Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 February 1891 — Page 1

Vol. 21.--No. 33.

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The ground ho^ saw bis shadow Monday. iienee six more weeks of—well call it winter, if you will.

The new American navy Ik rapidly becoming the pride of our n&tion. We know now th»t wo can tigbfcif itbecomes necesHiiry.

The summer girl is again proven to stand little chance in tbe matrimonial market. In Summer county, Kansas, not a xingle marriage license was issued during all of last year.

It is now Maid to be very improper to speak of un American heiress as "a peerless bsautv." Such a description in considered as reflection cither upon her fortune or upon the taste of the peer, both of which are nodal sins of tbe first magnitude.

The air ship, or the balloon part of it, will no up and permit itself to be guided in an enclosed building. Now let Mr. Pennington hurry things and demonstrate that it will carry its passenger car and its own propelling power, and also work in the open air where air current* will make smooth sailing a difficult thing. .Senator Fryo is in receipt of a petition requesting that a law bo enacted compelling the United States Treasury to receive potatoes that may bo offered by citizens, and issue eertificrttes of deposit for the same at the rate of one dollwr for each sixty pounds so deposited, Maid certificates

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The boycott against the World's Fair has, it seems, at last aroused the New York paper* to a realization of the duty they owe the project. The Herald, in an editor^' condemning tho action o^f the various boycotting Legislatures, says: "What we want now is to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Chicago people and make as fine AU exhibit as tho circumstances will allow."

Turkish soldiers are said to b® very poor marksmen. Uecent target contests in the Turkish army "demonstrated" that not one soldier in 20could hita man at 'JO paces. A target about four feet in diameter, placed rods away, was hit mi itn average only once out of HO shots. Hut then this is «n a scale of excellence commensurate with everything in Turkey, so that no surprise need be occasioned by it. ______

Senator Sherman declares the financial ami currency system of the United States to bp the best in the world "This" he says, "is also the opinion of many financiers I have spoken with in Kurope, and a good many nations have taken example from oursytem."' But notwithstanding, financial legislation Is a blj: bone of contention in,every congress just as regular as day and niglU.

Two women have lately patented invensions that ought to be worth something. One is a combined waist and skirl by Camille Caen, of New York. If this is a Muvewful device those who know the bother of putting on basque and skirt times a year will appreciate it. The other promising invention is by Klixabeth Sthreshly, of Austin, Tex., and is a typewriting machine for the blind. The women are developing there's no denying it.

It is proposed in Paris to do away, so far as possible, with the lunatic asylums, and to place insane persons who are not prone to violence in the houses of country people, who wiU be suitably remunerated by the

Slate. Such a humane

system would never be tolerated in the United States, for here the average politician has no higher ambition than

politician has no higher ambition than

every trait from him, promising rewards to lh«N politician* and insane, blind and deaf mate ssylmns are the rewards.

Continent—such a measure as will concede free coinage to all American silver. This will include the South American Republics, with which he is now trying for enlarged trade. Should it prevail it would put the entire American Continent upon a uniform unit of value as to silver. Foreign countries discriminating would operate to drive'oll the trade of the South American Republics which they now largely control. The idea is characteristic of the man.

Piof. V. B. Buchanan predicts that betwoon 1910 and 1916 America will be devastated by a most fearful war, "a labor and capital war and a black and white war, in which the church will be shattered «nd the marriage relation approximated to freedom." The Atlantic coast of the United States will be devas tated bp a tidal wave, New York and New Jfel-sfey being the chief suflerers All the cities not mora than fifty feet above the sea level are doomed to de strnction, and in the midst of it all there will be an earthquake which will belittle all previous geological convulsions The professor evidently believes that wholesale prediction pleases the public much more thai* retail and undertook to give a big installment at one sitting.

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bo legal tonder. Does this

come from an Allianco man?

An exchange very appropriately says: "The Indian question is justlikoa game of ball, in that, the fellows In the grandstand, who probably never caught a ily in their lives without the "assistance of a butter plate, know more how the thing is done, or ought to be done, than those who have given the matter proper study." This Is undoubtedly true.

A marked departure from the prevailing, of dftUy pleasing one it may bo noted-—is that of the New York Continent, the successor of the Star. It is much reduced in six© of.page though otherwise enlarged, and has all its matter presented in a new form. It is a good paper, and the result of the experiment will consequently be watched with interest.

Bystander's Opinion

There are more ways than one of de feating justice, which is another way of saying that" it is not a difficult thing to evade the law. No class of men recog niza this more fully than the liquor dealers. For instance they consider it mere child's play to prevent the enforce mentof tho.ll o'clock and Sunday clos ing laws. In the first place they are so many in numbers that they are able to wield a power in not only the political affairs of the city and county, but the business interests as well. This power they use to the full advantage by threatening a boycott on business men who dare to oppose.them and thus force un willing victims into co-operation with them. Then in the second place they identify themselves with one political party and compel the adoption of their principles to tho great displeasure of a large per cent, of that party. This ac eompllsbed they work for party su premacy and finally have things all their own wayJ^ticb has'b$p!t£bo TJOji, liquor men Tjoro and tu it th©y have met with astonishing success. The "boycott" has worked like a charm completely cowing hundreds of men who fully see the detrimental effects whiskey predominance is bound to have on the city. In this manner a mock public sentiment against the strict enforcement of the statutes has been created, and upon it as a basis every en orgy is being expended to clear the way of other obstacles. The "political" move has also been successful. The wires have been manipulated until now the confessed issue in the coming city election will be tho saloon question, tlie Democratic ticket fully representing the whiskey ring. No stone is being left unturned to pave the way to an easy victory, and monoy is being brought forward to help the fight along. There is no use denying the status of affairs. The liquor element is working ght and day to win and win it will unless an equal amount of energy be put forth by law and order advocates. Thro' the city election it is confidently expected to set oven the present "form" of enforcement aside. The King ordinance, Snpt. Davis and all other obstructions will be swept away without hesitation? and then l*w and order will be "in the gloaming." Tho picture is indeed an inspiring one.

This is one method. Another for accomplishing tne same result is the passage of a State metropolitan police law by which all local oontroi in police affairs will be taken away. Such a bill has already passed the lower house and soon will become a reality if great pressure is not immediately brought to beat to prevent its sanction by the senate and the governor. Through it saloon men confidently expect to take the question of enforcement of laws into their own hands. Why not? Nothing would be easier than to secure the appointment of a pliable board of commissioners, and then where would the citizens of Terre Haute come in? The answer is easy enough. They simply would not come in. The commission would handle the

fit this city or any ether city in the State and la stealing the right of the people to have a yoloe in the management of their own affairs. It is 1ft

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It is said Secretary Blaine lias a aheme for overcoming the silver muddle. In brief his plan will be the free coinage of silver, the product of the American

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enforcement question without glove®, been so inconsistent in his official policy and opposition on the part of the local

public would cut absolutely no figure, him would indicate? It Is hard tobeThe entire scheme is nothing mora Move so. Much easier is it to think that than robbery. It cannot poesibly bene- never declared he would enforce the saloon laws, but instead stated that he would try to do so. Then his failnre to accomplish his intention would be understood and more easily condoned.

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system of the associations have been in-, ^possessing a ravenous appetite

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troduced or made ready for introduction* and the consequence is that stockholders over the state are worked up to a high pitch in anticipation of the action the legislature will take. One bill in particular has occasioned comment her#, and that is the one providing for the appointment of a state inspector of all* building and loan associations who shall make an annual examination into the

of every association in the state. A gentleman prominently identified with building and loan interests^ here took occasion to tell The Mail mf yesterday that he was warmly in favor of this act becoming a law. "I'll tell yoa why," be said. "Because as ou building and loan associations *re managed now there is a loop hole offered fy which a big fraud could be worked an I no one would be any the wiser. Here in Terre Haute this is especially true. TNow mind you I do not say that any such fraud is being perpetrated, but there is a chance for it. The management of our associations has departed from the old fashioned plan veiy considerably. It used to be that loans .were only made as fast as the money waft paid in. For example, if you wanted^ to draw out your share in order to build7 you had to give notice and then wait until your turn came to draw. The associations did not go one inch beyond

Has Superintendent of Police Daviit

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innumerable criticisms against

defeating the One fact is undeniable—the saloons are

.Dfortnn.te when on. law M»Mad Sunday ev.r before, the which ka for it. only object tb. naliifl- -auporintendent and hta Intention, to tb.

contrary notwithstanding.

cation of another which "has been found contrary notwithstanding. to operate to the best interests of the public at large. To an individual a« best only crudely informed on legal technicalities it is an

Building and loan legislation has teen impenetrable mystery how the King or- dred stock-holders, all of whom are occupying no little attention at the state dinance can be valid and an Injunction women. It is a handsome building with capiiol during the last week. Half a against its enforcement still hold good. dosen or mors bills affiettng the general It is T«y much like saying that a man

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their day-to-day receipts and there was |J|ftb and Main street a few weeks ago, in consequence absolute security, -A^pc

man might be occasioned considerable inconvenience in securing his money, but that could not be helped. Now it is different. A stockholder does not have to wait a day for his money. He make* application for his share and in m»ii?"ji of the associations if the cash ia not onf| hand he is given an order for thr amount desired. This order he takes to seme banker or man of means and by Buffering a discount secures the cash. Theassociations are allowed to issue or ders'.without limit. If they had nc coi scientious scruples they might issuf. them to the amount of $100,000 or $150," 000, and no one would question the poll' cy of it. You see there is asplendis* chance for some designing fellow work his way in and make a fortune

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|teeth, good saliva, perfect digestion and Seated before a most sumptuous meal Should, according to the law of nature, ^desist from eating. Don't you think so?

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Isn't that sheriff of Marion county an ifonor to his constituents? And didn't |e have a glorious time in Terre Haute? iFbat a feast of sight-seeing he enjoyed, iosaibly he had never seen the j§side of our jail. By way of special inrtesy it was shown him, and that the ill beauty of its make might impress ielf upon him the lock was turned with on the inside. Of course he was link, but then be could appreciate the .scurity of the place nevertheless. Be[des he was only retained within its ills until train time, when he was ested to the depot and seen safely off. you say he should have been kept jail and fined next morning for tmkenness and disturbance of the e? What an absurdity! Why, that uld not have been hospitality, politesss, courtesy or any of those qualities •consideration one official should hold to another. What if our police force jbuld some time get drunk in Indiapolis? Don't you see what he would in revenge? No sir, courtesy always

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patent medicine man, stationed at

tdke out very frankly as follows: 'Oijv, gentleman, I want-to tell you !Od's truth. Terre Haute is the^eaaitown to "work" in the whole coun-

Anybody and everybody has workit. Every snap ever thought of has tried successfully. Why, you peojtirt allow sharks to rob you with ds down, and what is worse you 't learn by experience. I have come to work you myself and I'm going 'i^ll you about it before hand. I'm

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to make a barrel of money and iq skip. I've got a little corn cure, ^tc." In five minutes he was handj£!lufc packages of his cure with both ,d& and could hardly take time to

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of tbe scheme before he could .be cil','\' to account. The result would be th«. every association in the city would suffer. I do not mean to toy^fit'e^fra^-ioeftr as^ofemtfSr octroi:' violate the confidence bestowed upon him, for so far as I know there is not man interested in our associations who cannot be trusted. But I do mean that there is a big loophole open. You know whenever there is a big chance for fraud, a thief sooner or later comes along. To show you that there is a splendid opportunity for such a thing, I will tell you that it is now almost impossible to get enough stockholders together to hold an annual election of officers of any association in the city. Then I'll wager that not one-third of the people owning building and loan shares have read the constitutions of the associations to which they belong They have implicit faith in the security of their investments and are practically at the mercy of the officers in oharge. Now you see no one knows how soon something unfortunate is going to happen. In my opinion unless some change is made in limiting the amount, of these orders which can be issued there can be no real security in building and loan invest ments. I will venture the statement that there are $100,000 worth of these orders in circulation in this city alone. They are rocbgnized aa gilt-edged by everyone,-for our associations have always been so ably conducted that tbe reputation established is the very best. Now the appointment of a commissioner at a salary of §3,000 possibly a year, secured by a heavy bond, would largely prevent this danger I have intimated. Fie would be required to make an exact report of the condition of each organization, and if representations were incorrect he would be financially responsible. But to wholly avert tho danger the issuance of thee notes should be prohibited. Not one dollar beyond the income should be allowed to go put in any form. In telling you this it is not my desire to get a up scare. There is no occasion at present for anything of the kind, bnt it la always best to be on the safe side and so it is not too early to bsgin advocating some kind of a reform."

the money it came in so rapidly, the light of recent as well as previous relopmentB, it becomes very evident almost every word this bold vender uJ was true. How easily several nesS men were victomized by a ^^fgWrVyesterday. He simply ed tfie'mimes o'f l^tte«e^r4nef and L. S. Briggs on bogus checks on the Vigo county bank, sent a boy to each victim with a personal note asking that as a personal favor to Mr. Greiner the check be cashed, it being after banking hours, and the money, $60 from each, was forthcoming. How many suffered by tho scheme has not yet fully developed, but two firms are known to have succumbed.

Ceraldine's Letter.

MY DEAR RUTH:

It was a proud day

for the women of Indianapolis when their beautiful new building, which they call "Propylaeum," was formally opened. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president of the association and prime mover in the whole matter, made the opeuing address. Mrs. Virginia C« Msrideth of Cambridge City, Mrs. Thomas of New York, an ex-president ef Sorosis, Mrs. Lucy H. Thomas of New York, Mrs. Putnam of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Peck of Milwaukee, also spoke. Indianapolis and her women were lauded and congratulated, and so in the midst of this flood of eloquence the Propylaeum was dedicated. A week later, on Tuesday night of this week, the last of the festivities took place in the shape of a grand reception and promenade concert. Twelve hundred tickets were sold, and it seemed as if tbey were all used. In the parlor stood toe long .line of ladies who made the reception committee, with Mrs. Sewall at the head. A very distinguished looking colored man stood at the door and askvd your name, which he repeated in stentorian tones, then you walked down the line with your best bow and your best smile. This is the way it is done at Windsor Castle, so a friend told me who had been present at one of Queen Victoria's receptions. Mrs. Thomas, the ex-Sorosis president, wears an *'S," the badge of tbe society, studded with diamonds, a souvenir which the club always present* to a retiring president. Mrs. Lucy H. Thomas is a niece of Alice and Phoebe Cary and wears the Sorosis badge which belonged to Alice Gary. Mrs. Putnam of Grand Rapids, they called the mother of western clubs, as she organised the first woman's club in the west. All these ladies were quite elderly I should say well on to seventy.

The gateway to the Acrepolis was called the Propylaeum. Hot one of those ©Id Greeks oould have looked with greater pride on tbe Acropolis itself than these Indianapolis women upon this their new building, which is their own thought, which was planned andoarried to completion by themselves. The lot, the building and furnishing cost thirty thousand dollars. There are four bun-

two stories and an English basement. The whole front is of stone and has the

word "Propylaeum" in large letters deeply carved over the entrance. The front rooms in the casement are already rented to women physicians. Back of these rooms is the kitchen, whose entrance is in the alley. Up-stairs are the club rooms on either side of the wide hall, with committee rooms opening from them. These rooms can he used for parlor and dining rooms as the occasion requires. On the next floor is a beautiful room, with a perfectly appeinted stage, dressing rooms and a balcony for musicians. It is just the place for dances, private theatricals, churoh suppers, and fairs, concerto and lectures. One of the committee told me that it is. engaged for nearly every night in th.e week until late in the spring at twentyfive dollars a night, which with the rent of the officefl( will make it a paying investment

for

the stock-helders. Every

room in tbe building was very attractive the night of the reception and the whole affair was nyst perfectly managed. In one of tne small rooms off the ball room lemonide was served through6ut the evening from a table decorated most artistically. In the basement ice cream and cakes, chocolate and coffee were served, and in tho room opposite the parlor bouillon was served.

Among the fkmiliar faces in the crowd were tho*e of Hon. Claude Matthews and his family, Mrs. Ira Grover and daughter Edith, Rev. and Mrs. Joseph •Tenckes, Mis. George Brocount(who was Miss Sharlie Hedden), President and Mrs. W. R. McKeen and Misses Lizzie Dowling and Mabel Coek.

The Propylaeum is the second building of its kind^n tbe world. There is one in Milwaukee. I do not know what they call it, but it was built by women for the.use of their dlubs and is owned and managed by them. Indianapolis women may well be proud and all women may share in their pride. Ten years ago such a scheme could hardly have beeu carried out, and twenty-five years ago it would have beon an utter impossibility. At that time the woman who would have dared to even talk up such a.scheme would have been promptly sat down upon. The world does move.

It seems tha) there is hardly a man who achieves eminence in any line whatever, but his early life is filled with hardships and the road to fame beset with all soirte of difficul ties. Messonler 4tri Irckry ji^ranvfs*, whose death is asnounced, passed his early youth in a wretched struggle with poverty. He went to Paris when he was nineteen years old and the record of those first'five or six years tells of sufferings and wretchedness almost beyond belief. He executed any kind of artistic work which came in his^way in order to live painted copies of the pieiur*s in tho Louvre at the rate of one dollar a square yard, painted bon-bon boxes, fans and made marvellous drawings tor the wood engravers. Finally this work attracted tbe attention of some gentlemen and the studio of a great artist was opened to him. In five years his name came before the public in the catalogue of the Salon, whore he presented two paintings, "The Chess Players" and"TheLittle Messenger." These at once placed the painter in a position from which no controversy,

dizzying rapidity in which I have heard it played, but the tempo seemed to be just the right one, and born onward not too swiftly you felt safe and tranquil, never losing self-possession and sure pioise.

Miss Kellar sang the difficult aria, "O Don Fatale," from the opera of Don Carlos, in a highly artistic manner, and her second song, "Bye-Low-Land," given in response to a hearty encore was sweet as sweet could be.

Miss Cora O'Boyle's whistling brought down the house, as it never fails to do. Mr. Schliewen was in the programme for a violin solo by Vieuxtemp, but by the unfortunate failure of his music to reach here he had to substitute something else, the name of which I did not learn. Then followed a Schuman quartette which was another great treat. Schuman is perhaps the most difficult of ail the great composers to comprehend on a first hearing, and this quartette would be enjoyed more and more as one could understand the beauly and purport of each movement as it comes along. On the Andante Cantabile, which is always my favorite movement, the four instruments break up the rythm between them, all thinking the same though, and breathiug tho same feeling, yet in his own individual way. It was beautiful.

Miss Louise Kussner sang "Lo Desis" by Liszt, with violin obligato. Miss Kussner always rises to the occasion, and you feel sure that she will do well.

If the disappointment was great on account of the violin solo, it was greater wlieu we learned that Mr. Recker's music had also failed to arrive. He is quite a young man, but he may already be called an artist. He was so self possessed, so sure of his attacks, and he played with great expression. A cello well played is a delightful instrument. He played two pieces that Mrs. Lamb happened to have. One of them was tho always enjoyable "Spring Song" by Mendelssohn.

Mrs. Lamb was not on the programme for a solo, but was called out by the audience, and responded with a Chopin Nocturne, played as I never heard her play. Under the touch the composition was filled with the perfume of flowers, with moonlight, and all the witchery of a summer night. I have never heard Mrs. Lamb when she did such great

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no revolution in' art has attempted to displace him. No art moTemeut has caused a variation in his style. He has influenced many—none have influenced him. For over half a century his pictures have adorned tho walls of tbe Salon annually. During the FrancoPrussian war his home at Poissy was crowded with German soldiers. In the bitterness uf his spirit be locked himself in his studio and dashed off some magnificient allegorical pictures representing tbe distress and revenge of France. One of his most celebrated works, "Cuirassiers 1805," was burned in New York in 1881.

The musicale given by Mr. and Mrs. John E. Lamb on Thursday evening was an event in the annals of musicales. The "Trio" and "Quartette" for strings and piano was a feature which we have never had before in a parlor entertainment. The gentlemen who took part were Mr. Schliewen, violin, Mr. Armin Recker, ceHo, Mr. Aufderheide, violin, with Mrs.

Lamb

at the piano. The first

number on the programme was a Beethoven Trio, Op. 1, No. 1. This is-one of the three trios which Beethoven composed when he was about twenty years old. "They were first performed in Vienna in the palace of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom they were dedicated, and in the presence of a noble and select company among whom was Hayden, Beethoven's teacher. It was a rare treat to hear this trio. Tbe three instruments here equal room to assert themselves as alike indispensable to tbe whole, and considering the great sonority of the piano Mrs. Lamb showed the instinct of the true artist in subordinating her play to the effect of tbe composition as a whole. Mr. Schliewen and Mr. Recker were fully equal to the occasion. l can hear the cello yet in the beautiful strains of the Adagio Cantabile. Mrs. Lamb's pearly, rippling runs were faultlessly pure and even, always fully meeting the expectation of the ear, and giving a delightful feeling of perfection. The spirited finale was not taken with the

GKRAIjMNK.

PERSONAL AND PEC ULIA li.

The Pope's Golden Rose will, it is said, be sent to the Empress of Austria. The Rev. Mi not J. Savage, of Boston has accepted a call to the pastorate of tho Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) at Chicago.

Dr. Holmes is oheered in his old ago by tho knowledge that "Over the Tea Cups" is selling more largely than any of his earlier works.

Kalaktikua was,a thirty-third degree Mason. He was also master of one of the

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lodges, scribe of the Chapter

and warden of the Templars. A huge bronze statue of William Penu is to surmount the new city building in Philadelphia. In height tho figure will exceed that of Liberty on tbe Capitol at Washington.

An Austrian has invented an instrument resembling a piano in appearance, which contains tix violins, two violas and two violincellos, and is manipulated by a keyboard.

The Kansas Farmer will still have Editor Pefler as its leading light. The Senator-elect does not propose to allow his Washington duties to interfere with his more enjoyable responsibilities.

A physician in Rorne recently brought to light some interesting speaiinensof ancient dentistry and artificial teoth in skulls from different Etruscan tombs, dating as far back as tho sixth century before Christ,

Robert Louis Stevenson says that ho intends to end his days in Samoa. He has closed out all his affairs in England and Scotland and bis mother will join himself and family in the new South sea island home shortly.

A beggars' journal has been started in Paris, and meets with success. Tbe cost of a number is two cents, and itcoatains articles on tbe best methods of pursuing the business, and advertisements of use to those soliciting charity.

The Government of Sweden has prepared a law for tbe compulsory Insurance of workmen against accidents. The insurance will be effected through an institution founded by the State, tbe premiums to be p&id by the employers.

A peculiarity abont tbe "1891" is that adding the first figure to the second makes the third, and subtracting the fourth figure from tbe third gives the second. Adding tbe four figures together gives us the number of tbe century.

American Horse, tbe Ogallala chief, is the great orator of tbe Sioux tribe and has a wonderful flow of language and wealth of imagination. They say he can talk as learnedly as a Princeton professor and as fast as a woman's rights convention when the president has smashed her gavel*