Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 July 1883 — Page 4

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EDITOR AND ^HOPRIETOR.

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LABOR COMBINATION The fact is now conceded that workiogmen have the abstract right to band themselves together in union* for their mutual protection. So self evident is this proposition that no intelligent person would be willing to deny it. Vet, indirectly, this right in denied by the employers of labor nearly every time the men strike. For instance, Colonel Clowry, manager of the western department of the Western Union Telegraph company, said the other day that the only condition!* upon which the striking telegraphers wonld be taken back wonld be the abandonment of the Brotherhood. Doubtless Col. Clowry would be ready to admit the right of the operators to form union for the protection of their interests, but his action virtually denies it Such is the insolence cf these great moneyed powers toward their employes that it is not sufficient for the latter to give in and be willing to resume work at the old wages they must also abandon the only means and hope they have have of maintaining their rights against the encroachments and oppression of capital! If Col. Clowry exped to get his men back upon any such rms, he is likely to wait along time for the resumption of business.

If there is any one thing the public mind is made up about it is that laboring men of every kind and condition have the right and are justified in standing together to protect themselves and their families. This is not the rich man's country yet, although there area great many very rich men in it. The pulse of the people beat in sympathy with the toiling millions, and the Jay Gouldsand Vanderbilts, while they shall have their full legal rights, will obtain as little sympathy from the public as was accord ed Shylock in his day. Once let it be understood that workingmen who have struck for higher wages can obtain work again only on condition of abandoning their labor organizations, and money will flow into the camp of the strikers as it flowed into Chicago i^ter the flre or into the South during the yellow fever epidemic. If the right to strike must be oonoeded, the right to form labor unions is equally undeniable. It is quite time, even in America, for workingmen to stand nliou?der to shoulder for self-pro-tection against corporations and capital. If they do not take care of their own it is very certain that the CUvUds and the Vanderbilts will not do it for them.

IT has often been charged by the advocates of woman's rights that men are Inimical to them that in fact the male sex enacts the role ol tyrants and oppressors of the gentler sex. There could be no better answer to this charge than the action of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers in demanding that women operators be paid the same wages that are paid to men for equal work. This is one of the demands upon which the present strike is grounded. Now here is a great department of skilled labor, formerly monopolised entirely by uieu, but into which many women have Hucceeded in pressing, as they have pressed into nearly every avenue of industry, and the male tyrants and oppressors, instead of discouraging them or placing any obstacle in their way, voluntarily take up the tight for them and demand that they shall be paid for their services the same rate of wages that are paid to men. This cavalier action of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers is worthy of note, indicating as it does the real position, foellngs and relations of the sexes. Men are not opposed to wouien. They are ever ready to extend a helping hand to them andtoencourage them in every proper undertaking. Let us hear no more of that old cry of tyranny and oppression. The action of the Telegraphic Brotherhood has given it the He. Men are the brothers of women, willing to do for them many times more than they are willing to do for tbemaelven. It is women who discourage women, not men. Men sympathise with them in every heavy burden they have to bear, and wish them a hearty good speed In every new enterprise they undertake.

No wonder the president wants a vaoatton! In the discharge of his duties he has affronted no lees a personage than the Hon. Mr. Thompson, "Little Phil," the unhang Kentucky murderer, who called upon the President to advocate a friend's claims to office, and was received In a manner "so discourteous, that be quietly walked out." And the very first KKV« of the Honorable Mr. Thompson, was to tweak into a newspaper with a rtory of his treatment. Without tbe as•isunceof the sensational newspapers, these high toned southern gentlemen with such exalted ideas of tbelr honor would cut a very small swath.

A oirrw correspondent tells of a Qase in an Alabame ooart, where lawyer's defense of his client broofbt tbe Uuer to his in prayer. That* •otfilng. HetsinTsrrt Haute, lawyer1* ilirfiui turn fririr 1r"""n re tBaataaweat.

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Tbe Indianapolis Journal declares that "the preacher most go"—that is on a vacation during the dog days, id order to recuperate and gain strength and brightness for the rest of the year.

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preacher go by all means. There are some who are opposed to his going, but they are getqpg fewer every year. If fifty years of Europe are better than a cycle of Cathay, so are ten months of strong, vigorous preaching better than twelve of drowsy commonplace. I«t the preacher go to the woods and mountains, the lakes and the sea, and enjoy tbe intimate companionship of nature for a few short weeks. It will do him a world of good, and his church will reap the benefit as well as he. He will come to his flock with a mind widened and enriched by such a communion. His sermons will have a new power and beauty he will be a stronger man in every sense than when he went away. There is no sonse in the argument that because a majority of the membership must spend the summer at home the minister should also stay to koep watch over them. His preaching must be of little account if this is true. Even if the church should be closed for a few Sundays, there are plenty of other churches open and plenty of room for all who care to attend. Let the flock go to some other churches for a short time. It will be a novelty and refreshment to them that will make their own house of worship all the pleasanter and more home like when they return to it again. A change of religious diet occasionally is as profitable to the spiritual as a change of other diet is to the natural body. The church is not harmed by the pastor's vacation. It does not "run down," like a neglected grocery store. On the contrary, tbe brightness and freshness of tbe rejuvenated pastor during the ten or eleven months that he preaches attracts from all sides and builds the church up. The churches whose pastors take a vacation every summer are not weak, but strong churches not strong in wealth alone, but strong in influence and vig' orous Christian work. They know what is good for them, and therefore they send their minister away for a shorter or longer time every summer. Let the preacher go.

The strike of the telegraphers has lasted more than a week now and both sides still declare their intention of remaining firm. The strikers have gained a strong point in the surrender of the American Rapid Telegraph Company to their demands and it is predicted by many that the other companies will soon follow suit. The latter, however, deny that they will do so and insist that it is their intention not to yield. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on them by the business interests of the country for a settlement of the difficulty by arbitration and there is no disguising the fact that public sympathy is overwhemingly with the strikers. In Boston an action ha9^l%Afi commenced to determine whether the Western Union can lawfully reject messages unless given "subject to delay" and other suits are likely to follow elsewhere. It is evident that the success of the strike will depend largely on the ability of the operators to support themselves without employment for any considerable time. If the donations from private sources, and from other labor organizations shall prove sufficient to keep the men from coming to want for a few weeks there can be little doubt that the companies will be compelled to seek a settlement In the end, for the present crippled condition of the telegraph service will not be long tolerated by the business interests of the oountry, The Chioago board of trade subscribed 9800 for the strikers on Thursday. Subscriptions are being raised in .other cities also, so that there are fair Indications that the men are likelysto be in a position to hold out for some time to come.

Tats Indianapolis Journal's head is level when it says there is no danger of getting things too clean, and that the city and State boards of health should be sustained in their efforts to improve the sanitary condition. Certainly this Is no time for captious caviling against the efforts of those whom the law has charged with the duty of looking after the sanitary interest of the people. It has been sufficiently demonstrated that this latitude is not exempt from the visitation of cholera, and physicians agree that the present summer is unusually productive of bowel complaints, which is a characteristic of cholera years. The plague is raging in Egypt with frightful destruction, and there are ominous reports from other quarters much nearer home which indicate that the pestilence has started on its march westward. In view of these frets there is no danger of getting our towns and cities too clean. The only danger lies on the other side. Cholera is pre-eminently a filth disease, and the best safeguards against it are cleanliness and regular habits.

THXAS is still aliead as the home of magnificent liars, toe latest production in the way of sensations being the reported finding of a carriage load of skeletons under a blasted tree, the inference being that all were killed by ligbtniag. Texas sensations are as plentiful this •on of tbe year as tbe annual stock of stories of the Delaware peach crop.

THS official enumeration of made this year shows a population of 1,033,177, an increase of 58,438 overtbe preceding year. 11m State shows a steady and healthy growth, which efttitiea it to be reganfe) as one of the solid and proaof the Union. There is BO

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AT last the Jersey Lily has shaken the dost of the United States from her by no means small feet, if the correspondents are to be believed, and returns to England with a fortune that the curios ity of the American pnUie has thrown into her lap. The American public, besides being curious and foolish, is fickle, too, and if the Lily is wise she will not run tbe risk of losing the profits of her visit on a return trip. About the only person in America who cares to see her again is Freddy Gebhardt, and a young man of his immense wealth and correspondingly little sense is not likely to wait until next season for a sight of her.

WHRN one reads of the disgustingly filthy conditions of Eastern life, such as that the' canal which supplied chinking water in Cairo communicated with tbe place used for washing corpses that the bodies of the dead are covered with only a few inches of earth, and in some instances are not covered at all that the plains are strewn with the carrions of horses and camels rotting in the ran, the wonder is not so much that the people die by hundreds and thousands, but that any of thdm manage to live at all. Under such conditions it would seem next to impossible for human life to be maintained. fjFV'

CYCLONE insurance is likely to cut a big figure in the insurance business of the country. Already the companies which offer protection against loss from wind storms are securing a large patronage, many, many persons believing there is really more danger from wind than flre. The rates, however, are yet too high on this class of insuranoe and the probabilities are that before long all regular policies will be made to cover loss by wind as well as by fire, and at a comparatively small per cent, of increase on the rate now charged for fire insurance alone. IW

CAPT. WKBB was an Englishman, but there are some things which even an Englishman can't do, and one of them is to swim the rapids of the Niagara. This is a demonstrated fact, proved at the cost of a brave and daring man's life. Webb was probably the best swimmer of his time, and accomplished the great feat of swimming aeross the English channel. But the English oh'annel and Niagara are different affairs. One is European and the other American. He wap about forty years old and leaves a widow and twochildren.

THE papers which so flippantly announced that the telegraphers'strike was a failure have had cause to change their opinion. It is true that tbe com-' pany's offices have not been obliged to close up eptirely, but they have been so severely crippled tbA the business of the country dependent upon the use of the telegraph has been suspended t? a VMg large extent. The fln^result will profea-bly-be a compromise that will give the operators, not all they ask, but a good deal more than they have heretofore had.

THE State board of health has issued an order to the county boards for the strict enforcement of the sanitary rules of the board In all parts of the State. Even though the cholera should not reach this country this year, it might come the succeeding year, as it did in 1853. Indeed the plague sometimes appears in one part of the world several years after its breaking out in the orient.

In view of the rapid advance of that terrible scourge, the Asiatic cholera, the European powers are agitated the establishment of an international sanitary board. It is a wise movement, and if successfully organized will do much toward staying that most monstrous plague of modern times. A concerted plan of prevention throughout Europe, would leesen tbe danger that threatens the United States.

THE fate of Orth Stein, the brilliant young journalist, who was sentenced this week to twenty-five years' imprisonment for the murder of a Kansas City variety manager, is a terrible example of the depths to which wine and fast women will bring young men. One does not have to travel a thousand miles from this city to find any number of who are on the downward path from these causes.

J. W. RILEY, the Hoosier poet, has issued a dozen of his poems in a dainty little volume under the title of "The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems." The volume is composed of dialect poems which are in the author's happiest vein. The unpretentious little volume is sold for tbe small price of fifty cents and is said by the publishers to be going off "like hot cakes."

A LOUISVILLE minister has made an attack on tbe national game, which be calls a "device of the devil." Up to the hour of going to prem, base ball bad not been baniahed from Louisville,however, and the managers are chuekling over the splendid free advertising they have Obtained. 3l "Wax the Coming Man Pray"Is a subject undergoing rtlwnwhm at present. This question Is em/Of answered. If tbe coming man gets in a tight place, and there is no other way of getting out, he will pray.

MAJLMIAQM LICKNJUBL The following marriage licenses h*?« been Issued rtnee oar last report

Charles ¥. Maaetagr and Matte A. Me* Hon. 'W WlUfcun Bndar and Betmnefcl.

John & Tomer aad Alios itomn. HenryPooksa and Maty Lawaon. JtafcaFUer and Anna Lawson. JMHK S. CMIahaa ant Bsctts Laadry.

CHAUTAUQUA.

SECOND LETTER FROM MRS. HARPER.

CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., July 25. Upon entering the Assembly grounds, the first thing to be done is to get hold of the Chautauqua idea. It is the key that unlocks all the mysteries of the place. Hundreds of people come here and go away without comprehending in the least the objects aad purposes of Chautauqua, but do not thousands of people go through life in the same way

During the past few days I have read several letters that have been written from here to the different papers, all good and readable, but not one that gave a definite idea of the place. The correspondent of the Inter Ocean told me that the editor of that paper said, "I have never yet seen an interesting letter from Chautauqua, and if you can't do any better than our previous correspondents, don't write at all." This seems very strange, for there is no spot so rich in materials out of which to make a letter, as Chautauqua.

Ten years ago, Dr. Vincent, at that time a very earnest Methodist minister, I think in New Haven, Conn., seeing the great need of systematic training among Sunday school teachers, conceived the idea of a Normal school which should meetduring the summer months. He talked this matter over with an intimate friend, Lewis Miller, of Akron, O. Mr. Miller is a very wealthy man, at the head of the great Buckeye Reaper manufactures. He is a prominent Methodist and gives away large sums in charity, especially among the Methodists. He was charmed with the idea and suggested this beautiful spot as a suitable place for the summer school. It was at this time occupied by th§ Methodists of this section for their yearly camp meeting. Of them, Dr. Vincent and Lewis Miller leased the ground one year for their Sunday School Teachers' Training School. It proved such a success that the next year they purchased the grounds and christened them the "S. S. Assembly." Here they assembled each summer, principally for religious training, somewhat interspersed with literary and scientific instruction. Here they dwelt in tents, assembled around camp fires and were full of happiness, enthusiasm and the Holy Spirit.' People who used to come to Chautauqua in those days say that never again will these groves know such divine rapture, such beautiful devotion, all working in harmony and filled with the love of God.

In the meantime^ plabs were forming in Dr. Vincent's busy braiu, for enlarging the scope of these meetings and making them include studies in art, science and literature as well as religion. As a result of this idea, in 1878, five years after the first meeting, the great Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was formed and the place re-christened, "Assembly Grounds." At the Arst meeting in the old, and now unused, Auditorium, 700 names were enrolled, the first name being that of a venerable college professor. In a few months the list had increased to 8,000, and there are present nearly 40,000 people taking this course of instruction. This circle has members in every State in the Union, in England, China, Japan, India, Alaska and the Sandwich Islands. The demand for the books, prescribed as the first year's course, on the first day exhausted the entire stock of the publishers. To complete the full course requires one hours' reading a day for four years. During that time questions from the committee will be forwarded, answered, returned, examined, and the student marked upon them. The text books are prescribed by the committee, and include standard works on history, science, art, literature, religion, etc. Tbe student can graduate and receive a diploma without ever coming to Chautauqua, but it will ever be the desire of his heart to visit this great seat of learning. After graduation, the student may take up special studies, such as Greek, French, Psychology, Chemistry, etc., etc., and receive for each a differently colored seal attached to the diploma, so that this C. L. S. C. is really the study of a lifetime. Individuals may pursue the studies alone, but it is generally considered more pleasant to form local circles of from two or three to a hundred or more and study together. Persons desiring any information in regard to organizing these circles, the books to be used, etc., should address the corresponding secretary, Miss K. F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J.*

The grand object of these circles is to furnish something even better than a college course of instruction to those whose time or means are limited, to enable parents to teach their children, and to educate and ennoble every class of people. The expense is an annual fee of fifty cents. The books for each year, if nicely bound, cost seven or eight dollars, but they have been published in various cheap forms. In 1880, anew departure was taken by the publication of tbe Chanlauquan, a monthly magazine, containing many of tbe required books as serials. It Is published by Dr. Flood, at Meadville, Pa. He publishes here on tbe grounds a daily paper called tbe Assembly Herald, devoted to Chautauqua. He is a most genial man, and like all editors, is in constant demand. He occupies a pleasant cottage near the hotel with his family, and notwithstanding his overwhelming dutiea, he always finds time to greet and entertain the hundreds of •ttrangen who cannot resist tbe temptation to call upon him.

About the middle of July, commences what Is known as the Teacher's Retreat aad Sabool of Languagee. The latter continnesthrooghthesBsaon(slx weeks) and the former thase weeks. Theecbool ol langnages owpiiasB Hebrew by Prof. roes the

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Seminary, Chicago Greek, Prof. Lummis, A. Stoneham, Mass. Latin, Prof. Shumway, Potsdam, N. Y. author of the old Latin journal in the U. S. German, Dr. Worman, Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn French, Prof. La Lande, Amherst college Anglo-Saxon, Prof. MacChutock, John Hopkins University, Md. These distinguished Professors for $500 apiece come here and give one hours' instruction for six weeks. Teachers who attend the retreat, have in addition to these languages, lessons in drawing, clay modeling, elocution, the different sciences, music, kindergarten, in short, whatever the teacher's specialty, he can here have instruction by the most distinguished Professors of that specialty. Particularly are they instructed in the philosophy and methods of teaching.

A few words now in regard to prices. Every person coming on the grounds for the season is required to pay |4 for an admission ticket. If he only wishes to remain a short time he must purchase day tickets at twenty-five cents apiece. So perfect is their ticket system that it is utterly impossible to evade it. The Assembly grounds. 136 acres, are surrounded on three sides by a very high fence, on the other by the lake. Like a church festival you may manage to get in for nothing but it costs like everything to get out. If you want to go through the gates for a drive in the open country you must have your ticket punched on one edge when you return it must be punched on the other edge. The manager examines these tickets occasionally and if the punches do not tally he can tell exactly which ticket man has failed to do his duty. If you want to make a trip on the lake all this ticket business must be gone through again and, in addition you must buy two beat tickets which must be twice punched. This |4 ticket admits to all lectures, soirees, religious exercises, concerts and every kind of entertainment free of charge, but for any special instruction in the languages, drawing,cooking, etc., the tickets are from twenty-five to fifty cents for each lesson. But if you choose tojpay $12 upon entering the gates, you can have access to every lesson and every thing that takes place the entire season. For one Intending to stay the entire six or seven weeks this would bo the best plan. I said to the editor, Dr. Flood, "The only thing you can do at Chautauqua, without a ticket, Is to go to bed." "Yes," he replied, very gravely, but with a twinkle in his eye, "We used to require a ticket for people to go to bed but we are trying to simplify the ticket system."

This Is not a cheap resort. Board at the Hotel Athenaeum Is from three to four dollars a day. At the cottages, for anything like comfortable board and lodging, you must pay ten dollars a week and even then the accommodations are of the very plainest kind. If you Choose to live in a garret or a tent or a little back room somewhere, you may manage more cheaply. But you may come with one dress and not feel embarrassed. You stand solely on your merits and dress is a secondary consideration. You are thoroughly independent. Everybody is so busy and absorbed that he has no time to notice what his neighbors Are doing and there is a most delightful sense of freedom. 1 have tried to crowd so much promised information into this letter that I fear it is rather stupid. I have not mentioned the elegant and charming people, the delightful soirees, the stereopticon views, the ideal trips, the real trips, tbe readings, the thousand things which make Chautauqua so fascinating that there are hundreds of people here now who have not missed a summer for ten years. The trouble Is, net to write a letter, but ever to stop when you commence writing. I shall endeavor next week to give something lighter and more interesting, but this is a very serious, thoughtful place, with just enough spice to give it animation but, although everybody feels physically tired, yet tbe universal regret is that we have not strength to accomplish more, with such a fruitful field before us from which to gather the harvest.

It has rained here until the lake Is full to tbe brim, and everybody Is drenched, drowned and discouraged but when the sun does come out for a day, the slopes drain off so rapidly and everything Is so. beautiful that we feel MS happy and lightbearted as children.

When you come to Chautauqua, come for the whole season, for the interest and attachment increase each day until the place seems like a beloved friend from whom you part with tenderness and regret. IDA A. HABFKR,

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Take pleasure In calling the attention of thone who may wish to make a good Investment, or who desire to purehuMo Home cheap, to a few of the many pieces of pro|crty In their hands for sale. Our list of prop* erty for sale is so largo and htui such great number of Bargains, that we will shortly Issue a Bulletin, In which we eau do full justice to all parties who have placed property lu our hands. 1. A four story Brick Store Itoom, No 619 Main street. 2. A desirable Residence, No. 1029 south Seventh street. Lot 100xl(&—a quiet and pleasant location. 8. Business Lot, southeast corner of Sixth and Elm. 76x140. 4. Undivled one-half of 2%cres on south Sixth street. 5. Two vacant lots on northeast comer of Sixth and College.

The above property will be offered for sale for a short time on favorable terms. 0. Three Residence lots, N. W. corner Sev-

Llnton, known as the Old Brewer) .having US feet on Heventhstreet

enth and Linton, known as the Old Brewery property, having 143 feet on Heventh street. Can make the site of the lots to suit the purchaser. 7. Northeast corner .of Eighth and Mulberry, Lot 100x140. Owner wants to dispose of it Immediately. Large hou, good home and No. 1 location aa a residence for a businessman. 8. A beautiful and convenient Home, No. 1003 south Seventh street, 8. W. corner of Seventh and Karrington, Lot 100x168, Is offered on unusually favorable terms. Price $4,600. 9. A large, well improved and In every way charming residence property, No. 1288 south Third street lot, 163x800 house In good order, twelve rooms, two stories, a good barn, two cisterns, good fruit one of the prettiest honacftln this city of beautiful homes must be seen in the summer to be fully appreciated. Price, 98,600. 10. No. 1 vaoant lot on south Sixth street 70xlfl8, will be told cheap for cash. 11. Five acres on Lafayette avenue, near the city limits good ground for subdivision. 12. House of four rooms, small lot, but very cheap, on north Ninth street, 9900. 15. House and lot 60x140, north Third street woo. 14. Four desirable vacant lots, on hlab ground, east of Nail Works. Will sell all for Cfcsh, 9850. 16. A vacant lot opposite Female College, on south Sixth, 43xl«D, for 91^60. 16. Vacant lot, next to residence of M. W. William*, &kj.,oo sooth Slxlh lot, 66x168. 17. Vacant lot on east Main. \H. A valuable tract of ground on south Sixth street, suitable for an addition to the city tbe especial attention of capitalists Is oalled to this tract.

If. Twelve acres on south Seventh street will be sold on easy tcrms a bargain. 30. Tract of land known aa the "Kera property," adjoining the realdenoe of William cnaal, Esq., on north Sixth street, 37 feet front, together with Engine and Boiler and other machinery, and a small corner on l*r fayette avenue, very cheap for Ossh. 2L. Three lots on Month Third street, very rTwan snd on ions time.

S. Two houaes and lots on south Thirteenth and Half stweL groand 76 f«*rf front booses three room* «Ici»7willsall both on easy terms lor curat.

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