Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 April 1882 — Page 1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

have an organ that will stand by the party with more vim than is displayed at the present time. On the other hand, there are rumors of a now Republican daily, but, under existing circumstances, T. T. believes such a venture would bo sheer folly. If the Express should not succeed in meeting the expectations of it* friends, there might bo some show of Miocess for a rival, but until such disability is displayed, there will be np room ^|.or, should the citizens fail to sustain a good p«jer, there would le little, if any, use in attempting a new venture. There is too much disposition on the part of many to find fault. No two soem to be of the same mind in relation to what a ]aper should le, although all soem to bo impressed with the idea that some enterprising genius should publish a paper in

Saturday

THE MAIL

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

So Ife Sonlli &th Kt., Printing Heuae Square.

Town Talk.

ANOTHER CHANGE.

The -whirligig of time marks rapid newspaper changes in Terre Haute. Within less than three years there have been about five newspaper births here and not one of the bantlings survivos to relate its experience. The climate seems to be unhealthy for newspaper ventures. Within the time mentioned the Express ha* al*o changed ownership twice. The tirst change brought a rapid transition from Greenbackism to Republicanism, and the opening editorial announcing the change rung with a vigor which promised much. Col. Hudson stood guard over party affairs, but soon gave way to Mr. McNeely's management, which has held sway ever since. There seems to be a desire on the part of the citizens to have a better paper than has yet been given them, and the new managers have started in with the determination of filling the "long felt want." Both the new proprietors are young men of character who have been born and reared in this city, and both have plenty of energy and pluck, which it seems to T. T. are requisite to success in the newspaper business. The understanding among the citizens is that the Express will don a new dress that it will be chuck full of news each day, and that its editorial and local departments will be bright and crisp. Anything Bhort of this will be a disappointment, but there is no danger of that. Pluck and perseverance are sure to win and as the young gentlemen have both they are sure to succeed. T, T. wishes them a large subscription list, a liberal patronage on the *part of the business men and fair profits.

Rl'MORKD CHANUES.

With the change of ownership of the Express, comes the rumor that there tfill soon be two other dailies in the field in search of public favor. T. T. is informed that anew Democratic daily is an established fact that the tolegraph dispatches have boen securod for it, and that the I? money is at hand to give it a start. The gentlemen who arc at the bottom of it are not satisfied with the existing state of

Affairs,

and believe that they should

Terre Haute that would rival any metropolitan daily. Men generally have a talent for their own lino of business, but T. T. has yet to meet a citizen who doesn't

know how

any newspaper

should be conducted better than does its managing editor. THE ELECTION*.

The monotonous quiet of the i-am-paign has been varied by a lively skirmish between the papers this week. It is au old adage that figures wont lie, but during a heated campaign T. T. has often noticed that they can bo twisted and used to advantage by any and all parties. There has been a clear case of this during the present week. The annual report of the eity treasurer has leen taken up and tho figures in the agreegate have been used to diow great extravagance. The next morning the same figures appear in analyred form to democratic disadvantage, and thus it goes. The papers itgure day after day, while the voter takes the tables, carefully examines them, draws his own conclusions and then vote?" to suit himself, independent of what the papers may say. The aggregate annual salaries of thegentlemen to be elected next Tuesday is $900, yet tho fight over it is as warm as though tbe torn was that many thousands. And when a man is elected the chances are he will 1*3 so tired of his position that he would willingly retire within tbrw mouths of his election. The other day T. T. heard of a councilman who declared ho would not serve another Verm for 12,600 a yow. He did not pomplain of the work to be done at council meetings, but said the work on committees would take nearly all a man's time, and his regular business suffered in conseqmenc*. SUU.no matter how conscientiously a councilman may discharge his duties, and his record and business Judgment be as clear as a bell, he will be asnailed with charges of corruption and extravagance by those who would like

to make a little political capital no matter what may be the cost to others. PRINCIPLE VS. POLITICS.

While on the subject of politics, T. T. is reminded of a story be heard the other day. There is a resident of Terre Haute wko is a strong advocate of pure water ajjss leverage and has the greatest Abhorrence of anything which inebriates. At an election a few yeare, ago, his party put forward a man who took his toddy with a regularity which betokened his appreciation of it, and was not above going into a saloon on Sunday and playing a game of cards for the drinks., On the other ticket was a man who had not taken a drink or been inside a saloon for thirty years, and who took a deep interest in assisting young men who were trying to overcome appitites for liquor. A wag, who was well acquainted with the temperance apostle, called upon him and asked him to vote for the man who, although unknown to temperance organizations, was a temperance man in the truest sense of the word. His disappointment was great when bis^request met with a flat refusal, and the alleged temperance advocate cast his ballot for party in preference to principle. a disappointed touth.

The other day T. T. sauntered into one of the largest business houses in the city, and in walking around noticed a young man whose face wore a sad and troubled expression. From a fellow employe T. T. learned that the young man is a sort of circus fiend. He is acquainted with all the advance agents whs come around, and never fails to seoure an abundant supply of tickets from each. Wh'en Coup came along the young man, with a generosity out of all proportion to his salary, invited all the young ladies employed in the establishment to accompany him to the show. The invitation was accepted and the time and place of meeting agreed upon. When the hour arrived the Adonis was on hand with a herdic, but alas! the young ladies came not. He waited, but they came not. It finally dawned upon him that he had been sold, and he started for the show, sadder and wiser, and fully impressed that his charms for tho ladies were far below the estimate he had placed upon them. He has not smiled since, and probably never will again.

DISAGREEABLE PEOPLE.

Tollers of old, old jokes. Vulgar souls who ask personal questions.

People who have more curiosity than manners. People who overwork the adjectives "awful" and "splendid."

Rich and vulgar men who fancy that it is aristocratic to be uncivil. Girls who mistake impertinence for wit, and immodesty for good breeding.

Newspapers which think there is no news worth printing except the details of crime.

Nasty young and old men who stand on street corners and make mean remarks about the women who pass.

Wealthy people who have to resort to arrogance of manner to prevent their innato vulgarity "from being detected.

Men who insinuate that such and such women are flirtatious—that they know it because said women tried to flirt with them. ____________

THEY SA Y.

That the larger the handle of the parasol, tho more stylish is the whole contrivance.

That fashionable society of to-day has very little use for a young man without bank account.

That colored stockings are more popular with the girls (and the men don't object to them) than ever.

That the enthusiastic firsherman always fishes with baited breath. That when glass bonnets become the fashion, as it seems they are to be, it will bo dangerous for ladies to get their heads together.

That if you get short weight at our coal dealers, you will get long wait at your barber*—life Is not without its compensations.

That an aurora boreatis in the Spring time presages a cool summer. The same is said also of a comet. We've bad both the aurora and the comet—and we hopo the cool summer will follow.

Not satisfied with Jumbo, the largest elephant in the world, Barnum is trying to "borrow" one of the King of Slam's white elephants, "on any conditions he may choose to require." Bsrnum asks the favor "for the sake of the people of this country." That is pretty good. Certainly the country cannot get along without a white elephant now.

Pkrsoxs

in

a position to know assert

that Harrison, the revivalist, cleared about $1,500 over and above all his expenses daring his three months* revival at Cincinnati.

Give your last year's broad-brimmed hat to the baby to p»ay with and it will be banged into this seven's shape without any expense.

-?v

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 29,1882.

Our Breakfast Table.

The Major after laughing oyer his paper, said. "For a specimen ol American eloquence, listen to this by Richelieu Robinson, a Democratic Congressman, in a wail over the Irish suspects. He says:

When I came here I found the American

_!H A CttlUV A ivwuw

ea*ie drugged and drowsy, ber blood poisoned with political pyaemia, her wing wet with the mildew of monarchy, and her beak filled

ed with the mildew ol monarci..,, with Lowell garbage. I roused her from her ignoble slumber, I brushed the dew from her magnificent pinion, I gave her voice to the music of frecdoip, and sent her with magnificent wing to fan the tempest and soar to thesnn.' Do we pay $5,000 a year for such flap doodle as this.

The Professor remarked. "He should have added this quotation from Martin Chuzzlewit, uttered by Lafayette Kettle in the name of the Watertoast sympathizers. Poking Martin with his umbrella he said. 'May the British Lion have his talons eradicated by the noble hi of the American Eagle, and be taught to play upon the Irish Harp and the Scotch Fiddle that music which is breathed in every empty shell that lies upon the shores of green Co-lumbia?'"

Said some one: "Did you see Harper's, this week, with Nast's cartoon of our Daniel, banging the British Lion It shows Voorbees with the skin of the old lion in his hand, swinging it with great vigor, as he fixes his eagle eye on the galleries, and talks for the Irish vote. He rattles the dried pelt, and pelts the dry Senators, with the same buncombe with which Robinson does the House, and that Dickens wrote up£Q graphict^y, forty years ago."

The Professor asked: "Don't yon believe in defending our citizens abroad?" "Of course I do, but I am not going to be humbugged by cant and spread-eagle orators, eager for something to blow about. Men with the records of those mentioned needn't prate about the^ionor of this nation. They despised it enough* once. No water-toast societies for me:''j

Jack said "I suppose the Watertoast sympathizers are a branch of a certain organization whispered of in the Third ward. First time I ever heard of a Democrat being a Knownothing."

McEwan responded. "You'll hear more when you are older. Our party is elastic enough to take in everybody. It is like Hervey's barn. It knows no North, South, East or West 1" "Oh, you admit the charge then and do not deny it." "I admit nothing—deny nothing. We are going to elect our man in the Third ward. There's too much Police Board and Electricity about your candidate."

Jack retorted. "We would like nothing better than to have you say Ellis is being worked against by anyone intertested in the Gas Works. Any attempt by the friends of a corporation to muzzle an honest expression of opinion, will make votes for our man. It is just as ridiculous to charge such a matter of fact business man as be is with petty wire-working. You know better— everybody does. How many slates have you folks written out to be used in case you could do anything "Not much use for slates! We are not so confident as you, I'll admit." "It is rather a deprivation," said the Major, "to have no candidates to vituperate. Really we are such a clever community, that good men seem plenty in both parties. We are able to talk about principles instead of scandal, and when we go to the polls to vote against such respectable men as Swafford and Lew Martin, like George Washington, we can touch our hats and say, 'Sir, we vote for principles, not men.'" "Very pretty, I am sure. If you are endorsed at the polls, won't you make the money fly next year

The Professor chimed in, "I admire your sudden zeal for economy. Keep it up! city is wide-awake enough to demand judiciously liberal expenditure. I remember something of a proverb which says, 'there is that which saves and makes poor, and that which spends and makes rich.' We believe in spending just enough to keep the town where its wealth requires it should be." "Plenty of room for that," said the M^jor. "Nobody can call this an extravagant people, nor too impulsively enterprising. Many are making money by saving—very few by large, bold undertakings. Seems to me I see numbers of establishments that could double their business and help the city if their policy was not so cramped." "Yes," said the illustrative Jack, thinking of bis salary, "They remind one of the barber, who asked his customer if the razor took hold well 'Oh, it takes holdf first-rate, but it don't let go worth a cent!' said the victim, with a tear in his eve."

The Major continued: "We seem to think Vigo cohnty is omr only territory, and let Indianapolis sell uptoourdoore. We cannot take customers from Danville even, nor Evansville—wish we could brag like the last. Freights on oar railroads discriminate against Terre Haute unless the schedules have changed lately."

Miss Laura looked in at the door to my: "For an ossentiallyconcentrated doll party, commend me to yea. I see

volumes yet in the Major's eye, and despair on Mr. Mao's face. Run for your life, Jack!" "Ah! I see that you, with a five in your purse and fire in your eye, are off for Main street! Now don't go and burden -"every, milliner, merchant, and grocer with advice. Maccaroni says half his customers, when they buy a quart of beans, tell him how to run his business. 'If be'd do this, he could sell more goods if he'd do that, he wouldn't have so ifruch stock,' and so on, and he feels temptfcd to say, 'Dear Madam, if your husband gave smaller pills, he would kill fewer people or if your Pa won more cases, he would have more clients!" .v "Tut, tut! Jack you men ought to know if you let us have our say, we would let you have your way! Your most uncommon sense is common senSe. Go to and she went off, singing: 'Pray dont misconstrue what I say-

Remember, pray, remember, pray, Yon area little My.' "Pati|nce, Jack!" said Derby. "The advice was good. It is wiser to pretend to agree than to dispute. It wius to affect to be pleased, even when you are mad. Indifference pays better than chagrin. I have in mind a merchant who shows his anger towards customers who patronize others, and cuts the man whose coats he don't cut. Of course he loses more than he makes by it." "What do you think of the prospects of your organ, the Express asked McEwan. "They are ^erygood promptly replied the Major, "Nothing like a change of brains, occasionally." "Then you think you and your frfends will quit growling, and give the enterprise a lift, by words, and money, too. Xt will be something new, if you do," said McEwan. "Gufess you are right," Derby re.marked. "For about twenty years the

Express has hfeen the favorite of the Republicans, that is, their favorite abuse. Everybody knew how to improve it, but failed to show how to make a Chicago Times out of a Terre Haute daily, and pay its debts.' I have failed to find any small-city pa pec- quite equal to a New York quadruplOst»?et, or Harper's Magazine in interest, and do. not expect it.

Most of ourbusiness men seem to think a paper should run a year oh

three

or

six montly#' advertising, and that at half

^*Pinpef» must be

run like every business. If men need them they will pay for them. If they do not, they will not. Other kinds of business run a year on two short seasons, with dull trade between, and why not a paper All that is wanted is for men to run a paper as if their existence depended upon it, and it may go. If the enterprise won't support half a dozen men, crowd some out. If the people won't support a five-cent paper, give them a three-cent paper, and let the critics go hang!"

Jack interrupted, "Tell you what, I think the boys will make things bum. We will have new type, turn the paper inside out and upside down, and, with our gallant Col. Dick in the background, everything looks promising."

Derby said, "Of course it is businesslike to promise well. It is unnecessary to run down the old. I am one who always supported the Express. Fact is, my motto has been'my friends, right or wrong.' When the Express changed hands last time, it did gallant work in the succeeding campaign. It has done splendidly the last week. Bright, pointed editorials and keen hits have made theopposition wince, and I want to see due acknowledgement made to the quiet young gentleman who has done better work than he gets credit for."

Jack said. "By George, you are right, Derby. W. H. Duncan has done well, and can do more than some of you know. I have had occasion to admire his remarkable memory of political dfetails, his knowledge of men's names and their records, the results, dates and figures of elections for years back. He can write a column in type while I would scrawl a letter-page, and send it to the printer without an erasure or error, and if you don't know it, he it is that has done all the political work worth spoaking of in the Express for a long time—so I am told."

The Major added. "You are quite correct Jack. Newspaper men know it, and outside of our city the paper stands well, is much quoted, and the editor is highly commended."

It will be sad news to many a prudent house-wife to learn that every time she picks a hole in-an egg with a pin she is violating the palent of an American inventor, but such is the case. Yeare ago an inventive genius devoted himself to discovering a method to prevent eggs from cracking during the process of boiling. He solved the problem by pricking a pin hole in one end of the egg, through which the air in the shell was allowed to escape, and the pin hole he duly patented according to law. Precisely bow he managed to collect bis royalty is a mystery, but the fa^t remains that be has a legal claim for royalty on every pin bole made in an

before boiling.

egg

ABOUT WOMEN.

Detroit boasts a woman with a celluloid nose. "Wasshe a white woman or a colored lady?" is one of the new gags.

Kate Shelly who saved an Iowa train by her courageous and heroic efforts, is engaged to be married to the conductor of the train she saved. She is only sixteen. A model conductor he got.his fair—and kept it.

Senator Mahone's wife returned from a European tour, recently, and her husband welcomed her with a set of diamonds worth $40,000. Mrs. Mahone is said to wear the handsomest and most costly jewels of any lady connected with public life.

Of the Princess of Wales, the coming Queen, it is said: "Her tender care and solicitude for her children are so well known that her example has made it fashionable among titled ladies to affect a fondness for the presence and society of their children who, otherwise, would be left to the care and companionship of servants."

Susie Green might have had her pick from among the young men of Lexington, Ky., for she was handsome and rich: but she preferred a gambler of the flashiest kind. He was known to her for a month as a stock broker, and at the end of that brief courtship she married him. They stopped at a Louisville hotel on their l?ridal tour. He brought her a lemonade in her room, and sbe found it bitter. He had put an opiate in it. When she was unconscious he stole her purse and $2,500 Worth of diamonds, and deserted her.

The wife of Senator Bingham used to tell a pleasant story of the time when her husband was trying to get votes in the Pennsylvania Legislature. He gave a dinner-party to a number of the members,one of whom managed to break a plate-"-one of an exquisite set of Sevrtte of great value. The unhappy guest fell Into an agony, which Mrs. Bingham at oncfc soothed by saying, with a careless air: "It is of no sort of consequence, for this ware is exceedingly brittle, and breaks very easily just look"—and, to illustrate her statement, she took up another of the priceless plates and piacidly broke it into bits with a knife. Fresh plates were brought, and the clumsy metaber was so pleased and relieved that, as soon as might be, he voted fdr the husband of this woman of tact.

FASHION'S FANCIES.

New ulsters are loose. Moire is used for parasols. Spring jackets are very plain. Curtain overskirts are revived. Cotton sateens rival those of silk. Large bows are used on low shoes. Bishop's sleeves are on new wraps. The latest fichus are long and narrow. The velvet dog collar remains in favor. Polonaises have taken a fresh lease of favor.

Red lace mitts are to be worn with red straw hat. Dark compleiioned beauties look well in the garnet straw hats.

Soldier blue is the popular shade for cloth jackets and suits. The present rage is for dark hose, dark hats and dark gloves, all matching.

Dress skirts are wider this season. They measure two and a half yards around the bottom. The draperies are more bouffant and elaborate than last season. "Digitated stockings," with a separate apartment for each toe, are the latest. You can put in half an hour fitting them on, same as a glove, and the next thing will be to have 'em button, sixteen buttons, of course, being the height of every girl's ambition.

Why do the fashion magazines never show the styles of dresses for fat girls? Of the fashion plates the bean-pole variety of young lady has exclusive possession, and the common inference is that the fat girls are not worth dressing. This is a mistake. The fact is that fat girls do not require any information about fashions. They know it all, and it is the lean ones who have to go to the magazines to get posted.

The Lnd.on Lv^I cet says: Nervous diseases and weaknesses increase as the population comes to live on the flesh of the warm-blooded animals. This is a point to which attention has not been adequately directed. 'Meat'—using that term in its popular sense—is highly stimulating, and supplies proportionally more exciting than actually nourishing pabulum to the nervous system. The meat eater lives at high pressure, and is, or ought to be, a peculiarly active organism, like a predatory animal, a? ways on the alert, walking rapidly, and consuming large quantities of oxygen. In practice we find that the meat eater does not live up to the level of his food, and as a conseqoenee he cannot or does not take in enough oxygen to satisfy the exigencies of his mode of life. Thereupon follow many, if not most of the ills to which highly civilized and luxurioms meat-eating classes are liable."

How easily we are persuaded that what want to do is the best for us to do. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all the virtues.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning

There is no way of making a permanent success in the world without giving an honest equivalent for it.

Thegieat mistake made by many who have determined to lead virtuous lives is that they want their pay in advauce.

The true way to advance another's virtue is to follow it, and the best means to cry down anothor'svice is to decline it.

A head properly constituted can accomodate itself to whatever pillows the vicissitudes of fortune may place under it.

Said the wise old lady, with a solemn truthfulness. "If we could once see our lives as God sees 'em it would skeer us 'most to death."

This is the world's creed:—To believe in religion is my duty and I propose to do it to bo religious is your duty and you ought not to neglect it.

If a man is given to much talking you may be pretty sure that he is also given to little doing. He who is most willing to promise is most unwilling to perform.

Profanity is vulgar, senseless, offensive and impious it leaves a noisome trail upon the lips, and stamps condemnation upon the soul. It is inexcusable it gratifies no sense, while it outrages dignity Rnd good taste.

Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practised but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

BANNER PRESENTATION. By a clever ruse, there was ap unusually large attendance at the meeting of Fort Harrison Lodge, I. O. O. F., last Tuesday evening. At an hour designated, some forty of the Daughters of Rebecca assembled in the ante-room, and as the lodge closed, marched in, bearing a handsome $100.00 silk banner, appropriately and artistically embla-« zoned with the symbols of the order. Tlte invasion Was a (Complete surprise, except to a very few members. The banner was presented by Miss Minnie Slaughter, in the following neat address:

Noble Grand Officers and Member* of Fort Harrison Lodge, No. 157, J. O. O. F.: In behalf of the members of Prairie Uty Lodge, D. of R., No 1*7.1 present to you this banner, as a token of our appreciation of yonr character as men, ft* well as tho ninny courtesies extended to us In past yearn. on are to receive this, not as a mere formal ceremony, but as anoffferlngof kindly hearts, which will be made glad by your prosperity and happiness.

As time carries us on in tlic stormy walks of life, some will be laboring in obscurity, while others, more fortunate, will secure position* of honor, and still others will beyond the dark river.

We hope, then, as ysu »urvey this tribute of respect, you will ever have a pleasant thought fort he living, and a tear in memory of thed.ad.

Yon have adopted as your motto the cardinal virtues of the human heart. Be ever true to your principles, and be faithful to your

laws

which .ecure to you the Heaven-

born miwionof visiting the niok, relieving the distressed, burying the dead, and educating the orphan. In the discharge of duty you will receive our cardial support and our "warmest sympathies.

Plefthe accept this token of our regard In the spirit in which it Is given, and in the future, should the hurricane of persecution annul 1 your fair Temple, look toward the motto, and in looking, live, and in Hviug. la I xir. Ho shall your noble order

survive

a

attacks the good in all times shall call It blessed. It shall stand, Assome tall cliff that rears it's awfnl form,

Hwells from the vale and midway leaves he to Though 'round it's breast the rolling cloud may spread,

Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Most of the wrong-doing in the world comes from an uneasy craving for pleasure of some sort. The desire for revenge produces all kinds of malicious and hateful conduct the yearning for gain suggests dishonesty, fraud, oppression, injustice the appetite for sensual gratification leads to gluttony, intemperance and vice. A state of true happiness would render these cravings im jossible the higher gratifications, once thoroughly enjoyed, leave no room for the lower. The great happiness of love annihilates revenge and malice sympathetic pleasures extinguish selfish ones pure and innocent recreations, cheerful society, and wholesome habits preclude the temptations to vicious courses. In a word, happiness, in its truest meaning and best forms, is the foe to wrong doing, and in this sense it may be said that those who are happy are good.

German

undertakers do not exhibit

their ware*, as is the custom in America. Coffins are made to order by them when wanted. Tbisrustom prevails throughout the European continent it is only in the Urge cities that any stock of the commodity is kept on band, and then in an unobtrusive fashion. A few yeare ago an enterprising undertaker in Basle, Switzerland, started im sines* in the American style, and put a couple of small coffins in the window. Crowds gathered to stare at this unwonted sight, and before tbe end of the week the police gave notice to tbe shopkeeper that tbe "unseemly exhibition'' must cease.