Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 March 1898 — Page 4

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A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor tad Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 501% Ohio Strfeet. Telephone 409.

The Mall is sold in the.city:tjr newsboys and all newsdealers, or will lier detfrered to any address, by maU, at tfte- rateof $2 a year, 81 for six months, or 50 QQpta tpr tjhree months,

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THAT a man can keep a secret jbaa ^en|4,' fully proven by the Maine di«U$er. »o •j| leaks from the court of inquiry, cabinet or nary department have lot out any import-

ant secrets.

-.THE correspondent that asked through a "query" column, if John Sherman is secretary of state may have been either# sarcastic or ignorant. Sherman now lives in his great past.

DEAD, yet speakiilgf with, tWresistikW eloquence and soul-subduing* pathos, are the seamen of the Maine and the lovely wife of Senator Thurston. -Had Cuba h.6 woes they still would be living. _/,

TKS lurking dangers of railroad crossings were made very evident within the last fortnight by two hairbreath escapes from frightful accidents. The escapes were due to goot^ luck and not to good management.

CONSERVATIVE men are looking for a Scotch verdict, "not proven," in the Maine case. If they are wrong they will accept substantial evidence to the contrary much more readily ,tt&n a yellow-tinged enthusiast will yield his hysterical beliefs.

THE discussion of the morality of such books as "Quo Vadis" calls to mind the opinion of the philosopher, Samuel Johnson, perhaps, that this disposition to discover immorality reveals^ a tendency to immorality on the part pf the critic. The pure do not discover impurity as quickly as the impure. 'i

WE do not need any report from the Maine court of Inquiry. The Indianapolis council in a series of resolutions, equally careless about the use of prepositions and the laws of evidence, l^s declared the case closed and forwarded ?"o the navy department pledges of support evidently intended for the executive and spring elections.

WHAT a respectable and dignified term is the old-fashioned "gentlewoman". It means too much to be used in an advertisement for washing or cooking, as lady ofteu is. It seems to express botb character and culture, which lady does not always, even when spelled with a capital for concert hall singer who married a lord is "My Lady", but not always a gentlewoman.

AN interesting statistician demonstrates that every century, for many centuries, was marked by war at its close. He might have gone farther and showed that few centuries did not have a war at the beginning and the middle. He does not prove that we must have war because the end of the ceutury is near, any more than that we can escape war when a century is young or middle-aged.

An attempt to pass a bill through the New York legislature to curtail the liberty of the press has not been a success nor ought to be. Even with the glaring excesses of the yellow press before us no bill will be tolerable that more than forbids immorality aud sedition. There is already recourse for slander as far as it is possible to provide it. The only absolute protection against abuses, insolence in office, tyranny aud fraud is a free press. We find in the ignorance, besotted blindness and egotism of Spain an argument against press censorship. When the British army in the Crimea was suffering from the incompetency of the commissary department and swindling contractors, the correspondents of the Titties and other papers poured a flood of light upon the wretched situation, and such a storm of execration arose around the government that it was forced to mend its ways and the revelations of the miserable hospital service brought Florence Nightingale into the field. Any law which would have protected officialdom from slander, or that was 'to be interpreted by officials, would have interfered with that righteous exposure. It is true that some worthy and innocent officers were slandered at that time but the good out weighed the evil.

Today the Spanish people are really Ignorant of the horrid condition of affairs in Cuba. They even do not know what their own soldiers are suffering. If they had an untrammeled press and free correspondence from Cuba there would have been reform or revolution long ago. An intelligent reading public is the only censor of the license And abuse which accompany the freedom of the press.

Tim men of the Maine will not have been sacrificed in vain if out of the present crisis grows the well organised effort that will deliver Cuba from tyranny, starvation and slaughter, and place its long suffering people among the free and prosperous republics. History abounds in such precedents. At the beginning of most redemptions, uprising, and deliverances some hapless bands, martyrs and victims fell without apparent benefit to themselves or fellow men, but in their tragedy was the dawn of hope and glory, and later ages consecrated them to immortality. It might be wished that these men of the Maine had fatten in battle, had been allowed to strike one blow lor humanity and liberty, but they were at their poets. They would not have been there II not brave men. "Theirs not to Reason why. their* bat to do aad die," by font conspiracy or open fight. The epitaph over the **900" was appropriate for these—"Go tell

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the' Spirtans. Triend, tliat obedient to theirlaws. which bade us die." When the administration announces the next step in its Cuban policy, it will be resting oil the popular feeling "arid the thorough preparation for war that were incited by the tragedy of the Maine.' Dismiss the idea of treachery and admit the accident, still, if there had been no war in Cuba there would be no Maine lying wrecked in the Havana harbor. Had humanity, wisdom and freedom characterized Spanish policy there would be no rebellion in Cuba nor sunken Maine in the harbor. The sacrifice of our sailors was the turning point, and many of us will live to see the Cubans enshrine among the liberators that will be commemorated by annnal festivals the sailors whose bodies now lie in the lemetery at Havana.

THOUGH times of war offer great opportunities for making money the cost of war ultimately must be paid and is a loss. The mere apprehension of war, of a little war, has cost sotaiebody a good deal. It has been estimated that since the Maine was lost On Feb. 15., to March 12., the decline in stocks and bonds was $250,000,000. It is not&pparent at once why the stocks of western railroads, like the C. B. &Q. should drop $16 on the share and Northwestern $15, or' Omaha $12, from the fear of a war on the seaboard and ocean. Their value is based upon the regular business of ordinary commerce and investors at once scent a disturbance in the business of the nation when involved in war. The stocks will recover from the decline in, due. season but the profit will not always go to the men who have just made a loss.

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Alcy Coffman, one of the pioneer matrons of the Wabash valley, died Wednesday, aged 78 years. She came from Mercer Co., Ky., to Parke cotinty, Ind., in 1887 and passed the rest of her life in that and Vigo county, He son and daughter, Wm. N. and Carrie Carpenter, of this city, and a married daughter in Kansas, survive

Mrs. Emily E. Hull, widow of Wesley Hull, for whom the cemetery in Honey Creek township is named, died Monday night after a prolonged illness. She was in her 72d year. She was born in Kentucky and her maiden name wasBoyll. The surviving children are: James Hull, of Honey Creek township Newton Asbury of Youngstown Mrs. Sarah Cornell and Mrs. Nancy Cannady of Honey Creek and Miss Belle Hull and Mrs. Clara Blocksom, who lived on the home place. Mrs. Hull left an estate valued at $10,000.

Miss Lettle Conroy, sister of Prof. Andrew Conroy, died at Santa Fe, N. M., Saturday. The remains were brought here for burial, the funeral taking place Wednesday. Miss Conroy was 19 years of age, a young woman of lovable disposition, and her death was a sad blow to her family and many friends.

The Wabash has excelled some of its best performances in 14 years and south of us has spread into a lake nine miles wide. It rose rapldly to 28 feet* in the channel at the rate of three feet a day, but turned yesterday and is now falling. The denizens of the river bottoms and the house boats were exposed to peril and loss, the former being obliged to take boats to escape and the latter losing their houses in some cases. Perhaps 75 families here have thus suffered loss. Above the city the Jenckes levee was broken aud about 1,600 acres of improved land was inundated. Another levee south also broke and let a flood through, which perceptibly lowered the river. Thousands of people have swarmed to the river shore to watch the wild and surging flood.

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The ptano used at the Grand during the sessions of the teachers' association this week was furnished by D. H. Baldwin & Co., and was one of their handsome Baldwin Grands. The Baldwin Grand is now used by Prof. Herman Leiblng and Miss Elizabeth Pushee in their classes.

One of the handsomest catalogues ever Issued in this city is that of John G. Heinl & Son, entitled "Hints for Easter." It is complete in every respect, and is handsomely printed of course, for it comes from the Moore & Langen Cov

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"THE STOBY OF A LIFE

IOA HUSTED HARPER WROTE SUSAN 8. ANTHONY'S BIOGRAPHY.

lived For a Tear With Mia* Anthony, Studying Her Character and Sorroondfi»y Well aa th* Records of Mm

Past—Mrs. Harper's Newspaper Work.

4 [Copyright, 1898, by the Author.] Little more than a year ago a paragraph went the rounds of the press announcing that Susan B. Anthony's biography was to be written with her own aid and supervision, and that Mrs. Ida HuBted Harper, a well known western newspaper woman, had accepted the task. The book is now written, awaiting only the final revision before it goes to the publishers.

The actual writing of the biography has been the lesser part of the yew's labors, though this was no light thing, as it will fill two large volumes and cover nearly 80 years of the life and work of a woman who has been active in almost every great reform of that period—a woman who was organising a state temperance association when FrancesE. Willard was a child who "mortified tne ladies" and shocked the men by being the first of her sex to attempt to address a teachers' convention in the state of New York who was mobbed on antislavery platforms from Buffalo to Albany, and all through the war stood at the helm of the Woman's National Loyal league, and who was one of the first women to dare to lecture on social purity. And all these were^ comparatively speaking, mere side is? sues to the work for woman's political equality with which Miss Anthony is today everywhere identified.

More than 20,000 letters were oare-

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fully read for this biography, among them many from the most famous statesmen, journalists, authors, philanthropists and reformers of our nation. Many books were consulted and compared, as well as files of the antislavery organs, The Congressional Becord and reports, and the Woman's rights papers, from the gently named Lily and Una of the early fifties to Miss Anthony's own vigorous Revolution of the last sixties and firBt seventies, down to the yet more modern Ballot Box and present day Woman's Tribune and Journal. BesiSes these, voluminous scrap books containing clippings from newspapers all over the country from 1848 to the begin* ning of 1898 were drawn upon freely. No pains were spared to verify even the smallest fact or most trivial name, and throughout the work the great effort was to choose, oondense and arrange the too abundant material so as to keep within the allotted limit and yet give a fair view of all the progress bounded by this long and busy life.

And who is the woman who has done all this? By birth, anoestry and training Mrs. Ida Hosted Harper is unusually well qualified for her great work. She is of New England extraction, but was born and has ohiefly lived in Indiana. Both her parents were abolitionists and liberal thinkers in religious matters in

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when it oost much to be so, but their home was bright Mid sunny, and as a girl Mrs. Harper enjoyed a great deal of gay society and through life baa been blessed with a delightful circle of friends. She married very young, was early left a widow with one child and soon became interested in newspaper work. She was first employed on the Terre Haute Daily News, doing all of that paper's political writing, and latnr was on the Indianapolis News, where she made a specialty of paragraphing and found her bright, pungent paragraphs reappearing in papers from all parts of the United States. For 11 years die contributed a weekly department of current events to another prominent Terra Haute paper and for 13 was connected with The Fireman's Magazine, then the most widely circulated labor magaxine in the country. While keep* ing up these regular connections she traveled extensively as a correspondent

and saw mtoch of Social/politioal and literary life. Her special work appeared frequently in the Chioago Times and Inter Ocean, Detroit Free Press, Toledo Blade, New York Christian Union and other papers of like standing. She Ib, by the way, one of the charter members of the Press association of Indiana.

The World's fair of 1898 called her into another fiel|- She was selected to write one of the monographs for Indiana, and also to read several papers before the different congresses, for which she received a diploma of "honorable mention" from the board of managers. She was besides the Indiana representative of this World's Fair Press league.

Until 1896, while always interested in equal rights for wffinen and even serving as secretary of the Indiana Suffrage association and organising a series of very successful congressional district conventions, Mrs. Harper's work in life had been distinctively that of a writer on general subjects, but when the great California suffrage amendment campaign opened, at Miss Anthony's speoial request she took charge of the press work.

For eight months of the year 1898 she was chairman of the state press committee, managing, organizing, writing Mid feeling the publio pulse by oonstant communication with the 350 newspapers which supported the amendment Her .whole time was given as a freewill offering.

The end of the campaign freed her from suffrage work, and before she could form any new literary plans or connections she received Miss Anthony's invitation to be the writer of her biography. Mrs. Harper returned with Miss Anthony to Rochester and for all these months has lived in her home, studying her character and surroundings as well as the records of her past and given every aid aud facility in her task.

A novel feature of the biography is the great use made not only of extracts from original letters, but from the newspapers of nearly 50 years. Wbrr ver possible the story is actually told or side lights are shed on it by these pre* comments and reports, and they certainly show forth "the very shape and pressure of the times'* as not the most gifted writer after the event could do. No argument or declamation could prove the change in publio opinion as does the contrast between such headlines as "Shrieking Susan," "The Reign of Petticoats," "Woman's Right to Do Wrong" or "Short Haired Women and Long Haired Men," and those above the reports of the recent fiftieth sufrage anniversary at Washington, for instance.

Personally Mrs. Harper is a bright, oheery, energetic woman, quick of tongue, kind of heart and alive in every direction. Whatever she does is done with all her might. She works hard and keenly enjoys a good time when she rests. Her tastes are wholesomely catholic. She is perfectly happy settling down in a home of her own, which she well knows how to manage, and she delights in taking long tours and seeing strange places. She is fortunate in possessing independent means, but has always believed that it is as wrong for women to be idle as for men. After the completion of this book her plans are vague. A thoroughly trained, widely known newspaper woman, still in the prime of life, doubtless much of her best work is yet to be done.

ko luimsthnnst on Man's Field. In entering on new occupations for their sex women have not taken any work away from men. New kinds of work have come on the scene faster in some c*%s than the workers were ready. The majority of women entering the industrial world become either type* writers, telephone girls, telegraphers, trained nurses and teachers of physical culture, occupations that have almost without exception oome into existence within the past 60 years.

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