Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 December 1887 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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YOUNG '88—Sorry to kick you oyer, old man, bat you nee your time's up*.'

Notes and Comment.

Header, hist! The Year in dying! Tread lightly, for'there will be a corpse and A

born babe in every house

to-night. The eyes of 1887 are Aiming and the lips of 1888 are yearning for the nipplo of Time* May her beautiful breasts yield to the pressure 'of its

fingers rich juices of human kindnous. The cerements for the Old Year and the swaddling clothes for the New hang to-day in the same wardrobe. At 12 o'clock to-night the same hand will, take thom down and the cry of Life and Death will go up simultaneously from the same couch. While we fling our little wreath of continent upon the coffin of our puling old friend we fain would string spotless pearls of hope aroun«he a

If every mother's son of us, the mother of e^ry son of us, and all the daughters of our respective mothers, do their level best, individually, to make the most of their lives of all this year 1888 we shall all bo surprlsec^tollnd what a good world .*vj are in wjion 1889 dawns upon us. |sg

if he wOrldMs a great deal better this la*«t day of 1887 than it was the last day *tiB be'ter a year from date. He who does not grow better and stronger, year by year, is bohind the old world ho so soundly borates for its shortcomings. '.Jt

Dear Old Fogy, graceless Nothing, yon, like therost of us, are but as files on the wheel of progress. You cannot retard It much. The world willcontinuo to move whether we seek to help or to hinder, or are content to just hang on

dead weights. It does not matter so much to the world what we do, but It makes a deal of dllferonce with us. We hIiid1 feci better and be better If we do Ivhat can to holpthe old thing along.

TI»o yeai just closing has been marked by or««i fnmiuos and generous harvests i|bv fruitful warmth and blighting frost: fe\?bv gloomy clouds and cheery sunshine EJplby dark pestilonoe and blooming health, lw by happy uuirriiigcs and woful aoparahi tlons bv love and hate by heroic self •Usaorlrtce and crnven selfishness: by ten't ider mooting* and bitter partings by millions of deaths and other millions oi

I bl rths—-just as every other year has been. Surely, thus generalising, one year of I the world seems as much like another as I

two

from the same pod. As the old

lady said "It's just one eternal round of d'lshwashing. You get them all washed up and shining so that they delight your heart. And the next thing you know, v«u have to set to and wash them all over again. The very thought of It makes me sick of life, sometimes."

And what has your year been, O, averago son and daughter of man? You 'have undressed and gone tobed you I have risen and put on your clothing \you have gone to breakfast returned to dinner, and made yourself visible at '?supper you have been in offlee, or shop, 4or tleld, or kitrhen: you have read books and newspapers, heard sermons, gone to the play you have spanked and kissed the babies you hav# earned certain dollar* and spent them one day you have been happy, another day you *have Ixhmi blue you have had divers hojx** and an equal number of fears you have been at joyful weddings and attended sorrowfhl funerals you have been glad of life, and very likely) ready torurseJod and die y®n have eaten, *lept, ami breathed. You have shared he world's commonplace of joy *n^ sorrow. So you did the year before, and so will you do this. Hie years of your Hf*. as those of the vrtrld, are as two peas from the same pod.

Wherefore, then, shall any diaries be kept, or histories written? But you say, -TUls is not so. The year 18S7 has been to me different from ever? other year of my life. I shall always be able to distinguish It from other*." Then we hare been mistaken all through two paragraphs. Life is not one eternal round Of dishwashing, after all. Each day** events hare their peculiar value to yen, although the generalisation makes them ion ao commonplace. Ihe ptoddkgf

work, the Mby-kisalng, tfa»l*y, the sermon, the dull pain, the keen pleasijjpe the sharp grief the deep joy, bavaSffveloped yon. Yon are stronger, and there la more of you, than there was a year ago. And the same is true of the world, which is made up of the work sbd lip of average human beings and grows by their growth, JSTyears which seem so tiresome same, in the mass, have each a peculiar value that develops it and so gets day by day nearer to the millennial state. God is good this world of His isn't so bad as we sometimes paint it and Ho knows what He is going to make of it. Trust Him to make a complete 'success of it: and of you as well.

If you have nothing else to rejoice tin, be glad that you haven't the management of the world on your hand*.

There does not seem to be much preparation for New Years calling this year in Terre Haute. In fact that is true of nearly all cities. The cnstpm seems to befalling into "innocuous desuetude" and bids fair to die out altogether in a few years. Such result would be but the natural reaction from the extreme phase the oustom took a fe^ years ago when the call of courtesy ahd good feeling became a burlesque, If not worse. It was a delightful Incident in social life, and if continued as such would fill a nice place in the livid of all whoob* served it, but the rowdy in'a1 dress suit, for dr^ss suits do clothe rowdies, transformed the true intent of the day into a jolly drunk and thought he was doing as a gentleman should. With such an ass there is no such 'thing as rhyme or reason, and so it has come to pass that bis usurpation has caused "real" ladies and gentlemen to abandon the New Years reception as the only relief from the nuisancer

The Yandalia company has been enforcing the rule against drunkenness onr the part of some of .its employes at Brazil. it is a good rule and could well be extended to apply not only to those who age guilty ft drunkenness, but to those who dr|^K intoxicating liquors at all. In no employment is there such imperative necessity for tjobriety as In the railroads. The railroad mairshould always have a oool head and the surest, -«cayuof having it 1s hy letting liquor alone. Indeed the rule is not a bad one to apply to allapi ploy men t. Employers have as much right to insist on temperance among their employes as they have to require competent service.

Mr. Maokay, of Evansvllle, the president of the Evansville & Terre Haute, the Evansville A Indianapolis and the Peoria, Decatur A Evansville roods Is at the hoad of syndicate that has taken in the Indianapolis, Decatur A Western road, running from Indianapolis to Peoria. By this purchase the "Maekey system" becomes a very big system of railroads and, if one can judge by appearances in these railroad deals, indicates that instead of dickering to dispose of his roads or any one of them heis preparing to increase his interests.

In thiscounection the rumor that Mr. Mo Keen is at the head of a syndicate that will take in the C, H. «fc. ». system proves to be interesting. Such a report has found Its way into the newspapers but it Isn't probable that there is anygood foundation for it. That Mr Mcbeen is in a position U»4o something of the kind is undoubtedly true but it is rather against his theory of business to get hold of a grand aggregation of railroads. He has generally pursued the policy of managing one road on dividend earning principles rather than into the consolidation enterprises. It Is quite true, however, that there la likely to be a change In the control of tho C. H. A. D., the latest report being that Ives is again to come

into

control. The young man has

had some stiff financial backing from mysterious sources of late and to one of his scheming proclivities there is no telling whst he will yet do. $

A Vermontgentleman has been among us and feeUag that he was too old himself to make a new mooring in life, thought Terre Haute a good plase for his son. The gentleman Is largely interacted in the banking business in Rutland and with Yankee shrewdness thinks there is room here for another hank, in which he wouid take stock and his son ceuld take the position of teller. He talked the matter over with some leading citizens aed as a consequence* meeting of the» Manufacturers and Basinets Men's association has appointed a committee to investigate the matter and see If a new national bank with U00,000 capital stock oouki be made to pay flair dividends. There may something come out of the project and there may not, but, all the same, we find in this incident a confirmation of Mr. Chauneey Depew's statement made at the Forefathers' dinner in New York the other day, that the Yankee remains In Yankeedom long enough to be thoroughly Impregnated with the sturdy principles of the forefathers and native shrewdness when he goes forth to take everything in eight. _____

Natural gas has been discovered In Chicago^but it is no circumstance to the natural gas which has always artstort In the windy city.

THE OLD

THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING. ^DEliAIDE A. FBOCTOJL I am fading from you,

But one draweth near, Called the angel guardian Of the coining year.

If my gifts and graces Coldly jrou forget Let the

It I brought you oare, Let him make one patience And the other prayer.

Where I brought yon sorrow, Through bis care at length, It may rise triumphant

Into future strength.' If I brought you plenty, Ail wealth's bounteous charms Shall not the new angel

Turn them into alms. ,, I gave health aud leisure, Bkill to dieam and plan Let him make them nobler

Work for God and man.

If I broke your Idols, Showed you they were dust, Let hltn turu the knowledge ^Into heavenly trust,

If I brought temptation, Let sin die away. Into boundless pity

For all hearts that stray.

If your lint of errors Dark and long appears, Let this new born monarch

Melt them into tears.

May you bold thlR angel Dearer thaa the lastSo I bless hU future •U

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While he crowns my past.

Don't forget to Write it 1888. This is an admonition that the newspaper makes once a year, but It has as much effect as pouring water on a duck's back, which expression is a fitting companion chestnut to the admonition,

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THE DEPARTED TEAR. 7 GBOSOB D. PBEimSB.

Tig midnight's holy hour, and silence now* Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er Tlie still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds S The bell's deep tones are swslHng—tfe the knell i" Of the departed yei|r. No fujmral train Is sweeping past yet, on the stream and wood With melancholy light the moonbeams rest Like a pale, spotless shrptad the air Is stirred As by a mourner's sigb and on yon cloud That floats so still |nd placidly through heaven The spirits of the seasonslseem to standYoung Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn form. And Winter with his aged locks-and breathe In mournful cadences that come abroad Like the far wind-harp's wild and touching wall, A melancholy dirge o'er the dead yearj C^one from tbe«arth forever.

ew Year's angel cro#n them yet.

Bless

For we work together He and I are one, 1 Let him end and perfect

Alt leave pndone.

1l brought gttoddsslres, .Though :as yet out seeds Let the^ew Year make them

JBldSMffn Into jeeds. I brought Jottto$rightenv *Many happy days Lett!"' New Years angel'

Chicago coroner's ju¥y has decided that a wife who kills her adulterous trasband is emotionally insane and Is not responsible for her conduct. This Is but 0^, carrying out the rule which has frequently been applied In favor of husbands 1, ft might "be well to do" Ibere and Itt other places what was done in Indiapolis the other day—namely, order every load of coal on the streets to be driven to the city weigher's scales and weighed. The almost universal short weight that was disclosed on that occasion would probably be discovered in some other quarters.

The "drummer" can go through anything. At Davenport the other day the delegates to the Traveling Men's aseociatfcm paraded the street* while a httnard was blowing. More than that, they wore linen dusters, the trade mark of their profession, as it were, and now the Indiana association Is going to hold a convention down at Evansville»

The lively little city oi Bloomlngton, has set an example of progress and liberal enterprise that many a larger city oould imitate with advantage. Her wideawake cltisens have Invested HMWia a handsome public library building which la stocked with all the standard works in art, literatuieaztfi sctonee. LaatTnea day night the building was formally opened with appropriate exerciass. It was mainly the wort: of tho jmhlie•piri ted wonaen of the town and aflbrib another ahining illustration of the splendid work women ean do when th«y band tlmu—ii—tnfthTIN»good OHM.

TERRE HAUTE, INIXySATURDAYEVENINQ, DECEMBER 31,1887. Eighteenth Year

NEW.

GLAD MEW YEAR. BUXABBTH A. DAVIS. childreniJlon't you hear je one hadbklngat your door? Utyonkhow theglad New Year ^estoy^uandmejoncempre— withitetturai ever new HpreedouV^t 6hr wklting feet#. resolves and puipose true ntour llves to music sweet. toehcpe« we hut mil id^lgbttl l^e wilt dovwlth beauty.

tZfaeisx'&in hvMdsheutaod slng^ I Wetoomer fllad New Year. •. Kg..J. 3nt YEAR HOFEiSffft .i 'X.VCT «.AnOOX#:^il|

Dcabtrtiwn la low the year is otf T. Through fallen leaves and flying t|akesqr

snow

Thosgedpll Butlook the

the moontainoold.

:mi^'|h th^aftergiowl

Thfl tiNtiMli hold their b'reatV) *tbe rwks 4. down |o guide bes|§p the aepanl^Mtlonely footiitepspts^ ^tmai^rwav«in^|plrl«u^llgh t.

ns greener valleys lie

pA^bappy New Year, an etenM Hprlngl

f,fr%EW YBfR« REemfrE. wniunJiptwiiiObfx. ^rear is clasped,by a dead Decern slns with your dead days new hope. Re--

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Imo to the

our own ladders to

Stand out In the sunlight of promise* forgetting Whatever your past held of sorrow or wrong We waste naif our strength in useless regret-

We old tombs in the dark too long.

Have you missed in your aim? Well, the mark is still shining Did yoi faint in the race? Well, take breath for tbe next Did tbe clouds drive you back? But see yon' der their lining,

Were you tempted and fell? Let it serve for text. As each year hurries by let it join that procession

Of skelston shapes that march down to tbe past. While you take your place in the line of progression,

With your eyes on the heavens, your face to the blast.

I tell^pn the future* calf Wold ho tutors For any sad soul while the stars revolve, If he will but stand firm on the grave of his errors,

A«4 Instead of regretting, rc*olve, resolve! It Is never too late to begin rebuilding, Thw^yh all into ruins your life seems hurl-

For look! how the light of the new year is gilding The worn, wan face of the bruised old world!

Plymouth church, df Brooklyn, has ooms to the sensible conclusion to continue Dr. Lyman Abbott as their pastor for a year at least, and possibly for good, at the salary paid to Mr. Beecher during the letter's life. This was, we believe, 120,0k). This decision will have somethin! of a local and individual interest to nany people of this city who knew

Abbott years ago as pastor of the tional church of Terre Haute.

It wui his custom to go frequently to the Female college and conduct the merjlng devotional exercises and many ladie here and elsewhere, who were then rosy-cheeked girls attending the schol, will recall these visits with plesnre because of the impression of singular spiritual earnestness and devotion bn the part of the man making then Dr. Abbott has for many years been the editor of the Christian Union and ills long and intimate association witbiMr. Beecher, as well as his liberal thought, large spiritual gifts and in his ministerial work, him in a peculiar manner to fill the mlpit of Plymouth church. The aeletion is one that can heartily be coinmeded.

Porter wants it distinctly underlie is not a candidate for gabhonors next year, but be also snggtfa that he never yet was nominated 4r an offlce for which be was a candid*. Does this mean that he will take! he nomination if it should be offeretto film and that as likely as not It will* forced upon him. He's "devilish r," is Albert Q-, and the politician whqgits ahesdofhim must be an nn* early riser.

Tie was one cooaoling &ou#ht for yoonf lady who didn't find her properly filled on Christmas and that was tbe reflection thadse oonld immediately fill it henelf

WHAT THE NEW YEAR BRINGS.

Everybody buys a new diary, and turns over anew leaf. The ^wiguino^man believes fully that be slfotl be able to keep all hisgoodt resolutions. He thinks that somehow, in some mysterious way hidden in the glowing future, he shall do big things, accomplish magnificent purposes, quit chewing tobacco, and refrain from brck erings with his wife. He has heard the name,of the place mentioned which is poptlarly supposed to be paved with good intentions but he has not the slightest idea of contributing toward material for its sidewalk, or ibi roadbed. He means tefbe good and true he expeots to keep sober, to work, to save money.

He takes that new diary, and sharpens out anew pencil, and braces himself, and writes down his resolves. He is not going to let his wife see that book until the end of the year. If he lost his temper when she wanted him to fit stove pipes or beat carpets, sbe might be apt to twit him with his recorded good resolves. Women will do such things, you know, when they are very muoh tired.

The New Year brings a change of calenders and the farmer's wife must have a new almanao. No well organized farmer's wife could keep house without an alihanao. It Is an institution of her forefathers. When her mother—yes, when her grandmothers-was an Infant, the almanac hung on the wall beside the look-ing-glass and the japanned comb-case: and when her grandfathers father wanted to cut thfi wheat-fields, he looked into the almanac to'see if it was going to rain and when grandmother's mother wanted to seta hen she looked into the almanao ^•to see where the signs was," so as to regulate biddy's incubation, and insure healthy chickens.

The New Year brings bills. There is a great deal of sorrow comprehended in tlhat sentence, there is no man living who'llkes—really enjoys—the arrival of Wlto. It isn't in human nature.yWe all like to keep what we have. Ay

Bills are always larger than a man exptgpfa them to be. He will look at tbem With dismay. Surely hei has never run uptbat long list of items! There must be iiome mistake. ^Somebody else's bill hgh jjot mixed with his.. All that sugar, andplill those beans, kiM that array of anh^ilMkconsumed by hbfamtj" nS&odjrro feeid pnt h'ls w^fe'fand httf wife's'mother, and the four children! and the servant girl and himself. But then, it is hardly worth while to mention himself he thinks be lrfcuoh a small eater. Every man thinks he doesn't do much towards swelling the grocery bill. .The man complains to his wife, and points out the items, and says there must have been things wasted—ye, wasted! And if there is anything will try the patience of a good housekeeper, it is to be told that things are wasted.

And likely as not, before they settle the question to their mutual satisfaction the good man has broken one of tbe resolves written down in tbe new diary, and the. woman has got all stirred up, and told him she wished she had never seen him.

Thank fortttrie this7 all blows ever without any great storm and the New Year, Is entered upon, and will3 oloi»e with the same scene again.

LITTLE SERMONS.

GOOD THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR

Spend the year as if it were to be your U»t. Let some word of kindness brighten and bless every day that goes out of your life.

Don't resolve to do great things this year rather resolve to do little things a little better than formerly.

Those who close their eyes' to their own defects are apt to use magnifying glasses in finding out the faults of others.

It is well to remember that when the festivity of the Christmas season is over, the poor are apt to be lost sight of. A good dinner on Christmas Day is a good thing, but the remembrance of it will not lesson the pangs of hunger, If the feast be followed by famine.

He that gives good advice builds with one hand he'that gives good council and example build* with both but he that gives good {admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pnlls down with the other.* One by one. one by one,

The yean march past, till the inarch Is done The (rid year die* to the mlemn knell, And the merry peal from the clanging bell

Ushers the others, one by one. Till the march of the yean shall at last be dose. We bail the New that bm come In view

Work come* with it and pleasure too: And even though it may bring some pain, aeh passing year is a thing of gain

We greet with song the yean that throng Do tbry bring as trouble? Twill make us strong.

Tbe Inter Ocean states what is true of every city, Terre Haute not excepted, that small stores near large advertisers in Chicago tent for nearly double the pries of those two or three squares away. A merchant that advertises is the common benefactor of all bis neighbors, and we might say to the entire city, for a city thatdoes not advertise would be voted dead by wim*— onteldsw

BROWNS NEW YEAR'S VOW,.

LD Mr. Brown, grand array. Set out to call on Ken

Year's Days 4:!

Then led Brown to the table, where' They heaped his plate with New Year's farSb

Poor Brown! He balanced on his knees That plate, and tried, to hold a sneeze, Which, bursting like a thunder elsp, 8hot plate and all from off his lap.

OI Mr. Brown, you've taken oolit," Cried ottt the ladies, young and old.

Alas! upon that table stood Decanters filled with no one's good.

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God-bye t" exclaimed his help-mats, now,

Remember, dear, your New Year's voir,'

This time Til keep it, sere life," He smiled, and kissed his happy wife,

Each time he passed a liquor shop He looked away, and wouldn't stop. 4 He met three cronies on the street: "Oome In," they urged, we want to treat,"

No! rve sworn off," Brown nobly said, My nose shall not be painted red."

"Hurrah!" they cried, we'll swear off, too," (This shows what good examples do.)

There's nothing now can make me fall, Brown thought, as he went in to ••call." A happy New Year's, ladles!" cried Our hero, bowing, when inside.

The same to you, and many more," The ladies answered, ap of yore.

For Just five minutes altogether The angels talked about tho weather,

Ahem!" Brown blushed*and gave a cough, Excuse me, ladles I I've sworn off."

O, New Year's day don't count,4' they smiled, As, Eve-llk«v they pooiwt^n beguiled.

And, Adam-like, Brown fell ane J? Because the ladies asked him to.

A soft white hand presented brandy Brown drank—then.felt Quite like a dandy*, 4 Another offered hfmsome sherry He drank ft and grew ve|y merry. A wife and mother gave htm whisky Another port Blbwn now was frisky.

VoI And then—the truth shall here be told,, He kissed each female, young and old, f**Help! Murder! Thieves! Police!" they shrieked. While husbands mad, rushed in and wreaked

On Brown their vengeance, till, most dead,g With shattered vows and brokou bead,

Now, ladies near, and ladles far,* Don't keep on New Years Day a bar,

For many a man slips off tho brink When women tempt him thus to drink. I

Another's husband, son—perhaps Your own—may from these New Year traps

His ruin find. 0, ladles, all Oare for the Browns, who'll on yon call. H. C. DODOS.

NEW YEAR'S CALLS.

Ah exchange has summed up tbd ethics, modus operandi and kinds of New Year's calls In such apertinent way that we give it for tbe benefit of our young friends so they may place it in their hats. An educated taste, the exchange says, no longer sanctions the wearing of rubber boots when making New Year's calls, They give a puffy and ungraceful appearance to the foot, and the marks they leave on the carpet are unpleasantly broad. When the cane Is carried Into the drawing-room, it should be hold gently but firmly in the left hand. It is a mistake to put It between the kneos when attempting to walk, To hold the handle too long in tbe mouth gives a vacant stare to all the other parts of the countenance. Gentlemen seldom keep their hats on their heads, now, while in the drawing-room. Cases have been known after 11 p. m., but the practice has never become general, and is not now considered elegant. It has now bpcome quite common to wish tbe ladies a Happy New Year. The use of business cards is not good form. Tbe use of business cards cattMH a suspicion of mercenary proffered courtesy. A special card is usually engrossed, bearing sometimes an esgle of large size, having a scroll inscribed "A Happy New Year" in its beak. Other designs abound, such as doves eooing, figures of Father Time, etc. The young men wbo carry these cards always seems happy and good. Tbe matter of conveyances is a matter of taste, but care should always be taken to leave tbe driver and horses outside when the club goes in to call. Persons calling in couples should never, blow boras. It is inconsistent. It laJ not considered good form to put both feet out of one window of tbe coupe. The better usage now is to put one foot oat of each window, tliis also helps to •toady the coupe. A great, many young men boast of tbe number of New Year's calls they are making, and pat only semicolon between, "How do yn«? dor* and "Good-bye." A period I* .titer.'' One suggestion more-It iabettefcTio home than to be taken home,

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And dainty hands commenced to nil The glasses, to allay Brown's ohlll.

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He, In an ambulance was sent m-. To face his wife, and there repont.

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