Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 November 1882 — Page 1

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13.—No. 20.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

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i* somewhat of a relief to know that bre will be no more political discussion 111^ next Spring, The people, or, at that portion calling themselves publicans, are thoroughly disgusted '~h the situation, and bail a vacation •h delight. The campaign just closed quiet and tame. With the excepof a few personal attacks in the spa pern, but little was said to arouse excitement. The public meetings

L-e few end it cannot be said that any were rousing. It looked very a« though citizens bad lost all lnin politics and bad determined to •ve its manipulation to the boys who in the bsbit of rnnning the irachine. [wan not nntil after the Ohio election ,t Republicans showed auy signs of

Their defeat itx that state seemed Xirouse withJn them a feeling that they Ht exert themselves to win, and there evidently a determination to make tno*t of their opportunities. While re was little noise and less demonition in either party,there was a quiet, demonstrative perseverance to

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',wn something and somebody. An *,yesr generally results in a very greatlucod vote. This year has been an option. The vote in this township

Tuesday was4only about fifty short that cast for Governor two years ago, Wftjj more than 1,300 above that cant township trustee last Hpring. This expected for some time before the action. During the latter part of last jek a deeper interest was taken in the iult than has been known for many rsi and this Interest was not confined the city alone by any means. Farr* came in, lounged around during day and evening, with both e»rs n, took In all they heard, and went 'uie to ponder. Last Monday mer*»ta wild they had an unusually large %$e, and it came from those troui the ltry who were here to learn what could concerning the political sltuon. Election day was everything which u'd have been desired, so far as the Author was concerned. The day was 1 r, and the sun shone brightly. The ^oapbere was the proper temperature, ''1 the voter was not slow in coming ie polls. The Democrats had the of the organization and the most of money, and both were used for all »y were worth. The Democrat who led fiu running the gauntlet, of fern and depositing in the ballot "x Jthe scratched ticket which he had red beforehand, had more nerve 1 strength of purpose than the average fUl. Generally be was waylaid and 'tendered without a struggle. Some- .• he expostulated mildly and then

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Hindered. Oneo In a while be would out until tho ballot was taken away him, and it was a rare instance in lh he succeeded in carrying out his nlions. These workers at the polls an institution indispensable at an i'tn. Many a man who would Jh a, ticket from principle or for jpdshlp'ft **ke is afraid to do it when oany fratchful eyes are around. On skill in manipulating the wires fch depends, and they are generally Hi to any emergency. With poll It in hand they can tell you just who ^roeed, bow he voted, who has not 3d, bow he will vote and where to him. In this manner very few votes

At one of the preclntes infthe it Tueaday evening after the polls two gentlemen present named who had not voted, and their Itlcal faith, and the number did not eight. a full vote the Republican party ly gains, but the present year yin exception to this rule. The way [vote turned out was a surprise to ail. ourse there are some knowing ones 'vpredicted it (in their minds) long lYtt did not care to say much about oause they wanted to let the candi*down easy: but, with the exeep|of this select few, BO one looked for aph overwhelming defeat. The Re* n-an (party was united the Greenwere inclined to lend them what nee they could, and the temper(«op]« earnestly worked ftfr their

THK CATTMS OP OBFKAT. lhat the battle is over, it is custo look over the field and ascribe ictory or defeat to this cause or that, say the Democratic victory in Intra* brought about by the resoluthe last Republican legislature, Mnit to a vote of the people on the [sitory «aHBdnMO to the eonstitulid this earn* Republican defeat ft-wberv THd it cause the defeat of ipublirmn candidate for Governor

W York by 330,000 majority Did tbe election of Gen. Ben. F. But(to vera or of Maaychasstta DM LM

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Jority of 60,000, in Kansas, to disappear in the recent fight Did it cause Democratic success wherever an election was held? Certainly not. With no issue but that of prohibition before the people Indiana would not have given a Democratic majority, and the victory was achieved through other causes'. Congress has been too lavish in its expenditures. It has squandered money in a manner bordering on criminal recklessness. It does very well to talk about internal improvemnets and their origin with Jefferson, Jackson and Madison, but it wont go down. Increase of revenue, or a refusal to reduce it when the money cannot be kept ont of the treasury, may sound very well on the stump, but the voter is tired of them and wants a change. The vote, too, of Tuesday, demonstrates that the bosses must go. They failed to profit by the lesson taught them at the Chicago convention, in 1880, but now they have experienced a knock down argument which will probably have the desired effect. Boesism must go, whether it be among the big ones or the Bmall fry, who cannot reach the surface and kick in consequence. Not all the power of the administration could save it in the royal domains of Conkling, Cameron and Mahone.

THE RESULT.

Republicans do not seem to be very much worried over tke result, and the Democrats are Inclined to the belief that tbey are in possession of a larger elephant than they can manage. Already a technicality has been discovered which the Democrats declare will prevent the tamendments from coming before the noxt legislature, and the objection raised may defeat them or delay them for. a time, but if the candidates in more than half the Democratic counties in the State are pledged to submission, the delay will be of no longer duration than can be helped. The legislature adjourns some time before the city elections throughout the State, aud should the Democratic legislature declare In favor of submission there would be music In the air not at all unpleasant to Republican ears, and it la more tbau prolwble that this will be the case. In national politics much depends upon the course pursued by the next Congress, which will have a large working Democratic majority. Members of that party are very much afraid A bluuder will be made which will lose them the Presidency again in 1884. They know they can raise considerable of a row and do well in an off year, but when it comes to a general engagement in a national contest they always get left.

THE BUMMER.

Now that the campaign is over the bummer will have to retire once,more to that seclusion which is very distasteful to him. This year the candidate says he has been worse tbau ever before known. With each succeeding campaign it seems his demands are constantly increasing. A few days ago a candidate was heard to remark that he could loan 110,000 a day if he had it, a loan in this esse meaning a donation. For two or three .weeks past the saloons have been constantly crowded with a crowd of bummers ready to devour every candidate who puts fo an appearance, and the pertinacity with which he hangs on generally assures hitn success to a greater or less—generally less—degree. A new dodge resorted to during the recent campaign was to strike the candidate for a month's rent in order that "he might pay up and remain in the precinet to vote, but generally he is content with small donations repeated at regular intervals. Candidates should form a mutual protection association against these bloodsuckers, and give them the cold shoulder on every occasion.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

"Cooking and Castle Building," la the title of a neat little volume placed on our table by the author Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, who has been conducting the the cooking school in this city the past two weeks. It is written in the most fascinating style, "a little like a novel,' "a good deal Ukeacook book," and "very like a volume of sermons." In dedicating the volume to Annie Lippincott, daughter of Grace Greenwood, the author says: "No woman of her age, I am very confident, can read it without profit. And no housewife, 1 flatter myself, can carefully follow its directions and advice without doing^ something to aid on the cause so dear to your and my heart, by having her table supplied with weltprepared food and thus helping to secure for herself, her family, ana her friends, that moat desirable of earthly attainment*—A PI.KASAST HOME."

TAKIXO the vote for Secretary of State as the basis of the party vote, the Democrat are in the majority in the city. These are the majorities:

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Democratic majority In cttjr, 410,

Tlx kfetoers in both {artist aeaftd a complete triumph this time.

A Woman's Opinions.

THE ELECTION

is over and everybody la relieved most of all, the candidates, next, the citizens and lastly,' the "women folks." The successful candidate is happy because be Kf shown people how popular he is. He does not consider that perhaps it is not so much his own popularity that elscted hitn as the other fellow's unpopularity, for about all the intelligent voter can do, now-a-days, is to choose between two evils, snd all the use there seems to be for the Greenback faction is that when a Democrat or Republican gets marl at his own party and yet does not wish to help the other side, he gratifies his spite by voting for a National. The elected candidate is really to be pitied. As a general thing be cannot bear prosperity. His new office brings with it manifold temptations to which no man' is so subject as the office holder. Perhaps, be handles large sums of money and, in a weak moment, appropriates a part of it himself or makes unsecured loansSamdng his friends. Perhaps, he finds himself placed in a position of such influence that a slight commission or omission on his part, too subtle to be punished by the law, may proveof great advantage to those men who placed blm where be is and in whose power he will always be. There ire a thousand little instances where the office-holder must sacrifice his principles, his independence and bis self-respect.

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almost fatal temptation to become intemperate. It grows upon him. day by day, in away which no one but an office holder can understand. We do not have to go outside of our own city to see examples of this kind, men who went into office possessing a full measure of public esteem and cariie out tainted with suspicion and hopelessly intemperate. And yet another evil exists in the fact that a man who has once held office is uever satisfied to settle down to his orig lnal buxlnw, whatever it may have been, aud fool coutent. The political fever never entirely leaves the system.

The defeated candidate can go home and retlect on his folly,bl^me his friendst revile his enemies and feel in his pockets for the money that isn't there. Now he can resolve nevermore to run for office and next week be will be laying bis plans to secure the nomination again a few years hence.

Well, let us be thankful. People wanted a change. They said the Republicans were getting too fat at tbcAr ex pense and so tbey turned in the starviug Democrats to eat up what little the Republicans had left. After all the question is not Democracy or Republicanism but bow mueb is flour a barreled what la beef a pound? Of course men will have their beer and whiskey but the problem is how to provide bread and meat for the women and children. Give ua plenty of work, fair wages and cheap food and the country will prosper, regardless of party. 1 said the women of the country were glad the election was over. One might wonder what difference it makes to them tbey can't go to ward meetings, they can run for office, tbey can't stay out nights and electioneer, they can't vote and they can't celebrate by geUing drunk, but, nevertheless, a good many of them draw a long breath of relief when the battle is over and the smoke cleared away. Onepolitician in a family can demoralize a whole household. The local wire-puller, the man who can always be depended upon to carry his own ward, who manages the "niggers" and holds the Irish vote in his pockethe has his peculiarities as well as responsibilities. For a week or two before election be wears a gloomy, abstracted airIf the destiny of nations depended upon him he answers questions heedlessly or not at all every few minutes he snatches a little book and a short lead pencil out of bis^pocket and begins to figure while h^mutters mysteriously, "first ward, second ward, precinct A, precinct B, majority, plurality, whiskey votes, um, urn,— the book back in his pocket and exclaims, "Hurry up •upper, I must go to a caucus to-night." After awhile he becomes very irregular at meals, swallows down heavy biscuit, burnt steak or muddy coffee in a totally unconscious manner. Finally, be quits coming to bis meals at all, and calculating upon this fact, you dont get any dinner seme day and, just at noon, be rushes in with three or friends to dine. About this time he runt out of money, hasnU a cent, and 'talks in his sleep about" stakes, pools and hedging." He comes home very late at nights with hi* clothes smelling of tobacco: and his breath of—lemon peel. This continues till election morning, when he to up and tramping |all over the house at six o'clock and acta as nervous as if he were abdut to be married. The wise woman sav« nothing bat helps him off as soon as possible and doesn't ask him why both pockets are full of silver quartets. He doean*t come home to dinner but in the evening, a* you are enterlaing some ffcshi enable friends in the parlor, be rashes in, his clothes covered with dust, his hat caved In, his neck-tie gone, demands his supper, bolts it down and is

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off up Unit to hear the "returna." He knows It ki impossible to get any definite news before the next day but still he stays up till four o'clock in the morning and then comes home, knowing no more than be did at eight, tumbles into bed, ^completely exhausted, aleeps till |en o'clock the next day and then finds jut that everybody in town knew the rfeult of the electioci ^yeral hours befoti he did, after all.

And yet people are surprised that women are intereeted in elections. If the truth were told, .most of them are chiefly interested in having it over, no matter who wins. And isn't it funny on election jday to see the men rolling past in barofkchee, trying to assume an indifferent 6r, just as if they had been born in a carriage, or a stable, or something of tba| kind, when probably it is the only day,in the year that they ride in any sort ef Econveyauce unless it be a dray or an express or a patrol wagon.

One tbingsjto certain, this whole system of election will have to be changed when women votli) On last Tuesday they voted in car#nter shops, groceries, feed stores, stable^, saloons and alleys and the wonder it that with such surroundings the voters behaved as well as they did for men -are greatly influenced by by these things. However, this opens a wide field fo/discusaion and we haven't time for it ahw, for, before closing, I cannot reslst#aying a little more about

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which never jrows stale if it Is well cooked. Tbe)essous bave increased in interest during the past week and, after deviled dishes, meats and salads, closed yesterday witll a most delightful one on oysters which the ladies not only cooked but ate without catling, in any outside assistance. Btery lady ought to learn to cook oysten if for nothing else than to keep her hef husband out of the kitchen. Men are so conceited about this particular dish, I suppose because it is the only thing tbey can cook. I never saw a man y4t who didn't .think be could excel bis tvife in cooking oysters. Their experience probably dates from the time when they were college students and one s^jole the oysters, another the crackers aim a third cooked them without any salt or pepper. As a rule, in prepariug (his dUb, men are most successful^wbep tbey serve them up raw.

But let iis return to Mra. Ewing. One scarcely knews. which to admite most, her literary ability, her culinary skill or her business management. Any one who says that a literary lady cannot be a good housekeeper or that cooking in terferes with the higher pursuits or that women have no qualifications for busi' ness, should make her acquaintance Her history, from the time she first conceived*the idea of establishing a School of Cookery, up to the present when she can behold the fulfillment of ber hopes, offers much encouragement to every woman who is struggling to accomplish some cherished^' purpose. She was formerly a lady wealth, devoting her leisure moments to literary pursuits and yet distinguished for the superior excellence of ber refreshments at ber lunches, parties, etc. 8y*P**tay for a very dear relative, who wii a confirmed dyspeptic, suggested the tbooght that if there were not so much bhd cooking in the world there would not be so much dyspepeia and the idea having once taken possession soon became predomment. She was constantly experimenting in cookery and talking among her friends about the great need of schools to tescb cooking, but wealth and luxury are almost fatal to the accomplishment of any great work in life and bad her affairs continued prosperous^ she would probably never bave done more than dream about these things and eipend her energies in preparing daintiet for her epicurean friende but the panic brought adversity and furnished the needed incentive. Her book, Cooking and Castle-building, was first published as a serial in Hall's Journal or Health. She took b#r beautiful lecture, "A Plea for Home," and went to Rochester, N. Y. intending to deliver it free in one of the churches "but not a church in the city would permit the use of its lecture room, saying, "they did not see what that bad to do with religion!" Through influential friends she wss induced to go to Chicago and, after battling with all tboae discouragements which rise up in the path ot ambition, she finally conquered and found her reputation and ber fortupe established. In addition to superintending the Chicago School of Cookery she has applications from all over the country to firm classes, to lecture to Cluba, and to give lessons la young ladies Colleges. When the Chicago Athenaeum, the largest school in the city, move into their uew building, she is to have a dining room, kitchen, range, etc, fitted up for ber especial benefit and give a lesson every day in tbe year. She leaves Monday for Paris but will return in two weeks and give a poet-graduate course of four lessaoaa on *ke, pastry, ftsh and French dishes -v

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TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 11, 1882. Thirteenth Year

woman and second, that .women have no love stronger than thstjof home, no ambition greater than to be a perfect housekeeper. IDA A. HARPER.

Our Breakfast Table.

Clorinda had Appeared, black and rad lant as a newly poliahed stove, gorgeous in a cross-barnsd handkerchief neatly tied with little corners looking like plaid horns.

The Major listened moodily, with a tin-born-sleep-broken air as she arranged for half a day to bear a preachers' trial—not that these preachers had done anything, but that they were going to be on trial at the African tabernacle. Clorinda was anticipating a great treat in hearing three preachers "hand-running in one innings," as Jack remarked.

Jack also inquired if Cloiinda's nephews and cousins had voted all right. 'Of course they did. I nebber knew dose boys to have so much money. Mass Vo'heeze and Mr. Lam' mighty perlite to them. Why they jes' banded Jim and Bob money as if they didn't care for it, and was so kind and pleasant about It—so dif'rent from the 'Publicans who think tbey owns uscullud folks,and turns us out of office and car'yin the mail." "So your Jim and Bob sold their votes?" "No, Bah, nebber! The 'Publicans give 'em money, too, but it was for 'spences!" and Clarinda left in a buff.

Tbe Major remarked "I believe I am ready to vote for slavery once more," and bit his toast with a snap. "Poor Major!" said Jack. "How can be bear up u^der the Democratic jeers and j4bes?' 1- ... "Bear up! I suppose when my Democratic friends have lived under tbe martyrdom of defeat for twenty years that 1 can grin and bear it for two years." "Ah—two! Did you say two asked McEwan. "Yes, sir, I said two." "Aud be means two, too," said Jack. "You were so indignant about Jim and Bob, simple colored boys, taking money—wbatTtlo you think of white Republican loafers that had to be hired to vote their own ticket??' "Well that is bettertban intimidation. Why, sir, I know a poor blind man," said tbe Major, with a John Lamb tremulo, Vwho exercises the God-given right of selling eggs and butter to aupport his old mother, and would you believe it his Democratic patrons said they would not patronize him unless he voted their ticket!" "No, I wouldn't believe It," said Mac. "Well, it waa eo—and he didn't vole their ticket, either." "Do you know said McEwan, "that I quite envy John Lamb bis peculiar position as an Iriah hero I'll wager as be passes tbe homes of bis sympathizers that many a warm-hearted Irishwoman calls to him to God bless him, and pray that the saints 'stand betune him and her'rm.' Each oneof them feels honored by bis honor. He is the representative of their (fettle pride, and at present their substitute for the O'Donaghue or any other tradition tbey hold." "And yet they said Lamb couldn't carry even the Irish vote," observed Jsck. "Somehow we can't most always tell— blood is thicker than water, and the wee little drappte that would make you and me different from other American citizens, would bind us together," said McEwan. "I am sorry about Mr. Davis," said Mrs. Welby. "It seems like you voters don't care much for personal character when the only Cbrtetian gentleman in the lot was defeated." "Waittill you ladles vote, and we will open the polls In the church basements," said the M*jor, with a growl, "and it will make no difference if church people do scratch tbe Republican ticket, as they did do."

Said Jack: "Who killed Cock Robert? '1/ said FUbeck, 'with my little I.' "Who saw him die? *1,' said Greiner and Diall and Relf and lota of fellows, •I aaw him die, with my little eye, which was as dry, dry as a Wednesday morning voter 1'" "How long will Lamb stay in Congress, think you, Derby?" asked McEwan. "(Mi, four or six years," said be, promptly. "Wbew! Why?" "Well, if he keeps straight, looks out for a chance for a brilliant bit, and tickles the amottr propre of tbe Terre Haute people, he is good for two terms." "Yea, if he keeps straight—ah, Hut that, crowd! You know tbe proverb:

He needs a lang ladle that sups with the dell.' I am afraid of it." Jack, with a weary yawn: "Hiscrowd has my money I No shows, so parties, DO hacks—no nothing for me!" "Not even tbe 'Merry War' IOd Its waltx mnqfc "Ab, there you touch me I 111 forgive the German vote for the sake of Lbe German music. We are going to have lots

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of German art for a year or so—opera, tragedy, comedy—all brought but In that thorough, complete, finished style we miss in our slip-shod sensational drama. Laum sent me a reeth of Strauss' music t'other day and said she'd never forgive me If I missed a song from the 'Merry War,**1 and he glided off with: "DuMdl, dulidl, tla gay, immense!

Duttdi, dulidl, shows such good aense! DulMU,dulidi,my feelings are intense!" etc. "Thank heaven!" said the Major, as the door 6hut, "if that's a sample*." "It^i pretty enough," said the Professor. "Yon think ao? Now I wonder you don't take in Ifcft oooktng school. I am told you can see sdWHNiy pretty things in dough—you are so fond of do, re, me," and tbe Major left. "Well, did you ever I" exclaimed Mrs. Welby. "No, never 1" replied the Professor. 'But I must go, and go through my girls'atlases before school. I fished out of one of them yesterday 'Was He Married or Not Married,' aud to-day I'll get half a library on love and tomorrow another on matrimony—they don't go together, you know, even in atlases."

ABOUT WOMEN.

—"The many make the household. But only ene the home Miss Juliet Corson, of culinary fame, is now connected with' tbe seminary for girls at Palnesvllle, Ohio.

The study of violin-playing should bo encouraged among ladies. It teaches them grace in tbe movement of tbearins.

Jennie June declares that there are no scientific dressmakers iu this country. Tbe trouble is, the fashionable dressmaker lavishes all ber scientific attainments in making out tbe bill. There's where all tlie science goes.

Every one who discusses Mrs. Langtry's beauty ascribes much of it to ber fine health and the absence of artificialities. Whatever beauty she has is robust and natural. It is a good idea to encourage this sort of beauty.

She decorated her room with bric-a-bracand pictures, and placed her husband's photo on tbe top-most nail. Then she

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blisafhUy remarked: "Mow everything: is lovely and tbe goose bangs high." Nibe girls of Wheeling took some pictures of actresses.in stage costumes to a photographer, and posed as nearly e» possible in tbe same attitudes and raiment. The portraits somehow got into circulation In society, and tbe earnest ef forts of the girls' parents bave failed to gather the cards in for destruction.

A well known prima donna has informed a reporter, in strict confidence, that not a drop of water has touched be/ faoo for two years. She cleans ber skin with cocoa cream, which "keeps away wrinkles and preserves the fineness." An active movement, with an upward tendency, may now be looked for in the cocoa-cream market.

Miss Alice Moore, of Huntington, Indiana, succeeded to the care of a large dry goods store in that place, upon the death of her father. She has entire control of the business, buying ber own stock and employing subordinates of both sexes. During the five years she baa held this position, she has more than trebled tbe capital which came into her hands.

FANTASIES OF FASHION.

The lateet ideas in jewelry are minature imitations of kitchen utensils. Quill pens are fashionable, and the old peacock blue and brick-red paper and envelopes have been revived.

A fashionable dressmaker says tbe most difficult customer to please is the one who is "tbe same size all tbe way down."

Red hair is now very fashionable and is arranged in severe simplicity. Switches are discarded unless the natural hair is exceedingly scant.

New dresses are lees clinging to the figure than they bave been for years. Skirts are very wide and the puffed drapery is very large.

The New York milliners tried to introduce a bonnet called elephant's ear at their opening, but success was mercifully withheld from it.

Tbe bonnet ornaments of this year, together with bracelets and pins and banglee, bear resemblance to every sort of beast, bird and vermin that was ever seen or dreamed of*

Tbe Gainsborough bat is beginning to dissappear from places of amusements, but an equally serious calamity is following it is in tbe enlargement of tbe poke-bonnet, which can soon answer the purpose of a screen.

Gloves, which for a few seasons have hiton somewhat into disuse among tbe men of America and Great Britain, are again coming rapidly into fashion on both sides of tbe water, and this fall and winter it will be more than ever proper to appear gloved when visiting, in the churches, at tbe theater or In walking.

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