Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 January 1897 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DCDDLESTON.

PIEPENBRINK.

DUDDLESTOK & PIEPENBRINK,

PROPRIETORS.

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

Nos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing Ilouse Square.

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Entered at the Postotiice at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

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.SATURDAY, JANUARY 30. 1897.

MR. MCKINJ,EV was fifty-four years old yesterday. By this time next year, if he lives until then, he will feel a great many years older than fifty-five.

SPAIN reports that the western provinces have been "pacified." To quote one of Bret Harte's heroes, the warm place is paved with that sort of pacification.

HELEN M. GOUGAK has undertaken the defeat of the Indiana legislative bill pro hibiting the wearing of hats in theatersanl other public places. If there is one thing more than another calculated to se cure the passage of the bill it will be the opposition of Mrs. Gougar.

Two distinguished gentlemen who have been looking for each other since Febru ary, 1895, Gen. Gomez and Gen. Weyler, are now said to be in the same province in Cuba, each with thousands of soldiers at his back. When they get within speaking distance look out for trouble.

NEVADA has invited the Corbett-Fitz simmons prize fighting clique to head quarters in that g^tate, by passing a bill legalizing prize fights. Of no other state in the union could this be so easily expected as in Nevada, where United States senatorships have been bought and sold as mere merchandise, and which, with a total voting population 5,000 less than the county of Vigo, has as much influence and as many votes in the senate of the United States as the state of Indiana.

THE state department has information from Consul Bell, of Sydney, Australasia, that the wheat crop for the coming harvest will be a short one, reducing that country .from her position as the sixth wheat exporting country in the world to about the eleventh wheat importing country in other words, instead of exporting about 12,000,000 bushels a year, Australasia will be obliged to import about 5,000,000 bushels to supply her deficiency. It is supposed that the greater part of this deficiency will be furnished by America.

ABOUT as practical temperance measure as was ever introduced in a legislative body, is one which is being discussed in New York, and which is intended to break up the habit of treating. To treat or offer to treat to any intoxicating driuk where such is sold is declared a misdemeanor, punishable by £5 fine for the first offense and imprisonment, for the second offense of not loss than five days nor more than 20. The practical enforcement of such a law in every state in the union would do more to discourage the drink habit than all the prohibition measures that were ever conceived of.

TUK director of the mint announces that the estimated production of gold in the United States for the calendar year 1896 will reach *51,500,000, thus making it certain that the production of the world will approach $220,000,000. The increase in gold production in the United States for the year was about $5,000,000 the production of Colorado for 1890 was $17,000,000, California $17,XV).»00, Montana between $4,000.000 and $r.()00.000, and South Dakota upward of $-1,000,000. It is expected that Australia and the Russian Empire will show an increase nearly equal in each case to that of the United States.

TiIK Georgia Hankers* Association has determined to tl^ht the express companies who do a hanking and collection business, and also incidently the United States government as an issuer of money orders. They propose to issue circular cheeks, which shall be payable by any bank that is a member of the association. The checks can be drawn in amounts from five cents up to fifty dollars On the back of the check is given a list of the banks which will cash them. They are handsomely gotten up, with provision against being counterfeited. and arrangements are made for duplicating in case a check is lost. They will be issued at a charge of five cents for any amount up to five dollars, and ranging up to fifteen cents for from $85 to $50.

UNCI.K SAM does nothing on a small scale. Having made a few ventures in the book publishing business, he is now getting out the most expensive book that was ever undertaken by any corporation or country. It is the official history of the rebellion, and will cost complete up to date $2,334,328. Of this amount $1,184,291 has been paid for printing and binding. The

remainder was expended for salaries, rent, stationery, and other contingent and mis-!

an appropriation of perhaps $#00,000 to complete the work, so that the total cot will undoubtedly reach nearly $A,000.0*. It will consist of 112 volumes, including -n index and an atlas, which contains 1T plates and maps, illustrating the import ant battles of the war. csmpaisrns. rou*« of march, plans of forts and photographs of interesting scenes, places, and jursonv Each volume will, therefore, cost an aver age of about which probably exceeds the cost of anv book of the kind that

was ever issued. Copies are sent free to public libraries, and 1,347,999 have been so distributed. The atlas cost $22. The remainder of the edition is sold at prices ranging from 50 cents to 90 cents per volume. But there does not seem to be a large popular demand, for only 71,194 copies have been sold, for a total of $60,154. The books can be obtained by addressing the Sec re tary of War. The material used in the preparation of these histories is taken from both the Federal and Confederate archives, and is purely official. The reports of commanders of armies, corps, brigades, regiments, etc., are carefully edited and arranged so as to give a consecutive account of all engagements, with as little duplication and unnecessary material as possible, and as the writers represent both sides of the struggle, it may be regarded as im partial.

FRED DUBOIS, senator srom Idaho, who gave promise at one time of becoming one of the most prominent men in the Republican party, but who deserted it at the St. Louis convention in a most theatrical manner, this week suffered the fate that usually falls to the traitor or informer. After turning his back on his old associates and the party that made him prominent, to help the Democratic party, the legislature in his state has elected a man as senator, Henry Heitfeld by name, who comes from absolute obscurity to take his place. The Democratic national committee and its officers did everything in their power to secure his re-election, and the secretary of the committee has been in Idaho since the election working in his behalf. If Mr. Dubois were called upon at this time to revise the dictionary he would probably strike out the word "gratitude," as being an unknown quality in Idaho.

THE labor commissioner of Minnesota does not seem to be a believer in the theory that the farmers are in such dreadful straits as they have been represented to be for several years past, chiefly for political purposes. He has been investigating the matter and has established beyond question the fact that the farmers of Minnesota and of all the ten central states of the Mississippi valley have been receiving larger average net returns for all their staple products than at any time previous to 1873, and that they have been doing this even during the last four years of severe business depression. In previous reports he had shown that the mortgage indebtedness of farmers in Minnesota, instead of having enormously increased as represented, had greatly decreased relatively to the population and to the value of farms that in the older sections of the state a large proportion of the farm mortgages had been paid off and were in rapid process of being discharged, and that it was only in the newer and recently opened sections of the state that there had been an increase in farm mortgages.

IN making the selections thus far announced for his cabinet, Mr. McKinley has shown his belief in the adage, "Old men for counsel, young men for war." John Sherman, who has been selected for secretary of state, is seventy-four years of age, while Lyman S. Gage, of Chicago, who was announced yesterday as the selected one for secretary of the treasury, is sixtyone years of age. Both of these selections point to the fact that the administration of President McKinley is to be marked by conservatism, especially in the diplomatic and financial departments. Mr. Gage is understood to have very moderate protection views, but when announcing that he had acoepted the treasury portfolio, said that he agreed with Mr. McKinley's protection ideas. He acknowledges having voted for Cleveland in 1884. He is president of the First National bank, of Chicago, one of the largest institutions in the west, and is held in the highest esteem by all classes of citizens. One labor agitator, a socialist, when interviewed regarding Mr. Gage's selection, said that while he disagreed with every one of Mr. Gage's views on public questions, and thought he was wrong, yet he admired him for his personal worth, which is about as strong a tribute as could be paid any man.

THE railroads of this country have suffered more severely perhaps than any other single industry as a result of the business depression. In the fight for the little trade there has been, rates have been demoralized until it is asserted that since 1890 the reduction of rates has caused a loss of revenue amounting to over $100,000,000. The greater portion of this loss resulted from reductions in freight rates. Writing of this in connection with the general desire to attack the railroads and railroad rates in the several state legislatures, Robert P. Porter, ex-census superintendent, says: 'The loss of $100,000,000 of income in Ave years must have been a staggering blow. A continuation of this sort of thing would simply destroy much of our wealth and arrest the progress of the republic. It is important that the people of the United States should realize this situation. The facts herein brought out should be borne in mind in any discussion of the railway problem, whether for the purpose of state legislation, for the modification of our Interstate commerce act, or for the purpose of giving additional employment and more steady wages to the million that should be directly employed by our railway system, and to the additional hundreds of thousands who, under normal conditions, should be kept busy in the allied industries. To Ignore these facts will work a great injury and place additional obstacles in the way of a return to prosperity."

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cellaaeous expenses, and for the purchase Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, of records from private individuals, it All druggists refund the money if it fails will require at least thrve years longer and

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Hear the Philharmonic Orchestra Club in beautiful overtures and marches Monday night at the High School hall. The largest orchestra of Terre Haute musicians ever organised.

Prof. Bdmondson. the optician, will again be at Bigwood's Jewelry Store, 007 Wabash are- He tests all eyes free.

Khrman Coal Co. has the best Brazil block in the city. Just try It once.

THE AMERICAN NILE

SUCH IS THE GREAT RIO GRANDE WITH ITS VAGARIES.

It River of Freakish Habits and Most Be Seen More Than Once to Be Understood—Flows Mainly Underground, but at Times There Is a Torrent on Top.

"It's a river 1,500 miles long, meas tired in its windings," said the mail from New Mexico, speaking of the Rio Grande. "For a few miles, at its mouth, light Jraft steamers run up from the gulf at Mexico. Above that it doesn' float a craft except at ferries. In the old days, when New Mexico was a province of Spain, the people along the river didn't even have ferryboats, and the only way they had of getting across was by fording. For this purpose a special breed of large horses was reared to be kept at the fords. When the river was too high for these horses to wade across, travelers camped on the bank and wait ed for the waters to subside. Now there are bridges over the river at the larger Rio Grande towns, and in other places rope ferries and rowboats are the means of crossing. "In times of low water a stranger seeing its current for the first time would be apt to think slightingly of the Rio Bravo del Norte, as the New Mexicans love to call the great river. Meandering in a small part of a very wide channel he would see only a little muddy stream, for ordinarily nine-tenths of the Rio Grande is underground, the water soaking along toward the gulf through the sands beneath its channel. The valley, bounded everywhere to left and right by mountains or foothills, is sandy, and the water, percolating the sands down to hard pan, spreads out on each side so that it may always be .found anywhere in the valley by digging down to the level of the river's surface. For the greater part of the year the river above ground flows swift and muddy, narrowing as it swirls round a sand bar and widening over shallows. But the thing that strikes the stranger most queerly is its disappearance altogether for reaches, many miles in length, of its channel, which, exoept, it may be, for a water hole here and there, is as dry as Sahara. The river is keeping right along about its business, however, and where a rock reef or clay bed blocks its subterranean current it emerges to the surface and takes afresh start above ground, running as a big stream which, farther down, may lose itself in ..the sands again. "It? is when the floods come down that the Rio Grande shows why it requires so big a channel for its all the year round use and demonstrates that if the waterway were even wider it would be an advantage, to residents along its banks. It is fed by a watershed of vast area and steep descent, which in times of rain and melting snows precipitates the waters rapidly into the channel. In June, when the snow melts on the peaks about its headwaters in Colorado and northern New Mexico, and later in the summer, when heavy showers and oloudbursts are the order of the day, the Rio Grande overflows its banks, deluging wide tracts of valley and sometimes carving a new channel for itself, changing its course for miles. Whetre the valley is unusually wide and sandy, as below Isleta and in the Merilla valley, the old channels in which the river used to flow are plainly indicated in the landscape. "No one who has seen the great river in flood is likely to forget the positive ferocity it seems to display as its waiters sweep all before them, and woe to the man or beast who is overtaken by them! The flood arrives without warning. The sky may be clear above when the traveler, leisurely jogging across the wide ohannel, hears his wagon wheels grate npon the sand with a peculiar sound. It means that the waters are stirring the sands beneath him, and then, if he knows the river, he lashes his horse, making at all speed for the nearest bank, and lucky he is if he reaches it safe. The chances are that before he gets there he hears the roaring of waters up the channel and sees them coming down toward him with a front like a wall, rolling forward and downward as if over a fall, with arising flood behind. Many a man and whole wagon trains have been overwhelmed in this way, and, buried in sands or cast away on desert banks, no human eye has ever seen them again. "The great river has its pleasing and romantic aspect, so fascinating that it is a saying among people who live in its valley that 'whosoever drinks of its waters and departs will come again to seek them.' Like the Nile, the Rio Grande enriches the soil of its valley to the point of inexhaustible fertility. Alcttig its banks in New Mexico are fields that for two centuries have been cultivated yearly, yielding great crops, and they are as productive today as when they first were tilled. Irrigating canals, called aoequiae madras (mother ditches), convey water from the river to be distributed through little gates to the fields of the valley, which it both waters "and enriches. A trip along the river reveals a Bucoession of pictures of a primitive civilisation of the old Spanish-American type. Adobe villages, with small, flat roofed houses built about antique churches, and the spacious houses of the viooa, or great men orchards, vineyards, wheatfields and grazing cattle are all features of the scenery of the Bio Grande, the American Nile."—New York Sun.

The fortifications of Sevastapol, which caused the allies so much trouble during the six months' defense of the fiartseas by the Russians, were at first very weak, and military experts say the town might have been taken by a vigorous bombardment and aSBaolt during the first few days of the siege. The ignorance of the allied generals in regard to the strength of the works caused a delay which the Russians improved by the defenses almost impregnable.

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CSG MAIL, JANUARY 30, 1897.

AN ICE CREAM LAMP.

The Confectioners' latest Effort to Please the Taste of the Epicure.

'When Cowper in 1782 wrote of "hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns," he little thought that at the end of the nineteenth century lamps would be made of ice cream. It is hardly likely either that Byron, when he wrote, "The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men,'' would have believed it possible at a later day that lovely little incandescent bulbs would be shining up at society folk from tiny ice cream lamps on the plates below. Yet this is the latest device in which the frozen sweet will be served at banquets. And the idea comes not from Paris, not from London, but from New York.

Year by year society has grown more and more exacting in its demands for novel ways of serving ice cream. Cater ers, hotel keepers arid moldmakers have struggled to keep pace with the craze, and this year their efforts have culminated in unique designs. In gorgeous

oolors and delicate tints historic, patriotic and other memories can now be perpetuated with ice cream, things of beauty and a joy, alas, not forever, but until they melt. And the most wonderful of all is the lamp.

While the plr^ian thankfully demolished his pat of ioe cream in the hot summer months skilled artists were working away on the lamp. Of oourse they were busy with other things, too, but the lamp was their chief worry. They oast and recast thick t^n molds with rough, ugly exteriors, but which, when opened on the hinge, disclosed fine concave lines on the metal surface. And so difficult was their task that the lamp is only just completed and has not appeared on any banquet table. The rich are hard to please and take no pleasure in the pat that brought the plebeian summer joy. Art must grace the feasts of winter.

The design is a perfect imitation of a miniature lamp. Every line is delicately molded, and the firm cream, except to the initiated, looks exactly like tinted china. The base is of chocolate, the round oil bowl of palest pink strawberry, with two white doves in vanilla as ornament on each side. Then comes a little row of pistachio, jutting down into the pink, while the burner and upper parts are of chooolate. The whole is placed on a plate, and then a silver shade holder is attached, bearing a delicate pink, green, yellow, red or lavender crape paper shade tied with a tiny silk bow.

Around the table a white satin covered electric wire is run. It is almost invisible. At each cover, attached to this wire, is an ingenious contrivance by which a bulb can be adjusted in a second behind the plate. The bulb rests on a minute stand and fits in underneath the crape shade. That this gives a marvelous effect on a large table was proved when the lamp was experimented with at a prominent caterer's. The 50 or 00 delicately shaded bulbs transform the board, with its glittering silver and painted plates, into something like fairyland.—New York Tribune.

Mrs. Cleveland's Kind Heart.

pretty story is being told about Mrs. Cleveland that shows her kindness of heart. At one of her big receptions, when hundreds nay, thousands—of people seek the White House and look for at least a moment's personal recognition, there was once to be seen an old colored woman, a Veritable mammy, leading by the hand a small boy. The child wore patched clothing and looked as if he did not always see more than enough to eat As they approached Mrs. Cleveland he looked anxiously about, and when he saw the way in which people were "hustled" along he seemed rather crestfallen. The president's wife, however, catching sight of him, made a step forward, took his hand, and actually detained the line while she said a few kindly words. As they passed, after the lad had been cheered by a sweet smile, he exclaimed, sotto voce, "She did see me, after all, gran'ma."—Chicago Times-Herald.

Afternoon Dances.

It is not New York, strange enough, bat a western city which has been indulging in afternoon dances. These are very Parisian, being extremely popular in the French capital. Guests are asked from 8 to 5, giving time for a rest before dinner and the evening's engagement. Perhaps in these "matinees danmites" may be had a revival of afternoon functions.—Exchange.

hgitag tiw Tote.

The women in New York who are advocating a scheme to have all mothers tag their children so that they oould easily be identified and returned if lost deserve to have their efforts crowned with success, and the plan should not be confined to the metropolis. Boston Globe.

L: B. ROOT & CO.

Store News Worth Repeating

Blankets and Comforts. Are you warm enough these nights? There is more to follow. Now is the time to buy Blankets and Comforts.

Its not stale news but so full of real interest to prudent buyers that the main facts must be repeated with emphasis. Overstatement of the remarkable cheapness of Blankets and Comforts offered here is impossible. The prices are so low that purchases now, even though there is no present need, will be real economy.

Everything we have left in stock will be sold at exact cost. All wool Blankets at cost.

Large Warm Comforts at cost. Silkaline Comforts, very large, at cost.

Fine Silk Comforts at cost. Do not miss this chance to save money.

Glove Department. Clearance sale of Winter Gloves and Mittens for men, women and children.

Warm fleeced lined Kid Gloves and Mittens and all our Yarn Gloves and Mittens at 25 per cent, less than regular price.

5pecial. Just arrived, Black Figured Mohair drts, while thev

Skirts, yards wide, velvet bound last at $1.98.

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Are the days on which the Vandalia will sell at very choap ratos one-way tickets to points In Southern and Southeastern states.

On Same Dates Round trip tickets at $2 higher than the one-way rate to points In Alabama, Arizona. Arkansas, Colorado, Indian Territory, Iowa, Kansas. Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Now Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas. Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.

Tickets to various Tourists' points at cn rates on sale every day.

For reliable information apply at citj ticket office. 6M Wabash ave., telephone or Union Depot.

XJEORGE E. FARRINGTON, General Agent.

23 Hours and 55 Minutes with only one Change of Cars to New Orleans.

$18.25

To Washington, D. C., and Return.

Tickets on sale March 1st. Snd and 3d, good returning until March 8th.

Don't fall to see our price list. At Terre Haute House or Sixth Street Station. E. E. SOUTH. General Agent.

WATCH AND WAIT FOR OUR GREAT SHIRT AND COLLAR SALE.

Muslin Underwear. Cleaning out the lots that are nearly gone. Best selling things are first to come to remnant lots. But they only bring remnant prices.

Ladies' Gowns. Empire and Josephine styles, trim-

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med with tucks and embroidery the 75c garment, for 49c. Empire Gowns handsomely tucked and embroidery trimmed a $1.00 garment for 79c.

Over twenty new 1897 styles in Gowns, beautifully made ana handsomely trimmed. Our competitors wonder how we can sell them for 98c.

Elegant Gowns, trimmed elaborately with lace and embroidery from $1.19 up to $5.

Ladies' Eiderdown Dressing Sacques To be closed out at just half price.

LI BOOl Go.

Agents for Butterick's Patterns.

Writes a regular subscriber, who has read it for many years, of the Twice-a-week issue of the

St. Louis Globe-Democrat

and this is the unanimous verdict of its more than half a million readers. It is beyond all comparison, the biggest, best and cheapest national news and family Journal published in America. It is strictly Republican in politics, but it is above all a newspaper and gives all the news promptly, accurately and impartially. It is indispensable to the Farmer, Merchant or Professional man who desires to keep thoroughly posted, but has not time to read a large Daily paper, while its great variety of well-selected reading matter makes in an invaluable Home and Family Paper.

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GLOBE PRINTING CO. ST. LOUIS, MO.

WANTED.

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To borrow money on first mortgage securities. Wo can place several desirable loans on city or farm property.

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Washington, D. C. March 1st. 2nd, 3d, round trip rate. 118.35. Presidential inauguration.

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It. DAHLEN,

Real Estate, Loan and Insurance, 602 Wabash Avt.

READY to back up all the assertions I made against the wholesalers, rectifiers and compounders, also the wholesale grocers, for tne men who have done tho work for years must know something about it yet and I am on to all the crooked, nefarious, poisonous, murderous business which Is carried on by them night and day.

PETER N. STAFF, Old Cobweb Hall.

rent from to 15 acres with

house anywhere from 2 to 7 miles from city. Address, L. H., Mail Office.

FOR SALE. FOR SALE.

Several pieces of desirable residence property centrally located cheap. For particulars call on R. DAHLEN,

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Real Estate. Loan and Insurance. 602 Wabash Ave.

SALE—Lot In Highland Place very cheap. Address "L" care this office.

FOR SALE.

On easy terms. One 6 room cottage. One 3 room cottage. Three room cottages. One 5 room house. Also vacant lots in all part* of the city.

By R. DAHLEN,

Real Estate, Loan and Insurance. W2 Main street.

OTICE.

To the Terre Haute Water Works Co., The Citizens' Gas and Fuel Co., The Terre Haute Steam Heat and Power Co., and to all others whom it may concern:

You are hereby notified that at a meeting of the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute, held on the 5th day of January, 1897. all companies using or intending to lay pipes in Fifth street between Cherry street and Tippecanoe street, were ordered notified by publication to make such connections and lay such pipes as required by them, within 30 days from date of this publication,

Witness my band the 8th day of January 1807. CHAS. H. GOODWIN. City Clerk.