Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 July 1898 — Page 4

THE MAID

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor sad Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 501# Ohio Street. Telephone 499.

The Mall is sold ID the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mail, at the rate of 32 a year, SI for six months, or 50 cents for three months Entered at the Postoffice at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

CUBA on the map looks like a snake and it is full of snaky people.

IT appears to many that Blanco is a blank fool, or even blankety-blank.

SMOKELESS powder is the best, no doubt, but our gunners do very fine work with black powder.

THE Texas once was thought to be a hoodoo but since the Cervera chase we know she'll do.

TIIE scare over a mythical Spanish privateer on the Pacific coast is sure proof that gold is coming from the Klondike.

•THE name Ladrones sounds better in Spanish than it means in English, as it means "thieves." The islands should be rechristened and civilized.

IT would be a pity if some of the bicyclers failed to get to the fires in advance of the fire department, or if the other five hundred should not get there at all.

AN enterprising reporter asked Cervera, before he bad landed, how he liked this country, and Cervera said he loved us. Perhaps the admiral, like the Prince of Wales, "lied like a gentleman."

Is PRIVATE O'SIIAY on board?"— "01, Oi, sorl"—"Then let the battle begin!" said Captain Clarke, and Private O'Shay let fly the first shot from the Oregon as it chased Cervera's squadron.

IT has been BO fully demonstrated that the Spaniards hit a mark only accidentally that their hitting a hospital tent is a sure sign they were not firing at it neither are they using explosive bullets. The devil is as black as black can be without any extra coats of paint.

Now THAT he has bis hands in, perhaps it would be well for Uncle Sam to take a good sized clapboard, and give the fresh young German emperor the spanking he so richly deserves. It will have to be done sooner or later, and Uncle Sam might as well try it as anybody.

CERVERA said that a sailor is always a gentleman. Commodore Schley added proof to the assertion as he said "The victory belongs to every officer and man of tbo fleet" There can be no ungentlemanly discussion by Sampson and Schley. May they be saved from their mischievous friends.

TIIK funny free traders wish the whole world, with its Japanese, Asiatic and European cheap labor, thrown open to the United States, but they are scared by the prospect of the admission of the Hawaiians and Filipinos with their limited labor capacity. They are great ghost dancers, these anti-annexationists.

WHEN our flag flies over Porto Rico and over Manila about 175 degrees of longitude will separate the two extremes of our temporary or permanent possessions. and Hawaii will be very nearly at the central point, which shows that the nation needs both the Philippines and Hawaii for its symmetrical development and perfect equilibrium.

SOME one said that one who rules bis temper is greater than he that takes a city. After we take Santiago, it can be predicted our tempers will be much tried by the exactions and airs of the Cubans. Then the Amerioans will have a chance to show forbearance to a people that has had such peor teachers as the Spanish. They are to be pitied for their faults and woes.

LONG ago, the Spanish foot soldiers were said to be the beat infantry in Europe. Why, we cannot tell, since it has been hundreds of years since they have won any victories worth speaking of, but it will be admitted that the Spanish infantry at Santiago showed the soldierly qualities that under able leaders, with a good cause, sufficient food and regular pay would win victories.

THE greedy, stony-hearted Napoleon called the English a race of shopkeepers. The French and the Spanish sneer at the Americans as shopkeepers and pork packers. The French, Spanish and Italians think that in them alone bloom chivalry and honor, bat it is not an extravagance to claim for the Anglo-Saxons the finest and the keenest sense of honor known to this age. Ancient chivalry was marked by its devotion and respeot for woman as well a* for its bravery. We need not dwell upon the French shipwreck in which over two hundred men were saved and but one woman, nor upon the Spanish cruelty to women and children in Cuba. They are not the only blots upon the fantastic chivalry of the Latin race. If generosity, respect and honor to women are test* of chivalry and parity then no people is as chivalrfc and pure as the American. The Spanish people lived easily and contentedly the better part of this century under profligate qoeens and trtdy to-day to toss aside Christina, who has made the Madrid court as pore as Victoria's. We cannot expect decadent peoples to realise their own decadence nor

to understand a race so different from tbem as thd Americans and British. Except from Cervera there has not been a sign that the Spanish officer of to-day knows what chivalry is.

THE United. States in seventy-five years received, swallowed and absorbed 17,000, 000 foreigners and turned them into willing supporters of free and self-govern merit. Seventyfive years hence it will be forgotten that any feared the absorption of puny Hawaii and the feeble Filipinos would give this mighty nation a chronic case of political indigestion and dyspepsia.

COL. BRYAN'S regiment is on its way to join Gen. Lee. It is well the Colonel is going to Cuba, where he will learn what a mistake he made in Washington in urging that the Cubans should be made the controlling power, their generals, the commanders in the war and our own army an auxiliary to the Cuban force. The colonel, however, was then talking politics, not war.

THE most depressing news yet received from Cuba is of the probable appearance of yellow fevar among the troops. While General Fever and General Winter are proverbially dangerous foes it can be hoped that superior hospital service and knowledge of sanitary rules will reduce the spread of disease to a minimum. The exasperating feature of disease is that the Spaniards will find in it cause for rejoicing.

THE Rockville Tribune is wounded in its tenderest parts when one of its solemn items is copied without specific credit. All papers, for self-protection, should mention when any item is copied from the Tribune. The Mail is not annoyed that the Tribune this week reprints an item from the Mail without credit, and proceeds to hammer at it in its best windmill style. We gather from the Tribune's incoherency that it wishes a few tons of greenbacks issued, that, like the greenback of '68, will decline to fifty and thirty-five cents on the dollar, for fighting this war. Then after the war is over the Tribune will join the repudiators who will oppose redeeming the greenbacks according to the terms on their face.

WE know by the Gazette's own confession that it is defending the administration while engaged in war, and so we will fall to understand the Gazette's insinuation that there is a resemblance between Spanish and administration methods, and the remark that "unnecessary delay caused by the neglect or incapacity of the administration to do its duty of making prompt and effective preparation for war will cause great and farrreaching suffering during the sickly, rainy season." This is upholding with a vengeance the administration which began vigorously to prepare for war before war was declared or money voted and continued the work while Democratic senators were delaying the vpte of more money.

IT must make the calamity howlers feel out of a job to learn, as was announced by the treasury department yesterday, that the subscriptions to the war loan aggregated six times the amount of the bonds to be issued. The subscriptions represented by checks or other forms of payment, it is estimated, will aggregate about $760,000,000, or three and three-quarter times the amount of the issue. Early in the week the department officials became convinced that the subscriptions of individuals would be far more than sufficient to wholly absorb the loan and gave instruction that checks representing all subscriptions of corporations be prepared and returned to the senders to-night. It is thought at the treasury department that no individual subscriptions as high as $10,000 will receive an allotment of bonds. During the entire month there has been an average of fifteen thousand subscriptions received daily and some days the number has exceeded twenty thousand. To handle this enormous mail and to schedule the subscriptions a force of over three hundred clerks has been con* stantly employed. It probably will be two or three days before it is known just the size of the largest subscriptions which can be accepted.

SENATOR HOAR, in a very able but not altogether consistent speech, defended the annexation of Hawaii but condemned the acquisition of the Spanish islands. He said: "The starry flag is no symbol of dominion or of empire.' Let it never fly in time of peace over conquered islands or vassal states. It is the emblem of freedom, of self-government, of law, equality, of justice, of peace on earth and good will to men."

It is all that and will mean all that to the poor peoples of the Spanish islands if it continues to fly over them. We can predict what reforms, progress and education will enter the new lands into which the cross is carried for we know what the cross stands for. We know also what the American flag stands for and that if it is carried into anew country by any means, it will be followed by freedom, self-govern' ment. law, justice, peace and good will to men.

We prefer the view of Senator Teller to that of Senator Hoar, as 1M said: "I believe that wherever our flag flies by right of conquest or by the consult of the people who will let it be pat ap, there it will remain, and the party or the men who propose to take it down will have to reckon with the great body of the American people, who believe that it is the best flag and the best government, better calculated to bring peace and prosperity than any other flag and government under the sky.w

Tony Faust Beer.

The finest beer ever placed before the public the celebrated Tony Faust beer, produced by the Anhenser-Bosch association of St. Louis. This celebrated beer has been placed before the Tern Haute public by Wm, Vogm, at Oak Hall, where it to on draught at all times. This beer is neopiKi by all connoisseurs as the finest beer offered to the public, and Mr. Voges is having a great ran on it.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JULY 16, 1898.

LYING AS A DISEASE?

I note by an exchange that lying is a disease, the same as the measles, yellow fever, scab or poll evil. I am glad to hear it, because that excuses a good many liars, for whose prevarications no other reason can be urged. Then, instead of telling a man—I mean a full-grown one—that he is a liar, I shall say to him, "Mr. you are ill you would better consult a physician." That is so much more agreeable and also likely to be more healthy for the party making the accusation.

This scientist says the malicious liar is a difficult problem, and there is little or no hope for him, but the harmless, innocent liar, like the circulation liar on a newspaper or a politician, is merely diseased, and can, by proper treatment, be cured I am glad to learn that such is the case, for I had begun to despair and feel despondent, because there has seemed to be no hope for them.

And, therefore, the little fibs known as white lies, such as being out when Mrs. Grundy calls, or finding yourself suddenly in a state of utter financial ruin when Mr. Never-Pay asks you for the loan of a ten or discovering all at once that you are remarkably busy, just as some long-winded bore calls to tell you a lot of old chestnuts that had whiskers and were old enough to vote and chew tobacco when Noah went on his forty days cruise in the ark such yarns are not lies at all, but merely slight indispositions, such as a cold the head or a mild rash or a little headache.

What a comfort it must be to a number of my friends who are in the habit of indulging in this mild method of evasion, not to say lying. Many a time when I have asked a friend for the loan of a "V" until day after to-morrow, he would find himself totally ruined and unable to let me have a cent, so that many times I have fallen on their necks and wept with them at their utterly ruined and helpless financial condition. Also, many times I have lost fifteen or twenty minutes' sleep because certain of my friends were always so shockingly busy that when I was Been coming, they would instantly have such a rush of business in some other part of town that they would fail to get back the' same day, while I sat and waited and looked over any correspondence that might be lying around on their desks. Quite frequently, however, I have thus sat waiting without touching a single thing on the desk, especially if the drawers were all locked. I do not like to make free with my friends' property merely because they have to be away looking after matters that demand their attention in such a forthwith manner. Then I felt sorry for them, but now I know it was only a disease that would yield to proper treatment. I shall immediately call on them and prescribe. But while some may be curable, there are many whose only hope is to be born again. Everything has drawbacks. -'--:.

On the hypothesis that lying is a disease, then George Washington's truthfulness about the cherry tree episode is not so remarkable, after all. He simply couldn't help himself,-and told the trftth whether he wanted to or not. Ic makes us think more of George than ever, for the hatchet story always made us tired, SUB it must have most boys. If George couldn't help telling his dad all about how he chopped down the Early Richmond cherry tree, that is different. He was simply abnormally well, so that when his dad came home from the Fourth of July celebration at the county seat and asked his boy about it, George up and said, "Governor, I cannot tell a lie I am too unspeakably well."

What a disease Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, must have had, but for all that we don't see why the husband should have been named Ananias when that is in reality a woman's name. But when Mr. and Mrs. Ananias—I forget their last name—got into that real estate deal, they were not like our real estate men of the present day. They were not filled up with truth until it oozed out at every pore, like it does out of real estate men now. The real estate man of to-day is a synonym for truth, virtue, humility and meekness,

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viously was not that way, and he went so far that he was finally thrown out of the church and every lodge with which he had connection, and ail because he was not truthful like real estate dealers nowadays. And yet he was not to blame, because he was ill and nobody knew it. At present the real estate men are in such health that they cannot lie, bnt what hope is there for a man with whom lying has become a disease ALEX. MILLER.

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Land and a Living

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Are best and cheapest in the New South. Land $3 to $5 an acre. Easy terms. Good schools and churches. No blixaarda. No cold waves. W. C. Rlnearson. G. P. A., Queen & Crescent Roate, Cincinnati.

Bears' Gnat Strength.

Yes, the strength of grizzly bears is almost beyond belief. I have read aboutthe powerful muscles in the arms of African gorillas, bnt none can compare with those in the arms and shoulders of big grizzly bears. I have seen a grizzly bear with one fore paw shot into uselessness pull its own 1,100 pounds of meat and bone np precipices and perform feats of muscle that trained athletes oonld not da I have seen grizzly bears carrying the carcasses of pigs that must have weighed 70 pounds several miles across a mountain side to their lair, and I have heard hunters tell of having seen cows knocked down as if by a thunderbolt with one blow of the fore paw of a bear.

Three summers ago I spent the season in the coast mountains up in Monterey county, and one moonlight night I saw a big grizzly bear in the act of carrying a dead cow home to her cub. I had a position on the mountain side where could see every movement of the bear in the sparsely timbered valley below me. The critter carried the dead cow in her fore paws for at least three miles, across jagged, sharp rocks ten feet, high, over fallen logs, around the rocky mountain sides, where even a jackass could not get a foothold, to a narrow trail up the steep mountain. She nfever stopped to rest for a moment, but went right along. I followed, and just about half a mile from the beast's lair I laid her low. -The heifer weighed at least 200 pounds, and the bear would have tipped the beam at about 450 pounds.—Ohioago Inter Ocean.

General McDowell.

I have never met any one who gave me a stronger impression of honesty and sincerity than Irvin McDowell. He was then in the prime of life—40 or 45 years old—powerfully built, but rather ponderous in movement, kindly and simple in manner, with a very pleasant, soldierly face, a water drinker and almost a vegetarian. After the cruel war was over I met him one day in some foreign city—Vienna, I think—and as we were conversing he said, "Strange, isn't it, our enoounter today?"

Why so, general?"

'll "Have you forgotten? This is the 21st of July—the anniversary of Bull Bun. Had I won that battle I would have been one of the most popular men in the United States and you would have been another. I need not say how much it is the other way with us now."

But I do not think his countrymen blamed him after all. When I went to the United States some years ago, I found him in command at San Francisco—much changed, aged and sad, but courteous and kindly as ever. I told him that I had in a place of honor at home the photograph which he gave me before he left my lodgings the day he was looking for Barry's guns. "And I suppose," he said, "your friends ask, 'Who on earth was General McDowell?' Sir W. H. Russell in North American Review. jri-

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Qreat Screamer.

More than 60 years ago Laohlan McDonald left his home in Strathspey, Scotland, and went to the shores of Lake Winnipeg. He did not neglect to oarry with him his beloved bagpipe, and many an evening it spoke to him of the old home beyond the seaa

Even in the daytime, when he was busy in the woods felling trees, he would have it by his Bide, and on one occasion he had reason to be glad that it was so near.

He was merrily Swinging his ax, when he was suddenly surrounded by a party of Indians, who looked very formidable as they drew nearer, gesticulating in a particularly threatening manner. Things began to seem ominous, when a hapnv thought came to the Scotchman.

Seizing his bagpipe, he blew a blast so loud and long and shrill that the startled red men looked upon him for a .moment in consternation and then took to their heels, never stopping till the thick shadows ol the forest hid them from the man who could give vent to such an unearthly soream.

They did not forget that prolonged cry from that time the Scotchman was known among them as "the great screamer of the palefaces."—Exchange.

A Vifflou English Inn.

One of the oldest and most picturesque inns in all England is the Crab Tree inn in Fordham. Here cyclists from all over Britain have congregated and here men famous in literary annals like Kipling, Haggard and Andrew Lang have "put up" for an hour or two to rest and quaff the ale dispensed by ancient hostelry.

The story runs that Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott once partook of the hospitality of the place, and the queen herself, it is reported, once stopped by the wayside to partake of a frugal bowl of milk and crackers. The initials of men illustrious in Great Britain's history are graven upon the surface of its deal tables, and its very window panes are littered with the names of Maoaulay, Dickens and Thackeray. It has been pat in at least one book, and J. Quiller Oooch has nsed it as the scene for one of his terrible tragediea ,\% /.j

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"Doctor," said a man to hit medical attendant, who bad just presented a nf.ll Mil of 85 ahilHng* for treatment during a recent illness, "I have not much ready money. Will yon take this oat in trade?" I ^,4 "Oh, yes," cheerfully answered the doctor. "I think we can arrange that, bat what is your business?" "I am a cornet player," was the startling reply.—London Telegraph.

Poor Bat nr.

Unsophisticated Parent—Hello there, none, what the baby yelling that way for? I can't read at aLL

HUM—Hn's cutting his teeth, sir.--®® U. P.—Well, see that hedoem't doit anymore car yon lose year {dace.—Harlem Life.

Ladies' Ties.

Perfumery.

In this department you will find such celebrated brands as Woodworth's, Lubin's, Crown, Rodgers & Gallet's, Gelle, Freres' and many others.

Woodworth's Odors—White Rose, Crab Apple, Golden Rod and others, 19c an ounce.

Clearance Sale °f Seasonable Merchandise.

A small lot of Ladies' Puff Ties, the correct style for shirt waists, in white, pink and fancies, have been selling for 25c, 45c and 50c, will close them out for 15c, 19c, 25c and 29c.

Twerity-five dozen Ladies' String Ties, beautiful assortment of colors, sold for 25c, will close them at 19c.

A few dozen Ladies' Bows that have readily sold at 25c, closing price, 15c.

Another lot of Ladies' Bows, extra fine quality, many dozens to select from, 25c.

Lubin's—A very fine perfume, with lasting qualities that cannot be excelled by any of them, 25c an ounce.

Try our Rodgers & Gallet brand. One of the very best perfumes on the market. A full assortment of odors. Sample bottle free.

:f Flaying Gooseberry.

Playing gooseberry or "to play

Just lit Time.

A butcher's lad went to deliver some meat at a certain house in Newcastle where a fierce dog is kept. The lad entered the back yard, and as soon as the dog saw him he pinned him against the wall. In a short time the mistress of the house ran out and drove the animal away. "Has he bitten you?" she asked. "Noa,"said the lad, "aa kept him off by giving him your suet, an ye jast cam' in timo to save the beet"—London Fun. ..

L. "In Hoe" Defined.

Mr. de Amor (exhibiting his Knight Templar charm)—I-n h-o-c. Can you tell me, Ethel, what that means

Ethel (his love's little sister)—Yeth, thir. Ith where your watch ith.— Jewelers' Weekly.

Poultry and Trellis Netting at A. G. Austin & Co's.

New Schedules to the Army Camps. The Qtieeu & Crescent Route Fast Vestibuled Florida Limited leaves Cincinnati 8:30 in the morning, arriving Jacksonville next morning 9:40, and at Tampa the same evening at 5:50. Over a hundred miles the Shortest Line to Chickamanga. Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa and other troop points.

Finest train service and fastest Schedules. Through vestibuled Standard Day Coaches. Elegant Drawing Boom Sleepers and Cafe Parlor and Observation Cars.

W. C. RINEARSON,

Gent Pass'r Agt., Cincinnati*

Self-sharpening Lawn Mowers, only sold by A. G. Austin ft Co.

City Directory—City Map One is not complete without the other Ebel's new (Sty Directory will contain a new indexed map, printed on hard paper. The new directory will be the most complete work of its kind ever issued. Every business man should have his name in heavy type to show be is "in it."

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'For Your Sunday Dinner. Spring Lamb, §§|1|§§ Steer Beet Sweet Breads, Pig Pork,

Tenderloins, Spare Ribs, Beef Tenderloins. H. EHRMANN. Fourth and Ohio. Clpan Meat Market. Telephone 220.

Ice-saving Refrigerators at A. G. Austin ft Co's. •ST..

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At this season of the year we have in almost every department an accumulation of seasonable goods that must be sold. Bargains always abound with us, but until this accumulation is disposed of you will find bargains unparalleled We quote only a few, but remember you'll find them all over the house.

Ladies'Belts.

L. B. ROOT CO

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berry" is common enough in connection with sweethearting. A lass arranges a walk with a lad, but for some reason she does not care to go alone, so she takes a friend, another girl, and the friend 'plays gooseberry.'' Sometimes the girl who is invited to share the walk refuses, saying, "Nay, I'm not going to play gooseberry." The girls speak of the lad in this connection as "gooseberry fool." By the way, green gooseberries stewed with a little water, mashed, and sugar added, constitute "gooseberry fool. "—Notes and Queries.

A beautiful Suede Leather Belt with fancy buckle, purse attached, was 69c, now 25c.

Fine Cloth Belts, trimmed in leather, with leather lined purse, was 50c, now 39c.

Fine Silks Belts, trimmed in leather, with leather lined purse, was 89c, now 35c.

A few dozen black Leather Belts, with military and naval ornaments and buckles, sold for 42c, now 30c.

Elegant assortment of Velvet Belts, with fancy ornaments and buckles, at 45c, 50c, $1.29, and up to $5.50.

Red, white and blue Belts, only a few left, 25c and 50c.

2d Floor Bargains.

Our stock of Shirt Waists is too large for this time of the season. Others may be making prices, but none will sell as cheap as we do.

All our 50c grade now go at 25c. All our $x.oo grade now go at 50c.

All our $1.50, $1.75 and $1.98 grade now go at 98c. Four dozen Children's Waists that sold for 75c and $1.00, now go at 25c.

NICE SUMMER TRIPS

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To CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.

Tickets on sale July 89th. Good returning until August 88th, 1898. Round Trip Fare SI3.98

Quick time and good service to Chautauqua Lake points.

To CINCINNATI, O.

Tickets on sale July 18th and 19th. Good returning until July 23d, 1898. Round Trip Faro $5.58

To KANSAS CITY, Mo.

Round Trip Faro................ $19.45

To OMAHA, Neb.

Round Trip Faro $25.90 Tickets on sale every day. Good returning until November lGtb,:

To LAPORTE, Ind.

Tickets on sale July 20th to 20th. Qood returning until July 28th, 1898. Round Trip Faro ...$5.00

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Jufy 18th and I9thf all Trains. Good returning until July 33d inclusive. Big Four ticket office. Terre Haute House.

E. E. BOOTH, General Agent.

ANDY BURGET PLUMBING Gas and Steam Fitting

Pump*, Hose, Etc.

Special attention given to repair work and jobbing. Estimates furnished. SOS Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

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