Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 February 1888 — Page 1

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Now that Lent has come the fashionable world, from being fast, will fast.

The St. Benedict's fair last week netted nearly $3,000. There's big money in Catholic fairs.

Phil Sheridan says he was born in Albany, New York and bis mother says he was born in Somerset, Ohio. Phil was more than twenty miles away in his state rrient.

Mrs. Langtry gets more free advertising than any other actress on the stage, declares the Pittsburg Gazette. Weil, what else is needed to prove that she is a great actress?"

There

is a paper published in Kansas

which bears

the

suggestive name of "The

Thomas County Cat." If it resembles the rest of the Thomas Cat family, there is no danger that it will bo heard from.

Mr. Blaine made a great mistake in sending out his letter without a postscript saying whether it should bo read "between the lines" or not. Lots of people are in doubt on that important point

Strawberries from Florida are on sale in the Northern markets at $2 a quart Very few people can afford to eat them at that price, but then nobody needs to eat them at this time of year. The time to eat strawberries is in May and June.

What with their endless "war papers" and their interminable articles on the protection and free-trade sides of the tariff, the magazines are becoming near ly as dry as the patent oflice repot ts Isn't it about time for some bright youug literary genius to be unearthed?

Three houses were blown to pieces within a few days and one person killed and a number injured at Anderson, Ind., by an explosion of natural gas. These accidents ar® becoming so frequent that some people may question whether natural gas is the unadulterated boom it has been supposed to be,

"Has Salt Lake moved eastward or is Mormondom extending fts borders? There area suspicious number of men with too many wives and of wives with too many husbands throughout the country of late. If some of them were jailed for a year or so the influence exerted would be salutary and morally sanitary. ______ •Sim Coy, tho convicted tally sheet for­

ger,

is spending his time in the Indianapolis jail in going over tho poll books and completing the organization for the Democratic campaign which will soon be on hand. It is an odifying spectacle tosee the party organization being manipulated by a convicted felon from his cell in jail.

The Pittsburg Gazette declares that the temporaturo of that city in winter averages 10 degrees warmer than that of the surrounding country and is disposod to attribute the fact to the amount of heat given off into the atmosphere by the mills, factories,' and natural gas escape pipes of that great manufacturing centro. There may be something in it.

The other day when the mercury hore went to zero tho telegraph brought word that in the mardi gras pageant at Memphis one float represented a scono from Antony and Cleopatra. If they had as cold weather down there as wo had here tho spectators didn't blush at a Cleopatra patron. It is a physiological fact that one can not be benumbed with cold and blush at the same time.

Literature has some peculiar aspects nowadays. Books are published and sold, not so much for the value of their contents, as for the author's name on tho title page. For example, if Miss Hose Cleveland's brother had not been elected President of the United States would that lady have written a life of St. Augustine, or could anyoue have been found to take tho risk of publishing if she had?

The Hoosiers resident in Denver, of whom there ar© a goodly number, have organised themselves Into a club with Rev. Myron Reed as president. They will soon give a banquet and social and are laying out to have a royal good time. It is a sensible thing to do and will result in a large measure of social enjoyment. When they all get together they will come pretty near feeling as if they were back in old "Injlany" again

It seems that the second district con vention, held at Vincennes went out of Its way to select two delegates to the National Republican convention, a wholly irregular proceeding aa the call did not provide for such action. Hie two

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the State committee which is also actively Harrison has ratified the action. While It has been generally conceeded that General Harrison was entitled to the position of "favorite son judgment proceeding simply embitters and enlarge* the quarrel between the

followings of Harrison and Gresham. If General Harrison wants to retain the respect of the Republicans of Indiana, all appearance of passion must be avoided. Senator Morton was the only Republican Indiana ever permitted to retain the place of boss and even as to him there was much opposition among such Republicans as General Harrison himself.

IT is announced that the DePauw will contest has been compromised, on the basis that Mrs. Mcintosh shall have property worth $200,000. As her father left an estate valued at eight or ten millions the wonder is that such an agreement was not reached without any .law suit at all. f^

The death of D. R. Locke, "Petroleum V. Nasby," of the Toledo Blade, last Wednesday morning, removes a wellknown figure frem American journalism. He was but fifty-five years old, but, more fortunate than most newspaper men, had amassed a fortune from his work as a lecturer and writer and by judicious investments. The Nasby let* lers were the foundation of his fame and exerted a powerful influence during the war period. "J1" \1

Poor Mr. Arbuckle's misfortunes are never to end, it would seem. Not only

does he have to pay $45,000 and big law yers' fees for refusing to marry "Bunnie" Campbell, but now the Ladles' Coffee Club, of Ottawa, Ohio, have decided to boycott Mr. Arbuckle's coffee. Thus Mr. Arbuokle has no one to make his coffee for him and is not even to have the privilege of selling his coffee unmade. The way of the matrimonial transgrossdr is indeed hard.

Minnie Palmer has eclipsed Emma Abbott's church advertisement by acceding to the request of some Louisville converts of Evangelist Moody not to give a performance on Ash Wednesday. These two ladies of the stage are undoubtedly the most shrewd advertisers in the profession, but we think the one with the nimble heels has outstepped the one whose voice.is nimble if not musical, because she has secured the advertisement and at the same time won over the church people whereas the vocal gymnast has raised an enmity as the price of the advertisement. The manager of the Louisville theater did not agree to stand any of the cost of the advertisement injhe shape of loss of receipts at tiltomtit but Minnie Valuing the advertisement highly paid the manager's claim and goes forth to tho country as the idol of the bald heads of both the orchestra chairs and the amen corner.

JHUMW, minutes, the minutes into sixty seconds, delegate* are active Harrison men and the nnds into sixty trices or wKlak im thirds.

St. Valentine's day has come and gone and now the horrible pictures in the show windows will perhaps pass out of sight for another twelvemonth. The day is no longer what it once was and lacks in a large measure the fine significance which was once attached to it. In years gone by It moant the exchanging of tender remembrances between young lovers' hearts and there was a delicate beauty about it. And to somo extent even yet the children, the boys and the girls of the schools, may experience a trace of that finer romance of the earlier time, in the pretty, if inexpensive, me mentoes which they send and receive. But as a rule the modern St. Valentine's (lav is observed in a way that makes it anything but beautiful or agreeable.

The practice of sending cheap and hid eous caricatures which are calculated to carry unhapplness and pain rather than to excite auy pleasing sensation, is widely prevalent. These pictures are called comic valentines, but there is nothing humorous about them. They are wretched and hideous distortions, without any real wit or merit in them. Many of them are not fi£ to be sent through the mails and ought to be excluded from the postoffice. They are an outrage upon good taste and good mauners and it would be an excellent thing if they could be abolished altogether. St. Valentine's day needs reforming.

Since the dark ages the mother-in-law, has afforded ft theme far the pleasantries of the humorist. She has been ridiculed, reviled, and in every possible way held up to public scorn. Now Judge Tuley, of Chicago, turns against her. The judge is something of an authority on divorces and his expressions on the mother-in-iaw—and the father-in-law as well—are worthy of consideration. Here is what he says: "If it were practicable I would prohibit by law any newly man ud couple from living with the parents of either within the the first five years. When left to themselves their characters sooner assimilate, and they much sooner learn that In order to be happy there must be continuous and mutual self sacrifices and dependence upon each other." _______

Many persons use the phrase "In trice" who have no Idea of its meaning. A

trice is the sixtieth part of a second of time. The hoar is divided into sixty

Hie intensely interesting story "Valerie," BOW running through The Mail

this snap was commenced Dee. 17th. We can furnlfh a few sets of back nnmbera—teain In all—for 30 cents.

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THE SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD. We must confess our surprise at the opposition which has manifested itself to voting the tax to help build the T. H. A M. railroad. It can hardly be possible that the people of Terre Haute have come to the conclusion that we can ad? vance in competition with other citlJS and have no more railroads. Othelj towns all around us are helping to bulla more railroads, as they know that cities advance in prosperity just in the proportion that they have railroad facilities, This is an age of railroad commerce, and' whenever a people think they can keep abreast with the times and not have railroads running into their cities and towns, they will find themselves mistaken. Railroads are absolutely essential to the improvement of any and all cities.

The $100,000 that is asked to be voted will be compensated by the additional amount of taxables which will be placed on the tax duplicate, by reason of this road coming into this city.

TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18,1888,

The most inexcusable objection urged by the opponents to the building of this road, is because it will help and be of interest to the wealthy men of the city.: Of course it will help the heaviest property holders In the city, from the fact it will increase the value of their property. But will it not help the small property owners in the same proportion. Every man of a particle of common sense knows it will. The wealthy men of our city have already subscribed the necessary amount of stock, under the statute, the amount of $26,000, and this they regard as a free gift to the enterprise. That there is a speculation in securing the building of this road, on part of our wealthy citizens, is only believed by a few narrow minded and singularly prejudiced men. There is not one particle of truth in it and it only becomes necessary to deny it from the fact that somq writers for the press of the city, have been bold enough to charge it.

We all know that Terre Haute needs something to make times better. We all know that we want more work for •our mechanics and laboring men. We all know that real estate in this city is unsalable even at a price lower than was paid for it ten years ago. We know that our people as a general thing are not growing in wealth and prosperity, and we know that something has to be Uoiie to give us an impetus towards additional improvement andprosperity. $

What then are we to do? "Stand still and see the salvatibn of the Lord?" "The gods help those who help themselves," is the old proverb. We must be up and doing and not let a few constitutional growlers who forever stand on the rear end of the car of progress and pull down the brakes and cry stop. Progress and improvement and push and enterprise may stop in Terre Haute, but it will not stop all around us, and when we find ourselves "left" it will then be too late for regrets.

We must have the Southwestern, and as this is the last issue of the Mail before the tax is to be voted we most earnestly advise our readers to vote, on next Tuesday, for the tax, and thereby, so much as possible, secure the road. We may not get the road, even when this is done, but one thing is certain, the ryad will not be built unless such cities as Terre Haute help somo little in building it. It takes a'large amount of money to build rail roads, and it would be singular indeed if the people most interested in them refuse to help build them and rely wholly upon foreign capital it do it. Foreign capitalists will not be likely to invest money to advance the interests of a people, who will invest none themselves

WHITE HOSS.

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,, "Why toss your head? '•''A«.u a** He said To the maiden fair

With auburn hair. Fiercely her bright eyes gleamed, ncr hair she grevr "TH •white hoss' you," She screamed.

A clothing clerk remarks it that is astonishing how few people understand the common rules ol measurement in purchasing wearing apparel. For in stance, a man will buy a coat that is a "size" too small or too large.

A

"size"

smaller or a "size" larger Is what he probably needs, but he does not know what a "size" is. Well, a "size" in a coat is an Inch, a size in underwear is 2 inches, a size in a sock is 1 inch, in a collar an inch, in a shirt an inch, in shoes 1-6 of an inch, pants 1 inch, gloves of an inch, and in hats of an inch. Very few purchasers!ever under stand the schedule named.

IT is astonishing how many statesmen knew that Mr. Blaine's letter of declination was forthcoming. Could the magnetic man have been in the hands of his enemies as well as his friends?

The doctors say thai February is the worst month for pnen on island some of them say that people should eat very little salt if they would avoid this dis-

When it was #2° beksw moat Fort Garry the other day it was 78° above in Florida. There's considerable weather in this oonntry, no matter how the crops put out.

A Woman's Chat.

IGNORANCE OF WOMEN.

A peculiar repugnance seems to be felt by all persons, especially by women, to any unvarnished and truthful statement of the prevailing ignorance of women. In the recently published journals of Charles Reade, the English novelist, we find the following notet "Dined with Boucicault. A pleasant dinner, as it always is when there are no ladies to confine the conversation within their own narrow bounds." That Charles Reade, the witty, Intellectual, gifted gentleman, fond of social converse, should enter such an item in his journal is significant.

Then, are wemen ignorant and without opinion: that is, the mass of women '-By ignorance is not meant lack of information, but lack of mental training, which alone shakes information valuable and gives its possessor soundness of judgment upon newly presented topics, the highest result of education.

Go into any assembly and note how men lower tho conversation when women appear. Stand at the elbow of any Intelligent gentleman -of your acquaintance and be amazed at the nonsense he is obliged to talk to the charming young debutante who smiles up into his face. Listen to the astonishing littleness of the conversation of several women and feel like calling them idiots but checking your impulse, the best you can say is, they are not intellectual.

How many men of acknowledged culture and breadth of views respect the opinion of even the women that they love, on social questions, or in fact, anything outside of household matters or etiquette? How many men do not feel like getting under the table when their wives attempt to engage in an argument in the presence of cultivated people? How many women of your acquaintance have sufficient coolness of judgment to allow themselves to be convinced in debate, and gracefully relinquish an untenable position? How many women of your acquaintance are willing to sacrifice prejudice to truth for pure love of the latter? How many women give you an Impartial and comprehensive report of a lecture or sermon, or review even an average book intelligently In short, ho* many women do yoji know who -hi^» WGjJl regulated, finely balanced, thoroughly trained minds, under perfect control and constantly employe^ Alas, the number is pitifully small!

O, for a good angel to say to every girl of eighteen whose head is turned by society and beaux, "You're a fool!" It is amazing with what an empty cranium a girl can go through society and pass for being "very wise." Only a little less amazing is the celebrity attained by one who possesses a small amount of mental energy. It goes to prove that mental energy and executive ability are rare feminine accomplishments.

An intelligent woman, one whose judgment is well developed, whose reasoning is logical, whose conclusions are well grounded, is subject to a system of martyrization by her femalo acquaintances so severe and unrelenting, it is a wonder she does not lose heart. It is hard to change the fashion of these thousand years, and brains are not yet the style.

An article about the "Right Sort of Girl" went the rounds of the papers several years ago. Its sentiment was as follows: "The glrly girl is the truest girl. The girly girl never bothers about woman's rights and woman's wrongs. She knows nothing about business and does not want to know anything about it. Her aim is to marry some good fellow and make him a good wife, and she generally succeeds in doing both. She delights in dress and everything that is pretty, and is not ashamed to own that she does. She is feminine from the top of her head to the end of her toes, and if you try to draw her into the discussion of dry themes, she tells you squarely that the conversation does not suit her."

One can fancy a man of Charles Reade's type exclaiming, "Good Lord, deliver me from all such." And yet men have at least helped to make such women the models. It has been dinned into the feminine heart from time immemorial that it is a rather poor, useless organ until it beats in unison with stronger, manly one. The fault of woman's intellectual infirmity is not a fault of mentality. Roys and girls rank side by side in the class room.

They go home in their airy graduation dresses to their miserable, empty lives, to sit down and wait for marriage! You have educated them to nothing better.

The idea that wifehood and maternity constitute the crowning glory of womanhood is false. According to that Bill Sykes' Nancy was a model. She was the personification of wifeliness. Who could compare her with our Margaret Fuller? Teach your daughter that she is an end unto herself. Teach her that she bas a mission—not merely the function of producing. If her husband is one of the

gods

of creation, she is one of

the goddesses, and not simply a nurse. Teach her that marriage, fatherhood and motherhood are full of nobility when en tered into by grand men and women. In themselves they are nothing. Teach her to think and act for herself, and that her opinious are worth as much as those of the men she knows, if they are the result of thought and formed in cool judgment. Teach her that she has her life in her own hands, to beautify or mar, and that she must pay all the debts she incurs to the heaven from which it was given. She will be none the less gentle and tender and true for having independence and opinions. A fine woman must of necessity be a good wife, if she be one at all. When the emancipation of women is really accomplished, when they have ideas and know how to express them and to hold "high converse" with such men as Charles Reade, we will be assured of a perfected womanhood a womanhood as strong and polished and tender and brave, as self-help-ful and unselfish, as independent and generous as the ideal manhood of to-day

BERKNDA BLOUNT.

SpfSs ilSif

'^^^WOMENS WAYS.

The most successful real estate agent in Washington City is a Miss Sallie Kennedy.

A Western paper in its criticism on a burlesque said that, "the woman didn't wear enough clothes to wad a gun."

Mrs. Rea, wife of the national commander of the G. A. R., is making a collection of silver spoons, and buys a spoon at each place she visits with her husband.

Said an old friend to a disconsolate widow: "I hope your good husband was was well prepared to leave?" The widow, sobbing violently: "Prepar^X should say so. He was InsuraS in six companies."

A Detroit woman has brought an action for divorce because her husband hit her with a decayed apple when she importuned him to tell where he had been. It seems to have been a case where a soft answer did not turn away wrath

A Boston woman, it is said, is aooui to locate in Washington for the purpose of opening a school of deportraeut. She will offer to instruct, for a moderate sum, congressmen and other gentlemen whose education is not well rounded in the various points of good breeding and social etiquette, and likewise in the art of brilliant conversation. The idea is

Kood,

A reaction has been taking place In regard to educational matters for fifteen or twenty years, which bas been felt much lower in society than its principles are understood. A good many people send their daughters to school because it is "the thing" to do. The poor creatures wonder, perhaps, why so much time and money has been spent on their education. On commencement day some dignified orator tells them it Is to make them better fit for wives and mothers. Do yon suppose they believe that? Any bright girl will laugh in your face if yon tell her education is the basis of matrimony. The veriest ninnies she knows have married statesmen, doctors, lawyen or ministers. The silliest girls are Better a the greatest belles. So they an still in than espousal of the degenerate social doubt

to why they are educated. I offerings.

the harvest ripe for the reaper.

THE CURSE OF GOLD.

There is a singular superstition In the mining districts of America that the discoverers of hidden treasures in the bowels of the earth are sure to meet with a violent end. The original proprietors of close on forty mines have been accounted for in this way. Twelve were shot, three were ingulfed, while the rest disappeared in the cities of Dakota and New Mexico an4 were neyer heard of afterward, $ *"&"*** '"f

George H. Fryer, from whom the Fryer Hill mine bas its name, committed suicide in Denver. Two years before his death be possessed $1,000,000 the expenses or his funeral had to be paid by the authorities.

William Fairweather, who brought to light the hidden treasures of Alder gulch, came to his death by drinking and riotous living.

Montana Plummer, one of the richest mines in the world and was sheriff for a time, died on the gallows.

H'

who discovered

The owner of the Homestake mine became a highwayman one day he attack ed a mail coach, but the attendants shot him dead. "Doughnut Bill," "Old Eureka" and "Nine-Mile Clarke" died literally In their shoes, being killed in, saloon scuf fies.

The discoverer of the Standard mine in California was swallowed up by an avalanche.

John Homer, of the Homer mine spent bis last cent and then put a bullet through his brain.

Col. Sorey, a wealthy miner, was killed by the Pyramid Indians.

A paaaton for art and the aesthetic has violently broken out over the country. Scarcely aelty but has somb large art exhibition in progress or anticipation. The sign is good if it but serves to relegate the thirst for the low and brutal. craze for art and antiquities

Eighteenth Yeai

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The Judge: Ofron w'en de chile craves sweets, hit needs bitters. Whitehall Times: Get money if you want to get anything else.

Philadelphia Call: Blessed is the hand that prepares pleasures for a child. Puck: Woman's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

The Judge: Yo' kin fin' a'ujos' any •scuse in de law ef yo' kin pay fo' de search. ,.

Boston Courier: Being leap year, this will be a great summer for hops at the beaches.

Journal of Education: It is an easy thing to be a philosopher, but it is hard to make it pay.

Washington

CrltihJ

Some men ought

to wash their hands before they handle the American flag. TheE^rth: Some one says "A dollar goes further than it used to." Yes, and considerable quicker.

Omaha World: Wheu you see a rednosed politician, use your eyes and you will see a dark horse.

Puck: When jrou see a man wheeling a baby carriage, you may know that the baby it contains is his first one.

New Haven News: When lovely worn-.* an stoops to folly in these days she elevates her bustle in a very unseemly* fashion.

Philadelphia Call: It isn't wise to catty around a lightning rod with which to: attract trouble.

Burlington Free JPress: It strikes us that if politics were religion, nine-tenths of the American people would be saved.

Washington Critic: A politician's capacity to hold offlco is purty frequently judged by his capacity to hold licker.

Milwaukee Journal: Man never has.) the same faith in the eternal fitness of'* things after his wife has made him a *r shirt. i, y,

Merchant Traveler: The, wise man^'^'j does not hesitate to spend in advertising* *,/ what a lawyer would charge for super-! intending his assignment.

Puck: The rooster would be a much', more popular bird it he could only be'' induced to feel that there is no real, vital necessity for his reporting hiB where--abouts between midnight and 3 a. m.| We know that he is at bosom of his family. So are don't get up in the night to brag about^

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and 9 a. m.^ .. home, in the^v^*«" re we, but we to brag about* 'fa*. &V

return.

PRIVATE FUNERALS.

S3 [N. Y. Graphic.] Amid all these fashions it is pleasant, to note that the fashion of privacy and simplicity increasingly prevails In the best society.

A rather dramatic form of privacy is attained by the vesper burial. Services are held at the house late in tho afternoon, the friends retire immediately after, and at twilight the hearse, attended by a single carriage containing a clergyman and relatives, carries the coflln to* the vault. This arrangement Is new in! America, although modifications of it have prevailed for hundreds of years on parts of tho Continent. It gains favor int New York, where tho cemeteries are at. such groat distances, and the trouble of going to them is more than families like to ask their friends.

Moreover, it is accepted because of itr marked distinction from the funerals ot the masses, with whom an array of carriages is still a mark of distinction.

THE PIANO POUNDER Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who is In tolerable repute as a man who "knows a good thing when he sees it," thus sets forth his deep appreciation of pianopounding: "It was a young woman, with as many white muslin flounces round her as the planet Saturn has rings, .that did it. She gave the mupic stool a twirl or two, and fluffed down on it like a whirl of soapsuds in a hand-basin. Then she pulled up her cuffs as if she was going to fight for the champion's belt. Then she worked her wrists and hands—to limber 'em, I Suppose, and spread out her fingers till they looked as though they would pretty much cover the keys, from the growling end to the squeaky one. Then these two hands of hers made a jump at the keys as if they were a couple of tigers coming down on a flock of black and white sheep, and the piano gave a great howl as if its tail had been trod on. Dead stop—so still you could bear your hair growing. Then another jump and another howl, as if the piano had two tails and you bad trod on both of them at once, and then a grand scramble, and a string of jumps, up and down, backward and forward, one band over the other, like a stampede of rats and mice more than like anything I call music." "1 like to bear a woman sing, and I like to hear a fiddle sing, but these noisea they hammer out of their wood and Ivory anvils—don't talk to me. I know the difference between a bullfrog itnda thrush." -a Ki

Bob Lincoln says: "There is no better man than Gresham* He is above criticism.'' *.

As a toilet article. Ayer's Hair Vigor stands unrivaled. It cleanses the scalp and removes dandruff cares itching humors, restores the original color to faded and gray hair, ana promotes its growth.

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