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THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
SECOND EDITION.
Written for The Mail.
TUB PASS IXV OF MORDOTTTA. JNTAJOC T. CKAMITOS.
Had wiiul« moan, moan, tiioftii!
Moan, wind* Jin Moniotba fa dying: Gram, earth groan!
Tlsi »lo!o in the winds dole, dole, dole! T'it! ftm'r.i! tK-tl toll, toll, toll!
I inn tMlornlng— l)olo, dole, dole!— Myself In mourning.— toll, toll, toll!
H:m arc Hi*? win*!* Khrill, Hhrill, shrill! Ci.-,:! l-ull i.'iturf chill, cliilt, chill! Moraot lrn is clawlJ
All Is now dr*nn liriRhtnew hn* Life's cold itinl M-ro.
Town Talk.
THE ELECTION
Tho Octolwir election is over and T. T. nhnrcH In tho general relief which biu* succeeded the wtorrny times of tho last few months. Of course the result is not ITS
satisfactory to some
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Another class of men who are very much disappointed aro tho gentlemen who had such good foresight as to tho ^auitthat they stakM money on their judgment'. T. T. is reliably informed that tho Democracy of this city had any amount of money for this purposo and that any proposition from a Porter man to back his favorlto never failed to bring forth from the jackets of members of the opposito party enough to cover his modest pile ten times over. It is said that enthusiastic Democrats just hunted around for Iwts and although they could not find hair as many as they wanted they succeeded in getting from 915,000 to $20,000 on Mr. Porter. Of course they felt confident of winning and wero only sorry they could not got more. That "sporting man well known In New
York" who had over 120,000 to bet, probably found no takers, for which ho is doubtless happy, while the unfortunates who have lost havo arrived at the conclusion that a little reliable foresight is worth more than a groat deal of hind sight.
Strange a* it may appear, the successful party is disappointed. It did not expect so much, and tho magnitude of its victory hns almost taken its breath away. Much less than the wholo State and County ticket would have satisfied it, but to have everything thrust upon It almost make It wild with joy.
Of course tho defeated party la diaapIKiinted. Before the election they Informed their opponents in a very mysterious manner that they could impart information which would make their hair stand on end. In th© excitement of tho jollification on one aide and the general depression on tho other the hair raising political secret will probably never be known outsido of tho select circle that possessed tho secret.
From all that can be learned T. T. is of the opinion that the election has been a genuine surprise to all parties. The attested onea wero very confident, perhaps over confident, of auocms, while the successful party seemed to bo imbued rather with hope than confidence. A treat deal of work has been done at a great expense by both parties, Aid just what they expect to gain by it is a mystery to all outsiders like T. T.
One very marked feature of the election was the cuwixo or IMOOM.
It is customary for the Mayor to issue a proclamation upon such occasions ordering those institutions to dooc up, but such an order Is as much heeded as are the ten commandments by the Modoc Indians. Last Tuesday waaan exception to the rule however. The front doors were closed and also the rear entrances. It was impossible! togctadrink that day. The Chief of Police announced that, for the first time in the dty, the law would be strictly enforced, and, strange sa It may seem. It was enforced. It was a surprise to everyone, hot T. T. has yet to hear the first complaint in regard to
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it might have
boon, but then it cannot bo helped there are always disappointed pcoploon earth, and will lie until the end of time. But there aro peoplo who have bpecial reasons for beiug disappointed upon this particular occasion. Tho unsuccessful candidate** aro all disappointed. The vlnlonH of fat pickings which have haunted them liko a nightinaro for for months or, may bo, years, havo suddenly disappeared and they have been rudely awaenked to a sudden realization of tho fact that they must make their living tho same as othor people. Many of thom havo spent their money qui to freely, as is required of every candidate who oxjocts to succeod in Ainerioan politics they have proltablv staked all they had upon the result and lost. It is Had for them to think about it, but had they boon unwilling to accept tho ompty honor there aro numberless others who woro willing and anxious to take their places.
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Another affliction which the jwople have suffered much from, and of which T. T. took occasion to spoak a few weeks ago, is tho
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it. Of course many thirsty individuals were surprised at it they tried front and back doors but all were barred against them until the polls dosed, and _. ..
OUR GIRLS.
HANDS r« BRAINS.
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about tho .soothing influence of Deputy able ladies devote tl.ur Marshals at tbepollB.but frankly believes poUslnng the.r fu.g« naito, that the ataJee of drunkenne*. on great pndo m,Plnymg^Mul hands"—has inducc\l me to take up mj pen and come to the front. If it was only the richest and most fashionable women, with a fortune at their command, who care more for a beautiful hand than a cultivated mind, it would pass without comment. But when this At tho same time T. T.
Tuesday last had more to do with the quiet which prevailed than all the officers in the country would have done, and cheerfully joins all good citizens in congratulating Mayor Havens and the police forco on tho efficient manner in which the proclamation was carried out
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call the attention of the Chief of Police positive
doors are kept wide cannot be done for our young folks
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common upon Sabbath tlian oji any oth er day. It is a disgrace to any community which professes to lie civilized and the police can add much to the good opinion which the peoplo are fast formof them if they will only abate this rapidly growing nuisance.
These places are not tolerated in any part—of course it is right to take caro of community in any country and tho men who rnn them are outlawed, so to speak Terrc Haute is an exception to the rule it seems. Hore they aro allowed to run without lot or hindrance. It cannot be posfdblo that the police are ignorant of theli presence. T. T. has been reliably informed that they are run as publicly as the saloons, and aro doing a land office business. Generally they arc run by strangers who come here, make all they can out of the dty, and then depart in search of anew field. Tho toleration of such places in a community like this is inexcusable. There is nothing to prevent tho pollco from closing them and keoping them closed. They aro a disgrace to the city, and should bo summarily dealt with. They work no good to anyone, and the sooner they are out of tho way tho better for all parties concerned. T. T.
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thom and their locality. If they do not toto gas* pleasure in pointing them out to tho and who have good, comfortable homos/ officers and aiding thom, by every means in his power, to blot them out of existence In our midst.
SOMEBODY has been making so mo curious calculations regarding what Vandorbllt—a sample millionaire—could do with his money. And thus he puts tho proposition: "William H. Vanderbilt's income from his investments in 151,000,000 four per cent. Government bonds is represented at 95,000 daily, which is $206,25 per hour, $3,47 per minute, or over 5 cents per second. Assuming that he has paid by the second, he cannot possibly spend his money, as he could not select his purchases and lay down the places fast enough. Ho could not throw it away to pick up, cast, recover, pick up and cast again would take him two seconds, and If ho worked all through the twenty-four hours, without rest, ho could only dispose of onehalf of his income. By living economically, saving Up for four years, he could, placing bis flvo cent pieces side by side, make a nickle belt around the earth or by converting his savings into one cent pieces, and mounting them in a pile, he would, in twenty years, erect a road to the moon, and have |500to invest when be got there. Should his amusement take a charitable twist, he could, out of a year's receipts, donate to every man, woman, and cftild in the United States 20 cents, and have money left over. Other vast possibilities occur to the glowing fancy of the calculator. In one day he could go to 8,000 different drcusea, eat 10,000 pints of peanuts, drink glasses of lemonade, and have
should be a little browned or roughened her huebuid supplied the money to pay ,t ,hould not be considered a digraee. to them. ThU to what a learned BuckWhy is there always such a demand for
Two dollars per week is about the averago paid our servant girls. Now count two dollars per week cash, three dollars per week board and fifty cents for washing, making a total of five and a half dollars per woek or, twenty two dollars per month. This includes good victuals, a comfortable home, and several evenings each week for enjoyment. This is only an average. I know many girls who get three and four and
and ftre treated well. But these girls work. Their hands are rou^h and brown. Such work will show on one's hands and, for this reason our girls will not do It. I know a young girl who clerks in a notion store for two dollars a week. She must be in the store at seven in tho morning and stay until half past eight o'clock at night—then she has twelve squares to walk alono— through all kinds of weather, and to a humble home where food is scarce. I asked her why she did not do general housework. She would make more and have so many more comforts. "Do you think I would be a servant?" said she. "Stay in a kitchen and be nobody! Here I can keep dressed up and see all that is going on." Ah, that is the secret that is ruining many of ourgirls. Nothing to soil your hands or clothes. I know several young lady clerks who get only three and four dollars a week, and board themselves who do their washing and sewing on Sunday in order to look decent and live on their income. Their hair is done up in the latest style thdr hands are white, and, dressed in their best, they can live on exdtement, wear themselves out, and be prematurely old women. And yet they will be very angry with me for saying that people would think just as much of them if they earned a living by doing housework.
A short time since, I called on some young friends who were fine musidans, and asked them to play for me. The answer was: "Slnco Ma has been rick, I have been helping do the work, and my hands are so brown that I never touch the piano any more." While Ma is able to do all that hired help does not do, our
5,000 glasses of money left to get his boots blacked. He —, can afford to havo 500,000 shirts washed g^jg can keep thdr hands white enough in ona day, and on the day of his death t) piay. will ask some professor of his income will buy ten first.class funer-
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*1**" ssBsssssssas chorda any easier than the same hands, a I* speaking of the change in the little browned by honest work. earth the Scientific American says that Not in Terre Haute alone, but all over some of the moat eminent scientific our land, this social evil is ruining our men now accept the view taken by young, ladie*. I attended a large party Adhomar, namely, that-continents have in the country, last summer, and there
white hands will bring out sweet
not been depressed, but overflown by bring a fine piano in the room, music woman's insurance tho oeean. Owing to the precession of was one of the pleasant features of the
remains eight days longer in one hem- allow people to insist on your playing betair'alMadv isphere than the other At the present when it is a pleasure for you to torch tlmethe wintere of the southern pole the piano?" She held up her hanfe, are eight day. longer than with us sUined with blackberries, and stfd: "Do IfTto the tea continent has consequently you suppose I would go to the piano «»rlT*lv*?lv bv women and for formed thereand tho mass of the ocean with such hands? There is not a girl In women's lives, la to be found In the southern hernia- the room but would make fun of me." to keen it expbere, and th* k* coven upon and Our young ladies, and young gmtte- but if it does around the south pole more than twice men, too, to aneer at bruwn 1-nda ta od^awm taeT the area of alt Europe. The extreme of
What are we
cold at the Antarctic pole was reached hands? Employ our time in doing lac*- tended about years ago, since which
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work and embroideries, and go hungry
the climate has been becoming mftder, for want of well-cooked victuals, or As a rule, says a dkrtinguiabed pbjsiwhUe that north of tbe equator has been brown our bands by the kitdben fire and the homeMest men marry the growing colder. learn to cook a healthy, wholeeome din- handsomest women.
COOK
TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1880. ^A-^Eleventh Year
ner? For mf part I should feel for more pride in being a number-one cook, than in showing a white hand aud mock diamond ring.
My friend Susan Perkins was ccnsured for writing an article reflecting on the young gentlemen, and I wished at the time that that she had said something about our largo class of wclldrerised, white-handed, idle girls. Would it sot be far better for the happiness of our young folks if, instead of boasting of Ihdr whit© hands, Ihey would take soo^ of the labor from their poor, tired mc&hers, and let their hearts bo purer. Are we in a heathen land, that weshould wotyliip a white hartd, and forget to cultivate Christian graces, fs the questiajf ihat is worrying
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ABOUT WOMEN..
beauty, does not mean that she should smartest girl at Vassar is Japanfold her arms before a looking glass, or
devote six hours per day to polishing her nails. We were all crcatedfor*me
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good purpose. This is a and there is much for women to do— not only public and charitable work but of housework that we may make our homes what they should be—cheerful, homelike and attractive. This can XUI, noinenKe anu atiractivu. v.«n .,, not all be done by hired help, but the nouncod his intention of going without women of the household must do a good
A girl betrothed to a young clergymen at Jkaurensburg, N. Y., having refused to Jo with him on a missionary tour to Cliitta, became deranged when he an
Sjho dothes a married women wears
Ingoing good, they In Ohto don-# belong to her, provided
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fomale help? Housework, even kitchen A woman may beloved for three work is pleasant and in the eyes of our things: for her supieror intellect—a love best people, not degrading. (No honest serious but rare for her beauty—a love work is.) Good wagos aro paid comfortable homes offered and yet we cannot pick up a paper without this advertisement: "Girls wanted to do general housework, good wages etc.
vuljjer but brief for the quality of hor heart—a love lasting but monotonous. Mrs. M. Adelle Hazlett is making effective speeches through the state for the Republicans and will be here at an early day. From tho way she talks one would think that sho knows onough to vote.—Grand Rapids Post, fi
A lady in a St. Louis modiste's shop went up to a dummy to put a shawl upon it to see how it looked, and tho dummy turned round and struck her with a parasol, and then the lady saw that it wasn't a ytlre figure with a wax
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lady of "tho female postmaster in a country town. "No," was tho reply. "Strange^" said the young lafiy aloud to herself, as she turned away. "Nothing strange about it," cried the f. through the delivery window, "you ain't ans'ered the last letter he writ ye!
Mrs. Hancock is reported by a correspondent of the Hartford Post to have said that she reads Republican papers exclusively,Ibecause at the beginning of the campaign sho found that the Democratic papers praised ber husband all the time. What she is really trying to ascertain is just how wicked £Jcn. Hancock has been.
Mary Sigman is insignificantly small in statue, has a pale, expressionloss face, and is in no wise handsome. Yet, during her ten years' residence at Roundstone, Ky., seven men have lost their lives on her account, by suidde and murder. The last tragedy^in which she figured was a mortal combat between two rival admirers.
Mrs. Mack is on trial for murder at Jefferson, Wis. A largo bauquet, conspicuously inscribed. "From one who believes you innocent," was sent to her in the court room. Her council was about to place it on a table in front of tho jury, when the presiding Judge said: "Those flowers must not be displayed. Take them away." The lawyer made a speech on the subject, but the Court was obdurate, and the flowers were carried out.
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SCRAPS OF STYLE.
LITTLE ITEMS THAT GO TO MAKE THE LADIES ATTACTIVE.^
The Whitehall Times rises to remark that since the ladies began to wear their dresses so tight about their forms, man has surrendered tho exclusive monopoly which to
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New York fashion writers assert that never since the timo of Evo were so many good dothes ordered as this fall. The dressmakers and the milliners are driven with work, and tho costliness of fabrics aud trimming used was never exceeded.
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Mrs. A. T. Stowart is out of mourning this fall, aud although sho is over 80 years old, the costumes she has ordored for fall and winter entertainments are opening tho eyes of Fifth avenue very wide. Fashion writers report her as having ordered more than 100 gowns of the latest mode, for morning, evening, walking, driving, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, reception, theater, opera, party, and other entertainments, and yet she is not happy,
Mr. Thomas Musgrave, of Fiftli avenue, New York, must bo a lovo of a husband, for Mrs. Thomas Musgravo, as we learn from a fashion letter, has just purchased an eight t!uwsand dollar bonnet! Those curious to know how that amount of money can be put into a bonnet aro told that the bonnet is a modol of quiet taste, being of a dark, rich, maroon plush, with little other trimming than diamonds. There is nothing loud about it. The diamonds are rather thick, however.
It has betfn tlecroed by Parisian hairdressers that chignons, flowing locks and blonde curls are to bo numbered with the things of the past, and nothing now is necessary but that tho head be made to look as small as possible. Those who have hitherto rejoiced in tho crowning glory of womanhood, long and abundant hair, are now obliged to conceal and suppress the lavishness of nature, by making tho rolled coil on the back of tho neck of the least possible circumference and diameter, while tlioso who havo been compelled to supply their natural shortcomings by artificial tresses now proudly announce their own defidencv. aud make their heads as liko
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ly can, ft&bfwTcorrespondent says "wide mouths have come into style again." This is encouraging to many of us. We are told in addition that the proper mouth of the present season is worn in a constant but mild smile, the corners being drawn back horizontally, with the lips left closed. Those who have wide mouths, then, should practice carefully the use of an expression of satisfaction, as though the mind were free from care and the feet from corns, and they will be in style. Grins are positively vulgar a restful smile, with lips in repose, is the proper thing, and can be obtained by careful practice before a mirror. If your mouth is small, you can cut the puckering strings and let it out. A sharp knife or a razor will do it very nicely.
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THIS SETTER WORLD.
CHURCHES, PASTOR AND PEOPLE.
The time was when it was almost hei esy for a clergyman of any denomination. to wear any hair upon his faae, and even now it is said that no man wearing a moustache was ever elected a Methodist Bishop. We have a strong impression that Christ and his apostles wore full beards, and a picture of either without would look very curious.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmago, in his sermon Sunday before last, thus describes the marriage of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: "The leaves whispered and the birds chattered, and
It has been stated for some time past laughing were the voices of the waters, ... msinaan in x« for the king of the human race was advandng with his bride, the first man »UO WW v» W»» O »va»»a ww educated women of Great Britain. Peo- leading to the marriage altar the earliest pie disbelieved tbeae reports, but facto woman. See, now God, her father, steps have proven them to be correct. Labou- forward and give* away the bride, while chess came out the other day with a angels are tho witnesses. Oh, wondrous long article on "Drawing-Room Drink- wedding. In the book of Time an angel inscribes the record: "Married, on the second Tuesday morning in May, of the year one, Adam, the first man, to Eve, the first woman, high heaven officiating.'
that there was an alarming increase in the use of strong drinks among the
ing~" in which he describes a garden party where the lady of the house was, if not helplessly, at all events, in a Girofie-Qirofla condition. The use of chlora leads to much intemperance
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The Presbyterian congregation at Brussels, Ohio, made up a puree off 100 for their pastor, the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, to meet the expenses of his vacation. The reverend gentleman decided to spend the time and money in St. Louis, where an industrial fair was in progress. He bad not been In that dty an hour before be met an aflkble young man, who knew all about him and the folks at Brussels, and who brought him to a room where, a game of chance was going on. The manager permitted the clergyman to draw several times without charge, and then informed him that there was f700to his credit. The gambler proposed to pay this with a "good as gold" check for 9800, which be professed to have just won from a solid merchant, tMiring the flOO difference in
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money. Tho pastor fell into the trap, and parted with his §100, receiving a worthless check. At tho police station ho was asked if ho had never read uowspaper accounts of such swindle?, "I only read the religious journals," ho replied, "and nover pay much attention to tho secular press."
That is a very dovcr retort of tho Taunton Gazetto upon a dergynwui reported as saying, in substance, iu a Sunday sermon, that no newspaper whicl took truth for its standard would mako a pecuniary success. Tho press, the Gazette replied, might return tho compliment by remarking that a minis* tor that told tho truth about bis congregation, dead or alive, would not occupy the pulpit much longer than one Sunday afterward. Tho press and dergy go hand in hand With tho wliitowash brush their spectacles magnify littlo virtues, and kindly throw deformities into the shadow olhiblivion. The pulpit, the pen and tho gravestone are active partners in saint-inaking.
Now York bun: Serious criticisms have been uttered in various quarters in regard to prominent clergymen who aro making themselvos conspicuous as politicians. It is generally agreed that the pastor of a church who te paid a respectable salary for his work should devote himself to his church rather than to tho interests of any political party. It has thus far been tho easo that almost every pastor who has gone into tho business of political speech making has dono so to tho groat damage of his church and of his relations to it. His first trouble is that ho makes somo of his peoplO angry, and tho next is that they do their utmost to split his church. The upshot of all this is that tho political pastor is himself soon turned out, and has nood to seek another field of
S LITTLE SERMONS
FOR SUNDAY CONTEMPLATION.
We should do many more things if wo lievedlossin impossibilities. Tho habits of being always omployed Is a great safeguard through life, as woll asessontial to tho culture of overy true virtue.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will see tho wimtfioap^ingofa lifetime is •WW rt*".
Tho treasure htfuso of a man's life is his heart, ho who has nothing there is poverty strickon, though ho roll In gold while he has a good deal there ho Is rich, whether he has a roof over his head or not.
Waste no timo. Time^lost can nover boregained. After allowing yourself proper time to rest, don't live an hour of your life without doing exactly what is to done in it, and going straight through with it from beginning to end.
The boy upon foot cannot boar to seo the bay who is riding. And so it is with envy of a larger growth. We aro always crying out "cut behind," in hope of seeing some hanger on, more fortu* nate than ourselves, knocked off his reach.
The body is the shell of the soul and the dress is tho busk of the body, bqj husk often indicates what the kernel is. No man or woman of sen so would devoto more care and attention to the husk than to the kernel.
The small stones which fill up the crevices have almost as much to do with tho making of the fair and firm wall as tho great rocks so tho right and wise use of spare moments contributes not a little to the building up, in good proportion frith strength, a man's mind.
Nothing gives more mental and bodily vigor than sound rest when properly obtained. Sleep is our great replenishes
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if we neglect to take it regularly in childhood, the result will be all the worse for us when we grow up. If we go to bed early, we ripen if we sit up late, we decay the sooner or later wo contract a disease called insomnia,or sleeplessness, allowing it to be permanently fixed upon ua, and then webegin£to decay even in youth. Late hours are shadows from tbj#rave.
THE COMING MINISTER.
extended itaelf into every sphere of influence nen to a large, bountiful, and noble nature. Particularly will he be_rt missed by the soldier element of the dty, with whose fraternal and charitable activities he was in deep and full sympathy. A valued member of Forsyth Post, as his estimable wife is of Forsyth Post Ladies' Sodetv, thdr departure will fill many hearts with the deepest regret, who wlfl ewer pray God bless them whenever their future lot may be cast.
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INDEPENDENT PRESS. N. Y. San.
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The resignation of Dr. H. M. Bacon for many years pastor of Westminster Church, to accept a call from the First Congregational Church at Terre Haute, Ind_ is an irreparable loss to the dty with which he has been so long and intimately identified. Pr. Bacon's sphere of usefulness ban not been confined to the pulpit, and the Church with which he has been associated. It has
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