Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 June 1883 — Page 1

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Vol. 13.—No. 50.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

WASTED—A PARK.

This is the season of the year to agitate the question of establishing a park to which tired humanity can resort after the day's work Is done, or on Sunday. No one seems to think of a park at a time other than when the want of it is felt, and when it Is too late to do anything for that season. The want of a public park has long been felt here, and the question has been agitated ticue and again without result. There has been an abundance of talk but no united action, nor is it probable that there ever will be until some public spirited citizen takes the matter In ban aud donatesone. 'lerre Haute can always Is counted on as being on hand wheu there Is auy bonettt to be derived from donation. It secured the Normal School if through the donation of the lot and about $25,000 in money. Through the generosity of the late Chauncy Rose it has the Polytechnic and the Orphan's home, and to the list has recently been added a fine hospital by Mr. Hulman.

It now remains for some one to step to the front with a park in bis hand. There are number of spots around the city admirably adapted to park purposes. The Barbour property, noith of the city has often been talked of, and would answer the purpose well. The Gookins property in the South end would make a delightful resort, but could scarcely be secured on terms whioh would be accepted as reasonable. Probably the best, location would be the fair grounds. They are just about the proper distance from the dty, and are accessible. They contain about forty acres of as fine grove as can be found in the State, and at» small outlay, comparatively speaking, could be placed in excellent condition. The Agricultural Society has a long lease of them, but sub-leases each year to parties who wish to use them for grazing or farming. Iu ojiuMMftUjjmiof

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ting them up in good stylo it la reasonable to suppose that the city could have them rent free. It is only a few weeks ago since the Agricultural Society asked the Board of County Commissioners for an appropriation of $7,009 to improve the grounds, but as the aforesaid board is of an economical turn it is, perhaps, needless to say that the petition was not looked upon with favor, and It seems as though no more need be looked for from tho city. If Torre Haute had a public park its cup of happiness would bo full, but the indications are that the cup will not fill for all time to come.

The proposed government building seems yet as far in tho dim and distant future as when the bill appropriating /money for Its ercctlon was first Introduced in Congress. The howl tbst was raised after the commissioners came here aeomsto havo temporarily subsided, but it is liable to break out again upon the smallest provocation. Tho gentlemen appointed to. select the site have been here twice. The first visit was somewhat hurried, and the criticism which followed was just. On their return, however, they took more time and listened patiently to the speeches which had been prepared for their edification.

No decision has yet been made public, but the general impression seems to be that the McKeen property on the corner of Seventh and Cherry streets has been recommended. To bu$inees men west of Sixth street, the location cannot be looked upon favorably, but when it la opened for business, the change will become familiar, and the prejudice will die ©ut in a short time. There was the same war when the poetofflce was removed frwtn Fourth to Sixth street. Those west of Fourth street fought vigorously •gainst the change, but it was made in the face of all the protests. The change from the present location wiilouly move the postofflce as far east of where it now is, as the distance was wheu the change was matte before. Of course the newspapers and others who have enormous quantities of mall matter daily, cannot be expected to favor a change which will remove the postoffloa from their Immediate vicinity.

While east end and centrally located citisens are warring over the location of the government building, the west ender winks knowingly aud smiles serenely without taking any hand in the game at all. He to no bog, and doesnt case a button If they loefte te the government building at BrtudL He knows be is going to have anew court house ss soon as It can be erected, and thst is enough to satisfy his moderate ambition. Although nothing Is known definitely of the intentions of the eemmtorionetm, it seems to be generally understood that before the present term adjourns plans will be adopted, snd the contract will bs let. The opposition of two years ago seems to have disappeared entirely, and no one to heard to ofagect. Whatever work is being done tn the matter to being done very quietly, and it will be

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done in a straightforward manner. It Is said that tye proposed building when completed will cost about $200,000. It Is probable that none of the architects-who created such a stir two years ago, will get a finger in the pie this,year.

THE PUBLIC SLAUGHTER HOUSK.

About a year ago a number of meetings were held for the purpose of having established a public slaughter house, which would be kept in good condition, and st which ail the butchers In the city would be compelled to slaughter. The firs two or three meetings were largely attended, there being from fifteen to twenty butchers present each time. All seemed to be very much in favor of the scheme, and its success was looked upon as 4 certainty. Committees were appointed and a time set for reports. Time came, but no reports, and so the matter was allowed to drop out of sight. Perhaps the new Board of Health will take the matter in hand aud proue more sueaessful than their predecessors. An institution of the kind is certainly needed here. While a few of the hopses are kept clean and neat, there are many which are nothing but dens of filth, breeding disease all around them. Under the present system it cannot be told what kind of meat one is getting. It may be good, bad or indifferent, and the purchaser is none the wiser. Butchers can tell of many tricks in their trade which would astonish their customers if they know them.

THE SOUTH EASTERN.

It begins to look very much as though the Southeastern railroad will have to vacate First street and make its bed along some other route. The Supreme court says it must go, andthatsettles it Ever since it was first talked of, that road has been a source of trouble to the city at large or some particular portion of it. First, the city took $100,000 stock in it, upon the strength of which an at tempt was made to make it pay all the debts contracted in building it. Fortunately, however, the scheme was not very successful, although the cases have only been settled a short time ago, and at a great expense to the city. The next trouble was the laying of the track on First street. At present it is impossible to cross (the track with a wagon, except at a few points at long intervals. The street is used as a depot, yards, and all other uses required by a railroad. The people along tho line complain that they seem to have no rights which a cocporation is bound to respect, but with the decision of a few days ago they will probably pick up courage and compel the management to go, without standing on the order of its going.

A Woman's Opinions.

L1FKOR DKATH

In a sermon, not long ago, ou the "Blessings of a Short Life," Talmage pictured so vividly the benefits of an early death that one is almost tempted to behove it is a misfortune to live till old age. And yet, all the eloquence of the Brooklyn preacher can not convince a single soul that a short existence is preferable to along one. This clinging to life is characteristic of all humanity, civilised or savage. Self preservation is our first instinct, our last effort. It often seems that the less people have to make life desirable, the more anxious they are to live. We generally consider that a man has reached the height of bravery or the depth of recklessness wheu he is careless of his life. To take the life of another Is the gieateat sin in tho world to deprive a criminal of life, is the severest punishment. Take away a man's liberty, hlscharacter, his friends, but only let him live and he will still have hope. The soldier on the awful field of battle, the sailor amid the angry waves, the criminal in the grasp of the law, the strong man overcome by sickness, he who sutlers poverty and misfortune, feeble women, delicate children, all engaged in one common struggle for life. The aim of existence Is to esist.

True, there are those who regard this as so little of a blessing that they throw it aside of their own free will, but the tuidde is either very brave or very cowardly brave, to voluntarily take this great leap into the darkness cowardly, to shirk the duties imposed by life and leave to the cold protection of the world those whom he ought to cherish.

Poets of every age havo written of this sweet, strange gift which we receive without asking and lose without consenting. Being of ratber a melancholy nature, most of our poets speak of life as a burden and death as a blessing, a sentiment which works up well In a poem and Is enjoyed by romantic youth, but should the occasion requite it, both poet Mid youth would make as strong a fight for the privilege of living as the meet prosaic and commonplace of mankind. The sentimentalist "longs for death," but sends for the doctor if he feels a pain be "welcomes the quiet giars," end to afraid to pass a cemetery he "thinks only of the future world,* while he Invests in government bonds payable wheu be shall be a very old man. "Thta life's a fort eossaitstsd to my trast Which I mart act yield up, ttlllt be totes*,"

says Massinger, and Joanna Baillie exclaims "For, oh! it goes against the mind of man To be turned out from its warm wonted home Ere yet oae rent admits the winter's cbi:L" And there is the old legend commencing "The tree of deepest loot is found Least willing st. I to quit the ground. Twas tbeiefore said by ancieutSM^es That love of life 1 acreoaed with years Bo much that in our latter stages. When ain grows sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appeal s, etc."

Not even the "three separate warnings" find a man prepared. When, as the poem runs, ho is "no longer able, to go about bis farm and stable," he resolves to enjoy his home and friends. When hearing fails he takes pleasure in reading. When eyesight Is gone he still finds satisfaction in the memory of the past, until, at length, Death, who has been waiting all tnese ypars, carries him off, unwilling to go. "Llfe is a mystery as deep as ever death can Yet, O, how dear it Is to us, this life We live and see."

The young donot want to goaway witL all the bright and beautiful future so full of happ- promise the middle-aged have their families, tbeir business, so much depending upon them they cannot leave death must spare them yet awhile and the old, ah, how they have become attached to this world what strong associations, what tender recollections hold them here.

It is true that there are times in the lives of all when death seems our only refuge when we are humbled to the dust by disgrace and long to hide our faces forever when misfortune seeks us out and crushes usi with pitiless, unrelenting force when those in whom are centered all our love qnd happiness and ambition are torn from our passionate embrace when we fling ourselves upon the earth, broken, helpless, desperate, and pray—not for immortality but for annihilation. And then, out from our darkness and despair comes a strength, you may call it religion or philosophy, you may say it is sent from Heaven or born within the soul, but it comes, and like an angel, lifts us up, touches with healing our bruised hearts, and animates our fainting spirits with hope and cour-

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Ijord Byron wrote s-.-i "Perhaps the early grave, Which men weep over, may bemeartto save."

We are often told that "the good die young." Everything possible has been said to mitigate the grief we feel ovei the death of the young, but in vain. We cannot be reconciled. We try to say, "They have escaped so much sorrow and toil their feet are at rest befope they were pierced by the thorns in the pathway their hands are folded before they grew hard in thankless labor," but our hearts rebel. We love them and they loved us aud wo do not want to be separated. We feel that, whatever may be their state of happiness or glory, they remember and lony for us. This feeling may be irreverent, it may indicate a lack of faith but it is human and we cannot help it.

Since the world's creation,no man can say how many centuries, Death has never changed. Still does it come to palace and hovel, in the brightness of noonday, in the silence of midnight still does it take the young and' ambitious and leave the old and weary selects the good, who are most needed on earth, and suffers tho wicked and useless to remain gathers to itself the ones most tenderly cherished here and passes by the neglected and forsaken who could so well be spared.

It is foolish to say each individual death is ordered by an all-wise Providence. Even with our imperfect sight we can see the- irreparable injury sometimes caused by death, leving hearts broken, happy families scattered, wise plans frustrated, science and literature retarded, nations revolutionized or overthrown.

Considering all these things, the de sire to live is not strange. It Is the preference for the certain ratber than the uncertain. We know what this life is. We understand its benefits and its disadvantages and, even though there are more of the latter, yet it Is to be preferred to a state of existence which is entirely unknown. When the last hour comes, either sustained by that philosophy which bravely accepts the inevitable, or by that faith which promises a brighter life, most men and women can meet death with calmness and fortitude. But, there are very tew, even among tha most enthusiastic believers In a future existence, who care to hasten the day when they shall take this final departure. If we consider the hereafter an endless sleep, we are not eager to exchange this active, ambitions life for dreamless inanition, even though the one to troubled and weary and the other, perfect rest if we hope to live again In estate of eternal happiness, still do our hearts cling to this world, for it is so beautiful* O, blossoming flowers with sweet and perfumed breath grand old tteee looking forth in royal statettnese upon the fragrant meadows rivers that flow forever and ever down to the great, mysterious ocean hills and mountains lifting up your beads In majestic solemnity

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but why should we spend the precious moments in vague speculation? Our duties aud obligations are to the present, and the great question to be considered Is not where or what shall be our future state, but rather, What shall we do today How may we help one another In what way can we benefit this world Who would wish to lay down his life because, it is full of care and trouble? Without these trials the nobler part of our character would remain undeveloped dbd we would be weak and imperfect. If we are brave and patient, pure, kind and forgiving, faithful to every trust, we will find this life very sweet and beautiful and, when it is finished, whether our work is just commenced or whether it is ended, we ean meet death with ^erene and peaceful spirit, feeling that ail will be well.

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Maying love. Folding birds Carrying tales.' Reading novels. Getting married. Nl & $ ^nglndebCgag^ Gojfgto fnuerals. Borrowing money. Patfihing silk quilts.1' Embroidering tidies. Dodging tailors' bills. g* Writing Spring poetry.'1^ -1Puiling baby carriages. ,r!' Mending boy's trousers. Fighting with neighbors. Flaring up with servents. Changing boarding houses. Looking out for husbands. Making ceremonious calls. Trying to make ends meet. Trying to collect little bills. 1",,+ Running away with the rent. 'f Building five-story air castles. Settling accounts with doctors. Minding other people's business. Getting ready for commencements. Teaching young ideas how to shoot. Counting money before it's earned. Watching the people across the street, Competing with the woman next door,

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house fir two. Tryiiw to get money or to get rid of it when tney have St.

Endeavoring to make a grand show of! with a little money. Making fifty cent mats out of three dollars worth of materials.

D0NT8 FOR SHOPPING.

Don't buy a dress to suit the chap behind the counter suit yourself. Don't ask to look at the bottom piece in a pile of calicoes unless you mean to buy. I

Don't waste a clerk's time examining imported novelties at $2.50 a yard, when you don't mean to go above 25 cents.

Don't go about buying a dress till you have consulted your dressmaker and know just how many yards of material you need. A clerk can give a rough guess, but he doesn't know how many frills aud ruffles you mean to put on.

Don't be ashamed to ask for cheap goods at onc«, if you mean to buy such The thing of Vossing over a pile of costly fabrics and winding up by purchasing something chtap lor the "servant" or a "poor friend "is played out.

Don't depend on a clerk to give you a dress that wiltysuityourcomplexion. If his last customer happened to try his patience he mij bt tell you grass-green is just what you needed, when It would be the out and ou^ ruination of you.

Don't get Info the habit of running goods down, what is the use in telling a clerk you canget a better article next door for half tbe price? He knows as well as you d« that if you could you would go there Ind take it

Don't forget liat a well-bred lady is never more quilt ly recognized than on a shopping expeation. She never gives more trouble thai she can help, and is sure to apologise for what she does give. es to look over goods, to boy, she is not [n fact, she is the de erks who, as a role, to please her and be obliging, and mice it as pleasant for her to examine go is as it Is for them to show them to her.

If she merely wl and does not int afraid to say so. light of dry goods do their very

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Our Breakfast Table.

"A little brag is wholesome at times," said the Major, as Derby laughed over a business puff in the great circular of the lively B. M. A.—that is, the Business Men's Association. "There can be three useful ingredients in a business success: Capital, which is silent—the silent partner is always the monied man bustling work and a breezy blow." "You forget the very homely proverb, 'the quiet pig g^ets all the swill,'" interrupted Derby. 'v "No, I do not, although it is true enough that often the quietest men make the most money. They make it all for themselves, however, and help no one else, whilst your active, enthusiastic lellow, who is always helping everybody and is a perpetual note of'admiration, don't get so much, but how could the world get along without him

McEwan replied: "If ever we needed a little bugle blowing it is now. I am not particularly selfish in being pleased at,the promising success of our new Terre Haute association for advertising Terre Haute, even if it does cdt into the thrifty little towns around us, for a very little from each of them means a good deal for us. There is no need to disguise the fact that our stock accounts are too big and our bank accounts too small." "What do you mean by th&tVn®b "Well, suppose you had bought four or five car-loads of reaping machines, and find you are only going to sell a single car. Imagine a couple of thousands In string alone for the self-bind-ers and all your customers plowing up their wheat—only these are facts, not Imagination—your bank account will be short." "It occurs to me, as a party sitting on the fence, that I would under such circumstances subscribe for an excursion," said Derby. "Indeed, I would try a little reckless 'cutting'—I believe that is what you call it. I believe, I would throw overboard willingly, to-day, what I would have to, willy nilly, a little

needs to ftstonish the natives next week. Who was it said 'there is he that holds on and yet lets go—a good chance and he that 'cuts' saves—in the long run.' Perhaps I have not quoted just light, but I mean well." "Yes, ever so many mean well," ex claimed the Professor, as be thought of going to school. "There's McKnigbt, turning my scholars' heads inside out to tench them a few songs and make a big show. I declare, if I ask agirl to-day who discovered America she will say the 'Naiad Queen,' or if very stupid, the Nyad Queen or who crossed the Dela ware, perhaps Slalacta, in a car drawn by a grasshopper. As Jack would say, 'We're all broke up.' I suppose McEwan will say it is a beautiful business scheme, and therefore praiseworthy. "Just what I do. McKnight may take insy take iu three or four thousand dollars, and he make take away a quarter of it, but nearly that much has been left by strangers, in one way or another, drawn by him, soweaieout nothing." "Never mind your old school, Professor," said Miss Laura, gaily. "No doubt your littl# folks have learned moie from that wonderful Mr. McKnight than they could from you. No money can buy the rapt delight and the memories the little folks will have of the Naiad Queen. Fact is, I T.-ont forget that one scene, which was most beautiful because most possible tho beautiful sea stoped in golden light it was like Mark Twain's picture of the bay of Naples. Nor the tableau of Night and Morning, with its figures carved from ruby and ruddy copper. I don't know that I was carried away by the Rock of Ages. I waAn't right sure that the figure was reel til! I saw a hand go up to smooth the hair—then I knew it was a real woman, interested in crimpe and hairpins. Nor do I think it was a good idea to pluck a solid rock up by the roots and lift it above the water—ratber spoil ed the picture—but still it is hypercritical to find fault with what was certainly the finest spectacle and the best stage management I have even seen. So run along to school, Professor, and don't worry about McKnight's managing yon and the schools just as cutely as he did the stage—for It really was thorp."

Mrs. Welby shook her bead sadly/ delaring: "It was a ain and a shame to use the poor little children ins theatrical scheme. The benfit to each child Is very small, and the profit to the manager to very large. There will be many a nervous weakness, many a distaste for prosy life, many a longing for the stage to be traced back to this week's work." "Oh, nonsense! It's fan for the children. The little chicks are only sony Ibis show does not last a month. What's the use of teaming to dance and sing If IheaeoompUshxuenUarenottobeused." And Derby continued: "I think there never were each child mi as we see sround us to-day. The little ones of each decade seem to me brighter, mote winning and graceful, and it to largely

Mrs. Welby was not to be palavered put of her opinion, an continued: "I am not singular in my views. The high pressure and forcing of our children may produce some pretty results, but we don't reckon the cost. No child of mine should appear on the Opera House stage in a pageant or show for the amusement of a mixed audience. We brush the blue from the grape too soon." "You are. beh'ind the age. When we adapt ourselVds to the situation, it will suit us. If we cling to our own old notions we will be ajar with all around us."

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A FAULTY HABIT.

Married couples make a great mistake as they grow Old together in calling each other father and mother or papa Aud mamma. Is tliere any sensible reason for so doing Because the children when young say "pa" and "ma" ought the parents themselves to fall into the same habit. The girl you courted as Florence, or Mary, or Kate, and made your wife, does n6t become your mother by the nuptial ceremony. Then why not call her Florence, or Mary or lvatc, instead of Jcne of the parental names? And let your lover John, or Joe or Will ba called by that name after marriage instead of making him ridiculous by addressing him as "father" and thus bainggullty of a white lie. He is the father of your toddling babe and not your parent.

Only a few dlys ago we heard of an old couple who came to'ftho city to transact some legal business.' old gentleman jjave bis own name correctly. He had^ndt forgotteii thst, i^fewhen asked 1 bis wife's name he- -aeWN**Weoall her mother." "Hasshe no other name?" He scratohed his head in thought and finally, with a puzzled expression on his face, turned to his wife and said "Mother, what was it they called you when a gal She, too, seemed lost in thought before she replied "Elizabeth." It had been so many, many years since she heard that name pronounced.

Aswesaidat the beginning, is there any valid reason why husbands and wives, young, middle-aged, or old, should drop the names by which ihey called each other in courting days If true love exists always, as it should in every home, the ante-nuptial names and terms ot endearment should, never be l»t.

HOME.

Tbaekeray once wrote: "It is night now, and here is home. Gathered under the quiet roof, elders and children He, alike at rest. In the midst of a great calm the stars look out from tho heavens. The silence is peopled with the past sorrowful remorso for sins and short-com-ings, memories of passionate joys and griefs rise out of tbeir graves, both now alike, calm and sad. Eyes, as I shut mine, look at me that long since ceased to shine. The town and the fair landscape sioep under the starlight, wreathed under the autumn mist. Twinkling among the houses, a light keeps watch here and there, iu what may be a sick chamber or two. The clock tolls sweetly in the silent air. Here is night and rest. An awful sense of thanks makes the heart swell and the head bow, as I pass to my room through the sleeping house, and feel as though a hushed blessing were upon It."

ABOUT WOMEN.

Twenty-seven girls of Council Bluflfc, by way of reminding their male friends of remissness In the matter of taking them to entertainments, bought seats for the theater one evening, and went in body, with only a matron for escort.

A thoughtful and far-sighted young lady of New York) having been jilted by her lover, did not mope aud pout and weep as some young ladies do under such ci rcumstanees. but started direct to the engraver's and secured a handsomely printed card, which she sent to all of her eligible gentlemen acquaintances, announcing that her engagement "off."

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Many a man has gone to an early grs and a probable purgatory wholly because of bad digestion. A poor cook to the right bower of the devil, and the plainer it is said the better. There to a great deal of practical Christianity In good cooking and that is another fact eannot be told too often or too loud around parlors where foolish women sod boast of their Ignorance of the culinary art. No woman to fit to marry and assume the duties of a home who cannot oook*