Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 February 1894 — Page 1

Vol. 24.—No. 35

ON THE QUI VIVE.

"How sharp than a serpent's tooth It is to have a thankless child." Terre Haute was tickled into spasms a few moons ago when the new anti trustdistillery house was proposed. We promised evertbing we offered work cheap the Vau agreed to put in switches f6r naught and throw iu switching charges the town awoke every morning and shook hand* with the rising benefactors, Messsrs. Woolsey and Klopfer. The signs of gratitude were many.

Then the contracts were made and work began. The- "serpent's tooth" gleamed. Six hundred unemployed working men howled with rage because the new company wouldn't put them all at work at once. The benefactors were cursed because they failed to employ the multitude. And to cap the sheaf, Terre Ilaute's council on Tuesday night refused to permit the Van to lay tracks on the distillery grounds. At the same session the aldermen voted to pay $500 to the city relief committee for the support of the unemployed. That was right, but compare the actions and nolo the iiicunhisletioy. 'Delaying an enterprise which will employ hundreds of workmen and paying out money to support some of those very workmen in the meanwhile. How do tho taxpayers like that? Mind you, the whole council did not do this it was the brilliant work of one or two members.

On Wednesday night tho solons debated the matter over again, and with much solemnity decided that it wouldn't throw the planets out of their orbits if the Van did lay a track on to tho Wabash bottoms. It is suggested that the opposition of some councilman to the new distillery was merely because Mr. Beasley, who asked the council's consent, is Mr. Lamb's partner, and Mr. Lamb is a personal foe of Alderman Roach of Ward 3, who did the kicking. But Statesman Roach denies that his motions were anything but patriotic.

By the way, John Ross' political stock has taken a big jump since he sold the old homestead to the mammoth whiskey mill. Mr. Ross' action has so stimulated industry and rented vacant houses on the south side that ho can have anything he wants. An he has not removed from the First ward, his neighbors from the river to Bagdad and from tho Idaho to St. Anthony's are clamoring that he consent to represent them in the council. Ho was triumphantly elected from the old Third ward, but was too busy burning briok to care for legislation. It bored him li:ce a tight shoo. Now, how over, he is more at loisure and might be persuaded to bo a oltv father, and en Joy it.

Singors could have gained some points in popular music had they attended the State Conference of Charities and heard tho jubilee choir from the Plaintleld reform school. A scoro of boys from that juvenile prison, with their headscropped close, sang until the rafters rang at tho Presbyterian church thh» weolc Their childish trt bio blended with school boy bass made more music than choruses usually do. When they sang "For Molllo and the baby, don't you know!" tho audience was electrified. Tho time, the swing, the rhythm was exhilarating and tunny people wondered how the little fellows attained such proficiency.

Superintendent Charlton, of Plain field, is popular with the inmates. No guards watched the boys while hero Unless vou were told, you would have thought them city school boys instoad of prisoners. But

lhev

never attempt to escape

when away from Plainfield on a "junket." Their idea of honor is a good one and back they all went to prison after two days, singing to free men and women.

Judge Mack and Prof. P. W. Ayers, of Cincinnati, each threw a bomb into the charity conference. The jurist scathingly denounced the reformatories as "hotbeds of vice," and of course that brought every State officer to his (or her) feet. If Judge Mack wanted to start a debate, he must have been satisfied.

That wasn't an instance, howover, to the hornet's nest that Prof. Ayers, the Cincinnati prison expert, poked into, Mr. Ayers, Prof. Commons and Secretary Smallwood had visited the "V igo county jail that afternoon. The prison expert denounced it and cried "shame 1" at Terre Haute. His criticism was cutting because he intimated so much more than he said. Sheriff Stout caught it hard. Mr. Ayers said the county jail stunk {he used the aesthetiy phra»e, •odor'^ and that the jatler and attendants were slovenly, He condemned the cage where sixteen filthy unfortunate men w*»re scooped. His denunciation of the women's department was violent. He intimated that loows women only had opportunity to be more lo#se when jailed. Characterising the women's department a# "outrageous." he claimed that no where in the United States did auch a condition txiit except In Terre Hnute.

When he had finished, the sheriff's onlv defender was »W. C. T. U. lady who argued that Mr. Stoat couldn't do any better, and that he was not as black

as painted, for he bad often asked the W. C. T. U. to suggest improvements and better plans. Then the lady sat down as if Mr. Ayers' criticism had been answered. It hadn't been touched.

That was a very nice letter Governor Matthews wrote, saying that sickness and a press ofbusiness kept him from attending the charities convention this week, at which he was booked to deliver an address. It was a very nice letter, indeed, and put in a nice word for Terre Haute and her world renowned hospitality, etc., etc., etc. But there are those who say that sickness and press of business did not prevent the Governor from coming, but rather that he kept away to avoid meeting—especially while the matter is fresh—some Terre Haute people with whom he "played horse" in the Normal school trustee appointment. Onegentleman in particular, heard declare himself in a public place since the appointment. It seems the Gov ernor wrote to this gentleman intimating in unmistakable terms that he intended to appoint Joseph Gilbert, and asked his opinion aboat it. The gentleman happened to lie a very good friend of Mr. Gilbert, who had mai'e a most acceptable trustee during a previous incumboncy, and this geutlemau took occasion to write a very nice letter about Mr. Gilbert, enlarging on .his qualifications, etc. lie had seen the announcement from Indianapolis that the Governor intended to appoint Mr. Gilbert, and this with the implied intention expressed in the letter naturally led him to believe the appointment was as good as made. Judge of his astonishment when he read that Mr. Martin—an intimate political and personal friend of the Governor—had received the appointment! He had nothing to say against Col. Martin, whom he acknowledges is a good man and will make a first class trustee, but ho is thoroughly indignant to think of the Governor playing horse with him in this way. Anal if you want to hear some good, old-fashioned swearing, with all the modern ornamentations and frills, you just happen around the Terre Haute the next time the Governor puts in an appearance there. And the seance will not lose any of its interest from the faot that the gentleman in question will "cuss"—by authority—for several other well-known gentlemen who received exactly the same treatment.

Qui VIVE.

AMONG THE POLITICIANS.

Charles L. Feltus is a candidate for Auditor, instead of Recorder, as stated last week.

Harvey Bentley, of Prairietou township, will be a.candidate for the Republican nomination for county treasurer. It WHS a relative of his, of the same name, who was nominated by the ouunty convention two years ago, and afterwards declined.

The Republicans have fixed the date of their city primaries for April 3d, and of the city convention one week later, April 10th. Tho Democrats have not fixed a date for their primaries Delegates to the Republican state con ventioB of April '23th will probably be elected the latter part of next month. The chances are, at the present time, that the Democrats will have a late couiity convention and the Republicans an early one.

Among the state candidates here this week were W. R. McClelland, of Danvile, and R. A. Brown,of Franklin, both candidates for clerk of the Supreme court. The last named is editor of the Frauklin Republican, and a clever fellow, who is making a thorough canvas of the state. The editors of political papers, as a rule, get very little in the way of political preferment, and it is on the basis that they are entitled to more that Mr. Brown is hustling for this good office.

Joshua M. Hull is another man talked of in connection with the Republican nomination for sheriff. He held the office for two years, from 1872 to 1S74, aud although he made a most gallant fight in the latter year ho went down in the general landslide that overcame the Republicans. Clay C. Leek, the east end druggist, la another man who is likely to be prominent in the race for sheriff.

There has been sonue pronounced talk among tho Democrats of trying to force ex-Mayor Kolsem to make the race for mayor again this spring, it being thought that his political strength and popularity would be a big help in pulling the entire ticket through. He denies being a jparty to it, however, and says very positively that not only is he not a candidate, but that he will not under any circumstances be oue. And he means it.

LICENSED TO WED.

Ira W. Pet«r* and Wreathle Duck. Joshua McPanlel and Sarah E. Carpenter. Wm. Fairbanks and Mary B. House. Geo. Mxchino and Maggie Bargao. John F. Petri and Nellie Belt. Henry J. Flint and ioyA. Pool. \Vm,T. Barker and Mjrrtle Raiotlfll

There are 100 young men at Perry, Oklahoma, who want wive#. Now, girls, are you all ready—go!

GOSSIPY BAB.

THE CHATTER OF A WOMAN'S SEWING CIRCLE.

The Desire of Women to Have Their Names and Pictures in the Newspapers— The Latest Hair Dressing I* mi—A Woman

on Politics.

[Copyright, 1894.]

There is nothing going on just, nbw, except teas and sewing circles and at both of them conversation becomes chatter, and there is nothing so high or so low about which lovely woman cannot. give her opinion. At the smartest of the sewing classes, which meets at different- houses, there is a luncheon served from the sideboard, and the workers are expected not only to bring busy fingers, but a good appetite. For, although the good things to eat are not spread out on a table, still that doesn't prevent there being plenty of pate de foie gras, quantities of strawberries, sandwiches of all sorts, salads, tea and chocolate, and, following the French fashion, good claret. One sews a little while, eats a little while, and the garment that oue doesn't finish is taken home, and furnishes employment, probably to another member of the household. 1 always elect to hem towels uiyselfj oue can talk and listen and keep on sewing over them, whereas a more elaborate piece of work demands constant, at tention. Then, too, I am a great believer in the propagation of clean towels, aud of big towels, aud of soft towels. I am very much given to judging people by the quantity and kind of towels displayed in their bath rooms. A good, big one, soft to the touch and immaculate in appearance, always suggests to me a good hostess and one who desires that her visitors shall be possessed of that virtue counted next to godliness.

LANQTBY AS A WRITER.

The other day, as I was sewing, I heard a woman near me say, -'So Langtry is going to write a novel?" I lost my thimble, but clung'to my needle, as I answered her, "I don't know what she is doing now, but I do know that when she was in this country she had a large square diary which locked, and she told me that she was going to write in it everything she knew about Interesting people, pleasant or unpleasant that she intended to put in their names—their true names—to state places and dates, but that she didn't propose this book should be published until she was a very old woman, or perhaps not until after her death. What a lot of people will be frightened if they think that is the book she is going to publish now!"

I picked up my thimble and startod in to sew again, aud the other woman said: "What a beauty that woman is! Doesn't she look line and majestic in that last picture which shows her in a low gown, exhibiting those beautiful shoulders, a string of pearls around her neck and a diamond tiara on her head? How many other women would look well in such a tiara? Those women in New York who have them don't seem to get them on right, and at the opera the other night one woman hadn't secured hers properly, and it tipped a little to one side and made her look absolutely tough. But to return to Mrs. Langtry. What a pleasure aud .yet what a temptation it is to be a beauty like that!" "Yes," said I, "and I never realized how much of a temptation it was until one day when Mrs. Kendal was talking. She was speaking of the time when Langtry first appeared in London after the picture that had been painted of her by Frank Miles and which Oscar Wilde had named 'The Jersey Lily.' Mrs. Kendal said that much ought to be forgiven a woman who had been so much made of and

WHOSE EXTREME I1EAUTY

had been recogniaed all over the world. She said the first time she appeared after this picture was exhibited, duchesses stood on chairs to look at her people pushed and crowded to stare at this young woman who walked like a goddess and who seemed as entirely unconscious as if she were in the flower garden at home on the quiet Isle of Jersey. What would we do if we had beauty like that? That is one reason why it is something not always to be desired still I never saw a woman who wasn't willing to giye up everything else for the sake of feeing beautiful. By-the by, did you know that Mrs. Langtry, in addition to her knowledge of modern languages, is a good Greek and Latin scholar? She was educated with her brothers, and as she bad a good mind and a marvelous memory, she absorbed all she was taught and she has never forgotten it."

By this time I was ready for afresh towel, so after waiting five valuable minutes in an effort to get a «oarse thread in the eye of a fine needle and feeling that 1 would like to say some of the words so emphatically uttered by Mra. Carlyle, I got started again. The topic had changed, and everybody was talking about the new way of arranging the hair. A knot in my thread made me say "Bother!" And then I joined in. "For my part, I don't think it is becoming to everybody. The part just

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down the centre of the head is only suited to women who bave oval, but not thin faces, and it never ought to be worn by a round-faced woman. And yet we are such a sheepish lot that we all do just like somebody else and

ARRANGE OUR LOCKS MADONNA-WISE,

.even if it makes us look ten years older, as it is certain to do when the face is not Adapted to the coiffure. I will tell you what I think are hideous the flufls of hair arranged low on each side of the forehead, and which, when one is at the theatre, make the girl in front look as if she were a bearded woman, a la Dundreary. It must be rather convenient to be the Princess of Wales. People believe, because she always wears it the same way, that it is her own hair, but it Isn't. For a long time she has worn wigs, and they are the most natural ones possible. Accordingto all accounts she has fifty, and they are regularly brushed, and each takes its turn in being worn. The wig suits her face, but why in the world do her daughters persist in wearing fronts, for they look like fronts, though I am certain they are their own hair, after the fashion of their mother. They are ugly girls, anyhow, 8?nd with all this curled mop coming so far down on their foreheads they look heavy and stupid and like their father. It is queer that such a handsome mother should have had such an ordinarylooking lot of children. The poor Duke of Clarence appeared the most inane of dudes, and the Duke of York is a stolid, heavy fellow, not possessing an air of nobility, but looking as if he belonged to a well to do family of the middle class. The Duchess of Fife has a pleasant face, but the other two sisters are absolutely ugly, though English people say of them that they are homely, and you know they don't mean that as we do.* They explain the word as being domestic, and though not beautiful, full of goodness and kindness."

RICH GIRLS IN PRINT.

A woman who was knitting wash.rags took the floor for a minute or two, and went on to abuse the papers for putting in the pictures of fashionable women and of rich girls. I immediately broke a needle, and armed with the point of it, started in to defend the press. "My dear i&aaam," I said, "your daughter's picture would not have been in the paper last Sunday if some one hadn't given to that paper her photograph, and I must say that in nine cases out of ten, those photographs are gladly presented by a member of the immediate family, and most of the talk about objection to publicity is assumed. Every blessed one of you delights in something pleasant being printed about you, and every blessed one of you will buy innumerable papers when the pleasant paragraph appears and send them around to your friends. If your daughter's picture is on sale, then you have already made it public property, and if you only give ber picture to the people who are close to her, the publicity to which you object will not be hers. Reputable newspapers don't print pictures of women against her wishes, and it is all what the London coster calls 'tommy rot' when you insist upon saying that you didn't wish it to go in and that' you object to your parties being written about, but that the newspapers get information in some mysterious way. The}' don't. They get it in a very straightforward way, and if you don't like to, you can very soon stop it by simply stating to the very first reporter that comes near you that you would rather not have anything publishedaboutyou. Your request will be respected, and you can live just as quiet a life as you want. By-the-bye, everybody asfta it is so dull in Washington this year."

A SENATOR'S WIFE TALKS.

"Oh, yes," answered a Senator's wife, who was just finishing a pinafore "this Administration is not a lively one. They afe entertaining so little they must be savins: money. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats know exactly where they stand, because they don't know what Mr. Cleveland is, and I am always inclined to call him the Doubtful president. Some people say the reason why we hear so little about Mrs. Cleveland, is because he doesn't propose to have his glory dimmed by the charm of a young and pretty woman. Of course, that is just gossip but it is very like a man, and, after all, a president is only a man. I don't know who I should like to see go in next time, but somebody with brains and good manners and gentle birth, who we would all be very proud of no matter what his politics might be. But then I don't believe in a political president. The Senate and the house can attend to all that, and the president need only decide as far as possible, by the assistance of the cabinet, what is good for the country at large. Mr. Whitney, Mr. Carlisle, Gov. McKinley, any one of the three would make a good president, don't you think so?"

MWell,"

said I, "I am a Democrat, but

I would like to see Mr. McKinley elected, because I like his record as a man, and I believe he is a gentleman. I have beard no end of nice stories about him and then, too, have heard he is devoted to his wife, and beautifully considerate of all women."

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A girl at the end of the room, who was threading needles for somebody, suddenly laughed, and a woman wrho had been silently sewing, and who had an expression of sadness on her face, smiled and looked happier.

My neighbor asked me: "JSN'T THAT THE MBRRIEST LAUGH you ever heard?"

And I answered, "That girl is a mental cocktail. She braces one up as no liquid ever would, and no matter how weary one may be, she infuses one with the same glad spirits that she has. It's a spiritual inoculation. There is a welcome for her wherever she goes, and yet to my certain knowledge she has rather more than the usual number of worries, but she makes the best of them. She never tells her stories of woe, but when she gets near you, you feel as if there were more sunshine and more goodness in the world than you had ever thought of before. I don't think she troubles herself about analyzing things, but she has a vague idea thai it is the duty of all women to make life as bright as possible and to keep the dark parts well out of sight. She wraps her skeletons up in soft cotton, and even those who are closest to her never hear their bones rattle. She is appreciative, aud accepts a kiudness shown her exactly as it is offered And somehow she seems to be able to find out the best in everybody. Oh, she is not a saint she Las a nice little temper of her own, biit she only lets it appear when she thinks it is absolutely necessary. I like that girl, don't you? "Yes," said the other woman. "I do like her, but, why?"

For the same reason that I like some girls. REAL SAVBET GIRLS.

We all like some types of girls. You and I like a pretty girl—she is a joy to look at.

You and I like a merry girl—she brightens all life for us. You and I like a bright girl—she starts our brains working.

You and I like a girl who talks wellshe makes us forget what we would rather not think about.

You and I like a faithful girl—she has a beautiful belief that we would like her to give us.

You and I like a considerate girl—she is the living proof that there are unselfish people.

You and I like the girl who has all these virtues for there are girls who possess every one of them—healthy, happy, innocent girls that make pleasant companions, faithful friends, loyal daughters and loving wives. Three cheers for the nice girl."

I waved my towel in the air in my excitement, and the nice girl laughed when she saw the white flag flyiDg, and she oalled out, "Who is that over there who is larking instead of sewing?"

And my neighbor was mean enough to say, "You needn't try to guess, it's BAB.

SHORT AND SWEET.

The tramp is unalterably opposed to the sweating system. Everything a rich man says goes, if he does not say "balky horse."

The rich man has his mug at the' barber shop. The poor man takes his there. The average man is apt to be the next thing to a fool when he gets beside himself. 'Tis the acoounts of aside door saloon that are kept up by a double-entry system.

If beauty is only skin-deep the rbinoqerous should be the handsomest beast afloat.

Speaking of "sage dressing," what's the matter with Socrates putting his coat on?

Tt is considered strange that aristocratic people will consent to live in a com-mon-wealth.

Politeness is like an air cushion. If there be nothing in it, it eases our jolts wonderfully.

When a public office-holder comes to feel that he is a big gun, it is time for him to be fired.

Electric wires seem to be of such quick-tempered mettle that it is dangerous to cross them.

Cradles are never made of cheap leather. That is because customers demand more rocker.

The eight unmarried ladies who hold office as Queen Victoria's maids of honor baye some privileges. They are given the prefix of "honorable," and, on marrying, receive from the Queen the gift of £1000. One or two maids of honor reside for a fortnight at a time at Windsor or. Osborne, but her Majesty seldom takes more than one to Seotland. The distinctive badge worn by maids of honor is a bow of scarlet ribbon on the shoulder, while the ladies in waiting wear a white bow with the Queen's cameo portrait! The dowry of a maid of honor has been given for at least 150 years, but is according to her Majesty's pleasure, and in 1868 it was refused to one lady who engaged herself in marriage without the consent of ber royal mibtrew.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

It is a singular thing, that the Chinese ministerto this country, is also minister to Spain and Peru.

A Philadelphia business man will try the experiment of employing a pretty girl to do Liis collecting.

In Harlem a woman has gone iu to raising canary birds for the market. She has 1,000 birds "sitting," and hopes to raise enoirgh to supply the Now York market. "Up to my eye in mud" is the title of the latest popular comic song of the London concert, halls. 'Phis song would be very appropriate for the business men along Wabash avenue, about the timespriug opens.

The former companions of Mark Twain's boyhood In Monroe county, Mo., cannot understand Mark's popularity. They say he was the dullest boy in the county school and the laziest one in the neighborhood.

Ferris, tho man of the Wheel, offered £40,000 a year to the projectors of the new Manhattan building on Broadway, iu New York, if they would build a tower on it. and give him the elevator rights. The Manhattan will be tho tallest and ugliest building in New York

When Colonel Shepherd, proprietor of the New York "Mail and Express," died, he left a condition in his will that the paper should not be sold except under the agreement that there be no Sunday editiou, and William Walter Phelps has bough! it with that understanding.

Judge Dudley Du Bose of the Federal district court In Montana has jurisdiction over five counties, extending from North Dakota on the east to Idaho on the wpst, which Is said to be the largest federal district in the United States. Judge Du Bose is the youngest of the judges and a grandson of Robert Toombs.

Bret Harte, although past 50 and in poor health, is a very handsome man. His face retains an appearance of youth, while his hair is silvery white. He has a slender figure and an erect carriage. An American girl who met Mr. Ilarte in London last winter says that he was one of the best dressed men there. He is a clubman and much sought after in society.

It is said that $2,000,000 has been made out of a single brand ofchewiug gum. It is not all used, by the way, by children and foolish women. Dentists often reoommend chewing gum for the teeth, and physicians prescribe it sometimes as an aid to digestion, because it excites the activity of the salivary glands. Large drug bouses keep gum in answer to this demand.

Powerful and large as are the greatest of modern United States war ships, they are all of low stature compared with the towering structures of sixty or seventy years ago. The U. S. S. Pennsylvania, built about 1828, and supposed at the time to be one of the largest warships ever launched, was 220 feet long and 68 feet broad. She carried 220 guns, and towered aloft with five decks. Her complement of men was 1,400.

Lemuel E.Quigg, the new Republican congressman from New York City, and the first one for fourteen years, has never been on the floor of the House, In all probability, nor In the cloak room, but be has studied his new field from the press gallery on many and many a day. He has worked with Congressmen Cummings and Hendrlx as a journalist, and will doubtless tell them of his last and best piece of newspaper work, which was reporting the trial of Lizzie Borden.

The figure "9" plays quite a conspicuous part,in the life of Emperor William. He is the ninth King of Prussia his immediate family consists of nine members he was born in the fifty-ninth year of this century, on January 27—figures which added (2 plus 7) make 9 or divided (3:27) give 9 as quotient. In January, 1869, he was made first lieutenant in the 1st regiment of the guards in 1879 be completed his studies at Bonn, and was promoted to a captaincy. He was married on February 27 and on March f», 1888, he was called to the throne.

In a recent case in the United States Supreme court, concerning an infringement of a patent on a new style collar button, Justice Shiras, who is the humorist of the Supreme bench, interrupted the glib lawyer for the plaintiff by saying: "I wish to ask if among the numerous admirable qualities of this collar button one of particular and indispensible Importance is embraced. In a word, if it falls and rolls under the bureau, can it be found again?" The query was putwith the utmost apparent gravity, and it staggered the lawyer completely, so that after adding a few hesitating remarks he closed his argument. Justice Brown and Justice Harlan were both convulsed with mirth, because it happened that each of them bad lost a collar-button that very morning. Brown's had rolled unde* the fireplace and lodged in a spot secure from recovery behind the gas-log. Whether the joke had any influence in the decision favorable to the plaintiff which was rendered, nobody can tell.