Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1883 — Page 5
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THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
PUBLICATION OSTICX,
Nos. 18 and 20 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.
P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 27,1883
IT is stated that the winter scenery at Niagara Falls is grander now than.it has been for years.
PEACHES and strawberries ARE out of market here, but they can be had in New York—the peaches for $3 a piece, and the berri
A sell at $ 10 a quart.
IF Mother Shipton had set the year 1883, instead of 1881,for the fulfilment of her terrible prophecy, the old woman -would have some converts about this iiime. ________________
THE Indianapolis Times may truly be termed "a live newspapei." Beginning next Monday it will be issued morning, •evening and Sunday—the three editions being supplied for twenty-five cents a week. .. "ROSCOE CONKLINO'S name figures in the list of incorporators of the Yellowstone National Park Improvement Company, which is believed to be an artfully concealed land speculation on a magnificent scale. __________
THE trial of Buck Stout at Rockville for the killing of Taylor Dunbar, ended yesterday by the jury returning a verdict of murder in the first degree, and sentence of death. The jury was out twenty hours.
THE New York Tribune describes the ideal home as a place where both the husband and wife have their own way in everything. We are curious to know TJOW many ideal homes, according to this standard, there are in Terre Haute.
THE list of business failures lengthens with each week. As a general rule, however, they are mostly small, and indicate rather ill-advised or poorly managed enterprises than any general disorder of the business of the country.
'OSCAR WILDE has gone, but it appears that we are not through with him yet at least he is not through with us, for it is announced that he is going to write a book, giving his impressions of America. This is the ingratitude which is Sharper than a serpent's tooth.
MILWAUKEE is having a run of ill fortune. Afire at half past one yesterday morning partially destroyed the Milwaukee College, on® |f the finest Alleges for girls In the northwest, ^rae firemen and police rescued the sixty young lady pupils, and no lives were lost.
THE Scientific American pronounces emphatically against the use of chairs .and camp-stools, as used by the undertakers at funerals, who take them from place to place. It declares them to be disseminators of disease, and for the same reason, It deprecates the carrying around of ice-boxes from house to house.
THE Chicago Inter Ocean suggests that it would be a good thing to revive the old Scotch custom, and establish in the community a stool of repentauce on •which to ft and people who have been guilty of certain offenses against chastity. The trouble is we would need one on every corner, if court accounts go for anything.
ANOTHER terrible disaster at sea, the sinking of the steamer Cimbria, near Hamburg, with the loss of nearly 300 people, mostly emigrants for America. The Cim' ria was struck by tho^ultaa in a dense fog and sank Immediately. "The year 1883 has made a fair beginning to surpass its predecessor, which was bad enough, in the record of dreadful disasters.
THE Gougai-Mandler slander suit, at Lafayette, got started this week. Thero is no telling when or where it will end, for tho judge has decided that the defendant can offer evidence outside that which substantiates the allegation set forth in the plea of justification. This throws the floodgates wide open, and Mrs. Gougar may as well prepare for a large volume of filth.
IK the Legislature would spend LEW of its time and energy in trying to make capital for party purposes, and more in an honest endeavor to enact such laws «s the people need, it would be a goqd -thing. The trouble with the average State Legislature is that there are too
"make record," for fufre
devoted to aeriou* work.
uianr gentlemau in it who aspire to j^e .raj*. congmttMn or ,om o.beri1"
THE increase of lady journalists is noticeable. There are quite a number of newspaper women in Indiana now, and one of them has been selected as the State Librarian. A few years ago Laura Ream was, we believe, about the only lady connected with the press in the State. That others are going into the work indicates that their predecessors have succeeded. Women are finding out that they can do some thingsas well as men.
DR. FLETCHER is receiving unexpected support for his bill introduced in the legislature providing for the punishment of rape by emasculation. The Indianapolis News says be has received a large number of letters from mothers thanking him for the position he has taken, and expressing the hope that may become a law. Apparently there a strong public sentiment in favor of the proposed bill.
A PAPER published at Butte, Mon tana, gives the result of a three weeks' threshing with a steam thresher on the Upper Ruby river. The entire product was 19,160 bushels of wheat, which was grown on 452 acres of land, being an average yield of 42^ bushels to the acre Yet, a few years ago, strange as it may seem, this region of country was regarded as not susceptible of profitable culti vation. Thus does our country grow.
EVANSVILLE is making a strong effort to secure the new asylum for the incura bly insaae, which ic is believed will be ordered built by the present L3gislature, and in order to make a favorable impression on the members an excursion has been arranged for to-day, when a large^umber of the members will visit the city and be given a grand banquet at the St. George Hotel. Our enterprising neighbor evidently understands the best method of reaching the Legislature's intellect.
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THE government is fitting out an Arctic expedition for the rescue of Lieutenant Greeley, who sailed for Lady Franklin Bay two years ago and has not been heard from. This seems to be about all the outcome there is to Arctic exploration—sending out expeditions to search for former ones that have never returned. And so far these rescuing expeditions have had poor success in finding the lost ones. It will be a warm day when a polar expedition brings home any real news.
THE more we hear of the Newhall hotel fire, the more horrible and hellish it appears. The arrest of thd bar-keeper charged with setting tho house on fire was supplemented this week by the testimony of the hotel clerk that he had twenty-five minutes to warn the inmates of the danger, and might have given tho alarm to every room in the house, but he had "something more important to attend to." This senseless idiot thought the books and papers of his employer to be of more importance than the lives of a hundred and fifty or more people entrusted to his care. He deserves lynching as much as the man who fired the building.
THE Evansville Journal, commenting onfthe question of cutting down official fees and salaries, observes that a combination of county officers is already at the capital to defeat every law which may be introduced in the direction indicated and continues: "There is but one way to accomplish this greatly needed reform and that is for the people to move in the matter when there is no political excitement and no election pendiug, and circulate in every county pledges to defeat the candidates of both parties who will not obligate themselves to vote for radical changes in the fees and salaries of county officials." There is one fatal mistake which the Legislature always makes when legislating on this subject, and that is making the proposed reductions affect tbose iu office at the time. If the new law were made not to apply to present incumbents, but to take effect at some fixed time in the future, all this opposition of the officeholders would be escaped and there would be some show for getting a sensible law enacted. Bat it appears that the Legislature either can't or don't wish to see this and so they go on in the old rut and meet with the old sucoess.
LATER developments indicate that the Bonapartist flurry in France Is not so Insignificant as was at first reported. There has been a real scare, and the holders of Government securities, becoming alarmed at the prospect of trouble, threw them upon the market in large quantities and invested in English and United States securities. The panic was further heightened by the sudden appearance of tbe ex-Empress Eugenie
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AN effort was made in the State Senate the other day to. have a (tew of the superfluos employees of that body discharged, denee on the part of the people in rethere being more thau the law author- publican institutions. A want of statesited, but it was a signal failure. Demo- men never threatens the existence of cmts and Republicans alike voted to this American republic, not because continue in office the spittoon cleaner, statesmen are never wanting, but bothe floor cleaner, tbe man for the cta»k cause tbe people have perfect confidence room, the man for the mails, the man in tbe stability of the Government, for the registers and the half dozen other -superfluous fellows, for no other purpose apparently than that they might draw a fat salary from the State for doing little or nothing. One of the speakers said there most be nearly forty employes In .the Senate, or nearly one for every senator. This is not an inspiring picture for Uie people who have to pay for all this fiddling.
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republic will headlong to ruin. It, would seem, however, that it is not so much a lack of statesmen from which France is suffering, as a lack of confi-
statesmen or no statesmen. Even in the terrible times when Lincoln fell the people knew that "the Government at Washington still lived,*' and the machinery of the republic was operated by the hands of him who by law stwaeHsd the martyred president. It is this want of **ith in their Government, by the French people, which is the worst augur? for the pennsnency of the republic.
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TORRE TT A UTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL -.
THE GRIND OF LIFE. "His routinekf work was regular he was not disabled by dyspepsis, languor, headache, or heartache he was not distracted by the *ain wish to be somewhere else, or to be otherwise employed. To the wear and tear of toil he wai, of coarse, exposed but the wear and tear of toil, when unaided by
other
corroding
causes, seldom fret life away." So writes the biographer cf George Ripley, preacher, originator of the celebrated "Brook Farm" society, and then for many years, and until his death, lit erary critic and reviewer for the New York Tribune. The extract has refer ence to the later period^ which was the real work of his life.|| ^V
Happy are those in whatever walk of life, to whom these words can be af plied! The grind of life is hard, and it is unescapable but it is made infinitely harder by discontented and "the vain wish to be somewhere else or otherwise employed." The burden ot' monotony and of toil is far more evenly distributed than is often imagined. Men and worn en are seized with dissatisfaction at the pursuit in which they happen te been gaged and fancy that others have a much easier and
more
interesting field
of labor but the thought is for the most part a delusion. It only requires an hour's talk or less, with the mer chant, or lawyer, or doctor, or anyone else, to learn that the grind of life ex tends to all their occupations and that they all have their special form of drudgery and monotony. If anyone doubts this let him change his business and see how quickly he will find it out The law of supply a«d demand operates not only in the material markets but in tbe immaterial as well. There is no easy work, simply because if any work were easy so many would rush iL.to it that the competition would necessarily make it hard. And indeed it may be said that in many occupations the jvork itself is not as hard as the efforts which are required to obtain it.
Let it be admitted then that the toil and monotony of life cannot be escaped, and what course is so wise as that which Ripley pursued of facing it day by day without repining, discomfort or worry with a resolute disposition and an even temper, accepting it as the lot assigned by nature,working without friction and without fret, and making the most of our opportunitie^for social and intellectual enjoyment? It is such a temper that insures faithful effort and honest, conscientious work is in a great measure its own reward. He who habitually slights and skimps his work is not happy either in or out of itv
LEADING citizens of Henry county, at a public meeting held on last Saturday, protested against a system of fees and salaries which gives the county clerk from $6,000 to |8,000 a year, while the cashiers of tbe banks in Newcastle, whose responsibilities are weightier and duties much harder, receive but $1,000 a yem\ The Legislature is asked to pass a proper law on the subject, and the secret caucusing of county officers to defeat such a law is condemned. But the trouble with all this is that "you may resolute till the cows come home" without doing any good, unless some practical plan is adopted for accomplishing the desired end. Let the Legislature and all concerned try the suggestion of enacting a law wliich will not effect present incumbents, but only the officers thereafter to be elected. This is not only a practical theory but it has an element of fairness in it, for it cannot be denied that there is some force in the argument that the emoluments of an officer ought not to be cut down during the term for which he was elected. Many of these men have 3pent large amounts of money to secure their election—a thing not to be justified of course, but since they have done so, depending on the established fees of the office, it might not be improper to make any proposed reduction of fees apply only to their successors in office, who will then know beforehand what they can count on.
THE Dramatic festival in Cincinnati next April will be the grandest affair of the kind ever attempted on this continent. The programme has been officially outlined. Jnst think of the array of talent"
here
presented: "Julias
Csesar" will be played, with Lawrence Barrett as Cassius, John McCullough as Brutus, and Jamef fe. Murdockas Maic Antony "Romeo and Juliet," with Mary Anderson as Juliet, Barrett as Romeo, and McCullough as Meicutio: "The Hun^back." with Miss Anderson as Julia, Barrett as Clifford, and N. C. Goodwin as Modus "Much Ado About Nothing," with Mile. Rhea as Beatrice and Barrett as Benedick "Othello," with McCullough as Othello, Barrett as I a go, Murdock as Cassio, Miss Anderson as Desdemona, and Clara Morris as Emilia "Hamlet," with Murdock as Hamlett Barrett as Horatio, Louis James as Laertes, McCullough as Ghost, Goodwiu as First Grave Digger, Mile. Rhea as Ophelia, and Miss Morris as Queen. In a repetition ot'"Othello," Barret will play Othello, and McCullough Iago.
8AYINGJ8 AND DOINGS,
Patients do more for doctors than doctors can do for patients. The patients enable the doctors to live.
The New Orleans Picayune understands human nature. It says "those who think evil have been doing evil."
A Louisville man claims that night caps are coming into fashion again. Which kind the cotton or the alcoholic
An oyster has been known to opes its shell to hear the music of an accordeon. If there was any doubt about the stupidity of the bivalve this settles it.
The Scientific American says that the popular idea with stovemakers seems to be to make a stove a work of art instead of an article to warm up the house. The next stove will be all nickel and no heat.
The new style of note paper resembles alligator skin, and looks as if one would require a club or a paint-brush to wr\te upon it. But as long as its all the rage the fashionable swell will find some way to make it go. I
Anew nickel is being coined thinner and larger than the old one. It is to be hoped that the authorities will recognize the long felt want and will give it a sort of silver ring one that sounds like a half dollar when properly chucked into the contribution box.
St. Louis society is agitated by she fact that a beau got into a carriage with a belle to escort her home from a ball, at which time his face was smooth and fair, but when he emerged his eye was blackened as though by the blow from a fist, and the girl walked up tbe steps of her home alone.
The Judge was about to grant a divorce in favor of a woman in a Cincinnati court, when .the husband entered the room. "I have just got off the train from Texas," he cried, "and I have telegraphed to my wife for an interview. Just hold over tbe decree two hours, for I intend to mike it up with her." His Honor consented to the delay, and the result was a withdrawal of the proceedings. V.
THEY OFTEN DO BOTH. A St. Louis lawyer whose uniform courtesy is one of his distinguished traits won a suit in the Criminal Court the other day, and when the verdict acquiting his client had been read, arose and in his most impressive manner, bowed to the jury and exclaimed: "Gentlemen, I thank you." When they had retired, Judge Van Wagoner called the lawyer to the bench and said to him: "I hope that I shall never see another such exhibition in this court, sir." The lawyer murmured that politeness was always in place. "You are mistaken sir," returned the Judge "you have no more right to thank the jury when you win than you have to damn the jury when you lose*"
THE total loss of life by the burning of the Newhall house, Milwaukee, is ascertained to have been seventy-five.
GIRLS.
THEY ARE THE PRIZE PUZZLES OP THE WORLD.
Probably the average girl doesn't know her own mind more than a few minutes at a time, suggests a heartless contemporary. She is forever wishing something or another was something else, and then she wishes it was still another thing. When she goes shopping she has the most 'dreadful time of it. She is almost always certain to want to leturn whatever she buys and get something else. When she does not do this it is because she has not on her shopping excursion been able to keep her mind together long enough to buy anything of sufficient consequence to return.
The uncertainty which characterizes her shopping experience, however, does not emoarass them when it comes to selecting a husband. It is easier for most girls to pick out a husband than It is to match a ribbon, and some of them don't give as much thought and consideration to the one as to the other. And yet It isn't very easy to exchange a husband when one finds she has made a mistake. Perhaps the girls are not so much to blame. A sweet moustache and a lovely necktie are not to be resisted by everybody they are well designed to capture the average girl.
But while Bome girls change their minds a little too late, there are those of a quicker disposition. One of these latter has just come the public attention in Illinois. She has been sued for a breach of promise. She engaged herself to a sweet moustache and perfectly lovely necktie, but shortly discovered that she didn't want to marry them. When she was brought into court to explain, she merely indicated in tbe chosen language of the untamed west that tbe young man was nice too look at, but he made ber tired. He had nothing but his moustache and necktie, and she was one of tbe rare girls who had found out this fact before *he had married herself to these thiugs. Whether the jury will award the moustache and necktie any damages has not ye been determined.
In cases like this girls would do themselves wore justice if they would get tired sooner. The large majority of them don't find out how tired they are until after marriage, and then the husband they have not concerned themselves verv much to select, cannot be exchanged like the three-quarters of ayard of ribbon which has cost them weeks of auxiet'v and painful thought and care. The average girl won't care to read this. She
doesn't
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GurrAVK DORK, the great French painter, died in Paris on Tuesday, aged fifty. He is best known tq the general public by his illustration of the Bible, the "Wandering Jew" and Dante's Inferno. His works rank among tbe greatest of modern times. Dore was an artist by birth, and at a very early age gave unmistakable indications of tbe genius^ which was afterwards to make him famous. His father haopily had tbej good sense to give special training to his artistic faculty, and tbe boy was at once' aet to the work of his life. There" is in llili inwnn for parents tbe watld orer.
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want advice in this matter
of selecting a husband, but when she is going to buys new pair of stockings she will seek the wisdom and experience of all her acquaintances. Girto are the prize puzzles of this world. ,V
HATS ANI) GLOVES. Get your Gloves, for driving, dress, working and street at LoeVs corner of Fifth and Main streets, where a large new stock of Hats and Gloves j^ust been received.
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3U1*TONS.
In rummaging over
buttons—fifty in aU—niyvMrch y™8
ed. Taking my seat by tk
put the guard on the bottom in the shape of a silver three-cent piece. It was black now, and grandpa's hands have long been folded on his breast, while the genial face the children loved has been covered many years.
This is grandma's button, It is a plain black gutta-percha. Grandtaa was a Methodist in tbe days when Methodists were known by their garb as well as their walks and conversation. She soon followed her good husband, and was laid away in her black Sunday dress. Little Jessie said as she bent orer her: "Grandma looks just like she's going to meeting." And so she was only to the "Father's house ef many mansions," instead of the old chapel on the hill.
The next, that queer Cornelian bit, with its short peudint, Jim the oldest brought from over the sea. He laughed at Jessie when clambering on his knee she asked him for a button from his coat, for Jim's sailor blouse had never a button on it. How handsome he looked in his dark blue, with its wide collar and bright stars on its edge! Jim's rolling walk is the laughing stock of the village boys while he staid but there was not a dry eye among them as they watched him sway away beyond the hill to the
ort merry-hearted Jim never came We do not know whether he sleeps on earth or sea—but his people prayed morn and night for a final reunion, and prayers are never lost, if our dear ones are.
This came from Kitty's wedding gown. How beautiful she looked the night the young man took her away in her neat brown
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reoalling our golden-haired Jeafc,
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year-old Jessie. SwJ ~,l' I Grandpa suggested it to her on a day when she could not romp in the yss& outside, and he himself furnished the string—a piece of stout fishing cord—and.: mA dust from the hired
w{n
and how we scolded
her for taking off one of the sleeve buttons just to please Jessie. Yes, the button looks old fashioned now but to some it would be worth its freight in gold—aye, a thousand-fold more. She, our sweet, patient Kitty, married a parson, and a helpmeet, indeed, she is to him, liviug in her mother's faith. The daughters hardly ever lose the mother's
This old brass button, Jonas, the hired man gave "Miss Jessie." It was evening, and he had come in from bis work in the gaiden, and sat by the great fire in the kifchen, when she bounded in, the string in her hand, and standing before him, begged him for it. Her eager face, shaded by its flaxen curls, was more beautiful then than ever. He twisted the button off with his stiff, stained fingers, and bending over to hand it to ner received unexpectedly a kiss from her rosy lips. Something in his faoe startled her, and going back to grandpa she asked why Jonas cried: "Poor Jonas." Ah! poor Jonas! It was the first kiss he had received since his mother gave him one from her dying lips. Jonas had drifted downward, but Jessie's kiss was the lever that raised him in the world. Yes. high above it. He
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wealthy, refined farmer, and it was money that raised the chapel on the I where many a heart has caught the tr art of living. One stained window/ is sacred to our Jessie, and it wa hand that dropped the coin in tlf when the corner-stone was laid, haps Jonas is not the only one who been raised out of the everlasting pit I a kiss, or the touch of childish fiugere.
This one, of tiny white, came from baby's slip. Baby is a tavern keet with a rum blossom on his nose. the gentleman's son, has a sharp sou~ in his coarse laugh, as if there is a stn At his heart. Jonas drives past him no'
els falls on the once gentleina Ah! me, rum is such a leveler^.
Tbfe unique, triangular piece, its red center, came from the cool.dress. 1 can see her now, her gre black bsv
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some face, came wooiv1® ker, she ju loved and believed bin. The 8qmre son was fickle, and a gR town ladj with glitter and tingel, wo J®®8* was never the sunny Jessib' ,er but she married one who ha
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playmate. He loves her, and ,® *s }l idol of the town iu which she 1.
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I know that often as she sits In tl»'eevor Ing, with the light of the dyiu^f da shining on her gray-streaked hair, ory brings up a handsome face to ha*un her.
It Is only a string of buttons. Th whole lot is hardly worth more thau penny but like the scent of a woodlau flower, or an almost forgotten song,
brings back a scattered household.
For Evening Dress.
SCAM, NECKTIES,
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A $20.00 Biblical Keward. The publishers of Rutledge'a Monthly offer twelve valuable rewards In ttyeir Monthly for February, among whicfc the following:
We will give $20.00 in gold to peison telling us which is the mida verse in the Old Testament Scriptures February 10th, 1883. Should two more correct answers be received, th reward will be divided. The money wil lie forwarded to the winner February 15th, 1883. Persons trying for th reward must send 20 cents in silve' (no postage stamps taken) with theii answer, for which they will receive the March Monthly,in which the name an address of the winner of the reward ano the correct answer will be published This mav be worth $20.00 to you cut I' out. Address RUTLEDQE PUBLISKIN COMPANY, Easton, Penna.
500 BARRELS APPLES.
The Choicest Ben. Davis Ap pies in the Market and a Superior Wine Sap
At J. H. BRIGGS ft CO.'s, c6rne Fourth and Cherry streets. Head quarters for grocers' supplies. TJ^ep are tbe finest apples now In the ket.
A GREAT PILE OF REMNANTS And Remainders of Various Goods, marked at prices to sel them now.
DRESS GOODS and SILKS, 1 to 10 yard lenghts at visible sacrifice. FLANNELS and CLOTHS, 1 to 5 yards, at less tli.v wholesale cost. THE LAST CLOAKS and SHAWLS of any lot at a tri* fling price. The LAST of a Dollar lot of KIDS for 50 cents. The LAST PEW PAIR in fifty styles of WOOLEN an
MERINO HOSIERY at
TWO-THIRDS and ONE-HALF PRICE
BONA FIDE REDUCTION SALE.