Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 May 1896 — Page 3

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BAB'S LETTER.

I Published, 1806, by the Bok Syndicate Press, h' New York.} NEW YORK, May 13,1896

Part of niy faith is to refuse food to no one who Is hungry. The belief, which was taught me by the life of the finest gentleman who ever honored this country by

abiding in it, has this in it: "If anybody

I is hungry, physically hungry, give him not that which yon would throw to the dogs, but that which would taste good even to yourself: do not ask what a hungry man or woman believes do not stop to question whether that one who is hungry, says 'thou or you,' but give him what he longs for." So, in my small household, it is understood that no one asking for food it to be turned away. Consequently, I was hardly surprised when I came in out of the snnshine the other day, to find a woman drinking tea, thirstily, and eating food, ravenously. I looked at her and passed on: then I came back. There was something in her eyes that attracted me. They were restless they were rather wild lookng, but they seemed to have in them the story of a soul. And I wondered what it was. As this woman was under ray roof,

I could not ask her questions any more than I could question Mrs. Millionaire, who took a cup of tea with me the other afternoon and condescended to like it.

THE FORSAKEN ONE.

Perhaps this weird looking beggar was used to reading hearts. I don't know. Anyhow, in a few minutes a message came to me that she wished to see me, and I went to her. She was ragged, she was dirty, and she appeared as if she might be any age. We looked at each other for a while, and then she said, "I have seen you in the park many a time." I made no an swer, but look at her again closely. Looked and tried to remember. The face was growing familiar. I seemed to see it with a French bonnet above it and a dainty parasol behind it, and then I knew who my visitor was. A woman who, five years ago, was known by all New York, that drove in the park or walked Fifth avenue, at least by sight. The newspapers told of her extravagances and good women pointed her out to their daughters—what for? Certainly not, in those days, to point a moral. But in that silly way peculiar to women, and which is, after all, but doing what woman has so often done, usurped the province of the serpent, since, to point out such a woman in her glory, is to say to a young, innocent thing, "See how vice prospers." My visitor laughed when she saw recognition on my face, and then she looked surprised because I didn't turn her •out, surprised because, knowing how much wickedness she had wrought, I did not •draw my skirts away for fear of contamination and bid her begone. But what right had I to judge her?

So I said, "Yes, I remember, but I don't understand." Again she laughed, that hard, miserable, God-forsaken laugh that makes women like you and me wonder what angels or demons think of it, if it is heard either in heaven or hell. "Understand! It's easy enough to understand," she answered "I ate too much, I drank too much, I got ill, and the people who had claimed to be my friends were the flrst to leave me and to let me seek either the street or the hospital. Well, I have been to both, and I drifted here because I was hungry. I suppose I ought to repent, but, somehow, my head hurts too much for me to think."

I said something to her about helping her if I could, about feeling sorry for her, about feeling sorry for every woman who was led into the paths of sin because of her intense though mistaken love. Again there came that awful laugh. And she spoke. "You are mistaken where one woman does wrong for love's sake, there are thousands who

DO WROJTO BECAUSE THEY WANT TO. "Because it is in them, because they want fine clothes, because they want to lead lasy lives, and because they are discontented where they are. Don't look so horrified. Three-quarters of the women that go to the bad, do it because they want to-— because they lean that way—because they like vice with all its attendant luxuries better than they do virtue with the lack of them. Love has nothing to do with it. Often as not, the life pleases either their vanity, or else their avarice—and the greed of women is awful—is satisfied. Years ago men may have been the tempters— they are not often nowadays. Where do such woman as I come from? From the country from the country that the poets write about and the city people think so innocent. We get to hate the green of the grass, the blue of the skies, the monotony of the life, and, once discontent is in the heart of a woman, once she longs for those so-called good things that please her physically, the devil owns her. What did you see in the country last summer? I mean what did you see in the faces of the people, the real country people? Either a stupid, dogged, stolid satisfaction, or badness. "it is the country that caters to the vice of the city. Women like me come here, claiming that we want to go into shops or factories, but always before us there is the hope that we will have the opportunity that we long for, the opportunity to do wrong, when wrong means fine clothes and an indolent life. Kven now I cannot work. I am only fit

FOR THK HOSPITAL AND THE MOROUK. "Teaeh them to be better. How can you? Out where I was born and where I lived until I was W ywtrs old, I was taught what they called religion I went to all the services of the church, and while the preacher preached, I dreamed of the day when I should loll in my carriage, be finely dtissa* and the en vv of all other women. Well,

that day came, and I was happy. I sup-1 well as in a monarchy. The socialists may pose it is wicked to say that, bnt there isj down kings, but they cannot kill wickedsoniethityi that is wickeder. I never felt ness. especially this wickedness that comes sorry until money and lovers had gone from women, and which means the death from me, and 1 had no friends. I don't of faith and hope in the hearts of so many know that I was harder thaa anybody else, men. 1 said a few moments ago what I but a* long as I was prosperous, from the I would do If I had a girl child who was disstandpoint of the world in which I Uved, I contented. My friend. I said that. Now, was content. It was only when trouble I know 1 did not ®ell the truth. I would c«nu that wondered if I had done right, protect her from every vice as long as I •But is there' such a thing as right couH. and I would teach her what real Why was I, an ordinary country girt, given love meant when I found that the lore for beauty of body, beauty of face, and an the good things of life, so-called, was draw

ability to catch up every clever thing that was said, if it were meant that I was to marry a man who worked a farm, spend my days in hard work, my night in heavy sleep, and never to hear or know of anything that was bright? Everything in me longed for the beauties and the joys of life, and I found them. I found them, as you would say, through sin, but what are you going to do? Are you going to make all womankind over again? How are you go ing to keep discontent, that great weapon of the devil, from getting into the hearts of the girl children, persuading them away from their homes to where they can meet the shopman, though too often it is the shopwoman, ready to buy them, bodies and sonls, with a few gold trinkets, or a few years of lazy, luxurious life?

ONCE A WOMAN BEGINS TO THINK about those things, she is an evil woman already the devil has got her, and it will only be a short while before on her cheeks, in her eyes and through her lips will his dominion over her be visible."

She had talked with great rapidity, and now she eagerly drank some more tea. noticed that her hand trembled, though her eyes flashed as if she were determined to speak as she wished, and speak until she said all that she wished. "You wonder, you women who sit at home and are dainty, and feminine, and loving, why women such as I am, or such as I was, attract your husbands, your brothers and your sons. I will tell you how it is. We never cease trying to please them. It looks like unselfishness, but it is the very extreme of real selfishness, for it is all acting. Then, with us, men are not always on their guard, and you demand from them always what you call respect. They grow tired of wearing the straight jacket of propriety. If you want to keep any man you love, you have got to consider him, and I think that the woman who doesn't love a man, can always make him love her better than if she were fool enough to care for him. When she cares for him she is jealous of him. That annoys him. Then, she wants to control him, and that makes him long to get away from her. Then she contradicts him. And that causes him to fly from her. It is true our empire is not a very long one. It is true, we cater to men, and they give us of the money that they earn so hardly, but seldom fight for us, and they are never loyal to us. Now, ap I am, I begin to wonder whether it wouldn't have been better policy to have been a good woman, and yet, I know, to-morrow, if I had my youth back, I should return to the old life. Once I heard a clever man say that WOMEN, LIKE BUTTERFLIES, HAVE NO

SOULS.

"I wonder if it is true. I almost believe it is. I certainly hope it is, for I seem to know the sort of punishment that will be given to me if I am to endure a hereafter. The hair skirt, the lack of all but coarse food, a having to work and work until my body aches and aches. That would be my purgatory."

I, even I, who am seldom startled, looked at this woman with amazement. She had talked on as if she were addressing something or somebody standing beside me, and I had no apswer for her. I knew she had said a great deal that was true, but that it was true made it none the less dreadful to hear. I knew that she was to-day's representative of the woman in the Bible but, unlike that one of the olden days, she seemed hard of heart and strong of intellect. She realized her kind, and she did not forgive them. She rose, and with grace that seemed odd, as I looked at her rags, she bowed good-bye, refusing to listen to any offers of help, refusing to seethe money that was held out to her, and going h6r own way. For she had always chosen her own way. Where did it lead her?

The morning paper told. She was described as having been picked up by a policeman, No. 555, from the river, and he wasn't certain whether 8HK FELL OR THREW HERSELF IN.

The newspapers had a column about it. They told of her short day of glory they told of the men who were her lovers, and they ended with a very poetical quotation, semi-religious and altogether untrue. And I? I didn't think of anything poetical concerning her life story. I thought only this: If I had a girl-child who longed for luxury, who longed for wonderful jewels, who longed to have nothing to do, I would show her something of life. I would take her far over on the Blast Side and let her see what the women she thought beautiful came to be how dirty, and ragged, and miserable and sick they were how the hospital and a charity funeral were as certainly the end of each story as that beauty and discontent was the beginning. I would take her to the morgue and let her look on some dead woman whose story was told in her face, and then, if that girl-child were still discontented, I would push her out into the world which she longed for and let her find out exactly what it meant. To me, there seems nothing so horrible as the life of the wicked Magdalen, Faustina, or Jenny, call her whatever you will, according to her century and her fcountry, for it is a life absolutely without love. A I.1FK FULL OF GREED FULL OF KJTVV.

Possibly, as this woman said, a life that satisfies some women, but only for a while. It makes me sick at heart when I think that this woman's words were true—that ft is from God's own land, the country, that the recruits to the army of vice are drawn. There is no conscription "needed, they come only too gladly. Who is going to straighten all this? You and I may possibly feed them when they are hungry, offer the helping hand when they are sick, but those are the days when unconsciously, they say: "Too late,"

Who Is going to stop all this In the very beginning? Vice reigns in a republic as

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ing. JOSEPH VINCENT.

at him as he was escaping through the yard. He was hit, but not sufficiently disabled to cheok his flight However, when he was found later, the wounds proved admirable identification marks.-

The other night a bold robber entered the house of one of Mrs. Vinoent's neighbors, and, though discovered, was not dislodged until the valiant lady, armed with her trusty weapon, next door, appeared at a window. She shot at him, and he dccided to leave the premises. He is being pursued by the police, who hope to recognize him partly by Mrs. Vincent's bullet mark.— New York Journal

Women Kldnsiped the Mayor.

Forty women, leading members of local clubs and church societies, recently made a captive of Mayor John V. Sterr. They caught him on the streeto and, dragging him into a private residence, demanded that he co-operate with them in a movement of reform.

The women cried that the laws w£re not being enforced, that the sale of cigarettes was carried on with im nity, that young girls were being en away, and that the saloon regul were loose and boys of all^rx given liquor upon asking.

For two hours the mayor was. prisoner, and not until he prom is submit the matter to the executive partmeut of the city was he permitted to escape.

The women demanded the adoption of a curfew bell, upon the ringing of which children of certain ages must retire from the streets.

The city is considerably torn up over the determined stand taken by the women, and the cffect of their interview with the mayor is freely discussed.—St. Joseph (Mich.) Cor. Chicago Tribune.

A Pretty Conceit.

If you wish to be quite up to date as a noble housewife, you must have a gold pencil swinging from a slender gold chain at the belt

A foreign woman of high degree always carries one in the morning as she goes about her household overseeing, as she studies the maids' and butler's accounts and puckers her white brows over the morning's work.

While American women frequently admired this habitual pencil on the part of her systematic sister, she did not think of adopting it until now.

But the best dressed actress oh the American stage has added one to her toilet in the role of matron, and every well organized household will shortly see its mistress have one.

They are a pretty conceit—Chicago Inter Ocean. A Girl Mall Oarriir.

Rosella Babcock, a strong girl of 16, is an important factor in the mail service at Palmasola, Fla. Twice every week day, wind or calm, rain or shine, she rows a mile to deliver the mail to the river boat Tarpon. On the $30 per month that she earns by this work she snpports a mother and younger sister.

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Is the tndlvidaal who persistently neglets his health, and the means of preserving and restoring it. Many persons who are not constitutional Idiots do this. They are genuine objects of compassion as well as censure. A failure of appetite, loss of sleep and flesh, impaired digestion, an uncertain state of the bowels and symptoms of billionsness are so many warnings of the approach of disease. To disregard them is abject folly, which offended nature in due time punishes severely, if not fatally. That genial and thoroughly reliable preventive of bodily mischief In the shape of chronic disease. flostetter's Stomach Bitters, wilt, if resorted to in time, avert those disorders, to the removal of which it is also fully adequate. Among these are chronic indigestion. liver complaint, kidney troubles, constipation, nervousness, rheumatism and malaria.

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%ERTJE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MAY 16, 1896.

ing her way from me. Who is to solve the question—the question of Magdalen, of Faustina, of Jenny? Perhaps we will have to wait until the second coming of Christ. Bnt during that time, this ought to be said—"God help every woman who nurses in her heart the demon of discontent"—said by you and your neighbor, and

BAB,

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Train leaves Union station at 7:06 a. m. arrives at Evansville 10:ii0 a. m. Returning leaves Evansvilh at 7:00 p. ni.

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OTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of April, 181*5. the common council of the

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or Terre Haute adopted resolution declaring an existing necessity for the improvement of Putnam avenue from east building line of Sixth street to west building line of Seventh street, by grading and paving the same the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be twelve feet wide and paveti with cement concrete next to property llnii the width of

Any property owner objecting to the necessity of such improvement may file such objections in writing, at the office of the city clerk on the 13th day of June. 189(5. and bo heard with reference thereto at the next regular meeting of the common council thereafter.

"four feet, and curbed with hat-d limestone the roadway to be thirty-six feet widy and paved with broken stone and brokenSi stoue screenings: the said improvement to be made in all respeets in accordance with the general plan of improvement of said city and according to the plans and specisneciflcHtions on tile in the office of the city engineer, the cost of the said improvement to be assessed to the abutting property owners and become due and collectible immediately on approval of the filial estimate, unless the property owner shall have previously agreed In writing, to be fl said plans, to waive all irregularity gality of the proceedings and ments when due.

nail have prebe filed wlt.li ilarity and llle\ pay his assess-V

Sealed proposals will be received for ho construction of said improvements, at the offlee of the city clerk, on the lGth day of June. 1896. until five (a) o'clock, and not thereafter. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bond with good freehold securities or equivalent security in the sum of two hunndred dollars, liquidated damages,conditioner that the bidder shall duly enter into con tract and give bond within five days afte the acceptance of his bid for the perform ance of the work. The city reserves the right ti reject any and all bids.

CHARLES H.GOODWIN, City Clerk.

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PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time, they say Remember danger always lurks in delay Opportunities embrace, don't let them pass by, Chances like sunbeams quickly fly Remember on to-morrow you n'er can rely. A word to the wise, sufficient is, it's true, So just a word of advice I give to you: To Hickey, the Grocer, for the best you had better go, In all lines he can please you I know. Not to morrow but to day on him call A dime or a dollar he will save to all. Take time by the forelock, do not delay In Terre Haute ''Hickey" leads to-day On corner Twelfth and Main, bear in mind, New goods at L. Hickey's you will find.

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