Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 July 1898 — Page 2

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A TRICOLORED CITY.

NO HUES BUT RED, WHITE AND BLUE SEEN IN GOTHAM.

flifi Waving Everywhere, Flap la Drei* Goods, Flay Wall Paper, Flag Kapklna, Flag Certain* aod iUmpant Patriotism

All A boat the Big Town.

[Copyright. 1898, by American Press Association.] One hears considerable talk these days about teaching children patriotism also abont object lessons.

Any one in search of an object lesson warranted to make any particular set of yonng ideas shoot in the desired direction—patriotism—could not possibly do better than dump their possessor down in the beflagged city of New York. If he doesn't take in patriotism by absorption, it will be because he is mentally and morally an armorclad of such impenetrable ponderosity that the whole Spanish fleet couldn't make an impression on him, even if it borrowed American marksmen.

I had set out to make a day of it down town among the New York shops. Having promised the girl I left behind me to bring her back two spring lawns, I stood in my usual condition of shopper's paralysis before a mountain of spring lawns that had grown up between mo and the smiling clerk until nothing was visible of him below the little Old Glory pinned to the lapel of his coat.

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want to make sure of fast colors," I said, lazily handling the prismatic pile between us. Whereupon he smote his patient bosom tragically just where the little flag reposed. "Here, madam are colors that will never run," which of course rem 1 ted in my buying three lawns instead of two. It was inevitable. A white, red and blue.

This bit of patriotic trafficking com plete, I found my way into a publisher's office, where I had always felt welcome. He gave me one friendly but none too

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THR BRFLiAQQBD C1TV OF NKW TORK. welcoming glance before eagerly grasping a paokage that had entered just behind me in the arms of freckled boys. It was a big lithograph of Dewey. I was swept aside with a hurried "One moment, please, this must get in at once," then with an annihilating scowl at Freckles: "Where's the original, sir? Go back and tell thorn to send the original. There's something wrong about this nose. Dowoy's got to go in shipshape whether it's my paper or Manila harbor. And with a grin of appreciation Freckles sped back for the original with the alert energy of a (signboard) messenger boy.

I availed myself of the interim to offer my littlo sketch and got snubbed because I hadn't laid nty story iu the Philippines or Cuba and my lovers did not belong to any regiment nor to the navy.

I carried my rejected offering to the throne of another autocrat of the author's fate. He sat with a rule iu his hand, fitting illustrations of warships, regimental colonels, camp scenes and war maps into so much reading matter.' He gave me a vague, unseeing glance, and struck the cartoons in his hand a sharp stroke with his scepter—a rule. The cartoonist standing behind his chair jumped, "Do you call that a Spanish flag? It looks more like a Spanish mack erel. sir. And if you can't find out any difference between a man-of-war and a wash tub you will have to give place to some one who can."

The cartoonist dunk out So did I a few minutes later plus the information that with things in the present condition there was no demand for anything at all not bearing very immediately upon the "red, white and blue." An organ in the street below piped in, finishing the sentence for my war ridden «ditor. To the rhythm of it I marched down stairs and out into the daxsling sunshine, flag stricken skies overhead, flag darkened doorways, flag incumbered sidewalks. A beflagged baby perambulator ran into mo, jostling me up against a very fat woman leading a very fat pug, with a big bow of rvd, white and blue ribbon choking its ridiculous eyes out of its absurd head.

The fat woman caromed against a man with a ttuv full of metal flags, patriotic buttons,'' Rcnuunber the Maine!" medals Aim other toilet accessories of the day. The man became angry because

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of hit patriotism was spilled and declared vehemently ho would make both of us "see stars," as if I had mm anything but stars and stripea since opening my

I vras so heated by this warlike episode that I tamed into the first ics cream parlor I came totorefnwh myself before atftMft'iUmrte other business. Two pretty girls cat at the table next to the one I chow. Their sailor hats wears trimmed

with red, white and blue bands stuck in the middle and crossed cannons all mixed up with anchors that showed they belonged to the navy.

They were eating ice cream and talking war, of course. "Papa says if they had been Cubans they would have been shot''—Hobson inferred—"but, oh, my dear, to think of Harry eating crackers three times a day with 'Remember the Maine!" stamped or them, with me sitting here eating ice cream in the most heartless fashion." From the way her saucer was being emptied I should have called it the most "hearty fashion."

Then my own ice cream was brought, striped red, white and blue, and the napkin I took out of my tumbler was a paper affair bordered with red, white and blue and a flag in the middle. Somewhere nwiring the palms and mirrors in the rear of the parlors a band discoursed the "Star Spangled Banner," "Dixie" and the "Bed, White and Blue" while I gulped down my dose of patriotism with a growing sense of the inexorableness of destiny.

I had the purchasing of some wall paper for an aunt in Arkansas still on my conscience and from the ice cream parlor hastened to a big dealer's in that line.

New designs? Indeed he had. The very newest. All the rage, and with a proud air of invincibility he unrolled scroll after scroll for my inspection— flags crossed, flags solitaire, guns, cannons, little fleets of ships chasing themselves over paper oceans and everywhere patriotic designs, nowhere the dear old fashioned posies I knew my aunt doted on.

Might I write to my friend about the new styles? Certainly. He seated me at a desk with stationery all capped with flags or Maines or Indianas, gave me a pen fashioned like a cannon and a blotter with crossed flags all over it.

Sighing ovor the futility of hoping to get away from Old Glory, I used his patriotic stationery and wrote my letter while he softly thrummed on the window and whistled the "Red, White and Blue."

After having bought a box of candy put up in a flag box and a few other mementos of the stars and stripes I really felt as'if I had done my duty by Old Glory for one day—not even forgetting to pay tribute to the fleet of warships tossing on a green calico sea under a glass case for the financial betterment of an old man on Fourteenth street— and I went home.

When I got there, I found my girls had taken down the white lace curtains from the par1or windows and hung Old Glories in their places. It made the room frightfully dark, but I was too far spent to protest

I flung myself on a lounge to rest before dinner, only to find that my favorite sofa cushion had a new cover of harsh denims on it, bound about with a cord of red, white and blue and all knobby in the middle with a big embroidered flag and eagle.

I closed my eyes with a sense of surfeit and exhaustion and fell asleep to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dewey," sung by a nasal voice in the flat above, tb dream that I had died, but was refused entrance by St Peter because I didn't have an American flag pinned on me somewhere or a "Remember the Maine!" medal visible, so I turned mournfully away from the gates of paradise, beyond which I could hear the invisible ohoir singing—the "Red, White and Blue!"

JEANNETTE H.

WALWORTH.

THE SOLDIER'S LOCKET.

In It H« Carries Her Picture When He Goes to War.

A popular photographer recently said that nearly every man who had posed in his studio for some time past wore a uniform. Usually they order two sizes of prints, one giving the full figure on a boudoir or. cabiuet card, the other showing only the head and bust, for

SOLDIER'S WAR LOCKET.

framing in lockets, bangles, etc. The women seemingly all prefer to have their 1 ikon esses taken in a sice suitable for placing in lockets, which are as a ocnsequence more popular and more generally worn now than they have been for the jsast few decades.

Men's pictures are now almost invariably framed in lockets, which are often in the form at merged double hearts made of gun metal. These are not intended to be worn exteriorly. The sentiment of the thing demands that it be hung about the neck by a fine gold

Seme of them are very beautiful

and costly. One national guardsman before being mustered in presented his sweetheart with a gun metal heart shaped locket, inclosing his miniature and with a Cupid in brilliants on the outside. The majority usually order, engraved or outlined in jewels on the locket's cover, special dates or Frcmch, T^titn or German mottoes, with same snach sentiment as "Dieu voos Gard^"

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et Amore," etc. Jvssxx WIUUHB BKTHOE.

WEAR THE RED CROSS

SOCIETY WOMEN WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED AS WAR NURSCS.

Xn. Porter, Wife off President MeKialej's Private Secretary, and Mission*, Daughter of the Secretary of the Navy, Aim

Among Them. [Copyright, 1898, by American Press Association.]

It seems sometimes as if women in this wartime were fretting under the limitations imposed upon them by nature and the social proprieties and found it difficult to reconcile themselves to the inaction of noncombatants. That they feel so is not because they are as belligerently inclined as men generally are, but rather owing to the fact that their patriotism has a brighter glow ttrtri their sympathies are warmer and keener. This phase of female character has been displayed throughout the entire range of history, but in no country has it been exhibited more frequently

Miss Long disclaims any credit for her meritoriuuB action. "If we had not come," said she, "there are many others who would have been glad to get the opportunity. We are glad to do what little we can for the men who are fighting for our country, and you must remember, too, that this is all valuable experience for us, experience that perhaps we could not get in any other way. We gain much more than we give."

The sphere of voluntary duty assumed by Mrs. Porter involves still more arduous labors and is surrounded by much greater dangers. She joined the Red Cross association and recently left with Miss Clara Barton, president of that association, to assist her in her work in Cuba or wherever her services maj" be required.

Among the other socially prominent war nurses of the Red Cross association are Miss Adele Gardener, Mrs. Malcolm Thomas and Miss Chanler.

The ladies mentioned above are not a tithe of the number of wealthy and distinguished women who throughout the country are active in the efforts to help our soldiers and sailors in their fight against the enemies of their country. The most ardent join the Red Cross association or become nurses in military awl naval hospitals, or if thwarted in jMa they try to identify themselves with female organizations designed to meet the present emergency. Tfeose ladies that leave their homes and eschew titie pleasures of society so that they may serve their country of course make the greatest sacrifices and are entitled to the greatest commendation, if! Bsssnt Dow BATES*

TEHEE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JULY 9, 1898.

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MISS HELEN LONG.

than in our own. In the present war, though the exigencies of the country are not such as would be supposed to call this feeling into full play, it has been exhibited to a remarkable extent.

Among the most notable recent examples of society women devoting themselves to the services of their country are Miss Helen Long, daughter of Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, and Mrs. John Addison Porter, wife of the president's private secretary. Miss Long is now serving as a volunteer nurse in the naval hospital in Flushing avenue, Brooklyn. With her are three friends, Minn Mabel Reid, Miss Mabel Austin and Miss Dorothy Simis. Miss Reid and Miss Simis are Brooklyn girls and Miss Austin is a daughter of ex-Governor Austin of Minnesota. All three have had experience as nurses, having come direct from Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, one of the best training schools for nurses in the country. They all serve without pay and equally with the paidnurses of the hospital are flabject to all its rules and expected to per^ form all the duties devolving upon them.

learned Pis In 1815.

In 1815 the royal mews at Charing Gross were standing and on the actual site now occupied by Nelson's column a long wooden shed was placed, and in it was the skeleton of a whale of great dimensiona Through it the writer walked from end to end.

Opposite stood, as now they stand, spring gardens, where in old times the beans and belles of the court of Charles II disported themselves. There in a house was located "the learned pig."

Bystanders desirous of seeing its performance stood in a circle, and within a smaller one playing cards were apparently indiscriminately thrown down. Onlookers, possibly confederates, named a particular card, and the pig trotted round and placed his snout on the named card without an error.

From that exhibition, the writer, "in the same house (he thinks), was taken and introduced to "the Hottentot Venus," an ebony damsel clad in gauzy garments of the*most flimsy kind, who displayed her figure by proudly traversing and circling round the room in which she gave her reception^

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§f| Issuing thence, the writer was taken to the horse guards parade to see the cannon used by the French as a mortar during the siege of Cadiz, IS 12. It was on a carriage in a horizontal position, and the writer, lifted by his father, was thrust inside the muzzle, and, struggling somewhat, was, with a little difficulty. extracted from his confined position.—London Sketch.

The Girls Blushed Too.

^Visitors at the World's fair of 1898 will recall the Indian exhibit or encampment on the shore of the south pond. One of the tents or wigwams was occupied by an athletic and fine looking but somewhat taciturn specimen of young Indian manhood as his own particular home, and while it was open at all proper hours for the inspection of visitors he resented any approaoh to impertinent curiosity..

A bevy of young women dropped into his tent one day befc*e his usual hour for opening it and found him sewing a rent in a blanket. "See how he blushes," exolaimed one of the visitors. "We have caught him doing squaw's work." "Why, that's his natural color," giggled another. "He always blushes." "Yes, young ladies," said the'Indian in perfectly good English, "he blushes for some of the civilized and enlightened white Americans of the nineteenth century."

The visitors joined him in blushing and shortly afterward went out without further remarks.—Youth's Companion.

Is "By Jingo!" Basque?

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Prince L. L. Bonaparte, many years ago, claimed "By jingo" as an English borrowing from the Basques. The Souletin Basques say "Bai Jinko," meaning "Yes, God," not "By God" or "Par Dieu." The would easily become in the mouth of a foreigner. Basque sailors and soldiers have always been ubiquitous. Some time ago I was at an inn at Larraina (the thrashing floor) in Soule, where the host, who had

the' queen's medal for serv­

ice in the French army in the Crimean war, repeated "Bai Jinko" hundreds of times during the day. No doubt the Basques in the time of Rabelais, the first author to put Basque words in print (though he did so rather clumsily) had the same habit. It must always have attracted the attention of foreigners, who would readily imitate! t. Notes and Queries.

W A- gorcerer Elected.

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Mrs. Porter was born in New York city and is the daughter of Colonel George F. Betts, who commanded a New York regiment in the civil war. Her grandfather, Judge Betts, was a well known authority in admiralty law. She has two children, both young, and to leave them for scenes of danger and serious risk of life makes her self sacrifice still more praiseworthy.

But this is not the first time that Mrs. Porter has displayed her sympathy with human suffering and her patriotism. When her father was a trustee of the Old Five Points mission in New York, she was much interested in the work carried on there and gave her services and money to relieve the suffering and to elevate the degraded. For some time previous to her removing to Washington she made her home in Hartford and was largely instrumental in improving the sanitary condition of the city. She is a member of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and is very popular in official and social circles in Washington. Mr. Porter was at first opposed to his wife's joining the Red Cross association as a war nurse, but her earnestness and persistency finally prevailed upon him to yield his consent.

M. Legitimus, the new Socialist deputy from^Guadeloupe in the French parliament, is a negro. Bfo dresses in the latest fashion, wearing silk hat, patent leather shoes, white necktie and irreproachably cut frock coat. He believes in ghosts, witches and devils and is a famous sorcerer in his own country, In fact, he owed his election to his successful defeat of the devil by dancing and yelling for several hours in a cemetery. His ability in this line convinced the free and independent electors of Guadeloupe that their interests would be safe inhishanda

Hit Pointed Query.

Hamilton palace was one of the first great houses in Sootland to use dessertspoons. A rough country squire, dining there for the first time, had been served between the second course with a sweet dish containing cream or jelly, and with it the servant handed him a dessertspoon. The laird turned it round and round in his great fist and said to the 86TT&&t "What did ye gie me this for, ye fule? Do ye think mamooth has got any smaller since Ah lappit np ma soup?"—Argonaut

A Polite Obstacle.

An incident reported to have occurred in Japan exhibits an enviable standard of courtesy on the part of the natives of that country which is respectfully submitted to that outraged pedestrian, the wheelman's victim. An American riding a bicycle in Tokyo accidentally knocked down a venerable native. The aged victim gathered himself together, deferentially approached the rider and humbly begged pardon for being "in his honorable way."

Acknowledged.

"I do not claim," said the thoughtful member of the club, "that the influence of fashion is entirely harmful. We must admit that we owe the milliner and dressmaker something." "Goodness, yes!" exclaimed the usually frivolous member, shuddering. "My account can't be less than $150." —Brooklyn Life.

The chaffinch is a favorite bird in Germany. It is beautiful and a fine singer. lis various colors are gray or deep blue on the neck, a reddMt brown an the breast, white on the wing coverts and blueish black on the tail.

Did Lot! Tell the Truth?

"Can you or can you not trust novels for a true picture of life?" asked a gentleman who reads much. "Not long ago I read Pierre Loti's beautiful story founded on personal adventures in the tropical island of Tahiti. The author was a naval officer on a French vessel and was stationed for many months at Tahiti, a bit of land lost in the vastness of the Pacific. While there he fell in love with a beautiful young native girl and married her aocording to the customs of Ooeanica. "His book deals with the idyllic days that he spent in her company with her artless manners and strange, imaginative nature. But in this book he garve reason to believe that nearly all of the naval officers were enamored with the pretty native girls, and thereby hangs a tale. A few days ago I happened to meet an officer of a Danish ship, and he told me that Loti caused a great deal of annoyance to his married friends by his island stories. "When they arrived in France, after the publication of the book, their wives asked them very awkward questions, and they were kept in a stew for many months. Whenever anything unpleasant happened, the girls of Tahiti would become the subject of a very animated conversation. As a result they were forced to tell their wives that Loti's book did not present a true picture of life in Tahiti. Now, did it or did it not?"—New Orleans Times-Democrat

Ingenuity of Boys.

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physics and natural history there are opportunities to direct and control the out of school activities of young people of which the'enthusiastic teaoher of science is not slow to avail himself, says D. S. Sanford in The Atlantic. One of the most astonishing facts of the time is the ingenuity of boys in constructing electrical apparatus, with but a few hints and out of the most meager materials. I know boys who have belt lines of electric tramways circulating in their garrets, and a boy who last year was the despair of his teachers won deserved recognition in the manual training exhibit as the clever inventor of a most ingenious electrical boat. An invitation to boys to bring to school products of their own ingenuity, or the natural history specimens that they have collected, will result in an exhibition which in variety and quality will be a revelation to one who is not used to following them in these inre iT

So general and so wholesome a tendency is too significant to be ignored, and yet one almost hesitates to meddle with it lest official recognition may rob it of its independence and spontaneity. With sympathy from the school, however, it may be directed and made more intelligent Interest in nature, for instance, may help to fill profitably the long summer vacationa

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Private M. (after a moment's hesitation)—Could you not let me have the extra pound and mark it down as bread poultice?

He got it—London Telegraph.

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Willful Misunderstanding.

Mrs. Ferry—The paper has the pictures of some of the lovelie. house gowns on sale at Sellup's—

Mr. Ferry—This house does not need a gown. A coat of paint will have to do, and that will take all the money I nan spare.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

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