Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 July 1882 — Page 1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

l'UBLJCATTO!* OITICK,

Wo 16 Sooth 5th KL, Printing House Square.

Town Talk.

THE ENCAMPMENT.

Tbe grand Encampment which has attracted so much attention in Indiatiap11s thin w*ek ia over, and tbo warriors •who have been playing soldier for a time, have all returned to their homes, douned citizens dress once more, and resumed tle daily routine of business. It was a grand affair, if all accounts are to le believed, and the Capital reaped a bountiful harvest from it. Torre Haute has reason to feel proud of the manner in whfdi the McKeen Cadets represented hor there. Organized only about two years, through good work and earnest effort they defeated all their competitors 1n the State content, and in the free for all iitado a better score than the Porter Rifles, Company of St. Ixntis, Louisiana Rifle*, and Indianapolis Light Infantry, all crack companies, and all confident of excelling. The Cadets deserve more credit for their success than has heretofore been awarded them. They are all quite young, but few having attained their nuijority. The company is very small in numbers, having only thirty-two nctivo members from whom to select a drill squad. All of them are working boys, who have to depend upon their own exertions for a livelihood. Thoy have all worked hard during the Hly, and drillod after and before work •hours. Their competitors wore men who hud ovory advantage to be derivod from numbers and taoaiis. Each squad was selected from a membership of several hundred. Each is provided with commodious quarters, and all had ample timo for preparation, devoting months to nothing but drill and military exorcise. Even the twenty-four men •who represented tho Anbury Cadets were selected from a membership of 140, and have leon drilling up to the programme constantly for a mouth or more. Give the -Keens tho same advantages enjo)0il by the other companies, and they can outstrip ail of them. The peoplo of this city should encourage the company. T. T. hopes to see them go on and prosper until they are excolled by none. Their victory should draw many to their ranks. There is enough material hero to sustain as good a company as tho country can produce, and there is no reason why it should not come to the front. In this connection T. T. would suggest a eompetitive drill here during the reunion iu .September next. There is plenty of timo to get it up, and a number of the Indiana companies who are not salistied with the result of this week would have an opportunity to show what they really can do. tiik riKrrrr .iri«Ksiiir.

The democrats are having a lively time of in their attempts to nominate a man who shall, in a manner, guide the movements of tho blind Justice. There an1 only two aspirants for tho jxwition, but their friends warm up the political atmosphere here to a degree which could not be excelled if there forty in the ring TheSltelton men claim to be solid in old Sullivan, and the Davis men claim to have a lease on Vigo, of course each denies the strength claimed by the other. There no doubt that Sullivan could lx *ent to tho convention instructed solid for Shelton,but that gentleman's friends seem unwilling, or afraid to take that step, as the Vigo Democrat* would lx equally certain to instruct for Davis, Sheltvtu oMimot |bo nominated without assistance from Vigo, and the Davis men seem to think they ought to have some assistance from Sullivan. The friends of each are enthusiastic, but in Sullivan, Shelton is undoubtedly the favorite by great odds. He labors under the disadvantage of lieing a new comer, but that will not cut much figure in tho onmpaign. Mr. Iavis is an old resident and is known an able lawyer, to which might be added that ho ia one of the pillars of the Presbyterian church here. While the war in the Democratic camp is raging furiously, the Republicans are keeping quiet and preparing to take advantage of any errors which may be made. No candidates 'haveyet come to the front, but in certain contingencies they will doubtless bo numerous.

IRON NKRVB.

Some time ago T. T. expressed himself pretty freely on the custom of many who are about to commit matrimony of writing on the marriage record "Don't publish." It

is

Saturday

THE MAIL

generally supposed that

when such a request

is

person making

made that the

it is

ashamed of himself

for deserting the bachelor ranks, but T. T.

has

learned that

such

wavs the

case.

is not al-

It

appears

that many

procure license bo are not sure of their bridi**, and it

is said that it

«»e«'urrenee

is not

a

rare

for a d..vMimlate swain

hand,

pitifully relate

to

return to the irrk'" !],, license in

how

the girl had

g».ne back on hun. and modestly ask

f.-.r a

return

of

the

two dollars, which

he

paid for permission from the State take unto himself abetter half. Butt best case heard yet occurred the other day. A yoking man took out & licence, after which, he exacted a promise that

it should

not be published. His reason

was a one. He had not yet asked the young lady if she would form a life paitnerehip with him. Whether he succeeded baa not yet transpired, but he is certainly deserving of success. The man who has that much confidence in his ability to succeed with the fair sex could start a brass foundry with only his cheek for capital stock, and be certain of success. ______________

Our Breakfast Table.

On this particular morning the Majo was skimming over an old paper very old, nearly three days behind the date. "Told my friend that I would read this rather long extract from the Worcester paper about our latest acquisitionThompson, of the Polytechnic. I am glad to see that his friends down East are so sorry to lose him. We can appro date best a man that others hate to part with." "The Polytechnic steals in upon us in a soft-footed sort of way," said Derby. "Don't know as I am very much interested, personally, in it.'' "Well, you want to let your mind saturate thoroughly with the idea that you are going to be vory much interested in it one of those days. I am very sanguine about what it will do for us—and in hurry to welcome its corps of profess ors. Think of the possible influence a citizen like Prof. Thompson, who has cut such a ligure for a dozen years in a smart New England city of 50,000 peoplo. Why, he ia a treasure, and worth more than a flour-mill to us." "Do you think our people generally will show any more warmth to this institute ami its clientele than it has to the Normal?" asked the Professor, somewhat alive to slights shown his school. "It seems to me that our work, faculty, and the hundreds of students, many of thom so bright and ambitious, slip thro' term after term with the entire unconsciousness of this city. The truth is, you even look askance at them, are not iiv terestod enough to brag about the fine school, lino work, and probable effect upon the State at large—and it is funny that you should lose a chance to brag!" "Whrft would yon have?'' asked McEwan. "What are they to Term Haute, orTerro Ilauto tothem? Your Normal itos come hero to a State institution, possessed with one idea, pursue it, do their work, and get away from here as soon as thev can." "I should think they would," replied tho Professor. "I never heard of much Iwing done to interest them in Terre Haute. We are only anxious to get grants out of the State, and not for much more. For one thing, this city ought to make a pretty park of tho bountiful lot around the school. It would get the benefit of it.", "The whole Normal crowd don't bring us much money," said Jack, repeating something ho bad hoard. "More than you think! Perhaps a hundred thousand a year, counting salaries, improvements, living and incidental expenditures of faculty and students!" retorted the Professor. "We will have five hundred students whore the Polytechnic will have fifty."

Tho Major said: "Numbershavenothing to do with the comparison. The influence of tho scientific, but at tho same timo vory practical, training of the Polytechnic will IK» felt by our mechanical and engineering classes. Although the pupils may come from all over the West, you will seo an advance in our city in the spirit that does most to develop our manufacturing and mechanical operations. Why, sir, I am told that Worcester county, where ia that fine school from which Thompson comes, shows the highest record of inventions in the country, and that in proportion to population its manufactures are largest, and that this school has a good deal to do with this showing—which may or may not be so."

Jack said "I don't see any opening in all this for a book-keeper." "No. Jack, this blessed institution may raise the price of book-keeper* and salesmen. Thank Heaven, boys will see that stores and offices are not the only places open to them. I would rather see you holding a tile, out in the Institute, than handling a pen or a pair of scissors. You would make more of a man." "Tbank you, I am sure!"

The Major thought awhile of a wild tract offhs in Greene county, that had some kind of clay on it, ami went on:

Moreover, I know that a school that inclndes study in metallurgy, mining, etcetera, must turn attention to some of our Indiana treasures. No reason why kaolin for the china-maker, stone for the lithographer, ores for the furnace, and other riches abounding here should not be advertised to the world by the experts of the Polytechnic. You will find, after a while, that every crude specimen or queer mineral chunk that turn* up. will be expressed to Terre Haute for an opinion. But enough of

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 8,

this—the ladies have tired of us and the breakfast, and are leaving us." "One word more, Major what is there so practical, after all, in this scientific school?" "Everything! It is as devoted to facts as was old Gradgrind. Consider: you have Professors, each with a specialty and a general training back of it. You have a class of students with a fair Highschool education—good foundation Then they study in principle and application what will fit them foi the greatest interests of this country—mining, railroading, machinery—oh, everything. A graduate could tell a good yeast powder, or the best wire for a fence could analyze quartz, or ventilate a mine could make a drawing for an engine, or file and fit its parts, and then run it could do a journeyman's work at the bench, or superintend tho shop. He has his head filled with technical knowledge, and his hands trained to do whatever be knows. More in our next—good morning!"

Derby said "The Major is very enthusiastic about the advent of his new friend. We need a good man to fill a gap soon to be made." "Who is going away?" "Why, C. R. Henderson I dropped the 'Reverend' from his title because it seems to me hejdoes not owe his prominence and usefulness to his ministerial office alone. He is a useful citizen as well as a good pastor. You know you think of some men as the pastor of such and such a church and never hear of them or feel them outside of it. Of course they are all right to fill their place full, but when they are big enough to fill it and spread beyond it we outsiders get to know them and thej' do us good. I have always felt, though I never go to his church, as if Mr. Henderson had some pastoral relation to me, and he deepened my belief in the faith ho preaches."

Said the Professor: "I agree with you. Much as I regret tho loss, I expected it, and was sure, years ago, that this growing man would make just such a move. He has been vory active herefull of ideas—like the man in the story wi«o touched one stone after another to Hie iron, to find tho philosopher's stone which should transmute the iron to gold, so he has been trying to reach the people one way and another, to get at the ore and turn it into good metal. Work among young people, useful lectures, mental culture, literary work, charitable organization—he has used all. Only, unlike the man in the story, he doesn't throw them away at tho first failure. I should like to soe him carry on his plans a little longer—but it is all right. It does a world of good to move a man sometimes, and now that Mr. Henderson goes to the largest church (of his denomination) in Michigan, lam sure he will grow to it. If our Baptist friends can bring another young man here, but a fow years out of his teens, and turn him over in eight or ten years to some big church, they can at least be proud of him as such graduatos as Taylor, and Henderson.

LITTLE SERMONS.

Tho first indication of domestic happiness is love of one's home. It takes two to make 'a quarrel and two to keep it going it only needs one to end it.

There is a loquacity which tells nothing, and there is a silence which tells much.

There is an old proverb about a tree which is also applicable to men—"When a tree is fallen every one goeth to it with his hatchet."

Never tell people of several faults at once. You will profit them nothing, but discourage them greatly. Rather set their faults gradually before the, as you see that they have courage to bear the sight with advantage.

Nine-tenths of the worry of life is borrowed for nothing. Do your part never leave it undone. Be industrious be prudent be courageous. Then throw anxiety to the winds. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereoftherefore do not borrow any for to-morrow.

THH Chicago Inter Ocean collects some queer capers of the lightning. In North Carolina the other day it struck and killed two babies that a father was holding on his knees: in Dakota it killed a man who was holding his wife in his lap in Kentucky it struck a church and knocked nearly all the congregation senseless in West Virginia it tore a large fNewfoundland dog into small pieces in Arkansas it struck the bow of a row boat and split it almost to the keel in Wisconsin it caught tbe Up of an umbrella, making the man who was carrying it, think he was getting bis section .of 'the day of judgment, and rendering him a cripple for life—and all this in one week. There never was so many atmospheric phenomena witnessed as has been the case this year.

Mr. Florence, the actor, has given up nlBce-seeking as an unprofitable employment, and will resume the toggery of Judge Bard well Slot* again in tbe fall.

From His Window.

Some old fogy said America had so so many millions of people, mostly fools. Wonder if he was here on a Fourth of July. It was refreshing to watch the crowds on Main street on Tuesday. It was refreshing to one Col. Wood, also. Having sneered at the gullible people who were streaming to the Fair Ground, I followed them. I realized that a fool and his money are soon parted, and that the Indian robber made eight or nine hundred dollars on the smallest investment known viz: a parrot show, apoor trapeze performance, and good advertising. The moral is a largo one: it pays to advertise.

The day before the Fourth, some of my young friends were nearly sick at the prospect of no holiday. On a Wednesday, they really were sick because they had the holiday. There is geueiosity shown by the merchants and dealers who give their employes the holiday. It is done under protest, and I hear men breathe a sigh for the old-fashioned Fourth—glorious old humbug. They want a big parade, and all our country cousins to see it, so they can do a big day's trade, and two days' work in one. Rational and characteristic idea of true enjoyment. It would be better to turn the whole town into the country, next year, to swarm through the fields and woods. A place like Joseph Gilbert's, for instance, maintained pro bono publico, is an extra lung for the community, and its ownor a public benefactor, who is clever because—he can't help it.

In a ride around the city, one is struck by startling innovations in architecture. The favorite model for dwellings has been, and is still something like a Greek cross—a sort of oblong box with a transept. I admire as a genius and beautifler of the town anyone who is not afraid of eccentricities in wood or brick. I do not object to the new bank, with its red-and-wbite-striped resemblance to a fine cut of beef—a streak of fat and a streak of lean—and more than satisfied with the reproduction of a rural Gothic church and a castellated dwelling of the last century. We may escape the fate that threatened us at one time—of being described as was Albany, long ago. It was said that Albany was a town of several thousand houses and 30,000 inhabitants, mostly with their gable ends to the street, which was monotonous. 4r

It lias been doubtful wbethor one had better be a bee-hive or Johu Lamb, this woek, there has been such an angry buzzing here and there. Plain talkers of his party have named the majorities by Wards, that thoy expect against him. I do not count much upon this early talk. The Jumbos will prepare a'smudge* that will smoke these fellows into sullen submission.

It is painful to a kindly soul to listen to a kicking Democrat. He calls Davis, Lamb and Co. a gang. Ho sneers at any suspicion of thoir virtue, and swears they are not guilty of such a thing. He says that the very respectable McLean, Mack, Scott, etc., put the young Celt on tho track with tho most interested motives. They think he is tho cheapest sacrifice to be made, and that the party longs for his ontire annihilation if it does not, his pretended backers do. Can such things be? Is there honor among thieves, or any Damon-Pythias business in politics? Nichls!

The ^ong-necked flamingoes at Central Park amuse themselves by swallowing surreptitious walking-sticks. Suspicion of the theft is excited by their dignified attitude after the bolt. There is no reference in this to the McKeen Cadets swallowing the Porters and Light Infantry. No insinuation that if they had bolted the big prize we would have known it too well, or they would have been entirely too-too.

I couldn't ven­

ture to smile, if at heart I was not, like every Terre Hauter, quite proud of the boys. Not so much for what they have done, as for what they can de. Not so much for the laggards who have kept the company back, as for the brisk fellows who never missed a drill. The Company may beat a dangerous point. It may be too well satisfied. It did too well to realise its imperfections, and that it owes a good deal to luck. I say luck advisedly for no one can claim that our boys have done a fraction of the hard work that haa been done by the Porter Rifles. If they are as good, then there is no virtue in work and experience. Yet they have done well, very well, and may yet be at tbe very top.

I think of tbe blaze of enthusiasm in the homes of the successful companies, and tbe "hurrah-boys" that will moet them. I want to aee tbe same here some day—to see our city make onr gallant company its favorite—toy, if you please. One that it can decorate handsomely, boose in a neat armory building, and pat forward as a type of our manly youth, and swear by.

I have seen *n Eastern hill-top a flag-staff that marks the grave of tbej

1882.

model modern-volunteer officer. He drilled, before the war, the finest company in the land. He was an ideal soldier, our Latour D'Auvergne, the First Grenadier. The first tear shed by Lincoln in the late war was when this splendid drill-master, Ellsworth, fell. But in times of peace, Ellsworth made his company the match of veteraus. It did not ape the magnificence of the great New York Seventh. It aimed at perfection in drill ant physique. It traveled from Chicago to Boston, on its exhibition tour, with the regulation knapsacks and blankets. The men swore off from beer and tobacco, and bivouaced on steamer or in hotel with the scanty supplies of active service. They were bound to be perfect, and were nearly so. This Chicago company astonished and electrified the Eastern military companies. It was very much in earnest, and could do anything it aimed to do.

It will pay our Company to study the Ellsworth Zouaves. It will pay Terre Haute to back the boys. It will pay a young man to belong to the picked twenty-four. And it will pay tho Cadets to make it a coveted privilege to belong to that important number, and to resolve uever to tako a man into a contost that has failed to come to time. It is hard work, but some splendid victory in the coming years will pay for it all.

FASHION'S FANCIES.

White is as much worn as ever. English pokes are iu high favor. Large and small cellars are both worn. The sunflower dies hard, but it is moribund.

Tinted veilings are more worn than white ones. Bonnots are gradually encroaching over the ears.

The brims of children's hats are wider than ever. Long finger nails are becoming fashionable.

Cadet blue is a favorite color for children's straw hats. White alpao.., uimmed with velvet is coming in vogue.

Anno Domini 1382 will long bo remembered as tho dress-as-you-pleaso year.

Large bustles are worn only by women who are outside the charmed circle of society.

Eccontricitios in fancy jowolry now tako tbe form of flatirons, shoes, hoes, and rakes.

It is one of tho fashion mysteries of tho day how ever the girl of tho period gets inside her waist.

Among -the London "fast" set of ladies the hair is now worn cut short, and at Brighton young maidens liavo on their cropped heads red jockey caps.

The glided youth of tho day, as desctibed by Truth, wear exceedingly tight trousers, well-defined waists, slightly suggestive of corsets, hats with curved brims, vory tall collars, very light tios, and a white flower placed very near thoir estimable chins. Their boots taper at tho toes to points so sharp as to defy nature and encourage chiropodists.

Tho summer-resort correspondents are talking about tho scarlet appearance of everything and evorybody. This is the red era, thoy say, for that color prevails for the outside of houses, for carriage wheels, and every article of ladies' dress. It is not unusual to see a lady iu red stockings, red gown, red hat and feathers, and carrying a red parasol. Children areas scarlet as their mothers, and even the head gear of the horses have reu pompons. The mania is just beginning to appear out here, but in a few weeks it can be expected to bo epidemic.

The newest fashion in Paris, that of wearing black underclothing, has become the furor among the women of the highest aristocracy. Tho undergarments like those of the Eastern odalisques, are composed usually o» silk, generally of what is called foulard des Indes. From head to foot the Parisian lady appears, when divested of tbe outer robe, as just emerging from an ink bath —the stockings of black silk, tho slippers of black velvet, tbe corsets of black satis, and adorned with black lace, and the petticoats of black surah, filled around tbe bottom with a stiff mousse of black illusion or net.

People who wonder how ballet dancere can stand and whirl around on their toes will become less excited when they know that the shoes worn upon such occasions are not flimsey satin, but blocks of solid wood gouged out, so that the weight of tbe body comes upon tbe ankles, instead of tbe toes.

PRICES OF FOOD DECREASING. Philadelphia Star. Vegetables are cheaper to-day by fifty per cast, than they were a month ago, and more than that, they are plentiful. Fruit is abundant, and will become more so as tbe season advances. The'presence of a bountiful wheat harvest gives the assurance of lower rates for flour, while rapidly incoming supply of new potatoes has thee (Ted of lessening prices from twenty to forty per cent. Meat*, too appear disposed to sympathize with this downward tendency in prices so that the position of affaire, so far as tbe cost of tbe staples of life is concerned, maybe said to nave materialy improved.

Mail

ABOUT WOMEN.

Two Iowa

girls

tore down a tombstone

of a relative they did not love. A Virginian woman has taken her thirteenth husband. He will be the unlucky one.

The girls of Mount Pleasant, Io., tore down the posters that announced an oration by an anti-Prohibition orator.

A Washington woman, when her pet pug dog died recently, had the little darling buried in the family lot in the cemetery.

A Canadian widow recently achieved local notoriety by marrying Uer daughter's widower elevew weeks after the death of her husband.

At a fair of the Congregationalist Church at Palestine, Texas, forty young women gave au exhibition drill with fans, showing how gracofully and bewitcbingly those articles can bo used. Then the fans woro sold by auction, tho prices depending on tho popularity of its contributor, the whole profit reaching $350.

If a Denver woman hasn't what sho wants, she calls for it. Tho other day a lady of that town telegraphed to police headquarters for an elllecr. Thinking that nothing short of a robbery had occurod, tlio Chief dispatched four policemen in great haste. They reached tho house out of breath with running. What did the woman want? ller littlo boy would not let her wash his faeo, and, having tliraatencd him with the police in vain, sho concluded to try what cfl'ect their presence would have.

On leaving her home in Licking County, Ohio, last Fall, Aura M. Scott left her skirts behind, and went to Cincinnati in male clothes. Although only eighteen, and no', coarse in form or features, sho roally passed for a boy. Perhaps the deception was made easy by her careless manner of smoking, drinking and swearing. Sho was successively a porter, clerk in a notion store, and conductor of a horse car, before being found out.

CLARA liELLE.

A REALISTIC STUDY OK A WOMAN BUYING A IKKOK—ADJUSTING A SMI UK.

N. Y. Correspondence Cincinnati Erxnilrcr I have had some fun seeing a woman buy a mirror. What she professed to want was merely a perfectly true handglass—ono that would reflect without distortion but after watching her awhile I becamo convinced that she was looking for one fliat would not only re-

Cut

rodueo her face ^without doterioation, actually improve it. She was a medium sort of woman that is to say, iu age sho was just young enough to expect the clerks to address her as "miss," though sho had a husband and four children sho escaped being plain, yet hadn't beauty enough to mako peoplo stare at hor in short, sho was of a kind to pass unnoticod in a crowd. With a woman who is cither positively pretty or positively ugly the question of looks is settled once and for all, and her mind is calm on the subject but with ono who is about middling there is perjotuaI and harassing doubt. ne day sho is raised to heaven by a compliment tho next day sho is lowered to hades by something that can be construed as a disparagement. Now, she is tolerably well satisfied with herself again she is somewhat disgusted all the time she is in uncertainty. Such, no doubt, was the woman whom I saw going through a stock of hand-glasses, trying her face in ono after another, and convincing herself that all

of

them were unreliable. Her

nose was a turn up, and the mirrors made it fairly raise her upp-r lip iu its wild desire to touch her forehead. Her teeth were big

and

are

irregular, and

when she smiled at the glass they looked like toinbsonen standing all ways in a neglectr1 graveyard. She covertly tried her sweetest smile on one of the squarest of the reflectors, and partially satisfied, bought the article. Well, the best of us

anxious to look well. I laughed

in my sleeve when I heard of a woman who was so abnegatory that, coming across her semblance unexpectedly in a big mirror, while wearing a new suit and bonnet, sho didn't recognize herself, and exclaimed, "Oh, isn't that a pretty lady!" No doubt she covered with'becoining confusion when made aware of her mistake. I'm a simpleton, I am, and believe all I bear, rorinstance. when I see an actress grinning at a joke she ha* heard every night lor three months, besides matinees, I don't doubt that she hi tickled every time. Contrary to that theory, however, is what pretty Annie Russell said to a friend of mine. Annie is the South Carolina farmer's innocent daughter in "Esmeralda," at the Madison square Theater. She Is required in one scene to go on the stage with a bright, ioyous smile on her face. Said she: "It was easy enough to show my teeth in the proper manner along first, but, after a hundrod night* or so.tTie work became so mechanical that sometimes I could not for tbe life of me, tell whether I was smiling or frowning. What dkl I do I just hung a little mirror in the wing*, and adjusted my smile by it just before going on the stage." It wouldn't be a bad idea for our society belles to take a hint from this. Some of tbem have no idea, I'm *ure, how much their *miles might be improved by culture. Tbe trick of smilingjmt enough to show your sixteen souud front teeth and hide ibe plugged seventeenth i» worth acquiring. Speaking of mirrors, the fashionable standard of the day is a long, narrow ono resting on its own base, which stands on the floor. The glass that rests on a iirtrble slab at some distance from the floor is not so near, tbe correct style. An ebony frame, with gilt ornamentation, is the lutmt. The wide mirrors for mantels are also in vogue.