Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 June 1883 — Page 1

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Vol. 13.—No. 51.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

"WHW THIS CRUEL WAR 18 OVER." Daring the past week tbe railroad war '«n Sooth First street baa absorbed its fall share of attentlwn. The daily papers have been full of it, and tbe court has been unable to attend to any other business on account of it. Just bow tbe matter now stands is a sort of fifteen puzzle. It appears that Mr. Roedel brought suit to have tbe tract removed from the street in front of his premises, and judgment was rendered in his favor in tbe Circuit court. Of course tbe rail road, as they always do, appealed, but tbe Supreme court sustained tbe decision of tbe court below, and on Saturday last the sheriff was ordered to raise the track and put Mr. Roedel in possession of bis premises. Those entrusted with the job went to work with a will, and they were heartily encouraged by more tbsn a thousand citizens who assembled to nee the fun. Every obstruction was thrown in the way of the sheriff and his posse by the railroad employes, but the track was taken up in two places before an injunction was served on tbe offloer in charge. Then the lawing commenced

With the track torn up it behooved tbe railroad to have a decision as soon as possible, and tbe oourt has been busy all week. Suit was at once commenced to condemn tbe property, and apprals em wore at once appointed. Then an injunction was taken out to restrain tbe appraisers from assessing damages Yesterday morning the court dissolved all tbe injunctions, and tbe ftp praisurs reported fi,800 damages 4n favor of Mr. Roedel, which amount was tendered him and refused. The track was. promptly relald, and now everything is working smoothly for the railroad one more. The attempt to havo it removeu will, however, be continued there Is to be uo let up until the rights in the case have been clearly defined The right of way baa been secured from nearly all the business men on tbe street who have any shipping of any conse quence to do. They recognise the fact that it is to their ad vantage to hav« shipping facilities at their doors. Many resident* have also signed away their rights to the company, a nnmber of whom it is asserted wanted tbe cash to dbecharge mortgages. That the track damages property Along the street used lor reel dences or retail business purposes there can be no doubt, and no one can blame those people for wanting the nuisance abated. The tfack could be laid Just as woll along Water street, where there are no residences, or it could euter the city on the IS. A T. M. road, which it croeses a few mil

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however, that the Bee Line wants it where it is because It can reach so many business houses, thereby giving Jit a peoullar advantage over the other roads. The Heo Line is noted principally for its contempt of Terr* Haute and Torre Hauto interests. TUo city has been converted Into away station, and no olvlll ty is extended to tbe citizens. It has eveu been said that when an official of a competing line, who by the way has done more than his share of contributing to the city's success, was subjected to newspaper abuse, tftiat these opponents purchased a large number of copies for distribution. Any favors which such a corporation can gain from the city will probably be granted through the medium of tbe courts, and tbey certainly should come from no other son roe

A NKKPKD LMRROVKKKKT. When legislation on the liquor question was attempted last winter the legitimate dealers took the matter in band «&th a determination to bavea good law passed. In this they failed, but in this olty they at once set about devising means for their own protection. On the

January last Vigo county had

about one hundred and sixty saloons, of which less than half paid license or made any attempt whatever to comply with the law. For along time they escaped punish meat, because men who paid their license, but who kept open at unseasonable hours and on Sunday, feared retaliation and failed to prosecute. Within a abort time tbe situation has changed. Kverv man found selling wltbsut a license has been indicted and repeatedly fined. This has been done through the organised offorts of tbe Liquor Dealers' Association. It has been done through men hired for the purpose, and It la a case in which the ends justified the means employed in bringing about tbe reault attained. iteretofore It has been tbe rule that the school fund has lost in this county about 17,500 per annum through saloons running without license. To-day Upre are very few running without license. Tbe fines for violation of tbe law have amounted to much more than the Ucsosa, saying nothing of attorney's feee. At the present Ume the recorder's books show that there are •boat one hundred sad fifty license paying saloons In the oowsty, with probably eeveral more te be heard from in the

near future. This is a good showing in K» short a time, and tbe work will be continued in the future as in tbe past.

There seems to be a growing feeling in tbis locality in favor of high license. The better class of those engaged in the liquor traffic favor it, and an effort was made last winter to have the legislature do something in that direction, but tbe composition of that body was not of the character to pass laws from which tbe citizens oould derive any benefit,and the matter remains as before. A license of about |500 a year would drive tbe small fry from tbe business, and would be a sufficient inducement to thoee who pay to demand protection and see that they receiveit.

THE RACES.

The Terre Haute Trotting Association is closing its annual spring meeting tbis afternoon, and after a four days' trial will wind up quite a sum out of pocket. These meetings have never been much of a success financially. Last year there were over a hundred good horses present, and the weather was fine, but the management failed to realize on tbe investment. Tbis year there have been as nsany horses in attendance, tbe sport has been as good as could have been desired, tbe weather was fine, but tbe people came not. This seems strange, but it is true. Tbe cry goes out that the fairs are always a failure because the directors fkil to offer racing purses worth competing for, but when an association offers $3,000 in purses for races alone, and brings good horses here they lose money on the investment. The people seem to be afraid of the turf fraternity so far as trotting and pacing are concerned. Tbe feeling in favor of running races is steadily growing, and if the association would give a meeting at which tbe purses offered would all be for running tbey would meet with much more success. ,,

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A Woman's Opinions.

In England the newest craze is a "thorough-going" badge blue to Indicate that tbe wearer does not drink, and a white stripe to show that he does not use tobacco. Now, wouldn't It be nice to have a red stripe to show that be does not gamble, and a yellow stripe to show that be does not sweat, and a purple stripe to show that he does not break tbe seveuth commandment, and then, a long green stripe to show the condition of those wno put any confidence in a man who is decorated with all these stripes.

Isu't it singular what slaves men are 7 Boasting of their freedom, their independence, their sovereignty, they are helpless serfs to despotic habits. Show me a man who is without a vice I do not mean without a iault, but without a vice which he himself, would be glad to be rid of if he had the power. Show me a man, into whose eyes a neat, refined, pure, intelligent woman can look and feel that she sees her equal in every respect. Virtuous men are not common men who are virtuous and strictly temperate, are few in number: men who possess both these qualities, and do not gamble or swear, are exceedingly rare and one who has all these perfections, and does not use tobacco, would be labeled as a natural curiosity. And yet you can find thousands of women who have not one of these vices. In the same family you will see husband and brothers who possess all of them, and wife and aisters who have none.

Is this because women are naturally so much better than men While I believe this to be tbe case, in a great measure, yet it does not wholly account for the vast moral difference in the two sexes. Tbe answer is to be found partly in tbe different degrees of temptation which they meet, bat this will not explain all of it. A man is not particularly tempted to use tobacco. He assiduously cultivates the taste, conquers his rebellious stomach and, deliberately, reduces himself to a state of slavery to tbe weed.

In tbe privacy of home, women might as reasonably pleads temptation to gamble as men who have to seek the places to indulge. There would be just much sense in women gambling in tbe parlors with money furnished them for household use, as there is in mm taking the hours from business or sleep and spending money that is needed by their families. If women commenced the game they might become as infatuated as do tbe mm hot they do not commence. Nobody will deny that women have just as many occasions for swearing as tbe men but tbey manage to tide over tbe difficulties without it. In the matter of drinking, mm are, probably, tempted a great many times but they also drink a great many times wben they are not tempted, and whenever mm make the excuse that tbey are so often asked lo drink depend npon It they return most of the invitations. Whataite a man, from the crown of his bead to the sole of his foot, hs proscribes for himself a drink of liquor and all hie trisods prasavibs tbe same thing, having tried the prescription hern eel TSS forall sorta of ailments. Women, who

are physically more delicate, seem to survive their complaints without tbe aid of whiskey and, although a man can always eat six times ss mnch as a woman, he must take a drink to get an appetite.

It is not neceesary to pursne the subject farther. The strongest temptation a man has is to put himself in the way of temptation. He likes to be tempted.

There is only one influence that will ever make men better and that is public sentiment. It is the controlling power in tbe world. It cannot be said that either men or women, alone, are responble for this sentiment but both have a share in making the social laws. It has always been said that woman has a peculiar influence for reclaiming the fallen, and this is probably true, but this influence is rather the outgrowth of what she considers her duty. It is not that every woman should be a reformatory on a small scale but she should, in a quiet but persistent way, encourage temperance and morality. Tired and worn with her own inevitable caree and burdens, we cannot understand why she should be expected to lift men np and give tbem strength. And wben she sees her most heroic efforts so often marked by utter failure, it is not strange if she sometimes asks the question, Was it worth the while even te have made the attempt? But here is where women are so inconsistent. They will announce that tbey are in favor of temperance and morality and determined to do everything in their power to promote these virtues, and then reoeive into their fami lies, on terms of intimate friendship, men who are notoriously intemperate and immoral. What encouragement is there for men to be strictly honorable wben they see their companions indulging in every vice and yet treated by good women with just as much respect and consideration as they, themselves, receive? A few well-directed slights and rebukes from women whose good opinion is desirable would have more effect in making a man behave himself than any amount of temperance lecturee and sermons upon morality. A man may be very Intemperate and very immoral but so long as he maintains an appear ance of respectability and keeps out of the hands of the law, he will not lose his social standing. It is only when he is publicly disgraced and the whole world condemns him that lovely woman closes her door against him. But you will notice tbis fact, and it cannot be disputed, that the more intelligent women beootne, the more they think and reason for themselves and feel their growing independence,the more they are Inollned to discard the society of trifling, disreputable men. They find there are other and better ways of spending their time and they are not so anxious to marry as to accept unworthy husbands. I confidently believe there is coming a genera tlon of women who will demand an equal standard of integrity for both sexes, and then, and not until then, we may expect a universal reform among men

But it is not women alone who are too lenient. Men who are, themselves, un exceptionally good, do not always require any particular excellence of character in those friends whom they introduce into thelrfamiiiee. Fathers associate intimately with men who offer the worst possible example to their sons. They see, with criminal indifference, their daughters receiving attention from men who are neither temperate nor moral and they give these daughters in marririage to these men when they must know they are dooming tbem to a life of un happiness. We cannot wonder that men are so reckless and given to bad habits when their own sex do not condemn tbem or make tbem feel that they are committing any offence against the social or business part of the com munity. If the better class of men bad tbe courage to proscribe those who defy all moral laws, they would soon produce a marked change in the character of such persons. But it is so hard to do this, so difficult to draw tbe line between the good and bad. Where our acquaintances have one vice that should forbid oar frieadsLlp, they have a down beauties toat claim oar admiration. We open our lips to censure but, instead, we cry, "Why will tbey go astray?" Why is it that it seems so easy for some men to do right and so easy for others to do wrong Not the faithful love of a mother, the tender affection of a wife or tbe confiding trust of helpless little children will hold them b*ck if they choose to go astray. Ton may point out to the young man that be Is raining his business prospects for life you may tell tbe Older man that he Is wrecking his domestic happiness forthey will not listen. And when all this is fulfilled they do not repent, If it does not Interfere with their pursuit of evil, that great Juggernaut beneath whom wheels the willing devotees delight to proetrate tbemwelvea.

Why do we contemplate these things which we are poweilass to change? Away with them. The world Is beautiful. Nature makes none of tbsse tobed aristakea. Art, mnaie, literature, a hundred occupetlons offer a for oar manifold sorrows. We

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P. 8. I shall have to yield the palm to "Miriam" of the Gazette, and retire from our religious controversy as gracefully as possible. "Miriam" has the advantage over me in having a father who is a minister, and when it comes to discussing theology with a minister of more than forty years, experience, I am bonnd to get tbe worst of it, and therefore, "run away" that I may "live to fight another day."

Ourr Breakfast Table.

"Main street looked pretty lively on Wednesday" said McKwan. "Yes but it looks very dull of a night after seeing some well-lighted eaatern thoroughfare. Our Main street needs about a dozen electric lights," rejoined the Mayor. "What? Are yon tilting at the Gas Company?" "Not a bit of it. A dozen Maxim lights on our business streets wouldn't reduce the consumption of gas te any noticeable effect, whilst they would make the street attractive—draw people down town and make them spend more money. I would spend some myself, if I had any. I am not ope who considers eveiy company a subject for envy and criticism. Aren't we always wondering why our old fogies—so-oalled— do not start a company for this or that. We promise them big profits if they will help our city with this or that enterprise, but presto! How we change our tune wben they begin to make money and begrudge the success due to taking risks or undertaking enterprises. Of course stock companies are regulation stock for discussion that is, those in which we ourselves have no stock otherwise we would say 'big dividends and less talk.' "The fact is, the Major has confided in me thife he is In favor of putting np electric lights and putting down cows," remarked the Professor. "Yes. Don't I have to put a fence in front of that 'singularly eligible lot' Spear tbe gravel pit, all on account of cows? Why I suppose $5,000wouldn't cover the capital invested in fences on Sixth and Fifth streets. It might all be put into landscape gardening

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. JUNE 16, 1888. Thirteenth Year

never need be utterly unhappy. Humanity will be redeemed, at what time and in what manner we cannot tell, but man is too noble a creature to be destroyed, even if he himself, wills that it should be so. We will never grow discouraged while there is so much to beautify life men, who are the soul of honor women, whose pure and constant friendship is a priceless gift and dear Utile children, sweetest, fairest and most precious of all creation. IDA A. HARPER.

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not for the predatory cow."« Derby said, "It is no use fuming local laws cannot help the matter much. A State law is needed to throw down the fences as they are in Ohio. How would it do to start Schloss out as a reformer in the.legislature, with the battle-cry, 'No cows, no fenoes "He would get as much credit as tbe Democratic chief of tbe fire department did for a sensible act the other day." "When he prepared to drown out McKnight, eh? Well he showed more wisdom than the Professor did in taking care of bis fire-works."

The Professor exclaimed: "I should like to have been in Cook Bell's place when tbe showman tried to shove tbe blame upon them for the result of bis carelessness. It makes no dUference who compounds those illuminating powders, or how pure they are, tbey are liable to explode. Potassium and Strontium, or their brinary compounds used in red fire, will absorb oxygen tbe more moist the air, the more oxygen is absorbed in fact you can say that they draw fire from water itself—and unless very well dried in an oven and sealed hermetically, are liable to explode wben mixed for use. McKnight probably knew this when he bought his mixtures and run no risk whstever if be used them at once, bat did in leaving them around.

Tbe owner of the Opera House has learned something. He can demand hereafter that such stuff shall not be stored in the building over night.

McEwan said, "To show bow easy an accident can happen years sgo, the best pharmaceutist in the city pat ap with great care for St. Mary's a package for red, white and blue fires—told tbe boy to lay them in the yard under a barrel of course the boy didn't, but left tbem in tbe store and they exploded. Bat a demijohn of wine was broken, deluged tbem and put out the fire." 'Moral: those that play with fire should keep a demijohn of wine part full" said Jack. "Well that let's Cook A Ball oat. That was just like Mcknight though. He tad a big thing, plenty of money and wanted to tide over every, body and It was to tbe interest of many to allow it."

Here yp^ng/'fcT'w* gieeied with "Hail! 'Decorative sister, mystically misty, whimsically whimsy, intensely Intense.'" "Bat add wttb hnsbsls of common •anas" interrupted tbe Professor, "For Ibsve disuumed that that kind of

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seems to fit well with even the esthetic erase." "Oh, Oh I you area convert since you went to tbe Art Reception at Mr HusBey's and ssw that pretty girls can do pretty work, or that a clever woman can spread a fine table as well as cover a cloth with posies in silk and crewel." "This affair last night seems to have been a Terre Haute substitute for the first view given by tbe R. A's. "said McEwan, going by report, "Instead of oil-paintings yon had all manner of feminine dainties, but you had the real academy crowd, Press, Pulpit, Bar, Bankers, Railroaders, matronly dignity and maidens' eharms." "Yes, we were all there" said Jack, "But we didn't have any academic jealousy. If I asked some amiable girl to show me the prettiest thing in silk or china, it would be sure to be something by her sister or friend, which she candidly admired." "Yes! It would be difficult to organize a more thoroughly representative company of the city's beet as far as it went you see we had twenty-seven hostesses, instead of one, each of whom had inirtted a couple of guests. You will notice in this case tbe invited all promptly aooepted. The entertainers appeared as at home without bonnets, while the visiting ladies were all bonneted—an opportunity for displaying some charming affairs in millinery." "But tell us, Miss Laura, if some of tbe wonderful things you have been darkly hinting at all winter long," urged McEwan. "Oh I can't begin to! But here was a silk fan, a spray of flowers painted upon it a fluttering petal had become a fairy, little elves peeped from flower cups and swung on the tendrils. There was a china plate on It a cottonwood in snowy bloom four dear little cherubs held up an umbrella and laughed as the white blossoms rained down, till they were ready to fall from tbe bough that rocked tbem. There were dozens of placques, painted, and fire-glazed and every subject was treated with a freedom and grace cbove amateurism. There was a study of your favorite St. Cecilia, Major, sweet and pensive, but the embroideries—oh my! Plush "I thought plush was for cloaks and

"All you know about it. Why plush is a temptation to work. As It falls in folds, the light plays upon it in tones of color to charm a painter. If you bad seen that chair with crimson plush cushions on it even lazy you would have been afraid to crush those flowers laid on them. The tulips and thistle-blooms were worked as if softly dropped there "Will some one kindly translate this for us" sighed the Major."

I'Really, you can pardon a little en thusiasm" said the Professor "for some of the effects of needle-work are remarkable. Your painter lays hlB col ored oils with the brush and tbe feminine artist draws her lines of color with the needle with quite similar effect. Tbere was a flower-piece, full-blown feathery cockscombs, on an olive background that were as naturally shaded and softly outlined as could be done by a brush. I am sure that one handsome cloth which showed in happy contrast a bandfull of morning glories, a bunch of golden-rod, a spray of jasmine and some purpie wisterias was quite a natural study, easy to read and an object to covet, and I mustn't forget tbere was a lambrequin on which I easily recognized Jack's inspiring wild roses ''Well, you all seem to have been very much pleased and with good reason, have an admiration for tbe work myself, perhaps, because I hardly know a clover-top from a ragged-robin. Tbere is a practical side to it too. These ladies working or amusing themselves so earn estly are marking out paths for their own or others' children to follow maybe to profit and honor. In tbe work is rational and abundant occupation for those who enjoy too much elegant leisure, or remunerative employment for those who might be condemned to more menial or harsher toll. Perhaps much of this amateur work if exposed to the competion of paid profesional workers might not stand tbe test, bat it is as yet tbe beginning. It has already developed unsuspected resources. As you tell me, ladies, who a few years ago could do nothing of the kind, have sinoe learned to draw their own designs and to paint, it must be that a few years more will show us in this city a very large number indeed of cultivated artistic workers,and perhaps an exchange or women's bureau that will dispose of work or bring worken aad buyers together, not only for Terre Haute alone, but perhaps for a hundred miles away." "Did you say this work alrasdy done wouldn't stand the test of competition Very little that will oA, Did you see those dainty little butter-platea They attmcteda very liberal offer in Cincinnati I know of other pirns sent and sold in New York. There was nothing in the exhibition that would not oommand a quick sale, If you want a practical test, there it la."

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Contrived by the devil for pulling men dowi There's noue more delusive, Seductive abusive, Than the snare to a man with a wife ont of town.

ff' ff/He feefe such dclightfulnoss, Stay-out-all-nighr-fulness, Shall-I-get-tight-fulness— I own with pain!

A bachelor rakefnlness. What-will-yon-t&ktf-ishness,

None ean explain

..Hia wife may be beautiful. Tender and dutiful—

Its not that her absence should cause him dbllght: "i HP But the cursed opportunity.

Baleful immunity,

Scatters his scruples as day scatters night

He feels whiskey and water-ful, Raplne-and-slaughter-ful, Nothing he-ought-to-ful,

To his toes' ends 80 bachelor-rally some, Make-stories-tally-some With wicked friends.

ABOUT WOMEN.

Philadelphia has two "base ball dabs composed of colored women. A lady stopping at a hotel in Atlanta, Ga., was bitten by a rat. She has sned the proprietor of the house for $10,000 damages.

A lady says that Mrs. Charles DickenB once remarked to her: "I suppose tbe world needs a few geniuses to live in it, but it's a dreadful fate to have to live with one of them."

A lady in Searsport, Me., nearly eighty years of age, wears a pair of ear-rings presented her and put in her ears when she was three years old, which have never been taken out.

Five Denver yonug ladies ride the bicycle, clad in black velvet, knee breeches,N woolen stockings, polo caps,, sack coats, and low cut bicycle shoes— and they don't ride sideways either.

Emms Wilson, daughter ofChas. Wilson, of Colt's Neck, N. J., started for Galveston, Texas, on Saturday last, to become tbe bride of a man shQ had dever seen. The courtship wascarrledon solely by correspondence.

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There are women preachers enough In and about Boston to bold a convention,, which they did with harmony and suoces%]ast week. They met In a Methodist chtqrch because, though that denomination only allows a woman to tie a brevet preacher, it permits her to pray and speak freely within certain limits, and women are gratefnl for small favors.

In a farm house near Boone, Iowa, lives Mother Spnnce, ag$d eighty-six. In tbe same house live.) her daughter, aged sixty-four, her grsnddaughter, aged forty, her great-great granddaughter, aged two. This is believed to be the only house in the country sheltering five generations, and its a great thing for that baby to be able to boss Its ancestry so far back.

THE Cincinnati Saturday Night has packed a great deal of human, and especially feminine philosophy into the following One of the brightest products Of our grand civilization is the young man who doesn't like to go to Sunday school picnics at all, but who compromises tbe matter, wnen his girl is off at one of them, by running down in tbe afternoon. Nice and fresfi looking, and full of vigor that picnics cannot give but will take away very speedily, bis appearance strikes terror to the soul of tbe good young roan who carried the baskets to the boat, and who has been working like a roustabout all tbe morning In putting upswings, pulling down trees, staking off croquet grounds and hauling water. It is a shame that it is so, bat It is a fact that as soon as tbe trim yoang gentleman, who drops in, in tbe afternoon, has arrived, the good yoang man is mercilessly snubbed by tbe pretty young girls, and compelled to resort to tbe miserable pastime of pitching quoits with the preacher.

A CURB for rheumatism an English doctor bss found in total abstinence from food. He declares that many oases of acute articular rheumatism have been cared by fasting from foar to eight days, while chronic rheumatism was also alleviated. No medicines were given, but patients could have cold water and lemonade in moderation. Tbe doctor states that rheumatism is only a phase of indigestion, and therefore can be cured by giving complete and continued rest to all the digestive organs.

Miss LAURA WHITE, for some time employed in tbe Supervising Architect's office at Washington, has resigned her position, and will shortly go abroad to pursue her architectural studies. This la a decidedly suitable and remunerative employment for women, and Miss White is setting an example that will be of great benefit to her sex.

T» crushed strawberry color that was so fashionable for a time has been saooseded by a shade called spilled mo-

—Tbe "immense" chewing candy' mm to be all tbe go. Call and try It and you will say it Is immense. Oomar Fifth and Olslo atresia.

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