Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 December 1898 — Page 5

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor aid Proprietor.

Publication Office, No,501i4 Ohio Street. Telephone 460.

The Mali 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, fl for six months, or SO cents for three months. Eatered at the Postofflce at Terre Haate, Ind., oh second-class matter.

THE CHRISTMAS MAIL.

Christmas in Terre Haute would not be Christinas without the holiday issue of THE MAIL, which will be issued this year on Saturday, December 17th. Last year the demand for the Christmas Mail was so large that every copy was sold within a few hours, although an extra large edition was printed. This year a still larger edition will be printed to supply the demand which is already assured, many of the The Mail's little partners having already secured a large number of extra subecribers. The paper this year will be of unusual interest, many features having been arranged for of more than ordinary interest.

The demand for reform in municipal government, as evidenced by the interesting meeting at Indianapolis of the Municpal league of America will make interesting paper by ex-City Attorney Robert B. Stimson, on the needs of municipal government in Terre Haute and the demands of a new charter for the city. No man in Terre Haute has given so much attention to this subject as Mr. Stimson, and his piactical paper will be unusually interesting.

Attorney A. M. Higgins, who spoiled a bright newspaper man to become a lawyer. will write an article reciting his experiences during a recent trip to Mexico. "Society Long Ago," will be a production of a series of rhymes written for a party nearly forty years ago, referring to those who were prominent in Terre Haute social circles. In addition to these special features, there will be tho regular departments. Christmas stories and miscellany, and other features, all uniting to make the Christmas Mail for 1808 far^uperior to any of tho proceeding issues. The merits of Tho Christmas Mail as an advertising medium are too woll known to need extended menton here and it is hardly necces wiry to add that those advertisers who fail to bo represented in Christmas Mail this year are overlooking a good thing. On account of the extra work necessary in printing and bimling such a large edition, The Mail will go to press on Friday evening, December 15th, and will bo issued to the newsboys at noon on Saturday, December 17th.

FoKTt NATKI.Y for American girls, when they want a sweetheart and a husbandas they usually do—they do not have to depend on others to make arrangements for one, as is announced from England, that a husband for the Prince of Wales' daughter is being negotiated for in foreign circles. An American girl negotiates for her husband on her own account ami if he isn't satisfactory she grins and bears It, or else gets rid of him in the divorce court, and either manner is preferable to that current in the effete monarchies of the old world.

ON'Kofthe most formidable candidates for Senator in this state is Major George Steele, of Marion, who while he has been elected seven times to congress from his district, is noted as never making a speech in his campaigns. In the parlance of the day, he "says nothing but saws wood," and succeeds in getting more for his constituents than any other man who has ever served as representative from this state. Wo have too much speech making in congress in proportion to the right votes on vital questions, and perhaps the country would be better off if we had fewer speech makers ami more rightvoters,

INPIANA is to have a primary electiot law enacted by the coming legislature, and it will be a long step towards correcting many abuses that are now prevalent. Many so called good dtisens are now kept away from primaries because they do not care to oppose the primary methods now in vogue, and the primary meeting is the foundation of good government. One of the speakers at the municipal league at Iudianxpoii* this week sounded the key note when he said: "Teach everywhere—in the home and in the school, and from the pulpit and the platform and the press—that ciUntenship in a republic is a sacred trust. With the proper conception of citizenship as a trust we shall speedily recognise the duties incumbent upon as in fulfilling this trust. This spirit of sacrifice must lead a.,, man to the CAUCUS. It may be very distasteful to hfm. but it is treaaon almost to the state to fail h«reThe primary, It need hardly be said, is more important than the election, for if good men are not nominate*! at the caucus you will only have a choice of evils to vote for on election morning. A proper conception of cittaeoahip as a sacred trust trill lead US straight to the ballot box. This is not a 'privilege, it is a trust.' The neglect of this duty by mt numbers of

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our citizens is fraught with the most serious peril. There would not be so much fear of the vicious and ignorant, who are comparatively few, if only those who want things that are the best were not so indifferent and careless. The sacrament of our political liberty "is the calling of the ballot. It is a religious as well as a secular duty. It is no answer to speak of the comparative purity of our national and state governments. That is not the point of peril. It is the municipal units which make up the state and nation which are full of corruption, and which will, if unchecked undermine and ruin our country. It is no answer that we are busy and have other interests, and that others can better do this service. Responsibilty cannot thus be shifted. The duty is a personal one for all." Enact a primary law whereby every citizen will have a chance to express his sentiments without the surety of being over-ridden by a crowd of heelers and bosses, and no political party will be able to nominate a ticket that will consist of any but good and competent men, and when competent men only are nominated for public office, nominated only because of their worth and competency, we will have no other but competent and deserving men in office. The controlling power in the next Indiana legislature will not be worthy of the trust reposed in it if it does not enact a primrry law that will secure the ends herein named.

THKRK is not much sentiment, but a whole lot of truth, in the statement made by an Illinois man, to the effect that we ought to have a law making physical punishment the penalty for wife beating and similar crimes. This man in questiop has been the president of the Illinois Humane Society for the past twenty years, and he says that he believes "the infliction of pain to be the only effective means of bringing incorrigible youths to a realization of the reverence of law and goodness. I would like to see a law that would provide the lash for hoodlums, wife-beaters and dangerous vagrants. I would have a special tribunal created for the sole purpose of dealing with these classes. I would not favor the whipping to be inflicted in any other than a strictly private manner. The judge should see that the lash was not brutally applied." The testimony of a man like that is worth something, and if a good wholesome whipping was the punishment for that sort of crime, there would be less wife beatings, petty thieving, robbing of candidates before elections, etc., and the experiment is worth a trial in every state. The spirit of reform seems to be abroad in the land, and here is a practical way in which a good reform can be instituted. A

IT is seldom that a man who comes into sudden prominence has the good sense and judgment to remain a hero in all situations, but Lieutenant Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac, seems to be a man of this kind. He was recently offered 150,000 for a series of lectures in the leading cities of the country, but he declined the offer, although it was a most tempting one to an officer, who has his pay alone to live on. Here is the manly way in which he explains his unlooked for refusal: "Before the sinking of the Merrimac my lectures would have been worth probably not more than 50 cents the sinking of the Merrimac seems to have made them worth $50,000. The work which so suddenly raised my stock in literary trade was done in simple execution of my duty as an officer in the American navy. I did not feel that I had a right to use the performance of that duty for my financial betterment. I therefore declined the offer of the $50,000." There is something in a man like that.

How's This!

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

F. ,T. 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 & THUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDINO. 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.

Hall's Family Pills are the best.

Now, if you want the very best work in art photography and artistic framing come to The Modern. Prices reduced.

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Largest line of Haviland China in the city, with absolutely the very

prices lowest

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MoneyleiiDg.

The Terre Haute Trust Co. has at all times pleaty of money to supply all applicants for good mortgage or collateral loans. Low rates. No delays. No technicalities, willingness to accommodate are its mottos. If you want a loan or if you have a loan at a high rate that you would like to refund at a lower rate go first to the Trust Company. We have the styles in Photographs that DOM other have, and they are the proper thing—just from the center of art Prices reduced at The Modem.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1898.

ADI0S JAMAICA.

[CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.] quarterly review. Verily, this British province is not lacking in "light literature.",".

Hofcfcls pay a license fee of $100 a year in Kingjiton, and $50 elsewhere in the island. Some of the stamp dnties are very heavy. Banking corporations, issuing notes, pay $325 per annum. A barrister pays $75 on his admission and a solicitor $500 for his certificate. Postage on letters going from place to place in the island is four cents each half-ounce, if prepared newspapers one cent double rate if not prepared. Telegraphy is cheap in Jamaica compared to other places in the West Indies. A cablegram from -Kingston to New York costs a dollar and a half each word, address included. The constabulary consists of seven hundred men, 190 of whom are stationed .in Kingston. The legal qualification of a constable are that he must be able to read and write, and must measure not less than thirty-two inches around the chest and five feet six inches in height. Then he receives the munificent salary of eighty-five cents a day! There is a reserve rural police, to be used when called upon. Of these, the head men—one in every seven—are paid sixty dollars a year, and thirty-one cents a day addition when actually on duty.

Labor of all kinds is cheap in Jamaica. The ordinary wages of carpenters and bricklayers is seventy cents per day, and their "helpers" get thirty-five cents each. A teamster, with his cart and two mules or three oxen (which he feeds himself,) receives about $1.50 for twelve hours' toil. Food costs about the same as in New York, except that here the best beef is only twelve cents the pound. Strange to say, salted beef is twice as high, and salt pork from sixteen to twenty cents the pound. Clothing is cheap, such as it is. Readymade, handsome sewed shoes cost a dollar the pair and a man's felt hat, sixty cents. Good English tweeds and other cloths bring much less here than the usual prieo for the .same in London. 4,*^

The annual product of rum, though greatly diminished in recent years, still reaches the respectable figures, (if anything pertaining to rum can be called respectable), of two million five hundred thousand gallons a year. To offset that, there are fifteen lodges of Good Templars on the island—and work enough they find to do. Free Masonry flourishes in Jamaica. There are three Grand Lodges— the Provincial Grand Mark Masters Lodge of England, the Provincial Grand Lodge of Scotland, and the District Grand Lodge of Eastern Jamaica. Odd Fellowship has also been introduced, with a feeble off-shoot of the Daughters of Rebecca. There are Knights of Pythias, too, and KnigLts of Malta, besides several other secret organizations whose mysteries I am not expected to disclose—if I know them.

And now our last hour in Jamaica has come. The steamer which is to carry us back to Cuba sails at sunset across the "Western Ocean," calling first at Progreso, Yucatan, and then rounding Cape San Antonio to Havana.

FANNIE B. WARD.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Every story teller tells the same story seven hundred times. You can't tell by a man's looks whether he has money or not.

It is queer that the uglier a garment' is the louger it will wear. How few men there are who don't know that they can't tell a story.

A man may wear a big shirt stud and yet use horrible grammar. -7 Probably the most useless thing on earth is screen doors in winter time.

We often wonder how a great many people escape being set down as fools. One can tell a good deal about folks by the names they give their children.

We wonder who invents all the names for the various kinds of breakfast food. Most people's ideas of a good fellow is" one who does just what they want him to.

The way a woman keeps books is more ingenious than auything else we ever saw.

When a man begins carrying a lantern it is a sign that he is beginning to grow old.

No woman ever went any place that her husband did not say she carried too heavy a grip.

One thing a person can't deny, and that is the grape season, by the color of bis mouth.

We are always suspicious of the man who is continually advising us for our own good.

One of the first signs of age is when a mat) begins to complain that his memory is failing.

Some people enjoy being unable to do a thing when you want it. for the sake of seeming so very busy.

Those who are always busy wish they had some time to loaf, and those who are loafing wish they had something to do.

ALEX MILLER.

The Terre Haute Trust Company is saving much money for estates by its prudent economical methods. No expense is incurred that can possibly be avoided. It acts promptly. Estates are promptly closed up. Its reports are fine, clear, easily understood statements of every thing necessary to be known.

It also saves money to the estates by lending the funds at best rates and accounting to the estate for the interest.

It advances money to estates and thus saves property from sacrifice by forced sales. 'A

The Trust Company h«s made a record to be proud of. Its reports on file in the clerk's office prove its value to the community. It is no longer as experiment.

All persons having the duty of selecting administrators or guardians will do well go to at once to the Terre Haute Trust Company. 7"»t,

JEWELS FOR MERMAIDS.

Gold and Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea. On the Cornish coast, about five miles from the Lizard, it is quite common to pick up Spanish dollars which have been washed ashore from the wreck of a galleon that went down in 1784 with a large amount of bullion on board.

It is surprising that with all the modern appliances for diving, systematic attempts are not more frequently made to recover .treasure from the deep.

As early as 1598 a great deal of treasure was recovered, including the historical golden cup which once belonged to Frederick, king of Sicily, from the wreck of one of the ships of the.''invincible armada."

In 1680 an American named William pbipps oame over from Virginia to this country and craved for the assistance of Charles II toward recovering some wrecked treasures on the coast of Hispaniola. Charles provided him with a ship and the necessary funds, but the first attempt proved unsuccessful.

In a second effort he was finanoed by the Duke of Albemarle, and this time he suooeeded in recovering speoie to the value of £300,000, and after paying all expenses he was able to give the duke the sum of £80,000 as his share in the venture.

The specie on board H. M. S. Lutine, wrecked in 1799 off the coast of Holland, amounted to £1,200,000, and the whole of this Btill remains at the bottom of the sea, with the exception of £99,859 recovered In the year 1859. Attempts to recover the remainder are still being made.

Diving operations resulted in the recovery of £80,000 in gold from the wreck of the ill fated Royal Charter, which took place olose to Moelfra, off the Angelsea coast, but a vast number of diamonds are still lying about the wreok.

Forty thousand pounds in speoie was recovered from the wreck of the Hamilla Mitchell, in the Chinese sea, after lying in 23 fathoms of water for upward of 20 years, and £90,000 in gold was saved from the wreok of tho Alfonso XII, which was sunk in 26 fathoms of water off the Canary islands in 1885.

Some of the French ships sunk at Trafalgar contained vast treasure. Five tons of silver plato, including the famous silver gates of St. John's cathedral, Malta, and a ton and a half of gold plate, mostly studded with jtwels, the plunder of the Maltese churches, were on board one of these ships.

Not an ounce of this treasure has been recovered.—London Mail.

The Pnthoa of It,

"I saw a most remarkable occurrence on the street the other day," said a professional man, "and it made a deep Impression on me. A lady came down Euclid avenue and stopped at the corner of Bond street. She evidently wanted to cross to the other side of the avenue. She was not a young woman and she did notf look strong. There was quite a jam of vehicles In the street, motor cars, wagons and blcycles, and she seemed a little timid about risking the passage. As she hesitated a man came up Bond street and paused beside her. He was a well dressed man and carried a heavy cane, which I noticed he used constantly as if he might be a little lame. 'Sir,' said the lady to him, 'oan I ask you to offer me the protection of your arm in crossing the street?' "She said this in a very sweet and ladylike way and the man with the cane touched his hat 'Certainly, madam,1 he replied, and offered his arm. As they orossed the street I followed olose behind them. The man with the cano was very careful. Ho halted several times, but they reached the other side without mishap. As the lady let go of his arm she said: 'Thank you, sir, for your courtesy and protection.' 'You are quite welcome, madam,' he replied. 'But I fear you overvalue my protection—because I am blJ,ndP "And touching his hat again he turned and picked his way up the crowded sidewalk. "—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Dream and Reality.

There is this reab distinction between the dream and tho waking state—that when awake I know there is another condition, while in the dream I take no thought of the waking state.

Awake, I know that I have been living the fantestio dream life, and have come out of it into a real .life completely distinct from the other. I am in a first state and know there is a seoond. But when I am dreaming I have no thought of another state that I have oome out of and must return to I do not feel that there is another existence, radically separated from this one, and I never compare the visions of my dreams with my waking world, for I know nothing of it. I have the Impression of having always lived the life I am in, which seems natural, and even if I ask whether I am not dreaming it Is a merely verbnl expression, with no accompanying sense of tho meaning of it.

Another distinction, and the only absolutely clear one, is that while we always wake from the dream we never wake from the reality This is why we believe in the reality and not in the dream.—M. Camille Melinand in Popular Science Monthly.

A "Home Body" In an Art Gallery. A plump little woman with an absurdly infantile air despite a silver thread or two in her hair and a faint crow's foot at the corner of her round blue eyes—eyes of the oolorweused to call "gandei" blue—went into the Corcoran gallery on the arm of a dignified gentleman in clerical garb. They stood, the two of £hem, a little later, among plaster casts of antique statues. "These are very beautiful, Emily," said the clerical gentleman, "very beautiful and very famous It is a privilege to see them, and I hope you appreciate it"

"Oh,yes, John," said Emily—youcotild see that her very soul was a "yes, John," echo of her husband—"they're beautiful, I think, but, oh, dter, what a work It must be to dust them I"—Washington Poet.

Matter of Fact Scotch.-

The lowland Scottish peasant has an extremely matter of fact way of speaking about ber relatives' and friends' deaths. The Corn bill Magazine tells of a good woman who had lost her aunt remarking to a sympathizing visitor: "'Eh, yes, mem, aunty's deid, but she was very auld and frail. She's far better awa' and far boopier In glory, and I got a hunner pounds o' a legacy."

Be Had Been

Blfmbos—Well, here's another bom«eleanintf )oke. This Is the sixteenth housecleantng joke that FT® seen In this paper within a week.

Ham by—Impossible, my boy, impossible. There is no such thing as a housecleaning ok It's a tragedy.—Chicago

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Pincushions, dulnttlv made Cushion Topa and Doylies Drawn Work Lace, Applique, etc. Pretty for 5c: very choice for 25o

Mexican Drawn Work on Fine Linen— In Finger-bowl and Plate Doylies,

Centerpieces, etc. Both useful and beautifnl as gifts. Pretty things at 25c to $3.98

Merry Time Coods— Writing Cases, Ink Sets, Fancy Thermometers. Smoking Sets and a lot of novelties. Surprising prettiness for 50o

Jackets in Light, Tan, Brown, Black or Blue darts, fancy straps down front, ily front, notched collar $10.00 garment now..$6.98

Heavy Cotton Hosiery—

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•Shutting the door on the old sea- 3 son. Holiday Novelties and Bar- jl "'."gain Sales.

Holiday Boxes— In styles that are delicate and artistic. with ombroldery, satin, gilt or painting. Rise from 25c

Art Panels and Plotures— At very low prices. Look at those home deicoratlve effects in popular art. Some will cost dollars and others |8© Holly Leaves and Scarlet Berries

Sprinkle now Denims. Other Denims, Cretonnes and Sateens aro shown in beautiful designs for fancy pillows, lambrequins, drapings and Are screens—by tho yard or made up. Handsome for 15c

THE CHINA QUESTION SOLVED.

Pretty, quaint or brilliant French Cups and Saucers, Brlc-a-Brac, Vases, Uose Bowls. Jardiniers, Umbrella Stands, etc. Look at them. When you guess a dollar, we say 50 cents or for a 50-cent looker we say 25c

Jackets in Black and Tan Kerseys, stylish cut, dart sleeves, welt seams at

Handsome Jackets Royal and New Blue, Castor and Black box front, round corner, coat back, velvety collar, handsome buttons, lined throughout with high colored satins $12.50 value holiday price $7.50

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NOT A BOOK STORE-BUT WE SELL BOOKS CHEAP. Dickens, Stevenson, Kipling and other great novelists, cloth binding for 35o— not half price. Beoutiful editions of tho poets at 83c—not half pi Ice. Fine Books, dainty bindings, in a box, only ....210

Silk Hose In stripes and plaids. Extra lisle aha plated silk hose choice colors, $1, $1.25, $1.50and $1.85. Fine silk and lisle hosiery in a dozen grades from $3 50o

Good blacks, black or unbleached fcot, 25c and 35c and a stout, heavy article for 15c and 10c. Pretty hosiery, Richelieu rib, lace plaids and stripes at$l, 75c and 50o

Not as large as Mermod & Jncard's store, but Large enough for Terre Haute.

gC. A. WILLIAMS

Has the Largest Line of HOLIDAY GOODS he has

ever carried. Can't you select a Christmas gift from this list? Watches, Mantel Clocks, Emblem Pins, Diamonds,' Hall Clocks, Lockets, Set Rings, Sleeve Buttons, Opera Glasses, Plain Rings, Lace Buttons, Rogers Knives, Band Rings, Gents'Chains, Rogers Forks, Initial Rings, Emblem Charms, Rogers Spoons, Chain Bracelets, gold, silver, Shaving Mugs with Brush, Ladies'Pocketbooks, Silk Umbrellas, Silver Cups for Children, Cut Glass.

FINE LINE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Handolins, $2.00 and up. Guitars, $2.50 and up. Ladies' Gold-Filled Watches, $8.00 and up.

Ladies' Solid Gold Watches, $18.00 and up. Goods can be selected now to be delivered at Christmas time. Partial payment can be made.

Fine Watch Repairing and Engraving. All goods engraved free of charge.

C. A. WILLIAMS,

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We have the finest assortment of choice Palms and iH Ferns in the state, and for the next few days will sell Off them at unheard-of prices in order to make room in our W greenhouses. Remember our number—25 North Eighth, fjfi

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Kersey Jackets, Light-Tans and Pearl Greys new sleeves, satin lined, large pearl buttons bought, to sell for $1(1,50 mid-season price $10

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Silk Waist Reduction Your choice of waists In brocade, striped, plaid or two-toned silks that were sold for $5.08 and $4.08 fo* only $3.75

Fancy Hosiery— Drop-stitch, plaids, stripes and dots -Tan excellent Article for 25c. Black

Fleece-Lined hose—fast blackFrench feet, double heels and toes, 50c. 35c and 25c. Nice, good-wearing article at 10c, and a black FleeceLined hose

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Children's Hosiery— Fleece-lined, at 10c, 15c and 25c. Children's heavy cotton hose at 25c and 17c, and very good at 15c, 12Ho and IOc

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