Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 February 1881 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A- PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. A WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLICATION OMCK,

No 16 South 5th «L, Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 26, 1881

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding town*, where It is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even ing, goes into the hands of ^nearly every reading perwon In the city, and the farmers of this immediate vicinity.

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Every Week's Issue Is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

JOSEPH FOUND OUT A TLAST. We have found out what is the matter at last. We have found out, too, that Terre Haute was right and Boston was wrong. It was a great puzzle to us to explain how it was that Boston's great pet, the man who was drawing two or three tliousnnd poople to listen to him at mid-day, on the most alwtruse subjects the wonderful Josoph Cook, should rome to Torre Haute and be discovered to tie a "great bore." The feeling of at least nine out of every ten. as they left the -Opera House after hearing Joseph Cook would -tie concisely expressed in the declaration, "If that is specimen of whatJloston calls a great man, we don't want any more of them." But now comes a learned Professor in Harvard College, and, in the staid old North American Review, declares that Terre Haute is right and Boston wrong. Of course he does not mention the name of the Prairie 'City but he expresses its opinions For plain talk and sarcasm in reference to a public man,—who is not a candidate for some political office, —theqe seldom has been anything equal to Prof. Piske's article on Joseph Cook, or to use his own term, on "Theological Charlatanism." He says, "If we wereto go through Mr. Cook's volumes in detail, we should tiiul little olse but inis representation of facts, misconceptions of principles, and Hoods of tawdry rhetoric." Now we people out West can stand a fair amount of "spread eagle," but when it comes "tawdry rhetoric, wo know it as soon as we see it, and that is just what we discovered in Joseph Cook as soon as ho eumo among us. The .merciless Professor turns Mr. Cook's guns against himself. For example Joseph once said, "The small philosopher is a groat character in Now England. His fundamental rule of logical promluro is to guess at the half and multiply by two." Prof. Fisk adds, "It is only two or throe years sinco the 'philosopher,' from whom this text is iuotod, was himself a 'great character in \Na\v England,' and ho more than hints ithat his logical method of proceed ure is to 'guess at half and multiply by two.'"

He also says, "To Mr. Cook, a scientific thesis is simply a statement over which il is possible to got up alight. Thegamectxtft is his totem to him the bones of the vortebrato sub-kingdom are only so many bones of contention, and the spoiige is interesting chiefly as au emhleoc which is never, on any account, to be 'thrown up.'" As for his dealing witfi his opponents, the Professor charges Mr. Cook with misrepresenting their statements, and claiming to know their, innermost thoughts, and battling them,.»ot so much for what they actually do nay as for what they want to say. In this nespect he likens Mr. Cook to the Ueraum who Hogged his son for swearing at him, and when the boy protcsted that he had not even opened his month Jsaid, "You tinks dam, and I vips you .foe' dat." Then the Professor explains JHW it is that this Philosopher 1ms come tOifce considered so great and. draw such audiences, and he ascribes it to this very propensity for fightings Ho says, We are descended from fighting ancestow, and many of us, who care little for the disinterested discussion of of scientific theories, still like to sec a man .knocked dawn and impaled, provided the .knocking down it done with syllogistic club, or the impaling be restricted to such hart! substance* as the horns of a dilemma." Now here is just the difference betwean Boston aud Terre Haute. We too, are descended from lighting ancestors, and, while we would not with "malice afosethought" incite dogs to bark and bite, j»t if there is to be a dog fight we want to see it, and, if two fellows will acuusethamselves by a rough and tumble, eye banging and hair pulling contest, we want to see that also but we take little interest in a battle with "*yll«gi*Ucclubs," or punching ©jwh other with such harm lew weapons as the "horns of a dilemma," To us a tight is a tight, and if it tie a light it interests the western mind but when a fellow struts about the Opera House stage and in a bombastic way pretends to be very bold, swinging about nothing but "syllogistic clubs," and fighting duels with dilemma horns, we do not see the fun of the thing and come away feeling that we have not had our money's worth. That may do for Boston, but we are not up to it yet out West. Professor Fi»W frankly says, attthe dose of his article, "I have not treated him, (Mr. Cook) seriously or with courtesy, because there is nothing in his matter or manner that would justify, or even ex* cu*e, a serious method of treatment." So it has come to this at last, Terre Haute ami Harvard University against Boston. We always knew that we had

discriminating people. That Is the all denominations and religion*.

reason we have always taken so much pains to make The Mail a paper of such high character, and the reason too "why The Mail has so steadily held its position at the head of the press of this city. The people who can see through Joseph Codk so quickly must have a-good paper. Of course they must. W 'S

WOBBLING HUMANITY.

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A universal joint is a very convenient contrivance in mechanics, and so -is a ball and socket joint in the haman frame. But there is such a thing as an excess of this kind of joint which .provides for motion in all directions. We have seen men, not vety rarely either, who had too many universal joints, who, in fact, seemed to be principally set up with such joints. They could turn in one direction as easily as another. As soon as set up straight they were sure, if left alone, to lop ovento one side, and no sooner had they.gome over to one side than they would wobble around to the other side. Nothing could be done with them till they were propped up in some way. There seems to be about three classes of people. One class, which is not large, is made up of thoso who go directly for what they think is right.' They rise above the mists and fogs of meanness and selfishness and can always be counted on to do what they think ought to fee«done. Another class, which perhaps .is rather larger, is made up of those who do not care a fig for what is rightor.best, but are bound to look out always for number one. Right or wreng they are going to do what they want to do. Between these two classes, and larger than either, are the men of universal .joints. They incline to the right, when some force tips them that way, and they .incline to the wrong when some fowe tips them that way, and they wobble around between the right and the wrong and settle nowhere. You find these in politics, in the legislature you find them in society, in social life you find them even in church. Before their votes, their influence, or their conduct can be relied upon they must be propped u,p in some way, leaned up against public opinion, or something else that can stand alone, or put in corsets or straight jackets, or anything to stiffen them up. Wo hear that one of tho methods of dealing with weak spines in these days is fco make a jacket of plaster paris. The patient is hung up by the arm pits and the moistened plaster is applied to the body and at once hardens. We knew a person who wore one these stiff jackets six months. Now if something of that sort could be done for wobbling humanity what an immense gain it would he.

ALMOST simultaneously with tho issue of The Mail, last week, containing the article "Shall Intelligence Rule," there appeared in the North American an.article from the pen of Judge Chalmers, of Mississippi, which, while it was upon

Tho Effects of Negro Suffrage," was virtually a plea for the adoption of this principle. Now the Judge seems to forgot that at the North we have had any trouble about ignorance at the polls. He also seems to forget that, if intelligence arrays itself in rebellion against the government, when the rebellion is put down, it will not do at once to admit the rebels to tho full control of the political affairs of the country. His plea in excuse of the "bulldozing," the Ku Klux, the tissue ballots, and the liko, is charming in its modest simplicity. He says "If the South, writhing like Laocoon in the coils of the serpent, sometimes strikes out wildly, blindly, madly, in vain attempts to extricate herself, it ill becomes those who fastened the monster upon her to deride or denounce her ill advised and frantic efforts." Suppose the intelligent voters of Now York wore to "bulldoze" the ignorant voters who hold the balance of power there,—an element ten times worse morally than the negroes at the South, and just as ignorant —suppose that, failing to frighten thein away from the poll* by threats, and killing some, they were to fill the boxes with tissuo ballots, or to count the votes as they pleased, how would it sound for some grave and learned judge to plead for leniency toward the intelligence of New York for committing or sanctioning such crimes, by saying "If New York, writhing like Laocoon" in the coils of the serpent, sometimes strikes out wildly, blindly, tnadly, in vain efforts to extricate herself? Now it evidently makes a groat difference with Judge Chalmers and his ilk whose ox is gored, ignorance of the worst sort may give the great State of New York to one side for scores of years and nothing be said about "writhing in the coils of the serpent," but when ignorance tips the scales the other way, then striking out wildly, blindly, madly by means of violence and fraud becomes an offense to be lightly regarded. We do not object to an application of the principle that Intelligence must rule, but If it is to be adopted let it be applied to all sections of the country, to ali parties, and in accordance with law. If we are to give up universal suffrage let us do so openly, lawfully, and not restrict it by either fraud or violence.^.- 1

THK long-continued Cameron and anti-Cameron tight,!u Pennsylvania,has finally ended in the election of John J. Mitchell as United States senator. Mitchell, so far ms can be ascertained, is a sort of political nonentity who has never been beard of before and is never likely to be again. Such are the beauties of th« "boss" system.

MIL GEO ROE SKSCT, of New York, has given the M. K. Church $240,000 in money and real estate for the establishment of general hospital to be open to

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

No donbt it -would be a fine thing for the country if intemperance could be done away with. That the drinking of intoscating liquors is responsible for very much of the crime with which society is deluged, no one will have the hardihood to deny. But whether or not prohibition is synonomous with the doing away of intemperance, is another question. In this connection the history of Maine furnishes some interesting material for study. In that State prohibition has been enforced for the past twenty-five years about as stringently as it is possible to do, and yet the morals of that commonwealth do not appear to have been improved by the process. -Statistics recently published show that crime of every kind has made appalling strides, increasing from 100 to -800 per cent. Divorce*, rare in 1851, are now more frequent than in any other New England State, the number granted in.1878 being no less than 478. This does not show that intemperance is not a great evil, or that it is not responsible for much of the crime that is committed, but it shows that prohibition does not necessarily prohibit. That is the trouble in Maine. There is prohibition but not temperance. The liquor traffic has merely changed its course. It has been driven into secret channels. In many places order loving people find it hard to procure alcoholic liquors for proper uses, while those who are anxious to gratify a depraved appetite, and care little about the means, are fully supplied. In addition to what is secretly sold in Maine, a constant supply is furnished from Boston, and the State is flooded with circulars from the latter city offering to forward, C. O. D., "anything that a customer may want." Persons anxious to secure a prohibitory liquor law in this State would do well to study the workings of prohibition in Maine. __________

THE case of Eva Brooks, of Seymour, is a touchingly sad one. A homeless girl of seventeen, she had tried for more than a year to find some family in which she could make her home as a member, and pay her way by her labor. Repeated failure at last made her heart-sick, and she determined to end a life which seemed of so little consequence to others and so .valueless to herself. Spending the night at the residence of strangers, in the morning she swallowed an ounce of laudanum and walked to the house of a neighbor, which she entered staggeringly. It was evident that she was very ill, and a physician was at once ordered. When charged with taking laudanum she did not deny it, and when restored by the application of proper antidotes, she said that she would not make a sec ond attempt on her life. There is nothing so deadly as.that discouragement which crushes out all hope in the heart, and when we.think how many young girls there are homeless and unprotected in tho world, ami what the temptations are that beset-such, tho life of sin and shame into which so many fall becomes the less-surprising.

THE increase of smallpox in Chicago has alarmed the people and, as usual in such cases, the vials of wrath are being emptied on the devoted heads of the health officers. Press reporters have investigated the matter, and find that the Chicago river, which runs through the city, is reeking with filth, dead animals having lain frozen in the ice for weeks, and then floated out with the thaw in the river towards the crib whence the water supply of the whole city is drawn. It is charged -that the great stables attached to distilleries along the banks of the river, damp their refuse into it until the water is so changed as to make it unfit for use even in the tanneries. Thus both air and water is poisoned by the foul mass of decaying filth which is disgorged into the river in the very heart of a great and densely populated city. If these charges are true it is no wonder, one would think, that the inhabitants of Chicago are rendered nervous by the appearance of smallpox in their midst.

Miss LOTTIE MERRILL recently kills by bears in a mountainous district of Pennsylvania, was something of a character. She was only eighteen years old but appears to have made hunting a specialty. On the day she was killed she had been out and captured a fine buck deer which she had dragged to her cabin. Six bears followed the trail by the blood on the snow and coming to the cabin, devoured the deer and then attacked the young huntress. She made a heroic defense and it is thought must have killed two of the bears before she was herself killed. During the conflict the cabin was set on fire and burned, with all its occupants.

THK American Journal of Philology, which recently closed its first volume, is hardly destined to become a magazine of general popularity, judging from its table of contents for March. AmOng other articles are the following: "The Neapolitan us of Propertius," "A Proposed Re-distribution of Parts in the Parodos of the Veep®," "Imperfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive in the Roman Folk Speech," "Problems of General Semitic Grammar," etc. We presume, however, that those who read this kind of literature have an unbounded relish for it.

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INDI A* APOLIS has been spared another execution, at least for the present. Mrs. Brown is serving out a life sentence in the Woman's Reformatory and on last Saturday Joe Wade entered a plea of guilty of murder in the second? degree, and accepted a life seutece, accompaning his plea with a protest of innocence, bnt stating that the circumstances surrounding him are such as to render an acquittal hopeless. ?rT! -fri

THE legislature of tiiis State is considering the propriety oi limiting the rate of interest to six per cenf. The law now allorrs eight per cent., by special contract. If our legislators wish to keep Indiana abreast with her sister States they will let the interest question alone. There has been quite enough of legislation in this State hostile to foreign capital, and the tendency appears to be to go altogether too far in that direction. The advocates of cheap money should remember that this sort of legislation does not hurt the foreign moneylenders, for they can go elsewhere, bat it may easily put back our State if we shut our doors against those who can supply the money we need to develope our resources.

WONDERFUL is the ingenuity of men The unusual demand for old shoes in New York and Brooklyn recently excited attention. Formerly old shoes were abundant in the gutters of certain neighborhoods,—a sort of drug in the market, so to speak,—but of late they have been sought for with a singular avidity by the rag-pickers. Persistent inquiries have solved the mystery. The old shoes are converted into Jamaica rum, and are reported to make an exceptionally choice article. This information is not given with a view to bulling the rum market.

MAHONE, of Virginia, is cynosure of all eyes in Washington, and the subject of much speculation. It seems that the organization of the new Senate rests on his shoulders, he being the pivotal point. He is a Democrat, but not of the bourbon faith, and the Republicans have been led to expect help from him If they are not disappointed in this hope it will be singular. A southern Democrat, as a general rule, abides with his party. ____________

THE New York legislature is also considering a law re-establishing the whipping post as a punishment for wife whippers. The measure is understood to emanate from Mr. Bergh, famous for his efforts to prevent cruelty to animals It is to be presumed Mr. Berghjconaiders wives one species of animals that should be protected from cruelty.

ONE of those "sweet-faced," gushing ladies who habitually float about in gauze and gossamer at the White House receptions, has assuredjMrs. Hayes that they are so sorry to see her go, and tha "her memoiy will be embalmed in violets." Very pretty, but very full of "taffy," no doubt.

GEN GARFIELD is reported to have very positive ideas on the Mormon question, to which he will call special attention in his inaugural. It is to be hoped that he has and that the new Congress will share them. It is about time that the "twin relic" be put down

IT is stated that the Atlantic Monthly was not a financial success under Mr. Howells' management, the deficit for the last year amounting to $20,000. Possibly the Atlantic needs a little less blue and considerably more red blood in its veins to make it financially successful.

THE Legislature has fixed March 14th as the day for the election on the constitutional amendments. The voice of the people should give no uncertain sound on that occasion. Indiana needs an amended constitution and needs it bad. A ?.

NEW YORK counts on 2,500,000, strangers attending the world's fair, and estimates their expenditure at $15 each. If they don't get fleeced out of double that amount for hotel bills alone, it will be a remarkable world's fair indeed. But it is for the interest of New York to put it modestly.

PROBABLY the proudest person in all the White House during the next four years will be the venerable mother of the President, for whose special accommodation, she being Somewhat infirm, an elevator has been provided for in the Presidential mansion.

FEW people have any ad equate conception of the vast quantities of hops that are consumed in the manufacture of beer. To supply Schmidt's brewery, of Indianapolis, with hops' and malt for a year requires an expenditure of $150,000.

THE only man in America named after Aaron Burr was a Mr. Hays, of New York, who died recently and was the oldest bank cashier in the world. He despised his name and never wrote it except as A, B. Hays.

A WAR in rates between rival ocean steamship companies baa enabled immigrants to come to this country for the fare of $20 and $13. An effort is hriwfl made to adjust the differences and agree upon a reasonable rate.

THE Supreme Court of the United States, in a late decision, sustains the legality of the condition on which lots were sold in Colorado Springs, namely, that intoxicating liquors should never be made or sold upon them

SENATOR MATT CARPENTER, of Wisconsin, died in Washington, on Thursday. He was fifty-six years old, and died of Blight's disease of the kidneys.

GARFIELD'S inauguration occurs next Yiday.^-j CONGRESS has appropriated $500 for an elevator in the White House.!

THE United States Government pays more for pensions than all the rest of the world, iti0#^* 1F.f

THE population of the United States is made up of 25,530,562 males and 25,832,234 females. Nature divides pretty svenly. _____________

THERE are symptoms of spring in the air. The voices of the pioneer robin and sspsuoker have been heard by those in

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FOR the honor of Switzerland a Swiss newspaper denounces the practice of shipping their incompetent and criminal classes to this country, which it seems has been in operation for a good while past. A good many Americans will be surprised to learn of such a practice and will be disposed to inquire how many other countries besides Switzerland have been and are engaged in making the United States an asylum for these classes, and what if any measures can be taken .on this side the water to prevent it.

THE lower branch of the Ohio Legislature has passed a bill providing for the punishment by fine and imprisonment of persons who make or sell bogus butter or cheese, unless the same is sold undor its true name. A good idea and worthy of imitation in Indiana.

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TWENTY-FIVE cent edition of the revised New Testament is to be published and offered for sale simultaneously with the high priced edition.

THE Kansas City Evening Star gives notice to Manager Abbey that it is barely possible Kansas may survive if "the Bernhardt" does not play there.

THE certainest thing about the cabinet begins to get uncertain. There are doubts now whether Mr. Blaine is to go into it or not. The President elect keeps his own counsel.

THE ratio of colored people to white has slightly increased since the last census. In 1870 there "were 14,528 colored t» each 100,000 whites, while in 1880 there were 15,153.

THE Egyptian obelisk was formally presented to the city of New York the other day. The entire expense of its removal, $75,000, was paid bj^ William H. Vanderbilt.

MR. BEECHER says he is not going to leave the Congregational church, no matter if some people do want him to. He proposes to preach his own views, love his enemies, and stay in the church.

NEW YORK has a Pickwick club, each member of which personates some character in the Pickwick Papers. The club has been in existence two years aud has proved a source of much entertainment.

GEN. HANCOCK has accepted an invitation to attend the inauguration, and says he will be present on that occasion. Perhaps the General thinks this is the next best thing to being inaugurated himself.

THE little town of Springfield, Tennessee, was disgraced with lynch law, on Friday of last week. Five prisoners were taken from the hands of the sheriff, and hanged from the second-story windows of Che court-house.

"In the Nick of Time."

While our stock is full, styles are fresh, and goods are low, is the time to examine, to purchase, or to plan.

SILKS.

Examine our unusually fine stock of Silks. Seen in Summ6f Silks, celebrated Stafufer brand. See the Louisines, Bayadere and Roman Stripos, Olive, Reseda and Porcelain Blue effects. See that especially attractive lot at 65 cents.

DRESS GOODS.

Customers can call confidently for new goods every day from this time on. They are here, they are still coining. Notice the BROCADED PLAIDS for Trimmings.

GINGHAMS.

We are anxious that all should see the great stock of DOMESTIC WINOHAMH, in the new plaids and fast colors, at 12^ ana 15 cents. Also, the SCOTCH ZEPHYRS and French Goods.

TABLE DAMASKS.

Unusually fine goods added to this stock, at 85, $1.00 and $1.25. Very attractive sets of CLOTHS and NAPKINS at lower prices than of old. Cream colored and bordered goods, in much demand, in full assortment.

Hoberg, Root & Co. •MEYER BROS...

THE NEW CLOTHIERS, ARE OFFERING GREAT BARGAINS IN

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A writer who pretends to know says: Coquetry in night clothes in as much indulged in as ever. The coy maiden is often as careful as a bride in arraying herself for sleep. Even beads are now quite extensively used in the embroidery Of the bosoms, making a fine surface, truly, to abrado the wearer's flesh, if she be given to lying on her face. The day of the night cap is completely gone. Few old women and no girls now make themselves frightful by covering their heads with caps. A new practice among

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is to sleep with their hair flowing ree, the sight of it spreading out over a white pHlow is certainly very winsome but there are tangles in the morning to pay for it, and more sensible plan is to use a net. Pink and blue ribbons in knots at the shoulders, baby fashion, is one of the new kinks, and the extreme of absurdity is reached when a nightgown is discarded altogether, and the arms, legs, and bosom aro left bare all night bv a mere apology for a chemise. This nonsense, however, is not much indulged in. A novel night robe shown in tne stores is a modification of tho much ridiculed cliemiloon. 16 has both sleeves and trousers attached to its body. The wearer gets into it through a slit up and down the front, and then buttons herself in. Tho cut is jaunty, the trimmings elaborate, and the idea seems to successfully combine taste and utility. It is cut to fit tho figure loosely, and, if the figure be reasonably good, the effect ought to be quite entrancing. Night gloves aro a new toilet device. They are made of cloth, or undressed kid, and aro worn with a view to keep the hands soft and white. Some of them are alleged by the dealers to lie medicated.

The most popular bed garments for women just now havo either a yoke or a box plait behind to hold the fullness, while the fronts aro trimmed long aud square, like a man's shirt. There may be three or four lengthwise box plaits behind. A single wide rufflo, or else two ruffles, with the outer one quite narrow, make a good trimming for the neck of the gown. Sometimes these ruffles are box plaited, edged with, plain Valenciennes lace, ana there is a lengthwise row of feather stitching between the box plaits. The square shirt front is then formed of open work embroidery, showing the red or blue chemise underneath, Tf the wearer retains such a garment at night, or her own surface if she doesn't. The spots of embroidory alternates with squares of lace or else thero are rows of insertion separated by puftfc, either straight or in diagonal clusters or, perhaps, there are as miiuy as eight rows of beading, through which is run very narrow satin ribbon. Ivory white ribbon is preferred to colore for all divinity at present. Brior stitching on narrow banks is used betwoon narrow puffs on such bosoms. In some cases tho shirt front is formed by rows of needlework done on the gown, separated by clusters of fine tucks.

GETTING WORN OUT. Mentor Dispatch. General Garfield suffers considerably from slooplessness, and attributes it to t'»e close confinement which is made necessary by the constant stream of visitors and a large correspondence. Attention to these keeps him in his rooms nearly all the time, and he is deprived of the outdoor exorcise which is so essential to Ills health. Ho seldom finds time in these busy days for any kind of recreation.

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