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The oonntry has been notifiod by the managers in charge that the inaugura' tlon display for General Harrison will cost $75,000. Garfield's eost about 140,090 and Cleveland's nearly 170,000. So it seems there is to be an inorease of lavr lshness from administration to adminls tion. There la no Jefltersonlan simplicity in this and we do not believe It is at all congenial to the taatea of the new President. Like "other braces though" will have to run It* course.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnet is said to have realised $10,000 out of her story "Little Lord Pauntieroy," and #0,000 already from "Sara Crewe" and is soon to have flft,000 for her story written for the New York Ledger. When an author onoe becomes popular and has the ability to keep on turning out salable books thore is a handsome thing, oven financially considered, in literary work. But thoro are not many who attain such results.

Poor George S. Knight, the actor, is going the way of John MeCullough. Tho dethronement of his reason is said to have been caused by the failure of his favorite play, "Baron Rudolph." Those of our renders who heard him in his earlier appearances in this city recite with wonderful effect the stanaas whoso refrain ended with: "Tho mill will never grind with tho water that has paaU" will read with pathetic interest the poem printed In another column.

On the presidential electoral tickets a representative of Torre Haute occupied tho second place on each—Ool. Thoa. H. Nelson oil one and Hon. John E. Lamb on the other. It is noticeable fact that of the thirty electors voted for, Ool. Nel son received the highest vote and Mr. Lamb the lowest. The latter however

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only 87 v^tes behind Mr. Oobb, the other elector-at-Is rjrc, which goes to show that the ••kickers" didn't kick as bard as they let on to.

Before long all one will have to do to get a square meal will be to "drop

nickle in the elot." At leaat things are tending that way. The nickle weighing machine has been followed by a host of similar device*. In one big office buildings in Chicago is a drinking fountain which differs little in appearanco from

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ordinary l«e-water tank but no manipulation of the faucet will produce water. Instead of the common manual appliance there ia a slot pear the top and the painted Instruction: "Drop a cant in the slot and get a cup full of mire Aroadian Waokeaha water,toe chlUea.'* Obeying t&$ instruction stream ia instantly fcrougft that fills the cup exactly, no more and no lees. If we are to be watered by the slot process why not be fed by it also.

The reported split in the Grand Army of the Republic over politics is not a pleasant thing to contemplate. Some Democratic metnbera of the society charge that it has been used by the Republicans to advance partisan ends. Thi* is bad enough if true but it would seemthstth* difficulty ought to be settled within the organisation itself. The Grand

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Notes and Comment.

Now we start upon the last month cf the year. One month hence and MD#CCLX XXIX will be with us.

If there is a member of the Columbia elobwbo isn't figuring for an office let him hold up hla head and be counted out. ______

Benjamin, Levi, Elijah! The man with a biblical name has the inside track for an office this year, sure. Will it be David in our poat office?

President Cleveland is getting bin last menage ready and Preakient Harrison la preparing his first. We know about what Mr. Cleveland will say—It will be the same old story. What thecountay wants to hear is the new story by the new President.

If President Harrison does anything like what the civil service reformers ex pect there will be a sorry lot of disap pointed offlco-eeekers throughout the land. But it is not likely that he will go the full length of tbelrextreme ideas He did not keeR Dan Lamont for his private secretary and it is quite likely that he will no* keep all the other fel lows who are now in office.

The Mail has socured another series of original articled from the pen of Ella Whoeler Wilcox. The favor with which the former series was received insures these an eager reading. The first article is presented in this Issue. Next week she will write of "Men as Husbands," tolling how men should treat their wives, how to keep a wifo young and pretty, and of love and sentiment aftor marriage

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plished a vast amount of good and all right thinking people will regret to see such a division as is how threatened which moat seriously handicap the great organization in the noble work it was organised to do. It la to be hoped that better counsels may prevail and the country be spared the humiliating spectacle of the Grand Army rent into two rival political organisations.

Armour A Co., the great Chicago pack era* are opening meat markets in various interior towns and forcing the local butchers and dealers out of business by selling meat cheaper than the latter can afford to do. If Armour A Co. furnish good meat at lower prices than the people have been getting it there ia no ground for complaint. Meat is a prime article for American diet and there is an almost unanimous opinion that it has been too high. The cheaper we can have stood meat the better. Bnt there is another view of the matter. The charge is made that when the great Chicago packers have succeeded in breaking down the local dealers they will advance the price of their meat. If theo do this the people are not peroeptfble gainers by the advent of Armour fc Co. into their midsf.

Ool. George T. Balch, of New York wants patriotism taught in the public schools. The idea Is not a bad one but It would not be enough simply to read the Declaration of Independence to the children now and then. What Is needed is to instruct "the young idea" in the elementary duties of citizenship. They get to hear enough at home about poli tics and parties, the merits and demerits or candidates, and which side it is safe to bet on. They also learn how one party is destroying the government and the other saving it. In matters of this kind the average young person is well instructed. But along with this they should have some information as to the better aspects of our government and wherein it Is superior to all others now existing. Such knowledge should be imparted by the teachers from a nonpartisan stand point.

Climbing steelro^es has always been the horror of humanity. So much so that all model books on model houses advocate the,least possible piling up of stories. Women especially are supposed to be injured bj^ climbing stairs. But Dr. iammond"has oome*dut with an tenthusiastio commendation of stair climbing. If the doctor be correct, we should have our houses so arranged that we can bo olimbing most of the time. It is, he says, the great cure for heart feebleness and feebleness of the heart with heart failure Is a national difficulty. Climb, says the Doctor, a hundred staircases day say fifty in the morning, and fifty In the afternoon. It will cure dyspepsia. The climber can even digest baked beans tripe, pickles, fat pork, fried mushrooms, soda biscuit, nut cakes and whatever ingredients happen in, in an ocdinary boarding house.

Bedell, the New York forger, after being sentenced to a term of twenty-five years in prison for his crime, has given to the public, through a newspaper Interview, the cause of his fall. It can all bo summed up in a very short sentence: He was in haste to bo rioh. He saw other mon with no greater abilities than ho living in modern palaces and enjoying every luxury that wealth could af ford. He wanted to do the same thing. He could not do Hon his salary. He was determined to be rich somehow and as the riches he coveted did not pour themselves in his lap he secured them by the forger's pen. He had his way, but it was the transgressor's way, which is always hard way. Now, from his prison he can realise how much of oomfort and enjoyment his salary might have purchased If ho had been content.

One of the first acts of President-elect Harrison, while it can scarcely be called official, will have the full foree of an official performance and hi one of good omen. Mr. Harrieon ia a Presbyterian of the strictest sect and propoaea toremain so. But he ia not going to devote himself to the advancement of any particular Presbyterian church in Washington, He has taken pews In several churchc* and will distribute his official presence among them all. If General Harrison's attitude of impartiality in the matter of churchgolng proves typical of his administration of the aflkirsof the country, it is evidont that he ia not going to be either a sectional or a partisan President.

Those eminently original scientists who know it all without knowing why, have finally ascertained that moat physical ilia are due to the stiff hais wont by men. There can be no 1 .Ithy men, they add, until we return the softcrowned head-geaur :.»mon a generation ago. This settles the question, poealbly, so far as the men are concerned, but what about the women? N and we hear that on* of the ai-. rs ia

Jug, too, and ah* dMw't w* .r th» fetaful hat, either. There Is something wrong with the hai theory somewhera, most, likely In its ori.r

Tt* year: has bean notefat* for its long record of notable deaths.

A Woman's Chat.

BY BBBXSmA BIOUXT.

Some weeks ago, I saw the most peaceful, restful picture that I have seen far years. I was driving in the country and stopped at a pretty brick farmhouse to ask the way to a near village. Nobody responding to my knock, I ran around to the back door, the yard was swept as clean as a floor for quite a space. A wild grape vine hung picturesquely over the little porch and on the stone doorsteps sat a fat motherly looking old lady shelling corn in her apron for the chickens, What an innocent, kind old face it was which looked up at me! What a picture of contentment, of homely comfort was thst. A few yellow legged chickens had crept under the fence between the barnyard and garden and were stretching their necks for any stray grain of corn that might fall upon the ground.

And there, in the slanting, golden sun light, in he^chocolate calico gown, her checkered apron and her white 'kerchief, sat the little did mother. No districting question of the outer world tormented her, she had never heard it hinted that marriage was a failure. She never dreamed that a widower or widow might not marry again without raising such question as "The Quick or the Dead?" She accepted, like a child, the creeds of her church and never heard of such doubts as were the bane of Robert Elsmere's life. She knew a little—just little—about tariff and protection, and was a Republican because all of her "men-folks" were.

What turkoys to kill for Thanksgiving, which of the calves to wean and raise on skimmed milk, how many pairs of mittens to knit for Christmas presents and whether her old man needed some new socks, these were the most diaturj) ing of her peaceful reflections.

Somehow the sight of her silenced all the worry and trouble and care in my heart. It seemed like a glass of fresh water in a desert to turn from the turmoil and din of city life and feel the influence of such a soene. Sweet, trustful, innocent old soul, possessing what we all must have in order to enter the klnf dom, the simplicity of a little ohild.

Do you suppose there is a woman in existence who, would live in a house a -dayradtfot know aU«bos*My how closets, how many rooms, what sort of a cellar, pantry, etc. And yet, thousands of women have lived In their bodies for many years, and know nothing of them.

A girl came so me reoently in search of work. 8he was such a pitiful object that I made her come in to rest a moment. I asked her several questions. I came to the conclusion that she was sick and wretched just from neglecting the oommoneet laws that regulate our bodies. She knew nothing at all about her internal organs, her bowels, livet, lungs, eto. The anatomy was a profound mystery to her. The uses of her skin, her mouth, teeth, etc., were as unknown to her as the mathematics of astronomy. She had neglected the most ordinary and at the same time the most necessary of the body's functions. She bad never been told—so how could she know?—that the body was constantly dying and must throw off its poisonous and refuse matter. I felt sorry for her and tried to explain and advise her, and sent her on her way to commit new errors perhaps, and to die some day because of her ignorance. There are many supposably intelligent women who are almost as ignorant, The public schools should take up the question of physiology in a more practical way than is done in most places, and give the rising generation a little notion of the uses of their bodies and how to take care of them.

NEW BOOKS.

Worthington Company announces Ida Waugh's great artistic efforts in a Juvenile book, "Bonny Bairns," with 48 large quarto illustrations, every page in colors. The text is by Miss Amy Bianchard. 1 vol., quarto. 92.00. "Here are picture* and stories, whatever your mood. To help yoa all otnlle, and make you mil good.'

This book by Miss Ida Waugh, author of "Wee Babiea," and other popular books for children, will greatly excel in interest any book heretofore made by her. However beautiful her other books may have bean, this will be found to be of more general interest than any of bar previous work.

Anew cure for sleeplessness la just to wait for a drowsy moment and then go right to sleep. This does away with the old recipe of counting ten thousand every night and in this respect is something of a boon. The man who is a stranger to the drowsy moment, however, is ia about the same predicament as before and the other class doest need the socalled cure.

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-TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1,1888. Nineteenth Year

ABOUT WOMEN.

Boston women pay taxes wretchedly. Out of 28,000 assessed 8,000 have paid up. Victoria Woodhull has returned to one of her former fads and now issues a pamphlet on the scientific propagation of the human race.

The Osarina has been presented with a £ouquet-bolder worth $1,000. The women who we compelled to use an old goblet with a crack from top to bottom will be mad about it, but that's one ot the emoluments of royalty.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, with her usual willingness to answer any question of a warm nature thkt is put to her, has said to aNew York reporter that she considers dancing no more harmful than a shouting cam pmeeting.

Next beauty and nioe speaking a graoeful carriage is the most valuable thing a girl can have. In society a fine carriage (in more ways than one) often counts for more than faoe, mind or figure.

Washington Territory is clearly the place for superfluous girls.}Out there it is impossible, they say, for the plainest woman to remain unmarried a month. Processessions of men come to propose to ever^ marriageable woman in the land, "t*

A good many influential women are considering whether it would not be well to start some sort of a ribbon society for temperance in dress just as there is a bine [ribbon society for temperance in drli:k. Every year the amount of money the average women spends for dress increases until extravagance seems to have reached high-water mark. Many would gladly hail the initiation of a different state of things—a reaction in favor of a finer simplicity and a purer taste.

Some distinctive quality has always been associated in the public mind with the lady of the White House. With Mea. Grant it was interest in national affairs with Mrs. Hayes, temperance with Mrs. Garfield, literary tastes with Mrs. Cleveland, beauty, and with Mrs. Harrison it promises to be domesticity. Many of theitems about her tell of her doing her own marketing and praise her skill & housekeeper. a tourist in "The Valley of the vCsemite." "One important fact which mentioned in the guide-books, and never in newspaper correspondence, is diat the women visitors who explore the place to any extent, do so on horseback, and ride astride. The steeps are so abrupt that a woman who attempts them perched unnaturally on one side of a beast is sure to oome to grief, and coming to grief on mountain trials, where the preclpioies area mile high, is a matter of life and death. Women must either leave the glories of the Yosemite unseen, or they must employ all the advantages which nature has given them."

Mrs. Harrison, wife of the Presidentelect, speaking of her girlhood days, says: "We village girls were very simple in our wants then. We bad driving and sleighing parties, but we did not dance. It was considered a great sin then, but we managed to have just as much fun without. We would put on our newly starched calico dresses and sun-bonnets and we were grand and content. Isn't it wonderful how the lives of girls have changed? Imagine any girl during her graduating year wearing a sun-bonnet, yet we all did so and were proud of them when newly laundried."

IN IRE DRY GOODS STORK A lady and her little daughter were shopping. The child sat on a counterstool and watched the people coming and going. Presently she saw a lady elegantly dressed who stopped at their counter and handed a waterproof and umbrella to the young girl in charge. "Take care of these things until I call for them," ahe said in an autocratic tone. Then ahe sailed away.

Hie bright eyes of the child followed her. The little faoe wore a look of distress. "Why, mamma," ahe whispered, "she didn't even say please."

Sooner than ahe expected to, the lady returned. "I will take my things," she said.

There was some little delay in finding them. "I hope you haven't loet or misplaced them," ahe said in a severe tone to the young girL

No. Here they are. Madame took them oooly and without a word walked off.

This was more than the child could stand. Cleaning over so that her sweet young face came cloae to that of the girl oierk she said, sweetly, "Thank you!"

LITTLE SERMONS*

People who are not i_/ king for results seldom meet them. The strongest weapon our enemies possess is that petty annoys *.

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Wears the hours away. Languidly the autumn wind 8tlrs the green wood leaves From the fields the reapers slnjr,

Binding up the sheaves And a proverb haunts my mind, As a •Dell is oast: "The mul will never grind

With the water that has passed."

Take the lesson to thyself, Loving heart and true Golden years are fleeting by,

Youth is passing, too Learn to make the raoet of life, Lose no happy day, Time will never bring thee back

Chances swept away, Leave no tender word unsaid, Love while life shall last— "The mill will never grind

With the water that has passed."

Work while yet the daylight shines, Man of strength and will Never does the streamlet glide

Useless by the mill. Walt not till to-morrow^s sun Beams upon thy way All that thou canst call thine own

Lies in thy to-day. ^Power, intellect and health May not-, can not last: "The mill will never grind

With the water that has passed."

'^Oh. the wasted hours of life »i That have drifted by! "yOh, the good we might have done,

Lost without a sign .Love that we might once have saved By a single word Thoughts conceived but never penned,

Perishing unheard. Take the proverb to thine heartTake, oh, hold it fasti -The mill will never grind

With the water that has passed."

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I have ever been a sincere admirer of womankind. I have felt no sympathy or patience with the women who forever decry their own sex. During the last six weeks three young ladies have said to me, with an air which indicated that each thought the remark highly original: "I oan't endure women—they are so narrow and uninteresting-^-I Ilk# men."# These young ladles were fond of making the remark in the presence of men they bad a mistaken idea that men would admire them for their brightness in discovering th? dujlnpss of fefcnir own sex and consequent superiority of the mssduilnf race. It is a most egregious error, however. A man never admires or respects a women for ridiculing her sister women.' He may laugh at her witticisms and feel a certain amount of oompulaory gallantry necessary toward the woman who tells him she finds ber only pleasure In the society of men, yet in his heart be neither admires nor respects her.

As a rule, the women who are forever complaining of bad treatment from their own sex are the women who have brought it upon themselves. Some one has said that we find in a book what wo take to It. The same rule applies to humanity we find in people what we take to them.

I have taken to my own sex sympathy, appreciation, admiration, and love, and I have in the great aggregate found these qualities in them.

In all the vast numbers of girls and women I have known intimately, not more than one in twelve have I found to be unkind, vindictive, or marred by envy which could not be overcome.

Yet women have faults. A lovely woman Is the most beautiful thing In existence. I would rather see a handsome women than the most wonderful scenery nature can offer, or the most marvelous work of immortal art.

The greatest heroism I have ever found in human nature has been in the lives of women. The man who rushes into the thick of battle and waves a flag in the face of the enemy and falls pierced by a soore of bullets, does not display half the heroism that every patient and uncomplaining mother of an increasing family exhibits daily.

The man who risks his own life to rescue some drowning creature is not so brave as many a wife who endures neglect, indifference, and even disloyalty from one who has sworn to be her protector, and sits through lonely evenings at home, looks alluring temptation in the eyes and turns away, and carries a smiling faoe to the world.

The physical pain, the heart-hunger, the lonely hours, that make half the life of the average woman, would drive the average man to a lunatic asylum before he reached middle age.

Yet lovely, patient woman has her faults. One of ber most foolish blemishes is a mawkish sentimentality toward criminals. You have but towstch the trial of some brutal murderer or notorious forger, to find thst his lady sympathisers keep his cell blooming with bouqueta, and render his prison lite endurable by Tarious delicate attentions. I can recall a wrJK-r of these instance luring the I r. I 1 not think this is attribI. .• IN w*:. uj'S tender heart or *ymtie .i: so mi^ as to faersentimentallsm else she would be more mer* ful toward some erring sister who needs her sympathy.

I know a bright, good, agreeable young lady who is unvaryingly sevefe in her denunciations of any lapse from morality in the most sorely tempted woman. Yet I have seen this same youug lady melt into tears and lament over the suicide of a vulgar adventuress as portrayed In a novel we have all read during the last year. "Fate was against her from the first," she sobbed, forgetting that fate might be equally against some woman in real life she had condemned.

An exoellent-principled young lady of my acquaintance believes that any woman who has erred has no right to ask or expect sympathy from those who have resisted temptation. "They cannot eat their cake and keep it, too," is her way of ending all arguments on this subjeot. Yet one day I heard her express great sympathy for an escaped murderer who was pursued by justioe. "Poor fellow," she sighed, "I shall feel so sorry if they catch him." Yet this man had served a term once in prison, only to come forth and murder a valuable citizen in oold blood because he tried to defend his own property from burglars. The widow and orphans of the victim did not appeal to her sympathies, but the pursued murderer did.

It is nothing but the most morbid state of sentimentalisni which prompts so many women to Indulge in this sort of feeling, and it needs a severe oourse of "allopathic" treatment.

Womon in public places aro rudely selfish and thoughtless of one another's comfort. They will spread themselves over seats in street cars aud other conveyances of travel, occupying unnecessary room, and allow another woman to stand, holding a child or a large bundlo in her arms. I havo seen this done repeatedly in almost every city in the United States.

I have received scowls and indignant glances from women when I have firmly, if gently, insisted that there was quite enough room for me in the street car If they would sit closer.

I could count on the fingers of one hand the times I have seen a lady ri«e to give an older or more burdened stranger seat in a public conveyance* The surprised gratitude which such au sot receives Is In itself evidence it* occurence. fm

We all ought to reform ourselves inc.* this.respeot at onoe. Mothers need toteagh the}r growing daughters the greek*. sdjmipHshment »f «in all notftH..^ testes toward strangers of their own "Sex" !V in nubllo places. It would refine life* ana lend sweetness to the giver as well as comfort to the recipient.

Ladies have an unoomfortable manner of staring at each other often, whioh is exceedingly unpleasant to a sensitive or self-eonscious person.

I have passed through a room filled with well-dressed, well-educated and supposably well-bred women, whero was a stranger to all, and I have felt that it would be a less painful matter to ascend the scaflbld for my execution. Af« terward meeting these same ladies, perhaps, I found them kind and tender* hearted, and never consciously wounding another. Yet this habit of staring at a stranger haa grown upon them without their knowledge. I have seen this habit carried to Its extreme at summer watering-places. Little girls and young mlases cultivate this cold and critical stare, and I am often surprised to see the rudeness and terrible lack of careful breeding which the elegant apparelled small damsels from our "best society" exhibit on the street in this respect.

I bave noticed groups of young girls with their school-books on some of our most fashionable streets, and have seen them haughtily gaze at (be people whom they passed or met, and bave heard them give vent to peals of laughter before the unoffending victim of their bad breeding was out of ear-shot. -If the fashionable schools which teach' young girls how to walk, and sit, and the proper manner in which to enter a room, wonld also teach them bow to look at a stranger in a respectable and kindly^ manner, .or at least not to gaze with a oold and withering stare of criticism, it would materiallyvImprove the manners of the rising generation.

Aflkbillty, cordiality, kindness, and amiability are all wonderfully charming qualities in woman, and we all need to cultivate them.

There never yet was a woman so gift* ed, wealthy, beantifnl, or high in social position that she was not marred by a cold, distent, and supercilious bearing. There are so many sorrowful things in life, there are so many hurts and wounds for all of ua, It seems to me that every woman ought to cultivate a sweet manner .and and a kindly glance for the stranger or the acquaintance. It costs nothing, and, like a ray of sunlight, it warms and strength* many a frost tr4*'»n life wb^r^on it i. I think some dwm or g. -i have the idea that a haughty and promt bearing impresses a stranger with a sense of their import* ST- t*

This Is a r.ii li"ke. The truly r-.it in nr^*r luiu^ut or oold, but and »d in demeanor while the unworthy and presumptuous often assume an air of snpereiiloos disdain .li strangers to hi TMtheir nat :rtl deftcsMMjcies. £UA VV

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