Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 October 1897 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.~

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor sod Proprietor. Publication Office, No. S01H Ohio Street. Telephone 409.

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PATIENCE and perseverance conquer all things. Grover Cleveland finally has a son.

TIIE New York mugwump's first choice is Low. His second choice is Croker's man. It is "Good Lord or good devil" with him.

WE are prone to think that what is pretty is right. That is classic. Our lady minstrels are very pretty, if not classic, and must be right.

GEORGE M. PULLMAN wasn't such a bad fellow, after all. He was smart enough to cut his cigarette smoking sons off with an annuity, while he divided the principal part of his fortune between two daughters.

THE Marion county grand jury refused to indict a leading politician over there for accepting a bribe of 15,000 for his 'fluence in carrying out a public contract. No great surprise has been expressed at the failure of an Indianapolis grand jury to do this.

IT is proposed to replace the French copper coinage with nickel mixed with a little copper. To prevent confusing the new coins with silver they will have a hoie. in the center. We fought very hard last year to keep a fifty-cent hole out of our dollar.

THE LOW campaign committee in New York is said to have a campaign fund of one million dollars, with which to purify politics in the greatest city in the United States. If Tammany or the Republicans had a fund like that the goody-goodies of the Low parties would cry corruption.

BARON HIKHOII'S scheme for colonizing Jewish agriculturists in Argentina has been abandoned by his widow. In Russia however, a more liberal policy toward the Jews is practiced by the present Czar, who is encouraging them to pursue agriculture. The Russian government will establish an agricultural college for the Jews alone and this, with other favors, is checking emigration from Russia, The work of the philanthropic Hirsch has not been in vain for, doubtless, it has had much to do with the recent progress in Russia. When the oppressed find powerful cr wise friends they receive more consideration and respect from their oppressors.

AN interesting incident at one of the city churches last Sunday was the appearance in the dignified robes of an Episcopal priest of an Arapahoe Indian who, not mauy years ago, was a wild little heathen, a captive in a Shoshone camp, taken prisoner iu a savage foray, Now he is an educated teAcher of his race. Juut as interesting an Incident, from another point of view, occurred at the Mohonk Indian conference a fortnight ago, when a teacher of Indian women sold about $300 worth of delicate and beautiful laces, made by her humble pupils, in their rude huts. This toacher finds there is a gospel in her fine and peaceful art that refines and softens and leads the way to other teaching-

CIVILIZATION and religion do not wash out bravery and gallantry from human nature. The dispatches from India, last week, tell the old story of dauntless courage and daring. They show also that savage bravery is no match for bravery and training, and that the Eastern fighter must yield to the Western tenacity as he has done since the days of Marathon. Wellington, ninety years ago, and Napier, fifty years ago. met the Indians with the same arms, and one to ten Lawrence met them, one to fifty, with the same arms and drill, and drove them back. At Delhi, forty years ago, 10,000 British, Goorkhas and Sikhs, the same races that now are in the Afrkii passes, tore the city from 100,000 men. Complaint of the army administration has been chronic in Great Britain since the last century, bat India has been the nursery of fighting men and military spirit*.

TitE tragic death of Henry George in New York yt*t*nlay morning remove! from the scene of the leading municipal contest of all history a moat striking fig* ure. bat clears the atmosphere to such an extent that It may be readily believed that the Tammany candidate is now aasured of

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success. George was an enthusiast over the theories he advanced, and it may lie truly said of him that he laid down his life in their advocacy. He had been making campaign speeches, as the Jeffersonian Democracy's candidate for Mayor of Greater Jfew Yfcrk, at the rate of twenty or thirty a day, and it was more than his frail physique could stand.. George was an honest man, and a conscientious believer in all of the many theories he advocated. His son, Henry, George, Jr., has been placed on the ticket as his father's successor, but it is not liable that he can poll any of the strength that would most certainly gone to his distinguished father.

EVEN the well-cared-for track of the New York Central could not escape accident when the waters undermined its track. Terre Haute is a' solid and substantial business town. Its commercial institutions have stood up well under the dryt-rot, the sapping of foundations, the loss of crops and the contraction of the lost four years. It will require years of prosperity to restore the losses of years. Some who had crossed the quicksands have sunk just as they were reaching firm ground. It is always so in panic times, and those who go down are not the signs of present bad times but the victims of the past, of circumstances and jaot pf jnismanagement.

There are good signs to be seen. Labor is well employed there has been and is a good deal of building the opening of the new opera house, the return of travellers, and the revival of the usual fall and winter entertainments will restore retail traffic. One thing is very evident, Terre Haute is a much finer and handsomer town than it was four years ago.

GREAT BRITAIN is as likely to take up with free silver as it is to abandon free trade, and that is a very remote chance. The answer of Lord Salisbury to Wolcott is the answer of the British people. The apparent dilly-dallying and coquetting with the silver question by the British statesmen, and their final definite reply, was very pretty politics, reminding one of the Times, that fine example of the English mental processes. The Times usually is the leader of English opinion because it finds out what the people want before it leads it. The British cabinet is in power only while it represents popular opinion and is as sensitive to it as our own cabinet, if not more so, as it can be turned out more quickly.

The next crop of silver speeches will have much to say about the influence of British capital upon the premier's reply. Whose influence ought to be felt if not that of the owners of the great mercantile concerns, the vast fleets and ship-yards, the factories and iron mills, and the coal and iron mines which draw the money of the world to the coffers of Great Britain

THERE is a drifting towards trouble with Spain. That harassed country gives this nation the "tu quoque" and requests an explanation of the filibustering expeditions that have been supplying the Cuban rebels with the munitions of war. The insurgents certainly have been well armed by somebody. But the Spanish navy that blockades Cuba has allowed as many sup plies to slip into the island as our government .has allowed to slip out. Nothing short of an old-time blockade could seal up our long coast line, and that cannot be expected. In a short time congress will be in session, and fire-eaters like Turpie, Morgan and Thurston will inflame the Spanish with violent speeches.

Still the liberal cabinet, which is reversing the policy of Canovas and is recalling Weyler, may have no intention of provoking a war. It may even anticipate the release of Cuba but consider what caution, what adroit manipulation of the people, will be necessary to avoid revolution in Spain. If justice demands the release of Cuba, humanity also forbids a bloody insurrection at home. The United States should deal in a different spirit with the liberal ministry than it would with the old Canovas ministry. It can afford to wear for awhile longer the velvet glove on the iron hand.

ASIDE from the great contest in New York next Tuesday, much interest prevails in many of the state elections that take place the same day. Most of it is centered in Ohio, where Mark Hanna is a candidate for United States senator to succeed himself, and where a most bitter fight is being waged against him, led by the Cincinnati Enquirer, whose millionaire editor, John R. McLean, with presidential aspirations before him, is a candidate for the place Mr. Hanna aspires to. Mr. Bryan has been Brought into the state to assist in the fight, but while drawing large crowds is not creating the sensation he did last year. The indications in Ohio point to the election of the Republican state ticket, but dissensions in the party in Toledo, Cincinnati and Cleveland make it sure that Mr. Hanna will have a harder fight. In Maryland Senator Gorman, candidate for re-election, is having the fight of his life, the issue being straight out, "Gormanism." For two years past the state has been given to the Republicans, but their success created dissensions in the party, and this, together with Gorman's personal strength, makes the result doubtful. In Iowa, Nebraska and Kentucky, which also hold elections on Tuesday, as well as in Ohio, the issue is the same as last year, and the result of the elections will be watched with interest, as It will have a great influence in determining tbe issues for next year.

THOSE theorist who are continually crying that tbe tariff is a tax, and that oar people are being taxed by the government Into poverty and distress, pointing at the same time to England as an instance of the proper manner in which a tariff system shoo Id be conducted, can find some interesting facts in a recent letter by Wm. E. Curtis, the well known newspaper correspondent, whose reliability is unquestioned. & says: "Americana who are complaining of taxation and growling about tin burdens imposed by the Dingley law can find very little consolation in tbe revenue returns and the budget* of Great Britain. Hie receipts of the

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,1 How Are Your Eyes' A woman with a clear, sparkling eye nowadays is something of a rarity, especially if she lives where cinders play havoc with the visual organs. Care is necessary to preserve the eyes. One fruitful source of trouble is the pretty white veil which is undeniably more becoming than the colored ones but which is making the ocu lists rich. It is the most prolific source of wealth for these learned gentlemen that was ever invented. When the sunlight strikes a white veil the woman behind it can no more see an inch ahead of her than she can fly. But it looks prettier than a black veil—and she is a woman.

Hot water and witch hazel, tea-leaf poultices and such remedies are used by women who have heard the eyes are benefited by such treatment. Every woman has heard bread and milk recommended and belladonna, but these remedies are likely to cause gatherings. Tepid water and salt form a wash which has never been excelled and which cannot injure the ®ye.

The habit of stooping over when'reading or writing has a bad effect on most eyed and should be avoided especially if one i^ near-sighted. When people approach th6 age of 40 the morning paper is apt to appear blurred and they complain the printing is getting bad. The trouble is they need glasses. If they do not get them, later on their eyes will deteriorate so rapidly they will be obliged to wear them all the time. On the other hand, if a person puts on glasses when the first warning of "tired eyes" is received he will never be obliged to wear them the rest of his life except when doing fine work.

When the eyes are tired and inflamed put a teaspoonful of table salt into half a pint of water. When it is dissolved use several times a day with an eye-opener. If simply dashed against the seat of inflammation is not reached at all. Or a teaspoonful of boracic acid in a half pint of warm water is both cooling and soothing and rarely fails to relieve inflammation of the eyes.

In the case of acute inflammation of the eyes avoid all hot applications. If all other remedies fail a teaspoonful of powdered alum in a pint of water applied several times daily will usually have affect in reducing inflammation of the eyes. Rose water has no effect except that it has the advantage of being distilled* ff

.. spCCiai Message to Men. When tbe desolating fact of impaired vigor comes home to men the force of the blow is crushing. They know themselves inferior to their fellows, and they shrink from companionship. Their ambition is gone, and hope with it. When hope vanishes despair takes its place. All this is wifcHbut warrant, for these men can be cured. Dr. Greene, the famous specialist in men's diseases, has found the remedies that restore vitality in men. These remedies build up and strengthen, and thousands of men walk the earth to-day who have been permanently restored to vigorous manhood by their use. Weakness vanishes, hope and ambition return, and the patient is truly a new man. Dr. Greene's glorious discoveries are the safeguard of many thousand homes to-day. His wonderful Nervura alone has made him famous. Consultation and advice, personally or by letter, is absolutely free at the office of Dr. Greene's remedies, 148 State street, Chicago, 111. Write about your case and there will be absolutely no charge for consultation or advice injeither case, whether you call or write. The system of treatment by mail is perfect, and is absolutely confidential.

Baltimore Oysters,

can or balk, at Riser's.

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, whore you will always find an abundance o£ the choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own make. Telephone 352.

«SSa$ TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, OCTOBER 30, 1897.

government during the last fiscal year, which ended March 81,1897, were $560,992, 735. The population of Great Britain and Ireland is between 39,000,0000 and 40,000, 000, which, taking the maximum as the basis of circulation, shows that the pate of taxation for the support of the general government is $14 per capita. The receipts of the United States government for the last fiscal year, ended June 30, 1897, were $347,184,728, which with a population of 70,000,000, is equiv alent to a tax of about$4 per capita. Last year was the most prosperous in the history of Great Britain, and it is expected that the present year will show a still greater increase in the revenues, but there is no talk of reducing taxation. A few years ago the government of the United States suffered the unusual affliction of a surplus revenue. In 1887 it amounted to $55,500,000, in 1888 to $67,500,000, in 1889 to $49,000,000 and in 1890 the receipts were $45,000,000 more than the expenditures whereupon congress struck off the principal sources of revenue, and there has been a deficit varying from $4,000,000 to $70,000,000 every year since. In Great Britain an abundant revenue is considered an indication of national prosperity and a satisfactory fiscal policy. A surplus is considered an advantage, and applied to the reduction of the national debt as long as it lasts. The financial policy of the 'government is per manent. The people will not allow it to be tampered with, and whenever the ministry talks about such things as it is now talking about, concessions to the slverites, the public begins to demand its retirement. Although Great Britian is a free trade country that government collects more than half as much money from import dues as the United States, the total in that country for the last fiscal year being $176, 316,393. The import tax in Great Britain is imposed on articles that are considered luxuries—such as tea, coffee, cocoa, to bacco, wines and liquors, beer, perfumery, soap, confectionery, fruits, playing cards, silverware' and some other articles of a similar character." .• ,,

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

A practical joke is one that is salable. Some people save money by not paying their bills.'

All people who play the fiddle look something alike. Wise indeed is the man who knows how little he knows.

Cupid steals a base every time lovers look at the moon. The piper plays the pipes, but the plumber gets the plums.

When a bank-note talks it might be termed a paying teller. A good penman may drive a pen, but pencils are better lead.

Birds of a feather seldom flock together when a man goes gunning. Worry is the undesirable thoughts a fellow cannot help thinking.

People may enjoy light literature and yet draw the line at gas bills. Statistics in the hands of a campaign orator are usually unreliable figures of speech.

To be popular with some people all that is necessary is to say "Thank you" in a very loud voice.

An unmarried man's opinion of pretty clothes for women is better than a married man's, because it is not biased by bills.

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Two shall be born the whole wide world apart, And speak in different tongues, and have no thought JlM Each of the other's being, andnolfieed And these o'er .unknown, seas to unknown lands Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death And all unconsciously shape every act And bend each wandering step to this one endThat one day out of darkness they shall meet And read life's meaning in each other's eyes. And two shall walk some narrow way of life So nearly side by side that should one turn Ever so little space to left or right They need must stand acknowledged face to face Acd yet with wistful eyes that never meet, With groping hands that never clasp, and

Calling in vain to*ears that never hear, They seek each other all their weary days, And die unsatisfied—and this is Fate! —Susan Marr Spalding.

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We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.

We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm.

WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O., WALDING, KINNA2T& MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. 'Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.

Newf5Undertaking Establish ment. James A. Nisbet, for many years engaged in the undertaking business in this city, and recently of the firm of Stees & Nisbet, has opened a new undertaking establishment at No. 103 north Fourth street, two doors north of Cherry street. Mr. Nisbet's long experience in the business, his wide acquaintance in this city and vicinity, and his personal popularity, assure his certain success in his new location. He has purchased a new hearse, has a full and complete line of all supplies, and by a strict attention to the wants of his patrons, hopes to merit a continuance of the generous patronage heretofore accorded him.

Wanted.—All who wish to learn, or to become more proficient in Shorthand, Penmanship, Bookkeeping, and Arithmetic, to know that they can have private lessons given them four evenings of each week during the winter months, beginning Monday evening, Nov. 1st,

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Terre Haute Commercial College.

!A large line of Combinaion Cases and Sideboards just received at John G. Dobbs, 635-637 Main street

For Amateur Photographers. The new Self-Toning Printing-Out Paper is now in stock at Baur's Pharmacy. It will pay any amateur photographer to give this paper a trial. Baur's Pharmacy is also agent for the Leeds Dry Plates, Nelox Paper and Ansto Paper, and carry a tall line of Photographic Requisites.

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Send us the names and addresses of three or more performers o» the piano or organ together with ten cents in silver or postage and we will mail yon ten pieces full sheet music, consisting of popular songs, waltzes, marches, etc., arranged for the piano and organ. Address:

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Spring Lamb, Steer Beef, Sweet Breads, Pig Pork, Tenderloins, Spue Bibs,

Beef Tenderloins.

H. EHRMANN, Fourth an A Ofclo Clean Meat Market. Telephone 390.

Boucle cloth Capes, silk-lined, thibet fur trimmed collar and front $3.38

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Boucle cloth Capes with pleated back, thibet iur trimmed $4.38

All-wool Kersey Capes embroidered and strap trimmed, special value $4.85 *5

Best quality plush Capes, 37 inches long, thibet trimmed collar and front $6.48

A special plush Cape, handsomely braided, full silk lined and fur trimmed. $3.98 "J ""w Jet embroidered plush Capes, fur trimmed $4.98 and $5.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

We Are Modest.

We do not find it' necessary to be constantly "blowing our own horn.'' Our delighted customers do that for us. We are willing that they should pass judgment upon our Cloaks and Suits, and they say that we have the only attractive stock in town. We are making special offerings just now.

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Notice to Taxpayers. The time for the payment of the November installment of city taxes and street improvement assessments expires on Wednesday ^December 1, 1897. Pay your taxes promptly and- save penalty.

CHAS. BALCH, City Treasurer.

TAX NOTICE.

Monday, November 1st, is the last day for paying November taxes \yithout penalty. jJatR S'

W. T.%ANFORD,r Treasurer Vigo County.

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Navy blue and black blouse ^fackets, elegantly braided $9.50 each

All-wool novelty cloth Jackets, with tightfitting back and blouse front. .$13.50 each

Boucle cloth Jaekets with fly front, a $6.50 garment, for..... $4.85

Boucle cloth Jackets, full silk lined, Kersey strapped trimmed $8.75

All-wool Kersey Jackets, fancy silk lined, fly front. They ccme in black, blue and green. We price them at .$8.50

Our line of $10 Jackets is the best that can be made for the price. All new materials, Kerseys, Beavers, Bouole Cloth, etc., all silk or satin lined and stylishly made and trimmed.

Exclusive styles in" mah-made Jacketsnothing to compare with them elsewhere $13.75, $15, $10.50 and up

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Hunters' Excursion Tickets

On sale to points in Lower Michigan, Arkansas. Missouri, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Quick Time, Low Rates,

and but one change of cars between Terre Haute and California points. The quick time to California means less than three days. Just think of it I

Chrysanthemum Show,

Indianapolis, November 3d and 4th. 13 00 Bound trip. Further Information cheerfully furnished on application at City Ticket Office, 054 Wabash ave., Telephone 37. or Union Station.

GEO. E. FA IIRINGTON, General Agent.

Flowers ...

Area Joy to all and easily had in winter or Kpring by NOW PLANTING

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