Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 December 1893 — Page 1

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Vol. 24.—No. 27

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

The board of beaHb got It where the bottle got the cork, last week. Judge Taylor decided that little boy Bluecoald blow bis horn, or to make matters plain, that be could go to school without being mixed up with other people's scabs. His decision was too deep for Q. V. as it involved technical questions, but I listened to a group of lawyers discuss it. Most of them seemed to want to quarrel with auy ideas "fornlnst" lnation but all or them said that me decision was correct as to the law of this particular case.

Dr. Metcalfe, the secretary of the state board of health, was in Terro Haute Saturday, and was free expressing his chagrin at the position the city board had placed themselves. He wa« overbeard to say on two occasions th-it the court's position was correct so there is considerable interest manifested us to what the local board will do next.

Mr. Blue's, boy is but one in a hundred or so who are detained from school by vaccination rules. Several days ago, the sheriff told me that he brought up two bright looking boys before the judge on the charge of somo petty misdemeanor. The court was touched with the evidences of respectability about the lads, and asked them why they persisted in roaming the streets. "Well, yer onur, we haven't any place to go." "You ought to go to school" suggested the court. "Tney won't let us," pleaded the little fellows, 'cause we aint vaccinated." The anti-vaccination decision came two days later.

Terre Haute's tourneys will be various this winter and to suit all classes. While the billiard craze is catching New York and Chicago, we are also chalking cues and making masse shots in local halls. Alex Kandison concluded a bright round of games several weeks "go and players like McLaughlin, Hulman, and others soon were looked on as embryo "wizards" and "Napoleons." Now the palatial billiard hall of Myers & Wahb will hold a grand tournament, in which the players will be divided into three classes the contest being as to who will lead his class. The victors will then clmllongo each other. Besides local blliiardists, orack shots from other towns will make the games lively. Then, too, either JBlosson or Schaefer will play exhibition games, if they can be persuaded to leave of their bluff game of "Holdin y-ooat-and-let-me-get-at-him," which they are at present playing.

Chess is not aback number as agnine, either. The seventh great International chess tourney will bo held here in February. It is proporly called the Continental Chosa Congress. Mine Host Baur has gallantly tondered the free use of his hotel for this contest. The leading chess players of America, England, Eu­

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and Australia will compete. Blindfold and trick plays will abound. Besides the great championship games, there will bo free-for-all chess races in which anyone can outer who knows a black bishop from a pawn of purest white. _____

The main mover and pusher In this chess tournament Is Chas. O. Jackson, of Kokonto, the president of the State Chess Association. He is an energetic, fiery little fellow, with a frank face, and eyes that are as wide open as a Terre Haute saloon. Although slightly deaf, he makes up for that by acute perception and other sensitive qualities. On the subject of chess he is at home always, and like Dr. Gerstuieyer, the bighearted president of the Terre H^ute Chess Club, he will get up at midnight and accommodate a caller who insists on a set-to with the ivories. Mr. Jackson is the champion ehes* player of Indiana. While he has been often beaten by champions from other states, ho only delights to tell of one famous defeat he sufiered, and that was when pretty Mrs. Showalter, the wife of the great Kentucky champion, beat him.

Not a block away from the postofflce, a prominent eltluen lay ill for three weeks with malignant diphtheria. His family all the while mingled with society and appeared at various public places. Immediately upon recovery the poutleinan was reported to be seen as usual at his business and in public. Now his child la attacked with the same dread disease. How many may yet suffer is not known. Are the health laws lor the poor or are they applicable to rich and poor alike? The sympathies of the community are with the a til ic ted family, as is right, but was it not strangely imprudent for one con valestent from diphtheria t© treat it no carelessly and expose so many innocents?

The church choirs are getting badly shaken up. Dr. Ooultas ha* wooed-and won Dan Davis and hia mellow tenor voice to the Koberts Park church at Indianapolis, and Centenary's quartet has lost its key-note. Baptist* used to li«t«u t« seraphic music when the Men* dellsohn Club sang with the sweet lady siegers in the organ loft of tbe old First Feb arch. The Congregationalism, Central Presbyterian and Christian churches aeem to bold their choirs fairly well.

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Good tenors area scarce article in Terre Haute. Some of those who try the upper trills, on Sunday morning at eleven, put their audiences into cold sweats, and many a pew is gripped hard by its occupant until the tenor "aria" ia finished. Sopranos are in better repute. Mrs. Dan Davis, Mrs. Rodenbeok, tbe Misses Paige, and a dozen others are well liked. Tbe Central Presbyterian church think they have a star in Miss Maud R. Paige, who has developed wonderfully in the past year.

What a row over nothing the city council is guilty of in howling at the electric light company. There always will be chronic kickers. It would be a one-sided world without tbem. And now one prominent man is quoted as saying that Terre Haute is the worst lighted city on earth. This is a plain, unvarnished libel. The author of it never opened his eyes after dark in Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, or a score of metropolitan towns. Some streets in the big cities are as light at mldnightas at noon. Why? Because certain merchants keep myriads of arc lamps a-burning as an advertisement fpr themselves. The cities do not do it. Oo a hundred streets in Chicago you couldn't recognize your wife after six o'clock. To say that such is the case here is laughable.

The electric light company haye a fair and square contract with the city. They live up to it as near as it is possible. That it is not possible to keep lamps burning every second during the night was admitted by the city when she let the contract. Now live up to it. Q. V. believes in fair play is on the electric light company's side in this matter and don't want auy thanks from them, either. Q- V.

ABOUT WOMEN.

Sarah Bernhardt says her ambition is to be a nun. Kitty Shea-Parnell is writing the life of her late husband.

In eight of the oities in Kansas, women voters outnumber the men. It's something difficult for a romantic girl to tell whethor she is in love with a young man or iu love with love.

More than 50,000 women in Michigan support themselves in other lines of work than that of domestic service.

Miss Finney of Fort Valley, Georgia, aged twenty years, has made four hundred and seventy-one quilts twentyseven the past year.

Two hundred young ladies of Toledo, organized into a club called the "Y's," are supplying the poor of that city with penny loaves of bread of full weight.

It is roported that a young lady of Muncie, who is interested in ceramics and who has an eye for the beautiful, innocently asked her big brother if be would bring home a jack pot from his club so that she might decorate it.

In the medical college of the University of Michigan, Is a Chinese, eighteen years of ago, who is said to be the first girl brought up by her own parents with unbound feet in all central aud western China. Hei mother was a Christian.

The very swell woman affects a special flower, much as she does a perfume, and which she keeps exclusively for the adornment of her boudoir or own particular den, and whmi flowers are worn, as they are this year, she Invariably has a bunch of them in her corsage.

One of the papers read in the Woman's building at the World's Fair was by Mrs. Charles Henrotin on "Women as Investors," which brought before the public the fact that women own 1,703,769 shares of stock in the national banks (not all of which are reported). The par value of these shares is §130,681,485. Mrs Henrotin got her information from the comptroller or the currency, Mr. Hepburn.

The Empress Eugenie has settled down into the solitude which best enables her to endure her memorable and cumulative sorrows. Her tall, sad figure goes in and out aigom us with only the recognition of silent sympathy. The empress likee to have communication with as few people as possible. For instance, when she shops—she does her own shopping—she likes to be waited on by the same salesman always.

A philosopher says: "There are three things which a good woman ought to resemble in one particular, but not in another. Thua, she ought to be like the snail, which always keep* in the house, but she should not copy its example in putting all that she possessed on her back. She should resemble the echo, which never speaks unless spoken to, but she ought not,, like the echo, always try to have the last word. Lastly, she ought to be true and correct as tbe town clock, but she ought not* like the clock, make noise enough to be heard all over the town."

Trustee Frank Peker was the winner of the second burro offered by Thorman A Schlosa last Saturday. He will spend his next summer's vacation trying to learn to ride tbe animal.

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NEW RESOLUTIONS.

BAB TALKS OFTHOSE WE HAVE MADE AND BROKEN.

Husband's Resolutions Regarding Their Wives, and Wives' Concern!** their Huabaadi—Make New Omes and Stick to 'Km. [Copyright, 1883.]

THIS TIME LAST YEAR

we took the trouble to make somo resolutions we reasoned with one or two disagreeable little skeletons, and oon-! eluded to be a little kinder, a little mofe loving, and a little more amiable. And yet those very skeletons are sitting in' front of you and me and laughing at us to-night. We wrote down our resolutions in beautiful rose-colored letters, but we didu't use a paint that would endure, and the consequence was that they faded very soon, and, being weak, miserable wretches, who need reminding, we forgot all about them. Well, the only thing we can do now is to try again. It will be a little harder it's always a little harder every time. Somehow we get to be very fond of our own dear skeletons our own meannesses and petty faults, and we hug them up and caress them and thank God that we are not like the man who killed his wife last week, or the hungry boy who stole a loaf of bread, or the wretched woman who is out in the cold to-night selling her body for food and shelter. *.

YOU HAPPEN TO BK A MAN.

You are duly indignant about wifebeaters and wife-murderers.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30,1893

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NEW YOBK, Dec. 24.—It's just a year ago to-day. Then you were welcoming tbe coming and speeding the parting guest. How do you feel about it to day? Sit down in front of the little clock that baa ticked away all the hours and try to think how did you treat that new-born baby, Ninety-Three? Where are the goed resolutions? How many of them have you even remembered? And are you better or worse? Those are not pleasant questions to ask one's self, because when you fhee the clock, and it keeps up that continual ticking that means you area second older, you area minute older, you are an hour older, you area day older, and the days have made a year, what have we gained? Probably most of us will have to answer "Nothing" to the question asked. And yet most of us are very well satisfied with ourselves. Because we haven't murdered, because we haven't stolen, because we haven't been over-oourteoua, and because we haven't been cruel in deed, we think we are pretty good people, and we look at ourselves in a mental looking-glass, and feel very well satisfied.

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ever happen to think there are more ways to kill a woman, or of hurting her, than by stabbing her with a knife, or beating her with your fist? Don't you suppose she will suffer just as much because by ridicule and by scorn you have killed in her heart all belief, and very nearly all that is loving and tender? Don't you think you have struck her muoh harder than if you had used a whip or your fist when you speak cruel words to her, when you condemn her for little mistakes, and when you make her so afraid ef you that she begins to deceive you, and hides any little pleasures she may have from you, fearing that you will make a jest of her innocent amusements? Don't you think, being a man, you stole something more than a loaf of bread when you laughed at some boy's high ideals? When, by example, you made him think it was not necessary for him to respect his mother or his sisters? Or when you taught him, by your approval of tbem, that the men who made fortunes in peculiar ways were honest as long as they succeeded? Don't you thiak you have been a thief and stolen from him? And don't you think you are teaming him to be a thief when you give him to understand that there are different grades of honesty, and that stealing is sometimes not stealing if it is not discovered? Don't you think you are worse than any poor wretch on the street when you sit in the clubhouse and laugh over questionable stories, when you think a woman's biush is something to be scoffed at? And when you do not hesitate to read books that yon would not care, after all, to

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your bands when you are dying? 7, Look at the clock you think yourself a pretty good fellow. The minutes are going by you are gettiag nearer and nearer to the ead of it all. As yon area man, be brave enough to look your skeleton straight in the face, to write ont a resolution that will down the demons, and to write it in a oolor that will stand because you preface each wish with "By God's Help."

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SUPPOSE YOL* HAPPEN TO BB A WOMAN?

Last year yon took a little book from out of your dressing case and wrote on a blank rmga what you intended to try to do. Aud the little dock rang oat a ctiime of euoouragement, for yon seemed to know yourself so well. Get oat that boo it and look' at it. What bare you done? Is the temper any lees quick? Are you slower to say mean words, kinder in your jadgmeata, leas envious, more willing to forgive, and determined

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to find in every human being who may happen to be around you the one divine spark rather than all the unpleasantness? I don't think you have done all of that. It was in your power to have given so muoh sympathy to somebody. To have said such words of encouragement, and to have been a veritable angel in the household. Have you done it?

It has been a hard year, and the man whose name you bear has oome home many a night tired and worried, and longing for a little rest. Have you given it to him? How many times have you insisted on taking him some place when he didn't want to be among people? How many times have you filled his ear with your own complaints, your own household worries, and added your burden to his? And how many times have you lost your temper and behaved like a foolish child because he couldn't give you all the money you wanted? My dear wbman, you who area wife, make up your mind that the resolution for this year will be to give the best of yourself to your husband. If you find that you can't absolutely be pleasant to everybody, then give strangers the benefit of your ill temper they'll set it down to bad breeding but give the man to whom you are closest, to whom you have promised to be a loving companion, all of pleasant words, of agreeable manners and of kindly acts, that you are capable of.

FRIENDSHIP'S FOUNDATION 3TONJ5. Suppose you are somebody's friend. What sort of a friend have you been since you la9t watched tbe clock speed the parting guest? Have you been honest and honorable, and shown what friendship really was"? Or have you been merely the friend of an hour, ready te discuss the weakness of one who has cared much for you, ready to believe the idle gossip of a stranger, and not enough of a friend to be willing to say to that other one: "You have offended and hurt me, make it all clear to me." The foundation stone of friendship is belief. There is a little demon who darts here, there and everywhere, only too ready to quote what "you said," or "I said," and never to tell what provoked the saying or the circumstances under whioh the words were uttered. He joys, does the little devil, in breaking up a friendship and the only way to extinguish him is to keep your belief in your friend, refuse to listen to his innnendoes, or, if they do have some effect otf jou, to push him out into the bright sunshine, to go to your friend, and ask: "What do you mean?" If you can't do this, your friendship is of no wortu. And yet, last year it is possible that you and your friend watched the clock to gether, each believing that the future held a joyous companionship for both that would make the worries of life muoh easier to bear. What are you going to resolve? Don't wait to write it •down don't wait to

HEAR THE CLOCK TICK ONOE MORE, but start at once and make it all right between your own familiar friend and yourself, so that you can welcome tbe coming guest with tears of joy.

It seems as the elear sound of the ticking keeps ou that it can't be worth while to make good resolutions, and yet my friend, am sure that it is, only I tiiink we all try to do too much. If we oan get the better of one little demon, it is so much easier to get rid of the others. With bad temper killed at the first, evil speaking will not be difficult to get rid of with uncharitablenese made to disappear, envy will go as well and harsh judgment will follow rapidly. They are great cowards, are these demons, and as soon as they see that you have gotten the better of one, they begin to grow frightened, and the entire army shakes in its marshal boots and wonder what it is going to do next, Make one good resolution. You needn't to write it down except in your heart, but you want to have it before you all the time you must never forget it. You need to watch by day and by night, for nobody is so industrious as a bad spirit, and be sure that this special one will be always on the alert looking for the weakness in the battlements through which be may creep. You will probably, Indeed, you will certainly, fail bat pull yourself together and get ap, and start afresh, and you will be twice as strong for, having been the victim of one temptation, yon are prepared for it.

What is tbe pet sin? Yours, or mine? Are we lacking in respect to those who are older than we are? Do we think it is not worth while to pay any attention to oar elders, because they are no longer interested in life, as we know it? That is a sin, and a dreadful one.

REVERENCE TO OUR SUPERIORS

in s&e Is greatly lacking in thiscoantry, and the rrsnlt Is that there are mea and womeu who suffer through their own children, exactly as they have made their parents suffer. For tbe law of compensation holds good even here, and you who are disrespectful to your own mother, must expect your daughter to be disrespectful to you to forget yon in yomi old age, and to oount yon as a little moment. Is lack of reverence your pet sin? Is it mine?

Do we, you and I, when something doesn't please us, give rein to our ugly passions, and say mean words—words

that hurt as cruelly as tbe sharpest dagger! Or, do we go off and sulk, and refuse to speak, and act like a damper over an entire household? Do we estrange those who are a.-onnd us by these exhibitions of wickedness, for that is what they are? Is Ill-temper your pet sin? Is it mine?

Do we, knowing the absolute truth, tell half of it, and let the listener think out the other half? Do we keep quiet when we know the truth, while some one repeats the wifehood! Do we find a certain sort of pleasure in the ill-natured thingB that are said about those wbo are nearest to us? Are we mean enough to be that sort of liar, for that's what it is? You can't call it by any better name. And its tbe meanest kind of lying, suggestive only of the little moths that eat up tbe entire garment. Is that sort of a lie your pet sin? Is it mine?

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There are so many sins that are hugged up and cherished and made muoh of and joyed over day in aud day out. And, as the little olock ticks out its sixty oii.lp 'o *\«*rv minute and sixty mluu.co to evory nour, we can't count tbem all. What are we going to do, you and I? Suppose we try this— this making one good resolution, with that great proviso that "by God's help" we will get the better of the demon whiob is oloBest to us. The clock stops just for a minute, as much as to say, "I am giving you time to say good-bye to Ninety-Three." And then, with its musical tones, it rings in "Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Four"—the year that is quite olean and unspotted. Keep it so as long as you oan. Think how beautiful it is before any of the ugly marks of sin are upon it. It belongs to you and to me. We are both going to make our resolutions about it, and,' after we have written in plain letters "please God," you Blgn your name so that the angels as well as the demons can read it, and there will be written just as plainly at the end ef one resolution the letters that form the name of BAB.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Unvacclnated persons are not allowed to vote in Norway. There area million more men than women in this country.

Learning the Hawaiian language is a social fad in Washington, In November New Yorkers spent $2,500,000 on amusements.

All the German warships are to be painted a cinnamon yellow. Chinese often keep their dead three and four years before burial.

Boston's Four Hundred, according to the Blue Book, numbers nearly 5,000. Some 16,000,000 bushels of onions are consumed in the United States in a year.

Tbe extra session of Congress cost five cents for every man, woman and child in tbe United States.

The silver dollar of 1804 is BO rare that one was recently sold for $1,200. There were coined 19,507 of them.

About fifty thousand dollars are annually restored to tbe owners from letters sent to the dead-letter office.

No Japanese is ever guilty of swearing for the very good reason that oaths are uuknown to the Japanese language.

A preacher wbo was asked tbe cause of his impoverished condition, said that it was due to preaching so much without notes. "What is tbe use of the schools for the feeble-minded?" a correspondent asks. Why, we must have jurors for criminal cases.

The general discontent in England is not surprising. Sir Edwin Arnold says there are 30,000 "poetesses" in that country.

General Booth, leader of the Salvation Army, has never drawn a dollar of salary from the army's funds. Hie support has come from outside sources.

In Salem, Mass., last week, when the question of license or no license was to be settled, children were on the streets bearing badges inscribed, "For my sake vote 'No.'" That's the way the election went.

A French traveler who has visited St. Helena declares that the house in which Napoleon died is in a lamentable con* dition, a mere unfurnishod shell of four bare walls, the only object visible being a bast of Napoleon in the room In which he expired.

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Some time ago London Tid-Bits offered a two-guinea prize for the best definition of a kiss. Seven thousand answers were received. The prize was awarded to Benjamin J. Greenwood, of Tulse Hill, London, whose definition is herewith given: "An insipid *ad tasteless morsel, which becomes delicious and delectable in proportion as it, is flavored with love."

A tradesman in a Maine village had missed articles from his stock from time to time, and at length the clerks saw a woman take things she did not buy and pay for. This furnished the desired opportunity. An advertisement in tbe papers over the merchant's signature said he had positive proof that "some of

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the best ladies" of the town had taken articles from the store, and if matters were not fixed up there would be a rumpus. This was only last week aud so far four womeu have been into "settle up" with possibly more to follow. One woman came from an adjoining town to admit that she took up an artiole one day with the thought of stealing it but repented and put it back agaiu.

A rival of Saudow the strong man, is said to live in Augusta, Ga., in the person of William Hecker, a Swiss baker. He is 21 years old and his strength is wonderfully developed. "Among other things he moves a freight car with his teeth, breaks a chain with his teeth, lifts four horses, wraps chains around the muscles of his arms and by contracting the muscle rends tbe chains asunder."

The little daughter of Euiin Pasha is now wibb relatives of her father in Nlesse, Germany. She bears the name of Ferida and promises, to booome a beautiful and intelligent woman. As she is the only heiress of the traveler she will one day come into the possession of property which will give to her an enviable and importaut position in society. Emin Pasha dearly loved the dusky little maiden, who was born at Gado, in upper Egypt, November 13, 1884. The young heiress is intelligent and manifests great interest in the strange things about her. Her relatives have some difficulty in inducing her to wear shoes, as in her old home she was accustomed ouly to sandals. The child's features are small and resemble those of a European. Her hair is wavy and thick, her eyebrows are full and her skin is bronzed as an Italian's. Her eyes are beautiful, dark and bright, and long lashes add to their depth.

SHORT AND SWEET.

Talk about women being flighty! Look at bank cashiers. The hog is an easy animal to cultivate. He takes root iu auy

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It is said that practice makes perfect. This bolster* up the quack doctor. Age appears to increase the value of everything except women and butter.

It is as dangerous to disturb a scab in industrial life as it is in physical lire. "That was a sad blow," exclaimed the man whose house had been overturned by a cyolone.

Perhaps ono reason why ladles are called dear is because It costs so muoh to maintain them.

Bills that will pass are usually considered good, but bow about the bad bills that pass Congress.

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called giddy is because they make the young men's beads swim. Although the relations between France" and Germany are strained they don't seem to be very clear.

Anew story Is entitled "The Editor's Wallet." We have not read it, but we know it must be rather fiat.

Turkeys shun barber shops just at this season of the year because they don't like that continual cry—"nex'."

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love and falls out with her parents. Soggy pie is mentioned aB one of the causes of dyspepsia. One of the causes of soggy pie is young married women.

WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.

The girl with tbe inquiring mind says that she wishes some one would explain to her why it is—

That all tbe things that she likes to eat are bad for her complexion, and all tbe things she hates—like oatmeal and rye bread—are very wholesome.

That tbe lady wbo runs her boarding house insists upon cooking either cabbage or onions for dinner whenever she expects callers in the evening.

That the only time she wantsa dflnk of water is when the water pipes are frozen up.

That nothing ever offends tbe ten men that she simply can't tolerate, while two hasty words or a silly little note will cause a most heart-breaking quarrel with tbe one man that, in rash moments, she thinks she'd die for.

That after she gets home from a party she thinks of hundreds of smart things that she might have said if she'd only had her wits about her.

That this life is so full of disappointments, anyway.

MARY THE MOST POPULAR NAME. According to statistics, Mary is the most popular of Christian names, followed in order by William, John, Elizabeth, Thomas, George, Sarah, James, Charles, Henry, Alice, Joseph, Ann, Jane, Ellen, Emily, Frederick, Annie, Margaret, Emma, Eliza, Robert, Arthur, Alfred, Edward. Some people object to being called by a very common name, but it is infinitely better than being known as "Green Leaf," "Shooting Gallery,"'-Lucky Day," "Talitht Cumi," "Holy Davies," "Choice Pickerel," "Slog Song," "Tempestuous Stinger," "Giddy Edward," and otfeer choice ones, every one of which is a bona fide name culled from a recent English directory.