Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 November 1890 — Page 1

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THE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

La grippe baa again made its appearance in the state, bat up to date is causing no serious alarm.

The wines for tbe Tburman banquet cost tbe inviting little sum of 17,000. No wonder the event was a very enjoyable and hilarious one.

A "matrimonial bureau" with a capital of $10,000, has been incorporated at Taeoma, Wash. Boston will possibly furnish a "supply" annex.

"The World's Desire" is tbe title of the new book by H. Klder Haggard. It is announood that the subject refers in no way to II. Rider's obituary.

Thomas Eddlson claims to have discovered an electrical cure for the gout. Well, what of It. A gout cure Is rather a mild and irrelevant topic to Introduce when a consumption cure Is under consideration.

Apiece of Chicago roalty was leased the other day for a period of 9,992 years, so it Is reportod. This transaction vory inuch rosomblos what one might term a lease on time evorlasting or the inexhaustible hereafter.

It is comforting to know that financial panic In England has be6n averted, and that the money market IH again ontirely restored. Tho Barrings owe the trifling amount of $100,000,000, but what haa such a paltry sum to do with such a thing as financial security?

It is likely the authorship of the Shakespeare plays will bo a subject for discussion In tho noxt Minnesota Legislature, as Ignatius Donnoly Isa momborelect. Tho subject will probably be introduced under tbe general head of the "pork" alias "Bacon" bill.

Tho people of California are turning tholr attention to bee culture and the indications are that it will bo the greatest honey producing State of the Union in the near future. With all natural conditions favoring, why should not such ivn Industry be centered there?

After all It grows more and more apparent every day that tho only good Indian Is tho dead Indian, and It Is not to bo doubted that a strong seutlmont exists to undertake some very substantial missionary work In endeavoring to better the condition of the tribes generally.

Colonel Phil. Thompson, of Kentucky, says Cleveland will not do. "Wo want a real Democrat." Will Colonel Thompson please define what a real Democrat la? If Orovor Cleveland is not a real Democrat, then the Democratic press of the country has very considerably lost Us equilibrium.

A New York minister objects to the building of great spires on churches as utterly useless. KvlUontly he thinks the way to the hereafter should be pointed out exclusively by the divine, and no doubt he is of tho opinion that the revenue devoted to building tho steeple should go to the minister. Perhaps he is right.

It Is rumored that tho Boll telephone company will, in the near future, sell telephones outright to parties desiring. Such good news as this has not boon heard for a long time. Indeed so good is it that It Is hard to believe. The spectacle of an octopus loosening its coils is ito unusual that before this relaxation is credited it must he seen.

An illustrated placard in a public house window at Liverpool reads: "Wanted st once, one hundred women to join *|trlt club,M. and 2d. per week for twelve weeks. Rueh member will been tilled for: Sixpence per week—one pint of rum. IrUh whisky, gtn or wine. For jfonrpenee »Hr week—bstf pint of mm, whisky, (tin or wine, or half mulon of bitter beer. Twopence per week—half pint of rum or whisky,"

Hence the soliloquy: Depravity knows no hounds.

Thursday w*» day of suppoeed rest and thanksgiving, yet in two sections of the country war and bloodshed were centered. At Brooklyn, Yale and Princeton battled for foot ball laurels. In the Northwest, the ghost dancing Indians held the lives of hundreds of settlers in their hands. And of the two lews danger was feared at the latter place.

It seems Indiana Is almost able to rival Kansas in the possession of legal executive* hardly capable of writing their own (tamest Evidence of this is given in the following letter remIved by Secretary Grifttn, asking tor a Justice of peace commission. It is from tine pen of one of tbe fair dealing justices of Warrick county: "Desr »tr

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What shame bis justiceship Is trot backed by a constituency which could Mod hitn to Ann Arbor for a sixty days' course in tbe English language*

The United States National Geographical society has had surveyed and mapped out 1000 square miles of territory in Alaska, much of which has never been visited by man. This map places MFC. St. Ellas entirely within the borders of Alaska and places Its elevation at 14,000 feet, instead of 19,500 as it has been marked heretofore.

Geraldines Letter.

Mr DEAR RUTH: Gen. Booth's book "Through Darkest England," is the sensation of the day. In London the first edition was hardly printed until it was exhausted. Scribner and Welford of New York, import the complete work from Salvation headquarters, and Funk and Wagnalls print it from plates furnished from the same source. The latter firm received the plates one Saturday and tbe following Wednesday had bound copies of the book ready for sale. One copy reached Chicago last week from which extracts were printed in the Tribune, and it will doubtless be on the shelves of Chicago dealers this week. Oen. Booth compares Darkest England to Darkest Africa. He says: "The foul and fetid breath of our slums is almost as poisonous as that of the African swamps." "A population sodden with drink, stuped in vice, eaten up by every social and physical malady, those are the denizens of Darkest England amid whom my life has been spent, and to whose rescue I would now summon all that Is best in the manhood and womenhood of our land." "One of the grimmost social problems of our time should now be sternly faced, not with a view to the generation of profitless .emotion, but with a view to its solution." If we are unable to believe that this "awful slough," which engulfs tbe manhood, and womanhood of generation after generation, Is incapable of removal, If the heart and Intellect of mankind alike re volt against the fatalism of despair, then, indeed, it is time and high time, that the questions were faced In no more dilettante spirit, but with a resolute determination to make an end to tho crying scandal of our age." "What astttireltls upon our Christianity and our civilization, that the existence of these colonies of heathen and savages in the heart of lur capltal should attract so little attention I It is no better than a ghastly mockery—theologians might use a stronger word and—to call by the name of one who came to seek and to save that which was lost, those churches which, in the midst of lost multitudes, oithor sleop In apathy, or display a fitful Interest in a chasuble. Why all this apparatus of temples and meeting houses to save men from perdition in a.world which Is to come, while never a helping hand Is stretched out to save them from tho inferno of their present life? Is it not time that forgetting tholr wrang lings about the Infinitely little, or infinitely obscure, tbejr should concentrate all their energies, on a united effort to broak this terrible perpetuity of perdl tlon, and to rescue some at least, from those whom thoy profess to believe their founder came to die."

After drawing a gloomy picture of Darkest England Oen. Booth then unfolds his plans for tho cur* of these evils of poverty, crime, and disease. Ho proposes to form these people into self helping and self sustaining communities, and disciplined on the principles which have proved so etfeotive in the Salvation army. These communities for want of a better term he calls colonies. There will be the city colony, the farm colony, and the over-see colony.

The saving of men's souls by first putting them on a good footing in this world, seems to be an entirely new idea to Englishmen, and they are rather daced by it. The Prince of Wales has expressed an interest In the movement and promised his assistance. A noted church dignitary expresses his regret that the movement bad not started in his church. Very likely he will hold aloof from it because it did not. The reaching and saving of the masses is a problem upon which the church has long been at work, but which she has failed to solve. How those college girls in New York, who have gone to live in a wretched portion of the city, are carrying ont Gen. Booth's idea in a measure. They teach the women in that quarter to keep house, to cook, to sew, to make a comfortables attractive home, with small means. They don't bother tbe poor souls with dogmas, and vain speculations about the world to come, they teach first the value of this life. When a person know* how to live a good life in this world, and lives it, he need not worry about the next.

I often think about our women who have an abundant* of leisure, and of how much good they might do tight herein Darkest Tferre Haute hylater* sating themselves in the wretched botnw they can tod ao easily by going Into them, teaching the women howto li ve, how to cook, how to sew, how to make their homes attractive on the means they have. Bad cooking Is said to be one of the principal causes of intemperance among the laboring claswea.

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in. The union services were held in the Central Presbyterian church, and every seat was filled. It was the largest congregation I have ever seen at a Thanksgiving service. The festival does not have the hold upon the people of the West that it does upon the dwellers in New England. Rev. Mr. Coultas, of Centenary church, preached the sermon and all who heard it, and all who have read It, will bear me out in saying that it might furnish a model for Thanksgiving sermons. Not a superfluous word or sentence, breathing from first to last the most fervid patriotism, containing a most noble defense of the public schools, and the church, handling in a bold masterly way the dangers that threaten the republic, and dewing with an eloquent survey of our "pillars of strength" and a hopeful outlook for the future. I was expecting a good sermon for I was told in* Danville, 111., where Mr. Coultas was once stationed, that be could preach. In the congregation saw Dr. Hilary Gobin, who once occupied the chair of Greek in DePauw university. Dr. Gobin is another minister who can preach. ,,

The Mendelssohn quartette, whs are Messrs. R. L. Alder, John Taylor, Ed ward Hazeldine and James Couper, will give their first concert at the Baptist church Tuesday evening, December 2nd The mere mention of the fact should be sufficient to fill the house, for their singing is greatly admired and appreciated But there are other reasons why people should go. The quartette have been most generous with their music. They baye sung at funerals, at musicales, at lectures, at society meetings, at political meetings, at banquets, at almost every thing that has taken place in the city during tbe past two years, so that the public are largely indebted to them. This concert will furnish au opportunity for all to show their gratitude. They will be assisted by Miss Eva Alden and Miss Edith Castle., Pg«

Miss Anna Strong's luncheon on Monday and the Decorative Art society at Mrs. Demas Demlng's on Friday \vere the principal events of the week in the world of society! Miss Louise Kussner read a paper on "Recent Ideals of French Art" before the Art society.

Geral^SE.

VOTERS IN LONDON.

London's new government rests upon a franchise so popular that practically nobody who would care to vote in excluded, says the Century. In the first place, all house-holders are enfranchised, and this includes every man who rents a place for his family, even if it be only a small room in tbe garret or the cellar of a tenement house. It also includes those who live within fifteen miles of the metropolis, but own or occupy metropolitan, quarters, for any purpose, worth a certain very limited rental. Owners of freehold property in London, no matter where they live, if British subjects, are entitled to vote. Widows and unmarried women who are householders, occupiers or owners of property are also authorized to vote for County Councilors.

The principal basis of the franchise is the household: and the chief disqualifications are receipt of public alms and failure to pay rates that have fallen due. Auy resident of the metropolis or violni ty who is entitled to vote is eligible to election. Fu rth ermore, any British subject who owns land in London, or who is possessed of a limited amount of property, no matter where he lives, may be chosen a Councilor of the county of London. The fact of residence In one district does not disqualify, either in or in the popular judgement, for candidacy in another district.

CHINESE PASSPORTS. [Demorestto Family Magazine.] In China, a traveler applying for a passport is obliged to have the palm of his hand brushed over with fine oil paint, and he then presses his hand on thin, damp paper, which retains an impression of the lines. This Is to prevent transference of the passport, ss the lines of no two hands are alike. Chinese polioe also keep similar impressions of the thumbs of criminals, as the European polios keep photographs. The cunning Chinese, who claim the original discovery of all knowledge, have discovered that the impressions of no two person's thumb* are alike. The criminal In China may shave, may wear a wig, may paint himself dark or fair he may appear young stong, or old and crippled: but be eansot altar the impressions of his thumbs, which can at any time be traced on paper, and compared with the impressions always kept in safe custody by tbe Celestial detective force.

The YtgoGo. Bible Society Is now engaged in its biennial canvas of the city and county. Mr. H. L. Bonsib has charge of the work and is authorised to distribute books and collect funds. A liberal response is confidently expected. As hooks are sold at oo«t of publication and many axe gratuitously circulated, there hi constant seed for funds ts carry on the good work. Tbe object of the society Is to so distribute tbe Word of Life that there shall not he a family or Individual in the land destitute of it* The Xtepacitory is where it has been fer maiyr %***», *t Walmaley^ Carpet

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MrHE SPIRli UAL DEEP, "V Down In the soul's deep ocean. Are caves of grandeur high, Where all the strong emotions

And the mighty passions lie. •4 Never can fancy fathom !$• The depths of the sea below, & Nor mortal mind imagine .•$ The strength of the spirit's flow. s| The passionate swell forever, 1 From childhood to the grave,

Is surging back and forward, In ripples or mighty wave. Buried within that ocean,

Are thoughts and hopes long dead :-|*And far below is the watery grave, Of the passionate dreams now fled. -Though dreams disturb Its surface—

As ripples upon the sea— The soul unchanged by trifles, Shall reach its destiny. —J. I*. FBIOK.

Among Authors.

MHS BEEUHER TO WRITE REMINI8CENSBS OF fiER HUSBAND.—MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS* BOOK AND WHAT IT

WILL CONTAIN.—MRS. GRANT'S PROGRESS ON HER BOOK SLOW.

Although it has been often reported that Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was writing her"Remini8cenoes"of Mr. Beecher, the fact in the case is that she had never put her pen to paper for such a work until a month or two ago. Mrs. Beecher has now been induced by friends to undertake the work, and from the manuscript which I have seen I think the public will be given a most interesting glimpse of the renowed patriot preacher as only his wife could see or know him. The "Reminiscences" will first be published serially in one of the popular magazines under the title of "Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him." There will be a series of six papers, and these will cover the entire period from the first acquaintance, through their married life, which they started at $300 per year, until the passing away of Mr. Beecher. The pulpit orator's personal or home side will be especially dwelt upon by his widow.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis has been a visitor In New York for some time, revising the proof shoets of her "Memoirs" of her late fci^tfc^nd. $he has been seen but little in loclety, although Mr. Joseph PulltJser and a few others have given some dinners in her honor. Her book, soon to be published, will contain amass of new information rfbout her husband's personal characteristics and his connection with the Confederate uprising. Mrs. Davis-makes no claim to literary finesse, but I am told by tbe whose see the manuscript ,of the book that she has strung together an extremely entertaining narrative. One of the interesting features ot the book will be a chapter of private letters which she received from her busban|l when he was leading the force against the Union. It is expected that the book will proyoke a great deal of criticism. When her duties in connection with the publication of tbe book are Concluded Mrs. Davla will go to Mexico far tbe winter with her daugher, Miss Wltfaie Davis.

Mis. Ulysses S. Grant is making but little or no progress with her book. Her eyes are weak, but not failing her, as the report goes. Whenever she has time she writes a page or two, but progress is very slow. From present appearances the book will be hardly on tbe market bofore the spring. I have seen one or two chapters of this work, and can state that while there is no evidence of literary skill or finish displayed there is a candidness and freshness about it all that the Ameri»n people like and will accept with Interest.

I know a editor who Is at tbe head of popular periodical wbicb, from its peculiar character, invites snd receives probably more manuscript in a single year than such magazines as the Century, Scribner's or parper's. This year he has already exhausted 2,000 entries, and the third is already halffllled In other words he has redeved in ten months more than 5,000 manuscripts. I had the curiosity to look into the figures last week which this enormous deluge of manuscript told, and they were interesting. There had been received, for example, a trifle more than 600 short stories, only 11 of these had been accepted, less than 2 percent! Of over 1,500 poems, a few over 30 had been accepted-—a little better than 2 per oent., and yet every manuscript had been carefully reed, and the position of the magazine is such that it Is in away of getting much good m* teriaL

I asked thill editor die secret of such a small percentage of accepted manuscripts and be said: "It may be all summoned up in the single statement, which every editor knows to be true, that there la an enumerons quantity of otter trash being written, which should never go into opetr market. People are writing who have no business with a pen In their bends, tor they don't know what to do with 1L These literary misfits' aMdni«glDg the wsgwrtne offices and abaoifctag the time of the 'renders/

Ir manuscripts mast be reed, for yoa never knew etas yoa may find gold. Sehodi girls by the drovssars hsndling

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the pen, utterly insensible of its purpose. Women who cannot spell even the names of their own towns correctly want their say in print. Of course they never get it, but they use up the time of the clerical force, all the same. Figures such aa these, or any similar ones, should not be discouraging to young writers who are really in earnest and endeavoring conscientiously to reach a standard. They do not by any means ring the death-knell ot honest literary endeavor or have the slightest bearing upon the earnest young writer."

"I suppose you meet some queer customers V' I recently asked of a bright salesman is one of the large New York book stores, and his answer was interesting. "Indeed we do," he joined, "and my experience alone would fill a book of fun. It was only the other day that a man rushed In here In adriping perspiration, and with an intense, strained expression on his face—an expression that gave away to one of despair as he exclaimed,'There I knew it. My wife told me to get a book. My memory is poor, but I thought I could remember the title. About half way hero I felt it slipping so I hurried fast, but it is no use. It*8 gone,' and all I could do for him wouldn't bring it back.

The average intelligent reader is a nice costumer to handle. He knows what he wants and you have only to show him the latest in his line. But many buyers are crabbed and fussy, very positiye in their ignorance and altogether disagreeable. The worst oustomer, however, is the one, who thinks a bookstore is a free library. There is such a one who has beeu in the habit of coming here for a good while past, seating himself for hours at a time and reading our books through without buyinganything. Now I hold that when a«tnan has read a book through he has got the value of it and ought to pay. I stood this fellow as long as I could, but the other day, when he coolly took down an English book with uncut leaves and began to cut it, I stepped up and said: "Please do not cut those leaves. The book would pass for second-haud if you do that." Well, tbe fellow actually had the assurance to get angry and went off to report the matter to my employer It was the

satisfaction, as he found out when be made his complaint.

An annoying book store oustomer," continued my book-clerk friend, is the one who tries to get out of purchasing a book by saying: "Now if you only bad this in such and such a style I would buy it,' mentioning a style which he was sure we didn't have. Not long ago I caught one of tbe customers badly, for it so-happened in his case that I had the very style that he was so particular about having concealed in my desK I said nothing about it till I bad cornered him by getting him to say if we only had that style he would take it in a minute. Then I brought it out, and his consternation was quite evident and very amusing. He couldn't very well getout of the fix, so he bought the book, but he never forgave me and always goes to somo other salesman now. "I have a curious oustomer, a wealthy man, who has bought a lot of handsome books of me, choosing them entirely by their bindings iaas to match in color his furniture and carpets, and regardless of their contents. "Yes, there are many queer customers, and we have exasperating experiences, but it is an interesting life, and an educating and refining line of business. One imbibes valuable information almost unconciously, and five years of salesmanship form quite a liberal education." E»WAUJ» BOK.

WOMEN.

HE THINKS WELL OF {New York Htar.] In a recent symposium on woman, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll was asked to contribute his views. He replied as follows: "It takes a hundred men to make an encampment, but one woman can make a home. 1 not only admire woman as the most beautiful object ever created, bnt I reverence heres tbe redeeming glory of humanity, the sanctuary of all tbe virtues, the pledge of all perfect qualities of heart and bead. It is not just or right to lay the sins of men at the feet of women. It if because women are so much bettor than men that their fault* are considered greater.

Tbe one thing In this world that Is constant, the on* peak that rises above all clouds, the one window in which tbe light forever burns, the one star that darkness cannot queoeh Is woman's love. It rises to tbe greatest height*, It sinks to tbe lowest depth*, It forgives the most cruel injuries. It to pefWtlttisi of life, and grows in evwy climate* Neither coldness nor neglect, harshness nor cruelty, can extinguish it. A woman's love Is the perfume of the heart. This is tbe real love that subdues the earth the love that ha* wrought all miracles of art that gives us music all the way from the cradle song to the grand closing t&wvtoo&j that bear* the •onl away on wings of fire. A love that is greater than power, sweater than life snd

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ABOUT WOMEN.

Lady Londonderry has given up her projected visit to America. Jean Ingelow lives in retirement with her mother in Kensington, England.

Kate Field has made the discovery that American women spend $62,000,000 a year for oosmetics.

The Working-Girls' Clubs are to have an organ called "Far and Near," and Miss Maria Bowen Chapin is to be the editor.

Miss Elinor Buckingham, a Senior .of Harvard Annex, has been appointed an instructor in the Royal Normal College for the Blind, at London, England.

Lady Randolph Churchill is so good a musician and so clever au artist that she deolares herself able to earn her own living by teaching either music or painting.

Ella G. Shields, of Wichita, Kansas, is engaged in collecting statistics concerning silkworms and silk culture in Kansas, which has never before been attempted.

Mrs. John Davis, the only survivor of the Woman's Auti-Slayery Board of Massachusetts, which existed from 1833 to 1840, celebrated her ninetieth birthday anniversary recently at Dedham, Mass.

Mrs. Jeannette Miller, an Irish lady ot good family and BOcial position, a graduate of the Westminister cooking-school, goes out to private houses in London and the vicinity to prepare company breakfasts, lunoheons and dinners.

Lady Brooke, who was as Miss Maynard known as one of tho greatest of English heiresses, has perfected a scheme for teaching sowing to tho children in her district, which would bear inspection from other intending philanthropists.

Mme. Mauclni, of Harve, Franco, is the largest dealer In wild animals In the world. She has almost a rival In Frau Harzenbeok, of Hamburg, and in Now York, Miss Dulfy buys and sells elephants, bears and llous, with discrimination, and consequent profit to herself.

The A. A. W. (Association for tho Advancement of Women) recently held its eighteenth annual convention in Toronto, Canada, the first Unto tho congress bas baan.hald*.orit side of.Jhe«JJnitod •*. States. Mrs, Julia Ward Howe was' elected President for the tenth consecutive year.

Mrs. Benjamin Harrison has been elected President-general of tho recently organized society known as "The Daughters of the American Revolution." The purpose of the society is to secure and preserve the historical spots of America, and to erect thereon suitable monuments to perpetuate the memories of tbe horoio deeds of men and women who aldod the Revolution and created constitutional government in America. The eligibility oiauso requires applicants to trace tholr descent through the soldiers or statesmen of tbe Revolution to the mother. Tbe seal adopted bears a female figure in the dress of 70, at the spinning-wheel and at tbe same time rocking the cradle, with the motto, "The hand that rocks tbe cradle rules tbe world."

DOM PEDRO.

A Berlin paper relates this story by way of illustrating the kindheartedness of Dom Pedro: Some years ago a woman in Berlin was deserted by her husband. A few months later she received a letter and some money from him, but these missives soon ceased at id tbe woman was left in the greatest poverty. When Dom Pedro was in Berlin, she begged for an audience and told him her story. He promised to do all he could on his return to Brazil. Some time elapsed and the womsn thought the Emperor bad forgotten her, when one day a letter arrived from her husbsnd inclosing money for her to come to jirazil. He related that a high official bad one day called on him and told him that the Emperor wished to see him tbe next day and at their meeting Dom Pedro made him promise to send for her.

PA SIS LIFE (Exchange.)

It is said a man may enjoy himself In direct proportion to bis wickedness. Tbe wonderful stir and tbe cracking of whips by drivers in the street, is the first thing that strikes a stranger in Paris.

The Perasians area people who eminently enjoy their city. They are not alone proud of It in an abstract way. They go to tbe parks and Into tbe museums, and above all they sit upon tbe sldewslk In front o/ tbe cafes watching life. Paris Is a town where It should never rain, so grsatly addicted are its folk* to tbe open air.

Hbte eecentmiUes in mourning there are also amazing. Imagine handkerchiefs of point lace, sold at 200 ftancs each, wherein are butterflies of black thread in the design. Or, again, a mourncloak for an infant with weeping willow garlands wrought In black silk upon the blue-white cashmere. Only a people who find a mournful pleasure In decorating the graves of friends with hideous wreaths of heeds and tin flowers would he capable of things of this sort*