Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 August 1897 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor aad Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. S014 Ohio Street. Telephone 409.

The Mail is sold In the city bj newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of $2 a year, $! for six months, or 50 cents for three months.

ntered at the Postofflce at Terre Haute, Indas second-class matter.

AUGUST 7.

THE MAIL'S

Library Contest.

Name of School.

Name of Teacher.

Name of Pupil.

Each Coupon will count lis ONE vote. The content close* Saturday. A September 41 h, IW.

THE MAIL'S LIBRARY CONTEST. The 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, ami are as follows:

The Mail will print each week at the head of its editorial columns a coupon, which is tube voted at The Mail office for the most popular city school, the most popular member of the city school force, ami 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 Books, to 1MS 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 thin! highest number of votes The Mail will give a Library costing #35,

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

To the teacher receiving the highest 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 numlier of coupons in the Library Contest, The Mail will give a #10 Gold Piece.

To the girl credited with the highest number of coupons In the Library Contest, The Mail will give a #10 Gold Piece.

ANDKKK'S balloon may not he heard from for a year. It is different with an advertisement- in The Mail, which is soon heard from.

TIIK Canadians propose to vindicate the Transvaal Dutch by imposing heavy taxes on the American Uitlanders that enter British America.

SKKI.KTONS are on the Dinglev free list. IT is certainly a humane provision which spares the traveler the annoyance of being searched for a skeleton.

THK probable effect of the Dingley bill on cigarettes will be to raise the price of ten coflln nails from five cents to six. This is one palpable blessing of the new tariff-

THK bright and radiant spirit of Col. Mulberry Seller* has materialised in the projectors of balloon routes to Klondike and the New York man who is tuakiug gold from Mexican dollars.

IN some English cities men are fined to #500 for refusing to accept an election as alderman or mayor. No American has to

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forced in this manner to accept an office, not even a humble aldermanship in Chicago.

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IN the great wheat fields of the west and northwest there Is a greater scarcity of cars than of wheat. All the gold from Klondike in the next year will not pay for the increase in the yield and value of the wheat crop in 1^-

I'HJI.ADKt.PJIta is not a slow city this week. It cannot be with about $»,noo wheelmen from abroad and all of its own on the go at the national A. W. meet. Bicycling is no longer a fad or a fashion— it is a storm or a tempest

WrriitN a mile of almost every farm house In Great Britain is a postal savings bank and, aay* W. R. Curtis in his Eng-

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letters, the system Is the only thing that John Bnll does not grumble about, for he is a great grumbler. It is suggested at the United States ahoald examine

this system, bat that would be displeasing to certain people who would call it "asking the aid and consent" of John Bull to run a savings institution.

IF 20,000 men spend $1,000 each on an average, in Alaska, and thousands more invest their thousands in mining stocks, which they will in the next year, the sum total will be more than that of the gold secured. That is why gold still is worth about 120 an ounce.

THE Coast and Geodetic Survey department at Washington has prepared a very fine map of Alaska for which there is a great demand, over 6,000 having been sent out already. On this map the government sanctions "Klondike" as the proper spelling of the now famous name.

ALTHOUGH 50,000 men will try to reach Alaska before the next Fourth of July, many more will not try to go, though they may wish to, for the same reason the old Texas settler did not buy a square mile of land for a pair of boots—he did not have the boots, nor the price of them.

NUMEROUS foreign countries object to the Dingley'tariff, but none of them objected to the Wilson tariff. They admired that, enlarged their plants and put more people to work. It is our time now to be pleased, to enlarge plants and put more people to work. The bright side of the shield is turned this way.

A BALI.ET dancer who 4s said to be a friend of the King of Belgium is coming over to this country to get $9,000 a month for the work at which she earns 140 in Paris. An able advertising agent has cajoled a news association into cabling that the king may follow her. The gold brick is not the only swindle.

A STRIKING evidence of the rush to Klondike is the increase of the number of steamers plying between Seattle and Alaska. Last year the service employed one or two steamers a month, but now there are twelve steamers besides a fleet of sailing vessels carrying passengers and freight to the land that is to be both an Eldorado arid a Golgotha to thousands of men.

THK demand for gold is too large and steady to allow any fears that a sudden increase of production will affect Its value. The world can absorb a few hundred millions of gold without trouble. Just now this country is shipping gold abroad because three nations need it. Japan goes upon a gold basis October 1st., Russia is always calling for more gold and Germany, also wishes more for its reserve. All the gold beyond what is needed for the arts and circulation, produced for years to come, will be laid aside in the reserves of national treasuries and banks to maintain credit and confidence.

A CHICAGO paper, a few days ago, collected from cities and towns scattered over twelve states in the Mississippi valley most convincing evidence of the ground swell of the flood of prosperity that soon is to roll over this country. The reports from seventy-five cities were of one tenor and told of reviving industry, increased demand for labor, bright hopes for fall trade and large crops being actively enchanged for cash. Some one will point to the coal strike. That is a temporary misfortune, it is true, but it may, and ought to result in great good. T#e strike itself was a proof of the belief of coming good times by the miners, who did not wish to enter an era of prosperity bound to a wage scala which had been framed to suit hard times.

THE Postal Savings bank begins to look like one of the facts of the future. It seems so probable that seekers after reputation are taking it up iu order to claim the credit for it, but of course it will not come without some one to advocate it. Some who are looking for cure-alls see in postal savings banks a specific for many ills, and expect them to be of great service to the poor. They will be of use, but only in extending the work so well begun by savings banks and in providing places of deposit where none existed before. The history of the British postal saving system encourages its imitation. Great Britain has its savings banks, building and loan associations and benefit societies which are as successful and as well patronized by the working classes as our own, but in addition to the many hundreds of millions deposited with them there are other hundreds of millions deposited at the post offices. The post offices reach classes that the banks cannot, or communities that have no banks. Their deposits are invested in government bonds or consols and the average people always have perfect confidence in the government. Whatever will encourage small wage earners to save a part of their wages is a provision for dull times and old age. The massing of labor and machinery has made it the rule, the world over, that labor must be idle at intervals because it cannot be em* ployed continually without overproduction and stagnation of business. Whatever will encourage the worker to save, while busy, something for a rainy day, is good for the people. It is not the depos itors in savings banks who call for charity in hard times, and those who do call for it were not always poorly paid but they spent their money as fast as earned. The man who established the first savings bank' did more for the poor than the founder of the first asylum, though both are necessary. In the long run the postal savings banks will not interfere with other banks, but will increase the amount of money that is deposited before it is expended and made to earn a litUe interest. They will gather up the scattered fractions of small earnings and mass them into capital.

There Is

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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 {rare grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over as much. Children

may

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it with great benefit. 15 eta. and 35 eta. pe? packagt Try Ask for GRAIN-O.

A Whim of Loafa XL

In "The Dungeons of Old Paris" the author, Tigbe Hopkins, says the transformation of the chateau of Viucennes into a dungeon was decided upon by Louis XI while in a sardonic mood. "He walked one day in the precincts of Vincenues, wrapped in his threadbare surtout edged with rusty fur, and plucking at the queer little peaked cap with the leaden image of the Virgin stuck in the band. There was a smile on the sallow and saturnine face. "At his majesty's right walked a thickset, squab man of scurvy countenance, weuriug a close fitting doublet and armed like a hangman. On the king's left went a showy person, vulgar and mean of face, whose gait was a ridiculous strut. Louis stopped against the dungeon and tapped the great wall with bis finoer. 'What's just the thickness of this?' he asked. "Six feet in places, sire eight iu others,' answered the squab man, Tristan, the executioner. 'Good,'said Louis. 'But the place looks to me a3 if it were tumbling.' 'It might, no doubt, be in better repair, sire," observed the showy person, Oliver, the barber, 'but as it is no longer used'— 'Ah, bnt suppose I thought of using it, gossip?' 'Then, sire, your majesty would have it repaired.' "'To be sure,' chuckled the king. 'If I were to shut you np there, Oliver, you could get out, eh?' 'I think so, sire.' 'But you, gossip,'to his hangman, 'you'd catch him and have him back to me, hein?' 'Trust me, sire,' said Tristan. 'Then I'll have my dungeon mended,' said Louis. 'I'm going tn have company here, gossips.' 'Sire!' exclaimed Oliver. 'Prisoners so close to your majesty's own apartments! But you might hear their groans.' 'Ha! They groan, Oliver? The prisoners groan, do they? But there's no need why I should live in the chateau here. Hark you both, gossips, I'd like my guests to groan at their pleasure without the fear of inconveniencing their king.' And the king and his hangman and his barber fell a-laughing."

Bow He Found the Pin.

At an entertainment in Dublin 9 thought reader boasted that he could find a marked pin hidden by one of the audience. Several of them came forward, among whom was a confederate

The pin was hidden by a Trinity student in an adjoining room in the presence of the committee, among whom was the confederate. The student, suspecting the man from his looks, slyly took away the pin from its hiding place.

On his return to the platform the thought reader gazed into the hider's face, and, putting his hand to his brow, was blindfolded and led the student to the hiding place but, of course, could find no pin. He returned, acknowledging his defeat and looking daggers at his confederate. "Now, gentlemen," said the student, "I undertake to say that if this diviner of the human mind will do as I tell him half the audience, without a single hint, will know where the pin is,"and, turning to the thought reader, he said, "Sit down."

He did so. There was a yell, and, jumping up, the thought reader hastily pulled from his coattails the marked pin.—Scottish Nights.

A Happy Return.

Many amusing stories are told connected with dueling. One has recently been told in which an English peer find a politician figured, and we venture to repeat it because we think it worth preserving. The peer, for some offense, was called ont by the politician and promptly responded to the challenge. On arriving at home again after the duel his lordship gave a guinea to the coachman who bad driven him to and from the ground. The driver appears to have been an exceptionally honest, simple man. He was surprised by the largeness of the sum presented and said: "My lord, I only took you to ." "Yes, yes I know that. Bnt the guinea is for bringing me back, not for taking me out. I enjoyed the drive home very much, but not the drive out. That is what I pay you for."—Harper's Round Table.

Telephone Nausea.

A St. Louis man has discovered a new disease which he calls "telephone nausea." The other day, after sending a telephone message, his face grew pale, bis lips twitched and be pressed his hand against the pit of his stomach. "I'm deathly sick," he remarked to a friend. "Telephoning does it Every time I talk through one of the things I'm overcome with nausea, which seems seated right in my stomach. Sometimes it is an hour or so before I recover.'' "That is just my fix exactly." said his friend. "I am made ill every time I use the telephone. Sometimes I feel as if I would faint."—New York Tribune.

Origin of Pale Ale.

It is not generally known that India pale ale is so called because it was originally made solely with a view to the climate of the East Indies. Once a vessel containing a number of Bass' hogsheads for the east was wrecked in the channel, bnt the greater part of the cargo was saved. Among other salvage, the underwriters sold the barrels at ale in London. The new beverage was warmly praised by the Londoners who happened to drink it, and in the course of a short time a demand sprang up throughout the English speaking countries for India pale ale.—San Francisco Argonaut.

A Privileged Pair.

Hojack—Silence is golden, I believe? Totndik—So they say. Hojack—Then the nuptials of a deaf mote couple might be called a golden wedding.—Detroit Free Press.

The Height off Her AMMIIM.

Bertha—What ia the height of yoor ambition, dear? Marie (blwthing)—Oh, something between and 6 feet.—London Fun.

TEltBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEKIXG MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1897.

An Inevitable Paradox.

"There's no use of expecting anything else," said ttfb misanthrope who bad been persuaded to go on a picnic with his family. "Human nature is going to be inconsistent, and that's all there is to it You'll merely waste your time trying to make it any different." "What's the matter now?" asked his wife. "Hasn't the weather been good? And didn't people let you alone, so as to give yon nothing to grumble about?" "Oh, yes, but did you notice the singing as we got back?" "Yes. And it was very nice, appropriate music." "Appropriate!" be repeated, with infinite scorn. "I don't pretend to be any critic. As far as quality was concerned the musio may have been as good as any opera you'd pay $5 a seat to go to sleep at. But when it comes to a questions of propriety, all it did was to remind me of the downright and unalterable perverseness of the human raoe. When people get back from a trip to Europe, they don't do anything but hustle around to get their luggage through the custom house and procure a carriage to take them to a hotel, where they can rest. But when they oome home from an excursion a mile and a half out of town they can't be satisfied unless they wake up the whole country singing "Home Again, Home Again From a Foreign Shore!"—Washington Star.

Edison's First Check.

Thomas Edison, the Wizard, tells this story of his first bank check, back in the seventies: "I had just sold my patent on the gold and stock indicator to the Western Union Telegraph company for $40,000 and had come over to New York to get my money. I went into the company's general offices to close up the sale of my patent. I was immediately recognized by a clerk, who ushered me into the presence of the president, who after a few preliminaries handed me a oheck for |40,000. Well, I started out after carefully folding up the check and went toward Wall street. So uncertain was I that I thought on the way that if any man should come up to me and offer me two crisp thousand dollar bills for the piece of paper I should give him np the check willingly. When I got to the bank, the teller wouldn't honor the check for me. As quick as my legs would carry me I rushed back to the Western Union office, and they sent one of their clerks to identify me. I received $40,000 in large bills. I divided the roll into two wads of $20,000 each and stuffed one into each trousers pocket, and after bidding the cashier and the telegraph clerk good day made a break to get out of Wall street as quickly as I could. The next day I began work on my first laboratory at Newark."

Laughter and Insanity.

"It is a very curious fact," said a celebrated asylum dootor recently, "that, taken as a general rule, all lunatics laugh about twice as much as sane people. "One of my worst patients at the present moment exhibited the first signs of insanity by laughing continuously and without stopping for over a week. "It was just after a severe illness, which had been accompanied by much mental depression, and his friends were so delighted with the apparent improvement in his spirits that they bad no idea of the real state of affairs until a doctor was oalled in and pronounced the man completely mad. Laughter after a surgical operation is a symptom always greatly dreaded by dootors and nurses. "That queer impulse to laugh which some people experience in the first moment of a sudden calamity is in reality one of the sharpest warnings of insanity that any one could receive. "Some people fall into a habit of laughing at their own thoughts when alone. This should be always strictly checked, as it is an unhealthy sign and may lead to brain trouble later on."— London Answers.

A Good Sqairter.

One of the publio drinking places erected by the Philadelphia Fountain society is embellished by a rather unique design in the form of a man's face. It is rather grotesque in appearance, and this effect is heightened by the fact that the water comes gushing forth from the mouth of the stone figure. Two Chinamen, evidently the proprietors of laundries, stopped in front of the fountain and seemed deeply interested in it. They cocked their funny little heads to one side, gazed at the spectacle from every possible point of view, and after a moment of contemplative silence prooeeded to pass critical judgment upon it "Him squirtee belly good," said one. "Yes," replied the other. "M likee havee him all alongee my lauudly."—Philadelphia Record.

Pardoned.

Some sentences of conrt martial were presented to the youthful Queen Victoria for signature. One was of death for desertion. "Have yon nothing to say on behalf of this man?" asked the queen. "Nothing, madam. He has deserted three times," said the official. "Think again, my lord," aaid the queen. Whereupon the gallant soldier replied: "He is certainly a very bad soldier, jour majesty, but he may be a good man for all I know to the contrary." "Thank you," said her majesty and wrote "Pardoned" on the paper.

The smallest book in the world ia a Kouvewations Lexikon, published in Berlin and prepared by Daniel Sanders. The volume occupies the space of only tlx cubic centimeters—0.866 cubic inch although it is claimed to contain 175,000 words. The book must be read through a microscope especially prepared for it

In m«Hng champagne tbe grapes are •queeaed six times, each pressure mak lag wine different quality.

WASH GOODS.

DRESS GOODS.

UNDERWEAR.

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Special Selling..

WOMEN'S BELTS.

SILKS.

To Hake Room for New Goods,

WOMEN'S WRAPPERS.

WOMEN'S SUITS.

WOMEN'S SKIRTS.

SHIRT WAISTS.

PARASOLS.

Stimulants.

Physicians constantly see patients who would be horror strioken at the idea of being devoted to the whisky or brandy bottle, but who seem to think that there is no possible harm in reaorting to wines of cocoa or kola, with or without other ingredients. In many instances these wines contain snch a large quantity of alcohol that in addition to the stimulating effect of their medicinal ingredients they produoe an effect equivalent to that induced by a drink of whisky. They should therefore be employed only under the direction of a physician, and should a physioian order them the prescription calling for them is not to be renewed indefinitely, excepting under his advice.

The same objections exist against the employment of all those preparations of bromide and caffeine which are utilized under different combined names in the treatment of headache, and very much the same objection exists, too, against many of the so called headache powders or tablets which are now placed upon the market for the use of tbe unwary. These powders nearly always contain caffeine, which is a stimulant, and they also contain some drug derived from coal tar, which when taken continuously or iu overdose acts deleteriously upon the blood. I refer to anch remedies as pbenacetin, antipyrin and acetanilid. It is true that they do relieve headache in many cases, but they should be used with caution. You should remember that a headache i8 a symptom, not a disease, and that it is a symptom of many diseases, ranging all the way from so serious affections as Bright's disease and brain tumor to tbe headache due to lack of sleep.—Chautauquan.

The Best Pro»« Writer®.

This is from The Academy: "Mr. Quiller-Couch's competition in The Pall Mall Magazine has closed. Ho offered a guinea to the person who should state correctly the name of 'the man (or woman) who is (or has been during the past ten years) master (or mistress) of tbe best style in English prose,' and at tbe same time be wrote his own selection on a pieoe of paper and inclosed it in an envelope. In the result 81 votes were given to Mr. Pater, 18 to Mr. Hardy. 13 to Mr. Stevenson, 11 to Mr. Ruskin, 9 to Mr. Lang, 7 each to Mr. Froude and Mr. Barrie, 6 each to Mr. Meredith and Mr. Kipling, 4 to Mr. Henry James and 8 each to Matthew Arnold, Sir Walter Besant, Mr. Conan Doyle and Miss Marie Oorelli. A great number of writers received 2 and 1."

If Mr. Henry James baa any hair left, he must be polling it when be reads that he scored only 4. And tbe idea cf mating Matthew Arnold and Marie Gorelli! As well say that good, honest bread and fancy macaroons are one and tbe same thing. We think that the printed results show incapacity on tbe part of readers. A guessing performance would have been preferable.—New York Times. goow London SUtlitlc*.

An expert at figures cays 12,000 vehicles, a quarter of them omnibuses, through tbe Strand in London every day, and tbe narrowness of tbe street causes each of their 63,000 occupants to waste on an average three minutes.

CfcMfod ptaat,

"How about that addition you were going to bnild to your bouse?" "I found it waa going to make too big a subtraction in my bank aooount." —Chicago Journal.

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What a Model Hakery Should lie.

What should bo the essential conditions of a model bakery? First, the building should be above ground, perfectly drained and ventilated, well organized, absolutely clean, Aid the expense of labor should be of no consideration. The men should be systematically inspected with regard to their personal cleanliness, having, in the first place, beeu selected for employment on the ground of their good general health and temperunce. The hours of labor should be limited, and convenience for washing purposes should be provided. The buildingn should be dust proof, in order to make dust contamination impossible. The ovens should be fired ut tbe back of and not in tbe bakehouso itself. Water used should be of tlio very best and guaranteed quality, aud, in order that ouly a proper proportion should be used for its corresponding equivalent of flour, it Bhould be measured by meter. These arc, roughly, the essentials to atypical bakehouse.—New

The King of Denmark.

The kiug of Denmark is essentially a "homely" man. He always walks ubout the streets unattended, or apparently so, ready to help any one to do anything. So charitable is he that, though his purse may be full when commencing his daily walk, it is invariably empty on bis return. Iu connection with this constant state of being without money an amusing anecdote is told. One day after an unusually long walk he met an old and crusty courtier, to whom he offered refresl. ..ent. When it came to tbe paying part of the proceedings, he found that he was penniless. Seeing his son, however, he approached him aud said: "Lend me some money. I have been treating and I can't pay. "—London Tit-Bits.

Karney Barnato'n Philosophy.

"Never let a man put his bauds on you without giving him 'what for,' aud always have the first hit." "You have no right to spoil another man's game as long as he plays it oleverly. He will expose himself soon enough when he oeasea to be clever at it" "Never play tbe game above tbe people's beads, but as they think they understand it You have a bit in band every time then," and "Always wind up with a good curtain and bring it down before tbe publio gets tired or has had time to find you out"—Maxims of Late Mr. Barnato.

Two Armies—The Hegrular and the Irregular! To which would you prefer to belong? Tbe regular. undoubtedly. The Irregulars are, admltedly. the most numerous, bat tbey are In a very undesirable state of no-dlsclpllne. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will soon remedy this want in a disordered liver or bowels. Biliousness manifest* Itself In yellowness of the skin and eyeballs, sour breath, furred tongue, morning nausea, discomfort In the vicinity of the liver, vertigo and sick beadache Hosts of people suffer thus. These signs of Insubordination to the governance^ health, together with an Irregular condition of the bowels, are soon regulated by 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 infirmatles of age. the great tonic Is without a parallel.

$100.

Dr. £. Deletion's Antl Diuretic

May be worth to you more than 1100 if you have a child who soils bedding from iucontenence of water during

sleep.

Cures

old and young alike. It arrests tbe troa bie at once. «L Sold by all druggists in Terra Haute, Ind.