Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 July 1886 — Page 1

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Vol. ")17.—No. 3.

THE MAII..

A PAPER FOR TH£ ^PEOPLE?

Notes and Comment.

Yes, thank you, it is hot enough f9r n*. ii The "kickers' Wednesday.

got Lamb-ed

last

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The "E." in John Lamb's name stands

for

"be got there Eli."

It looks very much as if the blue-eved Ky of destiny was destined to reach his destination. be nothing left for go home and chop

There seems t» Gladstone but to down a tree.

The Bynumites of the Indianapolis District are creating so much havoc in the ranks they should have their name changed to Dynamites. 71r

The old citizen who "knew all the time it would be hot enough for you the Fourth of July" is shaking hands with himself at the success of his prophecy.

And now, as if we hadn't hoard enough of the "Keoly motor,"

its

discoverer is

going to write a couple of books with it for a subject. If this is permitted, bye and bye some of

tho stock-holders

in the

"Pound motor will be writing a book.

The fire fiend has been having a high old time this week. Reports of disastrous tiros have come in from all parts of the country.

In

fact the average citizen

very much like (Milling out the

Fire Department and having the hose turned on himself. Tho gentleman who telephoned for the patrol wagon, Tuesday afternoon, on account of the terrific noise issuing fiom the court limine, was considerably bored to learn that it was only Mr. Eggleston making tho groatest effort of his life in the Riglsr will ease.

A Presbyterian minister asks the question, "Will the coming Christian use tobacco?" If the coming Christian is on his way from a modern evangelist's meeting truth and candor compels the statement that he will not only use tobacco,

prcssions as welt. It is said that "Judge" Eggleston became very much rattled during the Rigler trial and forgot which skip of tho fiasc he represented. Ho (insisted the plaintiff so much on several occasions that his eolloague, Judge Khoads, was obliged to catch him by the coat tail, so to speak, and remind him that they were appearing for the defendants.

It must have been gall and Wormwood to tho "kickers" to hear Judge Jump declare himself a tlrm supporter of Mr. I*mb, and tho last feather was added when he implored his friends "/or God's JKtke to vote for John Lamb." This is a new and powerful reason why the intelligent voter should east his ballot for tho nomine©nod no doubt will play an im|Krtant part in the canvass.

The Detroit idiot who declared publicly his approval of the bomb throwing in Chicago, is meeting his just deserts. The people are boycotting the firm of which he is a memler, and his partner has gone to law to secure a dissolution, to provent the ruin of the business. We have no room here for men with such sentiments as he expressed., and the 8«oucr we get rid of them the better.

At London'they have in preparation the Uirgestj^ook in the world, English as she is spoke, ot Dictionary of the English language four times as large as Webster's book of the same name. It is to be

utlw

time

ideal dictionary ot the world"

and has been enlarged in order to incorporate all the slang of the present generation. An appendix will,be issued from

to time to furnish the newest and latest slang phrases as fast hs they make hefr appearand. 'Fhe council of Indianapolis has discovered that diseased meat is sold by butchers there, in ttiwfftrtit violation of the health laws. If such a thing is possible in Indianapolis, it is possible here a» well. Would it not fee for the health officers, who seem determined in their efforts to enforce the laws, to look into tfcin matter. Every now and then we hear u*lk of diseased meat, but thus far nothing has ever come from it. It will pay to thoroughly investigate the matter. *s

Tho rMt»*r ladies arc soraowhai worried over Mr. Eggleston *joeeh in the will ease last Tuesday. Referring to the fact that the plaintiff was only allowed eight dollar# a month for living expenses, he said that wa* a very fair allowance. And when it was shown that she had only one pair of shoes a year, he remarked that he supposed that waa about what the average woman needed. A number of you n* gentlemen were present and th* girls are afraid they will base their ideas of a wife's expense* upon these statements. All we have to say Is that If they do they will get very badly fooled.

01 Ojlbert

After all the blowing about the Congressional Convention at Rockville on Wednesday, it turned out to be a very tame af&ir. The Ringgold band made most of the noise. The "kickers," who kick with their mouth, were ingloriously absent. The usual programme was carried out, the "gerrymander" was enthusiastically indorsed, the "offensive partisans" completed their work, John E. Lamb was nominated without a dissenting vote, and the Convention adjourned to take a drink, several of them, in fact. From the seclusion of their retreat, the "kickers" announce that they will be "Jheard from" on election day. No doubt they will but it will be a very still, small voice. Wouldn't it beagood thing for these "kickers" to kick themselves or each other for a little while. After all the money they have spent, the caucuses they have held and the boasts they havo made they certainly ought to do something to hurt sonjebod^

After a trial lasting over a week the Rigler Will case was decided Wednesday morning in favor of the plaintiff. This suit, which has attracted considerable attention, was brought to set aside the will of the late Hiram Rigler. According to tho will the wife was to have the home and certain rents during her lifetime, after which the property was to go to various nephews and nieces, many of them unknown even by name to the testator. As Mrs. Kigler's income would not be sufficient to enable her to keep her home and earry out the provisions of the will she bought suit to have it set aside on the plea that the testator was of unsound mind. The evidence, which was very voluminous, sustained this plea and the will was set aside. There was a large attendance of ladies throughout tho trial and great interest was manifested not alone for the sake of the plaintiff but because it was hoped that this might be a warning to husbands who attempt to defraud their wives out of the property they have helped accumulate and take care of. A faithful, economical and industrious wife should luive what propery there is left after the husband is done with it, provided there are no children. There are entirely too many instances of men who have tyrannized over their wives during a lifetime and then endeavor to reach out from the grave to continue the oppression. Most wornon will cover their hygliayi'l'H faults with the mantle "of rtiatfty unlesS fofrceff" reveal them and men who havo pride enough to desire a respectable memory after death should bo careful not to leave a will so notoriously unjust that thoir character will have to be laid bare in the courts for the public to read.

Three'whole days of Fourth of July ought to satisfy the most patriotic and enthusiastic. It is notoftenthat we have three consecutive days in which we can lay off from business, set tho laws at defiance, get drunk and play smash generally, but this week we could do all these things and excuse them on the plea that wo were having seventy-two solid hours of Fourth of July. It is fortunate we do not all find enjoyment In the same manner. For instance if every body celebrated tho Fourth by getting drunk who would lock us all up or help us sober off? Or if all the world engaged in a general discharge of fire-arms or fireworks, who would care for the wounded or put out the various conflagrations? Or suppose that tho whole community should take to the woods in a general free-for-all picnic, who would keep in motion the wheels of commerce or guard tho homes against Are and flood and other depredations? Or what if we all should feel too sick or too tired or too listless or too old or too sad to make any demonstration whatever, what would become of th© eagle and the oration and the stars and stripes and the Declaration of Independence? Isn't it, after all, a r«tf blessr ing that there is so great a diversity of tastes? And isn't it a wise provision of nature that we should pass through the different gradations, from the careless child, who is on th verge of annihilation by toy pistols, through the' reckless stage of youth, which hovers on the brink of destruction, into the safe and serene period of age which acts as a check and' a safeguard over, the follies .and the frailties of youth find inexperience. It takes all kinds or people to made Fourth of ulvt those who fire the gu us and make the noise, those who get up the picnic* and the celebrations, and those who stay at home and hold the bslar ce wheel. To whichever of these thr classes we happen to belong by reason of our years or our temperament, we have no reason to criticise either of the other twb, for their part is equally as important as our own in making up the harmonious whole of a good old-fash-ioned Independence Day J.,

Th# pitmlc season has arrived. It Is as much a part of summer as the cabbage worm and the potet* Kug. It affects all age«, classes and conditions. T\»-day we hare th~ folly, harum-f^rum picnic of the ptabUe schools to-iu*rr»w the staid and dignified Old Settlers' Reunion. This week the nice, respectable Sunday Schools have a picnic and next week the beer-drinking, riff-raff of the city have a carouse which they call by the same name. The picnk^ Ukethe eveaiRg

party, is supposed to be a very enjoyable affair. You may be bored to death, yon generally are, but it is a breach of etiquette to acknowledge the fact. The preparations for a picnic commence the day before when the housewife spends the day over the cook stove. The evening is passed watching the elouds and hoping it won't rain. You arise at dawnin order to get a day's work done and b*f ready for the wagon when it comes. Yon drive through a broiling sun,

packed

a' la sardine, with a small boy filling up every aperture. Immediately upon arriving at the grounds, the ladies commence making coffee and preparing dinner, while the gentlemen carry wood, squeeze lemons, put up the swings atui* make themselves generally useful. Af

and worms, wash up the dishes 'J^'iyou are not wanted. ,. completely tired out, drop down "''M il the roost™-crow, on the fence the the trees for a little rest before going! .. •. .. 1 weather will be fair if on the doorstep, home. The gentlemen row the

til their hands are blistered, swmg th»*

off into swamp, two or three f.ll outot

the swing and the balance tear then" clothes. But, notwithstanding ail these drawbacks, thore is something fascinating about a picnic. It1s a perennial joy. Men may come and tnon may go but each generation will have its picnics. Perhaps it is a spark of love for the nomadic life, handed down through the centuries from those ancestors who lived in caves and hollow trees and knew only the book of nature. At least it is a chango, and in this day of toil and worry and excitement, we must break the bounds occasionally and, even if wocaB not em-ape the work, at least we may vary the character of our occupations.

There are in Chicago, according to thr Times, about fifty women lawyers," among them Miss Kate Kane, who defeuded Mulkowski, tho murderer, with acknowledged ability, and Mrs.. Judg^ Iiradwell, who published a law journal! In the modical profession the doors the homa'pathic and eclectic schools ar, opon to women students and the gradui ates from the Chicago Woman's Medici college! "pwifctecr aror tflfc- Sfartoa Mergier, are recognized as "regular" by all the physicians of that school, although women are not admitted to matriculate in their colleges. A low estimate of the number of practicing women physicians in the city would place it at three hun"ft dred' ..

There are also women regularly ordained as ministers. The Rev. Florence Kallock is preaching in Englewood and Rev. Augusta Chapin at Oak Park. Miss E. Dryer is conducting biblo work in the Farwell Hall building, with about ten lady assistants. Daily reading is given in the large rooms occupied by Miss Dryer and many visits are paid. Chicago is also headquarters for important and widely-extended missionary work of women.

The number of women and children employed in the factories, stores and at homes in,the general industries reach the large total of 44,930 women and 096 girls. Of this nnmber no loss than 17,261 women and girls are engaged in or for tho clothing housos. There are 3,127 women and girls employed in the dry goods and notion stores, 1,510 as dressmakers, 2,980 in making gents' furnishing goods, 1,000 in millinery, 2,075 in hotels and restaurants and 1,240 in laundries.

Anew game h,as, boon invented, the game ot apropos. It is played by a circle of friends, the conversation passing from one to the 6th6r round the rpora. For example the,09eT$liP.,begina. might remark: "I have been to see Mary Anderson/'

Apropos of &(»,^says the next,person, "the trees «nd bushes are finely bloom-

Aprojfcjs of •ikSnsf,"' says t&e third, "I send my linen to a Chines© laundry.'^ Apropos of dry, what a deal of rain we have had latety."

Aproftos of teydo'you think it is truo about GovV4l,miIX„ presidential aspiroiionaf"

Apropos of rttlitms, how is the table at ihe Hotel Havadrwi-.^'^

ho

arms

around and look bored and wonder why they came. The lovers molt away in the* distance, looking for a secluded spot suitable for a little courting. One youngster tumbles into the water, another

iingster tumbles into the water, anotn-:

..get, string by a bee, third w.nde^^,^

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Apropos of ri^Jk And so on lor half an hour without cessation.

To oloen times every xait»ood crossing used to display the sign "Look mit for the locomotive when the bell rings." This gave placc to the more abbreviated motto, "Look out for th© locomotive." Now ail that is pot tip Is simply "Railroad crossing." An Eastern engineer commenting on the carelessness of the av«rag» farmer In crossing a railroad track suggests that we adopt the motto, "Prepare to meet thy God."

nA OLE AN FAMILY PAPER, South Bend Tribcae. The Terre Haute :-toturday Mail the model paper of the state, has entered upon ito seventeenth year. It is a clean,

j^dnerrittgof the enjoys.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1886. Seventeenth Year

E* WHEN THE DOG HOWLS.

Dream of eggs, sign of money. Dream of snakes, sign of enemiesi. If yon sing before breakfast you'll cry before supper.

Dreaming of muddy or rushing water brings trouble. Finding a horseshoe or a four-leaved clover brings good luck. j. If you cut your nails or sneeze on Saturday you do it "for evil." t-

She who takes the last stitch at a quilting will be the first to marry. If you cannot make up a handsome $ed your, husband will have a homely nose.

If you spill tho salt some one will be "mad" with you unless, you put some in

ter tho repast Is finished tho ladiw ^oor right toe, yon .re going er up thp remnants, including the J»whero j£u .re wanted

,vUl bring company.

childrod till their arms ache and there will be but one pleasant unday during the month.

[f lhj Sonda tho month is un.

If by any chance a morning hat or bonnet is placed upon your head you will need one on your own soon

right ear burns, 80me

If you drop your dishcloth you will havo company also if yon sweep a black mark or if two chairs stand accidently back to back. if a baby sees his face in the glass it will be the death of him. If his nails ape Cut he will be a thief. If he tumbles MUt of bed it will save his being a fool. -Break a mirror, sign of death. Death is Also foretold by a dog howling under a window hearing a dove, a strange dove hovering about, or dreaming of a white horse. .,

If you see the new moon through the glass-you will have sorrow as long as it lasts. If you see it fair in the face you'll have a fall. Over {lie left shoulder bad

LITTLE SERMONS.

Home life is the'sure tost character. Faith is the medium between despair and presumption. «v ji »i

Envy's memory is nothing but a row of hooks to hang up grudges on. A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than ouiuounHmwn all his greatness.

Pleasure is a weak tie of friendship those who toil together are stronger friends than those who play. si

The man who threatens loudly ^he world is always ridiculous for the world can easily go on without him, and, in_ a short time, will cease to miss him.'

Don't waste life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work now before yon, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be tho best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

If envy, like anger, did not burn itself in .its own fire and consume and destroy those pitrsons'whom it possesses, befbre it can destroy those it most wishes to, it would set the world on fire, and leave the most .excellent persons miserable

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your lcft, where

one is

leIt,

your (riends

y„„ over the

Returning to the house for a moment after having once starting out will ^ring bad luck unless you sit down.

When, in droping a fork, it strikes the floor and stands upright, it will bring a gentleman visitor if a knife, a lady.

While at the washboard, if the suds splash and wet the clothes you are Wearing, you will have a drunken husband.

most

ABSmDfTlES OP LIFE.,

The* p&rpeti&l struggle of affectation to pass for oddity. To be passionate in your family and expect them to be platrid.

Xot.io go to bed wlicn you are'sleepy because it is.not a oertain hour. To tell a persott^of'whom yoti WjHcft A loan of tnohey that you are lit want of It,

Thatany man should despair of success in a Worlds©overstocked with tools. To buy a horse from a near relation, and ikll^ Hvety ^fbrd he, says in praise of the animal he is desirous to dispose of..

Men committing sfricide to gist rid of a shot! ffe and its evils, which must necosaarily terminate in a tew years,-and thns entering upon one which is to last forever, and the evils of which they do not seem to take t^e wiaw»t method, of avoiding. ...

WHY IS TTt

Kdilw Saturday Evening Mallr Why is it that for the,past three weeks a faro hank has been dealt in this city? ftor two-yearn and more three had boen nothing of the kind. Why is it? .. .=.,. A MAIL RKADKK.

A woman states that she ha% lor many years, observed the men taken to the statlon-hoaae by the police, and not one la two hundred wears a tall hat.

Flre-crackem only coat a cent and a quarter a banch in China.

OLD SCHOOL HO USE. ..

A DKLIQIITFrL DESCRIPTION.*.

Professor George, in the Albany Evening Journal tells of a visit to the old school house, which will recall to many a Mail reader memories of some dear old faded and weather-beaten school house. He says:

A short time ago I saw the old red school-house whero my young idea was taught to shoot apple-cores and spit-balls in the intervals of study, and no place dear to memory can revive so many recollections or cause so large a lump to rise in my throat and force tears into my old eyes as that battered old building and surroundings. Carved on the old red cherry desks are names whic?^ are carved on 4he monuments of our country, or blazoned*in public prints, or alas, carved in more elegant letters on slabs of marble in cemeteries. Several other generations have utilized thoir first jack-knives over those early names, but still I can read the names I knew. Others have since been unfortunate in their care of ink, and blots and stains overlay the decoctions of soft-maple bark and copperas with which I attempted my first* pothooks and hangers, and in moments of abstraction drew horses of a strange breed, and men with heads bodies and legs put together in sections on the smooth boards.

As I gaze across the narrow room I can locate the scenes of tho red apple period of my life. This was the boys side, that was the girl"s side. Here I sat, there she sat. Then it was that tho tremendous revelation came to my awakened soul that across the narrow space of that aisle was the most wonderful creation of nature. A creation which dawned upon my startled vision in red calico, curls, and a majestic red collar. A creation worthy of the biggest red apple fortune or superior craft could secure. 0 how large seemed my ordinary boots, and how short my trousors which enforced economy made me wear until the red top of my boots came into view below their fringed frontier. Patches placed on them withaviow more to warmth than*ornament wore enlarged by heated imagination to the size of Texas on our early maps. In conspicuous places bofore the school in recitation, I seemed to have more joints than a patent campstool, and all of them had worn breathHtfi lifl«#»i» my g»rraont*vl Wh c$ intention was called to myself personally, I blushed so that snow would melt on my ears all the rest of the winter. But woman, true to her gentle nature, oven in her undeveloped state, shone down refulgently on my boyish admiration, and my head-sled was tho favorite with her, and my red apple was concealed beneath her desk, and I could discern her red mittens as far as Dr. Peters can see a new star. Ah! we may ridicule the red apple period, but we never, never feel in after life the pure love which thrills us when we are new Adams and find our brand-new Eves in the Eden of young.

But to resume, tho old hill is here yet. Here wo learned the first important lesson of life, vis., that for every ride down the hill of pleasure we must pull the sled an equal distance up tlie painful hill of labor. Ah! some of the boys have since slid down the hill in grand style and their sleds remain in the ditch wrecked. Some of them are tugging hard up the hill of fame or wealth and anticipate a lovely slide when they get to the top. Well, I hope they may get it. Life is a game worth the candle if we only play honest cards and keep a true count.

And here is the old play-ground. The play-ground of the district school is, the rehearsal oi the drama of life. Here we played soldiers, and some of the little adtort now sleep at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg. Soma of them carry an empty sleeve tucked Into the breasts of the coats. Some are still unhurt but Will run around a corner pretty spry, when they hear a snare-drum play to start a brass ..band. The Iwy who'always* wanted to trade knives unsight unseen and'nearly always carried tiie aggregate marbles of,, the school has broken down three times and Is amassing a fortune fast. -THe boy who( *poke on Fridays "Patrick Henry's Cry for Liberty," or "Emmett's Dying Words," was- in the Assembly three years ago and 1s a good lawyer. The boy who Was revengeful and* needed watching learned the harness-maker'* trade at the expense of the State.' So I love to Kit and watch the little fellows on the green in front of the school-h^uue, for on them the corners of the world wMl rest in a few years, and as I •watch them I pick out the politician, the merchant, or the soldier or termer or student, and I think if they lire they will fill the bill.

Then there were the teachers, taught for $30 a month. That was all he taught for. Then there was the teacher with an aversion to poor children and a desire to toady to the wealthy, and O, how soon he learned where the trousers were worn thinnest and where a heavy ruler would do the moirtgood, Then there was the teacher who wanted to do good, hut did not know how, and the boys drove him cnuy, and the big girls made him blush and the whole term waa a picnic without a band. And then, bless his old soul, there came a teacher. He knew boy nature as an assessor knows a town. The first Intimation that a boy ever got

One

that he had any brains was when he looked over a composition and kindly said: "If you wrote that without help you had better study literature or when some poor boy read the soliloquy of Richard III so that it made sense, and he turned his big expressive eyes upon him and said: "That was well doneor, *ming down the aisle silently and looking over the shoulders of the toilers in the rule of three or compound interest, he would startle them by whispering "You have a good mathematical mind," and every word was an inspiration. And he could out-jump any boy in the school, and at square-hold he coftld throw the bully, and woe betide tho cruel, cowardly, sneak who hurt the small boys, when the teacher froze to his collar and yanked him out of his scat so suddenly that his boot-heels would knock splinters oft" the desk. O," he could teach till you couldn't rest, ami if he get# to heaven, and I think all good teachers ought to go there, ho will find several of his old pupils there who got ttieir first inspiration toward a useful life from his kind words in tho old red school-house.

Franco boasts of her inquisitorial surveillance of every hamlet and village through her police and passport system, but our inquisitorial system, that roachos to every village and crossroad and township, is our school system, and while every district remains a mental springboard, from which our poor are vaulted into society with a basis of education, we may foel secure of the existence of the republic. The district school-teach-er, with his tin dinner-pail, walking along our country highways, carries tho fortunes of America under his last year's overcoat and old slouchod hat. Tho statuo of his awkward figure, with his emblematic dinner-pail and red muftior, would look better on ,onr Capitol than. any imaginary god or goddess. Wl 'j, ,V",ihroMEws WA

I-IY

vs.

Photography is suggested as a now profession adapted to women.

A Louisville newspaper complains that some of the "most prominent young ladies" of that place, "whose names will bo printed among our best people in tho red book of society,' indulge in the "most disgusting practice of chewing tolu In public places."

The female lace-makers of Saxony are wretchedly underpaid, the best of them not being able to make more than about sixty cents a week. And yet a groat many easy-going, prosperous people in Saxony are surprised at tho audacity of these poor artisans in presuming to cpmplain, and call them Anarchists/, -/j.

Mrs. Maria Farrow of Central City, 111., fs 76 years old.

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Mine. Modjeska is the wondcrof timid n. women at Monterey, Cal., as she dives and swims in dazzling costume in tho waves of Monterey bay.

Some inquisitive person sent Sarah Bernhardt a sot of printed questions to $ fill out. Among them was: "What is your favorite animal?" Sho answered "Man."

Mrs. Mark Hopkiu\ the* millionaire wtflow, Was m^ofuitf* a young colored man, who manages much of her business and conducts apart of her correspondenco.

A young society girl in Washington says that if there is any one thing more necessary than another it is that all boys should be taught at school how to wield a lady's fan to a lady's satisfaction. Not one male porson in a hundred,» •.. she says, knows tho first thing about fanning a lady as it ought to be done.

The latest craze among the gay and giddy young ladiosof this arid surrounding villages, says a Deep River (Conn.) paper, is to keep track of the "tips" they receive. That is, every, young man who lifts his hat as he passes by is counted. The one hundredth "tipper," thc^ girls say, is tho ono who will surely marry them.

A year ago. she got the

contract for delivering the mail to the Post Office at |d a month, and all through the winter she never missed a day, tier duties require her to-hang the mail pouch on the crane at the depot, and once, doing this,sl^d fell and broke her' arm. Now she is well, and,, though not an offensive partisan is a very faithfnl official.

Prof. „Oscar Abrahams^hnJt looking about this country for American women who do outdoor farm work, and he will .write a series of letters to a Berlin journal comparing the Oerman women field hands with the 'American wwmcn who labor on farms. The professor may find a woman here and there digging in a potato patch or cornfield, Imt they will not be "American," excepting id extremely rare cases.

Miss Feany Wiezef of' r.i'nento asked Jacob Kline, a cornet player in the First Artilery band, to marry her. Although he ought to have done so, he refused, brutally, and laughed When in despair she threatened him. She went home, put on an old dress and bat, exchanged a new nickel-plated revolver for one that would not glitter so much and thus attract attention, went to the piaza where ,«. 1 the band was giving an evening concert, waited until Kline had finished, and then stepped up behind him, sent a bullet Into the back of his head, killing him instantly. Iisl