Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 November 1897 — Page 4

AFTERMATH OF FAME

MEN WHO HAVE BEEN MADE PROSPEROUS BY OFFICEHOLDING.

What the Presidency Did For HarrUon and Cleveland—How Politics Hade Dan Lamont—Marie* and Suotop of Som« of Onr Statesmen. ,, [Special Correspondence.]

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 9.—Ex-President Harrison has returned from his summer vacation, accompanied by his wife and baby. For more than three months Mr. Harrison has been in the Adirondacks enjoying life without a thought of his profession. He has never been able to afford so long a vacation before because he has never been so well to do. Mr. Harrison is one of the men made prosperous by offlceholding. When he retired from the presidency, he was supposed to have saved $100,000 of his salary. He was never worth so much before. Not only did he have larger capital at the end of his term, but his earning capacity was increased greatly. For a time he delivered addresses at college commencements, receiving a handsome fee for each, and he delivered a course of lectures at Stanford university, for which the Stanford estate paid him several thousand dollars. Then he wrote a series of articles on the president and' his experiences, which has just appeared in book form.

After that he returned to the moro active practice of his profession, and his income has not been less than $25,000 a year probably it is nearer $50,000. If he had not been president of the United States, General Harrison could not have made one-half as much at his profession.

Mr. Cleveland had the same experience. He left Albany for Washington comparatively poor. Now he is considered a wealthy man. He saved a good share of his salary, no doubt, but he made more during the four years of the Harrison term practicing law. Mr. Cleveland had not practiced since he was mayor of Buffalo, and it is doubtful if he ever made $3,000 a year at his profession. His income during the four years ho was practicing in New York was estimated at many different sums, ranging up to $100,000 a year. It is certain that ex«Presidont Cleveland commanded a much larger income than Graver Cleveland could have done.

A great many public offices have proved stepping stones to places of great profit Dan Lamont, as every one knows, stepped from tlio privato secretary's ofllco at tho White IIouso into a highly reuumerntive position at tho head of a street railroad syndicate. The treasury officials can almost always go from the department to places of great responsibility in tho financial world. Director of tho Mint Leach became a Now York bank official. Comptroller Eckels can have any one of a half dozen responsible renumerativo positions in New York or Chicago. Secretary Carlisle received several offers to go to New York when his term as secretary of tho treasury ended.

On the other hand, some men give up largo incomes to enter public life, and some make other sacrifices. While Dan Lamont hns continually bettered his condition, Secretary John Addison Porter finds offlceholding an expensive experience. Mr. Porter told me recently that he paid more than the amount of his salary for tho rent of his house in Washington.' When I was in New York not long ago, Mayor Strong's secretary told mo that the mayor gavo up $28, 000 in salaries when ho took publio office, and tho city pays him only $10,000 a year, while as a publio character it costs him a great deal to keep up appearances,

Chauncey M. Depew told me some time ago that if he had been made embassador to England he would have had to abandon salaries aggregating $100,. 000 a year. Whitelaw Roid, our special envoy at tho queen's jubilee celebration, is said to havo spent $25,000 out of his own pocket for private entertaining while he was in London.

Secretary Gage's salary as president of the Frst National bauk of Chicago was said to have been $25,000. Mr. Gage draws $8,000 a year as a member of tho cabinet* and it does not pay his house rent.

Attorney General McKenna did not make a sacrifice of salary when he left the federal bench in California to accept a place in theeabiuet, but ho relinquished a life office with a pension to accept a place whose tenure was most uncertain. It was with tho understanding, however, that the president would appoint him to the first vacancy on the supreme bench, and the agreement will be fulfilled in December.

Mr. McKenna's predecessor, Judson Harmon of Cincinnati, abandoned a practice worth twice as much as a cab* inet salary, but he was fortunate in his partners. They told him they would keep his place in the firm open until the end of his term. So his sacrifice was not permanent.

Secretary Olner gavo up a law practice in Bostou said to be worth $30,000 a year to hike the place of attorney gen* eral and later of secretary of state. On the other band, Secretary Herbert, whose chief source of income for many years had been his congressional salary, was boosted into an $$,000 place, with perquisites, such as a government yacht in summer and the opportunity for sell ing magazine articles, for one of which he received as much as $300, Writing (or signing) articles for the periodical press has been a source of income to public men for many years. It doubles Speaker Reed's income and helps to pay the rent of many of bis colleagues.

It is safe to say that most of the members of congress have never earned as much as |.\000 a year before they went to Wiushhif ton. But the congressman'* $5,000 a y«ur dwindles to very small proportions when he gets to the capital and tries to "keep his end up with the boy*

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Theosophjr.

It would seem natural that theoeophy should come to us in the wake of spiritualism and that both should seek in the occultism of the far east the stim til us of mystery necessary to the propagation of the one and the rehabilitation of the other. Bnt here we must be careful not to wrong the new gospel, for theosophists, we believe, are now anx ions to disavow connection with spiritualism, though "to explore the hidden mysteries of nature and the latent powers of man" is one of the prominent aims of the brotherhood. The sibyl of the society we know, at any rate, dab bled largely ,in necromancy and spiritism, and in her work, "Isis Unveiled,'5 much space is given to divinations and to the laudation of the occult sciences of India and Egypt Moreover, when Mme. Blavatsky accompanied Colonel Olcott to India, her sojourn there was marked by such an exercise of so called supernatural powers as to lead the Psychical Research Society of England to send out some of its trusted members to investicate the phenomena, an action fatal to the pretensions of the founder of theosopby. Moneure Conway has since also told us how the high priestess of the new religion was laughing in her sleeve while she was sending reports of these alleged miraculous occurrences to her devotees in England.

It is disingenuous, therefore, in the adherents of theosophy to disclaim kinship with spiritualism. Is it not claimed for Mme. Blavatsky that she spent 80 years of her life in the study of the occult sciences, and that in propagating her gospel she was the chosen medium of a mysterious brotherhood of adepts, called mahatmas, who in Tibet had reached an incredible age through the practice of magical arts?—Self Culture.

Distance Lends Enchantment Does ugliness as an attribute exist nature? Can the ardent, sympathetic lover of nature ever find her unlovely? If nature is not utilitarian, she is nothing. We have only wonder and worship for her prodigal and perfect economy, but does she always couple beauty with utility?

To one who# loves her nature is never tiresome nor uninteresting, but she is often most fascinating when veiled. She has moods and tempers and habits and even physical blemishes that are frequently discovered to the too pressing suitor, and while these may quicken his interest and faith they often dissipate that halo of poetry with which first fancy clothed her. How else were Thoreau's love songs talked without tune?

Like the spots on thesnn, all other of nature's blemishes disappear in the general blaze of her loveliness when viewed through the veil of farness. From the deep distance of a bed in the meadow grass there is perfection of poetic motion, something thrilling and sub lime in the flight of a buzzard far up under the very dome of a blue sky, but look at that baldheaded, snaky neck creature upon a fence stake, and you wonder how leagues into the clouds ev er hid his ugly visage from you.—Dallas Lore Sharp in Lippincott's Magazine.

Hood's Sarsaparilla is prepared by ex-^ perienoed pharmacists who know precisely the nature and quality of all ingredients used.

Improvements in uiiamg.i In nothing has the superiority of modern over former methods been made more manifest than in the various processes employed for gilding. Now the greater portion of gilded articles are gold covered by means of the eleotrical bath. Formerly gilding was done by laborious and troublesome processes in certain stages detrimental to the health of tho workman. The old time gilder used an amalgam of gold and mercury, causing it to adhere to the bronze article by means of nitrate of mercury, the nitrons and mercurial fumes being poisonous, always endangering the health of tho workman and sometimes inducing incurable disease. Now the article to bo gilded is plaeal in anelectrical bath, the current is turned on, and-in a short time the piece is ready for the burnisher. Gilding by means of gold leaf and gold powder is still practiced, tie work being mostly done by hand, but its delicaey is such ns to require long practice and great experience. An amateur gilder has no earthly chance of success. His work will always show tho inexperience of tls© workman.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The sounding of the mayor's horn at Ripon, England, is one of the most ancient customs in the kiugdom. It formerly announced the setting of the watch, but it has now lapsed into the formality of three blasts given at 9 o'clock every evening at the mayor's residence by his official horn blower and three more at-the market cross.

On the luarble steps of a peasant's house on the island of Salami have been found two lines of the epitaph composed by the poet Simonides for the Corinthian soldiers who fell in the sea fight, carved in Corinthian characters. It is hoped that the burial place of the Corinthians may soon be found.

"Oniy the Best"

Should be your motto when you need a medicine. Do not be induced to take any substitute when you call for Hood's Sarsaparilla. Experience has proved it to be the best. It is an honest medicine, possessing actual and unequalled merit. Be wise and profit by the experience of other people.

Hood's Pills are the favorite family cathartic, easy to take, easy to operate.

Try eraln0! Try GreUn-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show yon a package pf GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink $ without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GKAIX-O has that seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pore grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. & the price of coffee. 15c. and 25 eta. per package. Sold by all grocers.

We Lire on a Narrow Margin. A very small change in the present condition of our earth would immediately kill every living being upon its surface. An eastern writer comments on the feet that we live on a very narrow margin. A little more heat or a little more cold, and we die. Our existence depends on keeping changes of temperature within a" range of about 1 per cent of what we know as possible extremes. If the moon were very much larger, the tidal wave would carry the entire ocean twice a day over the surface of the earth. If the earth were much smaller, we would lose our atmosphere if it were much larger, we could not stand upright more than five minutes, nor would we be able to mount a hill except by painful crawling. If the year were twice as long as it is, it is doubtful if we could raise food enough in the summer to carry ns through the winter or if we could survive the accumulated cold. In every way our earth lies just at the meeting point of two kinds of death, which "on this bank and shoal of time" we must fight with either hand. It makes no difference whether we have fitted ourselves to the earth through a long series of evolution or whether it was fitted to us. As far as we know it is the pnly inhabitable spot in the universe, and the chances are almost infinite that no other is so favorably located. Let us make the most we can of it.—Chicago Record. -33?

Smnjrgled It.

A bright young matron of West Pine boulevard, who has just returned from a trip across the big pond, exhibits with a good deal of pride one of the handsomest diamonds in St. Louis. "What makes it dearer to me than anything else," she tells her intimates, "is the fact that I smuggled it You know my husband couldn't go with me, and I joined a party of friends, but he warned me emphatically not to be caught with dutiable goods on me. I have always been wanting a diamond for this setting"—showing an antique, beautiful design—"and I had a jeweler here give me the dimensions of the stone I must buy. Well, here it is, and how do you suppose I managed it? 1 took with me several packages of chewing gum. When the officers came aboard for our declarations, 1 stuck the stone into a piece of gum that I had chewed into a pulp. I kept on renewing the gum until we got into New York and chewed away until I was safely landed in my room at the hotel. Now, girls, don't yon think I was clever?"

The young woman avers that she has not told her husband yet about her enterprise, but if he sees the old setting with the new stone on her hand this little story may open his eyes.—St. Louis Republic.

True to the Family Cause. She was the daughter of a street railway magnate. \'^v

And the good looking young man had just kissed her. A moment later he looked in her eyes with a disappointed expression. "Can't you pay that back?" he murmured.

The lovely girl tossed her head.

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believe,'' she said,'' that you favor lower fares?" "Yes," he reluctantly admitted, do." "Then," she said haughtily, "you need expect no transfers on this system.''

And the young man knew that the magnates had won another round. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

'•Away With Melancholy, And bid dull care a vaunt," sounds very well in verse, but If you have a case of the "blues" caused by indigestion, with biliousness added on as an extra horror, you cannot say hey! presto! and thus Insure the departure or those abominable twins. The '•proper caper" when thus troubled Is to seek the aid of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters: Thereafter you will speedily' digest with ease and eat with appetite, and your liver will reassert Its rlplit to regularity. Not only this, you can retire without a horrible dread that the Washington monument willIn dreams—Impose Itself upon the pit of your stomach. If you feel premonitory symptoms of chills and fever, kidney trouble, or rheumatism, summon the Bitters to the rescue without delay, "lest a worse thing befall you." A feeblo condition of the system Is moro speedily changed to a vigorous one by this fine tonic than by any other edicinal agent in existence, ful three times a day.

TERKE HATTTE SATURDAY EVBNINO MAIL, NOVEMBER 13, 1897.

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Rebecca Wilkinson, of Brownsvalley, Ind., says: "I have been in a distressed condition for three years from nervousness, weakness of the stomach, dyspepsia and indigestion until my health was gone. I had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervine, which did me more good than any $50 worth of doctoring I ever did in my life. I would advise every weakly person to use this valuable and lovely medicine a few bottles of it has cured me completely. I consider it the grandest medicine in the world.'? Warranted the most wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

An Asinine American.

There was an American gentleman who genially told Pio Nono that he had had the honor of being presented to his holiness' father, the late pope. My housekeeper is a Roman Catholic, and I was wicked enough to tell her this story. If she had been able, she would have annihilated the whole country of America on the spot. She was not altogether satisfied with me, bnt I believe she set against it the relief I had formerly given by telling her that the holy father was not (as she had firmly believed) confined to two rooms in the atican by artyed sentries of King Hum^«rt.—Notes and Queries.

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"That may be, bnt it isPl good for your health to stay out watching the stars as late as this. "What's the nse of talking tliat*rsy, mamma? We've been readir tronomers live longer tha»: else."—Chicago Tribune.

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Why Flowers Are Fragrant. Nature has provided ways and means for all of the offices which it is her peculiar province to filL Why flowers are fragrant has often been discussed. Botanist have decided that the fertilization is largely accomplished through the agency of insects that pass from one flower to another in search of food. They become covered with pollen from one blossom, which they in turn scatter upon others. The accuracy and comprehensiveness of nature's plans are illustrated by the fact that while the insect may visit a hundred sorts of plants in a day the pollen of one has no effect save upon that particular species to which it belongs. The bumblebee, for example, becomes loaded with yellow dust, but this is of no value as a fertilizer to the multitude of other plants. It is related that a lupine grows in California sometimes completely covering large tracts of land. Its bright purplish crimson blossoms are so abundant that they color the surface of the country and can be seen for a long distance. These blossoms have a powerful fragrance, but are not nectar yielding, therefore bees rarely visit them. It, however, produces very large quantities of pollen, and the winged creatures that seek this food carry on the processes of cross fertilization in the most satisfactory manner. Whether the insect is attracted by the fragrance or whether it instinctively knows where the pollen grows has not been decided. At all events the bee is wise enough not to waste time on flowers which secrete no nectar, and why should not its contemporaries exercise equal intelligence? —New York Ledger.

Among the Chins, Upper Barm a. The most common illnesses among the Chills are cholera and other bowel complaints, as is not unnatural, considering the climate, their filthy habits and their voraciousness, for if the Chins have one quality which ipay be counted as a virtue it is hospitality. No pretext for a feast is allowed to pass unused, whether it be a birth, a death, a marriage, a sacrifice, "the payment of a debt, the making of an agreement, the slaughter of an enemy, the shooting of a deer," and a feast "implies a drinking bout, sometimes of many days' duration." They drink a liquor named zu, which is made from rice, millet or Indian corn. It is described as "a most refreshing drink after a hot march" and is said to "pull one together more quickly than any other stimulant in times of great fatigue." Its eff^f do not appear to be very deleterious, the Chin usually lives to a good age, though a habitual drunkard from childhood.—Chambers' Journal.

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Wiggles—Whose picture is it on the 110 silver certificate? Garfield, isn't it? Waggles—No Hendricks.

Wiggles—I'm pretty sure it's Garfield. Waggles—It's Hendricks, I tell you, and I've got a bill right here in my pocket that will prove it. Do you see that? (Shows bill.)

Wiggles—That settles it. I don't know how I came to be so sure that it was Uarfield. (Fifteen minutes later.) By the way, old man, lend me $10, will you?—Boston Courier. Vi t, v-yi-4

More or LCM Familiar.

'An Aberdeen apprentice boy on his first voyage up the Mediterranean was sitting on the windlass one night gazing earnestly at the moon when he was accosted by the skippei with "Fat are ye seeing up there, laddie?"

The boy turned toward the captain and for answer inquired, "Man, captain, isna that michty like our Aberdeen mune?"—Exchange.

t, Hymen an Kxpert

It was' their first quarrel after marriage, and he was leaving for the club in anger.

At tbe door he turned and hurled back one parting shot. j" "If love is blind," he said, ''it must be admitted that Hymen is a first class oculist/'—Chicago Post

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Dr. E. Detchon'a Antl Diurctic May be worth to you more than $100 if you have a child who soils bedding from incontinence of water during sleep. Cures old and young alike. It arrests the trou bleat once. ft. Bold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

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Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and cts. per packagc Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. '•"•v." it yT

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What you must have, therefore, to make yor strong, to give you life, vim, energy and ambition, to make you do your work with ease, to cat and sleep well and wake mornings frosh and vigorcas, is to ace first of all if you are in 6ound health. If you feel languid, weak or nervons, if your work tires you aud you wukc mornings unrofreshed, without appctilo or energy, yon are far from being well. In fact you are on a dangerous road to sickness and breaking down. If you havo headache, neuralgia, rheumatism, stiffness and lameness, back or side acho, dyspepsia, liver or kidney trouble, or any other disorder, however slight, you should immediately seo to getting back your health, and with it tho fullest measure of strength and powor of which your system is capable.

The way to do it is by using Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It is

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It Invigorates the Blood, Makes Strong Nerves and Powerful Muscles. It Revitalizes the System, Giving Health Strength, Energy and Power-

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