Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1887 — Page 1

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Vol:"417.---No. 28

THE MAIL.

PAPIER THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

A Happy New Year. On this day: "Be it resoTved.^ New Year callers with bills instead of cards will be on hand promptly as usual. "The Sock'' is the name of anew paper started in Philadelphia. Although anew sock it will probably need darning before long.

On New Years day "every* honesl Chinaman pays off all his debts. The Chinaman should have many imitators in these parts.

From the appearance of the advertising colunis of the papers "the Belle of Bourbon" is the most popular young woman in these parts just now

The proposed removal of the tax on all alcohol "used in the arts has raised the question whether ,this is' a scheme for free whisky for olectionering purposes*.

A Happy New Year, to one and all, is The Mail's most earnest wish. Do your best, dear reader, to realize our wish. The matter lies very largely in your own hands.

A level-headed exchange remarks that as the clergy have seen tit to make war on the ballet the public should retaliate by demanding that the church fair be abolished

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Spoils Democrats cannot find fault with Senator Voorheos, who hap allowed his brother-in-law to be retired from the Deadwood land office to make room for Kx-Collector Han Ion.

It is not safe for a train robber to be too fond of literary pursuits. Mr. Wittrock's weakness for writing letters to the press and seeing them'^ print worked his rtfin at last.

Attorney General Garland does mot seem to suffer from the rheumatic air of Washington. Perhaps he isso thoroughly saturated with Pan-electricity that it ig impossible for it to get at him. ,.y v.

The Ot this se^SjTs xrraa^ th® merr3f toboggan slide, is awaited here with no little interest, for it is said that with its exercise the sixteen button stocking blushes away up behind its ears.

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The presidential election is yet nearly two years away, but the Chicago Inter Ocean is puMling.itself to know whether Cleveland can carry New Yerk. This looks just a little like crowding the mourner?. 3?

Our business men generally are well pleased with their holiday trade, and report a largo increase of business the past year over that of any proceeding year. The outlook for 1887 is of the very brightest character.

It is denied, apparently on good authority that Mr. Whittier is going to write of "Maud Muller," or Dr. Holmes of "The Deacon's One Hoss Shay," Sixty Years After. This will leavo the now Locksley Hall decidedly lonesome.

It is Said that Boston consumes more chewing gum than any other city in the country while Chicago comes next. This fact is a strong testimonial of tho intellectuality of those cities. In proportion to the number of chewers, however, we believe that Torre Haute would take a high rank.

How true it is that on tno most festive occasions, thoughts will arise that will cloud tho horizon of existence. Many of our citizens will reflect, on the threshold of the New Year Year, how those near and dear to them passed away to the unknown land and if wise, they will consider how it may be their own lot in the year 1887.

Now and then tho boys^get a notion that they must "strike" too. Such was the case with the messenger boys of th« \V. N. T. Co. of Louisville the other day. They were getting 2 cents for each message carried and they struck for V4 cents. One hour of anxietysu Bleed them and they begged to be taken back at the old price. There area great many boys who can.oarry messages, as the young-

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When a violator of the election laws runs up against his I ncle Sam in an attempt to get clear, he stands a very poor show *«r his "whit© alley." Perkins, the witness in the Indianapolis case, who was -sent to Jail for contempt, was sent back to jail this week by Judge Woods, who held that his sentence, ninety days in jail, was not too severe. Mr, Perkins bv this time dpubtlBss feels like the small,boy who "wished he hadn't/*

'Th^Vuttiral gis company has been reorganised this week, with Firmln Nip*, port president, M. N. Diall superintendent, .T. n, Harris secretary and treasurer. The directors are. Firmin Nippers losepbus Coliett, (?tXirgo E. Farrington, r. W. Craft, and Demas Deming The

Miring will be done at the gas worki,NOn the river bank, and work will be com* •nenced as soon a» the weather will per-

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A year is dead and a year is born. We bury *86 with a sigh we welcome '87 with a hurrah. It is as if for a season we halted to note the change, and were then off again into the hurry life. Next week we will have already forgotten the the death and birth, and will be marching on to eternity as unconcernedly as as before. So we go, and we will be dighing over '87 and hurrahing over '88 very much sooner than most of us care tO.

In 1870 Chicago's real estate and personal property was assessed at $275,986,550, while the last Assessment made planed the figures at $117,133,643, a falling Off of over one-half. Evidently the Windy City has been blowing too much, poor .work has been done by the asses-1 sors, or a great many persons did seme tall lying. Possibly the latter is the tfue explanation of the apparent decline in a city whose prosperity has been unparal leled.

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There were 825 divorces granted in this State last year, of which 581 were granted to wives and only 244 to husbands. The grounds were abandonment, 245 cruel treatment, 144 drunkenness, 81 failure to provide, 91 criminal conviction, 12 not stated, 202. The number of cases of cruel treatment is remarkably large and the whole list shows how much better women are than men, since less than half as many husbands as wives had occasion to ask separation from their yoke-fellows.

The big hat in the theater lias become an important affair in Chicago. The other night a man whose view was cut offbyabig Gainesborough, in front of him asked the wearer to take it off. This was declined whereupon the man reached over and squelched the hat with his hand. The result was a fight with tho lady's escort and a fine in the policO court next day. Timid men now look anxiously at the size of the hat which their ladies wear. 7 ',

A Lafayette woman has brought suit for divorce because her husband made her tho "laughing stock for all the neighbors." He might have abused her, fa'ed to support her, and all that, and she^could stand it, but when he made her the laughing stock of her neiglrt^rs he touched her vanity, and t-hit^was moj^ttbatv^y/wotnan That is a womanly weakness "that stands boldly out in all conditions of life, and the action of the Lafayette woman proves that it had better not b« trifled with. fe'j

There is a good deal of discussion' going on as to the probable length of time natural gas will hold out. The better opinion of geologists appears to be that the supply will be exhausted in time. Even should this be the case it is not be lieved that a return to coal fuel would be inevitable. Experiments already made have demonstrated that gas can be manufactured at a price that will warrant its use for fuel and without question others yet to be made will result in still greater success in this direction. Gas will be used for fuel whether it comes out of the earth or out of a retort.

"Come let us anew Our Journey pursue."

The old year has been rung out and the now rung in. Put your shoulder to the wheel and do duty as a man who is permitted to live in the grandest era of the world ever before recorded in history. It is every man's privilege, and he should make tho world better and his fellows happier because he has lived in it. The young man who starts out with the selfish maxim, "The world owes me a liv ing and I am going to have it,'' is to be pitied, because he deliberately plans and usually succeeds in making his own life a blank and a failure.

The other day a man worth twenty millions was found in a Philadelphia restaurant eating a bowl of bread and milk and it was thought very remarkable. The idea seemed to be that a millionaire should eat in proportion to his capital and that a rich man has no business eating such common food as bread and milk. On the same theory a millionaire should not breathe the common air, or should breathe a million times as much of it as the ordinary man. But it seems that nature has not made any special provisions for millionaires different from those which she has made for other people. _____

There is an old saying that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," and everybodyfcaows it is true. As this is the day from which most of soph paving contracts date it is eminently proper that every ane should examine his good resolutions and see if some of them jrnay not be worthy of a better fate. A virtuous resolve. unless there is an earnest intention to keep it, deserves no more rtspect than a national political convention's, resolution in favor of civil service reform. The trouble with most manufacturers of good resolutions is that they consider their duty done as soon as they have talked about it, and that i&why our provoking acquaintance, the* Devil, grins and chuckles aa at no other time When he heara these pretty protestations, liehm heard 4he like l^t^ 4^® .hfli

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understands^-"Numerous consignments of paying material are about to be start-:, ed for his dominion, iarid In a few weeks he will be rushed day and night with the task of making debit entries for his customers. Beit if to-day every man, instead of seeking for some new promise to make and break, will simply resolve to overhaul all of his old resolutions and take care of them, Satan'shighWay Will soon become as ragged and fall of Moles as the streets of Terre Haute after a Jan ^EI^DS jT 4.KEjN uary thaw.

The Women's Temperance Union has one a great deal of good in Chicago thiS ear in inducing ladies to refrain from Offering visitors .intoxicating liquors on New Year's Day. The practice lis not so popular now as once it was and this is due to the noble and. persistent efforts of the women. There are enough opportunities for young men to secure liquors without having it placed before them by their friends of the opposite sex. Let it be said to the credit of Terre Haute ladies that the custom is losing ground here, and the houses where it is observed are exceptions, rather than the rule,

We have had many illustrations of the stinginess and absolute meanness of men of immense wealth, but the reply of John Jacob Astor, the New York millionaire, upon being asked to contribute to the fund for the relief of Mrs. Logan, heads the list. He said: "I regret to say that I must decline subscribing as you propose.' At a time when men, irrespective of party, are contributing to the fund, the action of this man of millions stands out in greater prominence. The world is not any bettes for John Jacob Astor and men of his class being in it. -v

Secretary Lamar, whose marriage is causing a great deal of talk, is following the example of the president in denying the soft impeachment, and One might be excused for imagining that he is ashamed of the step. It is true that "all the world loves a lover," no matter what his age, except when he acts ashamed of being one. The president told worse than "white lies" when hi* marriage was talked of, and Lamar seems to think that is the proper thing to do. The wedding of the latter has a tinge of romance about it that makes more talk than an ordinary one, and emphasizes ths^faot that thiypresematlTtyt^^tTTrti^jrls marry.

From the action taken by the wimrts recently in the alleged use of money for purposes of bribery in election, thO time is not far distant when such practices will be so thoroughly unpopular in courts and among the people that what now seems like a growing evil will be driven out of our political system. At Shoals, this State, an unsuccessful candidate for clerk has been attempting to oust his successful rival on the ground of the corrupt use of money. He won his case as far as proving the ineligibility of his opponent, but the commissioners held that as he had also used money in the attempt to secure his election he, too, was ineligible. It is looked upon as a good joke down there, but for some reason he fails to appreciate it.

A Crawfordsville juryman after listening for a day and a half to the evidence in a small case went crazy, impressed with the belief that some one is pursuing him. That man wasn't a professional juryman, or ho would never have lost bis head. You can't scare one of them off so easily as that. The more trilling ing the case the better he enjoys it, and would laugh to scorn the idea of losing his mind. It is not surprising, however, that an unsophisticated Outsider should become confused. The objections of the attorneys, the attempts to introduce evidence and demands to have it ruled cut, the wordy combats, etc., which mark a legal combat, are onough to leave the average spectator in doubt as to whether he is the court, a witness, attorney for the defense, or only a looker-on. Perhaps it was a scheme on the part of the Crawfordsville man to get away.

Tt is mucli the fashion, on ttie annual recurring of the change from the calendar of the old to the new year, to mournfully conclude that "the former tinltes were better than these," and that the world and its inhabitants are, in some indefinite way, (in the line of retrogression. The truth is, this dismal conclusion is not borne out by the facts.' Civil and religious liberty, in this cflfantry, and doubtless also throughout the world, is m«re secure to-day than for many years past. There haa wen, in this land of ours, no appreciable inerease in crime, although constantly increasing facilities enables the news In every hamlet to be collected and transmitted to the great 'tenter* of population. Neither is there, the chronic aroakers to the contrary notwithstanding, a isotteableiincrease in tftoso habits which make for the

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eration ot men and women. On the contrary, evidence Is not wanting^ that, above and beyond any special efforts, man men in every community that have «ien prone to excesses in & dulgencein alcoholic sttmulantsafe coming to practice more modenitiat*. Manybafre rotakuB«|)rithtteittdn% *nd drink no

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1,1887. Seventeenth Year

wfere better than these. Thinking men jpcc to-day, of their own accord and upon their own motion, turning to the examination of questions which relate to the present and future welfare of mankind, with an earnestness which has not, of late years certainly, bpen equalled. Vferily, the year 1887 is inaugurated under conditions which should give rise to Iiope rather than to gloomy forebodings.

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Btate Senator Philip Schloss was Very indignant one day this week becausotois right to vote or hold office was called invO question. Immediately after the the point thajt •the naturalizsh

election some one ra heibad not taken t&ti papers necessary^ f%!ged citizen of the a l^rch of the count tended to confirm this true, Mr. Schloss' not cfcst an illegal vote for Beasley—it was in the Beasley ease that the question was formally presented—but there would be grtflnds on which his seat in the state senate could be contested. He was canted to tha witness stand and asked if he had complied with the laws providing for the naturalization of foreigners It so happened that in his safe were the original papers, which he produced, and that put an end to the matter.

In all probability there are a great many men whose right to vote or hold office goes unquestioned on the ground of lack of citizenship who have not fully complied with the naturalization laws This is particularly true as to minihg and iron manufacturing communities. There are many foreigners among the miners and iron-workers who have fre qucntly changed their place of residence since coming to this country and who after taking out their first papers in one State have perhaps neglected to do What i# further required of them, their right th vote going unchallenged at some election in another state thus causing them to carelessly accept such fact as full acknowledgement of citizenship. It has been said that not less than 100 illegal rbterf of this description went into the ballot boxes of this county at the late election. The voters, however, may have in this country as many years and

From day to day the talk among Democrats makes it more apparent that in the spring election the congressional quarrel w|ll be the dominating influence. Indeed both the Lamb followers and the kickers are hunting for a chip which would present a particularly aggravating appearance on the shoulder. If there have been any overtures toward a reconciliation they were not considered for a moment, the anti-Lamb people, flushed with victory, are audacious in their purpose to test the party loyalty claimed by the Lamb people during the campaign. It is proposed to ask them to support a kicker for one of the city offices and see if they will manifest that degree of loyalty which causes men to stifle personal feeling for party's sake. The plan is not fully developed, but at present the indications are that the kickers will work for the nomination of one of their number for city clerk, the name of Mr. Herman Kirmso, of the Fifth ward, being oftenest mentioned in that connection. It is conceded that Mayor Kolsem, Treasurer Fitzpatrick and City Marshal Morrison will be renominated, and as there is doubt about Mr. Davis again being a candidate for clerk, that office is the only one left open for the purpose. The kickers assert that Messrs. Kolsem, Fitzpatrick and Morrison, especially the latter, are to be classed as I jamb Democrats, and that therefore tho opposition is entitled to the clerkship. A number of Lamb's friends being asked as to their intention in the event of a kicker being nominated for clerk, would not say openly that such a candidate would fee slaughtered, but with knowing looks soliloquized to this effect. And so the kickers want the clerkship. Well, they ought to be given a chance to see what theycan do. Of course they are good Democrats—just as good Democrats as they wore In the late campaign. In this spirit, then, both sides-welcome another tussle. si'".'- '..v-

Speaking of the spring election* there is another feature "which is attracting a good deal of attention among politicians That is the metropolitan police issue. Several probable candidates on the two tickets have said daring the week that the candidates for council will undoubtedly Te called upon to pledge themselves one way or the other, and that it will have an indirect effect on all candidates foreity offices. It is not likely to be one d! the issues for public discussion, bat will be thd f^otent one so for as-the candidates for the council are concerned in .the election., _____

A prominent kioker said the other clay fhat there were 300 Democrats in this county who preferred the election ,ly the lef0»la*hf$ of Senator- Harrison to ^Phe- reason for ^nftor-Hafriaooi rei*dered valnablo aSsistaneoin fighting the

him not to come into the district to help Mr. Lamb in his congressional contest

Postmaster Regan sent a score or more Santa Claus letters to the Dead Letter office. Parents encourage their children of faith to write to old St. Nick and put the messages in the mail. Und^r the law all such mail goes to the Dead Letter office, where there must be received many thousands such evidences of the most delightful of childhood's beliefs.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

Seven women hold to the position of county superintendent of schools in Illinois. jSf

In Philadelphia the augloitianiti h&s de•"jr^loped to such proportions that a school

ake him a fultlhas been started where young ladies can learn the English walk in less thau a month. -,

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Belva Lockwood is a real good girl. She has already come out with the announcement that she will not beaPresi dential candidate in 1888—not even if the honor is offered her on the biggegt kind of a shingle.

One hundred and five mince pies, one for each prisoner, were given last Thanks giving to the convicts in the jail at Ken nebec, Me., by a woman whose mother and grandmother always made a like Thanksgiving offering.

Miss Maud Howe thinks that women ought to be allowed to vote for superintendents of streets in order to protect their skirts from a mud bath. If the ladies will compel resideuts to clean Fheir sidewalks let them vote.

Kate Field is said to be worth over a quarter of a million of dollars. This is probably why Kate is so severe with the poor men: But even with all her money Kate had better hurry along or she igpy get left and be compelled to sleep one in a bed all the rest of her life.

Mrs. George Sage, of Harlan, la., is making a winter tour of the United States. Her husband ran off with the hired girl last fall, and having nothing particular to do Mrs. Sage is looking for them. She has already traveled 14,000 miles and visited seven different States, and she rather likes the business.

A Philadelphia proprietor of a large establishment employs a woman as head

cheaper than a man, 'ife-replied:' "3*p we pay her as much as we would a man, and she is much more reliable and her work is much better done. When it comes 11 o'clock she does not go out to get a drink as some bookkeepers have to do she never comes to .the office worn out by an all-night's spree and jumbles up the business of tho day. This is why I re a a

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Mrs. Cleveland says she reoeives letters by the hundred, and that more than half of them contain advice, some on the management of the White house. "Occasionally I do get a letter from some good, kind souled woman, who really writes because she thinks she may do some good. Such letters always impress me, and are very full of suggestive thoughts. Of course I don't answer any of them. I did answer one or two letters to persons who had written me about something tliat I fancied required a reply, but I usually found my letters reproduced in the local newspaper nearest the recipient. I now don't reply to any unknown correspondent."

The January number of tho English Illustrated Magazine will contain the first of a series of illustrated papers by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," descriptive of a recent visit to Ireland. Among the other articles'will be "The Daughters of George III," by Mr. Outram Tristram, with illustrations and a series of illustrations to Fouque's "Undine" by Mr. Hey wood Summer, with an article on the romance by Miss Julia Cartwright.

A Chicago railroad man and a Chicago reporter both say that it is becoming fashionable for young men of that city to kiss each other vigorously when they part for any length of time and when they meet again. The railroad man says it makes him sick to see the fools. ^.

REFINEMENT IN THE KITCHEN Sioux City Call. It is so unusual to bear of refinement in the kitchen that the following inci dent may perchance be received with in credulity: A lady of fashion known to be in want Of a domestic treasure was approached by a perfectly jnillenial girl the other day, who wanted to see aboat a situation for one of her friends. This ideal creature carried an October Century in her hand which she had evidently been perusing with interest. Her costume was simple* but well-fitting, and she spoke perfect English. In the course of conversation it transpired that the applicant's mistress was an intimate friend of the lady to whom, she was talking. This home she had brightened for seven years, being thought everything of by the family. It goes without saying ^{fa,t Mrs. M——1availed herself gladly of the opportunity to engage the friend, who proved to be all that oould be desired. Shortly after aiftivAl she told her mistress that she thought it was so much better for a girl to live in a family of refinement and culture where *he knows it i» her with commonould nofcUfY io makaher

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THE MODEL HUSBAND

HE IS A SAINT-VERY NEARLY.

We have had "the .model wife" from every point of view, and it seems only fair that we should have a look at tho other partner in the matrimonial confederation—"the model husband." The following from tho Chicago Inter Ocean, is the man's view of the case, condensed. That there are a good many of the sort still existent, the happy homes about us seem to testify: 7" "The model husband does not a&sutno that he is a pattern man, that he is all wise, and that his word must be law, but recognizes tho married state as a republic where each is entitled to an opinion and the expression of it. and where each will regard the wishes of the other, and both of them the 'common weal.' He does not believe in 'woman's rights,' neither does he believe that she has no rights. On the contrary, he believes that she ha» the right to demand, and should receive, the undivided love and allegiance of her husband that she has the right to expect a support from him in conformity with their meaus, that she has a right to such care and consideration and indulgence as her weaker physique demands, and, above all, that she has a right to his society, and to share all of his joys as well as sorrows. When all of those rights are accorded her she cannot demand more. The model husband does not regard himself as 'lord and master,'except as he regards his wife as mistress. He does not expect obedience of her as required by the marriage service any tnore than she expocts him to worship her as the same service requires a little further on. In fact, the latter clause is a little more likel^ of fulfillment than the first, for the model husband falls but little short of worshiping his wife if she will exert but one tithe of her natural woman's wit and loveliness. "The aforementioned husband vidfes for his wife and family in as Mi fortable and elegant style as his meatSSF" will allow, and only expect) that she will manage her household with judgment and discretion in accordance with their means He does not expect his table to be spread with dainties if he can not provide the means to furnish them. He does not expect his wife to look like |t»e aqgel he thonghther before marriage if she has her own w6r^t^'db^^ tlhis not expect her to he arrayed in sealskin and velvet if his purse is too short to afford them neither does he expect

to wear chinchilla and diamond studs, if Ii is wife cannot be attired accordingly. H11I jos not expect her to bring in the find tnako the fires so long as he* is a t' to do it or have it done for her. Nf tier does ho expect her to black bis boo.., on the contrary, he expects^.to her to black and button hers."

On the other hand, we have this picture of the model husband drawn by a woman. We would not be so rash as to assert that it is satirical, oh, no! but its point is no doubt perceptible to the dullest of minds: "The model husband never interferes with his wife's plans in any way, shape, or manner, but is in all things and at aliv times her^most willing and devoted subject. j.:"?'' "He never bothers his wife with sewing on his buttons he 'didn't marry her

for that.' He quietly gets a needle and thrOad, adjusts his thimble, and sews the button on himself. When thero is* woman right meeting in town, the model husband always attends his wife thither, or stays home and takes care of the children—as she may see fit. And, as he does not have to bring the aforesaid 1 children into the world himself, it is for 'her' to say whether a dozen olive branches shall cluster around their loving knees, or whether they shall be forever free from baby cares. He never groans at the extravagance of woman, nor preaches economy, rtor indulges in oysters and champagno suppers away from home, but makes his pocket-book a family concern, or deals out money to his wife with a lavish hand. He never chews, smokes, nor drinks in the house under any circumstances never ventures out after nightfall unaccompanicd by his wife and above all things never brings a friend home unexpectedly to dinner or supper. "The model husband has no *nld flames,' nor new ones either he shnns secret societies as be would the plag'ie, and he has never been known to look in the direction of a bonnet on the head of any woman but his wife. He endures the Caudle Lectures given by bis betterhalf with a touching meekness unexcelled by the original Caudle himself, and regards Vith supreme pity, not unmixed with contempt, that most miserable spec-' imen of the masculines, gonder, a hen-*, pecked husband. ^In fact- the Model Husband is vcry^ veiy liearly a real, genuine saint."

-Buffalo clergyman has a peculiar *^«y of preparing his sermons. He takes a morning train to some one of the surrounding towns, then starts to w*lk tack torj^uflalo. He delivers his thoughts"to the trees, fences and the roadside, and by the time he has reached the city he has his sermon ready ta

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