Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1881 — Page 1
ol* ii.—-No. 34.
HE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
ECOND EDITION.
Town Talk.
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A JIKW COURT HOURS.
for some time past there hms been nsiderable talk, in a quiet way, on the bject of building a new court house. T. is informed that over a year ago titions were freely circulated for this lrpose, and were very numerously ?ned by the heaviest taxpayers of the inty. Tho arguments offered in its or are several in number. It is assertthat the county owns beautiful ounds which were donated for this rpose, and in the event of the court oase being located on any other spot were to revert back to the donors his heirs. The court house has been '/moved long ago, and T. T. has yet to »r that the ground has reverted back the original owners, or that they have rought suit to compel a transfer. It is id further that the present building as only eroetod as a temporary ai&ir [bat it is not fit for the purpose for Khich it was intended that the records shelved in the various offices in such 'manner that in case of flre the damage rising from their loss would be IrreLirable. It must be admitted that the cut building is not imposing in ap[•earance neither is it comfortable or 3tnmodious. In case of flre the damgo would be great, and it could not be epaired for years, and then at an enormous expense. It is also argued that a icw court house will have to be built ometime in tho near future that it can HS dono cheaper now than in the future, nd that the county is now out of debt id cau vory well afford to proceed with he work. Property owners in the neighMjrhood of tho park are in favor of the roject, iu» jt would improvo their prop-!-ty. Property owners iu the oast end 1 re opposed to it because in a few years may bo desirable to move it eastward yith tho growing city. A fow heavy axpayers are opposod to it because they 0 satis/led with their fortunes, do not r$ a button whether the city improves not, and do not wish to be taxed for »ublic improvements. The country oposo8 it because it does not like to see 0 city gain vory much at general expense. As to thore being any job in the (natter T. T. does not believo it. The
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board of commissioners has
rried economical policy to the verge pcnuriousness its members are not oklotw men noither are they youtli-
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,1 impetuous. They are three ulet, easy going old gentlemen who xamino dosoly all tho work which they in They are not all of one hlitlcal faith, and should anythu»g of a ^Uloal nature turn up it would receive per attention from its opponents. In
OKO days when thoro is such a lively Ivalry among tho nowspupor fratori\ity T. fooln perfectly safe in saying that a ob would
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NTRANUKR8.
Whonover now comers arrives in Torre Hauto thecomplaint is immediately made that its people are iuhospit[il^e: that no matter how well reconi-
fSendod
a person may come, he or
ho is very apt to receive a vory largo *seof cold shoulder. Generally speaking, strangors are "taken in and done r" in most localities, but if T. T. is to |r»ellcve all ho hears this city is an ex(•option to tho goneral rule. It seems [that here the social circles are all eotnete thore is no room for any more,
Nid strangers need not apply. There is Ino "open sesame" but time. A society [reputation must be nutdo Uie same as a unities* reputation—by long standing IV.
T. is no society man and of course knows nothing ou that subject but that [which he hears it may be true sr it may false, so it is only given for what it worth, and the readers of this column |mil sift it to suit themselves.
Yorrim I. DEPRAVITY.
An ordinary "Wanted" advertisement Uppearsd in one of our dallies this week which seemed to greatly amuse tho newspaper meu. A gentleman wanted a boy for a servant and advertised for (one, setting out the sort of boy he ranted. The description was very eomIplete in every particular, but T. T. does not think it would be a difficult matter to answer It in very many oases. The newspaper* seem to think different, however and the manner in which they have ridiculed that advertisement^ is a caution. They seem to labor under the impression that "whom the gods love die young," and that good boys are so scarce that when one can be found he is yanked off immediately to be manufactured into an angel bfaause it is feami that should he remain longer here below the other party might have a claim upon him. T. T. had formed a different impression of the youth of the land, to some extent, but the papers, which are generally conceded to knew everything, dispelled the delusion.
A reporter's business takes him to all
that all the bad boys are in hades (that's the way the revised edition of the new testament puts it), nor does he believe that all the good boys are in heaven. Good boys are as numerous as ever they were, and T. T. does not like to hear old age disparage youth and exalt itself. The stories of the extreme goodness of our grandparents in their youth are becoming altogether too stale and monotonous let us have something fresh and interesting. Tellns that there yet remains something good in the world besides old age and gray hairs.
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places at all times and under all circumstances he is a mueh prized individual a walking encyclopaedia which is ready to be opened at any time to impart information upon any subject his memoty is stored with scenes and incidents taken from the pages of life if successful in his calling he must be a capital judge of human nature, and his opportunities of judging are boundless. When one whose knowledge is so vast steps to the front and says that nothing short of a special dispensation of Providence can furnish a good boy at the age of sixteen years, is begins to look as though civilization is becoming demoralized sure enough. When a yonth of tender years can chew, smoke, drink and attend low places of amusements it betokens the existence of a bad state of affaire. Wh^n depravity in youth is the rule instead of the exception it is time to commenee a a reformation. T. T. is not prepared to believe that such a state of affairs actually exists be does not believe in total depravity, and notwithstanding the assertion that there are saloons in this city which do a thriving business and which are patronized by boys exclusively, he still has faith in boys he does not be
FIGURES WON'T LIE. The Saturday Night doubts the statement that 250 newsboys sell The Mail in this city. It says the same boys sell that paper that sell the Mail, and states that not more than sixty boys sell the Saturday Night. We have not counted our newsboys recently but one year ago when some prizes were given, it was neccesqary to enroll the names, and the names of two hundred and seventy-one newsboys were put upon the list. The book containing this list with the number of papers sold by each boy is open for inspection of the editor of the Saturdi^y Night or any other interested person. Come up some Saturday and count them. 250—count them—250
And don't yoji forget it, that no Saturday paper has reached one half the circulation of the Mail in Vigo county.
GOING TO THE PENITENTIARY. Tho other morning at Isaac Ball's breakfast table, when the account was read of the escape of the prisoner from Sheriff Stepp, Mrs. MatilQa Taylor, the venerable mother of Mrs. Ball, told of the taking of the first prisoner from Vigo county to the penitentiary. Stephen Collott, the father of Jos. Collett, was going to Louisville to buy goods, and the convict, an Irishman named Pat McBride, was entrusted to his care. They rode on horseback, tho prisoner not manacled, stopping at night for lodgings on tho way. At one stopping placo there was a dance in progress, and Pat wanted to join tho dancers, provided the select party would permit him. After entreaty and a pledge of his word of honor that ho would not attempt to escape, Mr. Collett consented and returned to bed. The next morning, for some cause, Pat was not to bo seen. Think ing perhaps he had taken an early start for his destination^ Mr. C. resumed his journey, but had not proceeded far, when looking back ho saw his prisoner coming at full speed. "Be jabersl phat wusye going of! to leave me phor? said Pat as he came up. He was safely turned over to the Warden of the peniten tiary and served his term of imprison ment.
IF the city council desires the greatest publlcitity at tho smallest cost, It should order the city advertising done only In The Mall because "everybody takes It," and the publication in this one paper would answer all purposes. However it would be a waste of our pencil point to insist on this, and besidea Jour wide awake advertisers, who know and appreciate the value of The Mall as an ad vertising medium, usually occupy ai much of our space as we can spare. But the city fathers have done a very unfair thing in ordering the advertising in two Republican papers only. Democrats have aright to the information thus imparted and should have it through one of their party papers, and the Gaaette deserves the |patronage in part pay for much gratuitous work a daily paper is called on to perform. We would say the same for the Express if the Democrats were in power. If The Mail, which is read by men of all parties can not be made the official organ, then it should be given to papers of both parties.
IT begins to look as though several more newspapers will be needed in this dty to accommodate the advertising demanded by the clothing houses whoee enterprise is only excelled by their numeroslty.
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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19,1881.
THE MAIL WANTS TO KNOW
Whether the fruit buds are killed.. What proportion of married people in this city live unhappily together.
Whether the,bountiful crop will lessen the price of ice in the summer. Why it is that women with good complexions deliberately ruin them with cosmetics.
Why a man natutally fitted for, and successful in business, will deliberately sacrifice pride, money and comfort for a political office.
Why seme people contemplating matrimony object to having the fact published.
Whether all the newspapers in this city can live through the coming sickly summer. fr-
Why the legislators were Hjpren to the distillery and pulled by the Mg brewery. If there is a family in town without the Satjmlay Evening Mall.
TffE MAIL WAXES TO SEE
Ireland free. No more blizards. The churches filled to-morrow, ft A short spell of gentle spring. The library law pass the legislature. The temperance movement successful. All onr editors dwell together in peace. That boy when Capt. Potter runs him down.
A good appropriation for the Normal school. A gravel road boom this spring when the ground breaks up,
The town more greatly favored than Terre Haute in first class amusements. Married men spend less of their time at elub rooms and more with tljeir families.
Every business man advertise in The Saturday Evening Mail.
FEW PEOPLE LIKE
To be abused.
EVERYBODY WANTS
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Enjoyment. Contentment. A pleasant home. To be out of debt. Peace, joy and plenty. Along life and no sorrow. The Saturday Evening Mail.
A GOOD SUGGESTION. Some one has discovered that not one child in a hundred, at the age of seven years, can tell tho "time o' the clock." This is an important matter, especially if the clock happens to be up stairs, or in the other room, and your watch has run down. Teach the children how to tell the time, by all means. It should be a matter of primary school education
THB bill providing for the whipping of wife whippers was not laughed out of countenance in the House, although an attempt was made to do this, but went safely to the third reading. Although a novelty in the legislation of Indiana, the bill has received a hearty welcome by the press of the State, many respectable papers demanding its passage. Let the wife whlpper be whipped and there will be no more wife whipping.
THB discovery of a human finger in a sausage is likely to "cast a gloom" over the trade in that delicacy. The explanation offered was that the boy at the machine had his finger cut off, and the digit, being left lying about, somehow went in with the other mince meat while its awner was at the hospital.
THE special attention of the reader is Invited to the "Heosier Sketch," on the second page of this week's Mail. It is from the Indianapolis Journal, which paper editorially remarks that a more vigorous piece of work In its line never appeared in an Indiana paper.
Ws are told by a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court that "the .business of editing newspapers has become within the past few years an "independent profession." In the lan guage of Rip Van Winkle, "why didn't you tell us thatafoie.
A Bxix has been introuced in the Wisconsin legislature to exempt newspapers from libelous prosecution for publishing mistaken information, provided they publish a sufficient retraction twice in succession.
THB demand for Hollowa not frantic, reports our frieni Gulick & Berry.—Ledger.
WHO do
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Bony, of
And Gulick says all pills are a drug, and hard to work off.
want for Mayor this
you ulitidan or a gentleman
spring, a poll Saturaay Night. Oant we find the two in one?
THX snow is up to the top of the cars along the Burlington, Iowa, railway.
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ABOUT WOMEN.
A Vermont lady, who died recently, left five sisters, aged 91,87,85,81 and 76 years. 44-
Newark, Ohio has a female friend in a teacher who washed out the mouth of a fibbing pupil with ,lye.,
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We.meet in society many beautiful and attractive women whom we think would make excellent wives—for our friends..
A Chidfeo glass-eye merchant knows of a lady who was married four years before heir husband found out that she had an artificial eye.
Mrs. Congressman Chittenden has introduced the novelty of inviting young gentleman to lunches, and Washington pronounees the plan a success.
Lady violet Greville, who has been writing essays, tells women to "beware of male ^-friends. Female friends are shifty, ulfcptable and not always true but men lie worse."
A Galv4|ton widow is about townarry her fifth husband. Hex pastor rebuked her for oontemplating matrimony so soon again* "Well, I just want you to understand, If the Lord keeps on taking them, I will too," was the spirited reply.
A down East Yankee invented anew sled for costing which made it safe for the girls without being held on, as has been the anient custom. It has proved the* most Unpopular invention ever brought before the public. The girls pronounce if "horrid." rks a late essayist) skate than men. Or is it that gracefulness gives them irior case? I saw only one iher day, and she managed but several men came ominously.
Women
much bet their supei an air of snj girl fall the it beauti down most
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To be cheated, ts To be undervalued. Being laughed at. Being called homely. All work and no pay. Return of evil for evil. Having bills presented. The truth when it hurts. To be without The Mail.
Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, whose proposition to teach pationce, cleanliness and the whole list of virtues and graces in the public schools has been given national prominence by the advocacy of Senator Burnside, is on a tour of tho State oapitols to address State Legislatures on the subjedt.
An- experienced matron says "A man will eat soggy biscuits twice a week without a complaint wnen his gin invites him out to tea but when the girl becomes his wife if there is the faintest suspicion of salAHftfts in them the nelgtH9 bors will think the district school is out for recess by the racket he makes."
Ladies do not like the electric light in hotel parlors and dining-rooms, and would object to it also in theatres and ball-rooms. They say it is too trying to the complexion, giving the face a ghastly hue. It tells on those who rouge mercilessly, and points out with startling distinctness where the carmine has been applied.
A Paris critic devotes two whole colums to demonstrate that Croizette, a popular actress, is too fat to play senti mental parts. As "All the World's a Stage," and as men and women are "merely players," this criticism applies to real as well as fictitious life, and in valves the great social question: Should stout women be sentimental? It's a large subject.
LESSONS IN LOVE MAKING.
ADVICE TO YOUNG GIRLS.
Don't love too many at once. Don't do your spooning in public. Give your little brother taffy and get him to bed before your chap calls.
If you have any objection to tobacco, sty so in time, or hold your tongue forever after. 'Recollect that a wedding ring on your fiiger is worth a good many of them in wur mind.
ITry to find out by some means hether your intended knows how to rn a decent living for two.
Be reasonable, don't expect a man forking for eight dollars a week, to furbish you with reserved seats at the opera drery other night.
Don't be afraid to show the man of tour choice that you love him, provided 4i course, he loves you. Love is a iouble-sided sort of concern, and both kaVH apart to play.
Don't try to bring too many suitors to ^our feet. They have feet as well rou have, and you may see one pair of eet walking off from you some day you (rould be very glad to call back.
Keep your temper if you expect your ther-half-in-law to keep his. If be }oesnt suit you give him his ticket-of-jeave. If he does suit you dont expect Mm to put up with your humors.
Deal carefully with bashful lovers, lead them gradually to the point(of pro-' of course), but dont let them su» what you're at, or they might faint your hands or go crazy on the spot.
It is said lovers' quarrels always end Vith kisses. This is partly true, but if ^ou are not careful those little spats yo« jbdolge in may end in the kisses you ^vet being given to some other girls!
II it is peasible, try to suityoursisters, cpusins, acuta, grandfathers, neighbors, friends and acquaintances when you happen to fall in love. If you can't suit
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them all don't worry, for the thing has has never been done yet. If you use powder don't give yonrself away. For instance it would be well to spread a handkerchief over the shoulder of his broadcloth coat before you lean thereon. He will be too green, depend on it, to suspect the reason. If his moustache happens to look a little powdery, there are several ways in which it could be brushed off.
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Don't imagine that a husband can live as a lover ctoes—on kisses and moonlight. He will come to his meals hungry as a bear and any little knowledge of cookery you can pick up during coprtships is about the best provision you can make for future happiness.
Remember that nature has put every man under the necessity of having a mother and that the latter is not in any way to blame if she is regarded as the bitter part of a sugar coated matrimonial pill. If you feel duty bound to be her sworn enemy, postpone this duty till you know something about her.
Don't seek advice in love affairs from an old maid who has been crossed in love a bachelor who has been jilted, a woman who married* her husband's pocketbook, or a man who happens to be henpecked. Don't confide in your girl friends to keep a secret in a love aflkir, would kill them. Don't consult your minister, he'll have the marriage fee in view. If you go to your family physician he will tell you your liver is affected in plaoe of your heart. If you must get Instructions from somebody, why not ask your mother how she used to manage things with your father. True love didn't run any smoother in old times than it does to-day, and since she knows how it is herself we can't think, just now, of any one better able to advise you.
The foregoing are compiled from a column of rules prepared by the editress of the ladies' department of the Albany, N. Y., Sunday Press, and may be followed with profit by all the girl readers of The Mail.
SCRAPS OF STYLE.
LITTLE ITEMS THAT GO TO MAKE THE LADIES ATTRACTIVE.
Conch jewelry is much worn. A Cashmere Valley shawl never goes out of style.
Combination undergarments are very generally worn./ Cords and tassels are worn with every style of dressi
There is an astonishing demand for cut steel ornaments. Some new feminine boots are buttoned behind the ankles "Garters of perfumed and ruched satin' are announced by a fashion writer. "Neuralgia hood" is the pain-sugges-tive name given in England to a soft, black plush hood, lined inside, and quilted.
New rubber boots have the feet polished, but the legs are finished so as to look like watered silk, and the lining is of flannel.
A Philadelphia authority says that a lady can hold her own in society on $500 a year for dress, "if her position ^e assured and if she have style."
Harper's Bazar does not think it too soon to speak of summer gowns, and foretokens one without any shoulder seams, and with the sleeves cut in one piece with the waist, and having one seam only.
Awashtubof flowers is considered a pretty gift for a wooden wedding in New York. Jacqueminot roses, daises and violets are used for the filling.
We learn from a fashion reporter that thin ladies are rapidly going out of fashion, and fat figures are at present thought to be the only correct thing.
Undressed kid gloves, without buttons, light colors, very loose in the hands and wrinkled around the waists, take precedence of all others for evening wear.
Yards of diaphanous drapery are now would round the throats of fashionable young ladies. The ends of the scarf are fastened with a cluster of flowers, which Is now prefered to a l«oe pin.
Some of the new dress models show the polonaise with belt around the waist, skirts shert in front, trimmed with cords and tassels, shawl points at the sides and a narrow bouffant tournure at the back.
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"Mother Hubbard" elbow bags now accompany the "Mother Hubbard" cloak. They match the oolor and trimmings of the toilet, and are puckered and gathered into as^ntique a looking shape aspoerfble. -"J
Anew linen oollor and for ladies is worn ntanHtimg all around, that is, without points' turned over in front. It meets at the collar-button, buti* slopes open thence upward, the tops being an inch apart. The whole collar flares out •lightly, and is embroidered, or else hemstitdaed all around or down to the button in front.
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Eleventh Year
THE BETTER WORLD.
CHURCHES, PASTOR AND PEOPLE.
At the Central Presbyterian church, preaching to-morrow at 11 a. m. by the Rev. Thomas Parry. Subject: "The Mothers We Need." In the evening: "A Question for the Lawyers—Are there Two Standards of Judgment?"
Rev. Wm A. McCorkle will preach in the First Congregational Church tomorrow at 11 a. m. and 7X P« There is a special reason for the church and congregation to hear him.
If Heaven were run on the American plan there would straightway be a caucus to see who should be gatekeeper.
A church in a country village recently circulated a paper among the congregation asking for contributions "for the purpose of paying the organist and a boy to blow the same."
The following verse is sung with no impious intention in San Francisco revival meetings among the sailors: Oh, haul away, Lord, haul away!
And haul my soul ashore. So cheerily oh, Lord, cheerily oh! A long pull and a strong pull, and a pall for evermore.
Speaking of the rest of the Sabbath, the Omaha Herald says: "It is only the recluse and fanatic who sees impiety in harmless delight. In the social current which ripples in the sunshine of laugh* Ing hearts there is more religion than in a world full of clouded brows and groaning spirts." And the Inter-Ocean adds that it should be made in every home the most happy and joyous day of all the week. Whether the storms of winter blow, or the balmy air of summer, there should be the same rest of body and soul, by the glowing hearth or under leafy shade.
A lively disoussion is going on among certain rellgieus authorities as to whether it is right or wrong to call tho Sunday school "the children's church." Those who advocate the name contend that there is a propriety in it because the services of the Sunday school are specially adapted to the youthful mind, and bocausQ the children attend them more than they attend the church services. It is contended by the other party that the adoption of the name in question is cala BWF from church and go to Sunday school instead. This they consider destructive to the best interests of the church. They want the Sunday school children td come to church, whether they can understand the sermons or not. The children, as a general thing, do not want to come to church, for a majority of the sermons are to them as if preached in an unknown tongue. In some quarters the feeling on this subject runs so high that the Sunday school is regarded as the antagonist of the church. There are a few ministers who have a pleasant talent of speaking acceptably to young people. These gentlemen find little difficulty in attracting the children to their churches.
Not long since Rev. Dr. Goodwin showed by statistics carefully prepared, that tho average attendance at the morning services in fifteen of tho most popular churches in Now York City was a little over 600, and in the evening the attendance would not average half that number. In fifteen other prominent churches the average attendance was a little over 800. In the city of Boston the ablest preachers
are
no
their ticket* and order of
on what is known as "beefsteak"
paper, and in ink of the brightest carmine. The effect is described as dousiy sanguinary."
addressing audiences
ranging from 400 to 600. In Cincinnati and St. Louis the same state of things exist. The churches in these and other important centers are not more than half full, and many not a quarter full. In Chicago the average attendance in thirty-nine Protestant churches of all faiths is less than 400, the average attendance being less than the average number of church members, and out of the Protestant population one person goes to church where four stay at home. It was conceded by Dr. Godwin, that the reasons for this falling off in attendance upon churches were numerous. He specially mentioned the fact, among other causes,' that the Sabbath had lost, to a considerable extent, the hold It once had upon the people, so that church members themselves did not go to church, and consider frequently that a second service had no charms. Another reason that
systematic, thoroughly planned,
thoroughly prosecuted work, such as was required for success in politics and business, was done to bring people into the house of the Lord.
Henry Stull became seriously involved, in St. Louis, through his boastfulness. While drunk, late at night, he entered a bar-room and declared that be just killed a man. "I'm harmless as a turtle dove when let alone," said he, "but when they crowd me I'm a terror. Three men attacked me in the street, mod I killed one with a knife. You 11 see it all in the papers to-morrow." He showed the knife, washed it and his carefully, and made all the men «nH women in the place promise solemnly not to betray him. His story was pare fiction but it happened that a man had been stabbed to death in the same neighborhood.
Stall was arrested, and
it was with difficulty that he proved his innocence.
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