Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 22, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 October 1891 — Page 1

LVol. 22.~No. 17.

TOWN TALK.

OVE TO USE SIDEWALKS FOR OTHER THAN ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

If PMldlara WUh to C*rry on Their BoslnCM Tb«Y Should Pay Their Llcen»eWfcat the Capital Want.. bat What It

Will Hardly The city council seems to be after the business men who occupy the sidewalks an an advertising medium for their wares. The city attorney has been lnstructed to draw an ordinance repealing the ordinance which allows merchants to use three feet of the walk next the wall for a display of goods. The new ordinance will probably be reported next Tuesday night and wilt doubtless pass. Business men are not saying much about the matter, and if the law Is /impartially enforced there is not likely to be any kick. In many cases there Is too much display on the outside for the stock contained within, and it not infrequently happens that instead of occupying the pi escribed three feet of space the wares are spread all over the walk. There are one or two instances on Fourth street where groceries are not Jilt* only spread over the entire outside In front, but the merchants transact moat of their business there. Between fruits, vegetables, loading wagons and salesmen and customers the pedestrian has a poor ohance to get along.in that part of the world, and he has no rights which the otbor parties believe they are bound to respect. Then there Is the ordinance which provides that awnings shall not be less than seven feet above the street.

By enforcing it the council can make Itself solid with many who have suffered long and muttered curses deep. But if the sidewalk ordinanc© Is repealed would the law been forced At present there is no law for the unsightly pop corn and fruit stands which are now tolorated on the Main street corners, and at which numerous vendors carry on a lucrative business. Neither Is there any law which allows the keepers of wagon yards to cover the walks with buggloa right aorotfi the street from the city building. But these things are done every day and It Is taken a as matter of course, because poo pie have learned long ago that there is no virtue in making a ^en *ffa,n h°w oounolLn&inir »«v«*ntn.r««.. it i* decrees that the aldowalks shall be used bv'pedestrians only? It is nil very well to order the marshal to do thus and so, but as the law rocognlxos no such official no one need pay any attention to htm.

A fur «s legal matter* are concerned the olty marshal is nonentity who does nothing todraw his pay. Hi* work has been delegated the potlco. If the ordinances are to be enforced the work mu«t bo done by the superintendent, nod the question Is whether It would be belter done than the enforcement of one or two other law* which might be mentioned.

TIIK l'KlUt.KH Ml'ST K.

The meat pleddlers are coming to Brief, and hereafter It looks as though the man who runs a butcher's shop on wheels must pay Uwnse just as ordinary peddlers do or retire from the business. The peddler Is often a real convenience to the consumer, but he Is just as surely source of annoyance and loss to the I business man. H»t tho butcher with his wagons transact* only a small portion of tho peddler's business of tho town, then If he doesn't pay rent heat and helps to bear hi*

and least ps.VH taxes

I portion*

of the expense of government

whioh is left when no

fair that this species

Saturday

If their

customers

can be found. 11 no more than and

taxed out of existence, such

«ere po**ue. not

oan devise some means of eMermina-

tinR them th. »ll» P»l

w1"'™

Tbe effort to suppw* 1

far the teles^ph Lpiendid attribute of patriottsm,

should t*e put where they Thk-* would perform their work just s* w.U there, and though lost they never would mis«*d. The telc*grsp« and telephone monepolUss seem t» tblok they own the earth and never hestute to occupy a very laifl# petttwa of

Paying taxes is not their hobby, and mental stream ought to bo as good ®s^ profit is their delight. Sometimes they source. That is all very true, but it serve the public well, and the service evident that Mr. Ingalls has never would would not be impaired if that around Chicago enough to unders service was conducted under the ground how tremendously difficult it is to between terminals. It is true that the out the sewage. change would cost something, bat the city needn't care for expenses when tbey are borne by the companies. The network of wire which covers the streets adds nothing to the beauty of the town,

greater than its advantages. If the earth

and general appearances would be great- p©ranee woman, and the way she is eniy improved by its removal. Then look forcing the law and fining and imprisonat the poles which are strung along the {ng the best citizens who get on a "toot," streets. They are of no use to the city, makes life a burden for them, and a peand are certainly far from being ornamental.

owners had ever made

any attempt to place them in keeping with their surroundings less attention might be paid them. But they have never even been given a coat of paint and are used only aa hitching posts, and by the pill posters. The poles should come down, and the wires should be put under the ground. The cfmpanies may kick, but it will be much easier to do it now than to wait and make the attempt when the town has grown to twice its size. tHRY SHOULD HAVK IT.

If th apers of Indianapolis are to be lred

believed that is a city of great natural Ljjgg

advantages, and if the remainder of the I

state is to be believed its wants are much

could be confined within the corporate would be otherwise doomed to delimits of the capital its people would #truct|on have it, but as they can't get the whole earth they are willing to be satisfied with a Very large aliceof it. Just now they want a trotting association, but want of enterprise will probably prevent them. Tbey never dreamed of such a thing until they heard of the success of several Institutions of the kind in other portions of the Rtate. Thoy had the state fair for many years, and having made a failure of that they foudly imagine they can run a trotting association. It If true tbey haven't a stock farm any closer than Terre Haute, nor have thoy had a horseman since Jim Rocky died, but they think those notj requisite to a successful race meetiug. If a race meeting could be run on wind Indianapolis would have the largest and most successful on earth, but as it takes enterprise and money it is more than

likely it will have none at all. The Terre Ilaute association is comprised of I thority in the White House are as seeffira

l»™ttn|,|Pol,8

very good town for political conventions, but it bad better leave the races to those who now have them In charge.

Notes and Comments.

Tho way in which people porslst in I

overlooking their opportunities Is shown I

live in Paris, where not a soul of

Tho officers of the Imperial Guard, St.

Potersburg, have decided not to drink

champagne at any or the regimental

banquets, and contribute the money

usually *o spent to tho peasants of the

famlne-strlckeh

This Is rare consideration, truly Kngllsli bankers have plenty of money and It is easy to seo they are looking toward American securities for safe investment, No other nation is upon such

{hmnelal

4.. irvr tho rommumtyvl ... anc with tho remainder of the community There are other people, however, who pav neither reut or city taxes, but come to "town and peddle their ware* in competition with every business man who earrie* anvthing in their lino. They bring to town chickens, eggs, potatoes butter, vegetables and fruit aud hawk

The doctors are discussing the ques-1

hether the

wi. a few cents below the I ^Vagrippe live and^ans, they are fast developing the Lf

thrive

than and "the long

I ^Id^JshowoTer, have to wear out I

pay license. He come® In dl Uraduallv. I* grippe will likely be a Lgt son of the Prince of Wales, *fter|

The book peddler and I millions, between a husband

plo'ture peddler should alsob* taxed, and Lhodo«. not deny that he married her A

for

I heartless combination of odd circum-

pUn0W| and

mav

The male voters of Kiowa, Kansas, elected Mrs. Paxton mayor of the city "just for fun." The men even askell her consent to be a candidate. Now she is having the fun. She is a strong tem-

tition signed by nearly all the male voters has been sent her asking her to [resign. The first signature on the petition is that of her hushaud. She refuses to resign for all that.

The Bernardo homes for waifs in and about London, England, show what well managed helpfulness may do. Tbey have cottages in quiet country villages I and send their little street arabs to these, surrounding them with civilizing influences and later having them adopted p&y respectable families. They have an average of 4,000 childien in these homes, and up to September had suc-

over They

meetings a success and they are going to bold their own. In addition to having the finest grounds and best track in the state tbey have, the horses here and ,h. hnraoinen behind I YgWwiTo'i.' now tooccupy public I indisposition*, what makes success.

be no

districts of Russia.

basis as your Uncle Sam

In addition to money for stocks and bonds we will have millions for our staples that Europe needs. Raising the discount in tho Bank of England to 4 »t keep the gold on the little island. I The western farmers waut a pile of it.

TERRE HAUTE, IND, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1891.

have placed

these children in this country,

nearly aU are

doing well. Such a

worjt tjjj8 l8 Worthy

of study and em-

ulatlon for 8avejJ bodieJJ and soul8

We call ourselves a peaceful people, but we have had more wars that many realize, and we have every year moriB murders than any uncivilized nations of as large populations. Indiana itself highly civilized, trots well in front of the murder and divorce column. In a little more thau a hundred years we had the revolutionary war, wars with Mexico, England, Tripoli and Algiers, and:% gigantic civil war, with more than t^o hundred little or large battles with Indians, losing more men in war since 1770 than any great nation of Europe. Such facts will be new to many, but becaifse they are facts they compel recognition and furnish food for serious reflection.

chronicle of his progress toward the estate of knickerbockers. But the fact that his nose is out of joint is undeuinble. His own nurse couldn't contradict it. Ho must make way for the

the« Our

IMM»

"n |y° that nubile at-1 advisedly agr

nttention. Lot bope that Pnbii,= at-1:

tention

won't

spoil her, and that ion si

she grows up she will be nice to Master go^

McKee. Mahone is stirring again in Virginia, and evidently seeks to repair his maand get it in running order. As!

pRrty

by the statement that 180,000 doubtless* find it easy to extend the

Ltrong

can get an office. Virginia Boulanger. Mr. Harrison has £.hich

onC0

opposition to Mahone is

oro lv BIa|ne| Mr

arm

kind on the former occasion

b|U doublie8S

but lhey

epidemic la grippe will I

uwni «h»v w»t.»rn thli winter. The weigut oi had example, neunuiug I no onu always finding customers fc^-aus* the return ungraciousness of the Han-

hi sfy. awi,e writer, ^hn^s and cowardice of the Stuarts.

tlon lo

tition with men who have .---J !wi„ro amonK disease* for vears to come, taking the Ill-omened title, Duke was her fussing to his? Beside, insurance, clerk hire and city t*x* fixture smong disease*

nothing and The fight for Mr*. Mark Lp in an ugly and tragic scandal.

there is

milllonairi. -bo mad. the MOW ta UflolUon ol a

.„4w.n, and a no* d~d, hi. brwdth," ar. JZi van the crand scramble over her corps for not always follow that a sermon can he takkthkm txvws. .L0ducats. boiled down into a stickful, or an epic

suspected that all

those

ho is more powetful now

At any rate it is safe to guess that he will be particularly confident of General Mahone's stern, unyielding and incorruptible Republicanism.

There seems to be a sort of meanness

quickly

consider it one of their privi-

not

to be found out in setting a

hot summer has been the! ^he combination is anything but *1 fered,

df(| tbe tty ooe. It l8 carious

en in

tfqppr-S1-

A MAN'S OBSERVATIONS.

THERE IS TROUBLE ENOUGH IN THE WORLD WITHOUT BORROWING IT.

Ik.,:

Illustration* of Men who are Under the Weather, aad How They Act—Caused by Their Own Foolishness, Tet They Never Have Any Blame for Themselves.

One would naturally suppose that there was enough trouble in the world without people, as the saying is, "borrowing trouble.'^ Yet, how many there are in every community who suffer the unnecessary and uncalled for affliction of "borrowing trouble," with comfortable and happy home surroundings, and not the least impediment to disturb the serenity and peacefulness of their everyday life. Still, in their meditative moments they brew trouble and discontent for themselves and unbappmeas and annoyance for their friends. If these same people would display one-half the deliberation exercised in producing (his disease of the mind, to the obliteration of evil thoughts, tbey would soon learn the fallacy of permitting the mind to run wild upou theories that are destructive lo body and soul. There is sufficient real trouble in the world without imaginary trouble. It comes to all of us full top soon, without anyone resorting to extreme of extending an invitation, insane asylums are crowded with Ijiotlms of imaginary wrongs. Thoughtlessly at first they permitted some vague impression to enter the mind, whioh gradually grew until it developed into a disease and the rlotim became lost to relatives and friends by being buried within the dungeon-like walls of an insane asylum. What a sad and deplorable condition they present, once the reason is dethroned, and their gaze fixed, apparently, on vacant space. All this, however, is the result, in innumerable oases, of borrowing trouble on the start. Reader, if either yourself or any friend is given to borrowing trouble, resolve to relieve yourself or them of the affliction as speedily as possible, ere it is too late. It is like the green-eyed monster jeal-

ousy, making the meat it feeds on.

In hinting that Master McKee's nose I borrow trouble! Will power is a is out of joint we intend to express |g|§at panacea in such cases. It is strondlsrespect toward this popular you*^Jt^r ^han Imaginations, if properly exergentleman. His position and his au

cfsed, and by far more beneficial. J.

_Tt1

W ai n«UB "W Mtoms of men and women diverge more or less widely, but there Is, probably, nothing in which the difference Is more strongly marked than in their respective methods of bearing small Illnesses and

countenances

Harrison will

of bis protection over the

before performed the same foster-

kindness,

Jame8 rlvor

»nd the waters of the

have danced in gratitude.

Jt wwm't 0f

much use for Mr. Harrison

Rut when

about the immorality of tho men of Lmas5emeut, cannot conceive how he the English royal family. They run L^ght !t, and regards himself as a vievery

to hide when any of their

note that the first act or the eld- Lhat

writer

gold, and an adopted son who cares Advertiser complains of ^^J"*

were iKwsibl*. They are unmitigated conceal his rapacity, is a pitiful heavy editorial leaders in the pruminen

devimA m«re KeW

justification for the

unscrupulous gre«d. The! Editorials which remind one of

wtrea on the streets, whiek ZtLrina things whlch Mr. Ingalis Ths breexy paragraph i*. bow«r8f' I always professes his belief pUoes thick as^ to almostthe labored another name for daylight, i« ^mmeudable I will^ the aacrifk*.Icoudem^d thought replacing Parous 1 ™v°nJDOB. At tbesmsllest c#ive a hearty endorsement, Tbe pl*» forced her with the] theorising. At the same time it should

wirss I* under the grouua, a»a nke be went and meat, supported by re^sUees facts ana j-. himself to be extremely.

.hud^iy

Small ones, be it said,

ftimo«t

the heavy cold comes be is all

L,m grievously

peccadilloes are brought to light. They deserving of all possible sympathy an don't consider It one of the duties "M compassion. As a role, a ^°™an their station to set a good example, abundantly pitiful and sympathetic out though tne nation pays them to do it,

ill-treated by fate and

it mU8t requlre

her

when

immense command over

risible muscles to repress a smt

her lord gravely assures

^not

bave

what b.

the many

tbe faintest conception

is enduring. Sb«.thinks of

from which she b» suf-

and for

i. this connec-

which be has a way

demoed her for

make

n.i

Lre

E«c"d

be condensed into a thrc*Mtanza poem.

K.i«riMhn he* ribw "Every community! condensed beyond reasonable I nerrersity, absolutely refuses to

eL to h«v* The people, he «yii I trivial. The brevity of an edltomiwi

the fountain of power, the weU- by no mearis an Index of Its usefulness

spring of goTwnamant, sod tl*e ipovsra-{or powar.

"coddling," ^"SSKl

"a mere trifle, nothing

a fuss about." And y®^ ..

mlxed afae WJUJ wnUng

remedies

to try

as experience has taught her

most efficacious,

in the New York ^m^i^ nothing, though he com-

olllill#

York journals. In too many casesi for him or appears to

while be can be per

go^jy that no one does anything

pears

compassionate bis

It is hardly a happy time for those brought much in contact with him. If he suffers from a headache, the whole machinery of the house must not a door must creak nor a footfall be heard, though he Is the last person in the world to respect the headaches of

o{ big naoa]

robust health,

from whatever cause it may arise, he at

iBi

"d rtr^u,

wjjge%

commiserate and mske

est degree alarmed so long as he grumbles and bewails himself when he becomes silent as to his sufferings they at once conclude that something serious is really the matter.

Perhaps the most doleful spectacle that can be presented to the imagination is that of a man afflicted with toothache. It ceitainly Is a most wearing aud distressing pain still, it has been endured at different times by almost every one. It is edifying to note that though when any one else has been attacked with the same torment he has recommended instant recourse to a dentist, and has derided any backwardness in following his advice as cowardice, he is, when his own time comes, no more eager to plant himself in the chair of doom than were his despised friends, and is fertile in inventing expedients for puttiug off the evil day, probably, if the pain abates, to a remote date. A woman must be very near, indeed, akin to an angel, who, after her husband or some other near male relative, has for years laughed to soorn her complaints of agonizing neuralgiatelling her that "it is all fancy," "only nerves," (could it be anything worse?) that she would never have it if she did not think about it, or if she took more exercise, or if she did something or other totally out of her power to do—does not, sorry as she may be that he should suffer, feel a certain satisfaction when the enemy seizes upon him and he is made to feel what she has endured.

The absurdity of men's utterances never seems to strike them, even when they gravely affirm that no ono oan possibly gauge their sufferings from an ordinary cold in the head. There is no offense so great as to try and persuade a man that, disagreeable as it may be, it is but a temporary inconvenience, whioh, in a vory short space of time, will pass away, leaving not a trace behind he regards this simple exposition of fact as most unfeeling, and bemoans himself plaintively that no one cares whether he is ill or not. He believes firmly that he Is a model of patience under suffering. The women about him will be wise if they abstain from irritating him by any refutation of this prepospterous fallacy. It may be admitted that it is difficult for them to hold their peace when they see him deliberately making himself ill by eating or drinking what be knows from experience will disagree with him._ It Is rfweet 'ehanipagne, or to mahilesrtt§ep

sympathy with a headache

lobster-salad.

do with the matter,

apathetic patience

8ever5ty.

But with smaller

ailments the case is different and it is

in their manner of bearing them that men so often raise

a pitying

smile on the

of their leas robust but

long-suffering

womankind. It

never seems to occur to an ordinary lord of creation that it within the bounds

lon inav

IWis

ibUity

that one of the minor Ills

flegb j8

heir should touch him

and he is as astonished and ps aggrieved when he finds himself suffering from headache or a fit *f cold as if the malady were a perfectly abnormal occurrence. This is the more remarkable as, almost invariably, he scoffs at and laughs to scorn any precautionary measures-de cllnes to change wet shoes as being "o no consequence," and persistently siu» in a draught because be is over-heated.

produqod

But

allow

that

over-indulgence in pickled-salmon

and-persists

garding himself as the martyr of cruel I dance equally well. The play fate. tells an interesting story of life at the I „resent day in South Carolina and

People and Things.

being the easiest lame as he is from his fall In Swiuerland.

Rubenstein, tho composer, has an abnormally happy and comprehensive appetite. and at 62 can get away with a

dinnor that would be equal to a month dyspepsia for an ordinary man. Don Carlos, pretender to the throne of I

Spain, who Is living at the present time I

in Vonlco, Is said to be badly in need of monev. He was obliged, according to reports, to pawn his jewels a short time

a„0.

man, has put in an application for the position of police dwetor in Denver. Ho

him allee samee police doc to. John L. Sullivan has sent home lo his

was the speech he hurled at it: 111] pot a tail on you'se fellys, see?" A queer sight to be seen almost any day upon the streets of Danville, Ind., is tkst of Johnny Craig, tbe largest man in the world, wheeling along his 6-months-old baby in an ordinary baby carriage. Craig now weighs 823 pounds, while young Master Craig, Jr., Is not above the average 6-months-old child

Twenty-second Year

AMUSEMENTS.

SHKXANDOAH TO-NIGHT.

Bronson Howard's sucoessful play "Shenandoah," will be presented at Naylor's opera house to-night, Saturday, by a thoroughly competent company and with the same regards as to detail, that has characterised the production elsewhere. The advanoe sale of seats has been large. "Shenandoah" is the greatest play dealing with the war of the rebellion and should be seen by all,

ANOTHER OF FROHMAN's SCtXJRSSES. The notable event of the coming week 1 will be the production of GUlett's latoSi comedy success, Mr. Wilkinson's \Vidows," at Naylor's on Monday Evening by Manager Charles Frohman's comedy organization. Mr. GUlett's comedy is said to be in many particulars the best play of its kind that our stage has ever shown. Constructed ou the basis of a plot suggested by tho cleverness of Alexander's Blsson's "Feu Toupinel," the new piece has been so altered,, improved and enlivened by the American author, that the entire success of its production is due more to the ingenuity of Mr. Gillette's adaptation than to the humor of the original story. Mr. GUlett's drollery as showu in his newest oomedy is confined almost wholly to the amusing cross purposes and perplexing dilemmas Into which the French author has led his characters and through a greater, but less risky maze of which Mr. Gillette* has continued them. The action in the present instance turns upon the fact that the late Mr. Wilkinson kept a double establishment, and left two widows, each of whom is in ignorance of the other's existence. Tho ladies got married again, and by accident take adjoining apartments in London. The ultimate discovery of the deceased Wilkinson's perfidy is brought about by a series of highly diverting incidents, in which a meddling friend, a saucy servaut girl, and a couple of portraits play prominent parts.

BIRDS OF A FKATHKR."

The attraction at Naylor's next Tuesday Evening will be Herbert Hall Winslow's latest comody-drama, "Birds of a Feather," which Is expooted to create more than ordinary interest owing to its Btrong plot, consistent fun, special scenery and realistic and mechanical effects. The production of

.and

the company iheludfis such'well

known comediann

the victim will never I njy

imprudence has anything to form

Houthern

vonjnK.M entertainment.

I'RIMROSK

tbe

the lob as If it was natural to him and ever put before the public. As this ennot an acquired ta«e. t»rpri»ing firm h».n.v,r given anything not an ai,qu

Chu Chung, an innocent old China-1 but the best^

friend. In I .ntrodnc^l during th. olio by Oeo. enough to tako blm ont of An.tr.ll. l°»od^ ,.Tll0

as the well known

Frauk

Mc'Nlsh, Georgo Ober,

Mc DonoU{?h

and others. The

a strong

attraction,

iu ro-1^ young and pretty and can act,

scenes

Tf Stanley and wife go to Australia fidelity to detail. Among the novel /hJ^SurCanaTand Vld Sea route as features will be a real cotton gin In Ml the Sue, Canal and hed

they

are re-produced

with

and Ul6 lljrllllng

^.satlonal

rescue, in which a young girl walks across a telegraph wire auspended in mid-air and nnve» a man from

a burn

ing cotton warehouse. Tho play will bo given here under tho personal supervision of the author and management gaurantee a novel and interesting performance. Those who like plays of the

wj]) fJnJ jn lb) aboVe

an enjoyable

Price 25, 50

WKST'M MINHTHKIX.

I/O vers of minstrelsy will be pleased

to bear of the engagement of the popular

"olncral Robert B. I-ee f.»oril«, PHmro« & fond of kissing the pretty girls as Gen- company, at Naylor ou next Thursday eral Sherman was and, if anything, had evening, Oct. 22nd. Thoy claim to have more plausible knack of going through

best company this season they have

in thejr

}j„„, theatregoers

ance. The first part in no»el and strikingly beautiful.

The vocal corps Is com-

an and

Thompson, J. Melville Frank Cushman. a nnmber of novel features will bo

Dr„ther,

gars," beautifully arranged, Is one of tbe great features of tbe show, Tbe performance is brought to a close by the Big 4, Smith, Waldron, Jansen and Martin In a sketch called "Trouble In Blackville." The advanoe sale will take place Tuesday morning at Button's.

The F. M. H. A. Election,

The county Farmers Mutual Benefit Association met In delegate convention

General Booth, the Salvation Army I jn the court house last Tuesday afterpommander, whose authority extends

nooa and

over a million soldiers, is a loose Jointed and rather awkward man of medium! j^retary—Charlf*T.Cwk.oflo«t rt!ek. .. H« is anmilar and narrow-cbest- Treasuw-WIHIam Fn*h. of Fayette. ^*Snt fh.^

*****w

Zi overh^ =he«. binds are large, and remind tbe observer Rankin, t. T. Cook, 8. T. Jones, Jmrn '^^Lnyhw.d.ofU-^n tvron Robert BUch, John Tmt and J. toll. General Booth is now 02 year* old, and for forty years has been preaching tbe gospel- Be is a man of great earacininesn and force, and seems entirely dsvoid sham and pretentiousness.

elected the following officers

I. E. Kester. The newly elected officers were Installed by P. 3. Ward, the retiring president. There was a large attendance, and the proceedings were very harmonious.