Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 February 1898 — Page 8

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PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Will E. Tyler, son of Chas. H. Tyler, of south Third street, has recently been promoted to the position of division of freight and passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, with headquarters at Milwaukee, assuming the duties of his new positi in on the 1st of March. He has been connected with that road for many years, advancing step by step to the responsible position he now holds.

M. C. Carr, route manager of the Gazette, who has been spending the winter in California for the'benefit of his health, will leave on the 8th of March, for Lousiana, where he will spend some time with C. A. Lowry, on the latter's rice plantation, before returning home. He writes that he is greatly improved in health as a result of his sojourn thex-e.

Miss Lucy Routzahn entertained her card club Wednesday evening at# her home on south Seventh street. A dainty innovation in the selection of partners for the opening game was the use of bunches of flowers. Miss Sue Nicholson won the ladies' prize, a beautiful picture, while Lester Watson won the gentlemen's prize, a cut glass salve box. After the games a delicious hot supper was served.

Anton Hulman has returned from Kiiingston, Jamiaica, where he has been for some time on business.

Miss Harriet Henry celebrated her twelfth birthday on Tuesday by entertaining a few of her Schoolmates.

Mrs. Walter Williams of Cincinnati,, who has been visiting Mrs. B, G.cHuduut, left yesterday for home.

Mrs. Burt Armstrong, from Deleware, O., is visiting Mrs. Jessie E. Stevenson of north Eighth street.

Mrs. Jack Cunningham, of the Marshall Flats,' is quite sick. Mrs. Lee Good man entertained on Friday atteriiooa at progressive whist, in honor of visiting friends, at her residence, 518 south Sixth street. The visiting guests wore: Mrs. S. Goodman, Sullivan, Ind. Miss Bertine Thorman, Miss Steinfeld, Mrs. J. Erlanger, Cleveland Miss Kay Wiener, Louisville Mrs. M. Sholem, Paris,111. Mrs. I. Weil, Miss Nettie Epstein, Fort Wayne Miss Rose Joseph. Evansville Miss Edna Arnold, Atlanta, Ga. The prizes were won by Mrs. I. Fechheimcr and Miss Augusta Torner.

Mrs. Lee Goodman of South Sixth street entertained yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hickniau entertained her card club on Thursday evening. The prizes were won by Mrs. Kniptasch and Mr. Richar Foster.

Mrs. Shane, of Mattoon, 111., who has been visiting here, left yesterday for Mattoon.

Miss Fannie Curtis is quite sick at the homo of her grandmother, Mrs. Warren. Miss Sydney Wood entertained at cards Thursday evening, in compliment to her sister, Mrs. Coffroth, of Lincoln, Neb.

Another Terre Haute boy, pushing up iu the world, has received a merited promotion to a positiou of great responsibility. Thomas P. Grace, who has for some time been connected with the Chicago ageucy of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N. J., has been appointed general agent of the same company for the Borough of Brooklyn, and will assume his uew position about the 1st of March, removing with hi^ family to Brooklyn. He has many friends in Terre Haute, who will be glad to hear of his advancement.

Mrs, G. A. Leitch and son, of Mattoon, who have been visiting Mrs. H. M. Dud dloston, on north Center street, returned home on Thursday.

Mrs. Mary Lotze was pleasantly sur prised Tuesday by Rev. R. A. Most and the Ladies' Society of the German Reformed church, in honor of her fortieth birthday. A bountiful supper was served. The afternoon and evening were spent with music and songs.

T. W. Kinder returned Thursday from the east, where he has been figuring on some big contracts. He was second lowest

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Miss Jessie Havens and George S. Cox were united in marriage Tuesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Havens, on south Sixth street. They left at once on a bridal trip to the east.

Reuben Butz, of the Terre Haute house, is seriously ill with a complication of heart and stomach trouble.

Miss Carrie Brinkman left last night for Denver, where she was summoned by the serious illness of her brother, Otto, who has been there for several months for the benefit of his health.

Miss Sadie Fairbanks has returned from Chicago. 7- Jf± Mrs. H. W. Carey ls visiting tier parents at Lebanon, O.

Mrs. W. W. Adamson entertained her whist club last night. Mrs. C. M. Burnett, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Steele, in Minneapolis, has returned to Chicago, whert she is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Truesdale, at 188 Pine rtreet.

Goldsmith's Poverty.

In 1758, two years after Goldsmith returned from bis wanderings on the continent, he presented himself at Surgeons' hall far examination as a hospital mate, with tbe view cf entering the army or navy, but he suffered the mortification of being rejected as unqualified. That he might appear before tbe examining surgeon suitably dressed Goldsmith obtained a new suit of clothes, for which Griffiths, the publisher of The Monthly Review, became seourity. The clothes were to be returned immediately when the purpose was served, or the debt was to bo discharged. Poor Goldsmith, having failed in his object and probably distressed by urgent want, pawned the clothes. The publisher threatened, and Goldsmith replied "I know of no misery but a jail, to which my own imprudence and your letter seem to point. I have seen it inevitable fchese three or four weeks and, by heavens, request it as a favor—a favor that may prevent something more fatal. I have been some years struggling with a wretched being, with all that contempt and indigence bring w£th it, with all those strong pas&ons which make contempt insupportable. What, then, has a jail that is formidable?"

Such was the hopelessness, tbe deep despair of this imprudent but amiable author who has added to the delight of millions and to the glory of English literature.—Exchange.

Matrimonial Commandments.

Matrimony has ten commandments. These were studied out by Theodore Parker shortly before the day of his wedding. They took the form of ten beautiful resolutions, which he inscribed in his journal. They were as follows

First.—Never, except for the best reasons, to oppose my wife's will. Second.—To discharge all duties fof her sake freely.

Third. —Never to scold. Fourth.—Never to look cross at her, Fifth.—Never to worry her with commandments.

Sixth.—To promote her piety. Seventh.—To bear her burdens. Eighth.—To overlook her foibles. Ninth.—To save, cherish and forever defend her.

Tenth.—To remember her alwayd in my prayers. Thus, God willing, we shall be blessed.

Kebnked.

A car conductor who wished to assist a very stout, middle aged lady to board and enter the car felt utterly abashed and rebuked when she said acridly: "Keep your hands off'n my back, will you? If you ain't got no manners, I'll see if I can't learn you some!"

And as she walked unsteadily to vacant seat she said for tbe benefit of the other passengers: "It makes me so mad to have these here conductors callin me 'lady' an bein so familiar ev'ry way, an I guess I've learned one of 'em a lesson !"-*-Detroit Free Press.

Circumstantial Evldenoe.

Sherlock Holmes (at the theater)— That woman in front of us has remark ably pretty teeth.

Dr. Cubebs—How do you know? You haven't seen her face. Sherlock Holmes—But she has laugh ed incessantly ever since the curtain went up.—Chicago News.

New York Babies,

There are 90,000 babies born in the city of New York every year. They number 250 a day, or one each six min utes. Take them out together f£ an airing, and the row of baby carriage* would extend up the Hudson to Albany, 150 miles.—Current Literature.

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"Do yon know, I don't think much of Mawsou." "You don't have to. You can sise Mawson up in two seconds."—Harlem

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In Japan all oars are smoking cars, and the few American women who take long railroad journeys in Japan find themselves very uncomfortable.

Americans use annually 850 cubic feet of wood a head, while the English ttseonly 18.

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CUBA'S HORRORS.

ICONTIXUKD FROM FIRST PAGE.] S feet were actually cracked opeu and the puffed limbs looked like bags. In Los Fosos is a group of five orphans, all of one family, the eldest about ten years old. the youngest under two. Their father was killed in the rebel army and the mother, evicted from her poor home, died in the weary tramp to the capital. Neighbors and friends, themselves in equally desperate straits, homeless and starving, assisted them to reach this haven of refuge. But they can not be kept here long, and what.next is the serious question. Still more deserted was one wailing baby, barely old enough to sit up alone in the middle of its bed. All its relatives perished by the wayside and why the suffering mite of humanity was spared, only heaven knows. Those who were able to walk crowded around us with their complaints. Many of the mothers declared that their children were dying because they had been given spoiled fish to eat others that they had nothing to eat that morning and only soup made from salted meat the day before, which the sick and smaller children did not relish. Milk was what they begged for, not only for the babies but for those whose long empty stomachs were now too weak to digest stronger food. Of course we sent for milk, every dollar we happened to have with us, but it was as a drop in the bucket among that hungry crowd. Condensed milk, prepared with hot water, is given to these people whenever it can be obtained but condensed milk is very scarce and dear here, and only that sent from the United States can be depended upon Right here let me say to the .generous people at home who are contributing to these supplies-you cannot possibly send too much, especially of milk, the article most needed. Nourishing food of all sorts is required, such as the people know how to use.

Oat-meal, for example, does little gootl, for they have no idea how to cook it. Clothing of every kind and bedding is very badly needed. Thousands of them are almost naked, sleeping on the ground with no sort of covering, and in the best hospital, like Los Fosos, on cots with matresses of woven wire, often with the wire bare, or at most only a sheet or a bit of ragged blanket between their suffering bodies and the springs. Think of the torture to a well nourished person of being compelled to lie upon such abed and then fancy how it must feel to the living skeletons and the fearfully swoolen flesh.' About 10:30 o'clock a steaming caldron of milk and water was brought in, thanks to the bounty of the United States and then how the famished eyes, glistened, as everybody who could crawl crowded eagerly around! The Cuban lady who comes every morning to do what she can for these poor creatures, to close the eyes 0*" the dying and oi'der the burial of the dead, showed me the closet of medicine, furnished by the United States. The diffi culty is to see that the right medicines are properly administered. One would think that every physician in Havana would gladly give a portion of his time to this charitable work but it is said that only three or four have dared brave public opinion and the loss of their practice among the Spanish families. I am acquainted with two noble exceptions, noble-minded medicos who, having some means of their own, have abandoned their general practice and devoted their time and strength, unrewarded, to the Reconcentrados. Just think of it! Upwards of 400,000 homeless and miserable wretches in this unhappy island. In the province of Havana alone, excluding several towns which have not yet sent in their lists, there are 127,000 of them—more than 14,000 being orphan children and 85,000 widowed and destitute women. In the adjoining provinces of Mantanzas there are upwards of 94,000. The mortality occasioned by hunger and fever is not known to a certainty, because every effort has been made to hide it it is calculated at 40 per cent, in Havana and 60 per cent, in Pinar del Rio. Before aid from the United States came it was as high as 70 per cent, right here in Havana, under the eyes of the Governor-general. Guines is another scene of fearful mortality. It is a little town, with a normal population of 6,000. After Weyler's concentration decree it increased in a few days to 9,000. During three weeks of April the deaths numbered 1,400. The old cemetery became so crowded that when the trenches would hold no more anew burial ground had to be consecrated and over its gate might have been inscribed one universal epitaph:

Murdered by Don Valeriano Weyler, Marquis of Teneriffe.''^^'2|Jf JJ More than 7,000 have already died in Guines out of 6,000 Reconcentrados in Jurneo 8,700 are already dead in Havana, in spite of all that is now being done for them, they are still dying at the rate of 1,600 a month. Not less than 100,000 must surely follow the 200,000 which the grave has claimed in this great charnel house, tbe fair island of Cuba. The figures are not guess work they sire from statistics as, carefully complied as the conditions will allow, and are under rather than over the mark. Doctor Braner, of the Marine Hospital service, fix&s the number of deaths from starvation, from the data he has gathered, at 800,000. The asylums lately created, of which Los Fosos is one, shelter upwards of 15.000 Reconcentrados, and through American charity, about 1,400 receive food iu the municipal city of Havana. Should this bounty cease, what would become of them? A few noble souls in Havana are distributing this food, under the direction of Consul General Lee and now that Clara Barton has Arrived, things will be farther systemised. If every community in the United States would immediately organize a branch Red Cross Aid Society and secure what it could in money or clothing, what incalculable amount of suffering would be relieved! If everybody of means would give bat five or ten cents out of his abundance, what might be hoped from the seventy million people in our happy country*

Having now no more money in our parses than the Reconoen trade® themselves, we were obliged to walk to our

TEEKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1898.

hotel, more than two miles over these stony streets, every step of which makes one feel like a penitente with peas in his shoes. Talk about sidewalks iu Havanaso narrow that two cannot pass one another upon them! In many places they are but a few inches wide, so that one. the size of your correspondent, can barely "walk abreast" upon them, the narrow streets which one may almost reach across, filled from walk to walk with carts thundering over the stones, each cart driven by a red-capped Spanish peasant and drawn by a wonderfully bedizened donkey, with red tassels and jingling bells and brassmounted leather all over him. Among the carts the carriages dash at such a rate that one expects instant destruction, whether walking or riding. However, we reached the Pasaje with no damage but to our feet, which felt as if they had been bastinadoed, in time for breakfast—the usual hour for that meal in these parts being from 11:30 to 1 p. m. After a brief rest and a replenishing of the pocketbooks—for pilgrims without scrip are of no account here—we drove to the Jacoba, another of Havana's temporary asylums, down near the water's edge. In a side street, so narrow that one literally "could not swing a cat" in it without bumping its head on either wall, our carriage was stopped by a small crowd of half a dozen men and boys grouped around what looked like a bundle of dirty rags. What is the matter?" I asked in my poor Spanish. "Nada, Nata," said a man, indifferently, turning away, "Solamente una pobra,"—nothing, nothing, only a poor woman. "Why don't you take her up can nothing be done for her? was the next query. "No, Senora," said anqther Ellauriendo—she is dying. Quickly getting out of the coach, we stooped beside her She was black and old and shrivilled, with thin, gray hair partially bound under a blood-stained bandage Whether she was a Reconcentrada, or one of the city beggars whose name is legion, whether she had met death by violence, or from want and the weight of years, none knew, or cared to inquire. It is not that the people are heartless, but to see the poor dying in the street is too common an occurrence to excite emotion. While we gazed/some bayoneted soldier policeman came up, ordered us on with an imperious gesture and hailed a passing cart to carry the poor creature away.

The Jacoba retreat is almost a fac-simile of Los Fosos, only larger, more numerously occupied and perhaps better appointed. This too-long letter leaves space for the narration of but one case in it—that of girl of 14, who is a raving maniac, alternately sobbing, screaming and tearing her long black hair. She was one of the families who failed to move when ordered and father, mother and three sisters were murdered with the machete. She alone escaped as by a miracle &

Eat fruit for your breakfast, but not the tart grape and the tartar grape fruit. Eat baked apples, with plenty of sugar and cream, and all sorts of stewed. fruits, which require sweetening.

Drink milk and cream whenever you happen to want them. If you don't care for these nourishing drinks cultivate a taste for them. Drink beer, but

Hidden behind a cactus hedge she saw the dreadful slaughter of all her relatives, and was afterwards found wandering about the place and brought to the city.

FANNIE BRIGIIAM WARD.

How to Keep Ilealth

Don't worry. Don't lie awake at night to think about your shortcomings and other people's sins.

Don't care violently for any one. Hearts and consciences are opposed to rounded contours and shapely necks

Eat meats with fat on them." Fat fish with white sauces. Eat potatoes cornstarch, simple puddings and ice creams

Wear warm, luxurious clothing, but be careful not to have it so warm as to induce perspiration, for that will prove thinning. Do not let it be too heavy, either.

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lemonade, lime juice and the like. Eat for breakfast oatmeal swimming in cream. Drink not tea and coffee, but cocoa, chocolate and milk. Spurn toast, especially if it be made of graham or gluten bread. Eat freshly made wheat bread, with butter and honey.

Do not take more excercise than is absolutely essential to health. Take the airyes. But let it be in a carriage whenever you can, or on a sunny bench in the park. Violent exercise is the worst possible thing for the woman who would fain grow plump.,

The Holy City.

"The Holy City" will be sung to-mor-row at the First Congregational church at the vesper service, beginning at half past four o'clock. It was expected that last Sunday was the final rendition of this beautiful cantata, but so many have been unable to find even standing room at the three services at which it has been given that the singers unanimously accepted a special invitation of the Congregational trustees to give it once more. The service will begin promptly at half past four, in order that a number of the singers who assist in the first rendition of "The Crucifixion" in the evening may have time for rest between services.

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.

Cafe and Observation

ears. Excellent service on Superb through trains. Queen & Crescent Route from Cincinnati South.

Wm. G. Holler, the popular priced tailor, has removed from 820 Main to 642 Main, where he is offering greater bargains than ever before in first-class merchant tailoring.

Mocsta foor Bewcif Willi CMcanb. Candy Calk art ic, core consiipatioa forever. 10c, S5c. If C. C. tell, druggists reload mooer.

REMOVED.

HERZ'S BULLETIN.

WILLARD KIDDER.

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500 men to carry away 500 pairs of men's fine 13 pants at 98c. Great Chicago Bankrupt Clothing, Dry Goods, Shoe and Hat Co., 424 Main street. f-v

Many of our choicest creations in women's I ready-to-wear X-

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for the coming spring season are here and ready for a showing. As in former seasons, you'll have to look here for the market's choicest representatives N

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Harry A. Burgert & Co. Remove to 320 Main Street.

Harry A. Burgert & Co. will, on March 1st, be located in their new building, 820 Main street, where they have furnished a large waiting room for the convenience of their country patrons.

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We will sell to-day 900 pairs of ladies' fine Kid Button and Lace Shoes, latest styles worth $3 at 98c. 434 Main street. Great Chicago Bankrupt Clothing, Dry Goods, Shoe and Hat Co.

A Pointer.

We will sell 1,000 ladies' fine silk plush and cloth Capes, the latest styles and tailor-made, and they will all go at 25c on the dollar. 424 Main street. Great Chicago Bankrupt Clothing, Dry Goods, Shoe and Hat CO

$1,000 REWARD

This is to certify that I have never mixed a particle of Corn Flour, Pulverized Starch, or any other adulterant in my "HIGH GRADE" PATENT, "PRIDE OF THE WABASH," "GEM," or any brand of Flour made at the WABASH MILLS, and the above amount will be paid in Gold to any one proving that I have ever used adulterants in any of my Flour. Every package warranted full weight and as represented.

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Money to Loan

The Terre Haute Trust Co. is prepared to accommodate all applicants for loans on mortgage or good collateral, at lowest rates and most favorable terms. Why patronize eastern loan companies when you can be accommodated with home money at same rates and better terms.

Come and see us. No. 80 South Sixth street SSla

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John Jaeger's grand opening at "Old Castle "Garden," Fourth and Ohio, this evening. Ringgold band in attendance. A fine lunch will be served.

Surplus, 4%

Standard

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Outstanding. Assurance... $951,165,837 New Assur ance written.. $156,955,693 Amount^Declined...: $24,491,973

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Grocery in the city. We handle none

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5 Calf's-Foot Jelly, 3 Chili Sauce, $ S Salad Dressings,

Meat Department

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Honarch Pickles and Preserves, Snider's Catsups, Spiced and Pickled Fruits, Fruite in Brandy, etc.