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Vol. 20.-No. 37.

THEJyIAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The Indiana city that is not to have an artificial ice plant this coming summer is "too slow" to survive long.

The French cabinet had a crisis this week. One was past due, so the affair should be given no serious thought.

March is endeavoring to make up for lost cold weather opportunities of December, January and February and so far is succeeding very well.

There are 227 gin shops at Evausville. Here again the Riverside City nearly equals us. Before long she will even be claiming she can beat us playing base ball.

Edward Bellamy's new novel is called "Six to One." It probably refers to the ratio between the realization and the expectation on the sale of his "Looking Backward."

The young Chineso Emperor is breaking up the gambling establishments in Pekin. This is what the Terre Haute eouncilmen would call "heathenish conscientiousness."

About 36,000 watches are manufactured daily in the United States. From experience one would judge not enough "time" was put on some of them to make them run.

Rhode Island's election, which takes place about four weeks henco, will be the earliest State olection of the year. It may properly be referred to as a big event on a small scale.

The latest sensational joke is that the publisher of a matrimonial paper, callod Heart and Hand, has been arrested for using the mails for fraudulent lottery purposes. Merciful heavens. Even tho law declares marriago a lottery.

No wonder Iowa is so dearly loved by the women.of tho United States, It is their paradise here. In fourteen counties women are superintendents of tdu-

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The Springfield, 111., Republican says: "Let it be recognised that tho great West is in tho saddle." And it might be added that tho horse benoath tho saddle is the entire world, governed by the bridle held by Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City and San Francisco.

An electric invention has just been patented by a Brooklyn man, which, when turned on, sots back every clock in the house from two to fivo hours when tho front gate is opened, tho timepieces righting themselves automatically subsequently. A fortuno awaits the lucky man.

A man searched four hours in London one night recently for a doctor who would consent to attend his dying wife, but found nono. This is in tho metropolis of a country which does not reedgnixe the right of a starving subject in Ireland to live, a situation cf affairs to be expectod.

The spiteful tone of comments in the New York papers on the outcome of tho World's Fair vote is most despicable. It would lead to the inference that New York would rule or ruin. How much moro becoming would it be to manifest a desire for Chicago's success in her great undertaking.

The Louisiana state debt amounts to ten or twelve million dollars, an immense sum of money, and yet all this is the Louisiana State Lottery company willing to pay, it is said, for a renewal of its charter. This ought to make evident the great odds there are against the purchaser of tickets in the lottery.

itm recent sermon at Baltimore Cardinal Gibbons gave'5as his key to the negro problem, the Christianiaation of the race. The Cardinal is wrong. The colored man is not the offender, and is guilty of no crime. The crime which gives rise to "the problem," as it is termed, is with tho whites. Let them be Chris tianized.

The Kansas state board of agriculture reports that the population of that state has decreased §6 688 the past year. This is no doubt discouraging, from one point of view, to the ambitious Kansas boomer. But it must not be forgotten that Kansas is a stateofgreat possibilities, just now a little over balanced but gradually recovering its equibrium.

An inventory of the wardrobe of Queen Elisabeth, made in the year 1700, recently published, shows that the queen then had 99 robes, 186 kirtles*, 289 gowns, 18641 foreparts," 125 pettieoau, 17 fens, cloaks, 8$ saveguards, 8$ doublets, and IS lapmantles. Yet the modern woman Is deemed extravagant and called "queenly" to her tastes merely because she wants anew dreas twiee a year.

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clients as often as required between 6 a. m. and 9 p. m. for monthly payments at the rate of fifty cents a month for men and thirty-five cents for women. There is no good reason why Berlin men and women should not shine in society, business, in fact, everywhere, at this low cost.

The experiment tried by Francefor the past eight years in the way of paying bounties for the establishment of a mercantile marine has finally been recognized as a failure. Sixteen per cent, of her carrying trade is still in the hands of foreigners, and during the entire eigbt^years home ownership increased but six per cent. Would the United States meet with better success if the experiment were tried here? This is for Congress to decide.

Town Talk.

One thing may be counted on as a certainty in the present council, management of city affairs, and that is the continual nourishment of the tire department. It matters not if the city's reputation is at stake, nor is it of little consequence if the treasury is irretrievafly involvod. The enforcement of city ordinances even drops into insignificance indeed all things of interest and importance give way to Mr. Hybarger's pet idea, the improvement of our water throwing service. There may or may not be money on band with which to indulge this hobby such a matter is of secondary importance. So long as the skeleton of financial standing is capable of carrying moro paper, the idea is sure of being fed. This is not to be doubted for an Instant after the developments of Tuesday's council meeting. The purchase of a $3.,400 aerial ladder-truck was sanctioned even though it was known to be illegal. The lawless proceeding is inexplaiuable in the eyes of the majority of tax payers. The question ou all lips is: Wherein is the necessity for such a luxury as an aerial ladder? Will it be of $3,400 benefit to the city in its present financial condition? It isdifficult to say whether it will or will not be. From ono point of view it may, from another it cannot but instead will serve to carry our ftbillt of piyi"*, oft tbe city indebt-

the clouds. To discliss the situation is only to grow indignant. Such management of affairs was surely not anticipated when tbe state law provided for city corporations. They are called representative citizens who occupy the twelve chairs in the council chamber. It would be difficult to find a trace of this fabulous quality in tho records a majority have made during the last year. And several will no doubt expect to be given another lease on official lifo at the coming spring election. It is needless to say their hopes are merely air castles, and that their political graves are even now yawning for them. A very well balanced "constituency" will see that their demise is mdre than a trance.

M.ACK VS. BLUISH OKAY.

Such an excellent advertising scheme as the popular vote on suits for the base ball team has proven to be was not anticipated by tho board of managers. The enthusiasm aroused has been simply astounding. Everybody in active business life has been drawn into the contest and the result is that if baseball does not succeed in Terre Haute this year there will be some reason for it yet to be developed. Tho fight, for fight it has grown to be, has narrowed down to two arrangements of colors, and now a canvass very similiar to that of a politi cal campaign is being made by the two lines of antagonists. One division favors a black suit with white trimmings the other desires a shirt and pants of bluish-gray, trimmed in maroon, with cap, belt and stockings of maroon. Petitions for each arrangement have been widely circulated for several days and long lists of signers have been secured. Offices, railroad shops, factories and schools have been canvassed and iu consequence hundreds of men who ordinarily take no interest in base ball are anxoiusly awaiting the decision. The te

Is to be counted to-night and in all probability the decision will be made known to-morrow. In this connection it is of interest to note that Manager Reccius is busily at work, and has secured about all the men he cab conveniently handle. As a base ball crank would have every reason for saying, "We're in the swim now, and are going to stay there."

RSSAY witrnNo.

Hie question has frequently been asked: Why are there so few easy writers among the scholars fn the city schools? If you have ever talked with a boy or girl who has reached the grades where pupils are expected to write essays, you have learned that "writing compositions Is the awfulest thing to do in school." Why? In a great many instances merely because not enough work of this kind is given the pupil to do, and also because composition writing is not commenced in the lowest grade* and industriously cultivated throughout the entire course. In other words not enough attention is paid to the art, for ark it certainly should be termed. A few

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evenings ago this topic was discussed in a drawing room circle, and the unanimous opinion was that a greater effort should be made on the part of teachers to remove that dread which the pupils have for composition writing. It was thought this could be done by requiring some sort of an original effort from each boy or girl at least once every week or two, and by placing this work on the same basis of grading as all other branches taught. The opinion was also held that the training should commence as low down in the course as practicable. These ideas were suggested by actual observance of the seyere effort made by great many High school pupils to write even so much as fifteen lines on a topi.e not exhaustively discussed in the erfcyclopedias so easily obtained Thej". seem to be sound, and worthy of th$ consideration of the city teachers.

BASKING IN SUNSHINE.

Forty-seven prisoners enjoyed a luxurious meal and a warm night's lodging at the county jail last Sunday, and yet it is safe to say not one dollar's worth of labor for the city was done by this entire number to balance the expense of their support. This seems a most lamentable condition of affairs, the county jail overflowing with able bodied prisoners who really enjoy their confinement for the reason that they are thereby guaranteed a regular meal and a comfortable without any disagreeable pbysiqal labor being exacted in return. The ease and luxury to be enjoyed in confinement oil this system of management amounts almost to an inducement to petty misdemeanors. There should be a more clearly defined method for exacting enough labor, either through rock cracking on a larger scale than now indulged in, or some other method equally as profitable to the city, to reduce the cost of maintaining the jail or at least even to a certain extent the receipts and expenditures.

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What a severe reproach on the. physicians of Vigo county it would have been had the poor girl who attempted suicide, Thursday evening, accomplished her intention. Indeed public opinion might have gone* a little further and declared the fraternity responsible for bor death If the reports of the affair wore not fev

possible to secure medical assistance even though the .girl's life was fast ebbing out. The first doctor applied to said, "It is the duty of the county physician to attend her." This official was next sought, and after some search found in the opera house. He said: "I cannot go to-night." Next application was made at the door of the medical society's room, in which fifteen or more doctors were listening to a paper on soiiie professional subject. Not one could answer the call. Finally a physician was found, who, though sick in bed at his home, took enough interest to write out a prescription. All this time, from 7 p. m. till 1 aJ m., the girl was without a medical attendent and the arseuic would soon have put au end to her life but for the prescription which finally arrived. Her life was saved but only by the merest chance. This is the story as told in the daily papers. If all the details are true the doctors have laid themselves open to severest criticism. Perhaps they are'overdrawn. For the good standing of the profession here, it is hoped this is the ease.

The council proceedings on Tuesday evening, so far as they related to the purchase of an atrial ladder truck for the fire department, were high-handed in the extreme and illegal in the bargain. By a vote of 9 to 3, the purchase of a truck from the Babcuck Fire Extinguishing Company, at a cost of $3,400, was ratified in face of the law calling for bids on such contracts. When the resolution to this effect was piesented, Mayor Danaldson ruled it out of order,'but his ruling was appealed and the appeal sustained by a vote of 6 to 5. The purchase was engineered by the fire committee without official communication with the council as shown by a telegram stating that the truck was on the way here before the Tuesday's meeting was called to order. There seems to have been little consideration of the necessities for such a piece of apparatus. There also seems to have been utter disregard of the fact that another company was willing to furnish an equally good piece of apparatus for $500 less. Other features of the evening were the introduction of resolutions calling on the police to en force the cow ordinance, the park commissioners to investigate the feasibility of purchasing ground east of the city and south of tbe National road as a site for a parK also an ordinance providing for planting and maintaining shade trees along the streets and sidewalks. Tbe old $250 saloon license ordinance was reintroduced and defeated, sseore 7 to 4, as usual. Later.—A special meeting of the council was called yesterday afternoon for a revised discussion on the

truck question, but as all members desirous of being present were not on hand, an adjournment was taken until to-night. This waa quite a disappoi* t^jeading. Being

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TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 8,1890.

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MRS. HARRISON'S DAILY ROUTINE IN AND ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE. NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.

The routine of the day begins early at the. Executive Mansion, says A. J. Halford, in an interesting article on "Mrs. Harrison's Life in tbe White House," in the March Ladies' Home Journal. Breakfast is served promptly at halfpast 8 o'clock, in the family dining room on the north side of the house, adjoining tho conservatory. This is followed by prayers, either the President or Dr. Scott conducting devotions. The family then separate for the day, the President proceeding directly to his room. Mrs. Harrison and the ladies retire to the "living room" of the house, which is not a room at all. It is the north end of the main hall, on the second floor, separated from the office or public portion of the floor by a rather severe, not to say forbidding black walnut partition, half the height of the walls. Mrs. Harrison finds here her mail, which is attended to with promptness and regularity. So far as the work of answering letters can be delegated, it is given over to Mrs. Sanger, the stenographer. But a large portion of her mail Mrs. Harrison answers herself. Many of the letters can bo answered by means of a form that has been composed for the purpose.

The consideration of her mail over, Mrs. Harrison receives the superintendent of public buildings and grounds, at iresent Col. Oswald M. Ernest of the

duty of disbursing the appropriation made for the maintenance of the Executive Mansion. With him Mrs. Harrison discusses" the needs of the house and her desires, which must be made to conform to the amount of funds on hand. Many and long are these conferences, and oftentimes they result in a shifting about and repairing of the furniture and fixtures that would astonish some persons who imagine that the life of the lady of the White House is without care and a continual state of bliss.

After having dismissed Col. Ernst, she devotes herself to the domestic branch of the establishment in conference with the house-keeper. The menu for the day is arranged during this conference, and in consultation with the steward Mrs. Harrison maintains an intelligent supervision over the kitchen, but the stories current in some circles, representing her as devoting much of her time to actual participation in tbe work of the department, are exaggera tions. Although a good cook, she does not find it necessary or desirable to usurp the functions of that individual in the White HouSfe. And so as to the marketiug. Having arranged in a general way for tho provision of the day, it is left to the proper person to see that it is procured. Lunch is served at 1.30, but frequently the President is detained by callers, office-seekers, or cabinet meetings, and he does not sit down sometimes until an hour later. It is rarely the case that some one is not invited to join in this meal, in a whoiiy informal manner—a cabinet officer with whom the President may thus continue conference, or some friend who is asked to extend his stay oyer the hour for lunch.

In the afternoon, for an hour or thereabouts, Mrs. Harrison receives friends, who come by appointment, and who usually have some relative or visitor to present. Later in the afternoon Mrs. Harrison usually takes a drive, often with the President, and when not accompanying him $he takes Mrs. McKee and the babies, or some friend who may be in the house. The variations from this programme will include lessons in china painting, in which art Mrs. Harrison displays rare talent and skill.

Dinner is served at 6:30 o'clock, and as was the case at lunch almost always the family is joined by some friend. Presi dent and Mrs. Harrison are plain livers, preferring the dishes of an old Kentucky "auntyM to the more elaborate men* arranged by a French chef.

ment to about fifty citizens who weretL^r operatic performance, she occasionhand to listen .and powdbly say a word liy graces one of the theaters with her or two.

In the evenings out of the "season," the White House is a very quiet place. President Harrison rarely haa an opportunity of spending any time with his family, except at meals, and after dinner be Is usually found at his desk again. If Mrs. Harrison is free from any social duty, she utilizes the evening hours by

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friends. The President has little taste for this class of amusement, especially opera, so is seldom seen at these places. He is fond of meeting friends in a quiet way, and when Mrs. Harrison is entertaining callers in the evening, he comes down from his room whenever business permits him to do so, aud mingles with them in a delightfully informal way.

Two judges in New York State have found out what it means to oppose women. Albert Haiglit was a candidate for judge of the court of appeals. He had formerly given some decisions which the ladies believed were unjust to women. So they set to work with all their silent agencies to beat him at the polls. Result, Judge Haight ran 4,500 behind his ticket and was defeated. Judge Bar ker, of Fredonia, was a candidate for reelection. At the nominating convention his friends learned that the women were going to put forth all their strength to defeat him, and his name was withdrawn.

Mary Anne and Ellen Frances Dougherty, two Irish girls in the employ of Barbour Bros., thread manufacturers of Paterson, have deposited with that firm $16,000, every penny of which has been saved .from their earnings. The girls came to this country nineteen years ago and found work in the mill, where they have been ever since. The conditions under which this money has been aocuinulated are remarkable, since they show the hardship imposed 011 labor and endured by women laborers. Few American girls could have stood the ordeal. Employed in the wet spinnings room, where the moisture underfoot and the steam heat overhead made it necessary, for comfort and convenience, to dispense with all superfluous clothing, they worked without shoes or stockings, wearing a low-necked and sleeveless dress from one year's end to the other. In this unsightly garb the expense of clothing was reduced to a minimum, half of tho twenty-four hours being spent in the mill, and, as their living expenses were covered by $3, the rest of the earnings remained with the mill owners, who, as an encouragement to thrift and industry, paid them 0 per cent interest.

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families, Is a woman, Miss Mary G. Pinckney, a millionaire many times over. She has lived to be 73 years old and is still a Miss, though she had all that money. Another New York millionaire woman who manages vast real estate transactions personally is Mrs. Mary L. Van Doren. Lotta, Langtry and Maggie Mitchell are all shrewd real estate speculators, and have doubled and tripled by investment in houses and lands'the money they earned on the stage.

Tbe meeting of tbe Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, held at the court house Saturday afternoon, was a big success. The roll of tho township was called, and thirty-eight lodges, representing a membership of 940, responded. The election of officers, whereby the complete organization was effected, resulted as follows:

President—H. C. Robinson, of Sugar Croek

^Vice-President—S. 8. Ripley, of Lost Creek township, Secretary—A. A. Beechcr, of Soonover, Plerson township.

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H. C. Robinson, Ulysses Blocksom

and George H. Payne were chosen a committee on credentials. A resolution was introduced providing for "trade posts" over the county, where all farmers in the association shall buy their implements, provissions, etc., but this was voted down for the time being. A resolution was adopted praying t|ie County Commissioners to refuse tbe petition of the Bar association for the furnishing of the law library. The next meeting will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday, March 14th, in tbe Circuit court room.

The announcement of the complete list of players for the Terre Haute ball club was mada yesterday on advices received from Manager Reccius. Tbe men and their positions are as follows

Pitchers—Z. E. Dougan, Albert Vogei and Albert M. Dorsev. Catch«r»—Andy Kalley and Hercules Bur-

First Base-Andy Kalley and Burnett. Second Base-James Bed an. Third Base—Philip Reccius. 8b«rt Stop—Robert Lsngsford. Left Field—John Kecclus (coacber). Center Field—Louis Abel and Al lxr»ey« Right Field Daniel Sweeney. Field Captain-Jam©! Behan. The combination is believed to be a strong one, and special good work will be done in base running and batting. All tbe men have made excellent records and patrons jrill be justified in expecting a great deal of tbem. The club is to report for practice about tbe 26th of this month, as a number of exhibition games with clubs in tbe National League and American Association will probably be arranged.

Superintendent P. C. Kiote, who will hav® charge of the erection of tbe build ings for the Cobleigh piano esse works, has received word from Mr. Cobleigh to the effect that tbe contract for 1,600,000 brick has been let to the Greencastle Lime and Stone company, which firm also has tbe contract for furnishing tbe stone for the foundations.

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Geraldine's Letter.

MY DKAK RUTH:—Mr. Carnegie is doing handsomely by Pittsburg, isn't he? You have read about the library he gave, aud now he presents St. Paul's Cathedral with a copy of that masterpiece of Christian art Raphael's Sistine Madonna. That doesn't at first glance seem to be much of a thing for such a rich mau to do, but, my dear, if one had all the money in the world, he would find it difficult, to get a copy of this picture made from the orginal, aud just how Mr. Carnegie worked it no ono knows, but it is safe to say, It took a great many American dollars. First to get permission of the King of Saxony ts allow it to bo copied, and then to get it done by 110 less a person than W. L. Sturm, court painter to the king, so taking it all around the present is of more importance than ono would first suppose and the gift is indeed a princely one. If the original is ever sold, rest assured it will oome to America, but it would take principalities to buy it. A little more than a hundred years ago, Augustus III of Saxony, paid forty thousand dollars for it, but knowledge and appreciation of art have traveled far since then and if the "Angelus* brings one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the Sistine Madonna would command a sum it makes one dizzy to think about. This copy made for Mr. Carnegie is the first made in ten years and the fourth ever made. There is only one other in America and that is in the Powers Art gallery in Rochester, New York. Mr. Powers had great difficulty in getting it, paid a price so large that he would never tell anybody how much, and prizes the picture above all others in his gallery. He wanted the Sistine Madonua and thought It would be an easy matter to got a copy, for he had seen copios throughout Europe, but whioh he found out afterward were copied from the engraving. When he reached Dresden, he found that no one was allowed to copy tho original, but an artist by tho name of Theodore Schmidt, the director of the gallery, had one which he had beeu five years in painting, doing it in brief snatches daily after the gallery was closed to visitors.

Mr. Powers says he was two weeks ne-gottatiWg-'fd^5 't want to sell. He had made it for his family, he was an old man, too old to paint another, but finally the large sum offered by Mr. Powers won him over,, made him forget posterity and the picture came to Rochester. It is in a small room, with other masierpiecos of great artists, among thorn Raphael's "St. Cecilia," "Tho Annunciation," by Murillo, Titian's "Magdalen," Carlo Dolus "Adoration," Raphael's "Transfiguration," which alone is worth a journey to Rochester, and Michael Angolo's "Three Fates." All these are perfect copies of tho orglnals. A great many people, think the Sistine Madonna is in the Sistine chapel in Rome, because of the nameI suspect, but it was painted as you know, for the Sistine monks, for the church of San Siste in Piacenza and remained there for moro than two nundred years, when Augustus of Saxony discovered it, bought it, and had it brought to Dresden, whore it is in a room by itself in the Dresden gallery. It is probably the most famous picture in the world. I wonder if Mr. Powers, who thought two weens along time to spend in trying to buy his copy, knew that Augustus, the king was forty years in trying tobuy the original. Tradition says hesuperintended the unpacking o. it himself when it arrived in Dresden, so precious did he consider it. Visitors' tothe gallery say tbat in this room there is always the most impressive silence. A friend of mine in speaking of his visit there said: "I don't know anything, about pictures. I never cared much about tbem, but there is a somethingabout this picture tbat affected me strangely. I went back again and again and stood before it, with a feeling in my heart, tbat I never experienced before. Why It waa and what caused it I cannot tell." The most beautiful description of tbe picture that I have ever seen Mrs. Jameson gives in her "Legends of the Madonna." George William Curtis, who writes tbe most graphic prose of any man in America, with the single exception of Prof. Swing, places Raphael with Mozart in music, and Burns in poetry, 'and there is no fourth." An indescribable richness and flower like quality, a melodious grace and completeness and delicacy belong to «,bem all. Looking upon a beautiful btunan madonna of

Raphael, we seem to bear tbe rippH Jg cadence of Mozart, and tbe tender and true song of Burns. They are all voices of tbe whole world, speaking in tbe accent of a native land. Here are Italy and Germany and Scotland, distinct, individual, perfectly recognizable, but the sun which illumines their separate charm that is not Italian, or German, or Scotch, it is the sun cf universal nature"

Your own, GBRAL&JNB.

Lulu Deprey, a 21-year old girl, living at 401 south First street, took arsenic Thursday evening, and her life was only saved by tbe unceasing effort of the people in tbe house and the police. Despondency was tbe cause assigned.