Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 August 1896 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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A TIM* DAY, AUGUST 8. 1806.

QUEEN VICTORIA IS to abdicate, but it in understood that she has saved enough of her salary to keep her in comfort the remainder of her life

BOTH the Prohibition candidates for president have formally accepted the nominations and the chances are ten to one that not one voter in a thousand can name the candidates.

THE people who prate about this government not being one "by the people, of the people and for the people," are evidently figuring on the principle that they are "the people" and they want to have a hand.

IT might not have any positive effect in clarifying the muddy condition of political currents but if Mr. Cleveland would consent to write a turgid and scolding pronunciamento at this stage it would raise a breeze that would be refreshing in this sal try weather.

JOHN CLARK KIDPATH'S interview has caused him to be classed with Altgeld and Till man by the gold standard press. If he Is defeated for congress his reputation will be greatly marred, but if elected he will have still further opportunity to make himself famous or notorious.

MB. BLAND has been nominated for congress. Judging from his past career Mr. Bland will be on hand talking free coinage of silver in 1890 though the Bryan ticket may be defeated by an overwhelming majority this fall. He is of the type of men who though vanquished keep on fighting

LIEUTENANT PEARY is In an ice-floe off the Greenland coast. It is a most desirable situation. What took the lieutenant up there we do not know. Perhaps he went to get some of the scandal of his former trips poleward which he forgot to bring with him on his return from his last Arctic exposition.

TIME works wonders indeed. Here are the Alabama Democrats claiming to have elected state officers by the aid of negro votes admitting that the PopulistrRepublican ticket received more than one-half the white vote of the state. Some years ago southern Democrats were justifying their KuKlux methods by saying they would not submit to "nigger" rule In local government.

IT has always been the rule that men who could not get their heads above water in their own party find an opportunity to do so by changing their politics during a presidential year, but this year has been an exception in that respect. More men -who are leaders in their respective parties are changing their politics this year, so far as this year's result is concerned, than the •oldest leader can remember of having taken place In any year since the momentous times of '00 and '01. It isout of place, therefore, to say that men are changing their political views this year simply to attain a prominence they could not otherwise gain.

Now here are Pullman and Armour heavily interested in the Diamond Match gambling scheme. At first it was said that none but the speculators whose loss would not concern the public good were Involved. On the contrary, it seems, that the great and good philanthropists, Mr. Pullmau and Mr. Armour were the big players in the game. This incident reminds one of the continual howl in Chicago over the corruption of the aldermen while some of the men who howl loudest are direct beneficiaries of the corruption. It is like the man who buys votes at an election and expresses his contempt for the fellow who sells his vote.

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latest dewrtiou from the Democrats is Bourke Cochran, who was formerly a Tammany brave. He is in favor of the Democratic gold representatives endorsing McKinley electors in their national election. Mr. Cochran, it will be remembered, la the Tammany gentleman who stood up lu the Chicago convention four years ago, and told the Clevelandites of the direful circumstances that would befall the party If Mr. Cleveland should be nominated. His words fell on unheeding ears that time, and if they attract no more attention in %his campaign than in the last Mr. Cochran will agree that a prophet is not without honor save in hi* own land.

THIS year the people got ahead of the stump speaker. The campaign committees in this state did not want to begin the speaking until after the first of September, but being pressed the Democrat* fix«i the date for the formal opening of the campidgn for August 15th and the Republtam* for the following Saturday, August 2*1. But this was not early enough for the voters, awl th*»|W*Wugs *. paign may t* lyd to be on now. with committees trying to catch up with the movement. Usually the stump speaker la the beginning has to resort to the fcaa* «irom vise other means of getting co„1P

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Chronicle, the Democratic paper started a year ago, and which had been remarkably successful, bolted the Bryan platform and ticket and was the first to advocate a sound money Democratic ticket. This left the Popocrats without a paper of large influence in the northwest. The Chronicle is claiming that its circulation has steadily increased since the Chicago convention and that its course has been approved in many other ways. It was a remarkable thing for an out and out party paper to do, as was also the shifting of the TimesHerald a year ago, but the success in both instances would seem to go to show that hide-bound partisanism does not prevail as it once did, and that people do not confine their reading to the newspaper which either does not give them both sides of a question or persistently distorts what it does print to mislead the reader, the supposition being that he has no other source of information.

THE failure of Moore Brothers, of Chicago, this week, for anywhere from $5,000,000 to 17,000,000, was merely the collapsing of a balloon. They had been "promoters," and by shrewd manipulation used the Diamond Match Company and the New York Biscuit Company for speculative purposes. The dealing was with the shallowest pretense of handling what is called industrial" stocks.' It was a Chicago affair almost entirely, and the governing committee of the Chicago stock exchange closed the game temporarily while the liquidation was going on that there should be no more failures among the gambling speculators. The New York stock exchange took little or no interest in the deal and was not affected by the failure. Watered stock of millions of dollars were sold, on margins mostly, and there was no substantial foundation for the quoted value of it. A gambling house ythere cards were used, and with as much right bo continue in operation as the Moore game, would have been closed by the police.

CANDIDATE BRYAN has started for New York on a most hazardous trip. There can be but little doubt that it is his idea to go into the midst of the enemy to fire a shot. It is almost beyond belief that he has signified a willingness to stop on the way at the home of Mr. McKinley to make a demonstration for its effect elsewhere by means of such sensational dispatches as the one sent out from Canton about the silver club organized among Mr. McKinley's fellow citizens. A good deal of concession is to be made to Mr. Bryan as a candidate -of the "plain people" as one who Is trying to get near to the "common people" who are tiring of the statuesque in statesmanship but he is laying himself linble to most severe rebuke for indecent political warfare. Mr. McKinley is a gentleman who respects the amenities of partisanship and who discusses the questions at issue with no personal reflection. Such is his known character in this regard that it would instantly occur to everyone that it would be a reflection on his character as an adversary and as a man to suggest he would go out of his way to make a speech in the city of Mr. Bryan's home. The announced probability that Mr. Bryan would speak in the city of Mr. McKinley's home is too suggestive of the over-confi-dence, perhaps conceit, of the Democratic candidate in his personal superiority in this campaign.

THE continued success of Pingree In his political preferment by the people ought to furnish a lesson to the student of public sentiment in this country. The Detroit mayor has succeeded in spite of the opposition of men who were supposed to be dictators of the affairs of his party and in spite of the influence of corporate wealth. He has done and said many things which were purely demagogical, and were so recognized by those who as a rule supported him. He has done and said many things which were thought to be foolish in their promise of public good, but they were realized in fact. Detroit to-day has the best and cheapest street railway service In the country by reason of his fight for It. Some of the men, millionaires of eminent respectability, who opposed him because their interests were involved, but who theretofore had not been openly or publicly criticised, are now fugitives from Detroit public sentiment, and while they still own property there and call the city their home, avoid it as If they were in disgrace. Some of these have many friends in the city who know their good traits, but Pingree knew no "good fellows" who were not "good fellows" to all the people of the city. Now that the Detroit mayor has been nominated for governor there will be some curiosity to see if his popularity will spread over the state. In his career there is a fine illustration of the new demand lor men who are with the crowd some persons might call it the mob.

IF all peace officers intrusted with the custody of prisoners had the courage and the convictions of one Maryland sheriff there would be fewer lynchings in the southern states. Recently a prisoner in his charge was threatened with lynching, and his deputy, in his absence, took the prisoner from the county jail and placed him in the jail in Baltimore for the purpose of safety. This rendered the sheriff very indignant, and he announced his intentions of returning the prisoner to the county in which the crime was committed, and keeping him there until the time of trial, summoning, if necessary, a posse of eiUKens to assist him in protecting the' prisoner. He further added, "This thing of lynching must be stopped, and the ar^ner nr example is set the better for ail ^muu lies. If I can't get good, nsliahle eitixens to help me in protecting my prisoners I will artu the prisoner and be and I wUI go down togetl

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What Is a Ball?

"A bull," Sydney Smith tells us, "is the exact counterpart of a witticism, for, as wit discovers real relations that are not apparent, bulls admit apparent relations that are not reaL I do not think- bulls necessarily do that When Sir Boyle Roche told the Irish house of commons that he wished a certain bill, then before that august assembly, at the bottom of the bottomless pit, he certainly produced a bull, and a very fine one, but as certainly his aspiration does not admit apparent relations that are not reaL It appears to me that a bull may perhaps be defined—in so difficult and subtle a matter I don't like to dogmatize—as a real meaning. I observe in passing—and I hope I may not in so doing seem to be lacking in justice to Ireland—that the claim sometimes made on behalf of that country to a aort of monopoly of bulls is nntenabla i*'

Excellent bulls are produced by people of other countries. As, for example, by the Austrian officer mentioned by Schopenhauer when he observed to a guest staying in the same country house: "Ah, you are fond of solitary walks. So am Let us take a walk together.'' Or by the Scotchman who told a friend that a common acquaintance had declared him unworthy to black the boots of a certain person, and who, in reply to his remark, "Well, I hope you took my part,"said, "Of course I did said you were quite worthy to black them." Or, again, by a well known English judge, who, when passing sentence on a prisoner convicted on all the counts of along indictment, observed, "Do you know, sir, that it is in my power to sentence you for these many breaches of the laws of your country to a term of penal servitude far exceeding your natural life?"—Fortnightly Review. ..-Xt#

Ancient Snrjery.

Dr. Robert Fletcher in his Anatomy of Art" and Dr. Luigi Sambon having shown conclusively that Greeks and Romans must have had a good acquaintance with surgery, it seems strange that in the mediaeval European period there was dense ignorance and no skill in amputation. Sword and lance wounds were necessarily of constant occurrence then, and the treatment was merciless. It has been shown before how there was among primitive people a fair acquaintance with surgery and even a knowledge of the refinements of it, as in plastic operations. The disoovery of a manuscript of the eleventh century shows us conclusively that among the Arabs and in Syria at the time of the first crusades there was a fair knowledge of surgery and that the Syrians held in poor estimation the Frank dootor. Osama tells how a knight was suffering from an abscess of the thigh and a woman from consumption. The Frank physician had the knight's leg put in a block, and it was hacked off with a sword. The worn-1 an was treated by having her hair cut and a cross cut into her skulL The knight died at once and so did the woman. Then the chronioler says that the Syrian dootor who had been called in left disgusted, having learned "more about Frankish medicine than he had ever known before."

Bound ot Applause.

A good story is told of Mr. Albert Chevalier when as a lad he was playing an old man's part at the Gaiety theater in London. The Kendals were also in the cast One night, at a critical moment, his cue entirely slipped his mem' ory. Glancing toward the prompter's entrance, he saw Irving, Bancroft, David James and Miss Terry, all looking on. He was tongue tied, and for the moment his mind had become an absolute blank. Chevalier was greeted with a tremendous round of applause. Desperation turned to joy, and by the time the cheering subsided the forgotten line recurred to his mind, and from that moment he got on famously. When the performance was' over, he anxiously awaited the Kendals' verdict "You were a bit uncertain in your lines," said Mr. Kendal. "In fact, one time you stopped dead." "Yes," said Chevalier modestly,' 'but I was all right after I got that round of applause." "My dear youngster," replied Mr. Kendal, "that round of applause was given when the Prince of Wales entered the theater. "—London Correspondence.

As Foil as a Tick.

This expression is common enough the North Riding of Yorkshire and always has reference to the parasites i|H feeting dogs and sheep. Mr. J. Nicholson's "Folk Speech of East Yorkshire," 1880, has the expression, with the explanation, "A tick is a sheep louse, which has always a full, bloated appearance. ^^'4

The west Yorkshiree^tilvalent for this expression is "as full as a fitch"— fitch (vetch)—and the allusion is, I suppose, to the yield being too large for the pod or husk. The idea is pleasanter than either "tick" or "loose, "and it has the advantage of alliteration. —Notes and Queries. ^s #1OO Reward, (KM).,

ITEBKE HAUTE SATURDAY JBT\rgiftyG MATLf AUGUST 8, 180$.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in 25 all Its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall** I

A B«» Opportunity to Visit One of Nature's "Wonders. Excursion to Marengo Cave Sunday,

August 9th..

Regular train on the E. &. T. H, R. R. will leave Terre Haute at 5.38 a. m. and will connect at Princeton with special on the L. E. & St L. Ry., arriving at Marengo 11.20 a. m.

Returning will leave Marengo at 5.00 p. m., connecting at Princeton with regular E. & T. H. train, returning excursionists home in time to get a good night's rest and go about their usual vocations Monday without any loss of time.

Fare for the round trip from Terre Haute only $1.85. Corresponding rate from other stations on the line.

Make your arrangements to go on this extremely cheap trip and take in the sights of this celebrated and beautiful cave. A cheaper or more delightful day's outing could not be devised.

For tickets and further information call on R. D. Digges, ticket agent union depot, or J. R. Connelly, general agent, Terre Haute, or address H. R. Griswold, A. G, P. A., E. P. Jeffries, G. P. A., Evansville, In%M,

Deception Easily Practised

is the offer of a reward for "any case of catarrh not cured" by certain "cures" or blood medicines." Nothing is said regarding the number of bottles required, and therein lies the deception. The makers of Ely's Cream Balm have never resorted to such devices. Cream Balm is an elegant preparation, agreeable to use, and immediate in its beneficial results. It cures catarrh. You can rely upon the fact that ft contains no mercury or other injurious drug. 50 cent?-,-i

Take Your Vacation Now. Go to picturesque Mackinac Island via the D. & C. (Coast Line). It only costs $13.50 from Detroit, $15.50 from Toledo, $18.00 from Cleveland for the round trip, including meals and berths. Tickets good for 60 days, bicycles carried free. One thousand miles of lake and river riding on new modern steel steamers for the above rates. Send 2c. for illustrated pamphlets. Address, A. A. SCHANTZ, G. P. A.,. Detroit.

Hicks Prophecies Tornadoes during August. Protect Your Property By Takiug Tornado insurance with J. A. DAILY, 503 Ohio Street.

U. V. L. Trolley Party and Plenio at Co/lett Park. The third anniversary of Encampment No. 128, N. and G. Will occur on the 10th inst. and the boys will celebrate by a trolley party on the double decker and turn in at Collett Park for a genuine good time and basket picnic.

Members and their families will meet at Sixth and Main not later than 3:30 Monday afternoon. All who cannot come to place of. meeting may be picked up along the route on south Third or north Sixth street.

Tickets will be furnished to members only, free, by Adjutant Richardson, 618 Cherry street, or Trustee Bennett, on Ohio street. Be on hand promptly with well filled baskets.

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H. M. GRISWOLD, S Col. Commanding.

H. S. RICHARDSON,

Adjutant.

Low Hates to Terre Haute* On account of the Terre Haute fair, the C. & E. I. R. R. will sell tickets to Terre Haute and return August 10th to 14th inclusive, good returning until August 15th, at very low rates. For further information apply to local agents of C. & E. I. R. R.

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Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now I 5 binira fn the medical fraternity. Catarrh it a institutional disease, requires aj S c^r.mitutuinal treatment Hail'* Catarrh SSS i- taken internally, acting directly if Mood and roncou* surfaces of ?vi. thereby destining thefoundaCx SE »f Ci- diaeaa*'. and giving the pati-M S5 by building up the constitution, E5 a:,.! .insisting nature in doing ita work. Tire! S proprietors have so much faith in its cur*- S ive powers, that they offer One Htindted 55 Dollar# for any case that It fails to cure.'

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Send for list of totimoabk S Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, a 27"Sold by Druggists, 73c.

Regardless of Cost.

No Other Store

Fancy Peaches, Cantaloupes and Melons

Get your dinner at Harry A. Dodson's, 403 Main street. Only 25c. Everything clean. Polite waiters. Prompt service.

I Fire Water Sale.

Hundreds of people are crowding our store since the opening of our Fire and Water Sale ot Clothing, Furnishing Goods

and Hats. ^he people who look through our stock and prices

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we are selling STACKS OF GOODS EVERY DAY. We have lots of goods left yet and all MUST be sold:

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Sell Yon a Dollar Corset for 29c.

Then why do we do it? It's because we have & few lines that we will not re-order and that means to close out quickly what we have on hand. It's the same with a few lines of Hosiery and Underwear. gP iip

One lot of Ladies' Fast Black Hose, sold readily for 15c to close at OC One lot Fancy Top, regular ribbed "'J. 1VS to close out at »C -.'iLadies' Hermsdorf, black full regular made 25c Hose 1

Ladies' Fast Black Cotton and Lisle, regular 50c Hose for

Gent's Hose, made of spun silk and lisle thread, good-, 1 value for 50c three pairs for 4 .'Children's Hose, sizes

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Business Men's Dinner. Harry A. Dodson has purchased the restaurant formerly owned by W. J. McPeak and is serving the best 25c dinners to be had in the city for the money. Dinner from 11:80 to 2 o'clock.

Ice Cream Soda at Eiser's.

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A first class dinner for 25c. Dodson's restaurant, 403 Main. McPeak's old stand

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A complete liue of beautiful Wood Mantels at Finkbiner & Duenweg's.

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where you will always find an abundance of the choioest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of »:1! kinds of their own make. Telephone 2o2

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