Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 November 1888 — Page 1

Vol. 19.—No. 22.

THE jylAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The city council made a "miss deal" en the street car ordinance and most •lake a new deal.

One of Ametle Rives' heroines, so she

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wan clothed "in silken whisperings." She roost have outstripped the latest style of burlesque actress.

About all election bets have been paid —by all those who intend paying up. Few instances of refusal to pay »re known. This suggests the thought that it might now be time to moralize on the evil Influence of betting.

If General Harrison is making up his cabinet it is within his own mind and nobody knows it. People may conjecture and anticipate as much as they please but that is as far as they can go. The President-elect is silent and inscrutable. _______.

Gov. Gray will not call a special session of the legislature. He is. too wise a politician for that. There is no need of a special session except to bag the offices and tho people would not indorse that kind of a proceeding, as Qov. Gray very well knows. _____

Before another Issue of The Mail Thanksgiving will have come and gone. May all our readers have good dinners, and better still, thankful hearts. Letus not mistako the form for the substance. Appropriate to the anniversary wo sproad upon the second page some interesting reading and illustrations.

Hustling to The Mail sanctum at an early hour this morning, with ten hours work to be comprossed into five, tho scissors ran plump Into this aggravating paragraph from Thoreau: "The really efficient laborer will be found not to unduly crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by wide halo of easo and lelauro."

Another of "old HutchV' victims baa blowed his brains out. Having lost $40 000 in the September sqneese he conluded that life was no longor worth living It Is a poor life that is not worth #*,000 trot ft strike# us that it should be "old Hutch" Uimnolf, rather than bis victims •who should be coming to tho conclusion that tho kind of Ufe he Is loading is not worth living.

Natural gas seems limited to certain localities and is not easily transported The latter objection does not lie against oil, which Is also coming into use for fuel purposes. The Union Steel Company, of Chicago, is now using oil exclusively for fuel and the North Chicago Rolling Mills are using it under fountain boilers. Thus aro we going step by step away from cumbrous, inconvenient amd dirty coal as the only fuel supply.

Elijah W. Hal ford, managing editor of the

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dered by president-elect Harrison and has accepted the position of private secretary. This is the new president's first appointment and if he follows out in this line ho will do well, for no more competent or deaorving person could be found in all the wide land. With the entire newspaper press The Mail sends congratulations to Lige Halford.

We may expect the phonograph to be going about over the country giving ex hibltions in the near future. In fact it has already started. At Chicago the other day a

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companiment, which had been given in New York three weeks before, was heard with grv&t interest by representatives of the pros*. The tones, both vocal and Inatrumentul, were almost as perfect as the original, and when a number of those present talked one after another into the Instrument It reproduced them ao that iKt)i voice was distinctly recognisable and might have been mistaken for the actual utterance of the person. A won derful piece of mechanism, truly, and one about which more curiosity will probably center than respecting any thing the wlwund of Menlo Park haa yet produced. _______

An article In a receut number of the Cfcotury Magaaine,entitled "Fifty Tucks Instead of One," prwents very forcibly the idea that many people—most ot us perhaps—live too much in imitation of others and too Utile In the Interest of their own true happiness and contentmenu

Plainly stated there is no real objection to the thousand superfluities of taste and fashion which extend the field of labor and open new occupations for workers. The rich can afford these thing* and it Is better their money thouid be spent for them than hoarded In inactivity.

Where the harm comes in is when peopi* ©f small incomes try to Uve in the style of people with large Incomse. When this br-r*«s there hi a painful strain, nnceaai-* worry, and too often hollow pretense that Is attempted to be Mimed off as solid reality, but deceivee ao OM. The ttte ol eooteot»*nt and genuine thing*

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It bin reach, is sacrificed In tho vain effort to attain to what is beyond reach. The people who fret and worry themselves to do more than they can, or to seem more than they are, might be thoroughly happy in tho enjoyment of comfortable unpretentious home, did they bnt recognize the foolishness of trying to do too much. It is proper and right to be ambitious, to be "diligent in business," to try to make the best of things. It Is not proper, but very silly, when A, on fl,000 a year, tries to keep pace socially with B, who has 12,000, and who in turn is trying to outdo with 18,000. All are disappointed, over-wor-ried and miserable, whereas they might all be comfortable and contented did they live simply as their means would warrant and increase their expense and display as the growth of their means might justify. And they would be more loved and respected for doing so, because nothing in the world is so much enjoyed as simple frankness and sincerity. The man or woman who has nothing to conceal, but is kind gracions and contented, carries a charmed atmosphere that wins all hearts, whether personal beauty or adornment be present or absent.

The recent visitors to Indianapolis find the addition of several important attractions to our beautiful capital city. First and foremost is natural gas, which is now extensively used in stores, offices aud dwell lugs. It is the ideal fuel and must be felt and seen in order to be fully appreciated. Costing about one third as much as coal, it is a hundred fold more convenient and cleanly. Then there is the splendid new State House, whose marble-columned corridors and mag nificenl dome are not surpassed outside of Washington. The new union depot is one of the most elegant in the country, superb in its finish and appointments. Lastly, Washington street, from the Capital to the Court House, is being covered with an asphalt pavement, which will make it, with its unusual width, a noble driveway. Altogether Indianapolis is fast exchanging its swadling clothes of provincialism for genuine city airs and is growing more attractive to the visitor with every year. But the rest of us are not Jealous. We are all proud of our pretty capital, especially slhce she has turned out a President, and are glad to se»hor Improve and prosper May her shadow grow bigger all the time

There was "Pflgroet am»Mtatw»vpriw|^ criticism on the action of the council on Tuosday night in granting to the Terre Haute street railway company a franchise extending over a period of 30 years. Tho first question to be asked was the

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present fratichalse does not expire for ten years. The company seems to have of late been enthused with new blood. Big improvements have been mado and they should be continued until we have a street railway in keeping with metropolitan cities. However, the Intent of tho new franchise was to exclude other companies from laying claim to the streets. The enterprise of the company is to be commended yet there are several valid objections to the granting of tho franchise last Tuesday night. The length of time for which the chartor is to run is too long and the suddeness with which the oouncil passed the ordinance is equally too short. No time was given for a careful consideration of the matter, in which the public ahould have been allowed to participate. The oouncilmen say they did not know the ordinance was to be introduced. Yet they voted for it with the exception of Councilman Hirt, of the Fifth ward. Messrs Weinstein and 0*Sullivan were absent.

In all the discussion which has taken place several points have not been thought of save by a few. An exclusive right of way cannot be obtained from a city. This has been held in several in stances by the supreme court of the State. The local company haa the right of way over all the city's streets, yet if it does not j»ut down a track it has no vested rights and another company can be granted equal privileges. In the event the Terre Haute company puts down a track this does not prevent another company from securing rights of way if the council choose to grant them The council would have the power to grant a second company equal privileges on the same street. This is the opinion expressed by a number of attorneys. No doubt if two companies were to attempt to control street It would lead to litigation. Taking a view of the situation from a legal standpoint the granting of the franchise last Tuesday is not such a serious blunder mit might at first appear. A franchise may read "exclusive** but in the eyes of the law it to not exclusively.

The Congregational church, at a meeting on Wednesday evening,, fan conskl eration of the financial and other conditions of the church, resolved not to call Iter. M. A. Dougherty tor another year. The trustees ware ordered to so notify him and a cor*"''?**" was appointed to draft suitable Aoofluaittee was also appointed to supply the pulpit* Mr. Dougherty's year expires to-morrow As the church has no successor in view It may be severe! mouths before a permanent pastor Is installed.

Wbon General Hovey was in the eity, Gus Leohman, of the Stationary Engineers, and Chairman *eo. Paris «sslled on him and presented the question »f licensing engineers in this state. Dt-if-ing the session of the last legislator* a bill was introduced but not passed* succeeded in getting through one of Lie houses but the deadlock came and a further progress was stopped. The stationary engineers intend taking up the bill this winter and urging its passage. General Hovey expressed his approval of the new measure, both because of the benefits to be derived by the engineers themselves and as a precaution agalust accident. It is stated that from statistics compiled by the association that out of every 100 accidents occuring in this state that fully 75 are owing to the Incompetency or negligence of the engineer in charge. The bill provided for the appointment of aboard of examiners who shall issue licenses upon applicants passing a satisfactory examination. Several of the expert engineers of this city made a quiet investigation of a large number of boilers in this city. lu one instance boilers for steam beating a large building were found In a Very dangerous condition. One of the engineers declared that one of the boilers had worn so thin that he could have kicked a hole in it with his heel. In a manufacturing establishment a weak ibiler was found in a battery and the attention of the proprietors called to it. The informant declared that many boilew twed for steam heating wer6 not properly taken care of and in many instances they are dangerous. They do not carry a high pressure of steam yet an explosion is liable to take place accompanied hy disastrous results. £*,

Beginning next Monday the Lad'os Aid Society will begin receiving at 5V Ohio street, the annual thank offerings of our people to assist in alleviating the wants of the poor and needy through the coming winter. It is unnecessary to commend the work of the self sacriHc ing ladies of this society, whose aim is pure, disinterested benevolence. It t^ts nothing, whatever, of sectarianism in organization ot work, nothing but tfe relief of the suffering and the mitigation of wee wherever found. Most of our people have long since learned that when they have anything to spare in charity or benevolence, whether in food, oi"s

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ing or in money, the best way is to tnein the garden of the To we, —y I^ 1 W efforts and opportunities have »«futTati's heart and forgets she is a pi them the proper means of finding out the truly deserving, and the best methods for making a small gratutity do the greatest amount of good. So bear in mind that the ladies of this worthy society will be "at home" next week at 527 Ohio street.

Every family in this city should lay in from two to ten barrels of apple» and now is tho time to do it. It is the very best and most economical investment that you can make in the whole ratge of culinary supplies. A raw, mellowapple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbage requires five hours. The most beautiful dessert thatcau be fiaoed on the table is a baked apple. Place them on the table and let the littlefolks, especially, eat all that they desie. If taken freely at breakfast with pleity of corn bread and without meat or fijsh of any kind, it has an admirable efltet on the general system, often removini constipation, correcting acidities anoeooling off febrile conditions more equally than the most approved mediines. If families could be induced to bstitute the apple—ripe, sound and lu dous for the pies, cakes, candies and freetmeata, with which children are fcxbften stuffed, there would be a diminubn of doctor bills, sufficient in a single jfar to lay up a stock of this delicious frit for a season's use. Buy some applesihen, by all means, let the children hav free access to them and before the %lmy spring time comes again you will lank The Mail for its advice and counsel

The police are almost daily call! on to search for lost children, and »|uiie frequently occurs that children are und and sent to headquarters to awi inquiry on the part of relatives. Us a rule it requires only a few hour* the police to find a child that has watered away from home to some other frt of the city.

The statistics taken of aged pe4e in New England are very encourage to people of light complexion, bin-eyes and brown hair while tall peopltiave decided advantage over the hort. The men who stand above eightyeara range from 100 to 100 pounds, si the women from 100 to 130. Thenen through life have been of the bo®port but the women are the other way The teeth are mostly gone, but hair ifood condition and In almost all eai the skin remains smooth and moist, lany one wishes to figure up his chars ofliving to good old age, he os*aks these items into the count, if t# are favorable to him If not, we adviihlm to reject them and rely on good Irfto* moderate exerdM and going tob^arly sad rising early. The old reel for long life Is good y»l—"He tbatiwld tire long most watch the su jt to, go to bed esrly and bs up at suu4»

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SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24,1888.

A Woman's Chat.

BT BERKS OA BLOUNT.

McVicker's was packed from pit to gallery on the opening night of Mrs. Potter's engagement. At eight o'clock the most fashionable of late-comers were in their boxes. Near me sat a very lovely red haired girl, with a cameo face, who seemed ail impatient for the rising of tho curtain. A few minutes past eigftt, up it went to give us a view of the first act of 'Twixt Axo and Crown." My lord chancellor appeared and several other members of the court, then came Queen Mary, presented by Miss Bancroft, a very unqueenly looking lady, with a dreadful rasping voice. And then came Lady Elisabeth, Mrs. Potter herself. Her costume was beautiful, of some soft, sheeny, silken stuff, everything white, and wearing pearls about her throat. Her hair, which is not a wig, is of a most beautiful red brown 'tint, quite eflective on the stage. A little ripple of applause greeted her. When she moves about without pretense to good acting, she is quite graceful and pleasing. When a demand is made upon her for some real display of feeling, she strides about like an ostrich, sticks her head forward like a turtle and talks in an affected manner that is almost laughable in some very intense moments. She seems too small, to weak, too lacking in reserve force for the part of Lady Elisabeth. She has not the wisdom of Mrs.

Langtry ip choosing light parts suited to her ability. She has away of throw ing up her hands,'too, in order to cap a climax, with her five fingers spread out like a goose's foot. It takes something more than ambition, than hard work, than elegant costumes,to make an actress and that something Mrs. Potter has not.

The play itself is as dreary as a churchyard. Five long acts of tragedy, imprisonment, tears and beheading, without a ray of sunshine. When the "gentleman of the chamber" makes some little remark just bordering upon pleasantry, the audience breaks into a spasmodic laugh—a reaction from the horrid gloom and depression they have been enduring for two hours.

Mr. Bellew is of fine physique, handsome face and a splendid voice. He is magnetic, also, and is a moat promising actor. he best part of the play is the love where

sn's heart and forgets she is a princess. Not one actress in a thousand can cry respectably on the stage, and in such a way as really to effect one. I always want to laugh at the crying spells. Clara Morris can make me cry and that without shedding tears herself. But Mrs. Potter's crying wss awfully funny, so was Miss Bancroft's. The latter as Queen Mary was good. If she had had abetter presence, and a good voice, It might have been called a fine piece of acting. The play taken as a whole, would be trying to a genius, and as played by Mrs. Potter and company was the most trying thing to my nerves that I have experienced in many yearn

Perhaps I ought to mention!her scarlet velvet dress in the last scene. It,was a magnificent robe, and very becoming to her hair and eyes. The latter are dark brown. She has rather a large mouth and prominent chin. Taken all together her face ia a most prepossessing one

Do you remember your first theatre? I remember mine so well I I was seventeen years old. I had never even seen an amateur play. One evening a lady friend persuaded my mother to let me go to hear Madam Janauschek in Lady Dedlock. How every detail of the even ing is imprinted upon my memory! The curtain, having a scene from Othello, the music, the half light in the pretty opera hall, the daintily dressed ladies about me, all appealed to my sense of beauty and my imagination. And then the play—will any other play or any other actress ever so impress me—ever so thrill me with delight Mr.

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bone still is vivid in my mind as he paces the ghost's walk, to make me ahiver with terror. It was all so real to me! It was a castle in which Lady Dedlock appeared—the very chairs and furniture were glorified In my eyes, although they had come from the nearest retell house.

Lady Dedlock was grand and noble lady—a poor suffering woman and how I did pity little Joe! The scene at the cemetery gate was so horrible, so sad that I cried as though my heart would break. When we went home, the winter sky, the white landscape stretching far and wide, the stars burning their lamps in the deep srch of heaven, all took upon themselves a glamor and beauty they never before had owned. Life was a tsew thing. New possibilities, new vistas opened up before me. I wss so happy and yet so sad. Who would not give worlds to have always their first impressions? The dreams of young girlhood are as pure and lovely as an angel's thought. Ignorance Is bliss, in deed, a bliss soon dispelled when we hsve ones tsirtfl of the.forbidden fruit of knowledge.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Morton are literary women. One was educated at Oxford, Ohio, the other at Vassar.

It is said that less than a year is the average professional life of a good-look-ing school teacher in Merced County, California.

A Milwaukee woman earns a living teaching the game of whist. It is claimed that she is one of tho most brilliant players in the country.

A woman, Mrs. Broadway, has the monopoly of all the bill-posting done in Chicago. She covers 2,000,000 square feet of bill boards each week.

A young Philadelphia married lady had a dearly beloved poodle that lately died. She had it put iu a rosewood and satin-lined coffin, costing $17, and carefully buried in the family lot.

Mrs. Morton, wife of the Vice-Presi-dent elect, says that she has done nothing but keep house and raise a family since she has been married, and that her life fulfills her idea of complete happi ness.

Twenty-five years after the burial of 119,000 by a Virginian a Baltimore woman located the spot in a dream, and next day took two witnesses with her and dug up tho coin. Some of the searchers after Capt. Kidd's lucre ought to employ her to do dreaming.

A prominent Chicago lawyer Is Miss Ellen J. Martin, who has been practicing since 1876 and has built up an extensive office business. Hor partner, Miss Fredericks Perry, is also a Muccossful lawyer and gives her attention to the court room work necessary in the cases that come to them.

Mrs. Mona Caird, who started the discussion on "Is Marriage a Failure?' spends most of her time on a large estate in Hampshire, England, dividing her time between superintending her farm and performing literary work on a typewriter. She is the author of two or three novels, and is said to be a brilliant oonversationallst.

a crowd, entering it-room, going Uv a seat in church or theatre, or wherever it may be, a lady should never hesitate about going ahead. Uncertainty about this rule often causes awkwardness. The lady, in public, at least, is entitled to first place, and on all occasions with an escort goes ahead of him whenevei they cannot go side by side.

At Bridgeport, Conn., Friday, while a groom was swearing to his best man about the tardiness of his bride in com ing to the wedding, she appeared and overheard the remark, but saying noth ing turned with him to the altar, and when the clergyman asked If she would love, cherish and obey, answered, "Not by along shot," and marched out of the church.

Cora Belle Fellows, the Washington girl who married the Indian Chaska, made $5,000 by dime-museum exhibitions. With the money she bought diamond ear-rings costing 9800, a seal skin sacque, and an outfit of dresses also several suits of clothes for her husband and a fine gold watch. They have returned to Dakota as poor as ever.

Mrs. Kate Upson Clarke, whose name Is now seen so frequently in current literature, is a witty little woman of thirty-five or so, with a husband, three boys acd domestic tastes. Her favorite costume is the Mother Hubbard, and she thinks it combines all the virtues that aosthetic and hygenic reformers are looking for.

The manager of a detective agency in New York says it is a very difficult thing for a woman to become a good detective Women generally are too flighty or too nervous, or too something else, bnt when one of 'hem is found to combine the qualities needed for a good detective Pinkerton's whole force put together couldn't get ahead of her.

A woman who is proof-reader on a morning paper at Charleston, S. C., walks home about 3 o'clock every morning. She carries a loaded revolver in ont hand and a lantern in the other. The police keep a lookout for her appearance and hall her as she passes their bests. She Is maiden lady and would "shoot" if occssion required. She comes from a family known for both brains aad pluck.

A celebrated Persian ssge gave this adadvice concerning the choice of a wife: "Choose no woman whose lips droop st the corners, or your life will be a perpetual mourning nor yet should they curve too much upward, for that denotes frivolity. Beware of the under lip thai rolleth outward, for that woman hath little coaaeSsnes. Select for a wile ens whose lips are straight, not thin, for then she to shrew, but with just the fuDness necussary to perfect sym metsy.*

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THE 70WX OF 'PA IL HOLT.

You kin boost about your s-ltics. ami their tidy growth and slue, And brag about your county seats, and business enterprise. And railroad*, and factories, aud aUsloh footers*— But tho litttle town o' Tnllholt is big enough for me. You can burp nbout yer churches, with their steeples in the clouds. And gas about your graded streets, and blow about your crowds You kin Uuk about your theaters, and ail you've got. see: But the little town o* Tatlholt is wide enough for me! They haint no style in our town hit's little like and small They haint no churches, nuther jes* the meetin* house is all They*s no sidewalks to speak of, but the highway's alius free, And the little town o'Tallholt Is wide enough for me I Some finds it dlscommodln* like, I'm wlllln* to admit To hev but one poatofflce, an' a woman koepln' hit. And the drug store, and shoe shop, au' grocery, all three But the little town o' Tallholt is hady 'nnugh fer mo! You kin smile, and turn your nose up, add joke ond hev yer fun. And laugh and holler, "Tall-holts is Itettcr holts'u nun!" Ef the city suits you better, w'y hit's whoro you'd orto' be, But tlie little town of Tallholt's good enough fur mo! fjAMKS WHITCOMH RUJCY.

yA YLOJi'S OPEIiA HO USE.

To-night tho Deshon Opera Company loses a remarkably successful engagement at Naylor's, producing tho ever popular opera of "The Mascot." Tho company Is ono of much merit, quito evenly balancod, tho chorus being particularly good. Tho pieces are put upon the stage with good effect, woll costumed and with fair orchestration.. Tho house has been well lillod evory night and an? early booking at Button's has been nocessary to secure seats. A monster audience will no doubt gatlior to-night as tt suggestion to manager Doslion to come back soon for another week.

Tho Thanksgiving day attraction at Naylor's this season will bo the charming .soubrette, Miss Catrle Tutein and her excellent company, presenting tho new musical comedy ".struck Oas." Harry "Pepper, *who is styled "The Sims Reeves, of Auiorloa," by the New York Herald, and "The prince of ballad singers," by the Now York World, is with the company, as is also fcjtoir® Corey, tho comedian who was with TJaszie Evans. As is the custom in all theatres a special matinee will be given Thursday at 2::U p. m. The doors will not be opon until 2 o'clock thus giving trrt?rjrbody ohi»n«iO to enjoy their Thanksgiving turkey and also attend the inatinoo. The advance sale opens Monday morning for both performances.

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Atchison Globe: How cold and chilly an ice cream saloon sign looks just now. Omaha World: There Is nothing like running for an office to on re a man of undue self-esteem.

Picayune: Tho theory of believing every man honest until he has stolen something gives every man a chance.

Yonkers Statesman: Tho man who pleads poverty as an excuse for sinfulness thinks a poor excuse is better than none.

Jewelers' Weekly: The average man can never understand why a watch always runs slow at church and fast at tho theater.

Puck: Consider the chickens, my son study their ways and be wise. Whenever they take to drinking, their bills go up and, by keeping thoir bills dowh they find enough to oat.

Mrs. Frank Leslie has written about the most sensible article that has yet appeared on the marriage question. But thai is just like her. Hho never says or writes anything that is not sensible. Capable, as Mrs. Leslie ta, or paddling her own canoe, she has no idea that marriage is a failure, for marriage, or at least love and mating, are as old as Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. Like tho bright, sensible woman she is, Mrs. Leslie believes in marriage and has no patience with the mysogamists.

Nothing is better to purify the air of sick-room than an open vessel 6f water. It is an absorbent of the exhalations, and at the same time throws off particles of moisture soothing to the respiratory organs. Physicians of the largest experience have time and again recommended the measure, but its simplicity has often caused it to be neglocted.

A wrinkle much affected this season by fashionable young ladles Is' the revival of the old-fashioned reticule, whicb Is worn hanging from the belt at tho right-hand side. It Is very convenient for shopping or In visiting and is also very picturesque.

HOW TO BE HAPPY.

There wss married man, snd his wife wss the head of the household. He hsd friend who wss In the ssme case, only his friend was apparently happy and oomfortable, while he was just the reverse. He hsd long studied this peculiar difference between them, and finally he mustered up courage to go to bfct friend «id ask him. "What is the wsj jtobehappy," be asked, "when yonsre under a woman's thumb?", "Don*! squirm." f:'

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