Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 March 1881 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

No 16 South 5th

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PrinUng House Square

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH5,188

THK proud bird of freedom soars, and the goose hangs high, at the Nation's— with a big N—capital.

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PETITIONS to General Garfield, asking him not to have wine in the White House, are circulating by the hundreds.

IN politics there's nothing that so little becomes a man as "modest stillness and humility." It won't win worth a cent. _________

PROHIBITION in Maine does not seem to prohibit. There are, it is said, 139 groggories in Portland, while Bangor, too, is full of them.

GARFIELD is the second President ever inaugurated on Friday, Franklin Pierce being the other. Fortunately Mr. Garfield is not superstitious.

THERK are indications that the new cabinet will not te quite satisfactory to certain political wiseacres. This is sad but they will have to grin and bear it.

HEREAFTER OUO of the chief products of America should be denominated Statesmen. The crop increases in geometrical proportion with each year.

ABOVK everything else, the administration of President Hayes, which closed yesterday, will pass into history as being clean—and that means a great deal in these days.

SHORTLY after one o'clock yosterday, James A. Garfield took the oatft of office as Prosidentof the United States, in the presence of 50,000 people, massed in front of the capitol.

MR. GARFIKLD will commit a serious blunder if he does not give a cabinet position to every Republican State. Such a blunder will be fatal to his hopes of a second term.

As a nation wo have progressed in the last twenty years. President-elect Garileld went through Baltimore the other day without being in danger from such 8 mob as threatened Lincoln.

REFERRING to trichinosis, "Food and Health" says that cases of poisoning of this kind liavo always followed the eating of raw meat, and that there is no danger of contracting the disease from pork that is well cooked.

FUNERALS are postponed in Washington to accommodate the fashionables, and men step from the carriages which conveyed them to a funeral to take off the -emblems of mourning and array themsoives in party nttire.

THE News complains that Indianapolis has wife-whippingepidemic, no less than five casos having been brought beloro the Police Court within less than a week. Is this providential, in order to secure the passage of the wife-whipping bill by tho Legislature?

AVHJUK wo are quarreling over which is Ground-Hog Day.it is probable that ho may have no day at all. A bill has been introduced in our Legislature for an act to oncourage the extermination of this enomy to clover fields, and offering a reward for ground-hog scalps.

THK temperance bill, providing substantially for local option, came up for passage in the Senate of tho Indiana Legislature on Tuesday and was defeated by a vote of 23 to 25. The vote was not a party one, both Democrats and Republicans votiug for and against the bill.

THK Transvaal Boers have published their declaration of independence, in which they declare that they have never been subjects of Great Britain and, God helping them, they never intend to be. Bully for the Boers! The Mail wishes them al) tt»e success of the revolutionary fathers-of our own land and sends greeting to the South African Republic.

AMONG the last of President Hayes' official acts was the vetoing of the funding bill. And it was a righteous act. The law was at least of questionable propriety, and might have resulted in serious damage to the country. Now the new Congress can take time to consider whether any such legislation is neces«ary, and if so, enact such as they deem wise.

GKNKKAL GRANT IS not satisfied with the manner in which the New York people respond to the fund for the World's Fair, and has intimate! that it wouldn't take Chicago long to raise the amount of money required. No doubt •of that, and if New York is getting tired •of her contract in tlie matter »he had letter turn it over to the City of the Lakes, who would be willing enough to undertake it, especially with Gen. Grant at the head of the affair.

NKVKK was such a press of people seen in Washington since the war as poured into that dty t« witness the inauguration of President Garfield. After all the hotels and boarding houses were lull and running over, the trains still kept coming from all directions, loaded with people. On some roads the trains were run in sections, as near together as safety would permit, in order to accommodate the crowd*. Correspondents say it reminded them of the crowds which thronged to the Centennial.

THE French government has prohibited the importation of American pork into that country on account of the trichina The point is made that American pork is not half as poisonous as French wines and it ia suggested that a retaliation is in order by forbidding the importation of wines into this coun try. The point is well taken.

MRS. HATES' temperance reformation in the White House has not been with out its reward even from a pecuniary point of view. By reason of it the ladies of a temperance society in Illinois have procured a pair of exquisite curtains for the bay window of her house in Fremont at a oost of $1,200—a princely present for the ex-mistress of the White House. ________

A CURIOUS band of juvenile robbers has been unearthed in New York, the oldest being ten and the youngest seven years of age. Their purpose was to rob children on their way to and from school and plunder them of slates, bookB, knives, and whatever else of value they have. A number of successful assaults had been made before the young brigands were discovered.

THE latest advance in journalism is the publication of Sunday evening papers. The Sunday Evening Journal, published for some time past in New York, has been successful, and we may expect shortly to see Sunday evening papers spring up in all cities where such an enterprise can be made profitable. The American appetite for reading would appear to be altogether insatiable.

THERE is a club of men in New York, called the Titans, the smallest of whom is six feet, two inches in height, and the tallest, six feet six. No man und£r six feet two is admitted. It would seem a singular bond of union aknong men, the mere fact of giant proportions. The squad, numbering some forty, banquetted at Delmonlco's the other evening, and are reported as having done fall justice to "the things set before them."

OBJECTION is made to Robert Lincoln for a Cabinet position, on the ground of his youth. That objection is not tenable. It is not the gray-beards who lead parties on to victory in these modern times. In politics, as ifcTeverything else, the young men are at the front. In these times, and in young America especially, the charge of being a young man ought not to be heard. If this is all that can be said against Mr. Lincoln, there will be norow.

THE recent defeat of the Republican municipal tickets in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia ought to be instructive lessons to the bosses and machine men. Both cities gave large majorities for Garfield, but the tickets defeated were made up of men who were distasteful to the better element of the party—not such men as should|have been nominated— and hence they were beaten. The era of "bossism" in politics is manifestly waning.

AN ingenious old gentleman In Iowa, wealthy and disposed to make a will, wrote to his various relatives in the East that he was in distressed circumstances, and without help could not get through the winter. None of them responded except a niece, who sent him fifty dollars which she had saved from her earnings as a school teacher. The eccentric old gentleman had now all the information he needed, and at once willed all his property to the young lady who had an ear for her uncle's sufferings. Moral, etc. _________

IT is stated that the Cunard line of ocean steamships has not lost a passenger in forty years. This remarkable fact is accounted for in part by reason of the extreme conservatism of the management, which remains the same year after year. The officers work their way up from the lower ranks, and promotion is slow but suro. Their vessels sail farther South than those of other lines, and are longer on the voyage, but, as is evident from their long record, the loss in time is not without its counterbalancing advantages.

THE Lord seems to be on the side of the Boers in y»eir war with the English. They are brave fighters and are making a manly resistance to the unjust attempts of the British. The battle at Magella Mountain lately was a splendid exhibition of military courage, resulting in the complete defeat of the British forces with a loss of 400 men, and their general, Sir Geo. P. Colley. The English may well consider the propriety of continuing a war which can give them no credit in the eyes of other nations, whatever the outcome of it may be.

A KVNNT incident occurred in a Chicago theatre the other night. During the performance of a sensational play the crisis was reached where the embodiment of brute force was about to hack his victim, a young boy, into pieces. Suddenly a brawny form sprang from the pit of the theatre and making its way rapidly to the stage, jumped upon it, seised the simulated villain by the throat, and was about to make an end of both him and his villainy when other members of the company interfered and ejected the stranger through aside door into the alley. He proved to be a Colorado miner and explained that he had fallen asleep and waking just at the momenkof the crisis, took the play for a reality and according to the Colorado code, was about to defend the weaker side. With this explanation he was readmitted to the theatre where his return was signalised by a burst of applause.

GARFIELD, like Franklin Pierce and John Quincy Adams, began Ids administnati upon Ftiday.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVMING MAILT

AN OLD MOTTO.

Davy Crockett'^ motto, "Be sure you are right, and then go ahead," is rather more important than people are apt to think. Of course one cannot always wait until he is perfectly positive that what he is going to do is the best possible thing to be done. There are cases in which the only

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of becoming sure

that one is right is by going ahead. But, after all, this is apt to be an expensive way of finding out. It is better to inquire the way of somebody who knows, if there is anybody who does know, than to go five or ten miles out of the way to find that the wrong road has been taken. If one is not quite sure whether a doubtful, or even an innocent looking bnll-dog will bite or not, it is quite as well to let him alone,—rather better than to go ahead and pet him, and find out that it was not right to take that liberty with him. It is not good policy to accuse rival in business of lying about his business unless sure that

you

are right

beforehand. If he can prove that he has 250 boys to sell his papers and you have admitted that you have only 60, why, of course, the wrong bulldog has been interfered with. You help your rival and injure yourself. This, of course, is a mere illustration of the principle, "Be sure you are right, and then go ahead." But it is an illustration that is frequently repeated in one way or another. The attempt to exalt one's self, or to advance one's interests, at the expense of another, to rise by pulling down, is a very dangerous experiment. It often provokes an exhibition of strength that is unexpected. It is not seldoqa^the case in social life, in politics, er in business that detraction makes more friends than it destroys, or increases the strength of attachment rather than makes it. We knew an instance in this city in which a comparative stranger was brought at once very prominently before the public and into very favorable regard, by an attack that was intended to squelch him entirely. He was a man of real merit^ and the attack called attention to his worth. We have often heard him say that he owed more to that attempt of a rival to destroy him than to any friend he ever found here. At the 'close of a political campaign 'in this city, some years since, the editor of the paper which opposed the successful candidate for Mayor, admitted to his friends that he believed his attacks upon the candidate had been the means of his election. This sort of back-action arrangement is one that is difficult to be understood, except as it is learned by experience. The best way to avoid it is to be sure that you are right before going ahead. In fact we would put it a little stronger tfaan that and say that it is wise to be sure that you are right before going ahowl.

FOR lack of obedience to thilwlneiple a great many people have nj^Bto the newspaper business who wisnOBy had not. They were sure that they could make piles of money out of it. But they were not sure that they were sure, and now they are dead sure that they made a big blunder. Anything looks easy when you see a man do it who understands how, and when seeing a bungler, it does seem as if you could do better than he. Fortunes have bsen made in the newspaper business with comparative ease. Probably, on an average, one newspaper man in two or three hundred gets a competence out of his business, and one in five hundred or a thousand makes a fortune. When the competence or the tortune is made it seems to be so easily done that any on-looker, however he may have failed elsewhere, is as sure of success, if he were a mindjto try, as is the smart boy from the country with the three-card-monte fellows at the circus. And he is just as sure, and with exactly the same results—money gone and not quite certain how or where it went. But there is no use in giving advice. It will all be taken as a game of bluff to keep intruders off "our claim." So come on prospecting, boys. Spend your money. You will get the worth of it—in experience.

GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSBND, the vetteran correspondent, says he prefers the western to the eastern press for several reasons. One is, that it pays much more liberally. His salary as corresponded for the Chicago Tribune was $7,000 a year and the Cincinnati Enquirer now pays him more than any New York journalist receives for his constant work, excepting perhaps the very heads of the leading papers. He says the competition is so great in New York that the average pay of journalists is very poor. He prefers the western press, also, because it gives more swing and freedom. The eastern papers are, as a rule, cautious and conservative while those of the west want news as it is and care nothing whom it helps or hurts, so long as it pleases the public. It may be added that there is a good and a bad side to this last quality. It is good when not carried to extremes, but some western papers, notably the Enquirer, ran it to a disgusting limit by filling their columns with ail-sorts of sloppy sensations. «*r

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ON last Sunday night the Catholic Orphanage, at Scranton, Pa,, was burned, causing the death of fourteen boys and three girls. One of the sisters rescued all the girls except these three, and was ember way to get the boys when, as rite says, a stranger on the stairs told her the boys had been rescued and that it would be dangerous for her to goon, where* upon she turned back. When the fire was pot out and the door of the dormitory opened, the boys were all found dead in their cots, only two having been touched by the fire. They were doubt* less suffocated by the smoke.

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THOSE AMENDMENTS. It is the easiest thing in the world to obtain from a suffering man a vow to quit, for the future, that which causes his suffering. It is almost as easy for a man to forget the vow as soon as the suffering ends. According to this principle the people were ready to vow last fall that they would put those Amendments to the Constitution where no Supreme Court, no matter how pig-head-ed and partizan it might be, could find a pretext for declaring them not adopted. The danger is that those who were then so loud in their protests, and so strong in their vows, may not, now that the immediate suffering is past for the time being, take pains to go to the polls and vote when the election comes. It is well known to the readers of The Mail that we have taken very strong ground in reference to the proposed Amendments. We do not return to the subject now for the purpose of argument. There is no need of argument in reference to the subject matter of these Amendments. There is no doubt that a very large majority of the people desire the changes. The vote in their favor was an unusually large one when previously adopted, large, we mean, as votes on such matters go. There is always a very large number of voters who take no interest in questions of this sort, unless the parties, as such, take sides. There is no doubt as to the sentiment of the people. There is very little doubt that a majority, a large majority of the votes cast will be in favor of their adoption. But there is danger that the vote will not be as large as it ought to be. There is danger that a great many who felt keenly about the matter while the State was made the battle field of the nation, business was deranged, and heavy taxes, in the way of contributions to political funds, were exacted, will forget their suffering, or think, that it will all come out right, and not feel their individual responsibility to vote and influence others to vote on these Amendments.

Besides the adoption of the Amendments, of which there probably is no doubt, they should be adopted by such a vote as will indicate to the country at large the feeling of the people of this State in reference to such base partisanship as controled our highest court in this matter. The people should rise up, irrespective of party, and declare In tones not to be mistaken, that they do not approve of trickery in a court of justice. It is true that the perpetrators of this trick were hoisted by their own petard, and now it is for the people, besides having it their own way in this matter, to declare emphatically, "Served them right." Let there be a full vote,, and don't forget it.

THH City of Washington is swarming like a great bee-hive. For days past the politicians from every quarter of a great nation, prolific- of politicians, have been gathering at the Capital to witness the incoming of a new administration and the parceling out of a mighty public patronage. The ladies, too, are there by the hundreds and thousands to "lobby" for husbands, sons and friends, and press the claims of dear ones who will surely die, and that too soon, without an office and a change of climate. How fortunate it is that the climes where the nation's officials are obliged to live, are all so beautiful and healthrestoring It^is a great blessing to the thousands of weary and over worked men whose laborious professions are rapidly sapping the fountain of health and rendering them candidates for the hospital and grave yard, that once in each four years occurs this quadrennial administration of the public pap to lift them into newness of life and health again. It is somewhat like the year of jubiles was to the ancient Hebrews. Yet, unlike that great anniversary, it has its sad side, for while many are called (in the newspapers) but few are chosen and the great majority are necessarily left to languish and perish in the slums of private life. What a pity there are not enough offices to go round! But there are not and hence "the madding crowd" of huugry.seekers and their retinues of noisy friends besiege the capital with increasing clamor each inauguration day. Not now, as of old, does the office seek the man. Verily, the second century of the Republio is nnlike the first.

THE Senate has passed a bill providing for a commissioner of fisheries in this State and appropriating $2,000 for use in this direction. The bill should become a law and the appropriation should have been a large one. But $2,000 is bettor than nothing and will do for a beginning. The New York Tribune notices a great increase of fish farmers in the East during the last decade. Ten years ago there were not more than half a dozen in the whole East, while there are now forty on Long Island alone. If it is true, as Seth Green maintains, that an acre of water can be made to produce twice as much food as /in acre of land, it is certainly time that some attention should be given to tbesubjert in Indiana, where the growing taste for fishing is rapidly depleting our lake* §nd streams of their inhabitants. 1 •1

GKN. GARFIHLD'S last Sunday at Mentor was one of the most quiet he has been permitted to enjoy for along time. With his family he attended the little Church of the Disci plea and reverently listened to an extemporaneous and vigorous sermon from Elder Jones. He joined with the congregation in singing "Coronation," and remained a few minutes after the service to shake hands with the members of the little church and bear their simple and heartfelt good byes. The Church of the Disciples may well be proud of having such as James A. Garfield in it.

OUR PRESIDENTS.

Running through the list of Presidents of the United States, one finds many facts and incidents of a curious and interesting character. Some of them we are all familiar with, while others are not generally known and perhaps it is well to string them all together, apropos of the inaugural of the twentieth Chief Magistrate. Of the first seven Presidents four were from Virginia, two of the same name from Massachusetts, and one from Tennessee.

All but one were 66 years old on leaving office, five having served two terms, and one of those who served but one term would have been 66 years of age at the end of another.

Three of the seven died on the Fourth of July, and two of them on the same day in the same year. Two of them were on the Sub-Committee of three that drafted the Declaration of Independence and these two died on the same day and year, on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and just half a century from the day of the Declaration. The names of three of the seven end in son, yet none of them transmitted his name to a son. Tho initials of the names of two of the seven are the same the initials of two others are the same and those of still two others are the same.

Of the first five, only one had a son, and that son became President. Eight Presidents had been in the Senate prior to their election to the Presidency, but not one was in the Senate at the time of his election. Garfield is the first to have three distinguished honors at the same time: he was a member of the House, had been chosen Senator and was also chosen President. Jackson was a Senator in 1825, when nominated for President by the Legislature of Tennessee, but immediately resigned his seat.

Hayes was the only candidate who secured the Presidency over an -opponent who received a majority of the popular vote. Only six Presidents received a clear majority of the total vote, Jackson, Harrison, Van Buren, Pierce, Lincoln and Grant. But all except Hayes received a higher percentage than his most formidable opponent. The highest percentage of the popular vote ever given a candidate was in 1828, when Jackson had 55.97 per cent. In 1872 Grant had 55.63 per cent, and in 1864 Lincoln had 55.06 per cent.

Jackson received the electoral votes of fifteen States out of twenty-four, both In 1828 and 1832. Van Buren had 15 States out of 26 Harrison, 19 out of 26 Pelk, 15 out of 26 Taylor 15 and Cass 15 in 1848, of the thirty States Pierce carried 27 of the 31 States in 1852 Buchanan carried 19 of the 31 States in 1856 Lincoln, 17 out of 33 States in 1860, and 22 out of the 36 in 1864 Grant received the vote of 26 States out of tho 37 States voting in 1868, and in 1872 he carried 31 of the 37 States. TWenty-one of the 38 States were counted for Hayes in 1876 Garfield carried 19 States.

Only two Presidents were younger than Garfield at the time of their election, and there is only a difference of a few months in favor of these two. Garfield was forty-nine on the 19th of last November Grant was forty-eight when elected, and Pierce forty-eight. Six Vice Presidents have become President —three to fill vacancies caused by death. No Vice President who wfts called to the Presidency to fill a vacancy was ever elected to fill a second term. Since the time of Washington, all but two of the Presidents had been members of Congress. The exceptions were Taylor and Grant. Tyler, Pierce, Jaokson, Johnson, Buchanan and Harrison had been in both the House and Senate Madison, Polk, Fillmore, Lincoln and Hayes in the House Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Van Buren in the Senate, and John Adams and Jefferson in the Continental Congress. One Speaker of the House of Representatives became President—James K. Polk. Two Presidents had been Secretary of WarMonroe and Grant. Six Secretaries of State have been elected to the Presidency —Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren and Buchanan. Harrison was the oldest of the Presidents at inauguration—sixty-eight. The average

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installed into office has been fifty-six years.

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THE LATEST ABOMINATION

FLORAL DEVICES FOR THE B0-0 FIG LEAVES AND MONKEYS ON TIIE STAGE.

Clara Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer. Bedecking the bosom is now can. to the extreme by women of New York Most of dress waists for all but cer monious occasions are made glove t' ting, and free of such kinds of trinamit as change the natural lines of the fig\ur The upper part of the chest in froY* however, is a contrast to the rest of th bodice. There the artful creatures iqas a confusion of lace, flowers and othf adornments. For instance, fichus 4 India mull, decorated with hand painto. borders, and edged with lace, are wo' crossed over the breast, the sash eno being carried to the back, and fasten with a bunch of Watteau ribbons. No long ago the girl of twenty or youngeaffected a Marguerite simplicity by wear ing a perfectly plain covering to 1bosom, and buttoning it behind. N she piles flowers and lace from belt chin. There may be bony hardness a 4 flatness for foundation, out the stru ture in sight is soft, rounded and woe' ing. "Mustn't touch" is the placan that might appropriately be hung out oi these delicious damsels. Some of th embellishments are audacious in conoep tion, because they outline what presum ably is underneath. A perfectly tiglu dress waist, with two circular masses delicate flowers at the bosom, and the* floral piles arrayed in concentric cirol around two tiny pink rosebuds, what I saw last evening on the sweeto and mo§t innocent looking maiden it possible to imagine. Of course the minx knew well enough how safely suggestive and alluring was the arrangement of her corsage. She had studied the effect in her mirror, beyond question though her pretty face revealed no selfconsciousness when once sho was unde the fire of male eyes in the drawing room.

AN APRON OF FIG LEAVES

is actually introduced as a woman's garment in the Black Venus. The exhibition is one of the coarsest and most indebent ever hazarded on the stage. This spectacular play illustrates a journey in Africa. One of the travelers is an old maid. She goes to a stream, during a halt of the caravan, to indulge in a bath. Her departure for that purpose io made known to the audience.2Tho action proceeds awhile, with tho stage crowdea with male and femalo characters, and then the old maid's scream is heard. All look off In the direction from which the sound comes. Next, she runs into view, wearing flesh colored tights from neck TO toes, except for a small apron of flg leaves. Sue runs down to tho footlights, facing tho astonished audience. She is not a pleasant sight, for she is old, thin and angular. Her arms and legs are like pipe stems,* and her chest is as flat as a board. "While I was bathing," sho cries, "some horrid monkeys stole my clothes and I had to make an apron of leavesjust like Eve's."

The women on the stage get In front of her, with great ado of hiding their faces, the men try to peep, and she quickly emerges wrapped in a cloak. Not satlsfled with this offbnso against the management has lately

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decency, devisea an alaboration. After she lias donned the cloak a boy, dressed as a monkey, bounds on the stago, seizes the old woman and tears off the wraps, leaving her again, to all intents and purposes, naked. No, no. I 'shall never favor fis leaf aprons as wearing apparel, especially not for scrawny old women.

Because!

THE HATUKDAY EVENING MAIL is good medium of communication between Terre Haute business men and tho people who buy their goods— Because, It has the largest circulation of any paper published in this city. But not on this account alone, but— Because, It goes into the family circle on

Saturday evening, and during Saturday night and Sunday and is read thoroughly, advertisements and all, by every member of the family who can read, after which 1 Is loaned to the neighbors. Because, After having been read by the borrowers and buyers in the city, it is enveloped, stamped and sent to some friend or relative In some other town or olty. Because, It Is a paper which reaches all classes, high and low, rich and poor. Because, Of its very large circulation among farmers. Because, It is an especial favorite with the ladies, who do a large part of the buying of household goods, In addition to tho jewelry and drew goods tliey wear, and are critical readers of advertisements. Because, Two editions are published, Thursday and Saturday evenings, aud all advertisements go in both editions for price of one issue. Because, Its rates are cheaper, all things considered, than J&oseof ajoy other paper

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