Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 April 1889 — Page 1

Vol. 19.~No. 41.

THEJV1AIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Ten Pages.'

Notes and Comment.

A wide awake reporter should not a»k: "What's the snooze?" The beat way to make a boy's hair stand on end is a shingle.

The eastern Legislature that repealed the death penalty perhaps acted in self defense.

The practice of law in Indiana will beoome more profitable if many more attorney* receive appointments.

Indianapolis wants Francis Murphy for city missionary. It wouldn't be a bad idea for every city to have such a missionary. ..

Look out for a new annexation scheme. The late administration baa been to Cuba. The campaign of '92 seemn to be storting In rather early. "A few places are still left," is the word of encouragement that has come from Washington. But, Great C®*8**' how many are they who are already left?

An Indiana man has patented a dust collector. Stop,right this way Mr. Inventor. Perhaps you are the man the city council and street commissioner have been looking for.

Lord Mandeville Is the latest English bankrupt. This is regarded as a mild way of announcing 'is lordship's visit to this country for the purpose of securing an American bride.

The fellow who yelled the loudest last campaign should not do so now if he wants recognition. Loud noises produce deafness. This holds good regarding the ears of those in authority.

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Why do not boodlers go to Mexico? inquires a subscriber. Be-sauae there are more daring robbers already there who accomplish deeds the average American swindler never could dream of.

An enterprising citizen of Jobitown, N. J., is applying for a pension, a divorce and a postofflce. He may get the first two but the postmastership is doubtful if there are as many candidates as there are In Indiana. _____

Failing In an appeal to the chief justice of the U. S. for tbe hand of Miss Fuller, Matt Aubrey did the next best thing, sought a justlco of the peace. This Is ono instance where a 'squire was mightier than the chief justice.

Australia In not so nlo\v after all. In the plan of conducting elections many state® including Indiana have adopted •*lmu?ar laws. Now New Houth Wales has extented the franchise to women.

Tho exportineut will be watched closely. A word to those who arc alter anything and everything obtainable In tho postnffico and revenue department here: What'* the use of a petition? An applicant should lie well enough known not to need endorsement of character and ability by his friends and acquaintances.

No doubt the editor who wrote thin octit the president a marked copy: -'But the Great Editors of Philadelphia are still at their posts,laboring with that seal that ever characterises them and showing themselves worthy of the proudest diplomatic appointment on the list."

Since the "drop a nickel In the slot" devices have been applied to all sorts of odd and peculiar Ideas, why does not some genius Invent a mechauism that the office seeker can drop a nickel In the slot and ascertain tbe weight of his claims for recognition with the powers that be.

Governor Luceslgued the bill to allow women to hold the offlo# of school Inspector. The Ink was scareeliy dry until 4«.» women in ono of the swell wards of Detroit selected one of their number as a candidate for the place, and they have si nee been laboring to secure their can* didate by one of the old parties. Who said women would make hustlers in politics? ______

The Cincinnati preachers advocated the election of Stone In their sermons la«t Sunday. Stone headed the citizens' ticket for mayor. The fight was principally upon the question of enforcement of the law and a clean elty government. When such Issues are made the pulpit Is to be commended for Its advocacy of right,

Chester R. Faulkner, the Indiana Democrat, chief of the record division In the pension office, la on the proscription hit. He was the Mrs. Malaprop of the past administration. About his worst example was when he ordered his clerks not to "lemonade in the cuspidors," when he really meant that they should not promlnade In the corridors. General Black ordered hla head off, but Senator Voorbeea pursuedcd Vilas to let the specimen of Hooaler illiteracy remain.

Tiiiruruii ruvuxii,

bonds have been favorably received in

Drinkers are in a hard row when they have to resort to patent medicine drunks in Maine. A new beverage has been found to produce intoxication, ginger bitters. A mixture of burnt augar, water and several other ingredient® is also used to slake the thirst of those who were

formerly accustomed to fire water. Thera

The good people of Oskaloosa, Kan., have again given their town offices into the hands of women. Having tried petticoat rule a year they seem to be satisfied with the results and are going to try it for another year. Another Kansas town, Cottonwood Falls, *gll experlment in the •"•awa-way, haMlU|j elewtei woman for mayor with all the members of the council of the same sex. In the light of these "doln's" what's the matter with Kansas?

Mr. Gladstone, who Is reputed to be the best read man of modern times, reads three books at once that is to say, he takes up three books representing different kinds of literature entirely, reads in one until his interest In It flags, thjen takes a walk or a rest, after which he. reads in the second book until tired, and tben in the third, thus alternating from one subject to anothor and keeping his mind fresh for them all. It Is no doubt a wise method and is worthy of consldoration by persons who wish to gain the best results from their reading.

At Indianapolis there is a discussion over street car franchU The News advocates the sale of the privilege, urging that the city is In need of money. There Is too much granting of franchises free to corporations and to Individuals, when cities might as well Increase their revenue. Franchises are valuable, yet» city votes away rights without any return in a business like manner, would avoid much of the disreputable work now re sotted to, especially In the larger cities.

Jay Gould is reported to have said re- fayor of the saloon. It is not aj cently that no man ought to have more of high license. The quibble that prohithan a milUon dollars. A great many bition does not prohibit has nothing to people will agree with "the wizard" on do with it. The law against stealing that proposition. The trouble is to keep does riot prevent stealing. The same some fellows from getting more than a power that puts the amendment on oar million. We may come to it by and by Constitution will attend to the enforoehowever, and certainly such men as ment of the law. It is our duty to make Gould will help to bring it about. it as difficult to get liquor as it is to get poison. License means that the city, the

The failure of the De I*ssepe inter- gtate

statements argue that prohibitionis not p^g

Greenoastle

this week. At Indianap-

oils 1200 signed the bine ribbon pledge. It was nineteen years on Wednesday sinoe Mr. Murphy made his first temperance speech. Since then he has been in tbe work continuously. The day he made that maiden speech he was thirtyfour years old therefore he celebrated both his fifty-third birthday and his entrance upon his life work Wednesday.

Jay Gould has been "hammering" the Atchison, Topeka fe Santa Fe road in the hope of wrecking it and then gobbling up the remains in his usual custom. There are indications that for onoe the gobbler will be disappointed. Strong financial backing in Europe Is promised to tide the road over its present difficulties and put it on a paying basis. The public will earnestly hope that the Gould effort may fail. ,v*

tes away rights without any re-

The sale of franchises, conducted

that her ill as trio us the greu: preacher, was suddenly struck down and passed away in death. How much better If Mis, Stowe bad died before the decay of reason aet in.

Post master General Wanamaker said in addressing a religious 'meeting in Philadelphia upon his last Ttait: "Just aa the saloon-keeper must answer for every glass he sella, so we most answer for voting for liquor. It la aim ply a question of whether or not we are in

and

oceanic canal has not disoouraged people to ruin men, to build up in the practicability of such a work in almshouses, hospitals and house# the hands of enterprieing Americana. corruption, to keep up the taxes. This is proved by the fact that the entire going to count the votes. Vote issue of the Nicaragua Canal company's fM

the saloon-keepershall go into

pro

hibition and you will be voting

for h}m for on

the market. It is understood that when the highest civilization." Americans undertake a thing it will be done, ______

jerj for religion and for

Some one picked up in New York the other day, a dainty memorandum book in which were entered in a man's hand, the^ names of nearly all the marriagable women of wealth in metropolitan society, with statements of the source, condition and amount of the fortune of each, and certain additional notes in

uipber In place8 of eve

are jnvttriably several

such a failure after all. mind. Bat it requires a gossipy woman Franuis Murphy conducted meetings to tell you all about the young men who in

ar®

"detiirablea."

walking encyclo-

who have BUOh

matters in their

An enchanfft, la urging Che procurement of a home, Vfcys: "The natural tendency of men ia to live up to their means. There art a few whose income is so large that, to use a popular expresrion, "they do not know what to do with it," which means that it is greater than can possibly be expended for maintenance alone but the average mortal readily finds an outlet for the whole of bis inoome. Whether a part of it goes in payments on a house or to the owner for its use, the year finds it all absorbed in one way and another. But if a man determines to have a home for himself, toe must—assuming that he has a small inoome—shape his resources to that end. Little by little he makee progress, until finally he has a roof over his head which he can actually call his own—has a substantial stake in the community, and has laid a solid foundation toward competency. In many cases he is just a home better off than he would be if he had continued to act upon the theory that it is "cheaper to rent than to buy." It 1b gratifying to note that in this city there is a iarge proportion of propa TOnwi than perhaps atilywhere ebe the State or country.

THE MAIL WOULD LIKE TO KNOW If anything further is to oe aone in regard to the olubblng oi McKinley by the police.

If there is any truth in the reported hair-pulling In which two well known young ladie^we said to have engaged.

What Bob Pierce was doing down at Washington. The namo of a politician who would refuse the nomination for mayor if it wore offered him three times

How would you like to be in a btfeiness that would have to be run at loss for gressional chairman, John'H. Burford, five years before any profits could be ex- received a telegram the other day tenpected? That Is said to be the situation dering him the appointment of law clerk' of the locomotive industry at the present in tbe attorney general's offlce at Washtime. Theestablishments can make 3,000 ington. The position has a salary atlocomotives a year and the country only tachment of only *2,000 a year. The wants 1,000. For this reason the ma- tender was declined by Mr. Burford for chlnee are selling at less than cost to the reason that he could not aflbrd to make them, it being better to keep the throw up a growing practice for a posishops running even at a moderate loss of that salary, especially in Washington, than to have them stand idle. It is said whereiiving is so high, a the railroads are five years ahead of the Rockvllle paper says: Hon. James country at this time that is to say, the Johnston and wife returned from country will have to grow for five year* Washington last week. Tuesday mornin order to give all the roads paying jQg we called on Mr Johnston and found business. ______ him and Howard Maxwell deeply en-

It is possible to live too long in Ihis discussing a question of law. To world. Tosurvlveafter the mental and our inquiries as to his health he rebod I ly faculties hare fallen into decay spondedjhat it was good, and further is to live too long, Such is the pitiful Announced that be wu, "out of politics," condition of the eminent author of and would f--r 1, found attending "Uncle Tom*s Cabin," Mr* Harriet In* aud faring Beecher Stowe. The combed *mewb*t ver^tile, i-utwe will not anof disease and old age have at length su^,« In this caused her reason to totter on its throne *««bmation until wo it. Many men and at the age of 77 aha 4a practically an snr ^fu! *nd here imbecile. It was at nearly the same ap

If the mud on our streets argues that we are to have a mud slinging campaign. If It isn't an easier matter to seibre a franchise from the city council than to get the right to construct a fruit stand at .t™. corner

If City Attorney Taylor's war on unmuzzled dogs will be any more successful than Mayor Kolsem's.

ABOUT PERSONS WELL KNOWN.

A Washington special says: Ex-Sen-ator McDonald is here looking after his

cjmMJ in

jj0 gup^m^ Court, and says

Dan

voorhees will be an easy win­

ner in the next contest for the senatorial toga. Governor Gray will be.Voorhees' opponent.

A Crawfordsville paper says that Con-

and iU

money

IU

m*dc

farming—?a lawyer and a

farmer all under .o tent—well we shall wait.

The last iester written by explorer Stanley f»mi starting for Africa was aldressea to Mrs. French Sheldbn in New York. Mrs. Sheldon is also the custodian of xnowt of tho explorer's litorsury eflfecta, which he confided to her care before starting upon his expedition.

An old rounder-

Boston Bulletin tbe world.

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A Woman's Chat.

BT NMROA

nuoxrurr.

"What shall we do with our daughters?" been the theme of lectures and discussion at the hands of many noted thinkers. And it has never been very satisfactorily answered.

The daughters are taken care of in 'most families the same as though this important question had not been asked and answered. Their educations, perhaps, area little better looked after than fifty years ago.

But even .that item does not receive the attention it might in the majority of families. For to tell the truth, most .parenta look upon their girls as only good for wives and mothers, and they think It useless to spend time and money upon a girl who is sure to marry. For, then, "it

TWOUM

this size there

be all thrown away."

It la all very well to theorize and write about the higher mission Of woman as woman, and not as a machine, a lay figure in life's drama. Let us take a look ^bout na and see how it is in real life.

I start ont upon a round of calls upon niy girl friends. Maud ia the first one. I find her in a crimson wrapper, with a ruff of real lace ft throat and wrists.

She la eighteen, very pretty, very lovable, very fond of society, drees and flattery. Her father has his nose to the grindstone day and night, in order to keep his girl well dressed, to allow her to attend reeeptions and to keep In the tide of good society. She has a fashionable education, oan speak a few words of j^renoh, alng two or three Italian songs, and do art embroidery. She does these tilings only passably. Tbe one thing she is an expert at, is, spending money.

She can't sharpen a knife. She can't sweef^a floor. She can't keep the family expense book. She can't harness a horse. In fact, she Is of no use at all in ordinary, piactlcal life and for the sort of young man who will want to marry her, a clerk on a salary of |60 a month, she would make a ridiculously incompetent wife, "What Is your ambition, MtMad, dear?" I ask her. Ambition! Whjf, bless you, she has none. "What are yon living for, my love?" Living forL Really, she has never thought It. fo get married, that's it. And that's a^jbie knows* Poor child!

We next come to Mabel. A girl of 20, sweet and innocent looking. She is studiously practicing at the piano. It is one of Chopin's nocturns. She has no more imagination than has her piano stool. She is industrious and conscientious, however, and grinds out the inharmonious melody much as she would have pounded a nail into a board. She has no feeling for it. Her mother considers it a part of a ladylike education. So Mabel does her best. Her father is in good circumstances. They are very circumspect and prudent people, and their girl shall marry well or not at all. But that is her aim—to get a home of her own. She has learned to make tidies and all sorts of pretty bric-a-brac and to embroider her table and bed linen. But she can do nothing well enough to turn an honest penny by doing it if sheshould ever need to earn her own living. But It is not her fault. Her mother has been always trying to make a lady of her and has succeeded, insofar as a "lady" must be absolutely ignorant of all practical work.

Next we come to a handsome establishment, containing evidences of wealth on every hand, if not those of taste and refinement.

Louise, a'delicate, large-eyed girl of nineteen resides here. Her mother insists that the dear child 4fas remarkable artistic talent. So she has the best training the city can aflord.

Her mamma, who scarcely knows a cow from a rosebud, upon canvas, takes me ecstatically into tbe drawing room to show me Louise's latest. It is a copy of Cabonel's famous "Paolo and Franoesca."

It made me shiver to look at it. It made my flesh crawl. It almost made me laugh and it almost made me cry. And above all it filled me with mingled feelings of pity and horror. Pity of the author of that magnificent thing to be so caricatured, and honor over the audacious ignorance of Louise and her mother to think that any amateur hand could successfully attempt such a thing 1

I know for a fact that Louise cannot bake bread nor black a stove nor broil a steak nor dust a dining room. Her mother would be horrified at tbe suggestion of such menial oecupatious in connection with her girl. And yet they would be of far greater use to herself and family than her daubing hi oils and wator colors. The mother had never bad a chance to develop her "higher nature," and she determined that ber child should have. And she is having it, sure enough. 4 A jssL.

Now let us run In tosee Misa Margaret for a few momenta. A poor home, compared with that of Louise, and yet every nook and corner ipeaks of cultivation and refinement. They are all working people here. Tbe father la a country phyaleian, and the matter a woman of

edncation, who "looketh well to the ways of her household." Misfortunes of various kinds have made and kept them poor for many years. But Margaret has made the most of all her opportunities. She has a mind and a will of her own and both father and mother have encouraged her ambition to become self-supporting and to be a practical worker in tbe everyday working world.

In the morbing she has two private Latin classes who come to her for recitation. After dinner, she does a little work each day for one of the daily papers. Then she helps with the housework. She can cook, clean house and sew. She can make garden and take care of her own horse. Shecan read and write in three languages and can talk with tbe most intelligent man upon the issues of the day. And with it all, she is sweet and womanly and lovable.

Ah, young man, go into the homes of the thrifty and Chrlstain poor to find your wife. There is where the girls are trained well for life's service. There is where they have made the most of what talents they have and are fit to be a helper as well as friend and companion to the man who wins one of them for a wife.

ABOUT WOMEN.

Girl white caps have "given warning" to some of the mashers of Ansonia, N. Y. There is said to be a good deal of jealousy existing between Lady Randolph Churchill and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain.

Anew thing in New York on the death of a woman or girl is to hang a bunch of white roses with the crepe on the doorknob.

Mrs. A. M. Johnston, of Grafton, W. Va., has In her possession the dinner bell used LyGeorgeWashington's mother to summon her family to meals.

The first woman alderman has been elected in London. She is MISB

Cons,

who has taken a great interest in securing better homes for working people. Mrs. Harrison has replaced all the colored servants in the White House with white men and women. She found it impossible to get along with the old foace,

Mrs. Storey, widow of Mr. Storey, of the Chicago Time®, has a trunk full of lace handkerchiere and e, quart of precious stones which he bought during life for her.

The Widow* Callahan, of Texas, owns 50,000 sheep, and Mrs. Rogers, of tho same State, is the possessor of a similar number. Both women ride on horseback in the free and easy style of a cowboy.

The Dorolhy is a proposed new clnb In New York where women oan get luncheon or all their meals If necessary, meet one another and have access to publications that women are Interested in.' .:.,

Sarah' McCauley, of Ponghkeopsle, had two lovers who were quarreling about her. The other day she solved the difficulty by marrying a different one and leaving them to fight it out.

A number of Texas ladles are making a huge map of the State. The name of each county will be worked with some beauMful product made in the county. The map will be exhibited in the Texas S in a a

There are so few marriages in Nebraska that there is great competition among ministers and justices of the peace. A young farmer in Blaine county was expecting his bride elect to arrive, and the whole judicial and clerical force of tbe county camped out awaiting her arrival.

Years ago, while a student, Rev. H. P. Kisbpaugb, of tbe Detroit Methodist Episcopal Church, saw the tintype of a girl and fell in love with tbe face. It proved to be the daughter of Rev. Mr. Marsden, a Wesleyan minister, of London. A correspondence followed, and a month ago he went to England and they are married. -T

The grand dame who is booming BoOlanger socially ID

Paris is tbe Duchesse

d'Uzes, fair, fat. forty, and a widow. She affects charity, dabbles in art, is an amaf^ur agriculturist, is a bold horsewoman, has her own pack of hounds, and is the only woman in France who ever drove a four-ln-hahd. Her grandmother was tbe famous Widow Clicquot of champagne fame.

Fifty years ago the daughter of James Martin, a well-to-do farmer, purchased «in 'expensive -dross against In- wishes, and she sent him* c^rnic valcuiirro representing a miser. lie never tpoke to hf-r since. Last ek he died and left fifteen tbotiwmd dt/sburs to each of his chiMren but his for whom leftaatal- vr-lop-,v. jji.-h, rrhenopened, had tier old valeuuu«

Twenty-five years ago two orphan girls were adopted near Ansonia, N. Y. Oae of them lately married a yonng man named J. H. Wheeler. An old lady at the wedding told her how ber sister lived in an adjoining town. When Mrs. Wheeler found ber what waa ber anrpriae to find that tbe sister was about to marry a young man named J. H. Wheeler also, but no relation of her husband.

A fetter from Muncie.

A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THIS CITY OF NATURAL OAS.

When I como home and people ask me what I particularly admired and enjoyed in Washington, I sha'l say that I saw nothing there that was half so Interesting aa natural gas. Ever since the news was flashed over the wires, a little over two years ago, that this wonderful fluid had beeu found at Munoie, It hasbeen part of the programme which I was never able to reach, to come baok here and revisit the scenes of my early girlhood. It is fortunate that my visit was not delayed any longer or I should have experienced some difficulty in locating the "scenes."

It is discouraging to romance to find a livery stable built on what was the most sacred "trysting place" of one's youth. It wounds the sensibilities to visit tho grove where many a delightful pionlc was held and find not a tree left standing, but instead a huge skewer factory, turning out millions of these little articles and shipping them to every civilized portion of the globe aud the Indiana bridge works, building over a hundred of these great structures in a yearThe beautiful oaks and maples converted into meat skewers the songs of birdsand the fresh, young voices of the girls and boys exchanged for the dlu and clatter and endless roar of workmen and machinery! And in the meadows where we gathered buttercups and made wreaths of the daisies, and down by the river side where we found the first violets and often and often waded in the ha at re at as el their Iron tubes and move the maohlnery of a olty.

No transformation scene was ever more remarkable than that which has taken place In Munoie. I have read of the wonderful growth of towns In the far west, springing from the earth lixe magic, but here is a sleepy, quiet village, not so primitive as the one Immortalized by Goldsmith, but only a nice, cultured, pleasant place, without any particular expectations, changed In less than two. years into an active, bustling, rapidly* growing city, with more energy and", 2. activity apparent in a day than we see*' in six months in another place which shall be nameless here. I get confused in mving about mod look around for some familiar landmark that shall giveme my bearings. This may always befound. Muncie, in this respect, Is like that other city which is not to be named,, and like all cities, it has its "barnacles," citizens who fastened upon its property at an early day and who will not let go.

They notbihg to assist the prosperity of thewn but just hang on and profit by tbe enterprise, of their neighbors. Old landmarks aro interesting as relicsr but there comes a time in the history of cities when the public welfare requires that their owners should be called hence.

On the beautiful farms just beyond the corporate limits, where we used to go for many a frolic, are rolling mills and glass works and rubber factories, and the old-fashioned farm-houses look odd and out of place among' tbe rows of modern, newly-painted dwellings. The oountry road* have become macadamized streets and the lanes and by-ways-have expanded into "avenues." Many of the business blocks, builtof white dressed stone or of brown sandstone, would be creditable to any city in Indiana.The court house, just finished, at cost of 1260,000, Is a magnificent building of white limestone, exceedingly graceful in architecture and embellished with much carving. The beautiful feature is that it will continue to remain as white as it is now, for in all the city there ia not a particle of soot or smoke.

The Methodists have just completed a handsome church at a cost of £30,000, with lofty stained glass windows, and heated and lighted with natural gas. The Baptists are laying tbe foundation for another, whose 'contract calls for $15,000. The Presbyterians are negotiating for the sale of a f30,000 piece of property, with the proooeds of which they will build an elegant church upon another corner lot which they own. Hero ia a four-story high school building with all tbe modem improvements and an exhibition hall that seat* nearly a thousand persons. The fine opera house haa been found Insufficient and this week the ground has been purchase^ /or another. l:

The attractive featare iathft largfl number of delightful homes. In most dties that have grown so rapidly there are a great many ch »p houses, but here even tbe smaller, are oxmrt* and pretty,, while many turo very uidsoIO-Handex-pen*lve. It rare tLmg to Und such gei. ral pi*- •rarity. All of the young, married own their own homes and every w»il-to-do family keeps a hor« at it a O a driving said, "Sho'v me the poor qparters of the town. V, iiere do your pauperslive? "If thr ro la one miserablypoor family here 1 do not know It," waa tbe reply, learned afterwards that the heading factories and others that use lumber have a great furnace where they burn their refuse wood, blocka, efcv,. because nobody will carry them oil1

Coooiuded on Fourth Fs**'4B Sltse *ft?si*