Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 March 1899 — Page 4

CheJICtatI

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE,

CfURJLES BALCH, Proprietor.

Publication Office. No. 503ft Ohio Street.

The Mall is sold in the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of SI a year, or 90 cents for six months:

Entered at the Postoffice at Terre Haute, Ind. as second-class matter.

It has been settled that a special session of congress will not be inflicted on the country. For this blessing all people will be thankful.

Now that Gen. Gomez had conquered Havana he should retire to private life, take his army with him and give his "beloved country" chance to recuperate.

All the world will be glad to know that Kudyard Kipling, who has been hovering between life and death for a week, is out of danger, and is on his way to recovery.

If Vigo county had elected Durham Bull to the legislature last fall it would have had a much more credit-able representative than the Durham which it did send over to Indianapolis.

The Bessemer Furuace association, of Pennsylvania, has advanced the wages of its 4,(too employes fen per cent. And still there are nnmr people who cling tenaciously to the Chicago platform of 1S96.

Kven Sweden is coming over to this country to purchase locomotives. The demand for American productions continues to grow, and as our manufactures become better known abroad trade expands correspondingly.

A tornado struck Evansville last Sunday, causing damage to the amount of 150,000. This is the first time that Evansville has ever been touched by a force strong enough to getaway with anything.

Hie

Halt

well it still has.

The senate has decided that Mark Uanna is entitled to his seat in that body. Of course he is. He bought it and paid for it, and the price doubtless was sullicient to untitle him to take it along with him when he quits—if ever he does |iiit. ______________

Grover Cleveland didn't attend the Schurz banquet in New York Thursday night., but contributed an anti-expansion letter to the occasion. The ex-President has always been a little touchy on the expansion business, seeming to consider it a personal matter.

The country has been assured again this Week that Germany will not interfere in the Philippines. This oft repeated assurance of non-intervention is becoming niniiot onous. Then1 is no fear, however, as Admiral t)ewe.v thoroughly understands the situation and will do the right thing at the proper time.

A boy at Walton, near Logansport, the other day lit. a match to look for a leak in a natural gas pipe. He found the leak. The funeral oi the four persons killed were largely attended, and the dozen wounded an' getting along nicely. Through an unaccountable freak of nature the boy who caused the explosion escaped with slight injuries, saved for the fool killer, probably.

The physicians of New Albany have brought in a bill against the city for $1,150, for vaccinating the poor people of the town. The vaccination was nil right and took with the poor, but the bill has failed to take with the city council, which body has refused to liquidate. But the fact that New Albany refuses to pay its bills should not be used as an argument against vaccination.

It was announced on authority in Indianapolis this week that the County Ortieers' Association took no part In the light against the reform bills. Certainly not. Everybody knows that the association was organized for other purposes. Its object is to bring about reform in political methods by a systematic warfare on high fees and salaries to advance the cause of Christianity and hasten the advent of the inillcnium. Corruption is a word wot found in the county officers' lexicon.

In the upper house of congress Illinois has one senator and Billy Mason. Like Artemus Ward's donkey. Mason is "an amoosin' little cuss": but- besides being that ho also has many other characteristics of the long-earn! animal. Any circus in IUMHI of a clown and a donkey could employ Mason and feel assured that it posboth in one. Th« fact that the Illinois legislature in a fit of temporary iusmitv elected Mason to the United

North Dakota is considering the propriety of regulating roarriagr* in that -A

bill

which jvass««l the senate this

work provide* for the appointment of a commission of thrw physicians in each county for the examination of all applicants for marriage licrnse*. t'nder the jmo *ion* of the bill no licence to raarry can be gmnt«*d naless the applicant* pre fwnt a certificate from the board of exam

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iners that they are free from certain diseases and ailments, including dipsomania, hereditary insanity and tuberculosis. The examiners are to oe appointed by the county jadge and are to meet at least once a month for the examination of applicants. A fee of ©.50 is required for the medical examination.

A celebrated Berlin physician says to be healthy: "Eat fruit for breakfast. Eat fruit for luncheon. Avoid pastry. Shun muffins and crumpets and buttered toast. Eat whole-meal bread. Decline potatoes If they are served mora than once a day. Do not drink tea or coffee. Walk four miles every day. Wash the face every night in warm water and sleep eight hours. You will never need nerve medicine." By following these rules strictly a person might live something like a thousand years, but what a life! No fun nor any pleasure of any kind. Simply existing in order that one may be able to say he is alive. ___________

The United States has assumed responsibility for the safety of foreign interests in the Philippines, and in consequence his flightiness, the Emperor of Germany, has ordered the withdrawal of his war ships from Philippine waters. This move on the part of Germany will cause a feeling of relief. The presence of the Kaiser's ships at Manila has been a manace to peace ever siuce the destruction of the Spanish fleet. It is true our German friends have always disclaimed all warlike intentions, but at the same time their presence has on more than one occasion been accompanied by actions which have been aggravating in the extreme.

Our Mr. Faris was heard from in congress this week. He actually made a speech in denunciation of his colleague, Mr. Johnson, late of the earth. He had a fruitful subject and handled it in much the same manner as a Presbyterian minister was wont to handle the devil—with the assurance that he was making war on a common enemy. In the course of his remarks he spoke of "our great President, whose election was promoted by the good men of Indiana, who have highly honored both him and me." It will be observed that modesty forbade Mr. Faris to say "me and McKinley." However the speech was a very good one, although in several respects somewhat mystifying.

Our own Major Eussell B. Harrison has covered himself all over with glory down in Cuba. He was the first to raise the stars and stripes in the suburbs of Havana, and was the first United States officer placed In charge of the Spanish fortresses which defended Cuba's capital. But these were small honors. The other day he went out with a guard of twenty-five men, captured fifty thieving Cubans and disarmed them, at the same time standing off 500 bloodthirsty Cuban soldiers, armed to the teeth, thirsting for gore, and bent on the rescue of their captured comrades. But the gallant major was equal to the occasion he marched his prisoners into camp, turned them over to the authorities and took a reciept for them. Hurrah for the major. _____________

The situation in the Philippines seems to be something like the famous fifteen pu/,zle—It is hard to work out. One telegram announces that the natives are preparing to surrender by thousands, while another dispatch of the same date tells an anxious public that the situation is grave, and that an army of UK),000 men will be required to subjugate the islands. Taking the facts as sent out by the most reliable authorities it must be admitted that things are not as satisfactory as they should be. The temporizing course pursued for months toward the natives, and the unpatriotic and cowardly tactics adopted by those who opposed the ratlflca tion of the treaty have combined against a peaceful settlement of the difficulty, and will cost the country many lives and millions of dollars before peace is firmly established ______________

The old soldiers are rapidly passing away. Gen. Joseph J. Reynolds, on the retired list, died at Washington on Monday, aged 77 years. He was an Indianian, and was sent from this state to West Point in 1839. At the outbreak of the war he was commissioned colonel of the Tenth Indiana volunteers, from which position he rapidly rose to the rank of Major General. He was engaged in the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. In 1804 he was in command of the Mississippi river from its mouth to Memphis. In 1867 he was brevetted major-general for meritorious services at the battle of Chickamauga. After services in the Twentyfifth infantry, he was transferred to the Twenty-third cavalry. He was retired in 1ST? for disability contracted in the line of duty. He leaves a wife, two daughters and two sons. Capt. Reynolds, Twentieth infantrv, and Lieut. Reynolds, of the navy.

A Good Practice,

States senate in no way disguises the other substantial benefit from its use, and I fact that Mason is an ass. pure and simple.

ludianapoHs was in the swim during the expiring hours of the late congress, securing an appropriation tf #1.500,000 for a new public building, and of this amount is available at once. The bill has signed by the president, and there will le no unnecessary delay in commencing the expenditure Mate institutions, the soldiers monument, now state house, and now a new govern tnent building which will outshine all of thex\ the outride world has been very kind to the Hosier capital.

"For several years past myself and a family have made it a practice to take thorough course of Hood's Sarsaparilla every spring. We have always reaped

heartily recommend it."

CHARI.KS

TO.

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Hrunics, clerk of ths Miami Circuit Court, Peru, Indiana. Hood's Pills are non-irritating and the only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.

wortl to the wise sufficient. Kly'n Cream Balm has completely

With the cured me of catarrh when everything else failed.—Alfred W. Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio.

F.IT'SCream

IVnlm works like a charm

it has cured me of the most obstinate case of cold in the head: I would not be without Fred'k Fries. 3S3 Hart St., Brooklyn. X. Y.

A 10 cent trial size or the 50 cent site of Ely's Cream Balm will be mailed. Kept by druggists. Ely Brother*. 56 Warren St., X. Y.

Eiser's Caramels,

Horehound Tablets, Batter Wafers and home made Candle# arc high grade and price* reasonable. Ninth and Main.

*H' TJ2RI1J5 HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MALL, MARCH 4, 1899.

ilFJS GHBflB FJ0FHS.

Special Correspondence of The Mail.

MATAXZAS,

Cuba, Feb 16.

order to give you an inside look at domestic arrangements a la Cubana, I invite you to spend a day with me, in the typical casa in which I am myself a guest. Be it understood, however, that we are not going to misuse the hospitality of our kind entertainers by unseemingly prying or invidious comparisons. We will note oaly those things which lie so near the surface that he who runs may read them, remembering that every country under the sun has some peculiar customs of its own. While the ways of our Cuban neighbors appear strange to us, from the angle of vision to which we were educated, our ways may seem equally queer from their point of view, and perhaps a judicious mingling of both might be of mutual benefit.

One frequently hears in Cuba a Spanish proverb which runs: "Muslca. miel, la ventana

No es buena por la manana."

Meaning, in effect, that music, honey, and gazing out of the window are pleasures which should not be indulged in the early part of the day. Disregarding the old saw, let us take a look from my casement this sunny mid-winter morning, while the thermometer is already climbing high in the eighties. The window itself, forever guiltless of glass, is no small curiosity. Deep as the house walls, (about four feet) and wide as the double doors of an Indiana barn, iron-barred outside and shuttered within—it affords the cosiest kind of a work "den with plenty of room for my easy chair, table, typewriter, camera and big bowl of roses. The inner view is of the typical Cuban sleeping apartment—floor of square marble tiles, cold as tombstones to the undressed feet, spindle-legged wash stand and clawfooted corner tahles and brass bed-stead, with a folded quilt on its bare springs in lieu of a mattress yellow satin hangings, crimson damask counterpane, and long, lean pillows, hard as paving stones. Its enormous double door, extending from floor to ceiling and faced with a second door, breast high, of lattice work, opens upon the marble-paved, vine-wreathed corridor which surrounds the patio.

The outlook from the window, into a quaint old garden, is a never-ending delight. There are rows upon rows of banana trees, arching their green umbrellas above flowers and shrubs of countless variety a labyrinth of pansy-bordered walks, outlined by rose vines on trellises of Japanese cane occasional clumps of cabbages or other homely vegetables flourish here and there among strange cacti and rarest blooms tobacco plants scattered thickly everywhere and over all the royal palms flaunt their magnifl^1face cent plumes against the azure sky. Set in a lettice-bed are a towering group of these monarchs of tropical vegetation, with smooth round trunks like colossal columns chiseled by art. The widowed mistress of the casa says she planted them there with her own^hand, when she came here on her wedding day, more than forty years ago. Then they were knee-high baby palms, and now they tower ftilly eighty feet above the housetop. Madame tells me that during the darkest days of war, when the once wealthy residents were threatened with starvation, she eked out a living, not only for herself and several old-time servants—who could not be discharged because they had nowhere else to go—but also for several reconcentrado families whom she sheltered, from the proceeds of the tobacco plants scattered about the flower garden. Though the tax on tobacco was so high under the Spanish regime that it ruined the plantations, there was never any tax on the little that could be grown in gardens. So her surreptitious plauts were "clear gain" and brought in from $800 to $1,000 a year. It happened that among her reconcentrados was an expert cigarette maker und he dried the tobacco leaves, made them up on shares, and disposed of them as Madame could not have done.

An artificial river, rushing with continual murmur through the garden, not only furnishes necessary* irregation, but runs the great fountain in the patio and supplies the bath in the middle of the garden. This bath is quaint enough, and characteristically Cuban, to demand a paragraph. Built in fanciful, circular shape, like a Moorish temple, with latticed windows on all sides, topped with stained glass and extending from floor to ceiling, it is screened from public view by rosetrellises and clumps of tall bananas. A flight of marble steps leads up the elevated marble floor. At one side of the round space is a deep tank of clear, cold water, into which the bather descends by another flight of marble stairs. There is a showerbath and all modern accessories—except hot water, which in Cuba is never used for the bath and the water can be changed at will, the refuse being distributed over the garden.

I have not yet been able to make up my mind which is the most beautiful part of this ideal Cuban home—the garden, the patio, or the house itself. The latter Is an enormous, one-storied affair, its superb facing of pillared and marblepaved portico set flush with the street, and its wilderness of marble-floored rooms, which somehow remind you of the Alhambra, ranged around a central courtyard. The multitudinous windows, opening from floor to ceiling, are iron-barred and wooden-shuttered, but without glass, except a beautifully-colored strip* at the top of each, of mingled blues, greens, reds and yellows in Oriental tones, which shed a soft lustre through the bare apartments. The main sala. large enough for a town hall, has three splendid crystal chandeliers which are every bit as fine as those that Illumine the East Boom in the White House at Washington but alas! so poor is the gas of Mantansas that we are fain to be lighted by tallow dips and the one American kerosine lamp which the casa boasts Is at high premium among those who wish to improve their evening*. The Cuban* seldom do, however, beyond promenading in the plasa or sitting idly In the moonlight chatting with friends therefore artificial light, or the lack of it.

is to them a matter of small concern. The house is furnished with rare magnificence, in the Cuban style. Happily, there are neither carpets nor curtains to harbor vermin and exclude the air. Cane-seated chairs and couches, enough to accommodate an army, are ranged in prim rows against every wall: and here and there in the vast expanse of each baresalaa square rug is spread, with two rows of American rocking chairs set vis-a-vis upon it. Every corner is religiously occupied by a triangular claw-footed table laden with little wooden saints, glass balls, china vases and other bric-a-brac, Splendid paintings —mostly scriptural subjects, suitable for churches—adorn the walls and tljere are many quaint, massive, elaborately-carved pieces of furniture, brought long ago from France or Spain, which in the United States would be considered of priceless value.

The patio, or inner court, is truly "a joy forever," with its tall fountain sprinkling the passion flowers that surround it. and gold fish darting among the turtles in its marble basin. The broad space is unroofed except for the rose-covered trellises, and under the cool shadows of its banana and pomegranite thickets great red "ollas" of porous clay, shaped like the oil jars of Egypt, contain filtered water for the family table.

Most of these big casas have two patios, the second used for stable yard and servants' quarters. Like all Cuban kitchens, so called, that of mine hostess is a corner of this back court, flanked by stamping mules and horses on one side, carriage and store rooms on the other. Its floor of rough bricks is raised a foot above the ground, and there is no need of windows and doors, for the entire front is open to the patio. It contains no article of furniture, not even a chair or table. A long adobe shelf outside answers the latter purpose, and when the servants sit, as they are continually doing, their bare feet and legs form a black fringe along the step formed by the slightly elevated floor. An adobe bench, built against the farther wall of the kitchen, is topped with porcelain tiles, and has several holes in it for charcoal fires. As charcoal is the universal cooking fuel of the country, and is very expensive, everybody must economize it, and therefore these odd ranges serve the needs of the country better than any other kind. American stoves would be altogether out of place, on accoynt of their wastefulness, as well as the intolerable heat. Gas stoves are out of the question. Gasoline or kerosine might be made to answer, but not nearly so well as the present method—to say nothing of the danger in them at the hands of careless servants. When a meal is to be cooked, tiny charcoal fires are kindled in two or more of the small depressions in the surof the adobe, according to the number of dishes required and thus the most elaborate dinners of many courses may be evolved over a few handfulls of fuel, which gives out no heat beyond the vessel that surmounts it, and quickly burns out, leaving no ashes. The Cuban range is never used more than twice a day—for the mid-day breakfast and the late afternoon dinner. The early-morning coffee— "dripped" through a cloth bag—is cooked over a little clay pot, or in a French coffee urn, with an alcohol lamp under it, on the dining-room sideboard. The Cubans take their coffee like their Portugese cousins, the Brazilians, who declare that it is not fit to drink unless "black as night, bitter as death and hot as hell. The rule is half a pint of browned coffee, ground fine, to each pint of water, slowly filtered, drop by drop. For desayuno it is drunk with hot milk, a cup two-thirds full of the latter to two or three spoonsfuls of coffee but the after-dinner cup is taken full strength, with the addition of sugar, and maybe cognac.

Whatever else American housekeepers may find worthy of imitation in Cuban methods, I am sure that dish-washing, as that disagreeable duty is practiced here, will not be one of them. Hot water is not abundant, as the charcoal fire goes out so quickly, and soap is so very expensive that many families dispense with it, except for toilet and laundry purposes. As every article of food is served in a separate course, necessitating a change of plates, the dish-washers' dudes are by no means light, and the result he or she achieves is wonderful, considering the circumstances. The greasy dishes (so much grease enters into the Cuban menu) are carried from the table and heaped upon the adobe shelf In the back patio, perhaps in close proximity to the horses' heels. There they are washed in wooden bowls, or shallow earthen pans, generally in cold water, without soap and after being well rinsed in mere cold water, but never wiped, they are turned on end to "drain." And there they remain, in sun or shower, until required for the next meal but somehow they always come to the table clean and shining. Pantries and dish cupboards, as we know them in the United States, are not found in Cuba, though the best houses have splendidly-carved china closets in their dining rooms for keeping the best silver and show pieces of tableware. Notwithstanding the absence of all those conveniences which to us seem indispensible. one seldom sees an untidy kitchen in Cuba. Even the cooking pots, which of necessity are smoked black whenever used, are kept as immaculate as cold water and "elbow grease" can make them

Every Cuban household has a great many servants In proportion to the size of the family, and how they all manage to occupy themselves is a mystery. In truth nobody in this land of manana loses any sleep in worrying after something to do! Out West they say that Thompson's colt was such a fool that be swam the Missouri river to get a drink of water and one is often reminded of the incident by the methods of these people. Given at least one servant to each member of the family, besides cooks and hostlers and gardeners and la vend eras and troops of hangerson, they fairly tumble over one another in the business of doing nothing. For example, there Is one servant whose whole duty in life is the washing of dishes, with a maid or two to assist her. One of the maids finds her earthy mission in polishing the knives, forks, spoons and trays: and

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inch Percales,

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The Little Things

WEdollars,

dollar.

although she has 110 bath bricks, patent soaps or "whiting,"—nothing but pure and unadulterated dirt—you may see your face in them at all tinujs. She takes them out in the back patio, kneels on the ground, digs up a little fresh earth, aud holding the article firmly on a stone, rubs away at her leisure. Another servant acts as steward, doing the marketing and bossing the two or three who wait on the table. Others do the family washing aud ironing, and do it beautifully too, although the river serves as a wash-tub and the clothes are never boiled, or hung on lines. Others wash the floors and keep the house tidy attend the children brush the mistress' hair aud shake the dust out of her skirts which sweep the dirty streets whenever she walks abroad and so on to the end of the chapter. Six dollars a month is considered a good salary for the best cooks, and the others have little but the 1 food and the cast off clothes of their employers, being privileged to carry to their families at night every morsel of cooked food that is left from a days supply. As a rule the servants of Cuba are the most honest, obliging and simplehearted folk I ever met, universally pious, contended and happy. Each wears his or her precious charm, blessed by the priest, suspended around the neck by a string, and tells the rosary beads many times a day.

When troubles press or dangers threaten, the-prayer, Valga me, Dios! Protect .me, God) rise to their lips as naturally as sparks fly upward. Happy people! How gladly would most of us exchange our struggles with the world and the little knowledge we have gained, for this unquestioning faith and the contented poverty which aspires to no higher lot.

FANNIE BRIOHAM WARD.

910« He ward, M«»

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.

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Holloway's high class fotos are Ihe best in the city. At The Modern art studio.

The war in Cuba closed some time ago, and the war in the Philippines will close soon. These and other things remind one that the season for travel will soon be upon us, and when you travel you want to keep your wardrobe in good shape. And that depends on the way you pack it. Go and look at those full dress leather cases, steamer tronks, wall trunks and tray trunks at Peter Miller's, 22 South Sixth street. They are the best you ever saw. If you want anything in that line he can suit yon, sure. No. 22 south Sixth street, the sign of the dapple grap horse.

If you have the picture we Jan make the frame at The Modern art studio.

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spend more nickels and dimes than and should watch them, A

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Bright, gay Cotton Plaids 4c

6 1-4C NEW CALICOS, in patterns 5c

inch Percales, new style

The new Dress Ginghams 10c

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Men's Linen Collars, new shapes 10c

Men's good regular Half Hose 12

Men's Madras and fancy Shirts, 68c. 50c

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TO-NIGHT and MONDAY NIGHT.

The Evil Eye

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8.

A JOLLY LOT

THURSDAY, MARCH 9.

DANIEL SULLY.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10.

Under the Dome.

SATURDAY, MARCH II. Return

of

Tim Murphy

In THE CARPET DAGGER

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(tr7 Wabash Avenno.

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