Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 December 1894 — Page 8

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MAN ABOUT TOWN.

INFORMATION AND COMMENT ON EVENTS OF PASSING INTEREST,

The Street Railway War—An Opposition Line Once Before Considered—The Ninth Street Paving Payment—Mm. lltlrd'i

Will wt aside—The "Larjwt" Distillery —The Normal School Appropriation.

Several years ago some gentlemen of wealth thought they would getafranchive and build a rival street oar line They went to other elites to inspeot up-to-date systems. I think they went so far as to enter into negotiations for rails and then they suddenly dropped the project. My information was that they saw before them court injunctions, prolonged delay on the part of the oontraotors and workmen while the lawyers and courts were busy with demurrers and the like, and in the end, perhaps, a knock-out deoision by the Supreme court. Sinoe then, indeed only recently, the Supreme court has rendered a decision that, to a lay mind, would seem to be conclusive and altogether against a second company. The gentlemen named as the stockholders of the new oempany which has just got a franchise from the council are men one. would not believe would enter into the enterprise unless they knew what they are doing and are in earnest ao^ intend to build the railway. That they have or can get the money to do so, there is no doubt. The friends of Russell Harrison say the purpose is to force him to buy the electric light company's poles and wires for street lighting by the new company which he organized and which secured the contract from the oity. It is also said that one purpose is to handicap him in getting money from outside capitalists with which to carry on his extensive terprises. This can not be true. At least I do not believe any responsible citizen will publicly accuse the men whose names are on the list of stockholders of such a proceeding.

The council, or perhaps the majority only, has deolded to disallow the estimate for the street car company's part of the cost of paving Ninth street. This means litigation. Contractor Kinser will probably go Into the court for a mandatory order which, no doubt, he will get, and eventually all the questions which have been up in the council will go to the Supreme court. This particular one is, in short, whether or not the oity can give the street car company the benefit of the Barrett law by paying the contractor and collecting from the company in ten annual payments. Kinser had been awarded the contract for Ninth street, however, before the council decided that the action awarding him the oontract was illegal and therefore void.

Mrs. Esther Baird's will has been set aside and by agreement the money and bonds, amounting to between $25,000 and 130,000, will be distributed by Judge Mack as administrator. Mrs. Baird came from New England to this city in the thirties, when a young woman. She was accompanied by her brother, Edward Weld. For a while she taught a "subscription school" and afterward was a seamstress. She was married to John Baird, who was the leading tailor of the town and who died ten or fifteen years ago in Tennessee. The widow went to Lowell, Mass., where she lived for a few years with her widowed sister, Mrs. Hannah Mitchell. Then she re turned to this oity. By her will she gave her sister a life interest in the Lowell home but nothing more. Nine nephews and nieces of John Baird, living In Tittsburg, were each given 500 and the remainder of the estate was bequeathed to the son and daughter of Edward Weld, who went west before 1850 and who diedageneratlon ago. The son, Augustus Weld, is a farmer in Kansas and the daughter, Mrs. Ellen Leighton, lives at Seattle, Washington. Her place of residence was not known when the will was made. Mrs. Hannah Mitchell brought suit to set aside the will on the ground that her sister was of unsound mind when she made it.

By the agreement Mrs. Mitchell Is to receive $10,(WO and pay the $4,500 In bequests to the Pittsburg legatees and the remainder of the estate, net about $13,600, will go to the two legatees in the west. The money and bonds have been in Terr* Haute banks for many years. Mrs. Baird said the reason she did not bequeath any money to her sister was because she would give It to a church as she tiad done with her own property under the influence of some church workers In Lowell.

A lawyer told me that political campaigns

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litigation back many months.

It Is next to impossible to get the lawyers who are active In political work to attend to their cases. The Circuit court has about one thousand cases on the docket, Including probate and criminal business. My Informant also said that this condition of affairs is causing some litigants to settle their cases out of court and other would-be litigants to refrain from entering upon litigation.

I asked Mr. Ed. Beggs why it Is that eaoh of several big distilleries is said to be the largest in the world. He replied: ••It la because the habit of making the olalm has become chronic with distillers. If a man builds a distillery with a capacity of five hundred bushels he immediately begins claiming that be has the largest distillery in the world." I said to him: "less the claim made for the new anti-trust distillery at Peoria and for the new one here. I have been saying In print that the Wabash, the trust distillery hew, Is the largest?" "Well, you were and are yet right," be replied. "It is the largest In the world by one thousand bushels oapaoity. We oan grind six thousaad four hundred

bushels of grain a day. We are to start up on the 28tb at a oapaoity of three thousand two hundred bushels. We haven't cattle pens for a larger oapaoity that Is, we could not take care of enough cattle for the amount of slop we would have If we ground more grain. When we were grinding upward of five thousand bushels sometime ago we let slop run into the river. That would not be advisable now when whiskey 1* being sold at less than cost."

The Indianapolis Journal has well Baid that tLere is reason to believe that while the taxpayers of Indiana will favor a special levy for the Normal Schools, they will not favor one for the support of the colleges or a part of them When that is done, why should not the medical and law sohools apply fer state sustenanoe."

The Normal School for years has un justly suffered at the hands of the legislature because it has been linked with Purdue and the State University. The Normal Is as much entitled to money from the common school fund as any publio school In the state. It is, In true sense, the fountain head of the publio school system because it edu cates the teachers *ho teach in the pub lio sohools. When money lias beeu serl ously in need nothing more has been asked than what was actually required whereas the other institutions came for ward with a demand for twice as muoh as needed or expected and by thus dis counting the legislative custom of dis counting all requests would get all that was really wanted. Eyery two years the educational process has had to be gone through by which the new legislator was taueht the distinction between the claims of the three institutions on the public funds.

Burt Hanna has been behind a barricade in H. H. Benedict's offioe for a week past. He protests that it is not for protection from irate property owners who had received one of those startling notices in regard to an increased rate of insurance made necessary by faulty wiring of their buildings, but to proteot them from himself. The expert electrician reported that of 162 buildings in which there were eleotrio wires only one was properly wired. The property owners are given the option of remedying the fault or paying an inoreased premium which, in some instances, was as much as$l on the $100. The insurance statistics for last year showed a loss of $2,500,000 positively Iknown to haye been cnused by electrio wires and it is estimated that nearly as much more was from the same cause but was not definitely known to be so.

The election of John MoBrlde to the presidency of the American Federation of Labor will, no doubt, result In the election of P. H. Penna, of this state, to the presidency of the United Mine Workers to succeed MBrlde. The latter is a man of superior intellect and general ability. The operators tell me he is a "big man," and an honest man. Miners' offlolals believe him to be theablest labor leader In the world. I do not believe lam violating a private conversation in saying that Eugene Debs made use of the same expression in giving me his opinion of MoBrlde. Thelelectlon of the miners' leader to the new position virtually kills the Knights of Labor amongthe miners. About half the miners in this state belong to the K. of L. At the first opportunity now they will give up their membership.

That there is such a thing as fad ism In architecture no one will doubt after a study of the residences which have been built in this city in the past five or six years. There is an evident striving after the same eftect. Perhaps the most noticeable characteristic is the bay window. In the less costly house It is a bow window, usually stuck on the side of the building at. the second story and resembling nothing so much as the one seen in a stage setting at the Opera Bouse. Next to the bay window, Is the porch with a dome over the entrance. A dealer in paint could work up a thriving business by ingeniously starting a fad for bouse painting.

Terre Haute is proud of the holiday appearance of the stores. That desire in all cities of the class to whioh this city belongs to havo a "metropolitan" appearance is gratified this year as never before. _____

The rumors of changes in the Vandalla management to whioh I referred last week have been printed in a Cincinnati newspaper. The story as told was that General Manager Williams would retire to become a member of a law firm of whioh ex-president Harrison would be the head. Ex-Attorney General Miller was to be the third member of the firm. •When the story first came to me 0. W. Fairbanks was to be the third member of the firm and was to be located in New York where with his wide aoquaintanoe with men who control big corporations he oould render valuable service "plugging" for the law firm. I told Mr. Williams that he and Mr. McKeen oould blame no one but themselves for these newspaper reports. Their publication is in the nature of retaliation. A year ago last August Mr. MoKeen sold the controlling Interest in the Vandalla to the Pennsylvania and soooped the newspapers on the news until after the annual meeting on January let Indeed, so little was known of what had been done that both of the dally papers of this city printed the list of new directors, which showed that the Pennsylvania had come into control, without realising the news importance In the short paragraph In which the annual meeting was disposed of. 80, this year the newspapers did not intend to be caught napping and are firing In the air in the hope of bringing down the bird.

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TERRE HAUTE SATTTRDA EVENING MAIL, DECEMBER 22, 1894.

HOW TO CLEAN HOUSE

THE WAY ONE WOMAN MAKES HARD LABOR SEEM EASY.

She Learned to Economize In Strength and lias a System—Taking dp Carpets and Scrubbing Floors—Battling With

Sloths and Qettlnf Bid of Rnbbish.

I always begin to clean house at the top —in tho nttio, which is the'storeroom for oastoff things of the year in olothipg and furniture. In the oourse of six months an awful lotnf rubbish accumulates there, and ot houseoleaolng la a good time to get rid of it. In a house where there are children there is always considerable castoff clothing to look over. Some of it will do very nicely to cut over for younger children, and that should be brushed and aired, then folded away in a box kept for that purpose. The garments that are outgrown and cannot be remodeled should be put in another box, ready to bestow on Bome worthy person less fortunate than yourself.

Do not hoard up old garments against possible need "next year." If you do not see a possible chance of making use of them in the next six monthB, put them In the poorbox. They will bring you a richer blessing there. Examine the broken furniture that has been stowed away. If It can be mended, have it done at once, before knooking about has destroyed the usefulness of a piece to which you are attached. If you find that it is too worn and shabby for your own house, perhaps you know some deserving person who is ingenious enough to fix it up and would bo very glad to do so for tho gift of it. Otherwise throw it into tho kindling wood h'eap. There Isn't a particle of sense in oluttering up a house with a lot of UBeloss old rubbish. Unless you are euro that dilapidated furniture can bo fixed up it is bad judgment to send it to tile attic anyhow.

Look over tho old papers and magazines and make a package of those you do not intend to have bound to send to the hospital or some institution, where a bit of reading material is a perfect boon. After sorting over and putting away all tho trash in tho actio you have a heap of littor that it is useless to try to put away. Dump it on the ash heap or bribe your scrubwoman to relievo you of It. Then sweep and dust and mop out tho attlo all ready to receive the stores that will come up from the lower part of tho house. It will probably tako you a whole day to go over the attio properly. If you discover any signs of that terror of the housowifo —bedbugs—make war on them at once. A machine oil can of gasolino is a good companion in such an emergency. Use it freely on infeoted spots. It will kill eggs and insects instantly end evaporates almost as soon as applied. Do not have a lighted lamp or gas around when you use it, though, nor for some time after, unless you have raised the windows and aired the attic.

If you have found moths, take all the infeoted clothes out into the sunshine. Beat and shake them well, then brush and if practicable dampen and run a hot iron over them. Moths are the meanest pests that ever got into a house. They do moredamage in a day than can be repaired in a year, and there is absolutely noway known yet, except vigilance, that will keep them out of woolen clothing and furs. After you have everything cleaned and sweet smelling in the attlo, get a pint of sulphur and put in an old iron kettle and set it over an oil stove or charcoal fire In the attic. Close the windows and doors and let it burn itself out.

Then you may be reasonably sure that there are no microbes or bacilli lurking around to descend upon and destroy the family. Be sure to remove all clothing that sulphur will be apt to discolor. It will injure nothing else. After cleaning the attic I go through every closet In the bouse next and give each the same treatment. Then I begin on the house proper.

In cleaning the other rooms of the house I seldom attempt more than two at once. I select one room on the floor to be cleaned—that I want for a workroom—and have the carpets taken up and the furniture covered. Into this room 1 have all the pictures, brlo-a-brac and furniture carried and piled up out of harm's way. The carpets from the two rooms aro carried out to be shaken and dusted, and then I have the dusty floors sprinkled with bits of torn paper that have been dampened. When swept, no dust Is raised to penetrate othor portions of the house. The walls are swept down with a broom, over which a flannel cloth is pinned, and an application of elbow grease.

If there are grease spots, I take them out with an application of pipe clay made into a paste and applied damp. The grease Is generally extracted by the time the clay is dry. Where there are smoke stains from gas or from the register I have the places rubbed with a rag and corn or bat meaL This will not remove tho smoko stains always, but will as a general thing. I havo taken such stains off with a rag saturated with gasoline, but that has to bo done vory carefully, or you will smear the paper. After the walls are cleaned the woodwork should be washed with ammonia water, or borax If you like. I use borax for everything because 1 like Its action better. If you have soap used, see that It Is not lye soap, because that will take the life out of the paint and make it look dead. It will soon wear off, too, after being washed with strong soap.

Then have the floor scoured with good strong lye water unless it is stained or oiled then of course you will have It wiped up with hot water only, as anything else would extract both color and olL If you have feared that there might be moths in the edges of the room, the hot water should be used freely and then a train of gasoline put around all the cracks. As soon as the floor is dry have the carpets put down.

While the carpets are being put down yon can be cleaning the pictures. Remove the backs and wash the glass and dust the picture, then clean the frame carefully and bang as soon as the carpets are down. Dust and rub up the chairs, mring some good furniture polish If necessary, or if there are no scars a rubbing with a kerosene rag and an after polish with a flannel cloth will benefit almost all kinds of wood. Clean the bedstead and other furniture the same way. Clean everything before you carry It back Into the roam, and for this purpose you will find the workroom quite handy. Put up your curtains and draperies the last thing. Seine housekeepers do not take up their stair or hall carpets till the lower floor reached In the process of cleaning, preferring to cover them with linen. I always take mine up the first tiling and wipe np the balls and stairs, far the tramping and

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Hints About Gloves and Shoes.

It is a science to put on gloves for the first time. The hands must bo perfectly fresh and dry and cool, After putting in fingers and thumb fasten the second button from the bottom, aiming to the first one last. Remove the gloves from the wrist, and not by the fingers, and leave them turned thus Inside out, so that all moisture may be dissipated. When putting away gloves, do not roll, but lay them lengthways in a sachet. Place white flannel between pairs of light gloves. A little new butter rubbed on perfectly new ohevrette gloves tends to keep them in good condition. Light gloves can be cleaned with flour, and rubbed places in black suede or kid covered with a mixture of olive oil and Ink and left to dry. With boots, if damp, i» is a good plan to fill them with paper and leavo them to dry far away from the fire. Paraffin 1s useful to soften leather hardened by mud and rain. To make the soles of boots rain tight and durable paint with copal varnish and dry. Repeat the process twice or thrice. The secret of keeping veils fresh is to smooth and fold them Immediately on coming Indoors.

The People Victoria Wires.

Although It has frequently boon stated that newspapers are carefully kept from her majesty, it is well known among those acquainted with the queen's private life that no ourrent events or topics escape her attention. Indeed so ourious is she about the principal personages of the day that she never rests until sho has obtained their photographs. Among her majesty's most curious photographs Is one of Louise Michel.

The queen likes two classes of people— thoso of rank who keep within the limits of court etiquette, for which the queen is as great a stickler as the emperor of Germany, and those who aro no "respecter of persons," who can neither flatter nor cringe, who will reprove or gossip or repeat an amusing anecdote, such as tho Sootch peasants or tho most confidential servancs of tho royal household.

The queen has a great personal influence over children and is vory much interested in getting tho opinions of nurses and gQVornesses connected with the roy .l household as to their training'.—Woman at Homo.

In Cases of Cronp.

A standard medical authority says that the first thing to do for the child Is to put his feet into as hot mustard water as he can bear and bo sure that the room is very warm. If possible, put him Into a hot bath, and then quickly drying him put him in bed between blankets. Even before putting him in bed give him sirup of ipecao in teaspoonful doses*until ho vomits. For external applications take 2 tablespoonfuls of turpentine and 4 tablespoonfuls of goose oil, or sweet oil, or lard oil, mix well and rub thoroughly on the outside of the throat. Saturate a flannel and lay it over the chest and throat. Hot bricks or bottles filled with hot water should bo placed at the child's feet and at tho sides of his body to induce perspiration. Keop him carefully covered. After the vomiting tho bowels must be kept open with sirup of squills. The best drink for tho child is slippery elm water. Give plenty of nourishment to keep up the strength.

Cleaning Pots and Fans.

woman naturally hates to clean up a bread or cake bowl after the dough has got hard. They should be cleaned as soon as used, but if necessary to leave them for a time run tho tray or bowl full of cold water and let it stand so. When you get ready to clean It, the dough will be In the bottom of tho utensil as a general thing, and you will only have to rinse and dry It. Tho same is true of kettles and skillets. I do not approve of sotting any utensils aside when tho dishes are washed, for if you keep an oyster shell with a thiok, smooth edge at hand you can clean the roughness out of anything in half a moment, but if you don't want to do it just then you will find that an iron pot in which potatoes have burned to the bottom, or a skillet in y?hich meat or gravy has simmered to a crust, will he easy enough to clean after standing an hour or two filled with cold water.

Worry and Cooking*

More than half of a homekceplng woman's tlmo Is spent in worrying and a good share of the othor half In preparing food, as though tho stomach were the immortal part of us. Take one-quarter of the time a woman devotes to making pics, preparing puddings, putting up preserves, baking cakes and frying, etc., and let her devote it to rest and recreation, and she would not look like a shred of parchment paper at 40. It Is the nonessentials that kill us. Wo must learn to simplify before we can escape the doom of premature age. Nature never intended us to live as we do. If she meant us to eat puff pastry, she would have grown it on somq of her trees. She has provided simple food In the shapo of cereals, fruits and vegetables, and If we conformod ourselves more closely to her established order of diet we should bo a happier and Telegram.

hardior race.—Sow York

Filling Up a Window.

An excellent way of filling up an unnecessary window, or one that looks out on an ugly view, is to have tho lower part built out Into a small alcove, lined with plush, with a small shelf running round it and brackets for china. At the back a little window is oovered with gilded fretwork, ipd In the front a space Is left which can be filled up as the owner desires. One of the advantages is that light la not excluded from the top of the window or from the top of the alcove, so that It would be especially suitable for the •mall libraries where the back window looks out on a mews, and yet where light Is distinctly needed.

Keeping Toon*.

American women might learn an advantageous lesson of their French sisters In the art of keeping young. But it is no recipe for cosmetics that they would acquire. First of all, French dames do not worry, or, if they do, they ooneeal the fact admirably. They are apparently on the crest of the wave of good fortune perpetually. Next, and almost equally important, they decline to hurry. They take life moderately, perform their duties without baste and linger over their pleasures. And in these two simple rules lies a mine of wealth for her who is wise enough to appropriate it. —Cincinnati Gasette.

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Jackets, Wraps, Suits, Capes, Cloaks,

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Uw designs stamped on pillows and table-upr-Mi* of colored linen or denims. It is particularly effective on old pink or shades of (dive, and if the articles are to be used In

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sitting room is often preferred to White embroidery silk or linen

•wp —v —, lining the design thus worked In blacky dragging of heavy furniture over the car-1 fine gold cord or thread is sometimes Budgets wear them out.—-Washington Sta*.

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Of Holiday Novelties

Prices readjusted. Don't fail to call. Hundreds of Dolls— everything of a Doll creation. Be on hand early.

Handkerchiefs lc, 2c, 3e Silk Initials at 19c Mufflers in Silk or Wool. See the Cashmere Mufflers at ..50c Silk ones, navy blue and polka spots 98c Handkerchief Case rillLineaufHaondk0rcbiefs $1.49

What could please the ladies more than a pair of Genuine Foster Kid Gloves?

Umbrellas

The Qreat Protectors ill Rain or Shine, A Good Holiday Present.

Windsor Silk Umbrella S«a0nrdie8 $1-39 Savoy Serges SlSiiSfTelt7 $2.50 English Serge Umbrella. 69c Savoy Serge iSe* -89c Silk and Wool Covers {SSiies $1.25

Ask to see our Tight Roll Taffetes.

Our Cloak Parlor is the Place

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This Beaver Cloth Jacket, $2.98.

The Variety, the Quality, and the Low Prices all combined here.

Jewelry

Always cones to mind for Xmas. Oar reorganized Jewelry Department Offers Special Inducements.

Sterling Silver Thimbles .25c, 50c, 98c, $1.50 Solid Gold Rings 39c, 69c, 98c, $1.50 Diamond or Set Rings $2.98, $8.50

OalL That's all we ask. The goods speak for themselves.

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Children must be accompanied by the Parent or Guardians.

Second Floor. Bring the Little F^ks. At 7:30 p. m.

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Mackintosh, Furs, Fur Garments, Muffs, Boas.

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