Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 February 1880 — Page 1

Vol. 10.—No. 32.

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THS PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITI ON.

THIS kind will do to raise to sell bat it is not fit to use." So said the President of a Horticultural Society (not our famous society of that name) as be was discoursing upon pears. Afterwards, during the discussion, the same idea was expressed several times in reference to different fruits. The discussion turned upon the result of frost upon apples, and some wonderful statements were made, by several members, of faots concerning having apples frozen solid in the barrel, and yet, left to themselves, coming out sound and uninjured. One man said, however, that the members would find, if they used the apples that had been frcsen, that they wore not as good, the life would seem to have been taken out of them and they would he insipid. And he added, "It does not injure them for the market but they are not good to use." Now these were ordinarily honest men. The President bad held high civil positions, and was a leading member of a church. And yet neither he nor the other members of the society seemed to have the slightest idea that what was not fit for use was not good enough to sell. If they could palm off any insipid and useless stuff upon customers, known or unknown, it wes all right. When a purchaser looked into a barrel of apples and saw that they were sound and plump bow was he to know that the goodness had been taken out of them by the frost He could not know, and yet the man who raised them and put them on the market did know it. Tbe. purchaser was cheated, and the man who sold that which looked well but was not fit to use, and knew what he was doing, committted a fraud. Yet these people didn't seem to make any such 'distinction. The man who says a fruit, pr any other article, is good enough for the market but is not, fit to use is not an honest man.

JT IS singular how fashions in morality blind men. Time was, not Jong

disgrace, and jpe nonSl man regarded it as one of the greatest calamities that could befall him. And the man who was known to have saved anything was regarded as no better than a thief. But the yearn of hard times threw many into bankruptcy. It became common. Bankruptcy lost its horror. And after a little men began to take that means as the easiest way out of a tight place. Formerly tbey would have economized and trusted and turned every way to get out of debt. Now they unblUshly ask creditors what they will take on the dollar. Six months after failure men boast that they are doing better than they over were before. Old scores are cleaned off and they have taken afresh start. In plain language tbey have stolen so muoh of other people's money and they find it a great help in their business, It is very true that the creditors signed the quit claim, but they did it for exactly tbe same reason that a man gives his money to a robber, or offers a reward for stolen property and "no questions asked." He prefers to give up his money rather than have a bullet in bis head and his pockets rifled afterwards, or he prefers to get back a part of his property rather than lose it all. Honest bankrupts are to be pro foundly pitied, but it is time for bank ruptoy to go out of fashion, and for a return of the fashion of paying one hundred cents on a dollar of indebtedness.

WHBN I lose confidence irt avian's political honesty, I lose confidence in him all througty." So said a man on the platform not long since. And he was right. Honesty cannot be out up into pieoes it is rather a garment without seam, woven out of, a whole cloth. If a man will lie in politics he will, when occasion requires, lie in anything else. If a man will steal in politics, he is a thief with whom it is not safe to deal without close watching. If a man is tricky in politics, he will play tricks elsewhere if he has a tfood chance and can make it pay. That seems to be the opinion down in Mai no just now. A minister who was counted in and took, or attempted to take the offloe, has been allowed to vacate his pulpit. A bank president who did the same thing, when election of bank officers came around, found no votes for him for the position he bsd held for many years. Oneof the counting in Counsellors was dropped in like manner from his position in an Insurance Company. If tbey had been dishonest politically they were served _====

A theological student was going down the St. Lawrence river on Saturday. Rather than travel on Sunday he stopped over at Montreal. A lady whom he had seen on the boat also stopped over with ber husband. Site went to the young man and 00mmended him, and told him that on tbe boat it was said,

"That young minister will go right on. He will not be at extra expense to keep Sunday." She had stopped also because she would not travel Sunday and was greatly pleased with him for his consistency. She did however buy a large quantity of fine lace, and conceal it in her undergarments, and on Monday, when asked by the revenue officers if she had any thing contraband said plainly: "No, sir," and then boasted of it to her theological friend. He tells tbe story himself and uses it to must rat 6 the point that there are people who cannot see the sin of cheating the government and lying to an officer, who yet think themselves religiouB because they will not travel Sunday. He says she should have refused to travel Sunday, as she did, and gone without her lace or paid a full price for it, rather than cheat or lie. His honesty and piety are of whole cloth, good throughout, and hers is not reliable anywhere.

AMANwbofoas lived a longtime in Terre Haute says he never had a colored man come to bis house begging, unless it was to ask for a contribution to bis church, and has seldom, if ever, seen a colored man intoxicated.^ :.1A little thought will convinoe any one that the colored people among us are at least self supporting to a remarkable degree and are above the average of their rank in life in point of sobriety. Of coarse there are bad specimens among them. But considering the number who have come among us Bince the w»r, and their previous condition and education, it must be admitted that they have done remarkably well. If they were any where near equally divided between the political parties, no one would have dreamed of objecting to them coming into the State. As it is there are portions of the State where the man who employs a negro is warned that he will suffer for *it. If Indiana cotald "swap" some of its whites for an equal number of blacks it would make a mighty good trade. rjj Mr'.

THE revolver has become a common nuisance that ought to be abated. Hardly a day passes without recording a death or an injury by the intentional or accidental use of the revolver. .In the tfistrletir. generally in a rude aud lawlesS CO munity, the revolver and its incidental results may be looked for asjone of the incidental results of wild life. But here in our boasted civilisation and under the protection of a police force, why need every grown man own or carry a revolver, and every boy insist upon a pistol pocket In His first pair of pantaloons? Yet scarcely a week passes in which the revolver is not the final deadly argument between men and the equally deadly plaything of boys. The. juvenile papers are filled with stories in which the inevitable revolver figures constantly. Is it sny wonder, with his head filled with revolver, that the schoolboy of to-day is an actual terror And, as if to stimulate this morbid appetite, the makers of firearms are turning out quantities of cheap revolvers, perhaps in order to give the ambitious boy a chance to practice against his plsymate. It is true tbe danger from such a weapon is about equally divided between the shooter and his target, but that is not a good reason for providing every boy with a cheap revolver. It is a deadly weapon at best. It is not a toy it is not a thing for boys of any age it is not a thing tor grown men to carry habitually. ________________

SYMPATHISING, of coarse, with many unhappy persons Who are compelled to masticate attenuated beef and guess at the mysteries of hksb, there is yet a word to be said in favor of the keeper of a private boarding house. She has been tbe prey of small satirists since boarding houses and small satirists were. It has been customary to represent her as a willing and skillful adulterator of victuals and drink, a skinflint and a sharper. In point of fact, she is generally an intelligent and sensitive woman, who has chosen this mode of earning her living partly because it is the only one for which ber habits of life have at all fitted her, and partly because she has fancied that it would do less violence to her sensibilities than any other business open to ber. The boarding house keeper is commonly a widow, and her condition is a testimony, in tbe first place, to male improvidence. It entitles her to the consideration of all men, and that consideration is by all deoent men cheerfully given to her. If all boarders were deoent persons, her lot would be muoh easier than it is. Instead of being the most crafty, she is usually the most guileless of women. There is scarcely a boarding house keeper who has not been made the victim of swindlers of all kinds. The boarding house beat family is a very numerous and characteristic one. For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain it is unsurpassed by the most heathenish ot Heathen Chinese. The family is represented by all sorts and conditions of men and women, from the shoddy oouple who want the best rooms in the house, talk loudly at table of

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former splendors, and miss no opportunity to turn up their fraudulent noses at everything and everybody, to the dashing young man with nobby neck-? ties, who is always expecting remit' tanoes, but who finally leaves behfnd him his blessing and a shabby trunk filled with bricks and paper collars. It is high time ttoat these hard working and long suffering women should receive tbe oommisseration and respeot to which they are entitled, instead of the sneers and suspicions they oftener encounter. Not one woman out of a thousand who keep boarding houses derives from her business more than a bare subsistence, inhuman and indecent to grud^HMfrhat. Whatever the price of boardinwdinary boarding houses may be, we may be quite sure that it is justified and compelled by the prices the boarding house keeper has pay-

Susan Perkins' Lettei

TEERE HAUTE, IND, SAT URD AMVENING, FEBRUARY 7,1880.

THKBK HAUTE, Feb. 6,1880.

DEAR JOSKFHUTB:—Some weeks ago I wrote to you about a society which some of the young ladies had formed— myself among 4he number—for the purpose of marrying off a number-Of the old bachelors with which- the town is infested. I regret to say that we have not been as successful in the under? taking as we had fondly hoped, and all because the marriageable ladies are too particular.

Did you ever hear a man describe tbe kind of a woman he was- going to marry? Did he assert with that air of superiority peouliar to the lords of creation that his wife must be beautiful, intellectual, graceful, fascinating, as well practical? Did he say that she must know how to cook as well as his mother did, that she must be neatness personified, must always have her house in order and always be ready to supply his slightest want? And when some impertinent upstart asked what he intended to give in return for all of those

virtues, did ,he bow and say "myself," as if the question was satisfactorily*,,,^

settled without a doubt Such, Josephine, have been some «7f thediffli

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simply because it is leap year. If they are obliged to ask for husbands they insist upon waiting until there are some worth asking for.

Old bachelors are very hard to get rid of, there being many objections to them. Some say they are too hard to please, and insist upon having buttons sewed on in their own peouliar way. Others say they are not gay enough and are too particular about their diet, and so on.

The A. O. F. C. B. was in despair something must be done. A happy thought struck us, viz: let the old bachelors alone and give the young fellows a ehance! Accordingly I was made one of a committee of three to make out a list of marriageble young men and to investigate their standing, socially, morally and financially. We worked indefatigably, and the result is along list of names wbich we will triumphantly place in the bands of tbe society at the next meeting. I give you tbe benefit of our philanthropic scheme. The list is as follows:

William H. Duncan i# itill single. Has been to Europe, is an accomplished newspaper editor and of attractive appearance. He ought to be married by all means.

Harry Bunlin Is just the man to make a good husband. Amiable in disposition and courteous in manners, the bashfulness for which Harry is so proverbial has kept him too long in tbe shade.

Edward Frietfd, the* most popular military officer in the United States, ready to drill anybody, even a wife the society has in blm secured a prize.

James Bigelow—familiarly known as Jimmy—smart and good looking, but evidently too modest. Some girl should storm his heart and take him captive.

Jay Keyes is a splendid subject. One of our most graceful dancers, of prepossessing appearance and real nice, except that he is too much of a flirt. It behooves his future wife to put a stop to such frivolity.

Dr. Wiil Hall is yet a bachelor, lis truo there have been rumors that he has a sweetheart, but while there is life there Is hope. His wife will have the exquisite pleasure of having her teeth pulled free gratis.

John Clift, a nice young fellow, lately gone into business with the firm, and it is surmised he may want a silent part-

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J. F. Jauriet, almost an old bachelor. It is a shame for him to resoain single when bis wife oould drees so elegantly at least with all that stock of dry goods to chooee from, it would be her own fault if she did not. Mr. J. must and shall be married, if I have to ask him myself.

Wallace Austin—pet name, Wallie— very,very stylish,and his singing Is heavenly. Report says he is already looking in a certain direction. If bis cards art

not out pretty soon the society will take him in charge. Hod Smith, a'great favorite in society, W accomplished danoer and very hand some. His moustache is tbe envy of the boys and admiration of tbe ladles. A good eateh.

Henry Greenawalt, small but stern. Souse one mutt propose soon before he is a oonfirmed bldbachelor.

Frank Barton has allowed one younger brother to outstriphimin the matrimonisl race, tntf if be IsjsPt careful the ptifer one will leave him' behind too. Tbli should not be allowed. Frank is steady, honest and as good as the day is lofig* Be will make bfs wife happy, ney Warren, another renegade, bfulor too indifferent to even

If a lady. pleasant fellow, a good e, tfith unexceptionable taste in ry goods line. His career as a man sihould be shortened.

Wyeth one of society's favorites. JM, entertaining, oharming 1, but seemingly averse to maty.. This tendency should be nipthe bud. Some enchanting prlncesimust ooax him to change his mind.

John H. Berry han no exouse for regaining single. A handsome competence, a good business, with every thing heart ooulds"desire except a wife. He -may be hajjpy now but he would be rmich barter had he a bright little wife.

Nick Smith, a promising young inerobant. Bine looking, agreeable, with goo4 prospects. A chance not. to be neglected -4pharles MoBride, steady as a clock ripd* a great deal, is musical in his tastes and a fine singer. His only fault is extreme modesty. This alone has prevented his launching in the boat rt&tglmonial years ago. Will someone !y help him row the boat

Turk says he doesn't need a but we do not agree with him. ottld look Out for a proposal. {Robert Sterret. Not only a good singer hnt ift composer of operas, a gentleman and a scholar, with a vein of romance in his character. The girl who wins his

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And I do not suppose she will

bridegroom. Be ys" a 'Veta^Viticf improves on acquaintance. It is also said that his reputation for mixing pills, is without a rival.

James Ellis is traveled, dignified and well to do. But he needs a wife to cheer him up, to share his sorrows snd enhance his joys. I know a pretty little blonde that I think would suit him admirably.

George Jenokes is another one who good naturedly believes that "where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." He ought to obange bis mind with nothing to do but to be tyranized over by a handsome wife, why is he so indifferent to his fate? There area number of others said to be engaged. If tbey do not get married pretty soon the commute will be,obliged to add them to the list -^5 u.. v'v

With such an array of beauty and talent before the so, to say nothing of valor and wit, it seems as though any maiden might make ber choice. The trouble might be—and already the society is debating as to the best wsy in which to combat such a difficulty—thr tall of the ladies might happen to fall in love with the same gentleman. Now would not that be harrowing? Think of the feelings of all the other eligible candidates? There is one oonsolation, one man could not marry them all, so the disoomfitted lovers—or loveresses—would have to find balm for tbeir wounded hearts elsewhere. As Valentine's day is approaching that will be a good time to inaugurate these love affairs by means of tender little missives in rhyme.

Yours as Ever, SUSIE.

P. a I forgot to say that the society has determined to have nothing to do with these leap year matches after they are consummated. After the wedding day they must fight their own battles, and if any man is henpecked he must make up his mind to peck back again, for the society will not go into tbe pecking business. S. P.

HURRYING INTO WOMANHOOD. One of tbe crying evils of tbe times is the tendency and disposition of girls to get through girlhood hurriedly and get Into womanhood, or rather into young ladyhood, without waiting to enjoy the beautiful season of girlhood. Speaking on this point, Bishop Morris says: "Wait patiently, my children, through tbe whole limit of your girlhood. Go not after womanhood let it come to you. Keep out of public view. Cultivate retirement aud modesty. The cares and responsibilities of life will come soon enough. When they come you will meet tnem, I trust, as true women should. But, oh! be not 8) unwise as to throw away your girlhood. Rob not yourselves of this beautiful season, which, wisely spent, will brighten all your future life."

It la hard to find a woman^who, if oaught In her seoond best drees, make no apologjr'for her dreadful appearance.

RANDOM SHOTS.

BY A WOMAN.

I read an item in one of the papers saying that "Prof. Brennecke had set the whole town to dancing." And tbe paper was not far from right. Much has been said and written about dano ing, but I cannot forbear having "my say," for if there is anything that deeply concerns me, It is what relates any way to the welfare of our young people— young womanhood especially, that is to wield such a power for good or evil in the ooming years. I hesrd a man say the other day that "no Christian anoed." That certainly was a mistake, for now there are not many denominatlods that oppose it but the question is not what has been or may be said, but what is the effect

Dancing of itself t&nnot be wrong, more than any other kind of exercise. It is the way in which it is indulged. In the family circle, in the early evening at a private party, a little time spent in that way may be as beneficial as delightful but it must be a strong will to be moderate, and moderation in all things |Sl what we Americans sadly need.

We all know noble and intellectual people who dance, and we know, too, that at a ball, public or private, one is obliged to come in contact also with those .whose lightest touch is profanation, in whose association there !s pollution, unconscious though it may be. There is so much I could say in this connection, but it would' take by far too muqh space, and I cannot express myself on the subject half so well as has Mary Clemmer Ames in "Ten Years in Washington," a book, by the way, I wish were In every family, it is so entertaining and iustructive, so brave and noble. "Terpsichore is a sad sight to me not because Terysiobore dances, for dancing in itself may be as innocent as a bird's flying not because sbe loves beautiful attirg, for exquisite dress is a feminine floe art, as meet for a woman as the flower's tint, or the bird's plumage. I Bigh at the qigbt of my pretty Terpsichore^ because the first bloom .of her

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sensibility, something of unconscious innocenoe, something of freshness of feeling, of purity of soul, is wasted with the fresh young bloom of her cheeks in the midnight revel, lengthened into morning wasted in the heated dance, in tbe indigestible fesst, in the wild, unhealthy excitement through whioh she whirls night after night. Terpsichore, In her tattered tarletan dress, creeping into bed in the gray morning, after having danced all night, is a sad sight to see, to any one who can see her as she is." -a

THE BETTER WORLD..

CHURCBE3, PASTORS AND PEOPLE.

The dying !words of Bishop Gilbert Haven were: "There is no^river here—it is all beautiful."

It is not right to raffle. Though of course when a church needs money that's different.

Like nature in springtime, everybody should once in a while have a freshet that will go tearing through him and dean him out.—Beecher.

The Bapiist church at ^Lincoln, 111., passed complimentary resolutions when the Rev. William Elmer resigned tbe pastorate but when he joined tbe Episcopalians the Baptists voted to retract tbeir praise.

A lady asks the New York Tribune how she shall raise money for a small country church, They have tried oalioo parties, sugar parties, fish ponds, mock postofflces, and the like. "If," she says, "you can suggest Bome new form of entertainment you will earn our sincerest thanks." Tbe Tribune answered, "We recommend a revival of religion."

The Baptist ministers of Philadelphia have been discussing the question, "Is the pulpit losing its power?" The principal speaker,admitted that^tbe multitude was no longer attached to the churches, but be added: "What then? Tbe minister of Christ is not the,head of a bouse of public entertainment. If the public entertainmer does not draw be is a failure. Not so with the preacher. He may have a email following and yet do great good." Another said that tbe preachers who attracted the largest eon gregaUoos were by no means the most influential another thought that preachers had weakened^themselvee by meddling with politics and other matters that did not concern ibem.

Tbe difficulty with church work is that It Is utterly impossible to consult everybody about It. This immediately mkkes a division in tbe parish. Tbe one party consists of those who fortunately have been consulted and who, there* fore, think the object a worthy one and the ^pastor a very discriminating man. The other party ooasists of those who are determined to feel insulted beeause they were not consulted and who neith

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er believe in the feasibility of tbe plan nor in the good judgment of the minister. Nothing makes a man work harder than to take him aside and tell him that you have something on your mind and want to ask him about it before yo» speak to any one else. He looks on you from that moment as a great man and a man who knows human nature well enough to put your confidence exactly^ where it belongs.

FASHION'S FANCIES

A pretty bangle bracelet's made of number of small horseshoes. Ladies' belts have grown so wide thafcw^ the latest styles have armboles in them.:""

There is a tendency toward the revival of the Josephine styles, the short round waists, the wide belts, straight skirts and sashes.

Qnly the women whose resemblanoet to beanpoles is unmistakable should wear tbe mediaeval apron. It is too serenely olsssic for tbeir stout sisters.

bre«^K—^bte iit a«8^gned for a general utility ooat, and may be worn with any skirt that is simply bordered with« trimming. ^"r

HATS ON THB H»AD.

Under this head a fashion writer says "This seems a foolish heading, but 11 one only will oonslder a little, one will easily remember the time when hate were certainly not worn on the head^ At present they are set well to the front the position, a natural, easy one,? suggesting that a hat is doing duty as a hat. Neither is there exsggeration of any kind. They are not mounted high, as if on some tower of braids or'puffs, but, if desired, rise to a moderate dls-j"',* tance over the forehead. Many lie flat,, ^. or almost so, and if there is a tendencyr", in any special direction, it is in this* one. Nor in shape, do we observe anything remarkable. There is variety! enough, to be sure, and we have broai brims, narrow brims, broad crowns*, narrow crowns, brims going up and brims going down, but withal, there isa certain moderation. Maybe this i» because we have expended ourselves oni the bird question. The other day I sa a soft velvet turbsn surrounded by a* wreath of humming birds, but thi» hardly seems so pronounced as an owtff head perched in front or at the side,' eyes and all looking at you with an Inimitable expression peculiar to thi owl family. Mixtures of colors um extraordinary. What do you say to bonnet of olive green, satin finished, byr a bunch of ostrich tips, one red, one» blue, one yellow, in the centre of which* reposed a green parrot. Tbe stringswere of cashmere ribbon, in which, a*we know, all colors are united. Cashmere ribbons, it may be noted, are veryf fashionable. These sharp winter days,, too, are bringing out such a number o£ seal hats as were never seen before, Tbey are in all manner of fanciful shapes, and finished with bows or loopsof brown satin ribbon and birds OP bird's plumage. Bright parrots, red or green, show effectively, but oftentimes a sober color is preferred. Among other sbspes, the Gainsborough is quite noticeable, also coquettish styles caugbton one side. We know not what mayv be in the future, but at present these hats are really hats—that is tbey are always without strings, for as we are aware in many cases a pair of strings• transforms a hat into a bonnet. Not so with the Derby, which through every, change of fortune remains a Derby.. Only th«t and nothing more. While on tbe subject, I will add that there i» actually a rage for this special style,, and it is economical rage, since a nice one, with wing, may te had tor |L50. When everybody gets a thing,, however, the time is not far distants when nobody will have that thing.

Wanted tojfind a young lady who never complains of a bsdoold when la* vlted to sing.

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The time to send regrets when an in«*§f vitation to a party or reception oannofe be aooepted is not at the very last moment, but as early as possible in advance of the event, so that those giving tbe entertainment may not go to the' unnecessary expense of preparing refreshments for one-third more than put' in an appearance.

The bodice, artists say, is what givea expression to the dress. The latest, A oopy from a picture, of course, is called the Reynolds ooat. It is in the Louia XVI. style, copied from a portrait by*,' Reynolds of Lady Spencer. It is in" black damask, and opens widely over striped gray silk and black velvet waistn ooat, the velvet stripes embroidered with silver. Tbe revers are black plush, and there is an upright collar about the throat. The revers are quite like those on a man's coat, with button holes, snd the buttonhole a tuft of lilac or ft arose the necktie of Alencon lace, falls as abbot. Tbeooat is made with tails, and plush pockets, in one of whioh tiny lace handkerchief is tucked. An-j other Reynolds coat is made of steel gray satin, with rpvers^ of black and' embossed velvet, the flowers onT unlit-

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