Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 June 1881 — Page 1

Vol. 11.—No. 49.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Town Talk.

1 SOLDIERS' MOXUKBST. The other (lay T. T. beard that those Roaring tho matter in charge are contemplating the erection of a soldiers' monument in this city at an early day. The

I amount of cash on hand is about $1,400. [The amount required to complete the work is about $6,000. In order to make up the deficiency several plans are proposed, but the moat feasible one which

T. T. has beard of i« that of one of oar citi7.onH who propone* to be one of ono hundred subscribers who will giro ten dollars each for five year*, thereby guaranteeing tho sum required and securing its payment. This is a good plan, and one which it seems could easily be put in operation. T. T. thinks the requisite number of subscribers to a movoment like this could easily he secured, and the work could be commenced atonoe. Hie greatest trouble at present seems to be the seleetion of a site. It is admitted by all that it should 1m placed in some public place, but just where such a place can be readily found seems to be a troublesome question. It is suggested by some that it be placed on the public nqtiAre noar the new court hpuse. The space of ground required would beabout sixty feet square, and if the board of commissioners were requested to give this much ground for such a purpose fthey suroly would not refuse.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The killing of William Hill last Haturday night has caused much comment both in private conversation anil through the medlumshlp of part of the press of the city. That there has been so much bloodshed in this neighborhood of late is to be very much regretted, and that the habit of carrying firearms prevails to an itf&larming extent is also to bo regretted very much, but neither nor Iwth of these existing state of affairs is sufficient to

Justify anyone in condemning tin accused without a hoaring, and endeavoring to prejudico public opinion against hinii «s Is ofton the case. Whenever any tfrfme Is -committed the first thought of k^ho enterprising reporter is to got hold iSof the accused and obtain his side ef the •rcase then hunt up everyone who isstipI posed to know anything of it. Tho trouble with many of those reports is that

I he reporter starts out with a theory of his own nil his questions arc put with trfo object in view of drawing forth Inswcrs favorable to that viow, and if "the unsworn »n lo construed to his view of the rate it Is so written. T. T. does not believe in nowspa|or comment on the guilt or innocence of person charged with a crime in ndvanco of a trial. Circumstances close prisoner's mouth.

There are often mitigating circumstances which cannot ho explained in advance of a trial, llosides those things there are •/ourts for tho trial of these cases and to their jurisdiction should they be left. These endeavors to prejudico public opinion only result in tedious delays and changes of venue, all of which are expensive luxuries for which the people must pay, and which only tend to dofcat

Inst ice in tho end. AN IXt'IOKNT flitch it is said happened in connection with the killing of Hall has been related this week, but for the sake of humanity T. T. hopos it is not true. It is said that the coroner took from the person of tho aioeeased a sum of maney, ami also took

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of everything in his saloon,

.leaving his poor wife, who, by the way, Is a stranger here, without a dollar, compelling her to ail by her dead and fan the eerpse to keep it cool—leaving Iter without a dollar to make provision for funeral expense* or tor any other pur* poee. Tlib may have been taw In its coldnms and purity, but it was neither justice nor humanity.

KUJUNO ItOTS.

t^oiue time ego a nunibor of youths were captured in aMain street gambliug den deeply Interested in calculating the valued of "pairs," "three of a kind" and "full bands," under the instructions of experienced hands. Upon the strength of many promises to reform they were released and nothing further was said of the matter. Some of them have since steered clear of »ueh |4aeee. but there are others who did not. For a time the latter confined their operations to a saloon on Main street, where they indulged in drinks and poo). Their operations there were soott discovered and it became necessary for them to And a more retired nook in a less frequented portion of the city. The other day three of thew youthful sinners were sew to enter a low dive in the vicinity of the public square, when* they Indulge In their favorite pasttlm*. No good *an result from frequestingnuch pUces,and the keeper* who encourage boys sixteen years of age to frequent their dens cannot be dealt with to© severely.

T&MPKRANCK AOAIN.

The temperance folks do not seem to

appreciate T. Ts remarks upon the efforts to reform the werld in their own peculiar way, and he. grieves very much that such is the case. As T. T. is not running the temperance shop he has no advice to give on the subject, but as Leadville Henderson is in the city his services could probably be secured for a short time if the consideration if sufficient. T. T. has always insisted that temperance men cannot be manufactured by legislation. With this opinion the temperance people do not agree. They see in prohibition a cure for all the ills which flesh acquires. They fondly imagine that prohhibition prohibit#, when statistics prove exactly the contrary. Here where there is a strict license law there are about seventy saloons running in Terre Haute without license. The temperance conrt operated over a week and secured one conviction. Yet they say they are going to legislate intemperanoe out of existence. If they wauld try a little more moral suasion and less loud talk they would succeed better. If they would eradicate the taste for drink they would abolish the saloons, and until that millenium arrives there will be a demand forsalosns and whisky. Simply this and nothing more.

Susan Perkins* Letter.

DKAK JOSBPHINB:—If, ^rhen you open this epistle, there comes to your unaccustomed nostril a mingling of strange odors not suggest!vo of Araby the Blest, know, my love, that turpentine, paint, sapolio and soap-suds join with me in sending greetings to my absent friend, and that I am in the midst of Aunt's semi-annual attempt to realize that state which is said to bo next to Oodliness.

We know it is rather late but painting and paper-hanging, unlike time and tide, wait for some man, and that man, be he painter or paper-hanger, lets them wait.

When I say that the usual thing has occured whose occurrence is contemporaneous with housecleaning, you will know, before I tell you, that the girl left when the painter came: not because of any personal objections to the painter with whom, on the contrary, she seems to be on tho best of terms, nor, as she condescended to inform us, was it on aceoiint of any objections to the family but because she was "not strong enough to do housocleanlng" even with a man and a woman', to help her, and Mrs. Bacquebight had offered her tho same wages and the use of the back parlor when her "youngman" calls!

Since her departure, ten girls, looking all degrees of inaptitude, liavo presented themselves at our front door and have put us through a severo examination as to wages, number in family, washing, afternoons out, dinner on ironing days, and tho rest of the servant girl's catechism but with no good results as yet, and I, your own Susan, have been obliged to Iwre my fair arms, tie up my hair In towel, and go into the fray with much mucle if not good will.

Yesterday, in the midst of our labors, Mrs. Brown called, and as I was obliged to answer the door, I could hardly say "The ladies beg to be excused" for myHolf. So 1 snatched off'the towel which was keeping tho dust from my somewhat lighter locks, laid aside the big kitchen apron I made for the last monarch of the culinary realm but could never induco her to wear, unpinned my dress, and opened the front door with a smile of welcome. "Come in, Mrs. Browu, you find us in the midst of housecleaning, but a housekeeper can excuse a housekeeper's appearance on such otcasions." "Certainly, certainly," said Mrs. Brown, taking her skirts daintily away from the wall for fear of paint, "but I really hardly know how to sympathlxe with anyone cleanlug, as Mr. Brown never allows me to worry myself at all about such matters, bnt always sends me to his mother's until It is all over, and at home I never had any of it to see to at all.*'

Which was, in all probability, true, si nee, as I have understood she took in sewing, she was probably too busy with that to assist with housework.

Is not it strange, Joaie dear, bow soon people forget some things which have been a part of moat of their lives when they think it policy to forget? Is not it strange, too, that some people think it gives others a sense of their great importance to pretend ignorance of practical nutters? When the listeners happen to know how short has been the time since those commonplace, practical matters were ve^y near to them, their little speeches loee force and have an effect very different from the one intended.

Now 1, dear, have my little weaknewts, but one of them is not to be ashamed of work and so, when, on my way to the front gate yesterday morning to accost the man with strawberries, 1 saw Mr. Prettyman earning down the street with a strange bnt very stylish looking young lady, I did not pull AnnlVt garden sunbonnet down over*my eyes, and hurry back to the bouse, but,

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conscious that my gingham dress was clean and my apron whole, I calmly proceeded on my way with a smiting "Good morning" all ready for my handsome acquaintance. Will you believe it, Josie, he took one hasty glance at the figure with a tin pail and a duster, going on the plebian errand to the common looking strawberry wagon, and then, with an expression intended to convey to that figure the impression of a failure to see, or at least to recognise it, he called his companion's attention to the fountain in the opposite yard, and walked by! And only two weeks ago, walking with me, he spoke to an'old black man, and said to me with so grand an air, "I speak to every one I know, no matter who it is. I would not for the world hurt anyone's feelings." As Mr. Prettyman has not always been acustomed to the society he now keeps, and as he may feel his tenure uncertain, I forgive him, as self-preservation is perfectly natural and entirely defensible.

But all this time I have, in a parenthesis inexcusably long, left Mrs. Brown standing in the parlor. She sat in an easy chair near the window, swaying gently back and forth as she talked (the vulgar habit of recking being one she has forgotten to drop), and smoothing her front complacently. "I am so tired," she said have been at the dressmakers so much this week that I am nearly worn out. She keeps me standing so long that I almost drop. I don't see why she need be so long fitting mr because she says I have an easy figure to fit. But I don't know enough about dressmaking to know what is necessary and what not, so I submit to being made a martyr of.'v •(. "You never had any experience in dressmaking, then I asked, with as great an air of ignorance as if I did not know she made all her own dresses before she captured the widower, besides those she made for other people. "Oh dear, no!" she exclaimed "I never got beyond the doll-dresses of my childheod."

After a little while this ignorant lady retired, and Aunt remarked from the upper hall, as 1 came back from closing the front door, "Susan, I am afraid you will forget how carpets are held to the floor unless you come up here with a tack-hammer.'^

I went up. And so the High-School girls an£ so indignant over my kindly advice to them that they forget their lessons in etiquette, and all about the respect duo to ago, and taunt me with the years that have glided by since I was a school-girl. I can stand that, girls, if my old school books would not sell second-hand for the students of to-day, and if goed old Dr. Ctray's Botany and Hannah More's works are no longer text-books but I could not stand by and leave the warning ungiven. Don't turn up your noses at "old maids" too soon, my dear girls it makes tho thing no oasier to stand, when you catch it later on, to know that you once laughed at your predecessors.

So you are going over to Indiauapolis, next week, Josephine Maybe I'll meet you there. If Rev. Harrison takes any leaps from the platform to the font while you are at his meetings, catch him for tho sake of Your

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SUSAN PKRKINS.

DID YOU EVER*

Did you ever see an old bachelor who was not forevwr seeking for marriage infelicities, to reconcile himself to his own lonely lot

Did you ever see a small boy so wanting in spirit that one diurnal doublingup throughout the Summer could effect a radical cure in his immature-fruit-eat-ing proclivities?

Did you ever see a young married woman who wouldn't rather hear her husband praised by a woman in the next town than by one in the next house?

Did you ever know a man who habitually tells all he knows, who did not everlastingly repeat himself

Did you ever know a man who talked much of himself who did not have a poor subject for his conversation

Did yon ever know a fool who was aware that he was a fool Did you ever think that you might be thus oblivious as to yourself?

Did you ever know a swindled man whose hurts were not partially healed by hearing of another man being swindled in like manner?

Did you ever see a man with large feet who did not declare that His boots were two sites too big—that he likes them easy, you know

Did you ever think that men are the biggeat fools in creation, and that the women enjoy the fun of letting them remain unconscious of it?

MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report:

John C. Slaves and Florence H. Alvta. John Smith an! J*ne Nfwtin. Jostah P«R and Belie But*. Angawtm C. Wh maker and JuBa Rafcania.

—Pknk at Early's grove, Monday, June 6th, for the benefit of St. Benedicta German Catholic school.

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BETTER WORLD.

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DioceaAf Indiana, will be held at St. StephMB church, on Tuesday, Wednesday anS&i unday of next week. About one hujpLredand thirty delegates will be in atteHlanoe. The Bishop's annual rebe held at the residence of John 9|Beach, on Tuesday evening, after he deliver his annual address, and an address by Hon. Wm. Mack, on "Egypt," is expected during the week.

At the Central Presbyterian church, to-morrow mopping, preaching by Rev. Thos. Iwry: a sermon to children. Also thesaewnent of baptism will be administered^ At ?:45 in the evening, Mrs. WillarAwill lecture. Mrs. W. is known all ovewie country for her good works in helpjjt the fallen.

At tjwBaptist church—Rev. C. R. Hendefljb, pastor—the subject at 11 a. m. wilBfe "The Church and the Children." Vprilight servioes at 6:30 p. m.

The flhal services at the Congregational ®pch, to-morrow. At thBhristlan church—Rev. Geo. W. Sweeneflbastor—morning subject: "The Meritsflthe New Revision Considered." Evenin«hbiect "Is Man Immortal,

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that hi^Kltpe was on fire just as he was enterinj^m pulpit. As it was three or four mjHuistant, he judged at once that it wouBBe impossible to get there in time toJBIte anything, so went on with the serves and at the close spoke patbeticalBlSi the attractions of home, and thefinformed his congregation that his owi^ome had just been destroyed by fire.' "I talil^ftir a text," said a St. Louis eeloaM^paitaet "*,fch* wordsr 'It is more blessed to givlf^han to receive.' There are many who come to church who would do w«ll to rememlier these words. They are of that kind who come here and drink and efet of the good things,but who are never hero at the time the box is passed around." A tall brother stood up and said: "You're a liar, sir—a liarliar—liar." There was a great commotion, ending in the ejection of the disturber.

In some churches there is a dreadful noise at tho clpse of the singing of each hymn, as if a,regiment wero suddenly callod on to "gtound arms." The Chris tian at Work gives a wholesome hint as to stopping tills evil nuisanco: "When tho last hymn is sung in the morning service there lb no occasion for you to jam the bookfin tho rack with a slam and a bang, which you say to your books in the Searing of your fellow sinners: 'There now! stay there another week, for I am not coming to church tonight and I efean't want you again till next Sunday."'

Only two of the Presidents of the United States were actually members of church when in. office, Washington being the first, an Episcopalian, and Gen. Garfield the other, a Disciple Baptist. Adams married a minister's daughter and leaned to Unitarianism Jefferson was skeptical Madison's early connections were Presbyterian John Q. Adams was as his father Jackson was Methodistic, and died in its communion Van Buren was bvought up in the Dutch Reformed churoh, but afterward leaned toward Episc^atkudsm Harrison leaned toward Methodism Tyler was an Episcopalian Polk was baptised a Methodist preacher aftqthis offioe expired Taylor leaned toward Bpiacopalianism Fillmore attended the Unitarian church Franklin Pierce attended the Congregational church, but was not a member Buchanan was a Presbyterian Lincoln was not a member of any church, but frequently attended Dr. Gurley's Presbyterian ehurch, and Bishop Simpson and Dr. Gurley delivered addressee over his remains Grant and Hayes are Methodists, and attended Methodist churches, but are not members. "Cold dead formalism," says Mr. Moody to a San Francisco reporter, "is what is making infidelity. There is too much formalism in both the Catholic and the Protestant churches. Healthy Christianity is not formalism. The adoption of the principles of Christ is What go in for. As to the investigattonft scientists and the ideas of socalied fihilosophezs, we heed them not. We baliave in revelation. Job says, 'Who ean find out God by searching.' I was a skeptic once, when I was young yea, I was an ignorant skeptic. I could not give acientific reasons for my doalrtings. In my judgment, all 'intelligent

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sphen's—services to-morrow, |y, as follows: Holy Com7 a. m. Morning Prayer,

Litany, Sermon, and Holy

CommUHEfc, 11 a. m. Evening Prayer,

P- ni-isEmflrmation, 7:30 p. m. A St.-Mbii divine, eminent enough to have DM attached to bis name, declares that thflpnewspapers which do not suppress rdKrts of Ingersoll's lectures are enemieqKjChristianity.

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skeptics' are really ignorant skeptics. All the scientists and materialists couldn't shake my belief. The truth, the genuine truth, is what the world wants, and it is we, not the skeptics, who can present it. Yes, If a man is a skeptic, let him be out and out, like Ingersoll. We'll know where he is then. I dont like hypocrites. The coming contest is between those who believe in the hereafter and those who don't. The quicker it comes the better. We believe that, by the help of God, we will not go under in that struggle. The trutjh must eonquer, and we have^ot it."

We have read of the prayer of the preacher, who asked God to "keep him humble and poor" and the prayer of the deacon who followed him that "Do thou God keep him humble and we will keep him poor." The church where that happened must have beeu one in Vermont. It is composed of well-to-do farmers, who, seeing that their pastor gave an unusually large contribution to foreign missions, instead of taking the generous hint and doubling their own contributions, jumped to the conclusion that they were paying him too much salary, and made haste to cut it down.

SCRAPS OF STYLE.

LITTLE ITEM8 THAT OO TO MAKE THE LADIES ATTRACTIVE.

Pokes are growing larger. Baked earth is the color of the new laoes.

The coal scuttle.shape is the favorite poke bonnet. Shirred sleeves grew more and more in fashionable favor.

Spanish blonde is the darling lace of fashion at the moment. The nearer the bangs come to the eyebrows the more fashionable is the wearer.

The less of the neck that is seen the prettier does the face of a pretty woman look.

Black and white checked silk neck handkerchiefs are worn with traveling suits.

Gloves reaching above the elbow are tie rigueiir with very short sleeves or sleeveless corsages.

Blue eyes will be the fashion this summer, and mouths will be cut wider and more open than last year. flippers for evening wear are cut exceeffingiy low, and the staking* to be worn with them are embroidered in proportion to the expected display.

There is a gambling flavor about the brocades used for the latest sunshades and fans, for the figures on them are diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs.

The best makes of black cloth top shoes are at present much worn. French heels are still seen upon evening slippers and fancy shoes, but on all other occasions lower heels are the vogue.

Manjr of the new bonnets formed entirely of shaded roses are shrouded with a filmy covering of black or white beaded gauze, which gives a delicate, toning effect to the bright (lowers, making them doubly becoming to the wearer.

Lace jabots, reaching from the throat to the foot of the dress, are worn down the front of evening toilets. Underneath each wavy fold is placed a tiny cluster of flowers corresponding with the floral garniture worn upon the corsage and in the hair.

It is a sad thing that artificial roses are so cheap, for It induces some women to make themselves hideous by fasten ing three cabbage roses in a bunch just behind their parotid gland, while tying their bonnet strings in a monstrous bow beneath the bunch.

There is an attempt to introduce shoes turned up at the toes, like those seen in the pictures of the princes who were smothered in the Tower of London by their crook-back uncle. Those who adopt this mediaeval fashion will deserve to be treated like the princes in the Tower.

The style of hair dressing mentioned some weeks ago is growing in favor, which is the fashion of cutting the hair short from temple to temple and curling it in short heavy rings all over the crown of the head. The remainder of the hair is twisted in a Grecian coil low on the nape of the neck.

A simple, five o'clock tea g6wn, a neat little trifle to be thrown on in a moment and in which one can be thoroughly comfortable, is of white cashmere, with an apron painted to simulate a tangled mass of clover, daffodils, buttercups, thistle blooms, daisies, grasses snd heath. It costs only $250, even when made up and provided with a surah underskirt.

A HARD NUT. Cleveland Voice.

There was not much of the late Commodore Xutt, but what there was was pretty bad. For his indies, he was about as profligate a little scamp as you might lay your hands on. Of late be has figured as the proprietor of a particularly vile resort on Sixth avenue. New York, and was himself one of his own most bountiful patrons. Tom Thumb is not considered quite a Puritan in point of morals, yet, compared with his former associate, the lamented Commodore, be was a very rigid Caivinist.

LITTLE SERMONS

FOR SUNDAY CONTEMPLATION

No man is wise or safe but he that ia honest. Let the light of reason shine on all your actions.

Those who havo known real grief seldon seem sad. Hope is the only good which is common to all men.

There is more affectation in sackcloth, than in silk. It isn't what you are but what you appear to be.

Nothing succeeds in the end like inVHlnerabilJlsy.. We owe'a larfyejSrt of our happinena to our mistakes.

Fame is a cone of smoke. Enjoyment is a loaf of sugar. In the world there are so few voice* and so ma'ny echoes.

People would rather be insulted than to be unpreceived. Laziness travels so slow that Povertysoou overtakes him.

Listen to conscience and you will ever hear good of yourself. Those who know themselves strong can bear to be submissive.

In love as a kingdom, the tyrant sits upon a hollow throne. You can never tell how poor a man ia by his clothes, nor how rich.

Life is useless to the person who cannot make it useful to others. A pretty lie is like a poison in a vase you die in perfume, but you die.

Consider the enormous utility of genius looking now and then like a foolt No one can know the sorrows of another's heart, and no ono can tell where the shoe pinches except the man who wears it.

ABOUT WOMEN.

A bold woman is an insult to her sex. Cross girls should never go on pionics.

Women who have pot fine teeth laugh only with their eyes. Women are the principal purchasers of opium and morphine.

Washington ladies visit the races on horseback, in large numbers. Second wives usually have to hear descriptions of the fine cookery of first wives*' *-jggg**1.""'»"»**•»•-• "*•i••

A woman who died, recently, in Indianapolis, was carried to her grave by femalo pall-bearers.

A woman school teacher, at Waterbury, poured' ice-water down tho Imred back of a refractory little girl.

Miss Fannie Blinn, a young lady, is secretary of an insurance company, at Rockford, 111., and is paid a salary of $2,000.

A sentimental woman at Mayvillo, Canada, has put strong iron fenco around the tree whereon a sweetheart of her youthful days once carved her name.

A District of Columbia court holds that a wife who perjures horsolf on the witness stand in consequence of intimidation on tho part of her husband, does not commit an indictable offense.

Anew book on etiquette advises girls not to be treated, by their gentleman friends, to car-faro or ices, or allow them to pay any trifling sum, providing it is simply a friend or chance acquaintance aiet on the way, and not a near relative, who offers it.

An ex-soldier's wife, in Newburyport, Mass., believing herself to be a widow, married, and thus relinquished her pension. She lately lesrned that her soldier husband is alive, and the court has declared her second marriage void, and that she is entitled to go on the pension list again and to receive $2,000 arrears.

There Is a weekly paper published at Terrell, Texas, by a company of ladies, er, as the title says, "by women, the best gifts of Heaven to man." The japer is devoted more to gossip and humor than to newt, as might be expected. Th6 editors' names are not given, but they are known as "the blonde" and "tho brunette," respectively.

Clara Belle: It is not many years ag* that a girl would have been censured for wearing other than plain gaiters and white stockings. Any decoration of the feet or legs wss regarded as,a shameletM effort to charm the eyes of men. The change came, as everybody knows, and nobody thinks of blaming the wearers of fanciful shoes and hosiery.

A class of girls, in the St. Louis high school, arranged their places at recitation among themselves, so that they might know exactly what questions would come to each, and thus avoid the bother of learning all the answers in the lesson. The principal suspected their trick, and spoiled it by mixing them up. Five of the angry pupils sought revenge by telling their parents that be was drunk. He had no difficulty in provinghis total abstinence, and the plotters must now apologia or stay away from school.

OCB city has a lovely crop of pretty girls just budding into womanhood.

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