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That young man who carae into the -oars at Greencaatle with a carpetbag ill band is a college student. He is not a rich man's son who has gene to college because it is fashionable, and, while there studies as little as possible, and goes in for a rowdy life. His plain dress and rather awkward manners indicate that be does not belong to the aristocratic classes. He is the sen of a mechanic himself, and what is better, neither ashamed of his origin or bis oocupatlon. He takes a seat behind T. T. with an old friend who was already In the cars, and who greets him heartily. T. T. does not listen but the conversation is not carried on in confidential tones, and T. T. cannot help bearing. The student says: "I hear Bill has got a job over In Terre Haute. Lucky fellow to get a job In tbese bard times." "Yes," says the friend, "but it don't pay him anything. Only gets Are dollars a week, and pays four and a half for board." The student replies, "You wouldn't catch me paying four and a half for board. I'd get a room in some third story and board myself." "That the way you do in oollege?" "No, but a lot of us who want to board cheap club together, and our board doesn't cost ns but about two dollars, or two and a half." And so the conversation went on, but this wtu enough to let out the secret of that young man's success, and reveal tbo promise of what he is to be. The young man who wants to make the most of himself, Is willing to put himself upon short allowance, and out of even five dollars a week or less will save enough to secure an education. The other doe* not care anything about himself, spends all his week's earnings but a half dollar for board, and probably growls at his lot. Very likely the one who pays four and a half dollars a week for board looks upon the other an aristocrat because he dresses neatly, moves among educated people, and is a student, and forgets that he spends leas for board and clothes than himself, and puts the saving from his earnings into his bead. T. T. puts down the student as the sensible one of the two. No doubt times are hard, and many a man witb a family ia terribly pinched. But there are any number of young men who h*v« at their oommand, even oti tlulr MHISH wages the means to help tbemoelve to suooess if they would. The difficulty In that with live dollars a week, more or leea, they spend tour and a half for board. Instead of denying themselvee and contriving to save, all goes without thought or car*. So is It also in many families. People wonder how some other people CAD afford book*, or picturee, or to send ui««lr t«hihlr«n |o school. The secret of the thing lies in the fact there are denial and carefulness in some other direction. Instead of four dollars and a half at a boarding house, it ia a room In the third story and self board at two dollars. Instead of putting ease and good living first, the head ia pat first, aod the sinmaeh denied for the sake of the head. There Is more waste and nonsense In this worM than la Urcaaie.l, and people g«t down and stay dowa becani»e lh«y will not i«»ny their wants in a lower region for the **k* of gratifying the higher want*. They prefer to be well kept animals, rather than deny the animal that they may be tuen. This matter of getting op in the world depends upon what is In the man more than upon what is about him. Give a young man an honest and worthy ambition, and with It grit to work and deny himself, and he will go up spite of ail the ttufevorabl* circumstances yon can tntoo on him. If it Is bard times and he can get only five dollars a week, instead of paying four and a half for board, he will get a room at a low rent and board himself at half that price. Any number of people here in Terre Haute are spending all they get to feed and clothe themselvee •eying nothing of thoee who let food and clothes go for the sake of whisky— when by denial and care tbey might have something for a home, or for beau­

tifying the home and making it pleasant, or for education. What is wanted Is to wake up the man, and tie up the auimal In as. More for the man and li for the animal. If either the man must be denied or the beast, let It be the beast.

SPIRITS.

T. T. has read witb interest the statement of Mr. Hook in The Mail of last week. T. T. Joins hands with him in going for the truth, even if it does bring the blue expanse rattling and tumbling on his head. T. T. puts his head beside Bro. Hook's snd joins him in the defiant ory, "Bring on your bears." But still, T. T. thinks his defence was better than Mr. Hook's. 'T. T. rested the lady politely. He didn't tell her she bad told unmitigated falsehoods, or call her conceited, or sneer at her. But at the same time, be explained away, in a perfectly satisfactory manner, all she aaw, or claimed to have seen. It is unfortnnate Mr. Hook didn't know that T. T. bad the matter in hand. Still it Is perbapa as well as it is, for if anybody Isn't satisfied with T. T.'s explanation, such can fall back upon the asurance of Mr. Hook that this lady is a liar. At all events tbe readers of The Mail and the entire community can henceforth think of Mr. Hook and T. T. as standing with bare heads beside the truth, defying the heavens to fall. No dodging if tbey do come down.

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4, No. 29o. AN EPIDEMIC OF DISHONEST*^ The bankrupt mill still keeps "oti grinding witb as full shopper of dishonest insolvents as ever, but nothing more is heard from Congress touching its amendments or repesl, and tbe country may safely conclude that nothing will be done in that direction during the present session. Meantime the law i* made the cloak and oover for an organized system of scientific swindling, by means of which men who are supposed to surrender nil their property to tbe payment of th«ir debts, manage to keep tbe larger part of it for themselves and get relieved of their debts into the bargain. |, vs ftHi-

Tbe law as it now stands is a burning sbame and disgrace to the country, as every honest business man acquainted with its workings is ready to affirm. It would be going too far to say that no honest men go into bankruptcy or that none do so honestly. Doubtless there are some such but their numbers are small oompartfd witb those ef tbe opposite olsss. How sbooking it is thst men who have hitherto sustsined fair reputations for honesty and integrity, should be (pund to have deliberately planned bow to defraud their creditors out of their just debts. And yet that la exactly what many men have done and what many men aredolrg today. Men in oontemplation of bankruptcy, while yet tbe act itself it far away, deed and give their best property to members of their family and thus prepare themselves for a technical evasion of tbe law when the hour of consummation is reached. A prominent business man of Indianapolis reoently sought tho relief of the bankrupt court, owing in the neighborhood of 1200,000. It appears now that his wife and daughters own a large part of his most valuable property and It is the opinion of some who know the man pretty well, that be will be about |100,(WO ahead when the bankrupt court gives him a discharge Irotu all his debts. Instances of this kind have beeome so numeroua that tbey oease to excite wonder.

Something oould probably be done towards smeuding the bankrupt law. For instauoe tbe enormous fees of tbe register end other effioers oould be reduced, to the benefit of tbe creditors for as the law now stands tbese fees eat up about ell the assets of many estates. But after all the trouble ia not so much with the law as it is with the men who abuse tbe law. A dishonest man will be dishonest in spite of everything. Construct a law with all powlble cars end skill, erect every conceivable barrier against fraud, end he will contrive way to Hr**k through them all and shield his uuhoneety still. Doubtless tbe lax administration of the law has done something, and a good deal too, towards corrupting the morals of the business community. Men of ordinary hoaeaty in ordinary times have been so swindled by fraudulent bankruptcies, loelng large sums due them from dishonest bankrupts, that, beoomlng themselves pressed, they have been tempted to do unto others as tbey have been done by. And, again, the witdeesing and hearing about these corrupt proceedings and seei»n tbe authors of them go free of punishment, has had a tendency to blunt tbe sense of honor end Integrity In tbe whole community. It la neler to be dishonest In a large eocapany of dishonest men than toe email one, or alooe aad men who, a few years ago, weald have ah rank from bankruptcy ae firom tbe grave, find itoomparatively eeay sow to join "the innumerable caravan" that is eonetantlj travelling to that bourne. Inetead of •••..*•• ,-,r

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being alone and solitary they find themselvee surrounded by "s cloud of witnesses" to the efficacy of the baptism of bankruptcy. They are in the company of tbe wise and mighty (or who were once thought so,) people who, until misfortune overtook them," held high places of trust end honor. Bankruptcy in such distinguished oompsny is every different thing from solitary or sporadic bankruptcy. And thus tbe disease baa run, like an epidemic emong children, until it hea come to pess that it is rather more of a distinction not to have than to have had it! The good Lord only can tell when it will stop but we suppose it will stop sometime if not sooner, at least after everybody has bsd it—as the measles stop when every child in tbe neighborhood hss broken out with tbem. 5

But no, tbst does injustice to a goodly nnmber of honeat men men who have retained their integrity throughout all this flood of corruption and will retain it to tbe end. There are such and many of them, too, though they make less noise than tbe other clsss. There are some men yet who Value their reputations for integrity and uprightness more than they value money, no matter how larue the amount and who will fight to tbe bitter end belore they will yield one iota of what is honest and just in their duty towards their creditors. Tbese men are tbe salt of tbe commercial world and will preserve it from utter corruption, until these dsrk dsys have passed by. -5

DON'T BE ASHAMED OF IT. Judging by tbe pslns tsken by a certain class of people to hide from their friends tbe fact that they are poor, one might suppose that to be short of funds was something far worse than a crime. Now this trying to keep up appearances and do aa others do, whether it can be afforded or not, has become tbe bane of society, and, like what is called mimicry amongst insects, produces a nondescript race very difficult to define or assign a place in tbe order to which it evidently belongs. Of course we are not advocating tbe exposure of a man's business affairs to everybody with wbom be comes into business and friendly relations but we do hold that he has no right to pretend to be any better off in worldly goods than be is in fsot for to do so is a deception, wbicb is but another name for dishonesty. To be sure, it is bard to deny one's self tbe luxuries of life, and resolutely turn from all expensive pleasures. But it must be done if wealth is to be regained. There is a pleasure in self denial that a majority of our people never experienced, and it oomes in gloriously, and is extremely satisfactory to tbe one practising It, when he can ssy, "I owe no man," and, at the ssme time, bas a hundred dollars in his pocket, but wanting some article costing two, he refuses to purchase until, through self-denial, tbe other hundred is obtained. It requires some courage to adopt such a system of living aDd dealing, bnt It It bas this as a recommendation—it is perfectly safe and honorable. "*—"g /./•

THBRK are no tramps in Japan. Happy oountry. Owing to the wise provisions of one of the —wise in this connection, at all events—no person can travel without a permit, and conmquently, the loafing, bumming, goodfor nothing element that here prevaila is there unknown. Everybody hss something to do tbe wages are not great, nor ia tbe coat of living, but there are no idlers. No bowling mobs stand round for something to do, no labor aasoclatlons spend their time raving against capital. If a] native sleeps for night oot of his own town, be must report bis name, age, business, and object In traveling, and the governor of tbe district will know where be spends each night. Hie rights of property are also respected coolies will not touch any fruit growing in an inclosure,though tbey will go eagerly for it when growing In the woods or on the wayside. They have great respoet for tbe law, are temperate, polite, end good natured to fault. And yet tbe Jape are considered a barbarous race. A little more such barbarous characteristics as tbese would make tbe great Christian end civilised world at large mora nearly what it professes to be.

Taue following specimen verses are from a twenty-six stenaa Idyl by an Inspired young fellow who has been wrought up by the first bright beams of tbe spring's warm sun:

She leaned alooe upon tbe (nee, and then she boveasjr, And for his footstep* down the lata &he wa. ted patiently. And presently he come to vew,

And then aba yatled a yell: A heavenly howl «f joy die howled, fir And nerbassea sweued a swell.

CBUMCH DEBT RAISED. Boston JeuraeL At tbecleee ef the morning eervios at the Central Congregational Church,

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Newtonville, Rev. & Frank Howe, pas^ tor, oa Sunday upward of 01,009 were raispd toward liquidating a debt of |U,000. Tbe balance will undoubtedly he secured this week.

Traw ere ia tbe United States, by careful enumeration, *250,000 Hebrews.

People and Things.

It is moro blessed to give than to receive, but it's not so popular. "I'm a yard wide and all wool," la the Kentucky way of describing a high atete of hilarity.

It coats only 15 £& cremate a wife, oounting carriage hire and alL This is cheaper than a divorce, but .not so gaudy.

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I notiss one thing, the man who rides on the kars every dey is satlsfide with one seat, while tbe man who rides once a year wanta at least 4.—Billings.

To avoid writer'a paralysis Chas. Reade baa learned to write witb his left hand. This accounte for the fact that bis late novela do not come np to the right mark. I

A philosopher ssys: "livery time the heart beats it says 'Passing away.' It depends eomewhat on tbe time of the evening, and whether she encourages him or not.

If all tbe men who think they are thoroughly posted in the matter of finance ahould be killed, there wouldn't be enough masculine humanity left to wsd a popgun.

An Iowa justice of the peace has ruled that a father has no right to occupy bis parlor while bis daughter and her young man have possession. The young ladies of tbe state are about to present tbe J. P. with a testimonial of theiresteem.

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Theodore Tilton says, "Forty years from now people will wonder that there ever should have been a discussion on tbe existence of hell." It is probable, to be sure, that Theodore will, by that time, have all the light on that subject that is absolutely necessary.

Human knowledge, saya tbe Breakfast Table, is gradoally expanding, but a good many things will probably never be fully understood. The researches of future ages may possibly probe the mysteries of tbe polar regions, but the reason why a blue eyed man with golden turkey leg whiskers always bas a nose as big as a California pear will continue to be more or less sbtouded in impenetrable fog.

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A popular doctor of Utica, while escorting a lady home the other evening, attempted to relieve her cough and sore throat by giving her a troche. He told her to allow it to gradually dissolve in her mouth. No relief was experienced, and the doctor telt quite chagrined the next day when the lady sent hira a pantaloon button, with a note saying be must have given her the wrong kind of a troche, and might need this one.— Utica Herald.

During a recent gathering of clergymen in Boston, one of them who bsd recently lost bis wife, was asked at a dinner table by a guest unaware of the fact, "Doctor, did you bring your wife witb you?" "Oh no," answered tbe doctor, unwilling to embarrass hie questioner witb explanationa—"oh no 5 she has gone in quite another direction." When this reply was afterward repeated to a New Yorker be remarked, witb somewhat oaustic bumor, "Tbe doctor was a little rough en Boston."

There was duel, tbe other day, in Eberton, Ga., between a newspaper main and a countryman. It was a sham duel on tbe part of the former, but atern reality to the latter. The countryman fired first, and to bhi untutored eye bis antagonist fell dead. "Foul play," shouted one second of the quill driver "Murder," cried the other, "let me kill tbe scoundrel," and be seizod a shotgun and fired its two blank cartridges at him. The countryman took to bis heels and ran six miles In forty minutes.

A man who bad announced his first attack of rbenmatiam learned in half an hour that the following would cure it: Iodide of potassium, quinine, glauber salts, onions, raw lemons, raw silk, oil silk, gin and taneey rock oandy and whiskey, Turkish butbs, a potato carried in bis pocket, a horse cbestnut carried in his pocket, en eel skin around his leg, a ault of red flannel, chloroform liniment, hot lemonade, a trip South, dry atmosphere, equable temperature sulphur baths, mustard and hot water, oampbor liniment and electricity.

During tbe sermon in tbe Baptist Church at Grand Rapid a, Mich., a few days ago, a five-year-old child left Its seat, walked up to the pulpit, and stood beside Dr. Graves, tbe pastor, who inquired, "What do want,my littlegman "A glass of water," the child replied. Tbe minister poured out a glass of water and the child drank it and left the platform. The incident created much amusement among tbe congregation which the child In returning to lde seat, noticed, and thinking the people were laughing at some mistake of trie, he made a bow to the pastor, and said, "Thank you, sir," aad took UsseA

Some of the recent elopements ere Interesting. Mr. Bean took his wile to a ooooert at Mauuhselsr, S. EL, slipped away from her, went home, pecked hie clothes In a trunk, stale $2,000 of her money, and ran away witb his neigh*

Sacred Concert by the Jubilee Singers To-morrow Night, at the Opera House. Admission 25 Cents.

tor's spouse. The Rev. Jas. Deverigny ebendoned bla Michigan parish, leaving a large number of debte, and taking along Deacon 8nell's daughter. A young couple in Danfortb, Ky., on whose union parents frowned, fled together on a single horse, but the overloaded beast was unable to outrun tbe one on which the girl's father pursued, and tbe elopement waa a failure. Two lovere who eloped from Milwaukee by rail, were so closely followed that, for fear of being overtaken, tbey did not stop long enough to get married. At length, after three days of Inoeesant travel, they found a clergyman on the train who performed the ceremony.

The New York Sun says some of the Congregational Uhurchee of New England, and especially Vermont, have an exceedingly looee way of doing business as regards their ministers. Instead of calling a pastor and inatalllng bim in the good old way with the view of a long term of service, tbey take their preaching "on the European plan," paying for what they get, and letting the preacher go as soon as they are done with bim. This practice has a tendency te demoralize both the churches and the ministers. The church people fall into the habit of looking for mere entertainment. The ministers become as men wandering from place to place in search of temporary jobs of work. In some sections five-sixths of tbe Congregational churches are worrying along in this unprofitable way. Most of them do it for economy. Some of tbem do It because the people are so hard to please. But they find that every year the people become harder and harder to please, and that the church treasuries each yeer draw nearer end nearer to a state of collapse. If this thing keeps on aflairs will become so bsd that churches will try to save money by getting along without any ministers at all. Then tbe deacons will read old sermons, tbe people will go to sleep, the churches will dry up, and tbe region will again become as promising.a field for missionary effort as tbe Pilgrim fathers found It in 1620.

Fashions' Fancies.

Mexacaine grenadines are revived, Bonnets sre more worn tban hats. Mastic Is the last shade of putty color. Kilt skirts must be of tbe ssme length all around.

The yoke of tbe kilt skirt should fit the hips like a glove. 'J Bourette muslin is a new fabrio in dlapbanoua goods.

Quantities of pearl beads, white and tinted, are used in spring millinery. Bonnet coronets are very high, and turned very far back at tbe sides.

The new styles of dressing the hit?' are as varied as tbe bonnets and hats. Dolmans, French sacques and Gar rick capes will all be fashionable spring wraps,

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Short Garriok capes appear on mauy of tbe spring basques, ulsters and sacques.

The correct length for tbe kilt skirt allows it to eeospe the sidewalk two and a half inches sll around.

Havana blaok and brown are favorite combinations of color for checked and basket woven spring bourettes.

Bourette is term spplied indefinitely this season to all Irregularly woven all wool, and cotton and wool, dress goods.

Chinese green, Mexique blue, Mandarin yellow, orange, cardinal, red, scarlet, crimson and clear rose are among tbe popular colors. J,

Tbe spring bourette^'8, camel's hair goods, cashmeres, and basket woven stuffs are beantlfolly fine and light In texture, and of exquisite finish. "j

Spanish combs and slides, Greek cireulets, and large headed pins of tortoise shell, silver fil&gree, jet, gold, and Ivory are used in fashionable coiffeures.

Tbe new, short costume which tbe Basaar hopes to make popular oeneists of four pieces tbe cutaway jacket, tbe waistcoat, the scarf and pleated ekirt with hip yoke.

The new ornaments for bonnets ere in tbe shape of golden feathers, gold and silver filagree flies, bees, end beetles, with steel points scattered over the wings and bodies snd forming tbe eyes.

Pofb, bandeaux, switches, coronet braids, chatelaine braids, Mercedes ooquetries, frizzettes, banged fronts, love locks, and carls end small ringlets are ell fashionable in tbe spring styles of hair dressing.

The hair at present is dressed high on the heed, around a Spanbb comb, narrow in the beck of tbe heed, and dropping low oa the nape of the neck—in chatelaine and one or two short curls, and banged on tbe forehead, or made to look more natural than nature itself, with a merordes eoquetrie, which is aa artificial benged and curled front.

Snlpkine rsfuesd to get his wife a new bat, and soon after his little girl came in and said: "Mamma, won't you buy me a monkey to play with when you go down townf* "No, darling—wait till you are older, and then marry one, ae I did," replied the grief stricken wife, her tears bursting forth afreeb.

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Femini terns?

A woman in New York State bas named her triplets Tllden, Hayes and Wheeler. j* ik

A Bridgeport man arrested for striking his wife Mary, admitted that Mary bad a little lam. ,f

RefTaln of young ladies—"Hat bat ha! you and me little brown jug, I'll decorate thee."

Queens of society are now in sackcloth and ashes—it is fashionable to up os he a re by a

Miss Von Hillern says' she "hates awfully to have women kiss her." Sorry we can't agree with you there, Bertha.

Out of 117 ladles in the Michigan University, only four have taken to law. How many have taken to lawyers Is not stated.

While growling at her husband last summer, a woman In Chicago was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Ladies should paste this paragraph in their hats. 'IK.

Mrs. Hayes has only two spare bedrooms in the White House. Lately she has had many young lady visitors and they have had not only to double up, but to sleep three in a bed.

ANew York drug store bas the following placard oonspiouously displayed: "Ladies afflicted with pale, faded eyes, can now have them tatooed black, brown or dark blue, with India ink."

Miss Matilda Fletcher, of Iowa, who used to stump that State for tbe Democracy, is making a suooeaeful lecturing tour through the South, her subject being temperance and education

Tbe reason given for a girl's notlbeing able to throw anything with theaocuracy of a boy ia that her collar bone is several inobee longer and several degrees lower down, and being long and crooked, Interferes with the free action of the ahoulder. wf

A oountry damsel describing her first kiss, told ber female friend that she never knew how it happened, but the last thing she remembered was a sensation of lighting for breath in a hotbouse full of violets with tbe ventilation choked by by blush roses and tu-lips. "No, Charles," she said, firmly, "tbe present you gave me don't come up to expectations stall, and I have oonoluded tbat your love must be of tbe same oheap quality. We will part good friends, and I will consent to keep the present only to remember tbe bapp— happy—" snd then she broke Into tears, snd tbe servant showed Charles to the door. -.y

A sensation was created in a Newport colored church recently by the minister's public reproof of mischevious sister, who put peanut shells Instesd of money into the contribution box. His remarks were seconded by sn sged woman, wbo called the reprobate a vain, conceited bussey, and adviaed her to wash the paiat from ber faoe. Then tbe young woman indignantly repTied and bustled out of the church. V-If"

There is nothing to exceed the diabolical satisfaction a man will take in announcing to bis wife, after be has got bis shirt on, tbat there is a button missing, and tbe keen delight be feels in seeing her dance around tbe room after a needle and thread, while she listens to a lecture on infernal carelessness, approaches eestaoy. But look out when she gets that button on, bites tbe thread off with jt snap and begins, "There now—" .1

An exohange Is of tbe opinion that tbe average woman wbo "walka the floor" of ber own room night after night witb a sick child, and then attends to her ordinary housekeeping each day, keeping op the physical strain and tbe mental anxiety attendant upon tbe cares of her household and of ailing babes for weeks at a time, is quite as much of a heroine an any famous pedestrienne, so for ss ooarage and physical endurance is concerned.

A local Georgia paper announces with customary chivalric pride that tbe young ladies in its vicinity "do not wear anything bnt red stockings." Every time we think of this glaring insult to our nstional modesty, we turn our beck on Georgian anc} bury our face In our bands. In tbe name of decency and civilization won't some of tbe sisters please proceed at onoe to tbe aforesaid girls, wbo bsre retrenched their attire so immoderately, snd'plead with them to put on another garment or so!

Rachel H. Wblpp has gone to tbe Ohio State prison. She married an aged and weeltby widower in Medina in expectation that be would soon die and leave her hie property but he continued in robust bealtb, and threatened to make a will giving her no more tban the law compelled him to. One nigbt be awoke te find a noose around his neck, snd his wife pulling at the rope, which ran through staple In the wall of tbe room. She intended to hang bim snd make people believe he bsd committed fui* dde. sk«