Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 May 1883 — Page 4

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

FUBXAXCATIOBI OFFICX,

Nos. 20 and 22 South ,Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TEKRE HAUTE, MAY 19, 1883.

OB A IN GAMBLING.

Tbe practice of speculating margina is manifestly increasing throughout the country, and especially among young men. It is not confined to tbe large towns and cities, where it prevails to an alarming extent, bat has taken root in the smaller towns and even among tbe farmers. Men who travel over the State and have a wide acquaintance with bus! ness men report that tbe practice is indulged'in secretly by many persons .who would not wish to have the fact known to their friends or tbe public, and who are not suspected of such a thing.

To say that this species of gambling (for it can be called by no other name) Is tbe most demoralizing of all kinds, is to express but tbe simple truth, and in no exaggerated form. It is worse than cards, lotteries or races, and tbe reason is obvious. Ibere is an atmosphere of semi-respectability about it which other forms of gambling do not have. If a man is lucky and wins be is not much ashamed to have it known. If he is unfortunate and loses he excuses himself by saying that some of the most respect" able business men in the community are just as guilty as be. And so many persons are tempted into tbe business who would shrink from entering a professional gambling house or staking money on a common game of chance. Yet, in principle, there is really no difference. The man who speculates in stocks or margins takes the chances of a rising or falling market just as one who plays a game of chance takes the chances of bis luck or fortune. Tbe essential thing in both is that nothing is really done or earned, no work accomplished that is of value to anyone, but tbe stake is won by chance, or, at best, only shrewd guessing.

And this is the very thing which makes the business so demoralizing. Men, and especially young men, become dissatisfied with the slow earnings of legitimate business. The pressure oi our fast system of living is upon them, and they feel the neoessity of making money more rapidly than their salaries or tbe profits of their business brings in. They know as a matter of fact that large sums have been made in asborttime by lucky investments in margins. The temptation to try their luck is in too many cases Irresistible. They begin by investing only a little, meaning to be on the safe side and not to lose enough to cripple them, if they should be so un fortunate as to lose at all. But the de aire grows by what it feeds on, and they soon find themselves going deeper and deeper into the forbidden waters, until not their own money only but that of others is lost, and themselves are ruined. There can be little doubt bat that most of the large and small peculations by persons oooupying positions of trust, of whioh the oountry has witnessed so many instances of late, are due to this sortof speculation. Almost every paper one pioks up oontains an account of some clerk, bookkeeper or other employe, who has suddenly developed from a man of supposed integrity into an emoeasler or defaulter, and the sequel to the story soon comes out in the fact that the man has been speculating in stocks or margins. The worst of it all is the tendenoy to make men discontented with the necessarily moderate profits of legitimate industry, and to seek for some quick avenue to fortune. This haste to be rich is the bane of American life to-day, and is converting our people Into a nation of gamblers instead of sound business men and industrious and contented laborers.

INTKI.uoRjrr lawyers observe of late a growing disinclination on the part of their clients to go into (he courts as llti gants. Tbe business A the bar is largely becoming one of arbitration, and more matters are settled out of the oourts than in them. The attorney of one party visits tbe attorney of his adversary, the fecta of the case are produced, commented on and considered, the law applied to them and a compromise agreed upon Thia is better for all parties (except possibly for the lawyers), aa heavy costs are saved and as much justice probably obtained, to say the least, as is commonly secured at the end of a long, harrmssing and expeusivo tiligation. There is no real danger, however, that the lawyers' occupation will be entirely gone. There will always be some people of a litigious disposition, and questions affecting large property interests, which the court* will be required to settle. But unquestionably the business of attorneys has undergone a marked change within a score or less of year*, and is probably destined to a still greater modification. The change is in the direction of economy and peace, and is In every respect a good one.

I j* the death of ex-Governor Waabnroe, of Maine, another ot the old war governors is taken away, leaving only three mo ye* living who were governor* of States when the war begun. These are Spragtte, of Rbod* Island, Kirk wood, of Iowa, a»d Curtin, of Pennsylvania. Interesting memories duster round these namns and tboas of MortoMnl Andrew, of Massachusetts.

OLD weather prophets say that for fifty years they have observed a cold spell between the 10th and 15th of May. Some years it is more noticeable than in others, the onednring the preset^ season being unusually marked but it is, they say, always more or less perceptible. The cause of this phenomenon is involved in obscurity. Prof. R. T. Brown advanced a possible theory to account for it, which is that the rapid growth of vegetation about this season of the year may absorb so much heat from the atmosphere as to produce the change in temperature. His argument is that as the destruction of wood produces beat tbe formation of it produces cold in other words, that heat is absorbed from tbe atmosphere in the formation of vegetation. He claims to have demonstrated tbe truth of this theory by actual experiment. Granting its truth.however, it is difficult to see how it would account for tbe sudden cold spell in May, or at any particular time. If the growing vegetation takes up the beat it would do so continuously and the corresponding coolness would be distributed throughout the growing season instead of being concentrated to withyi a period of a few days

THE acquittal of Pbil. Thompson, at Harrodsburgb, Ky., who shot Davis short time ago in cold blood, on tbe ground that he bad debauched Thompson's wife, was not unexpected. It is said the jury was mainly composed of Thompson's personal friends. When tbe verdict came in there was a great ovation to both the jury and the prisoner. The crowd which packed the court room shouted itself hoarse in spite of the efforts of the judge to preserve order stamped on the floor, jumped on the chairs and tables and rushed pell-mell to shake hands with the jury and prisoner It was a very wild and disgraceful scene such as the Kentuckians are capable of when their fervid natures are excited by enthusiasm. But all the same there will be grave doubts as to tbe justice of the verdict, for by Thompson's own showing his wife was a sottish woman who was In the habit of becoming grossly intoxicated in public places. And it was not clear that Davis was guilty of the crime charged against him.

THK decision of the United States circuit court, of Iowa, holding the driven well patent void, is the occasion of great rejoicing among farmers throughout the west. These wells are in almost universal use on the prallies, and the owners of them have been subjected to much expense and annoyance by tbe agents of the pretended owners of the patent. The latter,claim that the Iowa decision will be reversed by the supreme court, as tbe patent has been held good by several of the United States courts, including that of Indiana. The general sentiment of tbe press appears to be that the claim is a. humbug, and is in the bands of un conscionable speculators who are seek lng to Ihrioh themselves by plucking the public under threats of expensive litigation.

THB Supreme court of this State has decided that under the law of 1881 both the real and personal property of married women is bound for the payment of debts contracted by them in carrying on business. The court says that the enlarged property rights of married women, conferred by recent legislation, necessarily carry with them increased liabilities. In other words, married women cannot claim the right to carry on busiess, and contract debts the same as if they were single, and at the same time hold their property exempt from liability for such debts. If they take new rights they must also take new reeponsi bilities. This seems to be but fair play.

Gov. PORTKR has appointed Edwin P. Hammond of Rensselaer, judge of the Supreme Court in place of Judge Woods. Judge Hammond is in his 48th year and has been a practical attorney for twentyfive years. He served in the war and made a good record for bravery and effl ciency and has been judge of Circuit Court of his district for ten years past, being twice re-elected to the position without opposition, all political parties uniting tn his support. This shows tbe popularity of Judge Hammond, who is undoubtedly well qualified for the high place to which he has been called.

IT is said that 190 members of the British House of Commons have sent a memorial to Mr. Gladatone, asking that female suffrage be incorporated in any franchise measure the government may propose. Many others announce their willingness to vote foranch a Mil, if put upon its merits and not made a political measure. If audi a bill !a introduced, ita treatment will aflord an interesting index to the sentiment of the English people on this much-mooted question.

RKPORT« to the Inter Ocean from some 200 counties in the spring wheat districts of the Northwest ahow a greater acreage than that of last year and tbe condition of tbe growing crop better than ever reported at this date In the season. Of course much depends upon tbe kind of weather from now until harvest, but should this be favorable the spring wheat production may URfr oat tbe shortage in tbe winter crop.

TBX speeches of the lawyers in the star route trial are the next thing to everlasting. Wilson concluded his six days* argument on Wednesday and late be followed by several others, who will no doubt prow equally long winded.

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In answer to a labored article headed, "Where are the Babies the St. Louis Spectator says, "On Wedneeday and Saturday afternoons tbey are at the matinees. Last Wednesday there was a solo from a baby, on acryophone, which through one'scene. Colic was the theme and while it was treated with great variety, tbe original idea was never lost sight of." The paper further says that "the noble army of martyrs hissed the unhushable performer fairly out of the building." We have a great deal of sympathy for mothers and want to see them have a good time but not at the expense of the public. We are very fond of hfthiftg and can stand a good deal of music on the "cryophone" but no one cares to pay fifty cents or a dollar for that privilege. Leave the babies at home or take them to the neighbors.

AT the ninety-fifth general assembly of the Presbyterians of the United States, held this week at Saratoga, the opening address was made by Rev. Dr. Herrick Johnson, of Chicago, the Moderator for the past year. After pointing out in a very solemn manner the perils that are threatening the church he says, "The church is rapidly approaching a calamity. It is threatened with a famine of preachers. Take in every stated supply and retired ministers, and still 500 churches are .left pastorless. Of the students twelve theological colleges, during the past decade, only nineteen per cent, entered the ministry." The speaker attributes this to the "secularism, irregularlsm, and skepticism in American colleges." This is certainly not an encouraging outlook.

A LADY in New York has put on mourning for a Japanese poodle dog This same lady once went into mourning for a gentleman to whom she was not engaged.' It is safe to say that crape is becoming to her and she does not look well in colors. A genuine bereavement that would call tor a two or three years' period of crape and bombazine would no doubt be a source of great joy. She reminds us of the corpulent French woman who said, "I am always longing for a great sorrow that will cause me to grow thin but, when it comes, I am so delighted that I get fatter than ever." It is declared that another New York lady goes shopping with alive toad fastened to her watch chain but wer will consider this a slander till we see tbe proof.

FROM the Salt Lake Tribune we learn that couples who go to the Endowment House to be married are turned away because it is so crowded with business, thirty-five marriages taking place in one day. There never was a time when so many young girls embraced polygamy. Men, both old and young, are taking three wives at a' time, and the number of missionaries has been doubled. This is what has been accomplished by legislation, commissions and moral ^suasion. We, who are so far away, do not realize the enormities of these crimes. It is not surprising that the papers of that locality are recommending a policy consisting of the sword and shot gun.

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MB. HOLCOMBK, superintendent of public instruction, has given it as his opinion, supported by the attoftley general, that while women- cannot legally serve as county superintendent, there is no law against their filling the office of school trustee. Several of our prominent lawyers differ from this opinion and say that, under the common law, she is not eligible. Let us have this subject discussed. An intelligent woman is eminently fitted for this office, snd if there is a law preventing it, we will see that it is repealed by the next legislature.

THK Chicago, Burlington and Quincy management have rented pows for their employes In different churches. The Louisville, New Albany and-Chicago have taken off all Sunday tratna except mail trains. It is predicted that the time will come when each road will have ita chaplain to look after the aplritual welfare of Its employes. It is safe to say that be will find plenty of work. In tbe meantime, puritan New England is putting Sunday trains on all her roads, and ranning for the firat time, two Sanday passenger trains each way b^j^^w York and Boston.

A PECULIAR divorce case It oh the docket at Cincinnati. The husband of the plaintiff discovered after marriage that his wife had been previously married. He paid the nooeanary expenses to secure a dlvoroe, and remarried the woman. Soon a second husband turned np and he paid him not to make any trouble, and again remarried the woman to be sure the nnion waa legal. Now she soes him for divorce. The quicker a man is rid bf such a creature the better for him.

LAWRSUCS BARRETT IS educating a young lady of excellent family, in Washington, intending to bring her oat ss a star. It Is the great desire of Mr. Barrett's heart to form a oampasy of educated ladies and gentlemen, "an untried novelty on the American stage." If one half tbe stories be true that are told respecting tbe conduct behind tbe scenes, it Is not surprising that tb« higher -I— of Motors long to surround themselves by refined and respectable flStW

THK custom of funeral parades has about reached its length. Pat Townsend, a drayman, died at Peoaacola, recently, and all the drayman la tbe dty attended the funeral in a body,

When tbe end will come nobody can each one driving hia dray. It is not so predict. Is It really a matter of vital stated, bat In all probability, tbe dead necessity to justice that juries should be man's dray beaded tbe procession, •o speechified I

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THK letters of Carlyle*s wife, which havn been recedtiy published, do not tend to magnify tbe heroic side of the meat and unique Scotch genius. The oook, which is made up of every-day letters written to a single person Is pronounced by an intelligent antic to be "infinitely more entertaining than anything Carlyle himself ever wrote." It is believed that his wife was the first to discover his capacity for greatness, and her happiness would have been complete if she could have shared his confidence and been socially bis equal. But this it seems was not to be. We are told that: "He kept her at his feet, but never 'lifted her in his arms or invited her to share the company of his thoughts. When there was house-cleaning to be done, or repairs to* be made, or a disagreeable hiatus in the domestic economy to be somehow bridged over, he took good care to put himself out of the way, and leave her to go through the work alone. If there was a little money to be spent in travel, be took It and went without her. When company came she was not unfrequently ceok, housemaid, and hostess, all in one." It is well to take these letters and read them in connection with FrSode's life of Carlyle, if one wants to get a just conception of the character of tbe rugged and angular Scotchman. -/-I

THE wind storms of the early part of of the week proved exceedingly destructive of life and property. In various parts of eastern and central Indiana a large amount of property was destroyed, but no loss of life is reported. But in tbe vicinity of Kansas City, and ether towns in Missouri, a considerable number of people were killed and many more seriously injured, while the loss on property runs up into the hundreds ot thousands. From some cause or another these destructive wind storms appear to be increasing both in frequency and intensity in this country. A score of years ago tbey occurred but seldom while now hardly a season passes without witnessing several of them. So far science seems to be wholly unable to deal with these death-dealing whirlwinds, but it is to be hoped that tbe thorough and careful study of their cause and origin which is going on may yet throw sufficient light on the subject to enable tbe ingenuity of man in some measure to deal with them. sy

SWIFT justice was meeted out to Brady, the murderer of Chavendish and Burke, who was hanged on last Monday. He met his fate coolly and obeyed the injunction of his mother to make no statement. Brady's guilt was clearly established and his act of bloody assassination was justly punished. Whatever sentiment for the betterment of Ireland's condition may be felt in this country, there will be no sympathy wasted upon the Phoenix Park murderers. The only thing for such rod-handed assassins is to mete out punishment swift and sure. •*i **V•:

THE lawyers who were lucky enough to get into the marital litigation of Fair and Tabor, the bonanza kings of Nevada and Colorado, must have reaped a golden harvest. Mrs. Fair was given alimony amounting to more than four million dollars, while Mrs. Tabor was also allowed an enormous sum. Litigants like these can pay princely fees to their lawyers without knowing that tbey have suffered any loss, and attorneys who get into such cases are apt to see that It is tbe opportunity of a lifetime, and charge accordingly.

DKS MOINES, Iowa, Is without a saloon. The common council of the city put the license fee at 91,000, and as a matter of spite the saloon ists have closed their graggeries. Never was a' high license fee or spite put to a better purpose. Up in our neighbor town of Danville, recently the license fee was pnt at |500, and the saloon keepers threatened to close. But when the citizens held a meeting and recommended that the lioense be raised to 91,000, the dealers were glad to pay the $600 fee.

ANOTHER minister, Rev. Charles T. Stack, of tbe Lutheran church at Indiana, Pa., has followed in the steps of Rev. Miln, of Chicago, and left tbe ministry for the stage. As ususl he began with Hamlet and Riehellen, and made a ten strike, if bis friends are to be believed. It la noticeable however that these suddenly acquired stage reputations are not always aa lasting ss Bliss's argument before the star route^jury.

NKW YORK is to have an apartment house 171 feet high from attic to basement. It is to be 150 by 94 feet In size and will accommodate thirty-eight families. There will be ten stories each fourteen feet high, making the highest building in that dty, and probably in tbe country. It will be built of brown and red stone and will cost 9850,000.

"THAMC God, Kentucky wlras cm now be protected," shouted Pnil Thompson senior, when the jury said Pbil Thompson, junior, was not guilty of murder in killing Walter Davis for the supposed debauching of young Phil's wife. Tbe time when Pbil Thompson's liquor loving wife needed protection was when be turned ber loose in Cincinnati.

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the murder of Elliott, tbe pugilist, was acquitted yesterday evening. Tbe jury was out five hours. There was load cheering in tbe street when tbe result was announced. Jere's delivery from tbe gallows Is largely doe to tbe eloquence of lawyer Storr. A good lawyer can overcome much evidence in a murder

THK Tewksbary investigation has awakened a spirit of inquiry into such Institutions' and in almost every instance the results hive approximated those of Tewksbury. A terrible state of affairs has been disclosed at the St. Louis poor house, and in Greenlawn cemetery, at Indianapolis it is found that the dead are buried seventeen inches below the surfiice. The public ^ays out immense sums of money to keep up such institutions but seems criminally careless in selecting the proper persons to manage them. i. vy

IT would be hard to find more sophistry to the square inch than in the resolutions of tbe Brewers association at Detroit, when they declared that, "we, as brewers, have the same right as any body of men engaged in a neccessary and beneficial industry." And they ''confidently ask tbe aid and co-opera-tion of all honest citizens interested in a in an of go do and tbe free enjoyment of any innocent pleasure that does not infringe upon tbe rights of others!"

IT is said there is a lady visiting in St. Louis, who, for twenty years, had supervision of tbe royal nursery of Russia and has met nearly all the crowned heads of Europe. The reporters are almost crazy to learn her address, and the public awaits in suspense to learn tbe style of regal nursing bottles, the imperial remedy for colic, the royal method of cutting teeth, and various other intensely interesting secrets of the nursery. _______________

CHICAGO tells us of a pretty young book agent who talked to a young lawyer more than an hour, presumably about her book. When she had finished he kissed ber. Tbe next day her best young man gave him a cowhiding. Query: if women had a little more dignity and reserve in their relations toward men, would it so often be necessary to call upon their male relatives to defend their honors

THE supreme court at Metz, in Prussia, have just drcided that a woman is not obliged to tell her age, and that falsifying in this regard cannot be considered as perjury. They argue that tbe woman does not intend to commit an illegal act,but is instigated by female vanity. Score another for the ladles. When fat, fair and forty swears she is sweet sixteen, do not call it perjury, but only "female vanity."

"GATH" read a poem at the meeting of tbe Array of tbe Potomac last Tuesday and in it took occasion to make his usual fling at women. Speaking of Lincoln, he says: "All around hiro, spoiled or greedy, women vain an honor spent, Still his faith in human nature lived without discouragement."

What have the women done to "Gath?" THE highest oompliment that can be paid to Mary Anderson Is that she has a pure and spotless character. It shines even above her magnificent talent. All women cannot be great but all can be chaste. No matter how splendid her attainments tbey cannot compensate for a lack of purity to her own heart or in tbe eyes of the world.

PRINOKS8 LOUISE is a good housekeeper, cook, confectioner, laundress, seamstress and dress maker. Good Heavens anything else Tbe sight of the princess doing the family washing must be inspiring and would, In itself, be enough to satisfy tbe most radical oommunist.

DANIEL CCRMSY,thesecond man convicted of the murder of Cavendish and Burke, was banged at Kilmainham jail, in Dublin, at eight o'clock yesterday morning. He made no statement concerning the crime for which he forfeited his life. ______________ vlMfw

THE result of the new tax law in Ohio will be to close one fourth of the saloons in tbe State. The inoome to Cincinnati alone will be 9300,000 per year. Next to prohibition, this Is the best we could ask.

A ST. LOUIS paper, commenting on a Sunday game of base ball attended by 4,000 persons and oonducted In, the meet orderly manner, says

The Catholic clergy have taken a very sensible view of tbe matter of Sunday amusements, and many of their liberal Protestant brethren are following. It is impossible, as It Is unjust, to drive thousands of young men into a strict and Puritanical observance of Sanday, and the next best thing is to provide something palatable enough to draw them away from tbe temperance groceries which were their Sunday haunts in not so many years gone. uS Jul

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treehusbands went, smiling, out Into the street, Bach steering a bee-line at once to the ThrM**wU^e liad been told that three husbands must meet

Three man upon ban new iWpent to trades. For men. after supper, grow restless if they Must spend with their wives one hour a day, women most ever be grouting. Three wives followed alter three husbands, and saw

Them laughing and drinking and smokAroaM a sraafi taMe^nd playing at "draw," With business cards in a bonnes* way. For women are curious always know What btMdnew takes tired husbands out so,

And when tbey find oat there is groaning. Three husbands, unconscious of danger, were Yet dreading three lectures they knew theyHl incurred. Three furious women marched in, and—behold,

Three husbands marched out without saylog a word. For none are so meek as are husbands when caught,

And none are so good—for a day—than tbffltf, t&ogiit By wives that they 400, must be groaning.

ITS THE RULE HERB. Ooahen independent. It Is MI exception that when a man onee occupies a political office ot any note be does cot become a government PauPer*

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SA YING8 AND DOINGS. -V| General Butler has the power of goir__ to sleep at4ny time when he chooses to do so.

Thomas Jefferson placed no reliance on newspapers but look at the kind of newspapers he had to place reliance on

Schuyler Colfax says: "It is my firm conviction that many of tbe anecdotes that are attributed to Abraham Lincoln^ were never uttered by blm."

The Bev. Dr. Tamlage says thsrt prayer will not pay the preacher's salary. He says the hand must go down in the pocket to make the prayer effective.

Ministers should scrupulously rest onv Monday. T^jey are not an exception to tbe law that continuous labor is destructive to physical and mental wellbeing

A Nevada paper says that: "Nhso tenths of the unhappy marriages are the result of green human calves being allowed to run at large without any yokes upon them. They marry and have children before they do mustaches."

New York's "best society" now cub their own bread at the table on a plate* made ot wood from the Holy Land, and with a knife purchased In Damascus. One generation back it was not the "cutting" ofjthe bread, but the "getting" of it that occupied their attention.

A little 12-year-old girl in Knoxville, Iowa, was frightened to death by a severe thunder storm a few nights ago. She had been quite well tbe day before, but awoke ctartng tbe storm and besought her mother to take her to bed, "for she was afraid of thunder." Her supplications were nnbeeded, and soon the mother was aroused by tbe child's difficult breathing. Approaching tbe bed with a light,she foundber dying,and in a few moments she breathed ber last.

Bertha M. King came over from England, where she had a great reputation as a spiritualist, and advertised in Boston an exhibition of herjpower to produce ghosts. Horticultural Hall was crowded, and a number of materialized spirits had appeared, when the committee whom the audience bad chosen to see that all was honest Insisted suddenly upon opening the cabinet. The manager protected that Mrs. King might be injured by a premature arousal from a trance, but they forced tbe door and caught her coming up through a secret trap, costumed for the next apparition.

GLASS shingles are now in used for roofs and for weatber-boarding. They are durable, and very light in weight. They can be used for flat roofs, and people can walk on tbem without fracture. They are made transparent or opaque, and of various colors* They are nonconductors of heat, and are therefore warm in winter and cold in summer. Tbey are also non-conductors of electricity. Tbe non-transparent shingles are used for roofs, yet spaces for skylights are filled with transparent glass.

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