Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 September 1882 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

PUBLICATION OFFICK,

Ho tefloutli 8th sL, Printing Hotwe Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, SEPT. 16, 1882

THIS has been a big week for the Prairie City.

GIVR the soldier boys your biggest welcome next week.

MB. BLAINB'S

plume

has considerably

longtbened since the news has come from Maine.

FIRST blood this year for the Republicans. Their victory in Maine is emphatic. Now what will Ohio do in October

THE prices of wheat and flour have tumbled, but it is not observed that the bakers' loaves are any larger, or the cost of them any less. Perhaps flour is not a very important factor in the baker's business. _____________

THE citizens ef the town of New Castle, Delaware, are favored above all other people. They do not have to pay taxes for the support of the local government and schools. William Penn endowed the town with land which now rents for enwugh to pay all the municipal expenses.

TICK Republican State convention of New York Is called to meet on next Wednesday. There Is likely to be a flght in the convention over tho nomination for governor, and it will bo interesting to see whether the administration candidate, Judge Fjlger will win or not. _____________

TUB country will not mourn because of tho retirement of "My Dear Hubl)eHM to private life. Mr. Hubbell was forewarned by some of his colleagues in Congress that his scheme would do moro harm than all tho money he could collect would lie worth, but he could not be brought to see It. Perhaps he can see it now.

W. U. MCKEEN IS going to break into the newspaper business again. The Indianapolis Heraldjsays a stock company, consisting of Judgo Martindale, W. R. McKeen, Harry Adams, D. M. Ransdell, and Col. llolloway, has been organized, antl will take control of the Daily Times of that city. Col. Holloway will remain as now, editorial and business manager, with the present editorial aud local staff of writers. __________

THK Philadelphia American says that that Senator Harrison is coming to the front very rapidly, as a man who can be trusted to loud tho Republican party,and that he bears an honored name which ho may carry a second time into tho high places of the land. Expressions like these are coming from tho East and West, atid tho Indiana Senator appears to be enjoying a genuino presidential boon?, ______________

POLITICS are as badly mixed in Ohio as they are in this State, and no one can predict with much assurance what will be tho result of tho olectlon in October. Well informed Republicans claim the Stato by a small majority, but the Germans declare that the Democrats will carry It by 2A.OOO majority. There is sucha diversity of opinions thattheonly thing the reader can do is to pay his tuonev and take his choice.

Now that the public schools have opened again after their summer vacation. there is no prettier sight than that of the children winding their way, with books and satchels in their hands, to tho various school houses. The little ones are out in great force, and their bright, happy, care-free faces give a beautiful and picturesque effect to tho streets. Th* school children envy their elders, but not half so much as we older oues envy them!

Ot'n estimated wheat crop this year Is placed at from 500,000,000 to fi00.000.000 bushels, and one of the questions is how wo arp going to dispose of it all. Only about 300,000,000 bushels will be needed to feed our own people with, and this will leave from two to three hundred million of bushels for export abroad. Rut the demand from other countries last year was only for 140,000,000 bushels and is likely to le less than that this year, owing to the improved harvests abroad. So wo are likely to have from 50,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels of wheat on our hands, which we will not know what to do with, so to speak, and in view of this outlook the Philadelphia Time* thinks the price of wheat moat fall considerably below what it now is.

THK Egyptian war appears to W pra tk- i.ly ended. When General Wulseley finally reached the enemy the rebellion was crushed like an egg shell. About twenty minutes fighting was snfBcient to rout the Egyptian forces and throw them into a panl from which there was no tveovery. Arabi Qed but was caplutvd at Cairo, and so, it appear*, the rebel forexw have been utterly dissipated. The English k*» was leas than sixty killed and S50 wounded. Wulseley*s reputation as a brilliant fighter remain* bright. Now that the war is over perhap* the most difficult pari for England remains. She has conquered Egypt but what will she do with it Roasia and and Germany are closely watching bar. The eastern question has always been a troobleaotn# one in European politics, and jHfplexing question* may yet grow u. of the Egyptian war.

PHILOSOPHIZING on the disappointments of summer travel the Chicago Herald says the people hare come home to rest. The question two months ago was, where shall we spend our vacation? Here is the answer: "Some have been to the mountains, some to the seashore some to the lakes,and some to the rivers. At any of these places they have put up with accommodations much more restricted than those to which they were accustomed at home and with prices likewise which would have caused a laugh out of "the other corner" of their» workaday mouths. Nearly all are back again, and in two respects at least vacation h«"» generally broken the promise it made to the fancy. It was expensive and unrestful. A summer resort where one can really rest is becoming an impossibility. The quiet, the familiar faces, the simple life, and above all, the early

hours of

are

ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER says the star route prosecutions will not be dropped at their present stage, but that Brady, Dorsey, et al., will be put upon trial again as soon as the court can take tho eases up. The government claims to have found evidenco which will materially strengthen its case. Meantime the charges ol attempted bribery of the jury will be investigated. The country will heartily Indorse this action of the Attorney General. Now that the subordinates in the colossal swindle have been convicted, being men of limited means, the government should not let up for the big rascals, who make a practice of buying up juries with their stolen wealth, should not be permitted to escape. No matter what it may cost, the foul rottenness of the star route ritis| should be exfosnd to the full light of day, if such a thing is possible. The government can better afford to spend a million dollars in bringing the thieves to justice than to let them get away. £ven If they cannot be convicted, it will l)e some consolation to see them made to disgorgo a large part of their ill-gotten gains in defending themselves from a righteous prosecution. The government should inakean example of these fellows such as will deter others from a similar course of iniquity.

FROM Racine, Wisconsin, comes a report of great excitement ovqr the question of compelling the liquor saloons to close on Sunday. The church people and other citizens stirred up the matter until the authorities were about to enforce the law, when the liqtior sellers gave notice that if such an attempt was made they would close up every other line of business, and at once began "boycotting1*all interested in the movement. The authorities, is stated, are afraid to act in the matter, aud much excitement consequently exUts. A similar state of aflkirs is said to exist in other cities of the State. It seems the liquor men will learn nothing by experience, but continue to go on In the way which is the very worst for them. They ought to see by this time that the aggresive ami lawleas spirit whir» they are exhibiting only serves i« increase the feeling against them, and to strengthen the forces of those who demand their complete suppression. But the probabilities are that tb?v will lesrn wisdom too late.

T«K Cincinnati Gasette, pmiicts that in about two years the Ohio Dntnocrary will be in favor of taxing the liquor tratfic and dewing the on SON day. This i» the present position of the Republican*, and «f they win on it, the the Democrats* will come up and enoamp on the IM1U« field after the Republicans have moved on. Of coune it remains to be teen whether or not the Republicans will win in tbe present fight,

gr. I

Ol Xkttten It is said that medicine takes the leadof all ether professions there— tbe man cf {nbios not unfrequently becoming a doctor.

W5m9f

retiring, cannot be found at the

fashionable summer resorts." A good many sensible people, who are more concerned about comfort than frivolity and show, have found this out, and steer clear of the fashionable summer resorts. They hunt out some quiet, pretty spot, where the scenery is charming, the air pure and the society (what little there is of it) is simple and unostentatious, where, in a word, they can do as they please and not be snubbed by society fops and fools, or annoyed by their contemptible manners^ and these people manage to get both benefit and pleasure out of their .vacation and summering.

AFTKR all Judge Wylie was compelled to accept a partial verdict in the star route cases, obstinately as he fought against doing so. Only two of the defendants are found guilty, namely Miner and Rerdell. Peck and Turner

acquitted aud there was a failure to agree as to Brady, the two Dorseys aud Yailc. The.people, like Judge Wylie, would have been glad for more convictions but should be thankful even for the two. The verdict is no doubt tho result of a compromise by the jury. While there may have been a lack of technical evidence to convict some of the defendants, the country will be slow to believe in their innocence after all the developments which have been mado. They are a bad crowd, to use a bit of expressive slang, and their garments are full of thesmell of corruption. It Is hardly probable that the government will undertake to prosecute them further, as the case was perhaps as strong as It could be made. It is to be hoped at least, that the two convicted rascals will not be able to escape through any legal technicalities or legerdemain. —Since the foregoing was in type the verdict in tho casoof Miner and Rerdall has been set aside, and they have beeu granted a new trial.

INCREASE OF FLUNKEY ISM. There is no doubt that snobbishness is on the increase in this country, particularly in the east. In New York, so it is said, a "Gentlemen's Sons Society" has been organized, the name of which indicates its character. These young fops,— "The precious porcelain of human ciay, as they think themselves, are too fine for contact with ordinary mortality, and must have an exclusive place for themselves, where at least, they will pass for gentlemen, 'whether they would anywhere else or not. And this is but one illustration of the growth of the spirit of social caste in this country. In some of the most aristocratic resorts, like Newport, and Long Branch, it is not considered in good taste for a man or woman to be in any way concerned in trade or manufacture. The very fine snobs—shoddyites, some of them whose fortunes were made in business, not always conducted possibly with stainless integrity—turn up their refined noses at those who live as no honest man would want otherwise to live, by some kind of industry. Think of that, in this broad, grand land of ours, whose chief glory is the energy and developing enterprise of its people. Such a Spirit in America is even more contemptible than it is in England, for there are In fact old families among the nobility whose hands have been unstained by trade or manufacture for centuries. Not that the fact is any credit or honor, to them by any means, but it is at any rate a Tact, which cannot be said of the race of aping upstarts in this country. Here the fops owe their Jpresent fortunes to tbe very thing which they now endeavor to bring into disrepute.

Washington society, too, under tbe influence of the reigning administration, is reeking with this sort of spirit. "It is not the swell thing now," writes a correspondent,"togothe dressing rooms to leave wraps at a party, as the happy couple who keep a footman use him for a hat rack, and other people often borrow one for such evening occasions. The footmen remove the wraps at the door and stand impassive under their mountain of cloaks and coats, until they lay them upon the owners' shoulders and seat them in their carriages. A row of footmen in the hall heaped to the very cockades on their hats with the furry and luxurious opera cloaks of employers is the customary sight at all great entertainments, and is the certain index of the distinguished ^character of the guests."

It is gratifying to be able to say that tbe West is as yet free from this miserable flunkyism, and will, in all probability.remaiu so for rnauy years to come. Its people are proud of the spirit of industrial enterprise which is making the great prairies blossom and bloom, aud is building towns and cities where a few years ago was but a wilderuess. Tbej' welcome all who come for purpose, and stand shoulder tb jjider in the work of developing th&^flJnmunity in which they live, and m|^ig it more enjoyable socially as it grews richer in tbe natural comforts of lim It is the region now where the pureit springs of healthy American .life hive their sources.

SA YINOS AND DOIKds.

Thestreet salutation "I see you're back." A tack and a baby generally fall on their heads.

A farmer in Allegan, Mich., is building a barn of black walnut. The cultured no longer call it hash. Mosaic nutriment is tbe correct form.

A Virginia physician says that he has never known an habitual user of tobacco to have tho typhoid fever.

Only seven days elapsed after tbe wedding of a man at Dubuque, Iowa, before he eloped with the bride's cousin,

A man's curiosity never reaches the

Boston

if

mm

TERRE HAUTE SATO kDAY EVE$TIffr& MAIL

nckofl tfflls

female standard until some one tflls him that hia name was in yesterday's paper. The

Transcript makes ttiis

gestion to parents: "Whip

sug­

JpurcWldren

you are stronger in arm than

in

brain." The Burlington flawkigye remarks that "an Independent ^Republican is about the same thing as a Bob Ingersoll Presbyterian." I

A veteran observer has noticed that all young men who amSke cigarettes are very thin about the Tegs and narrow about the head.

An old lady hearing'that John Bright contemplated visiting this country, hoped that he wouldn't bring bfe "disease" with him.

The best reason yet advanced for having Monday washing day, tbe next day after Sunday, is because cleanliness is next to godliness.

A Buffalo livery-nan says thai white horses are more easily kept tbm any other and that they are gentle, intelligent, and usually sound.

A dtlsen of Cincinnati has discovered that a small quantity of Lltribti gar cheese taken to bed with hlin si night keeps lht» mosquitoes away.

It Is odd how many summer hotel* burn in the East at the cluMeor a dull session. They seem to g« off by spontaneous Otrt»hoatiM*, as it were. j... "•The Natal Twin Association" of Nashville, lenn., pays $2,000 ti each member producing a certificate of the paternity of a pair of twin baUct,

The good times will toad np to a rousing Thanksgiving Day thU year. Crops and turkeys are plenty, appeHtw are good, aud Uteaoiall boy nomero*#.

Henry Ward Beeeber: When I hear IS aald of a man whose bady i» being

conveyed to its last resting place that "he has not an enemy in the world," I feel like attaching this epitaph to his tomb: "Here lies buried a flint that never struck fire."

The Saturday Review admits that there is a large admixture of truth in the apparently paradoxical proposition Ithat, of all branches of study, fiction is the most instructive.

The jealous husband of a pretty woman at Fayette, Tex., branded her with an iron used for marking cattle, making a star and cross, which she must bear on each cheek for life.

A Missouri book agent piled ties across the railroad track,ran ahead and*'saved" a passenger train, and took 120 orders from the grateful passengers without a change of couutenance.

A correspondent of the Boston Journal calls a sleeping-car berth a sarcophagus hermetically sealed, and prays for summer screens of painted wire gause instead of the heavy curtains which smother the summer travelers.

By the use of a magnetic rod, a mine locator has found off tbe harbor of Erie, Pa., the wreck of the schooner Vermillion, which was sunk in a storm nearly half a century ago, with 350 ton of copper ou board, valued at $150,000.

It Isn't often that a couple is married in three different languages, but at Cleveland, Ohio, one day last week, the justice performed the ceremony in English and German, the bride responded in Bohemian, and the groom answered in German.

It is curious, is it not, remarks the Peoria Call, that the only persons in this country who are permitted to collcct and spend money without bond or report are the campaign fund men? Everywhere else in business these two things are insisted ou, but uot here. Is not the very fact prima facie evidence that the whole proceeding is fraudulent? It is all underhanded, sty aud covert. Let in the light upon such actions, and then see bow they will look. But light is the very thing they don't want let in on them.

The singular story of how Mrs. Lohmever, of Philadelphia,who, being childless, palmed off a foundling on her confiding husband, has been robbed of its romantic pathos. Even after he learned of the deception that had been practiced upon him, Mr. Lobmeyer decided to keep the baby, but the gossip of the neighbors and the unpleasaty notoriety were too much for his patience, and he finally returned it to the almshouse from \%bieh his wife secured it. Let alone, he would gladly have kept it, and been tliebappier in its possession, but tbe meddling public would not have it

The wicked aud irreverent N. Y. Sun said last Sunday: A great many sermons will to-day bo preached ou the importance of active work in the churches. Wbon a city clergyman has been off'in the country doing nothing for eight or ten weeks, during/which time his church has been closed, and his people have been spending their Sundays in Coney Island or elsewhere, his firstjthought on returning is tho necessity of immediate labor for the benefit of the ungodly. He says that the church has need of a revival, and that every Christian's duty is to "work while the day lasts, for the night icometh wherein no man can work." Then he maps out tho district in which the church is situated, and appoints committees for each section to visit the people who do not come to church. About the first of November the committees meet together over some oysters and ice cream, and report progress. This is in many instances all the progress that is made. The time for the Christmas festival comes shortly after that, and the energies of tho church people are concentrated on the Sunday school anniversary and the fair for paying off tho debt. And so it goes on until it is time for the next Summer vacation.

There is no telling what women can't do with their clothes in caaes of emergency. There was one woman young and very demure, among the passengers in an Arizona stage coach, and, when a gang of .masked robbers appeared, she told the five men in the vehicle to hand their watches and money to her. They did so, and she hastily hid tbe articles under her clothing. When the highwaymen came to her in their search ehe blusblngly begged them to be content with examining her pockets, vowing with upturned eyes and solemn tones that she had nothing concealed. They gallantly complied, and went away with only a few stray dollars, missing things worth about $10,000. And there was Miss Mary Berger, of Portland, Oregon, who, on returning from a picnic, found the timbers of the Elk Creek bridge on fire. She disrobed, dipped her clothes into the creek, wrapped them about tbe burning timbers, and thus kept tbe fire in check until help arrived.

SCRAI'S OF STYLE.

Tattooing your sweetheart's name on your «rm is tbe latest noodleism. Tbe New York Graphic says that it is tlie present aim of fashionable women tu utake their shoulders sa high and square as possible. Gothic style. Turrets on each wing.

A fashionable paper conveys the intelligence that Turkey red parasols are going out of style because working girls are beginning to carry them. This fai deucediy sad. If this thing is carried to the name extent as some other fashionable idiocies, our aristocratic beauties will soon bave to discard clothing altogether.

No physician can heal the wounds of tbe tongue. Concession is no humiliation, nor admission of error a disgrace.

Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in everything. It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated the less easily deranged.

Self-denial is the most exalted pleasure and the conquest of evil habits is the most glorious triumph.

In real life the woman is the soldier who receives all the wounds, without having a right to any of the decorations.

If we practice goodness not for the sake of its own intrinsic excellence, but forthesakeof gaining some advantage by it, we may be cunning, but we are not good.

Virtue is what man owes to himself. Though there were no heaven, nor any God to rule the world, virtue would be none the less a binding law of life. It is a man's privilege to know the right aud follow it.

There is no place in tho wide world like home. It is the dwelling-place of our heart's treasures, and the first of our lives wo owe to it and its inmates. To make it pleasant and attractive should be t$ke aim of every man.

There is a satisfaction in the thought of having done what we know to be right and there is a comfort, often amounting to bitter and remorseful agony, in the thought of haviug done what consciepce tells us to be wrong.

Mankind worships success, but thinks too little of the means by which it is attained what days aud nights of watching and weariness how year after year has dragged on and seen tlie end still far off all that counts for little, if the long struggle do not close in victory.

It is no doubt the part of Christian courtesy and true charity to take as little notice as possible of the idiosyncracies of our friends and acquaintances but for all that, half the pleasure of living seems to be in laughing at them and congratulating ourselves tliat'our foolishnesses are so much superior to those of the common herd.

THE OIRL WHO DARES. Philadelphia Time.*. Young women who are not smart in much of anything else are always smart in love, 'their intention never fails them, and there is always a stroke of boldness in it that would amaze the world if undertaken by anybody else. Something great., therefore, Is always to be looked lor from the innocent and apiarently docile yovng womou who are v. riven in to a corner by. love. They repeatedly show how tho terrestrial angel rushes'in whoro tbe other kind would naturally fear to tread.

There are a great many illustrations of this, but the recentexploit ofa young woman in Arkansas is a little'out of the oidinary run of illustrations. As young men are more common out there than in this part ol the country—or rather as young women are moro uncommon— this particular Arkansas girl had two lovers. liike a true girl, she was highly delighted with both of them, and probably, just like a girl also, sho would have been dellgUted still more had her lovers numbered a dozen or a score. But as they did not, she bad to get along with two and she endured it like a martyr. When the time came to determine between them she found that she had made a mess of of it by engaging herself to the wrong young man. She was not long in finding this out and notifying tho other young man. Her proposition was to marry the one te whom sho was engaged ana elope with the other in six months.

This scheme seems to have been accepted, as both propositions have been carried out. It was something that could be made effective in Arkansas. It is a good enough thing in its way for any part of the West where boys are cheap and girls are scarco. It wouldn't do here, however, where there aro not bovs enough for every girl to have one, andlt would bo a pretty hazardous undertaking for a girl to carry off two within six months. Nevertheless, it can not always be told what a girl won't do when sho"gets in love. That which goes for common sense doesn't bave much show in a struggle with love.

GIRLS.

The following, from tho Providence Sunday Transcript, regarding girls, shows knowledge of tbe subject, and is to the point: "There are two kinds of girls. One is tbe kind that appears best abroad—tho rirls that are good for parties, rides, vis•ts, etc., whose chief delight is in such things. Tbe other is tbe kind that appears best at home—the girls thatare useful and cheerful in qiedining-room, sick room, and all the duties of the home. They differ widely in character. One is often a torment at home, the other a blessing. One Is a moth, consuming everything about her—the other is a sunbeam, inspiring light and gladness ail around her pathway. The right kind of education will modify both, i^nd unite their good qualities."

A WO MANS IDEA.

An insurance agent applied to a woman in Austin to induce her to get her husband life insured. "Will I be sure to get tbe money if be dies right offT'' "Certainly, madame." "But will you

do me to have his life insured If be don't die? I knew there was some catch about this insurance business."

AH

CHURCH QOINO.

WHY MEN

DO

NOT REOULARLY AT­

TEND StTBDAY SERVICES.

Columbus (O.) Hernltl.

On Sunday nearly every preacher in the city looks down from bis pulpifc upon a congregation largely composed of women. Thlss igbt will only be tho often repeated experience of Sunday after Sunday, and suggests the question, where are the men? It has become the custom to refer to woman-kind as "tbe devout sex," but for all that, mon bave souls to save and a future on the other side el this life: of which the parson preaches—and the question is pertlueut why are they absent from church?

In olden times the religious faith of men made a host of martyrs no death was so sweet to them as a death for the Master's sake their faith equipped great armies to wrest the tomb of our Savior from iufidel hands their faith resisted tho Inquisition, sought martyrdom rather than surrender it, and caused them to defy the greatest hardship to people on this continent. Is it supposaoie that the religious faith in those men, which has emblazoned the pages of history with sufferings and heroism, haa dieii out In modern mon? We would be reluctant to believe it we rather believe that the hope of a hereafter is as dominant in human life now as it has ever been—but why then is he not seen in our churches?

Formerly the family attended church, the father, mother sons and daughters, but now tbe mothers and daughters do this service before tho world for tbe nily. 3 tea

cepted as a fact that the men who go to church, included all the virtue aud morality of the community, and that those who did not attend were graceless, Immoral and sinful, then the question V| would be answered. But this we know is not tbe ease. There aro many men, the great majority in this and every other community, who seldom or never atttend church, yet who are upright citizens, who lead exemplary lives, and aro neither profane nor doubters.

WRONG PLACE FOR HIS HAT. "Jack," said an affectionate mother of Stapleton the other morning, "you really must come homo earlier nights. Do yon suppose Esmeralda likes to havo you stay so late?" "I'll tell you bow it was," replied Jack. "Ywu see, she was sitting on my hat and I felt a little delicate About mentioning the fact." Very well, I'll givo you a nit of advice. Tho next time don't hold your hat in your lap."

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