Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 January 1891 — Page 1

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Vol. 21.-No. 32.

THE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Sam Small is to begin a crusade in New York. He thinks there is hope for the 400. __

Milwaukee manufactured last year 111,700,000 worth ot beer and #11,000,000 of provisions. Trade in the latter must be picking up.

Senatorial deadlocks have been the popular thing this year, and that indulged in by Illinois has been one of the most interesting.

Has Gov. Hill been effectively disposed of by his election to the Senate? Grover Cleveland vnmy think so, but the chances are that he does not.

Choaa has reigned so long in Congress that people no longer read the Congressional reports expecting other than a detailed account by rounds, of a prize fight on a large scale.

Senator Ingalls was finally suppressed and a newspaper man is to become his successor in the Senate. The editor is a "dark horse," which even the greatest of men stand in fear of.

It is said that Edward Bellamy will start a weekly NatlanHlist newspaper in Boston to bo called The Now Nation. Mr, Bellamy Hoem.s to

"With

have

faith in his

ideas, whether others do or not.

A Humane bureau has boon established at Kansas 'if.y to prevent that shipping of hoy and cattle in the same cars, result,3Ji in many of the animals being maimed or killed. Several shippers have been fined for their cruel economy. Civilization is advancing in Kansas City.

This question

was put to Mr. Stanley:

all your experience, do you con

sider thai the eflorls of foreign missionaries really have proven a success?" His answer was: "'Yes, sir, most emphatically. I am perfectly convinced of the fact that the work of missionaries is successful." Then lot the cause be encouraged.

Australia h\?b U»t bo*i. orram on, the best t,b« ben: pu^liats

cricketers of the day. The pugilistic honors wo are not particularly desirous of contending for, but champion hips in the other directions wo want and want them badly. They belong in America and we must ha'*e tin

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Davitt, the noted Irishman, is not, ashamed of his mother, though she was a beggar. This is how lie spoke of her in a speech at Manchester: "I am of humble and obscure origin, the son of an Irish peasant who was refused the shelter of an Irish workhouse, the son of an Irish mother who had to beg through the streets of London for broad forme."

While Indiana is enjoying the most blissful winter weather, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Now Jersey are experiencing the trials of the worst blizzard known in many years. Business all irs there are just beginning to crawl out from under the drifi. llere trade li.is t'• a'»sih tely unrestricted by the weather :tiul •duess men

splendid

month.

havo had .1

"A net ion parti tie the newest fad. The t.S\ any HIUWU

article* of bric-a-

hrae. linn-lions, etc., u.e put up at auction,

lie

paid for

est

in beans, with which

the guest* are provided. The most important thing is to secure a clever auctioneer. The idea! man for this duty must be well acquainted with the whole company, and be able to touch upon the personal traijs of those present, and yet do it

kindly as not to give the slight

otlense. It is great fun if woii managed. Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has a member who is in prison for fifteen years for forgery. He wrote to the pastor, confessing his crime, expressing repentance, and his willingness to undergo the penalty. The pastor placed the letter before the Church, and it was resolved that his name be kept on the roll, llow mauy "orthodox" congregations will throw up their hands iu holy horror of such a thing. Vet it is just that kind of Christianity that will convert the world. There should tie more of it.

The Indianapolis News says: "The best thing Indiana people can dots to drop polities for fifteen months." Why not for fifteen years? Why not abandon politics for ever and resort to a rule of good judgement, reason and economy? If politics continue to predominate, or at least that kind of politics which has ohantotemed the last two legislatures, the next generations will have a tin anrial mortgage on the State to pay otfj «K]ual So the debts of the Sultan

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not a glorious opportunity offered for the churches to emulate the example thus presented and throw wide open doors to attractive rooms which could be established in them? Why not fight die saloons on their own basis, advancing attraction for attractioa, eharm for charm? Christianity is not the religion of Christ if It is held aloof from the masses.

At 8 o'clock Tuesday morning ground was broken on the Lake -Front site for the first World's Fair building, an edifice destined to be historical. The structure will be used as an administrative building during the construction of all the rest. The building will be brick, and is to cost $10,000. It will contain about ten rooms, including an office for the cheif of construction, a room for t?.e grounds and buildings committee, a room for photographers who come from outside cities to photogragh the site, and a press room.

A Bystander's Opinion.

Patrons of the old gas company are beginning to seriously regret that there

was

any reduction made in the price of gas, simply because the illuminant now being furnished is the most miserable excuse for light that could be imagined. The deterioration in quality during the last month has been unprecedented. Especially are north end patrons complaining, for there, the pressure as well as the quality is deficient. Many persons who once used a single jet for lighting a room are now unable to get along with two, and the pulsations make the flames so variable as to render reading by them out of the question. The jets occasionally go down so tow that the room very suddenly becomes appreciably dark. The cause for such unsatisfactory service, the gas company should come forward and explain. As one irato consumer took occasion to say yesterday: "If this is the kind of gas'we are to hare for 35 cents a. thousand, then for mercy's sake, lets go back to the §2.00 variety. Yes, $3.00 or §4 00 if 'necessary. If not, then I shall buy candle-sticks and live over the days of ray youth!"

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What a difference it makes having the court- house clock illuminated at night 1 AVoid hitherto most noticeable on dark lights bag been overcame, and now the

worker on his homeward journey. It is a comfort and a satisfaction to glance upward and see the hour hand's warning that midnight is approaching, and since the expense of the luxury is but 17 cents nightly—a mere pittance—it is to be hoped the lighting will be permanently continued.

It would bo difficult to estimate the number of Terro Haute men who are living double lives—lives of uprightness so far as gonoral appoarances go but lives of debauchery in reality. It would bo a serious undertaking also to name these Dr. Jeckyls and Mr. Ilydes, for, as in tho harvest of death, neither aristocrat nor pauper would be spared. All classes of society would suffer by the exposure, and the result would be much pain and sorrow to devoted wives, sisters and mothers. And yet, 'strange as it would seem, the same individuals who expect others\o guard the secretof their dual living, frequently become so reckless as 'o expose it themselves. For instance men who went to Cincinnati on the recent cheap excursion arc now boasting how and where they met Kthe) Towne, and are so parading the experience that the daily papers arc getting hold of much evidence which should not be published. Yes, evidence that should not be published, for It is of such a character that a respectable father would not allow a paper containing it. to

come

off

Turkey. The Chicago public library, not posed to surrender the whole field to thej .saloons, is opening new reading rooms: in the different sections of the city, Isj

within his home. This is why

one mother burned tier copy of a daily, the disgraceful frankness with which the Ethel Towne news was handled being more than she cared for her children to see. Her wrath would have served tho other dailies in the same manner had they been at hand, for all treated the subject with equal frankness. It is surprising that such stuff should be published when there is a surplus of good news

command. In most com

munities houses of Ill-repute and the characters that frequent them are topics stringently avoided whenever possible, and it certainly seems that such should also be the case here. The Terre Haate reading public is hot depraved. It is therefore

not

necessary to devote column

after column to lewd characters and their doings. There are details upon details that could undoubtedly be pub lished, but all newspaper reader* here are not of that variety which craves Police Gazette literature.

Do Terre Haute mothers love their sons and do they miss them when life's journey has taken them to other cities for employment? Ask one mother of the north end this question, and with tears in her eyes trill she tell you that they do. no year ago her youngest hoy left for the oast, there to take a position with a large manufacturing company. Not a day has passed since then

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that she has not thought of him from morning till night. His place at the table is carefully preserved at each meal and should he unexpectedly arrive he would find a warm meal and warmer welcome waiting for him. Can such devotion as this exist in any but a mother's heart, and can a son so dearly loved be other than a noble man? Boys do not know how necessary they are to a home life until they receive a mother's farewell. Then they appreciate how completely another's life is twined with their own, and every manly trait, even those hidden behind a year or two of forgetfulness, comes forward to make it easier to meet the struggles that life in a strange city will present.

I* isn't often that opportunity is of fered women of geing to an entertain ment fiom which* men are vigorously, excluded. Consequently Mrs. Dr. Potts lecture the other afternoon was very largely attended, and it was with a peculiar sense of satisfaction that the ladies took their seats But the men evened the balanee Dy monopolizing things at Naylors for the Rentz-Santley burlesque performance. Never was there a more exclusively masculine audience assembled in the opera house. In accordance it was noted that the spectacle was almost without precedence, the men of the town at the opera house, the women at the Presbyterian church. There was one great difference in the character of the attractions, to one men were not admitted, to the other women were admitted, but none cared to go.

The grand jury is making an effort to investiga'e violations of the saloon statutes and to this end is examining a host of persons supposed to be more or less familiar with the subject. cess it is having remains to be seen, but if one-third of tho men who havo been examined would tell one-third of vfpat they know beyond question there would be the most wholesale returning of in dictrnents against saloon men the ecu a-

good chance that something will be ac complished and hopes of this are enfor-

tained. At least let it

than. mere, routine, such as an

tion of the jail and poor farm with ttljef stereotyped report that "everyLLinjg was found in good condition, bettj^firfe-prcf^

need el improvement there."

Judge Taylor is expected to render his decision on the validity of the King ordinance to-day. It is needless to say that the judge's opinion is awaited with considerable interest. What if ho should decide for the city? Would that mean an enforcement or would the police accept the measure morely as an ordinance not. in operation until sevoral resolutions for its enforcement have been passed? In view of the large number of ordinances never enforced, one is sometimes led to wonder why the needless expense of passing others is incurred. It is extravagance to pile up printing bills, etc., when the real necessity for the measure would not exist wore laws 011 record put to practical use.

HOW TO GET THE MOST GOOD OUT OF BOOKS. [St. Nicholas.!

You should treat a book as you would a person with whom you are talking for information that is, question it, read it over and turn back and try to get at the meaning if the book itself does not answer the questions you raise, go to some other book, ask a dictionary or encyclopedia for an explanation. And if the book treated iu this way does not teach you anything or does not inspire you, it is of

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TERRE HAUTE, IND:, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31,1891.

ty has ever known. Sucb a culmination beautiful china to admire, eourse is not at all likely, but there is a vo-y

more service to you than

the conversation of a dull, ignorant person. I just used the word "inspire." You do not read all books for facte or for information merely, but to be inspired, have your thoughts lifted up to noble ideas, to have your sympathies touched, your ambition awakened to do some worthy or great thing, to become a man or a woman of character and consideration in the world. You read the story of a fine action or a heroic character—the death of Socrates, or the voyage of Columbus, or the sacrifice of Nathan Hale, or such a poem as "The Lady of the Lake" —not for information only, bat to create in you a higher Ideal o! life, and to give you sympatay with your fallows aud with purposes. You cannot begin too young to have these ideals and these purposes, and therefore the best literature in all the world is the best for you to begin with. And you will find it the most Interesting.

NEW FOB THE BLUE RIBBON, [Home Journal.] The proposition to attach a knot of blue ribbon to invitations to dinners at which wine will not be served has led to much discussion and com meat in town. Undoubtedly there are many families whose convenience will be greatly promoted at times by having litis pretty little device at their command to indicate to their friends what to expect at dinner. 1 England the blue ribbon has already been used in certain ways socially with great success.

Geraldine's Letter. IT

"MY DEAR RUTH: The working girls of New York, who held a convention last year in the Metropolitan Opera house, are going to have a "social reunion" this year in the Madison Square garden, with dancing and a supper of ice eream and cake. Only square dances a$e to be allowed as some of the clubs are very strict on the subject of danoing. The peculiar feature of it is, that there be no men present except the mutilans. It is estimated there will be orer a thousand girls on .the floor and e$oh girl has four invitations to give so there will be between four and five thousand in the boxes. Miss Grace Dodge will take an active part in the ,Of anion as will Miss Maria Boness Cha

Miss Iselin, the Misses Potter, Miss Florence Lock wood and other young tables well known in New York society. Itfs only nine years ago that the first working girl's club was established. Tc*day every large city has one or more of these clubs, while the total membership is about 60,000.

Mrs. Crawford Fairbanks gave a very elpSjant luncheon Wednesday afternoon o'clock. The Fairbanks house is olSWpf the handsomest in the city, and otfpiis occasion it was very beautiful, little alcove in the parlor was litercarpeted with flowers, the whole s|p& being filled with pink and white pr%iroses. It was a very pretty conceit, aui-something new in the way of decoratf* uining room is one of tbe prettiest v|! is-over in. It is finished in quartered the side board, buffet and table are al||of the oak, the carpet and draperies cf»|pa\.the same tone. In the center of

What sue- tjjQable stood a large Royal Worcester j||lwhieh was filled with superb AmericS^Beauty roses, whose perfume filled room. The gas was lighted, and '/jfmass of deep red ia contrast with tftjjjftight color of the dining room made |||j»8t pleasing effect, Then there was

*ur3e

j$!^« The souvenirs were cards about

inches by four, and on each a

Sy^'itiou, iu tho most exquisite illumletters, such as one sees on old

idin the left band corner. The quota tions were well chosen, "They say the best council is that of a woman," "Welcome! It is God who sends the guest," "A woman whose system is not art— but love, is infallible," "To me there is none like you, but yourself," "Women are by nature far more heroic than heroes," "Nothing is always beautiful but that which is always good," "The duty to be noble takes precedence of the right to be happy," "Every thing that is fine is lit," "We meet thee like a pleasant thought when such are wanted," "To be understood is to be twice ones self," "The ornamonts of a home are the friends who frequent it," "An hundred men make an encampment and one woman makes a home."

Mrs. Fairbanks' guests were Mrs. W. R. McKeen, Mrs. Mary V. Hudson, Mrs. Charles M. Warren, Miss Mary Thompson, Mrs. D. W. Henry, Mrs. E. H. Bindley, Mrs. Nelson Isham, Mrs. Sophie Wheeler, Mrs. Frank Crawford, Mrs. A. J. Crawford and Mrs. Haberly.

The Parlor concert at Mrs. A. J. Crawford's Wednesday evening was a success all around. Mrs. Crawford's large drawing room was seated with foldingchairs, and there must have been a hundred people in it. The programme was a delightful oue. Mis* Emily Allen, who came from Peoria to assist at this concert, had the first number, the Chopin Military Polonaise. Centeuarv Quartette, who are Mr. and Mrs. Dan Davis, Mrs. John R. linger and Gabe Davis, sang "O Lovely Night." Miss Edith Castle sang "My Lady's Bower." Miss Castle has a beautiful voice, her low notes being especially fipe, and each time she is heard, she shows the results of the careful training she is receiving from Prof. Kilbourne. She scored the first encore, which was James Whitcomb Riley's "Hush, Little Girl, Don't Cry." The playing of the B. G. M. club was a surprise. They play well and the Gavotte composed by John Hager was one of their most pleasing numbers. The instrumental quartette, "Sound of the Harp," played by Miss Hyde, Miss Davis, Mr. Hager and Mr. Gagg, was yery pretty.

Mr. Harry Graham was unavoidably detained and the trio "O Memory" was substituted. This was well sung by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Davis and Mrs. Hager. The duett, "O that we two were Maying," by Miss Kellar and Mr. Ban Davis, was one of the most artistic numbers in the programme. It was beautifully rendered. Miss Allen played the. Chopin Fantasie Impromptu in sharp minor, and the Chopin Valse In E minor almost faultlessly. Miss Allen is what might be called a poetic player. She was called back, and played an exquisite little Scotch ballad. Mrs. Charles Hamill'a singing was another surprise She has a mezzo soprano voice of pleas ing quality, a good method, and will

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came on, and every time a

dip|w?6t set of plates, and all so beauti•w5r\

JPretty

china is something for

aU women

examin*

have a distinct par-

make a valuable addition to the musical taleat of the city. She received an encore and replied with "In Fair Madrid." Miss Cora O'Boyle's whistling solo brought out another enthusiastic encore. She whistles better than anybody I ever heard, and she does look so pretty.

The last number by Centenary Quartette, "Sad is the Hour of Parting," was beautifully rendered. Mr. Dan Davis had a solo which he sang in his best style, and a duett with Mrs. Hager which was exquisite, their voices blend so perfectly. We lose much by not hearing Mrs. Hager oftener.

The whole success ot the concert is due te Mrs. Dan Davis, who planned and managed it. The proceeds go to the Centenary church. GERALDINE.

THREE PAIR OF SHOES. [Detroit Free Press.] There they are in a neat little row under the mantel in the children's bedroom, a pair of twelves, a pair of nines and a ,tiny pair of fives belonging to the baby.

They are all more or less wrinkled and worn and the pair of twelves have holes in the toes which caused me to say a little while ago to the sturdy wearer of them that there was "no sense in his kicking out shoes like that," and if he were not more careful he would just have to go barefooted.

He heard me with the utmost indifference as I know from the fact that the threat was hardly out of my mouth when he asked me if I knew whose little boy ho would have been if I had never been born. "You might have been the little boy of some papa who couldn't have bought you any shoes at. all," I said reproachfully. "Oh, well," ho says, calmly, in tho fullness and beauty of his childish faith, "God has millions and trillions of shoes and I could just ask Him for a pair whenever I wanted thenu .Don't you see, papa?"

Three pairs of shoes!. Three pairs of tender little feet upon the untried border of life's mysterious land

I ait and look at the ni.nu shoes wondering where the feet that wear them will be led in the time to come, the little feet that

Through long years.

Must

wander on'amid hopes and fears." How much I 'would irive to know the future that I might stand between them and the temptations so sure to assail "T might f,ufdv aright, that I might, ahiuid them from pain and sorrow if I could.

There is something strangely appealing and half pathetic to every loving father and mother in the sight of a row of little shoes like those I see before me now. They arouse the tendereat instincts of one's nature. I don't know why.

The wearers of the little shoes may hare been very fretful or mischievous or trying all day.

You may have been "all out of patience" with them. You may have whipped a little or put the rebellious little ones to bed, declaring that they were "worrying the life out of you," but they are not "worrying" you any now, and you go about picking up a little stocking here and a little skirt there with nothing but tenderness in your heart toward them.

You think only of how precious the wearers of the little clothes are, and there is no melody on earth one half so sweet to you as the music of tne baby when they knelt around you a littlo while ago saying "God bless mamma and papa and keep us all safely through the night." You will hear no sweeter music than that this side of Paradise.

You reproach yourself for your lack of tenderness and patience as you look at that little row of shoes, and sometimes you fail to thinking of tho unutterable sorrow that would fill your heart to breaking if the wearer of any one pair of the little shoes would wear them no more—if you bhould awaken some morning, as heartbroken fathers and mothers havo sometimes awakened, and find that the wearer of one pair of the little shoes had gone from you in the night to wear the garments that wax not old.

Three

pairs of little shoes! There are

tears in your eyes as you look at them now, and perhaps you steal softly to the beside of the little sleepers to make sure that they are sleeping sweetly and safely and to touch their little handsor their cool, moist brows with your lips, your heart filled with tender memories, with hopes and fears, with unspoken prayers.

Th*-ee paiis of little shoes! Three little pilgrims setting out on the voyage of life, their frail barks

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and was descended

yet untouched

and unharmed by adverse winds and waves. God bring them all to port!

The suicide of the late Msne. Benderoff, a society woman of St, Petersburg, is one of peculiar and pathetic interest. The unfortunate woman, finding herself the victim of an Incurable disease, determined that her husband should not be burdened with an invalid wife, and, dressing herself in her bridal robes, put a bullet through her heart.

Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph: A •mall boy is notnecesearlly^impecunious because he la strapped.

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Twenty-first Year

Two Prominent Women.

Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of Gen. Logan, lives in Washington and occupies her time, when not engaged in social duties, in editing the Home Magazine, a very attractive illustrated monthly, for which she is writing a series of extremely interesting remiuiscences. These are connected with her early pioneer life when she was Mary C. Cunningham, daughter of the Sherifl of Boone county, Mo., and after her school days were over, private seoretary to her father. Miss Cunningham was educated at St. Yincent Academy, Kentucky. She was early accustomed to the hardships of pioneer life, as well as to its peouliar advantages, and when she had finished her studies, was a tine type of fearless, selfreliant young womanhood.

She assisted her father in the duties of his office. Mr. Cunningham was a land register, and his daughter established a system of blanks for office use, which in those primitive days was of great service.

In 1855 Miss Cunningham was married to young Logan, who waa then prosecuting attorney for the third district, and a rising lawyer and politician. Mrs. Logan was of great assistance to her husband both in bis military and political career, and in alLtlie crises of his life. Always quick to see and appreciate a favorable move in politics, her wifely ambition led herto urge "John" to take advantago of it.

There are few women in the country as well acquainted with national politics as Mrs. Logan is to-day, and her reminiscences of the political campaigns preceding and following the civil war, must be full of interest.

Mrs. Logan is a striking figure in an assembly. Hor white hair is worn pompadour and forms an attractive contrast to her dark e5rcs and brunette complexion. She lives in the home purchased by Gen. Logan, at Washington. The hall is a museum of military curios gathered by him,during his lifo-tinie. Mrs. Logan's Lime is principally devoted to literary work.

Mrs. Burton Harrison, tho author of "The .Anglomaniacs," is a Virgltyan of ancient lineage. Through both her father (Archibald Cary) and her mother(Monimi Fairfax) she came by inheritance to a love of literature and as early and ready use of her pen. Her father

presi

dent of William and Mary College, who may be called the father of letters in tho colony his mother was educated by the sage of Monticello iu his old age, and herself made contributions to the literature of the day and for generations after the migration to America the Carys had continued to receivo the best of opportunities, not only in Virginia but in England, for her liberal culture.

Miss Constance Cary grew up at Vaucluse, a home of the Fairfaxes in the county that bears the family name, and there found not only the English and French classics, but many an old book of the eighteenth century now forgotten or to bo discovered only in great public libraries. She poured over these treasures whenever a window seat or a quiet nook allowed escape from things which distract even in the daily life of a sequestered country house. Growing up in such an atmosphere, with traditions of older homes of her people, and of the patrician order they had illustrated before caste bad altogether ceased to influence the society she was burn into, her mind was stored %vith tho incidents she has described in tho pen pictures she has drawn of daily life at Mount Vernon, Belvoir and Tawlston in tho generation after 1750, and of tho stately men who then dwelt orasscmbled there.

She was still in a happy young girlhood of such surroundings when the war overtook us, and Fairfax county was occupied by armies confronting each qther Vaucluse was necessarily abandoned after ladies of the household had hastily buried the family silver in a cellar, and the old house was soon razed to the ground to become the site of a fort in the defenses of Washington—bricks and debris filling the cellars and furnishing a secure covering for precious candlesticksj spoons, forks, salvers, coasters and like relics of the reign of good Queen Anne, until they could be dug out four years afterwards. Miss Cary was with her mother and aunt at Bristow Station in the rear of tho confederate army when booming guns and rattling musketry informed her of the varying fortunes of the fight at Manassas —her brother and many a kinsman in the fray and until four long years were gone she was familiar with sucb things as she tells in "Crow's Nest," a reminiscence of campaigns of arms and anguish, and of romance, too. As soon as possible after the war was ended she went with her mother to Europe, and saw the Tulleries and the empire in all the glitter of the culmination of the third Napoleon's reign, returning to be married and to live thenceforth in New York,— [The Book Buyer.

Pittsburg Dispatch: "The ghost dauco has been transformed Into a rifle ball." This is a little late but nevertheless quite choice.