Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 November 1889 — Page 1

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPIK.

Town Talk.

THK OLD, OLD STORY.

If tl.ere is any town in the country where minstrel shows reap as frequent and rich harvests as in Terre Haute,let the unfortnnate place be named. It certainly is not often that one minstrel troupe finds it profitable to visit one place three times in two months, as the ('leveland-Haverly Combination have done here. And this happens not to be all. In the interludes between the Hav erly visits several other companies have taken a turn at well-filled houses and gone away happy. There sorely something unusually fascinating in minstrel performance, yet what it is one cannot exactly tell after seeing the same familiar faces, hearing the old, old jokes and the unvarying stump speeches for the fifth consecutive time. Those who enjoy philosophising prodably think it is due to the fact that the minstrel song and specialty act go straight home to the heart of the average theatergoer and met the sympathies vibrating at a rato which only the varying phases of the performance can control. Maybe it is At any rate it is probably the same characteristic trait that brings people fifty miles to see a circus, and also makes it almost impossible for the average in dividual to pass a ten cent museum door without going in and investing in the clime's worth of "curiosity cure." It is an undeniable fact that the minstrel show, as) a rule, has the best bouse of all the shows that come here. An occa sional Emma ADbott performance or a Booth and Barret appearance will possi bly draw out equally as large a house but to such attractions the cultured the ater goers of all the surrounding towns come in and help make up a big audi ence. We are undoubtedly fast gaining the mime and reputation of "min strel cranks," but there is oue comfort in it all, and that is that we so heartily appreciate the burnt cork spectacle that it would be borrowing trouble to listen jo the ridicule of

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a fitter condition of iffairs over the city, only time can develop, and one satisfaction is, that it will not require an great period to make either of the two motives evident. The order will be strictly enforced if the council dwirw it, or will he treated

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A NRW ir»KA.

Anew idea on the subject of local education has taken hold of several councilnien to such an extent that it is very likely something will come of it in due time. Their idea is that of establishing a night school for the benefit of those children who are notable to-attend the day schools, but, instead, are forced to work in the mills and factories. The schome is a now one for a ity or this size and may or may not be a good one. There are, no doubt, a great many children betweon the ages of ten and twenty-one years who should bu in school regularly, but who scarcely ever look inside a hook. However.it is a juostiou open toargument whether very many of these could be induced to take advantage of such an opportunity for attending school, oven were it offored. Then there is one very serious objection to the opening of such a school at the present time, outside of all questions of doubt as to attendance, etc. This is that just now the school board needs all the money that can 1*& secured to erect additional school houses over the city. The hoard owns several sites upon which imildiugs are very badly ueedod, but the funds are not sufficient to warrant an immodiate outlay. In view of this con dition of affairs, it would be well for the Mayor and his two associates on the fommitteo of consideration of the now scheme, t«» sugirest a postponement of the projivt until circumstances make evident a greater demand for such an Institution. in soiu" inexplainable impulse must have sHzfd ujn»u the council Tuesday even' me, when, without previous warning, «n ordov .-aWing for the observance of 1 ho saloon law was adopted. The only piaosihlf explanation would seem to be that sin-h aojiou was taken merely as an apology for the defeat of the license onlinHuce. again viited on earlier in the evening. But thh hardly seems reasonable. as the council is known to be violently #vcr*e any thine savoring of eompmmiM' and apology. Evidence of this has Ihhmi to often shown to give ground for oven :v suspicion that the motive in this iustauot* was not a complicated one. Whether the order was passed for temporary effect, or through a sincere desire to

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if it was so intended. Chief CStout, of the police force, says he wilt obey the wishes of the council, and *s there is no very good reason why he should not, atn failure in the proper enforcement of the law can he traced I murk to the chosen twelve. If the order Is to be carried out. and it is sincerely hoped that it is to l*% all the saloon* will hereafter he closed at 11 o'clock every nijfht, and

during the entire day Sunday. Of course the council made no provision against the use of night keys, backdoors, etc., but it is understood that enforcement of the order is to mean as much of this practice as possible will be prevented.

LATER.

Since the above was written, the explanation of the passage of the order has unexpectedly materialized. It seems some of the council misunderstood the reading of the resolution, thinking, as they now claim, that the resolution was to refer the measure to the police ooard for action. It is again the same old evidence of somebody being asleep during the consideration of business, and in consequence of the misunderstanding the enforcement of the order will be postponed until the council ''shall have

a chance to rectify the blunder.1" cgTOK COWS. Indignation at the non-enforcement of the cow ordinance will soon break forth, if some steps in the direction of observance by not only the cow owners but the authorities are not taken soon. The fol lowing incident, which occurred only a few days ago, shows to what extent the bovines are now permitted to override the ordinance. Several cows succeeded in gaining entrance to a beautiful lawn on Cherry street between Sixth and Sev enth streets. The neighbors at once tel ephoned to the police for some one to be sent to a"rest the animals. The reply came that the matter would be attended to. No one came. The next day the cows again appeared, and to a second telephone message the police replied that uothing could be done as they had no one to send out on such duty. If the police have not been told to look after cows they should at once be so notified. The city council seemed to take the whole matter of non-enforcement as a joke until Tuesday evening. Then two resolutions ordering enforcement were introduced but subsequently withdrawn on the announcement that Superintendent Stout had agreed to take the matter "into bis bands." What this means is, up to date, not quite as clear as could be desired, for it still seems that cows enjoy the liberty of the streets. It may be, though, that the exact meaning of the term will come out in a few days, when the superintendent ean fully

Hjfrm?wn to the large ^ro^^yWs suboWfnatlir^ils exact position on the question. up

THE CHARITY ORGANISATION. The charity organization will probably be able to tide over its bankruptcy. At least it is earnestly desired on all sides that it should. The society has been an important factor for so many years in the humane work among the city's poor, that it should not be allowed to languish for want of funds. The council has turned over the Friendly Inn to the board of managers and individuals have given financial aid uutil there now seems room for hope that tnere will be no future interruption in tho organization's work. But if there is still neod of funds the officers should not hesitate in making a public appeal for assistance. Such an appeal would be responded to with the liberality which has been so characteristic, of the people of this city.

COIXWTOR THROOV.

If you area Republican and have not yet called upon the now revenue collector, Colonel Throop, make haste to do so at once. Such is the present order of proceedings. If you have no personal desire for a gaugership or anything in the appointment line, call on the collector in some one else's interests. Mr. Tbroop came early in the week and has scarcely had a moment's rest since. Everybody wants to see him and offer suggestions on how these appointments in his department should be made. Notwithstanding all this assistance, the now manager has made but oneoppointment and that was to the position of deputy. It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. Herbert Madison was named. It has come to be that the revenue office cannot get along without him. The lower appointments will probably come soon, and from prospects one or two ladies will be given positions. Surely the selfish male population would not object were one or two loyal oirrn favored, and T. T. suggests to Mr. Thr» that he display a progressive spirit in this direction by gtftng the Democracy Sine better."

The late Samuel S, Oox was a member of the Thirteen Club, of New York, the number of his house was thirteen, the original list of his jmll bei r- ntc toait '. thirteen namr- and he *T?n».-d f*pteuaber 18.

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dence of numbers will proba cy be taken as conclusive proof that tho ntimlxr 13 Is fatal, unlucky or whatever yon choose to *11 it, by as many as ?t!r*tea people out of fifty you me#t, «»u these will experience about "thirteen tuwsaa much misery In consequence as will come to the other thirty-eeven. So It is the world over.

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Geraldines Letter.

MY DEAR RUTH:—A friend of mine, who is a teacher and lives in New York City, writes me of the rather exciting time they are having there just now It seems that there is great dissatisfaction among the Women principals and teachers in the public schools with the Women Commissioners of the Board of Education. These commissioners are Miss Grace H. Dodge and Mku Mary Nash Agnew, and they have »•«.$ filled the office to the satisfaction of the teachers, so the teachers determined not to haye them reappointed if they could help it. They drew up a petition which was signed by a large number of principals and teachers, and six bnght-eyed, gltb-tongued women, armed with this petition, presented themselves before Mayor Grant last Tuesday morning and entered their complaint. One read, an address setting forth their reasons for opposing the reappointment of Miss Dodge and Mrs. Agnew. Thef said that in three years Mrs. Agnew had not offered a single resoultion and that Miss Dodge had only offered two, and this year both these ladies took p*|t in framing a system of examination against which more than two thousand female teachers openly protested. They tornplained that they had not found either of these women a fair-minded, upright judge that they were prone to believe evil of their sisters, were willing tjo condemn them unheard, nor were they charitable even in dealing with the guilty. One of the delegation baoked up this address with a little speech, which she said in substance: The sent! ment 1b that you should apfoint no women commissioners on the Board of education. There is a spirit of gallantry and chivalry in men that prevents thom from citicizlng the women on the board and the women do not take rebuffs as they should. They are liable to look upon our institutions as charitable institutions. The absence of criticism prp vents them growing up to t(ie responsibility of the position. All the time I was reading this I was wondering what my friend Miss would say, for she is an out and out suffragist—President of the Suffrage Club where she lives, and js always harping on irsb¥" bad ner way, there would be no men on the Board of Education, or any other board. I have often wondered why it is, but let a woman be plaoqd in a position where she has authority over other women and she is almost sure to be more severe and less charitable to them than a man would be. Let a woman who has been a servant girl marry a man of means and he in a position to have servants of her own. Does she remember the former days, and try to make her work as light and easy as pos sible for her servants? Not so, my dear. She makes the most exacting, the most tyrannical of mistreases. Instead of diminishing she increases their burdens a hundred fold. I do not think the average woman is apt to be as just toward women as men are toward their fellow men. I do not like to say this—even to you but it is my opinion, after all. It is easy enough to be just in every way to those you like, but it is a more difficult thing to be strictly so toward those you positively dislike. That bitter persoual feeling will rise up and is very apt to bias one's judgment. Romola, when she took Lessa and her children to her home and cared for them as her own with no feeling of scorn or hatred for either, gives a rare exhibition of hew one woman can, under the most trying circumstances, be noble and just to another but it takes a very great woman to be capable of doing a deed like that. The average woman in every day life would not be equal to it.

In the entire absence of society gossip, I am going to write you on the weightier matters of the law! Just to think of the Presbyterians talking seriously about revising the Westminster Confession of Faith which they have held to so long! Surely these are progressive times. Years and years ago, while the shadow of the dark ages wan hovering around, the question wis raised: "What is orthodoxy?** The wis* men tried to settle it. They called a. council and decided that it meant imjpii. it belief in certain dogmas but it was* then as now, people could not all think alike—eo the dissenters called ofTier

noils and other creeds were

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-opular but the years have come and gone, there has been progress in religious as well as temporal matters, and some of its declarations people will not behere. It used to be that when the old time minister said: "The Westminster Confession says thns-and-eo," that settied it. Nobody dared hold a different opinion without being called heterodox, and that word had a terrible aonnd, to aay the least. Now-a-days everybody dares to think his own thoughts in his own way, and tantgoing to belieye anything he doesn't believe, no matter who says so. The faith of some of the old

the con»oioda„^n ws* later date. No, we r. In A merle*. Some one has Imis-! uoderst^I or not, they believed, «*d representing facta, if sm -h an ier- ved implicitly. Do you remember 3 and the details of managing tb« league, standing is afloat. *torv Atlanta, told at will be considered.

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preachers was marvelous whether they n«t meeting in December, the application of Des Moines and Dubuque, Iowa,

a banquet in New York City not long since? An old minister, who was very near sighted, had a habit of marking with a cross the verse for the evening texj One Sunday the verse chosen started at the bottom of the page and finished on the next. Some boys during the afternoon saw the open Bible lying on the pulpit and determined to play a joke on the pa-son, so they pasted the leaves of the Bible together. In the evening the miuister read: "And Noah being a hundred years old took unto himself a wife (here be turned the leaf), and she was eighty cubits long, forty cubits broad, built of gopher wood, and lined with pitch inside and out." He looked rather surprised and said: "Brethren, I do not remember ever having seen, read or heard this text before nevertheless it contains a lesson for us. It shows how fearfully and wonderfully we are made." Another old minister never preached that he did not weave into his sermon the decrees predestination and foreordiuation. In his morning prayer he would state all these doctrines to the Lord, and wind up by saying: "These things are so, O Lord, no matter how incomprehensible they may seem to thee."

Did you ever attend a Merchants' Carnival? The ladies of the Baptist Church are going to have one, in connection with their Bazaar, Thursday and Friday, December 12th and 13th, at Dowling Hall. Thirty-two young ladies are going to take part In some places they have a larger number, but Captain Davis, who drills the young ladies, says it will be impossible to have more than that number on the stage where they expect to drill. Grace Keyes will represent her father's manufactory Clara Williams, the Clift fe Williams planing mill} Betha Herz, Here's Bazaar Gertie Williams, S. J. Griffith's Shoe Store Emma Arnold, Arnold's ClothiDg Store Mamie Gray, Svkes'Hat Store Grace Button, the Central Book Store Venie Richardson, Richardson's Queensware Storey Grace Havens, the Buckeye, and Emma Buntin, Buntin's Drug Store. The others .will know early next week what firms they will represent. This carnival has been given in a great many cities, and has always been a great success. artistically and financially

Sincerely your own,

AMUSEMENTS,,

CLEVELAND-HAVERLY N1NSTRELS.

Naylor's Opera house will be occupied to-night by the Cleveland-Haverly minstrel company, this making the third engagement played here this season. A company to play in Terre Haute three times in as many months must have great drawing qualities as well as a good show. This organization is remarkable in its performance for the talent it dis plays and the neat and excellent manner in which the nrogramme is carried out. Billy Emerson, Hughey Dougherty, Burt Sheppard, Marcus O'Doyle, John Quee^, Banks Winter and a number of othfers who are away up in the "biz" are with this company and will appear to-night. Be on hands early to secure a seat. Doors open at 7:20. tffe

LITTLK LORD FAUJiTLEROY.

Theatregoers generally will be delighted to know that the management have secured the original "Little Lord Fauntleroy" company for Wednesday evening of next week. Tommy Russell appearing as "Little Lord Fauntleroy." The advance sale of seats will commence Monday morning at Button's. Prices all down stairs $1, family circle, 50c, gallery, 25c. The mere announcement of their coming is sufficient to pack the house. Thq Boston Herald speaking of the play, says: "It is the most strikingly beautiful example of dramatization ever presented. If It were more beautiful It would be cruel It sinks now so deep into the heart that the pleasuure of watching and listening becomes a pain. Its sweetness is like grand music— like a glorious rendition of 'Home, Sweet Home.'"

THK HOWARD BTTRLESQnE COMPANY.

On Friday evening, November 15th, the May Howard Burlesque company, one of the largest on the road, will appear at Naylor's Opera bouse, presenting a refined vaoduvUle entertainment, full of novelties, etc. "Pauline, the Belie of Saratoga," will be produced at Dowling hall on Thursday evening, November 14th, under the auspices of Prof. Bukowitz. The opera is anew one here, and Is sweet, refreshing and catchy, just escaping grand opera classification, and in point of merit, certainly deserves the support of the people.

H, F. Schmidt returned on Thursday from St. Louis, where* he attended the meeting of the Inter-state Base Ball League, and brought with him the glad news that the Terrs Hautes had been admitted to the league. The meeting fixed the salary limit of each club at $1,200 per month, the forfeit that the season will be played through st ffWO, and the fine of any clnb exceeding the ff^iSOO limit at 1900. The guarantee 0* visiting clubs at each game will 14 fev

Burlinton Is In the league, and at the

Bachelor Women.

MARY H. KROUT ON HOW THEY LIVE AND WHAT THEY DO.—A PRODUCT'. OF MODERN OPPORTUNITY. -MRS. OLIVER P. -^4%

MORTON.

A student of human nature observed the other day that the race of old maids had become extinct. By f.£at, he meant of twenty or thirty years iigo—that thin, pale, silent type of melancholy failure Usually poor, untrained though intelligent, she had no active part in the a flairs of life no especial place in the world nothing to do but the things that other people left undone, or refused to do. She was an unwelcome pensioner on the bounty of her married brothers and sisters a dependent upon some distant relative where, in return for board and lodging she sewed, mended, looked after the children, helped in the kitchen, and remained in oharge of the house while the family went on their tours. Her pleasures were occasional leotures, tea drinkings, the sewing circle. Her outside interests were concentrated in the missionary society and that portion of the church Work which it was then conceded might be properly regulated tp women.

She dressed in dull colors and the materials called "durable," and if a poor little purple flower bloomed on her best bonnet it was looked at like a winter blossom which had budded out of due season. Her life, whatever vital experiences it may have had, the experiences that most women treasure and dream over, lay behind her. There was nothing in the future to anticipate but monotonous days, a succession of seasons without events or possibilities, and which were frequently clouded by the the dread of helpless, poyerty-stricked old age.

Victor Hugo has said: "The nineteenth century is the woman's century," and the old ntaid, as she was, has vanished before its effulgence, like the dim ghost at cock-crow.

In her stead has come that cheering and inspiring product of a broader civilization whom the newspapers gracefully and commendingly call women." •'•jSwUjk:' -ftka upends £he attainable—drdopTHT^W unrequited affection, and lamenting her shattered idols. If she has had her failures, her denials, her sorrows, they are locked in her own heart, and she is contented with good things that have come to her in compensation, as they come to all who deserve and strive for them.

The bachelor woman is not aggressively masculine, nor is she the sentimental, clinging creature that is usually meant when the term "womanly" is used. She is well bread, well trained, and with Drain and hands has made her way to success in the calling she has chosen.

The colleges and schools that have opened their doors to her have given her culture. Experience and capacity in business have given her self-reliance. The blessed fact that her labor has a marketable value, that professional advancement depends upon the manner in which she plays the part assigned her, inspires her to make the most of her talent and her appointments. Congenial work, a definite aim in life, leave no room for impotent regrets and have kept her temper sweet, her feelings tender, sympathies alert so that she has not lapsed into a state of mummification, as her prototype was apt to do thirty or forty years ago

She has friends among the young and old. Her matured mind, her brightened faculties, her deference and considerateness make her a favorite with the one, as her comradeship, her cheerfulness and content make her the confidant and adviser of the other.

She is not stowed away in a stuffy chamber, which is too dark and close for the children and too cramped and shabby for the guests. She has her own snug apartments, where she writes, or to which she returns at night from her desk or office, filled with flowers and books and pictures. There she sits down in peace to rest with her treasures about her—the visible reward of her own energy and industry.

Summer tours, tripe to the sea-shore or the mountains, a foreign jaunt, good music and the play oc-asoiiit" v, possibly a club—these are her tion«, the sources from which that menial refreshment which keeps her at her best. fthe Is not extinguished under a cap at thirty, but dresses tastefully and well appreciating what fashion has done within the last two decades to efface the sharp dividing lines 1 wtween youth and serene middle age.

The bachelor woman almost In variably has some one dependent upon her—the brother or sister that she is educating, parents whom she is maintaining in old sge and this gives a sacred Incentive to work and is an antidote to selfishness.

Her day downs toward its nightfall, as an autumn sun sets across fallow fields that are an assurance of rich harvest which bad been joyfully harvested and garnered. Rectitude of life, parity of thought, osefuraess, allegiance duty all that It exacts k»yo, consti11 1 her

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moral code and have been her religion There are thousands of such women the United States to-day. They crow the school-room, the colleges, the pro fessions they make a business of ar and literature, and it certainly is no from their lips that the bitter quer comes: "Is life worth living?" for, on and all tbey can answer: "Yes."

Mrs. Morton's residence in Washington this winter is looked forward to with interest. A correspondent gives this pleasant sketch of her, which, while it is complimentary, does not flatter

Anna Livingston Morton was born at Poughkeepsie, where her father, the late William I. Street, practiced law for many years. At Albany her uncle, Alfred B. Street, the author of "Frontenac" and other poems, made his home and his fame. She was married to Mr. Morton at the Church of Holy Communion, in February, 1878.

The stranger who might walk through the hduse at Ellerslie, admiring its stately proportions and the order and system whioh prevails would little suspect the thought and labor required to organise its management. Nor would such a visitor suspect that it was the sole work of the mistress, who at the same time superintends the care and education of her five daughters, ranging in age from 7 to ffc When in this connection it is recalled that for many years Mrs. Morton has been a great sufferer from neuralgia, it will be seen that she is by no means idle or self-indulgent.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Morton keep by no' means what is called fashionable hours. When alone they retire early and rise between 6 and 7. The children are trained in the good old rule, "Early to bed, early to ?ise," and love simple outdoor country pleasures. At the table, where the children are always present, one never hears gossip, scandal, nor illnatured criticism upon dress or1 manners. Both mother and children set an example of simplicity in dress which well might be followed by people of more modest fortune and position. But when the occasion demands it, few women know better than Mrs. Morton how to ajpray herself in rare and exquisite costumei-hor Jewels are not whiter than tier throat, and diamonds gleam in her soft itia'

During the years that Mr. Morton was in Congress few houses in Washington were more popular than bis. The hospitality of the old Hooper mansion was historic long before Mrs. Morton's time, and had been a season the headquarters of General McClellan. It was not only the rich and distinguished who felt sure of a gracious welcome from their hostess. The writer remembers noticing on one of the crowded weekly reception days two plain, elderly ladles whose wellworn, old-fashioned, though once bandsome gowns and wraps looked as if their owners had seen better days. Mrs. Morton did not know who they were, but, remarking that she had noticed them the week before, approached with her sweet smile and addressed them. They replied with the well-bred air of gentlewomen, giying their names, and said they had known the house in their youth and it was a pleasure to them to see her sustaining its reputation for hospitality, and hoped she did not mind their stopping to look on. "Quite the contrary," said she, "I hopo yon will come every week."

While in Paris Mrs. Morton was one evening seated*as dinner by the side of M. Jules Ferry, then the French premier, wha rallied her upon the action of our Congress in Imposing duties upoo foreign works of art. "I grant all you say," said she, "but let us make a treaty —you admit our pork and we will mlniit your pictures."

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANC1 VMS.

The potatoe crop In England Is a failure, too, but there's lots of Murphies oyer in Ireland.—(St. Louis Spectator.

The best of foreign Princess is a very bad match for any good American girl, even if she loves hint. He is an idle fellow who never did an honest day's work In his life.—[New York World.

Anew brand of cigars has been named after Walt Whitman, possibly liecause of a faii'-ied resemblance of the Cigars to "Leav«- of (5ra#*^'V£Kansa* City JTntirn!i'.

The mathematician onghi to cut a figure in society.—(Merchant Traveler. The good workman is like a pair of shears. He shuts up when he goes to work.—(Binghamton Herald.

Two blind men are on a train. Suddenly loud smacks are heard ail oyer the ear. "There," said one to the other, "that's the fonrth Mnnel we've passed through to-dsv." Judge.

A brother of James G. Blaine is teaching in the Indian School at Chemewa, Ore. v,-.«

Lafov' tu- has. r-ently undergone a war with the telephone couip uiv ly similar to that waged h^ru the wtun' il and the Bell repr.•sent*ifv-s. After various retaliatory impure* "peace" was reached by tlx- tei-].hone company conceding the five froe telephones and the use of u.* p*w«M for stringing fi.ve alarm wires.

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