Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 July 1890 — Page 1

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THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment

Indianapolis' population is 125,000. From 76,000 in 1880 to 125,000 in 1890, is "speedy" growth.

The silk waist sash is now the proper caper for the aesthetic. It is said to possess the valuable property of reducing corpulency. _______

Speaker Reed is certainly pursuing a very wise policy in one direction, and that is in refusing to reply to any of the attacks that are daily being made upon him.. ________

Cuba might prove a great burden to the United States and again might prove a great benefit. Time only could tell even after we bad paid our 200 milliop dollars. ______

The uews oomes from Italy that the authorities of that kingdom desire to discourage the emigration of the peasantry to ttee United States or elsewhere. This is decidedly encouraging.

The Emperor of China has sent the German Emperor a large box of playthings—little dragons and things—Cor his five little sons. A nice little exbibi tion of International courtesy, one would #ay.

The Indianapolis Journal heads its report oi Senator Voorhees' opening speech in the tariff bill discussion, with the line: "Our Blatherskite Senator. This is hard on senator from even a partisan standpoint.

Over six thousands intoxicants are known to our custom houses, and these include liquors from eveiy portion of the world. A very large number find sale only among the immigrants who are daily landing on our shores.

The International Medical Congress meets in Berlin Aug. 4. As many American doctors as can will attend, as sach a convention will be productive of great good by the discussion of most recent discoveries in the medical and surgical world-

A^rdinir t^ ami 'TUneirttto cyclone is wind trust organised with a view to sweeping the earth, and, In keeping with the modern stylo of trusts, carrios on business with heartless disregard for either personal or property rights.

It 1« not proper to say that the Illinois man "oomploted a fast of sixty days,' for he didn't. The powers above put an end to him at the expiration of that time or ho might have been fasting yet. To fast and live through It, Dr. Tanner still holds the record at forty days.

The Argentine Republic is now ex peri Slicing a financial panic, and ail be cause tho most reckless policy in financial affairs has not only been pursued by the state but by a majority of the moat prominent business firms of the Republic. A day t*f retribution has come.

The Detroit Freo Press says: "People will never be broken of the bad habit of buying lottery tickets or of gambling In any form until human nature is so reconstructed that a man will not feel so good over winning «& that he will forget that it cost him $25 to get it." Isn't this about the truth?

Shall or shall not the World's Balr remain open on Sundays? The question is now being debated and before a decision Is reached there will no doubt be a very lively fight. The churches are going Into the contest and will probably endeavor to have the Illinois Legislature take steps In the matter.

The following style of controversy merits the most heartless punishment: A man who travel* by railway *u ««rdrinks route be*r.-{Com ntvrmM Bulletin.

That's nothing, our railway pace is so hot that the passenger coaches^ leave iringer rail behind them and soda the

freights.—{Albany

wonld be required to tell of the marvelous growth, which no city in the world has ever surpassed.

A Boston hotel advertises that "all servants are- liberally paid by the proprietor, that all guests are entitled to equally prompt and conrteons service' and that when this is not cheerfully and properly given, the proprietor will be thankful to be notified of the fact.' Such a house will be liberally patronised for the public has grown very tired of the "tipping" imposition so generally in vogue. vj

When Sflanley was asked what the American negro would do in Africa he brusquely replied: "Die!" He says the climate wonld kill them off even, faster than it does the white men, and if it didn't homesickness and the natives would. Just why all this would follow does not exactly appear, but Mr. Stanley is authority on Dark Continent affairs, so the statement must be accorded due consideration. However, any opinion not supported by experiment goes for very little these days, and before tacitly accepting even the great explorer's word, we wonld like to see the colonization plan tried. _______________

Town Talk.

THE rOLIOK BOW,

The good work the police board has been doing recently is bound to have its reward, not only in the commendation of the public, but in the increased efficiency of the department. For one entire week no step has been taken which could be objeofced to, and consequently it is but fair that praise, an article almost unknown to the members, should be accorded. The pre-eminent achievement of the week has been the suocessful disposal of one the most threatening eruptions the police force has ever known. Temporarily it seemed as though an -entire reconstruction would be necessary as officers were preferring charges against patrolmen aud patrolmen were with equal celerity returning the compliment. The situation was indeed a stormy one, and had the tight gone much further no telling bow much corruption would have been exposed. The investigations instituted by the board were to the point and decidedly men wltli*the* severe reprimand offfie third quelled the disturbance. But information was disclosed that will materially aid the Board in managing the department hereafter, and this will partially repay for the present row. For instance, it was developed that officers were in the habit of accepting money from disreputable characters not as a •bribe," but merely as a "treat," and it was also disclosed, or rather not disclosed, for the fact has long been known and nothing has heretofore been said about it, that members of the foroe were not averse to taking a friendly glass with anyone kind enough to offer it. These two practices the board has ruled against, and if the restrictions are observed good will come of it. There is no policy better than that which guards against even suspicion of under handwork. By following these ruks closely officers will never be accused of submitting to bribery.

THE INDEPENDENTS.

It Is not easy to understand how the lndependeut county and legislative ticket is to accomplish anything In the coming campaign, for such a row as was created in the convention would be enoutth to practically kill the chances of an old party let alone those of an embryo organization. From beginning to end there was too much personal aggrandizement and not enough party elevation to make the movement a success, and considering this it was not to be wondered that trouble followed.

(N. Y.)Sunday Press.

A leading dally of Rochester, N. Y., tuts announced that its Sunday edition will be discontinued in deference to public sentiment* The natural imp res aioft would be that if any issue were to be discontinued, that of Monday morning Should g®, as all the

wfk th*s

t^wMr la done on Sunday while with the oth«r nearly a» is done on Saturday.

By the admission of Wyoming as State, woman suffrage is established over an area twelve Urns, as large as Msmschusett*, and equal to that ot ew \ork and New England together. It is greater than all of Great Britain and three times the she of Ireland. Kqual suffrage has been tested in the most practical way in Wyoming, and has been highly SUeeeaSfUU lit Goodrich's geography, a publication of 1S40, Chicago Is dweritwd in a half doxen lines. It say*, In l«a» Lere ware but fsw huts present tb* population exceed* (MS©. £»Xa brief description would **!,w«r now. Indeed wteme

other feature which promoted the disagreement was the strong effort to pull the Farmers' Mutual Benefitassociation

organisation pledged to keep out of politics, to the support of the plan, the determined opposition of several coesci entioos members who sought, and were successful in the effort, to prevent such a thing. Had harmony characterised the movement, and had several individual wire pullers not been so closely connected with it, there would have been against some chance of developing strength, but now it seems out of ^he question that even a nominal vott be received on election day. 1* use the popular expression, the scheme is "split clear up the back" and the most careful surgery will not repair the breach, jeo CAVSB ram coMrwaisr.

The memory of the torrid weather we were having about July 1st is now as a fading dream. In truth it§has been difficult to realise how the thermometer could possibly have reached 103 degrees, since the days are so cool and pleasant. There has been little need all this week of flannel shirts or white dresses, and the one principle eaase for going to sum mer reins has been

completely re

moved. Those who go away hereafter will have to attribute it all to desire for change of surrounding*, rather ehange of climate. Indeed in most this would be the bettor reason for leaving as

nearly

all

change

temperature. Those who go away will gladly bear testimony to the statement. MAIN STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

The question of the bnilding of the proposed Main street sewer is up again, and sentiment seems to hate changed from opposition to support. Now there is no very good reason why the improvement should not be undertaken. The city debt ia within the legal limit, financial prospects are good, and the desire that the sewer be built is stronger \than ever before. Those objections which were ad' when the old oouncll was enjoined entering into contract for the wo louger hold good, so that the new oo cil is left free to act. The argumentsJn fayor of building this fall are numeropB, and the strongest is that unless the work is done this summer or fall it will be«t least two years before Main street can be paved. All progressive citizens realize that in the matter of pavements the city is decidedly behind the tlmesand the most activo pushers, those who have the interests of the community at heart, are becoming impatient at the delay at in going into this kind of improvements. No one wants to wait twp years to have Main street paved, especially since a very small portion of the expense would fall on the city. But this will be forced upon you unless the sewer is built this year. The reason why this will follow is that it is considered unwise to put a permanent pavement on the street which is likely to settle. It is probable that not as much of the sewer as we would like can be built now, but a start can be had and a beginning always m.eans an ending.

mo UR ELECTRIC RAIL WAY. Terre Haute is to have an eleotrio street railway without fail, and it is to be in operation within ninety days at the most. Rumors to this effect have been in circulation for some time, but more or less -uncertainty has been connected with them for the reason that no authority could be quoted. The state mept is made on the word of President R. W. Rippetoe, who returned from an inspection trip of systems Thursday night. In conversation with a Mail representative yesterday morning, he stated that a contract for the electric plant oomplete will be closed within the -next, few days, probably befpre n. road wiTl^ff~wmraewt!^

Residents of south Seventh street in to rested in real estate below the end of the proposed extension down that street, have clubbed together and made the street oar company an

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 26,1890.

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ward as possible. What system be used has not been definitely determined but it will be either the Thomp-son-Houston or the Sprague.f^ There is very little difference between the two as both operate on the same principle and are built so as to sell at about the same price. Mr. Rippetoe's trip east this week was for the purpose of inspecting the workings of the Westinghouse motor, a comparatively new patent, a trial of which is at present being made in Pittsburg. He rode on the one car being tested, and was convinced the company has an excellent motor, but his conclusion was that the Terre Haute company could not wait for the invention to be perfected. In equipping the local road the over head system will be used, and the trolley wires wires will be suspended by means of cross-wires extending from poles on the sides of the atreet. The entire nine miles of track, with the exception of the Poiyteobnic branch, will be equipped, and to do this will necessitate the relaying of much of thetraok. The south Third street line will be relayed all the way down new iron will be placed on the Sixth street line from Main to the Vandailla railroad, and the Oollett park line from Locust north will be relayed in order to give more solid foundation. The improvements entire will cost |100,000 and will be as complete as could be desired. The extensions under contem plation will also be equipped with the electric system, and when ail the work is finished the lines will be equal to any in the country.

offer for

further extension from Seventh east to Seventeenth on ^Washington avenue and thence to Cottage Grove Place. The company has the matter under consideration.

The following complimentary paragraph, from the New York Commercial Advertiser, is being very extensively copied over the country, and will no doubt do the Polytechnic much good: "It is stated that the most complete worn-shops of their class in the country are to be fonnd at the Rose Polytechnic school at Terre Haute, Ind. The combination of theory and practice is carried ont with singular felicity and effectiveness. In the course in mechanical en gineering particular attention is paid to shop practice and actual construction, the students being required to work in the shops as well as In the drawing rooms and lecture rooms. Ovgff f4fl»990 was expended in fitting up the shops and supplying them with tools.** With such a reputation as the school is

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Stanley's Dwarfs. fij

THE LITTLE PEOPLE FOUND BY THE GREAT EXPLORER IN THE IN- *3, TERIOR OF THE DARK

CONTINENT.

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A step only is it, according to Darwinism, from the chimpanzees, baboons and monkeys, with which the forests abound, to the pygmy tribes which we found inhabiting the tract of country between Ihuru and Ituri rivers, says Stanley in an address reported in the London Times. They were known to exist by the father of poets nine centuries before the beginning of the Christian era. You may remember Homer wrote about the sanguinary battle that was reported to have taken place between the pygmies and the storks. In the fifth century before Christ Herodotus described the capture of fivp young explorers from Nassamoves while they were examining some curious trees in the Niger basin, and how the little men took them to their villages and showed them about to their fellow pygmies, much as you would like us to show the pygmies about England. The geographer HekateeuB in the fifth century located the pygmies near the equator of Africa, under the shadows of the Mountain of the Moon, and I find that from Hiparohus downward geographers have faithfully followed the example of Hekatceus, and nearly a year ago we found them where they had been located by tradition, under the names of Watwa and Wambutti. The forest which we have been just considering extends right up to the base line of the Mountains of the Moon.

Near a place called Avetiko, on the Ituri river, our hungry men found the first male*and female of the pygmies squatted in the midst of a wild Eden, peelincr plantains. You can imagine what .. Mii.ok it was to the poor little creatures at finding themselves suddenly surrounded by gigantio Soudanese 6 feet 4 inches in height, nearly double their own height and weight, and black as coal. But* my Zanzibaris, always more tender-hearted than Soudanese, prevented the clubbed rifle and cutlasses from extinguishing their lives there and then^^bro^ht^h^^^^a^motb loogieorn for inspection. Ab they stood trembling before me I named the little man Adam and the miniature woman Eve—far more appropriate names in the wild Eden on the Ituri than the Vukukuru and Akiokwa which they gave us. As I looked at them and thought how these represented the oldest people on the globe, my admiration would have gone to greater lengths than scoffing cynics would have expected. Poor Qreeklsh heroes and Jewish patriarchs, how their glory paled before the ancient ancestry of these manikins 1 Had Adam known how to assume a tragic pose, how fitly .he might have said: "Yea, you may well look on ns, for we are the only people living on the face of the earth who from primeval time have never been removed from their homes. Before Yusuf and Mesu were ever heard of we lived in these wild shades, from the Nile fountains to the sea of Darkness, and, like the giants of the forests, we despise time and fate."

But, poor little things, they said nothing of the kind. They did not know they were heirs of such proud and un equaled heritage. On the contrary, their faces said clearly enough as they furtively looked at one and the Other of us

uWhere

have these big people come

from? Will they eat us?" There were some nervous twitches about the angles of tl»o nose and quick upliftlngs of the eyelids, and swift, searching looks to note what fate was in store for them. It is not a comfortable feeling which possesses a victim in the presence of a pos sible butcher and a possible consumer of Its flesh. That misery was evident in the little Adam and Eve of the African Eden. The height of the man was 4 feet that of the woman a little less. He may have weighed about eighty-five pounds the color of his body was that of a half baked brick, and alight brown foil stood out very clearly. So far as natural In telligence was concerned, within his limited experience, he wss certainly superior to any black man in our camp The mysteries of woodcraft, for instance, he knew better than any of us he knew what wild fruits were wholesome, and what fungi were poisonous. He could have given ns valuable lessons how to find our way through the forest. I saw fly that he could adapt himself to cir cu&stasces. If the pot was to end liim a very little shrinking only would betray his fear of pain- if he were to be treated affectionately, none could be so ready to appreciate affection and kind

Webegan to quostion him by gestures.

"Bayou know

where

yon can

getbananss?" He dtfefces the cue, he grasps his leg

show us the rise

noas his head rapidly,

and

Informing

th«t he knows where to find bananas of the six* of his leg. One sees that be as well as Mark Twain. We

s«

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sunrise in reply. "Is it far!" He shows a

hand's length. Ah,

uOh,

good day's jour

ney without loads, two days with loads! "Do you know the Ihuru?', He nods his head rapidly. ''How far is it?" He rests his hands sideways on his elbow joint.

four day's journey." "Is

there much food on the road?" He pats his abdomen lovingly, with an artful smile, and brings his two hands to a point in front of him, from which he may infer that our pounches will become like prostrate pyramids. We ask him why Ayeliko has so little food. The little man attempts to imitate the sound of gunshots andories "Do o-o-o!" and we are informed quite intelligently that the devastation is due to the Manyuema.

I suppose we mu9t have passed through as many as one hundred villages inhabited by the pygmies. Long, however, before we reach them they were deserted and utterly cleaned out. Our foragers and scouts may have captured about fifty of these dwarfs, only one of whom reached the height of 54 inches. They varied from 39 inches to 50. inches generally. They sure so well proportioned that, at first sight, they might be taken for ordinary mankind but when we place by their side a European, a Soudanese or a Mahdi, they appear exceedingly diminutive. By the side of dwarfs of mature age a Zanzibar! boy of thirteen would appear large.

The agricultural settlements in this region are to be found every nine or ten miles apart, and near each settlement, at an hour's march distance, will be found from four to eighty pygmy villages situated along the paths leading to it. The larger aborigines are very industrious, and form a clearing of from four hundred to one thousand acres. Amid the prostrate forests they plant their banana and plaintain bulbs. In twelve months the prostrate trees are almost hidden by the luxuriant fronds and abundant fruit of unrivaled quality, size and flavor. It would be easy to prove that in the forest an acre of banana plant produces twenty-five times more food than an acre in wheat produces in England. The pygmies appear to be aware that a banana plantation is inexhaustible, and to think that they have as muoh right to the produce as the aboriginal owners. Therefore they

ner they perform valuable service to them ljy warning them of the advances of strangers and assisting them to defend their settlements they also trap game and birds, and supply the larger natives with peltry, feathers and. meat.

Geraldines Letter.

My Deaii Ruth: The reading public is promised soon a new life of Hawthorne by M. D. Conway, and it goes without saying that the book will be interesting. Mr. Conway is one of the most delightful of letter writers, and whatever he puts his pen to is sure to be readable. He is writing his ftfe of Hawthorne in London and it will form one of the series of "Great Writers," and will be published in London. If you are a lover of Hawthorne's writings you have felt the wierdness of them—a kind of a supernatural element, unlike the writings of any other author. Dr. George B. Loring, of Salem, who knew Hawthorne well, says in a letter to Mr. Conway that he had a two told existence, a real and a supernatural. He was fond of the companionship of all who were in sympathy with the real and the human side of life, but when he entered his study he was quite another man. Theodore Parker once said he had no idea Hawthorne un derstood bis own genius

or comprehend

ed the philosophical meaning of many of the circumstances or characters found in his books. Whether he understood his genius or not, he had the greatest reverence for it. He was shy of even those whose gifts might seem to give them aright to enter his sanctuary he was impatient of any attempt at familiarity or even intimacy with the divine power within him. In his literary work he allowed no interference and asked for no aid. The working of bis mind was something mysterious and sacred to him He used to say of himself that his work grew in his brain as bo went on and was beyond his control and direc tion Dickens said that his characters imrpft thronging in on him and took their destiny in their own hands. I beard Dr

Amelia B. Edwards say that Just after Anthony Trollopo had published "Oriey Pfcrm" "be asked him why be let Crosby jilt Lliy Dale. "Why, bless yon," be replied, "1 didn't want him to, but eonfound the fellow, he just-would do it." At Salem they tako the greatest pride in the Hawthorne relics. You go to the custom bouse and look at the place where his desk used to stand, then you are shown bis stencil—N. Hawthorne— in large letters. The desk itself is kept in the little old

a pen-knife.

point to the four quarters of the com- ,. .. past question!ngiy. He point, to the made immortal

church hack of the Esse*

Institute—«n old-fashioned, battered-np desk, with

bis name cat

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where he

shown the bouse

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house where be

lived after his marriage,

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Twenty-first Year

facing Salem harbor and is one of the most interesting plaoes in the quaint old town. The parlor is still a beautiful room the ceiling low and the brown wainsooting in the colonial style. The ceiling is panelled with beams of oak. A

deep window seat in the window faoing- the harbor is the plaoe where Hawthorne would sit for hours looking out on the water. Your attention is called to an old arm ohair, and you are told the story of how one day Hawthorne asked his aunt, who lived in tho house, what he should write about. She looked around and said, "Take the old arm chair and people it." You know the result, for you have read tho arm chair stories. You go into the littleroom olose to the street where Hepxibah had her shop, and there you see the shelf still acrost the window where she displayed her gingerbread animals. You climb up into the attlo and look at Holgrave's room, and see the paint on the walls where he tried his brushes. In the yard you are shown Maule's well which has long been filled up. An enormous horse chestnut tree stands where you expeot to see the Pyncheon elm, exoept for that everything else is as it 1s described in the story. There is a large book lying on the parlor table where visitors are requested to write their names. In It are distinguished names from all parts of the world. I saw the name of Justin Macarthy and no eud of literary people who are well known. A Danish artist had written his name and after it, "Haw« thorne had no greater admirer." Miss Elizabeth Peobody, a sister of Mrs. Hawthorne, in a letter to Mr. Conway, tells of the dreary winter day when Hawthorne came home early from tho office, and with white lips told his wife be had lost his place, had been dlscnarged. But she, instead of being oast down, produced quite a largo sum of gold she had managed to save up, and said to him, "Now you^san Wrlto your book." She soon had a fire blazing on tho hearth of his study, had his table ready and he went straightway to work. His enemies, who thought they could crush him out of existence, atid all the injustice and wrong they had done him, were soon forgotten. Tho Scarlet Letter had long been taking shape in him, and now the fair phaatoma-nttmn frinn..ft^

riumph. "xne

Scarlet Letter" is considered to be the greatest American novel yet written, as well as the most perfect artistically. It is said that according to the tests of what makes a perfect noVel, this is acoounted faultless. It fills all of them. I read the other day an interesting bit in connection with Longfellow's "Evangeline." Hawthorne had got hold of a romantic incident of French Canada whioh he intended to weave into a story. He happened to tell It to a friend who repeated it to Longfellow, giving him tho impression that Hawthorne had sent it to him. Soon after Evangeline appeared. If

Hawthorne felt any chagrin bo did not Bbow it, for he wrote a fine review of the poem. Not long after the friend who had done this, asked a favor of him. "I will grant It," he said, "and thus show myself the most Christian man in the world." This sort of thing happens once in awhile to people of lesser note. A friend of mine, and a writer of some reputation, told me of a story she had partly wrought out in her mind, the scene to be laid in Canada, a romance of the French war. She told it one day to

Mrs. Catberwood, and not long after "The Romance of Dollard" appeared in the Century, the story founded on the very Incidents she had told to its author. In Lennox, they show with great pride, the little red house where Hawthorne lived for a few years. It was here he wrote the "House of the Seven Gables" and "A Biythedale Romance," a story of human power and weakness against the might of environment. Its chief interest being the picture of the Brook Farm community with Margaret Fuller a* JSenobia.

GKBAJ/DIJfK.

AMUSEMENTS. V.,

PMMROS& A WEST'S MTNBTBEIX. The old favorites, Primrose & West's Minstrel company, are to appear at Naylor's Oprea hwuse on next Tuesday evening,' July 2®. It goes without saying that they will be greeted by a large crowd for the name of this organization is a guarantee that we will see the best and meet refined performance of minstrelsy to be seen anywhere or given by any company. Primrose A West, have by equAre and honest dealing with toe public, won the confidence of the theatre goers. Their methods have been honorable and as long as they follow this policy they will always be the leaders. Their company this season Is the strongest they have ever had. Mr. Lew Docstander is a member of the Company, All

the acts and features are new and an Interesting performance may be expected. The parade given this season is a novel one and well worth seeing Seats placed on «ale to-day. young will continue his management of the company in which the Mel* Tille Sisters appear during the coming season. The troupe's season opens In Ohio on August 4th.