Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 November 1888 — Page 4

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THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TERRE HAUTE, NOV.

24,

1888.

Now yoa nee Mr. Blaine in the cabinet and now you don't. Meanwhile Mr. Blaine and Mr. Harrison are probably both, like the parrot, keeping op a devil of a thinking.

Pkk«ii»knt CoKVEr.AND is going to take a good, long rest before he goes into anything after emerging from the White House. A sensible idea. He baa hardly had a chance to get acquainted with liis pretty young wife since he married her.

rover has worked hard and de

serves a vacation.

Thk Democrats are begining to think that Texas ought to be cut up into three or four Democratic States in order to oflfoet the new Republican States in the North that will be created by the ad miftsion of tho Territories. It is rather late to think of that now, especially, as the Henate is not controlled by the Democrats. The time when Texas should have been divided was before tho war.

IwftKDiHiiK as it may seem the anarchists, of Chicago, appear to be getting in trim for more trouble. The recent anniversary of the hanging of Spies and his gang, instead of causing repentance, as it ought to have done, appears to have had the opposite effect. Well, there will be more hanging Jif necessary to exterminate the spirit of anarchy in this oountry, for there is no land on which shines the sun that offers less excuse for lawlessness and revolution. The American people are more determined than ever to crush out such a spirit. The Annrchists should read the signs of the times and keep out from under the hangman's noose.

Mil. Powijkrly'h idea that women should have equal wages with men for doing equal work is not anew one, but it a very important one. He has the foresight also to see that if men do not help them iu their struggle for this right the wago-work:?rs of the other sex will

Iter as well as women, the inevitable tendency of low wages for women being to make low wages for men. Tho whole wage system risos or fails together and the thing that helps women workers helps men workers, too. Yet the Knights of Ijibor have not apparently realIxod this faot as fully as Mr. Powderfy and have not extonded the hand of assistance to female workers as gonerously its they should have done. If in tho future that powerful labor organixatfJ5n*stian stand by women in their con test for equal pay for equal work, the interests of all wage-workers will be promoted thereby.

on the second Monday of January, 1 ««, General Uonjatnin Harrison will become the President-elect of the United State* he will be known and recognised as su'-h on the second Monday of February, when the electoral votes are opened in the Senato and counted, and at noon on the Fourth of March, 1880, he will bo inaugurated ns President do facto. Such Is the rather slow and complox, but highly ftdmlrahle and unimprovable mothod of tho American system of electing and Installing a President.

Almost all men know bettor, yet almost all men persist In calling the candidate of tho successful party (after the result of the election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November Is known) the presldcnt-elect. Ho Is nOt so legally or constitutionally. He will in all human probability become the President elect and the President In fact, but the election of President does not come off until the second Monday in January, when the electors meet in their respective States and ballot for President. Until that time we havo no President elect, as the people In November vote for presidential electors only, not for candidate# directly.

O It A A KSI KS TS. Mr. Joseph Howard, a New York correspondent, ha* l»cen indulging In a lot of preelou* nonsense on the subject of ex-President*. He thinks they should l»e retired on a pension of $2T».ooo a year for life and ln» made honorary members of the Senate. Every time anew President is

elected

and tin old one is to go

oik of oflloo, we have this talk about what shall be done with our ex-presi-dents—as if ex presidents were not as onpahle of taking

themselves as

ex senators, ex-representatives or any other kind of eses. Therv* is talk that Mr. Cleveland may ttecome the heed of a railroad or an insurance company. And why should he not do so, or engage in any other occupation for which his talents and his tastes fit him? We pick up a man,« common cUliten, and convert hint into a President for four or eight ywura. He has filled a great office but should thai fact incapacitate him from returning to the life he left? Ex-President Arthur muimed the practice of law in New York so far as ht* health would permit, therv was nothing improper in it. We must get above this siUy idea that »»*n must alt down with folded hands the rest of hN life Xmmvm he ha* hew* President. It is un-AmerfoMt awl «m-repohlican. And •till tmm to the Mm of Pensioning ex-president* for It Is mr pride and hoe* that we Have broken away from the old world *y*i**»

down the people with an eoormon* civil

pension list, and we do welL If this be right then we should not infringe upon the excellent practice by pensioning expresidents.

Sentimentalism aside, the fact is our presidents, with their $50,000 a year, are able to save at least $100,000 our of a four yean term—enough to provide an income of $6,000 or £7,000 a year for them during life, supposing they have noth ing to begin with, which is not usually the case. Certainly If oar presidents could formerly live on $£,000 a year the present incumbents ought to be able to save the other 125,000, the salary being now double what it used to be.

There may be those who think that we should not figure so closely and that a great nation can afford to deal with large generosity towards Its highest officer, That is not the question. It is one of principle, not of economy. We could pay 125,000 a year to the ex-presidents and not feel it. The point is, should we begin a civil pension list at all? Once begun, where is it to end? If presidents should be pensioned, why not pension other civil officers? The pension list begun it might grow snd grow until the appressive dimensions of the English system should be reached.

Let the ex presidents take care of themselves, and open the way for them to do so by abolishing the notion that an ex-president, cannot, with propriety and dignity, put on the simple citizenship which he laid aside to accept the office of chief magistrate.

BLOWING OUT GAS.

The other day in a Chicago hotel an Indiana man was found dead, having Deen asphyxiated with gas that had escaped in his room. It was announced, as usual in such cases—and they occur frequently in one place or another—that the man had blowed out the gas instead of turning it off.

But these accidents happen too frequently to be set down to ignorance all the while. Gas has been used long enough for people even in the remotest backwoods to bo somewhat acquainted with tho method of using it. Everyone too has read of these accidents which re suit from tho escape of gas in a sleeping room. Thoro Is no man or woman so rural as not to know that the gas is not to be blown out. Besides, it is no tasy matter to blow it out even if thoy were ignorant enough to try to do so.

It is a good deal more probable that the gas fixtures are not as they should be, that they havo no stop lock, or are so loose as turn back at the slightest toucli after having beeu turned off. We havo all had some experience with that sort of gas fixtures. They require careful usage to prevent accidents. One not accustomed to handling gas might easily turn the gas on after having extinguished it, by a very slight movement.

It cannot be that all these cases which fill the newspapers result from blowing out the gas. In every such instance it should bo tho duty of the authorities to rigidly inspect the b«m» trot ter still tho gas fixtures in hotels and lodging houses should be required to be inspected at proper intervals, so that life may not be jeopardized by imperfect or worn out appliances.

WOMEN AND MEN.

It is astouishing what advancement women have made within the last few years. In art, in literature, in professional and business life, the sex has forged ahead with a speed that has been simply marvelous. They are doing today successfully many things which would have been thought impossible a couple decades ago.

More than that, they have their clubs and organisations for women's advancement which aro exerting a vast influence among thoughtful people. It was before the Woman's Club, of Chicago, that Mr. Geo. Willis Oook lectured recently on the work and progress of women. He said that women now form the reading public and the body-guard in the campaign of ideas. Their refining influence in literature had changed its moral tone and in every branch they had been powerful for regeneration and reform. He argued that In order to accomplish her full and rightful share of the world's work woman must be as free as man to follow the leadings of her own nature. Not that she is to be the imitator of man or to pattern after him. She will not be like the other sex but will be the perfection of her own.

Mr. Oook believes that the day of man has been and that the day of woman is now coming. By and by we shall have the day of men and women both and then the twodaysof humanity will have come. The race will then be at its beet and the world's developement better than we have yet seen it.

We believe the new movement is in the interest of humanity. The long age of sentimtmtal gallantry towards women did not tend to their real elevation and development. If they were considered to be of finer clay than men they were also esteemed "the weaker vessel" and wore treated as playthings rather than as equal partners in the practical affkirs of life. The new theory is that of equality —not similarity but equal opportunity and freedom. What this system has done for the sex their achievements In the past few years is ample evidence. What it will do in the future can only be conjectured but the Ir'TieatlotMl are all and only favorable. Ik..ng the better half of creation, only good Is to be anticipated from their larger participation In the manifold activ •. .* of life.

THE HOOT OF THE KVIU fpfetla. Record.] A f.-m of ".r 7-**•*" that come a fight against the on. of a r*: *-ist dwok^w root of th« In the not In the cup out of nor In the warehouse staved.

who drinks, Im rinks w_^ky ta

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT.

PERSONAL AND PBCULTAR.

The oHglnal Boy Preacher Is now a Bishop with a good salary. Begin early, boys.

The terms of an election bet caused a Jersey City man to ait two hours on a picket fence.

Rev. Dr. Duryea has resigned his Boston church to become pastor of an Omaha chuurch at a smaller salary. This is sufficiently novel to be deemed worthy of note. §5^

A Washington school teacher instruct* his scholars in practical statesmanship by having them hold conventions, nominate and elect candidates, and play polltics generally.

An Anglomaniac insists that "over there" Whitechapel is pronounced Witch Apple. Well, what can you expect of a country where Auchinleck is pronounced Affleck?

Senator Beck is said to be the only prominent member of the United States Senate who has not at some time or other had the Presidential bee buzzing in his bonnet. Cause—born in Dumfreeshire, Scotland.

The eloquence of a clergyman at Coldwater. Mich., met with a sudden collapse the other Sunday, when, to emphasize a point, he brought his fist down heavily upon the pulpit, and hit upon a needle some one had left there.

Says Mad. Tbeo: "Why, of course, marriage is a failure. I should have been a thousand times happier had never been married. How can actresses amuse the public all the evening and make their husbands happy afterward!"

Tliero is a mine near Leadville to which no woman is admitted. For every woman that visited it for a year or two an accident always followed, and the miners are now so superstitious that if a woman was admitted they would all quit.

Mrs. John A. Martin, of Fond du Lac, Wis., who has not spoken above a whig per in twelve years, went out shoppiug last Monday, and while examining some goods, was surprised to find that her voice had returned in full volume. Nothing like a bargain counter to make a woman talk.

The increasing number of marriages among deaf mutes can hardly fail of being noticed. At one which took place lately in Philadelphia, not only the bride and bridegroom, but every ono present was a deaf mute, so that not a word was spoken during the ceremony or reception that followed.

At a spelling bee, in Atlanta, Ga., the other day, nearly all the prominent people in tho city took part. The best scholars fell back on such words as "accordion," "repellent" and "inagurate." Henry W. Grady, editor of the Constitution, insisted on spelling "trafficking" without the "k."

There is a man living at Luray, who lw»miifiAnvlniol whnp tauk® kissing was wicked because Christ betrayed by a kiss. He resolved never to kiss anybody. He has been married twenty years and Is the father of eleven children and has never kissed his wife nor any of his offspring.

A Michigan man who decided to settle In Jasper, Ala., shipped his goods there by rail, and then, with his wife and two children, drove the whole distance, one thousand miles. They had a splendid time and saw more of the oountry and the people than years of railroad travel would have permitted.

There is in New York no more tireless theater-goer than Colonel Bob Ingersoll. It Is said by one who ought to know that he has seen over one hundred performances this year. He is more fond of comedy and spectacular pieces than of high tragedy, and he laughs consumedly at the funny characters, or scenes, or passages.

A Cincinnati pastor, who has been annoyed by being requested to read all sorts of announcements, made this announcement a week ago last Sunday: "And now I ask your special attention to this last notioe. Will the church and congregation please remember that I was ordained to be a preacher of the everlasting gospel, and not to be a bulletin board for advertising purposes."

There has been a row in the Brooklyn Congregational Church, of Cleveland, Ohio, over the question of their pastor, the Rev. J. M. Merrill, using tobacco. A number of his parishioners charged that using tobacco was uu-Christian and the pastor resigned. Then came a call from a rural church and he was invited to stay. The anti-tolmcooites have left the church.

A puazling question came up before a Police Magistrate In Cincinnati a few days since. A deaf mute called during the morning and through an interpreter asked for a warrant for the arrest of her husband on the charge of abusing her. To the clerk's surprise it developed that the husband was also a deaf mute. Last Sunday, so she declared by proxy, they got into a quarrel and the result was that the ungallant husband knocked her down and kicked her. A warrant was fanned for his arrest on charge of abusing his family.

Mr. Blaine said last summer: "I have learned what real relaxation means. It to to become so interested In trifles that they become the most Important events In tlte." AnT Garnegie aays he think* a good —ugh Is always In order, and his snooasi in life to dne to the fact that trot:: «s have as little effect on him *Hk water on a duck's beck." Chauncey Depew% whole Uf» to an illustration of how to tough and prosper, aad the les•on of ail those brilliant examples Is fiUy capped by the advice of Shakespeare— "Wear your troubles a« your garments, on the outside, careleesly."

N&1F BOOKS.

AltEtrcOOE BOOK.

The number of oook books published it would be very difficult to determine. The best, however, that we have seen is before us, and bears the title "Miss Maria Parloa's New Cook Book." From a hasty perusal It seemed to treat of everything appertaining to cooking, and will be of great service to any lady, no matter how well she may be posted. Estes A Lauriat, publishers, Boston waxes AND STINGS.

This is the airy, striking title of anoth er sprightly amusing book by Palmer Cox. It is one of the "Queer People series, and similar to its compsnion "Paws and Claws" of which we told you rfcently. This is one of the funniest and biightest books for younsters we have ever seen. The illustrations are splendid and will make the boys and girls roar with laughter. The Boston Budget says: "as a holiday book nothing could be more appropriate, since nothing could confer greater pleasure upon the little ones." The National Republican says: "Every page is a picture and all the text music, a fountain of fun, never ceasing. It will make young eyes blaze. It will certainly be wonderfully popular It is published by Messrs. Hubbard Bros., of Philadelphia, Chicago and Kan gas City, to whom persons desiring copy or an agency should apply..

SOMETHING LIKE A HONEYMOON. If every one was as considerate as Mr George Sigourney, of California, the to dies would be much better taken care of than they are, as will be seen by the fol lowing:

Mr. George Sigourney, of California, is a man of his word. In 1882 he fell violently in love with Miss Henriques of Buffalo,and married her "right away The lady was young and pretty, but far from' strong and the devoted husband determined to try what travel would do for her. They were married in Ma 1882, and upon the wedding day th card was sent out to her friends: "Mr and Mrs. Sigourney at home, at Sacra mento, every Thursday from May 10, 1888." The whole of the six years which have elapsed since then have spent in travel with the view of re-ostablishin the ladys health. During that perioc they have visited England, Ireland Scotland, France, Germany, Austria, Russia,Greece, Denmark, Turkey,China Japan, Egypt, Persia, Africa and South Americn, beginning with Patagonia and finishing at Panama, whence they re turned to England before embarking for New York. In the midst of all this traveling Mrs. Sigourney found time to become the mother of lour children—twin boys, born at St. Petersburg, a daughter, born in China, and another daughter, born in Brazil. When the 10th of May arrived the happy couple were "at home," at Sacramento, to receive their friends, according to their promise of Bix years beforo. Tno expedient has beeu thoroughly successful. Mrs.Sigour noy now enjoys excellent health and whereas at the time of her Inarriage she weighed the insignificant figure of 102 pounds, she now turns the beam at 165 pounds. The cost of this six years' honeyiQoon was $K),000, only $10,000 a year tainly a very moderate expenditure ".Sigourney may be taken to

Tim uusumnt umuy mm sand dollars per pound, which per haps is not very expensive as wives go in these days.

BURDETTE'S ADVICE ABOUT MARRYING. You say yon demand a domestic, useful woman as your wife. If that is so marry Nora Mulligan, your laundress daughter. She wears oow-hide shoes, is guiltlMs of corsets, never bad a sick day in her lffe, takes in washing, goes out hous&cleaning, aud cooks for a family ol sevfcu children, her mother and three section men that board with her. don'tthink she would marry you, be cause Con Reagan, the track walker, is herstfleof man. Let us just examine into yur qualifications as a model husband (fter your own matrimonial Ideas, my b»y. Can you shoulder a barrel of flour lad carry it down cellar? Can you saw ad split ten cords of hickory wood in tmfall so as to have ready fuel all wlntej? Can you spade up a half acre of grand for a kitchen garden? Do you knowivhat will take the lime taste out of th«new cistern, and can you patch the li{le leak in the kitchen roof? Can you ning home a pane of glass and a wad putty and repair damages in the sittin^rooin window? Can you hang some peap paper on the kitchen? Can anything about the bouse that can? My dear boy, you see wants a higher type of ue rim hood. You expect to hire men do the man's work about the house, it yf want your wife to do anything wotSn can do. Believe me my son, that me tenths of the girls who play the plio and sing so charmingly and whotrlyou in your limited knowledge set dof as mere butterflies of fashion are bder fitted for wives than you are for a isbafad. If you want to marry a first-ciss cook aua experienced housekeeper do your courting in the intelligenceffice. But if you want a wife, marrjlhe girl you love, with dimpled handstad a face like sunlight, and her love wl teach her all these things long beforefou have learned one-half of your own lion.

braford's Add phoaplaato ^eommoDdod by PltjrsicfaUM

of all 4ools, for the brain, nerves and sto joiaj.

Suffered for Six T«*r».

WlNuffered six year* from opprc—cd tion. Has been treated by the lician* without benefit. Two

Brad field's Female Regulator

reliev4her. W. A. Simmoxm, McNutfa, 8. C. [rite the Brad field Reg. Go., Atlanta,*. Sold by James E. Homes, cor, 6th aribhio. 17-1 m.

BoaA«K SJOTH. JOH* HAOE*

ihith & llager.

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o. 11 north Otbstreet. 1 Old«* Agmmsr la ifcs City. •aMM inc tl Willi fw-*

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MONEY8TO

FOR

LOAN—On easy terms nt 8

and Dtr cent interest. RIBDLE, HAMILTON &. CO., Beach Block Sixth nnd Main streets.

For Sale.

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HOBERG'S

Grand Central Fancy and Dry Goods Establishment.

Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

Prices Always the Lowest!

We Keep Cloaks

Well yes* a few—Thousand.

Our Whole Second Floor is Full of 'em.

Where Do We Buy

Our Stylish Wraps?

That's what puzzles our competitors.

Monday Morning we expect by Express about

200 More Cloaks

Among these are Plush Paletots, Short Wraps and Newmarkets.

Choice Styles.

Suppose you take a look at them. TAKE ELEVATOR.

P. S. New Goods are being opened daily. Holiday Novelties will be displayon second floor.— Soon.

Money to

MONEY-TOon

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

Jobbers Retailers. Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

Loan.

LOAN-In large or small

amount* easy terms. J. D. BIUELOW, Opera House.

GOOD HORHEH. will sell

one or both. Apply Immediately to Kiddle, Hamilton A Co. Cor. Sixth and Main street*. It

HALE—A fine lot of Oatalpa and Car olina Poplar Shade Trees. Also a fine lot of Grape Vines at E. HA AH' Nursery, near the Last Chance Grocer}', address Post Office box 1S50. Now is a good time to plant Trees and Vines.

For Rent.

OR RENT—Dwelling bouse No. 1461 south 7th street, second house north of Gallck St., near Car works, 6 rooms, stable room for two horses and lanre cistern. Rent S10 a month. Enquire at Russners, or Dr. Pence's, 115 south Second street. Will paper the house throughout for a family that will stay one year.

Amusements.

yf AYLOR'S OPXBA HOUSX.

WILSON NAYLOR MAKAOKK. ONLY TWO MOBE PERFORMANCES. MATINEE AT 2 P. M.

EVENING AT 8 P. M.

DESHON OPERA CO.

ARTISTS

3J3 312 Sstorday Matinee Three Black Cloaks SatnMar Evening L* Mas^otte

SECURE VOT'E SEATS EARLY

PRICES 115X25X351 PRICES

Thanksgiving Day,

MATINEE AND NIGHT. The Charming SoobreUe,

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A Mttfaai Comedy Drama In Fire Act* RenemfcartteSpedaS

Thanksgiving Matinee

Jdnmn Sale Opm* Motaday.

\TIGO COUNTY NATIONAL BANK TKMUt HAtrrC, IXD. raid ap Capital |IW,M«. B. O. Ht'DKUT. President. **4- W. OOXX, Osshter.

G. A. Base). Wlllanl Ktdder, JMMhn*l- ett, KJl»ha Haven*, W. Kidder, A. Z. Foster, SL *uinn, J. p. Cmwtotd.

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Coming!

Lots of already here

We are speaking of

Umbrellas

The celebrated "Windsor" brand —Swell Handles— Gold, Silver, Ivory and Bone,

Ebony and other Imported

1 Woods. Choice Novelties.

We warrant to wear well. Ask for "Windsor" and see that the tie is stamped "WINDSOR."

COMPETITION

The Life of Trade!

Our New Fall and Winter Stock of Clothing is now complete in all departments. Don't fail to us if you want Good Clothing.

see

J. T. H. MILLER, 522 Wabash ave.

WE DEFY COMPETITION To show better goods, styles or prices. Ready Mode or Made to Order. J. T. H. MILLER, 622 Wabash ave.

READY MADE.

Good, fine, well made clothing a specialty in all departments, Men's Youths, Bojs and Children's.

J. T. H. MILLER, 522 Wabash ave.

GOOD GOODS

At the right price is the article to buy. We hare it for you. J. T. H. MILLER, 522 Wabash ave.

DON'T FAIL

To see ua if you want a good suit, Ready Made or Made to Order. J. T. H. MILLER, 522 Wabash ave.

COATES COLLEGE

FOR WOMEN,

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Mason IJancen, President, Tterre Haute, Ina.

JJOTEL GLENHAM,

FIFTH AVKXUK, JSEW YORK, Bsc Slst and tkL suu, near Madison Sqnara. EUROPEAN PLAN.

N. a BARRY, Proprietor.

Mew aad perfeet plumbing, aeeoMlnc U» latest ssMntlfle pnnelpleac