Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 February 1895 — Page 2

1 HE MAIL.

."£ PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

MAN ABOUT TOWN.

John Bell has not beard from his •son, Fr^d Bell, who is in Honduras, 8i nee last May. Mr. Bell does not feel alarmed hy the failure to hear from his son becHUHe he attributes it to the absence of mail facilities in Honduras. Fred Bell's loeatioa is about two hundred miles back from the coast, and unless bv chance he should learn of sou&e one going to the coast, as was the Ciso fi*ij the letter of last May was sent, ii«-re would belittle or no chance €f getnnlj a letter to a sailing port. The country is In almost constant demoralijsition by reason of the revolutionary wars. Tbe natural resources are capable of producing vast wealth, and if the people would stop fighting long enough to permit their development the outsiders like Mr. Bell would make their country rich enough to gratify the pas siou of the leaders in the government for great wealth, which passion is the real cat MO of most of the warfare, the "outs" wanting a chance at the public treanures. When the mining operations are about to be started up along comes an army of one side or the other aud presses into service the men who had been secured to operate the mine, and then for six months or a year there will be fighting and skirmishing, and with each piisage of an army all the food product? disappear.

On" o" the stories from Washington in reganl to the precipitate retirement of Lawr*ii.:e Maxwell from th« position of solid general stid 'hat he has »tn iraBcib'H temper, and that he and the attorney «eneral had frequent quarrels. Mr W»Kwell displayed i«in temper in

fl'nrrf

Haute on the occasion of a bearing bnfi.re master in the suit of the C. H. AD" mpany against Mr. McKeen. The ""pat',' was with W. H. H. Mjller, .afteiward attorney general in the Harrison ottinet, and proceedings were suspended for a few minutes to permit the Jawyer? to r&oover their self-possession.

Tkn name of the successor of the late Horace W. Hibbard as general freight agent of tae Vandalia will not be made known until next week.

Alexander Johnson, superintendentof the Home for Feeble MindedChildren, at Ft. Wayne, who is accused of abuses of his official position as well as someactsof in humanity, is the same man who as secretary of the state board of charities visited tlie til here in 1892and made a report SHveral.y reflecting on the management. When the report was made public, which he had not intended should be done, huHon "took itallback" tosave 'Billy" 8tout who was then a candidate for rejection AS sheriff. At the time Johnson wan pia\ ing the non-partisan racket for «'l ii v* worth. Later ou he received the Fr. Wayne position from Democratic band* and since then he has been using Lhe no as a partisan institution. Likewise he has managed to place several relative on the payroll. The legislature is investigating his conduct. He denies in part the charge of cruelty but does not dnny the charge of nepotism or that of misuse of his position for partisan purposes.

Farmer Bryant, of Prairieton, who burned the maniage license to prevent his daughter's marriage has provided a D3W tableau for the sensational drama. What a uld be more startling than a ene wherein the angry father throws a marr -g license into the fire in the presence the wedding guests? It would b-at ie old style interruptions of the •cerem ny and carry the house by storm by the sheer foroe of the novelty of the tiling. Of oourseto have the play continue the proper conclusion the groom •could procure another lioense and the two hearts that beat as one could beat the old man out in the game.

Another crook has told the police something they could not learn otherwise, and we are again deluged with a lot of rot about detective work. The •crook w*he told on his pal was caught by patrolman who was not playing detective. who made the arrest on haphazard Huspioion,but who receives none of the praise that is being bestowed so freely. The truth is that nearly all this so-called detective work is the result of one thief's treachery toward his pals. There have been oases, and right here in Terre Haute, when a stool pigeon was nsed to bring about a orlme for which Hrrosta were made and some detective lauded to the skies tor ferreting out a orlme of whioh he was fully informed before it was committed. The police deserve oredit, undoubtedly, for the arrest of the men who robbed Jeweler Strang, and especially for the precautionary steps whioh Captain Pierce caused to be taken, and which resulted In the capture of the crook who peached on his pal, but there was no detective work In the case. And now, after the chief oriminal has been arrested, we are told that he has frequently committed robberies In this otty. So it would seem that there had been ample opportunity for detective work before his pal, caught by a patrolman in a most ordinary way, had told on htm to save himself

When Ooialti Doyle was tn New Tork he was asked if he had called on Byrnes,

Mthe

great thief catcher," and he replied ID a manner which while it did not disparage Byrnes left no doubt of the estimation in whieh he was held by the writer of the best detective stories that were ever published and in which something of the genuine detective Ingenuity, or intuition, is brought forward. Doyle

knew as did also those who were back of the Lexow investigation that Byrnes caught only thieves that other thieves betrayed to him and that these other thieves yrere given privileges for their help.' _______

The Rev. Dr. J. 8. Holmes, of the Baptist church, this week demonstrated the fact that he knows how to express himaelf with dignity and all necessary vigor. From his standpoint the leoture by Prof. Hall at the Normal, in whioh many theological dogmas, some of them particularly dear to a Baptist, were not only criticised but caricatured as well, was altogether out of place, and the doctor said so in ohoice diction. His objection was not so much as to the merit of the attack ou the creeds as to the place whence the attack came. Prof. Hall is a young professor, occupying the chair of Hebrew language in Butler university, at Indianapolis. It is to be said that his lecture was very favorably received by many of the Normal students whioh faot, according to the reasoning of those who objected to the lecture, is proof that the effeot of such discourses is to unsettle the minds of young men as to their religious belief.

President Porter, of the Chicago A Eastern Illinois road, has come down ofl his high horse and is suing for peace in the coal rate war. He has taken the initiative toward bringing about a conference by whioh his road, the Monon and the roads in Illinois may agree upon a rate for the future. The attempt will be to get the rate baok to $1, based on the block coal fiftld.

One of the peculiar facts in ¥egard to the coal freight business is the evident unconcern as to the violation of the iuter-state commerce law. The payment of rebates and the making of piivate rates is kept secret only for business purposes, and not through any fear of the law. A man well versed in freight business laughed at my innocent inqu'.ry if such violation of the law is common. He said that rates other than those publicly announced were commonly given on all lines, and that adherence to the law was the exception rather than the rule. Another way that is dark and which came to my notice in talking about the ooal war is the^praotice of some railroads of breaking contracts for coal for their own use. I had asked how it could be that an operator could lose the customer before the end of the contract year, knowing that the contract year usually began about the first of May. It seems the railroad people have a trick of refrsing coal from the contract operator on the ground that it is not up to the standard of quality. A few days ago an Indiana operator was notified there were seventy cars of his coal on the tracks in Chicago which did not pass inspection. The operator went to Chicago and with the inspector climbed over the seventy cars, the mercury down to zero, aud with the result that the inspector had to accept practically all of it. The probability is that the railroad had a chance to buy some of that cheap Illinois coal..

Judge Heury has taken the "electric light injunction case under consideration and when a decision will be rendered perhaps he himself does not know. The lawyers have given him enough authorities to keep him busy for a long time. The question involved is an important one and one that is practically new in the courts. Naturally, therefore, an early decision is not to be expected. It is quite certain that whichever way the decision may be the case will be appealed to the Supreme court. If against the new company, that would mean a long delay in the completion of the plant and consequently add to the complications which now surround the lighting oontract. The truth is that not many persons acquainted with the facts, outside of the set whioh is closely identified with the new company, believe that the restraining order operates to prevent the completion of the plant. I find that the lawyers on the other side do not contend that it does and it would seem that if the company really wanted to get its plAnt in working order iu oould find plenty of room on the streets without violating the order, whioh says the poles and wires are not to be erected near to those of the old company. The restraining order does not in terms, nor by implication, so near as I can learn, stop the construction of an eleotrio light plant in the city, as many persons are persist-" ently saying it does and whioh I beard oounoilmen say in that meeting the other afternoon. _______

Evidently the new company intends to make its fight along the line pursued up to this time. It is standing baok as an injured party throughout the whole aflalr. This was Its attitude when the oonnoil was confronted with the possibility of having no light for the streets. It was its attitude when the restraining order was first i.sued as was made plain by its notification to the oity attorney to appear in oonrt for the defense. The oity attorney might just as well attend to the interests of the old company whioh has rights, granted by the city, and which did not, by any means, terminate with the expiration of the oontract for lighting the streets. The new company itself has not asked that the time for the taking effect of its contract should be extended. The petition that went to the oonnoil was not, on its face, a petition Solicited or inspired by the company. Undoubtedly there is a great deal of litigation ahead and the remark of Councilman Graham that the oity should be kept out of it was to the point. The chances are that It will be dragged into enough of it whether it wants in or not. Every step taken now is, no doubt, to become an important one when reviewed by the courts. There likely will be a question as to who Is to pay the dif­

ference In the cost of the temporary lighting by the old oompany and what It would have cost bad the new oonipany completed its plant and began lighting the streets on the expiration of the old oontract. One contingent question is as to when the hew oompany'* contract lyill begin if the oourts decide in its favor. Naturally the oompauy will not consider that it has begun upon its contract until after it gets its plant in operation. And, so on ad infinitum, with the poor people whose servants these corporations are, the real sufferers. And, by the way one of the principal grievanoes of the people is the faot that the old oompany oannot, or at least does not, give good service.

I THE LONDON STABBERS.

An Epidemio of Insanity Whioh Takes the Form of Homicidal Mania.

The strange epidemic of insanity which prompts its subjects to stab strangers, usually women, in' the streets of London has not yet ended, and the popular nervousness in several quarters of the oity continues. One of the most startling oases ooaurred on Wednesday in front of a fashionable store in Oxford street amid a large throng of shoppers. A young man plunged his knife three Inches deep into the baok of a lady and then quietly waited until the police oame and arrested hiin. The prisoner, who had a good reputation, declared in oourt that he was unable to account for his action. He said that a strange, irresistible impulse to stab some one seized him suddenly, and he acted upon it at the same instant. He had never se^n his victim till that moment.

The police have been watching two or three weeks the person they believe to be the mysterious woman in black whose stabbing others of her sex put Kensington and other parts of the vvost end in terror for weeks, and whose murderous work I described in these dispatches a month ago. The detectives have been unable to obtain sufficient evidenoe to warrant her arrest, but outrages from this sonroe have ceased of late, so their suspicions were probably well founded. This amazing contagion of the homicidal mania continues to be a subject oL serious discussion both by physicians and laymen. Professor Forbes Winslow, the great expert in mentul diseases, takes occasion to urge a radical change in the lunacy laws. The great specialist also says: "In the case of a porson who kills another in the street without motive a certain congestion of the brain and rush of blood take place. If any one were to hit him on the nose, a blow which would cause the loss of 'M md, it would afford instant relief, and he would no longer be actuated by the impulse to murder. These ordinary homicidal lunatics, who are sane on the surface, are the most difficult to deal with. You may talk to them for four hours, and they will appear perfectly rational, yet they will suddenly go out and attempt to kHl the first person they meet. The typical homicidal lunatic, unlike th9 man who is afflcted with a desire to commit suicide, is incurabla "—London Cor. New York Sun.

Mikado's Son Not In Need of a Wife.

The report that American girls, if they are very rich, may have a chance to set their caps for the Japanese prinoe imperial is absurd, officials of the legation here say. The mikado is not casting his eyes westward, they declare, for a wife for Prinoe Yoshihito.

The heir to the throne of Japan is only 15 years old, and nothing, the legation officials remark, will be done toward selecting a bride for him for some time yet. Besides, it is a striotly observed custom for the princes of Japan,when they get ready to marry, to choose their wives from among the distant branohes of the imperial family.— Washington Letter in Boston Advertiser

Caricaturing a Reformer.

Mrs. Ormiston Chant cannot retire into private lifa Since the Empire affair she has been the most written about woman in uondon, and BOW—such 1B fame—her toy image is being sold about the streets. The toy consists of a bladder, with a woman's face, whioh, when blown out, flourishes a little red umbrella, shrieks, and shakes its head and finally ooll&uses. The venders cry out, 'Ere is Mrs. Hormiston Chant a-mak-ing a fuss at the Hempire."

Bismarck's Birthday.

All over Germany grand preparations are being made for the celebration of Bismarck's eightieth birthday on April 1, and statues, busts and monuments erected to thjje greatest living German will be unveiled that day, gifts and mementos will be presented, charitable Institutions will be dedicated to his memory, and all other forms of deep seated respect and admiration will take on concrete shape.—-Berlin Letter in Chicago Record.

The Overworked Kaiser.

Emperor William complains of overwork. Naturally. There being only 34 hours in a day, it is too much for any one man to write poetry and music and send out complimentary copies, imprison everybody who does not enthuse over his productions and convince the World at the same lime that he is vice (Almighty. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

A Generous Firm.

We are informed that the proprietors, Messrs. A. P. Ordway A Co., recently sent three dosen of their reliable medicine, Sulphur Bitters, to the Catholic Home for the Aged, whioh is highly ap predated by the directors aud inmates.' "As ye sow so shall ye reap.' —EDITOR CATHOLIC Usiow.

IT BIST IAN SCIENCE MEETING The original Christian Science society of Terre Haute, hold meetings every Sunday at 3 p. m. in hall over the old Prairie City bank. Entrance by Commercial stairway. All are welcome.

STENCIL DESIGNS.

AMATEURS MAY USE THEM FOR A .. FRIEZE DECORATION.

A Few Color SafgeiUom—How to Paint In the Pattern—Directions For Making a Gold Size—Preparing the Stencils—Adding Some Handwork.

The amateur may do some very creditable work with stent .1 designs if neat and careful. For a frieze decoration these designs will be found especially useful. With a view to assisting begin-

STENCIL DESIGN FOB FRIEZE.

ners in this work, we herewith present some directions from the London Carpenter and Builder concerning color combinations, preparation. of the stenoils and other important points in this manner of deooration.

A robin's egg blue ground would indicate for the ornamentation a deep shade of the same oolor, with bluish green, gray and silver. A pale green ground, pink, gold, silver and copper ornamentation. A deep red ground old gold, deep buff, ecru and gold. Olives and golden brown would also answer with this "ground, touched up with gold. Alight sea green ground would call for dull yellow, silver and light greenish oream. Alight robin's egg blue ground, cream, silver and gold ornamentation. Peacock bine ground, yellow, gray and gold. Orango yellow ground, lemon yellow,1 deep orange and gold. Old blue ground, light and dark buffs. Cafe au lait ground, ecru, copper and gold. Such area few of the color combinations to be suggested for stenciling designs suited to a frieze decoration.

Designs may be stenciled in plain felt paper in flat colors. Water color, known as distemper, should be used for this purpose. A handsome effect can be obtained on a-glossy oil paint surface by stenoiling jin with a flat or turpentine color, whioh causes the pattern to appear as if raised above the surrounding surface. An entire wall done this way is something to delight the amateur eye and fancy. The paint should be quite thiok and sLould be dabbed or pounced on. The brush should in all cases be well charged with color, taking care to get it on the pattern uniformly. Do not rub the brush across the pattern, as this will cause the paint to clog the

It is important to secure the right kind of stencil brush. The bristles should be long, though not too long, as this would make the brush too flabby for the purpose. A roller may be used in place of brush. Buy a 2 inch seaming roller used by paper hangers and cover it with plush, afterward running it over a hot iron to take off the most of the long pile of the material.

For gilding a size is needed. This is made with chrome yellow and slow drying varnish. Try this overnight, and if too quick put in some sweet oil. Should the size fail to adhere perfectly to the surface add more varnish. Use the size sparingly, getting only a thin film on. Make a quantity of the size, as it will keep, and the trouble is the samo with a small as with a large. Bronze powders may be dusted on the fresh paint.

Manilla paper, varnished after pattern has been cut out, is the kind to use for ordinary work. The varnish pre-

FOK FRIEZE DEOORATION.

vents the paint from soaking into it and renders it possible to wash the paper stenoil off when done with. For

MOPE FOR LEPERS.

promising Experiments Made With MI Alleged Cora In Venesoela. Experiments are being made in Maracaibo, Venezuela, with a treatment whioh, if it will not permanently cure, will at least stay the progress of leprosy. The prime mover in these efforts is £. EL Plumacher, United States consul in Maracaibo. He is aided by the directors of the lazaretto of that oity and members of the local government. The experiments thus far have resulted so satisfactorily as to attract the attention of the medical profession in various parts of South America, where lepers are more or less numerous.

An exhaustive report on the subject was sent recently to the state department at Washington by Mr. Plumacher. It is the discovery of Dr. & GL Bothwell, an American physician now residing in Maracaibo, who became acquainted with it while traveling in the western part of the United States. Mr. Plumacher says: "As to the effects, I may say that I am well content and with increasing hopa From the commencement of the medicine a improvement conld be observed. Tbe features regained a more natural aspect, and there was a marked increase of appetite. That the remedy would cure certain effects of the disease

was demonstrated beyond a doubt, aud although the process of cure was slow it was sure and constant."

The preparation of the medioine and care of the patients have proved an expensive undertaking, so much so as to be beyond the means of the directors of the lazaretto. In this emergency the government of Venezuela has been appealed to, and the matter will be taken up soon as a national affair. Medioal ocieties. and individuals are offering their aid. Heretofore leprosy has been considered beyond oure. The wretches who were stricken were ostracized from their fellows aud lived a few years in misery and pain until death relieved them.— St Louis Globe-Deipoorat.

TO LEARN FROM US,!V

Bos*lan Officials Are Here to Get Feint* For the Siberian Railroad.

Among the arrivals on the steamer Peking from the orient were two officials of the Transsiberian railway, who have come to America to study the railway and ferry systems of the country. G. Adadvoran, one of the party, is chief engineer of the big Siberian railway, and P. Sokolon, who accompanies him, is the vice president of the board of directors. They have a letter of introduction from Secretary Gresham to the presidents of all the large railroads in the country, and they will travel in search of information which, they expect, will prove valuable in the operation of the Siberian road. They are more interested in ferries than in railroads, however, for the establishment of a line of ferry steamers on the Amoor river is contemplated, and the visitors say they want the advantage of tfce experience of Americans in such matters. "One of the most interesting features of tho government railroad across Siberia to Vladivostok," said Mr. Sokolou, "will be the ferry system on the Amoor river. We expect to operate the steamers throughout the winter with the aid of some contrivance to be placed on the boats to break the ice. Our ideas on that matter are not perfected. We are now studying it"

The two officials nxpect to visit the locomotive works in thn eastern states with a view possibly jf adopting the American locomotive for use on the Siberian railwaj. They expect to adopt many American ideas Mr. Langarda, a photographer and secretary to the officials, is with the party. —San Francisco Chronicle.

Relief In Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder diseases re lieved In six hours by the "NEW GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CORE." This new remedy is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness In relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages in male or female. It relieves retention of water and rain in passing it almost immediately. If you want qulok relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by E. H. Bindley A CO^and COO*, Bell & Black and all druggists, Terre Haute, Ind.

Mr. J. F. Cole

Like a Lump of Lead

Distress In the Stomach, Nausea, Eto. Hood's Sarsaparllta Cured.

The following testimonial comes from Iflr. J. V. Cole, who is with 0. K. Cole, the well knew* Jeweller and dealer in druggists' sundries at Winterset, la., who because of close confinement •offered from indigestion and that tired feeling "0.1. Hood & Co., Lowell. Mass.: "Without any hesitation I can reoommend Hood's Sarsapat 111a. As 1 bare worked a wateh maker and Jeweler and have been closely confined to my business, I was sometime slaee

Troubled With My 8tomaeh. It seemed as If there was a big lump of lead tn

8rerythlng

very

fine work use the "tracing cloth" that architects use. Place the paper or cloth on glass and cut out the design with a sharp knife. If not desirable to leave iu the stencil breaks on the wall, unite them by painting them with a suitable brush. Stencil work looks best when some hand work is added, and where considerable of this is done the effect is very similar to entire hand work.

and I was unable so take a long breath, I ate distressed me very much and

vl VUIUR A Dvv UIJW vowvu uiv v«

caused me many sick spells. I could not sleep sights and would get up In the morning feeling worse than when I went to bed. Ihadhao sner^g whatever. I finally tried a bottle of Hood's.

Helped Me So Much

(tat I got another, and have now taken tattles and teel 0.<p></p>Hood's^

K. I can sleep well and cat

Cures

taarty for which my thanks are due to HoodPs |arsapenlla." J. F. Gout, Winterset, Iowa.

Hood'e Pills cure all Brer Ills, blUouoea* Hnm-*'** Indigestion, stek headache. Ma.

riaurice Hegarty,

Cigars

Manufacturer of Fine

7 1 5 I A Ii is S a 3 S E

Sc Brands.

Laura B. Invincible Merry Chimes Velvet

10c Brands.

Belina Jackson Club American Standard Irma

Thurman Coal and Mining Co.

BILL OF FARE TODAY.

Brazil Block, per ton. ...|2.30 Brazil Block nut double screened— 2.25 Brazil Block ntit single screened-- 1.26 Otter Creek Lump 2100 Double Screened Nut.. 1.75

Office, 934 north Eighth. Phone, 188. GEO. R. THURMAN, Manager.

The Tallow Dip,

HI

&

Both out of date (the candle and the clumsy spectacles). There has been as much improvement in^ glasses as in illumination. My spectacles are the very neatest and best in the market. I take pains to fit the frames as well as the glasses. Give me a call.

H. F. Schmidt,

Optician,

673 Main St., 5 Doors West of Seventh.

CHOLERA HOGS.

Highest Cash Price paid for

DEAD HOGS

Cv Also Tallow, Bones and Grease,'

OF ALL KINDS.

At my factory on the Island southwest of the city.

Harrison Smith,

KtW,

v"

1

-A ^Office, 13 S. Second SLf

fTERRE HAUTE, IND.

Dead AfclniSld removed free within tea miles of tho city* Telephone, 73.

rBL-AJsriE: books

The most complete stock of

iik

Of every description in the state.

Special Ruled Ledgers, Patent Flattening Books. Lowest Prices.

J. R. Duncan & Co.,

660-662 Wabash Ave.

Homeseekers'

WEST and SOUTHWEST.

BIG FOUR ROUTE.

Tickets will be sold on February 12th to all points is Arkansas, Colorado. Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Ut« Wyoming, and principal points in Arlzor,,, Idaho, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Missou# and South Dakota. Tickets good returning twenty (20) days from date of sale. For tickets and full information call on or addret, ticket agents Big Four Route.

E. E. South, Gen. Agt.r

E. 0. HcGORHICK,

D. B. MARTIN,

Pass. Traffic Manager

Qen. Pass A Tkt. Agt

BIG FOUR ROUTE, CINCINNATI

Established 1861 te J*** Incorporated 1888.

Clift & -Williams Co.

1 Successsors to Clift, Williams & Co.

ANUFAOTTJBER8 OF

AND DEALERS IN

Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Glas Paints, Oils S

AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE, Mnlberr/Bt., Cor. Ninth. J. BL WILLIAXS, President.

J. M. ULIFT, Sec'y and Treas

FRESH New York and Baltimore

OYSTER

Wholesale or Retail, Can or Bulk.

B. W. Johnson, 615 Main 8*

J. .A.. D.A.IIjET 509 Ohio Street.

4

Give him a call if you have any kind Insurance to place. He will write you lr good companies as are represented in the