Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 June 1897 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

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THE MAIL'S TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY. The Mail, which was founded by Major O. .1. Smith, now president of the American Press Association, in 1870, will next week celebrate its twenty-seventh anniversary, and will make the occasion notable by issuing an anniversary edition, limilar in style and character to that issued to celebrate its quarter centennial, *hlch

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lic ali&c 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 ofticiAlft. public buildings, and wiH,QOntain an extended review of Terre

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interests, and the prospects tor 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.

TIIK president this week sent to the Senate a treaty with Hawaii which is similar to the one negotiated during the administration of President Harrison, but which was withdrawn by President Cleveland and pigeonholed. It is intimated that there will be great opposition to the treaty on the part of the sugar senators from the south and the senators from California, and the probabilities are that the trwity will not be acted on at the present session of the senate.

GOVKHNOK MOUNT is meeting with approval in his efforts to reduce the expenses of the several state institutions, but his apparent, desire to hear the sound of his own voice is likely to necessitate the appointment of a new board of directors for the state reformatory at Jeffersonville. In a public interview at Indianapolis this week, he took occasion to cast reflections on the management of that institution, which has created for itself a reputation as one of the leading institutions of the kind in the country. While he di 1 not say so in as many words, he intimated that a sort of fraud had been perpetrated by the board of directors in the expenditure of its funds, and as the directors serve the state without salary, they are up in arms at his slightiug remarks. The board is composed of such well-known members as Senator H. t». Duncan, of Bloomington, James K. Henry, of Indianapolis. Senator Kllison. of Ft Wayne, ami Judge Terhune, of Utvene county. They do not like the governor's insinuations, and have called a special meeting for next week, which he has been invited to attend and explain his S.', remarks. If no satisfactory explanation ismade.it is intimated that the entire! Tucker, Washington, D. C. Gustav board, which is bi partisan, will resign in illius. Jr., St. Paul, Minn. VI illiam G. a body. One of the easiest habits on earth to acquire is that of scolding, and Governor Mount seems gradually to be acquiring it,

THK commercial agencies without exception report that business is gradually improving, and their report can be relied on. for they are not influenced by partisan evening, and attracted a large audience, as prejudice to state anything but the abso- 1 is usually the case with this college of the lute facte as they come to them. There is no boom in any channel of commerce, industry or trade but there is a steady and substantial improvement In the business interest# of the country. The important statement was made last week by these

financial reviews of trade, that the volume Oliver W. Crampton, Gertrude Merriman, of business transacted is now larger than Howard H. Craver. Leah

It was in 1993. the ymr of the greatest. Edna Daniels. Maytne Rapp. Harry V. prosperity, but business is done on a dlf- Davis. Florence A. Richards* Bertha ferent basis Then- is little speculative! Dnenweg. Mary M. Russell, Claude H. intercut visible and all is done on the English. Grace B. Schaal. Alice Fortune, closest margins, but it shows that busi- Anna E. Schafer, Richard L. Gilbert, Grace

is glowing, that nm«iroption is in- Ada Stuith. Roy W. Glean, (Catherine creasing, ami that we are gradually em*! Smith. Katherine H. Grover, Frank erging from the nererv depnHMon of th Stevens, Linda M. Hendrich, Gertrude last three ywwra. Another very gratifying Strang. Row Her*. Mabel E. Tarreoce, sign of

improvement in business is

increase of money ,in circula- Hunly. Stella

tioa over this time hurt 1138,140.611 Keating.. Throw Wyrick

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The total amount in circulation is now *1.659,733,895, and we have rarely exceeded that figure. The increase of money in cirI culation means the logical and substantial increase of business and industry in all their varied channels. It means that business is moving: that it is advancing: that there is greater employment, and it is moving so slowly and safely that it seems certain to endure. While there is nothing in the present conditions that promises anything approaching a speculative tide, it is evident that the business of the country is growing better every day. ani when Congress settles the tariff question for those who are interested in the various branches of industries and manu factures that will be directly affected by the new law, there will be a general revival in all branches of business that will gladden the hearts of thousands of men who are passing through the most stringent period of their business career.

PROMPT PEOPLE.

A Little Sermon on the Value of Being Exactly on Time. Don't live a single hour of your life without doing exactly what is to be done in it, and going straight it from beginning to end. Work, play, study through— whatever it is, take hold at once and finish it squarely! then to the next thing, without leaving any moments drop between. It is wonderful to see how many hours these prompt people contrive to make of a day! It is as if they picked up the moments which the dawdlers lost. And if ever you find yourself where you have so many things pressing upon you that you hardly know how to begin, let me tell you a secret. Take hold of the very first one that comes to hand, and you will find the rest all fall into file, and follow after, like a company of well drilled soldiers, and though work may be hard to meet, when it charges in a squad, it is easily vanquished if you can bring it into line. You have often seen the anecdote of the man who was asked how he had accomplished so much in life. "My father taught me," was the reply, "when I had anything to do, go and do it!" There is the recret—the magic word "now" Make sure, however, that what it to be done now. "Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day" is a good proverb, but don't do what you may regret.

BASE BALL.

An Unfounded Report That the Terre llautes are on Their Last Trip. The Express this morning printed a sensatioual report to the effect that the Terre Haute team

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Commencement Week.

This has been commencement week in Terre Haute'seducational institutions, including St. Mary's of the Woods, which is looked upon as a Terre Haute school.

The class class graduated at St. Mary's on Wednesday was composed of the following: M. Grace Wheeler St. Louis, Mo. Carey A. Scott Cambridge. O. Agnes M. Lyons Areola, 111. Maud Deterting Taylorsville, III. Edith M. Hazelett Clinton. Ind. Nellie Lltzelmau, Newton, 111. Helen Hogan Chicago, 111. Kathorine Hogan Chicago, 111.

The graduating class exercises of the Polytechnic took place on Wednesday, and were of more than ordinary interest. The graduating class was composed of the following members: HermanS. Heichert, Marion, Roger M. Newold, Birmingham, Ala. Theodore Camp, Jackson, Mich. Benjamin F. Chandler, Guilford, Vt. Edmund Frank. Petersburg. Charles H. Fry, Jr., Fort Worth, Tex. Arthur F. Gordon, Terre Haute. Jay H. Hall, Danville. 111. J. Briggs Haney. Wellsburg, W. Va. John H. Hellweg, Jr., Hayward, Wis. J. Henry Lendi, Terre Haute. John E. Lufkiu. Jr.. Anna III. August H. Meyer, Appleton, Wis. Odus B. Moore, Fulton, Mv Robert A. Philip, Sacramento, Cal.

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on its last trip,

because of financial difficulties. Pace, the catcher secured from Detroit, did not leave with the club for Cairo, because he could not get his money, it was said. As a matter of fact, Pace, who is a good ball player, and & faithful worker, has had hi& "head swelled" by the press and pubHe, and he now thinks that he is the "whole thing" It, is said by the club directors that Pace is actually overdrawn in his,£ccount with the club, and when .they refused to allow him to make another draw, he became angry and refused to go on the trip. It so happened that the new catcher, Wellner, arrived yesterday, and went with the club on its trip last night. The club has made no money this season, chiefly on account of the bad weather which marked the opening of the exhibition season. Last month some money was made, and the club is now in fair condition, as well as could be expected, and there is no prospect of its failure.

Rympinski, Bryan, Tex.

Archie G. Sharer, Terre Haute. Clarence

Arn, Scottsboro, Ala. Chauncey H. Holderman. Hutsonville, 111. J. David Ingle. Oakland City. T. Guy Pierson, Spencer. Walter H. Martin, Danville, 111. John J. Kessler. Jr.. Ten* Haute.

The thirty-seventh commencement of the Terre Haute High school took place at Harrison Park Casino on Thursday

people. The class was composed of the following graduates: Louis May Black, Louise K. Lammers, Rae Breidenthal, Winona R. Lammers.Oca May Caton, Cora B. Lee. Oakalla Chad wick, Stella D. Marshall, 6. Harry Clay, Lucy Martin,

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Webb, Anna Clare

Method In Public Instruction.

The promotion examination having !ei) abandoned, the teacher's estimate of the pupil's ability to do advanced work determines bis promotion. As the teacher's estimate is shown on the report, the pupil and his parents know monthly what progress he is making toward advanced work. In the primary grades tbe teacher's judgment determines the record, and in the high er grades the teacher's judgment is cor rected by written recitations and tests. This method puts a premium on the daily work and gives a moderate but continuous stimulus rather than an excessive and spasmodic one. Tests given by the principal and tbe superintendent show the proper completion of work and are useful to direct and broaden the instruction, but have nothing to do with promotion. Pupils promoted prematurely are returned whence they came, and teachers become more careful thereafter.

It may be said that tbe teaching test is but another name for tbe promotion examination, but a moment's thought will show that there is a great difference between tbe two. One is a careful diagnosis at frequent intervals for the purpose of discovering the disease in its incipiency in order to apply the proper remedies and to save the patient. The other is a blundering post mortem to learn the cause of death. Common sense and experience unite in declaring that every efficient teacher knows which pupils are ready for advanced work better than a superintendent can know. All who have had experience with this plan of promotion agree that never before were promotions made so satisfactorily and never before did the teachers study individuals so closely.—W. J. Shearer in Atlantic.

Queen Victoria's Coronation Oath.

"Queen Victoria's'Coronation Roll' is described in The Century by Florence Hayward, who copies from the official records the following oath signed and subscribed by the queen on her coronation:

Archbishop—Madam, is your majesty willing to taks the oath? The Queen—I am willing.

Archbishop—Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this Unitad Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dominions thereto belonging according to the statutes in parliament agreed on and tbe respective laws and customs of tbe same?

The Queen—I solemnly promise so to do. Archbishop—Will you to your power cause law and justice in mercy to be executed in all your judgments?

The Queen—I will. Archbishop—Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of tbe gospel and the Protestant reformed religion established by law? And will you muintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the unitei church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, worship, discipline and government thereof, as by law' established within England and Ireland and the territories thereunto belonging? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of England and Ireland and to the churches there committed to their charge all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?

The Qneen—All this I promise to do. The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep.

So help me God. VICTORIA R.

The First Nails.

The first nails were undoubtedly the sharp teeth of various animals. Then, it is believed, pointed fragments of flint followed. The first manufactured metal nails were of bronze. The nail with which Jael killed Sisera was a wooden tent pin, probably pointed with iron. Bronze nails have been found in the Swiss lake dwellings, in several places in France and in the valley of the Nile. Until the present century iron nails were forged, a blacksmith being able to make only two or three dozen a day. The first cut nails were made by Jeremiah Wilkinson in Rhode Island-in 1775. The first patented nail machine was by Perkins, 1795, and its product of 200,000 nails a day was considered so enormous that some persons deemed tbe result due to supernatural agency.

Something For Nothing.

"Where are your tickets, gentlemen?" asked tbe doorkeeper of a theater to a line of men who con/ronted him in Indian file. "It's all right," shouted a man at tbe tail end of the line. "I've got the tickets. There's six of us with me. Count 'em as they go in." "In you go, gents," said the doorkeeper, and he tallied off five, who immediately mixed with the crowd within. The Cerberus turned to look for the holder of the tickets, but he had disappeared, and five men saw the performance safe from identification in the tremendous throng of people.—London Fun.

The Corpse Plant.

The corpse plant is a remarkable carnivorous specimen that grows in the colony of Natal. Its principal feature is a bell shaped mouth, with a throat opening into a hollow stem. It is almost black and covered with a thick glutinous secretion, while its odor is very offensive. This attracts carrion feeding birds to it, and once they alight on it they are lost. Their claws become entangled in tbe secretion, the bell shaped mouth folds up, and they are literally swallowed.

A Dog In a Btadbox.

Doge arc not permitted in tbe can of the elevated raid. Various means are taken So smuggle them aboard. They are carried into the cars, for instance, under coats and cloaks. In a Sixth avenue elevated car tbe other day passengers who beard the whining of a small dog, nowhere to be seen, located it finally in a bandbox carried on tbe knees of a passenger.—New York Sun.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JUNE 19, 1897.

The Growth of Language.

No committee can tell whether a word is a good word or a bad word, or whether it is wanted or not. Old fashioned people will always tell you that a new word is not wanted and that there are plenty of exact equivalents for it already in the language. This seems conclusive, yet experience often proves that they were wrong and that there was a shade of meaning which they did not perceive, but which was nevertheless pressing eagerly for expression. Thousands of words which we now consider absolutely essential to the language were, when they were first introduced, described as quite unnecessary and the mere surplusage of pedantry or affectation. Let any one turn to that most humorous of Elizabethan plays, "The Poetaster," and read t' scene in which the poet (Marston is the subjeot of the satire) is given an emstio and made to bring up all the newfangled words which he has used in his works. The character who is watching the results keeps on calling out that such and such a monstrosity "has newly come up."

This was thought a brilliant piece of satire at the time, and yet now half the condemned words are admitted by all readers and writers. In truth, there can be no censorship in literature. The only possible plan is to give every word its chance and allow the fittest to survive. It was in this sense that Dryden de clared that he proposed new words, and if tbe public approved "the bill passed" and the word became law. Instead of a writer being on the lookout to throttle and destroy any and every new word or phrase that mfey be suggested, it ought to be his business to encourage all true and fitting developments of his native tongue. Dryden, in the admirable passage from which we have quoted already, uses tbe memo rable phrase, "I trade both with the living and the dead for tbe enrichment of our tongue."—London Spectator.

Literary Evolution of America.

We are passing through the same stage of literary evolution as the French, only that with them the habit of liter ary criticism and self criticism makes the tendency more marked and more easily studied. Here, as there, it might seem that for the time the minds of men had overleaped themselves, as though in this strange fin du siecle we were pausing in our letters and art, uncertain of the onward way, and seeking in more acute apprehension deeper penetration and keener analysis of what has been and is an answer to our perplexity of what shall be. Here, as there, originality, never absent, manifests it self too often in a studied eccentricity and wastes its energy in a search for tbe novel and bizarre—a search that is most futile when most successful.

But as one reviews the field of American letters one may take heart of brace to say that our development in no way lags behind that of England, that it has in it the promise of an evolution as brilliant, as varied and perhaps more oritically sound. Above all, it is inde pendent, and so is contributing an important, perhaps an essential, part to the growth of a distinctly national literature*—Professor B. W. Wells in Forum.

He Knew Chickens.

Mr. Suburb—What on earth are you trying to do, neighbor? Mr. Nexdoor—Merely taking down a little of this fence, so that I can move my chicken bouse over into your yard "Eh? My yard?" "Yes, I like to be neighborly and considerate to other people's feelings, you know," "But—er"— "Yes, you Bhan't have any more cause to complain about my chickens scratching up your yard." ".But you are moving your whole bouse over on to my property!" "That's tbe idea. As soon as the chickens find tbeir house in your yard, they'll conclude that you own them, and will spend tbe rest of their natural lives scratching in my yard, you know." —Pearson's Weekly.

A Tiger With Glass

This isn't a "stuffed" tiger, but a real live one, ferocious and strong. He is at present in tbe menagerie at Stuttgart and looks as fierce-with his glass eye as with the real one.

A serious affection of the muscles caused tbe beast to lose the sight of one eye. As the publio didn't appreciate a one eyed tiger, the beast was put under cocaine and tbe useless op^'c removed. This was a ticklish' operation, several strong keepers holding the beast down while the eye was taken out

He was measured for a new eye, which had to be made with a special •degree of ferocity. For tbe first week he tried bard to rub it out, but be now rests contented as the only wild animal with a glass eye.

Not the Stomach'* Fault.

"Doctor," said the patient, "1 believe there is something wrong with my stomach." 'Not a bit," replied tbe medical man very promptly. "God made your stomach, and he knows how to make them. There's something wrong with the stuff you put in it, maybe, and something wrong in the way you stuff it in and stamp it down, but your stomach itself is all right."

And then tbe patient immediately went out to find a physician who understood his business. New Orleans Times-Democrat

Light Bettered.

"There are many more women living than 1 used to think." "Is that so?" "Yes. Before I married I used to think my wife was the only woman is tbe world."—Columbus (O.) Journal.

Every Chinese implement has iti deity. There is a god of knives, another of spades, another of hatchets, anotber of swords. Every kind of animal bai. its deity.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

Ladies' Linen Suits.

Ice Cream Freezers.

The finest workmanship only in the Spring Suits turned out by Kiewit & Holler, 820 Main street.

To make your Sunday dinner implete, go to Fiess A Herman, north Fourth street, where you will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of al] kinds. They have also on hand sausages of *.11 kinds of their own make. Telephone 252.

WANTED.

ow jut stop and think of what carried tbe wholesalers, rectifiers and couturiers they can take a barrel of spirits. and coloring for extracts, sod id oil and etber. and all tbe most dami iej poinonou* ds on earth sad can make any kind of Ik. rs or wines you may call for or 1 want. I can prove every word Is true. Old Cobweb Hall.

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Winning on New Lines.

There is nothing more delightful to wear these sultry days than a cool Linen Suit. The very appearance of them is refreshing. We are showing some excellent values.

Ladies' Linen Suits, perfect in fit and well made, $2.75. Ladies' Crash Suits, very desirable and stylish, $3.68.

Tailor-made Linen Suits, all pure linen, the perfection of style, #4.50. White Duck Skirts, $1.48 and $1.88.

Linen Skirts, 98c, $1.75, $2.68 and $2.88. Unusual values. Many things conducive to summer comfort will be found in our cloak room. Cool, dainty Shirt Waists in all sorts of spidery fabrics from 48c to $5.00 each.

Summer Dressing Sacques in cambrics and lawns, S5c, $1.35 and $1.48.

Wash Goods.

The choicest of all fabrics for making Shirt Waists and Summer Dresses is India Madras Cloth. It wears well, the styles are pretty, and the price is reasonable. The goods are one yard wide and the price 12Kc and 18c a yard.

Up to date and progressive business methods, honest merchandise, truthfully advertised, no misrepresentation allowed, a guarantee with every purchase that is as good as a bank draft. We are winning on these lines, and there will be no turning back.

Corset Comfort.

Last week of Mr. Fred Carson, the wonderful artist, and last opportunity to secure one of his Oil Paintings FREE.

DON'T FAIL TO SEE

Traps $60 to $125 Buggies 50 to 160 Road Wagons

This weather is suggestive of Ice Cream,

and every well regulated family should be

in the possession of a first-class freezer for

home use, such as are sold by

Miner & Dnenweg.

Attend the opening of the Big Four Exchange Tuesday, June 22. Newly furnished and refitted throughout. Music by Ringgold band.

Monninger & Dressier, Proprietors.

Belief from oppression during the summer months. Cool Corsets of serviceable quality, made from good materials, every pair warranted, 35c each.

Our 50c Summer Corset is of unusual value. 5»azareth Waists, the perfection of comfort, a knitted corset, elastic but firm, a very sensible garment, $1.00 each. The Nazareth Waist for boys and girls. A million children are weariug them and their mothers are thankful, for they are through with the everlasting sewing ou of buttons. We price' them at 18c and 25c each.

Leather Belts'.

The connecting link, as it were, to keep skirts and waists from drifting apart, and they are stylish as well. We have never sold so many and have never shown such a complete assortmeut.

We start them at 10c for an all Leather Belt. Many good things at 15c and 30c.

Morocco and Seal Grain Leather Belts, all the desirable shades, handsome buckles, 25c each.

Better ones at 39c, 48c and 75c. Metal Belts and Egyptian Girdles from 50c to $3.00 each.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

OUR 1897 PRICES ON

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CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice Is hereby given, that on the 1st day of June. 1897. the common council of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for the Improvement of Tenth street from the soutn curb line of Sixth avenue to the south curb lino of Seventh avenue by grading, curbing and paving the same, the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be 20 feet wide and puved with cement concrete next to the property line the width of 0 feet, and curbed with Oolitic limestone or Mansfield sandstone the roadway to be 40 feet wide and paved with screened gravel. Also from the south curb line of Seventh avenue to the south curb line of Eighth avenue by grading. curbing and paving the same the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be 15 feet wide and paved next to the property line the width of fi feet with cement concrete and rurlnjd with Oolitic limestone or Mansfield sandstone, the roadway to be 30 feet wide and paved with screened gravel. The said improvement to be made In all respects In accordance with the general plan or Improvement of said city, and according to the plans and specifications on file In the office of the city engineer, the cost of the said improvement to be assessed to the abutting property owners and becomes due ana collectible immediately on approval of the final estimate, unless the property owner shall have previously agreed In writing, to be filed with said plans, to waive all irregularity and Illegality of the proceedings and pay nls assessments when due.

Sealed proposals will be received for the

construction of said Improvement, at tbe office of the city clerk, on the 30th day of July, MOT, until five (J) o'clock and not thereafter. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bond with good freehold sureties or equivalent security, in the sum of two hundred dollars, liquidated damages, conditioned that tbe bidder shall duly enter into contract and give bond within live days after tbe acceptance of bis bid for the performance of tbe work. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Any property owner objecting to the necessity of sucn improvement may file »Jrh objections In writing, at the office of the city clerk on the 17th day of July lMfi. an«J be beard wltb reference thereto at the next regular meeting of tbe common council thereafter.

Cff AS. H. GOODWIN. City Clerk.

M. HOLLIXOEB. Attorney.

DMLN18TRATOB 8 NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that tbe underslgned has been appointed administratrix of tbe estate of Ichabod Oilman, late of Vigo covrtfy, Indiana, deceased. The estate Is pro ly solvent.

F.IDA K. OILMAN. Administratrix.

ry word Is true. Old PETER N. STAFF. I Buy Risers taffy and chocolates.