Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 October 1896 — Page 5
MAN ABOUT TOWN.
The Indianapolis people are beginning (to understand that their railroad station its not all that it should be. The News flays the Bryan crowds demonstrated the fact that it is inadequate for the purpose handling great crowds. The Indianapolis station is an imposing pile and it cost [V big amount of money, but it is, in fact, nly a "station" in the sense we in the
Id and woolly west mean when we say itation." A thousand persons will crowd and if there is occasion for quick movement, to and fro, there will result a congestion of humanity such as will retard he people in their efforts to go and come, short, it is a trap. The people assemble comparatively small hallway and canfot move in different directions at will, pen men at the ticket window waiting to served will create a blockade the ex*mity of which may easily extend out-
Ve the building if a thousand persons are jaitiug to pass through the place. The (erre Haute depot is the model. Mind, say "depot." That is what it was tmed when it was opened to the public f»"e put on no airs, nor were we pedantic. i-pot is what we call a railroad building,
I'hether
it be for passengers or freight.
ver the entrance and at other places the jnnogram has the letters "U. D.," which '»nd for Union ^Depot. But our Union pi-pot is so constructed that it will admit if the utmost possible disposition of the ople their accommodation in getting tickets and changing from one train to jf.nother without a blockade of humanity. is a natural clearance house for the U'ople. It is probably true that more
Kiusands of persons can pass through in given time than can be handled in the {'station" at Indianapolis.
'Coercion" Is capable of many meanjgs. Governor Matthews is complaining pint the merchants of Indianapolis did not Show proper respect for the visit of Mr. TBryan to that city. He thinks they were [in duty bound to decorate their places of business for the occasion. And (here is |the spirit of coercion) be calls attention to the fact that these merchants are patronlized by Democrats! The governor would Insist that he did not mean these merchants should be coerced into helping the lE^ryan cause by adding to the display in behalf because merchants are patron•l by Democrats. He would say that it ih a matter of city pride. There is, no iubt, too little courtesy in the closing iys of a campaign, but Governor Matiews certainly would not expect a merchant who conscientiously believes that l»1ae electioii of Bryan would be injurious po his businesH to do anything which pould help inflict injury. If the governor'* ".(•a wort! carried out we would have a loliticfU party boycott. That would be Ridiculous—and it would lie vicious as rvell. Mr. Garfield said, when he was fleeted to succeed Mr. Thurman in the jsnate, that he and Mr. Thurman were forxonal friends and added that the ifaweetest (lowers that bloom are those vhich grow over the garden wall of politicH." Hut, If the Matthews idea should prevail there would be intimidation in '^•ade, and everyone knows that there is possibility of anything "sweet" grow lag in such an atmosphere.
JTIiere is, perhaps, more of the bad feeing of the sort that can only be described & party insauity in the business and (.personal relations of men in Terre Ilaute [than in any city of its size In the cduntry. "t'lu'ie is to a certain extent a trade boycott ujong lines of party fealty. Did you notice fcjhat. Terre Haute was the only city in the 'ta.e from which there were no signers to |vhe petition of the gold Democrats to the ntate election commissioners to place the lljalnier and Buckner ticket on the big (tilnuket ballot the voters are use on eleclon day? That there are sound money ^Democrats who will vote for Palmer and luekner Is beyond dispute. Did you know .hat. with the exception of Mr. Johu G. iWUHams, no prominent Democrat, of Terre IJLttUtelson record in print as opposed to
He Chicago platform? There are others ut they do not want to be quoted in print, tj is true they may say they are not to be xpeeted to align themselves in public dis-f-e$ardiug the effect on their trade but it is l«l«n true that sound money Democrats in ther cities who an* engaged In "trade" h«vt not.only not hesitated todoso but they rilive been marrhlng in the middle of the -trw't, to 1H seen of men, so to speak. It is fiu# only in party polities that Terre Haute
Intolerant In this respect.' The spirit of reprisal, or vengeance, pervades the com'munity In other affairs. Of course, there is nothing bloodthirsty in it but the fact is we have something of the Mafia spirit here, actuating factions and cliques. The greater body
of
who
j.iv
,ntiu-
ieutial. The mass of people are tv.v!y to down a plague on all their InU r^sts if mwnot that they might thereby bring isaatwr on everyone.
i*b«pv is more Catarrh lu this section of J4" ountry than all other diseases put to'ther, and until the last few years was 'ipposed to be incurable. For a great aauy years doctors pronounced it a local usease, and prescribed local remedies, and constantly failing to cure with local :eatnuMit. pronoun* tnl it incurable. Sciice has jmnon o.it irrh to be a const it a(Ma! di*.\is\ and herofoi ,• r.njuires con'itutional treatment, Hall's C.itairh 'iirv, tuanui'.-i by K. J. Chem-r Jfc
Toledo. Ohi is heonly constitutional ire oa the mirke It i« taken Internally from 10 drv*p* to a traspoouful. It itwdirvojly on she hi kk|
and mucoussnr-
t|ses of the *y*Jem They offer one hnnd»»llar* for an cw it fails to cure. Hid for circular* uv,i Testimonials. Ad^s«
K. ,J. CHKSKY & CP. Toledo, O. ScUl by drugji*t*, T.V-
Tlif mo*? bmutiful b*4sin«*w catalogue «r iv-Ui-d by a Terre Hinte mercantile that of Wood, William# & Co-, ifee Mth Fourth str et house furnisher*, Uch was given out to the public Ibis L\-Jek. It is artistic in every twptet, and If ere arc more bright, crispy sayings reto housefumlahings than were
probably ever gotten together between two covers. There are many bright headlines and sensible sayings and undisputed truths are referred to in a tray that can but reflect credit and bring business to the house iwaning it. The book is the work of Mr. Williams, whose attractive advertisements have done much to add to the business of that popular establishments There was no intention whatever on the part of the Arm to make a wrong impression on the patrons of the store by using a "Magic Oak" cut in connection
With
the "Round
Oak" add on 8th page of the catalogue.
NEWS OF THE CITY.
Alfred Roach was declared insane this week, his Insanity, it is said, having resulted from a course of a so-called tobacco cure several months ago.
Herman Weber, for so long connected with G. Nicolai, will open the latter former place to-night as manager. Special arrangements have been-J made to make the affair a notable one.
Policeman Felix McCabe and John Brown were suspended by the police com missioners this week, the former for thirty days and the latter for twenty-six days. The charge against McCabe was intoxication and against Brown for loitering on duty.
Edward Jones, who for several £weeks has been very ill with lung trouble, is not expected to live. All day yesterday he was very low. Mr. Jones is a son of ex-fire cj*'^f, J. D. Jones, and is himself an ex m& iber of the Terre Haute Are department.
The Terre Haute Manufacturing Co. which will remove its machinery from Dixon, 111., to occupy the building recent ly secured from the Terre Haute Carriage & Buggy Co., will require more than twenty cars to transport the machinery and material.
Mrs. Katie Nelson Craig, wife of John Craig, the traveling salesman, died Tues day at the home of her mother, 111 south First street, aged 23. Death was caused by erysipelas and pneumonia. A son 7 months old survives her. Mrs. Craig was formerly an operator at the telephone exchange.
Mrs. Ellen Beatty died Monday morning, aged sixty years. She had been a resident of the city fpr more than thirty years. Surviving her are her husband John Beatty, two sons, Sergeant Beatty of the police force, Wm. Beatty, of Marion Ind., and one daughter, Mrs. Ed. Miller, of south Fourth street.
The Terre Haute Stone Company has a force of men at work putting in the basin for the new city fountain at Second and Main greets. Prox and Briukman have the contract for the pipes and iron work. Small drinking fountains will be placed at the corners of Ninth and a half and Main, Seventh and Latayette and. Fourth and Lafayette.
Ed. Matthews, who burglarized thestore of Apman, Fasig & Starr last July, after being befriended by Dan Fasig, walked in to police headquarters on Weduesday and gave himself up. He said ho was tired of being a fugitive from justice. He has been indicted by the grand jury. Mat thews has a record, having served one term in the penitentiary for stealing a watch from an E. & T. H. engineer, and one term for stealing forty dollars from a north Second street woman.
William L. Hunter, a former member of the flre department, died Wednesday morn ing while at work in the livery stable of his brother, Martin, at Ninth and Cherry streets. The cause of his death was apoplexy. Deceased was forty-seven years old. Four brothers survive him, B. F., the retired teamster C. R., traveling representative for Root & Co. S. W., head miller at Kidder's, aud J. T., a farmer, four miles northwest of Clinton. He had made bis home for some time at the home of his brother, Martin, 722 north Seventh.
Miss Nannie Harper has been elected society secretary of the Charity organization to succeed W. C. Smallwood, resigned. Miss Harper has been identified with the society for some time and has had a great deal of experience in this kind of work. Preparations will be made to remove the secretary's office to the -society's building at 912 Chestnut street, whore the Home for the Friendless is at present located. Instead of the annual meeting which has heretofore beeu held in the opera house, the ministers will be asked to
set
the people are not HVrtcd
but It prevails among
those
aside one Sunday in November, when they will preach on charity and take up a collection.
A New Opera llQUse.
Wyeth Bros, and Elsworth Lawrence are flguriug on a lease of Bindley Hall, and will put in a stage for the presentation of dramatic performances during the coming winter. It. is said^thjt the hall will have a seating capacity of 1,000 under the proposed arrangement.
The impurities in the blood which cause scrofulous eruptions are thoroughly eradicated by Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Grand opening Saturday night at Pabst place, 059 Main street. Herman Weber, manager.
Notice to Taxpayers.
The November installment *f fixers wi be dm on the first Moiitiay iu November. Please call early and avoid the rush.
W. T. SANFORa
Treasurer of Vuro Conn (v.
Tbt* Will Be W«leol»p Xew*. Many of our readers will be gladtoleiarn that a remedy has bei»n •liscoverr that will actually "nip a cold in the trad"— stop it in 30 minutes if taken in time. We refer to Co«tm-Co!d Tablet*, acrid and guaranteed by druggists. flSc.
A Ballet Made H«H«tww. Colonel Olark R. Westoott of London ia responsible for the following account of a singular phenomenon. His story is as follows: "One hoi day I was riding along mountain road in Colorado on my way to a mine in which I am interested, when I noticed high above me, soaring in majestic circles, an eagle. 1 had a 45 90 Winchester slung across my back, and it was but the work of a moment to nneling the gun and fire at the bird, which appeared to be directly above ma As 1 fired 1^ noticed that the bird wes directly between myself and a dense black cloud which bung above ma The shot was a clear miss, and, not oaring to waste any more cartridges, I was about to ride on, when I was startled to hear what 1 took to be the dnll 'chnng' of a stone thrown by an unseen hand, which fell into a little gully partly filled with leaves within 20 feet ma I looked carefully about me in all directions, bnt could see no sign of a hu man being, and then I dismounted, and scraping back tbo leaves, was astonished to find apiece of ioe as large as a goose egg and about the same shape. Upon olose examination I was further aston ished to discover my rifle ball firmly imbedded in its center. I have specn lated a deal over this phenomenon Bince that time, aud the only solution I cau see is that the ball in passing through the cloud gathered the moisture ana held it by its whirling motion so that it was frozen at a higher altitude and fel to the earth as I have described."—Ohi cago Chronicle.
Swallowing a Snake.
I had the good luck see a curious sight—that of one snake killing and swallowing another. We came on the scene just as a king snake was kill ing a black snake, each a little over thr^e feet long. The king was tied and coiled round the Mack, and the latter's tail could just wiggla After a few minutes, during which the king tied himself in the most curious knots and ran his head up and dc.vn his victim's writhing body, biting it here' and there as if examining his supper, he turned to the black's head, gave it a preliminary bite and then slowly proceeded to take the black snake into camp. It seemed impossible that ho could swallow a snake as long and as large as himself, but he did. This is how he did it:
He would stretch his head ds far as possible, get his teeth hooked in his victim's scales, then slip his body up till it was in wrinkles at his neck and for some way (.own, then loose his tooth hold aud slide his head forward for an other grip, just as if you were putting on a tight glove, in fact. It was the most interesting operation, I think, ever witnessed, and the king swalloweu all but three inches of tl« tail of the poor black snake and then, with that dangling from his mouth, glided off into the grass. We let him go, as ho is a known enemy of the rattlesnakes and often kills them.—Indianapolis Jour nal.
The Reward of Virtue.
The following story is related of a gentleman who invited a number of Sunday school oh\Jdren to a treat in h.s beautiful grounds. Not the least appreciated among the many good things were the excellent strawberries aud cream, of which there was a plentiful supply.
Seoing how the children enjoyed these, tho good man, wishing to improve the occasion, addressed thorn: "Well, boys," he said, "I hope yru have thoroughly enjoyed your strawberries and cream." "Yes, sir," was the reply in lusty chorus. "But suppose," he continued, "that instead of having been invited here yr had stolen over my garden wail and helped yourselves when no one was looking. You would not have enjoyed them half so much, would you?" "No, sir," again replied the chorus. "And why not?" queried their benefactor.
To this question there was no immediate response, the boys being apparently shy of giving any reason. At length, however, a little urchin, rather bolder than the rest, piped out: 'Cause we shouldn't have had no cream with them."—London Tit-Bits.
Miss Gentry's Gourds.
Miss Susie Gentry of Franklin will have a gourd exhibit in the Woman's building at the Tennessee centennial. She has discovered many uses to which the gourd was put in primitive days. Gourds can be used as receptacles for lard, sugar, dried fruit, preserves, salt, soap, powder, shot, eta As many as 60 dozen eggs have been packed in an' 'egg gonrd." There are four varieties of nest egg gourds—goose, duck, turkey and hen eggs—all true to nature in shape and size. Gourds have been used as dippers, strainers, funnels, martin boxes, squirrel cages, life preservers, banjos, dish rags, spinners and be&y rattles. Among ornamental uses are Vases, table decorations, toilet recept* pes, purses and curiosities in the shapt ^of a snake gourd and wine bottle.
Spoiled In Transmission.
This is the way the railway man beard the conundrum: 'At what time shortly before noon is it 3 o'clock? At a quarter of 13, because a quarter of 12 ia
TERRE HAUTE SATtTfiBAY .EVENING MAIL, OCTOBER 10, lSSfl.
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And this the way he worked it off on bis friends: At what time shortly before noon is it 3 o'clock? At 11.45, because 11:45 is 3. It doesn't sound right either, bl it, but tint's the way 1 heard it. _icago Trilute.
Woman's Spbcr*.
Bow can a distinction be clearly drawn In all cases between a prayer meeting and other public meetings? And when a war is sg- in a meeting, how «L*.l we pr to stop her if she indulges in a fliy of oratory? This trying to regulate woman's sphere is giving as. kits oI troable.—Methodist Herald.
Public Idbrary Removal.
The public library closes to-night preparatory to removal to the new library rooms In the old Universalis church building on north Eighth street between Cherry and Mulberry streets. The building has been remodelled and placed in a good condition for the new purpose, and it is probably one of the most convenient buildings for library purposes in the state. Announcement will be made in due time of the opening of the library in the new loca
Grand opening- Saturday night at Pabst place, 659 Main street. Herman Weber, manager. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
The November installment of city taxes is due and payable on Monday, NOT. 2d. Pay your taxes promptly before that time and avoid penalty and costs.
CHAS. BALCH, City Treasurer.
Order your WINTER'S COAL. Any kind. Terre Haute Coal & Lime Co. Tel. IO7. ______
Grand opening Saturday night at Pabst place, 659 Main street. Herman Weber, mana
JSAAO BALL & SON, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, Cor. Third and Cherry streets, Terre Haute, Ind., are prepared to execute all orders in their line with neatness and dispatch.
Embalming a Specialty.
J. DAILEY,
503 OHIO STB.EET.
Give him a call If you have any kind of Insurance to place. He will write you in as good companies as are represented In the city.
ARMY LIFE ON THE PLAINS
Is depicted in most entertaining style by that most popular of military novelists, Capt. Charles King, in our new serial
Fort Frayne
It is full of stirring scenes and breezy incidents and there is a military dash of style and narrative that will keep you interested.
Fort Frayne
Will be printed as a serial in this paper only.
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If you propose experimenting with yonr purchases, don't do it with Groceries. Unless these are pure, the good health of your entire household may be jeopardized. A reputation is the result of years of conscientious service for the public. You already know our imputation: we sell the very best GROCERIES and FRESH MEATS at the most reasonable price.
Lawrence ickey
Tel. 80. Cor. 12th and Main.
Clean Harket. Clean Store.
attend tie Garvin Commercial college
AND SCHOOL OF
SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING.
Our course of study is complete and practical. Bookkeeping is taught as is practiced Iu modern business houses, by teachers who have had years of experience as practical bookkeepers. Every teacher has been selected with reference to his practical experience. Our graduates on entering business houses do not have to be retaught. Our terms are as reasonable as can bo made and furnish first-class Instruction. Results tell, and wo ask you to look at the hundreds of former students now holding .situations. Wo refer to the business men and bookkeepers of this city, or to any of our former students. Address «#f
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104 South Fourth Street.
Thttfc yon renlly ought to have a air of our handsome shoes for $2.00
Wine Colored Russet Shoes are the go.
Off Our Hind
in button or
lace, tan or black, up-to-date in style. We spoke about them the oilier day. This notice will tell those who did not secure that we now have them on s«le.
Boege man's
YOUNG PEOPLE
CO TO
TERRE HAUTE,
Where a thorough business education is given all students. Book-keeping, Shorthand, Telegraphy and Typewriting-
tan£ht b7experts.
The
MERCIALpOLUOft'soneof West National its character.
The best store is the stove that will do the most beating with a specified amount of coal. All talk about beauty of finish or any matter of detail fades into insignificance if a stove can't meet the great test of ECONOMICAL HEATING.
"Art Laurel" and "Crown Laurel" stoves are hard coal bawe burners, and they are not only great coal savers, but are beautiful as well—fit to grace any parlor.
Tue re uiiar flue construction and the wide of/emug in the bott in go a long way toward making these sieves as near }-arl fr stove can possibly be. pou't stf» c*a! by using other stoves.
I.o ur Laurel* aid let us tell you the full story of ti*eir
all
TERRE HAUTE COM-
the oldest ana largest in the
largest
Students enter at any time.
Both sexes. Terms low. Fine illustrated catalogue, free.
C. ISBELL, President, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
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