Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 March 1898 — Page 4

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PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor.

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LATK revelations of the pulpit and people of old Ripley county suggest the propriety of changing the county's name to "New Spain". ________________

OXE of the meanest devices on the mar ket is a new typewriter, that has a keyboard with blank keys, showing no letters, designed to bead off borrowers.

THE Spanish editor who called Senator Mason an "educated pi«" seems to have known that the senator is from Chicago, which, though insulting, was really intelligent for a Spaniard.

IT is a good idea for poor countries, like Italy and Brazil, to sell their naval greyhounds when they have a customer, but probably they will foolishly invest the proceeds in pups, or torpedo boats.

READEHS of Senator Proctor's report to the senate and of Mrs. Ward's letter from Havana, in this issue of the Mail, will observe the accuracy of Mrs. Ward's descriptions of the Red Cross work and of the misery it is alleviating.

NEW York audiences have been wildly cheering the blended Stars and Stripes and British St. George cross. Yet, within a year, our congressional or editorial anglophobes may be twisting the lion's tail until it looks like a curly corkscrew.

PRESIDENT McKinley can be as firmly reticent and sphinx-like as his last .two predecessors, yet without giving the offense that those two did by their grim silence on occasions. His tact, discretion and selfpoise are signs of much reserved power.

THE practical and heavenly work of the Red Cross Society and American philanthropy in Cuba will make a deeper impression upon the Spanish and Cuban mind and lead to more reforms in their future government than lessons taught at the cannon's mouth.

WE will face a difficulty next week when the report on the Maine is made public, for the yellows journals will not consent to the accident theory nor the Spanish to the intention charge. Let the two black and yellows fight it out, and good riddance to both.

THE Y. M. C. A., with the best intentions, asks its patrons to select from 150 entertainments those they would like to have here next winter. Very few know much about them and the judgment of others is worth nothing, and those that they know the least about might be the best.

THE German emperor precipitated the Chinese difficulty to get a bill through the Reichstag to increase his navy. He will envy the superior ease with which our William gets a bill through for the increase of his navy. Probably no one in Europe needs to have his eyes opened to the suddenness with which America wakes up as much as the Emperor William.

THE country while very properly preparing to resist any attacks from abroad or to discourage any attempt at attacking, has been doing a little swaggering. This is a rich, lightly-taxed people of over 70.000.000 and Spain is a poor debt-laden nation of about 18,IKK).000 with a debt of over *1,200.000,000. The result of a conflict is not a matter of any doubt but the most wretched nation in its death agouy win inflict grievous wounds. This is the time to follow large-minded men and pay no attention to little swagger«rs.

THE past week has been marked by increased preparation for war and diminishing prospects of hostilities, by continued assertions that the Maine was blown tip from without, from those committed to that theory, and no evidence beyoud assertion in support, and by a calmer state of mind throughout the country. Discussion has been transferred to Kuropoau relations and the attitude of foreign powers towards the Cuban matter. Nothing is more impenetrable than a foreign cabinet and no report of interference or support from abroad is worth consideration.

SIR HKXKY RKSSKMBR, who died this week, was one of the great inventive geniuses of the age. and it is probable that his discovery of the process for making steel from pig iron by sending a blast of air through molten iron was the most important of this century. If it is appropriate to erect statues to those who sought "the bubble, reputation, even in the cannon's mouth." it is much more fitting to celebrate thus the men whose peaceful arts enrich their countries in times of peace &njl strengthen them in days of war. Sir Henry Bessemer o«ee said that his great invention had given to him a million of the effigies of her gracious majesty in gold, that fc about a million guineas, but at the same time it was estimated that the manufacture of Bessemer steel had added Sl,OtXl,0OO.iXX} to the world's wealth, so that the world was greatly his debtor. It would he a profitable exercise for a el--" of boys to trace the life of this man fr his bright, alert boyhood through the industry, patience and indomitable courage of his manhood to its rounded success and note his cac -::r* ?*~r words to the young men who f-.~ -.s _im as he told them that though the field seemed so

well-worked and the prospects for new discoveries seemed to be narrowed, still the future offered as great opportunities to earnest endeavor and ambition as ever

A WHITER in The Interior argues with much cogency that public libraries are deteriorating. He speaks of the positive and ethical value in the, ownership of books. It is true that one's own book, if it is a good one, will be read more carefully and more often than a borrowed book. The fine thoughts and the profound lessons of a great writer are not made the readers mental property by a single reading but must be read and re-read. We do not read over and over books that are not onr own. The writer farther says that the public library is demoralizing in the license it affords to young people of un limited indulgence in fiction and other light literature. Again, the library is demoralizing because of the method of reading it encourages. The library* habit of reading becomes

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ming, skipping bahit," which unfits the mind for absorbing what it reads. "The skimmer, the jack-of-all-books, the non appropriate reader, is apt to be a student lacking in grasp and thoroughness." All this, or more in the same vein, is true enough, but are we to condemn the library or the patrons who abuse it? Not the library, with its treasures for those who know where or bow to dig, but that everlasting class which from the begin ning of the world has not been able to use without abusing the bounties of life. But it is well to point out the evils which arise from the perversion of good qualities and opportunities. There is a superstition attached to books which needs dispelling and it is the belief that merely reading or thumbing a book is a virtue. Reading is like paint—that which sticks is all that does any good.

THE modern warship is the work of the mechanic and engineer. Its sailing and maneuvering is engineering work. The wonderful devices for defense and destruction have not been thought out in the salt-air but in the machine shop and laboratory. The modern captain is not a Paul Jones to lash the Bonhomme Richard to a Serapis, and with firegntting his ship below and the pumps going to keep it afloat, fight hand-to-hand on the decks above. He is the director of the most tremendous aggregation of metal, machinery and power ever assembled in one mass. Vesuvius, detached from its rocky roots and set afloat, would not be so volcanic as an iron clad or more impressive. The fighting may be at a range of miles, or, at an electric signal to the en gineers below and to the pilot-house, the ship becomes a ram and goes to close quarters. The gunner is still on deck but the old sailorman has been replaced by the mechanic and laborer and the officer, Who worked his way up from "middy" to admiral, has been succeeded by the student from mechanical and scientific schools. The engineer has become first in war. In commerce and all pursuits of peace the engineer is manifest. Steamships, railroads, machine shops, the electric, water, gas and heating plants, the sky-scraping buildings of iron and steel, the illimitable application of power and machinery to all industry, make the engineer the most useful man of the age. The engineer is also first in peace. Modern progress is measured by the activity of the. engineer and the consumption of iron and steel. Power in peace and war is in proportion to the supply of iron and steel and the national genius for engineering in its many branches. Great Britian as long as it was the ironmaster of the world, was the world's master in commerce, manufacturing and on the seas. The production of iron and steel by the United States is now the greatest in the world. The achievements of its engineers and its machinery, bridges, shipbuilding, railroads, great buildings, guns, armor plate and invention equal any and surpass many. Its command of the iron and steel business and the development of engineering are making the United States first in peace, and could make it first in war, of all the world.

Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.

We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Seud for circulars, free.

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TEBEiS HAUTE SATURDAY

THE YEAR'S BIG SHOW

REMINDER FOR TRANSMiSSiSSIPPI EXPOSITION.

Gm&ha's Day Not far Off—A Charming

Park,

Noble Edifices and a Very Grand Series of Exhibits—The Success of Other Similar Enterprise*. [Special Correspondence.]

OMAHA, March 15.—Several expositions of an interesting kind are to be held in the United States this year. Two or three of them will be large state fairs, well deserving of popularity. One of them will be-in commemoration of a historical incident of more than local importance, and another one, the greatest of them all, will be an affair of unusual consequence, illustrative of the wonderful development of the ever advancing states of the farther west. It bears the title of the "Transznississippi and International exposition" and is to be held in this city. It will be opened in the coming month of June.

Exposition projectors and managers are encouraged by the remarkable success of the expositions that have been held in various parts of the United States within recent years. The Tennessee Centennial exposition, which was opened at Nashville last year and which lasted for six months, proved to be of great advantage to the state. The buildings were fine, the exhibits admirable, the spectacles attractive, and the multitude of strangers who visited Nashville were both pleased with their experiences and benefited by them. Not less praiseworthy was the Cotton States and In ternational exposition held at Atlanta two years previously, in the last four months of 1895. The wide awake city of Atlanta was very proud of it and had good reason to be. It was an honor to the Empire State of the South. As for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago, how great and glorious are the memories of it! It carried the name and the fame of Chioago over the whole earth.

ForVoifie'reason the people of Mil waukee have not "beaten the drums' as a means of stirring up an interest in the fair that is to be opened there next May to mark the semicentennial of the admission into the Union of the state of Wisconsin. The growth of the Badger State within the past half century would bear comparison with a tale of magic, and it ought not to be bard to make a comprehensive exhibit of the results of its progress, such an Exhibit as would interest people living all over the oountry.

It is, however, the Omaha exposition that is to be the event of the year, if fortune Bball favor it. A year ago, or near the end of the month of April, 1897, tens of thousands of people came to Omaha to take part in the inaugural

GOVERNMENT BUILDING, OMAHA EXPOSITION

oeremonies for the coming Transmissis' sippi exposition. There were parades, festivals, music, orations and glittering scenes

the day of the dedicatory ex

ercises, when the foundation of the beau tiful granite arch was laid, and eve* since that time the preparations for the great enterprise have been carried on with the spirit and the energy that characterize Omaha. It is the first large affair of the kind that has ever been undertaken west of the Mississippi, and its managers promise that it will sur-, pass every other American exposition, with the exoeption of the one that was held at Chicago.

Fortunately there is a sufficiency of money for this remarkable enterprise. A guarantee fund of $1,000,000 was subscribed by citizens of Omaha. The state of Nebraska appropriated $100,000 as a gift in aid of the project, and bonds for as muoh more were given by the county in which this oity is situated. Congress made an appropriation of $200,000 to defray the expenses of the government exhibit Nearly every state and territory west of the Mississippi, as well as many eastern states, have provided funds to be used in their interest at Omaha this year. It is indeed luckv that the exposition has a financial oacking which, under prudent management, ought to be sufficient for the occasion.

The grounds for the exposition, which oomprise an area of 320 acres, are within the municipal limits, only a short ride from the center of the city, and the visitor who desires to reach the magnificent park can make a choice between a number of electric or trolley lines.

The architecture of the many exposition buildings is adapted to the uses to which they are to be put. The photographs of the picturesque scene soon to be ready for visitors are well fitted to impress the mind. Over the main entrance to the park is the arch of states, which is finely designed. The Grand canal is spanned by graceful bridges, under the arches of which there are passages for gondolas and small boats. There are broad avenues, lines of columns and vine shaded promenades between the departments and pavilions. The government building, flanked by colonnades, is massive and pleasing. There are plenty of artistic edifices fitted up for exhibits of every kind and possessing ample space for them.

The Traustmseissippi exposition will very surely be the chief entertainment of the year for the millions of Americans who live in the westerly regions of the United States. A11 success to it!

JOBS SWECTOK.

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EVENTSG MAIL,

One Can Always Give Himself. One of the pleasantest of day dreams is to imagine how charitable yon wonld be if you had plenty of money. The role of a bountiful master or mistress is a delightful one, and it is easy to imagine how, if you had a command of a fortune, you would make people happy and with what grace you would receive their gratitude. Of course few persons can venture to indulge the hope that they will be rich, but while we are dreaming these dreams it is well encragh to think whether we are showing ourselves charitable in the use of what is really within our command. Take, for instance, one's thoughts. It is natural enough to put a hard and bitter construction upon the actions cf others. Possibly, from a superficial point of view, their conduct warrants it. But a thoroughly charitable per4Bi—-cne who would use money beneficently if he had it—will certainly make allowances for others and only reluctantly come to the severe judgment. It is a mistake also to suppose that money can do everything. There area good many persons who would not if you were as rich as a Barnato take a penny from you. They do not want your money, even though they are not rich themselves, but they would prize considerateness, sympathy and fellowship. 15 we withhold these things that are surely within onr power, probably we should not be so very generous if we bad plenty of money.— Philadelphia Ledger.

The Joke on the Joker.

good story, of which Mr. John Kendriok Bangs, the humorist, is the hero, has leaked out. Some time ago Mr. Bangs received the following letter from a city in one of the Pacific states: Mr. John E. Bangs:

DEAR SIR—I have been asked to respond to a toast at our board of trade's annual dinner next month, and I write to inquire what would be your lowest terms. for preparing a good, rattling, funry speech for me to deliver oh that occasion. A prompt reply will oblige. Tours very truly,

To which Mr. Bangs immediately sat down and penned the following reply: DEAR SIR—I am in receipt of your esteemed favor of the inst., and in reply would say that my regular rate for after dinner speeches is (500 per speech. I have not as yet, bowever, opened up this line of goods in the west and as I am anxious to secure custom in that part ol the country I will offer you special terms—namely, $260 for such an address as you describe, the amount to be paid as soon as shipment 1B made. If the terms proposed are satisfactory, kindly let me know at once, but In that case I would request ou not to mention the matter to Chauncey Depew or General Horace Porter, as I should not like them to know tlat 1 am cutting rates. Truly yours,

If you are not feeling well, why don't you take Hood's Sarsaparilla? It will purify and enrich your blood and do you wonderful good.

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SSES8MENT FAILURES. There have been two failures of assessment Life Associations in Indiana two in Massachusetts, and several others in adjoining states recently every one of these organizations had certificate holders in Terre Haute and most of them are now too old to get insurance elsewhere, or are uninsurable when needing Insurance most. These organizations left several million dollars in unpaid death claims many thousands right here in Terre Haute. Are you depending on assessment insurance? If so, don't do it any longer, but get a policy at once in the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, fifty-five years successful experience.

MABCH 19, 1898.

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

This letter was duly sent, and on the day when it reached its destinaltion Mr Bangs received the following telegram:

Tour letter just received. If Chauncey De pew's speeches are writtta by you, then 1 don't want one. —New York Post.

At the Station.

Mrs. Hayrick—I say, is that clook right? Porter—That ain't no clook it's a weighing machine.

Mrs. Hayrick—-What do you want with a weighing machine here? Porter—So folks wot wants to leave town kin git a weigh.—London Fun.

Dangerous.

"You say that you had four aces and yet did not show them when called?" "You bet I didn't. The other fellow was a cattle drover and he had two aces himself."—New York Journal.

W. A. HAMILTON, General Agent.

No. 24 south Sixth St., Terre Haute, Ind. STIMSOK & COKDIT, Attorneys. ^PPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR.

Notice is hereby given that tbe undersigned has been Appointed and qualified as executor of the last will and testament of Henry T~ Thorp, deceased, late of Vigo county, Indiana. The estate is supposed to be solvent. J. WARREN THORP,

February 7t,h, 1898. Executor.

WANTED.

UST as long as printers' ink holds out I will tell the public that I will sell fine Old Rye whiskey, three years old, at 50c per quart—double stamp, direct from boaded warehouse. I am in this fight to stay or bust" In the attempt. STAFF. did Cobweb Hall.

TT ANTED—Stave timber. Apply to Terre W Haute Brewing Co. for specifications and prices.

FOR SALE. FOR SALE.

On easy payments, nice building lots, on north Tnlrd, Fourth, Sixth and Center streets. Also Improved property in ail parts of the city. For particulars call R. DAHLEN.

Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 610 Wabash Avenue.

FOR SALE.

Eight room bouse on Mmtb Fourth. Eight room house on south Ptftb. Six room house en south Sixteenth. Five room house on north Ninth. Eight room bouse on north Thirteenth. For particulars, call on (Me Wabash aveaae.

L. B. ROOT

Prices Talk

WASH GOODS. Dainty designs and rich color effects in Organdies, Dimities, Muslins, Lawns and many other sheer and beautiful fabrics. The good things will not stop long—our low prices are making them fly.

Choice styles in Imported, 25c a yard. Exclusive designs in French Organdies, Shadow Cloths and Swiss Lappets.

Special offerings in Madras Gingham, beautiful plaids, regular price 10c, our price 7c a yard.

English Percales, 36 inches wide, choice light styles, 6%c a'yard, worth 10c.

DOMESTICS. Pop.ular prices that are bound to win. Business-bringing bargains that are irresistible in goods needed every day.

Good bleached Muslin, full yard wide, 3£c a yard. Fine soft finished bleached Muslin, full yard wide, 4}4c a yard.

Extra quality bleached Muslin, fine, soft finish, 5c a yard. Good unbleached Muslin, oue yard wide, 10 yards for 25c.

Heavy unbleached Muslin, full yard wide, 8%c a yard. Extra heavy unbleached Muslin, worth 5%c, now 5c a yard.

Apron and Dress Gfnghanis, the 5-cent quality, 3c a yard. Heavy twilled Crash,.2c a yard.

Extra quality Feather Ticking, 10c a yard. Standard Calico, new spring styles, 2%c a yard.

Everybody pleased with MILLER'S new place, 674 Wabash Ave.—not only the place, but the new goods, styles and prices. Custom Suits to order from $20 up. Trousers for $5 up. All home tailor work—home industry throughout. We invite inspection^

674 WABASH AYE. McKEEM BLOCK.

For Cold Nights And Homings...

Why not use gas for heating purposes? By the use of 10c worth of gas daily you can discontinue furnaces, stores, ashes, dirt and smoke for the balance of the year.

Heating appliances sold or rented by

GAS COMPANY

507 Ohio Street.

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Ancl tell a money-saving sloiy Bi# adjectives do not mean big gains. We believe in floods, not in words. You'll find style" and quality here priced as nowhere else'f\-3

.AGENTS FOR BUTTERICK PATTERNS.

L. B. ROOT & CO. Pleased.

Machine Works

Manufacturers and Dealers in Machinery and Supplies. Repairs a Specialty Eleventh and Sycamore Sts., Terre Haute, Ind.

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MUSLIN UNDERWEAR Special offering all this week in well-made Under-Muslins, daintily trimmed garments, up-to-date in style, and priced so low that you wonder how they can be produced.

Night Robes, Gretchen, Josephine nnd Empire styles, 39c, 4Se, 59c, 00c «ud T9c each.

Fine Cambric Gowns at 98c, $1.10, $1.15 and $1.19. Full width Skirts with umbrella flounce, lace and embroidery trimmed, 75c, 85c, 98c and $1.25.

Plain tucked Drawers, made of good muslin, 15c, 25c and 29c. -f Corset Covers, perfect fitting, ISc, 21c, 25c and 89c. f* ix a

OUR CORSET NEWS. Don't think we ever offered a specialty of any kind which has met with such a cordial reception as the "Cresco" Corset. That the Corset THAT CANNOT BREAK AT THE WAIST LINE. Sales climbing every day. Our customers are our best advertisers. When one woman buys a "Cresco" she tells another of the comfort and general satisfaction derived from the wearing of it. She in turn buys a "Cresco" and tells a third, and so it goes.

One Fare for the Round Trip, plus $2.

To Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, on

Tuesday, April 5th. Tuesday, April 19th.

Tickets good returning for twentv-one days. Fifteen days stop-over allowed on the going trip. One way settlers' tickets sold to same points on same dates at very low rates also. Low round trip tourist tickets sold every day to Florida winter resorts.

For detailed information anply to J. R. CONNELLY, Gen. Agt.. Tenth and Wabash Ave. R. D.'DIGGEB, Ticket Agt.. Union Station.

Thomas' Fancy. BUTTER in Boxes

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There is solid merit in the "Cresco." $$ There is economy and comfort in a "Cresco." There's more in a "Cresco" that a woman will appreciate than in any old-style corset ever made, and they cost no more. Another shipment will be on sale when you read this.

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Also Dressed Poultry, Choice Fruits, Early Vegetables.

647 Main Street.

BUILDERS'HARWARE, FURNACES and FIRST CLASS TIN WORK

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