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

HEJVIAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WE8TFALL, MAXAGKK.

ISOBSCRXPTIOK PKICS, 12.00 A YKAR. PUBIXLCATIOK OVTICZ,

No*. 20 and 22 Booth Fifth Street, Printing House Squmre.

TERRE HAUTE, JULY 20, 1889.

WHAT is getting the matter with the railroads? It appear* that daring the first half of this year eight roads, with a mileage of 2,600 miles, have gone into bankruptcy. It's better now to be a conductor than a stockholder in the railroad.

MB. BLAIKE is getting himself talked aboat again, the mooted question being as to his intention to resign as Secretary of State. It is said that he has been overworked and longs for leisure and his library. But be knew what he had to expect when he took the office and it is not likely that he will give it up just when most of the hard work has been done and he has got it into nice running order. _____

TERRIBLE as the Johnstown flood was the disaster is every now and then equal led and even surpassed by simular ones in China without attracting special attention. The news has just been receiv ed of floods in China on the 2nd instant which are reported to have destroyed 6,000 lives—a considerably larger num ber than were lost at Johnstown. Yet we hardly stop to give the matter a thought.

CHICAOO and Philadelphia are trying t*idecide which is the larger city. With recent annexations Chicago has the is&icres but the city of brotherly love !alstH tjjat it has the most people, claim .^about a million and a quarter to for Chicago. The census will tattle it next year, but if Philadelphia doeH.b this time it will be her last in niBg. The windy city by the Lake will t&ke the cake soon.

AoC$iDtNJ to the Chicago paper*, an ?e£Tortitis being made to consolidate all the labor organizations of the country Jinto one united body. Most of the separate organisations have signified their l^lllingness to go into suoh a union which would result in the grandest labor federation ever seen in the world. If such a union wore formed and the consolidated body managed by conservative and intelligent men, a groat deal of good might be accomplished by it. If on the contrary, it were controlled by hot-heads and radicals, public sentiment would be alienated from it and it would lose its power for good, just as the

Knights of Labor did when they engaged in all sorts of foolish strikes a couple years ago,

SOMR of the eastern papers have manl fested somo anxiety over the appointment of Dr. Mendenhallas superintend ent of the coast and geodetic survey on the ground that he is not a man of "national reputation." The able editors of these papers are not as well acquaint ed with the scientific men of the day as they profess to be. As the Chicago Tribune well says, "Mr. Mendenhall is well known among scientists outside of Cambridge and Boston, a faot sufficiently at tested by his election as president of the American Association for the Advance

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of Science at its last annual meet ing at Cleveland last summer. The President was in search of a practical scientist, and naturally turned to the west to find him." Of course it is hard for the eastern editors to have to admit the exlstonoe of first-rate scientiflo and literary ability in the west, but they will have to come to it.

MINING MACHINES.

The announcement that the Clay ooun ty coal operators are investigating coal mining machinery with a view of in troduoing it in their mines points to still farther oomplleation of the labor troubles In that district. These machines are being used In the Illinois mines with the effect of reducing the cost of coal mining, a fact which is largely responsible for the reduction of the miners' wages. Of course the first thought that comes to one is that the Introduction of mining machines means lees work and harder limes tor the miner. But mining is not an exception In this respect. Type-setting machines are more and more being introduced Into the large printing office®, which means of course the employment of fewer printers, unless a corresponding Increase in the amount of type set shall oAet this effect. Undoubtedly the use of mac hi ery la for the general good by cheapening of production but it operates hard on thoee engaged in the pursuit affected until the lines of industry are reformed on anew basis.

THE

SPARROWS MUST OA

We all knew the Eugliah sparrow was a nuisance but we have not realised how mnoh of a nuisance it was and our eyes will be opened to the enormity of the little tyrant by perusal of a goodaiaed volume reoently issued by the Department of Agriculture, which gives complete history of the bird alnos lie introduction into this country lees then forty years ago. Speaking of the

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18W ibe writer says:

«The marvelous rapidity of the sparrow* multiplication, the surpassing tteetfenelon, an* the

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dUrtooasiseoftheareeithasoviimpread fre without parallel 1* the history of noxious weed transfertile soil, it bee taken planted to a

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sparrows will in tec years produce a progeny of 33^614. They are a heavy tax on the farmer and are suoh inveterate fighters that they drive ofi many of our native birds. The department regards the sparrow as "a serious problem in economic science," and recommends the enactment of laws legalizing its killing at ail seasons of the year, and the destruction of its nests, eggs and young, and the protection of such birds as prey upon it.

"LOOKING BACKWARD.* The above is the title of a book by Edward Bellamy which has attracted wide attention, its sale having run up into the thirty-fifth thousand and perhaps beyond that figure now. It is one of the notable books of the time and should be read by everyone who wishes well to the race and hopes for the dawn of a better era. 1

The author professes to have lain in a trance from the year 1887 to 2000, when he awoke and gives an account of society as then existing. In the twentieth century everything is done by the government. All work of every kind is performed by "the industrial army," which includes all the men between 21 and 45 years of age who are capable of service No one is required to work before the age first named nor after the age of 45, except in the filling of a few honorable positions. All receive the same compensation, wihch is simply a card of credit from the government for a fixed amount each year. The government conducts all the industries of the nation and whatever is needed can be obtained by application at the proper place, the value of which is punched from the card. It is found that the hours of labor »n oe greatly reduced and the comforta of the people greatly multiplied by a system which eliminates all needless work, consolidates the industries of the nation under a few great division, and gives to every man the kind of work which he is best fitted to do. Women are not required to work at all, except as to looking after the affairs of the household. No servants are employed, there being great dining halls where the people are fed, each family bavin* a separate room set apart for its special use.

To the objection that there would be unendurable monotony in a world where all incomes were the same it is answered that people use their income differently, just as they do now. Those who love tine houses or clothes or a luxurious table gratify their particular taste, and so with the test, while the excitement and interest now devevopei by the sharp contests in business life are happily exchanged for an interest in science, art and the thousand forms of Intellectual and social enjoyment.

This brief outline does no sort of justice to the book, which is an exceedingly ingenious and plausible scheme. That it would be either practicable or desirable in all its features is a question upon which intelligent minds might well differ. But as a story the book 1bcharming and as a thoughtful contribution to the present discussion of labor and social questions, it is suggestive and valuable. It can be had cheap in paper covers and we are inclined to think that every one who spends fifty oents for the volume will never regret the outlay.

MUSINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHER If you are to be great your person must disappear behind your work.

Women who meddle with politics are fowls who make themselves vultures. The multitude is like the sea it either beats you up or swallows you, according to the wind.

Politics resembles a desert in which a blast of wind forms an enormous moun tain, and in whioh dangerous mirages are frequent. 3

You do not care, perhaps, if people refuse to follow your advice. But if they half follow it you are hurt and make a wry face.

We hasten to implant in newoountries the civilisation of old ones. This is like putting a double tooth into the moath of a child.

To be the friend of a sovereign you must be without passion, without ambition, without egotism, clear-sighted, and far-sighted in short, not a man. SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Boston Courier: Children cry for the moon. Men want the earth. Norristown Daily Herald: Phrenology teaches that fulness under the eyes denotes language. Observation teaches that black and blue marks under the eyes denote bad language.

Chicago Tribune: Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some can curve a ball.

Knoxvllle Journal: Sam Jones says,

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the corset," That's what some

of us have been doing tor a long time. We know of lots of good fellows who are willing to "crush the corset" on the slightest provocation.

Scran ton Truth: A man whoss 111 temper is chronic is like a camel. Tbey both got their becks up when they were young, and they have remained in that condition ever since.

Edmondson, the optician, Is still testing eyes free at Schmidt's old Jewelry store and fiU'ng spectacles that are perfect. The ptofsssor has noauperiors In this country. It Is his porpoee to visit Terrs Haute two or three times annually. Those who desire to have their eyee tested should call early. Betnembsr all free.

OosUy ts Oil

And It Is risky to drill oil wells or any kind of well tor that matter. Bat titers Is money In It If you strike It. Sboald Tos not want to take any risks then mall on Eiser, Ninth and Main and get YMR lee crsam, soda water, milk shake, fruits, oaodiea, fine eigats, Casey lise-

Gossip for Women.

HOW A PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY DEFEATED FAST COMING WRINKLES—A DELUSION OF

STOUT WOMEN.

One of the most dashing bathers in the Narragansett Pier group this summer is known as the Pocket Venus. She is a married lady, Mrs. Rosalie Blood good by name. The World describee her as "very small, very plump and very pink and white." Her yellow hair is knotted high on her head and covered with a fisherman's cap of fine white knitted silk, which is lined with oiled silk that does not show through the meshes and that is held in place by an elastic band set on the inside. There are close white serge trousers to the knee, fastened there by a strap running through the silver

buckle

and meeting long white ribbed

silk stockings. The shoes are of white canvas tied with white silk strings in a big knot over the instep. The tunic is all in one piece and does not reach quite to the knee, being edged with many rows ol white silk braid and having the wide square collar turning over and embroidered with anchors. It opens in front nearly down to the waist over an inside vest of heavy white silk covered all over with embroidery. It is confined by a heavy white silk sash drawn around and knotted low on one hip there are only puffs at the armholes, leaving the round, pretty, white arms perfectly bare. Mis. Bloodgood displays more fondness for sun baths than for plunges into salt water. The last foamy fringes are sometimes allowed as the wave recedes to play about her ankles, but she likes better to sit on the sand in the sun and talk to those who have been down to the sea in commonplaoe bathing dresses and will oome out to sit on the sand around, her and admire her snowy immaculateness while the water drips out of their, hair.

Teresa H. Dean has written a book en-{ titled "How to be Beautiful." In that book, it is gratifying to discover, Mrs. Dean expatiates with much emphasis on the advantages of bathing. We are assured in this particular chapter that Mrs. Langtry, to whose complexion all concede the palm, takes a plunge every morning. After a thorough rubbing she wraps herself in blankets and rests twenty minutes. One day she was horrified upon seeing little wrinkles on her fair face, and after long hunting in vain for something to stay the spread of these tiny lines a good angel told her of the means employed by Persian women to ward off wrinkles, wnich is nothing more or less than covering the face with slioes of raw veal. She immediately sent for the veal, according to the historian, and for two hours thereafter she was "not at home" to callers. Since then she has been using veal twice a week, and finds it a very successful, nourishment and tonio for the stffigaijj&M1ickle." tissues. ... 2 1,-1- "**1

Mrs. Dean dd6s flOt B^eify Sn^other lady who employs veal in this manner, but in discussing the bath she says that "our own Mrs. Frank Leslie, one of the most beautiful and one of the most physically perfect women in the world, takes a cold dip in the morning, that, with regular exercise, eating and sleeping, gives her the appearance, upon the closest inspection, of a woman on the sunny side of 35, while as a matter oi fact her age must run Into the shadows by several years."

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It is said that women stand in awe of their dressmakers. Well, it is not to be wondered at. A new gown is serious business, and what could women do unassisted by the cutting and snipping and basting and fitting and draping despots upon whom they are helplessly dependent? Sometimes the dressmakers deliver themselves of an opinion in public. One of the guild is reported to hsve expressed her amazement at the persistency with which stout women squeeze themselves into clothes without trimming on them, and so tight that the waist has to be operated on with a button hook. It is a curious delusion with whioh all fat women are afflicted that their embonpoint can be concealed by means of tight lacing and no trimming on their clothing. "'Oh,' they say, 'dont make my sleeves full my arms are so stout they can't stand it.' And nothing I can say to them will persuade them that the true way to conceal the sise of their arms is by covering them up in looee broken folds Instead of crowding them into a plain case three tlmee too small tor them, which has the effect of giving them the most gastly resemblance to sausages. Instead of wearing their clothee loo*e so that the flesh will not be eqneessd out inordinately in any direction and hanging all aorte of drapriee about themselves with straight flowing* Unee to deceive the eye sad give the effect of alsaderneas, eveiy fat woman who ever oomes into this place laoea herself scandalously. And her bodies must always be as plain and as smooth as the paper on the wall, so that every one of her exaggerated outlinee stares at you without the slightest disguise. But it Is hopeless to argue with them. I think getting fiat aflects their minds in some way, so that they are incapable of seeing how queer they look."

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have been tagged away in the meantime by mischievous hands. Some of the brightest, must sparkling things which appear in the newspapers and which the masculine reader devours so greedily, and enjoys with as much gusto as he does the editor's leaders, are written by women who mix their literary work with their cookery, jotting their ideas on empty paper bags that have brought eggs and sugar from the grocery, while the waiters are wailing for the apple sauce to stew or the pudding to bake.

The unbiased mind will admit that the piquancy and readablenees of her treatment of common topics as well as the high moral themes that engage woman's pen furnish a ralson d'etre for her continuance in even wider fields of literature and it is no Utopian eye that seee her, in a favorable environment, in the future taking the lead in literal work.

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Nearly ono-half the literary ppeuing in onrmagaaiaae and journals to-day Is written by women—many of them mothera of families who have no hours they can absolutely call their own, no quiet spot to which they ass go tar study sad thought, no room to whleh theohQdmiosa not have sunsss. IIU as suraaes that. If they tan their hanks a momsnt to replenish the fir* or get Jimmy a drink of water, they will not have

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Mmeiican ladies are warned that this is exposition year in the gay capital of the gayest nation. The Paris purveyors of women's "things" are despotic. You must take what they choose to sell you and at their own prices. The place to buy French goods cheap this summer is any place outside of Paris, for the most blatant protection demagogue that ever ranted on the stump never dreamed of a tariff on French goods equal to the present rise in Jean Crapaud's valuation of

INQERSOLL'SDAUQTERS. I "m.n admiring friend of Bob Ingersoll fc*a given to a New York Sun reporter this extolling account Of the daughters: "They have never gone to school a day in their lives, never attended a church service, never had a love affair nor a secret from their parents, never uttered a

prayer nor bowed their haughty heads before a shrine, image or priest, but they are two of the loveliest oreatures that ever breathed the breath of life. If the big, merry infidel lawyer could be induced to quit his tirades long enough to write a book on bow to bring up daughters, there would not only be profit for the writer and the publisher, but a very excellent reason for a lenient opinion on the part of the abused church-goers. It is not possible to come ijj contact with these sisters without a feeling of admiration and astonishment If one is pious, the feeling is also regretful. They captivate by their very preseuce their manne.'s are irresistable, and the beauty of their lives is as positive as it is indescribable. Contrary to the established modes of procedure, the Ingersoll girls were never disciplined. The Colonel started out bv praising instead of punishing his children. Nothing was forbidden. Everyone was at liberty to say and do ana be what he wished. The word 'must' was by common consent eliminated from the family vocabuiavy, and has .remained obso leie eve: since. yfi

Attention is called to the announcement in another column entitled "only

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

In this season of athletics, rowing, isnnis playing, bicycler'di05,splinting, baseball playing and gymnastio exer etas, pro8oiency is only attained by wearing the proper kind of light shoes, and with such a scotching sun the feet and limbs can onlv be kept comfortable by not unnecessarily encumbing tnem. Look to your own intereet by vlsitiag Stein

Hecklesberg's shoeMre

ahd fitting you-self out.

Sum pepul git a lot o' '"tun out o' ridikulin' uthers who alnt had the 'vantages of bokes an' the like, bekus tha Laint spel an' malk gude gralmur,

Tha halve the idei&h thet tha aire purfexshun an thet the wurled ote tu be fensed in

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pleshure an' beneflght. Tha never kuld du eny

thing rong. O know! Wry the kudn't be 'mpolight. Tha aire up on awl the nust sewsighetie ruJs an' aire alius reddy to "Begg yure pardin sur" fur 'bout alyiy thyng but Inking at you and murcie nows yue wish tha would do it fur that tu. But nerlle aivry one nf these "Deoss bolis kum" penal, as the «e man kalis them In his F.-ench, malk a bad ak in tbair polelitness when tha maik fan of uthe.s far bad spewlin'. I was tout tbet St was mlte'y impulite to korrect a pusson whews maid a miss spewl ri.e aftor tbalr dun laJkln'. Now the Bxprees was so Impulite as tu talk what I sayd fur Ed Wright last week ind kur-ect evrle misiaik juat so I kuld

It. I felt awfuie morlified over it but my intenchens wor gude an' so I beleve the fslghia 11 pnt it agenst them lrfMeed o' me. The Wbite Front is with me eny how an' you to as nil see if yew take a luke at their

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