Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 April 1896 — Page 4

THE-MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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DUDDLESTON & PIEPEHBRIHK,

PROPRIETORS.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 4.

THE sort of arithmetical calculation that is indulged in to prove the strength of some of the presidential candidates is enough to drive the makers of arithmetics to hard drink. It strongly disproves the old saying that figures won't like.

THEY have no half-way measures in Chicago. This week the board of election commissioners in that city rejected 45,000 names on the registration list as fraudulent, more than the total vote of the states of Montana, North Dakota, Delaware, Florida and Nevada.

THE judge and grand jury at Champaign, 111., now trying to punish the authorities of the University of Illinois for faihire to keep the flag flying from each of the buildings of the institution, have furnished an excellent illustration of patriotism of the wire edge variety.

THE ladies of Maysville, Ky., have declared that in their community a theater hat law is unnecessary, as they are in the habit of combing their hair, and therefore are not afraid to take their hats off in the theater. In other communities where the ladies comb their hair it will not be necessary to pass such fool laws.

No doubt a large proportion of the readers of the newspapers would not seriously object to the lynching of Walling and Jacksou. Not that the newspaper readers are bloody minded, but because that seems to be the only way in which they may be relieved of the daily deluge of loose guessing about the horrible murder of Pearl Bryan.

THE efforts to revive the rank of lieutenant general for the benefit of General Miles will hardly be successful. There is positive opposition to it on the part of members of the administration and in congress men of influence are quietly, but none the less effectually, opposing it. Gen. Miles has always been an ambitious man and up to date has received all the distinction and preferment he deserves. He has done a great deal of elbowing to get to the front and it would become him to rest on the laurels he has grasped.

THK talkative senator from New Hampshire, Chandler, this week WHS brought to a realization of the fact that a man can talk too much for his own good. The New Hampshire convention endorsed Thomas B. Reed, but also declared in the resolutions its belief in the pure and able statesmanship of William McKinloy. To make the matter worse Senator Chandler was chairman of the convention that adopted these resolutions, and this after he had made wild charges that Mr. McKinley's campaign was one of boodle.

THE Indianapolis papers can see nothing especially meritorious in the proposed canal to connect the lakes with the head waters of the Wabash river, and they think that the present is a very poor time to broach such an expensive project. If the canal in question had for its object the connection of the great lakes with the White river a few miles above the city limits of Indianapolis, the same papers would see in it one of the grandest engineering feats of the present age, in which every citizen of the grand territory affected by the canal would be greatly benefitted.

THE eulogists of Speaker Reed, who is credited with keeping down the expenses of the government, do not seem to realize that every word of commendation of him for the course of legislation in the house is a reflection on the Republican majority. It places Reed in much the same attitude before the country that Cleveland has occupied toward his party, which is that he is better than his party. It is as if the party is not to be trusted, but. that with Reed autocratically directing every proceeding of the house there is safety. A few days ago the house broke loose from the speaker and proceeded to transact some business not on his programme, and the reports say the big man from Maine was dumbfounded.

UPHOLDING THE LAWS.

The Supreme court of the United States has rendered two decisions which are expected to make it possible to enforce the inter-state commerce law. One is that a witness may be compelled to testify though his testimony tends to incriminate himself and the other holds the long and short haul provision of the law to be valid. The difficulty in prosecuting a railroad official for discriminations in rates has been in securing the testimony of the person who assisted him in violating the law by accepting a rebate. Now this witness can be compelled to testify and not fail back on his claimed privilege of withholding information that would criminate himself. The difficulty now will be in getting the truth from the witness. A veteran packer of Chicago in commenting on the decision said that the man who would connive at the violation of the law would Ue about it as a witness and there is a good deal of truth in that statement. It will need bnt little influence from the railroad company, which has been giving him a special and illegal benefit in his shipping business, to Induce him to go a little further and tell a Ue on the witnww* stand, especially if he is made to believe that he cannot be

convicted of perjury. .His moral stamina wilV not restrain such a man and if no punishment awaits him other than that which his conscience may inflict, he will lie on the witness stand to save his friend, the railroad agent. But, at least there will not be the same loose and almost open violation of the law there has been while it was supposed that testimony could not be legally obtained to bring about conviction for violation of the law. The other decision upholds the validity of the pro' vision that a railroad company may not charge a less rate for along haul than for a shorter distance. This section of the law was for the benefit of the small shipper who was being driven out of business by the advantage given to the big shipper at a central point who managed to get what may be called wholesale rates and shipped a longer distance at a less rate than given to the small shipper who was nearer the market. It applied also to passenger business, perhaps with more interest to the general public.

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The best signification in the decision on these cases is that the court is trying to sustain laws whose intent is plainly understood. The laws are the people's enactments and this is a government by the people. If the people want a law for the purpose of preventing abuses by public carriers, they have aright to a trial of the law on its merits when it is not clearly uncon stitutional, and it is gratifying to know that when laws are not clearly unconstitutional the courts will not nullify them by picking technical flaws in their construction, as was the tendency of courts until recently. The learned judge who could point out the invalidity of a law in the most profound opinion was the greatest jurist a few years ago. It is a refreshing change and it is one that has come in answer to the demand of public sentiment, The abuse of the judicial power by which it was sought to give the people the judge made law was becoming a subject of uni vereal criticism, but the courts are yielding to anew order of things.

TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION. It is impossible to please the temperance people and the liquor dealers with any kind of temperance legislation, and it is impossible for either of the classes to agree on any particular law. That was plainly shown in this state when the Nicholson law was enacted. That law is the most rigid temperance legislation ever attempted in this state, but rigid as it is it dis pleased many temperance people, who would wipe the liquor business out of existence. On the other hand it satisfies some saloon keepers, but displeases the majority of them. It would be impossible to please them all. New York is experimenting with a new law regulating the sale of liquors, known as the Raines excise law. It is the most elaborate Jexciseflaw ever put in force in this country, and there will be general interest in its workings, if it is decided to be constitutional. The Raines law has many features similar to our Nicholson law, and was modelled after the Dow tax law of Ohio. It forbids, among other things, Sunday opening of saloons, the conduct of a saloon within two hundred feet of a church or schoolhouse, the opening of anew saloon in a residence district without the consent of two-thirds of the property owners, and the 'sale of liquors in grocery stores. These with other restraints, including the high tax, it is said will reduce the number of saloons in the state by one-third at least. The amount of tax to be imposed ranges from eight huijdred dollars in cities of the first class, like New York and Brooklyn, down to seventy-five. Under this law any man of good character can open a saloon by getting a certificate showing that he has paid the amount of tax. It sweeps away all local excise boards, and thus it is claimed, takes the liquor question out of politics. While it does away with local boards of exoise it oreates a state commission with a numerous army of deputy commissioners, inspectors and others to carry out the provisions of the law. Another provision of the law is that one-third of the net ^proceeds of the liquor tax should go to the State Treasury and two-thirds to the cities, counties and towns. It is estimated [that this will put two and three-quarter million dollars a year into the State Treasury and relieve the taxpayers of so ?much assessment. This will tend to make the scheme a permanent one. Any subsequent legislature of either party would hesitate Co pass a law which would deprive the State of so large an amount of income. It would be unpopular. This feature of the law therefore operates to make it permanent whether its results)are satisfactory or otherwise. "Boss" Piatt, who is running the Republican machine in New York, and does as he pleases with the legislature, is understood to be responsible for the new law. At least he has published a statement concerning it which is intended to satisfy both the temperance people and the liquor dealers. He calls the attention of the former to its restrictive provisions, to the probability that it will greatly reduce the number of saloons and so of the amount of consequent crime and pauperism and, on the other hand, he tells the liquor dealers that it will take their business out of politics, and that it will give them a standing with other lines of respectable business. He says: "The Raines bill makes the liquor dealer a self-respecting citizen. So long as he observes the law his vested rights cannot be infringed. He need not worry over Tammany Hall's exaction in New York, or the demands of the head of the ring in Albany. From the day the bill becomes a law he walks forth a free man, and after he has discharged his obligations to the state no man can make him afraid. It is in the very widest and best sense a bill to secure the liberty of the subject."

Senator Quay, whose sndden devotion to the cause of reform renders him an object of interest, if not suspicion, has declared that the Republican national platform this year must speak out in no uncertain tones regarding the matter of municipal reforms, and declares that such legislation as the Raines bill is what is needed to bring about an improvement in the conduct of municipal affair*. For this reason, also, the workings of the new excise law In New York will be watched with interest.

WOMEN AS WORKERS.

SDCOCM Achieved by Then Im

Ubiur and XdocatioiuU Occupations.

Nowhere else as in Ajnerica has woman's sphere as a worker been so materially enlarged. With our advancing lines of civilization industries have mul tiplied and divided during the present century more than a hundredfold, and with the subdivisions of labor many kinds of work have been almost entirely handed over to the women. From the domestic and moral dnties she has passed out into so many other occupations that it is hard to say from what pursuits she will be excluded.

First she began as a teacher in schools of the very lowest grade, and step by step she has advanced until now she is doing nearly all the educational work of this country with ohildren under 16 years of age. Gradually she worked her way into colleges and universities, and she is now found fully installed as a regular professor in some of these semi naries of learning, and she fills the position as creditably as her fellow workers of the stronger sex. Such a thing would have been tolerated a century ago but few communities

Prior to her occupancy of the major portion of the eduoational field she had already begnn to transact business on her own account in retail establishments in cities and towns, sometimes as pro prietress, but most frequently as employee. By degrees these occupations have multiplied so rapidly that at the present time there are perhaps not les than 200 different occupations now suo cessfully filled by women, and her work is not confined by any means to mere routine drudgery.

There is no doubt that women phy sioians are just as skillful, more sympa tbetic and as well informed as their brothers in the profession. Within the memory of many now living the time was that a woman regularly authorized to practice medicine would have been regarded as a freak of nature. But silently she came, and to stay, in that profession in which the snake is an em blem of medical knowledge, and now she is looked upon with as much favor as the male practitioner.

In law, too, she has made her appearanoe, and it will take some legislative enactment stronger than the Monroe dootrine to oust her from the courts.

On the side of directive power she hAs displayed in many fields of activity as muoh energy, skill and rare good judgment as men.

In literary and educational work she has doubtless achieved her greatest stlS cess. Women when placed alongside of men in managing large graded schools in this country have been equally as successful as the very best class of men, and in almost every large system of sohools in the United States some of the supervisors are women of the executive ability.

They are performing a speoies of work that men cannot do very well. Not only this, many of the most efficient and intelligent librarians in the libraries of this country are women of rard ability, skill, taot, energy and practical directive power. Here in Kansas City a fair estimate puts the number of woiii&n wage earners at not less than 12,000 persons, and perhaps as many as 15,000. Take this as a basis, and then extend it and apply it to the whole United States, and one can readily see what is meant by women workers.—Kansas City Journal. {Blind, bat Not Speechless.

Mary Moody Emerson, the eccentrio aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson, did not hesitate to admonish others for the good of their souls. She would have scorned the recent diotate ef fashion that pink ribbons are suitable for elderly ladies, and the oharming latter day grandmamma who ventures to set off her fresh complexion and soft, white hair by touches of color would have aroused her ire. The story goes that Mrs. Thoreau oalled one day, wearing a bright flower on her bonnet, npon her eccentric neighbor. Miss Emerson closed her eyes, aira after a short time remarked, "Mrs. Thoreau, have you observed that I have my eyes shut?" "Yes, I have observed it, "said the wondering Mrs. Thoreau. 'Perhaps you would like to know the reason?" ^jj "Yes, I would," was the reply. "Because I don't like to see people at our age guilty of such levity in dress." —New York Journal

Ankle Busies.

Among the many eccentricities of fashion which we have to report, both by way of warning as well as advice, may certainly be classed the novel introduction of ankle bangles. Now that bracelets are more or less banished from elegant attire, a sort of compensation has appeared in the shape of a chain, made either of gold or silvgr^Jinks, with a ooin, amulet or heart pendant, worn as a bangle on the left ankle. Of course a low shoe is necessary for the due display of this extraordinary ornament, and we have been confidently assured that not oolored, but only black silk stockings are to be worn with the same.—Philadelphia Times.

New Jackets.

The new features in jackets far young ladies are strapped seams and small pearl buttons. On the strap extending down from the shoulder on the sleeve there will be a dozen small pearl buttons on each of the three straps and sir on the straps pointing upward from the wrist The front is closed with books on the left side, and two pearl bullet buttons are set close together near the top and two about six inches above the edge below the „s

Kn, O*orgw

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Mm George C. Needbaxn, wife 0# the noted evangelist, preached in Lowell, Maa., oat long since. Kit. Needhara is well known Ma Bible student, a prolific writer and an accomplished speaker. She baa spoken throughout the country at the tariona Bible conferences and in many yranineot ohurcbea.

AT'TK SATURDAY EVENING MAII,. Anui. 4. IVxi.

Spring Lamb and Mint. Yearling Heifer Beef. Two-Year-Old Steer Beef. Milk Calf Veal. Fillet of Beef. Sweet Breads. Beef Rolls—Boneless. Sirloin Strips. Beef Tenderloin., Pig Pork. Cooked Smoked Beef Tongues, r,, Pig Milts. v,: 4 .#* Calf Brains. Pork Tenderloins.,, Spare ribs. Southdown Mutton. 'A French Mutton Chops. Veal Patty. Breakfast Sausage—all Pork. Boiled Ham. Potted Ham in Bulk. Cooked Calf, lamb and Pig Tongues, Calf Livers. Cooked Corned Beef. Hamburger Beef Steaks. Bulk Oysters. Ox Tails for Soup: Lamb and Calf Hearts. All kinds of Sausages. We invite you to call and see our market and the meats that will satisfy, or give you an appetite

H. EHRMANN,.

Clean meat market, corner Fourth and Ohio streets, telephone 220.

MOOjSrCash

To Some Cycling Club. TheGormully& JefferyMfg. Co., makers of the celebrated Rambler bicycles, will present $400.00 in gold to the bicycle club having to its credit for the eight months between April 1st and December 1st, 1896, the greatest mileage on Rambler bicycles, fitted with G. & J. tires.

For further particulars see Finkbiner & Duenweg, sole Rambler agents for Terre Haute and vicinity. Watch this space for next week's offer.

Why Not

Buy a medium grade Bicycle when it will do all that's required of any wheel and save you money.

C. C. SMITH'S SONS CO., Third and Wabash Ave.

Geo. A. Taylor lea«is the trade in Tan JSJiaes.

The Hallot & tfovis Piano. This old and reliablev make is fast coming into prominence again through their recent improvements, both in design of cases and their wonderful tone quality.

They are recognized by all the leading artists of the day as absolutely first-class.

Be in style and ride a DAYTON. W.D. Morris & Co.

The "Monarch" Ladies' Shirt Waistshave arrived in the city, and they are beautiful. We ask the ladies of the city to call and allow us the privilege of showing them.

Silk Sale

-AT-

Kleeman's

MONDAY.

2,000 yards of Silks, worth from 75c to $2.00 per yard, at

59c-89c

A YARD.

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LECTION NOTICE.

Whereas. A petition has been filed with the board of commissioners of the county of Vigo, in the state of Indiana, signed by the requisite number of resident freeholders of Harrison township. Vigo count y. Indiana, praying for aid as herein contemplated, and

Whereas. The said board of commissioners of Vigo county, state of Indiana, in pursuance of the duty devolving upon them by virtue of the provisions of the statutes of Indiana. have ordered an election to be held as herein contemplated, now

Therefore. Notice is hereby given to the qualified voters of Harrison township, Vigo county, Indiana, that by order of the said board of commissioners of the county of Vigo, made at a special session of said board of commissioners held in the month of March, 189ft, did on the 31st day of March. 1806, order such election, and that the polls shall be opened

of said township upon the subject of said township's aiding In money In the construction of toe Terre Haute ana Mississippi River Railway'Company in and through said township of Harrison to the amount of one-half of one per centum of the total taxables of said township of Harrison (Winding tbecityof Terre Haute) as shown tar the tax duplicate delivered to the treasurtardf Vtgo county for the year of Wis. sala .aid Jo be made in all things in accordance with and conformable to the provisions of the general assembly of the state of Indiana.

The polls of the several votin* precincts of kid township, to be opened at the same hour, and the election to tie conducted by the saihe ed by the same rules as fo are provided Ty the law tor holding and con ducting of state and county elections.

Witness my bawl and seal, tilts day of JAKES 8OULE8. Auditor of Vigo County.

A. M. HIGGIN8. lawyer.

Telephone SB. Opera Bouse Block.

The Pick

FROM THE

GRAND DEPARTMENT.

BLACK DRESS Q00DS.

Of Dress Goodij is here for yonr choosing Vi^it Paris,

High Art Novelties Evening Goods Foreign Printed Cottons Imported Linens.

Brocade Gros Grain Silks Henriettas Striped Armme Checked Armme Mohairs and Crepons.

FANCY DRESS GOODS.

Fancy Weaves, Coverts, Crepe Brilliants, Plaids, Silk Mixtures, Challies and various fabrics which make up the beautiful Novelty Dresses*

415 OHIO STREET.

STIMSON, STIMSON & OONDIT, Attorneys.

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SCHLUER & FOULKES.

OTICE OP APPOINTMENT AS ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Vigo Circuit Court of Vigo County,. Indiana, administrator of the estate of Catharine Lawson, deceased. The estate Is probably solvent.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of Jacob W. Ogle, deceased, late of Vigo county, Indiana. The estate is supposed to be solvent. ...» FRED H. OGLE,

CRUSHED COARSE...

Vienna, Berlin, visit the stores of America, and Wou've seen what could have been seen here in an afternoon's ramble through our store. Such statements sound boastful, but they are exeict and why not? The ladies of Terre Haute are very exacting and look upon us as the leading dress goods house, and we are our own severest critics. This supremacy has been won by years of painstaking work and strict vigilance that there are no skips in the stocks we offer. One class of visitors fail to know this dress goods store—they who do not take time to study it. Below is a list of sections in this

Low aid Medium Priced I

DRESS GOODS.

and

Vienna..

JAMES H. LAWSON, Administrator.

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DMINISTRATOR'B APPOINTMENT.

Administrator.

WANTED.

Second-handed end-spring, bar buggy or Mikado wagon. Ad-

Wside

ANTED side bar buggy

dress W.. care this office

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want the public to know the rectifiers pay the government just two hundred dollars for a license to use all the most damnable poisons on earth and no one seems to say a word about it. Now Just think of all the old stale and steamed over goods which arc resteamed since I have been exposing the wholesale grocer business also the wholesale whiskey business. If all I say about them is not true let them deny It as I am on to all their damnable nefarious ways of poisoning the public. Old Cobweb Half.

PETER N. STAFF.

w&gwm G. A. & W. C. Dickson, Lessees, Mangers. SIX NIGHTS—ONE WEEK.

Commencing Monday, April 6th.

THE

The greatest of all HYPNOTISTS and fun makers. Just one long laugh. Wonderful! Surpassing] Sensations!

Popular Prices. 10.3D. ». 50. Seats may be secured In advance at Button's.

^'§9 Delivered: i4,00

Sample order, 3 bushels to test, 25c. •Equal-to Anthracite Coal.

Citizens' Fuel & Gas Co.,

507 Ohio Street.

London,

Half Wool Challies, Jamestown Novelties, Cheviots, Serges and Clbakings.

PLAIN DRESS GOODS.

Cheviots, Serges, Homespuns and Shower Proof Goods.

EVERY DEPARTMENT

Tn the store is brim full of the newest things and the prices so low that ft makes selection at our store a pleasure..

Hoberg, Root & Co.

DON'T STAND BACK-COME RIGHT ALONG GET IN THE BAND WAGON-WE WANT YOUR TRADEWANT IT BAD-WE HAVE GOT THE GOODS AS WELL AS THE BEST WORKMEN. OUR PRICES ARE VERY LOW. COME RIGHT ALONG WITH THE CROWD TO

Traquair Wall Paper Co.

ASK YOUR GROCER FOR

.m-? Young America Gerhardt Rye

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BARGAfNS.

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays.

12 lbs Dried Beans-for 35c 4 Cans Tomatoes for 25c Oystal and XXXX Coffee 20c Fresh Soda and Oyster Crackers, per lb 5c Good Sweet Com 5c 4 lbs. Tea Dust for .25c 8 lbs. Pure Codfish for 25c Michigan Potatoes, per bu 25c 4 cans Early June Peas for —25c 10 bars Gilt Edge Soap for 25c 10 lbs. Pure Buckwheat for 25c Good Salmon, per can 10c Flour and Sugar at Slaughter Prices. Fresh Eggs, 10c per dozen. Come early and avoid the rushj Big Bargains in everything.

Ed. L. Fiedler's Plai

Cor. 14th and Main Sts.

The last day for the payment of county taxes will fall npon the third Monday of April. Please call early and avoid the rush.

W T. 8^ NFORD, County Treasurer.

REMOVED.

James W. Haley,

Proa No. 1211 Wabash Avemc To Rmhb Stfrlags Bask BalMlag. Where he can be found by parties wanting anything in bis line. Notary Public. Real Estate—a number of very desirable properties at remarkably low DftCM.' Rental and Pension agent. Pension vouchers made Entrance on G)fc street.

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