Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 November 1878 — Page 1

Vol. 9.—No. 22.

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Town-Talk.

WATCH DOGS.

They do say that the hard times are caused by lack of confidence. T. T. found that oat Jong before these hard times came. He coald always get along easily enough when people had confidence in him, buy anything be wanted and as much as be wanted. So long as people had confidence that he would pay he could buy. His credit, like flat money, has always been good as long as people thought it good. But T. T. has always found that, if he didn't pay up about once or so often, people began to lose confidence, and then the wheels rolled heavily, times became hard. It is just the same on^a big scale. All at once, about five years ago, everybody found out that everybody else had bought a lot of goods they couldn't pay for—In fact 1110ft people had bought a good many lots they couldn't pay for, and so everybody lost confidence in everybody else, and hence the bard times. People are not yet quite certain whether other peop'e can pay their bills, or will do so if they can, and so they haven't quite got back their confidence And yet when people say that lack of confidence is the cause of the hard timss, T. T. has always felt inclinod to ask why Is there lack of confidence? It seems to T. T. a good deal like saying that the cause of a man's sickness is a headache. The cause lies behind the headache. So the cause of the hard times lies behind the lack of confidence. And T. T. could say a good many things on that point, but, of course that would be politics, and politics and religion are rigidly ezoluded from this column of The Mail. And what T. T. was about to remark is that

TOO MUCH CONFIDFNCB

Is making bard times for some folks. Nine-tenths of the great swindles which have come to life in this country and in Europe, of late, are the results of too much confidence. A great corporation elects a treasurer in whom it has perfect confidence, and who, when elected, is worthy of confidence, and then turns all its affairs over into his bands. The examination of his accounts is a mere form. Ho can use the funds entrusted to his care without a fear of detection. In llusb times he does use them and nobody suflers. But by and by hard time* oome and he meets with a loss. He 00versIt up by some little trick, and intends to make it all right by the nest venture. But in hard times ventures fall. He gets in deeper and deeper, and Anally astonishes bis company, the oommunity, and himself as much as anybody, by turning up a defaulter. He has been ruined by the confidence placed in him. If bis acoounts bad been carefully examined, and be bad been rigidly compelled to account for every dollar, he probably would never have had a temptation to employ the funds of the company for his own purposes. T.T. believes that many of these men—not all of them—were originally what they seemed to be, honest and worthy of confidenoe. Bat their employers and associates have thrown a tremendous temptation In their way by giving them so much confidence as not to look after them. No Treasurer of any organisation, secular or religions, no bank officer from President to janitor, no man who has control of other people's money, or access to it, ought to be trusted one iota beyond what is absolutely neoesMury. Every possible check should be put upon every one who handles the funds of others, and an honest man is the last one to object to this. In foot every honest man ought to desire it, even demand it, both as a protection against temptation, aiid to guard him against nnjust suspicion. A tether ought not to be trilling that his eon should go Into a bank, or even a olerkahop In a store, •where the most careful guards are not employed against taking or wring a cent of the funds of the concern. If this role bad been universally followed the hosts of swindles In this country and abroad would have been almost entirely prevented. It may seem useless lor bank directors to look carefully after such

men as Preston Hossey and Charley Warren, Demas and Henry Deming, Mr. Beach and Ed Gilbert, and the other men In the Terrs Haute banks. But there ought to be a rigid and inflexible rule which would include every one of these men, and all others as honorable and worthy of confidence as they. It is time for banks, corporations, associations, benevolent bodies, and churches, to require treqnent and strlot aooount of all funds entrusted to individuals. That is the way to keep honest men honest, to prevent dishonest men getting their bands into other people's pockets, and to prevent a shadow of suspicion from attaching to the good name of any honest man

T. T. believes in watch dogs—good, large and savage ones, that will bav# no respect for good clothes or smooth words, but will set their teeth firmly into the flesh of every man who prowls where be ought not. Honest men are safe from such, and if any honest man, by mistake or otherwise, begins to act like a dishonest one, it will bring him to bis senses, snd do him good to feel the teeth. There would be a smaller number of formerly respectable men in the penitentiaries to-day, as well as a less number of such fleeing from justice, if they bad been bitten the first time they acted like thieves. Less confidence and more watch dogs IsT. T.'s prescription to cure swindling. -j

A Woman's Opinions.

BY A NEW CONTRIBUTOR.

HON. WENDELL PHILLIPS.

If the lecturer had been personally acquainted with bis audience he would have excused its sizo on account of its respectability, for certainly, judging from the standard of culture, refinement and intellect, the elite of the city assembled to pay a most respectful attention to the venerable and venerated lecturer. Contrary to most public speakers, Mr. Phillips corresponds very closely to our preconceived idea of him. Tall and Bomewhat portly, regular New England

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bald, sandy complexion, blue eyes, with a fine, expressive mouth and chin, he looked, though almost three score and ten, as if he had yet sufficient manly vigor and moral courage to battle for the poor and oppressed, even though by so doing he had to face an angry mob and bear the reproaches of bis fellow citizens. Throughout bis long and eventful life be has ever been found on the side of right and justice, and although be has always been in advance of the age in which tie lived, yet subsequent events have proved that his judgment and his heart were a faithful and unerring guide.

He has the advantage over many of onr public speakers, in possessing a Bpotless and unblemished reoord, and because his own life is so free from reproach he can afford to criticise the faults of other men and suggest a remedy. He was fortunate in selecting topics which form so Important apart in the great Issues of the day, Labor, Temperance and Woinen. The first two have always been considered vital questions, but the last one men have persistently tried to ignore until it refuses to be kept down any longer.

Judging from the looks of several Greenback agitators, it would appear that his remarks on the laboring classes did not altogether give satisfaction. The point which he emphasized most strongly was that our laborers be educated, not that Congress furnish them work or unlimited money, bnt that they take advantage of our free schools and our free press and inform themselves as to what will better their condition. When this is done it will not be neoessary for such men as Dennis Kearney to advise them, nor will they be at the mercy of every tricky politician who ohooeee to make their wrongs a stepping stone to his success, but can intelligently deolde for themselves as to what legislation they need and select the men whom they can trust to protect their Interests. But as long as they remain ic such lamentable ignoranoe they must expect to be left behind ins race where brains win every time. Having mislaid the report of the lecture I have confused Mr. Phillips' language with my own. 1 beg his pardon, but do not think the reader wilt bsvs any difficulty In distinguishing one from the other.

The Temperanoe subject wss~,considered solely from a political point ot view and the question asked whether habitual drinkers were sate rulers or whether It was advisable to entrust the ballot to the great mass of men who stupefied themselves with whiskey on every election dsy 1

He closed this argument by saying that "no nun oonld give to another the strength to resist the temptation which an attractive saloon presents, but be did bare the power to close the dootsof the saloon/'

The Woman question was presented in a very sensible manner, the lecturer stating that when every other effort had been made to purify the ballot box be wss "in fevor not of granting woman a

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privilege but demanding of her a duty." The Express credits Mr. Phillips with saying he "did not consider women any better than men." He did not make suoh a statement. While be waa advooattng so eloquently the necessity of giving to woman an enlarged sphere of activity and usefulness, I involuntarily looked around for sympathetic approval and my eye fell upon a richly dressed acquaintance of mine, clad in the latest fashion, from the nodding plumes on her bat to the French heels on her dainty boots. She slumbered sweetly! I give you my word this is a fact.

The lecture was somewhat interrupted hero,by a drunken man in the back of the house. He was promptly put out and as he sat down on the outside steps he soliloquized on the unjust fate wbioh olothed the industrious, hard working, temperate Wendell Phillips ip broadolotb, while he shivered in rags he thought, too, how'hard it would be If the saloons were all closed and he obliged to spend what little money be earned fpr food and olothes then again be reflected whether it would be advisable for him to share with those virtuous intelligent women sitting just above, the glorious privilege of the ballot. Having concluded not to do so, he tumbled down stairs into the darkness and was heard of no more.

As the audience dispersed, it ,was amusing to notice bow many men agreed with the lecturer in his views of Woman Suffrage, and had always held the same opinions! If a few more distinguished men like Mr. Phillips would advocate it, publicly and earnestly, it would be decidedly popular, and after it finally becomes apart of the Constitution it will be difficult to find a man who ever was opposed to it.

I ought to have mentioned, in the beginning, that this imperfect sketch is written only for those who had not the pleasure of hearing the lecture, and I feel as if I could not conclude without paying a deserved compliment to the Occidental Society. One could not but reflect, as he noticed the young men

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ting in a modest, dignified manner upon the stage, that among suoh as these will be found our future statesmen and solid men of business. The sons of our distinguished and wealthy citizens will pass into obscurity. Content to be honored and petted because of their fathers' high position, they make no effort to acquire fame for themselves happy in the possession of unlimited means, they spend them freely without a thought of adding to them by their own exertions. After awhile the pmtints die, and their generation dies wn them. .The new generation, which did not know these fathers, cannot be expected to respect the sons on aooount of the parents' reputation, so unless they possess intrinsic merit of their own, they must step aside and make way for new names and new faces. The children of the wealthy have every means of amusement, and become so satiated that only the most exciting pleasure can Interest them. The children of the middle classes, of parents whose means are moderate, must depend largely upon their own resources for entertainment, hence they form Literary Clubs and Societies which combine pleasure and real benefit.

Where did you ever know of a number of riah young men forming a CluD for purely literary pursuits So when, as I came out of the Opera House, last Monday evening, and heard one of the kid-gloved young aristocrats of the city characterize the gentlemen who sat on the stage as "green," "slow," snd the like, I thought, "Have a care, my boy, or you may find them "test" enough to outstrip you in the rsoe for honor snd distinction you will see the coming years "ripen" them into a fullness of perfected manhood which you may never hope to attain."

THH HHKSATIOIf OF THX WKKK was undoubtedly the sermon of Rev. Bacon, on last Sunday. Many points in the discourse were well taken, and deserve respectful consideration from the leaders in the Temperanoe cause, for they sre not infallible and It would not be surprising if they had made some mistakes, although no one can mistake the purity of their motives. However, on the question of total abstinence, Mr. Bsoon win find himself far In the minority.

We will never be able to draw the line between temperance and in temperanoe except by considering total abstinence as the standard. Briefly to review the leading thoughts in the sermon: "Wine is a good gift from God."

That is, I suppose Mr. Bacon meant, pure juice of the grape is a gift from God, but audi wine Is not Intoxicating, except in great quantities, and I believe there la no divine authority lor adding sugar to this juice, thus producing the aloohol which causes intoxication. Then why should the juice of the grape be considered a gift of God any more than the juice of corn, which gives ns whisky, or the juice of hops and barley, which gives us beer? If the American people would be content to drink nothing but the pore, unadulterated juice of the grape, there would be no need of all this temperance agitation, bat they scorn

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this simple beverage, and demand whisky and strong wines, which never knew the bloom of the grspe. Pore wine is not the only "good gift of God" which this wicked generation has declined with thanks, and, taking all these things Into consideration, it certainly seems to be the duty of every good citizen to do all in his power to check the dreadful evil of intemperance wbioh has been broadening and deepening ever since the day when the ploua Noah lay drqnk in bis tent. To return again to the sermon. "It ja wrong to drink at all if you really believe that it Is wrong to do so." Then, when a roan's conscience has become so hardened that he does not think it wrong for him to indulge in stronk drink, are we to infdr that it is therefore right for him to so indulge

Again: "It is a harmful and therefore intemperate use of wine, to drink when you have reason to believe that by so doing you are putting yourseif or another in peril."

Now it seems to me that a man never takes a drink of intoxicating liquor without putting himself in peril, for when he takes the first drink, can be prophecy wheA he will take the last. No man expects to die a drunkard, but every step he takes brings bim one step nearer to such an end he may have suffloient self-control to stop this side of ruin, and he may not therefore "peril" lurks in every cup. Then how can a man drink without "putting another in peril He may slip off by himself and take his beverage in secret, but the smell of his breath, the flush on his cheek, are tokens of his libations. You cannot endeavor to point out to a young man the evils of strong drink, but that be will silence you by referring to men who represent the wealth, talent and political power of the city, and saying, "They drink, why shouldn't I

Every time such men take a glass of liquor, they "put in peril," the life and reputation of every man who sees them do it.

There is scarcely a man so humble but that he has an influence over somebody, and it is to be earnestly hoped this Influence may be exerted ou the side of sobriety.

Mr. Bacon wishes the temperance reformers to "lay aside uncharitableness." They consider drunkenness a misfortune. He insists that it is a sin. Which is the most uncharitable of the two? As to the means suggested by the minister: 1. "There should be an adequate penalty for drunkenness." How would he impose a penalty that would apply to rich and poor alike. When the rich man becomes drunk his friends or servant put him in his carriage and take him home when the poor man does likewise he is picked up by the police and taken to the station house, where he is fined, and imprisoned if he can't pay. Any penalty that oould be imposed would work in the ssme manner. The rich would escape, the poor suffer and to this would be added the difficulty of deciding just when a maa was far enough gone to be considered "drunk." Then, too, some men would have to be ss severely punished for tsking two glssses of liquor as other men would be for taking twenty, owing to the amount each oould stand before drunkenness set in. 2. "The framing of laws for the regulation of the sale of intoxicating liquors should be committed to wise statesmen snd students of the law, instead of reformed drunkards snd unreformed fanatics." I should be afraid to stste whst proportion of our statesmen and stadents of the law are themselves so much addicted to the use of lntoxioating liquors tbst they would be working against their own tastes or desires did they attempt to impose any restrictions but one thing is certain, they do not trouble themselves to take any action for the promotion of temperanoe until they are oompelled to do so by these same "unreformed fanatics. 3. "The law should be enforced. It will be enforced when the publlo iaedu cated to regard Intemperance as a crime." The liquor laws are no more a dead letter than many others upon our statute books. Murder, embezzlement, prostitution, all sre regarded as crimes, yet the laws are seldom enforced to the full extent but one greet reason why the liquor laws are not enforced la be cause so many of the men whose duty it Is to enforce them are themselves moderate drinkers, which Mr. Bacon does not considsrasin, but rather gives us the Bible sanction JOr it*

The last suggestion Is the "Advance* ment of the religion of Jesus Christ," about which I have nothing to say. otm

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If I have not completely exhausted the patience of my readers, I beg leave to take exceptions to the play presented on Thanksgiving Day* matinee Is suppossd to be more especially for ladles and childrsn, and the play should contain nothing objectionable. In Onr Bnarrftng Houss ws had a Villian, of oouns, most plays do, lmt, with one exception, he was the most gentlemanly person on the stage. Then we had a speculator, whose conversation was one succession of slang phrases, which, with

tbs peculiarity of childhood, the little ones will remember if tbey forget everything else in addition, the words dsmn snd damned were used a number of times. There was an ignorant landlady, a husband and wife, each faithless to the other, a sednoed woman and an Illegitimate child. A delightful oompany to entertain a house full of ladies and children. There are many pure and beautiful plays on the stage. Let us hsve one of thst description for onr next matinee.

People and Things.

The New York Herald calls him Robertj Ingersoll. 'Doing the Talmage" is whst the swell boys in New York call it.

Neal Dow is the oldest ex-mayor of Portland now living. Bum did it. If a young man has no overcoat be must pull down his vest.—N. O. Plc.

Recipe for good Thanksgiving dinner —first get your turkey.— Boston Post Men think to forget the bitterness of life by taking their bitters regularly.

A man who perhaps dees not love bis race proposes that every bodylwmdout mince pie to trampe.

Paper teeth are the lalest success in Germany. Tbey must be held in by gum arable, we auppose. j- jfcr •.,

A man in Florida walked ninety-one miles to vote at the late eleotion. This was more an act of self-assertion than sense.

A Toronto magistrate decides that button-holing a man in the street is assaulting bim. O, most wise Judge! A very Daniel.

Home, the spiritualist medium, is once more conspicuous in Paris and London, and is as witty and mysterious as ever. No one seems to find out the secret of his manifestations.

Phrenology, ss a science or as a sensible theory, has only one advocate now where ten years ago it had a score. When the wrinkles on a man's feet will tell bis age, then the bumps on his head will indicate his talent. "What is the Influence of tobaooo in America was asked of a New York medical professor. "It is killing more people than whisky," was the reply "particularly the smoking of cigarettes is baneful. The arteries become excited and ruptured by it, and then they often snap in the brain."

Estrada eloped with Glenn's wife, In Los Angeles, Cal. The two men meta few days afterward. Both were on horseback. They drew pistols snd seised esoh other, without dismounting. Several shots were fired, at such oloee range that every wound was blsckened with powder. Tbey were both killed.

It will be remembered tbst soon after the Asbtsbuls horror, the chief engineer, Collins, was found desd, and it was generally believed that he had killed himself under the pressure of criticism which was deslt out to him. There sre Indiostlons now that he wss murdered. Detectives are working up the osse. "They ssy" that Butler spent $150,000 In his campaign and made 200,000. That Is (and the statement is credited to Butler himself), he ascertained, two weeks be* fore the election, thst he*wss going to be defeated, and forwith placed f200,000 In the hands of bis sgents in New York in order to bet against his own chsnoes.

Butler hss shown little of thoee symptoms of exhaustion that were expected of him. He spoke four times the lsst dsy of the canvass, and for two weeks before it ended he hsd been in such a state of nervous agitation that he could not carry a cup of coffee to his lips, onoe being seen to fail in the effort, even with the use of both bands. Yet his frame did not give way after all was over, and we hear of this man of sixty still sotive In oourt-rooms and travelling from city to city.—Boston Letter. .Murphy is trying to start a noonday temperanoe revival in New York. A correspondent ssys of him: "He is a chubby Irishman, with the decided look of a Catholic priest. He has a pleasant smile for every one. He seems about forty-five, hair out olose and quite gray bis upperlip Is covered, and the rest of his face is bare. He has the gush of a camp-meeting, and interlards all the service with 'Bless tb*f»rd,' 'Praise His holy name,' 'Do, Lord,' 'Add Thy bin lng.' He follows eaoh song with approval, and while the singlng*is going on he smiles snd nods to the right and left, and keeps up his exclamations."

A wealthy and eooentrio husband snd wife In a Boston suburb keep their only daughter isolated from the world. She Is 10 years old, and is being literally brought np In a glass case, her play room, study, and bed-zoom all being at the top of the bouse, where walls and roof are of glass, the ran bath being considered ncessary to the child's physical and moral health and well bring. The mother, formerly a normal school teach er and a great student, Is the child's teacher, and, with the exoeption of her daily siring in the handsome grounds of the place, the little girl never goes out, and rarely sees another child.

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"Never say dye" to a woman who usee It* You can put old lace on young shoulders—and with good effect, too.

Anew town in Idaho has been named Onegirlia, because there Is only one girl there.

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It is strange, but when a lawyer has a bad case in court he always wants it continned. ia

There Is a 1700,000 heiress in the Ohio !§,' insane asylum. Young man l—well, do 4 just as you like sbout it.

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Ten o'clock suppers, prepared entirely by the lady of the bouse, are the favorite entertainments in New York this season. "I never knew fashionable woman r.= who did not think more of a fool than an upright, sensible man."*—Talmage.

Persons of limited understanding— ..... Those who wear drees skirts so narrow that they cannot step .across a two foot gutter,

The Parisian ladiee loop up their ahort dresses and show sbout two inobee of the white or eolored petti00ats. This is official.

Any wife who puts her heart into the .. work can have tboee slippers snd that dressing gown ready for Cbristmss, with a week to spsre. -l&m 4^* *.

Banged hair still hangs arouna, aespite the vigorous reviling it hss re- fe ceived. It never should go out of style entirely. It is a good, way to reoognize 'i{ an idiot on sight. $

A Texas paper ssys boldly thst Texas girls want less restraint and more liberty of action more kitchen and less parlor more exercise and lees sofa more pudding snd less piano.

One of the saddest and most vexatious trials that oomes to girl when she marries, is that she has to disobarge her mother and depend upon a hired girl.— Burlington Hawkeye.

A country girl, on being aaked if she I knew what a fashionable reception was, e-k replied: "It is a gathering of the sexesr-'. where women gossip with women on the latest fashions, and with men on theV latest scandal,"

A rich lady has justlieen married In a 9150 pair of stockings.—[Nyoum Advertiser.] This must be the dreadful newFrench fashion that Talmage told about. -J It is certainly the most low necked style yet out.—Philadelphia

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The trial of Mrs. Anderson and her daughter, of Chlcsgo, by the Trinity M. E. Churoh, on the cbsrge of leasing their property for the use of a saloon, resulted in a verdict of guilty with a reoom-^-mendation of meroy and forgivenees.

The following is sn advertisement, signed by Minnie Farrel, in a Baltimore,,* newspaper: "I am pleased to make-. public that I have obtained a divorce1 from Dan Nash, whom I foolishly honored by a quickly repented marriage Should any of his friends doubt the legality of ssid divorce, their investigatlon Is earnestly desired to the extent pf self-conviction."

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It was at a dancing psrty. "A little more animstion, my dear," whispered a I fashionable mother to a daughter, who was wslking languidly through a quadrille. "Let me manage my own busl-!V ness, mamma," ssid the latter "I shall not dance my ringlets out of curl for a married man." "Of course not, my love, but I was not aware who your-i partner was," replied the mother.

Women preachers flourish in New hr York and Brooklyn. Last Sondsy in 2^-. those cities the following are named* ,,v am on up pi lng the inference that there were others not named: The Rqy. Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, the Rev. Mrs. J. T. Brigbam, the Rev. Miss Elisabeth W. Greenwood, the Rev. Mrs. a Fannie Allyn, the Rev. Mrs. Whitney, of Hartford, the two Rev.? -7/ Misses Smith, and the Rev. Sarah. B. 3 Satterthwaite.

The prints of propriety In Ixndon are. discing the sinfulness of the "tea gown" which seems to have beoomet popular In London society. Itlsde*^ scribed as deshabille leading to Inevitable^., -'. deshabille in conversation. It was first* Invented by certain adventurous dameswho hsd reeolved on an invasion of the 'j smoking-room. It wss found to give

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latitude to feminine beauty and grace, and unfold new charms of neglige. Ite'J-J^^ Introduction into society came through^ the boudoir where the hostess Invited a lew chosen friends to take tea with her,^ and gentlemen were sdmitted very rare-^*^ ly to these tea-drinklngs in tea gowns. Then they forced their way into thefts? parlor, the hall, the dining-room, »nd^ now they have got back to the plsoe of beginning, the smoking-room and cigar-^,. ettes with the gentlemen after dinner., The tea gown Is criticised ss dsngerous,ift

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