Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 May 1890 — Page 1

Vol.. 20.~No.

THEJMAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Minneapolis in having a Kirmess. There, too, the society people have the affair in charge. There is no reason why it should not be a success.

There is a very general desire for Congress to hurry up the work ndw on hand and adjourn. Then there would be nothing to mar the pleasure of a base ball season.

The Shades of Death will have a roller coaster this summer. There certainly could be no more appropriate place for such a device. It will soon become a •ery delightful picnic plaoe.

Since the lottery bill was killed in North Dakota, no more 915,000 prizes have been drawn there. However, no one will suppose for an instant that there is anything peculiar in the coincidence.

There is about one month more in which the community can grow, for soon the census gatherer will be abroad. If Terre Ilaute doesn't go over 40,000 there will b® a big disappointmont for a great many people in these parts.

Mr. Depew says that a majority of the 100 men whom he can recall as having been the

foremost

operators in Wall

street since the war are now ordinary life insurance agents. This statement needs no comment. Its lesson is appareiit.

President Harrison's first vete was a most sonsiblo one. He merely refused to permit a discrimination whereby a western town could double the limit of its legal intlebtodnoas. His foresight will sometlmo be appreciated by that city.

General Greeley says cyclones can do no harm lu cities where buildings are built closet together. The general possi bly knows what he is talking about, but until Rev. Hicks gives his opinion we prefer to remain a little dubious on this score.

The Czar of Russia says that he considers duelling in the army not only allowable, but -fully ap predates the absolute nocessity for something exciting as a little amusement for liis wonderfully peaceable people.

The Des Moines base ball club is known by the name "Prohibitionists" whorover It goes. This is unfortunate for the club's interests, as about every thing savoring of prohibition is beoom ing unpopular and unsuccessful out that way. _____

Minnesota is endeavoring to encour age tUo sugar beet industry by paying a premium of two cents a pound on all home produced sugar. The indications are that the effort will be very successful in tlrmly establishing the new in dustry there. __________

Chicago has offered Rev. Talmage twenty thousand dollars to locate there Tho world's fair committee dally evidences a determination to do its whole duty In central!siing everything worthy o.' being exhibited at the world's fair as soon as possible.

A Philadelphia jury has just assessed damages in a broach of promise case to tho amount of "5 cents." Henceforth Philadelphia will have a multiplication of case# of abandoned love, for from a point of economy it is cheaper to jilt a girl than to marry her.

A Chicago devine recently referred to one of the big papers of the Lake side city as "an opinion mill, where grists are ground to order and In a style to suit purchasers." The paper has probably written htm up for assuming a peculiar position on some question of general Interest. _____

A National Convention has been called to meet In New York this month for the purpose of considering the methods by which the temperance cause may be best promoted* It is to be hoped that a scheme somewhat more successful than thoee which have been tried may be devised. The temperance cause must be advanced.

Senator Ingalls Is quoted as saying on the subject of corruption in politics: ••The modem cant about the corruption of politic* is fatiguing in the extreme. It proceeds from the tea-custard and syllabub dtlettaneism, the frivolous and desultory sentimontalism of epicenee." Mr. Ingalls may understand the meaning of all tikis, but the world at large does not.

A real estate boom ts likely to prove a solution of the Mormon question for the United State* government. Jaat now land lu Salt Lake City 1* on a veritable soaring expedition, and when a Oenttle offers 150,000 for a lot which could have been had a few months ago for 110,000, it isn't going to require muoh time for a Mormon to make up his mind to sell out and emigrate.

own Talk.

J~ REHOVATUfO. All over the city there is monotonous whistle of the broomstick as it swings through the airs and the subsequent rap as it strikes the dusty carpet hung upon a back-yard clothes line to be beaten. It is all so fearfully suggestive of hard physical labor that the business man closes his hands over his ears and rushes to his office as though pressing engagements- required his immediate attention. The poor woman of the household is abandoned, and, although unable to do the lifting, scrubbing, carrying, etc., is expected to have from one to three rooms completely overhauled in a single day. She must be up at daylight, and, if necessary, must not go to bed until midnight. Above and in addition to all, the one supreme law of the household mxfst be strictly enforced—meals are to be on time regardless of contending circumstances. No wonder the anxious mother considers this the most trying time of the year. She is held responsible for misplaced neckties, collar buttons, cuffs, school books, aprons, in fact everything which usually has a regular apartment In drawer or closet. She. must carefully guard lest children get in bad humor. Truly her tasks are without end. During it all her husband moves along with accustomed regularity, seeing to it that his business calls him down town early and so tires him during the day that when evening comes it is absolutely necessary to retire early in order to prevent a severe attack of innocuous desuetude, or something of kindred nature. It is not to be deemed surprising that house-cleaning time is looked forward to with dread. It means so much labor that, were it not for the reward of know ing the home is made more inviting and comfortable, the feminine portion of the race would rebel against the custom of annual cleaning with great Indignation. The first two weeks of May will witness all the disagreeable work therefore let them pass quickly.

OUR SHADE TRKES

One needs only to ride a hundred or two hundred miles away from Terre Haute to be able to appreciate the beauty of the city's shade trees. Other cities within this radius seem barren in comp*rlaqj6p&nd -MnooiaUy«-ia this true as« you go northward. The leaves her© are rapidly reaching full size, and soon the shade will be as dense as in the middle of summer. If a little more attention were paid to the trees, without doubt we could soon go ahead of almost any city in the West. By "a llttje more attention" is meant keeping the dead limbs out out and the lower branches trimmed. There was once a city ordinance relating to this subject, and, if still on the books, it would be wise to bring it to the sur face and try enforcing it. A little more effort at beautifying will go along way toward increasing the boom that is gradually developing.

LKSSONS

We mot the enemy and they were not exactly ours. Consequently Evansville Is happy, while Terre Haute is resolved to do better next time or immediately set about finding several new men who can play ball. The sensation of being defeated in abase ball game is not par tlcularly exhilarating, nor Is it appetizing, especially if you have been trifle boastful beforehand. After the first game in the Evansville series we were sad, after the next the other people were blue, after tjhe third we again were sad. But all is not lost. Indeed only a very little Is gone out of our grasp. We mean to win that ball pennant and we are going to do it. There is one thing that can be said to the credit of Terre Haute, and that is that the Evansville team was given every opportunity for displaying its full strength. None of that wild bulldozing, so aptly termed "roasting," was Indulged in by the base ball cranks, and as a result the games were played as a respectable audience would have them played. This cannot be said for Evansville, at least so far as the local ball clubs have had experience. It is to be hoped this year will inaugurate anew era among the previously depraved enthusiasts of that city. If something of .a reform can be ashered In, the supremacy of the rival Hooeier clubs will then be decided on their respective merits, and that is just what a decent public would )lke to see. The games lost Tuesday and Thursday will be leesona for Terre Haute, see if they are not.

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VERY appropriate to

remark, especially since "we** won yesterday's game at the Riverside city, that "We are the people" and that "the enemy ie ours." This P. 8. Is as we feel today. The above as we felt Thursday.

THX CITY TICKKT9.

Two days remain in which to decide which of tike city tickets named shall be successful. These days are short but not so short that any voter will be excusable should he fail to make np his mind and remain away from the poll*. The interests at stake are too important, indeed too vital, to be neglected and the dtiaen who does not take advantage of his inestimable privilege on Tuesday deserves public censure. Think of the business

45. TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EYEKDSrGf MAY 3,1890.

ability that will be required in the management of the city affairs during the next year. Consider that an enormous debt must in some way be lowered, and that men of brains will be needr ed to effect this. The dying council has left'& stigma upon the good name of the city, and the responsibility of removing It rests with the new body which, is soon to assume oonWbl. If care is not taken such a thing as the new council being unable to discharge this duty is possible. It is not necessary to speoify how this 5s likely to happen. Thinking Republicans and Democrats can see it for themselves. Then the next step is to make sure that such a misfortune is prevented. No better way of doing this can be surmised than to vote for the best man regardless of party. Very little more can be said. Results will no doubt be as good citizens would have them.

Geraldirie's Letter.

MT DEAR RUTH: Following closely, upon the heels of the working girls' COIM vention in New York came the meeting for the "general federation of women'fl clubs." Mrs. May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis, was a prominent feature, and her good sense and clear-headedness averted what for a time promised to become quite a wrangle.among the dele^ gates over the section detiaing the clubs eligible for membership. The section was as follows:

SUCTION 3. A chib, tn order to be eligible to membership tn the General Federation of Women's Clubs, must possess the following "f'A*eonstltu11 on which shall show by us plan of work 1 bat no sectarian or political lest Is required, and that Its purpose is not primnrlly philanthropic or technical, but (hat its chief object is literary, artisv.lc or scientific culture, while the more broadJy humane movements may be recognized. 2. A record of not less than one year of organised club life.

As the chairman finished reading a hush fell upon the audience, and everybody looked at Mrs. Sewall, but she seemed in no hurry to speak. One or two unimportant suggestions were made, then Mrs. Sewall arose and said:

Jfc lakes a good deal of introspection for the modern woman to know Just what she is standing up for at any moment. I am in sympathy with the wovklngwoman, but I think the objects of our purely woman's clubs should be clearly diffe.-enttated from theirs. I thinkour literary clubs can neither sug&est anything to or receive anything from the Industrial unions, and they had better form a distlnot national oionization.

This, was convincing, and the constat}

adopted as a whole. Our clubs were invited to join in this federation, but I do not know of any that accepted. Beside this national federation, the women of the state of Indiana propose to have a federation of the different woman's olubs in their own state. They purpose to hold a convention every year, to which two delegates from each olub will be appointed, and all subjects pertaining to the welfare and advancement of women will then and there be discussed. Apropos to this is a conversation between two rough-looking men whloh I read the other day. They were talking on the snbjeot of judges and juries, and the drift of their conversation was against the present system. One said: ''They'll be bavin' women on the judge's bench and in the jury-box before long. "Get out," said the other "men are bad enough, but you can't trust women at all." "I'm nottalkln'aboutwhattkey'll do when they git there I only say that they wiHglt there." "How so?" said the doubter. "It's simple enough-—owing to their organizations. Tbe workin' girls' olubs is increasing every day, and they'll soon be as great a power as our labor or^ ganlzations." "Bat the women can't vote they ain't got no power." "Ain't got no power! What about their husbands and their brothers, not to mention their beaux? When the gals is fightin' for their bread and butter, don't you s'pose their men folks is goln' to be on their side? Do yer ketch on?" This opinion is crudely put, but there is something in it after all. These women's clubs, the workingwomen's clubs, mean power, and power is not a passive thing. They may "git" into tbe judges bench or they may not, but they are bound to "git" somewhere. No more standing still for them. No more of hiding their light under a bushel. It is a raoe of great women that will make a nation great. And why? We do not have to wait for biologist* to tell us what we already know—that it is not the sens of great men who are great, but the sons of great mothers, womin of powerful character and powerful mind. A writer in Harper'* Bazaar says: "The dignity, freedom and strength of a nation are usually in direct proportion to the liberty and dignity of its women. It is undoubtedly proven that in America, where the women are famous for their originality and the freedom of their intelligence, the men are noted for tbe highest development of the same qualities, and the nation mevee with prodfgt one strides toward the fall perfection of Ita existenoe. Motherhood grows more glorious with every step she takes upward in the scale of being, and her offspring, like the whelps of the lioness, shall be bronght forth heirs of her own kingdom of power and dominion. ffince ahe has caught up the torch of wisdom and learning, ages of dsrkn—» are no longer possible. Ail of art, all of books,

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all of scientific discovery, learning and commercial success which she has achieved are but the means by which she works toward the lifting up not only of herself, but of the whole race." 1 fl'. wish you could be here next week 16 bdth see and listen to Mrs. M. Louise Keen, of Chicago, who on next Wednesday afternoon, at the Central Presbyterian church, will lecture to the ladies of Terre Haute on "Dress," a subject near and dear to all women. Mrs. Keen is at the bead of the dress-reform movement In Chicago, is a woman of wealth and of the highest soeial position. Her style of dress is different from that of Mrs. Jenness Miller, and, in my opinion, much -more graceful and beautiful. In a private letter Mrs. Keen says: "I am afraid I will strike your townspeople as very radical, but I have been over the ground until I know that I am correct. Our clothing has been typical of our attitude in the world, neither beautiful nor true. I get very tired often, but then it is such a gladness to help ever so little. Woman will not become great through a change in her clothing, but because she is becoming great a change is possible." Mrs. Keen will bring her gowns, Which will be displayed at the lecture, •i: GERALDINE.

PATTI refused |1,000 for a short magazine article. The diva is entitled to respect for this. She has no business writing singing is her forte. She believes in letting those get the money for Writing who make literature a profession and who earn its rewards by the hardest kind of labor instead of gaining them by a notoriety that comes through some other source entirely.

WK like Col. Bob Ingersoll plain, strong words on the labor question, because everybody can understand them— they were meant to be understood, which is more than can be said of the utterances of a good many others. "I cannot see," says Ingersoll, "how any m.fin who does nothing, who lives in idleness, can Insist that others should wirk ten or twelve hours a day." No, that point is a little obscure, Colonel, bvit i^ is one of the curious facts of the time. Men who work the least are sure that things would stop dead still if the workers should toil two hours less a .day. But for all that the eight-hour |3ay is coming and will get here before Wgy yesvrs more. AnjLtJj# world will be tiot the worse* but tlfil tetter for it

WE will have jtist as muoh to eat and te wear andfa great deal more enjoyment of the things we eat a£d wear.

IN Chicago, as in Indianapolis, the carpenters have been conceded an increase of wages and eight hours as a day's labor. This was a substantial victory for the strikers. They did not get all they asked but they got most ol it. In the face of the editorial declarations of the big newspapers that the eight hour labor day was impossible, the eight hour day was conceded. Then the same papers declared that the carpenters were fools to lose their wages and bring their friends to want in the vain struggle for something that was visionary and impracticable. The editors seem to have been mistaken. Publie sentiment on the question of hours of labor was more advanced than they knew. It is certainly a strong point in favor of the eight hour movement that these concessions have been made, for there will be no going back on the advanced positions thus taken. The eight hour day conceded to one class of workers it must inevitably be conceded to others. A shorter working day is decreed for the future.

GIRDING THE EARTH BY RAIL The great scheme for an inter-conti-nental railway, connecting the old and new worlds, has come to the front again Ex-Gov. Gilpin, of Colorado, has long believed the thing feasible and was perhaps the original suggestor of it. The only difficulty in the way would be the bridging of Behring straits, which does not eeem to be an insuperable obstacle to modern engineering. The water is only 48 milee wide, with an island in the middle large enough to accommodate a great city. The water is said to be on an average not more than 80 or 40 feet deep, with a solid bottom. Piers could be built np from this and abridge constructed that would stand for ages, then being ne ice-bergs in theee waters.

Asia onoe reached, connection would he made with railway lines now buildin* on that continent, and the traveler oould start from New York or Boston, traverse the entile American continent, ecoot aeroes the straits into Asia, thence by rail to St. Petersburg, Vienna, Paris, Borne and eventually nnder the Channel to London. Or by the projected Sooth American line he oould start at Cape Horn, traverse the American continent its entire length north and south and make the same journey beyond the Paeifie. On the other aide it is proposed to build railway lines into Africa, so that he coold go from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope by rail.

In short, the whole world would be connected by railway, as it now is by telegraph, A msrvelous undertaking but apparently a not impracticable one. Some of those now living may easily see its accom plishment.

IFS AND ASES.

Quaint and genial Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his article in the May Atlantic, says humankind may be divided into two great classes—the Ifs and the Ases. The Ifa go through life .always regretting, always whining, always imagining. There is always an if before everything they think or wish or do

Quite different is it with the Ases. Taking things just as they find them they adjust the facts to their wishes if they can and if they cannot, then they adjust themsolves to the fact." The bright, witty doctor believes that, taking humanity over, the majority of able, successful men will be found among the Ases, the majority of conspicuous failures among the Ifs.

The observation of us all will bear him out in, the assertion. The if people are the doubters, the sceptics, the tumorous. The as people are the resolute, strong and hopeful. They are the kind of people who "hitch their wagon to a star," to use Emerson's fine phrase, and with such a high courser they cannot very well fail of success.

There is something doubtless in heredity and constitutional tendencies that determines people into the Ifs or Ases, but the fact is not due wholly to that cause. There ils nothing to prevent the ifs at any timo from going over to the ases—from being whf ners and doubters to being hopers and doers. It is a matter of will and determination, nothiug else.

DECLINE OF SPECULATION. The announcement is made that Wall street is dying—that is the wild, speculative Wall street that has ruined so many men in past years. For some time a gradual decline in stock speculation has been noted, but within the last two years the falling off in the business of the brokers has been so groat that it is interpreted to mean the end of the craze for speculation among the American people. Many brokers have gone out of business and others are on the verge of bankruptcy or are barely paying their office expenses.

For the country at large this is good news. Stock and graii^ gambling have been the financial, moral and physical ruin of thousands, of bright business men who would havo achieved property and success had they not been, drawn into the vortex of speculation. The country never had any^jjj^for the Wail sttfeefc speculate,\an^U tion is now nearly gone the facTEFevidence that men are at last awakening to the foolishness of speculating in stocks after the method of Wall street. As similar complaints eome from the alleged "Board of Trade" in Chicago, we may suppose that gambling In grain and pork is also on tbe decline throughout the country. This is good news especially as ifc is accompanied by the fact that the wag^-workers are investing their earnings more and more largely In savings banks, building and loan associations, and other money saving institutions. The press has long deprecated the speculative spirit and has urged men to earn their money by the honest, if more plodding method of legitimate business. The seed thus sown is producing good fruit at last. __________

KEMMLER'S CASE.

A singular interest has been taken in the case of Kemmler, tbe New York murderer, who is under sentence of death, to be executed by electricity. In and of itself Kemmler's case has no speolal cause for appeal to the sympathy of the public. The murder was coldblooded and the criminal appears to be quite resigned to his inevitable fate. Yet the papers have been full of the subject for months and the public has manifested a large amount of interest in the condemned man.

The reason for this must be that anew element of horror has been brought into tbe case because It will be tbe first time electricity has been applied for the purpoee of a legal execution. Plenty of people have been killed by electricity, it is true, and there Is no shadow of donbt that electricity will kill. Moreover, if a man has to be killed there would not seem to be much difference whether he be executed one way or another, so long as the method were as painless as possible. It is not pretended that execution by electricity will be more painful than by hanging. And yet there is something in the elaborate, scientifically refined preparations which are being made for the execution of Kemmler that seems more revolting than the old familiar method of hanging by the neck until dead. Perhaps it is because the plan is new and nntried, leaving room for donbt as to its efficiency. Or it may be only the change from an old to anew thing. Doubtless if criminals hitherto had been executed in an easy chair, by means of an electric current applied to the base of the brain by the pressure of a button, we should be greatly horrified at the proposition to change tbe neat, dean scientific method for the more bungling one of choking by the neck with a rope, We are creatures of habit, truly, and even in tbe execution of criminals we cling to the old and tried. Yet we must expect to eee electricity triumph in this, MS it has in so many other fields, for, next to the Keeley motor, it Mem* be the coming power.

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Twentieth Year

PERSONAL MENTION.

John O. Boyle has gone to St. Louis. Frank Ripley is at San Diego, California.

Bert Merring has returned to New York. Richard Dykeman is visiting in Muncie, Ind.

Mrs, Joseph McChesney is visiting in Chicago. Miss Helen A. Ross has returned from a visit to Paris.

Mrs. James Jumper, of north Ninth street, is very ill. Mrs. R. D. Diggs left Thursday afternoon for Denver, Col.

Miss Clara Belle Durham, of Danville, is visiting friends in the city. Miss Mamie Baker will visit Miss Josie Lagrange, of Paris, next week.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Charles R, Peddle, Jr., Wednesday, a son. T. W. Stewart, formerly of this oity, now of Gadsden, Ala., is in the city.

George Vaughn has gone to Quincy, 111., where he has accepted a position. Mrs. Emily Long returned Thursday after a seven months' visit in the South.

Miss Lulu Allen, of C'inton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Grimes, of south Eighth street.

R, N. Hudson has gone to South Bend to accept a position as assistant city surveyor.

Miss Anna Mitchell left Thursday morning to visit her parents in Walnut Prairie.

Will 9. Hedges, of Salt Lake City, and family* are visiting his father, George E. Hedges

Miss Mayme Finkbiher left yesterday morning for a short visit among Brazil friends.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hager have taken room$ at the Bell boarding house for the summer.

Mrs. Martha Kendal has gone to Maxinkuckoe to spend the summer with her daughter.

Mrs. Sohulmeyer and daughter, Miss Lillie, of Ohio street, have returned from Danville.'3'0»

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Miss Ida Wilson, of Paris, is in the oity, visiting Miss Edna Jones, north Eighth street.

Seventh streot. Miss Lida White, of south Seyenth street, entertained Miss Grace Hayward while in the city.

A. Goldberg has moved into the house recently vacated by Mr. Pierson, at 980 south Sixth street.

Willis Wright has gone to Springfield, 111., where he intends to engage in the furniture business.

Mrs. Lottie Wolfe, of south Seventh street, has gone to Kansas City, Mo., to spend the summer.

Miss Jessie Wiltsy, of "south Ninth street, who has been visiting in Ohio, will return home to-day,

Fred Bell, of Honduras, South America, has returned from Chicago and is visiting bis father, John D. Bell.

Miss Ollle Creager, of north Thirteenth street, left Thursday night for Denver, Col., where she will visit her sister.

Mrs. Mollie Mancourt O'Boyie, of this city, was married at Ord, Neb., April 28tb, to Robert Black, of Wichita, Kat.

Al. Grimes, formerly with the Terre Haute house, has been in Paris this week, thinking of leasing the Paris hotel.

Married, at the home of tbe bride, in Yincennes, last Thursday, Miss Nellie Scott to Walter D. Murphy, ef this city.

J. C. Beslre and wife are In the city and will remain for some time. Mr. Besire is here to take the artesian baths.

Mrs. H. C. Nevltt and daughter, of Albany, N. Y., are in tbe city visiting Mrs. Nevitt's grandfather, Mr. James Ross.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, of El Paso, Texas, are visiting Mm. Brown's mother, Mrs. Newhart, on aouth Fourth street.

Miss Sadie Levlngs, ef Psris, who has been visiting her cousins, the Misses Smith, of south Fifth strset, has returned to her home.

Clarence and John Towksberry, sons of Freight Agent Towksberry, of Rock Island, are here from Chicago, visiting Lansing Woolsey,

Lewis J. Ripley, an old Terre Haute boy, now traveling for tbe John R. Davis lumber company, of Phillips, Wis., wss in the city this week.

Chas. H. Smith, for eleven years the head waiter at the Bates House, Indianapolis, has accepted a similar position st the Terre Haute House.

M. H. Tomlinson and mother, of Fort Dodge, Iowa are visiting W. C. Tomlinson of North Eighth street. Mrs. Tomlinson will be here this week.«

Mr, O. H. Heyroth hss been appointed general agent for the New England Mutual Life Insurance company, of Boston, for southern Ohio. He left for Cincinnati Thursday afternoon, where he will have headquarters.

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