Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 January 1898 — Page 4

THE* MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor.

Publication Office, No, 601)4 Ohio Street. Telephone 4(59." The Mail Is sold in the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mail, at the rate of £2 a year, $1 for si* months, or 50 cents for three months. utered at the Postofiice at Terre Haute,

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WHAT MR. Dole wants to know is if he is to have the daily dole of sympathy or a substantial piece of bread.

THERE is no reason yet for believing that a beet-sugar plant in Indiana can beat a hominy or flour mill.

IF Dora Clay will only go 'back to her antideluvian husband, Cassius M., and stay there, and keep her name out of the papers for three consecutive days, all will be forgiven her.

EVANGELIST AIOOJJV, when he took up a collection of $700 for the suffering Cubans, did more for them than all the speechmakers of congress that speak with one eye on their notes and the other on the galleries.

AFTKII introducing civil service reform into the immigration department by requiring the foreigners to know how to read and write we will have to require that all residents shall know enough to do the same. In this respect Indiana sets a good example to the country.

MK. KURTZ, of Ohio, whose resignation has been requested by the people he represents on the Republican national committee, has one of the characteristics commonly charged to the Democrats with whom he affiliated in his effort to defeat Mark Hanna. He may die, but he will not resign.

IF Mr. Hanna has done all that the McKissonites charge he is a very bad man. If we can believe that one man is capable of it we can believe that another is capable of perjury and equally iniquitious conduct. McKisson and Kurtz, in their rage and disappointment, are capable of a good deal. ________________________

THE logic of "10 to 1" is being discussed in connection with Senator Wolcott's admission that some other ratio will be better. There is no escape from the logic of Jefferson, who said that the ratio of gold and silver is a commercial question and depends upon their value in the markets of the world.

THE legality of trading stamps has been tested in the courts of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and judgment rendered against them, on the ground that they are an intervention in legitimate business between buyer and seller by a new middleman who makes a profit from both sides without contributing anything to either.

THERE are, after all, some good things about Indianapolis. It is the Hoosier art center and Alls the position very creditably. The exhibition of paintings by Indiana artists held at that city are of great interest and are described with much ability in the local press. The young men of the press discuss art with an ease and self-possession that lisplays both verve and nerve, but we find ample reason to admire our native artists and for hoping that some day a display of their works can be secured for Terre Haute. It is well worth the effort that will be required.

"SOME things can be done as well as others" said Sam Patch, who had a talent for jumping from high places and finally lost his life. Men are now making much money and displaying wonderful art in the exhibition of shadowgraphs or pictures made by the shadows of their hands upon a screen. They produce portraits and other pictures with as much accuracy as couhl be shown with a pencil. This is one more example of the opportunities that surround us but are invisible to the majority. The fable which told us of the magic salve that, when rubbed on the eyelid, enabled one to see all the treasures in tho earth was true as far as it said that there is an abundance of treasure and riches which waits only to be seen. Even Terre Haute is full of undeveloped, valuable opportunities waiting for somebody to pick them up, and by no means all shadows.

Or ft state geologist, who is a citizen of Vigo county, persistently and sensibly urges the transcendant importance of Indiana's mineral resources and as often reminds the people of the waste and neglect of the wealth which is treated as if it were merely dirt under our feet instead of uncoined wealth. If all the money that will be spent in Indiana during the next few years for Klondike stocks, mines and travel could be used for the development Indiana clay, shale, coal, stone, gas and oil. and for their exploitation, protection and manufacture, far more wealth would be added to Indiana than by the gold that will be found in Alaska for years to come. The Klondike fever will take more money out of the state in bulk than it will restore to individuals. But the development of the state's natural resources, in addition to-creating new and valuable plants, will add to the value of the land of all Indiana, bring capital and population to the state and add to the trade of every branch of commerce, Vigo county alone has clays, shales and coals that can add millions of dollars a year to our business, not by any sudden spurt, but by persistent and welldirected efforts. If a collection of samples of every kind of clay or mineral to be found in Vigo, with a sample of every article that could be made from them, could

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be gathered in some local museum our people would be amazed by its variety and extent. It would not be a bad idea to devote some time and money to making such a museum for Vigo county.

THE president of our very small sister republic is now in this country to complete the policy which he was elected to support. The republic of Hawaii is as well governed and as strong today as it ever was. It is not a present crisis but a future peril that brings Mr. Dole to this country. If the United States definitely rejects annexation the future of Hawaii may be one of revolution and anarchy. Dole is the agent of the annexation party and his visit is the natural sequence of his election to the presidency of a republic which was organized with no other purpose than the seeking of union with this nation. He has displayed remarkable ability, admirable tern per and self control and deserves the honor and respect he will receive while in this country. ____________________

THERE is a latent element of savagei-y in all civilizations, which comes to light in times of excitement. It was exhibited lately in Prague when the Bohemian mobs clamored for the blood of Germans and Jews, pillaged property and attacked orphan asylums, and in Paris, when the French mob threatene the Jews and cried for pillage. Our own history is not free of outbreaks against sects or races, but, on the whole, this happy country is safer than any other from disturbances that arise out of long-continued abuses and previous mis-government. The selfrestraint of a people was never shown in a greater measure than by the Americans in the Cuban question. There are more excuses or valid reasons for interference than for* abstaining. No other great power in the world would have kept its hands off from Cuba under the same relations that we hold. We have attended strictly to our own business, a policy that carried out invariably, would be best for the happiness and welfare of the people, although a selfish one. We cannot be sure that this will last, for any day there may be an explosion which will arouse the most intense excitement and unite the whole country in a demand for interference at any cost.

AN ingenious writer on the able editorial page of the Indianapolis Journal recently demonstrated that the typewriter is responsible for much slushy and unnecessary writing, luring, by the facility of writing, many writers into unnecessary verbosity and copious expenditure of words. The article itself rather indicated that it was type-written., Briefly stated, it contended that writers are so much relieved of the mechanical drudgery of writing by the type-writer that they prolong their stories and articles and pad their articles with many pases or lines not needed to tell the story. Possibly the writer mistakes an effect for a cause. The demand for space writing, the multitude of books, papers and magazines, the immense volume of business correspondence, and other developments of this bustling age have made a writing machine necessary and offered an immense premium for its invention. Cheap paper, which has encouraged the expansion of papers and magazines and the issue of floods of cheap books, the manufacture of a fabulous amount of clean white paper, to be covered with ink every day, has had more to do with the success of the type writer than that machine had to do with the dilution and tenuation of written material. Whatever be the cause, no doubt an immense amount of unnecessary writing is used to convey to a long-suffering people the stories and the information that it thinks it must read. Like Hamlet, it reads, "words, words, words." We need not despair, however, of the ultimate future of the literature of an intelligent and studious people, among which is diffused, in constantly growing supply, the best examples of ancient and modern literature. Even a horse will revolt against a diet of shavings or sawdust, when he can get better, and the human mind may be trusted to discriminate between the products of the mind and the machine

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Th« Kom»noe of a 'Cemetery. Out at Calvary is a monument maker who has grown wise, and this is the way it happened:

He is an economical man and attends to business. He used to receive all callers and show tliem about the place. If two prospective patrons came together, he saved time by showing them around together, pointing out the sorrow enduring qualities of certain stones, the tear compelling possibilities of certain designs and the grief assnaging merits of the price. One day a man came and looked over the place for a monument sufficiently eloquent as a marker for a wife deceased. He came very near buying a beantiful shaft on an expensive base, with a world of chiseling about it. He mid he would come ont next day and decide.

Next day he came also came a widow who had about given a definite order for a towering monument for the most mourned of husbands. The monument man saved time and conducted the two around together. They looked at the things already all but ordered. Then they waited and desired to look farther. Then they dawdled and talked a good deal to each other. Then they went away on the same train. In a day or two they came back together, picked out one monument for the two deceased worthies—a rather modest double header, by the way—and told the stone man they had concluded to get married and to use the money they saved in furnishing a fiat.

Now the stone man has a helper, and bereaved men are never fallowed to inspect the place in company with bereaved women.—Chicago Post.

•''Aluminium and Water. The fact is demonstrated that aluminium is as excellent a purifier of water as there is. The salts of this metal are insoluble in water, and consequently it is plain that wljen these salts are formed the water oan be strained and the impurities removed therefrom. Perhaps the most practicable method of purifying water by this means is the trough method, as it is called, the trough being corn posed of plates of alumininm and zino or iron, six or eight inches apart. One end of the tank affords an entrance for the volume of water which passes over the top of one plate and thence under the plate next to it, this being accomplished by the fact that the elevation of the fipveral plates is different. In connection with this tank or trough there is an electrical generator of moderate size, and, though aluminium will not form the negative pole of a current, the other plates used will. Now, as it is always the case that when an electric current comes in cbntact with water in this manner it decomposes a certain portion of the fluid, as it were, the result of such decomposition is that ozone is formed and oxygen freed—the meaning of this bfeing the absolute extinction of life in any microbes or organic matter which the water might contain, leaving it—after meeting thr purification the salts of aluminium occasion—as clear and healthful as the water which flows from, the purest spring.—New York Son.

Half a century ago the iconoclast who would have dared question that Romulus and Remus owed their nurturing to a she wolf would have been laughed to scorn by most lovers of the classics. Twenty-five years later the animal was substituted, on the part of tutors, by a woman named Lupa—a most inglorious conclusion, derived solely from imagination. Today the tendency to ignore all sentiment causes such ideas to receive scant courtesy, and when sentiment is introduced as evidence is met by the undeniable statement that the same miracle is accredited with preserving the lives of many gods and heroes of antiquity. Consequently if a single case of a child being fostered and reared by animals can be substantiated beyond question the result will be to rehabilitate as history much literature that solely on this account has been relegated to the realm of fiction.—Lippincott's.

His Grace.

Little Milly is a good Sunday school scholar, and on that account was invited with two or three others to spend the day at the minister's residence by way of reward. When -the dinner came on, the good man said such along grace before meat that Milly yawned and looked hungrily at the covers. "Why are you yawning, Milly?" asked the minister.,. "Does not your father say grace?"

"Oh, yes," answered Milly promptly, "but it isn't so long as that." "And what does he say?" pursued the clergyman, hoping to obtain a text for a little homily. "He says different things, but last time when he sat down he took off the cover and said: 'Great snakes! Do you call this a dinner?'

The homily was postponed.—Strand Magazine.

-.7 Hollow Society. "Oh, pa," exclaimed the dear girl, her sapphire eyes brimming with unshed tears, "how can yon say that society is hollow?" "Why shoxldn't I?" retorted pa, with a coarse laugh that betrayed the fact that he had paid more attention to making money than to acquiring polish.

Why shouldn't I, when I have to pay the bills for feeding the gang that you have here at your blow (rats?"—Indianapolis Journal.

Pennsylvania produces hardware manufactures to the value of $388,000,000 yearly, which is equivalent to 71 per inhabitant! theaferage in Great Britain bains 119 and in Germany $10.

Darwlli as Pupil.

Thirty years ago Dean Farrar, at that time plain Mr. Jr-urar and merely a master at HarrcP* school, delivered a lecture in which he attacked the system then in vogue of spending much time over Greek and Latin verse. He urged that the practice should be abandoned in case of boys who had no aptitude for such work. In place of this artificial drilling the lecturer advocated the study of science and natural history as likely to benefit boys who cared nothing for Greek and Latin versification.. I Of course the lecturer was opposed by those who were believers in the old classical system. But he has received his reward. Then there was but one well known school in England which had a "science master now there is scarcely a school of npte which has not. Then the "Latin wrse" system was universal now it is almost entirely abandoned.

He also had the pleasure of receiving from Charles Darwin a letter of historio interest in the annals of English education, wherein the great biologist relates his own experience, while a pupil, in being snubbed because he preferred chemistry to the classics. He writes: "I was at school at Shrewsbury under a great scholar, Dr. Butler. I learned absolutely nothing except by amusing myself by reading and experimenting in chemistry.' Dr. Butler somehow found this out and publicly sneered at me before the whole school for such gross waste of time. I remember he called me a pococurante (careless, indifferent fellow), which, not understanding, I thought was a dreadful name."

Dean Farrar, commenting on Dr. Butler's mistake with regard to the greatest intellect which ever passed under his tuition", calls it a fault of the times and not of the man. In those days boys described chemistry as "stinks," and Darwin's nickname at school yras ,'*Gas."—Youth's Companion.

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*-*'u- Wolf Children. The adoption of human infants by wild and carnivorous quadrupeds has obtained more or less credence among the vulgar from the earliest ages, and while such today are for the most part poohpoohed as idle tales the skeptics have little idea of the evidence that has been offered in substantiation thereof.

Mythological Messes.

Thoughts Best Kept UnBaid "John," said Mra Younglove. "do you always tell me all your thoughts?" "Well, nearly always," John replied.

She drew back frightened and exclaimed: "Nearly always! Oh, John, then you have some thoughts that yon don't tell me?" "Yes, dear," said he, attempting to put an arm round her, "there are some that I think it best not ttftell you." "Oh, and I thought you were so honorable!" "But, love," the fond husband dried, "you would not care to hear thethoughts I allude to." "Then what are they?" she tragically demanded. "They are those," he meekly said, "that come to me when I am shaving." i—Pearson's Weekly.

Winner Kither Way.

"Young man,'' said the multimillionaire angrily, "how dare you get engaged without my knowledge and to an actress?" "Such a matter, sir, is one in which I do not think that even a father should be absolute." "But yon never earned a penny in your life. Supposing I publicly renounce yon?" "All right, sir. The more yon publicly renounce me the more yon advertise my wife."—Strand Magazine.

How to Remember History. Teacher—With whom did Achilles light at the battle of Troy?

Pupil—Pluto. "Wrong. Try again." "Nerou" "Nero? How do yon"— .-J.'l "Then it must have been Hector. 3 mew it was one of our three dogs."— Lrfanctan fftm

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In an out of the way town not long ago a woman stumbled upon "The Minerva Bookstore." Why Minerva?'' she asked the attendant deity, presumably an understudy. "Why, don't you know?" was the answer. "Minerva was the^goddest of war." Then, at sight of the woman's face, "Some folks says she was the goddest of something else, but she wasn't 'twas war."

It wasn't an attendant deity, but the only young man at a summer resort, who was responsible for a like mythological mix up. He was a youth of— well, perhaps 17, and he posed as erudite. He was given to big sounding words and phrases, and whenever he could he lugged in a classical allusion. The only "reason the girls put up with him was, of course, because it was he or nothing. One evening the young folk prepared to disperse at an even later hour than usual. Commonplace members of the crowd said how sleepy they were and how glad they would be to get some rest. Not so the erudite youth. "Well, "he yawned with his most blase air, "I tbink I'll go home and throw myself in the arms of Bacchus."—New York Sun.

Cishing For Frogs.

To fish for frogs a man needs a broad, flat bottomed, steady punt, a cane pole, with 25 feet of good line, three hooks tied in a btmcb and a companion. To the three hooks is tied a sifiall piece of bright red flannel. The cast is made, and the lure is drawn slowly along the water. The frog rises within a yard of it, looks at it and says "Aba!" He approaches within six inches and says "Oho!" Then he says "A-a-ah!" and grabs it. The next instant he swings in air, hooked through the throat. He is lifted into the boat, grasped between the left thumb and forefinger, and the point of the small blade of a knife is pressed down just between his eyes. Sometimes he sheds tears. His struggles are stilled in an instant. His hind legs are quickly 'severed from his body and tossed into a bucket filled with ice water. The remainder of him is thrown overboard, where it floats ghastly white, bobbing gently up and down, revolving slowly in small circles and accusing the fisherman of murder.—Chicago Times-Her-ald.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20

JAMES B. MACKIE "GRIMES' CELLAR DOOR"

"DIED.

MIOIIEL—At Marlon, Indiana. Thursday, January 20th, 1898, at 2 p. m. Honry Michel, husband of Loulso Dobs Mlcliel.

Funeral from tho residence of his brother-in-law, John G. Helnl. 204 north Eighth street. Sunday, January 23d, at 10 a. ra.

Frle nds of the family arc invited to attend. Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.

'A. M. HIGGINH, Attorney.

V! OTIOE OF APPOINTMENT AH ADMIN!M ISTIlATOli. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of J. Spafford Hunt, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

THE

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ALONZO C. DUDDLESTON.

J. L. PRICE, Attorney.

NOTICE

OF APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATRIX.*

State of Indiana, Vigo county, ss: Notice is hereby given that tho undorslgned has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Edward A.Johnson, deceased, Tho estate is solvent.

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OTICE OF INSOLVENCY.

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In the Vigo Circuit court. In th« matter of the estate of Daniel Roper, deceased. Lucius Lybrand, administrator.

Notice Is hereby given that upon petition filed In said court by the administrator of said estate, setting up .the insufficiency of the estate of said decedent to pay the debts and liabilities thereof, the judge of said

accordingly.

The ci editors of the said estate are therefore notified of such Insolvency and required to file their claims against said estate for allowance.

Witness the clerk and seal of said court at the city of Terre Haute, Indiana, this 20th day of January, 1898.

DAVID L. WATSON, Clerk of Vigo Circuit court.

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