Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 April 1889 — Page 1

Vol. 19.--No. 42.

THEjMAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

^Mystic, Conn., boasus of a singing rat. Rats! t' The.political figbtthis spring will be to a» finish there will be .no-draw. Both parties areanxlousilcr iirst blood.

The. first harvest of the year is that of the second hand dealer, who is in clover during the house«leaniug aaason.

There are a good many Indiana men who have not got an office yet. Perhaps they are not worse off tb&n those who did get one. _____

JohniDay Smith, a Minnesota legislalator, introduced a measure excluding reporters from executions. It will be "all day" with you, Mr. Smith, here after.

The .Repress offers several, prises for ,the best love letters. There are some few Ihings.newspaper men can not procure without offering special. inducements. ..

The press seems to be iyjpi^ciftted in Minnesota if not in the United States .Senate. The .Legislature voted r|126 to .each daily newspaper reporter who wrote its proceedings.

Secretary Proctor proposes to do .away with all Sunday dresa parades for the »ariny. This will no doubt suit the soldier. It is so unpleosant to 'be inter.ruptod in a game of draw poke*.

There is still -hope for some of .the. rest .of us. Editor Hicks got the Peruvian mission. There is nothing startling aboul this, but the strange part of it is .that the appointee comes from Oshkosh.

Boulunger's present predicament is, not far removed iroin the position he occupied when all Paris was shouting •«vive la Boulangec." Then It was fight —now it is ilight. The change is only an "J." __^—

Phonograph parties are said to be the latest lad whore the instrument can be secured- What an excellent thing it will be if loquacious individuals will by this means tear their own badinage and profit by the disclosure®.

In New York bowling is the favorite Lenten aanusoment, an* some of the most fashionable women belong to a .club. Out here the practice of bowling up has long since been a iavorito practice among the gentlemen.

New Albany is too poor to clean its streets, but its economical -eouncil can build *3,500 bridges. Pshaw, that's wothlng. Wo have a council fchat does not think the city can afford to have «taan streets, yet «an talk of a f20,000 aewor and paving of more than a mile of Main street.

The Indianapolis Nows wants the patrol wagon covered and the sounding of the gong suppressed. The idea is an «xcoil«nt one but why place a cover over the glory of a policeman whoso proudest moment is when he rides with a plain drunk

a 10-year-old boy whom

ho has captured? Libor has again added a laurel to its wreath. Through the influence of labor organizations jin New Jersey, the Legislature passed a ballot reform law. Purity in elections is not tainted by the toiling masses. It is the monied politicians who conspire to corrupt the \oto and defeat an honest expression of public sentiment. _____

It Is said the European nations will send representatives to this country to take account of our military and naval display in the 30th of April celebration Well, they will not see much, compared with what they havo at home in that line but they will make a big mistake if they estimate our fighting ability by the size of this show.

A Paris paper says: "Some Terre Jim tie advertisers insist upon calling it Wabash avenue instead of Main street Most people outside of that city do not know it by any other name than Main street^* Residents of this city really don't know what to call It. The street l« a great "what-la-lt. Its coguo men depends largely upon the weather, When It is rainy it Is "mud alley," and during a dry spell, "dusty lane would not be malapropos.

The city council of Chicago passedun ordinance giving the city treasurer $25, 000 a year in lien of in Wrest and fees, the council designating banks of deposit for the city's money. The cost of running the onice te said to be $10,000. thus leaving the treasurer a net profit of $15,000 a Tear. lTnder the old system, he mad# about #70,000 out of the office and the newly elected officer, who paid a cammlgn assessment of fl5,0M» is disposed

••kick" at the change. But his kicking ought to be ioefr«ett»a1. That and every other office ought to be salaried so that the candidates for might know just what they we*« contesting tor and not par out a am*U fortue# tosseore tbs oitW0. We have often pointed out that ihore is nothing ao demoralising in pol

itics as the heavy emoluments of certain offices. Large sums are spent in the hope of gaining tbem and bribery and corruption of voters is the consequence. The Chicago council has moved in the right direction and should not go back to the old system.

There is one place where the cat will perhaps hereafter be respected, on ship board. The Nipsic, which was saved at Samoa, had on board a feline mascott. Perhaps the elements understood how difficult it is to drown a«cat and the Nipsic withstood the storm.

The season has again arrived when base ball slang is perhaps permissable. Newspapers will now contain such notices as the following from an Indianapolis paper: Mr. -"Grasshopper" Whitney succeeds Mr. "lEgyptian Wonder" Healy in the Indianapolis ball club. Mr. "Cigarette" Shreve is still with us.

English capitalists are trying to buy up the Dakota tin mines. JThey should not be allowed to do so. The tin mines in England are becoming exhausted and it is natural enough for the English-to reach out for the American mines but there Is plenty of money in this country to own and operate them and a foreign country should not be permitted to monopolize their output.

Names have something to do with office this year. Goodlet (which, being translated, means a little good,) was elected mayor of Evansville by a small majority. Now John Thoroughgood wants to be elected sheriff of the county in which Janesville, Wis., Is situated, and has good prospects of success. Goods seem to be getting the goodies in the way of political honor. ,t

One bad effect of the ^pointing newspaper men to office Is the tendenoy to increase the number of those who know all about running a newspaper, There always has been a surfeit of such fellows and inasmuch as genuine ability is being recognized there aite strong evidences that the number of r/ould-be journalists is on the increase. So far as heard from, no one who knows just how a-newspaper should be conducted better than the editor himself, has received recognition. _____

Alaska, our far oft northern territory, is proving a profitable Investment even from a money point of view alone. It cost tus 87,200,000 twenty-two years ago anH4ia8 sTocepsid into th© public $9,^00. 006 fjrom the fur trade alone. But Alaska hae-other resources than the seal fisheries amd it is believed that within the next few years the productions of the country will exceed ten million dollars each year.

Other

considerations increase

its value and it is now admitted on all hands that Mr. Steward's purchase was a wise one. _____

Evansville thinks Terre Haute envious because the former has a base ball team An exchange goes Into paroxysms of ecstacy because of the fact. Possession is one thing, but supporting a club Is something of a very different sort. The article will make very choice reading, pet haps, later in the season when the park will be for sale as kindling wood. However, it would not be kind to refer at that time to the confidential boasts which characterized the inauguration of the season.

The office seekers are hounding Presi dent Harrison to death. The adjourn ment of the Senate did not bring the re lief expected, many of the Senators re maining in Washington and boset6ing the White House with their frauds and applicants. The President scarcely gets time to eat or sleep, working late into the night and starting again early in the morning. If this should continue in defluately the Whit* House will be a prison rather than a home—a place to be dreaded and avoided. It would be a good plan to have all the officials selected by a vote of the people in the locality of the office to be filled.

The criticism of foreigners on the habits of American girls, while somewhat too sweeping, are not without point. We would not have and do not want our daughters to be so conventional as those of the old world where they are reared in an atmosphere of perpetual re &traint and waichlng until their ultimate exit into matrimony. We want our girls to be in some degree independent and able to take care of themsrl es. TV., there Is one important point ia which they irtrht be improved and that is in tiuui rr-i-eet to ir mothers. It is too much tho custom in this country for the daughters to outrank the mother in the matter of good clothes, work. largerrecreatVu, ctr. TMs *h-nhl not be. The mt.Uier has giv»« «rst of her life to her ftenily and she should stand highest la affection and iov\, sacrifices are aocetMU'^l **.. sh^.-A 1 be called ou to »h«-m tin ch?MWtt he .nady and £•..»*. to IWrluui* pteii ,:re» at the

News and Intervaews.

There lis good prospect of Terre Haute securing the piano box Manufactory which has been

sscruios of their own.

m^:wiU do so If 1h.*y havr a jv- ^r: regard for «.•,!,or* .chS *vA a mil Utton Oi i'1'" •U*H .ft*.1!',' ar. t-fct* only or.»'

h*V* th«»

,t»* trip if r,«» aud oo« trip can be -d. daughter's time ivik come a :u® other

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spoken

of*-number of

times in these columns. The proprietor was here some few days ago confering with the business men's association and looking into the matter for the purpose^ of arriving at a definite

conclusion.

was, however, called home to make some purchases for his factory. Ho will undoubtedly accept the terms offered and? a concern of importance nearly equal to the tool works may be expected to be classed among our industries this summer. The proprietor guarantees the em-.' ployment of at least 200 men. At present there are but two factories in the1 country that manufacture complete pianos, with the exception of the boxes. There are seven separate and distinct parts to be manufactured. So«e estalH lishments manufacture several of 'these. Ii is the intention to branch out if the box factory is located here. There is no reason why sounding boards cannot be manufactured as well and as chcaply here as any plaoe ia the country. Onoe the factory is located here the first: efforts will be to develop and enlarge the scope of the business.

Terre Haute is certainly a cow pasture To be convinced of this it is only necessary for one to drive about the city and count the bovines that are seen roaming about the streets. On nearly every street in the city cows can be seen, even dn the business portions. In the suburbs they,are especially numerous, and it is not an unfrequent oc6urrenoe that doeen or more congregate. Stock running at large in any city will create a bad impression. One gentleman of extensive travel said the other day: *'It is a disgrace to the city that cows should be given the freedom of the streets., I don't know of any city where the nuisance is.juite so bad as in Terre Haute."

Speaking of cows recalls a story told on the blind musician who is a familiar figure on the streets. Inasmuch as he will not see it in print it may be safe to tell the story. He was walking along the street with his cane when he stumbled upon something upon the sidewalk and fell. The "something" moved, scrambled to its feet, and started down the street with the musician astride of its back. He realized that he was being bdrne alorig on the back ox a cow at a lively pace. He concluded not to attempt to alight. At length the cow stumbled and was brought to a halt. The musician sprang off arid thus ended 11 rather exciting experience for one whose eyesight is gone. ............

Ministeis soon establish themselves in the good graces of their congregation, and a Btrong attachment of friendship is created, provided the pastor has the necessary qualities to command the admiration or all. The young ladies especially are apt to think there is none quite so nice as their minister, and as every maiden looks forward to her marriage at some time or other she invariably selects the one who is to perform the ceremony. Very often the selection Is made years in advance, but when the interesting event takes place the minister is sent for no matter how far away he may be stationed. Prior to the departure of the Rev.

Smith for Kansas several

of the young ladies of the Christian church expressed their regret at his leaving, and asked if he

would

not return

hero on a visit occasionally. He replied that it might be years before he oould return to see his former congregation. "But suppose," plead the ladies, "that you have occasion to visit Terre Haute. Suppose we send for you—." The reverned gentleman discovered their meaning and replied: "Ob, of course, I shall come back under such circumstances. Any time you send for me I shall be willing to come, but I may be very far away." "That will make no difference," was the reply, "the young man will have to bear the expenses. You know he oould not refuse such a request." An agreement was made and if it is carried out, which it no doubt will be, the Rev. Smith will shake hands with bis friends here before any great lengtlryof time has elapsed. -.

last Sunday the new postoffice building was crowded during the morning and throughout the day there were many who passed through/ The large number of visitors was dufc curiosity to the interior of the new building Wl ii* it was in progi of construction thnre were few who bad the opportun ity of going within, and the desire to a# iii»* interior was very natural since the or'-s* tMti instantly discussed th*» strpere ill viu jua connections. The aildinsf is not as ccmpleto. The post-ma-tor's room has not been furnished, n":: h'|tr tbo for tlx. deputy. Tin- fttmitnrc for ourruf^r ha* notitfl ors. arrivtsi'i, as a it vf-i recoil* *-mc i|« V-f. ro lb* .inrr.isoiirlg is OOtiresy cormuetrt,•'-J-~r.ua it* 'corridor quite* »d view can be bbs«t thr- igb th® windows of the mailing-room.

the

TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 13,1889. Nineteenth Year

scraped and rolled as was done a year ago, and can be put in excellent condition at no great expense. The boulevard is now about three-quarters of a mile in length. It is a splendid course but is not quite long enough. Near the west terminus there is a depression which is objectionable. About one-half mile affords the beet opportunity for speeding. It has been suggested that the boulevard be extended to the base of the bluffs nearly a mile east. Should this be done the drive would then be all that could be desired. Owners of fast horses will shortly consider the matter, and it is not improbable that the money will be subscribed to make the improvements,

The coroner may expect to be summoned some of these days to Tenth and Main streets. Persons who do not have the faintest idea of how to alight from a moving train persist in jumping off the E. fc T. H. passengers as they cross Main street, in order to save going to the depot several blocks distant. Several narrow escanes have occurred and it is only a question of time until some person or other is killed. One individual this week thought he could alight in safety. He stepped off, stumbled and when he stopped was found lying in a heap in the mud which had just been removed from a catch basin. He escaped without injury but his clothing was not quite so pretty as it was before he made the leap

During the past week there has teen a lively skirmish going on along the political lines. Slates have been proposed almost by the score only to be broken. One feature of the situation is tbfit both parties are at a loss regarding the nom inee for the. head of the ticket. Who will be nominated for mayor? is the question which is asked everywhere There is almost any quantity of timber from which to make selections. The Republicans prominently mentioned

Are:

U. R. Jeffers, Squire Murphy, Jesse Robertson, John Whonhart, Fred A. Ross, Frank Danaldson aud Joseph H. Briggs. Those mentioned for the Democratic nominations are: Fiank Schmidt,

Peter

Miller, Joseph Wildy, A

G. Austin and Councilman Fred Hertwig. This list does not include all of the names that have been suggested. For treasurer, Clay Leek, Will Hauk and Will Kramer are spoken of by the Re publicans Fitzpatrick, George Davis pjld John Reiss are after the Democratic nomination. The present clerk will be renominated by the Republicans, while Fred Katzenbach, Will Penn or John Seeman may be the opposing candidate on the Democratic ticket. Andy Thomp son will probably be renominated for marshal with no one mentioned in par ticular as his opponent from the Democratic side. There is no end of names mentioned for the nomination for council in the different wards.

The miners and operators were in session two days this week for the purpose of discussing the situation in Iudiana The

direct

purpose of the meeting was

to consider a proposition which the operators bad to offer. The compromise was a 10 per cent, reduction in wages of the scale which has been in force for the past year. Block coal miners have re' oeived 90 cents per ton for mining and bituminous miners 75 cents. The proposition was discussed at considerable length, but was rejected by the miners and the conference adjourned sine die The condition of mining in this state calls for some action upon the part of both the employers and employees Since the organization of the federation which has successfully settled all questions of difference there has not been presented such an entangling problem as that now before them. There are so many elements that enter Into the con slderatlon of abasia of adjustment of the prices which shall be paid. Among them are natural gas, oil, and compoti tlon with Ohio and Illinois coal. Arbi tration for the past few years has sue cessfully prevented strikes, and it is to be hoped will see both parties successfully out of the present complications Mining business ia now very much de-* pressed and the outlook i» not at all promising. Operators who have large capital invested take a rather gloomy view of the situation.

The board of trustees of the Normal hav® been in session for the past two days considering the financial matters pertaining to the completion of the building. The failure of the state to secure a loan may yet seriously interfere with the finishing of tlie building. The board bad anticipated having at its disposal 15116,000 from tho state treasury, 1100,000 from the special law providing for Jhe state's share of the 1 of the new building, and *1' :n im. allowed

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Are Servants a Failure?

A WRITER ON THE PERPLEXITIES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE.

They are too indifferent or too idle to give much instruction or attention to the young beginner—perhaps too ignorant—but when one 'girl' is found 'too tiresome' she is sent away as incom petent as when she began, plus some bad habits. She tries another place, with the same result, and by the time she is twenty you have the averago servant of the registry office—the servant that helps, consciously or unconsciously, to form (and mar) the minds and manners of the children throughout the country

At twenty you may tell a sorvant how to light a tire, or cook a potato, clean a knife or a kettle, but if she has been do ing those things wrongly all her life the chances are that nine times out of ten she will do them in the manner that habit has made familiar to her, to tho ruin of dining-room pokers (which are supposed in some mysterious way to ','draw" the fire), the sauoepans, which the average servant believes wore made to be burned or melted

All this is deplorable and Indisputable, but merely talking of It or writing to the papers will not mend matters at «ll, Sefv&ntfrarr a jxtteMitpt servants in the great majority of cases, are a failure but they aro quite capable of improvement, and reasonable women will ask, "How is this to be done?" It has been suggested that a Ladies' Union wouldbea very beneficial thing, it would prevent bad servants from getting misleading characters but no Ladies' Union can improve the quality of the really in-

capable girls at present in service, and the few good ones will be no better off than they are at present for, practically speaking, a really efficient trustworthy servant can command almo»t sny wages she likes, and pick and choose her place. Tho difficulty of giving a character is also very great no lady or woman with any sense of henor or honesty would shift a certain responsibility on the shoulders of a complete stranger no one would say actually that a girl who was systematically careless, untruthful and dishonest, fras otherwise but, on the other hand, what one person would merely consider an equivocation, would be to some a distinct falsehood—what one mistress would call carelessness, another would call theft. A mere character ia no proof of efficiency or the reverse that, at least, has been proved a failure. So we are forced back to the very beginning, and at the beginning the first step toward the general improvement of servants must be taken girls must be taught while young to be neat, clean, truthful, geutle in walk ing and speaking taught the absolute sin, or, to use a stronger word, the wickedness of waste. To be merely saving or stingy is not enough the intelligent comprehension of the value of food as food, the capacity of thinking what can be done with apiece of meat or bread except to throw it away (not because the mistress will miss it, but that it is food, and has to be worked for by some one), the knowledge of why tea requires boiling water and gravy-beef cold is what is really required as a foundation for future training and the average girl of eleven, if intelligently taught, is quite capable of understanding that aud a good deal more. Compoiiii »n and the "use of the glol^V'and perhaps history andgfMiraphy, niiirht, among th© children of the working be advantageously omitted,

MM ot U.. woo* tooon who go! ty~ U.., r«nd«™ doing wen.

and

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A writer of.note, speaking 01 the* servant girl question says: "To begin at the beginning, much oould and should be done for servauts If the ordinary school education were of a more useful and practical kind. It 1% disgraceful to find girls who have passed the fifth standard and gained prizes and certificates ignorant of how to light a fire except by pouring kerosene oil on wet wood, and inapable of trimming a lamp without breaking the chimney. A certain amou nt of technical instruction should be given in every school, and a great amount of theoretical training could be given. Not only how simple things are done in a certain way, but why they are done in that particular manner, should be impressed upon children they are naturally imitative, and if there is a constant example in their homes of thriftlessness and slovellness, they will grow up thriftless and slovenly unless they are taught to think intelligently about their work." £Many persons now keep 'a girl' who twenty years ago did their own work.

ie—in ele-

mentnrr (wk"ry and borw v.or.c substi1 tit ted, U'-H f"ijrtf4:tijf g*iiU«'n«H». Any I who :i staav-red from tho combine I S evjis of invmniaai'i a ivjiSy Jiousf-mal Ian4 •Ht.y-liUi. ca» ji'-rhajp fiiMitfr»tn: i-)!»•*«*. at I fini''- JuAT-i lo UuJf.r^UU'J how or* will :«nz. aui fire-irons, window*, «ld

Hiii.l»i*u!e«id clatter, boo it is noi ooSy «s C*a-«yf btlt twic'i as expMit!o *, to tii tutrix y, nndi ih-' of sj.'vi«? it i* I'ttiUkS"'. Al Ui* I :'vit of can only Ulearned hen young. Kitigers hnrl-s,rd

«od lertogly enmpxi

by rheumatism can play the harp or paint delicate pictures only there is thisi difference—with ordinary oare no servant's fingers need be stiff and rough,,, no matter how hard she has to work, if she is only taught to take care of her* fingers, and the quality of tho things she*has to use them for."

WILL SOME ON ESTATE When the revenue office will remove^ to the government building.

If it is true that John Regan's friends, have urged him to run for mayor. When the street car company will operate an electric line.

When Collett park will bo thrown open* for the summer. If a better time could be found for investment in real estate than the present*.

Why the other railroad companies donot put up gates at the most dangerous*, crossings like the Vandalla.

If there is any truth in tho report that Billy Stout is getting tired of his places as superintendent of police.

What's the matter with Diok Moore for public printer, since Harrison wantsa practical printer as ^ell as a business* man to fill the office.

ABOUT WOMEN.

The Empress of Japan has given up her long-cherished intention of visiting this country.

The ladies of the Corean Embassy ar* much stared at in Washington. They wear the queer-looking gowns the Mikado has made familiar and head dresses^ that resomblo small umbrellas.

Mrs. Nellie Bailoy, of Waukesha, I.T.,. took a walk with a young man, gave hinti a drink from a flask aud when he regained his senses several days later she claimed him as her husband.

A beautiful young woman named Daisy Newman from California, is making a stir in Berlin under the protection of a distinguished baron of stupendous wealth, a friend of the Emperor.

Anew opera called "Dovetta," by Mrs. E. Marcy Raymond and Miss Betsy Bancker, two well-known New York ladies, will bo produced at the Standard, theater, in that city, in Easter week.

Mrs. Hetty Green, who is believed ta be the wealthiest woman in the Unitod States, was once a Now York society bell and had admirers by the score. Mrs. Green's wealth is estimated at 940,000,000.

On Wodfittsday morning Barnum advertisod for ten young women to take* part in his show. Before noon two hundred ond ninety girls had applied for tho position, each desirous of riding in theprocession.

An "opera hat" for ladles has beew patented by an English woman and consists of a hat 011 a wire frame, trimmed with laoe and flowers. It will close similar to a gentleman's evening hat and can be sat upon without injury.

Marcellite Thorne Garner, the daughter of the late William T. Garner, of Poughkeepsio, expends 910,000a year for dresses alone. When her father was drowned in his yacht, Mobawk, a few years ago, he left her a fortune of $ 10,-r 000,000.

A well-known English actress is angry because a manufacturer of false teetbi has placarded his town with picture*rcpresenting bor "before and after" taking a set of his famous teeth. The "before" portrait is the one which makes, her angry.

A story is told of a Kansas woman withr a family of girlB who reared them with the fixed determination that not one of tbem should over marry a Missourian, a Democrat or a man named John. The very first husband combined all these objectionable things.

A young daughter of Milton Blake, of" Keene, N. H., became seriously and mysteriously ill. Finally it was suggested that the illnetM might be due to the new groen flannel dress she had bee»i wearing. Apiece of the goods was analyzed by a chemist, and found to be* heavily loaded with arsenic. The girl had been poisoned.

A lady living in Tocoa, Ga., claims to have discovered a sure cure for hydrophobia. It has been tried in several instances and always cures. It is a tea made from a well-known herb, wbicb possesses the remarkable power of entering the blood, permeating the entire system and neutralizing the effects of the dreadful poison.

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS,

Free Press: The homely girl is seldom mentioned, and the pretty one is also seldom men-shun'd.

Boston Commensal Bulletin: The u-legr.-ipa lineman is a great traveler s*nd Koes from climb to climb daily.

Kxchaage: A lawyer is never so blind' bu: in cite authorities. K'-w York Sun: In union there i*

inauii.

'ft

First policeman (after^-several

tiOHtHxessfuj attempts to overpower bi» man)—"What shall wo do?" Second nil 1 man -"Let us club together. We o*t then."

Nt York -on: The compositor who w-t up tin* term "office seeker" as aa "oM stir ker*f was discharged by the edit r, who took the error as

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