Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 April 1898 — Page 2

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Women of Today Have Greater Resource* Than Their Sisters Had In 1861 and Can Look Oat For TheiMelvM—War

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HE last time the men of the north and of the south went forth to combat the women— wives and sweethearts left at home bad not the

resources and the enterprises to interest and engage tbein that the women of today will have if the bugle sounds "To arms!"

In the sixties the wives of heroes of the rebellion kept the hearthstones alight with a few embers. As time went on, alas, many a one grew blaok and never was relit, though the fire of pa triotism burned brightly to the close in many a woman's faithful heart.

But tbo war was of such long continuance that in thousands of households poverty overtook the women and children left behind, for women then did not have many resources to make a living—most of them could only depend on their needles to eke out an irregularly sent stipend from the soldier fighting for his country, whose pay was Bmall at best, and if a deadly bullet ended the heart's beat the "pay" never oame again. The pensioned widow list had not been made up nor even thought of yet.

The women of the south had been brought up in such luxury and with the attendance of so many slaves that many of them did not know how to sew— even to hem their own dainty handkerchiefs.

The men had always as a matter of course attended to their own estates, or employed overseers who saw to it that the cotton was gathered, and the ships laded, the orauge groves planted and pruned and the golden fruit gathered and sold.

When the master and the slaves were no longer upon the scene, it never entered the head of any of the dainty ladies of the household to take then places.

Not so today. Many a southern woman could and does see to her own orange groves, and many a sweetheart left behind in the southland and in the northland will make her trousseau with her own fair bands that all may be in readiness for "tbo mating" when "Johnny comes marching homd."

All over America, when the bugle blows, women—the brightest and fairest and daintiest—will be able to cope with tho vicissitudes of war that may come into their lot if they are left behind, while many others are grandly equipped to go on the field and nurse the wounded or hold a oup of cold water to the lips of the dyiug if they follow the line of bntllo in this or a foreign laud.

Largo enterprises now partially man agod by women, with or under the supervision of uieu, will be managed and oarried on by the women left in the counting house or store, at the head of tho factory or the mill. Tho American woman is a marvel to all other women of tlm ago. She has learned to take oare of herself, uoue tho less sweet and womanly, all the more brave and helpful, a power iu this fair land. Her bright eyes may grow dim with tears and wati biNg, but her llrm, helpful hands and ready wit will never be at a loss.

Tho university amazons will study Helen and Cleopatra aud be more beautiful and more glorious than either. They will write long and beautiful letters in elegant English and French and perhaps even deign to use the language of the foe to their heroes and tell them not to hurry home—that all goes well— to fight the good fight and be sure not to forget to bring them jewels from Spain and corals from Cuba.

Tho modest little typewriter will go to her place at the office and write out the latest reports from the seat of war with a steady hand unless the name of some dear one who has met with disaster is thrown on the keyboard, and theri the little band will grow unsteady, and a tear will fall on the fair page, but the work must be done, and the feelings must bA controlled. She has been so trained she can wait until she reaches the little room in the quiet home to give vent to her feelings, but the next morning will find her, as usual, in her place, with her machine before her, for that's the way she keeps her hearthstone fire aglow and takes oare of the little dependent brother while the big, oaretakiug brother or father lies on the field of battle.

And so life will go on the same old -way, the only and great difference being that women are not left at home to starve and beg while the men are meeting the foe.

All the professions are filled with women who are able to take up the work the men leave in their hands. The feSirorgeon must go with his regiment, but p'v^-his par&er—a woman—will minister

to the sick at homo. The lawyer will Join the ranks, but the courts will not be doeed indefinitely, for the woman ^•-jawyer ha» her case and her brief to set before the judge.

Ifv Women in Otis age will find the coneolation ao needed of work for the heart and brain and body as she anxiously awaits for news of absent soldier boys, and if men must go forth for country's

Mkeand honor tbey can think with happier hearts that that* women most deer to then have tba^oousolatioa.

women should not find it a lucrative calling. The professional man operator recognises her fitness, and I know two men who are instructing their daughters in the art. The «u «'S of traveling lecturers, who own tbeir own camera?, often operate, thereby dispensing with the professional.

The general adoption of the camera in schools and colleges has necessitated women teachers to become skillful in its manipulation. In many convents it is in daily use. Drop into a camera establishment, and three hours' instruction will suffice a clever woman to "catch on" to the principles involved. In practice alone lies skill. Aside from the mechanical, natural quickness, deftness and artistic feeling are paramount to good results. These qualities are preeminently feminine. On the operator's intelligence, quickness of toncb, sympathy and artistic temperament the lecturer is almost wholly dependent for the smoothness of the performance. The operator is to the lecturer what the accompaniment is to the singer.

Equipment and time considered, the pay is liberal Barely does a lecture extend over 1 *4 hours. A good operator commands from $8 to $10 an evening within city limits. He furnishes his own camera, goes, to the place of entertainment in advance, adjusts screens and has everything in readiness for the lecturer. Debarring physical strength and mechanical skill sometimes required in the adjustment of screens, handling of gas tanks, the operation of the camera seems particularly suitable work to a woman. Masculine help can always be bad save when chance may land the itinerant lecturer in some isolated spot, a contingency scarcely worth consideration. LIDA ROSE MCCABE.

DRAWING ROOM HINTS.

How New Style Fnrnltare May Be Disposed to Advantage.

Banish your doors. Bring forth your curtains. Among the new ones I have seen nothing better combining simplicity, beauty and richness than a pair in satin brocade. The ground was a pale delicate olive embossed with June daisies in all their freshness of petal and heart. To destroy the deoided line between wall, ceiling and hangings of this nature use a bit of gold fish net Loop it above and let it fall like a veil bordering tbe ourtain from the wall.

Beside your curtains might be placed a very effective screen, with a carved oak frame and panels of satin, but of a sadder, darker green embossed with ragged petaled flowers in orange.

Continuing round by way of the ohimney space do not be without your open fireplace, with its delioate screen and cozy front rug.

A little oriental furniture because of its lightness of shape and material.and odd corners will form a pleasant con-

TWO NEW TABLES.

trast to your domestic woven curtains and modern soreen. Place in a corner opposing your fireplace a clever looking corner chair of bamboo ore corner cabinet whose wall sides are unlike. Place your dainty brio-a-brac on its odd, uneven steps of naturally stained Japanese wood outlined with bamboo and you cannot fail to find beauty in the arrangement. Such a cabinet may be bought for $8. And in furnishing a drawing room with some eye to economy a richer, fuller effect can be got by expensive draperies aud inexpensive furniture than vice versa.

It matters not what room they are in books are never amiss or out of place. So you might have another cabinet. I have seen a new one, useful, pretty and rather wide, of bamboo. In the upper oorner are neat little shelves for a few delicately bound books roofing an underoranny for bric-a-brac. Down the other side is a deep inclosure for a tall, handsome vase, and above a shelf for a simple bowl of cut flowers or a fairy plant. This cabinet was marked $3.50, and above it was displayed effectively a narrow framed waterscape. A piano, in harmonizing wood tones, beside the cabinet gives the opportunity to use some of the cute shelves for sheet music as well as books.

Chairs of varying shapes if not upholstered should be made to look fall in a room of this caliber by the aid of plainly made up cushions of rich,material.

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For another smaller doorway alight and beautiful portiere might be made of Syrian curtains. They are woven in cotton, gold, silver and colors—pretty greens, reds and yellows. They are 40 inches wide, 10 feet long, and they cost only $13.

Dispose about the room a jardiniere stand for an effective plant, a teapoy set and a useful table. The two newest tables are pictured here. The top of one is still octagon shaped, but is inlaid in design in Japanese shaded woods. Tbe legs spread after the most approved fashion. There is an onderabelf and closed side shelves that lower for cups and saucers or sevres dishes. The other table, while being alike as to legs and shelves and inlaid design, has an entirely new shaped ttfp. It is asort of an oblong with elliptical sides and pointed corners.

Cover your floor with fine matting and rags or a plain rich carpet of much darker tone than the hangings. Let your pictures be treated with severe simplicity to frame, but have vases and bric-a-brac as handsome and elaborate as may be.

A. NORTH.

riiliUK HAUTE SATURDAY5

OVERLAND TO KLONDIKE.

Hew Route

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Passing as it does over tbe old roads traveled by tbe gold seekers of years past and through a mining country almost all the way, it is the ideal route for those who wish to prospect in a businesslike manner and are not expecting merely to follow the rush and "get in" if tbey can or "get left," as the many will, in the scramble for claims in the vicinity of Dawson.

The overland route leaves Spokane, Wash., following the former stage and freight line to what was formerly Fort Colville, over tbe same trail whioh was. traveled in the sixties by the gold hunters of the caribon region in British Columbia and over which they returned to civilization with their hundreds of thousands in "dust."

Part of the way the road parallels the Spokane Falls and Northern railroad, by which 100 miles more could be made by rail, but it is expected that the majority taking this ronte will purchase their horses and outfitting supplies at Spokane, starting from that point to Kettle Falls, 100 miles northwest, where the Columbia river is crossed by ferry. There the gold seeker may begin his prospecting, for he has reached the Colville Indian reservation, which has been lately opened to mineral locations, and already mines have been found so riph on the very surface that with a little development they have sold np in the hundred of thousands.

At Quesnelle the prospector oomes into tbe old Caribou goldfields, from whioh in the sixties so many fortunes were taken, ground which when abandoned would pay an ounce or more a day, but with supplies ten times as high as at the prtsent time (that was long before a railroad had crossed the continent) the prc-t was not great enough, so they wore left for''bigger bonanzas." At Quesuelle tbe Fraser river is orossed by ferry, and the route follows a good pack trial to the Hudson Bay company's post at Fort Fraser, about 140 miles distant.

From Fort Fraser either of two routes may be taken to Hazel ton (another Hudson Bay trading post), one by way of Stuart lake, which trail leads into the Omenica gold region, which is attracting so much attention, a good region to prospect, but out of the way of one going direct to Telegraph creek and with a difficult trail to get back to the main telegraph route? The other and best route, but which only Bkirts the Omenioa and Cassiar goldfields proper, is a good trail, following the old telegraph line along tbe En-da-ko valley and the Bulkley, or Ha-gwil-get, river.

At Hazelton the Skeena river must as yet be crossed by swimming the horses. The route then follows an old Indian trail to a small Indian village called Kuldo, on the Skeena river thenoe, striking north, follows a small stream tributary to the Skeena thence along two streams which form the headwaters of the Nasse river, further forming the headwaters of thelskoot thenoe the first south branch of the Stiokeen river to its mouth and crossing the Stickeen at Telegraph creek.

From Telegraph creek to Teslin lake, a distance of about 129 miles, there is a good government trail which is being widened into a wagon road, of whioh all but about 30 miles is now completed. On reaching Teslin lake the worst of the journey is ended, for getting down the lake and Yukon river to Dawson City is plain boating, and it is expected that a small steamer will soon be ply* ing on the lake.

This ronte passes all the way through a country well supplied with feed for peck horses and with game abounding. Scattering towns are passed through as

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[Special Correspondence.]

KETTLE FAILS, Wash., March 30.— Of the routes to tbe Klondike perhaps the one which Is just now attracting the most attention is the "overland route," as it is called, by way of Ashcroft, B. C. This route has the advantage of doing away with the trouble and expense of the lon^ voyage to St. Michael's and up the Yukon or the dangers of tbe Skaguay or Cbilkoot pass and is claimed by those who know to be for many reasons far superior to all others.

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On the reservation, 86 miles from Kettle Falls over a good wagon road, is tbe new mining town of Eureka. From there to Oro, 89 miles, near the confluence of tbe Similikameen and Okonogan rivers, the route passes through well known but, for laok of transportation facilities, still comparatively undeveloped gold mining country. From Oro to Keremos, in British Columbia, is 29 miles thence to Prinoeton, 45 miles Princeton to Nicolai, about 65 miles Nicolai to Asbcroft, 50 miles.

The total distance from Spokane is 864 miles, through oountry with the best of grazing for pack animals and with timber for fuel. This route so far can be traveled at any time of the year, as there is never enough snow to make it difficult, and most of the way is by regular mail and stage roads, while provisions can be renewed anywbure on the way. From Ashoroft by way of Lake La Hache, Soda creek and Alexandra to Quesuelle is 225 miles. This point is about half way from Spokane to Teslin lake, aud the route has been all the way through an easy, sparsely settled country.

far as Quesnelle. From there to Hazel- in new shape and says to ton are many Indian villages, but from I Hazelton on few are met with until Telegraph creek is reached, though many Indians may be met who, if kindly treated, are very willing to be useful.

Boughly estimated, with no unfavorable conditions, the time consumed by this trip would be about six weeks. This route seems to offer great advantages for actual prospector* for beside* being cheap, as I stated, it is through a gold producing country all the way, and many good properties will he found long before Dawson and the Klondike are reached. & EL Houi.

MAIL, APBIL », 1S98.

These two words emphasize a necessity and indicate a remedy. *v SPRING—the season when the blood is most impure as a result of the winter's closer confinement, higher living, slower action of the kidneys and liver when humors of all kinds, boils, pimples and eruptions are most liable to appear when the weak, languid condition of the whole bodily structure demands and welcomes help. MEDICINE—-that to which the millions turn at this season—Hood's Sarsaparilla. The original and only preparation especially adapted to the present needs of the human family that which makes the blood pure and clean, as shown by its thousand* of wonderful cures of dreadful blood diseases creates an appetite and cures dyspepsia, as shown by its magic touch in all stomach troubles steadies and strengthens the nerves, as proved by people formerly nervous, now calm, and selfpossessed, thanks to

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He Was at Home.

When Mr. Felix Maboney was a special pension examiner, he had a bit of an experience which deserves a place in singular coincidence list. It happened up in Connecticut. Mr. Mahoney and a temporary hireling of his were driving along a country road in a sleigh, when in a snow filled cut the conveyance broke down. In tbe field beside the road Mr. Mahoney caught sight of a man's head. He lifted np his voioe and called to the man. The head rose Blowly, higher and higher, till its owner's entire figure was revealed, as he olimbed out of a grave he had been digging.

Where does Jim Smith lire?" roared Mr. Mahoney. "Hey?" said the gravedigger, for of ^course he was deaf. You never heard of a gravedigger in a story who wasn't. "Where does Jim Smith live?" roared the pension examiner again, fortissimo.

The gravedigger pointed to the nearest house. "Well," said he, "that's his houso over there." "Is he at home?" bellowed Mr. Mahoney. "Ob, yes," said the gravedigger. "ke's at home. I'm just digging his grave."—Washington Star.

One of the Kaiser's Jokes.

There are many good anecdotes about the German emperor, and it must be owned that tbey all prove the kaiser to have no small amount of humor. Tbe following, whioh comes from Heir Eblers, the traveler, is smarter than most. Tbe emperor and Eblers were college chums from Bonn, and tbe emperor never forgot his old oollege student. At Bonn, on special occasions, the different oorps used to drink to one another, and the following set form was always used: The president of tbe Palatia corps raises his glass, saying, "1 have tbe great honor and pleasure to empty my glass in drinking to the corps of Borussia." The president of the latter corps then replies, "The corps thanks and drinks." On the birth of one of the sons of tbe emperor Eblers telegraphed him, "I have the great honor and pleasure to empty my glass in drinking to the youngest Hohenzollern." Tbe emperor promptly wired back, "The youngest Hobenzollern thanks and drinks. "—Toronto Chronicle.

The Heat of the Son.

According to tbe best autborities, less than one thousand-millionth part of the sun's rays reaches the earth. It is fortunate tbar. this is so, as any considerable concentration of tbe rays upon onr planet would speedily destroy it. According to tbe same account, if all of the ice at the north pole were so piled that the beat of the sun could be focused on it, it would dissolve at the rate of 800,000,000 miles of solid ice per sec ond. The heat is estimated to generate energy at tbe rate of 10,000 horsepower to every square foot of space. The beginning of the radiation of heat from the sun mnst date back something like 100,000,000 years. Like etarything else, it had its start and must have its finish. It may continue for 16,000,000 or 20,000,000 years longer, but there is a limit and it must be reaohed. One cannot bnt wonder at the condition of the universe at that time and what will come after.—New York Ledger.

President Kruger on Offloe Seeking.

A good story of President Kruger is told in an article on "Mining and Politics In tbe Transvaal," in The National Beview. Some of the president's young relations applied to him for office. He considered awhile and said, "I can do nothing, for the high offices of the state are in firm hands and for little clerkships you are too stupid."

Kdltinc by tbe Golden Bui*. A country editor pate the old question his subscribers: "Brother, don't stop your paper just because you don't agree with the editor. Tbe last cabbage you sent us didn't agree with us either, bnt we didn't drop you from our subscription

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German Piofossor (in his lecture on water)—And then, gentlemen, do not forget, if we had no water we oould never learn to swim—and bow many people would be drowned 1—Vienna Fremdenblatt

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I suffered for years with headaches. I began using Hood's Sarsaparilla and now I do not have any headaches. I have a good appetite and have gained in strength." MRS. IDA HEEDEX, 80 Emma Street, Chicago, 111.

Is America's Greatest Medicine, because it cures when all others fail. Be sure to sret Hood's.

Washington Widows.

I like gratitude. I like to hear of grateful people, and an anecdote I heard reoently of one Washington man has pleased me immensely. He has recently married the widow of a very wealthy gentleman, and on the proceeds of the transaction he has built a handsome house. When the house was finished and the moving into it was accomplished, the wife and her mother fell to dincussing just where they Bbould bang tbe portrait of the former husband. They had just deoided to bang it in a small room on the second floor when the new husband came in and heard of tbe matter* "Hang him up stairs!" he said. "No, siree. No, siree. That man was my benefaotor. I owe everything I havj to him. He shall hang in the plaoe of honor."

And husband No. 1 now smiles down from over tbe mantel in the drawing room.

But that makes me think of another Washington widow who has recently bestowed herself and her belongings on a second husband. "It's so fortunate," said she to me. "My first husband's last name began with a W, you know, and so does my second husband's first name. All Mr. W. 's handkerchiefs are just tbe thing for Willie, and I haven't even had to have the initial on them changed."— Washington Post.

Ages of the World's Charmers.

Miss Browning dilates on a most consolatory fact. The women who influenced the destinies of nations were none of them "actually young." Well, what does Miss Browning call "actually young?" Nineteen is not old, and she who saved France from returning members to a British parliament was 19 at her death. There is a tendency in tbe male sex tu like tbem young. Helen of Troy was, it is calculated, about 120, but sbe was the daughter of a god. Oleopatra is put by Miss Browning at about 50 when Antony reckoned the world well lost for her. In any case her medals make her a plain woman, with a very long nose. Mary Stuart bad tnrned things upside down before sbe was 25, and Diane de Poitiers was 48 and Mme. Scarron 45 before tbey captured royal lovers. These veteran charmers had health and intolligence, but Lady Hamilton was fat, as well* as 40, when sbe fascinated Nelson.—London News. vv'

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The earliest known mention of the pianoforte was in a playbill dated May 16, 1767. The piece announced was "The Beggar's Opera," with Mr. Beard as Captain Maobeath, Mrs. Stephens as Mrs. Peacbum, Mr. Shuter as Peachum. The principal attraction was given us, "Miss Buckler will sing a song from 'Judith,' acoompanied by a new instrument called pianoforte." Pittsburg Dispatch.

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