Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 December 1895 — Page 3

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26—No. 26.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE POETS.

Rise, bappy mora! rise holy morn! Draw forth the cheerful day from nlgbt, Ob, Father, touch the East, and light The light thai •bone when Hope wan born. —Tennyson.

'There's a song in tbe air, there's a star in the sky, There** a mother'* deep prayer and & baby's low cry

Lnd the star rains it's Are while the beaatl* fal sing, And tbe manger of Bethlehem cradles a

King! -»-j. G. Holland.

Tbe night that erst no name had worn cs To it a bappy name is given ,rt For in that stable lay, new-born,

The peaceful Prince of Earth and Heaven. —Alfred Dommet

This day

Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. —Hnakespeare.

This happy day, whose risen sun V^ Shall set not through eternity: Tbls holy day, when CbrisU the Lord,

Took on Him our humanity. —Phoebe Carey.

But the stars that shine In Bethlehem Hhlne still and shall not cease, And we listen still to tbe tidings

Of Ulory and of Peace. —Adelaide A. Proctor.

But peaceful was tbe night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace on earth bc^an 11 ton.

Who taught mankind on that first Christmas d»y? What 'twas to be a roan to give not take To serve, not rule to nourish, not devour To help, not crush, If need to die, not live? —Charles Kingsley.

Botne say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning slngeth all nlgbt long, So ballow'd and so gracious Is the time. —Shakespeare.

With gentle deeds and kindly thoughts And loving words withal, Welcome the merry Christmas In,

And hear a brother's call —F. Lawrence.

Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. —Scott*

The poor will many a care forget The debtor think not of his debts

But, as they each enjoy their cheer, Wish it were Christmas all the year. —Thomas Sillier.

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep, «'Ood is not dead nor doth He sleep! The Wrong shall fall, tbe lllgbt prevail With peace on earth, good will to men I" —Longfellow.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

City Engineer Boater is the uncrowned King of the Market House, and Past Grand Master of tbe Art of "Getting There." He does just about as be pleases, and gets what be wants, as wit ness the action of the council Tuesday night, when his appointees to tbe belt sewer survey were confirmed by a prao tioally uuunimous vote, Mr. Scbonefeldt being the only Republican that voted agaiunt tbe confirmation wbtm it first cauie up, although a futile effort was afterward made to defeat the appoint mmits, when eight of the Republicans voted to reeonsider the vote by which the appointments were confirmed. At least four of the nine new appointees are Democrats, four are Republicans, while

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man, Kelley, maintains that he is a Republican, and others insist that he is a Democrat Bo far as the ability of tbe new men is concerned there is no qties tton, but the action or the council is the subject of much comment because of the seeming inability of the Republican council to find Republicans to take the places. If the Democrats should obtain control of the council next spring—of whtab there is not much probability— the Republicans on tbe engineering foroe will be given the run se quickly that their heads will swim. But this doesn't disprove the aesertion that Mr. Hosier 1* a smooth article, and I would kke off nay bat to him, if it were net for 4ar of cUchiug a cold in tbe head*

The taembera of the old Republican aunty oom rait tee are holding a meetng at the court houne this afternoon, etermlning whether or not tbe new omraittee to be elected next month hall consist of a committeeman from i4Ch voting preclnot In the county, as 4*t time, or shall be made up of one each ward and township as was tneriy the case. When the state oom littee held its meeting last month a etition was sent from this city, signed a number ol prominent party work's, asking the oommittee to adopt an orer making the county committee con'*11 Of A committeeman from eaoli ard and township, bultb* WWmittoe bok no formal action on it. It Is supsd. tbe call of the state ootnuilUee aklng it optional with each county to opt the rule beat suited to it was used by the petition referred to. ntre la already much interest mantled in the coming primaries to elect tetubers of the new oounty oommittee, nd I to subsequent election of a chair uau to conduot next year's campaign, tyilto a number of name* have bean lentioned in sonnection with this im •rtant office, among them being J. E. »jetT, Otto O. Carr, Frank Benjamin, 1. K. Diali, w. W. Hauck, Geo. E. •ugh, W. U, Berry and Josh Craodelt. ext year Is considered a pretty gxd

Mir to be chairman of the Republican »unty committee. This is one of tbe seasons of tbe year -tbe principal one—during which every tie wishes that he could be rich, if only a day. The opportunities ares® nu prous for doing good that every year lie feels that if h* could be rich, If for "»e day only, be would do enough good last him all the rest of his natural fe. If Q. V. bad the riches, npt of fcesua, but even Of John D. Rockefeller, you know what he wonld do to make

a merry Cbrlatmaa here in Terre Haute? Here aro some of the things he wonld do:

He'd start all tbe mills and factories in Terru Haute, and give employ mem to tbe hundreds of idle men, and pay tbem the good wages they were getting back in the good old days of 1892, tbe year that brought mere pros perity to the people than any they had ever enjoyed.

He'd engage all the great big fat turkeys in Yigo county, and every family that bad a poor prospeot of enjoying a Christmas turkey vould be strictly in tbe swim.

He'd open Ohio street across the E. fc T. H. tracks, and force that soulless cor poratlon to mgye Jtf jards outside the city limits,

He'd improve dnlo street from Second street to the railroad ditto to Cherry street.

He'd hire a hall for the fire-eating oiti zens who even now want to enlist for thirty days or during the war with Great Britain, and give them a chance to display their patriotic eloquence.

He'd give the hustling T. P. A. boy9 enough money to guarantee the over whelming success of their national convention to be held here in June next.

Ha'd have our merchants do enough business between this and Tuesday night to make np for the dreadful weather of the present week.

Adolph Gagg is a victim of fires—of two kinds. Not long ago his rooms In the 8avlngs bank were damaged by fire, he being absent from the city 'hp time When the rooms were repaired lie was also absent from the city, and on his return he found that tbe colored man in charge had moved a gas stove into his rooms, lighted tbe gas, and "let 'er go," to dry the plastering. When his gas bill for tbe month came in he dropped over in a dead faint, for it doesn't take many days' constant use of dollar gas to run a gas bill up into the dollar coluir n. He paid tbe bill, of course, but if he doesn't give as many Christmas presents this year as usual it need not be a matter of surprise.

Liehr, the tax ferret, is making some of the men of means about town change oolor. One day this week in the auditor's office there were several little slips of paper containing a statement of moneys that had not been returned for taxation for several years past, to which the names of several gentlemen were attached, making voluntary acknowledgement that they had omitted the amounts from their tax returns which they had sworn to &

City Engineer BoBler went to his old home in Ohio yesterday, sick, but he wiU probably feel better when he hears the result of the second trial of the Davis damage suit against the city, the foundation for whtcb was satd to be his defective engineering. The jury found for the plaintifl last night after being out thirty hours, but estimated his damages at one dollar only. Terre Haute seems to be a bad city for damage suits, at least for the plaintiff Twice tbe city has beet*successful in this case, and in the Wei ostein case the jury disagreed. The plaintifl in the latter case took a ohaoge of venue to Sullivan county alleging that be could not get a fair trial here

PIERSON A CQ XJ121 ED.

The trial of Strother Pierson on the charge of murder was oompleted earlier than was expected and the jury last night returned a verdiot of not guilty. The defense Introduced testimony to show that Joyce, whom Pleraon shot and killed, war a qnnrrolsome man and raised a doubt, at least, as to whether Pierson acted in self defense/

President Debs of tbe American Railway Union last night received a message from President Maban of the street railway, employes'organisation asking him to come to Philadelphia at once to assist in tbe strike. Mr. Debs replied that he would go if Mrs. Debs' health would permit. Mrs. Debs is threatened with pneumonia. At the time of tbe Pullman strike President Mahan went to Chicago to a««ist tbe A. R. U. and the call to President Debs is for like assistance. The Philadelphia striken are out because the new consolidated company which owns all the lines baa refused to recognise the labor organisation and also refused to meet with a citisens' CO&imittes to considers proposition for arbitration*

A YEA It INDIANAPOLIS.

During the year Just past in Indianapolis there were twenty-four business failures with total aaseta of 9219,000 and liabilities of 9378,296. There were fourteen failures in 1894 with assets and liabilities of 9175,000 and 9100,000 respectively.

Tbe bank clearances of the five banks of the city was #212,000,000, which is a large Increase over the previous year

There are 1S3 building and loan associations, with 69,881 members and 20,000 residents of the city are now borrowers. The receipts of tbe associations for theyetr amounted to 95,000,000 of which (1,832,889 04 was on paid up stock. There were J44 associations in 1894 with 57,714 members, with $3,73S,S4l 55 loaned on mortgages and receipts of 9^,400,000.

One hundred and four corporations were organised for business during the year under the law for stock companies

Tbe development of trast companies under the law of 18M has been a feature of Indianapolis* financial history. One new company baa been organised. The aggregate capital of tbe three in axtstenoe is 91,900,000.

HOW THEY WHITE.

SIGNATURES OF SOME WELL KNOWN RESIDENTS OF TERRE HAUTE.

If Handwriting is an Index to Character Here 1s a Lot of Good People—*ao Similes of the Writing of Soj»»- Hen Who

Have Assisted in Makings iiatoiy.

The study of handwriting has developed into a science, and in tbe East it was quite a fad last winter. A foreigner with an unpronounceable name set the "fad" crowd wildwith his efforts to de scribe a man's character by a study of his handwriting. No exponent of this sclenoe, it is safe to say, was ever called upon to examine a more oreditable^lot of haudwriting than is given below:

Here is the signature of Indiana's grand old man, tbe well- beloved of every Terre Hautean, no matter of what age, conditioner station, the hero of presidential elections utmost without number, and whom every resident of this vicinity, regardfess of politics, hopes to see participate in many more contests yet to come:

TERRE HAUTE, USTD., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21,1895.

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This is the way the present United States Senator from Indiana, and Terre Haute, signs his name,

And here is the way be will sign it, in oase the Republicans are successful in the effort they will make next year to elect a Republican legislature:

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This is tbe signature of one of Terre Haute's most famous citizens, who has a wide reputation as a successful diplomat, and who has acted as tbe minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordin ary for the United States at the capital of Mexico, as well as in a similar po sition in the Republic of Chili:

A Terre Haute man who attained dis tinction an deputy commissioner of pensions under the former Cleveland administration, and wbo has served his country and state faithfully in other responsible positions signs bin name thus:

If Mayor Fred A. Ross were called upon to write his name a thousand times in succession, not one of the signatures would vary in tbe slightest from the fac-simile given below. It is a peculiar hand, and it would require an artist to duplicate it:

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There's not much flourish about the signature of City Treasurer Charley Balob, but it is so plain that he who runs may read:

The engraver disappointed us or we would have to use here the signature of tbe man who looks after the financial end of tbe business of Vigo county, W. T. San ford, who is as excellent a penman as he is a public official.

Here is the signature of a man wbo had tbe temerity to recommend to the the young gentlemen of Terre Haute "to wear Manhattan shirts—and nothing else:"

This Is the signature of a city olerk who has probably attached his name to more oity bonds than any other man who ever held that position:

A very well known oittsen of Terre Haute, who haa probably attained great er Matonio distinction than any other resident of the state of Indiana ia the Hon. Thomas B. Long:

*'Dlck" Moore may be able to get the best of ''Jim" Dl»bon In tbe way of practical «k«i. but the founder of "Gtoger Block" can give his friend across the street cards and spadea when itoomesto writing and then beat him like a quarter horse. In fact the senior member of tb» firm of Moore A Langen has an established reputation as the worst writer on Println* Bouse row, and it doesn't require any effort on bis

part to maintain it. In order that there may be no confusion in the matter it becomes necessary to explain that the signature just below that of Mr. Dishon is Mr, Moore's:

One of the best known oitisens of Terre Haute, and one who is perhaps interested in more commercial and industrial enterprises than any other resident is

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If the average man had to sign his name as often during the year as does tbe general agent o* the Vandalia railroad be would not be as olever and genial as the owner of the following sig nature:

This is the signature of a former Congressman from the city of Terre Haute and a man who was at that time one of tbe youngest members ever elected to that honorable position:

And this is the way the present M. from this distriot and oity affixes his name to legal documents:

If City Attorney John O. Piety had known, when he wrote bis signature for Tbe Mail, what he knows this morning —the successful outcome of the Davis damage Buit in which he won a victory for the city—he would probably have thrown a little more flourish in it:

Here's a row of bank cashiers whose magic names attached to drafts have made many hearts happy when tbe owners thereof were far, far from home:

A man doesn't need a microscope to discover the resemblance between tbe writing of Editor George M.Allen,of the Express, and his father, the business manager of the same paper. Mr. Allen, sr., was oity clerk many years ago, and his signature on the oity reoords is as much like the signature below as the traditional two peas:

Tbls is tbe signature of a gentleman who is considered by bis closest friends to bear a striking resemblance to Napoleon:

Judge Henry made bis first success in life teaching 'readin', ritin' and Arithmetic, and his handwriting shows that be furnished a good copy for his pupils:

Ia addition to being a splendid penman Ju»tioe A. B. Ftoisenthal has are markable gift, tbat of being able to duplicate any handwriting placed before

him. There isn't a signature on this page that he cannot duplicate so accurately that the writer himself would deny that it was a duplication:

Below is the signature of "a chiel amang ye takin' notes," and faith if he don't print 'em, he'll put 'em on the tax duplicates against you next spring, as it is the duty of the townsh I assessor to do:

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The auditor of Vigo oounty "slings a pretty good quill," as is befittiug a man wbo had the distinction of being tbe first Republican elected to that position in the course of twenty-four years:

Charley Melville could write a book and make every line of it as artistic as he signs his name below:

When the conservator of peace of Vigo oounty signs for a prisoner at tho state's prison south he does it in the following manner:

'And when the prisoner at the bar trembles in his boots as the indictment is read to blm he does it before the man who signs his name thus:

The recorder's office of Vigo county will be a model so long as it is In oharge of a man who can write like this:

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PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

The data in regard to the disputed boundary line of Venezuela goes back to 1649

The population of England is 28,483,490, of Wales 1,519,085, of Scotland 4, 025,647. and of the islands 147,842, a total of 33,176,014. In case of war between Great Britain and the United States the 4,704,750 Inhabitants of Ireland will also have to be reckoned with. The question is whether Ireland will be a reorultlng ground for England or for the United States.

A Buffalo paper desires it to be known that the lake cities do not feel that they are in a defenceless condition as regards any form of attack from England by way of Canada. There are fifty lake cruisers that could quickly be converted into war vessels, and tbe locks of the Welland canal could be blown up by troops without leaving American soil. General Sherman used to say that "Canada is within American lines." Its narrow strip of settled terrirory along the border is vulnerable at scores of places.

The following Is but a partial list of the lands England has seized or acquired by adroit diplomatic trickery:

Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch, 1704, and summarily appropriated by Sir George Rooke. The Ency doped la Brltannica says: "It is hardly to the honor of England that It was unprincipled enough to sanction the occupation."

Mauritius. Forcibly occupied, 1810, Aden. Seised, 1814 from a helpless state on the plea tbat it failed to make due reparation for iftjury dane to a shipwrecked British crew.

Malta. Forcibly occupied, 1814.* Trinidad. Forcibly occupied by the British, 1797.

Africa, including tbe gold coast, Beohnanaland, tbe Soudan, (Jape Colony, Zululand, and all tho richer parts of the oontinent. Acquired by a deliberate policy of aggression, subsidised private companies and oompnlsory annexation of native states.

Jamaica. Captured, 1665. Ceylon. Seised from the Dutch by the British, 1795, aod complete British sovereignity arbitrarily assumed, 1815.

Ascension islands. Forcibly occu pied, 1815. British Burmah, Berbico, Borneo, Hong Kong, Heliogolaod, Goso aod St. Helena. Ali acquired by conquest.

This la apart of tbe list of England's spoils. Tbe vast empire of India ia not mentioned

NEW LAW 03PICS BUILDING. Mr. Frank McKeen is to erect a fonr story building at tbe soutbeast corner of' Third and Ohio streets. It Is to be fori lawyers' offices and Mr. McKeen has so-! cared as tenants nearly all the leading law firms in tbe oity.

Twenty-sixth Year

SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM.

Mr. William E. Curtis in his letter to the Chicago Record from Washington says it Ib a curious fact that excepting Mr. Boutelle of Maine and Senator Till- ?|f| man of South Caroliuathe only criticism that has been heard at either end of th& capltol on tbe president's message has come from Democrats wbo have heretofore been olose adherents of th«* president's policy, like Mr. Gray of Delaware,, who has been recognized as the spokesman of tbe administration in the senate. Mr. Gray does not see his way clear to follow the president quite as far as ho has gone. He believes in the Monroe doctrine, but, as Josiah Quincy said about tbe liquor law when he was trying to get the votes of tbe saloonkeepers and toughs down in South Boston, he thinks it ought to be enforced in "an intelligent and liberal manner."

Tbe editorials in the newspapers of this country tbat have been reprinted here and tbe telegrams that have been received at tbe White House, at the state department and by members of both parties in congress show tbat Mr. Cleveland hasstirred the patriotio spirit of tbe nation as it has not been stirred since the war. The most effusive demonstrations oome from tbe south, and a member from Georgia sent to the clerk's desk after the Hitt bill had been passed this morning a telegram from a noted ex-confederate in that state ofiering to raise a regiment of ex confederate veterans to sustain tho president's policy. Similar telegrams are coming from militia oommanders in all parts of the country. I suppose tbat the secretary of war must have received as many as 100 to-day and the president half a hundred more. The only dissenting voices that have been heard among the newspapers thus far are the New York World, which thinks the president, has made a great mistake, and the New York Evening Post and tbe BaltimoreSun, two faithful "cuckoos," whioh now shake their heads gravely and hope that, nothing serious will happen.

But there isn't going to be any war. The English people have too large a financial investment in the Unitedi States to permit hostilities. Besides the investigation of the boundary dispute by a commission will throw it again Into tbe field of controversy, nomatter what the conclusions may be» There is little possibility of a decision* before the close of the present administration, although the president would like to have a report during tbe coming summer. The commission will sit in Washington and examine whatever evidence may be submitted by tbe government of Venezuela or tbat may exist in the archives of the state department, where there are many volumes devoted to the subjeot. The government of Great Britain will, of oourse, be invited to participate in the investigation, but it is soaroely possible for Lord Salisbury to accept, If this government is overthrown and thfl liberals are restored to power, Great Britain may deoide to take an active part in tbe investigation, whlob would be gratifying because it would be practically a submission of tho whole dispute to tbe arbitration of the United States.

People are already talking about the personnel of the commission, and tho names of ex-Presidnnt Harrison, exSecretary Foster,ex- Minister Puelps, ex- I&-.J Senator Edmunds, Mr. James C. Carter, Mr. Frederick Coudert, Justice Gray of the Supreme court and several others are mentioned. ||p

It is asserted at the white house thafc. the president wrote tbe message himself. Tbe clerks say that be came homofrom his shooting trip Sunday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Secretary Carlisle and Secretary Lamont spent a half-hour or more with him, then Mr. Olney came in and was with him until dinner time. After dinner the president went to his desk, took a small tablet about the size of a page of note paper and wrote the message with his own hand before 3 o'clock the next morning. It. made fifteen pages of fine manuscript. i^Jjt

Another interesting fact developed by the publication of the papers is that Mr. Olney wrote the note to Mr. Bayard dofining the position of the administration on the Monroe doctrine as early aa last May, while Judge Gresbam was yet alive and secretary of state.

COL. 1HOMPSON ON 1 HE WAR TALK.

Speaking of what be oonslders to be tho improbable event of a war with England Colonel Thompson said tbat no doubt some of the larger coast cities would suffer great disaster but that fighting on land, as in the days of tbe revolution, would be ont of tbe question. The ships conld not land enough men to avoid almost instant dsfeat and oapture. New York and Boston would suffer most. He doubtodf If the enemy could reach New Orleans.

The Improbability of war, tbe colonel said, would be apparent on reflection. Tbe two great English speaking peoples* would never engage in war because in* tbia civilised age peaceable method* would suggest themselves to both countries by which any controversy might be settled. The only manner 1c which war could be precipitated would be by an aggressive act on tbe part of England, and tbat conn try would never commit* tbe act which meant an attack on thiscountry. Our position is impfegnablebiteanse It is an attitude of self-defense.. If for no other reason England would* not go to war with us because sbe would! know that as soon as she did Russiat would take advantage of tbe long-looked for opportunity to make war on ben This would mean tbe beginning of theend of the English monaroby..

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