Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 April 1884 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PKOPRLETOK.

FTTBUCATIOX orncz,

Hos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing Howe Square.

%KRRE HAUTE, APRrL 28, 1884

7$ A KUMBBB of clothing stores, in vari *?ous cities, advertise that they will give ^away a first class watch with every 15 '^suit of clothes. That is no inducement, why don't they offer a house and |pfc or a nice farm?

THB South Bend Tribune says it has about decided to stop publishing the letter list. A letter advertised for a mar vied man in that city was called for by his wife, and—but it is not necessary to enter into particulars.

AN

egg breakfast was given by a society lady, the morning after Easter, consisting of sixteen couses, in all of which the egg played a prominent part. It is hoped, for the sake of the guests, that some of the eggs took the lorm of chicken before the repast was ended.

THE Through Mail, anew paper started at Bloomington, Ills., announces that Is is "published to do good, promote digestion and afford its proprietors something to digest," or, in other words, give them a chance to fill along felt want. May they be successful and grow fat. _____________

THE latest craze among society gen tlemen is for a black mustache. No matter what the shade of the hair, the aaust&chd must be black. We know a number of young men who coald man age the "color" part of it well enough, but what bothers them is how to get the mustache.

FASHION magazines are authority for the statement that the ladies are made to fit the dress, nowadays. The gar-, meut is carefully fitted on a symmetrical model and tnen the lady is made the requited shape. This is all right. The lady is pleased with herself, the public are pleased with her appearance and nobody is injured.

THB Cincinnati Enquirer, describing a murder, says:

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seems to follow this family." It then goes on to describe various accidents, outting affrays, etc., which happened to various members of the family, always when they are drunk. "Fatality" may be what is the matter, but it looks very much as if it might be "whiskey."

A NUMBER of our exchanges are coming out in the very newest spring Bhades. Cream cdlor has been popular for sometime among the newspapers, and this week the Minneapolis Spectator makes its appearance robed in blue and the Des Moines Times, in the prettiest of pink. We would suggest that green is quite fashionable and also good for the eyes.

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ridiculous. A standard authority declares the fashionable garniture' to be "scarlet radishes with green leaves, English walnuts, tomatoes, red and green, onions, cauliflower, chestnuts in in their burrs, pine cones, thistles and grass." All of this on the outside of the bonnet and, it is safe to say, a cabbage head on the inside.

THB woman suffragists are down on Senator Edmunds, and promise, if he is dominated to work against him might and main. An exchange suggests that he buy thom off with a new bonnet fepleoe. It is no sign because you can buy a man's vote with adrink of whiskey you can take advantage of a woman's weakuess and buy her off with a bonnet. Some other means must be thought of.

AN account is given of a postmaster who insisted that marriage is a lottery, and refused to deliver love letters for fear he would violate the order against using the mails in the Interest of lottery schemes, lie might evade the penalty as these g1*«*sware lotteries do by giving something to everyone who draws. In marriage there are no blanks, but people frequently draw a white elephant which they would be glad to get rid of

TBK School statistics for Indiana in 1883 show a surplus of boys among both white and colored children. The census of Terre Haute shows the same. How then can we account for the oft repeated statement 'that there are more women than men The fact that men emigrate and leave a surplus of women wou'd not affect the census of the children and, bmides, the statistics of births show that boys predoml nate. Looking at the subject from a purely mathematical point of view, it seems that some the men will be unable to find wives, and this la another argument against polygamy.

MojtcrRB D. CONWAY who, for fifteen or twenty years has resided in London and corresponded for the Commercial Gaaette and other papers, has concluded to rt urn to this country and wfU reside In W»hinr*~n. Mr. Conway I* a mininter of Yfl:y Hi m*1 ideas and* left the Unit"! State-, v.\*v$ years ago* he found the w'i^i-.«ns ami- -j-hor* of L»n »I| to Is is taste. He ton** oc'(4 th* c! -icch, to im: hr« a- 1 l.cre-j

(Kur* has i*™tly am'n a mar of tfaft Wrii «*1 !«v:ar,» hansrf ItsHy* *. :t i!'» -1 S ..-

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IT is generally supposed that literary men have no talent for accumulating wealth and to a great extent it is true, but the late Charles Beade was a notable exception to the rule. Besides being a successful writer, whose books and plavs produced him a large a large income, he was'a shrewd business man. It is said that he made handsome sums by purchasing tenement leases and sub-letting the property to tenants, always taking bis own judgment as to the value of the property and what be eould probably realize from it and rarely failed to make a good profit on his investment. There would seem to be no good reason why the literary and business talent should necessarily be antagonistic and the fact that literary people are sometimes notoriously lacking in business sense is doubtless due in many instances rather to the want of application to business affairs than to an inherent inability to master and comprehend them. It is certainly true that literary men and woman, of late years, are much better financial managers than were their predecessors of half a century ago, the explanation of which probably is that they give more attention to the business side of their profession than the older men of letters did. Then it was rather thought the proper thing for a literary man to be poor, while now it is not an uncommon thing for successful writers to make large profits from their books, which are 'increased by sound business investments.

THB Indianapolis Times is authority for the statement that, "after several months, the police have discovered the front door of the saloons, in that city, are not locked on Sunday. The Superintendent has just 'tumbled' and, Saturday night, gave strict orders that, in the future, all saloons must transact their business by way of the back doors." What else can yon expect of a small place like Indianapolis? Now, if you will come over to the great metropolitan city of Terre Haute, you will not find any little sneaking back door ordinance. Sunday is a gala day for our saloons. The front door stands wide open, the screen swings merrily, to and fro, the glasses clink cheerfully, a band discourses sweet music, policemen promenade gaily by, (sometimes they get all the way past,) and on every hand is the most lively disregard and contempt for the majesty of the law. The Indianapolis drinkers should come over here to spend Sunday. It is humiliating to send a "gentleman" around to the back door.

THERE is a growing sentiment that Greek and Latin should be omitted from the public school curriculum, and the time and expense given to something of more practical value. Except as a mental discipline, wbiph may be as well obtained from mathematics, they are not essential to an ordinary education, which is aM the great majority desire or need. Last ye&r.in the public schools of Chicago, the number of classical graduates was less than the number of classical teachers. A special teacher for each graduate, paid out of the public school fund, is a greater luxury than even the wealthiest have a right to Expect. The public school system needs revising.

THE Senate has passed the bankruptcy bill, and it is thought the House may do so before the end of the session, but the probabilities of its doing so are rather small. The Ho&se has a great deal of work before it of a political or semi-political character, upon which the majority hopes to make a record for use in the coming campaign. The bankruptcy bill is not one of these measures. Its passage on the eve of a presidential contest might imperil rather than advance the political prospects of the majority, and it is likely to go over to the next session as unfinished business. i" 'u

CHAKLES SPAULDING, of New Haven, Conn., was'arrested for robbing his employer and committed suicide. It was developed that he stole the money to pay a debt of honor contracted at the poker table. A peculiar kind of honot that would permit a man to steal the money to pay a gambling debt! It is this style of honor that has to be defended by fighting a duel. An honor which justifies stealing and murder is only fit for public contempt and condemnation. ________________

THB Des Moines Mail make rather a severe thrust when it says: "Credits are always given except in occasional instances where items are taken from religious and other publications which are addicted to appropriating items without due credit." Did the Mail really mean to say "religious" newspapers? We suppose of course that "religious" newspapers but surely there is some mistake.

A PLEASING fancy Is the Cinderella party. When the dock strikes twelve the festivities instantly stop and the guests hasten home as If they really expected their pretty clothes to turn to rags, and their horses and carriage to be transformed Into a pumpkin and a span of mice. The Dairy godmother comes, in the shape of sound, refreshing, beauty-sleep which puts to flight all the cares of the day. It Is a sensible custom although we oan scarcely hope It will be popular.

Arm all these years of trust and veneration of the great George Washington, here comes a woman who says she used to sit in his lap To think he vw *n*t t?Il a lie and y* be wotrid-—

And yet* after all, bproba tiftse of blackmail.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

POLITICS ASA TRADE.

The men who pursue politics as a trade are now beginning to "get in their work." Their name is legion and they are capable of making a great noise witn their pounding and blowing. The army, (for it may well be called an army) is composed of two classes: the men who have offices and the men who want offices. Both classes are equally nois and of untiring activity. They are on hand and conspicuous at all conventions and political meetings, both of a public and private character. They meet in secret places and make slates" which the unofficial and unsuspecting citizen is expected to indorse for'their benefit. They make loud protestations of loyalty to their paity and emphasize the fact that they have always voted the unscratched ticket, as if to the voting of "straight tickets" were mainly due the preservation and prosperity of the country. It is the eve of a Presidential contest and in less than a year from now there will be a large number of more or less valuable offices to bestow upon the most worthy jparty henchmen. Hence the bustle and activity of the professional politicians^

It is not pleasant sight to see, this intense desire for office. It' is not good for the offices which are to be filled, nor for those who are to filled them. The old notion of "the fathers" was that the office ought to seek the man, and it is a good one. In that way neither the office nor the occupant of it will be demeaned. A man so called to office can accept it without a sacrifice of his manhood. But if he seeks and scrambles for it the inference is inevitable that be mainly wants it for the sake of the emoluments.

As a rule the professional politician does not prosper in the long run. Very often his offioe costs him heavily in the getting of it, he is under a heavy contribution while holding it and he goes out of it with afar smaller surplus than his ardent imagination pictured that he would. Now and then, it is true, a man gains his start in life from a lucky office, but the instances are far more numerous in which men have gone from good offices into ultimate poverty and bankruptcy. The solid, honorable, respected men in auy community are mainly those who have resolutely followed some profession or business and have made no trade of politics. If now and then offices come to such men they come because, they are seen to be fit for the place and will honor it, and when office comes thus it sheds dignity and honor upon the citizen.

THB Chicigo Journal thinks that a Slate like Indiana, wb'.ch devotes a million dollars a year to the cause of education, ought to be above making such an unjust and arbiti'a,-ydistinction between the sexes as to pay her 6,0Q0 female teachers an average of only 186.70 per month, while the male teachers receive an average of $37.50 per month. Certainly she ought, but perhaps these general averages do not tell the whole story, without some expJasation. For instance, as there a-e six times as many female as ma'e teachers, the latter may possibly fill harder and mope responsible positions than the former and so deserve a larger renumaration. We think that it wl'l be found, as a rule, that in Indiana there is little, if any arbitrary d'stinction made against women as teachers, and that they receive about the same wagrs as men when the positions fiMed are of the same grade. Certainly. this should be so if it is not. What is very suggestive in reference to the subject is the fact that of the 7,000 teachers employed in the State last year, over 6,000 were women. Most middle-aged people can remember the time-when female teachers were the rare exception, male teachers filling nearly all the schools, while now there are six females to one male teacher! The fact shows how women are coming to the front in the various occupations to which they find themselves adapted.

MR. MORRISON has finally accomplished the great feat of getting his tariff bill before the House and a month or six weeks of debate is expected to follow. But what the good of it all will be is not easy to imagine, as few even of the Democrats venture to assert that the bill can pass the House, and if It should pass the House it is sure to be defeated in the Senate. But it seems that Congress must have something to while away Its time on until the National conventions and perhaps it might as well be the Morrison tariff bill as anything else. The grand old parties must pose before the country in their feathers and war paint and demonstrate that things political will go to "the deminltion bowwews" unless they are respectively kept or put In possession of the offices. This Is the Inevitable preliminary paradeto national campaign.

IT IS something new for England to be visited by an earthquake, but this happened last Tuesday morning, at half pest nine o'clock, when the eastern counties of the Island were considerably shaken np by a concussion which lasted half a minute. First came a deep rumbling sound which was quickly followed by a shaking of the earth that caused the church bells to sound and sent tell chimneys tumbling to the earth. The people, terror-stricken, ran out of their bouses. A large amount of damage was done to property, though nt. Uvefc it appears, were lost, and for a time there was a general feeling of alarm and insecurity throughout the country.

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THE WESTERN FEVER,

We have been shown a private letter from a gentleman who, a short time ago, went from this State to Portland, Oregon. He was asked concerning his impression? of the new country and the letter referred to was an answer to these inquiries. He wrote back that the climate was good but that he was only fairly satisfied that the expenses of liv ing were very high and that all kinds of business were greatly overdone. His son and son-in-law had opened a hardware store and hoped merely to get a footing the first year. The letter was addressed to a printer, whom he advised not to come to Portland, as there were more printers already there than could find employment, one newspaper hav ing suspended after running a year and sinking $50,000.

Not long sgo we talked with a Jawyer who went from southern Indiana, a year or two ago, and settled in Topeka, Kan. He said the climate was good but there was a great deal of wind and dust, to which, however, one gradually became accustomed. The town was growing and there was a fair prospect for the future, but he did not like the people so well as the "Hoosiers," among whom he was raised and had always lived. In fact be had almost concluded to return to Indiana again.

And so it goes. These are only samples of cases which have come under the observation of most people. Men get tired of the place they are living in, or dissatisfied with it think the climate is not a good one, or that business is too dull or something else is the matter, and away they go to some far country, only to find when they get there that things are very different from what they expected they would be. In too many cases they find themselves sadly disappointed and would be only too glad if they were back to the old home with their money, which the foblish and expensive journey has cost them, safe in their pockets.

The sources of disappointment in such removals are almost infinite. The climate may not be at all what was anticipated too cold, or too hot, too wet or too dry. The vegitation and scenery, the methods of doing things, the general atmosphere of the place, may seem so strange and novel as to cause an inexpressible feeling of fiome-sicknels and discontent. But if none of these disappointments is experienced, the newcomer may find that the business in which he hoped to reap a golden harvest is already overdone by reason of the multitudes who preceded him and that it is as hard, if not harder, to make money in the new, than it was in the old place. If he has pluck and perseverance enough to settle down and fight the thing through he may by and by find himself reasonably prosperous, but even tnen, in most cases, he can reflect that the same effort in the old home would probably have been quite as successful in the end as it has proved to be in the new one. There are some exceptions, but this is the general rule.

It is well enough, therefore, when the "western fever" comes on on6, as come it will and does, to think well before deciding to leave the old home. Not only are the chances of betteringone's fortunes to be considered,but other matters of equal if not greater weight. If a man has lived honestly, truthfully and uprightly, he wil have made friends of greater or less intimacy. They know him and he knows them. He can count on them when he has need of friends. He may not appreciate them fully, meeting them as he does day by day, but he will miss them more than be can know if he leaves them. There are many pleasant things connected with the living along time in one locality. A man establishes his character for what it is worth. If be is honest, industrious, moral, a helper of all good causes, it is known and he knows that it is known. His not mistrusted or misunderstood. He is value is known in the community just as thoroughly as the value of a current coin is known. He passes for what he is worth and there Is a great deal of satisfaction in that to cne who is honest and square in his life. There are attachments to persons and there are attachments to places that are almost equally strong. The streets along which one walks and the houses one sees every day, come to have a home look to him. He gets finally to have almost a proprietary interest in them. It is pleasant to note the changes that are made to see the work of improvement go on to see the town grow, or the country develop. Life is short at best and it does not pay to sacrifice its .better comforts, those of a social, intellectual and spiritual nature to the single purpose of money-getting. There is altogether too much of this in American life and It is a thing that ought to be discouraged. Ordinarly, if a mad is doing at all reasonably well where he Is and where he has been for some time, It is safe and prudent thing to stay there, and it is a somewhat hazardous thing to re-locate, especially when the contemplated move Is to a place many hundreds of miles distant.

THB escapade of two young girls in Lafayette, who went to a neighboring town to make a visit, without taking the trouble to inform their parents, created quite a sensation and no small scandal. The papas gave them half a column, the police were called pon, the reportera interviewed ike parents, the young men, who were supposed to have accompanied the girls, Warded the newspapers. When the young women re-] turned from their trip they fouad thero-

is no longer proper in England to selx^es quite notorious and will probably aay "wait*." You isuse the Fte be a little more prudent in the fulurr word 'Mrahr .** to ig proper fn*u*. girl's character cannot stand Soo much Anything t„ "raise* Ja. jpoblklty of this kind.

Spring Hats.

DUNLAP and STETSON'S

In Great- Variety at

Sykes' flat Store,

Main Street.

Lost

LOST—$25.00

FOR

REWARD—Lady's gold

watch, (name engraved on case) between corner of Seventh and Mulberry streets, and Richardson & Vanvalmh'S dental rooms. Finder will leave it at the National State bank and receive the above reward.

Wanted.

WANTED.—graKL

Horses and Cattle to pasture.

Plenty of water and salt. Apply to JOS. GILBERT, Ftuit Ridge Avenue, 2% miles east of city. 42-St

For Sale.

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&ALE—Plymouth Rock, Golden Hamburg and Leghorn Fowls and Eggs also Bees ana Honey. t. HULMAN SEN.

North of the City.

SALE—In Lewis county, Tenn., 1700 aciesof heavily timber land, for $1.00 per acre, within three miles of the Nashville and Tuscaloosa Rv.

Add 1 ess J. B. ROVER, 'erre Haute 8tone Works Co.

Office of Tt

For Rent.

FOR

RENT.—Three business building one furnished room. Centrally locate Call on R. H. Catlln, 503% Main street.

To Loan.

MONEYtime.LOAN—at

TO lowest rates op

long Good collateral required. Call on or address EDWARD BARTON, 624 Main street.

Amusements.

QPERA HOUSE.

Monday and Tuesday, April 23d and 24th.

The Favorite Actrops

Kate Claxton.

MONDAY EVENING.

1 ne Romanuc Spectacular Drama,

The Sea of Ice.

G^eat Ship Scene. StaitMuo Ice Floe. Magnificent Tropical Scene.

TUESDAY EVENING. Tl^ Ever-popular Drama,

The Two Orphans.

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car load of scenery carried by the company Popular Prices, 75c, 50c, and 25c.

Grand Dress Carnival!

AT THE RINK,

Saturday Night, April 26.

Parade and Grand March, headed by the Ringgold Band, in uniform, at 9 o'clock. ADMISSION, 25 CENTS. Skating untill 10:30. Dancing until 12.

J. T. PATTON & CO.,

DEALERS IN

CHOICE MEATS.

Southdown Mufton and Lamb. Southeast Corner Fourth and Ohio.

R. A. HASTINGS

422 Main

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Has Now on Hand a Complete Line of

New Straw Goods

Both trimmed and untrimmed from the cheapest to the finest Misses and childrens Hats a upeclplty.

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choice assortment fof FLOWERS, FEATHERS, ORNAMENTS, and etc., constantly in stoclr. R. A HASTINGS,

With J. Rothschild & Co., 422 Main St.

TO-DAY

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SPECIAL!

2,500 Yards Fine

Unbleached Muslin,

YARD WIDE, AT }?, jf,

Cheap at 7c a yard..

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1,600 Yards White Pique in

Plaids and Checks

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Worth 12&cts.

100 Dozen

NAPKINS.

All Linen, Full Size. 18 dozen at 50c, worth 75cts. 50 dozen at 65c, worth 85cts. 32 dozen at 75c, worth $1.00., Every dozen warranted all Linen

10,000 Yards f-

Dress Prints"."'-^

4 cts.

J. T. H. MILLER

New Spring Styles:,

HOBERG, BOOT & CO., 518 and 520 Main.

10 QUIET TITLE.

'he State of Adiana, Vigo County: In Vigo Circuit Court. No. 18668. Sheldon Swope vs. Levi L. Klllion et al., to quiet title.

Be it known that on the21f»tday of April, 1884,'said Flan tiff filled an Affidavit indne form, showing that said Sarah E. Williams, David Williams, Sarah Lyons, Hannah J. Patrick, William E. Patrick, Emma L. Gibson, Harry Gibson, Maude M. Patrick, Florance G. Patrick. Grace H. Patrick,"Rosedale and Otter Creek Draining Company," and "Nevins and Otter Creek Township Draining den, Josephine

Weeden, whose

Company," Rachel Weeden, Josephine Putoff, Milton PutofT,

given name is unknown, heir of Edwin A. Weeden, deceased, Agnes Weeden, Jane E. Mills, William Mills, Joseph Cooper, and if he is dead his heirs whose names are uuknown are non-residents of the State of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendants are hereby notified of the pcndency of said action against them, and that the same will stand fortrlal June 18th, 1884 the same being at the May Term of «ald Court in the year 1884.

Attest: MERRILL N. SMITH, Clerk.

A Line of the Prettiest and Best LADIES' SATCHELS

FOR SALE BY

GULICK & CO./

Druggists.

Patrons and Friends:

POCKET BOOKS, TOILET GOODS. &• BRUSHES, CHAMOIS, ETC., ETC.

Special Attention to Prescription*

OLD DRUG STAND,

Corner Main and Fo\irth Streets.

The Reliable Clothier ane Merchant Tailor.

522 Main Street, north side, near 6th street.

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CLOTHING

For Ken, Youth, Boys and Childrens' wear.

We invite your inspection.