Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1897 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, editor and Proprietor.

Publication Office. No. 501% Ohio Street* Telephone 469. 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 $2 a year, $1 for six months, or 50 cents fort hree months. ntered at thePostofflce atTerre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

OCTOBER 2.

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TSame of School.

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Name of Pupil.

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 flxad 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 Mall in the contest. At the close of the contest, on the lgt 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 Gold Piece.

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

Indianapolis is not so fast. Terre Haute is still half a second faster in race track time.

TIIKY call them stop watches. For our Pointer and Patchen races we need watches with more stop to them.

Hawaii certainly will be annexed. It has taken up the American pacing horse and is in touch with our institutions.

OTHK last man to announce his fear of a coming revolution in this country is J. L. Sullivan, caudidate for mayor of Boston. This minces to ridicule the talk of revolution. John's idea of settling things with a pair of gloves and an arbitrator is sensible.

TIIK report that Great Britian wants Greenland is credible. John Bull is an earnest, missionary power and having annexed Ceylon's spicy breexes and Africa's sunny fountains that roll down golden sands ho needs Greenland's icy mountains.

THK employment of women to superintend the cleaning of Chicago streets is rational. Men who do not know good food when they see it are poor landlords and a smart woman with a horror of dirt will know a clean street when she inspects it, which the average contractor never does.

THK purpose of the directors of the Bank of England in regard to sliver is simple and ingenious. If America and France can double the price of silver bullion the "Old Irfidy of Thtwadneedle Street" will take about $35:000,000 worth and lay it

away as

an undisturbed balance. The would never need to buy any more and would not be an annual purchaser to reduce the annual production. This touches the main difficulty in keeping up the price of silver by the absorption of the metal produced. If silver money wore out, like shoe*, and we were obliged to renew the entire supply of coin, or a hutge part of it, at regular intervals, we could

catch up with the enormous production, but we know by experience that most of our silver coin remains in all of its unimpaired beauty in the vaults of the treasury and banks.

Spain is becoming more liberal. At least the Liberal party is going into power and anew phase of the Cuban question will appear. When that unfortunate country, so debt laden and humiliated, is endeavoring to retreat from its old position to one that must bring mortifies tion and loss of prestige, it is not the time to goad the sensitive power. Congress, which will meet in about a month, can safely leave the talking to President McKinley and address itself to finance.

As EACH new class enters the Rose Polytechnic Institute we are again reminded of the great scope of the career offered to the graduates, and regard regretfully the rush of young men to the Normal school, excellent as it is, when so few in compari1 son turn to engineering and mechanics. The latter are not yet overcrowded. Their field is world-wide but that of English teaching is not. We receive students from Japan and South America, but in the end more Americans will go to those countries as engineers, electricians and chemists than foreigners to come to this country to study. It is an age of industrial development. The tendency is for all inferior countries to develop along the lines of industry, and mechanical and engineering progress both precede and flourish with the rise of industry and commerce. Capital is reaching out to plant enterprises in every country that trades with the great commercial powers. If a youth desired to spend a-few years in a foreign country, to seize upon the superior positions that are open to the alert and capable man in the newer fields of commerce, he would most surely attain his desire as a graduate of a technical or scientific school. Doubtless if a young man entered the 'Rose Polytechnic Institute with as earnest a purpose to gain a good position abroad as another did with the intention of going to some American metropolis he would succeed.

WITH egotism that is perhaps natural and pardonable, the American believes that his is the only government under which man can most fully develop. Patriotism requires some such feeling, but patriotism also says "My country, right or wrong." From a higher plane, some day, we may see that different cultures suit different races and that no race will forever be deprived of its opportunity to work out its own salvation. We would not like to absorb and endeavor to assimilate Russia—better leave it to its destiny. Late developments show a remarkable awakening in that never hasting, never resting power. Siberian exile is to be abolished and the offenders against law will be shut up in local prisons. Distinctions between Greek churchman and Catholic will cease and religious tolerance is to be encouraged, and, still more mercifully and wisely, tha young czar is throwing off the yoke of Poland. These will be great changes and, following the emancipation of the serfs by Nicholas' grandfather, they show that the nation which sat in darkness has seen the great light without. The railroad and commerce are the great factors in the redemption of Siberia, which is to be relieved frdm the degradation of convict colonies and made the seat of an industrious and self-supporting population, as the Siberian railroad develops a country of vast resources. It is expected that Russia's eastern wilderness will be to it what our wild west has become for the United States.

THE impending street railroad imbroglio brings to mind the difference between the conservative and motherly govermental restrictions upon European transportation and the American. In brief, in continental Europe the authorities hold, and the people tolerate, the idea that average citizens must be prevented forcibly from hurting themselves, while Americans believe that populations will adjipt themselves to the changing conditions of life and a new environment will develop new habits and qualities. The German holds the traveler by the coat tail until he gets into the car. He refuses to allow an adult to ride a bicycle on the streets until he has graduated at a riding school and excludes the juvenile bicycler from the streets altogether. We learn to ride on the public streets and allow the children to ride at their pleasure. The principle governing the use of the bicycle in applied in all directions on the continent but seldom in America. Railroads over there are fenced, walled or picketed. Horse cars, and even motor cars, creep sluggishly at a prescribed want of motion. To pass laws with similar intent in this country would be to invite furthor neglect of law for they would be ignored or condemned. The penalty of damages is the controlling power here. Ready adaptability to environment is the safeguard. It was not law but damages which made the raidroad companies adopt many improvements to reduce losses There is, it is true, a mean between recklessness and ultra-conservatism. There are risks assumed by impoverished corporations or in excessive competition and just enough law is good for the people's protection, but even here the law of damages will be fatal to the poor and painful to the greedy corporations.

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The Adventures of a Picture.

We have heard of the adventures of a guinea. The story of a painting brought to Rome by Queen Christina of Sweden is not less interesting. The subject is Leda and her attendant nymphs attacked in a bath by swans. It was painted 36? years ago for the Duke of Mantua, and given by him to the Emperor Charles V. Philippa II took it from Italy to Spain. It was bought there by the sculptor Leone Leoni, who sold it to a picture dealer for the collection of the Emperor Rodolph EL. The Swedes took it, with orb** spoils of the Seven Years' war, to fcjTorUhobn, where Christina took a fancy to it and with other treasures transported it to Rome. She left it to Cardinal Azzolino, who died a few months after it was handed over to him. It passed on to his nephew, and was sold by him to Prince Livio Odescalchi, who left it to a cousin, Prince Bardassone Odescalchi, who sold it to the Due d'Orleans, regent of France.

His son Louis, due d'Orleans, a pious prince, thought the head of Leda too pagan, and had it cut out. Coypel bought the painting and painted in a head from memory. He sold it to Pasquin, a collector, who sold it at a large profit to Frederick the Great. Marshal Davout took it from a Prussian palace and brought it back to Paris. It was there restored and given back to the king of Prussia in 1815. The head fell ofF the canvas on the way and anew head was inserted by Schlesinger. The picture is now in the possession of the German emperor, who is fascinated by the swans. As he likes to think himself a Lohengrin, this is as it should be. The curious thing is that the artist's name has not gone down to posterity, though the picture has been famous for so many centuries.—Paris Cor. London Truth. ...

Garlic.

About three-quarters of the garlic used in this country is imported from Italy. It comes in hampers containing about 110 pounds each. Garlic is raised in this country in Connecticut, in Louisiana, in Texas and in New Mexico. All garlic, both imported and American, is put up in strings or bunches something like the bunches in which onions were once commonly sold in this country, but much longer. American garlic is shipped in crates and barrels. Some from the far southwest comes in long cylindrical baskets.

Garlic is sold by the ponnd or by the single bulb, which is sold for a penny. In its commercial form, whole and dry, garlic does not yield the strong smell for which it is famous. In a wholesale produce establishment, where garlic was stacked up in quantities, there was no noticeable odor from it, bt if one of the several smaller bulbs of which each root is composed, and which are called cloves of garlic, be broken off and broken in two, the powerful odor becomes perceptible.

The aggregate consumption of garlic in this country is large, and our exports of it to South American countries, which include American garlic and imported garlic reshipped, amount to enough to bo reckoned in tons.—New York Sun. .»

The Duel With Morgan O'Connell.

Alvanley's rare appearances in the house of lords made his best friends regret that he did not take an active part in politics. He showed himself a good and effective speaker, with an exceptional knowledge of Irish politics, on which he wrote a very able pamphlet An awkward question he put to Lord Melbourne led to the memorable duel with Morgan O'Connell. The question irritated O'Connell per©, and, with his customary truculent coarseness, he denounced Alvanley in the commons as a bloated buffoon. As usual, there was some truth in it to give sting to the invective, but in any case the insult must have been followed by a challenge. The agitator declined to come out, and Alvanley threatened personal chastisement. Thereupon Morgan took up the glovo on his father's behalf in a letter characterized by his father's scurrility.

They met, to exchange sundry shots and to part scatheless, but without any apology. Alvanley observed afterward: "What a clumsy fellow O'Connell must be to miss such a fat fellow as I ami He ought to practice at a haystack to get his hand in."—Cornhill Magazine.

What Was Hurt.

Many stories are told of the witty retorts made by a certain judge who died a few years ago, and among them is one which proves that his wit did not desert him in the most trying circumstances.

One day as he was walking down the steps which led from his town house he slipped, lost his footing and fell with many thumps and bumps to the bottom. A passerby hurried up to the judge as the latter slowly rose to his feet ."I trust your honor is not seriously hurt?" he said in anxious inquiry. "My honoris not at all hurt," returned the judge with a rueful expression, "but my elbows and knees are, I can assure you."—Pearson's Weekly.

Wanted an Eaay Thine.

Haggles—Wot yer doin, Weaiy, wid de tellorscope? Weary—Lookin fer work.

Haggles—Lookin fer work? Wot fer? "Weaiy—So's I kin avoid it I wus jest sizin up de houses round here ter see ef I can strike one dat keeps a gasoline instead of a woodpile.—Minneapolis Tribune.

French statistics show that there are now 2,150 women in France who earn their living as authors or writing for newspapers, while there are only 700 painters and sculptors of that sex. Ammg the writers are 1,000 novelists, 900 lyric poets and 150 who publish children's stories and educational works.

Pilgrims to the shrine of Maria Badtta, at Temesvar, in Hungary, have received permission from the bishop to make the journey on bicycles.

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TERRJS HAUTE SATURDAY EVEKTNG MAIL, OCTOBER 2, 1897.

Provincial Breeding.

It is now universally conceded that the most undeniable mark of provincial breeding is to open conversation with a slight acquaintance—-on meeting him or her—with the remark, "You do not remember me," or "I see that you have forgotten my name." It has been discovered that it was said by Lord Chesterfield, that prince of wits and most polished noble of his day, that a man must, indeed, have spent his life in the country whose circle of acquaintance is so small that he can pnt a name to each member of it the instant he sets eyes upon him. And the man who feels himself of such vast importance that his name must impress itself indelibly on the memory of the hearer, even when heard on more than one occasion, displays an ingenuous self satisfaction which reveals but slight knowledge of the vastness and constant occupations of the world of fashion and breeding. "A man's name," adds my lord, "is of no consequence whatever until his own charms and qualities have made him an intimate, and even then 'tis not his name that is remembered, but himself.''

It is consequently absolutely proper, in addressing any but an old friend on meeting after even a slight lapse of time, that one should begin by saying casually one's own name, as, for in-. stance, "I am Mr. (or Mrs. we met at So-and-so's last week (or last century). The ease and grace with which these opening remarks are made are said to be the unmistakable stamp of the "caste of Vere de Vere."—American Queen.

Senses Sharpened In the Wilds.

I made bold to say to Dr. Nansen that thousands upon thousands of men who were not specially interested in arctic work had read his book with delight, and that to me the marvel was not that he could do what he did in the field, but that he could write such a book about his experiences. "The best thing in it, to my notion," I said, "is your description of your dramatic meeting with Jackson on Franz Josef Land, and the best part of that was your reference to the manner in which the wild man's sharpened senses discovered the fragments of the soap which the civilized European had used in his morning ablutions." "It is really true," replied Dr. Nansen, "that I could smell that soap as plainly as if it had been a strong perfume. Johansen noted the same thing when he came up. In fact, for several days our sense of smell was wonderfully acute. As I approached Jackson's hut I thought I could smell everything it contained and give a sort of inventory of its stores without entering. In a day or two this acuteness wore off and we became quite normal in that as well as other respects. But I wonder if a man were to live wild for a few years if his sense of smell would not become quite as keen as that of an animal?"-— Cor. Chicago Times-Herald

The Pickpocket's Death.

It is an evident fact that the body, when it has long been a slave to evil passions, finds it next to impossible to break its chains. The mind may passionately desire righteous living, but the abused nervous system, fallen into iron habits, refuses the soul's behest.

Canon Gore writes that he was once present at the deathbed of a pickpocket, a man who professed himself to be sincerely penitent and who believed in the forgiveness of sins.

He had said goodby to this World, and the clergyman sat by his side waiting for his last moment to come: Suddenly the sinking man exclaimed in a hoarse and painful whisper: "Look out for your watch.

They were his last worda He had died in their utterance, and the clergyman's watch was found in his lifeless hand. He had not been able to resist the nearness of an article that could be stolen. His enfeebled will could not prevent the muscles frpm falling into their old habits, but his mind—his soul, shall we say—protested to the last

When Character Is Formed.

In many homes older children make the life of the smaller ones wretched mnch of the time. The writer knows a family where there are three children, the youngest about 2 years of age. The older ones seem to find no greater pleasure than to tease the babe on every opportunity, for she occasions them much merriment by her violent vocal and bodily expressions whenever she is tormented beyond endurance. One does not need to remain about this home long before seeing plainly that this child is being worried into an ugly disposition. Even at 2 years she has reached the point where she is intolerable much of the time, showing K%r unbalanced condition by flying into a passion over every little thing that occasions her displeasure. The attitude of the older children serves to keep her in a more or less oonstant state of fatigue, and the actions performed in this condition are rapidly forming habits, thus determining her character.—Professor M. Y. O'Shea in Popular Science Monthly.

Pay of the Grecian Architect.

The French school at Delphi has lately unearthed two slabs of limestone which bear an inscription which is of great interest, dating as it does from the fourth century before Christ This inscription, which consists of about 200 lines, gives the price of work for building operations in Greece at the period named, and from it we learn that an architect was paid a* the rate of under £80 per anrmm. This is not a great sum, even if its purchasing power is multiplied, as it should be, by five or six.—Chambers' JournaL

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Cat!

Professor—Margaret please take the oat out of the room. I cannot have it maMng such a noise while I am at work. Where is it?

Margaret—Why, sir, yon are sitting on it!'4—London

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