Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 April 1897 — Page 4

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RIK'II Coupon will rount us ONE vote. The contest closes Saturday, SeptetL'ber 4th, 1897.

JriMJK SmnvAi.TER, of the United States court, ha* decided that the three cent fare law enacted by the legislature is unconstitutional because it Ih sfjecial legislation, which is forbidden by theconstitution. It is special legislation because it applies only to cities of 1(H),(XX) population and over, which means of course to Indianapolis only. The Indianapolis people are very indignant over the decision, but have bravely determined to continue the fight for the reduced fares before the next legislature.

THAT was a significant remark made by our new ambassador to England, Colonel John Hay, when he was met at Southampton with ceremonies this week. Replying to an address of welcome, he said that there were "many things in which he would not attempt to compete with his predecessor." He probably referred to the efforts of Mr. Toadv-in-chief Bayard to throw disrepute upon large number of his fellowcountrymen because they differed with him in politics. Mr. Hay's efforts at public speaking will doubtless be confined to saying a good word for the people of his country irrespective of party, rather than lauding the Republicans to the skies and (|iiest ioning the sanity of the Democrats. He certainly would be distanced in a competition of that kind with Mr. liayard. who is certainly the boss toady of the century.

TIIK new senator from Illinois, "Billy" Mason, sustained 'his reputation as a fighter, and stirred up some of the old, old cobwebs in the senatorial chamber one day this week, in a speech demanding action on his resolution to so amend the ancient rules of that body that it may transact business. He talked very plainly to the venerable senators, and remarked that it was the only legislative body in history in which the majority was de prived by the minority of its right to transact business, when the majority is charged with such responsibility. In closing his remarks, which were received with great enthusiasm by the galleries, he said that while he did not want to scuttle the ancient vessel he wanted to put it in dry dock long enough to scrape some of the barnacles off its bottom. He gave notice that he proposed to keep up his fight for a revision of the rules for the next six years. He got a good vote for his resolution, but in accordance with the customs of the senate it was referred to the

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remain buried until long after the new centurv has been ushered in.

Ik sympathy won battles Greece would have Turkey whipped lefore the sun goes down to night, but unfortunately it does not, and the indications are strong that the Turkish pagans, who lelong to an age long gone past, will by force of superior numlxM eventually defeat the hemic little nation, and possibly wipe it off the face of the map. If it does it will be an everlast­| ing disgrace to the Christian nations of Europe. If Greece is defeated, however, it will l* only after a most desperate struggle and the exhaustion of all her men and means. The descendants of the ancients whose fame fills the pages of history with glory are making a most heroic stniggle against the hordes of barbarians who are undertaking to overrun the plains of Greece, and march upon her capital, Athens Reports from the scene of war, among the mountain* that mark the boundary line tn-t wtn'n the two countries are conflicting, hut the preponderance of where.

rvsult* thus far seem to in favor of the Turks The bravo prinevs of the royal house of GrvtH'e are in the field in person Kittling with the invader*, setting an example to their follower* that incites them to deeds of valor unsurpassed All over the world where Greeks are located they aiv abandoning the pursuits of pence to rvturn to their mother country to Aid In the struggle in which she is now engaged. If patriotism and enthusiasm can counteract the different* in the military forces of the two countries. Greece will win, and. have restored to her her former provinces which are now under the sway of Turkey. The sympathy of the civilian! world is! with her in the conflict, and she de*erre» success.

WOMAN IS SOCIABLE.

AND IN IT SHE IS AN UNADULTERATED DEMOCRAT.

aulas Henri Browne Says There Are Ho Feminine Misanthropes But, While Woman Likes to Talk, She Is Willing to Listen to Others.

[Copyright, 1897, by the Author.] Woman's social instinct exists even in a savage state and has often been observed by explorers and travelers. Ages cf 'civilization develop this instinct until it becomes almost a passion. Although generally excessive in her, it is at least human and tends to the humanization of the race. It is in marked contrast with man's nature, for while social in disposition it is mainly in his youth. As he gathers years his sociability is apt to decline. After bis prime he is prone to reticence, solitariness, frequently to cynicism.

Not so with woman. She is commonly social as long as she lives, her sociability often increasing with time. Neither age nor disappointment, neither suffering nor hard experience, can as a rule make her bitter. Who has ever heard of a veritable feminine misanthrope? That word, as well as cynic, has but one gender. Thank nature for this, If it were otherwise, where would man find his comfort, his consolation?

Woman, like Abou ben Adhem, loves I her fellow men, her fellow women likewise, and wants to be with them as I much as she can. Fatuists declare this affection is based on her passion for talking, for hearing her own voice. This may have something to do with it, but her indiscriminate, unvarying relish for company, for going out, for doing anything and everything, is principally *lue to her social instinct. To man, so differently constituted that in many things be cannot enderstand her, this miscelX laneous, universal going seems to be an incurable mania. He can comprehend why she likes, if he does no$, to go here, to go tliere, to do certain things, but not the extreme to which she carries the habit. Does she, can she, comprehend it herself? Probably not. She is disinclined to study or to analyze herself.

She—the average woman—is a creature of impulse, of multifarious desires, of endless whims and fancies, continually changing, but never extinct. She is restless, nervous, fidgety—inwardly, if not outwardly—stuffed with half formed, shadowy purposes, many of which she never executes or tries to execute. She often pronounces places and persons that she visits bores, but that does not prevent her from visiting them again, again and again. A man so dreads being bored that he is not likely to repeat his experience of boredom voluntarily hence he infers that a woman is incapable of annoyance in that form, much as she may speak of it It is to her, perhaps, but an empty name.

She will go to lectures that have no meaning to her, to see collections that do not interest her, to sermons that are unmistakable trash, to hear a political speech prosy and commonplace to the last grndatiou, to public meetings with which she has not the slightest sympathy. She has no object but to go to do something, no matter what to chango places to vary the situation to gain a theme for talk, though she can talk of the same themes every day in the year without weariness to herself. Of course she must have a good deal of leisure and must live in a big town to do all this. But if her home be in a small town, where thero are necessarily few entertainments or amusements, she will busy herself with trifles she will continue the same monotonous course week after week, month after month. The dull thing she has done a hundred times she will do for the hundred and first or the hundred and fiftieth time as if it were a complete novelty. Custom can never make tedious anything that appertains directly or indirectly to going out to company.

Fpr genuine conversation sho has no regard. She does not apprehend it. She is prftk-ipnlly a inonologist, but cares not to monopolize, being entirely willing any one else, any number of persons indeed, shall take part if sho is not expected to listen. She constantly asks questions which those unacquainted with her answer until they learn, as they soon do, that she makes no note of answers of any sort. The questions are altogether rhetorical, though they seem literal, earnest, induced by eager curiosity. They may be so when put forward, but the questioner has no time to hear responses. Occupied as she is with entirely uLimportant matters, she conveys the impression of personal moinentousness that she cannot afford to wait I that she has most things at command, I leisure always excepted.

Socially she is an unadulterated democrat. All the persons she meets appear on the same footing to her impartial miifd. She welcomes and feels at home I with every one of them. This is an adI mirable trait, worthy of commendation and credit in a republic where so many of her countrymen are socially narrow and cultivate a reputation for exclusiveness. Her superlative sociability absorbs other considerations. Her democracy may arise from a kind of egotism, making her think that anybody good enough for her is entitled to pass any*

To observe her one might suppose her to be electioneering. She has a ple&ant word, a kindly smile, a friendly nod, for the poorest and the humblest. Were *he of the other sex she would certainly be thought to be up fear office. But she is strictly honest, spontaneously warm hearted. Despite ber eccentricities and inconsistencies she is a very favorable representative of the republic. She belongs to it in spirit and by affinity. She will repay study. The more she is studied the better she is liked There is not a suspicion of Europeanism in ber composition. She is really broad, many sided. She can bear almost anything but solitude.

Jrxitrs Hkntu BROWN*.

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Crossing the Palm With Silver—Dopes Always Plentiful.

CHICAGO, April 20.—Strange that in this matter of fact, progressive time, on the border of the twentieth century, such a relic of the superstition loving past should continue to have so firm a hold upon mankind. Of course belief in the power of any favored human being to foretell what is coming to pass, as a general thing, has its devotees among the ignorant, and yet even women of superior education and refinement show a leaning in this direction. This can be laid to their youth and inexperience. As they grow older common sense outstrips superstition in the race, afid they look at things from a more practical standpoint.

Taking fortune tellers as a class, they are a most interesting study. Keen readers of human nature, they have tremendous advantage over their cred ulous victims, who come into their presence with the intention of believing. It is easy to judge what the average life of a young miss has been, to state that she has met with disappointment, hopes to go on a journey, will meet a dark man who wants her, but that he is not her fate that a light haired suitor will appear, whom she will marry, etc.

There can be no question that these wretched fortune tellers control the destinies of many young women, it may be for good or evil. Having a firm belief in the prophecy, the girl is apt to yield her heart when her head might warn her against such a move. Generally the seeress adds to the solemnity of her apartment by means of sepulchral de vices, maps of hades on the wall, stuffed toads, lizards, and even snakes, a live owl that blinks at the light, and in some cases a human skull with a candle burning inside, the eye sockets glaring with red isinglass. Such ghastly accompaniments are apt to send a thrill of alarm over even the stoutest heart, and it is for this very purpose they are present, since they give the prophetess an advantage which she is quick to seize upon.

A few scorn these accessories and Tely upon their reputation. Some handle cards others read the lines of the palm. There ln be no doubt about the power of a palmist to read of a past life, which leaves traces on the hands, but the future is veiled from all mortal eyes by a wise dispensation of Providence. Some persons declare prophecies made in their youth have come true. That may be so in just so far as it lay in their power to carry out the decree by marriage and such things, but seldom if ever does the fortune promised at a certain time materialize. That is beyond the power of the "seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, born in the veil," to produce.

Probably the most famous as well as the most picturesque figure among these fortune tellers is the gypsy. Generally she is old and wrinkled—indeed, the uglier the better. Her nails are like the talons of a hawk, and when a plump, blushing damsel yields a palm to her inspection she feels that %he is in the presence of an uncanny witch, to whom tan has given the power of prophecy. On the whole, it will be found that the gypsy hits the past much better than her imitators in city walls, who supple ment their work with such awe inspir ing surroundings. None of them will open her lips until her palm has been crossed with silvefr, and it may be noted with suspicion that the larger the fee the more favorable the decree of fortune. Well, as Barnum declared again and again, the dear public likes to be humbugged.

The colored race is peculiarly sus ceptible toward a belief in occult power possessed by the favored few. They wear all manner of charms, from the foot of a rabbit killed in a graveyard at midnight to the rattles of a snake over which a solemn incantation has been uttered. Anything bordering on the supernatural will scare the average negro half to death. This is particularly the case down south, where the race has failed to secure the advantages of education, for it is this accomplishment that must finally sound the deathknell of superstition. A belief in dreams and blind obedience to the teachings of the mysterious voOdoo are distinguishing characteristics of the race. They are greatly impressed with ceremony, which accounts for the eagerness with which well to do northern colored men unite with secret orders.

After all, it is amazing to see how this old spirit of superstition permeates all ranks. Baseball players, with their mascots, have become rank believers in it, and many lay all their success or poor playing to certain charms which have turned up favorable or otherwise. If one dipped deeply into this subject, he would be alarmed for the sanity of the world. There are some men, and women, too, who notice this trend of public weakness and set themselves like so many rocks in the stream, hoping to break its force. These heroic gladiators in the arena of public instruction form Thirteen clubs, move and start upon journeys on Friday in order to ridicule the old sailor's belief in bad luck following such a beginning of a cruise on hangman's day.

Many men among us are fatalists, believing that our lives and destinies are mapped out at the time we are born and that we drift along at the mercy of the current, under the impression that we have a will, when in fact it has all been cut and dried for us. All follow* ers of Mohammed are of such a class, ready to give up when misfortune frowns and with a shrug exclaim: "Kismet, it is fate! Great is Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet. I am resigned. The average hustling American is built on a different modei. Ho uses disasters as the rounds cf a upon which he will mount to fortuiieV di**y heights, for the man who has to a grain of superstition in bis soul bound to olimb to the top.

GSOBOK

THE NEW WOMAN.

Do Not -Expect Marriage to Insure Ton a Living. A statistician has discovered that in the older cities there are now more young women than young men. In New York the disproportion is about one in ten. It follows, then, that, even with the best of intentions, the young men cannot marry all the girls. One girl in ten must go through life alone. It may be that later in life she can find for a husband some man like the old fellow who had lived a bachelor 89 years and then married so as to be sure he would not Jiave to die alone. But the chances of even that kind of a forlorn hope are remote. Such being the case, it follows that all girls should make provision for the future. Any girl may be the tenth one who is left, therefore let all provide against such contingency. It is certain, as I have been saying for years, that the key to the whole woman question is financial independence for our sex. The first duty of every woman is to secure this pecuniary independence. Parents who are not millionaires should in every case insure their daughters against want by causing them to learn thoroughly some breadwinning occupation. Every girl with a thimbleful of brains will keep herself out of the poorhouse or an old ladies' home in future years by making herself skilled in some work that will command good pay. There are ten breadwinning occupations for women now where there was one 50 years ago. In the great variety of them every girl can find something for which she has an especial talent. If nothing is at hand which exactly suits her mind, she can often invent a remunerative work for herself. It is natural for girls to think they would like a home and good husband. But since there are not husbands, good or bad, enough to go round, let every girl provide herself with the means of making a home anyhow. A very beautiful and happy home can be made without any man in it. So, whatever your work is, do it first class and claim first class pay for it. Next thing, begin now, at once, and lay up from this time on a fair per cent of your wages every month.

They say Phoebe Cousins has gone back on woman suffrage. Phoebe has had articular rheumatism five years, and that is enough to make a woman go back on her own grandmother.

A gentle Catholic sister comes to our office sometimes to get contributions for an old men's and old women's home with which she is connected. One day asked her which she would rather wait on, old men or old women. She answered, 'I would rather take care of 20 old women than 10 old men."

It is greatly to be desired that women would cease to make such a holy show of themselves when any passing excitement arouses their emotions. Some of them even seem to like to attract attention to themselves by squealing and fainting or pretending to faint whenever there is an accident in a crowtl of I^ople. Not long since a man hurled himself in front of the engine of an elevated train in New York. Women on the platform screeched and tumbled over and went into hysterics, so that they made more bother than even the dead man himself. Result, extremely unflattering opinions in the minds of men present as to the common sense of all womankind. I have heard old soldiers say that when any excitement started among army mules hundreds of them, the whole herd, would all fall to braying at once, and that tft was impossible to calm them or stop the unearthly bawling for hours. Well—you can deduce the moral for yourself.

The senate of Idaho, the latest brave state to decree that women shall have full suffrage, has a woman as chaplain of its senate. She is Mrs. Rebecca Brown Mitchell, president of the Idaho W. O. T. U. Well, the bitterest opponent of woman suffrage must admit that a woman's prayers will reach heaven as swiftly and surely as a man's.

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My dearsister, don't criticise anybody but your own self. Look for the good in other women, and you will always find it.

Kitty Reed, daughter of Speaker Thomas B. Reed, lays down a very pertinent proposition. It is this: If women are too pure and good to vote, then they are also too pure and good to pay taxes.

Considering just what man is, it is not strange the Almighty was tired and wanted to rest after he had made him.

Girls, never promise to marry a man till you have seen him eat. Only exceptionally dainty table manners can render it endurable to sit opposite a person three times a day all the rest of one's life.

"The sooner a typewriter realizes that a little night study will greatly improve her market value perhaps she will devote some time to the rules of spelling and punctuation," remarks an employer of stenographers.

The board of education of Westfield, N. J., has appointed five women as school visitors. Tbiy are to go around and "find things cut"—in other words, to do work the gentlemen of the board would not like to do themselves. The ladies are not members of the board and have no authority to act They are merely spies of respectable sort This plan of having lady visitors to public institutions when the women have no power to do anything has been often tried, and it never works. It is a system reflecting credit neither upon the trustees, the visiting women nor the institu tions visited. Let the ladies be full board members. That is the way to run things. ELIZA ARCHARD COVXEH

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