Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 January 1882 — Page 1

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,ol. 12.—No. 29

HE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

XORB POLITICS.

seems as though misfortun&i* ft re ind to follow each other in rapid sue ission until the end of time. Last lmer the country was afflicted with fought which remained with a pertin Aty which almost promised to be per lent. The fall season followed with »lenty of rain and more malarial fever a dangerous character than were be yre known. At present the community in mortal dread of the smallpox, and making strenuous efforts to keep it at distance. As soon ss it is disposed of re will be another infliction of three litiqal campaigns. Ia April a Townlp Trustee, Assessor, and three or four Constables. Two years ago there were* roe tickets in the field and the fight quite lively. Each party wsscerjin ot success, but two of them failed reach the goal. It is not yet known what turn the fight will take in the Xming contest, but there is yet sufflci:t 'time on hand for developments. The Nationals, or the few of them who 'jmain true, are still in the ring, although by no means enthusiastic in the MUM. They cannot hopo to approach irithin sight of success, but they may »o*through the form of putting a ticket ia the field and giving it their support. Jbe Democrats are somewhat divided The opposition of many of them to their Candidate for Mayor last year, and the continued fight among themselves at fe present time does net promise to contribute much to their success in the aear future. The Republicans seem to Jbe serene, and expect success to orown heir efforts as a matter of course. It is #t a little too early to predict candidates, it is pretty certain the incumbent will ttk Us party to give him another chance, And his request will doubtless be complied with. He has made am efficient •Ulcer and is a popular gentleman. A month after the township election, sutMsors to six of the councilmen will have to be elected, and if they ase to have centrol the Democrats will have to is not thought to be

gleet five, which ilritnln nu*.,

*®ery anxious to go into the race again. Their experience has not been very Sleasant. All have tried,to discharge Ifceir duties ftdthfully, *nd each has jrought down upon his head the curses disappointed place-hunters in consequence. Should tho same men run again, the disappointed ones, although of the same political faith, will endeavor to defeat them. This is one of the beauties of politics. As soon ss tho city campaign is over, work will immediately comence for tho Fall campaign. In Noember a number of State officers will 'jive to bo elected also a County Auditr, Treasurer, Sheriff, and two Commis.i'oners. There seems to be a dlsposiilon to hold the conventions and elections as close together as possible, and *T. T. hopes it will be done. Long cam*algns benefit no one but the political lead-beats who make it a point to bleed 4»e candidates on all tickets unmercifully. Tho voting portion of the popula\|ion dislike tho protracted contests, and the animosities engendered by them.

The personalities of politics are of such a uatnre that a small portion of them will go a great distance. By all means cut the battle short. There are very few »men who change their minds about voting after the nominations are made, and it is too often the case that the changeable ones are

always

*\of money.

open to the influence

VACCINATUM*.

Indianapolis. It is certainly very grati fylngtoknow that the people have in torested themselves in a matter of so much importance, and that the work still going on. There are many who have been vaccinas ted who do not deem it necessary to have it done again. On thia point the medical profession differ in opinion, but where there is a doubt on the subject it is surolv better to submit to another operation and be certain of escaping the disease, than be in dread until the danger has psswd. There are others who object to vaccination because they are afraid the matter used in the operation is not pure. With this class of people it is difficult to deal. They dread the operation as much aa they do the disease, and to attempt to reason with them is only a waste of time. They

must be allowed to pursue their own course at the risk of catching the disease and communicating it to others.

PUSHING.

A fashionable amusement nowadays with numerous young gentlemen is punning. One of them is sure to be present on every occasion to air his ability to pun upon everything which is said. It is very amusing to those who indulge in it, but soon becomes excruciating to those who are compelled to sit and listen to it. A good pun on the proper occasion is a good thing, but a little of it can be made to go along distance. The inveterate punster is an inveterate bore, and has always been so considered. No one feels at ease when he is present, but that doesn't annoy bim in the least. He proceeds with the work which he has laid ou for himself as serenely as though his audience requires it of him, and has paid a high price for listening to him. If he only knew the pain he inflicts, and the smothered profanity which he causes, he would desist. Nearly pvery word uttered is taken up and converted into a pun. Sometimes they are very good, but in nine oases out of ten they are abominable. There never was a time when the punster was a popular member of society, but he never realizes the fact. Politeness generally prevents him from hearing something disagreeable, and no matter how coldly his puns are received it does not dampen hi^ ardor in the least nor affect the sublimity of his cheek. He is one of these individuals who cannot be put down until grim death steps in and relieves his suffering friends of his presence.

A SHARP TRICK.

The other day T. T. heard of a transaction which might be considered sharp practice even in Chicago, where they beat the world for shrewdness in business matters. A merchant concluded he was not making money fast enough, so he proceeded to lay in an extra large stock with a view to a profit of a hundred per cent, in the immediate future. As soon as he had all he could conveniently store away, he concluded upon a removal. Storage room was found elsewhere and the bulk of the goods transferred. The next performance on the programme was an assignment, which was faithfully carried out so far as the goods remaining in the store were concerned. Those which had itirtwtse their" ooliatereiiu casn. -Anus the matter stood at last accounts, but

probabiy»nore vrl,. ^rd.i Ihe.Hhj..

Susan renuns L#eu.er»

condition, and consequently suffered

same

there is one thing I am

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VACCINATION.

•f The popular question of "Have you been vaccinated?" It is often unnecessary to aak the question, a» JW»any givo unmistakable signs of an ifmfllrmativo answer. The numerous rubbings of the left arm show that in most oases it "took," and those upon vrhom it did not "take" are very well 'satisfied that they have not to undergo the pain yn inconvenience of a successful operation. In this city T. T. understands that about three thousand persons have taken advantage of the means offered to prevent the amallpox, whioh is nearly double tho number who have doae so in

likely

of a

but that

must go no farther. They may

others,

disregard

If a young lady have brothers it is nearly as bad. What with tying neckties, buttoning gloves, and pinning on button hole bouquets. And Uncle are trials, too at least Unole Ezra is.

I expect, in the name of my sex, an apology, now. Wouldn't you? I could go on with innumerable instances of a like nature but I am charitable, and

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know about the young

t* 1 leave it-after he had embealed aU the

Lumj8COnfidedtohiscare. I know, also, about the young woman

DEAR JOSEPHINK You misunder- JUTGD by the lover she loved, stood me in my last letter. I did not I

conciU(jed

that any young lady did get tight ijj,en, too, I know of how tho lover on cnampafrno on New Year's Day I _v was not loved but wqs accepted. --r„, morely said I did no'lnd

meaning, and promptly proceeded to accuse divers and sundry unfortunate young women of the dreadfully unlady-1 v^Ui like performance of becoming intoxi

coted'themselves,

men

careful water as ducks, nowadays!

am more careful water as ducks, nowadays!'

about than another, it is to make no pensive Jack. statements that will cause innocent per- "Sing, 'Hey, but he doieful, suffer willow, waly!' which is as doleful a

How dreadful it would have been for ditty as I know," ohimed in Miss Laura, a be tipsy! Ayoung man, "We'll have enough of P.tience,now be so drunk that he can hard- that Emma Abbott sings it, and Oscar ly dance without falling, and may have Wilde has broke lo^ u^n ourEngUsh-1 so muddled his brains that he tells bar- strioken people. Just think, standingroom stories to his lady friends in en- room only in Steinway

deavoring to be entertaining at his last ionable New Yorkers turned out to hear call-

does not matter he is a what the New

man. A woman must not do such 'booby' dressed in long hair, kn£ things. They go with other inalienable breeches and long black stockings! said masculine rights, such as smoking, vot- the Professor. and any attempt "Bet you something lead the German in the

temptations in the shape of wine in tume, as he said All the ridicule bewbich to drink New Year's healths, and stowed upon this poet, for poet he is, start young men on the downward path will only advertise what he says, and if whose paving-stones are worn smooch it be good and true it will have its effect. by the tramp of so many feet but they What he has said is very good, and wiU

ruin find

heada clear, and nevar forget the line to Haute—^ pa» beyond which iaaofatel. "Bushels of it," murmured Jack.

Knowing so well all these truths, is it 1 "The »do™m«it of

I would accuse any oao of my sex Uisit, according to

maligners of our sex by publishing aa

for them? No, indeed! I tion of you young l*lfc« to the various

Would you believe it, Josephine? that I interests of the

in rjtf'g «y

TERRE HAUTEt IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14,1882.

as knowing where to find shirts, collars, cuflfe, handkerchiefs, or anything else he needs to wear.

When she goes up stairs to dress for an evening out, she must first lay oat every article her other half intends using before she thinks of beginning her own toilet. Then she begins on her modest adornments, and just as she is struggling with a refractory looping, is interrupted with:

I forgot to tell you that I broke a button off these pants the last time I wore them. Sew it on, won't yon

And she drops her work to do so. That finished and her own attempts rebegun: A

Where is my collar I put it with your shirt, on the bed!" But it aint there. I can't find it." I put it there, I know." Come and find it. I oan't." And she lays down sixteen hairpins and her invisible net and proceeds across to the bed. Of course, the collar is on the floor where he knocked it when he picked up his shirt, and, equally ofcourse, every article he has taken off is on the floor, for his mind is a legal one and does not run to house-keeping.

She spends the remainder of his dri ing time in waiting upon him and straightening up the room, and breathes her fi rstand last sigh of relief when he departs down stairs, dressed, to wait. Her last sigh of relief, because in two minutes comes up the question:

Are you ready In a minute, dear." (Nobody denied, sir, that we say that. We have to.) -i

In one minute more another: W in I am nearly ready." "Well, I don't see what makes a woman take all eternity to dress," he says when she descends the stairs at last, flushed, tired, and fearful of dreadful omissions in her attire "I have been waiting an hour, and you had nothing to do all evening but dress."

to marry the lover she didn't.

on champagne on new *|who was not loved but wqs accepted Topsy, in a garmentjns lid not find myself in that

foun(J the state

mistake as to my| Your Own,

while tempting young "What weather! No shine in the sky,

to ruin no shine on my boots, no shine but the I am sorry anyone should have been glistening waterproofs of you ladies, wrongfully accused ou my account. If who seem as fond of paddling in

moaned

beauties of our own beautiful land ind "Bosh! we want something stronger, with more muscle in it!" "Right there, the finest types of manly, muscular strength, in the old marbles, are the most beautiful figures of man we have!" "Enough! I'll take a buokwheat cake and molasses what'11 you have—a bran cracker ''You are out of sorts, Major. Better resume your politics." "Yes, here are the old: war horses rheumatically capering to the front. McDonald, Pendleton, Bayard, all gently ambling hacks." "Wait till you hear from Voorhees," sad the devoted Mac. -J "Yes, Voorhees and peanuts forever! Heard the new battle cry interrupted Jack. "Why, what's in your feather pate now?" fita#' -v..i «.T«M "Why that's fact—isn't North Carolina boiling over with business? The new tariff oi^foreign peanuts has stimulated that great Southern interest BO that the fragrant fruit is pouring into the shipping depots by the million. Notice they an getting very popular—have got down from the gallery to the first floo^r of the Opera House! Tariff is the thing now to enoourage the sumach gatherer of the South and the Hoosier sorghum raiser!" "lath going into politics myself," said one of the ladies, "for isn't the gallant Governor Porter a woman's right man "Yes, and very weak that was, too sentimentally talking of woman's power in purifying politics and then saying wait for ten years—it isn't time now. If it is time and right in 1892, it is right now, and if it is not right now, it never will he. He got just aa far along with that as with the history of Indiana. Why the Major remembers more of the old days than he did, don't you Major "No sir. I was a little boy of nine when Col. Thompson made his first speech here in •42."' "Oh,you were?" "And I think the Governor is right. Three fourths of the women don't want to vote. Laura here, wouldn't vote if she couldn't send a perfumed little note to the polls {saying, 'dear judge put in a vote for me, for Col. T., he is so handsome and polite, and vote against John Soandao I hoar he drinks beer and is

ni»n whom] iittTe*maIc[. "Oh, forgot to motion that I was a

Then too. I know of howtne lover trang, 7

of affairs in time to

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turn her over

from no after-troubles in the way of headaches. Several others besides your-1 y0U QQ good bye self made the

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to number three. of black muslin, com

"Well, you did want something to do What did you wear others wear, and do?" "It was unique—the ever-useful wa-ter-proof figured in many a domino. Chang, the Chineee giant, was there

These things I know but must not tell dry costumes,-and how they did dance! jjo fooling about that which was enlivened by a lively band at one end of the hall and a lively bar at the other!'' "What! A bar at a respectable ball "Yes, ofcourse you could get your beer, or light a cigar and waltz with it in your mouth!" "Nobody but men drank, I suppose?" "Maybe not. One disguised fairy, her

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Breakfast Table.

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when faah-

York

Times called a

inK, and lodge-going, and any attempti you Professor on the part of woman to usurp such that you lead the German in rights shows danger of anarchy and the same attire within thirteen ^"Te°tells'with b^. 1 thought better of overthrow of all established institutions. The Professor's gen blush It is well enough for ladies to oflfer admitted that

s^r^ly liked the cos-

response in many mind^knowof..

but they must keep their own Why, there is sasthetidsm here in Terre UK

homes

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article concerning wonun's "R«dy in are IwDerhy. 'v one minute," which some would-be-1 beauty is the best (I should say test) of little W in the Sunda an ha it I a he a vi is at on a I liberty of saying that I know something "Oh, yon 'ultra-poetical, sapcMsatbei- school when BnotarjMOM OV^ about the diffisolties under which a] ical, out-of-the-way young man how I fromIndianiH»0

Take, tor eumple, mar-ied friend ot I U« day1—» ihoo*»to mine whose husband's eminently legal "Wilde don't say that he urges a mind soars abovs all trifling things such look for our types in the free, wild (again tod

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ahemt the 'praise of the doll old dsys a revival, the I

vounff with confusion and, I hope, 'con vinos ns if you can that the reign of used daily, from oontiftton, by mentioning aoma of them, {good Queen Ann., CuW p^n- vMt p«ple, riding bom to boa»-UMn

features masked, brown hair

ing over her shoulders, delicate feet in ahoes of real peau de veau—she showed 'em to me—gently hung on me and murmured that 'Jim had just taken hor up and thrown two beers in her. Hal ha!"

Mrs. Welby, horrified, said: "Awful what can beoome of the poor souls? Oh, it is all right with a German ball You can trust 'cm. man, woman and child, with kegs and kegs of beer, but when American girls and boys try it, look out! They are going against their training and principles, and must be damaged."

Shouldn't be allowed, and your Mr, Ringgold, or whoever he is, oughtn't to

him. Yes'm stop!"

111 tell himV I know he will

Who saw the Professor, not our Professor, but Gillette." Derby replied, I went to hear the nephew of his uncle» for they say he is

Henry Ward Beecher's nephew, and the

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only one of the family with strong dramatte instincts who has courage enough

th^we I ^STtbJ "h!!rs do not is be-

rinn* cause they prefer to carry theatricals into

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most gallant of bachelors, the editor of your painting, your art jut fairly started as a star, and the Gasette, has joined the ranks of the the increased

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Hy. better, for*here is Gillette

when I first saw him1ack in the fortiw,"

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ment

Henry Ward was a big star at thirty,

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till dinner, with another meeting at night. He says that he can take those days, one by one and tell all he did, that they were days of unselfishness and stand out clear, ribs, bones and all. Curious, isn't it, that the happiest time and first success of the greatest living preacher should have been in the little Terre Haute of old times—but we have wandered from the 'Professor.'" "Yes you are liable to, when you get to reminiscences but never mind. The Professor is only one of a thousand, and the great American play has not yet soiled paper. Its writer, maybe is now learning his a-b abs, in a Dakota log school-house.

ABOUT WOMEN.

Patti has only twenty-three trunks with her. Nearly every leading Chicago paper has a woman on its editorial staff.

Some one has said, "The first wife is matrimony, the second oompany, and the third heresy."

It is said that Chicago has 50,000 girls working at the various trades for average wages of 92 a week.

Women are not cruel by nature. We never hear of one thoughtless ^enough to step on a mouse.

Somebody heard a Bostsn girl say: "I think he looked like a perfect raving angel in his uniferm! He was awful heavenly!" "Guardian Angels" is the *name of a society of ladies in Washington, organized for the purpose of keeping members of Congress sober.

It is a pitiful thing to hear a young lady say something tastes like moustache oosmetio, and then ehange oolor and try to look unconcerned and indifferent.

A few desks in the reading room of the British Museum are set apart "for ladies only," and one of the standing jokes of the room, perfectly supported by fact, is that they are never occupied, the ladies preferring to be with the gentlemen.

A womau of eighty committed suicide at Arkon, Ohio. She had for many years professed a desire to die, her excuse for delaying the act being that she always had on hand some piece of unfinished work, and people lost faith in

anum. It doesn't take a Georgia girl long to make up her mind. Recently, at Hawkinsville, Mr. Henry J. Sandler called with a friend on Miss Mabel Clark, one of the most accomplished young women in Georgia, and during ,a discussion of matrltnony he proposed to her and was accepted. As soon as a license and minister could be procured they were married, although they had never met before and the whole time consumed in the courtship and marriage was less than an hour.

Miss Belle Clinton, an Iowa school teacher, got into a "prairie schooner," last spring, taking her little brother with her, and went to Dakota. There she homesteaded 160 acres of land, and oy setting out ten acres of thee sprouts acquired the right to 160 acres more. In the fall she and her little brother went back to Iowa, where she is teaching school again this winter. In the spring she intends to go back, and by putting out another ten acres of trees she will get 160 s^/es more. In ten years she expects I*r 480 acres of land to be worth 920 per acre, while among her trees were 3,000 black walnut sprouts, which by that time she expects will be worth $15 anieoe. She and her brother took the apiece. ibn, journey entirely alone.

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Speaking of the lady employes at the Palmer House, an exchange says: "The appearance ai the cashier's desk of the Palmer House, Chicago of a bright young lady, who filled the position with all the expedition and complacency of a man of trained experience, challenged public attention, The proprietor says that "for some time he has been con vinced that for such positions women were more apt to give satisfaction than men. Of course, this was flying into the face of the prejudice of a very excellent people, who do not believe that ladies should be employed in public capacities at all. The success of our experiment has shown the fallacy of that theory. At present we give employ

to three ladies in our office. Two of them are cashiers and one a bookkeeper. To one of these ladies at .the cashier's desk we pay fl-000 per year «nH board, to another $000 per year and board, and to our book-keeper we pay fgOOper y4ar and board. If they choose to live away from the hotel we give •wi an additional allowance of |600 per y«ar. These salaries look big for but they have talent, they do the work, and we are much better satisfied we were with our male employes."

THB total receipts in aid of the suffer ers by the MJbhigan forest Uresis nearly

$200,000.

"-off

How nearly sufficient this sum

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SCRAPS OF STYLE.

Black remains the choice color for street wear. Old umbrellas are in demand for theatre bonnets.

Feathers are more worn than flowers i^ head-dresses. IfThe small bonnets of last season are still favorites.

The taste for embroidery as a dress decoration increases. Algerian plush is the latest novelty in this universally popular trimming fabric.

Ruby shades in satin, plush, and moire are much worn by brunettes this Winter.

The latest styles in Paris give evidence of a return to the fashions of the Bourbon courts.

Side draperies, long and flat, similar to those worn on dresses twenty-five years ago, are revived.

Sleeves slightly gathered into the armhole are more stylish than those made with pufls.

The new copper and brick-dust shades are the rage, but they do not beoome everybody.

The shorter tho sleeve and the longer the glove, the more fashionable is the young lady at a ball.

Scarlet, in large masses, or the entire dress of scarlet, Is foHnd to be the shade re ha id in

A handsome street-dress is the result of wearing a black drap cT ctey- polonaise over a fine black-velveteen underskirt.

Ear-rings are less worn at present than ever before, except when some solitaires or other gems are exhib-hrebehand

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Very pretty, simple ball-dresses are made of muslin and laoe, having full bodices, flounced skirts, and wide sashes of moire or satin broche.

When a woman begins to have a double chin she can make herself look a dozen years younger by tying her hatstrings under it.

The gigot sleeve of the Restoration period is the latest Parisian fancy. It Is not to be .despised, as it is said to be equally becoming to stout, and slight figures.

The artistic dress revival has reached Paris, but the Parisian productions in

piece of every new dress is carefully cut and gummed on one side ef the leaf, and the date attached. Thus the book forms a complete history of a lady's costume from season to season.

Anew eccentricity in dress fabrics is a woolen stuff with a plain ground, on which animala' heads are embroidered or printed for example, foxes' heads in black on a chamois ground, some six inches apart, making the dear things look like a walking menagerie,

A London fashion journal says that at festive occasions in that city "It is the custom to use an aromatic osonizer, a natural air-purifier and perfume combined, which is sold in four-ounoe barrels at one shilling a barrel. The ozonized perfumery requires no preparation of any kind, is merely spread on a plate,

and

quickly permeates the air with the fragrant and healthy smell of the eucalyptus and the pine trees." Thus does modern science bring the forest air to the salons of the crowded city.

LITTLE SERMONS.

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Twelfth Year

It is said that repped goods will stored to popularity, and that another season Irish poplins will be the rage.

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Everybody desires long life desires old age The firefly shines only when on wing. So it is with the mind when^once it rests, it darkens.

We do not always love those whom we admire, but we always love those who

H™Uitpossibletoexpect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning

Few are better qualified to advise others than those who have taken least advice themselves.

It oftentimes rains just hard enough to go the theatre, but altogether too hard to go to church.

They say that money does not bring happiness. This is an experiment, however, which everyone wishes to try for himself.

If you will follow this rule you will save yourself many a "Never bite till you find out whether it is bread or stone."

If yon can trust your neighbor yon may possibly be a credulous man, but if you can honestly trust yowself you must bet good one.

Notning makes so much noise ss a rickety wagon with nothing in unless it be a man who insists on talking when be has nothing to say.

If you think you have a great many friends, rest satisfied with well founded opinion, but don put the matter to the test by trying to borrow money of them.

Many a man who thinks himself a great gun, is nothing more than a big bora.

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