Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1895 — Page 2

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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A. C. DUDDLE8TON. F. 3. PIKFKNBKINK.

DDDDLESTOH & FIEPEHBS1HK,

PROPRIETORS.

PUBLICATION OFFIC*.

Nos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

The Mall Is sold In the city by 250 newsboys and all newsdealers, and by agent* in 80 surrounding towns. Entered at the Postotflce at Terre Haute, Ind., a" second-class matter.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., FEB 16, 1895-

THE president can say now, as never before, "it is a condition and not a theory that confronts us."

HOUSE jockeys and prize fighters will be among those who will have to pay an Income tax. It is estimated that Corbett will pay into Uncle Sam'p t^asiftry not less than $2,000.

THE newspapers that refer to the Chino Japanese war are evidently in error. It is a Japanese war, and the only part that the Chinese are taking in it is in furnishing the victipis.

THK brightest scholar that Yale haJ graduated in twentv five years, Wilbert Perry, died in Hartford this* week, a common drunkard. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Connecticut legislature. There is a moral to this, but whether it points out the evil of becoming a member of the Connecticut legislature, or of any legislature, it is difficult to determine.

WITH the row ou hand ove^» the appointment of boards for the benevolent institutions, the legislative and con gressional apportionments, and the fight for the Nicholson bill, the Republican members of the Indiana legislature have doubtless made up their minds that while the lot of a political victor has certain attractions, it is not altogether a happy one.

ARE we never to have an end to this bacteria theory business? An Italian bacteriologist says that old age is caused by the presence in the tissues of "old aare bacteria," and he asserts that when some method of expelling these bacteria has been discovered man will become im mortal. Old Ponce de Leon when he started to look for the fountain of eternal youth, was, according to modern theory, looking for the bacteria es method.

GKOBOB Gorn.0 says it is true that hl^Jjv^r on the fourth of next month, aud r%fster,' Miss Anna Gould, is engaged to already the cabinet makers in Wawhingthe Irencb count, but that the day for have begun the work of reconstruc

the wedding has not been fixed. The count has wealth as well as a pedigree and therefore the match is thonght to be free from the suspicion that usually at taches to these marriages of rich young women of this country with. titled foreigners. Surely everyone can wish Miss Gould as much happiness as if she were uot worth $15 000,000.

SOME idea oP the shrinkage in business in 1894 may be obtained from the fact that the earnings of railroads which do 75 per cent, of the carrying trade of the country showed a falling off of $100,000,000 in thir gross receipts. During the year our foreign commerce was below the low-water mark. In arriving at a just estimate of the significance of these figures, however, it must not be forgotten that the shortage is cot altogether in the quantity, as rates and prices were lower.

BROOKLYN is going to inaugurate a new kind of municipal tax on oats. Dogs have always been taxed but it is proposed to tax the tabbies. The rate for both will be $2 per annum, and each must wear a collar properly tagged. Any person, harboring an unlicensed feline or canine will be liable to a fine of $10 or imprisonment for ten days. All^ the old maids iu Brooklyn are expected to rise up in arms against this new law, but then old maids have no votes, and according to tradition, but little .influence with men.

A FAMOUS New York physician recently died of pneumonia. There would be nothing of special Import In th€» fact were It not that he was famed for his theory for the prevention of this disease. Be did not believe In giving much medicine, but was oonstantly teaching the dootrlne of prevention by taking propei outdoor exercise. The oarping oritlo will say that this man of recognised ability in medical soienoe ought to have prevented his own death from the disease whloh he all but said was inexcusable, yet his death Is not to be accepted by reasonable people as in any way detracting from the wisdom of his theory.

'V THKRB IS much more that is fruitful of good in studying the life and achievements of Abraham Lincoln than in reviewing that of Napoleon Bonaparte, on whioh the country hAs seemingly gone crazy, and one is led to wonder what would be neoessary to cause a Lincoln ••revival." The ocuntry Is Napoleonroad now, and reading olubs and circles in every oommunlty are devoting time and study to a man who was defiolent in nearly every characteristic that made

Lincoln a greatman, who was unsoroplous unprincipled, sensual, a oommon butcher of men to achieve his own selfish ends and in whose charaoter one finds

bit little to commend itself to those who area eking for models aft«r whloh to shape their own Uvea. But the ooun* try

has gone mad on lads, and the Napoleonio orase, being the latest, must needs ran its course. There are doubles many who are able to read learned dissertations on the life and character of Napoleon, and wear his favorite flower beoaase it is the fashion, who would think it a waste of time to study the greatness of Abraham Lincoln. Verily, the Amerioan people are peculiar in their own peooliar way.

Two profeaaors in the Ohioaaco university have been asked to resign because they bad been teaching doctrines not consistent with the beliefs of those who have iufluence in the conduct of this great educational Institution. Prof. Hourwloh, who was teaching political eoonomy, became an active member of the Populist party and at a state convention of that party made a speech in favor of socialism. Prof. Bemis, who has written a great deal on the labor question, delivered some lectures on this subject which gave offense. It is said that the president of a Chicago gas oompany waited upon President Harper and that Bemls was called into his presence to be cateohised. Afterward his resignation, like that of Hourwich, was demanded.

WHEN a young man graduates from our national military academy, the supposition is that he is booked for a nice berth in the regular army. An examination of the army register for 1895, however, shows that out of 2,139 officers on the active list there are only 292 graduates who have risen above the lank of first lieutenant. The total number of West Pointers is 1,230, but 830 of these are subalterns. In other words, although fifty seven per cent, of the officers on duty are graduates of the military academy, only eighteen per cent, have been promoted more than one step since they "doffed the gray and donned the blue," so that praotically, the army is now dominated by officers who do not bear the aristocratic stamp of "The Point."

ISAAC P. GRAY, minister to Mexico, died at the City of Mexico, Thursday evening, of pneumonia. He had filled the chairs of lieutenant governor and governor of Indiana, being elected to the latter gteition in 1884, when he defeated Wm. flTcalkins. He was prominently mentioned as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1892, and had a majority of the Indiana, delegation at his back. Their allegiance was transferred to Mr. Cleveland, it is said, with the understanding that Mr. Gray should be given the vice presidential nomination. He was disappointed, however, and the position of Minister to Mexico .went to him as a solace to his wounded feelings. He was a shrewd politician, bad an influence thaS was hard to OYf*rSPWiei and was a of considerable ability. ofe&e

CLEVELAND'S term will be half

t!on in which they are always busily 6n gaged the last two years of a presidential administration. ^Postmaster General Blssell Is to retire and among the men picked out to be his successor is John E Russell, of Massachusetts. It is not the youDg man who was twice elected governor of that state, but the Russell who was defeated by Greenhalge. "Billy" Russell, the successful candidate, is laying low these days of gloom for Democrats. He is aware that there is time for disappearing in politics. He will bob up serenely after while, perhaps in 1896, or, if later, it will be all the better for him, as he needs a little of the aging process to make him fit for national prominence.

SOUTH DAKOTA has for some time been the Mecoa for dissatisfied husbands and wives who seek a severance of the marital tie with neatness, dispatch and little publicity, for there they have been able to secxtre a Judicial separation after a legal residence of six months, a provi sien that Is an Invita ion to fraud and deception. Now this residence clause has been repealed, and anew one enacted that requires a residence of but three months. The residents of the new state have derived great financial benefit from the presence in their communities of wealthy persons seeking divorces who have little grounds in their own states, and do not care to court publicity by airing their marital differences in the home courts. They like the money that comes in this way so well that they doubled the invitation to come by reducing the limit, a proceeding that does not speak very well for their sense of deoenoy and justice, and It will give the state a reputation of which its people will not have many reasons to be proud. Stringent divoroe laws have a tendency to reduce the number of dlvoroee and lax laws invite them, and no self-re-specting people should be placed in the position of inviting, by legislation, an increase in the number of divorcee.

IT is one of the stories of the backwoods districts in the South that negroes are yet held in slavery that neither the owner nor slave is aware that slavery has been abolished. It is no joke that two colored women were recently sold, under process of law, into slavery in Georgetown, Ky., the other day. They bad been convicted of vagrancy and were sold for a term of six months, one for fl.SO and the other for 92. The final solution of the race problem in the South is far in the future. Even in the more enlightened communities where the oolored race is making itself felt la the material growth of the country, there is the peculiar condition that while the oolored people are permitted to make money in any legitimate pursuit, and

evenfenoouraged to do so, yet they are not permitted to spend *s they please. The laws are so framed to deny the colored race fall equality in spending their money. Thomas T. Fortune, the New York oolored man, writing from Charleston, 8. O,, on this point, calls attention to the strangely anomalous condition that in the North where the colored man is at more liberty in choos* iog the manner, time aud plaoe for spending his money, he cannot enter In business and meet with success as he oan in the South.

DID flotioniata or dramatists In their wildest flights ever conceive of any more sensational case than that now being tried in the courts at Minneapolis, where Hayward, a fairly promlment man of business, of good social oonneotion, is being tried for the murder of Miss Ging, the dress maker with whom he had been intimate, in a business and sooial way. What soene in drama or story could be more sensational than the one where his brother, Adry, was placed on the stand to swear awny the life of the man to whom he was bound by ties of blood. While not the actual murderer of the woman the testimony seems to show that the prisoner procured her death for purposes of Bordid gain.' Never before in the orimlnal annals of the country was there a case that showed more plainly the possibilities of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde existence that some men lead. The prosecution of this case has been a marvel of strength and sensationalism. Step by step has the testimony led up to the striking climax that left the prisouer but little ground upon whioh to stand, and faint at heart might he well exolairn, as he did, "I be-, lieve they are going to haue me!" Perhaps no similar oase has «*ttraotfd as much attention as this one, and the testimony is read iu every community with as much zest as if it had a local Interest. 1*

ANOTHER state treasurer has gone wrong, this time Rufus N. Ramsay, of Illinois, who died last fall, and was succeeded by his son. The defioienoy was made good by his bondsmen, and the people of Illinois are not so badly off as those of South Dakota, who are minus over three hundred thousand dollars as a result of the shortcomings of a trusted and popular offioial. The epidemic of state treasury delinqulnoies is suggestive of that of several years ago, when a number of treasurers of southern states took it into their heads to bid a farewell to home and friends, and leave the country for their own good. As in the present cases, the officials were looked upon as models of honesty and uprightness, and one of them, in fact, bore the title of "Honest Diok." There will come a time, and it ought not be far off, when bonds of public officials will be required by law to be given by trust companies, whose examiners will be familiar with the de tails of such offices, and under whose careftri scrutiny such defalcations will he W$l nigh impoe*ibi©r s?bi«i possible, Will bd ixiade known in time tJ prevent such pfciporlions as these recent shortages have reached. Indeed muni cipalifcies and states could well afford to insure the honesty of their public fund handlers, if by so doing they could pre vent such losses as have been recently been brought to light. No man who is honest could object to a stated examination of his accounts by a man who thoroughly understood the business, and such examinations are never made under the present condition of things until the harm has been done.

WITHihe coming each year of the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln its observance is becoming more general throughout the land. This year the most notable address on Lincoln was that by Henry Watterson, editor of the, Louisville Courier-Journal, In Chicago. It has attracted more attention than any similar address, and his review o! the charaoter and attainments of the] man who is looked upon as the greatest man the age has produced, is well worth filing away as a treasure. His tribute to the memory of Lincoln is more striking perhaps from the fact that he himself was a Confederate soldier, and his testimonial to Lincoln's greatness is that of a defeated enemy. The peroration is well worth being reproduced in every newspaper in the land. They are the' words, not of a simple "spell binder," but of a man who has given years to the study of the charaoter of a wonderful man. What could be more striking than these eloquent words:

Born as lowly as the Son of God, In a hovel of what ancestry we know not and care not reared In penury, squalor, with no gleam of light or fair surroundings without external graces, actual or acquired without name or fame or official training it was reserved for this strange being, late in life, to be snatched from obscurity, raise 1 to supreme command at a supreme moment and Intrusted with the destiny of a nation.

Where did Sbakspeare get his genius? Where did Mozart get his music? Whose hand smote the lyre of the Scottish plowman and staid the lifeof the German prlestT God, God, and God alone and so sorely as they were raised op by God, inspired by God was Abraham Lincoln and a thousand years hence, no story, no tragedy, no eplo poem will be filled with greater wonder or be followed by mankind with deeper feeling than that which tells of his life and death.

A Oeneroos Firm.

We are informed that the proprietor*, Messrs. A. P. Ordway Co., reoently sent three dozen of their reliable medicine, Sulphur Bitters, to the Catholic Home for the Aged, whloh is highly appreciated by the directors and inmates. "As ye sow so shall ye reap.' —EDITOR CATHOLIC UXIOJ*.

CH HUMAN SCUBNCjS MEKTWG

The original Christian Science society of Terre Haute, hold meetings every Sunday at 8 p. m. in hall over the old Prairie City bank. Entrance by Commercial stairway. All are welcome.

HOUSE FURNISHING,

A MODIFICATION OF THE POPULAR COLONIAL STYLE.

Modern Library Representing Furniture Of Various Periods—Two Different Color Schemes, One For a Cold Light and One For a Direct Light.

Art Amateur has given on illustrated description of a library which is a modification of the present popular colonial Style. This affords more opportunity for freedom in furnishing, as the fhrniture is of various periods and styles.

There is a renaissance ohair with spirally wrought legs and carved back. In the can tear of tho room area table and ohair rather in the style of Lonis XV, and at the other side of the table is a leather upholstered ohair of a kind that was most common in the rejgn of Lonis XIII. The tall standing lamp of wrought {iron is a wholly modern development.

Buc the mantle with its Ionio columns and overmantel set with an ovai mirror, tho woodwork and plaster moldings and stenciled ceiling, give an air of order and harmony to the whole arrangement. *The room is well lighted from two sides, but as it may run either north or South or east or west two different color schemes are suggested. In the former oase the light will be mainly cold, and

A MODERN LIBRARY.

a warm tone should be adhered to. It ^?ill be found best to keep the walls and ceiling of a plain tint, the stenciling on the ceiling to be of a tone lighter than the .walls and darker than the mass of the ceiling. Few woods look better in a north light than mahogany, and its nse is advised for mantel and wainscot. This, with the brick facing of the mantel and the rich reds and browns of the furniture and rugs, suggest a red tone for the rooms. In that case a plain paper Of a deep terra cotta or dark crimson tint may be uagd for the walls, and the ceiling should be a very deep tone of old ivorj

The colors to be first introduced in the bric-a-brao and accessories should be browns and olives and tones of cream and ivory, but in spqts, as in the shades of the lamps, the rugs and the brocade covering of the easy chair, stronger tinta may be introduced reds, blue^ ftijd greens preferably.

Should the light be

warm

and direofc

a colder general gQ^eme may be adopted, alldtl)6i^»»CTyi cr-iroIiuiTJOTWl*Wco»ir'rise^ 03? ftjfihogaay woodwork, as before, but with walls in dafk blue and ftfeiling in pale turquoise, aiid trak woodwork, with a correspondingly lighter treatment throughout. If oak be used, it is recommended that the bricks in the fireplace be of an olive glaze, not red or brown. The walls may be in light terra cotta or brown, and the ceiling in crearti color. Bright yellows and pinks wou?d take tho place of the bright reds and bines in the alternative schemes.

But in color, as in form, it will be found that liberty as to the final decoration ot a room depends very much on the striot maintainance of harmony in the firdt setting out of the schema One shouldjnot permit discord in the larger masses of color, with $e idea of bding able tq bring them into harmony later

ALCOVE IN MODKBH UBB&BT. boleverly disposed spots of brighter obr. Even if one should beBuooessful, tl result is never quite jo good, and feidee the objects that furnish suoh of color are oommtiily movable 111 there is no snoh thing as laying wn unalterable roles lb matters of saration.

Treatment of Harrow Sails. There is no plaoe so hard to treat ar tioally as the narrow haj in a small lartment Every one kn to of space without af |e main door to tile kltoh [Within view at the end te bomemaker it is an jddle of this ball pi bicb thick curtains oan bgs and hooks, sot when be drawn together, taking room beyond. It sail space near the main^ |est of drawers find a iod decorating It will

dm leaf forms an Decorator and

it isalong and from oar, whioh the hall, to lii the a pole, in justed by it ing the utilize a let the

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HE'S A H!QH ROLLER.

Yoong Lord Hop* Almofft Beachee the Spendthrift Record. Lord Francis Pelbam Clinton Hope, brother of the Duke of Newcastle and heir presumptive to the dukedom, married the other day Miss May Yohe, the young actress, and this week he has been spending a part of his honeymoon in the frowsy, unromantio precincts of the bankruptcy court The proceedings showed that he badly needs some one to look after him, and he ought to be thankful be has now got a clever young woman as a wife, who will be able to keep him out of the hands of the Jews if anybody oan, which appears to be doubtful. This interesting young aristocrat came of age in 1887, and during the past seven years, although he enjoyed an income of $85,000, he has managed to accumulate debts to the amount of nearly $3,260,000.

This is considered a very fine performance, of which any British nobleman might be proud, and which gets within measurable distance of the record established by th famous rake and gambler, the Marquis of Hastings, more than a generation ago. At first sight it would appear easy even for a young unmarried man, born in the purple, to live with a fair amount of comfort upon $85,000 a year. In fact, Lord Hope declares that he kept well within his income as far as regards actual personal living expenses, but he says he waR handicapped at the start with the payment of $215,000 succession duty, and during the seven years he incurred $22,930 liabilities on behalf of others aud paid nearly $80,

Q00 inter

est to money lenders. These figures' are considered quite creditable to the young lord, and he would have passed out of tlje bankruptcy court as a model young man, without a stain upon either his moral or his business character, had the official registrar been content to inquire no further, but he, having no particular reverence for the duke's brother, had the bad taste to drag into the light of day betting and gambling debts to the extent of $850,000 for the seven years, and debts incurred in theatrical speculations to the tune of $120,000, two' items whioh pretty well indicate the real causes of his lordship's troubles. He might have pleaded that his theatrical losses, if heavy, bad at least brought him a handsome, clever wife, but he did not do so, and his affairs stand adjourned for further investigation.—London Letter. ,,

A Long Distance Concert.

An extraordinary concert and ball took place last week in the Hungarian town of Teinesvar. The audience listened by means of telephones distributed around the room to a military orchestra playing in the town of Axad, duets and songs in Szegedin, a chorus by a glee olub at Szabadka and popular songs by celebrated in three theaters of Budapest, A Quartet at Arad was as distinctly beard as the "Rakoczy" march telephoned from Szegedin. Finally the young people present danced for^Qurs to music alternately played ii^Cw, towns. "SI',: with ~. An Ant! Antitoxlne Crusade.'*

Opposition to the use of the antitox ine treatment for diphtheria has already taken an organized form in England. A deputation headed by Lord Coleridge has protested to the authorities against its use in the hospitals on the ground that "public money ought not to be devoted to experiments in psychology."

Relief In Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder diseases relieved In six hours by the "NKW GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE." This new remedy Is a great surprise on account of Its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladde'r, kldueys, 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 quick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by E. H. Bindley A Co. and Cook, Bell & Black and all druggists, Terre Haute, Ind.

Only a Scar Remains

Scrofula Cured—Blood Puiifl*d b| Hood's 8arsaparllla. "0. H«od tt Co., Lowell, 31MS. "It It with pleasure that I tend a testlmonM MBiiemliif what Hood's Sarstfparffla has dona far my daughter. It Is a wonderful nwdlattw Mad Ioaanot recommend it too highly. Baiafc WIM Is fourteen years old, has keen

Afflicted With Scrofula

•vwrfSMeslwwasoMrsarekL For Are (he has bad a naming sore on one side of bet •tee. We tried every remedy recommended, bo

Hood's5^Cures

II fead eared her rf dyspepsia. 81M had beei trevbled wia that complaint since ehikDiood, Md since her cure she has never been withooti bottle of Hood's Sarsapwllla la the hoasTwS —itnwitiod giving It to Sarah about one I0s^ and It has eonquered the running sor«t

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vateaeeofthedreadtaldisease. PmJowte the medtetne bar eyesight was affec can see perfectly. Is eonneet

Jle Pill#, and find them the SS-iflS avrrur, Xenla, Illinois. Hood's Pills cure nausea, slek headaeh% lartigestlos, btllontneas Sold fey afl

Thunnan Coal and Mining Co.

BILL OF FARE TODAY,

Brazil Block, per ton .....|2,80 Brazil Block nnt doable screened-.. 2.25 Brazil Block not single screened^.- 1.25 Otter Creek Lorn 2.00 Double Screened Knt...„.^.^„ 1.75

Office, 884 north Eighth. Phone. lg& GEO. R. THTJRMAN, "Manager.

Tomatoes Corn

Tomatoes, per doz 90c Sugar Corn, per doz 90c Bulk Oysters, per qt 30c Good Can Salmon, per can.... 10c Good Lard, per lb 10c Ringan Shoulders, per lb •. 8c

TRY OUR

CORN AND TOMATOES

They area bargain. Quality Guaranteed..

C. M. MOONEY,

24 South Sixth Street.

CHOLERA HOGS.

Highest Cash Price paid for

Also Tallow, Bones and Grease

or AXI« KINDS.

At my factory on the Island southwest of the city.

Harrison Smith,

Office, 13 8. Second St»,.t.

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

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

FrorroaTs tiensliy gl-ven fllecL ItLS&id court by th 4

ten

bla-Istk books

The most complete stock, of

Blank Books

Of every description in the state.:

Special Ruled Ledgers: Patent Flat-Opening Books. Lowest Prices, 11

J. R. Duncan & Co.,

660-662

Wabash Ave.

Homeseekers'

EXCURSION

WEST and SOUTHWEST.

BIG FOUR ROUTE.

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

E. E. South, Qen. Agt..

E. 0. McCORMICK,

Pass. Traffic Manager

Clift fejWilliams C6V,

Successors to Clift, Williams AQo,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Sash, Doors, Blinds Etc.

AND DEALERS IN

Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Glass^ Paints, Oils:

AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE, Mulberry St., Cor. Ninth.p%j f^ ffjt' J. H. Wn.i.iAMB, President. ^*4

Wholesale or Retail, Oan or Bulk.

E. W. Johnson, 615 Main St,

MERRITT,

The Merchant Tailor and Hatter,

645 Main Street.

An elegant stock of Woolens for Fall Wear. All the new shapes In Fall Hats.

J. .A. DAILEY 509 Ohio Street.

Give him a call if yon have any kind of Insurance to place. He will write you in as good companies tus are represented In the city.

TpELSENTHAL, A. B.

Justice of the Peace and Attorney it Lsrt?, 26 south fed street. Terre Haute, Ind,

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D. B. MARTIN,

Gen. Pass 4TkU Agt

BIG FOUR ROUTE, CINCINNATI.a

Established 1861. Incorporated 1888,.=

J. M. CLrrr, Sec'y and Treas.

FRESH New York and Baltimore