Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 March 1882 — Page 1

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ol. 12.—No. 37.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

PTJAUSATLBN OFFICE,

IS Soatli 5th si, Printing House Square.

Town Talk.

TAXING SAI-OON8.

Of a wad den city authorities in various arts of the country nave become imressed with the idea that the saloons hould oontribute their share toward deraying the general expenses by paying city tax. Chicago is now agitating he question, and so is Indianapolis. In •he latter city they are having a lively ime over it, and the war is hot on both -ides. The proposition is that each «Aobn pay $100 per annum. The saloon en are making a vigorous kick, but

indications are that it will be of no vail. T. T. remembers the time in 3rre Haute when, under the famous Jaxter bill, the crusaders waited paently upon the City Fathers at each Council meeting and demanded a tax of on each saloon. They did not connce the Council in favor of so high a ,am, but carried their point in favor of Jbe tax, as one was levied. It is a won*.er that the present temperance movement has not insisted upon something the kind. Probably they think it ould be no use. Out of about 160 in no county not to exceed seventy-five »ay the State license of #100 per annum, md it is acaroely possible that a larger number would contribute to a city fund, must be a hard and unprofitable business that compels a man to run it seven flays each week and twenty-four hours ich day without a margin large enough pay a license of flOO a year. It is a yonder that those ongaged in it do not *eek afield in which the labor would be lighter and the profits larger. Then, \gain, tho saloon men are constantly in dangei^of being harrassed by an inquisiive Grand Jury, who are constantly after the liquor traffic, just as though it "©quired unceasing attention and guarianship. T. T. is reliably informed that .luring the past week

NUMEROUS YOUNG MBN,

ti good family connections, not yet of qje, who are fond of the glass that ine•iates, have received more attention rom the aforesaid band of inquisitors jan tbty ca» fully lumber |f them have been callea upon* relatejheir experience as to the place Vhere they purchase «.heir cloves and ,resh roasted coffee. Usually they are iot noted for their modesty, but when it omes to a call upon the august six who *?ant to know who is selling to minors— ell, they had rather be excused. As an cu9e is unknown in such cases, they to make a virtue of necessity and go, the manner in which a man's memfalls him when in the presence of .at much-feared body, is a caution, 'oung men who can remember overy mutty story they bear, and can relate it 'ith astouuding clearness, or who can ^member every card played in a game old sledge, suddenly find, when in the rosence of the Uraud Jury, that they nnot, if their lives depended on it, tell whether they drank any whisky the day revious, if they drank anything at all, ,r if they did drink anything at all, •here they drank i#or whether they aid anything for it. Occasionally an isuspectlngly Truthful James is found ho tells all he knows, and by so doing, iOceeds in having vials of wrath poured pon his devoted head until he is almost azy. Such a youth generally find that tne such experiences a syfflcleney for ne life, and he la too wily^o allow hlm*lf to be taken in agate In the same

firy runs across I witness who**adm4ts knowledge on a efrrtain pointy bwtabso\tely refuses to impart the required a formation. Such an one'was found a »y or two ago. He would tell nothing, ut Whtie sorting out .a twecty»ftgT pours' sentence in the bastile, for conierppt of courk, he concludedUkfrt In his vwLo discretion would be the better part valor, and Submitted. It is said that lis month the saloons that are running vithout license and those that sell to ninors will have a hard time of It. T. T. »«jrd a rumor that one man has already •entcen indictments hanging over bis ad, with more to follow, ajad all for

r4iing

tp minors. That is right. Men

IHwaell to children ought to be pnniahfor it. People acquire the habit of inking sufficiently after arriving at ««n'aestate^ without having it held out I them during their mtnority, and •bile on this question T. T. would like tuy that he believes net only in the an&bment of the man who violates the by sailing, but also in the punishent of the man who aaka him to viothe law.

COLORKD BOLT.

To a person who doeent take a very op interest in poliUoa or political paryd it is often very amusing to watch tricks resorted to by parties to aempllah the defeat of their enemies, he latest and most farcical device la the tempt to seduce the colored man and

brother to sever his connection with the Republican party and run a machine of their own. The Democrats know they cannet capture the colored vote, so they encourage the proposed bolt, well knowing that every vote for the new dispensation is half a vote for them, which accounts for the deep interest taken in it by the Democrats. The -Nationals are also deeply interested in it because it strengthens them indirectly. One of their number is one of the prime movers in it. He attended the colored meeting one evening and helped his colored brethren to organise, and the next attended the National meeting and explained his movements, at the same time saying that he was going to assist the bolters all in his power, while he had no intentions of voting with them. These are the kind of men who are leading the new movement, and who say they have always been Republicans, but are so no more. As tricksters they are successful, but their day will be short.

THE

ORPHANAOB.

It is with pleasure T. T.^otesthat this city is soon to have an orphanage second to none in the country. Two gentlemen have just returned from a visit to the principal institutions of that kind in the country. During their absence they gained all the information possible on the subject, and will submit their report to the Board of Trustees in a few days, and it is expected'work will be commenced on the buildings immediately. Those who have tho matter in charge have had considerable censure heaped upon them at various times by those who thought their movements were too slow, but their action is a sufficient vindication of itself. If thieir Tactions have been slow it has been because it has been in the interest of the institution. The Trustees now find themselves in possession of ten acres of ground, all paid for, u$m which the buildings are to be erected, about $80,000 in ca?h for the buildings and $300,000 of an endowment fund, all invested at six per cent, per annum. With such a showing the gentlemen to whose care the trust was confided ought to feel proud, and T. T. feels assured that the citizens of Terre Haute will congratulate them upon having the best endowed institution of that kind in the United States.

Susan Perkins' Letter.

DuAlt JOSEPHINE: If there is one ti^ng a man enjoys more than another, it ft talking about something befeoows notflfc?*bodt atttfwhichwould benen* ofBls briSMeas did especially fit be something concerning women. I am led to make this remark by my remembrance of our dinner-table talk a few minutes ago, and Uncle Ezra's tirade.

To begin with, he produced a paper from his coat-pocket and read a paragraph—which I had seen before—about some woman who had become insane from tight lacing then he began his oration: "Now that is simply one of hundreds of cases that might be mentioned if physicians only told the truth about the causes of the diseases they call by such high-sounding names. WhoOVfer heard, in the days of your grandmothers, about women with weak backs, and neuralgia, and the thousand-and-one other complaints which now-a days furnish talk for two women who get together and have exhausted the subject of their acquaintances' misdeeds and the trouble given them by their servants. If the doctors said, 'You are troubled with too much vanity and corsets,' tbey wogjd come nearer the mark."

"Ofcoune

need* Iglv»Inatonce,"Ianswered

don't know why men don't need corsets

•nymoTethmIlu.ow*bytt^Mea

urein talking, had they to give up mak-

flowbntoftne

"Oh, Uncle, hush!" I interrupted at this point "I get most fearfully tired of hearing men go on about tight, lacing. There is, practically, no such thing, as tight lacing nowadays. Women may once, for a few years, have gone to extremes in that way but that has gone by long ago, and most of the present gfefteration know nothing about it whatever. Men get hold of some idea coniteming women, usually from something they find in a paper which is edited by an old bachelor whose motherdied in his infancy and who had no sisters, and is, consequently, about as well qualified to talk about women as I would be to reason with the colored bolters you were growling about yesterday, and they ride poor old idea about and toot it out on all occasions, without stopping to fini oat whether it is true or falae, and

"Good Heavens what a sentence! yon must be endeavoring to prove your freedom from restraint by showing your lang power," chimed in Uncle Ear*. ••Do you "mean to say that modern worn* eH don't wear corsets

dont mean to say any

thing of the kind. Every sensible women who wishes to look respectable and feel comfortable wears a corset but abe does not wear it with a view to narrowing either her span of life, or span of waist. I tell you, that baa gone out. Women need the support a corset gives, and wear them for that ind not—w ••Why do they need them more than men, 1 should like to inquire?" asked Uncle. "If you go to asking me about men's

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TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 11, 1882.

Men are all alike if they be pirates, they cry "No quarter to prisoners," if not, the war cry of civilization is, "No quarter to women."

And that he should talk about the doctors' reports of causes of death in women!

Does not "consumption" cover a greater number of sins than even the m\)chvaunted mantle o'f charity And are we not expected to mourn one as struck down by the visitation of God whom we know to be reaping only what he has sown whose death is merely the result of years of disobedience of every law of health and morality

I heard a lady say only two weeks ago that she could not see why a certain young nuun was "called" so early, when •she and I and everyone else knew perjrell that the "call" was not of it of the Evil One, and that longer

Qur

^.Mytheydo^dgw^eKhmMl qnie

and a dram or a 'bracer'

ings. There seems to be a great differ- Cadets would "scoop" at Louisville

|8 a anbiect you don-t know .boot,

vy Nb man ever believes that women be- portal, with the slant-eyed Chinaman come more sensible, or that some fool- tough as a mule and patient as Job— ish thing once true is no longer so. It driven from the Golden Gate. Derby would deprive them of their chief pleas-

f.MW„ lMk in

one, anamasiongw

fear1—•

Uaantonljr gr-fr mleery tofamilys nwBjpmuiiy The jjiece de resistanceis wild dude, generally acknowledged to be half fish, and 'the m&v* is 'I*uree of salmon, boiled trout wiih green peas, roast wild duck,

and friends. Good-bye tbe "Broom Drill" is advertised again for to-night, and I want to go and see it. Your Own, S. P. if e?

ABOUT WOMEN

ANew York young woman fainted while she was getting married because a person who was acting as usher was the man she really loved.

A woman in Woroester, who gave birth to twins fourteen months ago, has just produced triplets. The next war will find Massachusetts prepared.

The Mormons have sent a huge petition from Utah to Washington in ftvor of polygamy, purporting to be signed by "the young ladies of Utah." It ought to have great'weight.' v.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin says: "Thp wife of a locomotive engineer was in considerable trouble at a crowded party the other evening, she had misplaced her switch and could not manage her train. »$«.if t%-.: 1 1

A talented lady who lectured before a Brooklyn literary association on Monday evening, speaking of Job and his patience, remarked that all sympathies went out to Mr§. J,ob, who made the poultices.

Ail unusually lively weucung »cene occurred up at Ottawa, Can* While the marriage ceremony was in progress at sight! On dit that conjurers who adverthe Notre Dame Cathedral, it was inter- tise second sight, can from long practice, rupted by-a lady walking up the aisle with buta fleeting glance into the most bearing a marriage certificate to the crowded show window, tell most min-

liahing House, of which she is now the "Give it up!" answered J«ck

thirteen different periodicals are issued.

o'clock and remains till 5 in the after- ways at once for •right face'—no man,

noon!she rigns all checks andmoney coulddothat!"

of every sort, looks over the proofs of said the Profeasor, without crediting the

Table.

Breakfast"

the morn- meditated on the $2,000 prise the .. «*»nHar

ings. There seems to De a giw. uiuw- cadets wouia -scoop- as ajuuxoy"". 1 ebce in their requirements, and I don't in the Fall, and thought the company that is of freezingly acpretend to know ^biUond^dgnjnd matter." "ftr tok walk-around every month to "catch on

To which my Uncle replied with adie- to the pahB^hich he -eltw.,.,^ J^Xhow

U„n»„

to. Snmmer uniform o. jaunty

mlinched

a bit of very dry toast, with a

ing disparaging remarkB about the op- edhow it would be to have a lot of offlpositesex," and I retired with the last that hated the sight of criminals 1 rill DC. I 1 C.K W UKLL' word and came up to write to you. enough to rush 'em into the penitentiary

Don't such things make you mad? quickly as the law would allow and They do me. Some idiot of an editor

tion to the whole female world. I think Uncle Ezra fondly imagines every female convert of the South Sea missionaries is attired in a patent galvanic corset of the latest pattern, and that the camfibals in the still more far-off islands of the sea, weave corsets of cocoa fiber and the hair taken from cooked captives lace themselves to death. I am quite sure he would have attributed the major diminishing of tbe population of the Sandwich Islands to this, had I stayed a few minutes longer. ,/ .j

whether

starts such an item ap the one Uncle rade was sent up for stealing a" V" from found, and straightway every mail reads Wm wa8 0f m0re account than a heavy it and credits it and extends its applies- tax-payer putin danger of life and property by a bold burglar. Mrs.Welbywas whispering to the landlady a numberone receipt for a shrimp salad, and Miss

the xfescal in jail whose corn-

Laura silently forecast the dullness of the coming month and planned her Easter dress, and said: "Dear, dear! This ts Lent, and you a lot of trappists sworn to silence for forty days 1 Wake up Say something,

"Didn't wish to interrupt your pious meditation over that Lenten breakfast." Jack spoke: "Mrs. Comfort commutes Laura's sacrifices of mustard, pepper and slch into a monthly stipend for the heathen. I know all about that little box yonder, for tofc J^te? paring." 1 "Much you know! You show me that I have not far to go for a heathen— but there! I forgot that the true Lent

•Is to fast from strife, From old debate And bate.

To purify thy life.' 'It is not to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still

The platter high with fish!' To starve thjr sin,

And that's to keep thy Lent.'

Said the Major: "Very good for you ani Mr. Herrick. I wish to commend to ohr good Mrs. Comfort, while we are in the

way, a

penitential bill of fare I once

asslst&t ln disponing. It la a happy

biaeyexu, he wonder- "«"»«. watt.ng for a nod Not much!

Dame of salmon with mayonnaise, salInon souffle, Anchovy canapees, and Roquefort cheese with French ooffee.' Sueh a bill and a prayer-book would "irmifA me of a Christian .frame of mind." "You are only making fun of "No, really, that was given as a genuine fast-season bill!" "Miss Laura, I noticed you as you tripped by Miss So-and-so with youjr books under your arm, cut her dead!" "No, I only didn't look at her," she replied. "Yes!" said Jact "I never saw such profound unconsciousness of anyones existence as you showed, and yet, she tried to speak to you." "Just like her assurance—she thinks she am pick me up and set me down when she likes—she has the fashion, with several others I l|now, of bowing very graciously to me one day and ignoring me the next, and seeing me again on the next. I uh not going to give her the chance to do this with me inorfe than once. Oh I saw her very well. She had on her last season's brown cash* mere retrimmed with silk moire and new buttons—and a tolerably nice bat, but too much red "Whew! yob saw all this and yet only didnt look at her'—talk of second

bearins a marriage cerancawj me crowaea snow wiuuun, To make a g°od weekly PfPSfJ® would-be groom, with two children «a utely everything In B, but I brieve. SdSSito?

proof pftbe union, mid 4 woman can tell with her eyes shut how **1^

Mrs. Miriam "Florence Leslie, the wid- another is dressed from top to toe, back blv as editoror manager of a daily^paper tfw of the well-known publisher, has, and front!"

ate the jiameof the Frank Leslie Pub- for being smart?'' mske this ^SUiaue &vea

"onk^.

"If mmaieon

J,V

liii

MThat

orders, makes all contracts for supplies "Delay is tbe death of making them readable *ven to those I

I/'KA

...

The Professor continued: "It does

lmpDtaiTe

little womim, wtthont

commences or future oom-

g^ni^ltheymayh.vebeenonly yeeter-

d»y..

ta worth all the trouble of ltotMing to fou^e iadcet and white duck ccntinn.- tooby the««ming ignorance of .very Touraoniewhat involved sentences, my SoT TheM^or w»in .reverie on v»efnll.w in rtiquette requiring .lady white oAe* dear Suan, and BO I drop the point.- O,E chine« q.e.Uon, booing the mer- to make Br^ball button8 used for flannel "Yes bnt without acknowledging me it« of the Rlw«ian Jews and Ilaliia or- ionable parade, ,, suits. to^be right. Bnt I don't expect that, ^.grindera welcomed at the Eutera to look at. number rf hu»e, bUnk a. Red stmw hate w«l .b. popuT«r next

.hU".

dead wall, and wonder what was the matter—" "With Hannah?" interrupted Jack. "You shy thing! Did you see me dodge

mn„h.

CHURCHES, PASTOR AND PEOPLE

Rev. W. R. Halstead will preach in Centenary M. E. church to-morrow morning and evening. Mr. fialsted is a native of Vigo county, and his friends are gratified at seeing in blip the elements of a popular preacher.

The second of the course of lectures on Church|Hlstory will be given by the Rector of St. Stephen's church to-morrow evening.

Dr. Morgail Dix has sixteen assistant ministers in the Trinity parish. In consequence of a suicide occurring in a church in Lincolnshire, England, a soiernn purification service took place.

The religious people of Clarinda, Iowa, had a week of prayer for exemption from small-pox. The icourge passed the town, and now'a day of thanksgiving is appointed.

Wouldn't St Peter have looked surprised if some one had told him his successor would be sendiqg blessings on a wire across the ocean before nineteen hundred years Weire passed?

The Presbyterian says that it has no objection to a modified liturgy for the Presbyterian church but that the fact Is patent that there Is no liaore power in modified liturgies than in modified whisky. ,'x.Kr

J. C. Rossiter, a member of the I*eav itt Street Congregational Church of Chicago, was arraigned at a meeting, of the members last Wednesday for sundry faults* including making grimaces at the pastor and rehearsing alleged faults Of members of the congregation at prayer meetings.^

A Presbyterian at Blytb, Ontario, palled on his pastor and handed him $100 as a donation for missionary work. The pastor, knowing that the man was not wealthy, expressed astonishment, and asked him howhe happened to have so much to give away. The man ex

m/ Ili UUU W Kl W mj

plained that

be had saved. Formerly he used tbe weed Inordinately. He had reformed, and the money was one of the first substantial proofs that his reform was in earnest. ____________

LITTLE SERMONS.

A lie always marries early, and almost always has a large family. Count that day lost in which yotf have not had a good laugh. So says Chamfort.

These raw winds of March will give many a man such a bad cold that he can't tell the truth.

When things seem at the worst there may be a sudden turn in the road that will reveal to you help just at hand.

It is a comfortless sort of comfort for us to know, that", no matter how •wretched and miserable we are, there are thousands far tvofa6 off.

If you want to make the world brighter and better, begin by being kind and loving to those1 within the small circle of your own family, and from that, as a centre, work out as you are permitted to go. rj*^

1 1

THE WEEKLY PAPER,

Indianapolis Times.

0^°ho might

upon application to the comrts of New "Certainly we can," said the litUe YoiA, had her name changed to F&ank Misa. "We have abetter eye Leslie—the name her husband bore. It than any man. Your conjurer wasnots mere whim w!th her, buta it by years of practice and then -"renitjduce much that has ap- "artTAav busness idea, aa she wishes to perpetu- money by it. Why can you pay peared in the drilies, tod in ord®1" *0

myt be p««ntef

prc^rWtor and manager. Every morn- ^counte for the girls iejum ng ihe drIW -»d ^tnjctlve iogu^ y, ^Mrs.#Wbite, ing sheds fottnd^^Itt hfet office by half-past so quickly and. being abte to torn tout on the hnj

all articles before they a» pnbUabed, apborfnn. "Ifthe ybong todi«ihad re th^hm ltaaa Imfi^wUdhj^w i„ve refn-red to i. not an iMoUtecaw, ^d^l" ^UO^ ^ing th^ .SSHUr driU tt. «l^ JTK fcnd"^^ tbe make-up of every periodical before would haw done well. They abouW action, poetry, etc., iritii which ^^r more ijf a word, abe the imiuto tbe profecrtonal. who go on tbe uS^Slie. bavelittle to.do. ItdoMnrt rely for mor». of the whole eatebliahmeat. In wi» their encor» .11 r^ly for the

had fe^ler advisers they ties and qualifications

rt..

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U^is not so much

who

fieldw for^m

Twelfth Year

SCRAPS OF STYLE.

Flounces are wider. Short suits are shorter. Small buttons are stylish. New buttons are ball shaped. Lace-figured ribbons are new. Pompadour styles are revived. -Sunflower yellow is very dark. \f ^.r Tucked borders trim gingham dresses. Trains at tbe moment are rather short. Larger and larger grow both bats bonnets. {«,»!* is

•I'

*-.a rfj.-

Dark straws will be more t^orn than

season. J-uiyinV. ,» Linen-gingham is an old fabric just reyived.

Geometrical designs are on new dressgoods. Faille riobons trim bonnets for early Spring.

Black is much worn at Washington receptions. Wool goods are combined with new cotton satins.

A return to the great popularity of polka dots is imminent. Panier effects are taking a decided place among Spring styles.

On some of tbe Spring overdresses there are pictures of cows grazing. The crab and the spider are favorite creatures In millinery ornaments.

All sorts of sleeves are in vogue, but the coat sleeve remains the favorite. Little silver cats and kittens take the place of pigs and elephants on lace pins.

Low English heels are now used on ladies' shoes—a great change for the better.

The first Spring straw hats and bonnets will be trimmed with feathers and ribbons.

Little girls' dresses grow longer, thanks to the Princess of Wales, who attires her young daughters in skirts reaching to their ankles and so the short-skirt dress of now dubbed the "lackeystyle."

In spite of the high looping of back and side draperies, the costume of tbe season defines the human form divine as much as ever. The effect is still of a princess robe, or forreau, whether the dress is short or trained. .The hair is worn low on the brow, either in a curly fringe or waved. Behind, it droops in the nape of the neck in a coil, in loops or braids. Flowers are sometimes worn in the hair in the evening, in small quantities—just ono large flower era spray near the left ear*.

Striped flannel costumes will, in" a gVeat degree, take the place of the suits made of a monochrome color, which have "been worn for so many seasons past'. Prettier and more effective, however, than either alone, would be a combination of the two—for instance, an underskirt of royal blue and the old gold striped flannel of the smooth finish of

it was tobacco money which-ladies'cloth, with a Watteau tunic of AL. VnI.ia Annnnl a -TaraAV of

royal blue flannel, a Jersey bodice of the same shade, and a graceful little Moorish coat, basque cut, dbuble-breast-ed, and fastened with gold buttons in old medal designs.

A SAMPLE SOCIETY GIRL.

RUBBED DOWN AND SPONGED FOR SUCCESSIVE DISSIPATION.

Washington Letter to the Courier-Journal. "How does your daughter stand it?" I asked of a mother whom I met at the Bachelor's german last Friday night. She answered by telling me that the same woman who took charge of her daughter when an inftmt, still had tbe care of ber, and always waited till her young mistress returned from a ball then she undressed her, save her a sponge-bath, rubbed her well, and. after administering a cup of hot beef tea, tucked her in bed and left her to sleep until noonday, or longer, if she was so inclined. As soon aiftbe young lady awoke she was fed with beef tea, or some food equally as nourishing in short, she was -treated exactly as she would be if seriously ill, and in that way she kept fresh for the afternoon dancing receptions, and tbe germans at night. Nothiiig was expected of her butte enjoy herself and rest when she was tired, so she could continue to participate in the oayeties while the dancing season lasted. Tuesday night this yopng lady danced until 2 o'clock at the gejrman given by the Tuesday club Wednesday night she danced at tbe german given by Miss Dora* tbe daughter of' Senator Miller, 4 a. m. Thursday

th(1

succeedadmira- l^t^untU

8be

danced at tbe reception

tbe

Taew£y

have read them before. Bgyomi experience of the young lady I

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Misses Fox and rested

Sunday, so as to be rwdy for the ger-

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aftearnooja Judge and Mrs. Mac-

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