Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 July 1889 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WEST FALL, MASAOKB.

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TERRE HAUTE, JULY 13, 1889

UHCLE SAX ia 113 years old and a bright, lively old fellow he ia, too.

PRIVATE DALZELL predicts that Gov. Foraker will be the next occupant of the White House. Has the private wanted something which he didn't get from President Harrison?

SINCE the Fourth of July the American flag carries 42 stars instead of 38. They are to be arranged in six rows of seven stars each. The flag began with only 13 stars and never before in the history of the nation have four been added at one time. During the slave period it was necessary to admit but two States at a time, one free and one slave, so that the political equilibrium of the country might not be cftsturbed. Thank God we have got beyond all that now and can admit four grand free State* all at one time. North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington are the four new sisters, to be followed in due time by Idaho, Wyoming and others.

ACCORDING to an apparently reliable authority there are near 2,500 building and loan associations in England, having a membership of 600,000 and a capital of some 270 million dollars. The number of these societies in the Uuited States is estimated all the way from 3,000 to 5,000 with a capital of 300 millions. The accumulations of capital through this medium during the last forty years is estimated at between 500and 750 millions of dollars. There is hardly a town or villiage now that does not have one or more of these excellent institutions, whose exceptional strength with the people lies in the fact that a failure seldom ocours among them. They husband the small savings of the working people and month by month set them to earning a handsome interest. They are the poor man's best savings bank and are doing more than any other single agency to provide houses for the masses and put them into a more independent way of living.

WK read In Roman history of the unbridled license and luxury of the aristocracy which stopped at no limits. It nnrkod the decadonce am'gjruln of the Roman Empire, the historians tell us. To-day we road of American women who can get nothing floe enough for thorn the luxury of whose baths surpasses anything the Roman matron over dreamed of who wear silken underwear and sleep in beds of silken sheets, pillows and coverlets. Their do sire for splondor and luxury know no bounds. They are not dillerent In kind from their Roman sisters of two thousand years ago. These stories of the luxuriant living are spread before the world |by the newspapers. How must the poorjfeel whon they read them—the coal miners, for example, who can barely gain a subsistence by the hardest labor? Is it a wonder if thoy feel some bitterness towards these untolling, unsplnnlng lilies of humanity, who do nothlug and have everything?

RENEWING YOUTH.

A silly report conies from Paris to the effect that the noted Dr. Brown-Seguard, who is 72 years old, has discovered the fountain of eternal youth. That is to say, the doctor, growing old and Infirm, bethought him of some plan for renewing his youth. It occurred to him that If the active principles of life in the tissues could l»e obtained from young bodies and Injected into old oaee, youth could be restored. The wise doctor tried it. He took parts of such tissues as he needed from young pigs and dogs, triturated these still palpitating particles in a mortar, immersed them In distilled water, tnd obtained a liquid containing the esseuUal elements of the tissues. A few drops of this liquid he injected under thesklu with an ordinary hypodermic syringe. The result was that the septuagenarian became young again. From being unable to work half an hour In the laboratory he gained strength to work three hours. His sleep became tranquil and restful, his appetite returned, and he became a renewed man throughout.

This is interesting If true, but we are Inclined to look upon it as a pleasant French hoax. Nature has not dlslgned that we should keep young by feeding on the Uasuee of young pigs and dog*. •'The days of our years are three score years and ten, and If by reason of strength they bo four score year*, yet Is their strength labor and sorrow." Our bodies were made to wear out and wear out they will whatever we do or donH do. Temperate living may extend our days no doubt, but we must all die. There is no fountain or elixir of yonth, simply because eternal youth on earth was manifestly not intended. Dr. Brown-Seguard nor any other scientist will ever find away to ward oft the white hair and tottering step of declining age,

2HE SULUVA^^LRAm FIGHT. What shall be «ald of the big prlte fight, now that it Is over? It seems useless to moralise. A most brutal spectacle surely and yet it atems people will have it. It eeems curious though that all the ciTil and military arity of a great SUM should not be wfctont to prcnnt two«• from doing M•nuwiwthlng whon the tim. drtHwmtrtr adnrtlnd beforehand. ptwnon

SUM MiptoUoOlT that

the fight could not and should not take place within their borders and issued proclamations to that effect. Yet the principals and their backers went on making their arrangements with the railroads. and others and at the ticie appointed the two sluggers met and fought their two hours' fight in peace. After it was all over they were arrested. Now let us see what the outraged law of Mississippi will do with them.

There is one point in which this fight differed from some of its predecessors: it was a real fight. Hard blows were dealt and taken and the man who was whipped was really whipped. There was no foolishness about it. The big Boston bruiser really achieved some honor, or rather restored his waning reputation by the encounter. He had braKged and bullied so much of late without doing any fighting that the world was fast losing faith in both his powers and his courage. But he demonstrated both in the recent combat. Kilrain is as large a man as Sullivan, a great athlefeand well trained, but he seems to have been cowed from the first and lost heart early in the fight, although it was no match for the big Boston fellow, whose muscles are like Iron and whose blows are like the stroke of a twenty horse power engine piston-rod.

Sullivan declares that he will not go in the ring any more. Let us hope he will keep his word. He has certainly followed that sort of life long enough to turn his magnificent physique to something better. ^,

WHAT DO WE LIVE FORt If we should see a school In which the children played five hours a day and studied one, we should say at once that the pupils had mistaken the purpose for which the school was carrle that they were making the main thing that which was only intended as an incident.

With the conditions reversed this Is precisely the mistake we have made with respect to life. We have made the matter of food, clothing, houses and lands the chief thing, while the cultivation of mind and heart, and the rational enjoyment of the blessings of heaven, have been relegated to the back-ground or neglected altogether. For when the race toils from early morn till late at night, barely stopping long enough to eat, we may know that brain and muscle are In no condition for intellectual or social pleasure, even were there opportunity for it, and are forced to the conclusion that the race understands industrial activity—that is to say money-get-ing, to be the chief end of existence.

But is this true? Was man created simply or chiefly to delve and toil? To dig coal out of the earth and burn it in factories and furnaces? To cobweb the land with railroads and plow the seas with ships? If this be all, why make man at all? These things perish with the using. The soul alone remains. It must be then, as the Bible declares, that the soul Is tne chief thing, the important factor in human life, and its cultivation, development and enjoyment the main purpose of existence. But we have multiplied our artificial wants until the days are not long enough to satisfy them all. We do draw the line to be sure, and say, "More than this the human machine cannot stand without breaking down, so we will stop here." But for the limit of human endurance we might demand still finer things, stimulate our ingenuity to discover or create new wants, and work 15 hours a day (as many now do) instead of 10 or 12. We have gone so far as to admit that the sonl ought not to be entirely ignored, that it has some rights which we are bound to respect, and that a small fraction of our time should be given to it.

What we ought to do is to teverse our scheme entirely, decide how many hours are needed for rational enjoyment of the blessings of life and devote tho rest to labor. "The race would starve," promptly cry out the Atkinson school of economical theorists. The race would not starve at all. It might possibly have fewer superfluities (and that would be good for it), but it would have plenty to eat, wear and live in. Indeed it is not certain that it would have more than it has now, since a great part of the work done Is useless and unprofitable, and all this might be turned into channels of usefulness.

The change of administration In the city postoffloe took place Monday morning and with the exception of carriers, new men are now at work in the various departments. The best of feeling has prevailed in all the changes, and it Is not only to the credit of Mr. Regan but his assistants also, that every effort has been made to thoroughly acquaint the new men with the duties of their respective positions. Mr. Greiner's management will be a success in every detail acd good postofflce service can be expected by the public. The new employes will receive better salaries than the old, as provided for in the recent act of Congress. These will be: postmaster,|S,000 assistant postmaster, 91,500 superintendent of delivery, 11,300 ragistery clerk, |1,000 order cJerfc^ *1,000 mailing clerk, to$1,400 stamp clerk, $800 general delivery clerk $800 to $1,200 and carriers $83 per month. The sice and importance of the office can be fully determined from the report of receipts and dtsbnrsmenta for 1888° on which, as a basis, the office was ,: jed on the first-class list. This is In substance as fallows: Receipt*, Including sales.of stamps, newspaper postage, box rents, cbx, fST *5.0© disbursements, Including free de« very expanses, general expense account and pos* lister1*salary,$86,4 ".« as, leaving the net profits of the office |18v3M^4.

With two days nr se any magaaine or novel can he had at the Postofflce News Stand, No. 12 north Seventh street.

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TERRS HAUTE SATURI/AY EVENING1 MATT.,

Women in the Field.

OU1DA. THE NOVELIST, ON FARM AND GARDEN WORK FOR WOMEN.

It is strange that any idea of degradation in field work should ever have arisen. It is the oldest, the most primative, and the most poetic of all forms of labor. Even a line of women hoeing or gathering tubers on a flat expanse of earth, and standing dark against the

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in it compared to a line of similar women standing before a row of tables, of looms, or of machines. Field work does not necessarily either age or injure the women. I knew a woman—one out of numbers like her—who is 55 years old she is very handsome in feature, and clear of complexion, her statute Is firm, and her form lithe and active she has been the mother of twelve sons and daughters she is now the head of the family, being a widow she still works early and late in the fields, as she has done ever since she was a small child employed to cut grass for the calves or weed the rows of lettuce or endive her strength Is vast, she can lift immense weights with no effort she rises at four o'clock to send her family off to their various labors she rules them with patriarchal severity, and, with the exception of two or three hours' rest at midday in summer, she is out of doors all day in the fields, or by the edge of the river washing, or on the road with her eggs, and fowls, and fruit in leisure moments she is always plaiting straws, a bundle of which always hangs from her waist" ready to occupy any spare idle instant. This is an absolutely true, unexaggerated, and exact description of a peasant who has done hard work in the fields all her life, and has a clear, smooth skin and fine form, which duchesses might envy her. It may be said that she is a woman of unusually admirable physique, and no doubt she is so but she has toiled in the fields and woods, in summer droughts and winter rain storms, all her days, and she has thriven magnificently upon it. She is like a matron of old stepped out from thtf eclogues of Virgil or the pastorals o| Theocritus.

This woman has led a wholly natural life obeying natural instincts, enjoying natural affections, and fed by the pure, fresh, sweet air of a sunny hillside. Is not this incomparably higher, wiser, more enjoyable and useful life than life spent in the streets of a city, in the reek of a work-room?

Where women work ingafigs the labor in tho fields may become degrading and brutalizing, but where they work on land either temporarily their own by rental or by the metayer system, the occupation is the healthiest that can be found. Open-air work is considered to age women prematurely, but It does not do so one-half so quickly and so Jiide* ously as the in-door work in close dene and chambers, in vitiated air and monotonous employment.

It is the habit of the present day to decry all preference for the rural life as sentiment. Yet it might fairly be urged that there Is much more sentiment—i. e. false sentiment—In the untruth which dresses up in false colors, the coarse and dreary desolation of the lift} of .the poor in towns. /rf1 I

It is a false and cruel notion which has crept in among the rural classes that rural labors are degrading, and the poisonous and pent-up work of towns a means of "bettering" themselves. The deoay of English agriculture and national prosperity generally is due to the desertion by the farmers' womenkindof all their farm-house duties. They are too "fine" to churn, to keep the poultry and the bees, to be busy in lambing time, to be adroit in fruit-preserving, herb-drying, in pork pickling, in chicken rearing. Instead of these homely and useful occupations they strum on a pianoforte, speak the French of Strat-ford-le-Bow, buy cheap finery, and read cheap newspapers. The wives and daughters of their laborers follow the example thus set them, and forsake the fragrant cowslip meadows and the hawthorn hedges of the country-side for the smoky garret and the stinking workroom of the nearest big town. All the political and socialistic efforts of the time to make the peasant his own landlord amounts to nothing there is a growing hatred of the country in the breasts of the rural population, and this is mainly due to the restlessness and uneasiness and silly envies which render their women impatient on the broad, calm, silent, solitary fields, jpj

Any life spent where the four winds of heaven blow freely over growing grass and fresh-turned clods must be saner, more solid, and with jnore probabilities in it of health and enjoyment, that a life passed in the fool gases and noises of a choked-up and over-populwted city. Rural work is, it is true, followed in damp climates by rheumatic afffeotions but these might be greatly avoided if there were a better knowledge of the uses of food and clothing, and it is a less evil than die diseases which aooom pany over-crowded and sedentary work in towns.

A false philosophy, a false social science, have oombined with the erode errors of a rash revolutionism to tempt the workers of the country into the crowded streets of the cities. A false shame is suggested and taught to ait those who have the good sense to be contented with a rustle lot. A false estimate of the galas and superiorities of urban over rural life Is incessantly placed before all peasantries by all demagogue. And, above nil, all theories and doctrines of modern radicalism, while bidding the peasantries clamor for the possession of the acres they dwell upon, tall them, with every ingenkms varia-

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Uon of theme, that the culture of the soil is an inferior and degrading slavery compared to the labors of the machineroom and the mill. That it is not so, even for women, may fairly be claimed by all those who have studied the labors of women in the fields. Let it be distinctly understood, and repeated as often as possible, that field work does not degrade women in any way, does not nnsex them, does not expose them to any special temptations, but does render the probabilities far greater of the children whom they bear being robust in frame 4tid healthy in constitution.

Attention is called to J. H. Blake's card announcing Poplar street property BOW for sale. Of,

Buy your Sunday meats of Fred Seeburger, 711 Main street, just opposite the Terre Haute house. He has anything you want In steaks, roasts, cutlets. etc. 4

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WOOD & WRIGHT.

Fair, upright dealings In the most trivial, as well as most important business transactions, insures patronage. It is on this principle that Wood & Wright invite your inspection of their furniture. ill on them at 23 and 25 south Fourth.

HOTTER THAN

A bakeoven is what most everyone says. While this may be true, yet if you are desirous of cooling yourself, call at Eisers and get some ice cream, soda or milk shake, ginger ale, Waukesha, and Blue Lick water, or delicious Ice cream, oholce fruits, candies, etc.

There are many absurd rules for keeping cool, rules which common sense people laugh at. Here's a word of advice on the subject: Don't unnecessarily incumber your feet, but wear light comfortable summer goods, such as A. H. Boegeman will sell you. Go and look at his lace, button and light congress shoes, his Oxford ties, and other attractive styles.

Sweet Breads

are among the choice things at Wahler's Meat Market, on scuth Fourth street. All kinds of fresh meats of the nicest.

Look to your horse's com Tort by buying one of Peter Miller's fly nets and a set of light harness also look at bis trunks, valises, whips, etc. He will please you.

Bathing suits at Baker & Watson's. _____ Cool coats and vests 60c at 521 Main street.

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A. C. FORD,

Order your Sunday ICQ cream of E. E. Lawrence, Fourth and Cherry.'

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Summer coats and vests for 60c. A. C. FORD,

Yoti Can always find the celebrated W. A. Sheap Ice cream at E. E. Lawrence's, Fourth and Cherry.

You can get twelve sheet* of good writing paper for 5 cents at the Postoffice News Stand, also twenty-five envelopes for 5 cents.. ,'"No. 12 north Seventh street.

Sullivan-Kllrain Fight. -1

Persons wishing copies of the Police Gazette, illustrating the Sullivan and Kilrain fight, will do well by calling at tho Post Office News Stand, No. 12, North Seventh street. Leave your name and the number of copies you want.

It is all well enough to talk of "beauty unadorned" but when It comes to pictures the frame has much to do with the effect. A beautiful frame doubles the beauty of a picture, and C. W. Merrlng, at 22 north Fourth street has a line of mouldings which cannot be surpassed. His line is complete in every detail and he is prepared tu do the best of work. Call and examine the many beautiful things he has on display. „vk J"

ire in Terre Haute.

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lose agin. Too wan the cytie gets •ewed sgin for somtbin' like a millyon, and we pore folks all hev too pay hier Uxes. Kf it kumes to thes, sevrul pepul Ikno' hev to take my advise an' ekonomlxe by hyin ther groceries nv E. R. Wright ft Oo. Bat ef It dutent they kuden't do better then go to the White Front. There they hev:

Wttirmftk"**) blackberries and red raspberries, cherries, currants, gooeebeniea, peaches, apples, spring cauliflowers, lettuce, radishes, oniors, beets, tontlpe, cabbage, new potatoes, tornados, asparagus, dressed spring chickens,

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Remnants and Odds and Ends at Half Price..

"We are reducing stock now a» fast as possible. Cutting priees right in two. A few Parasols and Long Handled Umbrellas are marked at less than cost. Fine Sateens ana Wash Bengal in es, fiiae Ginghams and Wash Novelty Goods at greatly reduced prices. Summer Hosiery away down. Ladies' Jersey j&ibbed Vests reduced to 8c, l'2|cr 19c and 25c, worth double. Dress Goods marked down. Silk Mitts, Summer Corsets, Ribbons, Ruchings, Collars and Cuffs. Silk Drapery Nets at very low prices. Fans, Fans* Fane- from lc upwards. See our 10c Ginghams. Reduced prices all over our store. Please examine. ''•v

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