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Vol. 19.—No.
THE MAIL
A PAPER
Last Saturday was ground-hog day. What a pity the Indiana Legislature did not see %sba4ow and go back into its
ti hole for ai?rwqfllise. There seems to be another side to this Sunday question. A Milwaukee preacher recently had to lay in a temporary supply of "flne.cut" on the sacred day.
Gen. Harrison's interest in his cabinet is about to give way temporarily to the interest in the dry goods bills which Mrs. Harrison has been making in New York.
The Chioago Herald felicitously suggests that pistol experts might do a great business by opening up training schools for young women with beaux. Such schools would seem tojbe a^rying af tin* Uines. #ra\viqrd»villo oifoerel aftet out «n^Ira. tm~ was burned and an incendiary attempt was made to burn warehouse. Above all things in a city street lights are the worst to bo out at night.
The nowspapers of the country are greatly divided on the question as to whether we shall go to war with Germany over this Samoa business. After all it seems that editors, like other poor mortals, are not infalllblo.
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There is yet hope for Evansville. A movement is on foot for citizens' ticket at the spring election.
And now one of the critics has an article on "Shakespeare Interviewed. Where did ho go to find him?
The man who was sure we could have no zero weather after an open winter up to the first of January,
The country has been enlightened on tho ground-hog question by a day's discussion in the lower house of our Legislature. No doubt tho members will have their remarks printed and mailed to their constituents in the back-woods districts. Such idle waste of valuable time doos not speak well for the predominating calibre of our statesmen.
An Evansville wife brought her husband to terms bj' a cleverly conceived plan in her own mind. Her lord and master persisted in staying out late at nights. One morning ho received a note, Illustrated with ghastly skull and crossbones, giving him warning to devote more of his attention to his family. His wife since sending the letter has found her husband a model.
And are we to have newspaper combines? The Mt. Yernon weeklies have entered into a compact by which the subscription price Is fixed at fl.60 per year. There need be little alarm of newspapers combines t? fix prices. In this business, more than any other, real merit establishes and regulates the price paid for the paper. Enterprise and good judgment in furnishing news is the only combine necessary to the successful publication of a newspaper.
It is announced that Mr. Cleveland will become a member of a prominent law firm in New York upon the expiration of his term of office.
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SECOND EDITION.
Notes and Comment.
The ice men are no longer "in the soup." In the language of the late campaign, "What's the matter with Indianapolis® She's all wrong.
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taken. John E. Sullivan is nearly as notorious just now as John L. Sullivan. One is an Indianapolis and the other a Boston production. ______
It is now Colonel Bill Nye aud Major James Whitcoinb Riley. We prefer, however, to know our Hoosier poet as plain Jim Riloy.
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Arthur would have done so had not an untimely death come to him soon after retiring from the White House.
A spirit of reform is at work in the
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are being taken towards a better enforcement of the law and a higher regard for Sunday. The city council of Rockville has ordered the saloons and business houses U) dose on Sunday, and the city marshal has been instructed to prosecute anyone found violating the instructions, A church revival is in progress which Is attended with unprecedented success? At BrwtU the barber shops will hereafter be closed on Sunday. At Clay City, the town board passed an ordinance imposing a city tax of $40 per year upon dealers in intoxicating liquors. Knlliran baa ordered Sunday closing, through the ef
forts of a leading minister. Other towns are urging a more rigorous adherence to law, and it will not be surprising if the spirit prevailing outside will not strike in towards Terre Haute.' j*.
With a President-elect, a half million dollar embezzler, a defaulting County Clerk, a new union depot and a new soldiers' monument, Indianapolis has considerable claim to distinction
There is a growing impression in this country that six days are not enough for work without a rest. Let us "remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy" and we shall all be richer and better for it.
The fight for the postmastership at New Albany has been precipitated prematurely. So interesting has it become that an election has been suggested as tho best means of deciding between the rival candidates.
McGarigle, the Chicago boodler, is singing in a church choir in Canada. Sullivan, the poultry house king, is perhaps crowing beyond the border, while Moore, the insurance defaulter, is playing "policy."
John Sullivan, the defaulter, started for Canada, and Bernheimer, the tally sheet forger, started for Indianapolis from the northern prison, on the same day. It is not stated whether or not they spoke as they passed by.
Lige Hal ford struck a better thing eyen than he supposed in the appointment of private secretary to the President. The Senate has increased tt»e salary of the office from $3,500 to $5,000. That is what a Congressman gets, but Lige will be worth every cent of it.
Mrs. Harrison, while in New York made an announcement regarding wine at the White House during the next administration. Gentlemen will be given the privilege to do as they choose about indulgence in it, yet Mrs. Harrison declares no woman will be allowed to taste It within her house.
One of the most frequent announcements regarding State Legislatures has been, "No quorum present to-day." Every State has been afflicted^'witb such reports. It seems that many legislators va in loriiaTing a good timeand negleofe their duties as public servanto. y^^eve^^eneiloj|l ija-tuftLit its much needless legislation.
It is surprising that a man who should have such a woeful disregard for the safety of publlo values, in that he embezzled the funds of the county, as did John Sullivan, should protect his residence with electric bells at the expense of $500, which remains unpaid. It would have been better for Indianapolis if John Sullivan had been stolen years ago and no effort had been made to find out his whereabouts.
An exodus is taking place from the Indiana coal fields. Three hundred miners left the Brazil coal district on Sunday, bound for Texas. They were in charge of Colonel Hunter, a large mine operator in tho Lone Star State. Others will follow. It is said that there are 500 miners in and around Clay City who have only averaged one or two days' work per week for the past six months, due to the limited demand for coal.
Henry Si. Ives, the young "Napoleon of finance," is taking his imprisonment like a philosopher. He smiles at misfortune, receives his friends cheerfully, and transacts business with the same nonchalence as if there was no such thing as personal liberty in the world. His rooms are crowded with visitors, and the deputy sheriffs who have him in charge are becoming very fond of the prisoner.
Strange as it may seem, the announcement is made that Carter Harrison will be a candidate for mayor of Chicago
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this spring, provided he can get the nomination. It would seem that Chicago would have had enough of Carter Harrison by this time. It was his demagogical administration of city affairs that developed anarchism to the dangerous proportions it attained before Spies et al. were executed. Will Chicago take another dose of Carter Harrisonism
An exchange says: "Evansville is deeply interested in the problem, 'Is death painless?' and physicians are being interviewed, right and left, for expression? of opinion. Like doctors elsewhere, on any given subject, they differ still, as a rule, they agree that the patient is generally resigned to the inevitable." Evansville has been asleep for so long that it is some wonder such a discussion has been started. Shcmeemed to be "perfectly resigned to the inevitable," and apparently suffered no pain when her activity went to sleep. However there are signs of improvement, and our sister city may yet awake from her lethwrgy-
Ylncennes Is complain'—r' ^use a lack of unanimity of stiiuiun'j. Tins state of a flairs exists in many cities only to retard their progress. The city which possesses one Idea, to develop her re sources and do the utr nt for public good, Is the one which the in industrial advancement. Commenting on the subject, a Ylncennes paper says: "Political strife and social »-t« have for yaara tended to divide public interests
and engender a feeling of jealousy and envy that is more or less total to general progress. Putting politics above all other considerations the course of many has tended to widen this breach. Men of one or the other of the political parties who have labored earnestly for the city's good have been singled out and attacked in public and their efforts to behalf cl the general welfare set at naught. To be specific, nothing is so much needed in Ylncennes to-day as harmony and a disposition of all to pull together. Merchants must lay aside their jealousy."
It seems to be fully settled that Mr. Blaine will be "tho premier in the cabinet, and the Democratic newspapers are fond of representing him in the attitude of dominating the administration. One of them recently had a cartoon picturing Blaine as having vacated his chair of Secretary of State and goneovfcr into the Presidential chair and sat down on Gen. Harrison, who is barely visible wriggling below. As a cartoon the idea is not bad, but as to fitting down on the next President, Mr. Blaine is not big enough a man for that, big as he is. The ina who will be President the next four years was elected last November, an don't you forget it.
The ^practical joker," when he goes beyond reason, is a dangerous individual and often brings pain and suffering upo his victims. Occasionally the perpetration of some rude joke or other results seriously to the one attempting it. George Heidel, a farmer near Evansville, enveloped himself in a sheet to play ghost. Springing from hiding before a negro the figure in white was felled wit" an ax. Heidel's skull was crushed he died instantly. The negro fled there was no disposition to arrest him Such fatal terminations should serve a warning to those who seek enjoym by frightening others out of their wi A joke is only a joke when it is hara^ iess.
A story ^comes from Pierre, Dakoi which throws rather a bad light on tty Christian faith-healers. It appears a child was permitted to die of ii matlon of the bowels, no physici ing called or medicine administer faith-hoaler* undertaking to faith and prayer alone. Tb« the (^roniKiu, jury was t^ dledvfromwiltol caused by'lhelH fluenoa o' faith-healers. Such a verdict harsh, appears to have been justri the circumstances. However inu little there may be in the science of ing by faith—and It must be admit: that some very intelligent people taken up with it of late—no parent haSj right to trust the life of a child to su an agency without resorting to ever other remedy within reach. If an ad person chooses to rely on faith alone cure his ailment that is another mat He does so intelligently and of his ow volition. But it is little short of crimiri to put in jeopardy the life of one wh has no choice or volition in the matter.
N E W E E
A NEW STORY.
The Peril of Richard Pardon*
BY B. L. Farjeon.
Author of '•'•Great Porter Square," "Qrif4l "Blades-o'-Qrass," The Nine of Hearts," Etc., Etc.
The Mail is pleased to announce to its readers that it has made arrangements for the publication, next week, of the first chapters of the continued story above mentioned, by the well-known author, B. L. Farjeon. It is cleverly conceived, well written and entitled to the credit, rather rare now-a-days, of a gleam of freshness and originality in the plot.
The story will prove interesting to everyone. The scene is laid at Seven Oaks, a charming place owned by an excentric man of wealth. It is sufficiently romantic because of Eunice's betrothal and anotbor suitor presented by her wealthy ncle. Her governess is an evil genius and &er deeds led to an entertaining complication of events. The wealthy old man dies under mysterious circumstances and Richard's peril lies in his accusation of having used foul means. The plot develops with intensified interest. It is Romantic, dramatic, realistic and calculated to please everyone.
The author moves with much esse in the difficult part of this strangs tale and combines the complications and suspense of the difficult plot with *ome charming pictures of home life. The characters are string, reminding the readers of those of frV.-tt and Dickens. We are sspnred thht our readers can no» fail to njoy f-vcry line of this story and that they v.
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News and Interviews.
Secretary C. C. Oakey, of the Citizens' Association, states that there is at present no prospects of new enterprises beIng^pecured for Terre Haute. There are ma|iy small concerns that desire to locate hers, but they want a bonus beyond reach and reason. Any number of establishments could be secured provided it was seen fit to make them donations, tn some cases, the secretary said, the bo&us asked was so large that an entire plant could be purohased with it. In sn$h cases negotiations are out of the question, inasmuch as the demands are unreasonable. Terre Haute needs new industries but not so badly as to pay
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£There has been some feeling of alarm arding the appropriation for the Norschool, pending before the State ate. The bill appropriating $100,000 ed the House but encountered more ful consideration in the senate, a the educational committee were they were informed of the necessity he appropriation. It is stated that me of the senators are opposed to tho anting of such a large appropriation, nd wish to reduce it. Pressure has been ought to bear upon the committee and now believed a favorable rccomndation will be made. The approion is demanded and should it be so as to make the amovint inent for present demands, there a wail go up from Vigo which ffleient to terrorise the leglslante^ot VigfvJn.dangerous aroused.
man, in speaking of the pros for the summer, said the indicawere that ice will be higher iu than it has been for some years a8t. There has been little ice harvestin the north in comparison with other ears. A considerable quantity has been cut at Lake Maxinkuckee and other lakes, ^et owing to the lateness of the season a full supply was And probably will not be obtained. Most of the ice to ie used this summer will have to be shipped from the north. Dealers do not consider ice of six or seven inches in thickness very profitable to put up and handle. By the time it is delivered to patrons it is considerably reduced in size. It does very well for home or office use but saloons and butcher shops are the heaviest purchasers of ice, and they insist upon the ice being from 12 to 14 inches in thickness when it is delivered to them '.••••
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A dispatch this week says: "The Home Gas Fuel company, of Youngstown, O., have been short of a supply for some time, and completed arrangements for the transportation of crude oil from the ^na, (O.,) fields, where it will be refinnd its gassous properties secured and with what natural gas the comcan secure. It is an experiment, the projectors are confideut of suc-
The thermogen company of this has completed arrangements for the ing in of their machines in Youngsto utilize the Lima oil. The conis quite a large one and is encour|ng to the company when they can je their machines in natural gas ter-
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President B. G. Hudnut, of th6 Street railway company, informed the writer that the company is considering a new system of electric railway, but no decission has been reached. He said that a new system had been under consideration which was nuperior to others—that of using storage batteries. The Sprague system was investigated and found to be considerably cheaper than the present horse-car lines. The storage battery system is cheaper slill, that is iu the cost of operation, but there are several ob jections.
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nearly three times that of the Sprague system, which would make the equipment of the lines very expensive. The weight of the cars is also another consideration. A 50-pound rail should be used to properly support the weight at the motor. The heaviest rail on the lines here is 38 pounds. The storage battery system is in operation in San Jose, California, and also in the East. President Hudnut says that in the event the cost is reduced and the weight lessened, the system will be superior to all others and just the thing for street car lines.
The sale of the water works to an eastern syndicate was totally unexpected. Intimations were made that a deal was pending. When the announcement was made that a sale had been consummated there was considerable comment indulged in. One gentleman said he was opposed to foreign syndicates owning such property in our city. He believed that in the hands of home capitalists better service would be rendered. Besides the profits would remain at home, now they will be withdrawn by the syndicate.
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ownership water works, it wa« urged should rest with the city. There has v,ys 1 a great deaJ of ritf'*?*ro «p*,n liid cuuJiict of this c.iy tor- :»rds tl.' water works company. The city tock f50,(Hworth of.stocte whenjthe pr"jf,"t was fnrtheri in 1871. After a f-h ri time the stock \v.*s t* the
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eastern money to develop it? was a*ked. A third gentleman said that the purchase money of the water works plant will give that much additional capital for investment here. The stockholders will not premit the money they have received to remain idle and it will soon find some profitable investment, most likely at home. There were other opinions expressed but nearly all fell in lino with one of those given above. Inasmuch as financial views of men always differ it is not surprising to find a diversity of ideas regarding the recent sale.
There is a disposition on the part of our councilmen to indulge in light remarks to add sauce to the proceedings which at times beoome dry and tirosome. Dignity is cast aside and quick repartees occasionally take place in order to display the brilliancy of the councllmanlc mind. In discussing sidewalks, Jerry O'Sullivan said we are supposed to be "white." He referred to the "heathenish appliances the Mexicans have for sidewalks." Mr. Dunham, who wears a Murphy ribbon, suggested that an 18 foot sidewalk would be the propor width for some of the councilmen who are out late at uight. He looked at Store, who replied that he would take the street when it is paved. T^e board of health's report was long and tedious, giving details of each death and a meterological summary, giving direction of wind etc. "Oh rats!" ejaculated one of the councilmen and the reading was suspended for a moment to allow the members to draw a deep breath in preparation for the remainder of the report. ft
Indianapolis has followed in the footsteps of the Columbia olub of this city. A. simitar plan has beeu adopted in the capital olt^a^^ pcqnlails&lb organisation affected. The Colombia club will be a permanent political organization. The club of this city has besa iOBorporated and has adopted a seal. No other club in the State or anywhere else, perhaps, is in better favor 'With the Presi-dent-elect. The members are congratulating themselves on this account. If any member goes to Washington during the next administration it will only be necessary for him to be provided with credentials bearing the seal of the Columbia club, and in the language of the recent campaign, he will then be "all right." The Columbia club has a number of claims to distinction. It was tho first club to endorse Harrison and go to Chicago in his behalf. Many of its members are personal friends of the President-elect. From present indications the Columbias will wield a weighty influenceand will become quite a famous organization.
A lady replying to tho article published in last week's Mail, In which one of the fair sex charged her sisters with too frequent indulgence in slang and irreverent language, said stie considered it a great fault yet she palliated it in a measure by calling attention to several facts not expressed in tho article. To begin with, she said the use of such language was perhaps no more blamable In a woman than a gentleman, yet in reality it was much more considered. The men are so careless and negligent In their expressions they use slang and various ineligant phrases because they think It is one of their many privileges and tliey do not consider that their right to indulge in them is to be challenged. Women very rarely coin slang expressions— they are mostly introduced by men who bear them oft the street or pick them up in various places. "We are given credit for using too much slang," said the lady, "and it is all our own fault, so they say. For my part I cannot see that the responsibility rests entirely with us. On the contrary we are influenced by the careless conversation indulged in by others." A gentleman in referring to the profanity among men, said, apropos to the article under discussion, that it was his opinion the habit was carried to a greater extent in this country than in many others of Europe. In traveling through England, he continued, he was surprised to find such a regard for the use of good language. He met men in all conditions in life, but scarcely ever heard on oath uttered. Upon his return home the profanity of Americans grated more harshly upon his ears than ever.
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The Unmarried.
SINGLE WOMEN AS FACTORS IN SOCIETY.
There are few people that have not looked into the dictionary especially to know how the term "spinster" originated. We often find it in Shakespeare and other of the English classics, but it is used to define the spinner. This is its specific meaning* Its general significance is wider. There was an ^ld practice in the years agone, that a women should never be marrried until she had spun herself a set of body, table and bed linen. It is not difficult to see how easily the term became applicable to all unmarried women and finally became a law term and fixed, It is not the fashion among lawyers nowadays to specify the maiden by the word "spinster." "Single woman" is the phrase employed In its place, and, perhaps, with more satisfaction, because there is something about the spinster which is objectionable. It is associated with acerbity, wrinkles, moroseness and general dlsagreeableness. The term "spinster" is decidedly objectionable to an unmarried woman. It occupies a close position to "old maid," which is certainly and always resented with scorn and oftentimes indignation.
Really there is nothing reproachful in the term old maid, provided, of course, the maiden lady is well on In years. To call any woman old when her face is not puckered up into a lot of wrinklos, when her eyes are bright, hor figure erect and he*-step elastic is an unpardonablo sin. But the term fills the bill. Around tho word "maiden" cluster most of the fancies and recollections of youth. To most people a maid 1s a dream of adolescence. To apply the term maid to an elderly spinster would be a misapplication, because in the abstract a maiden Is to the average mind a combination of beauty, bllthesomeness, buoyancy and youth. Hence, if the term maid is to be used in connection with one well on In years, the adjectival qualificator "old" must be employed to note the distinction in age.
It IB unfortunate that there should bo, so great a horror felt on the part of unmarried women toward this epithet— "old maid-" There is this to be said of the old maid. She has an individuality of hdfWu 8h6 few* W vital. It is symmetrifeal. She does not, hide her light under the bushel of matrimony. She is not absorbed intoanother's legal existence. In fact, she has just as much personality as any man.
In the mind of every one that has a kindly nature the unmarried woman of mature years is clothed In peculiarly bright attributes. True, there are some mature maidons whose minds are so contorted that to them the world Is turned upside down and every man, woman and child is their particular enemy. But these are the exceptions, and It has often been said that the exceptions proved the rule. Not long ago a woman killed herself because, as she confessed in an ante-mortem letter, she had not the courage to bo an old maid. This woman was one of tho foolish. Tho old maid becomes in many cases a hallowed charactor. There shines out of the eyes of nearly evory unmarried woman who has reached "the old maid" period a light which speakB of gentleness and perfect serenity within. There are few old maids who, if they originally had lovable characters, are not really belovod by a wide circle of friends. She is moro than esteemed. She is loved by every one that knows her. And, bettter than that, everyone is ready and willing to show hor those little courtesies and attentions which are so prized by all womankind. There seems to be a desire on the part of evory thoughtful member of society to contribute as much as possible to the comfort and^happlness of the old maid.
There was a time when tho woman who was forced to live a single life was looked upon with a sort of pity. But that time has passed away. Spinsterhood is not now looked upon as discredr itable. How can it be when thero are so many beautiful, charming and lovable women, not to say heiresses, who are included in its ranks? Some women remain old maids fiom choice. Some are old maids because they are true to the idols of other days. Some because they are fearful of the quicksands of matrimony. Others because their ideal has not yet come to them. The reason in each one of these instances is not only creditable but honorable. Some one has said that every woman, whether she be ugly or beautiful, deformed or symmetrical, has at some time in her life a chance to marry. Society should honor, the beautiful and lovable women who, rather than throw herself away upon an unworthy object, so respects herself and her sex that she prefers the single life. And what praise is enough for that woman's heart whose life, on her own motion is bereft of maternal joys and blessings because her affections are true to one that Is no moro? In whatever light we look at the old maid she appears to good advantage. Society honors its pinsters provided they have the characi- to win esteem ana confidence. Tho, old maid la a distinct institution of society. And it is not easy to imagine how society could fill her place.