Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 June 1883 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. PTTBUCATKM OTHCM,

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P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, JUNE 9, 1883.

WHETHER to be married at home or in a church, has been the question with many ayoungcoople. But as to widows Harper's Bazar, an authority in such matters says4'a widow should be married in a bonnet."

A NEW YORK artist has just finish' a portrait of a beautiful lady which one of the papers described as "an admirable likeness, 'Might, soft and airy as apiece of lace." Query does a lady like to be described as a "light, soft and airy as piece of lace?"

THE detectives are still at work trying to unravel the mystery of the murder of the two Foreman women, mother and* daughter, near Indianapolis several weeks ago. The discovery has been made that graveyard insurance policies for large sums were held on the lives of the victims, and it is hoped this discov ery may yet lead to the detection of the murderers.

THE treasurer of the Union League Club, of New York, has just handed in his annual report which contains some interesting facts. The total expenditures for the year were $260,000. There was spent in the restaurant 963,296 and for wines, liquors, and cigars, 167,515, rather significant figures. Stationery and printing cost only f3,058, while books and papers called for the immense sum of $1.346! It is not necessary to com ment on these figures.

The commission appointed to locate the future capital of Dakota finally selected Bismarck as the favored town Bismarck is located on a high bluff on the east side of the Missouri river, has a population of about 4,000 and is one of the most promising towns in the Territory. The Northern Pacific runs through it and the Northwestern and St. Paul roads will soon build lines to it. Manifestly Bismarck has a big future before it. It is understood, however, that some of the disappointed towns will contest the selection of their successful rival and a hot fight may be expected. "BABY," one of the sweetest words in our language, is becoming so universally mis-applied, that it is losing its tenderness. A woman shoots her husband and then falls to crying and kissing him and calling him her "baby/' A horse thief, captured a few days ago, telegraphs to his wife, "Baby: Dearest of earth, I will be with you soon. Answer. Signed, Love." The man about town gives this name to his mistress and she, in turn* applies it to her lover. Among the low and vulgar it is a common term of endearment, and thero seems to be no way of preventing the piracy of this pretty name.

NIOKTROBKS to be fashionable oiust be of silk, "crushable" silk, the authorities tell us. They may be of white, black or gray. If the arm is -pretty the sleeve is abort, if not, it is long and trimmed with crystal fringe. The bridal night robe must be of "white silk, embroidered with love-red roses, pission flowers and tiny marriage bells." It Is made Princess with Watteau back pocket, collar and oufls trimmed with lace, buttoned down the front with jewels and fastened at the throat with a large Alsaclan bow. Still, we think something with a suggestion of the laundry would lie prettier, and if poor, overdressed woman must make an elegant toilet to go to bed, her slavery to"style" will be complete. IMd Senator Tabor set the fashion.

IT has been supposed that women are more giveu to xlresis than men, but the census appears to refute this Idea, for Itshows that more women are engaged In making men's than woman's clothing. It takes 80,000 women to keep men dressed, in addition to the army of male tailors, while only 22,000 are required to make women's clothes. In this case, though, figures probably perform the alleged impossible feat of telling what is not true. Perhaps the larger part of the female atHre is not made by professional seamstresses, but by mothers and daughters In their own notnee. This is certainly the case throughout the country districts and to a Urge extent also in towns and cities. So the figures from the census tablet can hardly be regarded as conclusive on the subject of women's dPM».

THR trustee* of Purdue University hare done a wise thing in calling Prof. Smart to the Presidency of that college. He was one ot the moat efficient superintendents of public instruction the State ever had and is thoroughly acquainted with our educational system, its defects and it* want#. He is young, energetic, progressive and thoroughly pmc leal. His career shows his fitness for the vocation of teaching which he began in boyhood, so to speak, and has continued in some capacity ever since. He was for ten years superintendent of the Fort Wayne pa oHc school# and held the position ot State Superintendent for three terms. In 1*78 he was appointed by the President sa one of the eomotfs•loners from this State to the ftitoex* position, and In 1880 was etocied prudent of the National Ternctoew* Association. It Is safe to say that Purdue «u!d not hsve fallen into better hand* than th •m oftfce now President,

PBOVBCTIOH or free trade is all the talk now. The Indianapolis News is tor free trade and one of its arguments in favor of that doctrine was the statement that before quinine was put on the free list it sold

for $4

price

to $5 per ounce

and since that time has rarely commanded half those prices. Answering this argument the Chicago Inter-Ocean declared that before quinine was put on the free list it sold sometimes as low as 11.18, while at times since the tariff was taken off it has sold as high as $3.50 and at all times has sold for about the same

in this country as in Europe. It further declares that in 1872,1874,1875 and 1876, the shipments of bark to America for manufacture exceeded those to all Europe, while in 1881, under free trade, the shipments of bark to this country were rclaced to at

JO*one-fifth

of those to Europe. In other wards, the American manufacture quinine has been partially destroyed and the foreign article substituted, while the price remains about the same. The conclusion is that when American manufacture is entirely destroyed and we are wholly de pendent upon the foreign article the price of the drag will be put up to any figure the foreign manufactures may choose. This is one side of the tariff dission and is entitled to respectful atten tion.

THE sensation of the week in political circles has been the publishod interview with Gov. Hendricks in which he in timates that in case his party should think it best to renominate the old ticket of 1876, he might deem it his duty to accept the second place, with Mr. Tilden at the head. The interview was obtained by Jap Turpen, and first published in the Wabash Courier, whence it rapidly went the rounds of the leading papers of the country, creating much comment Since the publication Mr. Hendricks has fought shy of the reporters, and the only explanation of the matter which he has given, is that the talk with Turpen was confidential, and without any supposition on his part that it was to be used for publication. This comes far short of a denial that he gave expression to the views attributed to him, and the idea that he was decoyed into unbosoming himself to a newspaper man, without suspicion of the latter's purpose, is rather too gauzy for a veteran politician like Mr. Hendricks. If any man in the country should have sense enough to avoid the business end of a newspaper reporter, Mr. Hendricks ought to be that man, for few have had more experience in that line than he. The general belief is that Mr. Hendricks did not say any more than he meant to say, and that he was talking for publication. The reason for his change of mind is thought by some to mean that Jo. McDonald must be headed off in bis mad race for the White House at whatever cost, but whether this is true explanation or not must be largely a matter of conjecture.

THE nomination of Judge Foraker for Governor by the Republicans of Ohio on Wednesday, looks at this distance like an excellent one. Foraker is only thirty-seven, but his short career has shown him to be a man of very superior quality. A farmer's boy until sixteen, he went into the the army and served during the war, becoming the acting captain of his company at seventeen. When he came out of the army he plunged into books and graduated from Cornell, reading law at the same time, and sparking the girl who was to come his future wife. Enteilng on the practice of law in Cincinnati be was elected one of the Superior Court Judges in 1879, serving for three years, and until compelled to resign by falling health. He is an earnest, vlgoroug man, and is said to be a good stumper. The convention declared in favor of the protection of American manufactures and labor, and the taxation of the liquor traffic for revenue. The campaign promises to be an active one, and why Ohio should continue the practice of electing her governor every year, and thus keep the State continually in hot water, politically speaking, Is more than anyone outside the State can understand. It is bad enough In Indiana with a State campaign every two years and and a guberuational one every four, but in Ohio politics must be the principal business, and everything else incidental thereto.

WK have suffered enough from the Irish agitation. We stand upon the verge of being dragged into their dissensions. Other foreigners come here as a refuge from the difficulties of their own countries. They leave tbelr quarrels and hatreds behind. We offer them peace and liberty and they accept them and settle down and become identified with our interests, but the Irish are in constant commotion. They fight all the battles of Ireland on this side of the water and insist upon our taking a band. The St. Louis Spectator very pointedly says:

This country is too much over-ridden by this influence, and it is time to put an end to it. We have spoken of the Irish In this country there ought to be no such thing. Here we are, or ought to be American*. This is an American republic, and the only interest to be considered in anything that takes place in its teritory, is the interest of the American people. We have nothing more to do with the troubles of Ireland than with the troubles of Germany, or with the atrocities of Burmah and Persia. We are tired of bring constantly «d into the disturbance* of the struggle, onr endurance has been tasted too far. The time has come when any one who proposes to settle any American qoestion by a reference to Irland or Germany, should be looked on as a public enemy, and we trust to

American sentiment in this matter itself and do in pronply and sharply.

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TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT.

BOOMED DAKOTA.

Everybody has heard and is bearing about Dakota. It is the land flowing with milk and honey, as Kansas and Nebraska were a quarter of a century ago. It is the land of marvelous possibilities, where all can get rich who have sense enough to drive a steer to market. The newspapers sing its praises in paid or unpaid columns, and the railroads scatter its laudatory literature far and near. The boom & on for Dakota, and the stream ot emigration poors into the Territory in a swelling volume. In the midst of all this praise it is well enough to listen now and then to the "stilij small voice" of the complainer. It is just possible that the fever may run too high that it may bring disappointment and keen regret to some who shall find too late that the land of supposed milk and honey is in fact a land of bad water, high-priced fuel and fearfully cold weather.

The Evansville Journal has been listening to some of these small voices, and for the good of its readers publishes them abroad. The first was that of a gentleman who had gone to Dakota with the intention of settling there, but came away dissatisfied. From a pretty thorough study of the situation, he concluded that Dakota's advantages were greatly exaggerated. "He found the water bad wherever he went and mentioned a large number of cases of sickness from that particular cause which fell under his personal notice. Fuel is not only scarce and hard to get, but at some points is held at such exhorbitant prices as to be within the reach of comparative ly few persons. For instance, coal at Aberdeen commands ten dollars per ton while at a point eighty-five miles distant, to which it must be hauled in wagons, it commands sixty dollars per ton—ten for the coal iteelf, and fifty dol lars for its transportation I"

He found the boasted evenness of the climate a fraud and saw few fields which had ever produced more than twenty bushels of wheat to the acre and those producing seventeen were regard ed as first class. One intelligent farmer, who had lived there eight years, and was getting along very well, said it was a mistake to suppose that a fortune was to be made there at farming or any other labor and that farmers as a rule can do no better there than in Indiana.

The Journal corroborates the test! mony of this gentleman by a letter written to the Aledo, 111., Record, by Thos. S. Sharp, a resident of Hutchinson county, Dakota, for five years. Mr. Sharp says

Persons esst will do well to accept with caution the reports about Dakota. They appear mostly written by persons who have never raised a crop or seen one raised. North Dakota is a wheat region. South Dakota is not, and between is debatable land. I have lived here five years on a homestead. There is plenty of good water, but more bad, ana some have dug several wells before they hit palatable water. A man can raise timber very easily orcharding has been tried and determined. I have nqt seen a crop of wheat of twentv-five bushels per acre have asked old settleriypod they have not. Lest year the de»rt ment of agriculture made the reftog for this county at fourteen bushels. This This was rather light, but the crop was the best in five years. Forty bushels of oat-' and thirty-five of corn are good crops, and it take -. five acres of prairie to pasture a steer through summer. Flax is our main market crop,and is fast ruining lands devoted to it.' Many who undertook sheep farming have given ft up. Cattle business is the most profitable business at present,and the men who run threshing machines grow poor at It. There is a heavy immigration to this territory, and much of it of a land-grab-bing nature. Six months' fictitious residence, then prove up, mortgage or sell for $300 to $500, then leave Dakota or peat the game, making a net gain ofpeihaps $200 for the six months, is the pro gramme by thousands. Many an hone3t tak 1 aye isolated from neighbors aud de-

es his claim, toils to make a ear or two finds himself

in a

almost barred from the blessings of society. If If grasshoppers or a failure of crop occur this year, there will be a bigger stampede than followed Moses of old. Anyone intending ta come to Dakota territory ought t: oe prepared to accept the regular hardships of pion" :r lite. Don't build your hopes on enormous crops. Every dollar you earn there is wen earned. The busiest man in south Dakota is Shy lock. His grip Is on some quarter or more of nearly every sectlpn, and Ave years will see thousands of farms In his hands." ^,:

This testlmoney would indkiite that Dakota is being somewhat over-boomed by interested parties, and that it will not be safe for prospective emigrant* to accept all they may hear of that Country without reservation. No doubt it is a promising lanjd, some sections of the Territory in particular, and will eventually become one or more gieat States, filled with a prosperous and contented people. But It will have to 4° through the pioneer period first, ar all new countries have done before it and there will be privations and hardihips for a time. The Mail has always uiged caution in the matter of emigration, ind it takes this opportunity of repeatingthe caution to those of its readers who rtay have the Dakota or any other fevef. Cooi off, think it all over quietly, tali to the wife about it and dont move oi in a hurry.

THE occasion of Henry Vard Beecher's seventieth birthday, Vhlch occurs on the 24th inst.,is to be mile a memorable one by bis friends an neighbors. It Is hard to realise that Be dwrisan old man. He is so actively upied before the public, that be seems ke a man in the prime of life. It is si a his health and spirits are excellent and he himself says that be as youjg as ever be was. The Beocherw belo|g to the elm variety of humanity, thejpre hardy and long-lived.

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IT is stated, and apparently on good authority, that the practical working of the new civil service rules will prevent the future appointment of female clerks in the department* at Washington. There is nothing fcPtbat effect in the rules themselves, but the heads of departments will be able to bring this result about by designating only male vacancies in their applications for new clerks. The reason given-for this singular innovation is that the superior officers feel at liberty to subject male clerks to discipline and are not subject to the influence of sympathy in their case as with ladies. This is cerlainly but a pitiful reason. We do not find that any such objection is made to the employment of women in private life. They are working their way into many avenues of employment hitherto monopolized by men, and the fact that thqy are gaining new ground continually and rapidly is proof conclusive of the value in which their services are held. It does not appear that "the influence of sympathy is in the way in private business. It is a new story that the public service more sensible to the influence of sy mpa thy than private business. The con trary has generally been supposed to be the case. The fact is, if women are ex eluded from the departments under the new rules, it will be little less than an outrage. They have shown themselves especially efficient in all kinds of cleri cal work, and are as capable of filling most of the subordinate clerkships in Washington as men are. The talk about discipline is a mere pretenoe. Ladie3 are notoriously more ready to bow to authority than men, and we venture the assertion that the lady clerks in the departments, as a rule, are quite as punctual and obedient to all the rules as are the msle clerks. If it is the pur pose of the superior officers to work such an injustice under the new rules they will hear something drop through out the country, before they get through with it. ,,

ON last Saturday, at Petroffsky Park Moscow, a million Russians assembled to attend the new Czar's fete. By noon they had drank 140 wagon loads of beer How much they got away with in the afternoon is not stated. The Czar and Czarina were4received with deafening cheers. Alexander the Third seems to start off with the good will of bis people It remains to be seen whether or not his reign will be characterized by such a liberal and enlightened policy as will re tain for him their present feeling to the end. There is good reason to believe he will do the best he knows how. He is an unwilling ruler, and has the name of being an honest, well intentioned man. Unfortunately, however, he was born to be a king when his preference was to be a quiet citizen, enjoying the comforts of domestic life in peace with his wife and children. It is impossible to foretell what the future basin store for him,and no one understands better than himself the secrets and hidden dangers that surround him. He is a monarch (of whom there have been many in history,) that deserves the genuine sympathy of bis fellow.mprtals.

THE will of Amasa Stone, Cleveland's millionaire suicide, .gives bis widow $500,000 and the homeon Euclid avenue, while bis two daughters get$600,000 each. Other large bequests are made, the entire estate being supposed to be worth $3,000,000. When a poor and friendless man commits suicide the first thought that arises in the mind is that the victim had nothing to live for anyhow, and the wonder is that hundreds of others whose lives area continual contest with want and wretchedness do not follow his example. But what shall be said when a millionaire, surrounded apparently with all the comforts and luxuries which life can supply, blows his brains out with pistol? It simply shows that suicide is the result ot a disordered mind and that mental unsoundness is not confined to the ranks of the poor. No man or woman whose mind is in a normal state will commit suicide, no matter what his circumstances or surroundings may be. First comes the long brooding which brings disease, and then suicide as the outgrowth of the disordered brain. "5

SAYINGS AND D0TN6S.

Big strawberries, like big girls, are not always the best. The masculine penchant for short hair might be called cliptomania.

Why wouldn't "crushed hopes" make a popular color for dress goods? f" Captain James Sanderson, who once owned tbe entire rite of Milwankee, died in that city tbe other day In a poorhouse.

A genius advertised: "A sewing machine for 25 cents in stamps," and his dupea did not see the point until they received a cambric needle.

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Bob Bnrdette says that wife made him all he is. "That's right," mutters the Woman's Journal "blame it all on your wife."

An old pbilospher says sententiously: "Don't play with tbe devil while you are young, if

Men* avail themselves of tbe moat trifling pretexts for committing suicide nowadays. Here is a Pennsylvania fanner choking himself to death with, a second-hand rope because some lacy| workmen did not finish bis new barn in

the time specified. And it was but a little while ago that a man cut his throat because he had more furniture than he could load onto a wagon at one time. Tbe first thing we know some reckless man will blow his brains out because he cannot join two sections of stovepipe.

The Methodist ministers are getting tired of "moving 'round." At a convention of presiding elders, held at Minneapolis last week, a resolution was adopted by a vote of 25 ayes to 12 noes that the time has come when the limit upon the pastoral term should be removed.

A Wisconsin jury has awarded Timothy Lewis $1,400 for services in securing a wife for Benjamin A, Jenkins, a wealthy but aged resident of La Crosse, whose want of success in seeking a second matrimonial partner induced him to engage an agent to act for him.

The desire to be first to cross the great bridge over East River was a laudable ambition. But when funeral processions enter into such a contest it reaches tbe proportions of the broadest farce. An exchange says: "Four funeral processions tried to be first in crossing tbe bridge on the day of opening."

It is not generally supposed that the spoon is a deadly instrument, although it proves to be when used to exoess, Andrew Driver, of Johnstown, Pa., was an amateur juggler and was amusing some friends in an ice-cream saloon tbe other evening by trying to swallow a spoon. He succeeded, and was buried last Wednesday.

A Wayne county, West Va., sheriff had in his custody a man named Hutton. Just as they reached tbe door of the justice of the peace, a cow came bawling along chased by a dog. As tbe cow passed tbe prisoner caught hold of her tail and went flying with her, leaving the sheriff rapidly behind. When he bad got out of reach, the fellow let the cow go and darted into the woods.

The Business men's Moderation Society gives some sensible advice: "Put off drinking until business is over, letters written, books balanced, sales made, safe closed reputation as a business made saved." Then the chances are you will not want to drink. Some high medical authority has declared that if he could persuade men never to touch a drop of liquor until an hour before bedtime, he would banish intoxication from the world.

Mary Reynolds, cf Ravenna. Ohio, was arrested for stealing $1,000 worth of laces, silks and jewelry. The prisoner confessed on tbe witness-stand that she received the goods in presents from Frederick Brown, a well-known thi$f, and that she was completely in his power. Her attorney admitted that she was led astray, and read part of Shakspere's "Richard III.," demonstrating the wondeifui power of man over women. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, the crowd cheered and the girl fainted.

The wife of Philip Hart, of Trenton, New Jersey, and bis sister living in Greenwich street, New York, both had, a few tights since, identicsilly tbe same dream about him. They dreamed of seeing him on a bridge struggling with another man, who finally ran off after throwing Mr. Hart from the bridge. The wife awoke, and as her husband had started for New York that day, she felt good deal troubled. However, she waited until Friday night, when on his not returning, as he exp cted, she became seriously alarmed and sat up for bim in vain all night. The next morning came a letter from the sister in New York relating her dream and asking anxiously if her brother had reached home. Nothing has since been heard of him.

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