Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 October 1883 — Page 1

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4QTBUE MOT COURT HOUSE. When the project of building a new ywrt boose was broached«bout twelve ago it met with opposition ou all ftes, and it required the services of a mmittee of fifteen and the legislature defeat it. Three years ago, when the aestion was revived, the opposition as almost as great, and the scheme was owed to fall to fall to the ground. A ort time after the fall election last year question was again revived, and all ^position seems to have suddenly disappeared. For months the Board of unty Commissioners have had the •bject under advisement, and at last it oems that Vigo county is in a fair way 0 own a building in which its records ill be safe, and which will be an ornsent to the city in which it is situated, tonths ago a firm of Cincinnati archlts was employed to draw plans for a urt house. No time was specified in hich the plans should be submitted The commissioners determined to make aste slowly in the matter, doubtless on ne ground that when the plans were idopted they wonld be such as would meet the approval of all fair minded citizens. After several months' work the lansr arrived this week, and since they caru£ the matter has been under consideration. tft paper the building seems 1 that could be desired. On the outside twill be of stone, the principal entrance rontingon Third street, with entrances on Main, Ohio and Seoond streets. It is furnished with a dome one hundred and eighty-five feet in height, and from the top of the basement to the roof is seven-ty-eight feet. The basement is to be devoted to 'storage, fuel, etc., the first floor v« the oounty offices, and the second and ib'rd stories to court rooms, jury rooms, etc. The cost of the building can only estimated bv the bids, and will probably be from $226,000 to 9250,000. Judgng'from its appearance on paper it is such a structure as this oounty requires. It is certainly handsome, and would add much to the appearanoe of the west end —tr iay nothing of the increase which it vi

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Lui will, probably, In a day or two. one will regret when the present urt house is retired to the shades of private life. It was never intended to oe used permanently for its present pur'pose. It has cost the oounty about $75,000, and in the event of afire would cost the property owners more than ten times ^hat amount, as it would be an impossibility to save the records. It has been »an expensive Investment, on which it is doubtful that the oounty could realize ,ne third of its investment. The bundling would be of no use for business purposes, and whoever purchases it would ijave to tear it down and rebuild, or rettain is in its present shape as an expensive monument to past days.

GRAVKL ROADS.

The few words spoken last week in reard to gravel roads in this county seem to have caused considerable comment in certaiu quarters, and caused considerable unfavorable comment. From the figures which have been handed in since Just Saturday, and from the talk which has been heard gravel roads are the rule, instead of the exception in Vigo county, and for any errors which may have been made in this oolumn an apology is humbly asked. It appears that the work was commenced in this township many years ago by the late Qeo. W. Naylor, then trustee, who expended much money in that direction. The improvement was continued by Trustees Fischer, Abbott, and Finkbiner. Of the work in the county, outside Harrison township the following figures have been furnished by the Auditor's office: Vinoenues road from city limits to 3% miles .18

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Total *1% In addition to this Sugar Creek will let a contract for the construction of five miles more in that township the present month, making a total of fifty-two and a half miles in the county outside of Harrison township. Of this nearly, if not quite, one-fourth has been ma Je by the oounty. However, the figures go to show that Vigo oounty seems to be alive to the question of gravel reads, and is not so far behind as many people suppose. That there is still room for Improvement Is evident, and it is to be hoped that the pdHers that be will progress in the matter until the county leads the State and can boas* of the best and most numerous gravel roads. If there are any others who wish to ventilate this subject they will find this column open to thsm at any tima.

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Years ago some person or persons conceived the idea of building a railroad from this olty, running in a southwesterly direction, and connecting at some point on the Mississippi river. It was designated the Terre Haute & Southwestern railroad,and a bright fntnre was predicted for it. If deponent is not mis taken, the Hght of way was granted through this couinty. About that time it waa the custom of the city to take stock in such enterprises, but in that portinnlar one the city failed to come to the front, and for some reason it never materialized, and the matter has lain dormant for a number of years. Of late, however, the project seems to have taken anew lease on life. The other evening a meeting was held here for the purpose of considering the matter, and all thoee present seemed enthusiastic over the success of the proposed road. That its construction wonld greatly benefit this dty there can be no donbt. The proposed line would pass through one of the rich est sections of country in the west and would prove a valuable feeder, not only to the city but to all the railroads center ing here. Its entrance t9 the city wonld be a matter of congratulation to the citizens generally—provided always that the company builds the road at its own ex pense.

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Is there one single advantage in being a woman Somebody who is good at conundrums, please answer. If Heaven is anything like this world we do not care to be an angel or carry a palm or play on a harp but only to be a man and takejour chances. Looking at the matter in a practical way where is one, soli tary argument in favor of being a worn an, provided we had any choice in the matter. When a baby is left an orphan our first question is, "Boy or girl If a girl we are filled with anxiety, if a boy we drew a sigh of relief. Alas for the poor, little girl who is born with the tastes sod Inclinations of a boy! Her life will be a burden both to herself aud ber mother. "Climb down from that tree, Glet off the fence, Come out of the street, Pull your dress down, Act like a lady, Don't talk so loud, Don't run so fast, Don't, Don't, Don't." This is the refrain from morning till night. I well remember a little girl, less than thiee yeare old, peeping through a fence into afield where a ictof.boyaweredancingaround a bonfli#"Tfisd saying pathetically, 'Mama, girls never have any fun." But they are nearer oq a level at that age than ever afterwards. It is useless lor mothers to rebel againBt custom and attempt to bring up both sexes alike. The school ohildren cry "tom-boy," the neighbors discuss the matter without reserve and the wild, romping girl is, in a degree, outlawed.

As she gtows older the restrictions grow more severe. If she rides, it must be in an uncomfortable, unhealthful position, hampered by heavy skirts. If she dances, it must be in light slippers and thin hose. If she walks, the highheeled shoes, the clinging skirts, the compressed waist make it a punishment rather than a pleasure. With all the re* forms'and improvements that have been made, the dress of woman is and always will 1MS terrible burden. A pardonable pride will ever stand likes wall between her and the broad-soled, flat-footed shoes whioh common sense would dictate. The oorset is almost an indispensable article, which every woman is excusable in retaining. One could scaroely tell where to improve on the dress itself. A iBkirt without drapery is homely and unbecoming. Nothing could be prettier—or more uncomfortable—than the present style of smooth fitting waist andsleevee. The bonnets are not much protection for the head or face, they are expensive and soon go out of style but when,' a few years ago, the masculine Derby hats were substituted they proved unsatisfactory and were soon discarded. There is nothing that impedes a woman more than the close-fitting glove. She cannot fill out a postal order, make a memorandum or sign her name without stopping to remove her glove, and yet who would want her to go on the street with bare handsT But, as if the hands were not sufficiently shackled, one of them most carry a parasol and the other a sachel of some sort for the pocket book, the handkerchief, the small purchases, etc.—for with all the other inconveniences of the dress it never has a pocket or if, by chance, there should be one, it to so far back that you must take off and torn the dress wrong side out to find it. Yet how can these difficulties be remedied If the parasol is omitted, the complexion will soon become as rough and sunburned as a man's. And how would a woman appear, going about the streets with a lot of pockets filled with papers and bundles and—cigar*—and—cards— and—bottles—or whatever it is that craxns the twelve pockets in a man's suit, not one of which he could do with* out.

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cally improve it except at the sacrifice of beauty and grace and all the subtle cha»m that lies in a pretty toilet. Take a real, genuine womanly woman with all the distinctive characteristics of the best of her sex, array her in big shoes, a loose, aack-llke dress, abroad brimmed hat and large gloves or none at all. You have made her physically comfortable but msntally wretched. She might oomb her hair straight back and avoid the im inense trouble of crimping pins, friaes and bangs, but she will never do it while there is a looking-glass—or a man —in the world. The perfectly fitting dress, the bewitching bonnet, the dsinty shoes and neat gloves are inexpressibly dear to a woman because, in a certain sense, they give her power. She cannot afford to discard them. HencOj in a more or less modified form, women must always labor under this disadvantage of dress.

Physically there is everything in favor of men. This point is always conceded and seed not be argued. Although apparently the physical condition of women is improving and that of men is degenerating yet there Will always be an advantage on the side of the latter.

You may give a modest, dignified woman all the privileges she may ask and yet there will be as much difference between her freedom and a man's as there is between that of a bird in the cage and one in the forest. On the cars, at the Opera House, wherever she may be, the woman must stick to her perch while the man may roam at will, seeing everything and everybody. The woman does not ask this privilege. She feels that it would be an impropriety. She Bimply accepts it as one of ber disadvantages, and bears it as she does the rest.

In the home we see this same difference. The wife workB as many hours as the husband and when evening comes he seeks recreation and she does without it. He pockets his wages and spends them as he sees fit—like a man. She asks for hers and renders an account of what she does with them—like a woman. She bears the children at the risk of ber life, cares for them at the expense of her health, sleep, rest, and all ambitions, and, if they are obliged to separate, he takes these children and gives them to strangers. When the husband is about to die he can divide up the property to suit himself when the wife dies, she must leave it all to her successor, who will probably be along in six month*or a year. This paper is not long enough to discuss the legal disadvantages of widows and unmarried women.

When a woman undertakes business of any kind she is beset with disadvantages. The difficulties of practicing law are too obvious to need mention. The lady physician is continually impeded by her sex. Girls who olerk, work in factories or private houses cr in any way earn their living must not only take smaller wages thati men but must be ever on the defensive against those who would like to question their integrity. The stenographer can attend only Certain kinds of meetings, report only certain kinds of cases, work only in certain offices because she is a woman. The lady journalist has perhaps the hardest time of all for her profession requires that she should go to a great variety of places, see sll kinds of people and be entirely unimpeded. On the contrary she is trammeled at every step. Much of the information she needs she mast delegate somebody to get for her because she cannot be going about into offices, shops and all the necessary places. If she wishes to report an evening entertainment she must hunt up an escort. When the report is finished she cannot go up to the office with it because it is dark. If she takes out a note book and pencil in pub* lie she becomes an object of attention. She dares not make an enemy by her writing because he may make a personal attack and, to a woman, however innocent, thfe is an everlastiag disgrace.

In short, it is utterly impossible for a woman to be thoroughly independent. Wherever she may be, under all circumstances, she must be always on her guard, always careful, lest an action, a word, a look be misinterpreted. She is under oonstant surveillanoe, ever a subject of criticism and ever powerless to resent it.

There is a wide, impassable gulf between the two sexes which can never be crossed. To bridge it might be to give us a race of masculine women, something to be dreaded. While no friend of mankind would ever desire to level all distinctions yet since wimen must make the race for life, must toll aud strive and suffer, it seems hard that they should have so many disadvantages which make their chances so uneqeaL It is strange they have had the courage and ambition to persevere, but then is this consolation for thoee who are tortured by and rebel against these unjust discriminations: Every woman who has gone before has trod these same narrow and thorny paths, tnd if the thorns, to-day, are fewer than ever before, it is because their delicate lest have beaten them down. And we are smoothing and widening the way for the thousands yet to come, among

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them, perhaps, our own dear children. Thinking of this, the thorns become as rosea, the troubles an swept away on either aide, and the pathway is glorified.

IDA A. HABPKR.

THJI great number of fairs and expositiona held in the United States is a subject calculated to excite thought. In several of the large cities like Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, these expositions have assumed a permanent form and are held annually. Notwithstanding their numbem and repetition, they are attended by thousands who find in the large collections of machinery, works of art, relics, and commodities generally, at once a source of recreation and of schooling. Occurring for the most part in September and October, they come at a season of the year when the farmers are able to obtain a short respite from work and many of them with their wives and sons or daughters obtain an agreeable and much need rest by visiting the exposition for a few days. It is time well spent, time indeed which could not well be bet-' ter spent. They return home refreshed in body and mind and find that the short break in the monotony of their life has added anew charm to the life on the farm.

That these large collections of industrial products and appliances and works of art, form important schools for the education of our people cannot be doubted. They accomplish a kind of work which coald not be done in any other way and would not be done at all but fer them. The masses are given an opportunity of seeing fine works of art, mechanical appliances, curiosities, etc., which otherwise wonld be limited to the few. They obtain more liberal and enlarged ideas by this association with these things, limited though it be, while the exhibitors and the cities which give the exhibition, are benefited in their turn by the moreor less liberal spending of the multitude of sight seers.

THE city campaign in Indianapolis is turning mainly on the question of admitting a new street railway company, and the issue is likely to give the Republicans an easy victory. The Tribune, a German paper, addressed letters to the two candidates for Mayor asking them whether, in the event of there being a tie vote in the council on the question, they would vote for or against admittilths new company. Mr. McMaster, thfc jftepdfeiican candidate, answered plainly that he would vote for the new company. Mr. Schtnuck, the Democratic candidate, beat the bush a good deal and his answer was so indefinite that it created muoh dissatisfaction and will lose him many votes among the Germans, where his special strength was supposed to lie. The Tribune is making all the capital it can out of the two letters and the prospects of Democratic success, which at one time were not bad, have been seriously cloudedJ\

THE DEATH ROLL.

Interments were made in Woodlawn cemetery during the month of September as follows:

I. John Haney, 75 years congestion of 'T&utsa E. Young, 29 days whooping cough. 6. Frederick M. Farnham, 1 year. 5. Clara Hf*sket, 15 months cholera infantum. 7. IdaZelta Julian, 49 years acute bronchial catarrh. 8. Rachel Jones, 58 years hemorrhage of the bowels. 8. Susannah Briscoe, 58 years. 10. David W. Watscn, 65 years fatty degeneration of the heart. 10. Thomas B. ttnapp, 55 years sudden death. 10. Charlotte Reisman, 15 years.

II. Harry Miller, 2 years dysentfy. 18. John S. Qott, 40 years congestion of the brain. 18. Infart of Hiram Bryant, still born. 18. Gertrude Scholts, 7 months cholera Infantum. 14. Elisabeth Baker, 18 yean oo nsumption 16. Infant of L. Scott, still born. 17. Elizabeth Ainsworth, 68 years dys"lsfSoott Hereley, 70 yeArs, typhoid pneumonia. 19. Infant of James G. Wysong, still born. 21. Klenor Oeer. SO years. 22. Charles Brnnkner, 71 years asthma. 22. Paul 8telpel, 17 years. 24. Wm. J. Loetunan, 14 yean typhoid fever. 24. Robert Rudy, 80 years. 25. Jos. Vaughn, 35 years consumption. 27. L. Campoell, two years. 28. John Noble Harris (colored) three yean. 29. James W. Gibson. 69 years consumption. 28. Infant of George Bivens, still born. 29. Edward F. Musgrave, 6 years diptherla. 80. Gertie Bryant, nine months. Ooanty and elsewhere 5 City •». «....... .m.mm.-.

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ANNA HBUHS, who lived with her mother and a married sister at the southeast corner of Poplar and Seventh streets,committed suicide Tuesday evening with arsenic. Her mother is the divorced wife of M. C. Moran. She was greatly attached to her step-father, and the immediate cause of her taking her life was an seeusatioa on the part of the mother that abe was criminally intimate with ber step-tether. When the mother discovered the daughter's rash act, she attempted to end her own life by lapping the froth taming from the dying girl's mouth, but prompt medical assistance saved ber life. She afterwards stw^mpted to jump into a weiL The dcctom could do nothing for the girl and she died in half an hoar after swallowing the fatal

SA YINOS AND DOINQS,

Hie deuce of diamonds is their expensivenees. A tramp called his shoes corporations, because they had no soles.

Disraeli once said that nothing waa of so muoh importance to a young man as to be well criticised by a woman.

In the Indiana Northeast Methodist Conference Bishop Kingsly said that, measuring time by events, men in our dsy live to be older that Methuselah.

At a hotel in Fall River, Mass., the bill of fare carries the following appeal: Guests will confer a favor by not ordering more than they think they can eat, as this will prevent waste."

When a Philadelphian found that bis son had embeszled $8,000 he died. Poor man I How much better it would have been for him to have remained aliVe and fixed the jury.

Young Gebhardt it is said, has made way with $175,000, in the pursuit of his Langtry. It probably was the work of many years for the older Gebhardt to get this money together. It takes five years to to grow an oyster, out one may be swallowed in ten seconds.

A physician says: "In buying clothing care should be taken to investigste the hygroscopicity of the cloth." We always do but, as singular as it may appear, many persons buy a coat and never give a thought to its hygroscopicity. This is a great mistake.

A pastor departing from afield of labor of three years, remarked on the pleasing nature of all his duties and the large number of weddings and funerals at which he had officiated. Some of the mourners hesitate to cheer the sentiment. •1

Incited by Buffalo Bill's exhibitions, Willie Cramp of Reading, Pa., practised with the lasso. The lasso caught an empty car of a passing coal train, and as the rope was wound around bis body be was dragged until, fortunately, the rope caught at a switch and was broken.

The Minneapolis Tribune says: "Twenty-five years ago two lovers dwelt in New York City. They quarrelled. A letter of explanation miscarried. He came West, snd settled in St. Paul.1 She moved to Buffalo. This story doesn't to come out jtjst right for he is in St, Paul yet, and she is in Buffalo. Both are married, and have large families*

It is mournful to refleot that the American people consume $200,000,000 worth of tobaooo per aunum. The cheerful side of the picture is that a great many people make a living raising tobacoo, and that the government derives a vast revenue from the weed. The immense amount of comfort good cbewers and smokers take should also be considered.

Mrs. Case aud her husband occupied seats in the compact throng on the balcony of the olub-house at the race in New York the other day. When Jay-Eye-See passed under the wire the third time, winner of the match, she threw her arms spontaneously around the ueck of her husband and gave him a hearty kiss The pleasant-faced owner of the Western trotting wonder returned the salute with interest. Tears stood in his eyes, and he hardly knew whether. to laugh or cry.

LITTLE SERMONS.

Self respect preserves morality. A virtuous life is always a happy one. Thit which is without soul is without honor.

Defeat oftimee redounds ss much,to a mart's glory as success. He who cannot govern himself is but a poor guide to lead others.

Never encourage auother to follow wben you know not the way yourself. He who laughs at another's misfortunes but scoffs over the grave of his own buried decency.

When the stream meets with obstacles in its peaceful course, it murmurs its defiance and passes on. /Character is the greatest and best of sll earthly possessions and yet a contemptible whisper can deprive us of it.

That is true repentance which enables us to look as hopefully forward to the future as sorrowfully back to the past.

JOURNALISM OF TO-DAY. Detroit Evening Journal. The knell of ponderous Journalism sounded some time ago. The two-col-umn editorial went out of date along with the editorial tripod and much more fosyisn nonsense. The, bright, snappy,-fresh paragraph has usurped the

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of the solemn, labored "leader," ust the telegraph nas taken the place of the mail. The cuodel modern daily should, first of all, be cheap it should have a bright face, all the news, and its opinions should be concise and to the point it should be clean in character and independent in all things it shou'd be fearless in fighting for the right, and it should be in sympathy with the mawes. Slowly but surely the "organs," both Republican and Democratic, have lost

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ation, and the ones have either become independent or are leaning that way. The era of cheap and independent journalism is upon us. The people demand the news, and they demand it nearly every hour in the day. It moat come to them in a condensed form, and it moat be cheap.

ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. KateBood, of H'nesburgh, Vt, celebrated her 100th birthday by dying. Miss Cora Bennison, the Quincy, Ills., female lawyer, is making a tour around the world.

A Bloomington girl walks about the' streets with a pet coon and very reason-

ably declarea that it is no worse than a poodle dog. Jennie June is slender and weak-eyed and no longer youthful. She has a contract with her husband providing that each of them shall furnish half the household expenses. But she does moat of the work just the same.

The hair-pin is said to be the most useful of all woman's complicated apparel. It is used to button the shoes and fasten the gloves, it is su excellent nut-picker and to poke over the contents of a bufc ton-box there is nothing like it.

There will be no less than ten bridesmaids at one of the October weddings in New York, all of whom will be dressed alike and will wear bonnets according to what is called tbe Englisb style, and will carry largebaskets of cut flowers.

St. Louis has opened **A Woman's Exchange," It has proven an excellent and beneficent institution in Chicsgo. It gives women of enterprise and energy an opportunity of doing something for themselves, and benefiting others at the same time.

Wilmington, Del., made a physician her mayor, and be was called upon to save the life of the wife of a policeman, who toad beaten her. Tbe mayor saw the evidenoe of the policemen's brutality but he holds that Mayor Wales can have no knowledge of things known by Dr. Wales, and the ruffian still holds his place on tbe police.

Frankford, Pa., furnishes this temperance lecture: John Pollitt's two daughters bad saved $800 from their earnings in a mill, and, having determined to buy a house, Bent their father to the bank to draw the money. Late that evening he Was found helplessly drunk in a barroom, with only $65 of the $800. He could not tell whether he had lost the money or been robbed.

London Truth is of the opinion that 40 per cent of the cigarettes sold in the United States are smoked by ladies. Tbe same veracious chronicler asserts some.'years ago its writer found the young ladies of Washington were given to the habit of "dipping," a party of

girls squatting on the ground around a bowl in which there was a thick mixLure of snuff and water. That London sheet is clearly in need of anew name.

When you buy a newspaper, whether you pay a cent, two oents, five cents, or ten cents for It, you get more for your money than you do when buying anything else in tbe world. I mean the average newspaper. A newspaper is not only the cheapest form of literature in the world, but it is tbe cbeapeet thing in the world. It costs from fifty cents to a dollar to get a seat at tbe theater, and one of these sums, generally tbe latter, you often pay to see a performance that you don't get as much pleasure and actual benefit from as you would in reading a single copy of a good journal that costs all tbe way from one cent to ten. Any sort of dinner costs you fifty oents ana it is

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to spend a dollar for cigars. The man who drinks knows with what fadlltv be gets rid of a quarter for two "cocktails," the pleasurable and beneficial effect of which is often a matter of serious doubt with him. A carriage to go anywhere costs two dollars, and one for an afternoon or a drive to the parks, costs from five dollars to seven. $•

PLANTATION PLILOSOPHY. Arkansaw aveller. De tear ob sorrow is as bright aa de tear ob joy.

Drinkin' whisky is like makln' money. De more yer got de more yer thinks yer can stan'.

Becase a man sings hymns taln't no sign be won fight yer. De mockin'bird sings mightily, but he whips ebery udder bird in de neighborhood.

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De con temp' ob man makes itse'f felt eben 'mong animals. So many slurs bab been flung at de yaller dog dat nine times outen ten when yer meets him he'll bang his bead.

Advice is all well enough, but too much ob it brings de giver inter contemp'. A little horseradish is good, but too much ob it will make yer sneeze.

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A PHILOSOPHER'S REFLECTIONS. B. F. Butler. "Life is too short to quarrel much, although you may think it a little strange that I should say so but then I have bad experience in that regard. Wben we get older we look back upon life. There is very little of it?" Reflect a moment. Wben waa tbe happiest moment of your life? It was vi ben you got over your quarrel with suoeoody and shook bands and said: 'Now, it's all over.' There is not man of you—I will not say women, because ladies never have any quarrels—there is not a man of you who will not say that tbe happiest moment of your life was wben you settled a little difficulty with your neighbor, and became friends, and ceased to nold each other at arms length."

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