Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 January 1890 — Page 4
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TERkE HAUTE, JAN. 26, 1890.
JH "Charley Farwell" were only President for a little while and Ben Harrison Senator!
AFRO-AMEKICANS is the new name for the negroes of the South. It is a good large name but none too large for our colored brother, who delights in large words.
JUDGE HILTON has agreed to give the heirs of A. T. Stewart $5,000,000 of the estate. This leaves about 120,000,000 i'or himself—a fairly liberal allowance for attorney's fees one would think.
Jo JEFFKRHON got |12,000 for his auto biography, it is said. Autobiography seems to be about the most profitable kind of literature nowadays, providing a fellow has the biography part of it on hand.
IT is said that Mr. Gladstone could have $25,000 a year for his literary work by agreeing to give all of it to an American publisher. Most of us will not be able to make that much when we are eighty years old.
Lrrri,E Portugal has half a mind to fight John Bull over the African question, rather than give up her claims to a slice of the dark continent. Of course Portugal would be a small handful for England, but other European powers might be drawn into the contest and a great international war result. Costly and destructive wars have grown out of smaller things.
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never quite safe lo predict that
there will be no cold weather simply be cause it holds off until the middle of January. A blizzard that can bury tho railroads thirty feet in snow, tear down the telegraph wiros, and freeze cattle, sheep and men, may be got up in 24 hours and sent whirling down from the Arctic at forty miles an hour, making the mercury tumble over itselftogetout of tho way. When this thing happens we begin to realize that cold weather has come when it was least expected.
IT looks as if there would really be a revision of the Presbyterian creed Forty-six presbyterlos have voted on the question and thirty-live of them are in favor of revision. It requires a twothirds vote to carry the question, but the indications are that there will be more than that majority in favor of revision, as tho liberal tendency in the church is •strong and increasing. Not many members of the church believe any more in the brimstone doctrines of ancient Calvinism, and it is quite proper that the creed of the church should be conformed to what the church really believes.
THE State Board of Healthvof Illinois reports 6,500 physicians in that State, or one to every 080 people. That is a much higher ratio than exists in the old world. Must we conclude that Americans are less healthy than Europeans or that they consume more drugs and have.moro need of doctors? Perhaps it is partly both, as the doctors appear to thrive pretty well on an average. Medical men, however, complain that the profession is increasing faster than is needed and would like to diminish the rush into it? But what profession i%not iucreasing too rapidly? Few things in deed are not oyordone.
IT IS to the credit of Indiana Democratic editors that they did not like to indorse the olection of Calvin S. Brice as United States Senator from Ohio. Thore are well Jon to a score of very rich men in the United States Senate, few of whom could have secured their scats by a voto of the people. Their great wealth enables them to manipulate Legislatures and practically to buy seats In the high' est legislative body in the nation. This practice, once limited to the mining States of the Pacific, Is becoming quite too general and should ue viewed with alarm. Why not elect the Senators, as we do the Representatives, by popular vote? Then a man's money would not count for so much.
SKNATOH FUIWRLI,, of Illinois, has beeu considering the propriety of fighting the President's nomination of a man for collector of customs in Chicago. Mr. FSanvell should recall a similar contest which Roseoo Conkling had with President Garfield and the outcome of it. Great a man as Conkling was, the people of New York said they had not made him a Senator for the purpose of wrangling with the President over appointor
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going eastward across the Atlantic and Miss Bisland westward to San Francisco and thenee across the Pafilflo. The trip
ments to office, and if he could find nothing better to do than that he might I considered a liberal education, go back to private life, which be did. the great progress that has been made Mr. Farwell is tomtit compared to in all things, the public schools have Conkling, and if he undertakes a fight {advanced from the pioneer stage and it with the President over the offices the would be a pity If they had not done so. State of Illinois will be apt to drop him I Shall we put them bade to what they very suddenly. were fifty years ago? We don't make 1 I re in he in ha a
THE race around the vtorw between
Verne's imaginary record of 80 days. Miss Bly is now flying across the conti nent towards New York, where she is I doe this evening. If her train makes I the schedule time her trip will have consumed only 73 days, or two days less than she allowed herself at the start. In the meantime Miss Bisland is homeIward bound on the Atlantic in the steamer Bothnia, which is not due in
New York until next Tuesday, so that I Nellie Bly is pretty sure to win the race. I Aside from going around the world in 173 days there is not much in the thing, but perhaps that is enough, showing as I it does the marvellous speed of modern travel.
NEW WORLDS.
Great projects are on foot regarding Africa and South America. The former is to be opened up to civilization which in time will discover a new world of commerce. England will probably lead in this great work, though there is no good reason why America should not have a large part in it.
South America is civilized bur. lacks railroads. Steps are now being taken to supply them. A great intercontinental road is projected to connect the two'continents, starting southwaid from the City of Mexico. Other important railway enterprises are projected or under way. Immense difficulties will be met with in the Andes mountains, but similar ones have been surmounted in the Rockies, and as the science of railway building is all the time progressing it will be able to cope with any obstacles that may present themselves. Doubtless the time is not very distant when one will be able to board a train in South America and ride straight through to Alaska—a ride of four or five thousand miles. '.
A NEORO STATE.
Anew emigration has started among the negroes of the South. They are flosking by thousands into Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and their purpose is said to be to build up an Afro-Ameri-can commonwealth in which the colored people shall have full control of affairs, unmolested by the whites. The dream, if it be a dream, is a noble one. If it be a practical undertaking, as seems possible, it is worthy of commendation. Neither the colored people nor the whites are satisfied with the present condition of things in the South. Each irritates the other. Colonization has long been talKed of as the ultimate solution of the race problem in America, but far off countries only have been considered as the home of the colored man. Now if the negros choose to take up some groat tracts of unoccupied land in this country and build thereon a negro commonwealth, the rest of the nation ought to wish them god-speed and put no hindrance in their way. It would certainly be a unique and interesting phenomenon to see an American St?te composed and ruled by colored people exclusively The race would thus have a free chance to show what it could do, not only in the arts and sciences, out in political gov ernmentas well. It is to be hoped the plan will be carried out.
HIGHER EDUCATION.
There is plenty of nonsense talked concerning our public school system. Doubtless it has gone too far in the direction of teaching some nonessentials but the ideas expressed by Rev. Howard Crosby, of New York, at a public meeting recently go away off to the other extreme. Dr. Crosby said the State has no right to be teaching the higher education and that "we should only teach children in the public schools to read, to write, to cipher and to know what tha American constitution is." According to this formula they should not be taught oven geography or American history.
This is all nonsense. Why, it may be asked, should not the State give every child a fairly good education? Th« theory of the public schools is that education makes bettor and safer citizenship. If that be so the more of it the better, up to a reasonable limit. Many a bright boy or girl is able to go through the high school who would not be able to go away to college or boarding school. The high school course gives them a very nice start in life—fits them, in fact, for any kind of society, business or professional life. Why should the children of the poor bo denied this blessing? The rich are able to send their children to distant schools and colleges to- complete their education. The children of the poor must remain at home and if they are denied the higher education in the public schools they are shut out from it altogether. There is already too much difference between the rich and the poor In this country. To impose this penalty upon poverty is to make the division wall higher and wider. Surely there can be no better expenditure of money than in educating the children of the State.
It would be poor policy to pauperize the public schools by cutting them down to the mere teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic. Times haye changed since the day when "the three Us" was
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Nellie Bly and Miss Bisland basattract- Give the children a good edu ed ft good deal of attention. Both cation. We can give them nothing betleft New York City Nov. 14, Mis* Bly
ter Rnd will worth aU
was practically over the same rout«, each ter part of this month for an extended Koing in the opposite direction from the vacation. He returns to this country other The scheme was to go round the early this fall when he will resume his world in 7$ days, and so beat Jules {work upon the stage.
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should we do so in the public
that It coats,
Lawrence Barrett Is rapidly recovering [hishealth and will go to Europe the lat-
ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss Leiter has a passion for dainty underclothing and gloves, Miss Wannamaker has all her dresses made with Greek draperies in front
The Queen of Belgium has founded a girl's magazine, for which she and her daughter and the Queen of will write.'
Mrs. Morton ate 20 gowns, the bill for which Worth rendered amounted to $20 000. She is counted the best dressed and handsomest woman of the administra-
Mrs. Fannie B. Ward is now on a trip as news correspondent through South America. The journey will occupy a year, and extend through every division of that country.
Mrs. Wanamaker is very plain and quakerish in her dress, and the only ornament she wears is a superb pair of diamond earrings bought by her father before his death. ,t
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has arrived at San Francisco in excellent.health,by the way of the Northern Pacific. She has accepted several invitations to lecture during her stay on the Pacific coast as the guest of Mrs. A. Millard, Marin Co., and before she leaves San Francisco a reception will be given in her honor by the Century Club. While in Portland she filled the pulpit of the First Unitarian Church on two successive Sundays.
The average longevity of literary women would indicate that activity of the brain has the effect of lengthening their lives rather than shortening them. Mrs. Somerviile and Caroline Herschel reached the ages of 92 and 98 respectfully, Mrs. Barbauld and Miss Edge worth died at 82. Miss Harriet Lee attained 95 and Mrs. Marcet 89. Jane Porter died at 74, Hannah More at 87, Miss Mitford at 69, and Mrs. Radcliffe at 59. The average longevity of the ten ladies named was nearly 83 years.
Dr. B. B. GLOVER,
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Mrs. Senator Edmunds is a woman of strong character an extensive reader, consequently a fine conversationalist, and makes herJao,me^the happiest spot, on earth.
Carolotta Johannson, a niece of Christine Nilsson, is said to possess a remarkably fine soprano voice, and has been sent to Christmnia to finish her studies in singing.
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Mrs. Sarah Hopkins, who died recently near Louisville, was one of the committee of young ladies who gave a reception to General Lafayette upon liis visit to this country in 1824.
Miss Amelia R. Edwards, on her re^ turn to Boston in March, will give three lectures under the auspices of the New England Women's Press Association. This will be her farewell to America.
Anna Teresa Berger, the leading woman cornetist of the world, is now performing in London. At her lodgings she has a small room fitted up with padded walls and ceiling and draped doors, and there she practices night and day on the gold and silver cornets that have been presented to her by her admirers.
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The Woman's Tribune, formerly published at Beatrice, Nebraska, a weekly journal devoted to the woman's suffrage movement, both State and National, will hereafter be published in Washington during the sessions of Congress and its office be made the headquarters for work and documentary information bearing on that subject.'
Salvini's youngest daughter (the child of his brief second marriage) is being educated at the Santisslma Annunziata School in Forence. Last year her father coached her and her schoolmates for the prize-day performances, and tevery one wondered at the children's gifts for elocution. Salvini's married daughter has a passion for the stage, but her father will not allow her to adopt the of on
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Mrs. S. S. Cox owns several houses in Washington. The one in Dupont Circle her late husband bought for $30,000, sold for $50,000, and bought back again for $40,000. Mrs. Cox looks after her property herself, and has the reputation of being a good business woman. She is believed to be engaged upon a memorial biography of her husband, whom she accompanied in all his travels and aided in his literary work.
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