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Vol. 18.—No. 20.

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The anarchists have wilted and will formally ask the Governor for clemency

Jeff Davis doesn't mean to die justyet Like a chicken that has survived Its usefulness, he grows tough as the years go by.

No one can envy the position of Governor Oglesby, holding in his hands the question of life or death of the seven anarchists.

The Committee of Ono Hundred in Indianapolis has come to stay until the election crooks have been properly dealt with. May it not have to stay too long.

Atlanta business men have given Henry W. Grady a silver tea service worth $1,200, in recognition of his efforts in behrtlf of the Piedmont exposition Now that is the way to treat an editor.

Peanut eaters will please take notice that the Virginia crop is only 1,000,000 bushels, or about ono pint for each man, woman and child in the country. When you have had your pint it will be time to stop.

If the report bo true that the public schools in liOadvillc, Col. have beeu closed for :i yrar, I^eaclvillo is in a bad way. The placo is said to have eleven hundred saloons, li is to bo hoped there are not many boys in I^eadville.

John Snyder, the Hartford City, inan who can't stop walking, will probably soon stop for good. Ho is now worn to a skeleton and evidently will not bo able to hold out much longer. His is a most singular case which lias hullllod medical science and skill completely.

Tho friendship of men and women is discussed by Klla Wheeler in her contribution to Tho Mail this week. For next week she will take up the question: is "Ouida" Immoral. The readers of these urticlos will bo interested in a sketch of the writer printed on the fourth page from the pen of Win. J. llok, of New York. in spite of Henry James' unpopularity and tho poor sale of his books, all four of tho loading magazines in this country promise work from him for next year. Yet

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have a poor sale and "The

Itostonian*" it Is said, is offored at 40 cents a copy. Why don't tho magazines open their pagos to uow writers who would bo far more interesting to tholr readers than is Honry James?

Kvansville, always jealous of Torre Haute, has had a sensation which it was thought might rival some of tho exciting news in Torre Haute during tho past few weeks. A young girl and a young married woman ran away from homo to go on the stage. They were traced to St. I,ouis but thore lost. If Kvansville thinks such a passing event as this will keep her name before the public as much as Torre Haute is she is vastly mivStakon. "The project to combine tho two organizations of eoal miners, together with tho unorganized miners, iuto a strong and vigorous national organisation deserves encouragement,'' says the New York World. "Tho coal barons have combined, l^et tho miners meet combination with combination." That is the way to talk and is the thing to do. Hut abetter thing still is for the people everywhere to combine to overthrow rings, trusts and lawless combinations of every sort, and not stop until they have a«,complished it.

Mix. Sachs, the unfortunate St. Louis woman who was lined $."H) for throwing a pancake into the lap of Mrs. Cleveland during the Presidential procession in that city, him been lot off upon paymont of $!.*. She makes a very credible explanation that she did not Intend throwing the cake at the first lady of the land at all but merely meant to toss it away and missed her aim. Beiug a woman she would have missed Mrs. Cleveland a mile if she had really aimed at her. Any man fit to be a judge ought to have hod sense enough to know that.

Colonel Dan L&mont has written two letters of thanks to Terre Haute firms which chose unique means of l*eing courteous to the President and Mrs. ('leveland on the occasion of the visit to this city, Messrs. Fiukblner A Dmmweg for their floral ship and It-H. Uoekw.mhI for the gift of

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melon*. art* the recipients of the eolonc' vrra«Hful words in writing. Wedo not kn»»w if the colonel wa« as responsive :ho oiil/en* of other places v--i :ed but certainly no where was there Wtter occasion for the acknowledgement than here. Terre Haute "did herself proud** in MOVING the President ami MRS. Cleveland and though they have ffctiottt It? WCII renter display* during the Three week* of the journey after Terrr- TLuue. they did not* lieeause they eon .! not. meet with a heartier and mora graceful recognition than In this qneen city of Indiana.

It Is expected that Salt Lake will have a big boom when the Mormons move out of it. But when are the Mormons going to move, out?

General Ben Sutler is sixty-nine years old today and is still raking in fees at the rate of $250 a day. Old and rich as he is, he foesn't work for glory.

Come, Mr. President, give us a short message this year. Say what yon mean and say it so that everyone can understand you. It won't take a jream of foolscap to do that.

The dress up vests of swell young men are to be out decolette this winter and will be fastened with feur little buttons. This is a return to the fashion of twenty years ago. But it was a good fashion and ought to come back.

The great "Gas Trust'' in Chicsgo is having a stormy time of it. When it gets tbrotigh with law suits, the council, and the opposition of the public, it is likely to wish it had never tried to monopolize the e^assupply ofChicago.

All the oil wells have shut down in pursuance of an agreement of their owners. The purpose is to send the price of oil up to $1 a barrel. While this is being done hundreds of men \yill be out of employment and the cost of the poor man's light will bo increased. How long will the American people tolerate such combinations and monopolies?

And now a bieycle has been arranged to run by steam. A small boiler, heated by oil, is placed under the seat of the machine and away goes the rider with out the least effort. But that is precise ly the trouble with the steam bioylo. If there is any virtue in a bicycle it is in the opportunity it givos for exe/cise and if this is to bo taken away, the bicycle had as well go, too.

A Buffalo man one day this week threw up an eel sixteen inches long and weighed over a pound. In drinking somo water in the dark nearly a year ago ho swallowed something which soon began giving him pain In tho stomach and ho suffored continually without help from medicine until a pint of whisky expelled tho intruder. That man will never drink in the dark again,

Two young people have had a peck of trouble by being married in fun. It was feared for a time that they would have to bo divorced, but was finally concluded by ttee lawyers that tho affidavit* of all the part li* the transaction that It was dono only in jest would set matters right and that was the method resorted to. Thei experience of this pair should deter all other young people from getting marriod in sport.

Young Armour, son of the Chicago millionaire, is said to have an allowance of 9100 a week for his college expenses at Yalo. Mr. Amour has the reputation of being a man of sound sense but his giving that much money to his son to go to college on indicates the contrary. It is four times what any studontcan spend legitimately and is likely to no tho young man more harm than good.

Tho gentlemen most aotiveiy interested in tho Southwestern railroad project have deemed it advisable to postpone the election set for next Tuesday on tho question whether- the $100,000 should be voted by Harrison township in aid of the road. It seems to havo been one of those instances where public spiiit went down before factional objection. There could be no moro conclusive proof that the proposition was not of private gain for the gentlemen who have subscribed, to and organized the company than this postponement of the election. They had gone into the enterprise solely as a public one and perhaps did not electioneer or use tho means commonly brought into use in such endeavors. The opposition, centering in a few agitators, gained headway on them. If, as charged by this opposition, the gentlemen named among the subscribers had desired to promote the scheme for personal gain, they could, by the use of comparatively little exertion and money, have carried the day. If there had been thousands of dollars in it to them the election would never have been postponed. This talk that private capital will build the road when private capital sees a profit in it and when the need really exists, is on par with the twaddle too generally made use of on such occasions. It belongs with the talk that years ago before we had r.itl roads and t!egraph w® were h#jrv and more cuaientcd in life. It Is the argument of tho$& who believe civilisation la retrograding instead of advancing.

Seven** ©f our esteemed contemporaries an? en_ in a wild and futile wte-tle with !he an 11:ram,'Plinylet Itte Irf-h «v!tv whl."h uuv i»e resolved Into word, tnt wiiicU none of them h* v» MiceeesfMliy coped with. Bless us! what Incomprehenslhility is there

The standing list of traveling combinations fills nearly three columns of the New York Mirror. There ate fewer storm signals flying this interstate bill year than usual even at this early date.

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With the approach of the bold season pneumonia is liable to make its presence manifest. Pneumonia is what used to be called inflamation of the lungs. It oomes from "pneumonitis," the Latin name for the disease, and is the favorite term with the doctors. From hearing physicians call the disease "pneumonia" people generally have taken to using the name, and so it has displaced the former common expression of "inflammation of the lungs," but both mean exactly the same thing. Many people are mystified by the interchangeable use of the two terms. Pneumonia is apt to begin with a "cold" chill, or stage of depression, followed by oppression in breathing. A dull pain in the chest and a short cough usually appear, but the pain is not constant. A high fever, marked by a flushed face and very hot skin, is found. De» lirum may shortly appear, and in chil^ dren vomiting. After about the third1 day a dull bloody, or rusty, expectoration, is apt to show itself. The severity of the attack usually diminishes after the seventh day in favorable cases, and death seldom occurs before the fifth or sixth day.

Cincinnati is up betimes gettiug ready for the celebration within her borders of the Centenuial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central Slates in 1888. There will be one hundred days of feasting, rejoicing and sight-seeing, the exhibition lasting from July 4 to Oct. 27. The occasion isiho celebrition of the one-hun-dredth anniversary of the settlement of tho Ohio Valley and the Northwest Territory, aud all arrangements are under the management of a board of commissioners appointed by the mercantile and manufacturing bodies of Cincinnati and Governors of the Ceutral States. Two of the commissioners have recently returned from Europe where they have completely noted everything they could find in tho way of oxhibitions. The movement is in the hands of broadgauge pcoplo and promises to bo a grand success.

In Philadelphia considerable excitement has beeu caused by the revelations made in regard to food adulterations. One of the most common adulterations is the use of bichromate of lead, a yellow powder, used oftentimes by bakers instead of eggs, to give a rich yellow color to cakos and buns. By its use the system is rapidly saturated with lead, and fearful for A of lead poisoning ensues. Many cases have occurred in New York and Philadelphia, iv lasge pwporticii which have proved fatal. Circulars have been mailed to many bakers in all sections of the country informing them.of dangerous adulterations, so that ignorance can not bo ploadod in the future.

Vunnv are the freaks of fashion. For a long time it has been favorable to dogs and has coddled pugs, poodles, terriers, mastiffe, in fact ail sorts, sizes, shapes and breeds. Now we are told that cats aro'coming forward. One fashion prophet says that the back part of the coming muff will contain a pouch In which the cat is to lie during the promenading of its fashionable owner. It will be a sort of a natural stove as it will add not a little to the warmth of the muff'. This fad owes its origin to Mile. Schhelder, the Parisian opera bouffe singer, who introduced it during her performance of the "Grand Duchess."

There is nothing more terrible than (he thought of being buried alive. To many peoplo this Idea is a haunting nightmare. A simple and positive test for death has been brought to the notice of the medical profession in Amiens, France. After pricking the skin with a needle, the puncture remains open just as when apiece of leather is pricked. On the living body, even if the blood does not come to the surfaoe, as would happen if the person were hysterical, the pinprick closes at once and does not leave the slightest trace.

The latest musical device is a connecting wheel and belt for hitching one of the cheap reed organs that plays tunes by means of punctured sheets of paper to the fly wheel of a sewing machine, so that p^pr seamstresses whojused to have no music but the thump-thump of a pedal can now make shirts and trousers to the molody of "Hold the Fort." The old juvenile poem must now be altered to "She shall have music whenever she sews."

Next year (188») will be a peculiar one in this respect, that the last three numerals which compose it will pe the same figures, a circumstance which can occur only once in a century, or, more strictly speaking, once in every 111 years, as it will be ill years before another "three of a kind" ^19P&) will be reached.

•'What is the best hook on table cliques?" asks a correspondent of the New York Journals "Good society" says the Journal, and well said it is, but in that book there are as heartless critics as ever exposed their own ill breeding at the expense of another's accidental ignorance.

A teacher having asked his class to write an essay on "The Results of Laid ness," a certain bright youth handed in as hi* composition a blank sheet of paper.,

Smith and Parker Gtms, and Loaded Shells, Cartridges. Magazine Shot Guns, and Hunting Snits, BAKER & WATSON.

TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5,1887. Eighteenth Year

(Copyrighted, 1887.)

Men or Women

WHICH ARE THE TRUEST AND MOST UNSELFISH FRIENDS?

El fa Wheeler Discusses an Interesting ^Question—Views of Different Women— Are Men the More Oeneroits iu Friendship Towards Women f—Opinions of 11Some Wives and Maidens—Some Entertaining Anecdotes—Men More Beady., ^•but Women More Lasting in Their

Friendship#— Twelve Conclusion*. special Correspondence.J In a room full of ladies I heard this uestion discussed in all its bearings not Jong ago, and a great many interesting Anecdotes and experiences were related. The majority of unmarried women expressed quite unanimously an opinion in favor of the men. The married ladies were less out-spoken, but the greater number of them were not enthusiastic in their faith in man's friendship for woman. Their scepticism might be attributed to various causes. Perhaps they knew the genus homo better than their single sisters did. Perhaps they did not think it \yas wise to encourage the damsels In their dangerous even if true theory.

Many an unmarried girl is blind to the virtue of women because she has not time to study them. Her horizon is hounded by masculine forms, and she is quite contented to have it so. By and by, when she concentrates her attention and interest on ono man, und the others disappear like setting stars at the rise of the sun, why then she notices the beauty and fragrance of thoso human flowerswomen. heard one young lady, who had fought a single-handed battle with the world and achieved success, declaro that the question was not even open to discussion in her mind." "I think no one is a better judge of the matter," she said, "than a woman who has had to make her own way in li fe. I received appreciation and encouragement from men, when women gave me only inditlerence or neglect. Men predicted my success,while women feared I wouid f*il. Men praised what thoy termed my courage, while women criticised what they termed my boldtyss." /Another lady declared that she would invariably go to a man wore she in need of friendship or protection in time of trouble. Il'lf I wero placed in a compromising

Itrttkftce," Me said, "and

wished to confidetin some one, and had my own words only to prove my innocence,**0 you think I would trust .myself to tho mercy of a woman No, indeed. And if I had done wrong and wanted a confessor and counsellor,surely I would go to a man. Women are so cruel to their own sex."

At this juncture I remarked that a man would always protect a woman against every man but himself. He would hor from the censorious comments of the world quicker than another would—and then spoil it all. by coinpromisiug her name himself.

Hereupoo a happy looking married lady expressed her opinion. "Yon have all given your theories," quoth she. "Now listen to my experience. No girl ever possessed more gentleman friends than I. My career was a self-made and self-supporting one also. I, too, found men far readier with praise and encouragement than women were. Men proffered advice and aid, while women gave it if asked. Yet as time advanced I found men far more selfish in their friendship than women'were. The interest of my most platonic male friends noticeably lessened after my marriage, and in several cases turned into enmity, while women regarded me with increased favor. "Men whose respect and admiration, unmixed with any tender sentiment, I would have sworn I had won did not hesitate to shrug their shoulders and sneer when I made an excellent marriage, and no longer needed their occasional advice. I really think a man's friendship for an unmarried woman is always, even If unconsciously to himself, selfish. While she belongs to no one he imagines she belongs in some degree to himself, and rejoices in her prosperity. When she belongs to another man all this ceases. Women are less enthusiastic in the beginning, but their friendship wears better." "I don't know h6w it is in the matter of friendship," a young ladjf interposed, •but I know when I go into any large establishment shopping I always reeeiya better attention and more courtesy ftotA" the salesmen than from the aalengirls. If I desire to be directed to another department in the store,! always prefer to ask a man, as he is more willing and af&bie in hfs manner."

A young girl who oftce published a little book and sold it on the street to paasers-by said: "Men are far kinder^ hearted than women. Women looked at me as if I were doing some dreadful and improper act: men looked at me with sympathy- and interest. In any time of distress women look at you as if yoa were lying to them men wait nntU they catch you in a lie, and than tell yoa of it They forget and forgive a wrong, too, far sooner khan women do."

Hereupon I remarked that once upon a time I asked a favor of a gentleman in the presence of two ladies. The gentleman expressed the deepest sympathy and the most genuine regret that he could not assist me. Both ladies voluntarily offered the aid which I had not thought of appealing for to them.'

I think if you can once remove all idea of possible rivalry from a woman's mind she makes a better friend that any man living. Tell a weman your successes, and she may show jealousy but tell her your sorrows and your failures, and she is moved to befriend you.

On the contrary, toll a man of your suocesses, and you win his admiring regard while if you tell him your troubles, you weary him.

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One lady said she thought men were more prompt anrt agreeable, as a rule, than our own-so: in their manner of bestowing favors, and it was because they were educated to business methods. A woman ofter, wounded your feelings from no lack of kind impulses, but merely from hor awkwardness in dealing with any matter outside of parlor or kitchen. A married lady said sho quite coincided with the last speaker in regard to the business methods of the sterner sex. Thereupon she related her somewhat unusual experience. "I was an artist," she said, "and my studio was in the same building in which an elderly professional gentleman occupied an office. He obtained an introduction to mo, and became greatly interested in my'work. He never once indulged in tho least.sentiment toward me. His social and business standing was excellent, he was unusually intellectual, and I quite prized his friendship and valued his advice and criticism. Several times ho invited me to lunch with him at midday, almost the only hour either of us had free from our work for social converse, ne was many years my senior, and I saw no impropriety in accepting. Well, by and by my prince came and carried me away a wife. I had often written to him of the nice old gentleman who wass6 kindly interested in my work. Imagine my humiliation when a bill was sent in for the luuches to which the nice old gentleman had invited me! Surely thoso were thrifty business methods indeed! I have about made up my mind that a man seldom or never shows a lady who is in no way related or dependent upon him marked and continuod kindnesses, unless he expects some sort of a return for them."

When I pondfcn^ kH that I Md heard, and "placed my own personal experiences and impressions along with the other testimony, my conclusions might be classified something as follows: 1. Men are more enthusiastic and ready to espouse the cause of woman than her sister women are. 2. Women, when their interest is finally won are more lasting in their friendships. 3. There is an instinctive rivalry between women which until it Is overcome by the bonds of sympathy is a bar of true unselAsh friendship.

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4. There is an instinctive attraction between men and women which is a bar to safe and unselfish friendship. 5. Men expect more in return for their favors than women do. 6. Men are far more agreeable to approach in any matter requiring courtesy and politeness. 7. Women are far safer and more re-liable-friends in the long tun. 8. The friendship of men noticeably decreases after a woman marries. 9. The friendship of women notl3fe bly strengthens after a woman marries. 10. A good efficient man is a better friend and advteer than a weak woman. 11. A good and efficient woman is a better friend and adviser than a weak man. 12. There is no rule which governs the matter. Vn

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I ATT I r, SEIIMON8.

Beware of the mati with two "face*. Persevere against discouragement. "r Tfcke a cheerful view of everything. Trust in God and mind your own business.

Pray for a short memory as to all unkindnesses. Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. i",

Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or your eyes. Act if you expected to live a hundred years, but might die to-morrow.

Compare your manifold blessing with the trifling annoyances of each day. Be content to do the things you can, and fret not because you cannot do everything.

Never reply in kind to a sharp or angry word it is the second word that makes the quarrel.

Make the best of what you Tiave, and do not make yourself miserable by wishing for wjiat you have not.

The only occasions when a rnan is really happy are When in early youth he dons his first pair of boots and again in ripening manhood when he leads his bride from the altar. He may be reasonably contented at other tilnes, but the two enumerated give the measure of his perfect happiness.

WOMFISTS WA Y&

When beauty is worth so much—in the market—it is worth something to know how to bo handsome. |£s?

Girls, take notice that at this very moment the United States is in need of about 40,000 good cooks.

Mrs. John Jacob Astor pays her chief cook $7,000 a year, aud then has to eat tho plainest kind of food. She has the dyspepsia.

Mrs. Joseph Keppler, wife of the Puck artist, has a diamond brooch set with large stones which revolve for eight hours. It is wound up like a watch, and the effect is dazzling.

The fact that Mrs. Cleveland is a graduate of Wells college has given that place a "boom." It Is overflowing with students, and applicants are constantly turned away from its doors.

Elsie P. Buckingham suscessfnlly manages a fruit farm of sevoral hundred acres in California, and urges other women to take up the same kind of work, for which she thinks women are well fitted.

A lady who never failed to have her little jest with the doctor all through a painful illness, exclaimed one day when he was announced: "Tell him I'm very sorry but I don't feel ablo to Ree him todny." ,|£

They talk alout spring stylos and fall styles for ladies, but if any man living can walk up and down a fashionable avenue of an afternoon and see two hats, bonnets or wraps alike, ho can send his address around for a bronze medal.

Miss Alice Arookings, while at work in a shoe shop at Natick, Mass., was caught by hor hair and drawn up by shafting, completely tearing away her scalp and right ear. When sho fell she exclaimed: "Oh, dear, won't I look torri-

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Lotta is not likeIjT'sooh To retire from** tho stage. In a recent interview she said: "I was born with high spirits, aud I suppose I shall havo then till I die, and the stage is the outlet I want. If 1 should settle qnietly down at homo with mother I belioye I should go crazy."

Tho young men who run tho Lansing (Mich.) Journal solemnly assert that the High school of that city is a very hot-bed of superstition—on the girl's sido. If one of them trips on a projecting nail In the sidewalk she will turn around and slowly walk over it again, to save from being hoodooed she expectorates over her loft shoulder three times to avoid bad luck, and if sho puts on her stocking wrong side out, it stays that way all day —wouldn't turn it for the world.

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you want to tell a woman's temper watch her eyelids. You can read a man in tho same way, but not so readily. A woman with a flery temper will move her eyelids with a snap, and that snap betrays her. Another who is easy-going and hard to arouse, moves her eyelids languidly. One with a quick brain and temper, furious when aroused, just winks steadily, but neither quickly nor slowly until engaged In interesting coilvernation."

A woman who, six years ago, knew nothing of business, now makes the only blankets in the country that can coinpete with those of the famous Mission Mills, in California. She has a small mill run by water-power up in Vermont, and she experimented in her own kitchen mixing the dyes until she got the exact shades. Her blankets now can hardly be distinguished from those of the Mission Mills, and her little mill is kept running day and night to fill heavy orders. ,.

Six Parisian titled women have put on men's clothing, and now drive their dog carts along the boulevards. Womanhood is not good enough for them. But after all, there has been no essential difference in woman since the world was born. They have always been coarse and delicate females, great souls and little souls. The noted Dr. Hammond, of New York, has devoted much time recently to warning women of the age against the evils of unsexing them Helves, aud he has been confuted by many bright women who insist that bis arguments are more adapted to the media?val ages than the present progressive ono. The doctor agrees with Kenan that "the more a man i* lost in the clouds, the more he finds repose with, complete ignorance in bis companion."

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FUNERAL SVPERSTITIOXH: It is bad luck to whistle or hum the air that a band plays at a funeral.

If two persons think aud express the same thought at the same time, one of them will die before the year parses.

If two young girl* are combing the hair of a third at the caine time, it may be taken for grant*l that ti»e youngest Of the three will *on die.

If at tht '-cmetery then- lie any unusual deia in burying U." d'*nd, caused by any unSoked-for cwntm*Umc".»uh as the totiiM.- !a« to ,«:.iaHto bM the coffin, it is a .ign th the d« Is selecting a com pan Ion from among tit"«o present, and one of the mourner* mu»t, soon die.

"The way it i*," said little .Johnny* describing a raffle at a churh fair, "you see somethin* and you give half a dollar [-fora chance to win it another fellow always wins it, and they never offer you your money back."

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