Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1886 — Page 1

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It is a poor day for sensations in Wall street when one Mock broker does not fail and another doe^ not commit suicide.

The recent earthquake appears to have come near shaking the insides out of the old earth. Coal oil and natural gas aro ueeping out everywhere.

There is not so much heard about boycotts and boycotting now as there used to be, but nobody will regret the fact. The less said about it the better.

An escaped panther in a 1*rench town would not suffer Itself to IKS caged until it had scalped and killed a policeman. A discriminating boast, cortainly!

There are reports ^o the offect that Miss Cleveland's connection with Literary Lifo will soon tonninate. Literary Life will probably soon terminate also.

Mr. Doll, tho confidence clerk of a Cincinnati firm, was not a dummy if he was a doll. Ho managed to got $«0,000 of the firm's money before his peculiar methods woro discovered.

Collector Kuhn, of tho Indianapolis district, says that four-fifths of the charges made against him aro lies. But even if one-fifth of them are true, ho has a good deal to answer for.

New that Mr. lUuino Is helping tho boys out, or rather in, all around how does it happen that ho has not been invited to visit Indiana? Is ho afraid of tho Sentinel or don't the Indiana Republicans want him*

Tho political pot may truly be said to bo red hot when good citizens, who have heretofore worked shoulder to shoulder in the democratic ranks, glare at each othor as they pass by. Tho coming woek promises to be exceedingly sultry.

Tho Salvation Army rcachod Lafayette simultaneous with tho opening up of a huge scandal .Injhg, courts. The people of Lafayette would feel pecifffarwTthoTit a scandal case in their courts, and perhaps the Salvationists are working the right lead. ______

Only 1,700 women have tistlfiod their wish to hoar tho Colin-Campbell divoras case, which will coiuo on for trial in Ijondon in November. As tho details of tho case are said to bo unlit for publication, tho modesty of tho Knglish women is retnarkablo. _______

A young couple in Indianapolis received a fifty dollar bod-room suito for getting married in a show window before a huge crowd. When the young people of to-day deoido upon getting married they look after number one with a vengeance.

The issues in tho Congressional race in this district seem to have simmered down to the possibilil ies of one candidate being a point blank liar and tho othor ignorant of the use of grammatical language, The rival dallies hero arc working these points for all thoy are worth. _____

If the Pinkerton "detectives," a synonym in thin ease for "plug-uglies," who tired into a crowd of strikers at Chicago, this week, are not hanged, then the courts there hnd better be closed for inability to dispense justice. But the courts will not bo closed nor tho "detectives" hanged. ______

It is not thought to be in good form by the administration to give appointments to the relatives of Senators, A relative of tho President's wife, however, is considered unobjectionable. Which only shows that a Presidents wife has some rights which even the President is bound to respect.

Every newspaper man of experience at some time or another comes to the wise, profound and sensible conclusion of a brother editor, who says: "The longer we run a newspaper and write about people and events the more we realise how utterly impossible it is to scratch every tuan on the spot* where he itehee the most," _____

Some Cincinnati speculators undertook to corner the peanut market and after spending $200,000 In the effort, were forced to give it up for a bad job. The peanut Is a little thing in Itself but when it comes In the aggregated form of thousands of bagsful it has the tremendous power of "little drops of water" and "little grains of aand."

Ministers while preaching brotherly love do not always conduct themselves In strict accordance with that principle. At a meeting of Chicago ministers the other day, the discussion grew so warm that a resolution had to be passed requesting the reporters present not to make any note of the personalities indulged In by the brethren. Ministers aire only human after all and cannot be expected to pnctlot what they preach*

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Notes and Comment.

They "went for" Lamb and they got «ggs instead. Ir. Swafford gets his oggs from his old home in New Goshen. •hi *r

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It is said the President has ordered the Indiana office-holders to answer the charges which have been made against them of violating the civil service rules. They will take their own time for doing this and will not worry about doing it until after the election. Then perhaps an alleged investigation will follow, with the view of investigating enough to satisfy the Mugwumps and acquitting enough to not hurt the feelings of the Democrats.

The newest millionaire is Jones (not the love sick Florida Senator) but simply plain John T. Jones. Two months ago, so the story runs, he appeared as a penniless tramp in Ishpeming, Michigan where he bought some piles of worthless looking rock at 25 cents a ton to be paid for as he used it. The rock proved to be a rich quality of Iron ore worth $5.50 a ton, and to-day John T. Jones is reported to bo worth five million dollars. Jones struck it rich.

The Louisville Courier-Journal sends a warning note to the Indiana Democracy. It fears the oft-repeated declarations of such Republicans as Jno. C. New and and Col. Dudley that the Democrats will carry the State, Is intended as a blind and to deceive the Democrats into an over-weening confidence that may undo them. The Courier-Journal is giving itself unnecessary worry. The Indiana Democrats will all got out when election day comes round. 1$,^^

An innovation in tho management of local political campaign is the honorary vice-president, lie is a very numerous individual, and a highly important one. Thore Is a string of him as long as your arm, and no political meeting can be expected to move smoothly until the vicepresident has been seated on tho stage to give tone to the occasion. Next to being a candidate the honor attached to the oflice of vice-president is the greatest feature in the campaign.

Grand Mas tor Workman Powderly is to get hereafter a salary of $5,000 a year. This is much better than working at his trade of machinist, and Is proof conclusive that tho officers of labor organizations profit more by their existence as such than the more humble members. How many Knights of Labor working at a trade, can make fivb thousand dollars in a year, or In two years, or three, or four? Very few, Und yet they con

A11 item in one of the dailies states that complaints may be.filed against certain young men who congregate at a certain street cornor and make themsolves disagreeable to lady pedestrians. There is an ordinance prohibiting loitering at street corners, and why do the police not enforce it. If some muscular woman will arm herself with a good strong rawhido and uso it upon one of tho fresh .young men who rendor themselves conspicuous by such conduct, it will have a salutary effect upon that large class, which enjoj's such rudeness.

A gentleman and his wifo who were passengers on a steamer from Europe which recently brought over to this country several Knglish snobs and alleged actresses, relate that an entertainment was given on board tho vessel for the benefit of a charitable objoct. At its conclusion "the orchestra played "God Save the iuecn," Which was applauded by all present. Tho orchestra then played "Tho Star Spangled Banner," wherenpon the Ehglish snobs drowned the music with hisses. Yet these contemptible creatures were oven then on their way to the country which they thus deliberately Insulted for the purpose of filling their pockets with American gold. Let us hope they will not succecd.

Parson Talmage is getting to bo about as great a crank as weather prophet Wiggins. In his sermon last Sunday Mr. Talmage confidently predicted that the millennium would come within the next sixty years and went on to tell what it would be like. The notion that there was to bo no business or Industry during the millennium time was all moonshine in his view. Greater fortunes will be made then than over. Where one fortune is made now there will be a thousand made then. "All the cities will be saved," says Mr. Talmage, but he does not explain what he means by being saved. There will be no criminals, no courts, no juries and no lawyers. Everybody will be honest, taxes will be low and cities will b© well governed. The millennium advent has been predicted many times before and it is not likely that Mr. Talmage will come any nearer to guessing the time than the rest of the prophets have done.

An industrial school for girls Is one of the latest projects of benevolent women of Indianapolis, who have succeeded in establishing a very successful home for the boys of the capital city. In these days when webearso much of industrial education there is a wide field for the Industrial education of women. The clerks and type-writers and stenographers among women, who are turned out In swr numbers, take rank with the teiegr* operators, bookkeepers, etav, tm, men, while the trades are practically undeveloped. A man who would perhaps be enabled to earn two and a

half or three dollars a day at a trade, would rather work for ten or twelve doldars a week at some calling more genteel. And so a girl who can get her board and three or four dollars a week as a cook or housegirl, would rather accept the three or four dollars and board herself in order that she follow a less "menial" pursuit. The industrial education of women will never be successfully conducted until she abandons the idea that housekeeping and the duties connected therewith are menial. It is the noblest work allotted to wonem, and as such needs more development by regular course of instruction.

When will the pap rs ever leave off the habit of running down a political meeting of their opponents, when thoy know the real facts are easily obtained. For instance one will read in a Democratic paper tkat a certain Republican meetiug was "a fizzle," and in the Republican paper that it was "large and enthusiastic and one of the most successful of the campaign." And the same is true of reports of Democratic meetings. Then the papers get to quareling about which one has lied, and in the excitement of the controversy sight is lost of the main Issues of tho campaign. Is the cause of any candidate benefitted by such a procedure? or is the purification of politics furthered by such wilful misrepresentations. The day may come in the future, when politics having been purified by the civil service reformers, this habit of misrepresentation will have disappeared. At present it is a very unpleasant feature of every political campaign.

What does the word oconomy mean? Does it mean the mere pinching of our needs and tastes that we may have a fund laid by against a possible future—that after all we may never see? Does It mean to bo stingy, to refuse to give for this good object, or to assist that deserving but loss fortunate neighbor? Nono of these, true economy is possible to the rich as it is necessary to the poor. Economy signifies management the regulation of affairs both domestic and public. It does not mean that the tired wife shall devote each moment of her life to hard work by doing so she is guilty of the gravest waste. It does not mean that the father shall deny himself of the newspaper which will be rest and nourishment to his weary brain and of value to tho rest of tho family. It means that all ItfOWombe^s of the "housd-hold sh&lITSe' provided with every comfort that will help them enjoy life in a rational manner, and thus become useful to themselves and those around them. But nothing should bo wasted the silly book purchased, the cheap and flimsy but slowy garment, bought for mere fashion's sake, the suporflous article had because it was cheap all are indications of a lack of truo oconomy or thrift. Be careful of what you have, buy what yoti noed and not what you want, and above all livo within your annual income then you will have found that oconomy rightly understood has brought you many oomforts and some luxuries.

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Fashionable ladies carry their watches this year in various ways. Instead of putting them inside of tho body of the dress, with a ball or some other ornament hanging from a short chain outside to keep tho watch from slipping out of place, tho watch—which is now* set in a gold ball,or in what looks like an egg—hangs from a short chain, which Is fastened to along hook, and is allowed to dangle outsido of tho dross. The hook passes through a button-hole, and is fastened there by a simple catch. Very small watches are now made to slip into a hole cut for the purpose in the corner of a card case. These watches can be removed at pleasure, and placed in tho cover of a prayer book, and so serve a double pur(M)so, tho card case or tho book being covered with tortoise shell or ivory. Inside of the card case is a gold pencil case, the top of which is a key to wind the watch with.

THE MIGIITY DRUM-MAJOR. The Bloomington Eye, speaking of the gorgeous drum-major, says he is the autocrat of the parade. He ranks the chief marshal and deigns not to look upon the subordinate division commanders, aides and orderlies, who gallop about in the weak endeavor to borrow light from the dancing splendor of the drum-major. Others may think they direct the march, but it is only conceit. The uplifting of the baton is followed by a burst of music, again the bat ton is seen on high and the column moves, always following in the direction toward which points the all-potent baton. Another sweep of the baton and the column, if ten miles long, comes to a halt. While on duty there Is no grander, more beautiful or more Imposing figure than the drum major of to-day. When ho doflh his tdfcering fur chapeau and goes into retirement he may be a pastry cook, or even across boer-jerker—a menial, perhaps, of the most degrading type, but when he appears again arrayed in his fur cone, at the head of the parade he is a prince among men, compelling the unspeakable admiration of the throng!

One week from next Tuesday will be election day.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23,1886. Seventeenth Year.

BARBERS' SUPERSTITIONS.

JJOLITIC A CANDIDATES SHOULD AVOID •Tg WHISKERS-SIGNS OF LUCK.

"Have barbers any superstitions?"-was at&ed a tonsorial artist who v£as removing a two days' growth of beard from the Newspaper man's countenance. ''Well, you might call them superstitions, I suppose," responded the barber, "although some of their fancies are based On business principles. For instance, it wonld be considered very unlucky—and 00 barber would do It—to vote for a man who wore a full beard. People copy after big men. While Grant was president men used to keep dropping in with the remark: 'Just trim my whiskers up Grant style.' That made a big difference in bills of barbers all over the country. Blaino wore a full beard, while Cleveland was clean shaven, save for a mustache. All the barbers were with Cleveland, and In my opinion thats what elected him. They are great electiOneerers in a quiet way, and many a vtor makes up his mind from what his barber tells him he learned from some customer who is a big gun. "Then, again, it is considered good ltick to cut a man, but it's got to be done accidentally and must be so light that the cjustomer won't kick about it. A good hftrd shave to begin the day with is called better luck than an easy one. Starting off with a hair-cut means bad luck for five days. Men with 'cow-lick' beards tfhich are terribly hard to shave, are supposed to bo preceded by some little accident in the shop, such as the tipping over of a lather-cup, dropping of a towel 0£ a brush. Strange to say there isn't arty sign for dropping a razor." "What happens if a strajg is accidontly c«i?" jflf a superstitious barber cuts a strap heat once makes up his mind that some oijp is trying to cut him out of his custti&iors. It is also a hint to him that he 1? liable to lose his job." "What if a hone is broken "That is a sure sign that the barber who breaks it is out $2," replied tho barhij'vwith a knowing wink at (he boss

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WELL TO REMEMBER.

JVhat cheerfulness is tho weather of the htiirt. r.,V

Ijfhat sleep is the best stimulant, a nerviae safe for all to tajce. *5#h«t coM atf is tiot nor warm air necessarily impure.

That a cheerful faco is nearly as good for an invalid as heal tin' weather. That advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give, but hard enough to take.

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That there are men whose friends are more to be pitied than their enemies. That grand temples aro built of small stones, and great lives made up of small events.

That wealth may bring luxurios, but that luxurios do not always bring happiness.

That nature is* a rag merchant who works up every shred and odd and end into new creations.

That an open mind, an open hand, and an open heart will everywhere find an open door. ,'v

That It is not enough to keep the poor in mind givo them something to make them keep you in mind.

That men very often preach from the housetops while tho devil is crawling into tho basement window.

That#life's real horoes and heroines aro those who bear their own burdens bravely and give a helping hand to those around them, fg,

That hasty words often rankle 1ti the wound which injury inflicts and that soft words asmage it, forgiving cures, and forgetting takes away tho scar.

,f?i| At— A A S E E IX O O E She was about 18 and as pretty as a peach. He was about 22 and they were engaged. He had just gone out to the theatre with her, and as they trotted off happily, I made some remark to her mother. is* Jkg "They're young to &e engaged in my own opinion," she said, "but!!'* a good thing. It's good for both of them. He's an honest, steady boy, and she's a very pretty girl, and I am willing that they should be devoted to one another. I encourage it. I like to know that she is so fond of him that the flattery and Hummerv of less honest men does not touch her." She's proud of her beau. He runs at her word, he simply slaves to her, and it satisfies even that girlish vanity which is all girls danger. He is honorable and would rather cut his hand off than do anything to Injure her. He's proud of her andTt keeps him steady, because he has an all-absorbing subject to think about. The love may die out, yes, it may but by that time, If It ever happens, my child will have learned so deeply the lesson of what respect is due to her, what devotion is capable of, that she will And it very difficult to meet a who will make her forget It. And so, I let them go, and I shall be quite content if when they are old enough they want to marry. They'll know one another well enough by that time.

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) goes to a different hotel each time he visits New York. He says that by doing this he finds that he receives better treat-

WOMEN'S WA YS.

In Rome nearly all the hodearriers are women. They do say that women with pale eye-lashes can have them pulled out and beautiful, dark, drooping ones inserted in their places.

Kato Field says she is so tired of professional life that if sho had plenty of money sho would retire to the country and lead a quiet existence amid rustic surroundings.

Among tho literary women of to-day Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is usually illdressed, it is said, and her "two scribbling daughters," as she calls them, follow their mother's example. :fi

A society woman who returned from, Europe a few weoks ago boasts of having cheated Uncle Sam out of a good many hundred dollars because ho was too gallant to suspect her ladyship's garters of being "loaded."

Mrs. Katharine S. Anthony (Kitue Stokes, tho boautiful bareback rider of tho sawdust ring) has been divorced from the gallant horse-trainer who stole her from her father in 1878. Another romanco spoiled.

Eighteen different telephono girls employed in the Hartford oflice havo been married during tho last three years to gitmo subscribers 011 the line. It is a woman's voice more than her looks which catches on/ *'r

A' female witness in a Rock Island court testified that sho was 14 years old and had been married five years. Sho said she could neither read nor write, could not toll the day of tho month, or the time by the clock.

Of course sho was the wife of a man earning $1.50 per day, aud she put $800 in greenbacks in the parlor stove for safekeeping, forgot all about it, and he built a fire tho other day and reduced the boodle to ashes. Very, very sad^v~

Maude Branscombo, former idol of the photographers, is at the head of a company doing the smaller town of Britain. Maude has grown stout, business-like and rapacious. Sho doesn't pose before the oamera any more as the Madonna.

A prominent New York society woman who has been so long In the matrimonial market that her charms are faded and stale, has returned from her summering attired In deepest black.

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dear Blank, who died so soon after their engagement. Being dead, the lucky fellow can't deny the soft impoachment and she gets the credit of having at last hooked a fish oven if she could not land him.

Tho way Mrs. Cleveland does hot hair is the way many an othor woman does hers nowadays. Her colors will bo worn her bows will be imitated her gowns will be copied her slippers will be envied and so will all her pretty ways. If that girl, whom every ono so far thinks to bo sweetness and girllshness itself, reaches tho spring of 1887 with the pretty hoad unturned she will be a marvel. Lot us hope, however, that she will. She is too lovely and too—well —too "nicc" to bo spoiled.

a visage and meln pf unmitigated woe, »«gtoct nor lanniy wnuo searching Tor a she announces tKat^Krwea^s InaUeniible right i» already hero—that of making home happy, and a high and noble mission is involved in so ordering her home lifo as to iufiucnco each member of tho family toward a liighor and hotter piano of oxist-

A lady was recently induced by her friends to leave her homo for a fow days' travel. She had not been away for a number of years and was surprised to seo tho number of people who were on the train. At each station as many people boarded it as left. She gave vent to her amazement by exclaiming: "Well, what a pass the world has wine to! If all the people wore as attentive to their home duties as I am, everybody would be better off." This experience of this woman Is but that of older travelers. It does seem as if half tho world, at least, was continually on the move.

WHISTLING AND WHISTLERS. [Philadelphia News.] If a boy is allowed to whistle it will turn his attention in a great degree from tho desire to become the possessor of a drum, and if paternal firmness be added, he can be kept satisfied without one until he gets to be 16 years old, when he will strike the cornet period.

Shakespeare was well acquainted with the art. He makes Othello say concerning Desdemona: "If I do but prove her false, I'll whistle her off and let her down the wind a prey to fortune, e'en though her very cries were my dead heart-strings."

Negroes are tho best whistlers In the world. Frequently one hears a colored mprovisatore whistling the quaintest and sweetest melodies, and with the colored males in general whistling comes ss natural as grunting does to a nog.

Men whistle when they are happv, and they whistle when they are sad. When you see a carpenter or a house-painter pushing the plane or slapping on the paint and whistling a lively air at the same time, set him down as a man who pays his debts. Is cheerful at home and never whips his children.

When a man is sad he whistles in a doleful tone. Nine times out of ten he won't choose a dismal air, but he will whistle a lively tune, a hornpipe or a negro minstrel end song. And he will draw the melody in and out between his lips in a way to draw tears from all listeners. Sometimes a man accomplishes the same result when be is cheerful and trying to whistle real good.

Gins in general whistle in a sort of jerky, disconnected, jim-jam sort of way, and groan mildly between the notes. They'd better let whistling alone

THE MODEL WIFE DESCRIBED.

Mary C. Parsons in the St. Louis Magazine, thus pictures the model wife: To be the loved and honored queen of a happy home is a destiny which calls for high womanly attributes and attainments. rj

Tho model wife understands fully tho duties and obligations devolving upon her. She is not a doll to bo petted and caressed only, but truly a helpmeet t« the husband, who has chosen her from all tho world to make him happy.

Her affection is not based upon tho amount of luxuries with which he iw able to surround and fill her life. Sho is free from selfish cxtravaganco in whatever station sho may be placed, and capablo of self-denial "when necessary, even to the extent of wearing her last season's hat or bonnet—Incredible as this may seem.

The words, "Thy people are to be my people," are to tho model wife a precept to be daily practiced. She is truly a (laughter to her husband's parents, realizing that to tho silver-haired mother who cared for, and watched over his childhood and youth, a life-long debt of filial love and consideration is duo, which is her privilege and duty to assist in repaj'ing. The model wifo possesses a loving and lovable disposition, unex-acting,self-controlled and patient, under tho almost daily trials and disappointments which fall to tho lot of most human beings, and fv'Mn which sho cannot expect wholly to escape. Sho possesses and cultivates a sunny, cheerful disposition, free from unreasonabloness and childish petnloncy, and does not consider herself a martyr nor moan ovor lack of appreciation if lifo is not entirely a bed of rosos. In this connection we often think of tho advice given Malcolm in "MacLeod of Dare": "Novor marry a sighor,' and it is truo that nothing'so detracts from happiness of home as a perpetually complaining, sighing wife.

The inodol wifo is not given to faultfinding and scolding, and sho never says, "I told you so." Sho is a true housekeeper, and by the exorcise of order and womanly tasto makes of her dwelling a very house boautiful, an ideal resting place for the broad-winner of her family, of whose peaceful comfort ho thinks with longing anticipation through tho busy and oftentimes trying days. Sho does not clamor for tho right of suffrage, nor neglect her family while searching for a

once. Sho is an intelligent companion, and has a sincere and sympathetic appreciation of her husband's lifo, of his joys, hopes, aims, and sorrows. Sho Is thoroughly versed in the different branches of household lore. She never places boforo her husband sour, heavy bread, soggy potatoes, tough burned steak, and most unpardonable of all—muddy, overboiled coffee under tho plea that "tho cook has loft. Sho knows that a man's health and happiness depend In a groat measure upon the manner in which his home is kept, and sho endeavors to render ..him comfortable in Ills dally lifo. Sho is always scrupulously neat as to lior own attire sho dresses in a becoming and tasteful manner, and does not consider it a waste of time to keep up her practice in music, merely to entertain and ploaso her family. Sho possesses an inva uablo weapon for keeping her matrimonial pathway smooth, namely: tact, a quality which many wise, good wives seem to lock utterly. Possessing this valuable trait, when her tired husband returns at evening, she does not pour into his cars a doleful recital of the day's troubles and worries, nor ask him ondless questions. She understands full well that a tired, hungry man Is generally sllghtlj' impatient, if not cross sho greets him, therefore, with an orderly room, invitingly spread table of tempting food, some dainty surprlso—his favorite delicacy, perhaps—and above all,a smiling, cheerful welcome.

The model wife knows that the influence of a happy home extends far beyond the immediate family circle, and that she must, of necessity, be either a constant help or a woeful hindranco to her husband. Blessed is the man who can truthfully say, after a lifetime of matrimonial companionship: -JV "Sixty years! Hlxty years! She made mo a better man.

From the moment I kimed her fair young Hp*. And oar lover** life began." $4*

Glum-looking, as if groaning beneath the weight of his $5,000,000, E. II. Green, better known, as the wife of Hettie Green, the reputed owner of $40,000,000 in her own right, moves daily along Wall street and adjoining thoroughfares. Six feet two inches tall, broad-shoulder-ed and stooping, with stubby gray beard, and a cigar stump firmly pressed between, his lips, Millionaire Green with a slow shuffling gait and attired in garments of seedy appearance makes his way through the crowd always in a deep reverie and unmindful of the gaze of wealthy brokers or miserable bootblacks.

—W. T. Leggett's next excursion Kansas will start on the 29th.

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