Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1895 — Page 2

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A TAPER FOR THE PEOPLE,

MAN ABOUT TOWN.

The meeting to be held at the Auditorium in Chicago next Thursday is for the purpose of raising money for the "Defense Fund" of the American Railway Union to be used in defraying the expense bills in the cases in the United ^States courts. The price of admission is to be $1 and as there is a seating capacity of 7,000 it is expected that not less tthaa 95,000 will be the net receipts. At this meeting Eugene Debs will tell the -public what evidence the defense intended to introduce in the recent conspiracy case when the trial was abruptly brought to an end by the sickness of Juror Coe. ^sjlt will be his endeavor to prove that the

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^r&he strike and that they demanded of ^Pullman that he should not consent to ^arbitration because they wanted a congest with the A. R. O. to the end that they mightbreak down the organization.

The Bell company evidently intends &to give the new Harrison company a -long contest for supremaoy In the telephone business in this state. The new ^•people naturally have the public with

at the outset by reason of the lower ^rental they offer and of which the public vhas long believed it was deprived by the ^old company solely because that com *pany had a patent right monopoly. That 'those who determine the policy of the -'Bell company have a full appreciation of the disfavor with which it is regarded is indicated by the failure to interpose obstacles to the establishment of new exchanges. Any eflort ou the part of the old company to prevent the long expected rival securing franchises, for

Instance, would result in doubling the number of nubscribers to the new ex change. The polioy to be pursued in vthis city, no doubt, will be t^ie same that i-iis being pursued in Decatur, Lafayette and elsewhere. It is patient and persistent rivalry of service at the lowest pos "sible cost to the public. The Bell company believes it can render superior service by reason of its equipment, and ^certainly it is rich enough to do this at a loss for a number of years/ In Lafayette the company asked its subscribers who gave notice of their withdrawal from the exchange not to insist on the removal

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the 'phones, beoause the company was then engaged in perfecting its plant and the 'phones would be of service in testing the new apparatus and wires as the work "'•of construction progressed. By the time the Harrison exchange was ready for ^business the Bell instruments had not been removed. Subscribers were then ^informed that they were at liberty to make use of the old company's service whenever they had occasion to do so.

The theory of the Bell people that they can outlast the new rival is partly based on the belief that as the new exchanges will become local corporations and unde local managements they will not be equal to the competition of the powerful rival with its experience and varied resources. When the Bell exchanges were first established local capital was enlisted but it was not permitted to control a majority of the stook. Soon it was discovered that the Bell magnates were ^consolidating the exchanges and absorb ing all the profits. It Is said to be the polioy of the Harrison Construction oom pany to let local stockholders have a majority of the stook, the aggregate of which is about double the cost of the plant. The Indiana Harrison Telephone Construction company is not the parent comA pany the name of the latter is the Har orison International Telephone company.

The construction company is the one which secured the franchise from the council last Tuesday night. It has nearly 500 subscribers, eaoh of whom bad signed an agreement to use the Harrison exchange for five years. The franchise is to run thirty years and after five years the company is to pay into the city treasury 3 per cent, of its gross receipts. The rental of 'phones is to be $30 a year for business places and |18 for residences, without regard to the distance from the exchange so long as the subscriber is inside the oity limits. It was furthermore provided that in the event the company made a lower rate in any city of like size the reduction is to be *ade here. The quoted rental is lower than what the old company has been charging. It is decidedly so for subscribers whose place of business or residence is more than a mile from the exchange. The old company hadasohedule which raised the cost of a telephone located in a residence two miles from the exohange to $60 a year. The residence rate apparently was $36 but there was an extra charge of $6 a year for eaoh quarter of a mile in excess of the rule.

The use of the telephone has grown to that extent that the invention of but a comparatively few years ago has become necessity. There is now a daily average of 5,500 oalls at the exchange. In other words 5,500 times during the day some one wants to talk with someone else "over the wire."

The report reprinted here this week from the Globe-Democrat that the Brotherhood of Firemen had lost many members, as had all the other brotherhoods, caused considerable discussion. It was known that during the last six months of 1894 the firemen's brotherhood did lose thousands, but a member of the headquarters force, recently here from Peoria, said that since the first of the J, year there had been a growth in the membership, and that the old members were coming back. The truth is, no ./Idopbt, that labor organisations gener

ally are not now showing a positive increase in membership. There are too many idle men or who are not fully employed who cannot pay the membership assessments. And one strongly deterrent cause is the realization by wage earners, especially among railway employes, that the organizations can not, at least do not, protect them against reduction in wages. The far-sighted of railway employes expect to see even more widespread reduction of wages this than last year. They reason it out that the companies now feel that they can effect the reduction with less objection on the part of the men and at less risk of interruption of traffic, loss of earnings and destruction of property, than ever before. There isn't one of the brotherhoods, nor for that matter not all of them combined, prepared for a strike struggle. In the first place the financial drain of strike benefit funds would bankrupt any one of them and oause the members thus assessed to relinquish their membership in droves. Worse than all, there are many idle men ready to take the places of the strikers, and these idle men are not 'tscabs" In truth, the so-called "scabs" are getting to be In the majority among railway employes. They are men who, through other strikes or by reason of the hard times of the past two years, have been out of work most of tb« time, and therefore compelled to lose their membership in the labor organizations

One of the causes of opposition to the proposed new charter is that part which places the police control. It arises, on the part of some persons, from the apprehension that the city might be 'closedin other words that the laws would be enforced. The fact is that in the election of a police commissioner, or aboard of commissioners, the result, in this oity, wou.ld be the selection of men who would not "close the town." The people who are in favor of enforcing the laws wc^uld not all turn out to vote, while the other side would be out in full force. A gentlemen who was in Indianapolis this week told of a talk he had with a prominent legislator who was asking about public sentiment here in regard to the measure which the Republican caucus has adopted placing the power to appoint police commissioners with the mayor. The legislator told him about the visits of Terre Haute gentlemen to the oapitol and the Interest they took in this particular piece of legislation and remarked that all of them talked one way that no one bad come forward to say a word against the police law which applies to this oity and which places the appointing power in Indianapolis. He wanted to know if the sentiment here was all In that direction and was incredulous when informed that with few exceptions outside the interested parties, or those influenced by the Fairbanks crowd of bosses who mix politics with the brewery business, sentiment was altogether the other way. The explanatioa is that the opposition does not make Itself felt and it would not do so effectively in the election of polioe commissioners.

The death rate in ttils city last year was but twelve to the 1,000 popu ation, which is very low. The percentage is figured on the basis of a population of 35,000. Dr. Jenkins, of the board of health, was" making comparisons with the statistics from other cities and found but two in the official report for 1894 which had a lower death rate, Denver with 11.71 and Kansas City with a jasploious 8.41. New Orleans was the highest with 34.61. New York was 18.14, Chicago 13.36, Philadelphia 14.22, St. Louis 14.70 and Cincinnati 21 37.

Why not, in whatever plan of organ!tion of a police department be agreed upon, provide thai patrolman be pro moted to the positions at the head of the force? Of course suoh a thing as all these offloers happening to belong to the same political party might happen but if they obtained their positions through merit that would be the best of ovidenoe that the polloe force was being conducted without regard to the party politics of its membership. -s -o

The Chioago & Eastern Iliinols ls agaln asking the coal operators to help it out of its troubles, brought on by itself, but the operators tell it to again reduce rates so that the Illinois coal hauled by the Illinois Central and Wabash may not altogether displace the Indiana product on which the coal road division of the C. & E. I. depends for its revenue. The operators seem to think this is a good opportunity to teach the C. A E. I. man agement a lesson, a lesson that hereto fore it never would learn, and they want to make it a? impressive as possible.

Tnere is a movement in the East End to organize a Mutual Fire Insurance company. The owners of business prop erty in that part of town say that under the revised schedule of rates on risks the cost of insurance has been raised until It is very burdensome. The rating is especially high beoause the buildings are not so well protected from fire as in the center of town. Some of the east Main street property owners beard of a plan for mutual insurance which was said to have given satisfaction in Cin clnnati and an effort was made to get information as to its details, but It seems that it was a Mutual Life Insurance plan, of which there are many. There is said to be a mutual company in Indianapolis, started among th^ members of a Lutheran church in that city, which has grown to considerable proportions and which is doing some bnsiness In this city. The east end people will investigate the workings of this company.

Sinoe writing the above it has been learned that the Indianapolis company is the German Mutual and that it was started twenty-five or thirty years ago

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when mutual companies were springing up ever} where. It is about the only one left. It has been prudently and economically managed and therein Is the secret of its long and prosperous existence. It has been writing policies here for a number of years and always on property owned by cautious people. It was organized as mutual oompanies may be with notes for $100,000 premiums in hand which, of course, would be difficult to repeat uere now. The company has paid dividends and the polioy bolder has shared in them, so that the cost of insurance in this oompany has been very light.

Mr. Ben Havens will probably ge before the state senate committee on the World's Fair next Monday evening to correct an impression created by the report of F. J. Hayden, of Ft. Wayne, treasurer of the Indiana board of World's Fair commissioners. In the report the treasurer makes it appear that as executive commissioner Mr. Havens used more than $10,000 for salary and exspeases. As a matter of faot he used but $7,000 for both. Treasurer Hayden has incorporated in the report- items of expenditure which belong in the general expense account, suoh as printing for the board, freight and the like. It ig possible that the oommittee may conclude to investigate other features of the report. For instance it is shown that $1300 were paid in July last year as premiums on live stock, No suoh premiums were authorized, and if authorized they should have been paid eight months earlier. There is yet $2,300 on baud of the $125,000 appropriated by the state. The legislature may determine to spend part of this for the publication of a history of Indiana at the World's Fair.

AUTHORITIES ON SNOBS.

Cholly Indorsed McAllister, and both Jump' Onto the Society Toads.

The end is certainly drawing near when Mao begins to write autobiography.

He took up the question of snobs yesterday, a subject upon which no living man is more capable of writing, and said: "A snob toadies to the rioh and prominent persons of society, feeling that he owes his social support to them, and is utterly indifferent to those who do not wear the garb of sooiety."

Hits the case exactly I Do you see? Do you understand? And again: "If we should examine into ttie metaphysics of snobbery, I should say that a snob is the result of two component forces. Given a man of absorbing ambition and place him in an environment wiiere this unscrupulous ambition for social supremacy will be chferished and encouraged by those who thrive on adulation, and you have the snob."

Don'toherknow? Yes, we all do. Nobody in New York has got suoh a distinctive and distinguished social position that any one need bother his head to toady to him.

Persons of the best sooial position are of course women and men of the best birth and breeding, who lead the most correct lives, yet these are not the persons beset by toadies.

It is money and what it brings that we -—Mao, you and 1—are all after. The toady doesn't care so much to be seen walking on Fifth avenue with aStuyvesant or a Hamilton as he does to drive with a Vanderbilt or spend two weeks in the country with a Webb.

He may never tell.you about his walk, but you are sure to hear all about his dinner and visit. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your swell acquaintances and glorify you accordingly is the snob's gospel, the toady's oreed.—Cholly Knickerbocker in New York Recorder.

1 The Proper Reception Gown.

There is but a slight difference between a reception and an evening gown, the costume which is Considered proper for any evening affair being counted in equally good taste at a reception, writes Isabel A. Mallon, In The Ladles' Home Journal. The difference only oonslsts in this—-that one may wear rather heavier gowns—that is, velvet, brocade or silk—at a reception, while tulle, chiffon and light qualities of silk would be dedicated to an evening party. The hostess at a reception aims at having her dress give the impression of dignity, while at a dance she will look almost as frivolous, as far as material is concerned, as does her daughter. The short train noted at the reception is not seen at the dance, and, although all the laws of fashion and good taste forbid the wearing of a bonnet in the evening at a private house, still, if an elderly lady appeared with one at a reception, it would be considered quite proper.

Some Practical Home Hints.

Do not leave the clothes taken off at nignt In the sleeping room, and, if practicable, do not hang the nightdothes by day in the closet where dresses, outer garments and boots and bonnets, etc., are kept, as Is the case in most chamber closets. Undress in the dressing room and leave the day underwear there to air also dress skirts and bodioes should be all turned inside out to air. If there is no dressing room, use some other room for the purpose. A wardrobe in the bathroord is useful If the bathroom be exposed to air and sun. If the nightclothes must be hung in the chamber closet* at least see that this blaok hole, whioh la usually a clutter box, is kept as clean as the room itself, and do not hang nightgowns and night undershirts away until they have been thoroyghly aired.—Boston Traveller.

Her Eyebrows.

The carcfal girl will brush and comb her eyebrows as regularly as she does her hair. Comb them always Into as arched an appearance as possible, and they will eventually grow into this desirable ehapa If they are thin, pencil them lightly with fine eyebrow pencil to improve their appearance.—Minneapolis Housekeeper.

Doctor Tonr*«if

and save money, and perhaps your life. Send three 2-cent stamps to pay postage to A. P. Ordway & Oo^, Boston, Mass., and receive a copy of Dr. Kaufman's great Medical Work, 100 pages, elegant colored plates. ,,

ALL ABOUT JEWELRY

WATCHES ARE DECORATIVE AND FINGER RINGS PLENTIFUL,

The Turquoise the Idol of the Hoar—Opals Restored to Favor—New Era In Gem getting—When to Wear Gem Jewelry.

No Absolute Rale.

Fashion erdains today that we women wear our watches in evidence. We suspend them by bows we hang them from jeweled trinkets we set them on fobs we permit them to deck now the bodice of our dress, now the waist of our skirt and again our wrist.. Time was made for slaves, they say, but the timepieces made by our jewelers are certainly designed for lovely women. .Never were

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watches invested with so muoh oharm. It is a pleasure to see how the hour flies! Not alone are the baoks decorated, but the dials are set round with gems.

A decided novelty, which marks a new era in" jewel setting, is one employing the same combination of shades upon whioh la mode smiles. These shades are effected by the introduction of oolored enamels and colored gems or fanoy stones. Nowhere is this combination of Qolors more charmingly displayed than on the oases of chatelaine patches. Bubies, diamonds and sapphires all unite to glorify the watch, which oftentimes shows a dial of iridescent enamel in a halo of gems.

Tlie turquoise is the idol of the hour. It is beooming more and more fashionable. The delioate, tender color of this comparatively inexpensive gem is refining in effect and takes on a quiet elegance when its beauty and worth are enhanced with an association of brilliants. But the turquoise, favorite though it be, is not permitted to have things all its own way. The long negleoted opal disputes its supremaoy, and freed from the superstition of ill omen that so long clung to it divides favor with the popular blue stone.

There area few'designs in gem jewelry that appear never to wane in popularity. The stair pattern never sets, but appears every season in new aspects. And suoh a constellation is devoutly desired by society women, either to form a brilliant garniture for a ball gown or a sparkling deooration for the hair. Jewelry is influenoed by the wheel of fashion. The revival of a bygone mode brings ornaments of that period into a temporary vogue. The picturesque intrudes just now into our costumes, and those appareled in garments invested with the oharms of the Louis XVI period require picturesque gem set buckles, combs and buttons. When one's purse fails to meet these requirements with the real gems, the so called Parisian diamonds, rhinestones and fancy stones are made to do servioe.

Finger rings, if suoh a thing be possible, are more worn than ever before. The Opinion prevails that ofle cannot wear too many of these fasoinating ornaments. The half hoop ring has innu-

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merable patrons and is effectively set with diamonds and sapphires. The three stone ring is another favorite, as is also what is known as the oross stone ring. The heart rings are immensely popular, the double heart pattern being muoh affected by youthful brides. The marquise ring continues to lead all other types, while every woman possesses a fine solitaire, when such a thing is possible."

A novelty of ingenious detail is a diamond brooch formed of 1895. Less sumptuous affairs trace the same figures in gold and silver cord.

While the sight of a fine gem never fails to arouse a woman's enthusiasm, there are nevertheless many women possessing jewels who are ignorant of the art of wearing them. In spite of the recent fashion of wearing diamonds by daylight, good taste demands that they should be minutely present, if present at all, and then only when you have a Amotion of some magnitude to attend In the afternoon, a drive in the park or a bidden guest to receive fn your boudoir. Light, however, is not the only consideration. Season and locality have to be taken into aooount.

It is ini] esible to lay down a law what to wear and when to wear it in the matter of jewela The well bred know by instinct The others learn from observation of the socially fittest It should always be remembered, however, that to abstain is better than to exoeod the limit

Given the right occasion, one should never produce the impression of being bedizened, else there will surely be lack of harmohy between the individual items of the display. Never juxtapose jour jewels unless it be with diamonds, which dwell in amity with any etonea

ALICE VARNUIL

LUCK FOR THE BATTEN BERGS.

The Boys Are All Doing First Rate, Thank You, Just at This Writing.

Fortune is once more looking favorably upon the Batten bergs. A movement is afoot in Bulgaria to place Prince Joseph upon the throne ocoupied for a few brief years by his gifted brother Alexander, and as the present ruler is rapidly losing his popularity, which was never great, the change is not at all improbable. Joseph's brother Henry, the husband of Princess Beatrice, has been again received into high favor by his mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, whom he had offended by fancied slights upon her daughter.

Today we learn that the British admiralty has adopted an invention by Prince Louis Battenberg, who is an officer in the royal navy. Last year, as recorded in The Sun, he devised anew semaphore for signaling aboard ship, which, however, "did not turn out to be of much practioal use. His second invention, described as a bourse indicator, has had abetter fate. The admiralty, as the result of exhaustive trials, has ordered that the flagships, battleships and oruisers be fitted with it Many experienced naval officers reported adversely upon this course indicator on the ground that it was calculated to engender carelessness among navigating officers, but the prince's influence naturally prevailed.^--New York Sun's European .Letter

Lace Ruches and Collars.

It is safe to wager a vast amount that there exists not a lady's wardrobe in the whole United States that is not enriched by a lace frippery or two. Fashion insists upon the addition of lace and chiffon to every house costume consequently one sees all sorts of delightful contrivances for decorating the neck. The collar, the fichu, the ruffle, are all to be found under the most delightful aspects. There are indeed dainty trifles, over whioh the heart of the maiden re-

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joices infinitely, and, by the way, th® maiden who is unfortunately the victim of a bonyneok may be cordially advised to adopt one of the new ohiffon ruches to be worn with evening dress. It absorbs a vast amout of chiffon, and can be had in pink or blue or white or blaok or indeed any oolor. Occasionally the soft ohiffon is interspersed with rosettes of colored velvet, and then again they are to be found quite simple and decorated at the back with a bow.

The new lace collar, with full shoulders, is not only useful in transforming a low bodioe into a high one, but in making dressy the plainest of high waists.

A Progressive Palpit.

The modern clergyman would not be himself were he not thoroughly up to data His latest exploit is to use "A Yellow Aster" as his text far an appreciative sermon.—Boston Transcript

Belief In Six Honrs.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder diseases relieved In six hours by the "NBW GREAT SOUTH AMKIICAJJ KIDNEY CURB." This new

the urinary, passages in male or female. It relieves retention of water and rain in passing it almost Immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this Is your remedy. Bold by E. H. Bindley A Co. and Cook, Bell & Black and all druggists, Terre Haute, Ind.

Mr a. A. C, Medlocle Orleans, Ind.

Good Reason^ for Faith

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Hood's Pills core liver ills, eonstfpattat mm .iie»e, jaundice, sick headache. indlKestiMk

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BILL OF FARE TODAY.

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Give him a call if you have any kind of jisarance to place. He will write yon in as good companies as are representedln the city.

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Justice of the Peace and Attorney at iaw, 90 south 3rd street. Tetre ilaute, Ind,