Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 August 1870 — Page 1

Vol. i.—No.

The News.

DOMESTIC.

A ton of silver bricks nasRed through Omaha Wednesday f',r London. Official returns give the Democrats, in the recent Kentucky election a majority of about fifty thousand.

A school census, Just completed, makes the population of Chicago 306,(jij. The Republicans of Nebraska have renominated Cutter lor Governor and Taffe for Congress,

Counterfeit tens on the First National Bank of Poughkeepsie, New York, are in circulation.

Ijviv Franklin visits Harriet Beecher Htowe*at Lenox, Massachusetts, and sails lor England on the 18th instant.

A plaining mill at Macksville, near this city, was struck by lightning, set on lire and entirely consumed Monday evening.

Jefferson Davis was in New York Tuesday stopping at the New York Hotel. He sails for Europe In a few days to bring back his family.

The North Carolina Legislature will stand about as follows: Henate-Conservatives, 42 Republicans, 18. House—Conservatives, 75 Republicans, 4ft. Congressmen—o Conservatives and '2 Republicans.

A serious fight between whites and blacks occurred at Waco. Texas, on the Hth. One white man was killed and one wounded, and two black men were wounded. About thirtv-Ovo shots were llred. Disagreement about business was the cause of the trouble.

William II. Ilanna, one of the most prominent members of the Bloomlngton, Illinois, bar, was Instantly killed, on I'^nyi bv a stroki-of lightning, while In bed. wife lying by his side was seriously stunned bv the same stroke, but soon alter recovered to find her husband dead by her side.

A terrible railroad accident occurred to a train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, .Saturday night, near Jersey Run, lu West Vlruliil*. The next car from the rear coach was precipitated down an embankment one hundred leet high, and shattered to pieces. Twelve persons are reported killed anu twenty wounded, among the latter Major I'axton and sou, mortally.

The European delegates to the General Conference ol the Evangelical Alliance, to have been held In New York In September, will be prevented by the war from coining over The Conference has, therefore, been postponed for till! present year. This notice is issued under the authority of the Execu

tive

Committee, and signed by William E.

Dodge,

President,

8. l'riuce and P.

A limn

highways.

FOR EI UN.

General liiimont is to command a division In the French army. Onlv four officers and tlit* 77th Regiment, of the line reported after tin disastrous battle of Saturda

tenihrnt ennlM with him the hmpruss ols. The official lUspiitohi-rt from tj'*'

Issard's corps In the center. large

Snuth

o, us the pmbnblo J^Vo-p^s^vl.'.lawaU bus been usKed to return

is®#

C. Karrington and wi£.. a !e nnvsle.i far !iutiering tnoir own child, U. fa.Vuv fow weeks old. TUey took a rnr-

JVage mt "'o country some distance^

wiili th»* child. Hinotheml It to death, una

•nUre'y naked, crushed In a horrible manner. Mrs. Karrlngton Is a drtughter of Delaware Lountj, in tniu

IU A. Gould, •State.

The Journal Officiel, after describing the resources and patriotic spirit of the nation, which always nave been an obstacle to Prussian ambition, asks "What other power would like to see Prussia making the North and Baltic Seas Prussian Lakes, invading smaller States, and acquiring dangerous preponderaney Favorable signs are already apparent. England, satisfied with categoric assurances of France, hastens to render secure the northern frontiers of trance by causing Belgian neutrality to be respected. In Sweden* Norway and Denmark the popular feeling is with France, and the Emperor of Russia gives proofs of the best understanding with France. Austria and Italy are arming, and will cause embarrassment to Prussia. French diplomacy is not more idle than French arms will be, and ranee will prove she has not degenerated in 1870."

Further dispatches received from the seat of the war in Europe show that the magnitude of the disasters that have befallen the risciit wing mill ccntcr of tho French flrmj were not exaggerated by the first accounts of the battles of Huguenau and Speicheren. The situation may be summed up as follows- Marshal McMahon is totally cut ofT from the rest of the French forces, and is hurriedly trying to reach Nancy by the Strasburg and Paris route. He is hotly pursued bv the whole army under the CrownPrince of Prussia, which has been reinforced by the excellent troops of the Grand Duke of Baden. Marshal Canrobert, who, on this occasion, lias again shown that he is unfit to handle large bodies of troops, seems to have divided his corps, on Saturday, in order to come to the assistlUice of the sorely-

Dressed

8°"

-Gcrnian force hassurround-

e»l Strasburg. whose garrison Is rq» rl tie onlv seven thousand stfimg, and hit will hardly be able to hold out lor mnn days.

The (ie-'inan bankers In V'urlsliave been corner in I'nlted Mates bonds. TheV"u» »vuU«.,rs sold short to .hem 1..4elv of 1^'s 81.

11,1,1

lug 5'rancc.

lU.x,P

iv,5 calUnl lor on Tu.-s.lay, the price had risen to jl

Count PallUno has atuioanc.Ml the' new France, us follows. i.»n«r.u Minister} of rrIllir i'. Pnlikito Minister of War I^1 1a .lour.1 Auvergnc, MInl-ter of .^8"

Minister of the Interior of Just let Pierre Magne, Mlnls-

Public Works Jules Brume, Minister of Me Instruction Clement Duvernols, Minister of iVmunonw. and Husson BHlanet, President of the Council.

Here the dispatch In which Count Von Bismarck announced the groat victory the Crown 1'rlnce

VYKNOK, Sunday Morning, So clo« k. Yesterday a brilliant victory was on iit

jS&ncVf it

over one hundred of who^re om« rn. «eRldes these, six iuitraUleus«. ihlrt odd can U.,», ,UI.L

Rahmtay W|lhtV«bl. I\t forces slan

S? of \uo dl^trou* def»t of the Frvnch roes under GenenU McMahon b^li SiLTof man army under

lhetrowu

Prl

the Invasion of the French terdtoo Un rlcht of the Prussian armj .and tlu cat lure orsie^k andThtonvtlleJSSdf tho French army is report^ falling into the interior of fl,^1 oin'r^ Monday morning gave details lions on Friday and t^umlay. ^rioun tt* turlvanees were threatened In I^arts »*ni Omncll of Ministers* lusuetl inn atidrw toUK InhabttanUs counseling patience and and promising news fnm Uieamj, er gvxxi or evil, as soon as

revelvea.

McMahon but the division which

he dispatched toward Woerth for this purpose was unable to reach the right wing iu time, nnd upon finally coining in collision with the victorious forces of the Crown Prince, were badly beaten, driven in the same direction as McMahon's troops, and cutoff from the other part of Canrobert corps. With that rapidity which has marked all the movements of the Prussian Generals in the present campaign, the Crown Prince followed the routed corps of McMahon, leaving Strasburg to the left, and if McMahon will not speedily be able to make a stand against the soldiers of the victor of Haguenau, the left wing of the Prussian ar*iv will turn the French position at Metz, and "compel the main body of Napoleons army to retreat in the direction of Paris.

FOUR HUNDRED MILES STAIRS.

hull,

Corresponding Secretaries. Under the act of Congress.* of July 12, 1870, increasing the volume of National Bank circulation S .I.UUO.UUO, the Comptroller of the Currency, up to this date, iias awarded to banks in States entitled thereto $1,8-J7,m The amount. Issued thus far on this award is only SI J^.OUO, but the balance will be ready to issue about the 1st of (September. The banks that huve sceuml the additional circulation wore all organized before the passage of the law authorizing the increase. miirri( bet

Reading about electricity, lightning and tho telegraph, the other day," said Uncle Peter, remitided me of a curious story I once heard, when I was in Lngland."

It seems there was a newspaper in tho city of Glasgow, in Scotland, which employed a London correspondent. Tho correspondent inado it his duty to gather tho news every day and send it to Glasgow every night by telegraph. lie made an arrangement with the operator at a certain office, by which news was sent to Glasgow at a reduction by tho year.

Ono night he arrived at tho lower door, at tYie foot ot the stairs leading up in tho telegraph office. The door was locked, and he could not open it.

Tho telegraph office was way up to tho top of the building, in the sixth story. Tno Operator lian it tVOtt tTiura to which ho retired promptly at. three o'clock, and it was now half-past two.

The oporator up-stairs yawned and looked at his watch. "Jinkins won't come to-night, said ho I may as well go to bed. And there was poor Jinkins all tho time pounding away on the door at the door at the foot of tho long stairs, unable to

Hillo, up there! he cried, looking at tho window of tho telegraph oilice, that glowed with light. Hillo, Jones. Somebody has locked tho outside door, and I can't get in."

What's the row said a policoman, coming along. "I'm locked out," saul Jenkins. "Hero I've got a batch of tho most important news for my paper—a murder, three tiros, and a riot—and tho dooi locked in my face, and I can't get m. What will I do?"

So the policeman began banging the door, but Jones, the operator, up in his office, was as unconscious of the tumult as if it had been in tho moon. He was whistling to himself and ya^\ ningpro

Whv^don't vou go to soino hother hoflice asked the policeman

No authority to use

any

other line,

said the correspondent. Ah .1 ve got it! he added, and before the policeman

(wild

ask what it was, the excited

Jinkins dashed oil* down tho street as if a mad dog was after him. Jinkins rushed breathlessly

into

another telegraph office, six blocks oil. I sav," said lie, to the oporator, 1 in in a fix. tut news to go oil inside ot half an hour, and tho stupid operator at my office has gone to slocj) can't get in—uud—nnd—and

Well, that is a tlx." Toll

you'what

and I

1 want, 'said -Jinkins.

endeavoring to catch his breath

Tho oporator roaivd with laughter this, but wont at once to his monument, atul began rattling awnv at a great rate.

French fleet In the Baltic ha* been od by ten men-of-war, making nineteen war vessels In the Baltic.

iSii

This is tho messaire he sent: Glasgow. Wake up Jones. Station X. Toll him Jinkins, at the foot of the stairs, can't get in."

Jones was looking at his watch again, and concluded that he had better put out the lights and go to his little bedroom across the hallway, when clatter, clatter, went his instrument. "There's Glasgow calling liie," said Jones, and hurried to his instrument andt{eked off:

.,,

What's wanting?" Hack came the answer nkins down stair—door fast—lot him in." (.iff went Jones down-stairs w'th a rush and at last the axious Jinkins got up aud cent off his news.

So vou see how a man sent a message

through a solid door, and up four pairs of stairs, four hnndretl miles around, and by tho way of Glasgow, and all within twenty minutes.

Wasn't that four hundred inilee upstairs?

A*SA?» FRANCISCO school-teacher re reived the following. «»i hope, as to my John, you will flog him just as offln as you km. Heas a jjad jjoy_is» John. Altho' I've, bin in the habit of teachin' him myself, it seems to me he never will larnanithing his spellin, is ottragously deftshent. Wallop him well, sor, and you will roceiv my thanks.

What accounts for John bein

sich a scholar is that he is my sun by my wife's fast husband."

WPP

[For the Saturday Evening Mail.J,

ETROSPECTION.

When sulvset gilds the western sky, And daylight fades away, And homeward, fast, the swallows fly,

As twilight gathers gray. When evening dews begin to fall c, Upon the land and sea, And darkness, like a funeral pall,"

v•

Is wrapping in the lea When solemn stillness fills the air

s:mii

And nature seems at rest, And earth, now hushed her noise ayd care, A mansion of the blest,! I often sit me down to muse

On childhood's early years, When life was one continuous scene Of joy unmixed with cares, Before the evil days had come

When moon and stars were bright, And nature, in her glorious bloom, Rose rapturous on my sight, When birds sang blithe on every treep"^

And perfume filled the air, And I, with childish ecstacy, Drank deeply everywhere.^ And as I sit, and o'er the pastes

My memory wings the way To that bright realm where fairy forms Illumined every day, I live again those happy hours,

Again I feel the joy: a® That wildly thrilled my youthful powers When but a careless boy. Again I seek familiar scenes,

The garden and its flowers, The cool retreat, the shady grove^^^is-. The lovliest of bowers— Again I tread my native hills,

Again their woods explore, And from the bursting mountain rills, I quench my thirst once more. And friends, old friends, around me come,

With words and looks so kind, I know I am at home again, The home of olden time. But tl^ere is one in that bright band

ur-

Far brighter than the rest, tvsJs The fondly loved and lovely one, Loved earliest and the best. And as she comes with timid step,

And takes my hand In her's, I dream again that blissful dream Once dreamt in former years— A dream in which my very life

Concentered seemed to be— Alas! how oft our brighest dreams Bnt close lu misery. So this must close, and I must vake,

As oft I've woke before, To feel that morn to me shall lireak On bitterness of woe. That I must love thee but In dreams,

As one would love a star—f Wildly, deeply, truly love, But love thee*from afar. f*-1-

Flat-Boatmen

of the

Wabash.

BY GEO. C. HARDING.

My first voyage, before thomast, was made in 1847, under a red-lMaded captain named Harrington, wlo started with two loaded corn boats oarly in May. He was owner as well 8 captain. I shipped as cook. Ill luck amended us from the start. Six miles Soth of Ter-ro-Haute, the first night out[we were shot at simply for stealing a oi wood to cook our suppers. I rementfer tlio names of none of the crew tx^pt a fellow named Morrison. Tho-oVas a

Pennsylvania Dutchman, withw had a* li^ht on the third day nv with whom, for the balance of tlijvoyage, 1 was on the best terms oof ble.

om I and

As the old colonel says in the I of Lvons, "How well we love a ma ifter we have fought him." But my tchman could never thoroughly dcr-

stand how a quiet, awkward bo who had tamely submitted to throe of domineering and petty persee should so suddenly havo taken fonsive. Neither could ho exai bow he came to be so handsomel cd by inferior forces. I think tory wan mainly due to the sur^e of the attack.

rms, ofsee ckric-

As I lefore intimated our vovdvns not prosperous. We stuck foulit days on the head of Bumpas isl| in the Wabash, and left one of th^ats hard aground, where she remaicintil the corn was shelled, sacked trcshipped. I don't think wo ml a sand bar of any note in the Ohi»Ve hung for a time on a remnant ho Smithfield dam, and had a v&ij of misfortunes in the Mississippiiaing at Now Orleans on the 10th ofliiist as the yellow fever was getting tj to its work. Exposure to tho SUE iknbrowned my naturally dark joexion until it became absolutelj serous to stray any considerable (ice from the boat, when we WOB jup along the iSugar coast. The fiint of looking-glass by which Oir i-h-niln scraixd away his roughredrd, revealed, when I occasiona.lyied into it, from motives of ctrior anxiety, tho likeness of a li'iet/Tc negro, and on moro than on, 4ori awkward mistakes occurroc. Ine occasion, while lying to no* pdsonville, I was taking a qubt !in the evening, when I heart irp command to halt. I turued,b*ng no one I knew, continued nik, when the command was nbefl a sharper tone, accompanied.ly oinous metallic click, which I it-e recognised as made by the Oc a derringer. I halted, when ar, red-faced gentleman in a ai at

TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1870. Price Five Cents.

with a vast expanse of brim, rapidly approached, brandishing a whip, "D—n you" said he, "I have caught you at last." As he seemed in the act of giving me a taste of the whip, I turned and put myself on the defensive. When he got a good look at me, I must do him the credit to say that he apologized handsomely. "Excuse me," he said. "But I thought you was one of my d—d niggers that run away for a couple of days." I accepted his apology. The Dutchman who had witnessed the affair from a distance, was anxious to know what tho overseer was saying to me, but I told him he only wanted to borrow a "chaw."

I looked around JNew Orleans for a full week, exploring tho city without a guide, and seeing a good deal in a short time. With a section of straw hat, a pair of check linen breeches and a calico shirt comprising iny only wardrobe, I fancy I cut quite a figure but it was quite a relief to find that nobody seemed to think it was absolutely essential that I should be well dressed. The most annoying experience was that of being constantly beset by petty sharpers, who sought to rob me of the little money I had in a variety of ways. This trip terminated at St. Louis, where I enlisted in the Second Regiment, U. S. Dragoons, and after two months of hospital experience at Jefferson Barracks was discharged.

I made two subsequent voyages under Capt. Felix Courtney Files, of Darwin, Illinois. Captain Felix was a character. He was tall, slender, but sinewy, with melancholy cast of countenance which gave no indication of the humor that was in him. A comrade with whom I had made brick and built a church in Illinois, was one of the crew on my first trip with Captain F. This man, who moulded brick for $10 a month, occasionally taught a country school and now and then put in a winter in a Terre-Haute pork house entered the army in the late rebellion at the same time I did. We were both promoted. I rose from the rank of a Sergeant to that of Second Lieutenant, while he came out of the war with the rank of Brevet Major General and a good deal more money than I had. Some folks are more lucky than others, I/ould mould a brick- or row a skiff as 'i: McM—% but I believe he [blat me a little in maneuvering a running an im-

E&pect soon to Mffi1 &V hi WHJrftfVl dr the U. S. Senate, while I am writing 4—n nonsense for other fools to read.

I got a little ahead of the Major

gteonce

N.*- vfi

,1 Pyi

eneral. He and I had gone out to'tie line. It was winter, and all creation under water. There was no land jo be reached, but I rowed the skiff up io a large willow, which had grown out Of the perpendicular, and at an angle jibout half way between the upright and horizontal. Some ten feet of the tree was under water, and tho General in order to make a successful tie, had jumped out of the skiff on to the trunk nd clung to the branches as ho made tie. They began suddenly checking on the boat, fearing the line would iun out, and as the skiff was in danger •f being swamped by the tension of the jable, which lay across the bows, backed water, and withdrew, leaving jny friend, the General on the willow. The current was swift, and being short of line aboard, the checking was more severe than ordinarilj\ Every time tho line was tightened, the willow would go atli,

under water, giving the General a and when tho line was slackened he

would come to the surface again, spouting like a whale, and swearing like a corsair. Ho was plunged under about a dozen times, before the boat was brought around. Then I took him aboard, shivering like an aspen. Uy tho time we got to the boat a solid crust of ice had formed over him. I don't remember exactly the first tiling he did, but my impression is it was to "hist in" about half a jug full of r. g.

Captain Files was one of the best natureu of men, but he was excessively annoyed by the people along the coast who wanted to buy corn. The Captain considered pork boatmen the aristocracy of the river, and took it as an affront to be suspected of piloting acorn boat, lie onlv tolerated corn in a liquid shape. I-fe had a strong lunged and able bodied navigator whom we called Judge Bateman whom he usually called on to do the necessary "cussing." But 1 never saw him thoroughly mad but once, and then it was on account of a hail from the shore to know if his was t» hay bo/t Now a hay boat sticks out of the wfctf-v like a three story house, whilea pork boat shows only moderately above the surface, and there was some excuse for the Captain's rage. On this occasion he didn't call on the Judge, but did his own swearing. He did it well, too, as the Judge was compelled to admit, though he naturally felt a little hurt at what he chose to consider a want of confidence in his abilities on the part of the Captain.

On another occasion, the Judge having gone ashore for whisky, the Captain treated a French Creole to a bit of swearing. The Frenchman was mounted qn a bit of a pony, and wo were pulling out of a bend. He followed us around the bend in a gallop, hailing at intervals, uutil the welcome sound of "Ease" gave the Captain time to consider him. Then came agaiti. for the twentieth time, the hail of a thin, pip-

Hullo!"

ing voice, "Hello ze boat! gruffly responded the Captain, "Got anv c-o-r-n!" shrieked Jean Baptisto. The Captain looked around for the Judge, and then cast an appealing look at the Major General. Then after a moments consideration ho responded, "Do you want corn?" "Yes." eagtfrly responded Jean. After another pause the Captain repeated, "You want corn do you J" "Yes, yes," screamed tho delighted Frenchman, "Land and I'll take tho whole c-a-r-g-o." "Well roared Captain Files, "if you want corn why'n h—11 don't you raise it."

[For the Saturday Evening Mall.] INTERVIEWING A CLAIRVOYANT:a\

BY ROCHESTER.

A short time since there arrived in this city, Terre-Haute,a female by character and reputation, who is endowed with wonderful powers in tho way of foretelling coming events, and who could also go back upon your past journal of life, post up your books, and give you a balance sheet as correct as a congressman's orthography or the multiplication table. If you had lost or found anything, she could tell you which, if you had been a member of the Legislature, or an inmate of a penitentiary or lunatic asylum she knew it. If some female heart snatcher had purloined your affections while your back was turned, she could put you upon the track of the vandal. If your sweet heart had run off with another married man she could tell you the reason, and telegraph to the first station and effect a restoration, in fact there was no emotion that agitated the human breast that she was not perfectly familiar with. These were not all her gifts, being so thoroughly acquainted with all the causes of human frailties and follies, it would be but reasonable to suppose that she coiftd also regulate the effects arising therefrom, such at least was the fact. She had discovered a anacea for all human afflictions, and had it properly bottled and labeled, and ready to be administered to any poor unfortunate requiring medical attention.

In personal appearance this seventh wonder or, descendant of tho seventh family of mysterious maternity, resembled as I before remarked, the females of the present day. She was tall as a sunflower, graceful as a flat-boat, bearing a swan-like neck upon the top of Parian shoulders, with feet beautifully encased in number six brogans, while her complexion was lucid and susceptible to any change the court of fashion might dictate. Her hair—which was by far the most of her, was gotten up regardless of expense and fit her cerebral development as naturally as though it belonged there.

She was accompanied in her pedestrian journeys by a train that excelled in length anything that ever passed over the "Pan Handle route," the immensitv of which required all her great powers iu v, —-r b^Jo. Such is a brief biography of the subject of this hastily written memoir.

Upon her advent into our midst, which was duly chronicled by appropriate posters extensively circulated— our citizens wero wild with curiosity, and expected to see an ethereal being in the disguise of woman, who had in a fit of somnambulism wandered to earth, and forgetting the number of her residence was unable to return to her lodgings. Various and sundry surmises and speculations were indulged, in re gard to the mystery in which she was enshrouded, but hero as well as in all places, thoro were a few brave spirits willing to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of curiosity for the benefit of a curious constituency, who concluded to interview this strange explorer after hidden mysteries, so long buried in the ocean of the future, believing as they confidently did, that they would return from tho investigation with "Eureka" written upon their banners.

Those who proposed engaging in this work of interviewing wore H. J. J. G. W., A. lr., N. C. and myself, as brave and as resolute a quintette ts ever attempted to beard the monster woman in her native lair. We called at No. 5, where we found her attendant on duty, and after a short delay were duly ushered into her endowed presence. We proceeded to arrange ourselves in groups of one around the room, Tt. J., and N. C. S., occupying fourth story of a Saratoga trunk,

the while the balance of us located ourselves according to our several tastes and inclinations.

Her IxMidoirwas in a beautiful state of harmonious confusion. The walls of the same were splendidly embellished with various articles of female apparel, a beautifully embroidered nocturnal cnveloper ornamented a nail in the rear

of the door, while a chignon performed like service for one or the bed-posts.

A large bundle of N. Y. 7xnbune,.i neatly folded across a nice tape string reposed upon the bureau as though it had recently been dumped from the back of a newsboy. Hero lay a soilod stocking that looked as though it was exhausted in trying to escapo from tho prison house of a high heeled gaiter that lay in another corner.

Upon a bed in a corner of the room we also noticed the running gears or frame work of an elegant court dress, that seemed to be immense.

As we made our debut, she arose and in a few well chosen words welcomed us to the hospitalities of the room, which was silently responded to by each of us. She tnen proceeded in a business like manner to lock up the straggling pieces of jewelry and -such that lay around loose. I was now convinced of her wonderful foresight. After having performed this important duty, she sat down at the seance table, evidently with the intention of preparing a lunch for her distinguished visitors, but at this point we began the following interview. "Most mysterious of thy sex, whilst thou draw aside the drapery that conceals from our visions the calico of the future?" In tones low but perfectly distinct she replied.

Three dollar*." Terror and dismay was plainly seen

to overspread the countenances of all

resent, R. J., looked to see how far was from the floor, J. G. W., cast ominous glances towards an open window, A. U., examined to see if there was a chimney leading out of the room, while N. C. S., and myself, like the boy the calf ran over, hadn't a word to sav. however, we again rallied and proceeded to interview tliusly:

Vague, incomprehensible, neekromantic, legerde-maniac, and persistent searclior after things seen and unseen wilt thou dispel tho fogs of uncertainty and tell us if there is a hangman

watching and waiting o'er the

borders' of our future residences to welcome us with a new rope to a hospitable gallows or do the doors of a penitentiary open wide at our approach Allay this torturing suspense and confirm'our worst apprehensions."

This appeal succeeded tho spell was upon her she rolled her great wliito eyes heavenward, and slowly her lips began moving all was breathless anxiety we bended over the gracefully reclining tableaux, in order to catch the words which were evidently struggling for life and liberty with outstretched arms and open palms she faintly yet plaintively exclaimed:

Three dollars J" This was more than we could stand. We were thoroughly and completely demoralized. R. J.,*began a rapid descent from the Saratoga, A. U., begau a slow but well protected retreat, wliilo the balance of us advanced backwards in good order.

And now allow me to ask any unprejudiced man or woman if, under tho circumstances, the rotroat was not justifiable and oxcusable. Wo don't mind iu vesting filly cents in a circus or twenty-five cents to visit tho Theater Coiniquo, or other like moral exhibitions but to make an investment of three dollars just to find out whether wo will be shot or hung is not in accordance with our sense of propriety.

Our future destinies are sjill among the things that are to be, and likely to remain so, so far as three dollars aro concerned. 'J

UMMH:R ULES.

Dr. Hall, in his Journal of Health, says: If j'ou havo walking or riding to do, ride first, because if you walk you and then, when

CIO, 1HIU lirsi, UUUilUStJ 11 you waiiv may get over heated, and then, who you ndo, you may DO exposed to a open window or a draft of air wliil

liilo

open you arc in a still position, to bo followed by a chill, a pleurisy, or lung fever which is pneumonia.

If on any occasion vou find yourself the loast bit noticeably cool, or notice the very slightest disposition to a chill running along the brfck, as you value health and life, begin a brisk walk instantaneously. ana keep at it until perspiration begins to return this will seldom fail to ward off a summer cold, which is moro dangerous than a cold taken in winter to all persons having the slightest tendency to consumption.

DRINKING WATER.—If very thirsty and warm, take but a swallow at a time, taking the glass from your lips, with a dozen seconds between tho swallows, then* you will never fall dead wliilo taking a drink, as many have in this way half the amount

water

will abundantly satisfy tho thirst. Soda water is an agreeable beverage, but half a glass of cold water will better and more safely satisfy tho thirst audi costs nothing. Besides, in taking a| glass of water, you stop when you leel you have enough this you novor do. with a glass of soda, but keep on drinking after it is positively disagreeable ond you hate to stop, but drink ou again, to prevent wasting it.

Never sleep in the day-time uncovered, in summer it is always dangerous, 1 even if it be but half an hour on a bed a lace shawl is better for a cov.n ing than nothing. Many lie down !or a Jew| moments, especially ladies coining from a walk, visit, or shopping they do not intend to go to sleep, just to rest a minute or two but many limes they goto sleep and wake up with an indistinct chilly feeling, followed in many cases by serious illness.

When j'ou reach homo lired and weak and may be accompanied with an indefinable feeling of sadness or dcprcssion, without being conscious of any adequate cause for it, don't "lake a 1 dring of ice water, however thirsty, nor it a glass of soda, nor a drink of wine, but a cup of hot tea, as hot as you can I swallow comfortably the heat is of more value than the tea itself but hot combined, are of incalculable value if you arc sitting down to a meal in this tired condition of body, and mental dopression, some hot tea, taking ho fore anything is oaten, will rouse the eireu- $ laliou,cxhilaratethe stomach, rally tho 5 spirits, and make you a different, a bet- a tcr, and a happier rtian in less than ten minutes, because tho increasing debility and downward progress of the svstcui is arrested by the warmth of ihe water and the active quality of the tea, until strength begins to be imparted to the system from the food taken.

It is safe to cool oneself off by dabbling the hands in eofcl water, safer and more natural if the water is warm, by the rapid evaporation every lime the hand is lifted out of the waler. Butit is positively dangerous to wash the face in cold water when much heated. It is not dangerous but pleasantly ellicacioiis if warm water is used.

A garden is a beautiful book, writ by the finger of God everv flower and every leaf is a letter. You have only to learn them—and he is a poor dunce who can not, if he will, do that—to learn them and join them and then to go on reading and reading. And you will find yourself carried away from the earth by the beautiful story you are going through. You do not know what beautiful thoughts grow out of the ground, and seem to talk to a man. And then there arc some flowers that seem to me like everdutiful children tend them but ever so littlo, and they come up and flourish, and show, as I may say, their bright and happy faces to von.—Douglas Jcrrold.

We have to thank the oditorofthe "Saturday Evening Mail," for having

)laced us on his list of exchanges, it elegantly printed, with new material, the ability of its editorial department is of fine order, and taken airogether 4 the

Te»e-Hauto Evening Mail is a first-class paper.—Rockville News.