Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 February 1894 — Page 1

Vol. 24.—No.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

Post office civil service reform ban Income such a laughing stock with Terre Haute office seekers that only two applicant* presented themselves before the august examining board this week. Hie chairman of the board (who owes bis office an much to Judge Jump's kindly aid an he does tothecivil service commission) expressed great surprise at so few applying for a soft government job when this if the hardest wn-u-r to get a job in since the war but he excuses it on tlie ground that maybe everybody hadn't notice of the examination.

That will not wash. The fact is, the applicants for a goverument job refuse to be made monkeys of any longer No matter how high a msn's per cent may be tixed by the locai civil service board or the National commission, every oue knows just who looks over the sheets and draws a line througn names that are not wanted, lnr example, an expost office -clerk (one who served four years under John F. Regan) took the examination last summer and his grade was high-very high- Not only did bo puns the examination finely, but he had the reputation of being one of the most «xpert. mail clerk., in the service. His name was struck ofl the list by the coterie who boss, and a fellow with more "Huenee" was left on. Three other similar cases aro well known.

That is why the Terre Haute civil Norvice board' waited all day while two lone applicants answered questions that will affect their getting a P. O. job about as much as if they sung "Little Annie Rooney" in the presence of "do gang." Other cities reported great crowds in attendance on the Fobruary civil service examinations. At New York City 2,000 wore examined this week, at Chicago 1,(100, at Brooklyn they are examining 22.' a day with four days yet before they can finish, and at Louisville, Ky-, instead oT one day, it took them three to finish. And vet in Terre Haute the examiners drummed their pencils and waited—waited. Hard times are not hard enough yet to make a Terre Hautcan, with burned political fingers, wast'j a day in putting his apparel in apple-pit# order to receive a kicking Irom the bosses. It is rumored that the fiat has gone out that there must be a vfrowd present at the next examination, oven if they don't expect to get an office.

Barrim: the speakers, the orchestra, the county officers and the politicians, lliero was an averuge of fifty in the audience at the Fanners' Institute yesterday and the day bnforo. That fifty repro^ented the farmers of Vigo county, and they looked like men wlr farmed intelligently and came to an institute to learn something. Mr. Mount, of Shannondale, a /.ml-faced, pleasant looking gentleman fanner, talked on all Mil) jects. His How of words wan overwhelming. and his standing as a successful stockrai*er added weight to what he said. Mr. Kelso, of Morocco, is a typieil theological professor in looks, one of those kind of people tliat have books for breakfast, encyclupa'dias for dinner and dictionaries for supper, with a mg-Ucap of a at bedtime. He knew what, lie WHS talking about, and told the Vigo a other things than what he had read in books. But the most iutei osting feature of the two days' session was Mr. John J. Brake. He asked questions. When a .speaker sat down ami audience was fairly overcome bv the fund of information which had become theirs, Mr. Brake would arise like a sixinterrogation inf. and pointing a long linger at- the e\-*p«-uke«\ would propound !»n enIt'ina S ciat tim he maie the speakers s»v, "I pass, and then Mr. B. would ask he open-mouthed audience for a reply. Nob dv said a word -you could hear the wood-saws goiuir.

The Farmers' Institute was a big success. It deserrt better attendance. The gentlemen who made addresses were ail successful men anil cheerfu!!\ told secrets of good farming. When all farmers learn that it takes brains and applied theory, together with hard wotk, to prosper at farming, then Torre Haute will not have a hall big enough for them to meet in, instead of accommodating all that care come on fifty chairs.

Beach's lawyers ate having a hard time. The indictments against the defendant are ironclad: his change of venue from Judge Taylor failed to prevent the appointment of assistant prosecutors and now, his counsel ask delay before another judge be agreed upon. Judge Cox, of the Indianapolis criminal court, was asked to try the case. He has not consented. Every judge adjacent to Terre Haute has refused, except Judge Johu C\ Hrigg*, of Sullivan. He hasn't been asked. It is understood that the implacable hatred between tb© McNuils and Briggs is the cause of this judicial slight. Judge Taylor would like "awfully well" to have his old friend. Judge Myers, of Bloom ington, try the ease, but the nine Beach Barkis'* are not "wiianV Judge Myer* was the one who was foisted into the Bruce trial last July and after a two hour session

was called off, and Judge McNutt substituted. The Bloomington judge is regarded as one of the ablest jurists in the state. Maybe he ia too able

Jerome Denehie, the well-known traveler for the Huduut Milling Co., who some months ago had a leg amputated as a result of an accident which laid him up several months is a candidate for the Ropublic.au nomination for city treasurer. He is a up-mber of the i- PA., and is being urged by his friends as a (it representative of the traveling men.

Charles L. Feltus, the well-known paper hanger, and R. Brotherton, once candidate for sheriff, have been added to the list of Republican candidates for county recorder.

John B. Johnson, of Sand ford, will be pushed by Fayette township as a candidate for the Republican nomination for county commissioner.

Dr. E. L. Larkins will be a candidate for coroner, instead of county treasurer, as stated last week. Dr. Chas. F. Zimmerman, who has been Dr. Mattox's efficient deputy, says he will not be a candidate, as he is going to Europe to pursue his professional studies.

Will Soules, of Lost Creek township, will probably be a candidate for the Republican nomination' for auditor.

Webb Casto it is said, would rather be a candidate for county treasurer than for sheriff on the Republican ticket. H. C. Hanna has been added to the list of available timber for the latter office.

George W. Caton, the south Ninth street contractor, wouldn't be averse to making tho race for township trustee this fall—in fact he wants the nomination on the Republican ticket.

Many persons in this city will remember Col. A. M. Hardy, who was connected with the Daily Express as a reporter, in 1883 or 1884. He was a picturesque character, capable of saying severe thiugs and with the physique to back them up. He is now Jiving in Washington, Daviess county, where he ia a very prominent member of the legal fraternity. As usual with men who have at any time borne tho Terro Haute trademark, the Colonel is a hustler, and just now is an avowed candidate for congress on the Republican tickot, in tho second district. There isa Democratic plurality of ab iut, 2,000 in that district, but the colonel is very positive that he can wipe that out, mid the prestige he will gain in boing from the state of Terro Haute will be a big thing towards that end.

Candidates have to be very careful what they say. It is told of one of the Indianapolis candidates for a position on one of tho suite tickets, while talking in the Terre Haute house corridors not long ago made the remark, "I understand that next to Indianapolis you have the finest race track on earth here in Per re Haute." The howl of indignation th it went up from the by slanders caused the candidate to turn pale, and although hit tried to square himself at the bar, lie went out of town firm in tho belief that his untimely remark had lost him every vote in the Vigo county delegation.

There has been some talk of the People's party* plaouiga ticket in the field in the city election in May, but there is opposition to this among some of the prominent members of the organization. A full ticket will be nominated for comity officers.

It has been reported that Col. Dan FasijJ would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for sheriff, but ho denies tho charge very vigorously. He is now in a prosperous business aud does not care to give that up to make a tace for an office that has so few financial attraetions as the sheriff'.s office under the new law. I Judge Rhoads tells a good story on himself in connection with the report that he had deserted the Republican party and gone over to the Populists,

His friends and former Republican as!elates in Vermillion county, reading the report of his desertion of the G. O.

P., wore much excited, and appointed a committee to call on him and find eut what was the matter. The members of tke committee were very much pleased to rind out that the statement was nntrue, and that Judge Rhoads had been confounded with Judge Pierce.

I At the meeting of the Lincolu League in Indianapolis this week, Nicholas Fil-' bx and ChM. Hammerstein, of Um city, were selected as delegates from In diana to the National League of Repub iican clubs in Denver next June, the former as a representative from the state at large, and the latter from the Eighth congressional district,

LICENSED TO WED.

Albort U!tx!de and Kmuia L»wwn. Wm. \V. Johnson and Luolla AIvls. Kudo!pli Helm and Flora M. G. Phelps*. Ijcwis Morris and Sarah M. Litton.

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Qui VIVE

AMONG THE POLITICIANS.

Among the possibilities in the mayoralty line, on the Democratic side, is A. G. Austin, who is coming to the front as a strong man to lead his party.

BAB'S CHAT.

WHY MARRIED WOMEN AND WIDOWS ARE ATTRACTIVE TO MEN.

The Blushing Maiden's Longings—Experience, the Social Sand-Paper—Men as

Fashion Dictators—Tho Servant Girl

Question.

ICopyrigbt, 1894.]

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 —I believe some one has written a book intended to explain fully why married women are more attractive to men than are blushing maideus. There may be a sufficient number of reasons for this to make a book, but I am rather ioclioed to doubt it. Married women, and under this heading, of course, come widows, are attractive to men for the simple reason that they understand them. If they aie fortunate enough to have met good men, in the capacity of husbands, they have great belief in mankind in geuerai if tbey are unfortunate enough to have met bad men, then they lack all belief in mankind, but they have learned how to conceal their own feelings. The olind confidence of the young girl in a man is only pleasing to the extremely young, or tho extremely old that is to say, to those who are just out of long clothes, or those who are reaching the Btate commonly known as second childhood.

A MAN OF THE WORLD IS ATTRACTED by a young girl's pretty face—be has long ago given up dancing, and he pro poses te show his courtesy to her by saying to her all the complimentary things he can think of in the best turned phrases. But the young girl's eyes wauder over the room wishes some bodv would ask her to dance she is restless and preoccupied, and looks vastly relieved when the man, who only sbiues as far as his feet are concerned, comes up to her, rudely interrupts tho conversation, takes her oft and prances her to her satisfaction. Now a matron or a widow would not make such a mistake as this she knows there is more interest shown in you when a man wishes to talk to you than when he wishes to dance with you. The young girl is too apt to be worried and upset by little disagreeables, and makes the men around her conscious of her crossness and .displeased by her expression of it.

To sum it all up, the matron or the widow is like a lion-tamer—she knows the beast, and she knows how to manage him. She knows that he likes being made much of, that he wishes to be thought of first, and that he likes to think that he is the one who is loved and not the one who loves. Unlike the lion-tamer, the adept in ruling man does not have a hot iron to touch him with whenever he grows restless or disobeys, but she has an iron that enters his soul, and which can only be described by calling it the iron of femininity that is to say, when flattery does not prevail, when tj'rannv is useless, the best of all weapons is called into service, and the woman avows herself the weakest of all humanity, so that she may gain what sL:e wishes, for he who believes himself strongest is he who will be most lenient to those he considers lack his power. Then, too, the matron or the widow realizes that, when the busy day is over, and man is out in the social world, it interests him to listen to that idle chatter of women compounded of some uonsense, a little sense, a little sarcasm, a little wickedness and a little wit. Whereas, the young girl continually "wants to know," and expects the man who is closest to her to explain all unknown situations, and to give her. in full the histories of the various people whom she has never seen before. The other woman understands the appetite of the man and caters to it. They don't a«k him to criticise plays or books while he is eating terrapin they don't want to discuss the newest fad in.religion during his dining hour, and they don't ask him to a supper at which chicken salad, iced creams and a puuch that might be called a mystery constitutes the menu.

The truth is, THE MATROX AND THK WIDOW ATTRACT MEN bv having that which has not come to a young girl—i.e., experience. Experience might be called the social sand paper. It is rubbed over one mentally until there are no sharp corners left, and one is made curiously unselfish, not from a particularly hieh motive, but because it is found that if one wishes to be popular, one must consider other people first and one's self next. I don't believe this would make a book, but I think it is the truthful answer to the question.

There is nothing that delights my poor soul more than to hear a man talk about the fashions. He is by no means a bad critic, bus having discovered one woman who dres-*es to suit him, be thinks every other one would look ••qually well in her clothes. Generalizing, he has a great faucy for blue in colors, and that some rOsy-cheeked woman be knows can wear It and look well in it, seems to him sufficient reason why alt women should assume the color that makes those who are pale, look paler, and those who are beginning to have wrinkles on their face look ten

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17,1894. Twenty-fourth Year

years older than they really are. In the siltnmer time he approves of white cotton frocks because he thinks they are simple probably be would change his miad if he paid a few laundry tills. Just now he is quite happy because the bonnets at the theatre are small, and as he gleefully approves of them he wonders why tbey weren't put on years ago. He calls them a sensible fashion, where as in truth there are absolutely ridiculous, for, leaving the top of the head entirely uncovered, they afford a lovely opportunity for the cold breezes to go through one's hair and gives one that nqp.st dire of complaints, neuraigia. 4 UN ON WOMAN'S BELONGINGS.

He says he likes to see a woman with a dross trimmed with lace, because it is feminine and pretty, and he doesn't work out iu bis own mind the problem s- familiar to a woman. If one can only have one frock duriug the season, shall that frock be trimmed or plain? He likes to see a woman carry a fan, aud yet, he is the bitterest enemy the fan lias. He can manage to hold everything else, but Ijand him a tortoise shell or pearl fan to look after, and he either squeezes it to pieces or lets it slide away from him and steps upon it. He has always said that be didn't like women to bleach their hair, and yet, when your hair begins40 darken a little, be has the impudence to wonder why you didn't stay a blonde as you were when he first fell in love with you. He is bitterly opposed to high heeled shoes, aud yet aotne day when you show him a low shoe, very broad aud half, a sizo too iarge, he agrees with you that it is very sensible, butdenies ever having objected to a pretty shoe, and begs that if you are going to wear euch dreadful looking things as that, that you will take a tuck out of your gown. He is fully impressed with the idea that women have tucks in their dresses and let them out or take them in as they may desire. He will assert that he knows a well dressed woman when he sees her, and yet If he is asked to select one from among a number, he will choose her who wears, not a well-made frock, but a frock the color of wh'.ch pleases his eye. He has a decided liking for silk, and a vague idea that a silk frock lasts forever, and afterjyour gown has come down to furnishwjpings and cover sofa pillows, he will fonder why you don't wear that pretty blue silk that he always liked. Thatj you. wore the blue silk for live yeard, and that even if it were together now it would be out of fashion means nothing to Lim, and he says, "What if it is out of style? It was a pretty color, it was good silk, and it was ladylike." You might talk until your face was the color of the silk, but you would never be able to convince him that he was wrong. There is one consolatiou in this, that If man does criticise, woman does uot d!ress for his benefit. That is to say, she does aud she doesn't. The general effect is for him tl^e means used to gain that ^ffect are to be appreciated only by otheij women.

THE BURDEN OF GETTING GOOD HELP. A ioeiety has been formed in New Yor^for getting situations in the country f^r those servant girls who are willing tb leave New York. Personally, if this country service would include a course of training with a whip, I for one would be very well satisfied. 1 have always maintained that the wo man who could not keep her servants had something wrong in her makeup, but I am willing to take all of that back. A sitting of one afternoon with a friend, who wished to get a cook, convinced me that while the evil may exist in some mistresses, it doesn't in all. This lady gave to her cook good wages, and a most comfortable room, well carpeted, warm, and quite as well furnished as is the average room in a hotel. The maid she had for along time was ill and had to go away, and she faced the terrors, fdr they were ^bat, that came from an intelligence^jfflce. The first one to enter was a youwjc woman in a large hat with pale blue fwfcthers upon it, you noticed this first, and afterwards you became conscious of a pair of huge red hands, heavily belonged. Looking down yon saw a pair of miserable shoes with half the buttons off. This young person, when she heard there was only two in the family, said that it wouldn't be lively enough for her, buL even after this, wanted to remain and have a little gossip. When it was impressed upon her mind that it was a cook that was wanted and not a conversationalist, she went out with her feathers waving in the air and an expression of indignation on her face.

THK

GIRL, HAD A SWEETHEART.

The second applicant suggested that she had just come out of the penitentiary. She kept her eyes steadily on the floor igreed to do everything said she never yrished to go out, and all that she wanted was the privilege of having her sweetheart come to see her at ten o'clock, as he was in a business that would not permit? his getting away any earlier. She was a little shy about her references, but eventually gave them. I went £|tb my friend to look them up. We foQod that the people we were sent to had never even heard of her, and two days afterwards we saw her picture In the paper. She bad gotten a situation the week before, had let her sweetheart

in at the hour be wished to come, and he was good enough to bring with him two gentlemen friends. Tbey took away all the silver, presumably to clean it, and the queen of the kitchen accompanied them with the intentiou, undoubtedly, of overseeing the job. After this there was a stream of good and bad girls, of impudent and polite ones that is to sav, there wa one polite one. Aud she was so very polite that we felt there must be something wrong with her. A pleasant inquiry to her elicted the fact that she was just out of the insane asylum. My friend is still without a cook, aud I go and condole with her, and we both wonder why some of the kindly societies don'r- do something in the way of furnishing New York with servant girls instead of giving so much attention to the country. And then we ask each other a few questions. so

ML-: UNTRUTHFUL WOMEN.

Why will a womau write that a servant is a good, capable cook, when this knowledge of cooking consists} iu knowing how to fry a boeksteak and bake a roast?

Why will a woman give an undated reference to a servant? Why will a woman say that Mary Jones is sober, honest and industrious, when she is discharging her f( drunkenness, doesn't dare to tell Mary Jones the reason, and persuades Mary Jones into the belief that she is going to break up housekeeping? Men don't do this sort of thing with the people they employ.. A bookkeeper has to be very certain of his ability before he can send his new to his old employer. I think it a queer little fear? a, feminiue bit of cow ardice, that induces a womau to write down what she knows is not true. The servant girl question will never be settled until the police take it in hand. And by this I meau uutil each girl has a book in which she keeps the certificates of ber character, #ud one older than three months will be counted worthless. Not until her history from the standpoint of honesty and good behavior is written out and put in a directory. Then, perhaps, oue can belive in a reference. Just now I should doubt one sent to me by anybody unless it were signed BAB.

ABOUT WOMEN.

Twelve New York women, it is announced, are to write a composite novel. When a woman asks another if her hat is ou straight the chances are ten to one that the bat is a new one.

The Princess of Wales never throws or gives away a discarded bonnet. As soon as one is to be used no longer, it is labeled with the year aud the season, and carefully put away in a box.

A young woman, Miss Fay Fuller, of Tacoma, a daqghter of an editor of that city, has recently accomplished the perilous feat or climbing Mount Tacoma, America's most difficult peak.

A woman in Kentucky, aged 07, has forty-three grandchildren, sixty greatgrandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildran. She comes as near to being the mother of her country as anybody now living.

Mrs. Rose Bren nan, an English woman -.vho died recently at the age of 70 years, gave nine children to the Catholic church. Five sons became priests in the Franciscan Capuchin Order aud four daughters took the vows of Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy.

English women are gradually absorbing the entire trade of shop window dressing, an occupation still iu the hands of men here, as is the business of table decoration, which in London Is usually the work of a woman in the employ of the florist who provides the greens and blossoms necessary.

Among all the industries for woman's labor corset-making is aboivt the beM. There is work the entire year, it is clean aud comparatively light, and a skilled operator can make 1 50 a day whenever she likes. It is not difficult to earn $1.25 a day on the cheap goods fine work will pay a girl |2aday the year round.

When one reads of the beauties of Japan and the delightful simplicity of life there existing itseems that a Japanese woman is born to a coveted existence—a notion, however, that is lone away with when such bits of information as the following fall in our way: "There are seven grounds of divorce in that country (as regards women only): First, jealousy second, thievishness third, infidelity fourth, childlessness fifth, disobedience to parents-in-law sixth, an incurable or contagious disease seventh, talking too much."

The ugliest women in the world are the cleverest, according to Sir Crichton Browne. He fears th*t what woman gains intellectually by the higher education now in vogue she will lose in beauty and grace, and often in health, too. Among the Garo nation, a people dweliiog on a range of hills between Brahmapootra and the Soorma valleys, the women are supreme. They woo the men, tbey control the affairs of the home and the nation, and in everything tbey are dominant, but—not the sequel —tbey are the very ugliest women -on the face of the earth.

Mail.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Bourke Cochran has the largest head in congress and something in it. It's quite English to have your "dearest girl's" photo set in your ring.

The Atchison Olobe says: The Lord uerer intended that a fat her should hold the baby, or he would have given him a lap.

It is hard enough, any way, fora bachelor to hold a baby, but it is simply torture when it is the baby of the girl who jilted him heartlessly only three years before.

A Waj'ne county, Kentucky, farmer, wto saved a boy from drowning and afterward gave him a drink of whisky for fear the ducking- would make him sick, was lined §10 for giving liquor to minor.

Lawyers are supposed to get, most out of the cases taken into court, but sometimes the humble aud worthy printer has rich picking. It cost $17,000 to print the record of one case which is now before the Federal Supreme court.

In the popular songs which the thousands sing "After the Ball" has taken a back seat Two Little Girls in Blue" is about ready to be laid on the shelf, and "I Long to Meet tho Girl I Left Behind Me" is rapidly fading from view. The very latest and newest of the popular ballads is "The Sweetest Story Ever Told." It is by a Baltimore composer, and is said to be very telling.

An evidence that Boston is feeliug the stringency is presented in the fact that the Someiset Club, the most aristocratio in the city, has reduced the price of "whisky straight" from fifteen to ten cents. There has been, however, 110 reduction in the price of beans, and as Boston clubmen must have ben us, it is difficult to see how they can economize much 011 the new tariff for whisky,

Vermont and New Hampshire grow more slowly than any other States of the Union, and the former seems as nearly as maj' be a finished and fenced in community. Old as the state is, oue county has less than 4,000 inhabitants and another less than 10,004). Viiiagos in both states are drained of their young men, who go to Boston or to New York in. search of careers not to be found at home.

One of the features of the New York, social season just closed by Lent, was the toleration with which divorced people were received within the circle that oldfashioned conservatism once barred to them. It is stated that a dinner pirty of twenty-live persons one night last week, which preceded a dance iu fashionable house on Fifth avenue, there were two husbands and two wives who had been divorced within the past six years and who had married again. Several divorce notables, of international repute, have also lately appeared unquestioned at society revels.

Not long before his death, George W. Childs did a characteristic thing, of which nobody knows but the participants and oue or two others. He never told it himself. A Southern crirl with a small revenue from inherited land was about to lose it from foreclosure for mortgage, taxes, etc. She was too proud to do anything herself, and a lady in Philadelphia, herself a complete stranger to the Childs, concluded to state the case and ask his aid. Without a word he advanced the money and took no security, and the girl was saved from beggary. The amount advanced was large.

The long and happy wedded life of General Lew Wallace is, it seems, founded upon a pretty romance. He was but 10 years old when serving his country in the Mexican \var. A comrade talked much of a certain Susan Eston, who lived in his home town, Crawfordsville, Ind., and young Lieutenant Wallace in consequence became enamored of a girl whom he had never seen. As soon as he left Mexico he journeyed to Crawfordsville, made Miss Eiston's acquaintance and three years later they were married. Mrs. Wallace is described as slight and of medium height, with regular features and beautiful brown hair, which is now tinged with gray. She has been all her life an omnivorous reader, and at best is a witty and brilliant conversationalist.

The bachelors in the United States Senate are all new men serving their first terms. Higgins, of Delaware, is the oldest, bis age being 53, and Dubois, of Idaho, is the youngest, being only 42. There should be eighty-eight fenators, but just now there are three vacancies^ one each in Montana, Washington and Wyoming. At least sixty-nine have wives living, and at least six are widowers. Senator Cock roll's wife died a few weeks ago, Senator Piatt has been a widower for -two months, and Senator Faulkner, who has been a widower for many years, was married again early this month. The wives of several senators seldom come to Washington. Mrs. McPberson has been f*r many years in Germany, where her children are being educated. Mrs. Mitchell, the wife cf the Oregon senator, spends most of her time in Europe, with ber married daughter. Mrs. Ransom livesalways in North Carolina, and Mrs. Shoup^prefers to devote herself wholly to her young children in Boise City.