Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 October 1887 — Page 1

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

If, as the naturalists assert, only the female mosquitoes bite, every male mosquito must have more wives than a Mormon elder. ______

Isn't it about time for the old citizen to step to the front and tell us. what sort of a winter is prognosticated by the corn ears and ground squirrels?

Well, for a' that an' a' that the "kickers" beaded the procession on Saturday. Mr. W. Beauchamp and Dr. W. H. Roberto occupied the driver's seat of the Presidential carriage.

George Frances Train la going io Chicago to start a dally newspaper. He is a lunatic, but of the harmless sort. His lunacy has taken a dangerous turn however for himself.

General depression is reported in the whisky trade. As a rule general depression is not a desirable thing but the more there is of it in the whisky trade the better for the country.

Mr. Cleveland ought to be getting Jealous. There are two paragraphs in the papers about her to one about him and the people "don't give shucks" to see him unless she is along.

In the matter of weather Mr. Cleveland has had all the luck a born mascott could desire. Will the "Cleveland luck" carry him successfully through the next campaign? is the interesting question.

Next time a President passes through Indiana perhaps Indianapolis would better give up preparations and come over and assist Terre Haute in receiving him. We can give her "pointers" on how to make the thing a success. ,:-

Wing You is the name of a naturalised Chinaman who is running for councilman in Baltimore. He is supported by One Lung, Ling Sing, Hop Sing, Hong Cong, Hop Lee and I See. He should be able to "wing" his opponent with such help. _____

A syndicate has been organised in Albany, N. Y„ for the extirpation of English sparrows and offers $1 a hundred for all the birdfcg^lMred. As they •re said to make exoyWH* pot-pie they be wong mqpB fhore than that family use. *"T'

Cleveland Is resting over the pleasant and quiet little

*•?'n* uliton, Wis. He needs It. St. Chicago came near killing ttfiid he has two weeks more of the hippodrome before him. It Is oe way to travel.

inglish as she is spoke" and written 3$f0lnarily, does not seem to be sufficient for Mr. Howells literary art. Recently one of his women "trembled into a chair" another "tempested" out of the hduse. If our popular novelist goes on making new verbs at this rate the English language will presently beoome the most "chipper" of them all.

A Ba von port, Iowa, man is authority for the statemeut *that fumes Of a lowburning kerosene lamp in sleeping rooms is one of the principal Muses of diphtheria. The fact has beeltimown for years in the east, he says, Iflj the New York board of health so decided several years ago. The beat wayjs to have no burning lamps in bed rooms at all.

At Sidney, 111. is a Presbyterian church composed entirely of women and built by them. It lacks the usual church officers because there are no men to All the offices with. But what's the matter with Ailing them with Women who ha|S pluck enough wfllHt a church and oarry it on ought to be considered good enough for deacons and elders. ___

A remarkable case of concealing one's aex has Just come to light. James Fisher, a veteran of the war, who was a brave soldier, recently applied tor admission to the Soldiers' Home at Dayton. It was discovered that the supposed James .Fisher was a woman. She had passed for a man through the war and ever since and it seems that none had ever suspected her sex. This shows what a woman oan do when she makes up her mind to it,

While intemperance from liquor is decreasing throughout the country the deadlier vice of opium smoking and eating Is undoubtedly increasing. In New York these opium dens are found In every region where

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exists and they

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gaining a foothold in

all the larger towns and cltloo. Special attention is called to the case of San Jewett, a beautiful and popular actress of New York, who has been utterly ruined in mind and body by the use of the drug. Her friends have tried In vain to save her and the gifted woman has at last become an object of charity. Tbeee vile dens of Oriental vice should be •wept out of existence while they are in their incipient stage of evil* ..

The poet sang "What is so rare as a day in June," and that flowery season is certainly very delightful. But there is nothing more glorious or beautiful than a bright cloudless day in October. The air is like wine, the sun Just warms one's blood to a genial heat and the woods and fields are aglow with tropical color. Nature is never more lovely than in the bright days of Autumn.

Rev. Joseph Parker's two sermons in Plymouth church last Sunday convineed the congregation that the famous Englishman is a first-rate preacher, but not a Beecher by any means. They will not find another Beecher anywhere, it is true but they can find an American who will come nearer then any foreigner to sustaining the fame of the Plymouth church. And they should doit, too.

"Hazing" has broken out in colleges again. At Williams one-youngman was thrown into a violent fever which threatened his life by a bath in ice water and being compelled to put on damp clothes. At Yale one of the hazers has been expelled. The college authorities well deserve the contempt of the public if they do not suppress this senseless and outrageous practice with a firm hand. They should expel half the students in the college, if necessary, rather than permit the custom to continue. It should never have been allowed to get a foothold in the first place and it should not be tolerated for a single day. Fire the hasere

out*

The distinguished looking citizen with the white hat with the remarkable bnm, and the broad expanse of shirt bosom relieved by the diamond pin large as a ben's egg, who grabbed President Cleveland so vigorously on the reception platform last Saturday, was not an escaped member of a Wild West combination, neither was he a quack doctor of curbstone fame. That was the Hon. Duncan C. Puett, of Rofekvllle, who has his eye on the Congressional nomination next year. Mr. Puett will have to lay that diamond pin aside before the campaign opens or he will have a hard time convincing the honest farmers that he is not a bloated bondholder.

The eleotion at Indianapolis on Tuesday promises to be as exciting an event as any held there In recent years. Both parties are making a desperate fight with the advantage of public sentiment in favor of the Republicans, that is the people generally are aroused to the necessity of defeating the Sim Coy gang. To do thia there must be an unusual preponderance of sentiment, because one Coy worker with his corruption money and election day trioks is equal to two or three upright citizens, no matter how heavily oharged with indignation and desire to overthrow the ring. The 92 purchasable vote too often offtets the vote of the conscientious citizen.

At the meeting of the National Farmers' Alliance, at Minneapolis, this week. President J. A. Streeter, of Illinots, said that farming Is now being carried on at a loss .and the population in rural districts in his State is decreasing while the cities are growing. That seems like a very strong statement and it possibly exaggerates the facts somewhat. Nevertheless It doea seem to be true that the combination of large capitals and shrewd management by unscrupulous men in the cities result in giving a few men far too much power in industrial and monetary aflfeirs. There are men too rich and men too poor and it is well that farmers and manual laborers of all kinds should organize and work together for a more equitable state of affairs. Just how to reach it may not be at onoe evident but thought, discussion and agitation will throw light on the difficult problem and will oause thosfe in power, or who are seeking to get into power, to give more attention to the inequalities which exist.

There has been one good result of the Cleveland visit to Terre Haute. It has demonstrated that the city oan be advertised to a profU as well aa a business house. WfcHe Terre Haute merchants, aa a rule, have been moat liberal in their contributions, there were yet some who thought it "didn't pay/' There are fewer of these now, if indeed there are any. The Cleveland aflkir, it is estimated, brought into the city 160,000, which otherwise never would have cone hers. It was Just such public means of advertising that miMta Chicago great. The people everywhere in the northwest gradually became convinced that Chicago was a live, go-ahead city that always had the best to be obtained in whatever line of attraction, whether in merchandise or public show. It la estimated by the Chicago newspapers that there were 900,000 strangers in that city Wednesday to see the I President. The event had been "worked up" aa we did here in Ttorre Haute with like results in proportion. _____

The creditor class of merchants and debtor class of customers are absorbingly interested in the outcome of the damage suit against Myers Bros. The merchants have suffered severely by had debts and the creditors—well they have suffered severely by the duns of all kinds they have received. There is something in the fear of receiving a dun through Ike

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big envelope with the letters "Bad Debt" in big letters on it that appels the creditor and makes him wish that that "little matter'' bad been attended to. Not long since a leading Main street merchant speaking of the prevalence of the credit system said that it was not only the ruination of the merchant who indulged it too freely but of the creditor as well. He spoke of the habit young men had of going into debt for everything from their cigarettes to their clothing with the usual result of living beyond their means. Within the past thousand years a merchant made an assignment and in his assets were the names of well known young—and some old—citizens who had kept running accounts with the house for years. Opposite some of the names were amounts as high as 9500 or|9600, which in all reason should have represented five or six years* purchases.

Last Saturday was the bluest day Terre Haute has enjoyed for along time and our merchants enjoyed a big trade from the thousands of visitors who were, attracted here by the opportunity afforded of seeing a real live President. The crowd of visitors has been variously estimated at from eighteen thousand to thirty-five thousand, and we have the pleasure {of knowing that Terre Haute outdid Indianapolis, both in the number of visitors and in the satisfaction afforded the President by the heartiness of the welcome. The special train bearing the Presidential party did not arrive at the Union depot until after five o'clock, and it was twilight before the procession started on the route that had been laid out. The streets along the line of march were thronged with spectators, and many a neck is yet sore with "craniqg" to catch a sight of the distinguished visitors* When the Normal yard was reached the President was introduced by Hon R. W. Thompson, who was presented ss chairman by Senator Voorhees. To the admirable address of weloome delivered by Col. R. W. Thompson, the President replied with a short speech in whieh he paid Senator Voorhees a compliment, but singularly failed to speak of Perre Haute's other honored eitiaen who welcomed bim here. The President refered to Terre Haute's beauty and to her educational and business advantagee, and seemed pleased with the reoeption given him. At the close of the reception where Mrs. Cleveland more than her husband seemed the center of attraetioaj the party.,** escorted totl^Unlcside^ pot and left shortly after seven o'clock for St. Louis. The Normal yard waa packed with people and piokpocketa plied their business with great success. Indeed this was the only unpleasant fea tore of the occaaion but with sugh crowds and the amount of carelessness displayed by the people it is surprising that theives were not even more successful. Aside from this the reception was a "howling success," and for many yean to come Terre Haute can point with pride to the record she has made in receiving and entertaining a President. Future Presidents, be they Democrats or Republicans, in making out a route for Junketing will be certain to select Terre?Haute as one of the stopping places. Great, indeed is the State of Terre Haute.

The dead body of Dennis Golden, an I. A St. L. seotlon hand, was found lying in the -hollow above the ice house on north Water street last Sunday morning death resulting from an ugly pistol shot wound in the back. Mrs. Nora Cole, who lived near the spot where the body waa found, and who had had trouble with Golden before, was at once suspected of the' murder. She oould not be found at that time, but on Monday was arrested at the home of her father, a well-to-do farmer living near Centervllle, this oounty. Her son, aired thirteen years, who is suspected of being Impll cated in the crime, was also arrested at the same place. Mrs. Cole admits the shooting, and aaya she waa provoked to it by Golden, who threw stones against her house, breaking a window and frightening her. She denies that her boy had anything to do with it. In her previous trouble with Golden some time ago, Mrs. Oole shot him but inflicted only a slight flesh wound.

The coundil decided that the figtftt* of the lowest biddsr for the Sixth ward engine bouse, August Fromme, £,800, were too high In the present financial condition of the city, and ao at the meeting Tuesday night rejected all bids. It decided, however, to again advertise for bids for the Sixth ward house, and alao for a house in the Fourth ward, the cost of each not to exceed fS^SOO. The vote to reject bids waa a tie and the mayor voted to reject on the ground that the city could not afford just now to spend eo much money for a single house.

Richard Foreter, the Fourth street furniture dealer, cloeed his doora on Monday, having made an assignment to Clem Harper to protect his creditor*, the principal one here being Western Harper, the printer, at Moore A Langen'a, to whom Mr. F. waa indebted 9l,00. A false report that he had been sued caused eastern creditors to send In claims he was unable to meet. In the assignment is Mr. Ftoreter*s new home on east Cheat-

nut street. The stock, horses, wagons,

Bad Debt" agency, enclosed in the I accounts, etc^ are estimated at 9&,000.

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Temptations of Girls.

ELLA WHEELER ON THE DANGERS THAT THREATEN YOUNG WOMEN.

Allurement# in City and Country—The Towns Wicked, but the Country Not Altogether Moral—Where Parents Make

Mistakes—How Young Women are Templed—Confidence Between Mother and Daughter—Temptations of the Stage

Where Ten Women are Tempted, Two Only Fall— Where Ten Men are Tempted Two Only Stand. [Special Correspondence.J All my life girls have made me their confidante. When I was myself a girl, they sought me for sympsthy and consolation. Since my marriage they have come to me for advice and assistance.

It will be impossible in this article to more than touch upon the various phases of temptations to which girla are subjected in this bad but jolly old world.

In fiction and in journalism, the country is always represented as a place morally and physically healthful for girls. The city alone is supposed to teem with tepiptations for the innocent and Ignorarit.

Without doubt the town offers more opportunities for folly and wrongdoing. Yet human nature is the same, in its vaiying moods, its passions, and its weaknesses the world over and there are- phases and causes for temptations in the rural regions unknown to the city-bred girl.

Youth is youth wherever you find it. Young blood flows swift and warm through pulsing veins. Young hearts long for companionship, young brains indulge in vague sweet dreams of pleasures yet to come. A healthful young girl can no more be content with prosaic duties, without one day of pleasure to brighten her life, than a meadow-lark oan be content in a cage. To attend faithfully to the most commonplace ail day, to hear no word of praise for her labors, and to retire at eight o'clock on a beautiful moonlight evening is little lee* than torture to a girl full of aentlment and undefined longings.

Yet this fs the existenoe of hundreds of country girls. The parents regard any hours spentln ^pleasure as so much lost time. They «nM industry and dbedtencn ^rom their oApring, Invite no confidences, and object to late hours or merrymakings. The young heart seethes in ailent rebellion, tnd learns to hate its lot, and lives in ope that something will happen to give ilor to lire. If the city idler, or the ihe amorous farm hand, or the married leducer happens to find her In these

Rebellious moods, why then we read ijl the newspapers an item about the *£trange Disappearance" or "Unaccountable Mesalliance" or "Shocking Depravity" of a hitherto quiet and nepeotable g«.

The heart-broken parents are crushed with shame and sorrow. They cannot understand why their beloved daughter should go estray. Aht if they had only shown her demonstrations of their love, if Ithey had only sought to know her secret thoughts and longings, if they made an effort onoe a month to give her a few hours of pleasure, she need not have gone astray.

Xfcmintne hearts are never satisfied wlfh the love which only bestows food andbodily covering, and finds no tender expression. They crave something more than "good care." The flattering praises of an unworthy admirer often win fooliah girl's heart, which starves in the atmoephere of undemonstrative parental afHiotion. knew a caae which illuspolnt. young lady of refinement, but born witk that passionate love of music, color, and| perfUme which la ao dangerous to

Its joseessor, was compelled to live the prosaic of lives. Her mother was out Christian, whose only c"»m waa that her daughter should atehureh Sundays. Her father was a tyrant who desired the lights eat |bt nine o'clock and objected to his ten entertaining oompany. superb summer evening—whieh the fell moon rendered a pallid day— ed down the quiet street to chat withk young lady friend over the gate. re been in the kitchen all day," "and lam just crasy for drive moonlight. I teased tether to take lie, but he went off to bed and told SMtl^t waa whoeFd better go. I knew 1 oouJhln't sleep, so I stole off to see you." 4can*ly had she ceased speaking when 4 handsome stranger passed, driving a |ne efulpage. "Ok," whispered her friend, "there la that handsome commercial man again, saw him down at the store to-day. He rted to flirt with me." "I wish he would ask me to take a

Hive," said our desperate young lady I would go In a minute.** The man stared at the young ladice rith bold, admiring eyes. There was omething perhaps in the excited, paalonate face of one which gave him oarage to speak. He lifted his hat and aid politely, "A lovely evening for a

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wish you young ladies would

take pity on a lonely fellow, and accompany me." The calmer of the two girls turned away without replying. The other hesitated the man saw his advantage, pressed his invitation, and despite hor friend's urgent entreaties she drove off with the stranger. She returned half an hour declaring she had done a terrible rash thing, but tkat she had broken the monotony of life at least, and "no one need ever know.'

But it was found out, of course the stranger boasted of his conquest, and the girl's reputation was tarnished forever.

Parents in the country especially are too much afraid of prasing their children. I believe it is better to risk spoiling a child than to starve it to death. I have notloed that children who are freely praised for every task well performed and for every dutiful act seldom bring sorrow into their parent's lives.

Mothers are too reticent with dangh ters on subjects of vital 'Importance to our sex. Curiosity to investigate the mysterious causes many girls to read unhealthy books or converse with unworthy people who excite their imsglnatlons and tarnish the purity of their minds.

In the oountry children ramble home from school together promiscuously, and ever creative Nature reveals many of her mysteries to wide-open young eyes. If mothers would satisfy the natural curiosity of young girls regardall these mysteries, and teach them to regard the wonders of nature with reverence the temptation to personal investigation would be removed.

City streets deem with cheap opportunities for flirtations with unknown men who designate themselves as "mashers." Only the silliest or most depraved of our sex risk lives and reputations by responding to them.

A lady is seldom acoosted and troubled by theee men in the day-lit streets of New York. A handsome young girl who earns her living by newspaper work, which her into all sorts of business officee, recently told me that she' had never received an insinuating or embarrasing word or look in all her career.

The profession of an actress is supposed to be more fraught with temptationa than other avocatlona, but I do not know thia to be true.

In one of our large citlee west of New York there was a young lady clerking in a dry goods establishment at the $rincel&aiim of four dollars per week/

Finding thia inadequate to her personal expenses of board, washing aud shoeleather, ahe complained to her employer. "What-ehall I do?' ahe aaked. "Well, you know what some girls do to imprve their situations," he said, and left her to oonsider his words.

Without doubt the managers of some theatres do abuse and misuse their power.

Two pitiful esses have been recited to me personally witnin two years. One pretty young woman, who had been deserted by her good-for-nothing dissolute husband, resolved to make her really fine voice a means of support After much hard study and months of constant appearance in a small part, she begged her manager to give her a trial in a more ambitious role. He answered her that ahe was capable of better things but he refused to advance her unless she sacrificed her self-respect to him. She Is still appearing in her unimportant role.

Another more recent case was that of a young girl ecarcely out of abort dresses. She waa almost born on the stage, and has played youthful parte from child hood, She is pure as a lily-bud, and has blossomed into a lovely young woman who is anxious to make a success of her profession. When she asked a well known manager to give her his influence he promised to do so on condition she gave him her honor in jet urn.

Surely no hell fire could be too hot for such men. The girl Is an orphan, and oblidged to earn her living by the profeesion In whicn she wss reared.

The moet dangerous of all temptations Is that which comes through love. I know personally one caae where a young man carefully and delicately won the confidence and gratitude and love of a working girl by the moet gentle of actiona and a repetition of thoughtful kindnceses. Then, when he bad made himself necessary to her life, he gave her the alternative of eharlng his unlawful com* penkmship or never seeing his face again. The girl had the strength to send him away, but ahe never recovered from the shock to mind and body.

Men tempt women though their vanity and aflbetiona. Women tempt men through their emotions or their ambitions. A clever young woman wss desirous of living In luxury end respectability. She worked night and day to improve herself, and became a brilliant musician and linguist. Then ahe threw herself in the way of a man who possossed money, but whose social ambitions were balked by an exceedingly commonplace and uneducated wife. The iff#" made comparisons and finally fell into the snare. The wife was divorced and the scheming young woman shortly fllled the vacant position.

I do not believe the Creator made man

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any more wicked than woman. Both

sexes have the same impulses and emotions. Women are compelled to fight against their own weaknesses, and to combat those of men.

Where ten women are tempted, two only fall. Where ten men are tempted, two only stand.

And yet we are called the weaker sex. If the penalties for folly were as severe for men as for women, and if the world iS demanded as high morality from them, they would be as good as we are.

It's strange that God should first to frame The yearth and lift so hie, An* clean forget to explain the same

To a gentleman like me. 4 0 ft They lther folk, they count their jois

At gloamin* on the lea But they're made of a commoner clay, I suppose, Cr

Than a gentleman like me.

It's a different thing that I demand, I Tho' humble as can be— I A statement fair, at my Maker's hand, A

To a gentleman like me v® s,

From a gentleman like me.

Miss Rose Elisabeth Cleveland, sister of President Cleveland, arrived in New York Wednesday and began her new dutlee as teacher of American history in a young ladies' boarding school near Central Park.

Mrs. Eagles, an elderly woman of Campbell oounty, Virginia, expressed the wish shortly before her death that her gold watch be buried with her. The wish was carried out, and within a week the grave was opened in the night and the watch stolen.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARE8A YINO.

Philadelphia Preast The Chicago anarchists are still fighting for time with a, moral certainty of getting eternity. •rkansaw Traveler: It an't whut er man is dat makee him happy in dis yere wol'. It's whut he thinks he is. pitteburg Commercial Oasette: The "trust," improperly se called, is a device to oover up sinister designs and avoid reeponsiblity.

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Waterbury American: Preaohlng fs getting to be more and more on a business baa is, and churches must compete in the world's market for brains if they want to get the best. Those which pffer a bare subsistence, and that are often dependent on the liberality of donation parties can expect to get only men whoare incapable of getting more in other occupations. And That accounts for* mediocrity in the pulpit, a place where* mediocrity is most conspicuous audi where superiority is essential.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A deUtist When he gets doWQ to business, has the inside track. Pay your bills pleasantly is the 1m practicable advloe of a kindly exchange.

It has been discovered that seveneighths of the murderers have email hands and feet.

A New York oompany is attracting purchaaem for pianos by offering to give lessons on the instrument to each pur~ chaser.

St. Paul was a great traveler. Had be lived to this day of awift transportation he would have preached the gospel to all the world.

It waa ahown Iha Tennessee divorcecase the other day that the wife's lifewas made miserable by the husband, who was so jealous that he wouldn't permit her to eit on the hired man's knee.

A ventureeome but unfortunate young Dakota bachelor, in an attempted elopment, succeeded in getting his sweetheart out of the house only to be arrested for burglary by the cruel parent when he stole back after her clothes and to be committed to jail by the justice of peace whom he had retained to marry him.

MATRIMONIAL.

Marriage licensee have been issued this week to the following: Beniamla E. Vanhoutaa and Boea WbiteoeL

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ELLA WHKKLEU WILCOX.

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Mrs. Cleveland weighs 170 pounds But nobody wants an ounce less of her.'

A newspaper poet desires to know "Where are the girls of the past?" "Bringing up the girls of the future, don't you think?"

Mrs. Cleveland Is reported as saying that she would never sit for a photograph again while she remained mistress of the White house. Some of th» prints used as tobacco signs are said to be the cause of her taking this resolution.

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Levi Pearee and Stella A. Field. William Martin and Alenda Clark. George Isler and Harah E. Brown. Morton PolllU and Elisabeth Keelcr. John W. Edwards and Carrie Hughes.. Grant Forbea and Loots* Moore. William Taylor and Ifarr Plernon. Samuel EL Coakley and Emma Wlble. Joseph Manch and Barbara Roescb, Daniel Reinhard and Ltxzle Parks. Lewis A. Smith and Mary B. Ray. Jesse B. Yaw and Martha E. Plerscm. Lewis A. Smith and Mary B. Ray. William Huffman and Mary Bowman. Alonso Cookeey and Carrie B. Godfrey.