Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 June 1894 — Page 1

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The historic "Peg House," a noted west end resort, on Main between First and Second, was torn down this week, to make room for a handsome new business building. If one of the old-timers who formerly made Rome howl in that quarter, could come back here in a few mouths, and take a stroll through that neighborhood he would rub bin eyes« with as much astonishment as did Rip Van Winkle after his long sleep. It is about time, too, in the march of progress for the dally papers to stop referring to those who live west of Third street as '•sin-soaked deolzans of the we»t end." Such expressions were all right in their day, but that day is past.

Of the eight hundred or a thousand bicycles in this city only sixty-eight were returned for taxation. Is it the owners of these sixty eight that want to control the street sprinkling to accommodate them—or do the others, who seemingly don't want to pay taxes, prefer to have charge of the streets. It would be interesting to know.

The home contractors do not seem to be in it at all this year in the erection of big buildings. The Havens Geddes building, Filbeck House, and the Rose Dispensary were all captured by a Chicago firm, and now an Indianapolis man has secured the new Asbury church. The reason the foreign contractors have gotten into our home people seem to be that they have more machinery for handling big contracts, get more work out of their men, and pay less wages as a rule, except when forced Into paying higher as they were by the union bricklayers.

The fact that a Terre Haute lawyer ordered two Terre Haute policemen into an adjoining county to take charge of a coal train for a railroad company, for which be is attorney, leads a friend of fnlne to remark that "the syndicate controlling the Terre Haute police department has a pretty strong pull." "Syndicate controlling the police department," I consider pretty good.

Residents in a certain quarter of the city, north of Main street, noted for the number* of students, both Normal and ^Polytechnic, who dwell there, are having agoud laugh at the expense pfa,^e|r taln Normal sohool student who Was %weet on a young lady living near his boarding place. He has been la' the habit of calling on the young lady and staying until the wee small hours. Onfe night recently while ho was overstaying his time a couple of Poly students visited his room, carried bis trnnk out, and after he had departed for home, placed it on the front porch of tbe young lady's residence with a huge placard, "This is

Mr, »B trunk." It remained there until daylight, and the residents in the neighborhood, who were aware of the student's attachment, had a great deal of fun at the Ideaof him moving his trunk. Soon after he discovered his loss, and looking aoross the street be saw the trunk. A full blown peony was not in it with the color of his face when with a fellow student, he walked across the street and carried it to his room. Every eye in thesquaro was tlxed on him while he performed this act. As a sequel he ami the Poly students do not speak as the, pass by.

The members of the Terre Haute Bulldozer club are bowed down with grief. Drs. Welnstelu and Swaffbrd are going to Europe for a several months' stay, and the club meetings will have to be given up. The members however expect Ir. .Swaflbrd to come back with a big slock of foreign funny stories, and as he is an inimitable story teller they console themselves with the knowledge that they will have many evening's euI joy meat when the jovial doctor gets I baok.

Two northern saloonkeepers have been fined for selling liquor after eleven o'oiock at night. Their offense wasn't so much selling after eleven o'clock as In refusing to obey the police when they were asked to close up last Friday night when the miners were her®. The saloonkeepers probably thought It was a joke the police were playing oa them, asking them to close up at eleven.

It does seem a little bit rough on an official that he should suflfer for ^n unpleasant duty that is forced oil him In a legal way, but if Governor Matthews orders out the militia to assist the milroads move their coal, he will have a senatorial boom to dispose of that can be had cheap for cash.

Not since 18*7, when the Light Guards were called out to help suppress the railroad riots, has there been a Terr® Haute military company asked to take a hand in labor troubles, bat there seems a strong probability that, the Terre Haute Hi dee will be sent to Shelburn to assist the railroad company la moving the coal tied up there by the miner*. It la not a pleasant duty to perform, and doubtlees some of the members will regret that they were ever sworn Into the state militia. A great many persona are of the belief that It the Sullivan county

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sheriff had performed his whole duty there would be no need ef calling on the militia, and the impression prevails that when tbe militia put in an appearance that the trouble will be ended. It is to be hoped It will,'and that there will be no occasion for tbe nse of military force, except as amoral persuader. But if the Terre Haute boys are called on they will do tberr duty, no m^atter how unjilefuant it may be.

It has been soggested "that" something be arranged in the way of a night attraction for one night during tbe fair races. We are most likely to have pleasant weather in tbe middle of August, and the people would turn out en masse. It would al««o be a strong inducement for tbe people of the towns for fifty miles around to come to the city. Tbe night displays at the World's Fair demonstrated the fact that people like fireworks or any sort of illumination. Next to a balloon ascension there is nothing which people will gaze upon with such curious interest as fireworks.

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PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Everything seems now to have expelled Air. Breckenridge except Congress.

Over 4,000,000 people in this country live on wages paid by railroad companies.

An exchange says that "Brother Talmage has resigned once and been fired three times, but he's there yet.

No man deserves to win a woman who has not the sense to first secure an offensive and defensive alliance with her lit tie brother.,

Superstitions people will be sure to find some omen in the fact that, among all tbe numerous articles lost at the World's Fair, the number of lost um brellas was just 1,800.

While engraving a wedding invitation a New York artist made a curious blunder. The invitation read thus: "Mr. aud Mrs. J, have the pleasure to request your presents at the marriage of their daughter."

Commonwealer Kelleyjggjjannounces that he intends to make a speech in front'of the Capitol at Washington and Weep off the grass," too. He has engaged a balloon, from whlchjto h|£p$ue Congress upon its duties. U±K

A woman In Cambridge, England, who'has built up a successful business in typewriting has obtained a maobine fitted with the Greek alphabet and mathematical signs so she can utilize it for the benefit of mathematical and classical scholars.

An editor wrote a ball-room puff, sayings

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statement is made to the effect that Queen Victoria promised, should ber health allow, to go to St. Petersburg for her granddaughter's wedding. In this case she would be accompanied by the Princess, but not by the Prince of Wales. Should her Majesty go, her visit will be tbe first ever paid by a British sovereign to Russia.

A much bigger wheel than the great Ferris Wheel, which revolved in the Midway and is to beset up in New York, i* building at Karl's Court, London. It is a 400-foot wheel, and will carry 2,000 people In fifty ear*. Three restaurants will be built on platforms at varying heights on tju supporting towers, and a big ballroom will crown the towers at the axle.

Mr*. Nellie Grant Sartoris'eldest sbn is now IT y^ars of age. He will complete his education at Oxford, which school h« is at present attending, although his mother is about to rent a house in Washington, which she ex pecte to make her home. Young Sartoris will come to this country to celebrate his majority, and will then become an American citizen. His mother's wish is for him to study law after completing his course at Oxford.

ARMORY DEDICATION There was more of the pomp and glitter and ceremony of war around the Terre Haute house yesterday than has been (teen here for many a day, the occasion being the visit of Governor Matthews and staff to this city to attend the dedication of the new armory of Co. B. The soldier men included Adjutant General Bobbins, QuartermasterGenera| Oompton, Surgeon General Stone, Major Defrees, Col. O. P. Lee, Col. Kaalo, Lieut. Col. Carey and others.

The ceremonies at the armory last night consisted of addresses by Ool. R, W. Thompson, OoL W. E. McLean, Governor Matthews, Col. Thos. H. Nelson, and Secretary of State Myers, and music by the Mendelssohn quartette. The oeremoniee were followed by dancing. The hall had been decorated for the oocasslon, and with the guttering uniform*, the tasteful dresses and the delightful music the oooaaion will long he remembered. vv .r

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W0BLDLY WAYS.

BAB EXPOSES THE INNER TRICKS OF THE POOR-BUT-PROUD.

How Bankrupt "Society Women" Worit Their Friends and Acquaintance# to Keep Up a False Show—Fretense all the Time-

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The other night I went to see a play, in which was introduced two people, who are very familiar to anybody who goes much into general society. They were hushandand wife, and belong to thatinnumerable class who pose for appearances. Who will live on tea and toast that a fine gown may be possessed, who refuse to pay their servants that they may goto Lady Plush's reception in a carriage, who push and strive in every direction to retain a so called position Jr society, while they believe that ti»0 world is deceived. The world my friend, is a funny* one, a frivolous one, but the world is by no means a fool. It knows these people as well as you or I do it reads tbem like a book, and in time it discovers all their petty,-miserable devices and laughs at tbem, although in the laugh there is a sort of scornful approval. It Is the approval which the world always gives to what Is called making the best of anything because, the people ftho make the best of anything don't make the world suffer any, inasmuch as it only sees the agreeable side. V' tradesmen's tools in society.

The world will laugh at the Poor-but-Prouds who gain a percentage from the tradespeople by taking their friends to them, who get oheap rates from the hotel keepers by recommending their house, who are always being paragraphed in the paper, because, in some way or other, they can do a favor, or get an invitation for the sooiety writer. I meet Mrs. Poor but-Proud, and she gushes over me, and asks me where I am going. She is immaculately dressed and when I tell her that I am looking for a bonnet, she Insists on taking me first to her milliner. I am not overpleased with tbe bonnets, but the milliner flatters me, and so does my kindly friend, and the end of the story is that I buy a bonnet that I do not want, and real! later In- th0 day* that off my purob NJrs. Pogr-Jbut J?rovidjh'ds gainedjte cent., I have ibeen made a fool or^ a1 am the unhappy possessor of an beooming hat.

Going down tbe street I bow to somebody. My companion asks me who it is I tell her, and later in the dayv if she happens to meet the same woman, she introduces herself, using my name, and manages, if possible, to draw this gentle gudgeon into one of her nets, and gain from her just what she may desire. When the dark days come she manages to get a little money, as does .the woman in the play, by writing a fashion article and introducing the names of the

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she and her husband retreiat into an unfashionable neighborhood, while they have it announced that they have gone to Switzerland for the summer. *%...

WHAT A LIFE IT MU8T BE!

Pretense, pretense, pretense from the! very beginning to the end. The bus-,, band offers the rich man a cigar and tells him the name of the brand, advising him to buy them and use his name. The same little game goes on with some champagne, softie brandy, tbe man's clothe, and even if be is invited to play a game of cards be can tell who* manufactures the best pack of cards, or stack of chips, and advises his host to getsome from there, or let him send him some as a sample. You think there are notj many people like that? Ask any' fashionable milliner or dressmaker. Perhaps they may not tell you who they are, but if you go out much, or watch the newspapers closely, you will have no trouble in discovering them.

BOW CAN THESE PEOPLE BE HAPPY? And are they? After all, sometimes I wonder if they are much better than the poor wretch who Is sent to the penitentiary for stealing a few dollars. As the years go on and the Poor-bnt-Prouds are discovered, and the gudgeons they try to catch grow fewer and fewer, they lose their good-tempered ways and too often drift into writing malicious paragraphs for low sheets, or, reaching the last stage in a career such as theirs, practice the frightful art of blackmail. Yon can go Into the most fashionable restaurant in New York any night, and sitting at one of the tables you will see a man who has gone through all the stages of his career aod

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Fortunately he has never married. Perhaps this is what makes him all tbe more willing to be brutal to a woman. Men abhor him, and yet there are men who are afraid of him. He is the associate of the lowest sort of men and women from whom he learns much and yet he manages to dress well, Mid be seen in some good houses, because he is connected with two or three good families. He hfoars the story of the mistake some girl has made, and the folly some boy has committed. He comes down on them, and they, being too young, to

hand tbe case over to the police, pay him a little something, as mnch as they can scrape together, and from that time on he owns them body and soul. He Is pleasant in his manners he is agreeable to look upon he is always well dressed, and yet I don't believe there is anything too bad in the shape of a hereafter fbrj that man. He has ruined more men and women he has made more miserable lives than are ever dreamed of and, worse than all this, he has made these very people lose their belief in everything, for they see him going along apparently happy, apparently having a good time, and yet living a life that is too frightful almost to believe. And yet it is true.

THE MAN WHO WORKS SCANDAXSuW I wonder how long it is going to last.. I am one of the .people who believe that retribution certainly comes, not only here, but hereafter, and that we suffer in this world for what we do, as well as in the next? I wonder what be thinks about when he is alone? I wonder if he likes to be alone. I should not im aglne that he would, or that he would like to stpp and think about the lives he i^ts ruined, or the sort of a fellow he has made of himself. He was probably not bad to begin' with, and the chances are that he became what he Is simply^ from the desire to dress, to drive,' to go and to look like other people who possessed more money thao he did. I tell you my friends there are more sins committed in this world from that frightful desire .to be like other people than for anjtxrtJbef reason.

Why can we not learn that it does not make any difference whether we are like our neighbors or not, so long as we are happy? Why can we not learn to be a little bit better satisfied? Why must we long and worry to live better, and to dress better than we ©an affoTd? Fine frocks don't always cover happy hearts nor does the dinner of terrapin and champagne always agree with one as well as roast beef and ale. I tell you the world is getting worse and worse in thiB respect every day. Women are. willing to live lives that are lies, and men are willing to cease to be men simply for the sake of appearances, and, after all, tt^very world that they think believes 14m laugj^s at them.

OALflSsOCIETY RECEPTIONS, f' our sister ge to Madam bwhere you meeteverywbfftre there Is a vf weak punch, that as the afternoon wears on is watered, and where there is a dislti of small cakes that nobody touches becluse they know they are kept from one Tuesday to another. Madam Fraud's receptions are written up in the paper next day, and there are announcements of the people who were there, and Madame Fraud thinks that the world believes she is a great personage, and she does not realize that she is laughed at and that.all sorts of different names are given to her, that her age calls for no respect because she behaves like a fool, and that people Only go because it is a convenient place to meet other people. She is idiot enough to suppose that her visitors imagine, becauseshe has the parlor floor in the boarding house, that it is her home, and she is the subject of never-ending laughter to the people in the house to whom she believes she represents soeiety with a capital S. And the world swings along, and the Frauds are innumerable, but nobody Is fooled.

And once in a while somebody is brave enough to say: "I will go among tbe people I like and do as I like I will give to tbem what I can afford, I will dress as I can afford, my bills will be paid and can face the world at large and know that I am not stealing a reputation that does not belong to me, nor am I spending all my time fishing for gudgeons to furnish me with food and wearing apparel." Why don't mothers raise their daughters better?: .That is where the trouble is.

SHAM TRAINING OF YOUNG GIRLS. The daughter of a man who makes a good living is married to a young clerk, and is given a trousseau suited to a millionaire's daughM^^That is the beginning of the nonsense. Instead of furnishing her clothes suited to her position in life, and then giving her some bed linen, and some silver, that she may 'help to have a home, she is presented jwith what is the first Inducement to pose as a fraud. Then she goes to a "boarding-house. From that time on ber life is one continual effort to appear what she is not. If by some chanoe she becomes a mother, her little child is put off to school, that she may not be troubled with it that it may not apparently add to her age, and, most important of all, because It is cheaper. Her husband is an old man before he is a young one, in his efforts to cater to her desires. He is off early in the morning before she is up, and when she appears, probably not until luncheon time, her whole conversation consists in discussing a foolish book, or talking about her favorite actors, and actresses with women who are on a par with her, intellectually, and every other wky. The afternoon is spent in chasing after bargains, or seeing how other women who have more money than she has, are dressed while the evenings are occupied. in going to the theater, or to the

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one ortwo houses where she has been invited to the so-called receptions. The poor husband Is dragged along, unless, indeed, she has already commenced to grow ashamed of him, and in that case she takes with' her some young man who occupies a room on the top floor of the house, who dresses well, who talks glibly, and who earns his living, nobody knows how.

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HOW is GOING TO KND? What is this woman going to be when age comes to her? Can you blame her ohild If it does not care for. ber? Can you blame her husband if he is indiflfer-ent-to her? It seems to me that somebody ought to preach every daf in the week and twice on Sundays on the necessity for educating women as wives and mothers, and let the question of eooalled higher education go to thedemnltlon bow-wows. You notice they always call this uthe higher education,*' which, after all, is only comparative. What women want nowadays fa' the superlative. They want the highest education. That wbioh will make them good, honest, loving wives and mothers that whioh will make them^realise their duties as daughters, and t'hfti^htch will make them abhor every kiad of sham. Give your daughters that chance, fiive them a chance to shun, all! frauds and littlenesses. WOMEN WHO 17Hl HQMB LIFE iRKSOMfc.

I tell you the voice crying in the wilderness to-day is the voice,of the children who are putoff to boarding schools, who know no hom», whose mothers prefer to live in hoarding houses because housekeeping is too tntach trouble. You know the day will come when these women wlU find their consciences are too much trouble. It will come when they are alone and.old, and the obild they bore does not care for them, for that child will give Its love to tbe people wku took oare of It when It was little. It 1b not more rights, n^y friend, that women want, »It 1b the knowledge of how to take care of the rights that they have. This explains why I signed the paper against the higher education of wgman. Because I don't believe in comparative degrees in aqythitfg. I want women to have that higher educatien whioh means a combination in knowledge of heart and brain. 'Take the best, or nothing. Don't stop at the bftter. It is never worth while, and you are only-standing between two bridges, which means yotf will ^ertainly fall. Therefore, I wrote against It in full, aid with my best pen, the name that really and truly and honestly belong to Bab.

ABOUT WOMEN.

There is said to be a revival lu favor of the old-fashioned names for girls, suoh as Sarah, Martha, Jane, etc.

For some reason, girls who are engaged complain most 'ribout their vaccination marks hurting them.

As a complexion powder printer's ink seems to be a success. Many a plain woman becomes beautiful In print.

Milliners complain that there are too many tasty women nowadays ^who get up their own headgear. It hurts the trade^l/^T^iil^.^f

An ethereal young miss strolled into the Philadelphia library, re?ently, and asked the librarian if he had a book called "Boats that go by ip the dark."

Another woman has sbtjwn her con tempt for the law by suddenly appearing and demanding the release of a California man convicted of murdering her.

A woman at Detroit, Mich., Is so vain over her cooking that she refused to prosecute a sneak thief who had stolen $19 worth of clothing because he left a polite note, saying: "Yo#bave good pies I have tasted them/'^V^s

Mason City, la., has a blind gin printer, who learned the boxes in one day and on the third day of her apprenticeship was able to set a stickful of type in 60 minntes. That was three months ago now she can keep up with any compositor in the office. vM

An Atchison girl went to a fortune teller recently who told her that she would marry a certain prominent Atchison man within three months. The innocent girl went to the young man at once and asked him if it was likely to turn out to be^true.

Almost every other girl is now looking for a suitable buckle, generally of silver, for her summer suit. The girl without a buckle will not be happy. The buckle fashions the belt in front. A few favored ones will wear gold buckles, but, as they cost from $40 or|60 up, there are not likely to be many of them.

Miss Gertrude Vanderbllt, the ricbeqf prospective heiress in America, is still a girl in skirts to ber shoe tops. She is Cornelius Vanderbilt's only daughter. Her father's fabulous wealth is estimated at $150,000,000, and as be has but three children, two sons and a daughter, her portion of his estate will hardly be less than 120,000,000.

LICENSED TO WED.

Albert Edlogton *&d Mary B. Haymaker. MiltoB Graves and Elizabeth Gipsoo. William Terrell and Nellie Austin. Jamss Pendercsst aod Barab Longford. John F. Morrison and Fannie E. Mellinger. Harvey £L Koaket and Maggte Auit. Va B. Brown and Mary uKerr.

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NEWS OF TBE CITY.

The new Uniform Rank, K. of P., meets at Castle Hall to-night for permanent organization.^^""

The Oratorio Sooiety will give a oonoertatthe Central Presbyterian ohurch next

Thursday evening. The High Sohool Alumni association will give a reception at the High Sohool building graduation week.

The National State bank is remodelling its front entrance, and will fit up the interior with new fixtures.

The Terre Haute Club tendered a re-' oeptlon Tuesday eveulng to the lady

Sam M. Young, jr., the well known theatrical manager, is going to build a summer theater here, if he can find a suitable location.

The report comes from Washington that B. F. Hayens Is now after the Berlin consulship, whioh Editor Shanklin, of Evansvlile, also wants. 1

C. C. Parker, of Indianapolis, has been engaged to superintend the erection of the floats to be used in the Prince Orient spectacle here the 20th Inst.

The talk of the new ground floor theater Is being revived again, and it is said the company will negotiate a loan of $150,000 to erect the building at Seventh and Cherry.^3*"

An effort was made, this week to se- $81 oure the headquarters of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, whose annual meeting was held in Denver. The movement was unsuccessful, as St. Louis secured the prize.

John Setzer, a well known farmer of Clark oounty, Ills., was so badly injured in a runaway on Lafayette avenue Wednesday that he died a few hours afterward. He was the father of Mrs.. Petejr Stein uud Mrs. J. N. Farr, of this city. fefe

D.W. Watson's heir* have pufohased the. Fremont .property *0 sj»veiuh,'andFarr'ington street, one ad red /e#t,' paying'thetefor $4,500. McEiroy Glenn will remotlel "the houses on -the north hal^ ftddltog another story, and th ds inaking

The R. P. I. boys went over to Indianapolis on Tuesday, and captured nearly 4 everything in sight in the Inter-Colle-giate athletic competition. Of the eightyfive points contested for the Poly boys won sixty-two. Quite a number of Terre Haute people went over to witness the contests

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Mrs. Emma Lockman, wife of C. W. Look man, jr., and a bride of but three months, died last Tuesday morning, at the family residence southeast of the city. She was but eighteen years old. )f

trikI ngt 1'ta.prove men£• Tl\e R. P. I. athletes have secured the next field day of the Western Inter-Col-legiate association," which will be held I here May 18, 1895. If they succeed as well as they have done in the atbletio contests this spring, the Polys will have |?"J. all the trophies of the meeting.

The decision In the railroad tax case -p will bring $22,500 iuto the treasury of Vigo county, of which the Big Four will contribute about $15,000, and tbe E. AT. H. and E. & I. the remainder. The Yatidalia paid its taxes when they became due, and was not a p^rty to the fight against the law.

Wm. Griffith, of the Tsrre Haute Transfer Co., purchased the Volger residence on south Sixth street, of RiddleHamilton Co last week, at much less than actual value. Th& price was $2,200, which is considered a very low price tor a fifty foot lot on Sixth street, with two story, eight room bouse.

The Treble Clef club gave its first performance at tbe Central Presbyterian church Thursday night, and made a most excellent impression. It has be«m organized 1)01 a few months, but under the directorship of Mrs. Allyn Adams it has demonstrated tbe right to be classed with our leading musical organizations.

The Republican township and county conventions will probably be held in the new armory building, at Sixteenth and Main streets. The court house will not accommodate tbe crowds, the opera house is engaged for Col. Thompson's anniversary, and the armory is the only building that will fill the bill. The conventions will be held next Saturday, June 9th. 1

The Rose Ladies' Aid Society held its annual meeting Tuesday afternoon, and re-elected the old officers as follows: President, Mrs. M. C. IJpvis vice president, Mrs. E. W.Parker secretary, Mrs. Sarah L. Condit treasurer, Mrs. Anna M. Warren. The annual report showed that over seven hundred families were assisted during tbe past winter, at an expense of $6,759.89.

Ernest Meissel, recently of tbe city engineer's force, has purchased tbe groeery of the late Henry Patt, on south Second street, and will hereafter give it his personal attention. He has many friends who will be glad to see him succeed in his new venture. His position with the engineer's force has been given to W. Robert Paige, formerly an assistant under ex-City Engineer Cooper.

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