Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 October 1887 — Page 1

Vol. I8.-N0. 19.

THE MAIL..

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

According to cable reports Mr. Blaine Is getting yonnger all the time. He may be too young to run for President by next summer.

Have you taken any lessons yot in "Volapuk, the new universal language? It is the coming fad.

If any man lacks employment nowadays let him organize a "trust." It is the great business of the age.

John L. Sullivan has been presented with a $1,100 umbrella. Nobody will care to steal it from him.

General Greeley has made an early start with his bllw-ards. If he keeps It up at this rate all winter the people will be sorry that Hazen died.

It was, to have boen expected. The McCray mystery had about expended itself as a source of interest, the gambling sensation had died out, when the old stand-by the madstone is used and fills an aching void.

The New York World wants people to

quit

eating peanuts in public. Perhaps the World is not far out of the way but it will find that making war on the peanut appetite is tho biggest thing It has yet tackled. "Buffalo Bill has realized $350,000, it Is mid, from his season In London, besides a position in "socioty." That will help us to get even with, several of those blare ted Britishers who have come over and gulled our people from tlma to time.

Now as tothocoming-wintor the prophets disagree. The thinness of tho corn husks betoken a short and mild one, but the ground hog is sail to have dug his hole early anil deep, which portend* a long aud inclement season. This is a case where you can take your choice without paying your money.

We liavo been hearing of a good many cases where the groom failed to appear at tho wedding and it is pleasant to record a case whore tho bride was the leaver and not the loft. Such a fcuse oecured •t our neighbor towu 6t Brazil, last Sunday, where the bride had married the man she wanted the night before.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes for The Mail this week on "Professions for Women." Next week she will spoak of "Friendships of Meu and Women." In connection with this series of original articlos fresh from the pen of this gifted writer, our readers will read with Interest to a sketch of her life, written for this paper by William J. Bok, of New York city, whiijfi will appoar next week, belug crowded out of this issue.

A Detroit girl recently went to Soulx City, Iowa, to marry a man whom she had corresponded through the agency of a matrimonial Journal. She found when sho got there that ho had sent her another man's photograph and that he was as homely as .-Ksop. Of course the girl declined to marry him and is out $100 besides tho loss of her time. Brides should always wait till the bridegroom comes for them.

Mr. Cleveland seems destined to have 110 ond of trouble from his literary relatives. It Is Miss Cynthia, a second cousin of his, who is now in trouble. She lias published a book at Detroit which h:w been sup pro mo on account of its libelous attacks on several prominent Michigan men. Rose called her book "Tho Long Hun" and Cynthia's might properly bo called "Tho Short Run."

Some of the exhibitions made at the Georgia State fair at Macon, with Jeff Davis ns the central tlgure and a liberal display or rebel tlags and bunting, are not very creditable to the good sense of the southerners. We do not believe, however, that those exhibitions mean

downright

disloyalty to the country, as

some of tho Republican papers in the north argue. They are mere ebulli tlons of sentiment. But it is time they ceased. They arc out of tunc and taste.

The present status of the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton receiver awe increases the prospect of that road fulfilling the terms of purchase of the Terre Haute Indianapolis made by Ives. Indeed the be** information is that If the Circuit tsonrt of Cincinnati makes permanent the stay of proceedings in the appointment of a receiver by the Butler county judge, negotiation** to that end will be speedily consummated.

Judge Carleton ith General Medernand made a minority report from Ihe Utah commission. The minority I* far more lenient with the Mormons than the majority. The press of th© country, almost without exception, critieltes the former because its recommendations Indirectly aid th© cause of thoae who are trying to have the Territory taken In as a State. Public sentiment Is not snch as will tolerate anything hot the moat rigid restrictions upon these people who have so long defied th# law* of man and God.

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A singular story comes from Ehnira, N. Y., to the effect that a party of fourteen Methodist clergymen were to dine together but one of them was absent and when it was found that the number at table was thirteen, the party divided up, had two tables set and the meal was eaten without apprehension. It would not generally be supposed that so much superstition prevailed among a body of men so well educated as clergymen.

A unique political canvass is going on in Wayne county, New York. Miss Nellie Cook is th^ Democratic candidate for school commissioner and Miss Ella Clark Is the Prohibition candidate. Nellie is handsome and wealthy and is making a lively tight. Sho has had hundreds of her pictures distributed throughout the country and is making speeches. Miss Clark also takes a hand in speechmaking and has large meetings. The woman in politics is getting to be an accomplished fact.

There is some active opposition to voting to the Southwestern road $100,000 by Harrison township but it is not sufficient to defeat tho proposition. There is a feeling of reliance in the men who have the project in charge which offsets all doubt as to the ultimate success by reason of a western connection at* the river. As yet that connection is not yet made plain to tho general public, but unless it is arrange! for there is no possibility of the IIlOO,000 of the people's money being expended simply to aid In tho construction of a road from here to the river at a point about sixteen miles from the city.

John Randolph Tucker who is appearing as one of the counsel for the anarchists in the hearing on the application for a writ of error before the United States Supreme court is a Virginian, an ultra-States-right man. He is considered to be perhaps the most learned advocate of that doctrine in the South. Yet heae he is before thin court advocating a doctrine of federal interference in State affairs of extreme repugnancy to his honest convictions. He is likewise an ex tremely religious man so much so that he would not sit in the Sunday sessions of Congress when the HayesTllden filllbrutering was going on, yet such is tho code of ethics among lawyers that such a man can conscientiously controvert his own beliefs in behalf of a lot of cowardly assassins for a fee*

In h& now and 'iutereatfng book, ihat peculiar* genhjsUtfiss Phelps, describos the life after dafth. According to the picturo, when a man Is suddenly killed or drops deml he proceeds with whatever business he has in hand as though nothing had happened, and desists only 011 discovering that the people no longer notice him or pay the least attention to him. At first he is amazed, then indignant, but finally submits to stay dead and let the living conduct their affairs In their own way. It is ingenious but how about the people who have been on sick beds for weeks before their death? rhoy had not been engaged in the business of life for some time. Do they suddenly take it up again after death? The picture might do very well in case of death in a modem railway accident.

Indiana has entered suit in the United States Supreme Court to take from Kentucky Green River Island, a piece of Sand on the Ohio river near Evansville, which, it is claimed, belongs to this State by reason of the fact that the territorial division fixes all land on this side of the river at low water mark as a part of Indiana's domain. Because of tho change of channel In tho river this island has been within tho Indiana line at low water for twenty years past. Still we think it inadvisable to try to get formal possession of it. The trouble with Indiana now is that there is too much of a a Kentucky population in its rivt counties. The Stato would be much better off it it had less of this slothful Influence within its borders, but then the present lawsuit gives the lawyers a fee at the expense of the State. As one of these lawyers Is ex-Senator McDonald and he has been promised far more public salaries than were given him, perhaps this fee is intended as a sort of reparation.

During the long winter evenings coming we may ruminate over the possibilities of cholera being with us during the presidential campaign. The immigrant* who come over ou the steamer Independence came from an infected part of Italy. They slipped through the New York port without being subjected to the cautionary requirements of the quarantine. Ths cholera germ is a little devil and bides his time with the utmost secrecy during the winter months. In the spring he gets In his work. The immigrant scattered to a half dosen cities and if they bad in their possession any of the germs tho cholera will be with us promis»cou*ly. There Is the one consolation however. It has been demonstrated that a large proportion of the deaths during a cholera epidemic are attributable to fright, That Is, the nervous excitement and alarm among the people makes them a willing prey to the scourge. Therefor* the Presidential campaign can be worked ap to the highest pitch and the thoughts of th« people be diverted from the leaser calamity.

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The cold wave of the early part of this week was almost unprecedented for O07 tober. Throughout the northwest snow fell to the depth of from six to fifteen inches. This fact alone wonld not have been remarkable, as we frequently have snow falls in October. But that it should have been accompanied by a temperatuio ranging from zero to sixteen below, seems almost incredible. A good deal of damage must have resulted. In Wisconsin the potatoes are mostly in the ground yet but the lucky covering of snow kept them from freezing. It is likely, however, that the farmers were caught napping in many places and that Jack Frost got in some damaging, work. After this severe puff from old Boreas, we should have several weeks of delightful Indian summer weather.

It is understood that the police board, at its meeting on Monday evening, will order the enforcement of the 11 d'cloek law closing the saloons, the police being given to understand that it is 11 o'clock until the midnight hour, when every saloon in town must have its doors closed. In the interest of good order it is sincerely to be hoped that the order will be given and that it will be rigidly enforced. Everybody, except those whose work compels them to be out, should be in bed at twelve o'clock. With no convenient saloon to drop into, the worst class of our community, as well as many of our young men fast going down to that class, will turn their step* toward home and bed, and the police will have much easier work ih looking after evil doers, who get in their worst work in the small hours of the morning.

There appears to be serious misgivings that the girl, Luella Mabbitt, for whose murder Amer Green was hung by a mob In Carroll county, may not be dead at all. But whether she is dead or not the lynching of Groen was none the,less horrible and the perpetrators none the less deserve punishment. It is a very unsafe practice to bang inon without trial. Even when all the forms of law have been complied with, unfortunate mistakes have been made and innocent men punished. A mob is never justi# able aud the State of Indiana has boen disgraced above all others in the last few years by exhibitions of irvptr violence. Gov. Gray has manifested the right spir» it in evincing a desire to see the ClrroB county lynchers punished ^t is'to bif hoped Chat some of them at Iea^ will b£ captured andqalled io account for their murderous lawlessness.

NA YLOR'S OPERA HO TJ&E

Tony Denler's excellent pantomime and specialty company is enacting dear delightful Hurapty Dumpty this afternoon to a well pleased audience which includes the children of the orphan homes by special invitation of Tony Denier and Manager Naylor. The perforaiance will be repeated to-night. Mr. Denier has about theonly fully equipped pantomime organization now on the road, and his company includes several of the best players of the dumb show on the stage. Of the pantomimtsts proper are Ravel, as the clown C. 8. Schilling, as Pantaloon Marie Gilchrist, as Columbine, and Willie Clayton, as Harlequin.

Miss Eunioe Goodrich, who played such a successful engagement in tfhis city last season, will begin another week's engagement at Naylor's on Monday even lug, with a change of play nightly. She has the support of an excellent dramatic company. On Monday evening she will appear in the beautiful comedy drama ehtitled "Dad's Boy." Monday night is set down as a free night for the ladles. That is, every gentleman who purchases for himself a ticket and seat at Button's will be given the same for a lady. The prices for the week are 10, 20 and SO cents.

The week following is rich In attractions. On Monday evening the 7th, will be given the magnificient spectacle of'ZoZo." The next night Sol Smith Russell plays a farewell engagement in bis first and best play

TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EJVENING, OCTOBER 29,1887.

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Folks." "Tho Gypsy Baron," one of very best operas on the stage will^be given on the«Thursday evening following.

Other engagements have permitted us little enjoyment of the Chantauqna Lyceum course of lectures this week, but the occasional droppings in have revealed the exquisite pleasure afforded those whose opportunities permitted a full use of the course ticket. There have been bits of Greek, Jernsalam, music, love, marriage and what not in this intellectual feast which recalls the words of the poet in his description of Miss Isadora Pallas Von Gurky, who Latin and Greek could fluently speak, whereas her knowledge of poultry was murky. However, when we go to a bad, very bad show at the opera boose and the audience ia enjoying it hugely we conclude that it is the public taste for amusement that is at fault and not that of the Chantauqna audiences. To I. H. C. Royse we understand ia due moat of the credit for bringing here this galaxy of lecturers and instructors. The Chautauqua circles In this eity undertook a pretty large contract in guaranteeing the local expenses upon a per cent, of the receipts. Whether the one balances the other we

Smitli aid Pafker Guiiisj'and Loaded Shells, Cartridges, Magazine Shot Guns, and Hunting SuitSj BAKER & WATSON.

are not advised, but certain it is the affair has boen snch a gratifying success that TerreHaute may be set down for one week of Chautauqua for many yeafrs to eome. $be fire department was kept on a lively jump for a while last Suuday. The first alarm was caused by the burning of the distillery cattle pens and malt house, at noon. £oss* about |8,500 insurance 96,Cgfe Before this fire was under control, Carioo's livery stable ou Third street took fire and was completely gutted. Loss $2,000 no insurance. The other fires were at a barn in the rear of Fonts 4 Hunter's livery stable, and a barn at C. N. Cliff's residence, No. 327 south Third street. The damage at neither amounted to much. All four fire^pointlo incendiarism.

liteiAlooling tournament arranged for Thursday and Friday of this week was att/ nnaooountable failure. None of the enj&c ahota from the surrounding towns who were expected put in an appearance. Tbaflrstday our home shots had a few mttebes .among themselves but the second day no visitors putting in an appearance to oontest the markmanship of the home shooters the tournament was abandoned. There can be but one good explanation for this, which is that the Terra Haute folks have made too good

A aeeond autopsy was made on the body of ChiOffBS MoCray,' last Saturday night* Sine physicians, including Coroner Hay worth, were present. The prepofktoimnce of their views indicate that hewas murdered. Still there are many who hold to the theory of suicide. The mystery deepens as new facts'and evidpnee are disoovered and it will probably never be settled to a certainty whether t£ was case of snicide or murder. The box of. Rough on Rats, purchased by McCray on that Saturday morning, has t§9en,found, unbroken, by a man in unloading a coal car, which in being transferred had passed on that morning near the place where McCray's body was found.

Two loving hearts sailed out upon the seaof matrimohy on Thursday morning, and the friends are numbered by hundreds who wish them along and pleasant voyage. One was Mr. Anton Hulman, the oldest, son of our esteemed townsman Mr. Herman Hulman the other Miss Mary C. Bannister, the ac^tfplished and handsome daughter of MR%.tl. Baifnister, who ranRa anfiong our oldest citizens. The ceremony was held in St. Benedict's Gorman Catholic church and was of fifty minutes' duration, being attended by the service of high mass. Miss Grace Bannlstor was the bridesmaid and Mr. Clark Tuttle, of Indianapolis, the groomsman, the ushers being Charles Baur and Edward Hulman, Ernest Rounsaville and Theodore Itnlman, jr. The wedded couple took the afternoon train for Indianapolis, and thence to Portland, Oregon, by way of Chicago, where they will join Mr. Hulman's brother, Herman, and his wife, nee Gertie Preston, who were married at Cincinnati nearly a year ago and who have since been living at Portland.

After a short stay at the home of the latter the entire party will go to California, where points of interest will be visited. They expect to be gone until March, when they will return to this city t* make it their future home. j"

Visitors to our electrio light works should take warning from the fate of Miss Mary Harmon, of Lorraine, Ohio, who in the "twinkling of an eye" was transformed from glorious womanhood to the decrepitude of old age. The transformation was brought about in this wise: Her wedding day drawing nigh, Mary and the young man of her choice went to Cleveland to make some purchases and see the sights. On reaching th6 city the young man remembered that a friend of his was employed at one of the electric light establishments and proposed to visit him. While looking at the machinery, Miss Harmon suddenly fell insensible to the floor, and when picked up a moment later, the muscles of her face were knotted and twisted and her countenance terribly distorted. She was taken home, and when, four weeks later, she recovered sufficiently to hobble about she presented the appearance of a feeble old woman. Her hair was gray and thin, her form once plump and rounded was thin and bent, and the skin on her face dry and wrinkled. Instead of the amiable, plump, rosy-cheeked maiden of nineteen that she was a month ago, abp is now peevish, irritable and selfish, her voice is cracked and harsh, and no one to look at her wonld imagine her to be less than seventy years of age. The supposition is that a wire from her bustle had broken and worked an perceived through her dress, and that on her visit to the electric light establishment in came in contact with one of the powerful machines, and as her band was resting on an iron bar a circuit was established and she received the shock which wrought so great a transformation. __________________

BOJ»AXZA FLOOP, of .San Francisco, ia said to bo a physical wreck owing to his loaMs in the disastrous California wheat corner. Mr. Flood should keep out of corners hereafter*

(Copyrighted, 1887.)

Professions for Women

V.T.T.A

WHEELER ON WOMEN STRUGGLING FOR GOLD AND GLORY.

Would-Be Female Poets and Writers— 2b Women Who Ask for Advice— Women Blind to Their Efficiencies—

Young Girls and the Stage—Some Hints for Stage-Strtick Maidens—A Profession Suggested for Young Women— What Self-Supporting 1Pom«H Shotdd Expect from Men. Special Correspondence.

One of the most difficult things in life is wisely and satisfactorily to advise another person. The most difficult of all is wisely and satisfactorily to advise a woman.

At the present time there are more women struggling for an individual place in the world of achievement than ever before. Any woman who has in the least degree attained sucoess in her ohosen vocation is appealed to as an oracle by hordes of ambitious beginners, and begged to show them the way. Scarcely a mail arrives that does not bring me one or more letters from girls or women who are desirous of earning gold or glory. So numerous have these appeals become that an open letter of advice seems to be tho only response possible, as a separate reply to each request would oblige me to dispense with all other occupations.

The majority of the women who write me say that it is necessary for them to bo self-supporting, and having heard that literature is a profitable business, will I be so kind as to tell them how to get into the favor of editors. Almost always they inclose several of their productions for my criticism. Often they request me to send their articles to magazines and newspapers with a personal letter of recommendation. The inclosures are usually of medium merit, often absolutely worthless from a marketable standpoint.

In my whole literary experience I never reoeived but one Ms. from a young lady which evinoed sufficient genius to justify me in urging her to attempt literature as a profession aud means of support. She possesses a heaven-born gift, and without my advice the force of her genius would have compelled her to write.

I believe more slrongly each day I live that true genital 'or great ability seldom seeks advice. It only seeks an outlet. The artesian spring has been bored and its course directed. The natural spring forces its own way through earth and rock.

The woman who does not feel that she has thoughts and expressions within her strong enough to force their way through every obstacle and to compel the world to listen can never hope for marked success in literature.

If she feels that unconquerable impulse toward creation which is divine in its source and power, sho will not ask to be shown the way out of the 'loam into the light. Success may be long in coming, but she will win at last without being led into it.

The author who will succeed is not the one who loses hope after encountering obstacles, and sits back languidly waiting for older writers to dispose of her work. But it requires decided talent, perseverance, and patience, an unconquerable ambition, and an intense love of the work to attain success ia literature.

There is no worthy or absolute success possible in a labor we dislike. Unless the heart's blood and the brain's fire mingle in the effort it cannot thrive. We must, however, bring something beside enthusiasm to a profession of any kind. We must bring ability or at least adaptability. I am afraid women are more blind to their deficiencies in this respect than men.

I once knew a lady who was consumed with a passion for the stage. She had no voice, no physique, no dramatic or humorous ability, no power. Yet year after year she made her arrangements with stubborn perseverance, and appeared in various roles and companies as an actress. Her appearances were a succession of failures. Nothing better than a third-rate success was ever achieved by her. All her mortifying fiascos she attributed to accident, all her unfavorable notices to envy or lack of judgment. She lived and died, after having wasted her youth and fortune in the belief that she was gifted with great dramatic power. Her perseverance and energy would have won her a brilliant success in any labor or vocation for which she possessed a particle of ability.

Many young ladies ask my advice concerning a dramatic career for themselves.

The play is a great factor in the amuse-ment-loving world. We must be entertained, aud times flies, young actors grow old, old ones die, and the ranks needs most be filled. It is a worthy profession, when worthy natures adorn it. But it ia a hard life at its easiest and best. In a dramatic career more than any other a woman should feel the impelling force of great talent or the extreme command of necessity before she enUwa upon ifc

A a rale It calls for the sacrifice of all domestic comfort, the outlay of every

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particle of brain and body power, and demands unremitting drudgery for years before the rewards are obtained. After the rewards do come the labor of study and rehearsal and constant appearances, taxes all the vitality of a strong woman, and allows no time for homo life.

The pretty young girl who dreams only of glory and riches needs to weigh all these considerations calmly before she ventures upon the most ardous aud. uncortain of careers.

So many and great are the obstacles in the way of success in literature or on the stage, I can but wonder at the persistency of girls and women who, without ability or reason stand before the locked doors of these professions and beg their older sisters, who have found nn entrance for themselves, to let thom in.

Women are often so impractiblo. I do not think it is the fault of sex, but the result of custom. They have been kept out of active business avenues so long that now, when they are permitted or oompelled to walk therein, they are ut» terly at random.

One young lady wrote to me concerning her- very sad and pathetic situation and begged me to assist her to some kind of work.

She said if I would lend hor or borrow for her $500 it would enable her to take lessons in book-keeping, and then shecould earn money to support herself and aged mother and in time repay the loan. I tried to make her realize that it wodld be a quicker and more oertaiu method of earning a livelihood do good housework than to borrow money to learn a business which is already overfilled and underpaid. But I do not think I succeeded.

There is a most beautiful profession for which women are especially adapted open to our sex to-day. Its ranks are not yet filled to overflow. It requires small outlay of expense and only a year or two of study and close application before considerable money reward can be obtained. Two or threo years of close application to study and practice fits any earnest, honest and sympathetic woman to earn an excellent living, with no more fatigue of mind or body than the work of tho actress produces. It is well-paid labor, and always in demand. It is a holy and beautiful mission. I speak of the trained nurse.

My marvelous restoration to porfect health and strength from'a terrible illness, I feel was greatly aided by the skillful care of one of these ministering" pngels.

With inefficient, old-fashioned, or or- /, dinary attendance invaldinm for life might have been my lot. Many another women can say the Bame.

I can think of no place where youth,

vitality, beauty, and refinement are •, more useful or better appreciated than

in a house of sickness. To be a first-class nurse means plenty of employment, bard work, but better pay and a more worthy and useful life than that of a third-rate author or actress surely.

Some of the most refined and talented* women of tho world have chosen this profession. It is an ennobling and purifying labor.

There is one great mistake which selfsupporting women sometimes maken and which ia not only a bar to their own progress, wit a hindrance to the wholesex. I refer to the idea which many a, woman in business has, that men shoulcU give her consideration in financial irrartfters and allow her to be careless In paying her bills because she is a woman. Though she has genius of the most exalted order, and social power, and tho influence of good friends sho will never amount to anything so long as she entertains this idea. It is a death-blow to success. It brings misfortune and misconstruction, a lack of confidence and respect, and finally complete failure in its train.

If we enter the business world among men we must conduct our a (lairs on a purely masculine basis, and expect chivalrous protection and gallantry ouly in social encounters.

The woman who is scrupulously exact about paying her bills and paying interest on the money she borrows lays the first great solid foundation to success For God and the world help those who help thomselves, and all good and trne influences surround and strengthen the woman who is honestly, earnestly, and sensibly determined to earn an independent livelihood.

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EM,A WIIKBLKB Wiuox.

A rAm.B dispatch says the Pope is dlsappointed at the failure of Manager PersJco's mission to Ireland. Manager Perftico obtained only vague declarations, which will be useless in furthering the Pope's desire to pave the way for a renewol of diplomatic relations with England. We have been under the impression the mission had for an object the betterment of the condition of tbe poopie of Ireland but perhaps it was only to enhance the influence of the Vatican in in tbe diplomacy of state.

The members of tbe Congregational church will meet next Monday evening to take action on tbe selection of a pastor. Rev. M. A. Dougherty has consented to remain here another week and will occupy tbe pulpit to-morrow morning and evening..

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