Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 January 1898 — Page 4

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A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor asd Proprietor. Publication Office, No. 501*4 Ohio Street. Telephone 489.

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UNION

SENATOR HATWA was elected for seven years. The bolting Republicans were seven, but now they are nothing.

IF the debate on civil service ended as 'a drawn battle it was at least a season of great refreshment and outpouring of the spirit.

piper of the Gordon Highlanders,

who was shot through both legs and con tinued to pour forth his eerie music, turns out to be a German, which spoils a picturesque idea of the Highland piper.

WHATEVER may have happened in Indian Territory, if the Indians committed or threatened massacre, a large measure of responsibility rests upon white men who allowed criminals to be burned alive.

editorial writer of the New York Journal says in that paper, over his own name, that "I grow weary of Mr. Bryan." From all Qver the land will arise a swelling chorus in response to Mr. McEwan, "Put it there, Mac—Shake!"

MAYOR MCKISSON, of Cleveland, is not a good Republican. He is a word-walloper, and as such belongs on the other side. His explanation of his position is a literary curiosity and as a political creed is neither flesh, fowl, nor good red herring.

THE old story that the Irish immigrant on landing at New York made his way at once to the police headquarters and got a job may be revived. It is claimed that a glance at the appointments under Van Wyck will reveal a preponderance of Irish-Americans on the official roll of Greater New York.

DOGS are being hurried forward to Klondike, reindeers are being dehorned for shipment and it is said that a selected lot of monkeys is also on the way. After all, it will be found that the reliable and patient mule will be the mainstay of Klondike transportation, except where the railroad and steamboat can be used.

THE sympathizers with Cuba have lately subscribed $7,000 for the relief of the war sufferers in the unhappy island. During the revolution, when American prisoners in England were suffering great hardship, 135,000 was raised in London to aid the rebel prisoners. This is never mentioned in Fourth of July speeches but it was a very good example to follow.

NANSKN, the intrepid explorer, says there are times when he regrets he quiet and solitude of the Arctic regions. One of those times was when he was in Columbus, last week, daring the senatorial struggle, that he mis«ed the peaceful walruses and inquisitive polar bears and the long, star-lit nights. If Mr. Nansen wants to see a quiet that can be felt and a silence profound enough to be heard he should come back an observe the future career of the Republicans who joined the Kurtz-McLean combine.

IIow the world moves was illustrated by a recent event which could not have happened iu remoter times. At a meeting of the Congregational Club in Brooklyn, Father Malone, a very eminent Catholic clergyman, was received with much enthusiasm and he addressed the club on the part of the Roman Catholics in making America. He asserted that his people "are to-day in living sympathy with everything that is truly American, and it matters little the mistakes they make in our politics, though they make egregious ones." As the original Congregationalists were inteusely anti-Catholic it can well be said that the world moves.

AT last Zola joins the immortals if not as a member of the French Academy, at least as one of the bold spirits who will fight against injustice, oppression and fanaticism though he be one against a nation. If Dreyfus is innocent the Paris mob and the authorities that truckle to it are guilty of cruel crime. If he is guilty they have tortured him and revived the barbarity of the dark ages in his punishment. The judgment, of Zola, with his cool, analytical and scientific study of human nature, is worth more than the frenzied clamor of the French people who first condemned Dreyfus because he was a Jew and then searched for the evidence of treason to excuse the persecution. Zola now comes to the defense of the poor Jew.

ONE country pays more for its standing army than the United States pays for pensions. Russia expends $176,000,000 a year for military purposes and this country $141,000,000 for pensions. Next comes France, whose army costs $118,000,000 for half a million men. No European nation could survive if it had to bear our pension roll in addition to its army list, nor would this nation bear the expense of a great standing army in addition to its pensions. It is a serious question, worth considering by those so ready to fight anybody, if we would long endure an expensive war and continue to pay the pensioners. This is not an argument against continuing to pay all meritorious pensions, but it justifies the efforts of Commissioner Evttna to correct abases,and suppress imposition.

CHINA, like Turkey, which is a very sick man. will owe its safety to its weakness and the conflicting claims of its anxious heirs. Its prospects have been much improved in the last fortnight, and yet it has not lifted a finger, further than

to borrow' some money. After all, commerce rales tlie world and shapes the policy of: nations. AH these war vessels hovering around the Yellow Sea are merely advance agents for the commercial travelers who will come next, and the last thing that their commanders are instructed to do is to fire a gun. Trade makes wealth,, wealth pays taxes, and new territory makes trade. The old idea of glory is eliminated, from modern warfare to a great extent, and the most important member of a government is the financier, or business member.

THOSE who lead plain humdrums lives, in which nothing more venturesome occurs than a walk from one end of Terre Haute to the other, can hardly realize the longing and passion which lead such men as Nansen to their perilous ventures. The intensity of these feelings has been expressed by the traveler, Landor, grandson of the famous English writer, who was parodied by Dickens in the Bleak House, as Boythorn, with the tremendous voice, ani a canary perched on his shoulder. Young Landor was maltreated by th3 natives of Thibet. He was stretched on the rack, his head is drawn on one side, both eyes were put out with hot irons and his spine was so injured that he will never be free from intense pain, even if he lives long. He brought back valuable memoranda and pictures of a little known country, and he counts what he secured as worth what it cost. He had devoted his life to exploration and science and does not complain because so much of his life has been wrecked and so little left. Flippant or commonplace criticisms are wasted on such men as Nansen, Peary, Landor and Andree. It, cannot be that their ardent lives and tremendous labors are wasted. At least they plant flags on peaks that show only the strange device

Excelsior."

ASTOUNDING but interesting discoveries have been made by a Logansport man. There need be no surprise that Edison and Tesla are eclipsed by or Sir Isaac Newton refuted by an Indiana scientist. The discoveries are an incandescent light that will endure indefinitely without consumption or waste of material, and that the Newtonian law of the attraction of matter, or gravity, is a mistake. The Logansport light comes from a glass globe, containing a chemical compound, exhausted of its air and hermetically sealed. There can be no combustion in this, but simply the movement of atoms to cause light. It reminds us of the theory that accounts for the brilliance and light-emitting property of the diamond, which are said to be due to the molecular motion or constant movement -among themselves of the molecules of the gem. The assertion that matter has no attraction, one mass with another, will cause a great deal of trouble if successfully proved. Until Newton came along with his apple there were thousands of unsolved problems, or else answered by as many different answers. Newton, by his wonderful discovery, offered one master key that opened thousands of closed doors. The music of the spheres was tuned to one harmonious note. We hope the man from Logansport is not going to introduce a discord.

Beauty Utility and Value

Are happily combined in Hood's Sarsaparilla Coupon Calendar for 1898. The lovely child's head in an embossed gold frame, surrounded by sprays of flowers in mosaic, the harmonious pad in blue with clear figures, and the Coupons by means of which many valuable books and other articles may be obtained, make up the most desirable Calendar we have ever seen. The first coupon article is Hood's Practical Cook's Book a handsome, useful volume of 350 pages. Ask your druggist for Hood's Coupon Calendar, or send 6 cents in stamps for one to C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

It is along head that knows no turning when a pretty girl passes. A stupid man compliments a woman's pretty teeth, but a clever man makes her laugh.

The belle in the choir often brings more young men to church than the bell in the steeple.

The man with plenty of push is usually successful, but he isn't in it with the man who has a pull.

Money talks. Perhaps that's why they put a woman's head on the silver dollar. Age may not be garrulous, but it*is sure to tell on a woman in the course of time.

A conference of the Republican county committee and a number of other members of the party was held at the Commercial college this morning, to discuss the plans for the coming city and county crmpaigns. There was a very large attendance, and a great deal of enthusiasm was manifested in the prospects for the coming year.

Coughs, colds, phneumonia and fevers may be prevented by keeping the blood pure and the system toned up with Hood's Sarsaparilla.

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For Your Sunday Dinner. Spring Lamb, Steer Beef, Sweet Breads, 4 Pig Pork,

Tenderloins, Spare Ribs, Beef Tenderloins. EHRMANN, Fourth and Ohio. Clean Meat Market Telephone 220.

He Won the Day.

Dr. John Bachman, a beloved minister in Charleston not much over 20 years ago, was fond of music. Moreover, he had an excellent means of managing a church choir, one which other clergymen might use with good effect. -In his early student life the singing was very bad in the old church of which he was a member. He set to work with the zeal of youth and the enthusiasm belonging to his own character to reform this undesirable state of things, and having mustered a large class procured a singing master to lead it.

The congregation soon began to take delight in the result, and Bachman watched his class with great satisfaction, not at all alloyed by the discovery that his own voice proved neither true nor sweet, though it was a most agreeable one in speaking.

But his choir was not flawless. Its members fell out, and one Sunday when the pastor gave out the hymn an ominous silence reigned. John Bachman waited a moment in deep anxiety. Then, with his ever present and self forgetful desire to help, he rose in his seat and began to raise the tune.

That was enough. The singers smiled and chimed in by one consent as lustily as if they bad no greater desire than to drown his willing but discordant voice. He smiled also and gave them the floor, and never did he cease to enjoy the situation. "My class was afraid of my bad singing," he would say to his grandchildren, a humorous look stealing into his eyes. "So I won the day."—Youth's Companion.

Good Friends.

In a'cavalry troop there generally grows up between each horse and his rider a strong bond of isympathy and friendship. Soldiers in the cavalry service are in most cases stationed at remote western posts, where, far from home and friends and as a rule unmarried, they are necessarily very limited in their social pleasures and amusements. On this aocount,v perhaps, the propensity for having pets of various kinds is v$ry strongly developed and increases the sense of fellowship between the horses and their ridera Cruelty or inattention to the wants of their horses is a rare trait among cavalrymen, and even should this be the case from the feeling of proprietorship cruelty from one soldier to the horse of another would be resented as an injury to the owner himself.

This comradeship is more in evidence upon along march or while in the field engaged upon arduous or dangerous duties. On suoh occasions, when forage often becomes scarce, cavalry soldiers will jealously guard every grain that their horses reoeive, and should the sergeant through oarelessness or prejudice give a trifle more or less to one than the other it often provokes« vast deal of grumbling, so closely is the trooper interested in the welfare of his horse. Lippincott's Magazine.

Foy and the Lanatiol

Eddie Foy, the comedian, spent a summer vacation at his old home in oentral New York. One day as he was strolling past the large insane asylum that stands on the outskirts of the town he was startled by a low "Hist!" and on looking up saw one of the worst heads that ever came under his gaze peering over the wall. Eddie was not frightened, for he did not think the maniac could soale the wall, but he quickened his pace. He had proceeded but a short distance when he heard a scrambling, and on looking saw that the madman had climbed over the wall and was following him. Eddie -walked fast, but the maniac, who was an immense fellow, with a face that wore a demoniac look, walked faster. Foy trotted a little, and the madman trotted after him. Eddie finally broke into a run and was horrified to see that his pursuer was not only running also, but was gaining steadily. Eddie is not muoh of a sprinter, but on this oocasion he made remarkable time, but soon Foy could hear the labored breathing of his pursuer and felt that he could make no further effort. Just as he was about t. faint from exhaustion the maniac reaohed forward, touched him gently on the shoulder and said: "Tag! You're it. "—-San Francisco Argonaut.

Offered Him Five Cenu» pj.

The force of habit sometimes manifests itself in peculiar ways, says the Chicago Times-Herald. A young woman entered an elevator in one of Chicago's high buildings and when she reached the eleventh floor tendered the elevator man a fee of 5 cents. "What is this for, miss?" he asked in some surprise. 1^4 'It is for my fare." "But I don't collect fare."

The young woman looked bewildew!. "Aren't yon the oonduotor?" she asked. "lam theeohdu&tifrof this elevator." "O-h-h!" said the girl as if awaking from a trance. "I am so accustomed to paying car fare that I forgot I was not on a street car."

And she took back her 5 cents and smiled as if she enjoyed the mistake.

A Pitiful Position.

Miss Goodgirl—What are you thinking of so intently? Young Gay boy—Well, if you must know I was thinking what the result would be if I should suddenly grab you and kiss you.

Miss Goodgirl—Oh, Mr. Gayboy, bow terrible for yon to have such thoughts when my brother and father are both out, my mother sick in bed np stairs and no pae in the world who oonld possibly oome to my assistance! —Harlem Life.

Nineveh was 16 miles by 9, the walls 100 feet high and thick enough for three chariots to drive abreast.

The wearing of orange blossoms as a bridal decoration originated in the days of the crusaders.

TEHEE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1898.

It Was Scrofula

Medicines Drove the Humor to His Eyes

Hood's Sarsaparilla Eradicated the Disease from His System. Eruptions appeared on my little boy's shoulder and face. The effect of the medicines prescribed for him was to drive the humor from his face and shoulder to his eyes, which became badly inflamed. The more medicine he took the more the humor spread. We read so much of what Hood's Sarsaparilla had done for others we decided to try it. He began taking it and we persevered in its use and after a while the eruptions began to disappear, and finally the flesh wee all healed over. From that time there has been no return of the scrofula." MBS. CYBUS DOTJB, Silver Lake, Indiana. Remember

Hood's

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Wrestling With the Czar.

fc One of the stories of Peter the Great heard in St. Petersburg is of the great czar's wrestling match with a young dragoon.

Once in the imperial palace, so the story goes, Peter was at table with a great many prinoes and noblemen, and soldiers were posted within the hall. The czar was in a joyous mood, and, rising, called out to the company: "Listen, prinoes and boyars. Is there among you one who will wrestle with me to pass the time and amuse the ozar?"

There was no reply, and the czar repeated his challenge. No prince or no' bleman dared wrestle with his sovereign. But all at once a young dragoon stepped out from the ranks of the soldiers on guard. "Listen, Orthodox czar," he said, will wrestle with thee." "Well, young dragoon," said Peter, "I will wrestle with thee, but on these conditions: If thou throwest me, I will pardon thee, but if thou art thrown thou shalt be beheaded. Wilt thou wrestle on those conditions?" "I will, great czar," said the soldier.

They closed, and presently the soldier, with his left arm, threw the czar, and with his right he prevented him from falling to the ground. The sovereign was clearly beaten,

Somewhat in the spirit of Herod, the czar offered the soldier whatever reward he should claim, and the soldier ignobly claimed the privilege of drinking free as long as he lived in all the inns belonging to the crown.—Youth's Companion. im' -.wikwi

A Queen's Indiscretion,

In connection with the stories of Bismarck's enemies among royal ladies the following anecdote, which has never been publioly related, may now be printed: Queen

Chocolate And Coffee For Caramels.

Put into a granite saucepan a quarter of a pound of grated, unsweetened chocolate, four ounces of butter, one pound of brown sugar, a gill of molasses, a gill of cream and a teaspoonful of vanilla sugar. Stir the whole over the fire until thoroughly mixed, when boil slightly until it cracks or hardens when dropped into ice water. Turn into greased shallow pans of a depth of half an inch and 6tand aside to cool. When nearly cold, grease a sharp knife with olive oil and mark the caramels into .squares, cutting part way through the mixture. When cold, break apart, wrap in waxed paper and put in tin boxes to keep.

Coffee caramels may be made after the same 'recipe as chocolate caramels, omitting the gill of cream and chocolate and substituting a gill of black coffee.

Nut caramels are made by putting into the chocolate caramel mixture a half pint of mixed chopped nuts just as you are turning them into the greased pan.—Mrs. & T. Borer in Ladies' Home Journal.

The Collegian's Retort.

Members of the class in Cambridge had been rather flippant in regard to some pompous authority, and a fellow was eulogizing him. Said he "Yon are probably ignorant, young gentlemen, that the venerable person of whom you have been speaking with such levity is one of the profonndest scholars of our age-—indeed, it may be doubted whether any man of our age has bathed more deeply in the sacred fountains of antiquity." "Or come up drier, sir," was the reply of the undergraduate.—" Recollections of Aubrey de Vat*

The average weight of the brain of the

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Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Sold by all drugists. Price, $1 six for $5.

Loom Damask

60-inch

72-inch

Sophia of the Nether

lands, the first wife of King William HI of Holland, was too great a friend of the Emperor Napoleon IH, the Empress Eugenie and of France generally to take kindly to the great chancellor. Before the big war of 1870 and probably some time after the Luxembourg squabble there was an international exhibition in Amsterdam, which the queen visited. She was conducted over the whole place by the committee, and as tbey came to a certain section one of the members said, "Now your majesty will see the greatest enemy of Germany. "Ah! Bismarck!" she cried with some glee. The members stood aghast and never repeated this rash exclamation. The "greatest enemy" he had t* exhibit was not, of course, Bismarck at all, but only a very much enlarged reproduction of either the phylloxera or the Colorado beetle, whioh at that time did a great deal of harm to German agriculture.—Westminster Gazette. 1$

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

Kdacate Tout llmvela Willi Caacaret*. Candy Csitlmrth', euro constipu.tiou forever, 10c. 25c. ir C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money

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 are 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 Terre Haute, Ind.

No-To-Bac tor Fifty Cents.

Guaranteed tobacco babit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 60c. $1. All druggists.

Queen & Crescent.

86 Miles Shortest to New Orleans, 109 Miles Shortest to Jacksonville from Cincinnati. Cafe, parlor and observation cars. Through Pullman sleeping cars.

We Have Moved

To our new rooms, 508 and 510 Main street, next to Pixley's, and can show as fine a line of Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and General House Furnishing Goods as any house in the city. ^,

L. B. ROOT & CO.

Scotch Cream Damask

72-inch

54-inch

are the best after-dinner

nOCHl S fills puis, aid digestion. SSe.

All Linen Damask

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LADIES' SUITS AND WAISTS

$10

$14,

Prices Make

We are doing a fine business. This must be the biggest January sale in the store's history. The Linens, the Muslin Underwear, the White Goods, in fact every department in the house offers unusual money saving chances right now. We must reduce stock and make prices that ought to loosen your purse strings. |s

TABLE Buy linens now." We cannot promise present prices LINBNS after this month. Everything in linens at less than actual worth.I

cents a yard.

German Silver Bleached Damask

Barnsley Cream Damask

Bleached Damask

64-inch

All Linen Damask

cents a yardv

cents a yard.

cents a yard/®!

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now

cents a yard.

We are selling Towels, Napkins, Bed Spreads, Muslins, Sheets and Pillow Cases at less than present cost.

$4.75.

All our Fine Tailor-Made Suits, worth from

Our opening of Muslin underwear had a trifle

UNDERWEAR the worst of the weather, but the attractiveness of the line and the lowness of the prices ought to bring customers in any kind of weather. You'll find underwear style quality and worth here such as you never dreamed of at the price. Come in and let us show you.*

Positive Clearance of all Suits and Waists at half and less than half price. Stylish garments at less than cost of material, to say nothing

-vv-' of the making. adies' and Misses' Suits, all wool serges, cheviots and novelty cloths, worth from

$9,

now

$2.98.

A lot of Jackets and Tight-fitting Suits, elegantly tailored, ful silk lined, black and blue serges, novelty cloths, etc., worth

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WAISTS for

cents each.

$14.50

All Wool Plaid Waists, full yoke back, gathered front, detachable collar, down from

iig8.

Fine quality Velveteen Waists in navy, green and garnet, very stylish, reduced to

$2.48.

All our Satin Taffeta Silk waists down from

$3.48,

3-98 and

4.98.

O'NEIL & SUTPHEN

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NOTICE

is ^greater than that of

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Manufacturers and Dealers in Machinery and Supplies. Repairs a Specialty

Eleventh and Sycamore StsM Terre Haute, Ind.

OP APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATRIX.

State of Indiana, Vigo county, as: Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Edward A. Johnson, deceased.

cents a yard.

$20,

WAISTS Roman Stripe Flannelette Waists, the

Outing Flannel Waists with detachable collar marked down from $1 to

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MONDAY, JANUARY 17

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18

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MONETARY CONVENTION.

TRAINS AS YOU WANT THEM 3 25 a. m. dally. 12:85 p. m. daily.% 7:00 a. m. except Sunday. 1:50 p. m. dally. 11:25 a- m. daily. 5:15 p. m. daily.

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Telephone 332. Over McKeen's Bank

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Farther information cheerfully furnished on application at City Ticket Office, 664 Wabash avenue (telephone 37) or'Union Station.

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