Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1887 — Page 4

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THE^MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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PUBLICATION OFFICK,

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TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 29, 1887,

RECKLESS RAILROAD TALK. Some of the railroad men have been talking very "freely and also very foolishly about the Inter-State Commerce bill. The president of one of these roads is reported to have said that if the bill becomes a law there ought to be a national convention of railroad men and an advance of rates on through freight of 100 per cent,

so

as to create a panic and

cause the people to see what fools they have for Congressmen. But this would rather show the lawless character of the men in charge of the railroads of the country than that the law enacted by Congress was an unwise and mischievous one.

This gentleman seemed to think it was a great piece of presumption and impudence for the National Legislature to undertake to legislate on the railroad interests of the country. He was so hot at the outrage that he declared that he could bring together 400 track hands who would possess more intelligence that the American Congress. .Such reckless and ill-natured talk as flthis will not help the railroads in the «stimation of the people, but quite the contrary. It is the law-defying spirit and practices of tho great railroad kings which is especially irritating to the people. It is the business of Congress to «ieal with the railroads as well as with ^anything else that concerns the prosperity and woll-beingof the people. If they perform thoir duty honestly and as intelligently as they can, their work is entitled to respect and the laws which they »enact must be oboyed whether they be NWise or unwise. Most of the railroad trion accept this view of the matter and promise to give tho new law a fair trial if It shall go in into operation.

It romains to be seen whother they will live up to thoir promises or not.

TITE CASE WITH CANADA. Tho leading eventof tho week has been tho passage by the United States Senate of the Canadian reprisal bill. There •was only one vote against its passage and tho speeches which proceeded the vote left uo room for doubt as to the meaning of the Senate. Tho bull-dozing policy of Canada must cease or tho commercial relations between the two countries will be severed.

The bill empowors tho President to -close American ports to Canadian fishermen and merchant vessels, unless the rights of American fishermen in Canadian waters are respected. Tho purpose of Canada has boon to force the United States to grant the free admission of Canadian fish into our ports and at the same time retain exclusivo privileges in her own

waters.

In pursuing this policy

Senator Ingalls intimated that tho Dominion had been guilty of acts, which, if persisted in, would justify war.

Hut there is no probability of war with (ireat Britain ovor a mattorof no groator Importance to her than this. She has her hands pretty full already and, in the present throating condition of European uflair*, she will not care to have any trouble on this side of tho water. The House will no doubt pass the Senate bill, or one of similar import, and the President will then have it in his power to declare the ombargo in force whenover such a course may be deemed necessary. It is altogether likely that no occasion for its use will arise as Cuund twill be instructed by the homo ^government to behave herself.

ASOTITEII FRENCH WONDER. France is nothing if not scientific Her wise men are always rinding out some new means of accomplishing wonderful things with tho human family French savants have probably made anoro important discoveries in the world of science than those of nil other nations «omllned.

This is by way of introduction to the latest or modern French miracles, which is just now the sole topic of talk in Paris outside of »en. Boulanger and the army Through the agency of somnambulism Dr. Charcot is said to be ablo to work marvelous cures on nervous patients, Paralysis, dumbness and other forms of nervous disease, are transmitted to an other person, who is easily freed from the disease. This is accomplished by seating the two persons with their backs to each other. A magnet is placed at the wide of one of them and tho transmission begins. In from one to four sittings the sick person is completely cured, the disease having passed into the system of the other, who is at once enabled to throw it off at the suggest ion of the mes merist. In this way hysteric dumbness and paralysis have,

it

is said, been cared

Dr. Charcot regards it as impossible to explain the mechanism, Imtthe facts are undoubted. Great Interest is manifested In the matter in Paris, which iscertainly a remarkable discovery if it will accoui ftliah what la claimed for ii.

EVKKYBODY knows that T»exa» is a big country, but tew probably realise how vast its blgnosa is. A bill has been reported favorably in the State Ijcgislatu re to cut Tom Green county up into six counties. It has an acreage of 11,300 square mile* ana is larger than the State* of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Yea, Texas Is quite a arootny

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THE United States Senate took another vote on the woman suffrage question last Tuesday. The proposition was for a constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage, and there were 16 yeas to 34 nays. The vote however, can hardly be supposed to indicate the real sentiments of Senators on the subject, as the question was only as to the propriety of submitting the proposition to the several State Legislatures. Men who were not in favor of woman suffrage itself might be willing to submit the question to a vote of the people. Although the proposition obtained more votes in its favor then ever before it is evident that the plucky and persistant women who are leading the reform movement have a great deal of solid work still before them.

The war story mills are turning out some wretched emptyings, and it is time to ring a chorus of chestnut bells. Here we have that old yarn of General Sherman's wonderful abstraction of mind when before Atlanta, as shown by his throwing away the cigar of an officer from whom he borrowed a light for his weed. Such little incidents happen a hundred timos a day, and to all sorts of people, who are thinking about the price of potatoes, what they'll have for dinner, whether Jones will be on time, whether they'll catch that horse car, what a pretty foot that woman has, or what not. What stuff and nonsense to parade such trivialities as characteristic peculiarities of great men.

THERE is a good deal to be said in favor of the proposition to have United States Senators elected by popular vote. The increase and growing influence of very rich men in the Senate is a subject of serious solicitude. It is charged that combinations of railroad power frequently have too much influence in the selection of Senators. In case where the Legislature is very close it is possible to to use money corruptly, a practice which has more than once been resorted to. popular election would remove or greatly restrict the operation of these orrupt influences. •*.

THE action of the Knights of Labor in requesting the President to veto the Inter-State Commerce bill is rather surprising. The Knights are to the death against monopoly and the prime object of this bill is to strike a blow at the oppressive practices of the great railroad corporations. The law may not be the best that could be constructed but it is a start in the right direction and should be put into operation. The best way to find out its merits and its defects is to. make a practical trial of it.

BOSTON appears to appreciate Sam Jones', unlikely as such a thing would seem. One of the Hub papers thus describes a recent sermon: "He seems like a man who is deluged with ideas and is trying to get on top of them by swimming. Words come in floods, following one another so fast the hearer is startled. It is simply a succession of pictures, some pretty and idyllic in their simple repose, while others are very grand and almost terrifying. It was a fine, brainy, eloquent discourse." -•,

SEVEKAti nowspapers in the South which represent the colored people, are nominating Robert T. Lincoln for President in 1888. If the colored poo pie could elect him it would do well enough, but up to date Robert has not tired the hearts of tho people to any great extent. His father's name carried him to Garfield's abinet but it will hardly carry him into the Presidency.

Two years ago the Pennsylvania mills were making steel rails profitably at $2".f0 a ton. Now the price is up to $40 and tho manufacturers are complaining that rails are being imported from England, which can now bo done because of the high price of the American article. Tho

gausiness

of such a complaint must

be self-evident.

TITE five commissioners who are to carry out the provisions of the InterState Commerce law, will have solaries of $7,500 a year. There i,s no stinginoss about this but it is astonishing how many men think they would be worth that much to the Government.

HASN'T the country heard about enough of the Father McGlvnn case? It might be a good plan to let the Pope and the priest settle the matter for them selves, for that is what they will have to do after all has been said and don

The Pittsburgh Chronicle has tried it and affirms tnat if you hold ono hand in hot water and the other In cold you can't tell, after a minute or two, but what both are in hot water. This saves heating half the water to wash in.

ARRAHENTI.Y the reason wliy the United States Senate hangs on to secret sessions so pertinaciously is that the Senators are ashamed to have the country know what hard things they say about each other.

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There were only "six hundred" in the immortal Light Brigade of England, but it is estimated that at least twenty-fire hundred members of the brigade have died in the last ten years.

is* the New York Senatorial contest it looks very much as if Levi P. Morton had vigorously shaken down the fat plumb, which Frank Hiscock had nothing to do but laxily pick up.

OXK or more ballots are taken each day at Indianapolis for U. S. Senator, but there is no change,from the first vote, 75 for Tnrpie, 71 for Harrison and 4 for All«ll,

IT to suspected that Mr. Howella is getting ready to demolish William Shakea re

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

MR. BEECHERS LETTER.

MODERN FASHIONS.

WOMAN'S STRONGER SENSE OF THE BEAUTIFUL—EDUCATION IN TASTE NEKDED —THE WELI/-DRESSED MAN—"IF W

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EN'S FASHIONS ARE BORROWED FROM THE GLOW OF SUNRISE, MEN'S ARE CUT FROM THE LOOM OF MIDNIGHT '—HIGH BONNETS AND BIRD PLUMAGE. Correspondence of Saturday Evening Mall.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 26, 1887.

I have been asked, and several times, to write upon tho subject of tall bonnets and upon the slaughter of birds for the sake of ornamentation. I take this public manner of refusing to do any such thing. It is true that both are bad and one of them outrageous. But what of that? The pulpit attacking fashion is the modern imitation of Don Quixote attacking a windmill—or, as it would be in this case, the windmill attacking Don Quixote. Preaching against fashion has been the stern amusement of the pulpit for hundreds of years. What has ever been gained? It is true that Friends, called Quakers, adopted absolute simplicity as a badge of certain religious beliefs, and that primitive* Methodism had for one of its requirements the rejection of all ornaments. This is very different from preaching or writing against extravagances. The protests were reactions. They were part of an organized reformation of the whole life and not of an intense and general religious movement made up of deeper impulses than those of mere taste in apparel, and plainness itself becomes, in a sort, the symbol of beauty.

Fashion is fickle, fantastic, changeable and often destructive of taste or beauty4. But these are the imperfections of fashion. It is in itself rooted in some of the strongest elements of human nature. The sense of the beautiful is stronger in woman than in man. The desire of being attractive are especially influential. It is true that the world's great artists have been men and not women. It is not any the less true that women are, more than men, influenced by the sense of the beautiful. In women it follows her genius for domesticity. It creates order and good taste in homes, it refines conduct, it blossoms in apparel, regulates etiquette and everywhere in the realms of home seeks to secure elements of the beautiful.

In man, on the contrary, the inspirations of beauty till a wider sphere, represent intellectual elements or aim at moral grandeur at one extreme, or robust and masterful passion on the other extreme.

Men represent strength, women attractiveness the one builds, the other decorates men seek to produce the beautiful, women to be themselves beautiful. The masculine and tho feminine are as marked in the realms of the beautiful as in bodily organization.

The

wonderful exception to this rule of nature is found among birds. The female is unadorned, without glow ot color, without song, plain and unattractive. It is the male bird that weaves the rainbow and fills the fields with music.

It will be all in vain for the pulpit to inveigh against fashion with any hope of suppressing it. It may be corrected, educated, but never suppressed. Neither ridicule nor reasoning will prevent the flow of that stream, whose fountains are deep and organic. Newspaper essays, sermons, lampoons, epigrams, fall upon fashion as dew

upon

a sleeping lion.

Fashion springs from a necessity of being attractive, in part, also, but far less, from a relish of tho beautiful and from the imitative faculty and the love of change and novelty. These forces constitute, if not the deepest and strongest, yet the most excitable and active of the forces of the mind. Fashion is an effloresence of taste, of sympathy, of the love of pleasing and the hunger for admiration. It is not a mere surface peculiarity. One may destroy this particulac fashion, but not fashion itself.

The great need, then, is not moral discourse, but education in taste. Little by little the testhetic education is becoming part of our schools and seminaries. The general influence of art cannot fail to limit the oscillations of fashion in cos tume, to repress violent contrasts whether in form orjcolor, and to reduce the sphere in which extravagances are apt to prevail.

Fashion comes from no one knows where. Who invents and who propagates? This is an unsolved mystery Wbere is the nest out of which come these flocks of forms, colors, combinations? It is cortain that in colors fashion is far nearer to a correct standard than in lines and combinations of forms Fine lines and simple forms are rare, but the discords of color are rarer yet! And yet antiquity gives us enduring ex amplesof beauty and symmetry of form but almost nothing of color! If it were not for the charm of color fashion would become hideous. The human form is hardly considered as worthy of consider ation. Now fashion puffis out behind then swings arsnnd to the front with swathing bandaged suggestive of any thing but beauty. It rejoices in lumps it swells out the long train—useless and, in the circumstances in which it most needs be used, absurd to ridiculousness—on the plea of the beauty of flowing lines, and then it breaks up at the next hour all simple lines by ruffles, and dropsical bandages. We may not hope, wo may not desire even that huh Ion shall become precise and repetitious. We may even wish that it may en largo the sphere of men's dresses, both in color and forms.

A well-dressed man Is to-day a plaster of white on a background of black There Is no copiousness, no range of color, no grace of fulness and elasticity* Color is banished, grace and

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sleek crow with a white bib on his breast. Clergymen, gentlemen and waiters come forth with the insignificant cockade of a cravat on their necks—no scars, no flowery gowns, no richness of color. If women's fashions are borrowed from the glow of sunrise, men's are cut from the loom of midnight and topped off with the clumsy, graceless and useless hat.

An now as to birds' plunage on female costume and high hats, that are just now in growing fashion, all of which I am exhorted to condemn. I am like Baalam of old—called to curse but compelled to bless. For it cannot be denied that birds' plumage as a mere matter of decoration is exceedingly beautiful. The only objection, and it is a grave one, is that it will, if pursued long, exterminate the birds of exquisite plunage. There is grevious danger in this. It will be robbing nature to make women yet more attractive, though already enough beautiful. But, should the tast« persist, it must lead to the artificial breeding of birds or to artificial construction of plumage. It is one consolation that our best singing birds are not those which wear the finest colors. •sM I

Like George Washington, I cannot tell a lie. The Unicorn bonnets at present in vogue are very comely in my eyes a world finer than the scrimpy patches on womens heads, that were of no use and were positively homely. The present style gives elevation to the head and a kind of dignity. I cannot be bribed to decry them. The one valid objection to them is that in churches, theatres or assemblies they intercept the view. Why -not lay them aside for tho hour, as women do shawls, pelisses and cloaks and as men do hats. It would seem a great pity that one should lose the usual objects of going to church merely, for the sake of hearing the sermon.

T'L1'1 HENRY WARD BEHPHER.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARESA YINO.

The Judge: I notice that a egotist is alius some other fellow. Rahway Advocate: Tfie nian inwove with himself never has a rival.

Washington Critic: A politician is honest when all other means have failed. New Orleans Picayune: The short horse is soon( curried, if he is not a kicker. j, 1/ &

Whitehall Times: New loaves turned over should be pasted down and rivetted. New Orleans Picaynne: Poor people need no door plates. Want will find out where they live.

Philadelphia Call: Not all games are games of chance. In some of them the dupe has no chance at all.

New Orleans Picayune: Death is distressing enough without the addition of a bad brass band at the funeral.

Louisville Courier-Journal: The palatial homes of our railroad presidents are all built with long halls.

Life: It would be interesting to know if a rose by any other name would cost as much at this season of the year, j.

The Judge: Ther's many a man as has got a college education thet goes through life without findin' out how ter invest it.

Hartford Religious Herald: It is one of Satan's devices to blind the eyes of worldly men by dust from the ^soiled garments of Christians.

IFTIMELY

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CAUTION

[San Francisco Alta.]

About this time of year a little draught makes a big rheumatism. The Spaniards have an old couplet which runs:

If cold winds reach you through a hole, Go make your will and mind your soul.

THE TOY PISTOL.

[Brooklyn Eagle.]

Another toy pistol has killed a boy. The unrivalled merits of the toy pistol as a weapon of death should attract the attention of the belligerent powers of Europe.

Nearly $10,000 a Day.

This is a large sum of money, but the Phenix Insurance Company has paid this to policy holders every business day of the year just gone. In this State of Indiana the Company paid 411 losses last year, amounting to over $115,000 and has paid over $815,000 to policy holders during the time the Company has been in the State.

mutable forms are unknown. A well- ment to Globe Medicine Co., South dressed man Is scarcely more than a 1 Sixth Street, Terre Haute, Ind,

THE PHENIX DID MORE BUSINESS THAN ANY" FIVE INSURANCE CO'S IN THE WORLD, BY" OYER A MILLION DOLLARS IN 1886, and the outlook is much better this year than last.

RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO, Local Agents. J. IRVING RIDDLE, State Agent.

Birds Eye Views

OF TERRE HAUTE.

Only a Few Left.

Bird's eye views of Terre Haute reduced to 50c at the Banner Office. Only a few more left- These are lithographs 28x42 in size.

A LIBKRAL. OFFER.

Why Not Take It Up 1

For the purpose of giving the public an opportunity to test the merits of Hollingsworth's Antipyretic, the local druggists are authorized, during the month in which this notice appears, to sell it on a positive guarantee that, if used as directed, it will stop afresh cold or a tickling throat cough in TWENTY MINUTES, and completely break tbem up inside of FORTY-EIGHT HOURS. And that it will also give prompt relief in asthma and sneezing.

WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY. Charge all failures to us, and present the bottles

with names of users as vouchers for pay

SOUTH HUTCHINSON.

THE PHENOMENAL CITY OF KANSAS.

IF SOUTH HUTCHINSON DOES NOT OURSTRIP ALL HER RIVALS, AND BECOME THE BEST CITY IN THE ARKANSAS VALLEY', THEN

PROSPECTS COUNT FOR NAUGHT.

[From the South Hutchinson leader.] This city is one of the surprises that a person meets with in Kansas. Some men have a happy faculty of anticipating a public demand and such was the case in the projecting of this city which, until a few months ago, was unthought of, and the sneers were neither few nor reserved when the project assumed shape by the organizing a town company, and making survey and obtaining a State charter for the town last June. The company were determined to make a grand success of their undertaking and with the indomitable and farseeing Ben Blanchard at the head, has accomplished results up to date that astonish themselves and commands the confidence of farseeing capitalists at home and abroad. During the first six months of the town's existence, the company sold over $160,000 worth of lots, and it became necessary to plat several additions to the town. Main street lots which, a few months ago, were hard to sell at $150, are now sought after from $250 to $500 each. Residence lots have made a like or even greater corresponding advance. In point of population we have reached about three or four hundred and were incorporated by the board of county commissioners January 4th, into a city of the third class. Our first city election was held on Tuesday, the 18th, and resulted in the election of mayor, police judge, and five councilmen. -v

In point of natural advantages, this city holds the key to the situation. Reno county is the largest and one of the most fertile counties in our great State being thirty miles from north to south, and forty-two from east to west, comprising thirty-five congressional townships, embracing an area of eight hundred and six thousand four hundred acres of land, being equal to five thousand and forty farms of one hundred and sixty acres each. All this vast area is almost absolutely without waste land, a fact that eastern people can hardly realize yet were one who had nover been in Reno county, and knew nothing of it, to select a farm by the aid, simply of a county map, it would be almost impossible to select a poor piece of land. If we estimate the average size of our farms in the not distant future at 160 acres each and five persons to the farm, our farm population will alone reach over 25,000 persons. Add to this the probable city population and our county will have from 50,000 to 75,000 inhabitants. For this vast area and population, as well as much adjacent territory not embraced in this county, this is destined to be the great commercial metropolis. We will reserve mention of our railroad advantages both actual and prospective for a future article. Hutchinson, the county seat of Reno county, is situated on the north bank of tho Arkansas river, eight miles from the north line of the county, and twelve miles from the east line. The course of the river is from the northwest to the southeast. Thus it will be seen that Hutchinson is well toward the northeast corner of the county, and that about three-fourths of the county, as well as the most fertile portion, lies on the opposite side of the river. This condition of circumstances was taken advantage of in tho projecting of this city, and it is so situated that nearly all of Hutchinson's farm trade passes through here, before reaching the other side of river. No argnmont is necessary to show that this immense traffic will stop here rather than draw two miles farther through sand and cross the long bridge, when offered the same railway and market facilities. I'

We will speak more fully of the store buildings now built and occupied and to be built as soon as tho weather will permit, many of which will bc^jand^ome and large brick blocks. *j.,

We also reserve for future articles, a description of the manufacturing establishments already on the ground, and others sure to be put up here, as well as mills-, railroad shops, etc.

Religious, educational and social wants are not neglected. A fine $6,000 brick church is now under way, and an elegant city school building will soon be built.

This is the first of a series of articles which will appear weekly, showing the advantages of our young city, and we will try to treat every point with fairness. We do not expect to overdraw anything, but shall give facts and reasons based on facts. We would urge those who are seeking desirable locations for business, not to wait but come at once and investigate our advantages. We expcct this city to number 2,009 population inside of twelve months.

"Sow. Ocn'raV you're posted come"! Glvetift your views. In a brush at the front, what's the powder to

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He winked at a star a* he puffed hi* cigar. And slowly replied, "In a Onmh al /hx/ronf I never nw powder, but—SOZOIXJNT.'

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Where

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you'll find SOZODONT in vogue. Peo-

Ssrehare

le thrown away their tooth-pow-and washes, .and placed this oderiferous preservative of the teeth on the toilet table In their place. It keeps the teeth in splendi| order, and spices the breath.

"Spalding's Glue," always up to the sticking point. 15-4w.

ANOTHER

GUESSING CONTEST at HUNTER'S LAUNDRY, commencing Feb. 14th—interesting to both Ladies and Gentlemen.

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Well, Yes That's the Price!

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All Silk—21 inches wide—worth $1.25 to buy anywhere in this city.

OUR PRICE

PER YARD.

A Few Pieces Left for Monday *,«,• Morning Bargain Seekers.

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It will pay you to buy the elegant Silk. Be sure you see it On sale, Job Table—Front Entrance.

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HOBERG, ROOT & COf

For Sale.

FOR

SALE

My Thorough-bred Jeraey Hull Color, Kolid brown per1). ,/AKVIH, l'£U Center ft., Torre Haute. Ind.

Litchfield, Jr.

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XMoney to Loan. MONKY

TO LOAN—Home capital to loan on real estate mortgage In KUIHH of ftXH), and upward. IT. C. KOYHE, 517 Ohio street.

Amusements.

XT'AYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE.

J-N Wilson Naylor Manager.

THE lEi-V-IEJJSrT-

Saturday, Jan. 29th.

of the Prtptilar Artists."

Mr. and Mrs. W. .L

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Supported by a splendid company, present* 'v Ing the laughable comedy in four acts entitled:

Our Governor

OK,

His Little Hatchet,

Full of Enjoyment and Laughter.

"You can take the Governor's word for It." Prices Balcony fl., Orchestra and Dress Circle 75c, Family Circle SOc, Gallery IEk-.

"VT"AYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE.

-l-N Wilson Naylor—Manager.

One Week and Saturday Matinee

COMMEWCITFO

Monday, January 31.

The Charming Little Queen of Comedy

Eunice Goodrich,

Hup ported by a company of unusual excel* lenee. Great Reduction in Prices, but No

Diminution in Merit.

Admission, lO and 20c. Seats at Button's without extra charge. REPERTOIRE FOR THE WEEK. MONDAY—The Banker1* Daughter. TUEHDAY—MUs*. WEIJNEHDAY-ThePearl of Savoy. THUKHDAY—Wanted—A Husband. «*,' FR'lJA Y—Rosedale. SATURDAY—Hink Domlnos. 8ATCKHAY MATINEE—East Lynne. 2 Solid Gold Watches Given Away One at Saturday Matinee and OueatHaturday

Night's Performance.

F. SCHMIDT Dealer in

WATCHES, CLOCKS, SILVER and PLATED WARE, FINE JEWELRY,

OPTICAL GOODS, Ac,

403 Main Street.