Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 March 1888 — Page 1

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Twelve Pages.

[Notes and Comment

I The eager advertisers have made necessary an enlargement of this weeks Mail.

The warm days have come at last Lnd the early advertiser catches the taring wotm. 1

The April-fooler will rise bright and ferly to-morrow morning and lie in wait for hi# victim. ______ '.The Reaper of Death has been unusufty busy among our older residents the ast few Months.

A tea sampler in New York gets |12,000 iyear. Some men

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more than that

It is suggested that only a ballet will L»p the career of Mr. Bill Hicks, the law 'ping powerless in his caso.

Workingmen will be interested in tho jerlal story of "Breton Mill#" commenced in The Mail this week.

The warm sunshine of yesterday and [\o-dayhas livened up trade amazingly ind made glad the hearts of our mer•hants. ______

Willie Tascott, the Chicago murderer, Ph still bolng "seen" in a great number of places. But he seems to b® a#

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elng caught as ever. Kansas City has had a land slide which threatened to demolish part of the town. It should be a warning to real estate agents to quit blowing so much.

To-morrow being Easter, the Mail spreads upon the second page a large (amount of matter specially prepared for that day and appropriately illustrated.

Tho "hello" business pays the Bell monopoly a clear profit of noarly two and a quarter million of dollars a year. Imagine the number of "hellos" it takos to mitko up that enormous sum!

Next week the township and city assessors begin their annual round. No other fellow makes a rich man feel so

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as the assessor with his book and pencil ready for business. If, as Henry Ward Boecher declared, a man is a bundle of tools, and dangers and troubles are God's whetstones with which to kaep them sharp, some men have reason to think they have rather more jetstones than tools.

are growing so bold in Chi-

6£gu n.-. they rob belated citizens of Ihoir clothing when they don't happen to have any valuables. The Times suggests that thoy could rob some of the police of tholr uniforms withont being in any danger. ______

If you would get some sound Ideas of the mutual rights and wrongs of labor and capital In practical affairs of life, read the story of "The Breton Mills," the first chapters of which are given in Tho Mail this week. It is as graphic and true to nature as the novels of George Eliot.

A Flndlay (O.) boy, blind by day, can see llko a oat at night. Vigo county has the reverse of this freak. An old man named Robinson. 81 years of age, living over the river in Sugar Creek township, is totally blind after the sun goes down, W»t in the daytime has perfect, sight vithout the aid of glasses

Hasn't there been an unnecessary waste of words and newspaper space in regard to the walls of tho new court [house being cracked? It would be surprising if in so large a building there should not be some fractures of stones. ,'l'hero are such in this building, but nothing affecting the stability of the name,

The United States still maintain# an unenviable notority as the greatest consumer of quinine of any nation in the world. The total supply of the drug is about 6.000,000 ounces a year, of which amount Uils country alone takes$,100,000 nearly half the entire product. That is about one-twentieth of an ounce for each man, woman and child in this country, a verv liberal allowance surely. Doubtless quinine is a good medicine when used properly, but there are many of our people who use it in outragous excess. Too much quinine Is a good deal worse than nooo, _____

Kyrle Bellow, who was here with Mrs. James Brown Potter, is the prince of mashers. Hi* attractions for the female eye and emotion are such that he har in [one instance narrowly escaped being killed by a mashee and In many other nstancee made a corespondent in divorce auits. Just why this should besotbe male mind cannot dlacover hot that a strange magnetism does hedge about one of his reputation was proven even here in Terre Haute as it haa been In other cities In the oases of other stage male beauties. It pastes comprshenaion

that in the gentler sex which naturally should be the one sought by the other there are women who will throw themselves at the head of a man of his kind, yet the experience of Rignold, Montague, Castle and a host of stage heroes tells the shameful story. Before Bellew had even been seen here there was a feminine demand for his photographs and a demand, b* the way, from among upper-cmstdorn. These admirers did not know him personally they only knew of him by repute and that, one would think, should not cause any modest woman to want his picture. By the way the people and newspapers at New Orleans, Mrs. Potter's home when she was Cora Urquhart, have commented severely on the lackadaisical relations between her and her "leading man/'

The death rate in Terre Haute, and in fact in the Wabash valley, has been very heavy this winter. The daily newspapers of the city and the weekly newspapers in the surrounding towns have been regularly telling of the list of those who have "gone before." It is noted at Rockville that during the first twenty days of the month one undertaker firm had calls for twenty-two funerals. At Vermillion, in Edgar county, Ills., a mere hamlet, there were twelve deaths from measles alone, which malady has prevailed throughout the valley to an extent never before known. Pneumonia and "lung troubles" of all kinds have kept the doctor and the druggist busy.

Thero is a proposition pending before the New York legislature to punish men for failing to vote at general elections. This may look rather queer at first blush, but there is really a good deal of sense In it. It is almost as bad for men not to vote at all as it is for them to vote more than once. Tho effect is pretty much the same in both cases. It is a duty of citizenship to vote, and when honest, respectable men refuse to discharge this duty the evil and corrupt member of the community practically has a double voice in the administration of affairs. If republican government is to be a permanent success it will have to depend upon tho votes of those with whom it has become a sort of fashion, to .neglect their duties on election day. $11

At last Winter seems disposed to let go its hold. It has lingered longer than usual in the lap of spring this year. Sevorely cold weather near the end of March is not a common occurence. We are used4 enough tft.seeing raw, blustering and disagreeable weather in March but seldom a fall of the mercury to the aero point. The outgoing winter has really been a long and gloomy oue. The cold set In early and has continued late. January marked a lower average temperature than that month has done for bome years. Cold wave has followed cold wave, accompanied by high winds aud heavy fallsof snow. We shall all be glad to see the return of sunshine and milder weather. The growing grass and springing flowers will be full of comfort and Inspiration. The advent of spring is always pleasant and agreeable. It will be doubly so after this long and dreary winter.

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AMERICAN SERIAL STORY

The Breton Mills,

A Romance of New England Life,—A Live and Intensely Interesting American fittory.

BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY. Editor of the Springfield, (Mass.) News.

Copyrighted by tho Author and published by arrangement with him.

This week we commence tho publicnof a Serial Story with the above title, and of intense interest. Each chapter isalive with excitement and the plot moves on with a power and spirit which will, we believe, make this ono of the most acceptable serials we have ever offered in these columns.

THE BRETON MILLS

Is a story that will satisfy the popular demand for intense interest in each installment. The scene is laid in a New England factory village. Both the employing class and the class of the employed furnish actors in tho thrilling romance, and the reader's interest will be closely held all through the changing scenes of the story. While not taking sides on the questions interesting working people, which are touched upon in the story, the anthor dissects the pathetic elements of the life of the f*r *ith fearless hand. Still his romance, after all, is a romance of love, *nd all else in the story is only introdu to solve the problem of one man's devoted and faithful nature. 4%,

An exchange says swindlers are going through the country, asking too see sewing machines. If the machine to a Singer, they take out the shuttle, and pat It in their pocket, refusing to give It up unices their price is paid for it. They claim it to MI infringement on their patent. Of course they am swindlers, and have no right to do any saoh thing.

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FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN.

A SERIES OF ARTICLES BY MARION HARLAN D.

The Mail has secured a series of attractive copyrighted article# from Marion Harland, a wider favorite than perhaps any American woman writer of the day. The first article on "Choosing a Husband," will appear next week. "How to Choose a Wife," will" cotae the next week to be followed by "Exercise for Girls," Young Women and Slang," etc. We feel confident that these articles will prove an interesting feature for our lady readers. See The Mail next week, wherein she will tell about "Choosing a Husband 1"

A man who has recently mad6 his bome in California writes back in a rather home-sick mood, advising his friends to remain in the East. He says: "You do not appreciate that fact as well as we do, sitting among the sand hills and disputing the right to them with fleas sitting here amid frosts and rain, and cold and heat, and looking forward to eight months of drought. It may seem little enough to you, but as for us we want to see once more the grand procession of the eastern seasons—the snowbanks of winter, the brightening blooms of spring the rich garuiture of summer, the scarlet and gold of autumn. We want to see a stream of fresh water and a well of the same. We want to see silk bats and short hair. We want something good to eat, and to be where we can find a decent house to live in for less than $60 a month.'

The famous Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston will give a grand concert, under the auspices of the Charity Organization Society, at the Presbyterian church, next Friday evening. Thirty per cent, of the gross receipts, less the cost of advertising and the rent of the churchy will, be given to the so sciety.

This club, now entering Its thirty eighth season, has given 10,000 concerts in this and other countries, and is more widely and favorably known, probably, than any other similar organization in the world. The organization of this club is now stronger than ever before, and comprises Herr Gustav Hille, solo violin BLerr Paul Mende, second violin Thomas Ryan, solo clarionet and viola Herr Philip Rodelberger, solo flute and viola Mr. Louis Blumenberg, solo violoncello, and Miss Anne Carpenter, prima donna soprano.

Gustav Hille closely resembles Wilhelinj in his style of playing. Bodelherger is well known in Germany and England, and particularly In London, where he has recently been creating a furore as a virtuoso on the flute while it is enough to say for Blumenberg that he is fully equal to Gieso, the violoncelloist who carried away the Terre Haute people when the club gave its last concert here three years ago. Miss Carpenter is one of the few American singers who have gained marked success in the private musical circle# of Paris. She has rare personal beauty and charming manners, combined with a voice of sym pathetic quality and dramatic power.

The box sheet will be opened at the Central book store on Monday morning. Price of admission, 76cents, with no extra charge for reserved seats.

WHEN TO STOP ADVERTISING. When every man has become so thoroughly a creature of habit that he will certainly buy this year where he bought last year.

When younger and fresher and spunkier concerns in your line cease starting up and using tho newspapers in telling the people how much better they can do for them than you can. "When nobody else thinks "It pays to advertise."

When population ceases to multiply, and the generation that crowd on after you and never heard of you stop coming.

When you have convinced everybody whose life will touch yours that you have better goods and lower prices than they can ever get outside of your store

When you perceive it to be the rule that the men who never do and never did advertise are outstripping their neighbors in the same line of business.

When men ptop making fortunes right in your very sight, solely through the discreet use of this mighty agent.

When you can forget the words of the shrewdest and most successful business men concerning the main cause of their prosperity.

When you would rather have your way and fail than to take advice and win.

When you want to go out of business with a stock on hand. When you want to get rid of the trouble of waiting on customers.

A man generous to a fault should be generous enozgh to be generous to the faults of other people, lite mean man confines bis generosity to his own faults. He can forgive himself, but can find no way to forgive others.

Louise Montague, the |10,000 beauty who rode the elephant In Fbrepaugh*s circus parades a few years ago, to BOW living quietly In St. Paul, the wife of a rsstauran t-keeper.

A Woman's Chat.

BY BKJU5KDA BliOTTNT.

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I have been reading the story by Miss Rivers in April Lippincott. It makes me to more than smile—indeed, to laugh outright. And this horrible story is evidence, so they saV, of a great genius, one comparable «with George Elliott's, Charlotte Brontes and Charles Egbert Craddock's! It may take genfus of a certain sort to weave such a fabrication as we find in "The Quick or the Dead," but in the word# of her prayer book, "Good Lord, deliver us" from many such. The romance is of the old, old school a romance purely, without any substantial basis of reality. It savors of a time when women could cry all night without having a red nose or watery eyes, when grief, like a worm in the bud, oould eat the heroine's heart out and still leave her dimples, faultless complexion and plump figure, when my lady could be plunged into despair of midnight blackness and still care overmuch about her toilet and her finger nails. One could imagine, now, such women as Dorothea Cossauben, Maggie Tulllver, Lucy Snowe, or even Miss Phelps' Dr. Fay or Henri Greviile's Cleopatra to have existed. But could such a creature as Barbara Pomfrut have run wild beyond the 'walls of an insane asylum? One begins the story with a feeling of intense sympathy, because of her beauty, her supposed loveliness of character, and her grief of widowhood. But a feeling of impatience comes in, because she is so lazy, so absolutely good-for-nothing, so supremely selfish. She constantly bewails her own loss, her own unhappy thoughts, her own desolateness. When John Dering comes upon the scene relief is expected. Surely one who is so weak as to be crushed utterly by her loneliness, surely she will be glad to find solace in a new love. Bu^ here she develops surprising and inconsistent phases of nature, and acts like— well, like an idiot. No woman ever acted like such an idiot in real life. „It is really too funny to come across his expression on almost every page "I do understand you. I know just how you feel." Still she asserted he could not— did notr-evidently believing herself of too complex an organization for a mere man's comprehension. Her call upon

Mr. Trehune is an interesting event. They compare experiences, without ararriving at a conclusion, sufficiently definite to do her any good. He says he will call to-morrow. That is the last we hear of him. mortal woman ever knelt by her bed all night in midwinter in a cambric night dress after her husband had been dead a year and prayed God to forgive her for falling in leve with another man? One sentence I must repeat. It takes my breath. "If you ask why, or if you will permit me to tell you why," pursued Mr. Beaupaddy, in whom the matutinal vermouth cocktail had begun to stir tho spirit of epigram, "I will say that grief is always a trap." Our Barbara begins to be "unnerved" in the flrst sentence, when "there was a soughing rain, asweep," and continues in an "unnerved" condition throughout the tale with frantic and heartrending variations, however, of tho "unnerved"

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turbed me when I read the story, and disturbs me even now. Her colored attendant, the boy Walsingham, who slept on a rug outside her door, what became of him? How did he like to be tramped over when she took her not infrequent midnight perambulations to other parts of the house?' And how could a woman so drowned with grief care enough about the follies of life to buy and train two grey hound pups? And finally, are Southern women of that type'?

The story is overdrawn, unnatural and revolting to common sense ideas. The pictures of Southern scenery are exquisite, and the one scene between Barbara and Sarah, where she pleads for comfort and love, is really human and tender. No other part of the whole could move a person's heart or fancy.

The article in reference to Miss Rives, in the same number, is almost as sensational as her story. A certain class of morbid readers enjoy such writing, but I think nobody with a well balanced mind would prefer Miss Rives to Miss Murfree.

A writer in Demorest'a Monthly declares that for years he was a suflerer from Insomnia. He oould sleep for an hour or two, then awoke. He tried the effects of a flesh brush. Just before retiring he rubbed himself thoroughly, from head to feet, the latter with a special vigor, jumped into bed, and invariably fell into refreshed slumber. Sleeplessness is said to be caused by impaired circulation of the blood, and the rubbing restores the impaired circulation.

The Electrical Review says that the lightning rod is a relic of superstition, and that the day will come when a lightning rod on a honse will be regarded in the same lights# a horseshoe over the door.

When, by xenon of a cold OE from any other cause, the secretory organs become disordered, they may be stimulated to healthy action by the twe of Ayer*# Cathartic Pills. Sold by all deates In

The Judge: Bachelor—A wild goose that tame geese envy.

Boston Bulletin: Some men are so addicted to poker that everything they have goes to pot.

Burlington Free Press: Never worry over trouble. The trouble itself is misery enough.

Tid Bits: It is a queer thiug that in the ethics of kinship a man usually rushes for his uncle after bidding good-bye to his ante.

New Orleans Picayune: The boom for a new-born town is like the musio of locu,st wings. One looks at the little thing and wonders where all the big noise comes from.

Hebrew Standard: Our Jewish young ladies, if they fail to catch on this year, need not lose heart, for next year is leap year also, according to the Jewish calendar.

Chicago Journal: In view of the successful manner in which that Kcasas woman acted as locomotive fireman we don't see why she should not keep the job. A woman can poke a fire better than a man can, anyway.

Detroit Free Press: When a saloonkeeper seeks to hide his business under the sign of "Sample Room" he ought to be ashamed enough to quit business entirely.

Norristown Herald: In a few weeks the papers will be much more interesting to the man who is weighed down with business cares during the day. He can then read that "Flipkins got bis base on balls, went to second Skinner's fumble of Bonny's hot one and and took third on Stubben's wild throw-in of Munch'* fly to left, only to die at the plate on a splendid double play off Sinnick's grounder to Mehaffy toSnagsby."

WOMEN'S WAYS.

The "newspaper women*' are rapidly increasing in New York. So long as nineteen out of every twenty ladies look better in high hats than in low ones the theatrical critics will kick in vain. ,*

Dry Goods ChroniGle: A woman who dresses well on a hundred a year says: "I am too poor to buy anything but the very best."

It is a curious thing that almost every authoress in the country is spoken of as "tall, slender and graceful." Why not work in a few who are short, fat and ungainly? •.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox is sarfl to believe tiiat her genius for poetry^ due to the fact that her mother reaj? Lalla Rookh through with great inmost just before her talented daughter mas born.

Half-mourning is now vlgoJbusly condemned by Eastern society. The idea that a widow should say at the end of a year that she now mourns only half as much as formerly was always a matter of ridicule.

A woman at Albany, Ga., wanted a new set of false teeth and hadn't money to pay for it. She went among the business men of the place with a subscription paper and succeeded in raising the required sum.

Marion Harland declares that it is harder for beautiful women to be good than for those who have been taught from babyhood to seek the approval which all crave in the cultivation of mental and moral traits.

Louisa M. Alcott found in men friends and companion# rath or than lover#, and used to say: "I think I have a man's soul in a womanly body, for while I am continually falling in love with pretty girl#, I have never seen the man I could love the least little bit."

There is agitation in New England for separate sleeping cars for women and upon several grounds such cars are very desirable. What is more needed, however, is a separate toilet room for tho woman who locks the door and spends an hour in deliberately doing up her hair while a score of hor sisters are waiting outside.

Thirty-five of the girls of Iowa Weslyan University are organized into a drill corps. The uniform consists of a semishort skirt of navy blue cloth with blouse waist trimmed in gold braid and brass buttons. The costume is neatly finished by a zouave cap to match. Major Dinwiddle has engaged to drill these yoting ladies in the manual of arms and they are to be supplied with four-pound rifle#. The major, however, has ordered the banishment of all corsets and bustles.

LITTLE SERMONS.

The beet education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. A mtftftrho is not in bis place is like a dislocated bone be suffer# and he causes suffering.

The sight of a drunkard is abetter sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon it.

There are few tilings from which we need pray more earnestly to be delivered than from the consequences of our idle words.

One who allows the troubles of the outer world to disturb bis interior Is like one who opens the doors and windows of his house during storm*

SHOWS AND SHOW FOLKS.

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," tho latest and greatest dramatic success, will be presented at Naylor's next Tuesday .. evening. The St. Louis Democrat speaking of the play in that city says:

The "Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was presented at People's last night. with George M. Wood In the leading role. It

all is the double character of the principal

Barnum's show will be herS" on the^ 22d of May—the first of the season. The.j advance advertising car will come imp«on the 7th of April.

That was a curious metaphor in which|^^, the Louisville Commercial declared that time had "written no wrinkles on Lotta'sgf nimble heels." *^r

The widow of John T. Raymond, whos§, was Rose Eytinge's pretty daughter,^ Courtnoy Barnes, is in London. It is^.^' said that she live# on the American equivalent of

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A letter, purporting to be written by Mary Anderson, has been published in which she is made to say that the reports of a matrimonial engagement be- /, tween herself and an English drummer must be denied and suppressed until after her American tour, because our public have a prejudice against actresses who are married or engaged to bo married. We do not quite credit the authenticity of the letter, and its statement about married actresses is the reverse of the truth. Almost all of the mo#t prominent actresses on the American stage are now married. Modjeska, Miss Davenport, Rose Coghlan, Ada Rohan, Mrs. Bowers, Mrs. Langtry, Annie Plxley, Maggie Mitchell, Cora Tanner, Clara Morris Mrs. Potter, Marie Burroughs, Mrs. Yeamans—the list would fill a column—are all married. Some of them retain their maiden names seme of them have not married wisely some of them have been married too often, but matrimony has not interfered with their popularity. On the contrary, the most favorite actress of New York was Mr#. John Hoey the most favorite actress of Philadelphia, Mrs. John Drew the most flavorite actress of Boston, Mrs. Vincent. Our Mary has made a mistake. She and Lotta are almost the only ornaments of the American stage who persist in being old maids. An actress who cannot win one man as a husband is not a# likely to draw other men to see her as the happy married woman who plays her parts equally well at home and on the stage. ,|V,

SOX THKATKICA DmTXITIOXS.

Soubrette—A stage woman that wears fall dress up to her knees. Burlesque artiste—Same as soubrette only twice as far up.

Cbonw—Where all the voices unite so they may not sing io unison. Corps ie ballet—Old ladies who dance on their toes.

Singing chambermaids—Tbe pert ao* J,'tress who swings a feather duster andf cannot sing.

Props—Wrong things In wrong places^ Matinee—Rehearsal in ooatume $ :r

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sou's weird novel which draws the picture of a double life, and presents It surrouuded with all the horror that can come from such an existence. To increase its repulsiveness, the novelist and dramatist have Introduced sortie impossibilities, but they only serve to point the moral and increase the dramatic efffect of -i\\ the play. The most interesting feature of It

part. At one mcaient he Is the same Dr. Jekyll, peculiar, butistlll a man of noble character and high instincts, and at the next^ JarR the creature, M». Hyde, without a moral sense, a murderer, a thoroughly detestable *•. villain without a spark of humanity in his composition, and ono who seems to be a

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laln for thejove of vlllany, for he has no object to work to, no aim to serve, but only a debased spirit to gratify. Mr. Wood acts the .. part well. His stage presence is good, and his quick transformations from one character to another are complete, and the met-fl^ amorphosis is startlingly strange. There was** a good deal of Interest manifested over the^jv performance.

"Pown Lots: or, a Paper City" will be^ the attraction on Thursday and Friday evenings. It is credited with being one of the boat plays of its kind on the stage.^ It recites some thrilling incidents, and the story which it brings to light is full'. of Interest, depicting some of the most

Interesting scenes which can be imagined. It is full of pathos, yet it is said to contain much rich comedy, and the dia-jf logue exceedingly bright and lively.'v The play is said to have been well recelved elsowhere and to have drawn large audiences, which expressed »p-sj proval of the performances. The com-|| pany, including Marguerite Fish, thea

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singing comedienne lately roturned from a tour of ihe world, and E. L. Walton,,'* tho eccentric character comedian, is '-V good one and all the merit of the play is .• brought out.

Among the big features of the coming^ month will be the appearance of the fa-fe.--*---*' mous Carleton Opera Company Thurs-i,' day and Friday, April- 12th and 13th, presenting two groat metropolitan suo-

cesses, "Erminie" and "Nanon," with^, all the special scenery, beautiful cos-V^ tumes and accessories used in the larger.* cities.

The dramatio event of the month will^ be the engagement of the foremost*^ tragedians of this country, Booth and^ Barrett, on Thursday, the 26th of April.! "Othello" will be the play.

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it is a to a as pan ion" to Kate Forsyth. All that the generous, improvident, happy-go-lucky, 3 match-you-for-a-hundred Raymond left at his death yields his widow an income*. (for life) of #5 a week, *,

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