Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1898 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 501H Ohio Street. Telephone 469. The Mall Is sold In the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any 'iddress, by mall, at the rate of $2 a year, $1 for six montfcs. or 50 cents for three months.

Entered at the Postofflce at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

BUNION

LETTERS FROM CUBA.

There is no subject in which the American public is more interested at the present time than that of Cuba, and every patriotic citizen sympathizes with the Cubans in the fight they are making against the most effete monarchy of the old world to secure their independence. Naturally they are also interested in knowing the exact condition of affairs in the island of Cuba. Everything regarding it is read with the greatest avidity. The Mail has made arrangements with Mrs. Fannie B. Ward, a well-known newspaper correspondent, who is now in Cuba, for a series of letters detailing the exact condition of affairs. In a letter to The Mail, dated Havana, Cuba, February 5th, she tells of her safe arrival there, and says that she hopes to go into the interior the present week, and that her first letter will probably be sent soon. Mrs. Ward has spent a greater portion of the past few years in visiting points of interest in the Central and South American republics, and is familiar with the people and customs prevailing there. She writes knowingly of the situation in Cuba, and her letters will prove of more than ordinary iuterest to The Mail readers.

TIIKKK is sufficient evidence that Esterhazy might have done anything with which he was charged. He talks like such a fool.

THK dire suspicions that appeared in the big type in regard to the explosion on the Maine were due in part to the exigencies of the headliner.

A VIADUCT may be a carriage-way over an obstruction or through a hill, but no one can tell what the Ohio street crossing will be like in one guess.

THE local press is throwing boquets at itself, with good reason, for having served up the news of the Maine disaster a day in advance of the Chicago and St. Louis papers which are sold here.

TUR theft of the I)e Lome letter was intended as a torpedo by the Cuban junta but it did not go off. The Cuban question will be settled on its merits before long, and all the merits are on one side.

IN THK reckless crowding of the Bryan Democracy, the Populists, and the silver Republicans into one frail craft is to be seen a gathering of high explosives which threatens an outburst either afore or abaft the main funnel one of these days.

WK IIAVK been told that if we could see ourselves as others see us it would from many evils free us. Men who cultivate race prejudices have an object lesson in France, where blind prejudice leads the crusade against the thrifty, industrious and law-abiding Jew. The anti-Semitic movement in Europe is as senseless as an as an anti-foreigner fad anywhere else, in China or America. While the Jews as a race are helpless, no nationever persecuted them without suffering for it in some way or other.

THE events of the last few days havs te*ted the self-oontrol and good sense of the American people, who are not a collection of high explosives, but more like the large-grained, slow-burning caunon powder. Neither the DoLome iucident nor the Maiue disaster caused the Americans to lose their heads. There is no Madrid, Paris nor Vienna in this country to turn out crazy mobs to howl around the halls of legislation. The Spaniards instead of suspecting Americans ought to throng their cathedrals and offer thanks that there is an America.

THK year 1898 is not two months old yet but it has seen many exploded crises. Portents of storms have disappeared even as the sea's ruffed surface sinks under a coat of oil. Revolution in Austria, the fracture of China, mutiny in India, the dance of the Dervishes in Egypt and famine on the Yukon are no longer imminent. There is yet one ominous storm center but as the steadiness of the last two administrations has so long averted war with Spain, we may hope that in the fullness of time, as fruit falls from its stem. Cuba will fall from the weary arms of Spain, to its great relief. We can assume that negotiation will take the plaoe of fighting before the summer is over, during a temporary or permanent armistice.

WrriiiJf Ave minutes one of the finest men-of-war in the United States was destroyed and sunk, and about 960 gallant seamen were lost, by mysterious explosion In the harbor at Havana, last Tuesday night. The Maine, though a magnificent and the most modern of war ships was considered unlucky and it was a double stroke of bad lack that it should meet It* fate at Havana, where the situation Is no tense as naturally to excite suspicion. We need only to remember how the Americans felt in ISftl-lSKi, how they hated their enemies and their enemies' friends, to reali** the feeling in Havana and Spain. Whatever the cause the dis

aster was horrible. With that tonch of nature which makes all the world kin, all the world thrills with sorrow and sympathy and from royal courts and Republican rulers, from hated Spain itself, have come earnest words of condolence and regret. The expressions and actions of the Spanish officials in regard to this disaster and the De Lome incident hare been decorous and fitting in tone and spirit. Thp self-control and repose of the Americans and their representatives at Washington have been admirable and a guarantee of national honor and justice.

THE list of the ships that have gone down at sea, from unknown causes, would make a fearful roll of disaster. How near the Veendam came to being added to it last week, and the Maine, this week, if its explosion had occurred on the open 'sea, The St. Louis, which succored the Veendam, belongs to the American line which succeeded an unlucky company, the

Inman

which lost six vessels in close order, some of them never being heard of, after sailing. Thus far, more great iron-clads have been lost through accident than by war, and problems of construction and safety yet remain for solution.

THIS part of the country raises too much corn, and too little wheat, to take any stock in the proposed legislation against corn flour. After consuming corn in a great variety of forms, both solid and liquid, we are not to be scared by corn flour, which differs very little in its constituent elements from wheat flour, and is but one more variety of a good cereal product. The corn convention, held this week at Chicago, has been in the interests of the farmers and has demonstrated anew the excellence of corn. There is but one proper regulation to be made and that is to prevent the substitution of cheap corn fioftr for dearer wheat flour, or if the corn crop happened to fail to prevent working off wheat flour for corn, which might happen. A simple brand, and no new tax, is all that will be necessary.

THE Dingley bill seems to be sustaining the claims of its friends. The gradual increase of the receipts from the new tariff justifies its friends in their predictions that it will soon produce sufficient revenue for the uses of the government. The customs returns for January were $14,300,000 in round figures. This indicates an increase over the December returns of $2,600000, and is exactly $3,000,000 more than the receipts of January, 1897. Beginning with August, the first full month of the Dingley tariff, there has been an increase every month. This increase amounted to $900,000 in September, to $1,800,000 in October, to $100,000 in November and $1,900,000 in December. Last month's receipts were not, however, sufficiently large, exclusive of the money received from the sale of the Uniou Pacific railroad to meet the expenditures, which ware unusually heavy. There was a de ficit, excluding the Union Pacific receipts, for the month of nearly $8,000,000, the deficit since July 1st of last year being nearly $52,000,000. The receipts for the early days of February indicated a decidedly upward tendency, so that a considerable surplus is expected at ,the end of the present month.

The lecture by Gen. Gordon, the famous Confederate soldier, was an event quite above the commonplace of the average entertainment. Few have had the opportunity to see an officer on the other side of such prominence, one who had led such a charge as that which drove in the federal right wing at Gettysburg, who commanded a wing of Lee's army as it was being reduced to despair by Sheridan and who attended Lee in the great act of surrender. Gordon is a fine type of the fighters who made it so hard to conquer the confederacy. It is unique in history to find an old antagonist going among his former enemies, many of whom once would have approved of his being hung for treason (in the height of passion and resentment, however) to praise his former foes and to excite their applause for his own comrades. It will be well worth remembering, this evening with a companion-in-arms of Lee, Stonewall, Jackson, Johnson and other brave, sincere and mistaken warriors, and ever a cause for happiness that we can see the turf and flowers growing upon the old ramparts over which there was such desperate fighting. Americans cannot be blamed for their pride in themselves as they recall the wonderful things they have done.

How's Tills!

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry Out any obligations made by their firm.

WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDING, KISSAX & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.

See Maggie and her two cousins, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Algernon Fitsnoodle, at "An Old Fashioned Husking Bee."

If you want to borrow money at a low rate of interest, or if you are in need of fire insurance in a good, reliable company, call on John Foulkes, at the old stand, 511 Ohio street.

Reproduction of "An Old Fashioned Husking Bee" by the ladies of the Eastern Star, Monday, February 21st, at Masonic hall. Don't miss it.

THE FAIR

Moved to 407 Main Street See and hear the Irish maid, "Kitty Maloney," in the "Old Fashioned Husking Ike," at Masonic Hall next Monday night, Feb. 21st.

Queen & Crescent.,.,^

Route and Southern R'y. 100 miles shortest line to Florida {via Cincinnati).

A Miy Qodbther.

Jan. 17 was faiiy godfather's day

Mr. Pierce ought to have kept a school for testators whose purposes were philanthropic. If Stephen Girard, A. T. Stewart, Samuel Tilden and Daniel B. Fayerweather could have sat under his instructions awhile, the memory of all of them would be sweeter, and the general public would be a gainer by a good many millions of useful money. Is there not some one living who has had experience of wills and is competent, by disposition and knowledge, to open suoh a class for the instruction of testators? Might not Mr. Carnegie undertake it or Mr. Pierpont Morgan? Harper's Weekly.

The keaky Missouri River.

F. R. Spearman writes of "Queer American Rivers" in St^Nioholas^Mr. Spearman says:

With all its other eccentricities, the Missouri river leaks badly, for you know there are leaky rivers as well as leaky boats. The government engineers once measured the flow of the Missouri away up in Montana and again some hundred miles farther down stream. To their surprise they found that the Missouri, instead of growing bigger down stream, as every rational river should, was actually 20,000 second feet smaller at the lower point.

Now while 20,000 second feet could be spared from such a tremendous river that amount of water makes a considerable stream of itself. Many very celebrated rivers never had so muoh water in their lives hence there was great amazement when the discrepancy was discovered. But of late years Dakota farmers away to the south and east of those points on the Missouri, sinking artesian wells, found immense volumes of water where the geologists said there wouldn't be any. So it is believed thai the farmers have tapped the water leaking from that big hole in the Missouri river away up in Montana, and from these wells they irrigate large tracts of land, and naturally they don't want the river bed mended. Fancy what a blessing it is when the weather is ttty to have a river boiling out of your well, ready to flow where you want it over the wheatfieids! For of all manner of work that a river can be put to irrigation is, I think, the most useful. But isn't that a queer way for the Missouri to wander about underneath the ground?

The Bishop and the Cabby. *,5 *f The Irish Ecclesiastical Journal tells this story: "Last week an Irish bishop was driving home to his hotel in the oity from a suburb of Dublin, with a lady and one of the junior olergy as his escort. It was late at night, dark, windy and rainy, and the cabman drove away merrily, but after some peculiar turnings and ten minutes' driving the cab was returning whence it had started. The wherefore was evident, as the cabby was drunk. However, home had to be reached, and his lordship, a man of action, jumped out of the cab, mounted the box and drove at a good round pace into town. On reaching his destination the right reverend prelate said he thought he ought to be paid, a sentiment in which the cabby acquiesced with the utmost good humor, but pocketed his fare notwithstanding. To be driven home by a bishop on a cab," adds our contemporary, "falls not to the lot of many curates, and is surely worth recording.

She Won.

It occurred to Mr. Thomas that it might have been as well for him to make the first advanoe, after all, but he thoughtfully refrained from saying so. —Youth's Companion.

Where to Kind It.

Two sons of Erin shared the same bed as well as the same bottle of whisky. Pat waited till be found Mike slept, when he quietly arose and emptied the bottle. Soon after Mike, waking, stole out of bed and groping about in the dark, was asked by his companion: "Phwat are yea lookin fer, Mike?" "Oh, nothin!" says Mike. "Well, Mike," says Pat, "ye'll foind it over there in the corner in the bottle. "—Chicago News.

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Ethel—Isn't it strange that Flossie attracts such intellectual men? Maud—Oh, no! She told me she always planned her gowns when they talk to her, and that gives her face that interested expression.—Harper's Bazar.

TEBBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MA IX, FEBKUAKlf 19, 1898.

the Baker Chocolate works in Milton, Mass. Oil that evening was distributed the $43,000 left by the will of thfe late Henry L. Pierce to the employees of the business of which he was manager. Two hundred and forty-five men and 185 women met the officers of the corporation in a large room in one of the mills, and after a supper and some discourse from Mr. Pierce's executor each received a check for $100. The oldest employee received a special legacy of $2,000. It is not recalled that there was ever a testator whose testamentary provisions gave more acute satisfaction to more of his personal acquaintances than those of Mr. Pierce. There has been no audible grumbling about his will. He did everything that was expected of him and a great deal that was not expected, surprising very many people and disappointing none unless possibly some members of one of the learned professions, for as yet there has been no hint of a lawsuit over his will. The will ran over with miscellaneous kindness and benevolence.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY,

Newspaper Truisms Gathered From Various Sources. Men often have an idea they are being good because they are not any worse than usual.

Don't be witty. A man who says a good thing is always expected to keep on doing it.

Love is all right, but it makes a man look silly to get a lace-paper envelope in his office mail.

The unexpected never happens there are always people around who knew things would turn out that way.

To understand how many more than sixty minutes can be crowded into an hour you have only to make your semi-annual visit to the dentist's.-

A woman's idea of a model husband is one who swears in a whisper and expresses his love and admiration in a voice„,the neighbors can hear.

Don't think men so blind to the intricacies of a woman's dress that they will fail to notice the absence of buttons on gloves and boots.

To discover a person's real disposition you have only to play cards with them. The woman whom children, dogs and her own servants like must have some pretty good qualities, though the world at large may not be able to discover them.

When a man starts out to be mean he can business

1 beat a woman nil to pieces at the sinesi.

Why is it a man hates to have another one agree with him regarding the taste he displayed in the selection of his wife?

As long as a man's wife picks him up on his grammar she is interested in him. A woman sometimes screws her courage to the sticking point with a little dab of black court-plaster. ,1

With some people happiness lies not in having what they want but in having what their neighbors envy them.

The man who can compose verses for an original valentine always sends them to a girl who would rather have one with gold fringe around the edges.

A small boy who asks too many questions drives his parents to prevarication. When a woman is in love even her own thoughts cast shadows.

The days that start out the glooomiest often end in the richest content. The joys of housekeeping diminish perceptibly when the housekeeper has to wash the dishes. A.%

Don't worry over trifles or you won't have the backbone to meet the real troubles when they come.

-^LITERARY NOTES.

"Inside figures" are always interesting, and the following are certainly some striking ones about The Ladies' Home Journal.' During 1897, 8.183,113 copies of this magazine were printed and so thoroughly sold that the latter-year issues are entirely out of print. It consumes 3,484,362 pounds of paper in a year, and absorbs 30,902 pounds of ink. It runs 28 presses. The advertising columns contained $498,325 worth of advertising during the last year. The editors received 9290 manuscripts and less than one per cent, were accepted. The magazine employs 22 staff editors. 24,648 letters have been received and answered in the year by the editors of the correspondence columns. The Journal has over 15,000 active, working agents on the road getting subscriptions. It has educated 442 girls free of charge under its free educational plan. In a single day it has received as high as 18,000 subscriptions. 800,000 copies of the Journal are sold each month on the news stands alone—425,000 people subscribe for it by the year.

Licensed to Wed.

JosephJT. Lana^an and Mollle L. Swlsfier.

Frank Clark anc! Bertha Gre rrey. James Robinson and Anna Fin_. Ephralm T. Adams and Mertie J. Valentine A. Kroher and Christine E. Cook. Ora O. Evans and Emma Zschokke. Wm. R. Shirley and Dessie O. Shew, Charles Ellison and Catharine Hall.

"Mary," said Mr. Thomas when a silence fraught with unpleasant meaning had followed his first altercation with his young wife. "Yes?" said Mary interrogatively.-5 "When a man and his wife have had a—a difference," said Mr. Thomas, with a judicial air, "and each considers the other at fault, which of the two do you think should make the first advance toward reconciliation?" "The wiser of the frtfo," said Mii. Thomas promptly, "and so, my dear, I'll say at once that I'm very sorry."

nney. Rosel.

Adams and Lola 8. Morland.

Patrick H. Goggin and Margaret Byrne. Wm. H. Plass and Minnie M. Burr. Lester W. Parsons and Ivy M. Webster. Emil Dede and Belle Pennington. Wm. Shaw and Lizzie Rightmeier. Alvin W. Dudley and Catharine McNeils. Andrew J. Thoenburgh and Alice C, Swatener.

Wm. E. Ellison and Carrie Hall.

FROM CROWDS TO JAMS At the great Fourteen-Hour Sale at Ford & Overstreet's, Sixth and Main streets, to-day. Their big store has been crowded all day, but it is not surprising, as thev are closing out their large stock, preparatory to removal, at fifty cents on the dollar. Everything goes—Clothing, Furnishings and Shoes. No fake here, and no bankrupt stock to fool the people with. Sale will continue until Monday evening.

Hear "Typical Tunes of Zanzibar," by sweet-voiced Will Balch as Ah Sin, in the "Old Fashioned Husking Bee," at Masonic Hall next Monday night, Feb. 21st

Mollie Dolittle in her famous recitation at "An Old Fashioned Husking Bee."

FROM CROWDS TO JAMS At the great Fourteen-Hour Sate at Ford & Overstreet's, Sixth and Main streets. Their big store has been crowded all day, but it is not surprising, as they are closing out their large stock, preparatory to removal,.at fifty cents on the dollar. Everything goes—Clothing, Furnishings and Shoes. No fake here, and no bankrupt stock to fool the public with. Sale will continue until Monday evening.

Looking Ahead

NeWArrivals

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Thomas F. Johnson and Clara M. Jacob. Thomas H. Perkins and Lena A. Joyce. Nicholas E. Huguet and Margaret A. Canion.

Adolph Joseph and Bertha E. Herz. John

T. W. BARHTDT, JR., Lessee and Mgr.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

FRANCIS WILSON

AND

His COMIC OPKKACOMPANY

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HALF A KING

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23

GEO. W. MONROE

In A HAPPY LITTE HOME

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 JOHN W. VOGEL'S

DARKEST AflERlCA

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 HOYT'S

A Contented Woman

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS CANAL SEWER SYSTJSM EXTENSION. Sealed proposals will be received by the city clerk of Terre Haute, lnd., until five o'clock p. m., Tuesday, March 1st, 1808, for the extension of the '"canal sewer system" through the following streets, viz.: From Elm and Seventh treets. along Elm street to Thirteenth street and north on Thirteenth street to Buckeye street, along Locust street from Thirteenth street east to the city limits, along Seventh street from Elm street to Lafayette avenue and northwardly along Lafayettd avenue to the city limits and north on Ninth street from Lafayette avenue to the city limits with the necessary appurtenances, in accordance with theplans and specifications now on file at the office of the city engineer.

All bids must be accompanied by a bond, certified check or cash In the SUIT of 124)00. Blank forms of bonds, proposal sheet ana envelopes must be obtained at the engineers office.

Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the common council.

L. B. ROOT & CO. ====,*

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We are looking forward to,, a prosperous season.

This business, founded upon right principles and

conducted in a liberal manner, is bound to main

tain its popularity, for merit is sure to win.

New Spring Goods are coming in daily. Every

department is rapidly putting on its^ new spring

dress. Early buyers will find a most attractive

stock of the world's best merchandise here as no

where else, and priced right, too.

After Inventory

The Wrong Mr. Wright

is tlie title of Roland Reed's comedy

E. R. WRIGHT

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Right Mr. Wright

and his grocery is the right place to get the best goods at fair prices. This store keeps everything in the grocery line.

After stock-taking we find things that we must

sell. The best buyer's will make some errors of

judgment.^ There is but one remedy. We have

cut prices ruthlessly, ridiculously, in order: to clear

all these odds and ends out quickly.

DANIEL V. MILLER, Attorney. DMINISTRATOIT'S SALE.

In the matter of the estate of Daniel Roper, deceased. Notice is hereby Riven that by virtue of an order of the Vigo Circuit Court of the State of Indiana, the undersigned, as administrator of the estate of Daniel Roper, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction, at tho south door of the court house of said county, on March 15th, 1808, the following described real estate, to-wlt: Lot No. 'M7 in tho third subdivision of Gilbert Place, city of Torre Haute, in tho state of Indiana, as per recorded plat.

Terms, cash. Sale begins at 10 o'clock a. raj LUCIUS LYBRAND, Administrator.

STIMSON & CONDIT, Attorneys. I POINTMENT OF EXECUTOR.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and qualified us exocutor of the last will and testament of Ilenry T. Thorp, deceased, late of Vigocounty, Indiana. Tho estate Is supposed to be solvent. J. WARREN THORP,

February 7th, 1898. Executor.

A. M. HIGOINS. Attorney.

NOTICE

CHAS. H. GOODWIN, City Clerk.

Dr. Cort' F. Askren

announces removal to his new offices, HOCKS— 114*115 GRAND OPERA HOUSE 8 to mornings. TERRE HAUTE to 4 afternoons. to 9 evenings.

Educate Your Howell With Camrrti. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. lOe.SSc. If CO. C.failt druggists refund money

OF APPOINTMENT AS ADMINISTRATOR.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of J. Spafford Hunt, deceasedSaid estate is supposed to be solvent.

ALONZO C. DUDDLESTON.

WANTED.

WANT THE PUBLIC to just stop and A think for a few minutes, and buy a quart of my fine, old whiskey for 50c, wnic.h will measure out twenty drinks also a pint for 25c, which will measure ten drinks. Ask yourself how much you save. Three years, old, bought direct from bonded warehouse. I use printers' ink. I'. N. STAFF.

WANTED—Stave

timber. Apply to Term

Haute Brewing Co. for specifications, and prices.

FOR SALE.

Dairy and Stock Farm For Sale.

Dairy and stock farm of 276 acres near the Fair Grounds. Large house and good barn., sheds, and all equipments for a first-class-dairy or stock farm. Running water. Will sell on easy terms.

MARSHALL G. LEE,

225 Rose Dispensary Building, Terre Haute. Ind.

FOR SALE.

FOparticulars,

SALE—Cheap 40 acres of good land, 3*4 miles from the city. A big bargain. For call on

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Rf DAHLEN9

Real Estate and Rental Agent, 640 Wabash avenue.

FOR SALE.

Three and four-room houses -on easy payments. For particulars call on ft. AH LEX, 640 Wabash Avenue,

Terre Haute, Ind.

7: FOR SALE.

Eight-room house with all modem improvements. Will sell cheap. Terms easy. For? particulars call on R. DAHLEN,

Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 040 Wabash Avenue.

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