Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 December 1897 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A, C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor,

Publication Office, So. 501% Ohio Street Telephone 400.

The Mall is *Old in the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mail, at the rate of *2 a year, fl for six months, or 80 cents for three months.

ntered at the Po»t»fflce at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

THE MAIL'S CHRISTMAS NUMBER. The Mall is compelled to announce that the numerous demands for copies of the Christmas number cannot be filled, much to its regret. An unusually large edition was printed, but such was the demand for it that the entire edition was sold out Saturday evening last. There have been numerous calls for extra* copies since then, but it has been impossible to fill them. On every hand The Mail has been complimented for the excellence of its 1897 holiday souvenir. In merit of contributions, excellence of mechanical appearance and superior presswork few newspapers have equalled and none excelled the Christmas number of The Mail—if The Mail does say so itself.

THKHK is ft great deal of humanity in ashes, in these slippery days.

As A barometer, to show the rise of a prospering gale, the advertising columns of the Terre Haute papers answer well. The glass shows fair weather, and the columns, as well as the shop windows show that the people can spend their money at home, as they ought.

IT IS a pity that the question, "What would you do if you were czar of the world?" was not sent to W. .T. Bryan. Perhaps it was. His answer reduced to its simplest terms ought to read, "Two dollars for my dollar and half a dollar for your dollar," for ho is great currency reformer.

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is out in time t.o-(lay to wish

its many friends "a merry Christmas." May none pass the day without some good cheer, somtTliappy thought of blessing received or kindness done. Take from the holiday into the next week some of its brightness, for tho most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

IT is amusing to read that the English editors are speculating what the United States will doaboutthe partition of China. The price of Chiuese crackers and palmleaf fans uext summer will disturb us more if tho goods are scarce. Our sales to China are much too small, but are likely to Improve under any change that will arouse tho dormant energies of the sleeping nation.

THK people of Oklahoma and the Indian territory which they want attached to the new state have pooled their canvass and are to make a strong fight before congress for statehood. They argue that the two territories have a population of 500,000 and that, one-half of the states of the union were admitted with much loss population and far less natural wealth than their two territories possess. Public meet ings are being held in nearly every county in tho territory at which resolution favoring immediate statehood are passed.

SKVKN* cities claimed the honor of being the birthplace of Homer, and several Indiana towns are claiming more or less credit in connection with "Kid'' McCoy, but, though Anderson has a citizen who is own cousin to the mother of the illus trioua boxer, it is Moscow, Indiana, which was the natal spot of the man whose "hypnotic bunch of warped fives," as remarked by a writer, "that dangle at the end of Kid's diplomatic left arm and tore the laurel sprigs from the forehead of the Australian and replaced the symbol of victory with leaves from the weepingwillow." Yes, indeed!

WUKRR the children of the Puritans live, there more or less of them gathered together, this week, to celebrate the virtues, wisdom and good sense of their forefathers. It was the witty Senator Rvarts who once said that "the Pilgrims when they landed first fell upon their knees and then they fell upon the aborigines.'1 If they had not done both where would we be? It is becoming in the descendants to honor their ancestors and it is but- reasonable for the children of other races and creeds to acquiesce since they cordially accept and endorse so much that New England has given to America. A church, free of the state, free schools, and the township, as the primary unit in self-government, might have come from other sources and at a later time, but as they did have their beginning in the land of the Pilgrims let It haw the credit while at the same time we reeogniws the forces in all of the thirteen colonies that converged in the making of the United

CONORKSS has adjourned over the holidays, after having got the legislative business of the session well under way. The programme of the Republican leaders is not entirely settled, although it has been determined to bake up, among other questions. in addition to the mvtrni appropriation bills, those of immigration, bankruptcy and currency reform. The Democratic representatives have held a caucus and decided to mist all effort# to retire the greenbacks to oppose the extension of the national banking system and the reduction of taxes on national banks

Importance except in the way of appropriations. One of the appropriation bills has been adopted by the House, and another has been under discussion daring the week. Two important measures which have passed both houses are those relating to the relief of persons supposed to be starving in the Klondike region, and prohibiting citizens in the United States from engaging in pelagic sealing after the passage of this act.

MIMSTKK AXGELI., an ex-college professor and president, with a peaceable style of whinkers, was able to secure an apology from Turkey for the insult to an American man-of-war. Certain obstructionists are endeavoring to freeze Col. Bryan, of Illinois, out of the Chinese mission by setting up a new and extensive list of acquirements for a minister. If China is to be quarreled over by European powers we do not see any necessity for more than a well-balanced, intelligent man of affairs. There are telegraph facil ities between China and America, and when the administration wants to interfere it can say so by wire. We have very little to say about what takes plaoa on the other continent.

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is a race of people that is really

angry and chagrined to-day it is the Japanese. With China conquered and groveling at their feet after the late war, the Japanese were compelled to resign every foot of the Chinese mainland by the pressure of Russian power. Now they have the mortification of seeing the European powers apparently engaged in picking out the pieces of China that they want for their collections of foreign lands. Manifest destiny does not follow ordinary rules of human justice, and "there is a divinity that shapes our ends—rough" when it comes to settling the affairs of nations. Will the colored races finally lose every vestige of imperial domain and the white man alone dictate the laws of the world? It was profound wisdom, if it was not divine, that put into the mouth of Noah the words, "God shall en arge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem and Canaan shall be his servant." The children of Japheth are steadily acquiring the territories and lands of the Semites, and long have had their feet on the neck of Canaan.

Lv A roundabout and insidious manner the fate of the seal skin sacque and the seal-fidheries question has been effectively settled, according to a Washington report. A little paragraph, quite unnoticed in a long bill, passed by congress, forbids the importation of seal furs into this country. As all skins go to London to be dyed, this act, if operative, will close the finest market in the world for the seal fur. How simple and effective this will be, as compared with the wild scheme of the untamed Pettigrew, who wishes to destroy every seal at one feel swoop. Destruction of the seal and restoration of the fathers' dollar is Pettigrew's aim in life. If law cannot settle the seal difficulty, fashion will, before long. It is apparent that other furs and new styles of capes and cloaks are reducing the use of the Alaskan skins. No constitution or enactment is more arbitrary than the decrees of fashion

If they, or the law, stop the sale of the fur, the seal hunting will end for the lack of custom, the seal will have a new lease of life, and when the fashion comes around again our granddaughters will be able to buy seal coats at a reasonable price.

GKKATKU NKW YORK, which has been great on paper, becomes a matter of fact next Saturday, January 1st, and the may or of tho municipality has it in his power to "fix" a number of his friends. The offices to be filled are many, the term is long, and the salaries very attractive The corporation counsel, term four years, commands a salary of $15,000 the cham berlain, $13,000 the president of the board of public improvements, of the board of taxes and of the board of health, six years, $8,000 each eleven commissioners most of them for six years, $7,500 two commissioners at $7,000, three at $6,000, twelve at $5,000. with assistant commis siouers at less rates twenty-five judges at $6,000, ten at $5,000, and five at $9,000. Here are seventy-six positions of the value of $5,000 and upward a year, with many others of less income. By the terms of the charter the mayor has the power of absolute removal of any of the commis siouers in the first six months of his term Mayor-elect VanWyck has announced his purpose to appoint Democrats only except where the law requires otherwise, as in the police board, which consists of two Republicans and two Democrats.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Sci ence has proven catarrh to be a constltu tional disease, and therefore requires con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Ad-

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favor the passage of the Senate resolution acknowledging the existing war in Cuba, and the early paaMge of national bankruptcy bills. Congre** has done little of

F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, O. Sold by druggists. 73c.

If yon want something for Christmas now is the time to look around. Don't fail to call on Breinig & Miller Co, Main street:

After a while you will learn that "The Modern" is the only place to have your pictures framed, for we are up-to-date.

S«l«cat« Yo«r Bowel* With C»M*nt(. CVwwl* CMktuik, enre eo*wUp»tfoe forever. Nc.Sc. It CC.C. t*U, dntpsisw refsad moaey.

HE LOOKS CAREFULLY AFTER MOTHER'S INTEREST.

Picturesque Career.

TBRBE HAUTE SATTJBDAX JSVE!NEN(y MAIL, DECEMBER 25, 189

HETTY GREEN'S SON.

HIS

He BeK&n *t the Bottom, bat Has Worked Himself Up to Responsible ud Hon

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{Special Correspondence.]

DALLAS, Dec. 20.—Tipped back in his armchair, with cigar rolling from on© side of his rows of white teeth to the other while he quietly but keenly surveys the visitor through his eyeglasses, Edward H. R. Green looks more like aNew York traveling man on his first trip than a railroad president. This is when he is "dressed up," with immaculate shirt front, from which a big solitaire flashes, perfectly fitting coat and vest, razor creased trousers, with glossy patent leathers as a fitting climax to his toilet. But you may meet him in a suit of dirty blue overalls examining some part of a locomotive or superintending repair work in the roundhouse of his line far out on the prairie land of northeast Texas. He is an "all round man," as railroaders say, a sort of Pooh Bah, who can do and is liable to be doing anything from president at a directors' meeting to running a new locomotive on its trial trip.

Mr. Green is a remarkable man and the only son of a remarkable woman. Mrs. Hetty Green, supposed to be the richest widow in America, is a familiar figure in New York and New Orleans, visiting brokers' offices clad in a shabby dress and carrying a faded cotton umbrella, which has now been immortalized in newspaper sketchee. Vainly endeavoring to conceal her identity, she has made herself a conspicuous object in the metropolis. The fact that she has a son is unknown to many of her acquaintances, but she^has one, and lJe is truly a self made man. You would know he was a New Yorker at tho first glance. He has that decided manner of the great city which teils you he is purely business and nothing else. His attitude toward visitors, while frank and hearty, is so identical with the hustliug broker of Wall street that the caller is impressed with the fact that Mr. Green has no time to waste or words either. His life in Texas has also given him some of the bluflf heartiness of the cattleman and the ranch owner, although it is free from coarseness. He is certainly a curious combination of the two sections of the country which have formed his surroundings and is one of the few men who can suit themselves to all situations and who can gain the friendship of a bank president or a section hand with equal facility.

The honor of being the youngest railroad president in the world has not been

EDWARD H. B. GREEN.

long enjoyed by Mr. Green. He had to climb a stepladder to reach the position, and the rounds were fa? apart. Here is the story of apart of his career as told by an intimate friend—and he does'not deny it. He graduated from Fordham college in New York state, not with any special honors, as be had gone there for a "good time, "in tho slang phrase, and though naturally bright had not given many hours to books. His taste of the gay world as a college student was but partly satisfied.

He wanted to travel, and his mother turned over $12,000 to him for expenses. At the end of three mouths he returned with a half dollar to his credit He had spent about $1,000 per week, but be hftfi gained considerable experience of the world outside college walls for a youth of 20. He asked his mother to secure him a position. The keen old lady knew that small beginnings sometimes have great endings and she "started" him as a foreman on a railroad in New England in which she was interested. His salary was $45 a month—about 4 per cent of bis former weekly allowance. He entered upon the work and at the end of the month had managed to spend his salary and contract as much more in debts. He asked his mother by telegraph if she would settle the debts. The reply came back, "Not one cent,"

a chance for the college boy. He went out and took charge and today has one of the best paying railroads in the southwest, and one which is a model in every respect. It is not very long at present—only 125 miles—but it has a roadbed equal to any in this country,, on which are laid 70 pound steel rails, over which trains of Pullman cars drawn by powerful locomotives and illuminated and, in fact, heated by electric apparatus are operated at a speed that sends them from one terminal tc the other within two hours.

Bnt the railroad is only one of the matters for which Mr. Green is responsible. Step by step has he progressed mi til he now has charge of all his mother's interests that are west of the Mississippi river, and they are understood to amount to £20,000,000, of which onehalf is in California. This necessitates his taking several trips a year to the Pacific coast. It*

Terrell, his home, iB one of the model towns of Texas, and this is largely due to Mr. Green's efforts. He is fond of fine horses and frequently in the evening takes a drive behind a pair of trotters over some of the paved streets which were put down mainly through his influence. He is interested in most of the local banks, has donated funds for several charitable and educational institutions and has made the Texans feel that he is one of them, even if he has control of a score of millions. IS

And he is still unmarried. Although wheii Mrs. Green dies he will share fully $50,000,000 with his sister Syl via, he has no ambition to have a yacht race on the sea of matrimony. Bachelor life seems to have the greatest charm for him, and it is a fact that the only female photograph in his quarters is that of his sister, of whom he is very fond. Occasionally she takes a trip out to this prairie land of the Lone Star State and visits "Brother Ned," who has christened one of the towns he founded Sylvia as her namesake.

Mr.

D. ALLEN WILLEY.

THE HOLIDAYS.

Munkittrick Meditates on Tliel* Amenities. [Special Correspondence.] SUMMIT, N. J., Dec. 20.—The occasional vagrant snowflake pirouetting through the silent ashen air of the silver drab day tells us that Christmas is again almost on hand. There is a feeling of Christmas in the air that is as unmistakable as the real meaning of the pedagogue's politeness to you on the street when he is aware of the fact that you have a small boy that will shortly be sufficiently ripe to go to school. The shop window is now the thing that is looked into by the young woman as though it were a looking glass, and it is a common thing for some women to exhaust an hour in traveling over the short distance of a block on which six or eight stores are located.

But even as the woman gazes upon the diamond ring, the sealskin saok and the suspended rug so does the small boy gaze long and fondly upon the latest toys that have been invented to make hini happ^' and where one boy is gazing into the shop window there are about 20 companions helping him, and their remarks are critical and full of color. They form such a mob around the window and doorway of the toy store that tho proprietor, instead of being pleased and delighted, haa to step out and threaten to send for a policeman if tBey do not pass on.

The plumber is composed of one great smile, and it is easy to conclude that he regards the world not as his oyster, but as his burst boiler. As lie passes along the street every wayside tree is a Christmas tree that, showers presents in bis lap. His soldering iron ia a scepter, ahd he is as happy as a king. He can tell by the sensation of the wind on his nose and ears just how his patrons' pipes are stauding the atmospheric test. By sticking his head out of the window just before retiring for the night be can make the finest kind of a calculation upon the disasters of the night and what they will yield him, and on this calculation he decides upon the amount of money that he will be warranted in spending on a Christmas present. The only kind of a Christmas that he does not like is a warm one, in which respect his thoughts are identical with those of the coal dealer, who is longing to replace the flesh lost through the summer.

Every man thinks the particular thing in which he deals is just me thing for a Christmas present. Even the barber tells you a bottle of toy rum is the thing of things with the same face that a publisher employs in speaking of a luxuriously illustrated edition of a hundred copies of "Keats" on Japanese paper. And the barber's boy has posted his Christmas box in the most conspicuous place in the whole shop, and he cannot understand how it is tbataregu lax customer can pass it, as one fre quently does, without seeing it. The waiters in the various restaurants are never so ostentatiously polite at any other time of the year as they are now, They smile upon you as though you were a wealthy relative. They do not

but, as he has since acknowledged, this keep you waiting half an hour for your treatment was what be needed. By food. They see that you get ai choice rigid economy he succeeded in paying cut, and never brush the crumbs from his indebtedness at the end of three

the table

months and as a reward he was appoint- check into your coffee. The

ed division superintendent, with $100 wife is capering around gathering shekper month. In this position he acquired els to trim the tree ^and make every practical ideas concerning all parts of a small boy and girl feel as haughty as a railroad and when he left the hills of Vermont and entered the service of the Pullman Car company,

also as

a division

superintendent, young Great waa able to do almost any thing required of a rail

way employee. About three years ago pulls the bobtailed car as be ^^over Mxk Green found that she needed some the shining pave^ J* one to look after a couple of what might mas. The picture of

then be called "fragments" of a line in everywhere, even in the IxiziuirQftho titie "black, waxy country" of Texas, barber, who ia aofull lovejmd gratiDearly 600 miles northwest of New tude at this festive season that "ae for* Orleans. Owing to litigation the -road pta that St. Nicholas had been separated into two parts, and tag along, full beard that be "«JJher as trains were stopped at the Hivision trims nor dyes, but ratfa«rlkrtsU go it. point, the system depending merely on own way—as white as the Chriatmas the business from way stations, it waa •jowdrift, as white as the Christmas rapidly accumulating debts. Here was gooae. R. K. MuxKmnucx.

into your or gayly

plumber or a fashionable dressmaker. the tree is seen everywhere—in the shop window and on the street, wbera it is dispensed for a dime. Sprigs of it decorate the head of the equine that

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We extend to our countless friends and patrons best Wishes for

A MERRY CHRISTflAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR

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L. B, ROOT & CO.

WINTER SCHEDULES ...

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Don't miss the races at the Manhattan. Turkeys, GeeSe, Cigars and Candy as prizes to the winners.

Cake Walk.

Vigo Division No. 83, U. R., K. of P., will give a cake walk and a dance on Wednesday evening, December 29th. The judges are Martin N. Diall, Reuben Butz and A. Z. Foster. The couples that have entered the contest are:

Buff Kaufman, Miss Mandy Mook. Cale Walmsley, Miss Sis Tyler. George Wolf, Miss Ambolena Gates. W. B. Van Huss, Miss Tessie Bruss. Henry Smith, Miss Blanche Miller. Emil Yanskey, Miss Rose Armstrong. John Kadel, Miss Judge Lynch. Leader, Franklin Moses Tuller. First ladies' prize, diamond earring. Second ladies' prize, one ladies' bicycle. Third ladies' prize, gold earring. First gents' prize, one gold watch. Second gents' prize, one waterproof coat. Third gents' prize, one watermelon, weight 50 pounds.

IN EFFECT SUNDAY. DECEMBER 5th.

QUEEN &CRESCENT ROUTE

This will be the event of the season. Everybody invited. Admission, 50c per

COUple.

While looking for holiday presents look at George A. Taylor's Shoes and Slippers. They will make nice and useful presents. 1105 Main street. See us for Rubbers.

is so. No doubt. A bona fide fact-that T. J. GRIFFITH is the champion of shoe dealers in our city. He has the goods. The correct styles. He buys for cash. Sells low for the quality of shoes he handles. He is courteous—same

must be said of Mr. Haberly, Ernest Moore and the rest of his force. Everybody feels at home. He is too busy to write advertising matter so he will ask you all to visit the T. J. GRIFFITH Palace Shoe Store before Xmap. A great bargain is at your command. No. 420 Main street, north side, between Fourth and Fifth streets. $.

Hot Chocolate,

Ice Cream, in any shape or style. Soda Water all the year at Wilvert's,

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Tel. 428..

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Hours Cincinnati to New Orleans and Jacksonville

109 MILES THE SHORTEST. FINEST VESTIBULE!) TRAINS IN THE

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Through Pullman Service is unequalled. Cafe Parlor and Observation Oars daily. Standard Vestlbulod Day CoachesRoute.

hes. Got your tlckots via tho Queen & Crescent W. C. ltlNEARSON, General O

Main.

Geo. J. Hammerstein extends to all his friends and patrons a sincere wish for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Vou Ought to have your pictures framed at "The Modern/' because we know how to do it.

Wilvert for your Christmas candies. The finest assortment of Box Bon-Bona and Chocolates ever seen in Terre Haute. 7x3 and 1115 Wabash avenue. Tel. 428.

Relief In One Day.

South American Nervine relieves the worst cases of Nervous Prostration, Nervousness and Nervous Dyspepsia in a single day. No such relief and blessing has ever come to the invalids of this country. Its powers to cure the stomach aro wonderful in the extreme. It always cures it cannot fail. It radically cures all weakness of the stomach and never disappoints. Its effects are marvellous and surprising. It gladdens the hearts of the suffering and brings immediate relief. It is a luxury to take and always safe. Trial bottles 15 cts. Sold by all druggists in Torre Haute, Ind.

Be in Style

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And have your Cloaks altered in the latest style and steam cleaned, at J. F. Erniisch s. Best workmanship. Work guaranteed.

For Your 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.-

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Cascarets ('aml CaUuirllc. tin- moat wonderful UK'dicnl liwo\er.v of IIk age. eM" ant and rerr.-*lung to tho ltmit:, act gently ami positively on kidneys, liver mid wels, cleansing Hie entire »y•»«* tn. •dispe eolrts, cure lieiiduciio. lever, habitual constipation and biiiouf4iR'*s. Please buy mid try a box of C. C. C. to-day 10, *. rent*. HoM and guaranteed to cure by all dnh gists. *,

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to 1'

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27 north Fourth H»n*et. wIm»m you will alwayn ti' an abundance of the choicest w^aia «f all kinds. They have also 011 hand sausages of all kind^ of tbpir own make. Telephone '252,

Tel. 428.

Wilvert, 713 and 1115 Wa-V bash avenue, manufactures the Improved Alagretta Chocolates., Try them.

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