Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 October 1896 — Page 4
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3.
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FORT FRAYNE."
In The Mail of October 17th will begin a new story by Capt. Chas. King, whose stories of military life have made him popular with the reading public. It is entitled "Fort FraynQ," being a narrative of frontier army life. The Mail has published a number of the stories of Capt. King, and all have proved very popular. Fort Frayne is one of the very best of his stories, and will certainly please The Mail's readers.
MK. BBVAK captured Tammany this week. Tammany is figuring on capturing Mr. Bryan in the event of his election.
TJJEKK are said to be six thousand different kinds of intoxicating liquors sold in this country. They all seem to be in demand in a campaign year.
FOUR weeks from next Tuesday will be election day, and the time intervening is likely to be the hottest politically that residents of the Hoosier state have ever experienced.
Mit. CLEVELAND fluds time now and then to attend the weddings of his friends, but he hasn't time to give Mr. Bryan, who wants to be his Democratic successor, a pleasant look.
TUB Rev. Talmage refuses to turn his pulpit into a political stump, and so far as known it the first time on record that he refused to turn himself into a sensation when the opportunity offered.
THE world is certainly growing better. Two Indianapolis medical colleges have refused to receive as a student Will Wood, whose name figured so prominently in the Pearl Bryan murder. Now If all the resectable people would refuse to receive him in their homes, he would get part of the punishment he so justly deserves for the despicable part he played in the Bryan affair.
THE orange and lemon growers of Italy have quite a good deal to learn, and they might take a few lessons from the peach growers of Delaware. A dispatch from Italy this week announced that the orange crop would be twice as great as last year, while the lemon crop would be fully as large. If that had been a peach report from Delaware, early frosts would have killed all the fruit, and market prices would have none "P accordingly.
THE new novel by Du Maurier, the author of Trilby, apparently has all the elements that led to the success of that remarkable novel. There Is a cloud over the birth of the hero, and the first installment of the story contains enough French phrases and quotations to appal the reader who isn't proficient that language of diplomacy. It was said that the reason that Trilby contained so many French quotations was that their language wouldn't bear publication In Euglish, and this will no doubt lead to general interest in the new story. "The Martial."
A N*OTKI Indian philosopher who figured largely iu the world's fair, arrived in this country this week for the purpose of opening missionary headquarters in Chicago in the attempt to convert the people there to the religion and code of morals prevalent among his people. He is not likely to make any converts in Chicago, although there seems to be an inviting field for missionary work. One of the chief beliefs he advocates is that it is a crime to eat any kind of food obtained by the sacrifice of any living thing. No man can expect to make headway as a missionary in Chicago who attempts to interfere with the work of Jjheir magnificent- slaughter houses.
WASHINGTON is the city of magnificent distances, but New York Is a city of magnificent expenditures, if we may believe the flu res given by John Gilmer Speed, In nn article in the Ijadies' Home Journal. The great metropolis spends $30,000,000 a year for beer and *00,000,000 in the same inu» for wines and spirits, while she spends but for preachers' salaries. 16,000.000 for the support of churches, and $9,000,000 for charity. Few can realise the immensity of the wealth of New York, which it is stated in the article in question is great enough when divided equally among the population to give each man. woman and child making it by rH!- hc richest city in the worM. Mr. Speed states that are paid annually to the lawyof New York ?ll»i\y\ nM ians "tt *urceons: &.»>©.- rvUitects demies: *13.to ruk.T-. A «g«r* gM0 of about $!«*»/*'*»!* VvlU 2-«««••''•? clothing, iirt mi for fur*, for diamonds *ud other j..-vrtK tor tit flowers and growing
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THE free soilers who gave up the best years of their lives to prevent Kansas from becoming a slave state, in order that the colored race might have equal rights and privileges there, would no doubt turn over in their graves to know that in Topeka recently a lieutenant in the United States army, a colored man, was refused admission to the leading hotel there, and was compelled to go to a Missouri city before he could get hotel accommodations. He had been ordered to report there for examination for advancement in rank, but the hotel drew the line on his color, and he was obliged to seek shelter in the old slave state. If this had happened in some southern city it would not have been surprising, but it seems somewhat out of place in Kansas.
THE last report of the commissioner of education furnishes some very interesting statistics regarding the educational institutions of this country, and especially with reference to the public schools, which have been well named the bulwarks of our liberty. During the school year, 1894-5, referred to in the report, it is shown that 16,0000,000 students attended the different educational institutions of the country, and of these 14,280,000 were in schools supported by public funds. Of this number 14,201,752 were enrolled in the common schools of the country. The increase over the preceding year was nearly two per cent., while the increase in the population is estimated at a fraction over one and a quarter per cent. As compared with 1880, a period of fourteen years, the commissioner shows that there are 98 more enrollments in every 10,000 persons than at the time named. For the entire country the total income for public school purposes for the year was $177,597,690. This was derived as allows: From permanent funds, 4.7 per ceut. from state taxes, 18.7 per cent. from local taxes, 67 per cent., leaving 9.6 per cent, from all other sources. The attendance upon higher institutions in the United States is reported to be 204,384, distributed as follows: Universities and colleges and technical schools, 92,629 professional schools, 53,552 normal schools, 58,208. Of this total 32 per cent, only are in public institutions. The student in professional schools, so far as classified, comprised 8,050 students in theology in law, 8,950 medicine, 21,887 dentistry, 5,347 pharmacy, 3,859.
THOSE who have thus far been unfortunate enough not to be able to purchase a bicycle have been felicitating themselves that next year bicycles would be cheaper, cheap enough, in fact, to furnish one of these seemingly modern necessities to every household. But now comes the information that they are going to be higher priced next year rather than cheaper. It is all on account of a combination between the manufacturers of bicycle tubing and the members of high grade wheels. At a meeting between representatives of these interests livat week it was decided that cheap wheels will be forced from the market, and the high prices maintained. There is in this country, it is said,, twelve qompanies engaged in the manufacture of tubing. They have signed a contract not to sell any tubes to other than legitimate manufacturers of wheels. By this it is expected to shut out those who turn out the cheaper grades of wheels, and who are known as "assemblers." They buy the different parts of a wheel from different manufacturers. Then they fit the parts and sell good wheels under high grade prices. By getting the tube manufacturers to shut off the supply of tubing from the "assemblers" the high class wheel manufacturers will shut off competition. An agent was sent to Europe to agitate a similar combination there. The tube manufacturer who gave the information about this new trust said that another meeting will be held in a few weeks when the increased prices for next season will be agreed upon. The people of th*e United States can put up with the linseed oil trust, the sugar trust, the whiskey trust, the coal combine, and the various other trusts and combinations which control the output and sale in various branches of industry, but when it comes to forming a tubing trust to put up the prices of bicycles, there is likely to be a howl both deep and long. The bicycle has come to be looked upon as a household necessity in every well regulated family, and any organisation of men whose purpose it is to raise the price of this necessity will be looked upon as an enemy to "the common welfare.
THK political condition in Indiana is fast approaching the hysterical stage. The last few weeks before a general election in this state are marked by an excited condition that Is probably not equalled in any other state in the union. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is hysterical. The disposition to bet on the result is one of the characteristics of this condition. Another is a disposition to brand everything suited by the opposition as a lie. The combiniftiou of Iscbmmiing and betting is such that "those who participate in these diversions while sane on matters of business and religion when it comes to politics are fair candidates for public consideration. One day this week the Indianapolis Sentinel, the state organ of Democracy madeastatemeat that Mr. (iowtiy, chairman of the Republican state committee had telegraphed in cipher to some one in New York I that Indiana was certain to give Bryan a plurality of 50.000. The Sentinel did not get its information r.lr.-ct, but stated that it had been informed "by a dispatch from
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Mr. Gowdy had done this improbable thing. With characteristic frankness the Sentinel added that there was no question but that the statement was true, although Mr. Gowdy was not in the city but would not deny it, had he been there. For a few days thin statement remained unchallenged, but Mr. Gowdy said in the Journal,in answer to a telegraphic inquiry about it, that it was absolutely untrue that he had ever made any admission that it wqp his belief that Indiana would give Bryan a plurality, much less one of 50,000. This »lsa fair sample of the stories that are indulged in during the closing weeks of a campaign in Indiana. It seems the disposition of Hoosiers to indulge in this sort of talk about election time. Whether it is in the air, or in the soil, or in the sunshine that falls upon her people, it is as certain as death or taxes that when a general election comes that her people are going wild about the claims of the respective candidates to whom they are committed. Nothcan change these conditions, apparently, and as it has been for years so it will ever be. _________
THE opening for American manuiacturers in the South American countries furnishes the greatest field known for the upbuilding of American commerce, and the American manufacturers who are now touring these countries in the interests of their business are having their eyes opeoa£ as to the possibilities for future trade there. In the Argentine Republic, for instance, they found flouring mills that compared favorably in size with the best in any country, a factory of jute shoes «*ifploying nearly 700 persons, a model dairy farm on which 1,800 cows are milked and vast herds of cattle and horses are successfully raised, and the great wheat field which has become the successful competitor of the Mississippi valley for the grain trade of Europe. In Brazil they found rich coffee plantations and immense forests of valuable timber, and they will doubtless return home with new and exalted ideas of the wealth and fertility of the principal South American countries and with some practical ideas of how to develop a profitable traffic with them. The trade in South America is already important and it is constantly growing. Some of this valuable trade we should be able to secure. The United States is the chief buyer of the coffee, lumber and crude rubber of Brazil and the hides of Argentine, Bolivia and other states, jghe trade so far is a one-sided one, our purchases aggregating many millions of dollars, while our sales in exchange are insignificant in comparison. With one side of the trade already established at our expense the other side should be developed, in order that the commerce may be equitable. The steamers and sailing vessels that reach our ports laden with South American coffee, hides and other goods should return laden with the products of our manufactories. Trade with South America will involve increased transportation facilities, which will mean more ships and steamers sailing from American ports. In various ways an important increase of our South American trade will prove advantageous and there is no section of the country, no matter how far removed from the seaboard, but would profit by such a&4ncrease of trade. Trade with those countries was in a fair way towards development under the reciprocity laws, and their repeal interfered seriously with such growth. A re-enactment of those laws will pave the way for a magnificent increase in our trade with the nations to the south of us.
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PEOPLE AND THINGS.
The late Prince Lobanoff of Russia, always had his horse shod in silver, because he believed it to be the metal most suitable for horses to walk upon.
James Louis Washington, a negrwboy of New Orleans, 8 years of age, is known as the boy preacher. He can repeat nearly the whole of the bible from memory.
A baby a few months old was sold for 1 shilling in the presence of witnesses to a dealer in England recently. The parents were wandering minstrels and glad to get rid of it.
A son of Crocker, the late California millionaire, has, according to his father's will, kept from liquor for five years, and now asks for $500,000, which is due him under those conditions. That beats the gold cure.
The Buffalo Center, Winnebago county, Iowa, school board has passed a resolution to use corn for fuel this winter. Ten cents a bushel for corn they consider cheaper than coal. To them it means a reduction of half their fuel, provided corn does not advance in price.
Van Bpren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Filmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison and Cleveland have been^the successive presidents of the United States while Victoria has been queen of Great Britain.
There is a great demand all over the country for living models owing to the increase in the number of young people studying art. Last year the Chicago Art Institute had 1,607 students, besides 45 professors and instructors. To supply so many students with life models is no small task, and they have to be sought for in all the large cities.
With an ordinary steel pen, Mid without the aid of a glass, Miss Frances L*fayette of San Francisco, has written 9,588 words on a postal card. A cursory glance at the card reveals nothing but a shaded surface, but by placing it under a mi'-^--n-v tfcrwriting looms op with surpiit- a, -•, iness and one wonders how the feat can possibly have been performed.
Mm?. Christine Nil*soa now lives in Madrid, where she a fh :T~r.u*g house, two rooms -.rhiii are _„.^..ely decorated, Some cycle chmten«d them "The Rewards of Diu and Dinner,*' and this is the reason whyi The walls of her bedroom are papered with leaves of music
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Prince Khilkoff, who is coming over from Russia to look into our railroad system, with a view of introducing it in the czar's empire, is anything but a typical Slav. He looks like a yankee business man. He ran an engine once on a western road, and knows all about switches and time tables.
The late Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, was a generous giver on occasion, but personal economy was a fad with him. He used to walk between his home and his bank, and when it was suggested that he ought to use the street car, as the fare was only 5 cents, he rejoined: "Only 5 cents! Don't you know, sir, that $100 will have to work nearly a whole week to earn that 5 cents!"
The report of a Hindoo woman lawyer conducting the defense in a murder trial at Poona, is a story to make the young legal women of America green with envy. None of them has yet attained the distinction of a murder case, and here is Miss Lorabji, who took her degree at Oxford, England, only three years ago, triumphantly clearing her client from the ugly charge. Miss Lorabji is the only woman lawyer in Asia. She is not allowed to practice in the courts in the native states, but Poona is in British territory.
What a Billion Means.
The following remarkable calculation on the length of time whic^ it would take a person to count 1,000,000,000 recently appeared in an issue of an English periodical: What is a billion The reply is very simple. In England a billion is a million times a million. This is quickly written and quicker still pronounced. But no man is able to count it. You will count 160 or 170 a minute. But let us suppose that you go up as high as 200 a minute, hour after hour. At that rate you would count 12,000 an hour 288,000 a day, or 105,120,000 in a year. Let us suppose now that Adam, at the beginning of his existence, had began to count, and had continued to do so and was counting still. Had such a thing been possible, he would not yet have finished the task of counting a billion To count a billion would require a person to count 200 a minute for a period of 9,512 years, 542 days, 5 hours and twenty-five minutes, provided he should count continuously. But suppose we allow the counter twelve hours daily for rest, eating and sleeping. Then he would need 18,025 years, 319 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes in which to complete the task!
A Bachelor's Reflections. No man is much of a hero to a widow. The woman who marries for spite usually gets it.
Few men would marry if they could live forever. Matrimony has established the fact that love is not incurably blind.
About every third woman imagines that she is an uncrowned queen. The man who is good for nothing else sometimes makes a good husband.
Never marry a man to reform him. Reform him first and then don't marry him. A good many men marry to get a home and then spend most of their time away from it.
Green velvet will be used on brown, beige, black, gray and dark blue. The dark shade known as Russian green will be a fad of the season.
Fifty Years Ago.
Who could imagine that this should be The place where, in eighteen ninety-three That white world-wonder of arch and dome 8hould shadow the nations, polychrome... Here at the Fair was the prize conferred On Ayer's Pills, by the world preferred. Chicago-like, they a record show, Since they etarted—go yean ago.
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50 Years of Cures.
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Ladies' Fine Diagonal and Kersey Cloaks, some trimmed with fiaefur, sold at $12 and $8 your choice
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