Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 October 1897 — Page 4

THE MAII.,

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, editor aad Proprietor. Publication Office, No. 50154 Ohio Street. Telephone 469.

The Mall is sold In the city toy newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of |2 a year, il for six months, or 50 cents for three months. ntered at the Postofflce at Terre Haute, Ind. as second-class matter.

OCTOBER 16.

THE MAIL'S $

LiDrary Gcntesl.

JSame of School.

Namo of Teacher.

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 interest xl 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 150. To the public school in Terre Haute receiving the third higtfest number of votes The Mail will give a Library costing 125.

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.

THK first gold Democrat elected to public office since the money issue was sprung is Tom Taggart.

TUK leaders of the Populists In Kansas are organizing to push the teachings of the Social Democracy In the public schools of that state, or at least in the state colleges. There seems to be little that the governing party in Kansas at the present time will not do.

MR. SMITH, who was his own candidate for mayor of Indianapolis, and published a daily paper in the Interest of his candidate, received a total of 465 votes for all his trouble. Mr. Smith knows more now than he did a few weeks ago, while the separation of himself from his money has been very acute.

IF the Republicans throughout the state were' possessed of the same brand of Republicanism that is kept on tap in Indianapolis in the election there this week, in which Republicans joined in electing an entire Democratic ticket, it would have a me?*- depressing effect. Fortunately it is a brand peculiar to Indianapolis.

EVENTS

of the past few months hare led

to the vocal retirement of Jerry Simpson, but it is just as impossible for Jerry to keep eternally still as it is for a parrot to do so. Jerry declares with a flourish that within the next year this country will pass through a panic the like of which was never before dreamed of. It is likely that a wish is father to this thought, for only In panics do such freaks as Jerry come to the front.

THE new woman, and especially the fresh new woman, does not stand much show with the mayor of Si. Louis. A movement was set on foot to secure the appointment by him of a woman of the new kind as street inspector, bat he set his foot down on it hard. He did not mince matters in announcing his decision, saying. "I told those ladies that the place for women was at home, where every good woman can find plenty to do in making fceroelf and the world better. 1 do not ob-

ject to women earning a living in lines adapted to them, but I say no, with a great, big *N,' to appointing women as street inspectors." The mayor of St. Louis evidently has a mind of his own, and isn't to be forced in doing something he thinks wrong just because it is demanded by a lot of silly women, who should be at home tending to their babies rather than attempting to break into politics. "ONLY a trivial thing" is what the commandant of the United States army post near Chicago, Fort Sheridan, called the act of pulling a private soldier on his back and by his feet for several hundred feet through the post grounds while a com missioned officer kicked him while prostrate and 8tabbed him with a sword. From the standpoint of a regular army officer triviality ends only when a battery or artillery runs over a man.

THE income tax is not any more,popular abroad than it is in this country. In Home this w6ek there was a popular demonstration against a proposed new income tax. which was participated in by a procession of 50,000 merchants and shopkeepers, and ended in a riot that had to be stopped by the .police. The particular part of the income tax that is objected to is a provision taxing commercial and professional incomes twenty per cent. S

OtfE of the yellow journals of New York asked the governors of the several states their opinion of the proposed action of Governor Atkinson of West Virginia, who announced that if his wife, who is now on trial for forgery, is convicted he will at once pardon her. All the governors who responded, with the exception of Governor Mount, declared without reserve that Governor Atkinson's action was to be approved, no matter what the world might say about sentiment taking the place of justice. Governor Mount, however, declared that "A governor has no legal right to extend clemency to his wife any more than to any one else." The governor of Indinana evidently keeps his heart in an ice box.

THE fight of the Methodist laymen for equal respresentation with the ministers in the law-making body of that great church, the conference, is progressing favorably. The Rock River conference of Illinois at Chicago this week, declared almost unlmously for equal representation. It is the same old fight that brought this government into existence, against taxation without representation, and some of the most prominent members of the church have taken up the fight. Bishop Merrill, who presided at the Chicago conference, made a direct attack on those who favor the proposed change in the organic law of the church, but his influence was harmless. Since the organization of the church the laymen have "paid the freight," and now they are determined that they shall have something to do with the mapping out the policy of the church, and have something to say about the financial conduct of its business. Their liberality has made the success of the church possible, and they propose to have something to sby about the manner in which its efforts are directed.

STEPHEN J. FIELD, of California, justice of the Supreme court of the United States, the sole survivor of the appointments made by President Lincoln to that court, announced this week his resignation from the bench, to take effect on the 1st of December. In point of continuous service in that court he has broken the record heretofore held by that distinguished jurist, John Marshall. He was entitled to retirement at full salary during the administration of President Cleveland, and every effort was made to have him retire in order that Cleveland might appoint his successor, but Field disliked the president and refused to resign and give the appointment to him. It is said that President McKinley will appoint as his successor Attorney General Joseph J. McKenna, also a California man. Justice Field comes from one of the most distinguished families in American history, being a brother of David Dudley, Henry M. and Cyrus Field, all of whom have left their impress on the history of the nation. It is a remarkable fact, in connection with his retirement, that he leaves a member of his family there, Justice Brewer being his nephew. It is perhaps the only time on record where an uncle and a nephew have occupied at the same time positions on the bench of the most august judicial body in the world.

GREATER NEW YORK, which holds its first election on the first Tuesday in November next, has a population equal to that of thirteen states, according to the last census. These states are Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire. North Dakota, South Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming. It has as large a population as the original thirteen states when the Union was organized, is the largest city on the continent, and is the center of the business, trade and finance of the country and the continent. The importance of an election in such a city is manifest, and great interest is being taken in it throughout the entire country. There are eleven general tickets nominated in this election, but four of them are prominent, and one of the four candidates nominated on these tickets will be elected mayor of the city, with a power that is equal to that accorded royalty. The fonr are Benjamin F. Tracy, the regular nominee of the Republicans, Robert Vim Wyck, the Tammany Hall candidate, Henry George, who is the nominee of the silver wing of the Democratic party, and Seth Low, president of Columbia university, the nominee of the Glutens' Union, whose platform is that partisan politics should not figure in municipal elections. An effort was made by the party back of Tracy to secure a union of all the elements opposed to Tarnrnaay, bat the effort failed through the arrc&aaoe of the managers of the Low campaign, who held to the theory that they were the only persons really interested in the reform of municipal government, and therefore everybody and every-

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thing should come to them. An active campaign is being waged, but Tammany is doing the "still hunt" business, and when the votes are counted next month, it will doubtless be found that Tammany, despite all that Is said and proved of its corruptness* will be the winner. There is universal interest in the campaign there, and when the election returns come in on the night of November 2d, it is likely that the crowds about the election bulletins will rival those of last year. Tammany hasn't many friends outside of New York, but her victory there will be hailed as a great Democratic triumph, and there will be joy galore at the result.

ONE of the planks in the Socialistic plat form on which Henry George is running for mayor of Greater New York declares for free street cars. Wm. E. Curtis, in the Chicago Record, tells of a conversation with a gentleman from Australia, who says that the free system is being maintained in Sidney, New South Wales, where the city owns the lines and runs them without charging fares. He says that the people do not use them any more than they did before they were free, and that the expense of maintenance is cheerfully borne by the taxpayers. The only places in the United States where the public enjoys free transportation are Oakland, Cal., and Havre de Grace, Md. When the Central Pacific railway was seeking right of way into Oakland it was granted by the common council upon the condition that the suburban trains should carry all citizens free within the city limits. The bridge across the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace belonged to the county, and when the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore railway was seeking the privilege of crossing it many years ago, the entire property was turned over to that corporation upon the agreement that it should be maintained perpetually as a free bridge and that no fares should be charged for crossing either for foot pedestrians or passengers upon the trains.

sounds like a tale from a fairy story to read that the German government has had stored in a fortress near Berlin ever since the treaty that closed the FrancoPrussian war, in 1871, the sum of one hundred million dollars in.gold, placed there to meet the expenses of the next great war, which it was thought might speedily follow that event. This was brought out by the announcement that the money is to be taken from its retirement and placed in circulation, where it can earn something in the way of interest. The new secretary of the treasury of the empire was called upon to take charge of this immense war fund, and the first thing he did was to call attention to the preposterous and antiquated policy of keeping this enormous amount of bullion locked up, with a loss in the shape of interest to the government of at least $3,000,000 annually. That is to say, that, by keeping this money out of circulation, the government has lost since the formation of the fund, at the end of the Franco-German war, in the shape of interest, simple and compound, an amount almost as large as the fund itself. The treasury official has been most outspoken about the matter, and has obtained from the military authorities proofs that the entire fund, as it now stands, would be swallowed up within the space of ten days or two weeks in the event of an outbreak of war, that is to say, it would not serve the purpose for which it was formed, while from the leading financiers he has secured memoranda and data showing the Incalculable harm done to Germany from an economic point of view by locking up so much gold for all these years. The result of all this is that the German government has practically decided to do away with the war fund, and to benefit both the national treasury and the country at large by putting the gold into circulation and the fund ont at interest at a very early date.

THE fertile brain of J. Fkrepont Morgan, the New York financier—who can make and unmake men as readily as the magician changes rocks to flowers and back again—has evolved a plan for railroad combination that would put it in his power to regulate the price of coal, the rate of freight, and practically the coat of food, and place in the palm of his hand the destiny of this country- He and his associates are already able to dictate the policy of all the roads between New York and Chicago with the exception of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore St Ohio system*, and while the former will act in accord with him, the latter will no doubt soon be under his control. In the South, West and Northwest he is in practical

TEItB-B HAUTE SATUBDAY EVENING MAIL, OCTOBER 16, 1897.

THOMAS TAGGABT, who has been drawing money out of the public treasury for more than ten years past, was on Tuesday re-elected Mayor of Indianapolis by the largest plurality ever given a candidate for that office. To an outsider the contest there seems to have been between opposing corporations and corporate influences, and those back of Taggart were more powerful, and controlled more votes, than their opponents, hence his overwhelming victory. Taggart is one of the shrewdest politicians that ever figured in Indiana politics, and while it was known that he was opposed to the silver platform of the Democracy in the last campaign, he swallowed his finer feelings, and worked for the regular ticket, Bryan and all. This year the silver faction of the party attempted to make war against his renomination for mayor, on the ground that he was not a consistent Democrat, but he defeated their purposes, and was renominated with a hurrah. His success means that in the campaign of 1900 he will, if he lives, be the Democratic candidate for governor, and if elected he will not have to resign the mayoralty to take the governor's office. When elected mayor in 1885, he was compelled to resign the office of, county auditor to take the mayor's chair. He is a genial fellow, with a smile that covers Marion county, and a handshake that is proverbial. The question that will concern the Republicans during the next two years will be, is his smile, while covering Marion county, sufficient to spread out over the whole state.

control of the majority of the railroad systems, and his present plan is to consolidate under one management all the great trunk lines of the United States. The reason given for this contemplated organisation is that since the enactment of the inter-State commerce law, railroads have been unable to maintain rates, and competition has forced them to keep the tariffs within comparatively reasonable limits, and it was therefore impossible for them to earn enough money to pay dividends on their fictitious values in watered stock. Railroad traffic associations that were formed to secure the maintenance of high rates failed to fill the bill, and when later the powers of those associations were enlarged so as to practically transform them into pools, the United States Supreme court stepped in and declared such organizations to be illegal. The failure to secure favorable legislation in the last few sessions of congress convinced the railroad people of the uselessness of maHng further efforts in this direction, and they concluded that their objects could easily be gained by a general consolidation of all the big railrosd companies iu this country. The capital and power of such an organization under one management would be stupendous to contemplate. It would be the most gigantic trust ever conceived by the mind of man, and its power it would be almost impossible to estimate. The president of such a corporation would have a more autocratic influence than any king or potentate the world has ever seen.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Kentucky has thirteen legal reasons for divorce. That's more reasons than most people have for getting married.

Mrs. Langtry denies that she is going to marry Prince Esterhazy, and says she has abetter time racing horses than handling husbands.

If Charles Dudley Warner's recipe of chewing gum as a cure for grief is a sure thing, there's bound to be lots of joy in the world pretty soon.^

Some one has been looking over an American book published in 1872 entitled, "The Home Where It Should Be and What Should Be Put Into It," and makes the discovery that the household equipment, costing $1,000 at that time, can be bought now for $400.

A wealthy oculist, giving some final directions to a patient, frowned as he saw her tie a finely dotted veil over her face. "Always buy that kind and wear it habitually," he exclaimed, ironically "every dot in it is worth $5 to me, and it will accustom you to floating black spots. Good morning."

It is a strict rule with the big transAtlantic steamship companies that the wife of the captain shall not travel in his ship. The supposition is that if anything should happen to the ship the captain, instead of attending to his public duty, would devote his attention mainly to the safety of his wife.

Spun glass umbrellas sound rather impossible^but, as a matter of fact, they are manufactured, for-Spun glass can be made as tractable as silk'* or cotton. The question is whether a spun-glass umbrella will be as serviceable as the old kind when an angry dog is to be warded off or when a hailstorm comes up.

The value of a kiss has been decided by a Canadian court to be just 20 cents. A young lady sued for $2,000 for being kissed against her will, and the jury rendered a verdict for the above amount. Either the luxuries of life must be valued at a very low price over in Canada or the quality of the lips were not up to the requirements.

Zola is proposing to lecture in America, and arrangements have been put on foot for a tour. It could scarcely be a successful trip if extended through the country, as he cannot speak English. In the cities he might draw large audiences from among the French-reading and speaking people, and also a large number moved by curiosity.

The new "piano prodigy," Bruno Stelndel, who is only six years old, will make his first appearance in England at the Crystal Palace, in London, at the opening concert of the season. The child has already created a sensation on the continent, and his teacher, Prof. Leschetizky, is said to have expressed the opinion that he is by far the most extraordinary of all the "wonder children" who have yet come before the public.

There is an interesting war relic at Bloomfleld, Ky., in the personality of Basle Hayden, who has not been outside his house for the last thirty-four years, although he is in perfect health. Mr. Hayden was a large slave owner in 1863, and when his slaves were taken from him he maintained that the Almighty had treated him harshly in-allowing his slaves to go free. And, by way of retaliation, he swore that he would "never set afoot on God's earth again."

Williston Palmer is the name of a white man against- whom there are sentences of 209 years in the Georgia penitentiary. Palmer was originally sent up for eleven years from South Georgia for burglary. Shortly afterward, while working in the mines of Dade county, he attempted, with other convicts, to escape, and in the melee that followed he killed two of the guards. He was tried some time ago for the killing of the first guard and got ninety-nine years. He was then put on trial for the killing of the other man and got ninety-nine years

SPECIAL FOR TO-DAY

At R. DAHLEN'S, 640 Wabash ave. 500 Instrumental and Vocal Folio* at reduced prices. 500 copies Easy and Pretty Voeal and Instrumental Music at reduced prices for to-day's special sale. whs wis

Notice to Taxpayers.

The time for the payment of the November installment of city taxes and street improvement assessments expires on Monday, November 1, i897.§M|Pay your taxes promptly and save penalty,

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SORROW 18 OURS AGAIN, in fact, one sorrow doth upon another tread. A few weeks ago we were called upon to chronicle the death of MR. L. B. ROOT. TOday It is our sad duty to announce the death .? of MRS. L. B. ROOT, under whose direction the old and well established business had been continued. This peculiarly sad and unexpected event occurred at Ft. Wayne yesterday. On that account, and In respect to the memory of a noble woman, our store will be closed until next Tuesday morning.

October 19.

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LAST MONTH1

Of the Tennessee Centennial and Industrial Exposition. The month of October closes this greatest of all Expositions ever held in the South, and next to the Columbian the best ever held in this country. For the closing month special attractions have been arranged, and the rates from all parts of the country have been made lower than ever before known. The location (Nashville, Tenn.,) is on the main line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, directly on its through car route between the North and South, and the trip in either direction via that city can be made as cheaply, if not cheaper, than via any other route. Ask your ticket agent for rates, or write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., for rates and information. _r

CHAS. BALCH, City Treasurer.5

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To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, wjhere yon will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own make. Telephone 252. "y

Ladies' Collars and Cuffs Ironed..

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Seats now on sale at Buntln's Drug Store.

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Tickets good returning until Oct. 23d, 1897. Further information cheerfully furnished on application at City Ticket Office, 654 Wabasli ave., Telephone 37, or Union Station.

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TEBBE HAUTE. IND. -2

The Perfume of Violets The parity of ih« lily, the clow of tb« roee, and ibe flash of Hem combine in Ponom'i woodroo* Powder.