Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 April 1889 — Page 1

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Vol. 19.—No. 43.

THE MAIL

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The sins of the Democrats are finding them out—out •of office. "Min is what he eats," remarks an eratern paper- Out west he is what he drinks. ______

It is to be hoped that those who left here for Oklahoma took the precaution to purchase return tickets.

Public office is a trust. Applicants have am abundance of trust that they will get there but usually luck the commission. _____

President Harrison is beginning to taste «ome of the pleasures of life in the White House. He had a quiet day on the Potomac last Monday.

Twenty thousand people live in Alexa»6ria, Va., yet during the month of March not a wedding^ ocoured. Some enterprising citizen should establish a Matrimonial bureau.

Pennsylvania has discovered gold within her borders. Diamonds, although •of th6 black variety, have already contributed more to her prosperity than igold mining could have done.

Richmond has a ticket that is named "Dennis." Frank Dennis wants to be •councilman from one ward, William T. Dennis from another, while William H. Deunis i* content with being a committee man.

High license pays the police foroe and the expense of keeping the streets clean at Joliet. Here is a pointer to those who are anxious to help out the finances of cities heavily in debt like, say Terro Haute for example.

About one million of the "pigs in clover" puzzle have been sold and they are still being turned out at the rate of 50,000 a day. As the rural districts are yet in the main to be heard from there is no telling what the end will be.

Michigan boys under 17 can not smoke hereafter, the legislature having passed law to that effect.. *If alaf^lpd, prOTOllill8 VH«sl«r from smoking, campaign expenses would be much less when they again seek an election.

Numerous cities are agitating the founding of city parks. A city without parks should not lay claim to lasting greatness. Wo are in need of a central park, but it is unkind even to suggest such a thing in view of the deplorable condition of the city's flnanoes.

It took the Missouri legislative comjn it tee all winter to investigate the Stato university and criticise the president for, the purchase of a stuffed elephant. It didn't require the publio quite so long' to discover what a monstrous big elephant the Legislature itself was.

Down in Louisville the street car company has sprinkler* which it runs over tracks and lays the dust. The same scheme should be employed everywhere. Any city as dusty a* Terro Haute can Appreciate the great benefit of street «prinkllng.

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ed clouds of dust is scarcely worth living.

A North Carolina bishop has found a cure far Insomnia in the eating of half a pint of peanuts, washed down with a gins* of milk Just before retiring. We fear this Is only another Illustration of the old proverb that what Is one man's meat is another man's poison. The people who will find Insomnia cured by a n'fthtly diet of peanuts are probably In an exceedingly small minority-say as one to ten millions.

The Impress ton prevails »t Indianapolls that the rity is being "worked" by capitalists who want franchises. The question of the extension of a street railway franchise before Its expiration is being discussed. In this city the franchise of the street car company was extended before anyone knew anything about It, creating such a howl that the council reduced the number of years. No free franchises to anybody, is the cry that has gone up at Indianapolis. It seems to have the business-like ring to It.

Another attempted "corner" of wheat has resulted much like the one operated

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Harper, of Fidelity bank fame. Thi* one had its origin in St. Louts, instead of Cincinnati, and after seeing his fortune melt sway In marptins, Mr. Jackson, like Judas, went and hanged hlmMlf. As he was a rich man, with more than was necessary to supply all possible demands and contingencies, there waa no excuse for bis foolish attempi to "oorper" wheat and he met a deserved fete in his failure. No need to waste ay pa thy on such men. The only pity Is that all who try to corner marks* and make the necessaries of Ufe dear by gambling do not come out like Jarkaon and Harper. Perhaps men will kern aonte time that the country to bigger than their petty millions.

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Notioe is given that the first number of the Oklahoma Times will be issued on April 22 at Oklahoma City from a complete steam plant. Nothing alow about Oklahoma is there

Applicants for country postoffices are now sending their photographs to be filed with their papers of Indorsement, This method is as good as a personal interview and saves board bills.

Postmaster General Wanamaker an nounced himself a prohibitionist in speech in Philadelphia. It is not because there is so much llck-'er in the postage stamp business, however.

Illinois will take her place among the civilized states of the Union. The ballot psrorm bill met with no oppesition to speak of in the legislature. Tne bill provides for the Australian system of vot ing. Illinois may be a little slow but seems to get there just the same. *»*. 1

Three hundred young men have vol untftrily formed themselves into a body guard and sworn to defend Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to the death. The guards are»srrmed with swords, revolvers and yataghans, made entirely of Bulgarian steel. Office seeking seems to be as bad in Bulgaria as in America. Harrison needs such a guard to keep the greedy offlce'huntere at bay.

ANew York paper calls attention to the fact that the page of the Bible which Washingtop kissed when he took the oath of-office a hundred years ago includes this significant verse: "Benjamin shall raven as a wolf in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." This may uot have been in the nature of a prophesy but it fits the esse just a century later.

A tunnel is being built under St. Clair •river at Port Huron. Steel plates are being forced under the river bed. Assistant Secretary Tichenor has announced that the plates will enter Uncle Sam's territory and hence duty must be paid on them. This is a foolish interpretation of the tariff laws. The idea of taxing steel used in the construction of a tunnel between Canada and this country to facilitate commerce is ridiculous in the oxtreme.

There is plenty of "fine work" being doco by both pnrt4® r^rdingithe ap-•a-wrnnrtli I n« which should be thoroughly discussed. Considerable attention has been paid to tho scramble for the nominations on the two tickets, the jealousies of the •rival canditates etc. Affairs pertaining to the welfare of the city in general have found little snace in the partlsian press. The campaign will be a short one, but it should not bo too short for a thorou: consideration of the polioy to be pursued to the best Interest of the city.

Five hundred Missouri women who were interviewed regarding politics do not look with marked favor upon the political arena. The remarkable fact WHS brought out that while Missouri is Democratic at every election tho majority of the women interviewed were Republicans, very few of thein are Prohihltiouists, and only about twenty in the hundred are In favor of full woman suffrage. From the opinion of these 500 women, representative of the sex at large, It looks as If tho desire to sit in Congress was not general among women, but was ouly confined to a small class. A good many women want to vote on license and school questions, and there seems no good reason why they should not do so. Theee are subjects that more nearly concern women than they do men. They are subjects on which the welfare of the home and the future of the younger generation depend, and as it Is the mother who has the early training of the children it would appear only right that she should be consulted on what might very properly be termed the domestic pert of government.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox has got into a row with a female correspondent of a California paper—a Mrs. Atherton—but it is clear that Ella is not to blame. Mrs.

Vthertou is one of those peculiar beings whose pen, the moment they touch It, turns the Ink to gall. This she admits and says further that her only purpose In writing letters is to say something that will amuse or interest the public, no matter whom It hurts. So, although Mrs, Wilcox bad befriended her and regarded her as a friend, this scalp-taking California" penned a cruel and malicious paragraph about the poetess of passion which threw the latter into a passion of a quite unpoetical kind. There are entirely too many of the Atherton stripe of people writing for the press-people who care nothing about the truth or tacts so long as they can say something that will "gel op a row" and cause a demand for the newspaper they write for. It is such writing that gives the press the reputation of being reckless and irresponsible, if not down-right willing to offfend. The people, whether men or women, who have gall on their pens ought to keep or be kept out of the public prints. There are enough unpleasant things that an editor must say if he does his duty, without purpoaely wounding without cause. It is a pity the "scalpers" of the press could not be scalped once for all.

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Bab's Babble.

A BRIGHT YOUNG WOMAN'S BUDGET OF NEW YORK GOSSIP.

FAMOUS WOHENWITH RED HAIR—WHAT KI88V HAVK DONE—THE LATEST WAT TO KISS—THE ART OP BUYING A PARASOL —HOW SUN-SHADES SHOUIXD BK BOUGHT

TO MATCH GOWNS—A THOUGHT JOB EASTER—PARAGRAPHS THAT FLIT FROM GAT TO GRAVE. £\, [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YOTK, April 17

The tigrees at the circus and the average New York woman have one point in common, just now—they are both streaky as far as their hair is concerned. The New Yorker who has bleached is now endeavoring to get her hair back to a darker shade, so that she may make It a warm red. It cannot be done while it is so very blonde and she is undergoing this streaky condition that she may attain her end. She hopes to reach such a color as that which belonged to the Borgia, and she does not see why a sin gle thread of her hair, granted she gets the right shade, might not be preserved by the United States Government and exhibited as is the on9 so proudly shown in Florence as having belonged to the wicked Lucretia. It is odd how many famous women have had this Titian red hair. Catherine of Russia gloried in It, and Anioe of Austria had brown hair just on the verge of being red. Ninon de L'Endos was equally proud of her warm-colored tresses, and Mary Stuart seemed a very daughter of the sun. One wonders if with the red hair will come the acknowledge of womanly wiles so well understood by all these enchan tresses. Jane Hading and Mrs. Potter both have warm auburn hair, but it does not reach the real tinge, which is that which crowned, ih all her glory, the head of the Empress Eugenie, she who has known the extreme of happiness and of sadness.

WHAT KISSES HAVE DONE.

That a kiss has been of importance in history we all know, and that woman's kisses have made and unmade kingdoms. The most famous of kisses always seem to me that one, or that many given by the Duchess of Gordon when she recruited an entire regiment,

Queen's shilling" from between he£ teeth, so that he had, if he wanted, a good opportunity to kiss her. It is almost unnecessary to say that the'gallant laddies who fought so well at Waterloo did not resist the charm of a lovely woman's mouth. However, remember the kiss in vogue and just remember this too,

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"You will And, my dear boy, that tbe dearly Whlc^i with rapture you snatched from the half-willing miss. Is sweeter by far than the legalized kisses You give tne same girl when you've made her a Mrs." Thislis slangy, but It's the sad, sad truth.

THE LATEST WAY TO KISS.

Do you know how to kiss? If you are a man you give a semi-scornful and seml-condesoending smile at this question and make no answer. If you area woman yon laugh a merry laugh and wonder what kind of a kiss you are expected to be acquainted with. Why, the latest, of course. And It is t—For your sweetheart to stoop over you and kiss you just back of your shell-like ear. If you are wise that is where you put a little perfume, and the ohanoes are that he will kiss yon not once but twice there and tell you that kissing you is like puting one's lips to the heart of a great red rose. This is very natural in him, but it shows that he does not realize the dlffiarence between a kiss made perfect by art and that which is flower-like by nature. What do I mean? That the next thing to kissing a flower is kissing a baby. You take that in your arms, you look in its clear eyes, eyes that have never been saddened by looking on anything but the pleasures of life, you put your lips to its rosebud of a mouth and then you kiss ft, and then you know that you have Inhaled the perfume of a flower— the flower of the flock.

TUB ART OF BUYING A PARASOL. It is not a matter of very great interest to mankind, but one of the important questions of the day is, Hive you gotten your pnrasol? The getting of a parasol means the arranging of one's movable background for the summer, and a mistake will result in one's complexion looking sallow, one's hair losing its gloss, and one's general appearance being anything but desirable. We must make mistakes now and then, but the parasol error is one made every season by too credulous women. I will tell you how it comes about: You go into a shop with tbe determination to buy* a sensible brown moire parasol with a natural wood stick that will harmonise with every gown you have and be soiled to every occasion. You are feeling the wood to see if it Is wood, when your wandering eyes light upon a poem in lilac—you cimnot vulgarize it by calling it a parasol it's made of china crepe, pleated there Is a half oover of gold lace upon It, and on the handle is a smiling Chinaae god in yellow ivory. You ought to turn and flee, but you dont. Being a woman you stop and look.

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Gilbert.

TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 20,1889. Nineteenth Yeai

THE WILY 8HOPKEEPKR KNOWS yotir sex he unfurls the beauty he holds it over you and tells you what you know to be the truth—that few women can stand having that shade over their heads. You look you count the cost it is ten times as much as you expected to pay you are sure Jack would like you to have it, and you feel that after the parasol is gone you can put the Chinese god in your bric-a-brao cabinet. This proves a salve for your soul and you boy that parasol. It comes home and is shown to Jack he thinks It lovely, but giVes a prolonged whistle when he hears how much it oost still, being a good fet low, he doesn't say anything that will hurt your feelings, but little he knows that that parasol will create its own ion.

THE SUMMER DAYS COME,

you walk out in the morning in a ginghata gown and the glare of the sun in yottr face—your parasol is too fine for that frock in the afternoon you meet Jaflfc at Twenty-third street and walk up totpn. You have on your pretty blaok net costume and a dainty little bonnet with the prim-looking rosebuds upon it. Again, his majesty the sun is imprinting his kisses, in the shape of freokles, op your face. Jack says, "Kitty, why don't you carry your parasol?" You faintly mnrmur that it is hardly suited for walking. Again Jack, gives a whistle. You are very fond of eaoh other, but haven't a swell Victoria and no expectation of one. The people in the shop h^gre a sign up announcing that no parasols are exchanged, and you have that elephant on your hands and the prospects of being blistered during the summer months. One day Jack stops In on his Way up and buys you a black net parssei with an underlining of black silk and a dainty handle with a bit of silver here and there. He gives it to you without a word, and then, being a woman aqd nothing else, you insist on his coming iupstairs, and before his astonished eyes you break the lavender parasol all to pieces, fire the Chinese god out of the window, and sit down and hate a hard cry. First because you were such a fool, and next because you are so fond of Jack 1 And the moral of this is, never buy a parasol too fine for the rest of your wardrobe.

A THOUGHT FOB KKSTBIFE did ev^r get un Easter EA-.W VSUV ought to, for it is your one opportunity in the year. It will make you realize so entirely how good it is to believe, that you will feel like putting out. your hand, as does the Russian peasant, and announcing to each friend and neighbor, "Christ has arisen!" and you will almost expect to get his answer, "Thanks be to God!" Perhaps, since the last Easier blossom bloomed, there has been taken away from you, or from your neighbor, some joy—some one who was near and dear think, then, if you cannot make your heart laugh over, make your lips form smiles, and your eyes hold only tears of joy, for you are certain that the one you loved, the one you have lost, is joining in the grand chorus on high, that united with the weaker one on earth tells the whole world again and again that "Death is no more." Make a good resolve on this Easter morning decide as you lay eaoh flower upon the altar, that during the year you are going to make flowers of love and kindness bloom In the pathway of somebody. Who will it be? That somebody will come, be very sure, if you will only keep your promise. The word, the smile, the kindly greeting, do not seem so much, but they are flowers of life that go to decorate the altar built not by hands. Do not let the clink of metal enter there—the metal of envy, hatred, malice, and all nncharltablenen remember that, touching your flowers, it will blacken them and make them of little worth. God bless everybody this Easter morning God wash away every tear and make happy every heart so that there can be voiced far and near the ever new, ever old news, "Christ has risen."

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The Democratic primaries were held on Thursday evening and the following coundlmen were nominated:.

First Ward—William Atkins. Second Ward-W. O. Patton. Third Ward—B. H. Sanderson. Fourth Ward-W. O. Weldele. _• Fifth Ward—Thomas Caaey. 8!xth Want-George Klu#. Wm. Atkins is the well known contractor and builder. He has lived here since 1849. W. O. Patton is the Fourth street grocer. He has lived here since 1858, engaging in several kinds of business.

H. Sanderson has represented

the Third ward in council for two years. He Is foreman at J. A. Parker's iron works. "Fatty" Weldele, as he is commonly known, has been a Fourth warder since his birth in 1882. He Is tbe proprietor of a restaurant on Main street. Thomas Casey was born in Ireland 40 years ago. He Is yard foreman of the Ysadalia. George Klug has served two terms in council and is well known in his ward.

Tbe nominating convention fen- the city offices will be held to-night.

The formal opening of the Tfcrre Hanto house occurs next Wednesday night. Invitations have been issued. Single tickets are f&.

A Woman's Chat.

A FEW SCENES FROM REAL LIFE.

BY BXHK2TOA BLOUNT. 'Mil

A young man, reared in an excellent family, is hunting for a wife. His Idea Is a domestic young person who Is tidy and can cook. Anything but a slattern! He finds her at last, a pretty looking fair girl, who is famed in the country neighborhood for her domestic qualities. "The feller as gits Jemlmy '11 git a fust-class wife," says Aunt Belinda.

And so when Tom Brown comes home from the law school and carries off "Jemlmy" to his home In the village, everyone declares he has done marvelously well for himself.

As her deft fingers work wonders in the pretty little home, and the dainty meals are always palatable, while she herself is the picture of neatness and health, he thinks so too, and congratulates himself over and over.

As the honeymoon wears away, however, he begins to be conscious that he has done all the spooning himself and that Jemima is sadly looking In sentiment and imagination. Everything takes a practical turn with her.

But then, he argues, roast beet and potatoes are necessities while poetry and sentiment can be dispensed with.

But one evening he took her to the olty to see Salvlnl play Othello. She actually yawned In the midst of the most exciting passages, and deolared she was awfully sleepy. He tried to explain to her the story of the play, but she exclaimed with impatience that no such foolishness ever happened and what was the use of going over it again even if it did? Tom was paralyzed. Notenthuso, not go wild over the passion and tenderness and intensity of Salvini's Othello!

One evening as he lay on the sofa reading Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia," she sat darning the' heel of his stocking. She was always at something useful and nothing about her work was ever put off. He wanted to read some fine passages to her. They charmed him. But after several of the first pages, she startled him by saying, "Say, Tom, do you think we had better bujr a few more hens and have our own fresh eggs this winter? I've been thinking about it all day." little groan.

But the rMmsx NV^ reacHfd. when he a short visit. Jemima's domesticity and ignorance amused and annoyed them. They showedit in their faces. Tom felt ashamed. And when a man gets ashamed of his wife for anything something serious is likely to happen. He has been very successful. They live in a city and are wealthy. They have a family of children who are epitomes of their mother. And Tom—although a model husband, enjoys the society of educated women whom he often meets, far more than he enjoys that of his domestic wife.

He would say, If asked, that a Wtiffiftn must be a companion as well as a cook

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and housekeeper. both? Often and often I have met upon the streets and in company a lovely girl, with exquisite cameo face and dressed with truly feminine art and skill

Her oolor Is a dove gray, and many ol her gowns are of soft clinging material that gives her a statuesque grace of, pose and movement. ,"

One flay not long since I visited with a friend in one of the handsome flats of the city. From the back parlor window I could see into half a dozen back yards. As I was looking lazily out at the lovely day, the budding trees, and the tender mist of early spring enveloping the distant hills, I was suddenly startled to see a familiar face coming from one of the kitchen doors in the flat near by. It was the cameo face. The owner of it was coming out to empty some water. Her slippers fell off at the heel every step she took. Her old wrapper that was once blue, was faded and ragged, not to mention the grease spots. The lovely red-gold hair was done up in white papers and the powder of the night before was washed off around her nose and mouth, giving her an odd appearance. As she gave the water a pitch, a shrill voice callcd out, "Why, Henrietta! you slovenly girl! Why didn't yon empty that In the sewer? What do you s'pose tbe sewer's for?" "Oh ma, shut up! What do you suppose I care blamed old fewer?"

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At a brilliant reception last evening I saw something unutterably sad. A most superb woman, not only in outward appearance but every way, was making her adieus. A new-comer was just then announced. A gentleman very distinguished looking. A man of elegant, almost courtly bearing. Tbe lady grows a trifle pale. After greeting tbe hostess, he approaches her. Very low he bends over the extended hand. "I shall have the pleasure of meeting you again, madame? You go so soon to-night. Shall yon be present at Mrs. 'a to-morrow evening?"

Bw answer Is cold, formal, almost in(ftstinct. "We leave on tomorrow's steamer for LiverpooL Good night."

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has vanished. A little tragedy then. Her husband isa scoundrel. She is true however, if one oould be true to such a man. She probably never would have: known anything of the misery of a misalliance if it had not been for this new passion, this sweeping of the strings of: her soul by one master hand.

Oh, to have mlssbd something all one's life, to have bad a divine instinct slleuoed by long years of repression, to have lain asleep and then be awakened by the: Prince's kiss, too late, too late!

To have been blind all one's life ana s* then for one moment to have the glory of light and beauty flashed upon the vision, how hard, how oruel it is, to go back to blindness again. ,'

There are many lives, outwardly happy, that are full of shadows. Many a tragedy lies burled beneath a tranquil face, a smiling mouth. Many a skeleton in secret chambers of the most princely mansions as well as of the most humble cabia

IT 18 SAID

That a citizen's ticket, is a possibility this spring. That several well known widowers* are to be married within a short time. "*f

That Dave Grelner Is more confident* than ever that the postoffloe is "his'n."s That a circus Is in town to-day, al-f though it has not been advertised in the press.

That the early nominations by thett Democrats was a move in favor of Fits-, Patrick. V... ,, .if?

Who of the twelve colored men whot are circulating petitions will get aplaoef in the postoffice?

That the Canoola club has purchased' another clock for one of its members^. I a a &

If place-hunters do not think it is a* dreadfully long time until Postmaster: Regan's commission expires.

That business men should be elected to council, but that they persistently re-f fuse in accepting a nomination.

That the oity's list of professional* actresses will be increased next season Pf by the addition of two well-known-names.

That tbe top of the Normal school tower will be removed because it does not suit the artlstlo eye of a Gazette writer. son that he was not an applicant for anjr office, but would accept one If it were1 IkiSi tendered him. ». v-

That the authorities Jiave never Heard that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, or Evans might now be serv-

lng the state at Jeflbrsonville.

That it Is putting it on to a young man who was sentenced to two years for theft from his sweetheart's father upon very doubtful evidence, when greater

criminals are set free.

"WANTED TO KNO W.

WhO'wrote that letter which conVicted young Graves of stealing from Ferguson, and, if it is a forgery, why the forger would not look well behind tbe bars*

If the steps to tbe government building are not verv annoying to the publio on account of being too small and steep,

If It Is true a young lady asked for a foreign stamp for a letter which she desired to send across the pond.

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If a special chair will have to be order-1 ed for Wm. Weldele In tbe event he la elected to the city council..

If Frank Danaldson's friends can' secure his consent to accept the Republican nomination for mayor.

If the workmen on the street car linefound any old boots or tin cans In tbe Main street grade.

If the Democratic nominations for $ council do not form a sort of William ticket—Atkins, Patton and Weldele bearing this sir name.

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8AUCK FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.*

Journal of Education: No young woman can write a letter without a post-r script, but the young man who gets the] letter never seems to mind.

Burlington Free Press There aresome men who look at wooing just as they do at swimming—as something^ which should never be attempted until one knows how,

New Orleans Picayune: April Is a, very fickle month, as to weather, and girls should not add to its general un-' certainty by flirting.

Atchison Globe: Convince a man that he is welcome to a dime, and be will ask for a dollar.

Atchison Globe: The artistic name for hash is stewed bric-a-brac.

The coal operators held a meeting in this city on Wednesday. There was a large attendance. It was expected that' a proposition would be received from the miners, but none came. Tbe situation was discussed but the conclusions srrived at were not made public. Mr. Jenne, of tbe Brazil Coal company, said, mining was very dull. Only four of the company's mines are running four daya^ a week. -•'And the prospects—" said the writer. "Really," replied Mr Jenne, there are no prospects, none to speakof." The situation continues decidedly unsettled.