Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 December 1882 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

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The average saloon keeper of Terrs '•ate to far in advance of his brethren a other portions of the stale on ail ointa pertaining to bis business. The tale Liquor Dealers' Association origbere, and the state osnvention of tor dealers held in this dtj lastsumtr was the work of Terre Haute talent.

Cow that the battle smoke bss cleared wsj from tbo November disaster the eense paying element of the saloon elelent is devising ways and means to lose the doors of those who transact •jeir business in defiance of Isw sod or-

The legislature meets next month, id among other measures to which its ,tention will be called is one providiog ir the proper punishment of those who 11 liquor without license. At the preait time not ope half of those engsged the saloon business in this county ,y the license. There are at least eighty Joona in Vigo county without licenae, htch is an annual loss to the school nd of $8,000, and it is ssfe to say that ie proportion throughout the state is ss

If this evil could be remedied it ould be grest sdvantage to every tiniate business. But how is it to be 'complished? Judging from past ex•rience It seems aim est an impossibil,.y. Heretofore the lsw has only been '•u forced through spite work or through system of spies, and in either case the prosecuting witness is a very unreliable inioisl. Ass rule men who are in the ^bit of drinking in saloons have very mcherous memories when in the presce of a grand jury. It is very rare to i.nd a man who can remembor on Monday where he drank on Sunday, or Vbetber lie drank any intoxicating quor at all that day. If bis memory au be refreshod sufficiently to make

Jm say be was in a certain saloon, It ils him suddenly when asked if he ,»nk anything there. So far as the versge cltlwn is concerned prosecutions or violation of the license law must always be a flat failure. Some people that the liconse paying eloment of he business should be able to put down lawful traffic as a means of protection themselves. Doubtless they would like very much to do it, but they are ifrald of retaliation on the part of the ^en whom they would have to presents. Men who pay license oftsn Jteep sir houses open night and day, and ry on a larger business on Sundsy j*n any other day of th week. It is id that of all the saloca iln this dty tere is but one in which the law is not flolated in some wsy.

With such a state of affklrs in exflenoe it will be a difficult matter for 9 statesmen who figure in legislative lis in Indianspolis to frame a bill to tret all the requirements of the case, he better element of the saloon businn will render all the assistance in its *er, and Is now preparing for. organ work. Last Wednesday the aasoin this city met and canvassed matter. So fsr as can be learned much ww «ccom^)tsbed. There WM i«r too wld« difitorenoe of opinion, there was absence of it. Some there should bo a law making ie duty of the township trusteo to go nd regularly and prosecute every keeper who failed to produces inse. Such a scheme can not work, iver. In a township like this, the might devote *11 his time to the and the more effective his work more certain his defeat at the next ition. The fact can not be denied the license law cannot be enforced juo officer who is elected by the peo-

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The work should be placed in the ids of corps of men appointed by governor, or a state board appointor that purpose, and they should be alned in their positions during com*Mcy and good behsvior. In other •da, the stste should follow in the (steps of the general government and oint agents in every district to inUgate the saloons, and should pass a providing a penally of sufficient f/rity to make it exceedingly uncorn-

Able for those who violate it. At any person pan fit up a saloon itock it, but so long ss no one will ir he saw him sell liquor without be can carry on hi* business tiout let or hindrance. Not so under

Stent. When the government it drops In and states his business ia in sole possemion until satisfied ,«is nothing wrong. Us examines thing, and If anything crooked is orered it Is promptly and severely tithed. The result is that violations 'ifce revenue laws are rarely found, generally occur through lgnoran» than design. There is no IMMOP I i.u law should not be asstrictby following the sue plan. %bs legislature adopt a good law will punish the man who sslls proper hours, on Sunday, or with'Ikease, and with him the man for

wtiose benefit he violates the law, and enforce such a law, and the state can afford to jpsterially reduce

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Another question with which the legislature will ha%e a tussle will be that of fees and salaries. It is ss certain to thrust itself to the front as d&th or taxation.

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it, county officers will hold maas conventions st the cspital, and the legislature will adjourn at the expiration of its sixty dsys Isase upon existence without accomplishing snything in tfee line of reduction. It is no small aflUr to meet the expenses of a county Hfce this, and a glance over the figures for the year 1881 may not be uninteresting. The board of commissioners, who preside over the destinies of the county, oost it nearly 12,900 in salaries, snd $9340 for buggy hire, price which should certainly commsnd good materisi, when the m. short tims]{devoted to the discharge of the duties is considered. The observer is reminded tbst the poor is always with us by sn item of $11,200 in round numbers. For vsrious items ths sheriff's bill ran up to nearly $3,000 that of the auditor to nearly |7,000, treasurer, $6,000 county superintendent, $1,000, sad clerk, $1,000. The care of the insane cost $1,476, and to run the criminal court was required the sum of $8,470. In sddition to these items are the circuit court, superior court end numerous other small items, msking in the aggregate a big sum each year. The county recorder draws nothing from the oounty, but obtains bis fees from those bsving instruments which must be placed npon record. The office is estimstedat about $2,500 per annum. The greater portion of the sheriff's and clerk's fees come from those who can afford to Indulge in the luxury of law suits, and sre not always certain. It often happens tbst fees sre never paid in, and instances are numerous where they re main unpaid fer many years. This of course reduces the value of the

offices named, but they still remain of sufficient importance that they do not go begging. The treasurer and auditor are always certain of their fees, and take life easy in consequence. The office of coroner depends for its compensation upon the crop of violent or mysterious deaths. Thus far the present official has not had abouanza. Since entering upon the discharge of his duties he has only been cslled out once, snd after traveling ten miles he found that his subject hsd been spirited over into Clay county. His fees are five dollars per day for each Inquest, snd he la allowed a clerk at two. dollars per day. There was recently some talk of giving him a disagreeable case. Hsd the recent surgical controversy in the pspers been carried further some one was going to settle it by demanding an inquest upon the cause of it* but as the matter seems to have blown over ho has been relieved of it.

A Woman's Opinions.

COOKING, COWOXFODKD.

Not that we will ever oe through cooking, but we can, at least, stop talking about it. Mrs. Ewing is a splendid womsn and she is engaged in a noble work, but from the fuss msde by the men and the newspapers and the public, generally, the thanks and the blessings snd the Godspeeding* tbst are rained down upon her, one would conclude that the women of Terrs Haute were a poor, benighted set who didn't know the first principles of cooking till an apostle came down from Chicago. There are no better cooks anywhere than can be found right here in this dty. Mrs. Ewing, herself, says that, in giving these lessons, she learns as much ss she teaches. There is progress in this, ss in every other science, and even the best cooks gained a great many new ideas and much practical knowledge from the recent course of lessons. The one on Charlotte Ruase and French Creams was really (esthetic and that on Puff Paste was high art Itaeif. We felt, in bidding Mrs. E. goodhy, as if we were, indeed, parting from a friend, one who had been through the firs with us, so to speak. The only thing to be regretted in regard to the lessons is that they did not reach the class who needed them most, those who sre obliged to cook, either for themselves or for other people. There were no girls there who work for living and very few ladies who do their own cooking. In other words those whom you would most hsve expected were sot there, and ladies of wealth and fashion, of artistic and literary taste, active workers in oar many Clubs, musical aodetlos and charitable nrganUaUons, were the most eager and enthusiastic members of the dass, which proves that none of theas pursuits destroy the domestic character of a woman, bat rather make her ambitious to lift up her housekeeping to the leva! of the other fine arte.

And now the school is fia«sh*d, for the present, and the good wives may try all these nice receipts in their own kitchens. Several gentlemen have announced their intention ol boarding at a restaurant all the "experimenting" is over

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If there Is any of the artistic element in a woman's nature it finds expression in her parlor. Elegant furniture, delicate curtains, valuable engravings, choice books, are all very precious to her, but it would be foolish extravagance to put these into a room for ordinary family use. You might with just as much reason insist that she use the fine damask and French china for every meal and wear her best dresses all the time. To do these things would require constant replenishing and not many pocket books could stand it. The laws of hospitality require that we should koep something nice in reserve for our guests and we reflect upon possessing these luxuries with somrthing of the satisfaction afforded by a good bank account. The musty, gloomy, darkened "best room" is a thing of the past and it iaa positive pleasure to step into the parlor of the present day with its subdued light, rare books, bits of bric-a-brac, a delicate tase with a lily or a rose, and all those pretty trifiles which indicate Che refined woman. It is not necessary, in order that such a room may be thoroughly enjoyed, to turn the whole family into it every day^in the week. They will be much happier in a plainer room where they can knock fand bang around iii a manner dear to the masculine heart. I have never .yet beard a man complain that be was kept out of the parlor, and, as for the children, the chief trouble with the present generation Is that they have taken entire possession of the whole house, from garret to cellar, and the elders can scarcely claim a nook or a corner as their own private property.

XAIUUKD OALLAOTS.

One of the latest items from England ia that since the departure of Mrs. I*ngtry the Prince of Wales has sought consolation by devoting himself to a young American girt, who is staying with her

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with. One remarked that his wife's cooking couldn't be improved, whk& may or may not be a compliment.

Some of the experimentists are faceting with much discouragement. For instance, one lady prepared some"8sveali" soup and set it before ho* husband and he liked it so much he made his entire dinner of it, said it was the beat soup to ever tasted, that it was worth the price of all her lessons just^to learn to make that soup, etc, etc. But when ahe told him with delight that she had takenjall the scraps of meat that had been left for several days, and some chicken bones and the trimmings of tbestesk and some tomatoes and mashed turnipe from yesterday's dinner, and a little cold gravy and a baked spple snd simmered them all together and made this delicious soup, be rose up in his wrath. He declared he would never eat another spoonful of soup while he lived, and now be has to know the pedigree of every dish that comes upon the table before he will tsste it, but he won't hold ont very long, for no man is going to quarrel with a scheme which will reduce the size of the inevitable bill from] butcher, grooer and baker.

And yet, after all, when a woman thinks of the ondless round of marketing, the baking and boiling, the roasting and broiling, the three meals dsy, year after year, she almost longs for the paradise of mother Eve where she could stretch herself under the trees, pillow her face in the cool grass and when her lord and master came home hungry, send him to the orchard to dine on an apple.

A PLKA FOR THJE PARLOR.

In this connection we are reminded of the sentimental paragraphs that go the rounds of the newspapers in regard to abolishing tho parlor. We are told that there must be no room too fine for common family use, and one writer declares tbst people have no right to possess even books which are too costly for the children to handle. Whatever luxury you may tskeawsy from woman do not deprive her of the solid comfort of knowing that there is one apartment ready for company that whatever noise snd untidiness and confusion there may be in the rest of the house, there is one room, at least, sacred to order and quiet. There are times, eien with the best of housekeepers, when things will get topsy turvy and if a caller happens in, it is extremely mortifying, for we are sure she will infer that this is the ususl condition of affairs, but if we can shut all the other doors behind us and usher her into a neat and well-arranged parlor, we can converse with an unruffled brow and bid her adieu with a delightful complacency.

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spends most of his time in her society and that his wife Ins publicly snubbed her. If ever a woman had her patience tried by a man, that woman is the Princess of Wales, and even the throne of England will not bring her rest, but she has plenty of sympathising sisters, on both sides of the water, who have not the prospect of a crown to console tbem. It to not particularly of the Prince that we wish to speak—for royalty is beyond criticism, that to, beyond caring for it— but of married men, in general. Why do mcb men wtoh to pay attentions to young girls, why do girls encourage

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these attentions, and why do parents permit them? When a married man to devoting himself to a young lady, he to either leaving his wife at home, neglected, or driving her to aooept the bomage of other men. Esther alternative will cause her much unbapptaesa. Do they ever reflect that perhaps their time Will come to sit in the shadow while their husbands bask in the sunshine? When a woman says she does not care how much of his time her husband spends with other ladies you may believe one of two things, either that she is too proud to acknowledge the pain she feels, or that her love for him has perished.

When a married gentleman calls frequently on other ladles, takes them out to drive, buys bon-bon, ice cream and more expensive presents, snd accompanies them to places of entertainment, he certainly violates the spirit of the marriage yow if not the letter. I do not mean that he should never offer these courtesies, but only refer to thoee men who make a practice of it and boast of their popularity among the fair sex. Why should a married gentleman exult because some young girt has fallen in love with him It should be a cause of regret to an honorable man. But these "impressions," as a general thing, exist only In his imagination. Ail a lady has to do is to smile pleassntly at him, say something agreeable and, perhape, pay him a compliment, just to make him feel good, and immediately he marches off, with his thumbs in the armholes of his vest, to tell his friends of his latest conquest.

It is perfectly proper for married people to receive polite attentions from the other sex*but whenever these attentions go beyond the limits of friswfship or are so pointed as to cause remark, then it is time to pause. Those society communists, who are going to reorganise the domestic relations, may indulge in whatever sophistry they choose in regard to the slavery of wedlock and the freedom of love, but the fact still stands, as firm and imperishable as the foundation of the world, that the happiness and the morality of all mankind depend upon the exact fulfilment of the marriage obligations.

If wedded life be a disappointment, if natures prove uncongenial, that does not lesson the obligation. It Is a matter not of indination, bat of prindple.

A QUESTION FOR THK DEMOCRAT., In last week's issuo of the Democrat we find, in two places, somfe severe comments on the policeman, at Lafayette, who spent four houra in watching for Mrs. Gengar to come out of an office In order that he might add another to the long list of wretched scandals. Tho paper calls him a "spy," "a human hyena," etc, but in this same paper we find in no less than nine different places the most cutting and degrading things that could be said, applied to this same woman. At this distance it would be impossible for us to judge whether she did or did not make the mistake charged against her, but in the absence of all proof except the words of this policeman, it*is only common justice to believe her Innocent till she is proven guilty. She has received letters expressing sympathy for her persecution and faith in her honor, from scores of distinguished women who have known her for years, and worked with her in the cause of temperance and equal rights she has been before the public a long time without a shadow of suspidon she has taken immediate steps to prosecute the slanderer, end, over her own signature, has emphatically denied the charge and challenged investigation.

Now which is tho worse,—for a policeman to play the part of a detective and give the result to the public, to gratify his revenge,—or for a newspaper, with no [other evidence than that of this "spy," this "human hyena," to assume her guilt and ruin her reputation, simply because she belongs to another political party and criticised this paper's friends, the saloon keepers? IDA A. HARPXR.

Our Breakfast Table.

The spirit of Christmas, which shines both ways from the happy day, makee cheerful all December, and is not quite lost a month later, was animating Mrs. Comfort's household. Various questions, quite accidental, had discovered various little pet weaknesses, in preparation for the grand surprises of the holiday. Mrs. Wei by and Laura had scoured the town and bad oven gone to Indianapolis to devastate that well advertised city. "No plaoe like home," said Miss Laura. "I am of more account, bettor treated and as well pleased right here in dear, poky town as in the pretentious capital." "I should think so," exclaimed Mrs. Welby. "Ton should have seen and heard this young lady. After going around here and berating every establishment, she went through Washington street bragging about Terre Haute, till the darks there acknowledged she could brag almost ss well ss native." "Which to saying a good deal," said

Jack,

A bookseller would hand out a new book, and ahe would say 'Pshaw! I bought that at Qodecke'a a month ago or a dry goods dark would say, 'Here to a kid glove, half price—one, twenty.' 'Mercy! over in onr town they don't think of asking more than 91 oenta.' So everywhere she went ahe declared things were dearer, not so pretty, nor so plenty aa at home, and

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ed of her." The little lady langhed and said:"I don't eare! ,1 said what I thought, and I think what I said. I believe Terre Haute beats Indianapolis in everything but sise." "And lies," from Jack. "The capital is a little Rome, and all roads lead to it," remarked McEwan. "As I hsve sail before, if we were to fight Indianapolis instead of each other, we would make by it," said Derby. "I believe we can get all of their out-of-town trade that is touched by our roads." "Pshaw—what nonsense." "No nonsense at all. Our merchants are too jealous of each other to unite against their common rival. There to such a thing as rivalry and ce-opera-tion." "Yes, I knew of two men," said the Major, "who were in the same trade, on oppoeite aides of the street. Every cue* tomer who entered their respective stores was warned against the other follow. The proprietors would go to the door, and, pointing out the opposite ranche, would abuse it. They scolded and advertised each other and made lots of money. It turned out in course of time that they had been in secret partnership all the while." "The moral of which is "Why that we should have a community of intereets, snd thst business men should meet on some common ground. I can point you out trades in which every man in them seems at swords-points with all the others." "Well, what is to be done Boards of Trade don't work county fairs don't srouse any enthusiasm to speak of suggestions of expositions might as well appear In the funny oolumn as in any other of the newspapers, for all the serious impressian made. Such an excursion as the clothing store's wouldn't be thought of if it wasn't really run by an Indianapolis firm." 'We will be all right in time," said the Professor. "I don't know much sbout it, except that this seems a solid town—good foundation to build on. A merchant told me that a majority of the houses here with just the same capitfi *nd stock could dotreMe, quadruple, the business in a place- like Kansas City. He knew he oould double here in ten years, but it ought to be done in five."

The conversation changed to Kellogg and Brignoli. "By the way," said the Major, "do you know that you heard, in Brignoli, the first Manrico who ever sung in America "Well, it ought to be the last," replied the Professor. "We didn't think so when he made his first appearanoe, in II Trovatore, in 1846. He was the same awkward, dumsy fellow, as now, with a honey-sweet voioe, tbst Richard Grant White says, 'sounds like the bleating of a sheep made musical.' Young ladies went wild and adored him.

saw him and Amodio

soon after. The one toll and laggiab, the other short and tubbisb—were a spectade, end sang like mkccaroni angels—very good, and no expression." "Hasn't Miss Kellogg grown in every way," said Mrs.% Welby, "since she used to sing in Baker and Kilbourne's Conservatory, in Dowling Hall, a dozen years ago? From a slip of a girl, who could sing well, then, though she would trill her 'r's,' she has become an artiste that can get $300 a night. I suppose that guarantees her ability." "One thing

like, is," Derby said,

"that she has learned to sing, and made a name, without going to Europe for the Foreign etamp. Wish our American girls would learn that all they need to add to native teaching, is Miss Kellogg's industry snd intelligence. Though

am not sure but she needs something more to make her perfect in Opera." "Time, John, time to ail," the Major observed. "I dont know, ahe had sweetness, and force and expression, yet I wished she was ringing 'The Farmer and His Pigeons,' or 'Little Jscob,' or some of her sacred music. I think there to some dramatic faculty lacking. She inter prets music too carefully to be the sing Ing actress we like in Opera."

Still I say time to sll she wants," said the Major. "After ail I was shaken in my allegiance by Miss Dickerson. There was the softest contralto I ever heard— such a rich, fruity voice, too. One would like to sing to me by the hour. Why, sir, when I beard her sing the «Cbws are in the Corn" I oould bear old BrindJe crashing through the stalks and munching the eare——"

Your imagination was always your talent, Major," interrupted McEwan. I was one of a beggarly crowd—in num bam, I mean—to bear Henry George talk Irish politics* It takes an Irish-Ameri

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can to out-Irish the Irish—not but what be is a fine specimen. I liked him, but still I believe the American sympathisers, like the Northern Democrats during .the war, keep alive an unnecessary and useless struggle. If it NWMH*( fdr then the rebellion funds wot*H givwomt," "So much the better, said the Major. "I believe in such missionary funds. If it wasn't for the Irish-Americana you wouldn't see England stopping to discuss questions. It would be bayonets to the front at once. It would be like Gladstone's course with Parnell in the CfM«re bill. Heseems to say, let me get you where I want you and then I'll talk." "Not at all, he says 'I mean to do you good, now sit down snd let me hsve my •ay.' And then he will do something for them." "I don't blame them for not wishing, to be.treated liko children who don't, know what is good for them" "Well, I do not think I do either."'

VICE AND VIRTUS.

AN ESTEEMED CONTRIBUTOR DESIRES THE DIVIDING LINE MORE CLEARLY DRAWN.

Editor Saturday Evening Mail. The chatty writer of "Woman's Opinions" in your paper sets forth a weekly dish of good things to which not even the ultra-fastidious need object batatthe risk of being classed in that category. 1 desire to point where In her artide in last week's Mail, she did injustice to other woman, as I think. I refer td^ ber strictures upon the oonduct of landlady of the St. Louis boarding hoi who refused to admit the adulteress,. Mrs. Tevis to the bedside of Jier wounded paramour. I quote ber remarks: "Especially docs this last act show bow little mercy women can expect from her own sex. When tills disgraced and ruined creature went to iho wounded man's boarding house and requested only to creep up and Bee him one moment, the landlady went od in a tit of vlhuoualndlgnatlon, ordered out of Uie house, called ner numes and ooultl Scarcnly bo restrained from personal vloence until her compnnlon hurried her out of the house, whit* i.ui Muuwr my u|siulr* nupplieri with every ^luxury and surrounded by crowds of sympathetic friends. Do you suppose time one lady iu thnt vent to uifn womun with a word of *.j v. compassion Perhaps she did uotdeserve it, but this only illustrates the (different manner In which men and women view tills sin iu one another. Men stand by each other, women stand aloof."

The picture of the laudlady here suggested to one's fancy is that of a coarse virago, using the weapou of her sex,— her tongue, and it msy be that other weapon, a broom, upon a shrinking: woman as she flies from tbo house with ber oompaiiion. This description doee not agree with that given by the reporter of the Republican, the only one publlehed. There was nothing said aboot abusive epithets or threats of personal •violence used by the mistress of tho house. With the instinct of a true lady, she objected positively to her house being used as a trysting place for a wanton, and refused to allow another scene in this disgraceful drama to be enacted under its roof. The repeated solicitation of a Mr. Plant, another friend snd the escort, of Mfp.. Tevis, failed to move the determined landlady, and the baffled mistress, to use the-words of the reporter, "cast a long look at the softly carpeted stairway, heaved a deep'' sigh, and slowly followed her companion from the bouse."

I fear that your correspondent in attempting to prove her theory of woman's inhumanity to woman, unwittingly creates sympathy for the fallen woman and a prejudice against the virtuous one, It does not follow because the landlady cared for a wounded Inmate of ber bouse that she was willing to condone his crime to hsve turned him out of doors in his condition would have been oonsidered an inhuman act, but it was eminently proper in her to guard the reputation of of her bouse and Ita other occupant*,, and avoid the notoriety which this unnecessary interview, if allowed, would have caused. I think yonr correspondent errs in saying that "men stand by each other," in affairs of this kind. Suppose the case bad been reversed snd that the infuriated husband bad shot the wife instead of her accomplice—th* customary course in this chivali ous sge— and thst the latter bad sought admission to her father's bouse to obtain an interview with his wounded mistress does snyone suppose that be would have received any other reply to bto solidtatton than the toe of a boot I venture to assert that nine out of every ten respectable men who might be questioned as to their opinion of the justice snd propriety of the punishment meted to this roue by the injured husband, would ssy "served him right."

I have written the above in no censorious spirit, snd with no desire to provoke controversy with your fair cor res pendent, whose contributions are so gener

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appreciated, but it seemed to me that tbe dividing line between vice snd virtue waa not clearly drawn in the article referred to, and although "Plato to my friend, Truth is more my friend."

Wi direct attention to tbe advertisement of tbe daily and weekly Indiana polto Journal. Next to yonr home paper these are tbe most desirable papers yon can get, if you wish to keep posted in current news, and especially in state snd national events.

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