Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 August 1890 — Page 1

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Vol. 21.-No. 10.

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The oyster is preparing for business. Americans abroad are now thinking of borne, »w«et home. The season is waning.

A Peoria excursion has one marked characteristic—it appreciates Terre Haute beer.

The Democratic majority in Alabama i» now placed at 95,000. Yes. there are several He publicans in the state.

The election bill will die an easy death, from all indications, and many of the Republican leaders would have it so.

Interest in base bill in England is on the increase. An umpire narrowly escaped being* mobbed the other day.

BOH Moines is to have an elaborate Sent Om Sed festival. By the way, Seni Om Bed Is merely Des Moines spelled backwards. "A Broken Fly Screen" Is announced as the title of a forth coming novel. Isn't it a little late in the season making its appearance?

Poet* should not reason Lot thorn sing I Argument!* treason—

Bell* Khould ring. —From O'ltoMy's Laut Poem.

OklaiJBtha has been having rains, and the poor boomers are encouraged. Many who had offered their claims for sale have withdrawn them from the market.

The latest society fad Is the "Crazy Toa." The insanity possibly appears among those who sup the tea. For that matter, why isn'talmost any tea a crazy tea?

Buffalo Bill is now in Hamburg. The original method of warfare in this countakes over the ocean, and Bill is try wild and wooly as they can making it standi, 'v "7

One rule for getting rich is to mind your own bnsittoss.—tNew York Sun. Another is to mind everyone else's, and this succeeds oftener than the other, so

it seems "Mr. Powdorly is a good man goes wrong

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the Globe Democrat passes on tho strike situation. It looks very much that way too.

Up to the present timo there is but one particular in tho Kremmler electrocision on which the scientists agroe, and that is that Kremmler is dead. Soon some one will uo doubt deny even this, for the sake of controversy you know.

Louisiana is the only Stato in which tho percentage of Illiteracy has increased during the last ton years. It is a natural coincidence that such a lamentable condition should bo found in a State which sells its honor to a lottery company for 92fi,00Q,000.

The Supreme council of tho railroaders' federation acted iu accordance with public as well as private interests, in not ordering a general strike on tho Vanderbilt lines. "Labor agitators" are not always narrow-minded, treacherous and inconsistent. _____ lleyoud a doubt mouey is being used by Chicago real estate men to influence the World's Fair directors. In the meantime the people of that city are becom lug exasperated boyond measure at the inconsistent actions of these same directors who fall to recognise® the fact that it is high time a site were being being agreed on.

The eoitspiracy now on foot in Mis sissippi to anual the federal constitution by an outrageous revision of the state constitution is dastardly in tho extreme. Why should 100,000 negroes be robbed of their franchises by legal intrigues*? Simply because the time is coming whbn it will no longer be possible to suppretw the negro vote? _____

The fall campaign is coming on, and thus it becomesi a matter of importance that this should be kept hi mind: Any voter who moves from one county te another,* or from on© township to another. utter .Septembers, or who moves from on© precinct to another after October 3, will thereby lose his vote. The election will be held Tuesday. November 4.

Philadelphia ha* not yet recovered from the «h*grtn ot dropping from second to third portion In the census enumeration, and the Ml In all the more humiliating «tato» mm? ot it# present active bu«ta«n mm ean raeall time when it was the first city of the Union in mmmmm, In finance, in industry and in population. For the retrogression the Time* offers these four reason*: The election of third-claae mayors the eleetion of third-clam councilmen, the election of third-etaae congressmen and this election of thini-clsss men to the kgialaiute. Would not th©ii*merwwo»s apply in explaining the backmliding of many other localities as W«U?

Senator Voorhees wants Congress to establish anew periodical to be known as "The Petition Box." In it he wishes to haife published all the complaints, petitions and indeed all communications received by Congressmen which are of public importance. The idea, with rigorous limitations, is a good one, for at present there is no way of making known this expression of public opinion.

Here are the eight longest words in the English language at the present writing Phlloprogenltlveness.

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Incomprehensiblenesu. Diitproportionableness. Sutlconstltutlonalist. Honor! flei bl tudi ty. Velocl pedestrianistieal. Transubstantionableness. Proantltlonsubstantionist. Who dares say they do Russian?

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The New York Times wants the government to ab&bdon the World's Fair on account of the McKinley bill. To this the Chicago Inter-Ocean replies: "If the government listened to the New York Times it would apologize for the action of George Washington and the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and humbly ask Great Britain to ann§g£ the United States as a British coidny."

The following very much resembles one view of the K. of L.-R. R. Brotherhood situation on the N. Y. C. fc H. R. R. R. strike, and is from the pen of the famous C. O. D.: "Help! Take him off!" screamed the man on tlie sidewalk, who was rapidly being re

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er'» answer to too appeal. "But yoa may allow me to assure you 1 Oat you bare iny dl«i 'ngulHbed consideration and I feel free to state that I consider tbe treatment you are receiving brutal 1 tbe extreme."

Town Talk.

AH OPKtf IiBTTBlt.

This is supposed to be an age of orog ress,and everywhere it js asserted that haste is tbe one predominating characteristic of the race. It is cited in support of such a conclusion or opinion, that all inventions in the line of advancement have had in view the reduction of time requirod for effecting the operations involved. The steam engine, loom, sewing machine, printing press, telephone, railroad, street «*r, lawn mower, potatoe peeler, type-writer, dish washer, etc., have b^eu successes in thisdirectionatid have saved millions of hours of valuable timo. By some it is claimed the telegraph has also been a great time saver, but day by day adherents to this belief are becoming fewer and fewer, especially among the residents of Terre Haute. No ono will deny that Klorse did his part of the Western Union scheme all right and that if on his minute detail alone depended tho whole of the performance of telegraphing it would be more economical to wire a friend than to walk two hundred miles and deliver the message in poison. But th's happens to constitute only a small portion of the action, and each succeeding day only serves to Illustrate the fact that until a message ddivcrcr is patented the electric telegraph will not bo an overwhelming success. Other cities may have grounds on which to base a different opinion but just now Torre Haute takes this view and will adhere to it until something intervenes to produce a change. For* some reason it seems impossible to deliver a message received in the W. U. office here until there can be no possible use for it at its destination. For er.ample, a son received a dispatch calling him to the dciitth-bed of his mother just seven days afiier her death. No wonder he sited for damages. And now in another instance that comes to T. T's. attention, a delay of three hours in delivery caused much indignation. The dispatch intended to call the recipient out of the city on a certain train, and was Hied in Chicago four hours berore train time. Tbe mes sage was sent and reached Terre Haute two hours and a half before train time, but t&MMt until too late to catch the train although the messenger only had three squares to take it. What excuse there could be for this does not appear. These are only two of many complaints that are heard. To be sure the public Is greatly indebted to the W. U. company when the work Is done properly, but when otherwise done there is cause for righteous Ind'gnaUon, for when a corporation undertakes to become a public servant it is bound by moral as well as legal obligations to do its service well.

HOW limn?

There is a very marked difference of opinion as to how high the balloonist at the fair ascended on Th rsday afternoon before he cut loose his parachute. Varlons extravagant figures were suggested all the way up te a mile, and no doubt many persons were sufficiently mistaken to place the distance at a mile aad a half. »Kvcn the Gasetle said 4,000 feet. Just think what a distance 4,000 feet -really is! It is nearly four fifths of a mile, and twenty time* the height of She court house tower. According to the Gaxette the parachute was two minutes and twenty second* coming down. At this rate it would drop* mile in a little less than three minutes, or at tbe most remarkable speed of twenty miles an hour. Imagine a wan dropping to the mtan at this jpecel II ie ridiculous. *i

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There would be only a little spray around tbe spot of his landing, were such the rate of speed, to indicate that a man had ever been in that vicinity. (This statement may bea little overdrawn too, but is not too much in comparison with the Other.) As it was the man lighted without tbe slightest injury to himself. Then, too, it was stated that the first balloonist to ascend went up 1,000 feefe If he did, the top of the court house is on a parallel with the top of the Eiffel tower, and very few people will accept the trutli of such a statement. This man certainly did not go up over 200 feet and ori'e reason for it which- was very popularly credited was that his balloon would not go up properly. All this discussio illustrates the fact that the uneducat eye cannot be depended on to calculate perpendicular distances. It is safe say not ten persons on the ground could3 come within three hundred feet of tho true distance gone up if they would express their, honest opijoion without guessing. 1U HUMANITY "Poor horses!" This was the one re--mark of hundreds of people who J'ode to the fairgrounds out Main street Thorsj day and Friday afternoons, and ba reference to the poor animals pullin the cars on the Blake line. Such load| as were imposed on some of the helples| beastswere enough to d'-ive the most heartless to protest. In not a single instance was a single car drawn by more than one horse, and in several cases two large cars were drawn by one animal. When fully loaded not less than ope hundred and twenty-five people were in the two cam, and be it this number c* only twenty-five, the single horse was forced to draw the load. So long as the straight track was before and no stops were to be made, the burden ootjld be borne, but when it was necessary to stop on a switch or go round a curve, the task was more than one horse should have been called upon to perform. Superintendent Burke knew too much had been imposed on the animals, for once as he was passing such a train in his little buggy, the drive* of the car called out: "There are too many people on here for this horse." *. Blake knew it too, but the explanation was that it had been found impossible to git more horses notwithstanding big prices had been offered. He also said th|t peopJadld it was to haul cars on the "T" rails oi his line than on the flat rails of the city line. The latter reason of course holds good up toa certain limit, but this limit was undoubtedly passed. The former would also have been a good reason—not for over-loading the curs but for putting an additional horse on every car and failing to accommodate tbe public. Humane Officer Bradbury received twenty-five or more protests, showing how much the inhumanity of the sight impressed itself npon witnesses

Geraldine's Letter.

MY DKAR RXTTH I know you arc not very deeply interested in psychology, perhaps not so deeply as you ought to. be, considering that psychological studies are characteristic of the age in which we live. At present the chief interest seems to center in that phase of tbe science which relates to thought transference, and that is interesting to every one, because it is something in which, every one has had more or less experience. Prof. James, of Harvard University, in a recent call for ."A Census of Hallucination," sent out some questions he wished everybody who read wguld answer. One of them was as follows: "Have you ever, when completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by ft living being or inanimate object, or of hearing a voice, which impression, so far as you could discover, was not due to «ny external physical cause? Answer 'yes' or •no"' Well, I could answer "yes" to thai. Not so very long ago, I was coming down stairs one afternoon when I saw before me the face and figure of a friend who was miles away. So real was the vision I voluntarily uttered aloud the name of the person. How often it happens that when we are thinking intently of a person, that person soon appears. How often we feel impelled to write to an absent friend, and we find out afterward that friend was writing to xm at the same time. I would like to read the answers to Prof. James' questions. I feel ante that this particular one will be answered in the affirmative. It has been answered so throughout every age by Plato and Thomas Aquinas, by Luther and Swcdenborg, and by all the ablest writers npon modern spiritualism. They knew and experienced the wonderful phenomena they knew of the unseen, but evidently tangible, forces which «ure eternally working on tbe human will, bnt they were not able—no one has yet been able to demonstrate—to account for them to tell us tho why and she wherefore. The most curious story I ever heard in the line of mental impressions was that of Mls Rote Owen, of New Harmony, who married Sir Laorenoe Olipbant^ Lady Otipbam is a daughter of Robert Dele Owen, hie yoangeet daughter, I think, sad a spiritualist of oraxee. About two

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years ago, while living quietly in New Harmony, and without a thought of change, she, one day, announced to her people she had an impression that she should go abroad, and with the utmost faith in it she commenced preparations. Sure enough in a few days there came a letter from friends in the east inviting her to go abroad with them. This was strange enoogh, but not so strange when she announced that she had had another impression an impression that she was to be married soon, to whom she did not know, but with the most sublime faith she commenced preparing her trousseau. On the steamer in which her party sailed she met Sir Laurence Oliphant, a widower and a great spiritualist. Before tbe ship reached Liverpool they were engaged, and soon after reaching London they were married.

By tbe way, Sir Laurence Oliphant was quite a character. He spent years of life and a large fortune investigating spiritualism, then he went to Palestine and espoused the cause of the Rouman ian Jews, who were sent out to Haifa by the Jewish colonizing society of their own country. Sir Laurence happened to be in Haifa when they arrived. No preparations had been made to recieve them and they were wandeving about the streets homeless, peniless, and starving, when Sir Laurence took them up and maintained the whole number at his own expense until arrangements could be made for the ^establishment of the colony. But his great work, and that which was nearest his heart, was among the Druses, and he lived with them half the year in their village of iDalijeb, high up ou Mt. Cavmel. The Druses seem to be an unhappy, unfortunate sort of people, bated alike by Christian and Mohammed en, and unless strong enough to resist they are plundered right along by the government, Sir Laurence found them in this pitiable condition with apparently hopeless arrears of tai.es. He set himself to work in their bebaif and was meeting with sucoess when he died just about a year ago, and not long after his marriage to to Miss Owen. It is said that but few of the inhabitants of the towns on Mt. Carmel, where be lived and and worked, but have stories to tell of his practical lovo for his neighbor and his chivalrous devotion to the cause of the oppressed, and the Druses entertain an almost

T*Uifc»*is ^eaeraUcmfor fcis m^nory. To come back to practical affairs, did you ever, in hot weather, have your postage stamps stick to your pocketbook, stick to each other, and cause you no end of annoyance? j3ome genius, whose name is unfortunately unknown, has found away of relief. Take your stamps and rub them on the top of your head once or twice (those who are bald will have to utalize tbe back of their head) and your stamps will not cause you any more trouble. I read this last Sunday. The next morning had occasion to buy some stamps. I put them inside a letter. The day was warm. I carried the letter in my hand and when I reached the telegraph office and took my letter to find an address, it was pretty well covered by my stamps which had stuck to the paper. I took them ofl as best I could, and remembering what I had read, asked the telegraph boy to rub them over the top of his head. He blushed rosy red, looked at me doubtfully, probably thinking I wafl in a mild atate of lunacy. But I explained, and we were both astonished at the result of the experiment. It was a true story. I recommend this to everybody who has had similar trials. GteitAkmsK.

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday the proud name of Terre Haute was in every newspaper in the United States, and in many of England, France and Germany. This was due to the meeting of the Supreme Council of the Federation of Railway Employes to decide on the question of a general strike of all employes on the Vanderbilt lines out of sympathy for the strikers on the N. Y. C. «fc H. R. R. R. The deliberations of the council were watched with the deepest of interest all over the country, and when, on Monday evening, it was announced that a decision against a strike had been reached general relief was felt, although this end was anticipated to a certain extent. Tbe council adopted resolutions of sympathy bnt declared they conld do no more as they had no grievances* The local Knights of Labor have also adopted resolutions of sympathy, ft.*

YOUR OWN CHUBCBT. {The Presbyterian-]1,

Be true to your own church. Don't ran down either Its pastor or its members, either its doctrine or its polity, either its ordinances or its usages. Give it hearty and loyal support by word and deed. Remember that it belongs to you that it is part of your religious life that in and by it yoa are being trained for usefulness here and Immortality hereafter that Its honor is much in yonr keeping that lbs growth and purity are effected to the extent of your inftuby what you say and do that pepie wfio have faith In your word will look upon it largely according to your representation that yon have momisea to advance its interests: itnd that with Its good name «nd prosperity are bound op the glory of the blesswit Jesus. Then do nothing to injure Its reputation, or to weaken iu power for good, or to mar its psace and fellowship.

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[Written tor Tho MalU] ANNA.

Asl look at Anna's picture, It fades before my gaze, And I see the living piclure

As she was in those happy days, When she was here aniong us, -With her sunnj^mlle so bright, And her delicate features radiant,

Aglow with love's own frght.

Ah! she was a fair, sweet flower, That bloomed on earth but a" day. Before it was transplanted

To the land of endless May. She was an angel, sent us From the land of light above, An angel the dear Lord lent us,

As a token of is love.

We could not keep the floweret, The earth winds were too chill But in our heart there lingers

Its rare, sweet perfume still. X'he Lord could not spare any longer From his side, the angel fair But heaven seems nearer to us,

Since we know that she is there. —Stkijua. Masos. TERRS HACTK, rim.

Stage Gossip.

HOW INDUSTRIOUS HELEN MODJESKA SPENDS HER SUMMER VACATIONS -SARAH BERNHARDT DETERM­

INED TO PJLAY ROMEO.

Probably not one in a thousand of Helen Modjeska's admirers know how she spends her holidays. But I hope it will not interfere with the general esteem in whioh she is held if I divulge the fact that during her vacation our famous Ophelia is alternately a modiste and a ph6tographer. Instead of hunting, as she well might do In the woods that surround her California ranch, or playing tennis, or counting cribbage with the count, Portia studies developers, and Rosalind has deserted Arden for the dark room. Mme. Modjeska is asmuch of an expert in the art of Daguerre as she is in that of Thespis. She is versed in blue prints, black prints and bromides she can manipulate a kodak, a frout focus, a detective, a reversable back, or a patent duplex with equal facility. Modjeska's other diversion is dress-making. She spends part of the summer season in designing costumes for the winter. Underneath a capacious awning in the backyard of her house she has a dress-making establishment consisting'of two sewing machines, a c6upie W tresses, a "dresk-makcVS dummy, a work table, an artist's- easel and a camera. The latter appurtonances are directed by the fair and gifted ranch holder herself. Mme. Modjeska first designs the costumes she wishes to wear in any particular character, and after her sewing woman has carried out her ideas in silks and satins and taffetas, she photographs the gowns on the lay figure. This manikin, or as I might with more propriety say, womanikin, is built on the exact lines and measurements of Modjeska's figure, and by taking a picture of it she can gain a complete idea as to how her gowns are going to look at a subsequent period on the stage. Mme. Modjeska, however, intends her camera for a higher use than as an aid to artistic costuming. Her 'prentice hand is rapidly growing adept in all featuresof photography during her summer vacation at her ranch In California. This knowledge she intends to utilize while at her former home" in Poland next year. As is well known, Helena Modjeska is an enthusiastic and patriotic Pole. Poland esteems Russia about as much as Ireland reverences England, and Mme. Modjeska moans to utilize her leisure and her camera in making an extended series of views in order to explain some papers she desires to write on the oppression of the serfs for our magazines. She has al ready tried the merit of her pen in the Cosmopolitan, and, although I cannot state it for a fact, I should not be surprised if a portion of the time spent in Poland by Mme. Modjeska next year were in execution of a commission from Mr. Brisben Walker to out-Kennan Kennan.

Again comes the rumor that Sarah Bernhardt is to play Romeo. This time it is to the Juliet of Margaret Mather. This is the third time the fair Parisian has threatened to do the act, writes a correspondent, and for my part it will be a great disappointment If before she dies she does not accomplish the feat. I should like to see that tall thin figure of Bernhardt giving us her idea of the torrid passion of the heir to the Montagues. It would give new life to the old play, and she would not have to act it very well to do better than any of the Romeo* that we have had for a long time, "u,r e'W

The extreme care which Mme. Adellna Patti gives to her digestive organ* accounts it great messnre for the wonderful preservation of her youthful looks. In spite of the fae*» that her table is furnished with ail the delicacies of the seasonsheconfine* herself, so says a lady friend, to tie Jtlmptest diet, in winter eating only that which is nourishing, such bouillon and raw oystets. Sweets of ail kinds are given tbe go-by, unless* perhaps, a simple padding. It woald be well lev the American woman to follow ber example, when, lam sure, we would not see so many sallow skins sad spot-

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ted complexions. It is all nonsense to talk about this thing and that being beneficial for the face so long as the liver is rebelling at the treatment which it receives at the hands of the sisterhood all the year around. For my part I marvel that the American women look as-well as they do, as I meet them trotting along with a box of bon-bons under one arm and a novel under the other. This is particularly noticeable on Saturday, when the shop girl and shopper alike look out to lay in a store of sweets and plenty of reading matter for Sunday and a headache for Monday. A dash of paint, a dab of powder1 and a Japaueae pencil only seem to accentuate the haggard looks of tho lack-luster eyes and the saf-fron-hued complexion. Beauty has become an important part of the processes of civilization, and you may be sure that the girl who has waked up to the truth of this cultivates the meaus to the end. She watches out that her pores are kept open uses every method possible for producing circulation, and corrects the eyilsofthe system by paying strict attention to that all-important organ, the liver,

The following bit of gossip would ai!$rd the public pleasure were it indeed authorised: "It is asserted on what is generally recognized as good authority that Mary Anderson is seriously considering returning to the stage next season to fulfill her contract with Henry E. Abbey. Great pressure Is being brought? upon both her and her husband, Mr. Navarro, to induce her to do this, and if she finally consents, as now seems probable, she will appear under the name of Mme. Navarro, instead of Mary Anderson. ,, I

The eminent French actor Pore Got, ns he is familiarly called in Paris, wm asked recently if he thought actors lntelleot to succeed. He replied *^no. 3 whatever! I would go even further si',.il say that the leas intellect ho has tho bettor he will get on. Aotors without,in- *1-^ tellect—and heaven kuows there are plenty of them!—rush forward without fear, full of self-relianco, while if they were intellectual they would be continually afraid that their interpretation of such and such a character was wrong, and, fearful of having made a mistake, will lose their confidence. Speaking tyroadVy^ th.«r*sforG, it la beat, that t.ho actor should not be possessed of a great intellect. Many artists are in exactly the same position. For my own part I know many sculptors and painters of roal talent, who outside their own lino are as foolish as geese."

ABOUT WOMEN.

There are now two women on tho Chicago school board Mrs. Ellen M. Mitchell and Miss Mary E. Burt.

Louise Mitchel is getting restive. She has expressed her intention of going to Russia to join tho Terrorists.

Mrs. John A. Logan says she has taught herself the use of carpenter tools until able to build a cupboard or put a shelf in the pantry.

Brigbam Young's youngest daughter has announced her intention of entering on a lecture tour shortly. Her subject will be Mormonism. ', A woman known as tho Whlto Queen owns a goodly part of the island of New Britain, in the southern Pacific Ocean. Her real name is Miss Emma Forsythe.

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Sara Orme Jewett is said to bo tho prettiest of Boston's literary women* %g, She is tbe daughter of a Maine sea captain, and is a dark-haired, graceful woman, with a Madonna-like face.

A London society paper is authority for the statement that Mrs. Henry White, wife of the First Secretary of tho United States Legation, is the chief prophetess of a new fad known as tho Society of Souls,

Mrs. John G. Curtis, of Now York, has a most remarkable orchestra made up of men, women and children from poor families. She has had them instructed by a good teacher, and now thoy play for public charity entertainments.

The full name of awoman who died in Kansas City recently was Joicy Jane Permella Ann Sarah Elizabeth Douglas Carr Gentry Ballard. She has left a great name as a legacy to posterity. She had as many names as a royal princess.

Mrs. Elizabeth Pea body, who first brought to this country from Germany the kindergarten method of teaching children, is still living in Boston. She is eighty-seven years old, but retains much of her interest in educational matters.r

Miss Winifred Sweet, of San Francisco, is one of the most noted newspaper owners of the west. Her mmt important feat was to visit the leper Island of Ifolokfof In the Hawaiian group, where no woman, excepts few sisters of mercy, had ever set foot.

The two meet promising American singers of the season in Europe are Mrs. Starkweather and Mies Elliot, a Philadelphia girl. Miss Eliot Is at present in America, bnt Mrs. Starkweather has been singing with success in grand opera 16 Italy under the curious name of Starvettft.

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