Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 May 1896 — Page 4

THE MAIC1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON. F. J. PJEPENBRINK DDDDLESTOM PROPRIETORS.

PUBMCATIOK OFriCE,

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

The Mall is sold in the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mail, at the rate ot fZ a year, SI for six months, or 50 cents for three months. Entered at the Postofflce at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1806.

Senator Cuxi.om, of Illinois, "the man who looks like Lincoln," is now in a position to write a book on "What I Don't Know about being a Favorite Son."

It is very interesting to read in the Indianapolis papers that throughout the state the people are wild with enthusiasm over the project for a proposed celebration at Indianapolis in 1000. If there is any enthusiasm in this neck o' woods over the project it has kept itself securely under cover.

C"«jf ORE88IOXAL nominations must come very cheap over in Ohio. A "corrupt practices" act, recently enacted there, requires all candidates to make affidavits as to the cost of their campaign for nomination. The first man to obey the law was a candidate for congress who made oath that his nomination had cost him but one (loliar, fifty cents for railroad fare, and fifty cents for hotel bill.

Thk senate is fixing up a nice summer vacation trip for a select committee of that almost useless body. A committee is to be sent to Alaska next summer to inquire into the fishing industry and the boundary line now in dispute between this country and England. The resolution will no doubt pass calling for such a trip and the senators will enjoy a nice trip to a cool country, while the rest of the free American people will be sweltering through the hot season.

Thk Cuban revolutionists received mnch -encouragement last Saturday, when the bonds of the Cuban republic .were offered for sale, to the extent of $2,000,000, and bids were received for five times this amount. Numerous expeditions have been landed in •Cuba during the past few weeks, and with the assistance that the sale of bonds brings, it is expected that a number of large parties will be fitted out during the next few weeks that will settle the fate of Cuba as a Sponish possession. Gen. Weyler continues to capture the insurgents—on paper—in a most alarming manner, but the facts do not bear out the figures he offers.

A tiKTiriiN to the times of the good old Jacksonian democracy would not be so bad in these dayjs when the present Democratic administration* is piling up our pub-, lie debt so high. The national debt was at, its lowest point under tlje administration of Andrew Jackson, in 1885, when the total debt of the country was 137,000. July I, 1860, the public debt was &H,842, 387, and on the lstof July, 1806, the war had increased it to $2,778,387,178. From this .amount it gradually decreased to its lowest point since the close of the war, July 1st, 1801, •1,546,001,685. Now it is changing the other way, and there is no telling just where the climbing process will end.

Thkhk are just about enough Republicans in the southern states to fill all the offices when the party comes

(into

power,

and they are making a desperate effort down there to "get oh the band wagon." Already there are 125 contested seats to the St. Louis convention, and nearly all of them are from the south. This is more than usual, but In nearly all the states in .question there are delegations for and against McKiuley, and in some districts, where the sentiment is for that gentleman, there are contesting McKinley delegations. These contests for seats and the offices that are supposed to follow to those who help nominate the successful candidate, Is likely td make ttfe St. Loiiis convention of morethjui ordinary Interest.

This lias been a pretty good week for the presidential boom of Wm. McKinley, and a bad one for that of Thomas

Reed.

The Vermont Kepublfcan convention did not endorse Reed, but declared the faith •of the Vermont Republicans in McKinley, while In IUinbis, the effort to instruct the delegates at large from that state for her "favorite son," Senator Cullom, was defeated, and the delegate® were instructed for McKinley. The moral effect of these victories will probably be to bring about

Instructions for McKinley In the Republican conventlou in this state next week. In Illinois the whole machinery of the state committee was against McKinley, while In Indiana the officers of the state committee nn working for the "Napoleon" of Ohio

It is a notable fact that a larger number of states will vote on the same day in the presidential election this fall, November 3, than ever heretofore, the list of states holding preliminary spring or autnmn elections having

been

steadily decreasing during late

years. A larger number of states will participate In this year's election than ever were represented In a presidential election, on account of the admission of Utah. None of the doubtful states now holds a preliminary election, and one Of the last- states to fall out of the early Ust is Oregon. On August 3 then? will be state election in Alabama, and a repetition of the lively times of 1SR& and 1804 is promised. In both elections Kolb, a former Democrat, was the opposition candidate to the w$fular party nominee, and the claim was made that the results,»» officially returned, did not correctly represent the vote cist. Afterward Kolb caused himself to be aworu in as governor, and a dual adwte ad-

ministration was for a short time threatened. This year a repetition of the fight is probable. Three states will vote in September: Vermont on September 1, choosing a governor for two years Arkansas on September 7, choosing a governor for two years, and Maine on September 14, choosing also a governor for two years. On October 6 there will be a state election in Florida, and on the day following, October 7, a state election in Georgia, which promises to be hotly contested between the two Democratic factions.

The Republican state convention meets in Indianapolis next week, and it is expected that some exciting times will be developed before its close. Four delegates at large to the national convention are to be selected, and the chairman of the state committee is making the effort of his life to compel the convention to instruct them for Mckinley. There will very likely be a lively contest over this, and as there are fifteen candidates for governor the convention promises to be more exciting than the last one, in 1894, where, at three o'clock in ths morning, the county officers' association succeeded in defeating for renomination one of the ablest members the state supreme bench has ever had, simply because in his official capacity he decided the new fee and salary bill, which reduced the compensation of county officials materially, to be constitutional.

Uneasy, indeed, is the heaa on which rests a crown. Arrangements have been in progress for many months for the coronation of the Czar this month at Moscow, but dispatches report that notwithstanding the ceremony is to be almost barbaric in its gorgeousness, the Czar is getting no enjoyment out of the contemplation of the proceedings, for he is in moral dread of his life, and will undoubtedly abandon a portion of the ceremonies on this account. The nearer the day for the coronation comes the stricter the orders received by the provincial governors for the imprisonment of all suspicious persons. The number of those arrested in the last few days is said to be well up in the thousands. Many newspapers have been suppressed, and in all the universities there has been a general cleaning up. Numerous students have been commanded without explanation to go to their homes and stay there. Moscow is as it in a state of seige. The proposed visit of the Czar to Nishni-Novgorod after the coronation is likely to be omitted, as there are growing apprehensions of an attempt upon his life in that city.

A few years ago Kansas passed through a boom period, and her people went wild over railroads. They never refused to grant a subsidy to any railroad that asked for it, and bonds were issued and sold to raise money for the railroads. There was never a thought as to the future when the bonds should become due, and the bondholders were insisting on their payment. Bye and bye they began to fall due, taxes were raised to pay them, and then Kansas went through an upheaval that put a lot of wild fanatics in public offices, and they have been paying the penalty ever since. One of these officers, a judge, recently rendered the opinion in his official capacity that "the way to get rid of boom bonds is to quit paying taxes. Taxes are going into the treasury and then are used to pay bonds. If lands and lots are not ordered sold, the titles will remain as they now are. Then when the debts against the counties and municipalities are outlawed, we can begin paying taxes again." This is a fine expression to come from a judge on the bench, but it is what may be expected from a state that has a John J. Ingalls, a Jerry Simpson, and a Senator Peffer chalked up to her credit. :A

Tiik construction of new railways in this country has been steadily decreasing since 1887, when 18,000 miles of new road were built, and 1865 touched the lowest round for years by adding only 1,803 miles to our railroad system. The Railway Age discussing this, expresses the opinion, that that does not mean that the demand for railways Is nearly supplied and that construction will continue to decrease. On the contrary, there is room and will be need for additions far greater than the entire present mileage of the country. We have now something over 181,000 miles of road. To equal Great Britain in its ratio of railway mileage to squre miles, we should' haVe a total of 492,000 miles to egual the abundant supply of Illinois we must have 522,000 miles while if Massachusetts with its mile of raiiway to every foursquare miles of (JerritoTy be the standard, the United States will eventually boast 772,000 miles of lines. That there is much railway building yet to be done the records prove beyond a doubt. When it will be done depends on conditions yet to be developed. A considerable amount of work is already under way. During the first three months of this year 253 miles of track were laid on twenty lines, and including these our books already show sixty lines on which it seems reasonably certain that 1,750 miles of track will have been laid by the enfil Of 1896, wltha possibility of much more. It all depends on the times, not on the question of finding room or of demand for more railroads.

It is interesting once in a while to contemplate the greatness of our own land, and it inculcates patriotism to read of its wonderful growth into the most powerful nation on earth. But in 1800 the country between the Atlantic ocean and the Mississippi river constituted the only possessions of the United States. Since that the Louisiana purchase in 1803, the Florida in 1881, the Mexican acquisitions in 1840, 1850 awl 1853, and Alaska in 1867 have been added. The increase, excluding Alaska, has been from $i7,$44 to 3,025,600 square miles, or three and five-eighths, hut the growth of population has been from 5,30$,4S3 to or nearly twelvefold. In 1SOO the inhabitants were a little less than 7 to a square mile, (in 1790 they had been less than 5:) In 1880 they were ovelr 21. The place where the population is densest is the District of Columbia, which has t» the mile the next is Rhode? Island. then Massachusetts, 378 tht»n New Jersey, 198: Connecticut, 1M: New York, 1Mi Pennsylvania, 116 Maryland, 106. The other states and' ter-

ritories ran below 100, down to Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, which hate less *h»Ti one inhabitant to the mile. In Rhode Island and Massachusetts the density of population is as great as in many of the most densely settled European states, and that the entire North Atlantic division, pre-eminently the manufacturing section, has an average of over 100 inhabitants to the square mile. But it may be a surprise to some that among the old states Maine has only 22, New Hamshire 41, Vermont 20.

TheSunday base ball question was settled for good and all in Indianapolis last Sunday, when the sheriff prevented the" playing of a game that had been announced.. The sheriff had been on both sides of the question, but last week announced, under the pressure put on him by the church people and ministers, that he would prevent any Sunday games being played. He no doubt felt a little personal interest in the matter from the fact that the day before he had been beaten for the renomination in the Republican county convention, but he had the usual experience of those who attempt to enforce laws at the demand of one certain class of people. He called on the church people to supply him with deputies to suppress the game, asking the assistance of some of those who had been foremost in demanding the strict enforcement of the law. They all had previous engagements that prevented them from participating. One of his deputies accosted a number of church members as they were leaving after morning services, and not one of them was willing to be a party to the attempt to en force the law. One man had a violent headache, and could not go out in the hot sun. Another had recently married, and was going to eat his first Sunday dinner with his wife. Another had friends to dinner, and could not get away in time. A third said that he did not believe in desecrating the Sabbath, and for that reason begged to be excused. He was told that his services were called on to preserve the Sabbath, and he was just the man wanted, but he could not see it that way. He considered it wrong to go to that ball park, even to assist in the enforcement of the law, and begfied like a good fellow to get off. The deputy overruled them, however, and insisted, as he had the right, that they appear and be sworn in as deputies. Unwillingly they complied, fifteen of sixteen thus deputized put in an appearance. Sly Tom Taggart, the Democratic mayor, refused to interfere with the game, although urged to do so, and put the work on the Republican sheriff, with the result that all those who enjoy Sunday base ball, as a great many do, will be blaming the Republicans with doing what the Democrats refused to do„ Which means that the wily Thomas has put another round in the ladder by which he expects to climb into the governor's office.

The average minister feels it is his duty, mayhap his pleasure, to find fault with the newspapers, and never loses an opportunity to pass an unfavorable criticism on them, and to lay to the newspapers more than half of the ills to which mortal flesh is heir. It is rather refreshing occasionally to find a minister who varies from this stereotyped proceeding to have a kind word to say in regard to newspapers. The Rev. Chas H. Eaton, of New York, preached on "The Pulpit and the Press" last Sunday evening, and in the course of his remarks he said: "The press," said he, "forms as well as mirrors public opinion Whatever theory may be adopted in reference to the province of the newspaper none can doubt the immense power. It is the people's university. The writer or editor can take 10,000, or perhaps 50,000, men aside when they arp most impressionable, and in a quarter of an hour give their minds a bias from which they may never recover. The pulpit exercises its power principally on Sunday. The newspaper is never idle. In youth and old age, week days and Sundays, itis alive. "The press," he continued, has exposed gigantic schemes of forgery and corruption. Side by side with the press are the great institutions which limit and govern its work—the school and the pulpit. It has advanced in equal strides with the school. It can never supersede the qulpit, whose ally it is. Thatt the newspaper can take the place of the' pulpit is impossible. The printed and the spoken word are both necessary. The pulpit stands for faith and the announcing of1 God's tidings, and enforces the laws of spiritual life. The editor and the minister are co-laborers for humanity, but one cannot do the work of the other." Dr. Eaton declared that the pulpit had the right to demand that the press shall be clean. "There is a great improvement," he said, "in the newspapers of this country during the last twenty-five years, but there are still papers whose chief claim to existence are immorality printed in leaded lines, and details of crimes prominently displayed. The pest of the age is personal journalism, which is impertinent and inn solvent. Decent journalism respects absolutely the barrier of private life. It must be said, however, that patrons very generally decide the character of the newspaper. The press prints what the public wants, or what it thinks the public wants. Neither the minister nor the editor can make himself altogether independent of his clei ntele.'' 1 -V:-J How's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O-

We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transaction and financially able to carry out any obligation made by the firm.

Wkst & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O., Wauhjt©, Knot as & Mabvik, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.

A car load of the latest improved Refrigerators Just received at Finkbiner & Duenweg's.

Shirt Waists that were made to sell for 18.00

Shirt Waists that were made to sell for •3.00

A.B. Felsenthal, Attorney. OTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

The undersigned has been appointed administratrix. with the will annexed, of the estate of Frledericke Wittenberg, deceased. S..d I* solvent.

rpO LOAN—I have mortgage on good 45~2t

At L. B. Root & Co.'s.

Shirt Waists that were made to sell for •1.00 Cn can be had for 0\JC Shirtwaists that were made to sell for •1.50 for

Shirt Waists that were made to sell for $3.50 QQ

BASEiBALL

Evansville Terre Haute

Sunday, flay 3

Evansville will be accompanied by several hundred rooters. Come out and root for Terre Haute and awaken the old time rivalry.

dame Called at 3 o'clock.

mEHLR

FOB SALE.

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SALE—Nice residence lot on north 7th street, just south of Vandalta- railroad. Apply M. G. LEE. 683H Main street.

FOR SALE-CHEAP

And on easy terms. 80 vacant lots In Early Grove. 15 vacant lots on north Tenth and Eleventh streets and Lafayette ave. 3 vacant lots on east Locust street.

For

particulars call on

DAHLEN, Heal

Estate, Loan and Insurance Agent, 602 Wabash ave.

FOR SALE.

Residence property lft all parts of the city Si R- DAHLEN, ti02 Wabash ave.

TO LOAN.

-in

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to lows on first

.arms. MARSHALL G. LEE.

Re-uphol^ters Furniture, Renovates Feathers, Makes Awning*, Tents, f* Upholstered Furniture.

200-202 N Third Street

MiPurcltije.

IBIS

This store is pledged to the very best service of its public. It's buying power is used toB bring you the most substantial bargains to be found in the4 markets of the world. Whatever the general conditions of trade we are enabled through our purchasing power to shade prices. This helpfulness is used in the wisest wav bv giving" you tKe most dependable ^go6ds a\ orices as low lower than you obtain elsewhere on goods "made to sell."

Corsets

98c

$1.50

•B & CO.,

IMPORTERS AND RETAILERS.

want the public to know I am getting out a circular which will expose the wholesale rrocer business from A. to Z. also the wholesale rectifiers and compounders as 1 know all about their crooked and nefarious ways of mixing and fixing pure and wholesome goods and pure liquors 1 think the people ought to know all about their damnable poisonous ways of killing the people by the wholesale and nothing said about ft. Just as long as 1 am In business I will expose them from A. to Z.

We carry only standard makes the values and we profit by comparison of values. yj.

SumriSer arid Romance regular summer corsets jrrv for bicycles Uv/L.

Thompson's glove fitting healthful ventilating corsets black and white for .' .--i

Corset Waists for infants from 2 to 6 years. Ferris Corset Waists for misses and ladies from

25c to $1.50

As well rub up against the "shell racket game" or attempt to defeat "Old Hy" as to expect fair treat* mentor legitimate returns for your money from these "misplaced confidence" parlors or fake establishments that are continually advertising "improvement sales," "bankrupt sales," "removal sales" and such like catch penny advertisements.

We resort to no such "skin games." You draw no blanks from us. For every dollar paid us, you receive a dollar's worth of merchandise in return.

Sixth and Main Streets.

CLOTHING, HATS, SHOES, FURNISHING GOODS, MEN'S WEAR 14 V' COMPLETE. EVERYTHING THE BEST.

WANTED.

PETER N. STAFF, Old Cobweb Hall.

WANTED—AGENTS,anew

first-class men (hus

tlers) to introduce patent article. Every man who owns a home bays it on sight. Bigmoner to the rtebtjpartles. fief.required. R. N. H. Co., Temple Bldg., Philadelphia,

Ladies' Vests, ecru Egyptian cotton fancy stitched neck finished 1 rj seams A UC Ladies' Vests ecru Egyptian cotton taped neck finished seams 1 several styles 1UL Ladies' Vests in lisle thread and guaze several styles Ladies' Vests chappe mixed silk and lisle to close at Splendid Union Suits for

Gentlemen's garments in good full sizes. Regular stouts and extra sizes. Try our makes. Ladies', men's and children's Hose of the very best makes the leaders are—5c, 8c, 10c and 25c. r. Bicycle hose a specialty with us you need no better than our 65c hose.

What's Wrong?

lis ohio street

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 A

"You can fool all the people part of the time, part of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."

25c 59c 25c

Traquair Wall Paper Go.::

—A. LINCOLN.

REMOVED.

James W. Haley,

Prom No. 1211 Wsbasb Avcanc To R*o« 6 Savisfs Bask Buildlaf.

Where he can be found by parties wanting anything in bis line. Notary Public. Real Estate—a number of very desirable propermarkably low prices. Rental and ties at remarkably low pr Pension agent. Pension Vouchers made out. Entrance on Ohio street.

A. M. rilGOINP., Lawyer, i?--"

Telephone as.

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