Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 February 1880 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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nightingale. They were the very opfposites of each other and on this lutual opposition of qualities Hans uounded his assurance of sucoess in ^"jinarryhig her. And this is sound plilljpby which experience justifies nine times out of ten. It does not seem to likeness, but unllkeness, that draws people together. Is it because people _9t tired of their own qualities, on the principle that familiarty breeds conI4empt, that they plok their nearest

Jriends from those who have opposite Qualities In nearly every house boonay, for example is on one side, and not both. The happy-go-easy fallow will ^very likelyfget.a most careful, painstaking and economical wife, and vloe versa. II There is Mrs. who is everlaalingly Resting, was hardly ever known to utter a serious word, and her husband is the (Imost demure,manjthat walks thestreets

Terre Haute, from whom a joke would 9iu as much oat of place as If it came ferom the midst of a funeral sermon, then there is Mr. Headlong (he does not *pell his uame in that way) who la ruled Ly impulse and never saw an objection if

to anything he wanted to^do till it was |[doneaud the objection came in the shape if very disagreeable consequences, and be haa a wife that can manufacture more objections out of the same amount of laterlal than any other living person, fn fact she does not noed material but bin make objections by the million, aa the world was made, out of nothing. Kud ao it goes the world over. Therefore go in boldly for the most beautiful (romen even if you are ugly. Nature is 1 your side.

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"SINOB I got into the scrape of %fcLborn, everything I have liked best fbeen a scrape, either to myself or somebody else. Everything I have taken heartily has somehow tamed kito icrape." Hans was an unlucky dog, ai jhls is the bit of philosophy with which he received 1 Daniel.'Deronda's warning knot to fall in love with a certain beautl'ful Jewess. Hans was the type of a class certainly quite respectable, though by no meaBS small. Their coming into this orld seems somehow not to have been ^fortunate circumstance. They|are a .sort of philosopher's stone, only with a tback action, and instead of turning 'whatever they touoh to gold, they turn gold and all else of any Rvalue to the heaviest and most |wortbless lead, and get their feet tangled in it in some way land sink. Love affairs so turn out that 4they are made miserable Instead of ,bappy-

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^becomes the dullest as soon as they Renter it. The measles never come into ^Bhe State that their children do not take

Jiem. In fact contagion, and everything clue disagreeable, seems to scent ,hem out and start on their track as toon as it has an existence. They are jnlucky.^And yet, like Hans, their icrapes are not so bad as they might be 'after all. They are goodfnatured, and hev bear the impositions which Luck,

Fate, or Providence puts upon them, ith such a good grace that life is far from belnglmade miserable. It would tave been a far worse scrape for them 'to have missed £being born. They are abetter off in their failures than other ipeople are&in| their successes, and all ^Jbecause they take things with such a good nature. ^If they are Btunned with a ringingfcblow of^adversity, as soon as they recover they begin to laugh as though it was all a joke. A man need not be lncky{to carry sunshine with him herever be goeB. Hans was as unlucky dog as ever lived, but be was the life and joy of the household. Look for the amusing side of a scrape, and it may not bejao very, uncomfortable after all.

•'NATURE designed Mirah to fall in love with me. The?amalgamation of Che raoes demands it—the mitigation If human ugliness demands it,—the '^affinity of contrasts assures it. I am the utmost contrast to Mirah—a bleached christian, who can't slug two notes."

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fcgHn««» demands aaccesa. No matter if you are email, and she la tall and {stately no matter if you are no talker tind she is the moet brilliant conversationalist if you were tongue tied, and she libad a tougue loose at both ends of it, his would not be against you, but rathin your favor n$ver mind if she sings Bvnd you oannot, or if you sing and she paunot. "The afflulty ol contrasts" \s a mighty force in bringing people ftbgether. Hans was right in assuming that Nature

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Kirth and education, and made him ugly Knd set bim up in the world without an Kar for music, had just fitted bim for v^iuocess in contending for the hand pf the beautiful Jewess songstress.

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depending upoij ••The affinity of contrasts" in pecuniary affairs^ If t|ere

be sufBcient unlikeness in other respects It is possible for poverty and wealth to take to each other also. They do sometimes, but so seldom, that the eases mnat be reckoned as exceptions and not the rule. The surest way of marrying a fortune is to have a fortune of your own to match it. An ignorant, ugly and disagreeable rich old baohelor may take a beautiful, intelligent and agreeable bride without a dollar, and vice versa but, as before said, the other unllkeness accounts for this. As a rule, money draws money, and if poverty does not draw poverty, poverty must go to poverty, or dwell In single blessedness. "The affinity of contrasts" seldom breaks the spell of gold.

RANDOM SHOTS.

WASTKD LIVES.

Our street corners witness to no more deplorable fact than that .there are so many wasted lives. One can see illustrations of it at almost any time—leaning against lamp posts, sitting upon the curb stones, dozing indolently In the summer's sun, or shivering lazily in the winter's cold. These are outside of the great multilude of baffled lives. These latter have met obstacles that they could not surmount. They have straggler* with untoward circumstances until will and courage and hope had all forsaken them, and then they have sat down in despair, baffled by a fate that they could by no means control. teSi

But these hundred oh the streets have wasted their lives, nothing more or less. Instead of being overcome by an adverse fortune, they have simply yielded without a struggle. Instead of meeting a foe to whom they gave battle and then came off oonquerers, but bearing creditable scars, tbey have fought no fight at all, but have simply eat down in idleness, allowing every capability to waste itself in inaction.

Who that walks the streets almost any large city has not noticed and reflected upon these very wasted lives? Why is that man in his own store, directing its profitable business, and that other one in rags and filth begging of him enough for a mealT They were both reared in the same town their father's farms joined each other, and they had an apparently equal start in life. But after twenty years, these are their conditions.

Or why does this other person own that block of buildings and these horses and carriages, with a fine residence in the country, while his former seatmate in school has no covering but the alms house or the prison? How came that man in Congress and his neighbor's son in the penitentiary? Or this oge an honored clergyman and his old acquaintance a hunted vagabond?

That man who was just driven past in an elegant carriage began life with a capital of ten oents. This one whom the police are assisting to the station, to be brought up in the morning and sentenced as an old offender, started at the same time as a "gentleman" with a capital of ten thousand.

It isn't pleasant to multiply these cases. They are too painful to contemplate. Almost any of us can sit down to-night and count all the way from five to fifty of them. They can point us to no calamity that overtook them, nor to any partial providenoe that favored their neighbor**. The precious legacy which God gave them in common with all his children, they have deliberately squandered. It might have won them prominence, or at least have made them useful. On the contrary it has been inexcusably forfeited, and nobedy, not even themselves, is a degree better *for their living

Do we ever think of this when we pass these street idlers? Is it not as though they were stricken down in a night, and we were to be shook ed in the morning by the fragments of a life that we left in its integrity the night before. Thousands, Indeed, are thus ruined, but la by a terribly alow and insidious process that the moat ef them are brought down. Their own secret lusts and passions and

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ing by day as well ght: One by one the ornamente ol ni»noble life are to be given up to appease their demands. Virtue, integrity, continence, truth, follow each other in fatal succession,and after a little while we behold the empty vessel with its treasures all gone.

This, alas! la the type of our almost daily experience. It will not be oonfinto localities. We might reasonably pect it in the city, with its manifold temptations and numerous avenues to ruin. But out in the country, where there are simple habits and a quiet life, where Industry la supposed to occupy the hands and all the surroundings to develop a vigorous and thoughtful mind —even there the tooth of the moth aiya hold, and before many years the whole moral nature is eaten through and through. The destroyer ia in every where there ia a human heart with its and there it ia that lives are steadily wasting away, just aa beautiful flower* are destroyed by the miasma of swam pa. Why is it that ao much life power uit allowed thus to waste Itself? bo parents fell to do their duty, or la the church remiss in its work?

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Susan Perkins' Letter.

DKAR JOSKFHUTH YOU cannot imagine how relieved I feel to learn that the letter, of which I sent you a oopy last week, was not written by you. It must have been another Josephine. However, as she objected to gossiping about the bachelora, perhaps you, too, will find it distaatefnl? Suppose we turn to graver themes. Would you like a scientific dissertation I am positive I could accommodate you, for srhat is not contained in this fertile brain of mine is to be found In Chamber's Encyclopedia, a whole row of which stare at me from the book case. But no, I will not hurt Prof. Proctor's feelings by attempting to rival him. Perhaps you would enjoy a history of my travela in foreign lands, but it would only be a rehearsal of Grant's triumphal march, and modesty forbids. I think you might be inyeigled into reading a description of Bome of the interesting points of Terre Haute as a city. So here'goes.

Terre Haute is a flourishing city of about twenty-five thousand inhahitanta. The name is French, and upon consult* ing my dictionary I find that it means "Highland." That certainly must have reference to its being situated on the highest bank of the raging Wabash and also on the top of a beautiful little eminence, known as Strawberry Hill. Terre Haute is a proud little city and boasts a great deal, yet no one can call her a braggart, for she always has a foundation for her facts. She is proud of her great men, which she has a generous portion proud of her pretty women, from the rosy eheeked school girl to the stately matron proud of her business capacities, of her factories, furnaces, mills, banks, stores and maohine shops. She boasts of the number and enterprise of her newspapers—especially the Mail —and above all she boasts of her public schools.

I am told that to Prof. Wiley, an earnest and indefatigable worker, much of the qpcoess of these schools is due. For years he has studied, planned, and revised the different methods of teaching and grading until the whole may be compared to a gigantic machine, so perfect, each part being so well adjusted and in such complete repair, that the whole runs in un'reon.

Josephine—when you come to Terre Haute on a visit I will take you to "see the sights." First we will go to the distillery Perhaps you think that a queer place to take a young lady, and if it was a common distillery I would agree with you, but this, Josephine, Is the largest distillery in the world! Think of that 1 As such it is to be viewed as a curiosity. Do we not want to see the largest city in the world? The largest bridge in the world? The greatest musician, the sweetest singer, the prettiest baby, the richest man, the highest mountain, the deepest cave, and the grandest river Of course we do, we strive for the superlative in everything, hence the largest distillery,

From there we will go to the artesian well, and if you feel inolined will taste the bright green water—I am not afraid of your askipg for the second glass! This water has attributed to it some very wonderful qualities.. It is said to cure rheumatism, dyspepsia, fits—and starts corns, toothache, neuralgia, obilla and every other ill that flesh 1B heir to. It also has the miraculous power of deciding between real gold and silver and spurious imitations, for the pure articles remain untarnished while the others are coated with a dingy rust. It is also said that the lady who visits the artesion bath house before removing the powder from her face, will find her lily white skin changed to the hue of a deep safron. Of course I do not speak from experience. But really I was afraid to wear a harmless little switch down there, for fear the mentor like, qualities of the water would induce it to jump off of my head and expose my iniquity to the crowd. Then the odor that salutes one from that well—but there, I will not anticipate! ^That smell to be appreciated must be. experienced, and I do not wish to detract one iota from the firpt whiff noatrils.

From there we wl Normal School Bu will see at a glance is a fine structure. It ia built of brick with stone trimmings and a slate reef. Numerous turrets and cornicen define their quaint outlines against the sky, giving the whole ft rather picturesque appearance. Hie grounds around this magnificent building are quite plain. The only ornament visible is a wooden pump of undeflteite color, to which is chained a rusty, tin cup. I have heard some fastidious persons say that instead of the wide expanse of unadulterated sand which surrounds the Normal building, there should be a carpet of velvety green, that the grounds should be laid out into smoqth walks and oooasi?mal flowerbeds that a graceful fountain ahould succeed the delapldated pump, and that a few ahade trees would give grateful respite from the sun on hot summer days. They even go so far

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21,1880.

TJHKKB HAUTB, Feb. 20,1880.

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to suggest that the graceful woodbine be trained up the walls of this great baildlngt which by winding around the corners, twining over the windows and festoonihg itself aroaa«l the turrets wovld add beauty and hide the lack of paint and the ravages {ef time. Also, that as Iron or stone feme would be in keeping with the other suggestions. Of course, the state fathers, ow whoever is responsible, know their own business. Possibly the reason of their not adding plaintive voice are contagious. these improvements is on acoount of their regard for the students within its massive walls. So muoh adornment might lure their thoughts from the algebra Mid metaphysics you know! Probably that is the reason, too, why the sand is allowed to accumulate on the brick waHn surrounding the building with^ never a broom to interfere!

If you are not too tired we will take a ride up north of town to Fort Harrison where a battle was onoe fought. On our way we will pass the cemetery, the smallpox hospital, see in the distance the Catholic Orphan asylum, and perhaps take you past she county poor house. Quite a cheerful prospect, isn't it? And when we get to Fort Harrison we will see plenty of trees, fences, and other common objects, but no skulls, no bones bleaching-in* the sun, no disabled cannon—in fact no fort.

Terre Haute is quite a railroad centre, nnd has believe three depots. None of them however are models of architecture, beipg in reality quite ordinary.

The churches are none of them particularly fine—I mean the buildings. The new Baptist church, when finished, promisee to out shine ali of the others. Centenary is a very pleasant and comfortable building, but no means elegant. St. Stephens is small, yet on the inside is very attractive. The Congregational needs repairing and refitting in the upper part, but the Sunday school room and the parlors are models of beauty and oomfort.

Summer is the time to see Terre Haute in it's prime. In every part of the city will be seen the beautiful maple trees, spreading their green branches and crossing their fern lilte arms across the streets. Sixth street is said to almost rival the famous Euclid Ave., of Cleveland. Most of the handsomest residences are to be found on Fiftb, Sixth, north Seventb^and Obio streets. In the south end4t to^espeefsliy in the near vicinity of Strawberry Hill, are to be found the most aristocratic surburban residonc68«

You will be surprised to learn that pigfe, cows, and horses, are allowed to ronm the streets at their own sweet will, and consequently my life is a terror to me when I venture out. You remember my aversion to all quadrupeds Only the other day I saw some pigs on Main street, poking their inquisitive noses into everything, and evidently as much at home as the business men who were hurriedly rushing to and fro.

Now Josephine do you suppose that other Josephine wiil be pleased with this letter should she chance across It? Confidentially, I am afraid not! She will read it through and lay it down with a sigh and the thought that now there will be absolutely nothing to find fault about no scandal, no gossip, no nonsense nothing but dull facts, and duller prose. How sad I and yet "We cannot always have things to please us." etc.

And you Josephine I can see you in my minds's eye, the letter fallen on the floor, your pretty head nodding, the long eye lashes drooping, rosy lips apart, and yes I a snore—musical of course—is wafted from your vicinity in regular and inexorable cadences. Good night my dear, sweet dreams SUSIE.

JBULESF0R8ELF QOVJSRNMENT. Editor Mall: JEhe following rules.were handed by a well known and venerable gentleman spring millinery, to ]|IBgland nephew. As I think them worthy to be classed with the sayings of "Poor Rlohard," or the maxims of Thomas Jefferson, I present them to the many readers of The Mail:

Always enter a house with clean boots or shoes. If you have a cane or umbrella, 1 and do not leave It in the ball, place it across your lap while you remain in the house. Do not lean your head against the wall, nor tilt your chair on two tegs, or place your feet on the rounds. dc turn it as

a door by taking hold of the handle.

A gentleman 81 years of age said: ••No one has ever heard me slam a door." If we could all say this, how much suffering would be spared to invalids, and how much annoy wee to the weak.

At meals, takeutfo more than you can eat it is vulgarto load your plate, and le«se half the contents to be sent to the slop bucket. Think of the thousands who would b& thankful for what you thus wantonly and wickedly waste, ft A lady said to a friend: "You area welcome guest at our table: you like all that is set before you, and you never leMgaanytbingon your plate." A liberal iiirHmff neighbor remarked hia children were educated to take no more ou their plates than they could eat, or if tbey did, what was left was set aside for their next meal. There is no waste of food in my house, said he. B.

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The Gifted Orap, Hoa.GM Wendling, in Reply to Ingersoll, at djera Hotu^-morrow, Sunday, eveneng. Tickets 50 and 25 cents

LITTLE SERMONS.

Gftiwt example is a silent senaon. Good' nature ranks high among the virtues

Cheerfblness is promoted by being usefully employed The present moment is all of wftfch we have assurances

A melaaeholy countenance and

Be kind and'loving with children you would have them truthful. The first effectual 'step towards selfgovernment is self'knowledge.

Scolding wives are at the bottom of a good many evHs-of^'the day. By shortness of life-we are admonished to perpetual industry.

Let us endeavor to pass calmly through the storms that beset us.

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hypocrite is a man who tries to be pious and can't, with a'preponderance of cant.

Among the ingredients of happiness, few are more Important t&an a habit of cheerfulness.

Many persons miss their vocations in life because their bodies- do not happen to it be

The sky is blueVen times where it is black onoe, and so do ou* joys outnumber our sorrows.

An occasional visit to the sick and suffering will make us more grateful for the blessing of health.

Merit confidence by frankness, at the same time that you guard with fidelity whatever secret may be entrusted to you.

Sterling virtue like sterling gold never loses its -value. It is like the cloth which the merchant declaired was of such fine material that a dress .made of it would last forever and make a petticoat afterward.

The consciousness that you are right will make you happy even when all the world thinks you wrong, and the consciousness that you are wrong will make you miserable|even when all the world thinks you right.

If you could only persuade your worst enemy to sit down by your side and dispassionately tell you justj what he thinks of you and why he thinks so, it would |o you more good thau all the flattering and unmeanlnglpraises of a thousand friends.

FASHION'S FANCIES

The "sportsman" is the newest jacket. Jet beaded lace is as fashionable as 8ver.

Mantillas will be more popular than sift# paletots,

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Old fashioned lute string ribbons are revived. -t Small patterns prevail in new figured dress goods.

Pheasant br6wn will be popular in new millinery goods. The tendency of fashion is to increase the size of the bonnet.

Beaded passementeries premise to be more popular than ever. Dressee are still made with shor skirts, bridled back and drapod up behind. Fait!

Most of the new spring dresses are made with a basque bodice and a double skirt.

The latest importations of spring straw bonnets show a prevalence of poke shapes.

Buttons of fanciful colors are much used on black as well as solid colored costumes.

Ostrich tips and large, sl}owy, artificial flowers will be used to excess in

Dark colors will continue to be more fashionable even in late spring and early summer.'goods.

Long basques, reaching well over the hipe, are still worn by those to whom they are becoming.

Old gold straw braids, alternating with Mack chip, appear in many spring hats and bonnets.

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pusher pull the door gently to its placed ladies or gentlemen. Japanese young girls gild their lips, a custom which has been over looked in the rage for Japanese fashions.

The favorite dark spring colors Will be marine blues, brownish reds, dark, dull greens, and reddish purples.

Gloves are worn very long, and bracelets are placed over them upon the wrists, not on the swell of the arm.

Few spring costumes are made of one fabric. Frequently two, three and four materials are seen in one dress.

The new gipsy hats will be worn either low on the forehead or tilted far back en the head, at the option of the wearer.

The earlieat spring costumes decide the fact, if may boubt of it existed, in regard to the continuance of abort dresses. They are as short and leas tied or "pulled" back than heretofore.

About Women,

Mis. Southwortb is quoted as saying that she began to write from necessity and after that pursued her calling from the love of it.

Sir William Gull says that drinking habits are not on the increase among English ladies tatlthe Rev. Dr. Norman Kerr^sjofa totally different opinion}

An editorial in t*e New York Tribuneis headed Women as* Mules." The writer ,1s evidently married} but he shouldn't judge other men's wives by -his own. Some women never kick.

It Is said that youngsladies have their stockings stitched witty silk way up to the topi. Of course it is »rumor, but we can't see why it is doae anyhow, for nobody ever, that is, hardly ever, sees Uwtopaof them.

Mhhrfa Saucer was soWcoeasfnl in her breseh of promise suit against Henry Raymond at Weldion, this state, whicipshe got a verdict c*£52,0©0, that she ha» now Bued her uncle- for flO,000, on the ground that he advised Henry a

There is a surprising reaotibo against low-necked dresses, and this time it comes from abroad. Even the toilet for balls are made high or out square, and are accompanied by short or lace sleeves or sleeves whichjfare a 'mixture of laoe embroidery and| bands of the contrasting fabric. "i "Womes," says a literary journal, "live en love." That may be but we notice all that have the pleasure of our acquaintance finger around the table three times a day and get on the outside of an awful lot of beefsteak and and potatoes, as well as other substantial articled of food.

Colonel Higginson remarks that there is not afclub house in Boston furnished with such absence of luxury as the Women's Club rooms on Park Btreet the contrast is so great as to seem almost absurd. The waiters at any fashionable restaurant, he says, will tell that what is a cheap dinner for a-man would be a dear dinner for a woman.

The correspondent of the ©hioago Tribune, speaking of Mrs.!*Belva Lockwood, says: "In the lower oourts, she and some of her professional sisters have undertaken the management of several oases, which they have invariably. got into, a muddled ooadition, either from a hopeless confusion of facts, or from an absence of facts altogether, but they will never admit that they are beaten, and they flounder along until the Judges have to to stopjthem.

Princess Louise has been oredited, justly or not, with looking upon her life in Canada as a disagreeable exile, imposed by state exigencies and a wife's duty. Her Satudray night's experience of being tumbled out of a sleigh and badly bruised on the head, with muoh fright and pain possibly with permanent disfigurement, will flardly put her in better oonceit with the country. Still, she has not the anxiety and fear that distress some other young wives of mlers—for example, Queen Marie Christine of Spain.

The school directors of a certain district in Missouri made a rule that no scholar should attend school on a day following the night in which he or she bad attended a ball. One of the female scholars violated the rule and was expelled. Her parents brought an action for damages against the directors before a justice of the peaoe, and the jury gave a verdict for fl and costs. The directors were not satisfied, and have taken an appeal to the Circuit Court. The principle involved viz, whether sohool girls have aright to do as tbey please outot school hours, is one whioh lies very near to the heart of the young American female, and it Is to be hoped the oourts will pass upon It as Boon as possible.

A person who has made the feminine mouth the subject of much study volunteers his conclusions to males with sweethearts. They are as follows: If her meuth is very small, there jis not much mind, but overmuch shallow sen* timent. If she has a very large mouth, she will possess a good brain, but the trouble is in kissing it. large mouths put a man to an artistic test he will be driven to bis wit's end whether to begin at one corner and oosiclude at the other, or to make a heroic dash at the middle, and endeavor to reach both corners. But if you area kissing artist it may be covered nicely enough. If your sweetheart has a coarsely formed mouth, she will be sensual, and full of strong, coarse points of cbsracter, and will raise a row in the family. If she has a delicately formed mouth, with rounded lips, and ef a velvety color, she will have much sensibility and perfection of character,Jbut will not astonish by her brilliancy of conception or execution. It is a good mouth, because it ia kissable and submissive. Shun blue lipped or thin lipped women thdy will bore you to death with literature or woman's rights, theorize while you want your dinner, or spoil your temper by their red hot,*soQldlng|tongues.

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