Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 August 1898 — Page 4

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THE »MAIL.

A PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDOLESTON, Editor aad Proprietor.

Publlcatioa Office, No. 501% Ohio Street. Telephone 409.

The Mail 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 Postoffice at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

Tub sound of a bell, it is said, can be heard through water for 45,000 feet, but only 456 feet through the air. Evidently, the breakfast or getting-up bell should be attached to the water pipes.

Russell Hahkison and C. T. Trow bridge, late of Terre Haute, can't keep their names out of the papers. Like Mr. Vincent Crummies, who was similarly imposed upon, we wonder how they get there, and for what.

Accoudixo to Aeronaut Dennis of this city, who went up in the historic and ill fated balloon at Santiago, General Shafter had no more sympathy for a balloon than for a Cuban. Both were inflated bodies that he had no use for.

The Gazette objects to Mrs. Miles chas Ing General Miles to Porto Rico, where she has gone to visit her husband. What

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the Gazette editor know about con nubial ties and cares? Let Mrs. Miles con .tinue the chase if Miles likes it.

Hon. J. S. Coxkv's "Good roads and non-interest bearing bond campaign car and tent" is being prepared at Vandalia for a campaign. Towns which are visited in the same season by Coxey's car and the quarter-ton bicycler, could do without street fair until the next year.

A French journal says that "the Americans will quadruple the value of the Philippines and Manila will become the rival of Hong Kong," which is much more rationul than the dictum of an American remnant, which fears that the Philippines will divide the prosperity of America by four, showing a lack of confidence in the power and ability of America that is pitiful and weak.

SHOALS of sharks have beset the army. These ravenous creatures prey upon privates with thoir scanty pay and upon the sick and dying. Our men were plundered by civilians on the transports. At Camp WikofT private contract surgeons, who are not enlisted or commissioned men, are acsused of appropriating for their own tables the Appollinari water, provided for the sick by the Red Cross Society.

IT is stated that by the constitution of the Cuban republic only those who have served in the Cuban army can vote at the elections. A boy of sixteen who has been in the insurgent army, and there are many such boys, can vote, and would be sure to vote for Garcia, while some old civilian with a poor body and a good head would be disfranchised yet our anti-expansiqn-ists would call this a government by the consent of the governed.

A SPANISH private, Pedro Lopez de Castillo, has written a remarkable letter, if it is genuine, in behalf of his comrades at Santiago. He thanks the American soldiers for their humanity, lauds their bravery, and shows altogether a most chivalric spirit. Such expressions go far towards healing the wounds of war, and restoring the amity which should exist betwiHsu nations. Thanks to the trumpet touguod press the words of a private may bo made as effective as those of a general, when they breathe a good spirit.

Kiev. P. F. Jkknioan, who professed to extract gold from sea water, extracted gold from his dupes by an ingenious process. It is charged that into the pans he had placed under water to collect the gold, A submarine diver poured quicksilver charged with gold, thus "salting" the salt sea water with gold, and his patrons at one time. Jernigan must have stolen this idea from the ancient Antony and Cleopatra who, on their fishing parties on the old Nile, employed divers to fasten fish upon their hooks, and then bragged of their catch.

Thk campaign in Egypt by a British army is remarkable for the quietness with which it is conducted. Its principal battle in the spring engaged more men and cost many more lives than that at Santiago but has been little discussed, ami yet this campaign for the re-capture of Khartoum is of great importance to Great Britain, France aud Africa, aud to civiii sation. Gen. Kitchener, the youngest man of bis rank in the British army, has fed a force of 25.GOO British and Egyptian soldiers 1,700 miles up the Nile, under tropical suns and over desert wastes, in one of the most carefully planned and equipped expeditions ever sent out by Great Britain. It will end at Khartoum and Gordon will be avenged.

It i* about two weeks since the star* and stripes were raised at Honolulu to dilplace the Hawaiian flag. The flag with few associations and of a brief history fell, and that other banner, with all its glory, became the Hawaiian*' own. Any sentimental feeling of regr«t by Hawaiians for their lost Aug, must soon give way to the pride they will learn to f*»j fa the standard of the Union. The United States give a great deal to the Hawaiians and no generous American heart can begrudge the extension of liberty, honor and security to a weak, but most excellent people, which is too small a body to affect for good or ill the vast population of the

United states. A few confine^ and strabism&tfc minds affect to believe that little Hawaii can knock the Union oat of its coarse or shake it from its equilibrium. It is fortunate they neither control or direct their country. They are bat a thin fringe of icicles to melt in the fervent heat of the noble ambitions and lofty aspirations of the real America.

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"Songs inspired by the war" is the title of an article in last Sunday's New York Sun, in which special mention is made of the song for which the music was written by a Terre Haute woman, as follows: Many attempts were made to write a song that could take the place of "The Star Spangled Banner." which has at last conquered all criticism and is recognized as our national anthem, bat, as might have been expected, the aspiring writers failed. In "The Flag That Has Never Known Defeat," however, there is some respectable verse. The words were written by Charles Love Benjamin and George David son Sutton, and the music was composed by Mary Dowling Sutton. Here is the chorus:

Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, *'Tis Freedom's starry banner that yon greet Flag famed in Song and story,

Long may it wave, Old Glory! The flag that has never known defeat.

FACTS FEMININE.

Fashionable women who wear gloves In the summer time are now as rare as were the ungloved women of the same class & few years ago. It is only a short time since a well-dressed woman would as soon have gone without her hat as to appear on the street without gloves. The temperature had nothing to do with it. Gloves in summer were as compulsory as at any other season of the year.

But now one may go days together in the crowded streets, or other places where people congregate, and never catch sight of a gloved hand. One may observe, too, that in the rare cases where gloves are worn the wearer is of the conservative type rather than of the fashionable kind. To the former gloves are inexorable—the sign of good breeding and good dressing that cannot be omitted.

There are no slow coaches among the women of Las Cruces, N. M. They about run the town. Four years ago the Woman's Improvement Society of Las Cruees was organized, with Mrs. Mary S. McFie as president. Although the town numbered 8,000 inhabitants there wasn't a hearse in the place. The first thing that the women did was to buy one and let it for funerals at a moderate price. They didn't take afty undue advantage of their patrons, but all the same the hearse proved a paying investment. They have bought ground for a public park, fenced it and planted trees and shrubbery, and are now accumulating money to erect a town hall and public library building. "Thus we expect to aid our husbands to improve and beautify our town, or probably I should say do it for them," said the president of the society in a recent interview. "The women raise funds for town improvement by giving entertainments, suppers and balls and by furnishing refreshments for other entertainments."

Mrs. McFie is known throughout New Mexico for her public spirit. She removed thither from St. Louis in 1884, and is the wife of John R. McFie, who is now one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court o, the territory.

Wichita, Kan., has the distinction of having as a citizen a dressmaker who is a cousin of Admiral Camara, and Wichita is proud of her, too. She is Mrs. Henrietta Victoria Isabella Wilhelmina Marty Boyle Campbell. Wichita is also very proud of her name, because as a rule people in Wichita don't have many names. Mrs. Campbell's mother was a sister of Admiral Camara's father. Her father was of Scotch descent and was named Campbell. She was born in Granada, Spain, where the best known members of the Camara family live.

How's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm.

West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.

A Beautiful Piano.

D. H. Baldwin & Coi this morning sold to Miss Moran, of St. Mary's, and a member of the faculty of the State Norma] School, the most beautiful piano ever offered for sale in this market. It was made in the company's manufactory at Cincinnati, and is known as the Library. It Is of the old English pattern, and in style, tone, workmanship and general appearance it cannot be excelled. Miss Moran is a valued customer of the Baldwin Company. A few years ago she purchased a $500 Decker piano for a sister, and this week she bought the beautiful Baldwin, an investment representing $550. Customers like this do not come every day, and it Is only by selling the very best of goods and cultivating the good will of patrons that their patronage is gained and retained, as Mr. Marshall and his clever assistants succeed In doing.

All the very best makes in Small Musical Instruments, the latest things in Musical Publications and Sheet Music are to be found at R. DAHLEN'S 640 Main Street.

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FROM SANTIAGO.

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alteration. Let me tell you a few unvarnished truths in the fewest possible words Surgeoh-General Sternberg announced in the beginning that he had no use for "women's work and women's tears," and only the other day reiterated that he did not want any female nurses in the army. Therefore he has opposed the Red Cross in every way, refusing to permit it to follow the army. His own plan of caring for the sick and wounded soldiers, may be well enough in theory, to talk about in Washington but for practical use in the field of battle, it has been woefully demonstrated to be of no use whatever. An army on the march in a strange country, cannot carry along ample facilities for hospital work, to be made available when most needed— during and immediately after an engagement. This is the peaceful province of the Red Cross—to follow closely in the rear, protected by the treaty from the bullets of both armies and had it been allowed to do so in Cuba, thousands of precious lives might have been saved. The Sternbergian theory is directly responsible for at least half of the three thousand deaths, which have occnred since July 2d—to say nothing of the hundreds now dying from subseauent unnecessary hardships and exposure.

Although discouraged in every way by the heads of the army, the Red Cross persisted in following as closely as possible and so—thank Heaven!—the supply ship, "State of Texas", happened to be near when the first great battle occurred. You have heard how our boys went into the fight hungry, how they lay in the trenches for two days almost without food, and how the wounded were afterwards ordered to make their way to the rear ar best they could. Men with desperate wounds had walk, or crawl—perhaps a mile, perhaps five or six miles—in some cases from ten to fifteen miles—not over good smooth roads, but over a wild, rough country where the trails were rendered almost impassable by daily rains and heavy army wagons. Those who were least injured assisted their comrades, and hundreds died by the way side. Had not the Sternbergian theory been inexorable, the Red Cross would have been promptly on hand with ambulances, equipped with every convenience, and the first hospital camp would have been close by the field of battle. Those of the wounded who lived to reach the place designated, were attended to as rapidly and efficiently as possible, by the half dozen army surgeons who had nothing at hand for their awful work. Some of their instruments were in their pockets, but anesthetics, bandages, medicines were entirely lacking, and so insufficient was the surgical force that numbers of tfhe wounded lay unattended for days before their turn came. The soldiers clothes were soaked with rain and stiffened with mud from the trenches so that they had to be removed before an operation and could net be put on again. Men were taken from the operating table, perhaps minus a leg or an arm, or with bodies desperately torn by Mauser bullets, and laid on the wet ground, naked as the minute they were born, without shelter, and in the majority of cases without even a blanket.

And there they lay, suffering, dying, un. attended, without food or water, for two long, awful days. Io add to the horrors of that Golgotha, it rained incessantly, and the army hospital corps, like the foolish virgins of the Scriptures, had forgotten to provide oil so these was no light but that of the weeping skies and an occasional flickering candle, by which to saw human bones and cut into quivering flesh, without the blessed boon of chloroform. When the little band of the Red Cross finally forced its way to the spot, the ladies of the party wading waist deep in the surf to reach the shore and walking miles inland—Miss Barton knew exactly what to do. Asking leave of nobody, she directed fires to be built as quickly as possible with the rainsoaked materials at hand, and over them were put her big granite kettles, fiilled with water. In some of them good, strong gruel was made, and cans of condensed milk stirred into others. Plenty of oil and lanterns were provided, and with her usoal wonderful foresight.

Miss Barton had brought along quantity of cotton cloth. This she tore into strips, the length of a sheet, and sent the men of her party ahead with lights to cover the naked sufferings. The women quickly followed,—Each with a tin cup and a steaming bucket of milk or gruel They found many of the soldiers unconscious, others delirious, or raving, howling and cursing iaagony. Kneeling Inside each the little band of workers lifted the poor heads in their arms and put between the parched lips the first taste of food they had had for days. Gradually consciousness returned to many who had passed almost beyond the border-line of the Unknown, and the light of reason returned to eyes filled with frenzy. Thus hundreds of mother's boys were saved, who in a few hours more -of Stern be rgism 'would have been beyond mortal aid and the last moments of others were soothed by the knowledge that they had not been utterly abandoned by God wad man. No wonder that bearded men wept like children and blessed the Angels of Mercy as they passed! All night and all day, and another night and day the devoted little band worked unceasingly, without a thought of rest or food for themselves and today many a mother's boy isin the land of the living, who but for the unwelcomed Red Cross would be sleeping the long sleep in that modern Golgotha.

TEBRE HAUTJfi SATUBUAg EVENING- MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1898.

Fannie Bkigham Ward

r* During my absence, the first carload of shoes was received at the Palace Shoe Store, and now in readiness for your inspection.

T. J. GRIFFITH, 420 Main Street. (Quarters saved by giving heed to this gentleman.)

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AGS! FLAGS!! FLAGS!!!

There Is no need of sending away from Terre Haute for Flags when yon can boy them here of as good quality and as cheaply as elsewhere. We have a fine line of Wool Bunting Flags of all sizes, and our prices will please yon. Flags of every description and quality we can furnish as cheap as you can get them elsewhere. Come and see them and learn the prices.

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JOHN HANLEY'S SONS, 855 Main Street.

WILL YOU LEAVE YOUR FAMILY? Notone business man in thirty-three leaves his family anywhere near money enough to continue the comforts he has educated them to need and expect.

This suggests, immediately, action on your part In the direction of life insurance. Your life represents a money value to your family. That value should be protected by an equivalent amount of life insurance.

Your duty to your family does not end when you die. The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York can protect your family fully. Call on the general agent for particulars- W. A. HAMILTON,

WANTED—Position

General Agent.

No. 24 south Sixth St., Terre Haute, Ind

WANTED.

as housekeeper by

middle-aged widow with one child willing to go out of city: none but reliable parties need answer. E. L. G., No. 17 Big Four Railroad. Springfield, Ohio.

Ladier and gentlemen in your to represent our busineess at good

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ANTED city to represent our busineess at wages. No experience required. Inclose stamps for particulars.

THE LIS-TER CO., South Bend, Ind.

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the public could stand and see the brewputting the hominy grits in the beer that is made nowadays they would ignore all the beers which contain hominy grits. Come to Peter N. Staff and he will give the business entirely away. P. N. STAFF.

FOR RENT.

FOR

RENT—Second floor of 709 Main street, suitable for office purposes. Apply to 700 Main street.

FOR SALE.

FORinSALE-DRUG

STORE-An excep­

tional opportunity to buy a paying drug store, the best town of Its size in Indiana 5.000 inhabitants will be sold at invoice price no bonus no agents stock and fixtures will invoice about $3,000: cash or negotiable paper. MURRAY W ALTAIAN,

Dunkirk, Ind.

FOR SALE.

Desirable residence property on south Fifth, Sixth and Seventh streets. For particulars call on

R. DAHLEN, 640 Wabash Ave.

FOR SALE

On easy payments, three, four and five-room dwellings In Early Grove Place: also on north Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth streets also on Fourth avenue, Second avenue. Elm street, and in all parts of the city.

For particulars call on R. DAHLEN, 640 Wabash Ave.

The...

Eipisch Dyeing Co.

HAS HADE A

REDUCTION

IN THE PRICE OF

CLEANING and DYEING

Ladies' and Gents' Garments and Household Goods.

Bost workmanship employed who will give satisfaction to everyone. 652 IMZ A-IUST STREET.

Coats 25c Trousers 15c Vests 10c

Highest Quality of Work Guaranteed.

HUNTER

At 75c a yard

At $I.OO a yard

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L. B. ROOT CO.

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We are showing the best Covert ever sold in this market for tho money. Full line of colors. If you want a good dress or bicycle suit you should not forget this fabric. We also have on sale our fall line of Fancies and Novelties at this price.

At $1.25 a yard our line will be found especially strong. You know our reputation for fine goods, and this season will find us far in advance of any of our past efforts. All the new things known to the weavers are here on exhibition. We are anxious to show them.

ASSEMBLY RdOfc—TERRE ttAVTB COXirKBClArJ COLLEGE.

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BLUEBERRIES

E. R.WRIGHT&C°

Telephone 43. 647-649 Wabash Avenue.

MPROVEMENTS and INVENTIONS have been made during the last few yean In all lines of industry and science. Thin Is especially true in the business methods and facilities of the TETHtE HAUTE COM KIICIAL COLLEGE, The college building has been rebuilt upon modern plans, and is now one of the finest and most centrally located buildings

In the city, situated at the owner of Sixth street and Wabash avenae college entrance on Sixth street. The college rooms cover 4,486 square feet of floor space, well lighted and ventilated, steam heat ail departments completely equipped with handsome and appropriate office and school furniture the latest and roost Improved methods of instruction by able and experienced teachers. On Monday, September 5tb, the TEltliK HAUTE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE will enter upon its twenty-first year under Its present management, believing that it* past record will assure continued libera) patronage. We extend a cordial invitation to ail patrons and friends to visit the college at any time, and thus become acquainted with its advantages and facilities, as we believe this the only means to judge of the merits of the school. See August number "Business Pointers" for full particulars. W. C. I SHELL. President.

EGINNING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, will sell fifty 1-gallon jugs filled with Old California Port Wine at $1.25 per jug. Delivered to any part of the city.

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stock is simply unsurpassed in richness of colors, lowness* of price and unmatchable qualities. The Inspecting officer from Fashion's Headquarters made a most critical examination and they all passed muster. We invite you to come in and post yourself—even if you don't want to buy. We'll take pleasure in showing you just the same.

We have on sale the fall line of fine Granite and Foulle Mixtures. These goads come in all colors and shades and are 46 inches wide. As the plainer goods will be most in demand, these goods will certainly prove to be one of our leaders. You should see them.

Our new Plaids in silk and wool are ready for your inspection. All the newand beautiful color combinations are here shown. At this price these will be ready sellers, and you should make your selections early.

You can have over 100 styles to select from. As this is tho popular price for a nice dress, we have made it posslblo for you to select from all the latest colors and weaves. In fact, our collection at this price will be found more extensive, more complete, than many of our self-styled competitor's entire stock. We are ready for a comparison in this line.

ALEX. SANDISON, 677 Main Street.

This price for 10 days only, in order to introduce this grade of Wine. #§r*See Show Window.

At SOc a yard

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At 75o a yard

At $1.25 a yard

MORRELL CHERRIES, CHERRY CURRANTS, DAMSON PLUMS, LOMBARD PLUMS, FANCY CAULIFLOWER, WHITE PLUME CELERY, WHITE CLOVER HONEY, FANCY EATING APPLES.

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A. F. WALLACE, B. 8., Principal.