Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 July 1884 — Page 1
Vol. 15.—No. 3.
THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
TWO EDITIONS
Of this Paper are published. The FIB8T EDITION, on Thursday Evening bu a large circulation in the nommndlng towns, where it to aold by newsboys and •gents. TTW S&OOND EDITION, on Saturday Even tog, goes into the hands of nearly every rending person in the city, and the farinen of this immediate vicinity. Every Week's bm is, in fact, -v
TWO NEWSPAPERS,
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There has been much speculation In this locality during the past week as to whom the Democrats would name as their standard bearers in the coming campaign for the presidency. Indiana pnt forward ex-Senator McDonald, but the anterrified did not take kindly to the mention of his name, consequently he hue been relegated to a longer term to the shades of private life. Since the expiration of the ex-Senator's term in Congress he has been rather unfortunate In his political ventures on two suspicions occasions. Once be asked the Demoratic minority in the 8tate legislature to accord him the empty honoi of a.renomination for United States Senator, but they preferred to give it to the present Democratic candidate for governor, •Although at that time he was but a strip ling in the Democratic party, having tout a few years before deserted the Republican rank* for more congenial company. Again be asked for the presidential nomination this year, but only to meet with disappointment again. It aeems as though McDonald la to receive no favors at the hands of his party in this State. There is toe much jealousy for him to succeed. Hendricks could not even allow him to carry off the honor of a nomination for the vice-prouddency, and abould his party suoeeed in this State this year he will be once more left oat in the cold when the legislature ootnes to elect a United Stales senator,
The nomination of Cleveland -for the presidency does not create any -enthuslasm in this locality. It was -expected for several days, and when the *an nouncement came the politicians were prepared for the (shock and stood It like men. The nomination of Bend ticks as tail to the kite did not even cause a cheer, although It may make it fly higher. The fact that Cleveland carried New York at the last election toy 200,000 rotes doubtless secured bias the nomination, but this is presidential year and the situation is changed. When elected governor John Kelly was with him in an "off year" and Coukllng and his followers took no Interest in the campaign. This year all the elestents of the Republican party are united, and their leader is the ablest man among them. The fight will be warm, exciting and Interesting, and it la very doubtful that the "favorite son" oan even do much with Indiana.
By the way, It Is said that Postmaster General Qresham has acquired quite a taste for political life since he entered President Arthur's cabinet, and that be is by no means inclined to leave it. It Is pretty generally known that he has been offered a seat on the bench again, but is In no hurry to accept* If the Republicans carry this State next November he will make a fight lor the Senate. Harrison Is by no means popular in his party, and In a fight Gresham would doubtless come out the winner. Any change in this direction would be veiy acceptable to the Republican* of the State.
The anti-Pelrce men held a congressional convention In Orawfoedsvllle last Thursday and nominated James T. Johnson, of Parke county, as the Republican candidate. The Yigo county men who opposed Peirce have been doing so energetically for four years. They pushed Johnson against him in 1880, end -did their best to defeat him for the nomination in 1882, falling in which they worked and voted against him with all their might. This year they have succeeded in nominating their man. Felree has promised him a hearty support, but whether he can control his follower* In that matter remain* to be teen. People ar« already speculating as to who will he the next postmaster in Terrs Haute, and there may yet be music in the air.
Since his defeat for the Muanattoa, Mr. Pfcirce's friends have become mora numerous and outspoken than former* ly, and are not inclined to think that he has had lair play at the hands of the convention. It la true he oM with defeat two years 1go, hot did over a hundred mora In R»puU..an districts throughout the country at the same time. He made good member while In Oongnwe, and did more for his constituents in this locality than any of his
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this city secured the government building, and while be Was a member about 1160,000 was appropriated for the improvement of the fiver above and below this point. But it la his misfortune not to be a skilled politician. It is true that he worked his way through college for six years without the aid of friends, sawing wood, waiting on the table, and other things to pay his expenses, snd that since then he has by energy, perseverance industry and honesty pushed himself to the front. The country wants more such men, and when it finds one it cannot afford to thrust him back.. Lsmsmmmmm
Mm. HASHES has been in Chicago this week, and couldn't let go of the convention long enough to*fill ber usual space en this page.
Tit?* high price of land in New York City and the perfection of the elevator Is sending up buildings in crowded localities twelve and fifteen stories. Some of these New Yorkers live high.
GIRLS, do you hear this A St. Louis doctor says that bonbons, sweetmeats, ice cream, etc., cause Indigestion, headaches, congestion of the liver, and area great source of bolls Mid pimples.
BKN BUTLER didn't have the show that was expected at Chicago, and we have to the waste basket consigned this the only possible campaign couplet, we were saving for the occasion:
Start forth. O comrades, e'en to sutler, Tho boom is booming,now for Butler.
THE chief of police of Louisville has issued an order directing all stores to remove all pictures of nude figures from their show windows, even though they be copies of celebrated paintings, and he is probably light In doing so. A public show window is not this proper plaoe for a great many so-called celebrated paintings.
A WOMAN fathionably dressed this summer is certainly a "thing of beauty." This Is a season of less eccentricity in fashions that for many a year, and she is at a happy medium in the transition from the esthetic tightnes&of the immediate past to the volnmlnovsness of drapery which is bom* to eewe.in the near future. This statement as to voluminous drapery Is made on the authority of aNew York man In the business of designing and constructing feminine clothes. He ways that, along In 1885, we may as well look out for a revival of crinoline. The tendency is In that dilection, and caonot probably be stopped and therefore he advises us to look well upon the fashlonsble girl of the present, becsuse we see her at her very best. Her hair is arranged in moderate and artistic aha pee, her waist is not distressfully compressed, her bands and feet are enclosed in big enough glovee and shoes for tolerable comfort, and her skirts are sufficiently ample. There is nothing grotesque in the summer styles and whenever such sn effect is produced, it msy justly be charged to the Individual exaggeration of the wearer.
THK Chicago News Letter tells us that Alice dates is singing in a variety theater in Washington! It seems almost incredible that the fair and volatile Alice —she who was the pretty Alice Merritt of our old time Female College—should have descended to so near the foot of the hill. While other stars of less brilliancy have become fixed In the dramatic firmament, and still others have gone to shine upon other spheres, this poor star has fallen.
It Is a very few years since the name of Oates was a name to conjure with. Her vivacity and grace wera magnets to bald and callow her occasional Frensby suggest! venees was set down as chic, and her agile kicks were attributed to a superabundance of animal spirits.
But the name of the public's bouffe idol became unpleasantly prominent in divorce court chronicles, and hastily made marriage certificates became associated with her name with alarming frequency.
Sheriffii conceived attachments more mercenary than tender for the diva and ber baggage. Bad management and bad luek were followed by bad business. The little woman became the victim of humorous paragraphias a sure presage of decadence.
Poor Alice! Hershaabeeii a checkered career. She has been more sinned against than sinning, and all of us can remember when her singing and acting warn opera comique, par excellent, and in talent she stood head and shoulders above them all.
Says a paper, speaking of the education of women: "Part of the drill of every school ought to be the reception, by a wife in an old dress, at a dinner of boiled beef and carrots, erf an nniookedfor guest, thoughtlessly brought home by a reckless husband."
Philadelphia authorities are having a hard time to main the Schuylkill oatamstt drsss inffidsetiy. professional scullers have got tW habit of steering nothing bet a cigar.
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There ti& 'one thing on earth a woman desires so much as a home. She who does not is an anomaly, there is something radically wrong about her. If a man feels that he Is Incapable of saving money he will be perfectly safe in giving his wife a stated amount each month as a trust fund to boy a home. He need not have the slightest fear that she will suspend payment or go into bankruptcy or speculate in stocks or bet it on the elections. She will save it faithfully and she will invest it in a home, and, In all the years to come, the husband and the .children and all the friends will enjoy the fruits of that ten or twenty-five dollars a month which which was saved from the new bonnets and the opera tickets and the cigars and the drinks. And, after the home Is paid for, it is so easy to add a nice chair and a bookcase and a picture now and then until, almost unconsciously, you And yourself surrounded by comfort and luxury. And then, with a little more self-denial every month, yon may have yonr horse and carriage, a summer trip or a nice little bank account to give peace and contentment to declining years.
It is not so mud* the amount of money a man receives as it is the manner in which he spends it that counts in the long run of time. A few days ago a yoong man picked op a beautiful pearl and gold opera glass and arid, "I wish I conid sfford something like this." "Can you not?" I asked, "No, it takes all I make to pay my seessaary expenses." "Yon seem to be very fond of smoking," I remarked,"How much did your tigsrs cost test month I* He figured a little tit and said, "Fifteen dollars." "Just
TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 12,1884.
MUSBANDS AND FATHERS.
WHAT «TTAT.T. YOUR MONEY BUY.
Ida A. Harper In Firemen's Magazine. Talking a few days ago to a gentleman of moderate wealth and excellent busi nes8 qualifications, 1 said, in a jesting manner, "It is too bad yon can have a carriage and a phaeton and a sleigh and several horses, when so many of your friends csnnot afford any kind of conveyance." His reply contained a whole sermon and here it is: "I have not a single expensive habit, I do not drink, nothing would induce me to risk a dollar in gaming,1 very seldom smoke,I do not indulge in any high-priced restaurant suppers and simply by refraining from these costly practices I save enough every month to keep my horses and carriage." He is a man worth perhaps seventy-five thousand dollars and when he drives out in the cool of the evening, with his happy family, 1 always feel that he thoroughly deserves all the enjoyment he aeems to have. His bouse is so handsomely furnished, his wife and children so beauti fully dressed, his table so well-appointed that people imagine his income much greater than it really is. There are two reasons why he can afford all this first, he is a prudent and economical business manager second, he spends his money for the benefit of his family
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It is not altogether the size of a man's income that determines the financial condition of his family, it is the manner in which the income in spent. Some people will live as well on two thousand dollars a year as others will on four. I am well acquainted with two men in the railroad busings*, both In the same office, both receiving the same salary and both having the same number of children. One of tb#se men has a pretty home, his wife keeps a servant, his children are well dressed and he lays by a certain amount of money every month. Theother lives Ins rented house, his wife does all her own work and his children are exceedingly shabby. The former Is strietly tern perate In all his habits, the latter takes several fifteen cent drinks every day, smokes good cigars and is very fond of treating his friends. He spends his money like a prince, while the butcher and the grocer are clamoring for their pay and hs wife is ruining her health from overwork. One of these men will consame hours at the corner grocery berating monoplies and cursing capitalists, while tjbe other is preparing to be a capitalist himself. If yon were to give each of these men five thousand dollars to-day, in five years from now the one would have doubled it while the other would have spent it all. It is but just to say there is also a great difference in women one will economise and "manage" in a thousand ways that the other is too Ignorant or too shiftless to take advantage of but if women were given the actual money, the majority of them would set aside a portion of it for future use. As a rale the wives do not receive any part of the wages except for a specified purchase, to buy a drees or a pair of shoes, and they are given just enough for this purpose, so that it is impossible for them to save anything if they wish to do so. They say to themselves, "The more 1 economize, the more my husband has to spend and I might as well not make any special effort. He will manage in someway to pay the bills and, no matter what I do, he won't give me any money." So they grow discouraged and careless, and expenses multiply and they both grow old snd life is a sort of a failure.
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exactly the price of the opera glass," I said, "which would have lasted yon a 1Kb time.** Then, in a burst of confidence, he said, "It costs me at least two dollars every time I go out with 'the boys' and last night I spent five dollars drinking, smoking, going to the theatre comique, etc^ and to-day I have the headache and am not fit to attend to business,—-and 1 have got to ask credit for a suit of elbthes." Thinking this was a good time to make an impression I ssid, "Now, don't you see that this money yon spend in treating and so on leaves you nethidg bat the headache, and if yon chdfce you might keep yourself supplied, Wtth gloves, ties, handkerchiefs, stationery, and you could make presentf to your friends and go to the opera and do and have so maAy nice things with the money you drink up or smoke up." *•'Yes," he said, "I have to do without a great many of such things that should like to have, and I am always in debt." I suggested it was a very good plan to make a rule that whenever you spend a dollar you shall have a dollar's worth of something to show for it. "Oh, I always do," he replied, "I have a dollar's worth of/im." This closed the argument.
A young man has peculiar ideas of "fun" and, until he has fully satisfied himself of their fallacy, he would better remain single, for these ideas are very expensive and it is hardly fair to ask a wife to help pay the bills. But when a man finally decides to marry he should make up his mind that bis earnings, great or sma^ belong to his family. He has no right'* to ask a wife to go into a partnership where she shall give all her time and labor and not share equal ly in the profits. If she bear and bring up children the obligations of the husband are a thousand fold Intensified. Whatever may be his income it should be considered as a fund for the proper maintenance of the family, and there are very few men who make any more than enough for this purpose. The man who drinks, gambles or otherwise wastes his money literally robs those to whom he owes the most sacred duty. If he have a small income his family must accommodate themselves to it, but If the revenues are large the wife and children have right to enjoy them. O,^ *ould ttipftsee It would be the pride and ambition of every man to see his family in possession of every luxury he was able to afford, but many a wife could tell a tale of pinching, economy and self-denial that would be a revelation to those who knew the reckless liberality of the husband down street among men. It is not charity which should begin at home, it is simple justice, for surely that cannot be called ohalHty which is bestowed upon those of a man's own household. If this page should happen to meet the eye of any husband and father who freely spends his money for liquor and tobacco while his wife toils at the sewing machine every hour that oan be spared from cooking and baby-tending or who risks the precious dollars at the gaming table while his children look with envy at their well dressed and happy schoolmates, perhaps he may pause and ask himself these questions If poverty and misfortune should come who would cling to him so faithfully as his family And, in the days of prosperity and plenty, who are so deserving of the beat that money can purchase or love provide? O, husbands and fathers 1 Bestow your wealth, your time snd you* affection upon thoee who are gathered about the home fireside, those who love yon, whose future is entwined and blended with your own, wboee place, if once made vacant, can never again be filled. Put your protecting arms about them, hold them close to your heart, for, even if fate hi very kind, you can only have them a little while, and years of repentance, of grief, of tearful regret can never atone for indifference, selfish•s and neglect.
LITTLE 8JRRM0N&
Affected simplicity Is refined imposture. Vice that comes of self-conceit is the most hopeless.
Resolution can conquer whatever indifference begets. An ounce of cheerfulness Is worth a pound of ssdneas.
Bad habits survive only by the consent of onr own free wills. To avoid being chafed at every turn yon make in life, always stand right before the world.
In condemning the hypocrite be sum that your judgment is not prompted by the spirit that would condemn.
As sleep hi the semblance of death, prepare for it as you would for death itself. How know you bat your awakening may be in eternity.
Most of our worries are brooght on by ourselves. A little adroitness on our part would enable ns to avoid a large percentage of them. What to the nse in chewing bitter pill when we can swallow it without tasting ita Mistiness.
A GRAND THOUGHT. Bev. PUUllps Brooks. Freedom from low necessities can only eome by reaching after higher necesritiw.
WOMEN'S WATS.
We meet In society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives.
Kentucky girls wesr red roses for ornaments to harmonise with the noses of their escorts.
A fashion item says that ladles are giving up the "bang," but we notice a great many of them still hang on to the "powder."
Mrs. Paul Eerrin celebrated her 85th birthday at Boston Tuesday in the home which she entered as bride in 1811 and from which she has never been absent forty-eight hours at time.
A "Society for the Snubbing of Married Men who attend Dancing Parties and leave their Wives at Home," is the latest notion among the yoong ladies in Boston. And hundreds are joining it.
Girls, beware of the man who does not know enough about cheerfulness to understand its value in dally life. Such a man would Improve the first opportunity to grind the cheerfulness out of his home, to frighten a sunbeam into a shadow, and then wonder what is the matter.
Dr. Worrall, of the Washington Medical Institute, says that a week ago he advertised for a copyist, in answer, to which he received 154 letters. Having some important manuscript to copy, he gave each letter a critical reading,and found chat in two only were words mispelled, and that in 145 be did not observe a single grammatical blander. The position was given 'to a graduate of the Washington girls'high-school.
A lady entered a Troy, N. Y., store saying she wanted to purchase a bible to present to her husband upon his approaching birthday. She was shown what she wanted, and, having made her selection, was about to retire, when die suddenly remembered something else. "Have you playing cards?" The shopkeeper had playing cards, snd the lady selected two packs. As she was going out an old ccentleman remarked: "That's Troy religion all over, one bible and two packs of cards."
A Lowell mill girl thought she had talent with which to become an eminent actress. She saved all she could from her wages for several years, and invested it in a theatrical venture In a small way —all except sixty dollars, which a friend surreptitiously took out of the fund and used in buying in hor name a Florida land grant. She returned from her professional tour in a year, broken In purse and spirits, and ready to resume work at the loom but the Florida purchase had happened to appreciate about a hundred fold in value, and, therefore, she can go to Paris for dramatic education.
Women go to a seashore resort near San Francisco in great numbers unattended by men, and an adventuress said to herself that here was afield In which to operate the bunko game on her own sex. She is described as a motherlylooking matron, dressed in sober fashion, and well calculated to impress an unwary observer as havinp, been "modelled out of a solid block of benignity." She hired a room, put a three-card monte man into it, and then went among the women on the beach to fetch victims. At the end of the week she anxiously inquired if there was a pawnbroker in the place. There wasn't. She next begged for twenty cenisto pay her fare to town. The women bad permitted her to lead them into what she supposed was temptation but they simply listened to the prattle of tbe monte dealer, watched his deft fingering of the cards, and said "Oh, no, thank yon," when invited to make a bet.
SCRAPS OF STYLE.
Chalk-White lace is again In vogue. White embroidered mull tiea are revived.
Skirts grow fuller and bustles more bouffant. Sleeves grow fuller and higher In the arm hole.
White and black lace scarfsare revived for neck wear* Tbe horse-hair cushion hi the latest form of tbe bustle.
The first Mother Hubbard dress was made by Worth and was an accident. All sorts of combinations of materials are permitted in costume nowadays* "Ideslized strawberry," or "bloom color," Is the latest London color craze.
Low shoes for outdoor wear and slippen for tbe house am tbe rale thissum-
Tbe most becoming finish for a shirred white mull bonnet is to line the brim with Mack velvet.
A fewcraxy women in Paris aie wearing straw bats with sqna*e corners. They are anything but pretty.
Tight jackets, if made too tight at the waist, most have wrinkles in tbe back. Moral: Doat have your jsckete tight at the watei.
The extra Cat and the extra lean are adapted to the Mother Hubbard dress. A woman of shape has so trainees in one.
Fifteenth Year
ATHLETE LAFFL1N NONPLUS^ SED.
MISS HURST, THE MUSCULAR WOMAN,TOSSES HIM ABOUT UKE, A CHILD.
New York World.
An interesting spectacle was presented last night at Wallack's theater, where a large and fashionable audience was assembled with all the regular first-night-ers in their seats, to see a young, inexperienced and somewhat gawkisn country girl, without skill and without art,, exhibit a phenomenal foroe of which nobody could give any explanation. People who have read "Reichenbach's Dynamics of Psychology," published in Get many many years ago, will have recognised in Miss Lulu Hurst what that German scientist called odic foroe. The mysterious energy which enables ber to perform feats of apparent strength entirely without the exercise of tbe volition or of the muscles, is not new to science, but it has seldom been exhibited so naively as at this entertainment.
At 8:30 the curtain rose, and the young lady was discovered seated on the stage, witn her mother and her agent. The latter, a young man of rather dapper appearance, came to the footlights and 4 made an Incomprehensible speech about mysterious and inexplicable things is general. Nobody comprehended what be was talking about. He then called for gentlemen from the audience, and there immediately responded a number of gentlemen conspicuous for their site and muscular development. Among them were James Lafflln, the noted athlete Stephen Massett, the well known comique Major J. P. Pond and at least fifteen other curious sinewy and active men. The first experiment was with an umbrella. No one in tbe group was able to control it when Miss Hurst touched it. Tbat was plain enough, and after three or four umbrellas had been destroyed they gave it up.
Similar experlmonts were made with a heavy cane and a billiard cue. Mr. Lafflln endeavored to hold both the cane and tbe cue, but Miss Hurst did what she pleased with it by merely placing her hand upon it. The audience laughed and applauded, the athlete struggled and strained and tbe girl only giggled placidly, lt waa no use, and at the end of the struggle he was panting and she was calm. The same experiment was*' made with-a chair. No one could holdi it, and when six men endeavored to put it dewn on the ground thev exerted allt their force, fell over each othsr, got red in the face and were defied by the simpering and still imperturbaole girl.
At the end of the contest ner pulse showed no excitement and her resplratlon was innocent of muscular exertion. Altogether tbe exhibition, thought clumsily managed, waa a curious and interesting one. The audienoe was In the beet of spirits throughout, lut like all pop&ar audiences disposed to overlook or to guy the occult side of the entertainment and get all the amusement it could' oui of it. Several of tbe gentlemen who were on the platform stated that they* were wholly mystified, and when the exhibition endod there were groups all discussing what they phenomenon. Mr. Lafflin contended after It was alH
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over that It was muscular power, snd* that Miss Hurst was the strongest woman he had ever met, all of whidh was rather rough on the athlete.
T1LDEN SINKING RAPIDLY»
WHAT A SOCIETY LADY, WHO HAH VISITED HIM FREQUENTLY, SAYS.
New York Special.
A report has recently been circulated! In society circles tbat Mr. Tilden's health DDS declined rapidly during tbe pa*t few weeks, and to such an extent that be has gradually cut off all social connection with even bis most intimate acquaintHI ices. Yesterday, In conversation with a prominent society lady of Yon rers, who for some years has been a frequent visitor at Greys tone, she said: "Mr. Tilden's health is giadually declining. The last time I visited Greystone became Into the library banging upon tb« arm of Secretary Smith. His head drooped more than I bad ever before noticed. His face wore a haggard look and bis voice wan more tremulous than usual. He sank languidly upon a lounge and began a feeble conversation with nis guests. His words were scarcely audible, and it was painful to his uests to listen to him. Fr tary ind 1
mentary fort would arouse bims*lf and resume his meal. Mr. Tilden's constitution, I fear, to gradually breaking up," continued the speaker. "Tbe body, which for some years has been in a feeble conditlon, is evidently encroaching upon tbe vitalities of tbe brain, and tbe approach of a comatose state of tbe once powerful, intellect Is threatening."
THE USES OF THE FAN. Boston Advertiser. It Is noticeable how modi the use of tbe fan has increased among American men during the last decade. Ten years ago no masculine hand thought of wielding a ten, unless for tbe benefit of some companion of tbe fair eex but to-day one everywhere sees this aid to comfort in tbe hinds of tbe stronger half of community. In the cars, at the theatre, tbe political convention, or even on the street, it is almost a« common to see men with fans as their sisters and wives. Whether this is as instance of tbe contaminating Influence of Oriental effeminancy, let wise-acres determine, bat the fact, at least, Is not to be denied.
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cue and interpret the meaning of hi» sentences^. tfVnlle In tbe midst of convernation Mr. Tilden's mind yroald wander, his eyelids droop, and in a moment be would be fast asleep and breathing heavily. After a momentary nap, he would awake with a start, excuse himself, and again take a part in tbe conversation. Tbe attempt at acting the part of a host was fruitless, and finally one of tbe more thoughtful guests relieved him by expressing a desire to visit tbe iiower gardens and lawns. At the dinner table I was Main surprised at a partial recurrence of tbe scene in tbe library. The old gentleman, wh»
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