Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 November 1889 — Page 1

THE_MAI1J

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

ANOTHER Tascott HW been found which was not Taacott. Since 'tis the fashion why not find a Tascott in "Tarry Hut?"

The Japanese cabinet has resigned and been supplanted by anew body. Verily, Japan is reaching the plane of western civilization.

Puck thought New York's pretensions to being the proper place for the world's fair to be so good a joke that it subscribed $5,000 to help the joke along.

Chicago anarchists have declared their

hatred

of newspaper reporters. Therein

they throw bomb ot most destructive qualities into their own cauip. President Harrison ere his term expires will have had to appoint nine brigadier generals. As a soldier he will appoint brave and loyal men to the places.

The baby king of Spain is to have his picture placed on postage stamps. |t is seldom, remarks the New York Wdrld, that so young a boy becomes attached to letters. _____

New York Exchange memberships have declined in value from |3,000, at which price they found ready sale a few years ago, to $950 and $1,000, with no buyers. Whereof #any have reason to rejoice. _____

Indianapolis doesn't say "now is the time to lay in coal or cord wood," but "now is the time to lay in natural gas This is nice, but we are not envious for noon Terry Hut will

have

fuel gas her­

self, so there. Sing Sing prison has been entrusted with an execution by electricity, and, if nothing of a technical character prevents, murderer Charles McElvaine, of New York city, will be officially experimented on early in Decernbor.

.Small Southern towns which refuse to recognize the appointment of colored post masters are being very neatly rewerded by the postmaster-general in the closing up of their offices. This is ex-

It took a California court leas than 24 hours to catch a thief, tind him guilty and lodge him in the penitentiary to *erve out a ten-vear sentence. Such prompt carrying out of the law commands respect, and will make the courts of the coast state a place of terror for criminals. _______

The base ball series between Brooklyn and New York for the world's championship has ended, and as a conscience many pulses over the country now beat more regularly than during months gone by. New York won six of the nine garnets and is happy.

The postmaster general has established anew poatoflico in Unita county, Wyo­

ming,

and called it Grover. As it happens, the postmaster's name is Thurman. The combination la a little too suggestive would-be-forgotten days to he pleasant to the population at large in even so small a place as this now Grover.

Sir Francis Winton, late governor of the Congo Stat®, says that in spite or the

scores

of explorers who have been traversing Africa in all directions since Linlngstone began his travels the larger pert of the many millions of natives have never yet seen a whlto man. They have something to live for indeed.

Boston is threatened with a CatholicProtestant dispute over a school history, which, it is claimed, has been Romanised, This Is but an indication that wo may have to light the old battle that Europe has fought and Is fighting, for education uneolored by anybody's views of religion. ______

Mexico, during the fiscal year just ended, Imported from the United States gtHHls worth 19,2to,«TS, and sold us $51,a balance In her favor of fll,7M,apparently, but owing to a difference in currency really wit |2,3(®.fl67i On® more year will probably see tli® balance swing In our favor.

There are over a hundred vacant places in the diplomatic service of the United State®, including the missions to Russia and China, the positions of minister to Curea, Persia and Liberia, and eleven Consulates-General. This Is truly an opportunity for the greedy office-seeker to say with emphasis, "How near and yet how far." _______

There are r.i»9M children In Chicago who can receive schooling but half a day at a time because there Is not room for them. Some remedy for this ought surely to be found. The Chicago Newt suggests thai the $100,000 expended annually for teaching a for ^n language should be taken for building new school house®, remarking that "while the fun ily lacks break and butter is not wtee to put pi® on. the Tfc® suggea Uoti seems a moat i—.slble eolation of the trouble.

There is a rapidly growing sentiment all public schools should be provided with a national flag. In Chicago, Brooklyn and Boston the G. A. R. posts have supplied the schools, and in many other places the question is being in city councils, town meetings, etc. The idea is a good one, and will be adopted all over the country, so it now looks.

The Paia American delegates are living on the richest fruits of the land, and If luxurious living ever becomes tireaome it will become so to them. They are feasted at every turn, and are not only shown the ordinary things on their tour but also all the novelties, even to a war dance of native Indians. These "all" Americans are certainly having an all round good time. •*."

The new session of Congress will begin witn the Republicans having a majority of eight members in the house, and 14 fit probable that this majority will be used to seat ten other Republicans whose election were formally contested by defeated Democrats. Altogether the "winter opening" will^ be most auspicious for Republican

Town Talk.*

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A NEIGHBORHOOD TEMPEST, IJ.' The residents on north Seventh street, in the neighborhood where Jesse Robertsou unwisely decided to build his livery stable, have taken a very novel and effective way of venting their displeasure at the intrusion on their privacy in the erection of this not always to be desired concern. They are accepting every op portunity offered for filing suit against him for violation of the city ordinances They first charged him with building without the formal permit. To this he pleaded guilty and was fined. They next made complaint thai the streets had been obstructed without the neces sary danger signals being displayed. Fi\e suits were filed, and }n all Mr. Robertson pleaded guilty, being fined $5 and costs In each. The neitt step in the persecution has not yet developed, but no chance will be lost to make his position not only unpleasant but temporarily, if not permanently, unprofitable, The neighborhood, in the midst of which the stable Is located, has for years been considered one of the most desirable residence portions of fih£s«tty, and as a result the few remaining building lots were held at high prices. This condition of affairs will be materially changed by the erection of the stable, it is claimed by tbot» immediately Interested, andso the action of Mr. Robertson's pers^rftors is not to be wondered at in the least. The neighbors have declared war to the bitter end, and the fight promises to bo verv interesting. This case has possibly served one good purpose even if neither side has yet won or lost. This is totnake evident that every citizen is to a certain extent bound to respect the rights and desires of others, in the location of his business. In this instance Mr. Robertson should have shown some regard for the objections of all the adjoining property owners. His location may be a good one but he also might have found one fully as desirable not far away and then avoided all this conflict. -v

ALL HALLOWE'EN.

In celebrating Hallowe'en the active participants have room for the display of a great deal of good judgment. They can make the observance either very pleasant or extremely disagreeable for the public at large, and In th® making out of preliminary programmes the decision between these two ends is gen erally reached. In recent years the ten dency in local observances has been to ward a social rather than a hilarious destructive good time, and this year the transition showed more marked develop ment than ever before. So far as known less property was destroyed or defaced while a greater number of parties were held than at any previous occasion. Of course all the frivolous practices of the younger generation were Indulged in but in throwing olF corn, ringing of door bells, etc,, there is no special harm, while an Immense amount of amusement is therein afforded the small boy. In the lino of evening parties, several very enjoyable affairs were reported, and all were so conducted as to leave a lasting Hallowe'en impression without the usual Idea of destruction. Let this sort of observance be encor, raged.

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THR 8RSAT0R ASB IOH^.

Senator Yoorhees and John Lamb are now receiving many pleasing compliments from all parte of the country tor their successful defense of Marshall Lafferty, at Cincinnati, last week. The case was quite a prominent one lit that in it was centered the personal interest of thousands of railroad men from Maine to California. Marshall kaflerty was formerly a conductor on the Baltimore A Oi'.'o railroad, and that company instituted criminal proceedings against him on the charge of oathentement In the »um of $90,000. Th® Brotherhood of Conductors undertook the defense and employed Senator Voorheos and Mr. Lamb to represent them. The CM® was tried before a jury and the verdictjreturned was unqualified acquittal

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ed many suggestions of the time-worn joke that all conductors are of necessity robbers, and this was one of the most pointed: "His reputation was of the very best, and one thing urged in his favor is that, although for years a conductor, he is to-day almost penniless." This implied criminality of the fraternity is not always viewed in the light of a newspaper joke, however. From the treatment conductors receive at the hands of most railroad corporations, anyone would infer that that they wore thieves of the most brazen type. »o doubt some conductors do make stealing of fares a practice, but there is no reason why every conductor employed should be suspected from the first day of his oonnection with the road till the last. This Cincinnati case will have a very decided effect in convincing railroad corporations that they are carrying their "thief-making" principle a little too far, and in winning for Marshall Lafferty, the Senator and John have probably greatly benefitted the entire association of conductors. Perhaps they could do a little more good by winning a damage suit against the B. A 0. for Mr.

Lafferty. THEY DIFFERED IN OPINION. The Supreme court did a very surprising thing the other day in deciding that the $250 saloon license law, passed by the recent Legislature, was constitutional. This was unlooked for from the fact that our city attornoy had given his profound opinion that the law could not stand. Mr. Taylor is a gentleman and probably a good lawyer, but in adising the council against the adoption of a $250 license ordinance on the ground that such action would in time prove to be illegal, he did not only an unwarranted but also very unnecessary thing. But why talk longer ou this question? It will do no good, for there will be no possible chance of an ordinance with the present council in. One might as well expect the end ot time on some detinied day.

-SGeraldine's Letter.

MY DEAR RUTH:—Christian Science has struck Terre Haute, and the prospects now are, that the doctors will have to shut up shop and learn a new trade. I have never studied Christian science, but from what I h&vo read and what I have heard, it seems to me the most absurd of all absurdities, and yet I women, whose mental qualities are of the highest order, and who peem to be blessed with good common sense bosides, who have .given over heart and soul to this delusion. What stupendous folly to assert that diseases do not exist. Why df they call themselve healers', and ssk a fee for treatment, the same as a regular physician, If they believe what they assert, that disease dolfc not exist. Those I have known of are careful to get the money first their faith isn't of the kind that trusts the patient for the bill. Why do they go about the country teaching this art of healing, when nothing exists to be healed? Strange, isn't it? It is mostly women who take this up, for you know, Ruthie, women nowadays are constantly running after some new fad, and like, above all things, to be humbugged, and this is surely the humbug that overshadows all others. Did you ever read Mrs. Eddy's book? If not, don't try it. I read far enough to feel that if I were forced to read it through I should come out at the end a driveling idiot. It will b® rather nice after all, when several of ones friends learns to be healers, provid ing they can heal after they have been taught. Whenever I am ill hereafter, not ill you know, but when I imagine I am, I shall telephone the fact to the city papers as an item of interest, shall also state what the disease I think I have Is commonly called. My Christian science friend win read this item, and out of their affections for me will stop all other pursuits for a few minutes, and give me a treatment. You know another of the beauties of this system is that you can be treated as well at a distance as in their presence, so no sooner does this treatment take place when presto, change I take np my bed and walk. You see it will have many advantages over the present method. Then another great advantage, we can throw away all fojLT of accident, for no matter how badly our bones are broken, they can be set and made to koit without tiresome bandages, splints and all the paraphernalia of the old time surgeon. It will be a great thing, Ruthie, if it only works well. Perhaps yon will want to learn It. I do not think I shall try for I would have so much to unlearn. I have been taught all my life to believe that "man is conceived in sin, and born in iniquity,' taught ft at home, taught it in Sunday school, and from the pulpit, and I never went to prayer meeting in my HUethat the brethern didn't say somewhere in their prayers or remarks, that "we are all so prone to evil as the sparks to fly upwards," and ask the Lord to "have mercy on as poor miserable worms of the dust." Now to oe told all at once that this is not so, that we are not born

in sin, or shapen in iniquity, that there Th® is no evil to be prone to, and that we are

uewspaper accounts of the trial contain-1 not worms at all, actually makes mo

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TRRRE HAUMD, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2,1889.

me dizzy. Now beloved, if I were to say these things to a friend of mine for whom I have the very highest admiration and respect, and who has taken up the Christian science folly, she would look at me in a calm, superior sort of way, and would say to herself, "Poor thing, how light and flippant she is, and how little she knows," which would all be true, my dear, and I, in turn, would look at her and wonder if there were not a screw loose somewhere, and speculate as to whether or no she will Aot bring up in the insane hospital some day. So you see she would have her opinion of me and I of her. and so on goes the world.

I dare say you have read in the newspapers the notice of the approaching marriage of John Jacob Astor to a Cincinnati widow. This announcement brought to my mind the late Mrs. Astor and many of the things I had heard about her. She was admired by all who knew her for her sterling character, her kind heartedness, and for her great generosity. She was born to the purple of a high position and great weatlh, and no English Duchess could have more distinctly the consciousness that there was nobody to look down on her. She was never selfish or haughty. She recognized the fact that poverty and misery were real things, and she was so earnest and consicentious In her effbrts to relieve the poor, as if her daily bread depended on it. Her hospitals, her children's missions and the many other charities to whioh she gave her money and her attention, made up a large part of her life. Any woman, or man either, who can bear a high position without becoming pompous, self-important, overbearing, and without acquiring that most disagreeable of all disagreeable ways, a lofty, patronizing, I am better than you are manner, is a good deal of a man or woman. Rich people, if tliey are of the right kind, are vastly more useful to ucommunity than noor people.

Mrs. Astor's life was a daily protest to the danger of wealth. She liyed amply as became her station, but with none of that lavish' prodigality indulged in by many to whom wealth is comparatively new. Her only extravagance was in the matter of diamonds.-She loved them because they were beautiful, they represented a taste, and not mere ostentation. One of her friends said "Had she been poor she would have been an artist, missing that she wore diamonds." She w*k of book»xof pictures, of every thing beautiful. S&e belonged to the intellectual guild, and was proud of the friendship of literary peoplo, she felt at ease with them and they with her. Her only son was a sculptor and she rejoiced that it was so, and that he ultimately became an author.

Hallow'een seemed to bo celebrated more generally.: Miss Grace Havens gave a dancing party and Miss Siddie Wood entertained quite a number of her friends. Mrs. L. B. Martin entertained the Decorative Art Society Friday after-

noon and evenings.

Egypt

Yours, dai* $

GKRALDISK,

Just now talk of "registration" is going on all over the country, and especially in the east, where such a means has been taken to prevent corruption at the" poles. Here in Indiana the word has a distant, foreign sound with which we will probably grow more familiar In the distant future when our state assembly returns to sensible legislation-

Is anxious for trade with us and

is especially desirous of receiving our canned goods, agricultural tools, etc., but wants direct shipments, which it cannot well have until we have some American ships. A similar sentiment exists in the South American republics and it now seems that Congress would be warranted in granting large subsidies to lines of steamers which would make direct trips to these desirable stations,

The Kentucky legislature at its next session will be

asked

lics,

to insert a clause

in its game and fish laws providing for a tax of $1 a year to believed on every shotgun as soon as it shall have passed from the hands of the dealer into that of th® individual owner. The intent of such a law might be good, but its enforcement would be most difficult if the Kentuckians should take it into their heads to evade it as they do the liquor jaws.

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COL. NELSON A NEWCASTLE. Th® lecture of the Hon. Thomas H, Nelson at the court house Wednesday evening, was^p highly interesting and instructive discourse, and was heard by a moat appreciative audience. Mr. Nel sofcfe accomplishments as a public speaker are varied and attractive. The si&ject, "Our Relations with Mexico and the South American Republics," Is one thy happens to be claiming the attention of our people just now on account of Wbe AU-American conference, the delegates of which are being treated to a view of the country, its development, »t»i the extent of our material interests. He was able to give the audience much valuable, and, to many, astounding Information concerning our sister repub­

their history, political condition and prospects, manners and customs of the people,—[Newcastle Courier.

Women as Lawyers.

THEIR QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE PRO- ..... FESSION AS VIEWED BY COUN- „T TESS ANNIE DE MON-

TAIGN.

In this nineteenth century women are fast encroaching upon the domains hitherto deemed the exclusive property the masculine sex. As physicians, women now have an accepted position, and a profession which seems to be rapidly increasing in popularity among them ls that of the law.

Men assert that women are not, as a rule, good logicians, and in consequence make poor lawyers. There is a vast deal of sophistry, as well as logic, mingled with the law, and the numerous ouirks and quabbles need a quick brain and an infinitude of tact, as well as logical aptitude. It is a mistake to accuse womeu of a lack of the reasoning faculties they frequently arrive at conclusions in a short while that would involve days of labor to a man. Her intuitive percep tious are vastly superior to those of a man and while intuition cannot take the place of logic, it assists amazingly in the direction of arriving at conclusions in oertain decisions.

Many barriers have befeh placed in the way of women who have desired to become lawyers, and It has only been within the last few years that people have overcome their prejudices and that women have been permitted to practice This rule, however, does not hold good in every State. In many of the Eastern and almost all the Southern States women have failed to receive permission to practice law. In the West the woman lawyer is treated with more liberality, and in many of the Kansas towns women lawyers are by no means uncommon, while in Chicago there are several who make excellent incomes by their profession.

The tendencies of tlie day are toward the admission of women to any profession to which their Inclinations or talents lead them, and in October Emily Kempin, LL. D., contemplates opening law school in New York for women students. The course of instruction will be similar to that pursued at Columbia College and the New York University, and Miss Kempin intends to make the course as thorough as possible. After graduation the students will be fitted either to practice at the bar or to manage their owft or other ^ople's estates. In the case of women vnio own large properties the knowledge of how to supervise their own afiairs will be au Inestimable boon, as moneyed women will not then be entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous men who generally manage to line their own pockets while administering on the estates of helpless widows or orphans.

Any woman over 18 years of age, if qualified to pass a preliminary examination, will be admitted. In the case of women who desire to attend the lectures with a view of informing themselves on points of Jaw, the examination will not te insisted on. The laws of marriage and divorce will be one of the special features of the course, also the law of guardianship, and in fact everything pertaining to the affairs of women and children. The laws of inheritance and the proper methods of making wills will also be studied with special care. Mrs. Kempin Is a graduate of the Zurich University, which is considered one of the best equipped law schools in Europe, and th® course will be the same as that ordained at the well-known European universities.

Barnard College has a department where the fair Portias may bo seen elucidating the knotty points of law and many of the students have succeeded In passing quite as good examinations as their masculine competitors.

Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore of Philadelphia, is considered the equal of any lawer In the Quaker City, and the judges have a great respect for her opinion. She is the first and only woman lawyer in that city, and has a large clientele. She is deserving of all of her success, as she was obliged to surmount difficulties that would have appalled many a man before she became a recognized member of the legal fraternity.

In New York State women are permitted to practice law, though only a few have availed themselves of the privilege on account of the poor facilitie* hereu fore afforded women.

Mrs. Belva Loekwood, after interminable obstacles, has succeeded in estab lisblng a lucrative law business. For several years she practiced in the lower courts at Washington, but was refused the privilege of entering the supreme court. By her energetic efforts a law was passed by Congress in 1879 by which women were no longer debarred from the higher courts.

Mm. Loekwood Is a graduate of the National Universty Law School, and was for many years editor of the Legal News, of Chicago.

SBhe has been counsel in all sorts of cases, even in murder trials, and was very successful at that. Slw Is an indefatigable woman, of iron nerve, much force of character, and with a great capacity of getting on in the world. She is always at hana at county fairs and public gatherings where she can

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address a crowd, and as an orator she is very1 able. Her canvass for the presidency was nothing more than a shrewd scheme to advertise herself, for she is too astute a woman to have imagined for a moment that she had the remotest chanoe of election. Mrs. Loekwood is now in Paris

,4doing"

the Exposition

The Woman's Congress was especially interesting to the woman lawyer, as Mine. Popelin, a native of Belgium, indignantly pronounced the exclusion of women from the Belgian courts, and asserted that the authority of husbands was on the wane, and therefore the dawning of day was near at hand. Several women have endeavored to break down the existing prejudice against women lawyers in Belgium, but so far none of them have been successful.

Fortunately, in other portions of the Continent the laws in this respect are not stringent, and women may be admitted to practice,

Mrs. Mary E. Fraser, of Cleveland, Ohio, has a practice almost as remunerative as that of Mrs. Loekwood. Mrs. Fraser is greatly respected in her native town, and praotices, without any opposition, side by side with able men. She pleads her cases with much eloquence, and she is known as a clear-sighted, well-read woman, up in all the intricate and delicate points of the law. She is as arreat a favorite in the drawing room as she is in court.

Miss Edmunds, daughter of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, does not assert herself as a law practioner, her principal eflorts being in the direction of her father's large law business. Senator Edmunds has a great deal of confidence in the administrative ability of bis daughter, who is acknowledged as a woman of brains by all who know her. Besides the assistance she renders her father in law matters, she also acts as his amanuensis. With her numerous business duties Miss Edmunds has comparatively little leisure for the cultivation of sooiety. She Is rather devoted to study, and eares little for dress and frivolous amusements.

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Philadelphia Inquirer: It is geatlfying to learn that General Cassiua M. Clay, of Kentucky, has taken up arms against the English sparrow. In the work of exterminating pestiferous biros the Kentuckians have hereto confined their efforts to the frisky fowl known «s "Old Crow."

Cleveland San tAfe partrfferlhipff 1t» Chicago are on the English plan^ limited. 1

Boston Courier: If you want to know something of the reel life of the Scotch people go to one of their dances.

Petersburg Index: A great many men acquire $2 worth of pomposity and, arrogance with a $1 public office.

Kearney Enterprise: The mosquito never waits till the first of the month. He sends in his bill at all hours.

Harper's Bazar: It does seem paradoxical that a man should wear a blazer because it is cooler than any other garment. :S^

Life: "Whom the gods love, die young." And the more one sees of the survivors the more one appreciates the taste of the gods.l

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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A tree was cut down at Orting, W. T., that measured 310 feet long. The British Parliament is to be asked to stop improvident marriages.

The crown being made for the Empress of Germany will contain 1,500 diamonds and eleven large pearls. 'f

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'Busbelman Wanted," Mays a card in a New York window. Probably few people know that busbelman Is a tailor's repairer.

The town council of Morgantown, Pa., has passed an ordinance prohibiting citizens from putting shingle roofs on their residences.

The Sultan of Turkey has borrowed $3000,000 with which to entertain the Emperor and Empress of Germany at Constantinople.

An Eiffel tower in diamonds, which has been on exhibition in Paris, may be expected in America soon. It has been purchased for exhibition in thJ»country.

George Eliot's novel, "Rontoia," was a bad4nv«Mttment for her published. He paid her

$35,000

far it, and of the first ex­

pensive edition only 1,500 copies were

The dry good#king of Boston is Eben Jordrn, of the firm of Jordan, Marsh fc Co. He is worth between $»,00H,(MN) and $10,000,000, a great part of which is in re a a

The bead of the Loudon Waiters' Union says that the tip system has developed to such an extent that in some restaurants the waiters pay five -hillings a day for the prlvl'ege of waiting.

Lord Stanley, Canadian governor general, has come out lo a new role. While at Portage La Piairie, Manitoba, a few few days ago, he addressed a Sunday school upon the subject of Scriptual reading, and with marked success.

E. V. Debs' lodge, No. 06, Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association, will give a ball at Dowling hall on Thanksgiving eve. r*- o, —„r "s