Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 September 1889 — Page 4

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S HEJMAIC

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WEteTFALL, MA51CXB.

-lUHtJCKiniOW PRICK, &00

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POBMCATIOK omCB,

Foi. 20 tad 33 Houth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TKI'.KK AUTE, SEPTEMBEK 14,1889

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London dock laborers are strik

ing for 12 cents an hour, and tbey ought to strike till doomsday if tbey don't get it. If a man's work ian't worth 12 cento an hour what Is there for him to live for anyway.

Jon* L. SULLIVAN aspire* to be a Democratic Congressman it is said. Well, perhaps there have been worse Congressman than the big slugger would make, bat we hope the time for «ort of thing in this country has passed.

THERK will be no extra session of Congress. President Harrison has listened to the arguments on both sides and with hi* usual level-beadedness decided that a nesslon beginning the flretof December would be sufficient. The people will be with him in this decision.

JULIA:* HAWTHORNE received bad news on his arrival in Europe. He learned that his house had been sub merged by the floods in New Jersey and his library of thousands of volumes containing some rare manuscripts, had been ruined. It Is to be hoped the loss will not be so utter as was first represented.

AFTBR many months of calm In Europe comes the startling announcement that Kussla is massina large bodies of troops on the Turkish frontier. If somebody were not everlastingly massing large bodies of troops somewhere in Europe this news might be more alarming. AH it is we will wait calmly for the next cable message. lN. BROWN-SKQUAIID still professes to hnve faith In his life elixir, and says he is trying to find something that will do for women what this does for men. •Curiously enough the same dispatch that Ijrlngs this word relates that the venerable savant was suffering from au attack of rheumatism of the legs which had kopt him In bed for several days. The elixir then does not seem to have re newed the doctor's youth to any great extent.

WHAT would rich Americans do with their spare cash If they did not have Europe to spond It In? Never before was Europe so over-run with Americans .•us this year. Now that they want to get home there are not steamers enough to carry them and liberal bonuses are paid to the ships' oflleer* for the use of their rooms. It Is estimated that 80,000 Americans have landed In England this summer and have spent twenty millions of .an. "fjounHnto ber ooffors from the new land across the sea?

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THK resignation of Corporal Tanner as commissioner of pensions simply mean* •that he wont out to avoid being turned out. Everybody will feel sorry for Tanner but the result was inevitable. A1 though repeatedly cautioned to restrain tils tongue the warnings were In vain and he went on talking with such recklessness as brought his whole department into contempt. It is a pity the mau lmd no more sense or discretion. It is a clear case of an office too big for the man entrusted to administer it. The corporal has no one to blame but liiutself for the outcome.

THK suddeu death of 8, S. Cox, long nnd popularly kuown as "Sunset" Cox, the New York Democratic Congressman removes a man whoso loss will be regret'ted by people Irrespective of party. Of late years he has been known almost *}ually well as an author as a politician, liavlng produced several popular vol um?s of travel. Although long the funny man of the House of Representatives, Mr, Cox was a man of ability and scholarship, of wide knowledge of public affair* and a very capable legislator Upon leaving college he selected the law for his profession but soon abandoned it for journalism. As editor of the Col urn bus, O. statesman he gained his first ^national fam by a high flown tk«crip tkm

a sunset, dashed off on the spur

-of the moment, and which gave htm the nickname of "Sunset." Whlhn a Democrat, he was a libeml and Independent turn of mind and did not always follow the party leaders wherever they might I choose to and opposed them in the matter of admitting the recent new

Btatea Into the Colon.

THK (tAMliLfXd riGS. The vice of intemperance has attracted so much attention that another vice haitlly km general and demoralising has not received as much notice aa it I should.

A gentleman long connected with a surety company told the writer recently that In hi* experience nearly all the young men who had become embeaxlera or defaulters had taken their first step in atoms form of gaufhUng. Having made the start tbey could not recover I themselves but got In deep*r and deeper until financial and moral rain was the iconseqaenco.

The extent to which professional gambling is c*rried on In the large cities Lis appalling. It Is tall tted that a «ta» cle gambling bomm in |i,t) persons In it» ewnNty -we month lly wtgat amount to with a profit So the managers of more than per month. There area mom of a«M«h dena which are known to the oftcw*, besides

many underground and concealed places where gambling of one kind or another is carried on. Then there is the more private sort of gambling at cards which is more or less widely prevalent.

The gambling, too, that is carried on in "bucket shops" and on boards of trades must not be overlooked. Many a man has started on the road to financial ruin, flight to Canada or suicide, by his first speculation in grain or stock margins. Take it all in all the gambling vice has a terrible catalogue of sin and crime to answer for. It is an evil of gigantic proportions and one against which the press, the pulpit and very moral agency should be brought to bear with vigorous and continual power.

EDWABD BELLAMY'S book appears to be producing fruit, or at least sowing seed which may in time produce fruit. A notable movement is going on in the large cities in the organization of "Nationalist Clubs" along the line of "Looking Backward." The basis of these organizations is the declaration that "national co-operation must take the place of individual competition the present system is destroying both body and soul of men and women, and that the civilization of the age demands an industrial system more in accord with intelligence and reason. Two such clubs have been formed in Chicago. They have also been organized in other cities. The movement is as yet in its incipiency, just fairly begun. It remains to be seen how general it will become and how influential upon the thought of the people. If the movement shall lead to an earnest study of industrial conditions by intelligent and thoughtful people, with a view to bettering the status of the masses of tho people, certainly nothing but good can come of it. Why not organize a club here In Terre Haute? We are usually up with the times in all that is going on and if tbis movement is to be the fad or fashion of the hour we ought to have a hand in it. Besides, Terre Haute has bright, original minds that cannot be spared from the discussion of importance to the general weal.

AN ORIGINAL MAID.

It will not do any more to say that women have no originality. There have been many things recently which give the lie to that old chestnut, but none more conclusive we think than the idea of a Chicago women who has issued cards of invitation to her friends to celebrate the fifth anniversary of her splusterbood. Nor does the act show less courage than originality. A women who thus publicly proclaims to tho world that she has passed the age of sweet sixteen, has, In plain prose, btcome thirty-five years old and still a maid, must be set down as a heroine worthy to be set in William Dean Howell's latest novel.

Yet why indeed should a women not celebrate her spinsterhood? In this day and age when women not only take oare of themselves, but take care of their spouses into the barscaiiwmernfirnor •mhr useful employment are open to them and marriage is no longer the matter of convenience it once was in this golden age of womankind, to be a spin ster no longer implies that the subject has been slighted by the sterner sex. On the contrary die fact may justas well Indicate the voluntas choice of life of single blessedness as that most In aooord with her desires. In other words the time has nearly come when it is as honorable to be a maid &s batchelor and there is no impropriety in celebrating anniversaries of the event. But it may be some while yet before many maids will be sufficiently courageous to prac ttoe the Innovation.

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TtieoWWrs nf give th«m the ba will beoom:

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OWN THE CfJVNTH

Somewhat in line with a recent editorial in this paper, suggesting inquiry as to the number of millionaires in the United State», is Thomas Q. Shearman's article in the Forutn under the caption given above. The writer is not able to give statistics on the subject because no such statistics have ever been compiled (more's the pity), but an 1 lit ell ieent estimate of the wealth ami the wealthowners of the country Indicate tbatsorae 30,x» people own more than one-half of all the property in the United States. Here is Mr. Shearman's estimate: 200persona at «o. .. 4 *,000 prronn* at 1 .•

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His et innate of the utal weal uL country is |ao,000,GOO,OGv. If these estimates are anywhere near correct the discovery la an appalling one. Think of the •"T *•", »U of whom could live in a town waller than Terre Hant* owning half of the entire wealth of the pountry! The eetimatie may be too high or it may not be high enough, but tb$ one thing cert tin Is th*i, an em rnmu» amount of the

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pie and that this tomli&qr tot perty concentration has been guin^on rapidly in r«cent years. Soon the eio*» of tho war nllttr^ni inn* Mfcm ishingly. ii.« more acurately rh-y ,}0 Om» ownership of property ist riS ui.^d. It to an important laotw in x-ial ntinny and ill* tti* of

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Gossip for Women.

aUBSTIOHS WHICH ABE OP A FAMILY NATURE AND SHOULD HE

SO OOJ«i-

8IDERED—CO-EDCCA-TION—NOTB&

Two classes of questions arise In a family—those that are personal to either the husband or the wife, and thoee that effect both equally. In affairs which are common to both, experience must decide to whom the decision may be more safely committed.* Doubtless, in affairs regarding the relation of the family to the outside world, the peculiar training of the man fits him to be the safpr guide. But in domestic concerns, such as the selection and furnishing of the bcuse, the oversight, of servants, the training oi the children, the house mother is the natural leader. -v

Children naturally belong to both parents, and both parents should have by law an equal right to them and their earnings. No more unrighteous law disgraces the statute book than that which gives to the father tne sole ownership of children, sole control of their earnings and sole inheritance in their property. In many of the United States, until within a few years, a father might by will dispose of the person of even an unborn child. This law has been changed In several States but the power of binding out a child, be it son or daughter^ still rests with the father alone.

In matters private and personal, each must at the outset of married life recognize the complete freedom of the other. The only right to be maintained is the right of one to yield a personal desire for the sake of the hapnineBs of the other. Neither should expect to dictate as to what friends the other msy visit, what habits he may indulge, what private expenses he may incur.

In an addrelsW the young ladies of the University of Texas, which is co-educa-tional, ex-United States Minister S. B. Maxey said: "To the female students I beg to say that co-education of the sexes is no longer an experiment. It is a proved success. The just relations between the sexes are better understood than ever before In the world's history. Woman, without loosening her hold on that knightly respect and courtesy with which she has always been treated in our favored land, has proven herself intellectually a formidable competitor of that sex which In the very olden, distant time proclaimed mau to be the lord of human kind. Here, as elsewhere, she has proven her right and ability to com pete for honors. The moral influence of co-operation is great and beneficial to both sexes. The attention paid to female education during the present century and especially in the last half of it, Is a high evidence of advancing civilization While I abhor that unfeminlne, coarsegrained movement which seeks to thrust the female sex Into active political duties which, in the scramble for pUtfJfl-.St^W^ the esteem In which they are now held by men, I yet glory in the civilization which educates the girl equally with the boy, and gives employ ment to the woman equally with the man in all stHtions for which by nature and education she is fitted."

For some time it has been quite a fad among women with beautiful hands and arms to have them photographed. A well known photographer of Chicago who has made a specialty of this kind of photographing, says that a really beautiful hand is quite rare. To look well in a photograph it must not be too fat nor too thin, and neither must the fingers be too loo long nor too short and such a hand is difficult to find. The arm is rarely photographed above the elbow, and, with the hand, issomewhatdifficult to pose effectively. This difficulty in posing the arm to look well in a photograph have led some ladies to have their bands and arms modeled In clay and then oast in plaster or put into marble. This fad promisee to become even more populai than the other, and has the advantage of appearing really more lifelike and of showing off much better than a photograph the enrves and dimples of a pretty hand and arm.

The recent appointment of Miss Joanna Baker to the chair of Greek at Simpson college, Indlanola, Iowa, is t»lg !i!n.-Ant as showing the progress of wtmau since it was first permitted to h«r to learn the alphabet. Miss Baker succeeds to the portion filled by her father, Prof. O. H. Baker, seventeen v«'.in ago, in the same institution. A »»ut!fnl, clear-eyed woman, in the iijwcr ..f her youth, Miss Baker refutes the notion that there is a quarrel between health and early soolarship, since it 4she N'kfan Greek and Latin,at8read :\e Ana sia, at mpl)ed a leXicoD

Sophies' (Edipu* Tyrannus, and at waa a tutor of Greek in the college whi now claims her as its professor in that honeyed tongne.

In Alaeka girl is reedy for society aa on she enters her teens. It doee

f¥1'iUlre many

years in that oonntrj

for a girl to grow up. The dreea of tl average Sticke^n river nu^dens is not very elaborate. A plain cotton gmrment long and looae, envelops her person, and a Turkish bath towel is wound anmnd her head. When she goea ont a blanks of bright colon is thrown aronnd her

Tb« wife of a mJsefonaiy in

thu. ^eetion aaya the young* women often go barefooted, but that after they see the hoots and sl:--» of white women, their great dealre is to have a pair.

Tt la rumored that Qneeo VktorU Otinkm of baatowtng the Ofd«r of the on Tw

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The Season

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BROKAW

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Prepared to Meet all

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Largest, Cheapest

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Handsomest^

Cafpets

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TERRE HAUTE.

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]STew Style

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TURCUMCON

CURTAIN

Curtains,

ANI,

Shade Goods,

LINOLEUM

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Together with an Endless Variety oi If'

People tarnishing their houses shoula not fail to look at this stock before baying:

Brokaw Bros.

413 Wabash Ave.

Black Groods

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14 s,*4 ««'v

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OIL CLOTHS

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Styles and Prices.

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Ron H. Bi.Arat. Jam -s TDLACK & NlhBET^

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Black GrOOds!

HOBERb. ROOT & (K

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Black Goods Department will be opened Monday Morning Sept 16th., with all the Latest Novelties and Plain Biac Dress Fabrics, also a full line of

The finest Silk Warp Henrietta* made in the world.

None Genaitie unleM rolled on th* VABN1SHED BOABD

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KOM Gennine unloaa rolled on the "VARNISHED BOABO."

Black Goods I-

& Co.'s

SILK WARP

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NOM Genuine nnlew nlkxi on the "VARNISHED BOARD."

HOBERG ~ROOT & CO.,

I'j Jobbers and ft' taih-rs, 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

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Our stock is very large and complete, comprising all the popular standard weaves, such as Serges, Sebastopools, Alma Cloths* Venitionv Princes, Royals, Drap De Alma, Batist,, Faille Francoke, etc, etc,, etc, in silk waarp and all wool.

Special Values

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Black Mohairs,

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at 75c, $1., $1.28.

il We also offer three numbers of Priestley's Silk Warp Henriettas, at IL35, $1.50 and $1.75, worth $1.5(V $1.75 and $2.00. Greatest bargains ever shown.

Iv4 IS pes.All Wool 1

Henriettas at 75c

worth $1. Be suie yon see

Century" Black

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l&Iegant line in Blue, Medium and Jet Black, at 45c, 50c, 58c, 68c, 75o 82|c, 90c, 95c and $1.00. The best wearing Cashmeres made.

Our Trimming Department is filled with all the Choicest Trimmings, Gimps, Fringes, Passementaries, Galloons, Braids, Fringe Dress Fronts and Fancy Novelties. Elegant line of Black, Jet and Crochet Buttons, large and small

to match.

Every Department in our immense establishment is full of the choicest things that the market affords, at very reasonable prices. P. S. Onr Big Cloak Department is now very attractive. Please call and examine.

nEess ONE MLfctfekriceofo^ers.

Ooid Dust Washing Powder is by all gmceis. Made only by

N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., CHICAGO. III.

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and

LaPorte Lake Ice Co.,

sisnrxrara -, BOS.

(fto'jtmmon to P. Pttrdne.)

Oiee. 711 lite Stmt, Tciephow SOS