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Vol. 22.--No.

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THE MAIL.

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES.

lV^ve had playmate*. I

..Msm**- -B»y

S-i

have

bad

compan-

la my day* of childhood, in ay Joyful school All,% are gone, the old familiar faces.

hnvti been laughing, I have been carousing, I)rtnklnTh^ «'"'«K with my bo»« A1JfaTare gone, the old familiar lacM.^^ I laved a love once, fairest among women Closed are her doom on me, most not see ll 0 All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.„ 1 have a friend, a kinder friend has «o man 1,1 ke an Ingrato I left my Mend abruptly, Left him to muse on the old familiar faces. Ghost-like I paced around the haunts of my childhood, Earth seem'd a desert I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of ray bosom, though more than a brother. Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling? ... 80 might we talk of the old familiar faces. How some they have died, *ad seme they have left me, And some are taken from me all are lft3: parted

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. -4Charlp Lamb

Town Talk.

THE WORK HOUSE.

Thaw is an excellent prospect for a work house, in all that the torm Implies, In tlila county before the snow flies. Both the city and county authorities seem to be heartily la favor of It. The county commissioners are of the opinion that If they we to pay

out

from fflOO to

•|1,0H) each month to feed the bums that the latter should make some return for It, which can only be»doneby work, and if put to work they will cease to patronize suoh a public institution. As contemplated at present the workhouse will be entirely separated from the Jail. When an arrest is mack) the prisoner will be committed tojall-untll trial and conviction, and upon the latter he must either pay, stay or go to the work house. In the latter institution he must work for his board and lodging or subsist on bread and water. If they don't like the rules and regulations they need not s®*? tutu. After a trial nogs of them want

one trial and do their best to avoid It ever alter wards. All they we required to do4s break ptot&jfor theoltv-a nlce, easy job, but then wtey -.dprit like it. ,3n Indianapolis the work UsotpopulaT with the people, and so tbofbugbly by the bums that the»cHy wouldn't be without it If it cost twice as much. At the present rate of expense a workhouse at

cost or *100,000 would pay in this oity if It never contained an inmate. AS

FKNM*NSmV.

There are some people who say they can read character by penmanship. They should try their hand on the marriage returns which are filed with the county dork, where ©very stylo can be found in profusion, from the graceful Spencerian hand to the ragged scrawl which no person can.read. One would think that in a matter of this kind some care would bo exercised In complying with the requirements of the law, but frequently the contrary 1« the case. If two or three of the ministers are excepted, the returns juade by feho clergy of t&e county display a degree of ignorant, earolessness and bad pe»manship which is anything but commendable. These returns area portion of the county records,and many of them might be article* of great importance at some future time, but they aro scrawled off with lead pencil in an illegible baud, without regard to rules of spelling and occasionally with change of names to vary the monotony, The magistrate* of Harrison township are all good pennton and make their re turns in good shape, but when it cornea io the outside townships they are neither it thing of beauty nor a Joy at any time. Mwt of the clergy are no better, and make a display of Illiteracy which does not speak well for at least some members of the profession—or for the denomination represented by some. While it may not be possible to tell a minister's denomination by his Marriage return, it Is safe to say that many can be told as not belonging to certain denominations by that test.

KK TOILS XCft*

The other day while a tax agitator was folding forth to a crowd on the iniqitiee of the tax: law and the hardens imposed by it on the hard working men of the state, his better half suddenly loomed up around the corner and he immediately subsided and sneaked off in a dtffetes direction. I& looked like it might be a case of "hen-pecked" husband, but It wasn't* It appears thai the wife has to do all the work for the family. She attends to the firm, gathers the garden truck, and several daya each week may be seen going from house to house with fruits* vegetables and batter, while her "dear hubby** is standing around on the eernent talking politics and "takln* suthin" with a friend. This la not a solitary osae, either. There am many snch in and around this town. When yon see a man with a grievance which he Insists upon retailing to evtury person he OMWta, and whose only occupation is

--x.

that of talking about it, you cau generally make up your mind that there is something wrong with him. If the cross roads politician and the corner loafer oould only be Induced to work their imaginary trouble would soon disappear, they would have more money, and everybody would be better off. As a matter of self defense the legislature should enact «4«w making it a misdemeanor for a man to live by the sweat of his wife's brow and his own jaw, and the fellow who holds forth so eloquently on the street corners should be made to pay a heavy tax to bo applied to a fund for the support of broken down politicians.

WHAT NEXT?

For a week the bankers of the state have'been making life a burden to the state board of tax commissioners in regard to famishing a list of their depositors on the first April, together with the amount each had in the bank on that date. The banks refused, and by agreement a test case will be made up next week

and

taken to the highest court in

the land. It Is very probable that the banks 111 come out victorious. In connection with the case one of the Indianapolis papers raises a point which if well taken will knock the state and private banks out of existence. It says that the national banks are subject only to United States law, and that the state cannot compel them to siKPW-a list of their depositors as is demanded at present, but that all private banks and banks under the state law -can be compelled to do so. If this is .good law no man who has money in bank which he does not want taxed will-leave it in a state or private bank, and in a very short time the national banks would have &11 the deposits, and the other banks would be cotiiDeMed •dither to ob tain qharters as national banks or retire froin business. The courts will hardly make suoh a rnling. If the national banks cannot be reached the courts will probably declare the clause in question unconstitutional, and that will be the end of it. At any rate -the .final de clslon of the points involved is looked forward to with much invest by all parties interested, and they constitute all the taxpayers of the state. 71

NO BNOQTBAaiBai!aB3ywg''

A short time ago an aUem^Pka? to put the oity in good sanitar

dean tip." Several- refused, w**'piainWSters ftled The^olice firmly b# lievo tire*rAde oaifes'against the offenders, bdt^hly-'wore discharged. Now they say mejtte is no encouragement for them fo d|gibeir duty in that direction. Probably wis is true, but there is nothing' like perseverance. That they have not succeeded in two or three instances is no assurance that they will not succeed better next time. A little of this perseveritnoe carried into the enforcement of all laws is a good thing. Take the Sam Brown case, for instanoe it was along time before he was oanght, but he was finally landed, and the extent of his offending has been limited of late. Then there was the Prank Lee case. He had been watohed fer years, but the first case to stick against him was found only last week. Or take the saloons. Perseverance made them all take out city lioense, and some more perseverance may in time make them all eloee up on Sunday and after eleven o'clock at night. There is nothing like perseveranoe, and it will sorely have Its reward. People admire pluck and if the police will only persevere in doing good work it is only a question of a very short time until they will have all tibe enoouragement they want.

Fashion's Fancies.

skirts

Velveteen bindings for dress are now preferred to braldU The newest thing in note paper Is of a delicate heliotrope, with a silver mon&> gram.

Tucked guimpee for little girls are •gain the rule, the tucks often being

A very handsome Venetian openwork embroidery In dark silks and bronzegold or copper mental cord will be used in the Autumn for trimming cloth cashmere and vigogne drawee.

The rich, deep, Cleopatra color* will be in marked favor next season, the tawny golden browns, russets, the olvandron or copper dyes, and the dahlia and other flower, fruit and leaf shades also the superb dark, velvety reds and yeilows of the nasturtium. St#!'

Paniers and puffe are no longer in the distance, but are actually present and in style—and the hoop!- Almost dlract word csmes from Paris that a very fine hair steel hi now ran in the edge of the bell skirt under Its foot trimming. HOs skirt is so much gored that it leaves little or no fullness around the hips, makthe motion of walking or dasdng undesirably and ungracefully apparent.

John I. Blair, of Blaiwvill*, N, it reputed to be worth all the way from fKM»Q,Q0Oto 9100,000,000. ffehaa never sold a share of stock In any enterprise with which he haa bean associated, and has money lavKtod in acores of rail* roeda, some of which be absolutely 000trols.

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A Man's Observations.

"Here, John, you go your way and I'll go mine. Here

are

To-day you "may see him, pistol in hand, putting a bullet: ijatp ^he head^of some youth who sees nothljpg .in life orth having bficausff a coquettish^ .ess girl fires

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TERRB HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2'2,1891.6

our possessions: take

what you desire and let me have the

rest."

These were the words spoken by

a wife, the other day, and they are words that ought to have sunk into that man's soul like hot iron. But did they? No. His heart had left the fireside of this onoe happy home, and gone

out

in the

world after a strange love. The woman who bad been to him a wire, tender and true aa perfect love, had been oast out as something he had wearied of, and henceforth their paths were to diverge. It mattered not that she was lone and helpleu it mattered not that all

her

sweet

yonng life had budded and blossomed and faded for this man the time had come when he oould cooly turn his back upon and desert her. She had borne with faithlessness as long as virtue could, and at last the hour came. "You go your way, John, and I'll go mine," she said and he, without a word of regret,. turned and went. Ah, yes. This is the way that reputations are blasted. This is the way that leads to

heart-ache

and misery. It isn't anew way—God's pity. It is the same old way—crooked, devious, and ever ending where degradation waits. "You go your way and I'll go mine," they say,-those hearts that grow estranged,—and then they go out to follow down the trail that leads to ruin. Better so, perhaps. There is no cure for suoh.

Now and again a fervent petition for the fool-killer Is pot up, together with a reminder to him that he i* neglecting his business. But this, after all, rnay^be due, not to the fool-killer's neglect, .but to the failure of the petitioners tqnecognizo him when he does come. The world is often blind to its benefactor^ and fails to see them or spurns them* wlwn ti#y are doing the most good. Th«* mithis tho fool-killer assumes so many disguises that it takes a sharp,eye" to^e©mtra^ of him.

with jealousy by

with some other youth jor^a

JEslWe one, tiredpf bsivln^.Mm.'aroun^ loiiS^T^fusei^* mary hittti ,Th« lM|i which apparently holds the pistol is the foolish youth's, but you may bo sure it is the fool-killer in disguis9. To-mor-row he will push some

Billy

girl into th|

water or give her poison because of a like disappointment, or (4ven because she has been refused a new bonnet forbidden going to a picnic,

otJF-

Again, the feol-killer may' be bringing to an end the worthless existence of some fool who spends hi# life beating hlB wife, cursing his children, and doing nothing or earning nothing to make their home even tolerable by day or night. It may be the wretch's own hand that seems to do the deed, but the fool-killer should have the credit for it.

If the doctors be correct, tight lacing is a cunning invention of the foolkiller for getting In hts work at his leisure, as are late suppers and all night dancing week after week. It is the foolkiller who Is at the head of the gambling houses, and after the money and reputation of the fools enticed there are all gone he takes them out and dispatches them with powder or laudanum, or the river or-charcoal gas. It Is the fool-klller that tempts the lighting of fires with kerosene oil that tempts to the swimming of the Niagara ripids and tells the man in the wagon that by whipping up his horse he can cross the track before the whistling train gets there.

It is the fool-killer who gets in what the base ball men call a "double play," when he sets two angry farmers, one with an ax, the other with a shot-gnu disputing about a "line fence," or fills up two others with liquor, arms them with rifles and sets them gunning for one another, generally in some Southern town. It Is the fool-killer that sets thieves, burglars and highwaymen to falling out with one another, and settling the trouble with knives and revolvers. It is the fbol-klller that tempts weak men to drink liquor every day, so that, according to the life insurance companies' returns, three out of ten at least will die early of kidney, liver, head or Itrng disease, or by accident or suicide. It Is the fool-killer that persuades men to amok# constantly to HTS licentious lives to eat too much to live too fast and even to worktoo hard. 80 it will be seen that the fool-killer is sot th« oareless and indolent person that he is too often said to be. People should beware of calling upon him. He may come when they don't really want to see Mm. like the old man in the fable who cried for death, they will as anxkHMly ask him to postpone his yialt Io a wore oonventent season as they begged the pleasure of his company* mm

Nearly every man one moats with is going t» do aomothiag "to-morrow." He is a fool to^ay and be was a fool ywtarday both* it going to be Wise "tomorrow." lb-day he hi rioting la drunkenness, but to-morrow he will be himself—saber, oarnsat, indostarkms.

To-day he stabs to the heart thebestand perhaps only ffiend he has on earth but to-morrow he will give one more promise and count the wound as healed, 0 that men will so wreck their opportunities! O that men so lightly consider love, honor and respect—bartering all for a cup of poison—losing all for the gutter's dregs and inevitable disgrace. For attch men there is no "to-morrow." It Is to-day or never. It is pride again# weakness, self-respect againfjLlnfi jMTj SSS and the battle is always^. |S!S "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow

And ajJ onr yesterdays have lighted focsf*^ The todustydeath." No, no ther§'"is no -to-morrow. Tomorrow beckons and allures us with a wanteft hand, but*T£ is a hand that we can n%yfir clsp. It is a false sapport, a hjiTeij ^vei reached, pi^mise never fulfiiild.! It"is to-d&y, brpther.or not at ail,. To-day you have friends, position, hope ^b-morrow you inay be dead to all except,hop©lfss tears and unavailing re* gret. In full view ot the past, and. while yet trustful of thq fEltuHB, put a cheok on', folly and resolve to stand ereot. Bo It to-day, and do it within yourself. Do it, ?we say*§anci then your morrciw will have dawned. Do it, anc^life will .hold for you the pleasures of Scope and the joyousness of a rich fulfillment.

People and Things.

ANew Orleans man keeps'a lizzard on his table'to guar4xaiuble papers. GeneralNeal Dow," Maine's un en tombed Hannibal, is in favor of the whippingpost. ,,

Herreshoff, who deslgne| the Glorlana, has a blind brother who can model boats as well as he*^) gQ|^|L

Prince All^er^^^fflr shows signs of a coming b&ld&mp pn|oh ..will reach down to his rear •.,

Gteperai jBhalMMW is abotft to Ixxjk Wider the title of

ttndei hlaJan IV little republi

Leopold It, King of the§Belgians, prides bimself bn being a worklngman. risesjtt 6 o'clock and does two Hours' work beforo breakfast.

Dr. Briggs is hard at work on his defense against the charge of heresy and expects to be at his post again next month prepared to make the fur ily.

Billiard balls are now made of condensed milk, but they are not the soft Jay Gould plays with when he is pocketing everything in a game of railroad

pOOl.

The charge is gravely made against Boston and New York that they are "Idiotically Anglori&aniacal." It is Kate Field who lets fall this slab of commonsense comment.

Ex-Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle are summering In Boston, and say that the Com mon is not a bad place to rusticate upon if vacant seats under a shade tree can be got and the statues are not looked at

If it be^true that Mr. Blaine's book, "Twenty Years in Congress," has netted him $450,000, it is pretty certain that it has been worth twice as much as the salary he received while in Congress

Chicago shoes are sent all over this continent. At Little Rock, Ark., Mrs Lucille Morgan found a snake comfortably coiled away in her slipper. Possi bly the snake was from Chicago as well.

A California tramp has turned oat to be a gilt-edged German nobleinau, and is now Count Ballertrom. This is reversing the osual order of, things, in which the gilt-edged Count generally turns out to be a no-account barber.

General Butler didn't get mad when he read the report of his own death in the papers. He merely said that he would never leave the United States a poor and unprotected orphan until he was obliged to, and he didn't feel any such obligation just now.

If Sir William Gordon Gumming does not sue for slander the men who are alleging that he charges that nearly everybody was drunk at Tranby Croft on the occasion wheniiisfonduot became public property, it will be because, In losing caste, he has lost all sense of the obligation of a gentleman. W

Count Muralreff, who has come down in histeny as the "Hangman of Poland," MI even worse sobriquet than that of "Carotid mtting CasUereagh," has to have a montftnent erected to him at Wllna by the Russian Government, and the Poles are boiling ov«r with indignation at the insult to their nationality Implied in the proposal. The indignation seems a little far-fetched. Soraiy if the Russians don't object to having the effigtos of Catharine and Paul oonatantiy before thair eyw the need not

brutal

f?hla

with poems wh|ch he wiE bying cojtn^y and, insist upon? reading them ifpnblg.

bar-

row trouble because of the honor don# to the sanguinary creature of jost suoh

SPIfliP sJfel- -V:

Notes and Comments.

Those successful experiments at producing rain In Texas are not conclusive. Let them be tried in Kentucky, where the conditions bearing on water are different.

The late warm weather has suggested that men should look out for a national summer dress foJ^the ,, .future. The chances ure that a good inany men will be uncouQ for table in the future, Qven without dress. ..

Parneil is preparing an j^drewSi for use at home apd abroad, ou the home

t^'een them is the ocean. ,«:The. .Jtrnsas Aliiance farmers

been asked to cC^feribTite a cent apiece to the campaign fund. That state has produced^ freaks in polios, hut ^t\w/ll be thai^trangest of all if they ca!h win eleoUSn viotorles ytossiig a penny.

rr^

There Is a surplus of 40,000,000 gallons of whisky

hand In Ketucky,and this

is said to cause the Kentucky distillers much anxiety. If such a thing as a surplus of whisky in Kentuoky oan be possible, then it is high time for the goYernor of North Carolina to propound jais famous question to the governor if South, Carolina,

A Michigan busiue^man advertises by sending a* dollar^ noto up in, a paper balloon every evening, the money becoming the property of the finder. .We know a good many Terre Haute, business men who are continually sending dollar bilia up in balloons, ltf attempting to advertise the ^itng way. It is ail almost ^universal complaint, and legitimatajiewBpaper advertl»ipg is the 6nly infailwl®^eri3jp|^f

A young girl'at Bridgeport, Conn., is In a precarious e$feit aft the result radical joker holding her head bathing.' This young ^in|[uestionr isottly of. die gepuB endowed tcf1 te fun, force, rs upou the unfortusufflden#musoular "em the^hrasbing

distanoe

miles—in feur days, sii^^JhBurs aM fifty minutes, by being atu^ifa svicce|B sively to the fastest trains ot\j«^or four roads. This perfomanodBlqesn't seem so remarkable in the face oj^the wonderful ocean records. Which ^ave recently been made. In fact, if- the builders of looomotlves don't look to their laurels the day will riot be far distant when water navigation will be swifter than land locomotion. *1

Edison seems to stop at nothing, and if his health does not fail him within ten years, ho will die the wealthiest man In America. He is at present expending a great deal of energy In his magnetic ore separating works at Ogden, N. J., Which have been a complete success. When Edison showed the iron and steel men of the country the pure magnetic oxide in fine powder produced by his process they pooh-poohed It. It is good ore, they said, but never can be worked, as It will blow out the furnaces and produce plenty of dust, but no Iron. They don't say so now. At Ogden his new company has fOO.OCO.OOO worth o! work able rock in sight, and he Is tearing the mountain wherever there Is twenty per cent of iron in the rock and getting it all out. The Inventor continues to work sixteen to eighteen hoars daily and says that sleep is a habit which can be got rid of In large degrees

The history of almost all tho South American republics for a year or more past is a good reminder of what we owe to the Louisiana purchase. But for the acquisition of the groat Mississippi and Gulf region the system of government by gold lace, side arms, plunder and revolution might be in full blast now at our gates—unless, it is probable, the conquest of Louisiana and Florida had been rendered an absolute necessity. What Celmaas^ what Balmaeedas, in deed what Toussants, might not have arise"f|n those sub-tropical climes it Is impoJlbie to say. As for the South American States, the deepest respect for the Monroe doctrine can hardly prevent us from acknowledging that they would do better if swallowed whole by Germany or England than, as at present^ left to their own devices. And if looking into the far future Mr, Blaine means his reciprocity scheme for the stretching out of a hand which may ultimately close and

grasp-why,

that would be

better yet. There Is talk now of sending Blair to Hayti. This is a good idea, ninee it is evidently necessary to d© something with Blair, and China will not receive Mm. He is quite capable of any duties required of the minister to Hay ti, and is, in fact, a much abler man than has aver reproeented the United States in !.. rather absurd republic. As It isde-

sirable at this time to put our relaUons with Hayti on more satisfactory baais and to make some amends for the bluner of sending Douglass there, tiie exUt- with the curiosities of cursing,

Twenty-second Year

ing vacancy offers a

good

opportunity

to provide for Blair to the possible advantage of the country. Foi" the mission to China the president is said to have selected Senator Squire, of Washington., The record of this statesman has not yet beeti examined. It will be a rare good fortune if a politician from the northern Pacific coiyst has got to be a Senatorwithout saying, anythlnj^ pbnoxious to^ the Chinese.

The Prince of Wales has

00me

dignity, and oonsidera£li)ftV(1J|

have

in for|

so muohsobjurgution of late, especial from the free and democratic American, that

is only fair t6 givo him4il8 due,|« He took Kia part in thi,re^n^|^»|-l tional Ms&acal joke flayed

mant^t qf ,M& Sehiflr, of t^ New Jersey town,-was per-, -nfiti priatgjy rebuked by the townsman who jestingly ga^e him letter r* infaltfduotiou to the heir)to the EhgUi throne, beginnirig ^Dear Ed," but presentation of tliis uiisslve to the prince^^ turned the joke into a disgraceful Im^lM pertinence. -Tho prince vftiy properly^,..}^ returned the* letter with the simpl^lJf statement thaUts writer was unknowns to him.1 But he then went on to mak## gentleman of Mr. tchiff by oourteousl#^ saying that he should be very glad,mj|. meet htjnVhen presented by the Aweigy can «inister. It is almost a pity thf#^ Mr, Sohiff had i^Ot t^e courage and »ity ^M|own to rise \o the

FemiaitemS.

Mrs. Hetty Qreen has lost a lawsuit,^: HUd her lawyer hasclimed upon the roof untU tW storm ii 6ve^|

In FranW women are omployectan freigh^. and railroad offices making ouv tbHls i^id selling tickets.

Mrs.' Elizabeth Stuart Phelps-Wfu-d confesses that she is thinking of another novel, "whet» she has the ,tlme -The Th0osop^i6al S&otety is to dltjide^& ,Madame.. Blava^y.^lkgdies 'and-feifl.ry'1 Ihem in JKCadz^us^ jand'NeW'York*!^

fie

j$|,. niflsJt

mm*

ChJHohill is the only

AiiSieri&i woman has ever' been «honorehbv Uie O'ue^nSPlth the Order ot the Cro

The fuTa whicii the Princess of Wales is ralslnggfor Mrs. Greenwood al- $ ready amounts to fT,800, and more money is expected,

It is noteworthy that Mrs. HopkinsSearle doesn't seem to have wasted much.more attention \or money upon her adopted son, Timothy, tiian,.»heB did upon charity. .J

There is a good deal of talk about ••woman'sdress" and "reform in dress,'* but the faot remains that women neverv./ dressed more neatly and more sensibly than they do to-day.

Some women are eloquent and some & are loquacious, but Mrs. ElJoquent Lo^ qua, of Chioago, seems to combine these characteristics. She is a CJntversalist preacher and Is said to be .yery able one. .r.jg.

Miss Cruzon of the Toronto Unlversity has been acting iu assistant public analyst since her graduation In 1880, and at the same time pursuing her studies at the Toronto Women's Medical College. 11.£

Mrs- Loqua, who preaches in Chicago, believes that the time is coitiing when man will be frozen out of the pulpit and women be the only ministers. If that time ever comes donation pai tles will have to be run on different btwis.

Miss Frances E. Willard *ayst "In'

spite of all that can be said in praise of any educational institution uuderheayen I firmly believe that 'mothering' is the best and tne most liberal of all educations. Keep your dear girls at heme!"

Mrs. Potter Palmer has not only or- .J ganized a Ladies- World's Fair Committee In Paris but intends to form a similar committee in London. This committee has been promised assistance by the Princess Christian of Schleewig Holstien.

UM 'm

Rachel Gurney will bring her

husband, Lord Cudley,a fortune of f250,«§if 000, but this will not make her handsome mother-in law a bit better pleased at having to become the Dowager Coun« tess Dudley.

Hopes of the recovery of the ex-Em-press Carloita are fading away. Her mental troubles seem to be developing into a violent maaia. On a recent occasion she committed an assault upon Queen Maria, of Belgium, which placed that lady under care of her doctors.

The New* that the Crown Princess Sophia had joined the Greek Church made her brother, the Emperor William, so mad that he gave vent to expressions that wouldn't have sounded well in any chureh,

wad

would have

Greek to people unacquainted