Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 June 1897 — Page 4

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THE MAIL'S TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY. The Mail, which was founded by Major O. J. Smith, now president of the American Press Association, in 1870, will this month c&16brfite its twenty-seventh anniversary, and will make the occasion notable by issuing an anniversary edition, similar in style and character to that issued to celebrate its quarter centennial, which was pronounced by press and public alike as the most artistic, most attractive publication of the kind ever issued in this state. The paper will be printed on extra super-calendered book paper, and will be illustrated with half-tone cuts of many of Terre Haute's prominent business and professional men, public officials, public buildings, and will contain an extended review of Terre Haute's business interests, and the prospects for profitable investments in Terre Haute's enterprises. The paper will contain sixteen pages, with a handsome illustrated cover, and will make a handsome souvenir to preserve.

A CAHKPI'I. diagnosis of the complaint with which ex-Postmaster John Wanamakcr is suffering reveals the fact that Mr. Quay is too "smooth" for him in Pennsylvania politics. Mr. Wanamaker would never have been troubled with the gloomy forebodings that now assail him, had he IHHMI able to secure for himself the office of United States senator from Pennsylvania which Mr. Quay was fortunate enough to capture.

TIIK northern professors who are teaching in the state university at Austin, Texas, are to be investigated by a commission from the state legislature, because, it is claimed, they are teaching Republican doctrines to the rising generation of Texas. About the only way the northerners can expect to get a whitewash is to agree to teach the Texas youth that the "lost cause" is not lost—or that, protection and anything opposed to free silver are iniquities fostered by the evil one himself.

TIIK Democratic senators do not seem to be agreed upon the tariff question, and there have been several breaks in the party lines iu discussing the bill which is uow lefore the senate. This week, for the first time in the history of tariff legisla t-ion in this country, a tariff was placed on raw rot ton. for the purpose of protecting the southern planters from the competition of the foreign grown product. The rate was adopts! as nn amendment to the bill recommended by the senate finance committee, and was proposed by Senator llacou. Democrat. of Ueorgia. The more surprising feature of the amendment was that *i\ IVmocratic senators voted for the clause in the bill putting cotton on the protected list. The attitude of several of the southern senators on the tariff question is likely to cause some trouble in the party when it conies to voting on the final passage of the amended tariff bill. A number of southern representatives voted for the original bill when it passed the house, and it looks as if there might he a break from the party's timehonorvd position on the question of protection

WHII.K we give due credit to Columbus for the discovery of America, and the event has been celebrated in wonderful manner by the great Columbian exposi tion. there is an anniversary occurring this month iu tbe line of discoveries that attract* but little attention, although it was of greater moment to this country than that of Columbus. It is the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of North America by John Cabot- White Cabot, of course, was only one of the many who followed after Columbus had pointed the way. his voyage is of the higheat historical importance, since it was the starting point of Knglish dominion on this continent. The Spaniard*, when they pamed the West Indie*, preferred the

I South, and the civilization that they planted had but little direct influence in I

North America. It was to the English that we mainly owe our own institutions, and their forerunner was John Cabot.The land he first discovered has been supposed to be in the neighborhood of Cape Breton and the date of his discovery is given as June 34, 1497. Eminent authorities assert, however, that both of these suppositions are probably incorrect—the date almost certainly so. The exact date, I however, is not important. Some time in the summer of 1497 Cabot did sight the continent of Xorth America—probably the shores of Labrador—and "coasted three hundred leagues," and from this discovery came the first territorial claims and the subsequent colonization of this country from England. This is certainly an anniversary to be noted.

THKRE is nothing new in the TurkoGrecian war settlement, although the peace negotiations are fairly in progress at Constantinople, the ambassadors representing Greece, and Tewfik Pasha, the minister of foreign affairs, acting for Turkey. The sultan holds himself aloof, evidently with the intention of making the ministry responsible before the populace for the peace which he realizes is inevitable. By an arrangement among the ambassadors, the demands of the Turkish government were apportioned to individuals for consideration. The Russian ambassador took the frontier question, the English the indemnity and the French the capitulations, and the memoranda have been presented to the sultan. It ap pears also that the English, French and Italian ambassadors joined in a note to the porte, stating that they could, under no circumstances, consent to the permanent occupation of Thessaly by the Turks. Meanwhile the Turks are as rapidly as possible perfecting their government of Thessaly, appointing provincial officials, arranging for the gathering of the harvest, and doing everything in their power to convince the people that they are there to stay. In Turkey itself, also, the impression is given to the people that the territory acquired is to be kept, even if it ii necessary to defend it by more fighting. Orders have been sent to the provincial goverment to draft and forward troops with all possible dispatch, and to hurry all reserves of war material to Constantinople The imperial ammunition factory in Constantinople is being worked night and day, and attention is being paid to the fleet, wl ose absolute uselesness has aroused the bitterest condemnation of all classes. It is reported that negotiations have been opened with an English firm for a complete renewal of the navy.

TIIK young men who are putting in the good years of their life in acquiring a military education at West Point have very poor prospects ahead of them of ever attaining an advanced rank unless war should break out in which this country would be implicated, and thus create a demand for more officers. A problem will confront the army authorities when this year's graduating class is turned out of West Point next week. Sixty-five young men will step from cadet rauks presumably into commissions as second lieutenant, but for the first time since the military academy was founded there is not a single vacancy in any of the four branches of the service for the new officers, nor is there much prospect that any large number will occur in the coming year. Every man of the class will probably have to go without his commission as a full-fledged second lieutenant for months, and the lower men of the class for perhaps eighteen months or longer. The war authorities say this condition of affairs is not solely due to the unusually small number of re tirements and casualties. A large number of privates and non-commissioned officers have been appoiuted from the ranks in the last year, although the vacancies should have been retained for the West Pointers. The law, however, declares that the enlisted men shall receive recognition in ap point ments as commissioned officers, and the department holds that the number chosen last year was due to the large percentage of candidates examined for retire ments that had become entitled to promotion. Under the existing circumstances many of this class will fail of appointments unless an unusually heavy list of casualties and retirements occur. Even additional lieutenants, who were appointed from the class graduated last June, are now awaiting commissions, and must be provided for before any of the new class receive commissions. There are also seven enlisted men entitled to appointment ahead of the new class if vacancies occur liefore June 1:2th. The increase in the naval force of the United States enables the graduates of the naval academy at Annapolis to sect ire places immediately after their graduation, and it is said that this year's class at that institution will be fully provided for next month. It would sec in therefore that young men who are seeking to obtain glory and a good living in connection with the armed forces of his country would better become sailors than soldiers. ..

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We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo', O.

We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him I perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm.

WEST & TRI AS, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O.. WAI.OIXO. KIXXAS& MAJKVIX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testlmonials free.

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»r. E. Deletion's Antl Itur*tlc May be worth to you more than $100 If yon have a child who soils bedding from iucontenence of water during sleep. Cures old and young alike. It arrests the tron I bleat once. II- Sold by all druggista in

Terre Haute. Ind. I Buy IBser'a caramels—nooe better.

Completion of Trann-Sil»erlan Road Will Make This Po»»lble. When it became possible for cbe-j ^lobe-trotter to get around the world in ht) days, this feat was considered sufBciently remarkable to have the journey dramatized. Now apparently it tvill soon be possible to accomplish this feat in 30 days. Just how this is to oe done is explained by the Germania. Milwaukee, which says: "In the year 1900 the Trans-Siberian railroad will be completed and it will, be possible to get around the world in :o days. This railroad, which extends from the Ural mountains to the Pacific cean, a distance of 3,000 miles, and fiom St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, on the Pacific ocean, a distance of 7.500 miles, will be the longest railroad system in the world, and fully twice as !ong as any of the Pacific systems in North America, which hitherto had been the longest. Large sections of :his road east of the Ural mountain hain and westward from the Pacific have already been completed, and the rest is being pushed rapidly Russia has been in negotiation with China and has secured permission to bnild the. road southward through Chinese territory some degrees south of ladivostok. Detailed investigations have shown that the inclement weather and heavy snows, which at certain times Flop traffic altogether on the Pacific roads, notably the Northern Pacific, are exceedingly rare in Siberia and occur only in limited distances. The average winter temperature along the line of the •oad is but very little below zero. The atmosphere is very dry and only occasionally is the snowfall *sry deep. Blizzards are entirely unknown. Prince Elilkoff, who recently traveled through North America in order to study the railroad nystem, declared that after the completion of this road it would be possible to make the journey around the world in 33 days and when the roadbed had once been settled to decrease this to 30 days. At present the quickest route and shortest time are the following:

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TERKB HAUTE SATUBDAY EVENING MAIL. JUNE 12. 1897.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 30 OAYS. JHIO BODY FOR SALE.

33

"Of course such a journey would bf what the Germans would call a 'Iletzjr.gd.' leaving no time for sightseeing: but nevertheless such a quick journey will then be possible. Evidently Russia has its own objects in building this road. It is significant that the rails tire two or three inches wider apart than they are on other European road. so tlia.t the -cars of other 091111 tries i-ff.-i.ot be utilized on the Sierian ro v' l.i case of war the Siberian railroau can be used only by the Russian government."— LiteraryDigest^_

CURED OF HYPOCHONDRIA.

Heroic Measures Adopted in the Case of an Eastern Millionaire. "For a time," said a man who is now an employer instead of an employee, "I was manager of an eastern company mining copper in the upper peninsula of this state. It is a delightful part of the word in summer, and some of the stockholders used to be with us nearly all the time during the hot months. Among those who took this vacation

the most was a little bachelor millionaire from Boston. In my opinion he was tough as a pine knot, but a confirmed hypochondriac. He always had a chest of drugs with him that would stock a young drug store, and it was an off day when he did not take from three to ten different kinds of medicine. He seemed to live in constant dread of bring carried off suddenly by some of his recurring maladies, and it came to be a standing joke among some of us who knew of his peculiarity. "But one day he was doubled up in earnest. He was fishing, lost his lunch, ate heartily of the rough fare at a miner's shanty, took cold and had a severe attack of acute indigestion. 1 never saw a man more frightened. He was perfectly sure that the last call had come. He had men hustling in all directions to telegraph for the best doetors to be had. But it was plain that he never expected any of them to reach him.

There was a smooth fellow thnt we called Parson loafing about the place. He was as cultivated a rascal as ever lived on his wits. 1 hurried him into a black suit of mine over fresh linen, had him shaved, put the Bostonian's own plug hat on him and told him to follow me. At the bedside I introduced him under the name of a distinguished physician an! remarked how lucky it was that he should be in the section. Parson proved a star. His perfect coolness restored confidence. He pronounced it a slight attack of something no one ever heard of. but peculiar to the region and never fatal. Then he mixed up a dose of red pepper, cheap whisky and peppermint, told the patient to swallow it right down and then had nothing more to do than to keep the poor fellow from strangling. This and the old bachelor's imagination saved him. Otherwise he would have died from fright. Parson solemnly charged a $200 fee. A month later received this watch. I will never be rich enough to want a finer one.**—Detroit Free Press.

A Stw S|M»rt.

Caller—Is Mr. Smith lodging here? Servant—Yes, sir. -Is be faT* -No. ain't." "Do yon know where he IsT* "Xo. dar't: but *Mnk Vs gone

Means by Which a a San Francisco Man Hopes to Prolong His Life. There is a man in San Francisco willing to barter his body to pay his debts —a man so honest that the duns of his landlord drive him to desperation. Recently.he tried to sell his body to the board of health that he might be able to live decently and honestly until the time for delivery.

The man's name is Wilhelm Oppermann, and he is 61 years old. He has lived in San Fraucisco 13 years, and in America 31. He .first saw the light in Hanover, and something of the fatherland speech still lingers on his tongue.

The body he wishes to sell is handsome and healthy, and many a millionaire, who has not lived as well, would be glad to pay ten times the price, could the transfer take place immediately. Oppermann has never been ill, but he is willing to sell the body that has served him so well on condition that his soul be allowed to retain his mortal part as long as it likes. Afterward the purchaser of the body can do what he likes with it.

By profession Oppermann is a composer and teacher of music, his instrument being the zither. Years ago he made a fair living in San Francisco music teaching, but his stringed instrument is no longer the fad. Pupils have fallen off, and if the few remaining ones are ill or have no engagement there is no pay for the teacher.

And so things have gone

Days.

New York to Southampton 6 Southampton to Brindlsl Brindlsl to Yokohama, ria Sues canal and India Fokoh&ma to San Francisco 10 San Francisco to New York

Total "After the completion of the Siberian road the journey can be made in th? following manner: New York to Bremen 7 Bremen to St. Petersburg (railroad).... lVi St. Petersburg to Vladeverta, at 30 miles peh hour... J® Vladeverta to San Francisco l'» San Francisco to New York

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In January Oppermann sold his beautiful concert zither, which he loved as he loved his soul, and better than his body. It went for a third of its value, and the money was gulped down by the rent-ogre. Though it is only May, the wolf is again at the door.

In his extremity Oppermann thought out his novel scheme. He decided to offer his body for sale. So he approached the board of health and asked them to buy. Taken back by his proposition, one of the members told him to put his petition in due form and present it on Wednesday. The old man is hoping that the proposition will be accepted.

If not, he is going to the medical colleges to ask them to buy a fine, stalwart old body, to be delivered to them when the owner is through with it. In this way the mind that owns the clay hopes to get another start in this slippery world of ours.—San Francisco Chronicle.

CONTINUED TO EXIST.

The Time for the End of the World Hnd Not Come. At the time of the Millerite delusion in 1843, when many people believed that the end of the world would come on a certain day in April, and many others who did not really believe were yet moved to superstitious uneasiness by the fervor of the Millerites, there were a numbervof eager watchers for the appointed day in an old New England town.

It was a late spring, and there was a light fall of snow on the ground. On the night before the dreadful date, there flamed in the sky a magnificent crimson aurora, and the red light in the heavens with its red reflection on the snow terrified many nervous people to the verge of distraction they thought it signified the beginning of universal destruction.

One woman, who lived alone, with the back of her house close to a cemetery, waked near midnight, and was overcome with horror. Without stopping to dress she ran out of the house and along close beside the burying-ground boundary toward the dwelliug of her next neighbor. Her bare feet slipped in the snow, and once she fell, but rose immediately and ran on.

Her neighbors also were awake the wife lying quaking in bed, the husband at the window. He looked cut just as the frantic figure in white sprang up from her fall in the drifted snow— emerging, as it appeared, from the graveyard, and bathed in blood-red light. Turning his head, he shouted back hastily into the dark chamber: "It's true, wife, the end of the world has come! The dead are rising from their graves—I've just seen the first one!"

The supposed corpse, however, presently took refuge in his house, and when morning dawned and the world still existed, the trio were no doubt reassured.—Youth's Companion.

"Battle* Cheeked Here.*A curiors feature of a large relief works camp in the Punjab where about 40,000 persons ate at work, is an arrangement just introduced by which a large number of babies are looked after while their mothers are at work. Previous to this about 700 or 800 babies of all sorts were all left in one place and the mothers, anxious in the evening to reclaim their little ones, presented a scene which is better imagined than described. It was not possible even for mothers to find their own babies easily, and the authorities were embarrassed not a little. The officer in charge, however, has treated the babies on the umbrella and coat principle. He baa provided each of the babies with a string and ticket in duplicate, one being hung round the baby's neck and the other given to the mother.—Allahabad Pioneer-Mail.

5atnre'« Rattle-Boxe*.

Near New Brunswick. N. J., are found hollow balls, or masses, of yellow Iron ore, which contain loose particles that rattle, when shaken, like the contents of a child's rattle box. It is thought that when the concretions of ore were formed, the central parts consisted principally of some materia] which afterward dissolved away, so that the interior space now contains only fragments of ore and sand. When these balls art broken the fractured edges sometimes show beautiful band* of red and yellow.—Minerals.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

Silk Waists.

from bad

to worse with the old master and his old wife. They have moved from place to place—always to a less desirable one. Now they are not able to pay the rent of the little house at 29 Julian avenue.

The Season is on For Shirt Waists

And you want to be Mire you have the right- thing. All our styles are new, because we had none left at the end of last season. As to price, make comparisons and you'll buy here.

See the line of Silk Waists in our show window—the price ought to be a magnet to draw you in to look at them. $3.98 for $5.00 Waists.

Shirt Waists.

Shirt Waist economy ought to bring you direct to this store, no matter what inducements are offered elsewhere. Our styles are the daintiest, our stock the largest, and our prices always the lowest consistent with uality. See our attractive lines at $1.00, $1.50 and $1.98. They are worth much more.

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To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north fourth street, where you will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own make. Telephone 252.

There Will be no Hot Weather This Summer

ELECTRIC FANS

F. B. Miller, 514 N. 9th St.

A. M. HIOGIN8.

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Parasols.

L. B. ROOT &, CO.

DON'T FAIL TO SEE

Our stock is still fairly complete, notwithstanding our numerous sales. Some late arrivals will be found very attractive. All our styles are confined to us, and cannot be seen elsewhere.

Parasols from 50c to $1.50 each.

Changeable Silk Sun Umbrellas with choice handles, $3.50, $3.75, $4.50 and $5.00.

Children's Parasols from 25c to $1.00 each.

OUR 1897 PRICES ON

VEHICLES!

$60 to $125 50 to 160 30 to 60

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BASE BALL

TO-MORROW AND MONDAY.

Terre Haute vs. Paducah

Sunday games called at 3 o'clock.

Week day games called at 3:45.

Wednesday,Thursday and Friday, June 16th, 17th and

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What perfect comfort is until you wear Collars and Cuffs with moulded edges.

Ours is the only Laundry in town doing such work. Try our up-to-date methods.

HUNTER

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Suits turned out by Kiewit

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