Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 September 1898 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE*

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor and Proprietor.

PublicationJOfficc, No.-S0l!4 Ohld Street. Telephone 469.

The MaH is sold In the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered so any address, by mail, at the rate of 32 a year, $1 for six months, or 50centsfor three months.

Entered at the Postofflce at Terre Hante. Ind., as second-aiass matter.

Whes a preacher turns his attention to politics he usually makes a spectacle of -himself. The Rev. G. A. Carstenten, who was chaplain of the 158th Indiana, in his desire to do his party some service, has been putting his foot in it, and is likely to be treated to a court martial for direspectful conduct towards his superior officers. It is certain that he has told one untruth -in abusing a ranking officer, and before he gets through will probably realize that that kind of notoriety is not the best to be attained.

•Cou Roohkvelt's Rough Riders are very much in evidence just now, and they bid fair to outnumber even the last survivor of Washington's body-guard, and the oldest living Mason has taken to the woods. A conservative estimate places the number of Roosevelt's Rough Riders now before the public in this country at 83,000. They have all seen service in the trenches before Santiago, despite the fact that only about six hundred of them were there. They can tell of stirring adventures by field and flood, and as they can't all aspire to be governors of great states they •can safely be permitted the freedom of the country. _________________

Thkhe is a happy contrast, for the navy department, between the unstinted praise of the navy and the criticism and detraction of the army administration. It must be remembered that the navy had received cordial support and liberal aid for a number of years while the army was literally improvised. The comparison made by certain papers between the British campaign up the Nile and the Santiago campaign, much to the credit of the former, is either stupid or dishonest. One was made in a leisurely manner, after careful organization and preparation, extending over two years, with seasoned and thoroughly drilled troops supplied from over flowing magazines and warehouses. The other was made by soldiers, well drilled, being mostly regulars, but not seasoned by a hot climate, and relying on an organization hastily expanded to ten times its usual capacity. The machinery was new When an attempt is made to establish a permanent organization, capable of handling a large army promptly, the same men and papers that now denounce the re suits of a defective system will raise a howl against standing armies, a top-heavy official list and centralization.

LITERARY NOTES.

The editors of McClure's magazine have secured for the October number a "human document" of the recent war of the highest interest and value. It Is a diary kept by the British Consul at Santiago de Cuba from the day before the arrival of Cervera's fleet until the day after the American army took possession of the city. Mr. Eamsden, the author, had been British Consul at Santiago for uearly forty years. During the siege lie was the special guardian and adviser of the panic-stricken foreign residents, and was in close confldeutial com-! nmnication with the Spanish authorities, civil and military. Under the great labors and hardships of his position he finally fell ill, and, soon after the surrender, diet!.

McClure's magazine for October will contain an account of "The Fight for Santiago," written by Stepen Bonsai. Mr. Bousal was the special representative of McClure's in the field during the war, and was all through the fighting before Santiago. Moreover, he is a recognized authority on the Cubans and all Cuban affairs. His paper will be illustrated largely from photographs taken by himself and from drawings by J. W. lilac kens, the special artist of McClure's with the army of invasion. _______________ 91UO Howard, $IOt

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Tempting Her.

Housekeeper (to a book agent who briugs the tenth installment of a novel) —I can't take the book. Mr. Meier is dead.

Book Agent—Oh, what a shame! It's right in the most exciting part of the «toryl—Fliegende Blatter.

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Miss Country cousin—What are thorn badge* that woman wears? Mr. Wheeler—Each one represents oentury.

Mi*s Coontrycotwin—Gracious! She doesn't look to be 40!—Jewelers' Weekly.

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Fnanjr Toolbacbe Cores.

Before the days of dentists, and when people generally believed in the valne of charms, there were ever so many mysterious ways of preventing toothache.

One of these was to dress the right side of the body first—right stocking, right shoe, right sleeve, right glove, A favorite plan in Scotland was to draw a tooth, salt it well and burn it in full view on glowing coals. In Cornwall many save their teeth by biting the first young ferns that appear.

The custom of catching a common ground mole, cutting off the paws while the little creature still lives, and wearing them, is traced to Staffordshire, England. Some people who are fond of exercise believe that walking 12 miles —no more, no less—to get a splinter of the toothache tree that grows particularly well in Canada and Virginia will drive away the worst ache and pain that ever tortured a poor tooth

The belief that toothache is caused by a worm at the roots is prevalent in many parts of the world hence this cure: Reduce several different kinds of herbs—the greater variety the better— to a powder. Put a glowing cinder into this powder and inhale the incense. Afterward breathe into a cup of water and the worm will be gone forever.

Extraordinary Drinks.

Of the many extraordinary drinks regularly consumed the blood of live horses may perhaps be considered the most so. Marco Polo and Carpini were the first to tell the world of the practice of the Tartars and Mongols opening the vein in their horses' necks, taking a drink and closing the wound again. As far as can be seen this has been the practice from time immemorial.

There is a wine habitually consumed in China which is made from the flesh of lambs reduced to paste with milk or bruised into pulp with rice and then fermented. It is exceptionally strong and nutritious and powerfully stimulating to the physical organism.

The Laplanders drink a great deal of smoked snow water, and one of the national drinks of the Tonquinese is arrack flavored with chickens' blood. The list would scarcely be complete without mention of absinthe, which may be called the national spirituous drink of France. It is a horrible compound of alcohol, anise, coriander, fennel, wormwood, indigo and sulphate of copper. It is strong, nasty and amoral and physical poison.

Snow Trade In Sicily.

The prinoipal export from Catania is snow, in which a most lucrative trade is carried on in Malta and parts of southern Italy. It is collected during the winter in hollows in the mountains and covered with ashes to prevent its thawing. It is brought down in panniers on mules to the coast at night. The revenue derived from this source is immense and renders the Prince of Paterno one of the riohest men in Sicily. Snow is the universal luxury from tlje highest to the lowest rank and is sold at the rate of 4 cents for 80 ounces. The poorest 00bbier there would rather deprive himself of his dinner than of his glass of''aqua gelata."

It is extensively used in hospitals and a scarcity of it would be considered almost as great a misfortune as a famine and would occasion popular tumult. To guard against such accidents the government at Naples has made the providing of it a monopoly, the contractors being required to give seourity to the amount of 60,000 ^icats, which sum is forfeited if it can be proved that for one hour the supply has not been equal to the demand.

The Savage and the Birdcage.

A gentleman who went out with Stanley to Africa took with him a number of birdcages, in which he hoped to bring back some specimens of the rarer birds of the interior. Owing to the death of his carriers he was obliged to throw away the birdcages with a number of other articles. These were seized by the natives in great glee, though they did not know what to do with them, but they eventually decided that the small circular cages were a kind of headgear, and, knocking off the bottom, the chiefs strutted about in them with evident pride. One chief, thinking himself more wise than the others and having seen the white men eat at table out of dishes, thought they were receptacles for food and took his meals from one, oeremoniously opening and shutting the door between each mouthful.

Jack Tar at a Christening.

A sailor went up to the font to have his baby baptized. Sailors as a class olaim little stock in babies, and, naturally enough, this one presented the infant feet foremost. "The other way," said the minister, and, accordingly, Jack turned the intent upside down. "Excuse me," said the clergyman, "1 mean the other way." So back came the embryo foretopman to the first position, to the discouragement of everybody. "Wind it, Jack," said the nautical assistant, and with an "Aye, aye, sir," Jack promptly turned the baby raid for aid, and it was duly christened head first.—"On a Man-of-war."

A Utonuy Slip.

One of the most literary of the London evening papers makes the following startling announcement: "A complete set of hydrants and fire appliances will be arranged, and the stage is to be fitted with a double asbestos and steel fireproof curtain, controllable by one man. The latter is designed to be one of the largest in London—namely, about 80 feet wide and 50 feet deep."—Glasgow Time* ftrit Caricatvr*.

Probably the first caricature in manusoript is to be found in the Egyptian papyrus in the British museum, when the lion and unicorn are playing a game of drafts.

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"The greatest business mind I ever ran up against was possessed by the former proprietor of a meat market out In Germantown," said a street car -conductor the other day as his car was waiting on Front street. "This butcher had a fine, squeaky voice, which you eould hear a block away. Tricky? Yes, that's just what you would call it. I used .to watch him sometimes when he was waiting on customers, and it was positively amusing to see the apparent ease with which he would make a two pound steak weigh apparently three or more pounds, "He would take a cotiple of pounds of meat and throw it on the scales so that the pointer would show four pounds and then take it off before the scales could register the true weight. 'There's just four pounds exactly,' he would say to the customer in that squeaky voice of bis, and then continue with the statement quickly ma^e: 'Four times 12 is 68. Call it 60,' and unless the customer was watching him closely,h? wouM always get even change. fg$ "He was in the meat business only a few years and amassed a competency. Then he left it. What worries me is how he is going to get along now. I understand he is in the real estate business, and I wonder how he works it when he sells apiece of land. The scales won't help him much there. "-—Philadelphia Record.

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For the present the old gentleman uses it as a couch for his midday nap in order, as he sometimes remarks with grave humor, that he may get accustomed to it.—Cape Times.*

A German Word Serpent.

A German correspondent comes to the rescue of his countrymen, concerning whom we expressed surprise that they should prefer to use a word of four syllables when another word expressing the same thing in 40 syllables was available. He sends us a copy of The Kolnische Volkszeitung, in which ocours a sentence of* 607 words, occupying 69 lines of the newspaper.

This word serpent occurs in a legal judgment, and even the printers got to hate it after setting up about 450 words of it. So they put in a full stop, which, like a rifle bullet in the spine of a boa constrictor, killed the whole sentence. But it must really be nice to have newspapers in which you can begin to read a sentence at breakfast, continue it in the train and triumphantly reach the verb at office.—London Globe.

Kxpertenoed.

"Have you made up your mind just what qualities you expect to find in a husband?" asked the matron. "Why, of oourse," answered the maid. "Too bad," commented the matron iHth a sigh. "Why do yon say that?" demanded the maiden. "Oh, I always hate to see young girls disappointed,'* answered the matron.— Chicago Post.

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The Only Time There Was.

The necessity that there shall be only one man who "has the say" in a military command is thoroughly recognized in the United States army. A story is told of General Shafter which illustrates the punctilio of the regulars in this regard.

At a certain frontier post at which Shafter, who then held an inferior rank, was commander many years ago, a disoussion arose among several officers as to the exact time of day. A captain, with his watch in his hand, said: "It is now exactly 8 o'clock." "Oh, no!" said a lieutenant. "By my time it's eight minutes past 8."

A third young officer drew his watch out of his pocket. "I know my time is exactly right,"he said, "and my watch says two minutes past 8."

At this juncture Major Shafter looked at his silver watch. I don't know what your watohes say.'' he remarked, "but I wish you to understand that in this command it is five minutes past 3."

Then the young officers remembered that the authority of the commanding officer extended even to the time of day.—Youth's Companion.

A Useful Coffin.

It may not be generally known that the Dutoh Boers at the Cape, especially those living in remote districts where material is expensive and labor difficult to obtain, frequently purchase at least one coffin beforehand which is placed in a conspicuous position in the "voorkamer" or principal sitting room and utilized as an article of furniture, for ornament or as a receptacle for clothing and other oddments

One farmer well known to the writer possesses a beautifully finished article of this sort which he purchased about 80 years ago. During that period he has buried three wives each of whom had to be content with coffins of the commonest material and roughest workmanship while his own awaiting its possessor stands in all its luster of polished teak and silver mountings.

So Kindly Considerate. .h,.|

"Why is it," the daring young man asked, "that your daughter still wears such short dresses?" "Oh, I keep her dressed that way," Mrs. Giddibns answered, with a beautiful blush, "because if she had long skirts on people would think she was my sister when they saw us together. I have no wish to conceal the fact that 1 have a daughter who is as tall as I am."—Cleveland Leader.

Cloee Range.

Hattie—So you and Jack quarreled, did yon' Ella—Yes. He said something that I didn't like and I told him we must be strangers henceforth.

Hattie—And did he fall on his kneel and ask you to forgive him? Ella—Not he! You see he—that is, bis knees wen occupied at the time.— Chicago New*.

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Wbnderfol Figure.

One of the most marvelous workmen in the world is Han an ma Masakichi of Tokyo, who has carved a figure in wood so like himself that when the two are placed side by side it is said to be almost impossible to tell which lives and breathes and which does riot

By several connoisseurs in art this wooden fignre has boon pronounced the most perfect and human image of man ever made. Masakichi has faithfully reproduced every scar, vein and wrinkle to be seen on his own body. The figure is composed of 2,000 pieces of wood, dovetailed and jointed with such wonderful skill that no seams can be detected.

Tiny holes were drilled for the reception of hairs, and the wooden figure has glass eyes and eyelashes in which no dissimilarity to, Masakichi'sown can be detected. fSt

The Japanese artist posed between two mirrors while modeling this figure, and for some time after its completion he posed frequently beside it, to the oonfusion of spectators, who were often entirely at a loss as to which was the artist The fignre stands with a little mask in one hand and an instrument for carving in the other. The lifelike eyes are apparently gazing at the mask, and the face wears a look of intense absorption. £k„\

The Opinm Cannots,

r4»«Well, now, canyon, from your extensive experience, give us your opinion as to the state of Chinese opinion in re gard to the opium habit, looking at the state of things not only among the working classes, but also the merchants, the literati, the offioial olasses, and also oan you tell us what you saw during your sojourn in the interior which would give you an opportunity of forming an opinion as to how the Chinese regard this question?" a, "As regards Chinese p6pul& opinion in respect to the opium habit, it is decidedly against it There is a oommon Cantonese saying which sums up rather appositely 'the ten cannots' with regard to the opium sot It says, 'First, give up the habit second, enjoy sleep third, wait for his turn when sharing his pipe with his friends fourth, rise early fifth, be cured if sick sixth, help relations in need seventh, enjoy wealth eighth, plan anything ninth, get oredit, even when an old customer tenth, walk any long distance.' That, I think, snms up the popular view of the Chinese with regard to the opium habit" —Opium Commission Report.

Fnll of Business.

The following old time handbill issued near. Lancaster, England, must have come from one who was emulating the example of the man who had five talents and made of them five talents more. Let us hope he was rewarded: "James Williams, parish clerk, sezton, town crier and bellman, makes and sells all sorts haberdasheries, groceries, etc. likewise hair and wigs drest and cut on shortest notice. N. B.—I keep an evening school where teach at humble rates reading, riting and rithmetic and singing. N. B.—I play an hooboy occasionally if wanted. N. B.— By shop next door see where I bleed, draw teeth and shoe horses with greatest sell. N. B.—Children taught to dance by me, J. Williams, who buy and sell old iron and coats boots and shoes oleaned and mended. A ball on Wednesdays and Tuesdays."

The Paris BUI Porter.

The bill poster of Paris is a more picturesque personage than his brother of New York. He plies his trade in all winds and weather, and he is nothing daunted by the assignment of a bleak suburban district on a rainy day.

He ties his posters—incased in a waterproof cover—across his back. He fastens on his paste pot He mounts his bicycle. Then he opens his umbrella— for he is an expert wheelman and oan manage it and his wheel at once. All over the umbrella are advertisements in little form of the article or the event which he intends to advertise in large by his posters, so his entire route is placarded, and he himself is a living advertisement—Paris Correspondent

Cries the Honrs.

In Ely place, Holborn, the old custom of "crying the hours of the night by Charley" still exists. Charley, bet* ter known nowadays as the night watchman, has to call the hours in this spot from 11 p. m. till 5 a. m. Wet or fine, he must not neglect his duty.— London Globe.

There is a carious little Holland village in Wisconsin named Little Chute, whose chief manufacture is wooden shoes. The people there areas thoroughly Dutch as their progenitors. The town stands on the ground where Fere Marquette had his winter quarters, and where the Dutch priests instructed the Tmlin«

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"There never was a pitcher in this country who could excel old Jimmy Galvin in oatching base runners napping, said Jack Crooks. "I remember seeing the old fellow catch the foxiest base runners in the country asleep off the bags with the quickest kind of motion. There was one oocasion when 'Gavie' played a star trick of this kind on Johnny Ward. The Pittsburgs were playing the New Yorks, and the score was very olose, in favor of the former. The New Yorks had two men on bases, and Ward at the bat, with two out. Galvin signaled to George Miller to step to one side of the plate and deliberately gave four balls to Wifrd. Johnny trotted to first, and the next instant Galvin caught him napping, big Beokley blocking him off. It was a put up job, and old 'Gavie' didn't do a thing to Lawyer Ward but laugh at him all the way to the bench. It was a feather in the old man's cap, for Ward at that time was the star base runner of the League."— New York Sun.

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