Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1898 — Page 1

Gilbert^

Xs

X-

.v-

it VOL. 28—NO. 31.

7SS"

ON THE QUI VIVE.

I Poor Evansville couldn't accommodate 'the State Medical Society, which had fixed its next annual meeting for the old superannuated village, and the meeting place had to be changed to Lafayette. Terre

Haute was able to accommodate the visitors in handsome style at the meeting here last May, but it is not surprising that Evansville was unable to do so. It is so far in a decline that when any of the few enterprising people left there want to engage in any important undertaking they go to some other city, as witness the president of the E. & T. H. rtfad coming up to Terre Haute to put his money into a project for building a viaduct over Ohio street.

Miss Lena Joyce, whose nimble fingers, when she was official court stenographer of this county, have travelled miles enough in taking official notes to send her to Klondike and back many times over, is going to be married. The happy fellow in the case is Tom Perkins, one of the jolliest and most popular freight conductors on the Logan division of the Van. There isn't anything unusual in this. An official court stenographer has her feelings as well as any other person, and the divine spark is as likely to be fanned into aflame in the bosom of a freight conductor and convert it into a seething furnace, as in that of any other person. But the forthcoming marriage made it possible for Vigo county to establish a new and unusual record in the annals of legal procedure. Sometime ago Miss Joyce took the stenographic notes of an important trial in the Superior court, but before she had time to transcribe them the case was postponed. Recently it was called up aeain, and the stenographer was asked for her typewritten notes of the testimony. She reported that she was getting ready to be married, and had not prepared them. Now, any person with half a grain of sense knows that a girl interested in her wedding clothes has no time to attend to the musty details of a lawyer's suit where the amount at stake is only two or three thousand dollars. The way out of the dilema, that established the record, was in the leasing of a phonograph, into which she read her translation of her notes, and now when the case comes up for trial Miss Joyce's voice will recite in a very distinct tone the testimony given by the various witnesses in the previous trial. The phonograph is reciting the testimony to another stenographer, who will transcribe

Sre the case is called again, but if not possible the Vigo county court will go on record as being the first in the country to admit phonographic testimony in court where valuable interests are at stake. And now who is it will declare that marriage is a failure.

A well-known and reliable Washington correspondent, Win. E. Curtis, says that the good consular appointments are all gone, and those left, are but ageucies that pay from $280 to 1500, and are only acceptable to wealthy business man who cirry them as "side lines," an the traveling men would say. This is of serious moment in this city, where it is known that one enthusiastic applicant, Hon. B. F. Havens, has not yet baen permitted to shove his feet under the patronage table, although he is very conii.lent that he will still get a good place. About the ouly persons in this neck o' woods who will be pleased to learn that Mr. Havens will ba disappointed in his effort to get a place are his former Democratic associates, who cannot forgive him for having deserted them at a critical times. They will forgive President McKinley and the gold standard rniny of the cruel things they charge them with if the former will only p.vs* the ox-miyor by in disposing of whatever pttronage that may be left. .-

The city and county delinquent lists of property to be sold for taxes were published on Monday, and ike a most wonderful showing for the city and county, as compared with the advertised lists of other cities in this state. Evansville, with about the same population, has a list over five times larger than this county, while the Indianapolis list is over nine times larger. Perhaps Marion and Vanderburg counties haven't had as good treasurers as Vigo county and the city of Terre Haute during the year just closed.

Terre Haute has a Brown on her police roll, but it is a loug time since there was a Smith, Jones or Black. To remedy this trouble, the police commissioners met last Saturday night and -appointed Harvey D. Jones, formerly an employe of the Maxinkuckee Ice Co., to the vacancy created by the dismissal of Patrick Casey from the force. To preserve the proper equilibrium of names it is supposed that the next vacancies will be allotted to

Smith and Black.

There area number of men in the city of Terre Haute better able to make a fifteen thousand donation to the Young Men's Christian Association than Samuel T. Reese, whose donation of the fifty-foot three story building at the northeast corner of Seventh and Ohio streets to that organisation has been the talk of the week. It would be untrue to say that there are any number of men, for that would be untrue, but several gentlemen of the city could better afford to do it than till* modeftt, upright, worthy christian gentleman, who in his native modesty endeavored to make one of the conditions of the donation that the name of the donor should not be made public. For that reason his present is all the more notable. The first auuouueemcat of the gift was at

a banquet given at the Terre Haute House Monday night by J. Smith Talley to a number of prominent state workers in the Y. M. C. A. cause to celebrate such a notable gift, Mr. Reese would not even attend this banquet, but he could not prevent good words from being uttered of him, and if it is true that one's ears burn when kind words are said of him, his ears must have beeia on fire since last Monday night. It was a generous gift, eminently characteristic of a man who has been identified with Terre Haute's business interests for a great many years, and who has gone about his own affairs in a quiet, modest way, amassing a competency in much the way he has made this donation, without any stir or parade, or without calling attention to himself. Terre Haute would be better off if she had more Samuel T. Keeses.

The city council held a special meeting Thursday night, and requested the city commissioners to postpone action in the matter of the proposed opening of Ohio street for two weeks, pending a proposition from the E. & T. H. people looking to the erection of a viaduct across the tracks at that point. Something has evidently come over the spirit of the council's dreams, for the sentiment was recently very strong for the commissioners to continue their meetings and assess benefits and damages, and an attorney was engaged to assist them in the work that there might be no mistakes. Th's action now leaves the attorney in the position of having his client against him.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A Georgia editor describes a defaulter who had skipped out "as six feet tall and $10,000 short." -i

The Sultan of Turkey spends more for his table than any other human being of modern or ancient times—$5,000 daily.

The richest baby in the world is the Grand Duchess Olga, the 2-year-old daughter of the Czar and Czarina. The week she was born $5,000,000 was settled on her.

It is not generally known that ex-Sena-tor Tabor—once a many-times millionaire, but now "busted"—who has just been appointed postmaster of Denver, sold to the government for $1 the land on which the os to an

An eloping oouple arrived at a hotel in El Reno, Okla., and registered as man and wife. In a week the husband and wife of the fugitiyesjjame in pursuit, and

Reno, became interested in• each other,, and they eloped, leaving their former spouses undisturbed.

A Chicago young man has just served his social circle a petty trick. He was acting as best man at the wedding of his sister, and when the ceremony was completed he stepped to the front, band in hand with one ot the bridesmaids, and took advantage of the preparations made by being himself married to the young woman. He sponged everything except the preacher,

During the past seven years the wills of 119 British brewers disposed of personal estates valued at 1100,000,000 or nearly $1,000,000 each, while 103 liquor dealers averaged $350,000. One of the latter class left, however, $9,500,000 and two others over $1,000,000. Of 21 brewers who died last year, leaving $15,000,000, one was worth $2,700,000 another $1,800,000. two over $1,500,000, and six over $1,000,000

At a school of instruction in the Bertillon system of identifying criminals held at Albany, N. Y., last week, Dr. Brown, of the United States army, in speaking of one year's experience of the system in New York state, said that the number of convictions of professional criminals had fallen off between 400 and 500. while the complaint came from Connecticut that it was being overrun by men who had fled from New York to escape identification.

Justice Pryor, in the Supreme court, New Yprk City, January 19th, confirmed the report of ex-Judge Donahue, as referee, recommending that a decree of absolute divorce be granted to the wife of Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, on the statutory ground. Goodwin is ordered to pay his wife $75 a week alimony. She is also privileged to marry again if she so desires, and she is allowed also to resume her maiden name if she chooses to do so. Goodwin cannot marry again in that state. »A

So far as the most recent statistics go, the known proportion of blind people is about one in 1,500, which would give a total of 1,000,000 blind persons in the world. The largest proportion is found in Russia, which has in Eprope 200,000 blind in a population of 96,000,000, or one in every 4St). Most of these are found in the northern provinces of Finland, and the principal cause is ophthalmia, due to the bad ventilation of the huts of the peasantry and the inadequate facilities for treatment. A great deal of the blindness in Egypt is due to blowing sand.

To this date seven chief justices have sat upon the bench of the Supreme court of the United States. Connecticut, New York. Maryland, Virginia and Illinois each furnished one, and Ohio two. There have been fifty associate justices. New York furnished six, Pennsylvania five, Massachusetts, Ohio, Maryland and Virginia four each New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and California (including McKenna"» two each, and Maine, New Hamp- has been accorded everywhere the acfcbire, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, knowledgment that no more elaborate Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Kansas one and in every way artistic

AMUSEMENTS.

GBIilKS' CEIXAH DOOK.

James B. Mack:e, the accomplished comedian will present his bright musical comedy, "Grimes' Cellar Door," at the Grand tonight. It is said to be one continuous laugh from beginning to end. Mackie is favorably remembered here for his inimitable work as "Grimesey. Me Boy" in "A Bunch of Keys," but as strong a hit as he was in that piece, his work as "Billy Grimes." who owns the Cellarf Door, is said to totally eclipse all his former efforts, and is a continuation of fun. frolic, good nature, laughable complies-, tions and original songs and dances, Mackie is smart enough to see the neces-sit-y of a thoroughly good company all: around and has engaged one of the strongest musical comedy companies in America, regardless of expense.

THE CHICAGO ORCHESTKA.

The Chicago Orchestra, under the conductorship of the celebrated Theodore') Thomas, which will appear at the Grand Opera House Monday evening, is one of the only two prominent orchestras in this country, and is one of the finest institutions of its kind in the whole 'world. It should be a matter of interest to every public spirited citizen that we are to be given a concert by it, and t^e affair should be so successful that not only the management of the Opera House but of the orchestra as well, will feel justified in making arrangements to have future concerts by Mr. Thomas. Chicagoans support forty-four concerts each season and as a rule the vast Auditorium with a seating capacity of nearly 5.000 is always well filled. If our citizens take to these concerts as they should, the Grand Opera House will be filled to overflowing, and it is encouraging to hear that the advance pale is already very large. Mr. Thomas again demonstrates his superior ability as a programme builder in the programme which he will give here. There is contrast, a little touch of symphony, works by the musical classics, as well as some of the recent popular authors, and opera music. Few musicians understand Beethoven as well as Mr. Thomas does aud few play Wagner as well. It also demonstrates that he keeps closely in touch with modern musical creative genius. There will be a soloist also Leopold Kramer, the concert-meister of the orchestra. Mr. Kramer came to America last fall to accept tlds position with. Mr. Tttomas, resigning a similar position with tl^ifapjq(ustCologne orchestra to do soJ'*j,

Several of the scenic and mechanical effects employed in the production of "On the Yukon," which is to be given at the Grand Tuesday night, are the most elaborate and realistic ever seen on the American stage, this degree of superiority having been reached by artistic achievement and scientific accomplishment. The mining camp scene of the first act is not only picturesque in scenic detail, but the rippling, splashing water as it comes tumbling down the rocks, with other realistic effects, makes the scene natural and genuine. In the third act, where the scene reveals the beach at Cape May, a beautiful effect has been reached by the scenic artist, which is enhanced by the use of changeable shades of light and color and the mechanical effects accompany the

Jl__ ..if *. 04

production

SMOKE AcftT^.

The attraction at the Grand next Wednesday night will be James A. Heme's beautiful pastoral play, "Shore Acres." It has been said that "Shore Acres" is the best American play ever written, certainly its superior would be hard to name. The chief charm about "Shore Acres" lies in the departure from traditional methods which characterizes the stage business and the entire naturalness of the characters. Mr. Heme's characters are living, breathing, every day, matter of fact personages, not one of whom but that the auditor feels that he knows personally. That the author, in addition to his admirable knowledge of the stage technique,, has the "courage of his convictions" is apparent from the boldness with which he has handled his subject aud from the fact that nowhere has he sacrificed art to effect. No laws of human life have been violated in the vivid construction of his plot and nothing save the ordinary acts of human beings is utilized in its presentations, yet the play is one of unmeasured fascination for the beholder. One laughs when the characters are happy and weeps when they are bowed down. A writer says, "Nothing can now be recalled in a decade that approaches "Shore Acres," and it is almost safe to say years will pass bafore anything to equal it will appear." *yy|jJ*AlteA*8T MATHKB. rew of Shakespeare's plays are so rarely presented on the stage to-day as "Cymbeiine,'Hn which Margaret Mather will appear at the Grand next Thursday night. This is in large measure doubtless due to the fact that it demands imperatively a scenic production of extreme elaboration. This means expense, and all too often the question of expense is the dominant influence in theatrical performances, art having been forced to give place to considerations of mere money. Miss Margaret Mather, however, has ideas of her own as to what a stage production should and should not be, and is in a financial position to carry ont her notions regardless of

I production has yet been seen upon the

:0

their cost. Her production of "Cymbeline" deaths are at 07 a minute, 97.750 a day, 35,G39,8S5 a year and the births at 70 a minute, 10,0# a day, 36,793,000 a yearns The world's population^ therefore, gains about 1,100,000 every year.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAYS* EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1898. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR

American stage. When preparing for this production she gave everyone who had to do with it carte blanche, and its initial presentation in New York last season proved a revelation as to the possibilities of the piece. Wherever it has been pre$$nted since, it has been an exact duplication of the New York production, and such will be at the Grand Thursday

night. Miss Mather has surrounded herself?.with au admirable company, and tbtefe is every promise that her engagemfiisfe will be a treat of the first magnitude to Ipvfers not only of Shakespeare, but to all t)*§se who delight in that which is best in ttieatrical productions.

NOTES.

James Brown Potter, who is at ptfeseat'in London, is said to be even prettif^art&vyounger looking than she was behef Indian tour. Her wonderful aubtgrn locks are as abundant as ever, and h#)r manner, it is said, is singularly free jth% affectations of, both ..the society an &nd the actress. ~Tr"

It is announced that the tri-star alliance that is touring the country this seaspn in "The Wedding D.t.y" will not remain together next year. Delia Fox intends to go a starring on her own account in one or two comic operas she has under consideration. Jefferson de Atigelis also will try his luck again as a star, bub Lillian Russell hasn't decided on her future plans. She may go to London.

Lillian Blauvelt, who left this country ou Saturday with the intention of remaining abroad for sav^ral years, an.l with a new husband in place of the one from whom she was recently divorced in Dakota, has been for sonia years the most successful of the American concert singers in this country. She is said to have made as much as $15,003 every season, and her popularity from the time of her first appearance has increased steadily.

Gustave Salvina, who had received his share of his father's estate on condition that he never act in Italy, appeared in Venice the other day. He hits been an actor for years, but has hitherto deferred to his father's wishe3. Tomaso never wanted any one of the same name to act in his country, and the action of his son is looked upon as another episode in the bad feeling that has long existed between them. He appeared in a Hungarian play.

The financial sponsor for the RussellFox Augelis star combination in "The Wedding Day," has anew plan for Miss Lillian Russell, who is his special care. He desires to organise for her a light opera company to sing "The Bohemian Girl," "Martha" and works of this class, covering afield that has been vacant in late years. It is a part of the plan to make Jessie Bartlett ivis a joint star in the organization. But the plan is little more than a suggestion as yet. It- is understood that Mrs. Davis has not yet signified her willingness to give up either her connection vith the Bostonians or her ambition to star at the head of her own company to further it. "Capt. Dreyfus' Martyrdom," after having drawn crowded houses for three weeks at a theater in Amsterdam, was forbidden by the police. Not only were actual personages introduced into the action, but the ending was changed according to the latest news on the subject. When the play was acted first it ended with the reading of the letter writ-ten-by Mate. Dreyfus -to the Pope. Later this was changed after the introduction of the "veiled lady" episode, and the audiences every night saw the drama wound np in accordance with the latest telegrams from Paris on the subject. All of the personages that figured in the trial were introduced. It was the excitement caused by the performance that led the authorities to forbid it.

One-fourth of the people on the earth die before the age of 6, one-half before the age of 16, and only 1 person in each hundred born live to the age of 65. The

FACTS FEMININE.

That woman is wise who chooses for her partner in life a man who desires to find his home a place of rest, says an exchange. It is the man with many interests, with engrossing occupations, with plenty of people to fight, with a struggle to maintain against the world, who is really a domestic man, in the wife's sense, who enjoys home, who is tempted to make a friend of his wife, who relishes prattle, who feels in the small circle, where nobody is above him and nobody unsympa thetic with him, as if he were in a heaven of ease and reparation. The drawback of home life, its contained possibilities of iusipidity, sameness and consequent weariness, is never present to such a man. He no more tires of his wife than of his own happier moods. He is no more bored with home than with sleep. He is no more plagued with his children than with his own lighter thoughts. All the monotony and weariness of life he encounters outside. It is the pleasure-loving man, the merry companion, who requires constant excitement, that finds home-life unendurable. He soon grows weary of it, and considers everything so very tame, and so like fiat beer, that it is impossible for him not only to be happy, but to feel that he is less unhappy there than anywhere else. We do not mean that the domestic man, in the wife's sense, will be always at home. The man always at home has not half the chance of the man whose duty is outside it, for he must sometimes be in the way. The point for the wife is that he should like home when he is there, and that liking, we contend, belongs, first of all, to the active and stiongand deeply engaged, and not to the lounger, or even the easyminded man. In marriage, as in every Other relation of life, the competent man is the pleasant man to live with, and the safest to choose, aud the one most likely to prove an unwearied friend, and who enjoys and suffers others to enjoy, when at home, the endless charm of mental repose.

I often wonder if mothers of little daughters appreciate what they are doing when they jest with them about their "little sweethearts" and "beaux," asks a writer in Harper's Bazar. There is so much of this kind of talk that the cleareyed listener sickens in the hearing. While boys and girls are young they should be comrades, playmates, friends but the possibility of a tenderer relation existing shotMHttev# fork morfifint SStyer the heads of the innocent children. When Mabel's mother speaks of 12-year-old Jack as her "beau," and the little girl flrfshes with self-consciousness or with anger, the irreparable wrong has been done. She will never again regard Jack as the jolly boy who was "great fun." The bloom has already begun to come off the peach. The longer boys and girls are kept in ignorance of the fact that they can be anything but dear friends the happier they will be. They cannot help knowing that grown men and women love and are given in marriage, but the "grown-up" period seems very far off to them, and those who love them should keep them children as long as possible. They can be children but once.

Nearly every woman has an accumulation of photographs that she does not know what to do with. There is not one in the lot that she could bear to destroy, and yet they are very much in the way. She really cannot afford to pack them entirely out of sight, for many of the originals may appear on the scene at any time. A photograph screen solves the problem and makes the disposition of the pictures an easy matter. These screens come in all sizes, holding from four to 100 or more photographs. They are made of silk, satin or cedar wood, and the panels folded after the style of the ordinary screen. One side is hand-painted in water colors, and the other side is entirely filled with pockets for holding the pictures.

A folding screen is a useful article in a bedroom, boudoir or living room, and one covered with the faces of one's friends or of interesting personages is particularly valuable and interesting. The beauty about the photograph screen is that if one gets tired of the faces all one has to do is to turn them to the wall and then rest the eye on the pastoral scenes on the other side of the screen

It is a curious fact that the majority of men do not seem to be attracted by tall girls. We wonder why? asks an English critic. Perhaps it is because men are so accustomed to being looked up to—at all events by the fair sex—that it is only natural for them to prefer the girl who, in her little caressing? and fascinating loverlike ways, has, on account of her shortness, to look up at him for the purpose of peering into his love-lit eyes. But very short women can only sound the note of a forlorn condition, unfortunately, for fussy, modern man, taking him in the abstract, passes her over and lets his choice fall upon her comparatively taller sister. The superlatively tall woman and the positively short woman the average man leaves severely alone.

Tall women are usually dignified and would appear to scorn kittenish ways, and although they manage to draw admiration it is rather of the awe-inspiring kind. No doubt, owing to their smallness of stature and pretty, playful ways, men give to little women more petting than the tall, dignified woman demands. The lover's oft-repeated expression, "yon little darling/' could hardly be applied to the very tall girl without tickling the liabilities of those who overhead it. This is certainly very hard, and looks like a punish-

W

«3

1

k^sw \:y .tr y^-

wHI

5

ment for being tall, but who can help her stature? And it is a fact, too, that men are rather shy about approaching tall women, because of restraint which they feel, but cannot explain. They are under the impression—why. it is hard to tell—that tall women are built to be commanders and that they are in their natural element when left alone in their reserved dignity and musings in their lonely wanderings.

You have in the little woman nestling, coaxing, fascinating ways that are not to be found in the mannerisms of the tall woman. whose nature seems to be quite the opposite of vivacity, her inclinations leaning toward a deep, calm reversedness which befits her tall stature. A tall woman with "pretty little ways'1 would be a ridiculous sight, and a tall woman who wanted to be petted and insisted on beiug petted would, in the eyes of strangers, give cause for much hard jesting. A tall girl doesn't offer the suggestion that she was born to be taken care of, nor does she convey the idea that she is "a little helpless thing pleading for protection." In some ways it is, therefore, "not any particular run of lavender to be a tall woman," as a little woman once expressed it to the writer.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Donkeys and facts are stubborn things. They also serve who only stand and kick.

A bad memory is the skeleton iu the liar's closet. Where two are company three might as well be a hundred.

A doting mother is much more tiresome-', than a hand organ. 7, Printers measure their takes and tailors take their measuresw

The retort courteou^'sometimea consists in not saying a word. When a farmer tickles the earth his fields laugh with crops.

When a woman truly loves her husband she likes to hear him snore. When a young man or a clock gets too fast a setback is neccessary.

There is more action in an ounce of kitten than in a ton of elephant. The man who goes to church because he has nothing to do is an idle worshiper.

The only charms some young men pos-t sess are attached to Jheir watch chains.^ Some men are*Sorn%reat, some achieve greatness ^nd others become humorists.

Let us eat, drink and try to be merry, for tomorrow we may have to clean house. Waiting for a man to propoae is even more tiresome than waiting for a street car.

The first robin cannot compete with the base-bail manager as a harbinger of spring. *,

The man in the basement can always undersell his competitor on the floor above.

The little boys and girls who play together seem to like it all the better as they grow older,

f^

Lady Macbeth would have won distinction as umpire in a ladies' progressiveeuchre club.

The world is round and people who are too progressive catch up with the tail of the procession.

One reason why bald people dislike red hair is that the owner of it always has such an awful lot.

Man always meets trouble half way, and then stands on a corner expecting happiness to come along.

A lady writer says the coming woman will have her own bank account. We have been waiting for her several years.

POINTED QUESTIONS.

Why isn't bigamy a twofold blessing? Why is it that a silent partner has so much to say?

Why does a loafet always bother a man when he's busy?

1

Why does a man who is really good usually look so sad? Why is the hired girl of foreign birth called a domestic? .«

Why do we use the term "playwright" instead of "playwriter?" Why does nearly all the milk of human kindness taste of the can?

Why is it that a woman can never throw anything straight but kisses? Why is it that your shoestring never breaks unless you are in a hurry?

Why isn't the wedding ceremony a success unless there Is a hitch in it some-: where?

Why is it that about two-thirds of a doctor's bill is for guessing at your coma in

Sixteen cents a day will feed a man at moderate work and 18 cents a day is required for food for a woman. This is the resnlt of experiments begun by Dr. H. B. Gibson, of the Missouri state university, and continued after his death by Profs. Sidney Calvert and David W. May. Many studies of dietaries were made. The actual amount of food consumed each day and the cost thereof have been actually determined. The average cost per man per day at the University boarding club is 18% cents, of this amonnt Mr. May said probably two cents' worth is wasted. The cost in private families wonld be smaller, with less waste.