Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 December 1896 — Page 7

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MAN ABOUT TOWN.

The people living In the neighborhood of Seventh street and Collett Park avenue are not altogether pleased with the treatment they have been receiving at the hands of the Terre Haute Electric Street Railway company. "We have been getting the worst of it for gome time now," said one of the citizens affected, "and we have been thinking seriously of taking definite steps in the direction of relief." "What's the nature of your grievance?" "Well, we've been left high and dry, so to speak, by the receding tide of the street car service. Once upon a time the cars ran regularly to the end of the line on north Thirteenth street-that is to say, they didn't loee their nervfiat the turn and retreat into the city 1 now they very frequently fail us. We are of the opinion that the Collett Park avenue line should be used, and used regularly, or else the tracks should be cleared away as an obstruction and a nuisance. "It is only during the company's dull season that we are neglected," continued the vexed suburbanite. "When the skirt dancer is postng and pirouetting at the Casino, the buzz of the motor is a quite familiar sound in our neighborhood. The cars run then with a regularity that rivals the proverbial clock. Hut when the dark days come—t he days of rain and cold and mud—the company forgets us almost entirely anil we arc compelled to walk. It makes a fellow feel like saying d—n it.' "Why." the man went on, nursing his wrath, "we see a car at Twelve Points and make up our minds that we shall at last be able to get down town. We throw on our wraps and hasten to the track. The car glides north until it reaches the turn. Then it stops. We hope the stop is only for a moment, that the car will presently swing round the corner and come down to the park to pick us up. But it doesn't. On the contrary, the conductor drags his trolley around, mounts the platform, jerks the bell and they are olT. We yearn for a Springfield rifle and a good eye, we broak all our resolutions to keep our language within scriptural limits, but the car pitches on toward the city in buoyant and lofty contempt, of all we feel and say. The net proceeds of the experience, so far as we are concerned, are a bad cold and a temper that would sour condensed milk."

He was an old man with coal dirt marring the gray of his hair anil beard. It was in front' of his offlce out on Poplar street and he was busily engaged in constructing a sign announcing the character of his busines*. This "sign" was to consist of a wquare column of coal, surmounted by one of the largest single blocks of the black diamond ever seen in the city. It apIjeared that the most of a wagonloadof the fuel had been dumped ready to the hand of the builder, lie drew from the heap various sined pieces and lit ted them In place with an air of great absorption. It was manifestly a work that the old man thoroughly enjoyed. He took the pains of an artist in adjusting every lump. He builded slowly but he builded symmetrically and well, (luce or twice a boy stopped in passing to note the rising column: otherwise the man labored alone and lit le observed lutein thr afternoon ht finished the orderly pile with the exception of the placing at the top of the huge block. He summoned assistance for this. When it was done he stood otT and admired tlie result. At little later he appeared with a pot of paint and a brush and scrawlM across the fac« of the great lump:

I'll KHK A vniKHS HIT NONE SO WARM." Then he st.v .sl otT once motv-and laughed.

Mrs. Palmrttecr. the very able matron of the Home for the Friendless, has a great many peculiar boys to deal with in the cour-e of her duties. She has one little follow in the house at present who is a prodigy at the ditVicult art of successful lying. All his tricks have at last been discovered, however, and he ts now pretty well understood at the Home. The fact is fully appreciated that if this youngster saysjit. it isn'tso. He is only four years old. How hi* faculty for systematic and uniform misrepresentation became so highly develojHsl in so -hort a time is a puaale to his keepers. The hoy lies naturally, fluently ami without forethought or effort. If he ever use* his mind .»t all it seems to be in trying to devise a plausible yam in a case where the truth would do quite as well »ud N» much simpler.

This tot has other weaktiesws* than his dislike for straightforward ami truthful narrative He likes to burn thing*, tie is all the time getting hold of matches* in mysterious way* and setting fit* to articles clothing or furniture. He would very likely bum the Home for the Frieodl«*s to the ground if It were not for the watchful care bestowed upon him, as well as upon all the other little onee in the institution, For »me time Mrs. Palmateer keep finding burned spot* about the premise* without being able to account for tbetn. At last she found this boy's coat stuffed away behind a bath tub. and wruwwd up in it was a box of match** that he had obtained in some unknown way. The chap Is now guarded with par­

ticular care lest he get hold of other means of serious trouble and probable loss.

Another little fellow in the Home has a penchant for tearing the buttons from his clothing and then marveling to Mrs. Palmateer as to how the damage could have happened. If the matron suggests that possibly some one of the other boys did the mischief, the youngster admits that she is doubtless right, but he has no idea who the boy is. "Maybe it wuz one uv 'em," he reflects, "but I dunno which one, do you?" Mrs. Palmateer does know which one of the boys removed the buttons, for she has caught the real miscreant at it by means of an arrangement of mirrors. Accordingly she takes the mendacious juvenile into the back yard and concludes the discussion with him there.

Still another boy at the Home has won distinction among his fellows. He has done so by his persistent and unconquerable refusal to wear a coat. Of "the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to," this queer lad takes that part of the conventional dress of America known as the coat as the most exasperating. It is not known where he got this notion. The theory is that his paternal ancestors must have gone very much in their shirt sleeves, and this is probably true. If it is not true, this boy at the Home is going to be an ancestor and the source of a peculiarity himself. The matron puts a coat on his little back, to be sure, aud she does all in her power to convince him that it is thoroughly "good form" to wear such a garment, but he remains obdurate, disobedient and individual, He sallies back into the woodshed and buries his coat as deep among the sticks as he can. Then he goes about his business in a charmingly optimistic spirit.

There remains one more embryo American citizen under Mrs. Palmateer's care who is altogether worthy of attention. He may be cited as an instance of how delightfully primitive a boy may be even in these days when some people are disturbed about the effeteness of our civilization. The youngster referred to brings with him into the Home for the Friendless a breath from the freedom and simplicity of aboriginally. He knows so little about the ways of modern society that he is wholly unable to dress himself in the regulation manner. Given a full outfit of clothing, he does not know what to do with it. He knows that the shoes belong on his feet, that the hat belongs on his head and that the other articles of attire are for distribution over his body. But the manner of distribution stumps him. He takes a pair of trousers and a pair of drawers and lays them on his little cot side by side. If he decides that the drawers are prettier than the trousers he placidly proceeds to put them on on the outside where their attractiveness will be the most effectual. Likewise with his shirt and undershirt. Whichever appeals with the greater force to his arslstic sense is on the outside when the boy appears in the common room. He has caused a sensation a number of times by his novel notions of dress and the mode of application to the human form divine.

Probably no enterprises in the country spend money more freely than the great newspapers. The generally want the best and are willing to pay well for it. Their workers get good salaries and liberal allowances for expenses when they are sent out on an assignment. It is not always that these employes are strictly exact in recording their expenditures—they sometimes pad "hack bills" to cover outlays for luxuries of another kind—but ou the whole they probably get no more than their services are worth. As an example of the royal way in which many of the metropolitan dailies do things the manner of covering the St. I^ouls convention by one of the Chicago papers may be cited. It sent ten high-salaried men to the Missouri town and furnished-each one of them with a room in one of the fashionablehotels, besidesjsupplyingalargedouble room as a kind of headquarters. The expense of the week was enormous. Many facts are on record illustrating in a much more striking way the liberality of newspapers when something "big" is involved. The chartering of special engines and special trains has come to be a commonplace in American journalism, and the ases of where an immense sum has been paid for exclusive news of a national character are numerous. It will be rememlered that when the St. Ixrais cyclone occurred a New York paper telegraphed treneral Wallace at Crawfordsville offering him #1.000 to go to the stricken city and send them an account of the disaster. Within the past few weeks a case developed in this city. When General Miles published an interview in which he recommended an increase of the standing army, the New York Journal telegraphed Eugene V. Debs the full interview of General Miles and asked Debs to reply to it by telegraph with an answer of from one to two thousand words. Mr. IVbsdid so and the cost of the news to the Journal must have been the cost of running some newspaper* for a month or two.

If you use Coal Oil the best results are attained by burning National Light Oil, for sale by George Reiss, Third and Main streets.

Easels, Unframed Pictures for the Holidays at attractive prices at the Art Departr ment of the Havens & Geddes Company.

At Wilvert's, 1115 Main— leave orders for your Christmas Ice Cream.

Fine Candies of all kinds at McGahan's, corner Fourth and Cherry.

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CHRISTMAS GIVING.

The Poor were Not Forgotten In the Days of Long Ago. There is an ancient custom for the rector of Piddle Hinton, in Dorsetshire to giro away on old-Christmas day, the 6th of January, annually, a pound of bread, a pint of ale and a mince pie to every poor person in the parish, and this distribution is regularly made by the rector to upward of 800 poor persona At Stafford there is an old charity far providing poor people with plums for their Christmas puddings, and a kind hearted man at Burnham left a sum sufficient to provide the inmates of the poorbouse of the parish with a Christ* mas dinner, followed by a "proper supply of ale, tobacco and snuff.

At Prince Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, there was a very singular Christmas usage. Up to abont 1818 a bull, a boar, a sack of wheat and a sack of malt were given away to the poor by the lord of the manor at abont 6 o'clock every Christmas morning. This practice was then discontinued, and for abont five or six years beef and mutton were distributed in place of the above articles. Mr. Grubb—fit name for the dispenser of what Rittmaster Dugald Dalgetty wonld call "the provend"—of the parsonage house, the then lord of the manor, whose father first stopped the above customary distribution, produced to the commissioners of charities a case which his father had laid before a justice, relative to this custom, with a view of obtaining the opinion of counsel as to whether it could be sn^ined as a custom at common law, and whether ho should be subject to legal process if he omitted to make the distribution.

It appears from the document that the custom had then prevailed for a considerable number of years that it was mentioned in the looal histories, but that its origin was lost in obscurity. The practice, while it lasted, seems to have been productive of much intoxication and riot The poor are said to have paraded the town during the whole night preceding the distribution with an incessant clamor, effectually banishing all repose. On the following morning ti'y marched in crowds to Mr. Grubb's hoi.se, and these assemblies often comprised many strangers as well as parishioners. On the doors being opened they all rushed to the feast prepared for them with to little decorum and forbearance that often in their zeal for priority thoy inflicted wounds on one another with their knives. The whole remainipg portion of Christmas day, it is stated, was spent by many of them in the public houses. The justice before whom the matter was heard was of the opinion that this custom was not sustainable as a common law right, and the charity commissioners reported that they had received no sufficient evidenco that the custom could be considered as a charitablo donation the continuance of whi could be enforced.—Selected.

SWISS CHRISTMAS DINNER.

Roast Goose Occupied the Place of Honor. Geneva Fritters the National Dish. In this baautiful country, where the laws nnd the customs vary in every canton, tho mistress of the kitohen has a wide variety of German, Italian and French cooking to seleot from. But on Christmas oay, although all these styles may be united ou one table, there is an invariable although unwritten law that roast goose shall be the chief dish. The dessert is a marvelous mixture of Swiss confectioneries, comprehending everything from little cocoanut cakes to elaborate structures of flour and sugar interspersed with all sorts of nuts and small fruits.

But between the opening goose and tho closing patisserie is introduced tho really national Christmas dish oalled tho Geneva fritters. These fritters are made after tho following recipe:

Put into a saucepan a dozen pears cut into quarters and the cores taken out, with enough water to cover them. Let them «tew till they aro qui to tender, when the water will have evaporated. Put them into a colander and crush them with a wooden spoon. Add half their weight of sugar, a little lemon and a pinch of powdered cinnamon. Put the saucepan on the fire for eight or ten minutes aud then let it cooL Take two handfulsof raisins, seed them and put them ou tho fire with enough water to soften them, then add them to the above, with little glass of rum or kirsch.

Take a thin flour paste for a dozen pears of moderate sizo and make them into a roll about the circumference of a dollar, cover half the surface of tho paste with marmalade and cut the fritters into convenient sizes. Serve with the yolks of eggs, after cooking them before a hot fire and powdering them with sugar.—New York World.

angary's ChrtattnM Feast.

Goulaacb is the national dish of Hungary and consists of meat cut into small pieces and cooked with onions, tomatoes and the powerful paprika, a species of pepper peculiar to the country. This dish is naturally the most attractive in the Christmas dinner, and with it are fried cabbage, fish soup, farina cakes and cakes made from the poppy seeds. Dividing the honors with the goulaech there will be found upon the table a roast pig invariably decorated with row* between its teeth. This meal is eaten as an evening dinner before midnight mass, and when the worshipers return from their church after midnight the table is set with cold pork, bonbons and corn brandy as a drink.—Exchange.

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The Swiss name for mistletoe is donnerbesen—thunder besom—and, when suspended from the rafters, is believed to protect the house from fire.

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Christmas mince pies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were toads with a coffin shaped out, to reptwnt the manger.

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TERBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1896.

French Christmas Carol. Noel! Noel!

At darkest night on man was shed Thy heavenly brightness. Blessed Child. Be this night fair about thy bed,

And around it may the winds blow mild. Noell Noel!

Fast fall our tears as here we see Thy cradle rude, thy chamber bare. For ns thou chosest poverty.

For \ia all mortal woes didst share. Noel! Noel!

An angel band, with harps of gold. Descend, O Chiid, to give thee praise. Thy manger with their wings infold

And chant for thee their heavenly lays. Noel! Noel!

O Christ, upon my grateful heart Pour out the fullness of thy grace. In life to love thee be my part.

And after death to see thy face. Noel! Noel! —Selected.

A Worthy Institution.

On Nov. 21, 1896, articles of incorporation of the Elks' Mutual Life Association of America were filed in the office of Secretary of State Owens. This organization is the outgrowth of several months' hard labor by several members of Terre Haute Lodge B. P. O. & As its name indicates, it is purely an Elks' institution, and none but Elks in good standing are eligible to membership and benefits under its policy contracts. In the march of improvement, noticeable in all the industries and activities of life, there are none perhaps more important than the improvements made in life insurance. A doubtful security has been made certain, unnecessary accumulations of policy-holders' money are now avoided, promises are not made which cannot be fulfilled, and expense of management is no longer an uncertain quantity, but is controlled and limited in the contract of insurance. The framers of the Elks' Mutual have had the advantage of observation and experience of the trials and tribulations of many life associations have seen how many have gone down under careless mismanagement, and how others have grown to be regarded as solid as the government itself by good management. Framed on the lines of absolute certainty and security, it presents a policy contract embodying all the modern and advantagous features which older associations have been taught by experience that they can safely incorporate in their policies. The sole object of the Elks' Mutual is to furnish to its members life insurance at the lowest possible cost consistent with absolute security and safety. This it does by collecting the actual amount required for death claims and expenses together with a small percentage for maintenance of a reasonable emergency fund. Its mortuary premiums are based on the death rate indicated by the American Experience Table of Mortality and adjusted so that each policy-holder must contribute his equitable proportion according to his age and the amount of insurance he carries. Men insure their lives to the end that their dependent ones may enjoy the comforts of life and be shielded from its hardships in the event of death. The loss that but for life insurance, would fall with crushing weight on the one is distributed by means of true life insurance among the many, so that none are unduly burdened. A life association, such as the Elks' Mutual, is the most beautiful example of a benevolent institution anywhere to be seen. Its members are banded together for the good of all and the preservation of the home is made to depend, not upon the life of a single being, but upon the average life of a community. Thus it unifies the race and becomes the practical embodiment of the brotherhood of man. A well founded and well conducted insurance institution is an object of public interest, as its beneficial effects are in a measure equal to those of a charitable or philanthropic institution, but differing from those in its form, their effects are produced without any donation, sacrifice or acts of beniflcence, being merely the natural results of thrift and prudence. In the present day when millions of dollars are being annually invested in Life Insurance and thousands of people are yearly receiving its benefits the subject needs no lengthy or extended introduction. Its advantages are admitted and it may be said that no better method has been devised in the history of the world to provide against the certain and irreparable loss of a productive human life, for destiny cannot be controlled, nor can the hazards of sudden death be adequately guarded against thus Life Insurance ranks among the greatest enterprises of the world. It is the only certain resource open to the man of limited and moderate means who by force of ciicumstances is deprived of saving for those who shall survive him.

The Elks' Mutual Life Association of America starts out with two hundred thousand dollars of insurance in force right here in Terre Haute, where its home office is permanently located, and it is safe to say that no institution of the kind was ever organized in Indiana with brighter prospects than it has. Active steps will be taken after Jan. 1st. to disseminate the business throughout this and other states and it is expected that in a few years the association will be actively represented in every state in the nnion and in every city where there is a branch of that truly American institution, the Benevolept and Protective Order of Elks.

Terre Haute should feel prond that she has been select^ as the home of such an institution.^^

For your Christmas Candies go to McGahAII'S, corner Fourth and Cherrv.

Do your holiday shopping at the KLEEMAN DRT GOODS CO'S.

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Don't Pail to Attend Our Great Clearance 8ale

Overcoats,

Suits, Odd Pants, Underwear.

We are compelled to sell. Our stock is too large and we must raise money. Better bargains than ever. We also have lots of valuable and useful articles for Christmas Presents. Try us.

Goodman & Hirschler.

What is Better For a Christmas Present....

For a Friend than a Box of

Good Cigars

For Instance, one of these Popular Brands:

IRMA,

VELVET, LAURA B, INVINCIBLE, MERRY CHIMES, MARGUERITE, AMERICAN STANDARD,

BELINA, JACKSON CLUB.

ALL MADE HERE IN TERRE HAUTE BY

Maurice Hegarty

Third and Last Gall.

This is our last chance to tell you of the delightful offerings we are making for the Holiday trade. Our trade has been satisfactory, and our goods were sold out largely, but we replaced them promptly with fresh goods. But a few more days remain, and you should be prompt in mak ing your selections. We are glad to oblige customers by laying goods away for Christmas.

Everything in the way of Sterling Silver Novelties, Sterling Silver Tea Spoons, Table Spoohs, Knives and Forks, Fancy Pieces, Clocks, Watches, Plated Ware, Set Rings, Wedding Rings, Gold Pens, Opera Glasses, including the famous LeMaire glasses with detachable holder, Cut Glass and Pottery. All at prices that will meet all competition.

J. M. Bigwood,

607 Main Street.

Open evenings until after Christmas.

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Ladies' Slippers from 75c to $3.50.

Baby Shoes from 35c to $1.00.

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