Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 December 1889 — Page 6

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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MANAGER.

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TEKRE HAUTE, DEC. 14, 1889.

Mtt, GLADSTONE will be 80 years old the 29tb of this month. And yet this "grand old man" baa never seen America. He is making a grand mistake.

PATTJ, the petted warbler, can get any price she cares to ask for an evening's Hinging. But if there is anything of Patti except her roice the world has yet to learn of it.

THE northern papers have not had much to say about Jeff Davis* death. The country can well afford to keep silence, now that we shall be spared any more of the old rebel's disloyal utter

"BRAVO Bon,ANGER! The cock-lofty French geneial is coming to America to lecture at $700 a night and all expenses paid. Not a bad contract for Monsieur Boulanger, wo should say, and now if Dcm Pedro is nearly penniless, as they say, why doesn't he, too, make a contract to lecture in America?

Zor.A, the celebrated or notorious (whichever it is) French novelist, finds four pages of manuscript, or about 800 words, a full day's work for him. Jog ging along'at that rate be manages to grind out one novel a year. Perhaps it would be just as well for the world if he should write but one page a day.

AFTSR all it looks as though female suffrage may work pretty much like male suffrage. Last year more than 23,€00 women registered in Boston for the municipal election. Last year there was an exciting contest on hand and the women came out in force. This year no special interest attaches to the election and. the woman stay at home. That is just the way the voters of the other sex do.

MR. •rAD8TONB has created something of a sensation in England by his warm praise of the Brazil revolution. It is thought a little out of place for one who has three times been prime minister in a monarchy to speak so warmly in favor of a new republic. But Gladstone is old «nough and independent enough to say what he thinks, and he generally does no without much regard to consequences. ____________

DOM PKDRO, ex-Emporer of Brazil, has been telling in Europe that he fears the Brazilians are not yet ready for free government, and that he is perfectly willing to gQ back and sit on his South American throne again if the people want him to. There neyer yet was an unorowned king who was not willing to resfcme his •crown, but we trust the forebodings of

Dom Pedro will prove unfounded and that the United States of Brazil have come to-stay.

MAJOR POWELL, who has made a careful study of the matter, estimates that 100 million acres or arid land can be irrigated at a cost of $10 an acre, or one billion dollars in all. For the preservation of tho forests and parceling out the water thousands of men will be necessary. And yet, strangely enough, Mr. Powell does not think the government should have any hand In tho matter. A work of such magnitude, designed for the benefit of thousands of farmers who could not use tho land save as it was supplied with water, would seem to be one specially suited to government control. Tho government owns the land and it is valuoluess without water. Why should not the governmentglve it value by providing a system of irrigation?

THK Farmer*' Alliance has come to be »n important factor in State and National politics, and will become much more so shotjld Its union with the Knights of Labor be consummated. Its membeis hold radical views on many questions. Among other things they demand that the government shall gradually acquire the ownership of all transportation, telegraph, and telephone lines and operate them In the interests of tho people, and pledge themselves not to vote for any man who does not support these views. This Is substantially the position of the Nationalists and there a tendency in the public mind In that direction. The necessity of getting out of the power of the plutocrats and monopolists is felt on ail sides. The industrial economy is getting top-heavy and must lie righted by proper legislation or it mav tumble over.

The ups and down of prohibition are no true measurement of the growth of temperance to the country. This growth is steady and undoubted, and is well shown by some figures gathered from the annual report of the commissioners of interna! revenue. It appears that there were 305,000 liquor dealers in the United States three years ago, while the present number is about 180,009. That is to say, while the population of the country has Inwwfld there are 25,000 less men engage liquor selline now than there were three yeans ago. The exports of llqoor have also fallen off about 20 per cent. And this I# not true of the prohibition State® alone, but the decline of the liquor business is general throughout the country. The brutish habit of Intoxication i» everywhere going out and it may be expected that the advance of temperance sentiment will be more rapid from year to year.

TT is suspected from some of bis recent utterances that Bob Ingersoll, the great ognostic, is beginning to think there may be a future life after all. But what does it really matter what he or any other man thinks? They are all poor bit^ of humanity like the rest of us, and the opinion of one man is worth no more than that of another on the subject of immortality. The Christ of Nazareth said that if any one would follow him he would know of the doctrine whether it were of God or not. Those who have tried it are satisfied those who have not will never live long enough to settle the question by their own reasoning,

THE opening of the great Auditorium at Chicago on Monday night was the finest event of the kind that has ever oc curred in this country. It was fitting that the President and Vice-President, who had been nominated within ita walls, should honor the occasion with their presence. Considered in all its appointments, its great size and the perfection of its mechanism and the richness of its finish, it is probably superior to any public hall in the world. And hardly anywhere else in the world than Chicago could such a building have been reared and fully completed within the short space of three years. It is in every way a marvel and will be one of the chief centers of attraction for all visitors to Chicago, who will if possible spend at least one night within its walls.

MILLIONAIRE PHILANTHROPY. Having become a multi-millionaire himself, Mr. Andrew C&rneigie has of late exhibited considerable solicitude as to how millionaires in general should expend their money. An early article on the subject has been supplemented by another in the Decembor North American Review on "The Best Fields for Philanthropy," which seems to con tain directions to millionaires who wish to use their surplus wealth for the good of humanity.

Mr. Carnegie perhaps rather overstates the case when he says that |950 of every $1,000 contributed to charitable purposes does more harm than good, although there Is doubtless a great deal of money unwisely spent in that direction. He thinks universities, libraries, hospitals, parks, music, baths and churches are the best objects to give to and that a rich man should spend his money while he lives. All will agree to this proposition. The contested and broken wills and disponed estates of dead men in every State and county sufficiently attest the folly of men in postponing the distribution of their wealth until after death.

As to the objects of benevolence Suggested by Mr. Carnegie, they are all good but there is some danger that the founding of colleges may be overdone unless some free scholarships are founded with them. Some of the most promising students or young persons who would make the best use of the higher educational advantages, are shut out from them from lack of means to attend the institutions already established. Nothing could be better than fine parks provided with public concerts open to all the people, unless It were the opportunity of the tolling masses to attend these places, their long hours of work shutting thom out in the main from such enjoyments. Free baths would be one of the greatest boons that could be provided and is one that has been quite too much neglected by wealthy benefactors. The tendenoy has been quite too much in the direction of establishing new colleges rather than providing the means of rational enjoyment for the masses of the people. There ought to be a reaction from this. Men cannot live by books and schools alone. Baths, music, parks —all these are good and it will b6 well if our millionaires shall devote part of their surplus money to these objects. But one cannot keep back the reflection, in thinking of those things, that It would be better still if the surplus money of the millionaires were in the hands of the many instead of being congested in the hands of the few. Has any man aright to the possession of a million, anyhow—much less of many millions? This is one of tho pertinent questions that the millionaires may have to ask themselves* before they get through.

SA UCK FROM OTHER SANCTUMS. Everything around the country is going to blazes. "In the swim" of society the codfish aristocracy should be able to hold their own.

Boston Transcript: As a general rule, we are opposed to monopolies and trade combines, but there is no rule without its exception, and we are free to admit that a turkey trussed isn't so bad.

Baltimore American: If this world were made to suit every critic's wishes what a deformed, bulging, lopsided, depressed, irregular, dime museum affair it would be be!

Washington Capital: The head-dress of theatre-going young ladies reminds one of the castle in the hair.

Chicago Tribune: The man who feels around in the dark for a door, and gets an arm on each aide of it, accuples the time of a recording angel for fully five minutes.

Wasp: When the grocer quietly adds his nand to the weight in the scale he takes good care that neither his left hand ncr his customer shall know what his right hand doeth.

Baltimore American: Cigars are much like De«4 Sea fruits—they turn to ashes on the iipg.

Binghampton Leader: A writer says that whipping a boy, may make him stupid. It may be, but it la more likely to make him smart.

There la a alight difference between a lottery ticket and a mustard plaster—the latter always draws something.

How

Pope

Leo XIII Lives $

teMP JL THE ROUTINE BBOORD OF HIS DAILY LIFE IN ROME—THE VATICAN AND -.THE MANY ROOMS IN IT—LEO'S

GREAT AGE.

The Pope of Rome, who is officially called Leo XIII., but who is Gloacclnno Pecci, was born at the little town of Carpineto, in the Voicican Mountains, south of Rome, in 1810. He is, therefore, a very old man and he has been for several years very feeble. It is not known that he suffers from any particular disease, but he becomes very easily, tired and is then said to be liable to fainting fits. The Pope lives in the Vatican Pal ace, close to St. Peter's church. This palace is secured to him by the Itlalian government, whose officials cannot enter without the Pope's permission It is a little kingdom by itself and within its walls the Pope has his own police men and his little company of Swiss guards. He never leaves the Vatican— at least so It is said—for fear of being insulted by the Roman populace'. It is, however, believed by many people that he occasionally drives out in a closed carriage after dark, and last winter when his brother was dying in the Palazzo Barberinl, the Pope went to see him.

The Vatican is an enormous building. It is said to contain four thousand rooms though it is not known that anyone ever counted them. Undoubtedly it does contain a vast quantity of rooms, but it is probable that there are not quite four thousand of them. In the Vatican is one of the most celebrated museums in the world. The finest statues, the greatest paintings, the most valuable antiquities and the rarest books and manuscripts have been collected from time to time by the Popes and are freely shown to all visitors who wish to see them. In the Vatican Palace are also many beautiful court-yards and a magnificent garden.

Leo XIII sleeps in a large, bare room, with high ceiling and a tiled floor. Like all the rooms in the Vatican, it has no carpet and it is very plainly furnished. It contains a small iron bedstead, a little table, a writing-desk, a prle-dieu, and two or three chairs. One or two rugs are laid on the floor in winter time and during the day the bedstead is shut off from the rest of the room by a curtain.

The Pope rises every morning at six o'clock puts on the dress of an ordinary priest and at seven says mass in bis private chapel. When this mass is finished another is said by some other ecclesiastic to which the Pope listens while kneeling. These two masses last until about nine o'clock, when he takes a cup of chocolate or coffee, with bread and then begins the work of the day. About 1:30 the Pope eats his principal meal. This consists of soup, boiled beef, a vegetable and ocoassionally a little roast meat. He drinks a glass or a glass and a half of generous wine, usually Burgundy. The dinner sometimes ends with fruit, but the Pope is so feeble that he is compelled to be extremely eareful as to his diet. He is, moreover, naturally very abstemious, and his table expenses, exclusive of wine and groceries, do not exceed a dollar a day. Much of his wine is sent to him as a gift. He always eats alone and after dinner be sleeps for a short time. At 8 o'clock he has a supper of bread, cold meat and salad, and about 10 o'clock, after listening to prayers, lie goes to bed, unless he has visitors whom he is anxious to see.

In pleasant weather Leo takes the air in the Vatican gardon after he has had his nap. Latterly he has been too feeble to walk and has either been can led in a Sedan chair or has driven in a carriage. He is always attended by one of his guards, who follows a little way benind him. Frequently some bishop or other Important person with whom the Pope wishes to confer walks beside the carriage or the chair and converses with him. As the head of the largest church in the world, the Pope is necessarily a very busy man. He is almost constantly employed during his working hours In receiving persons who come to see upon eccleatinl matters of importance. Then he has to receive diplomatic agents and to listen to reports without number. In addition to the people who have business with the Pope which makes it necessary for them to see him he also receives from time to time pilgrims, foreign tourists, Protestants and all sorts of people, some of whom wish to see him because they are devout Boman Catholics, but the majority of whom are impelled simply by cariosity, and neither know nor care that the courteeous old gentleman who receives them will have to sit up later and work harder in order to make up for the time that he has given them.

Several times dnring the winter the Pope says mass publicly at an early iiour in the morning. This is done to gratify thousand of faithful who want to see and hear him. Sometimes the mass is said in the Sistine Chapel and sometimes in St. Peter's. For many years the Pope and bis predecessor, Pius IX., had refused to enter St. Peter's for the same reason that they refused to show themselves in the streets of Heme, but on the occasions of the Pope's jubilee last year he was so much pleased with the success of the affair that he decided to break through his previous rule and to say mass in St. Peter's. Since then he has quite frequently entered the church, though few of the great ecclesiastical ceremonies that formerly took place In St. Peter's at Christmas and Holy Week are now to b* seen. The Pope la a venerable looking old man, with a kind and cheerful face. He does not smoke and be is not at all excessive in bis use of snuff, but his phpsiclans do not object to it, and it is doubtless a gr«af. comfort to him.

Not withstanding bis exalted position

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people would find very much to ivy in the daily life of Leo XIII. Hia ole life is passed either in religious iercises or in discharging the business dities of his high office. The income of ti|e Pope, which consists chiefly in n&ney given him by faithful Roman Catholics all over the world is large, but as1is evident from what has just been st^d that he uses very little of it for himself. Of course the cost of the en ti|e Vatican household, which is like a liitle town, is by no means small, but after defraying these expenses the greater part of the Pope's income is devoted to religious or charitable uses.

Hie age of Leo XIII. together with his physical weakness, renders it improbable that he will live much longer. It •tfjilbe difficult to find a successor who will command such universal respect ai|d esteem as the present Pope has gained even among those who are politicly or religiously opposed to him.

WILLIAM L. ALDKN.

LIGHT OF THE HAREM.

ilVING, BREATHING, GLOWING IN- §. CARNATION OF FEMININE LOVELINESS. ^The ladies of the Sultan of Turey's harem are diyided into five classes. The highest classes are the Kaadens, of wjiorn there are five. The present Kiadena are natives of Salonica and Cir cassia. These are really the Sultan's wives. The favorite is called the Ikoal, or "Sultana of the year." The second diss is called the personal staff of the Siilt&n, and is composed of seventy slave girls. Next in rank comes the Dadas (ntirses), then the Ghes-Metkian (house hold drudges). The fifth class are the dancing girls, who really occupy the lowest rank of anyone in the harem.

Of course, all the interest is centerd around the Sultan's favorite wife she is a Persian woman. Her name is Shelmazin Harula Mauin. I should guess her to be about twenty-five years of age. She reclined upofi abroad conch, upholstered with some rich Persian stuff.

As I looked at her all the "Dreams of Fair Women" that ever were placed in cold type, all the melting tints that ever were depicted on unresponsive canvas, all the passionate love poems that loose their passion by being put in words, faded into nothingness beside this living, breathing, glowing incarnation of loveliness.

I hardly know how to describe her. She is neither blonde, brunette, nor chataine. Her hair is not blonde, it is not yellow, but the truest goldt made so without the use of any cosmetic. It is soft and wavy and as fine as silk. Her yes are as blaok as black velvet. Her jkin is as fair as alabaster, and her lips are as red and luscious as freshly gathered strawberries. Her robe seemed to be of the finest white silk gauze. It fell away from her faultless neck and bosom (which was innocent of the support of any corset), and was oonfined at the waist by a band of gold, six inches wide, in which were set all manner of preci-. ous stones. Upon her arms and neck and in her ears were diamonds of immense value. But the contour of that dainty body to which the silken tissue clung lovingly was so perfect and so rare as to make one utterly oblivious to the cold shine of the jewels.

It is small wonder that the Sultan flies to do her smallest bidding. A man might also think his death sentence mufetclf it fell from those lips. Another title which Shelmazin has is the "Lady of jry Sceptor." This is the insignia of her rank, for she haa it always beside her. ________

DURA1ION OF HUMAN LIFE INCREASING. [Pittsburg Dispatch.]

A writer in a popular magazine having recently attempted to prove that the Amerioans were constantly growing weaker physically, and that they are altogether inferior to their ancestors of a year ago, or even of seventy years ago, careful investigations have been made on the subject. The results show that the increase in the duration of life is shown markedly in civilized countries is exhibited in the statistics of this country. The experience of life insurance companies is that the mortality among Americans is consideiably less than that which the English companies provide for. In 1858 a mortality table, jased on the experience of several American companies, was made for the guld* ance of home companies. It is found today, thirty-one years later, that the expectancy of life. is materially greater ha It as he

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