Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 July 1897 — Page 4

THE MAIL:

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor a ad Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. SOlMi Ohio Street. Telephone 4fi9. The Mall Is sold tn the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of S3 a year, §1 for six months, or SO cents for three months. ntered at the Postoffice at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

.Il'LV 31.

$ THE MAIL'S $

LiDraru Contest.

Name of School.

Name of Teacher.

Name of I'upll.

Each Coupon will count as ONE vote. The contest closes Saturday, September 4th. 1W7-

THE MAIL'S LIBRARY CONTEST. Ttie interest manifested in the contest for the libraries offered by The Mail to three of the public schools of the city continues unabated. The absence, however, from the city during the entire summer of the majority of the teachess and many of the pupils who are interested in the contest. has necessarily caused The Mail to announce a postponement of the close of the contest. It was originally fixed for September 4th, but the date has been changed to November 1st, to cover the time lost during the vacation.

The details of the plan are familiar to the readers of The Mail, and are as follows:

The Mail will print each week at the head of its editorial columns a coupon, which is to le voted at The Mail office for the most popular city school, the most popular member of the city school force, and the boy or girl furnishing the most coupons to The Mail In the contest. At the close of the contest, on the 1st day of Novemljer, to the public school in Terre Haute receiving the highest number of votes The Mail will give a Library of Hooks, to be selected as the successful school may decide, to cost $100. To the public school in Terre Haute receiving the second highest number of votes The Mail will give a Library costing $50. To the public school in Terre Haute receiving the third highest number of votes The Mail will give a Library costing $2.".

In addition to these substantial prizes for the schools. The Mall also offers the following inducements to every person interested in the award of these Libraries

To the teacher receiving the hlghost number of votes in the City Library Contest. The Mail will give a Webster's International Directory, the latest revised edition, with a Complete Reference Index.

To the boy who is credited with the highest, IIUIUIHT of coupons in the Library Contest, The Mail will give a #10 Gold l'iece.

To the girl credited with the highest number of coupons in the Library Contest, The Mail will uive a *li tJold Piece.

TUK new woman has arrived in Danville, III. She Is serving a senteuce on the rock pile. ______________

bicycle fever has a strong hold on the tridents of the capital city. An Indianapolis colored boy was arrested this week for having stolen nineteen bicycles.

OK COI'HSK the mugwumps will be solid against the JUtriff bill. A provision in that measure prevents cigarette manufacturers from putting in packages of cigarettes pictures of actresses, or coupons to be redeemed in such pictures.

TURKIC seem to be only two things that the writers about the Klondyke gold region seem to be able to agree upon, and these are. that every person who went there was "broke," and that every person who came away was a millionaire.

Coi'NTt.Kas multitudes will rise up and call Secretary Gage blessed if his prophe cies of the past week prove to be wellfounded. He is a level-headed business man, and not a politician, and his prophecies are based on what he knows rather than on what he thinks and hopes.

THK fate of men who have had tariff bills named for them is something terrible to contemplate, as a rule. Mr. McKinley is about the only man who ever prospered by it, Mr. Wilson has dropped out of notice as the president of a college somewhere down in Vlrgiuia, and Mr. Mills has been condemned to a won* fate, that of serving in the United Senate as a member from Texas. What will become of Mr. Dingley'

A t.otmn in a vast wilderness is what the president is seeking now to escape the importunities of the applicants for office, nod so he has gone to the wilds of the Adirondack* to find the rest he has earned. Unlem he goes -up in a balloon and cuts the rope he will not he entirely free from them there, bat he will escape the multitudes that flock in Washington. He will remain there until! the latter part of August. when he will attend the national

encampment of the 6. A. R. at Buffalo. His reception there will probably differ materially from that which would be accorded the ex-mayor of that city, whom he succeeded, should the latter be called upon to be "put off" at that seaport town.

THE war alarmists are not alone newspaper correspondents in this country. Here they hare had us in deadly conflict many times with various nations, and now a. London paper sees clearly in the discussion about the seal fisheries, the gold discoveries in Alaska, and in the new tariff, sure signs of a deadly war between this country and England. He also discovers evidences of an alliance between this country and Russia looking to the war that is prophecied. All of which goes to show that the fool-killer is greatly behind in his work in that country.

I LITTLK insignificant Japan is working herself up into the belief that she can blow the United States out of the water if the latter country persists in annexing Hawaii after Japan has protested against such action. The probabilities are strong that the island republic will be annexed to the

United States, and if Japan pursues her present policy, and attempts to make war over iff, she will wake up some morning with that tired and disgusted feeling that is familiar to small boys who persist in violating the rules that govern polite society. Japan might have whipped China, but she can't whip U. S.

A ST. Louis judge, who evidently is not a caudidate for re-election, and must have a life tenure on office, has braved the fates by declaring that a bicycle is not baggage, and therefore a common carrier is not bound to receive it a* such. Various decisions have been made to the effect that a bicycle is a vehicle, and on this line the Missouri court rules that a bicycle, as a vehicle, can no more be forced on a carrier as baggage than a carriage or buggy. To the claim that while the bicycle had no utility during the trip it was useful at the end of the journey, and was, therefore, properly included among the personal baggage of the passenger, the court said that the same could be claimed of any other form of vehicle or carriage that the owner might wish transported, and that would come within the limitation of weight, like a skeleton cart or a light buggy, and the greater delicacy of the bicycle only made its transportation more difficult. Besides, the court held, a bicycle that is not packed, boxed or guarded in any way is for that reason excluded from the class of things that can be regarded as baggage. "The law does not recognize as baggage the things contained, as discerped from the bag, box, trunk, boxing case or receptacle which contains them, nor is any duty cast upon the carrier to receive personal baggage until it has been placed in a condition of reasonable security for handling and transportation." That learned judge canuot justly expect to get a solid bicycle vote when he comes up for re-election, if be ever does, but what he says seems logical. In that state therefore, a man desiring to transport his bicycle by rail, may properly to do, if he has it properly boxed and presents it as his personal baggage. This ought to make a boom among the manufacturers of portable bicycle cases.

THE NEW TARIFF BILL.

According to the ruling of the treasury department, with well established precedents to back it, the new tariff law, which President McKinley signed at four o'clock last Saturday afternoon, became a law at midnight Friday night, because the law recognizes no fractions of a day. When that law became of force it succeeded the first law enacted since the war that was not founded on the principle of protection. All laws relating to tariff and' revenue previous to that since the war had for their underlying priuciple that of protection, while the so-called Wilson bill was based on the principle that protection is a crime, and as far as practicable it should lie abolished. The four years under which this country endured the Wilson bill were the worst from a business standpoint that the country has experienced in an ordinary lifetime. The passage of the Dingley bill therefore marks a return to the principle which has been identified with the history and progress of the country for the past third of a century before the Wilson bill became operative. The Dingley measure is the only revenue bill that was ever enacted that incorporated in its title the expression "for the protection of American industries." It does away materially with the idea of "free raw materials," something that the theorist hare been clamoring for for many decades—and which when we had them in a degree made things no more nearly within the reach of the masses, who with goods perhaps cheaper than ever before had less money to invest in their purchase. Wool and lumber have been restored to the dutiable list, and the theorists who eloquently dilated on the evils of a system that taxed the poor man on the blankets that covered him at night, that taxed the tables from which he ate his breakfast and all the articles that distinguished that meal from its mates that made him carry his tariff-taxed dinner in a tariff-taxed dinner bucket, while he came home to eat a tariff-taxed supper from tariff-taxed supper dishes, and compelled him when dead to be bnried in a tariff-taxed suit of clothes in a tariff-taxed coffin, will have full sway in this free and enlightened country for many years to come. It is not likely, however, that the present generation will see a return to the tariff principles that were in force during the past administration. Opinions may honestly differ as to what was really the cause of the business depression of the past four years, but the masses of the people know that for the first time since the war the tariff principles of the country were changed, and, no matter whether the hard times resulted from that change or not, they suffered as they never before from lorn of occupation and loss of revenue. Whether or not their addition is correct, they can easily add the two and two offered and make four of it. And therefore it is safe to say that the present tariff principle is likely to remain in force for many yean to come.

THE PRISON LABOR QUESTION. It is generally accepted as correct, the theory that criminals sentenced to confinement in prisons should not be allowed to compete in labor products with the free labor of men who support the community and maintain families and make it possible for free institutions to exist. But what to do with this convict labor has become one of the problems of the day. In several states an effort has been made to do away with prison factories absolutely, and as a result the prisoners formerly occupied in useful occupations have been compelled to endure solitary confinement, or to live absolutely without work. As a result in almost every institution in which this test has been made, including this state, the result has been that it produced insanity and other evil effects, and it has demonstrated to prison reformers and labor leaders that something else must be done if it is desired to prevent prison competition with free labor. North Carolina seems to have solved the question in a most practical manner. She has for six years been experimenting with a sort of local option law that, makes it possible to employ prison labor in road making The North Carolina law has been in existence six years, but as it is a local option enactment only seventeen of the ninety-six counties in the state have availed themselves of its provisions. The North Carolina law gives the Superior court judges the option of sentencing prisoners to the roads or the penitentiary where the term does not exceed five years, but the chief supply of criminal roadmakers come from the mayors' and justices courts. Under the North Carolina system permanent macadamized or shell roads are constructed, and the result is that a system of excellent roads radiate from the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte and a few other less conspicuous places for a distance of twenty miles into the country, rendering driving a delight and drawing trade and traffic from the less progressive towns. Another good result of the law has been to rid the counties in which it is enforced of the tramps that swarm through the other southern states during the winter season. A tramp who has done service on the roads for thirty days generally leaves North Carolina, and warns all other members of the tramp tribe to avoid the state. For the sake of solving both the highway and the tramp problems the North Carolina experiment is worth trying in every other state. The tramps and criminals could in this way be made useful without exciting the hostility of organized labor, very little of which is ever engaged in constructing highways.

9100 He ward, §ilOO

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucuous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.

Sold by druggists, 75c.

HI* Uncle's Longest Day, 4? There was iu those days a serious mannered Irish member named Blake (not to be confounded with the ex-pre-mier of Canada, sitting member for South Longford), who is remembered for a brief corrcsponSeuce he rtfad to the delighted house. It was introduced in a speech delivered in debate on the Irish Sunday closing bill. Mr. Blake had, he confidentially informed the house, an uncle wlio regularly took six tumblers whisky toddy daily. This troubled im, aud after much thought he resolved to write and remonstrate with his relative. The following was the letter:

MY DEARUNCLK—I write to say how pleased I should bo if you could see your way to giving up your six glasses of whisky a day. I am sure you would find many advantages in doing so, the greatest of which would be that, as I am persuaded, it would be the means of lengthening your days.

The uncle replied: MY DKAK NAPHSW—I am much obliged to you for your dutiful letter. I was so much struck by what you said, and In particular by your kind wish to lengthen my days, that last Friday I gave up the whisky. I believe you are right, my boy, as to my days being lengthened, for, bedad, it was the longest day I ever remember I —H. W. Lucy in North American Review.

Putting Airs.

Brooklyn barber shop rejoioes in the following sign, "Physiognomical Hairdresser, Facial Operators, Cranium Manipulators and Capillar? Hair Cutting. Shaving with Ambidextrous Abridger Facility."—St. Joseph Ga•ette.

Two Armies—The Regular and the Irregular! To which would you prefer to belong? The regular, undoubtedly. The irregulars src. admitedly, the most numerous, but they arc in a very undesirable state of no-discipline. Hostett«r's Stomach Bitters will soon remedy this want In a disordered -liver or bowels. Biliousness manifests itself in yellowness of the skin and eyeballs, sour breath, furred tongue, morning nausea, discomfort in the viclnityof the liver, vertigo and sick headache. Hosts of people suffer thus. These signs of insubordination to the governancejof health, together with an irregular condition of the bowels, are soon regulated Iff the Bitters. which also overcomes malaria, dyspepsia. rheumatism, neuralgia, nervousness and kidney trouble, As a means of checking premature decay, hastening convalescence.

and mitigating "the lnfirmaties of age, the great tonic Is wl

without a parallel.

There Is a Class of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the, grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate receives it without distress, and but few can tell It from coffee. It does not oost over W as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 eta. and 25 eta. per parkngr Try it. Ask for GRAiN-O.

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TOWELS.

Abundance of Everything

R.Wright

^IHfFineapples.

i, t» UUi Oi, 109T.

Standard goods in light and dark styles 3c a yard.

MUSLINS.

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Unbleached Muslins, one yard wide.

\t/ 10

yards for

35c.

9-4 Unbleached Sheeting, worth 17c. Now 12 i-ac a yard. \l/

US •i- All Linen Huck Towels, size 18x36 Iff inches ioc each.

647 Main Street.

We have a choice line of Summer Clothing left which we will sell at prices that will induce you to buy. :4 Goodman & Hirschler.

News at Austin & Co.'s. Lawn Swing's, $6.00. Good Lawn Mowers, $2.50. Good Woven Hammocks, 50c. Good .Screen Doors, cheap. Kdaeate Tour Bowels With Cascarets.

Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 35c. If C. C- C. fail, druggists refund money.

Are you in need of a Summer Suit? It will pay you to look at ours. Then you will buy.

Goodman & Hirschler.

sioo.

Dr. E. Detchon's Antl Diuretic May be worth to you more than $100 if you have a child who soils bedding from incontenence of water during sleep. Cures old and young alike. It arrests the trou bleat once. il. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

Vandalia-

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Cincinnati Excursion

SUNDAY, AUG. 8

A SPECIAL TRAIN

of Pullman Sleeping cars, elegant parlor airs and day coaches will ran through Cincinnati, leaving Terre Haute Union Station at 1:25 a. m. Bate, to Cincinnati and return. fUQi Tickets good returning era all regular Irakis including train Iearink Cincinnati :I5 p. mTMooday. August 9tb. Seats in parlor cars SO cents each way.

Reservations sad tickets at City Ticket Office. 854 Wabash aveoue. telephone *7. or

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OBOS. FABBI5GTON. Oen'l Agt.

Goods Are Cheap Now

For how long will they be so cheap? flany lines of merchandise will certainly be higher. Would it not be well to anticipate your needs and buy now

BOYS' BLOUSE WAISTS. QUILTS. LADIES' HOSIERY.

Clearance Sale of Boys' Waists Crochet Quilts, large sizes, Marseilles 35c fast black Hose, regular made. pattern.

CALICOS. SHIRT WAISTS. LADIES' BELTS.

NOTICE

& Co.

Among the features today are— Watermelons, Gem Melons,

Egg Plants, New Corn, Spring Chickens, Blackberries,

At Cost. 65c each. 25c a pair.

Our entire stock, in three lots, at 35c, 48c

and $1.

LADIES' WRAPPERS.

$1.25 and $1.30 Lawn. Percale and Cambric W rappers,

Now 98c.

ART DEPARTMENT. Closing out Denim and Silk Table Covers and scarfs

TOILET SOAP. French Violet Soap, pure ajed delightfully perfumed, 3 cakes for 13c.

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Terms of Sale.—One-lialf. cash in hand, baltlnce in six months, purchaser giving note with taortgage on the premises for deferred payment. JOHN W. GERDINK,

Administrator.

WANTED.

WORD of instructions to the public in regard to adulterations. I am now prepared to show up the wholesalers, rectifiers and compounders, also the wholesale grocers, with an Illustrated circular, with all the cuts to show up their damnable murdering and poisoning of the people by the wholesale and put them In their true Unlit..

PETER N. STAFF. Cobweb Hall.

FOIl SALE.

OR SALE—Or will exchange for Improved farms, stocks of goods from 82.000 to $30,000. Address A. J. Miller, Frankfort. Ind.

FRANK CAKMACK. Plaintiff's Attorney. GHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of an execution Issued from the Circuit court., Vigo county, Indiana, to mo directed and delivered, in favor of William F. Carmack and against Lawrence Butler, 1 levied upon the following described real iltu estate, situated in Vigo county. Indiana, towit/

F. Carmack and against Lawrence Butler, 1 ?c Vigo irter( quarter (H) or section thirty-two t«y, township thirteen (13) north, range nine (9) west, containing forty (40) acres, more or less. And on

The northwest quarter (M) of the northwest uarter(H)of section thirty-two (32), town

SATURDAY, THE 14th DAY OP AUGUST, 1807, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m., and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the north door of the court house, in Terre Haute, I will offer the rents and profits of the above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, and upon failure to realise a sum sufficient to satisfy said execution and costs. I will then and there offer the feosimple in and to said real estate to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

This 23d day of July. 1W7. LOUIS Pf.»».».

P. 8EEBUROER. Sheriff.

A Handsome Complexion

is one of the greatest charms a woman can possess. Possom's Oouruaaox P^wnas gives it.

35c fast black Hose, regular made.

25c all leather Belts, choice styles. Now 15c each.

PARASOLS.

Closlug them out at One-fourth off.

LINENS.

At Cost.

OF APPOINTMENT OF ADM IN1STRATOR.

Notice is hereby given that the Torre Haute Trust Co. has been appointed administrator of the estate of Walter S. Hall, deceased. late of Vigo County. Said estate Is supposed to be solvent.

TERRE HAUTE TRUST CO.

^DMINI8TRATOR'S SALE.

Notice is hereby Riven tlint the undersigned, administrator of the estate of Daniel McAdams, deceased, by order of the Vigo Circuit court, will sell the undivided onehalf (M) of lot number six ((I) in J. Grover's subdivision of lot number one (1) in the subdivision of out-lot number 07 of the original town now city of Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana. I will, on or after August 30th 1897. at my office, No. 4214 Wabash avenue, in the City of Terre Haute, sell said described, real estate at privato sale.

Cream Table Damask, two yards wide.

40c

GINGHAMS.

a yard.

Standard Apron and Dress stylos, 3c a yard.

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS.

Notice is hereby given that on the ISth day of July. 1807. the common council of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for the Improvement of the sidewalks on Walnut, street from the east, curb line of Third street to the west curl* line of Fourth street by grading and paving the unpaved portions. The sidewalks to be fourteen and one-half feet wide, and paved with cement concrete next to the property line the width of fourteen and one-half feet and curbed with hard limestone The said improvement to be made in all respects In accordance with the general plan of improvement of said city and according to the plans and speclspeclflcutlons 011 flie In the office of the city engineer, the cost of the said Improvement to be assessed to the abut ing property owners and become due and collectible Immediately on approval of the final estimate, unless the property owner shall have previously agreed In "writing, to be Hied with said plans, to waive all Irregularity and illegality of the proceedings and pay his assessments when due.

Sealed proposals will be received for the construction of said Improvements, at the office of the city dork, on the 17th day of August, 18i»7. until five (ft) o'clock, and not hereafter. Each proposal must, be accompanied by a bond with good freehold securities or equivalent security In the sum of two hundred dollars. liquidated damages,conditioned that the bidder shall duly enter Into contract and give bond within five days after the acceptance of his bid for the performance of the work. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Any property owner objecting to the necessity of such Improvement may file such objections in writing, at the office of the city clerk on the 14th day of August. 1897. and be heard with reference thereto at the next regular meeting of the common council thereafter.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN. City Clerk.

T^JOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. TKURE HAUTE. IND.. July 22.1897. Sealed proposals will be received ,by the city clerk of Terre Haute, Indiana, until flvo o'clock p. m. Tuesday, August!!, 1H07, for furnishing the material and repaving all cuts and openings that may hereafter be made In Wabash avenue from Water street to Thirteenth street, exclusive of the portion in care of the street railway company, and on Sixth street from Wabash avenue to OsltornQ street In accordance with the specifications for paving with brick, the contract to extend for a term of Ave years.

Common council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the council.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN, city Clerk.

r)R. L. a BARTHOLOMEW,

Dentist:.

671 Main St. Terre Haute, Isd.

A. M. BIGGINS.

Lawyer

Telephone 338. Over McKeen's Rank

The Rosy Freshness

And velvety softness of the skin is Invariably obtained by thoae who use Possom's Complexion Powder.

B. G. HUDNUT. President. WILLARD KIDDER. Vice-President. G. A. CONZMAN. Cashier.

Vigo County National Bank

Capital $150,000. Surplus $30,000.

FOJEZ&I&lsr EXCHANGE.

624 Main Street. TERRE HAUTE, IND.