Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1886 — Page 4

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TORRE HAUTE, OCT. 23, 1886

WOMEN IN QEEAT CITIES. The New York Tribune has undertaken a praiseworthy thing in employing woman to investigate the condition of the workingwomen of that city and write the facta up for publication. There are two hundred thousand of such women in New York whose wages range from $5 to |7 a week. These pitiful sums they earn only by the hardest toil, some of them working as much as sixteen hours a day, living on cold food and taking their scanty meals standing. Some of them, even by working sixteen hours a day, are unable to make $5 a week. This ceaseless round of drudgery leaves no time for thought, much less for recreation, and there is no interval between sleep and work. Heartless employers grind the last copper out of these helpless and unfortunate women and the hard competition in the labor market keeps wages down to the point of starvation.

All this is very pitiful and very disgraceful in a Christian laud like this, -and, as we have said, the Tribune is doing a good work in exposing this state of things to the public view, to the end that the condition of these wretched women may be ameliorated. But the query suggests. itself, why do not some of these Miserably paid and shamefully overworked women turn their attention to the doing of housework? Ilere is a department of labor in which women can have comfortable homes, good food and plenty of it, reasonable hours of work, and a fair share of time for ploasure and recreation. Tho wages are such as to enablo them to bo well clothed and to put something aside if there is no one else dependent on them. This lleld of labor, unlike overy other, is not crowded. The strugglo is not to get places but to get women to fill them. There is not a city or a town in tho wliolo country where tho demand for women to do domestic work does not exceed tho supply. Wages are higher now than they over were before and tho privileges accorded are greater. A competent and reliable domestic Is never in want for a place and can usually stay in ono household as long as sho likos. Many of theso women marry well and break the hearts of their mistresses when they go to set up housekeeping on their own account.

many of the ill-fed and over­

worked women in largo cities are not so situated that they could follow this line of work. But hundreds and thousands of them are, and tho wonder is that they do not turn their atteution to that direction.

OAS FOR FUEL.

Nature has given a hint that thero is a better and cleaner fuel than coal. Already in many places natural gas comos out of the earth and new wells are being added to the number. As mentioned elsowhero a company has been formed to bore into tho huge gas tank supposed to underlie this section. Tho great city of Pittsburgh, Willi its immense iron and glass works, is supplied with this kind of fuel. Tho houses are heatod and tho food cooked with It. It Is cheap, clean and convenient. It is tho ideal fuel. There are no fires to kindle, no ashes to empty, no dust to clean away.

it Is not'known whether thoro is enough natural gas In the earth to supply all tho fuel that will be needed. The stoek may or may not be inexhaustible. But the anthracite coal men of Scranton, Pa., believe they can manufacture fuel gas from coal so as to make it cheaply enough to compete with natural gas, or to take the place of that If it becomes exhausted. In Troy, N. Y., gas fuel is now being manufactured successfully and used in the laundries, collar factories, hotels, restaurants and private houses. This gas makes but little light but gives out Intense heat, tho blaze resembling that from alcohol. It is estimated that it can be manufactured at a cost of two cents per thousand feet. If it can be supplied to consumers at ten ccnts per thousand It will drive out solid fuel. It will ceitalnlv be a most desirable change it gas can be substituted for coal as a fuel. ________________

THK Knights of Labor, before adjourning,

provided

that $10,000 should be set

apart quarterly for the purpose of experimenting in cc-operatlon. This will be at the'rate of $40,000 a year and will furnish

capital

ness

enough to undertake

some co-operative enterprise wherever the outlook seems most promising. Hie experiment is one well worth trying and tho Knights have done wisely in making this provision. (Operation has succeeded well In some instances. It depends, as in individual enterprises, wholly upm tie sagacity, vigor and good management with which the busi­

is conducted, If these are lacking the enterprise will fail in the on© ca*e as in the other. There is one thing certain' at all events. If the Knights go into business for themselves they will learn by experience to sympathise more than they do with the trials and tribulations of the capitalistic class. They will find out that the work of managing an extensive business may lie fully exhausting and wearing, if not more so, than the muvular work of those engaged la subordinate departments.

The big strike of the employes of the Chicago packing houses has ended by the men going to work on the ten hour basis. The packers were getting new men by the hundreds and it soon became apparent to the old hands that they would have to work ten hours a day or not at all, and they sensibly concludcd to go to work. They get liberal wages, some of them as high as three and four dollars a day and they can well afford to work ten hours. The fact is, there are comparatively few people in this country who can get along by working eight hours a day. The time will probably come when that will be the established standard for a day's work, but until that time comes no one class of men have any more right than another to demand that their working day shall not exceed eight hours.

A CORRESPONDENT writing from Mon treal, Canada, of the American swindlers now living in that city, says there are some thirty of them, including the four New York boodle aldermen who made their escape, Bartholomew, Jno. C. Eno and others from various parts of the country. The aggregate stealings of these men amount to millions, yet they live in luxury in hotels aud fashionable boarding bouses, keep fast horses and disport themselves in grand style gener ally. They make no effort to conceal there identity and are as safe from the hand of justice as if they were in the moon. It is a pretty spectacle to contemplate, yet we have been contemplating it for several years past. The next Congress will probably make an end of it.

IT is evident that Henry George will have a large vote for mavoi of New York, whether he shall be elected or not. He has been endorsed by the Irving Hall Democracy with immense enthusiasm and he has now a daily paper started in his interest with a strong staff of writers. He is addressing large and enthusiastic meetings all over the city and is indefatigable in his efforts to make his cartvass effective. The Herald, evidently afraid of the cut he will make in the Democratic ranks, is urging that he be nominated for Congress. But he will continue his fight for the mayor's office and it will be interesting to see what the upshot of it all will be.

MR. HBNRY F. KEENAN, who was some few years ago, tho editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel for a brief but brilliant period, has recently turned author and issued in quick succession three novels, tho last of which, "The Money-Makers," had a large sale. The other two were ordinarily successful. Yet Mr. Keenan says that the whole three only brought him 31,800, which would have been at tho rate of about $000 a year. Holding a Government position, however, he was not dependont on his pen for his living. This is another illustration of the paucity of profit in literary work except for the few who have achieved a high rank.

A i* no MINK NT Democratic official of Vermont is reported to have said recently "There is a marked improvement in tho atmosphere at Washington. I have just returned from a trip to the capital, and noted many encouraging signs. Moro Democrats are being appointed to office, and wo are slipping a good many people into the departments. Before 1888 rolls around we will be in full possession of the offices." No doubt of it. Mr. Hendricks is dead, but so is civil sorvico reform and Democrats are getting the spoils as of old.

AND still the rascals go to Canada. It is most humiliating and disgraceful that a man can steal half a million in tho United States and be protected from all punishment by simply crossing over the line which divides the two countries. And it is a sad commentary on our civilization that two of tho greatest and most enlightened nations of the earth cannot agree upon a plan of extradition which shall not bo all in favor of thieves and rascals.

THK farming interests of New Mexico are not to bo sneezed at if Gov. Ross' report is not too rosy. lie says the alfalfa crop can bo cut from two to flvo times a year and yields at each cutting from one and a half to two tons per acre. It is worth in the market #15 a ton. Upon this basis alfalfa is worth from |50 to #150 an acre and a man would only need a few acres of land to get rich on.

Bt.oot is reported to be thicker than water but some blood is thicker than others. For instance, Mr. Cleveland gives no kind of an office to any of his own kinsfolks, some of whom are in struggling circumstances, while cousin Folsoin, on his wife's side, is comfortably provided for.

AI,I. three of the candidates for mayor of New York, Hewitt, George and Roosevelt, are free-traders of one stripe or another, But then the tariff question doesn't figure iu New York city politics anvway.

IT cannot be said with truth that the Knights of Labor are not liberal. They raised Mr. Powderly's salary from $1,500 to #5,000 and increased those of the other officers to #2,000.

IT is now announced that the new Scrlbner's Magazine will be issued the middle of December, instead of on Jan nary 1st, as previously announced.

THK Knights of Labor, before adjourning at Richmond, adopted a resolution appealing for morev for the Chicago anarchists. tf

GKN. LKW \VAM.ACK will contribute a sketch of the babyhood of Christ for the Christmas number of Harper's Magazine.

Song for Mr. Benjamin Polsom, recently appointed consul at Sheffield: •i" *orrts of tonrne or pen,

Mta«st are thtm,I'm nek? Ben."

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT,

THO VGHTS OF THE HOUR.

Keep your eye on the map of Europe. It is likely to undergo some violent changes.—Chicago MaiL "To be respected, be respectable," sums up the whole practical philosophy of social standing in this Republic.—Boston Trancri£t.

Organized labor is as slow in learning the folly of asking too much as capital is in learning the unwisdom of taking too much.—New York World.

There never was a Wall street "ring1 more odious to the community at large than that which has been marking up the price of coal for the coming winter.— New York Herald.

Perhaps, after all, honors are easy between this country and England. While the English theatrical scandals are being aired in New York, the Mormons are holding missions and lectures in "London.—Baltimore American.

The New York World advises officeseekers that a barbed-wire fence now incloses the President's new home on the Potomac. What the United States really needs, however, is a barbed-wire fence of double thickness and thirty feet high between this country and Canada.—Philadelphia Herald.

There is no royal road to bricklaying or any other handicraft any more than there is to learning. "The usual apprenticeship slavery" may disgust the young man who does not wish to pass through the drudgery of elementary work, but it must be undergone by all who would ever become skillful in their craft.— [Philadelphia Record. 'S

The point at which life ceases to be worth living must vary with the individual. Fortunate are they to whom old age brings the serenity of mind and strength of purpose to hold on bravely to the end. And a tear of charity for the aged ones who, weary of waiting, go unsummoned into tho country where there is no more growing old.—[New York World.

By and by it may happen, in the energy and push of journalism, that there will be as much zeal and industry in reporting all items of moral and religious progress as there now is in proclaiming the details of crime and wrong doing. Why should not the reading public be as much concerned to know about the reforms in life as about the lapses? Is it not as much an item of news that John Smith has become a better man as that Tom Brown beat his wife? That Joseph Jones has joined the church as that William Green has been seut to jail? It is true that as things now go only one side of these above items is now regarded as "news." Is it not possible that this is all a mistaken idea? We hope the time will come when "news" shall relate as much to moral and religious matters as it now does to the conyeree.—[Washing ton Pilgrim Pross.

CHARLESTON and vicinity had another earthquake shock yesterday morning, lasting from eight to twelve seconds and said to be the severest since the great shock on the last.day of August. It was very perceptible in upper stories of buildings as far north as Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. ...

SOME FAMOUS BOOK AGENTS.

Jay Gould made his first mdney peddling books in the rural districts of Central New York.

James G. Blaine began life as a book agent in Washington, Pa., selling a "Life of Henry Clay."

Mark Twain and Bret Harte had their first association with literature as humble canvassers/ 2

The poet Longfellow was a book agent before his verses began to attract the attention of the public.

Daniel Webster paid his second year's tuition at Dartmouth by acting as local agent in Merrimac county, N. H., for De Tocqueville's "America."

George Washington, while surveying Fairfax county in his youth, canvassed for Bydell's "American Savoyard: How He May Be Tamed by tKe Weapons of Civilization."

Gen. Grant, after hts resignation 'from the army and before his ventures on the Dent farm, took part of the territory of Irving "Columbus."

When Napoleon Bonaparte was a lieutenant in the army, and unemployed at Paris, he canvassed a suburban Parisian arrondissement for a work entitled "L'Histoire de la Revolution."

Bismarck, when at Heidelburg during the winter vacation, having his allowance cut short by his father, the baron, turned book agent and sold enough books to pay for his beer and tobacco.

THE CHARM OF PRETTY 1EETH. [Boston Record.] There is a lovely girl, whose home is at one of our watering places, who almost always goes about with her month, In whicn there are two exquisite rows of pearly teeth, open, ana who, oddly enough, generally hiu an admiring circle of men and youths about her. Her elder sister, who aoesn't hold her month open, told the other day how the thing goe*: "At a party last night," said she, "Bessie was sitting with her mouth closed, for a wonder, and there wasn't anybody with her—for a wonder, too. Presently she opened her month a little, and a young man left me and went over to he r. Then she opened her mouth a little wider, and another young man went over where she was. By and by she opened her mouth a little more, so that both rows of her teeth showed, and she kept laughing about something, and the men kept gathering around her. Dear me! I thought her jaws would break, but it's perfectly natural for her to keep her mouth open that way. And the young men fairly swarmed around her ail the evening.

Itch and scratches of overy kind cored in 15 minutes by Woolforo's Sanitary Lotion. Use no other. This never fails. Sold by Armstrong's Union Depot Pharmacy. Warranted. 50c. tf.

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.* WOMEN AS TRA VELERS. gj "Has it ever occured to you," asked a traveling man of a reporter at the Michigan Central passenger depot yesterday, "that the women who travel outnumber the men in about the proportion of four to two?" l?" I""?*, "Never thought of it."

—Large arrivals of New Furniture, Carpets. Rugs, and Draperies this week, at A. Z. Foster's elegant Carpet and Fur niture House. Special attention given to novel and beautiful things, suitable for Wedding and Anniversary Presents. See the new Folding Beds at $37.50 and $45. Elegant Hat Trees and an enormous stock of Fancy Tables and Desks—

We Lead the Way!

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"Well, that's a fact. You'll find it so all over the United States. I never sit down in a waiting-room or passenger station that I don't count the inmates. Comes just as natural as life—a habit I've gotten into. In this room, now, ladies outnumber tho men five to two, as you will find by counting them. It varies greatly, of course, but anyone who has watched the thing as long as I have will say that my general average is correct." "When I was in Europe," continued the traveling man, "a great many people spoke to me about the penchant of the American people for travel. I tell you that the women are responsible for our reputation in this regard. They will travel about the country and stand more fatigue than the men and find enjoyment in it."—[Detroit Free Press

I aeciare to gracious it does a person good to go to E. R. Wright's grocery (which the same is the "White Frunt,'' on Mane street), these bright fall days, and jest see tho many good things they're gittin' in. Their grocery allers wuz ahead o' the rest uv 'em, an' it keeps ahead. The groceries thar are allers better'n anybody else's, an' somehow they look cleaner'n fresher, an' I know they sell

cheaper'n they do a'most anywhere elso. An' then everybody about the store is so 'comodatinvan' overy-day like—not a bit stuck up—no ail's nor scollops nor nothin' uv no kind. A body feels at home there. I may hev remarked before that it's the best place in town to git groceries, for it certingly is. To-day they nave Spinach, Kale, Fresh Oysters and Fresh Fish, Dressed Turkeys, Dressed Chickens, Dressed Ducks, California Quinces, Contord Grapes, Malaga Grapes, Catawba Grapes, Cranberries, Choice White Clover Honey, Pure Sugar Syrup Maple Syrup, Buckwheat Flour, Choice Apples, Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Celery, New Pineapple Cheese, New York Cream Cheese, Holland Herring, Mackerel, Codfish, Peaches, Pears, Canned Goods of all kinds, and many other things to numerous to mention.

A. Z. FOSTER'S, 422, 424, 426 Main St.

Dr. B. A. QILLETT, DENTIST,^: Removed from Cth and Ohio to 106 north 6th street, first door north of Baptist church. Fine gold fillings and artificial teeth specialties.

—Brass, Nickel and Japanned Fire Sets at C. C. SMITH'S, 303 Main street.

JOE MILLER'S

515 Wabash Ave.

Can Supply your wants in everything needed for the table. K: -v Dressed Chickens,

Sweet Butter, Sweet Potatoes. Mince Meat, Cranberries,r-

Peaches, Choice Apples, Grapes, Celery, Honey, Lemons,

Bananas, Oranges, Pears. Quinces, The Best Oysters,

Canned Goods,Etc.,Etc. —AT—

JOE MILLERS

51o Wabash Avenue.

STSANOE, VXKT.

Ladtf—44IIow old are you, little boy?** Little Darkey—Well, if you goes by wot mudder say*, I'ssix but if you goes by de fun I had, Ts most a hundred." And so with "Pedacum Pliable Corn and Bunion Plasters." If yon take what they cost at any druggist's, it is only 25 cents a box, but if yon take what they are worth for curing Corns and giving relief, why, Hi* $100.

Follow in the Path of the Successful, and in Those whose Ambitioon is to Excel, and your Foundation Principles are Laid.

Our History is One of Progress! ,, ...

Every Day, Every Week, Every Month and Every Year shows an increase in our sales. Pluck and Hard Work, which places our business so that it now stands without a rival in the city. ores never lie.

Hoberg, Hoot & .CtfiS

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Our books are ever ready for inspection.

All will find something of value in looking over the Mountain of Merchandise displayed a

Cloaks, Shawls, Silks and Dress Goods, Housekeeping^Goods Blankets and Comforts, Flannels of all kinds, Kid Gloves, Hosiery and Underwear, Corsets Trimmings Buttons, etc., etc.

The best evidence of having goods at the right prices, is to see the many sharp, shrewd buyers at Hoberg*# who throng their store from morning till night, seeing the many Bargains being offered.

HOBERG. ROOT & CO..

Jobbers and Retailers. 1,518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

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Boots & Shoes

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Prices cut in half and others $1, f2 and $3 down. The first rush on the season's trad* has broken sizes in enough lote of our Boy's Clothing to leave as odds and ends

300 Suits To Clear Up,

At $4, -$5, $6, $6.50 and §7.

These are the last of a large lot made for our fall business and tho best thing wb can say for them, is that they caught the fancy of mothers and tbose buying for boys until we got out of sizes can't govern the sizeaof boys who tome for suits some lots only one or two of a style or price.

We look to the prices to make short work of selling them, and give you an opportunity to get such goods as are not to be bought usually for bhe m. ney.

FOR EVERYBODY.

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^YE^SBROS.,

Leading Clothiers, 'VvM4th and Wabash Ave.

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If you wftnt the-best tea,

,vy boots and shoes for Men, Boys and Youths' wear in the city, and at prices lo suit the times try the Famous.

IE you want the best and

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at the very lowest prices try the Famous. If you want bargains in Ladies Kip and Calf Shoe in Button and Lace for the Fall and Winter wear and the greatest variety to select from try the Famous

Ladies if you want a nice Kid or rebble Goat Button or Lace Shoe or good Pebble or Calf Button or Lace Shoe for school purposes or Spring Heel Solar Tip Shoes for the Children, and the best variety to select from and Lowest Prices in the city try the Famous, 513 Main. I

W:A."COX& CO.

J. NUGENT. J. KINGSTON. jq-UGENT & CO.,_

PLUMBING and GASFlM'f$& A 4 dealer in Oas fixtures, Globes and Engineer's

Supplies.

BOS Ohio Street. Terre Haute, Inl,

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MACHINE WORKS, Manufacture and deal in all kinds of Machinery and Machinery

Users Supplies.

Flour Mill Work

OUR SPECIALTY.

Rave more pattern*, largnr experience and capacity, and employ mon- mechanics than any other similar establtwhment within sev* cnty-flve mile* of Terre Haute.

Repair and Jobbing Work.

Gtvwn ftpecial attention. Write or call on us and see for yourself. 901 to 336 N. Oth st., near Union Depot

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Professional Cards.

O. LINCOLN,

V_V. DENTIST. Ottice, 10% south ttth St., opposite P. 0. Subtracting mid artificial teeth .spccialtlex. All work warranted.

J. HICJIAllDSON. K. W. VAN VALZAH.

RICHARDSON & VANVALZ^H

IDEZSTTISTS.' Office—Southwest corner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entranos on Fifth Street. Communication by Telephone.

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Over J. II. Brlgga' store, n. e. cor. 4th and Cherry* Teeth Extracted without pain by the use of Mayo'* npor or Nitrous Oxide Gas. First clam material used In plate work. Terre Haute, lad.

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