Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 November 1897 — Page 4

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I THE 'MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 501% Ohio Street. Telephone

489.

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

JJb. Brva.v i# mistaken. New York was not carried for free silver but for free-beer. ___________

The Bryanites find comfort in. having been hit by a sledge-hammer instead of the old trip-hammer. That instrument awaits a bigger job.

"The Cat and the Cherub" was played to an immense audience at New York last Tuesday. The cat swallowed the cherub and that was the end of Low.

One would not look in "The 400," a paper devoted to society and delicate sentiment, for a happy political character sketch but it hits one off in speaking of "Bouffe Bryan's New York trombone invasion and pancake exit in 1806."

In parody of the lines, "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," Mr. Low has said that "It is better to have fought and lost than never to have fought, at all." "What, and to open the postern gate to Tammany, Mr. Low? Yon don't believe it.

So many George men went back to Tammany that Mr. Bryan will have no scruples in rapturously embracing the tiger if it will allow it. Tammany was successful without a word of encouragement from Bryan and that shifty fellow is going to have trouble in persuading Croker that he meantCodlin, notShort, all the time. _____

In the growth of taste and refinement in this city the advance in music is most noticeable. Teachers who reflect the culture of the great conservatories of Europe and America, and amateurs who rank as musical virtuosos, have made good music popular. We may not be as particular as the populace of a German city which will hiss a street band if it plays false but we can tell the difference between good and bad.

The elections this week resulted in a great falling off in the pluralities by which the Republicans carried the states in which they were successful last year. They lost but two states in which they were successful last year—Kentucky and New York, where the Democrats elected the head of their state ticket and carried Greater New York for the Tammany candidate for mayor. Mark Hanna was successful, and for the first time since the war Ohio will have two Republican sen ators elected by the legislature. In Mary land the Republicans carried the legisla ture and will elect a senator to succeed Senator Gorman.

Thk prodigy of the age is Helen Keller, who is constantly giving some new revelation of her wonderful mental powers. Though blind, deaf aild dumb, the lamp of genius glows even more brightly in her fettered mind than in many where every portal to the outer world is open. She recently passed an examination at the close of the first preparatory year for college at Harvard. She was examined in Eugllsh, French, Gorman and Latin, passing all very well, with honors in some, and eliciting praUe for the highest standard known for English and the most rapid preparation in all branches ever made by any, man or woman. Heleu Keller, without any barriers before her surprising powers, might well prove herself to be the most wonderful woman that ever lived and she may yet do so in spite of the hindrances that beset her.

EmsoN' is in mechanics what Shakespeare was in literature—myriad-minded. His latest achievement, if it fulfills expectation, will be worth more to the world than that process which makes every ton of rock with one-twentieth ounce of gold in it worth mining. Edison proposes to extract the iron from rock that was never before worth smelting. Put one pound Of Iron filings into a ton of sand and Edison's process will extract It in the shape of a neat iron briquette. The inventor claims that in New Jersey alone are millions of tons of iron in rock that at present is valueless. The processes are rather si pie. There Is a crasher strong enough to pulverise rocks of tons weight into dust there is a chute down which the dust travels until it passes a powerful magnet when the stream of dust divides, the iron (lowing one way and the plain sand another the iron-sand falls into vats to be mixed with an adhesive compound and to be pressed into small bricks, and then it is ready to ship to the melUug furnace. Simple it seems, Edison has been eight years in perfecting his invention. It now remains to be seen It it can compete with the nearly pure ore and the steam shovels

Of the Mesaba range.

Tub Wyckoff papers on the labor question. now appearing in Scribner's are an Interesting contribution to the study of the social problem- Like Josiah Flints articles on tramp life, they are studies of rrnl life and deserve the attention of men that do common labor and of those who do not. They relate the adventure* of a young student of sociology who left a luxurious home, entering the ranks of common labor to engage in many kind# of hard manual labor. The third paper, in the current number ot Scrlbner^ is the best so far to interest and Uttrary work. In the toll, that waa at first to exhausting to the unaoenstomed laborar, titan are

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now some gleams of light and comfort. Perhaps he will combat the too prevalent idea that labor is a curse, that mett were not destined to common labor, but only to uncommon labor. We think fr-he writer will show that "honest labor bears a love-' ly face" as well as that sometimes honest labor has a bitter taste. Already we wiU observe one trouble and that is the loneliness of the laborer who is obliged to follow his work from one place to another. But these papers will excite varying views in different minds and any paper which can excite an idea is worth reading.

How are we to know that the Dingley bill is a benefit to the American manufacturers and that it is transferring the trade of Europe to our own shores? We do not have to look far for a striking proof that it is. In Great Britian 200,000 operatives in the cotton mills are on the eve of a strike and this may be followed by a similar strike among the woolen workers. The British manufacturers have been making for this country nearly $100,000,000 worth of cotton and woolen goods a year. To save this great market they must reduce prices, to be able to sell their goods with the extra tariff on as cheaply as they did before the tax was raised. Thus the foreigner pays a tax or part of it. To make the proposed rriduction will require a sacrifice of profit by the operator and of wages by the operative. The manufacturers accorlingly propose to cut wages 5 per cent, as a beginning and the workers threaten to strike. Nothing tells us so plainly as this cry of distress from England that Ameri jan protection transfers to our mills the manufacturing of the goods that we are to consume. There is another example. The new German embassador comes prepared to complain that the Americans propose to use less German sugar and more that is made or refined in this country. His duty to his own people requires that he should. As a German he is right in trying to persuade us to use only German sugar. Should not American statesmen be as" faithful to their people and insist that home products must be supplied to home trade and shall not be crowded out by foreign stuff?

Prize on Pants.

The following composition by a little girl won a prize, a fruit cake, offered by a teacher in the Boston Cooking School: "Pants are made for men and men for pants. Woman was made for pants. When a man pants for a woman and a woman pants for a man they area pair of pants. Such pants do not last. Pants are like molasses, they are thinner in hot weather and thicker in cold. The man in the moon changes his papts during an eclipse. Men are often mistaken in pants. Such mistakes make breeches of promise. There has been much discussion as to whether pants are singular or pltiral. Seems to us when men wear pants it is plural and when they don't wear any it is singular. Men get on a tear in their pants and it's all right, but when the pants get on a tear it's all wrong." __

New Undertaking Establishment. James A. Nisbet, for many years engaged in the undertaking business let thfe 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 pur chased 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.

Great Music Offer.

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

Popular Music Pub. Co., Indianapolis, Ind.

For four Sunday Dinner.

Spring Lamb, Steer Beef, Sweet Breads, Pig Pork, Tenderloins, Spare Ribs,

Beef Tenderloins.

C. H. EHRMANN, Fourth and Ohio Clean Meat Market. Telephone 220.

Notice to Taxpayers.

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

CHAS. BALCH, City Treasurer.

VERYTHING in the Dyeing and Cleaning line done in first-class manner by the

HUNTER

Dyeing Co.

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiees & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where 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.

Fresh Candies

made dally Creams and

at Riser1*. See oar new

A g"oo3 anecdote is told iUustrating the superior enterprise of the Yankee drippers years ago. The Bedford whalers left port for many a long voyage, sometimes to the far north, at other times to the far south. These intrepid followers of the sea sought and pursued the whale in the ice clad latitudes about the poles with a natural fearlessness. A squadron sent out by Russia to explore the south seas and reach the pole if possible had attained a degree of latitude which the commodore proudly told himself had never been reached before by white men or other human beings. While he reflected upon the fame that would, surely embellish his name, his sailors cried, "Land hoi" Off to the south he descried a long, low lying bit of laud and hastened to shape his course to reach it, there to plant the Russian standard on its highest point, claiming it in the name of his majesty.

What was his disgust and astonishment when, as his vessel approached the shore, he observed, over a bit of headland, a flag fluttering from a masthead. In a few minutes a little schooner poked her nose around the point and came sailing smartly over the waves toward his vessel. The lean Yankee captain, who was standing in the rigging as the schooner came up in the wind, yelled: "Ahoy, there! "What ship is that?" ."His majesty's ship the "Well, this is the Nantucket from Rhode Island. We're doing a little piloting in these latitudes, and if you want to run in the cove yonder, why, we'll pilot you in for a small charge."

The admiral's disgust caused him to square his sails around and shape his course for Russia.—Harper's Round

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Book Work and Plants In Aquariums.

In the best modern aquarium practice the rockwork in the tanks is simple in construction and limited to a minimum in bulk. Elaborate rockwork is more difficult to keep clean, and if bulky it displaces, of course, just so much water, and so lessens the sustaining power of the tank, but rockwork in some form or vegetation is desirable for the comfort of the fishes. There are fishes that like to loaf around rocks or perhaps to creep under them. In nature they find food in such places, and it may be shelter from their enemies, and there are fishes equally accustomed to plants of one sort and another, and almost all fishes at times like seclusion or places where they can go by themselves. In an aquarium it is a common thing to see a fish motionless behind some slender plant which does not conceal it, but does serve as a place of retreat—New York Sun.

Carls Tell the Story.

When a woman is young, she does her hair up with many curls and flourishes, but the curls and flourishes disappear as time rolls on, and after she has been married a few years it is worn in a hard little knot in the back, showing neither time nor attention. Her hair is also a great thermometer to her feelings. As long as she has social ambitions she carls it though the steak burns. When an old girl who has worn her hair plain for years begins suddenly to curl it again, look for a light in her parlor on Sunday evenings.—Atchison Globe.

Rice paper is not made from either rioe or rice straw, bet from a pithy plant found in China, Korea and Japan.

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TERES HAUTE SATURDAY JBVESESG MAIL, NOVEMBER 6,1897,

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Atmospheric Weight.

At the sea level, with the barondeter marking 80 inches and the thermometer 82 degrees F., a cubic foot of pure dry air weighs about 565 grains troy. The weight of a cubic foot of water vapor, under the same conditions, is only S52 grains. When vapor is mixed with dry air, therefore, the resulting compound is lighter—that is to say, damp air is lighter than dry air. In stormy weather the air is lighter than it is in fair weather and not heavier, as many persons suppose. When smoke hangs about the surface of the earth, it shows that the air is lighter than the smoke. When the air is dry, it is heavier than the smoke- and the latter therefore ascends.

The weight of the earth's atmosphere, or. in other words, the pressure exerted upon the earth by the atmosphere, is about the same as would be exerted by a flood of water 83 feet in height over the globe. At the sea level the pressure of the atmosphere is about 15 pounds to the square inch. A man of ordinary size thus bears all the time a pressure of about 80,000 pounds, but he does not feel it, because the pressure is exerted in every direction, above, below and around him, and because his body is filled with air and other fluids that press outward, thus maintaining a state of equilibrium.—Philadelphia Times.

t. The Stormy Golf.

Th^ gulf of Mexico is a water of storms, not frequent, but frenziedly violent. It is, in effect, an immense scallop cut from the land, and hurri canes seem to gravitate to it naturally They are born in the neighborhood of the Saragossa sea, strike the West Indies and not infrequently leave those islands at a tangent, just as a ball thrown at an obtuse angle against a wall slides along it for a little space and again seeks vacancy. These erratic forces of the air strike the coast of Mexico, or the coast of Texas, according to their angle, and death is in their track. The things called "tidal waves" in that section are not really tidal waves. They are not caused by an upheaval They are merely local in effect. They are not vast walls of water moving with resist less speed and weight over the face of the ocean. They are waters banked up ngainst a low coast by wind pressure until they overflow. In many instances the submergence is gradual and ample opportunity for escape is given. Other times the violence of the air makes them sudden and people are drowned.—Chicago Times-Herald.

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An Bngllsh Cnutant.

Glancing across the surface of everyday life in the Elizabethan days of ro-1 bust manhood,- it is interesting to notice the lively, childlike, brilliant colors worn by both sexes and to compare fhese charming characteristics with the sober habiliments and reserved manners of the present day. Here is an example of the man of fashion, the beau ideal of the metropolis, as he sallies forth into the city to parade himself in the favorite mart of fashionable loungers, St. Paul's churchyard. His beard, if he have one, is on the wane, but his mustaches are cultivated and curled at the points and himself redoletit with choicest perfumes.

Costly jewels decorate his ears. A gold brooch of rarest workmanship fastens his bright scarlet cloak, which is thrown carelessly upon his left shoulder, for he is most anxious to exhibit to the utmost advantage the rich hatchings of his silver hilted rapier and dagger, the exquisite cut of his doublet (shorn of its skirts) and trunk hose. His hair, cropped close from the top of the head down the back, hangs in long love locks on the sides. His hat, which was then really new in the country, having supplanted the woolen cap or hood, is thrown jauntily on one sida It is high and tapering toward the crown and b«s a band around it, richly adorned with precious stones or by goldsmith's work, and this gives support to one of the finest of plumes.—Nineteenth Century. aaMwwsfgy

A Landlocked Salmon.

"Many years ago," said Clarence Pullen, traveler and lecturer, "an out of the way lake in Maine was secretly stocked with landlocked salmon. At that time the nearest railway station was 88 miles from the lake, which is about nine miles long by three wide. Not much fishing has ever been done in that sheet of water because it is off from the regular lines of travel and there are no big hotels within scores of miles besides, it is practically unknown. 1 was there fishing oiie day, and, becoming tired of struggling with six, eight and ten pound salmon, decided to stroll up the mountain side to obtain a glimpse of the snow capped peak of Mouut Washington, over in New Hampshire. In ascending I followed a brock which had formed many deep pools as it leaped in successive cascades down to its outlet into the lake. It was late in the season, and the brook was nearly dry. I noticed a commotion in one of the narrow pools near the summit, and, peering into it, discerned a gigantic fish. Wading in, I seized the monster and carried him struggling to the shore. It was a landlocked salmon that weighed 82 pounds. It had probably leaped up the cascades from pool to pool until it became imprisoned in one of the uppermost, as the brook ran dry. If you doubt the story, I'll take you up there some time and show you the pool." Philadelphia Press. -i

Burmese Indolence.

Burma is said to be peopled by about the laziest race in the world. W0rk is never done except when absolutely necessary,, and even then as little &s' possible, and that in the easiest, most shiftless manner.' If a Burman wishes to cultivate apiece of ground, he sets fire to the bushwood as a cheap, easy and efficacious method of preparing the virgin soil.

For two or three years he cultivates that piece of land and then sets light to another spot, allowing the jungle to grow in the old place, which will be ready for reburning when the other ground wants rest. Rice growers dispense with plows, turning loose instead a number of buffaloes, which cut up the saturated sod with their hoofs. When a Burman has earned a little money, he immediately proceeds to spend it all, for the Burmese have no ambition to be rich and never hoard. Consequently there are no large landowners, and, there being no aristocracy, the people are as near being on an equality as possibla Poor folk are quite as rare as the rich, and the only beggars to be met are the lepers, who sit on the steps of the pagodas. Hartford Timea &

The Native Hawaiian.

The native Hawaiian is a gentleman of leisure. Life to him is a perpetual holiday, and, as a native of paradise, why should he fret about the dull cares of this world? Nature has spread a bounteous feast for him, and, like Ad am of old, he has only to pluck the fruit which grows without toil, eat and breathe.

The national food of the native is poi, fish and pork. Poi is made from taro root, a water plant, boiled and beaten to a pulp of the consistency of gruel and allowed to slightly ferment, when it is very nutritious. The native's table is a mat spread upon the floor or ground, on which lies poi Roast pig and fish are placed in separate calabashes. Squatted or sitting crosslegged about this sumptuous feast, the Kanakas proceed to regale themselves, scorning the use of knives and forks. Their desert is the papaya, oranges, bananas, breadfruit, strawberries and other fruit of the tropics.—Godey's Magazine.

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Sa'f 'Trimmings'' is the term under which alcoholic drinks are disguised in the bills English ladies ran up at the London department stores, according to Salvation Army investigators.

More than 10,000 persons are engaged in the manufacture of explosives in England. Last year 40 persons in the business were killed and 16? injured by accidents.

Weigh your bread. Don't take a bun for a loaf. Miller Bros.' is the biggest and best.

Baltimore Oysters,

or bulk* at ESaer'a.

to 50c—now one price

SILK DEPT.

BLANKETS.

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L. B. ROOT & CO.

For Over Fprty Years

J. A. NISBET,

Undertaker and Embalmer,

lOf North Fourth. Terre Haute, lid.

P. J. Kaufman's

There is an elegant assortment of new, fresh goods. He is always well supplied. In the list are-

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Choice Oysters, String Beans,

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We have been the leading store of Terre Haute. We are proud of the place we hold in the regard of the people. They have seen us grow and know that our success is well deserved. The system of selling desirable merchandise at the lowest possible price is the keystone of our business.

PHENOMENAL DRESS GOODS VALUES.

Fancy Novelty Checks. 30 laches wide 10c a yard Novelty Checks and Mixtures, 34 inches wide a yard Stylish Checks and Fancy Novelties, 34 Inches wide 20c a ard Over forty styles of this season's best productions—poods that have been sold up

Extra Values in Choice Dress Fabrics at. .39c, 45c, 50c and 75c a yard

We are not infallible. We sometimes make af mistake. We have too many Moire Poplins—f

handsome, stylish and serviceable silk and wool effects in stripes, checks, figures and plain. They are worth from $1.50 to $2.50 a yard. We put them all in one lot at the low price of $1.00 a yard to insure speedy selling.^^4

Blanket weather is here and we have made

provision in blankets that every housekeeper will enjoy, and they are cheaper now than you

ever saw them before, or will ever see them again. 10-4 Cotton Blankets in white, tan and grey at 30c a pair Full Size Grey Blankets at

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fj&i Spinach,'gt% Water Cress, 'S §!Choice Eating Apples,

Cauliflower, Sweet Potatoes,

Seventh and Main.

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Genuine Imported Sauer Kraut, f"?

Spare Ribs, Tenderloins, Sausage, Turkeys, Ducks, Chicken®,

Geese.

A. M. HIGGIN8*

Lawyer,

Telephone 1

Over IfcKeen'* Bank

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.v Fancy Striped Blankets at 8!)o a pair ,1 Wool Mixed Blankets at $1.38 a pair-, Fine White Blankets from $3.35 up to $15.00 a pair

Unequalled values in Fine All-Wool Blankets at $5.00 a pair

Going Out of the Ready-Made Clothing business. Selling outi\

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A. M. Higgiks, Plaintiff's Attorney. gHERIFP'8 SALE. By virtue of an order of sale issued from the Superior court of Vlyo county, Indiana, to me directed and delivered. In favor of Axel Ghytraus and against the Grand City Coal Company. Benjamin B. Comcgys and John H. Catherwood, executors of the estate of Daniel Cummins, deceased, Isaac T. Dyer, Edgar Coffee and the Grand City Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Company, and Joseph Ouslck, I am ordered to sell the following described real estate situated In Vigo county. Indiana. to-w!t:

The southeast quarter of tie northeast quarter of sect ion twenty-one (21), township twelve (12) north, in range ten (10) west, except the right of way or the Ht. L^uls, Vandalla & Torre Haute Railroad, and except* the further portion of said realty, as follows: Commencing on the oast line where said .: railroad crosses the same, thence westerly along the line of said railroad to a point due north of a walnut tree, thence south to the south line of said tract, thence east to the southeast corner of said tract, thence north to the place of beginning, and on 8ATUHDAY, THK S7TH DAY OF

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between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day. at the north door of the court house. In Torre Haute, I will offer the rents and profits of the above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a, term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, and upon failure to realize a sum sufficient to satisfy said judgment and costs. I will then and there offer the fee-simple In and to said real estate, to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

This 6th day of November, ljWT. •, LOUIS P. 8EEBUROEK. Printer's fee. tlO.OO. Sheriff.

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35c a yard

75c a pair

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Low Rate Hunters' Excursion Tickets On sale to points In Lower Michigan, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Quick Time, Low Rates, and but one chanpe of cars between Terro Haute and California points. The quick time to California means less than three days. Just think of It!

Further information cheerfully furnished on application at City Ticket Office, Wabash are., Telephone 8?. or Onion Station.

GEO. E. FARKINGTON. General Agent.

Everybody ftays ho.

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