Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 September 1897 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 501V4 Ohio Street. Telephone 460.

The Mail is sold In the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of 82 a year, $1 lor six months, or 50 cents for three months.

ntered at the Postofflce at Terte Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

SKPTEMBEK

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THE MAIL'S

LiHiaig Contest.

Name of School.

Nnme of Teacher.

Name of I'upii.

Each Coupon will count as ONE vote. The contest closes Monday, November 1st, 1897.

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, 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 votoa 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 in terested 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 edi tion, with a Complete Reference Index.

To the boy who is credited with the highest number of coupons in the Library Coutest, The Mail will give a $10 Gold Piece.

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

PHOSPKWTY is coming, and coming strong, but a great many persons will not admit it. boon use they don't like the route it took to get here.

FITZMMMONS* put Corbett out by a blow on the solar plexus, but he had better be careful of his own. The news conies from New York that he is going to take to poll ties.

Titr boss silver crank has been discovered in Colorado, where a man refuses to pormit his children to attend Sunday school, for fear they will learn the goldea rule.

AKTKK next Tuesday the letter heads of the Terre Haute Trotting Association, which now read, "The Track,'' will be changed to read, "The Only 1:3$ Track." There will be some turf history made in this man's town next week.

IN the fight between the Republicans, the Tanimanyites and the Citizens' Union in the attempt to get control of Greater New York, it looks as if the Republicans would play high, the Citizens' Union Low, and as a result Tammany will get the game.

IN New York the silver men are so thoroughly entrenched in their control of the Democratic organization that the candidate for chief justice of the court of appeals, nn efficient onicer, had to make a public declaration that he had voted for Bryan last year before he could secure the nomination for that office.

IT is strange to learn that Governor Mount is being deluged with letters complaining of his conduct In attempting to bring to justice the members of the mob 11 that broke Into the Ripley county jail and 6 hanged five men who were under arrest, "awaiting trial for burglary and kindred "jcrimes. Some newspaper* are finding fault with him, too, because of hit courageou* stand In favor of law and order lor the credit of the state. Had be refoeed to take any action In the matter the same

newspapers and the same people would have abased him roundly because of his "lack of backbone" when the fair name of Indiana was assailed. 2\

THE senate of the Hawaiian republic has ratified the treaty with this country looking to the annexation of the islands to the United States. There come reports from Honolulu that Japan is sending some of her veteran soldiers to the islands in the guise of laborers, with the idea of resisting by force the annexation, when it is formally attempted, but it is likely that there is nothing in that story. Japan feels tolerably gay about her victory over China, but smart as she is, it is not likely that she would like to go to war with the Unifed States over the Hawaiian annexation. It is probably a game of bluff on her part, and when called she will submit gracefully. The annexation treaty, which was submitted to the United States senate on June 16, but has not been acted upon, provides for the cession to the United States of all rights of sovereignty over the islands and all public land and property, Under it the islands would constitute territory of the United Stj^es, with local legislature, subject to a" veto power vested in the president. All the treaties of the United States with other countries would be substituted for those now in force with Hawaii. The further immigration of Chinese to the islands is be prohi bited and our laws on the subject are to be extended to Hawaii. The treaty provides for the assumption by the United States of the Hawaiian public debt of $4,000,000. The document probably will come up for consideration, rejection or ratification when congress meets in December.

GREAT

sensation was created this

week by the announcement by way of Paris, that General Steward Woodford, the new minister to Spain, had issued on behalf of this government, an ultimatum to that country in regard to the Cuban war, to the effect that if Cuba is not pacified by the latter part of October the United States would feel called upon to interfere. The news was announced in the most sensational manner, and created a brief sensation in this country, as well as in Spain. The sensation fell flat, however, for the statement was vigorously denied by both governments, and everything points to the fact that the report was made out of whole cloth. The Spanish nation is awakening slowly to the fact that they have been hoodwinked by their government and General Weyler regarding the attitude of this nation and the conduct of the Cuban war. The United States has been persistently misrepresented by the government in order to arouse the Spanish pride and. loosen the Spanish pocketbook, to raise the means to prosecute the campayn in Cuba. The weakness of the Spanish cause there has never been fully portrayed to the people of Spain, and they are beginning to realize that it is almost hopeless. That the Cubans can never be conquered is becoming more evident every day, and President McKinley will most surely be called upon to intervene in the interests of humanity. Since February, 1895, the Spanish have endeavored to subdue the insurgents at the expense of thousands of men and millions in money, and the insurgents are stronger to-day than they have ever been, are winning more victories, and have absolute control of a greater portion of their own island than ever before. The war is inhuman, however, on both sides, and the United States is justified in interfering on this account.

OtTR old friend, "Jack" Gowdy, ex-chair-man of the Republican state committee, and present consul-general to Paris, seems to have "caught on" in great shape at the French metropolis. When he was appointed the opposition papers devoted a great deal of space to caricaturing the Rush county statesman, whose appointment, it was represented, would be a lasting discredit to the diplomatic and consular service of the United States. W. E. Curtis, the well-known newspaper correspondent, who poked a great deal of fun at "Oom Jack," as he nicknamed him, has been looking up the United States consulate matters in Paris and finds that the Hoosier politician is holding up his end of the string in good shape. He quotes a re mark by the president in favor of the appointment of Gowdy to Paris, and adds: The president was right, and, although the ex chairman off the republican state committee of Indiana cannot yet be con sidered an ideal Chesterfield, he is rapidly taking ou the polish of Parisian society and has made a very pleasing impression He wears a collar every day. and his cravat is no "string tie," but is a genuine four-in-hand fixed up in the latest fashion. He trimmed his claybauk whiskers according to the Van Dyke pattern before he sailed from New York, and since he arrived in Paris he has shaved them off altogether and he looks like Julius Civsar now. He has a new suit of English clothes, wears a plug hat and carries an umbrella for a walking stick just like the members of the Freuch ministry. He greets everybody who enters the consulate with a dignity that is becoming and appropriate, and his unassuming cordiality pleases everyone. The only public appearance of Mr. Gowdy since his arrival in Paris was at a banquet of American residents on the Fourth of July, where he presided with grace, and Introduced the speakers of the day with considerable wit and eloquence. Gen Horace Porter, the American ambassador, could not have done better.

THK Supreme court of Indiana, in a case that went up from this city a few years ago, decided that the judge of a court whose public acts were criticised by a newspaper could not act as accuser, judge and jury, and convict and sentence any unfortunate newspaper publisher whose comments did not exactly suit the judicial mind. The court said a* much, and more, in such decided terms that there could be no question as to the full meaning of the decision. In Wisconsin the Supreme court has fallen into line, And made a decision very much similar to that in Indiana. In Ban Claire, last year, a judicial candidate has his conduct of the office

criticised by a newspaper, and he immediately cited the author of the article and the publisher to show reason why they shonld not be punished for contempt of court. They did not submit peaceably, but immediately filed affidavits alleging the truth of the articles in question, and without any preliminaries he adjudged them guilty of fresh contempt, and sentenced the parties to a term of thirty days in jail. They appealed from the judge's decision, and the Supreme court this week passed upon the matter, denouncing the attempt to defeat free speech. The judge who delivered the opinion reviewed at some length the rights of courts, saying that important as it is that they should perform their grave public duties unimpeded and unprejudiced by illegitimate influences, there are other rights guaranteed to all citizens which are fully as important and which must be guarded, with equally jealous care. "Truly," says the court, "it must be a grievous and weighty necessity which will justify so arbitrary a proceeding whereby a candidate for office becomes the accuser, judge and jury, and may within a few hours summarily punish his critic by imprisonment. The result of such doctrine is that all unfavorable criticism of a sitting judge's past official conduct can be at once stopped by the judge himself, or, if not stopped, can be punished by immediate imprisonment. If there can be any more effectual way to gag the press and subvert freedom of speech we do not know where to find it. Under such a rule thts merits of a sitting judge may be rehearsed, but as to his demerits there must be profound silence. In our opinion no such divinity 'doth hedge about' a judge—certainly not when he is a candidate for public office."

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

To lose our last friend is sad indeed, but nothing like so sad as never to have gained our first.

Man's fortune depends far less on will, effort and circumstances combined than on temperament alone.

Since through nature's law we are all born inevitably of love, he whose life lacks that one essential is a contradiction and a failure.

It is better to be disappointed throughout life in every hope we have cherished than to be deficient in hope. The extinction of hope is virtually death.

If we review our life at middle age we are apt to find that what we have most dreaded, what has made U3 most unhappy, is but a shadow of the imagination.

Woman is in most cases as amiable as man is otherwise. But when she is irritable by temperament, and has never subjected her irritation to any sort of discipline, a striped hyena is companionable by comparison.

There are two kinds of unworthy parents—the parent who looks upon a child as if its moral principles are manufactured on a certain plan, and the parent whose only notion of a child is that it is a sort of toy sent by Providence for his amusement.

Keep Accounts.

Keeping household accounts is an affair, if not of necessity, still of the greatest wisdom. In comparison with the small amount of time and labor which the doing so employs the satisfaction of knowing at the end of each year how the family funds have gone is the amplest compensation. One especial satisfaction gained from the keeping of household accounts is the ability when, or if the necessity arises, to reduce expenditures on the outlay for luxuries and unnecessaries. The money spent for food, for medicines or for fuel is capable of far less reduction than that used for amusements, for wages or for clothing, and a system of accounts which will show at once where expenses can be lessened is entitled to respectful consideration.

Hard Job to Bo a Millionaire. It is said of the late Barney Barnato, the South African diamond king, that he went into the office of a London merchant one day, flung himself down in a chair and exclaimed: "It's a hard job to be a millionaire. People envy me my money, bunt they don't know what it is to be hunted about from morning to night, to never have a moment to yourself, to feel that you must go on, that you can't stop, that other people won't let you stop, and give you nothing to look forward to but work and worry. I have only been home two days, aud it seems to me like two years. The worry is something awfulawful. I wish I were just Barney and back at Kimberle.v with the boys.'1

Advertisliuj Pays.

Jubilee Lipton, who has made $50,000,000 iu the grocery business in twenty years, s:iys he owes his success to printers's ink. "It would be as sensible," he declares, "for a man to run a store in a tunnel as to at tempt to conduct it without advertising." Such also is the testimony of all success ful business men.

Fresh Oysters at Eiser's. Pools will be sold every night next week at the Health Office, commencing Monday evening at 8 p. m.

Brittany Marriage luttom. In Brittany there is said to prevail a curious marriage custom. On certain fete dav« the young ladies appear in red ptttfconts, with white or yellow bor dew around them. The nemt^r of bor dere denotes the portion the father is willing to give bis daughter. Each white band denotes silver—100 francs p«r annum each yellow band represents gold—I,O0O francs a year.

TERRJE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATL,, SEPTEMBER 25, 1897.

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The long, undulating folds in which the Appalachians were produced when first thrown up are characteristic of moo utain ranges the world over. The Alps, tie Pyrenees, the Caucasus, Himalayas, Andes and Rockies are built in jnst that way. Tbey are enormoacly thick beds or masses, and tbey are all ridded ap Into these folds.

The Future if the Hod M:in. Having briefly reviewed some of our past history, the fact must be admitted that when the white men first fisited our shores we were kind and confiding, standing before them like a block of marble before the scnlptor, ready to be shaped into noble manhood. Instead of this, we were oftener hacked to pieces and destroyed.

It is useless to deny the charge that at times we have been goaded to vindictive and cruel acts. Some o£ cay own tribe, however, were soldiers in the northern army during the civil war. Some of them were taken and held prisoners in the rebel prisons, and the cruelty which, according to the tales tbej U, was witnessed there was never ontdouo in border warfare with the scalping knife and tomahawk, and yet I believe that had the northern people been piaced in the south under like cir cnsistances their prisoners of war would have been treated with similar cruelty. It was the result of a desperate effort to save an expiring cause. I believe there is no reasonable person, well grounded in United States history, who will uot admit that there were ten times as many who perished miserably in southern prisons as have been killed by onr people since the discovery of America. I recall these facts not to censure, but to show that ornelty and revenge are the offspring of war, not of race, and that nature has placed no im passable gnlf between ns and civilization.

While I most heartily indorse the present policy of the government in dealing with onr people, I must, admit, to be true to my own convictions, that I am worried over the ration system, under which so many of onr people are being fed on the reservations, greatly fear it may eventually vaga bondize many of them beyond redenip tion. It permits the gathering of lazy, immoral white men of the worst stamp, who spend their time in idleness and in corrupting Indian morality.—Simon Pokagon in Fornm.

Spiders as Weather Prophets. One of the beefcof weather prophets is the spider. If there happens to be a web in the secluded corner of the porch, watch it carefully for a few days or weeks, and the spider will unfailingly predict the coming of storms.

When a high wind or a heavy rain threatens, the spider may be seen tak ing in sail with great energy—that is, shortening the rope filaments that sustain the web structure. If the storm is to be unusually severe or of long duration, the ropas are strengthened as well as shortened, the better to resist the onset of the elements. Not until pleasant weather is again close at hand will the ropes be lengthened as before. On the contrary, when you see the spider running out the slender filaments it is certain that oalm, fine weather has set in, wbo£Ur duration may be measnred by their elongation.

Every 24 hours the spider makes some alteration in its web to suit the weather. If these ohanges are made toward evening, jnst before sunset, a fine, clear night may be safely counted upon. When the spider sits quiet and dull in the middle of its web, rain is not far off. If it be active, however, and continues so during a shower, then it will be of brief duration, and sunshine will follow.—Chicago Record.

'Services of the West to Education. The susceptibility of Americans to qew ideas is a notable element in the prosperity of the country. The people are willing to try anything that is new. This is specially true of the west, where the enterprising inhabitants are always seeking short outs to wealth and to knowledge. This adventurous spirit often leads to superficiality, but it has also been very fruitful of new methods of school education. The kindergarten idea was taken up and developed in the west. There manual training was first tried on a large scale with satisfactory results. And it was teachers in the west who first brongbt about the introduction of "literature" in the lower grades as the best means of interesting undeveloped minds. In fact, they demonstrated the truth that it is better for the child to feed upon ideas, upon thought, upon real stories, and the lives of real people, and the stimulating sentiments of all the ages, tbuu upon the inane sentences and jejune aud successful effort to be childish of the reading books.—Charles Dudley Warner in H«rper's Magazine.

Worked Both Ways.

"Davie," snid Edith, "what makes grandma talk so much?" "Can't you see?" replied the boy.-

She's got a double chin."—Boston Travel"*.

Get the wire rakes for raking leaves at Edgar Dick's, 13 South Fourth street.

D. V. MILI.EK. ATTOHXEV.

VTOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ADMIN-

JLN ISTKATOR.

Notlcc is hereby given that the undersigned fias been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Ann Ash. doceased. Said estate is supposed to be sol vent. .LUCIUS LYKKA Ni.

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Should anything occur

at any time that is not

entirely satisfactory we

will consider it a favor if

you will let ns know about it.

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Administrator.

"pilF. BK*T IS* THE CHEAPEST.

This is especial-y 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

over

437 MILMOX DOMJIRS.

238 MIUIOS

IXU.LAB8. and it has pnid Beneficiaries of deceased members over

ITS XIMJOX DOIXABS.

making a total payment to policy holders over

1*96

paid our policy holders ovei 25

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alone we

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day for each working day in the year. Take your Insurance in the Mutual Life of New York and with an established Airency. 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 mil times call on the Company's representative. Fortorms, rates or information call on or address,

wow. General Agent,

91 South Sixth 8U, Terre Haute, Ind.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR.

This department is all ready with full lines of warm, comfortable Underwear for Ladies, Misses and Children. Women's heavy ribbed Vests and Pants 19c each

Women's Egyptian ribbed Vests and Pants, silk trimmed 25c Children's fleeced Vests i$c Children's ribbed Vests aud Pants, from 15c up Children's all-wool Vests and Pants, white and natural, from 35c

MEN'S UNDERWEAR.

Don't these chilly nights and mornings remind you that it is time to make a change in your Underwear We are ready to supply your needs with better goods at lower prices than ever before.

Men's heavy fleeced Shirts and Drawers, extra value 48c each Men's half-wool Shirts and Drawers Men's all-wool Shirts and Drawers ~5c Extra'value in all-wool Shirts and Drawers, from $1.00 up to $2.25

CLOAKS AND SUITS.

All that is new and stylish in Cloaks, Suits and Furs will be found in our Cloak Parlor on second floor. Man made, perfect in fit, selected with taste, our garments will be found without a fault.

BLANKETS.

Every Blanket buyer will find our stock complete, and, quality considered our prices the lowest: 10-4 heavy cotton Blankets in white, tan and gray, at 49c. 69c. 75c and $0.89 a pair

Extra heavy 11-4 cotton Blankets 1.50 a pair 10-4 Iceland wool Blankets 2.35 a pair 13-4 all-wool Blankets, extra heavy 2.85 a pair Fine 11 4 all-wool Blankets in white, gray, and scarlet 4.25 a pair Choice all-wool Blankets, beautiful quality, from 5.00 np

I Special Notice ..

$175.

New Organs,

$37.50

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Commercial

FOR SALE. FOR SALE.

r» Vacant Lota on South Sixteenth street cheap. 50-foot Vacant Lot. corner Fourteenth and Tippecanoe. 4ft-foot Vacant Lot on North Fourteenth. 120-foot frontafte on College avenue.

TiWfoot frontage on Sooth Ninth street. W-root ion tape on Eajtle streei. :*)-foot frontage on East Main street. AO-frontage on Spruce street. For improved and unimproved property in uii parts of the city call on

6-room Cottage (new) on South Sixteenth cheap and on eaay payments. 4-room Cottage on Third avenue between Sixth and ifayette: easy paymenta.

H-room House on South Third street, "-room House on North Center. 7-room House on South Seventeenth. 7-room House on South Fourth. For particulars call ou

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We have Twenty NewUPRIGHT PIANOS jjj and a number of ORGANS, new and used, ft which must be sold in the next ten days to make room for.new stock. In order to sell these goods in the limited time prices will be made very low.

and upward.

Early buyers will get Choice Bargains. Sale commences flonday, September

All are invited to call, or address,

D. H. Baldwin & Co.

Wabash Avenue.

R. DAHLEN, 640 Wabash avenue.

FOR SALE.

Rr DAHLEN,

«R«il Estate, Loan and Insurance AgW

610

Wabash Aveoue.

FOR RENT.

Froomsand

OR BENT—Modern new dwelling seven and bath heated \7 hot water electric gas light. 20#. north Eighth street.

To Care ComttpatIon Take OMcaretc Candy Cathartic, 10c or 25a II C. C. C. toil to care, druggists refund money.

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To build up a reputation unless you have the goods. It's the year-after year satisfied come-again trade we are after, and to get and hold that trade it takes right goods at right prices.

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This institution is thoroughly equipped for doing high grade work in the training of young people for business and for office positions*

Experienced and progressive teachers iiv ployed in all departments* Bookkeeping taught as it is practiced ta business and by practical bookkeepers.

Expenses low. Our catalogue will i& forest you write for it. Address,

GARVIN & AKERS, Principals.

Terrs Haute, Ind.

HARRISON PARK CASINO

TIKHDAY, WEDNESDAY

September 28 29

HANLON BROS.'

GOBGEOrS SPECTACLE

SUPERBA

Anew production this season, tilled with New Scenery. Transformations. Tricks and Illusions. Charming Ballets and a Wonderfui Variety of High-Class and Amusing Specialtie*. A Three-Hours' Carnival of Fun.

Novelties Without End, lOO People Engaged. Prices: 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c, SI. Seats now on sale at Buntln's Drug Store.

WANTED.

TXT A NTEI—Persona desiring to furnish

regular or club boarding to Normal students or to rent furnished or unfurnished rooms, are requested to address State Normal School, city, giving location, terms, etc.

Wthe

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know if there is a man in

United States who has made the

wholesale business of poisoning and^ mixing and adulterati study. It is P.

and adulterating of pure liquors and nod a y. It is P. N. StafT of Old Cobweb Hall who defies them to come back at him which they will not do, as he knows them and they keep mum as mum Is the word with them.

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