Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 April 1886 — Page 1

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Vol.

I6.-N0.

41.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

There is one comfort in singing in a 0 church choir, you never have to respond to an encore. ___

The scone of the Archer murder, ly nching, etc., the little town of Shoals,should petition .to have its name changed to Bheol.

Henry Ward Beecher' remarks that ••nothing can any longer be done in a cornet." Yes, times have changed since Henry's last escapade,

One would judge from the prayers of Chaplain Milburn that he had a con••tituency somewhere in the backwoods and wanted to be re-elected.

It is said some of our philanthropists would liko to start a Social Purity Club for the reformation of young men if they could succed in finding a number of charter members sufficient to organize.

Cifa v/P 'Ave that papering done, and get that no'}ttrPet

an(1 those

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lor ourti*hoy fc These are leading questions jus| Thoy and are not always answered

affirmative, more's the

The in *7^' ^({^itally beat an Express r«(0

day is now work-f

ing ox* on the rock pile. The man who attempts to get ahead of a reporter has undertaken a pretty lan contract.^ _____ 1'^

Wo extend a hearty sympathy to the residents of ^p^t^and south have 8Uffer^or and tako my place in frofffebf floods tho room is wide enough to fcee main^abroast and give them plenty of icl uafo »itate'to lIvuTrf."^

if Niagara Falls eon tlnuo to re^odo it is only a question of time until they give Canada the shako and come over into a fro0 country. It is somewhat interesting to .njecture Nyhat will happen, when they roach Lake EVie.1 r.

Church choirs have of late made such inrotuh upon Kio operatic'•field that ft would IK) little surprise if one of them should sing as an anthem that musical gem commencing "The flowors that bloom in the spring, tra la."

Tho town of Key West, Fla., has been destroyed by fire. This would bo alarming news to tho consumers of fine cigars were thoy not aware of the fact that41Koy West" cigars are so called .bocauao they are not made in Koy West-.

Sweet strawborries aro soiling in IJOS "Angeles for fifteen cents a quart but this does not afford any great satisfaction to tho hungry mortals of this climate who browse on leeks and lottuce with a "moss of groens" as a great luxury.

It Is said the Florida Legislature contemplate taking steps to declare a vacancy in Senator Jones' plnoo in the Senate. No doubt tho persecuted object of his affections would much rather they would doclaro a vaimncy in his place in Detroit.

About tliis time of tho year wo begin to hear of the young ladles of the school force who have decided to abandon their aohools and tako charge of smaller and moro solect classes. Tho list this year is a formidable one, if all reports aro true.

Tho candidates for the spring elections have boon named for both tickets. According to tho daily papers thoy are all good men, will all receivo the votes of tho soldier element, tho workingmen, good citi*on» generally and will be elected.

It is said that some of the costumes in preparation for Easter Sunday are quite stunning. The owners look forward to the eventful day with a calm serenity, for, coming as it does so late In the season, there Is every probability of fine weather. ______

Of course the loud-mouthed socialists of Chicago are getting in their work while the labor troubles are on. If these boasters, who agitate but never work, were thrown bodily into, tho lake, it would bo a groat blessing to humanity in general. _____

Lafayette is to have the soldiers' encampment, provided the citizens there will furnish the money to pay expenses. If the encampment is no greater success than the last one held there, there will be no need of money to pay expenses— none will be paid.

The discussion of the Vigo Medical society on "Some Diseases of the Heart" was very appropriate, this week, as one disease of the heart caused a white girl and a colored barber to run away and get married. A paper on "Oolor Blindness" would likewise have been apropos.

"Clara Bell®," in a recent article, attempted to show, with illustrations, to Miss Cleveland where she should draw the line in low cat drosses. It is in order for some kind friend to show "Clara Belle" where to draw the line between decency and indecency, a Une concerning which ithe is evidently in the dark.

TERETE

The statement is made that the surface of Lake Michigan is rising at the rate of four inches a year, and it is causing no little alarm. It it were beer the feeling would be different, but the near approach of so much water creates a panicky feeling in the breast of the average Chicago man. ______

It would seem that the country has had calamities enough in the past few weeks, but now comes the stirring intelligence that the peach crop has had its annual failure, and that the Keely motor is to be "success" once more. If the Pound motor can only be put off for a short time we may be able to pull through' a a

Mr. Samuel Wolcott, of Wyoming Co. N. Y. has started a novel ranch. It is for raising skunks for their hides and he starts in with one hundred breeders^ All the other residents of the country are preparing to move out. They are offering their farms cheap, withachromo to the buyer. It is thought that within three months Mr. Wolcott can extend his ranch over the whole county.

The spectacle of volunteer troops being called out to suppress the strikers is not a very pleasant one, and particularly to the volutcer, who knows not but that he may be called to Bhoot down his best friend. The prospect of further trouble —which interested politicians, hairbrained agitators are magnifying from a shadow into a colossus—is not likely to create a very great boom in the ranks of the citizen soldiers. -,

Rev. SanVVones having failed In every other wa/ to create a sensation in Chicago announced this week that he had resol? 7 to quit the use of tobacco. Conciliations, sm'les, blessings and tears ^To indlscr«^e"°ly showered upon the rearmed If she nu the immense

SiieWwhore to apply ft *T

As soon as she

becan^ant

"HAUTE, IND.,

to do now is

—u— ".ja^tective to see if

Ti fnjAv ..jpjRoq no Riduoftf^®olution'

If he

doesY OAVjive Jiim a harp." i-— A meeting is to be held at Montgomery, Alabama, fgr the purpose of raising $50,000 to orect a mdnument to the confederate doad. Jefferson Davis is to emerge from his loi^g seclusion and address tho- meeting. This is eminently fitting, just as a physician should always tatetitl thef»tfrifal ono man did so much to make this monument necessary as did Jefferson Davis and it Is truly proper that he should help raise tho money build it.

In a recent Interview Grand Master Powdorly said, "The Knights of Labor will nrit admit a liquor distiller or brewor or a liquor seller or one whoso wife is a liquor seller to become a member of the order and I am now striving to prevent liquor drinkors from joining." Thoro is no question but that intoxicating liquor Is the worst foe the workingman ever had or ever will have,,. All labor organizations aro beginning to recognize this fact and aro refusing to assume the burden of intomperate members. It is just as necessary that a laboring man havo temperate habits as high wages and steady work.

At the recent conference of Methodist ministers in Philadelphia some startling facts wore brought out in regard to salaries. It was found that a number of ministers were supporting families on from $350 to $500. One worthy man averaged four cents a meal per capita for his family. What tlieso ministers should do is to join the Knights of Labor, striko for higher wages, boycott all the mem* liers of their congregation, lock the church door, spiko the bell and kick the deacon's dog. It is about time the indignation of tho almighty public slopped over a little in favor of down-trodden ministers of the pospol.

Tho old saying, "If March comes in liko a lamb it will go out like a lion" was verified this year. The first of the month found us with open windows, smoxilderIng fires and a general tendency toward making garden, cleaniiw house and putting away winter clothing. The last day of the month was tho most disagreeable of the season, raw and chilly, snowing, raining and blowing, making one's fireside the most desirable place to be found. There Is always the comfortable thought at this season of the year, that the bad weather cannot last very long and that it is only a question of a few days until we shall be surrounded with all the beauties of spring.

Now that the subject of early closing is agitated the question arises, "Why should this refer to dry goods and clothing employes alone?" Why should it not extend to grocers "and butchers and jewelers and milliners and queensware merchants and salesmen of all other trades? There should be no discrimination in this matter. But the most serious objection which ofliers is that when all other kinds of business close at six o'clock and all men are at leisure, the saloons will still be running under high pressure, the various gambling rooms will be in full blast and the cigar stands will be doing a rushing business. When will the poor overworked salesmen in these employment ®et a reel? And as the street oar driver take* home all these gentlemen at six o'clock, wont he ask when his time of leisure is coming?

assail

SATURDAY

At the meeting of the Ejransville council last Mondoy night, United States Marshal Hawkins, demanded the payment of a judgment of $22,000, obtained in the U. S. court on some of the city's bonds. The poor old town has no money to pay the judgments, her credit fc gone and she cannot borrow, and she has the prospect before her of being sold at pub-, lie outcry for debt. The matter has become an issue in the city campaign, the Democrats being in favor of repudiating the bonds, and the Republicans favoring their payment. And yet this is the place in which the papers refer to Terre Haute as a "dead" town. Dead, indeed! We have never yet been in danger of being sold at public auction.

All detectives are not so clever as Mr. Gryce, in the "Leavenworth Case." Rather are they

The lady who takos the place of Jennie June Croly, as President of the New YorkSoroais Club, is Mrs. M. Louise Thomas. Like Mrs. she is the wife of a UnivenmlSjj^ro)|p8ter.and for many years was a Co%Sto"kor in the same field with her husband. During the warjBhe worked unceasingly amoqg the sick' and wounded soldiers in the hospitals, 4 among other duties .writing

close of the war herself and husband, broken in health, purchased a farm near Philadelphia. Neither had had any experience in country life but must make a living from the farm. Tho husband died many years ago. Mrs. Thomas has managed the farm and made a fortune out of it. She sells honey, bees, butter, fruits, etc., has a fine herd of Jersey cattle, a profitable poultry yard and productive gardens. In addition to her lovely country home she has a winter residence in New York City and is a delightful hostess. Like every woman who has ever attempted to do business* she is ail advocate of equal suffrage and for this reason has been selected to preside over Sorosis, which represents greater intellectual capacity than any woman's club in the country. _____

The American Bell Company which owns the instruments used by the Central Telephone Company, at tho annual meeting at Boston this week reviewed tho Indiana law, of course declared it an outrage, and suggested that abetter understanding could be reached if those who are interested in this problem would discuss it with "practical telephone men." This sounds like arbitration—of which we hear so much nowadays—but there is little chance for arbitrating dif ficultics when either of the parties anannounce positively that there is but one way, and that is his. The Terre Haute subscribers attempted to arbitrate with the Central Telephone company a year or so ago, were unsuccessful and "struck," with no very gratifying success. To these unsuccessful attempts to arbitrate may bO laid the passage of the law which is so obnoxious to the telephone monopolists. It is barely possible (though hardly) that an injustice is being done the telephone company by this law, but if such Is tho case it can be attributed to their own actions. Even a small concession when the demand for reduced rates was made would have pacified the majority of the subscribers, and the matter would never have gone to the Legislature. The way to arbitrate is to arbitrate.

it's Enrich You know.

noted for their stupidity,

and a party of gentlemen from this city, narrowly escaped being victims to the stupidity of some Davenport, Iowa, detectives not long ago. They were engaged on Ebel's directory of Davenport, and were in the habit of going to the depot every night to mail their returns on the night express. It was shortly after the murder of the express messenger oh the Rock Island road, and for some reason or other the brilliant detectives gbt the idea into their heads that the men were train robbers whose visits to tho train were simply to get the bearings preparatory to attacking the express messenger. For nearly a week the men were watched, but finally on the night the arrests were to be made, the men failed to make their customary visit to the depot. The detectives then investivatod the matter and found they had been on the wrong clue. This was something of an improvement, as detectives usually discover their mistake after the suspected parties have boon subjected to the humiliation of arrest and confinement in prison. _____

The enterprising proprietors of the St. George Hotel at Evansville, are determined to sustain the reputation of conducting the nicest hotel in the State. .They are just completing the work of placing electric light throughout the house, also adding water works and a new passenger elevator, and making such improvements that, with the genial courtesy of its owners, will make its guests feel perfectly at home.

A Cincinnati policeman has been discharged for going to sleep on the train when he was bringing a prisoner into the city and allowing him to escape. That is proper. The sooner policemen learn that they must not sleep anywhere but on their beats the better.

Never borrow trouble. The Interest you have to pay for the accommodation Is excessive.

EVENING, APRIL

"7""

Tiftiely Topics.

How do you like this style of a sub-heading. It will probably not be a. perma

nent feature, but we thought of trying it on The ^fail's new dress. It originated with Mr. Lucy, when he took charge of the London Daily News. Over here in America, we put a heading on an editorial asjrpu^jt^y item of news, except that we limit it usually to one line and to as few words as possible. English papers rarely employ head lines to editorials, and yop have to wade through a whole column to find what the writer is talking a Wo t. Had Mr. Lucy put an American heading on an editorial, there would doubtless have been a panic in London journalistic circles, and he was wise in making compromise on this style.

The liquor dealers of Cleveland, have formed a "league for liberty, justice and order,"

Sunday Liquor.

the purpose of which is to continue the sale ol Ifquor openly on Sunday, and "all friends of personal liberty are invited to co-operate." Saloon keepers clamoring for "ji.&tlce and or der" is a sight to 'make angels weep, devils laugh and humanity boil oyer with Indignation. The "personal liberty" cry has always been the liquor dealer's strongest point. This miserable sophisti has been the excuse of jred for the drunkenness of ages. It is di flcult to understand how ono can justifj^aen in exercising a "right" which brings train to countless thousands of human', beings. "Justice" is the very thing which feahxin keeper's ought n^pst to dread. It is the refinement of satire to demand that the saloons must be kept open on#Sunday to maintain "order." the iqsolent action of the liquor dealer's

Cleveland was resented by sev

eral ri^Snster mass meetings of the citizens .£tid active temperance measures have bean started. It would be the very best thmg perhaps to throw the saloon doort^vjde open on Sunday and permit unlimited liquor traffic on,that day. The disgraceful results woulA awaken even the, most indifferent to. jthe evils of the bt&fue** and would probably be the most effectual means of either closing the saloon.* ox pitting them^undera rigid .•

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ture of a revolution and yet

similar changes havo been made in the past. "tVom sun to sua" used to be considered a day's work and there are persons now living who can remember when men were required to put in twelve hour's for a day's wages. The general desire of outside parties is to soe everything made as easy as possible for wage-workers. Among the many and complicated questions that arise, one of tho most important is in rogard to wages. It is conceded that employers cannot at present pay the same wages for eight hours labor as for ton hours. It is claimed that as a general thing it is almost impossible for working men to support a family on the wages they receivo. Now can they do ft if tho wages are reduced. The two additional hours of leisure will not be of any financial benefit. Will not the ambitious man or the man with a large family prefer to work these two hours and be paid for it? But will employers permit a few to work if they choose or will all be required to abide by the decision of fewer hours and less pay? Again, it is claimed that these extra hours of leisure will give the men more time for self-improvement and for recreation. Is it probable that a very large number will devote the time for self-im-provement, is that the custom of tho great body of workingmen? If these millions of hours of leisure are to be granted is it not imperative that more stringent laws shall be enacted against saloons and gambling rooms and that they shall be more rigidly enforced? Does any one doubt but that if hundreds of thousands of workingmen quit work every day at five o'clock, the saloons will be much more liberally patronized? The experience of ages has been that work is man's best safe-guard and that leisure generally leads into temptation. However tho experiment is worth trying and public sentiment at present seems to favor the old maxim. "Eight hours for work, eight for sleep and eight for recreation." ^CJ^^jThe Indianapolis Journal has been investigating the

High school question, its

cost to the taxpayers, the number of graduates, the general advantage to the community, etc. It has invited communications on the subject and has discussed it pro and con. The result of this as announced in a lengthy, leading editorial on 8unday, is that "The High school is a superfluity and must go." The arguments used at Indianapolis apply as well here or any other place. The principal one seems to be that so few boys graduate, most of them being obliged to quit school and go to work and those who desire a higher education entering college. In this connection it is very »m^'rf"g to read that "social scientists gravely question the propriety and wisdom of training the young women of a community to aa intellectual superiority over their brothers."

According to the Journal, "the free

3,1886.

school system of the State undertakes to fit its children with sufficient education and intelligence to render thom good citizens and this task is completed by tho time the boy is ready to enter the High school." As children are through with the Ward schools and ready for the High school at fourteen* it certainly seems a very early age to be considered prepared for good citizenship. It is impossible for children of these tender years to have mastered anything hut the simple rudiments. The world has progressed so much that it is now almost impossible for an ignorant man or woman to obtain anything but a menial situation. A boy or girl with no more education than can be obtained at the age of fourteen not fit for any position in business^

Again, if you abolish the High school what will you do with the hundreds of children who are annually turned out of the Ward schools? They are too younfc to be put to work. If they could not go into the High school they would be upon the streets. We have in the High school three hundred and fifty students.. A majority of these are children of parents who could not afford to give them a good education. Most of these pupils will make a living through the education they receive here. To shut out the children of those who could not pay would be a cruel discrimination. Men of means could not make any better use of their money than to pay school tax.

We should not abolish the High school but we should correct its abuses. The system is too ponderous, it needs to be simplified. The course of study is too long -jand too complicated. We need fewer studies and a more thoroughfdrill. Theft) ifrnot too muchmoney spent on the public school systbm but the expenditures needs readjusting. We should have more school rooms and more teachers. We want the education of our children to be less ornamental and more practical, but We do not desire any part of this education "abolished."

FSOM REV. THOS. PARRY Those wicked Chicago reporters have misrepreseuted our esteemed friond, tho jtev$0}5£ 'fcarry, as is Attested by his

card b$8^v. jeutcAao, March 28,188fl. Editor of CtoturdazsfbwninK Mall: Dear SirThe afB«e thai appeared in your toLiyjjf concerning what I sala, was not true in C^««MpMnnlar, egeept in one sentenceisihftt

Haute than I ever said against It. Yours truly, Tiros. PARRY. '«•.t., y.

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The Kentucky Legislature is considering a bill to prohibit boycotting. It provides that "any two or more persons who shall band themselves together to prevent any company or corporation from transacting its lawful business shall be punished with a heavy fine or bo imprisoned in tho county jail for not more than a year." A petition favorable to the passage of the bill has received an immense numtfer of signatures at Louisville and othef parts of tho State. Its supporters declare that whilo a man has of course tho right to quit work, he has no 'right to conspire and combine with others to enforce idleness on those who want to work. rf i»,

An item is going the rounds descriptive of a danger that is run by those who wear celluloid collars and cufls, especially those who smoko pipesand cigars. Suppose a flame or spark was to come in contact with celluloid, do you know what the result would be? Well, get a celluloid collar or cuff, or a few scraps of that material from a dentist, touch a lighted match to it and watch the result. Before a blazing celluloid cuff could be torn from the wrist, an arm might be ruined. The collar is worse than the cuff, and might destroy life itself.

The New York Graphic directs attention to the fact that three American millionaires, H. B. Claffin, W. H. Vanderbilt and Edmond Richardson died suddenly, and that it is notable that not one of the three died in his bed "one dropped dead at his desk, another in his hall, and the other in the street." The moral of all which, we suppose, is tliat if any

Terre

Haute editor wishrj to make sure.

of dying between sheets he had better go

to bed and stay there.

They were arguing about the usefulness of tobacco. "What would you think," said the minister, impressively, "if you met an angel coming down the street with a cigar in his mouth?" "What," retorted the sinner, "would you think if you saw one in a plug hat and a pair of ear-muffs coming up the street?"

St. Louis people evidently bathe on occasions. The Atlanta Constitution reports that whenever grand opera is presented at the Missouri metropolis the scent of tQilet soap is distinct all over the theatre.

A cynical doctor declares tnat a patient's gratitude to his physician is a part of his disease. It is most declared when the fever is highest, cools off during convalescence, and entirely disappears with the complete return to health.

A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature having for its object the supersedure of hanging by some other method of capital punishment.

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Sixteenth Year.

WOMEN'S WAYS..

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There is not a marriageable woman in Deming, N. M. Woman is not much of a philosopner, but she is proverbially a clqthes observer.

A Washington society lady brings her opera-glasses to church. There don't any spring bonnets get away from her.

Washington society that old familiar song: "Riding in the Low-back Car," has given way to "Waltzing in the Low^. necked Dress." JV.

Girl telegraph operators and shorthand

writers are to be found in nearly every leading stock broker's office in Wall street now.

Mr. Charles Dudley* Warner in the April Harper appeals to women to give up the bric-a-brac erase, and return to the old simplicities of house-keeping.

fiie wife of one of' tho clergymen of Saranac, Mich., supplements her husband's meagre salary by driving a wagon and peddling milk from &>or to door.

A ColumbiaTfe. C., lady keeps a penny box on.her dining table, and when members of the family speak ill of any person she requires them to contribute to tho

Eliza Ricarby, a rich woman oTNew Orleans,, left two-thirds of her estate to another woman on condition that she takes care of a little dog belonging to the deceased,

There are thirteen women holding^ county offices in Kansas. 'One of these is a county clerk, two are registers of deeds, arid ten are superintendents of public instruction.

An old bachelor says the woman who stops in her own work in order to pick flaws in her neighbor's knitting work wiDH be likely to drop many stitches in her own stocking.

Even the Paris Figftro has a quiet poke at the prevailing American fashion in extremely decollete corsage. "The American girl," remarks the Figaro, "is styHRh to the backbone."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox says it is' the Woman who feels herself strongest in her virtue and secure in social position who is most fearless in her offbi$f^t9 uplift the afflicted and unfortunate. •-,

During Lent fashionable ladles will

senftotT t»i Tie or flesh and the devil aro put out of sight the resolution has its merits in spite of its novelty. A

Miss Alcott and "twenty of tho lea^U ing women of America" are to discuss the question: "When Should Our Young Women Marry?" Tho girls will continue to accept all offers that come, without rbgard to their own ago. "Never touch a flowor with your nose when you inhale its perfume," said a gentlo-woman the othor day to her little daughter. This lesson in the proprieties is ono which all mothers might well impress upon their children.

Tho telephone monopoly has many evil features, but perhaps its worst crimo is its habit of shutting a pretty girl with an entrancing voice up in a littlo box whore admiring men can't get at hor excepting through half a milo of quivering wire/,

A Philadelphiajshop girl has writton to the Park Commission of that city complaining of the lack of settees and tho presence of nude figures in Fairmount Park. A nunnery is tho only place for one whom the statues of Philadelphia can move to unchastened thoughts.

A blind man was in company with some visitors, when one of the company suddenly loft the room. "What white teeth that lady has," said the blind man. "Why," said a friend in great surprise, "how can you tell?" "Because," answered the blind man, "for the last hour she has done nothing but laugh."

Indignant Washington "society ladles" declare that Miss Cleveland is too much disposed to lecture soeicty greatly superior to any in which she ever moved before coming there and that will go on as usual after she has departed. This ap-

nfc deJ}lro U) regulatc thelr

and

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dresses

jreJM!ljng( they assert, is copying tho dictatorial custom of the English Queen' and will not be tolerated.

Two energetic ladies of New York are engaged in providing a home for selfsupporting women. It is not a charity, as the receipts are expected to pay all expenses. This was the kind of thing A. T. Stewart tried to found and which his heirs made such a conspicuous failure of. It would bo rather remarkable if a couple of lone women should succeed where the great millionaire had failed.

There is a woman in the Chicago postofAoe whose employment is to correct misdirected letters. Her brain Is a business directory of the United States, and she knows where to locate every firm of any sort of prominence. If a clerk calls out a misdirected letter, as "Smith, Jones A Co., Chicago," she jrill very often indicate the correct address, as Louisville, Milwaukee or Springfield, Mass., out taking her attention from the wor she is engaged in. During her term service some 300,000 misdirected lc have been saved from the desdoffloe.