Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1894 — Page 4

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Now that Mr. Corbett has vanquished Mr. Mitchell, the former an Irish-Amer-ican and the latter an Irish-Englishman, perhaps the entente cordiale may be accepted as fully established.

Emperor William ami Prince Bismarck have agreed to establish terms of perHonal friendship. The overture came from the younger maw who seems to have become convinced that the man of iron who was his grandfather's strong right arm cannot, or will not, thwart his plans of government or make insignificant his own standing before the German people. The latter fear overwhelmed the young emperor when his father died and caused him to put aside the prince with hot haste and scant show of respect.

.JUDOE KICKS,

of the United States

Court, has decided In effect that the Edison patent for the manufacture of incandescent electric lamps had expired aud that all companies are now at liberty to manufacture the lamp. At first glance this would seem to give the public relief from high prices but the technicalities and many other pa touts may interfere to prevent the desired result. The popular impression is that the telephone patents will expire with the end of this month but already it is being explained thai this will not make telephone service cheaper because many of the minor appliances and' improvements wlil yet be protected patents.

MH. GEORGE WILLIAM (JHII.DH,

CHICAGO gamblers have started a horse race pool selling game at. Roby which is daily visited by from 500 to 1,000 persons from Chicago. This particular species of gambling has buen suppressed in the city and, so one Chicago newspaper puts It, "the gamblers have gone to the wilds of Indiana Of course the first thought of everyone is that Governor Matthews must suppress the evil. He called mil the militia to stop prize fighting at Roby and the logical process of reasoning ts that he must be the officer of the law in all other cases, even to the violation of the laws against minor oilenses. The trouble at Roby seems to be that local sentimont is swayed by the thread-baro argument that gambling and the presence of gamblers "makes times good" that the mon who promote gaming of whatever description are the ones who "put money in circulation." Therefore no local officer of the law will endeavor to perform his duty.

The country is having an object lossou in tarifi legislation. The average eitizon is in doubt. He is not sure that his best interests would not be subserved by permitting oven an unjust law to remain in force rather than that affected industries be frequently demoralized by the agitation of changes in the import duties. The agitation begins immediately after the enactment of one law and bocomes more violent as the meeting of a new congress approaches. The deliberations of committees is followed by debates and voting such as have occurred this week in tho house. Apparently tariff rate on some one article has been adopted and tho impression generally Is that it is final but as a matter of fact there is yet much debating and voting to be done. The house measure must go to tho senate and there it •will be amended in nearly all paragraphs. The house will disagree to the amendments, a conference committee will consider them, strike out some and adopt compromises on others and the report of this committee will be taken up by the respective branches of the national legislature to be gone over with almost as much debate and contention as the original bill called forth. The chances are that the measure will not reach the president for his signature before Aprih_

THKRK is a report from Washington of a purpose to remove Dr. Mendenhall from the position of chief of the bureau of coast and geodetic surveys and appoint a man who has been selected by Mr. Harritv, of Pennsylvania, a manager of Democratic campaigns. Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle is said to be in favor of making the change. The duties of the official are purely scientific and cannot justifiably have any partisan bearing. If anything, the position is less amenable to party demand than the

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lisher of the Philadelphia Lwdger, who no doubt is nearing the end of his life, is a romarkable man because he has been phenomenally successful and picturesque in philanthropic acts. Mr. Child**' life comos near to filling out the schemes and purposes of kind hearted people whose only desire to possess wealth is to dispense with it in benefactions. There has been no cant, uu selfish object in his manifold gifts of money. His private pension roll has been and is longer than that of any other rich man in this country. His public benolicencios aro past, criticism they are eminently wise, judicious and liberal and withal never ostentatious.

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questions of law construed as the party construes them. The worst phase of the proposed change in the bureau is the manner in which the removal of Dr. Mendenhall is to be brought about. Some months ago charges were made of misuseof appropriations but.these, of course, could not be sustained Then the assisttanw of Dr Mendenhall were removed indiscriminately and incompetent men appointed in their places, all against his protest. Now he is to be forced out by sortie cowardly process. To those who knew Dr, Mendenhall while he was president of Rose Polytechnic Institute in this citj% any charge against him on the line of offensive partisanism is as preposterous as the charge of irregularities in the accounts of the bureau. It is doubtful if a half hundred persons of his acquaintance knew whether he was a Republican or a Democrat but whichever he was everyone knew that he would as soon commit murder as permit partisanship to interfere in his scientific pursuits.

THE president has lost prestige in his contest with Senator Hill by sending in the same of Wheeler H. Peckham to be a justice of the supreme court. The senator procured the rejection of Mr. Hornblower by personal appeals to fellow senators on the ground that the nominee was personally offensive to him. Senators are sticklers for their socalled personal prerogative in such matters and enough of them yielded to Mr. Hill's beseechings to enable him to score a point against the president. Mr. Peckham is also objectionable to the senator from New York and the president's friends make no secret that this fact dictated bis nomination to the senate. The reproach is on the president for making use of so important a position, and especially one which should be kopt free from politics, to wage his personal warfare. Mr. Peck ham's brother is now an honored member of the New York court of appeals, the empire state's highest tribunal, of which their father was also a member, but he is notof a judical oast of mind. On the contrary he is a factionist and therefore a man of prejudice. He has been before the public chiefly as a fault finder, one who attracts attention to himself by declaring all men and all things are wrong. True he is a lawyer but in no sense is he a jurist. Whatever may be one's bias there is a universal desire to keep the judioiary free from party, or faction, entanglements. This is particularly true as to the courts of last resort. However far short of absolute justice may be their findings the people strive to believe they are next to infallible. It is a wholesome belief too, because if it did not exist the people would come to doubt the efficiency of the form of government under which they live.

7HE POOR OF THE CITIES. Either the p'oor of the cities are not worthy, speaking of course in a general sense, or the adopted means of relief are at fault. When the winter months came the knowledge that many men were out of employment caused organized effort to be made iu nearly all cities to provide against destitution. It was plainly seen that the amount of destitution would be greatly increased and that to the number of persons always in noedof •harity there would be added thousands who, for the first time, could not earn a livelihood. Temporary organizations were effected and the best judgment was that relief should be afforded by providing employment for the unemployed. In pursuance of this idea work on public improvements was planned in many cities but it is found that this does not care for but a comparatively small number. Usually it has been labor with the shovel, the mud scraping hoe or the pick and no doubt many men, though practically destitute, felt unable to do it. Now that we have zero weather that character of work will be suspended. In Indianapolis the workmen objected to being paid in provisions, thus showing that oue purpose in giving employment instead of charity had fallen short of accomplishment. The workman did not feel that he was being considered as much better than a mendicant and in his struggle to maintaiu his self respect and manhood he rebelled against the plan.

Then, too, there has been too much red tape iu the operations of the charity societies. As tho New York Commercial Advertiser says: "Some of our big charity societies are seemingly dedicated to the proposition that no man should be fed until his grandfather's middle name is entered in a big book, and photographs are filed of the places in which tho applicant has worked for the last seven years. Just now they are eugaged in censure of societies which are endeavoring to feed the hungry and care for the friendless on more impulsive principles. One can imagine an unqualified tramp who had no grandfather and neyer did a stroke of work, who nevertheless conld be given a breakfast without undermining our social system but here and there may be fouud a Pecksnifflan institution evidently believing that its salaried officers are not the only recipients of its bounty who should not be listed and left to starve pending the slow but superb operations of a system of investigation which guards itself against encouraging unworthiness by rarely encouraging anybody." This is "biting sarcasm," perhaps cruel, but there is a great deal of truth in it. The public hears more about this man or that woman who is posted as a professional beggar than about relief afforded. Unless the unworthy applicants for relief far outnumber the worthy, the charity society people have made a hobby of ferreting out the man or woman who imposes on

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the relief fund. If the swindlers are faw still they are hungry and cold and a risk might be taken now and then with them rather than that the time of salaried officers of the societies be too much occupied in detective work.

Evidently the cities of the country have yet to learn how to solve the problem" of bard times with the unemployed and the poor. As to the unemployed it should not be so much a problem of relief as prevention. Last September was the time when work of all kinds could have been provided of which all might have been capable. The ounce of prevention then would have been worth a pound of charity relief now. It does not lessen the obligation to solve the problem to say that if an unemployed man will not scrape the mud from the streets and accept bis pay in provisions he ought to starve. That only leaves the problem one of changing human nature and a9 that is the greater task it

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it is made sure that no one starves to death.

SHORT AND SWEET.

To remoye paint—Sit on it before it is dry. A drawn battle---pencil sketch of a fight.

It's a poor mule that doesn't work both ways. The world is on a broad grin when all nature smiles.

Grave-diggers do a great deal of work that is beneath them. The political orators are carrying everything be forum.

A man mad with whisky naturally uses intemperate language. Men who die at the right time are most likely to get monuments.

Chicken thieves regard a bird in the hand worth two in the roosts. "Age sticks to a man," says a contemporary. So does mucilage.

What a devil of a time there would be should truth and gossip get married. It i- much easier to organize a trust than to trust the parties who organize.

The poker game is something of a lark. Therefore, the lark is something of a game bird.

The temperate, buzz-saw is generally but once in a while it takes "two or three fiugers."

There is some talk of organizing an ice trust next season. We hope dealers will slip up on it.

Talking about handsome skippers, what's the matter with a pretty girl reading a prosy novel?

You must never look a gift horse in the mouth, nor smell a gift cigar in the presence of the donor.

More votes for tariff reform. All the lions and tigers in the Zoo are howling for free raw material.

We believe thatau Italian who should start out with a noiseless hand-organ would make money.

The tone of a man's character is not always his patience in adversity but his stability in prosperity.

A gluttonous man should always wear a plaid waist-coat, so as always to keep a check on his stomach.

The reason that a great many people fall into the blues is that they don't look at things in the right light.

The cyclone is bad enough to make people thankful that there are no such things as bicyclones and tricyclones.

Said a rich man on the eve of parting, the other day: "Do not let my son be brought up to sit in a club window."

Those college men who are always making capital out of their education may be said to get through life by degrees.

The reason women don't appreciate the telegram at half its value, is that postscripts cannot be added without extra charge.

The snakes a man sees when be is wrestling with a severe attack of delirium tremens are not water snakes. This is reliable.

Whisttos In Sword Hilts.

The new tactics adopted for the army oontqmplate the giving of commands by whistle under certain circumstances, instead of by word of mouth. Consequently infantry officers have received a intimation from the acting chief of ordnance that they are expected to provide themselves with whistles at their own cost. The order says: "The major general commanding the army, having approved the introduction of a whistle in the cross piece of the guard of the sword for infantry officers, desries to inform you that the commanding officers of Springfield armory and Bock Island arsenal have been instructed to make this alteration as promptly as possible upon the receipt of the arms. The cost, which will be paid by the owner of the sword, will be about $8.75 each for lots of 50 or more, but the expense will necessarily be greater where work is conducted on bat few swords at a time."—Washington Cor. Buffalo Courier.

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1STEAMBOATING FOR GOLD.

Getting Metal at the Rate of SI00 st Day From the Bed of a Kiver.

Extravagant stories are told about the wealth of gold sprinkled throughout the Snake river country in Idaho. As a general thing the gold is very fine, the particles being of so light weight as to be •elusive. Save when worked on a large scale, it is difficult to make good wages in recovering the gold. Numerous bars along the river would prove profitable could water be commanded for sluicing or hydraulic purposes. An adequate supply is hard to obtain on account of the slight and gradual fall of the stream and the level character of the outlying lands. To overcome this lack of water, as well as insure sufficient dumping ground, a big floating gold saving dredge has been constructed and is now at work on th? Idaho bank of the Snake river, about 10 miles above Payette.

It is astern wheel fiatboat propelled by steam. Substantially constructed, 65 feet long and 22 feet wide, it is equipped with a 35 horsepower marine engine and boiler and adapted in every way for navigating Idaho's great waterway. With a slight alteration it could be transformed into a steam dredge and used to scoop up sand and gravel from the bottom of the stream. That has never been attempted. As in the past, operations are now confined to working bars out of the bed or channel of the river. The method pursued is to anchor alongside one of these gravel deposits and by the use of scrapers bring the material to be handled within the reach of the gold washing machinery with which the craft is rigged. The gravel is scooped up by buckets attached to an endless chain.

There are 48 of these receptacles on a belt 60 feet in length, and each has a capacity of about 20 pounds of dirt, which is delivered into a hopper. This is also an agitator, and the process employed may be described as a steam rocker, with the exception that it has an end motion instead of one sidewise. The gold is caught on copper plates with quicksilver. The tailings are carried off in sluice boxes by the force of a stream of water of 150 mineral inches, supplied by a China pump, run by the engine which drives all the other machinery. Thfe gravel is worked so thoroughly that no gold escapes in the tailings that are dumped into the river. An average of 100 tons of gravel is daily handled, and for this work three men are employed— an engineer, one to work the scraper and another who shovels the dirt into a pile so that the buckets can scoop up a full load.

The bar now being worked covers an area of 10 to 15 acres. The gold is on top or close to the surface and will not pay to handle to a greater depth than 1 foot to 18 inches. This shows a value of to 8 cents a pan. A cleanup is made every night, and the average of the runs for the first three days was very satisfactory to Thornton Williams, the owner of the craft. He says he expects to take out upward of $100 a day as long as he works, which will be until cold weather sets in. When he has gone over the bar which now engages his attention, he will tackle another.—Helena Independent.

CABBY'S WHITE HAIRED ANGEL.

She Purchases a Dashing Carriage to Replace His Rattletrap Kig.

If there ever was a lucky cabby, it is Richard McG-owan. who for 16 years has stood beside his cab at the Staten Island ferry at Whitehall street gathering passengers and fares. He and the cab had stood there in all sorts of weather, but the cab suffered more than the man in appearance.

Whenever McG-owan saw an old lady with white hair and a benignant face come from the ferryhouse, he knew that he would have a fare. She didn't appear very often, but she always sought out McGowan, handing him a bill in payment and refusing to take the change. A couple of months ago she told him his cab was getting old and rusty and he should have a better one. The cabman replied that it would cost $900, and he could "not afford so much money. One day the white haired woman told him to drive her to a carriage manufactory. They made several trips of that kind. Then the lady, who is Mrs. Frances J. Shaw, the philanthropist, told the astonished McGowan that she was looking for a carriage for him, but could not find one that was suitable, and that he had better buy it for himself. It took him a whole month to find what he wanted. Now McGowan has the finest coupe about South ferry, and he is one of the happiest men in New York.—New York World.

Awarded Highest Honors—World's Fair.

A* item of news is going the rounds to the effect that a Pennsylvania man was burned fatally recently by his celluloid collaroatching fire. It is believed this is abase calumny originated in the fertile mind of some manufacturer of linen collars.

A Detroit man died this week while attending a lodge meeting. This item is respectfully referred to those ladies who object to their husbands having so many lodge nights.

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In the matter of the estate of Solomon Franklin, deceased. In the Vigo Circuit court, November term, 1893- ..

Notice Is hereby given that John E. Woodruff, as administrator of the estate ofSolomon Franklin, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in partial settlement and distribution of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit court, on the 29th day of January, 1894, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any there be, why said account and vouchers should not be approved, and to make proof of heirship for the purpose of a partial distribution of said estate.

Witness the clerk and seal of said Vigo Circuit court, at Terre Haute, Ind., this, 2nd day of January, 1RM. [8EAU] Attest: HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk.

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In the Superior Court of Vigo County, December term. 1893. No. 4,058. William Remington vs. Mary Remington. Divorce.

Bell known, that on the 3d day of January. 18M, it was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publication said Mary Rem-, ingion as non-resident defendant of tne pendency of this action against her.

Said defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said her, and that the same will stand fortrlal February 28,18M. the same being at the December term of said ooort in theyear W98. [SKU] HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk,