Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 October 1887 — Page 1

Vol. 18.—No. 15.

Twelve' Pages, a

Notes and Comment.

Tho superstitious man thinks the President is pushing tho "Cleveland luck" to the very vergo by starting on tho trip on Friday.

Tho doniands of our enterprising advertisers makos It nocessary to add four more pages to this week's Mall,—making twelve |ages in all.

Several columns of original and selectod matter in this issuo wore in typeand crowded out of last wook's Mail. Some of it may have become a little stale.

Our guests will tarry hero but brief time, but it sufficiently long for our people to show how, regardless of politics, they can honor the chief magistrate ami first lady of the land.

Miss Lucy Higden. of IHstroit, is the latest woman's dress reformer. She vigorously protests against the gown for women ami favors trousers or knickerbockers. As between the two we should say knickerbockers, by all means.

The New York Sun estimates that Mr. Cleveland's private car for his western and southern trip will cost him fit),000, lesldes which there are other expenses. This only shows that second term booms are expensive things to handle.

From now on the days grow shorter and the nights longer. There is a chance to get some good, honest sleep and plenty of it. The long winter evenings are also favorable for profitable reading. See that you improve both opportunities.

Tho St. liouis Globe- Iemocrat declares, and It Is probably true, that not a fifth a* much medicine is administered now as was prescribed ten years ago. If this is the work of homeopathy no small amount of credit Is duo to the "little pills.**

The report that canned goods would he extremely scarce and high this winter does* not promise to bo borne out by the facts. According to

Cincinnati paper

tho new price lists show these goods to be cheaper than ever, which Is welcome news. If true. _______ "Fland roe's Mogul.' upon the seventh page. Is a striking and unusally strong story of a railroad engineer's fight against the corporation to recover damages for injuries receive-1 while in its service. The author, Mr. A. C. Gordon, is a Virginia lawyer.

The original dedication of "Ben- Hur" was this simple line:

"To the wlfeof my

youth." Many persons were mislead by it into thinking that Gen. Lew Wallace had suffered a lasting sorrow In the loss of his wife, and to avoid such a mistake for the future he has added in the later editions the line, "Who atlll abides with me."

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FRANCES FOLSOM CLEVELAND—^The First Lady of the Lanci.\

Senator Voorhees told his Denver friends that his name properly is Van Voorhees and he regrets that the "Van" had been dropped. The Senator says he is of good Knickerbocker stock. A change at this time would be preposterous. He is and always will be "Dan Voorhees." It would be as unnatural for him to assume the "Van" as it would be to wear the Knickerbocker breeches.

Joe Jefferson plays Rip Van Winkle at South Bend, up at the other end of the Ijogansport road, to-night, and the Tribune makes the singular statement that this will be the first appearance of this actor in that city. It must be a very sleepy old town that has not attracted Joe Jefferson years and years ago. His first appearance in Terre Haute was nearly half a century ago, and he has been "on the road" over since.

We print this week upon another page a portion of an address recently delivered by Judge J. B. Julian, before an old settlers' meeting, wherein he tells how log cabins were constructed and the habits and characteristics of the early pioneers. It will lie familiar reading to many an old resident is these parts, and it will be interesting to many a young reader in the city, who knows little of how the first settlers lived and suffered and died.

If Mrs. Cleveland tries as hard to "escape the curious crowds" on her visit West and South, as she did in Philadelphia she will be in imminent danger of of breaking her neck or spraining an ankle. At the latter city it is related that she got out of her hotel via the storeroom and kitchen, climbing over boxes, barrels, bundles of brooms, etc., on the way. It has not been the custom heretofore for presidents' wives to make such desperate efforts to escape observation and this new example of official snobishness, if the facts related are true will not meet with a hearty indorsement by the people.

Indianapolis is being aroused as only at the time of a presidential election and with good cause. The toy gang is making a desperate effort to capture the city at the forthcoming election. If Indianapolis is handed over to this gang now it will take many years to rid the city of the incubus. There never was in any city a gang that was more inclined to do all that corrupt boss rule means than this Coy gang and If it should succeed now it would consider itself at liberty to go to such extremes of despoliation as would injure tlie city tor many years to come. We do not believe a majority of the people of Indianapolis, even if the

A number of youn^ people of Martin's IFerry, O.'are going to be^disciplined by 'the Presbyterian church, to which they belong, for dancing. Yet in the larger towns and cities members of the Presbyterian church dance as much as they please and are not disciplined. Is it worse to dance in Martin's Ferry than in Cincinnati or Cleveland.

Mr. Charles Kern's name is now conspicuous in the local and editorial columns of the Chicago newspapers. As chairman of the .Cook county Democratic club he has been called upon to decide some questions of vital importance tq.an organization that seems to be in danger of a deadly internal war.. Our former fellow citizen has made several rulings which set the Frank Lawler element of the party wild with rage. It is difficult at this distance to comprehend the nature of the dispute, but the fact that Kern is opposing the Lawler bummer element is enough to let his old friends here know that he is on the right side,

A celebrated philosopher recently declared that kissing is a stupid act in which sensible people ought to be ashamed to indulge. Well, perhaps it is, but for all that we should hate to risk a pair of pretty, puckered lips in close vicinity that old bald head's mouth. He would go for them with more snap than a trout for a fly. People may be depended on to know a nice thing when they see it and as far back as the Garden they decided that kissing was pleasant and have kept at it ever since. And they will continue to kiss on proper occasions and in ecstatic moments in spite of all tho stupid philosophers,, in, the universe. yf

The undisguised efforts of many enterprising citixens to utilize the visit of the President as an advertising 9cheme for the city, calls attention to the fact tbat the people no longer hold to that ideal worship of men prominent in public life as once was the custom. The public man is now no more of an aweinspiring being than the ordinary man. He is used by the fair associations as the balloon and big bull formerly were. Within the past ten days John Sherman drew thousands of persons to a fair in New York State, Win. M. Evarts did the same at another fair in the same State, and over at Woodstock, Illinois, they found it a big paying card to give Sam Randall $.t00 and his expenses from Philadelphia out there and back. The truth is the Jpeople are test brushing aside that divinity that fonnerly hedged [a President or one filling a prominent place in the public eye. They go to see the public man hut out of curiosity, not to worship him. It is well that the change is taking place. The people of this country are omnivorous readers and tliey think dispassionately of what they read, forming an opinion quite reliable as that beld by the would-be leaden of men. In days gone by Henry Clay would make a jonrney from Washington to his Kentucky home and along the route mad* speeches. What be then

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city is Democratic Ltyvi thousand* votes. want Coy toiraccdedFvrfjds present effort but it will take a tidal wave of indignant protest at the tiallot box to oflfcet the schemes by which he has become uotorious as an audacious violator of the will of the people.

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said was accepted as gospel truth and all ot his followers swore by those views until Clay came along again and gave

a fresh supply. The editorial ter in those days filled alike mission. Sow, however, the people do their own thinking and as they realise that they are quite able to take care of themselves in this respect the absurd worship of the "leguier" disappears, and as we now see e^en the President is made use of as an advertising dodge for a catch-penny enterprise. And why not? The President is a public servant, and.if we've a mind toput our servant to doing something Which he was not hired to do and he oViects, why then he can quit. Certain it&fa we will have no trouble getting one in his place.

I ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. ".We have arranged with thischarmffMiWestern writer, who has been styled th«**4Poet of the Passions," for*a series of bright and popular articles, to appear ea^h week in The Mail. The first of the seties, on "Flirting," is given in this issue* Next week she will write about "•J^be Temptations of Girls," contrasting tliB temptation of young women in city and country, telling how men tempt women, how women tempt men, and giving her views as to which qpx is realty most at fault.

These "articles by Mrs. Wilcox give'undoubted promise of proving the most popular and successful series of papers written by a woman for a number of yefers. The remarkable popularity that attends all of Mrs. Wilcox writings will even be eclipsed in the present instance, as she has chosen a list of subjects upon which she is especially adapteftfto write with ease and ability, and wftll advance opinions which she Juts 1^ desired to make public.

Jflaciy acquaintance bewails tiie absence of pockets in her dresses, and here is an opportunity for some inventive genius to confer a lasting benefit on a full half of the civilized world directly and Indirectly on the whole of it? "Will not somebody," she asks "oblige the whole sex by inventing a reasonable pocket? It seems that the existing pocket has almost every disadvantage. In the first place, whereas man has the command of some ten or twelve pockets, woman has Usually only one. Into this receptacle, therefore, she to put all. her neceo*. saries. Purse, keys, handkerchief, pow-der-box, smelling-bottle are all huddled together in such confusion that when she wants any one of these articles she has to pull out the whole of them. Worse still, this single pocket is so inconveniently situated that it can only be got at with the greatest difficulty, while it is very liable to be sat upon. Anybody will admit that an able-bodied bunch of keys, or many other pointed, hard and angular trinkets do not make the most convenient of seats, and consequently woman suffers a good many unspoken

Justice generally "gets there" but sometimes it's a good while about it Eleven years ago H. P. Volkmar set fire to his printing office in Philadelphia, to get the insurance money. He was arrested, placed under $3,000 bonds, and fled the country. The other day he was arrested as Alfred H. Lewis. He was the principal citizen of Millbank, a thriving Dakota town with three banks, an opera house and two newspapers. He was one of the founders of the town seven years ago, an editor of one of newspapers, the Grant County Revicv he had been postmaster for four years of its existence, and he was appointed in June a member of the governor's staff. His influence as a Democratic politician had secured the removal of tho county seat to Millbank. Bright, energetic, active, he was the most popular man in town and county.^ v.»,, ,s*

A Chicago man has inaugurated anew system of collecting accounts from deadbeats. He has fitted himself out with a glaring red wagon, with the inscription, "Bad Debts Collected" in large letters on each side of it. The wagon is naturally a very conspicuous object as its owner allows it to stand in front of the house of a victim while inside trying to have a bill liquidated, and, if one or two applications fail, he takes pains to hitch in front of the doorway often enough to publish the news pretty widely that the house occupant is a beat. The idea is a capita! one and must prove an especial success in bringing to time employees in mere ban tile houses and offices whose employers would naturally resent the standing of the wagon in front of their establishments.

An exchange says man does not really amount to anything until he has married a nice girl." It is the great misfortune of a good many "nice girls" that men don't "really amount to anything" afterward. The girl who marries a drinking, "wild oats" man expecting to reform him afterward generally repents in sorrow and tears.

A good newspaper is a poor man's library. Encourage newspaper reading among your children and you will soon discover a fondness for the family journal and a rapid improvement in manners and genera) intelligence.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARES A YINQ.

Detroit Free Press: The general option on anarchy is, "Oh, hang it." Whitehall Times: The road to wealth is crowded with men who are turnifig back.

Puck: Speaking of the ballet-girlf you'd scarce expect one of her age to dance in public on the stage.

Harper's Bazar: While the lamp holds out to burn there is not much danger^of Ihe average servant filling it. fs|

New Orleans Picayune: presses, cannot be beautifully draped without some underpinning.

Boston Post: Many men pay as they go, but the trouble with them i^that they go very slowly.

Philadelphia North American: The question of the day is which destroys the most lives, the rnm-bottle or the milk-bottle?

Somerville Journal: The average woman thinks a great deal more about the condition of her crimps than she does about the condition of her soul, and the average man wouldn't like her half so well if she didn't.

Inter-Ocean: There is going to be lots of fun in politics next year, but just now it is just as well to be laying in coal'and bumping business. There are a* good many cold nights with snow shoveling during the day just ahead.

Boston Post: It is alleged that in ancient Rome if a man kissed his betrothed, but died before their marriage, the woman was entitled to half iiis effects. Young men of the present dky congratulate themselves that the old Roman law no longer holds good.

Globe-Democrat: The Hughes-Hallett domestic scandal in London is interesting to Americaus principally on account of the fact that it will probably cause their distinguished countryman, Buffalo Bill to withdraw frfim polite society over there in order to preserve his self respect and keep the" moral character of his show above suspicion.

LITTLE SEttMOm.

A word of kindness "may conquer the hardest heart. Individual iihimvempnt l8 the best remedy for social evils.

Only .those who are very weary know

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a blessing rest Is.'

An ounce of enoouragement is worth a pound of fault-finding. Do not let the evening of life be less joyous than the morning.

Often one may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues. It startles us sometimes to remember tbat of all we love and possess in this life, we can take nothing with us when we leave it.

We come across beautiful characters in the most obscure paths of life, even as we find the loveliest woodland flowers in the loneliest places.

Keep your sorrows and trials from the little ones as far as possible. Life should be all sunshine for them they will find out its shadows soon enough.

Home is the place of rest and of pure enjoyment. It is the refuge from care trouble, and allthe tumults and turmoils of life. It is the one spot where the hearts pure affections garner themselves and seek their chosen resting place. It is the woman first duty to make this dwelling place, over which she is mother queen, as cheery, cosy, and lovely as she can.

A New York photographer prints a circular containing eight "Suggestions to Sitters" and the following valuable advice "To The Ladies." 'When a lady, sitting for a picture, would compose her mouth to a bland and serene character, she should, just before entering the room, say

4bosom,'

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pression into which the mouth subsides until the desired effect in th« camera is evident. If,'on the other hand, she wishes to assume a distinguished and somewhat noble bearing, not suggestive of sweetness, she should say

4brush'

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result which is infallible. If she wishes her mouth to look small, she must say 'flip,' but if the mouth be already too small and needs enlarging, she must say 'cabbage.' If she wishes to look mournful, she must say

4kerchunk,'if

resigned, she must forcibly ejaculate 's'cat.' Ladies when having their photographs taken may observe these rules with some advantage to their appearance.''

kissMd him Loyo and loud. [Washington Letter to Ht Paul Globe.] There never was a more affectionate meeting, never a more demonstrative wife. As soon as the train sto Mrs. Folsom descended and was welcomed bv for* the arms of the big American citizen who

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1 [Providence Journal.] the different political platforms are now being erected all over the land, there is at least standing room for almoat any kind of a crank.

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WOMEN'S WAYS.^'?»

Mrs. CleVeland drinks no wine. "When wine is served she takes apollinaris. Nancy Lewallen, aged 102 years, has been sent to the poor-farm at Martinsville, Ind., from Monroe township.

The widow of an editor in Shawnee, Ohio, still conducts the paper, and says that her husband's spirit directs her.

A poor woman in Gratiot county, Michigan, who received $8,000 pension money the other day, exchanged $800 of it for dry goods in less than half an hour.

The West Virginia girl who drew straws to decide which of her three suitors she would marry didn't go to the idiot asylum. She married the "shortstraw" chap, lived with him two weeks and then ended her days in the river.

Miss Ollie Fredericks, of Columbus, O, has eloped with a young student of the Ohio State University. He was poor while she could sign a check for $100,000 and it \yonld be honored by any of tho Columbus banks. It is said the young lady planned the elopement.

Of six young ladies whose education at Vassar cost $10,000 each, five married one horse lawyers and have to give music lessons to make a living for the family The other is still single, but leaning towards a country parson on a salary of $320 per year.

One of the most successful temperance workers boyond the Mississippi is Miss Laura Winkler of Iowa. She was born blind, but her earnest zeal is not impaired to any serious extent by her affliction. Miss Winkler's favorite field is tho workshop. She visits factories at noon hour and makes personal appeal to the workmen to shun King Alcohol.

Tho Pitcairn Island Colony now consists of 107 persons. Of this number, fifty-seven are women. They are tho most contented members of the sex in existence. While intelligent and fairly well educated, none haye left tho island nor do they evincea desire to do so. They are appropriately described by a writer as earthly angels.

A Maine woman, who takes pleasure* in her poultry, h«s adopted a simple but excellent method for keeping her chickens at home. She ties a small corn-cob to one leg allowing it to dangle at a distance of about six inches, Tho fowl can scratch and get abou&witlMMee but, said, will not attempt to flyover palings or squeeze through a crack.

Mrs. Ada C. Bittdnbander, who is a candidate for the Supreme Court bench in Nebraska, is the only women lawyer in the State. She is a graduate of the Froebel Normal Institute and Kindergarten of Washington, D. C. and of tho State Normal School at Hloomsburg, Pa. In 1882 she was admitted to the bar, having studied law in her husband's office.

A fortune-teller (ran hit a woman's case nine times out of ten. "You've had sickness and trouble. You'll have some property fall to you. You do not have full confidence in your husband. Beware! He is deceiving you! You have a very gentle nature. Everybody loves you. You have had trouble with a relative. It was not your fault. Beware of a blue-eyed woman with a mole on her loft cheek. She will tnakeyou trouble. Good-bye—one dollar—call again."

T. C. Crawford, the London correspondent of the New York World, speaks in his last letter of a great horse show he attended In Dublin, and rhapsodizes over the beauty of tho Irish women—says he saw more beautiful girls that day than he had seen in all England in five months. Their willowy figures, regular features and perfect complexions entranced him but he dispels the pleasing picture by telling us that tho beauty fades early In life, and the Irish old women are extremely homely.

The presiding ladles of the White House still living are Harriet Lane Johnston, who, beroft of her husbaud and son, dwells in dignified and comfortable retirement in Baltimore Mrs. Grant, who lives in comparative opulence in New York on the proceeds of her herohusband's handiwork in the jaws of death Mrs. Hayes, who in the joy of her husband and family, presides over her household at Fremont, O. Mrs. Garfield who lives at Mentor in the comfort assured her by the fund raised by admiring and sympathetic friends, and Mary Arthur McElroy, how lives in her own home at Albany.

One of the newest occupations upon which women can enter, is that of tho "complexionist." Such a person makes study of the skin, and for a stipend endeavors t«» improve customers'complexions. Here is a prescription that one of them gave a client, promising that it would clean the skin in a short time: A tea-spoonful of sulphur taken every morning for a week, then omitted for three mornings and tacen again. A mixture of powdered brimstone and diluted glycerine should be rubbed on the face at night and washed off in the morning with soap and water, in which their is a little amonia.

For cryiiig "Fire" in a Brooklyn theater a resident of that city has been sent to prison for sixty days. His defence was "guilty, but drunk."

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