Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1889 — Page 4

THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WE8TFALL, DOUGLAS H. SMITH,

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 16,1889

LET'S see. There are say about 100,000 offices to divide among thirty million men. That is at the rate of one for each three hundred. Evidently a few of us v* ill have to get left.

MACKIN, the convicted election forger of Chicago, who is serving out a term in the penitentiary, proposes to write book. It is thought there would be big money in it.

Now why

THE land question is one constantly growing interest in this country. The good land for agriculture is nearly all taken up but the government is considering the propriety of opening up to settlement portions of several Indian reservations. One of these is the Sioux reservation in southwestern Dakota. It is said to be a fine country and the land excellent. It is predicted that if the reservation shall be opened, lt00,000 people will rush in there within the first six month#. _________________

PJRKSIDENT CLEVELAND'S purpose to go back to his law practice at the expiration of his term of office is OCffiinej favorably by motj^to t* is regarded as v'

is regai •o x.

House, as he at the end of thflWri

THE inauguration of"!* President always draws some interesting characters

.Washington, and the inaugura

tion of Gen. Harrison will not be an exception. Perhaps as interesting a figure as any that will appear there will be old Adam Morton, an aged negro of Greenrille, Ga. He is 87 years old, was born in Washington and lived there until he was 17 years old as a slave. He knew Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Webster and remembers the burning of the capital and the President's house by the British lu 1814. He saw the British dump the type of the Intelligence office Into the old canal. In fact Adams Is a bundle of curious historical reminiscences and no doubt the President will show him some personal attention when he reaches Washington.

MRS. HARRISON has expressed the opinion that she and her family have been made "a circus of" long enough. During and after the campaign there was a constant procession through the parlor of the Harrison home. The inmates bore it all meekly as apart of the penalty of having a President in the family. But Mrs. Harrison thinks they have had their full share of that kind of thing and declares "If there's any privacy In the White House I propose to find and preserve it."

And she

osity-seekers

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MAICAGEK.

LOCAL EDITOR.

SUBSCRIPTION PRICK, 12.00 YSAB.

PUBLICATION omam,

No*. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

wouldn't a vol

ume from the gifted pen of Joe Moore and J. E. Sullivan be interesting?

GBOVER CLEVELAND is to go into a law firm and Dan Lamont is to be president of an elevated railroad after March 4th It seems to be rather easier to provide for the fellows who are going out of office than for the fellows who want to come in.

IT is announced that Joe Jefferson and W. J. Florence will play together next year in a repertory of old English comedies. Such an arrangement would be in comedy what the Booth-Barrett team is in tragedy. Florence and Jefferson are the two best actors in that line now on the American stage. The partnership will doubtless be mutully profitable.

THE Legislature of New Mexico recently had a bill before it which provided that school teachers should know how to read and write. The bill was first lost but afterwards was passed by a small majority. And yet New Mexico talks of coming into the sisterhood of States. She will have to get a little "smarter" first.

is right, too. It does

not take much enoonragement to have the White House full of tramping ouri-

from all over the country,

just as the Harrison homestead was for several months. But there is no call for that sort of thing and Mrs. Harrison has done well to give notice in advauce that •he doesn't want It.

STORIES come to us from various quarters that the natural gas Is giving out. The probability is there are extravagalions in the reports to this effect, but that the Intelligence Is in part well founded there is reason to believe. There has been something amounting almost to Infatuation In the public passion for finding this gas and then burning it as a display. There never has been more startling and destructive profligacy than that exhibited in Ohio and Indiana in respect to this, one of the most wonderful of the ample resources of nature with which this land wan endowed. There are half a down counties in Indiana where gaa has been recently found, and the people seem delighted to have the slur* of Its consumption flashing against the sun by day and lighting up the country bv night. It may be a vain thought, but it seems something should be done in the way of legation to check this hideous destruction of the ideal fuel. Terr® Haute will probably not have gas, yet dislikes to see the extravagant use of such valuable fuel at other place*.

MB. BLAINE is reported as saying thai not only Canada but Cuba, too, will in time become apart of the United States* Tha magnetic statesman must be getting ready for that "brilliant foreign policy" which he is expected to inaugurate as Secretary of State. ***"*,, *rt

EXTRA SESSION TALK. The qnestion as to whether or not there shall be an extra session Of Congress with the incoming of the new ad ministration continues to be discussed. It is known that General Harrison would like to avoid an extra session if possible. His grandfather called an extra session and died before the Congress assembled. But Gen. Harrison is not a superstitions man. There are stronger reasons why he would like to escape an extra session. He will have quite enough to do for awhile without having Congress on his hands.

Yet the tendency of things seems to be towards an extra session. It is certain now that no tariff bill will be passed at this session and that is a matter which ought to be attended to at once. It is not likely that any of the Territories will be admitted before March 4th, and friends of the new States movement are exceedingly anxious on this point There are other important matters. The Republicans are fearful lest the death of one or two members might give the or ganization of the House to the Democrats and are desirous of an early meeting of the new

Congress

in order to avoid

such a possible calamity. Then, too, the candidates for the Speakership are on the anxious seat and want an early session.

Taken all together there are many arguments for an extra session. Yet all the same the country will hope that we may be able to get along without it. Somehow or another we always feel more comfortable when our statesmen are at home instead of in Washington.

INCREASING THE CABINET. President Cleveland has signed the bill making the agricultural department a cabinet office and hereafter the cabinet will consist of eight members instead of seven. Such a change has not been made in the government for nearly sixty years, when Gen. Jackson invited Amos Kendall, the Postmaster General, to attend the meetings of the cabinet, although there was no law authorizing him to do so. But ever since that officer has been one of the President's legal advisors without any specific law on the subject.

The Secretary of Agriculture will not get into the Cabinet in any suoh roundabout way. Congress after iong considering the matter and voting against it several times, has at length concluded hat the agricultural interests of the try are sufficiently important to jus-

Mnet officer in control of them. must be confessed that it is to see why agriculture should refered over manufactures, '.on or commerce. If it is we a Secretary of Agriculture also have a Secretary of Manuires, of Commerce, etc? towever that may be, Congress has uScided to enlarge the cabinet and Gen. Harrison will thus be enabled to provide one more statesman with a soft place than any of his predecessors have been able to do—not counting the three* weeks' possession of the office by Mr. Colman, President Cleveland's appointee. It is to be hoped that the crops of the country will be stimulated by the change sufficiently to at least pay the Secretary's salary of |8,000.

LOOKING INTO IT.

The meeting of policy-holders of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, at Indianapolis, on Tuesday, and the action there taken, Is of wide Interest. Various sections of the State were represented, Mr. S. H. Potter, of this city taking an active part in the discussion. He thought the management of the company was too much like that of a royal family and a great deal too much money spent apparently. It was decided to have an investigation of the company's affairs, as provided by the laws of the State, and a committee was appointed to ask the attention of the State Auditor to the matter. It was not suspected that the company is insolvent but it was thougnt only just to policyholders that they should be made acquainted with the company's methods of doing business, in view of the extraordinary developments of the Moore case at Indianapolis.

And such undoubtedly Is the fact. The Connecticut Mutual has always been regarded as one of the strong, conservative companies of the country, but in view of what has happened the holders of its policies have a right to know whether its management is economical or recklessly extravagant. If, as Mr. Potter asserted, it cost nearly as nuch to operate the company as it does to carry

tha management of some other life insurance companies. .f.

WILL SHE BE ADMTITED. Tho people who delight in small talk, says the Chicago Tribune, are wondering what Mis. Whitney will do for Mrs. Cleveland when they are both residents of New York, and how much Mrs. Cleveland will be willing to have done for her. Mrs. Whitney belongs to the 400, goes along with the Yanderbilts, Astors. Depews and Shepards. Mr. Cleveland cannot expect to gain entree to this sacred role on his own account. Will he be w:lllng to b« tucked under the arm of Mrs. Whitney, who, as Senator Ingalls says, furnished him a certificate of good character, and on her guarantee

Wife,

on the State government of Indiana, the people who are Sn^cWIy iBWre.tod ^lp .pri^p D«W~»y fn»m prehive right to know where the money •foc'"'on' ,"d

goes to. A simular Investigation might Mnned,« from .rU8oUl depo.it. Mrre to throw .n ioteresting light upon kept certtln degree of hot and moisture. What other occupation has the average woman, thus situated, than to observe and discuss their neighbors, when she has drowsed herself and children for the inspection of friends and the envy of rivals? But, were there no other tenable objection to the life of a feminine occupant of a family hotel, the palpable waste of the time, energies, and opportunities of a rational creature, who from morning until night has nothing to do but amuse herself, should condemn it. Worse, if possible, is the effect of the boarding-house upon children.

TERRS HATJTE SATURDAY EVENTING

Keep House or Board.

THE SUBJECT DISCUSSED BY WELL KNOWN WRITERS.

The question "Is Housekeeping a Failure?" is discussed in the current North American Review by Shirley Dare, Rose Terry Cooke, Marion Harlan and Maria Parloa. These women are known to the world not only as experienced and successfdl house-keepers, but as writers capable of giving instructions to the world on household topics, and it is per haps not strange that they should manifest but scant consideration for the calamitous individual failures in this line of work. If housekeeping is a failure some substitute must be had for it, as the human race is apparently not yet ready—especially in this line—for a return to the lines of primitive existence, when anthropos and the cave-bear dwelt together in holes in the ground, foraged for each other, and depended upon one another for company and warmth chilly nights. The one substitute for housekeeping, therefore, until such time as a kindly fate shall decree the entire race to utter extinction, seems to be— boarding. It is noteworthy that this coterie of writers unite in condemning this substitute as not only a greater fail nre wherever tried than housekeeping but as necessarily so objectionable, that house-keening under the most difficult conditions is to be far preferred to it. A boarding-house or hotel is not and never can te a home, and only in homes can humanity find the conditions necessary to the growth of happiness, comfort, or virtue. Says Maria Parloa: "What does boarding do for men and women? It makes them selfish and narrow-minded and petty fault-finders. It is inconceivable that a person can, after some years, come out of such a life in possession of the same admirable qualities that are likely to develop in one's own home. Men may not be affected to the same extent as women, because they come more in contact with the world in their business, but nobody can estimate how much the growth of a woman's character is retarded by the aimless life in a boarding-house. Lovely traits that would be fostered in the home are nipped in the bud elsewhete. Throughout the land there are hundreds of thousands of homes where all that is noble and amiable in men and women is cherished mutual love and forbearance kindness and charity hospitality and generosity thoughtfulness for the welfare and comfort of others. Who will say this of the boarding-house? Who attempt to match the home-makers with an equal number of people who are satisfied to live in hotels?"

Shirley Dare declares that, whether house-keeping is a failure or not, boarding certainly is. "It is," she says, "existence on its lowest terms. Whether the subject is a young man on a salary, condemned to his crevice of a hall bedroom, or a family in a luxurious suite of an apartment hotel, with name of distinction, one has a sense of being kept in a portfolio, under lock and key, or else of being always at the wings, waiting the cue to come before the public. The expensive suites seem like upholstered sepulchres. Boarding tends neither to health nor long life.

The others bear like testimony. Rose Terry Cooke says: "The family is an Institution of God, the archetype and foundation of all human government out of the family as it should be some good citizens, noble women, patriots, and saints they do not spring from the social hotbeds of hotels and boarding-houses they grow in the fair, fresh gardens of home, the only trace left us of that beauteous and fruitful field wherein the first family of earth were set

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dress

and to keep it.' Now, even as then, we want to taste forbidden fruit, that is as tempting to-day as ever, and turn ourselves out into the wilderness of this world to herd with the tribes of folly and idleness. It may be said, and bald reasonably, that there are thousands of single women who are obliged to board, because they are wage-workers, and must spend their time elsewhere at their several occupations but why is it not possible for a few of these women t» hire a small tenement, and take turnsH keeping house in it? I think it would be more economic, more wholesome, more agreeable far than occupying garrets or hall bed-rooms in third-rate boarding-houses and I think with a little economy in feathers, candy, thin shoes, kid gloves, and gallery theater tickets, it could be done. Who will be the reformer here?"

Marion Harland declares that whatever type of boarding house be noted, "home is to be found in none of them." "The sacred pale which excludes the public and secludes the household—the boundary within which character grows into individuality, which is yet fostered and enriched by the holiest influences known to earth—is leveled. Boarding-house

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If kept within the bounds of their own apartments they mope or romp like caged things. If allowed the range of the premises, they are spoiled and lawless. The mere circumstance of being always dressed *for

BT, and on her guarantee always dressed *for company' begets \U andn access, along with his beautiful self-consciousness, consequently, stiff- REMOVED to 23% Wabash A venue, over

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Forward

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FIRST

A Great Sale

Dress Goods.

Choice new Spring Goods at prices never before named for the same quality. Dress Goods at 5c., 8c. and 10c., worth 7c., 10c. and 12%c. Dress Goods, pure wool filling, at 8J^c., 10c., 12Xc., 15c., 18c. per yard.

A A a We offer a line of 36 inch, AT I Ml! pure wool filling, stripe and i/Ui plaid Pacific Bengaline. Regular price 25c. per yard.

mshades

We offer our entire line of of 36 inch Henriettas,

pure wool filling.

(\r We offer a full assortment of /nP Atlantic Wool Cashmere, 36 U\J\J inches wide. Sold everywhere at 35c. f\A We offer 100 pieces Aldine A UP Suitings, 38 inches wide, guarUvU*anteed all wool, in almost every shade and mixture, 50c. price everywhere. Ours 39c. and 68c., magnificent line of AT nl

IP, Cloth Plaids, Stripes and Novl/V/U

eity

Suitings.

All Wool and Silk Warp

HENRIETTAS.

In every desirable Street Shade. Evening Tints a Specialty.

B. Priestly's Black Silk Warp Henriettas.

Always found at our counters. Our Trimming Department is the largest and most Complete in the city. New Braid, Persian, Steel and Irredescent Trimmings just received.

FANCY SILKS,

Stripes, Brocades and Persian Effects .. In a most beautiful lime of COLORINGS to match almost every shade of material imaginable.

Jobbers and Retailers.

Wanted

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ANTED.—TO BUY HOUSES.—seven houses in south part of town from 1500 to S150Q. Must be bargain8.

RIDDLE, HAMILTON A CO., Sixth and Main Streets.

For Sale.

Fments.

)B SALE—A Home on. monthly payGood house of 8 rooms with nail desirably situated. Apply to

RIDDLE, HAMILTON A CO., 8th and Main streets.

Money to Loan.

ONEY-TO LOANamounts on

LOW, Opera House.

MONEY

TO LOAN—Will loan money in rains Of WOO up to SUMXX) at 6 and 8 per cent lnterart^^^ HAMILTON A CO-

Beach BlockSixth and Main streets.

T^B. a O. LINCOLN, XJ

DENTIST

IWnorth ISth street.

All work warranted as represented.

GEO. MABBACH, DENTIST. Arnold's clothiDX store.

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Customers.

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OUR STRONGHOLD.

^Yes, and always remember that when you are out shopping a look if not a purchase at our store, pleases us just the same. We claim to show you again as many goods as you see elsewhere. Prices pleasing.

H- Never to be Undersold is Our Motto. *V This we believe has give us the immense trade we now enjoy and yo-ar confidence which we will always try and retain.

Next Week, Commencing Monday Morning, Feb. 18.

We Offer a Perfeet Avalanehe of Bargains.

SALE

Dress Silks.

Special sale of Black Dress Silks, every

?action.

rard

guaranteed to wear and give satisStandard makes only. 21 inch Black Gros Grain Silks at 98c., $1.10, $1.18, $1.25, worth 15 to 25c. per yard more. 22 inch Black Gro Grain Silks at $1.25, $1.38, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 and upwards. Worth 25c to 40c per yard more.

See our Black Surah Silks at 68c., 85c., $1.00, $1.25 and upwards. See our Black Faille Francaise Silks at 85c., $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and upwards.

See our Black Royal Armure Silks at $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 per yard. See our Black Satin Rhadama Silks at 75c., 90c., $1.00, $1.25, $1.38 and upwards.

Paue De Sole Black Dress Silks.

Very elegant line just receiv

At98c~

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We offer a complete lin Satin Rhadama also Fa

Dress Surahs in every color

Figured China Sil

great variety of patterns,

At85c.

Regular price $1.00.

Figured Bengalines, India Silks, Printed Florentine Silks, Summer Silks, Satins in every imaginable color.

Plushes

In all grades and colors. See our line of Silk Plushes.

75c.

Worth $1.25,19 Inches wide.

Embroideries, Ribbons, Jewelry, Fine Fans, Pocket Books and Purses, Satchels, Collars and Cuffs, Ruchings, Veilings in endless variety, Nets for Over-dresses, Handkerchiefs, Laces, etc.

Bargains in Every Department, Next Week.

1I0HEUC. KOOT & CO.

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t^r. r. w. vanvalzah,

X11 I Successor to

RICHARDSON VAN VALZAH,

ZDZEISTTIST.

Office—Bonthwest

In lane or small terms. J.D.B1GE-

corner Fifth and Main

Streets, over National State Bank (entrance on Fifth street.

JSAAO BALL, FUNERAL DIRECTOR. COr. Third and Cherry Sts^ Terre Haute, Ind. Is prepared to execute all orders in his line with neatness and dispatch.

Embalming a Specialty.

QHOLEBA HOGS. Cash paid for dead Hogs at my factory on the Island southwest of the city, also Tallow, Bones and Grease of all kind. Dead Animals removed free of charge. Office No. 18 2nd.

TelephoneNo.78and74isoN

gYDNEY B. DAVIS,

Attorney at Law.

PATENTS OBTAINED.

Boom 3 Warren Block, & w. cor. 4th and Main Bts.

Have associated with me Geo. M. Davis, Ja mdoate of Rose Polytechnic Institute] who will examine inventions proposed for Pat' ents, make drawings, etc.

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Minding our Own Business and Studying the Wants

Are Always Wideawake.

prices.

over

and

wholesale

White Goods.

New things just opened in Nainsook's India Linens, Plaid and Stripe Organdies. All at our popular low prices.

Dress Ginghams, the handsomest styles ever shown, at S'-ic., 10e.r 12j^c. and 12^c. for the best Toil des Nord.

Sateens at 8J-f,c., 10c., 12£c. and 15c. Patterns entirely new and select. Koechlin's French Sateens, French Wool Challies, Anderson's Scotch Zephyrs. AT An elegant line of styles in |2/\ An elegant line

Shirting Prints.

A AM The prettiest line of Percales 11 III

shown. Imagea, Stripes

A V/U. and Checks.

New Dress Prints.

New

ftfee ^^fCalicoes, New Indigo ^prlng patterns.

^tes at low prices.

J'ajQ^ 76°* Corsets.

We always ltoep a full line of sixes of the celebrated P. D. French Corsets.

Hosiery and Underwear.

Immense line of Fanoy Hosiery just received. We are exclusive agents for the celebrated Otto Heintz fe Co.'s Fast Black.

Hosiery for Ladies and Children. See our Counter Bargains in Ladies' Hose at 15c., 25c. and 50c.

Ladies' and Children's Lisle Thread and Silk Hosiery in great variety. Exquisite novelties for spring now on display.

Kid Gloves.

Sale prices 48c.. 58c. and 75c. Open on our counters. Tnc genuine Foster Kid Gloves are sold only by us.

Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

I J)R. GILLETTE., DB2STTI8T. I Gold Filling a Speciality. Office—Corner Seventh and Main streets, In McKeen's new block, opp. Terre Haute Hons*

HORACE M. SMITH.

JOHJT R. HAOKB.

Smith & Hager.

VIBE, CYCLONE, ACCIDENT and LIFE

IiTSTJI?/-AJNr OE.

No. 11 north 0th street. The Oldest Agency In the City. Representing the oldest and best companies. With the well-known vKtna and Hartford at the top of the list. Get your insurance In the beat campanles. It won't cost you a cent more and you are absolutely safe.

R. GAGG,

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ARTISTS' SUPPLIES Picture Frame^ Picture Frames to Order.

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McKeen'i Block. MS Main st, •th and 7th.