Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 September 1887 — Page 8

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BITTER ATONEMENT.

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A TELEGRAPHER'S REMORSE BECAUSE OF CARELESSNESS. JF

H* WM TblnMnc at Hit Lady LOT* rad Forgot an Order*—A T«rrlble Railroad Accident tb* B«ralU»A Hermit's Lite on the Mountain Side.

Away op on the slope of the Allegheny mountains, four or five miles from Uniontown and only a few steps off (bo line of the old Cumberland pike, a little plain board cabin stands. It isnt xnach bigger than a good sized dog kennel and it is set so far back among the rocks and trees that it cannot be seen mora than 100 yards away. But there Is a cleanly, homelike air about the place that speaks as positively as words of the refinement of the owner. The owner himself is somewhat of a mystery to the great majority of the simplo minded mountain folks who live in that vicinity, but to the select few who enjoy his confidence be is a friend whose friendship is as solid as the rocks on which bia little home is built. A reporter rambling over the mountains last week stumbled all unexpectedly upon the secluded dwelling. The occupant was sitting In a homo made hammock just outside the door adjusting a fish line to a pretty jointed rod. A daily paper lay on the ground at his feet. Ho was a young man, not more than 30 years of age, but his hair and mustache were as white as silver, and there tvns an expression of sadness on his faco which seemed to be habitual. His clothing was old and worn. bat it was well kept and neat for all that, and it was worn with a grace that is not born in the mountain districts. He welcomed his visitor as heartily as though he bad known him for yeani, and his invitation to take a seat and rest almost amounted to a command. During the course of the two hours' conversation which followed he told the sad story of bis life and the combination of circumstances which led him to leave tho habitation! of men and go away into the mountain by himself. "I was raised and educated in Pittsburg,n be said. "1 learned telegraphy in the Westem Union office, and when not twenty years of age was put in charge of an office on a railroad out in Ohio. It doesn't make any difference what offico it was or what road it was on,it was an office and a rather important one at that. I hadn't been in my new position more than six weeks when I fell desperately in love with A girl who lived only a block from my office. The attachment was «nutual, and when six weeks had lengthened into six months we were engaged. One night—it was in February, 1877—I had been to seo my sweetheart and about midnight was sitting in my office thinking of the coming wedding und feeling as happy as any young man with bright prospects ahead of him could feel, when word come over the wires that a special freight was coming over the main track westward. It was still thirty miles nwny, and after recording the fact thjit It was coming Imy thoughts recurred to the little girl down the street "Ten minutes later tho conductor of the cast bound express came in for orders. 'All right, Bill,' I said, as I glanced up and saw him, and a minute later he was on his train, speeding away at a twenty-five mile an hour gait. The rear lights were scarcely out of sight when I happened to look at my desk. There was nothing there but my instrument and a bit of paper, but that bit of paper was enough. There, in plain letters on it, were the words I had written not more than a quarter of an hour before, 'Extra freight tell Bill to sidetrack.' Tho express has to sidetrack, you know, because the switches were not long enough for freights. My hair fairly stood on end. There was that freight coming on with full steam, with the express going to meet it at tho rate of twenty-five miles an hour. 1 fell back in my chair, and the cold {terspirntloii broke out all ovor me. Then I grasped the key to my instrument and called in succession all the offices intervening between tho two trains. They were all day offices, and the operators had gone home hours before. The clicking of tho instrument sounded to my excited imagination as loud as tho discharge of caunons. For live minutes I called in tho dwperato hop© that some one would hear mo in time to stop the express. But it was no use. Every office was clowxl "I dropped the key and ran down the stair* and out onto tho track. I think I had a wild bojie that I could ovcrtako the express, but as soon as I got into tho open air I realised the folly of any such attempt, and with the feeling of tho most utter despair I returned to the ofilce and dropped into tho chair. But I couldn't sit still. The instrument on the desk •cetned to mock mo and tho air in the office sremml stifling. I walked out on the track again and walked back and forth along the cross tics, waiting for the mult I knew it must couio, and I instinctively stayed within bearing distauco of the instrument "It scorned an age, but in reality it wasn't more than half an hour, till the sounder clicked and I ran op stairs, hoping beyond liope that sonx* lucky circumstance had averted a disaster. I was so nervous that I could scarcely hold tho key to tho answer. Then I laki back and merited as the instrument clicked what sremed to me to be my death sentence: 'Express and freight collided.

Nineteen killed many injured.' "Two weeks later I regained my senses. I tiad been hovering around between life and death during the Interval and I was still so weak that I could scarcely move a finger. But I recovered rapidly and then they told mo the awful details. Both engineer* and tho conductor of the passenger train as well as sixteen passengers had been killed. Tbe list of killed ran up to nearly fifty. Tbe trains bad met oo a curve, and the passenger bad been thrown over an embankment thirty feet high. The Cormier's jury had heard all the details and had exonerated me, although tell you now I would rather at that time they bad banged me. All through my sickness my sweetheart watched over me and nursed me, and when I recovered sbe was kindness and oMtsktartttfoa iteelf. But I was In no mood far love making. "As soon as was able to leave tbe hospital I went to Pittsburg, and from time I came est here, intending to stay a uxnth or so, till my nerves would get stranger. I stayed all and tben it waa soqafet and secluded bare that I built me this littiscabte and l^ve be* here ever shsoa, "Bow do 1 tivef Well, 1 had a little money 1B tbe bank ud ft dont cost orach toMvenp ban When «be moMp*«ll to**, I nekon ru be r«4jr to ge wyee* I go to tfekattown or OMMtkffflk ooas to whflhb IwHllof tU»e places I lave MtfaM«*wM I from bece for ton yeaie."-?iti^tD^itrk

Bahse rwvdedla over bit goUsn beard, and be trie cfeametarv with tks novelist test be law, aad tbe Bowse wpwolM Snancial schemes that be loved to paietato

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THE DESERTED FARM.

Farnp the slope of yrad»r eastern hlQ, A lonely faro bouse lingers in tleccy: Dc&srted, cbeerlcss. desolate, and gray, Tbe sport of win'ls that mock it at their wll Tho farm is barren bet tho stony rill That IjcbWec through it, answered to tbe play Of children once, who grew, and went away, With recollections thei are tender still. Now, in the Sew England of tbe west, Offspring of this, have other homes upgrown Whencc lorinjf thoughts fly back to yonder crest, Like birds of passage from a kindlier sane In fond remembrance

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parent nest.

As once it was, before the brood had Gown. —F. W.

Oarke in American

Magazine,

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RUNNING FOR THE TRAIN.

Wby Are Ladles So Liable to Be Latef A Bit of Advice. Why are women so liable to be late at tbe train? From unbusinesslike habits, lock of convenient pockets to put handkerchief, portmonuaie, glove buttoner and miscellaneous fullalerie into. Then they linger at the door for a dozen all important "postscripts," as they do at tbe tail of a letter. More than all, they are always sure tlicy can get there in five minutes, when, unless tbey were shot through a pneumatic tunnel, they could in no way get there in less than fifteen. When they are late and see tho train slowly begin to melt away, why don't tbey stop at once! Because, like tbe valiant Irishman, theydont know when tbey are beaten.

Conundrums aside, running with fifteen pounds of dress skirt and as much of other "toggery," a constricting corset and paper soled agonising boots, verg-_-» on tho crime of self destruction. Does your business require that you should ignore tbe laws of health, perhaps of life? If it does, go itl You won't catch tho train, and you will cut an astound* ing figure—a racing human female always does—but your sacrifice will be all heroic. It will mean something. Or is all your business going into the next town to see what is going to be worn this summer, and perchance to invest in.a dozen buttons for anew eight cent calico wrapper! If so. down brakes. Walk calmly and dignifledly home. Pin up tbe front of your wrapper with safety pins sooner than risk bodily injury. "I have in my life run for a train, but will never do it again," is the testimony of many women who have lived long enough to gather wisdom or acquire ill health. Running under proper conditions is not injurious, but in a state of anxious excitement it is accompanied by distressing consequences. These, may not at once make themselves manifest, though it is no unusual thing to bear of fatal results from such rash performances. To be sure, the organs are not flung loosely into tbe body as some nervous hypochondriacs seem to imagine all is well arranged and calculated for work and to withstand ordinary strain if the head be allowed to rule. But, however nicely a steam engine be Constructed, or however powerfully built, it has its limit of pressure, and the driver, unless he were out of his mind, would not run without a gauge. It is not always making haste to hurry. Tbe people who nover have anything dona are always in a hurry. If the work of creation were all done we should have nothing to do but to drop quietly into the nun. Avoid undue baste and live longer.—Herald of Health.

Badly Written Signatures.

"What's the namef asked one of tbe Hoffman house clerks of guest who had just registered.

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as the guest left

the desk the cleric wrote the name on a slip with tbe number of the room and put the slip into the box. "Just look at that signature," remarked the clerk to a bystander. "Nobody on earth who was not thoroughly acquainted with it could ever make it out You have no idea how much trouble is caused by peoplo who write such bad hands as to make the writing practically illegible. This is particularly the case with signatures. A man registers in such a way that we can't make out what his name is, and when he asks for letters we get more trouble. Letters for guests, you know, are put in their box, or in a box beginning with the first letter of their name. When we can't make out tbe name we just throw the missives in a general pile. "A man steps up, looks af his box, sees no letters in it, and begins to kick because those that lie had expected had not come. I really believe that people try to make their signatures as illegible as possible." "Why is thisf" "I don't knqw, unless they are afraid of forgers. Then a good many consider it a mark of genius to write a bad hand. Did you ever notice the signatures of great men, authors and statesmen? Well, nearly all of them are so IKUI that you couldn't mako out what they were if you didn't know. Look at any hotel register nowadays, and you'll see how this mauia to write bad signatures is spreading." "Who write the poorest bands?" "Well, it is a little difficult to assign tbe poor hands to any special class. Drummers ami commercial men ordinarily write plain hands, but there arc a good many exceptions. Lawyers as a rule write their names tbe worst. Your statesmen ami politicians also writo poor hands. Theatrical men as a general thing get up ugly signatures, doubtless as a mark of genius. At any rate, tbe thing is being run iuto the ground, and is a great bother."—Kew York Evening Sun.

Mlseegenatlon tn Portugal. Another peculiarity of a San Carlos audience is tbe preaeuee, on no few occasions, of negmes tn tbe first circles accompanied, perhaps, by a lieautifal white wife, more fair by contrast with her swnrthy lord. Tbcae negroes are generally magnates of the slave trade, which in tbe past was indebted to the Portuguese rather than to Spanish subjects for its vitality. They are received on a perfect footing of equality, and their children may be met with any day ou the streets walking hand in baud with their white st-bool fellow*. Tho common distinctions of tbe negro attest the frequency of tbe nkqpsatioa, though perhaps not as common hers as in Rraril. Time will determine whether tbe resalting mixture presents tfce hybrid characteristics of tbe people of Mexico and Pteru, where races less dissimilar than tbe white and black have mingled their Wood for centuries. —Lisbon Cor. Sin Francisco Chronicle.

Doa'l SOX tbe Bars.'

Tbe practice In Ibe scboots and at boms of boxing children's ears te a too comawsi form of pwntehiraot, practiced by irritable aad Ignorant persona. Tbe drum of thesar Is of paper Wee tbtenesi, mad it nay be, and has been In a a«mber of cases, mptared by a single light step on tbe side of the bead, tocurable deafnese II—Itlwg as a conatqaenrii All strokes on tbe beads of htlptass ebadr—i are not only brwtal, bat to

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WHAT LINEMEN SEE.

CURIOU3 PEEPS INTO SECONDSTORY WINDOW8.

The Jacks o* tbe Wires Wbo Flit Among the Poles—What Was Sees by a Hnsband Up a Pole—Tho Man with a dab. 5

If Peeping Tom had lived in modem days he would liavo come to Now York and been a linummi A lineman is a man who has the privilege of climbing np poles and looking is at everybody's windows at any hour of tbe day or night. Tbe linemen are the property of the telegraph, telephone, electric light and other companies that pre-empt the atmosphere for their business, as other people buy land for factories. There aro several hundred of them in New York and vicinity.

These are some other thiug* that different Hiwmm allege tbey have seeu in the course of their professional careers:

A husband lying in bed while his wife built tbe fire. A young man kissing a girl behind her father's back.

Biddy from the kitchen trying oo the missus' dresses. A sick girl nursing a rgsebosh on a tenement window silL

Two countrymen being fleeced at a brace game of poker. Two girls making shirts for twenty-nine cents a day apiecei.

A young man calling on his giri and trying to economise gas. A cat jumping on canary's cage (lineman yelled and bird was saved).

A cat just about to be hit by an empty bottle coming from an upper window. A father, mother and four children making a meal off of a boiled soup bone and three potatoes.

A pitcher of water on its way down to a serenadcr who was playing "Sweet Violets* on a guitar.

A baby pulling a dog's tail, and three oats keeping watch over the body of an old woman who had starved to death in a garret "We never pay much attention to things we see from up the poles," said a telephone lineman who called himself Smith, yesterday. "That is, as a general thing. Sometimes it's different "One thing we telephone linemen see pretty often is a man with a club. We generally see him on tbe roofs. Jim ovor there with his arm in the sling is tbe last one that see that particular ghost walk. He had just got a line over tbe roof of a big banker that lives up on Forty-fiftb street, and has been fighting the telephone company for six months. He bad got np as being a caller on the butler, wbo had a room in the attic, and he was just wondering whether he had better go down the same way, when Mr. Banker's head came up through the scuttle. Time was short and tbe stick the banker had waa long. It was seventeen feet down to the next roof, but Jim jumped it Tbe people thought an earthquake or something had landed on their roof, but Jim told tbem he had only fell from a pfl*Hng balloon, and slipped down to tbe street before tbey bad time to ask him anything about wbo was to pay for mending the roof."

Curious, however, and interesting as are tho things seen by linemen in the houses of cititens, it is doubtful if any of them are one half so curious as what citizens might see in one home of the linemen, a little eight by twelve cranny between tbe operating room and tbe sixth floor of the Western Union building. From its single small window the view is through amass of wires down upon the red roof of St Paul's. Tbe smoky base of theroofsand the roar of the street creep op from far below in vague quavers of sight and sound. Tbe air is heavy with tbe odor of the robber insulation which covers the wires. Three or four broken backed chain, prudently fastened to tbe walls with loops of wiro to prevent their being carried off to some other department, are all the furniture. Tho room is dark and dingy.

Every wire that enters tbe building'must pB— through this room before it can get to the operating room ovorhead. Lying in irregular clusters and tangled masses, inextricable and only to be traced out separately by patient expertuess, they form the wall and ceiling of the room. Hundreds of little inch square cardboard tags, bung from tbem, flutter like snow white aspen leaves on tangled black twigs in the bret no that come* through tho narrow window. Through the door at ono end can bo seen glass jars, six inches wide and eight high, filled with grceu liquid, 10,000 of tbem stacked tier on tier in wooden racks, with narrow alleys running between. An opening at tbe other end of the room admits the sound of tbe dynamos, a sound that is almost silence in tbe ceaseless, low, unvarying monotone. Punctuating it all is tbe regular silver tinkle of tbe little bell on the stoircaso outside that strikes oil the seconds year in and year out, marking true time for half tho country.

Engineer Brown, wbo rite among dynamo machines in the greasy blouse and overalls of a laborer and talks about ohms, volts, ampberes, and other strange electrical things with tbe ease and vivacity of a man of science, says that for seven years that dull whir of tbe dynamos bas never ceased. There are three gangs of five machines each. Two gangs are always running. If on? breaks down tbe third gang is started in it* place, but never for a moment since they first started have tbey paused or rested in their work of grinding out electricity. Tbey take tbe place of 85,000 of tbe jars. So many would cover an acre of ground, even stacked up five or six deep, as are tbe 10,000 jam still retained to work tbe New York city drmits. A new plant of larger machines is now being placed in tbe basement of the building. When tbey are ready the present machines will stop for the first and last lime, aad the new ones will begin what will coma as near to perpetual motion as anything yet devised, for nothing but an earthquake or similar cataclysm will stop tbem, until they, too, prove too small, and have to give place to still hunger

HAUTE SATURDAY EVUNTNG MAIL.'

to tbe line

men's aerie, and can pick out at a moment% notice any ooe at the 1,900 wires that are tanfied op to thaodoroos rabbet? masns on the walk aad ceiling of the room, says that only foarteaa mm are now required to look after the Western Uafcw wires hi the city. This is beeaasethe wire* tatsad of being: stretched an tbe poles singly, Imitlwid tote oahles of atoeh time over the poles or a groaad. By fell, he says, afi the Western tJuka wires In the etty will be cabled. Seven! of thess cabksare attached to *e elevated railroad stiautaiea, tod otters nm audigioaad, so that* so ferae the Western Cske is ooaosrned, the trreihcad wires wiB be amity geas. As to aadergroaad wires, Mr. Bioera says feat the oonspany has act yatbeea able to Had a system that win pre-

I have six children at tbe poor farm, ranging in age from 3 months to 6 years. Those ring children to raise are requested to call at tbe poor farm and confer with me regarding tbe matter. JOSHUA HULL.

Money to Loan,

ONEY TO LOAN—On Real Estate mort^.^.gage, in sums of 9800, and upwards. Home capital and no red tape.

I. H. ROYCE, 517 Ohio St.

Wanted.

WANTED.—SECOND

HAND SCHOOL

BOOKS bought, sold and exobanged. Also, a full line of new school books and supplies at W. P. SIBLEY, «78 Main street.

WANTED—ROOMS—The

Fall Term of the

State Normal School will open Tuesday Sept 6tb. Persons having rooms for rent, clubbing accommodations, etc., for students wilt please address tbe State Normal School, City.

For Sale.

Fneradjoining.

OR SALE.—Good property northeast corof Sixth and Eagle streets and double house Owner Is here from Denver for a few days and will sell cheap. Call at 671 Ohio street for particulars. T7H)R SALE—One good WAGON and TEAM J? Will sell them very cheap, eit" ately or all together. Apply to P.. residence one half mile east of blast furnace.

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OR SALE.—HORSE.—If application is immediately, a good horse, of good style, reasonably fast traveler and so gentle as to be safely driven by woman or child, will be sold on reasonable terms. Enquire at office of Saturday Evening Mail.

For Rent

FOR

RENT—A fine suite of newly papered rooms will all modern improvements. Location, oonvenienoe and elegance not equaled in tbe city. Call and see tbem, Koopman's Block, cor. 8th and Cherry. None but respectable parties need apply.

W. VANYALZAH,

iDEnsrrisT.

Office—Southwest oorner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entranoe on Fifth Street. Communication by Telephone.

1NCOLN & HAYNES,

±J DENTISTS Office 19% south 6th st, opposite post olfioe. All work warranted as represented.

H. C. PUGH. O. E. PUGH.

pUGH & PUGH,

Attorneys at Law,

J. NUGENT. M. J. BROPHY. r?*

AJUGENT A CO.

PLUMBING and GAS FITTING

A dealer In

Qaa Fixtures, Globes and Engineer's Supplies. 50S Ohio Street. Terre Hante, Ind,

Rudolph Gagg,

DEALER IN

Artists' Materials,

Drawing Instruments, Engravings, Wax ana Paper Flower Materials, Gold, Plush and Bronze Frames,

Albums, Scrap Books, etc. Decorative Art Specialties.

648 Main st. Terre Haute. Pictures Framed to Order.

RAPP

& CO.,

Millers and Dealers In:

ROLLER PROCESS

Corn Meal and Rye Flour

We have the only roller process corn mill in this section of tbe Htatc, and the meal we turn out cannot be beat It will pay any merchant along any of the railroads and country merhants to buy our superior meal,

I.. half ViHahot na/tlf AfrttS

:cbnnge for either meal or feed. Rye ed. M1U near I. St. L. depot, Terre Haute, Indiana.

J^OW BATE

Excursion Tickets

NOW ON SALE

All Summer Resorts via Chicago & Eastern Illinois

THREE TRAINS D/SY PROM

Terre Haute to Chicago

Making close connection with all roads diverging. Call or write for copies of

Tourists Guides,

Giving a description of the various summer resorts of the North aad Northwest. WM. HILL,

Gen. Pass. Aft. Chicago, to.

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Money to Loaa at Low Kates of Interest,

BERTIER

R. A. CAMPBELL, General Ait, tU Wabash Ave.

Established UK Incorporated IKS. pHCENIX FOUNDBY

Airs

MACHINE WORKS,

Manafaotiu* and deal in all kinds of

Machinery and Machinery Users Supplies.

Flour Mill Work

OUR SPECIALTY.

Have mors patterns, laiger exjyriepoe aag

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901 to SS6 W. 9th at., naarUaloo Dapot

Full Value.

HERZ'" BULLETIN.

With a view of removing into our new' St' Rooms, 512 and 514 Main Street, we pi chased, early this summer, some handso* Novelties in almost every department throih our entire store, for the fall season, but as 1 will not be able to occupy our new store rooi for about two months, we are compelled show our New and Elegant Goods in our pi ent quarters. We invite our many friends aJ patrons to call and see the Handsome Line Kid Gloves, Windsor Ties, Dress Trimmin Ruchings, etc, ever brought to this city.

Our importation of BEADED TRI3 MING will arrive next week. Will give notice through the daily papers of their arriv

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HERZ' BAZAR. Vacation's Nearly Ove

BOY'S WARDROBE

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Visit Our Boys' and Children's Departs

We are now showing our Exclusive Novelties in Boys ftjad Children's Suits. For Reliable Service our Clothing ib not excelled.

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-MYERS-BROS.

Leading Clothiers and Gents' Furnishei

S. W." corner 4th and Main Sts.

Wm. H. Armstrong & Co., Surgical, Dental and Optical Instrument^

Reliable Spectacles and Eye Glasses.

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M. JiA-LXJJi:,

20 South 7th Street Terre Haute.| Real Estate and Loan Broker^

Boy and Sell Raal Krtnto. HOQMI Rooted and Bonis Oolloetod. Non BaakUmte Proportj takon oaro of and Taxoo Ptdd. All Klnb of Beal EMalo boofhtand sold on Commlaaioft. CorwfwJMiM goiloiUd. lalornuilon C?hooifully Fnrnlabod. atookaof Moighanillao gtTpp or Ukoq la Kwlim far olhwr Froporty, All Bmliw Promptly Attondad TP. .. 90TABT

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Opera Glasses, Tourists' Git Reading Glasses and Magnify Its Glasses. Headquarters for 1 trie Insoles and Belts, Gal

Batteries, Trusses of all kinds,]

Ol dominal Supporters, Crutf I1L Braces, Hot Water Bottles, IN THE

ber Gloves, Elastic Stocking

Wm.

Armstl

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5pp. Pent Office. No. 28 couth Sixth

5c Straight.

War Declared! English Sparrows Must I

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This SfolaeleM "Sparrow (tan" Gout* only IJ-% a Wemfa'm ?un wllj be" given bringing lint twenty Ave sparrow* killed with thl« irtin.

No Scheml

A. G. AUSTIN & CO.

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