Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 April 1898 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor sod Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. S01J4 Ohio Street, Telephone 469.

The Mall is sold In the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mail, at the rate of |2 a year, $1 for six months, or 50 cents for three months.

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

While some patriots raise flags others raise their prices.

GEN. MILES was a great Indian-fighter and such experience fits him to meet the d—ons.

EVERYBODY loves a hero, and many a heart felt soft and eye moist when company B. marched away to war. They are onr own boys—we are proud of them and are sure they only need the chance to show themselves heroes.

SPAIN* has decreed that her foreign creditors shall be paid in francs and her own people in pesetas. There you have the silver question in a nutshell. Francs and pesetas are silver coins worth 19% cents each. Under the Latin Union the French franc has limited coinage and like our own silver is artificially kept at its face value. In Spain the silver peseta and its paper equivalent will sink to their real value compared with gold. Any country with a depreciated currency will force its own people to take poor money and be compelled to send its good money abroad. We have a gang of senators in the present senate that is yearning to adopt the Spanish money. Its fetish is the old Spanish dollar that circulated in the days of Andrew Jackson. These senators, would like to force unprotected silver upon the people and compel the government to light this war and pay the soldiers now rushing to the front with an inflated paper currency and a silver dollar, unguaranteed by a gold reserve.

JOHN SHKRMAN has passed from the arena of political life. He has written his name indelibly upon the pages which record the nation's most momentous and thrilling history, that of the rebellion, reconstruction and restoration of public credit. As secretary of the treasury he made a record which placed him in the front rank of financial ministers. That grand policy of resuming specie payments by the act of 1875 owed its success to the courage, strength and wisdom of John Sherman. By it, depreciated paper became worth its face in gold, the bonds of the country rose in value, the credit of the United States reached its highest point and the business and investments of the country were placed on a foundation of rock, which was sound and houest currency. If at the touch of Alexander Hamilton the corpse of credit sprang into life, under the guidance of John Sherman endangered credit and impending bankruptcy were changed to vigorous solvency and permanent safety. No family ever gave to its country two such brothers, so brave, true and strong, as W. T. Sherman, the great commander and John Sherman, the statesman and financier.

THOUGH it looks as if we may hear of a fight any day the American people will have to study patience. Many a day this summer will be a weary long day, waiting for news. We are not yet ready for war. The ship yards are crowded with unfinished work. There are not enough guns, ammunition and men for all the ships. The camps will be full of halftrained men for months to come. To clamor now for speedy action and quick results willjto.to^rge the government to fling raw troops against forts and to insist on giving the enemy the benefit of our precipitation. It may be along time before we can take Havana. We Are not going to, bombard it and hand over to the Cubans a ruined capital. The forts cannot be reduced until a land army can attack in the rear and it may be three months before either a Cuban or American army will be ready to take the field in force. Let us be patient, for though the beginning may be slow the ending will be quick. We hope to sing the song of "Peace on earth, good will to men," next Christmas, in a land restored to peace, but we may bo compelled to chant a penitential psalm.

THK nation will not patiently submit to delay in the Senate next week while partisan senators attempt, for show, obstruction or politics, to inject fiatism and free silver into the bill for providing revenue and money for fighting the war. Ostensibly they object to Issuing bonds. This country has fought four great wars with borrowed money. It has done so because wars consume money faster than the people can raise it, and because the benefits of the wars were to be enjoyed by generations to come and they were expected to share the cost. Any citixen can prudently borrow money and give interest-bearing mortgages, notes or bonds for it. What the citixen can do pruden tly, the citixens in mass can do and the nation can as well pay interest on its borrowed money as the humble citteeu can. The fiat senators would like to make a forced, non-interest-bearing loan by issuing paper money. They would like to coin that airy nothing called seigniorage, which is the difference between the cost of (diver and its artificial or face value when coined. The paper and seigniorage money would cost us nothing. Tills nation has not yet sunk *o low as to inflate its currency with money that coats nothing. Every minute consumed by the senate in (his question will be wasted for it is knows that the secretary of the

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treasury has the power to issue bonds and that the senate cannot override the president and congress. The people will watch these senators with a jealous eye as they play with the nation's credit in the face of the enemy.

THE spirit of patriotism is no respecter of persons. Men of all ranks and degrees of fortune are volunteering. In fact some of the millionaires' sons are showing such spirit that we can say "a man is a man for a'that."

THE American soldiers are the ninteenth century crusaders with a far higher purpose than the first crusaders had. They do not go to find a vacant tomb but to save living men, and appropriately, our first expedition to Cuba carried the red cross.

THE loco weed drives horses crazy. This is a horse on the Gazette, for if it has not been feeding on the loco plant the last fortnight we never saw a case of real locofocoism before. It will recover and be in a calmer, honester mood next week, after the election is over. jYV,

Soox after the close of the revolution John Adams said that we owed the blessings of peace to the declaration of armed neutrality by the powers of Europe. As a historical curiosity it may be mentioned that Adams added that we owed that to Florida Blanco, the minister of Spain, who induced Russia and other northern nations to adopt it. As Kipling said "We forget so soon." But then Spain has not always acted so nicely.

GLADSTONE lays dying. He divided with Bismarck the honor of being the greatest living subject of any power in Europe. But there is a wonderful difference in these two eminent statesmen. Gladstone hasleen the highest expression of the sentiment that government is for the people. Whatever would make life better worth living, men more free, burdens lighter and life purer, Gladstone has stood for. His successor is not yet in sight. ___________

THERE is a manifest eagerness for news of important events, hard fights and great victories, but America may learn a lesson of patience before the war is ended. Beyond the navy we are not yet ready to rush into the vortex of war and will not be for months to come. The great events will be on t.be sea perhaps two or three battles between fleets, and the capture of Havana. Then there will be many isolated events, such as the capture of Spanish commercial vessels by our commerce destroyers, which soon will be ranging the Atlantic ocean, almost within sight of Spain, but there will also be the capture of our vessels, of which over seven hundred are at sea, by the Spanish raiders that will infest the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Iu spite of all this great and stirring events may be few and far between and our volunteers will lie inactive in camps perhaps until fall, or the war is over. But patience—Spain will suffer more from a protracted, uncertain war than the United States. It will act upon its strength, finances and home industries as typhoid fever does upon a feeble system. Long war means death to Spain.

He Heeded Encouragement, Silas Perkins bad rented land from Squire Dowling, and soon after he moved into the new home his wife died. Silas remained at home with very dejeoted spirits for several days, but early one morning he oalled at Sqnire Dowling's house and said: "Sqnire, I hain't in no fix to make an effort." "Oh, brace up, Silas," said the squire. "I know it is bad for a man to lose his wife, espeoially such a helpful and encouraging one as yours, but it will not do to give up." "Yes, but I hain't got no incouragement at all." "I'll give you all the help you need and do what I oan to make life pleasant for you." "Yas, but you'll hev to gimme incouragement er I can't do nuthin." "Well, that is what I'm doing, isn't it?" "Naw, you're just a talkin 'bout what I orter do. I'll hev to git some inoouxagement to work, like my wife uste to gimme." "That's what I'm going to give you." "Shore 'nuff?" "Certainly."

Waal, jest come down to my shack every morn in an say jest ez sharp and gingery ea you oan: 'Git outen the bed, Silas Perkins, you low down soallaway. You air the sorriest an no en conn test critter in 40 mile er heer, an ef you don't hussel right outen heer I'll have the White Caps after you this very night.' That's the speech Tildy Ann hez been makin to me every morn in

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back, an things peers lonesum an disolate at home without it. Then atter you've made the speech you want to fling a chair an two er three pots into the bed an fetch a yell like er wild Injun. Then I'll stretch myself an yawn an begin to crawl out No, sub, equire, no man knows what a great source o' incouragement Tildy Ann wus to poor me."—Atlanta Journal.

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Tatgeaef* Admiration For Dickens.

Literary jealousies are (heaven knows) distressing enongh in themselves they are most distressing, not in themselves, but as symptomatic. And whenever a young author begins to bore you with peevish disparagement of bis fellows you may pity him even more than you pity yourself, for he is unconsciously parading the first and all but infallible indication of intellectual barrenness. That querulous note foredooms him. It is the buzz of the predestinate drone. Conversely, it is the firs* sign of usefulness that it recognizes and is attracted by usefulness. Except by this simple truth you will find it hard to explain, for instance, Turgenef's enthusiasm for Dickens. What attraction, you will nalr yourself, could the creator of such characters as Neshdanoff and Bazarof find in the creator of such characters as Mr. Pickwick and the Cheeryble brothers the mild and melancholy Slav in the cheery, vigorous British optimist? Roudine and Mr. Micawber are, eacls in his way, studies of the sanguine, unpractical temperament which feels on its own illusions. But the mere collocation of the two names raises a smile. The two stand as wide apart as the poles, and can only, you would say, have come from imaginations as wide apart as the poles. Turgenef's whole theory of his art was a point blank danial of Diokens' whole theory. And yet Turgenef'B admiration of Dickens was fervent and constant. "It does not matter," somewhere observes Mr. Birrell, "what the little poets do, but great ones should never pass one another without a royal salute."—A. T. Quiller-Couch in Pall Mall Gazette. 7.

Disappearing Guns.

The disappearing carriages are built in accordance with any one of a number of mechanical principles, but, whatever system be employed, the practical operation is the same. In front of the gun is an immense shield of sand and concrete presenting no projection or angles whioh would reveal its location. Behind this the gun lies hidden/jjJt is loaded, given the proper elevation and direction, rises, discharges its projectile and the recoil returns it to its hidden position.

To test the value of such mountings, the English condnoted experiments at Portland in 1885. A pit was dug in the natural slope of a hill, and in this pit a wooden model of a large gun was mounted upon a disappearing carriage. It was arranged to appear for half a minute at intervals of three minutes, emit a puff of smoke and disappear. The Hercules at 800 yards fired in ten minutes 6,910 rounds from the machine guns and 29 rounds from its six pounders. The gnn stuck at the seventh minute and could not be hauled down. In spite of this it was struck only 16 times and had it been steel the effect would have been simply to scratch the paint. Besides this, twenty-eight 10-inch shells were fired at it from a distance of 2,500 yards, and no hits were made, the shell striking from 800 yards short to 800 yards over and from 120 yards left to 180 yards right. This was under circumstances unfavorable to the gun, since it did not return the fire. A fixed gun subjected to a similar test was struok over 200 times.—Collier's Week-

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A Young Housekeeper,

"Have you two or three nice beef tongues?" asked the new housekeeper. "Not today, ma'am," replied the butcher, "but I can order them for you. How many did you say you wanted?" "Two or three." f\ "Whole tongues?" "Yes, sir." "You must have made a mistake. Have you any idea of the size of a beef tongue? I know there are only two in your family, and I can't see how you oould eat all that." "I want three whole beef tongues." "Very well, ma'am you know your own business best. But perhaps yoa want them pickled or in brine?" "I said I wanted them fresh. Have them by tomorrow, please."

That night the young housewife confessed to her husband. "I made a mistake, of course. I thought a beef tongue was about the same size as my own tongue. But I wasn't going to admit to that man that I didn't know anything about housekeeping. I wouldn't even ask him how much the three tongues would cost. I'll buy them tomorrow if it bankrupts us, and then I'll never trade with that impertinent man again."—Buffalo Express.

A Remarkable Poster.

The posters of "Julius Gsesar" that are decorating some of the London boardings contain probably the most remarkable evidence of the prescience of the Romans that has ever been recorded. On the right hand side of the sheet is a coin, intended to be Roman. It bears a head, under which is the name "Julius OsBsar," while surmounting it is the date B. C. 48. Evidently the Roman mint had prophetic powers denied to similar institutions in a later age.—London Chronicle.

Advice.

Winkle—I wonder what be&tines of all the boys who leave the country and enter the great struggle of life in the city?

Kinkle—They make big fortunes, and then lie back in their easy chairs and advise country boys to stick to the form. —New York Weekly.

Five is the great sacred Chinese number. There are five virtues, five oolora (yellow, white, green, red and black), five household gods, five planets (Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury), five ranks of nobility, five tastes, five cardinal points (the middle, east, west, south and north respectively), and five tones.

On the average, and taking rengian* and Wales, one person in 78 is a Smith, one in 76 a Jones, aoe in US a Williams, one in 148 a Taylor, one in 1M a Da vies, and one in 174 a Brown.

TERRJS HAUTE SATUBDAY EVJOLNG MAIL, APBliL 30, 1898.

Una ting In the Boninc Boshes of Tenia.

A Southern Pacific advertising man says: "Saul, after his conversion, hadn't half the respect for burning bushes that I have since my return from a trip to west Texas. That country is the blankblanked place for natural curiosities that I ever went up against, and my little introduction to the 'fire bush' came near leaving me in a state of nervous prostration. "I went out one morning from Dr. Merriwether's ranch with my Winchester on my shoulder to shoot a few jack rabbits for practioe. I climbed up on a little plateau where the alkali was thicker than paint on a soubrette and had trailed along for a couple of hours without seeing anything when a big yellow bird, like a pheasant, chuckled at me from beneath a bush at the side of the ravine. The creature was so friendly that I thought I could bat him over or perhaps catch him alive. I leaped at him and when he 'side stepped' I fell into the bush. As I scrambled to my feet I was flabbergasted to find that brown shrub burning merrily beside me. I had just time to dodge the flame and in doing so I struck another plant of the same variety. In an instant, with a little swish, it, too, sprang into flame. I turned, horror stricken, to run, and dashed straight into a third shrub, which at once took part in the conflagration. At that I lost my head, and, dropping my gun, I sprang away frantically through the undergrowth, leaving behind me a trail of fire like a comet's tail. I don't know just how far I ran, but at last, exhausted, I fell to the ground and in a few moments the bushes ceased to burn. When sufficiently recovered, I crawled carefully to the trail, giving anything that looked bushy and brown a wide berth. "And Merriwether only laughed as he told me that the 'fire bush' is a speoies of cactus whioh at a certain period of the year will take fire by spontaneous combustion when violently shaken, as by some one running through them. New Orleans Times-Democrat.

Indian Irrigating Tanks.

The system of irrigation is mostly that known as the ancient Hindoo system of tanks. The word "tank," in an Indian irrigation sense, means a storage reservoir. A tank has no definite size. Its area of water spread may be two or three acres or it may extend to as many square miles its depth may be three or four feet or 100 feet or more.

The word "koonta" is used in Haidarabad to signify a very small tank, euoh as one of two or three acres only. The words "sangor" and "cherroo" are the Hindoostanee and Telugu equivalents, respectively, of the word that has been copied into English as "tank."

Down every valley a stream must flow in the rainy season, its size depending upon the area of the ground that drains into it. A small stream is a feeder, or one of several feeders, to a larger stream, whose drainage area is the total of those cf its small stream feeders. The larger stream is, again, but a feeder to one still larger, and so on till the great river is reached that carries the water from the whole accumulated drainage areas to the sea. In each little valley, in each larger valley, in each yet larger valley again, one or more tanks nan be constructed, and thus the drainage area supplying a tank may vary from less than one square mile to 100 square miles.—George Palmer in Engineering Magazine,

Advice on Pruning.

If prnning is done properly, no tools will ever be necessary except a sharp pruning knife, but if neglected or too many main limbs are allowed to grow the saw will have to be used in a few years. It is desirable to make a nice, smooth, even cut, and to do this the knife should follow the shoulder that is noticeable at the junction of the limb te another or to the main stem, and the surface of the out should be no larger than the base of the branch removed. Draw the blade inward a little at the upper side. Avoid leaving a sharp stub from whioh a new shoot may start Do not make the cut too olose. When the saw must be used on a heavy limb, saw a little on the underside first, so that the weight of the limb as it falls will not split or peel the bark. It is necessary to paint the wound made by pruning with white lead and linseed oil, to which may be added a little lampblack, if desired, to give a darker effect.—Report Colorado Board of Horticulture.

Best Side of a Cemetery.

Probably few people know that there is a choice side to every cemetery. Thus, in some parts of the world, the eastern portion, without regard to its situation, is always deemed the most desirable. This preference arises from the old tradition that onr Lord will appear from the east. It is also believed that the dead in the eastern portion will be the first to rise, then those in the southern, western and northern in order.

In England it was once the custom of laying felons and other bad characters on the north side of the church. The oustom of laying the dead in a certain direction is responsible for the Welsh designation for the east wind, "The wind of the dead men's feet."—-Cincin-nati Enquirer.

The Comedy of Divorce.

Mrs. Lincoln Parke—Delighted to make your acquaintance, Mr. Englewood. It almost seems as if I had met you before.

Mr. Englewood—My memory is better than yours, my dear madam. You were once my wife.

Mrs. L. P.—Are you sure? Mr. E.—Quite I Mrs. L. P.—Probably you are right I

never could remember taoe&—New York Herald.

People say in Turkey that it takes ten Hebrews to equal one Armenian and five Armenians to equal one Permian In sharp boitno— dealings.

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Opening of the season sale of light underwear for women and children. We have never, before offered such excellent values. Women's Swiss ribbed vests, lace and ribbon trimmed, 10c value, 5c each.

Fine Swiss ribbed vests, lace and ribbon trimmed neck and sleeves, white and ecru, 10c each.

Fancy Swiss ribbed vests, silk trimmed, white and ecru, 15c each. Fancy silk ribbed vests, our regular 25c garments, 19c each.

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Full fashioned ribbed vests, high neck and short sleeves, 25c each.

Our lace department is filled with all that is new and desirable in dainty laces, embroideries, gauzes, novelties for dress garnitunes. You'll find exclusive styles

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New Oriental laces in white and butter color at 12Xc, 15c and 18c a yard. Lace insertings in black, white and ecru in a great variety of pretty styles from 10c a yard up.

A lot of cambric embroideries from )4 to to 2 inches wide, goods worth up to 20c a yard, at the special price of 5c a yard.

"Who Goes Home?"

There is nothing nioro amusing perhaps in all the quaint aud curious customs of the house of commons than the strange ceremony which marks the termination of its every sitting. The momen the house is adjourned stentorian voiced messengers and policemen ory out in the lobbies and corridors, "Who goes home?" These mysterious words have sounded every night for centuries through the palace of Westminster. The custom dates from a time when it was necessary for members to go home iu parties accompanied by linksmen for common protection against the footpads •who infested the streets of London. But though that danger has long siuce passed away the question,

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home?" is still asked night after night during the session of parliament. No reply is given, and none is expeoted.— Nineteenth Century.

The Pope'® Titles.

These are the titles in full of the Roman pontiff: "His holiness Leo XIII, bishop of Rome, vicar of Jesus Christ, two hundred and fifty-eighth snocessor of the prince of apostles, supreme pontiff of the oharch universal, patriaroh of the west, primate of Italy, archbishop and metropolitan of the Roman province, sovereign of the temporal dominions of the holy Roman church, prefect of the saored congregations of the inquisition, the consistory of the apostolio visit, president of the pontifical commission for the reunion of dissenting churches and protector of the church and chapter of St. Gelsua and St. Julianus, of the orders of St. Benedict, of preachers, of the Friars Minor and also of the archofraternities of the Via Crucis, of Jesns and Mary and of the Stigmata of St Francis."

Not His Department.

"I should think you would find this a very trying position," remarked the horrified visitor at the stockyards, gazing with a kind of hideons fasoination at the gory artist whose business it was to silence the squealing porkers as they "trolleyed" past him, heads downward. "Trying?" answered the pig sticker. "Great Scott, no! The trying positions are all in the renderin houses."

And be silenced another pig.—Chicago Tribune.

He Wanted Too Much.

Patient—Well, doctor, do you think it's appendicitis? Eminent Surgeon—I never think, my friend I always know.

Patient—Yes, I know you alwayi know after the operation, but can't yon break over the rule and work up a little doubt now?—Chicago News.

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With spring time comes house cleaning. How are -J your lace curtains, draperies and shades? Are they not looking a little rusty?

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Irish point curtains, beautiful patterns, from S3 to SIS a pair. Brussels lace

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We are prepared to execute orders for shades and draperies of all kinds at lowest prices.

Dress Goods

There are money saving chances here in dress goods such as does does not often occur this early in the season. Our policy is not to 4 carry over anything from season to season that price will sell. Special values at 25c a yard, this season's styles, worth up to 75c a yard.

Attractive offerings in fancy novelties at 89c and 50c a yard. All our French novelties in suit patterns —the choicest styles of the season—at greatly reduced prices.

B. ROOT & CO.

Notice to Taxpayers.

The time for the pay-, ment of county taxes without penalty expires Monday, May 2d. Taxpayers are requested to call early to avoid the rush.

JOHN L. WALSH, Treasurer Vigo County.

FOR SALE. Chickering Upright Piano at a bargain. D. H. BALDWIN & CO., 640 Wabash Ave.

For Your Sunday Dinner. Spring Lamb, Steer Beef, Sweet Breads, Pig Pork,

Tenderloins, Spare Ribs, Beef Tenderloins. C. H. EHRMANN. Fourth and Ohio.

Clean Meat Market. Telephone 230.

Children's Shoes, are a specialty with us. We carry the very best lines at the very lowest prices.

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