Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 March 1898 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor ami Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 501 Vi Ohio Street. Telepiione 480.

The Hail is soid in the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of |2 a year, {I for six months, or SO cents for three months.

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

A SURPLUS of $1,845,538 in the treasury for February is a credit item for the Diagley law, and yet February is a short month. _____________

MANY men are now seeking for glory at the cannon's mouth in the prospect of a fight with Spain, but it is noticeable that more of them want to lead regiments than to serve as high privates in the rear rank. .•

THAT he laughs at wounds who never felt a scar seems to apply to Senator Mason as he jests about the challenge from Senor "Caterpillar" to our marry senator. Mason is talking about war at a distance. _Jjll

ANOTHER Corbett has been knocked out by a blow in the solar plexus. Henry W. Corbett, of Oregon, who has been seeking a seat in the United States senate on the appointment of the governor of his state, has been denied by the senate his right to sit in that august body.

THE last century magazine contains a little article on the "Mystery" of General Grant. Grant was so simple and unaffected, so devoid of any mystery, or display of eccentricity or peculiarity, to distinguish him from other men, that it was difficult to think him greater than any other, but his deeds said that he was.

TIJAT justice is blindfolded has been shown by the justice of the United States government in its dealings with the Spanish government. It has been blind to the faults of Spain in its search for the truth about the Maine and has held in steady hands the scales of justice, but the wrath of the just is more to be feared than the impulsive anger of a hasty people.

THE Mail naver took much stock In the starvation stories from Alaska, not believing that enterprising Americans would fail in supplying a market where eggs were worth" $1 each, meat a dollar a pound, and real lire-water fifty cents a quench. It 'appears now that the menageries and museums w'll have a chance to buy the government's reindeer at about $100 a head.

IT is impossible to maintain excitement at a high pitch without nfew material to feed it. The failure to adduce evidence in regard to the Maine disaster, in advance of the verdict by the court of inquiry, has resulted in a calm or state of uiind without changing the purpose to demand satisfaction for injuries received. The people have realized that the sensational part of the press has been playing upon their feelings for its own pecuniary benefit and now wait for the evidence from respectable and veracious sources.

ONE of the objections to the annexation of Hawaii is that its population is ignorant. Mr. Lovin Thurston has stated that the average of Illiteracy in the Hawaiian Islands Is lower than In Massachusetts. A recent report from the American consul general at Honolulu suggests the novel idea that new American settlers may com plat of the compulsory system of educatiou which is more rigidly enforced than In any American state, and equally upon the children of all the races. There, children of six years, who may live six miles from a school, are not excused in any kind of weather, and they would be visited by the truant onicer if absent one day, which indicates a seal for universal education not known even iu Indiana. The schools are pronounced to be as nearly perfect as the conditions and resources of the country will permit.

OURS is a levelling country. We do not recognise any difference between men unless their deeds mark a difference. If one man is better than another he will show It., not simply assert it. The present administration has placed an especial emphasis upon the fact that the unofficial citizen counts for as much as the government official in all that pertains to national affairs. During the Maine affair, the confidence shown by President McKinley in the people has been as wise as it is unusual. There were affairs that would disturb every patriotic American and McKiniey has spread all that he knows before the people. The blustering senator knows no more than the mechanic who can read the news. Sometimes he seems to know less. McKinley is a simple, unaffected man, with no nonsense about him, and some day they will be probing his lite and character to learn how be became great. Two words are enough to explain the success of any good American—honesty, and faith in his fellow men.

THK novelist may romance in his stories, but if he has genius he never fails to trace correctly the line from cause to effect. One of our be«t romance writers. Weir Mitchell, in his last story, of ''Francois" and the French Revolution, says:

bit

of paper was to be five francs—and take care of thy head if thon shouldst venture to doubt its value. As to all else, men accepted the numberless and bewildering decrees of the Assembly but the laws of commerce no ruler can break. These are despotic, changeless, and as old as the act of barter between man and man. The asslgnaU tell in until 200 francs would scarce buy a dinner." Men still think an act of legislature can make a bit of paper or a of metal worth a dollar.

If they had their way and the changeless law of commerce rejected the worthless paper, they would add penalties of imprisonment and confiscation to make their money circulate, although it is "barter," and not acts of legislature, which determines real values.

Some Royal Presents.

Queen Mary, popularly known as "Bloody Mary," has not been pleasantly drawn for us by history, but certain records of the time when she was a young princess, occupying the dangerous position of donbtfnl heir to the throne of England, indicate that she was not without human kindness. Mr. Richard Davey, in his history of Mary Tudor, quotes from the princess* "privy purse expenses." Mary had been forbidden to call the Princess Elizabeth by any title, but it is pleasant to note that she refers to her affectionately as "my little sister.''

She sends her brother^ afterward Edward VI, a frock which she bad embroidered for him and gave her sister Elizabeth a cramoisie satin kirtle. Again, she sends a box with silver needlework in it for her "Sister Elizabeth," and also worked a cap for her baby brother and made his nurse, "Mother Jaokson," a present of a bonnet and frontlets which cost 20 shillings.

Most singular amopg. the gifts of the period, however, is that presented by Lady Lisle to(Dake Philip of Bavaria after the duke hadvisijbed Lord Lisle at Calais, "My lord," she writes to her spouse from Calais after Lisle and Duke Philip had set out for England, "1 send yon my tooth pioker. I thought to have given it to the dnke while he was here, but it was not then at my hand. .' I send it to him because when he was here I did see him wear a pin to pick his teeth withal. And I pray you to show him that it hsts been mine these seven years."

A proprietorship in a toothpick of seven years' date would hardly be a recommendation nowadaya -i_

She Knew the Town.

Judge Nathan Goff of West Virginia has a sister famous all through the state for her remarkable brilliancy of mind and broad oulture. Miss Goff possesses that rare quality of being able to appreciate a joke at her own expense.

The family home of the Goffs is in Clarksburg, a straggling city in the mountains of West Virginia not especially noted for anything except its muddy streets in winter.

Miss Goff is a frequent visitor to New York, and on one oocasion she attended a reception at the house of a prominent bishop, given in honor of a clergyman who had recently accepted a charge in New York. It fell to Miss Goff's lot to entertain another equally promftient bishop whose diocese is one of the New England states and who grew enthusiastic in talking about the guest of honor. He dilated at length on his learning and oratory and oloBed his eulogium by saying: "And you know, Miss Goff, the most remarkable thing about our friend is that he comes from a miserable little mudhole in West Virginia. Let me see. It is called"—and the bishop hesitated, trying to recall the place—"it is some place with a 'burg,' the bishop finally added, w"Oh, yes," said Miss Goff "Clarksburg! I live in that mudhole. "r—Cincinnati Commeroial Tribune.

•The Greatest of Theie."

A genuine oase of love of one little girl for another still smaller was seen on the east side a few days ago. A nnmber of little girls were danoing gracefully and joyously in the street to the music of a hand organ played by an Italian. A reporter, who had listened and looked for some time with pleasure, called one girl to him, gave her a nickel and told her to give it to the musician. She sprang away joyfully to do it, but paused suddenly, hesitated and ran off to a«other girl, pathetic looking and *?nk. To this little thing she gave the tJ* cent piece, resigning to another the pleasure of rewarding the organ grinder for the fnn they were having. The tot ran op to him with the rosiest smile she had worn for a week and said, "Derel"—New York Commerial Advertiser.

The Planets.

Professor James E. Keeler of the Alleghany observatory, in a lecture de-j dared that he did not believe that any of the son's satellites, except the earth, are inhabited, although there is a remote possibility in the cases of Venus and Mars. He said: "Nothing caii be seen on the surface of Mercury and only vague markings on the surface of Venus. Of Venns we know nothing, except that it has a dense atmosphere. In the case of Mars the evidence is not yet sufficient We may suppose that in time the larger planets will be fitted for supporting life as the earth is now

A»Hn| For What He Wanted. *, Two little tots of Hudson were kneeling at their mother's knee saying the Lord's Prayer. The oldest one was repeating it after his mother, and when he reached the passage that reads, "Give us this day our daily bread." what was the mother's astonishment when the little tot exclaimed, "Hit him for a pie, Johnnie hit him fox a pie."—Sturgis (Mioh.) Democrat *j

Should Have Made aa Exception. She—Don't yon think Mrs. Wapaley is a beautiful woman?

He—She is a beautiful woman—the most beautiful woman, I think, that I have ever seen.

She (after he baa gone)—I wooder if he has always been such a toed or whether it has just begun to grow on him lately.—Cleveland Leader.

TTWmm WML

"Do you believe that hooeaty is the best policy, Rodden?" "Most asKoredly^I make all my money out of my honest customers."— Detroit Free Press.

Tba WOITM Jtut'tso|hed. Sitting in Thede rfyman's store, a little group of villagers in Sebeo, Me., talked of wolves, now seldom seen in Maine, bnt which half a century ago were much in evidence. William Lyford told the story of Seth Brown's chase of two wolves on snowsboea. "You know Seth," he said. "One of the smartest and handiest men in his day that ever cut timber trees or drove the Penobscot. Up in the Ripogenus region one February he was out prospecting for timber tracts. The snow was deep, with a light crust, just strong enough to bold up a man on snowshoes. Coming upon a little rise of land in a timber swamp one day, he saw two wolves a little way ahead of him. The crust would not bear them, and they could only wallow along in the snow. Seth would tackle anything that ever ranged the woods. He bad no gun, but he set out after the wolves with his ax. What did those wolves do bnt circle ronnd until they got back upon Seth's tracks. You know how in light snow the steps of a man in snowshoes will pack down the snow. Once the wolves got to Seth's tracks the slote8(snowshoe prints) held them up, and they just ran on them in a circle till he gave up the ohase. He was so near that he could'almost have thrown his ax to them, and he couldn't get a step nearer. Seth said the wolves sat on their haunches and laughed,at him when he had to give up and start along. "-—New York Sun. v\'

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Too Young to Talk So.

We haye learned to expeot it from many of the. married women and from, some of the bachelor maids. But out of the lips of a mere lassie, gently reared, a girl still living at home with her mother, skepticism gives one a shook,. declares a writer in the New York Press.

A woman of fashion in a checked dress and a great dahlia colored hat, accompanied by a man in modish garments, was tripping along Fifth avenne. She was chatting with marked animation and he was laughing flatteringly. The attention of the passersby was at-, tracted by the happy couple.

charge. -f "1 took off my hat and dust cloak and handed them. To my horror the Jap took bold of my bat by the brim and crushed it against his breastbone as he had seen my predecessor da Unfortunately that gentleman'8 hat would not work at first, and he had to use a great deal of force before the springs would fold down. The Japanese therefore saw nothing in my hat's unwillingness to work, but just crushed it and folded my cloak round it. "When I expostulated, he smiled and presented me with a paper flower—I suppose as a peace offering."

A Phillips Brooks Anecdote.

At the dinner given in his honor in Philadelphia Dr. MoViokar, the bishop coadjutor of Rhode Island, told this characterisUj anecdote of the late Phillips Brooks. "I remember a few years ago I was traveling with one of the grandest bianops and one of the grandest men of the century. I was saunter ing with hiin from church in Lucerne, in Switzerland, and he said something so boyish and fresh, just as he was ever wont to do. I stopped and looked at him and said, 'Brooks, it seems so strange that you should be a bishop.' He looked at me with almost a startled expression, and he said, 'McVickar, it seems so strange to me that sometimes, when I am putting on my clothes, I have to stop and laugh.' It was just the freshness of that man which always kept him young, and which, I am sure, yon will understand as I give it, for I venture to say there has never been such a bishop in our or any other church."

'ja- Superfluous.

Mrs. Keeley, the veteran English aotrass, tells an anecdote of a young actress who in the play is a boy. Sbe is taken before a judge, who asks sternly, "Now, where are your accomplices?" And the young actress, by a happy thought, improved on the author and answered in artless tone: "I don't wear any. They keep up without."

Plenty of Boom In Bolivia. Bolivia has an arm of 40$,200,000 acres and a population of 2,600,000, or aa avenge of nearly 200 acres to each Inhabitant This land is extremely rich In valuable woods, silver, copper, tin, •to., and the soil is especially adapted to the oalthratkm of coffee and tobaooo.

TEBBJS HAUTE 8ATUKDAV &YE$T8Gr MAIL, MARCH 5,1898.

Behind the pair chianoed to walk a lassie—the one yet living at home with mamma—and an older woman, a friend of mamma. The lassie spied the mondaine in checks and dahlia velvet on ahead and puckered her brow, saying: "Oh, I know that woman—have seen her often at Newport, fehe is dreadful rich. Now, I remember. She is Mrs. Morris Blaukly."

The friend of maiffma was interested. She asked: "And is the attentive man with'Mrs. Blankly her husband? j||

The lassie shrugged ner sfTotuders and soorned the very idea. "Ridiculous," she replied. "You1 dear, old fashioned thing don't you know that women's husbands never laugh in that good tempered way when they are with their wives."

r» The Imitative Japanese.

A good story is told by St. Bartie of theimitativenessof the Japanese, which is easily credible, for was it not a Japr anese who when he was told to make a ooat to pattern—the old one being sent —so faithfi fly did he carry out the order that a rent and darn in one of the tails was carefully executed in the new garment? "At a certain reception we were asked in morning dress, but knowing people wore their orush theater hats. When we got down to the gunroom, which was devoted to gentlemen's cloaks, the gentleman immediately before me took off his theater bat, orcahed it against his breastbone, wrapped it ip in his dust cloak and handed it to the Japanese in

Distressing Stomach Disease Permanently cured by the masterly potfeV of South American. Nervine Tonic. Invalids need suffer no .longer because this great remedy can cure them all. It Is a cure for the wnole world of stomach weakness and indigestion. The cure begins with the first dose. The relief it brings is marvellous and surprising. It makes no failure never disappoints. No matter how long you hav^suffered. your cure Is certain under the use of this great health-giving force. Pleasant and always safe. Sold by all druggists, Terre Haute. Ind.

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

In the matter of the estate of Daniel Roper, deceased. Notice is hereby given 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 the south door of the court house of said county, on March 15th, 1898, the following described real estate, to-wlt: Lot No. 3*7 In the third subdivision of Gilbert Place, city of Terre Haute. In the state of Indiana, as per recorded plat.

Terms, cash. Sale begins at 10 o'clock a. m. LUC.US LYBRAND, Administrator.

STIMSON & CONDIT, Attorneys. PPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and qualified as executor of the last will and testament of Henry TK-Thorp, deceased, late of Vigo county, Indiana. The'estate is supposed to be solvent. J. BARREN THORP,

February 7th, 1898. .• Executor.

MONEY TO LOAN.

On first-class city or farm property. For particulars call on R. DAHLEN, 640 Wabash Avenue,

WANTED—Stave

Fthe

OR RENT—After the 1st of April, the building 507 Wabash avenue, occupied by American Express Company for the last eighteen years. Will be modernized to suit business. J. O. JONES.

FOB SALE. .:

FOR SALE.

Forty acres of splendid gardening or farming land, 3tt miles from city will sell cheap. For particulars, call on

V! A. M-'ftGoWS."* .. •r. Lawyer, ,. Telephone 332. Over McKeen's Bank

'«f? THE

s. ,,

EQUITABLE

LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

OF THE UNITED STATES.

,% JANUARY 1, 1898. tf gt|,

Assets $236,876,308 Reserve on all existing policies (4% Standard), and all other Liabilities

Undivided Surplus, 4%

Standard

186,333,133

$50,543,175

SS«!

Outstanding

Assurance... $951,165,837 NewiMkssurance written.. $156^955,693 Amount7-De-clined $24,491,973

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HYDE, President,

J. W. ALEXANDER, V.-P.

MARSHALL O. LEE,

Manager for Western Indiana^ Room 225 Rose Dispensary.

GRAND

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

TO-NIGHT.

Mile. AnisMonarchs |i

MONDAY, MARCH 7.

KATIE EMMETT 1

In WA1F3 OF NEW YORK

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9. JAMES

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Terre Haute, Ind.

WANTED.

ALLquartof

I ask of the public is tffcome and get a this fine old whiskey, which comes direct from the bonded warehouse three years old runs from 102to 103 proof, and I will guarantee it to any one to be pure rye. I do not buy anything from the wholesalers, rectifiers ana compounders. Come and see me and be self-convinced. 50 cents ner quart, 25 cents per pint.

P.N. STAFF.

timber. Apply to Terre

Haute Brewing Co. for specifications and prices.

FOR RENT.

R. DAHLEN,

Real Estate, Loan and Rental Agent, 640 "Wabash avenue.

FOR SALE.

FOR

SALE—On easy

pair.

A Sensation.

i—Several

small houses on monthly payments also vacant lots in all parts or the city on monthly payments. For particulars call on R. DAHLEN,

Pan 1 1T.cf.o-fo T.ntsVie .ainri Tnonriirif A

Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 640 Wabash Avenue.

§fe? Linen Huck Towels, size

!^e*ch.,:,i

cents.

''ii 'M'P» WW"

v%Fine

L. B. ROOT & CO.

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3*a2$\.W

100

O'NEILL

In MONTE CRISTO.

THURSDAY, MARCH lO.

Blue Jeans

FRIDAY, MARCH 11.

E. F. RICE'S BIG CO.

GIRL FRO!! PARIS.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12.

Scalchi Concert Co.

A dollar is worth one hundred cents—don't believe that you can buy good dollars for less.

DON'T believe that any merchant can sell everything in his store as a bargain and pay rent and other expenses.

DON deluded. Good goods have a fixed value.

If you cheapen price beyond a certain limit it Ugl must be at a sacrifice of quality.

DON'T buy trash at any price. You can buy reliable goods here at the lowest possible price consistent with quality.

DON'T forget that we stand back of every article we sell, and any cause for dissatisfaction will be

righted as soon as we know of it.

Children's Hosiery.

We are offering several lines of Children's'Hosiery at much less than regular values. There will be«snoTiey saved in buying, now for future needs.

Boys' heavy ribbed Hose, fastOblack,,double heel and toe, V, ioc a pair. Children's fast black ribbed'.Hose, extra weight,~I2 i-ac a"

Wearable extra quality fast black Hose, double heel, toe and knee, never before less than 25c a pair, now 17c a pair. Boys' extra heavy ribbed Hose, double hesl, toe and knee. 25c value, for 17c a pair.

There are valves here in Linens that ought to be of interest to all economical buyers. You'll find Linen worth here at prices which are astonishingly low even here, where low prices rule.

inch all Linen Crash, 3c a yard. 'X 18 inch all Linen Crash,

a yard.

inch Scotch all Linen Crash, with fancy border, 5c a yard. M&20 inch Scotch Linen Crash, with fancy stripe,

18x39

plBi Extra large Linen Huck Towels, size

58c

Of Interest to You.

these short lengths the price is

Toilet Articles.

cents.

4711

full line of Soaps, Perfumery, Powders and toilet accessories of every description, of dependable quality, and priced right. Colgate's new Vioris Soap, a delightful article,

White Rose Glycerine Soap,

Cuticura Soap, for the complexion,

Stationery.

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V'One pound of fine Writing Paper for ioc.

Box Papers from

O'NEIL & SUTPHEN

8. L. FENNER,

2 0 0 & 2 S I 8

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We place on sale to-day over£2,000 yards of fine zephyr Ginghams, in lengths of ten to fifteen yards. These are known as mill ends, and comprise the choicest of the season's styles.. In the regular way they are worth ioc and

Good Toilet Soaps, pure and wholesome, some have been ioc a cake, now

cakes for ioc.

'We are sole agents for Madam Ruppert's celebrated toilet preparations.

All that is new and up-to-date in Society Stationery will be found here. The latest shapes, the proper sizes, the newest I

$3.00

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6 1-4C

23x44

sslOne case prochet Quilts, full size, good quality, worth 75c, for this week,

each.

a yard.

inches, special price,

12 1-2C

inches,

25c

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12 1-2C

6 3-4C

a yard.

each.

PflRegimental gray, Hurd's latest production. Very swell— see it. J'r-A ^Writing Tablets from

25c

each.

Engraving of every description—Visiting Cards, Wedding and Reception Invitations and Business Work. Everything the best in quality at lowest prices.

Visiting Cards with plate for $1.00.

a yard. In

cakes for

35c.

15c

a cake.

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