Locomotive, Volume 35, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1855 — Page 1

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ONE MORE DRESS. II V OLIVER OPTIC. "To think of wearing the same dress to Church Sunday after Sunday !" exclaimed Mrs. Bradley, a young married lady, to Mrs. Green her mother. "Why not, Sarah?" "Folks will think it is the only one I have which is fit to wear to meeting." "It is, isn't it?" "I know it, but I don't care about all tho world knowing it." "You would not make all the world believe that which is not true, would you?" "I don't care; I mean to have a new silk immediately." 1 "But Surah, your husband cannot nfford it." "Yes he can; at least we can curtail our expenses in something else." "What?" "Well, I don't know; we could make our provision bill less." Mrs. Green shook her head. "I don't think there is any need of our having beefsteaks and mutton-chops every morning for breakfast. .We never had such things at home you know. I would not give a straw to have meat for breakfast." "But James depends upon it." "I know it; yet for the sake of letting me appear a little better on Sunday he would willingly dispense with it." "Would you he willing to ask the question?" "Yes; why not?" "Would you ask him to go without bis breakfast in order that you may have an extra silk dress?" "Go without his breakfast, mother! I never thought of such a thing," said Mrs. Bradley, with a disturbed look. "But you know it amounts to the same thing to him. i lie was brought up in the country, where he had meat for breakfast, and he does not think he could make a meal without it." "We will not say anything more about that, then," replied the youno- wife, who, I bey; the reader to believe, would not wiWligty have do prived her husband of any real comfort. "How do you suppose Mrs. Farmer gets so many dresses; , "I don't know." "She seems to come out with a new one almost every Sunday. She must have, at least, half a dozen silks and berages." "I hope her husband can afford them," replied Mrs. Green, shaking her head significantly "He is not any better off than James. They have the same salary, and are in the same con cern." . "A thousand dollars in these hard times will not go a great way with a man who has a family to support, especially if his wife has a great many silk dresses. . "But James saves two or three hundred of his salary every year.". "Every young man ought to save something." "Do you suppose John farmer does.' "I think not, at the rate his wife dresses." 'But it is too hard to wear the same dross every Sunday. If I had one more I could get along very well. "You would want another still." M T ,l,n.d,ln rv,tl, " .TJ A OI1UUIUU U, UlUklll . "There is no end to it when you undertake to follow all these absurdities. When I was a girl I had only one dress to wear to oneetino;, and that was a calico." "The times have changed." "Changed for the worse. I am sure no such vanity as flaunting out in a different dress every Sunday ever entered a girl's head, especially girls whose father s are not independently rich. "Nobody thinks of wearing the same dress all the time. Only one more "One is enough, Sarah. If you let such silly uotions get into your head, you will never know where to stop. You could easily spend all your husband s salary in dress, and then not keep up with the demands of the times. "I am sure James can afford me a new silk; it will not cost much." 1 ' '' "' ."' ' "Do not think of it, child. Be prudent, care ful and contented, and when James is rich you may do different. Mrs. Bradley was satisfied, after considerable more demonstration on the part of her mother, that she couln sret alonir without a new silk. But it was hard to give up the idea of competing with Mrs. Farmer, whose husband was no better off than hers. ' James Bradley and John Farmer were clerks in a large house in the city, and both resided in a neat cottage in the suburbs. Their fortune had been thus far very near the same, and perhaps they might have continued the same through life, but for the different character of their wives. Mrs. Bradley had been brought up to live within her means. A careful mother who realized the responsibility of her position had rigidly inculcated the principles of a sound economy, and trained her up to habits of prudence and thrift. And all these practical qualifies she had brought with her into her domestic relations when she embarked in a new sphere of life. Mrs. Farmer, on the other hand, though her parents were , no better off in the world,, had brought her up to be a lady to wear fine dresses, and play the piauo in the parlor. Her knowledge and experience in household duties was very narrow and superficial, and her husband's thousand dollars a year would barely support them. They were obliged, in order to dress her as her habits and wishes required, to "scrimp" in many of the real comforts of life. - The provision bill was kept at the lowest possible figure. Mrs. Farmer thought beefsteaks were unhealthy in the morning, and John found it necessary to be of her opinion. Six dollars a year for ice would buy a new bonnet, hence ice was the cause of a great many complaints that prevailed in summer. The comforts of living were sacrificed to the luxuries of dress. Beefsteak at twenty ceuts a pound was unhealthy; but new bonnets at ten dollars apiece were necessaries oi me. .Mutton chops at fifteen cents a pound caused the dys pepsia, but silk dresses at a dollar and a half a yard, were not only healthy, butindispensable to the happiness ol a lady.

IIYD., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1855.

All the salary was 6pent was intended to bo ! spenl ana the only question was wneiner it should be put in the body or on the body, lhc habit of extravagance was there, and nil the thrift and economy which Mrs. Farmer knew, was to save money for new dresses. She and Mrs. Bradley were on intimate terms with each other, and, as may readily be supposed, the subject of dress was frequently discussed. A few days after the conversation of Mrs. Bradley with her mother, her neighbor was making a "call." Mrs. Farmer could talk of nothing but dress. It was the study of her life what she lived for what she most hoped for in the future. As usual, the conversation immediately degenerated into dress it was all Mrs. Farmer knew. "How do you like my new silk?" asked she, after several adroit passes, in order to introduce the matter. "It is very pretty indeed. You come out in a new dress almost every Sunday, Ellen," replied Mrs. Bradlev. "I wish I could." "I wonder how many nice dresses you have in your wardrobe?" "I have only one that is fit to wear," replied Mrs. Farmer, indifferently. "Only one!" "That is fit to wear anywhere." "You have at least three silks." "All old-fashioned. Made last fall and all out of date. I tried to make John berage, but he would not." give "1 am sure, if I had your dresses, I should think I were a princess." "Pshaw !" If my husband don't give me another next week, I shan't go to church but once a month." "If I had your dresses, Ellen, I should not think of another, for a year at least." 'Why don't you dress better, Sarah?" "I can't afford to do so." "Pooh !" "My mother thinks I dress well enough." "Why, you have worn the same dress to meeting every Sunday for a year !" "And probably shall wear it every Sunday for the next year !" i . "I wouldn't if I were you." . "I can't afford a new dress every month. I was speaking the other day about having one more dress, but mother said so much against it, that I gave up tho idea." . "Tied to your mother's apron string yet !" sneered Mrs. Farmer. "I am too thankful 'to get my mother's advice, to regret it." . "But get the raw silk, do ! It will become you so well; and then we shall have a little respite from that evcrlastiify fiiwn-color !" "No, I have made up my mind not to have it." ; "Put the money into your stomach instead, and get the dyspepsia into the bargain !" said Mrs. Farmer, as she took her leave. : The "long run" tells tbe story; so let us step forward a few years, and look into the countingroom of our clerks. James and John are still there, and occupying the same relative positions. Their salaries have been raised, and for three years they have been the recipients of the handsome sum of fourteen hundred a year. ' 1 The first of January is at hand. Harris A Co. are about to dissolve, and the senior, who has made a princely fortune and is a queer old fellow at that is about to form a new co-partnership. " ' : : "Boys," says old Mr. Harris, "you have been with me a long while; I suppose you want to go ahead and become merchants?" The "boys" acknowledged the "corn," and John Farmer winked significantly at his associates. "But," continued the patriarchal merchant, "to get ahead in business, requires certain qualities of .mind .and body. One must be industrious, economical, and wide awake, as well as shrewd. . Driving fast horses, eating champagne suppers, and sucking mint juleps, do not furnish the necessary -schooling for a merchant. I won't preach, however. In one word: the first of January is close upon us. Those of you who can put two thousand . dollars into the concern shall draw a sixth of the profits 1 That's all." The old fellow turned on his heel, picked up his hat and left the counting-room. James Bradley was the only one'of the number four in all who could "face the music." The other three had perfected themselves in the art of driving 2:40 horses, drinking sherry cob blers, and eating good dinners; which Mr. Harris had hinted was not a necessary qualification for one of his partners. . John Farmer's surplus had been spent in giving his wife "one more dress." As his salary increased from year to year, "one more dress" was oftener required. Beefsteaks, mutton-chops and ice were as unhealthy and dyspeptic in their tendency as ever; and yet Mrs. Farmer, from the costliness of her apparel, might have been mistaken for the lady of a nabob. Five years more.' Old Mr. Harris is dead; and though the firm is still Harris & Co., James Bradley is the senior partner. He has already made a competence, and does a very large business. . John Farmer left the concern three years ago. It was supposed because he could not endure the thought of being a clerk under his former companion. He left Boston and went to New York, but his unthrifty habits followed him. His wife wore the greatest part of his salary on her back; and disheartened by his ill success, he had increased the number of his sherry cobblers in his per diem allowance to such an extent that he had been discharged from his place. Not being able to get another situation in New York, he reached Boston in straightened circumstances. He was equally unfortunate there. The toddy blossoms on his nose were against him; his coat was rusty; and his breath smelt like the fog from a threecent grog-shop. His last dollar was spent, and his wife was paying a visit to a friend who had J repeatedly urged her to spend a week with lier,

and whom she would have been sorry to disap

point, He was reduced to the last extremity. His old friend and nssociate, James ISradty, was now in nuiuence, and able to assist lum. Mortifying as was the thought, there was scarcely any olher alternative, out to apply to mm for a situation. Jamas was shocked when he recognized him. Sherry cobblers, a shiftless wife, "one more dress," and the want of encouragement had done their work. "Is (here a vacancy in your counting-room, Mr. Bradley?" he asked in humble tones. "There is not John, but I will vacate a place for you," replied the liberal merchant, as he realized the situation of his former associate. "Thank you," replied John, a tear starting to bis eve at this unexpected kindness the first he had experienced any where, not excepting his own house tor many and many a weary month. John had an opportunity to contrast his own circumstances with tlse of his thrifty friend. He was sad at heart in fact, he was a ruined man. He did very well for a few months in the counting-room of his friend, but his old habits soon obtained the mastery over him again, and he died suddenly of a disease induced by dissipation"One more dress," said Mrs. Green the good old lady is now a cherished member of a daughter's family "is the representative of the whole system of extravagance. ' One more dress, as the type of a great bundle of bad habits, was the ruin of John Farmer. Don't you know it Sarah?" "I do, mother, and I cannot be too grateful for your wholesome advice. I am sure that, without it, I should have procured 'one new dress;' then wanted another and another, until I had spoiled ' all my husband's expectations. Poor Ellen Farmer! she is binding shoes for her daily bread now!" , Department of Public Instruction,) Indianapolis, Dec. Uth, 1 855. f Gentlemen of the Indiana Press . Will you do me the kindness, and the people the favor, to publish the decision and comments on the following questions that have been, submitted to this Department from various parts of the State for solution. They have been so frequently repeated that it seems desirable that the answers should be more generally known and thus forestall the repetition of the inquiries. 1.. Can teachers qualified to instruct only in Orthography, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, be legally employed? ; : The framers of the law evidently contemplated cases, in which it would be desirable, nay, even necessary, if there be a school for the season, to employ teachers with less literary qualifications than Sec. 149 specifies. -If less qualifications will meet the present want of a given district, (the pupils being young, or but little advanced in their studies,) and they request the Township Trustees in the manner provided in the 105 Section of the Revised School law, to employ for said district, a teacher competent to teach only the aforesaid four branches, and if, with a full knowledge of that deficiency, the people still press their suit, then the end of the law for them is met, and their wishes may be legally gratified in accordance with the spirit and letter of Sections 105 and 107 of the aforesaid law. ' , jj i The Slate standard of the literary qualifications of teachers is fully and distinctly stated in Sec,. 149, but Sections 105 and 107, were intended to give the people of a district the privilege of elevating or depressing it to suit the exigencies of their case in any given year. It is occasionally desirable, on account of the advanced progress of pupils in some localities, to have instruction given in supplementary studies, not embraced in the said programme; so also it is equally important that the people in other districts, wishing, for obvious reasons, only the first four branches to be taught in their school for a given ' year, should have their preference gratified, when made known in the way indicaltd in the statute. . ; I consider Sections 105 and 107 as a sliding scale, authorized to be used by parties desiring it, on presentation of a petition in the manner aforesaid. However undesirable the sliding down process may be, yet I see nothing in the said Sections limiting the direction of the course, The petitioners themselves must be the judges of what will best suit their circumstances at the time. The question is therefore answered in the affirmative. ' : It may be proper to add, by way of practical commentary, let the examiners state distinctly in the certificate the specific studies, and that it is granted on petition of the people of the district,' and therefore, exonerates the Trustees and the Commonwealth from all censure in the premises, and consequently, is valid only for one term, and in thai locality. . This will operate as a stimulant to their ambition to reach the State standard, for if the individual can teach only in one place and that too for only a single session, without a fresh examination and renewed fee, it will readily occur to him that a protracted course in that direction will ultimately result in loss of both fame and funds. ' The propriety of this precautionary suggestion is too obvious to require explanation. 2. Who shall fill vacancies occurring in the district directorship ? . . . . In the absence of all specific provisions in the Statute, in case of failure to elect, or vacancies occasioned by death, removal, or resignation, we are left entirely to inferential light. On the principle that a vacancy occurring in an inferior office, is filled by the proximate superior power in its appropriate department, we should conclude that the Township Trustees possessed the authority to fill all vacancies in the office of district director. They are authorized by the Revised Statutes, vol. I., Chap. 110, Sec. 8, to fill vacancies, however occurring, in the office of Township Clerk and Treasurer, and it would be but a fair and legitimate inference, that it would also be their province to do the like in reference to the said director, he being a mere ministerial officer, a local assistant in the educational department of their Township duties. The appropriate reply, therefore, to the aforesaid inquiry seems to be, the Township Trustees. 3. Musi a Diilricl Director le choesn by ballet?

5. The proper solution of this question involves the inquiry, whether a district as defined by the school law, is a corporation in such a sense as to bring the choice of its only officers as to the mode of election, under the provision of the constitution that declares, "all elections by Uie people shall be by ballot." If that provision of the constitution refers solely to State and Township elections which seems to be the most natural construction, then the people of a district may legitimately express their preference in the choice of said officers either by ballet or a viva voce vote, and the validity of said election cannot be successfully questioned on that ground, othPr proceedings being regular. That either of these modes of voting would bo considered legal, and in no way impairing the lawfulness of the election, is n natural and legitimate deduction from the fact that the Statute itself expressly tolerates some irregularities in the notice required to be given of a meeting, in the absence of fraud. See Sec. 104. If the framers of the constitution did not embrace a school district in the scope of their vision, when they prescribed to the people and their legislative representatives their respective modes of voting, then we may conclude that the will of the sovereigns in their primary meetings cannot be thwarted by the mere circumstance that said will was expressed by a viva voce vote and not by ballot. The conclusion, therefore, is that either method is lawful and that the validity of the election does not depend on the exclusive use of the ballot. Yours truly, Caleb Mills. Suptriniendant. Defeated by a Parson. It sometimes happens that the ends of justice are best secured by allowing criminals to go on for a lime unmolested in their course, and even by affording them facilities for the commission of offences, which will be to them as snares and pitfalls. When means like these are adopted for the detection of crime, a temporary check to the operations of the suspected pgrsons, from whatever cause arising, creates some additional trouble and anxiety to those who are endeavoring to ferret out the evil-doer, and provokes a degree of exasperation toward his unconscious -nbettor. Such an untimely interferance with plans carefully laid, and carried out' at a considerable expense of time and effort, once occurred while the author was attempting to bring to light an unscrupulous depredator, in whose detection the public was much interested, as many had suffered by the loss of money sent through his office, I had been hard at work for a week in pursuing this investigation, having for the third time passed decoy letters over the road on which the suspected office was situated, (tho road being one of the roughest kind,' about forty miles in length, and very muddy,) and was flattering myself that that day's work would enable me to bring my labors to a conclusion satisfactory to the public and myself, if not to the delinquent; when my hopes were for the time, dashed to the ground by the innocent hand of the village par- . son. And it happened in this wise: . The mail carrier was instructed to throw off his mail, as usual, at the suspected office, and to remain outside, in order to afford the post mas--ter a good opportunity for the repetition of the offence which he was supposed to have committed, the Agent being all the time a mile or two in advance, in another vehicle, impatiently wailing to learn the result of his manceuvers. As the part of the road where I was stationed, was in the midst of woods, and the carrier had no passengers, no particular caution was needed in conducting the conversasion, and before my associate had reached me, he called out. 1 "I guess you'Ml have to try it again; the Dominie was there and helped to overhaul the mail to-day." ' The sportsman, who, having just got a failsight at the bird which he has been watching for hours, beholds it, startled by some blunderer, flying off.to "parts unknown;" the angler, who, by unwearied painstaking, lias almost inveigled a "monarch of the pool" into swallowing his hook sees a stone hurled by some careless hand, descending with a splash, and putting an end to his fishy flirtation; these can imagine my feelings when the mail carrier made the above announcement. "Confound the Dominie," involuntarily exclaimed I, "why couldn't he mind his own business?" '' 1. examined the mail bag, but nothing was missing except the matter that properly belonged to that office. . ' . But at the next trial, the parishioner did not have ministerial aid in opening his mail, and-accordingly, probably by way of indemnifying himself for his forced abstinence, he not only seized the decoy package, but several others. The following day, instead of overhauling the mail, he was himself thoroughly overhauled by an United States Marshal. A man of such weak virtue should hire a "dominie" by the year, to stand by and help him resist the, devil, during the process of open ing the mails. Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Sold. We learn from the St. Louis Intelligencer of Friday, that on the 12th inst., in pursuance of due notice, J. II. Alexander, Trustee of the above road, offered the same for sale at auction, at the Court House door in St. Louis. It was knocked down to Henry D. Bacon for $10,000 pretty cheap, considering that it cost abount three times that per mile, The sale was made under a deed of trust, executed by the Ohio and Mississippi Company to Page fe Bacon, to secure to them the payment of a million dollors and over, expended by them in the building of the road. A former effort to sell under this deed was made, but not enjoined. The injunction was subsequently dissolved, with $80,000 damages against the city and county of St. Louis, the applicants for it. This sort of intimation that they had as well riot "mix" in the affair, seems to have operated beneficially on the last occasion, as no opposition to the sale was made. The debt to Page & Bacon has been pronouneced valid, says the Intelligencer, by the best merchantile and legal authority, and the present sale may be cons'dered a final wiud-up of the long controversy

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