Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 December 1881 — Page 4

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FOR THE

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P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PBOPRTBTOR.

FOBLXCATUUr OFFlO,

Ho It Booth (Kh st, Printing Hone Square.

TERRS HAUTE, DEC. 24, 1881,

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper tn published. She FIRST EDITION, on Thuiwl*y Evening, hai a large circulation In the surrounding towns, where it Is sold, by newsboys and agents. She SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even tog, goes into the hands oCnearly every leading person in the city, and the fanners of this immediate vicinity. lively Week's Issae is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

NEW YEARS.

The game of 1881 is finished. We cannot see our blunders while we are playing. If we could we would not make tbem, or they would not be blunders, But even a very fairly played game, looked back upon, may seem full of blunders. The only use in looking back is that we may bo put on our guard against repeating our mistakes. The game of 1881 is played out, blunders and all. Tbe board is swept dean and anew game starts to-morrow morning. Shall the blunders of the previous year be repoated in tbe coming one

For awhile at the beginning of 1881 the playing exhibited great care, but soon some of the players became tired and careless, and some fearfully wild moves were made. If the game only could have held out as it begun they would have had a first ratescoro to look back upon now. As it is—well, the less said the better. Tho main point is what 18821s to show. That is wortb thinking about.

Some old blunders, which had lost a good many points iu preceding games, were to be avoided in 188L But is a little queer—in fact it is very queer, bow a player will fall into the same trap over and over again, in spite of his purpose to avoid it. When be falls in, heoalls himself a fool, and the teroa, though not very complimentary, is nearer the truth than oould be desired. In spite of the best resolutions some of us have been making fools of ourselves during 1881, and are ashamed of it now, and resolving as usual. How about 1882? Are the same old traps to win the game? lime will tell.

Some started out in tbe game of 1881 with perfect confidonco. Tbey moved boldly and rapidly—and foolishly. They thought tbey were good players, but tind that tbe score has run badly against them. They have lost good points in character. They have lost in reputation. They have lost good .habits. They did not know as much as tbey thought they did. They were not as strong as they thought they were. Whether they have Covad it out, and will cease to play the same rash and careless game, remains to be seen. If they still think that tbey can handle pitch and not become Althy, and play with fire and not get burned, saloons will prosper, the gamMers will have a 'good supply of viotims to pluck, and the back doors of certain houses will have a path woll trodden. If those fellows* who think they know so much and nre so strong, could only know just how Kllly and weak they are, they would bmig their heads lower, play more cautiously, ami win more points. Try a c*refnl game for 1882.

Tim New Year coining in on Sunday, the usual New Years calling will be done on the day following. We trust that nono of our ladies will offer their guests liquor of any sort on that day. And if ntiy so far forget their obligations as to do this we trust ouryonng men will have tho man 11 nesn to say, "No, I thank yon." To begin the year with a debauch under the guise of social calls ia supreme folly —or worse. If women will tempt, cither in brothels or in elegant parlors, ttien men mart be all the stronger to resist. No man can afford to degrade himself by the practice of any vice, even at the invitation of a woman, and even if a lady can oflfar llquor on such an occasion, no lady can urge it npon young men, or be offended if it declined. 8uch urging, and such offense shut out from the list of real ladies. It Is no offense to offend such.

THE invention of the beautiful Christma* cards, which have become so popular, Is credited to Mrs. Olive B. Whitney, of Boston, who began about twelve years ago, to paint a tingle rocebad in water colors on a cabinet card. 8he had never taken lessons in painting bat such was her natural talent that although she painted Ave doaen cards a day, tbey all found a ready market. Mr. Prang, the chrorao man, then found her out and employed her at a salary of IS,000 a year, as a Rower designer. She wore the first painted dross in this country, a blade wlvet, sprinkled with autumn leaves in their natural colors the work ot her own brush. It created a sensation and the idea was instantly adopted by the world of fashion.

PATH'S

criticisms of hor sister singers.

Miss Kellogg, Uerster, NiUaon, Miss Cary and OUKHS,

are in wretched bad

taste, particularly when she ban nothing good to say of any of them except Mia* Cary and Misa tlauk. It should seem that modesty at least would have kept tfc* prima donna's mouth dosed against of rival singers.

JUL HENRY JAMES, JR. The Pall Mall Gazette in speaking of Mr. James' last book, "The Portrait of a Lady," complains In a gratified way of tbe excessive flattery of the English people which characterises this writers' books and professes that it cannot help thinking that Mr. James is unfair toward his own countrymen. It says: "The Englishman who can behold anyone of Mr. James's clever portraits of his own countrymen and countrywomen without a violent temptation to echo the Pharisee in the parable, must be either of a very fine moral fibre or of an intellectual fibre very far from fine."

It is to be hoped that Mr. James esteems this kind of appreciation by John Bull a sufficient reward for his "clever" performances. His work certainly elicits little but contempt from Americans who are worthy of the name. His books, utterly devoid of any moral purpose, are equally destitute of truth and honesty. Tbe highest scope of his writing woald appear to be to make Americans ridioulous, if not contemptible, in tbe eyes of "Europeans," those superior and superhuman beings for whom Mr. James seems to entertain the most extravagant and boundless admiration. His books may tickle the vanity of these superior creatures, but to readers of any serious purposes they are about the most vapid and worthless trash that ever was put intoolegant language and antithetic sentences. They may well be compared to that class of gentlemen, who, in the parlance of the-day, are said to "travel on their shape." His "clever portraits" are simply the evolutions of hisimagination from a mixture of all the peculiarities and eocentridities of individual Americans which his diligence has been able'to find. They are not portraits at all. They are not even caricatures. They are distortions. What quality there is in his looks which should hold American readers t^ thgir perusal is past finding out.

Mr. James is in no proper sense an American. .Of late years he has* lived for tbe most part in Europe and has diligently cultivated the manners and habits of bis idolized "Englishman," whom he is especially proud to be taken for. There is in fact nothing of the American left in Mr. James except that he was born in this country which is doubtless an occasion of much annoyance anT iiumillation to him. It is one of the remarkable peculiarities of Americans that a writer like Mr. James should be popular and even admired in this country. ________

AI/THXUOH Mother Sbipton's prophecy, that the present year would witness the end of the world, has not been fulfilled, tbe year 1881 has been in many respects a remarkable one. Politically, it has witnessed tbe assassination of the beads of two great nations, the Czar of Russia and tho President of the United States thus presenting the slngnlar spectacle of the violent death in tbe same year of the heads of the freest of the most tyranical governments of the world —a curious political parodox. Considered physically, the year has been remarkable for .its extreme heat and extreme cold, its ravages by fire and flood, and the enormous loss of life by casualties on land and sea. In the latter respect it has, perhaps, been scarcely ever equaled. From a solar point of view, the year has witnessed the conjunction of three great planets and the appearance of not less than half a dozen comets, with an exceptional outbreak of spots'on the sun. Statistics will probably show, too, that the year has been signalised by the number and magnitude of crimes committed. Taken altogether, when the record of 1S81 comes to be made up it will be found in some respects to have justified the prophecies made concerning it.

UNABLK longer to bear his insolence and his interruptions, the prosecution demanded that Guiteau be placed in the prisoner's dock, and be was put in his proper |plaoe {last Wednesday. Tbe Judge gave as his reason for not taking this step at an earlier stage of the trial that both of the court and counsel for the prosecution thought tbe conduct and language of tbe prisoner on his trial would afford the best indications of hi» mental condition and that be had given him such unrestrained latitude in order to furnish expert witness as an opportunity of diagnosing hia case. Tbey had now had sufficient opportunity to "make their observations and there was therefore no need for further indulgence. The assassin was greatly frightened at being removed from his counsel and placed by himself in the dook, but soon became as blatant and blasphemous as error, pouring forth a torrent of vituperation whenever the statements of tbe witnesses or counsel lor the prosecution did not suit him. iyi

Tax Patti oratorio at Cincinnati Wednesday light waa a grand success, the cash receipts reaching about 920,000. Patti flaabed in rose color and diamonds, while Miss Gary, who shared the honors of the evening with her, waa dressed in vestal white and pearls. The performance, beard by an aodisoce of 7,00G people, was an am in Cincinnati music. An effort is being made to secure Pstti for the opera festival but with what success cannot yet be known. It was noted that scarcely any broad bats wore to be seen In the audience, the ladies wearing dose fitting opera bonnets or being bare beaded. -ss

THE Guiteau trial isnow In its

THE

TERRS HAXJTE SATURDAY MAIL.

OF the 1200 cases of small-pox reported in New York, 400 have been fatal.

Tnte smallpox is increasing^fit Chicago, and throughout the SUife of Illinois. The pest has become widely prevalent, and there is no predicting where it will end.

old year goes out with a brush Of

Winter. Vennor predicted that the last week in December would be cold. He saved his reputation as a prophet by "the skin of his teeth."

DTTRIHG the week ending December 17, there were 244 cases of scarlet fever reported in New York.Clty, of which 64 were fatal. Last week week th6 deaths from this cause numbered 82.

SULLIVAN had last Sunday 'iiigbt the most destructive fire in its history. Five business houses on the W 38t side of tbe public square were dest&syed, involving a loss of about 140.000.

JTCMBEIS.of

English capitalists have

bought 1,SCO,000 acres of land in Mississippi, comprising some of the richest cotton and timber land in the South. The intention is to colonize and cultivate this land.

THK loss of life by the burning of the Vienna theatre was not so great as reported. The latest information is that the number who perished was 449. But this reduction in the number of victims hardly mitigates the horror of the catastrophe. ___________

LEONARD BACON, L. L. D., the venerable congregational minister, for half a century occupying a leading position in that church, died at New Haven Connecticut last Saturday morning, of heart disease. His six sons—four of them ministers and two lawyers—acted as pall bearers.

COMPLAINT is made of the enormous cost attending the settlement of decedents estates under the new law. By the time all the officials are paid as much as "the law allows them" there is not much left for the heirs ot the dead man. It seems a little singular that these points in a law can never be known until the law has gone into operation. _________

WHILE the complete returns of the census of 1880 have not yet been published those indicating the population of the country Bhow an agregate population of 50,165,783, as against 38,558,871 in 1870. There are 25,518,820 males and 24,686,063 females. The six largest States in point of population are respectively, New York, with 5,082,871 Pennsylvania, 4,282,871 Ohio, 3,198,062 Illinois, 8,077,871 Missouri, 2,168,380 and Indiana, 3,977,301. _____

ABOUT GETTING MARRIED. A Cleveland paper, writing upon matrimony, makes the following estimates of expense:

The wedding expenses proper, including $10 to the minister, would be $332.75, and then $300 must be allowed for a bridal tour, and $750 for furniture after the return. The expenses of living are then estimated at $1,390 per annum, and altogether it is concluded that no young man should think of getting married nnlesii he has at least $2,000 in cash and an income of $1,500 or more.

The Chicago Inter-Ocean, in printing the above item, remarks that it is just such ideas of extravagance that have prevented many young men from settling down to married life, and, as a result, have worked their ruin. The idea that a youog man "must have $2,000 Aaah and an income of $1,500 or more" is vicious nonsense. Nine-tenths of the men who fill the most exalted stations in life to-day had no such amounts to begin with. They married for love, and were brave and inanly enough to believe that strong arms, active brains, and honest purposes would enable them to battle with life and win. Legions of them have done so, aud they can to-day look backward and say success was due as much, or more, to their wives as to themselves.

A young man rarely saves much money until he marrias. The false notions of life and the desire for style in dress, and the efforts to move in "tony society" which seem to have such power over young people, are grievous evils of our period. Look in any dty and any community for the leading men of business, ofthe professions, or of the arts where are they from? Did tb-sy "have $2,000 cash and an income of $1,500 or more?" It is safe to say that ninetenths of them wore married in comparative poverty, and had only the broad, firm foundation of their own brains and energies for future prosperity laid to start upon. When a man has his profession or business or art well in mind and hand, if he is sober and reasonably discreet he has every reason to believe in the future success, and has aright to ask some good girl to share his fortune an| help him earn the prize of the future. The thousands of good girls in every community are ready and capable of just such aid. The general prosperity of the entire country makes the opening year, 1882, a good period to

SCARLET fever prevails to such tent in New York City that it thrcH to become epidemic. Many otjfhe cafes prove fatal, and of these the ggttt majority are in families living in tenement houses. When it is reraenljbered ttrtft these houses are mostly ofthe style known as French flats, from liV^to nine, stories high, with little sunshine^ 41*6 rooms, and no chance for tbe children to get out into the fresh air, it is not muoh wonder that scarlet fever prevails, or that it is deadly in its attack.

GRIM

kind of humor suggests some

of the cheap swindles. The sender of a dollar for "instructions for writing without pen or ink" must have laughed when he read: "Use a lead pencil." That is an old joke. A later one is to offer to send for $5 "an instrument that would play any number of tunes." The buyer must have felt little like laughing when he recoived a common Jewsbarp, and still less so at the intimation that "any fool can learn to play it in a few hours." Under such fanciful names as "Fairy Organ," etc., the common mouth Haron icon is advertised in a similar manner, requiring many times its cost to be paid in advance.

Ir you want to smoke, and smofee cheap, smoke apipe. It is the safest and healthiest way after all. Many of the cheap cigars that are in the market are matte In New York tenement houses. Squalor, misery and filth are the sursounding where these cigars are made, and now it turns out that small pox is raging in the very localities in New York when the moat cigars are manufactured. The cigars are rolled in dirty and perhaps diseased hands and the tips are fastened with dirty paste a*d rolled in mouths reeking with the vilest abominations. If you cant smoke a cigar that you can trace the record of, you had better stick to your native tobacso and day pipe. Some would go further and and

suggest

tbe

seventh

week, but teat last, it appears, approaching the end. It has been a humiliating spectacle, which It has taxed the patience

that the beat policy is, not

to smoke at all. x,,in in i1 .ii. ii.ii •$ THEKB has been a heap of nonsenss written and spoken on the Mormon question, and it would appear to be about time that that tbe matter were dealt with in a practical and buaiosssiike manner. Hon. 8ehuyler Oolfax, who has given tbe subject much attention, expresses some views which go to the meat of tbe matter and are worthy of consideration by tboee In power. His suggestions are, in effect, that juries be selected only from law-abiding dtK sens: that the Territory of Utah be governed by aboard of commissioners, under the supervision of Congress that

liud-patent and naturalisation laws be n«A extended to polygamists restore the right of power, which has been abolished by the Utah Legislature make open living in polygamy a punishable crime, Instead of the mere ceremony of marriage. If this seems heroic treatment, the Mormon question roqnlres heroic treatment, and tbe sooner it la

of the American people severely to endure, and it will be with a Mm of relief applied the better, for the difficulty of ^0 garment. that tbe end of tbe shameful force Is suppressing tbeinstitutton grows greater

reached. 1 constantly. jlierZ fOpUiar JMNMr*

begin life. To "marry for love and work for ricbes" is a good maxim for young/ people to bear in mind.

NOT TO THE FLATTERED. Louisville Post. Legitimate paragraphing is one of the best features of American journalism, and should not be confounded with the insane scribbling that is palmed off for it by tbe resurrectionist of dead and decayed puns. An occasional pun, alight jest, a nit of pleasantry may enliven the lumns of a paper with propriety, but much of that sort of thing is worse tbafe none at all, and the perpetual bamueta of sickly flattery set forth by thefauitual admirers becomes absolute-

TAT PATTI SAYS OF THE SINGERS. From a Philadelphia paper. "You have heard Etelka Gerster sing what do you think of her "Yes, I heard Gerster once—no, twioe. Ob, her voice is very good, but she is merely an instrument—human mechanism, without one particle of expressive animation. She can not act. She is cold to artistic emotion." "What of Clara Louise Kellogg?" "Kellogg is a woman I never admired. She ia cola and passionless, and utterly devoid of expression. Kellogg is a muoh overrated singer." "And Carv, you have certainly heard her added the reporter. "Yes, I have," rejoined Mme. Patti. vivadously. "She is a contralto, ana the best one I .have ever heard. Miss Cary is the very best contralto America has ever produced, and her brilliant success in Europe was richly deserved." "How do you rate Minnie Hauk "SBela a true artist. I regard her as the saperlor of Gerster in every respect. You aee, Mtap Hauk not only has the voios"axra the power and ability to use it., hoi sfte & in actress. She acts from tbe Heart., Ah 1 Messieurs, that's the great point. An opera singer must not only ring, trat she must act and portray the character wiih emotional intensity. All this Miss H#ik does." "Where is Niftson, now?" "I think she is in Paris. Poor Nilsson: she had a good voice, though somewhat lacking expression, but she sang night after night until she wore it out. She sings occasionally in concert, but always to poor bosses. Nilsson's day has passed.

Mas. ROAOH, in the new -McKeen block, invitee a call from ladles desiring the most elegant millinery, or anything from a choice selection of knit and linen underwear at the very lowest prices.

OYSTERS.

Will White, at S8t Main street, is now supplying, st wholesale and retail, the finest brands of Oysters brought to this market, at tbe very bottom prices.

Herz was lucky enough to secure another piece ot that elegant brown Silk Flush, from which were made those GRAND Plush Jackets, which everybody takes for Sealskin, and which hare attracted the attention of this community, and which pat away in the shade any other Plush Jackets ever made in this city, this Plush Is for sale by the yard, or by

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THE CART-WHEEL HAT* Ind. Journal. The New York theaters have made a rule absolutely excluding the Gainsborough eclipses or sombreros, the cartwheel hats, affected by many young ladies. Tbe wearers are turned back at the door and their money refunded, unless they remove them. This is a step which mil meet with general public approbation. The number of ill-bred people who thrust their want of sense and their supreme selfishness upon the public at assemblages has increased of late years, simply oecauae no means have been taken to punish them. The woman who titters and talks, the fool who insists upon telling everybody in his neighborhood at the theater or opera what is coming next, the buffoon who, for want of an audience anywhere else, insists upon expending his small wit upon those unfortunate enough to be near him at a concert, are public nuisances and should be abated. The man or woman who knows not how to behave in public never learned in private, and is essentially vulgar. A man who, by his ill-breeding disturbs and annoys his neighbors at the theater, should be kicked out summarily. But what can be done with the flaunting jade who seeks prominence to advertfca ner unfitness for even that contact with modest and unassuming people which a public entertainment allows? In Europe there is an unwritten law, enforced by the police, which teaches good manners to such unfortunate attendants of theaters as have never had an opportunity of learning them. They are quietly yet firmly removed. Perhaps it is better not to admit than to expel, when the offending party announcea her intention beforehand to make a nuisance of herself by wearing a preposterous hat which makes seats behind her worthless. The rule of the New York theaters should be immediately adopted throughout the oountry.

H. F. SCHMIDT & CO, the enterprising jewelers, opposite the Opera House, are showing an immense stock oT flch Holiday goods, embracing evJ^thlng to be found in a first dass jewelry house.

REKD'S Gilt Edge Tonic is a gentle Cathartic.

—MONEY TO LOAN to Farmers on she best of terms. RTDDME,

HAMILTON A Co.

WATCHES and CHAINS In great variety at H. F. SCHMIDT A CO'S.

For fresh home-made candles,caramels, French and Domestic confections in any quanity and variety desired go to Eiser's.

For the nicest Millinery Goods at the lowest prices, call on EMIL BAUER. aigH of the Big Bonnet. 4th Street.

T'W u. rS*''

WE CELEBRATE

—THE— •""•ft*-

NEW YEARS WEEK

CLOSING OUT SALE$

MANY DESIRABLE GOODS.

WE WILL CLOSE

LARGE LINES OF

WOOLEN HOSIERY

AT A PRICK.

WH WILL MAKE

BARGAINS

UNDERWEAR,

SKIRTS,

CLOAKS,,

SUITS!

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DRESS GOODS

AND

WOOLENS.

LOOK FOR THE GOODS

AND TOU WILL FIND

THE PRICES, DOWN.

H0BERG,R00T|& CO.

WE ARE NOT

SelliBg go*d« at coat, regard* lew of coat, er at treat MMsrlflCM, bat. ire are aelllBg better cl«thing for leas money—every day In every department than those people who promise so mnch. Don't you flarget it. We prove It every day to our patrons.

J. T. H. MILLER

588 Blaln street north side* near Sixth. Ready made or madeto ojrder.

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1882.

Wishing all our many patrons a "Happy New Year" we desire to call attention to the very low prices we are making on Ladies' and Men's Underwear. A Indies Knit Vests for 26c good value at 60cP Our 76c Vest that has been so much appreciated, now made 60c. That superb 91. Vest will be sold at 76c. Our Ladies Scarlet All Wool 91.76 Vest marked down to $1.26., Gents' All Wool Scarlet Vests marked from $2 down to 9L60, and those 91-60 ones are now $1.26 We are also selling a Scarlet Vest for Men at $1. good value at $126. Men's and Boys' White Knit Vests as low as 20cents.

Buckeye Cash Store,

Cor. 6th and Main streets. Terre Haute, Ind.

618 and 520 Main Street.

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