Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1890 — Page 1

Vol. 20.-No. 32.

THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE,

Notes and Comment.

Nevada, Mo., taxes her whisky to pay for her water. Chicago is about to erect a ?1,000,000 hotel. Yes, the world's fair is coming west.

Signs of a very decided business revival are said to be multiplying. This is encouraging.

One month of the new year is gone. Who can tell

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perished with it? Around the world in seventy-two days! Old Sol will have to quicken his pace or abandon his prestige.

Ice men aro becoming worried over the prospects. Indeed they have every reason for their present dismal forebodings.

From the amount of base ball talk in circulation one woutal judge the theimometer registered eighty in the shade.

Five cows were Impounded Thursday. The poor animals must have been.starvIng, else this manifestation of humanity would not have been made.

It is not becoming in the victor to resort to slandering an opponent, a fact Nellie Bly evidently forgot to consider on her safe arrival in New York.

The Emperor of Oermaii^Hp||||||ng a book. Most probably all th^ptos^m the solution of the socialistic problems of Germany will be rigorously excluded.

"The Angelus," the celebrated #110,000 painting, is now on exhibition in Chicago. In consequenoe the city by the lake side has affected sudden and decided artistic taste.

Hundreds of boomers are camped in the snow near Pierre, S. D., awaiting the oponing of the Sioux reservation. It would be interesting to know how many of the number are disappointed Oklahoma boomers.

The infant King of Spain gets a salary of $1,000,000. By the time he 18 old enough to smoke cigarettes, the little fellow will have accumulated quite a pocket fmi ot spending money, if his rolatives keep away from him.

Thore are now eighty-five electric railways completed, or in course of construction, in the United Stntes. Civilization is stoadlly moving on, and wheels propelled by the now power are doing their share in the work of transportation.

The peace footing of the French army is 5f0,80.'i men, and the war footing 3,754,000 men. The German army is about the saino. These two forces could make It decidedly interesting not only for themselves and their countries, but for tho entire world.

Two thousand four hundred and nlnoty-fivo telegraph poles and 14,500,000 foot of wire have boon out down in New York in tho war against overhead circuh*.. This is very rapid progress in the work of making "dead" out of "live" wires by a process of burial.

Panoramas have had their day. The greift. panorama of the Surrender at Yoi^ktown, which was exhibited a few yeaix ago, was sold at auction in New York recently for §40 and live years' storage dues. The canvas cost £15,000 and the equipment, building, etc., $27f»,0H. irover Cleveland declares he ''would prefer not to take the lead in 1S!V2.M (,*rovt»r is undoubtedly aware, however, that for such trivial things as the Presidential nomination, personal preferences have very frequently been temporarily laid aside. Ho is paving his way to such a course.

A nativ newspaper of India makes this pertinent remark: "Our liquor trartle begins by Ranging a sign over the door, and ends by hanging a, man on a gibbet." This enterprising journal has caught tho spirit of the entire matter, and expressed it iu a most true and emphatic way.

General Sherman will be 70 years old Febru&ry S, and the Colon League Club of New York will celebrate the day by giving the General a grand banquet, to which many generals, colonels, judges, etc., will be invited. "Marching to see Sherman" would be an appropriate song for the occasion.

Here is an evidence that the once triumphant nam© of Smith is falling into innocuous desuetude. In South Bend a recent census discovered 155 Johnson families and 182 Millers as compared with only 115 Smiths. John Smith will soon possess as much individuality as Sylvester Jaques accord, ing to this indication.

P. T. Barnum lectured before a select English audience Thursday evening in the drawing room of the Karl of Aberdeen. Guests were charged a very good admission price, for the proceeds are to be devoted to the assistance of distressed Irish ladies. Mrs. Shaw enlivened the

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occasion by whistling a number of selections. American novelty goes home to the English heart and pocket book.

The popular Kentucky editor, Henry Watterson, will lecture at the Normal hall Tuesday evening, on "Money and Morals." This is a very good subject for one so well versed in that species of life which requires so much of the money and so little of the morals. Mr. Watterson is a brilliant talker and will have a large audience.

There are now almost as many Irish editors in jail as at the editorial desk, a fact which speaks much for the good work the Irish journals are doing in the liberation of Irish peasantry. The newspaper on the side of justice is a formidable opponent, and tyranny can only maintain a supremacy by a forced suppression of it. Thus it is in Ireland.

Town Talk.

TIIE BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION.

A remark made by secretary C. M. Thompson in a recent card to the public on the subject of new industries for the city, gives the precise cue to the present situation in so far as the Business Men's Association is interested. It was this: "The association, through its officials, can and does persistently .represent the city's advantages as an industrial center, to its own citizens and to outsiders. But the one thing the bo^rd cannot do, as a board, is to provide the requisite money." This one point has been the impeding feature in all the efforts toward securing new manufactories for the city. The board, as an organization, has not the fu^a^^h which to make a modern caMBthe field. Astftidustrial projedc^PWmow managed,'It is impossible to secure the removal of a plant from an old location without offering very decided financial inducements. To be sure the special advantages of/a city iu its railroads, fuel, timber, water, etc., are primary considerations, yet they alone will hardly lead any firm to seelct it for a location. Other things must come in. The oitizens or their representative association must either take stock.oi make a donation. This being the oase, our Business Men's board is practically powerless, for the financial support comes only from membership dues, and these are. not so large as to accumulate into a nr^ltsMi: Neither has the association real estate which can be offered as sites to prospecting firms. Thus itjs'as Mr. Thomson says: individuals have to bo depended on when it comes down to the final pull in the effort to secure anew industry. It is useless to remark that the board should, by some method, be imbursed. Such a Motion would be most desirable, but at the same time difficult if not impossible of attainment. It therefore remains to devise some plan for bringing together a large number of individual contributors who can bo dopeuded upon to furnish funds when opportunity for investments are offered. The scheme outlined by. Mr. Thompson consists in the organization of a species of building and loan association, the objoctof which shall be the taking of stock in promising projects. Such an association, he suggests, might have 5,0(K) shares of stock at ?12 per share, each share payable at the rate of §1 per month. This money, managed by a reputable board, could bo invested in industrial enterprises which in a year or two would reap quite respectable dividends. The plan seems to be an excellent one, and If consistently carried out, as it could and would be, ought to effect wonderful results. Think what $60,000 a year would do in attracting manufacturing firms, how far it would go. And the best feature in the plan is that those who could become stockholders, the laboring men, would be the -ones to realise the greatest benefit. Their gain would be two fold, in increased chances for steady employment and iu the reaping of cash dividends on their invested capital. Some such plan as this would do a great deal for Terre Haute in a short time, and encouragement is extended to Mr. Thompson in his efforts to carry the idea through. With a funded annex, such as the stock association would be, the Business Men's Board would become a very decided power in doing groat things for the city.

WHISPKRIXO IN CHURCH.

Much annoyance has been occasioned in one or two of the churches recently b.v loud and boisterous conduct on the part of young people during the evening services. Last Sunday evening this annoyance became so great during one service that the minister stopped short In his sermon to request that talking in the gallery cease. He said It would be impossible fqp him to continue his discourse it better order was not maintained. The rebuke was deserved for the talking was so loud and constant that it amounted to a continual bam. From all indications one wonld naturally bare supposed that ths thoughtless young folks, who certainly bad reached a more sensible age than their behavior evidenced, considered the church a place of amusement rather than a place of worship and the remarks of the pastor a funny lecture rather than a solemn appeal for their moral welfare. The

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sharp censure had the effect of producing quiet, and after an appolgy to his conscientious listeners he resumed his sermon. It is a difficult task some times for a preacher to preserve order when his congregations are large, a task strangely inconsistent with a divine's po^itioiTand duties, but one which nevertheless forces itself upon him. How to best accomplish it is a problem that calls for tact and ability, as efforts that may perhaps have an immediate

AMUSEMENTS.

"JIM THE PENMAN."

A. M. Palmer's company, which presented the above play with such great success throughout the country last season, cobimenced the second annual tour at the Grand Opera House, New York City, on August 27th. This play has proved itself in every way the most remarkable drama which Mr. Palmer has preseuted during his seyenteeu years of management in New York City. Its record in England and America, both from an artistic and financial ponit of view, has not been equalled by any other dramatic work of the presont generation. Its first presentation four years ago in London, immediately placed its author, Sir Charles Young, in the first ranks of modern playwrights and brought him both fame and fortune. It has since been seen from a length of time varying from one to three months in all the principal cities of this country. Its success has been brilliant and complete. The favor with which it has been received is doubtless due to tho fact that it appeals strongly to every class of society, since its motive is drawn from the most profound depths of human nature, and its plot compasses the wide ground of human experience. It will be seeu here on Tuesday evening next with the strong organization specially chosen for its representation, and the present tour willafford the last opportunity to witness it by this company, since next year Mr Palmer's forces will be engaged in the representation of other successes now in hand. The seats sale for this engagement is now progressing. ...

JFATCRAI. OAS.

"Natural Gas" will be turned on at Naylor'a Opera house on Monday evening next. Of all the musical comedies on the road thare is not one that is funnier, more absurd, brighter than Natural Gas, as produced by Donnelly, Girard and company. The play has a thread of a plot in it, but seems to have been constructed solely for mirth.provoking purposes, and if the plot is lost it is certainly not missed. Henry Donnelly, as Christopher Bluff, and Eddie Girard, as Whirlem O'ltourke, are immense, and the company is one of the best ever organized for a musical comedy.

Sutton's Uncle Tom's Cabin company will give two performances at Naylor'a Opera house on next Saturday, matinee and evening. A season's looking without anjtl. T. Co. would be like a summer without sunshine.

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The Carrie Wayne comedy company, organized by Robert Wayne in this city, a few weeks ago, disbanded in Washington, Indiana, Thursday. The effort, so it Is reported, did not prove a financial success. Km Wayne nee Miss Qarrle Katzenbach, was the star of the com* P*ny.

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may in the end drive this section of his listeners away. At best the situation is "ibne in which the pastor has the sympathy of the majority of his audience.

A CHANGE OF V^NUE.

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The city has filed motions for change of venue to another county in two of the damage suits now pending, with a view to securing an impartial trial. The cases are those in which damages are asked for the tearing down of property declared unsafe by the council. In one, Harriet Holmes asks $1,500, and in the other M. H. Murphy, $4,000. The first thought on* the question of venue would naturally be that the cityought to secure justice in the courts here, for a jUry composed of citizens .would hardly be so inconsistent as to render a verdict partial to the plaintifls when tfce suits involved an individual expense on ^the members. But experience in one of the Murphy suits has shown that this cannot be depended on to a certainty, so the second thought would be that the venue is a very good idea. The question on which the cases hinge, as at present understood, is whether the council has the right to decide when a building is so far gone as to be dangerous to the surrounding property. If it is decided in the courts that the city has no such power, then one.would ask what person or persons have. The opinions of the majority of impartial persons, it is ventured to affirm, are on the side of the city, for if the council's actions are recalled, it will be remembered that repeated notices for the removal of the buildings were served before the structures were ordered demolished. If the property possessed any value, the owners should have accepted the privilege of removal offered by the council. This was allowed to go unheeded and the buildings were torn down. The result is the series of damage suits, and it now becomes necessary to venue the cases.to prevent being financially snowed under in the contests.

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HOW THE PRETTY YOUNG "BUD" MAKES HER ENTRANCE INTO SOCIETY— CONSOLIDATION OF WOM­

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The season for dances is on, and every young girl who has- finished school and is able to entertain her friends is expecting to enjoy herself to the utmost when she glides over smooth floors in th| arms of some nice young fellow to th& entrancing strains of Strauss and Wlldteufel. A young girl who is about to filter society is termed a "bud" because she is an undeveloped blossom, evj&n more attractive to many than the full-fledged society girl who has had experience of .worldly things gained by going through a couple of seasons.

The first duty of a bud is to have a tea, to/ which all her mother's friends'as well as her own should be invited, and though? is really started on her social career. Teas are rather tame affairs, not only bemuse the ice cream, wafers and coffee areansufficient to satisfy the hunger of the'sterner sex, who prefer, .when they go put, to have something substantial if no dancing is in order, but because the attractive girls who are not receiving are apt to decline being present if there is another engagement of a more important character scheduled for the same ievening. The tea, however, is a highly necessary event, and it is a cheap way of paying off any number of social .obligations. .-1:

At her first tea the bud always looks charming in her attractive white garb, and her cousins or school friends who assist her in making the affair pass off pleasantly, are particularly anxious to call attention to her good looks as1 they beam over huge corsage bouquets and endeavor to prove even more attractive tMkmselves. "After the tea, wheu the young girl has bf^n flattered by the attention she has received, and has been called upon by youjp'g men, and older ones, who have badfmore experience in addressing comnts to the fair sex, she is ready for germans and dancing classes, and has any personal charms and host to sway her form in time to polka, yorke, Borlln, Danish or mifltaire schotiische music, she is Stffe to have a good timfc. Even if she ^^vhnt few people, others are sure to an^hrtrb&ttOtibty liofr' oh»i*1 eron or other attendant, and hor dances will soon be engaged.

The first season of a young girl is for her a delightful existence. Alas, that is so quickly gone. C'

A movement is in progress to form a federation of women's clubs as a means of mutual improvement, and to promote the interests of culture and progress. The initial step was taken somo months ago by Sorosis, the well-known Woman's Club of New York. A convention was held, in which about sixty clubs were represented, and a committee was appointed to correspond with other clubs, and to invite them to send delegates to a second convention, to bo held in March, when a constitution will be adopted and the organization perfected. The member of this committee on correspondence from Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska is Mrs, Julia Holmes Smith, Chicago, 111. the member for Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory is Mrs. Mary C. Todd, Wichita, Kan., and the rifiember for Minnesota. Montana and tl?e Dakotas is Mrs. M. Driscoll, St. Paul, Minn. It is designed to make the federation an active agency in all good works, without permitting it to assume a partisan or denominational character. In order to be eligible to membership in it a club must show that its plan of work requires no political or sectarian tact, that its purpose is not primarily philanthropic or technical, but that it is chiefly devoted to literary, artistic or scientific cnlture, while the more broadly human movements may be recognized. The scheme is of general interest and importance, and the basis of union is such that the numerous women's clubs throughout the country can easily become co-operative in tho best sense of the term.

Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson has had more biographical sketches printed about her during the last year than ever before in her whole life. Mr. Arthur Stedman, her latest biographer and admirer, is perhaps the most enthusiastic, but the most earnest friends that Miss Woolson has are the magazine editors, so many of whom woo her literary productions so successfully. As a "serial" novelist the author of "Anne" is regarded as a most valuable card, but ahe can be induced to do very little work now. Miss Woolson lives almozt continoosly in Italy, which she finds most desirable as a place of residence. She has never been very strong, and before going abroad to live, spent most of her time in Florida with her mother, who finally died there. Having a comfortable income she is able to live anywhere and in any way ahe chooses, but I

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her life is not one altogether of ber own choosing—a home has been denied to ber for many years, but if she lias troubles and regrets no one ever bears of them. She is a dainty little woman,

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perhaps even more particular than the rest of her sex upon matters of dress.

Instead of being only so many graceful ornaments at the marriage ceremony, as nowadays, the bride-maids in olden times had various duties assigned to them. One of their principal tasks was dressing the bride on her wedding morning. At a wedding, too, where it was arranged that the bride should be followed by a numerous train of her lady friends, it was the first bride-maid's duty to play the part of a drill mistress, "sizing" them, so that "no pair in the procession were followed by a taller couple." She was also expected to see that each bride-maid was not only duly provided with a sprig of rosemary, or a floral posy pinned to the breast folds of her dress, but had a symbolical chaplet in her hand.

In many parts of Germany it is still customary for the bride-maids to bring the myrtle wreath, which they had subscribed together to purchase on the nuptial eve, to the house of the bride, and to remove it from h§r head at the close of the wedding day. After this has been done the bride is blindfolded, and the myrtle wreath being put into her hand she tries to put it on the head of one of her bride-maids as they dance around her for, in accordance with an old belief, whoever she crowns is sure to be martied within a year from that date. As may be imagined, this ceremony is the source of no small excitement, each bride-maid being naturally anxious to follow the example of the bride and get married within a year.

KansasTsunconsoiously developing in her midst a writer of much promise in Mrs. J. K. Hudson, the wife of the editor of the Topeka Capital. This olever woman has already done considerable good literary work. A serial story, "A Child of Erlu," is now running in her husband's paper. As yet Mrs. Hudson's fame has penetrated but little outside her own State, but it will not be long, I venture to prophesy, befofe her fame will be confined only by its author's possibilities.

"Are literary women more difficult to get along with than men was asked of an editor who has much dealing with tho female sex in authorship. "fiTot at all," was his response. "They are, if anything, easier. They have not the jaino.knowledge of thejmsiness side of a transaction," it is True, •buir-crrey concede a point, where they are shown to be wrong, where a man will be sullen and stubborn. I think, on the whole, I would rather deal in literary matters with women than with men."

ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Lantry takes hot baths and wears very little underwear. Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller gets $5,000 a yfear fur her serials.

Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain boasts that she is more in debt than any woman in Europe.

Mrs. Booth's IICM. book is called "Beneath Two Flags," and treats of the army's warriors and warfare.

The musicians who played at Mrs. Cornelius Yandorbilt's recent musicale were paid at the rate of $00 a minute.

Miss Matoika Gay, one of the leading belles of Richmond, Va., claims to be a direct descendontof Pochahontas.

Miss Grace H. Dodge is contributing to Harper's Bazaar a series of articles entitled, "Glimpses Into the Lives of Workingwomen."

Nellie Bly, the globe-trotter, is said to be a man-hater. Her articles do not read as though she had so much coldness in her heart.

Anna Franklin in 1872, aided by her two daughters, edited the first newspaper issued in Rhode Island. The woman servant in the family usually worked the press.

The Empress Augusta is said to have had a great partiality tor everything French. She usually conversed with her daughter, the duchess of Baden, in that language.

The Queen of Italy is growing stout, to her great distress. She has tried several times to become a vegetarian iii hope of reducing her weight, but is too fond of good living to persevere insuch a course.

Miss Eva M. Brown, only daughter of John Brown of Harpers Ferry fame, is the private sectetary of Henry H. Faxon of Quincy, Mass., and has the management of the Quincy Political Temperence Bureau.

Miss Hameraley is coxswain of a crew of eight in England. Her steering has bronght her much commendation. She once took the place of the Oxford cox swain when be was ill, and received the coveted "blue" in return—an honor never before bestowed on a woman

With an eye to business and the reputation the clever girls bad made, Kate Held took for ber assistants in starting her publication in Washington the two young Vasear graduates who made such a success of a country newspaper at Atlantic Heights, N. J. The girls are Miss Caroline Liiigle and Miss Ella I*on and, the first being Miss Field's editor and the second ber business manager.

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Geraldine's Letter

MY DEAR RUTH:—Here is a chance foryou to make some money. The Indianapolis News offers a prize of twentyfive dollars for the names of the five great battles of the war, and twenty-five for the best essay on the ideal home the latter to contain two hundred words. Then the American Economic Association offers a first prize of five hundred dollars and a second of two hundred for the best essay on women as wage earners. Some of the points yon are expected to enlarge upon are the early and* present conditiou of women their growth numerically as well as mentally the extent of their sphere of labor the evils connected with their occupations,, and the remedy for them. The most difficult one to write would be the essayon tho Ideal home. It would have to. be a model of excellence in style andt thought, and all this condensed Into twohundred words wouldn't be a very easy* thing to do. The essay on women aswage earners would be easy enough in. the first part. You could go on at length about the history of women could spread yourself contrasting their pres-! ent with their former condition oould wax eloquent over the wonderful things women have accomplished in just thelast quarter of a century and it would., be easy enough for a woman to give her opinion as to a woman's sphere of labor,, but not so easy to give the evilsconnected with their occupations. You would, almost have to know by actual experience, to have felt these evils in your life, to write a valuable opinion on them, but the trouble would seriously begin when you had to suggest a remedy for these evils. That would be the biggest* lion In the way. Still you might tryr and If you fail you could oonsole yourself with the fact that you are not the onty one who has done so. Remember there is a whole army in the field—a standing army—who bear in their hands many a manusoript marked "rejected.'** I was perfectly amazed the other day toread that slnoe the patent office wa& made a regularly established part of the national arrangement, no less titan thirty-five hundred women have obtained patents. The first woman patentee was Mary Rees, who. invented a machine for weaving \jilk and making thread-. Your favorite, Blanohe W illis Howard, has patented several artioles. I wish

makes more money from therrt thariF" from her books. Mrs. Maria Beasly has* made a fortune from a machine used in making barrels, and Dr. Mary Walker has invented and patented a number of articles of school furniture. A friend of friend of mine, in New York City,, made a fortune out of the crinkled hairpin, and it came about in such a simple way. Sitting in church one Sunday,, she noticed a hairpin about to fall from the hair of the lady in front other. As. she watched it she thought if the hairpin? wore only crooked a little it could not. slip from its place. As soon as she reached home she took a hair pin, bent it in the shape she wanted it,' had it patented, and the result was a fortune. I suspect that would be another illustration of Prof. Snider's idea of the voice without speaking to .the voice within. You remember bo explained that to us, tho morning be gave that wonderful lecture on Macbeth, using a corner lot as his illustration. This woman was successful because she heard tho voice of the falling hairpin. A thousand others, might have sat there, witnessed th& same occurrence, but it would have /saidnotliing to them. If you decide to compete for the five hundred dollar prize,, perhaps you would better interview some of the women preachers as to the trials which beset their way, for they seem to have the most up-hill work of any in gaining recognition. Thero are now about one hundred of these women, mostly outside of orthodox churches..The number, by report, is steadily increasing in spite of a determined opposition to them. You remember the Methodist General Conference, in New York City, not long since, would not allow Frances Willard and other women as capable as Bhe, to sit as delegates in their conference, simply because they were women. This opposition seems very unfair when it is remembered how very large and prominent apart women play in all ecclesiastical organizations theworld over. Without women the church machinery would be apt to creak, rust and finally get hopelessly out of order. Without them the churches the world over would be sadly off. They form the bulk of the congregation -everywhere, prejudice and custom play a prominent part in the opposition to women in the pulpit. We will have to overcome that and it cannot be done all at once. We are so in the habit of seeing a man In the pulpit we have almost come to believe he only baa the right there. I do not see any reason why a woman shouldn't preach if she wants to. looking at it from my own standpoint, I cannot see why she should want to but my d&ar,. it Is the principle of the thing you would' want to bilng out in your paper—the question of whether it is not tbalr right*, and privilege to preach or engage in any profession if they choose to do so.

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