Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1884 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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JLV P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 16, 1884 I

A ME RICA N TO AD YISM.

As a nation we have been disposed to complain of the treatment we receive at the hands of Europe. There has been, and is yet to some extent, a notion that America is a kind of Nazareth out of which no good thing can come. "Who reads an American book V' was the Eng lish sneer of a generation ago. Lowell finely expresses the feeling in his charming essay, "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners," in which he says: "Perhaps one reason why the average Briton spreads himself here with such an easy air of superiority may be owing tp the fact that he meets with so many bad imitations as to conclude himself the only real thing in a wilderness of shams. He fancies himself moving through an endless Bloomsbury, where his mere appafition confess honor as an avator of the ceurt-end of the universe. Not a Bull of them all but Is persuaded he bears Europe upon his back.".

Here is the real secret of the contempt which is often felt by the older nations for America. It is not that we have no fine things, or that we do no fine things but that we are lacking in respect for ourselves and in love for our institutions. The Scot," the German, the Frenchman, the Englishman, thinks there is no country in the world quite so good as bis own. The American thinks his country is very large and grand in some respects, but at the same time has a suspicion that it is in some way Interior to the old lauds across the sea. Nothing shows this more plainly than our constitutional and disgusting toadyism towards foreigners and especially the English. What Briton, from Dickens down, has ever come to the United States to line his pockets with gold, and has not succeeded? Oscar Wilde was fool enough to get rich in America, and a nation which produces the most beautiful women in the world goes wild over the Langtry, whose charms pale before those of not a few American ladies. We flock to see Irving at five dollars a night, when a greater than Irving is revealed to us in our own Edwin Booth.

Traveling on a railroad train a gentleman heard his fellow passengers express a longing to visit Europe and its famous scenery. To the questions whether he had ever seen Niagara Falls, or the soenery along the Hudson, or the^gfandeur of the Rocky mountains, he received an indifferent negative. From his manner it was evident his fellow did not think any of these things worth seeing. Nothing but the Rhine, the Alps, Switzerland, Paris and London, would satisfy the ambition of this untraveled American He did not know that his own country contained scenery as beautiful and as grand, not to put it in stronger terms, as any country in the world, and if anyone should-tell him so, he would not believe it. And so it is with many of our people. They must make a tour of Europe before they have beheld the splendors of their own country they must pattern after English fashions and manners and sink a good original iu a worthless imitation.

It is about time that Americans should begin to respect themselves, their institutions, and their oountry. The two latter at least are better than those of any other in the world, and the foimeri ought to and may be. Let ns cease toadying to foreigners and stand forth in the true dignity of American manhood and womanhood, proud of our past, our present and our future—as proud to be Americans as Caspar was to be a Roman —and we shall net be lacking in respect from other nations. If they can give us anything better than we have let us accept it. But let us not think everything they have is better than our own just because it is English or French or German. We have had "something too mueh of this."

THE GREAT FLOOD.

The news from the flooded districts is simply appalling. The deluge of last year, the greatest ever before known, has been surpassed. Whole towns and dties have been deserted by their inhabitants and thousands of people are houseless and shelterless. The distress and suffering of body and mind is beyond the power of words to portray. Working men and women by the thousands have been thrown out of employment and are dependent upon charity for food for themselves and their families. The cry for help comes up from all along the Ohio, from Pittsburg to Evansville. And the cry will be heeded. The work of relief was promptly begun and the generous people of Indiana are pouring money ana provisions Into the flooded district* with overflowing liberality. Bat a single spontaneous outburst will not suffice. There will be need for steady giving for weeks to com*. Many have lost all the little property they possessed and will not be self supporting for sometime. There will be sickness too that will Incapacitate some for labor. The work of relief must therefore be systsnnaUc and continued, until the people of the stricken country are placed upon a self-sup *-rs ing baais again. Let the ptvijWf of Indiana open their hearts and purses to their suffering brethren of the river districts.

THE Madison Courier recently inter-! WITH the dark waters rolling np her viewed a prominent fruit grower and streets, thousands of her citizens homecanner of that city in regard to the les* and the whole country sending in future of fruit raising in that vicinity, contributions, it seems ahsost a mockery

The opinion expressed was that the small fruit area will increase. Raspberries, the cultivated berries, currants, gooseberries and grapes will be grown more abundantly every year. Apple, cherry, plum, pear and quince orchards will be increased and prove more certain crops than peaches. Peaches do not answer so well for the entire crop of a farm as a variety of fruits. They will be grown with profit hereafter, but it will pay the cultivator better to put his ground in a variety of fruits than to risk everything on one kind. The country about Madison is one of the most favorable in the state for fruit culture, and the business is attaining large proportions. Hitherto, however there has been a tendency to invest too entirely in peach orchards, which, while highly profitable in favorable seasons, sometimes prove a complete failure. The extention of the business to a variety of fruits will lie far more remunerative to growers and advantageous to the fruit production of the State,

AFTER reaching the height of 71 feet and three-quarters, of an inch, being 4 feet 8% inches higher than the great flood of 1883, the Ohio river at Cincin nati began to fall slowly on Thursday and has been falling steadily since. If there are no more rains the river will rapidly withdraw into its proper limits The suffering of the people was aggravated by the sudden fall of the temperature, many being in exposed situations with little or no fuel. Among women and children especially the distress was and is very great. Relief boats, with food and fuol were put to work as promptly as possible both by the government and private charity, Tbut there being no landings for the boats in many places it has been difficult to get the supplies to the sufferers. This has been the greatest flood of the century, or of any time so far as known, and it is to be hoped that it's like will never be seen aeain.

CONGRESS is more concerned with private bills than it is to push forward any measures of considerable public importance. Both houses are being flooded with all manner of private relief and compensation bills, designed primarily for the strengthening of members in their several districts. The fact is, both parties are timid and cautious on the eve of a national election, anxious to make capital for their own party, but fearful of committing some act that will render themselves less popular with the people. The Democratic majority in the House appear to be especially lacking in nerve to make an aggressive fight. After all the high-sounding talk about tariff reform Mr. Morrison's .bill gets on very slowly, if it gets on at all. If our statesmen were less concerned about carrying the elections and more about legislating for the best interests of the country, it would be a good thing. v:

SUSAN B. ANTHONY is possessed ol perennial hope. Notwithstanding the snub of Speaker Carlisle, who left the committee on woman suffrage off the list, she still expects the senate committee to make favorable report. Herself a life-long Democrat, it must be very humiliating to know that the refusal of the house to consider the question was almost by a strict party vote, the Democrats voting "no.'' If Miss Anthony will only reflect, that the Democratic party has always been opposed to progress aud that if they could have had their way there vypild still be three million negro slaves in this country, she will not be surprised. She is too liberalminded a woman for that party and we cordially invite her into the Republican fold. _======^^

PRESIDENT PORTER, of Yale College, recently gave this advice to the students:

Young men, you are the architects of your own fortunes- rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reli-ance. Inscribe on your banner, 'Luck is fool, Pluck Is hern.' Dont take too much advice, keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Think well of yourself. Assume your own position. Put potatoes In a cart, go over a rough road and small ones go to the bottom. Rise above the envious and the Jealous. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with a right motive, are the levers that move the world. Dont swear. Dont deceive. Dont read novels. Dont marry until you can support a wife. Be civil. Read the papers. Advertise your business. Make money and do good with it. Love your God and fellow men. Love truth and virtue. Love your country and obey its laws."

The suggestions are just as valuable to boys outside of college as in probably more so.

GENERALLY are the people responding to the call for help from the flooded districts. Money and food supplies are pouring in from all parts of the country, and nothing will be left undone to relieve the wantsof thesuiferers. Yet when all the help has been afforded that can be, thousands of homeless people will be in a miserablepllght for months to come. After the waters subside many will find their houses carried away, or wrecked, or so soaked with mud and water that they will scarcely be habitable. There Is no likelihood that th* relief will exceed the necessities of the occasion.

A cRixntAt. conspiracy has been discovered In New York City Involving several lawyers, clerks of the court, etc. Ills object Is the procuring of illegal divorces.. Some fifty OHMS have already been found and there are doubtless many more. Divorce in a proper and legal way is bad enough, but there Is no punishment sufficiently severe for those whd would trifle with the honor of worn* an aud Che legitimacy of children.

TERRE HAUTE. SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

to read of the great success of the Opera Festival in Cincinnati, the crowds, the

blackberry, straw- elegant toilets, the enthusiasm, etc. And yet all these people had purchased their tickets before the flood and they could not lessen the distress in the city by staying away from the Opera. After all it is only a practical illustration of the short distance "twixt a smile and a tear."

ACCORDING to Jenkins, "no matter if royalty be present at the presidential state dinners, the president must be served first." But we are not informed whether His Excellency "falls to" and eats before the other guests do or waits till they are alK served. It certainly requires one "to the manor born" to understand all the conventionalities of Washington life. Whatever President Arthur's shortcomings he has never made a mistake in the rules if etiquette, and the customs of "our best society" have never been so elegantly presented.

EARLY in the week some newspaper started a paragraph saying that a woman in San Francisco had applied for a position as street car driver. Other papers added to it until by the last of the week the paragraph stated that there was a great demand by the women of different cities for positions as drivers of street cars. By next week the different papers will begin to comment upon it. In all probability no woman ever applied for such a place and if she did she should have been promptly refused and Hie subject allowed to drop.

THE lion and the lamb are about to lie down together. The allopathic and homeopathic doctors of Cleveland have united on a bill to regulate medical practice. These two schools have so long been at w?r with each other that signs of peace are balled with joy. Each has always secretly made use of the other's remedies, physic being the chief bone of contention. Now, they can throw this bone to the dogs and clasp hands over the materia medica.

IN France nearly all the railroad ticket and signal clerks are women who are paid as much as men. They are preferred on account of their sobriety. Unless there is a change in the habits of men, the next decade will see the thousands of positions, now filled by men, occupied by women" because of their sobriety." Temperance is beginning to bean impurtant business qualification.

LANSING, Mich., proposes to give a bounty of three cents each for the heads of English sparrows. Other, cities will be obliged to adopt similar means. We must in some way ge4 rid -of these blarsted little Britishers. They are driving all our own birds from their native health and are an unqualified nuisance.

THE small statue of Governor Morton given by his widow to Morton Post G. A. R., was unveiled with interesting exercises at the hall on Thursday evening. Colonel Thompson made the presentation address.. Colonel McLean responded, and Ben D. House, of Indianapolis, read a couple of poems.

IT is now in order for Cincinnati to have an opera of the flood or to celebrate the landing of Noah or to have a banquet in honor of the return of the dove. Anyway let them have an dntertainment of some kind, for what is Cincinnati without a festival?

IN reading the Indianapolis papers one is inclined to hav, "History repeats itself," for editoiial and lopal are all filled with the topic of bipbry in the schools. It is a vital subject to the residents of that city, but is a lit$le monotonous to outsiders.

CHICAGO is to have one of the grandest of Grand Opera Houses.. It to to be nine stories high and fire proof. It will be on the first floor, with apex in the fifth story and will seat about 3,000 people. It will be the finest in the country outside of New York City.

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REV. MYRON RXKD, of Indianapolis, has received a call to the first Presbyterian church of Denver, Col. IfMr. Reed concludes to accept the call Indianapolis will sustain the loss of one of the strongest ministers she has ever had.

TWENTY-EIGHT years ago Patti sang in this oountry to fifty cent houses, and twenty-eight years hence she will do the same thing,- if die sings at all.

THE Ohio river and the prohibitionists have the same policy. No matter whether people want water or not they have got to take it.

Ir the Ohio river proposes to keep ibis thing up regularly hereafter, mountain peeks will be in demand for town sites along her borders.

INDIANAPOLIS made one bonfire of her straight jacket*. She might now make another of her histories.

CINCINNATI has free waterworks, and might advertise a* a great water-cure.

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How are the mighty fallen f- Denis Kearney is said to be selling pies st a San Francisco health resorts-Terr* Haute MaiL Not so, dear brother Denis

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«. I sponging iving out of his deluded followers: now .t would seem that he Is endeavoring to earn an honest livelihood, and to be nt some service in the community. Be ought to be encouraged.—Bottom Journal.

SA YINQS AND DOINGS.

A Brooklyn suit developed a woman who made shirts at four cents. "Hurry, mamma," said a little innocent with a cut finger, "it's leaking." "Go with mean people," said Emerson, "and you will soon get to think meanly of life."

The ministers of Pittsburg, Pa., are endeavoring to .suppress tbe sale of immoral literature.

A blind dog in Cedar Rapids is regularly fed by another canine who forages for it with a tender solicitude like that of a bird for its young.

In a French cemetery tbe following epitaph appears: "I await my husband, October 10th, 1870." Below is this: "Here I am, February 7th, 1880."

Barry Wall, the king of the New York dude3, changes his clothes five times a day, has canes and dogs to match each suit, and wears stockings with five toes to them.

Joe Howard, who is a handsome man himself, says that William Yanderbilt would give $10,000,000 for a new nose and $10,000,000 more to have the curl t*ken out of his fa£ lips.

Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon created a sensation by recently preaching in a Worchester Unitarian pulpit. He preached a sermon in which it is alleged he emphatically declared, iu referring by way of illustration to the history of Jacob and Esau, that he considered Jacob a hypocrite and sneak, and Esau, by nature, much the best typd of man of tbe two, and Rachel a designing, scheming, unjust woman.

Fred Douglas-said the other day: "If I had married a black woman there would have been nothing said about it yet the disparity in our complexions would have been the same. I am not an African, as may be seen from my features and hair, and it is equally easy to discern that I am not a Caucasian. There are many colored ladles of my acquaintance who are as good as I and who are a great deal better educated. Yet, in affairs of this nature, who is to decide the why and the wherefore? I conceive that there is no division of races. God Almighty made but one race. I adopt the theory that in time the vareties of races will be blended into one."

Wendell Phillip's lack of the pathetic power, which has been generally remaiked upon, was regreted by himself. Upon one accasion, during the war, when Anna Dickinson had moved a great audience to alternate cheers and tears by the fervor and pathos of her appeal for tbe enlistment of colored soldiers to fight for the freedom of their race, Mr. Phillips, who had spoken at tbe same meeting, said to the eloquent little Quakeress—as she was then called— "Anna, I would give much to be able to make people cry as you do. Why cannot I do it?" "I suspect the reason is because you never cry yourself," was the answer of the strongly emotional and magnetic women, who had often had occasion, during an impassioned flow of words, to brush the tears from her own eyes with a half: protesting, swift movement of her hand.

THE use of beads is again becoming fashionable, and there is likely to be as great a rage for that sort of ornament as there was twelve or fifteen years ago. Beads are made of a great variety of materials, glass, stone, metals, coral, bone, ivory, amber, etc., but glass is generally understood when beads are spoken of without special description. And they area very old Institution. Venice is tbe place of their greatest production, where their manufacture has been a staple industry- for more than a thousand years. Attempts have elsewhere been made to compete with Venice in bead, making, bnt living there is so cheap an artisan is able to subsist on five cents a day, and they possess secrets of glass coloring known no where else, so that opposition has not been successful. They give more than two hundred different tints to single colored beads, and wben they come to combinations the possibilities are unlimited. The production is so great that in Venice a bunch of small beads of eighty strings, each string six inches long, can be bought for about two cents. These beads are chiefly sold to the North American Indians. It is is a singular fact that fashion in civilization and barbarism meet on a level In the choice of beads, tbe inhabitants of the South Sea Islands and the ladies of

New York city, in timea of bead crazes, showing preference for about tbe same article in color, style, and make. Tbe most costly and best glass beads are made In Paris. It is there we get our Roman pearl, mirror beads, etc. Bead manufacture has been tried disastrously in this country. The cost here is too

PISTOL- CA RR YING. Chicago Current.

Gov. Lowrey, of Mississippi, properly condemns the pistol-carrying habit in his annual message. He thinks the most efficient remedy for the evil is to make tbeir use to kill or attempt to kill a crime "admitting of no defense whatever." "If one could not," says the Governor, "under any circumstances, lawfully use a deadly weapon carried in concealment on tbA person, he would cease to carry it, for it would be useless." That Is by no means certain. It would, however, be a very excellent proceeding for the legislature of Mississippi to act on Governor Lowrey'a recommendation. Every new plan looking to tbe suppression of a semi-barbarous custom in a civilized country, should be tried. Tbe Current believea, however, that the only really effective plan la the actualization of a

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powerful public sentiment against sues semi-barbaric practices. As yet public sentiment lingeis.

—I AM GOING TO THE RINK.

ONE MARK OF WOMAN'S INFERIORITY.

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If we were asked what is to-day the great advantage which man has over woman in the struggle for existence we should answer without hesitation, pockets. Pockets are the syq^xtl of an orderly miud, of logical powers, practical acquirements homogeneity. A bag, a woman's bag, a shopping bag, is the emblem of the kingdom of misrule. Speaking roundly, a man's clothes contains a dozen pockets. In this convenient place his change is kept, ever ready and never in the way in that receptacle are his knife, corkscrew, aud shoe-outtonsr another compartment is sacred to his purse still another holds his handkerchief his gloves may have a seperate home if he will his eyeglass lives iu au aristocratic seclusion watch, ncil case, and toothpicks are comfortasegregated, and he has room, besides, for memorandum book, letter, newspapers, the new magazines, visiting cards, and a case of court-plaster.

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Is it any wonder that he turns the key of the world'sgreat lock easily and well, having both bands free from that exercise? And tbe fact that he has conquered bis pockets, so to speak, testifies to the supremacy of man. If his tailor demurred to putting them in, that useful minion would find his occupation gone. But when womon is told by her dress maker that only one inaccessible pocked is to be allowed her, she inpinely submits aud therefore proclaims her inferiority ol sex.

We make no aucount of such sporadic dashes from freedom as are shown* in the English walking jackets aud tbe many-flapped ulster. These are mere tthims, not virtues. Already the jacket is moulting it convenient pouches, and the ulster exchanges its plain utility for a dear-bought stylishness. No the power and significance of pockets lie in tbeir being an expression of principle.

We commend tbe subject, which is too bioad for a single paper, to the attention of the next social science convention.

THE SAFEST PART OF A CAR New York Sun. Four men half hidden in tbe smoke cloud of a smoking box of a sleeping car on the Hudson River railroad spent an hour discussing which part of a car was the safest to ride in. They finally agreed to leave it to the conductor. "Middle of middle car, right baud side" said the personage when asked.

The rapidity with which he spoke and the mechanical manner in which be made the reply led one of them to halt him as he was passing on and ask him to explain himself. "Why,'said he, "everybody asks me that quesfon, aud I am so used to answering it that I've got it down to the fewest words possiole. I shouldn't wonder if you were to ask me that when I am asleep if I would answer it without waking up. Tbe middle car of tbe train is the safest, because it is the furthest •removed from a collision either in front or behind. Even if tbe eugine plunged into an open drawbridge, It might not

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take more that a car or two with it. Couplings would be likely to break, you know. Always sit in the middle cat, because when cars telescope they are apt not to telescope many feet. As you can't tell which end will telescope, take to the middle. Whatever car you go in, sit on the right hand side of the car, which is to say the side farthest from the other track, because it sometimes happens that a freight projects too far beyond a flat car and rips the windows out of passing trains.

DRY UP THE FOUNTAIN. John Hwlnton'd Paper. "If the daily papers would devote but one-half of tbe space, labor aud money they give the records of the criminal classes to matters that really affect the public weal, they would snow themselves bulwarks of tbe liberties of tbe people.'' Candidly, now, can any reader give a reason why so much space, labor or money of the daily press should be given to the "records of tbe criminal classes?" Does not vice and crime grow and thrive and fatten on what it feeds on Cut oft their food supply and they die and disappear.

NEW FANQLED EUCHRE. Rockvllle Tribune. We used to like to play touch re, but must say the "new-fangled" way of playing, or rather net playing tbat time honored game, has takeu all the fun from it. Now they play it with twentyfive instead of thirty-five cards, with a "joker" that takes tbe right bower! Aud when a man plays alone bis partner asks him if he "wants bis best." As an old player we hereby enter the protest against such a game being called euchre. _______________

THE remodeling of Dowllng Hall, has made it one of the cosiest and nicest places in the city.,. Roller skating day and night.

The largest and best ten cent loaf of bread in the city, at Ed. Lawrence's. Telephone Connection.

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