Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 January 1885 — Page 1

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

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ftWitblh the past week there has been '\siderable talk in certain quarters .,nst the Society for organizing char-

When the so-called laboring mens' '{animation called upon the.council for j"datance it was agreed that those who M'j needy, and who were reconamend14u by the saidmociety would be furniab,4* work. This did not' seem to give ^"'faction to the leaders of the aforeworkingmen, and a secret organiza-'-^las been the result. There can be ^•••xbt that the city officials wish to v" 'n their pOwer to relieve all who .jq-want. The citizens who can af--it, also *risk to aid the needy, and .'*• eady to do it, within all reasonable j. nd». Provision baa been made for mud houur). It is a stood move. Of

'rJ'Tft charity which is cried out rest of 'M kick against it. It pro^mpbelurnish for a very small amount a ilers b%ent to those who cannot afford for it. The vietuals sup-J-y rigi** will,give no profit to those •trained in'erested in the venture—in of smol joge -xioney by it. Certain Iherm^?

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"'Ol. fs» «,^y should not allow themMcWfrj**^led around by a man, or f-set of men, who are not used to loo.k with them. Each man should neat out himself. Tbe city is at all *nKes ready *nd willing to give employfj^nttoall the men which it can emsey, and pay them a reasonable comC%nation for their services. It can do °H re than this, and no more Bhould rjv expected of it. Capital cannot get otong vitH at labor, nor can labor exist nitbout oeptal. Each one is dependent the other. OaptlJatis always tn tn« h»okout to increase ikself, and to do so Bill pay tbe laborer tbe highest wages Within the scope of its profitB. Of course *taere are men who live by labor agitaon. They do not work, but draw their

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rages regularly from those who do ork. The laboring men should do I 'ell t'" look out for these shirks, and ut tl am down at their real worth.

Th Humphrey's case was concluded ist S inday by a verdict against the demdant, and he was sentenced to aervea »rm of two years in the penitentiary or manslaughter. There have been few £4$ tried in Vigo county which have iilted a greater interest. Public sen tiaen has generally been against the acu*ed in the case. He was ably defendthe leading counsel at the bar, and fe. a fact that he did not demand anew FKnaJ is ample evidence that he considered he verdict was a light one. In fact, it vas said and with much truth, that bad fo been prosecuted by the lawyers who tfefended him he would have suffered he extreme peualty. In regard to the irosecution it can also be truthfully said hat it was conducted with ability and l^'ack. Every fact was elicited which ii^ould be gleaned from the array of witit«ses presented, and the sentence vas as heavy as the State could expect icder all the oircumstances.

There was a rumor a short timfc ago5 hat many young men of the city objected to having their names published ts attendants at public balls in this city. wonder. Aa a rule these public balls „ku« attended by many of the worst M'eniale characters in town. Of course it Is advertised that no improper charac'V era are admitted, but under some misunderstanding they always get In. If looee characters were not in attendance 1 the average young man would not at(end. He can attend to his business during tbe day, and wind uj» with one of these moral balls at night, or early next morning. Ho can visit a young lady early in the evening, and wind up 'kt the ball Uter, or it may be that he la a married man who attends, and to shield nimself acrHwbt hiawife lim business up townt or has attended the lodge. Let it be as it may tbe average class of public bails shonid be discouraged.

Of course the metropolitan police "ball, passed by the city council, is still the topic of conversation. The papers discuss ft daily, and thus it is kept in public view. It will go in foree In a few days, and then the public can judge its merits to suit themselves. Under its provisions there are four commissioners with the mayor a* chairnian. In the vent that the commissioners agree the aayor wili have no vote—in other word* will be a nonentity, and tor the good the ordinance it is to be hoped be will, names have baen mentioned in

connection with the commissionership, fita. I have written this brief sketch of from which it looks now as though ita early history entirely

Edwin Ellis, R. N. Hudson, Dr. B. P. and may have made some mistake in Swafford and John F. Brinkman, will. the details but the main facts are eorrect. be selected. In regard to tbe aelection Whenever I visit the rooms and see the of a superintendent of tbe police there long row of men and boys poring over is but one choice, and that Is tbepresent chief. He has made a mcst efficient official. The city has never had a better. He is every way qualified for the position and regardless of party the citizens wish to See him continued in his present position.

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A Woman's Opinions.

There were four hundred visitors to our Public Library, last Saturday, and two bnndred and seventy five books were given out. I never visit this large, pleasant, well-lighted room that I do not recall the long, hard struggle we had to obtain it. I remember the meetings called by tbe ladies, the committees formed and the thorough canvass of the city that was made. We were all such vgry busy women that it was almost impossible for us to spare the time, and yet we Were so anxious far a Public Library that we laid aside everything else and, in the midst of winter, went from house to bouse soliciting subscriptions and names to a petition asking the City Council to levy a tax of one half of one mill on the dollar. I never solicited a dollar before or since, for any purpose whatever, but I remember going into every business house and office on tbe north side of Main street, in most places meeting with a generous response. W. R. McKeen beaded the list with fifty dollars, and Hulman and Cox followed with another fifty. Most of the men subscribed. One wealthy church member said he "wouldn't give a cent, he didn't believe in poor folks' reading." I never see him sitting in his cushioned pew that I do not think of this remark. Wheu the canvass was about half completed we bad nearly two thousand dol lars subscribed and a great many thousand names signed to the petition. The money was intended to start the Library and keep it up until the tax had been collected. We presented these to the Council, as had been requested, and, as a reward for all our time and trouble, instead of levying the tax, as the law gave them the right to do, they decided to submit tbe question to the people at ywsp^(Vff,elfecticua^

Not discouraged, we rallied our forces and prepared for the campaign. We called a public meeting and elected a Board of Managers, consisting of Samuel McKeen, Rev. C. R. Henderson, Dr Joseph Richardson, Judge H.D.Scott Judge Jas. M. Allen, Mr. C. R. Peddle and the writer. Each member of this Board had an excellent library of bis own and would probably reap very lit tie personal benefit from a Public Li brary, but, wl£b the assistance of many friends we laibored long and earnestly to carry the election. We had not a dollar of funds and only a very short spac3 of time. The women of the city, who were In favor of the measure, had worked for it, subscribed for it and would have voted for it, were all disfranchised, although many of them were tax payers and all of them

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Thorugh the generosity of George Hebb, we were supplied with big posters urging everybody to "Vote for the Library," and, with a horse and buggy and the assistance of a small boy, I, myself, tacked these up around all the polling places and principal points in the city, but although a tax-payer I was not allowed, to go the next day and deposit my little 'Yes" in the ballot box. It would have been so unwomanly, you know.

Well, in spite of all difficulties, we carried tbe day by between seven and eight hundred votes! We were jubilant, but our joy was of short duration. That wonderful body, the Common Council, met the next Tuesday and voted not to levy the tax One of the Councilmen from the First ward, which had given several hundred majority in favor of the tax, and who, himself, had subscribed to onr fund and circulated out petition, voted against the levy. This same gentleman is now a candidate for postmaster- A member from the Sixth ward, who had been an active Library man, voted against the measure because his ward did so. The Mayor, Mr. B. F. Haven*, himself elected by a majority of only about eighty, came down from bis chair to make a speech in opposition to the Publio Library This gentleman is

can get. Can't hb be made Librarian Although we carried four wards out of six, we were defeated by tbis Conncil, which was not otherwiw distinguished for economy or afcj-thiog else "And thus the natter rested aniu the next spring, whfaj, through the efforts of Hon. D. N. Buster o? Ft. Wayne, and others, the laW aatborizing the School Boards of dm of 30,000 inhabitants to levy' a tax tot Pdblio Libraries was amended so as/to iuc!ude cities of 10,000 inhabitants. Pur School Board proceeded at once tjo levy the tax and the result is a Pufbiic Library and Reading Room of whteh any 4Uy might be proud and which wjb CODM ssarcely do without, BOW that w4 have experienced ila bene-

*gatn«fr*fcheir employers. Suppose oil

of these Workingmen should employ another man to chop wood for him and would not or oould not pay him what he demanded. Would he consider the man bad aright to proceed to smash in his windows and knock him down with a stick of wood? If one man quits work because the wages are insufficient and another steps in and says, "It is this or starvation lor my family," shall number one lay violent bands on him and say, "I have decided that not only my family but yours also shall starve?'' In other words do not these Workingmen show just as much Intolerance toward people of their own class as they accuse capitalists of using toward them?

It has come to be a custom to call only those persons Workingmen who labor with their bands, although doctors, lawyers, merchants and many other business men work just as hard and a greater number of hours. Imagine a doctor or a lawyer or a merchant declaring that he will only work eight or ten hours a day. Ho^r long could be oarry on business? There Is no doubt but that the Workingman has grievous troubles during these hard times, but so do other business men. It is rather exasperating for a lawyer to work night and day for a week or two to win a certain case, perhaps spending considerable of bis own money, and then have his client run off without paying bim a cent. It is not very pleasant for a doctor to make twenty-five or thirty visits to a patient, at all hours of the night, save bis life, almost at the risk of his own, and never receive a dollar for it. Norisit the most agreeable thing for wholesale merchants to behold the retail firms all over the country going into bankruptcy until they find themselves on the verge ruin. There are many prominent men who could not carry their families over the winter if they could not obtain credit for the necessities of life, and many of our grocers are carrying on business with money that had been laid away for other purposes. And yet we have not heard of lawyers, doctors ot grocers wrecking the homes and stores of tbe

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of tbeir just dues. Suppose the tactics cf tbeee Workingmen, who are determined to rule or ruin, should be universally adopted, what would become of .tihe couhtry It would be in a worse condition than Ireland.

The fact Is our Workingmen bave been spoiled. They have received such wages as are paid nowhere else on the face of the earth, and now that the time has oome when It is impossible longer to pay these wages, they refuse to accept a reduction, Many of our great manufactures are on the edge of bankruptcy and y«t the employes insist upon the suae work and wages as when the times were prosperous. They demand "Bread or Blood" of man who have no bread to

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY 17, 1885.

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the latest magazines,and the bright-faced girls and intelligent women selecting from the thousands cf Standard books, I feel devoutly thankful that enlightened thought has triumphed over ignorant prejudice and narrow partisanship.

A very amusing circumstance connected with tbe great Labor question that is now before tbe country, is the remarkable and unusaal faculty suddenly developed in all the newspapers for keeping still. Generally, when we read

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portant local events, we turn the paper to perusue tbe editorial comment, which is to assist us in forming onr conclusions. But of late, When we read of the arming of military companies Among the miners of Hocking Valley or the terriule riots at South Bend or the dissatisfaction among ourowa laboringelasses, we look in vain for the heavy editorials whleh would settle the whole question. Tbe papers ars too busy discussing the difficulties of the French at Tonquin or the formation of Cleveland's Cabinet or the approaching marriage of the Princess Beatrice, to grapple with the troubles of the Workingmen. But when the Society of Organized Charity Is denounced and tbe **soup" thrown back In tbe faces of those who Offered it, it seems strange that somebody doesn't speak out.

Tbe truth Is that every man either has political aspirations 'or does not know bow soon he may have, and the man who runs for office does not dare to say his soul is his own he would deny that he bad a sonl if he could gain voltes by It. The Worklngman has com4* to be a power In the land, before which both capital and Intellect quail. Now, while the Workingman Is entitled to equal rights, there is nothing in' either the moral or civil law which gives him the supreme right to bully his fe'low men or destroy property which does not belong to him. There is no crime an employe could commit which would justify his employer in beating him with a club or burning his house down, and yet the employes do not hesitate to take this means of venting their indignation

give, and then thny cry for blood. We ought to have reached a stage ot civilisation whenitwonld not be necessary to settle our differences by brute force, riot tbe Workingman has been educated to believe he is the prime factor in the government. When a candidate seeks office his whole aim is te secure the vote Of the laboring class. The professional men, the business men, even the capitalists, are ignored in the wild desire to propitiate tbe Workingman. He has only to state what legislation he wirhes and every member tries to be the first to prepare a bill.

It has come to be considered almost a crime to be a capitalist and yet we depend upon capital to develop and sustain our country. Either capital or labor is useless without the other. The law of supply and demand is inexorable just now the supply of labor is greater than the demand of capital, hence capital is master. What a satire upon a free country is tbe bill introduced this week into the Ohio Legislature, which is already a law in Indiana, making it "a penal offense to intimidate in any man* ner a person who enters into the employ of a corporation or person engaged in a legal business." And yet a strong effort was made to reject the bill

There is always a class of cheap demagogues who try to gain notoriety as the ebampion of the Workingman but are in reality his orst enemies. They put him forward to fight tbe battles, while they remain in the background and take the rewards. And there is another class of idle, drnnken loafers who always come to the front at a Labor demonstration and gain public sympathy by posing as Workingmen. It is to protect the deserving laborers from this set of impostors that the Society of Organized Charity" was instituted, and they have succeeded in ridding the town of many cases of chronio beggars who had subsisted for years upon the charity of our people. Breaking stone is unpleasant work but it seemed to be all the city had to give, and if a man has been out of employment three or four months he should hardly despise a job which pays two dollars a day. Of the three or four hundred Workingmen who attended the meeting demanding work, only twenty presented themselves the next day, after tbe city bad rented a building and furnished the stone. It .is quiteitau that ot rndeairable artidr for a ievlkrliegrtes ter than starvation. It is scarcely more disgraceful to be seen going into an eating house for a bowl of soup than Into a saloon for a glass of liquor, and it is no more humiliating to send a child for a bucket of soup than it is for a bucket of beer, which is a thing of common accurrence. While at Indianapolis a short time ago, I went to a cheap establishment for a lunch and saw a banker, lawyer and several members of tbe Legislature come In and get a bowl of soup and some sort of a relish, paying thirteen cents for their dinner. The sneers and jeers of our Workingmen at tbe idea of a soup house remind one of the man who exclaimed, "Only give me the luxuries of life and I will do without the necessities!"

I bave hesitated to write upon this subject, fearing that I might be misunderstood. From choice, not from necessity, I work as many hours per day as any laboring man iu this city, neither have I nor my family ever turned away, unassisted, a deserving case of charity. I deeply and truly sympathize with the poor and tbe unfortunate, but in this imperfectly written article, have attempted to give an impartial view of present affairs, one which Is shared by many others who bave not the courage to express their opinions. '. IDA A. HARPZR.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

Mrs. Tom Thumb started out with a show, and although it was a little one for a cent she lost $1,200 in six weeks' time and went home indignant.

This is not given as a suggestion, but as a piece ef toews: A San Francisco girl's claim to distinction rests upon the fact that, at a church fair, she stood on her head, in the guise of a gypsy boy acrobat. §he had a tent to herself, and each spectator to the feat was compelled to pay (1*

Mme. Janish is said to be the most morbid actress on tbe American at8ge. Sbe professes to be weary of life, and constantly talks of death as being a consummation devoatly to be wished for. Every night when the curtain falls at the close of the play she exclaims in the most devont manner: "Thank Gott! ef I coot only die as easy as dot curtain rolls quick down." One would judge from madam's conversation that her married life bad not been happy. The other day she said: "bome beebles say ddt yon can buy lofe with monee, nnd dot monee will pring hsbbiness. If 1 had married for love I now would be a peasant's wife buttering bread for mine children, nnd wooid haf peen babby. Instead of dot I marry a count and am an actress, and I haf no habWnesa—only

FASHION'S HAND-GLASS.

Dotted veils have oeased to be the proper dot. White kid gloves are reserved to brides now.

The corsage bouquet has dropped down to the belt. Grape-red and twilight pink are among the fanciful colore.

Tan and ruby are to be the favorite colors in the spring. Black silk stockings have the upper part of white lisle thread.

The woman who has no eye for color" can never dress well, unless, indeed, she have wealth to employ and wit to trnst entirely to a dressmaker able to supply the deficiency.

Party hours get later and later. At the F. C. D. C. ball in New York they could not get the cotillion commenced until 1 a. m. because the people were not there to dance it. At a party at a private house in the same oity they did not begin to dance until 11 for the same reason. Reform is badly wanted.

Care should be used in choosing colors green and blue suit fair people green heightens the pink of the cheeks and the red in the lips, and gives an orange tinge to the skin. Rose-red destroys the freshness of a good complexion. If a fair woman have much color, light blue or dark green will be becoming.

It is such hard work for the society young man to lead the german that professional leaders have been invented. They come along with the band aud are paid like the musicians. The german is danced with the most vigor on Monday night, as the day previous has been one of rest. At least the Progress of Philadelphia says so.

The hair is now arranged in every fashion to suit the features and general style. Many who dragged their hair up and fennd how ill it became them, have taken it down from its pinnacle, and look once more like ordinary mortals. They have discovered that suitability, not la mode, is the grand desideratum. Where the hair Is coiled low, the "Langtry" style yet leads, and where the eorrect coiffure Is becoming, tbe Japanese colls, run through with jewel-headed pins, Is most generally adopted for fulldress occasions.

Tbve New York Queen, a fashion ait-

worn in the street by any woman young or old, who knows how to dressi Even the lace and tbe lace pin have disappeared from the throat, a collar stud being tbe only ornament visible. Even the watch chain has been reduced to mlnu te proportions, and hardly suggests that a watch la concealed in the inner recesses of the vest pocket. The only jewelry allowed Is tbe silver wblcb copies the antique in Its oxydized ana antique designs, and thus only looks well with the smoke gray dress and tbe new cloudy materials which absorb the quaint bits of carved and hammered metals as if they formed apart of them.

It would seem that tbe golden age in millinery has arrived, everything in this line being either of gold or trimmed with gold. Glints of the precious metal are seen in the rich and beautiful plash and ottoman ribbon adornings, while the birds, coming from some mysterious clime, bave gold beaks, gold legs and a shower of gold Illuminating their wonderful plumage. Dark velvet bats and bonnets are &tlful backgrounds for this golden ornamentation. Most of the trimmings are raised very high in front and gold and bronze lizards are seen upon many of the most expensive hats —these cheerful looking reptiles with eyes of sapphire being considered very chic.

^3 LITTLE SERMONS,.

Ability is active power. Faith is tbe soul riding at anchor. Violence is the argument of the wrong party.

What we do not understand, we do hot possess. Attend carefully to the details of your business.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. Promises hold men faster then benefits hopa is a cable and gratitude a thread.

All virtue lies in a powet of denying onr own desires where reason does not authorize them.

The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year than most scholars do in their great libraries.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty aa where the son is brightest tbe shade is deepest.

Some one has beautif ally said t^at sincerity is speaking as we think, believing as we pretend, acting aa we profess, performing «a wepromiae and being as we appear. [li

In vain do they talk of happiness, who sabdne an impulse In obedience to a principal. He who never sacrificed a present to fntnra good, or a personal to a general oae, can speak of happiness the bJln*! do of color*:

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AM USE MEN TS NEXT WEEK:

Next Wednesday and Thursday Mr, John Stetson will put upon the Opera House stage his famous Monte Cristo Company," originally organized under his management for Booth's Theatre, New York, in Alexander Dumas' famous drama, Monte Cristo. The cetnpany thus brought together is certainly second to no other organization in the United States. Each and every member of this superior organization will be recognized as an artist of unquestioned ability,thus forming an ensemble which, to say the least, is unique. But it is not alone in the artistio Interpretation of ita character that the production of Monte Orlsto may be regarded as a notable dramatlo event, for in its every phase it will be as perfect as it is possible to make it. Those celebrated scenic artists, Wm. Voegtlin and Joseph Clare, lately attached to Booth's Theatre, have pro* duced a complete set of entirely new scenery, which is oue of the most perfect realizations of the great work of Dumas imaginable: and especially will this be found In the representations of the port and harbor of Marseilles, and the historic Chateau d'If,as well as other scenes. The costumes will be found elaborate and correot, having been selected trom the most approved historical sources while the mechanism is intricate, novel and effective, and the groupings art'stic. The drama of Monte Cristo is indubitably associated with the fame of that remarkable artist, the late Charles Fechter, who first produced it at the old Globe Theatre, Boston, something over thirteen years ago. Tha drama, as now to be produced, is the identical version as made by Feohter, and purchased by

Mr. Stetson, and that it shall be produced In all respects as perfect now as in the past, no expense has been spared in the selection of the dramatic company, scenic effects and costumes.

On Friday evening tbe favorite comedian, Joseph Murphy, will present that excellent Irish drama, "Shaun Rhus," in which Mr. Joseph Murphy has made such a wonderfully popular hit In the double role of Shaun Rhue and Larry Donovan. Mr. Murphy has created for the Irish drama an entirely new conception, and has done much to divest tha public mind of the old and false notion. that an Irishman was nothing unless a ajU fngaMgJtt agjgfctaff. skills. Ha has brought ouTthereat ehafacitfi, sympathetic, true and devoted. a

drama itself is a model, and presents phases of Irish character which nona but those who have lived among, fnd studied the people, can fully appreciate Tbat Mr. Murpby has done this thoroughly, is apparent in every, one of the Irish characters he has assumed, and in none more so than in "Shann Rhue." The alternations of wit and pathos, exuberant joy or overwhelming grief, tha devotion to the right and all-absorbing love of kindred all powerfully portrayed, and the perfect grasp of the two characters under Mr. Murphy's performances more attractive than even bis great character, "The Kerry Gow.".

Dan Sully's "Corner Grocejy," which scored such a big bit when here recently, will be the attraction for next Saturday evening.

WM. H. SHFR WOOD.

The Terre Haute Musical Society deserves a great deal of credit for giving us tbe opportunity next Saturday evening, of bearing so great a pianist as Mr. Sherwood at the nominal snm at which it Is offered. Their object, however, la not to make money, but, as an organization, to furnish the backing necessary, for bring tbe best artists here, and so they put prices so low that all can afford to attend. They report prospects most excellent for a large audience, and advise their friends to secure reserved seate on Friday if they wish good ones. The Presbyterian church is the best room in. the eity for such an entertainment and was chosen aa the plaee for the redtal on that account.

New York Evening Post: Mr. Sherwood ranks very nigh indeed. Tha clearness of his work, his crisp runs, smooth phrasing, and lightness of touch slumping him at once as above the ordinary ran of pianists.

Albany Argus He literally took the house by storm, meeting with a reception deservedly flattering. Mr. Sher* wood fully sustained tbe reputation with wbicb he came to Albany, for he la unquestionably tbe greatest pianist in America. His playing is brilliant, finished, and marvelonsly accurate! showing great beauty of shading and a in a a breadth, not to say audacity, truly remarkable. He is one ot the few great pianiats present living. *-j '1

An equestrienne in a Russi^n ^cfrcua, after going through several daring and difficult feats, flourished a revol placed, the muzzle to jber temple, while her bone was in fall and dropped dead upon the Such an attraction must draining on tbe company, |p draw like a 001

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