two yoars given him in the Lake Circuit court for prize fighting, is said to be on his way to Australia, a country that produces more prize fighters to the square inch than .any other on tho face of the earth. It is to bo hoped that no effort will be made to stop him, for what is our gain Is a loss to the Antipodes.

THK character in Hoyt's "Texas Steer" who went to Washington iutent on being made a minister to Dahomey, but was content after months of weary waiting to take a position as superintendent of tho emptying of waste paper baskets, has found a counterpart in an Indiana newspaper man, William Knight, once «ditor of a Vincennes paper, who, seeking after higher position, has finally accepted a place as watchman in the treasury department. While many are called but few are chosen, and doubtless there •will be those who are now aspiring to higher thing* that will be glad before the distribution is completed to geteven the lowly position of watchman.

THK movement to bring Utah, New Mexico and Ariaona into statehood, Aside from the Tact that it will give the Democrat* six more senator*, is said to owe its strength to the fact that the free silver people of all parties have united to secure this result, in the hope of controlling future legislation as respects silver. Whether this be true or not, there is reason to doubt whether all of these territories have yet established •,helr right to tho honor of statehood. Ut*h is probably more entitled to it than the others for with a population of 208,000 in 1800, a school system with property valued at $2,300,000, a production of from 17,000,000 to 110,000,000 annually In gold, silver and lead, and with agricultural products of $25,000,000, she is certainly ©utitled to some consideration. New Mexico has a population of 154,000, but In 1882 ahe cast but a trifle over 11,000 votes, and the assessed valu ation of her property is constantly declining. Arizona l» the lertst important of the three territories, for with an are* of 113,000 square miles she has but €0,000 inhabitant*, of whom 12,000 aw Mexi c*na, and the greater portion of her are* is either sterile or unexplored, lb elevate *uch pocket boroughs to th® dignity of statehood would a lasting dis grace, but tho billa to admit Ariiona and Utah ha?» already passed the House it i# safe to eenjecture that they will ul timately become law*. If the froesilver people bare united on th* programme

of admission it will doubtless be carried out, and we will have the spectacle of two senators and a Congressman from each of the new states added to onr national law makers, representing constituencies scarcely larger than Vigo county. It were wiser to begin loppine off some such states, as Nevada, for instance, rather than increasing their number, but with tne interests at stake it would seem that the people are powerless.

A COWBOY from South Dakota, out of work and hard up, held up a mail carrier and robbed him of one cent, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. And this in the same court that recently gave a Lincoln, Neb., banker five years in the penitentiary for looting his bank of $1,000,000'. The moral of this is that if you are going in for a steal it's the best policy to make your stealings big.

WHEN the days are dreary and the futuie seems lacking in promise, it would be well if all could bring to mind the words of George W. Childs, a good man as well as a rich one, who when asked for the mottoes of his successful life, gave them as follows: "Be kind," "Be true," "Keep out of debt," "What caa not be helped must be endured," and "Do the very best you can and leave the rest." He says that the only really perfect man in the world is he who possesses a conscience, an honest purpose, a bright mind and a health}' body, and that the one great and holy aim in life should be to do good, and then to live will not be in vain.

So long ago that his name seems but a memory of the past, Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania was speaker of the House of Representatives but his name, once identified with the homestead law, with the fight for free soil and free speech, has been forgotten in the erection of new political idols. He still lives, however, in his native state, and it is proposed to make him a Congressman at-large from Pennsylvania to fill a vacancy caused by death. When he steps into the House of Representatives of to-day, with Lis mind filled with memories of the old days it will seem to him like almost as great a change as to Gulliver, had he stepped from Brobdignag to Lilliputia.

THE auestion which in a number of cities is quite as pertinent as how to relieve the needy and deserving poor is how to avoid providing the oomforts of life for impostors and worthless tramps. The response of the charitable people has been grandly liberal and that fact being made known the cupidity of the impostors and the shiftlessness of the tramp are appealed to. The newspapers are telling the story of the depravity of human nature which prompts a person who Is able to pay his own living expenses or the tramp who will not work to earn a living, to draw upon the resources of public charity. The lesson in it is all that there is no more serious fault, though the error may be on the side of goodness, than in the bestowal of relief without return by the benefloiary. It works a double harm, in that it fosters idleness and causes a loss of self respect.

THERE are rumors of changes in the oabinet, to take effect shortly after the new year, necessitated by the retirement of Attorney-General Olney, who evidently has found that the expected fighting of trusts by a roan who has put in the best years of his life defending them, is not congenial employment. Postmaster-General Bissell, ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, .Tosiah Quinoy and Hoke Smith are numbered among the possibilities of being Olney's successor, and if Smith should be withdrawn from the interior department to replace the frigid gentleman from Boston, it will look very muoh as if Mr. Cleveland had trimmed his sails to the breezes the friends of the pension system have been fanning into cyclones against the Georgian. The latter lacks a great deal of being the most popular member of the cabinet, and the cause of the pensioners would not suffer by his removal to another sphere of usefulness.

THIS has been a bad year on the big railroads. Following nhe Union Pacitic and the Northern Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe system, with its miles upon miles of main line stretchfrom Chicago far towards the Golden Gate, has gone into the hands of receivers. It could not raise the money to pay its indebtedness, to say nothing of lus interest charges, and the officials were forced to take this step. Aa eminent railroad authority, who is conversant with the methods and conditions of railroad management, prophecies that the end has not come to the period of railroad collapses and receiverships, but that many other big corporations In the West and Southwest are doomed to disaster and that in the near future. The trouble with the railroads is not so much the result of the present depression— that has something to do with lt—but that for yoars while the earnings have been satisfactory, so much of the reve-

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nnes have been eaten up paying dividends and imaginary values in watered stocks and when the rainy day arrived, as it does come to corporations as well as individuals, there was naught laid by for it—and then follows a crash. It a lesson, however, that will carry but little weight, for so long a9 water is in existence it will find its way into r^iil road stocks.

THE spirit of reform has struck he house committee on military affairs, snd a bill will probably be presented dnr ng the coming session to revive the rank of lieutenant-general, and also to red 10 the number of major-generals from four to one and to reduce the number of brigadier-generals from fifteen to six and to retire all officers of these gra les in excess of the numbers named. The number of army surgeons is to be reduced also by one-half. A judicious reduction of the men who bear titles in our little army would probably not impair its efficiency, and would reduce its expenses, as the higher officers draw salaries in proportion to their titles. It is interesting to note that the military arm of the government in 1892 consisted of 26,849 men, of whom 2,139 were offi cers and 24,710 enlisted men, or a proportion of one officer to eleven men, which makes it all right for dress parade, but it may be doubted whether it increases the efficiency for actual duty.

THE recent sad death of Prof. Tyndall, the eminent British science, the result of a dose of chloral given him by his wife through mistake, has ealled attention to the growing evil of the use of opiates as a remedy for insomnia, and for relief from pain. The people of today live so fast, and wear out their brain tissues so completely, that when these afflictions seize them they seek relief rather attempt a systematic cure. Yet such an eminent authority as the British Medical Journal declares that in ninety-nine cases in a hundred th$s$ so-called "sleeping draughts" are worse than useless, even for any purpose of relief worthy of the name. The temporary relief which they afford tends to divert the attention from more radical measures. The sham solace being always at hand, the true one is never sought. It is an evil that has been inveighed against by the medical fraternity for a long time, and the death of such an eminent character from its practice will but serve to call attention to its extent, and perhaps tend to discourage it.

LA W, JUS1IOE AND LABOR. There is a feeling among the legal fraternity, only half confessed, and among the people, that we are getting too many ex-corporation lawyers on the Federal bench, and even now there is hung up in the Senate the nomination of a man to be associate justice of the Supreme Court who has never held a judicial position, and whose oaly claim to distinction is that he is a very suooessful corporation lawyer. It is well understood, of course, that the corporations pay the biggest fees, and therefore secure the most eminent legal talent in the land, but as corporation cases against the people occupy the greater portion of the time of our higher courts it is a question as to whether or not it 1b a wise proceeding to turn the adjudication of such matters over to men whose lives and training have been spent in strengthening the oases bf corporations, and who naturally, despite their unquestioned honesty, must have a leaning in that direction. This favoritism of the higher courts for the corporations is freshened in the mind by the ruling of Judge Jenkins in the Federal Court at Milwaukee, this week, when he enjoined the employes of the Northern Pacific railroad—who are in a dispute with the receivers about a proposed reduction of wages—from "quitting work, either with or without notice," with the idea of conspiring against the management of the road, or orippling it. The United States courts have decided before against conspiracies in labor organisations, but this is the first case on record ixi which, where no strike was contemplated, a United States judge has seen fit to go thus far, and enjoin men from "quitting work, with or without notice." A man whose wages have been reduced beyond the point he thinks just, quits work with the idea that if the work can be done by others at that price, all well and good. If it can't be done at that price satisfactorily, then the work will be crippled, not through any fault of his, but because competent workmen cannot be secured at that scale. For a United States court to deprive him of his inalienable right to work or not, as he elects, is an infringement on his liberty as an individual. It is notenongh to say that the agreement between himself and his fellows that they will not work unless they get the wages they decide upon is a conspiracy. Any man has the right to say that he will work for such and such wages, or that he will not, and the court that denies him this right is in the wrong hands. The rights of a common carrier, as a railroad, are well known as regards the public, but no matter bow seriously the public wel-

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fare may be affected by the failure of a railroad to rnn its trains, it is as much the fault of the railroad management that reruses to pay its employes decent wages as of the men that refuse to work for any other. Every day we find out more about the intricacies and technicalities of the law, always in favor of thoue who are able to pay big fees, and it would be interesting to see this Northern Pacific case carried up higher, and tne fact established whether or not it is good la w. If this is good law, then the days of usefulness of railroad labor organizations are at an end, for it will be easy enough to have a railroad placed in the hands of the United States courts, a scale of wages established, and the men prevented from quitting work, "with or without notice."

One Way to Fetter a Folding Bed.

"Every few days we read about people being caught in folding beds and strangled or crushed to death or rendered cripples for life," said a mechanic. "It is easy to prevent this. Every folding bed can be easily fitted with hooks or bolts that will fasten into unobtrusive staples or sockets in the floor, and make it impossible to close the bed without unfastening them or pulling up the floor. Every one of them should have some protection of this nature. "A friend of mine who travels a great deal and often stops at hotels where folding beds are used carries a strong nickeled chain, like those used in hanging window weights, in his valise, and at either end there is a good stout screw eye. The chain is about 6 feet long and takes up scarcely any room. When he strikes a hotel with folding beds, he lets the bed down, screws one of the screw eyes in the floor on one side of the bed at the foot, carries the chain over the frame and under the mattress to the other side, draws the chain taut and sinks the other screw eye in the floor. This method would not be a good one to use in everyday practice, but my friend adopted it after he had had an adventure with one folding bed that nearly cost him his life. Nobody should purchase a folding bed that is not provided with some attachment that will lock it so that it cannot be closed by accident. They are as dangerous as unloaded guns."—Utica Observer.

Ml 11 t»ry Tactics.

A Confederate guard in South Carolina during the war was questioned as to his knowledge of his duties. "You know your duty here, do you. sentinel?" 'Yes, sir." •Well, now, suppose they should open on you with shells and musketry, what would you do?" "Form a line, sir." "What! One man form a line?" "Yes, sir. Form a bee line for camp, sir!" —Texas Siftinga

Glass Houses.

"You think you are bright," said the window pane to the mirror, "but you only give out some other one's reflections." "It is easy enough to see through you," retorted the mirror. "You are envious of me because I have a coat to my back and you haven't."—Indianapolis Journal.

All suits made to order at Goodman Hirsohler's will be from five to ten dollars less than former prices during the month of January.

Don't let your grocer tell you some other Bread is just as good as Miller's. He knows better. Perhaps he makes more profit on somo other brand.

The best laundry work in the city is done by the New Method Laundry Co. Try it.

There is nothing nicer or more practical to give for a Holiday present than a nice pair of Shoes or Slippers. Call at Roberts' and get them cheaper than anywhere in the city. 529 Main street.

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Three championship Billiard Games at the Health Office every night the coming weekL ____

Fresh O/sters.

E. W. Johnson leads the trade in the finest New York and Baltimore Oysters.

You can get either high gloss or domestic finish on your work at the New Method Laundry, and it's the only place in the city you can.,

Grand Billiard Tournament opens at Myers & Walsh's Health Office, Mon day evening, January 1st, at 8 o'clock

For THIRTY DAYS ONLY We will give special prices and terms on Garland, Monitor and Climax Ranges, 1892 pattern, to decrease stock before In voicing.

C. C. SMITH'S SONS CO., Third and Wabash Ave,

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Grand Billiard Tournament^opens at Myers & "Walsh's Health Office, Monday evening, January 1st, at 8 o'clock.

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See the complete stock of Pictures and Frames displayed at the Merring Art Parlors, 523M and 525M Main street. Some choice bargains at the most reasonable prices.

Dr. E. E. GLOVER,

Specialty: Diseases of the Rectum. 104 SOUTH SIXTH STREET

EXCURSION RATES FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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VANDALTA LINE.

Excursion Tickets will be sold between all points on the Vandalia line, also to points on connecting lines, for the Holidays. Dates of sale December 23d, '24th, 25th, 30th and 31st, 1S93, and January 1st, 1894. Rates one and onethird fare for the round trip. For full particulars call on nearest Vandalia Line ticket agent or address GEO. E. FARRINGTON, General Agent.

For Drain Tile and Sewer Pipe, go to tbe Reiuian tfc Steeg Co., 901 903 Wabash Avenue.

Call For Republican County Primaries, To the Republican* of Vigo County. The Republicans of Vigo county, and others who wish to co-operate with them, will meet at tbe places ana times hereinafter designated, on Saturday, the 6th day of Jannary, 1891, in their respective townships and wards, for the transaction of the following

1. For the election of precinct committeemen for each of the several voting precincts in each ward and township. 2. For the election of one delegate and one alternate delegate from each precinct In said ward or township to attend the district convention to be held in the city of Terre Haute on the 13th day of January, 1894.

The precinct committeemen so selected shall constitute the members of the Republican couuty committee, and said county committee shall meet at 1 o'clock Saturday, January 13tb, 1891, for the purpose of organization, by the election of the ohalrman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer also an executive committee also six delegates-at-large to district convention. Tho several townships in said county shall meet at 1 o'clock on the day above designated at the following places:

Harrison township—Courthouse. Honey Creek township—Township House. Nevins—Fontanel Prairleton—Prairleton. Prairie Creek—Mlddletown. Linton—Pimento. Plerson—Center Schoolhouse. Riley—Lockport. Lost Creek—Seeleyvllle. Otter Creek—Oak Grove Schoolhouse. Fayette—Shank Schoolhouse. Sugar Creek—Macksvllle. The meetings in the wards in the city of Terre Haute shall meet promptly at 7 o'olock p. m. on said day at the following places:

First Ward—R. W. Howe's store, corner Third and Washington avenue. Second Ward—Over W. J. Woollen's stare, corner Sixteenth and Poplar streets.

Third Ward—Building and Loan room, Oermanla Hail. Fourth Ward—Office of Ross 4 McFarland, 621 Ohio street.

Fifth Ward—John Thomas' shop. Sixth Ward—Elevator B. Seventh Ward—Star livery stable, north Seventh street.

Eighth Ward—Sachs' store, north Thirteenth street. Ninth Ward—Blair's broom factory.

Tenth Ward—Faust's Hall. It is urgently requested that the Republicans attend these meetings and assist In the election of the best men possible for these various places. This call is Issued by an order of the- Republican state committee of Indiana. D. W. HENRY, Chairman. FRANK CARMACK, Secretary.

December 14.189.3.

Wanted.

I will deliver to any part of the city, free of charge, a fine Hand-made Sour Mash Whiskey, obught direct, from Gladstone distillery, at 82.00 per gallon proof 104, three years old, subject to any doctor's test, or I will weigh it on a government scale to show anyone that what I say is true. I do not buy anything from the wholesalers, rectifiers and compounders, who mix and use all the most villainous, deadly, damnable poisons on earth. They pay the government two hundred dollars (#200) per year for that privilege. Silence gives consent. They must be guilty. Old Cobweb Hall. PETER N. STAFF.

WANTED—Money on real estate security will pay 8 per cent. No expense to loaner. Riddle-Hamilton Co., 20 south Sixth street.

WANTED—To sell your property our charges are reasonable. Riddle-Hamilton Co., 20 south Sixth street.

For Sale.

FOR SALE Residence property in any part of the city. If you wish to buy, call on Rid die-Hamilton Co., 20 south Sixth street.*

FOR SALE—10 room, 2 story residence on north Fourth street near Chestnut very desirable for Normal students. Price $1,850 $350 cash, balance time. Riddle-Hamilton Co., 20 south Sixth street.

For Trade.

FOR EXCHANGE—43acre farm, 10 miles of the city, for small residence not to exceed $1,500 centrally located. Riddle-Hamilton Co., 20 south Sixth street.

TOS EXCHANGE—Some very desirable city property for farm. Riddle-Ham ilton Co., 20 south Sixth street

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Stop That Cough

In the fall of 1892 I had la grippe, which left me in a very distressed condition with throat and lune very sore and a bad cough. Nothing I used did me any good ana 1 only grew worse tul I was thoroughly discouraged. Fortunately a friend suggested a trial of Gulick's compound syrup of

"WHITE PINE, WILD CHERRY AND TAR," and. its use soon brought the needed relief. I therefore cheerfully indorse it as an agreeable and efficient cough remedy.

CHOLERA HOGS.

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JOSEPH W. LEE, Stone Dealer.

Terre Haute, Nov. 10, 1893.

Sold at 50 cents, in large bottles, at Fourth .street and. Wabash avenue, by the proprietors, Gulick & Co., and by dealers generally.

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Dead Animals removed free within) ten miles of the city. Telephone, 73.

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