Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 June 1896 — Page 5

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MAN ABOUT TOWN.

The paragraph in this column last week in regard to the appropriation of t965 by the council for the electric light display for the T. P. A. parade, brought on a humorous discussion in the Express and Gazette. Man About Town said that if such an appropriation were "legal and proper" it might bewell to provide free entertainment for the poorer of the population during these hard times. It would afford temporary relief from their unhappy condition and make them stronger for the struggle of life. Of course the appropriation is plainly in violation of the law and therefore was not legal and that is au end of it. Man About Town remarked in the beginning of the paragraph that there had been no explanation of the ^expenditure, no publication of an itemized account as It were, and the question of the propriety of the appropriation though it were legal was plainly to be inferred. Therefore if legal and proper to spend the money for the entertainment of visitors It would be a beneficent act to make like appropriation for the entertainment of our own people. The Express took up the suggestion iu dead earnest but with misgiving as to the legality of the expenditure which

WHS a laughable exhibition of timidity Then came the Gazette with a screed about "paternalism." It was all very funny. The fact that the council was to stand part of the expense of the show was well known but the Gazette said not a word of opposition in advance and its heroics after the deed was done were not as admirable as they might have been. To be sure the discussion of the subject before the appropriation was made would have caused bad feeling on the part of the T. P. A. members but inasmuch as nothing was said then nor when the council voted the money, it was with poor grace that the criticism was made only when the Gazette thought there was an opportunity to make party capital. The fact that the appropriation could be made at all and escape newspaper publicity except for a few lines in a report of the council proceedings caused the paragraph to appear in this columu. _______

The Chicago Chronicle commenting on the act ion of the commercial travelers convention in deciding to make a fight for State legislation for a two-gent fare says: "Commercial ravelers, at their recent convention, decided to undertake an agitation for a reduction of passenger rates by rail to a maximum of 2 cents per mile. They propose to accomplish their purpose through the state legislatures. When it comes to an agitation of this kind they are a force that is formidable out of proportion to their numbers. They travel all over the country and meet with nearly all business men of prominence and influence in their several communities, and they are bright fellows, who know how to talk, and do not hesitate to make themselves heard when they are so minded." There Is another reason why they the traveling men can wield an influence out of proportion to their numbers. It is that their membership is altogether in the cities aud with their strength thus concentrated they will be able to exert their power on a large number of legislators. In this state, for instance, there are twelve hundred T. P. A. members located in thirteen cities. These cities elect nearly if not quite a majority of the hundred members of the lower house of the Indiana legislature. If the twelve hundred members were distributed through the ninety-two counties in the state they would not be heard from on the issue in the campaign and candidates would not give their demand for pledges a second thought. The labor organisations will join in the movement as will many other classes of the people but the failure to pass the measure will be another stoty. It will be a story of lobby influence. In some stales there is a law providing that the roads shall not charge more than two cents a mile. I asked a railroad man why the roads here could riot operate under such a law as well as in New York state. "I will uJl you why," said he. "In New York there is a larger population to the square mile and the roads do an immense business carrying people short distances. Iet ute illustrate. Russell Harrison charges five cents for a ride of four or five miles, from the east end of Main street to the end of the line on south Third street. Now do yon suppose he could, run his cars if he had no stopping point for passengers between the cemetery hill and the lower end of Third street. He would have to charge & or 30 cents a passenger for the trip. Well, it is much the same way with the railroads. Here in the west where the number of people that can be carried short distant is comparatively

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small the roads depend more on the long hauls and as you see it is like the electric railway illustration." This railroad man also made the point that if the legislature established the two-cent fare the accommodations of the roads would be lessened to the end that the operating expense might be reduced to come within the lower revenue.

The sentiment in favor of the freer use of silver in the currency, by unlimited coinage or coinage in large quantities, at any ratio, is growing in Terre Haute, as it is everywhere in the state. Ordinarily the talk is for "free coinage of silver" that covers the general idea of silver inflation and more money is what the people want in these hard times. As I said a few weeks ago, they are not borrowing trouble by taking into consideration the possibilities of aggravated distress that would follow a period of inflation. They want the present relief, though they are convinced it would be but temporary, desperately resolving to be ready to meet any future fate with resignation. I don't believe that of the 90 per cent, of the population who are for "free silver" more than 10 per cent, have given much, if any, thought to the real question of currency involved in the proposition to coin into money free the silver that may be unloaded at the doors of the mints by anyone who could get hold of the bullion. But, what the people want is more money and the more you tell them that the debtor class and the wage earner will be the greater losers in the end by inflation, the 'more convinced are they that the creditor class and the rich will be the losers. If not, why are they so greatly alarmed Suspicion and prejudice come in here to gain recruits for free silver among those who have not studied the question at all. And, they accept as true all the wild talk about "the conspiracy of 1873" by which silver was "demonetized," and are utterly unacquainted with the facts.

There are a good many persons who are in favor of free coinage and understand that part of the question but they are ignorant when it comes to the question of the ratio. They decry the suggestion that the government's currency be based on a gold standard but of course, if you ask them, they are for free coinage at the ratio of 1(5 to 1, just as if the 1 did not represent gold. There are many persons who take it for granted that if you have free silver it is at the ratio of 16 to 1 and don't know that the 1 represents gold and that there can be free coinage at other ratios. When the coinage system was established in 1SJ4 the ltt to 1 ratio was fixed which meant that it took 10 pounds of silver to equal one pound of gold. A gold dollar weighing 25.8 grains had the same market value as 412% grains of silver. Since then prices have change^, and now it would take about twice as much silver to be worth as much as the gold dollar.

During the years that silver was coined into "Dollars of Daddies" there was no great disparity in the ratio value and iu 1873 when the coinage was stopped the act cut no figure iu the currency's relation to the affairs of the people because there were but comparatively few daddy dollars. There has been a good deal of wild talk to the effect that the "assassination" of silver doubled the debts of debtors, etc. There was no repudiation of the dollars then in circulation but so few were being coined it was not deemed worth while to continue coining them. No one objected to the law 187:? at the time. In 1873 when there was a great demand for the restoration of the "Dollar of the Daddies" and the Bland dollar was authorized first began the talk about "the conspiracy of 1878" such as Judge McNutt and ex-Congressman Cheadle indulged in at the court house meeting recently. I recall an amusing incident in the debate in the senate at that time. Mr. Voorhees was exhausting his vocabulary of invectives in referring to the "conspiracy" when Mr. Biaine interrupted him for a question. Both were good lersonal friends and Mr. Voorhees gracefully paused for the question. "Didn't you as a member of the other house vote for the law of 1873?," asked Mr. Blaine. He had and so had Mr. Blaine and the latter caused considerable merriment in the senate by showing that both had voted for the law because no one objected to it and that its provision was fully understood at the time.

The fact is, it is silly to discuss silver coinage to-day on the basis of conditions prior to 1873 or for that matter at any time since. The conditions change almost yearly. When the Bland, or "buzzard," dollar—receiving the latter name because an Englishman? employed in the Philadelphia mint who designed the coin mnde a buzzard instead of an eagle for one side of the piece—was authorized by the passage of the law over President Hayes' veto Secretary of the Treasury Sherman predicted that gold would be at a premium at once and that the dickens would be to pay generally. Oa the other hand, the advocates of the dollar said the twenty-four million dollars worth a year would restore the old ratio of value with gold, which had been disturbed between 1878 and 1878 by the increasing production of the white metal. Neither Mr. Sherman's prediction nor that of the Bland people was verified. In 1800 Mr. Sherman, then a senator, proposed to increase the amount coined each year Still this did not stop the growing disparity in its value with that of the "1" metal, and Mr. Voorhees, the inflationist, led the fight in the senate for the repeal of John Sherman's inflation law! So, it will be seen that conditions and men both change. The only thing that doesn-t change is that "l." If the

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free silver advocates could only do away with it and the ratio problem they would have smooth sailing.

These changing conditions make the silver question a very interesting study. It is a sort of pigs in clover or fifteen puzzle, and once a person begins trying to solve it there is no letting go. That is one reason why, according to Man About Town's opinion, it is to be the chief issue in the campaign this year. The public has had this experience with the tariff, and, like the man who finally gets the knack of putting the pigs in the pen or solving the fifteen puzzle, they are through with it and devote their attention to the newer puzzling proposition. The other reason is, as said before, the impression that a little inflation in these hard times would be a good thing, though a pinching effect was sure to follow.

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''a The Trotting Meeting.

The fall meeting of the Terre Haute Trotting Association, to be given September 21-26, promises to be very successful, from the list of purses offered, and the list of entries, which closed the 1st inst. The following is the list of entries in each of the purses: Two year old trotters, 2:50 class

It is not what is inside the rider of a bicycle that makes him look distinguished. It is his clothes. Dress well and neatly, so that you may avoid being unfavorably judged.

Our Vice Presidents.

More than once in our history the vicepresident has been sworn and inducted into office sooner than the president. This was the case of John Adams, who took the oath and became president of the senate and vice president of the United States nearly a month before Washington's first inauguration it was the case with Millard Fillmore, who, it is said, took the oath on Sunday, March 4 falling on that day of the week in 1849, while Taylor, the presi-dent-elect, being a rigid Sabbatarian, did not permit himself to be sworn until Monday. It is said that in 1877, when March 4 again fell on Sunday, Wheeler, the vice-president-elect, took the oath on that day, while Hayes, having religious scruples, put off the matter until Monday. Of these cades, however, the most peculiar was that of 1789, when the government, having just been put in operation, presented the curious spectacle of a vice president without a president. At the time, however, the mate-, ter seems to have attracted little attention or remark, and is now remembered only as a historical curio.

Reed's Sharp Tongue.

Epigrams are Reed's forte. Many of them are classics. "A statesman is a politician who is dead," is one of his sayings that will never be forgotten. It was Reed, too, who, when asked to write a toast to the Democratic party, replied at once: "The Democratic party. Here's to its prophet and its ballot boxes—both stuffed?" Wig^all his sarcasm he has a keen sense of humor. One day, when he was a member of the ways and means committee, he Hastened to an involved speech from a wouldbe tariff expert.

What do you think of it?" some one at the committee table asked Reed. Without replying, the big man from Maine swung himself round in his chair and commenced to hammer at a convenient typwriter. Then he handed the sheet of paper to his questioner by way of answer. And here was Reed's reply:

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Marriage Licenses*..

Jesse Llewellen and Lucy Worth. Joseph Frame and Charlotte W. Preston. Chas. F. Blnkley and Josephine C. Toute. Wm. M. Neff and Emfna D. Hays. Frank King and Anna Malcolm. John B. Douglass and Edith A. Duenweg. Leola Frankeberger and Leonora Hawk. Daniel V. Grayless and Pearl Roe. Gabe E. Davis and Eva G. Richardson, g§ Virgil Mays and Sallle Snack. Lewis McNabney and Anna Jonnson. Jesse T. Hay and Myrtle Van Houten. Theo. P. Frank and Emma P. Arnold. Theo. L. Condron and Grace E. Layman. James M. Duck and Charity Wolfe. James A. Lawrenceson and Catharine G. Glancey.

L. Lester Lawton and Emma I. Coppage.

BICYCLE MAXIMS.-

Broken steal—an interrupted theft. It is an ill wind that, escaping, le^yeg, a deflated tire. t#''k

A pepper-and-salt riding suit should always be seasonable. The eye is the messenger of the heart, but at night a lamp is better for a bicycle.

Despise not the second-hand wheel. To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Distinctive trade marks are sometimes unpopular. The bicycle thief wishes all wheels were made to look alike,

The most pleasing information concerning Roentgen's rays is that they are not penetrating enough to puncture a tire.

The man who is always borrowing tools from you never seems to have as good a memory as you have. Ever notice that

The fiercer the fires of the human heart are made to burn, the sooner will a heap of ashes alone remain of the conflagration.

Better a wheel and a vigorous health* therewith than a ton of silver bullion with which to pay the penalty of sickness begotten of indolence and ease.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow. The roads may be afoot under the mud by that time and thy wheel a superfluous piece of baggage stored in the woodshed of the hospitable farmer.

Rata Excursion* South-

On the first and third Tuesday of each month till October about half-fan for round trip will be made to points in the South by the Louisville & Nashville Railtoad. Ask your ticket agent about it, and If he cannot sell you excursion tickets

WHAT BECOMES OF PIANOS?

Americans Manufacture Over 80,000 Annually for Home Use. About 80,000 pianos are now being manufactured annually in America, and they are practically all for home consumption. Last year only 810 instruments were shipped abroad. Most of them went to South America, but a few were sent to Germany.

We get from Europe far fewer pianos even than we send there. There has been an effort made among fashionable folk to introduce here an English make. It is a fine instrument at home, but it won't do for America, because our climate is so much drier than the English that the wood shrinks and warps here ruinously.

Germany sends some pianos to South America and to Australia, and altogether she makes as many as we do. France and England only turn out 40,000 a year. The growth of the business here has been great for in 1860 our output was only 30,000. There are about a hundred factories in and about New York.

Pianos seem to disappear from the World almost as mysteriously as pins. Perhaps, considering their size, the fact that the streets are not blocked with cast-off pianos is more curious than that the face of the earth fails to be overlaid with pins. An experienced New York dealer says that he has known of but three that were cut up for kindling wood. Yet they often sell for little more than so much pine would bring One second-hand dealer says he bought six last week for $50. It is the custom of most houses to take old instruments and allow something for them'. The deduction is counted as almost dead loss, but it brings trade. The old instruments are refitted and polished up, however, and sold again. To whom? Where do they go is still the question. "Well," sayaf the dealer, "most of them go, but I can't tell you why, to Philadelphia. Perhaps it is because there are so many boarding houses there. Boarding houses are the chief refuge for secondhand pianos. Then there is a good deal of business in Philadelphia in selling them to country people all over the land. Men who go into that branch of trade can get pianos pretty cheap, for first-class houses sometimes get so overloaded with them that they are alpiost willing to pay to have carted away."

ABOUT WOMEN.

A grass widow should always wear a lawn gown. The chemical blonde is the name given to a bleached beauty.

Few women know what is required of them on a fishing excursion."^' The widow's engagement ring, to be good form, is set with a chrysolite.

There is one thing a woman can throw straight enough, and that is a kiss. The woman who does not love flowers and babies is not worthy of the name.

The sort of woman servants always copy cannot be dubbed undeniably good form

The true woman never laughs when slighting remarks are made about her sex.

The hand that used to rock the cradle now clutches the handle bar of the bicycle. There is no woman so plain looking but has some one who admires and loves her.

Wine loosens the tongue, but there is nothing so conducive to a real gossipy time a a

The woman who moves out of the corner seat in the open car for the benefit of an incoming passenger is as scarce as a white cow.

The girl who declares that she isn't hungry generally eats her way through the menu in a scientific fashion that makes a small puT3e quake,

The woman who can shed real tears and yet be a beauty should receive that prize that was awarded the fair Helen, but sorry to say such an award is going begging in this generation.

The New Woman,

Women tramps are becoming quite a nui sance in Kansas. The poormasters can't set 'em sawing wood, or breaking stone, so they pass them along to the next town.

Maria Mitchell might be called a new woman were she living to-day. She was a firm believer in the justice of equal pay for equal work, whether the worker wear skirts or trousers.

A widow in Wichita, Kan., has been arrested for throwing a kiss at a poor shrinking mannie, who was escorted at the time by his wife. Weller, senior, was not-the flrst to discover that widows are dangerous.

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The kind of "woman who knows a little more about men than men think she does is not the new woman ^t all, but the timid, old fashioned sort.

MEMS. AS TO MONEY.

If you really could pick up money in the streets, you wouldn't do it. If a bank bill is the square root of all evil a gold brick is its cube root.

A plugged dime held close to the eye will blot out all the beauty of the universe. Money doesn't make the mare go nowadays. A $5 risk makes her stay behind.

The financial paradox, boldly stated, is that your cash can go up in an oil well or a gold mine.

Call at one of the music stores and get a season ticket for the Music Teachers' meeting, Price, 2.00.

When a girl has taken a yonng fellow kindly in hand and then shakes him there is reason for his being rattled.

AI may $ on Top.

Ebel's directory is like Terre Haute, always cm top. Improvements come with each issue. The new one will be larger, better and handsomer than ever. It is a great advertisement of the city. The business public make it possible for the directory man to keep up and ahead of the times. See that your name is among the list of patrons.

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OKA I). DAVIS, Attorney for Plaintiff. JSq-OTIOE TO NON-RESIDENT.

State of Indiana, Vigo county, in the VlrCS Superior court. June term. IBM. So. WO. Joseph P. Peters vs. Channoey Pointer, et at., to quiet title.

Beit known that on the 13th day of June, 1806, said plaintiff filed an affidavit in due form, showing that said Mack Pointer. Etta Pointer. Roy Pointer, Thomas I. Pclntw, Jennie Maples, Dollie Slater. Georffe W. B. Pointer. John B. Carpenter. Mary A. Rolf, John L. Pointer. Ida F. Pointer, Nellie MeCray, Sarah Ruggle*. Isaac N. Pointer, Nancy Daniels, William Pointer. Martha Mapw, Viola M. Clipper. William F. Hutchln. LucjrN Wolf. Phadrach Pointer, James W. Pointer,l. Alonzo D. Pointvr. Eva E. Johnson, Susan E. Bowen. Emllv E. Huntington, Henrietta Knop. and John T. Miller are non-re«ldenU.y\ of the state of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendants are hereby notified of the pendency Of said action against them, and that the same will stand for trial August (5th. 1M. the same being at the Juno term of said court In the year IsM. [SSAL] HUGH

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