Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 March 1894 — Page 4
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UNION
TERRE HAUTE,IND., MARCH 17,1894
IT was definitely decided this week that Prendergast, the Chicago assassin, ie not insane. He whipped his cellmate for singing "After the Ball."
No matter how deeply Miss Pollard may have been wronged by Congress man Breckenridge, she is not justified in inflicted herself on the public as an actress.
COULD there be any more pathetic commingling of the antique and the "back number" than the announced starring tour of Pauline Markham and John L. Sullivan?
PROFESSIONAL executors and administrators can get pointers from a New Yorker, who in two years got away with a $380,000 estate, and has disappeared leaving claims against him aggregating J4U0.000.
THE report comas from Washington that Senator Hill, who has long with stood cupid's wiles, is about to take unto himself a wife. In that event Mr Hill as a "boss" will be very small potatoes.
THEY have some queer people in South America. A man in Uruguay who was elected president of that republic re fuses to take the office. This is the first authenticated case on record where an office sought a man and didn't get him.
THE Brazil revolution has ended in the surrender of the insurgents, whose leaders havo fled to escape the severe punishment that usually falls to the lot of the unsuccessful party in South American wars. Tlio lighting has been done chiefly in the newspapers, and the death roll therefore has not been very extensive.
A RESOLUTION calling for the abolish ing of the English House of Lords passed the House of Commons by a very close vote but was afterward reconsidered. A resolution to abolish the AuiTTllunjp liiiunt) Ot lorils, Uo Qoualt), oould be adopted almost unauimously In this country just, now and beyond reconsideration.
THE women sufl'rago amendment to the Colorado constitution has made it possible for wonmn hold offices in the Centennial Ntut.0, and numerous female candidates are being placed on the tickets for this .spring's elections. In LeadviUe two women have been nominated for city offices, but fortunately they are on the same tickot, and will have very little chance to talk about each other. If it h.ippous that two of thorn should liuppon to be candidates for the same
offiee
on rival tickets, the
male population of Colorado will find out how little they really know about saying mean things in politics.
Ho far as known none of the Senators who have been suspected of dabbling In sugar stocks to their own pecuniary advantage art* so much like C»sai's wife that they can afford to ignore the charges. In many cases an assumption of injured innocence and a high and mighty
air
in ignoring charges of wrong
doing have their
Height
in satisfying
the public mind, but in this case it will not work, nnd it is not pleasant nor profitable to contemplate the motives of those Senators who vote 1 to defeat the attempt to secure mi investigation of the sugar speculation stories. If the present Senate isn't the most corrupt that ever disgraced the dignity of high fstnto, then it h'M h-MCor t^kn in its wigtis.
A PECULIAR divorce is on trial in one of the Indianapolis courts in which a wife who had borne her husband ten children is suing for divorce and alimony. Her husband is reputed to be worth $75,000, aud she alleges that in addition to caring for the children she was oompolled to perform all kinds of manual labor, thus assisting him in the accumulation of his fortune. If one half she tells is true she should get all of his $75,000, and he be compelled to begin life over. When a woman bears a man ten children, and he hasn't manhood enough to render life easy for her, when he has the means, he is a very small type of a man, and entitled to very little consideration frm the courts or thej public.
ONK Green Smith, who is drawing the salary and u^ing every effort to increase the perquisite* of the Attorney Qmieral of the Suu» of Indiana, distinguished himself this week by a brutal attack on an Imiiansp »lis reporter who had printed uie
truth
about
him. This distinguished gentleman, who according to common report has hardly enough legal talent to make a respectable figure in a one-horse justice's court, is nothing if not a bully. He bullied the State Senate when he was its president pro tern, he bullied Governor
Matthews when the latter asked him for a statement concerning the business and receipts of his office, and now he tries to bully the press. It seems shame that a man of such ordinary even extra ordinary, ability should be called to fill an office requiring dignity and legal learning.
Now and then we hear complaints of the evils of professional jurymen, and demand that a better class of men be selected to fill these positions. A case in Indianapolis this week proves that even this class of men are as likely to go off at a tangent as any other. A man was charged with keeping a gambling house, and he offered to plead guilty to the charge providing his fine was placed at a certain figure. The offer was 'de elined, and a jury empannelled consist ing of representative business men, number of whom have more than mere local standing. This representa tive business men's jury acquitted the man, and now .the prosecutor is trying to figure out in his own mind whether or not a "business men's" jury isn't just a trifle worse than any other.
THE advent of spring weather is a re minder that in a few weeks the tax as sessor will begin his annual rounds in the effort to find out how much wealth eaoh citizen and taxpayer has accumu lated during the past year, or rather how much he has accumulated and is willing to pay taxes on. It is the sea son when mental reservations become very popular, ahd a period of forgetful ness steps in concerning things material that is almost equal to that which siezes a man who has been summoned before the grand jury. The one great weakness of our present system of as sessing property for municipal and state taxing purposes is the ability of the man who has any considerable personal property—and who is possessed of anything like a flexible conscience—to conceal it beyond the reach of the assessor Not long ago there died in Indianapolis a man who was looked upon with esteem who during life had made oath that his personal property did not exceed $20,000 in value. After his death an inventory of his personal property was made, includingcash, bonds,and stocks, aud other items that are beyond the assessor's sight, and disclosed the fact that it amounted to nearly $500,000. Yet during his lifetime this man was looked up to as one of the prominent men of the community in which he lived, so cially, morally and intellectually. But villi all this, he was not above perjuring himself, by swearing to a point blank lie to defeat the purposes of law aud justice, for it is justice that a man who accumulates a^fortune should contribute his share towards maintaining a community whose laws defend him its just possession. The man who steals from his fellow citizens by the evasion of taxes is no less a thief than tbo uuiiwwt «viiu steals trifles that he may be enabled to cater to his depraved tastes. In fact he is much th^ worse thief of the two, for ordinarily the man of wealth has such a standing in the community that he owes it to the public that he should be an example of honesty. But the Indianapolis case is but one example of many that are to be found in every taxing district. The question is what plan is there for bringug to justice, and the tax gatherer, the ountless ones who year alter j'ear succeed in evading a just assessment, and thereby correspondingly increase the burdens of their less iuformed brethren who are not familiar with the ways that are dark of the tax dodger. Honesty can no more be legislated into all men's hearts than can laws force prosperity nto all men's homes, and the only solution of tho problem is the enforcement of laws on the statute books that provide penalties for such violations of the taxng laws. Let a few striking examples bo made of some of these tax evaders, aud the more prominent the better, not a spasm that is soon over, but as a coutinued etFort to require men to tell the truth aud contribute their share towards maintaining their community. We will possibly see such an increase the valuation of personal property as to open the eyes of some who are not familiar with the manner iu whioh these laws are violated.
FATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partuer of the firm of F. J.
HENEY Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County aud State aforeatd, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each aud every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured oy the use of HALL'S CA-
ARBH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A."D. 1SS6.
A W. GLEASON, Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and maeous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. .T. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O.
jsSTSold by Druggists, 75c.
Tbe
AMUSEMENTS.
HOLDEN COMEDY CO.
The Holden comedy company have occupied the stage at Naylor's during the week and will close their engagement to-night presenting a double bill of comedy, "A Box of Cash," a domestic play in two acts followed by the one act farce "Out to Nurse." Thirty dollars will go to some lacky person to-night. They started by giving ten dollars away and have increased it five dollars each night. Good houses have greeted the company every night, and at a majority of the performances business has been away above the average, while on several occasions the house has been crowded to its utmost capacity. That all this is gratifying in other than the financial sense must be true. It proves that people are willing to be amused in these times at popular prices, and also that the Holden company is one which wears. It has established itself as a favorite in Terre Haute, and Manager Hayman will be safe in booking it as often as once a year.
INGERSOLL COMING.
"What Must We Do to be Saved?" may be described in a few words as the boiief of Mr. Ingersoll's hardened soul as to our future destiny. The Colonel believes that the key-note of life for the present and future may be found in the single word happiness. The Colonel thinks if we are happy now, and contented, and if we make other people happy and contented and do all we can for the advancement and pleasure and comfort of those about us individually or as a community, then we may rest in perfect confidence that the future will care for itself. The Colonel is a living example of the precepts he practices and preachesj and when he dies the world will lose one of the great intellectual lights of the age. In this connection, it is interesting to know that Mr. Ingersoll will appear in this city on next Saturday evening, March 24th, at Naylor opera bouse, where he is announced to deliver his famous lecture, "What Must We Do to be Saved?" The announcement of the coming to this city of Ingersoll guarantees an intellectual treat which none of our citizens can aflord to miss. Seats will be placed on sale Tuesday morning next. Prices entire lower floor $1.00, family circle 75, gallery 50 cents. Secure your seats early in advance.
MODJESKA.
Modjeska who is known and justly loved by the theatergoing public will appear at Naylor's opera, house on Wednesday evening March 28th, in one of her strongest roles. Modjeska occupies a position that it has taken years to attain and her mastery of the technique of the stage is one of the ever present charms of her performance. As an interpreter of great feminine roles in standard drama she rests on the topmost round of the ladder, in fact her entire repertoire is a bouquet of artistic characteristics. This will be Modjeska's last apponronoo in Torro Houto
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MARCH 17, 1894.
TOT Over a
year and if so long as that it is quite possible she may not return at all. There are so many changes when the middle station in life's journey is passed that one may never count on what will happen a long twelve months away. No other actress of the present decade has so sweetened the uses of ttie stage or added such dignity, grace and beauty to that sphere as Modjeska. Her engagement here will no doubt be a brilliant success.
W. H. CRANE.
Possibly the most successful American play of recent years is "The Senator." This play was originally presented by Comedian William H. Crane five years ago and made a hit of gigantic proportions. When originally presented in New York, it ran seventeen weeks one of that- city's largest theaters and on its return, it remainod for twentytwo weeks. The secret of its success is no doubt traceable to its strong story of the heart and its many attributes whioh go to win the sympathies of the people. The plot was furnished by a naval battle which took place in 1814. An American ship in a neutral harbor was attacked by a British squadron. The Yankee inflicted much damage, but finally succumbed to superior numbers. The heirs of the skipper filed a claim for the loss of the ship and the claim was before congress for seventy years before it was passed. Mr. Crane will present the play in this cit} at Naylor's on Friday evening, March 30th.
Take your work to the New Method. It is the only laundry in the city that does their work soft finish, which is a big saving on the linens. We give you your eboice of either the Polish or domestic finish. We attend to all repairing and replace wornout neckbands with new ones free. Goods called for and delivered promptly.
MEW METHOD LAUNBRY CO., 725 Wabash Ave.
T. J. GRIFFITH, PALACE SHOE STORE, 420 Main street, north side, requests The Mail to announce that be has a great many winter goods that he will close out at greatly reduced prices.
DSPRICE'S
Awarded Highest Honors—World's Fair.
Powder:
only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia No Alum,
Died in Millions of Homes—40 Years the Standard,
A. C. Bryce fc Co. are showing the nobbiest hats, the neatest neck-wear and the best shirts for the money in tbe city
If you buy a blue label cigar you can be satisfied that it was made by a Union workman, who makes fair wages and spends it with his home merchants. If you buy any other you may be sure that it was made by cheap labor in some tenement house, and that our home merchants will derive no benefit from it
Ladies, don't fail to attend Morris & Frey'sgrandopeningnextFriday, March 23d. They will have a beautiful display of pattern bats and bonnets.
Notice of Removal.
The office of Charles Reichert, the well known insurance agent, will on and af ter Monday, March 19th, be located at No. 20 south Seventh street. He repre seats a number of the oldest and most reliable fire insurance companies in the land. When you place your insurance you want it with a first-class company and this is assured if it is in one of his companies.
Louis D. Smith, at 673 Main street, has a fine line of Catholic Prayer Books for Easter, at prices the most reasonable See him for something fine in this line
We Don't Brag How Cheap We Can Sell Candies, Or how much better they are than some others, but we do say we nre selling pure Candies, made by us, at as low prices as small expenses will allow ue to. Call on Eiser, Ninth and Main, for fresh Candies.
Beautiful Spring Millinery. See the elegant line displayed at C. S. Cronin's millinery store, on south Fourth street.
Dyeing and Chemical
Cleaning performed in the most artistic style by us. We dye all fancy shades, and to sample, with very satisfactory results to our patrons. Our chemical cleaning process is entirely new, and removes every particle of dirt or stain, without the least danger of colors run ning. If you want the very best, patronize us.
HUNTER LAUNDERING AND DYEING Co.
There are numerous brands of bread. There can only be one "best." That is Miller's. Buy Your Meat on Saturday
as we do not open on Sunday. Choice Beef, Pig Pork, Veal, Mutton, Spring Lamb, all kinds of Sausage. Telephone 220. Fourth and Ohio streets.
C. H. EHRMAN,
Successor to T. J. Patton fe Co.
Choice Fish
For the Lenten Season at
Eiwrlgfil SCO's.
Thisbright, beautiful day is suggestive of new Spring Clothing, aud you should follow up the suggestion by going to Kiewit & Holler, the Merchant Tailors, at 649Main street, and ordering a new suit. They have some nobby goods and can give you perfect fits at satisfactory prices. Go and see them.
Morris & Frey's grand opening of new patterns of Spring Hats and Bonnets will take place Friday, March 23d, to which the ladies are all invited.
Carpets! Carpets! Carpets!
Never was there such a display as at John G. Dobbs' new furniture store, in Brussels and Ingrains. A full line of Mattings, Linoleums, etc., all at rock bottom prices.
Markle & Dietrich,
13 North Sixth Street.
A. C. Bryce & Co. always have the latest novelties in children's wear. Don't fail to see the Primrose suit and the several other styles aud get the right thing.
The fact that people from all parts of the city buy their Sausages of Fiess & Herman, 27 N. 4th street, is good evidence that they make the best. Give them a trial. Telephone 252.
For rock bottom prices on Clover, Timothy and Seed Oats go to Bauermeister & Busch, First and Main.
See the splendid display of new pattern Hats and Bonnets at Morris & Prey's opening Friday, March 23d. Tbev have secured a new trimmer from the east and are better prepared than ever to please in the way of stylish and artistic Hats and Bonnets.
Try
Weldon's Grocery for fresh
Vegetables, Poultry, Staples. Best goods and lowest prices. 24 South Seventh street.
THE SEAL
OF MERIT.
Look at this Array of Bargains
Defies all Competition.
At this sale we have some special bargains in Swivel Silk, all colors, in plain and figured.
Our line of Wash Silks is unexcelled at 45, 50, 69c. Special values bought for this sale.
Printed Indias or China Silks
at
25
35. 4i 50c. See these
values. They're money savers. Changeable Taffetes in all colors. Moire Silks, a hundred different colors and combinations.
NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE
LAST PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT
Will present a double bill,
ABOXOFCASH
A beautiful domestic play, followed by the one act farce
I I O A S GIVEN AWAY TO-NIGHT.
Saturday, March 24.
The Noted Orator llHIIHHHIHlllllHIHillllilllHHHHll
ROBERT G.
IHIlHlHIHJHlflHlUlUllHlllliillHIll
Will Deliver His Famous Subject,
WhatShall WeDo To Be Saved.
Seats on Bale Tuesday, Mch, 20.
Entire Lower Floor $1.00 Family Circle 75 Gallery 50
Coming, Coming, Coming,
Wednesday, March 20, Wednesday, March 20, Wednesday. March 20,
Modjeska. Modjeska. Modjeska.
For Hollow Brick, Drain Tile, Sewer Pipe, Lime and Cement, go to Reiman & Steeg Co., 901-903 Main street
flonday
We open our great
SILK
5ale
Preparations for the same have been going on for months past. Like a diamond in the sky, our vast Silk Department sparkles with dazzling bargains. Black Dress Silks are always staple. You will therefore appreciate the great values offered.
BLACK
Gros Grain Silks
At 69c per Yard.
values as have never before been offered in this city.
BLACK
Surah Silks
At 69c per Yard.
Who can aflord to be without a beautiful Silk selected from our extensive stock of Easter novelties.
BLACK
India Silks
At 69c per Yard.
No need of argument, as this price speaks for Itself. They are great values.
BLACK
Brocade Satins
At 69c per Yard.
Many ifoveltles to choose from. First come, first served.
BLACK
Satin Rhadames
At 69c per Yard.
The goods you will ndmlrefor their richness and even wear.
BLACK
Taffeta Silks
At 69c per Yard.
Special values. Would sell easily at 81.00 a yard.
Don't wait, but come at once and make first pick. At these prices the quantity will soon disappear. We invite correspondence, and all letters will receive close, quick and comprehensive attention.
HOBERG, ROOT A CO.,
518-520 MAIN STREET.
OUT TO NURSE."
a
Lecture,
BICYCLES!
JS^arn biers strong. time. est made. lyight weight. asy riding. K* el able. figure winners.
The copper rims and the new foot brake on the
RAMBLER
are two of the neatest things out. We have a few very good second-hand wheels for sale.
Catalogues Free.
COOK & FREERS,
813 Wabash Aye. Terre Hante, Ind.
is the mother of invention
All those who have last year's Spring Huit* to be
Can have them done to their SATISFACTION by
H. F. REINERS, SSivSZ 655 Main St
"ypONEY TO LOAN.
PUGH & PUGH
Attorneys at Law.
3#9 1-2 Ohio Street, Terre Haute. After an absence of four years abroad our Mr. Horace C. Pagh in again in the office of tbe above named firm.