Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 23, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 May 1893 — Page 1

Vol. 23.-NO.

RANDOM SHOTS.

The question of raising the saiarle^of

the judges of the Circuit and Superior courts came up on appeal in the latter last Monday. George A. Knight, of Brazil, was on tho bench as special judge to try the case. Attorney Martin Hollinger attempted to enter an appearance tor those who remonstrated against the raise, bnt the court ruled bitn out on the ground that his clients were not parties to tbe*action. To this Mr. Hollinger asked an exception, but the court said be could grant no exception until the party asking for it could get into the case. Tho judge refused to make the record show that Mr. Hollinger bad made a demand to be allowed to appear as counsel, but agreed to give him a written statement to that effect on a separate slip of paper. After the case had been commenced County At torney Hamill entered an appearance for thecounty commissioners. He moved to dismiss the appeal, on the groumt that there is no provision on the statute books for an appeal from the decision of the commissioners, but that was overruled and he excepted. The county attorney then moved for a jury trial, which was also overruled. Then he except

od to Mr. Knight hearing the case nt all because the law made no pjovisiou for going to another county for htm. Nearly ©very member of tho bar testified that tho salary of the judge should bo 94,'000 a year, while several of tho farinors who aro opposing the raise swore that $2,500 is enough. The crossexamination of those favoring the raiso was principally an attempt to show that the purchasing power of money is much greater in 1803 than it was in 1883, and resulted In a Hat contradiction of many thb campaign speeches which were made last year. The case will probably be taken to the Supreme court, on whose shoulders will be thrown the final responsibility.

Tho flag of trace which was bung out in tho poMtmastership war last Saturday whs succeeded after businoss hours by a surrender of the office to the new postimtHter, who has since been la undisturbed possession. The work of Friday, however, called here two distinguished civil service reformers, William Dudley Foulke, of Fort Wayne, and Lucius B. Swift, of Indianapolis. At one time these two gcmtlei#,en wew Indent Republicans with whose political righteonsuess their party couldn't keep pace, ho they went over to the moral and reform party aud have since supported Mr. Cievoland. Mr. Swift is editor of tho Civil Service Chronicle, a monthly paper published in Indianapolis, and whoso nolo objoot in life is reform in the civil seryiee. During tho last campaign it devoted all its energies towards the defeat of Mr. Harrison. After the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland itgaye him some civil service advice stripped of tho bark. When Gray was a candidate for the Mexican mission and Frank Burke for the district attorneyship of ludiana, it gave its undivided attention to tho publication of all the disagreeable things which the press had to say of those gentlemen also numerous left-handed compliment* concerning Senators Voorheos and Turpi©. Messrs. Foulke and Swift belong to that eVtss of mortals who were born to kick. *nd it is, perhaps, needless to remark that ouch is making an earnest endeavor to fulfill his mission in life. Their presence here l.ist Sunday was gyl unexpected, nor was it considered a serious breach of religious etiquott when they remained away from church, rolled up their shirt sleeves and performed a day's hard work in the civil service reform vineyard. Probably they honestly belie red the occasion required it, aud as no one seems to have been even slightly injured by it they will doubtless be excused if they sin no more.

The civil service reformers claim to have ohtaitied all the information they wanted, and left hero feeling confident that as toon as the president heard from them Mr. Ponbam would be promptly removed. The president has heard from them doubtless on several invasions, but no change has yet been made, nor is there and immediate prospect of any. Furthermore, it might be asserted with almost positive assurauce that civil service will be ignored and that the spoils will be divided among the victors with time honored regularity. The existing state of affairs has doubt* lee# called out many mental expressions concerning politics. If Ool. Hunter were asked for an expression be would doubtless say: "Politics is a homeopathic doee of Mr. Austin might cheerfully remark that "whenever you see one man put the shoulders of a lot of the other men to the wheel- that's [polities. The man who can put the shoulder* of the most men to the wheel, and let ibeus do the work, Is the moat suecemsful politician." If he were asked

Joha Lamb would perhaps say: "Politic* is to succeed." If you would ask A. Z. Foster he might»renture the remark ibat "true political la the science of 'government false politic*, the Intrigue of office getting." The man who is given to moralising would tell you that *to the ambitious politics is a delusion [to the sincere, a disappointment to the

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At the meeting of the council on Tuesday evening Secretary Zimmermafi rudmitted a report from the board of health in which ho stated that 1,250 notices had been served for the removal of filth and garbage 120 vaults have been cleaned, and over thirty tons of garbage are removed daily and dumped across the river. As the city derives all the disadvantages arising from the fifth accumulations across the river, it is desirable that It should be disposed of in some other way, and the board recommends the erection of a crematory, which can be procured for less than §4,000. There is alMO more or less complaint as to the prosecution, or non-prosecution, of violators of the sanitary regulations o( the city. If Mayor Ross is reported correctly there is no necessity for the board of health, as he intends to be sole judge as to who shall be prosecuted and punished. In evory other city in the country the necessity for the strict observance of the most exacting sanitary regulations is fully recognized, and their violation is promptly aud severely punished. If the city would take the matter in it# own hands there would be no need of prosecutions, the city would be kept clean at an insignificant expense, the dauger from oholera, which is confidently expected this summer, would be avoided, and every person would feel at ease. Wherever fifth is found it should be made the duty of the street commissioner to remove it, just as it is his duty to repair the streets, audit is more imperative just now that the streets aud alleys be kept clean than that they be kept in the condition of a race track. It should be made the duty of every policeman to detect persons who deposit objectionable matter in the streets aud to prosecute them for it before the proper authorities. In this way, and in this way only, can the city be kept|n good sanitary condition.

The season of the screen door is at baud, and ita usefulness ia not always confined to keeping out flies, than which there are won* pests. It is a great protection against peddlers and solicitors. When the bell is rung the housewife or somebody must go to the door. In the days before the general use of screen doon the solicitor gracefully insinuated himself within the domicile while be was talking. ThU waa one advantage and a great point gained. No woman cares to refuse a polite man the privilege of stepping on the inside of the house. Now, however, she opens the first door aud unless it be some one she knows ake allows the screen door to remain hooked. Here la an impassible barrier to the solicitor or peddler. He oan go no further. He am make his errand known andean be told that nothing la wanted without the ladj of the house

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how many or how great are the disappointments which politics* has ia store for its vortarles, to engage in it will continue to be an absorbing game which will hold its own, and in which men will always stand ready to try their lack until time aud eternity shall join hands. Politics has an attraction which those who engage in it cannot resist.

Hereafter the World's Fair will be open to the wholo world on Sunday as it ib on other days, and on precisely the same conditions. The contract with congress, that in consideration of the payment by the government to the directors of §2,500,000, in souvenir half dollars, the fair should be closed on the first day of the week, has been abrogated. The money is to be returned. Of the thirty-six directors who voted on the question only two are recorded as voting against it, and it is not thought that their overwhelming defeat has been taken seriously to heart. The movement was not taken without due consideration, and the action will be sustained by the masses of the people. In returning the money to congress the fair directors did an honest act, and in throwing open the gates on Sunday they not only confer an inestimable benefit upon clvililation, but furnish tho people with an inspiration for the wholesome things in life, setting free a spirit which has too long bowed in the shackles of bondage to a bigotry which styles itself righteousness. Already the churches have declared war on the fair, and threaten all kinds of dire results from the opening. An organization has been perfected which has for its object systematic work against the fair, not only on Sunday, but on every other day of the week. It is confidently announced that the church members will withhold their patronage, but no one seriously believes it. The great miijority of church-going people of this country have become too liberal minded for anything of that kind. They know that many who attend the fair on Sunday would put their time to a worse use if they were not there, and they Snow that all who attend on Sunday will learn something good and positively nothing bad. The business of the Chicago saloons will be materially decreased on &Undi£y*an&it may be that some will be led away from prosy sermons on that day to spend a fow hours in viewing more pleasing sights.

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Thursday night was a great tipe among the Knights of Pythias of this city. Paul Revere Lodge/No, 374, was open to third degree work, which was conducted by thirty members of .the Brazil lodge, the moat accomplished in the state, and was witnessed by many members of the other local lodges. The new paraphernalia was used for ii$8 first time, and the work was under the new ritual. The gentlemen from Brazil wlio •officiated were Messrs. E. E. Elliott, chancellor commander William Loid«rs, vice chanoollor Charley York, prelate J. D. Hawkins, keeper of records and seals G. S. Ralston, M. F. J". M. Turner, M. E., and Jerome Boyle, M. of W. The other visiting members from Brazil were John Morgan, A. D. Smith, Will T. Moas, John McCullough, John Stottlemeyer, James Hayward, W. P. Bland, George McHenry, H. C. Keith, Richard Gsborn, William Snyder, Robt. Hawkins, R. H. Crouch, James Hoskins, C. D. Frazer, James McClelaud, William Harper, Tom McRea, Thomas Hutchinson. T. A. Downs, J. H. Huflman. After the ceremony refreshments were served in the banquet ball.

In their gigantic immensity the Adam Forepaugh Shows are a veritable revelation this year. Nothing like them has ever been seen in this country. They unite all the standard attractions of previous years to the most magnificent representation of ancient or modern times, the scenes and battles of 177(3—the American Revolution this is an exact reproduction of all the most important events in the struggle for American free dom. Indeed it is said that the production of tho representation has been made upon a scale of such lavishness that it can hardly be profitable to the great shows. It is explained, however, that such provision has been made to seat spectators that 10,000 people can witness the magnificent sight git each performance. It only remains for the public tt appreciate the enormous magnitude and superlative merit of the trdmenclou'*! show to insure an attendance at eaoH performance that will test the vast capacity of the mammoth pavilion beneath which the exhibition is given. No one should miss seeing them. They are here to-day.

A damage euit against a railroad company was tried in the Circuit court this week with the usual result in such cases. Eleanor Denny, of Otter Creek township, brought suit against the C. ft E. I. railroad company, claiming $5,000 for injuries received at the hands of the corporation. She alleged that she boarded the tram at Atherton that while on the platform of the car the train gave a jerk, causing a wrench of her body and a strain of the reck which resulted in partial paralysis of the spinal cord. The jury considered the case less than two hours, giving her $4,500 damages, and the company wants a new trial. Another person who wants damages from a railroad company is Burt W. Biggs, of Nevins, township, who says that by reason of the Chicago and Indiana coal railroad's building an embankment his twenty acres of land have been more or less overflowed and damaged for six years oast. The thirty seven acres, of which this tract is a part, is assessed at 1570. He wants $1,000 damages.

It is a great pity that so many worthless dogs are allowed the freedom of the town, and it is to be regretted that some effective means cannot be devised for their extinction. When the assessor is around no person owns them, and there is not one in ten of them on which taxes are paid. There are localities in which they are an uxnitigated nuisance and a constant source of annoyance. Walk along a fence and they are everlastingly snarling at your heels, while at night they bay the moon, or in her absence the stars. They prowl the streets by day and howl by night, keeping people awake and helping tbe cause of Satan by the profanity which they draw from an Impatient and long suffering people. The police might be instructed to use them for targets when the opportunity offers, and a price should be placed upon their scalps.

The Hudnuts met with another severe loss on Monday night. The four story union elevator, on Water and Chesnut streets, near the river, containing 25,000 bushels of com and oats was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is about$30,000, folly covered by insurance in about a dozen companies. The fire started from a locomotive spark, which ignited a pile of straw this set fire to a box car and then through tho loading chute to tbe elevator. The entire fire department was called to the scene and it was only by hard fighting tbe big Hud nut hominy mill adjoining was saved. Within the last few months the Hudnuts have suffered the total Ion of their hominy mill at Mt. Vernon and their elevator at Clinton. The elevator here will be rebuilt at once.

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TERRE HAUTE, IKD., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20,1893. Twenty-third Year

WOMAN'S WAYS.'

Every day one sees more and more of the hypocrisy of social life, and what makes matters ten times worse is that it cannot be remedied, for strange as it may sound, it is this yery hypocrisy that tends to soften the rugged edges of life's burdens, to "bridge over wide, yawning chasms of cynicism and, to use an expression more forcible than polite, it puts us on very good terms with ourselves. There are those who prate of candor and frankness, never to be deviated from on any occasion, yet if this truly good rule were to be applied to every happening of our daily life we would certainly dislike those whom now we regard as such delightful creatures because they always say kind and comforting things to us. There are many instances in which if we spoke the truth we would win more enemies than we could count, and yet in our hearts we know wo are telling untruths when we give utterance to sentiments that we do not feel just for the sake of keeping the peace. Culture and refinement call for a certain amount of dissimulation, aud the outspoken creature who says exactly what she thinks is accounted most rudo by her asbociates. Tho truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth does not hold good in the best circles. One cannot be? hung for his thoughts, but outspoken comment tells against us every time. Polish means prevarication, white lies are necessary allies of asocial leader, and, though it may sound like rank heresy, to be popular one must not be too candid. Flattery aud soft words will carry you further over the ocean of worldly preferment than the honest expression of your genuine sentiments.

Though the great world of women is quite aware that "imitation is the sincerest flattery," still, the feminine mind cau never be convinced that there is anything complimentary about another copying to the minutest detail some gown which she has laid awaKe nights to think out and to make strikingly original. Such an action savors of tbe "raal mean" according to the code of manners and morals laid down by. the gentler sex. The one great aim of the feminine mind is to be original in style, walk, in accent and in dress, and let another poach on the preserves that bear the mental sign board "no trespassing," and unkind feeling is certain to result. You see there are so many womon in the world that it makes it somewhat difficult to escape becoming the common place individual that only differs from her numerous sisters in the color of her eyes or haix. Therefore, when the desired result is obtained and you are certain that you have won the distinction of being original In 6ne way or another it is excessively trying to have someone coma along and "steal your thunder," with neyer a moment's loss of sleep or one hour of thought, in order to produce quite as much of a sensation as you do yourself. Originality, though, is but a step removed from a peculiarity which, while it attracts for the moment, leayes no impression of beauty on the mind of the Deholder. Such an individuality is better eschewed, and unless one knows that the eccentric mannerism, the especial style of dress, the perfume or the unusual walk are pleasing and beautifying it is better to remain commonplace forever for,afterall, there is nothing better or more lasting than the charms of a womanly woman who has no desire to be outre In any particular.

Many women, particularly the more youthful ones, commit through carelessness or thoughtiessnees many breaches of good manners which need but a reminder to be speedily remedied. To begin with, the sweet tooth of the average American girl tempts her to eat candy in the Btreet and at the theaters, though she may be quite aware that to do so is not good form. The same girl who would scern to eat peanuts and condemns those delicacies as "vulgar" munches away on caramels or buttercups in public vehicles, public thoroughfares and public places of amusement. Many young women, the best-hearted in the world, will wound their parents' hearts by openly correcting or contradicting them, fergetting that their own superior knowledge doss not show up. to advantage when paraded at the expense of good manners. This habit on the part of the younger members of society is one that should be nipped in the bud at once. Suppose father or mother do mispronounce a word, make a misstatement, or fall into an error of grammar, does it make things any better by emphasizing their faults so openly? The first law of good manners is consideration and respect for those older than ourselves, therefore that, outside of acy other promptings, should restrain the flippant correction of parents before strangers at least, lb discuss your clothes, your servants or your domestic affairs Is to atamp yourself ill-bred. General conyersation is the only sort tolerated in the best circles. Do not talk and laugh at the theatre or other places of amusement, annoying those about yon who oome to enjoy the performance and not your conversation. Do not stare at people and then discuss them so that there Is 00 possibility of their mistaking the

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It is presumably the original sin in every one's nature that causes even tho best of us to like in our hearts the scapegrace rather than the goody-goody. It is wrong, of course, but as true as gospel. The woman never yet existod who did not enjoy more fully something that savored just a little bit of wickedness, rather than an entertainment that was conducted on strictly religious principles. It is all on a par with the sentiment ol the Frenchman, who declared that a strawberry would be much more delightful if it were only a sin to eat it. Since we were children, it has been instilled into us that Bohemiauism is but a superior sort of vagrancy and that Bohemians wore not much better than tramps, yet what a fascination there is even in the sound of the word? It is so suggestive of literary cotories where brains were a drug on the market while the necessaries of life were at a promium. It suggests improvident squandering of money when any came into the coffers and a hail-fellow-well-met cordiality whether crusts or campagno graced the board. Bohemians are attractive creatures, and their world, an undiscovered and beautiful country, filled with that mystery that lures while It repels. It is this weird and entirely new atmosphere that society is trying to breathe in tho Vaudeville Club that has just started in New York. Gracious and lovely women in evening gowns leave tho refining influences of their own homes, or entertainments where talent a culture me6t, and assemble in a music hall whero smoking and drinking are permitted, to witness a variety performance, and undoubtedly enjoy this sort of thing more than a round of elevating pleasure, simply beoause it savors of tho unusual, and presents a phase of life at which they have never before been permitted even to peep. It is but human nature after all, but whether the enterprise proves a success after the first bloom has been brushed from the forbidden fruit still remains to be seen.

"My heart always bleeds for a child who is brought up in a boarding house," said a motherly woman with a littlo brood of her own, who understood fully all that the word "homo" implies. This remark set ua to thinking, and as there are so many families that board, the subject appeared to be one that could most easily be studied and the real life of little folks whose home means the routine of boarding, learned from observations. After watching half a dozen small men and women the conclusion was arrived at that the motherly lady's heart had good reason for all the sympathy that emanated from that organ. To begin with, the child soon ceases to be other than a child in name. Surrounded by grown people, the feminine portion of which spends its time in gossip of a nature that has no tendency to improve either the morals or the manners of the youthful listener, tie little son or daughter soon prefers the talk that goes on in "mamma's" room to any blocks, dollies or tin soldiers that ever were manufactured, and though ostensibly engaged with its toys the player on the floor is not so engrossed in its own occupation as to forget to say "Go on" when mamma or some of her friends pause in the recital of something of which a child should be kept in ignorance. Outside cf this dire influence on the mind aud instincts of the children whose parents live their lives in boarding houses comes the deprivation of enjoyments that belong to the child brought up in a home of its own, no matter how bumble that roof tree may be. There is no messing in the kitchen, no gay revels in the garden or rare frolics in the nursery or play room. They must toe the mark or be put out. Signs read that they must not run through the halls there can be no merry shouts of welcome for father or mother. The spirits of childhood must be crushed out lest the eftervescent flood annoy the lady underneath or gentleman next door. If young married people find it economical or less trouble to board, let them do so, and may they manage to get all the joy Out of such an existence that they can but when the little ones arrive for the sake of their future the parents should take up their abode in a little house of their own, so that the child's earliest memories will net be associated with the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding house.

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vehicles would have upon the sidewalk. The crossings at the street corners belong to pedes trains, who have by law the right of way there, as against teams. Msny drivers ignore the law and go dashing over sidewalks, endangering lives and limbs of pedestrians, without thinking they are violating the law. Ho vehicle or hone can, within the law, be driven rapidly over tbe crossings, nor can the driver obstruct the

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DID IT EVER STRIKE YOU.

That some men are decent for revenue only. That an ounce of action is frequently worth several pounds of talk.

That it is nothing against cremation because all poisoners favor It. That for every consulate there aro many disconsolates in Indiana.

That in nailing a lie little good is accomplished by fastening it ou somebody else.

That politeness, like beefsteak, had better be a little underdone than overdone.

That aorno people never know what they don't want till they have to pay for it.

That all signs around the horizon show that this is a mighty poor year for strikes.

That there is no reason why a fourth olass postmaster should not always bo a first class man.

That in the future an aggravated case of big head will bo appropriately referred to as tho Pennoyer.

That the Indiana oflloe-soekers have caught their seooud wind and aro lining up to tho pie counter.

That some people or a great deal like butter—the softer they are the more they spread themselves.

That many of the office-seekers are willing to pay World's Fair prices for slices of Washington pastry.

That if it were only are easy to improve methods as It is to criticise results this' would be a very happy world.

That the World's Fair Is a safer and better place of a Sunday afternoon than the streets and saloons of Chicago.

That it is much better for a newspaper man to say something and stick to, it than to say nothing and keep at it.

That it is a strange meteorological fact that the sun never shines so hot on a base ball ground as it does on a harvest field.

That the working of a leather trust aud squeeze in tho grain market aro disagreeably suggestive of tight boots aud corns.

That thus far the World's Fair has resulted. in^a large over production of poetry of the three miauto class or worse.

That those who go to Chicago will have no occasion to "look out for pickpockets" after they have beon there eight or ten days.

That one of tho peculiar properties of the Maxwell brand of axe is that the man who uses it is not the man whom it makes tirod.

That the trouble with the cordage trust was that in trying to get the country on a string they gave themselves too much rope.

That so far as closing the World's Fair on Sunday is ooncerned many people display a cheerful willingness to shut up rather than put up.

That the greatest trouble with the man who learns to play poker is that when he has the game down pat he hasn't the wherewith with which to play.

That if you have ever had a little bit of dirt in your eye you ought to be able to appreciate the worry and anxiety of the patriot who has a big ofiice in his.

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