Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 May 1898 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor,

Publication Office, No. 501 4 Ohio Street. Telephone 4«59.

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

FLKET is not a good name for the collection of Spanish vessels that is so slow in crossing the Atlantic.

THOSK shrieking mobs in Spain that are so anxious about Spanish honor are not the ones that have to do the fighting.

Tire Gazette is a forgiving soal. It began to throw boquefcs at the new clerk and treasurer as soon as they had won the senator.

their good places.

As A missionary to the isle where spicy breezes blow, where every prospect pleases and only man is, vile, Admiral Dewey seems to have been a consecrated success

THE Spanish spasms about their honor are sickening, and recall the Irish proverb that "your honor and the wool of a goose wouldn't choke anybody."

THE army has sustained a great loss in some of the bands that went home from Camp Mount. As a destructive and terrifying agency nothing can take their place short of a dynamite gun.

UNDER the heading of "Village electi ns in Indiana," a Chicago paper reported the late Terre Haute election. The editor probably was influenced by the style of some of the elected, who are not of city size.

IT will be consistent for Spain to get rid of the queen regent who is better than her subjects, for she is not Spanish. She would be the second queen regent sent out of the country, as the dubious mother of the not at all dubious Isabella was served the same way.

IK it is true that friends of the president are already advising him what to do with the Philippines and urging their retention by the United States they are entirely too fresh. The desire of. some of our statesmen to precipitate" themselves into the front row of every show is more obvious than their statesman ship.

THK war opened gloriously with Admiral Dewey's victory at Manila, on the other side of the world, last Sunday, only ten days after the formal declaration of war. It was most characteristically an American sailor's victory, marked by the dash of a Decatur or Porter, the daring of danger shown by Farragut and the splendid fighting qualities of a Hull, Perry and Stewart. Nothing could have added more to the prestige of the American arms and valor. A victory away off in the Asiatic seas was more impressive to the jealous Europeans than one in our own waters could have been. It shows that the United States mifst be reckoned with as a naval power and not AS a nation limited to its own borders by the want of a navy and army. With all glory to Dewey, his captains and his crews, great credit is duo«to the department of the navy which has so completely fitted out squadron after squadron and placed them just where they are needed. The wise policy which through the last four administrations Jjas fostered the navy already has been amply justified. ___________________

THK Democratic speeches in the house lately have been marked by monotony. All began with a high flown strain of patriotism and ended with au appeal for au income tax, the issue of more paper money and the coinage of the seigniorage. The speakers did not want patriotism to cost too much. The demand for an in come tax loses force by the too-evident animus bf tuauy advocates. It is proposed more as a penalty upou a class than as an equitable tax and it is attempted to make it popular by maiting its proposed victims uupopular. David Wells in a re cent article shows that while an income tax may be theoretically equitable and productive it will, if thoroughly and impartially enforced, be the moat unpopular of all taxes and cannot be successfully administered under a free and popular form of government. Gladstone once said of it, "I believe it does more than any other tax to demoralise the people." His political opponent, Disraeli, said, "The odious features of this tax cannot by any means be removed or modified." One of the worst features of it in this country is that its supporters appeal to class hatred or prejudice in supporting it. They would not dare to propose it as a substitute for any other form of taxation, to be collected from rich and poor, as it is in more autocratic Germany. If the majority of voters had to submit to an inquisitorial income tax the party that established it would be turned down at the next election.

WR AI,WAy* expect the blue jackets to fight well Mid the confidence and pride In the navy are unbotinded for they rest on the traditions ot a glorious past. The blue jackets are title "regulars" of the navy and the navy is kept on a virtual war footing in time of peace. Why at* not the "regulars" of the army entitled to as much respect as those in the navy, or in what respect doefs West Point fall behind Annapolis? There is a strain of detraction of the regular amy not heard of the navy, In many

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about the army. They were made to curry favor with the people, not from any sound policy or good sense. Of course this nation will always have to rely upon its volunteers for large armies, but it also will be obliged to maintain a skeleton of an army and a force of trained officers. As long as that necessity exists it is unwise to distinguish between the regulars of the sea and land and to discourage enlistments in the army by sneering at it. One reason for congressmen praising volunteers at the expense of regulars is that the volunteers are constituents and have votes. It Is a subtle flattery to tell the young men at home that they, without training, are as good soldiers as the regulars, but it is not true. The regulars of the navy have won a battle in ten days from the declaration of war. We could not ask volunteers to storm a fort ten days after enlistment. It would be poor generalship. The people respect the regulars, as they showed the other day when the regulars were being rushed to the front. Let the politicians do the same. _________________

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Senator Vest has a favorite story which be has told on the occasion of many a political speech, but, so far as

known, never on -the floor of the United States senate. "A temperance lecturer was struggling against odds in Kentucky," says

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very large audience that had been drawn to the hall by cnriGsity. 'The effect of alcohol is to shorten life,' said the lecturer. "An old man at the rear of the hall 'rose at that juncture and said, 'You're a liar.' "'Why?' inquired the advocate of Adam's ale. 'Because, sir, I've been drinking for 75 years, and I'm 90 and am likely to live to be 100. I am strong enough to lick you if you'll step outside.' "'Oh, no doubt, sir! You're an exception, sir. If you keep on drinking'—

The lecturer paused. "'What?' asked the impatient old toper.

'If you keep on drinking, Jtou'il have to be shot on judgment day.' St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

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A man who went away from fioine some time ago to attend a convention of church people was struck with the beauty of the little town in whioh the gathering was beld. He had plenty of time, and while wandering about walked into the village cemetery. It was a beautiful place, and the delegate walked around among the graves. He saw a monument, one of the largest in the oemetery, and read with surprise the inscription on it, "A Lawyer and an Honest Man." The delegate scratched his head and looked at the monument again. He read the inscription over and over. Then he walked all around the monument and examined the grave closely. Another man in the cemetery approached and asked him: "Have you found the grave of an old friend?'" "No," said the delegate, "but I was wondering how they came to bury those two fellows in one grave."—St. Joseph News.,.,,

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The little boy was with his mother at a theater in Louisville. The play was "Jim, the Penman," aud was the sceuo where Jim displays 65 £100 bank notes. Tho littlo boy was very inquisitive, and while he heard Mr. Eagle speaking of tho pound notes he asked bis mother bow much money a pound was.

Whe# ho was told that it was about $5 in American money, he sat silent and thoughtful for awhile. Then he said, "Sixty-five thousand pounds would be quite a big fortune for a man to have, wouldn't it, mamma?"

Auswered in the affirmative, he thought for awhile. Then he asked, "Mamma, if Mr. Eagle has so much money why does ho work so hard at this theater when he could be having a bully good time spending those bank notes?"—Louisville Commercial.

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As a nom do plume for a great deal of bis work Hawthorne assumed the French translation of his name. His stories in The Democratic Review of this time are attributed to M. d'Aubepine. Lowell says of him in his Concord address: "Yon would think me extravagant, I fear, if I said how highly I rate the genius of Hawthorne in the history of literature. At any rate, Hawthorne taught ns one great and needful lesson, and that is that our own past was an ample storehouse for the brightest works of imagination and fancy." —Edward Everett Hale in Outlook.

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Mr. Lingerly (having risen to go as the clock strikes 12, suddenly seats himself again)—Of course, dear, you know that 1 will be here tomorrow night

Miss Languid (yawning) There seems to be every indication of itRichmond Dispatch

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ABOUT CUBA.

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way, the report of Captain General Blanco to his government concerting "the bombardment of Matanzas" was a fair sample of Spanish 'bombast. Both the forts and the earthworks are so far from the city that the latter was in no danger, and not a single shell struck within three miles of it-

Late last March I spent several days in Matanzas—a guest in the palace of Senor Don de Armos, the new autonomist governor of the province. This gave me a fine inside view of things in the city which will presently figure in our news columns as the seat of the Cuban republic. The socalled "palace," on the Plaza d'Armas, is a very large two-storied, fiat-roofed casa of stone, stucco and adobe, faced by covered archways, or "portales," as they are called. According to Spanish custom, the ground floor is given up to offices, store-rooms, quarters for soldiers and police, stables, kitchens, etc. while the upper story is the official residence of the rulers of Cuba's richest province. A wide flight of stone steps, worn into deep hollows by the passing feet of 300 years, leads to enormous rooms, each like a town hall. In the vast, echoing salas, with their marble floors aud long lines of crystal chandeliers, more fortunate governors than the present incumbent have given splendid receptions to the beauty and chivalry of Matanzas. The state dining room, where ceremonious banquets of many courses are solemnly partaken, is so big that a telephone service betweejg host and guests would be an improvement. In the great sleeping apartments, the high posted brass bedsteads, with crowns atop—brought from Barcelona gene-ations ago, all canopied, curtained, beribboned and beruffled in the gorgeous style of the mother country—are set exactly in the center of the bare expanse of marble flooring, and look like an oasis in the desert—a speck in the ocean.

In truth, the most attractive part of this mediaeval palace is outside of it—in views from its balconies. On one.side of the casa, you have an incomparable picture of the beautiful bay, blue as the skies above it, reaching out to the ocean. Another side overlooks tho Cumbre hills, in which insurgent campflres are nightly seen, and the historic old Montserrat chapel, perched on a nearer spur. Those green heights enclose the world-famed Yumuri valley—-"Vale of Paradise"—an emerald genge with a river running through, dotted with stately palms aud now ruined villas. Directly below, the Plaza 'Armas is surrounded by the several departments of the colonial government, and the finest shops, cafes and club-houses of an aristocratic and ouce prosperous people. The plaza is laid out in the usual fashion of Spanish-America walks, lined with flowers and shrubbery, radiating like the spokes in a wheel from a central point, which in this case is a fine statue of Ferdinand XII. In this historic square many native patriots have met death in Spain'seffort to maintain her blighting hold upon this remnant of her western territory. Among the last who died here was Gabriel Concepcion de la Valdez, the mulatto poet and one of the noblest men Cuba has produced. He was accused of complicity with the slave insurrection of '44, and comdemned to be shot by soldiers of the line. The first volley failed to touch a vital spot. The brave man, bleeding from many wounds, still stood.erect aud undaunted, and pointing to his heart, said in a clear, calm voice, "Aim here". Another volley, and another victim was added to the long list of Cuban martyrs.

The Slackest page in the history of this fair island can never be accurately written, for Spain has made every effort to suppress the record of the thousands of brave men who, suspected of having a hand in some plot to overthrow the iniquitous government, or of sympathy with one of the innumerable revolutionary movements, have been pnblicy shot or privately disposed of, or left to die by inches in some noisome duugeon.

A little more than four centuries ago, this delightful situation was occupied by the populous Indian village, Yucayo. In 1693—just 200 years after the discovey of the island by Columbus—a Spanish hidalgo, named Manzanedo, purchased from Carlos II, a few hectares of land, including the then long-deserted Yucayo, and settled thereon thirty families of Canary Islanders. The next day being Sunday, Bishop Compostello changed the heathen name of the place, with mass and solemn ceremonies, to San Carlos San Severino and on Monday, the third day, the corner stones were laid of the cathedral and the castle of San Severino—the most re markable instance of expedition on record in this land of manana, (tomorrow.) The colonists afterwards acquired considerable more space in the adjacent Yumuri valley, for a cattle range, and devoted themselves to the raising of beef for the Havana market. Hence the place became known as El Metanzas—"the slaughter pen." In time the names of the saints were left off altogether, and not only the "settlement, bnt the bay, the district and the whole province, rejoiced under the name of "the slaughter pen."

Straight through the middle of the city runs the San Juan river—the portion on the south side of it being now known as "Pueblo Nulvo" (New Town), and that on the north as "Verseilles." Several handsome stone bridges cross the river, among them the notable Puente Belem. The New Town contains the railway depot and many beautiful villas. It has one of the handsomest streets in all Cuba, the Calzeda de San Estevan lined for two miles with imposing residences, all with pillared porticos in front, paved, like the terraces, with mosaic of black and white marble, or blue and yellow Venetian tiles. These casws of the old time grandees are set flush with the pavements, but each has its beautiful gardens at the sides, filled with palms and flowers, surrounded by tall icon railings and stoae pillars topped with urns.

Matanzas has experienced the viscisitudes common to West Indian towns, of attacks by buccaneers and bombardments by

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naval forces, English, French and Spanish but the worst calamity that ever befell her was the great conflagration of fortythree years ago. After that, the well-to do citizens built their residences on the heights above the city, where ocean breezes blow and the wide spreading bay forms a delightful picture. Two railway lines connect Matanzas with Havana, one of them running via Jaruca and Cardenas the other coming from the southeast," through Villa Clara, Sagua and Cienfuegos, intersecting a-rich sugar district and in peaceful times bringing a large amount of freight to the coast for shipment. Both lines are American buiit, drawn by American engines, equipped with American cars, and will no doubt soon be run by American engineers. Matanzas has a splendid new theater, said to be the finest in the West Indies, not even excepting "the theater of a hundred doors" on Havana. Most of the public buildings, however are very old, uncomfortable and dilapidated. The musty cathedral, whose corner-stone was laid a little more than three centuries ago, aud which has two towers, one much taller than the other, is rather imposing, by reason of massiveness and rough architectural beauty. The custom house, erected near the beginning of the present centurylong and low, with overhanging roof of red tiles—before the war enjoyed the respectable income of $3,000,000 a year. There are several handsomely appointed club-houses here, for in Cuban cities, as in London, Paris and Madrid, club life flourishes, at the expense of domestic institutions. There is also a big bull-ring in the outskirts of the city, and cock-pits galore.

A few years ago Matanzas province was the richest in Cuba, rejoicing in the possession of 478 sugar estate in operation, besides 528 stud farms, and some 3,000 other plantations of various sorts. Its rapid decadence from a luxurious center of wealth and fashion, as well as of productive industry and commerce, renders its present poverty the more pitiful. Many of the finest plantations of the old aristocracy were years ago confiscated. Others passed into the hands of Spanish adventurers and emigrants, who kept up the exhausting struggle as long as they could against a system grounded upon violation of every economic law and the torch of war finished the rest. ,,

I took an early drive one morning out to San Severino castle—about a month before its alleged bombardment The way leads along the edge of the bay, through the San Carlo "Paseo," which is laid out with graveled walks and rows of trees, a stone parapet on the water side, and tall iron gates at either end. In Matanzas' golden days this used to be the fashionable drive, thronged every evening with the beauty and aristocracy of the place, in elegant equipages, attended by cavaliers on horseback. To and fro they went, from gate to gate until at eight o'clock the music of the "retrata" sounded in the Plaza d'Armas, when the brilliant pageant desolved as by magic. Now the place is deserted, except by patrolling soldiers and begging reconcentrados, and we saw no steed but one decrepid mule—maybe the same which Blanco reported as the sole victim of our guns. Beyond the Paseo, an excellent road extends two miles farther out to the forte on Punta Gorda—"Fat Point." "On the hil.s nearest the bay are the barracks of Santa Isabella, the military hospital, and those dreadful sheds in which the dying* reconcentrados are huddled, where we saw such soul-harrowing sights with the Thurston-Gallinger party, some weeks before. Then up the slopes of the Cumbre we wound, by steep and stony acclivities,to the summit of the ridge. The landscape spread out on either side is something to live in thfe memory. More than thirty miles of undulating%hore-line are included in the prospect, the long bay in its ampitheater of hills looking like a majestic river, and the Ocean highway dotted with sails on one side of the ridge, the level plain, with the river running through and, the city creeping up tba hillside—on the other the lovely valley of the Yumuri, with its countless palms and burned cane fields and ruined homes, enveloped in a veil of mist. Like Rasselas' "happy valley," it is so hemmed in by high precipices that it seems cut off from the rest of the world, and ought to be the abiding place of pastoral content. But the heart is sad dened on reviewing its history, from the earliest days of Spanish occupancy. Fancy sketches the scenes of carnage which marked its conquest, in 1511, when thousands of the peaceful Indians were cruelly massacred. The remnant, driven by bloodhounds to the surrounding heights, were forced in despair to throw themselves down the precipices into the river below. Disappearing, they cried Yo Moir—"I die hence the name of the valley—so says tra

dition. FANNIE BRIG HAM WARD.

The Newmarket.

The Crend of trade is to the Jfewmarke^. The reasons are easily to be seen. Everything there is new and fresh, and the prices are revelations to buyers is Terre Haute. Go to the Newmarket, at Fourth and Main streets, for the lowest prices for first class goods.

NEITHER WAR

Nor rumors of war have any effect on the sale of

Baldwin Pianos

They stand the test and sell on their musical merit. Sale room &40 Wabash Avenue.

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Gascarets Candy Cathartic, the most wonderful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively 00 kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, disi»el colds, core headache, fever, habitual consulpation and biitousDew. Please buy and try a box of CX C. C. to-day JO, 35.50 cent* &id*ad guaranteed to cure by all druggists.

White Goods

lavish profusion Cannot promise such a complete assortment later in the season. India linens In all qualities. West art them at. 6c a yard and up to 50c, with many prices between.

Nainsooks. Persian lawns, French batiste. Swiss mulls, and many other sheer fabrics priced right.

Special values in tho very stylish white piques at 20c. 33c and He a yard. French orjrandies—our own special finishvalues from 40c to $1.35 a yard.

Dress Goods

Closing out prices on many lines of spring dress fabrics. Positive reductions that mean money saved. You'll find it to your interest to look here for bargains. 50 pieces stylish spring dress goods, down from 39c, 45c and 50c to 25c a yard.

Brocades, serges, fancy checks and novelties worth 25c a yard, now 15c a yard. Jacquard novelties, 40 inches wide, choico styles, now 80c a yard.

All our exclusive styles in dress patterns— the choicest productions of the season to be closed out at less than cost.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

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Is a waste of time. .^Look ahead.. ,You will neeo & many things for summer comfort. Buv now, while assortments are"^complete. Present prices tell a money-saving story that ought to induce 2&r yotr to look Tar ahead.

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Most extraordinary and exceptional bargains in every department today. Final clearing up of the LiverightGreenewald clothing stock, secured by us at 45 cents on the dollar. We expect the trade movement of the season here today. Come and join the crowd. ,. -1

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Leading One-Price Clothiers, Fourth and Main*

Store open till 10:30 this evening.

Women's Undermuslins

If you appreciate dainty, well-made and perfect fitting underwear, we can please you. Trash made only to sell finds no place here. We call attention to some rare values. Women's night robes made of jrood muslins with trimmed yoke, embroidery trimmed. 39c ench.

Muslin and cambric night robes, round and squnre nock, trimmed with tucks and embroidery insertion, 48c each.

Fine muslin night robes, square and round neck, handsomely trimmed, 59c each. Fino cambric and muslin night robes. Em pire and Josephine styles, beautifully trimmed with embroidery, a dollar garment. 89c each.

Spring Capes

We have about fifty spring jackets and coats that must be sold, as we carry nothing over from season to season. There are cool days and nights to come, when you'll need a wrap. It will pay you to buy now. We offer— Choice of this season's stylish jackets that fej have been $5 to $7 at $3.98.

Our best tailor-made coats that have been 310 to $12 now $6.98. All our tailor-mado suits—this season's proper stylos—at greatly reduced prices.

LIB. ROOT & CO.

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