Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 November 1893 — Page 1

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

••RUSH" Harrison seems to have a |gs dampening effect on the community, IP Instead of the "fellow citizens" turning

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oat and burning tar barrels in honor of fifi the son of his father, we see ominous ^7! head-shakings and gloomy looks. In •-J, fact, Is Royal 'Ighness has committed such egreflrfous blunders in various |5 other towns like our own, that Terre

Haute is slow to congratulate the Electric Street Railway on its new president. Mr. Harrison is looked upon by business men as a fine young man who is con stantly buying a larger hat, and who is used by'foxy financiers as a cat's-paw. The gentlemen he represents are adepts at money making, and will not care if very many rye-straws as to how it is made. All that talk about building great extensions and electric fountains is gush and slush. It will be a lucky ^v,day for Terre Haute if the company doesn't curtail its motormen's wages and invest in a herd of shave-tail mules.

Speaking of the shave-tail mulo reminds us that poor old Evansville's stone idol has again fallen on bis face, and instead of "Mackey in the saddle," as Perry Huston would have it, "Mackey on his back" would tell the story better. And to add insult to injury the very Lamasco papers thatsofulsomely served up Mackey every morning with flatterer's sauce, now abuse him roundly because hints are out that the railroad shops will move to Princeton. That's what a man gets for living in Evansyille. §1 yffiMr. Mackey will be welcomed with open arms if he cares to come to Terre Haute, and we will not Insist On his bringing the shops, either. If his lawsuits go "agin" him, we will use our influence to get him a job. He can get the presidency of the Terre Haute fe Southwestern if he will promise to have the wheols turning before the quail law ex%4 Pires-

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:^Tt-out

Clean the payed streets! Their condition now is the same as the man who walked airily down town with a-shiny silk hat on his head and a pair of muddy boots on bis feet. He thought he was a dude, but everyone else kpfw he was a clodhopper.

A gentlemen from Philadelphia, the other morning at the Terre Haute, asked me, •'Are any of your, streets payed?" I admitted that several of them were, and he, in all candor, asked me to show them to him. Ob, for a hoe and a spade! 1 oould have shown him the asphalt pavement by vigorous use of hoe and broom, but to see Klnaer's brick would have called for the spade.

The oity council are deaf to all entreaty. They are so busy, you know, buying garbage furnaces and then appointing new committees to put the fires

with water, that a little matter of filthy streets is of slight moment. The bioyolers started in to reform us. Somebody laughed at them and they quit. \No, I'm mistaken, It was the township a»sess«r who spoiled their campaign.

Then the merchants wrote cards. Max Joseph wanted every storekeeper to have his clerks clean the street, and the sclty to carry the sweepings away. This iwssH very sensible suggestion, although t( not one th*t could be rigorously adopted.

The clerks took offense, however, and spumed the thought of a salesgentleman sweeping the bricks. You could hardly blame them .fo.r..tbat^.^.ndsott goes. illtlll

No one in Terre Haute glances at the pictures in Scribner's, or Harper's, or the Century, of paved streets, and notices the sheeny splendor of a wellswept city street, without a feeling of deep disgust at our half-baked enterprise.

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Q. V. has a pian. Tt ta nothing more nor less than that the city council pick the pennies off their eyelids and look at our streets as they are, and then stop trying to force the tax rate do*?n to New Hampshire village rate, and just add a cent on the $100 for luck. Then buy some wire brooms and give

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•chance. Some of those old fellows that V. throw gi-avel for Jim Coordea, the street /jMcommissioner, could earn their salt if f$they had to push a broom

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AMUSEMENTS. W"

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Harry Williams will give a spectacular production of Katie Emmett's great sensational play,11 Waifs of New York," at Baylor's on Monday evening. The play presents sensational and melodramatic features of an order calculated to please the lover# of this class of plays. The ftre scene, Trinity church, police

'f court, Castle Garden and Harlem River railroad bridge scenes are worthy scenic "kp and mechanical stage pictures, and are jL presented by a suitable company, .. THIS FACE IS THB XOONMUirr

Robert Man tell presents his new piece, "The Face In the Moonlight," for the

I first time In this city at Naylor's on Tuesday evening. It deals with thorn stirring times in France just before the battle of Waterloo when the Emperor and the future St. Helena exile were l^pttted against each other In every city

And town, and suspicion and spying were the qualities for success. The

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story is one of absorbing interest. A murder is committed at a diligence office and a young woman who- is an involuntary witness of the affair sees in the moonlight the face of the murderer, which resembles that of her affianced husband so olosely that she cannot rid herself of the idea that the two are one and the same. The murderer is in reality the half brother of her lover, and the resemblance between them very marked. Mr. Mantell takes the dual character, impersonating the two brothers, one a gallant soldier, the other a criminal. This difficult task he performs well, and his versatility deserves much credit. He draws the line sharply between the two characters, and does especially well in the role of Rabat the criminal. ^His other role is more elevated and he plays it with an easy force and dignity that contrasts effectively with the foil afforded by his other part. The seat sale began to-day at Button's, with indications of being large.

THE NEWEST DEVIL'S AUCTION.

Chas. H. Yale's Newest Devil's Auction will be presented at Naylor's Thursday evening, November 10th. Eaoh season finds it apparently better than ever, for "the thread of a plot" possesses such elasticity that any novelty, situation or new idea can be introduced without interfering with the story. A number of new novelties have been introduced, and the dramatic cast promises .to be the best ever given of this popular spectacle. The principal dancers are Conoettina Chitten, Adele Amore, a olever danseuee characteristic, and Aurelio Coccla, male dancer. A special dancing'feature is offered in Little Miss Columbia, a petite exponent of terpsichore. Among the various specialty features are the Tiepstie troupe of sensational male and female acrobatic quadrille dancers the famous Loreila trio, in anew and novel production of black art Toner and Frobel, aerial grotesques. Other new features The Illuminated Chinese March, The Shy Young Girls, The Giddy Old Maids, The Ancient Dudes, and Parisian Hits, The French Quadrille, The Salvationists, and many other novelties, too numerous to mention, A glorious finale to this performance is the transformation soene, in seven changes—The Advent of Spring —introducing as anew feature, & golden rain of glittering flower petals! The final effect of this scene is entitled "The Genius of Spring." The seat saie^ opens Tuesday morning.

FELIX MORRIS.

One of the delightful entertainments of the season will be offered at Naylor's on next Saturday evening, in the engagement of the successful character actor, Felix Morris, and his superb comedy company, presenting "The Old Musician," in one act from the Frenoh, followed with "Moses," a comedy farce from the German by Minnie Maddern Fiske. No one who has ever enjoyed the privilege of seeing the marvelous character aoting of Mr. Felix Morris will oontrorert the statement that Mr. Morris is undeniable possessor of genius, rare and genuine. The art of this aotor is refined, delicate and subtle, his versatility is wonderful, and in all he essays the touch of a master is easily apparent. It is safe to say there is no man on the stage, at least to-day, that can present a portrait gallery of as many living, breathing, nentient individualities, all totally dissimilar, as can Felix Morris. The appearance of this company on next Saturday night should be considered a theatrical event of great importance. The seat sale will open Thursday morn-

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Some good attractions are booked for December, among them Oscar Wilde's new play, "Lady Windermere's Fan," on the 11th, in which Howell Hansell, a Terre Haute boy, takes one of the leading roles.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

What, oh, what! has befallen Mr. Peffer and his whiskers in the melee?

It would be interesting to know what the High Chief Renegade, Waited Q. Greeham, thinks of the results of Tuesday's elections.

Democratic Reader.—No, we do not believe that Hon. John E. Lamb's recommendation will injure your chances of getting a job under Judge Jump.

Mr. "Iniquitous Monstrosity" seems to have found his way out of the state of innocuous deseutude into which he was driven by last fall's elections.

The editor of the Bloomfield Democrat has been appointed a supervisor of Indian schools. Under the present regime this is not "subsidising the press." It is rewarding just merit.

The President went out into the country to hear the election returns.. He oould not find his way far enough into the deep-tangled lldwood to escape the conviction that his party had been turned down, and that badly.

Spanish anarchists exploded dywamite bomb* in a crowded theater at Barcelona Tuesday night, killing many of the audience, and wounding others. Evidence accumulates every day that the only food anarchist is a dead anarchist. .. ..

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WOMAN'S VOICE.

BAB'S COMMENT ON THAT ALL-IMj PORTANT VOCAL ORGAN.

The Woman With the Jekyll and Hyde Voice—Another Whose Is "FrtUty"—totr ta, Lillian Rutaell, Clam Morrfi and M»,'

Si Mint? down to dine, with a bird and. a bottle of champagne iced to the Queen's taste—the Queen always representing an American woman—a remembrance of the feminine talker brought up the question,

"WHO HAS A BEAUTIFUL VOICsfHf

The man was Enjoying his supper sur, ficiently to let the woman talk the woman had the feminine ability to tiilk, and enjoy her supper, too, and this i* What she said: I do think that more Men remain unmarried because women get their Voices in too shrill a key than for any other reason. No man wants to: be whooped at. Any man will submits to a scolding if the voice that says ,th^ disagreeable words is sweet, and the eves laugh. There is no use talking: about the American voioe. Such a thing doesn't exist. Personally, I believe sweet voice is largely the result of good food, and next, of-refinement. And yet?v Tmriously enough, my belief is continually shaken. Look at Bernhardt! She has a voice like an angel's! It is seduce tive, alluring, determined, revengeful} it expresses every emotion possible to a woman it is never loud, and always sweet. And yet, nobody can claim that Sarah has th'e blood of the Vere de Veres in her veins* ortbat in-hSrnearly life sh^ lived off of delicate food.' There are shrill voices, sweet voices, well-bred voices, and exquisite voices.

Take Rose Coghlan, for instance He| voice is rich, full, and what a man 1% Bpeakmg of a good bottle of Burgundy would call "fruity"—but it ia neve* feminine. You love to bear It, but it strikes on your ear like a perfect con" tralto that is rapidly reaching a baritone. It gives you delight, but It never impresses you with an idea of womanliness. Jane Hading haa a voice like silver—not gold it is never either loud enough or strong enough to suggest the more glittering metal, but somehow it goes to the heart, and it makes you think of moonlight and silver streams, and softness,and femininity. Terry? I never cared for Terry's voice. That's curl out* because most people like it but It always sounded to me like a fiise chord. And after I met Terry,• saw how slovenly-looking the woman was, queerly enongh I never wanted to. see her aot again. Mrs. Langtry's voioe, while inoapable of expressing many emotions, is essentially the voioe of a well-bred woman polite, sweet, low it pleases you, and unconsciously you feel that the woman who is speaking would think it bad form to wear her heart upon her sleeve for every daw to pick at.

THE USES OF THE VOICE.

Mrs. Kendal has essentially the artistic voice. Speaking exquisite English in the most delightful tones, she can control her voice to suit tier character. That Is, the one which the public soes, and this, curiously enough, is an accomplishment which few of our critics have discovered. Ada Reban? Well, people tell me that the admiration «f her voice is a cultivated taste^an^Jtdd, when you first teste of olives or s$Mls, you don't like them, and I always answer by saying that I have n^ver learned to like snails yet. h*!' kl

Clara Morris haa a voice like a buzzsaw, and Helen Dauvray one that is as hard and steel-like as a pocket knife. I tell you another woman who baa a shrill, unpleasant voice one that always gives an audience the impjpsaion th she ia overwhelmingly self-conaoious, and that is blonde-haired, childish-lot ing Effie Shannon. But when you o6me to a disagree ble voioe, one that strikes the drum Oi your ear, and make* you feel seasick, listen to Maud Harrison. When ahe waa young her voioe may have been better, and even now, It the played older parts, ahe might adapt it to suit them but as she selects to tie an ingenue forever, I suppose the audience will always be afflicted with these high, ahrill notes that inysriably give me the toothache.

Sweet voioea? Georgia Oayvaii has oner It pleaaea your ear, and ^Mant rise to iikdll note ever. Fanny Davenport's voice ia dear, expressive^ and with a key-note of womsnHafSi that

many another woman might pray for. Lillian Russell has a laughing voice, and you will like it just as you like her beauty.

There are two sweet voices that one hears on the stage that you like, and you wonder why you like. They are soft* womanly, persuasive. The reason you like them is because they are Southern voices and I put them to you in the order of their charms. One belongs to Bessie Tyree, the other to Kitty Cheatham, Martinot'a voice is incisive, ple^p, but—well, it rings a little hard.

Kendall from a Voiee Standpoint. [Copyright, 1893.] NEW YORK, Nov. 7,—She would talks I never deny a woman this, her infallif ble right, except when she happens tO Bfij|j, Arthur's js a little too suggestive be sitting near me at the theatre audi -",3' has gotten a curious idea that her cop' versationis of more interest to the gen£ being in the depths. Blanche Walsh

eral public than the play which they have paid to see. If she ever said anything interesting, one wouldn't mind," but she seldom does. Her talk is limited to what "he says," "she says/' and "I wouldn't do it for anybody," and "I never did such a thing in my life.'': The result, the other ni^ht, was that eight people were driyen out of the theatre} four women couldn't hear a word of the play, and, naturally, when they departed they took foar men with them.

ojB&er speafelpg from the cellar and ybu. don't like to think of a woman

ii|ur fabso}utely dulcet tones—what can you, expeot when her mother was from New Orleans and her father frcfrn Ireland? Viola Allen's voice has'all the bea|ity of Rose Coghlan's, and is purely leminlne in addition. Lotta? I don't remember a thing about Lotta's voice. She is just herself and while you are conscious of the fun that she manages to evolve from everything, her tone leaves no impression upon you.

WOMEN AS CHATTERERS.

{The woman who was talking had just gotten thus far, w,hen, raising her eyes, she saw the other one who had driven her from the theatre, sit down at the table next to her, so she said to her escort: "I'll stop talking and eat, and jet the woman at the next table entertain us." And she did.

This one began in aloud voice by announcing: "Did you see me bow to Aunt LouiBa as we were coming out? Well, that was Matide Harrison with her. I can tell you such a funny story about her. Years ago, when the Actors' Fund w$s started, the different actresses were told off-to go to different parts of the city to psk for contributions. Some went to the lawyers, some to the judges, some to the brokers, and that'way all around. Well, Miss Jewett and Miss Harrison were sent to the judges. One of them was awfully in love with meat the time, and so when he came to see me that evening he told me about the pretty Visitors he had I had never seen an actress off the stage in my life, and so I 'Bald: 'Oh, that lovely Sarah Jewett and Maude Harrison tell me all about them.' And he said: 'Well, they are both extremely pretty women. Miss Jewett Is ja lady, and the other one would like to •W& Wasn't that Frenchy?^ 'After this,she*took large guIp of champagne, presumably to get her wind baok, and then went on:. "Somebody says, that New York is the worst qlty in the world next to Berlin... I wonder If it Is true. I saw a woman at the theatre to-night who had a face like an angel, and yet to my oertain knowledge she has ruined, mentally and physically, four men her husband adores her, and won't believe a word that anybody says against her. In fact, after getting one anonymous letter, he refused to open his mail, insisting on her doing that, so that he might never hear a disagreeable word about her. Wasn't that lovely? But men are so lovely anyhow. They have got auch a lot of belief—in a bad jWoman who knows how to manage them,. Oh, no, I have never learned how I am too frank." With this she took,her last mouthful and departed.

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other woman sighed, And the

who was. with her asked quite quietly:

"WHERE DO SUCH WOKEN COME FROM?"

And she -said: "I don't know, but their existence is probably the fault of men. If I were a man and went out once with a woman who tslked like that, I should not only never take her again, but I should make It a point to tell her the reason why and after two or three men bad done that, she would learn a lesson that might result in the modulation of her voice."

But said he: "Let us return to our talk." "I can't," said the woman "I have been thinking of other things since. First of all, of what this winter is going to mean to us. I don't pretend to know anything about polltios, but If the hard times are the result of the folly and nonsense of the Senate, then, as sure a3 yon and I are living, those men will suffer untold agonies before they reach their

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Yesterday I was in a shop,

and they told me they had discharged fifty girls. Does that oonvey anything to your mind? It means fifty young women, earning anything from four to ten dollars a week, thrown out in the world at the dull season, and with no likelihood of getting any other work until times are better. I heard of twenty-five men earning twenty-five dollars a week, each of whose wages had been reduced to fifteen. Do you know what that means? It means the giving up of what those people would call luxuries and what we would call necessities of a bit of fruit, of some medicine, of the newspapers, of a single onting it means making life so dose and narrow that there is nothing in it but bread and work. Somebody might say I oughtn't to be drinking this cbampsgne, and yet if tbs people who hsd money would only circulate it, everybody would be better oft And do yon know who suflbrsf It isn't the millionalre who owes thousands upon thou-

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Bands of dollars, whose wife has bills whenever she wants he is not bothered for the money. It is the people who owe twenty-five dollars and fifty dollars, who can't see just the way to give it out of their reduced income, and who are easily frightened and worried by rude collectors. I stood by a woman the other day who owed twenty-five dollars, and I told her what to say, and when she lost courage I

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"This young lady has no intention of defrauding you she acknowledges the bill and is willing to pay she hasn't got the money now, but she will pay you a dollar at a time every Monday, 'more if possible, until she has^ given it all to .vou." That man was grateful to the last degree. In talking to mb afterwards, he showed me

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thousand dollars owed to him by a man Whose name is famous all oyer the United States, and he said he didn't dare dun him. That he might take advantage of some loophole and never pay him, whereas if he let him alone be stood a chance of getting it. That's justice, isn't it? Oh! I get siok at heart when I think of all this, and wonder what the winter is going to bring forth. You talk to me now." jWHT THIS DOG WAS NAMED MIKE. "Well," he said, "I don't know that there is much that is new I have got a new puppy his father was Chum and his mother Dbtty he has been named Brian Boru, and is commonly called Mike. Why Mike? Oh, well, there are possibilities in Mike—in New York. He landed yesterday to-morrow he will be engaged in the street cleaning business next year he will have a better position twenty years from now he will be Mayor of the city, and he will be traoing his ancestor baok to the days when Malachi wore the collar of gold which he won from the proud invader." The possibilities of Mike in New York are beyond description. He may be the father of the next President, or he may be a first-class barkeeper. I'll tell you one thing, though, it's almost as difficult to find a good barkeeper as It is to find a good President. But, then, what do we know about good Presidents? Now you see why I have named him Brian Boru, commonly called Mike. I want to give him a chance id the world which he wouldn't have If he belonged to any other nationality. You know I am a great believer in a name. From the beginning, a short name has always fascihstftda man. Look how Adam- took to Eve and deserted Lil^th. Yon 'ns,ver thought it out? Why, that in the only reason in the world why men like~-

BAB.

DEA2H OF MRS. S. C. STIMSON. Mrs. Maggie C. Stimson died very suddenly on Wednesday morning, Noy.8th, after an illness of but three weeks. Malarial fever was acoompanled by heart trouble, and though skilled physlolans employed every means, it was of no avail.

Her maiden name was Maggie Cameron Allen, and she was the daughter of Rev. A. C. Allen, the first graduate of Wabash college, and a prominent Presbyterian divine. About' twenty years ago it was that Miss Allen married Samuel Cary Stimsoh, how the wellknown lawyer, but then a young student working his way through school. Making Terre Haute their home, three boys were born to them, two dying in childhood, one, James Cameron

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being left to mourn with his father, a mother's loss. For a dozen years Mrs. Stimson has been prominent In church circles! and society. An ardent christian, an energetic worker and an attractive person, she devoted her time to others. As a member of Moffatt street Presbyterian church and one of its leading ladies, she will te sadly missed. Her talents were many and she unselfishly made use of them. Liberally educated in mticric, literature and art, her home life was peculiarly pleasant and entertaining.

At their beautiful country home, west of the city, the death took place, just on the eve of their removal back to town.

Mrs. Stimson's aged mother resides at Indianapolis, as do her brother, T. C. Allen, and sister, Mrs. C. D. Meigs, jr. other sisters being Mrs. Wm. B. Chamberlln, of Hanover, Ind., Mrs. A. H. Dooley, of Excelsior Springs, Mo., and Mrs. Dr. J. A. Taylor, of DOB Moines, Iowa.

The funeral was largely attended Thursday afternoon, the services being conducted by the Rev. A. D. Alexander, at the new church at Sixth street and Washington avenue. The interment was at Wood lawn.

Mr. Stimson and son have the sympathy of the community in their loss.

A 8URE8IQ&.

"I tall you," said Mrs. McGuldy, "David B. Hill isgettin' to be real populsr.»f,/ *v'4 V? "You haven't takln' to readln' politics, her ye?" asked her husband with surprise. "No, indeed." "Then what makes you think Hill is gettln' popular?" "Because the fellers that draws the funny pictures is beginnln' to make 'im better lookinV

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Chicago'8 unemployed servants..,.are estimated at 25,000. New York City contains within its borders more Jews than there are in Jerusalem, moi$ Irishmen than tbere are in Dublin, more Germans than there are in Hamburg, and more Italians than there are in Rome.

Eugene Sandow, the "strong man," got flOO a day, seven days in the week» for his World's Fair engagement from July to November. He is a" native of Amsterdam, Holland, is only twenty-^ six years old and weighs 180 pounds.

It may be interesting to know that a man can make $12,000 a year in New York by writing fiotion, and remain as utterly unknown as ifhe never existed. There was suoh a man. He was Arthur Elder Nelson, who died some days ago. Inasmuoh, if his tastep did run to scribbling dime and half-dime libraries to the delight of all the would-be boy-pirates, robbers, cut-throats and other equally terrifying juveniles, he wrote for the almighty dollar. And it poured down upon him in golden shekels. His annual profits averaged at least $12,000«:: c,

William Nelson Cromwell, New York lawyer, who has earned the biggest fee on record, looks like a Methodist minister on a visit to the big oity. He was paid $200,000 onoe for his servioes, for extricating a Wall street firm from an $18,000,000 embarrassment. This he did in a month's lime, and received the latge sum mentioned above for so doing. He will probably make $200,000 more out of the Northern Pacific troubles, he being counsel for the receivers of that road. His law praotlce is enormous, and his inoome is princely.

WHAT THE MAIL HEARS.

Tnat a demagogue is a fellow who who doesn't think as we do. That anarchists generally want' beer first, blood next and' bread last.

That burglars may take everything else, but they don't seem to take any naps.

That the man who puts covers on dictionaries might be called a spellbinder. ,, 1

That a man may Icriow considerable about the hay fever and still not be much of a farmer. ^Th^t we need more of ttie kind of reforth tjjbat does not'gfa thousand miles^ from'Hom* to begin worte^

That when It comes more or less respeotfully keeps its distance the telephone girl has the call.

That a sympathetic nature 11 so far shown by a dentist that he feels acutely and deeply for a patient's aching tooth.

That a man should have his flour bar* rel full, his coal bin full and his pocket^ book full, but he should not get full himself.

That some actors on the stage make Up well as lovers, but they're nothing to the way a pair of lovers aot when making up in real life.

That a man always feels beiter when he thinks he has found something in the Bible that will let him stay mean and still rcsspeot himself.

SHORT AND SWEET,

The roughest roads are those we have not traveled over* A wise man never shuts his eyes before he opens his mouth.

The man who is blunt In his ways may be sharp in his speech. Reverence your superiors, but do not let them use you as a door mat.

If the business of the train and bank robber cannot be suppressed, it shonld be regulated.

It is a metaphysical paradox that many men kill themselves with hard work to get a living.

The man who "could not oatch his breath for a moment" had probably been eating onions.

Always be as witty as you can with your parting bow—your last speech is the one remembered.

Fools rush in on a lightning express train where angels would hesitate to approach on a canal boat,

When you go to drown yourself, take oft your clothes. They may lit your wife's second husband.

Sam Jones says that syntax will not do for Boston. The most profitable s|,n tax oould be collected in New York,

There are two boys who do not agree. One Is the policeman's Billy and the other la the cracksman's Jimmy.

The glorious October weather and a rough file and sandpaper will remove every freckle from the summer girl's face.

The Chinese are being driven out of Alaska, but we are surprised anybody should wait to be driven out of that

Mrs. Eva Black man has been appointsd a member of the Topeka police commission by Gov. Lewelling, in the place of a Populist member whom he removed. This is said to be the first appointment of a woman to suoh a position anywhere' in the United States.