Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 September 1897 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor aid Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 50154 Ohio Street. Telephone 408.

The Mall Is sold in the city by newsboys and %U newsdealers, or will be delivered to any iddress, by mall, at the rate of 32 a year. Si for six months, or 90 cents for three months.

ntered at the Postoffice at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

N I O N

SEl'TK.MBKK 18.

THE MAIL'S

Library Coolest.

Name of School.

Name of Teacher.

Name of l'upll.

Each Coupon will count as ONE vote. The contest closes Monday. Juvorcber 1st. 185)7.

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 4lan 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 be 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 November, to the public school in Terre Haute receiving the highest number of votes The Mail will give a Library of Books, 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 $25.

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 number of coupons in the Library Contest, The Mail will give a #10 Hold Piece.

To the girl credited with the highest number of coupons in the Library Contest, The Mail will give a $10 Cold Piece.

is still doubtful if Thessaly will be Turkey by Thanksgiving or just a plajn Greece spot.

Arrrcit muling many columns of iteration on the subject of school books and writing pads the question uaturally follows. "Well, what of it*"

TIIK end of the coal strike and the drought in one week is a double blessing for this community. Train loads of black diamonds and green pasture fields will revive fall trade.

Tin ru is stranger than fiction we are told, but the novelist who reports a Chicago murder trial for a senational New York paper believis that a ruffle of fiction is an ornament to the row of truth.

TIIK Rev. B. Fay Mills passed from orthodox revivalism to socialism, where he now stands. When he was a revivalist he would have regarded a unitarian as a fit subject for his efforts.

day. The early French should le spelled "gall."

YKU.OW

states and obtained a foothold from which it mijirht easily hav? spread over the north where the intense heat and drought are favorable to its dissemination, but the danger has been averted by the rijfid exercise of prudent sanitary measure* supported by leftal enactment*. Dangerous as is the threatened pestilence, multitudes of people exist who would evade or disobey the sanitary law* for their own selfish convenience, without regard to the public

TIIK King of Siatn. who was virtually patronage. Ever since the splendid horses roblnvl of much territory by the Freuch, in marble were fixed upon the ancient WHS pleasantly entertained with a review Parthenon the horse has been the subject of the French army near Paris, the other of human sentiment and admiration.

name properly

safety. Here is a signal example of the real mercy of an impartial, vigorous enforcement of law. When law is respected, enforced and obeyed as a safeguard and protection it becomes a providence.

MR. BICYCLE SMITH, who has a barrel, and an ambition to be mayor of Indianapolis, is publishing a daily paper, which he calls Truth, during the present campaign. We are told that "Truth is mighty, and will prevail," but it is to be doubted whether or not it will at the subscription price, one dollar a month.

THE late Mr. Bryan in his recent speeches deprecated the injunction. He has learned by experience that an injunction is a double-edged tool, as his home city, Lincoln, is paying 16,000 more interest a year as the result of the injunction suit brought by W. J. Bryan against the gold clause in the city bonds. Mr. Bryan's injunction was .really for the benefit of the capitalists, and his law for the injury oi' his fellow citizens-

PRESIDENT ANDREWS will go back to Brown University and the type-written university he was to found may lose by his change of mind. This is something of a victory for both sides. Free speech and thought are vindicated and we will continue to talk and think, as well as to think and talk—the order varying to suit the case. The populist can no longer quote Brown as an example of plutocratic tyranny and athletic literature will move onward.

THE Illinois Federation of Labor adopted a resolution with the preamble. "Whereas, Other enlightened and powerful nations of the world, with scarcely an exception, have established postal savings banks to safeguard the money of the wage earners, etc." Very creditably the federation recognizes business sagacity among other people and, by inference, strikes a hard blow at that demagogical spirit which seeks to array this people against a financial measure that is successful in another country, because it is foreign.

IF anything was needed to prove that Claude Matthews, ex-shade tree farmergovernor, was a small calibred man, his talk about Governor Mount, regarding the latter's remarks about the sale of dollar seats to one of the features of the state fair this week, answered the purpose. Ordinary courtesy would have precluded an ex-governor from indulging in such cheap talk regarding his successor in the dignified office of governor of the state of Indiana. The fact that Claude Matthews was unable to restrain himself shows what sort of a cheap, peanut politician he is.

TiiKgenial granger who is now peddling sweet cider at ten cents a gallon will be pained by reading in the Union Signal, a temperance organ, that'' Deacon So-and-so, who keeps or sells cider made from his own apples, is a greater menace to temperance than Tippling Mike, who lies in the ditch." The line of argument is that sweet cider, which cheereth, and hard cider, which intoxicate, look alike. One of the drunkest men we ever saw was a case of hard cider and perverted taste, but because one men likes poor vinegar with alcohol in it is not a sufficient reason for condemning sweet cider, raspberry vinegar and other palatable potions.

PRESIDENT ANDREWS, of Brown university, has evidently made up his mind that this business of being a martyr isn't what it is cracked up to be, and ther?fore has decided to again take up his pleasant and remunerative job as president of that corporation. The truth about the business is that he has been just about as consistent as the trustees of that institution, who invited him to resign on account of some of his public utterances, and then made it possible for him to again take charge of the institution. The university has received a great amount of free advertising out of the episode, but it is doubtful whether it is of the kind that will do it auy good.

THE New York Democratic organization has resolved to ignore the Chicago platform and free silver. Chairman Jones has advised this. From whatever side this course is viewed it showed guile and duplicity. It may be an acknowledgement that free silver was taken up as a trick or trump card, to be discarded on failure, or it may mean a design to conceal the one idea of Bryanism until the state is won, then to be revived for national use. It certainly means that free silver is a lost cause in New York, something to be dreaded. It also shows that Mr. Hill is regaining control of the New York democracy which is not favorable to Bryanism.

RACE WEEK is a fixed institution of this city. If the amount of money paid for admission in past years to the race meeting is compared with that paid for any other amusement in tho same time it will be found to be the most popular entertainment. If it were made more popular and profitable, the unpopular adjuncts could be removed. As it is. the sport has improved in character and the quality of its

People have learned to differentiate between the beautiful and plain, the fast I and the slow, the gallant and the dull, and

CR.WPK MATTHEWS, of Kansas, bought intelligent and the stupid, and to 40 acres of land for Sso last year and is ahead ascribe individuality and character to fine of all expenses for raising wheat, this horses. It has been the rule for centuries year, just Mr. Matthews^ bank ac- past and will be for centuries to come, count shivers to smithareens all the arguments advanced last year by his distinguished relative of Indiana.

fevi»r invaded the southern

Indiana horror! No longer does a southern state sustain the bad eminence of murders by mob, since an Indiana mob haa hung, without judge or jury, five men for offenses outside of the death penalty In all civilised countries. All good governments, which do not include republics alone, hare steadily narrowed the Mat of crimes for which death is the penalty. It seems reserved for this country, which boasts of its superior regard for the right* of man, to show a mote wanton disregard for life than the most despotic government of Europe, yet, on the other hand, when law takes Its slow coarse a criminal re-

ceives much maudlin sympathy. Want of respect for law leads to want of respect for human life and civic rights, and the community which carelessly elects unworthy and weak men to places of responsibility contributes to the breaking down of law and right. The reckless sacrifice of life by mob law, which occurs in nearly every state in the Union, may in part be due to the mad use of free speech by which immature and demagogic aspirants for celebrity or influence inflame the thoughtless ignorant crowds. But there will be a reaction. It needs but the determined and prompt exercise of justice, by such good men as Governor Mount, to lead the reaction, and the people's stern rebuke of the Chicago school of anarchism to deepen such reaction.

AMERICAN youth has resumed its studies, bought its necessary and unnecessary books, and began the reorganization of foot-ball, base ball and musical clubs and other accessoriess to higher education If one could make a mental birds-eye sweep of the millions of American boys and girls marching to school in these September days he would realize what tremendous, munificent and expensive work is the education of the country's youth. People grumble about taxes but few separate from the mass the large detail of the school tax. Perhaps they understand that more than any other it is expended for all the people, with little favoritism and seldom with any corruption. There is just one class with good ground for dissatisfaction, and that with itself. How blind, how foolish, is that man who s6es the splendid school houses and the elaborate school machinery at his command without using them—who allows his boys and girls to escape or shirk the school. The state is paternally kind in coming to the aid of such by forcing his children to go to school, but it is kinder to itself in resolving that the dangerous classes shall not be swelled in the future by ignorant men and women. We shrink from the dangers of anarchism, lawless ness, contempt of law and the restless activity of illy-educated agitators. Universal education is the chief safeguard of a free people from all these.

THE most important election of the year—and the most important municipal election in the history of the country—is that to be decided in New York in November. The fight for the control of Greater New York is one of the utmost significance, because the mayor and municipal officers to be elected there will no doubt control the political destiny of that State and perhaps of the nation for years to come. The act creating Greater New York possible makes that city one of the greatest in the world. It has a Democratic majority of nearly 100,000 in ordinary political conditions, but there is a very strong sentiment against the control of Tammany, and if the opposition to Tammany could be cordially united upon a candidate for mayor, the chances for his election would be better than that of his competitor. But grave obstacles are presented to such a union of municipal reform forces, and the result of the contest is fairly in doubt. The favorite candidate of those who wish to separate municipal, government from city, state and national politics, is Seth Low, who has served two terms as mayor of Brooklyn, and who claims to be non-partisan in municipal affairs. He has proved it by his government of Brooklyn, and he has distinctly declared that if elected mayor, under no circumstances would he make party interest subordinate to the interest of the city. The Republican organization of the new city invited a conference with all the organizations opposed to Tammany and its corrupt methods, with the idea of uniting on some one that could attract the support of these various elements. A great many responded, but the Citizens' Union, which is at the back of the Low movement, refused to confer with the united opponents of Tammany, and with Mugwumpian pertinactity, declared that there was but one solution of the difficulty, and that was in taking their advice, and following their dictation, in selecting their candidate. They therefore nominted Low, who is a multi-millionaire, living in a magnificent mansion, and about as little fitted under ordinary circumstances to get votes, as would Jeff Davis running for constable in a northern community. The dictatorial manner of the Citizens' Union will lead to the nomination of a straight Republican candidate for mayor, and no doubt cause the victory to fall to Tammany and lead to the defeat of the very purposes the Citizens' Union claims to be trying to accomplish. Ordinarily such a result would teach a lesson, but the ordinary Mugwump knows so much, and is so little inclined to learn anything more, that Solomon in all his wisdom conld teach him but little. The result of the fight will be, no doubt that for many years to come, Tammany, the most corrupt political power in the world, will have absolute control of the political destinies of the Empire state, and will make and unmake presidents just as the fever seizes it. With all the powers that oppose Tammany united this could not be accomplished.

Beware of Oltments for Catarrh that contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of stnell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles shonld never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains so mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hairs Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuineIt is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney St Co. Testimonials free. ESTSold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.

Yon can get a fine line of locks and binges down at Dick's hardware store, 18 South Fourth street.

TERBE HAUTE SATURDAY JEVENTNG- MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1897.

The Jfew Opera House.

Charles Lieber, the famous fresco artist, of Louisville, Ky., who frescoed the ceilings of the old Dowling hall, and also the McKeen bank several years ago, has been engaged to fresco the ceilings and walls of the new Grand Opera House. He has a reputation for work in this line, and has frescoed over sixty theaters in this country.

rpHE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST.

This is especially true when it comes to Life Insurance, as Life Insurance is not for a day but for a lifetime. The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has paid to Its members WHILE LIVING over 238 MILLION DOLLARS, and it has paid Beneficiaries of deceased members over 178 MILLION DOLLARS, making a total payment to policy holders over 437 MILLION DOLLARS. In 1886 alone we paid our policy holders ovei 25 MILLION DOLLARS or more than 80 THOUSAND DOLLARS a day for each working day in the year. Take your insurance in the Mutual Life of New York and with an established Agency. The undersigned has been here in the business more than twenty years, and you will find many advantages in being insured where you can at all times call on the Company's representative. For terms, rates or information call on or address.

W. A. HAMILTON, General Agent,

24 South Sixth St., Terre Haute, Ind.

D. V. MILLER. ATTORNEY.

NOTICE

OF APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Ann Ash, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

Lace or Congress. Plain Toe or Tip. ....

T. J. GRIFFITH

420 Main Street.

v=p

Home Visitors,

$5.

To Louisville. Ky., Columbus, O., Springfield, O.. Dayton, O.. Cincinnati, O., and intermediate points, Thursday, Sept. 30, 1897. Tickets goods for 30 days returning.

To Chattanooga, Tenn.,

Sept. 21.

Toilet

Articles

LUCIUS LYBRAND. Administrator.

$7.05.

Saturday, Sept. IS. Account Dedicatory Ceremonies Chattanooga National Park.

'o Springfield, 111.,

$3.90.

Sept. 20 and 21. Account I. O. O. F. Sovereign Grand Lodge.

To Columbus, O.,

$5.05.

Sept. 21 and 22. Account Union Veteran Legion National Encampment.

Home Seekers' Excursions. Oce fare, plus $2. To points In Arkansas, Colorado, Indian Territory. Kansas. Texas. Iowa, Missouri. North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. Tuesday,

GEO. E. FARRINGTON, General Agent.

WANTED

BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.

WILWAUKEE, WIS.

HARRISON PARK CASINO

MONDAY NIGHT, SEPT. SO

ED F. DAVIS'

BIC COMBINED

MINSTRELS

4 MEN, WOMEN, I E N O N O S E S ETC. Prices: 15c, 25c, 35c, SOc. Seats on sale at Buntln's.

Harrison Park Casino.

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

Pears' Unscented Soap,

Cuticura Soap,

SUITS

SEPT. 21-22

DAN A. STUARTS

VERISCOPE

EXHIBIT

CORBETTFITZSIMMONS CONTEST

LIFE-LIKE VIEWS OF EYTFIKY EV6NT AND INCIDENT OP THE 6BEAT BATTLE. LASTING TWO HOUBS TEN MINUTES.

Price*: 25o, SOc, 75c, *1.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

IS a

cents an ounce.

Lubin's Best Triple Extract, 35 cents an ounce.

French Violet Toilet Soap, 3 cakes for

cents.

Violet Talcum Toilet Powder, 15 cents a box.

Umbrellas

It is a long time

since we have had

anything to say about umbrellas but the equinox is coming and you may need one.

We offer

100

cents and war

rant every pair perfect.

full lined, full blouse front,

$3.98.

of back and

„ou

are willing to work, we can give you employment with GOOD PAY, and you can work all or part time, and at home or traveling. The work is LIGHT AND EASY. WRITE AT ONCE for terms, etc., to The Hawks Nursery Company,

on the down grade of quality where cheapness ceases to be economy. It is only a step from the "just as good" or "almost as good" to the altogether bad. We meet all price competition with the best qualities made. Everything we sell must be altogether right or your money back. Note the prices and profit thereby.

Hosiery

Woodbury's Facial

Soap,

cents cake.

Hosiery

15-cent

cts.

cts. a cake.

Tooth Brushes, the 10-cent kind for

cents.

The

kind for

cents.

Solid back all bristle brushes worth

cents for

cents.

French Triple Extracts, all odors,

fine Melrose

Serge and Helvetia 'Umbreiias with Congo and Arabian handles and steet rods—the tight rolling kind. The manufacturers say they will be worth $1.25 the next time we buy them. This lot goes at

cents.

We have better ones at $1.25 and $1.50.

Kid

Qloves

Vandalia* Pennsylvania

Round Trip Excursions.

A phenomenal open-

*ng of the season—kid

glove chance—a late importation is the cause of it. You reap the benefit. 100 dozen women's 2-clasp kid gloves with new embroidered backs, all the new shades. The price should be $1.00. We offer them at

SIIvK WAISTS

Why have them made? You can buy them here in the most stylish materials, well made and perfect fitting, at astonishingly small prices.

Colored Taffeta Waists, all the latest colorings, short yoke front with

We're selling cloaks

and suits, early as it

We bought some very

nobby things—only a few of

each but they are appreciated.

You'll be pleasantly surprised

at the prices.

CRUSHED

ft-w*

$4.25

COARSE... $3.50 Uc,lverc1*

The cheapest and best fuel for hard coal stoves, furnaces and grates.

GAS COMPANY

507 Ohio Street.

A. M. HIGGIN8.

Lawyer,

Telephone Over McKeen's Bank

Importers' sample

line of women's ho

siery at about one-third regular value. Do not miss this opportunity.

Women's fancy stripe and colored boot top hosiery,

$1.00 a pair, a bargain at

Handker-

chiefs

had at these prices.

tucks, two-point yoke in back, body and sleeves

$3.98.

Black Taffeta Waists, short yoke, full blouse front, two-point and four-pleat back, body and sleevess full lined, lining tight fitting,

Black Taffeta Waists, two-point yoke with

lined, fine quality silk satin,

A better one with

back, full lined,

Roman Stripes,

CLOAKS

cents a pair. Women's fast black spun silk hosiery, worth from

cents to

cts.

Always needed but

not always to be

Women's pure linen hemstitched handkerchiefs, beautifully embroidered,

cts. each.

Women's Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs, our own importation, 25-cent value for

cts.

The new Marguerite Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs,

cents each. All pure linen embroidered handkerchiefs,

cents.

A bargain in men's colored bordered handkerchiefs, hemstitched, at

cents each.

Women's pure linen hemstitched handkerchifs,

Ribbons Ribbons

cents.

In spite of the usual demand

unfor

ribbons and advancing prices, we offer a rare opportunity. All silk plain taffeta ribbons, 51-2incheswide,all shades,

25c.

All silk moire taffeta ribbons, 5 1-2 inches wide,

cento yd.

All silk fancy stripe ribbcwis, very choice styles,

cents yd.

Dainty hair ribbons for children,

cents a yard.

tucks full length of front, tight lining, $4.98.

Black Satin Waists, six pleats in back,

$4.98.

$6.50.

$5.68

and

tucks full length

tucks in front, full

tucks across the front and five across the

$6.98,

latest styles, perfect fitting.

SKIRTS Special values in sepSKIRTS arate skirts. All silk brocade skirts,

RANTED-

Delivered

yards wide,

velvet bound and well made, $4.68. Heavy figured gros grain silk skirts, new designs

$5.68.

Brocade satin skirts, beautiful new styles, $7.75.

WANTED.

WANTED-Persons

desiring to furnish

regular or club hoarding to Normal students or to rent furnished or unfurnished room*, are requested to address Statu Normal School, city, giving location, terms, etc.

To know if there in a man in

the United States who has made the wholesale business of poisoning and mixing and adulterating of pure liquors and food a study. It Is P. N. Staff of Old Cobweb Hall who defies them to come back at him which they will not do, as be knows them and they keep mum a* mam is the word with them.

FOR BENT.

Froomsand

OR BENT—Modern new dwelling seven and bath heated by hot water electric gas light. 308 north Eighty street.

To the Young Face

Ponowrti Ooumoaan Powuira given fresher charms to the old, renewed yonth. Try it.